#i don't think they matter that much and if staff thinks theyre helping things that's fine ill adapt

[sharkneto]

Staff: we got rid of prev tags because it made it confusing for clicking through to people's blogs!

Me: fighting for my goddamn life trying to click on the right spot on mobile to get to someone's blog and all it's doing is reloading the post I'm using to click through

[pomefioredove]

Just read the whole "Yuu gets sold off by Crowley" stories and OMLLL THEYRE SO GOOD XDDD Any chance you could do more on it like if Niege won or if the parents heard about it and also decided to adopt Yuu and Grim?? Maybe the other staff adopting her too or more on Crewel's adoption please???

requests for the crewel ending are in high demand I see...

parts 1 | 2 | 3 | kalim | 'bad' ending | RSA ending

summary: a crewel ending type of post: short fic, mostly speculation characters: crewel ft. other staff additional info: platonic, reader is gender neutral, reader is yuu, definitely pre-book seven, parents being cringe

If Crewel were allowed to beat Crowley to death with one of his designer handbags, he would have.

...Unfortunately, with the adoption paperwork fees (...and a need for more designer handbags), he regrettably still needs this job.

And he'd like to keep an eye on you while you're still here, too.

The animosity between Crowley and the rest of the staff is unspoken, shared through passing glances and dry remarks at meetings, and though the matter is "settled", in Crowley's own words, no one seems keen on letting it go anytime soon.

The students who participated in the bidding war are subject to months worth of extra homework, harder exams, and worse studying hours from Crewel himself. To teach them a little responsibility, he says.

You, at least, are exempt from his radical new lesson plan. You have enough on your plate as it is.

After all, as soon as the legal proceedings are through and your identity as an autonomous human being in Twisted Wonderland is secured, the "fun" begins.

Your uniforms are tailored and rightly fit, you're given a proper meal plan, even Ramshackle is decorated with a few of Crewel's personal touches. A throw rug here and there, a fresh coat of paint, anything to cover up the rotting interior and turning it into something worthy of envy.

"...Given that Grim doesn't start shedding everywhere," Crewel had said. "Ugh, pets."

The rest of the staff are just as helpful, citing your recent experience with the bidding war as reason to take it easier on you for a while (or for the rest of the semester, really). Trein gives you less homework, Sam "accidentally" doesn't ring you up a few items...

It starts to feel more like the entirety of the staff has adopted you.

Not that you mind, of course. This is the closest thing you've had to family since... well, since coming here.

There's just the one thing, though.

"I don't know why you waste your time with those untrained pups. Honestly. The idea of their tacky shoes touching the rugs in here..." Crewel sighs. His eyes turn to you. "You know, I hear Vil Schoenheit has been looking for someone to take to his next shoot..."

Ashton chuffs. "Don't be ridiculous, they need someone who's strong enough to take care of them! Kingscholar is a real star once he gets motivated,"

"Please tell me I didn't just hear that," Crewel massages his temples. "And might I add, I'm their father, not you. I give the blessing. You're more like the unwelcome uncle crashing the family barbeque."

Grim nudges you with his elbow, muttering a quick yikes before darting out of the kitchen. You groan in embarrassment. "Guys..."

"I'm just thinking about what's best for them," Ashton says, puffing out his chest. "They're at an age where they're going to start thinking about dating, and we want them to make good choices."

"Guys,"

"Exactly. Schoenheit is a perfect gentleman, a master in my class, and has the style to back him up. Kingscholar can demonstrate occasional intelligence, but he's still another housecat," he shudders. "The shedding..."

A tired voice from the doorway interrupts their tense back-and-forth, much to your relief.

"Goodness, the two of you, at this again?" Trein scoffs, taking a seat at the table. "This conversation is highly inappropriate. You shouldn't be controlling the poor thing's romantic prospects, if they even have them. When the time comes, the choice will be theirs to make."

Crewel huffs, rolling his eyes and leaning against the table. Ashton kicks his feet. And neither utter another word.

"Good," Trein says, then clears his throat. "Ahem. But that's not to say that we can't offer our guidance. That Vanrouge did quite well on the last History of Magic exam..."

You groan.

[pherre]

Oh, i dont mean to overstate potters cruelty or agency in this matter- he cant let charles or klinger go at all and its true that charles is a prick. But to me there always felt like there was a tension to me as a viewer where the show invites you to laugh at charles's and klinger's expense when they make attempts to leave that potter stops. Cus the show knows charles and especially klinger are very well justified in their desire to leave. To me it brings about this sort of intersting disonance, not in a bad way so much as a complex and interesting way that enriches the text. Potters the voice of reason and the authority figure the narrative defers to, especially in the later seasons, but his general feeling on these matters is resignation. "It is what it is" "it cant be helped." That resignation certainly isnt wrong or bad- hes being practical. But its hard to sympathize with it over hawkeye or klinger or even charles's rebellion.

As for going awol as an immoral act i suppose i was mostly thinking of various episodes in which people encourage a soldier to return to the front. I believe mulcahy encouraged a young man whod stolen a dead comrades identity in order to escape the army to return to the front. He also spent a whole episode trying to convincea kid who was trying to come home after his fiancee left him that he needed to return to the front. The show always shows characters being reluctant to do that sort of thing, but later on in the show i feel a real sense of resignation to that status quo. Idk if thats making sense but ive been thinking about it a lot. I feel like MASH's castwide emotjonal arc as a whole often concerns itself with the tension between rebellion (which runs the risk of being unrealistic or dangerous) and resigning yourself to reality (which runs the risk of being callous or despair inducing) i personally feel that the show tends to strike a really good balance, but theres something really interesting to me about the fact that, in my opinion, potter (who is loved by pretty much the whole staff and is generally considered the voiceof reason and wisdom) is also the most ardent voice of resignation if that makes sense? Hes wonderful and smart and more often than not hes right- rebellious acts are unrealistic theyre dangerous they cant be done without serious repercussions, the best way to do good is within the system and slyly- not because its the best way to do it but because it is the most effective way to do it without being destroyed by the powers that be. Him being smart or empathetic or reasonable doesnt make him any less oppositional to the spirit of spitfire rebellion that hawkeye embodies it. Potter dampens that. Perhaps thats by necessity for fear that hawkeye burns out, but to me that sort of effect feels more complicated than good or bad. Potter's mediating presence is an expression of care- he is a buffer between his unit and the cruel beurocratic military machine. But making the weight of the armys control easier to bear normalizes it- it puts a kind paternal face on the military authority they are all bring crushed by. The fact that he truly cares and is working within the system in the manner his is doesnt really lessen thar to me- which doesnt make potter villianous or wrongheaded so much as it complicates his approach at least to me. (Sorry a million billion words. Poter thesis to me- i love him i think hes great and his ideological position in the show is rlly interesting)

i don't think the narrative defers to potter as thee authority figure necessarily - he's the "good" army man and the show has to marry this with hawkeye's (and, in turn, the show's) anti army sentiments, which it does with various degrees of success

i do agree with everything else you said though! the mulcahy thing has always confused me a bit too, like sometimes they give him this black and white thinking and sometimes they give him complex moral problems (if i remember correctly, his opposition to the soldier who stole a dead man's identity was that the dead family won't ever learn that the man died, not that the soldier won't return to the front). and there's the episode where he tries to shelter a soldier who's AWOL simply because the soldier requested sanctuary

[motherofkittens94]

Ah gee I went to see hozier yesterday and yeah I enjoyed it the music was good but I had such a strange experience right first off this lady pulled me out the queue and put me to the front im used to this part happening and I'm usually kinda glad like yes that’s the one single disability perk right, queue jumping

but also this lady was making me hold her hand which was a bit much like you dont need to do that I can walk but yeah my disability is noticeable i guess and people think theyre doing good but anyway she let me go in ahead and yeah that was great but then I guess she was telling the whole staff about me or something because like literally every other ten minutes some new staff member would corner me ask if I was okay or why I was alone or if was I lost or if I needed help I would say I'm okay not lost im by myself I can manage but then some other person would come later and ask me again if i was okay and if I wanted help and Its like again??

eventually they moved me to the raised platform which is not what i booked ok but fine it is a better view there from thanks but I dont see why people felt the need to be checking me so much i wasnt drunk i wasnt injured i wasn't upset i was not doing anything out of the ordinary nothing that anybody else wasn't also or less even i mean there were very drunk people there and they weren't being asked if they were okay

I mean asking once fine nice even

twice ?understandable but like seven /eight times? Frickin weird leave me alone already I can manage

Like I feel I should be grateful they were helping me and it sort of was and you may think oh but everyone wanted to assist you wouldnt you perfer that? surely worse things could've happened instead you got better treatment thats good right?

Yeah maybe but you know it was going on so often it made me feel self conscious like clearly I was coming off as not normal and /or vulnerable somehow or maybe they didnt believe i was as old as i said i was or idk but i didn't ask for help and didn't really need it either I just wanted to have fun listen to music relax be a regular person like everybody else there

It would've been fine- if i had asked for help - I didn't

Also afterwards they didn't even let me leave until it was nearly empty and then they all waving at me like goodbye sweetie goodbye _like embarrassing how am i ever gonna come back here now after this

and then they made two guys walk with me all down the street because i was going home by myself ive done this same journey a billion times i know what im doing

so anyway thats not even the end of it because next I take the train back and get off my stop someone in the train gets off to ask I'm okay and if I know where to go like yes I'm going home then as I go up the hill this lady is following me annnd then she asks im okay and if i need help as well!

what do you think I'm doing!

like what the hell is wrong with me tonight that nobody thinks I'm okay? I don't know what you think is wrong whats the matter with me huh? I can't work out what I did that made everyone so concerned except just being there

I was by myself fair- i guess if someone was with me all this wouldn't have happened and yeah im a loser and i go to events by myself sometimes so what? its not illegal though is it im twenty eight not bloody five i literally live there I don't need help walking around im not lost I dont need you to pretend to befriend me I did not need help

Maybe i took this all the wrong way because yeah they wanted to help but it felt like every single person was singling me out and letting me know they think I'm strange and that I cant cope

Uncomfortable!

This is what i get for trying to do normal gal activities I guess

[skekshroom]

So, awhile back (quite awhile now that I think of it) you posted these two au things called 3 Suns au and Dark Suns au and I'm kinda untreated in reading some of that. You can pick witch ones of course, and you don't have to do it if you don't want to.

ANON I’D LOVE TO! Tysm for showing interest in my aus! I’ve had these ideas on the backburner for so long theyre a lil moldy but lemme see what I can warm up for you! ((I’ll definetly do the dark suns snippet as well, its prob my favorite of the two, but to keep the post from getting obnoxiously long here’s the first one))

[3 Suns AU]As soon as you reached the castle, it was straight to business. You had pleaded an audience with the lords of the crystal, telling the guards it was a matter of life and death. The Skeksis prepared to hear your case.

“Skeksis,” You began after a deep breath. “I come here with a solution to your problems. I came here from another world… Thra gave me a vision and 3… objects.” The Emperor raised his eyebrows as you took off your rucksack.“I saw the crystal fail. I also saw what would happen if you began to drain gelfling of their essence. It becomes your, and all of Thra’s downfalls. I came here to prevent that. Please, dreamfast with me.”“Skeksis cannot dreamfast!” The Ritual Master howled. You shot him a look and held out your hand. 

“Try.” You urged. “All of you. You need to know what I’ve seen.”The visions were nauseating. The first draining. The death of the hunter, general, collector, scientist… The death of the Emperor. All tied to the crystal. All tied to the drainings. The war. The darkening.

The skeksis were in hysterics at what they were seeing. There was an indisputable series of events that led up to Thra’s destruction. But the crystal was failing! What other possible solution was there!? They were doomed! Death was a beast at the end of the corridor and the door behind them was locked.

“What solution do you bring, or did you just come to torment us with prophecy?” SkekLach groaned miserably. “I have a solution! But  I have terms you will need to meet. First, you need to swear to treat gelfling and Thra with respect. You won’t take their wealth during tithes, you wont subjugate Thra’s children. You’ll give your staff benefits and not hurt them.” You paused, remembering that you were still very much in a strange world with no home or possessions. “And you’ll give me a place in the court and castle. I don’t want power over you- just a place to live. Be nice and help me out. Its a small price to pay for immortality.”

“And,” You added quickly. “If you don’t adhere to these terms I will know. You can’t deceive me and you can’t kill me. The crystal’s powers die when I do.” That wasn’t exactly true, but what was a white lie to the beings that conned Thra herself?

Skekso closed his eyes, giving a shuddering sigh. He looked to both sides of him, exchanging nods with his court. They looked small and wilted, like owlets in the rain from the horror they witnessed in your premonition.“It’s a deal.” He said. You mentally sighed in relief and procured three spherical crystals. They glowed gently in your hands.“One is to heal the broken crystal. It’ll call the other shards from where they’re scattered and put it together again, as well as heal the darkening. The second, is to heal you. It will replenish life without taking life from Thra. The third…” You held up the third. “The third has no use to you yet.”The third would turn two halves into one. And, in a thousand trine from now, be taken beneath Thra with Thurma.

[fairycosmos]

i started high school 3 weeks ago and i still haven't made any real friends. I thought that by now i would have a friend group and new friends. I have friends from my old school and a some people I already know but its a school of 4000 so i don't get to see them that often. I talk to some kids in my class but its not really out of class friends. I hung out with some girls on friday and it was really fun but when i sat with them yesterday it was really awkward and i don't know what to do. help?

:(( love, i'm really sorry to hear that. making new friends is extremely fucking difficult, and i think most people have been through phases where they didn't really have any - i promise, it's way more common than you think. and it's not because of anything you've done or because of who you are as a person, it's just the way things are working out at the moment. it sounds like a big school, it's probably easy for people to fall under the radar.phases of loneliness are often an opportunity to really get to know yourself, to rely on your own mind and to become somewhat comfortable in your own skin. other people will be drawn to that, to a level of self confidence - even if you're just faking it. that being said, you don't have to accept being alone either - it's only the first few weeks, you have so much time to work this out, to find your stride. every painful thought and every negative emotion you feel is a temporary and fleeting thing. it's not an indication that your life will remain this way forever.keep making an effort with those girls you hung out with. awkward moments and embarrassing conversations are to be expected in high school, everyone has to endure them at some point. but that doesn't mean you should stop trying. be as open and as kind to people as you can be. others want you to like them just as much as you want to be liked. theyre just as scared as you are, even if theyre good at hiding it. give things time to progress, you know? by the end of the year, you'll probably be pleasantly surprised at the way everything worked out. it's alright. no matter what, it will be alright.there's also the option of joining a group or a club at your school. choir, band, art club, drama, a sport, dancing, whatever's on offer.......it genuinely won't hurt to try. meeting people you have common ground with can make a massive difference. i know the idea sounds dumb, and it's completely okay to be anxious and stressed out by it. but sometimes you need to actively reach out, you need go get the ball rolling, before anything begins to change. youre the one that has to make the first move. it's a lot easier said than done, i get that. but just consider it. ask yourself how you can pull yourself out of this situation and then do it. who cares about low self esteem, about second hand embarrassment. you deserve genuine friendship and connection, even if your mind is telling you you don't.above all though, don't be afraid to reach out to adults around you. okay, so you're allowed to be afraid - but don't let that fear stop you. whether it's your parents, a teacher you like, or even the school counselor. maybe they won't fully understand how you're feeling, but they'll get it more than you think they will. and they'll help. if you let them know you need it. one moment of bravery, that's honestly all it takes. just tell them you're having trouble making friends, that you feel kind of alone - i guarantee you're not the only freshman that feels that way. teachers and staff and parents can really change your perception of this if you allow them to. i really hope you're okay and that you're able to figure something out. i've been in this position so many times and i know how weird and exhausting it is. i'm genuinely proud of you for managing it so far. and i know it's not the same but i'm always here if you need someone or if you want to talk about anything. you're not alone, i'll always be here. message me anytime.

[reverieprince]

i never post here but im answering this question bc its too long for curiouscat!

answer is under the cut ^^;

yes kinda! the story abt this is basically when briar is 2 and astair is 6, the rulers decide they should split them up, with their weird logic being that 'hey we can teach and influence them, but if they're separate they can't be sneaky and create some secret plan and conspire against us together when they're older' which is funny bc that's literally what happens anyways

so astair is like 6 when they tell him his baby sister passed away. He's pretty upset, but it doesn't affect his life too much, especially since his parents would always tell him it didn't matter and to move on. So for the next eleven years, the rulers are there but on and off- they'd spend a few weeks with him, then some castle staff (is staff what you call people working at a castle? idk...) would take care of him on the off weeks. (this is when they were spending time with briar, and the cycle would repeat.) 

only thing is, briar had a ton less liberties growing up- astair was their main focus since he was to be the next king, so briar really spent most of her life in a very limited area and didn't get to do much of anything. so when she's 13, she tries to escape by basically hurling herself out a window, because i guess she wasn't thinking critically or somethin? luckily, emalise (i don't mention her much sorry but she used to be an apprentice castle guard for the Chastels) happened to be flying a little ways under the window and caught her. 

so briar's all like “my parents are bad” and emalise is like “we been knew” and helps her escape to nocteram. they figure by the time they get there that people have totally noticed that the princess is missing and now they're both kinda on the run from castle guards. (which is true, but it isnt like they figure out theyre in a whole nother kingdom by now.) so now em and briar are kinda just wandering the city and come across this abandoned building that still has light coming from it. it's the old pterasi headquarters! (i forgot to mention this but this is all like 3 years from the start of arc 1! briar's 13, caspians 19, emalise is 18, and theo is 16.) 

so there they meet theoden, who's pretty nice to them and offers them a place to stay in the old pterasi hq where he and caspian are lving rn. (this isnt too long after old pterasi disbanded leaving just the two of them kinda hanging around in the hq building cause they didn't really have anywhere else to go.) so briar and emalise accept pretty eagerly, but then whuh oh caspian comes in later bc he was doing something at the time i guess, like a patrol or something. he kinda wants to keep up the illusion that pterasi is still a thing :( anyway hes kinda miffed, but trusts theoden with letting them stay "for now" as long as they mind their business.

briar does not mind her business. 

she's frankly awed by everything in nocteram, caspian included. she's kinda hangin around him all the time and asking what this or that is. she hangs with theoden a lot too, but she also kinda thinks annoying caspian is fun. caspian himself is slowly warming up to her though, despite insisting he doesnt have time for some kid. they get pretty close pretty fast once caspian lets his guard down, they just kinda click and have a close-knit, fun siblingy dynamic and get into trouble together :D

so three years and one big fat status upgrade later pterasi is kinda thriving yaa! to answer your second question, their first meeting is once they've got astair in their new hq, courtesy of ambrose's sollis minions. briar knows they're siblings bc she knows who her parents are obviously, but she has zero memories of the guy so what gives? soon after hes just kinda. settled in their penthouse headquarters thing, briar approaches him with a bunch of questions, not just because shes suspicious of him, but because she also wants answers to piece together the puzzle of her own life. 

this is where they kinda make a deal with the rest of pterasi- you help me investigate what's going on with the king and queen and i'll join pterasi and help you do some mission stuff. normally it'd be a no, no one trusts him yet- but briar shares astair's objective. the rest see that this is quite personal to her, so they accept. 

briar and astair's relationship starts off quite amicable, but a bit awkward and forced- like the way you're friendly with an acquaintance you have a lot in common with. it gets a bit rocky when astair kinda goes helicopter mode, starting to try and distance her from pterasi out of concern for her. eventually he learns to pull back and kinda trust her and pterasi, and they manage to get close to each other!

[atreewithin]

I think I got your point about this days. Straight characters don't deserve days. Thanks for making me feel very good with being straight... :l Have a good day!

Uh, what?? First of all, I’m not some bitch that “hates straight people” if that’s what you’re saying. Also I hate to be like this but it’s very guilt-trippy to say you “feel bad about being straight” because of me. You honestly shouldn’t, your sexuality is as valid as mine, but you’re kind of really privileged sexuality-wise.Like you probably know all this but being homosexual, I’m at risk of being hung, stoned, put in concentration camps (yeah theyre coming back for gay people), etc., and am hated by half/most of the world, even for holding someone’s hand.I know it was not your intent to come off even slightly homophobic, but well, you kind of did.Now we’re past the basics of privilege, let’s talk about representation. Now I can guarantee you there are 74883929 straight people in every form of media. you will never not find someone you can relate to. but us lgbt+ people? yeah, most media has no one for us to relate to. none. zéro. lgbt+ people thinking they’re bad and awful and messed up because we’re not straight is a huge cause of uh, death (yeah) within the society of lgbt+ people. a reason for that? they can’t see themselves. there are no characters that represent us in a good way. luckily that is changing now, but that should have always been a right. cassandra clare’s books are really important to us. she’s one of the first authors that dared to include even one gay character, and the libraries didnt support them, they had red labels stuck across them and were restricted. she was offered 3x the money to write a clace series but denied. I know a lot of us lgbt+ people have thought about the lgbt+ characters in tsc and they’ve helped us, they’ve saved lives. since why would an author include it if it was wrong? Next part: okay so Haline is really under appreciated due to fetishisation of mlm and straight girls (that is a generalisation im not personally attacking you or anything!!1!) can’t find women hot right? that must equal disrespect and no shipping! hm yeah no. if you’ve seen Hetty’s (emmarosales) post on it (which you should definitely read!! its educational), you’ll know all about that. Haline is never talked about. Fics about any wlw get 20 notes or fewer. Fics about mlw or mlm get over 100 notes and more and there are so many of them. Seeing people ignore Haline, a ship that means so much to me and others, is really hurtful. you’re not an ally if you ignore wlw but stan the hell out of mlm. im sorry but its the truth. haline day happened to spread more appreciation of this beautiful ship, in the hopes that we would see more content of them, which did kind of work, (thanks for everyone who is posting it!) but hardly. As a homosexual person, it is hard for me to stand up for myself in this world. The lgbt+ community as a whole is oppressed, and straight people are in the front. Even in every tsc series the main couple is straight, which is understandable considering the time periods, which is why primarily the eldest curses and then the wicked powers (kit and ty) are so important to us. I have loads of posts about these subjects so by searching things like “wlw” “fetishise”/“fetishisation” and “sexuality” on my account you can find them :). The last thing we need is days for characters and ships that are already appreciated. Perhaps you can imagine how it would feel when characters who are usually straight and white have days that are more popular than days that support marginalised and oppressed groups of people. You will get the spotlight again, which isn’t right. there shouldnt be one group of people considered more important than another. Tumblr isn’t representative of the world. Just because we can say this stuff here it doesn’t mean we can in the world. I don’t see how you can feel bad for being straight, it’s like you would want to be another sexuality, but I’ll get to that in a minute. Your voice is held above our (marginalised people, lgbt+ people, poc ((although i am not a poc so ‘our’ is not a term i can use in that matter)), mentally ill people, neuroatypical people, etc.) voices. You can’t help that, that’s not you’re fault. But it does the opposite of helping when you put a straight, white character in the spotlight for a day. You see, tumblr is not the rest of the world, as I stated earlier. On tumblr you don’t get pride festivals shut down or monitored by the police, not protecting the lgbt+ people but in the way that they are dangerous and could pose a threat, or so they can put us in handcuffs for unbelievably stupid reasons. In tumblr you don’t get white supremacist groups with blazing torches chanting the nazi motto, normalised by the government, or in this case the staff. those groups have no police monitoring them. you see lgbt+ people on tumblr and probably think we are supported by the majority of the world, but we are not. most of the world is prejudiced against us. tumblr is not what the real world is like for the oppressed and marginalised.Okay, so now I’ll talk about that other thing. You should never say you feel bad about being straight, as if you would want to be any other sexuality. Yes, I’m proud of my sexuality, as are others of the lgbt+ community, but it is absolutely awful to have the oppression that comes with it. Even small things said against straight people are not intended harmfully, although they aren’t always nice— they don’t compare to the thousands of years of torment we have received. the history against lgbt+ (and poc definitely but since the ask was sexuality-based, so is this) people is too large and horrible for any prejudice against heterosexuals to ever compare. you don’t want that discrimination. I hope you have gotten my point. This essay was definitely way more than just about the ‘days’ but i really wanted to get this across, and I hope that after reading this you will understand how things like 'Julian day’, etc., are bad.Thanks ;)