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huntahr · 10 months
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malecsecretsanta · 3 months
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The Malec Secret Santa 2023 Reveal Post 
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Ho Ho Ho!
It’s time to conclude the eight edition of the Malec Secret Santa :)
Hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas and that you’ve enjoyed all the amazing gifts that were posted!
The fantastic @vaguelyrotten, @crankyfossil, & @banesapothecary deserve extra love and gratitude for being wonderful Christmas Angels this year in helping me out to create last minute gifts, making sure no one would be left empty handed this year! Thank you darlings, I really appreciate that you wanted to help me out in a pinch! <333
If you’d like, you can still add your works to the AO3 Collection! Just poke me if you do, and I’ll add the link to the Tumblr gift post as well. You can also repost your gift(s) to your own Tumblrs now, of course :)
That’s all from me in terms of service announcements, hope to see you all again next year! 
-x- Leonie (leetje)
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Are you all ready to find out who your secret santas were? :D
Most of you should know the drill by now. The list is in alphabetical order. 
@aceon-ice made a gift for another-random-stranger - gift here
@another-random-stranger made a gift for gloriouspomelo - gift here
@banesapothecary made a gift for insomniaccoffeebean - gift here
@banesapothecary made a gift for shipnotised - gift here
@cam-ryt made a gift for moonlight-breeze-44 - gift here
@carelessflower made a gift for banesapothecary - gift here
@cheezieball-blog made a gift for schreiberling2021 - gift here
@cinberella made a gift for thatnerdemryn - gift here
@crankyfossil made a gift for dicaculus - gift here
@crankyfossil made a gift for evadne01 - gift here
@decadentwerewolfstrawberry made a gift for nancyloumm - gift here
@dicaculus made a gift for squiggly-lines-on-a-page - gift here
@em1000 made a gift for cheezieball-blog - gift here
@evadne01 made a gift for sweetpeapod - gift here
@forensicsisabelle made a gift for crankyfossil - gift here
@gospi made a gift for i-have-not-slept - gift here
@greentealycheejelly made a gift for kohdono - gift here
@i-have-not-slept made a gift for aceon-ice - gift here
@insomniaccoffeebean made a gift for gospi - gift here
@jamessxcarstairs made a gift for skylar102 - gift here
@justawanderer made a gift for tarlos_spain - gift here
@kaijuusandkryptids made a gift for la-muerta - gift here
@kasper-tag made a gift for greentealycheejelly - gift here
@kohdono made a gift for kasper-tag - gift here
@la-muerta made a gift for carelessflower - gift here
@livinglifebehindthemask made a gift for forensicsisabelle - gift here
@maddummel made a gift for decadentwerewolfstrawberry - gift here
@magnus-the-maqnificent made a gift for vaguelyrotten - gift here
@nancyloumm made a gift for secretphilosopherwitch - gift here
@nyctophile-shadowhunters made a gift for kaijuusandkryptids - gift here
@schreiberling2021 made a gift for em1000 - gift here
@secretphilosopherwitch made a gift for maddummel - gift here
@shipnotised made a gift for nyctophile-shadowhunters - gift here
@six-of-snakes made a gift for jamessxcarstairs - gift here
@skylar102 made a gift for magnus-the-maqnificent - gift here
@squiggly-lines-on-a-page made a gift for six-of-snakes - gift here
@suchawannabe56 made a gift for cam-ryt - gift here
@tarlos_spain made a gift for suchawannabe56 - gift here
@thatnerdemryn made a gift for livinglifebehindthemask - gift here
@thelightofthebane made a gift for cinberella - gift here
@vaguelyrotten made a gift for justawanderer - gift here
@vaguelyrotten made a gift for thelightofthebane - gift here
Go forth and tacklehug your no-longer-secret santa! They definitely deserve some loving!
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accidentalkilljoys · 6 months
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Around the World in 80 Days
Hello! Can I interest you in a miniseries where David Tennant is various levels of disheveled and/or in peril? Do you like OT3s? Let me tell you about Around the World in 80 Days.
This post DOES include spoilers up to and including the end of the show, so if you don't want to know whether they make it back in time, please just scroll past.
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Phileas Fogg is a sad, rich, lovable twit who cannot button his own shirt.
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Everything is not fine. He spontaneously decides to travel around the world in 80 days, a feat that has only then been estimated to be possible, given advances in British colonialism and travel technology.
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He is joined by Abigail Fix (Leonie Benesch), a plucky lady journalist;
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and Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma, who deserves better lighting), a working-class man who pretends to be a valet so he can get away from a sticky situation.
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Phileas likes trains, and is fascinated by hot-air balloons, and loves the idea of travel.
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But the man cannot undo his own cuffs.
It's an adventure that I would describe as "rollicking." The screenwriter did a good job of taking a story that was really steeped in era-typical racism and colonialism, and turning it into a story that recognizes and criticizes racism and colonialism.
But we're here for the peril.
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Drugged and feverish peril.
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Needs to be propped up by his companions peril.
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Flogged for a crime he didn't commit peril! Peril that makes me hope the PBS video player doesn't report on how many times a user rewinds a particular scene peril!
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Hypothermic and needing to be cuddled and have your legs briskly rubbed peril. This also introduces the second important part of this show: the OT3.
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There's excellent character development throughout the show and the three main characters grow to like and respect each other. The real adventure is the OT3 we made along the way.
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(The show is of course trying to sell you on Abigail/Passepartout, but . . . .)
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ot3 ot3 OT3
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Please don't try to tell me that these three end up anywhere but in Phileas' giant empty sad townhouse and make it less empty and sad.
Please join me in watching this! It's a good show! It deserves more than 105 works on AO3! It's cheap to watch--PBS is five bucks a month, and if you sign up at the right time you might get a free water bottle.
In conclusion:
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reviewcreature · 6 months
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Around The World in 80 Days: Friendship
So. I have recently watched "Around The World in 80 Days" (2021), starring David Tennant, Leonie Benesch and Ibrahim Koma. And i have not stopped thinking about it since. But one thing that has really stuck with me is that, among other things, the show is a story of friendship. I love that the story is not a romance story, despite having romance aspects. We know that Fogg was or still is deeply in love with Estella and leaving her is his biggest regret. He even outrights says the words too. He tells her how much he loves her. But his motivation and character go way beyond that (which deserve its own seperate post)
We can also see that there is a deeper connection forming between Passepartout and Abigail. Yet, they never even kiss. Which is honestly quite unusual. Any other show would have made them kiss. I mean, a man and a woman with this much chemistry? Sure, they almost do before getting interrupted but that is it. They even share a very delicate and emotional slowdance together. And yet, throughout the show and at the end, they are great and honest friends. Even after slowdancing the night before, sharing this intimate moment, Abigail calls Passepartout her friend and talks about how much this friendship means to her. How she doesn't want to lose him as a friend.
We see all of their relationships with one another change and grow in the course of their 80 days of adventure. There is so much emotion between all of them. There is fear, anger, understanding, confusion, betrayal, trust. But at the end, most importantly, there is friendship. The bond they have formed has changed all of them. Has brought out the good in all of them. They learned so much from one another, understood each other and understood themselves. And THAT was the core essence of their relationship. The story was never solely about romance. Abigail (and Passepartout) even openly discuss this when Fogg leaves to meet with Estella. They are disappointed because that is not how their story should go, that is not how it should end. Abigail tries to make a love story out of it, but she know that this is not that kind of story. This is not a story of romance, of finding the love of your life, of rekindling with a love long lost. This IS however a story of love in the sense of friendship, companionship, of finding your passion and your place in life. It's a story of growth and of finding yourself. At least that's what it is for me. I was so grateful that they did not actually make Abigail and Passepartout a couple or have Fogg and Estella kiss or anything like it. The story, the characters, their journey- it was all still just as powerful
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stereksecretsanta · 3 months
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The Sterek Secret Santa 2023 Reveal Post 
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Ho Ho Ho!
Thus concludes the eleventh edition of the Sterek Secret Santa!
I hope you all have had a fantastic Christmas and that you’ve enjoyed all the Sterek-y goodness created by all the lovely secret santas!
I’d have been nowhere if it wasn’t for the following AMAZING Christmas Angels, who all embraced the true Christmas spirit of giving by merrily coming to my aid to make sure no one was left without a gift: @geekmom13, @trinitorettomadrigal, @always-mimits I cannot thank you all enough <3
But thank you to all participants for another successful secret santa! It’s wonderful to see a steady core of secret santa participants still going strong after all these years :) Sterek is Eternal, whoop!
If you’d like, you can still add your works to the AO3 Collection! You can also repost your gift(s) to your own Tumblrs now, of course! Just poke me and I’ll also add the link to the Tumblr gift post.
That’s it for all the service announcements! Hope to see you all again next year!
-x- Leonie (leetje)
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Click below to find out who your secret santa was!! 
Most of you know the drill by now. The list is in alphabetical order. 
@1989dreamer made a gift for buffaluff - gift here
@alaidiem made a gift for nostalgiafan123 - gift here
@always-mimits made a gift for geekmom13 - gift here
@always-mimits made a gift for kevaaronday - gift here
@buffaluff made a gift for always-mimits - gift here
@disneyprincessbuffyannesummers made a gift for evanesdust - gift here
@dwarvyn made a gift for sugareey-makes-stuff - gift here
@eevylynn made a gift for comedicdrama - gift here
@evanesdust made a gift for like-lazarus - gift here
@fandom_cosplay215 made a gift for lilacedten - gift here
@geekmom13 made a gift for just-another-busy-fangirl - gift here
@geekmom13 made a gift for nightlight9 - gift here
@goddess47 made a gift for i-might-be-in-over-my-head - gift here
@greenleaf1316 made a gift for thetommoway-oioii - gift here
@heavensenthale made a gift for mindofmim - gift here
@i-might-be-in-over-my-head made a gift for silverloveless - gift here
@irrationalrage made a gift for springlockedspectre - gift here
@just-another-busy-fangirl made a gift for stacinadia - gift here
@kevaaronday made a gift for mintonarel - gift here
@like-lazarus made a gift for softranswolves - gift here
@lokicorey made a gift for heavensenthale - gift here
@mindofmim made a gift for fandom-cosplay215 - gift here
@mintonarel made a gift for greenleaf1316 - gift here
@negativenorth made a gift for sinnabon-cosplay - gift here
@nightlight9 made a gift for theydraggedmein - gift here
@quackquackcey made a gift for irrationalrage - gift here
@renmackree made a gift for tabbytabbytabby - gift here
@rosalinesbenvolio made a gift for trinitorettomadrigal - gift here
@silverloveless made a gift for sterekbros - gift here
@sinnabon-cosplay made a gift for disneyprincessbuffyannesummers - gift here
@softranswolves made a gift for goddess47 - gift here
@springlockedspectre made a gift for eevylynn - gift here
@stacinadia made a gift for dwarvyn - gift here
@sterekbros made a gift for alaidiem - gift here
@sugareey-makes-stuff made a gift for wolfspurr - gift here
@tabbytabbytabby made a gift for renmackree - gift here
@thetommoway-oioii made a gift for rosalinesbenvolio - gift here
@theydraggedmein made a gift for thotpuppy - gift here
@thotpuppy made a gift for quackquackcey - gift here
@trinitorettomadrigal made a gift for 1989dreamer - gift here
@trinitorettomadrigal made a gift for lokicorey - gift here
@wolfspurr made a gift for negativenorth - gift here
That’s it! Go and shower your no-longer-secret-santa with love and virtual tackle hugs!
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kptssecretsanta · 3 months
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THE KPTS SECRET SANTA 2023 REVEAL POST
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Ho Ho Ho!
It’s time to conclude the second edition of the KPTS Secret Santa :)
Hope you’ve all had a lovely holidays and that you’ve enjoyed all the amazing gifts that were posted!
I’d like to give special thanks to @everyforkedroad, @artfreaksmeout, @mightymightygnomepriest, @nuwildcat, & @tinycharliechoo with helping me out as pinch hitters, making sure no one would be left empty handed! Thank you darlings <333
If you’d like, you can still add your works to the AO3 Collection! Just poke me if you do, and I’ll add the link to the Tumblr gift post as well. I’ve just revealed the archive as well. You can also repost your gift(s) to your own Tumblrs now, of course :)
That’s all from me in terms of service announcements, hope to see you all again next year! 
-x- Leonie (leetje)
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Are you all ready to find out who your secret santas were? :D
The list is in alphabetical order:
@angsty-violet made a gift for suzteel - gift here
@artfreaksmeout made a gift for thisautistic - gift here
@artfreaksmeout made a gift for wangxian234writes - gift here
@artpo made a gift for mortimerlatrice - gift here
@asylumwise made a gift for wiccawrites - gift here
@camuizuuki made a gift for benkaaoi - gift here
@crumchycow made a gift for shou-jpeg - gift here
@dr-lemurr made a gift for thestarscanalwayslookatus - gift here
@everyforkedroad made a gift for asylumwise - gift here
@everyforkedroad made a gift for nuwildcat - gift here
@fangirlwithoutafandom made a gift for angsty-violet - gift here
@garsideofthemoon made a gift for artpo - gift here
@haahka made a gift for fangirlwithoutafandom - gift here
@jeffsatyr made a gift for justanothervariant - gift here
@justanothervariant made a gift for haahka - gift here
@lady-guts made a gift for camuizuuki - gift here
@mightymightygnomepriest made a gift for dr-lemurr - gift here
@mightymightygnomepriest made a gift for monochrome-crisis - gift here
@mortimerlatrice made a gift for garsideofthemoon - gift here
@no1petesimp made a gift for artfreaksmeout - gift here
@nuwildcat made a gift for everyforkedroad - gift here
@nuwildcat made a gift for lady-guts - gift here
@pareghostic made a gift for the-water-nixie - gift here
@shou-jpeg made a gift for ayansbff - gift here
@shubaka made a gift for xxatlasxx - gift here
@sunshinesanctuary made a gift for lexluthorswigcap - gift here
@suzteel made a gift for tsttoain - gift here & here
@the-cookie-of-doom made a gift for viva-yas-vegas - gift here
@the-water-nixie made a gift for pareghostic - gift here
@thearvariblues made a gift for tinycharliechoo - gift here
@thestarscanalwayslookatus made a gift for shubaka - gift here
@thisautistic made a gift for mightymightygnomepriest - gift here
@tinycharliechoo made a gift for sunshinesanctuary - gift here
@tinycharliechoo made a gift for thearvariblues - gift here
@tsttoain made a gift for jeffsatyr - gift here
@viva-yas-vegas made a gift for the-cookie-of-doom - gift here
@wangxian234writes made a gift for zelenchai - gift here
@wiccawrites made a gift for punchlove-blog - gift here
@wildelydawn made a gift for crumchycow - gift here
@xxatlasxx made a gift for wildelydawn - gift here
@zelenchai made a gift for no1petesimp - gift here
Go forth and shower your santa in some loving!
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randomnameless · 8 months
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What do you think about the interpretation of CF as a hidden villain route where Fódlan is doomed to tyranny by the end and all the pro-Adrestia characters unknowingly become more corrupt through the course of the story?
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I thought it was clear lol
A fwend made posts about each character following a negative arc through Tru Piss and it totally works within the game(s)'s frame, hell, dare I say it was the intended meaning for Tru Piss, even if Hresvelg Grey blurred everything?
Take the BESF, Caspar and Ferdie, the most "justice" aligned characters, don't have their paralogues available in Tru Piss!
(Ferdie's more interesting, because it's all about him seeing beyond what people say about his dad, and finding out maybe too late that the dude wasn't evil incarnate as some people convinced him he was...)
Caspar wants to Leeroy Jenkins against Emile who's know, to him, as someone who captured (and killed) young women, caught his classmate to exsanguinate her and nearly killed one of his teachers - but in Tru Piss, this is completely ignored.
Petra... in Tru Piss, kills her own people who tried to enlist the help of the Church to free themselves from the Adrestian occupation... In the non Tru-Piss routes, she forgets Brigid and her role as a Princess, only to become the "will of the Emperor"...
And Linhardt still retains a small semblant of morality, not taking Supreme Leader along with him to see the giant turtle who gives weapons to the people that pass a test to reward said weapons for their abilities (hm?) because even if Indech practices Murhitocracy 101, Indech is a lizard and lizards BaD.
Of course it's not as "in your face" as Supreme Leader doodling M!Billy, but imo it's pretty obvious what the BE peeps end up as if they stay with Supreme Leader - and not only them, but the other characters too!
Like... Felix is the most obvious one (he doesn't become the shield he always wanted, but his tsun-moody teenager dream becomes true, and he ends up being a miserable sword!), but Ignatz is kind of sad too, just like Leonie or Manu herself - and remember how Hanneman wanted to study crusts to make sure no one will die a pointless death like his sister? Now, in Tru Piss, he is the one who informs you about Baldo'n'Waldi the "War assets"...
Just like Nopes, Tru Piss is a route/verse where Billy's fall from Nirvana and refusal to "guide humanity" actually... dooms everyone.
Only Hilda is exempt from this fall from grace - for some reason (being a creator's pet?) - as she has her most heroic moment of all 7 routes in Tru Piss, holding the line and risking her life to protect Claude, who mourns her death.
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alienducky · 7 days
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Was tagged by @nerdnag to post a wip, and, well, this is pretty much the only thing I have that's in any shape at all to share?
Anyway, cut is for a nsfw dick. It's a very very un-sexy dick, because the fic idea came from a tumblr post about metal cock rings needing to be cut off by firefighters, and would be titled "Sylvain's Predickament", if I ever get around to writing the maybe 2 paragraphs it needs at the end. This is from vaguely in the middle
I'd tag people but I don't want to be a bother <_<;;
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Lysithea was again a mage, and was always researching new spells. And he knew she’d branched out into faith magic recently, so that was a potential double win–
If not for the fact he just remembered she’s only fifteen and thus was not an option, nope, nuh uh, he wasn't that desperate.
Leonie was practical, and more importantly old enough to ask. She might know a way to help? If she would talk to him, that was. Pretty sure she was still upset about the sunflower comment. And he still wasn't sure where he'd gone wrong there. Tentative maybe.
Marianne would… no, he wasn’t going to ruin the little bit of progress he’d made with her recently–she’d actually smiled at him without prompting the other day! She'd been adorable!–by asking her to fix his dick problems. Not only for her sake, but because she’s good friends with…
Hilda. Hilda made jewellery. So she must have jewellery tools, like pliers, and things to cut metal? Maybe? They could be an option. If he trusted Hilda near his dick with said tools.
. . .
Did he trust Hilda near his dick with metal working tools?
. . .
Oh dear Goddess, he was seriously considering letting Hilda near his dick with jewellery tools rather than relying on Ingrid, wasn’t he?
What did that even say about him?
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diezmil10000 · 5 months
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do you have thoughts abt lysinette...
ouughghghhhh many!! many thoughts!!!! i’m still bitter that a lot of good ships didn’t get an A support and lysinette is on par with dorogrid, which is one of my favorite ships in the game. they wrote two girls who are incredibly passionate about magic, love sweets and are younger than most of the other characters, made them fight and make peace about overworking themselves and refused to elaborate. don’t get me wrong, i like their support chain, but—uh. wait.
fe3h spoilers under the cut because we’re talking about lysithea
i just can’t believe they didn’t give annette the opportunity of knowing about lysithea’s crests when she can’t shut up about them in all her other supports. they literally refused to elaborate on why lysithea seems naturally gifted in annette’s eyes, and to me that would have given their fight a better closure that what they chose to end it with. annette should have also been one of those characters who help lysithea remove her second crest if they could end up together, despite her being a teacher and not a researcher in most of her endings.
what i’m saying is that if they can write 3243347 supports of hilda needing help with cleaning and 23789432 supports of sylvain hitting on women who dislike him they could have made a linhardt-lysithea support chain copy with annette. just that, instead of the autistic gay boy with zero empathy (i love him) that wants to study her, lysithea has to deal with the hyperactive girlfail with no filter that wants to study AND kiss her.
i’m just realising i’ve been complaining for a while, but i hope that i don’t sound too negative – i do have other thoughts that aren’t pretentious attempts to Fix The Bad Game. if lysithea developed feelings for annette during the academy phase she would be sooo embarrassed like what do you mean i have a CRUSH? on a GIRL who is a NERD? and her stupid classmates (claude and hilda, maybe leonie) would find out and tease her forever about it. like c’mon lys ask her to dance with you at the ball!! and she does and annette is stupidly oblivious and she just gives up because she doesn’t have time for that.
the reunion post-timeskip would be awkward as fuck for both of them too: annette comes back fully grown and serving cunt while lysithea-- she looks exactly the same tbh but she is 12 whole ass centimeters taller and that’s wild. if they had any prior feelings for each other the timeskip would be like boom! gay reason spell that always crits!! it’s been 5 years and the girl from the other class is now a soldier, and i’m a soldier too and i fight by her side and she’s beautiful, but the war isn’t stopping and no one is stopping me from kissing her either. we’ve grown so much and so differently and i don’t know where to start teaching her the kind of magic i now know about, if she even wants me to. if she even wants me. and goddess do i want her.
anyway. thanks for letting me talk about my brainrot, i’ve been reading a lot of fics about them (something i should have done in 2019 when i first played but hey, better late than never. i’m so thankful for ao3 and all the fanfic writers out there, it’s so rewarding to get back to an old fandom and find all the cool stuff that has been written while you were gone). i hope you have a nice day anon~
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Oh yeah and this is Indarant's appearance, which I was gonna change, but I think I kind of like it, actually.
Single shot closeup from not her good side because the devs never did fix The Ear and of course all these non-symmetrical hairstyles show off that side. But it's the one that's half pulled up into a bun.
This is like, casual wear. I'm still working on her armor sets.
A while ago I said I would make a post saying why I considered making her a Loremaster and then decided against it: in the Eavespires, where the player probably first encounters Gauredain, Remmenylf says this: "The Gauredain believe in nature and its abilities and powers, though they do not understand whence these powers derive. While we use the virtues instilled therein by the Valar for good and healing, they use it for more nefarious purposes."
Based on this I feel like a Loremaster would be the obvious choice for a Gauredan, especially a seer as Indarant was training to be before she was banished. It seems to be what the game is evoking with the signature Gauredain that can often be found in camps accompanied by wolves.
But I think Indarant distances herself from it after leaving. It scares her, more because it nearly killed Lothrandir and led her down a path she's realizing she really doesn't want to go down than because she doesn't understand it. She does understand it. But she doesn't really want to mess around with it, especially given the many years of training she had in how to misuse it. She fears becoming something that nearly destroyed her. So instead I made her a Brawler. IDK if they use magic at all or to what degree, as I haven't played much yet, but the plan is to downplay that and lean purely into the physical aspect of it. No magic, no nature, no sorcery or herblore: her philosophy is Big, Buff, & Angry. Also she's learning to read and she's super excited about that, has a particular interest in historical poetry.
Maybe I'll work this conflict into her story at some point -- it could be fun to have her accepting some part of the Loremaster again, since it's not an inherently bad thing -- it's just that the Gauredain misuse it. I let my LotRO OCs multiclass a little bit (it started out as a joke with Leonys but has gone to some pretty interesting places with other characters) so maybe eventually she'll multiclass a little bit back into Loremaster. Could be fun!
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Making Some Book VIII New Heroes Predictions
Now that we've gotten the trailer for the final New Heroes banner of Book VII, it's time to look ahead to what the next year may bring in terms of new characters to be added to FEH. Two years back I made an entire video out of this topic on my channel...but that's a lot of work and I'm about to dive into the Super Mario RPG remake over there, so I'm doing this the easy way this time.
*When I refer to "premium" units in this post, I'm talking about ascended, rearmed, or attuned heroes. Also legendaries and mythics, if it's outside the context of New Heroes banners.
Guaranteed banners
Engage
Definitely one, possibly two again this year. IS is breaking up the cast by country, so an Elusian banner with the royal sisters, Goldmary, and whichever of the guys polls highest is an easy prediction. I'd say Solm as well, but it's already such a natural fit for the January special banner theme that we may have to wait for then to see those characters all together. 2024 is doubtful there for that, considering we just got a special Timerra. It's possible we may see a DLC-focused banner, like what happened with the Wolves - and IS will absolutely push Zelestia as a new character even though Zephia's already in the game.
Everyone's also predicting that Engage will sweep the next CYL with at least three of the four slots, so that in combination with a standard array of seasonals, a likely appearance on the fallen banner, and the odd legendary or mythic (legendary m!Alear at some point is all but assured) will lead to complaints of Engage fatigue.
Thracia
Unless you count ascended Ced or Sara backpacking for desert Linde (I don't), we haven't had a new FE5 unit in Heroes since March of 2022. The poor game is long overdue, especially because aside from Engage it's the title with the most potential new units to add. Granted that those characters aren't exactly popular, but with a whopping nine women still missing from its roster FE5 can lock down the key headlining waifu demographic in a way that almost every other game would struggle to at this point. There's a plot-relevant magical waif (Linoan), a loli (Tina), a dancer (Lara), a wyvern rider (Eda), or a pegasus knight to follow up on 2022's Karin (Misha). Again, none of them are especially popular, but Thracia could make up a viable banner easily even without help from Heroes fanservice. I'd expect one sometime between January and April, when the New Heroes events lack OCs.
Path of Radiance
The Tellius games alternate books, likely because of the significant roster overlap. Book VII got a Radiant Dawn banner, so here we are. Since FE10 poached Lucia though, FE9's only got Calill for a new female addition. Prediction for the banner would be Calill, a premium female character (one of Mia, Ilyana, or Nephenee, maybe Mist?), a Heroes OC, and some male unit. Largo would be logical, but I could see a more random pick like Zihark or Tauroneo.
Three Houses
A surprising number of Fódlan characters are still stuck in alt hell despite the years of fatigue. There's enough of them in fact for two or possibly three more New Heroes banners without significant help from OC padding. We've already seen multiple examples of IS using characters' Hopes designs for lazy premium alts, so I'd also expect more of that.
2023's banner was all Lions (and Rhea), so next year's will focus on a different house. If it's the Deer, I'd guess Lorenz, Leonie, premium Lysithea or Marianne, and either a Heroes OC or whichever of Raphael or Ignatz polls better. If it's the Eagles, Dorothea and Caspar are locks as well as premium Bernadetta most likely, along with Heroes fanservice or possibly regular Manuela. After those two ideas have been used up, the few remaining members of the roster are very likely doomed to something like the recent Echoes banner where they've got to split it with multiple OCs. The handful of male non-student characters who got dropped from the Hopes roster (and also Rodrigue from Hopes itself) are probably out of luck entirely bar the odd GHB like Cyril got a few months ago.
Oh, and fallen m!Shez possessed by Arval is pretty much a lock next year too. Fódlan is amazing for those wanky fallen banners.
(New) Mystery of the Emblem
Archanea closed out Book VI a year ago and hasn't been seen since, so a comeback in 2024 is reasonable. Complicating matters is that despite the abundance of missing units, most of them are 1) male and/or 2) utterly forgettable. The waifu picks are Midia, Cecil, Marisha, and Yuliya...not exactly inspiring options. As 2022's banner was ostensibly taken from FE1/11 owing to pre-corruption Hardin and as FE3/12 have more options for new units, that would be the more likely play. Will we finally see a banner that forces IS to turn an earlygame cleric into a headliner? Historically those characters have fared poorly in Heroes (we're still missing all of Edain, Lana, Safy, Elen, and Laura), but half of the options for new women are just that.
Fates
Last we saw FE14 New Heroes they were opening this book, so it's a reasonable expectation later on in Book VIII. Even though Fates still holds the largest percentage of Heroes's total roster, it surprisingly has a handful of characters it can still offer. That's especially true for the second generation, although because that was the focus of the last banner IS may be alternating them. The waifu options in Gen 1 - Mozu, Scarlet, and technically Fates Anna - aren't inspiring, but it's not like Sophie and Mitama left over in Gen 2 are much better. Throw in a premium royal or two and/or a Heroes OC and call it a banner.
Assuming two Engage banners, that's seven of the ten New Heroes slots. Those below are ones I'm less certain of - but something's got to fill out the holes in the schedule.
Wild Cards
Genealogy and Binding Blade
Both reasonable options although they're kind of running low at this point. FE4's banners alternate, so the next one should be Gen 1...which has only Edain and an assortment of men that even fans of the game are hard-pressed to care about. FE6 has, uh...Elen? I did say IS hates earlygame clerics.
The one thing that would certainly bolster the prospects of either of these games would be a remake announcement, which would offer tons of options for premium alts and potentially drum up interest in missing early picks like both games' Christmas knights and such. It would be odd if we didn't get any kind of development announcement for FE in 2024, and a remake would be perfect filler while IS works on whatever the next big release is planned to be.
Sacred Stones
Seems to be a favorite among the FEH staff considering how often it shows up on summer banners despite its age and low level of waifu bait potential, and the last time it got a New Heroes banner was near the start of this year. Too bad it's down to Ismaire as far as new female characters go.
Blazing Blade
Unlikely as it's just now getting a new banner, and it too is running out of viable options. With Isadora getting added, Vaida's the only female character from the game left.
Awakening
Technically overdue since it last showed up in October of 2022, but it's been running on fumes for years. We're talking just Vaike and Laurent here. Even Kellam got a seasonal! I expect that FE13 will be the next victim of a double OC banner. Speaking of which...
Echoes
...Not happening. We all saw that travesty last month. Jesse and/or Nomah might be added sometime in 2025, if IS even bothers.
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It looked like there was a little more going on here than just a simple screwing around with guns when the defendant puts a clip in the chamber and points the gun and says, 'Do you feel lucky?’ -Judge
Riley Andrew Spitler, Michigan inmate 974460, born 1998, incarceration intake March 2016 at age 17, released September 2021
Manslaughter, Controlled Substance Delivery/Manufacture, Use of a Weapon the Commission of a Felony
In July 2019, a man who shot his brother as a teen was resentenced to four to 15 years in prison. Riley Spitler was 16 when he was charged with pointing a gun at his 20-year-old brother Patrick and pulling the trigger, killing him, on Dec. 6, 2014.
Originally, he was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison in 2016, but the conviction was overturned twice by the Michigan Court of Appeals, which ruled that Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain improperly handled the admission of testimony made by three friends of the victim.
In January 2019, the Michigan Supreme Court declined to hear the state's appeal, and it was left up to the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office to decide to retry the case or resentence Spitler. The prosecutor’s office chose the latter, and Spitler, then 20, was resentenced on one count of manslaughter.
“I’ll always love my brother. There will never be a day where I don’t miss him, where I don’t think about him,” Spitler said at the sentencing. “ I wake up every single day and look outside and think about what I’m incarcerated for.”
While Spitler’s lawyer, Alfred Brandt, argued that the incident was an accident, and that Spitler didn’t know the gun was loaded, the Judge said it seemed like more than just an accident.
“The unfortunate thing here is when you read one of these (cases) you think about all the other cases where you see the accidental shootings that got out of hand,” the judge said “..It looked like there was a little more going on here than just a simple screwing around with guns...(Spitler) puts a clip in the chamber and points the gun and says, 'Do you feel lucky?’”
According to police, Spitler said he de-chambered a bullet and then said “Let’s see if it’s your lucky day.” Spitler called 911 and Blackman-Leoni police found his brother with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
Spitler is also serving time for additional convictions of possession with intent to deliver marijuana and two counts of felony firearm, with a sentence of four to six years in prison issued in March 2016.
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crowshoots · 7 months
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the zemeni, their beliefs about grisha abilities, and relations to religion & belief
said that i would do this post a bit ago, so here we go. now, several things before i go into it: this is all headcannoned and lore i made myself rather than anything supported in canon, as Ieigh bardugo has offered... pretty much nothing on zemeni culture, so! again, this is primarily for my blog and how i understand it, but keep this in mind for whenever talking about (my) jesper's culture. onward we go!
to start: we know very little of the zemeni culture in canon (unfortunately). the very little we know is that grisha are seen as blessed (and the word for grisha translates as 'the blessed'), and novyi zem is one of the few places available for grisha to hide safely for their lives. they do have teachings for their abilities off to the west, and they don't believe in grisha orders like the ravkans and the rest of the world does.
the terminology of the word 'blessed' as connotations. one, it obviously indicates a positive image of zowa. even in ravka, one of the countries most well-known for their employment and treatment of grisha, they're not exactly the same way. instead, the grisha are named after one of the first grisha saints, gregori.
a lot of the older ravkan saints are tales of grisha who were brutalized, such as gregori himself (mauled to death by bears). the ravkan legends tend to commentate them for all of the things they could do, uplifting them to a pedestal rather than ridiculing them or making them out to be monsters. in the books, it's also implied that saints are not shared from country to country -- inej has her own (suli) saints, and colm has his (kaelish) saints. they likely have their own tales and beliefs.
however, the usage of the word 'blessed' by the zemeni implies that they believe that this power comes from a higher power. it implies that fate had a hand in 'blessing' someone and gifting them this power. leoni's father says --
"leoni is zowa. she has the gift too."
the way that this is phrased implies again that the zemeni believe grisha/zowa power to be a gift from someone. aditi also says that "if my gifts can help people, then it's my duty to use them", perhaps implying a (mayhaps personal or moral-related) understanding of these gifts and using them in such a way to help others. in short: in my understanding, the zemeni view zowa power as a gift from a higher power, specifically given to aid others the best they can.
however, with the zemeni seemingly lacking in saints, now it becomes a question of exactly what this higher power is. in siege and storm, alina hears from mal that the zemeni have a god of work that they pray to (also curiously enough, capitalized as God of Work but I have no coherent thoughts on that). the god of work is not given a name, and we can assume that mal wouldn't know the zemeni names. (sort of like how if you weren't kerch/grounded in kerch culture, you wouldn't exactly know what ghezen would be the god of when someone told you that they'll pray to ghezen. it's not like they say "i'll pray to ghezen, god of commerce")
the way that i interpret this is that the god of work is not one person. it is not someone grounded in history, nor is it one body and one identity. they are just... the god of work, and that's all they are.
this is also where another piece of my personal headcanoned lore comes in. as the zemeni are based in black culture, i believe some elements are inspired by african-american history, as well as other places such as haiti and west africa. for my understanding of zemeni culture, it combines spiritualism as well as animism (as the zemeni are also based on australia, which i will take to mean the aborginal people of australia). in addition, jesper also says that he believes in things such as "ghosts and gnomes", the latter of which i think is a joke but the former i think is a reference to his belief in spirits.
the zemeni seem to be very connected to the land. novyi zem is most well-known for its crops and usage of natural materials. they have shown that they are quite technologically advanced (such as their weaponry and their airships), but purposefully guard these things as their own, as they've had enough of other countries stealing their things and using them without any respect for the ground it came from or anything else in relation to its creation process.
the zemeni believe that their land is inhibited and infused by the spirits of the dead who were buried there, placed back into the earth once they died. (this is also why the zemeni always choose to bury their dead in the earth, especially close to places like trees or rivers) they tend to bury family closest to their own houses as well so the spirits can watch over and see their family. they believe spirits are in nature such as mountains or caves or more.
since the spirits are connected with the land, the zemeni do their best to ensure that its never diseased and in good health. as a reward, the spirits give them good harvest and crop. similarly, they believe that any gifts given to them (so zowa power) is the spirits of the dead looking out for them, giving them something that allows them to help others and the community.
so tldr: in my headcanons, the zemeni belief system in zowa is inherently rooted into their ancestors, believing that the dead of their family have given them gifts.
in relation to jesper, this gets... complicated. leigh wrote him without any connection to his culture. he grew up shuttering off his feelings about his zowa identity and unfortunately grew to think of it as a curse and as a misfortunate rather than the gift that his mother thought it was. for him to think this way is an inherent rejection of his own culture, and jesper has many strides to take before he's in a place where he's content with it -- in the way i write him, he goes back to novyi zem to visit his da, then goes west to meet zowa teachers (one of which knew his mom). it's a frustrating few months, but it's a start of a community, one of the most vital things in zemeni culture, and it's a step forward.
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The Malec Secret Santa 2022 Reveal Post
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Ho Ho Ho!
It’s time to conclude the seventh edition of the Malec Secret Santa :)
Hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas and that you’ve enjoyed all the amazing gifts that were posted!
The fantastic @forensicsisabelle & @thelightofthebane deserve extra love and gratitude for being wonderful Christmas Angels this year in helping me out to create last minute gifts, making sure no one would be left empty handed this year! Thank you darlings, I really appreciate that you wanted to help me out in a pinch! <333
If you’d like, you can still add your works to the AO3 Collection! Just poke me if you do, and I’ll add the link to the Tumblr gift post as well. You can also repost your gift(s) to your own Tumblrs now, of course :)
That’s all from me in terms of service announcements, hope to see you all again next year! 
-x- Leonie (leetje)
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Are you all ready to find out who your secret santas were? :D
Most of you should know the drill by now. The list is in alphabetical order. 
@another-random-stranger made a gift for gloriouspomelo - gift here
@aworldinsideofthem made a gift for thatnerdemryn - gift here
@carelessflower made a gift for notasimpleslater - gift here
@dicaculus made a gift for fanfic-fugue - gift here
@em1000 made a gift for lani14 - gift here
@fanfic-fugue made a gift for secrettryst - gift here
@flynnifox made a gift for kaijuusandkryptids - gift here
@forensicsisabelle made a gift for another-random-stranger - gift here
@forensicsisabelle made a gift for phoenixstar73 - gift here
@gloriouspomelo made a gift for kyaresrevala - gift here
@gospi made a gift for rinledraws - gift here
@i-have-not-slept made a gift for thelightofthebane - gift here
@kaijuusandkryptids made a gift for la-muerta - gift here
@killiarious made a gift for gospi - gift here
@kyaresrevala made a gift for vaguelyrotten - gift here
@la-muerta made a gift for the-great-lightwood-bane - gift here
@ladymatt made a gift for secretphilosopherwitch - gift here
@lani14 made a gift for suchawannabe56 - gift here
@livinglifebehindthemask made a gift for dicaculus - gift here
@magnus-the-maqnificent made a gift for killiarious - gift here
@mforpaul made a gift for solarisrasa - gift here
@moni26 made a gift for schreiberling2021 - gift here
@nancyloumm made a gift for ladymatt - gift here
@notasimpleslater made a gift for i-have-not-slept - gift here
@phoenixstar73 made a gift for mforpaul - gift here
@quackquackcey made a gift for livinglifebehindthemask - gift here
@rinledraws made a gift for carelessflower - gift here
@schreiberling2021 made a gift for aworldinsideofthem - gift here
@secretphilosopherwitch made a gift for magnus-the-maqnificent - gift here
@sivan325 made a gift for bloodspeckledraphael - gift here
@solarisrasa made a gift for sivan325 - gift here
@squiggly-lines-on-a-page made a gift for nancyloumm - gift here
@suchawannabe56 made a gift for em1000 - gift here
@thatnerdemryn made a gift for forensicsisabelle - gift here
@the-great-lightwood-bane made a gift for squiggly-lines-on-a-page - gift here
@thelightofthebane made a gift for flynnifox - gift here
@thelightofthebane made a gift for quackquackcey - gift here
@vaguelyrotten made a gift for moni26 - gift here
Go forth and tacklehug your no-longer-secret santa! They definitely deserve some loving!
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Before you read: This lore is part of the Cat-skull au made by me and @idle-skull . Refer to their stuff for the basic lore and stuff like that. Additionally, this is an alternate timeline version of my character Guinevere, so refer to my previous post about her for backstory up to the diverging point of their story.
So in the Dornian Heresy version of our AU, Guin ends up being assigned to the Lion instead of Sagnuinius. At first due to the Lion’s reclusive nature, she didn’t get to know much about him, mainly interacting with Luther. However, after Luther gets kicked out and sent back to Caliban, she’s able to get much closer to Lion, and even begins forming a connection with him.
It. Goes. Badly.
As they grow closer and closer, their respective traumas and issues with emotional attachment just feed into each other, creating this feedback loop of mental illness and horrible standards of what romance is. Lion never truly ends up loving her, despite them having the occasional night where their weird bond spills over into intimacy (often with some of Russ’ space marine booze involved). Meanwhile Guin (under the alias of Morgan at the time) became absolutely obsessed with him. He was her first romantic attachment, and due to her upbringing and already existing issues, it pretty much made his validation the only thing she cared about. But, with Lion being an antisocial shit who wasn’t actually in love with her, she never really got said validation, making her even more desperate.
This mutually abusive cocktail of hatefucking and enabling of one another’s issues eventually led to Guin becoming pregnant with Lion’s kid, who he planned to name Mordred. While Lion never cared for Guin, he did show some amount of care for his unborn son, if nothing else than because he would become his heir. However, they’d never get the chance to see how their relationship would have worked out, because mere days before his son’s birth, Lion would face Luther on Caliban, die, and his legion would be scattered into the warp as the Unforgiven. It was there, in the belly of a wrecked ship with failing Geller fields, with Deamons scratching at the walls, that Guin would give birth to her son. While Lion planned to name him Mordred, Guin decided to name him Caliburn (literally a mashup of Caliban burn).
Unlike her canon self, Guin (now under the new alias of Vidua Leonis, “Lion’s Widow”) is kiiiiind of a shit parent. Being the leader of the Unforgiven means she had to train Caliburn quickly to become a warrior, which leaves little room for things like healthy emotional development or affection. Additionally, her obsession with Lion didn’t end with his death. She pretty much needs to make her son his successor, which means she’s constantly holding him to that standard, pretty much requiring him to “fulfill” his father’s legacy.
There’s a good bit more, but that’s more Caliburn’s story rather than hers, so that’ll be it for now.
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