#lightkeepers

[magicacademyrpg]

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[razreads]

RAZREADS’ RECMAS 2023

December 23rd ~ A book with a one-word title: Lightkeepers by Kennedy Plumb

“I won’t let fear hold me back from living."

(Photo credit not mine - please see the original post. I just know there are so many great photographs of books out there, I thought I’d explore some whilst I spread the word about some of my favourite reads from the year!)

[nedlittle]

so i work for a small regional museum. remotely, i should add. the museum itself is about 2000km west, so i've never actually been there but i research and write articles about local history for them. and because the town was only formally settled in the 1920s and a lot of the museum's supporters are older, the majority of the history i write about is within, or just outside of living memory. this means that people will comment on our posts with memories or connections of their own. they'll tag their friends and family and say 'remember this?'

a few week ago, i wrote a week's worth of posts about immigration, largely displaced persons in the aftermath of the second world war. there was an outpouring of memories and people tagging their family members and sharing them. our notifications were blowing up with people saying "thanks for writing about my uncle" and "i knew them when i was young, but i never knew their story" and "she looks so beautiful here" and "our families used to get together for dinners, i'm still friends with his daughter."

regular people, non-historians, are inclined to think of history as a monolithic past leading up to the present; an easy timeline of textbook names and events. and we think of museums largely the same way. you have the louvre and you have the smithsonian and maybe a modern art museum or a niche museum for skeletons or canoes or one specific guy. museums are reserved for the big things, but they're also for the little things and people that will never be in textbooks.

and i'm thinking about the way people responded to those posts, seeing their own history remembered with the same reverence as the big stuff. maybe you never knew the people being written about, or maybe you did, and for a few days, they are alive again, and your neighbours and your classmates and your councilmen are remembering your family, and they are alive.

[captainskells]

Here is all my love for the DMs of Candela Obscura as represented by their Lightkeepers! (over @criticalrole) 🥰

Lightkeeper Alexandra Elise O'Neill, Circle of the Vassal and the Veil portrayed by Matthew Mercer (and before Marisha Ray)

Lightkeeper Draven Kingsley, Circle of the Needle and Thread portrayed by Spenser Starke

Lightkeeper Nokari, Circle of Tide and Bone portrayed by Aabria Iyengar (@quiddie)

[dumpster-fire-sapphic-failgirl]

time for a tough poll

[candelaobscure]

The Lightkeeper

[elemental-plane]

whatever they're paying lightkeeper nokari it's not enough

[utilitycaster]

The prologue to the episode actually becomes unintentionally extremely funny in retrospect because three of the circle members do ultimately make it out, including "the unknown arsonist" so either Candela decided to just be like "yeah the Circle of Needle and Thread disappeared but they seem to have saved the Fourth Pharos in the process" so as to provide some cover and privacy to the three survivors who presumably are retiring after this ordeal; or this report was filed while the circle was busy throwing chickens at sandworms.

[lascitasdelashoras]

Dmitry Baltermants - Light-keeper on Kama, 1948

[incorrect-candela-obscura]

Lightkeeper Nokari: You're a loose cannon, Cosmo.

Cosmo: No, I'm not! I'm a cannon, maybe, but a loose cannon? Is that what you think of me?

Lightkeeper Nokari: I think you play by your own rules.

Cosmo: No, no, a loose cannon thinks rules were made to be broken.

Rajan: That’s a key attribute of a loose cannon.

Cosmo: No, I'm just a reckless renegade. Elsie is a loose cannon.

Elsie: *transforms into a were-mantis-orca; smashes a chair*

[turtleducknewton]

let it be known that Edgar does NOT go to parties

[math-rocks-and-lizard-bats]

I have never written fan fiction in my life but I’ve got inspiration to write a fic about how Grimoria joined candela bc Zora and Leo heard about her and she did a show for them but also analyzed something they brought in.

Will I write this? Who knows I’m a college student with zero time but I don’t have lab this week so maybe.

[razreads]

I won’t let fear hold me back from living.

Kennedy Plumb, Lightkeepers

[clockbreadcroi]

Finally got to finalize the design of Timeweaving Light... woohoo!! Lightkeeper is real

[dent-de-leon]

hm thinking.....widomauk or shadowidomauk in candela AU--

[dumpster-fire-sapphic-failgirl]

okay. but. go with me on this one

I was thinking about how creepy cute it was that Auggie, when hearing Arlo might turn into a shadow demon, asked her if she was single

and Arlo, in classic Arlo fashion, replied that she was taken… by her fiancé, Auggie. In a way that could have been her playing up a bit or having missed that it was a bit

and it got me thinking that, in a horror movie sense, Auggie has big Final Girl energy. Which brings me to my next point

we don’t know the name of Tal’s Lightkeeper/Narrator, right?

we just know that he’s the Lightkeeper of *our* circle, and we’re investigating these cases they’ve… left behind?

so wouldn’t it be fucked up if, in the final case report at the end of the 3rd episode… our Lightkeeper signs off as “August James”?

Anyway, here’s to hoping that the hot-mom/weird girl/hole-in-head dad trio makes it through the July episode mostly intact