#the duck of discord arc

[acchermont-void]

Ink entered Error's room. The glitch was in his beanbag had a blanket envolving him like a burrito and was watching Undernovela

"Ruru, can we talk?"

"Go away."

"Im sorry for going too far with the teasing. You just get so cute when angry and I-"

"Quit with the talking! I don't wanna hear your voice EVER again.", Error shouted, with fury in his eyes.

"..."

"..."

"..."

Error turned around to meet Ink's worried eyes.

"Why the fck are you still here?"

"Reaps got mad and went somewhere"

"And? I dont care about what that bucko is doing. He shouldnt have shouted at us- I mean at me in the morning."

"Why are you and him acting so weird?", Ink asked while looking down and playing with his scarf

"What do you mean?", Error said, frowning a bit more.

"You guys were so happy and cozy but all of sudden everything changed...", Ink started, a bit afraid to meet Error's eyes, "Why is that?"

Error looked at Ink with frustration. That was the price he had to pay to get involved with souless people.

"What is happening is that idiot started getting dodgy!", Error said as if it was the most obvious thing. "He is hiding something from us! He is avoiding me so it is well more hid. You just didn't notice it because of the goldfish brain you have!"

Ink managed to laugh a bit. "Oh yeah... now I remember. I am really an idiot, aint I?"

Error smiled. "You finally got it", he patted the beanbag in a place next his side, inviting Ink to sit.

"Do you think Reaps is gonna come back soon?", Ink asked.

"I know that guy for ages, Squid", Error said, "He will be coming back in minutes. Now shut up I wanna watch Undernovela"

Ink snorted and mumbled an ok. Error's speech made... something in him get less tense. He held the fingertip of Error's hand and enjoyed the spare time he was having.

....

He didnt came.

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[liloinkoink]

Lamplight AU

What is Lamplight? Short answer, a DnD/Fantasy Third/Last Life Renchanting AU!

Long answer, here’s 20 Questions, the ficlet meant to introduce the concept.

Medium answer, Ren is a powerful god stuck in the form of living fire. Martyn is his sole follower. Martyn and Ren help free one another from imprisonment by the Watchers and are now traveling the world on a two-man adventure of fond companionship and occasional arson.

This AU has been written as I feel like it with absolutely no regard for chronology. If you have any questions about it feel free to ask! I also have a tag for it, “lamplight au,” which is where any writing, asks, or art go.

I’ll update this post with writing and art as it happens. Writing is organized chronologically, art is organized by artist and as it’s posted.

This AU was planned with the help of @/unexpectedly-haunted, whose designs for Martyn and Ren are linked at the start of the art section!

You can also find an archive of Lamplight on my writing blog, @driflew, under the same tag.

[AU itself is platonic, but ship content gets made for it]

And, for some other fun notes...

The (unofficial) Lamplight fan Discord Server can be found here!!

Martyn replied to my post saying he knows what Lamplight is, which is a wild thing to be able to say.

[Please do not spam the chats or the askboxes of Martyn, Ren, or anyone else with talk of this fic! Don’t need to annoy anyone with it, thank you!]

[Now that it's confirmed Martyn does know what Lamplight is, here are my thoughts on reading it on stream (he can can if he wants!)]

Lamplight writing

(for any works posted on both ao3 and tumblr where there are differences in content, consider ao3 the ‘correct,’ ‘updated,’ or ‘canon’ version. The AO3 versions are better, edited for quality, pacing, and often with extra bits not found in the tumblr versions)

The AO3 series with all works can be found here.

[If you enjoy Lamplight, I have a kofi? Please don’t feel the need send me anything excessive! The option to tip simply exists if you enjoy the series and are feeling generous.]

Canon

Torchlight Arc

Torchlight

[Torchlight short fic: Ren POV] [this scene is also on Ao3, in Moonlight ch2]

Heliography (multi-chapter, complete)

[tumblr preview scene, incl in Heliography ch1]

Lamplight Arc

Strange Traveler (ao3) (tumblr)

From Here to There (incl 20Q and other scenes)

Incident at the Sleeping Hound (ao3) (tumblr)

Winter's Herald (ao3) (tumblr)

Moonlight Arc

Moonlight (multi-chapter, in-progress)

(ch one is also on tumblr, but significant edits were made when it was moved to ao3. i’m leaving the first version here unchanged, just for fun, but be aware it’s different)

Non-Canon

worship the ashes (ship, noncanonical)

featherlight (Treebark Week D2: Light/Dark. ambiguous on both the ship status and the canonical status… anime filler arc status lmao)

somniphobia (ship, noncanonical) (og version is also on tumblr, a fic from taking treebark Lamplight requests: Ren doesn't sleep)

Heat Haze (Treebark Week D4: Warmth/Breeze) (ship, noncanonical)

the only place i don't feel cold (Treebark Week D3/4: Build/Burn, Infernal/Divine) (ship, noncanonical) (og version is also on tumblr, a fic from taking treebark Lamplight requests: God of...)

Leaflight Series (Lamplight Roleswap) [ask about the Leaflight concept]

Cover Me in Roses

Ficlet of a different Lamplight offshoot

Other Writers

Help with plotting the AU has come from my friend Haunted, whose contributions to design, plot, and general function as a rubber duck have been greatly appreciated

Series

Desert Duo subplot series by @/cosmicretribution (Haunted's designs)

crystalline

Boat Boys subplot series by @/boatboysrowout

i said fuck it long ago

Canon-divergent horror series by @/sixteenth-days

so no head?

Oneshots (non canon)

the heart of the pyre by Zeph

striking steel by Apollo

guiding light by Apollo

Lamplight Art

if you want to draw Lamplight art, go ahead! i would love to see it! @ me and/or Haunted and i’ll put it here! if i don’t see it, send me a message! and be sure to check out these artists’ work and show them some love!

Haunted’s Lamplight Official™ Martyn design

Haunted’s Lamplight Official™ Ren design (ft. Martyn)

Haunted's Lamplight animatic, FIRE--this is an animatic for the latter half of the fic Torchlight and is really cool!

I hit the fucking link limit so the rest of the art can be found HERE

[shirefantasies]

If mashups are still available, I'd love love love if you could write one for me (never done this before)! The Hobbit is my favourite so preferably a (male) character from there if that would be ok!

I'm from Scandinavia and I love anything to do with Norse Mythology and going on hikes in the woods to act out adventures of my own creation. I am naturally very curious and love to go in-depth to study different topics, such as the natural sciences and different mythologies. I am quite short at 164 cm with blue eyes and blonde hair. Slightly on the curvier side. Thank you so so much I'd really appreciate it! <3 <3 <3

That is ok indeed as I match you with…

Óin!

(Warning: minor injury/blood mentions, hints at misogyny from unseen characters, minor alcohol/drinking references)

Maybe he isn’t the most conventional of the dwarves, but hear a silly old narrator out…

Your search for new species of plant has led you deep into the woods, deeper than they have yet undertaken. Success, though, has colored your journey, your prior experiment with the fertilizers of your crafting proving quite telling. Ducking past a very low-hanging branch that almost cuts a scar across your cheek, you press on, spurred by victory. The pursuit of science, after all, is the noble calling that moves you to painless battle with the forces set forth so many years before by the Valar, or in the eyes of your people quite possibly a different pantheon altogether. Even if none of it was true, they had been your favorite stories for years.

A world crafted from a corpse, now home to such life. Earth as flesh, seas blood, clouds brains of all things- dark, perhaps, but infinitely captivating. Or perhaps a song as the people in this land say, discordant notes sowing the very nature of sin and chaos as if as invisible waves in the air.

Such are your thoughts when your foot is roughly yanked, momentum pitching your body forward as a nasty loop of tree branch holds your lower appendage in place. More roots await when you fall, cutting and scraping various exposed areas of your skin. Pain arcs up your leg when you rise and try to return weight to the foot that got caught. Your ankle is sprained. You barely know where you are. Blood trickles from several smaller wounds, this blood no great sea, only drops upon dirt shed in solitude.

A long walk lies ahead of you. Sighing and biting back pained tears, you limp as best you can in the direction you’d come. You aren't certain how long you even have been walking for when you hear the voice, a bit gruff in nature but soft in tone and volume, pleasantly accented and reassuring despite its strangeness. "You're hurt," it says simply, and as you turn around- no, swivel at the hips, more like, your weight fighting a shift without a thought- it reveals a dwarf. His beard is pleasantly symmetrical, satisfying your eyes with its gravity-defying braids. Not a hint of malice shines in his dark brown eyes, only concern. "I come out this way to collect herbs, but I'll confess it isn't often I see another soul. Please, let a healer do his job." Exhaustion deep in your bones already, you simply nod.

Oin, as you find the dwarf's name is, is more than just a healer, at least in your eyes; his knowledge of nature and its properties are fascinating even if he is just rambling a bit about each thing he applies to your ankle, touch gentle as a feather despite the strength and girth of his hands. He knows exactly what everything he applies to you does and why. “‘N what were you doin’ out here anyway? I can see it- you’ve a good head on your shoulders. A lass like you has got a reason.”

He sees you. At least moreso than plenty of others you have run across, the ones who dub you too fair for your pursuits or reduce the way you track the stars to a pretty fancy of lights. Dwarves, you forget, prize women with a depth and respect that has yet to shine upon some of these lands. Your savior sees you as an equal even in your infirm, and thus you have no qualms explaining your experiment with the soil and the other which required the accursed herbs you twisted up your ankle over. You have tracked the world's revolutions and he has learned how to save mothers and babies from dangerous deliveries. Written many a medical record that piques your love of delving into knowledge enough that you don't just allow Oin to walk you back to society, you come home with him and spend the night in a lovely drown of parchment...and maybe a stiff drink, too! "It'll help with your pain, after all," he adds with a wink.

Perhaps you prefer the company of dwarves, or perhaps drink and offers of knowledge are far too seductive to pass up, but as you make for Oin's doorstep you feel an aching in your heart that your meeting was fate, and certainly not your last. Oin, you suspect, feels the same, shyly fiddling with his fingers as his gaze darts between the threshold and you. "'m glad I found you." "As am I," you reply, "for how else would I have learned someone so special was tucked away so close to my own home? Are you certain you want to listen to me drone on about old myths for hours?" "If it'll get you to come back here," Oin says, "Aye. Again and again." The warmth of your imbibing, and quite definitely something else, rushes through your veins as you lean to close the gap between you two, inhibitions burned down. Perhaps a part of you was tired of being so methodical, relying on long processes and choreographed steps. And judging by the wide, spellbound smile on Oin's face, your rescuer is taken by the same instant connection you thought only happened in old stories.

By the time his hearth is yours, your shelves of healing and botany and the mischief of old gods alike a complete blend of you both, the same way strands of your golden hair are united in the braid Oin gave you. Your healer husband dotes on you more than you ever imagined, dubbing you more beautiful than Freyja and worshiping your curves every chance he gets. Beyond your body, the way the sky shines in the blue of your eyes, he loves your understanding, having another soul move in perfect tandem with his and sit with him in the haze of fascination. A companion at his side for even the smallest tasks of watering the garden or washing one's hair and yet someone who poses the most difficult questions and waits with such patience if her words are not heard the first time. Perhaps he healed you long ago setting your ankle back right, but you, dear, healed him just as much.

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[rainbowstargazerlilies]

Time for a new pinned post!

Hi, everyone, this is Becca or Ori! Those in the Mechs fandom might know me for the recent Mechs Ships Tournament (all tagged as "#mechs ships tournament" on here), my Mechs and TMA themed knit dolls (all tagged "#stargazer's four inch friends"), or the TMA and Mechs fics I write (see below). I'm in my early twenties, am currently a graduate student in psych-related fields, and live in the eastern time zone.

If you're interested in my fics, promo for that under the cut. Otherwise, enjoy the chaos!

Why should you read what I mentally call the booty shorts saga, actually known as "The Semi-Annual Non-Denominational Winter Holiday Gift Swap"?

Have you ever wondered what gift swaps might look like in the Magnus Institute?

Do you need to imagine Certain Characters (Jon) receiving so many pairs of booty shorts?

This sticks close to canon, so. . . do you want a story about booty shorts and nonsense to suddenly give you So Many Feels?

This is a collaboration between the amazing @ladydragonkiller and myself, and it was our first foray into writing and posting fanfic. I love it. Go read LadyDragonKiller's other stuff if you're a Mechs fan.

Why should you read The Stars Claim Them?

I started this series with imagining Lyfrassir Edda surviving the Bifrost Incident, and then ending up at the Magnus Institute, so it is a TMA/Mechs crossover.

I've been consistently posting for over a year. Two years as of this March, and I am so excited for that :) Currently, we're nearly 100,000 words in and going, posting right now is concurrent with TMA season 2, and I've had so much fun.

This is the fic where I stare canon in the eye, say "coward", and save every single character I can manage.

Be prepared for a very slow burn indeed, but the Violinspector element is certainly Very Much There.

We've had road trips, heists, blood snakes, rubber ducks, far too many Michaels, and more. I did a whole Peter Pan arc. It's nonsensical and amazing and I love it.

We've got a discord, where we have Very Normal Conversations about the fic, the Mechs, the Magnus Archives, and more. If you like the fic series, you're more than welcome to join!

If you enjoyed LadyDragonKiller's Raphaella backstory, I have some Easter egg references to it scattered throughout, because we brainstorm together. I consider it canon to this series, as far as that goes, and I have fun planting those :)

Why should you read anything from Corner of Dreams?

Those were oneshots I wrote last year as a part of a challenge to myself!

The first one is the angstiest Toy Soldier thing I could manage without crying. Have fun! Bring tissues!

The second is a fun little Violinspector thing that I really enjoyed writing. It just amused me so much to think about. And that ending. . . I like to think it ended happily, but there's no guarantee, is there?

The third is a Brian/Galahad oneshot. It could go so many different directions after the ending, most of which would absolutely change up canon. I like to think it wouldn't end sadly. Probably.

If there's enough enjoyment of these, there's two more I might add one day, based on Alice and on Gunpowder Tim vs the Moon Kaiser.

Also, if you're trying to get a taste of what I've written, one of these is probably a lot easier to start with than TSCT. These are each under 5,000 words.

Why should you read I Got You, Babe?

It's now four chapters in and we already have the start of some fun stuff going on. We've got Violinspector angst, Nastya doing interesting stuff post-Out. . . Why wouldn't you?

Also, I'm having far too much fun whenever I get the time to write on it. It's going to be interesting. I can't wait to share more.

[laurabwrites]

Plotting out loud, because I can. Glimmerglanger/Star Wars edition.

I read a fun smut Padmé/Obi-Wan piece from @glimmerglanger (another author I will read basically anything they write) that had a an interesting author end note:

....and the galaxy is saved because when Anakin tries to flirt with Padmé she goes, "Sorry, kiddo, not interested," because she's busy trying to arrange a time and place when she, Obi-Wan, and anyone else who wants to get down can all meet up.

And being me, I decided to plot out how this AU changes the timeline/plot. Because I can. And maybe if I do, it’ll stop knocking around my head.

So, relevant ‘plot’ points to this exercise for those who don’t want to read smut:

In Attack of the Clones, Anakin took a minor injury chasing Zam Wesell and went back to the Temple for treatment.

Padmé and the handmaids had crushes on Obi-Wan in The Phantom Menace.

Most of Padmé’s sexual experience up to this point has been with her handmaids (and they with each other).

Padmé initiates; the sex is very good; Padmé’s reaction is “I should see if he’s up for an orgy with the handmaids, they deserve something this nice.”

So! How I would plot out what comes next:

1) Anakin still tries to flirt with Padmé. It’s just as embarrassing as in the movies. Padmé decides to bring one of her handmaids with her to Naboo, hoping she’ll act as a buffer with Anakin. Let’s pick Dormé.

Dormé tells R2 to hang around Padmé when Anakin is there & don’t be afraid to use his arc welder/taser if he gets too pushy

2) The sojourn on Naboo is going to include fewer picnics and more Anakin bugging Padmé while she’s working with Dormé on Senatorial work. I see this leading to at least one argument about political structures.

Dormé totally yells at Anakin that he’s proposing fascism

How can a former slave think the scaled up version of what he suffered is a good idea?!?

Well the Chancellor could get so much more done if—

Dormé slaps massive history tome down on table

3) Padmé has good memories of Shmi, so they still go to Tatooine once Anakin shares he’s having nightmares.

4) Anakin does a Mass Murder™️ out of Revenge™️

5) When Anakin has his little ranting confession to Padmé (because he’s thinks they’re closer than Padmé feels), R2 starts pretending to be shutdown in the corner and gets a recording of his confession. Because Padmé is not interested in Anakin romantically, her little “anger is human” part of the speech also includes a “and I’m going to be very careful not to trigger the anger of this person who can throw things with his mind and has a sword that can bisect people easily.” mental clause. It’s a textual medium instead of a visual one. I get to include internal thoughts.

6) MEANWHILE, Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan got a nice dose of happy brain chemicals before starting his hunt and has gotten a decent amount of sleep while bouncing around the galaxy chasing down this attempted assassin. Obi-Wan digs in a little further at Kamino compared to the movies canon. He gets a copy of the contract from the Kaminoans. He ducks meeting Jango until after talking to some of the Alpha class (who introduce him to a couple of their proteges). Jango cannot hurry luring Obi-Wan to Genosis because he cannot find Obi for a couple days. 

When Obi-Wan does talk with Jango there’s a lot more “why are you building an army for the Republic” and more paying attention in the Force to his answers.

Obi-Wan has concerns™️

Obi-Wan sends his concerns to the Council and Anakin with instructions to boost his signal to the Council and make sure it gets there. Also DO NOT COME.

7) Genosis. Obi-Wan sneaks around Genosis for a little bit longer before getting caught. He gets a little more information back to the Council. When Dooku says “there’s a Sith in the Senate”, Obi-Wan says “evidence or I think you’re lying to sow discord and ignore you.”

8) Padmé and Anakin get caught on Genosis just as fast as in the movie. Dormé and R2 do not get caught. They feed technical info about the droids and on the ground tactical information to the arriving Jedi and clone rescue force. The rescue force tries a more diversionary attack expecting Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Padmé to get themselves out of the arena. Fewer clones and Jedi die. It’s still a shitshow with terrible numbers of casualties. Just fewer than in the movie.

9) Anakin still goes after Dooku. He still looses his arm. Dooku still gets away. Padmé and Anakin do not kiss, and do not sneak off to Naboo to get married.

10) Anakin is brought back to the Temple to start healing and doing PT for his new space-future prosthetic arm (see recent writing advice re:arm amputations and why they’re portrayed unrealistically). Obi-Wan is sent off on a mission with Alpha-17. Padmé, Dormé, and R2 speak with the council about Tatooine — the council diverts a Shadow to Tatooine for more evidence to back up the decision they know they’ll have to justify to the Senate.

11) Obi-Wan’s mission goes badly. He and Alpha-17 are captured and tortured by Ventress. Word of this reaches the Council and Anakin...

12) After his mother’s death, Anakin has slotted Obi-Wan into the ‘must not die, will burn down the Galaxy’ slot that Padmé occupied in movie canon. Padmé has made herself unavailable for the role since they’re not in a romantic relationship (although Anakin would like to and plans to continue pursuing her). So Anakin subconsciously choose the other parental figure in his life, instead of the female person he cares most about.

13) Anakin freaks the fuck out, runs off to Kamino, grabs the 212th being assembled for Obi-Wan’s return from this mission (which includes Rex and Cody), says he’s the General’s Padawan/Commander, and they’re going to go rescue Obi-Wan.

14) Anakin did not have an assignment to do this. Anakin is disobeying direct orders to come the fuck back to the Temple. Anakin takes the 212th and runs silently. No one in the 212th knows that they’re not in communication with the rest of the GAR and are in danger of being declared AWOL.

15) Obi-Wan or Alpha escape long enough to send a transmission to the GAR before getting recaptured. The 212th pick up the signal and rescue Obi-Wan and Alpha. Obi-Wan contacts his superiors (the Council and GAR military) and gets informed of the situation with Anakin. Obi-Wan orders them all back to Coruscant.

16) The dressing down of Anakin is a) in the medbay before Obi-Wan is dunked in a bacta tank and b) EPIC. Phrases used include “My life is not worth all of these men!” and “Do you have any idea what happens to AWOL clones?!” Obi-Wan has to arrest Anakin for fear the boy will accidentally start a mutiny by ordering the ship NOT to go to Coruscant.

17) The Jedi Council. Anakin and Obi-Wan think they’re there for Anakin’s punishment for absconding with the 212th and disobeying order. Nope. Surprise. You done did a mass murder. Into Jedi jail you got to go Anakin. “It’s not fair! You need me in this war!” excuse me? “They’re just animals” excuse me? “The chancellor didn’t think I did anything wrong?” ex-fucking-cuse me? say that one again.

18) So yeah, Anakin goes to Jedi jail, the Jedi Council decides to hide that fact to figure out the Chancellor’s involvement in that and prevent him from ordering the Jedi to release Anakin, Shadows start investigating the Chancellor (plus keep an eye on the Coruscant guard who have to interact with him), and sad Obi-Wan goes back to war while trying to investigate his concerns™️ about the Kaminoans and the clones (which is where I want the discovery of the chips to come in, but like, later. In a different story in the series. One where Ahsoka is Obi-Wan’s Padawan.

And yes, Padmé and crew do occasionally meet up with Obi-Wan during the war for some mutually fun sex.)

[thelostexperiment]

As good as DuckTales 17 is, what is one thing you would change about it? I’ve noticed that its fanbase, while passionate, can be critical. Not overwhelmingly pretentiously critical like Star Wars fans, thank god. Critical out of love is more like it.

I'm actually one of the more forgiving fans of this show's flaws, because for what it was, it was a great reboot that exceeded my expectations when I first saw the promo art to it. It's a fun watch and got me hooked enough to make this blog.

That being said.

This may seem obvious but, the one thing I would change about the show is I would give it more seasons. As fun a ride as The Last Adventure was, it was obvious that there were still a lot of stories, character arks and adventures the show could have covered that it sadly didn't have the chance to because of its cancelation. I know that's not the show runners fault, more so the execs of the company that owns it.

It's not like the show isn't profitable or popular, or why else would there still be active fan discords of it, why have a DuckTales globe trotting event thrown in Epcot, why have the DT characters (specifically the 2017 version) be a prominent part of the chibiverse cast? (I have my own hangups about the chibiverse show)

There's still a market for the Duckverse otherwise the DarkWing Duck reboot wouldn't still be greenlit.

I'd at the very least like to get more DuckTales stories in comic or graphic novel form, there's still so much material and lore to explore.

I've already told some friends how much I'd love to see a graphic novel series on Isabella Finch's adventures. Have a narration from her published book play over the scenes or be written in the corners of the panels and show how things really happened in the scenes. Show more child Bradford, show us how Isabella really was. Give us an Interesting look at the characters and a great Indiana Jones or G rated Venture bros parody.

Give us more character growth arcs for some of the side characters that didn't get resolved in the show. Show us who Huey Dewey and Louie's Dad is and what happened to him. Show us how Scrooge and Webby handle the new biological father/daughter dynamic they both just found out about.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is, GIVE US MORE DUCKTALES, IGER!

[skxrbrand]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐀𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃 / prev OST: Winds of Madness

The sieging of Darkhold was slow going, the enemy having made the defensible fortress even more so. Normally, no mortal gate could keep out a Bloodthirster, let alone the legendary Corspemaker himself, but there were hexes here than even Skarbrand was finding hard to abjure. Magic this strong could only come from a daemon around his caliber and that made him all the more sure that the mastermind behind the theft lay within the Fortress. 

A cowering, shuddering mage of a daemon hiding between weak minions and high walls-- pathetic!

Blessed with flight, Kha’xanzyr and Khazaan had simply flown over the wall, leaving Skarbrand to slam his axe Harrier into the front gate; much of the force of his axe was sent back his way. He stumbled, but then came again, pushing through the barrier of magic at last. The door buckled, the forces around it guttering and finally failing when next he hit. Daemons surged forth and a savage desire filled the heart of the Reaper. Soon, he would have the skull of the enemy in his claws!

Then, from behind him, discord. At first Skarbrand dismissed it as the infighting of impatient daemons. Bringing up the rear of the host was never a popular position in the armies of Khorne, but then that squabbling turned into screams of anguish. The lurching voices of dying daemons and men at last turned the Reaper away from the newly destroyed wall gate. He sees great roots of darkness drawn from the ground, spiring into the sky like massive black claws. Upon their tips are a portion of his army, the entropic magic of Malal wafting down and irritating all assembled Chaos daemons.

Only Skarbrand stands firm, looking not the death dealing thorns but the one responsible for their creation. He was wrong it seemed; the enemy had not holed themselves up within Darkhold. They had come from elsewhere. This had been a trap, the construction and machination of a coward.  The Greater Daemon of Malal roared and the lesser daemons around Skarbrand trembled and shrunk away at the aethyr-imbued sound. Even the Reaper flinched, not for fear, but for the sharp shard of pain that lanced through his skull. The enemy had given away his position however and with how brazen and challenging the scream had been, perhaps he had never meant to hide it.

Skarbrand’s grin was savage. Good. It would not be honorable or indeed fun to crush a coward. He heard the flapping wings of his brothers above him and could sense their murderlust directed at this new, fearsome opponent. But Khazaan and Kha’xanzyr knew Skarbrand well and knew he would not tolerate anyone stealing the army general’s life away from him. Gripping Harrier, the Reaper pointed the purple Slaaneshi blade at the Anarche. He saw it grin and lope forward, trampling any underling who had been luckless enough to be in his path.

They didn’t quite collide when they met, the nimble creature ducking out of his path and dodging the arc of his swing. Skarbrand, meanwhile, felt the bite of claws into his flesh as it passed by, spinning on it’s heel and pouncing once more. The Anarche was supple, like a Keeper, but savage like his own kind. It fastened upon his hide and bit down, but Skarbrand grabbed it by it’s nape and slammed it into the earth. He followed with his hoof, but the creature slithered away before the attack connected.

It made to speak, to gloat perhaps, but Skarbrand would not waste words on his foe. This time, he was the one that pounced, catching the daemon in his claws. Talons hooked into his shoulders, the Anarche stymying the advance and growled as the Reaper forced his full weight down upon it. To Skarbrand’s surprise, the Anarche held him well, if only for a few moments. It tried to turn his weight against him, but that was for naught. Skarbrand sneered and fire writhed in his jaw. The rival daemon shrieked in rage and terror and the Reaper felt fell heat gathering at his own flesh, beneath the enemies claws where they were buried in his skin.

With a grunt, he bodily flung the slimmer daemon, avoiding the gout of blackfire that erupted from it’s hands. The Anarche rolled gracefully, stopping on it’s hooves. It pulled a blade from it’s person in the same motion and slapped away the heavy axe that carved it’s way. It’s tail whipped around, the Pincer’s at the end sinking in the flesh of the Reaper’s leg. Skarbrand grabbed the offending appendage, lifting it and the Greater Daemon over his hand and slamming them with a sickening crunch into the ground. The Anarche drew it’s blade across it’s own tail before Skarbrand could slam him again, taking the bloody sword and ramming it as deep as he could into the Reaper’s shoulder.

It hurt. More than any blade before it. A burning pain, like a brand or a white-hot blade stabbed into his flesh. Skarbrand batted the Anarche away with a wing and it sent down another blast of blackfire where he stood. The Reaper wasn’t so lucky this time, the flame blackening his skin where it took hold. The Anarche pounced, but even in the midst of his agony, the Reaper didn’t much take his eyes off his foe. Instead of catching the Reaper’s throat, the upward swing of Harrier met the Exalted instead, cutting a bloody diagonal wound from navel to shoulder. It didn’t even seem very concerned about the injury when it landed, even running a claw along the gash and tasting the blood.

Serpent kin indeed. Skarbrand groused to himself.

“ Is that the bite of the Temper I taste within your axe? I thought the shade of purple looked familiar.” The black-and-white daemon asked. Skarbrand’s eyes flicked down to Harrier in askance. Freysin saw it and laughed.

“ I suppose he wouldn’t be quick to tell a detail like that. You are not the only Daemon to feel the Tempter’s embrace, Reaper of Legend.”

Skarbrand knew that, and he knew of the Slaaneshi tendency to bed anyone, even (and especially) sworn enemies. But to do such things with a Malalian was something even he had a hard time wrapping his mind around. The Reaper grunted, his grip around Harrier tighter.

“ I care not. Raise your blade and fight me.”

Freysin looked disappointed, but Khornates were never really ones for conversation. Quickly though, he had struck out at the Bloodthirster, fast as a snake. The smaller Greater Daemon was as a bolt of lightning against his chest, slamming into the Reaper with all the force of a hellish sledgehammer. The Reaper felt cracks wind their way though his flesh and he stumbled both in surprise and the sheer force the daemon had mustered from it’s smaller, injured form. But the tackle had been more than just that and it was not the empty air or the ground the Reaper had fell into.

Thorns, the same kind that had killed much of the flanks of his army, ate in his back. Skarbrand roared and over his pain, he heard the cackle of the Anarche of Malal. The Deathshadow loped forward in the ape-like fashion his kind did, ramming into Skarbrand pushing the skewers deeper. He eased off, only to do it again, again, again. The Reaper saw bloodlust take him, but that desire for blood would also blind him. He did not see the Reaper’s hoof until it was buried in his gut and he was back on his back, in the dirt. With a might lurch and much blood, Skarbrand had freed himself, reaching out and grabbing the scrabbling black-and-white daemon by the throat. He spun on his hoof, and threw the Greater Daemon into his own spikes.

Freysin whined, partially in pleasure, partially in agony. His face wrinkled in disgust, Skarbrand raised Harrier and brought the purple axe down on the writhing form of the Exalted Greater daemon, parting it’s head from it’s shoulders in a single, double-handed swing. The body shuddered and twitched, crumbling into nothing and revealing the spirit within the slain foe and it was this Skarbrand grabbed with talons tightly in one hand, binding it for the time being into the Skull he had recently reaped.

Seeing their Leader defeated, the rest of the army quickly lost heart, the Daemons first and then the skaven. Skarbrand ordered them run down and slain with a bloody bark, axe one shoulder and the skull of a Greater Daemon clutched in his other hand.

The day was won.

[crowleys-right-eyeball]

might have my rebel arc and change my discord theme to duck idk……

[madrigaljail]

Writing Notes

Here have me updating and thinking out loud re: Encanto fic projects, because fun as discord is sometimes I wanna do bullet points and duck-organizing.

1. Current fixation - more post-canon probably-apocrypha with Bruno and Jose Guzman the Lesser (aka the In-Laws ‘Verse one, aka mine) being gay gay homosexual gay/aroace Bruno having a “oh wait maybe I’m demi” midlife non-crisis. I’m 1500 words in and there has been admittedly ZERO gayness but it’s happening because I am a slasher at heart and also weak. What we’re getting so far is a good old fashioned chaotic Madrigal dinner which is going to call back to p much everything I’ve ever written. I have no idea where or how I’m going to post this.

2. Chapter 5 of Prophet has been started like barely, this one and chapter 6 are going to be relatively short but getting my brain organized/focused is going to be tricky. Both chapters have titles though which is nice!! Anyway, I’ve got to cover the decade until Mira’s gift ceremony so it’s going to be angsty and sad and I need the right mindframe. Cross your fingers.

3. Chapter 5 of Talk of the Town is going to write itself but again I need the mindframe to get into Dolores POV. It’s going to be self-indulgent and goofy like literally everything else I write. Sidebar: right now both Prophet and TotT are going to be 7 chapters each but I’m not ready to commit to that so they’ll stay X/?

4. The El Brujo Loco Fic has also been started but I have no idea how to structure it. “Just write out the arc” like ok sure but I feel like it needs to be more chaotic. Or maybe I need to write it in a more chaotic manner, like put the playlist on shuffle and write whatever each song inspires and then bash it together coherently. 

5. Other in-laws things One-shots from the POV of Felix’s dad of the literal first days of the Miracle, and one from Vittoria Martinez which will be focused on Mirabel’s gift ceremony and the fallout. I am never escaping this ‘verse.

5. In the docs someday, someday, I’ll go back to the first thing I started writing for this fandom which was Alma-centric and sweet and fun and basically leads up to that moment in Dos Oruguitas with the paper doll(s). Also the start of the circus AU is there too. And someday I want to do another Alma fic based on “King” by Florence + The Machine because songfics in 2022 are totally trendy.

[bcomic-blog]

EGS REBLOGS

Link to all of my El Goonish Shive related Reblogs!

Reblog of brawltogethernow callback panel reaction

Reblog with commentary on lalitrus theory

Reblog with commentary on siliquasquama excerpts from multiple pages to make a point about Sarah

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Linking of EGS page to unrelated post by hippity-hoppity-brigade

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Image cap “reblog” of character observation by @Zeal from EGS Discord, point illustrated by panel from this page

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Linking of comment by EGS author illustrated by several relevant panels to unrelated post about dumbingofage

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Linking of unrelated meme to EGS page

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Short Reaction to latest EGSNP page

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Linking of unrelated meme to EGS page

Exchange between myself and thisangstriddenschoollifetragedy regarding the Title Pending arc

Short Reaction to latest EGS page

Short Reaction to latest EGSNP page

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Linking of conversation with EGS page

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Short Reaction to latest EGSNP page

EGS = Bible

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Exchange between myself, demilypyro and other EGS fans regarding her discovering EGS

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Reply/ offer perspective on a comment by author, danshive

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Exchange between myself,  egsreactions, and  2ndpersonplural regarding this page

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Exchange with new fan mintcarousel

Welcome to new fan the-sword-lesbian

Exchange with new fan mintcarousel

Linking girl-beam post to EGS panel

Exchange with vlogger and EGS fan demilypyro

Welcome to the fandom to new reader mintcarousel

Reply to mintcarousel’s thoughts on the character of Susan

Linking page to post by demilypyro quoting it

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Comparing latest page of Something Positive with an EGSNP

Short Page reaction / meme-ification

Linking girl-beam post to EGS panel

Reblog of post by dementia20 with link to fan-content of yt video of Ellen’s song

Linking unrelated post to EGS panel

Reblog with commentary and callback panel on page reaction by  eternalgaylord

Meme-ification of my own post with EGS reaction face

Meme-ification of post by EGS author danshive with thought balloon from EGS character, Diane

Linking of unrelated post to EGS panel

Back and Forth between myself and zeemczed-blog regarding their page reaction

Linking of unrelated post to EGS in general

Linking girl-beam post to EGS panel

Meme-ification of post by EGS author danshive with word balloon from EGS character, Susan

Linking of unrelated post to EGS panel

Discussion of Tumblr EGS fandom

Reblog of post by  thisangstriddenschoollifetragedy with relevant panel added

Reblog of post by egscomics re the thiking behind aspects of Susan and Catalina’s character

[acchermont-void]

Who sleep the most here?

Ink and Reaper are laying on the couch, with blankets and everything.

"You know, Ruru really likes to sleep", Ink said and snorted a bit. "Reaper do you remember that time when he-"

"YOU AINT FCKING TELLING THEM THAT", Error shouted from the other room. "OR I WILL MAKE SURE YOU TWO WONT EVER GET NEAR ME AGAIN!"

A door violently closed. Reaper frowned at Ink in 'look at what u done'

"Oops"

[masterwcrk]

hey beans! if you’ve made it this far, this is an indie, private blog for Clary Fairchild of TSC lore as written by MONROE. below, you’ll find a list of useful links for this blog. locked into beta editor.

carrd / mobile rules & verse - a comprehensive & all-inclusive collection of my rules & verses for clary, with all details, headcanons, & notes as found on the full blog.

plotting guide (new, 2023) - please please please fill this out. I will check here first before I write up starters, answer memes, or approach for plotting.

memes || plotting calls || starter calls || wishlist || draft tracker || thread tracker

all current image, banner, & template credits can be found on carrd.

discord: spirit's rubber duck#4636

other blogs:     @affcgato​  ( multimuse ).

a list of fandoms I have standing crossover verses for under the cut.

all verse details can be found here.

marvel

harry potter (jkr unaffiliated, tagged for easy blocking, very low activity)

star wars

criminal minds

pacific rim

the old guard (with set arcs for vikings, PotC, the tudors, & bridgerton)

sailor moon

supernatural

grishaverse

a song of ice & fire (arc for HotD)

the matrix

stephen king's it

the last of us

hunger games

other fandoms, I have standing AUs that work well or we can plot something out!

[alienducky]

I'm really starting to hate how discord servers always seem to have a Darling, who can go around and say whatever inflammatory bullshit they like and insult whoever the fuck they want and suffer no repercussions for it.

Like, the current one under my skin got an entire fucking channel made for them to be a little moldy turnip in, it's a channel specifically to complain about settings or game plots or characters...

And they still leave their fandom salt in every single fucking channel in the server. To the point they wrote "maybe I'll stop hating (middle East coded character) if I write a fic where he gets the crap kicked out of him" in the channel about said characters specific route?!?!?

And then complain that people get defensive of that character -__-

Like, no bestie. I'm just tired of seeing you shit on everyone and everything and act like your opinion is right and we're all stupid for not be agreeing with you, like when you tried to explain that basically standing up to a fascist character "was stupid and everyone should have rolled over and let them do whatever they fucking wanted because less people would have died"

Or every time a white female character is mentioned, make sure to let everyone know how much they hate her, and how they're glad she died (spoiler much???) and how much better everything would be if she didn't exist, and anyone who doesn't hate her must think the same as her, and completely ignore the fact that it's entirely logical from an in game perspective for her to be like that???? She isn't randomly racist for funsies, and her entire character arc is her learning not to be??????????

Not getting into the other server darling I knew, who encouraged an entire server including the mods to bully a characters fans to the point half of them don't bother talking about him anymore, and made me unable to write. I seriously start crying every time I cry because of that useless sack of mouldy duck shit

Just. Fucking server darlings. Urgh

[howtofightwrite]

Q&A: Followup: Greatswords in Cramped Spaces

Have the fight in a narrow alley, a small room, or any other setting where it’s impossible to effectively swing a greatsword. You can grab a greatsword by the blade and shorten its arc, but that’s awkward at best and the knife will be more agile in that situation.

sonneillonv

This isn’t how you use a greatsword. Weapons like the Claymore and Zweihander were deployed in regimental formations. That means, greatsword wielders fighting shoulder to shoulder, which starts to illustrate why putting one in a tight alleyway is more beneficial for the sword wielder than your knife fighter. If the space is tight enough it becomes impossible to flank the swordsman unless you come at them from behind.

Similarly, the agility of the knife really doesn’t matter in this situation. I know it’s one of these David and Goliath scenarios that play really well in the romantic mind, but it doesn’t work in a fight. What will actually happen is more akin to the scene in Indiana Jones, where the swordsman comes out, demonstrates his skill with the blade and gets casually gunned down from a safe distance. More specifically, your knife fighter “has a more agile blade,” (whatever that means), but gets run through by the greatsword at a range where they never had a chance to attack their foe. Here’s the problem, your dagger may be more agile, but the dagger user doesn’t magically become more agile because they’re holding a knife.

It’s cute to think about situations where your character can duck under the blade, or climb the walls and drop from above. But, unless your character has superpowers, they won’t be nearly fast enough to execute those kinds of maneuvers. If your character were to try to dodge past the blade, they’d just end up with six feet of steel fatally perforating their body.

-Starke

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Q&A: Followup: Greatswords in Cramped Spaces was originally published on How to Fight Write.

[rainbowstargazerlilies]

Fanfic promotion post!

Why should you read what I mentally call the booty shorts saga, actually known as "The Semi-Annual Non-Denominational Winter Holiday Gift Swap"?

Have you ever wondered what gift swaps might look like in the Magnus Institute?

Do you need to imagine Certain Characters (Jon) receiving so many pairs of booty shorts?

This sticks close to canon, so. . . do you want a story about booty shorts and nonsense to suddenly give you So Many Feels?

This is a collaboration between the amazing @ladydragonkiller and myself, and it was our first foray into writing and posting fanfic. I love it. Go read LadyDragonKiller's other stuff if you're a Mechs fan.

Why should you read The Stars Claim Them?

I started this series with imagining Lyfrassir Edda surviving the Bifrost Incident, and then ending up at the Magnus Institute, so it is a TMA/Mechs crossover.

I've been consistently posting for over a year. It'll be a year and a half next month. I post twice a week. Currently, we're 700,000 words in and going, posting right now is concurrent with TMA season 2, and I've had so much fun.

This is the fic where I stare canon in the eye, say "coward", and save every single character I can manage.

Be prepared for a very slow burn indeed, but the Violinspector element is certainly Very Much There.

We've had road trips, heists, blood snakes, rubber ducks, far too many Michaels, and more. I did a whole Peter Pan arc. It's nonsensical and amazing and I love it.

We've got a discord, where we have Very Normal Conversations about the fic, the Mechs, the Magnus Archives, and more. If you like the fic series, you're more than welcome to join!

If you enjoyed LadyDragonKiller's Raphaella backstory, I have some easter eggy references to it scattered throughout, because we brainstorm together. I consider it canon to this series, as far as that goes, and I have fun planting those :)