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[ooc-miqojak]

Year 6: The Burning of Quel'thalas

The Second War was well under way, and reports had begun to pour in from scouts in the south - the Horde had allied with the Amani, and the bloodlust of the Orcs and the Amani combined had over-run the borders of Quel'thalas. Civilians were advised to retreat to the city proper, to seek refuge before the brutish onslaught of enemies both old and new, as they defiled the sacred forests of the High Elves.

The Elves had sent aid to Lordaeron - the Orcs were never supposed to have come this far north. It was unfathomable, at first.

But it was never enough for the Horde - never enough blood, never enough terror; the Amani kept coming now, further emboldened by Orcs wielding necromancy, and orcs on dragon-back. She hadn't known, then, what a 'Death Knight' was - no one had, but Gul'dan - and even then, the twisted creations weren't what they would one day become; and yet, they were no less dangerous to the people of Quel'thalas than the monsters that would follow in similar footsteps years down the line, to further defile her home.

The young noblewoman had been forced to flee, alongside everyone else - forced to seek shelter within the magical barrier protecting Silvermoon, and put her faith in the Farstriders, the Magi of Dalaran, and the brave soldiers of the Alliance that faced down the bloodthirsty berserkers who had routed around from the west, putting pressure on the last Alliance outpost left standing.

Her aunt had warned her away from the walls of the city, but the plumes of smoke from the forest beyond weren't something that Lilliana could just ignore. She'd grown up chasing the gentle, whispering winds of Quel'thalas - she'd sat among the rustle of gilded leaves, doodled the Springpaws from afar, watched the Dragonhawks swoop and dive and perform intricate mating dances every spring.

And the Horde was burning it all.

The forests of her people.

The animals, and the people therein.

They'd enslaved the most noble of races to commit an atrocity that the young woman couldn't - no, wouldn't - look away from now, no matter how it ached to watch the flames encroach, or smell the smoke on every breeze; she would commit the desolation of her people and her home to memory now, and forever.

She would never forgive the Orcs - nor their barbaric Horde - for what they'd done, if she survived this siege.

[old-desert]

I used to be in an endless timeloop, but you were with me, valentine!!

[arrietty-rune]

Hi I revived an AU i made in 2016 :D

I kinda want to share infos from it so be free to read it below this ｰ(°◇°〃)

That a steampunk AU that is kinda similar to the show (Kids having school, Larry having all the jobs, the Wattersons being the Wattersons) but with some differences. Have some i made for now~

First, the kids are in High School ! Most of them are like 15-16 years old

Darwin gains lungs like the same way in The Origins but he was never lost and didn't gained legs, so the Watterson bought him mechanics ones by a charity.

Penny broke by accident her shell when she was young: the remains of it are used as a mask

The void still exist and Rob was one of its victims by just touching a glitchy crack on a wall. His arm was infected and has being removed, replaced today by a mechanic one

-Talking about Rob-, his personality is a mix from his pre and his post void here, he's still an happy guy, loving passing time with friends and unaware of the world being fictional (all he saw from the void was the crack). But he acts more mature than other kids and can have anxiety easily, due to his past as being an orphan. He'is adopted by Larry and Steve, a while after being at the hospital.

Rachel is very much present in this (I'm sorry but I love her). She wear an eye-patch, saying that it cames from an old injury

Also hmm have some art from 2016 to compare bc why not lol (be careful they're cringe)

[luzho]

GUYS!!!!! HE HAVE A TRAILER!!!!!!!!!

[unproduciblesmackdown]

clearest glimpse of this group being who i'd wager is Not thee mister macabee

[magnusmodig]

||. finally going to bed thinking about lore - keeper asgardians . thinking about how intelligence and wisdom are one of their favored traits. thinking about how thor is the best of every asgardian ideal . thinking about how he is wise . thinking about his street - smarts . thinking about how he is also knowledgeable in legends , lore , and folktale. he is adaptable . he takes this knowledge , adapts to it , and crafts himself into something stronger. he is ever growing , and one of those ways is how he seeks out knowledge , and knows well to keep a sharp mind on the tales told by word of mouth or written on a page.

[thisisnotthenerd]

laudna’s form of dread is now a manifestation of the sun tree, and no longer the veiled ghost. she’s also seemingly without a patron at the moment, given that we haven’t heard from delilah in a while.

full offense to delilah, she doesn’t need more screen time. i would love it if bell’s hells actually managed to stamp her out of laudna. i’m sure they could make a full storyline in arc 3 about squeezing her for information on the assembly and fully purging her, but i think it would be cool for laudna to go somewhere else with it. to feel safe drawing on her warlock powers and to know that she’s no longer the contingency plan of the person that she was collateral damage for.

the idea here is that laudna starts drawing on the sun tree. it doesn’t quite hit the qualifications of a celestial patron even though it was blessed by pelor, so i don’t know how it could be made into a warlock patron without homebrew. also. celestial warlock is heavily based on light and radiance, so you’d get a fun little juxtaposition of a shadow sorcerer pulling on something that makes her do radiant damage. i would probably pull a few druid spells, but that feels like it’s encroaching a little bit on fearne & orym’s territory, so maybe not.

think about it. when you die, your body starts to feed the earth and decompose. the sun tree was dead/dying in the presence of the briarwoods, and came to life again during the revolution against them. it lived in her head just as delilah did--perhaps after being raised, and knowing it can talk, laudna can make conversation with something else that lived in her head for years.

i think its request would be to plant saplings of it, the way keyleth did in zephrah. give the sun tree a chance to spread beyond whitestone and take in the light of other places. funny little way to do this: laudna lays down & goes to sleep at night--in the morning she has to disentangle herself from a bed of roots.

[childoftherock]

looney bird... save me.. looney bird ... save me looney bird

[lucalicatteart]

Poll adventure (paventure? lol) Day 8: !!NOTE: this is different from the past polls - rather than choosing a story action, you're picking supplies to craft a little makeshift boat (EX: wood will be the main platform, so there should likely be the most of it, however, if there were 100% votes for branches and 0% votes for rope, then it'd just be a pile of wood held together by nothing - keep them balanced reasonably, etc.))

(✦ see past poll results + further information HERE (link) ✦)

The winning option of yesterday's poll was that the adventurer should get around the barrier by crafting a little boat to take a river detour….

~

Finally crawling out of his hiding spot in the brambles, he meticulously brushes the leaves from his clothes and composes himself, now fully focused on his generic traveler's map of the area... After checking it about 500 times just to make sure he isn't confused, he determines that going down the nearby river would likely still get him where he's trying to go, and hopefully be much less treacherous than wandering through haunted forests or confronting the stern gaze of the barrier guards..

It only takes about 10 minutes of following a narrower rocky path off the main road to reach a nice shaded spot of land next to a small river. He kneels in the grass, eagerly rummaging through his backpack for supplies, in addition to whatever he can scavenge from the edge of the woods. The rush of excitement slowly dissipates however, once he realizes that he.. actually.. might not know how to make a raft as well as he thought... Surely it's quite straightforward, no? Just.. make it look like it does in picture books?? There are no rules, as long as it floats, it works! Probably anyone could build one on intuition alone! ... maybe...???

.. Once again sinking into a cloud of anxiety, he slumps over, staring at the pile of materials with teary eyes, doubtful what to even do next.... How should he build the raft? Help him by using the poll to choose the appropriate amounts of materials (determined by final % of votes in that category)!

[an-asuryampasya]

thinking about humans in different parts of the world all agreeing that having an Event just to display shiny trinkets is the way to go (or as @permanentlyspacedout so eloquently put it, crow brain!)

And not just agreeing that displaying trinkets is neat, but that the displays should be tiered.

case in point: in the toasty regions of South India, we do the bommala koluvu

(apologies for the blurred images; they're from wiki and here)

and of course, there's the probably better known tiers of Christmas trees (flicked this from here):

(my mum argues that nativity scene dioramas are more akin to bommala koluvus than the tree, but I'm too hung up on the (admittedly flimsy) tiered connection so shushhh)

And then a lil digging on the interwebs led to me discovering Japan's Hinamatsuri: (Image source)

(look at that! steps again!)

something something humans across regions are connected by the apparently innate urge of going "dolls on steps tho".

[veraynes-blog]

Went for a wander through the woods yesterday and it felt very ✨️Magical Journey✨️

[lunarcry]

augh lemme ramble abut some of the newer song releases. but. 1) i am so eternally grateful 19-iku- has songs in proseka now like dear was a Big part of my teen years and even now i love it soooo much so 2) hide and seek......with leoneed....and honami at that ?!??! i alrdy tear up whenever i hear that song (themes about accepting & loving urself gets me so bad), and honami is....definitely at the top of the list of characters who makes me emotional. excellent choice. praying for a solo i think she sounds so good in it

niigo envy baby is so so so so good......mizuki especially?!?!? they Have to get a solocover right....no way there wont be one...also listened to the full ver of nonbreath oblige...T_^ the most typical figaro song no1 i know it in my heart, but niigos cover is ssooo great. cant wait for full ver of engeki (nanou fan) (will cry) (cant watch the 3dmv without crying) (struggles getting through the full song too)

[theoldandnewfirm]

Saw Elemental and enjoyed it a lot more than the trailer suggested I would. I should have remembered that Pixar's marketing is/always has been terrible and their movies are always more nuanced than it makes them appear.

It did leave me with a lot of questions about the...physics? Biology? Of the various elements, but other than that, it was a neatly packaged, touching little story. Probably won't rewatch it, but I'd still recommend it if you've got a free space on your "to watch list."

[arolesbianism]

Ok so I need to rework my Wendy skilltree concept because klei heard ppl complain abt the combat and went alright then time to completely rework combat but very slowly one update at a time so no one realizes until we straight up give Willow spells

[thedawner]

Calling a horse character that I like ‘my little neigh neigh’.

[kindahoping4forever]

Hi! so before the album came out I saw that fans kept mentioning a song called 'supernova' that 5sos was performing. I thought it was gonna be a song on the new album so I ignored it so I could wait to hear it on the album first, when the album came out I completely forgot about it lol. But now I was just scrolling through Twitter and came upon it again and it's not on the album. I was wondering if you knew where this song came from? is it a cover or an unreleased song or like a bonus track? Thanks for any help!

So "Supernova" is the instrumental that leads into "Red Desert" during Ash's solo moment on the Take My Hand tour. It's unclear where this piece originated, if it was written just for that live interlude or if it was perhaps a discarded interlude from the album or part of an unreleased song. (When the album was released, there were a few videos going around highlighting a melodic similarity to the bridge of Bad Omens but I personally found it to be brief and vague enough that it was most likely a coincidence rather than an easter egg.) Anything's possible imo since we know there's a ton of unreleased material from the album and we heard at least 2 other instrumentals released last year that didn't end up being a part of 5SOS5.