#ugh i have a headache..

[laila-woods]

Ha.ha.ha..

[itislils2004]

I'll continue this later today or tomorrow or even never because this was exhausting I didn't know getting my ideas/information and stuff onto writing and trying to make it make sense would be this exhausting...

Sources:

Mystic Seller (Ōmeteōtl)

History repeating itself (The Five Suns)

Narinder (Lilith)

Cross/Sword symbol (Lilith's Sigil)

Leviathan Cross

Pentagram

Lucifer's Sigil

Further information about symbols and so if you're interested:

Cult of the Lamb (religious connections)

Symbols Index (no meaning explicitly given)

PS: For clarity's sake, there are many symbols in COTL that don't actually have a certain meaning. Many of which were simply marks to indicate who made something (primarily churches and so on). This is particularly directed to the symbols thrown around when ichor hits the ground, when you open a chest, when you construct something, and even would go as far as to say chemach's followers symbols.

That is to say, they still have a meaning, however up to interpretation.

EDIT: Here is the sheet I found for reference to the "meaningless" symbols that I mentioned earlier. For anyone curious. You can find some of these in cards too. I'll go into it next time.

This is one of the few sheets of actually useful info I found during my small period of time in which I pulled an all nighter because it's actually frustrating to find anything about the symbols in COTL, because some are mere inspiration or aren't faithful to the original symbol. If you are truly interested in the meaning behind most drawings/symbols you find in this game I STRONGLY suggest you simply don't. Unless you know where to look.

[pitsazawr]

my old sketches

[mikeythebikey]

quick pride piece before june ends

[spilledmilkfkdies]

So ever since @calissarowan posted their Dumantlos fan child, my brain has rotting about my old Gantlogron fan child and couldn't help but ask, in your opinion how would Gantlos and Ogron be like as parents to their own child other than Duman?

Oooooo hm!!

Jk- Kinda.

Though I have given Gantlos a dead daughter from his "pre-wizard" years, so I don't doubt he has more experience. I was gonna remove her from the equation temporarily, but you said MY opinion, so I'm letting her stay 🗣🗣

Now I do think it depends on when they manage to acquire a child, in whatever way, but rn let's pick the foggy period between locking away the fairies and S4, my absolute favourite one for random stuff to take place in fr. Enough room for them to slip into a more normal lifestyle, but still with that sneaky lil "We're not done yet." to add a bit of drama oOoooOooo

All things considered though, I would like to think they do try as parents. They'd never intentionally harm their kid in any way, and they do care so very much, even if they don't always show it in the most obvious ways. But I'd hope a gantlogron baby would know that at some point, having spent enough time with them to pick up on all the cues and all that. Can I guarantee that a person raised by them is the kindest, most understanding individual around? Probably not. But neither are Ogron and Gantlos themselves, so there. I guess.

Next on my list of things I wanna bring up; would the child be magical? BECAUSE, don't get me wrong, they'd love em either way- But. I know for a fact Ogron especially would be ecstatic to learn their child had magic in there somewhere. Exploring it with them, training, that's so much more interesting to him than all the reading and writing (even though he absolutely adored all of that too, but shhhh don't tell anyone). Might go a little overboard, can definitely see that happening, so Gantlos will have to help balance it all out.

At the end of the day, I'm a "There's worse parents to have" TRUTHER idc idc. Gantlos might need a sec to adjust to things and get used to the idea of having another child after what happened to his last, but also that was so long ago fr, who's to say that even matters anymore (me??). Things would end up fine either way, Ogron would help him right through it. That and the. "I fear I'll break them with the slightest touch" period he'll undeniably go through as well. In which Ogron did all the holding, but Gantlos would be on his ass constantly about "doing it wrong", all the while being too stressed to hold the baby himself. Getting out of that phase was a joy for everyone involved.

Overall they both have their parenting flaws, but again, they're not the worst. They do a decent job and have a pretty good time. Until the kid becomes a teenager, they're gonna be fighting for their lives. Ogron is gonna "While you're under MY roof-" it up, Gantlos would pull a "Because I said so." I'm so sorry 😔😔

[adaines-furious-feast]

I do think some "I tried" are really serious, angsty things of Jace seeing the respect wizards get, seeing the power they have, being tired of the snide comments about his own abilities and trying wizardry himself.

Other times it's "Unseen Servant would be really fucking useful right now" and trying to learn wizardry just so someone else can do the laundry.

He fails, obviously, and then does some complicated meta magic shit and breaks spells to create the clones so someone else can do the laundry.

[thevioletcaptain]

if you as a fic reader ever become possessed by the urge to do a popularity bracket with the fics other people wrote and shared for fun and for free, consider:

don't ❤️ 

[himbo-in-limbo]

Tw suggestive stuff and random anthro doodles 🔥

[pcktknife]

I had to cancel my doctor's appointment cause I woke up sick ughhhhh

[doctorbrown]

MCFLY JULY ‘24 ⸺ 「 13 / 31 * CAMPFIRE 」

September 6, 1885

Purple really was a beautiful colour.

Turning the brooch over in his hands, he’s struck by the simple elegance of the vibrant flowers, their pop of life and colour against the gloomy, dust filled California night. Emmett had never given it much consideration before—purple was a fine colour; one he had no real opinion of—at least not until Clara gave him a new appreciation for it.

Even the fire looks dull by comparison, unable to match the splendour of the flowers in his hand no matter how it dances in the darkness.

Clara. He runs his thumb over her name embossed in the metal, thankful that Marty was asleep and entirely oblivious to his emotional turmoil. Emmett frowns, looping his earlier discussion with Marty in his head, unable to quiet either side of this heated debate.

His head screams be scientific about this. His conscience, borrowing his young friend’s voice in order to tip the scales back in the favour of logic and reasoning, throws the weight of the universe at him—you are singularly responsible for the fate of the timeline now. You have chosen to circumvent the boundaries set for mortals and tread where no man has before, stomping across realms that fall solely within the purview of the Gods, and now you must suffer the consequences for your actions.

Such dangerous knowledge could only come with personal sacrifice. Perhaps that was why it took three decades’ worth of dogged resolution and pertinacious research in order to accomplish it—some things were not meant to be touched by man.

He cannot stay in 1885 any more than Marty can, not without serious repercussions to the timeline. Their actions have already left indelible scars on history as they know it; they’ve introduced an entirely new, unknown variable to the timeline by inadvertently preventing Clara’s death, and while Marty had managed to somewhat convince him that renaming an entire ravine wasn’t the most universe-shattering thing that could have happened, they’d never done something like this.

This would be an entirely new future shaped by countless unforeseen aberrations from their original timeline.

His heart, however, steals his voice, advocating for selfishness in spite of the timeline. Marty had already done just that, inadvertently altered the timeline, and nothing unravelled because of it. He and Marty still became friends, he finished the Time Machine precisely on-time, prevented his own death…

He knew the future—that very knowledge alone should allow him to avoid causing any major changes to the timeline. This time, he could prevent his death, he could send Marty home, he could live out his final years with the woman who fit perfectly into that hole in his heart and made him whole.

Just thinking about her makes Emmett’s heart swell. Just like these flowers, she is beautiful—a vision, and Emmett wonders, privately, when his heart pulls him away from all reason and sense, how such a woman could’ve been bestowed with such a tragic fate—able to make him feel as awkward as a schoolboy in front of the object of his affection with little more than a smile.

Emmett sighs, staring into the fire. No, no he can’t do that—to allow himself this comfort while denying and cautioning Marty against this very thing would be grossly hypocritical of him, not to mention highly irresponsible.

There will never be another woman like her in all of time and Emmett isn’t lost to the heart-wrenchingly cruel irony that is that the one woman that makes him almost willing to believe in the foolish, unscientifically romantic notion of soulmates just so happened to be a woman who no more belonged in today than he did.

Marty’s voice inevitably wins out and Emmett turns the flowers over in his hand one last time, searching for some yet undiscovered third option that will satisfy everybody. He’s right, as much as it rips his still-beating heart from his chest to admit. There’s only one acceptable course of action available to them now and though it is a small, almost negligible comfort, at least Clara will live out a full life.

And the moment they get back, he will destroy the blasted Time Machine and everything related to it to avoid any temptation of returning to the past.

It’s for the best.

If only he believed that.

Emmett stands, delicately slipping Clara’s brooch into his pocket while his heart drops like a stone into his stomach.

The campfire pops three times as he saddles up Archimedes, shooting embers into the air, and were he a superstitious man, he may have considered that an ill omen.

[carlyraejepsans]

fucking hell it just doesn't end

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Me: Why are you being a brat, Sky.

Sky: *crosses arms and looks away*

Me: I need. For you. To cooperate.

Sky: *shrugs*

Wind: What’s going on?

Me: I got an ask about Sky and Legend and someone isn’t working with me.

Sky: You tried to kill me.

Me: How is this new information to you by now?? And that isn’t even for this story!!

Sky: You need sleep.

Me: THAT’S A LOW BLOW AND YOU KNOW IT

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Got home and took my temperature and I have a slight fever and that suddenly explained everything about today

[everlastiingiimmortals]

2.0 commentary below, re: that conversation between Ratio and Aventurine

I haven't actually seen anyone talking about it say explicitly what happened, so I thought I'd break that wall a little.

Ratio was notably racist (or at the very least xenophobic) towards Aventurine.

There's no denying or softening it at all. I don't think Ratio is a bad person, clearly he is not, but that does not absolve him of the awfulness of what he said. There's a lot of importance in the hostility Ratio displayed towards Aventurine towards that moment, and I am actually very thankful that hyv didn't cut corners with that interaction and put Ratio on the same level as Sparkle, who has far less morals than he does (and also called Aventurine a prostitute for power in the CN dub, jfc). But despite his harsh tongue and critical attitude, he doesn't... give an impression of having that sort of bias to him. What matters to him is intelligence, so why did he say the things he did?

With my take on Ratio I've established that he does view the IPC as much as a threat and with as much disdain as the Genius Society, both despite and because of his affiliation with the Intelligentsia Guild. He doesn't like working with any of the higher ups in the first place, and they're on a high stakes mission on Penacony right now. For all of Ratio's quick thinking and ability to improvise, he strikes me as someone who quite heavily relies on plans, and not being on schedule with a strict time limit puts him extremely on edge. It was made abundant the moment he opened his mouth: his first complaint was Aventurine's tardiness. He was late. Ratio was counting the seconds until Aventurine showed up, he was stressed.

So he already doesn't trust Aventurine just due to the nature of his affiliation, and he is upset because of the situation they're in, but there's also hostility directed at Aventurine personally. Whether Aventurine's personality and attitude is born from the nature of his people or because he's playing into the horrid reputation they have is unknown, but I'm inclined to believe the latter. Regardless, everyone displays some level of wariness towards him because of it and his occupation. I don't think Aventurine expected Ratio to dig up what he did (and likely more) about him, but I do think Ratio did it with the intent to weaponize his status, his past, his vulnerabilities against him because of his view of Aventurine as a threat.

(I'd also like to comment on part of his hostility towards Aventurine being due to protectiveness over the Trailblazer, because he very plainly snaps at Aventurine for attempting to rope the Nameless into the situation.)

But rather than what he said then, what's more striking to me is what happened after. Aventurine did not get hostile or lash out in turn, nor did he outwardly express any upset at Ratio's comments or lack of trust. Instead he offered a calm and personal correction, and that to me is what led Ratio to both regret his comment and adjust his perspective on Aventurine. It's evident in how his body language immediately shifted: from furrowed eyebrows, a combative tone, arms crossed and tucked close to his body, to a relaxed face and stance and much softer voice as he backpedaled. I like that because it shows that for all of Ratio's hostility, he really doesn't mean to harm anyone regardless of his opinion on them, and it's clear that he did. How does one weaponize a person's status as a (former?) slave against them so heartlessly and thoughtlessly? This exchange was a reminder that Aventurine is not just some threat but also human, and a reminder to himself that he is human too, and he is subject to prejudice (that he might not even be aware of) and clouded judgement that need to be corrected from time to time. I don't want to call his comment a slip-up, because it was definitely intentional, but I don't believe that it was done purely because of Aventurine's race unlike Sparkle's comment. And clearly, he regretted it. He overstepped. I like to think it was this moment that fostered some respect for Aventurine within Ratio, mostly because Aventurine's very gracious handling of his very ungracious fuck up.

I'm not trying to defend Ratio's comments with this, mind you, only try to get into his mindset and understand the perspective behind him saying what he said. This exchange does lead me to wonder, though, what led to the reputation of the Sigonians being as awful as it is for multiple characters to comment on it. Whatever it is, whether legitimate or (very likely) IPC propaganda, it was potent enough for the stigma to spread to even Ratio, enough for him to be willing to use it as an attack.

[ghostzzy]

also i am probably going to have to start braving the grocery store myself again because this is the third fucking time that an entire bag of items is missing from my pickup order despite being charged for it.