#wizard acolyte

[businesspugart]

Inktober day 9!

[midknighttalks]

could you imagine if some of the hive actually started worshipping eris morn and that was how we'd get actual hive allies instead of the situationship we have with savathûn.

could you imagi-

OR

instead of allies they just throw themselves at the last city's gates in relentless supplication to eris and meanwhile she's ardently refusing to associate with them

[apicelladonna]

Post!1932 ICW Election (Prometheus had Blue Fire) Gellert: So good news or bad news? Vinda: Bad news first. Gellert: I took Albus' body. Vinda: YOU DID WHAT???? Gellert, offended: Wow so you don't even care about the good news? I was going to make you my best man for me and Albus' wedding. Never mind.

[lovegrowsart]

calling a lesbian showrunner predatory because she put some sexual implications into her star wars show is out of line queerphobic btw like genuinely think about what you're implying/invoking if you're gonna criticise her or her creative decisions....

[thecleverqueer]

I watched the first two episodes of the Acolyte, and I have a sneaking suspicion that the Jedi are going to end up being behind the fire that destroyed Mae and Osha’s village and killed their family. My money is on Torbin being the culprit. I also think that there’s going to be a massive cover-up to save face which will serve to further vilify the Jedi. Their reasoning will be completely political. Osha will likely lose her shit when she finds out… like Anakin, she can’t let things go.

[lilunebriumplays]

i have been living inside of the character creator My Tavs and their Daisies

[clonewarsahsoka]

Like I DO fundamentally believe that in the prequels the jedi failed. And I believe that they were failing long before that. They were a centralized power of specialized warrior monks for a religion nobody else believes in with massive amounts of power. They effectively were above and WERE the law of the Republic for thousands of years. But by the prequels they knew their power and influence was failing and when they were handed a clone army THEY said okay we gotta fight this war 😀. Like theoretically the "jedi" approach wouldve been to immediately attempt peace talks and negotiations but they dove head first into being GENERALS OF A WAR!!!!

And not to mention the way they fail their own people. The way the jedi taught their students was fundamentally BAD. like they're doctrine was just wrong. They tell CHILDREN AND TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS you cannot feel negative emotions and positive emotions are on thin ice. If you feel these emotions then you can be evil!!!!! And they TELL THEM that if you give into these things it's OVER!! But it's not true, time and time again you see them protecting their own. But their own people don't know that so if they "commit a sin" so to speak they can't even go to confession like they're just trapped. And this is how they fail anakin. If he had even ONE moment of full honesty with any other jedi it all wouldve been avoided. He wouldve been able to address his DEEP guilt and shame and fear but instead he is trapped to bottle it up and the only outlet and acceptance he gets is from fascist frog man. It's amazing they didn't have MORE cases like this. Honestly.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Subversive Acolyte by Darren Tan

[alan-p-49]

Here's Steve wearing Lathanderian vestments bc one of his jobs in Waterdeep was being an acolyte. Like he was just helping lighting candles and mopping floors

[obscurebelief]

When I realize Aurie will and has done so much to give MACUSA a huge amount of paper work and breaches in secrecy because he's still pissed at them for trying to kill him, and the Ministry of Magic as well for trying to send some assassin to kill him to.

He isn't Grindelwald or Voldemort but he loves breaking the secrecy so much. And capturing him isn't exactly easy given people still consider him a dangerous Obscurial give or take if his Obscurus was removed or not. Oh and Tina and the group going mama/papa bear because they love Credence/Aurelius and while his breaches and paperwork are a nightmare, he isn't exactly killing or harming non-magic.

Using magic to cheat on non magic tests, using potions to help with colds isn't exactly something he can be wanted for. He is just a chaos gremlin that likes helping people and causing MACUSA and the Ministry of Magic pain in the most petty of ways.

[bchangart]

D&D commission, Eldryn the Elf Wizard

[theskyexists]

Oh yeahhhh

If I dont want to write a scene i can just skip it

Keep up audience

[lelianaslefthand]

me trying to come up with a tav to romance gale

[gffa]

I think you could examine a lot of the writing for Sol in the finale of The Acolyte, where there's a very fair point that he's letting his emotions get the better of him, that a huge point is that his attachment to Osha (and it has truly become attachment at this point, not just love, but what the Jedi and Star Wars mean by attachment, the fear of living without someone because you are afraid of it) is making him act recklessly again, but also it's just so... clunky and so fast. LJJ is doing what he can with the material, but it's so telling that he's not allowed to actually explain why he killed Mother Aniseya, that it appeared that she was threatening the little girl that they were trying to protect. He's not allowed to explain because then Osha's reaction would look even more wildly 0 to 500mph. And it's the same for why he's trying to bring Mae in, like what will proving there was a vergence in the Force even do? Sure, it's of interest because it's incredibly powerful and potentially dangerous and should at least be checked out, that Sol thinks Osha and Mae are the same person in two bodies, but why does he care about proving that? What's that going to change at this point? How does that connect to his actions on Brendok, beyond "I had a reason to be suspicious"? That's already established! A vergence doesn't change that? But if he's not desperate to prove that, then his actions in the episode don't have a reason, they're just there because the show needs him to be going off the rails for Reasons. It's further reflected in just how unhinged he feels in this episode, like I get that we're meant to see Sol as someone who never dealt with the guilt of what happened, he kept it as a festering wound, and for a space psychic wizard, that is so much more dangerous than it is for non-space psychics, and I can agree, but also as a story, it just feels like he went from 0 to 500mph on the unhinged screaming Mae's name as he chased her down, that it all flipped on a dime, and I just don't get the impression that we're supposed to see him as having a Mask Off moment, especially given how he forgives Osha as she kills him and says it's okay while she's still choking him. Part of the problem is that only 8 episodes that aren't even 40 minutes long each means there's not enough room for what they want, but also part of it is just that the writing is not strong enough to convey what it wants and Sol's character pays the price for that, so he just feels weirdly out of character by the end for me.

[illuminatedquill]

The Jedi’s failings coming from a place of love and care will never fail to resonate with me.

Lots of nuance and complexity with these characters and I love it so much. So, so much.

The Acolyte has only reinforced my love for the Jedi Order. Silly space wizards flying around, trying to make things better than how they found them.

[linddzz]

Latest idea floating around in my head: a twist on the Hob saving Morpheus from the time-out ball, except that's where they first met each other.

Hob's still immortal, it's just that Death was the one who came and gave him the deal of meeting every 100 years

(is this also bc I'd love Death being Hob's centennial buddy? Her being way less reserved and straight up telling him who she is. Her delight at his delighting over life. The rage in him when Eleanor and Robyn die. Death took them and she wouldn't even say anything to him when she did it. Also I'd like to see him just immediately choke and squirm like a bastard as soon as he starts explaining his new shipping business to her in 1789. Yes and hell yes gimme Hobsie and Death as bros.)

So Hob is trying out new stuff again. He's never tried out being a magus and gets himself in as a member of Burgess' order and eventually an acolyte.

And then he's introduced to the "devil" that Burgess keeps in the dungeon. He's to help study up on strengthening the wards around the sphere and all that. And boy is he deeply, super uncomfortable with the sight of this frail man trapped in a cage.

("Don't let his pretty face fool you." Burgess will tell him, "the thing is a demon who would destroy us all if given half a chance."

To be fair, Morpheus does not help his case at all and his expression clearly says "you fuckin bet I will")

And Hob is Hob. So while he's working on studying up on wards (which so happens to involve a lot of careful, detailed study of the wards around the sphere) he's chatting at the thing in it. He complains about the boss, talks about the War, tells the demon about his day while the demon either glares at him or makes a hilariously big show of not paying attention. Sometimes Hob straight up shirks work (with a winking "you won't tell the boss right?") And just reads books.

And he nearly shrieks in surprise when he's reading some new novel called The Hobbit out loud and looks up to find the demon watching and obviously interested. So of course Hob is gonna keep reading him stories and keep studying those binding spells super closely.

And ok that's where I gotta admit the story doesn't have a solid conclusion in my head yet (besides obviously Hob is gonna bust Dream out and then get kissed a LOT) but I do have one bit where Morpheus first talks to him and of course it's just cryptic weird shit. Because Morpheus has started watching this shit-wizard who won't shut the fuck up back and can tell that something is OFF about him.

So just imagine Hob is yammering away about how he thinks the masters kid and the gardener have something going on, and he nearly shits himself when the "demon" presses a hand against the glass and says

"Death has touched you. I see it now. My siblings marks upon you. Is that what you are here for? To report to them? To let them see how low their family has come? So they do know what has come of me then, and they have sent you to chatter away and truly make it clear that they will do nothing."

Hob's just like. "WHAT?? SIBLINGS?! You TALK??! Hang on you know Death???!" But Morpheus already is back to curling in on himself in a furious pissy sulk