#write lighthouse

[kotatsudotme]

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[sososososouspicious]

I found my new fave cc ngl 🙏🏻 GEM IS GREAT !!!!!!

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

Deep Water Prompt #3264

The lighthouse is haunted by the ghost of every previous keeper, all of whom met terrible early ends. I have to figure out what they are trying to tell me, before I meet my own.

[lostinsnow]

Made a mood board for the obikin lighthouse au instead of actually working on writing it 🤭

[lost-in-fandoms]

It's 3 am and I couldn't stop thinking about this post

"It's going to be fun, Maxy!"

When Daniel claps his hands the sound echoes up the stairs, making the whole building seem weirdly larger, the circular rooms swelling with it.

Max drops one of their bags on the floor, nose curling at the damp, slightly moldy smell permeating the old walls, eyes sweeping over the entrance. There's an old pair of plastic boots under a chair, feeling more ominous than it should.

Before he can say anything, Daniel is in front of him again, hands on his shoulders, expression surprisingly soft for someone who was bouncing off the walls a second ago.

"Thank you for coming with me, Max, really," he says, all sincerity and wide brown eyes.

Max doesn't say I've never learned how to tell you no, or I would do anything you asked me to, and especially not if you had asked me to marry you for real instead of to get the job, I would have still said yes, but still feels himself soften, blush threatening to betray him.

He doesn't know how to answer without sounding pathetically fond, so he doesn't, shaking Daniel's hands off of him. Missing them immediately.

"You, of course, should have picked me up before taking me inside," he jokes. He's expecting Daniel to move towards him, arms already raised, so he avoids him easily, laughing and darting towards the stairs.

"Are you calling me a bad husband, darling?" Daniel's voice curls around the pet name, saccharine sweetness making each syllable longer, but Max's heart still skips a little with it, unfairly uncaring of the joke and lie of it all. He can hear Daniel start climbing the stairs behind him.

He hurries, barely looking at the rooms he passes through, until he's at the top, panting, opening the door leading to the walkway outside.

The sea is breathtaking from here, wide and terrifying, even when placid like this, and Max doesn't dare actually stepping outside, nor does he think about approaching the metal steps leading up to the lantern room. The wind shoves water spray inside the room, immediately hungry for the dry haven of the lighthouse.

"If you wanted us to be panting and sweating, I had better ideas for newlyweds that involve less stairs and more..."

Daniel doesn't finish his sentence, sliding up beside Max and looking outside too, words stolen by wonder.

Max knows that it has hit him too, just then, that this is where they will be living for the next three months. Just them, the light and the sea. It's at the same time exciting and terrifying, nerves sparking down his spine, making him shiver.

Before he can say anything, or step back, Daniel has wrapped his arm around his waist, tugging him close.

"We're going to have fun, yeah Maxy?" an echo of earlier, warped to softness.

Max just hums, giving in to the indulgent pleasure of leaning into Daniel further, making himself smaller to tuck into his side, cheek against his shoulder.

Three months in a lighthouse with the guy he has been in love with for forever and who he accepted to marry for a job requirement. Three months with his best friend. Three months in a very limited space with the most restless person he knows.

Max isn't sure he would call the perspective fun, but it's not like he can go back now, not like he would leave Daniel, ever, so the only thing he can do is nod and hope it doesn't end in fights and heartbreak.

"We are."

[wanderingcas]

my fascination has extended from lighthouses to fire tower lookouts. people are up there all day, isolated, and a lot of times they have hobbies while they whiddle away the day. just saw a post about someone who's stationed at a fire tower in Montana who also makes violins. that's?? so cool??

it would take a very specific type of person to voluntarily want to do that job and live in isolation. and it'd be really interesting to explore what would lead someone to want to do it.

[purplecritter]

Rook, the Lighthouse, the Veilguard (a theory)

Many thoughts about our base being called the Lighthouse, protagonist named Rook, and group named Veilguard...

In chess (assuming that in Thedas it works similarly), the rook pieces is shaped like a turret, or simply a tower. A tower is first and foremost a place to watch over potential threats before they become problematic, and only then it becomes a place to defend and attack from. This imagery fits the guarding aspect implied in the name "Veilguard".

But what is a lighthouse if not a tower that lights up on top? I'm reminded of the Red Rook-Wolf Book revealed so long ago: a turret/rook with a wolf's head surrounded by fire above it. 

Sources: [1] [2]

Now. A lighthouse (metaphorical or otherwise) is in hindsight also quite fitting: just remember all the times that the Fade was referenced in lore to by its water-like qualities?

Here lies the abyss, the well of all souls. From these emerald waters doth life begin anew. (Canticle of Andraste 14:11) - From the waters of the Fade you made the world. As the Fade had been fluid, so was the world fixed. (Threnodies 1:4) - The sun, looking down upon the fruitful land, saw the joy that Elgar'nan took in her [the land's] works and grew jealous. [...] The land cracked and split from bitterness and pain, and cried salt tears for the loss of all she had wrought. The pool of tears cried for the land became the ocean, and the cracks in her body the first rivers and streams. [...] Eventually Elgar'nan threw the sun down from the sky and buried him in a deep abyss created by the land's sorrow. (From The Tale of Elgar'nan and the Sun, as told by Gisharel, Keeper of the Ralaferin clan of the Dalish elves)

Perhaps the Lighthouse is placed at the Crossroads, or somewhere between the Fade and Waking World, to guide and light the way for those who are allowed to pass through.

Perhaps it's Veilguard not only because the Veil need guarding, but we're also the guards that watch over the threshold of the Fade.

[catfirebrand]

Y'all.

I am so close to finishing The Lighthouse.

I'm so excited.

[wrathofachilleus]

more of an idea of a person rather than an actual one

[pandorem]

Okay so I don’t feel the most qualified to talk about this, especially to make any value judgements on how any of this was handled, so I would love other people to add in if they feel like it, but this is eating my brain actually so.

Esther Finch is a funny villain. She’s a joy to watch on screen, even if part of that joy is in hating her. But there’s something that feels very deliberate in the fact that the only two girls (barring in the animated flashback) we see her target are black girls. Becky Aspen and Crystal. I don’t think we’re supposed to infer from this that she only ever targets black girls, but the casting of Becky feels deliberate. While there’s plenty of in universe explanation for why she wants to use Crystal to feed to her snake afterwards and doesn’t ever say, specifically target Niko, it’s still there. And though Niko was just hurt because she got in the way, she’s also another woman of colour we see Esther hurt.

And then at the end Crystal, who many have pointed out has been a voice for women throughout the whole season, stands in front of Lilith, the goddess of wronged women, and screams to her about who gets justice for all the little girls Esther hurt. And then Lilith, played by a black woman, is the one to drag Esther away.

Crystal says to Esther that she knows how anger can poison you. Esther says she learned to be predator instead of prey a long time ago. Do I think that the show literally wants us to think that Esther is a racist who deliberately targets black girls? No. Do I think the casting choices that they made bring up themes of the kind of people who, because they have been hurt or marginalized, want to push others down to have others that they can have power over instead? Whose problems with societal oppression is not that it exists, but that they aren’t the ones who get to benefit from it? I think so.

[essektheylyss]

me, writing: I am NOT getting into the specific mechanics of lighthouses, if I go down that rabbit hole I will never get out, it is notably an arcane lighthouse so I do not need it and it is not plot relevant

me, seeing a post about Fresnel lenses: ......but what if it was plot relevant?

[amicus-noctis]

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn” ― Arthur Rimbaud

Painting: Sketch for "Summer Dreams" Henry Scott Tuke & "The Slave Ship" by J.M.W. Turner

[karugoround]

AU where Komaeda is the one who signs for the Kamukura project. Some things about this AU under the cut 🖤

Nagizuru

A being so bright it burns everything in its path. The lobotomy messed up his luck and now it's way more destructive, so the institution had to insolate him inside a locked building with thick walls known as "the lighthouse". This worsened his health, since he spends most of his days sedated or in bed. Always smiling, but no emotion. It is believed that anyone who interacts with him directly will be the victim of a terrible misfortune. All the doctors who were part of the surgery died one by one in strange circumstances.

Servant!hajime

Also known as the caretaker. He was the next one on the list for the Kamukura Project. He showed so much interest and willingness for this project that the institution gave him the dangerous duty of taking care of the subject and monitoring him. Because of this, he has also been the victim of several accidents from which he miraculously survived, causing blindness in one eye, a lightning strike scar on his torso and some burn marks. Despite this, he never leaves Nagizuru's side. Nobody knows if it's because he is forced to do so, or if there's a personal interest behind it.

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

Text: There’s only one lighthouse left this far north. No one comes here, except to seek what lies on our ice covered island. We’ll guide them safely to shore. But after that, all bets are off.

[eughty]

on lighthouses and fireflies

[girlwithakiwi]

some nights the lighthouse, some nights the sea (transatlanticism) | chapter 16: on your beam's end

Chapters: 16/35 Fandom: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Rating: Mature Relationships: Jon Snow/Daenerys Targaryen, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Summary:

“Daenerys is a queen. Only a king can answer this message.”

“A king,” Sansa echoes, finally meeting his eyes. “Or a princess.”

.

In Westeros: war.

To the east, the Targaryen queen has landed on the shores of Dragonstone, prepared to take back the throne stolen from her family. To the south, the lions of Lannister bathe in the blood and copious spoils of their war—unchallenged, undefeated. To the far north, beyond the Wall, looms an unimaginable nightmare led by a god of death, a demon who will bring eternal winter to the realm by means of his army of walking corpses. And in the middle lies the shattered and broken North with its newly-crowned king, a king given a choice between a dragon and a lioness.

The only problem? Sansa thinks that negotiations aren't exactly her brother's specialty anymore and he is surely going to get them all killed.

Or: Sansa goes to Dragonstone to meet Daenerys instead of Jon.