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Making character designs for a magical girl kid show...Based on the five MTG lands

Overall art direction for the looks :

XVIIIth century fashion but made modern with short skirts/dresses and an overall "cute vibe". Also, it would take inspiration from the cute, colorful looks many magical girl animes have, although not as bright...More of a "pastel goth" color palette.

Swamp :

Often, magical girl teams have a fashionesta...Because Swamps tend to have the prettiest lands she'd be...Now, Black often has a zombie, gothic vampire, creepy swamps, flooded graveyards, dark torture chamber aesthetic. Everything linked to pain, death and decay. How to turn that cute and kid-friendly ?

So, Swamp girl with have a cute but pronounced yaeba, with executioner Sanson as a main style inspiration. She would wear a puffy-sleeved shift with a cambric neck hankierchief, a buttoned, XVIIIth century-inspired vest (the sleeveless ones worn beneath the coat) but with both sides all nice (historically, the back part was made simply, but since the back would be visible...It gotta look good), some XVIIIth-century inspired shoes and some nice stockings with simple garders. Instead of the culottes, there would be a knee-long, very simple box-pleated skirt with a color gradiant. The jacket would also feature a gradiant of murky colors. Hairstyle would be poofy bangs paired with a low-ponytail tied with a black silky ribbon, preferably with some wave or curl. Her magical girl form would be equiped with some cute bat wings. Would definitly have dark circles.

Island :

So...We need our "smart" girl who's academically gifted.

Blue lands also tend to be quite...Monochromatic, but blue is a calming color. Although, some blue lands are very cute.

Blue commanders are very "water themed" or very spiritual/lunar themed. It features spirits, wizards, merfolks, nymphs, humunculi and sea creatures. For this character, I would go with the "spirit route"...Her magical outfit would consist of a shift, a bedgown held with a large ribbon and guarded stockings. Her hair would be covered with a bedcap, yet left long and loose to her waist and straight.

She would not have wings, but rather four lanterns with chains, and inside instead of a candle or an electric bulb, it would have some will-o'-the wisp.

Plains :

Every magical girl group need "the mom friend/more responsable one" and also, almost every magical girl group has a character with a more "solar" aesthetic. Plus, we do need a healer...For plot related stuff, and white is the "healer color" in terms of gameplay.

So, Plains have soldiers, peasants, knights, paladins, advisers, rebels and clerics. They have humans, angels, gargoyles, large herbivores, unicorns, kor, cats and pegasi. Plains lands are often drawn with plenty of flowers or agricultural fieds. White creates often have an air of austerity to them, with very light beige dominating their color scheme, while the cards feature beautiful architecture, agricultural fields, tundra, grasslands, deserts and lush meadows. We need to make that cute and girly...

I think the solution would be to take a classic XVIIIth century vest, but very plain and short on both sides, pair with the poofy XVIIIth century men's shirt with a frilless jabot, a hankierchief, a knife-pleated skirt and some XVIIIth century shoes but with buttoned leg warmers attached (military-style). The hairstyle would be composed of a tight, flat braid reaching the mid-neck with blunt-cut side-burns barely covering the ears.

Forests :

Each magical girl group needs it's brave, girl next door mc with fairly "basic" powers.

Yes...Elves, forest creatures, plant folk, saprolings, dogs, trolls, spiders, dinosaurs, nature spirit, fungi, halflings, insects and more. It has a wild aesthetic, but also in a more "gentle way". It's natural, look. It has plenty of druids, rangers and archers.

Now, XVIIIth century fashion is all about very defined lines...But, we can make it work. I think her magical girl form would be the simplest, with a shift paired with a rectangal gathered skirt arriving at the knees, a pair of stays, buttoned leg warmers, simple leather shoes and an apron. From her back would be translucent wings, quite round and insect like, but with visible mammalian nerves, cartilage and veins.

Mountains :

Every magical girl group has it's "bad girl"So, red would be the group's "bad girl". Well, almost every magical girl group has it's bad girl. Aesthetically, it is all about rough, pointy and agressive, slightly demonic and we need to make this cute and girly. In gameplay, red is fast and agressive, so our "bad girl" will have the most...Combative personality.

Mountains have an aesthetic that is all about what is fiery, barren and rugged. It has goblins, humans, ogres, dwarves, giants, dinos and dragons. Red is also bold and confident. In urban environments, it's all about tall, pointy towers. It's the terrain of artifixers, samurai, beserkers and barbarians.

So, the solution is...Have the character wear a quilted, gathered rectangle skirt at knee-length, paired with a women's shift, a simple tent canvas brunswick fully covering stays, simple shoes with buttoned legs warmers and a thick leather apron. All of them would have arough, tattered look. Her hairstyle would be mostly loose, but with some strands braided to give a more textured look. Her wings would be those of a dragon, scaly and visibly strong. She'd also have a yaeba, just like the "Swamp" magical girl.

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Persecution in the Ancien Régime (epoque, end of Louis XIVth reign)

Now, Louis XIVth did practice some persecution at the end of his rein. The number of individuals tortured (la question) legally or given secret corporal punishment...Was stageringly small.

In the decade 1700-1709, only 72 people would be subject to question or "fouet sous la custode". Although, that number could be raised given all the secret sentences given.

In the decade 1710-1719, only sixty.

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Charles-Henry...

I wrote him to have this reaction :

"I'm probably gonna get whacked tomorrow. Well, that's an issue for tomrrow me, time for some sleep ! Zzzz...Zzzz "

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XIXth century...

1801-1830 : In women's fashion, wool and cotton appear for the first time, but exclusively in the deplomacy class to decorate women's leg warmers. Generalisation of back slits. There is still a refusal to dye clothes. Tristle cloth strings had become normalized.

1840-1870 : Trousers finally appear in men's fashion, exclusively for the diplomacy class. Dyed fabric appear as very minimal cotton ribbons, and would be mostly worn by rebellious youths from wealthy families. Dyed fabric is such a traditional taboo in Drow culure that some "public disciplinarians" would forcefully chop off any hair tied with colored ribbons or floss. Long hair would return to women's fashion.

1880-1920s : Colored ribbons started to be more normalized, although they would still be a wealthy, diplomatic youth fashion. Obligatory schooling generalizing in many countries, and the diplomatic class often having to send their kids to study with none-drow would mean the appearence of skirts and trousers for the first time in youth fashion, who bring back these garments from their schooling abroad. Still, they were expected to take off them when returning to daily life in their home towns, and religious authorities hated them, as well as many conservatives, thinking they represented an invasion of foreign, sinful customs. This fear of loss of custom did institutionalized mandatory whippings in most schools, and soon enough, country-wide outside of any educational or professional institutions for all individuals between the ages of 10 to 45 for elves, and 5 to 30 for humans in their Drow-controlled territory. Dyed clothing and skirts and trousers would be banned from most educational and professional institutions. Long hair is still in trend for both sexes, but shorter hairstyles would appear in men's fashion for the first time, normalizing a mullet and jellyfish hairstyles for men. A shaved neck would be too far away from Drow ideas of masculinity (i.e a covered neck) to become a general fashion.

1930-1960s : Period of the Second Elven Hunt, that would, for both economical and cultural reasons, see a return to traditions of wearing fish-skin loincloths, long hair for both sexes and simple legwarmers tied to the hips. Detachable neck-wear would still pearmeate men's fashion, as a cultural resistance thing, but also, a covered neck had become normalized in men's fashion as a sigh of dominance. Women's hairstyles would systematically bare the neck.

Post-persecution period (1970s to modern time) : The end of the persecution period is celebrated by the appearence for the first earrings. Long, flowing braids, heavy earrings and high-heels would become fashionable as a way to celebrate the end of having to live in fear of lynching. Previously, pierced ears would be associated purely with the anti-social element.

Drow fashion, post-exposure period

Second half of the XVIth century :

-They would either wear clothes picked up from human corpses, usually shifts, hence there would be no major difference. Fishskin belts, loincloths and slippers would remain the same as in the previous era. As individuals did try to preserve and study the past to figure out how to survive the surface world, legwarmers would once again re-enter the picture. Macramé jewlery would return, but for bracelets only.

XVIIth century :

-Self-produced clothing would start appearing, with the re-intruduction of nettle and thristle cloth. It would retain the high necklines of the second half of XVIth century, but would adopt narrower, straight cut shoulders for easier layering and conserving fabric. To add additional production, thigh-high legwarmers and stockings made of the same material as the shift would be produced. The addition of rough, tow-woven "strings" to protect and "chastise" the private area would also start appearing, but only for adults. With time, rectangular necklines would appear, for fabric conservation. Fishskin slippers would slowly be traded for warmer fishskin mocassins covering more of the foot. Fishskin belts and loincloths would still be very prominant. With access to cloth, keeping the hair extremely long to use as a makeshift cape would no longer be necessary, and shorter hairstyles would appear, but only as women's fashion. The hair at the back would be cut slightly above the shoulders, while the bangs would be kept as long as possible and braided. As patriarchal ideals become more and more normalized, neckhair would be cut shorter and shorter as the century progress, until it reaching the earlobe. An exposed neck is seen as a sign of servility in their culture.

XVIIIth century : A generealisation of the square neckline. As wing mutilation decrease, slits would appear at the back of shifts as to let wings pass through. As the diplomatic class takes more and more power, and the necessity not to shock the sensibilities of the surrounding, non-Mouth of Hell human population would increase, fashion would respond. Men's legwarmers would become longer, so long that they are secured around the waist as opposed to the mid-thigh. Visible loincloths would dissapear, replaced by fishksin belt-skirts/ slitted cacheurs that serve the purpose of preventing the cloth covering the buttocks to become see-through in the case of rain. Men would start wearing detached collars at all times. Floffy bangs would also appear in men's fashion. For women, true skirts would appear for the first time, often made of tent canvas and kept slit on both sides. Drow sensibilities, dictating that youths, servants, slaves and childless married couples are ready for whipping do ensure that fashions completely covering the thighs and buttocks would never reach beyond the demography of wealthy adults.

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The Little Mermaid hid her scales. The human wasn't afraid of her ? Interesting.

"What, it's unual for hu...for people to swim in cool weather ?"

"You have pretty eyes" said the little mermaid (like, Andersen's little mermaid feeling particularly bold), in a tone that suggested she found the human girl more cute than attractive.

send "You have pretty eyes" for my muse's reaction

"Thank you!" Zero replied with a chuckle, stopping their little walk along the rocky shore to their next adventure. "But why are you swimming in this chilly wea-"

A flash of a fish tail emerged from the waves as the other person continued to wade in the ocean, stopping Zero from finishing their verbal trail of curiosity.

". . . . . You're a mermaid . . ?"

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𝐓𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐑 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝟐 (a collection of prompts from text posts I saved. Feel free to adjust phrasing and gendered terms as necessary)

"I beg your fucking pardon?"

"Due to personal reasons, I'm evil now."

"Actually all of my systems are nervous."

"You used to be shy, now you're a whore."

"I'm attracted to men but at what cost?"

"My wife can stab me a little bit I don't care."

"Babygirl there is something obviously wrong with your brain."

"I'm going to defeat you with the power of friendship, and this gun I found."

"Debates are stupid because why would I want to sit down and argue with someone blatantly dumber than me."

"Due to personal reasons, I will be going completely off the fucking rails."

"I'm a nice person but I'm about to start throwing rocks at people."

"Those are bold words for someone in stabbing range."

"Sorry I called you a fucking idiot, I was trying to flirt."

"I may seem like an angry person on the surface, but deep inside I'm actually angrier.

"Sorry, I couldn't hear you over my internal monologue."

"Sure I'm a little stupid, but that's like 80% of my charm!"

"Fuck therapy I'm becoming a knight."

"Hey, girl. Plagued by terrifying visions?"

"There's something deeply and fundamentally wrong with you. Can we kiss?"

"I may not be beautiful, but at least I know a lot of useless information."

"Conversations are a lot like teeth, you can only have so many."

"I hate when people ask me to explain my thought process. Like hell if I know."

"Well, well, well, if this isn't the feelings I've been trying to avoid."

"With all due respect, which is none."

"You call it a near-death experience, I call it a vibe check from God."

"If a demon tried to possess me I'd just be like: ok take it from here, good luck man."

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Description for my novel (original in French)

Charles-Henry joined his father and older sister in the office-laboratory, crossing a doorless bay window. It was a vaulted room, located directly above the entrance arch. The room was lit by a double-leaf window overlooking Rue Poissonnière, wooden at the bottom and glass at the top, and another sliding window overlooking the courtyard. The terracotta-tiled floor supported a laboratory furnace located between a raised fireplace and a door, and beyond the door was another chimney with a hood, with a twenty-two french inches stone slab at its right angle, supported by an iron bar and stones. Above the stone slab were placed knives, two wooden boards, and a silver kettle. A large steel pot was permanently enthroned on the furnace, with a large bowl of solid earthenware on top, with a few holes to let in the steam. Near the window overlooking the courtyard was a writing desk with a cupboard, to which one could sit on a stool with a lifting seat. This was used to take, organize, and store various more or less organized notes, recipe diaries, books, scalpels, quills, powder for protecting the ink, blank papers, and ink. There was also a long, narrow table with another stool, placed along the length of the room to the left of the window on the street. This table was used for cutting, and also to store tiny little cylindrical pots of coarse terracotta, each capable of holding barely two ounces. In a corner, there was another stool, sturdier than the others, used for climbing. From the ceiling hung tightly stretched ropes from which various medicinal herbs and strips of human leather would hang (althought today the ropes were quite bare).

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Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Sanson I character design ideas

As a little boy (ages 10 to 14) : I think he would have the classical XVIIIth century floofy bangs, hair falling somewhat loose to his shoulders. His natural hair color is lighter than what he would have as an adult or as a teenager, gradually getting darker, going from a mousy blond to a dull, ashy medium brown. He wears work brown, undyed linen clothes, his shoes laced with simple hemp tape. On the scaffold, he wears a leather apron, often blood-stained. His Sunday best consist of a rodingoat dyed a cool, brownish pink (color given by silver birch bark, traditionally used in flogging), reddish brown breeches, cambric hankierchief around his neck, white stockings and black shoes laced with a pink silk ribbon. Also, he's a very cute boy, very slender-boned with thick, floofy hair and brown puppy eyes.

As a teenager/young adult (ages 14 to 23) : Starts growing out his hair longer and loosely braided, that end up reaching his waist at 18. His work clothes are still very simple, brownish and often protected with a leather apron. His Sunday and formal wear consist of a cool pink rodingote, but ornated with ruffles and a fleur-de-lys patterned trim, and he starts wearing lacy hankierchiefs as opposed to plain ones, and becomes more flowing. His features are on the more angular side, although more triangular, unlike his brother's who has something of a mixture between a diamond and a rectangular face-shape.

As an adult, executioner proud of his status (24 to 35) : Still thick-haired and puppy eyed, he wears an old-fashioned blood-red coat with at the bottom a light yellow trim decorated with an embroidered in black thread pattern representing stylized gallows. It closes with black, ladder-shaped frogs, the ensemble giving a look that is both regal and sinister. He also wears a silver earring. He wears a discreet belt allowing him to carry a red-painted stick. Twelve fleurs-de-lys are embroidered in yellow thread on the part of the coat that covers his shoulders, six on each side. Still wears his shoes laced as opposed to buckled, and quite enjoys a lacy neck hankerchief and silk white stockings. He had overall grown and aged into a rather handsome and stylish man. Has a golden canine, having lost his natural one to a mixture of mobbing and caries.

Older executioner, no longer proud (after Damien's quartering, to let's say age 60) : Started greying rapidly after the Damien incident, and had cut his hair short with a shaved neck, no longer wears his earring, and had detached the yellow trim of his coat, making it fall a lot more limply and no longer having that regal flair. No longer flaunts his status as executioner. Started balding at around age 50, having become fully white-haired by that age. Starts loosing teeth, and wears more and more false ones. PTSD is not easy on his body, making him age and deteriorate much more rapidly.

Old man (60 to his death): Needs a cane for support, has thin white hair surrounding bald temples. No longer has the money nor energy to maintain his clothes in pristine order, leading them to become washed out and limp. Has lost most of his teeth also, and wears dentures to eat.

Skills :

Nicolas-Gabriel, speaks his native French in a thick gallow slang, making it hard for him to conceal his identity, clashing with his other manners which are those of a gentleman. He can also speak Yenish fluently, albeit with a strong French accent, allowing him to more easily interrogate travelling marginals. His speach patterns, sound like this :

"Le cousin a dit à papa qu'il devait arrêté de me donner des délicatesses."

translated to normal French it would be :

"Mon estimé frère de caste d'une illustre dynastie a dit à mon contre-maître qu'il devait arrêter de me fouetter par séries de dix."

The litteral English translation of the original Phrase would be :

"The cousin said to dad that he should stop giving me delicacies."

It's actual meaning in English would be :

"My esteamed cast-brother of an illustrous dynasty told my foreman to stop whipping me by series of ten strokes."

More experienced giving more petty sentences, Nicolas-Gabriel is able to wield a whip or birch rod with a high degree of precision and has very fine control of his strength, but is a rather poor hangman.

Most importantly, Nicolas Gabriel is a skilled surgeon and medic, and is particularly skilled at bringing patients with rather severe injuries on their feet through surgeries, fracture reduction, careful wound care, hygiene and effective prescribed diets.

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Drow fashion, post-exposure period

Second half of the XVIth century :

-They would either wear clothes picked up from human corpses, usually shifts, hence there would be no major difference. Fishskin belts, loincloths and slippers would remain the same as in the previous era. As individuals did try to preserve and study the past to figure out how to survive the surface world, legwarmers would once again re-enter the picture. Macramé jewlery would return, but for bracelets only.

XVIIth century :

-Self-produced clothing would start appearing, with the re-intruduction of nettle and thristle cloth. It would retain the high necklines of the second half of XVIth century, but would adopt narrower, straight cut shoulders for easier layering and conserving fabric. To add additional production, thigh-high legwarmers and stockings made of the same material as the shift would be produced. The addition of rough, tow-woven "strings" to protect and "chastise" the private area would also start appearing, but only for adults. With time, rectangular necklines would appear, for fabric conservation. Fishskin slippers would slowly be traded for warmer fishskin mocassins covering more of the foot. Fishskin belts and loincloths would still be very prominant. With access to cloth, keeping the hair extremely long to use as a makeshift cape would no longer be necessary, and shorter hairstyles would appear, but only as women's fashion. The hair at the back would be cut slightly above the shoulders, while the bangs would be kept as long as possible and braided. As patriarchal ideals become more and more normalized, neckhair would be cut shorter and shorter as the century progress, until it reaching the earlobe. An exposed neck is seen as a sign of servility in their culture.

XVIIIth century : A generealisation of the square neckline. As wing mutilation decrease, slits would appear at the back of shifts as to let wings pass through. As the diplomatic class takes more and more power, and the necessity not to shock the sensibilities of the surrounding, non-Mouth of Hell human population would increase, fashion would respond. Men's legwarmers would become longer, so long that they are secured around the waist as opposed to the mid-thigh. Visible loincloths would dissapear, replaced by fishksin belt-skirts/ slitted cacheurs that serve the purpose of preventing the cloth covering the buttocks to become see-through in the case of rain. Men would start wearing detached collars at all times. Floffy bangs would also appear in men's fashion. For women, true skirts would appear for the first time, often made of tent canvas and kept slit on both sides. Drow sensibilities, dictating that youths, servants, slaves and childless married couples are ready for whipping do ensure that fashions completely covering the thighs and buttocks would never reach beyond the demography of wealthy adults.

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everybody always makes alice longbottom in the same families: fortescue, selwyn, prewett. which do you think is best? or do you have better suggestion? thnx

Honestly I really don’t like Alice as a Prewett. It doesn’t make sense to me. I mean we know that Molly is really big on family, basically adopting Harry after five minutes conversation, so if Neville was a nephew or something like that don’t you think she’d have been part of his childhood? Even just a small part? Don’t you think the Weasley children would consider him family, even distant family, if he was a direct Prewett descendant? Making Alice a Prewett makes me uncomfortable, because if you project that lineage out to what we get in the books later it just doesn’t work. imo: bad idea, one of the worst.

Between Fortescue and Selwyn, I prefer Selwyn. We don’t get to really meet any Selwyns in the books – just one Death Eater who shows up briefly – but we have a nice little encounter with Florean Fortescue, and he seems like a friendly sort of guy. Someone who would likely have made at least a token effort to be involved in the childhood of a basically-orphaned little kid whom everyone thought was a Squib, if he had been part of Neville’s family. And while there is nothing in the books that says he and Neville weren’t family or friendly, the fact that Florean hangs out with Harry for a summer and doesn’t mention anything about Neville – a boy who is in not just the same year as Harry, but the same house – well, it just reads as off. Or that is it would read as off, if Neville was a relative of Florean, because that seems like the kind of thing that would have come up in conversation even if he and Neville weren’t personally close. But when Harry is summarizing his weeks in Diagon Alley, he doesn’t say “Florean Fortescue, Neville’s uncle who ran the ice cream parlor…” or anything like that, which leaves anyone trying to make that canon connection the responsibility of answering the question, why not? Why would Florean not introduce himself via Neville when he met Harry? Why would Harry not reference Florean’s connection to his housemate? I’m not saying you can’t make it work, that it’s impossible to come up with a way to make Alice a Fortescue without making later events in the books go wonky – but you definitely need to make that effort to craft that backstory.

Honestly having Alice be directly related to anyone we meet in the books who interacts with Harry in any sort of extended and friendly fashion doesn’t really work for me, because it feels awkward for them to never mention something about “oh you got to school with my nephew, Neville, he talks about you all the time!” or so on, you know? And again, it’s not impossible to do it and do it well, but it is something you have to tackle because when you’re writing a prequel (which is what Marauders Era stuff is if you think about it): you have to be very conscious of the canon that is going to come later and how what you’re writing now that’s new works alongside what was written previously about what is going to happen next. I think we’re all familiar with badly done prequel stories that don’t quite mesh with their later-slash-earlier installments, so I expect you get what I mean when I say that that kind of attention to detail matters!

(Also tbh most of the time when I see Alice linked to a family like that, one of the “nice ones” we meet, her background tends to read as pretty “Mary Sue-ish” anyway. You know what I mean: the sort of OC-insert character who ~conveniently~ has really close family ties to other characters we know and she’s suuuuuper important in their lives and oh-so-special and…basically it just makes you think of bad fanfics, right? The kind you write when you’re twelve and want to burn later? Maybe that’s just me idk, but any time I see the name “Alice Fortescue” I cringe because I think I know what’s coming, and sadly I’m usually right.)

Anyway, basically the thing that I think is important to keep in mind when crafting a backstory for Alice is what we learn about Neville’s upbringing: he was raised by his paternal grandmother. He had a family of busybody relatives who sent him lots of advice on what classes to take and who all thought he was a Squib when he was little and did awful things to try and get his magic to show itself (the doing of which seemed very casual, almost like he was an afterthought, as evinced by him being dropped out the window once when someone wanted desert). No one thought he was important or talented. His grandmother takes him to visit his parents in St. Mungo’s on holidays. She acts very familiar to her daughter-in-law (although admittedly she’s spent about fourteen years visiting her in the closed ward by then, so there’s no telling what their relationship was like back when Alice had her full faculties) and worn-out by it all, although still fiercely proud of her son’s talents (and later her grandson’s, at least once he finally “lives up to” what she wanted from him after the fighting against Voldemort starts).

From here on out this is admittedly all extrapolation, but going off of what we know: it has always seemed to me as though there are a lot of Longbottoms of Augusta’s generation or around that age but not a lot of younger ones, and Alice’s family doesn’t seem to be involved in things with Neville much at all. We know she’s a pure-blood, because Neville is, so it’s not a situation like with Lily – but we also know that the family line means a lot to most pure-blood families. So from that we can draw the assumption that for whatever reason, Alice’s son doesn’t matter much to her side of the family, even though one would think he ought to. Is that because she comes from a huge family, so the Squib-ish son of the girl who went mad and got locked up in St. Mungo’s isn’t someone they need to spend much thought on? Is that because she comes from a family that has almost died-out and there just aren’t many of them left to care about him? Is it because they don’t consider him part of “their” family as much as they do “a Longbottom” because the maternal line doesn’t matter to them as much? Is it because Alice herself had a falling-out with her family so they severed ties before Neville was born?Is it because her family and the Longbottoms just don’t get along (either for reasons that existed at the time Alice and Frank got married, which she did despite her family’s wishes, or for reasons that cropped-up later – perhaps over the side that Alice and Frank chose in the war, or perhaps they blame him for what happened to her, etc etc?) so they don’t want to have anything to do with the Longbottoms…who might not welcome them anyway even if they did?

The last option makes me like the Selwyn idea because we know the Selwyns are pure-bloods at least in part (from the fact that Umbridge claims their lineage when sporting Slytherin’s locket) and we know that at least one of them was a Death Eater. Now that doesn’t necessarily mean the whole family was a bunch of blood-supremacists of course, but it does give us more potential to play with than we get from the Fortescues or the Ollivanders (or the Prewetts), I believe. Giving Alice a family that is: a) majority pro-voldemort or b) mixed between pro-voldemort/pro-dumbledore or even c) majority pro-dumbledore but with a few outcast death eaters provides a much more interesting and idea-fertile background, I think, for both her and her son.

To that end I’m thinking that if you really want to tie Alice in with a family that has members we know well – maybe one that provides you with relatives who will also be played in your game without adding a bunch of OCs – you can always go with the Lestranges. That’s an idea that occurred to me recently that I really, really like. Make her a cousin or second-cousin or so forth to Rodolphus and Rabastan. Not a sister; if she was that closely related to them the dialogue we get between Bellatrix and Neville later gets awkward because there’s no way she wouldn’t introduce herself as his “auntie” to drive the spikes in deeper, not if they had that kind of connection – but some sort of relation, anyway. Then you get to add another layer of intensity to a bunch of canon things without having to actually twist canon at all:

Why did Voldemort pick the Potters and their half-blood son to go after first, before the pure-blood boy? Maybe it wasn’t just because he and Harry shared the same blood-status; maybe it was because the pure-blood was related to his most loyal servant so he figured he’d start with the stranger (either because he thought Harry would be easier to deal with, or because he trusted Bella and her boys to be quick to deal with the Longbottoms if they got troublesome in the meantime).

Why did the Lestranges go after the Longbottoms when they wanted information about Voldemort’s whereabouts? Maybe it wasn’t just because they were Aurors who knew Ministry secrets and were part of the Order; maybe it was because they were family. We know that Bellatrix is enthusiastic about the prospect of pruning traitors out of her family tree after all, an idea that she would probably extend to her relatives-by-marriage even if the Lestrange brothers didn’t share that fatal familial enthusiasm for themselves…although they probably do.

Why did the Lestranges torture the Longbottoms so much that they lost their minds permanently, when surely that meant going far beyond the point of their actually being able to get any answers from them? Maybe it wasn’t just because they got carried away and liked the fun of it so they kept going even when it wasn’t useful any more; maybe it was exacerbated by the fact that Alice and Frank were family and they needed to be punished for choosing the wrong side. Maybe it was personal.

If Alice was a Lestrange before her marriage, then tension between the Longbottoms and the Lestranges gets ratcheted-up about a thousand points in all areas, both regarding the things that happen in the books and their relationships before. It puts her in a position similar to Sirius and Andromeda, where the battle lines are drawn between the branches on her own family tree and she has to decide how far she is willing to go for what she believes in, even when she knows the person looking back at her out of that silver mask.

The First Wizarding War divided people against their own family and friends and too often we get mired in extreme black-and-white ideas of good and evil sides, forgetting that there are a lot more shades of gray (just ask Sirius). Since we know so little about Alice, she’s a perfect opportunity to explore that nuance and making her related to a few Death Eaters (of any family) is a great way to play around with that. Honestly I have like a hundred different ideas of things that could be done with such an Alice so if you want to build one and you’re drawing a blank please hit me up I will gladly gush to you!

tl;dr Alice Selwyn = yes, that’s interesting. Alice Fortescue = a whole lot of meh and a little awkward. Alice Prewett = please no that causes more problems than it does anything else. Also consider as an option: Alice Lestrange.

[subiysu-chan]

Getting jumped

Very soon, the humiliation gave way to entirely different sensations. The impression that the stone beneath his fingers and the tiles beneath his feet obeyed him, a feeling of invigorating coolness coursing through his veins, he felt his usually awkward muscles becoming docile to the increased strength and skill, as if an external entity were telling him exactly how to position himself, how to avoid each blow, how to climb without hurting himself, when to let go of his inhibitions and when to submit to them. All those worries about the future or the past had melted like snow in the sun, leaving only the animal impulses of fight or flight. For the first time in months, he felt alive, free, and powerful! After fleeing to his father's home, he hid in the attic of the front building, catching his breath, ragged from the effort and the fits of laughter. "Ten against one, and I got away with it!" he muttered proudly. When his breathing returned to normal, he realized, "But I left Father Grisel!" He returned to the spot. He found the syphilitic priest having taken refuge in a discreet corner of Notre Dame. "I apologize… I wasn't… I wasn't thinking!" "I forgive you, my son. How did did it feel to narrowly escape the mass beating?" "I must admit, Father Grisel, that I would rather be broken alive than go without it," replied Charles-Henry, with no illusions about what it was like to be broken alive.

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Arts plastiques : Époque du sorbier noir, pré-romaine : Beaucoup de bas-refliefs, de haut-reliefs et de gravures, parfois agrémentés de peinture au charbon. Les oeuvres les plus riches sont incrustées de pierres précieuses ou semi-précieuse. Les principaux matériaux sont la glaise, le gabbro et le bois de pin, mais certaines oeuvres peuvent être en or, en cuivre ou en étain. Le style visuel est assez réaliste, mais parfois très stylisés et rendus beaucoup plus anguleux. Les sujets sont souvent naturels : plantes et animaux. Époque du sorbier noir, post-romaine : Très peu de changement, mis-à-part un style encore plus réaliste, et l'apparition de travaux de mosaïques. Les sujets représentés sont religieux ou naturels. Période Sousterraine :Ceux-ci se limitent, pour des raisons techniques, aux gravures, parfois agrémentées de peinture au charbon, la peinture sur céramique, aux bas-refliefs et aux haut-reliefs. Le gabbro et la glaise sont les principaux matériaux utilisés, l'or dans des cas exeptionnels, mais pour les sculptures les plus riches, peuvent être incrustés des pierres précieuses ou semi-précieuses. Disparition des mosaïques et du travail sur bois. Le style visuel est plutôt réaliste. Les sujets représentés sont le plus souvent religieux ou mythologique. Arts textiles : Période du sorbier noir, pré-romaine : Apparaissent les tissus en chardon et en orties, bien que le macromé, textile originel des Elfes Noirs, soit encore très présents. Les tissus sont systématiquement en tissé simple. Ils ne connaissent pas les teintures. Période du sorbier, post-romaine : Apparaissent les tissés satinés, et on voit une nouvelle simplification du macramé. Apparait à cette période la broderie en cheveux elfiques, souvent agrémentée de perles en exosquelettes d'arthropodes divers, d'os de poisson ou d'ongles. Pas de teinture. Période souterraine :Les principales méthodes sont le tissage simple et le tissage satiné sur soie d'araignées, pour faire des bandelettes et des rubans. Cesdites bandelettes sont portées principalement de sous les pectoraux jusqu'aux hanches pour les hommes, les bouts rangés, de la taille jusqu'aux hanches pour les femmes, avec plusieurs bandes et bouts laissés pendre pour former un début de jupe. Ont été conservés quelques méthodes de macramé, utilisant des boyaux de poisson tannés, mais elles sont très basiques et très limités par rapport aux usages de leurs ancêtres. La broderie en cheveux elfique sur cuir est très présente chez les classes aisées, et souvent agrémentés de perles en coquilles de mille-pattes, de triglotyde ou d'écrevisse, ou même en crânes de poissons. Les broderies aux perles d'ongles restent dans la caste judiciaire. Ne connaissent pas les teintures.

Arts décoratifs et pratiques : Période du sorbier noir, pré-romaine : La vaisselle se compose de tasses, de planchettes, de cuillères et de petits bols en bois ou en étain. Le mobilier de confort consistent en appui-tête en céramique et de sièges circulaires placés à-même le sol en aiguilles de pins reliées par un fil en cheveux ou en soie. Des sièges en pierre existent, mais servent de pilori ou de trône. Les pots de cuissons sont faits en étain ou en argile, décorés de motifs géométriques ou de feuilles de sorbier. Les travaux de vanneries se font en aiguilles de pin. Période du sorbier noir, post-romaine : Pratiquement aucun changement de la période précédente. Apparaissent des tasses en argiles, décorée de représentations de fleurs ou de baies de sorbier. Période sousterraine : Disparition des sièges en aiguilles de sapin et de la vannerie. Les motifs floraux se font plus rares et plus rudimentaires, mais apparaissent, dans les maisons les plus nobles, des tasses en céramiques incrustées de quartz.

[subiysu-chan]

Canadian here !

The way the law is published is already ripe for abuse and filled with loopholes. I hope the law gets taken down as soon as possible.

this is how government-funded canadian news reports on MAID because we're literally running a propaganda campaign to convince people to kill themselves so they aren't a burden on the healthcare system. don't let it happen in your country

[subiysu-chan]

This is becoming more and more blatant.

They’re scared because they know that the public is with Luigi.

They’re violating his rights because they need to maintain capitalism.

Keep talking about Luigi.

[subiysu-chan]

So, my dad is missing eyesight into one of his eyes, and let's just say, he can function quite normally because he got that injury pretty young and neuroplastic, but he does sometimes adopt quite counter-intuitive postures when he does certain sports. Such as for skating, he feels more in balance at the tips and while tripping slightly and then picking himself up mid hair at each step than smoothly gliding, and tends to instictively balance himself on the side he has intact eye sight, quite effectively. Just, when he does more intense physical activity, he does adopt the slightly unusal posture. He also can't safely donate blood without risking deflating his blind eye.

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[subiysu-chan]

Planing a picture for my brother's birthday, to be used as a birthday card or a decoration

Now, he likes goth, he likes anime girls, he likes emo stuff, cyber punk dark fantasy and magic the gathering. Now, so he can hang it up were he sleeps, I would have to adjust the color palette, since...The room is all in golden and brown hues. I think I might work in traditional, but digital is always a possibility, maybe a combination of both.

So, here are some references for the lighting I am comfortable using :

Now, I need base colors that would at least somewhat harmonize with this...Also...A character with either dark fantasy or goth aesthetic. He also likes the visual of short black hair...But for the sake of this project, it would have to be dark brown.

For hairstyles, here are some references :

Now, I also want to maybe invent a hairstyle, that would be a Cleopatra haircut reaching the jaw, but with floofed side burns.

Something similar to this :

But the sides are slightly shorter, layered and floofed up.

If we more away from carrés into more...Alternative hairstyles...Such as short, soft mullets.

Now, background...

My little brother does like dark fantasy and goth style...So, cobblestone walls and chains, inspired by the cliché-ed torture chambers of gothic litterature.

This I found on Art Station

This from Pinterest

Now, for clothes...My brother apprently really likes goth and emo styles, but, we have a restricted color palette to choose from. One of the things we can definitly have would be...legwarmers, that are quite associated with the emo style, and could easily be converted to a more classic fantasy setting.

Now, this is just the rough silhouette of the leg warmers. I think a good option for these would be to have them brown and cable-knit. Like this :

But minus the etiquette and sneakers, and of course. Might have them white, probably have some kind of stocking implied underneath.

I think I could combine this with a pair of pointy leather shoes, a sleeveless chemise. Like that :

Now...I think, to match with the whole aesthetic, perhaps a dutch oven cake would be the "main asset".

For her natural looks, she would have brown eyes with dark circles, and perhaps some nice lips. Hair would have to be dark brown, not black, for color harmony purposes, and the dark circles would need to be more brown. She can still be pale, but would need some warmth to her skin tone.

[subiysu-chan]

Oddly enough, Charles-Henry Sanson (born 1739) had an okay father...Like, sure, he trained groomed him to be an executioner, but it was economic necessity, so...Yikes. Also, most of his kids survived to adulthood, so yeah, and kept his sons at his side for their apprenticeship.

For the record tho so many parents sucked

Robespierre’s dad sucked and dipped

Danton’s mom was at least neglectful, given he got gored in the face twice (I am being 85% facetious don’t @ me)

Talleyrand’s parents are going to shove him into the church due to his disability, apparently not caring that Talleyrand - look at Talleyrand. He’s not a churchman. He’s not. Look at him.

Something, something, on the other end of the political scale Marie Antoinette’s parents are going to ship her to France at 14 and I know it’s how monarchy rolls but like also that’s why we need to get rid of monarchy because that is some shit to the bull

Marquis de Sade’s mom abandoned him and resented him for ruining his political career at four (four!) and his dad openly hated him and oh boy Sade grew up into a sack of shit but, and this isn’t an excuse, but what do you think you’re gonna get

Idk it might be easier to have a poll like, “what figure born from 1740-1815 had a parent who was not a jerk?” “Which parent was the least shitty?”

(This is a response to banter with @enlitment!)