#{Let's Begin; (Open)}

[baeshijima]

thoughts on being engaged to duke!sunday, the head of the oak family, an incredibly influential figurehead within society, the close subordinate of emperor gopher wood who brought him and his sister in and raised him like his own, and the villain who faces a tragic ending in a novel you recently finished — the very same one you just so happen to find yourself transmigrated into. he is as cunning as he is blinded, a trait which brought ruin to many in the empire, and one which ultimately brought ruin to himself at the hands of the protagonists.

as luck would have it, you became a barely mentioned side character from a marquis family, whose role was to be the villain's wife stuck in a one-sided love who, too, would get caught up in the tragedy alongside him. however, now that it's you who is stuck in this position, you're determined to try any means necessary to deter him from going down that path, all in an effort to escape your predestined doomed fate!

of course, you didn't expect it to be easy. the day of your arrival in this world was already the night before your wedding, so you had little time to prepare yourself for the nonchalance of your supposed family, how they viewed you as but a means — a tool — to boost their influence and prosperity, the dismissive mannerisms of the household servants, and the absolute beauty of a man you will be married to.

(seriously. the novel descriptions did not do him justice. he was like... like... like he was handcrafted by god himself! and not to mention his sister, robin, was the very epitome of an angel! perhaps you're destined to perish by the god-tier visuals instead...)

to say the least, the wedding ceremony went by quickly. safe to say you didn't spend the night; he was cordial and gentlemanly upon letting you know that he won't do anything until you're ready, that you can take this relationship slow, but somehow you ended up feeling a tad insulted. like, who leaves their newly wedded alone in a big cold bed as they walk out on their own? a sick bastard that's who!

well, whatever. it's not like you need nor want to consummate with him! besides, you have bigger things to worry about — things such as your impending death. and, of course, the only way to stop sunday that you can imagine working is by chipping away at his resolve bit by bit, and opening his eyes to reality.

he is a tragic character, one who cares more about the well-being of penacony and its people than anyone else, but was manipulated into getting his hands dirty in the emperor's stead. you knew this. you sobbed over his story, cursed out the protagonists, and even fought internet randos on novel forums about sunday's motivation and how,

no, he is not just a stupid villain. he is a complex character with flaws and humanity and was cruelly taken advantage of by someone he considered family. he was deceived through the suffering the emperor wanted him to see to make him easily manipulated, creating a rift between him and robin to have that prominent separation. you know what? maybe you're just a !%#@ who can't even #@?"% read properly!

and yet you still find yourself at a loss when faced with the walls he has in place. your initial efforts went as well as it possibly could have; you trying to earnestly help him, while he "kindly" dismisses your offers! well, "kindly" being more condescending since you could read between the lines of his mannerisms and amiable demeanour, but that's fine! you expected this! that just means you have to double down on your sincerity, get through to his heart (somehow), and help him realise humanity isn't as weak as he's led to believe!

you have three years until the novel's plot officially starts, and another year after that until your demise. that's plenty of time to get him to warm up to you!

it was easier said than done, but after your valiant effort and abundance of time put into this relationship, which admittedly you could do with some of that lost time back, you could give yourself a pat on the back with the progress you made! while you definitely could have done without a lot of the headaches, it's safe to say sunday has significantly warmed up to you in comparison to your wedding day. he now willingly eats all his meals with you with some real conversation, takes garden strolls with you in the early evenings, invites you out for dinner at a restaurant at least four times a week, hell he's even joked and laughed with you more frequently! but most importantly, he has begun asking for your opinion before finalising any decisions he is required to make. and he actually listens and considers your side! now, that certainly is the best outcome you could hope for after all this time, and it most definitely will help in your endeavour to save you both from the protagonists!

however, you've noticed he's been more... affectionate? well, at the very least he now willingly holds your hand when in private (not just in moments when you're in the public eye and he has to make sure the family's reputation is spotless), sometimes he will hug you out of the blue ("i just need to... recharge. you have a way of calming me down. i hope you don't mind." ...how could you say no to his supreme god-tier face card? that's just a losing battle you won't even bother fighting against.), oftentimes he opts to just gaze wordlessly at you (robin had mentioned over one of your tea times how it almost appears as though there is no one but you in the world when sunday gazes at you with, in her words, "the eyes of a man so deeply in love!" ...whatever that's supposed to mean...), but a more recent development has been his sudden interest in kissing you; well, more specifically giving you a kiss to the back of your hand or on your forehead — certainly not anywhere near the lips! (besides, he's probably just gotten comfortable with you, enough where he can freely act without judgement. nothing more, nothing less.)

well, either way, development is development! soon enough, the time for the main plot to start has arrived. it of course follows what you remember, from the organised balls to the protagonists meeting to the political aspects of it all. the only difference is sunday's less active involvement in all the schemes and the emperor's ploy. rather, he seems more focused on you and the future of your marriage and even displayed a sudden interest in your practically non-existent relationship with one of the foreign diplomats, aventurine— wait...

"[name]," he calls your name out so sweetly you nearly disregarded it as someone else he was talking to. well, perhaps you would have done had he not suddenly appeared before you, a tight-lipped smile tugging the corners of his lips as he steadily approaches you.

oh. he doesn't seem very happy, if his tense figure is anything to go by. you wonder if one of the nobles grated his nerves a little too much this time?

sunday comes to a halt a step away from you. "i don't like that... gambler being so close to you. it... it brings me a rather unpleasant feeling." there's a slight, trembling pause. not a moment later does he close the gap between you, one knee on the ground as he matches your seated height on the fountain rim, your hands gently enclosed in both of his.

you idly wonder if this is what robin meant by the so-called "eyes of a man so deeply in love" she constantly gushed about, for the way in which he gazes up at you is enough to render you breathless.

"tell me, [name]," he begins once more. there is an underlying desperation woven within his tone, one which has your head spinning and heart thumping wildly as his trembling gaze holds you in place. "tell me, what am i to do with this fervent love and overwhelming adoration i hold for you?"

oh.

...oh.

perhaps your impending doom should be the least of your concerns when you now find yourself in the arms of a clingy husband...

(though, it's safe to say you did, in fact, manage to prevent him from succumbing to his tragic fate! you just gained a loving, yet slight slightly emotionally challenged husband along the way.

well, you can help him work through it; you have the rest of your lives now to figure it out, after all.)

[dennisboobs]

standing in front of a firing squad would have been easier than reading this script i need to be shot

[talistheintrovert]

The Heart Killers Crack 3/?

[me, lying through my teeth, while gazing more lovingly at fadel than he does at style] i don't play favourites

[aroaceleovaldez]

What is the PR disaster in question that made Rick announce TSATS? I wasn’t active in the online fandom at that point

Of course! This was awhile ago so it figures people don't remember it/aren't familiar:

Basically a couple years back (2020) the fandom had some posts circulate discussing the ways different characters in the Riordanverse were written poorly or offensively. There was a masterpost that went around tumblr but the two major points people were particularly focusing on were Piper and Samirah (particularly because Piper had featured prominently again in Trials of Apollo recently and the third MCGA book had further emphasized and discussed Samirah being Muslim, since it was supposed to take place during Ramadan). Basically each had multiple posts breaking down the ways they were depicted incorrectly or offensively. The entire fandom for a little bit was VERY intensely discussing this (and it's around this time the "RR crit" tag got very popularized on tumblr - it did exist before, but suddenly was being used VERY frequently - cause it was that wide-spread - though the discussion took over basically every side of Riordaverse social media on different platforms). People really wanted Rick to respond to these criticisms, so he did!

He made two blog posts, one about Piper and one about Samirah. He has since deleted both so the links are to archived versions. The short version: he essentially tried to justify his poor research and double-down that he hadn't written them offensively, actually, people were just being mean to him. The fandom, of course, reacted poorly to this.

[Further elaborated events under the cut since this got a bit lengthy]

(Fun fact, this all happened within a month or so of the time i posted an open letter on aphobic tropes in the Riordanverse that Rick replied to, and then he immediately followed with announcing that Reyna was intended to be ace-coded [which cause a LOT of fandom debate] before Rick dipped for a couple of weeks, and then came back to post the blog posts in response to Piper and Sam stuff. So I like to jokingly refer to this as "The time I imploded the fandom/drove Rick off of twitter." Twas I that set the house ablaze.)

Rick fully left social media after this and the LT Musical social media manager became Rick's social media manager for the time being.

So this all happened June/July of 2020. Tower of Nero would end up being published in October of 2020 and a few months after that Rick would state that he was done with the series and wouldn't be writing any more series installments involving Percy, and also that he wouldn't be writing a Nico quest following Tower of Nero as it "wasn't his place to" and encouraged the community to write their own versions of Nico's story.

The community continued to circulate the tumblr posts and discuss the topics of Rick's offensive character depictions, and this is also where we see the dramatic shift in how the fandom depicts Piper in fanwork (though in most cases it is admittedly not an improvement 😬) because of all this discussion. This is also around the time when the fandom brought Viria under scrutiny claiming that she was whitewashing Piper as part of the same discussions, through the justification that she was drawing Annabeth as having tan skin (which she does canonically), and if Annabeth has tanner skin then Piper then that's whitewashing Piper? Except they were using completely separate images of not fully rendered Piper art versus Annabeth in dramatic lighting, so it's all very awkward and poor logic, and did actually get kind of racist. A lot of people were calling it "Tannabeth Blackchase" (yeah, i know) or similar and a common sentiment you'd see repeated is "Don't draw Annabeth as having darker skin than Piper, because that's offensive/racist/whitewashing." (Note: it was not phrased "don't draw Piper as having lighter skin than Annabeth" - we also won't get into certain offensive depictions of Native Americans, but I digress). But yeah, the Annabeth stuff in all that did not age well at all.

Anyways, in October of 2021 however Rick would announce that he was co-writing The Sun And The Star - with a lot of heavy emphasis on how Mark Oshiro works as a sensitivity reader, and some false advertising from the official social media that Mark Oshiro was the first time a non-Riordan author would be collaborating on the series (disregarding the ghostwriters completely). One of the big criticisms in the breaking down of issues in Rick's writing was his lack of ever seeking a sensitivity reader, and fans claiming that a sensitivity reader could solve a lot of the problems. This was basically Rick's "look! I totally listened!!!!" (though it did little to actually improve things, based on the book) and in TSATS as well Piper gets a large cameo at the end where the text very directly addresses a lot of points made in criticism of Rick's writing of her.

We also then of course got the CoTG trilogy later, explicitly stated to be for advertising purposes for the show.

So basically, short version: Rick came under scrutiny for a lot of offensive writing within the span of two months, made some bad blog posts doubling down about it, left social media. TOA ends. Rick says he wasn't going to continue the series/write what would become TSATS. Community celebrates the end of of the franchise but also continues to discuss Rick's poor writing and the blog posts at length. Rick suddenly announces TSATS and Mark Oshiro's involvement. Everybody gets distracted from being mad. Show announcement stuff also happens and the discussions peter out.

[rui-drawsbox]

The silly(s)

Cove and mermaid mc r based on this post specially

[bigidiotenergytm]

guys. guys. sleep by mcr is an ody song!!!

[canisalbus]

My absolute favorite thing about your blog, even more favorite that Vachete, is the care and interest you put into each response. Be it an ask or an art piece, you always eloquently break down each individual aspect and comment on them. It always makes me smile.

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[grandwretch]

one of the many reasons I love Rachel's POV is that she just does not get Marco. Not at all. Jake and Tobias know hes putting up a front more often than not, and Cassie especially sees right through him, but Rachel buys the mask. She even thinks, originally, that Marco might be against fighting just to annoy them. I'm not even sure that Rachel ever really understands how deep Marco goes down the rabbit hole.

Like, I don't think she's doing anything that Marco doesn't want her to-- She isn't being mean or anything. I don't think it's because she dislikes him, or because they're constantly fighting. Marco is doing this on purpose. He puts on a mask with everyone, but Rachel, especially, and she buys it hook, line, and sinker.

And it really makes you think, like-- How long did Marco and Rachel know each other before his mom died? Is she basing her assumptions off a boy that doesn't exist anymore? Is that why Marco keeps up the front with her, or is it because she's the most popular, the prettiest, and the strongest? Did Marco have a crush on Rachel before his entire world fell apart? Is that why he's desperate for her to never realize it did?

[ghoulish-activities]

Alright, the teeth headcanons are taking a bit longer than I planned, but, I already tagged it...

I'll probably change some when I'm actually done, (I'm missing 12 ghouls, at least last time I counted, I might be wrong) but anyway not about that. I just think a post about what I'm talking in tags will take a bit shorter than the teeth thing.

Also thank you for attention my last post got, I just got a funny idea and I'm happy that people also seemed to find amusement in it.

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Anyway, the tags,

Specifically about multi ghoul, so... groups of elements that will be revenant in this post: basic/classical elements + quintessence, primes and planetary. Today I'll break them down and I most likely will go more in detail in future posts. I learnt to just break my ideas into parts. Also I would greatly appreciate if someone could give me some good (free) resources on alchemy. I will buy myself new books soon, so you might also drop some recommendations.

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Basic/Classic:

Air (🜁)

Fire (🜂)

Water (🜄)

Earth (🜃)

(Quintessence (𝓠)*

*- Quintessence is fifth element, which was believed to be an essence of all and what made the four classical elements. In alchemy it was believed quintessence can transform, purify and perfect all in physical and spiritual sense.

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Primes:

Sulfur - Soul (🜍)

Salt - Body (🜔)

Mercury - Spirit (☿)

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Planetary:

In our current scientific understanding of our solar system, there's 8 planets, well, not according to alchemy. There's 7 planetary elements; gold, silver, iron, copper, lead, mercury, tin. Each corresponding to a celestial body:

Gold - Sun (☉/🜚)

Silver - Moon (☾)

Iron - Mars (🜜)

Copper - Venus (🜠)

Lead - Saturn (🜪)

Mercury - Mercury (obviously (☿)

Tin - Jupiter (🜩)

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[bells-n-whistles]

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, It's finally time to lift our sails! A show of wonder and tall tales awaits! Come join in the fun, One and all, we'll be sure to have a ball!!"

"We welcome you, dear guests. Please stay as long as you like! But first, a couple of ground rules for the stage: "

No explicit questions or submissions, We pride ourselves on respect here!

Not every question may be answered very quickly, but we promise to get to them.

Respect the stage, other guests, and yourselves here, we want every guest to have a wonderful time.

If you see any suspicious activity backstage, report it to Yucca IMMEDIATELY.

Roleplay starters are accepted at this time! Replies will come when Cobalt finishes his acts.

((Rules are subject to change and growth.))

"Now that the rules have been posted, let the show begin!"

[4phr0d17e]

my only sincere wish for tgr tomorrow is that theres at least 1 scene of them actually playing exy

[greyias]

Whoever thought it was a brilliant idea to let other players phase into your cutscenes in public areas in SWTOR--

[ten-simm]

"I wonder what I'd be without you"

[diam1nd]

i just want to say, to the people being my rock right now. i adore you to the ends of earth. @am4zon , @hexweaver , @sm4llville / @ourcharade, @01army, @razedhell, @americanedpsycho , & there's more of folks to which i haven't followed/found again- have shown such great empathy and understanding and, just thank you sm.

[weaverpop]

Even tho Li Jing does approve of MK, we agree there's… some tension, right? For obvious reasons.

Oh yeah. There def is.

Most of it is is resolved before mocha was born, but even after the quads are born there was still some there, yk?

Mk had been through ALOT before s5, and seeing one of the people he loves so dearly being called a “beast” and getting hurt by the pops of the guy he has a crush on… his feelings were pretty mixed.

Jing did his best after S5, and honestly made more of an effort then he has in the past few thousands years. MK’s whole self sacrifice deal, where he was just so willing to die at the drop of a hat for the people he loved, for the people of the world… it tosses away any thoughts that this kid might be bad news. Forget the damn “harbinger of chaos”, that damn kid is a saint!

Now part of it is the fact that the JE is gone and Azure is back in his life being a good influence. But it’s also the fact that Nezha begs him to trust this kid. At that point Jing and Nezha’s relationship was not very good, so Nezha telling Jing to trust him was a huge deal.

As for Mk… it’s not an instant forgive. It wasn’t for macaque, it wasn’t for azure, and it certainly wasn’t for Nezha. But Mk is the kind of guy who gives and gives his heart until it’s a bleeding mess, for better or worse. So he was willing to give Jing a chance.

Of course this doesn’t excuse Jing’s behavior, and there’s a lot he has to unlearn first. Thousands of years of listening to the JE’s rants and to the whispers of the court, about demons and being high class, ect ect…

Jing wasn’t born like that, he was a mortal swordsman turned celestial general. He absolutely says things he probably shouldn’t, and gets into more fights with Mk than he should in the beginning. Mk being angry at the others blatant disregard for those considered “lower”.

It takes a long while, and Jing and Nezha making frequent trips to the mortal realm for Jing to unlearn all of that. And for Mk and him to talk instead of yell. Mk doesn’t forgive immediately, and is quite cold to Jing at first. Never anything outright mean, but it’s def akward. It’s only after Nezha and Jing’s own relationship starts to repair does Mk really start to warm up to him.

Of course that’s not even mentioning Wukong. The first thing Mk makes Jing do is apologize heavily to the Monkie king. Both kings find it akward, but Jing puts a lot of effort behind it, so it was a start.