#22/Mal

[stromuprisahat]

Siege and Storm- Chapter 22 (Leigh Bardugo)

We often talk about how the Darkling kindly resolved Nikolai's issue about getting rid of his legitimate brother, but how about that time, when a single (1) nichevo'ya did a better job of protecting Alina, than the Blade Boy during his whole "Captain of the Guard" career?!

The shadow babies are quite obviously made of Aleksander- not only they don't harm Alina during the Siege, they eliminate a threat to her as soon as it arises. Meanwhile the man himself isn't even anywhere to be seen yet.

The King of Getting Shit Done™.

[dateinthelife]

22 June 1964

Auckland Chief Constable, Superintendent Quinn refuses to give the Beatles a police escort, saying: “We provide such escorts only for royalty and other important visitors.”

Similarly, only two officers are deployed after a show in Wellington to control 5,000 people, and Mal Evans is forced to leave the car in order to attempt to clear a path.

[rbchild]

Chapters: 22/34 Fandom: Tatort (TV 1970), Tatort Saarbrücken - Fandom Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Leo Hölzer/Adam Schürk Characters: Leo Hölzer, Adam Schürk, Esther Baumann, Pia Heinrich, Dr. Henny Wenzel Additional Tags: Case Fic, Angst, Post-Break Up, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, Getting Back Together, Drugs, Undercover, Adam wechselt die Abteilung, Post-Episode: Der Fluch des Geldes (Tatort Saarbrücken), Fake Character Death, Pining, Mutual Pining, So viel Pining, Angst with a Happy Ending, Tatort Saarbrücken Summary:

Es war leicht für Leo und Adam, miteinander ins Bett zu fallen. Bis es dann irgendwann kompliziert wurde, und sie ihre Beziehung wieder beendet haben, noch bevor sie so richtig anfing. Danach ist alles nicht mehr so einfach zwischen ihnen. Als Adam zeitweise aus der Mordkommission abberufen wird, könnte das eine Chance sein, das angespannte Verhältnis zu verbessern. Aber sein Transfer ist nicht das, was er zu sein scheint. Vordergründig ist es Personalmangel, aufgrund dessen Adam im Rauschgiftdezernat aushelfen muss. In Wahrheit steht aber die Befürchtung im Raum, dass irgendwer dort die Ermittlungen behindert. Adam soll herausfinden, wer, und sticht dabei in ein Wespennest, das ihn bald in unerwartete Gefahr bringt.

Und diesmal ist Leo nicht da, um ihm den Rücken zu stärken.

 Kein Teil des Kidfic-Universums. Nach so vielen Teilen sollte man das vielleicht noch mal explizit erwähnen.

[schnaf]

immerhin gibts jetzt auf einen schlag wieder wesentlich weniger fußballfans in deutschland. sehr schön ♥

[figsandfandoms]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Stargate SG-1 Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Daniel Jackson/Vala Mal Doran Characters: Daniel Jackson (Stargate), Vala Mal Doran Additional Tags: Fluff, Flufftober 2023 Summary:

Daniel takes Vala to the annual Halloween festival. Written for flufftober 2023 using (eventually) the following prompts: 6 Corn maze 11 Sweet tooth 20 Pumpkin 22 Picking 27 Outdoor event.

[evilscraps]

schoolgirls

[panvani]

Actually I'm glad there are 15 total posts about Signalis cuz it means I don't have to see other people talk about Adler

[misericordieux]

Moi tous les jours sur ce blog : ouais ça gngn je suis super privilégiée.

[stoertebeker]

Boah des ist so genau des was man sich unter Burschenschaft vorstellt ich spei gleich

[stromuprisahat]

That gelatin deer gave its life for your entertainment

Siege and Storm- Chapter 22

Nikolai celebrates birthday, Vasily is about to laugh in his face, the Darkling's paging Alina, but she's too busy wallowing in heartache caused by Malyen's sullen face.

Once again, duty and service are treated as after-school activity.

Malyen: "Dude, I don't wanna watch my ungrateful gf on another guy's party. Can you switch a shift with me?" Tolya: "Eh, no? Because you're not refilling shelves in a store or waiting tables in a fancy restaurant. You were appointed the Captain of guards of one of the most important political figures in all of Ravka."

... kidding. I know Tolya's hardly this self-aware. He's probably just pissed his idol almost got herself killed.

Maybe he was making amends for missing his previous shift. Maybe? Y'a think, Alina?! How did YOU deal with it?! I'd have him whipped at least, but that's too era-appropriate, isn't it? Why would anyone want to hold Malyen responsible for his (in)action for once, right?!

Halfway there!

If Alina kept this attitude, at least she wouldn't blame others for their issues. Now to keep it, and realize it's Malyen that's the problem.

I love a good story of overcoming obstacles in a form of different social statuses and finding a way to be together (even for a little while) despite it.

This one ain't it.

This one's about unwillingness to do the work, dragging "the better one" down into the mud.

I vote for hurling ~something~.

Wow! Nikolai voices his objection! Is it his birthday that made him so bold?

And once again we're reminded that:

Alina - BladeBoy = SomeEffortPutIntoAppearancesAndFindingAllies

I wonder what could be done to get Alina to care about MORE...

But MU, you say... Alina doesn't enjoy any of it!

Well, I don't enjoy going to work and dealing with idiots, yet here we are...

[dateinthelife]

22 February 1965

On this date, the Beatles smoke pot on the plane all the way from London to the Bahamas, with Mal Evans smoking cigars to "drown out the smell."

[enby-ernhardt]

I know Aerin says he’s “been wanting to do that for 20 years”, but I don’t read that as him being exactly 20, I read it as him being at least 20. When I say I’ve been waiting/wanting something for a really long time, I round off, because being exact is unnecessary.

Currently wondering about the ages of the party members in Blades wrt each other, because with the exception of Aerin and Tyril (with Tyril’s age being an estimate provided outside of the book), we kind of have to rely on context clues and analysis to get them.

So far what I’m able to guess, from youngest to oldest, is:

Aerin -> MC -> Mal -> Tyril -> Valax

Aerin is canonically 20 in b2 and 21 in b2

MC cannot be younger than 22 in b1 but could be a bit older (though I’ve said in the past they messed up MC’s age if they’re an elf) and then 23 or older in b2, though I would actually maybe say 23/24 in b1, but 22 minimum is canon, technically

Mal left the Reapers at age 20, so not only is he older than that, but also I figure that it must’ve been several years since that for him to have gotten good at the adventuring job and get “continent-famous” and land gigs. Maybe about 25? 26ish? He certainly doesn’t look the youngest, esp compared to someone like Aerin

Tyril is “25”, so in his 70s

Valax is canonically “centuries old”, so over 200, I suppose. I don’t have specifics

The ones I can’t place exactly are Nia and Imtura. I know it’s said that Nia is the youngest priestess, but no age is given, my best guess would be her being about on par with MC (give or take a year, plus I’m willing to bet that with the doe-eyed personality they gave her they meant for her to be one of the younger ones in the story), but there’s also the chance that she’s closer in age to Aerin, though a smooth 20 in b1 strikes me as a bit too young for her.

Then as for Imtura, I’m not sure if they ever give any markers to deduce her age from, but then again, I don’t have all of her scenes to be able to tell.

And then I guess a slight bonus, I estimate Baldur to be about 25/26, because I interpret some things to imply that his age gap with Aerin is not insignificant (as in, it’s not just one or two years).

[prokopetz]

Final Roundup for Tumblr 200 Word RPGs 2024

I'm going to start putting together the offsite archives for the 2024 event this weekend, and there are a couple of small pieces of business to take care of first.

Firstly, my notes indicate that I don't have archival permission for the following 22 entries:

ALL THE KING'S MEN by @dialectical-songbird

Anxiety Simulator 2k24 by @binghsien

BASH THE FAScisT by @mylittlegeekery

DISCRETIONARY ARMOR by @effortlessly-emily

Dungeon Delver by @bigmacsbiganchor

Easy Submission by @boredtosizzle

Fusion Core by @bagf1sh

HERMES by @fagenthusiast

The Human Observatory News by @arsene-inc

Level 1 by @sirilyan

The Littlest RPG by @copperspont-games

No Man's Land by @just-another-madman

Ready-Set-Mutate! by @mikethinkstwice

RULE OF COOL by @itsabear

Scales and Rails by @doublestormryu

Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness by @immaculateyaoibaby

Sommelier Smack Down by @henchmaxxing

This is inspired by Homeworld, and I wrote it a while ago, and here it is by @millenomi

Word Count Starts After The Title by @moon-of-curses

THE WORK STORE - RETAIL GOTHIC RPG by @malice-mal

THE WRECKED PLATOON by @zeitghost

You Find Yourself In A Room. by @cartoonofmilk

If you're the author of one of these entries and you did grant permission, but I didn't notice, feel free to make fun of me. Otherwise, consider this your last chance to give the okay!

Second, it's come to my attention that at least one entry managed to squeak in under the midnight UTC deadline on November 30th, but wasn't included in the index of entries because it didn't show up in my Tumblr notifications until December 1st:

Roll The Bones, a game about silly wizards in situations by @highqualityduck

If your last-minute entry is in a similar predicament (you can hit the "index of entries" link up there to check), please let me know – but please also check your post's timestamp first, as I can see there are several folks who flubbed their time zone math and posted their entries hours late; if that's you, maybe hang onto it for next year.

[yourteght]

» PARALELO (22/01) — futura doação (!) » categoria: Jujutsu Kaisen » personagens: Satoru Gojo & Suguru Geto » recursos: psds por navh (deviantart); fanarts belíssimas por @to00fu (tysm)

meimei's note: mais uma capa movida pelo cansaço de um trabalho exaustivo e o resultado dessa vez foi até bem surpreendente. Nunca imaginei fazer uma capa tão linda na vida (e olha que já fiz muitas capas nesses anos de edição) mas o que mais me pegou é pq eu sempre odiei editar com esses dois. Sim. Eu sempre odiei. Primeiro pq ainda não superei o ship, segundo pq eu nunca fiz uma capa deles bonita, terceiro pq eu odeio editar com o gojo por ser uma mal sem alça e sem rodinha :3 PORÉM DESSA VEZ NÃO, eu nunca editei tão tranquilamente com eles e foi uma experiência maravilhosa fazer essa capa conversando com meu amor, diria que a razão dessa capa ter ficado tão linda é por causa dela (te amo @ackrsays) e bem, a doação vai acontecer no dia 26 de Janeiro (no domingo), fiquem atentos (!) ainda não sei qual vai ser o horário :3 ✨

[llilyrose]

So, you know that ISAT au I mentioned in my yass-girlboss King post??

HHHHHEEEERE WE GO .... info below keep reading!!! lots of words!!!! In Stars And Time FULL spoilers!!!!!

(Note: The Reset AU will be posted on @slowlysoluminary but i will be reblogging from my main)

There are some really interesting Siffrin-Meets-The-King-First aus that float around. I see them sometime! they're great! But I, as an adoring King fan, had to sit down and ask myself:

"So, uhh, like why?"

AND I DID SOME THINKING!!!!!

The King notices you're looping in Act 3. That's great! Not for Siffrin, but great narratively. If he notices it in that loop specifically, I feel like he would notice in other loops, too.

So, Act 5. The King notices how much of a formidable opponent siffrin is (among other things), acknowledges he's from the same country, recognizes wish craft, yadda yadda yadda.

He wants Siffrin to understand and resonate with his reasons for trapping an entire country in time, and while Siffrin is busy in his mind space fighting Mal Du Pays, the King makes a wish. AND HE LOOPS!!!!!??????

... Uhh, kind of? Not really. It resets the timeline all the way back to when the country was erased, but instead of the King having full memory, they're more like... vague snippets that hint at what he once was.

So, um! The first part of the AU is about the King's 10-year-long descent into madness. It's heavily condensed but it's there!! there's lore there!! I'm a king fan he needs a backstory.

"His name is Lazare" HE HAD TO HAVE A NAME BEFORE HIS KING DAYS... it's heavily implied the King wasn't his original name, and my headcanon helpfully supplied that he underwent a Change inside the house during his rise to power. I think there's like, a Head Defender? And the King was Head Defender, with full access to all libraries inside the house, when he started going crazy.

At 22 he loses all his memory while travelling in Vaugarde. Nobody knows his name so he comes up with one! He meets Siffrin 4 years later and they both travel Vaugarde together.

He becomes a defender at 29 because we see firsthand how INVESTED this dude is in Vaugarde. He wants, NEEDS this country to be safe!! he has a lot of patriotism!!! He's not actively searching for what happened to him or his country, he's just accepted it and is building himself up as a person.

oh boy .. when he turns 31 he becomes Head Defender.... And when he starts reading higher-access books throughout the house documenting a disappearing country? He gets MORBIDLY curious. And... well... this fixation leads him down the rabbit hole that got him where he is today! Except, this time, with Siffrin on his side...?

Yup! Siffrin is here! They've been here the whole time! Siffrin watches a man he's grown to love and adore fall into the Deep End. And he would find the strength to be mad about what he's doing if it weren't for the fact he was super sympathetic!!! ugh!!! sympathy!!!

Siffrin agrees with the King... but not really? He agrees with his reasons but completely disagrees with the way he's going about it. The change from Lazare to King was gradual, but towards the end he treats Siffrin more like an object of study than a friend.

The King takes his cloak and hat to study the stitching, the King won't let him cut or dye his hair again because he wants (NEEDS) this still image of his culture, etc.

Siffrin pretends his behavior doesn't bother him (because the King goes full Mansplain Manipulate Malewife on him if he voices his dissent) and keeps sneaking away from the King using his hat-less/cloak-less disguise.

In doing so, he meets a wild Mirabelle! It becomes a habit to visit her and the villagers under this "disguise" (it's only convincing in the way that Clark Kent is convincing) and he's feeling that same friendship with them that he used to back when the King was Lazarus.

... Until the House gets frozen? And the king starts Freezing People In Time For Real? No warning? Siffrin is HORRIFIED, rightfully, and also super upset. Partly because Mirabelle "got frozen" (she did not get frozen) and partly because the king has TOTALLY LOST HIS MIND NOW. no trace or remnant of who he used to be. but siffrin wants to hold on.

and then Siffrin gets stuck in a time loop! Whoops! Honest mistake!

"How does he get stuck in a Time Loop if there's no party to stick with?" ok so. of course he's going to learn Wish Craft from the King, duh. The King tells him literally everything about rhe country as he discovers it (albeit, in incoherent rambles.). And he also has his own muscle memory to draw from!

In desperation, he makes a wish: Save Vaugarde/Sav the King.

"Which one of those two is it?" Idk! That's what he spends the timeloops finding out!

Oh, wait, now that I've talked about the time loops, I CAN TALK ABOUT LOOP!!! LOOP IS NEW AND DIFFERENT!!!

^^ This was the initial ref sheet i made while brainstorming for this au (and also the sheet that birthed King In Magical Girl Poses)

"So what's loop's deal?" yeah, um, that's the thing? Loop doesn't know either!

Loop is not hiding their identity! Much like King, they domn't remember anything until afterthe Reset. They're Siffrin, yes, but not Siffrin from SASASA:AP. They're Siffrin from In Stars and Time. They're THE Siffrin that the King's wish Reset!

Thus, Loop looks very different!!!! And acts a little bit different!!! Siffrin is the only one who can see Loop, for the time being, and they follow him throughout the loops instead of staying stagnant under the Favor Tree.

They don't like the idea of not knowing who they are, or where they're from. Siffrin sympathizes with the star, initially thinking that they just... had the same thing happen to them that happened to the king? But the reason Loop follows Siffrin through the house is because they NEED to know who they used to be, and what in the Universe happened to them. Certain things trigger certain memories, and... it certainly doesn't help that the party enters the fray.

"So was the King's wish not important?" THE KING'S WISH WAS VERY IMPORTANT.

Not only did it CAUSE the reset, but it gave King the precise tools to get a timeline that fulfilled his wish (It's not the Universe's fault he lost himself and his only chance).

BUT ALSO!! ALSOOOOOOO!!!! THE KING'S WISH CORRUPTED THE WHOLE TIMELINE.

Loops are meant to reset to the day before, with no one"s memory remaining except for Siffrin's.

This loop completely Reset the timeline.

The King kept hints of his memories from the past.

The party gets dejá vū from the moment they meet to the moment they step foot in the house. They feel like something is missing.

Loop shouldn't be here. Loop should be... Loop. Loop didn't wish to be here - it's a direct violaton of his initial wish to stay with his friends, but it's a wish that technically got overwritten when the Reset happened?

Ironically, Siffrin is the only one Out Of The Loop (hehe)

,,,,,,,,,

"okay so what's the stuff IN the timeloop?" you see. you seeeeee. I've been worldbuilding so that I can figure that out. And I still don't know..... I'm setting it up with this post so I can elaborate on anything later (asks are appreciated)

"You should write/draw about this" I am! Ao3 is llilyrose but idk if I'll end up posting anything there. Of course, my tumblr is llilyrose, too....

"You stole this from user llilyrose on ISAT discord!" um, look at my url again. thx

"What if I have questions about the worldbuilding/characters/etc." send an ask, fool.... I'd really appreciate it .....