#Afterlife Anon

[chaifootsteps]

Regarding your "if Viv's career-destroying move ever happens at all"... I honestly think that it's 100% not an "if" but a "when". In fact, I'm 99.999% certain of it.

Why? Two names within the last 6 months alone: Neil Gaiman and MrBeast.

Both were far bigger names than Viv ever will be. Both operated with no open controversies for years—decades in Gaiman's case. They were seen as cultural and critical darlings. Fantastic people. Extremely nice, helpful, and wouldn't hurt a fly.

So the world thought.

And now look where they are.

All of Neil Gaiman's projects are cancelled or shortened. He's widely known to be a rapist.

MrBeast is shown to have an abusive workplace and resorting to many of the same practices that people praised him for not doing.

6 months ago, I think that the vast majority of people would have declared both of the above as people too big to fail. And now here we are.

If formerly clean-record guys like Gaiman and MrBeast can have their careers ruined by being terrible people, then there's no way that Viv, who has been a lot more openly hostile even as she tries to scrub evidence of it, certainly won't meet the same career-ending fate.

It's only a matter of time at this point. Time, NDAs expiring, Viv saying something outright unprompted that turns everyone against her... whatever it is, it will happen.

If Neil Gaiman and MrBeast could have their careers and reputation ruined when their true colors are shown, Viv will too.

-Afterlife Anon

I think you're absolutely right, and that it's just a matter of time. How much time is anybody's guess, but one of the (many) lessons to come out of the MrBeast and Gaiman situations is that no one's too big to fall.

[ohgreat-moretapes]

You're so right, I don't know what I'd do without you guys <3

-Tim

[loudclan-clangen]

Thinking abt how the kits would have absolutely zero grasp on the concept of mortality and death and how they'd be really confused on why their parents are upset and where Mothtree wen't :^)

Hi friend, I don’t want to be like a major downer but… Rosehipkit is VERY sick. She and Dogwood, more than any other kits, absolutely understand the concept of mortality and death in a way that they should not have to.

[antiquitiesandlabyrinths]

Nut

Nut, my beloved Goddess of the Sky. Now I am a little biased about Nut––She is the main Goddess that I worship––but I will do my best to retain some semblance of professionalism when it comes to discussion about Her. And remember these are unedited essays. Fact-checked, yes, but I'm not going for journal/publication quality.

For the most part, discussions and essays surrounding Nut focus solely on Her role as the night sky and rarely delve into the deep lore and meaning behind Her role and appearance within Egyptian mythology. However, for the purposes of this essay, I will begin with the basics.

Nut, also spelled as Nuit, is an ancient Egyptian Goddess most easily recognizable by either the pot atop Her head or the stars decorating Her body as She arches over the earth. In this latter form, it appears as though Her arms and legs are kept tightly together; in reality, Her hands and feet touch each of the four cardinal points of the horizon, representing the four pillars of heaven.

Her name comes from the hieroglyph W24, the pot, which stands for the sound nw. The t is added as a feminine suffix pronoun, thus creating the name Nwt. Why Nut bears a pot atop Her head has been debated, but the general consensus is that it represents the womb; a carrying object, filled with water and sustenance.

Contrary to a great deal of ancient civilizations who depicted the earth as female and the sky as male (think Mother Earth and Father Sky), the ancient Egyptians conceived of the sky as feminine, and Her counterpart, the earth, as male, in the male God Geb, often depicted below Nut in a reclined position. The two Gods were siblings; the children of Shu and Tefnut, representing air and moisture, and who Themselves were the direct children of the sun God Ra.

Some epithets (titles that reveal nature) of Nut:

One-who-gives-birth-to-the-Gods

Mother of All

She the Great One

She Who Protects

She Who Holds A Thousand Souls

Great Encloser

Perhaps the most well-known of myths that Nut is associated with is that of the birth of the Ennead. I discussed this myth in my Osiris post, but I will recite it in short terms here.

Nut and Geb were conceived from the sibling-union of Shu and Tefnut and, in similar fashion, Nut and Geb were joined together in a loving embrace. However, since the sky was joined to the earth, there was no space for humans or any living thing to walk or exist. Because of this (though the reason in the variations of the myth can differ), Ra decided to have Geb and Nut separated, and had Their father, Shu, hold up Nut; thus Shu fulfilled His role as the atmosphere, the air. But this was not the only reason Ra took this course of action; Ra had fear of a prophecy which stated that the children of Nut would one day overthrow him. Due to His fear, Ra forbade Nut from giving birth on any day of the year. Nut asked Thoth, the God of wisdom and writing, for help, and Thoth went to the moon God Iah (a more archaic version of the moon God Khonsu) and gambled with the moon God for some of His light. Thoth and Iah played the game senet, and each time Thoth won, He earned a sliver of moonlight. Eventually, Thoth had earned enough to have five extra days in the year––the Epagomenal days––and on those days, Nut gave birth to Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys, and in some versions, Horus the Elder.

This story is a rather late telling and comes mainly from the Moralia of Plutarch. Plutarch is not the best and most reliable source for Egyptian history and mythology, and it does not help that his own sources were skewed by the time in which he lived; that being a much later era of Egyptian history in which the original myths of the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms had been changed and altered over time. Still, it gives us some idea of Nut and tells us that She is the mother of some of the greatest and most revered Gods of Egypt.

Another myth that is found in the Book of the Heavenly Cow details another version of how Nut came to be the sky, tying into the myth of the rampaging Goddess Sekhmet who was eventually pacified with beer.

The importance of Nut tends to be underplayed by both modern scholars and modern practitioners of Kemeticism, the revival of the ancient Egyptian religion. Usually, She is relegated to being the mother of the 'main Gods', and simply the sky of the earth. People lack knowledge, or perhaps the desire to find the knowledge, of Her role as a funerary deity. Fortunately, there are still a number of historians and scholars who have devoted some section of their research into Nut and Her roles.

Arching over the earth, Nut was considered as 'the vault of the sky,' and the body through which Ra travelled in both the day and the night. During the day, Ra in His day barque would sail across Nut's body, and in the evening, with Nut's head oriented in the west and Her legs in the east, Ra was swallowed by Nut to be regenerated through rebirth in Her womb, come the next morning. This, of course, gives a somewhat contrasting idea to the fact that Ra is said to pass through the Duat, the ancient Egyptian 'underworld', every night.

Thus we come to a very interesting discussion that I have found a lot of joy in reading about: the argument of whether or not the Duat is a chthonic or celestial afterlife. After all, the word 'underworld' was applied by Western scholars and the Duat itself, as a word, does not denote anything 'underground'. For an in-depth study of this, I highly recommend Silvia Zago's Conceptualizing Life after Death: The Evolution of the Concept of Duat and Related Notions in Egyptian Funerary Literature, a fascinating look into funerary literature throughout the eras of ancient Egypt. She comes to the conclusion that, in the Old Kingdom at least, the Duat is a place in the sky, a definitive region within Nut's body. The body of Nut is described geographically in some sections of the Pyramid Texts, and among those regions, the Duat is named. The deceased is described as ascending to the Duat region in PT U271 390;

"Unas ascends on that ladder* which his father Re has made for him. Horus and Seth seize the arm of Unas and take him to the Duat Region."

*The ladder was often used as a symbol of Nut, representing steps to ascend to Heaven, to Her body.

But this is not a solitary region as Heaven in Abrahamic religions is; the afterlife, as conceived by the ancient Egyptians, was the ability to join the cycle of regeneration that the sun took each night and day.

"... it (is) more appropriate to regard these early funerary texts as expressing a multi-faceted yet somewhat coherent vision of the afterlife, one granting the deceased access to both parts of the cosmic cycle – day and night – in order to be reborn at dawn with the sun and achieve immortality." (Silvia Zago, 2019)

"May you cross the sky, united with darkness (i.e. in the Nun or Duat), so that you may you rise from the horizon, the place in which you have become akhs." (PT 217 §152c-d)

In this way, the deceased joined the eternal cycle in the presence of the Gods, and this regeneration took place within the body of Nut––conceivably inside Her womb, where Ra would rest before dawn when He was born as the rising sun.

"...the caption by Nut’s vulva in the monumental versions of the Book of Nut (Osireion and tomb of Ramses IV) labels her vulva as being the Axt iAbtt, “eastern horizon” (text P, EAT I: 81; von Lieven 2007: 51 §7), namely the point of the sky where the sun reappears (i.e. is “born”) into the world at dawn." (Silvia Zago, 2019)

Additional evidence for Nut and the Duat being related is seen in Pyramid Text 442:

“See, he has come as Orion. See, Osiris has come as Orion... ‘Good One’, said his mother, ‘Heir’, said his father, whom the sky has conceived, to whom the Duat has given birth. Oh king (NN), may the sky conceive you/King (NN) together with Orion, may the Duat give birth to you and Orion.”

Whether the impersonal 'sky' (pt) and the personal Nut (the Goddess) are one and the same as literary subjects, or if they are separate as a physical thing and a divinity is somewhat up for debate. The hieroglyphs used to spell pt and nwt are very similar. But considering how consistently the ancient Egyptians attributed personality to natural phenomena and used little distinction between the two, this stands as evidence that it is Nut, as the sky, as the Duat, conceiving Osiris/Orion.

Altogether, what we can take from this is that Nut plays a large role in the afterlife as a place of regeneration and of rebirth, acting as both the day and night sky. She protects, holds, and revitalizes the thousands of souls under Her care, including those of the Gods. There is a lot more discussed in Silvia Zago's publication and I highly recommend reading through it. Personally, this is something I find very auspicious; the idea that, in death, you will return to the stars. And this is a very clear idea in the Pyramid Texts, that the Pharaoh will ascend to become an 'imperishable star'.

PT 139, Utterance 214: The (glorified) humanity bewail you after the Imperishable Stars have carried you. Enter then into the place where your father is, where Geb is!  PT 141, Utterance 215: "Look at me! you have seen the forms of the children of their fathers, who know their spell, who are now Imperishable Stars". (Referring to past Pharaohs) PT 380, Utterance 269: The father of Unas, Atum, seizes the arm of Unas and He assigns Unas to those Gods who are quick and clever, the Never-setting Stars (Circumpolars).

Due to Her nature as a funerary deity, it is not uncommon to see Her represented on the inner lids of coffins, especially in the New Kingdom and later periods of Egypt, symbolically covering and protecting the deceased with Her star-covered body. Here, the sarcophagus is symbolic of a maternal uterus, thus why the coffin and Nut were connected; Her epithet Great Encloser refers to this connection.

(From the coffin of Peftjauneith, 26th Dynasty)

An important book from the New Kingdom, which I previously mentioned, is the Book of the Heavenly Cow, found on the outermost part of the four gilded shrines of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, the tomb of Ramses VI (KV9), the tomb of Seti I (KV17), the tomb of Ramses II (KV7), and the tomb of Ramses III (KV11). The Heavenly Cow is a form of Nut, just as the falcon may be a representation of Horus just the same as His human form.

Here, Her belly is covered in stars, and She is held and supported by Shu and the Infinite Ones, a group of Gods mentioned in the Book of the Heavenly Cow.

To put it briefly, Ra is betrayed in some way by mankind––interpretation differs, as always––and decides that His presence in the earthly realm is no longer needed nor safe for Him. He has Nut, as the Heavenly Cow, lift Him up into the sky to separate Him from humanity.

This God (Ra) then said to Nut,  "It is in order that I may be uplifted that I have placed myself on Your back."  "What's this?"  asked Nut.  And so She is the person that came to be there in both the heavens.    (of night and day) The Majesty of this God said,  "Stay far away from them (humanity)!  Lift me up (so I am visible)!  Look at me!"  And so She became the sky.  (Chapter 3, Divisions 61-65)

Then Nut started trembling because of the height.  So the Majesty of Re said,  "If only I had millions supporting her!"  And so the Infinite Ones were brought into being.  (Chapter 3, Divisions 70-71)

For further reading on the Book of the Heavenly Cow, I recommend this study: https://escholarship.org/content/qt2vh551hn/qt2vh551hn.pdf?t=rzuech

And the whole text of the Book can be read and downloaded here:

https://www.academia.edu/36107603/the_ancient_Aegyptian_book_of_the_Heavenly_Cow

Something else of note in Silvia Zago's book is Nut's relationship to Nunet, the feminine counterpart of the primeval God Nun. This connection is somewhat obscure and came as somewhat of a surprise to me but I found it immensely interesting. It begins with the fact that the sky was conceived of as a watery expanse; hence the use of boats to cross it, and the verbs used describing the journey: 'to row', 'to ferry', or 'to cross'.

"Besides these indirect clues, the most direct piece of evidence of the watery nature of the sky is the very same fact that its regions are imagined as marshlands, separated from one another by a “winding canal” (the ecliptic), and both possessing shores and lakes: to the south was the sxt iArw “Field of Rushes,” and to the north the sxt Htp(w) “Field of Offerings"." (Silvia Zago, 2019)

The reason why the sky was thought of as a watery expanse is, however, rather easily explainable: the sky was thought of as an interface or barrier between the expanse of Nun (the primordial ocean) outside and the earthly world inside. Nut, held up by the atmosphere of Shu, protected the world from these waters rushing in. As an interesting piece of side evidence, Beaux (1998) found that the determinative sign for star (N14) derived from the starfish, likening these 'lower stars' of the earth's oceans to the upper stars of the cosmos. This is mostly conjecture but has some basis in reality, and if true, would explain later funerary text's allusion to stars swimming across the sky.

Nun stands as the third piece of the puzzle in the Pyramid Text's conception of the universe: earth, sky, and the Abyss. This abyss, in the form of Nun, represents everything opposite to what is imagined on Earth: "... where the world is finite, the Nun is infinite, limitless; while the sun brightens existence on earth, the universe outside is immersed in perpetual, uniform darkness. Where the world is characterized by daily life activity ad continual change, the Nun is inert." (Silvia Zago, 2019) This space has negative and positive energy. In essence, it is pure potential. So while Nun can be possibly dangerous, it also contains the full creative potential, and thus the ability to regenerate. As stated in later funerary texts, it is impossible to undergo regeneration in the ordered world––regeneration must take place when submerged in the potential energy of Nun. (Evidenced by Hornung 1982 and J.P. Allen 1988)

This expanse of potential energy is detailed geographically in the Pyramid Texts, and placed above, or on the outer side, of Nut, but also existing underground beneath the earth. Evidence of this is shown by the hieroglyphic determinative for 'sky' (N1) being used upside down. However, when speaking of these underground waters, it is far more common for the name Nunet (also spelled Naunet) to be used––the feminine counterpart of Nun. This phrase translates to 'lower sky' or 'nether sky', and is clearly contrasted with not only Nun but Nut as well.

"The seemingly ambiguous contradiction lying in the fact the Nunet could be thought to represent both the underground waters, as a feminine counterpart of Nun, and a nether-sky, as a counterpart of Nut herself in an underworld, is due to the fact that, once again, according to the Egyptian mindset, more than one explanation was possible." (Silvia Zago, 2019)

A section of the Pyramid Texts that refers to these two heavens––the upper sky and lower heaven––is shown here and again represents the duality and the cycle through which the deceased passes in their afterlife:

"... your arms are (those of) Hapy and Duamutef, which you need to ascend to heaven, and you ascend, your legs are (those of) Imsti and Qebehsenuf, which you need to descend to the lower heaven, and you descend. All your members are (those of) the twins of Atum, o Imperishable One! You did not pass away, your ka does not pass away. You are a ka!" (PT 215 §149)

The idea for a 'lower sky' likely originated in the need to explain what happened to the stars during the day, and what became of the day sky during the night. Thus the 'inverted' sky served as a nether-region counterpart, nearly identical to the heavenly sky down to its' watery nature. When personalized, this means that Nunet and Nut can be seen as counterparts of one another.

"Denn offenbar gehörte Nut ursprünglich als weibliches Gegenstück zu Nun, griechisch Νουν, dem Urgewässer, wobei die Namen altägyptisch als Njw und Njwt zu umschreiben wären und mit dem Wort für Wasser nwjt zusammenhängen könnten, das uns schon in den Pyramidentexten begegnet. Daβ beide Götter eng verbunden gewesen sein müssen, zeigen mehrere Texte, darunter der bekannte Götterhymnus des Alten Reiches, die Nun und Nut als Eltern eines solaren Gottes bezeichnen. [...] Das Urgewässer, das sich sowohl in der Unterwelt wie über den Himmel erstreckte, fungierte dabei als Muttergottheit. Seine Aufspaltung in das Götterpaar Nun/Nut und die damit verbundene Spezialisierung der Nut zum Himmelsozean wären dann ebenso sekundäre Erscheinungen, wie die Existenz der Göttin Naunet, die erst als Nachfolgerin der Nut das weibliche Komplement zum Nun gebildet hätte, und deshalb auch synonym zu Nut verwendet werden konnte." (Barta, 1973)

For your ease of reading, I've run this through Google Translate for you: "Apparently Nut originally belonged as the female counterpart to Nun, Greek Νουν, the primordial water, although the names could be described in ancient Egyptian as Njw and Njwt and could be related to the word for water nwjt, which we already encounter in the Pyramid Texts. Several texts show that both gods must have been closely connected, including the well-known hymn to the gods of the Old Kingdom, which describe Nun and Nut as the parents of a solar god. […] The primordial waters, which stretched both in the underworld and across the sky, functioned as a mother deity. Its splitting into the pair of gods Nun/Nut and the associated specialization of Nut into the celestial ocean would then be just as secondary phenomena as the existence of the goddess Naunet, who only as Nut's successor would have formed the female complement to Nun, and therefore also synonymous with Nut could be used."

Nut and Nun, both functioning as a place of regeneration and rebirth and imagined as a watery expanse, carry a lot of similarities. With this in mind it is much easier to see how the two could be related and, in this logic, how Nut and Naunet can be seen as both opposites and reflections of one another.

Another object of both celestial and funerary importance that is associated with Nut is the Akhet. For those who don't know, the Axt is the horizon, evident in the name Horakhty, which means Horus (Hor) of the Horizon (akht), and it is the final place where regeneration and rebirth are possible, as it is the area where the sun is born each day.

"Throughout the Pyramid Texts, (the Akhet) seems indeed to be meant as the liminal zone through which the night sun passes coming from the Duat, and from which it rises in the morning, thus an interface between two spheres of existence... So the Akhet was both a point of juncture of cosmic realms (Duat, earth, and sky) and a region in itself, endowed with regenerative significance and symbolism." (Silvia Zago, 2019)

Some sections of the Pyramid Texts even mention Nut guiding the deceased towards the Akhet, describing a 'path of the horizon' where the Goddess leads the dead. This path conceivably led from the western horizon, where the sun sets, to the eastern horizon, where the sun is born again. Where exactly the roads are is unclear; they could be underground or within Nut's body. Which one it is is mostly up to personal speculation.

This has been, of course, mostly an analysis of the Pyramid Texts. Later on, the Duat does take on more of a chthonic nature separate from the earlier celestial conception. The afterlife became associated more with Osiris, an earthly figure of fertility and soil, rather than Ra, the solar celestial figure. However, how it is presented in the Pyramid Texts gives a rather good idea of the Duat being something varying and dependable.

"... the use of the sign (N31) (path) could suggest the idea the Duat was regarded as a path of sorts, while the sign (O49) (township) may indicate that it was imagined to be a defined locale in the cosmos... The signs (N1) (sky) and (N37) (pool) also appear in conjunction with the word Duat, pointing to the idea of the (diurnal) sky or more generically a celestial domain and to its watery nature, respectively." (Silvia Zago, 2019)

The use of the hieroglyphic O49 is interesting, denoting that the Duat could be thought of as a city; this city existing within Nut. Nut, being a holder and protector of thousands of souls, can be easily seen as a city in and of Herself, and is referred to as such by Nils Billing:

"The goddess Nut is characterized as "city" as early as the Pyramid texts. 'Make nni, make nni, O Nut; Geb has commanded that you make nni, in this your name of City.' (Pyr. 1596a-b [587]) The passage is found in the longer spell 587 which describes the creation and establishment of Egypt in terms of a city... The earth, i.e. the kingdom of Egypt, is treated in the symbolic form of the Eye of Horus. After being damaged by Seth, the Eye/Egypt/Kingship is reconstituted by Horus. 'It is he who sets you in order in this your name of Settlement; it is he who comes and he makes nni behind you in this your name of City.' (Pyr. 1595a-b, cf. 1597b-c) This description is directly followed by the Nut passage cited above. The path to a correct understanding of these passages is somewhat hampered by the uncertainty of the meaning of the verb nni... Kuhlmann (1991:219) sees movement as the common denominator of (these interpretations), an interpretation supported by the occurrence of the legs as determinative. The type of movement intended is, however, more difficult to grasp." (Nils Billing, 2002)

The final text of gross importance to Nut is the Book of Heaven, also known as the Book of Nut and the Book of the Celestial Cow, but in ancient times referred to as The Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars. This is an astrological text that contains some references to myth but, in general, concerns itself with the course of the stars. It is not a flat text as the term 'book' might insinuate; instead, it is the image of the Goddess stretched out in Her form as the sky, surrounded by extensive hieroglyphs detailing the nocturnal voyage of Ra and the 36 decans through Nut's body. This paper goes into some detail about the contents of the Book of Nut and where it has been found, although it does not contain the text of the book itself.

For further reading on Nut here are some papers and websites I recommend:

A Cosmography of the Unknown. The qbḥw (nṯrw) Region of the Outer Sky in the Book of Nut by Silvia Zago

Cosmic Space and Archetypal Time: Depictions of the Sky-Goddess Nut in Three Royal Tombs of the New Kingdom and Her Relation to the Milky Way by Amanda-Alice Maravelia

Nut, the Goddess of Life in Text and Iconography by Nils Billing (this is not available for free but I highly recommend it)

A Timeline of the Decans by Theresa Ainsworth

Again I recommend Silvia Zago's book The Evolution of the Concept of Duat and Related Notions in Egyptian Funerary Literature, and to read the entirety of the Pyramid Texts you can visit this website or this one to read the Pyramid Texts of Pharaoh Unas, where the first edition of the Pyramid Texts was found.

I have gone over a handful of the more simple subjects regarding Nut but if you truly have any interest in Her I suggest reading some of the above links. She is a fascinating Goddess and, in my religious opinion, one of the most powerful and beautiful of Them all. She is highly underappreciated and I love discussing Her. If anyone has any other links or comments to make on this Netjeret, please add them in the comments.

[valhallavalgrace]

Have you used your powers at all since getting to Hotel Valhalla?

Leo hasn't used his powers once in battle and it's probably costed him a couple losses. (The dreams are likely both from the gods and also from genuine demigod PTSD.)

I've posted a flashforward in-universe valgrace fanart about this arc here... he'll be happy again one day I'm sorry

prev ask

[psie-smutki]

what's your favorite dino fact

Not very original but still, I think birds are dinosaurs beats them all.

Like, still around and everywhere, still successful as heck as animals, special place in probs nearly every human culture, shitting on all the precious buildings and stuff everyday. Cool ok.

Another one of my favourite facts is look at this emu leg bone and its silly 3-forked ending

It's like that bc in ancient theropods it used to be 3 separate bones which fused over time

It's cool how time melts animals.

[pianokantzart]

Possibly baseless theory: the last thing Luigi remembers is going down into the sewers with Mario. Maybe he thinks he woke up feeling like garbage with Mario cry-hugging him because the last thing he remembers is that long, skinny pipe breaking as they were shimmying across it and crashing into that big brick wall?

Gosh, can you imagine that?

One minute you're crashing into a brick wall, and when you wake up you're in a weird geometric castle with your normally overconfident big brother sobbing over you? Next thing you know a princess, a mushroom man, and a gorilla burst through the doors acting like they know you? What do you even do in that situation?

[lowkeyrobin]

hii its 🫐 anon im back !!!

i was wondering if you could do the ghostbusters x reader who is like TERRIFIED of ghosts and how that would go down tyyy

(ps ur an amazing writer holy shit??? like genuinely how)

omg hi 🫐!! glad ur back! ; and thank you!!! 🫶 ; but yeah ofc, hope you enjoy! thanks for requesting! I haven't seen many gb reqs bc the trend hoppers left lol. I can't believe fe came out so long ago already it's insane to me 💀 I need time to stop asap

GHOSTBUSTERS ; ghostphobia

includes ; trevor, phoebe, podcast & lucky

warnings ; language

masterlist

TREVOR

he doesn't understand

like what are you afraid of...

but then there he goes getting scared of them too 💀

he teases you about it and stuff but it's all lighthearted

he just on instinct shouts (in loud situations) or reassures you it's okay and to not panic

like oh yeah fuck my fear I'll just suck it up?

he just doesn't get it

like yeah he's scared of things but he catches ghosts for a living he's not really scared

PHOEBE

literally mathematically and science-ly explains that ghosts can't hurt you to try and help

reassures that you're safe and that there's no need to worry like she doesn't catch them because they're dangerous

she also doesn't understand why you're so scared but she kinda gets it a bit better than trevor does

will relentlessly apologize if something scares you too bad or something happens to freak you out

PODCAST

genuinley feels so bad and tries to keep you distanced from the ghostbuster stuff

relentlessly apologizes if anything he says or does or if something happens in general with ghosts to freak you out

he tries to not talk about it around you but sometimes he just really wants to talk about it

it's like one of those things you'd rather not think about like the world ending and sometimes he just slips up

he tries to warm you up just to simple things kinda like exposure therapy but he gave up after a while cause it was clear you weren't getting rid of this phobia

understandable

LUCKY

super understanding and will rarely ever bring it up

but sometimes she will just talk about working in the lab minus all the ghost things

she usually comforts and reassures you when you visit her at work and stuff

always has to promise nothing bad is gonna happen

yeah sure like gurraka didn't almost take over the world or anything

[aleksanderscult]

(Just to make sure it sent 😂)

What do you think would happen if book!Aleksander and Show!Aleksander met? I know people mostly make jokes and memes (because it’s fun so you can answer on a funny note too) but I’m actually really curious on what would happen if they sat down and were in a room together. Like for at least a few days they were around each other and what they thought of each other.

For some reason when I picture it, I always picture it in an universe/setting/whatever where they (for reasons that don’t matter) came back to life and it’s post-alina and they are telling each other how their version of the story went in it’s completion

You don’t have to answer it that way or picture it that way, but I’m just convinced that you would have the best view on it!

That ask was never sent. wtf?? 😭😭

*tumblr when i catch you 😠*

The funny thing is that I have already a meme of Book!Darkling and show!Darkling in my drafts. I've just never posted it.

For some reason the only place I imagine book!Darkling and show!Darkling meeting is the afterlife (😭).

Book!Darkling: "Who are you?"

Show!Darkling: "I am you"

Book!Darkling: ".....why do you have a beard?"

And if they had a conversation Book!Darkling would just want to slap his show counterpart for sooo many reasons.

Some of them are:

- Why is the show version so emotional all the time??

- Why does he display his emotions in general that easy? Book!Darkling was always trying to remain composed and the moments where he let his true feelings show was either because he was having an emotional upheaval thanks to Alina or Mal or because the situation was serious (the tent scene, the mutiny scene, the name reveal scene etc.)

- Why the HELL did the show version reveal his name that easily?? Throughout his childhood, Aleksander had his mother say to him "Never reveal your name to anyone. Never let them come close" and it's something that he kept. Until Alina came, he fell in love with her and revealed his name to her only after two whole books passed. After deeming her worthy to know it. The Darkling is a secretive person. By having the show version so open to Alina they took away the "mark" that his childhood and Baghra left on him and the beauty and preciousness of the name reveal scene.

- Why is he such a simp? Seriously Book!Darkling would question the identity of the show one. Like "Are you seriously me? Are we sure about it?". To be honest, Book!Darkling was a different kind of simp for Alina. He admired her for who she truly was (a strong, at times merciless woman, that was stubborn and fierce), not for what she thought she was (a girl that cannot handle difficult circumstances but tries anyway 'cause she has to). But even though he admired her for it, he never let it become his whole personality or let it distract him from his one, true goal: the safety of Ravka. Show!Darkling is such a simp that honestly this was his whole personality. This and the "tearing up" thing.

So, generally, I believe he would judge him hard for all of these and question his decisions. For the Book!Darkling is not at all hard to judge someone but it would especially easy to do it with the show version. He would disapprove hard and reject his identity as "the Darkling" 'cause he wouldn't remind him at all of himself.

And, since this ask requires a meme (😌), here's how Book!Darkling would react to his show counterpart's actions:

[pocketramblr]

After AFO dies for good in the manga, he will be isekaied into the Captain Hero comics as Captain Hero. The universe will not allow him to do villainous things as everytime he tries to diverge from the main plot he always somehow ends up saving someone/doing good and causing the plot to move forward. He cannot break out of the narrative, he wants to scream.

He's so angry that he tells Sidekick Kid one day about how he used to be a monster, how he was a villain, and how he liked doing it too. Sidekick Kid nods, then says that must be why he tries so hard to make things right as Captain Hero. AfO says he's really not trying that hard. Sidekick Kid says Captain Hero needs to stop blaming himself for not being able to do more. AfO says no, he's actively trying to be evil. Sidekick Kid continues to not believe him, and when AfO attacks them directly (but is of course unable to do so) Sidekick Kid assumes he's trying to protect them by pushing them away because of some looming threat, so they go looking for the threat and make sure it gets taken down faster. AfO's hope that the Demon Lord would just win already so AfO can try to join him then, and then supplant him, is further destroyed. He hates this so much.

[chaifootsteps]

Billford is Stolitz done right

Do Bill and Stan have a lot in common? Yes. Do they enjoy each other's company in ways that don't pertain to romance? Yes. Is their relationship also absolutely toxic, not right for each other, and the narrative acknowledges how screwed up it is despite one side of the party (Bill, in this case) trying to portray himself as being the poor sad one whose affections are rejected despite being a monster who's using the other for his own ends while also having seemingly romantic interest in him? Hell yes.

-Afterlife Anon

Yes! It's wildly toxic and insanely uneven, in no world should these two canonically be together, the narrative acknowledges all of that while also showing how much they connected, how much they enjoyed being around one another, how in another life they might have been perfect together. Alex doesn't shows rather than tells their chemistry and absolutely does not paint Bill as the wronged party, no matter how tragic Bill's backstory or how much he believes he is.

[ohgreat-moretapes]

Hoodie I love you (platonically). You're such an agent of chaos it's amazing.

<3 ;)

-⦻⦻⦻

[fallowtail]

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according to oli's new video, player-possessed mobs can still breed...

obviously, I had to tell you, the ghost mod expert, about this new and VERY interesting development!

I've heard......

[h-didanart]

can I give nexus a hug

please

bro got exploded he needs a hug

Sure thing!

Uhh, here, you get two drawings

First off the most canon compliant one, Nexus as a ghost post-death

They aren’t exactly thrilled but at this point they don’t care about anything, so they accept the hug

And second, the one au where I’ve thought their story through, they’re alive and well here!

A bit confused but they accept the hug nevertheless

[whereismyhat5678]

yo vigi.

do you have 2 grandpas?

like king ghost and john? how are they going?

….

Sorry sorry- here, maybe this’ll make up for it: