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The Long Night: A Fantasy Adventure of Courage & Betrayal | Free Audio Story | Audiobook
🏹 Embark on a thrilling journey with “The Long Night,” a gripping fantasy short story that combines action, suspense, and a touch of humour. Perfect for young adults and adults alike, this tale will immerse you in a Viking-inspired fantasy world where courage and loyalty are tested. 📖 Story Overview:“The Long Night” follows the adventures of Ragnar and Kest, young warriors-in-training, as they…
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#Action-packed narrative#Adventure fiction#Character-driven plot#Coming-of-age tale#Courage in adversity#Epic fantasy fiction#fantasy battles#Fantasy for young adults#fantasy literature#Fantasy short story#Fantasy suspense#fantasy world#Honour in fantasy#Humour in fantasy#Loyalty and betrayal#Redemption themes#Rite of passage story#The Long Night#Viking fantasy#young adult fantasy
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Over the Garden Wall, 2014, dir. Patrick McHale
SE01E001 The Old Grist Mill
#horror aesthetic#horror tv#over the garden wall#2010s horror#historical horror#fantasy horror#fairy tale horror#coming of age horror#new england gothic#childhood trauma#halloween horror#autumnal horror#musical horror
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i could make a comment on how tess being overlooked in the tlou fandom is because of the misogynistic views on older women we have in this society where any woman over 35 is not considered sexy anymore and therefore loses her worth, but do i want to
#it's a tale as old as time#do we need to talk about it#or should i just walk away#like what i keep thinking but don't really want to bring up#is how sad it makes me that most of the fandom seems to want to ignore tess#because they prefer picturing joel with a hot 25 year old#this maybe comes from me realising the amount of age gap dbf type of content that is out there#and obviously i don't need to engage in any of it and i can block the tags#but sometimes just the sheer amount of it#has me a bit worried for the future of our society#tess servopoulos#the last of us
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The generation that grows up with Over the Garden Wall will never understand how funny it was watching like 70% of the base flip from Team Beatrice to Team Sara when they watched it a second time.
#Beatrice is right there clashing beautifully with Wirt and you have no idea who Sara is until the end#But then when you have the context his relationship with Sara becomes important to the story and underlines it in a way you never thought#And it becomes a completely different genre of story if you think he should wind up with one of them#Is this a supernatural SFF where you can travel both ways or is it a surreal coming-of-age tale where the “real” world is the critical one?#And then there’s always gonna be like three people clinging to Lorna and to them I say shine on you crazy diamonds#Over the Garden Wall
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“We are the reluctant heroes in tales of loss, our youth the price paid for the safety of souls too tender for the world’s harsh embrace.”
#life is strange 2#lis2#lis 2#brothers a tale of two sons#a plague tale innocence#a plague tale#telltale the walking dead#telltale the walking dead season 4#twdg#twdg s4#twdg season 4#sean diaz#daniel diaz#naiee#naia#amicia de rune#hugo de rune#clementine#alvin junior#alvin jr#twdg clementine#twdg aj#sean and daniel#naia and naiee#amicia and hugo#clementine and aj#coming of age#siblings#sibling hug
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humansider by @lapinneok
#dishonored#the outsider#death of the outsider#humansider#AU in which he takes up art :)#kind of interesting to consider him to go from someone who is removed from the tales he's narrating#to switching to a more immediate hands on style of communication now that living is more like that. you know?#last year i started work on a post-doto fic#its a coming of age for two people who are far older than the usual 'coming of age' protags. for different reasons.#billie and humansider are figuring out their lives now that everything has changed. featuring some cute corvosider#and billie x emily. who are even more complicated than usual. god help us.#i've been distracted by a jessamine is a literal ghost AU which is more experimental in terms of style and hopefully hard-hitting#but i can only selfishly keep a comm to myself for so long. so please enjoy <3#the colours & lighting in this are absolutely beautiful#my commissions
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I love when my mum is cringing at age gap relationships in Hollywood, and I'm just sat there knowing I'd marry 90s Robert De Niro in a heartbeat.
#i mean come on#who wouldn't?#robert de niro#cape fear#goodfellas#max cady#jimmy conway#james conway#a bronx tale#90s#movies#90s movies#martin scorsese#oldermen#older guys#when they're the same age as your dad
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Okay, so, I have very much been enjoying tottmnt but I have to say I'm a little bit peeved
Spoilers ahead
I've only just finished the first arch with the mechazoids and Bishop and beautiful! Very nice. Me likey
The reason I'm peeved is because the whole thing they did with the bots targetting mutants, and targetting Rod because of his mutation... is kinda what I had planned for something I've been working on for a while now
Brilliant minds think alike and whatnot but now I'm just- Do I change it? What do I do?
#i've been working on it for months#it probably won't come out for ages#but like#now it doesn't feel like my idea#god damnit original thought#it doesn't exist#this has been my vent for the evening#gnini#tmnt#teenage mutant ninja turtles#tottmnt#tmnt mutant mayhem#tmnt mm#tales of the tmnt#mutant mayhem
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I had a rather shocking realization about Carter and Douxie today
Seeing as they're both eternally 19 & 20, that means that neither of their frontal lobes are fully formed??? Who the fuck is leaving them in charge of protecting the world!?
Who the fuck saw these two babies and thought, "yes they seem mentally and emotionally mature enough to be left in charge of defending the world from magic threats"
#sometimes im like 'omg theyre so old'#and then i think about it and realize that NO#im older than both of them now and when I was their ages#i would NEVER have been ready for thaf kind of job or purpose#like#those are TEENAGERS#BABIES#LITTLE GUYS#what the hell merlin#and vameus#i blame both of you#tales of arcadia#wizards tales of arcadia#hisirdoux casperan#toa wizards#carterdoux#carter howard#tales of arcadia oc#toa oc#toa ocs#half bloods and hunters#trollhunters#toa trollhunters#trollhunters tales of arcadia#douxie casperan#and yes i know TECHNICALLY carter isnt a teenager anymore#but come on#he died on his 20th birthday
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hello- on your jesus birthday post you said The Child Is The Price. What does that mean?
Okay THIS one I will answer. this is a reference to Roberte Icke's adaptation of Aeschylus' tragic play(s), The Oresteia. simplifying as much as possible, the story begins by following Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army during the Trojan War. the winds he needs to sail his army to Troy have not been blowing, and Agamemnon receives a prophecy/instruction on what is needed in order to return the winds. the prophecy states "The Child is the Price". this phrase is repeated throughout the play, and what it is asking him to do is make a human sacrifice of his young daughter, Iphigenia. eventually, he goes through with it, and the winds do indeed return.
In the original plays by Aeschylus, the actual death of Iphigenia has already happened and is referenced as something the audience should already know all about. Icke chooses to add an act to the play that allows us to linger on that decision much longer. As a whole, the play deals heavily with themes of the nature of sacrifice, narrative inevitability, and cycles of guilt and violence.
When I was drafting my... infamous christmas post, I was trying to think of the story of the birth of jesus like a greek tragedy, involving very similar themes. factually, in a textual sense, jesus is the sacrifice. his death is the price paid for - according to christianity - absolution. and what I was attempting to point out is that we spend so much time celebrating jesus' birth as this wondrous arrival of the savior that we don't stop to meditate on exactly how bloodily that saving is going to play out. it's the exact same thing: The Child is the Price.
As a last note, many many many people have told me in the tags that me saying "Mary did you know? that your womb was also a grave?" is stupid because "all babies are born to die, Jesus isn't special" ...but there is a Very important difference I'd like to point. yes, all babies will die eventually. but NOT all babies are born to die. Jesus was. it was God's plan from the start for him to horrifically die on the cross, and it was inevitable as soon as Mary agreed to give birth to him. I feel that is an important part of the story. The Child is the Price.
(...anyway go read Robert Icke Oresteia and also watch Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) while you're at it)
#a lot of my thoughts on biblical sacrifice also come from the writings of Rene Girard but we do NOT have time for that here#I think seeing the new testament through a tragic lens really helped me See it a lot more#because A) I'm agnostic with very chaotic contradictory beliefs#and B) I grew up with a very.... veggie tales easter bunny arts & crafts with the youth pastor type of protestant christianity#(which my mom gave up on by like age 8 in favor of new age spiritualism and witchcraft)#so none of the 'scarier' side of the bible was ever talked about. and I'm the kind of person who really connects with horror#talking about human sacrifice and such isn't meant to be a criticism of religion. it's the part I find the most engaging and interconnected#asks#robert icke oresteia
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people will say you can't turn everything you read or watch into a coming of age story, especially if it has anything to do with the plot whatsoever, but WATCH ME. watch me as i create a coming of age plot to this random fantasy tv show.
Watch. Me.
#teen titans#tales of arcadia#toa trollhunters#sword art online#atla#avatar the last airbender#batfamily#school bus graveyard#percy jackson#i'm unstoppable at this point#it's just me and my coming of age playlists against the world#coming of age#archive of our own
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Webcomic Recommendation: Hooky ♡
Summary: "When Dani and Dorian missed the bus to magic school, they never thought they'd wind up declared traitors to their own kind! Now, thanks to a series of mishaps, they are being chased by powerful magic families seeking the prophesied King of Witches and royals searching for missing princes.
But they aren't alone. With a local troublemaker, a princess, and a teacher who can see the future on their side, they might just be able to clear their names…but can they heal their torn kingdom?"
Source: Webtoon
Creator: Miriam Bonastre Tur
Genre: Fantasy, slice of life, witchcraft, fairy tales, coming of age
Status: Completed (222 episodes & 3 volumes)
Personal Rating: 5 out 5 stars ⭐️
Availability: Wherever books are sold
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#webtoon#hooky webtoon#dani wytte#dorian wytte#nico hooky#monica hooky#william hooky#damien wytte#fantasy#slice of life#witchcraft#fairy tales#coming of age#web comic#comic art#comic recommendations#graphic novel#studio ghibli vibes#witches
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, 2022, dirs. Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson
#horror aesthetic#horror movies#childhood truama#coming of age horror#fantasy horror#guillermo del toro#fairy tale horror
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Chapter four is posted!
With an old cloak drawn up around his shoulders, he peered about; it had been taken from his knapsack, and at least the hood provided some coverage, though most people might think all Weequay looked nearly identical—they would be wrong.
Some had a darker or lighter coloration than others, distinct markings, or two-toned scales. Some had hair. Some had eyes that were the color of amber, gray like his, or even black. Nostril size varied, as did the length of their frills; the women’s were much smaller, or they had none at all, instead growing conical shaped protrusions from their lower jaws that were not as sharp or barbed. One only had to look, yet outsiders hardly saw past what they deemed ugly or stupid. It was a pity, really, and made most Quay hesitant to trust them.
#Hondo Ohnaka#Star Wars#My writing#Scoundrel of Sriluur#Tales of (Rebel) Scum and Villiany#fanfiction#Star Wars fanfiction#Weequay#coming of age
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I would just like to say. Since I cannot find a Canon age for either character, Echoes of Wisdom Zelda is 17 and Link is 12. I don't make the rules except I do and I made these ones
#If it wasn't clear by me stating the ages#I don't think eow is exactly a romantic tale between link and zeldur.#However#I got it into my head that link was young towards the beginning of PointCrows video and I haven't let it go yet.#So post eow link and Zelda are like a tradition sibling relationship. Because Zelda liked him at first and then once he started actually-#-talking to her she realized he like. Really annoying. So she hates him but only a little.#And like rightfully so he's a little audhd goblin that doesn't care for her neatfreak princess “sit up sip tea and speak proper” brain#He just kinda does his own thing. But they're like best friends that hate eachother so he often spends time with her and the King wants#Nothing more than for the two to fight outside where they won't Crack a windows.#Thank you for coming to my tedtalk#echoes of wisdom#loz eow#eow zelda#tloz#tloz eow#loz echoes of wisdom#eow link#zelda eow#BTW is the King still king Rhoam??? It mighta been mentioned but I forgor
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the guy who plays lyle menendez in the horrible ryan murphy thing is from my mom's soap opera. i never realized he was my age
#never would've in a million years assumed spencer is my age#idk his bone structure just ... idk he doesn't have a young face but he's actually a few months younger than me#idk what to do w that#i saw ppl talking about this show and i was like that guy looks so damn familiar#but he looks completely different in general hospital somehow and i dont know how to explain it#hes a good looking man. dont really appreciate that he was part of that horrible series though...#idk a few months ago i asked mom where spencer was i hadnt seen him in awhile and she said#'hes dead. hes doing some netflix thing now. hell probably come back later'#and kaily was like 'hell come back from the dead?' and mom was like 'they do that in soap operas all the time'#tales from diana
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