#Crest Book

[eldritch-ace]

I wish Luke was in Bloodline, they would be so dramatic together

[nexeliam]

Hello everyone, the 13th chapter of "The Blind Wizard" is finally, FINALLY out ! Sorry it took sooo long but here it is ! I hope you'll enjoy it :)

Here are the links on AO3 or Wattpad :)

[lepetitdragonvert]

Tales from Tennyson told by Nora Chesson

Source : archive.org

1900

Artist : Frances Brundage

The Lily Maid

[departedmars]

timeskip benbaro makes me so mentally ill

[melchinafan]

…Hold on. Might be a stretch to connect these dots, but…I've been trying to puzzle out for a long while who or what the opossum in Laurent's painting is, and I think I found a theory that ain't half bad. Once again, spoilers ahead, primarily for chapter 7:

First quick thing I noticed while writing up the image description: that is in fact not red curtains hanging behind the owl, as I've previously thought. It's actually a jacket, as indicated by the lapels and a small button on the left. It seems to be hung over the nest as if to protect it from the rain, or for privacy. (It also serves nicely as an artistic study of light, shadow, and fabric wrinkles.) Fascinating to consider in relation to the giant nest found in one of the abandoned mill town buildings (the one with the broken roof, next to St. Powell's Church). Plus the fact that the Rougarou's outer wings have lapels, and that we don't see Laurent wearing a jacket, just a vest. Thank you Compulsion, love a good vest look.

Other general observations include the fact that this appears to be a highly skilled oil painting, and an unlikely subject to have been purchased or commissioned. It's not hard to imagine Laurent practicing painting (as well as piano) over the decades, often alone out in the Juke Joint. (Teddy's Juke Joint, by the way, per an old Jolene poster over the piano. Just in case you hadn't noticed that sweet heartbreaking little detail, that Laurent seems to have named it after his dad.) The general composition also shares some visual similarity with the painting Saturn Devouring His Son, though I don't see any further parallels to extract from that for Laurent. Just a similar sort of eeriness.

Given the subjects of this painting, and that it's probably something Laurent made himself, it appears to be vent art. But rather than a rough or erratic style, with raw emotion peeled directly out onto the canvas—it's the sort of style and medium that requires a solid amount of control and focus, maintained over a long period of time. It's a subtle and appropriate detail, aligning well with how Laurent tries to stay in control of his emotions. Makes me think he finds painting meditative or the like, regardless of whether what he's putting to canvas might be morbid.

Now, for the symbolism of the subjects. While it's obvious the owl is Laurent, I find the opossum less clear. It could be representative of the sawmill boss, since that is the one person we know Laurent killed, and it's a guilt he still harbors. Even if he had it comin', as the Chicago showgirls say. But opossums are sweet, and it doesn't feel right to link them to that asshole. There's even a cute family of opossums that cross a fallen log above the path in chapter 7! So I've kept searching for some other potential answer that might make sense without indirectly demonizing opossums.

Another idea I've pondered is the possibility that he might sometimes eat wildlife in rougarou form, and has complicated feelings about that. It would be very Tobias Animorphs of him. Bonus fascinating coincidence: an Ellis & Son sign behind the sawmill boss' desk says "Cornelius Tobias Ellis," but that's just some red string silliness.

Or—for the new idea I just landed on earlier—it could be evocative of the primary other opossum that we see: the one that perches on Shakin' Bones' shoulder, both in-game and in the announcement trailer.

Consider that Shakin' Bones is a Charon-type figure—typically leading folks to the Crossroads or other (safer) locations, rather than directly to death, but…the implied link is there. So an owl (both as what Laurent becomes, and as used in-game to suggest the spirit of a dead person), eating an opossum (as related to a man who can help people cross over to death, or at least get to the Crossroads)…could perhaps be a representation of Laurent's relative agelessness and presumed immortality. Not necessarily as a hostile attack against death, or a deliberate rejection of a normal human lifespan—that would be better represented by something unusual, like an owl acting akin a shrike and impaling its prey. Laurent has no reason to feel ill will toward Shakin' Bones, after all. Instead, it could be showing his immortality as the natural consequence of becoming a rougarou. Having overcome the standard passage to death, as natural as a predator eating prey...even if the reason and the result lean more unnatural, or supernatural, for someone who was once just a human. (At the same time, it's using the "natural" versions of animals as potential representatives of two "supernatural" entities. Taking a fantastical story, and masking it as an everyday occurrence. So that's yet another layer of making it appear relatively "normal" to those who wouldn't know what it might be symbolizing.)

Maybe it's a bit far-fetched for a theory, but...I like it better than the sawmill boss idea. (Another question then arises: how does Laurent answer when folks ask about the odd painting behind the bar...?)

Now, one theory does not preclude another, especially when it comes to interpreting art. It could be all or none of the above. If anybody else has thoughts, I'd love to hear them! I haven't seen any discussions about this painting, so I'm curious if there's something else that hadn't occurred to me.

[genshinimpactresources]

Genshin Impact | Natlan Book Collections

[just-floetcoeur]

You know that one scene at the end of The Last Unicorn vaguely reminds me of Irene. Someone should animate that. I’ve tried but it ended up looking like arse.

“No. Unicorns are in the world again. No sorrow in me will live as long as that joy. Safe one. And I owe that to you.”

I’m working on crests for each of the divine warriors families.

[gretaloves]

Knight from the Ashes 🌹

Forged in cursed Flames 🌹

Fall of the Ember Throne 🌹

Shari L. Tapscott 🌹

Jake Andrews 🌹

[briabooknerd]

Take the reigns

Chasing blue

Behind the Bit

Triple fault

Best enemies

Little white lies

Rival Revenge

Home sweet drama

City secrets

Elite ambition

Jessica Burkhart

[crestfallencrest]

Hah, Get Smooched, idiot!

[uwmspeccoll]

Steamy Saturday

"Women who dare to live in that outcast world of 'twilight' love." "Val sensed something oddly disturbing about the girl. Not until later did she realize what it was -- and then it was too late!" "I love you, Val. I want to be your lover. . .. She brushed Val's cheek with her fingers. . .. Val's flesh tingled at the touch. For the briefest moment she closed her eyes. . .." ". . . a refreshingly realistic treatment of women who are 'different'."

Steamy, steam, steam!!

The sophisticated, witty, attractive, and popular airline hostess Val MacGregor meets her lovely, dark-eyed coworker Toni. Val is confident in her sexuality and enjoys the attention of men -- maybe too much -- but Toni soon shows her otherwise, and Val is awakened to her true desires. Such is the premise of American lesbian romance writer Paula Christian's first novel Edge of Twilight, published in pulp paperback as a Crest Book by Fawcett Publications in 1959. Remarkably, Edge of Twilight has a positive resolution of fully-realized lesbian love, unlike the tragic endings of most lesbian romance fiction from the period.

Paula Christian was the pseudonym for Yvonne MacManus (1931-2002), an American novelist, editor, and publisher who wrote in several genres under her own name but published lesbian romances only under her pen name Paula Christian. MacManus had been an airline crew member herself, flying out of what became Kennedy International Airport in New York, and Edge of Twilight is semi-autobiographical.

The book's cover art offers stereotypical 1950s butch/femme imagery, only this time it is a photograph, rather than being rendered by an illustrator. As a "pro-lesbian" romance, Barbara Grier, in her seminal The Lesbian in Literature, gives the novel her highest rating of A*** for its very sympathetic portrayal of lesbian characters. The National Organization for Decent Literature, however, disagreed. The organization would often flag individual passages they found objectionable in publications but in this case it noted: "Theme of book is hardly a subject for teenage perusal. A book about a pair of lesbians is hardly youthful entertainment. Pages and passages have not been marked as it is generally objectionable."

View other pulp fiction posts.

[smbhax]

Cover illustration by Charles Moll

Info from ISFDB

[danieyells]

. . .y'know given Taiga is the one who made the casino do you think he changed the Sinostra house crest himself?

The skull even matches the one on his gun. His WickChat icon has a similar skull too.

Like I guess he could have just added the slot bit on the bottom but. The whole thing matches Taiga's gun and the casino he made. So it's kind of unlikely it had the exact same design before he became captain. I wonder what it looked like before?

[the-starry-traveller]

Hey Twi, while I clear more books to lower the risk of Sunburst getting hurt... what's the matrix spell?

Simply put it's...

"It’s not perfect—there’s a 15% margin of error from interference or minor mistakes. But we’ve accounted for that. Once done, we’ll have a more straightforward path to the source faster. It's also done by a specialist pathfinder. Additionally, we just determined that the Sunburst near you is likely a fake... Sorry, we took this long, E264." - Twilight Sparkle.

[providence-park]

STAR WARS

[platin-amide]

as a fanatic of themed planner deco, I couldn't resist making these Naranja/Uva Academy stickers to spice up my Pokemon themed layouts. School pride heck yeah!