#Diplomatic Incidents

[supertaliart]

Just thinking about the Skywalker Twins getting to develop that good sibling energy.

[sesamenom]

Gil-galad Variations, featuring all the gil galad theories i've encountered.

[eleneressea]

thinking about Aredhel—she goes to Celegorm and Curufin's lands and stays there for a while waiting for them to come back, then gets bored and wanders off and eventually comes to Nan Elmoth (and we all know how that goes) but I was thinking: what if Celegorm went after her? He tracks her to Nan Elmoth eventually, and…

Eöl's sorceries are powerful, but Celegorm has Huan with him and is blessed by Oromë, so I don't think he gets nearly as turned around as Aredhel was. He finds her and Eöl, murders Eöl and burns down the forest behind him rescues her from his enchantments, and sends a letter to Maedhros going "found Aredhel, might have caused a diplomatic incident, also I may have a son now."

[sleepyorchidmonster]

Once upon a time, NRC's Board Game Club decided to organize a chess competition. Thanks to Azul's marketing genius, the event became really popular, with plenty of students from outside the club participating.

However, due to an accident (Floyd was bored and Grim annoyed him, everything is now on fire), most of the club's chess sets were destroyed. To solve the problem, contestants were encouraged to bring one of their personal sets.

This idea made for an ecletic set up, especially since most students are crazy rich. Idia brought the set Leona gave him for his birthday, Malleus found an old heirloom from Briar Valley, Kalim isn't even a competitor, but he still got a set made of solid gold and encrusted with precious gems from the Scarabia storage room, and so on... (Cater took a bunch of pictures of all the different styles).

In an effort to make up for Grim's mishap, Adeuce also decided to help, remembering that Heartslabyul has a room filled with different games that students often used.

There were dozens of chess sets, but they just HAD to choose the pretty one atop of a pedestal, with a sign saying "NO!!" in bold letters (in their defense, Heartslabyul is nonsensical, also they were in a competition with Sebek and that was the best set).

A few days later, right before the event, the game club students began to organize the space for the matches.

Only for the Heartslabyul set to come to life and start fighting people, that is...

Apparently, the Queen of Hearts left a small contingent of her best soldiers to protect the school, just in case. Hidden as a deck of cards and a chess set, those soldiers can be summoned by simply opening their cases/boxes, though they shall only answer to the Heartslabyul housewarden.

She also forgot to tell anyone else about the plan, trusting that a single rule of "When in trouble, get the chess set or the playing cards" would suffice.

So now we have a bunch of gigantic marble statues wandering around campus, looking for hostile forces or their leader...

After a few fights, a statue crashing a dormhead meeting and kidnapping Riddle, and plenty of discussion, the students FINALLY manage to calm the statued down, explaining how it was all a misunderstanding.

All's well that ends well, but now the chess pieces want to watch the actuall chess matches.... something about wanting to know the prowess of great warriors and future leaders...

And that is how we get an chess event in twst, with a few extra cards and special outfits, since this just became a formal event, what with the piqued interest of a bunch of ancient royal guards.

The main event cards would be Leona, Idia, Azul, Malleus, Lillia and Jamil, since they're the actual contestants for the competition, while Riddle also gets an SSR, since he is supervising the gigantic chess soldiers, in a role similar to the Queen of Hearts.

Since the statues insisted on participating in the competition's finale, the last match is held in the school's Coliseum, with a cute twstune to wrap things up.

Then the victor gets crowned and the chess pieces leave.

[imakemywings]

Aroace Maedhros is so excellent though...he does not want any part of sex or romance, he wants to be left alone with his battle plans and you can call him if you have useful intel or if you’ve written a sufficiently amusing insulting ballad about one of his family members

[eldritch-bisexual]

I have a headcanon for after TaiSui was defeated. I think Xiyun/Lanhua just plain collapsed. From exhaustion, from grief, a combination of both... It doesn't matter, she's just down.

The fairies try to get to her. Because, you know, she was one of them. She's Changheng's almost-wife. They got to see if she's fine.

Except the Moon Tribe has opinions about it. And their opinion is that the fairies should leave their Yuezhu the fuck alone.

Anyway, I want Shangque to go dragon and abscond with the offline Xishan Goddess while Xunfeng bitches at Yunzhong (backed up by Changheng after a bit of coaxing).

[kat]

babylon 5 season 2 episode 14: there all the honor lies

"... so you feel like you're being symbolically cast in a... bad light."

[ria-starstruck]

hollow knight au where ghost (and hornet) travel to the past to do fuckall and in ghost’s case this includes antagonizing pale king for funsies ✌️😜

[kissingdeadgirls]

miles really woke up on the shuttlecraft and chose violence. and has now decided to go around asking stupid questions until he learns enough to ask the right ones.

if he doesn’t start a war first. by like. accident.

[winepresswrath]

congratulations i've never been a fan of sangcheng mostly bc i TRIED but i'm not really interested in their early days dynamic and post-canon i find it hard to believe it could ever happen. but the weird messy version which may or may not lead to wwx-jc reconciliation but imo cannot end happily if jc finds out about the whole jin ling thing IS interesting to me!! Actually I think I only like this if it doesn't work out between jc and nhs so I don't think I can call myself a sangcheng shipper now if I only want mess and an unhappy ending but you know. i'd read a fic about them now if this specific one existed!

In theory I'd be down for either, but I always manage to trick myself into wanting a happy ending by the end of a fic I'm really enjoying. I think they're both really exhausted post-canon and in most universes they just avoid each other but there's one or two where Nie Huaisang tricks Jiang Cheng into doing his homework, which makes Jiang Cheng feel needed, and dangles him in front of Wei Wuxian for sport, which makes Jiang Cheng feel wanted, and they're the only two major sect leaders who are both adults and not in seclusion so I can see them getting stuck eating lunch together enough for Nie Huaisang to develop ideas.

[theloopus]

back in the 80s and 90s they kept trying to shoehorn Scott Bakula into Manly Man male lead roles because he was built like a cartoon action hero and he is so extremely miscast in all of these roles because despite said body he has the vibes of a man who apologizes to furniture after bumping into it

[mountainashfae]

Owlcatober Day 6: Family

"Have you heard? The King of the Stolen Lands is the Knight-Commander's son. They never speak of each other, so I wonder what their relationship is like."

When the Councilor of the Stolen Lands makes a visit to Drezen and the King decides to tag along, a grudge held for almost a decade comes to light.

[hoiist]

Dorian and Aquinea, post Trespasser  based off this

[fooltofancy]

betrayal.jpg

[brother-emperors]

johann: please

ascanio, about to potentially cause a diplomatic incident yet again: no

anyway he was extremely funny for all of this

Extracts From the Latin Diary of Johannes Burchardus, edited by F.L. Glaser

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[bretwalda-lamnguin]

I've always hated the idea that Elrond should have killed Isildur to destroy the ring, but I don't think many people realise how awful an idea it is even beyond the moral side of things. Isildur isn't just some bloke, he's the king of Arnor and Gondor, killing him will have very real and potentially very violent repercussions. He has plenty of sons and nephews who will avenge him. Killing him to stop Sauron potentially returning at some unspecified point in the future makes no sense if it risks a massive war now, should his heirs decide to take revenge for the murder of their father by one of the main political leaders of the elves.