#Five Magical Stories

[pxper-cranes]

Everyone who wrote off aetherdrift as just a wacky races filler set GO TO THE PLANESWALKERS GUIDE AND READ THAT SHIT BECAUSE IT SOUNDS SO FUCKING COOL

THERE ARE SHARK PEOPLE ON KALADESH, (Renamed to Aviskar)

AMONKHET HAS NEW GODS AND RIVAL FACTIONS

THERES FINALLY SOMETHING TO MURAGANDA! AND IT SOUNDS AWESOME

And theres word of tons of new planes and returning characters i did not expect to be so hyped for this set but just go read the planeswalkers guide they wrote so much for it the worldbuilding is so good

[but-make-it-poly]

Think About It

Oceanids are the children of Oceanus.

All nereids are nymphs, but not all nymphs are nereids. The difference isn’t just, “water nymph”. Nereids are the children of Oceanids.

(Naiads are basically the same except fresh water. Naiads are the daughters of the Potamoi, who are children of Oceanus :D)

Penelope is a nereid. Amphitrite’s grandfather is Oceanus, so she’s also a nereid. Penelope and Amphitrite are cousins.

Do with that what you will.

Edit: Ask and you shall receive. Screenshots from my reference folder:

Cousins.

[kanerallels]

Steve Miller Au update!!! Hope y'all enjoy it, and huge shout out to @seleneisrising for giving me some key advice that helped this turn out as well as it did. Taglist under the cut!

“That wasn’t so difficult, was it?”

Hera shuddered as Maul’s laugh echoed against the walls of the Ghost. Stumbling backwards, she felt fear and shame overwhelm her. She’d tried to resist Maul’s use of the Force to break into her mind. But it hadn’t been like the Inquisitor. Instead of brute force, he’d slipped around her guards like a snake in the grass, and plucked the information from her mind.

The story Kanan had told her, about how Ezra had joined the crew. How he’d stolen the holocron from him, and Hera had joked he should find a better place to hide it. She’d showed him the secret compartment in the side of his bunk, and he’d thanked her with his usual easy grin.

It had been so long ago, back when their crews had first merged. She’d never thought that memory would be ripped to the front of her mind and used to hurt the people cared about most.

A hand grabbed her by the shoulder, and suddenly she was face to face with Maul, his yellow eyes peering into hers. “Now,”  he hissed. “Give me the location of your base, or the rest of your crew dies.”

What? No, I can’t—this isn’t how things—Hera stumbled backwards, head spinning. “I can’t,” she managed.

Maul’s grin was cold. “No matter. I shall take it from you. And your friends will die regardless. I already have the Jedi.”

Taglist (DM or comment if you want to be removed or added): @accidental-spice @day-to-day-thots @auroramagpie @heckin-music-dork @opalknight

@seleneisrising @cassie-fanfics @ana-cantskywalker @lothalnyx

[sprinklesharkie]

duality of girl

[transbookoftheday]

The Enchanted Forest and Other Stories: Five Tales of Gender Magic by Zoe Storm

Four friends go hiking in the woods and take a wrong turn. Two girls meet in a nightclub in London. A boy goes to sleep after a horrible night out, and wakes up as a woman seventeen years later. The son of a clan’s chief is asked to act as a guide for their guest, a girl from the sea. At Christmas, a girl summons a spirit and makes a wish.

Five stories about people finding themselves, with the help of a bit of magic.

[st-playhouse-story-blog]

A gorgeous drawing of Renata and Rarity together by @piaojun335

I really like this crossover of two fashion designers from the pony world and from another one fnaf au)

And OMG, Rarity giving advice to Renata is so cute, I love it so much😭😭😭🌹🌹🌹💎💎💎💎

Fun fact when I gave Renata her occupation, I was actually inspired by Rarity, Idk but I noticed some similarities between them both. Renata has always been associated for me with fashion and beauty, femininity and a generosity, which is why I think I compared them two :)

Thank you so much Piao for this beautiful drawing♡´･ᴗ･`♡

[missyeon]

steve blackman count your days

[leederpfucker]

Gang I'm considering shipping Lolbit with that goddamn rainbow

[anisohtropy]

KAVETHAM PRINCESS BRIDE SEND POST

[aleki-lives-here]

I watched an mdzs animatic with a song from wicked, and something in my mind finally clicked and now I want to scream about how similar my current and my past hyperfixations are.

"Good news, the witch is dead!" like

"No good deeds" is such a "character pushed to their limits" song. Imagine it before the nightless city. The first scream, as Wen Ning and Wen Qing walk away. The chanting as he lies there, unable to move, praying for them to be well. Memories of people he loves: Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli, Lan Zhan, the Wen siblings.

"Was I really seeking good, or just seeking attention?" -- as he looks at the burial mounds and leaves.

"If I cannot succeed, Fiero, saving you, I promise no good deed will I attempt to do again." -- as he learns about Wen Qing and Wen Ning's death.

Ending with him arriving at Nightless city and pulling out the flute.

I want to see it animated so much!

My skills are so annoyingly not up to the task. Maybe if my hyperfixation survives long enough that I learn drawing and animating things well? It'll be the third mdzs animatic I really wish to do one day. Maybe one day.

[kanerallels]

for the ask game, sabine and ezra in the musketeer au please? I feel like that would be very fun

FRIEND GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE I WAS LITERALLY WRITING ABOUT THEM SO RECENTLY but since that fic won't be posted for a couple months, have a low key preview:

“How did you even end up being a musketeer?”

Sabine glanced up from cleaning one of her blades, eyeing the boy skeptically. She’d only known Kanan’s apprentice for a day or two now. But she already knew that he was a troublemaker— sneaking around, eavesdropping on Kanan and Hera’s conversations.

That said, she’d been right there with him, so who was she to judge?

“My family are all warriors, too,” she told him. “Not musketeers, but they’re fighters. So I always knew I wanted to fight alongside them. But… things changed.” A pang of memory went through her, and she looked back down at her blade to avoid meeting Ezra’s curious gaze. “Then I met Hera. And she offered me an apprenticeship, so I took it.”

Everything had changed then. She’d left her past behind, and moved on, determined to become a musketeer. To become better. She still wasn’t really sure if it was working.

Glancing up, Sabine studied Ezra. “What about you? How’d you end up as Kanan’s apprentice?”

Ezra shrugged, looking a little sheepish. “I broke into his house.”

“That checks out.”

[immobiliter]

so it's not entirely clear how many of focalors' memories furina actually retained once she was separated from her divine self, and there are two pieces of evidence to suggest that she has very few, if any at all — firstly, that when neuvillette quizzes her about egeria and the stone slates at the start of act 5, she genuinely seems to know nothing about egeria or the nature of the sin that she committed against celestia ( she had no reason to really lie to neuvillette at that point, especially as this is in the aftermath of poisson and the final straw for him to put her on trial to get some answers ), where we in fact know that focalors was one of egeria's oceanid familiars, wanted to be human herself and was her successor after egeria perished during the cataclysm, and second, that focalors specifically describes to neuvillette that when she separated her divine and human selves, she "left behind only a self that was as naive and bewildered as my past self on her first day as a human being."

but furina does have the knowledge of the prophecy before focalors explains it to her more fully in the mirror, saying that it's in her head but she doesn't know why. so, in trying to reconcile all of this, i lean towards the idea that focalors left behind certain vague memories, the two key ones being that of the prophecy and an understanding that she needed to bring the hydro sovereign to the court of fontaine, but without any context in order to preserve the idea that, for the most part, furina was operating completely in the dark in terms of focalors' plan

so furina enters into her position as hydro archon with considerable gaps in her memory ( and, due to being a human with an unnaturally elongated life span rather than being a species or divine creature who is naturally long lived, has memory issues later down the line, but that's a separate meta ), and, as a result, she does an incredible amount of research into the archons, celestia and her role in teyvat. i don't think it was a coincidence or just a fun joke that, in her demo, furina imitates all of the other archons we'd met up until that point — she confesses to the traveler before her trial that at one point she had agents all over teyvat and i think some of this was intelligence gathering concerning how archons governed in other nations. furina became archon in the immediate aftermath of the cataclysm and the death of fontaine's previous archon without any memories of focalors' life as egeria's confidante and familiar, so was already at a huge disadvantage in those early years of her rule

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

i finished night on the galactic railroad!! :3

ahh ……. it made me tear up a little bit towards the end but i stayed strong :’)) suchhhh a lovely book. this was my first time reading miyazawa but now i completely understand why he’s so beloved ……..

his writing is . soooooo so pretty 🥹🥹 the imagery in this had me feeling so inspired and just…….. awestruck? the foreword mentions that miyazawa viewed space as an emotional landscape, not a cold vacuum, and….. that resonated with me so deeply when i was reading. his descriptions of the galaxy and all the things campanella and giovanni encounter on their trip were just so, so beautiful….. his use of imagery is so insanely gorgeous….. liquid moonlight and stardust and phosphorescent crackles…….

the atmosphere of it all was just so wonderful to me :’) the train, and all the glowing lights, the melancholy and joy and the feeling that something isn’t quite as it should be ………………

i already knew about The Twist before reading, which. i think!!! actually added to the experience a lot. it made everything feel very bittersweet from the beginning….. an inevitable ending of sorts :’) it was just really good!!!!!!!!! from the prose to the dialogue to the story itself!!!!!!! the theme of true happiness and how it must be located in the stars…. i really really enjoyed my time with this book. calling it a comfort read feels a little wrong but…. it was just very comforting somehow……..……

”i think i understand how that scorpion must have felt… if it would make people happy, i wouldn’t mind if my whole body burned to ashes.”

^ my favorite quote <3

[auxilioooo]

Five is the Magic Number pt 4

[barkingbarghest]

Realizing how I've always had a soft spot for characters who struggle with their anger and violently lashing out. I'm sure that means something, but for now just filing it away for future use.

[gl1tchxr]

the dynamic between juxt and ny is unparalleled. they learn from each other without meaning to. they're both jealous of the other. they inspire each other to be better. they absorb each other's worst habits. they seem like they would get along least but they understand each other in a way no one else can