#I am defiance

[starriskiesstuff]

when you fall down a 'but what about the german children' ww2 rabbit hole and read Projekt 1065 and I Am Defiance in the span of a few days (and having read and reread The Wave soon before)

then you have a project in school and you have to write from the perspective of a character in the book your class was reading

and she idolizes FDR

and then you get certain "beginning of I Am Defiance" vibes from what you're writing

and oh shit this was not supposed to happen what have i done

this is my reality

[firstfullmoon]

Jackie Sabbagh, “Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately”

[im-smart-i-swear]

coming back home.

@barrenclan

[savior-of-the-ink]

I think I cracked it— the code that will unlock the way to Eramis's affection: loyalty.

Eramis values loyalty above everything else: she is loyal to her beliefs, to the old traditions, to the imagine of Riis that lives in her memory, to the dream of the Eliksni united once more. To the promise of seeing her family again.

Eramis hates Variks for his betrayal of their friendship and their own kind. She has a way to test others and check if they're loyal to the picture they made of themselves, otherwise they're not worthy of her attention. She was loyal to the Witness because it was the only person that had reached out a hand and lifted her from her misery (it freed her from her prison, it gave her a second chance to prove herself, that must mean something!) and she only starts doubting its commands when they clash with her vision, when they put the people she swore her loyalty to— and, consequentially, her morals— in danger. She saved Eido from the Lucent Hive, then Misraaks later on because her loyalty to her project of salvation brings her to recognize when other are more fitting than her to be its makers.

Eramis doesn't trust humanity because we are hypocrites— carrying out a systematic genocide of her people for years, calling a truce only when House Light willingly crawls back under the Great Machine's shadow—, maybe because she sees the same dependance from the Traveler that she spent centuries trying to detach herself from and she is disgusted by it.

Maybe she fears the possibility of a fresh start, away from all the hate and sorrow. Maybe she fears of betraying herself if she allows the thoughts of "redemption" and "doing the right thing" getting to her because it would mean leaving behind that part of her so carefully crafted through years of resentment and despair and sheer determination to survive and take revenge on the cruel universe that abandoned her. It's too much to lose, too deeply rooted in her being to be simply put aside for the sake of everybody else.

Show Eramis that you are loyal to her. Don't try to change her, she doesn't need help. Show that you are willing to accept her as she is, that she doesn't need to betray herself, and she will love you wholeheartedly. Stab her in the back or turn your back on your own morality and you are as good as a rot that needs to be eradicated.

[runespoor7]

You think JGY ever looked at WWX like a cautionary tale for himself and an object lesson in what not to do (do not ever outlive your usefulness; do not ever forget that biting the hand that raised you up is more dangerous for you than for them, unless you remove it; genuinely is he so fucking stupid that he doesn't get what he's doing or does he not care; why is he throwing all that power away)

was he too jealous (imagine being the sect leader's bastard and being raised as the future second in command! having the future sect leader's confidence! being so fucking familiar with the main family! And then what does WWX do? throw it all away!! like it's nothing like it's worth nothing like it means nothing, god jgy would scratch wwx's eyes out)

does he very occasionally think about it when he's going to sleep. when darth jgy, or xue yang, is whispering aren't you tired of being nice, don't you wanna go apeshit

[valacirya]

Everything in Valinor is alive; the trees, the streams, even the stones and the wind. There is a constant thrum of Music there that harmonizes with every Minya's fëa. How blissful it is to wake up feeling the life-force of the universe rolling through your veins like thunder, to call to the land and hear it answer, to invite the Gods over for supper.

Indis does not mind that her children will be raised as Noldor, but she makes sure that all of them are born in her home, political implications be damned. They first breathe Taniquetil's crisp air and open their eyes to Laurelin's light and drink from the river that taught her how to swim. The first words they hear are Namo's prophecy- and from them shall spring things so fair that no tears shall dim their beauty. This is the greatest gift she can give them: certainty.

Centuries later, Indis will stand at the base of Taniquetil, gazing at its seemingly endless height. She will take a deep breath and begin to climb, knowing that the mountain will not let her fall.

[gideonthe9]

i just reached prometheus in hades 2 and WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT

[elodieunderglass]

in his delicious materials, do you have any thoughts about what chilchuck's daughters' daemons/bee's sons are like? Is puckpatti's even settled yet?

(In reference to His Delicious Materials: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56658973/chapters/144024799)

Bee’s boys - Sangwine, Pantoufle and Eglantine - gave her an absolute run for her money to raise, although given how much they worked away from home in the early years, she left most of the logistics to her wife, a mouse daemon. As a result she and Chilchuck would come home to “do some parenting while you’re here, why don’t you” and incredibly tricky and complex grievances and disciplinary problems, lots of “Bee will hear about this when she’s home!” Which didn’t set her up for much success, in retrospect.

Bee was an impatient and often angry young parent, but tried her best, made an effort to educate herself, and was exceedingly good at carrying her sons around by the scruffs of their necks, which was good - since they all all liked being absolutely unsuitable and enormous things, like ferrets, for a lot of the time in their wild youth. She wasn’t always the bad cop, but they all had very few models of Effective Parenting growing up, so she wasn’t as good then as she would be at it now.

Pantoufle’s the only one who is likely to give Bee grandchildren in her lifetime, but he’s also a little nightmare, so she doesn’t have much hope. Pan isn’t so good at the daemon’s role of “externalising the human’s voice of conscience.” He is, instead, evidence that their middle child has no conscience whatsoever. He has zero moral fiber and criminal instincts.

They are all long, long since settled.

I have no idea what forms they are, though. Literally was not planning on it ever being relevant. I am doing a 65k commission gift fic over the summer and MOVING ON, I said.

Then ended up having a conversation in the comments where it was like . Oh no. The political implications of being the only weasel daemon in your village. that could be genuinely rather funny. Oh no. What if there was a social landslide as a result of Bee settling, with large political implications swirling around, and it’s genuinely Just Some Awkward Scruffy Tall Guy And His Weasel Soul Who Are Pretty Oblivious To It All, and you turn around and suddenly your people’s daemon pool is completely changed in a generation??? Hilarious. Self-indulgent. Nothing to do with any given canon whatsoever, literally just playing in a sandbox. Someone should write that.

And then the baby didn’t sleep for a few nights in a row (oh no):

[dotterelly]

I commissioned @harleysart for the cover of my second book after they did such a good job on the first, and boy did they deliver!

You can read the book HERE if you're interested. Individual characters below the cut.

First up is Adalia Milbank, aka Ada. She's the protag of my first book, and is sort of protag in the second, but now shares the limelight with her friends more. She's pretty smart, but still traumatized and kinda filled with rage after the events of the first book. Her role in the team is sysop, programming, and system management. She's also the only true mage on Earth, after she was granted a boon by a Goddess from another world that allows her to siphon mana from there. With her is Cinnabun - one of the GMs and a being that lives in the rift between worlds. They and their colleagues are the ones who first created the Fantasy Isekai Simulator VR game in order to allow other worlds to use people from Earth as champions in a more sustainable way. They helped rescue Ada in the first book, and now work closely with Ada and her friends to manage the back end of the game.

Next is Ophelia Campbell, aka Lia, and her game avatar Liana_Sunblood aka Sunny. Ophelia is the shortest in the group, and petite with it. But she has a pretty steady personality under pressure, and is basically their leader. She's good at people management and keeping everyone moving, but sometimes feels kind of useless since her talents are less tangible than those of the others. Still, they would be lost without her watching over them. Her avatar Sunny is a knight archetype, of average height and solidly built. Her weapons of choice are a sword and her flexible buckler shield, but she's trained at least a little with most types of weapons and with unarmed combat, and has lead armies before in the game.

Then we have Bronwyn Jones, who everyone calls Fishy after her gamer tag Hi_Im_Fish. She is taller than Lia, but shorter than Ada, and chubby with curves. She has a degree in Chemistry from a well respected university, and really enjoys her area of expertise. She applies said expertise to her avatar, which is an alchemist build. Where most consider the alchemist archetype to be a craft job not suited to fighting, Fishy has managed to make it into a solid support/damage class. No one else has yet been able to truly match her level of skill as an alchemist, and those in the know consider her a mad genius. She tends to wear her heart on her sleeve, is witty and mischievous and fiercely protective of her friends, and would throw hands with anyone, up to and including god. She is in a relationship with Moon, who she adores deeply.

Finally, we have Moon and their avatar Sleepy_Moon. Due to certain circumstances, they basically abandoned their surname with their deadname, and are now just known as Moon to everyone. Moon towers over the others at over 6 ft tall, and their large with it. They are androgynous in the way that most features people would use to gender them are obscured by their weight and their preference for comfortable worn baggy clothing. They are socially anxious and pretty shy around people they don't know due to finding it hard to read other people, but open up around their trusted friends. They have a deep love and interest in magic, researching it in all literary and fictional contexts and then studying the realities of it after discovering the existence of magical worlds in other dimensions during the events of book one. As a result, their knowledge and mana control are near perfect, though they can't use magic on Earth unless Ada lends them some mana. When dealing with magic, they are at their happiest and most confident. They chose to match their avatar to their real appearance as much as possible because it took so long for them to feel comfortable in their own skin and now they are not comfortable looking like anything else. They have been with Fishy since they were both in university together, and their relationship is going strong.

And that's everyone! If you actually read all that, please do drop me an ask, message, or reply and let me know who is your favourite. I'm open to answer any questions you like about any of them.

[mariacallous]

so ready to up and leave everything to retire to a waterfront villa on Tynna or Naboo or Bothawui with him

lie to the empire? stall? make the best of bad options?

[taonpest]

Do you ever think about the fact that Vorador and Raziel were burning with rage the moment Janos died

[acommonrose]

Me when I'm kinda okay at a video game I've already spent hundreds of hours on: Wow can't believe I'm the world's best gamer

[benoits-neckerchieves]

Look who’s on BBC One rn looking fiiiine asf

Defiance (2008)

i apologise for the quality i’m taking photos of my tv screen at 1am so y’know

[thebiggestmenace]

yk something I find interesting is how Castiel became "Cas" to the other angels. we know he became Cas so quickly to the boys, but don't angels always call each other their full names? yet, Anna (and I think the ones at the playground) called him Cas

idk it's interesting to me. like, was this them acknowledging that Cas lost his need to serve Heaven and him gaining a sense of humanity?

[carebooks]

i made a video on Callum from the 5x08 episode. you know the one. paired with Taylor Swift’s illicit affairs based on this post:

hope ya’ll like it✨✨ @gender-cloud

[julesnichols]

Reasons why the Defiance pilot is perfect, in no particular order:

The wigs. They're SO shitty thank God they improve later (even if it's wild how Alak suddenly has mostly white and some blue hair instead of mostly blue and some white hair)

Likewise the costume makeup for the Castithans... not the best tbh

Amanda telling Nolan to go whore himself out to earn the money to leave town because he's hot enough to make bank

The random janky camera zooms with little to no rhyme or reason

The cheesy writing (my beloved)

Random sing-along within the first ten minutes

Kenya telling Nolan to get his ass fucking KICKED to make money (I love the Rosewater sisters so so much)

Only cop in town is killed in a bar fight like halfway through

This random guy gets hired to replace him

"This is just like Kansas City" / "We got knifed in Kansas City"

Genetically engineered superpowered dude has an off switch if you punch him in the butt