#IDK WHERE THEY ARE IN THE LORE BUT I HAVE LORE

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Hi, hello, I can't stop thinking about the Ford Kook AU. I NEED to know more. Like, if this is Ford, then where is Fiddleford? Did Fiddleford go through the portal? Is Stan desperately trying to reverse engineer the science bullshit that scrambled Ford's brain to make something that can unscramble it? If Fidds isn't in the portal, is he helping Stan try to unscramble Ford? Did Ford even send the postcard?! Is Stan even there at all!?! I am HOOKED. I will take any scraps or crumbs you have to give I am on my hands and knees begging

Hello hello!! I'm so glad you're liking my Au already :] I love all your suggestions! So far the lore is a bit rickety since I'm still on the fence as to how I want to incorporate Stanley and Fiddleford into the AU, since they'll be taking pretty major roles in the lore.

I'm hesitating between prioritizing a fun dynamic between characters and a fun story. I have some options that I'm going through though! Mostly just spitballing, nothing concrete :D

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Fiddleford's potential fates in this AU:

Option 1. He was sucked into the portal during a testing trial accident and is part of the reason why Ford went mad with Project Mentem. He becomes something similar to Portal Ford, but he is later brought back (idk how yet)

Option 2. He is fine and still in his dimension, just not with Ford. He will still play a larger role later in the AU, just in other ways.

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Stan's potential fates in this AU:

Option 1. He faked his death and chose to stay low (also inadvertently becoming part of the reasons to Ford's meltdown and madness when the latter learns of the news). He will accidentally cross paths with Ford, maybe. Or he will be brought to Gravity Falls by some other way.

Option 2. He is dead. (I may make Stanford interact instead with perhaps another version of Stan from another dimension, maybe a reverse portal / drifter Stan, just for a fun dynamic. But this idea might overlap with Fiddleford's option 1 fate, and also overcomplicate things a lot, so I'm a little opposed to it.)

Option 3. MAFIA BOSS.

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

super indulgent genshin oc concept bc i've been thinking too much about capitano and ororon's dynamic in the story lore ramblings and ideas under the cut for anyone interested hahah;;, beware - long-ass post

(obviously spoilers ahead for the natlan AQ)

haven't picked out a name yet but we could probably scara him and call him 'vessel' or smth anyway, i was thinking too much abt how, in a way, ororon's situation sorta- idk if 'mirrors' is the word, but it has some similarities to what was ultimately going on w capitano? the difference was of course that while ororon failed to be a vessel to send lingering souls into the night kingdom, capitano didn't fail. quite famoulsy. so while that's super interesting and all, i couldn't help but think how they could've pushed that idea further? like you have to make this connection yourself. not even ororon, who spends a good chunk of the AQ thinking about what happened back then, made any remark about how similar it was to what ended up happening to capitano (that i recall?). did we ever find out if the ritual they tried w ororon had ever been performed before? i don't remember. it might've been, but it could've also been a hypothetical of sorts that they figured they could just try. anyway, regardless, i started thinking about if they HAD done it before, how interesting it would've been to actually get an account of what went down. as in- in further detail. bc then we could've possibly had a stronger/more evident connection between capitano's ordeal and ororon, and it would've been more clear what ororon sort of- dodged. if that makes any sense. like we know thanks to capitano but still, it's not the exact same scenario. so you can probably see where this is going lmao

this guy (we'll go with 'the vessel') is the result of my brainworms thinking about how it could've worked if we had one of the previous 'sacrifices' of the ritual (or maybe even the only other one) appear in the story. maybe he could've been from around the time citlali was still young (like before she realized she wasn't aging), so before she was renowned and in a position where she would've been able to easily stop the ritual. i think it would be really interesting if she could've like- still protested? y'know? but since she didn't have a high position she felt like it would've been pointless. this would make it all the more compelling the fact that she still didn't outright protest against ororon's ritual, and would've given more weight to her complicated guilt/relief over the whole ordeal. so all the way back then (like 200ish years?) they found a fella with an incomplete soul, trained him to prepare him since the situation wasn't nearly as dire n so there was time (and would make more sense if it was also the first time they were doing this), and then successfully performed the ritual. or at least as successfully as they thought, bc i think it would be all the more appaling if like- ororon's was always meant to be a capitano pre-ronova situation. he would've carried these souls w him and he would've been laid to rest but HE wouldn't have really rested, if that makes sense? not just killing him. maybe that's what it was and i just can't remember. anyway. if it was something like that, then the vessel would've been essentially put to sleep somewhere in a secret cave or whatever, acting as a sort of waiting room for the souls in him to stay w him and not roam the land until they could get into the night kingdom. but since the situation w the night kingdom was worse than anyone had expected, the souls sort of never moved on, and stayed w the vessel, dormant in that cave.

like that, ororon's ritual has failed and we have a more interesting situation going on – citlali's conflict is even more complex, the MotNW are more morally gray, ororon's 'failure' is more weighty given the vessel's ritual did seemingly help out a ton, and capitano has a more interesting parallel w the whole situation. in this scenario of course the natlan AQ has much better pacing etc. it would be more harrowing if we're allowed to stew w the souls disturbed from the night kingdom and sort of haunting the land like they were when we were helping them w citlali n xilonen, i feel like that happened too fast. if the souls were disturbed in that way, then so too would the vessel's rest be disturbed, and i think it would be hilarious if at some point in that little section we get the MotNW in a panic like 'HE IS GONE. HE IS OUT OF THE CAVE' and the traveler is like who???? it would be so funny. so the vessel essentially wakes up, accidentally escapes from his cave, n then starts wandering natlan in a daze bc he's like 200yrs in the future, he's confused, and he has a bunch of souls backseating his existence van hoenheim style. the gang could then meet him n we could have ororon have his little crisis over it n the vessel himself also have conflicting feelings over it etc capitano probably figured out/found out ororon's whole situation w the failed ritual, so when the vessel wakes up, capitano could probably show up and start sort of being oddly inclined to have chats w him. by that point in the story we wouldn't know capitano is in p much his exact same shoes, so this would be a weird sort of 'wtf is he planning' moment. the vesssel wouldn't be able to quite join in on capitano's plan, but since he was trained specifically for this whole ordeal, we could have him and capitano sort of compare notes n theorize how they could both just Fucking Rest. i think the ronova thing would play out the same (wouldn't want to take that away from capitano since that was his wholeass reason for being there), but they would've sort of off-camera (we get shown this afterwards) figured out that if capitano's plan works, then the vessel could sort of use him as a conduit to guide the souls through him and into the night kingdom. sort of like a passage that only he can access. so capitano goes and sits down, and then the vessel sort of sits down by his feet and joins him. then capitnao isn't alone and since i'm nothing if not a simp the first thing i thought when i saw him sitting there was those really heartwrenching fanarts people make of xiao kneeling by the rex lapis statue and resting his head on a thigh/knee, and i can't get the image out of my head, so. vessel -> xiao, capitano -> rex lapis statue, you get it i don't need to explain this any more LMAO i didn't even think of it as ship material (though you bet the fandom would make it so if this was canon. not that i'd protest), but more as a. sort of like- a sudden bastion of understanding and companionship at the end of the road. like yes both of them were alone but also not alone but also really really lonely for a good chunk of their long lives and even though it has now come to the end they both wanted they also managed to find a companion/comrade/someone who Gets It, even if it was just for a little while there at the end.

so yeah

[atalienart]

you requested book discourse, may I offer you this take: I'm sick of "feminist" Greek myth retellings that are advertised as untold tales of heroines finally being given a voice. All of them read like a 21st century feminist lady was airdropped into an ancient Greek setting. Besides, if the heroines they are based on were "voiceless" the author would have no source to fall back on. Also, there's definitely an issue of cultural appropriation in non-Greek authors retelling Greek myths (I'm not Greek so I can't really speak on their behalf but it's sus to me)

I agree about the retellings. They change a lot about the characters and their authors usually write them through the modern lens. It's the same with historical fiction, historical romances. The world is only a backdrop. Authors take an existing world without the context of that world. It can be really annoying sometimes, especially when the "old world" clashes really strongly with the modern elements. Oftentimes people also lack the understanding of niuanse. A heroine can't be strong if she can't kick a guy and tell him to fuck off. That's why women in those myths can be seen as "voiceless". I'm sick of it too xD

As for the cultural appropriation… Eehh... I think it's good to be able to draw inspiration from different things. I understand that if you want to write about historically accurate place and events you should do a thorough research first. The thing is, what if you write a fantasy? What if a culture is only an inspiration for a fictional world? How accurate do you have to be when you create a place where fairies or vampires exist? What culture do you take the fairy folklore from? What if you mix a fairy lore from idk a Polish and Irish folklore and create your own unique world? When I see yet another retelling of Hades and Persephone myth I kinda try to see what the author took from that story. I don't need to see the myth. I don't expect writers to be folklorists and historians and mythology professors. I do expect them to take interest in the culture they borrow from so that what they create isn't offensive or completely idiotic but I don't need them to know everything about it. I don't think keeping cultures closed off and untouchable is the best approach. It will only let that culture shrink and die eventually. Of course watering it down to a cool aesthetic can also be quite damaging but it also brings some spotlight to it and can be a spark for a more thorough discussion. What do you think?

[when-all-is-lost]

Bill Cipher thinks he needs to bring Euclydia back in order to heal and become a better version of himself. Bill Cipher thinks he needs to rekindle a relationship with Stanford Pines in order to be happy, to truly want and feel wanted by someone.

Bill Cipher is wrong, but he won't accept that answer by choice.

So. By force it is, then.

If he'll hold on to everything he refuses to lose with a grip so tight that it bruises and scars anyone and anything trapped in his grasp, then everything he is holding on to will be wrenched from his hands and rendered irreversibly irretrievable.

When All Is Lost (WAIL for short) is a Gravity Falls AU/Sequel exploring what exactly it would take to change Bill Cipher for the better - and what exactly made him who he is in the first place.

Some features!

>An angsty Bill backstory based around some of the darker parts of Flatland lore

>Deeper, more sentimental reasons for Bill to build the portal and start Weirdmageddon

>Visitation sessions between Ford and Bill in the Theraprism starting 14 years after the events of Gravity Falls

>Messy, half one-sided BillFord

>The complex dilemma of discovering you do still care about someone who badly hurt you, made worse by seeing that someone making some active steps toward change

>The cognitive dissonance of hating someone and missing what you used to have with them

>Eventual "human" Bill (Read: Bill stuck possessing a random human body that is of questionable origin) learning to survive in Gravity Falls over 30 years after the events of canon despite losing everything he ever cared about

>A healing process that is more like a silly straw than... idk... a regular straw? It's. It's not linear, that's for sure.

>And so much more...

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Welcome to the official blog of the When All Is Lost AU! Thanks for stopping by to check it out! I'll be using this blog to of course post links when I update the fic with new chapters, but there will also be even more neat Bonus Content™!

Bonus Content™ on this blog might include but is certainly not limited to:

>Art of characters or scenes from the AU

>One-shot fics of scenes that are part of the AU but may not be part of the main storyline (such as scenes from after the portal incident while Bill was still trying to force Ford to re-open the portal, and/or future meetings between Ford and Jheselbraum - including Jheselbraum explaining her history with Bill)

>Deeper dives into some of the headcanons that inspired this AU

>Updates to the companion fic that I'll eventually be working on - excerpts from Journal 3B (Ford's secret journal where he documented some of him and Bill's more 'romantic' encounters from before the portal incident)

>A mini fic about Bill's biological parents

>Occasional opportunities for in-character Q&As, and of course, just regular ol' answers from the author for any questions you might have about the AU!

[wanderingcritter]

I had a super vivid dream last night about Wolfbloods/being a Wolfblood and it's been making me ridiculously dysphoric all day.

Honestly, the worst part isn't even my lack of non-human biology or physical traits. Yes it hurts not having my paws and my tail and not being able to shift under the full moon, don't get me wrong that causes plenty of dysphoria on its own.

But the worst part for me is knowing that if Wolfblood's were actually real they'd most likely look down on me and see me as some kind of fanatical poser, rather than one of them. Idk why it bothers me so much, they're not real so it shouldn't matter. But it really does get under my skin. I hate that I'd have no way to truly prove that I'm like them, if at the very least on the inside.

And maybe I'd feel better if I was able to study and learn more about Wolfbloods and their culture, get a sense of what it's like to actually live as one. But there's so little canonical information about what Wolfblood society is like, their history, their customs. Anything that is explicitly stated or shown in the show tends to be vague or brief, so Im just kind of left trying to piece together a puzzle that's missing most of its parts. It almost feels like Im the last of a species in a way, picking through the ruins of what others left behind. It just saddens me to know how utterly disconnected I am from where I feel like I belong and that there's nothing I can do about it. There's a scene in season 2 (i think) where a character loses her nonhuman abilities, and she longingly watches from a hillside as her pack shifts under the full moon while she's forced to remain in her human form, and every time I watch it I cant help but see myself in it on such an intense level.

Idk do any other otherkin/fictionkin ever feel like this? Does anyone have recommendations for how to cope with it, or more specifically if there's any more extensive Wolfblood lore out there somewhere?

[noitsbecky127]

rebecca watches ds9: melora

oh god I’ve heard about this episode. oh god julian’s gonna violate medical ethics

goddamn ableist cardassians

julian you haven’t even met her yet and you’re already in love. that’s unhinged

ok they’ve met over voice chat at least

guess this was their Very Special Episode

girl you’re an ensign! why would you be allowed to go on a mission alone!

my dad just said “what a bitch!” i think he’s being unfair though

that’s a lot of gold-pressed latinum

oh what the fuck is that guy

quark what have you gotten yourself into now

quark what did you do to this guy

well that’s very straightforward!

why is melora’s hair like that

“i prefer to work alone” girl you’re in starfleet!

julian, whatever you’re doing, stop

he enters the room and immediately goes like “so are you single???”

“i’m not your doctor anymore” alright, so ig it’s ok to fuck

dad is bewildered at the concept of a klingon restaurant. i’m just wondering what they eat aside from gagh

quark is pulling out all the stops to get this guy to not kill him. somehow i doubt this plan will work

i wonder what melora and this guy are saying

alright! the lady knows what she wants

new julian lore! his father is a diplomat

and he played tennis! bro is just doing it all

tng had the dancing doctor and now we have the tennis-playing doctor

man poor melora :(

she really knows what she wants! outright asks julian to come in. you know what, good for her

low-gravity romance scene! idk if that’s a Thing in sci-fi but it should be

melora, floating with this hot guy: btw i’m single

god i love jadzia so much

wait i want to know more about those people who didn’t even breathe the same air and were together for 57 years

ig that scene prolly felt different when everyone and their mother wasn’t in an ldr

god i played fnv and now i can only hear mr house lmao

ah so that’s why this guy wants quark dead

odo hates that he can’t let quark die lmao

god i love when they technobabble

there’s gonna be a catch. there’s always a catch

odo will buy quark after he dies. nicest thing he’s ever said to him no doubt

ok, it seems good, now where’s the catch

oof, guess it doesn’t last long

ohhh, so she has to choose between floating and walking

something tells me she’s gonna choose floating

the little mermaid! yes!!!

melora was like “did she live happily ever after?” and my mom, who’s sitting on the couch doing the crossword, went “no, she died”

guess she’s a regular 24th-century ariel! choose between one world with her home, and another with love

i have no idea what’s going on with quark but i know it’s not good

melora no!

oh fuck yes melora!! get his ass!!!!!

why is the klingon singing

alright people exaggerated how bad julian was in this ep. i mean yeah he’s her doctor but he’s everyone’s doctor so unless we want him to die alone we gotta let him break the rules a teeny bit

i’m surprised they were still getting on well at the end of the ep though, she’s a one-off so i figured they’d break up

ig they’ll break up offscreen

[ninghttt]

idk if vent?? still gonna label as one cuz don't wanna risk it 😭

been thinking about it for a while: I just hope that no one is disappointed with the direction I'm taking my au in. like, another oc x canon, just lucky as a character, that now everything focuses kinda more on false stars and their trauma. really, don't mind my silly doodles where they bickering and stuff, it's not canon. I'm just finally having fun with this au, as I like writing more psychological and relationship-ish stuff 😭 so in short... yeah... I'm just kinda sad that my uninspired and lazy lj design got like 200 notes and now the most I've got is 48(??). maybe it's cuz I'm not so focused on lore stuff anymore, or the fact that tbh lj looks NOTHING like canon lj.. ugh idk 😭😭 I'm just grateful to people that like lucky :( shootout to my gf, Ketchup, sillysarahthings and KJ 🙇‍♂���💞

[humblefryingpan]

Ride the cyclone au where they have pokemon!! It's taken me a rlly long time but I've figured out who would have which pokemon.

Explanations for most of them below. I tried to use a read more but Tumblr was not having it

Also the types are on there, just because.

A lot of them were based on character's vibes so be prepared for some to not be explained. Feel free to ask about them and I can try to explain what made me choose them

Ocean O'Connell Rosenberg

- She'd get loads of grass types but idk why

- Wooper bc I wanted a water pokemon (bc "Ocean") and I feel like that's the one she'd pick

- Snivy bc he looks rlly stuck up and also bc she's a mega slytherin and I wanted to give her a snake bc of that

- Rowlet bc she'd absolutely love the bowtie

- I bet she'd hate poison pokemon and I feel like her parents would have loads of them

Noel Gruber

- You know he'd love ghost/poison/dark pokemon. He'd love the aesthetic.

- Lampent bc it is smth he'd want but more importantly it's bc I couldn't miss out on putting Noel's Lampent in this

- Roserade bc he needed a rose pokemon and that was the most dramatic one

- Umbreon bc of the aesthetic but also bc it evolves based on friendship and I think he would want to do it like that

- Some fire types because fire is symbolic of passion and he got the "sign of passion"

Mischa Bachinski

- Cubone bc it matches his vibe and he'd want one but the dead mother thing was a part of it (look up cubone's lore if you don't know)

- He wouldn't want to catch anything in Canada. I doubt he'd go out enough to find any he liked

- He and his mother were around radiation a lot, so I think in the pokemon universe there'd be a lot of poisonous pokemon around that area

- Mareanie bc I saw a hc that he grew up near the sea and I like it. She's a water/poison type so I thought it worked

- I picked a fighting type because he's the angriest boy in town

Ricky Potts

- His family still has a total of 14 but Espurr is specifically Ricky's

- I think psychic types would be good for medical reasons. Like a medical aid helper pokemon? idk how to explain but they can help him do stuff he'd struggle with (like carrying things when he's using crutches yk)

- His family just collect cat like pokemon. The word cat is in the pokedex for a lot of them so I can still say "14 cats" and "sexy cat ladies"

- there's more details ab my sabm on this post

Penny Lamb / Jane Doe

- The aspiring pokemon conservationalist, she'd want hundreds but her foster family doesn't let her get many big ones.

- I needed to give her a sheep her name is lamb

- Normal types bc she didn't stand out enough for people to remember her

- Ezra borrows her pokemon a lot and when the cyclone crashed most of them were with him. Mimikyu was with her in the afterlife but didn't recognize her without her real head.

- I picked Mimikyu bc no one knows what they look like, they're kind of a doll and they're seen as creepy despite trying to be friendly

- Eevee bc it could turn into anything. Penny would find that exiting and it relates to Jane because no one knew who she was either

- In Elysium I think the lambs' parents would've used grass types to help grow weed. I picked sprigatito for that bc it looks the part

Constance Blackwood

- I used mostly fairy types because that the vibe she has. I was looking for ones based on desserts since her family runs a bakery

- Milcery bc they're created from sweet smells so I think there'd be a lot in Constance's family.

- Eevee because they're quite plain and seen as nice. During sugarcloud it would evolve into Sylveon because Constance is finally letting herself love things openly

- I used a flying type because of sugarcloud and for me spritzee fit the best

- Constance would be insecure about her fairy pokemon bc they were linked to the bakery so she'd probably keep them in their balls

Talia Bolinska

- We only ever see her in the field so she gets associated with flowers a lot. That's why I picked mostly grass & bug types

- I asked what Mischa would have and someone said he and Talia would get matching mienshao. I don't think it fits him but it does fit her so

- Electric type because we only really know about her through her online appearance

- Fighting types to connect her to Mischa more

Virgil the rat

- Virgil the rattata now. Alolan form bc it looks more like Virgil than the regular one

Ezra Lamb

- Doesn't really catch many pokemon. Not because I ran out of ideas but bc I just don't think he'd want to? He'd research the hell out of them but I doubt he'd want to look after them

- Sableye bc it pranks people and it has similar vibes. Idk if he'd have one but he'd definitely love them and tell Penny random facts he finds out ab them

Karnak

- can't own pokemon but I think he'd have Dialga painted on the side of the fortune box bc he sees the future

[cheerycherrycandy-resurrected]

If I ever quit my job to plan out the Abbey instead it would be so fun to make it a community thing.

Like, imagine a big bang event where everyone designs a window and the story behind it - I'm sure people would get really creative with some "historic" bits of (fan)lore, events described in ghost's songs, personal stories of ghost being there for them... think like stories of saints, parables and apostles etc. that are shown storyboard style in church windows, but Ghost.

idk how we'd collate it together, but I'm imagining some explorable google-streetview-art-gallery type thing where you can go up to windows and altars and omg what if someone made it in VR?? (I'm getting ahead of myself here...) or just a less-glitchy version of escape the ministry

but again - who has THE TIME?

(if someone actually does have the time and organises this, consider me signed up!)

The world builder in me wants to sink into abbey creation and never leave. Like I want to know the layout. I want to know which windows have which scenes on them. I want to know every nook, every cranny, and every single sibling/ghoul/clergy member who works and lives in this place and what it's like to do that. I want to know about their rituals, their schedules. I want to know the grounds, how vast, how many out buildings, who maintains them? I want to know E V E R Y T H I N G. But also, who has THE TIME?

[skylardoesthings]

✨ | Sky's XY(Z) dnd au | ✨

Or as i like to call it, "Skylar's way of coping with stress"

Anyways here are the character their races and classes, for the characters i have figured out at least,

[NOTE ! My au is like a campaign being played, so look at this au as "Ash and the gang playing dnd for shits and giggles" instead of "ash and the gang as dnd characters"]

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Ash ~ Human | lvl 13 Dream Druid + lvl 7 Echo Fighter

Serena ~ Changeling | lvl 10 Ancestral Barbarian + lvl 10 Collage of Eloquence Bard

Clemont ~ Tiefling | lvl 8 Life Cleric + lvl 12 Archivist Artificer

Bonnie ~ Pallid Elf | lvl 20 Arcane Trickster

Sawyer ~ Half Elf | lvl 20 Wild Magic Sorcerer

Korrina ~ High Elf | lvl 20 Beast Slayer Ranger

Favoured Enemy; Undead

Favoured Terrain; Forest

Miette ~ Forest Gnome | lvl 20 Moon Cleric

Nini ~ Human | lvl 20 Great Old One Warlock

Mairin ~ Lightfoot Halfling | lvl 15 Scout Rogue + lvl 5 Swarmkeeper Ranger

Favoured Enemy; Constructs

Favoured Terrain; Grasslands

Shauna ~ Lightfoot Halfling | lvl 20 Collage of Glamour Bard

Tierno ~ Tiefling | lvl 14 Battle Master Fighter + lvl 6 Collage of Swords Bard

Alain ~ Swiftstride Shifter | lvl 20 Beast Barbarian

Trevor's role is the Dungeon Master! Hence why he isnt on the list. But he does have a NPC he plays as like, his insert whenever the players aren't figuring things out, and his character is a; lvl 3 Thief Rogue Goblin, who causes trouble whenever the plot calls for it

Some other characters i have figured out but no idea what to do with slash how to add them in;

Viola ~ Satyr | lvl 20 Swarmkeeper Ranger

Favoured Enemy; Feinds

Favoured Terrain; Forest

Grant ~ Earth Genasi | Way of the Four Elements Monk

Diantha ~ High Elf | lvl 20 Oath of the Crown Paladin

Sycamore ~ High Ef | lvl 20 Archivist Artificer

[turtletoria]

the krampus incident from the book of bill if it was out of character and stupid

[peach-moths]

The pb&j screenshot redraw from 2022 I was talking about in my other post

God seeing my old art style is so weird

And of course the screenshot I redrew

Also don't expect the backgrounds to increase. In fact, the one for raph and mikey is.....minimalist at best LMAO

[proxycrit]

What if I redesigned some horses to fit MY favorite narrative trope: fallen gods and forgotten myths of old? Anyways.

Twilight’s mentor is a strange one. In a world of twilit planes forever shrouded in mystery, the older unicorn Lest and her adopted student Twilight are one in many common travelers, migrating the pitted wastelands and eeking survival within settlements that spring up around the glowing meteor shards. Despite living with Lest for the last four years, Twilight can’t help but seek answers to where her brother has gone— and in the process, perhaps dig a bit too deeply into the complexities of gods far older and dangerous then she can truly fathom.

On the otherhand, Celestia “Lest” Sol is having a terrible millenium. Her sister is no longer her sister, her student teleported herself halfway across the continent, and she got herself kidnapped by an old rival trying to attune with the elements of harmony to overthrow the current ruler of Equestria.

At least she gets a toxic yuri moment.

Meanwhile, Chrysalis is having a great time. She’s got kingdoms to conquer and people to feed and a waning god to taunt.

(The Selene Grace hates the sun monarch they deposed five centuries ago as they stay chained to their post, keeping the lunar and solar bodies from crashing into each other. Luna misses her sister, and the easier world where they haven’t hurt each other beyond reparation. Nightmare Moon misses their monstrosity, trapped in a host who’s grief has poisoned them with empathy.

Things are bound to tip. The celestial bodies are not bodies, but prisons, and the amalgamations we call alicorns the key. And something desperately wants to be freed…)

Anyways:

My mane 6 redesign here!

And my luna and celestia redesigns here!

[yuwuta]

olympics coming up…… athlete aus on the mind….. satoru as a swimmer….. unreasonably large wingspan…. huge hands..... thinks “official” competitions and tournaments are boring because he can’t use the goofy purple googly eyes goggles he likes to practice in…… practices at ungodly hours solely because he likes when the pool is empty because that means you’ll dip your feet in at the edge and be there to greet him with a kiss when he’s finished his laps….. they bring up the stats board and it’s just his name ten times before the next fastest person and he could still lap them, and even tho he’ll always put so much pressure on himself to be the best, it’s worth it to have you hold his face and tell him you’re proud of him... he’s gotten so much merch from events and sponsorships and he used to think they just created clutter but that all changes when you start to wear his clothes (esp the ones with his name on it… he’s not proud to admit that does Something to him)…. always looks up to the stands when he finishes a race and if he knows you’re not there, he looks right at the camera, draws an infinity sign with his fingers, and blows a kiss (which, some commentators routinely call “unsportsmanlike conduct” but he doesn’t care, and always, publicly says he’ll pay the fees if it means blowing a kiss to his girl at home)

[egg-on-a-legg]

whaut if i made a pokemon oc that was totally a normal human person and NOT a weird artificial black hole pokemon from another dimension. nothing weird going on here

[vancalox]

i genuinely love love love the iconoclast path in rogue trader SO MUCH. its one of the things that ultimately enamors me to the warhammer franchise as a whole despite empathy being so antithetical to its world and genre. its not just because iconoclast is the Nice Person route or because it subverts the foundational principle that In The Grim Dark Universe There Is Only War............ but mostly i love it because its the best way to actually engage w the morality system presented in 40k and explore it the way it deserves to be explored. its so unique parsing through the choices of the game and navigating how one might actually ACHIEVE goodness through - or more accurately without - the lens of liberal modern morality. because adhering to what we presently would call morality is arguably crueler than some of the dogmatic choices - or at least the game wants you to reflect on that and decide if that kind of morality still has value or not. and i like that they give you the opportunity to do that. youre rarely rewarded for kindness in this game and in fact your oftentimes actively punished for it (void shadows was a TRIAL for my iconoclast rt) which presents another question: are you being good because of a reward you believe you'lll be entitled to, or are you being good for the sake of goodness itself??? in saying that i do LOVE how there IS payoff in the iconoclast route eventually - when youve bleed and suffered for it enough. but theres a quality to it thats so..... so BITTERSWEET, because yippee you Empathed your way to the top - but also what IS the top?? congratulations, you are the kindest autocrat in the most bloodthirsty fascist regime in human history, sitting on your throne on a voidship run by all your slaves and serfs who die by the hundreds every time you make a warpjump for some dumbass sidequest. what the fuck. can you actually call that goodness ????? is whatever goodness-adjacent thing youve achieved worth it even if you cant change the system in the ways that matter ??? lastly - the iconoclast ending is both so wildly universe-altering to the point of feeling like a heretical ending - but also kind of. not mattering really lol. because even though its hopeful, the "good" ending still feels soooo tentative with the likelihood that its very likely not going to last. but that in itself is my favorite take away from playing this game as The Last Good Guy in the Galaxy: because the love DIDNT change anything. and it DOESNT save anyone. but ohhhhhhhhh my fucking god does it absolutely matter that it was there.