#Lacy rambles

[shewithbloodofdevotion]

I tell Apollo "good morning" on my way to work as the sunrises every morning. He helps start my day off a little brighter

[shewithbloodofdevotion]

Zeus actually had a few epithets as a hearth deity! Relooking at my notes from the Household Worship by LABRYS book I read there's Zeus Ketsios (He of possessions) he protected the prosperity of the household, which was not always about wealth or money but the actual meaningful possessions I believe. So somewhere where the important or meaningful things may be kept for you. There was also Zeus Erekios referring to the "fence" of the household or surrounding area. So good places could vary to what might fit you and your altar best but I would suggest is living/family areas, in a safe or secure place of the house maybe like the bedroom, or by a frequent entry way for protection. Zeus is also fatherly as you had mentioned so in my view you could put him in a place as his area as the father of the house (like how parents tend to favor chairs or areas in the house) High up would probably also be a good option as well if you can! Hope this sort of babble I spewed helps spike some inspiration. <3

Sorting a seperate altar for Father Zeus since I got a statue for him - anyone have any ideas what to put on it/where to put it? (Like how altars to Hestia are often near the Hearth etc.etc.)

[applestorms]

was watching this video breaking down vol. 22 of the PH manga and got stuck on this very interesting question he poses (~30 mins in):

why didn't oswald try to save lacie's life?

or, more specifically: why did oswald decide that in order to Fix Everything, he needed to kill lacie earlier rather than stop himself from killing her at all, particularly after he learned the true reason behind why children of ill omen were sacrificed in the first place (essentially to appease the jurors, who couldn't see/control them)?

to answer this, i think we have to get somewhat in-depth into oswald's motivations & relationships & POV. here's that breakdown.

first things first: oswald is a weird character. out of all of the major characters in PH's cast, and particularly those from the Past/original setting of 100 years ago, he is easily the most difficult to place or understand in terms of personality, views, etc. this is for two reasons:

jack's 100 years of intense censorship, which paint oswald as the Evil Glen Baskerville that ordered the massacre of tons of people during the tragedy of sablier.

oswald's own natural shyness and general aversion to people, which cause him to really only be close to lacie and jack (the first of whom is, of course, dead, and the second of whom does all the censorship noted in point 1).

for the entire first half of the series, we are presented an image of oswald that is a flatly evil villain, someone shrouded in darkness and mysterious red robes, in contrast w/ the image of jack as this hero of light and sparkling water and sunlight breaking through the trees. even when jack reveals that they had been friends oswald is still relegated to a position hidden in jack's shadow, true face lost to time.

our understanding of oswald therefore must almost always be taken with a grain of salt, since he is so often heavily filtered through the faulty lens jack casts on him. even so, i think we can come up with a few possible answers to respond to the Lacie Question posed above:

oswald is Panicked and Desperate to try and solve the whole "world getting chucked into the abyss problem," a SECOND time; note that he literally died in the middle of this project the first time.

in order to come up w/ the idea to save lacie, oswald would have to believe that it is possible in the first place, that there is still some Essence of Lacie that could live on. jack might believe this, but oswald definitely does not.

remember that for all the time that jack spends losing his mind coming up w/ schemes behind oswald's back to break the world's chains, oswald is mourning. frankly, he's forced to grieve lacie long before he even actually kills her. he knows, better than anyone, that she's truly dead and gone. compare these two reactions, first from jack, then from oswald:

oswald doesn't just think it's impossible for lacie to come back-- he views it as an insult, as something incredibly dangerous, to even consider the possibility of trying at all.

what i think is notable about this is that there is also yet another question hidden within the one about Lacie, which instead relates to oswald's views on his other beloved friend. specifically:

why is oswald so incredibly hurt by jack's betrayal?

again, i think we can pinpoint a few reasons behind this:

he fucking killed him.

he worked behind his back for Months to come up w/ this incredibly suicidal and violent plan, even manipulating oswald's preteen (? age uncertain) niece to go along w/ his plans.

he loved jack. lacie and jack were the only two people oswald was genuinely close to. he cared about him, was invested in or even obsessed with him, and needed his support. after lacie died, he literally had nobody else-- even levi dies shortly after oswald ascends to power. jack was the only person who could possibly understand just how significant it was to lose lacie, who could relate to his grief and mourn with him-- but he went behind his back instead, spending 100 years painting him as a murderer, a villain, pinning his own crimes onto oswald's back and perverting the natural order of the world, causing his remaining family left in the baskervilles to be cast out as evil, turning chains into weapons, and generally being the biggest menace in the entire fucking series. he betrayed him in quite possibly every avenue he had the ability to. it's frankly impressive just how much he managed to stab him in the back, literally and figuratively.

HE LITERALLY FUCKING KILLED HIM

alternatively: he's not. or rather-- oswald isn't just motivated by anger or a desire for revenge against jack when he tries to go back in time and kill an even younger lacie. he is also motivated by his own guilt.

to expand a bit more on that last point, since this shit is juicy:

oswald and lacie's relationship is slightly different than gilbert and vincent's for a number of reasons, but one of the more notable ones is that oswald & lacie seem to know a helluva lot more way earlier on than gil & vince do. levi does Not fuck around when it comes to telling lacie straight up that she is going to be killed for being a child of ill omen. both oswald and lacie are thus well aware of what lacie's fate will be long before it happens, giving them plenty of time to grieve and angst over it long before oswald actually comes to power as the next glen.

due to the manipulations/information provided by jury, oswald and lacie are also taught the typical story about the origin of children of ill omen: specifically, that they are deviations that are created due to the birth of a new glen.

together, these two points lead oswald towards one bitter conclusion: that He is the reason behind lacie's existence, and therefore it is his responsibility to deal w/ her properly.

the fact that oswald & lacie are Brother & Sister and that whole gendered dynamic really adds to this point, honestly. lacie is treated like a problem child, a capricious, fickle, devil-may-care little girl that needs to be locked away in a tower for safety but breaks out to play around outside anyways. she is objectified and infantilized by most if not all of the people closest to her, treated like something dirty and evil by jury, like a literal experiment by levi, and like a inhuman goddess and representation of salvation and perfection by jack.

oswald is not freed from this-- for all that he does genuinely love his sister, he also views lacie like a Problem that He needs to fix, and takes responsibility for her actions as a reflection of his own failures. when lacie acts out, oswald internalizes that as his fault for not controlling her better. he is quite literally groomed into believing this by jury, to the point that he goes through with the sacrifice and kills her, even when he expresses clear regret and grief over it before, after, and during the ritual itself.

and on top of that, as a part of this ritual, oswald is also crowned king of the baskervilles, given an incredibly important position within the family and role in taking care of the abyss. he is more responsibility than man by the time he becomes glen, having to take care of Everyone and Everything mostly on his own, his mentor and dearest sister dying all so that he can take the fucking job.

thus: when jack starts acting out, when he loses his mind over the loss of lacie and tries to throw the world away to compensate for it, oswald interprets this as A Lacie Problem and therefore his job to fix. as incredibly unintentionally cruel as it may be, i think oswald genuinely views jack's betrayal as Lacie's Fault, and therefore his own responsibility since he is the one who supposedly Created lacie in the first place. Your Sin Is Your Very Existence-- lacie should not have existed as a child of ill omen, it was a problem that she was alive, and it's all oswald's fault for creating her so it's his responsibility to kill her properly. so he has no other choice but to forcibly take over leo's body, go back in time, and Save Everything. lacie cannot be saved because her existence itself is the heart of the issue. without lacie, jack would not be saved. without lacie, oswald would never have to meet him, or love him, or be betrayed by him. without lacie, oswald could grow up and never have to kill his beloved sister. the world's chains would not be broken, the natural order would not be tainted by a desperate man's suicidal insanity, if only the problem were not created in the first place.

but then... he sees her.

and how could he possibly go through with this a second time?

[godsworstson]

asking people who their favorite jackass guy is is my new favorite way of finding out what's wrong with them

[icewindandboringhorror]

Some fantasy traveler inventory details (like what they would carry in their bags), based on two of the recent costumes I did.. love finding random little scraps and items and putting them together lol

[stood-onthecliffside]

swiftie gift exchange for @catastrxblues

[bugwolfsstuff]

Connor Stoll is a Hamilton fan to me, thats his hyperfixation

Chris is a certified Hamilton hater to me

And yes, Hermes is Linn in universe to me as well (they know this)

[gracescoolbeans]

ANGEL GIRL!!!

[romans-empire]

This is such an out of nowhere question but im super curious, if you could write a script/make an animation/have a very vivid daydream of one(or a few if its hard to choose) of the songs/song parts in your lucky patch playlist, which one would it be?

Like, you think the songs lyrics or something match so well that you can imagine it in images, cuz i think about that a lot.

What if I said all? /hj.

Anyways, this is a very hard question for me to answer since I can picture a complete animatic for pretty much every song in the playlist. Perks of having an overactive and vivid imagination, I guess. Though, I'm going to choose the one that's currently haunting me the most and the one I can explain the most clearly without sounding insane:

Your Ex-Lover is Dead by Stars

This song is so post-Undertale True Pacifist Lucky Patch to me. What I imagine as a scenario for this song is very in line with what is being said in the lyrics.

It starts with Frisk sneaking up behind Flowey then introducing Clover to him, unknowing to the shared history between the two. With that, Flowey's smile briefly falters after realizing who they were but quickly regains it again to mask it, Clover is less inclined and looks more melancholic upon gazing towards Flowey.

Frisk talks in the background but is blurred as Flowey and Clover being face to face with one another is the focus. The frame pans to Clover with the lyrics of "And all of that time you thought I was sad," besides them then switches to Flowey with "I was trying to remember your name". The "remember your name" part has the frame flickering with a frame of Flowey introducing himself for the first time to Clover with his name scratched out.

This part has Clover in the middle of the frame with vines wrapping itself around them then it switches to Clover's appearance during the Meta Flowey fight with the vines getting closer and closer to their soul in the middle. As the lyrics "tried to reach deep" plays, the vines ensnares Clover's soul but it breaks free or Clover themself breaks free from the vines when "but you couldn't get in" plays.

Cut to Clover present time facing Flowey with his back in view in front of them looking pretty defiant which then the next frame pans to him from Clover's perspective. His "sins" being Meta Flowey, Omega Flowey, and God of Hyperdeath forms all appearing behind him.

Now with this, half of Flowey and Clover's face are visible and they are paralleling each other of different sides of the screen or they are standing beside each other. With the "choose" lyric, Clover chooses to walk away and move on while Flowey stays behind.

The postcard line has a letter or postcard by Flowey in frame and part of his pot visible while the next line has a newspaper with a picture of Clover and the Feisty Five in it in frame. Next, the two are in frame again besides each other with a string connecting them but it zooms out to show how far apart they truly are but the string still connects them and the string curls into a heart in the middle.

This part just shows their time together in the Underground and bonding. Mostly during the Pacifist route. The last line shows Clover's sacrifice and death and Flowey witnessing it.

The last stanza I like to think of is from Clover's perspective and is what they are saying to Flowey, internally or externally, I don't know. Maybe their time together is flashing through like a flashback as Clover declares what they're not sorry for.

Finally the last line, as the second to the last line plays their older/present time selves are sitting besides each other looking distant and not meeting eye contact but are close together. The final line shows their younger selves in the same position but looking happier and closer. This could be reversed, to be honest. Both frames have the line "I'm not sorry there's nothing to save" on them.

I apologize this answer was so long, my only excuse is that this is practically my entire outline for a fic inspired by the song but more in-depth. It's not my usual interpretation of Lucky Patch Post-UT-TP but hey! A bittersweet interpretation for a bittersweet song.

[super-subraminion]

the worms(hyperfixation) are so strong today

[rockybloo]

I keep describing certain Beanstalked characters in family terms because that's how close some character bonds are and there's just some dynamics that come across easier

I kinda view Lacie as the adopted cousin to Jack only because she is rabbit based in her vibes and appearance and I relate jackrabbits to Jack (because puns)

So I just mentally see a fluffy white bunny with red eyes and her slightly larger hare cousin

Plus they're Bookmarked with stories that come from the same country

Both also don't know what the fuck is going on

Just two rabbits shoved into circumstances they can barely comprehend fully

Anyways, Lacie is like that quiet cousin who shows up late with her family at the Beanstalked reunion and everytime you take your eyes off her and look back, she's in a different location poking at something she shouldn't be

MEANWHILE Grinsly is the loud ass uncle who you can hear laughing from all the way across the yard anytime he finds something funny

He tells stories but they make no damn sense but that doesn't stop his ass from laughing even harder

[shewithbloodofdevotion]

I dozed off while reading a book about Aphrodite and was woken up by the sound of a mourning dove cooing right outside the window I was by. I ended up getting the urge to bake some apples, so my wife and I made an apple crisp from scratch. The house smells amazing, our girlfriend has apple scraps to add to her gardening compost, and we have a yummy treat. Aphrodite reminds me to smile today.

[wickmitz]

lacy who busies herself with caring for mr. sable rather than indulging in romance or men, almost subconsciously convinced of harboring a ‘torch’ for him so to speak … compelled to lighten the load on his shoulders he won’t take care of himself and senselessly protective of him ; hackles raising when he’s met with danger of any sort, and surely that means she’s smitten ( or so her friends say, with all-knowing coyness in their pitchy tones ) and that’s -- fine. lacy can accept that. but then here comes his new paramour who lacy looks down upon but can’t stop looking at nonetheless, and surely this is envy in her heart. surely she’s appalled by mitzi’s sugary words that make threats sound like tender promises, the haughty quirk pursing at ruby lips, and her manner of awful business. she’s glad, she knows, when wick says it’s over. she’s over the moon, probably, but she can’t stop thinking about purple smeared eyes and the disheveled look brought upon mousy, brown hair and her fur bristles and her skin beneath burns for days to come.

[lacie-otome]

this is literally SOOO CUTEE OMG????????????????

[ragnar0c]

My Witch and Lilies party! Euty Party!

How they all got together— Uh… Xanthippe Meets Euty in the guild and can feel something is wrong with her but wants her on her side. So she joins the party. Xanthippe wants to become her partner “fake dates” her Letitia sees Euty and ALMOST recognizes her, then Euty calls her “Lacie” instinctively (unwittingly) and Lacie falls back in love w/ her (joins the party) Seth. Seth has to join bc Lacie is her lady. Seth hates Euty and Xanthippe at first.

Nomusa sings a dirge that sounds exactly like what happened to Euty and they recruit her in hopes she has some clues on what happened to her.

[redwitchrune]

gravity falls 🤝 pandora hearts introducing the symbol/a reference to a major character in the first episode/chapter who haunts the narrative until they finally show up/are revealed in the climax of the entire story and changes everything we had perceived before