#Lindow please

[elfcollector]

HE’S FUCKING DEAD???

[radiojamming]

PLEASE tell us more about mummy types, i know ice is your fave so feel free to go ham on that but all of them are so interesting to me

drives up in my cozy coupe that has MUMMY MOBILE written in sharpie on the side (ALSO PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN LOOKING THESE UP; SOME OF THEM LOOK VERY GNARLY)

ICE/PERMAFROST - If you've followed me for a little while, you probably know more about these than the average fella! These are your Beechey Island Trio, your Ötzi the Iceman. Ice keeps bacteria from turning the body into a smorgabord, thus keeping these people fresh (and fluid-filled) for hundreds to thousands of years. And maybe some day down the line, some nerd finds you and thinks you're beautiful and never shuts up about you.

THE BOG - It's Tumblr. You all know about The Bog. Bog bodies are essentially turned into leather purses by the tannins and the anaerobic qualities of The Bog, sometimes effectively snapshotting their causes of death (usually something violent). Special shoutouts to fan favorites like Tollund Man, Lindow Man/Pete Marsh, Yde Girl, Grauballe Man, and Windeby I. And Hozier, probably.

HOT, DRY DESERT AIR - Think the Atacama Desert, the Mummies of Guanajuato, or your pre-embalming times Egyptians. In fact, it was the natural qualities of desert air that probably tipped the Ancient Egyptians off to the fun and fabulousness of preservation. You dry out to potato chip crispness but lose all the wet bits. Also Anubis is probably repping you.

ARID, COLD MOUNTAIN AIR - Same idea as the desert as far as lack of humidity, but better for your skin. Mountaintop mummies are some of the best preserved in the whole world. La Doncella is a fantastic example, as are the rest of the Children of Llullaillaco or the Cherchen Man and Siberian Ice Maiden. Sometimes this was done on purpose (hi bog bodies), but sometimes people just go up to high altitudes, die, and stay there forever.

HONEY/MELLIFICATION - This one doesn't fit the bill of spontaneous mummification, which is what I study. Honey mummies are made on purpose, allegedly by feeding someone honey until they're dead, and then dunking them in a coffin full of honey for them to steep like tea for the next century or so, then digging them up and making medicine/snacks out of them. Lots of alleged's, but still pretty cool if you're into idk becoming one with the slime.

SALT - Human jerky! Salt does to you what it does to all the other edible meats, of which you're just another brand. Salt sucks all the moisture out and keeps you nice, fresh, and flavorful forever and ever. The Saltmen of Iran are Thee Pinnacle of this type of preservation. Bonus is that you get weirdly sparkly when you're salted like a slug.

SAPONIFICATION - You become soap. Actually, if you want to get technical, you turn into what's called corpse wax (which is a surprisingly badass name for turning into a human candle) or adipocere. Mrs. Ellenbogen of the Mütter Museum is probably the best example of this, but it also happens to, uh, cave divers. Which is another great reason not to go cave diving.

PRISTINE AIR OF A SACRED BUILDING - Catacomb mummies! Incorruptible saints! Sokushinbutsu! If you're stuck in a religious house of worship and it just so happens to have its own little ecosystem (usually pretty dry, probably full of resinous incense), there's a non-zero chance that you'll get preserved very similarly to the mountain mummies. Getting stuck in a crystal casket doesn't hurt either. (Disclaimer: this is semi-anthropogenic for those keeping score at home. Some of these mummies are preserved this way on purpose.)

TAR PITS - Like the bog, but hotter, stickier, and smellier. Go in the tar, have no oxygen causing you to fall apart, turn into another leather bag time capsule. This more often happens to animals like those in the La Brea Tar Pits than people. At least that we know of.

WEIRD, AS OF YET UNKNOWN MEANS - Can we say for sure that there was only one reason why Lady Dai/Xin Zhui's stayed so preserved for so long? What about the other wet mummies? What about ones people find in trees? Or whatever the hell was going on with Elmer McCurdy? Maybe it's not unknown, but it doesn't fit the bill of typical mummies, or there are so many factors at play leading to preservation that we can't just call it by one category.

[vicciouxs]

halloween sim dump !! 🎃

⠀›⠀Please, DO NOT CLAIM AS YOUR OWN, but if you use I want to see it. Also, if you want them in your game just like I have you'll need to have all the sliders and presets.

⠀›⠀And please, feel free to play with them, but don't change any of their features or their bodies!!

⠀›⠀There is a lot of cc, so it's included in the download. NONE OF THOSE ITEMS BELONG TO ME, thank you all cc creators <3 (and if you don't want your content in my download, let me know and I will remove it)

via patreon or directly to google drive:

agatha glower | selvina esverd | vesperina lindow

[copperbadge]

While you're in the British Museum, PLEASE go check out the actual British collection. The Sutton Hoo grave goods and the Lindow Man are fascinating and there's so much good Roman slice of life stuff.

Sutton Who?

:D

More later, but Sutton Hoo was one of the reasons I really wanted to do the British Museum ahead of the V&A. Well worth it! Though I didn't take many photos, I was busy soaking it all in.

[ID: A photo of the famous helmet and faceplate from the Sutton Hoo ship burial; the helmet is domed with texture here and there, and a line leading from between the eyebrows up over the top. Protective flaps attached to the helmet hang down to protect the side of the wearer's face. The eybrows at the lip of the helmet are pronounced and bushy, rendered in scored metal; below the eyebrows, an attached faceplate has a prominent nose, a small curved mustache, and a small but well-rendered mouth.]

[choicesoctober]

WK 2 || WEEK ONE MASTERLIST || WELCOME || RULES || PROMPTS || HOST

I’ll compile a weekly masterlist by contributor and then a complete list at the end of the month. So here is week one’s masterlist.

If I missed your’s please let me know and I will get it on the list. Same, if I missed reblogging your contribution.

@aallotarenunelma

Intro: Ash Clark (It Lives, OC)

Intro: Ash Clark (It Lives, OC)

@ao719

Fic: …Sometimes Not, Part 11 (TRR, Liam x OC)

@cadybear420

Intro: Evie (HSS, MC)

@cariantha

Fic: All He Wanted (OPH, Ethan x MC)

@farizrz

Intro & Edit: Lindow Marcelino Redesign (HSS, OC)

@jerzwriter

Text Fic: Feeling Ancient (OPH, Ethan x MC)

Fic: First Date (CoP, Trystan x MC)

Fic: In a Pickle (OPH, Tobias x MC)

Text Fic: Roman Adventure (OPH, Tobias x MC)

@ladylamrian

Intro: Amber Burke (It Lives, MC)

Intro: Elissa Ryder (Nightbound, OC child)

Intro: Jason Ryder (Nightbound, OC child)

Fic: When Hunters Become Prey, Chapter 22 (Nightbound, MC)

@lawrencebarkley

Intro: Tyril x Reyna Headcanons (Blades, Tyril x MC)

@liaromancewriter

Fic: And There Was This Cat (OPH, Ethan x MC)

Fic: One Day (OPH, Ethan x MC)

@lilyoffandoms

Fic: Drabble (OPH, Tobias x MC, Ethan x MC, Bryce x OC)

@noesapphic

Picrew: Brienne of Riverbend Redesign (Blades, MC)

@peonyblossom

Edit: Iris of Riverbend Redesign (Blades, MC)

Edit: Jackie Winters Redesign (RCC, MC)

Intro & Edit: Jamie Baxter (HSS, MC)

Intro & Edit: Lola Williams (HSS, MC)

Edit: Lola Williams Redesign (HSS, MC)

Into & Edit: Ollie Bridgers (ILW, MC)

Edit: Dr. Sydney Valentine Redesign (OPH, MC)

@storyofmychoices

Fic & Art: Obvious Secret (OPH, Bryce x OC)

Fic: Sculpting Desires (Blades, Mal x OC, Tyril x OC, Mal x Tyril)

Fic: Vintage Dreams (Blades, Mal x OC, Tyril x OC, Mal x Tyril)

[food4dogs]

Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

What a book. What a story. What a book. What a story. What a book. What a story. What a book. What a story. What a book. What a story.

It was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. If Garner had received the votes, he would've been the oldest author ever, at 88. But books like this don't win the big prizes; they don't fit neatly into how the publishing industry likes to push novels that tread a well-worn pattern and sell in large numbers.

Mind you - while Garner's book is technically a 'novel', I'd be hard-pressed how to classify it: it's an allegory on one level; it's poetry on another; it's a strange spiderweb of philosophical and scientific enquiry; and it's always, quite simply, a story.

At 150 pages (large-ish print, well-spaced), you can read it in an afternoon. Then you will carry the words and ideas in your mind for a long time; possibly forever. The story says more than most door stopper novels ever do. I would call reading it an "experience".

The only niggle I have is that the publisher could have made the reading experience a bit easier by adding a small glossary. Garner employs (he works his words hard!) many very old Northern English words that you can't expect the majority of readers to be familiar with. I lived in a northern part of Britain for some years and did recognise a few - others I looked up online. You don't need to do a dictionary hunt; the story will show you via context what they mean. But hey, I happen to like etymology. :-)

For example, "glamourie" (remember "glamour" in True Blood?) is a Scots word meaning a charmed, magical condition. And "treacle" (the title is Treacle Walker after all) is a medieval term for medicine.

And do look up donkey stone, please.

The Guardian has a terrific review of Treacle Walker by Justine Jordan - but like all reviews, there is a certain amount of spoiling, so I recommend reading it after reading the book.

Since I started reading Alan Garner recently (beginning with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen), I now recognise recurring symbols, words, concepts. The White Horse of Uffington; the Summer Stars; the peat bogs and Lindow Man; a rich world of English, Welsh and Scottish culture unearthed by archaeology and mythology.

I can summarise Treacle Walker in only one simple way: it's pure magic. It's funny (oh, very funny!), it's confounding, it's riddle-some and vernacular, it's time-spinning - but above all it's eye-opening.

"What sees is seen"

[sentofight]

Threads list 

current threads i received/ still receive replies from i kept them on the on-going section, otherwise i moved a load of them down to the archived. if there is a thread you still see potential in it let me know please (remember i cant read minds.)

on going

lucina & raguna @d/cviated| everything goes to the Forest of the Beginning

lucina (present) & Spartan @/pieman1112 | time passed by

victor & etude @/specialgels | in a new realm

zack & aerith @/greatxgospel | a visit to her home

zack & aerith @/greatxgospel | searching for hope

lucina & takako @/xdcwntherabbithole |mother daughter time

raquel & diluc @/dcviated | Painting enthusiastic

rokurou & dogi @/dcviated | chat and drink

zack & aerith @/greatxgospel | turk zack 

lucina & owain @/obfuscatingveil | finding memories

akihiko & minako @/foolisharcanum | jocks being jocks

akihiko & mitsuru @/heartwilled | young S.E.E.S.

lucina & shenhe @/aswrittenbydestiny | of mysterious aura

aldo & akira @/flovverworks | cat man and a sage

lucina & hope @/resonatingmuses |hair braiding

lindow & soma @/aswrittenbydestiny | Trust me

lindow & sakuya @devourersofgods | the real MVP

kyle & rachel @/resonatingmuses | a quick stop

edea & wylan @/cadcnce | date

date & daniel @/thebreakfastmuses | 6 minutes

archived (let me know if you want to continue these)

balan & plum @/juwul | lunch break

balan + victor & shadow  @/riftdancer | under the tutelage of the great spirit

eight & sora @/roseuscrystallum | advice on how to become stronger

eight & sora @/roseuscrystallum | magic test

falco & boss @/psychcdelica | Police Academy time

lucina & isaac with hope @/resonatingmuses | meeting hope

lucina & plum @/juwul | dancing lesson

lucina, feat chrom & isaac @/isaaccecilbryant | snowball fight

machina & deidra @/riftdancer | fashion taste & gift commission

machina & hinata @/solstoft | maid outfit dude

machina & naghi @/xxyumeno | meeting the idol

machina & sora @/roseuscrystallum | after cactuar

machina (incognito) & qator @/xxyumeno | white tiger general & l’cie

rokurou & eizen @e/uyin | a confession on deck

rokurou & plum @/juwul | a helping hand

rokurou & plum @/juwul | strong miss

rokurou & sync @/azotas | deamon lost in abyss

rokurou & takako+hanako @/xdcwntherabbithole | her bodyguard

tiz & evelyn @/kinships | sheep whisperer?

tiz & gran @/toestalucia | new prospective

tiz & mokou @/ofliminalities | lost in the forest

tiz & raguna @/dcviated | the farmer life

victor & plum @/juwul | attention

victor & plum @/juwul | fractured world plum

victor & plum @/juwul | spirit victor; second chance

rokurou & kimuri @/euyin | drinks and jobs

rokurou & eizen @/euyin | a sneaky kiss

king & kurasame @/rengelyer | a conversation

balan & viktor @/euyin | a troublermaker

victor & sindri @/juwul| unexpected visitor

zack & cha hae-in @/lunaetis | of hunters and huntresses

shutaro & sylvia (chrysanths) @/rifdancer | vampire and a villainess

raquel & hendrick @/astralwiings | road trip

edward & shu @/riftdancer | what it means to kill

date & kotetsu @/riftdancer | dads in a bar

balan & shadow/shane @/driftdancer | NEXT research

lindow & kota @/etchedinmargins | Captaining advice

rokurou & zaveid @/armxtus  | daemon and wind malak

rokurou & sync @/azotas | imprisonment

lucina & amon @/astralwiings | diplomatic beginnings  

[kinships]

Lindow hands Setsuna a can--a tuna can, "This is you, Tuna."

Setsuna stares at it for a moment, then back at Lindow.

before throwing the can at his head. "THATS NOT FUNNY!!!"

[convxction]

[[in every game/world/verse chrom gets send to another realm, his only mission is always to train ppl ... why are you so obsessed with training, dude? d/ragalia lost--training the ‘army’. p/roject x zone--he is picking fights with everyone in the training room XD. even in warriors and heroes ... this man can’t be stopped. waiting for more cameos to see who else he is going to bother lmao.

[sentofighta]

“IF anyone asked, I am not here. I am on a leave. Mmkay bye!”

[yellowcrumpet]

I know Lindow is in pain and slowly turning into an Aragami but damn he’s a hot mess ;)

[senshilegionnaire]

if you can, what are bog bodies??

:D!!!

WARNING THIS CAN BE CONSIDERED GROSS AND/OR UPSETTING, PLEASE TAKE CARE

(i am on mobile and afaik cannot insert a readmore)

okay so peat bogs are uniquely suited to preserving organic things like textiles, wood, butter -- seriously look up bog butter it's a trip -- and flesh and hair.

a combination of the cold anaerobic environment in the silty depths of bogs, acidic water, and a chemical called sphagnan (from sphagnum moss) basically makes the perfect tea to steep a corpse in that will preserve it for legiterally thousands of years. the bones are rubbery like science experiments in primary school where you put a chicken bone in vinegar for a week, and the skin ends up tanned like leather, and the flesh and even stomach contents all end up preserved.

for up to thousands of years.

the oldest one i know of is from the bronze age in ireland (cashel bog, county laois); he's about four thousand years old

and listen these bodies still have fingerprints, they have hair, they aren't just skeletons, we can tell how they died even if it was soft tissue damage or poison. they haven't been hollowed out or dried or frozen, some of them have faces that still look like faces

(there's a lot of debate over respect, over whether they should be re-buried, over the treatment by the academic community of preserved bodies that belonged to people who did not donate their bodies to science, but there has always been that kind of debate (witness early modern medicine, where medical students were literally graverobbing the freshly buried so they could dissect them and find out what was where)-- and most of these bodies, as with other bog deposits, are accidental finds due to peat milling machinery. it would be just as disrespectful to bury them with someone else's (our own) customs as it would be to get theirs wrong, and in large part the environment they were in has already been destroyed. (and i think museums have a lot more to answer for with younger bones.) the current compromise seems to be 'study and photograph but don't display' but i haven't checked that since 2018. )

either way there's so much we can learn about the lifeways of prehistoric people, and not just from skellingtons and stable isotopes; i wanna go on about the actual theories of human sacrifice in ireland based on evidence like the depositions at boundaries and the final meals and the triple death/overkill and specific ritual mutilation of apparent failed kings and tacitus's germania and the ulster cycle (see: eamonn p. kelly on academia.edu) and yde girl and lindow man and grauballe man and clonycavan man and his pine resin pompadour but it's 1:30 am and im thumb-typing this in the dark in bed on my tiny phone 🤣

edit: also most of my bog body focus is in the UK and Ireland but yoooooo there's a LOT MORE than that

[thetorchwoodarchive]

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ACROSS THE BAY: CROSSOVER FICS YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING MASTERPOST

Thank you everyone for submitting your crossover and fusion fic  recommendations. Below are all submissions and some of our favorites! 

Is it Insensitive for Me to Say by aliciajazmin (EstherJohnTosh | complete | 2441 | T)

Toshiko Sato and Esther Drummond absolutely will make fun of their boyfriend for deciding to attend an audition, while also attending said audition with him. 

Crossover With: The Outer Worlds 

Golden Apples and Norse Gods (Or How Ianto Got His Groove Back) by blackkat (JackIanto | complete | 1592 | G)

Ianto finds himself back from the dead and, apparently, in the position to double-cross a power-crazed Norse god intent on conquering the Earth by taking out a team of superheroes. Must be a Tuesday.

Crossover With: Avengers/MCU

The Magic of Torchwood by Bella the Strange (JackIanto, IantoJohn, JackOther, Non-Torchwood Ships | wip |  546,512 | T)

The Torchwood team have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Set between Adam and Reset. Rated T because of Jack Harkness, swearing, mature themes, slash etc… it’s Torchwood!

Crossover With: Harry Potter

Welcome to Torchwood by Jackdaw818 (Gen | complete | 1601 | T)

A strange creature behind the Ralphs, a break-in at the Museum of Forbidden Technologies, and visitors in Night Vale. Overall, a slightly unordinary day for Cecil Gershwin Palmer

Crossover With: Welcome to Night Vale

Torchwait for iiiiit by lady-demacabre (Gen | complete | 3k | K+)

When Shawn and Gus are called in on a case for an eccentric collector of alien objects, they get more than what they bargained for. One shot, Psych oriented.

Crossover With: Psych

Theme and Variations by nemo_baker (JackIanto, GwenRhys, OwenKatie | 5817 | T)

Time Agent Jack Harkness is sent back in time to solve the mystery of a mysterious train bombing. The problem is, he only has eight minutes to do it.

Written for Reel Torchwood screening 8 on Livejournal. Movie Prompt: Source Code (2011)

Crossover With: Source Code 

Day Tripper by Croquemboucheballpit (Gement) (JackBessie the Third Doctor’s Car, Bessie the Third Doctor’s CarLightening McQueen (past) | complete | 2360 | M)

Bessie’s like any other companion: far from home, more than she appears, and always up for an adventure.

And Jack Harkness really will seduce anything that moves.

Crossover With: Pixar’s Cars 

An American Volunteer by That_one_kid (SteveBucky, BuckyJackSteve | Complete | 4395 | T)

What if Captain Jack Harkness met Steve & Bucky during the war? What if he ran into them again, present day?

AKA

Captain Jack Harkness and his mission to seduce the two gorgeous, capable soldiers who keep running into him.

Crossover With: Captain America/MCU

Statement #0041708 - Future Sight by Jackdaw816 (Gen | complete | 1690 | T)

Statement of Lisa Hallett regarding a peculiar mirror found at a car boot sale

Crossover With: The Magnus Archives

(Un)Welcome Aboard by Jaune_Chat (Jack | Complete | 4,154 | T)

To make ends meet, Mal listens to a suggestion from Inara than he rent out the other shuttle. She has the perfect candidate, a charming Companion named Jack…

Crossover With: Firefly 

Death and the Definitely-Not-A Maiden by Odsbodkins (JackIanto | Complete | 3,6K | PG-13)

When Jack dies, Death is there to meet him. Every time. Written in 2008 for the Doctor Who Crossover Ficathon. Takes in Torchwood to end S2, Doctor Who to end S3, Discworld to Soul Music.

Crossover With: Discworld 

Remarkable by snowwhiteliar ( JackIanto, IantoLisa | Complete | 20.971 | PG-13)

Summary: Once upon a time, in a small village in a distant province of a peaceful kingdom, there lived a boy called Ianto

Crossover With: Fairy Tales 

Got That Friday Feeling Again by NancyBrown (OwenOther, JackIanto, GwenRhys, GwenOwen | Complete | 18.3K | R)

HELP HELP HELP HELP

I AM TRAPPED IN A TIME BUBBLE

The magic marker all over the nice chintz wallpaper bled and smeared as Owen wrote in increasingly desperate lettering across the walls. Ls and Ps dragged down, wiggly at the end or drawn out in slashed strokes.

He ignored the pounding on the door frame. He’d shoved the wardrobe in front, which always kept Jack out for twenty three and a half minutes. He ignored the sweat and tears and snot dripping down his face, down his mouth. He ignored the high-pitched singing from his own throat, “If you want my future, forget my past,” chanted over and over.

HELP

Crossover With: Groundhog Day

Back, and Back, and Back a Little More (Future Optional) (JackIanto, JennyVastra | Complete |  32591 | M)

Accidentally shot into the past by a time-travelling car, Ianto has to fix his own mistakes or he won't have a future to go back to.

Crossover With: Back to the Future 

Truth, Justice by NancyBrown (SupermanOwen | complete | 414 | M)

The green shit does not work. Warnings: dubcon (AMTDI)

Crossover With: Justice League Unlimited/DCAU/Superman 

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodies, or, A Humourous Interlude Between Epics by  copperbadge (Gen | complete | 749 | T)

Ianto neglected to introduce himself as he informed the senior staff that Atlantis was now under the jurisdiction of Torchwood, whatever Torchwood is.

Crossover With: Stargate Atlantis 

Never Have I Ever by  st_aurafina (JackIanto, JackDoctor (past/implied), PepperTony (implied) | complete | 1714 | T)

Written for the prompt Ianto, Donna and Pepper end up at a secretaries'/assistants' conference and have a conversation about their bosses.

Crossover With: Ironman/MCU

Beware the Sparkles by elisi (JackIanto, JackEdwardBella | complete | 4793 | T)

It's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after. Oh and Jack has sex with sparkly vampires.

Crossover With: Twilight 

The Death Note Discovery by KaibaGirl007 (JackIanto | complete | 18,992 | T)

“You’ve clearly just got a notebook belonging to some geek, a rather sick geek I’ll give you that, who likes to keep note of people’s deaths.” - Will the team resist the urge to use the Death Note or will one of them give into temptation? 

Crossover With: Death Note 

A Confluence of Personalities by  galaxysoup (JackIanto | complete | 4839 | T)

Conner Kent’s body might be dead, but his soul has apparently decided to take the scenic route.

Crossover With: DC Comics/Young Justice Comics 

Imposters Among Us by  gwendolyncooper (JackIanto, GwenRhys | complete | 9117 | M)

The Torchwood team (+Rhys) are out for a night of fun when they end up on a spaceship with no power, no info, and no crew. Known only as THE SKELD, the team tries to fix the ship and figure out what happened to its previous occupants.

But something out there is killing them.

Something that may be someone they know.

Crossover With: Among Us 

Traitors (Among Us) by princessoftheworlds (JackIanto | complete | 440 | G)

In a happy future, the team plays Among Us, and Ianto suffers.

Crossover With: Among US 

Tagline: I saw the VIDEO. Got the CALL? What Next??? by  BricklingGhost (TeamGwenee) (JackIanto, JackSamara | complete | 2424 | Not Rated)

'Tagline: I saw the VIDEO. Got the CALL? What Next???

Bollocks. That’s just a myth. Some git showing off and claiming to be the one person alive who Samara doesn’t bump off. He’ll be boasting that he’s been chosen to kill Voldemort next.'

When another unsuspecting victim falls foul of the cursed tape, he is pointed towards Captain Jack Harkness as his only hope for salvation.

Crossover With: The Ring

(My God, He Just) Came and Went by  Brokenpitchpipe (SteveBucky | complete | 1591 | M)

It starts on a cold, snowy September night in 1916, on the day Winifred Barnes walks to Doris Lindow’s house to see her new telephone and catches the eye of a handsome young man on the other side of the street. He tips his hat as she sees him, and she flushes scarlet and nods in return.

And nine months later, a little baby boy screams his way into the world.

But that’s not when it starts. Not really.

Crossover With: Captain America/MCU

Beast Inside by Flamingbluepanda (JackIanto, OwenTosh, GwenRhys | complete | 26934 | M)

"Argue with anything else, but don’t argue with your own nature.” - Phillip Pullman

Inside us all, there is an animal that expresses our soul. How would the world change were those animals outside?

Crossover With: His Dark Materials

Rifts and Robots by Paycheckgurl (JackIanto | complete | 3021 | G)

Jack and Ianto’s date at the movies is interrupted by two robots with no theater etiquette.

Crossover With: Mystery Science Theater 3000

The Jack and Ianto Show by Paycheckgurl (JackIanto | WIP | 7392 | T)

Jack and Ianto are a regular couple, living a quiet life, and trying to fit into the quaint Village of West Castle. Sure they're keeping the secret that Jack is an immortal time traveler from the future, with a fantastical machine called a vortex manipulator that can manipulate time and space around them, but they have much more pressing concerns. Such as strict bosses and nosy neighbors. Everything is perfect, a dream come true.

And Jack is going to keep it that way.

Please Stand By...

Crossover With: WandaVision 

Mutually Assured Uncooperation by  princessoftheworlds (JackIanto, OwenTosh, MarthaMickey, FitzSimmons, LincolnDaisy (past) | complete | 31547 | T)

Aliens, time-travelling, resurrections. These are all experiences familiar to not just one but two top-secret organizations that have a hard time keeping a low-profile. Figures that they would encounter each other eventually.

Or: the five times that SHIELD and Torchwood had an encounter that neither were pleased with, and the one time they had to work together when two of their own were taken.

Or: There's Kree running amok in Cardiff, including a murdered one, and Torchwood is on the case, but so is SHIELD. Also, don't forget the memory-manipulating aliens there too!

Crossover With: Agents of Shield/MCU

all i know is (infatuations) by  princessoftheworlds (JackIanto, JackJohn,  OwenTosh, LisaIanto | complete | 439 | T)

Seventh-year Slytherin Ianto Jones handles a break up, getting a boyfriend, terrible emotional misunderstandings with his best friend Jack Harkness, being miserable, and reconciliation. (Not precisely in that order.)

Crossover With: Harry Potter

[prome-th3us]

Runes for beginners: introduction

In this grimoire I'm going to go through runes and their meaning in a way that is accessible to everyone. I'm gonna make a post for every rune so it's gonna be a long serie. I hope you will find this useful and if there's something unclear or wrong, please let me know!

I decided to avoid runes magic because I just want to help to get to know the runes a little better. Before practicing magic, you have to understand what this powerful tool is.

Introduction

Runes are not only a writing system, but they were also used as a magical, divinatory and spiritual growth tool. Rune (norse: rún/rúnar) means "segret, mistery". The characters used to engrave the rune, symbol of a certain energy in this world, were called runstafas (runic sticks).

They are an oracle and we can ask them to guide us: they work better if our question is specific and detailed. The lecture of Runes sometimes is obscure: the petitioner must interpret the details and understand them. Runes give us a way to analize the path we are on and to understand one of his possible outcomes: the future isn't static, we can change it with everything we do.

each rune has a phonetic value and a name that identifies its function and meaning; then it has a very specific history behind it and is associated with a diety.

Historical origins

I'm not gonna say much about the historical origins of the Runes because there are so many different theories about them and we could write an entire book just about this topic.

This is what you have to know:

the ancient futhark comes from the alphabet used by the Celts of Lugano (leoponzi) which has Greek origin. The Greek alphabet would have been absorbed by the Etruscans in the 12th century BC. and then by the Celts of Lugano in the VII. From here, thanks to trade, it would have arrived in the far north, with the necessary changes.

The Greek alphabet influenced the Gothic one and then the Germanic peoples adapted it (we can see how the Gothic alphabet is actually similar to both Greek and Runic, then the Othala rune resembles the Greek Omega).

it originated from the Roman alphabet, given the many relationships that different peoples entertained.

Mythological origin

"I know that I hung

On the wind-blasted tree

All of nights nine,

Pierced by my spear

And given to Odin,

Myself sacrificed to myself

On that pole

Of which none know

Where its roots run.

No aid I received,

Not even a sip from the horn.

Peering down,

I took up the runes –

Screaming I grasped them –

Then I fell back from there."

from the Old Norse poem Hávamál.

In Norse mythology, it's Odin who brought the Runes to the other gods. He wanted to know everything and he was envy of the Norns, who already knew them. He went to the Well of urd, the home of Runes, and since they reveal themselves to any but those who prove themselves worthy of such fearful insights and abilities, Odin hung himself from a branch of Yggdrasil, pierced himself with his spear, and peered downward into the waters below. He forbade any of the other gods to grant him the slightest aid. He survived in this state, teetering on the precipice that separates the living from the dead, for no less than nine days and nights. At the end of the ninth night, he at last perceived shapes in the depths: the runes. He's also lost his eyes for the wisdom.

Other important concepts

First of all, to truly understand how runes were used, you have to know at least a little of Norse mythology (I will tell you some books and links in the last paragraph). Then you have to understand what Orlog and Wyrd mean.

Orlog

This is basically karma but without reincarnation. Every person is born completely responsible for everything they do in their life since the first second: positive actions bring positive results, bad actions bring bad results, even in the afterlife. Who did positive things will go to Valhalla (where the heroes and the people who died in battle go) or to Sessrumnir (the halls of Freya). Who doesn't die in an honorable way or who did bad thing will go to Helheimr (the realm of Hel, this means that even who died in a normal way and who had a normal life will go there) or to Nilfheimr (the world of ice and cold, where the Ice Giants live).

Basically we decide where we are going with every choice we make.

Wyrd

A giant cobweb that extends in space and time: each thread is made up of a different manifestation of energy and all together it constitutes the very fabric of the universe. Since we are born, we are in some part of this web so we are also part of it.

Wyrd and Orlog are intertwined: who does good things and has a good Orlog, he will be on a good thread of the web. Wyrd is the fabric of life as well, so the world will be influenced by the positive energy of the man and will give him back this energy.

If each strand is a different manifestation of energy, each type of energy must have a name: the runes. In runic divination, what we see is a reflection of the energies in and around us (or around the person we are divining for). When we want to modify the Orlog, the process is different: we use the Runes as a channel for the energies that we need. We can say that the practice related to the runes is of two types: passive (divination) and active (healing, protection, etc ...).

Aettir of Runes

In the ancient futhark, there are 24 runes divided in three aettir (sing. aett, sets) of 8 runes each. Every aett is dedicated to a different diety:

Aett of Freya. She is of the Vani lineage and is therefore linked to fertility and harvest. She was welcomed with her twin brother Freyr in Asgard at the end of the war between the Aesir and the Vanir (basically the "wae" between the Norse people and the invaders). She can use the Runes, so she's a goddess of magic but also of love, associated with death (she is the leader of the Valkyries) and sexuality. The runes in this aett are: ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱ ᚲ ᚷ ᚹ.

Aett of Heimdall. Of the Aesir lineage, he is among other things the guardian god of Bifrost and Asgard: he has hearing and sight that reach everywhere. Following a spell of Odin, he was born of nine waves and for this reason he is called "son of the wave". The runes in this aett are: ᚺ ᚾ ᛁ ᛃ ᛇ ᛈ ᛉ ᛊ.

Aett of Tyr. Of the Aesir lineage, he is known as the "Father of Heaven". He sacrificed one of his hands to be able to bind Fenrir and is a god linked to justice, loyalty, heaven, defense, war and law. The runes in this aett are: ᛏ ᛒ ᛖ ᛗ ᛚ ᛜ ᛞ ᛟ.

Last things

Ok so for this first post it's everything! I will continue in the next posts to explore every single rune. I just wanted to suggest some links and books if you want to go deeper into the fascinating history of runes.

Here you can find an interesting article about everything I just said, with so many references and here they also give a list of good books (if you can't afford them you can download their pdf from this site)

Anyway if you want to dig into norse mythology you can read:

Poetic Edda

Prose Edda

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs by John Lindow

(other good books can be found here).

And of course, if you still didn't realize this, I fricking love the website Norse Mythology for Smart People, even tho everything I wrote in this post is from "Le Rune" by Marco Massignan (I couldn't find the English Translation sorry).

[eternadyne]

Lindow walks into Soma's room (totally as if it was his room, waltzing like that) "Hey~ guess who's the birthday boy? Yeah, you" his mischievous smile curling lips. The man places three boxes on Soma's desk. "Your gifts, birthday boy--doctor haha" each box has a note. The green box with black ribbons was Sakuya's and the note says (Happy birthday Soma! Please take care of yourself, dear. Hope you like this~) and the box is full of snacks and treats he can munch on while working because God only knows when he actually had time to eat.

The second one was from Ren with how the note is written (Uncle Soma happy birthday! I love you! Come visit us soon!) Ren's gift was a summary and drawing of the book soma gave him and of course sweets. The last box was Lindow's gift with note (Haha you are old but no white hair for you 'cuz it is already is) his gift was a new book (an old book he found in some ruins) for Soma to read. "Seriously... I am glad you are alive and kicking, buddy" | @sentofight​

…Perhaps now was not the best time to sift through arguably ancient memories, distant as they now were ——— but in that moment, he felt something come over him; wash over him, like ocean waves. It was not the first (nor the last) time that he made him remember something from long ago as a result of his childish antics. 

Childish antics that, in a way, never changed even as they grew older. Even when they first met, slumped against the walls of some military base amidst groups of soldiers who clearly feared them and his elder sister———he never passed up the opportunity to tease. 

“Hey, boy - this is your first mission, right? Better relax.” 

“...I’m not a boy.  I’m Soma.”

“Oh?”

Soma remembered hearing Tsubaki tell him to knock it off, and as he scratched his head and looked the other way (perhaps to avoid her wrath if he didn’t listen), there was still a tiny shred of a smile etched onto his face. Evidently, the bastard hadn’t even been phased by the overtly cold nature of his reply. From that moment forward, he was an absolute thorn in his side; always wearing that stupid grin, always teasing him, always persevering through his every attempt to push him and the others away. None of them would ever leave him alone.

And yet... now that the aforementioned ‘birthday boy’ looked back on it, he wondered what his life would’ve been like if he did succeed in pushing him away; or, if Lindow was never found after the Welkin mission; or, if he was never saved from his corruption and thus slaughtered by his own team, forever lost in the body of a mindless beast. A loss that, even when it was merely temporary, affected Soma more than he let on. In a way, he treated him more like family than his father ever did; the first to see him as a person, as opposed to a lab experiment———a weapon———that should never have been born. His first...friend, who never gave up on him. He pretends not to feel the warmth creeping up his cheeks as he came to the realization, popping one of Sakuya’s treats in his mouth as a way to deflect from the real reason he was reacting like that. (As a sidenote though, it was still very delicious).

"I ought to be saying the same thing to you, seeing as you’re still reckless as ever.” Try as he might, he can’t make himself sound all that snarky today ——— smiling softly at Ren’s picture and messily penned summary of the book he gave to him. After a few moments of pouring over everything, he stood up and crossed his arms... a strange silence falling over him. 

“...I’m...only doing what I’m about to do as a thank you. So don’t———don’t———say anything. Just take it.” 

Here, Soma drew in a breath, shaking off his nerves. And then, slowly but surely, he started walking forward, eventually uncrossing his arms so that they could wrap around the other man in an awkward (but well meaning) hug; it wasn’t something he did often, and even now he could feel himself shrivel in place out of embarrassment. 

“...T-Thank you, for...reminding me that my life is still worth something. But stop calling me doctor, dammit.”

[sentofight]

[ not strictly shipping but muses i would like for my muses to interact with to cause mayhem and angst ...occasionally fluff idk lmao. if u have these muses this is my invitation to tell you ‘nakahomie, where thou are you? come and let me give u angst’

einar

anyone who loves cat.

cats

cat people

cat people who loves cat

c a t s.

rokurou

velvet

laphicet

magilou

eleanor

rose (zesteria)

sorey

literally any tales of muse because he is super easy to write with i promise

machina

izana

rem

the other remaining class zero....i cant have everyone so does shay sobs

feiruz

lays on the ground hm/rf muses where. 

zack

cloud

tifa

sephybroth

angeal

lucina

begs for awakening muses. other fe muses is cool too man ;a;

lindow

sakuya san 

kota

if u can give him all the 1unit muses please

tiz & edea

agnes

ringthatbell

akihiko

i need kuromaru.

shinji is ok too i guess

the mina-twins or whatever you see them.

JUNPEI THE MAN.

give me the sees.