#REVENGE SUCESSFUL!!!!

[justiisms]

*kaito has not forgotten what his uncle did to him yesterday!! in fact, there's a big, mischievous smirk on his face when he sees phanty taking a nap, staring at him for a moment before quietly sneaking off to the kitchen. he already has a plan in mind!*

*a few moments later he's back with a can of whipped cream and a feather, carefully moving his uncle's hand so his palm is facing up and then proceeds to completely cover it with the cream! kaito has to stop himself from gigging as he then reaches over and starts tickling phanty's nose with the feather, eager to see his little prank in action~!*

"Zzz...." Phanty was napping on his bed, having dozed off when he was watching TV. So he would be completely unaware, of the little revenge prank Kaito has in store for him.

He didn't shift when Kaito made his palm face upwards, nor even when he began applying whipped cream into it. It's only when he feels the feather tickling his nose-

"......gh......." That gets a reaction out of him, mostly the confused scrunching of his face and light mumbles. "Mmmrgh..." Head shifting about at the consistent tingling feeling, he attempts to swat at whatever's tickling his nose away... only to splatter the whipped cream on his face!!! "?!?!?!" His eyes shoot open at the sudden feeling of something cold and soft on his face, and rockets up into a sitting position while swiping at his face in mass confusion!! "Bleeeegh?! Th...The fuck-!!"

But it's when some of it touches his tongue, does he realize it's whipped cream, and then when looking up, sees the purple preparator!!! "Oh...! Kaito, you little shit-" Grabbing a pillow, he throws it right at his face before snorting. He admits, he got him pretty good~ "Hmph!! Pranking your sweet, innocent uncle like this.... my heart! Allll because I gave your goatee a liiiiitle "shave".... so ungrateful! Hehehehe.....anyway, gimme a towel for my face, dork! And next time if you're gonna use whipped cream, at least spray it right in my mouth, hehehe!!"

[teleportationmagic]

Imagine a sucession AU with the witch from mercury

[warrioreowynofrohan]

One of the things I liked about Wind and Truth was the way it built on all the previous books, in terms of both characterization and themes.

Kaladin spent four books fighting his depression and his internal conflicts around the nature of war. In this one he seemed to be really healing, and he found a purpose that wasn’t rooted in fighting and conflict – an especially poignant moment was the recapturing of the military kata as dance, connecting with Szeth’s childhood love of dance. The need for Kaladin to move beyond being a soldier, to find other ways to protect, had been building throughout the series, and I thought fit very well into the broader themes of the book: the enemy was never the people Kaladin had to fight as a soldier (other Alethi, the Parshendi/Listeners, the Singers), and the forces of Odium and Honor that were driving them against each other had a number of harmful commonalities. We could say that honor, the Alethi ideology of battle as the greatest aim and skill, drove Alethi civil wars in which Kaladin was initially sent to fight; in impetuses of both honor and odium drove the Vengeance Pact against the Parshendi. Kaladin cracked in Oathbringer because he realized something true: that neither the Alethi or Singers were intrinsically the bad guys, that fighting for either involved killing the innocent. The formation of Retribution feels foreshadowed, a little, in the mention of Teft’s former squires with an oath of vengeance against Moash – what is that oath (honor) of revenge (odium) but retribution? So we saw Kaladin at the end find a better path, protecting and leading and healing without fighting and killing.

For Shallan, I’ve seen so e comments that her arc and the way she dealt with the realization that Chanah was her mother was anticlimactic, but I thought it worked precisely because it built on her previous characterization. She wasn’t overwhelmed because she had friends, support, honesty, and the recognition that she wasn’t a monster. She faced her mother’s death head-on and recognized that it was not her fault; it was Chanah’s fault, and Shallan was a desperate child defending herself. And that knowledge is why she didn’t break at the idea that “the world ended, and Shallan was to blame”: because she could see that idea was a lie, that Shallan was not to blame; Chanah was. Chanah tried to murder her child, was killed by her, went back to Braize, and broke. That’s not on Shallan.

Navani’s development in ROW was excellently brought out when Odium tried to manipulate herand she just brushed all of it off and turned it back on him, because he was targeting weak points she’d already resolved in ROW; they no longer had power over her. Though I wish her sucess in that had more meaning rather than being undermined.

Dalinar’s developmemt I really liked – he seemed stalled in ROW, and I guessed that was going to be necessary for his arc in the fifth book, because the flaw that was really being drawn out was his need to be the one in charge, the one to fix everything. He’d let go of the Blackthorn’s violence, but he hadn’t moved past his own domineering personality. And some of the times when he had tried to do so hadn’t worked out – the thing leading to his beating of Elhokar at the end of TWOK was because Elhokar’s playing off of Sadeas against Dalinar in service of a completely fictional assassination claim was what had led to the Tower and the death of Dalinar’s men. The end of TWOK was Dalinar going from trying to operate by moral suasion and the power of example to operating by, well, the power of power. The problem – which he never recognized until WAT – is that both moral suasion and physical force were grounded in the same basic assumption: I am right and things will only improve if you do what I want. They both excluded truly listening to people or trying to understand why they did what they did. And Dalinar missed opportunities because his default answer to making the world better was “more people do what Dalinar wants.” (Come to think of it, this is a flaw shared in ways by both Dalinar and Jasnah – Jasnah is far more democratic, but her utilitarian ethos relies on the belief that it is okay to hurt people if you feel sufficiently convinced that it will be for the greater good. Taravangian, of course, is completely defined by the flaw of thinking he knows best and that any atrocity is acceptable in service of what he knows is best, so it fits perfectly that both Dalinar and Jasnah had to confront that flaw in themselves.) Dalinar giving up the power of Honor was the culmination of his arc – realizing that success would depend on people other than himself. And Dalinar himself is a mix of Honor and Odium, as is the Alethi warrior ethos that shaped him, which made him ideally positions to recognize the flaws not just in Tanavast but in Honor itself.

[kiame-sama]

Dragon headvanon guy here again because a few more dropped into my head (also sorry for the typos, I'm not used to my phones big keyboard yet xD also 100% relate to you on the plushies, I have a big collection on my.own and love them with all my heart)

1. Most if not all Creatures love to be pet, it's common to see children & sometimes young teens being pet by their parents, older siblings or close friends. The older they fet the less likely they get petted tho, older Fae's and long lived Creatures tho remember that Humans would pet anyone who allowed it with great joy.

2. We know that Humans are seen as Peackeepers (or Beast Tamers) but I like to headcanon that they are also a symbol of Loyalty in many Kingdoms. Some older Creatures, like Lilia even remember Humans going through great dangers or sacrificing themself for their Pack.

An old Rumor has it that one of the Great Seven was actually once pack bounded with a human who sacrificed themself for them. (It would be an intresting idea if it was Scar and after he died many mistook the Human Sacrificing themself for him as him killing them & eating them. But you guys can go wild with this one)

3. Angry humans were a raresight to see and most only learned how dangerous humans could be once a Creature attacked a child and had to be send to a hospital after the Parent of said child got their revenge. It's also at that point that many learned how dangerous a human bite can be thanks to the bacteria in their mouth (that information sadly got lost to time though)

4. This is the last one for now, promise xD A lot of Kingdoms who were safe for humans, would have human daycares where they would watch over the Creatures kids. It was something unheard of since a lot of Creatures dont trust their young and rather weak children around others they dont know (and sometimes even close friends & family couldn't get close to the child without nearly being mauled.)

But it was a bit sucess and since it was free, low income familys would adly send their kids there to get food and have a chance at making friends. Some daycares even allowed sleepovers for Creatures who worked during the night, kids who were night active or those who weren't picked up because their parents worked late.

Sadly after humans went extinct these establishments were shutdown.

Ok one last one, this one is for the Fleur City; It's belived that humans created the Bell as a gift to the Rightous Judge who them upon getting this gift enchanted the Bell to ring in a specific tune when a human entred Fleur City.

Legends say that once the last human in Fleur City died and they went extinct as last that the Bell rung in such a sorrowfull way with the Rightous Judges cries that the spirit of the last Human in Fleur Ciry granted him a last gift. The Firelotus, so that any Magical Creature who dares to harm an Innocent Creature will be punished by humanitys judgment.

(No worries about the typos, I'm pretty bad about it too)

I'm down for all of these actually. Absolutely love how some canon things can so easily fall into place with just a little adjustment and work so wonderfully in an AU all its own.

I can see almost all of them wanting to be pet and of course hoping the soft human will pet them. Rook's already been pet by those little Human hands and he is already hooked. I could absolutely see Jack and Ruggie going nuts for petting. Lilia's already made it clear that group grooming is common so petting would likely be too. Maybe that's the Human's way of returning the grooming behavior to make Lilia sleep? Lilia has already petted Grim.

The last Human Lilia met was the surrogate mother of a young fox fae child and he will be forever haunted by how injured she was and still standing, unsure how long she must have fought to keep her young safe. Lilia had arrived near the end of the poor Human's desperate battle, stepping in himself but it was quite too late for the Human mother. He took in the child and raised them himself in Briar Valley, Silver is not the only child the old fae has taken under his wing. Lilia knows the sheer drive humans have to protect those they truly love because he saw it firsthand and he knows better than to mess with little Grim regardless of how much fun it would be. No need to upset the Human.

Humans were quite good at taking care of others young and many had a natural proclivity to protect infants regardless of what species it was. Humans aren't really all too threatening, so many mothers of the more protective species didn't feel that threat to themselves or their young like they did with other species or even their own family. Many are quite manageable as children and almost harmless, meaning the soft Humans could take care of them with no problem.

To make a world of magical creatures tremble in fear is a mighty feat and one only the fire lotus could achieve. After all, so many looked down on humans for their lack of magic, why not suffer the same fate for those who brought Humanity to heel?

[shibaincubus]

The winter revenge

It can be used for all schoolbreaks or when you just need a detox

We all know about the winter arc but if you feel like you have wasted all the time

It's not over yet

Because the last two weeks are acc the most important ones for starting motivated into the year.

You already have new years resolutions but if you start them earlier in the year you already did a lot of the mental work and the motivation bonus that you get in the new year is also playing a huge role in sticking to your habits

That's why there is so much importance on structures like the winter arc.

In these two weeks you should develop your core habits

The defining phase

So the hardest part here is defining your core goals

One model that I like to use is a stick man model

You draw two stick mans and a arrow between them. Past and future is written between them. On the arrow you're writing the duration. Here it's our winter break glow up.

Past man: Write all the behaviours of your past self that you don't like

EX. Unfit, undisciplined etc.

On the future self you write what you are and how you will get there

EX. Dopamin detox -> Discipline ; Workout -> Getting fit

Now you are marking your Future points in three different colours

Spiritually; Physically; Mentally;

The plan

Write everything (best in red) on a sheet of paper and hang it up somewhere where you are looking every day

Make a order how you like it

This is Personal

Ensure that you are not betraying your resolutions on the first day

Make it more memorable so that you don't forget your resolutions

make a small message on your phone alarm like:

Do it for your highest self -> she's rooting for you

It's going to signal the change for life

The way you wake up is acc on of the most important moments

If you rot in bed = rotting day energy -> you feel unmotivated

Put important things into proper places

Ex: Put the yoga mat on the ground if you plan on doing Pilates tmr your going to automatically get Pilates your head

make a mini check list for the days that you check mark at the end of the day

It gives a natural dopamine rush which makes us proud and motivated

Don't forget the Pinterest board

use virtue signalling to trick your subconscious

Final advice

The first days will be sooo unconfortable but it's going to be worth sm when you check mark your sucess every day

The journey makes the goal and the goal makes the journey

Take a deep breath and think about the adventures that you are going to do in this stage

Adventures are outside of our comfort zone and that's the thrill with them

Think about the genuine happiness that you feel having sucess

Let go of the perfection obsession and let it fall into reality

Start now

[su-supernova]

cozy vibes with the Montys <3

Meet the Montys:

Known around Veronaville for their sucessful restaurant line and their loud voices, the Monty's easy-going nature has taken the far. Despite the tragedies this family has faced, they've managed to overcome it all. You can always find them around town with their heads held high and a bright smile - well, except for Patrizio, who is always stomping around and mumbling something about 'betrayal' and 'revenge'.

Names and traits under the cut:

✧ Patrizio Monty family-oriented, paranoid, neat extra gameplay trait: perfectionist ✧ Isabella Monty foodie, wise, creative extra gameplay trait: gloomy ✧ Bianca Monty art lover, good, romantic ✧ Mercutio Monty goofball, self-assured ✧ Romeo Monty lovebug, outgoing

[vitzi9]

I'll be patient, just for you.

Masterlist if you want to read my others things. Prequel of Patience is the key to sucess.

TW/CW: breaking in, voyeurism, ghostface

I feel like this is weird? Or cliché ? I can't tell but I don't really like it. (8/07/2023) (1678)

Ethan has always been a lonely man. Even in his own family, he wasn't loved. His father was talking about his lost son every hour of the damn day, his sister was too. Both of them had spent years trying to find the perfect revenge plan. It was the only thing in their mind. Their plan still wasn't finished yet and for the moment all he had to do was befriending some dumbs students for him to get closer to.

It was a long and boring process. Playing the embarrassed nerd every second, faking being insecure and everything. It was boring. Deadly so.

But it wasn't that much of a waste of time since it's then and there that he discovered his passion; killing and frightening people. In pair with lying. He always think: how many times can I lie to someone before they see it ? How big can my lie be and still pass ? It was his hobby now. The adrenaline he felt while taking the life of someone was exhilarating. He was Ghostface, now. It was beautiful !

So he joined a college and started to blend in. To others, he was the shy dorky nerd without friends, too stupid to hurt a fly. And it was perfect. Ethan was smart, incredibly so. And he was competitive. He was a genius and no one could challenge him, he was the first of every one of his classes. And if someone dared surpass him, he would get angry, really angry.

And no one was suspecting him, too ! Chad just wanted for him to get into a relationship, Tara, Anika and Sam weren't paying too much attention to him, sure Mindy found him weird but that was all.

His cover was perfect.

One day, paying attention to the lesson. He doesn't notice how his pen fell on the ground. Nor when you grabbed it for him. He felt someone tap on his shoulder. Turning his head, he's face to face with you.

You were plain, somewhat of a background character. You didnt't look like you'd be fun to play with, like you'd just cry if he'd chase after you. So he didn't really paid attention to you. Staying in his role, he smiles and thanks you. You smile back.

He didn't even know your name, in fact, he didn't know the name of the majority of people in the class. There were too much persons in this big room. He never noticed you, until now. Why were you seated beside him ? And when did you sit here ? One quick look at the room gave him the answer; there wasn't enough sits.

Chad nudges his side, Ethan moans from the pain. His roomate gives him a pointed look, smiling slyly. Ethan just shrugs. He was terribly annoying, not even funny. If he had any choice in the revenge plan of his father, this dumb guy would be his first victim. Seriously, his name is Chad ? What the hell ?

Ethan glances back at you briefly when he sees a pins on your pencil case; on it, the head of the puppet from the movies Saw. He was intrigued. He liked horror movie as well, and challenge even more. Saw could be really trash for some people, with physical and psychological horror. At first, it was just a game for him really.

He wanted to see how much time he needed to scare you off.

How much time he needed to make you cry, shake and beg for your life. He wanted to speedrun ruining you.

For that, he needed some material. Ethan was a theater kid at heart. He liked to make things dramatics. He grabbed a rope and a black spraypaint. That's all he needed for now. He went to the cash register and gave his 5 dollars note. The cashier told him thirty cents were missing. He was going to bargain, even going to break his character if he needed to, but someone was quicker.

One coin of twenty and one of ten had been put on the counter next to his hand. Surprised, he follows the arm that laid it until he sees the owner of it. You. You smiled at him politly. You, who was the reason he was buying this in the first place. You were nothing like the you from school. You were even pretty. He couldn't even proceed the information but he just stuttered something, a thanks maybe, he can't even remember. But he left with his articles, head low and cheeks red.

Two days later, (the time he needed for him to understand the reaction he had at the store), he was ready. He would follow you at school, for the sole reason he wanted to scare you, of course. He'd write threats to the sit you usually sit on. But you always brush them off, thinking it was just some aweful joke from another student. Even if he wrote your name on it, you wouldn't budge.

He hang up a doll to the ceiling once, to get a reaction out of you. Didn't work either. He tried a lot more things before he realized he had stepped down the creepyness. His creepy jokes were similar to one a kid do. The more he wanted to scare you, the less he was doing. But he was doing it on purpose.

He knew he was doing it on purpose, the pictures of you on his phone were giving him away. Pictures of you in your room, changing clothes, sleeping, walking. Everything. But everyone do that, right ?Every man his age had a crush, after all. But Ethan never had one. He didn't have a normal life after all, nor a normal family. So it's not surprising.

Is that what men feel ? Surely, yes. He couldn't, and wouldnt anyway, ask his dad on the matter. He soon realized it wasn't normal to obsess over someone this way. But at this point it was too late. He killed people, he could deepen in the uncontroversially. A Polaroid of you talking to you friend was well hidden in his nightstand. Your friend's face was crossed out.

This picture was his favourite because he got to be so so close to you that day he thought that wasn't real. You weren't even smiling on the picture, your friend was probably telling you sad things but he didn't care. He spent countless night staring at this picture.

He craved something else. He didn't know what exactly but the more he was looking at you, the prettier you were becoming. And you were nice to him too. Well, the two only times both of you talked, you were incredibly nice to him. And he discovered you had similar center of interest ! You had scary books in your room, you listened to artists he liked, or learnt to like, and like him you hadn't a lot of friends !

But there was that thing, you weren't scared. But on another side, Ethan is not sure he wants to see you just scared now. He wasn't satisfied anymore.

No, his need was stronger now. He wanted to scare you, but mostly detroy you. It was something really simple in his mind. Something quick to understand but hard to plan. Human is gregarious. Human needs to be in a group or in a pair, it's a fact. But what if an human is left alone ? Then, he'll seek refuge with someone else. Even if it's not truthful. Even if it's a fake relation, because human need compagny. It give them a sense of safety.

And that now, was more terryfing that any stupid movie. Because Ethan was controlling everything in this plan. Because he get to see you scared shitless, to see you cry and beg for you life, he get to destroy you and you'll still come back for him for comfort.

In this plan, Ethan was winning on every fronts. He had everything and you nothing.

Though, he had to control himself at some point. He couldn't act too quickly. It wasn't something you can do in a blinking of an eye. Plus, you still exerted a force on him.

That he wants it or not.

That persona he was sick of playing with his so called friends, weirdly enough, he was really getting into it when you were around. When you looked at him, even for a brief second, he was the embarrassed nerd. When you looked at someone else, he was insecure.

But he'd overcome that, eventually.

Often, you'd come to your friend's apartment and he would love these moments ! Because he could hide in the bathroom and listen to your conversation. At first, his audacity had him doubt about his plan. But your friend was so so stupid ! Since he already locked himself in the bathroom multiple times before, she was used to it by now. Just thinking that it was stuck sometimes and she wouldn't insist. Ethan was free to do what he wanted.

After that, he decided he needed more. He knew your bedroom window was giving to a little street below. And it became a habit for him to go there every night. You couldn't see him, less hear him. But he was talking to you, every time. Most of the time, he was seated on the ground, head glued to your room.

'You're so pretty' he'd whisper after a long day. 'Good night lovely' he'd say when you turn off the light. And once deep asleep, he'd enter your apartment. He already duplicated your keys; his most prized posession. He would just stare at your sleeping form. Sometimes, he'd watch the TV without sound on your couch. Wanting to create a domestic feeling in him.

But each time, once the night is over, you'd see each other at school and you would act as if you don't know him.

And he really, really hated you for it.

[brunossan]

Lets go with Part 3 of The Resume of The Beniko Order in The Sith Resurgence!

In part 2, i talked about both Aliana's Grandmother and Mother, but now lets talk about Aliana. How she became what she is in the fic? Well, lets say that Lily have a very different vision on how "Fixing" bad movies should go.

1-The Mother Killer

Last post i told about Tahleea working as a Slave Trafficker to have money and take care of her daughter. According to an old post of Lily, this was because Republic Money dont have value on Outer Rim (Because Prequels said so and somehow it remains the same in Sequels timeline), so she would need Hutt Money for living. But the consequences of doing so made her getting to do extreme things for her daughter. While doing these extreme things, however, she managed to have time to raise and love her daughter. When she noticed Aliana was Force Sensitive, she decided to train her to become a Sith, wich was sucessful because of Aliana being literally born on the Dark Side of The Force, a thing that came from Legends. During this training moment, Tahleea also trained teen Darth Talon, but this is a plot hole that never got fixed.

The moment where everything changed in Aliana's life was in her 14th birthday, where after leaving a job she asked her Mother to train closer to the Core, as they already had visited all worlds of Outer Rim. And because it was her birthday, Tahleea decided to do it. They went to the Corellian System, to train and explore. Ironically in this fic universe, Luke Jedi Academy was working around, and Luke Skywalker felt their presences, deciding to check-in.

And after seeing their Red Lightsabers, he knew they were Sith, so he attacked them without thinking twice.

Luke Skywalker however was not alone. No, he was with his Padawan Ben Solo, wich fought Aliana while Luke fought Tahleea.

The thing now about Luke in this fic is Lily claims Luke is not a good fighter neither a good lightsaber fighter, so Tahleea was better than him at everything, specially because both the fic and the wikia sells Tahleea as being the most powerful Sith Lord in Sequel Era. The fight however was not fair because she noticed that Ben was surprisingly strong for its age and extremely violent, also taller than Aliana, so even if Aliana was a better fighter he got the advantage in this. In fact, Ben was the main reason of Tahleea death because at some point in the fight Tahleea threw her lightsaber towards Ben to stop the fatal blow he was about to give to Aliana, and got herself disarmed and distracted, giving enough time to Luke just behead her swiftly.

After seeing this, Aliana screams in despair and gets hit in the shoulder by Ben lightsaber, falling down in the cliff they were fighting. She wakes up later, seeing that not only Luke took her mother lightsaber but he also burned her body in a cerimonial jedi pyre, leaving the planet afterwards. After seeing this, Aliana swears revenge on the Jedi and Luke Skywalker, and that is the moment according to the fic she gets her Sith Eyes.

2-Wandering 10 Years in the Space

After losing her mother, Aliana found her ship intact and met her family Droid 2V-R8, an Old Republic droid that is not only a 3000 years droid that still works after this long time but he also is the equivalent of Alfred to her.

But also, he is her Great Great Grandparent, as one of the members of the Beniko family, Darth Mecani, actually married him, but he never talked about it to any of them.

Living with 2V made her life after losing her mother slightly easier as Aliana, even being extremely good at anything related to the Sith, The Force and the history of the galaxy, was actually extremely bad at using machines, specially piloting her own ship. 2V did most of the job by taking control of machines around her, while Aliana somehow learned how to use the Force to give a boost to the Ship actual speed and resistance, making everytime she pilots her ship a cheat as she is not actually piloting it but using the Force to move it. But Aliana had to learn it alone.

After Tahleea death, Aliana spent 10 years around the Galaxy, mainly the Outer Rim as the New Republic influence was extremely weak in that region. However she did not hid herself from the galaxy but became a notorious figure to the point everyone knew her as a "Sith more cold blooded than Darth Vader", like Talon once compared her in the fic. Mostly of these 10 years are not revealed by Lily, but she said that she had 2 main Jobs during her lifetime: One being a Guard for the Zitta Bordello, an all female brothel, and the other one is working to her mother old boss Niima the Hutt, not as a slave trader anymore but on a mix of mercenary, smuggler and Bounty Hunter. However, this become a plot hole later mainly because of another part of Aliana life in these 10 years.

The part she becomes a hero somehow.

3-Hero of the Outer Rim... How?

Basically one of the biggest moments in the entire fanfic is when Aliana calls out a giant fleet to help the Resistance, claiming all members of the fleet come from planets she saved from opression and that they all decided to follow her. But not only this scene was made to disown Lando Calrissian from the history it was also made to show that Aliana was "Better at unifying the galaxy than everyone else".

But how she managed to do it?

Its implied in the timeline she made that not only she was by herself most of the time (Considering she got herself 71 booty calls during this said time), the first 4 years of her life were working with the Zitta Bordello and the other 6 years were doing lots of random stuff while working from the hutts. Lets also not forget that in 6 years she managed to become enemy of the hutts and free dozens of planets by herself while self-training and learning all by herself lots of random shit. Also she finished Talon training...

And they fucked at some point too but its ok, its Aliana, right?

Well, the fucking part may have some serious complications, mainly because of another controversy.

The SILK CONTROVERSY

4-Silk or Aliana? tw: Prostitution, Teenage Grooming mention

Silk is a character that its mentioned in the Sith Resurgence wikia, who apparently was a girl from Zitta Bordello known as to be one of the most popular girls who worked on there. But unfortunally, she disappeared, and even when Aliana Empire rose to power, she was unwilling to know about her whereabouts.

This however just wakes up more doubts specially about one thing: Silk disappeared around the same time Aliana entered in the fic timeline. This mistery also grows more in the beginning of "Scent of Engine Oil", a currently deleted and incomplete spin-off of Sith Resurgence made by Lily where in the beginning of the fic Rey recalld People on Zita Bordello calling Aliana by the name Silk, and Aliana avoiding these People by claiming she is not her. Rey dont care about this, as she doesnt wanna pressure Aliana into revealing secrets of her past, and the chapter goes onward. However, we must remember one thing.

Aliana worked in the Zita Bordello as a bouncer around her teen years. And Silk was a very required member of it. As Lily never really specified anything, we can only assume one thing...

Besides being a Bouncer, Aliana was a young sex worker.

That could explain outside of the main fic reasons why Aliana developed Depression and decided to take the drastic decision that would change her life forever.

It all started with the Sun.

5-ALIANA ALMOST THROWS HERSELF IN THE FUCKING SUN.

Around Aliana 24 years, her depression became worse, mixed with some undiagnosed health issues like autism and adhd. And because the New Republic, wich in this fic is represented as a greedy capitalism gouvernment like USA, keeps meds difficult to buy, Aliana is not fine. Her issues keeps getting worse, to the point People around the galaxy knows her as a very evil person, to the point that looking at her in a way she didnt like could cost your life. Besides, Aliana also got bad meetings with other Jedi Beside Luke, because in this fic Luke Jedi Academy managed to generate some Legends Stuff. However, Aliana killed all of them, specially those who she discovered were Jedi and didnt gave them the chance to defend themselves. In fact, at some point before Aliana felt Kylo Ren destroying the Jedi Academy, and she felt delight with it.

However, even the fall of her enemies didnt gave her peace. Aliana literally got Hunted all around the galaxy by People just because she was a Sith. No one likes them. Even though she tries to claim that she is not the same as those who caused all the pain the galaxy suffered, they wont believe her. When she try to claim that the Jedi and the Republic were using their influence to destroy a religion who did not bow to them, they didnt believed. When she tried to call herself a victim for everything that happened to her...

No.

One.

Believed.

Her.

Aliana got tired of it. Tired of everything. So she decided to do a thing: Throw herself and her ship into the sun of Jakku, consequentially destroying not only every single trace of herself but also all knowledge the members of her lineage gathered around the galaxy. However, when Aliana was about to finally get her peace, her ship broke because of a piece. Because of that single piece, Aliana had to land on Jakku.

And thats when the fanfic The Sith Resurgence starts.

And thats part 3. Sorry for being late, my life is a Mess but part 4 will be coming soon with a resume of the main fic

See you soon

[blindmagdalena]

Hi, Amy! How are you?

You know, I've been having a lot of thoughts about Homelander's relationship with both Ashley and the rest of the Seven, and wanted to share them, if that's okay :)

Although at first glance it really seems that Homelander just hates his team, I think that it's a bit more complicated than that.

Sure he likes to bully them, intimidate them and generally just play mind games with the team. He's a sadist for sure. However, I also think that he rationalizes his mistreatment of them as "toughening them up".

I've had a lot of teachers (and one terrible boss) who had this mentallity. They use the people bellow them as pounching bags, an outlet for their own frustrations because they know they won't face any repercussions, but they don't see it as an abuse of power. They think that this mistreatment helps to build character and it's necessary.

In a way, they think "they are doing us a favor", and in my mind that's exactly how Homelander sees his relationship with the Seven. "Oh, they re weak and pathetic and so bellow me, but it's okay, I'll make them better" basically.

It's also a form of revenge, because Homelander went through abuse as well while he was in the lab. So, now he believes that pain and humiliation is something everyone should go through because it will make them stronger. This helps him justify his own suffering too. Because if pain isn't necessary to become better, why did he have to go through that?

I think (weirdly enough) that this is particularly true when it comes to his relationship with women.

In his mind, Alex's death was not just a way to intimidate Starlight. It was a loss she needed to experience to "understand the situation she was in". That's why during the interview he held her hand and even said that he missed her, acting like everything was fine between them. Because what he did was for Starlight's benefit so she doesn't have a right to hate him for it.

His issues distinguishing reality from fiction (as in marketing and PR stunts, branding, etc) also played a role in that, but that's beside the point.

AND ASHLEY!!?? I have so many thoughts about how he actually is, deep down, VERY fond of Ashley but feels the need to terrorize her bc she won't be a useful paw if he goes soft on her. Even if she's just using her, you don't hang over the most sucessful company of the world to someone you hate.

Yes, everything he does is horrible and ill-intended, but he doesn't realize it!

He thinks he can hurt people and still have an emotional connection to them, because abuse is just an intrinsical part of any relationship. That's what Jonah Vogelbaum and Vought taught him, and that's why he's always so dumbfounded when people turn on him.

(Poor thing, he really needs to be commited at this point 😩).

aahh wow, so many good points! i agree that Homelander absolutely ascribes to 'tough love,' like pushing Ryan off the roof. that is undoubtedly exactly how he was taught to fly, too. you've nailed his warped perspective on how he goes about teaching people lessons.

though a good deal of his bullying, especially in regards to A-Train and Deep, seems like him lashing out against them for not being his dream team. he's at his worst with them when he feels small and insecure. he treats them as extensions of himself and his image, and when they fail to live up to that, it infuriates him.

i don't know if i entirely agree with the latent fondness beneath his bullying of Ashley: if he is fond of her, i don't think he's aware of it at all. to me, it seems much more like she's his designated adult. a frazzled babysitter. someone he has terrified into being loyal and responsible for all the company related nuances he doesn't understand. it makes so much sense to me when you take into account what Starr said about Homelander having the emotional intelligence of a 14-year-old. she's his stand-in for Stan Edgar.

he's pretty openly doting when he has fondness for someone. Black Noir is a very good example of this.

that said, fondness is different from attachment. i do think he's both attached to and reliant on every member of his team. a teenager who lashes out at their friends and family is still very much reliant on those same people.

i like what you said about him viewing abuse as an intrinsic part of relationships, and something that shouldn't cause people to turn on him. it's fucked up and tragic, and his perspective definitely IS very skewed, but he shows us several times that he's actually pretty soft when it comes to his loved ones.

when Ryan has a panic attack, he doesn't scold him or tell him to get over it. he removes him from the situation, gives him space, and then empathizes with him. obviously he's much softer with his son bc he's actively looking to change the way he was raised through his son.

ultimately to me, Homelander's sadism doesn't come across as quite as meticulous or well thought out as he'd like people to believe. he's a wounded, frustrated child taking out his pain on those around him. he uses fear and torment to get his way because that's what was done to him, and yet he expects them to have the same weird reverence for him that he had for Vogelbaum.

[raelle-writing]

I’ve seen some wild theories out there about how Phee and Jin are going to end. I personally think that either they are both killers and planned this out and get away with it scott free or they both sadly die.

White and Tee seems much more straightforward. Tee is marked for death (imo), it’s just a matter of how he dies. Will he still be selfish or self -sacrificing?

What are your theories/speculations about how the couples might end up?

I'm so glad you asked me nonnie because I have a lot of thoughts in no cohesive order and wasn't sure where to put them 😂

I don't know if I really have a theory or speculation more that I have a lot of pieces of a puzzle that don't quite make a picture yet. I've seen a lot of theories and speculation around Phee and Jin in particular as well and I'm not entirely sure if I can yet predict what direction the show is going to go in because we still have a lot of unanswered questions about them. So let me start with Tee and White.

I think there are 2 possibilities for Tee and White at this point. Either they both die, or they both live but they break up. And that's because White shows so much horror to any of Tee's even small suggestions of crime, and he defends Tee to Tan and Phee when they talk about thinking that the original crew did something to Non.

If we take White at face value, he seems like a good kid and I think if he found out what Tee did to Non he wouldn't be able to conscience it and would have to break up, even if Tee genuinely loves him (and I believe Tee does).

There is always the possibility that White is more than he appears (you've all probably seen me speculate that White could be Non's brother New) but given what we know about him so far, that's what I can see happening, unless there's some reveal about his character that we haven't seen yet.

So, now for Phee and Jin.

I'll make it no secret that I really want them to end up together, so that is likely coloring my analysis of events. But as of right now I just... don't really have a prediction for how things will end between them. I've seen speculation ranging from Phee is using Jin for revenge and will kill him, to Phee is there to protect Jin from someone else seeking vengeance and truly, I don't have enough information to make a prediction. Here's what I can say about them tho.

I don't think that Jin is hiding some deep, manipulative streak. I was on the fence at first, but then a scene in episode 4 tipped me over the edge. And it's the one where Jin is with his friends, talking about how they'd won the film contest, and while he's there, he defends Non and credits him for their sucess.

If Jin was trying to manipulate Non or use him in any way, then why defend him in this moment when Non is nowhere around, and will never hear about it? To me that's a pretty huge sign that Jin is genuinely kind, because he risks upsetting his friends to defend a person who isn't even there.

There's always the possibility that Jin can betray Non, of course. I've also written a meta about how Jin calls himself a coward when he's talking to Phee, and I still wonder if part of the reason he views himself that way is because of whatever happened to Non before he disappeared. If he feels like he did something cowardly or abandoned Non, or should've stood up for him more, or something along those lines. But I can't see a deep, malicious, manipulative betrayal coming from him.

And that leads to Phee, who we all assume is seeking revenge. Though there's an equally likely plotline that he's there trying to figure out what happened to Non, we don't know yet. There's still so much about Phee that we don't know. Why he's been with the friend group for so long, what's his angle for approaching Jin, if he's a murderer or caught up in the mayhem somehow. But currently I don't think that Phee is trying to trick Jin only to betray him later, for one simple reason.

Because they were fuckbuddies.

That might sound like a stupid reason, but bear with me. If Phee was really trying to hurt Jin as revenge for whatever happened with Non, why would he keep Jin at arms length by saying they're "just friends" over and over?

It would be significantly bigger of a betrayal for Phee to become Jin's boyfriend and then later betray and kill him. If that's what Phee was after, then why would he half-ass it that way? Why push him away?

I feel like there's gotta be something deeper there than simple revenge. Especially when compounded with the fact that we haven't seen Jin do anything nasty to Non.

I think my money is currently (and very tentatively) on Phee genuinely protecting Jin because Jin was good to Non and doesn't deserve the havoc being wreaked on the others, especially since Phee has gone out of his way to save Jin's life already.

As for their ending... I don't know yet. I think that if the writers really want to break our hearts they'll have Phee and Jin genuinely love each other and one will die trying to save the other. But it kind of depends, it's hard to say at this point in the show because we've only had one major character death so far. I don't know how far the writers are going to go in the end, if they intend to kill almost everyone or only the ones who "deserve it."

Thanks for the question nonnie, hopefully you don't mind the novel I left in reply for you! As the story unfolds I'm sure you'll get more character analyses and speculations from me but currently I'm a big fat ❓ over what is going to happen with Phee and Jin. And that's on purpose, of course. So we'll just have to see how it all plays out, I guess!

[sillyxaly]

Its hilarious to watch myself be a predator who is also petty.

I just hit a fly straight out of the air. It was a misunderstanding! I thought I had spotted the Mosquito who stung me at least four times tonight and was set on revenge. When I looked down however to see if the Mosquito was dead on the ground and my hunt sucessful I just saw a tiny fly sitting on the ground confused and stunned.

The little guy is fine! I observed him until he flew again and now hes somewhere in here but I feel so sorry!

Im so sorry little guy I didnt mean to just slap you to the ground.

[chickenroost]

More Candle Colors & Correspondences

Black: meditation rituals, hex work, banishing, protection, working with entities, and getting rid negative forces

Blue: magic that involves honor, loyalty, peace, tranquility, truth, wisdom, protection during sleep, astral projection, and spells to induce prophetic dreams

Brown: spells to locate lost objects, improve powers of concentration and telepathy, and for protection of familiars and household pets

Gold: spells that attract the power of cosmic influences and rituals to honor sun deities.

Grey: spells to neutralize negative influences

Orange: spells to stimulate energy

Green: spells involving fertility, success, good luck, prosperity, money, rejuvenation, and ambition. and rituals to counter act greed and jealousy.

Pink: love spells and rituals involving friendship or feminity

Purple: psychic senses, manifestations, healing, and spells involving power, sucess, indepedence, and household protection.

Red: fertility rites, aphrodisiacs, and spells involving passion, love, health, physical strength, revenge, angels, willpower, courage, and magnetism.

Silver: spells and rituals to remove negativity, encourage stability, and attract the influence of a deity.

White: consecration rituals, meditation, divination, exorcism, and spells that involve healing, clairvoyance, truth, peace, spiritual strength, and lunar energy.

Yellow: spells involving confidence, attraction , charm and persuasion, along with solar energy.

[racefortheironthrone]

Read your post on "disruptors", loved it, and made me wonder why so many have a cult of personality spring up around them. Were there similar cults of personality for the mega wealthy in the past; like was Rockefeller worshiped the way so many worship Musk? Or is it a more modern trend fuelled by our constant connectivity and consumption of media? Thanks!

You raise an interesting question.

It was certainly true that the robber barons of the 19th century - Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Gould, Frick, etc. - were larger-than-life figures in the media (especially the part of the media that covered high society). It is also true that with a lot of these figures, there was this popular myth of the self-made man that sought to turn them into quintessential rags-to-riches, up-by-your-bootstraps American sucess stories.

But for the most part, the robber barons of the Gilded Age were hated for their monopolistic behavior and their use of violence to suppress the working class - and these magnates often had to go to great lengths to repair their reputations. Andre Carnegie's library-building campaign, for example, was very much a PR move meant to soften his image after the Homestead Strike. In fact, my great-grandfather Humphrey Attewell helped to organize opposition to the construction of a Carnegie library in Northampton, because he and other working-class people felt that the funds for the library were blood money distributed by a murderer. Likewise, it's not an accident that John D. Rockefeller founded the Rockefeller Foundation right around the same time that the Ludlow Massacre turned him into a monster in the eyes of the American public.

I would argue that we start to see more of a cult of personality around the mega-wealthy a bit later - say, 1900s-1930s - and the major turning point was the career of Thomas Edison. While Edison was every bit as ruthless and grasping as the robber barons before him - hence the war of the currents, his penchant for patent theft and/or stealing credit for inventions, the very existence of Hollywood - the fact that he was an inventor with so many world-changing patents to his name made Edison into a very different kind of media figure. Thomas Edison became a star of pulp fiction and dime novels, a sort of proto-superhero Science Hero - in addition to Edison's Conquest of Mars (an unauthorized sequel to the War of the Worlds in which Thomas Edison gets revenge for the Martian invasion of Earth by launching a counter-invasion of the red planet with his superior technology), there was a whole genre of Edisonades all about young inventor geniuses who use their inventions to save the day and/or explore the "savage frontier."

I think you can draw a line from the cult of personality around Edison to the cult of personality that formed around Henry Ford in the 20s and 30s as not just a car manufacturer but a visionary who had created a new age of modernity, and from there to the legend of the Packard garage, and from there to contemporary Silicon Valley.

[crazyforsturns]

"im not ready!"

matt sturniolo

contains: suggestive content fluff and more !!

bodies filled the highschool for the annual reunion. Me and the Triplets went to this highschool together and that is where me and matt had met. it has been a while since we have graduated so the school has changed alot. every guy we had pasted wore suits and every girl we passed wore a tight dress with classy hoop earring and heels. we had walked into the gymnasium to a big party with drinks,a dance floor , couches and LOTS of people. i had sat down at the couch with some punch and had seen no one that i had remebered."y/n?" i had heared from the right of me.

i had turned around to see my highschool bestfriend Jessica. "Jess! how have you been?" i said standing up and giving her a big hug. " ive beem good. you?" she asks. " i have been good. i actually live with the triplets now." i said. " no flipping wayy!!! there like SUPPPA famous right now right?" she says exagerating the super. " yeah they have been really sucessful lately. they had just gotten 7mil subscribers!" i spoke excitedly. " ok but like here me out though. matt is kinda cute." she spoke. " oh really?" i said looking at her weirdly and taking a long sip of my punch. " what? is he your boyfriend or something? cmon y/n. you could never get a guy like matthew sturniolo." she said scoffing putting down her drink on a table near us.

" actually jessica, he is. infact he loves me and he probably doesent even remember you." i say as we start to bicker. " ya really wanna fucking test me y/n?" she said. wow jessica has changed over the years. she used to be so kind and was so good at math. now shes just a smoker who lost everything. " im gonna go find matt to see if he remembers you. if he doesent leave me and him the hell alone." i say putting down my drink and going to find matt. passing multiple groups of people and a few dri ks spilled on my red dress i had reached nick. " wheres matt?" i had asked. "huh? oh yeah hes over there." he had pointed over to the door where matt was leaving. " matt!" i yell out but music drowns me out to a faint sound. i had then found an opening to run through to the back door. i lung foward pushing the door open and tumbling a little down the stairs and fall right into matts arms. "hah.. sorry matt. where are you going" i breathe out a chuckle. " im leaving? this party is kind of boring and not really my thing." he spoke. the way his lips moved and his hair on his face. his black tux and red tie matched perfectly with his eyes. they were ocean blue and diamond like colour around his pupils that had just made my heart flutter and my body feel.....hot....weird..almost..desperate.

i had snapped out of my senses and grabbed matts head in my hands. carressing his cheeks as i warmly kissed him against his soft perky lips. they were plush, delicate. i had tangled my right hand into the fine brown hair on the back of his head pushing him toward the car and i grab on his tie undoing it. I then unbutton one of his buttons on his black suit and gasp from the deep kiss as a string of saliva is the only thing connecting us together." are we doing this" he said breathing heavily with a smirk and i nod and he lifts me from my thighs bringin me to our car. i launch into the back seat and he comes in frm the other side. closing he cars doors. the windows are frosted from the winter sight outside. he grabs the back of my head kissing me deeply. " i wanna fucking tear you apart." he says moving away from the kiss breathlessly. he then dives back in giving me a deep kiss as his left hand if tugging on m hair slightly and the other is zipping down my dress. "mmh.. matt." i say moving away from the kiss. " yes my love.." he said bringing his head to my neck sucking on it slightly giving my nerves the signal to shiver ans moan at the feeling. " im.." i say. " your what..?" he said bringing his face up to look at mine.

" im not ready !" i say sitting up. " your not? then why did you-" he speaks. " i-i just..i dont know. im just- i dont think im ready.." i start tearing up. " hey hey hey.. dont cry darling. its ok." he says wiping the tears starting to fall down my cheeks. "* i-im sorry i.. i got you all riled up." i say. " honey its ok." he says and signals me to turn around so he can zipper up my dress. " thank you for trying." he said placing kisses on my neck. " i love you.." i say sniffling then moving to kiss him. i gave him a hug and he hugged me back ans we stayed like that for 5 mins beforenick and chris came back.

[xtabithanala]

Another OC drop <3

Today I'm dropping one of my most dearest OCs: Szimba Luani from District 3, winner of the 59th Hunger Games ♡

Faceclaim: Alexandra Breckenridge

Szimba and her younger sister Hayden grew up im the poorest part of District 3. Their parents had left by the time Szimba was of eligible reaping age and hadn't been seen since. Therefore and to support themselves, Szimba and Hayden stuck to stealing. When Szimba was 16 years old, she was reaped for the 59th Hunger Games. Her District partner was 12-year-old Tyrone Bell, the mayor's son. The citizens of District 3 were rooting for Tyrone, not only because of his age and because he was the mayor's son but also due to her dislike of Szimba who could be caught talking to herself on several occasions.

Szimba received a score of 5 after showing her skills of building traps and camouflage. She wad mentored by Beetee Latier who'd won the games a little over 20 years before her, being District 3's most 'recent' victor.

Originally Szimba and Tyrone had planned to form an alliance that ended right before the games started as Tyrone dropped his token, which caused his platform to go off. Szima, now all on her own, stuck to hiding, camouflaging and living off a minimum of supplies that eventually left her weak and disoriented. By the point the games were almost done (the 59th Hunger Games were among the shortest recent games in history with just a little over 4 days), Szima and the District 2 female Petra were the only ones left. Hallucinating, Szimba killed her final opponent which made her the eventual winner.

The Capitol citizens weren't fond of her due to the lack of entertainment yet liked the final fight between her and the District 2 girl. Like other victors before her, Szima was approached by the president who wanted to sell her to Capitol people. When she refused and eventually returned home, she found her sister Hayden to be gone, knowing that the president must've killed her.

This proved wrong however when the name for the District 3 female for the 60th Hunger Games turned out to be Hayden Luani, Szimba's now 14-year-old sister.

For the first and only time, District 3 had a volunteer: Szimba's best friend from the black market, Aviani.

Forced to mentor her best friend, Szimba eventually had to watch Aviani dying at the cornucopia.

In the years that followed, Szimba began descending into madness. Her best friend was gone and her sister hidden away in an orphanage. The tributes she and Beetee mentored usually never made it far.

When Katniss and Peeta won the 74th Hunger Games, Szimba knew that the president would take revenge. Yet the rule for the Quarter Quell came as a surprise. Despite it wasn't her name being reaped, Szimba could never fully let go off the guilt for not volunteering in Wiress' place.

Szimba was among the many victors to know of the rebel plot. She didn't believe in its sucess as she thought the president was too powerful to be defeated by a bunch of victors. After Katniss blew up the arena, Szimba was among those escaping to District 13 where she reunited with Beetee. She and Beetee worked together in District 13's technology section to send propos all across Panem.

After the war, both Beetee and Szimba returned to District 3, where Szimba finally reunited with her sister Hayden. The two of them - now both in their 30s - hadn't seen since the reaping of the 60th Hunger Games but finally got to catch up on everything they'd missed <3

[ourpickwickclub]

I understand how some feel a little perturbed at Kings post. But it was a simple response. He loves his dad. He also loves his Mom and his Blake. K is a sensitive kid who knows his dad is a sad sack pos. What he sees is a man who hasnt been in a stable relationship in 9 years. Whos still whining he didnt want the divorce. Isnt professionally sucessful. And will turn on him if he crosses him(remember the cold shoulder when K played at ole red?). K is secure in his Moms/Bs love. Not too sure of his Dad. Daisy post was lovely and poignant. She didnt have much to say on her dads post.

I think sometimes people forget how narcissists work. They make themselves the victim that needs to be saved and reaffirmed that they are good. GR has always needed that I’m a good dad affirmation because he deep down knows that he isn’t. But it’s easily to get to a sensitive kid like King and tell him how hurt you are Blake and Gwen doing whatever he perceives them doing to displace him. GR has probably been working on King about this very post for a while. And I would not be surprised at all if GR even worked more angles than we know. Only to act very nonchalant about it when it all goes down.

I know people disagree with me, and I hope I’m wrong, but I feel like King touring with GR this summer and playing in Bush is a certainty.

Basically, the kids are pawns. To build his own self worth, the world’s image of him, and also, to get revenge on Gwen for the crime of having had enough years of his abusive behavior.

These are my thoughts. Not saying they are the only ones.

- B