#S&TAW AU

[thealpacaavenger]

After seeing the phantom rider from Sonic IDW, I thought I would make my own suit!

I created an au for this, lol. All I know is that Eggman took over, Sonic lost his leg, and Tails made him a prosthetic and suit.

there’s inspo from sonic Boom (bandana), Sonic Adventure 2 (shoes), Sonic IDW (gems+suit in general), and Sonic Prime (Chaos Sonic).

[mochi-munchies]

Character Designs PT .1 [Eldesttale AU]

Here's the first design for Taw, the main character in Eldesttale!

Name: Taw Species: Skeleton Monster(???) Gender Identity/Pronouns: Agender [They/Them] Significant Other(s): None Family: None Fun Facts!

Is the captain of a small platoon titled the 'Iron Wings,' under the authority of a ███████████.

Holds an immense amount of love for their people and AU, but can't help feeling that something is amiss.

Known to be a devout of 'the Seeds of Soul' and spends a lot of their free-time at church.

Doesn't have any children or spend much time with any, but is somehow very parental in nature.

Can't use blue magic to save their life, but is very proficient in purple magic.

Has dreams about a ███████ ████████ █████ ████ ████████ █████████ ████ █████ ████. When they wake up, they only remember a deep sadness and determination.

Doesn't like to take their helmet off in front of others. They feel self-conscious about their appearance.

[todaysdocument]

Treaty Between the the United States and the Iowa Indians and the Sauk and Fox Indians of the Missouri (Residing West of the State of Missouri) Signed at Fort Leavenworth, 9/17/1836

File Unit: Ratified Indian Treaty 211: Iowa and Sauk and Fox of the Missouri (West of Missouri) - Fort Leavenworth, September 17, 1836, 1789 - 1869

Series: Indian Treaties, 1789 - 1869

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006

Transcription:

Articles of a Treaty made and concluded at Fort Leavenworth,

on the Missouri River, between William Clark, superintendent of

Indian Affairs, on the part of the United States, of the one part,

and the undersigned Chiefs, Warriors, and Councillors of the

Ioway Tribe and the Band of Sacks and Foxes of the Missouri,

(residing west of the State of Missouri) in behalf of their respective

tribes, of the other part:

Article 1. By the first article of the Treaty of Prairie Du Chien

held the fifteenth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty, with

the confederated tribes of Sacs, Foxes, Ioways, Omahaws, Missorias,

Ottoes, and Sioux, the country ceded to the United States by that

Treaty, is to be assigned and allotted under the direction of the Pres-

ident of the United States to the tribes living thereon, or to such

other tribes as the President may locate thereon for hunting and

other purposes.- and where as it is further represented to us the

Chiefs, Warriors, and Counsellors of the Ioways and Sack and Fox

Band aforesaid, to be desirable that the Lands lying between the

State of Missouri and the Missouri River, should be attached

to, and become a part of said State, and the Indian title thereto be

entirely extinguished; but that, notwithstanding, as these lands compose

a part of the Country embraced by the provisions of said first Article

of the Treaty aforesaid. The stipulations thereof will be strictly obs-

erved until the assent of the Indians interested is given to the

proposed measure.

       Now we the Chiefs, Warriors, and Counsellors of the Ioways,

and Missouri Band of Sacks and Foxes, fully understanding

the subject, and well satisfied from the local position of the

lands in question, that they never can be made available for

Indian purposes, and that an attempt to place and Indian pop-

ulation on them, must inevitably lead to Collisions with the

Citizens of the United States, and further believing that the

extension of the State line in the directions indicated; would

have a happy effect by presenting a natural Boundary between

the Whites and Indians; and willing, more over, to give the

United States a renewed evidence of our attachment and friend-

ship, do hereby for ourselves, and on behalf of our respective tribes,

(having full power and authority to this effect) forever cede, relinquish,

and quit Claim, to the United States, all our right, title and interest

of whatsoever nature in, and to, the lands lying between the State

of Missouri and the Missouri River; and do freely and fully

exonerate the United States from any guarantee; Condition or

?Limitation, expressed or implied, under the Treaty of Prairie

Du Chien aforesaid, or otherwise, as to the entire and absolute

disposition of the said lands, fully authorizing the United States

to do with the same whatever shall seen expedient or nec-

essary.

       As a proof of the continued friendship and liberality

of the United States towards the Ioway and Band of Sacks

and Foxes of the Missouri, and as an evidence of the sense

entertained for the good will manifested by said tribes to the

Citizens and Government of the United States, as coined in the

[page 2] 

[two page layout]

[left page]

Preceding cession or relinquishment, the undersigned, William

Clark, agrees on behalf of the United States, to pay as a present to

the said Ioways and Band of Sacks and Foxes, seven thousand

five hundred dollars in Money, the receipt of which they hereby ac=

knowledge.

        Article 2. As the said tribes of Ioways and Sacks and

Foxes, have applied for a small piece of land, south of the Missouri,

for a permanent home, on which they can settle, and request the

assistance of the Government of the United States to place them on this

land in a situation at least equal to that they now enjoy on

the land ceded by them: Therefore I, William Clark, superinten-

dent of Indian Affairs, do further agree on behalf of the United

States. As assign to the Ioway tribe, and Missouri Band of Sacks

and Foxes, the small strip of land on the south side of the Miss-

ouri River, lying between the Kickapoo northern boundary line and

the Grand Nemahar River, and extending from the Missouri

Sack and westwardly with the said Kickapoo line and the

Grand Nemahar, making four hundred sections; to the divided

between the said Ioways and Missouri Band of Sacks and Foxes,

the lower half to the Sacks and Foxes, the upper half to

the Ioways.

       Article 3. The Ioways and Missouri Band of Sacks and

Foxes further agree, that they will move and settle in the lands

assigned them in the above article, as soon as arrangements can

be made by them; and the undersigned William Clark, in behalf

of the United States, agrees, that as soon as the above tribes have

selected a site for their villages, and places for their fields, and

moved to them, to erect for the Ioways five comfortable houses,

to enclose and break up for them two hundred acres of Ground;

to furnish them with a Farmer, a Blacksmith, school master,

and interpreter, as long as, the President of the United States

may deem proper; to furnish them with such agricultural

Implements as may be necessary, for five years; to furnish them

with Rations for one year, commencing at the time of their arriv-

al at their new homes; To furnish them with one Ferry Boat;

to furnish them with one hundred Cows and Calves and five

Bulls, and one hundred stock hogs when they require them;

To furnish them with a Mill, and assist in removing them,

to the extent of five hundred Dollars. And to erect for the

Sacks and Foxes three comfortable Houses; to enclose and break

up for them two hundred acres of Ground; to furnish them with

a Farmer, Blacksmith, School Master, and Interpreter, as long as

the President of the United States may deem proper: to furnish them

with such Agricultural Implements as many be necessary, for five

years; to furnish them with Rations for one year, commencing

at the time of their arrival at their new home: to furnish them

with one Ferry Boat; to furnish them with one hundred Cows and

Calves and five Bulls, one hundred stock Hogs when they require

them; to furnish them with a mill; and to assist in removing

them, to the extent of four hundred Dollars.        [blue circular stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [/blue circular stamp]

[right page]

       Article 4. This Treaty shall be obligatory on the Tribes, Parties

hereto, from and after the date hereof, and on the United States from and

after its ratification by the Government there of.

      Done and signed and sealed at Fort Leavenworth, on the

Missouri, this seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight

hundred and thirty six, and of the Independence of the United States

the sixty first.              

[left column]

Witness

[signed]  S. W. Kearny

      Col. 1st Reg. Drags.

[signed]  Jno Daugherty Ind. Agt.

[signed]  Andrew S. Hughes  Sub Agent

[signed]  George R. H. Clark

[signed]  William Duncan Indian farmer

[signed]  Jos V Hamilton Sutler Dragoons

[signed]  H Robedou Jr

[signed]  Wm Bowman Sargt. Maj 1. Drgs.

[signed]  Jeffery Dorion his x mark, Sworn interpreter

[signed]  Peter Cadue his x mark, Sworn interpreter

[signed]  Jacques White Interpreter U. S.

[signed]  Louis M. Darrion

[right column]

[signed]  Wm. Clark Su In Afr         Seal

Ioways

Mo-hos-ca  (or white Cloud)      his mark x    seal

Nau-che-ning  (or No heart)      his mark x    seal

Wa-che-mo-ne  (or the Orator)       his mark x    seal

Ne-o-mo-ne  (or Raining Cloud)      his mark x    seal

Mau-o-mo-ne  (or Pumpkin)      his mark x    seal

Congu   (or Plumb)      his mark x    seal

Wau-thaw-ca-be-chu  (one that eats raw)      his mark x    seal

Ne-wau-thaw-chu  (Hair Shedder)      his mark x    seal

Mau-hau-ka (Bunch of Arrows)      his mark x    seal

Cha-tau-the-nu  (Big Bull)      his mark x    seal

Cha-tea-thau (Buffalo Bull)      his mark x    seal

Cha-ta-ha-ra-wa-re (foreign Buffalo)      his mark x    seal

Sacs & Foxes

Cau-a-car-mack  (Rock Bass)      his mark x    seal

Sea-sa-ho  (Sturgeon)      his mark x    seal

Pe-a-chin-car-mack (Bald head Eagle)      his mark x    seal

Pe-a-chin-car-mack Jr. (Bald head Eagle)      his mark x    seal

Ca-ha-qua  (Red Fox)      his mark x    seal

Pe-shaw-ca  (Bear)      his mark x    seal

Po-cau-ma  (Deer)      his mark x    seal

Ne-bosh-ca-wa  (Wolf)      his mark x    seal

Ne-squi-in-a  (Deer)      his mark x    seal

Ne-sa-au-qua  (Bear)      his mark x    seal

Qua-co-ou-si  (Wolf)      his mark x    seal

Se-quil-la  (Deer)      his mark x    seal

As-ke-pa-ke-ka-as-a  (Green Lake)      his mark x    seal

Wa-pa-se     (Swan)      his mark x    seal

No-cha-taw-wa-ta-sa   (Star)      his mark x    seal

[elizabethrobertajones]

Comparing Season 6 and Season 10 - which one do you think makes more sense as a whole, which one better pulls of seeming like what happened/was revealed at the end of the season is what was supposed to happen/was planned all along?

I may be biased, but for me, season 6 by miles. And almost all of that is Edlund desperately cramming everything that had happened so far into something that either made sense or handwaved why it didn’t make sense in an effectively emotional enough episode that by the end of TMWWBK you sort of feel like you’ve actually got your answers and Cas has been completely honest and open with YOU at least, making it that much easier to handle what was going on. 

I think for me season 10 was poorly handled in ways that weren’t particularly well addressed and the only offered explanation ever was “oh it was Amara after all” which in the context of season 11 gives us some more characterisation to begin to pull things together, though without addressing everything. Still if we’re dealing with things as a whole, season 10 doesn’t have an episode that scrapes everything together in the post-Edlund era and what we get only within the confines of season 10 is extremely unsatisfactory, even if later canon eases it a little bit, along with just… not being actively in SPN season 10 as it airs :P 

Going off my memories of being in the fandom at the time, we had a lot of issues with things like 

Dean’s incomplete demon reversal (so far as in 10x02, written by Dabb who invented the cure repeating the correct steps, then in 10x03 Buckleming not following through with them)

“the river ends at the source” “never mind I was screwing with you”

Did Cain still have the Mark after 9x11? lasting drama until 10x14, and still debated afterwards especially by people who had thought he didn’t have the Mark and had passed it entirely to Dean now being very confused  

What the fuck was this about Lucifer having the Mark and how did that last minute addition affect everything? 

the Colette parallel being wildly mis-applied by fandom but also issues with the show’s fear to explore it leading to “we are all the colette” episodes with lasting drama until 10x22, where Charlie, Sam and Cas all variously and persistently seemed to be suggested to be capable of being a team effort to pull Dean out of the darkness. 10x22 also wasn’t enough to stop Dean, and the final confrontation was with Sam, I think a general consensus was - especially again with season 11′s help - that the memory of Mary drew him back/unleashed Amara metaphorically who unleashed Mary literally - it wasn’t a great note to end on without season 11 context (as a whole, so, like, a whole YEAR later) that Sam had “won” the battle to bring Dean back from himself where Cas had failed, and the subtext and show and fandom most of all had made SUCH a huge deal out of Colette, after 9x11 over-told her story instead of retelling Cain & Abel, that it was set up with the expectation that saving Dean was a romantic quest, not a brotherly one. 10x14 sort of helped set things to rights with the list, but the fighting about what it all meant at the time was AWFUL, and though I think I was right and the show bore that out and these days I type it all with confidence, I’m pretty sure there’s a ton of buried wank about it that could be dragged out if we want >.>

the fact there wasn’t really an overarcing Mark of Cain plot except “Dean is suffering” with the only 3 actual plot points they could do with it being demon!Dean, kill Cain, and remove Mark. Because of that, everything else is literally set-dressing to fill the time and add drama in between, but these were played with poorly and there wasn’t any subterfuge we weren’t in on (i.e. sam stealing the book) vs Cas betraying both the Winchesters and US. The only retcon offered in the end was Death’s exposition about the Darkness.

people literally forgetting which order episodes came out in and being very confused about why Amara wasn’t released when Dean was 14 in 10x12 even though he didn’t kill Cain for 2 more episodes (like, within weeks of 10x14 airing, I swear)

the understandable disappearance of Cole but bizarre application of that hunter called Rudy who popped up in his place and featured in 10x23 along with Cas for Dean’s guilt trip. Even if Cole and TAW sucked ass, it’s much easier to understand the emotional impact of what happened to Rudy if you assume he has the exact same backstory as Cole and the same nonsense happened to Dean twice in the same year :P 

Pre-season hype about Rowena made a huge deal out of the Grand Coven, and for a brief moment it seemed like there might be a witch plotline, including new lore dumps about different types of witches in 10x07, characters like Olivette the Hamster, etc, but they squandered her first season and 10x19 was as close as we got to any pay off to her actual storyline

Then Oskaar happened and that was like ??? Okay just introduce him in the second to last episode and throw us into that emotional situation 

the entire cure coming out of nowhere as a random last minute macguffin instead of having been anything they put together over the season - even though the book of the damned thing showed up in 10x11 it changed substantially from the clue Charlie left with (a less than 100 year old book with a library reference number found on an antique rare book website, based on a real book, which we all picked over and were left wondering if the plot was to be about some sort of occultism thing as a result) to a much different lore. Then there were a few episodes dealing with it and the codex, the actual spell had no real struggle, and Crowley delivered all the pieces while Cas stood around scowling and Rowena stood around in chains eye-rolling. Compare season 13′s pacing with Sam and Dean cobbling together what they needed from halfway through the season, and being on the mission to get to the AU from episode 9, with relatively little of the endless sitting around googling and being frustrated of past seasons but ESPECIALLY season 10 where Sam was futilely trawling the results of googling “mark of cain” from mid-late season 9 through to like, 10x18 when an actual brief plot appeared around it directly. 

I think all of it points to a problem of working forwards from where they were instead of backwards to tidy up what was left. In season 6 Edlund took as many loose plot threads, from how Sam lost his soul, what was up with Crowley and Cas, the angel war, explanations for Sam and Samuel working together, why eve happened, everything, and put it all together to explain the elements of the season so far in a new light. Despite how disastrous that season was, PRETENDING you knew like you meant to do it all along glosses over inconsistencies in Samuel’s story or Cas and Crowley’s 6x10 interactions, and makes them relatively inconsequential when most of the details add up. 

The same thing works with the Lucifer as Sam’s vessel storyline, in the sense that while Azazel’s plan is fucking ridiculous in its over-complex bizarre attempt to find a worthy true vessel that Heaven had fated, comparing season 1-2 to season 5 head on is bad, each season explains itself from the last in enough of a way and with enough knowledge of what already happened that really despite vast inconsistencies in the lore, by 5x22 we are pretty much all on board to accept the way it all played out because they use what was previously written to build up Sam’s arc, and little details thrown in towards the end like Brady and then Lucifer revealing ALL of Sam’s closer rando peeps had been demons, tidy up more and more loose ends and there’s left with plausible deniability about a lot of the issues.

In season 10 they kept on introducing elements instead of working with what they had already established, and also discarded what seemed like major plot hooks for Rowena and Cole, one annoyingly, one completely metatextually understandably and fuck TAW, I’m glad the show never brought Cole back as soon as rumours of him groping fans appeared, and it makes me genuinely trust that the SPN set is a safe place. But yeah. 

Things they set up and could have worked with, were the Cas’s grace arc, which was resolved to a small personal satisfaction to Cas without any major plot impact except we could stop worrying about when Cas would get sick and die from bad grace, or steal more. 

The demon!Dean issue was bad writing from Buckleming re: was he still a demon or not, but given Dean was supposed to be struggling with succumbing to darkness the season actually kept him almost completely level without any significant relapses, even after killing Cain. The sense of needing a functional Dean Winchester to keep hunting monsters and prop up the show as both the carrier of the mytharc, the emotional core, and the go-between between Sam and Cas even when the show was trying to figure out if Sam and Cas could function without Dean, it was all still so much about Dean that in 10x21 when they’re doing the cringeworthy “for Dean” thing and Rowena rolls her eyes like “I barely know the man”, I was actually applauding Buckleming snark thinking they maybe briefly had a handle on how ridiculous Dean’s position in the narrative was. (Listen, this was the last 10 minutes of my innocence about how awful Buckleming could be, leave past!me alone. She’s sweet and precious and not bitter :P) In any case, a more effective season would have utilised him more to slip and slide between light and dark and explore it in much deeper detail, but balancing that with a procedural formula doesn’t work as well and they were lacking enough philosophers on staff. I think the Dabb era writing team could handle it, because Yockey, Perez, and Glynn especially, who seems to have a psychology background based on her writing, all have a sharp attention to the exact things in emotional arcs that would have made it work better, even just as it was. Since this was a weaker writing team where Robbie, Bobo and Dabb episodes were little islands of excellence and the motw were fun but more shallow even with strong foreshadowing themes, it just didn’t pay off. 

I think the biggest waste of time was “the river ends at the source” which was either Buckleming trying to introduce a concept and hoping someone else dealt with it, or an agreed plot hook which never materialised, or Metatron literally spoke the truth, that the line had only ever been written to mess with us. However 10x23 could have actually included more of a “river ends at the source” sort of slant and had Death confirm it in so many words because Amara really did sort of seem to be the answer to the question. In 10x10 it seemed like they knew where the season was going, but by 10x17 it was obvious they DIDN’T, and it was during 10x18 that the plot actually got hashed out and Robbie was handed heavy revisions to make to change the Stynes to end of season villains and the Book of the Damned was going to be used how it was. I think this is really weak plotting, as someone who always puts in fun lines and then attempts like crazy to pay off on them. My first novel has the line “you can’t talk to me yet” and I play through that the whole book until they CAN talk and make it a major motif, goal and in the end try to explain it as best I can about how it’s all plot relevant and why using that for tension to put off the explanations and such was a valid thing to throw at my main character, and then the springboard to more adventure when she was ready for it. I literally do not understand putting a portentous line into your story, and not becoming desperately eager to answer it or twist something into revealing how it all fits at the end, if not basing your entire story off of it. Sam and Dean seemed wildly uncurious about how to apply that or what it means. 

In season 6 one of the more frustrating things is the “it’s all about the souls” line because Dean fails to investigate until someone or other rolls their eyes and makes it all clear to him. But we get a few more reminders in Cas’s presence, until we find out his plan, and Crowley repeats that line in 6x20 when making his sales pitch to Cas, if I’m remembering rightly (I hope so :/) and so despite Dean’s infuriating lack of investigation (not that he had a great deal of leads, but still - you could build a plot around it by GIVING him a lead, he’s the fictional character and you’re the writer :P) at the very least they repeat the motif in at least 6x17 and 6x20 to my memory, before the souls thing becomes a lot more obvious about Cas taking the purgatory souls and we’re allowed to actually discuss what he’s up to instead of the vague hints Atropos and Rachel give that they know his plans. 6x07 also hints early on that Purgatory is full of monster souls if you add it all up - the writers knew they were doing SOMETHING with this even if it took to the end of the season for it to all come together. (And that’s something that’s clearly and overarcing plot that Gamble oversaw because she wrote 6x11 and the line then appears in multiple episodes around the place, so that’s not just something Edlund tidied up but an actual effort to write the season well.)

Throwing aside the “river ends at the source” line is wildly frustrating because it wouldn’t have been too hard to apply it thematically and even keep Metatron being a douche while giving the viewer a pay off anyway for our own satisfaction, by showing it had been a theme all along anyway. You CAN squint at season 10 and analyse it through that lens but it’s exhausting when the show doesn’t give us the themes on a platter. It also shows that the plotting is careless and they’re experimenting, and rather than working with what they have, this is in a path of episodes where they’re discarding some plotlines, and we’re beginning to have end of season plotlines hastily pasted onto the end of the season, but they make very little of any of the work already done to build up the season as we’d seen it so far.

Add onto that Charlie being murdered for manpain to motivate some things into action and all the random elements being used, and the sense that Crowley, Cas and Rowena all abruptly ran out of a plotline that had been intended to utilise them and put on a side character duty away from Sam and Dean, the season is extremely messily and carelessly written, and without any real attention to detail to its own themes and characters and plotlines. Even if they’d gone into the season not particularly expecting where to go, they brought a lot to the table early on but then quickly wiped a lot of it off, and brought a lot more stuff to the table instead, which makes season 10 a really wonky, unfinished feeling product as a thing on its own, and the overall story is scrappy and carelessly plotted.

And that is speaking just about the easy plot stuff without getting into the absolute mess of speculation from the Destiel side of fandom wondering wtf was going on with the seeming build up to crypt scenes, colette, the grace cure, etc, that made up the bulk of the speculation but makes actually analysing expectations vs presented product completely impossible to evaluate on that side of things because as always Destiel speculation really overshoots what is expected and was really running wild at that point. I mean, not being judgemental because that was the year I was right in the thick of it. 3 years clear of it now, some of it seems really silly, but those 3 things all seemed clearly built up to our eyes, and we got the reverse crypt scene we’d been expecting since before the season started, and we got the Colette reference which slotted Cas firmly into place as a reminder of how Cain’s peeps lined up against Dean’s, as well as Cas asking Dean to stop, which satisfied the terms and conditions of Dean resisting walking in Cain’s footsteps with the overall set up of the scene. With the way Cas got his grace back and then some other rando cure popped up where Rowena of all people made the sacrifice, I really can’t help feeling like the conspiracy theorist who knows they were right but with the way it all shook out, only people who knew the conspiracy would understand how it didn’t happen and it’s very hard for me to look at that and say that some non-Cas-related cure was coming all along, given the conspicuous dropping of one plotline sort of day of picking up the next >.> But I’ll cede that from my position I might be a bit compromised on that one. 

Anyways. To me season 10 is a disaster that only season 11 really justifies, while season 6 has some truly low points but in the end the actual writing skill hauls it through so that it creates the illusion that there was consistency, if you ignore everything outside of the text suggesting it may have been as poorly planned as season 10. Planning isn’t everything - it’s what you do when confronted with the unplanned wire tangle in front of you that really marks how well they were written, and just shoving it under the table and putting a new wire tangle down vs actually unpicking it and making them as neat as possible? Gamble slam dunks Carver :P