#Silas skills

[archfey-edda]

Nihil party.

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[mstrickster]

It's so funny that by the second session Shepherd is literally like, "I don't know all what you mean but tell me more."

He really said "I like your funny words Magic Man!"

[lovelyisadora]

Also when sep restarts his apprenticeship is he like. Okay so you rlly did cut out a lot of stuff huh. Wtf were u going to if I finished the apprenticeship. And marcia's like idk I didn't think that far ahead. Or like. What happens andjdndjfn I need More

quick context because this has been in my inbox for at least two years but this is about the apprenticeship arrangement in rewrite au (at least I am like 95 percent sure it is).

if Septimus had actually finished the apprenticeship, he wouldn’t have been able to take over as extraordinary wizard because of how she modified it to be age appropriate and because he went into it with little to no experience with or knowledge of magyk (in rewrite au, the extraordinary apprenticeship is more of an elite position; if the purpose is to train potential extraordinary wizards, then only apprentices who are top of their magyk classes or programs are considered). Marcia was never going to have him take over so young, but without the proper training, he couldn’t have taken over ever. so since she didn’t have a plan and never thought that far ahead anyway, and because the arrangement was always about his day to day functioning, she really was just figuring it out as she went (with no help from Silas or Sarah, but only because Marcia is the extraordinary wizard; the apprenticeship hiding the fact that she is his legal guardian is hers to figure out as far as they are concerned).

the hardest part, since she did want him to take over eventually, would have been keeping the arrangement a secret and finding how to prepare him in a way that qualified him without him realizing what was really going on. she would have pushed him to higher education, would have found ways to introduce new books and extra lessons and spells in a way that didn’t clue him in that she was teaching him the way he should have always been taught. anything, so that when she was ready and he expressed interest in replacing her, it could happen. but because he doesn’t have the easiest apprenticeship even modified as it is, none of this happens. it all falls apart because it wasn’t sustainable, but also because he wasn’t ready and neither was she (which she did warn Silas and Sarah about).

she tells him this, after the first three months of his restarted apprenticeship, but only when he asks. because he knew, after they finally talked about it when it all fell apart that the actual apprenticeship was different, but he hadn’t realized just how much. he’s taking magyk classes because Marcia warned him she wasn’t going to bridge his gap in knowledge. he would be more than prepared for some of it, but nowhere near ready for a lot of it. if he was serious about recommitting to the extraordinary apprenticeship then the extraordinary apprenticeship was what he was getting, nothing less, and he needs do the work he missed on his own. Marcia is also Marcia, so she pushes him harder and expects more of him than other extraordinary wizards might have expected of their apprentices if they were in this situation. his first three months are very difficult as a result and he starts realizing that being the extraordinary wizard is a lot harder than it looks, that the work required to get to that position is harder than he thought, and he’s like, oh my god, Marcia, were you going to throw me into that without any of this?

telling him the second part of it, that she still wouldn’t have told him about the arrangement had he finished his original apprenticeship, is almost as hard as it would have been to cover it up. he really does not like hearing that Marcia still would have lied by omission and kept it from him. he thinks that he would have deserved to know, had he not found out by accident when it fell apart.

Marcia ends the conversation there though, to his frustration, because there’s no point in talking about what would have been. he knows now. he’s doing the apprenticeship now, the right way. they’ve already discussed the arrangement, at length. they don’t need to discuss it any further.

except they do, because they resolved it without resolving it. if Marcia kept this from him, if she would have continued to keep this from him, what else must she be keeping from him? he never fully trusts her again.

[gnawgag]

pathetic polite - from grit by silas denver melvin ( @sweatermuppet) // photo by michal macku // photo by rusty1

[the-sheep-whisperer368]

Someone on reddit is trying to argue with me about the tony recruiting Spiderman scene in civil war... my brother in christ, this is a 2 year old thread?? Get a life?? Also, maybe some analysis skills. They shouldn't have to hold your hand and spell out the ultimatum. Just because Tony didn't say, "You can either come with me or I'm gonna reveal your secret," doesn't mean that wasn't what was happening, even though he literally did say it in the form of "does your aunt know about all this?" As he reached for the door to go tell her, knowing that it would force a Yes out of Peter because he doesn't want Aunt May to know.

[deathbirby]

Some OCs

[sunny-daze-days]

If there was a competition to see what family can get hurt in the stupidest most mundane ways possible I think my family would win.

Today my earring back (small flat back screw in) went INTO my ear piercing so it was legit IN MY EAR and gave myself a free gauge upgrade I guess. Then my mom got a lot of dirt in her cat scratch and possibly made the wound very infected and then my sister fell and busted her ass on one of our standing planters and scraped her knee on a not-so-conveniently placed garden trowel.

What in the world is going on with my family today

[starcollectorsilas]

the not so perfect pair french and russian translations BUT im sitting crying on my bedroom floor with an english to french/russian dictionary, my head in my hands as I curse myself for stopping playing roblox religiously in other languages

je ne parle français très bien, et moi père est fluent(help idk the word) mais je oublie tout AIDE MOI S'IL VOUS PLAÎT JE SUIS SI MAUVAIS

please don't ask me to write anything in russian I'll cry

[nonasemporium]

I love Silas and Colum as a reflection of what Harrow and Ortus could have been. I love that I feel also that part of why Ortus is not that for Harrow is because he did not step forward to teach her. Harrow and Silas both are horrifying, self-suffering teenagers from some of the more extreme practices of the Nine Houses. I think the detestation the Eighth House has for the Ninth House circles back more to the way they are also weird and extreme and secretive.

Especially when you line it up to what we see of Ortus and Harrow as necromancer/cavalier in HtN. I can't help but think if Ortus had gone with Harrow, he would've seen that, too, and measured himself to the Eighth cavalier.

[disciplesofthelamb]

*Poof Because Silas is distracted M!A Silas into a bunny suit for 5 asks*

"Dear god!!! My eyes!!!!"

"..."

"This does not fit me."

"Do you people take me for some sort of... puppet that you can dress up in extremely distasteful outfits?!"

"Am I a clown? A toy for your amusement?"

"Eugh... I think I'm gonna throw up."

"Oh, shut it."

[lordofthestrix]

becoming a worm for a week or being compelled to think himself Elijah again for an hour

Send  me  this  or  that  questions  for  my  muse  ! Out—out are the lights—out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, And the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

[mvncesa]

A splat! as a bloody heap of something is dropped unceremoniously at the other’s feet. The creature skittered back, just out of reach and closer to the trees, to stare at them. The gaze remained unblinking while staying trained on the other’s form — The look was almost expectant. There was no indication of what was expected, though, but the stare remained.

The bloody heap had been an animal at some point. (With his hunting skills? There was also the question of where it came from). And, based on the little glance Silas does, he was expecting the other to take it. A gift, then.

[waywardsalt]

learning very valuable lessons in this conquest hard mode playthrough such as its not a good idea to play it like its normal mode

[tuertonproprelapin]

mhmmmh roller derby

[cssammyyarts]

nnAWT my ICT classmates trying to use ChatGPT on fucking coding use THE WORLD WIDE WEB like the rest of us.

[meo-eiru]

The first ever Silas post has surpassed 20.000 notes!

So to celebrate I decided to go back and do a callback scene to the first time the two of you met :D

It has been a little over 6 months since I drew his introduction. It's crazy how much your art style and skill levels can change in such a short amount of time.

Aside from those this post quite literally changed my life too. I never could've imagined the love this single elf could make me experience. I say it often but when I posted it I was getting ready to getting shamed, people saying it was "weird", but instead I got to meet thousands of you who shared my passion for him.

It has been a nonstop rollercoaster since his introduction, to the point I'm frankly still having a hard time keeping up with everything. But I wouldn't exchange the community he brought me for anything.

I love you guys and I'm glad 20.000 of you liked that silly comic I posted as well!!