#THEY’VE ALWAYS BEEN CANON 🤧

[it-meant-nothing]

A post not related to X-Men in any way, I apologize, BUT I JUST NEED TO LET MY FEELINGS OUT.

I HAVE BEEN SHIPPING CAITVI/VIOLYN SINCE 2013 WHEN I FIRST PLAYED LEAGUE. YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT: 2013. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW EUPHORIC I’M FEELING RIGHT NOW.

ARCANE S2 EP8 YOU FUCKING ROCK.

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Edit: I also want to say, I was also there, shipping Jinx and Ekko when Ekko was first released in 2015. 😭😭 My heaaaart 🤧

[lumiereandcogsworth]

alright buckle up i went down a rabbit hole because i needed to figure this out. today’s topic: THE COAT.

so, some of you may have noticed that near the end of the movie, there’s a brief period of time where belle is inexplicably wearing a grey coat. i’ve always kind of laughed at the way it just comes in and out of existence so swiftly, but today i decided to be all charlie kelly in the mailroom about it and figure out where that coat could have come from in canon.

we start this sequence in the wagon, where belle and maurice are trapped. maurice is confused by belle’s desperation to get back to adam, because as far as he’s aware, adam is something of a heartless BEAST!

this is when belle explains that he’s actually a lot kinder than they realized. and to prove it, she shows maurice the rattle she had as a baby, that was left in PARIS. this is kind of a tangent but it’s important To Me.

anyway i think it’s so beautiful that belle had the rattle with her while she danced with adam. i may be planing to write about it. i’ll link it here whenever that happens. (hey here it is!!!!!) but let’s proceed.

the film cuts back to the mob battle at the castle, and the next time we see belle & maurice, they’ve escaped. first a shot of maurice essentially gloating to the clueless asylum guy, (as he should!),

and then the shot of belle on philippe!

AND THEN THE ICONIC SHOT OF HER HAVING REMOVED HER DRESS WHILE RIDING A HORSE

now here’s the kicker. the next time you see belle… SHE HAS THIS COAT ON.

i’ve always accepted that they just sort of put this coat on her so she could dramatically remove it here.

and have her looking like an ANGEL in the darkness for the rest of this chaotic night.

BUT WHERE DID THE COAT COME FROM? my new theory, and i think the only plausible scenario, is that when her & maurice first escaped the wagon, he asked her to go grab a coat from home because “you must be freezing in that dress!!” and belle would argue like papa there’s no TIME!! but he’d be stern about it because he’s just got her back after thinking she could have been KILLED and he’ll be DAMNED if she’s going to be COLD!!!! NOW GO GET YOUR COAT!!!! (he missed being her papa, you see🤧). so belle, good daughter that she is, groans and races to their cottage, grabs the first coat on the hooks by the door, and runs right for philippe and they gallop off.

now i know what you’re thinking — she takes the dress off ON the horse! and she’s not wearing the coat! I KNOW!! but belle is so rushed and chaotic and WORRIED about adam that she was definitely not doing things in the normal order. she was NOT taking her time with ANYTHING. so she grabbed the coat, mounted philippe, threw the coat over his neck right in front of her, then realizes she can’t FIGHT PEOPLE in this dress, so she pulls it off as they leave the village. THEN, getting closer, racing faster, feeling that cold, enchanted, snowy windchill hitting her bare arms, and inwardly rolls her eyes at her father Being Right, and she quickly puts on the coat, while still riding philippe.

then of course, gaston fills her with such a firey rage that she no longer needs the coat to be warm. thus ripping it off to go find her manz!!!!!

ALSO ALSO ALSO. don’t worry about the rose rattle. that was either very quickly left at home (i doubt it, in all her chaos), or it’s in a pocket in or under the white underdress. this time period was about LAYERSSSS and women often had secret pockets under their dresses. and knowing belle, that would’ve been a must. i also wouldn’t be surprised if, when madame de garderobe MADE the dress, belle asked for an extra pocket or two — perhaps for the purpose of having the rattle with her :”) but either way, the rattle is very safe!!! not left in the yellow dress on the ground. (although that just makes me think about maurice going to retrieve the dress and taking it back home and leaving it on her bed. and then after Everything… when she comes home, she sees it and she’s like gosh okay so this WASN’T all a crazy dream. wild.)

in conclusion there is no discontinuity and that movie is perfect <3 thank you <3

[hekateinhell]

Speaking of groupie!Armand and rockstar!Lestat, I have sadly fallen down the Daisy Jones and the Six rabbit hole and so far it’s mid and nowhere near as messy as what actually happened but needless to say that isn’t stopping me from turning it into a VC au in my head with Lestat as the troubled/stubborn frontman who loves his wife but is completely bewitched by his new auburn haired band mate, Louis as the dead drop gorgeous brunette wife who’s done so much for her husband’s career AND is raising their baby daughter while everyone else just looks at her in awe, and Armand as said auburn haired genius singer/songwriter who’s even more tortured, desperate for love and feral than Lestat but is way less upfront about it. They’ve just finally started to become flirtatious with each other (to Louis’ suspicions even though he adores Armand and viceversa), and there’s this bit where they’re thisclose 👌 to making out but Armand pushes and slaps Lestat, enraging him. They’re about to betray each other horrifically. This is my weekend now what can I say, the vc rockstar multiverse is real, I just need to see them fuck now to make this whole experience worthwhile xoxo DA 🥹

Omg DA can't believe you arrive in my inbox completely unprompted in my hour of need, I'm so hormemotional today you have no idea 🤧😭

Gosh, I have to watch this! I used to be so into glam rock and glam metal history around the time I was in my initial VC phase, groupie!Armand/rockstar!Lestat very well may have been baby's first AU thought.

The just before-kissing slap! 🥵 It's almost canon (the slapping happened after the kissing in canon though rip). AND PLEASE TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS BETRAYAL ON BOTH SIDES I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

Logical solution there is the OT3 but where's the drama in that? Do Armand and Lestat fuck in a recording booth and tape the sounds to layer over a track a la GNR's Rocket Queen? 🥹 btw 'don't ever leave me / say you'll always be there / all I ever wanted was for you / to know that I care' so coded for them, it's been on my playlist since day one. We all need to see them fuck... tbh my groupie AU ties into them producing a vintage porno film together for 'promotional shock purposes', because back in the day you could scandalized people like that and it's excellent hype for a band like Satan's Night Out.

[the-darklings]

GUESS WHO’S BACK? DIVORCE ANON HERE AND I HAVE TO SAY…this final chapter was everything and so much more. oh my heart, i love it so much. the worsties made me shed tears so here are the lines that destroyed me over and over again:

“I was there. I’ve always been there.”

“You would have asked me to come back, and for you, I would have.”

“I figured out how to leave the Dreaming back during Dreamfall, but I stayed. Wonder why.”

“It’s always been you. Always.”

“You’ll carry him in you until your bitter end, as he will carry you until his.”

“No one touches this one. Or they'll have to deal with me. Personally.”

“Hey, trouble—“

“I know you had to stop him. I… to me… he… to me he’s…” Everything

“I—I can’t leave him. I can’t leave him again.”

AND THE STARDUST COAT FROM DREAM AND THEN WANDERER’S ISLAND AND BRINGING BACK CORI I— *screams into the void* dream just needed to put cori in the time out/naughty corner before bringing him back. no more child of divorce era for cori. AND THEN DREAM FINALLY CALLING WANDERER STARDUST, SCREECHING!!!!!

i absolutely cherish this story and your writing (have been since your mysterio days ehe). i can’t wait to see more in the future (your starlight dragon au??????? your mind queen, will go feral for some aemond). sending so much love~

You really said worsties best moments speedrun 😭

They’ve honestly been one of my favourite aspects of this story. There had to be consequences for what happened but things will be better now. The bond between Corinthian and Wanderer is arguably the biggest aspect of this series.

And yes! Canon stardust finally made an appearance. I had the final line at the ready from the start (hence the mirror to the first line in the fic) so I’m glad you all loved it so much 😩

Also divorce anon you being an OG really tracks 🤧 thank you for being here for so long!!!