#The Overture to Life

[sforzesco]

I got. thoughts. about valens and voices in imperial roman history. but I also got a lot of thoughts about uhhhhhh choosing your brother for co ruling the Fratricide Foundation Story Empire. many thoughts about themistius' oration too

Brotherly Love, Themistius (trans. Peter Heather & David Moncur)

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta

[arashi-no-saxlphone]

as much as I would like to believe that Frederick and Asuka could be friends again, like, Freddy is building that rocket as fast as he can to kick his ass before the residual FoC and Gear power leaves his body. I'm sorry. I know I'm the Asuka apologist but dude. Nearly 2 centuries of the most unimaginable agony and festering sense of betrayal, compounded by Asuka goading him intentionally on multiple occassions (his reasoning behind all this goading aside) he is not just going to be able to let that go.

Asuka's crimes against humanity are one thing, you can argue til you're blue in the face about that and there's actual ground to cover there, but what he did to Frederick and Aria is like... damn dude. You, without their consent, turned them into gears. You lied about it to their faces too. Aria, someone who is cited as having her identity and who she is as a human being be one of the most important things to her, trusted you to put her into cryosleep because you said you'd find a way to save her so that she could be with Frederick. She didn't want that, she wanted to stay and spend the time she had left with Frederick instead, but she let you convince her cause she trusted you. And you took away her body, identity, and autonomy. You took Sol's humanity from him following that, lied to him about it, and then spent 200 years pissing him off so bad on purpose to make sure he'd always be there to help you fix everything. Oh, and then you made him kill his wife that you mutilated. Twice, essentially.

I love you Asuka, but shit, that's all kinds of levels of fucked my man. Frederick justifiably hates you really REALLY bad. I hope we get something in Dual Rulers settling this, cause Frederick just letting that go even following the events of Strive is just kinda unrealistic.

[sarkylittlemonster]

Imagine everything is bleak, everything is colourless. Feeling escapes you. Everything escapes you. Life, is some distant thing that other people have, something you think can't be made for you, something you think you can't have. And then one day, one precious day, you hear it. The strains of something so beautiful, it's like colour is trickling into your vision, like you can taste, hear for the first time. And you realise there is beauty in the sadness, there is hope in the desolate. And you realise to slip away is to give in, is to waste the chances your mother didn't get. Imagine that. Imagine hearing something and realising that this is the thing that saves your life.

If you can imagine that, then you will realise this is what Endeavour is. To endeavour, to find the beauty in the darkness.

[tarmac-rat]

Had this thought last night so screw it; poll time

*Note: Johnny's Malorian isn't an option because I know half y'all would pick it lol. Let's just say the question's referring to the brand of handgun your V gravitates towards to based on personal preference.

Pages with info on the Unity, Quasar, Chao, Yukimura, Overture, Lexington, Liberty, Nue, Nova, and Kenshin all linked here if you want a visual or stats.

Feel free to hit the tags up if their sidearm has some sort of story/lore!

[soggytapeworm]

Round 6 (SEMIFINALS) - 2nd Battle

copy and paste is saving my fucking life rn🙏🙏

Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally

“The lights are on but no one’s home”

The Song with Five Names, a.k.a. Soapbox Tao, a.k.a. Checkmate Atheists! a.k.a. Neospace Government, a.k.a. You Can Never Know

“You could never know”

[psy-kylo-gy]

Finally, Act V Day 3 of A Day in the Life of TchaikovsKYLO Ren! Our favorite messy boy has at last renounced the dark side and reclaimed his true self: Ben Tchaikovsolo! Surprises await for both him and his headstrong waifu who is challenging Emperor Ovaltine all alone. Reylo chaos ensues but can love save the day?

Catch up with the entire series here

Well first off I'm so sorry for the wait on this, I had it 99% finished since 2020 but just lost the heart to post it during Covid and my subsequent depression. I really wanted the people who love this series to know that I haven't abandoned it, and the finale is mostly done as well and I'm so excited to bestow Reylo with a GOOD ENDING they deserve.

As always, I want to dedicate this to some special folks who've motivated me and given me such kindness and patience over the years. I'm SO grateful for the love and support and I really hope you enjoy this one, Ben is (of course) a lot of fun: @pandoraspocksao3 @blackeyedlily @violet1979 @missrenaeann-blog @maryloki3000 @fangiosfriend

[sweetmelancholy777]

marselva🌳🌊

[theboost]

Truly cannot buy any read of true detective where rust and marty genuinely like each other in 1995. Buddies in 2002? sure. Exploring each other’s prostates in 2012? Why not. But in 1995? No way.

[severin-photocopy]

meeting situationship in the near future. pray for my soul.

[allmylovecatherine]

hot ppl cry at the “it’s meeeeeeeeeee” in defying gravity (it’s me. i’m hot ppl)

[crazymusicianpoop]

I think the highlight of my school year was getting to play Roman Carnival in context. I love playing English horn so much and this was my first time getting to play an excerpt in orchestra🥹

[papercranes07]

yeah uh i just saw the summary

????

[annabelle--cane]

mew. mrow, even.

[booksnblocks]

Oh btw here are all of the AU/fic ideas I’ve had in the past month, in order (also these are all life series so someone save me):

The Anomaly of Department 43: a virtual reality workplace comedy turned horror in which a bugged game server begins to suck the workers into it. This has a 3000 word outline and about another 1000-1500 words of worldbuilding, plus a third of a chapter (mid-July 2024)

Watcher’s Overture: songfic of vignettes of each season of the life series. Currently finished Third Life, working on Last Life, and everything else has an outline (mid-July 2024)

with fates entwined: a PJO AU in which the gods Artemia and Apollo have gone missing and it’s up to 6 campers and their questing groups to to find the lost gods even as they find themselves tied to one another. Partial outline, but lots of worldbuilding and plot thoughts with main beats (Double Life themed) (last week)

The Serenity Trials: In the depths of the utopian city Serenity, the poor struggle to make it day to day. But when the annual Serenity Trials return to select the next citizen to rise to the ranks of superhero, a group of 18 acquaintances try to see if they can escape from the Pits. It’s basically a mix of hunger games and renegades, minus the death aspect (mostly) but adding strange disappearances. Lots of worldbuilding currently and not a lot of plot besides the general idea (two days ago)

Bottled Stardust AU: There are myths of strange creatures made of night and day. But those are myths, of course. So when the local supernatural lab discovers two of these creatures in the nearby woods, they capture and begin studying the myths come to life. Literally just worldbuilding and semi-firmed ideas atm cause this popped into my head when I was trying to sleep last night

Other fic ideas that are in various stages of development and drafts:

DSMP hunger games AU: fully outlined with short snippet chapters, in the very slow process of writing and expanding. This has been in progress since May 2021, and was the week where i wrote 25k words during finals. I will never reach that level of dedication again but I love this story so much. (May 2021)

all that faith clings to: a mythology au featuring clingy duo as they are dragged through a series of myths by an enraged god and his unwilling apprentice. I will finish this at some point because I have to. It’s fully outlined and I get I’ll just thinking about the angst. (January 2022)

Anyway these are all of my current wips and ideas. Praying that I don’t have any more cause I need to actually finish things for once.

Also, I’m going to try to do the Great MCYT WIP Purge (for obvious reasons), and would love to hear if there are any of these that people would want to see. I will also just word vomit if anyone asks questions about these because yeah