#The low city

[vestaclinicpod]

Audio Drama Sunday - 12th January ✨

I have a long coach journey this evening so expecting to get most of my week’s listening done tonight! Here’s what I’ve listened to so far!

📻 @monstrousproductions Being on nights this week almost always means that I tune in to The Night Folk Network aka Monstrous Agonies! There’s something so soothing about listening in the early hours of the morning and the show never fails to make me feel better about myself 🫶

🔎 @224bbaker (15) Good GOD, I love this show. It’s just so healing to have so many silly things happening in my ears, I listened to it twice. And goodness, look what the cat dragged in this episode (Dr John Watson, I’m referring to you)!!! It is killing me that we might never know what he fumed to Lucius about because Peppermint’s only gone and bloody died!!!!! Not ideal!!! I love how Archie’s attempt at the cold shoulder immediately melted when he realised how dumb James had been. He’s just like me for real!!

Also, due to recent posts on the show’s tumblr, I have accidentally convinced myself that Fitzy is Sebastian Moran in disguise trying to get close enough to kill John Watson. This is based on nothing more than my own headcanons for the guy BUT I will be listening closely for more evidence!!! 👂🕵🏻

🦋 @remnantspod (23) ohh this was a soft one!! Am I right in thinking that Stephen Grenville was the son of Eliza and Andriy?? I don’t know what this means for the overarching plot but it was a very lovely story in itself. It’s nice to have a seemingly lovely person enter the narrative. Honestly, Andriy wasn’t the only one thinking that he’d been shot or something. Head trauma is particularly troublesome in this show!! The acting in this episode gave *just* not enough away for me to be sure if the Apprentice remembers his most recent reincarnation (if that’s even close to the right term). As always, I can’t wait for more!

🗺 Tales From the Low City (14) @tales-from-the-low-city Maybe I was just young and naive when I first started season one of the show but, blimey, things have gotten dark in The Low City. I really love the world building in this show. The actions of individuals and society as a whole fit together so cohesively! The cause and effect makes sense and it makes everything feel gut-wrenchingly realistic. A horrible secret was uncovered at the end of this episode and it seems the residents of the city have a big decision to make about their future . . .

🍾 @ameliapodcast (40) An escape plan! Via Paris! So exciting!! 🍫☕️ How The Interviewer was nimble enough to pull off Sleeping Beauty after months of being in a cell, I’ll never know. I get a cramp just getting up to make another cup of tea.

Have a great week!!

[chimary]

The Low City update

I judge usefull to inform you that, after a long moment of inactivity, Firebirds take to the sky was rewritten and posted on AO3. It's still a short story.

Firebirds take to the sky - Chimary - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]

[bluerosefox]

Phantomish Rogues

Team Phantom get ripped from their home universe into the DCverse. With no money or real ID's in this world. Now thats a problem.

Another big problem is that Danny is badly injured and his core kinda put him into a deep cryo sleep. He needs to rest and gather ectoplasm.

Bigger problem Team Phantom have no clue how to get home because they don't know how to decode the Fenton Portal blue-prints, not even Jazz who at the time didn't pay attention to her parents portal work anymore by the time they finished it. The only one who does have an idea is Danny!

Biggest problem, they landed in a place called Gotham that seems to be overrun with actual villains and heroes? (vigilantes). And for some odd reason many of them seem to find them no matter where the Team goes to hide.

Until they can get their hands on a safe space, tech, and money, Team Phantom might have to go a bit Rogue/Villainous if they wanna keep Danny safe until he wakes up.

[acquired-stardust]

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis Playstation 1999

[ispyspookymansion]

just genuinely curious, you dont have to say what you picked or explain yourself in the tags unless you want to

[lorenzonuti]

Stay hydrated.

Now available for purchase on INPRNT

[layzeal]

one of my favorite headcanons with little to no canon support is that xue yang and mo xuanyu were guidao jin disciples at the same time, and mxy mentioned a few times wanting to ressurect the yiling laozu to kill his mom's evil family, so when xy saw him (or rather his body) entering yi city AS the yllz, he was like "son of a bitch he actually did it"

[cemeterygrace]

LADS IM PISSING MYSELF THERES RUMORS THAT WARPED IS COMING BACK NEXT YEAR FOR THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY

[lesson-in-ruthlessness]

rip grady ruewen you would have loved "I hardly know her jokes" as a way to cope with your ability-induced trauma

“Mesmer? I hardly know her!”

[chimary]

So, let's talk about the Low City. No, it's not a new in-universe short story. Even if I'd love to write it but like. I feel like real world actualities make me have to take a break. Even if the political message in it deserves to be told. It's just that, I do not wish to do it badly and -if it ever goes out of the really small sphere reading it- do NOT wish me writing it badly to do wrong by those fucking fighting for their right to be alive and to not live in an apartheid.

Yeah, the evolution of the israelo-palestinian conflict is what make me take a break from something really close to my heart. And I just want, under here, writes about differents characters or organizations and what they represent. It is important to note that this story was not supposed to give parallels to real-world events (that I knew way to few to nothing about) but pushing some of today's society worse trait to the extreme taking aspiration from the past. Anyway, here's the list:

The Low City being slums and physically separated from the other part of the land. It is supposed to be a critic about the way capitalism treat the poor and those in needs. But it's also how it sometimes is as easy as seeing a line to make other seem less than humans. All of the character are from or stay in the Low City because they are all supposed to show how individuals react differently to bad situation.

The firefighters. In the story, they are the same kind of organization than would be Doctors Without Borders. In the notes, I wrote that I should show the two groups working together. And contrary to the doctors, the firefighters were supposed to be recognized as a criminal organization. Because one of the message is to not accept laws that justify the death of someone else. Breaking law is sometimes needed to keep your right to life

The mafia. If you do not count some of the heads, most of them came to it due to the mafia being the sole hope they saw. Dragon's adopted dad came to it because they were the only ones that promised they could get a better life to his daughter. It was not show, but Dragon did not spiral down in worse and worse things only for her dad (she only accepted to work for it because of him). She saw desesperate people justifying desesperate actions and, when she thought she went too far and the government so easily make her an evil figure, she did not had the will or the strength to deny it to herself. Because when people try, again and again, to only be pushed around, aside or killed, they are way more likely to do actions they knew will make them SEEN despite how it may reflect on them.

Magma Columba and Phoenix - by being superheroes, they themselves break the laws. Magma has chronic pain, make worse if she shafeshift to much or to fast that makes her unable to perform her self-assigned duties and Marcus, that will pass anyone wellbeing and safety of others before himself. He's black and trans. Yes, the two main characters being part of discriminated groups was a voluntary decision. But contrary to a lot of those that joined the mafia, they are not desesperate yet. They have each other to turn to, to say "We'll make this world a better place for the generation to come. A better world is a road hard to walk, on which you will often fail. Where you may see blood. But they're a tunnel at the end of the road you should never be forgetting. They're a feast we can lead others too, even if we're not sure ourselves will made it there"

The mafia boss does not need to lie. The government do. They lie to the other nations to gain their sympathy will making miserable something they think belong to them and is "invaded by nuisance". (Which yeah, they're a big comparison with Israel and its warcrimes with that government) Sure, he's a bad guy. He's not promising help (and doing things that, even if criminals activities, will help) because he's genuine. He just saw a way to take powers. It's all he wants, but even him know you cannot use people if you don't give them something to hope for. That if you broke already broken people and antagonize them, their only chance will to be to attack back.

And. Yeah. I wanted the story to be light-hearted in essence. But I do not want to write about a rebellion story and have it wrong when they're a real one taking place right now. Not when their is an actual, real-life government pretending ambulances, hospital and refugee camps being terrorist hideout. I cannot write about a government lying for its international image when we have a real-world government lie about being to late to rescue hostages from terrorist and then learning they ordered their armies to kill the hostages because that was the better way to not be concerned by meat shield. I cannot write about people being considered criminal because they try to do right or are desesperate when a country randomly imprison innocent people.

It is hard to write. That story was about treating others right, not taking right away. A preventive tall about what we should not want. Not a parallel. I don't know if I'll take it back one day. Maybe. Maybe I'll never fell like the right to write it again. Maybe you fell like you could (in which case, do). Whatever happens, this story had a message and a political stance I think is needed to be told.

And even if I'm not the good writer for it - even if I will never be, I want my intention to be known. And more than all, stand for those who have nothing. Stand for those whom voices are silenced. Don't buy lie you are told because you're scared to lose you comfort. Do not support those whose beliefs make others less.

[hankandmonty]

Kristen Applebees the Saint of lesbianism

The lol wolf song def gave the gals gassing you up to your ex vibes

[acquired-stardust]

Pokemon Blue Gameboy 1996

[jellogram]

reblog to kill it faster

[pharawee]

"I've wanted this since the day I met you."

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