#abduction my beloathed

[scattered-in-graves]

some doodles

[vampire-iguana]

the first time i was abducted by the aliens, they all started whispering to each other and laughing at me

it wasn’t until three weeks later when i was abducted again for an episode of shmimmy shmimmel that i learned that the reason they were laughing at me was because i looked exactly like beloathed Zarboolian former-dictator and harbinger of doom Blingis Jimbleson

when they returned me to earth, i made some changes. i dyed my hair green and moved across the planet. maybe looking less like the dreaded Blingis and making myself harder to find would keep me safe from the aliens.

3 months later, they took me again. Shmimmy told me that it had actually been 5 whole years for them since my last appearance, as time moves much differently on Zarboola, and they were doing a “Where Gleeb They Now?” episode. he then pointed and directed his audience to laugh at me for believing such a stupid lie.

I heard a cacophony of giggles and murmurs from the audience, when Shmimmy chimed in, choking out the words through grossly exaggerated laughter— “and what im sure you’ve all been laughing at… I see you’ve died your hair green!”

What did that mean. What the fuck was so funny about that. Would this ever end?

Shmimmy explained to me that Blingis’ Dorsal Fleebs change color with the Zarboolian mating seasons, and that dying my hair green when Blingis had just undergone xergian restratificution and become green as well only added to the hilarity of the situation.

The audience cackled and cheered as Shmimmy sighed amusedly and promised a “next time” with me as a guest for the fans.

12 hours after they sent me home for the last time, I shot myself. there would be no next time for those sick extraterrestrial fucks.

[roetrolls]

o yeah, i was thinking soon that another recap might be good, :') also for me to show my roomie,

Great idea! Let's see, where did we last leave off?

oh

fuck

Since a LOT has happened since then, I'm not going to link every plot point to an ask, but just know... There sure are asks to link.

Anyways. Picking up where the last recap left off: Harlan's in Veylin's house, he's taken over her body, and this drabble gets posted, giving us a bit more insight into how Veylin is handling things.

Following this, Veylin's lusus is killed by the twins and she's dragged back to the compound.

Askers gain access to Ben, but they're not allowed to tell him about Vey's kidnapping.

Meanwhile, Chase and I are doing an actual roleplay instead of drabbling back and forth (bonkers, right?)

The beloathed Sawbones shows up to stir the pot, revealing that he knows the location of Orfuse's descendant, Zurven. Veylin's there too. She's not having fun.

Harlan leaves Lycias alone with Vey to go fetch his clock boy, and Zurven gets got.

WUH-OH!

Now Zurven and Veylin are roomies! We have fun with it.

Anons have fun too! Lots of fun, actually. They have a grand ol time needling Harlan until he snaps, eventually reaching a point where he closes the inbox for a few hours! During the silence from my blog, Zurven steps in to remind everyone that they're hurting Veylin every time they insult Harlan, and she fainted during his outburst. Zurven has become very protective of Veylin! And Veylin's become protective of Zurven! It's cute. They're cute.

When the inbox reopens, Harlan reveals that he's actually pretty happy about being pushed to his breaking point :)

In fact, this has given him a brand new idea! Gross!

Anons soon get right back to insulting him, and Harlan references the fact that this is kind of exactly what he wants!

He's asked to elaborate, and we see that he's angling to make Veylin feel overlooked-- He is the only one who can stop her hurt. She must bend to him.

And then Harlan starts gloating. He goes on a roasting spree and really chides you guys for failing to care for her.

Then Thanat gets brought up and it's right back to bothering Harlan.

Do I sound judgy in this part? I'm a little judgy. He did tell you exactly what he was doing, after all.

The anons really fuck Veylin over at this point. Now it's her turn to call you guys out (Examples one, two, three, and four)

Harlan's pleased as punch.

Later, Thanat reveals that he once beat the shit out of Harlan and you guys go off on him AGAIN. But this time someone thinks to check on Veylin first! It's great.

So we can anger Harlan, and anger Harlan, and anger Harlan

Oh. But Zurven's with him.

That doesn't go well for anyone.

Anyways, that doesn't matter anymore because we're in Ilioneus now and Benjin is having tea with Thanat. Unfortunately, Ben is the spitting image of Harlan at his age, and Than makes an unfortunate slip.

Unfortunately, someone else slips up too. Ben is now aware of Veylin's abduction. It's here that we get Throwback and Return, the drabbles where Ben panics too much to ask for help and runs home on his own.

And thus begins Phase 3! All members of Flashback, the name for the ZurVeyBen ship, are present and accounted for, and Harlan's got something planned for each of them.

The anons mess around and get events shuffled, which means the first drabble we get is Carving, in which Harlan brands Veylin with the Mahkir symbol, as is traditional of all members of the Church of the Dominion.

Next we get Reminder, where Harlan uses his knowledge of Orfuse's powers to push Zurven beyond what is safe or healthy and completely overwhelm him with visions of the past.

That same night, I post this Interlude, where Ben and Vey comfort Zurven following the events of Reminder.

I wonder what will happen next :)

[archesa]

hi hi :) you made me think of personal story characters, so have a couple that you originally meet there--demmi and caudecus? @kerra-and-company

Ohhh! Two characters I never went in detail about! 😶😁 *cracks fingers* That's gonna be interesting! 🖋️

Let's start with Demmi!

She'd probably have been Elianora 's bestie amongst the Order of Whispers!

I like her character and her arc — rebelling against her corrupt minister of a father was kind of a big deal in the early PS but it's completely eclipsed by everything else until Season 3 where she just... dies?! Ex-fucking-cuse you, Logan, I thought you were a Guardian! Heal her, for Dwayna's sake!

There's another death where I was like "no, nope, never happened, she was shot, she fainted, but Meryw, Anwen and Logan did what guardians flippin' do and saved her!

As for Minister Caudecus, my beloathed!

From the very first instances of PS, we know something is afoot with Minister Caudecus and that he's sabotaging Jennah's authority under a mask of respectability, but having him as the first antagonist in LWs3 was a pleasant surprise, especially considering Anwen's background!

From a very personal perspective it went something like this for her: Minister Zammon, as a straw man for Caudecus, is responsible for Faren's abduction, which she took great care to avenge him for and let him avenge himself by picking her brother as her second for the trial by combat, so Caudecus sees them tear Zammon to pieces, and starts getting a glimpse of what he's dealing with. After the trial, the White Mantle try to eliminate Anwen, who disrupts a great deal of their operations in Queensvale — under the guidance and in collaboration with the Seraph and the Shining Blade — and discovers the truth about her birth parents fate. She makes her peace with this part of her past and keeps on living her life — once again meddling in Caudecus' affairs by exposing Minister Estelle's lies about the Queen! — and when she had all but forgotten about the Mantle, they blow up the Bloodstone and set siege against Divinity's Reach, directly threatening all that she loves again! Add to this a dear friend of hers being tortured in Caudecus' dungeons and you get a picture of how much Anwen wanted him dead.

[johnnyutah]

the number one reason im not like yayy wooooo stranger things !!!! is because the last two seasons have been so hard to watch because genuinely the russian plotlines are so so so so so so stupid and i just cant deal with david harbour making me watch any more american propaganda i dont care how hot he is. we snuck into the theatre to watch black widow and i literally screeched upon seeing his knuckle tattoos that said KARL MARX but most of the reviews of black widow don’t even mention how badly written the russians are. and i can guarantee most of the people in that theatre were just like haha marvel movie! haha reference to captain america! like it probably went over everyones head as it was supposed to but ive been thinking about it nonstop its so fucking evil and stupid. in stranger things 3 when dustin reiterates over and over that they’re living out the plot of red dawn, i thought as an audience member yeah okay we GET IT. but thats the whole season- it starts with soviet scientists doing things with no clear motivation other than well they’re russian of course! and it features such hits as a ten-year-old girl declaring how much she loves capitalism and hates- verbatim- ‘commies’, a Literal Terminator invading an american fun fair, and MURRAY BAUMAN my beloathed. in season one of stranger things the audience is supposed to get swept up in the conspiracy theories-- oh shit, there really IS a secret government lab where they train superpowered kids and experiment on them. oh shit, there really ARE aliens! and in seasons two and three we’re supposed to do the exact same thing, let ourselves get caught up in the madness and believe the Strangest Things, which is why dustin makes that joke to erica about lee harvey oswald being a patsy, and why throughout the series everyone instantly accepts the shocking ‘reality’ of russians living under the local mall. but they put absolutely no effort into giving the russians ANY motivations that made sense. and instead of satirizing the US government or military or police, they’re now full on like “everyones favourite cop got abducted into an evil russian prison, of course! you believe this, don’t you? the other americans will save him, won’t they?” like there’s something so stupidly nefarious about netflix releasing season 3 on july fourth and not making any attempts to show the downside of the USA, to the point where when the special american forces show up they instantly save everyone with no questions and everyone is allowed to continue with their lives. anyway im hitting david harbour over the head with a dvd of the shape of water for his crime of continuing to play roles like this and i’m zipping the duffer brothers into a duffel bag and sending them out to sea goodbye