#agnes will come for them

[sirianasims]

The Don Diaries

We're back in the Lothario household where Matteo is no longer a wrinkly object, but an adorable infant (who may also become wrinkly if Don doesn't take him out of this bath soon).

Don may sometimes make questionable life choices, but he's definitely devoted to his son and has zero chill about him.

He and Gina are mostly ignoring each other, just quietly co-existing and rarely interacting. Gina works on her next promotion and her lawyer exams, and Don has been promoted to project manager. He's still doing 100 % of the childcare, only managing to go for a run in the early hours while both Gina and Matteo are sleeping.

EXCUSE ME

WHO THE FUCK IS THIS

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK

We flee the creepy hooded guy (who just keeps standing there for the next four hours?!) and spot a young woman we haven't seen before. And Don is Don, so we gotta be polite and say hello, right?

Her name is Carolina and don't think I don't see you heart-farting.

They hit it off but Don needs to get back and take care of Matteo before work, so all he gets is her number.

Just in case.

Poor Don. All Gina seems to think about is money and promotions, and apart from meeting Carolina, he hasn't really had any human contact besides Matteo for days.

Matteo is worth it though. Also, Don, I don't disagree that he is adorable, but you may be biased seeing as you made him.

Gina and Don both work long hours now, so we hire a nanny. She's surprisingly not-useless which already makes her better than Gina.

Don is still spending most of his time in the nursery when he isn't working.

Meanwhile, Gina is busy gambling large parts of their limited funds on the stock market.

Learning about bunnies is vital to child development, actually 🥹

Don is really not doing well, though.

But how could he risk losing this?

While Don spends his evening doing tummy time and pondering his life...

... Gina is making sure that she is getting properly pampered. Oh, so you can't make a simple salad, but when the cucumbers are for your eyes you're suddenly a pro chef, Gina?

Hang in there, Don. Just a little longer.

[cream-and-tea]

oh pallas and agnes power dynamic you really are SO unbelievably fucked,,,,,

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

um, maggots?

Found this in the Good Omens book. I'm actually not sure what to say. I just thought it sounded like mascot so I started using it for you, back when I was adopted by this fandom. It's become a pretty well-known thing, you all answer to it (why). But now I fear that I predicted Lore.

Can someone please ask @neil-gaiman what this means because I'm frankly terrified of unleashing the answer, and I follow Aziraphale's logic of if he doesn't do something directly, then the blood is not on his 'perfectly manicured hands'. So uh heheh I'm not going to ask *backs away looking shifty* who's going to volunteer?

If you Fall for asking the question, I would like to release liability for it.

[murderandcoffee]

I know they literally never meet in canon, but I keep on thinking about agnes and manuela. the collision of science and religion--of worshipper and worshipped, of physicist and defier of physics. the holy darkness, and the ravaging, lightless fire. both dark in their own right.

they're both impossible. manuela created a dark star, a tiny inverse sun of radiant, horrible darkness. agnes could have lived forever, could have destroyed the whole world, but she died young (but not so young) and only served to destroy herself.

they're both outcasts. manuela was estranged from her parents through differences in belief and lifestyle; agnes was something more than the people who raised and worshipped her.

manuela ran towards the darkness, towards the power that engulfed her very soul. she opened herself to it, did everything she could to serve it. agnes grasped at the life she'd never been allowed--one of coffee shops, and walks in the park, and kisses on the cheek. she was the flame, but she sought the light that she had never been allowed.

they're so different, but they compliment each other. I think that manuela would have been entranced by the simultaneous raging power and extreme gentleness within agnes; I think that agnes would have appreciated manuela's devotion and belief--so wholehearted and unwavering, unlike the bickering, divisive worship of the cult that created her.

of course, I don't think that things could ever have ended well for them. but I think that they could have had moments--days, months, years, maybe--where they sat in the darkness and reveled in the suffering of those for whom having the light in their world snuffed out completely was worse than any other imaginable fate. they could have watched buildings fall and cities go dark, and listened to the cries of the ones who would never understand the horrible beauty of the pitch black and the devastation around them.

idk, I just think about them.

[spiralsandeyes]

jude perry....

[baylardo]

ive been revamping some old headworld Tenebres OCs of mine recently :) their little story revolves around a prestigious magic school that outcasts all of them in different ways.

ethel and juneau (the older ladies) were both once professors and colleagues. ethel taught potionmaking (she’s unsurprisingly a marvelous cook) and juneau excelled everything about in curses (very big on puzzles). juneau was disapproved of for her unconventional methods when it came to cursebreaking which mostly involved inflicting herself with the curses she was trying to break. through enough exposure to that practice in addition to likely a few curses she could never resolve, she now sometimes turns into a mindless beast. consequently shes a risk to students so she got kicked out. after getting fired she takes up being a plague doctor as an occupation which involves cleaning up magic breaches in addition to the stuff shes already good at which is curse removals, just without the funding of her school. its a pretty isolated job so whenever her monsterous side comes out, there arent too many people at risk. she lives in a lil unkempt hermit shack.

ethel was a bit more “by the book,” more of a rule follower, tended never to deviate from standard practice. she never liked or respected juneau and was rather relieved when she finally left, thinking her colleague to be quite the liability to the school. ethel’s field of magic in potions comes with its own different yet similar risks however. and while experimenting with some of her own new concoctions, something went wrong and she began turning into a monster herself. i think with her affliction it’d start as a small blemish that she keeps trying to magically remove/repair and she keeps making it worse which makes her frantic and keep trying fix things until she becomes this irreparable and permanent monster herself. and unwilling to face the same humiliation and rejection as her colleague, ethel fakes her death, making it seem like she died in a chemical explosion of her own making, and flees lol. eventually she seeks out juneau and the two become reluctant roommates in the shack juneau lives in.

and then Agnes the young one was a student whod worked very hard to make it into the school, probably doesnt come from a well-known family or anything but shes top of her class and has high hopes for her future, but one day during an exam in front of her peers and professors it comes to light that she’s (unbeknownst to herself) a familiar as she starts turning into a rabbit. shes expelled on the grounds that she hid her condition and familiars are not allowed to pursue such high forms of magic. in her determination to not fail and still achieve the status shes wanted all her life, she tries to seek out any mage who will teach a familiar any magic. eventually she finds juneau (and ethel by proxy) and the two reluctantly decide to take the familiar girl on as a student.

[sebille]

The other characters are super good but I am a drukhari girlie so I apologize for being extra interested in Marazhai

Anyway I looooove a character who says one thing but their flavourful text says a lot more and usually contradicts what the character is saying out loud

[asheanon]

Their hair and faces are going to look a little off because I haven't broken out the Blender refs yet and things are still a scribbly mess, but… even still…! Sneaky peeky of something I'm doing for the faves. 🤍🖤

(I was recently inspired by Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust to do something reminiscent of one of its many beautiful scenes.) 🎨💕

[the-insouciant-scientist]

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Here's everyone! Featuring upgrades/alternates for the ones I've already done.

Harper - The Fractured Scientist - +9 watchful, +5 persuasive, +2 glasswork, +1 kataleptic toxicology, -2 bizarre. Found on the edge of the Waswood in Parabola.

Phileas - The Cantankerous Coat-Pile - +7 shadowy, +5 dangerous, -7 persuasive, +1 shapeling arts, +2 neathproofed, +1 bizarre. Increases suspicion buildup. Gotten from a rare opportunity card in Spite.

Caiomhe - The Mournful Piper - +8 dangerous, +4 persuasive, +1 artisan of the red science, +2 dreaded. Can be found in the Forgotten Quarter, if the airs are right.

Irving - The Convivial Couturier - +9 persuasive, +1 mithridacy, +2 respectable, +1 bizarre. Increases scandal buildup. Received after completing a tailoring-related storylet in Spite.

Agnes - The Ill-Fated Devotee - +5 dangerous, +5 watchful, +1 monstrous anatomy, +1 respectable. Found near St. Fiacre's cathedral in Veilgarden.

[anrisimps]

Leo!!!!!

[amu-brain-dump]

Dom is so precious 😭😭😭

[unproduciblesmackdown]

interestingly the only mention i can find of a monastery loquarium is (rendered "loquorium") in "the california padres and their mission" by charles francis saunders and joseph smeaton chase, a book in the public domain:

The Mission relics at Santa Inés are many and interesting. Besides those used in the present-day church services, and the beautiful old vestments that are in the sacristy, there is a considerable collection arranged for interested visitors in an interior room of the convento — a room formerly used as the loquorium, where daily, after dinner and after supper, the friars were at liberty to come to rest for an hour from their laboring and praying, and relax in human chat.

the next paragraph also mentions this room now housing relics "patiently got together from all sorts of places," including "from the earth of the surrounding fields as the plough turns it up"

[cream-and-tea]

love reading through lay me down and finding pallaspov excerpts where the School Mandated Dissociative Disorder really jumps out they’re really like wow i sure felt a feeling right there and i’m like buddy would you care to elaborate on that at all? and they’re like. no.

[bubaboos]

made pasta and it's delicious, life is good

[akaikali]

@notachamealeon MIKE OUR BF!!

@insanitydog25 mike crew cosplay go brr

[mr-saavik]

Being fueled in my dvd/bluray addiction by my professor/advisor who is getting rid of a bunch and is giving them to me