#aka what they call a coronation

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Lmao not someone in British Media actually having the audacity to say Harry should tone down the upcoming Living Legends Of Aviation 2024 just because King Tampon and Kate are going to be in hospital.

[bluerosefox]

Waiting... Waiting...

So... This was inspired by listening to EPIC (FREAKING LOVE ALL THE ALBUMS, SO GOOD) and by @noxcheshire post of Tim being Odysseus reincarnated and Danny (maybe also reincarnated) being his Penelope (Here) so I had to turn it into a Dead Tired idea.

The song The Challenge is the main one here. (Cause I LOVE that song... along with Would You Fall In Love With Me Again)

So WHAT IF Danny IS the reincarnated Penelope, after becoming the Ghost King Danny's memories of his past life as Penelope returns and remembers how before dying/ or being reincarnated both Penelope and Odysseus promised to find each other in their new lives, no matter who they are, what new form they take, they will find each other.

So Danny/Penelope, just like before waits for their Odysseus to return to them, but also tries to find him in their new life (CW is laughing whenever Danny asks for hints and gets a 'In due time, just wait' answer, ugh Danny wants to smack CW for that)

However just like in his previous life with being in a high position of power, Danny is being pressured to marry/take a spouse (now its not just men/males though so its a huge headache, I head canon Ghosts don't care much for gender preference) mostly by the dang eyeballs that Danny is still trying to find a way to get rid of without upsetting the Infinite Realms delicate (but slowly healing) balance even if Danny wanted nothing more than to punch all of the suitors out.

So Danny decides to play the long game again.

And waits for their Odysseus return.

Danny's wait is over when they suddenly feel the Realms shift one day, as if welcoming someone familiar home, and the same feeling Danny had when he had been Penelope and saw the storm that was sign of Odysseus coming home, Danny decides its time to bring out The Challenge once again. (CW gifted Danny a few things from his past as Penelope as a coronation gift, like Odysseus's bow (now enchanted to be unbreakable), a painting of when he was Penelope, with Telemchus, and Odysseus, and the Marriage Bed/Olive Tree, AND the Palace Odysseus made that Danny takes to being in over being at Pariah's Keep)

-x-x-

Meanwhile

Tim Drake, aka Red Robin, always had strange dreams as a child.

War, Death, Monsters, Gods, Goddesses.

His dreams were more like nightmares, haunting him and he sometimes woke up in cold sweat.

He hated storms. Hated being in the water for to long. Hated how he felt both tense but also at home when around Greek heroes, as if he was afraid to 'disrespect' them (Cassie was the only one he didn't feel that way around, mostly cause they had been somewhat friends before their heroing since their parents knew each other) but also knew how to appease them should he insult them. He also had a strange hatred for the CoO with a burning passion because he felt like they were mocking real Owls.

The worst part of nightmares that always pop up are of what feels like should be his home is being invaded by unwanted guests (they aren't guests), how they are angry over trying to string a bow and shot an arrow through axes, of the terrible terrible things he hear them saying they were going to do to his loved ones (two names that keep getting muted out).

How it ends in bloodshed with echoing of begging, pleading, mercy, and screams.

However in those nightmares at the end. He also finds himself looking for something in them.

Or rather he always found someone waiting for him at the end of the nightmares. Calling him by the wrong name but it sounds just right coming from them.

The dream always ends with the person asking 'How long has it been?' and before he can answer he wakes up.

So yeah Tim has horrifying nightmares/dreams he could never explain.

And the urge to find someone. To go home to them.

It isn't until he and his friends from Young Justice are hit by a spell from Klarion (who may or may not had a visit from a certain chaos encouraging Time Keeper) and sent to a place called the Infinite Realms in the middle of their fight, that Tim is hit hard with déjà vu when he spots a certain Palace in the distance and overhears some of the 'people?' (they glow and float and some don't even look human?! where are they?) talk about how the 'King' has issued a new 'Challenge' for his 'suitors'.

A Challenge involving a bow, and axes.

And Tim, feels like he knows this all too well and needs to do it.

[petricorah]

zukka ficlet - knee pain 1.6k

“Bleeding hog monkeys,” Sokka cursed through gritted teeth as the leather strap on his knee brace finally snapped off. It had been weakened in their last fight with Fire Nation stragglers. A few groups were less than excited about the new fire lord’s orders—aka, to stop the attempt at world domination—and had finally decided to fight back. The gaang had been traveling the past few months to subdue them. Sokka insisted he was going to help, even though his knee, still wounded from falling during their fight with the airships, wasn’t as agreeable than his mind. Putting aside his slight lack of speed and faulty reactions in battle, it was causing him insurmountable pain. He had engineered a knee brace to help, and it had reduced the stress on his joints and allowed him to fight closer to his previous abilities, but the brace was now nothing more than a tattered mess of singed leather and half melted buckles.

Sokka balled up the frayed array of straps and chuckled it into the river he was sitting next to—an action that sent pain clambering up his leg, and making him yelp with a certain high pitched sound that certainly wasn’t manly.

“Sokka?”

Sokka immediately flinched into upright position. “Z-Zuko,” he chirped, attempting to casually lean against the rock he was standing near as Zuko emerged from the woods. “Fire Lord Zuko. To what do I owe the pleasure?”

Zuko rolled his eyes and walked up. “I told you to stop calling me that." He came to a stop in front of him, and Sokka couldn't help but admire him. His hair was getting even longer now, and it suited him.

It had been quite some time since the coronation. Lots of time together, working to undo the damage his father had done. Both by his side in the fire nation as his ambassador, and now, traveling again. So much had changed, and while he certainly looked more regal now, with his long hair and patterned robes, he still made Sokka's heart race like he had at boiling rock all that time ago. Perhaps even more so, as they'd continued to get closer as they worked—

"Dinner’s almost gone, and you weren’t back yet.” A teasing smile played at Zuko's lips, despite his attempts to appear stoic and wise. “I thought you were stuck in a hole.”

“Hey!” Sokka said, with an accusing wave of his finger. “You weren’t there for that.”

“Toph told me,” Zuko said. “Several times.”

Sokka clicked his tongue in embarrassment, feeling his cheeks warm. Damn Toph. In an attempt to make up for her and Zuko’s lack of a life-changing bonding trip, she’d taken to telling any story that made Zuko laugh—and most of those tended to be at Sokka’s expense.

“But I see you’re above ground,” Zuko said, his golden eyes passing over Sokka, seeming to glow in the dim light. “And in one piece. So what’s wrong?”

“Nothing’s wrong,” Sokka said with a fake lofty air.  

“You’re missing dinner,” Zuko said. “And it’s pig hen, your favorite.”

He never could get anything past him.

Sokka sighed in defeat and blew air to move a strand of hair from his face. “My knee hurts. I was trying to fix the brace, and I couldn’t, so it’s going to hurt more until I can get materials to make a new one.”

“You told Katara it didn’t hurt.” The words came in Zuko’s standoffish deadpan. Sometimes it was hard to tell when Zuko was just stating a fact in his rough voice or when he was being belligerent.

“Yeah, well. She’s having fun with Aang tonight. They’re all gross and obnoxiously lovey-dovey.” His looked away, at anything other than Zuko’s intense expression. Maybe if he studied the ants on the ground enough it would teleport him out of this conversation. “I’m not going to ruin that by making her bend water over my knee for an hour and then be all worried after.” He shook his head, and then met Zuko’s eyes again with what he hoped was a convincing smile. “It’s fine.”

Zuko’s stare was unnervingly sharp. Deadly. It was similar to the look he used to give them when they were about to fight, or the look he gave conniving fire lord generals who were faithful to his father’s old ways. Like he was really fucking angry and the only thing stopping him from setting things ablaze was Iroh’s voice in his head telling him to breathe.

But in an instant, it was gone.

“I’ll do it,” Zuko said curtly.

Sokka snorted. “You’ll do what?”

“I’ll work on your knee.”

“Yeah, thanks, but I don’t need my skin melted. When I do, I’ll give you a call.”

“Pain relief,” Zuko corrected, glaring at him like it should have been obvious that Zuko wasn't suggesting amputation by agonizing flame. “I’ve been…working on it. Uncle said the elements can learn from each other, so I figured there must be a way. I know your knee has been hurting so…I’ve been practicing.” He nervously rubbed the back of his hair. “It will help. Make it feel better, if only for a bit.”

Sokka blinked, staring at him with wide eyes. Zuko did all that for him? For him?

But Zuko’s pointed gaze snapped back to him, making Sokka’s heart flinch.

“It isn’t a choice. Either you do it with me or you ask Katara.” He stalked forward, almost threateningly, making Sokka take a half step back. “It would have been in a better place by now if you had rested at first. You can’t keep hurting yourself and pretending like it doesn’t matter—”

“Okay,” Sokka said, putting his hands up with a gentle laugh. Only Zuko would show he cared by trying to intimidate Sokka into taking care of himself. “Okay, we’ll do it.” He snorted, trying to offset the real emotions he was feeling with a joke. “What am I gonna do, run away from you?”

Zuko’s eyes narrowed. “That’s not funny.”

Sokka blinked. Maybe it would have been funnier if he hadn’t landed on his bad knee after saving Zuko from an arrow, but that was neither here nor there.

So he gave in and sat down, awkwardly, not knowing exactly how to react at what was about to happen.

Zuko knelt in front of him, which was already an image that made Sokka’s head spin, and then he rolled up Sokka’s pant leg, making Sokka’s entire body tense in embarrassment. But he didn’t stop him. He was just relieved that Zuko was so concentrated on his knee that he wasn’t noticing how much Sokka was blushing.

Zuko did a small motion with his hand, and flames erupted from his palm. But he concentrated, his eyes narrowed, and the bright orange fire subsided into a snaking ring that began to spin, controlled and glowing. It almost…moved like water.

Zuko placed it above Sokka’s knee, enough so the warmth radiated across his skin but didn’t burn.

Sometimes Sokka couldn’t fathom it. That someone he used to hate, sometimes even fear, was now someone he trusted so completely he’d allow him to not only bend next to him, but use it to help him, now, when he was vulnerable.

The heat was intense. Not unpleasant, but intense. Almost like it was blocking out the pain as it radiated up his leg, settling in his chest.

He let out a sigh, slowly settling into the position as the tension seeped from his shoulders. He hadn’t felt this painless in…a long time.

“I…I never did say thank you,” Zuko murmured. Zuko’s lashes were long, eyes downcast as he worked the flames under his hands. “For earlier.”

“You better not be doing this because you feel guilty,” he said. “Because I’ve saved your life about a hundred times by now. With that logic, you’ll be doing me favors until we’re both old men.”

Zuko chuckled. It was a low, good sound. A sound that made Sokka feel like he won a prize every time he earned it. A sound that made Sokka want to drop everything else and just focus on making Zuko smile.

“Gladly,” Zuko said with a low smile. “I’d do pretty much anything for you, Sokka.”

Sokka stilled, everything else fading from his view as he met Zuko’s golden eyes.

“But I’m not doing this out of guilt,” he continued. The heat pressed on, and the pain was gone from his mind. “I’m doing this so you don’t stubbornly give yourself chronic pain. Because I care about your knee,” he said. The flames dimmed, but his hand still glowed, and he slowly placed his palm against his knee. Sokka could feel the heat, and his heart was squeezing in his chest—

“And I care about you.”

His hand was still there. It was a marvel that Sokka’s brain was still functioning enough to form the thought that Zuko’s hand was on his knee as he stared up at him, saying that he cared about him.

Now. He should tell him he loves him now, right now, before he lost his nerve, again—

“Zuko, I…”

“We should get back,” Zuko said with a breeziness that Aang would have been proud of, and Sokka felt a rush of cold air as Zuko’s hand left him. Zuko stood, brushing himself off.

Sokka’s stomach dropped with a mixture of alarm and disappointment as the moment went up in smoke before his eyes. “Thanks,” he managed to blurt out.

“No problem,” he said. “Just one of the hundred of favors I owe you, right?”

“Right,” Sokka said in a faint voice. He let out a nervous, bubbling laugh. “We’ll have to grow old together just so you have time to make it all even.”

“Wouldn’t want it any other way.” Zuko smiled warmly. Of course it was warm. Everything about Zuko was warm.

Spirits. This would be the death of him, wouldn’t it? Loving this man who was so dense he would never catch onto any of Sokka’s flirting, and being so helplessly and terrifyingly in love he’d rather take an arrow to the heart than risk ruining their friendship? Was this just his fate now?

He stood, and subsequently staggered, his legs wobbly from a reason completely different than the pain from earlier, but Zuko steadied him. His warm hands holding his arm, the other on the small of his back, and he was so close that Sokka could smell the scent of smoke that followed him.

“You good?” Zuko’s voice was tinged with concern, sparking in his ear. “Is it still in pain?”

“No,” Sokka said quickly. “Just getting…used to it. It feels better. It feels great. I-I can’t wait for you to do it again.” Please.

Zuko blinked, some unreadable shock in his eyes at the words that had just tumbled from Sokka’s mouth, but his smile twitched onto his face. “I’m glad it worked,” he said. “And I can carry you. If it helps.”

Sokka’s face lit up in a blush and he smacked Zuko’s chest. “I do not need you to carry me.” I certainly couldn’t handle you carrying me. “Just…this. This is enough.”

Zuko readjusted, allowing Sokka to hold onto his forearm, the two slowly making their way back to camp. The pain from his knee was distant as he talked to Zuko about the earlier battles, relishing in ever laugh that he got.

Yeah.

This would be enough.

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

I remember back in 2019 when Clarence House took a tight seal on the bullying reports, it was then that they started giving RVOs to their staff like a candy. Do you think, aside from the NDA, these honours were given in exchange for their silence?

It's possible, but I personally don't think so. It's pretty common for staff to be given awards and recognized for their service when they're leaving public service.

We do it in the US government all the time. I know US civil service isn't the UK's civil service and neither are the monarchy, but they do hold some things in common. Recognizing senior staff/senior executives for their service is one of those.

There is a correlation between staffers being honored for their service to the monarchy at the same time that others were leaving because of the bullying report, but it's not because of an honors-for-silence scheme. It's because of the overall administrative transition/changes happening at the same time in the larger monarchy.

The BRF was going through a huge administrative change 2017 through 2023; aka the time from Geidt's resignation to Charles's coronation. We'll call this "Charles's transition," as all the reports indicate Charles, with Andrew's support, pushed Geidt from his position as The Queen's private secretary over differences in how to transtion from Queen Elizabeth to King Charles*. This is also probably when the soft regency went into place, with The Queen starting to scale down her work and Charles picking up the slack.

*We do know with certainty that Charles was very butthurt that Geidt announced Philip's retirement because Charles felt that he should have been the one to do so.

Anyway, any time there's a big leadership change at the top like what the BRF went through, it trickles down into the staff. Some staff stick it out, loyal to their principals or their "middle managers" and stay. Others can't, or don't want to, and they go. Sometimes it's a big shift in turnover. Sometimes it's small, barely noticeable from the outside. But either way, if the people who go are senior enough or they worked on important enough projects, they get recognized for their service. It's all perfectly normal.

The US, and the US civil service, is about to go through the same thing. We do it every four years with the presidential election, regardless of who the candidates are and regardless of whether the incumbent wins reelection. After the election ends in November, you will start hearing about resignations and departures all over the government. Some of it is mandatory - most presidential appointments to the Executive Branch (like members of the Cabinet) are required to resign by law. But others, in what we call the career service (people like me who work on career appointments - aka we serve the government and the people, not at the pleasure of the president) will resign or leave because their personal politics don't align to the politics of the incoming administration*. It'll be a larger scale version of what the BRF went through during the era of Charles's transition, but without the public honors.

(I've no idea how the UK civil service works in this regard so I'm not touching that.)

*I can talk more about how the elections change the balance of power in the civil service if anyone's interested. I know it's a dry topic but there are some people do find it fascinating sometimes. Let me know and I'll add it to the list behind "media theory of the mid-90s" (which I'm working on! It's coming!)

[mapleapplepiee]

PART 2

Hello y'all! Heres Part Two to the what I'm calling the princes and pies au or the Prince Jack/ Baker Bitty AU.

Here is Part One for you if you dont know what I'm talking about

Part 2

Bitty

Bitty has just moved into town after completing his baking apprenticeship

He has officially told his parents that he wants to move to study more baking techniques/new pastries to bring back to his village, but he is not so sure about if he's actually going to want to go home or not at the end of his studies

Bitty has been working there for just a few weeks when he makes eye contact with the most handsome man he's ever met

As he is new to the city, he has no idea who Jack is

He has no idea when or if he'll ever see the man again, but he goes to bed that night dreaming of his icy blue eyes and hopes that he will see him again

A few days later his wish comes true when the handsome stranger walks into the bakery

Bitty almost drops his pie

Jack

It takes a couple days for Jack to be able to sneak out again and he has to go in disguise.

He plans on meeting up with Shitty later after his meeting with the Captain of the guard so that they can go to Lardos together

Jack arrives at the bakery

the handsome man from the previous day is there but Jack apparently startles him, causing Bitty to almost drop the pie.

Honestly idk how the rest of the interaction would go, if it would follow more of canon (Aka misunderstandings/ jack being a bit of a jerk and or awkward etc) or if it would be more wholesome (suggestions are very much encouraged, I have more of the late middle and ending in my brain)

Also I'm putting out a poll, I can see this story going two ways so I would love some input

[stephensmithuk]

The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Retrospection

It was common to refer to foreigners by the foreign versions of their titles; much less common today.

Costa Rica declared its independence from the defunct Federal Republic of Central America in 1838. Bar three small exceptions, most of Latin America was independent by 1889.

It was much easier for people to establish new identities back then - documents were much easier to forge.

The British Museum opened in June 1753; its two most controversial exhibits, the Elgin Marbles and Rosetta Stone had long been present by this time.

Dr Mortimer would be facing a professional conduct hearing today - he's blabbed about a man's heart condition to a stranger with no good reason!

Fulham Road, aka the A304, runs from the bottom end of Chelsea to Fulham Palace, then the home of the Bishop of London and now a museum. It passes Stamford Bridge, home ground of Chelsea FC.

Ross and Mangles sounds a rather on-the-nose name for somewhere that sells big, vicious dogs.

The "West Country" is an area covering SW England; precise definitions vary, but it would include Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, along with the city of Bristol. There is an ITV region called ITV West Country that covers this area, with its own local news programme.

One assumes that the page survived despite Stapleton/Baskerville shooting him like that.

"It is suggestive that Anthony is not a common name in England" - although there have been quite a few well-known people with that name since, such as Anthony "Tony" Blair or Anthony Ainley, the latter being the Master in Doctor Who from 1980 to 1989.

I can't find a white jessamine, but there are several plants called "white jasmine".

Les Huguenots is an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer that premiered in Paris in 1836. It's about the events leading up to the 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which was the mass murder of Protestants by Catholics in that country. A 2018 production can be viewed here:

The de Reszkes were three opera singers from this period who came from what was then the Russian-ruled "Congress Poland" - Josephine had retired at this point (and would die in 1891 aged 35), but Édouard and Jean were hugely acclaimed, making popular performances in London and later being honoured by Queen Victoria with the Royal Victorian Order.

That award, created in 1896, was and is at the sole discretion of the monarch; it is typically given for personal service to the monarch. Justin Welby, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, was made a Knight Grand Cross in that order in 2023 by Charles III, basically for doing the Coronation. Needing to adjust the Crown on his head clearly didn't count againat him.

That wraps The Hound of the Baskervilles. Onto The Valley of Fear!

[itshype]

Reverse Amnesia AU

(aka "Everyone lies except - for once - The Sheriff.) Sharing this old wyler prompt from Valentine's Day 2023 written with a few people but mostly @nonamemanga:

Wednesday pushes Donovan Galpin out of the way of Laurel's car after Laurel killed the coroner (before she actually runs Mayor Walker over), saving the Sheriff's life. The moment she pushes him, she gets a vision of Xavier calling her toxic in episode eight, so she then fails to get out of the way herself, and the car slams into her head-on.

Wednesday's a little woozy due to her head hitting the asphalt, but ultimately she's alright; just bumps and bruises. However, she's just disoriented enough that Donovan manages to bundle her into the police cruiser and rush her to the local hospital with the lights on. The siren does not help her headache from her profusely bleeding head wound. The Sheriff thinks she's seriously hurt and is totally panicking.

At the hospital, Donovan is brimming with guilt as he waits to hear from the doctors. He already felt kind of bad for arresting her and her whole family, and now she was seriously injured saving his life. Once he's allowed to, he approaches her in her hospital bed, hat in hands and he's nearly crying as he tells her:

"Wednesday, I know we've had our differences, but thank you, and if there's anything you need…"

And Wednesday panics, she can't deal with him trying to get his emotions all over her, so she immediately yells out, "I don't know you!!" in the hopes that a doctor will escort the 'strange man' out of her room. No one hears her but Donovan immediately assumes her head wound is worse than anyone thought and calls for nurses. Wednesday decides to run with this. She can pretend to have amnesia for a few hours and then once everyone is calmed down and she's not at risk of being cried on she can miraculously recover. The perfect plan.

Weems shows up (the hospital called her, Donovan forgot because he behaves like a lunatic in times of stress) and immediately begins fussing. Weems has the whackest priorities but doesn't actually wish her students any harm and there is a head wound. Wednesday reinforces her amnesiac defence so that Weems will stop trying to touch and comfort her.

Meanwhile, Tyler has received the following texts from his dad:

wEDnESdAy !!!

hospital

These texts are based on real ones I have received.

When he shows up at the hospital just to see what's going on, and hears what happened, it instantly twigs for him that: his master tried to murder his father, and that Wednesday is now about to be a real target because she actually stopped Laurel from doing something she wanted (I do not think there's any way Laurel told Tyler her whole Crackstone plan. He's a goon-puppet, not her equal) so Tyler doesn't know she will be kept alive for a while.

Tyler thinks he needs to stick around Wednesday now to protect her and that she has amnesia. So, he launches into a long lie about them secretly dating for "weeks now, really." so that he can stay until the nurses kick them out.

Wednesday is gobsmacked and a little suspicious that her ultra-vanilla not-boyfriend is lying about this, and that he's so good at it both Weems and Donovan are eating out of his hand. It's impressive. While Tyler coos about wishing she'd waited for him so he could have safely driven her home she plans to continue faking her amnesia until she figures out why Tyler would lie about them being together.

They've been there for a few hours when they get the call that Wednesday's parents won't drive down to visit because Morticia knows that Wednesday is fine, lying about the amnesia and only got hit because of a vision, not the epileptic fit that Donovan described to the doctors. Wednesday demands to go back to school, this hospital gown is blue, goddamn it. Wednesday knows her mother probably had a vision about the truth of what happened but everyone is heartbroken on Wednesday's behalf.

Enid, when Wednesday finally returns to her dorm with Tyler in tow and he explains about the amnesia, also decides to put a spin on their relationship. Declaring that they're best friends and "Of course I knew about the secret relationship!" she insists, while manically typing a blog post with one hand, "I'd never betray your trust and tell other people before you were ready, and when I planned your birthday party I definitely remembered to invite him, and not just other students you never hang out with! Sorry you don't remember but I did a good job!" She glares at Tyler when Wednesday looks away but he's not going to look a gift horse in the mouth as Enid is backing him up.

Wednesday is baffled.

Crack option: When asked by Enid about the car accident Wednesday says she "saw Xavier, and then the car hit her" in a purposefully misleading reference to the vision she had. Rumours of him pushing her never totally go away.

[fireflowersims]

Death, dying and funerals in the Netherlands (pt 1)

Not even sure which tw's I should tag this with. Keep scrolling if you think it might be distressing.

So, your loved one has died and now you have to deal with the body. If you've watched YouTube videos about this subject before (like Caitlin Doughty/Ask a Mortician), you may have a certain (very US-centric) view on what comes next. Probably quite relevant to many y'all tumblrinas and all, but I'm not from there, our traditions in the Netherlands are very different. My dad passed away this monday and since we're in the midst of the process I may as well get detailed about how we do it here. I personally think it is a good way to go about it.

I'll make a few posts because it's a lot to cover and I'm trying to be detailed. This is part 1. I'll put a link to part 2 under the spoiler as soon as I've written it. There are no pictures. Only text.

So, tw on all of this: cancer, death, dying, corpses, handling corpses in various ways, funerals, undertakers, huge sums of money, insurance company (derogatory), religion

So there's a corpse in your house

Your loved one has just died at home. Perhaps of illness, perhaps an accident, who knows.

I will not go into detail about my dad's actual passing and the whole process of dying. It's anything but pleasant. In the end, he died of brain cancer. He passed at home, pain free, in his own bed. He will be buried.

The first thing you do is to call the doctor. You call your (or your loved one's) GP during their office hours. At night and during the weekend you call the HAP (Huisartsenpost aka the hospital GP).

If your loved one died as a result of a terminal illness (like brain cancer (glioblastoma) in my dad's case), they were probably under the care of at-home (palliative) nursing. You call them as well. Chances are they'll need to unhook some medical equipment.

After a bit, the doctor serving as coroner (schouwarts) will show up to your house to confirm the death. They will listen for a heartbeat and check the eyes for responsiveness. After they are sure the person is indeed dead, they will fill in some forms needed for the municipality. These forms will get picked up by the funeral home or you can bring them to the municipality yourself. You need those forms to get a death certificate.

After the doctor has filled in these forms, you can call your funeral insurance (often DELA or Monuta nowadays) and/or a funeral home of your choosing. The insurance stuff can get a bit complex and oh my will I elaborate on this later, but basically, as soon as you tell the funeral home/insurance that you want to make use of their services, they will ask for some details including size of the diseased and if you would like them to be viewed and if so: where? Also, how should the body be displayed? On the bed, on a gurney covered in a shroud, in a coffin (not a casket!) or even on a fake bed? You have options. We went for a coffin. The simplest model. Made out of untreated wood, cotton lining, no metal bits, fit for natural burial.

Once they know the details, they will then send people to your house to take care of the body. It can take a couple hours for them to arrive depending on the time and how busy it is. This leaves some time to pick the outfit they will be buried in.

The final care

When the funeral workers arrive, you get an often very emotional and tender part of the process.

In the Netherlands, embalming is illegal. It used to be possible to get a treatment called "thanatopraxie" which is a light temporary embalming that lasts no longer than 10 days, but last I checked this is currently not possible as it involves carcinogens or smth like that.

This means that almost all viewings that take place in the Netherlands are of unembalmed bodies. Simply said: my dad looks dead. He does not look like he's sleeping. He is very visibly dead. There is no mistaking it for sleep. The body is discolored to some degree, it is very much a corpse.

The body still gets "prepped" though. Mostly non-invasive.

In my dad's case he was upstairs and so he needed to be brough down the stairs for the final care. This involves a "bodypod": a type of mattress that they strapped him to for transport. We had to rearrange almost all the living room furniture to make room for this, the coffin and to be able to give him his final care. He's a big guy.

NOTE: We chose to initially keep him at home, then have him transferred elsewhere the next day. Chances are this process may be done elsewhere if you immediately want to get the body out of the house. I'm not 100% sure on this.

Next, the body gets laid on a gurney, a sheet below.

This is where the family involvement can really start. Almost all processes below can be performed either by the caretakers from the funeral home or by the family. In my dad's case, it was primarily my mom and I helping. With a minor role for my cousin.

The body gets undressed completely and cleaned. It is possible for family members to assist with this. I did.

First the genitalia gets cleaned, I opted not to do this. Then the body gets a diaper so that any leakage gets caught and won't cause any undue.... Issues. Then the rest of the body gets washed with a disposable washcloth (I did this). It is also possible to use deodorant or perfume if you wish to. My mom also shaved his face.

Then you dress the body. Underwear, top, bottom, socks. Jewelry is possible but may have to be removed before burial.

The caretakers will apply a bit of make-up on request. My dad only got a bit of BB Cream. The intention of the makeup is not to make the person look alive-ish. It is to cover any discoloration (like deep purple ears thanks to gravity pulling the blood down).

I was not present for this part. Instead my cousin chose to stay with him during this process. According to her, they had issues getting his mouth open. The fact I got to him with a rolled up towel beneath his chin within minutes of his death before rigor mortis had set in (dead bodies move weird. There's no comparing it) may have contributed to this lol

Finally, the lips and eyes are closed. This is the most invasive part of it all and cannot be done by family. The lips especially can be a gnarly process as it is done by sewing them shut with a needle. For the eyes they will use silicone lenses with soft spikes on them. These may be taken out before burial.

After it is done, it is time to transfer the body to its viewing place.

In the Netherlands it's fairly common to have what they may call "home funerals". The body will be kept at home for an extended period of time before burial. Burials or cremation have to take place pretty fast. Within a week or less in most cases. But how do you keep the body from rotting? Simple. Cooling. You get an "ice plate". Kind of like the back of a refrigerator. It gets plugged into the wall and they put the coffin on top. It works so well that you can get ice at the bottom of the coffin. You also make sure to turn the heating in the room down.

Honestly, the key takeaway here is that it's fairly common and totally okay for family members to be directly involved in the care for the body. The workers will assist when needed. As there is no embalming happening, there is no reason to keep them from the body (unless it's a serious health hazard). The body will not be caked in makeup until it looks almost alive. Rather, it will be made neat, clean and presentable.

Once everything is said and done, the body is ready for viewing. You may wonder: is it distressing to see an unembalmed body? No. It is not. I saw how my dad changed from living to dying, to dead. How his body has changed little bits over the last couple days. His body will visibly keep changing until we will close his coffin and it is not distressing to me, my mom or my sisters. Truth be told, I did startle a couple times when he was in the living room. Like "oh wait there's a corpse. Damn dad, you startled me there!". It's just a bit unexpected to have a coffin there, ya know?

Truth be told, when I read a lot of American (funeral people's) opinions on viewing on unembalmed bodies, it seems... Odd. I think it would be more disturbing to me to see an embalmed body to be honest. It is okay for a dead body to look like a dead body. In a way, it helps you come to terms with the process. To advice the family against viewing their loved one because they aren't embalmed or to praise and advertise the techniques for how it "restores the body" just doesn't feel right. It's a corpse, it doesn't need to look alive.

Moving the body

What they don't tell you about moving dead bodies is the farts, the gasses, the stench. Decomposition starts pretty much immediately and even with cooling, you're gonna get fumes eventually, especially if you move the body.

Anyways, the process of getting my dad into the coffin involved me, my mom, my cousin and the two funeral workers all working together to grab the sheet he was on and on the count of three lift him up to move him into the coffin. This went well. The funeral caretakers then helped arrange his body so it actually looked presentable.

My dad was moved uhhh, more times than desirable to be honest partially thanks to the shape of our hallway and the size of him and his coffin as well as some other stuff. And it can get stinky. Corpse gasses be stinky yo. The stench is the most tolerable near the feet, but the people at the head and chest got a face full of corpse stink upon lifting him when we had to move him out of the coffin again.

First, off the bed, down the stairs to his coffin. Then, out of the coffin to the gurney to the mortuary. Then from the mortuary to the 24h room and into his coffin again. Not sure in which order the last move happened. Later on, he will be moved again, but that is on the day of the funeral which will still take a few days.

Oh wait, I forgot to mention the whole crematory fuckery. That will be for the next post. This one is getting pretty long. Spoiler alert: 90 FUCKING EUROS?!!??

Part 2

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The Old Version of Information/History of My Version of WiggleTown/WiggleWorld/WiggleUniverse

The Old Version of Information/History of My Version of WiggleTown/WiggleWorld/WiggleUniverse Because There's A New Version of Worldbuilding at The Wiggling Wiggles's WiggleUniverse (The Wiggling Wiggles, The Imagination Movers, The Doodlebop, Johnny and The Sprites....Ect). So Everything are a Same or/and Everything are Changed....So....

(Welcome to WiggleTown/ WiggleWorld/WiggleUniverse, Well my version of WiggleTown/ WiggleWorld/WiggleUniverse. Of course this is part/Connect to The Wiggling Wiggles AKA My Characteristics Version of The Wiggles so this have everything that need to know about my WiggleTown/Wiggle World)

Basic Informations about WiggleTown/WiggleWorld/WiggleUniverse:

 -WiggleWorld is….well is the world that The Wiggles and Their Friends live in and WiggleTown where they live to, WiggleTown is Capital of the world there are other towns and cities in WiggleWorld

 -WiggleTown is named after by The Original Wiggles because they find this town before it was WiggleTown, and they save it by give the people happiness form the power of music, and the people of Wiggle Town now depend on The Original Wiggles for their town even know some of them are not in The Wiggles (At this point in The Timeline) They still want they to give their opinions on something like the New Wiggles, and that why they hold Wiggly Coronations when there are new members for The Wiggles (The Wiggly Coronations idea was Sam’s idea when he notice that was becoming a problem, so technically the First Wiggly Coronation well Coronations was when Emma, Lachy and Simon become the New Wiggles (and the current Wiggles with Anthony))

 -You are probably wondering is My Version of WiggleTown/ WiggleWorld magical like the original one, well yeah My Version of WiggleTown/ WiggleWorld is magical like the original one, i mean how you would explain people, like Dorothy, Wags, and Henry having abilities to change their forms, like Human form, and what they actually look like in The Wiggles shows, they can also do half and half forms, also it explain why The Wiggles has someway of magic, well Greg and Lachy are the Wiggles that mostly use magic, Greg because magic is his thing, and Lachy, he use magic something when he do science, after Greg show him his magic, it also explain the big dorm cover WiggleTown, you normally don't see it, but something if someone is enter and exiting the town than you will see the dome for a couple of seconds

-A dome? Why is there a dome?, the answer is: because to protect the town, after learning that are dangerous creatures, The Wiggles want to learn more about them and how to stop them so for the time been they decide to cast a magical dome encasing the town which the town is huge, until they have something, lucky the other Towns and cities have protections for that because of the Wiggles waning them,  the dorm is only power from their music, which there were some of their magic come from, and yes the past Wiggles Members still have their powers, but they wont work that well that the current Wiggles are now (so Basically the current Wiggles have the most power to make the dome, the past Wiggles Members can still power it but it won't be alot)

-WiggleWorld is actually a recreation/rebirth of a world before WiggleWorld, there was a world before WiggleWorld which some people call it BWW (Before WiggleWorld). “Ok if WiggleWorld was a recreation/rebirth of a world than when WiggleWorld actually started?” well WiggleWorld actually started when the first Wiggly Rainbow Trick ever made when was The Original Wiggles made, it was huge and so far the biggest one so big it cover the whole world and without reazling recreating the world into WiggleWorld

Events And Festivals:

Wiggle for a Heart Day:

 -There is a Day, that happens every year and it's one of very important event to The Wiggles (especially to The Original Wiggles), It's called Wiggle for a Heart Day, Wiggle for a Heart Day is about remember of the terrible Events that happens to some of The Original Wiggles, and celebrate how lucky they are to still be alive, the Wiggle for a Heart Day Moto is “Doing Something is Better than Doing Nothing” and The Wiggles teach everyone in WiggleTown and All over WiggleWorld how important that mean matter, how Doing Something can save someone live

 -The People of WiggleWorld celebrate the day with send letters and gifts to them to tell them it amazing that they are survivors and how their lessons about “Doing Something is Better than Doing Nothing” help people, they either send it by Wiggle Mail, or Whoever is in the current Wiggles (which is Emma, Lachy, Simon and Anthony at This Point in my Timeline) get them from the people and giving to The Original Wiggles

 -Of course what a Event without music, at the end of the day The Wiggle perform a concert in The Main Wiggly Concert Hall/Civic Center, at the beginning of the concert, a Speech is read and speak of from The Original Wiggles talking about their stories from the terrible Events that happens to them, and how they are lucky that be alive today, and how they have people know what to do if something like that happend, and the concert starts with the current Wiggles playing songs and at the end All of The Wiggles play a song for Wiggle for a Heart Day

Wonderful Harmonize Gala:

 -The Wonderful Harmonize Gala is an annual ball held to celebrate the completion of WiggleTown after The Original Wiggles founded it. 

 -It is attended primarily by The People of WiggleTown, The Wiggles (Past and Current Members), and some people outside of WiggleTown.

 -To attend this event, held in WiggleTown or sometime different places, one must possess either a Yellow, Red, Blue, or Purple ticket, but some people will have a golden ticket, golden tickets means VIP, mostly Special Guests have golden tickets, but other people can get a golden ticket, but they are special limited time things

 -there are also Rainbow tickets, Rainbow tickets are very very very very special limited time (like only 4 to 10 Rainbow tickets) Why are they special, well whoever has one of them, that person will have a day to hang out of their favorite Wiggle or Wiggles, you only can get Rainbow tickets from a contest at The Wonderful Harmonize Gala

The Wiggly Coronation:

 -The Wiggly Coronation is Coronation event that happens when a new Member join in The Wiggle, this Event was created by Sam when he notice that The People of WiggleTown was depend on The Original Wiggles for even know some of them are not in The Wiggles evenmore was becoming a problem, so Sam and the other Wiggles decided to do Coronations everytime a new member come so the town can put their trust on the new members

 -So far there are only been one Coronation (well technically there are three Coronations, but since we are Current at the Point in the Timeline that Emma, Lachy and Simon are the current Wiggles with Anthony, and it not even halfway to Emma’s time as a Wiggle yet (to be more detail we are at the point that proposal for our first Wiggly Couple didn’t happen yet, they are still secretly dating) the other two Coronations didn’t happen yet so)

 -in the first Wiggly Coronation (The Ready, Steady Wiggly Coronation), Emma, Lachy and Simon perform their first Wiggly Rainbow of course with Anthony, the past Wiggly Members (The Original Wiggles including Sam) teach Emma, Lachy and Simon to how to use the Wiggly Magic to perform it when they was in training to be a Wiggle, because they perform it in their Wiggly Coronation, they made it a wiggly tradition, to the new Wiggle Member(s) to perform their first Wiggly Rainbow in the Coronation

 -The Coronation Names: The Ready, Steady Wiggly Coronation, The First Wiggly Coronation: Emma, Lachy and Simon become Wiggles, The Fruit Salad Wiggly Coronation, The Second Wiggly Coronation: Kelly, Evie, John and Teshay become Official Wiggles, and The Wiggly Yellow Sunflower, and Red Rose Coronation, The Third Wiggly Coronation: Teshay become the new Yellow Wiggle (Taking Emma’s place) ,and Caterina become The New Red Wiggle (Taking Teshay’s Old Red place)

 -How The Wiggly Coronation Go: First, The Main thing, The Crowning, The Crowning, is the first thing happens since it the Main/important thing in The Wiggly Coronation, where everyone come in and watch the future Wiggles become Wiggles, With The Past Wiggle put one a gold necklace with a color gem with the Wiggly color that is the new holder color is, one the new Wiggles, Crowning them as the new Wiggles

The Wiggly Rainbow Celebration/Festival (also Information The Wiggly Rainbow Trick):

 -The Wiggly Rainbow Celebration/Festival is a Event that Celebrate the creation of The Wiggly Rainbow that was made by The Original Wiggles, Every Year The Wiggles perform and create The Wiggly Rainbow by using their Magic to fly up to the sky and diving down in a fast speed into they at the point that a rainbow colored shockwave ring appears and they fly over WiggleTown with a trail of their colors trailing behind them, flying together making a wiggly rainbow trail

(Here Kelly using this trick while she was Skateboarding, the lighting is apart of her own power)

 -A Info about The Wiggly Rainbow: in The First Wiggly Rainbow Celebration/Festival that Emma, Lachy and Simon perform The Wiggly Rainbow with Anthony as The New Wiggles, Lachy notice something the rainbow, as he was flying with the other, he actually touch The Wiggly Rainbow by accident by raising his arms to touch the people of WiggleTown, and once they landed he notice that he has some of the rainbow on his hand, he started to feeling it, and notice it was…liquid?!, from the knowledge that he know about Rainbows, Rainbow are not Liquid or either matter at all, lucky for him The Wiggly Rainbow last for almost a week before it started to fade away So He get some 5 jugs of simples of the part of The Wiggles Rainbow, one for the 4 colors, and one jug is Rainbow, and The Wiggly Scientist/Inventor he is, he did expressions with the liquidly rainbow and, he learn that he can make things with it like if he cold it or pressure it, it turn into Wiggly Crystalized Rock Candy, he also learned that he can make Wiggly food, like he drop some of the Wiggly Rainbow, into a apple and, it turn into a Wiggly Apple which looks like a rainbow apple, he soon later that he can plant and grow Wiggly Fruit Plant, like he test this idea after putting one of the seed from the Wiggly Apple into the ground in the background, and soon Lachy discover a new kind a food: Wiggly Rainbow Food or just Wiggly Food

Wiggly Rainbow Harvest:

 -Wiggly Rainbow Harvest is a Harvest Event that when the townspeople help The Wiggle to Harvest The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits, This Harvest Event when Lachy learn that The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits disappear quickly in the span of a Wiggly Rainbow dose (which is almost a week) and that he can’t get all of them in one day so he ask The Other Wiggles to help than soon be their friends, and then the townspeople of WiggleTown

 -The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits appearance is accompanied by signs that are numbered by Lachy when he announces them to the town helpers. When the other Wiggles (Emma, Simon, and Anthony) try harvesting the fruits the evening before The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits was ready to harvest, Lachy warns them, "The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits plants and trees aren't like normal fruit plants and trees. They're magic." When Emma tries to kick a tree to harvest the fruits, she gets electrocuted, and when Simon tries picking an Wiggly Rainbow apple and can't manage to pull it off the branch and he ends up catapulting himself into bushes into the woods.

-First sign of the Wiggly Rainbow Harvest is The Wiggly Rainbow: like Lachy learn, Wiggly Rainbow can be touch and turn into Liquid, so when The Wiggly Rainbow still after The Wiggly Rainbow Celebration/Festival ended The Wiggly Rainbow started to fade away slowly by slowly dropping down, when the drops of The Wiggly Rainbow falls they fall down and touch the ground where The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits plants, trees, and seeds are, it like The Wiggly Rainbow is watering the Harvest

 -Second sign of the Wiggly Rainbow Harvest is The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits leaves: The next day after the first sign, a sudden strong wind starts blowing and the skies get covered with dark clouds. The naked trees start buzzing with Rainbow sparks around their branches, and soon the sparks disappear and big leaves sprout, which Lachy calls "The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits leaves". The clouds quickly disperse after the leaves appear

 -Third sign of the Wiggly Rainbow Harvest is birds and flowers: The third sign is loudly pointed out by Lachy. There is another sudden wind and gathering of dark clouds, and a flock of birds circles above the harvest, making a Wiggly Rainbow shape with their flight pattern with they being the colors of The Wiggly Rainbow: Yellow, Red, Blue, and Purple. Glowing Rainbow flowers sprout on the trees and blossom into rose-shaped flowers, accompanied by rainbow electric sparks. The clouds quickly disperse and the flowers stop glowing but remain on the trees.

 -Fourth sign of the Wiggly Rainbow Harvest is meteor shower

The evening before Wiggly Rainbow Harvest, The Wiggle watches The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits sprout on the trees after a meteor shower. Lachy announces that it's the fourth sign, and the three Wiggles sneak into the orchard to harvest the zap apples, though Lachy warns his friends that The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits trees are magic. The three other wiggles fail at their attempts to pick the The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits, which are still small and gray, and not rainbow-colored like the harvest-ready The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits.

 -The Fifth and Final sign of the Wiggly Rainbow Harvest is ripening: The weather changes abruptly for a final time before the The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits are ready to harvest. There's a lightning storm over the orchard, then a rainbow shines over it, and The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits trees are once again teeming with electrical sparks. The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits turn from gray to rainbow-streaked, and rainbow-beams fire all across the orchard from The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits. An aurora-like rainbow shines behind The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits trees and The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits change shape from small round apples to larger, more elongated and squarish. Everyone watches the transformation and The Wiggles announces that The Wiggly Rainbow Fruits harvest has begun

The Wiggly International Cultural festivals:

 -The Wiggly International Cultural festivals is one of the wiggly festivals that is celebrating all over WiggleWorld

 -Every Cities and Towns have one, but in different time and date, and also the Culturals changed/rotation each festival so that everyone can learn all of the Culturals in WiggleWorld

 -Every Cities and Towns have a cultural that is most popular in their city/town (even know they all of love all of the culturals), Like in WiggleTown, they mostly like to hold a Japanese them in The WiggleTown International Cultural festival, this also applies in CurlyWorld which in CurlyTown they hold a traditional Japanese tea ceremony there with Lachy’s help

The Wiggly Solar Star Fragment Festival:

 -The Wiggly Solar Star Fragment Festival is a Festival event that is about the stars, Star Fragments that Some of The Wiggles found when they first visit Roya Charlotte’s Kingdom and her becoming a Wiggly Ally so The Wiggles have the celebration of Roya Charlotte and her kingdom, and The Born of a beautiful song, Starry Night by The Original Red Wiggle himself, and soon a another beautiful song: Moonshine Pearl/Full Moon Melody

The Wiggly Solar Sun Rising Festival:

 -The Wiggly Solar Sun Rising Festival is the smiler to The Wiggly Solar Star Fragment Festival, a Festival event that is about the sun, and sun rising that The Wiggles saw when they first visit Raiden Mayweather’s Kingdom and her becoming a Wiggly Ally so The Wiggles have the celebration of Raiden Mayweather And her kingdom

WiggleHollow’s Entertainment Week:

 -WiggleHollow’s Entertainment Week is a week-long event in which up-and-coming entertainers showcase their work and talents for the social elite from WiggleWood.

The Rainbow Crystal Faire:

 -The Rainbow Crystal Faire is an annual event held in The Wiggly Rainbow Empire. It was established by the Rainbowfied folks' king and queen and became their most important tradition. The Faire is held every year to "renew the spirit of love and unity in the Empire so the Rainbowfied folks could protect it from harm."

Taste of WiggleTown/WiggleWorld:

-Taste of WiggleTown/WiggleWorld is a food festival one of the wiggly festivals that is celebrating in WiggleTown and all over WiggleWorld

The Annual Wiggly Tulip Festival:

 -The Annual Wiggly Tulip Festival is one of the flower festivals happens in WiggleTown

Sakura Genshi Festival/Ball:

-Sakura Genshi Festival/Ball is one of the kingdoms events of The Kingdom of Kumikawa Saketumi, Sakura Genshi Festival/Ball is about well Sakura Genshi, Sakura petals that glowing a pink aura, small pink lighting flying around the petal, with smaller petals surrounding the petal flowing around the one big petal

 -A Info about Sakura Genshis: Sakura Genshis come from Spiritual Awakening Sakura Tree, The Sakura Jinja Tree, and other Sakura Genshis Trees Spiritual Awakening Sakura Tree (SAS Tree) is the Main Tree which help powers the other small copies tree like The Sakura Jinja Tree which is the tree is in the Big Building/Palace of The Kingdom of Kumikawa Saketumi

Places and locations in WiggleUniverse:

WiggleTown: WiggleTown is a big town that is the home of The Wiggles, and Their Wiggly Friends. WiggleTown was founded by The Original Wiggles after they found the old version of the town gray, and they fix it with their magic of music, love, WiggleTown is one of the capitals of WiggleWorld

The Wiggly City: The Wiggly City is one of the capitals of WiggleWorld, The Wiggly City is a big city that also kinda sometimes acts like a kingdom when huge events happen. The city holds the royal castle on the top of the city, making it one of the capitals of WiggleWorld. It is also the venue of important cultural events like the Grand Wiggly World Gala, and The Wiggly Sunny Celebration. The Wiggly City is the homeplace of Emma and Evie before they move into Wiggletown (Emma was the first one of them to move out than Evie than years later)

WiggleHollow: WiggleHollow is a metropolitan city that is known for their Entertainment (mostly for their theater) and events. It is the homeplace of The Second Red Wiggle: Simon, and The Second Yellow Wiggle: Sam before they move into WiggleTown, WiggleHollow was made before WiggleTown was “refounded” by The Original Wiggles because of Sam being one of the First Original Wiggly Dances that went with The Original Wiggles when they found the the old version of the town

The Wiggly Rainbow Empire: The Wiggly Rainbow Empire is a Empire that was founded after The Original Wiggles follow their first Wiggly Rainbow to there, It is ruled by The King and Queen of The Rainbow, People who lives in The Wiggly Rainbow Empire are called Rainbowfied folks, They are distinct from other humans by their shiny, gradient Hair and outfits, and typically Rainbow eye reflections, The Wiggly Rainbow Empire is power by The Wiggly Rainbow Crystal, The Wiggly Rainbow Crystal is a magical artifact that use to protect the Crystal Empire, The Rainbow Crystal Faire lifts the Rainbowfied folks' spirits, and the light within them powers The Wiggly Rainbow Crystal to protect the empire from evil

Charisma Cham Town: Charisma Cham Town is The Sibling like town to CurlyTown (it WiggleWorld’s CurlyTown since CurlyWorld is in a another place field meaning it in a another dimension), Charisma Cham Town is the Homeplace of one of the smartest Wiggles: Lachy, and one of most popular game show host/Super Star: Starla Estrella (real name) AKA Starlight Stelara (show name) before they move out of the town, like the name stated Charisma Cham Town know…well Charisma, you will mostly adore everyone’s looks in the town, Charisma Cham Town is a happy town it's not alway was that, before the current Mayor, the Town was run by Order of the Empirical Covens, a highest-ranked organization full of Smaller groups of intelligent scientists and Inventors, who when bad when a evil leader take over of the whole organization, and started attacking the town, Lucky a Another Group called: Hearts Against the Minds, an organization of People in Charisma Cham Town rebelling against the Evil Order of the Empirical Covens and Their Evil leader, stop the leader and the organization, no one know what happen to the leader because of the leader escape in the middle of their battle with Hearts Against the Minds, now the town is peaceful (for now) and the current Mayor is the one of the leaders of Hearts Against the Minds, Lachy has a History with Charisma Cham Town but when he was found in the woods with his horse, and waking up in a different town: WiggleTown he has no to very little remember his life in Charisma Cham Town, but later on his new life in Wiggletown, he started to remember his childhood giving sister (Starla Estrella) and learning that she doesn't remember anything exactly her Relationship with Lachy, He started to wonder why is that and started he look into it. Im will write more about Lachy’s History with Charisma Cham Town in a another doc

WiggleWood: Like the name say, WiggleWood is WiggleWorld’s Version of Hollywood, all of Superstars lives here, and mostly of the movies and shows made there, one of most popular game show host/Super Star: Starla Estrella (real name) AKA Starlight Stelara (show name) move here and started her game show there and it become one of the most popular game show in WiggleWorld

Las Wigglness: Las Wigglness is a colorful city in WiggleWorld, sometimes the city is spelled like “Los Wigglness”, It is a popular vacation and tourist destination with bright lights, large crowds, and various games and activities.

CurlyWorld and CurlyTown: CurlyWorld is a dimensional place that in that World, CurlyWorld is WiggleWorld in that dimension, and CurlyTown is WiggleTown that why CurlyTown’s The Curly Yellow Bird human form looks like Emma, that’s is her counterpart, she is a Apintis or Kirins, creatures who can change their animal form to their Human form and in between forms, like Dorothy, Wags, and Henry are in WiggleWorld and CurlyWorld, Lachy learn that everyone he know has a counterpart in CurlyWorld, so far Lachy is the only one who find and go to CurlyWorld in WiggleWorld

Le James Cafés/Resort: Le James Café is a Café that first opened/Founded in WiggleTown, and soon started to be open all over WiggleWorld, and soon have a Resort based on it in Las Wigglness, The Owner James is a one of Friends with The Wiggles, They (Emma, Lachy, Simon, and Anthony) are the reason why and How Le James Café started and got popular in WiggleWorld

Dorothy’s Ring Around the Rosie Bakery: Dorothy’s Ring Around the Rosie Bakery is WiggleTown's Main bakery which Dorothy The Dinosaur open and own, Dorothy is was always baking Rose theme bake and pasties for all of her friends, until The Wiggles suggest she should open a Bakery/Cafe in WiggleTown since she loves to bake and making them for friends

The Wiggly Entertainers Campus Center: The Wiggly Entertainers Campus Center is a land in WiggleTown that for all of The Wiggly Entertainers like The Wiggly Dancers, The Wiggly Actors/Actress, The Wiggly Singers/Players, and ect to live, practice, hangout, and pretty much anything, There is The Big Main Building that they can practice and one of the main hangout, the New Members of The Wiggly Entertainers mostly be there to be assign to where they going to live and if who they are going to live with (if they decide to want roommates), than there is The Neighborhood like plan that where all of the houses of The Wiggly Entertainers lives, and there is The “Main DownTown” in The Wiggly Entertainers Campus Center, it just like any downtown place in towns and Campus, just look The Wiggly Entertainers Campus Center like a college campus but there no school

Mashed Banana Acres: Mashed Banana Acres is a farm and orchard located near WiggleTown. The property contains a farmhouse, a barn, and several orchards for Fruit and Veggies, Mashed Banana Acres is one of the places in WiggleTown that The Wiggles volunteer to help, Anthony being the Original Helper, Than it was Simon helping with Anthony when he become a wiggle with Emma and Lachy, and John who mostly be there helping out of the Wiggles when Fruit Salad TV Community Started

Hot Potato!Studios: Hot Potato!Studios is The Wiggles HQ/Studios that they mostly be in making music, planning out things and events, and any important in WiggleTown, previously called Network Wiggles, before The Wiggles decided to rename it and make a another building aside of the studios with the old name: Network Wiggles so they can do tv shows and network in a bigger place, Hot Potato!Studios is one of the biggest Buildings in WiggleTown, since most anything The Wiggle do for their job happens in Hot Potato!Studios, it spits into different buildings, which make WiggleTown being a front of Hot Potato!Studios because of how big Hot Potato!Studios really is 

The City of Saigai: The City of Saigai is an invalua city meaning it’s many different types of city, like The City of Saigai is a Cosmopolitan, Emergent, Overdesigned, Metropolitan city. The City of Saigai has three leaders/mayors running the city: Marcia Akira, Sierra Beaufort, and Hannah Calendre, who all work together not just for running the city but also in a Relationship, Sierra Beaufort is the one who take care of the protection of the city like grauds, Marcia Akira is the one who take care of the intelligence of the city like the education even know her job is in Art, and Hannah Calendre is the one who take care of the people of the city like in love and emotions

The Wiggly Fixer Upper Forest: The Wiggly Fixer Upper Forest is a Forest that has a little steampunk theme town in it call  Fix-it-Up Town, that full of alot of unique creatures mostly full with humans with pointy ears, it the home of one of The Wiggles and apart of The Wiggly Allies, Kimberly or Kim Persona Aka Miss Persona or Missy, a Inventor who lives in her treehouse with her best friend Brandon Bear who use to be a tubby bear, until one day Miss Persona turn him into a bear like Apintis

Groups and Organization In WiggleWorld:

The Wiggles: Of course everyone that The Wiggles is The Most Popular Band in WiggleWorld, but they are more than that, The Wiggles are like least say protectors in WiggleWorld, i mean This World and some of the places is named after them, well everyone know why the place are named after them but no one knows why the world they live in is, people believes that before WiggleWorld, the World was nameless until Heros save a town, and they start to rebuild a town than a World, and that how they get their name, people started call them by heroes from the folktale, and soon later The Wiggle started to grow into a faction: a bigger group with small groups and communities

The Wiggly Fruit Salad Community: The Wiggly Fruit Salad Community is one of small group that is apart of a Bigger group: The Wiggles, It was form from Anthony when he got inspiration from one of the Wiggle friends, The Owner of Le James Café: Jame, he help them (Emma, Lachy, Simon, and Anthony) with the songs and Albums about and/or involving different cultures in WiggleWorld, so Emma, Lachy, SImon, and Anthony started the next Wiggly project: Fruit Salad TV (Soon renamed to Wiggly Fruit Salad), and there when Kelly, Evie, John, Teshay, and soon Caterina started their Wiggly journey

Wiggly Allies: The Wiggly Allies are Allies of The Wiggles like mostly Leaders/heads of Kingdoms, Cities, and Towns, some of them are friends of them who are both not apart or are apart of WiggleTown, After The Wiggle first visiting a new place they made peace and a trust promise that if they will protect them they would protect each other and they agree to it making them a Wiggly Ally

Order of the Empirical Covens: Order of the Empirical Covens is a highest-ranked organization full of Smaller groups of intelligent scientists and Inventors that was form in Charisma Cham Town, that Started to help people in town and soon all over WiggleWorld but turn evil when a evil leader take over of the whole organization, and started attacking Charisma Cham Town, Lucky a Another Group called: Hearts Against the Minds, an organization of People in Charisma Cham Town rebelling against The Evil Order of the Empirical Covens and Their Evil leader, stop the leader and the organization, no one know what happen to the leader because of the leader escape in the middle of their battle with Hearts Against the Minds, now The Order of the Empirical Covens is down low, not active right now, but someone want to rebuild it and make work was the group post to be: Helping People with intelligent

Hearts Against the Minds: Hearts Against the Minds an organization of People in Charisma Cham Town rebelling against the Evil Order of the Empirical Covens and Their Evil leader, formed in Charisma Cham Town. The organization start when someone (who is one of the Main Leader AKA the current mayor of Charisma Cham Town, found out the Leader has a evil plan, so she started the organization in secretly so members of the Evil Order of the Empirical Covens won't know about them, and because of that they manage to fight off them and The Evil Leader left, but no one know what happened to them

The Celestial Healing Fountain Authority: The Celestial Healing Fountain Authority(The Great Celestial Authority) is the matriarchal body of Leaders of All of The Kingdoms and Empires in WiggleWorld, it was form from a sacred sanctuary fountain that can make life and heal it, “Mother Celestial” was is owner of the sanctuary, people say that she was made from the fountain. “Mother Celestial” figure that she can use the fountain to create life and Creatures like the Apintis, she started to make “humanoids” like her, and they started to build kingdoms in the world and soon The Celestial Healing Fountain Authority was made, Each member has their own court

Kingdom of Kumikawa Saketumi, Rule by Sakura Ritsuko: The Youngest Daughter of “Mother Celestial”, First line/Generation of The Celestial Healing Fountain Authority, Status: Alive

The WiggleWorld Ballet: The WiggleWorld Ballet is the largest ballet organization in WiggleWorld, After founded/form by The First Female Wiggle: Emma, The WiggleWorld Ballet is alles/partners with The Wiggles, on surface it a ballet group, but in secret they are train protectors who use ballet was a fighting/combat skill, with The First Female Wiggle out of the frame (for now), The First Female Blue Wiggle/The Second Blue Wiggle: Evie, who been in the organization for a while now, and a dear friends who works for a cafe in WiggleTown, and having a socialite relationship The Wiggles by being their Planner: Paul, being the Main Heads of ballet organization

The Wiggly Royal Armed Forces: The Wiggly Royal Armed Forces are the federal military Forces of WiggleWorld. They consist of The WiggleWorld Dancing Police Force, The Wiggly Rainbow Wonders, and The Wiggly Water Search Sourcers. WiggleWorld, while a peaceful World/nation, has a strong military tradition of principality control of the military. The Wiggles are the military's overall heads, and help form military policies and give executive orders

The Wiggly Rainbow Wonders: The Wiggly Rainbow Wonders are a squad of people who have flying as their main Magic ability basically have a specialization in flying and perform aerial acrobatics and demonstrations. The Wiggly Rainbow Wonders are basely The WiggleWorld Air Force (Because apparently it’s Canon that The Wiggles have a military because they have a Navy), They have Academy/Boot Camp called The Wiggly Rainbow Wonder Academy that they can train newcomers to become Wiggly Rainbow Wonders

The Wiggly Water Search Sourcers: The Wiggly Water Search Sourcers or also call The WiggleWord Navy is one of the The Wiggly Royal Armed Forces, like before they are the Navy for WiggleWorld, and thanks to Paloma the Mermaid, and her merpeople The Wiggly Water Search Sourcers has allies underwater, with both parties protecting each other

The WiggleWorld/WiggleTown Dancing Police Force: The WiggleWorld/WiggleTown Dancing Police Force is one of the The Wiggly Royal Armed Forces, it act like the army of WiggleWorld there is one in WiggleTown, and the one is in the same place where all of the The Wiggly Royal Armed Forces happen in, there is one big role in The WiggleWorld/WiggleTown Dancing Police Force they are basically The Head in Charge, they call the person in charge in The WiggleWorld/WiggleTown Dancing Police Force: Officer Beaples, instead of call them by their actual name the person in charge go by Officer Beaples until they resign/left The WiggleWorld/WiggleTown Dancing Police Force, and Caterina was Officer Beaples for a long time until she resign and be apart with The Wiggles as a Wiggly Dancer

The Wiggly Hidden Vocaliser: like the name say, The Wiggly Hidden Vocaliser, is show that stars are cover/masked and people try to guess who they are by their singing voice and clues that the singer give, on the outside it look like just a show, but in the inside it’s more than just a show, it have it own organization that help The Wiggles with spending positive emotions cross Wiggleworld, The Wiggles are just one group, and they can’t spending positive emotions all over, and they one group, they could try but they can’t do all alone, that why they have Groups and Organizations and The Wiggly Hidden Vocaliser is one of them

How The Wiggly Hidden Vocalisers with spending positive emotions cross Wiggleworld, well like i say it’s a show, sometime is a competition show, and sometime concert show, they have tours like The Wiggles dose, you can count them as a band if you want, any every Season, they have a concert with all of the contestants for that Season, they have masks that the contestants/singer wear to “wear” they outfits and perform. They call them The Singer’s Mask, they have the same power/magic that Simon already, the different between them is while Simon’s Powers/Magic can cover the whole thing, everything to whatever the character is, The Singer’s Mask only change the outfit and the singer normal voice, not their singing voice, so while everyone change the outfit and their normal voice, Simon can change anything with his ego with his Wiggly Magic including his singing voice, and maybe gender

So far there been two Wiggles being apart of this organization/show, and it Simon and Emma, Simon was the first Wiggle to be apart of this organization/show, his Hidden Ego is Illusion Gentle Puppet and his whole thing is perform with his umbrella, at the start no one that it was him, they didn’t know it was a guy, they thought it was girl, because of Simon’s Powers/Magic he can change his singing voice a bit making it a female version of his singing voice

So Everything are a Same or/and Everything are Changed....So....

[randomnameless]

So because of Leopold's support and the shadow assassinations by the Agarthans and Humbert , it would be irrealistic to have a civil war happen early on (as in it start during the first year of the war) despite how Edelgard's extended lmanifesto (not just the church part) screw over the nobility while at the same time screwing the church that, unlike the nobles, the civilians of Adrestia seem to somewhat give a shit about?

At least if the intent when writing a fanfic is to respect the lore/world building of Canon?

We don't see enough Adrestian civilians to even know what they think about, we heard about "missing" church people in Adrestia, but nothing about the commoners - we only hear in passing iirc Ashe talking about starvation because of the war, but idk if he's talking in general or about Adrestia.

Ferdie'n'Lysithea's paralogue tells us the randoms in Hrym and being bled dry under Ludwig's name (when he's actually framed by Thales!), and even if the game tries to avoid this topic like the plague, I still wonder where all those "war assets" are coming from, especially since the "people working" on those projects didn't hesitate a second to use Adrestians as guinea pigs (iirc Remire is in Adrestia!).

So Hubert's secret police + starvation + whatever is happening thanks to Agarthans riling people up like what happens in Hrym + Leopold being in charge of the army (that is made up of people from other places than just, Bergliez) + Hubert being Hubert, aka willingly take people hostage or threaten them to make their families comply + Supreme Leader (I mean Hubert) jailing/rekting "corrupt" nobles in the first days of her ascension to the throne...

Nopes apparently says Enbarr's people are pretty happy about the war, because they're revanchists and are hell removed from the frontlines - but what about the rest of Adrestia?

I once compared the coronation scene in CF to a coup (because Billy and Supreme Leader are accompanied by soldiers) but it would sort of match, Supreme Leader gets total control of the army through Bergliez's lust of power/conquest, control over the finances because Linhardt's dad is just like that I guess, Hubert oversees everything and, at least in FE16, Arundel still sides with her.

Aegir was neutralised, Vestra Sr was put in a trashcan, and Varley is either reduced to a puppet or to House arrest.

There are no powers left to oppose her in Adrestia, and if commoners somehow managed to rebel, they would have to deal with their very own national army, secret police and random Agarthans... on top of finding enough food to eat to survive while the ressources are given to the frontlines.

But in a way, everything I'm just saying bar the canon facts of :

having Leopold and the Army + Waldemar and the money

Hubert doing Hubert things

opposing big name nobles being swiftly deposed/neutralised just after her coronation (or before in Nopes!)

food shortages

FE16 wise : Agarthans taxing randoms to death/ Nopes : Agarthans killing people randomly

FWIW, AG where we learn a bit more about Adrestia, and how, apparently, Agarthans and bandits (?) are slaughtering randoms there, but the nobles are too concerned by the Kingdom's assault to protect their people, and would rather see them die than divert troops to, just, have the bandits/agarthans stop creating rivers of blood with the bloods of the people they're supposed to protect.

Everything else is headcanon/AUs/fanfic/however you want to call it.

So bar those points... Adrestia just exists and it's a damn shame, because even Begion managed to get its pseudo civil war between Sanaki and the Senate where commoners/people supported one over the other, but in Adrestia? Bar the BE peeps and a few dads, you have the feeling no one else exists.

FWIW, in the non CF routes, the opera company joins Billy's army iirc, so maybe they're not loyalists? And represent some people who aren't that gung-ho about the war?

i have that random headcanon that in Nopes, Manu and Mittelfrank are used for spying stuff, and actually, through Yuri and Manu herself, give intel about what happens in Enbarr to the CoS while the opera workers try to sabotage as much as they can some stuff in the Imperial Army... but that's just an AU lol

[karistiltskin]

what if i said "but I would die for you in secret" but imagine merlin and arthur.

peace lyric analysis as merthur:

"Our coming-of-age has come and gone

Suddenly the summer, it's clear

I never had the courage of my convictions

As long as danger is near

And it's just around the corner, darling

'Cause it lives in me

No, I could never give you peace"

OUR COMING-OF-AGE?? okay, listen. as we know, arthur's coming-of-age moment is linked to his coronation. He literally has an episode called "The Coming of Arthur" parts one and two (S03 E12-E13). it's arthur becoming king and merlin starting to finally feel like he's getting somewhere with their destiny because of arthur's crowning. this is our setting. we're now in the after.

"I never had the courage of my convictions as long as danger is near" SHUT UPPPP SHUT UPPPP like actually oh my god. as long as danger is near is so so sick and speaks so loud. merlin absolutely does have the courage of his convictions and just to clarify, collins dictionary [colin morgan ;) ] states it as the confidence to do what you believe is right, even though other people may not agree or approve. BUT when arthur is in danger he does not do the "right" thing. he listens to the giant lizard instead or gaius (still love him) and does anything, anything, to make sure arthur doesn't get harmed no matter what.

rip morgana and getting poisoned.

rip mordred's entire existence.

although arthur attracts danger, merlin attracts just as much. and merlin is magic. (ugh, I'm getting sad and the only reason i won't cry is cause i'm in the middle of a lecture. a nighttime lecture). merlin can never give arthur peace because he is everything arthur was conditioned to hate. arthur can never give merlin peace because he's a king with expectations from Camelot and neighboring kingdoms. aka they can never be peacefully together without the threat of danger from them both and towards their relationship.

"But I'm a fire, and I'll keep your brittle heart warm

If your cascade ocean wave blues comes

All these people think love's for show

But I would die for you in secret

The devil's in the details, but you got a friend in me

Would it be enough if I could never give you peace?"

merlin lights arthur fires. that's it. that's the tweet.

merlin is also arthur's closest friend and confidant. he definitely gets arthur to see other perspectives on a situation and makes sure he remains compassionate and fair. for example, that look arthur gave merlin in S05 E11 during kara's trial?? my god. or the episode where arthur killed that one king's son under the influence of his uncle, the sleaze.

THEY WOULD DIE FOR EACH OTHER IN SECRET. NO ARGUMENTS. they've proved episode after episode again that they would no questions asked. people who don't know them just go "he's just a servant" or "you would choose him over your kind?" (ouch) not knowing the depth of their relationship. but yes. yes they would. and they would not have a single regret. they would deny the hell out of it but the proof is in their actions.

but you got a friend in me yes ma'am they do.

and it would be enough. it would. do they need a reminder that they were both born in mind of each other? that it was written since the beginning of time? that both of them have their own personal demons that instead of running away they'd take care of each other instead? that they're the most important person for each other and nothing can split them apart because they've grown to trust each other so much that their souls have intertwined? two sides of the same coin? other half of my soul, as the poets say???

"Your integrity makes me seem small

You paint dreamscapes on the wall

I talk shit with my friends

It's like I'm wasting your honor"

from arthur's pov he knows merlin is better than him. the way he interacts with people, his morals and values, his humbleness, just everything really. he pretends to be mad and upset about it but there's such deep admiration in it that he's actually self-aware.

dreamscape (google) definition: a landscape or scene with the strangeness or mystery characteristic of dreams

arthur finds merlin so strange!! so strange and mysterious.

the walls: i read this one fanfic on ao3 called "The Tragedy of Godhood" by Lilmia_Casand (read it!! it's so good. short, but beautiful) and the summary states:

"Merlin had gotten better at controlling his magic over the years, but it still spilled over, as if he were the source instead of someone calling upon it. It seeped into the castle walls, into the stone floors..."

This was the first thing I thought of (this quote stuck with me, it got bookmarked) and i couldn't have said it better. here's a play by play: arthur lives in a castle. the castle has walls. a lot of walls. he sees these walls everyday. the walls are familiar. the walls stay. the walls are forever. he can't imagine the castle without his walls.

walls = life/the future

magic is part of merlin's mystery because he's essentially hiding HIMSELF.

(does this make sense? no, prob not but bear with me)

there's an air about merlin where when you think about him, you realize you actually don't know much about him. he's a mystery. you know his jokes, you know where he's gonna be at whatever time of day (not the tavern, contrary to what arthur thinks), you know his favourite food. you don't know about his parents, you don't know why he saved arthur at his first feast, you don't know why he stays around.

arthur reflects on this and realizes it one day when merlin starts to become unavoidable in his mind. then he thinks, 'i really know nothing about this boy.' over time, merlin stays by his side, always, and arthur is so dependent on him that he starts worrying if he'll ever leave and if not him, camelot (he has abandonment issues 100%).

also see: S01 E10

hence, "you paint dreamscapes on the wall" is arthur saying, "you're the biggest mystery i've ever met and you make me wonder what every day will be like with you. will you be here tomorrow? and the day after that? until I'm married and have children who will favour you over me? will you be here to see them? to see me? i can't see it through the haze. i can't see you through the haze."

moving on—fuck that was so much longer than it needed to be—arthur and merlin talk shit about each other ALL THE TIME it's hilarious. and they know the one "bad" thing they talk about doesn't define their entire character because they hold each other in such high regard but... well...

(they definitely have regrets after)

"And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences

Sit with you in the trenches

Give you my wild, give you a child

Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other

Family that I chose, now that I see your brother as my brother

Is it enough?"

they both go all out for each other but with a focus on merlin, he goes ALL. OUT. it's war with him. nothing is half-assed. he fights, and fights, and never takes it less than seriously. but he also is there at arthurs lowest moments. when they're losing and when arthur is feeling too much or has too much on his shoulders. he's there. through it all.

merlin will give arthur anything he asks. he's already given him the purpose of his life and has hidden his magic until arthur's dying day because he thought that's what arthur needed and thought he would never accept him as he is so he gave it up.

but he's also given arthur the best thing he has. a friend. understanding. communication without words. souls recognizing souls, so much that the silence may be quiet but words are being exchanged through that same silence.

also, speechless eye conversations that range near the line of sexual tens—

then in the last line, merlin is saying: your people are my people. your burdens are my burdens.

"But there's robbers to the east, clowns to the west

I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best

But the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me"

this goes both ways!! the only difference is that arthur's is visible and merlin's is hidden. explanation: arthur no doubt has enemies, it's not a secret. being a king and a target from the magic community, that man is almost getting killed everyday. it is not a peaceful life. he knows that. but nonetheless, he has shown merlin his best before—merlin is literally the reason he reaches the best person he can be, like the growth omg—so he knows he can give it but he knows there's a lot of baggage (external and internal) that comes with being with him.

as for merlin, his enemies are a secret. and they're dangerous. arthur faces some of those same enemies but from the product of what they've created, not them personally. no, merlin goes head-to-head with the people who curse/try to kill arthur. and he gives arthur a version of his best (he still has to keep many many secrets) but even if it's limited it's still genuine. although his secrets, his late nights, and his pure exhaustion are a part of him as well. and you can't have sunshine without rain.

okay ,WOW, i'm wrung out. it feels incomplete so i might add additional things later on but for now, enjoy.

once again, thank you if you read this, thank you bbc merlin, and thank you taylor swift.

(notice how i didn't use the word love once)

[shiftingtomydrs]

descendants rant

Ok idk how to do this so ill just start with myself (or better my parent)

Bcs we all know im a whore for op characters and I really didn’t wanna go basic and just be mals sister or smth I decided to put wanda aka scarlet witch into this universe (basically after the whole no more mutants thing she was banned into the universe by dr strange and professor x or smth yk idk and she tried to get back and that caused some trouble so she was put on the isle of the lost) haha my dad is hades btw but I don’t know it, my mum doesn’t know him either it was more of a ons gone wrong situation

Nowww some stuff about me, my name is scarlet pietra maximoff (yes after Pietro) and im 16 in the first movie. I basically have my mums powers but cant use them on the isle obviously soo idk that I have them until i get to auradon. Also wanda is more like her comic version but since idk the comic events bcs I haven’t read them there are probably inaccuracies lmao. I speak sokovian and exclusively sokovian with my mum and its my first language but English with everyone else. I have red hair in the first movie (but like scarlet red not ginger) and then in the 2nd at the start I have dark auburn / brown hair and in the third I have like dark red hair with like black roots? Idk how to describe it. In the first and 2nd movie I have like red eyes (not in a creepy way) and in the 3rd I get blue eyes, ill say why later.  My main color is red yk scarlet witch and shit and idk what else to say haha but feel free to ask questions

My s/o is ben aka beasty boy (fr I started calling him that before I found out uma calls him that soo yeah I thought I was onto smth only to find out im not the first one who came up with that) and hes the same basically except he also speaks French (I love french speaking men and beauty and the beast takes part in France originally so sue me) idk the timeline is pretty much the same as in the movies except the whole breakup thing at the start of the 2nd movie doesn’t happen

Plot of movie 1: I go with all the other vks (its just 4 but ok) to auradon but except like 1 month to the coronation like in the movies it’s for the whole school year (idk when the coronation was but id say like June or smth) soo from august on. Since my mum is kinda yk abandoning me and being a shit parent bcs shes still grieving and some shit I basically was always around the other 4. Then once there everything kinda plays out like it does in the original movie except for my powers embarrassing me around ben haha idk I think its funny to have my powers go cray cray when im around him (also we dream of each other before we meet bcs *soulmates* but like without seeing faces and stuff). Then mal comes up with the whole love spell thing but it’s a bit different, it only works if the person casting the spell loves the person theyre casting it on (idk I needed an excuse for why mal would let me cast the spell) soo yeah I do the spell and then I basically take mals place for a bit. The whole parent day thing comes up (in the zoom thing they do with the villains my mum doesn’t show up tho) and audreys grandma still grabs mal and stuff and my powers kinda work subconsciously and yk pull them apart and make chad fall into the sleep thing so then everyone hates us (especially me) again and I feel terrible. Coronation day, same thing, love spell gets dissolved bla bla bla. Jane takes the wand, I take the wand from jane, maleficent comes and I give the wand to mal and mal gives it to the fairy godmother, maleficent freezes everyone. Now it strays from the movie basically mal fails to turn maleficent into a lizard like in the movies and she gets also like frozen then I come in and save the day and then fall into like a small coma bcs my powers feed on my life force / energy yk and that was too much. But then I wake up again.

Movie 2: beginning is the same except I replace mal as yk future queen but mal still feels overwhelmed and misunderstood and runs away after the picnic scene (its me and her in the scene, I replace ben in that one). Basically i find out and tell evie and she tells ben and they convince me to stay put while they go get mal bcs yk the coronation thing was scary and im not the most popular over there atm. Ben gets captured, the boys get me to make the wand bcs printing it takes too long, we go back to the isle and we save ben. I use my powers but not that much yk just I know my boundaries. Fast forward to cotillion, uma still spells ben, she turns into a sea monster and I start idk fighting her but since I used so much of my powers the day before already to make the wand and in the fight so yk im nearing the edge of too much. Mal turns into a dragon, ben jumps into the water, does a less y/n pick me version of his speech, uma goes, mal turns back but doesn’t have the big purple dress moment, just a small purple dress moment (like not the big ass gown but more of a cocktail party dress) bcs theres no way shell steal my moment haha

Movie 3: same thing the whole time basically except that when Audrey shows up and spells ben, I go after him immediately and the boys find me while they search for ben in the woods. Mal still gets hades ember (and finds out im her sister during it) and also still promises uma that she’ll free the villains but since shes not the future queen in my dr she doesn’t have jurisdiction to push that through and when I tell that to mal and uma and that I cant just do that uma gets angry and leaves like in the movie. Also since imo the whole ‘we’re not evil anymore and all are happy to go to auradon’ plot doesn’t happen in my dr bcs its stupid haha. In the end I fight with Audrey and get my wandavision scarlet witch transformation moment and yk basically shes agatha and im wanda (she not only took maleficents wand and the crown in my dr but also the darkhold which is still like a dark magic book but without the corruption part, its kinda like the ring from lotr, it corrupts everyone except the owner yk so I don’t get corrupted if I use it but Audrey does) and I absorb hades ember during that thing (Audrey is holding it) which gives me *drum roll* blue eyes. In the end the exchange program will be continued but yk not the barrier lifted bcs the villains are still villains and wanna get revenge (I believe in character development but that whole plot was just stupid af on Disney part sorry not sorry).

some random shit:

i do cheer in auradon in the 2nd movie

i have a friend from my cr i scripted in whos the kid of sisu from raya and the last dragon

my mum and i live in a little cabin on the isle (kinda like the one at the end of wv)

i write music (i have a playlist with songs ive written in my dr if anyone is interested)

i cant swim based just entirely on the fact that the enchanted lake scene in movie 1 can still happen lmao

soo thats it feel free to ask questions (really ask questions, i want questions doesnt matter if ive already answered it or you think its stupid) it got a teeny tiny bit long but who cares lmao

[sevenyeargap]

welcome to my very own analysis of edgeworths character and insane rambling on why i write him Like That. first of all i want to rec one of my favorite essay on political theory/legal philosophy of possibly all time aka the discourse on voluntary servitude by la boétie (which you can read here, its also a fantastic text to read in these coronation/anti-monarchy times)

anyway, if you don't want to read it (although it is quite a short and clear read), the main thesis of this essay is that basically a corrupt political system/dictatorship (here called a tyranny) doesn't stay in place because people are afraid of change and rebellion, but because people don't want anything to change, and they're satisfied with their condition, therefore complicit with the system (see also MLK's quote on white moderates "but the white moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action'")

the tl;dr here is that a system stays in place because no one does anything to change it, and people prefer turning a blind eye to the situation but its not because they're afraid of a new system, it's because they're scared of what it will take to get this new system.

with that being said i think that edgeworths anger and resentment at the legal system post turnabout goodbyes wouldn't be directed at the system right away because he upheld the system. he loved it! (which btw is so so much worse than killing his father. he didn't kill his father but he's complicit in enforcing a terrible legal system!!!!!!!! awful)

and miles loved this system!! i think that even at the worst point of his bratworth era he still believed he was Bringing Fair And Real Justice and was doing The Right Thing. but what happens when you realize this system is deeply, incredibly flawed? when you've spent your whole life fighting for it? deliberately ignoring the ugly parts of it in favor of maintaining a perfect win record?

that's when you choose death!!!! (literally or figuratively depending on how you analyze it.)

i looooove edgeworth celebrating his not guilty verdict but he would start thinking about what he's done. which again is so much worse than simply killing his dad. like he literally says that in rfta

and thats so??? fucking sad!?!!! because how is he supposed to trust in himself now??? phoenix (no matter how good his intentions were) HAS entirely destroyed his whole worldview!!!!!!!! and thus the unnecessary feelings line but you can read more about my thoughts about that line here (tl;dr this line for me a) challenges his views (see supra) b) didn't phoenix "steal" his dream of becoming a defense attorney, in a way? phoenix had the chance to move on and change things for the better but miles... didn't.

ANYWAY edgeworth gets angry at individuals, after turnabout goodbyes, because he hasn't realized how deep the corruption runs yet - he's angry at phoenix, at misty, at everyone who either failed to protect him (misty, mvk, the mvk household, maybe even his own dad for """leaving him behind"""???) OR tried to protect him from this system (phoenix, maya - because how dare they challenge his views on this system he has oh so loved?) also you can read this post here because it really summarizes my feelings about his aa1 arc

every day there is a new media where two people are fighting together for a system. they both come to realise the system is flawed, and while one of them tries to take the system down, the other decides it is still necessary and must be protected at all costs. why is it always the first one who becomes the villain? who is deeply sympathetic but goes too far in their quest for justice? i think for once it should be the second one who is trying so hard to protect the system they believe in that they slowly slip into tyranny

i dont really have a conclusion here but i will say that i think The Note and edgeworths year off were necessary (as tragic as it was) for both edgeworth & phoenix because theyre insane they need some time to think about how much they don't know nor understand each other anymore at this point in time. anyway. thanks for reading?!! i hope this made sense. mwah!

[sjsmith56]

Lord Buchanan - Series Masterlist

Series completed.

A bit of a mashup, set in an alternate universe, where a modern woman finds herself stuck in a medieval world. She needs the protection of a powerful man (guess who?) to stay safe in this world as there is danger in many places for an unaccompanied woman. The people of the medieval world (with touches of the Renaissance) are also aware of the modern world through the visions of their sorceress. Magic is accepted as being equal to religion. All MCU characters except for two will have different identities in this story. The two will be revealed during the story. Much of this story will be suitable for 18+ readers only. Minors should not interact with this story. If you follow me and your bio does not indicate you are older than 18 you will be blocked.

Characters: Lord Buchanan (James Buchanan Barnes), OFC (named), King Steven (Steve Rogers), Queen Peg (Peggy Carter), Sir Samuel / Knight Commander (Sam Wilson), Bruce the Giant (Bruce Banner), Lord and Lady Stark (Tony and Pepper Stark), King Thorn and Prince Loke (Thor and Loki), Dr. Jane Foster, Sorceress (Wanda Maximoff), Garrison Commander Rhodes (James Rhodes), Archer Barton (Clint Barton), the Baron (Baron Zemo), the Dreykov sisters (Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova), Prince Arthur David Joaquin de Torres Walker aka Quin Torres (Joaquin Torres as a teenager), Duke John Walker, Lord Fury (Nick Fury), and others in brief cameos. The final character of note is not an MCU character but a horse, Magnus, the black stallion ridden by Lord Buchanan; Magnus is a central character in several plot lines.

Warnings: sexual content, violent content, misogyny, talk of slavery, talk of child abuse, talk of sexual abuse, talk of incest, forced arranged marriages, death. There is also love, valour, honour, truth, and attention to duty so it balances out quite well.

Previously published on Wattpad and AO3 platforms, under the username SJSmith56.

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Read past the break for chapter titles.

Chapter 1. A New World

Chapter 2. To the Castle

Chapter 3. The Feast

Chapter 4. The Duel

Chapter 5. Declarations

Chapter 6. A Time for War

Chapter 7. Time to Live

Chapter 8. The White Wolf

Chapter 9. Two Brothers, Two Kingdoms

Chapter 10. Decisions

Chapter 11. Magic Moment

Chapter 12. Coronation

Chapter 13. Tactics

Chapter 14. Friends in Need

Chapter 15. Setting Things Right

Chapter 16. The Way Home

Chapter 17. Heavens Above

Chapter 18. At Home in the Rocky Woodlands

Chapter 19. Hope and Friendship

Chapter 20. Meeting of the Minds

Chapter 21. Solidarity

Chapter 22. Two Steps Forward

Chapter 23. Three Steps Back

Chapter 24. The Sweet and the Bitter

Chapter 25. Radio Silence

Chapter 26. Across the Waters

Chapter 27. A Single Step

Chapter 28. Home

Chapter 29. The Danger

Chapter 30. Celebrations

Chapter 31. Revelations

Chapter 32. Destiny Calls

Chapter 33. A Matter of Honour

Chapter 34. Time for Love

Chapter 35. A Call to War

Chapter 36. The Gathering

Chapter 37. Time to Fight

Chapter 38. The Last Time

Chapter 39. A Shot in the Dark

Chapter 40. Reap What You Sow

Chapter 41. Coming Home

Chapter 42. A Time for Everything

Chapter 43. Epilogue

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

So People has a article about Lilis birthday having been celebrated with a party over the weekend. No current pics of course. Now her birthday is June 4. Do recall Meghan couldn't attend the coronation because she had to have archie birthday party that day and Harry had to leave immediately after the ceremony to fly back for Archie's birthday. But now it's ok to have Lilis party before her actual birthday. If that doesn't make it very clear that her absence from the coronation had nothing to do with A's birthday I don't know what will. It's ok to have Lilis party on the weekend before her actual birth date but they couldn't move A's party so that H and M could do the coronation??? Geez.

Of course it's okay to have Lili's birthday early because Lili is the golden child. Archie is the glass child.

('Glass child' refers to the child that the parents don't see - aka they look straight through the child to their sibling. Clinically 'glass child' refers to the healthy sibling of a child with a severe disability or illness, called such because the parents don't see them since they're too focused on the suffering child' however lately, internet discourse has co-opted the term to mean the sibling that parents ignore for their favored child, aka the golden child who can do no wrong.)

[that-darn-clown]

so...i mentioned that something i associate with David is "Reality Bending, Reality Fuckery, and Mind Fuckery Due To The Aforementioned Reality Bending/Fuckery," and now i'm gonna elaborate on what i mean by that!!

so...Agony, both Physical and Emotional, can greatly power a spirit if it's absorbed after it's created/manifested by said spirit. this power can include a Lot of cool new abilities, one of which being able to Bend Reality To Your Will, whether Minorly or Majorly.

in order:

David and Malhare/Billy are practically at the exact same power level; able to bend the fabric of Our Reality and create pocket dimensions that they have full control over. if they Want you to experience The Horrors™, then you'll experience The Horrors™ for as long as they see fit to put you through them. whether this includes death or merely Trauma depends on their mood. the good news is that David Doesn't Do This Unless They Believe You've Done Something To Deserve It, whereas Malhare will do it just to see how far they can bend you until you break. Metaphorically and/or Literally.

Charlie is just a step below in power, being unable to affect Our Reality, but being able to create pocket dimensions that he has full control over. see: The Party Room (Happiest Day/where the spirits usually congregate when they're not messing around in the Living World) and The Memory Realm (Fnaf 3 Good Ending Minigames; kinda exactly what it sounds like - the twisted versions of the MCI kids' memories from before they died).

William (as Springtrap) is at the very bottom; he's only able to fuck around with sound, and maybe electronics/lights. not much else (see: how he was able to manipulate Hudson).

now...for David specifically, what they did was blur the lines between Reality and a pocket dimension they call "The Abandoned/Forgotten." it's effectively just the Fazbear Backrooms™ that follows Weirdcore Logic. it also follows the Fae Realm Rules regarding time (aka It's Incredibly Inconsistent; either no time passes or ALL THE TIME PASSES). but the thing is...it takes A Lot to piss David off enough to get them to pull you in there. specifically, You've Got To (purposefully) Be Disrespectful To The Other Spirits (aka Being Frustrated At The Robots Coming To Kill You, And Lashing Out Due To That Frustration? You're Good. Throw Soda/Coffee On The Animatronics, And Insult Them/Be A Dick Purposefully? Say Goodbye To Your Kneecap Privileges).

i know, a version of the Vengeful Spirit that seems to have Charlie-Like Awareness and directs their anger more at William than the nightguards (nine times out of ten)? different, but i thought it'd be a cool direction to take it :]

but...there is someone who doesn't fall into either the William or Asshole Employee categories.

and that's William's new business partner after Henry left: Logan Lucke (pronounced the same as Luck).

Logan is...Very Morally Questionable. as in, he would never kill anyone, But He'd Gladly Help William Cover Up Those Murders And Other Shady Shit. it's partially why William picked him.

well...he Had been William's partner up from 1984...to late 1993.

Logan, due to ignoring William's bullshit, and even helping to cover it up, pissed David the hell off.

he just...vanished at the pizzeria one evening, William couldn't find him, thought he'd just gone home. then one month passed...then two...and eventually it was clear that Logan was fucking gone.

it wasn't until five months later that they just...found him in the playroom at Freddy's one morning in early 1994. the odd part was that every time they turned away and looked back, it was like his wounds, injuries, and state of decomposition changed. one second he looked freshly dead with a gunshot wound, the next he looked like he was dead a few years and was stabbed. it wasn't until he was gotten to a coroner that they were able to find an accurate Cause and Time of death: he died just a few minutes before he was discovered, and he was mauled to death by something. this, of course, still raised the questions of where he went, why he went there, what happened to him, and why he turned back up in the Freddy's Playroom of all places, especially since nobody else was seen entering or leaving that room. not a trace.

...so knowing all of that, it's kinda easy to see how David was able to so easily create UCN and put William in there. (well, in universe, the ghosts refer to UCN as "The Red Lake," since that's technically where it's located. well, William calls it Hell, but. that's neither here nor there)

Holy shit thats absolutely fascinating. Im obsessed with the fazbackrooms