#and for all the backlore

[nagy-bari]

on the appeal of Chilchuck Tims

short spoilery rambles on why i zero-ed in on this old man instantly and how i realized the patterns he gets to people.

subversion of the trope: oh they just look like a child while actually they are XXXX years old and--- yes. he's older than he looks, with a good 10 years and it's a boyman design now instead of a loli girl.

BUT wait there's more!

he's older than he looks and he has the experience of his actual age: that man is a father. of 3. the story he's in is his midlife crisis. he's planning on retiring from dungeering after this, he asked for payment UPFRONT (and got it) he has insane (for other characters, but really he's just normal, tries to be normal) work ethics - he got paid, he does the job, he's good at the job, he knows his own worth, strength and limits.

This Man Is Self Aware. He knows his weakness, the job's weakness (how adventure parties slip up and why) he knows he's seen as a bit closed up and he's OKAY WITH THIS.

what he's not okay with? not knowing if a party member is a cannibal or not when they are on this insane survival trip and he's the cook. what does he do?

he knows how to communicate and how much to disclose. Rare one, i know. With the party having an average gossip queen, an autistic foodie, and mysterious chef he knows when to take the lead so they can still function.

so to round it up:

Subversion of the 'looks young actually old', closed up and grumpy rouge who's motto is 'never trust those who don't ask for payment' and has the 'it's called personal life for a reason' philosophy rooted into their blood. Good? good.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE

because he knows he and all halffoots look young to others he actually started up a guild so they can re-enforce their rights as adults and independent people, so they are taken seriously and they can work against bad stereotypes and all.

we see his struggle through volumes, how hard it is for others to finally understand that a short live-spam people is actually just as old and mature as a long live-spam would be, it's mostly the numbers that are different.

we can learn with the other character to take him seriously, to accept the differences.

so he has good work ethic, looks out for his people, has plans for his and other's future, CARES for the future in general and ACTS so it will be a reality- rather sooner than later.

so he's charismatic and lovable while still being the usual tsundere setup for any joke.

BUT WAIT

THERE'S MORE

we first learned that he's actually is an adult (middle aged in half-foot culture)

is an estranged husband

who was left by his wife

cause he cheated-

BUT WAIT ACTUALLY NO

HE LIES ABOUT THE CHEATING!

cause he wants to keep his work persona intact, and it fits more if he says he cheated, cause then people won't BOTHER him with further details

BUT HE DIDN'T

he just went home one day and the wife was gone, with a note

and we learn ALL of this through a subversion of a UNICORN BICORN TALE - a feckin roll up of the whole pure maiden true virtue stuff - and we find out cause the feckin monster SNEERS AT HIM for lying then bites him.

so he's really soft with all the hidden 'better keep to yourself' and don't jump to conclusions cause that only fuels drama, which will hinder your work. but he was clearly hurt by this.

so the subversion here? we are Marcille. the whole fandom is Marcille. we are just as nosy and gossipy as her and it's a tiny little metanarrative joke and i love it, it's wonderful writing and it keeps you wanting more and more, you want this grumpy middle aged father to finally tell you his life story, the mundane little things, to see him brag about his children and all cause he's so goshdarn professional about everything.

but is it subversion at all?

wait...

there's more.

while we get actual introduction to his daughters we truly never seen anything about his wife.

it reaches the hights of Mrs. Columbo level of secrecy and i love it.

but! we know:

they were childhood friends

married when Chilchuck was 13 (almost full grown adult for their culture) and had the twins(?)

left their village at 14

3rd daughter at 15

he started adventuring at age 24 and formed the guild.

wife left when he was 25

Chilchuck started to work with Laios at 26.

he's now almost 29.

they were childhood friends and married for a good 10 year. he was there when he was needed to be a good dad (he's clearly proud of his daughters) and their fallout only started when he started adventuring.

let me say it again.

they. were. childhood. friends.

as much as we see the unfolding of young love in media, with all the teen dramas finding true and forever love in highschool and live happily with the white picket fence for 50+ years we see less of the loves that fizzle out, but were and probably will be friends.

love this. love this little detail cause there's so much in it. The confusion, the still remaining anger, the fustration. they probably would be able to talk it out. they've known each other for most of their life, but his logic and compromises for work (clear communication and a clear head) does not work here.

we don't know how exactly he feels and i love that, but we know he struggles to be open about 'mushy' feelings, grand gestures and all.

he knows his limits. His wife probably knows it too. That's why she's with the middle daughter. The assumed-ly closest to her rather than the oldest (locksmith) or the youngest (conartist?freelancer?life-artist???)

if we learned anything from Dungeon Mushi, it's that Kui Ryoko is a master of diverse characters visually and personality wise as well.

you can reverse engineer the wife if you want to from the girls but i love the joke and the actual comfort this whole Mrs. Columbo it gives.

cause Chilchuck has Columbo vibes. He's competent in his work, knows his limits, knows how to help others and when, knows when to quit and when to move on. and this tiny flaw of his, this domestic mystery we assume is his background (and ground of his disarming normality) is just enough to keep you thinking and re-think and re-think and just grow to love and appreciate the little details and love that was poured into this character of many in this wonderful story.

BUT WAIT

THERE'S MORE

yes he's a father

the dad jokes. oh my good the hidden dad jokes all through-out the series.

the 'i don't want a pet' ---- 'proceeds to be unseparable from said pet' meme with Izutsumi

the actual care and attention he can give when someone is distressed

the TALK with Senshi. that moment.

he's a proud father

but he's above all - practical

well that's all the mad rambling i had in me for now

if you read through this thank you

and do share your thoughts and finds - and ideas about the wife.

[lost-technology]

Weird-Ass Trigun Dreams

I have them, yes. So, this morning, I woke up from dreams I was having about finding an entire alternate Trigun manga in a bookstore. The strangest thing about it was that it wasn't created by Nightow, it was more like an official fanwork created by some other mangaka and ran parallel to the Trigun Maximum timeline as an alternate universe. I distinctly remember pages involving Vash drawn as an anthropomorphic cat. - So, something like a Trigun / Lackadaisy crossover? It was somewhat in that style. Vash was a very fluffy tabby-type, by the way... a floofy orange cat, but the image was in black and white, I just could tell the type of cat he was supposed to be. And then I had another dream about Vash and Knives in modern times and they were getting into some kind of trouble in a suburb tearing ass in a minivan down a street with Vash on top of it with a baseball bat trying to evade cops or something. And then there is another dream that I recall that happened at some other time involving an entire alternate anime and manga that had continued somehow - in my dream, Nightow had revived the manga at some point after its official ending and I had been OUT OF THE LOOP on fandom for so long that I had years of backlore that I'd MISSED! Gasp! And there was all this funky Plant-lore (although I can't remember exactly what it was, something about origins, I think) and stuff about Vash's early life, wandering days. I picked up a tape? DVD? of this new anime predating Stampede and done in the old Trigun style and the first episode featured Vash saving a town and getting hurt and being cared for by a lady and feeling guilty and depressed about things he couldn't talk about and that she pried about, and it was very sad as he had to leave town after taking care of the bandits that were threatening it and couldn't stay lest he put the town and the friend he'd made in danger. There was a real feeling of he'd finally made a close friend, but couldn't risk it. And in the alternate manga, there was an entire arc about the SEEDS upbringing in which Vash and Knives, prior to learning about Tesla, learned what Plants really were and their origins and Knives was afraid because of how humans use Plants, so he hijacked a shuttle and went to a different planet (than the one we see) and it was kind of gaseous, like there was a surface to stand on, but everything was gassy and Rem and Vash had to go get him back and deal with some reconciliation regarding the Plant and Human relationship. I think this stuff also had some Plant-lore, too, like some alien origins of Plants, but I am not certain. I just remember there being an uneasy feeling to this whole arc. I seem to recall some pretty cool spacesuits and helmets involved, though. And then @somereaderinblue reminded me of one I'd shared with them that I'd forgotten about that I now remember: I dreamed that there was a Trigun anime - a new one, that was different from Stampede that was set on a world that became like Earth. Independent Plants were born later. The Plant kids were still Plants. Rem had managed to save Tesla and was raising her along with the boys. They'd made planet-landing and terraforming and city-building was underway. A better planet, a better future. About when the kids were 12-14, Tesla was called away by Conrad to do a few tests - which she thought were going to be just blood tests and stuff. The season of the show ended with her being shown to a suite she'd be staying in for a couple of days and a door sealing behind her. She realizes that it has been sealed and she can't get out. She says "Dr. Conrad? Dr. Conrad?!" We all knew what was coming. End of Season 1.

[sadnesslaughs]

The worst thing about dying is talking to HR the next morning.

(A response to a writing prompt)

“With all due respect. I didn’t intentionally miss the meeting. I died yesterday. It was on the news and everything. I even texted our boss after it happened, so he knew I wouldn’t be able to make it into the office.” Garth pleaded, not wanting to lose his comfy office job. It was hard for immortals to find work, mainly because most companies either closed or got suspicious of their employee that had been working there for over a hundred years.

That’s why Amiza was perfect. A large distributor of candy and snacks, the sort of company where the bosses only see you as a statistic on an excel sheet. No one cared if he stayed here for six hundred years, as long as he showed up on time. He also had great job security, knowing that both candy and snacks were goods that would never go out of fashion. It was practically an unsinkable business, and yet he hit a roadblock in his employment. Dying yesterday on his way to work.

“Ah, yes. The ‘death certificate’.” The HR manager, Tom, resisted the urge to use air quotes, instead doing the verbal equivalent of it, giving a snarky rise in his voice as he went over the word. “You would have us believe you died and came back to life? It’s not even Easter and Christ has risen. Splendid.”

“Ah, I’m not a god or anything.” Garth said, a little embarrassed by the comparison. He had gone through a cult stage in the early 1000s, something that most immortals did while they were young. After that weirdness, he never wanted to be referred to as a deity again.

“I was being sarcastic, Mr. Backlor. How do you expect us to believe any of this? People don’t come back to life.”

“What about during open heart surgery?”

Tom sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. “In that case, they may sometimes come back. Though, I doubt any medical profession is deeming them dead during the surgery. I also assume they wouldn’t turn up to work a day after being declared dead. I want to believe you, Garth, I really do.” Tom lied, already having the termination email template on his screen. “But, you have to give me more to work with. Why shouldn’t we fire you?”

“Because I’m a great employee.” Garth thought that would be obvious. What other answer was he going to give in this situation?

“You’re a good employee. Not great. Great is reserved for people like myself.” Tom smirked, always happy to fluff his own feathers. The man’s arms crossing against his chest as he leaned into his chair, demonstrating the proper authority that comes with a position like his own.

Garth thought about that. “Didn’t you come to work late last Tuesday?”

That smirk shattered as Tom shifted forward, scowling. “I wasn’t aware I was being monitored by you. For your information, I had a terrible emergency that morning.” Tom wouldn’t say what that emergency was, not wanting to admit he got stuck waiting for fresh hash browns in a drive through.

“Oh, I didn’t mean to offend you. I was just thinking that we’re kind of similar. Everyone makes mistakes.”

Similar? Tom fumed at the comparison, tapping away at his keyboard, writing Garth’s name into the empty boxes on his template. “Now that I think about it. Dying would void your employment contract. You wouldn’t even be able to sue us.”

“You can’t do that! I’m telling you, I died. I was even in the work parking lot when it happened. You can check the footage. Some idiot was speeding through the parking lot and they ran me over.”

Tom stopped typing, pausing. “Our car park?” Now he was nervous. A death at their workplace? One that had gotten news coverage? He sweated, wiping his forehead. “We… have signs around the parking lot telling people to slow down. We also have numerous safe crossing areas. You only have yourself to blame.”

Garth thought about the accident. He didn’t remember seeing any signs or crossings. He didn’t remember seeing much of anything except the hood of a car. “I don’t think there were any. I was in the old bit. The one that leads to the underground elevator.”

“Ah, one moment.” Tom hurriedly emailed Jenny, who organized their safety and upkeep, asking her to let him know if they had placed any signage or crossings on the underground parking level. When Jenny said they were doing that next week, Tom panicked. “Ah, why are we even having this discussion? Of course you’re not fired. We couldn’t fire a person for dying.”

Garth didn’t expect the sudden attitude shift, but was happy to hear he wasn’t on the chopping block. “You mean it? That’s great news. I thought I was a goner.” Garth offered his hand to Tom, who quickly shook it. “Yes. Actually, I think a promotion might be in order. To compensate you for your troubles. A great employee should be rewarded.”

“I thought you said I was only a good employee?”

“I didn’t want to ruin the surprise promotion.”

“That makes sense. I think?” Garth wasn’t born yesterday, so he knew what was going on. Even if he hadn’t intended to sue them, the thought of being sued was enough to deter them from firing him. After all, he didn’t want anyone looking too deeply into this either. It was hard enough trying to convince doctors you magically came back from the dead. You didn’t want lawyers also looking into your strange medical records.

“A ton of sense. Now, why don’t you get back to work? I’ll send the paperwork through for your promotion.”

“That sounds great.” Before Garth left, Tom reached over the desk, tapping his shoulder. “Yes?”

“I also might need you to make an address to whatever news company reported on the accident. Let them know it wasn’t as bad as initially reported. Just so we can sweep this whole mess under the rug,” Tom said, begging him to agree. The sooner they covered this up, the better it would be for them all.

“Sure. Bye Tom.”

“Bye Mr. Backlor.” Tom said, slouching in his chair as the man left. Glad he got that ticking lawsuit bomb out of his office. He just hoped he had diffused it, not wanting his own job to get caught in the blast if it went off.

[lavenderrosu]

continuing from my Rush ask

Confession: For personal reasons, I am anti-Doors wiki DEADASS /SRS

Unrelated but Im a proud Rush propagandist

#RushFanClubForever

I'm also antiDOORSwiki, but only because of how little LSPLASH has given to us in terms of lore, that anything can be up to interpretations. And LSPLASH plays and jokes around so much that I don't think that he nor any of the other devs cares at all if your headcanons go against theirs. This is absolutely not an attack on any of the doors, wiki moderators, curators, or anyone. If anything, this is more so a callout(???) On folks in the fandom who are so set that a certain headcanon is absolutely canon due to some vague tweet, backlore, whatever, that they feel the need attack people who makes content that goes against their headcanons, and calls them cringe at best, and/or prosh*pers or taking away certain representations at worse.

<This may just be me being salty, but this is heavily targeted towards the doors community on Pinterest and Twitter. You guys are weird over there.>

[ailelie]

I'm trying to think about how this group would get together. Isn't there some backlore about Daphne and Shaggy being childhood friends or growing up together or something?

What if Shaggy's family was rich when he was little, but then his parents got caught up in some kind of pyramid scheme or operated such a scheme and got caught and they lost most or all of their money? And, if the latter even, Shaggy's sent off to other relatives to raise. And that's why he has such good common sense and practical skills. He knows how quickly life can change and had to learn a lot as a preteen and teen to get by in the world. He's proud of his van, because it is the first thing he bought with his own earned money.

He goes to a community college using a small trust fund or something authorities hadn't been able to touch because it was his alone. It isn't enough for four years at a traditional college, but it gets him through community college and that's partially how he knows so many random things, too. The community college had a wide range of odd, but interesting courses.

Anyway, throughout all of this, he and Daphne remained friends and chatted regularly online.

Meanwhile, Fred and Velma became friends in college. Partially because Fred was too kind to be offended when Velma was unintentionally mean. He could see she didn't mean it. I think they'd spiral well together. He'd posit something half as a joke, she'd take it seriously and push it a step further. Which then would lead him to taking it seriously and pushing it a step even further.

That's how they got Mystery, Inc.

Daphne's probably skeptical at first, but then gets caught up in their (Fred's) enthusiasm and, honestly, she's still skeptical, but she wants to do this for him. Maybe they even solve a minor case together while still in college.

Out of college, it is a little harder. Starting a business requires capital and getting a loan as a recent college graduate is not easy. Daphne helps out a little until her parents realize what she's doing with her money and start making ultimatums. Anyway, early adulthood is spent on jobs they don't like trying to save to fund the job they want.

I can see Shaggy getting involved in one of two ways:

(1) One day they're discussing equipment and how they'll get around and Daphne remembers a recent chat with Shaggy who'd been complaining about job-hunting and she goes, "Well, I know a guy with a van..."

(2) Shaggy has been complaining about a monster at his new workplace and how terrifying it's been, especially since they totally didn't believe that Scooby was an emotional support animal just because he didn't have certification. Scooby didn't need certification. So Daphne tells the others she has a case. Shaggy helps out during the case, mostly because he's worried about Daphne. By the case's end, Shaggy has been fired and so the others offer him a place with them. (They'd have offered regardless, but him getting fired makes it easier). When he's uncertain, Daphne sweetens the pot by saying he can bring Scooby.

Thinking about how I would write an adult Scooby-Doo series, because I think it can be done.

The first thing I’d do is make the characters actually be adults.  Still young, but adults, in the mid to late 20s range.  Mystery Inc. is a private detective type business that they run together.  In this universe, the supernatural/ghosts/etc are real, but not necessarily common, so when they take on a case, the culprit might be a person disguised as a monster, or it might actually be a real ghost.  The stakes can be higher; sometimes a bad guy is legitimately trying to kill them.  Sometimes the mystery they’re trying to solve is a murder.  Sometimes they actually get hurt on their cases.

Fred: the core of Fred’s character should be that he’s incredibly kind.  Like, give a stranger the shirt off his back kind.  The “Fred can’t talk to potential clients because he might take a case for free and we need to eat” kind.  He’s an honest and good person and sometimes gets himself into trouble because he assumes other people are too.  While he’s not very good at reading people or noticing ulterior motives, he’s brilliant when it comes to mechanical or engineering type stuff, so he’s the one who keeps the mystery machine running, builds their gadgets, and of course, designs the traps.

Daphne: she comes from old money, and her parents absolutely despise her life choices, to the point where they haven’t officially disowned her, but they have basically cut her off, so she doesn’t actually have access to any family money.  Growing up wealthy has granted her a variety of skills, including speaking multiple languages, horseback riding, and fencing.  She’s very into fashion and jewelry (even if she can’t afford it anymore) and has extensive knowledge of both that can occasionally provide a vital clue in a case. And even though her parents have cut her off, Daphne still has a wide network of contacts she can ask for favors sometimes, because she’s personable, and people tend to like her.  Daphne is also very emotionally intelligent, and is usually the one who can spot when someone is lying to them.

Side note - I ship Fred and Daphne, so I think I would start them off as an established couple for this universe.  Dating, engaged, married, I don’t care.  They are stupidly in love, ride or die for each other.  There’s no will they, won’t they, no worries about cheating.  They are in a healthy, happy, loving relationship, and no one (not even Daphne’s disapproving parents) are going to mess that up for them.

Velma: she is the forensics nerd who sometimes gets super excited about the wrong thing at the wrong time (”He was mummified in seconds? That’s so cool!” “Velma!  His wife is standing right there!” “Oh.  Sorry.”).  She’s not purposely insensitive, she just gets laser focused on her work and forgets to filter herself sometimes.  She’s also the one who can get so fixated on solving whatever mystery they’re working on, she’s willing to bend or maybe break laws.  Is breaking and entering really so bad?  Not if it gets them answers.

Shaggy: he is still the comic relief, but he’s the comic relief by being the only person in the group that actually has common sense.  He manages the business’s finances, he’s the only one who knows how to cook, and the others tease him for being a coward sometimes, but Shaggy maintains that if a ghost with an axe is coming for you, running is the only sensible option.  He should also have a range of random knowledge that sounds useless, but sometimes saves the day (ex ventriloquism, origami, the history of spoons, etc).

Scooby: as this is a universe where supernatural creatures exist, Scooby is an ancient eldritch type being that took a shine to Shaggy when he was a kid, and took the form of a talking dog to befriend and hang out with him.  Aside from the talking dog bit and not aging, he never uses his powers in a way that anyone notices.  The audience is not told upfront that Scooby is an ancient eldritch being; it should slowly be hinted at throughout the series so the audience put it together, but the characters never realize it.  Scooby genuinely considers Shaggy to be his best friend, and cares about the rest of the gang too.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Do you know anything about the Harry Potter controversy surrounding Rowling's American wizarding school Ilvermony, where the school's houses and backlore supposedly havr ties to indigenous history? This probably sounds like utter gibberish if you don't know anything about it, sorry about that. I was hoping for some possible clarification, I'm not educated enough about either topic to understand the problems there.

HOO BOY, ANON, YOU HAVE STUMBLED ON SOMETHING THAT ABSOLUTELY INFURIATES ME.

I’m going to start this out with a disclaimer. I love Harry Potter and the HP universe; it’s even one of my oldest special interests and has been a hugely important part of my life and my development as a person.

With that being said, Rowling is absolute shit at putting decent representation in her books and she needs to stay 5,000,000 miles away from Native people.

The most obvious issue with Ilvermorny is the mascots; every single house is represented with a spirit from indigenous cultures. The Thunderbird is common in numerous Turtle Island tribes and is actually an extremely important figure in my own culture, to the point where it’s on my nation’s flag. Pukwudgies are creatures from Delaware and Wampanoag beliefs. The Wampus cat is from South Eastern Native folklore, particularly Cherokee. Horned Serpents, like Thunderbirds, are found in a lot of Native cultures, particularly those in the Southeast and by the Great Lakes.

These are all sacred spirits in their respective cultures and having a white British woman use them as mascots in her white, settler school is extremely insulting. Which brings me to my next issue.

The story of Ilvermorny starts with a Pukwudgie, a Native spirit, becoming indebted to an Irish settler:

“The Pukwudgie now declared himself bound to serve her until he had an opportunity to repay his debt. He considered it a great humiliation to be indebted to a young witch foolish enough to wander around in a strange country, where Pukwudgies or Hidebehinds might have attacked her at any moment, and her days were now filled with the Pukwudgie’s grumbling as he trudged along at her heels.” 

Which is fucking gross, lbr. This Pukwudgie then goes on to introduce this European woman to a whole fucking bunch of sacred spirits who just adore her for some reason. She could even understand the Horned Spirit because she’s ~special~

“William began to introduce Isolt to the magical creatures with which he was familiar. They took trips together to observe the frog-headed Hodags hunting, they fought a dragonish Snallygaster and watched newborn Wampus kittens playing in the dawn.

Most fascinating of all to Isolt, was the great horned river serpent with a jewel set into its forehead, which lived in a nearby creek. Even her Pukwudgie guide was terrified of this beast, but to his astonishment, the Horned Serpent seemed to like Isolt. Even more alarming to William was the fact that she claimed to understand what the Horned Serpent was saying to her.

Isolt learned not to talk to William about her strange sense of kinship with the serpent, nor of the fact that it seemed to tell her things. She took to visiting the creek alone and never told the Pukwudgie where she had been. The serpent’s message never varied: ‘Until I am part of your family, your family is doomed.’”

(She named the Pukwudgie William. Because of course she did.)

This Irish woman, alongside her adopted European settler sons, founded Ilvermorny and decided on the “mascots” of the house without any input from Native peoples.

Then, it gets even worse. Because the Horned Serpent that Isolt could magically communicate with gave her its own horn to turn into a wand for her son.

“The Horned Serpent was waiting there for her. It raised its head exactly as it had done in her dream, she took part of its horn, thanked it, then returned to the house and woke James, whose skill with stone and wood had already beautified the family cottage.

When Chadwick woke next day, it was to find a finely carved wand of prickly ash enclosing the horn of the serpent. Isolt and James had succeeded in creating a wand of exceptional power.”

The next students of the school were from the Wampanoag and Narragansett tribes, and the school continued to grow with both European and Native students. There is no mention of why these children were suddenly being sent to a European school instead of being taught by their tribes, which clearly must’ve been the practice prior to Ilvermorny’s founding.

I also need to seriously stress that there is a very horrific history around Native children being sent to European-run schools, particularly boarding schools. This is a trauma in our communities, not something for a white European woman to use as a plot point in her shitty lore.

Now. Let’s move away from Ilvermorny because it gets even worse when we take a look at Rowling’s History of Magic in North America, particularly the Fourteenth Century – Seventeenth Century article.. 

In the second paragraph, Rowling immediately makes a statement about Native communities.

“In the Native American community, some witches and wizards were accepted and even lauded within their tribes, gaining reputations for healing as medicine men, or outstanding hunters. However, others were stigmatised for their beliefs, often on the basis that they were possessed by malevolent spirits.” 

Now, this isn’t inherently bad, but we need to keep this statement in mind when we take a look at the next paragraph.

“The legend of the Native American ‘skin walker’ – an evil witch or wizard that can transform into an animal at will – has its basis in fact. A legend grew up around the Native American Animagi, that they had sacrificed close family members to gain their powers of transformation. In fact, the majority of Animagi assumed animal forms to escape persecution or to hunt for the tribe. Such derogatory rumours often originated with No-Maj medicine men, who were sometimes faking magical powers themselves, and fearful of exposure.”

First of all, what the fuck? “[. . .] No-Maj medicine men, who were sometimes faking magical powers themselves, and fearful of exposure.” I shouldn’t have to explain why this statement is absolutely disgusting, but I’m going to anyway. Medicine Men are among the absolute most important people in any Native community. They are revered and respected spiritual leaders, vital to the running of the tribe and the main reason why we as Native people have any bits of our spirituality and religions left. And Rowling essentially called them con artists and liars.

And the idea that sk*nwalkers are just regular Animagi that those ~evil savage Medicine Men~ spread ~nasty rumors~ about is just as disgusting. It is literally rewriting Najavo folklore to make actual Native people look like liars and bigots who are just persecuting those poor misunderstood sk*nwalkers :(((

The article ends with discussions of wands, emphasizing that even though Native peoples had been doing perfectly fine without them and that wandless magic is typically seen as something incredibly powerful, Native people still needed em. In the Ilvermorny article, it’s specifically mentioned that the Native students receive wands made by the Irish woman and her family.

In the other articles about North America, Native people are mentioned exactly twice, once to mention that tribes would take in their “European brethren” and again when discussing a Choctaw woman making wands with Thunderbird feather cores.

“Shikoba Wolfe, who was of Choctaw descent, was primarily famous for intricately carved wands containing Thunderbird tail feathers (the Thunderbird is a magical American bird closely related to the phoenix). Wolfe wands were generally held to be extremely powerful, though difficult to master. They were particularly prized by Transfigurers.” 

Sorry, correction; *a woman of Choctaw descent.

So. Tldr; Rowling is fucking racist and I am going to physically fight her with my bare hands.

[blairwitchh]

Yooo i tried submitting an ask but it didn't work the first time so this me trying again (sorry if u got the first). So besides the Stephanie Mormanness to the Twilight film series, i really liked them and haven't seen anything like it since. If you have some recommendations do lemme know but i want some more monster love (im drunk so hear me out) but i wanna see some shit like a transgender werewolf who has to get turned into a vampire because of some sad death and becomes half werewolf and half vampire and the vampire who turns the werewolf starts to fall in love with them/him and with vampire some backlore, she had to have a abortion before being turned just to spite miss Morman. They fall in love cus love always wins and must fight and kill the Volturary Morman/Catholic vampires once and for all.

Ps: the vampire has to get over the smell of the werewolf of course but have the best shampoo and body wash to cover that and to be the sponser cus capitalism and shit.

Oh and miss morman has a heart attack once she watches

bye gurl bye

omg...ur synopsis is wild and honestly i wanna see it just to spite stephenie meyer bc u know if twilight had a tru happy ending renesmee wouldn’t be in it lmaooo. also....u know axe would jump on that sponsorship.

as far as recs go here’s a list of monster (love) movies i found on letterboxd lmao my brain can’t think of any off the cuff sorry.

hope you continue to have a fun drunk night lmao!

[abrahamshipwreck]

HEY HEY so uh figure since its going around I'd make a list of my side/rp blogs and whether or not they're active or not!

Lordofthefuckingwasteland - INACTIVE. Not willing to ddlete though. My first RP blog on here.

Mesonoxianmonster - October "Toby". Marvel Mutant- turned generic OC. Teenage girl with an obsession for sweets, cute things, controls chaotic shadowbeasts. All ages. Cute cats and happy things

Deadman-rocking - TC. A Bill&Ted-esque dead guy in the Hellboy/Beetlejuice universe. Reaper of Souls Lost to Untimely and Violent Death. Loves his painted van and epic guitar ballads. Giant himbo. 18+ suggested for some violent backlore

Haruspexual - Finch. Hornyposting cottagecore bloodwitch/Italian nona at heart. Former witchhunter for the Catholic church and now lives in a small cottage in the swamps of the American South. 18+ TW for nudity, body horror

Liittleboxxes - vent blog for mesonoxianmonster because therapy is too expensive. TW: eating disorders, csa implied, self-harm, negativity. Not a fun blog.

Radiatorchains - Jain Woodlock (Vàclav Bosnjak). Murderous garou ghoul to a sadistic Ventrue/Ravnos vampire. 18+ ONLY for gore, violence, sexual themes, overall a mean guy

Baxtaloshoshoy - "Lucky Eddie". VtM(B) OC. Ravnos Vampire. Enjoys taxidermy, clowns, cats, their job and copious amounts of drugs. 18+ reccommended. TW for drug and alcohol use

Thats it save for my super secret personal vemt/gore blog but I won't list that!

[clyde-wy]

Evangelion with a step back

Awful. Just awful. There isn't any main character other than Shinji that cries about his past for 26 fucking episodes. I don't care to watch the movies and waste more hours of my life just to get crumbles of a shattered lore. Yes the action looks good but if it doesn't lead anywhere it's not worth it. Why should I care about the characters if they're never fleshed out? Why should I care about the characters if they don't even care about themselves enough to be interesting in the first place? There is no moment where I actually felt like I was on the edge of my seat, as the anime was about to unravel mysteries the same way one piece makes me when Oda suddenly reveals some big fucking truth about the Lost Century or the Ancient Kingdom or some shit. How come generic animes create more build up without having this much backlore like Eva does?? Eva has the moons thing, the first event, thr second event, and you see none of it. You hear none of it. Or barely. You never get an explanation. The anime ends up with the characters accepting themselves depsite their flaws through the mind project. And that's it.

It is B A D. As in seriously, massively flawed. Which is saddening considering the enormous potential and hype surrounding the anime. Kaworu could have been an interesting plot twist to sope degree but for some godforsaken reason it only woke up some gay side in Shinji which is extremely disappointing to say the least.

It's not that I don't understand Eva it's that there is nothing to understand. It's complain after complain after meaningless fight after complain. Also there is nothing depressing about this. Maybe because i started reading Berserk and Smokin Parade early enough, but just because you're naked in your bathtub doesn't mean you're about to end it all. It takes more for me to feel like shit.

Basically try again never.

[it felt like i was watching it for 20 years said someone in a youtube comment of a review of Eva, and damn since I dropped the anime for a while it most certainly feels like it.]

[eusouomar]

Batman Rogue of your choice

I live! Let’s answer some asks before Phlebotomy swallows me whole again!

Batman Rogue of my choice? Obviously I have to go with my favorite. Jonathan Crane aka The Scarecrow!

How I feel about this character

Holy shit how much time do you have? I’ve loved this character ever since I re-entered the Batman fandom about say almost thirteen or fourteen years ago. First of all the idea of “the nerd from hell” as he was called on deviantart really spoke to me. Add to the fact that I had major anxiety disorders for most of my life and I had just taken my first college psych course and I really fell in love with him. He still remains one of my favorite Batman villains, if not just in general comic villains, to this day and I’ll get all ranty if he’s written incorrectly because I’ve grown attached to different source materials.

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Nobody that really comes to mind although I would love to see Jon in a relationship. Love and fear have a lot of overlaps especially early on. Plus we know from some of his backlore stories that he was/is a romantic.

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

So freakin’ many. First of all the traditional 3bro pairing of him, Riddler, and Mad Hatter. Three intellectual book nerds sniping at each other. Lovely.

There’s also the unholy psychology trinity of him, Harley Quinn, and Dr. Jeremiah Arkham. I live for the few scraps of Jeremiah-Jonathan brotp that exist here on tumblr.

Finally I never thought Scarecrow and Kite-Man would belong in the same sentence but the few panels I’ve seen from City of Bane have just blown me away. Hell yeah.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

That depends on what you define as unpopular. If we’re going by Tumblr standards this isn’t that unpopular at all but if you’re going by what I am unafraid to DC Comics and die hard comic nerds that I meet at cons? Stop. Writing. Jon. As. A. Just. A. Psychopath.

It’s WAY more in character as a man obsessed with fear who embraces it and just wants other people to embrace it as well. Die hard comic nerds LOVE this one dimensional aspect of Jon as a man who’s only thought is about fear but the best Scarecrow stories are ones that remember that he’s also a survivor of abuse who was bullied relentlessly as a child and is an avid professor (or almost professor depending on the writer) of psychology. He doesn’t even gas Kite-Man when Kite-Man admits that he’s scared of Batman because Kite-Man just owns the fear and Jon’s like ‘Yeah, sounds legit’.

Other amazing things about our favorite Master of Fear?  

He once escaped Arkham and started a new life as an English teacher in a university. When he finds that one of his students has been “victimized” (it’s a kid’s comic but it’s highly implied that she was raped) he hunts down her rapist and tortures him with a variety of fear toxins. Batman stops him before he can kill the rapist.

Another comic shows Crane in an effort to ransom the city by creating a device that makes people illiterate. When Robin points out that Crane, a professor in his previous life, hasn’t spread fear but only ignorance the effect on him is so powerful that he tears up and gives up the device to Robin. 

Finally a third comic shows him gassing a girl and when she yells out for her bullies to stop picking on her it makes him remember his own childhood. Sure he doesn’t make things better when he stitches her a Scarecrow costume of her own and join him as his Mistress of Fear but he’s clearly capable of empathy.

Tl;dr: There’s more to the Scarecrow than just causing fear for the hell of it. He’s a complex character and I wish people would demand that in his stories instead of clapping like seals for writers doing the bare minimum. 

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

Man, after Catwoman, Man-Bat, Riddler, Clayface, Mr. Freeze, Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy have all one point tried to “go good” and team up with Batman I really really need a good guy Scarecrow team up story. Crane would drive Batman absolutely crazy and I am here for every minutes of it. Like most Batman Rogues he and Bats are two sides of the same coin: Fear as both a Weapon and a Motivator. This will probably never happen though so I’m down for any other Scarecrow team ups besides him and Joker. That one has been done to death.

[thenerdyalchemist]

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Listening

I was tagged by the beautiful @the-flame-and-hawks-eye (thank you) to list the top songs I can’t stop listening to.. oh boi here we go

1. The Run and Go by twenty one pilots

2. Trade Mistakes by Panic at the Disco

3. Smithereens by twenty one pilots

4. Natural by imagine dragons

5. On Melancholly Hill by Gorillaz

6. Ground Control by All time Low

7. Death of a Backlor by Panic at the Disco

8. How far we’ve come by Matchbox Twenty

9. No Light No Light by Florence + the Machine

10. Little Talks by of monsters and men

I tag @icouldbemoreclever @emis @briggswatch @thescholarsninja if u guys want no pressure

[ao3feed-liamofc]

via AO3 works tagged 'Liam Payne/Original Female Character(s)'

by louiehonie

Louis was Uriel; the Light of God. 

He was Harry’s guiding star, the way back to righteousness, the balance of levity to Harry’s heavy darkness, the Orpheus to his Eurydice. He was in all essence, the other half of Harry’s soul.

In spurning Harry when they were finally together again, all he was doing was killing them both and for once in nearly all of his lives, Harry didn’t know what he was supposed to do because this had never happened before.

Words: 52149, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: One Direction (Band)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Original Characters

Relationships: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik/Original Female Character(s), Niall Horan/Zayn Malik/Original Female Character(s), Liam Payne/Original Female Character(s), Niall Horan/Liam Payne

Additional Tags: Vampire AU, Slow(ish) Burn, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, a blue bloods au, I will probably provide a footnote page for the lore which you can find on my tumblr, and maybe the songs I played to death writing this thing, should be in four to five parts but don’t hold me to it, lord knows I have yet to finish my first series on here or my ml fic, i wrote this instead of sleeping but what else is there to do during quarantine, Niall is a bisexual disaster which we stan, Louis is a diva and Harry is basically Edward Cullen but somehow far more emo, I don’t know what else to say here I’m not sorry I wrote this, mentions of blood and blood drinking, Gore, Smut, lascivious threesomes, Mutual Pining, rip to zarry it’s even dead in this fic, I do actually plan on finishing this fic bc it is my BABY, also I will die before I write Z with any of the women he’s canonically linked to, they are problematic and I won’t get into it, mentions of self harm by fast healing vampires, it doesn’t make the impulses behind those scenes any less valid, there are also witches, but I don’t play up the vampire/werewolf trope it bores me, tears and booze wrote most of this fic, liam is...pure of heart....dumb of ass, louis is baby and I would DIE for him, But what’s new, A lot of religious backlore but don’t worry it doesn’t come off as preachy, as an ex catholic it is my god given right to make the story of heaven more gay, A lot of past lives, alot of historical inaccuracies, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Sharing a Bed, Human/Vampire Relationship, Vampire/Witch Relationship, Vampire Sex, This is mostly a Larry fic with a dash of side parings as usual xo, Harry’s really sappy when he’s in love and it’s DISGUSTING, Louis is somehow worse, i hate them

louiehonie https://ift.tt/2yEX2fJ

[tokiro07]

...Wait, who the fuck are the Saintias?

Like...they’re not...from Sanctuary.

Sanctuary doesn’t know that Saori is Athena

Based on what was said at the beginning, the Graude Foundation basically sent a bunch of girls off to get Cloths the same way that they sent off the 100 orphans

But like...that’s way worse???

Basically asking other people, who have families that will miss them, to put their lives on the line

And they were just okay with that???

I don’t get the backlore at all