#and that marks the end of the event~

[daily-trey]

...I'm glad that everyone is safe at least.

[egophiliac]

c. can i ask what's happening with idia during the whole tsum thing

Idia gets into a fistfight with his tsum and loses

[ladymidnight-goesforth]

Tamlin Week 2024, Day 4: (a belated) Happily Ever After

@tamlinweek

We stood atop the hill in silence, until the setting sun gilded the house and the hills and the world and Lucien called us to dinner. ~ A Court of Thorns and Roses, ch. 45

This was inspired by the meadow scene in Studio Ghibli's "Howl's Moving Castle", hence the Ghibli-esque illustration style I went for here.

Many pro-Tamlin fans prefer to think of ACOTAR as a standalone book, and I am no exception. So my contribution to the "Happily Ever After" theme is them walking off into the sunset at the end of book 1. I hope you like it.

I am the artist. Please do not repost without permission.

[kagoutiss]

(puts this here too) i think animals like him no matter how unstable he is at any given time. i think cats rub up against him and dogs lick his hand and horses mouth at his hair and birds land on him and deer smell him and bugs crawl on him

[mirefireflies]

“the end is neverending.”

the end is where we begin — thousand foot krutch / that’s not how the story goes — daniel handler and nick urata (a series of unfortunate events) / undertow, ouroboros, and dancing with a stranger — natalia schäfer / a valediction: forbidden mourning — john donne / the end — mark strand / endings (n/a) — elly smallwood / afternoon in february — henry wadsworth longfellow / every thing on it — shel silverstein / road to hell (reprise) — hadestown

[r0kudaiime]

" ive got you, brother. "

au gift art for my friend <3

[fr-thrice]

Clover is currently wearing an assortment of carnations (right) but I made a flower assortment for her in the sandbox that I like a lot (left). No crown of chamomile are for sale rn, but I have a bunch of herbalist cats to search for one for xer!

Also tell me if you are missing flowers that you like (or just want more flowers) and I will send over some cards with those type!!!

[idkjustsomegames]

Thinking about Basim, Eivor and their story

[outofmymindbebacklater]

Y'all I'm screaming.

[thecoolerbrother]

i think something moonage daydream was really good at doing was capturing a vibe

[egophiliac]

Waittt, what did you mean with your last post?? I don't want to spoil myself so I'm waiting for the nightmare before christmas event to arrive on the eng server before diving deep into the wiki. But I HAVE to know; were there hints of Lilia joining in for a rerun or a sequel ??? Your big "OR IS IT???" filled me with way too much hope !! please tell me it wasn't a bit : (

there was a little teaser at the end that implied there'll be a sequel event, though we don't really know anything beyond that! I do think it's likely we'll get the other half of the cast in it, even if it's just wishful thinking on my part. 🤞🤞 NIGHTMARE SUITS FOR EVERYONE!!!!

as far as I know there's been no confirmation on whether it's going to be next year's Halloween event or a separate thing (the snow makes me think it'll be more Christmas-themed, or otherwise more related to the plot of the original movie) so. we're probably going to have to wait quite a while before we find out anything solid. :') they really do love just dropping these things on us and then watching us go absolutely wild with speculation while they watch like

[gammija]

MAG127, Remains To Be Seen: "[...] as we got closer I could see that it was a single tree that was burning. A gnarled and ancient elm, that sat removed from the rest of the forest. A small crowd surrounded the spectacle. One man, who I took to be a groundskeeper, stood closer than the others, with a lit torch in his hand. [...]

... All that I could get from him was a sense of… resignation, and the insistence that his master, who I took to be Albrecht, wanted the tree dead. I’m sure that he used that word, though. Not burned, not removed, or destroyed. Dead. I resolved to ask Albrecht about it when I saw him."

...and then we never heard from it again. This tree still confuses me!! I can't connect it conclusively to anything else, but there's such an emphasis placed on it that it feels like it has to be important!

The motif of a big gnarly tree being burned echoes the tree at Hilltop Road, so even though there are no spiders, something about it feels Webby - as does the way Fanshawe mentions it, says he wants to ask Albrecht about it, and then seems to completely forget about it...

...that's a very weak connection at best, when there aren't any other indications that the Web is involved with the Von Closens at that time and place. So what else could it be? Fire could indicate the Desolation, but that has the same problem of not being mentioned otherwise, plus just burning down one (1) tree doesn't really seem like its style to do, unless this specific tree means something;

Trees and fire are also reminiscent of Gertrude's protection circle from s1, though, again, that's Web & Desolation duking it out. The tree at HTR also seemed to be connected to Agnes' death in some way, she died when it was cut down. Maybe this tree is also protecting someone, but who? why? how? Albrecht? That makes no sense, at the very least unless "the Master" is referring to someone else, but that really just opens more questions than it answers!

Maybe the tree is meant to signify another 'rift' between worlds, and it links up to the vague implication that maybe the Von Closens seemed to be unable to get children in s1, but evidently had them later on. And maybe the bastard prince actually came through from another dimension as well.... However, that's still a very big leap to take just from one odd tree and two 'mysteries' that aren't really mysteries and didn't really need solving in the first place

I'd be curious to know if this was a plot hook for future episodes which never materialized into something more, or if I'm just missing something here. anyone else have a solid theory? @a-mag-a-day

[auratusaria]

Prompt No. 31

Villain let out a long sigh of exhaustion as they reached for the keys of their apartment, mist formed from their breath. As much as they loved being society's no. 1 menace, they wished that their boss was at least lenient enough to allow them rest during the holidays.

But no, they were buried in piles and piles of paperwork. At least they were stationed in the warmth of their office instead of the cold of the outside.

They set aside their bag and scarf as they walked in, was their apartment always this dark? Fumbling in the darkness, they flicked the switch that they finally located, blinded by not only the sudden brightness of the lightbulb, but by the colourful flickering lights adorning the Christmas tree they were sure they didn't have.

"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" A chorus of voices greeted.

Villain uncovered their eyes to see their nemesis and her sidekick, their own sidekick, their boss and his right hand, and that annoying vigilante that always makes their job twice as challenging especially with Hero on their tail.

They blinked, once, twice, thrice. And then another light blinded them, the flash of a camera followed by its soft shutter.

"What--" They breathed out, confusion and shock still evident.

Hero giggled, "That was a nice look!"

"What are you all doing here???"

"To celebrate Christmas with you, silly!" Hero answered.

"Hero was really looking forward to it." Their sidekick added.

"Too excited though... We forgot a few things that our preparations got a little delayed so I asked Supervillain to keep you busy though..." Right Hand side-eyed the master criminal who immediately became defensive.

"I tried, okay? It was the only way I can think of." He huffed.

"Before you get so emotional over me attending just know I was forced into this!" Vigilante protested and pointed towards Hero's sidekick who merely gave Villain a thumbs up wearing the signature cliff-faced expression.

Villain watched the group bantering, a comfortable warmth spreading across their chest. It was the first Christmas their apartment had been so lively.

"Come on! I baked gingerbread cookies!" Hero grabbed their hand and dragged them along towards the others, a small smile on their face.

It really was a merry Christmas.

[narrated]

i forgot that october is a Hell Month for me so i may be physically here but mentally in the abyss

[thefirstknife]

i’ve been slowly reading through the lore books and i noticed in eva’s journey the red war is described as being months long. do we have any idea the time frame between the red war and forsaken?

i’ve always kind of assumed it was around a year, but with curse of osiris and warmind also happening after the red war im not so sure now

I'm also not sure. The Red War itself as an event took a while for sure, but it's unclear to me what's the canon amount of time between the Tower falling and Traveler killing Ghaul. Gameplay wise, it doesn't feel like too long, a few days, a week? But then also the way we see the City in the final mission feels like the legion has been there for weeks. I guess months is also possible, though I genuinely don't think it took us months to get Ghaul out. Months for the aftermath for sure, though. Maybe Eva's book was meant to solidify that the whole situation was indeed months long (3 months, from launch to Curse), despite not feeling that way gameplay wise. I'd generally go for what the lore says since gameplay can't really relay this to us properly.

Both Curse and Warmind are after the Red War "ended" (in the sense that it's after we killed Ghaul). I guess the best bet is to use IRL time frame for these; it's usually how it's measured. So a year for Red War stuff (a few months of dealing with the main stuff and the aftermath + Curse + Warmind and everything in between). Technically we could say that everything from Curse and Warmind also falls under the Red War, or at least the aftermath of it. A lot of what was going on there was somehow fuelled by the Red War and we still had various leftover Red Legion enemies to grapple with. Most notably, the reason things with the Infinite Forest and Xol and Nokris on Mars happened was due to the Traveler's awakening. Also don't forget the appearance of Calus and the Leviathan, as well as the Spire of Stars raid lair which featured a boss that took over Red Legion after Ghaul's death. When we killed him (Val Ca'uor), that was the final nail in the coffin for the Red Legion's stability.

We could even extend that all the way to Season of Dawn and ending in Worthy. In Dawn, the Psion sisters loyal to the Red Legion wanted to use the Sundial to find an alternate timeline where Ghaul wins the Red War. When that failed, the remaining sister ended up doing one last yeehaw by attempting to destroy the City by crashing the Almighty (Ghaul's flagship) into it.

Depending on what we use as the true end of the Red War, it could definitely stretch out to months and even years, though the later stuff is definitely not indicative of the events of Forsaken; those happened after Warmind and I'd generally use the IRL time frame and say there's been a year between the Red War and Forsaken. I'm not sure if there's any specific canon proof of it though. If someone remembers any specific line or lore tab that mentions it, please share!

[stackedbirds]

ok so!!!

my sibling, having finished mdzs, started reading tgcf and

they found this epic quote

"He really wanted to hang a sign on his back saying, ‘Ascension is not as good as collecting scraps’ and promote it in the mortal world."

about xl

and in my opinion

he deserves it.