#and then it wasn't

[fauna-a]

IV The Tower

During all the time Ptolemy had been in the Other Place, he had not been scared, at all: he had felt such exhilarating freedom, comparable to nothing so far.

Ptolemy had never had difficulty to acknowledge his fragility, his being vulnerable to diseases and much frailer than his peers; he knew to be lucky, being born in the royal family, where he didn’t have to do as much as lift a finger. But he also knew to not be interested in physical strength, so his frailty was never an issue for him.

Until he had gone and come back from the Other Place.

He felt as if he had stones instead of limbs; every breath was painful. He was laying supine inside the pentacle he himself had drawn and then broken hours (days?) before and he couldn’t get up.

Ptolemy took a deep breath, trying to ignore the stabbing pain in his ribs and the surging fear. It was silly, he had not been scared before pronouncing the words of the backward summoning because he knew Rekhyt would have been on the other side, and had not feared the elemental walls nor of the chaos raging around him… He had not feared even his cousins nor the assassins.

Fear or not fear, however, he couldn’t stay laying there forever.

Ptolemy tried to put his strength on his arms and legs, but he didn’t receive an answer. He tried to look at his body and for the first time could glimpse his hands.

It wasn’t good.

But it wasn’t good staying there and wallowing in self-pity, too: he knew there would have been consequences. Even if he didn’t tell Rekhyt about it, Ptolemy knew there was the possibility to not survive a journey like this. Instead, he was alive, even if with some difficulty, and he was inside a pentacle. So. So he could call Rekhyt.

His body was just a little price to pay: Ptolemy knew that from that day on everything would be different.

[ghostbustermelanieking]

i think our flag means death is going to end in a historically accurate way, but in its own version of historical accuracy -- i.e., ed and stede faking their deaths in order to retire. here are the reasons why.

retirement has been foreshadowed consistently from ed's first full episode on the show (1x04). 1x09 hinges on the idea of retirement (the failed plan to run away). the idea of ed (and stede by association, in 2x07) leaving piracy behind has been heavily embedded throughout season 2. inevitably this seems like it would be where the show is ultimately headed in the season 3 i really hope we get

building off that last point... the idea of faking one's death as a way of escape has also been present throughout the show, particularly in season 1. specifically, ed's plan in 1x04 is to fake his death and assume stede's identity, in order to retire. for sort-of different reasons, stede fakes his death in 1x09, and although that doesn't seem to be something he's trying to keep consistent this season, the faking of his death was still an important plot point. it doesn't seem out of the question that they'd revisit this plot point again as a way for two infamous pirates to leave things behind

while ofmd is mostly not historically accurate at all, it does keep a lot of things true to history (real people like mary bonnet, spanish jackie, calico jack, anne bonny and mary read, etc.; specific things being true such as blackbeard marooning stede bonnet's crew, izzy hands getting shot in the leg, stede bonnet making people walk the plank, etc. etc....). with all this attention spent on these nods to history, it seems to me that they'd keep it consistent with the historical exits of blackbeard and stede bonnet.

i grew up in north carolina, where the historical blackbeard died, and the stories i grew up hearing sounds soooo much like a fuckery to me, if put in the context of ofmd. shit like "it took multiple attempts to kill him, rasputin style" "when his headless body was thrown overboard, it swam around the ship multiple times" (x) screams either of an elaborate fuckery, or of stories of said fuckery being exaggerated through multiple retellings. if this happens, i really hope the writers do something with these batshit crazy legends, that could legitimately be fun

this premise, depending on how it would be approached, has some seriously angst potential. (i am specifically talking about this post. that is what i want)

i love the fact that the show doesn't insist on being grimdark 100% historically accurate -- in fact, i don't think ofmd could exist in its current form if it tried to do this. but the references to/portrayals of real history are fun. and it almost feels like the show is trying adhere to history a certain amount on purpose, based on things i've read in interviews. and so i just think it would be fun if the show indulged in the angst of that tragic ending, blanketed in the knowledge that everything is ultimately going to turn out fine and happy in the end

[lazylyz]

Mmmm my little 5 +1 lay on hands fic about Xenk and the party has already gotten out of hand so to speak.

[maukuja]

He's wearing Yakou's hoodie btw

[frereamour]

slide away awkward morning after song of all time, except much weightier for all those with eyes to understand exactly what happened the previous night 😌

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

I want to watch the next episode of Burrow's End but I'm TERRIFIED that it's going to break my heart.

[netheris]

BULL! I went looking for a VERY SPECIFIC post about a flower taht had some niche tags, and I when I tried to find it again, after searching with EXACY SAME NICHE TAGS, I never found it again! Tried every tag it had and thought it had!

It shows what you need, yes, but never when you need it! And you'll never see ot again, just have vague memories of it!!!

Tumblr is a fate driven website. You can't find posts through the search function, you see them when you're meant to.

[skrunksthatwunk]

see 0 note flop posts aren't that bad when they're personal but 0 note fandom posts feel literally so bad. like if you don't wanna play toys with me anymore just say that. i'll pack up my super cool awesome things and go and i'll sit on the other side of the playground by myself and i won't even look at you. fuck

[problemnyatic]

the steven universe hate is insane bc people are (or at least were) more upset that fictional war criminals got fictional hugs than they recognize that it singlehandedly advanced queer rep in children's media by lightyears and then straight up ate heavy retaliation for the nerve.

It does have real flaws that are worth discussing, but it also put their male protagonist in dresses and skirts and played it straight and even empowering, they aired a lesbian wedding on television, it was a genuinely queer, genuinely diverse piece of media through and through. It did a lot of real good for the real world.

But also the fictional characters caused fictional harm to other fictional characters, and didn't get an onscreen firing squad sentence. So, you know, it's basically ontologically evil in real life.

[o0kawaii0o]

I'll tell you a secret... my name 'Sam' is short for 'Samson'.

[wardensantoineandevka]

is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?

[seagiri]

when did this happen???

[httyd-art-requests]

Hi. Have a part 2 to the silly GF crossover thing

(Part 1)

[ID in alt text]

[kianamaiart]

Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl: Villains

[datcravat]

tetotetotetotetotetotetotetotetotetotetoteto!!!!!