#and they are !!!

[tenojan-in-tevinter]

Just talked to Alistair about templars and lyrium. How they dont even really need lyrium to perform their duties and he's also not even convinced it makes them more effective. Horrifying.

Like it's always been horrifying but going through origins after playing veilguard, knowing what I know about lyrium and everything.... makes it so much more fucked up. The chantry ruins the templars' minds for power and control and they don't even give a single shit. They're making their templars drink the blood of titans so that they never leave the order. Keeping them high off of the source of life at all times. And then making them perform blood magic and beat up a bunch of kids and kill them. And they don't even know. They don't even know what lyrium is or how it works or where it comes from. Not really. They think they do but they don't know anything about it. And they're drinking it. Smoking it even, based on what Cullen's lyrium kit looks like.

Whats worse is the way it's all glossed over. They've been doing it for so long they don't even see it as strange. Just another part of life under the chantry, and the chantry is never wrong. The chantry is so much better than all those OTHER and BARBARIC modes of government. The chantry doesn't harm its followers, it's too pure and ignorant and cares too much. It cares so much you can never truly leave it behind. You must stay. Stay and protect the world from the REAL problem. Magic.

[whrrlwind]

he thinks lava lamps are the coolest things ever btw

[brooke-maddox]

guess who's FINALLY watched season 7 of the walking dead!!! it only took 8 years ahahahahahahahahahahaha (i was one of the people who stopped watching after season 6 </3 sdfghj)

my verdict is: absence makes the heart grow fonder. and after the shit that's being released these days (like 8 episode seasons), i actually really enjoyed a lot of this season. the slow pace is pretty refreshing. there were some bits that dragged on. but i can't overstate how much i hate the monstrosity of a mop on jadis...... it made me lose my mind when i watched the ones who live without context so imagine the horror i had when she showed up in season 7........ AND SOMEHOW HER HAIR WAS WORSE????? but anyways moving on.... there's just something about this show man. i'll love it forever. it's my emotional support show fr

[itspileofgoodthings]

my seniors have been so quiet all year and it’s been fine cause we’ve had a lot of writing/research to do but I need them to talk to me now so i was hit by a bolt of inspiration two days ago and I made them all tell me their comfort level with sharing aloud, rating themselves on a scale of 1-10. I then averaged the class score and they’re a 4.5. I then told them yesterday we needed to raise the score the tiniest bit. And the 1’s and 2’s didn’t need to be 10’s just maybe 3’s and 4’s. And they tried! They talked more 😭

[smeagles]

they think they’re fucking hilarious

[bananasofthorns]

CRITICAL ROLE LIVESHOW IN MY CITY CHAT IT'S OVER

[pumpkajelly]

Oh things are heating up

[mymanymerrymuses]

It's that time again when I must ask the dash if anyone would like to subject their muse(s) to some strange but wonderful children.

They are from The Promised Neverland but I can and will give them aus for anything. They already have multiple.

[lucithornz]

It's a real problem if your beta reader is being hilarious in feedback notes, because I am trying to edit, but instead I am trying not to spit out my drink every 5 mins because someone thinks they are very very funny

[kitconnor]

i fear there is a lot of rent due this season of heartstopper

[mom-friend-socko]

I just finished getting the secret ending of Inside and I still have so many feelings about the hollow bodies, especially after the boy goes through his transformation. They love the boy, they’ll walk off a cliff for him, they’re a monstrosity, they catch him when he falls, they throw him to get him where he needs to go, before he gets there they’re nothing

[the-yellow-wall]

Tbh the musical guests on Hivemind should do a tour together for the terminally online music fans (me)

[spifan]

do u like them. heavy ass

[cacw]

I can imagine stevebucky getting together at any point in time but my favorite is when they're kids because them being childhood sweethearts is just sweet

[openthefobwatch]

The cast and crew of Monty's film seeing Charles pick him up after filming and being like damn. he wasn't kidding about the abject adoration.

[meekmedea]

i’ve been thinking about the trio’s disaster field trip for a while and what might have happened if clemmie wasn’t a time traveller and didn’t have the future knowledge to interrupt the president’s line and get them rescued-

so, by a stroke of luck, reaper manages to smuggle them out of school without getting caught, but they’ve still got an issue: how do they get back to the capitol?

they can’t contact their parents because periodically sneaking back to that school phone and hoping that their parent’s lines will be open isn’t a sustainable plan. there’s only so many excuses reaper can use to keep them hidden, and it’s too risky. though…the plan they (felix) comes up with next is arguably worse.

they accidentally ended up in d11 taking the wrong train, right? so taking the correct train should take them back to the capitol! easy!

spoiler: it’s not easy.

the trio doesn’t know the way back to the train station.

they turn to reaper.

reaper- “no”

clemmie- “🥺🥺”

reaper- “fine.”

so reaper helps them to the train station.

except…as their plans often do, things go south immediately. they nearly get caught by peacekeepers, only avoiding getting seen by hopping aboard a train car and hiding behind crates of produce being sent to the capitol.

close call, but they’re fine….until the doors to the train car are shut, and the train starts moving.

good news: the trio has made it back to the capitol! they’re home! success!

bad news: reaper is also in the capitol

felix suggests that reaper just sneaks onto a train back to d11, but reaper adamantly refuses because that disaster plan is what got him into this mess in the first place.

so now they’ve got to hide reaper until they can get him out of the capitol and back home (which turns out to be very difficult when their respective families have been worried over the trio being missing and are now paying extra attention to them to make sure they don’t get lost again.)

reaper regrets every decision he has made that has led him to this point.

(this entire idea came from this exchange that popped into my head:

endymion to clemmie: there is a boy in your closet. why is there a boy in your closet?

reaper: ….

clemmie: ….

reaper, internally: stupid fennel and his stupid plans and clementine’s stupidly bright smile- why did i ever get involved???

reaper is seconds away from digging a hole and burying himself in it.)

tl;dr: the troublesome trio dragging long-suffering reaper into their mess.

omg I love this so, so much!

Poor Reaper, he's going through it 😭😭. And can you imagine his family panicking back in 11?

Haha to add on to Endymion discovering Reaper in Clemensia's closet...

Clemensia, panicking: He's my friend. From school. Endymion, in disbelief: From school? Reaper, internally: Panem, this is it. This is what I get for falling for a pretty smile.

Technically Clemensia isn't lying. Reaper is from school. Just not from one in the Capitol.

Endymion probably gets the story sooner or later. Clemmie is a bit of a daddy's girl.

The (adult) Dovecotes have a talk -> like yes, the war has just ended and they likely don't have the greatest sympathy to the Districts. But this is a child the same age as their daughter. One that their daughter is very insistent on helping get home. (Endymion finds it hard to tell his daughter no. In a way, father and daughter are each other's weaknesses.)

First things first, Reaper probably gets an actual room. Because no, Clemensia, you cannot have people live out in your bedroom, much less your closet. (They're wondering how on earth she hid him in her room these past 2 days.)

The trio probably did attempt to figure out who Reaper should hide out with. But Nia's family situation is .... not ideal. Felix's has his many relatives and a younger siblings. Also Ravinstill. So by process of elimination, it fell to Clemmie. Also, I don't think Reaper would have agreed to go with anyone else haha.

The next day, under the guise of a regular playdate - we get the trio + Reaper in the same area.

Stories need to be verified and the parents probably talk (ok maybe we exclude Nia's parents - things are a bit messy between the 2 at the moment and nobody really cares for Mr. Moss' opinion.)

For plot purposes - it takes place at the Ravinstill estate (where Felix's family lives and not where the President lives)

Just send him back. / Alone? / So? / That is a child!

Meanwhile Pres. Ravinstill just wanting to visit his favourite grandnephew, instead he comes across 4 children.

The man immediately zeroes in on Reaper who's dressed in a mish-mash of Capitol clothes (the Dovecotes bought some so he could blend in, and earlier Felix had lent some pre-Reaper being caught by Endymion) and District clothes

Pres. Ravinstill, clearly referring to Reaper: What do you have there, children? Felix: A smoothie?

Felix cannot keep a secret to save his life (sorry Reaper 😞) and knowing Pres. Ravinstill's thoughts about the Districts, this isn't going well.

As expected, the children are vehemently against Reaper being punished for being in the Capitol. They're pretty loud about it and the parents are like - let's check in on the children, the last time we didn't, they ended up in D11.

Instead of children squabbling, they get met with the sight of Pres. Ravinstill trying/failing to deal with the Reaper situation.

And the tail end of Clemmie being like, "But he's just a boy! Like us!"

Capitol kid logic is a bit different from Capitol adult logic. Also Clemmie (unknowingly) really channels Hector Dovecote here and it plays in her favour.

Pres. Ravinstill spirals. In his attempt to maybe scare her off from her line of thinking, he's like: Alright, you can be the one to ensure Reaper gets home safe since you're so insistent on it. (He also immediately forbids Felix/Nia from helping, just because he cannot risk Felix.) To Pres. Ravinstill's despair, Clemmie is like "Fine, I will!" and Endymion immediately says he's going for supervision.

The important thing is that it gets Reaper home! Safely. And had Endymion Dovecote not tagged along, Reaper's parents wouldn't have known what to make of his adventure.

(Reaper wants to know how Endymion knew where he lived, but then decided he didn't need to know. He has had enough excitement on this trip.)