#apocathery

[arbutus-blossoms]

" It's her I want "

[yokyopeli]

Apteeker Melchior (2022) [11.7.2023] trailer 1/ 2 Directed by Elmo Nüganen

[metamorphai]

where: nearby slug and jigger’s apocathery when: the spring solstice festival featuring: edward tonks and . . .

The Daily Prophet was ever keen on documenting Ministry sanctioned events, whenever they happened, who attended and what took place. A fact that Ted had formerly sometimes objected to, but now, he realised he could use it to his advantage and keep what he thought more important-- the things he could use to uncover truths, and no one would be any wiser, to keep an eye out in case of anything happening. He was the nettlesome photographer hanging around for work, nothing more. The shutter of the camera clicked with every shot taken, Ted moved around in consideration of the masses but it was a feat more difficult than expected. Finding a place with a good angle and view of the festivities, he addressed the person in front of him. "Do y' mind? It's fer th' Prophet." Work called for as many photographs as he could get, regardless of who they were of.

[ladyjazzhands]

Oooh ya'll are in for a treat with this one

An Alternative to a Roast

So I watched Netflix's live-action Avatar and, frankly, I didn't like it. I was considering writing an in-depth review tearing it apart. However, after taking in reactions that ranged from one-line Twitter hot takes to in-depth video essays to paid industry reviews from big name media brands, I realized there wasn't much I could add to the discourse that someone couldn't articulate better.

All that really needs to be said is that it was inferior to its source material in every aspect and incapable of standing on its own merits.

With that out of the way, I'd like to bring attention to a show that more people should watch: Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, known as The Apothecary Diaries in English. To be honest, aside from being strongly inspired by Chinese culture, it's not very similar to ATLA. It's about a commoner girl named Maomao who solves mysteries within the emperor's palace with her knowledge of poisons and medicines. It's a beautifully animated and deeply empathetic series that explores the struggles of living within a rigidly hierarchical society, with special attention paid to the social complexities of being a women. If you like traditional Chinese fashion, murder mysteries, holistic medicine, well-developed characters, or class consciousness in your stories, give this series a shot!

[anshares]

Renheng- Xingyue Apocathery Diaries Au anyone? 👀👀

Click read more for a little bit of plot brainrot

Renheng part:

Jinshi = Ren

Maomao = Dan Heng

Lihaku = Jing Yuan

Gaoshun = Kafka

Basen = Silver Wolf

Xiaolan = March and Stelle

Dan Heng entered the imperial palace to work as an archivist/Record Keeper

Ren and the rest of the Stellaron Hunters work in the internal affairs department/ spy network but are posing as a minor palace department on the records.

Ren hires DH after witnessing his talents and him preventing a disaster that might shake the imperial palace. Dan Heng hates working for Ren.

He finds him annoying while Ren is amused because most people look at him with fear but Dan Heng reaction is new to him. It's not fear but mere annoyance and disgust he finds cute.

March works inside the inner palace as a court lady to one of high ranking consorts

Stelle works outside the palace and is sorta affiliated with the spy network department but not directly.

Her infos is more on the underbelly side; both of them will be very good in hearing the gossip and various wealth of info in the palace.

One time during one of their investigative missions, they were running away from an assassin with a gun and jumped down a waterfall to escape.

When they are trying to find a way out of the cave behind the waterfall Ren carried Dan Heng on his shoulders to give himi leverage since there was a hole above but then an actual frog jumped on his head startling him which made them lose balance.

So the two fell down into a suggestive position and Dan Heng’s hand was in Ren’s crotch that;s how he found out how BIG his weapon is, but Dan Heng pretended that nothing happened and just said "im sorry i may have crushed a frog"

Good luck to his forbidden archives that Ren will explore someday

Xingyue part:

Lakan = Yingxing

Fengxian = Dan Feng

Dan Feng is the highest ranking courtesan in Verdigris, he doesn’t sell his body but his art and he is a master of poetry, dance, singing and strategy games. That’s why his bidding wars reach astronomical prices.

Dan Heng is Dan Feng’s son with a court official, Yingxing

Yubie = Madam, Dan Feng’s biological parent and Dan Heng’s grandparent

Yingxing and Dan Feng met in Verdigris when one of his co-workers invited him to get a drink at one of the famous brothel houses in the capital.

Dan Feng is the most sought after cuz let's be serious everyone digs that stare he gives also Yingxing thinks he has beautiful eyes. Dan Feng is untouchable,unlike other courtesans. He is more of an intellectual person and Yingxing fell for that beautiful mind of his.

Yingxing is a low rank government official in the manufacturing/crafts department; at the beginning his salary couldn't afford frequent visits but over time he proves himself capable with his weapon crafts.

Yingxing worked his way up and saved a lot so he could get to spend precious hours with Dan Feng, he isn’t very impressed at first because a lower ranking official that couldn’t ever be a regular to suck money out of, but the passion that Yingxing has for craftsmanship and the desire to use his skills for some greater purpose—far beyond what he sees in most jaded clients—made Dan Feng fall for him.

Sometimes Dan Feng is by the window waiting for when will Yingxing come back but tries not to show how happy he becomes when Yingxing does.

Yingxing may be a formidable opponent in games but he can’t ever really beat Dan Feng in them since Dan Feng wins most of the time he doesn't mind at all! enjoys it even and most of the time he makes it up with his charisma and charm.

Yx: says something witty or flirty to df while making his next move

Df on the outside: hmph

But on the inside: *is melting*

As the two grow closer, they will be distraught on how quickly their time together passes by each time. Around the time Dan Feng price went astronomical and rumors were being bought out so they did the baby trapping that horribly backfired.

Yingxing was sent to war and was gone for a long time for a few years. He got what he needed a high enough salary to buy out df but it was too late seeing the state the house is in and how yubie is chasing him away make it seem like Dan Feng died.

Yingxing was in despair and blamed himself for everything he wished he could turn back time. when he found out but got hope when he saw his son Dan Heng with his adoptive mother Baiheng who took care of Dan Heng in the years both parents were not available.

Time skip to present with him redeeming a courtesan cuz he lost a bet with his son. He got a lotus flower as clue from Dan Heng that Dan Feng is still alive but like lost his mind and sick.

When Yingxing found out that Dan Feng was hidden in one of the sick rooms of the brothel, he immediately ran toward it.

He opens the door and sees Dan Feng still as beautiful as the day he met him.

He chooses to redeem Dan Feng no matter the price. They got married but sadly Dan Feng died a few months after.

[raayllum]

happy pride month featuring. demisexual rayla and mayhaps some aro spec vibes too

Rayla has never really felt the stirrings, before, as other elves call it.

 Her training ramps up when she’s twelve, but the other kids her age are starting to be consumed by crushes, blushing and making fools of themselves unnecessarily. It’s hard to understand, and even more annoying to watch. Can’t they just focus on what needs to be done? They’re the future warriors, defenders and protectors, of their village. They don’t have time for silliness, never mind the time consuming foolishness that comes with often short lived romantic (or even sexual) entanglements she sees the older assassins in training partake in. 

She supposes she’s just much more mature than they are. It’s the only explanation. 

Then she meets Callum. 

It’s not that they suddenly start, exactly — but for the first time, it feels like there’s potential for them to. How else is she supposed to explain this want to always be close to him, unable to resist from placing her hands on his shoulders, getting all up in his face as she teases him with her human impression? This maddening need to see him smile, to lift his spirits on the rare occasion he’s the downtrodden one (a situation that becomes less and less rare once he learns the truth about his father)? The racing of her heart and incessant thoughts in her mind that she can’t lose him, her fingers hesitantly touching his cheek, because she’s felt so many things since she ran away with two human princes and a dragon egg, but this — this is something else. 

His hand in hers makes sparks buzz in her chest, their interlaced fingers before the blind Sol Regem wholly for their own benefit. Her heart feels like it’s about to burst out of her chest with fondness and affection when she catches him blushing, when she catches him staring at her the way she imagines she’s been staring at him for quite a while now.

Once the embarrassment of the Oasis has faded, Rayla curls into his arms that cool night on the back of the ambler, and lets herself chase that warmth, a blanket draped over their laps and his lips firm against hers.

They explore a little more at the Nexus and the castle—kissing in dark alcoves and pressed against walls, pulling him close by his scarf, exploring more confidently the further they go, as far as his shirt being off one unbearably hot summer night, anyway.

Then she leaves, and is achingly cold. 

It’s not as though there are no offers while she’s away. The pubs and inns she frequents as she crosses through Xadia, when she can afford to and when camping isn’t an option, are home to many travellers looking for a good time. When she breaks her leg falling from a stupid tree, the clerk at the apocathery is very sweet, and asks if she’d stay a little longer once she’s healed up. His eyes are so green it’s almost tempting, but Rayla knows what she knows, and especially knows her heart.

There’s no one else. There never will be.

The jitters grow worse the closer she gets to Katolis when she finally turns around, Stella doing her best to soothe her nerves to little avail. 

She misses his birthday by one night and spends most of the next day crying, pacing outside the city walls till it’s almost nightfall. What will he say? What will he do? How has he changed, and what if he hasn’t? What if he still...

She climbs through his window, catching sight of the back of him first—broader, taller, with shorter, spikier hair swooped to one side—and then he turns around, gasping.

Still her Callum.

Boom. Stirrings. 

She spends most of the night admiring him once he’s relaxed enough to fall asleep, basking in the fact she’s by his side again, that she can do this—that he didn’t leave.

She thinks of the time one of the other Moonshadow kids had made a face when she didn’t have a crush on anyone, calling her strange.

Runaan had taken her aside and explained that sometimes, falling in love works differently for people, if they fall in love at all. That it was the same for him with Ethari. “Sometimes you fall in love only once,” he’d said.

She watches the way the sun catches Callum’s hair, illuminating a face that’s only grown more handsome since she left. In spite of everything, or perhaps precisely because of everything, she smiles.

This is it.

[lalalian]

hiiii i was just wondering when (or if) your nomadic apocathery dr script would be available? i've been checking like everyday i need it so bad 😭😭 LMAOOO

hihi!

I'm not entirely sure, it really depends on how ambitious I get with it.

Hard launch is likely to be sometime next month; updates could follow after that.

after the secret thing for aethergarde + the handbook comes out,

(I think I said this before, but) I will be pretty much done with Aethergarde as a whole, though I will still post about it every now and then!

My next focus will most definitely by my dreamscape DR (and also the apocathary DR)

[xamaxenta]

YEAH i know who you mean ive seen their posts, forgot the name but i think he makes the fringes himself?

Also all trinkets on Sabo’s person are all from his admirers bc he has a ton but ofc the most glaringly obvious is the bright turquoise sash imbued with protection magics cinched around his waist

A handsome gift from the Phoenix theyre the talk of the town

But because the Phoenix has a husband already

What juicy gossip is this

Now that raccoon mentioned wizard hat censors… warlock Sabo returns full frontal to the brainlobes

[mostofthingsmostofthetime]

So the new Hunger Games book. I have some thoughts.

Can't wait to see who's gonna play which characters.

Wonder what Snow will look like middle-aged.

I'm guessing the movie will cut Maysilee having a sister due to Madge being absent from the original films & if so, I wonder how that will affect the Mockingjay pin origins or if they'll completely remove the fact that it originally belonged to her.

Omg, the film could use the same reaping dress (or more likely a replica) for teen Miss Everdeen that they used for Katniss as it is said to be something that belonged to her mother during her time as a Merchant, in the original series.

Can't believe we might finally learn Katniss's parents' names lol.

Omg, do you think they'll at least hint at the baker/apocathery/hunter love triangle?

Oh (no hate to Woody Harrison but) young Haymitch is gonna be white, isn't he? Well, at least they could let him have black hair. & that wouldn't nessaryly even break movie cannon. All they'd need is to have a scene showing/implying that the stylists are gonna dye his hair after he ends up winning the games. The movie could even create an in-universe reason (outside of the Capitol citerzens just thinking it looked better). Such as with blonde people in 12, not coming from the Seam. Snow views it as the perfect subtle punishment to help Haymitch feel a loss of cultural identity by separating him from his community (now that he looks & lives more like a Merchant).

Hope the movie won't try to appeal to Hayffee/Effie stans by adding unnecessary scenes of them getting close, as if Haymitch didn't have a whole ass girlfriend while Effie would be nose deep in Capitol propaganda at that point in time.

Everyone who's saying it's gonna be weird to find Haymitch hot is weak. I was attracted to Woody Harrelson in a wig.

Don't know if this is at all realistic/accruate, but this is how I'd want the movie to end. Haymitch, back in 12. Maybe waking up in his new house after being sedated (due to him losing it after his last interview). Him desperately trying to find out where his family/GF is after discovering his old house empty (left there as a reminder), his GF's family not opening the door & everyone seemingly too nervous to speak to him. Till he eventually ends up on the Everdeen's doorstep (where Miss Everdeen is being comforted) & they explain what happened as best as they can. Then, after he returns to his new home, he gets a phone call from Snow bassically telling him that he should have behaved himself, leading him to rip the phone out of the wall before completely trashing the place. When he eventually wakes up, Hazelle is cleaning up the mess (he forgot to lock the front door). She tries to talk to him about applying alcohol (she was given by miss Everdeen) to the wounds he sustained from smashing up the place & about his girlfriend (as I could imagine the two having been friends as I can only see Haymitch's GF being from the Seam), but he tells her to get out before he starts drinking the alcohol right from the bottle, with a voice over of older Haymitch saying the line 'there's survivors, there's no winners'. Or something along those lines.

Maybe that's too fanficy, though lol.

[rayshippouuchiha]

YOU WATCH THE APOCATHERY'S DIARIES?

I do! It's turned into one of my feel good animes cause it's delightful

[theowlinthebarn]

I didn't make this, but I just wanted to say, Apocathery Diaries is quite an intriguing show. I Will start reading the manga soon. I need to know the juicy details of what happens.

[askrobouteguilliman40k]

Minerva sits in the Apocatherion, rubbing her bruised arms, she had been training with the Visarch... But training was the wrong word, he merciless beat her, not really telling her anything beyond be better, but that was not why she was here today, today was a big deal.

The apocathery entered with several servitors. "Sister Minerva, we have put this off for too long, it is time for us to implant your neural ports, please diss robe and climb into the harness."

Minerva nodded, pulling off her training robe, before walking over to the surgical harness, shivering slightly as the cold metal pressed unto her flesh. The Apocathery stepped up, tightening the harness so Minerva could not budge an inch. "Now then sister, we need you awake as we bond the neural studs to your body, this will hurt." He explains. "Do you require something to bite down upon?"

She shook her head. "I will endure brother."

The apocathery nods, the narthanium wirring to life as he makes the first incision.

Minerva's muscles strain against the harness as he and his servitors work, cutting flesh and inserting the cold metal, anchoring them to flesh and bone, the pain was unlike any she had felt before, even the lashings she had revived for disobaying orders, but she endured, she was the daughter of the Primarch, she would show no weakness.

She lost all sense of time, there was only the pain, tears leaking out of her screwed up eyes and then.... Nothing.

The apocathery nodded his head. "It is done sister, we will wait for your flesh to heal, to accept the implants." He starts freeing her from the harness. "I can give you a sedative as you rest."

She nods blankly, staggering over to a cot and dragging herself onto it, she felt the mild sting of a needle and then a warm numbness, her eyes closing as she slept, the last thing she felt was a servitor pulling a sheet over her.

[ladynighthaunter]

Angela takes Hope to the training pits, where Night Lords spar against each other or servitors. Brutal gang fighting tactics acted out in the pits as live blades are used. "This not to much for ya?" Angela asks.

Hope claps and cheers as she watches the fighting. Blood, sweat and teeth staining the sands of the training pits as each combatant tries to slice up the other.

Angela sits down, sitting Hope next to her, the Primarchs child enraptured by the sight before her, Apocatheries walking between the pits, ready to aid if needed with blood transfusions and stapling closed gaping wounds.

Angela leans back in her seat, watching as some of her talon fight, the ring of blade on blade, the solid thump of flesh against flesh.... Fatalities where not unheard of, talons deciding to keep gang rivalries from long dead Nostramo alive even now.

There was the sound of foot steps as Dion arrived, his flame scared face pulling into a grin. "Lucky you, babysitting the princess."

Hope looks wide eyed, she is princess?

Angela snorts. "Found her wandering the fortress monestary, so decide to take care of her rather than hear the Primarch raging through the place looking for her."

He nods and sits down, Hope looking at his burn scars in fascination. "So, we are either hunting snakes or listening to the war on Kaldor Secundus.... Those cog boys putting up a hell of a fight."

Angela sighs. "And costing a lot of lives, those tin heads have Knights and titans on their side, bloody work... But if we want that forge world, we need to dig them out."

[uncle-mojave]

Had a dream of a goblin apocathery that stood just taller than my hip but made pills and wanted me to take them to see if they were safe to sell. She was interesting.

[chiisana-lion]

i know a surprising amt abt the apocathery diaries despite enver directly interacting with it becaude i waych youtube shorts and I do like him. He's funny. I want to shake him out like a towel

hes literally so lame. great guy he started growing mushrooms tamaki suoh style bc he fired his crush and missed her

[galpaladin64]

See, the reason I like apocathery diaries so much is because I, too, am a weird little dude about plants