It has come to my attention that calling Eurovision "ESC" for short is not something everyone does. I need to know if I exist in a bubble, so:
pls if you wanna also, if you don't do it, provide in the tags if you've even heard of people calling it ESC before
also i thought it might be a tumblr thing and not a german thing but we'll see. no better place to find out than here
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anyway. habibi ya omri by amr diab (<- I SWEAR I DON'T LISTEN TO HIM BTW) is so lostshipping coded and no one can stop me
just. Oh my god (btw this is my wonky attempt at translating the lyrics to english, so I hope it makes sense lmao)
also, a bonus I thought was very fitting for the lavashippers:
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2024 reads / storygraph
Song of the Huntress
historical fantasy set in 8th century Britain
follows three characters:
a woman who has spent centuries leading the wild hunt & reaping souls after being tricked into it, who disguises herself as a human to enter the kingdom
the queen of Wessex who never lives up to the demands of the court, despite leading their people in battle - and after a battlefield defeat they turn against her
and her husband, the king, deals with magic and political upheaval as his brother tries to usurp him and conflict arises between new and old religions
bi woman MC, lesbian MC, ace man MC
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I think Carmilla Carmine had a deal with Heaven, a black market getting angelic weaponry directly from the source. The Exorcists were deliberately leaving behind some weapons during their massacres for Sinners to pick up and keep killing each other with, but not that many. Carmilla went a step further and got angels to keep giving her angelic weapons throughout the year. She traffics them throughout Hell, because angels can't kill a hellborn demon, but other demons aren't restricted by those rules.
It would make her even more reluctant to advertise that the angelic steel can harm angels themselves*. Heaven will cut off the supply if everyone knows. She can't threaten her own business like that!
*I think angelic weapons can only kill an angel if they are removed from Heaven first. If they're in Heaven, their natural environment, a realm made of light and energy, they cannot be killed. Hell is cut off from that energy though, and without it, the injuries caused by angelic steel are fatal.
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I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE SELKIE AUS but i don't know a lot about selkies and their folklore, and how they work, and i dont wanna mess it up :( How does one go about making a selkie au, oh Great Seal Master?? /gen
tbh my biggest advice is just have fun with it !! there are a lot of different iterations of selkie lore, its pretty fun to pick and choose which things you want to adapt!
really the core of it is just the seal skin coat! selkies are born with a seal skin that they can wear to turn into a seal, it is an extension of themselves and is a part of them them in ways you can't quite put into words or explain to a human.
being separated from their skin is literally like missing a part of themselves, and this can be depicted in many different ways like a persistent sickness, lack of voice or strength, a deep longing, etc.
a lot of the stories and folklore surrounding selkies is about people falling in love with their human form and stealing their seal skin to trap them on land and marry them. these end in many different ways, which is where a lot of the variation in the lore comes into play! sometimes the selkie finds their skin and runs away leaving behind even their kids, sometimes the selkie is trapped forever sometimes they literally die of sadness being separated from the sea
it doesn't necessarily have to always be romantic, selkies in folklore tend to fall into the swan maiden trope of men forcing a mythical woman into marriage, but i personally think its a lot funner to think about unorthodox scenarios. like someone accidentally taking the skin, or an overprotective parent locking it away, or even a selkie naturally falling in love with a human.
like i said there's a lot of different iterations, stuff like summoning w/ seven tears or selkies returning to the sea every seven years, the person owning the coat being able to control the selkie to a certain extent, hurting the coat hurts the selkie, returning the coat can be a marriage proposal, etc.
it can get overwhelming with all the different versions but as long as you stay true to the inital seal skin concept and dual nature of a selkie (they are known to be both friendly and helpful but also dangerous and vengeful- much like the sea that they come from) than you've got a good selkie story on your hands!
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