#bones screams into the void

[thehecklingmouse]

alhaitham is one of the best characters genshin has ever created solely because he's just some guy. the laziest man you will ever meet in your life overthrew the government because he didn't want to do more work. a+ writing

[chaoticly-shy-dragon]

Whoever wrote that percy jackson au of the dead boy detectives, you live under my skin and I love you. So much so that my brain tried to think of a way to make it even more canon-accurate without making them dead. or reborn Hazel Levesque style.

What I have so far is playing on the whole West civilization bit and how it moved to the.. well west - but also that World War 2 was a big three kid conflict? So. I have sort of a time-table and I'm throwing it out of the window.

Edwin is a child of Athena - that much stays the same - who is very bookish and very studious but not in the way the rest of his siblings are. They are handy and crafty, strategic and interested in architecture or design. He.. is not. (I need a reason why his siblings didn't come to help him when the "death scene" happens.)

The whole boarding school is one of many spread across the London countryside - Chiron moves a lot. They teach both ancient and modern warfare because magic or not you can't escape the bloodshed forever - you either get drafted or you run and get blacklisted somewhere or another.

(St Hilarion was actually a son of Apollo that got really popular during the Crusades - Zeus didn't smite the school when it was established because times are different and Hera would be angry if there was another big fire with no explanation that put their soldiers'- eh-hem- kids' lives at risk.)

They still teach Latin alongside Greek because it was what all normal boarding schools did and that's what they were. Maths, English, and Sciences - were all taught to the boys. The girls went to another school - where they were taught the bare minimum to survive. Because sexism was rampant and if the Romans were on the wrong side of the civil war, that means no matter how progressive the gods could have been in certain areas, they aren't now/then–

Artemis really, really hated that time period. Zoë or this version of Zoë got a kick out of shooting so many assholes in the face. Or in their dicks. They also got way more recruits than in later years. Silver lining.

Anyways: Simon - son of Hecate - and the bunch of boys, one of which was a son of Hades, do the whole let's sacrifice Edwin. Only the book is a Christian book on witchcraft that Simon truly didn't think would work. He and the rest - Hades boy included - did the whole preparation of the sacrifice as it was absolutely terrifying for Edwin to experience on top of everything else. They didn't know it was a real thing - but is the only reason why Edwin stays alive.

It's essentially a stasis charm that lets the ritual run for as long as needed without the poor victim dying beforehand. It requires bloodletting and "runes" and such. The thing is scary, traumatizing stuff so it seemed like a fun thing for Simon and his buddies to do. So they did it.

They skimmed the reading. Blood with power is spilled, ritual that is very real gets haphazardly done and so monsters get involved.

Fun fact, that I'm really hoping is actually true - sometimes monsters with names similar to other religions' occult beings pick up the summoning calls. If the ritual is shoddy enough for them to hear, the participants all die either way, it's only important who gets there first.

So. The bullies get killed and a fury-type thing drags Edwin's whole being to the fields of punishment so it can feast on its offering. He gets dusted Sally Jackson style.

We enter his hell era. ( Part 2, Part 3, TBC )

[void-writing]

“Y O U”

Lady Bone Demon, you are terrifying as usual. Please step away slowly from the child.

@centuryberry I have made good on my threat, and now I will be waiting in barely contained anticipation for where you take this story next 💖💖

[extrasfromthevoid]

been looking into oracle bone script for...reasons, and am losing my mind a little over the fact that the symbols in the Lady Bone Demon's spell rings are literally just the Chinese zodiac in oracle bone script.

(source)

From left to right: horse, tiger, boar, dragon, rabbit, bull, rooster, bull (again), monkey, rat, dragon (again), rooster (again)

(source)

maybe not the most reputable academic source, but just look at it. they're identical, and match up with other reference sites i found (this one just happens to be the nicest graphic, clearly sporting all twelve of the zodiacs in both oracle script and the modern Chinese).

top row, left to right: rat, bull, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake

bottom row, left to right: horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, boar

like seriously? how cool is this?

[kitocrystal]

I finally decided to play Deltarune and finished chapter 1 yesterday.

Ralsei isn’t here because I was too lazy to doodle him. Sorry Ralsei!

And of course, how could I forget the interaction that will burn a hole into my memories?

Behold! Sans Deltarune!

[magno-knight]

my best boy Kaul Hilo was written so well. so much baby girl put into him, so much cunt. so much love and unweavering loyalty in his family. he gives it all of himself to them even tho he knows he’s putting in more devotion than theO others. and yet, he doesn’t really try to understand them, he won’t let them be outside of what he pictures for them, what he thinks is right and would do for his family. and the author does such a good job of showing how much he adores them from his perspective but won’t try to be more understanding, to really see their struggles and who they are. he’ll jump to forgiveness and forgetting  but won’t consider seeing it from their perspective. if he did that, his relationship with others would be so much better but he doen’t see it !!!!

[claymoresofinfamy23]

Anyone else find him hot? Just me. Okay. Forget I said anything.

[capinejghafa]

i think a lot of kanej (show verse) and how inej left kaz at the chapel and we just don't know if they'll ever see each other again. inej didn't promise him anything, kaz never got her the wraith.... there's a lot of unresolved tension, there's a lot that was resolved (ie inej's indenture). inej won't settle for less (nor should she have to), and kaz pushed himself as far as he could go at that point (bc trauma and healing isn't linear). but even more so that kaz was building an empire with Wesper by his side something he didn't have in the books. And Inej is off at sea... again making absolutely no promises to return.

what would that reunion look like???

can you imagine the awkward and sad looks.... the pinning... the tension. also where is this reunion even taking place??? with so much riding on them succeeding breaking in/out of the IC and they're not in sync? but they have to be for this to work. and these two idiots can't even talk to each other. can you imagine the slow burn of it all??? can you imagine how sick and tired everyone will be with them because they aren't talking to each other but clearly want to? and then they get that look in their eyes not knowing how this will play itself out.

the emotional turmoil! the angst! the pay off of getting them to hold hands.

[sleepless-crows]

the reason the sab cast is the perfect cast is because the books are known for their found family and they really brought to life not just their characters but the essence of found family too

[rainbluealoekitten]

not enough people remember that the "wylan van sunshine" line was sarcastic, said after wylan expressed that a lot of poisons don't have cures (meaning nina might die because of jurda parem afterall)

[thehecklingmouse]

the implications of this are driving me nuts.

[the-three-whumpeteers]

Prompts for whumpee with a broken leg/ankle? Whether a whumper is involved or not is optional :3

I can say I’m part of the no broken bones club 😎😎

The whumpee had broken their leg in their middle of their escape attempt, which made it agonizingly difficult to keep going. It felt like any time they stopped the whumper would be there, but if they kept going they knew their pain would just worsen.

They’d been found with a leg already broken, and the caretaker was less than experienced with medical situations, so this quickly became an issue. While the break had been treated, the recovery proved to be an issue, as the whumpee kept doing things that made the pain worse.

The whumpee didn’t have anyone that could help them, and while they didn’t have to worry about the whumper anymore after finally escaping, they had to take care of their own injuries. Their broken leg limited what they could do, and the whumpee would constantly have to do difficult tasks on their own.

[qourmet]

i have lots of thoughts on personified spiritual weapons, but chenqing is a special case cos unlike suibian (who i hc as ♂) & the yin hufu (that i hc as a 🐯), chenqing is both a girl and takes on a bipedal but non-human form. idk, my thoughts spiraled, i have many headcanons about chenqing being a bone-flute and why stop at Bone when she could be a Demon's bone?

[starry1avender]

This is me twelve hours after jjk leaks!!!!!

[kepnerandavery]

The fact that Nikolai and Zoya didn't officially meet on screen despite having SO MANY mutual friends is a travesty.

I loved that both of them interacted with the crows, but I would have never imagined that either of them would even meet the crows before meeting each other.

Nikolai’s story is supposed to be about him and not Alina (even more so now that the fold has been destroyed). There’s a line between adapting plots and straight-up using him as a plot device to keep malina apart for a season.

If they’re planning to adapt King of Scars as it was hinted in the show, the least they could’ve done was set it up properly. The potential was RIGHT THERE 🙄

[themoonstonechronicler]

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