#brom is everyone's dad

[modern-inheritance]

"Well. My son. This last day here, I have a very important word for you as you leave to establish your school. You're Eragone from here." ~Brom, crying, telling his first dad joke ever as Eragon and Saphira leave for Mt Arngor

[modern-inheritance]

Arya whenever Brom shows up in Du Weldenvarden again. Get that surrogate dad time and that training in but also HELLO I MISSED YOU DO YOU HAVE ANY STORIES HOW ARE YOU DID YOU BRING MORE HUMAN OR DWARF SNACKS CAN I SHOW YOU THE POND I FOUND HAVE YOU PUNCHED ANY FORSWORN LATEY HAVE YOU PUNCHED ANYONE LATELY I SAW THIS REALLY COOL MOVE ON THE TRAINING FIELDS COULD YOU TEACH IT TO ME HAVE YOU SEEN–

Cat sees long time human friend after a long time

(via)

[uluthrek]

inheritance cycle modern au in which all of the dragons are horses which makes eragon the underdog horse girl, saphira the underdog girl horse and brom the disgruntled and disillusioned horse trainer who doesn’t believe in the validity of this sport until he sees the ✨bond✨ eragon has with his horse saphira who is still as blue as she is in canon (don’t ask that‘s just how it works, if you question this, i‘ll track your ip).

and galbatorix is the aggressively eastern european horse girl dad who had some sort of hip injury that brought his eventing career to an abrupt end and now he must vicariously live through his protégé, murtagh, lest he kills himself. and thorn is the very expensive horse galbatorix bought for wish fulfillment purposes and murtagh and thorn are so horribly traumatized by all the stress and pressure of defeating little kids at the pony finals that they ✨bond✨.

oromis and glaedr are their direct opponents and galbatorix nancy kerrigan‘s them (oromis dies like he does canonically because honestly, hunters be like that) so murtagh can get his ribbon. and then there‘s the big final competition and eragon, underdog wonder magic horse girl, goes toe to toe with murtagh, tortured champion to be, and they have this epic horse battle (an 80cm clear round but the atmosphere is very intense) and eragon loses. but then brom delivers this epic speech about idk man like success and passion and whatnot and then he dies which gives eragon the final push to defeat murtagh but OH NO, thorn is HURT from being OVERWORKED and murtagh has an epic horse peril breakdown and tearfully tells galbatorix he‘ll withdraw.

so galbatorix goes „fuck the kid“ and gets shruikan (the very bad very big black warmblood stallion that shows up in every horse girl movie) to best eragon HIMSELF (but not before locking nasuada, the animal rights activist that murtagh has struck up a tentative romance with, in a porta-potty). and then him and eragon compete and it‘s INTENSE (meanwhile, roran and katrina have a sub plot about capturing a flock of runaway ducks that is constantly being cut to during that climactic scene) and shit is looking DISMAL for poor eragon until a vision of brom and also his dead mother, because this is a proper horse girl movie and not some bibi und tina bullshit, and that gives him the strength to defeat galbatorix.

and then he wins and thorn doesn’t die and someone frees nasuada from the porta-potty and she gets to punch galbatorix in the face. and fírnen (who is a horse but also still green) emerges during the post credit scene and meets arya and sets up a cash grabby amazon prime spinoff series and roran and katrina successfully capture the ducks and everyone is happy and there is no more horse peril.

the whole thing takes place in exactly one horse show afternoon. it makes such perfect sense actually you can fit everyone in. nar garzvog‘s at the grill and makes hot dogs. islanzadi does nothing but drink cheap wine and bitch from the sidelines. angela mans the beverage stall and tells everyone who wants to listen (or doesn’t) that toads don’t exist. solembum is the raccoon on her shoulder who violates all fda guidelines by simply existing. orrin is nasuada‘s bitter ex boyfriend who pretended to be vegan for years so she‘d like him only to be dumped for murtagh and his emo swagger in a heartbeat. orik is a shetland pony.

[modern-inheritance]

HAHAHA "Ah yes, it is Tiny. It is slightly fierce. It has claws, they just need to be stronger to hold up against the rigors of battle. hmm... Perfect! Come on, we're gonna turn you into a little warrior!"

And missed you Books! :3

[codename-adler]

Uno reverse. Who’s on your hear me out cake?

- @ninyard <3

ok u got me there. but fineeee if u insist 🤭

warning that technically almost anyone is a hear me out for me bc my ass be demi so… i tried!

1. Spirit’s mom from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (whom i learned has an actual name, Esperanza <3)

now listen. everyone in that movie is beautiful. and i mean everyone. humans and horses alike. (except fucking Murphy) pick one and there’s a 99.9% chance i’ll fancy them. and Spirit and Rain are obviously well known and recognized beauties. but Esperanza… she’s got that something extra for me. don’t look into it.

Francis the ladybug from A Bug’s Life

i love me a versatile male icon

Diego from Ice Age

yeah yeah we been knew. still got to mention him tho, can’t forget him.

on the topic of Ice Age, the human dad and the MOM had no reason to slay that hard and make me feel things

Easter Bunny from Rise of the Guardians

this one i HATE. somebody tell me WHY they had to make him like that!!! he’s simply toeing the line of a furry like it’s the mf circus!!! i don’t like this design choice at all, no matter the end result. it’s just not right. what horny pebbles were they feeding those animators my god.

Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold from Once Upon A Time

yeah both forms. yeah. ion wanna talk about it.

Brom from Eragon

last one i thought of. not that much of a stretch outside convention but i just thought i should mention it. while comrades were raving about Eragon and Murtag i was questioning what exactly it was about that old man that was so… (and also refusing to admit my big gay crush on Arya)

[child-of-peace]

This is quite frankly hilarious to me. Brom has amazing compatibility (the little puzzle pieces in the top corner of the character images) with everyone (including Matilda’s mum) except his dad! I didn’t do this, it’s just the way the characters were built, but I couldn’t have done it better if I’d planned it myself!

[modern-inheritance]

WIP with some cute, it's not finished yet but oh my god i love it

@magicandmundane @fuzzytheoristtyrant congrats you two liked the thing you made me smile I am giggling i love this

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The hatchling’s nostrils twitched, soft snuffles picking up in intensity. He lifted his angular head and immediately locked on to Brom.

Eyes of warm, brilliant amber, sharp and inquisitive, met the old Rider’s gaze. Brom hastily put a finger to his lips as the creature let out a burble of question, gangly limbs already disentangling from velvet wings. Of course he didn’t understand, a chuff of annoyance squeaking out as he stepped on the tip of his tail.

“‘Nuff, lil.” Brom winced. Arya’s groggy mumble was accompanied by a closed eye drag of her forearm, blindly trying to pull the hatchling back towards her. “Back’a sleep.”

The hatchling half hopped, half tripped out of her reach. 

And, to Brom’s silent amazement, raked his hind legs and kicked a wayward pillow into the elf’s still loose embrace. 

‘Smart for a little thing.’

Seemingly satisfied that his caretaker was nuzzling the pillow, the emerald hatchling dropped to the ground. Soft wings spread for a few measly feet of lift, a bit of a stumbled landing clattering muted ivory claws into the mossy stone. 

That was that. A dragon hatchling, a hundred years late, was sniffing at Brom’s boots. The creature lifted a paw, the scales startlingly lighter than the deep green of his back, and sank his claws into the leather, a hiss of warning at the new intruder now at his level.

Brom could not help his smile. A hatchling. A real, live hatchling! And a new Rider! They could not be far, not with the hatchling so undeniably new. 

“Hello there, little one.” Brom whispered. He carefully lowered himself to kneel, reaching out to gently pry the talons from his shoeleather. Stars knew the damn things couldn’t take much more regular wear and tear, not to mention a dragon having at them. “Hello. Where’s your partner at, then?”

The hatchling’s nostrils flared, smoke billowing out in twin streams as the elder Rider’s fingers came towards him. It was all Brom could to yank his hand away as the dragon’s head darted forward with a sharp, loud hiss, needle-like teeth snapping shut millimeters away from his fingertips. “Easy! Alright, it’s alr–”

“No!”

Stars flashed and blood roared in his ears. Something was on top of him, slammed him away and out of the doorway, rolling and spitting and snarling locked against his arms and digging into his side. The crashing and turning ended with a thud, grit digging at the back of his head, blood streaming from his nose, ribs screaming louder than he could suck in a breath to actually voice. He could taste pine needles and sap and dirt and there was fire above him and–

Everything stopped.

“...Brom?” 

The voice was quiet, shaking. 

Brom risked cracking open an eye. 

“At least…” The elder Rider managed to wheeze as Arya shifted the position of her knee against his ribcage, clambering off him. “Your protective instincts…are still there.”

“Please. Please.” Brom frowned. Arya wasn’t talking to him. She was looking over her shoulder, where the hatchling was half flapping, half stumbling an unseemly little run towards her where they ended up against the rocks beside the creek. “Don’t do that again. Wake me up first.” 

An affronted squall was all that met her plea, a rough puff of smoke trailing behind the darting green head. 

“I’m sorry.” Ah, now she was talking to him. “I…everything happened so fast, it’s been…we just got here, and…” Careful of his still ringing head, Arya helped her old mentor into a sitting position, a quiet spell resetting his broken nose. “I’m sorry.”

Brom rubbed his face free of blood with the back of his sleeve. “Don’t let me get in the way of your duties.” Even so, he scanned the clearing, looking for the necessary third person for this odd meeting to even occur. “You shouldn’t keep him here though, not when he’s so small. He needs to be with his partner as much as possible now. Where are they? Was it Alana or Dusan?”

“...About that.” A happy chirp and flap of still-unprepared wings, and the gangly green hatchling landed upon the elf’s shoulder. Arya’s hand shot up to help him balance, the motion so instinctive Brom couldn’t help but wonder if…

If it wasn’t the first time.

His eyes widened, a certain giddiness rising in his chest as a smile brighter than the damn sun began spreading across his face.

“Brom, I…” He could feel her shaking from the hand on his back, all her mottled joy and trepidation and uncertainty and elation tangling in her wavering voice. “I’m the only one who touched his egg.” 

A low, rumbling purr, so, so familiar to him yet separated by over a century, rose at the Crags of Tel'naeír once again as the green hatchling rubbed his rough cheek against Arya’s. Even in the dark of night, Brom could see the unmistakable match of the brilliant scales to the bright flecks in the woman’s eyes. 

“Brom, he…he hatched for me.” Arya let him reach up and take her left hand. With trembling fingers, pride and jubilation fit to burst from his skin, Brom turned it palm up. 

Moonlight caught in the silver mark that now graced the elf’s hand.

And Brom laughed. He laughed and felt tears springing up at the corners of his eyes. 

“Stars above!” He couldn’t help himself. The words came without his direction, and he let them roll off his tongue as if they were meant to be and set into the fabric of the world and all was finally, finally well. “Both my damn kids are Dragon Riders!”

[modern-inheritance]

Jesus fucking Christ, IT'S BROM POST-WAR EVERYBODY!

[candy-floss-crazy]

Like everyone in the country, or indeed much of the planet. We are all sat here in isolation. But that got me thinking, imagine if this pandemic had occurred say 20 years ago. How much different would things have been without modern technology. We all had phones 20 years ago granted, so we could talk. Now however look at the options. From video calls on your mobile, to Skype, Portal, Echo Show, zoom, numerous methods of larger screen face to face communication. Sometimes for the isolated just seeing someone as you talk to them can make all the difference. One of our Photo Booths is a Del Boy Trotter 3 wheeled van. The props for the booth are all themed around the series, so we have Grandad's hat, Triggers broom etc. We also have a couple of the original Motorola 'Brick' phones. You know the ones, size and weight of a house brick, battery lasted a week, put them in your trousers and the weight would pull them down. And if you were ever mugged you could use it to beat the attacker senseless. Anyway we did a couple of days at a shopping centre in West Brom. Kids and their dads would rummage through the props box. When they came to the phone the kids would ask 'Whats this dad?' When told it was a mobile phone it was like, 'What, no way, where's the screen, how do you look at Facebook.' Now phones are that small you can slip them up your left nostril. Though I can remember when this brick phone was modern technology, the original mobile phone came with a separate battery that you could just about lift. Information Besides Google and the other search engines, we also have the NHS 111 number. Checking if your symptoms could be Corvid-19 is only a phone call or search engine away. At one time none of this existed. Instead you would have been calling your local GP. Or more accurately trying to. With thousands of people all worried and panicking, how long would it be before the local health services had to take their phones off the hook. They wouldn't have a hope in hells chance of coping. Not connected to the current situation, but think of the way some of the other sources of information have changed. We all had telephone directories, and Yellow Pages. Both of which were a struggle to lift they were that big. You try looking for something in the Yellow pages, it meant hours of wading through adverts trying to find what you wanted. Now, you type it into Google and the information comes to you. Modern technology at its finest. Medical Facilities I had the misfortune to avail myself of our medical services recently. A burst appendix meant emergency surgery. I now have 4 tiny little puncture marks across my abdomen, 2 for the keyhole surgery, and 2 from the drains fitted to remove the poison. It wasn't that long ago when I would have had a large scar across my body where they would have opened me up to remove it. Indeed at one time even an operation such as an appendicectomy would have carried a high risk. I made the mistake in hospital when talking to the surgeon, of calling it an appendectomy, only to be told off because evidently that is an American term. It is forecast that, like Italy etc we are going to see a lot of deaths from this terrible pandemic. But imagine if this was 20 years ago, how much higher would the death toll be. It seems that ventilators are going to be one of the key items to save lives. A consortium of tech companies are ramping up to massively increase our supply of the device. Could we have really done this twenty years ago, heck could we have done it ten years ago in the same timeframe? Entertainment At one time we had the 5 terrestrial channels. Sky, and a few cable services, if you wanted a particular film you needed to walk to the local Blockbusters and hire it. Now we have the massive list of freeview stations, Amazon Prime channels, Netflix, Youtube, Spotify and so on. There is an unbelievable amount of entertainment that can be accessed, streamed downloaded. Fair enough much of it is crap. But amongst it all there should be enough to keep everyone entertained to some degree. We are all spoilt with access to almost any movie we wish on demand. At one time you visited your local video tape store, where hopefully they had the film you wanted in stock. If it was a popular one then the chances are you would struggle to get it. Once hired you fetched a tape like the one below back to play on your video machine. What you then got was a sometimes grainy fairly lowish resolution picture, with garbage sound. If the tape you had hired had been well used then the picture quite often would begin to degrade and become grainy, or have bits of the dialogue drop out. None of this 4k or 8k super hi res, with Dolby surround sound processing. Working From Home With the country in lock down, we have been told to work from home where possible. Now obviously a lot of us can't. You would find the wife kicking a stink up if you tried to build cars in her front room. And most gardens aren't going to be big enough to fabricate wings for Airbus. For much of the service industry and creative media industry however its a different story. A multiplicity of conference software, and collaborative office and design software mean that this is a real option for a lot of people. Fast internet speeds are the secret sauce facilitating this. The dial up speeds of yesteryear just would have had us working at the speed of a British Leyland worker in the 1970's. Instead some parts of the global economy are still ticking over, and hopefully can hit the ground running once we are released from lockdown. Online Shopping Part of the lockdown is that all non essential shops are closed. But how much of an inconvenience is this in practice. Unless we need something, like, now, we tend to buy online. The mighty Amazon stocks an awful lot of what we need. With its Prime service, delivery tends to be overnight, or indeed on some items same day. Almost anything else you want can be ordered online, with rapid delivery, and in many cases for less than what you would pay in a bricks and mortar store. Indeed my daughter has a steady stream of deliveries from various fashion and beauty outlets. So much so that a recent delivery driver remarked that 'your daughter must have come back off holiday', 'How do you know shes been on holiday' I asked. Dead simple was the reply, 'Our deliveries dropped by 50% whilst shes been away.' Read the full article

[weirdponytail]

Modern Inheritance!Brom realizing he’s pretty much babysitting his naive, dorkyass son with a back problem, an elf with a mixed bag of trauma and early 20s spirit, and a dragon with newly discovered pyromania and way too much sass:

“Arya, go the FUCK to sleep. It’s 3:47 in the morning and nO YOU CAN’T TAKE THE SORBET TO BED I DON’T CARE IF IT’S THE ONLY THING THAT WORKS BESIDES ALCOHOL!”

“Eragon, there is a very CLEAR difference between ‘romantic interest’ and ‘political manipulation’ and only ONE of those involves snake charming a bracelet. .... No, it is NOT THE ROMANCE OPTION!”

“SAPHIRA WHY IS MY CLOSET ON FIRE?!”

[what-the-floofin]

Today we succeeded something very important and Brom needs a goddamn nap

 Aboleths are the worst creatures in existence

[modern-inheritance]

Glen, pointing at the image while standing with Brom: That's you and all the weirdos you collect.

Brom: Yeah and you're one of them, idiot. The ugly one.

Glen: *half offended, half happy gasp*

Birds make me happy too:) 🐦

You know for you it just had to be him, the (truly magnificent) lapwing! But fun fact, do you now what is better than one lapwing? That is right, a lapwing family!

I hope they make you happy!

Source for the picture

[cf8wrk4u-us]

A TF Rescue Bots AU where Cody accidentally gets a Scraplet as a pet. The reactions of the bots and the team when Cody doesn't want to abandon his new little friend.

That be an interesting scenario!

Like if in the episode Scarpheap one of the scraplets is stuck in the groundbridge and ends up in Griffin Rock. There found by Cody who thinks he's the coolest and cutest thing ever. And brings him home in hopes that he'll have better luck convincing his dad to let him have a pet robot.

While the robot is a surprise the Burns family along with Franki and Dr. Green are becoming quite taken with it. Even Chief Burns finds it pretty friendly, agreeing it be wise to keep it around just to see what it was.

Heatwave, Bolder, Chase, and Blades come out to see what the excitement was about. Cody explains that he found a robot that his dad will let him keep as a pet.

Boulder is excited to see what it was but his face turns to horror as he looks at the thing in Cody's arms. All the bots scream, Blades jumping into Boulders arms, Heatwave pointing his water blaster at it, and Chase surprisingly giving the loudest scream of all.

The human are shocked and ask the bots what's wrong.

"Where did you get that thing"! Screamed Blades.

"Drop it quick"! growled Heatwave

" I thought earth didn't have scraplets"! Cried Blades "I was so sure"!

Chase is the only one who calms down enough to explain what a scraplet is and why there so dangerous to Cybertronians. Cody is worried but Kade and Dani are skeptical.

That is until the it wakes up.

Opening its razor teeth it immediately goes for the bots, everyone runs off scared but Heatwave who tries to blast it way. But it's too quick and begins knawing at his leg sending the giant fire truck to his knees, howling.

Kade is quick to act, grabbing a brom and knocking it away from his partner. The scraplet is determined still and start running after the rest of the bots. A hilarious chase scene ensues, with the bots running from the scraplet, the scraplet chasing the bots, and the human chasing the scraplet.

Finally it's Cody who has the bright idea to use his jacket to catch the scraplet and net him into the cloth.

Everyone is relieved with Kade going up to bash it but Cody stops him, begging everyone not to hurt them. Everyone is surprised but Cody continues that maybe there was a way to teach the scraplet not to attack the Autobots. That maybe there was a chance to reprogram them to stop being so aggressive. That the scraplet is just following the program given to it and it's not is fault.

Chief Burns is against it, that they saw what one scraplet could do to a bot and it was irresponsible to have something so dangerous close to the bots. But Cody then ask that maybe they can have the scraplet stored with Dr. Green.

Though Dr. Green is willing but Graham is quick to point out that his inventions could be put at risk.

There's a lot of argument and back and forth going around. But Chief Burns gives one last look to Cody's determined eyes and sighs. He gives Dr Green a week to get the scraplet under control but if it where to escape and hurt the bots in anyway then. Cody is grateful but everyone is kind of upset over this decision.

The bots are feeling pretty betrayed at first, especially Heatwave. Cody saw what that thing did but he still chose to defend it?!

The week goes by and things are tense. Heatwave avoids Cody and spend his time quietly growling at the absurdity of it all. Kade is just as mad and constantly tells Cody it's a bad idea.

Blades lives in fear and is always looking over his shoulder sure that the scraplet escaped and is coming after him. Leaving Dani frustrated and blaming Cody telling him the bots will never have peace of mind till Cody agrees to get rid of it.

Chase is passive aggressively telling Chief Burns all the regulations regarding scraplet from back on Cybertron. Trying to convince the Chief to talk more sense to Cody and get him to destroy the scraplet.

The only people who are not openly hostile to Cody over the scraplet are his dad, Dr. Greenr, Graham, and surprisingly Boulder.

Chief Burns is a man of his word, and while he can't agree of housing the scraplet because it's a creature that put his teammates at risk he thinks Cody needs to learn to solve this problem on his own and learn to let go of a creature that brings more harm than good.

The engineer and scientist are eager to study a native species from an aliens planet.

Boulder who is still afraid of scraplets think Cody's idea could bring merit. It's wrong to destroy a creature because it was just following its nature. And if they could find a way to reprogram this scraplet than they could apply that technology to all scraplet. Which would greatly help all of Cybertron.

When the scraplet is finally reprogrammed the team is still nervous but it. But overtime they let them.

[docidoci]

PoR JP/EN script differences overview: (Part 3) ch #10 - ch #11

→ Main Index — Begin reading here ←

Chapter 10.

1) Ranulf explains the use of "human", so a note on that. As a curseword, "Human" = ニンゲン (ningen), it is phonetically the same as the normal "human" but written in kana to stand out. However, "sub-human" is originally "Half-beast" = 半獣 (hanju). That explains why Ike initially doesn't consider it an offensive term, which is fairly impossible in the translation.

2) Narrative introduction again implies that Crimea is still having a dependent position to Begnion, while the localisation adds a lot of words to say that they are currently independent.

JP: The support of the suzerain Begnion was absolutely essential for the rebirth of the Kingdom of Crimea, which had been born as a domain of the Empire.

3) Meeting Volke. Where the original is reasonable, the localisation confuses measures of time to a great effect.

EN!Volke: Stop into any tavern along your way. Tell the barkeep you've need of a fireman. You'll see me within an hour.

JP!Volke: Any tavern in a little town will do. Just tell the owner, 'I need a fireman'. I'll be there within a week.

Volke himself indeed comes off as abrupt and rude to the point where even Soren calls him rude.

4) Kieran is mostly the same person. He is slightly less wordy, like for instance he isn't describing torture to Brom, but his attitude is accurate.

Chapter 11.

A lot of subtle foreshadowing is going on here… or should have been going on.

1) A little worldbuilding note. It's not super important, but we are introduced to the concept of Kingdom of Crimea being non-monolithic and the possibility of internal conflict, even if it's not happening until RD.

EN!Soren: Perhaps this is due to the temperament of its rulers, but the country hasn't seen serious warfare for centuries.

JP!Soren: Perhaps it is because of the gentle temperament of the royal family that there are few conflicts between territories, and there have been no major — country-wide — wars for hundreds of years.

2) Talking about Soren right after he gives the famous "no sympathy" speech (which is translated very well).

EN!Titania: Soren's a very empathetic young man. The emotions of this place may have proven to be too much for him.

EN!Ranulf: Ignoring impending doom because you cannot prevent it... Fatalism is by nature a disheartening beast. Well, for all those born with nothing, there are those born with everything. Perhaps those who never notice the difference are the ones we should envy.

Some really weird choices here that seem to fit badly with the rest of the script. What is actually happening?

First, Titania has the role of implying Soren's non-beorc perceptiveness.

JP!Titania: …Senerio is a sensitive kid, so he can't stand this kind of atmosphere, right?

After that, Ranulf, in fact, continues talking about him being Branded. When you know that the Branded are considered "born without a blessing", everything he says becomes clear.

JP!Ranulf: Sometimes, even if we know something we pretend not to know, because we can't do anything about it…… I wonder if those who were born without a blessing are envious that those who were born blessed live their lives without realising it?

Ike: What's that supposed to mean?

Ranulf: Oh, I was talking to myself. Pay me no mind.

And now it becomes natural that Ranulf doesn't want to explain anything to Ike, since he sort of "pretends not to know" as well.

3) Brom ☆

Small, but strange choices erase the foreshadowing that he is a dad to Meg and give him parents instead.

EN!Brom: We never had much money, so my parents gathered some stones from our farm back home and put them in this leather pouch. It's not much to look at, but it means a lot to me. Every day, I take them out and talk to them like they're my family.

"How is everyone?" "I'm out here doing the best I can." "Don't worry. I'll be home soon."

JP!Brom: We're poor, so I have a worn-out pouch full of pebbles that each of us picked up... That's all. But for me, it's very important. I take it out and talk to them every day.

"How is everyone?" "Dad is doing his best here." "I'm gonna make it back alive."

4) Ranulf talking about Nasir.

EN!Ranulf: You'll be met there by a man with a dusky pallor.

JP!Ranulf: There's a dark-skinned man called Nasir waiting for you with a boat.

The unfortunate word choice makes him say that Nasir is sickly greyish in complexion instead of merely dark-skinned. Again, it's not super important, but really baffling…

~~TBC~~

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#5

every day i think about mikey way’s nastya rasputina era. not for any particular reason i just do

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#3

after. four rewatches of headless, two of which were sponsored by dragging my parents into watching it with me, here’s a thought that i thunk.

spoilers below!!!

at least three of the characters (ichabod, matilda, baltus) all have fake books that they store their possessions inside. this makes varying levels of sense for their characters; matilda for the Vibes of spooky witch lady, baltus for keeping his bribery checks a secret, and ichabod for the fact that he’s a people pleaser who probably bought it off matilda to make her happy, but also ties in to a greater theme of the series.

(literally) not judging a book by its cover.

all three of these characters—and more!!—have ulterior agendas that are revealed throughout the series. ichabod isn’t just some dweeb in sleepy hollow by happenstance, he’s a descendant of the storms family, come back to town to right an ancient wrong. he is also a dweeb, but like. a cool dweeb. matilda isn’t just a witch, she’s keeping the undead corpse of her best friend alive with ancient evil magics and covertly working against her new friends. baltus isn’t just the town’s genial mayor, but a cutthroat politician who killed two people in his attempt to kill a third.

similarly, this lends itself to the story’s theme as a whole, that people are far more than what you expect. although this is plain to see in characters like brom (and his babes), who start off as airhead jocks with some pithy social commentary and wind up as airhead jocks with hearts of gold and loyalties as strong as the horseman’s sword, it is exemplified with the character of the horseman herself. so much of headless is about reexamining history and stripping away old biases. everyone believes the horseman is a decapitated hessian soldier, but is actually a woman practically written out of history in favor of her more famous husband. it’s about doing away with commonly accepted narratives and taking a closer look at the stories that accumulated to build the myth we all know today.

the fake books are both windows into the souls of their owners and the soul of the entire story!!! on the outside?? a beheaded hessian!!! on the inside??? a doing away with the ideas of colonialist cis white male-centric historical narratives that get preserved and a doing of justice for the names that get left out!!! it kicks ass!!!!! it kicks so much ass!!!!!

159 notes - Posted November 20, 2022

#2

dracula stripping his house before jonathan arrives:

895 notes - Posted May 7, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

in my dad’s valiant effort to not misgender people his brain has somehow short circuited and he’s they/them-ing Everyone. my mom? they/them now. his coworkers? all they/them. no one can escape. atad. assigned they at dad

37,301 notes - Posted May 13, 2022

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[modern-inheritance]

Reblogging via the MIC account because I don’t use the WeirdPonytail one for writing anymore.

Uh ha. Hahaha. Uuuh. Lemme go take a look. We um…Tonz you KNOW what I usually write.

Oh god yeah no I’m not linking that to a reblog chain.

Uuuh…

Here! I’m counting dialogue between quotation marks, no matter how many sentences between them, as a single sentence as it is technically a ‘single thought’ when I write them.

This is a part of a multi-section series I’m doing for Brom being lowkey kidnapped by his friends and forced to sober up and go through alcohol withdrawal because he got just a leeeeeetle close to a cliff edge while yelling about how much of a failure he was. Everyone comes to have their moment with him and try to help him through it, but around the end Arya comes to him for help with a problem of her own.

Glassy, not all there, flickering in minuscule, panicked adjustments to stay locked on as shadows flitted across them, but her eyes were staring into his. A sliver of a gap in the Recall’s walls.

“Good. Good!” Brom ran his thumbs along her cheekbones, trying to push through the touch another link to the physical, present world. The change in placement should have drawn her attention, furthered the anchor he was building through his voice. “And if I’m here, you can’t be there. Remember what we said about my ugly mug being in your hallucinations?”

Iunno just usual MIC stuff. @cylieria-the-dragonrider @shows-up-naked-covered-in-bees @archangelsunited y’all’s up!

Last Six Sentences

Share the last six sentences you’ve written. Like this!

Thank you @sinvulkt for the tag! The past few days I was mostly editing, so I have no idea if these are really my last six sentences. Also, I like being ~mysterious~ so no translation for you here, haha. If you want to use any kind of translator: all personal pronouns should be he/him. (Hungarian has no grammatical gender, translators can't really deal with that.)

Last six sentences from an Inheritance Cycle story

– Újra és újra rácsodálkozom, milyen sok közös vonásod van apáddal.

Felfordult a gyomra. Utálta, hogy minden alkalommal meglepte, utálta, hogy csak azt nem tudta, mikor tudja oldalba bökni őt ezekkel a derült égből érkező hasonlítgatásokkal.

Utálta, ha megsimogatta, még jobban, hogy ez jólesett neki, hogy oda kellett telepednie a lábához. Azt akarta, hogy mindenki eltakarodjon végre, és úgy kezelje őt, ahogy szokta. A szidása legalább őszinte volt.

Tagging without any pressure: @kiir-bee, @weirdponytail, @andreacsenge, @oldfritz, @umunschaas, @3stike (except you, you must feel the pressure), @lordmorzan