#but idk if i actually believe in one or if that's just what i would like to happen after death

[amytoonz]

Guess who!

Slight TW: there’s some flashing imagery at the end of the video.

Btw the box that Gideon is working on in the beginning is actually a reference to the crowns bane from @sweet-reaper’s fic “what lies between us”. idk if that’s what the box looks like, probably not, but that’s kinda how I imagined it lol

Edit: also happy Valentine’s Day!

Transcript bc captions kinda suck:

K: I wonder what gid’s up to…

What’s he doing?

I’m going to surprise him!

Guess who!

G: oh f*ck who could it be?

Judging by those sharp claws it must be torbek!

K: keep joking around and i’ll snap your neck.

G: of course, I’m joking!

K: alright, then guess!

*silence*

K: dude u good?

G: whoops! I dozed off for a second there!

I’ve just been so exhausted lately!

K: time to answer the question!

G: what was the question again?

K: don’t play dumb, guess who I am!

G: what do you mean? You must be my beloved!

K: look at this b*tch being a smartass…

G: hey doll, could you please take your off now? You’re gonna pluck my eyes out!

K: doll who?

G: don’t be silly~ who else would my darling be?

K: shut up and say my name!

*silence*

G: … I want my phone call.

K: hell no!

G: ya really think I don’t know?!

K: quit playing games b*tch.

G: ya don’t believe me?!

K: is it that hard to say my name?

G: your name is not the issue here, this is an issue of trust

K: fine, how about this. I bet my whole hat you don’t know my name. What are you betting?

G: do you really wanna do this?

K: scared?

G: I ain’t scared!

K: *psychotic laughter* look at this sly son of a b*tch!

G:this is your last chance, take your hands off now!

K: I give the last chance, not you.

G: there’s no going back from this! Are you saying that doesn’t matter?!

K: damn straight, only one of us is seeing the good baron today.

G: we say the name of the place we first slept with each other at on 3!

K: *maniacal laughter* is that all you got boy? You adorable little sh*t!

G: go cry if you’re scared!

K: shut your mouth, and let’s begin…

G: one….

K: two!

*silence*

K: are you praying?

G: before you kill me let me say my final words…

K: go

G: your hands have gotten really scaly…. Frosty.

*Single tear fall down cheek*

K:WRONG ANSWER MF!!!

Rip kremy sniffing truffle pig.

[cecilysass]

Happy Heart (-Shaped Hail) Day! Fic Recs for Rain King for Valentine's Day (or Any Time)

It's funny how in the fandom circles I tend to spend time in now, Rain King seems to be a pretty beloved episode: super shippy, romantic comedy, multiple fanfic tropes made canon.

When it aired, the online fandom's opinion of this episode was pretty mixed. There was a large contingent of fans who really hated it. (I remember this because I am 4,000 years old.) Season 6 had already been perceived as being too light in tone, and we'd already come off of a run of Triangle, Dreamland I and II, and How the Ghosts Stole Christmas. There was a lot of anxiety about the move to LA killing the show's dark and angsty feel.

Me, I always liked Rain King (and Triangle, and Dreamland I and II, and How the Ghosts Stole Christmas). And while I can identify the tone change in season 6, I don't hate it, nor do I think that the show really loses its darkness and angstiness (a lot comes back in the second half of the season). I'm also not someone who believes comedy is a de facto more stupid or less substantial genre than drama or suspense, so I think that's part of it.

Rain King has generated so, so much fanfic, and most specifically fanfic that zeroes in on this little fun fact: THEY CANONICALLY SHARE A MOTEL ROOM BECAUSE THERE'S ONLY ONE ROOM. Obviously many of the fics I'm recommending below are based on that premise. So here are my Valentine's Day recs based on Rain King. (Even though I think it's not actually set at Valentine's? Because the cold open happens months earlier? There's some kind of timeline hijinks, idk.) But anyway, it's the clearest Valentine's episode we have, so happy Valentine's Day.

Free Merlot at the Cool View Motor Court by Sarie_Fairy @sarie-fairy Scully tries a little experiment with Mulder after the reunion that gets rapidly out of hand. This is smutty fun—the kind of high end sexy times this author is really known for. Dating Kings and Queens - Baroness_Blixen @baronessblixen A pure romantic comedy style plot variation on the ending of Rain King. The agents discuss the last time they've been on a date. Turns out it HASN’T been so long for Scully. This is just so charming. 

Kroner by DM When Mulder finds out about the “flicked switch speech,” he deals with it in a flirty, somewhat less sentimental way that feels very in character to me. I like a fic with dialogue that feels like it goes a little unexpected.

No Big Deal by dreamingofscully @dreamingofscully Scully offers to help Mulder sleep in the hotel. This is UST, but deliiiiiiightfully so, and heavy on the complex feelings.

Can’t Fight This Feeling by mldrgrl  @mldrgrl A sweet and more subtle little feelings reveal after Rain King by an author who does this exact thing well. Also there is slow dancing to 80s music.

Time Enough At Last - baylorrific Absolute textbook classic one room trope, but it stands out for me because I like how it focuses on their mutual discomfort. They’re both so awkward here, even though it’s Mulder POV. I also like how the classic Twilight Zone episode Time Enough At Last is in conversation with what’s happening with the MSR.

There’s No Place Like Kroner - MonikaFileFan @monikafilefan You know what would make a “there’s only one room” Rain King fic extra fun? DIANA. Okay, okay, I admit I wrote this prompt for the exchange, lol, so of course I think it sounds fun. But Monika wrote the actual fic, and you don’t want to miss it.

Pillow Talk - Alelou This is a short piece about a chatty Mulder very carefully putting out feelers in the motel room after the reunion. Sweet and in character.

Land That I Heard Of Once in A Lullabye - leiascully @leiascully In Kroner’s tiny airport, Scully takes stock of where they’ve come from and where they’re going. I love this. It feels especially spot on character-wise for season 6.

All that Lights Upon Us - wonderland @amplifyme This is a very different kind of Rain King fic, part of a series, although it can be read alone. During the events of Rain King they share a first kiss, but this fic is about their conversations afterwards (Mulder and Scully, as well as Mulder and Maggie). Gentle affection, and the process of taking little steps towards one another.

On the Flicking of Switches - SisterSpooky1013 @sisterspooky1013 Mulder initiates an awkward conversation in the motel room after the reunion. SisterSpooky1013 always has her characterization shit together, but I think this is an especially compelling character sketch of season 6 Scully.

Break in the Weather - ATTHS_TWICE @atths--twice Mulder and Scully can’t fly out another night in Kroner, so they kill time by going to a drive-in movie. Honestly, this is just adorable.

Still Raining - Donna When Sheila sends them both a letter a few months later, she alludes to what Scully told her in the bathroom. This raises questions for Mulder.

Stop Me - Gina Rain A little seduction by Mulder in the Kroner motel room. It starts with her feet, if that’s your thing. But it’s not exclusively about feet, if that isn’t lol.

They're SOOOOO MANY great Rain King fics, so drop any I missed in the comments! And if you want to read my Valentine's Day recs last year based on Milagro, they're here.

[revive-the-fandom]

favorite rotg theory?

I honestly forgot most of the theories bc I disagree with most of them tbh. imo most fan theories tend to overcomplicate or villainise/de-villianise characters while completely missing the point.

but this is a positive question so i'll try my best lmao

I think my favourite is probably that Jack lost his memories not because of the Man in the Moon, but because he died. Whether that be because of a resurrection, or because of trauma induced amnesia.

Although, tbh, my personal (related) theory is that Jack never even died in the first place. If we look at his first scene, we can see him let out a breath as soon as he leaves the water

if he'd died of drowing, he'd have to cough up all the water he'd inhaled, or at least not have anything breath left to exhale.

(also, interesting that his breath in this scene is always misty, like its warm. and is like that for multiple breaths, so not necessarily "the last warm breath he had left in him" since he's continuously exhaling warmth. which also implies that Jack is warm-blooded, not cold or undead, but alive.

I'm realising now that I have a lot of theories... idk man, it's kinda hard to pick a favourite when you could debate every point with the same enthusiasm.)

then compare this scene to his memory of falling through the ice

it's so quick for a drowning, which are notoriously fast. Google suggests it takes 3 minutes to drown, which this is well under.

and yes, this is possibly just a cinematic verison of events, sped up for the viewers sakes.

however, what if it's not. what if Jack entered the water, the Man in the Moon saw it, knew that no one in this time period was going to be able to save him, and just sort of put him on pause. suspended animation, if you will, so that he had time to save him as best he could.

This theory is also part of my "the Man in the Moon did nothing wrong" movement.

What evidence do we have that the Man in the Moon has enough power to do anything more than he already does? What evidence do we have that the Man in the Moon didn't drain his powers saving Jack?

The only time in the entire movie that we know he actually, audibly spoke to anyone on Earth was the very beginning where Jack says he told him his name. And even that wasn't audible to the audience! Only Jack heard that, so potentially he could be restricted by any number of things - only being able to speak through mental connections, only to his "creations" or "beneficiaries", only through abstract thoughts.

If we throw GoC into the mix

(which nobody has to, but I like to. I've been vagued before about forcing other people to accept GoC as canon, but I'm not trying to do that and never was. I just like it and want to use it as my canon.)

then we can play with the timeline a little, as GoC canonincally happens "some decades" before the steam train is invented: The steam train is invented in 1784 so GoC probably takes place in around the 1740s.

Jack is 300 ish in 2012, so his "birthday" is probably around 1712. So he was around well before the Guardians even existed (or, well, the group was formed at least. GoC Manny, Bunny and Sandy are millenia old, North is in his twenties/thirties probably and Tooth is a bit of a mystery, so..).

Which means that the Man in the Moon resurrected Jack before Pitch was even woken by Nightlight, and he was presumed dead.

The Man in the Moon only ever communicates through specific mirrors (actually I think they were gongs but basically it functions like a window) in GoC, except for book 5 where they physically go to the moon - but book 5 is weird and breaks the RotG canon so I don't count it - which also lends itself to this theory that the Man in the Moon expended his power resource before GoC. So he couldn't talk to Jack more than he had. Jack would have needed to go find one of these mirrors (one is in the Lunar Lamadry in the Himalayas, I believe on top of Mt Everest????).

GoC also sets the Man in the Moon up to be kind but incredibly distant and unsocialised. He was raised on the moon by his parent's robot servants and only interacted with Earth through their technology. To him being alone is just his normal, so he probably doesn't see Jack's isolation as a that big of a deal.

anyway, sorry that got a bit out of hand. Here are some honorable mentions for theories that I like:

Jack is descended from Katherine and Nightlight (yes this breaks the GoC/RotG canon I just established - this would have to be a different timeline to that)

Jamie is descended from Jack's Sister

Jack's Sister is named Mary (technically confirmed to be true by Joyce - I like the nickname Molly for Mary)

Baby Tooth was granted free will by Jack naming her & will develop & grow more now that she's no longer a part of the collective (I think this originated with @drowningostrich but I'm not sure)

Mother Nature is friends with all nature/element/seasonal spirits including Jack and Bunny

There's a fuck ton of other spirits out there who have their own society that Jack was just largely on the outskirts of (not necessarily an outcast, but more like a forgotten aspect)

[wanderingblindly]

okay okay okay so first of all prospective aspect has completely fried my brain like I'm gonna need 6-8 workdays to recover at LEAST jesus h fucking christttt.

I know, logically the future past and prospective aspect universes are and must be separate because otherwise older lando and oscar not knowing about their respective time loops makes no sense but. BUT. the universe, ominescent and clairvoyant as she may be, is perhaps not infallible. what I'm saying is, to me, the possibility and potential of future past younger lando and prospective aspect younger oscar getting, by some glitch in the matrix, spat back in time in the same reality (actually somewhere around the same time if I don't have their age gap horribly mixed up) is too mind-blowing to ignore.

like, imagine, both of them are well aware and actively driven insane by what they experienced. while also being completely unaware of the other's situation (younger lando also kinda unaware of oscar's existence lmao) because, obviously, their older selves had not mentioned anything about the double-timeloop to them. aka they're both individually trying to navigate life with their respectively insane knowledge (and aftermath of their frankly violent sexual awakenings) while believing that the other doesn't and cannot know about the time-loop.

so, if ex: younger future past lando would've been going insane trying to find "his oscar" imagine how freaked out he would be upon meeting younger prospective aspect oscar and realising how WEIRD he's acting, and vice-versa. lowkey this scenario would be weirder for oscar because (at least in my brain) he'd subsciously be trying to like figure out how and when and why lando turns out like THAT compared to the not-quite-virginial but still blushing mess lando is at 23 while probably having several breakdowns of his own.

the main question floating in my mind is: how and when do they figure out they've both been in a time loop? is it before they even confess? after? during? is it before they've had regular-non-time-loopy sex? after??? during????? (I'd imagine due to some freudian slips or objectively Strange behaviour or some good ol' accidental voyeurism) what do they DO with that information???? (apart from being likely even freakier than their non-double-looped counterparts. like idk if it makes sense but I for some reason can't imagine single-loop landoscar would be the exact same as double-loop landoscar.)

anyways. yeah. head full many many many thoughts I'll be stewing boiling simmering for the next. eternity. love u please don't break your brain like I just did 💖

(prospective aspect)

Oh my god N E B how the fuck did you both read that so fast AND craft and entire mindfuck about the intricacies of a dual time loop,,,,,, I fear ur powers,,,,,

But you’re actually making a point I hadn’t even realized: rookie lando from future past and f3 oscar from prospective aspect DO almost come from the same year? 2019 vs 2020? I have no clue how I didn’t realize that. All I would have to do is lightly fudge some timelines, mix up their returns back to “their world” and. Bam. The ultimate freak for freak collision. What the fuck.

“Frankly violent sexual awakenings” wasn’t the point of this ask, but I did make me wonder like…. Did I traumatize these guys? Like. Wait. Wait no did I actually traumatize them because that WASNT the goal wait —

In regards to how would they find out they’re in a time loop:

It would depend significantly on which reality they both landed back in, right? Because unless they found a dimension that broke their respective time loops, one of their experiences is gonna have to come back up. Either landoscar is gonna run into rookie lando in Japan again, or married landoscar is gonna find F3 Oscar during the off season. In which case, I’d imagine the non-affected party would… confess?

Especially when you consider that Lando and Oscar both didn’t tell the other about their experiences. Lando didn’t share bc he didn’t know when it would happen, and Oscar didn’t share bc he thought it wasn’t real — so they can’t find out they were both time looped until the event repeats!!!!!!!

Thank u for the morning brain teaser you absolute menace, I’m glad you enjoyed the (literal and metaphorical) fuckery 💖💖💖💖

[imbouttabreak]

can you do one of 80s james taking readers virginity? you can make it however you want also sorry if you’re not a smut account 🫶🏻😸 (idk how to make it anon)

You didn't specify what you wanted to be from James in the 80's, so I thought it would be something nice with James from 1981, at the beginning of Metallica!

Warnings: smut (and fluff too!), sex (p in v), virginity loss (reader), unprotected sex, fingering.

Sorry if it's not good or it's too long, I'm not so good at writing smut, I hope you like it!

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Today is a very beautiful night, the starry night sky is gorgeous, the summer air is warm enough that it's comfortable to be outside, and best of all, my best friend James invited me on a date to the amusement park.

It's not an outing like the ones we always have, this is a romantic date. James and I have been friends since we were little, and I have always felt more than just friendship towards him.

Besides, how not to fall in love with him? He is the most handsome, sweetest and amazing boy I have ever seen in my life.

Since we were little children, he has treated me very well, and has always supported me with everything. Like me to him. So we love and care for each other a lot.

Tonight he was a total gentleman with me. Well, he has always been very kind but he should never treat me like his best friend again. He has bought me food and even tickets to enter the park.

We were just walking in the amusement park, after eat ice cream, and he found a empty bench. We walked toward there and sit in the bench that have view of the sky.

While we were talking I noticed he was being quiet and shy. He is always shy and introverted, that isn't something that i'm not familiar with, but with me he is always extroverted and goofy. So I ask. "Hey, Jamie. What's wrong? You are so quiet..."

James looked down at his lap, his leg bouncing up and down. "Well, I just have something I've been meaning to tell you but I've been too pussy to actually say it." He was clearly nervous, and I didn't understand why. So I just nod with my head. "I just... want you to realize that I've grown very fond of you, you know? And I don't even know why, but I just feel very comfortable around you.." He pauses and take a deep shaky breath. He lift just a bit his head to look at me, with his long blonde locks of hair covering a bit his eyes. "I.. I think I'm falling for you, and it scares me, you know?"

My smile faded away, my face change from confusion to surprise. My face is completely red, I couldn't believe it! I am hearing well? Now my face is red. "Are you... serious..?"

He nod, and now he is looking directly at my eyes. "I'm serious. I've never felt this way about anyone before, and I'm willing to risk everything, including our friendship, to be with you, you know?"

I didn't say anything, I just throw myself onto him and kiss his lips.

The kiss was soft and slow, he grab my waits awkwardly as he pulls me closer. It's the best kiss I've ever had.

A few hours later, James and I played all the attractions in the park, and we were pretty bored. "Hey James, I'm kinda bored. You want to go somewhere?"

James is feeling the same way, nods in agreement with a smile on his face. "Yeah, I'm bored too. Let's get out of here. My sister is not at my house, so i have home alone. Do you want to go to my house?"

"Sure, why not? I kinda like your house." I smile at him. He smiles too. He grabs my hand and we walk together to his house. The amusement park was close to his house, so the walk wasn't long.

The neighborhood he lived is so pretty, every time I go to his house I can't stop admiring the other houses there.

When we finally arrived his house, he opened the door for me. His house is pretty big, and surprisingly clean. Because he lived alone with his little sister.

"Wow, I think it's the first time I see this house this clean.." I said teasingly.

He roll his eyes, and sighs. "Sure, sure, whatever you say. Let's go upstairs."

He grabbed my hand, and we go upstairs. He open the door of his room, which it was so messy compared to the rest of the house. He have crumpled papers, clothes thrown everywhere and their guitars were not in their place. "Sorry for the mess, you know, I didn't have time to tidy up." He said scratching the back of his neck with his free hand.

"Don't worry, it's nothing." I smile at him.

He lets go of my hand and walks towards his bed to take out his Flying V guitar that was on top of it. After doing that, he sits down, throws himself on the bed and pats the spot next to him. "Come here." I nod, and I throw my bag on the floor for then sit on his bed. When I sit, he puts his hand on my waist and pulls me closer. "You are so pretty, you know that?"

"So you are. You are so pretty too, Jamie." I said as I lift my hand up to caress his cheek.

He smiles, and then with his other hand grabs my chin and leans closer to my lips. He looks so pretty.. "Can I kiss you..?" I just nod with my head. When James saw the movement of my head, he immediately kissed me. The kiss started soft and slow. We tried not to rush things, but after a while James was practically on top of me devouring me.

Between deep and urgent kisses, James whispers in a needy voice "I need you so bad.."

Those words make me stop. He looks curious now, why did I stoped?

The thing is I'm virgin, I never had sex in my life. When in the past I had boyfriends, but nothing that serious. I look at him, my face is red in embarrassment, and I'm looking down.

"Hey.. What's wrong..? You don't want to.. you know..?" He says grabbing my chin and lifting my head up, making me look at him.

I shake my head. "No! I mean, no. It's not that... It's just.. I'm virgin, and I don't want to disappoint you. I fear if I'm not good at it, you know?"

He smiles, and sighs. "Why I would be disappointed? In fact, I would be happy to help you be your first.." His voice became a bit more seductive and low. "Would you let me be, babe? I promise I'm going to make you feel so good..."

"Yes.. I let you, Jamie.." I smile a bit, and he grins. he kiss my cheek and swift but gentle motion he pins me underneath him on his bed. He start kissing my neck and caress under my shirt. His hands are warm.

The way he was kissing my neck made me make little sounds of pleasure, and every time I made a noise I felt James' mouth form into a smirk, and he start nipping my neck harder, making me whimper louder.

He moves his hands to my chest, pressing them gently over it. He moves away his head from my neck, and he looks down at me with adoration on his eyes. His voice is a bit shaky because he was breathing fast. "You.. You are so perfect.." He says. His eyes look in detail at my facial features, he takes his time admiring me. His thumb passes over my lips in a slow, sensual movement. "Hey.. Are you sure you are ready to this? I'm not gonna force you if you aren't ready.."

My lips curled into a small and soft smile. "James, I promise I'm ready." My hands move from his back to his cheek, caressing it in a gentle movement. I love how he is being a gentleman with me, I think I don't deserve him..

He nods, and he kiss my lips again. He press his tongue against my mouth asking for entrance. I part my lips to let him in, my tongue meeting his. My hands move up, gripping his shoulders as he presses me into the mattress, my body is arching against his as the kiss starts to get more heated.

After a few minutes I felt James muscles harden above me. His hands still moving under my shirt. The air was hot, and our bodies were burning, so I break the kiss just for take off my shirt. I gently toss it to the side. The sight of me in just a pair of shorts and my bra made him even more needy.

His eyes immediately went to my chest. And since he is on top of me with his body pressed to mine, I felt his lower area get hard. His beautiful blue eyes darkened with desire, looking at me with adoration. I felt something inside my stomach burn in that instant.

"James.. Please.." I beg, my legs are shaking. I need him.

He smirks, and chuckles. He positions himself between my legs and in a teasing tone says "Please what? I need you to be more specific, babe..." His hands go down to my hips and caress them in a slow and sensual way.

I take a deep breath, say those simple words was so hard to me. "Please fuck me, James.." I said, my cheeks turn in a bright red color and I look at him with hunger and desire, I never felt this way with other guy before. I really need him.

His lips curled into a cocky smirk. "As you wish." His hands go down to my shorts, pulling them down. His gaze is on me all the time, he want to see my reaction. His hands go to my thighs, open my legs to him. "Goddamnit.. You look so hot like this.."

He remove his hand from my thighs and he unzips his jeans. And then he take off his boxers. Revealing his hard and big cock.

He take off my wet panties, he ask me for the last time. "Are you sure..?" I didn't say anything, I just nodded. After that, he open my legs and places himself between me. When his cock enter on my cunt, I couldn't help but moan. This was something totally new for me, and I'm loving it. "Fuck... You are so tight.."

He start moving his hips in a slow way against mine, and his hands are gripping my bare hips keeping me there. My back arches back, and my hands grip the sheets. This is feeling so good for the both of us.

He is looking down at me as he fucks me, groaning and whimpering. His long blonde hair is covering his face, and he looks so hot from my view. "Are.. Are you enjoying this..? Mhm.." He says groaning and he slowly rocks his hips against me, his chest heaving with his heavy breaths as he keeps my exposed body pressed into the mattress.

My lips parted sightly to gasp and just say a breathless "Oh.. Oh yeah.. Pl-Please move faster... and harder.."

He grabs my thighs, hooking one of my shaky legs over his shoulder, before moving his hips a little faster. I leans my head back into the pillows, letting my eyes flutter shut as a soft whimper passes through my lips. The feeling of James on top of me, and his majestic cock inside me feel so incredible..

I felt something weird.. I felt my walls clenching against his length, and I didn't know how to stop that. "James.. I'm feeling something weird.."

He raises an eyebrow, he didn't understand at first and then he smirks "You are.. mhm.. gonna cum.."

"I am...?" I whimper as I grab the sheets. I was enjoying this, and I didn't want it to finish. He nod with his head and he start slowing his movements against me. I felt his cock out of me, and I look at him confused. "Why did you stopped?"

He smirks. "I want you to come in my fingers. Would you do that for me, gorgeous?" I looked at him a bit surprised. I didn't expect that. But I mean, I'm not complaining either. I really like his big and calloused hands.. I bet his fingers feel good.

All of this is new for me, so I don't know what to or what to say. I trust him, so I nod with my head.

He moves his hands from my hips to my thighs, slowly caressing my intimate zone. And he starts finger me.

It feel good, not that good like when he was doing it with his dick, but it feels hella good. The only noise I can make are whines on pleasure, and James is looking at me as I moan.

After James finger me, I felt that weird feeling inside of me again. My walls clenched against his thick fingers and finally, I cum for first time.

I look at James, I'm breathless and he is smiling proud of himself. "Did you like that?"

"Yes.. James that was awesome.. Thank you for be my first.." I sit up on his bed, and I hug him tightly. He hugs me too, I feel smelling my hair.

"You smell like vanilla.. I like it" He says kissing my bare shoulder.

"And I like you." I said kissing him once again on his lips. I never expected that my first time would be with him, but I'm glad it happen. It felt absolutely good, and I expect do it another time with him.

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[wynncass]

fuck all of you wynncraft death realms lore

the shit in the dark descent: kind of like a spiritual limbo more than a death per se. a place where you are separated from your body and transported into a projection that charon made. if one were to be in this limbo when charon is defeated they would return to their bodies, but depending on the amount of time they’ve been there their bodies could have decayed to the point that they immediately die following this. no pausing of the hourglasses but they kinda get. kept out of the realm of death spiritually

deaths mansion/the realm of death: the actual place you go where you die fr. the realms pretty open so it’s just like. you’re in like a giant open world where there’s nothing to do. it’s a party in there is what i’m saying. the issue is that a lot of people people post portals don’t actually die fr so they either end up in limbo, in the realm of darkness as victims of the decay, or in the realm of war as victims of spiritual corruption. obviously there’s the hourglass stuff and like. death can bring you back to life by flipping the hourglasses back over or straight up kill you by uh. shaking the hourglass really hard ig but he mostly does the former to prevent overcrowding and just like. for shits and giggles. the hourglasses are enchanted by both life and death but death does most of the bureaucracy and life does most of the hippie spiritual stuff like making sure the realms don’t collapse and drum circles in the mansion

the realm of war specifically: this gets its own thing because i DO believe the realm is very loosely bureaucratically represented by death (and his lovely wife. who is also life btw). but i imagine there is a degree of separation between them where life and death are more symbols of the realm of war than actual rulers as the realm of war is kind of a lawless land but they are still responsible to some extent for the realms stability and health

soul points: NOT REAL ANYMORE but i imagine they were markers of spiritual purity from corruption or decay or fucking. fortnite idk

the undead: for some reason forced out of the realm of death without the hourglasses resetting (often related to the decay or corruption. i do think there is a secret light version of an undead and i DO think its creepers but yall aren’t ready for that) therefore making them Twisted and Fucked Up

Wynncraft OCs concept that were rotting my brain lol

[puppppppppy]

act 4 :(

@chipper-smol and i came to a realization

[lunacias]

She's feeling a swell of an emotion at confessing all of this. She works to get it under control. /// Although he can't understand her, HAYWARD, too, is choking up a little at the sound of PAIGE's voice.

[oceanwithouthermoon]

saikis powers are a vital part of him so it makes sense that people who dont know about them cant truly understand his whole self, but its also very silly to me when people act like its the ONLY important part of him... people act like his friends that arent in the know are completely blind to who saiki is, but i feel like that kinda means you missed some major points... he cant keep his powers a secret forever and it DOES matter, but he can still be loved and KNOWN without knowing about them... hes still human, he still has a personality, he still has regular likes and dislikes, etcetc

his friends perspectives on him may have been wrong at first, but they CHANGED... they know him and love him, and theyll KEEP loving him the SAME once they know of his powers...

​some people cough cough cough in this fandom like to reduce saiki to JUST his powers and its so obvious that you just. missed everything. you didnt absorb anything from the show, you just saw it and went "ha, everyone thinks hes just a guy when hes actually super cool and powerful" no no no, he IS cool and powerful but look a little closer and at his core he is still LITERALLY JUST A GUY 😭😭😭

hes such a guy.....

[atopvisenyashill]

Thoughts on the Alysanne is Maegor's daughter AU? I feel like it has some interesting potential, and it vastly recontextualizes different parts of Jaehaehae (I do not like him sjsjsjs) and Alysanne's relationship (such as Jaehaehae's treatment of their daughters) but I wanna hear what you think about it!

I’ve touched on this a bit before but since you actually want to hear my thoughts, allow me to present to you my Jaehaerys Is The Goddamn Worst, And Alysanne Annoys Me Too: An Essay lmao but my answer is basically “yeah all of what you just said.”

I think it makes Alysanne much more palatable (to me) as a character because as she stands, she just fixates on forcing her daughters through these fucked up marriages at too young an age bc it traumatized her to be married and pregnant at 15 too but she’d never admit that being a willing participant in her own kidnapping by her brother-husband was the single worst thing that ever happened to her, and because Alysanne doesn’t want to admit it (and Jaehaerys would never see it as wrong or a mistake) F&B really shies away from delving into the fact that Alysanne is as deranged of a mother as Cersei is. So as she stands, she’s very flat to me because she’s presented very flatly and inconsistently. She’s so in love with Jaehaerys, she’s maritally raped by Jaehaerys, she’s a loving and doting mother, she forces her daughters into marriages when they’re the same too young age she was, she accuses her teenage girls of being scheming whores then gets angry when her husband accuses their teenage girls of being scheming whores, and worst of all we are just told “Maegelle tells them to make up so they do” so we don’t know why Alysanne gets over all of this. What is the point of riding a dragon when you never use that dragon to protect your daughters from unwanted teen marriages? We’re just not given a good enough justification for why her behavior is so weird and frustrating towards her daughters.

Make her Maegor’s daughter though…most of her behavior as an adult makes more sense. Like a worse version of Rhaenyra’s childhood almost - a father desperate for a son, but lowkey obsessed with his daughter, who makes all his hang ups about his parents the problems of every woman around him, except Maegor is out here blood sacrificing and torturing and starting wars and forcing babies on wives he discards quickly and brutally. Then here comes Jaehaerys on a white horse green dragon to save her from the horror her life has become, and he loves her so much he runs away with her even though Alyssa says they shouldn’t marry because people won’t like it. And they have beautiful children, and a beautiful marriage, and build a beautiful kingdom.

Then her pregnancies start getting dangerous. Gaemon, then Valerion, die. Alysanne thinks of the shriveled up mutants she called brothers, if Maegor’s taint has passed to her. Her perfect husband ignores her no, and forces Gael on her. Alysanne remembers that he said nothing to Rogar when Alyssa died, merely wept. Then her daughters start to die. Daella, Alyssa, Viserra, all within a few years. Then Jaehaerys makes Saera watch as he murders her boyfriend, calls her a whore, and says Alysanne cannot follow Saera to Lys. Alysanne thinks of Maegor torturing the Harroways over Alys’ presumed infidelity. Jaehaerys says he’s sorry, and her daughter badgers her into forgiving him, and she remembers how she helped Jaehaerys badger Alyssa into forgiving Rogar. Not two years later, Jaehaerys passes over Rhaenys. Alysanne thinks of how she was never enough for her father, how she felt so superior to Rhaena banished to Dragonstone and resented by Aerea, yet there she is dragging Gael away from court because she can’t stand to be with Jaehaerys. How her father was surrounded by dead women and dead babies and how Jaehaerys is surrounded by his own dead daughters, but surely she did the right thing, surely Maegor was worse, surely the realm is better off? Is he right to pass over Rhaenys? Is she enabling a man just as monstrous as her father? She will never decide, because Maegelle will guilt her about keeping Gael isolated at Dragonstone, and Alysanne will do as she’s told, just like Rhaena, and Alyssa, and Jeyne, Elinor, Ceryse, Alys, and Tyanna, just like every one of her daughters.

I do get why Alysanne is Alyssa & Aenys’ and not Maegor’s. The weird Targ babies, the line not descending from Visenya, Jaehaerys and Alysanne being held up as the perfect Targaryen couple specifically because they are brother and sister and dragon riders. I do even think canon Alysanne is likely traumatized by her time as a hostage on Dragonstone, and the ensuing war, and the trauma bond that caused with Jaehaerys, and it makes her idolize Jaehaerys, and then he isolates her at Dragonstone so he can swiftly and safely marry, groom, and knock her up. It’s not like,,,, a fun time, and it’s enough to make anyone crazy and weird about their daughters, but I think having her father be Maegor makes Alysanne herself much deeper because it gives her, as the most beloved Targaryen queen, a blood tie to the most hated Targaryen king, and a marriage to the most beloved Targaryen king. It fits better with a lot of the themes of the main series (again, imo) - forcing the spotlight on the outsiders to see how the affect the story from behind the scenes. The fall of Aegon’s sons, and The Long Reign, not told from the PoV or to serve the PoV of any of the kings or princes, but of the queen that tied them all together.

[random-fun-polls]

Do you believe in life after death?

- Yes, I believe in a universal afterlife

- Yes, I believe in heaven/hell/an afterlife specific to a religion

- Yes, I believe in reincarnation

- Yes, but just as a general concept, my beliefs aren't specific

- Maybe/I'm agnostic/not sure

- No, not at all

- Other/nuance

[orchid-n-petals]

So I've already shared parts of this on a discord server, but I have to scream about Ketheric Thorm on here as well. Obviously spoilers about the character under the cut! It's a long one.

The entirety of act 2 is about him, right? Jaheira, Shadowheart and numerous other NPCs shit on him for his fickle faith. First Selune, then Shar, then, as we meet him, Myrkul. You hear about his changes of faith on a whim, you hear that he's the person responsible for the shadow curse, he is painted as a villain, plain and simple.

You can figure it out pretty early on that Isobel was resurrected and that she is his daughter; the detail as well that he wants Isobel alive is so on the nose, it gives him away completely but there are still a few questions that remain unanswered, mainly about his faith.

And then you get to the mausoleum and the picture assembles; this entire tragedy, the death of hundreds if not thousands and the complete ruination of a landscape was all, ALL because you had this absolutely wrenched, heartbroken father who had lost everything and nobody answered his grief. He was left woefully alone, the Goddess whose daughter his daughter was involved with did nothing to save Isobel.

Imagine outliving your wife and your daughter. Imagine dedicating your life to fight the Lady of Loss, your Lady of Silver's enemy, and then be left so completely alone and in silence with your grief, with your loss. It's so, so poetic how and why he turned from Selune, and it's so understandable as well; he broke. His spirit completely broke. He couldn't deal with that void of having lost the only two important people in his life, seemingly undeservedly so. He was going mad with this and a lot of his ire was likely targeted at Aylin who, in his eye, represented Selune; she's literally her daughter, after all, and it was implied that even before the deaths of his family, he sort of saw Aylin courting Isobel as Selune taking his daughter from him, despite his service. This relationship was clearly not seen by him as a boon of "giving his daughter to the Moon-maiden".

His ways in the past clearly didn't spare him from tragedy and having to cope with it (which he clearly didn't, he snapped under the weight of his grief). He was clearly angry and unable to do anything, furious and helpless, which is a dangerous combination. A good part of his first change of heart must have been fuelled by a sense of revenge.

But then Shar didn't provide any balm to his aching heart either. If you read his letters in Grymforge and in act 2, he is so focused on enacting the will of Shar because he believes that healing lies in oblivion. Everything would be easier if he could just forget, if the damn world could just forget, if nothing was remembered because without Melodia and Isobel, nothing was worth remembering.

Then came Myrkul. Literally the only god who was not only able, but WILLING to give back his daughter to him. Imagine spending your all, EVERYTHING you have to serve two gods who would not give a single shit about the greatest suffering in your life. You were basically nothing, your loyalty didn't matter for shit, everything that was taken from you amounted to no recognition whatsoever: you should simply cope and seethe. Your grief will not simply go unanswered (which is not inherently antagonising) but ignored.

And then comes this supposedly evil entity who can alleviate your pain just like that, snap of a finger and it's a done deal.

I am so serious when I say that I believe Ketheric's main incentive was to extend Aylin's immortality to Isobel as well. You can read in her diary that she feels a taint after having came back, and there are things not even Selune can cleanse, but at this point, Ketheric doesn't care about Selune, vengeance is secondary if not tertiary, he's done that war during his Shar years and what did it give him? Literally nothing.

He doesn't even care about the fact that Isobel is still her cleric. He cares about the single most important fact: Isobel is back. Life is worth living again, there is something for him, and it was not Selune or Shar who gave it to him but Myrkul, and for this singular gift, he would raze the world for the Lord of Bones. Like people can clown on him for being disloyal but the man has the loyalty of a dog bonded to its owner.

He is powerful and is willing to go to insane lengths for crumbs. What is raising a single life for a god? Nothing. It has happened and it will happen again. But Ketheric will go to the ends of the earth to serve the single god who actually listened to him. The one god who didn't ignore him.

He knows that what he does is not the morally upright thing! He is so insanely self-aware that allying with Orin and Gortash and doing this entire plot with them only to then betray them is morally reprehensible at the best of times, he knows that people hate him, etc-etc. He was a Selunite at one point and he's not stupid. He just doesn't care; it could be literal Asmodeus and he wouldn't care as long as he got what he wanted, no matter the price.

He is probably the only one from the three of the chosen who has complete clarity over his situation, he almost sways (if you pass the check during his confrontation), he is not an inherently evil man blinded by power.

But he is inherently loyal to those deserving, and as of the story's standing, completely broken by his grief. In his eyes, at this point, the only one deserving loyalty is the one who actually listened to him. Isobel lives. It doesn't matter that she hates him, that his entire life has fallen apart, that literally nothing else that is good has come of it, because Isobel lives.

I don't think he regrets a single thing. His consciousness might tear at him at the end, but I believe he would do everything over again, exactly as he did, because in the end, his daughter was brought back. Because what would a grieving, broken parent give to bring back their child? Everything. Absolutely everything. And it's such a simply given answer, no second thoughts, no doubts.

Nobody can tell me that this man is fickle. Nobody. This man was willing to burn the world to the ground, create a Boudica destruction layer all by himself for the one single thing he wanted. For any God that would listen.

I don't know, I just have a lot of thoughts about his character.

[electroniccollectiondonut]

I have not been in this fandom long enough to reasonably judge others' takes however. "EPIC fans are so silly to characterize odysseus as feeling guilty for his actions don't you know he's a war criminal" is definitely a wild one. like first of all to each their own so settle down and let people enjoy things ok. and secondly making choices with a bad outcome, even knowingly and deliberately, does not exclude the possibility of feeling bad about it later. in fact it makes for a much more in depth character because then you get to explore what he does or doesn't feel guilt over, and why, and if that guilt ever edges into regret or not.

[lethality-of-dual-strike]

not to worry folks I’ve made more crackship kids

basis for ships below

They’re NEXT to each other you don’t understand— *pelted with rocks* I live for crack shipping and making fankids it’s so unreasonably FUN

[dykedvonte]

I think the most baffling thing about the Tulpar as a vessel to me is the fact that the ship really did only have a one way communication system.

I know it was cheap but even the most basic of vessels regarding major transport would have some way, shape or form for outside communication. Not only that but there was absolutely no form of innate emergency signal to show they may have been offline or in trouble despite clearly having a system to dock credits if they went off course. It's another factor that really shows that bad situations are made to get worse by design. One person who is required to relay all information to the crew and make all the choices without feedback. No way to update or call for help in case of a dire situation. No way to inform of inner personal conflicts and acquire procedures accordingly.

It really is like they are all in some sort of fucked up solitary confinement. They have their own world with strict roles that are meaningless in the end, as long as the cargo makes it, it doesn't matter what happens on that ship to the company. They don't want to hear anything and will come to conclusions on what happened based on how much pay they can withhold from the workers. Even what they do send is short, sterile and corporate to the extent it was likely written and sent out with a command by some random unmanned computer in an office.

There's something to be said about how unfair it is to force absolute power and control onto one person when you as an entity could do so much more to offload it but I've said it many times before so I won't again.

[silusvesuius]

n*loth not being able to bag anyone over the (human term) age of 25-30 at most is the only logical and real conclusion to me because it can be just explained away as him wanting to prove and control everything and anyone (Cus he's a man!) but being stuck in that demographic because his unbearable and vile personality is a force that nobody can look past once they've outgrown the possible fear and idolization period of anyone but also n*loth in particular.