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Poly+ ACOTAR Week - Day 3 Secrets (Feyre/Tamlin/Rhysand) @polyacotarweek

I'm weak for 'two enemies put aside their differences coz they love me more than they hate each other' trope and I was somewhat sad that's not where Feyre's love life went. Just think of the possibilities.

[wyvspike]

trying gouache

gouache is fun to say. gwache. goo-wache. goouuaacchhe.

[madame-mongoose]

Trying to draw on a phone is annoyinggggg

[xihe1874]

[Mav walks into the room, eyes ringed with fatigue] Slider: Mav, man, what happened to your eyes? Mav, suddenly shy: Oh, he is perfectly fine, though I think it is a little bit too early to call him my Ic-- Mav: OH Mav: You mean my EYES Slider: Slider: YES???

[michaelgovehateblog]

Uh oh the euros has me rooting for England again

[thegreatyin]

something something sensible chuckling

[returnofahsoka]

the solum civil war will still happen

or why i think this is a predestination time loop instead of an alternate timeline

short answer: because gwyn's still here

long answer under the cut because we might be here for a while

reason 1 – the classic grandfather paradox, or "cLeArLy YOu NeVEr ReAd TeMPorAl MeChaNiCs 101"

so, the protostar never going back to tars lamora caused gwyn to never be born and the timeline to unravel. pretty straightforward, huh? but the civil war not happening and the diviner never going back in time to destroy the federation somehow... wouldn't result in the exact same thing? that's weird. i can't be the only one who thinks that's weird.

we are told that changing the little things does not matter as long as the big things stay the same (this is a very common principle in time travel scifi, like doctor who's fixed vs non-fixed points in time). such "big thing" or fixed point is the protostar ending up on tars lamora in the past regardless of how it was sent back or by whom. yet, on a peaceful solum with no civil war and a good relationship to the federation, ilthuran has no reason to become the diviner, to go back to the past and have a daughter there. gwyn still wouldn't exist. the paradox would still be in effect.

because it is not, we must assume that gwyn is still born in this reality, and the only reason she could be born is because the diviner went back. the bigger picture, in the end, is still intact, the flow of time is back in its correct course.

and i think wesley knows this. he knows the war will still happen, maybe some time later or maybe it will go down differently (again, little things) but it will happen and the end result will be the same. he doesn't say, becuase his goal was never to save solum, his goal was to save The Universe(tm), and for that, the fall of solum needs to happen. and wesley was willing to let voyager and the crew suffer great casualties because of asencia's attack, because it also needed to happen. so he doesn't say, becuase they don't need to know this yet, because they cannot know. because if gwyn knew, she would stay on solum and try to fix it and they would not be together.

reason 2 – ouroboros, or who dropped their commbadge on the protostar's bridge?

it was dal. it was always dal. the first time around when he and rok find the protostar, the badge is already there, placed perfectly in position on the bridge. (ever wondered in season 1 why there was a commbadge randomly on the floor?) because that the kids were always the ones sending the protostar back to tars lamora. to save themselves.

again, if this was an alternate timeline, if the civil war had been truly prevented, then why does the ship need to go there? who would find it if the kids weren't there in the first place? for that, they need to be brought there by the diviner. and they need to be together. not only in the future that wesley was referring to. in the past as well. because time is a funny thing.

also, talking about wesley, he very clearly says that the timeline the show takes place on is the prime timeline. the protostar going back to tars lamora/the diviner following didn't create a new timeline diverging from an alternate previous one. only the absence of these events did, resulting in the paradox that they're trying to fix, and by fixing it we return to the prime timeline.

so instead of alternate timelines looking kinda like this (forgive me for the very heavily stylized ms paint diagram)

it's a loop and it looks more like this

reason 3 – hints in s1, or why this was always meant to happen this way and why is the diviner called the diviner, really?

the funniest thing is, we were told all this from the beginning. kind of.

bear with me for a second and imagine that ilthuran, ever curious astronomer and actually decent father, becomes the ilthuran who trusts and supports the federation. they saved them after all! his daughter is one of them! and maybe he supports them too loudly, urging an alliance too quickly to prevent what he knows happened on another timeline. and maybe the voices who supported asencia are becoming equally loud too. maybe the war still breaks out, despite his - and gwyn's - best intentions. and the federation doesn't come (they have a lot to deal with, okay?)

ilthuran would have all the more reasons to become jaded and bitter and resent them for refusing to help. but he would know this isn't the end yet. he becomes the diviner because he knows the future. because gwyn told him. not the whens and hows, not the details because that part's complicated, but the big things.

in preludes, as asencia is trying to nudge the diviner's memory back to working (one of our two main accounts in s1 of what happened on solum, the other being what the diviner tells gwyn in moral star, which admittedly, is pretty questionable. asencia however, at this point, has no reason to lie to the diviner so i am tempted to believe she's telling the truth) she describes the protostar's arrival as the return of "the hope of solum" and the diviner, suddenly remembering, says this: "they called it an accident. we knew it was fate." and what if he really did know? in the brief flashback following this exchange, we see chakotay sending out a distress signal immediately after the protostar passed through the wormhole, while already being invaded by drednok units. as if the vau n'akat were prepared for their arrival.

and when the order is formed, not one of the other 99 vau n'akat ships can the find the protostar. (like, you would think they have some way of tracking the ship or the living construct itself, but they can't. evidently, asencia has to infiltrate the federation and use them to find the protostar.) but the diviner spends 20 years in one place, mining, because he knows it's worth it, instead of searching the wider galaxy, and turns out he was right the whole time, because the ship is actually there.

and we learn that he defied the order by making a progeny. but why does that rule exist in the first place? a dying species hell-bent on surviving at all costs, and they're not allowed to have children? or it's just him who's not allowed to, just gwyn who cannot be born? the girl who made first contact? right in the first episode, the diviner tells her "whatever future our people hold will be up to you." he knows who his daughter will become and he wants to save her from the federation. he didn't raise her so she could finish his mission when he's no longer able to – he didn't raise her to hate the federation from childhood, he raised her to not even know of the federation, and to never learn because he will destroy them before she can be corrupted by them. "history can be rewritten," he says in moral star and i believe he's not just talking about solum. he's talking about gwyn too.

[misc-magic]

Trying to break in this new tarot deck and it just keeps giving me Aces and the Death card like okay okay I get it! Transformation and new beginnings but like if you think that’s gonna get me to leave the house you are mistaken so can we please move on?? 😤

[little-peril-stories]

Heads Up, Seven Up

Thank you @space-writes for the tag! Post here.

Gently tagging: @dyrewrites, @willtheweaver, @bluberimufim

Rules: Pick seven lines/sentences/whatever from a WIP and share them here!

Jonathan shrugged, but the motion was lost to the darkness. Evyn wasn’t even looking at him. Her gait slowed as the pitch-black wall of forest came into view; in fact, she almost drifted to a full stop, so intently was her attention pinned on the trees bordering the south end of town. “Ev?” “Hmm?” He poked her in the ribs, eliciting an irritated yelp, but it seemed to wake her from her reverie. “Looking for fairies?” he teased.

[identitty-dickruption]

a fun joke is to pick a country slightly different from yours and say that they don’t have something there that you have in your country. there are no sporks in the UK. Russians don’t have drawers, only cupboards. nice harmless fun

[novaceresart]

yea

[littlelovelyspiderling]

Just dropping in cause I want to let u know that i adore your Spiderman fanfics. The way you write Peter and his reactions is just so adorable and I live for the bantering and the fun dialoge and well your fics are just gold. Hope u have a nice day :)

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[broodwolf221]

going thru my google docs to dl stuff bc ig they're being shitty abt accounts or smth, idk, i haven't read into it enough, but yeah

however the point of this is... i found this gem. my plans for a dragon age star trek au, lmao.

dragon age star trek au

Fenris - Non-Starfleet - Stowaway?

Anders - Medical

Aveline - Security

Merrill - Sciences: biology & botany

Isabela - Communications

Sebastian - ? Maybe an advisor or smth

Varric - Communications - Non-Starfleet?

Bethany - Sciences

Carver - Security 

Zevran - Security -> Communications

Alistair - Command

Morrigan - Sciences 

Sten - Security -> Command

Wynne - Sciences: medical

Leliana - Communications

Cassandra is going to be the Captain of the Inquisition (ship)

Cullen is a Commander and in charge of security (not sure if that makes him a security officer or if that’s a demotion.... js i hate military rank systems)

Leliana is a Lieutenant Commander & Navigation Officer

Josephine is a Lieutenant Junior Grade Communications Officer and I’m a little tempted to make her sit at the Helm but idk

Morrigan is a Science Officer, specializing in Botany and Chemistry

Dorian is a Science Officer, specializing in Archaeology, Ancient Civilizations, and Languages

Vivienne is a Science Officer, specializing in Anthropology and Political Science

Solas is a Science Officer, specializing in Ancient Civilizations, Astronomy, and Physics

The Iron Bull is a previous Captain, now working in Security, non-Starfleet but still on a Starfleet ship

Blackwall is a liarrr and took on his captain’s role after the previous captain was killed in battle

Cole is a newly discovered, seemingly one-of-a-kind alien that’s both a telepath and empath

Inquisitor holds a unique power and everyone is trying to gain ownership of their abilities. 

Elves = Bajorans

Qunari = Klingons, maybe?

Dwarves = Dwarves

Humans = Humans

[lesbianjasonvorhees]

I love seeing a pigeon post cause I show them to my dad and he’s always like “oh yeah I know that guy”

[kamil-a]

btw was relistening to the lady and the tiger ep earlier. cassandra whats your deal (POSITIVE) were you just like ummm can i fuck with dr caulfield....for science reasons and sayer was like OF COURSE!!!! ill help