#can we all just say '...O SHIT'

[scrollsfromarebornrealm]

wayward (grand)daughter 8

Astrid exhaled, looking at what was the ruins of her living room.  But she couldn’t complain, the orphans all had a lovely time.  And it had lifted her spirits some, to see and hear children running about her mansion once more.

“Helena, don’t bother.  Start picking up in the morning.”  Which reminded her that she’d need to leave the cleaning crew a most generous tip, Astrid mused.  With a grunt, she pushed herself out of the chair--just as the doorbell rang.

“Oh good gods.”

“I’ll get rid of them, ma’am.”  Helena was a blur of pink as she strode quickly towards the main entrance.

“Please!”  Astrid called out after her.  “No more well wishers, friends, wassaliers, saints or saints’ helpers!”  Her feet screamed in pain, and Astrid gritted her teeth.  She bent over to remove her shoes.

“If they ask about a party there will not be one for Heavensturn!  I’m going to Montichaigne’s!  And getting drunk!”  Helena returned-carrying a basket of flowers in one hand, and an open note in the other.

“My contact in Barnier’s house says he got some sort of communique from the Illsabard Contigent.  It was enough to make him immediately leave for  Fourchenault’s manor, and send a request to the Scholarch to head there as well.”  Astrid blinked.

“Perhaps something’s happened with the blasphemy problem out there.”  She said.

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“Camilla Borja, Astrid’s ex-daughter in law?!  Are you certain?!”  Montichaigne exploded. 

“I don’t have confirmation yet, but I’m certain the representative was telling the truth!  Her name was listed on the roll of survivors in that region.”  Fourchenault realized he was gaping at Barnier, and shook his head to recover his wits.

“Does DeGlass know yet?”  He demanded.

“No, and we’ll have to do something to keep her from finding out.  The minute she learns of this, she’s liable to...take some sort of regrettable action.”  Barnier finished.

“Barnier, that is the godsdamned understatement of the year and you know it!”  Montichaigne had never admitted to anyone, but he had always held a lingering suspicion of Astrid from that dreadful time.  Everything had just been too neat, too tidy, and Astrid was not the type to take any sort of insult lying down.

“Did our representative say just where she was, exactly?”  Fourchenault interjected.  “The Borja woman.”

“A border town just west of Camp Broken Glass.  I already gave them orders to confirm if she is actually there.”  Barnier exhaled.  “I can suppress this, but I do not know how long for.  And if it turns out the ex-daughter in law is actually physically present there...she must be taken into custody.”

“Seven hells.”  Fourchenault breathed.  “Astrid will kill her if she comes here.”

“Thus the need to keep this hidden from her.”  Montichaigne muttered.  “Only I doubt that it can be done.  Her spies are better than the entire Forum’s!”

“We must try.”  Barnier urged.  “There is enough as it is--the debate on rejoining the Eorzean Alliance, that gaol in the aetherical sea--we cannot have this matter get out of control, or serve as a distraction from the bigger issues at hand.”

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(thank you to @driftward​ for standing in!)

wayward (grand)daughter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

[itshomobirb]

if my parents keep talking to me im going to (remembers that suicide jokes are bad for mental health) go outside and dig a hole to narnia

[finalset]

hope that post didn’t come off judgy or like I think there is a right way to be trans I just feel like there is this very icky way queer ppl think they can talk about trans people in the guise of it being praise or smth like that but then it’s like you read the words and it doesn’t sit right to me at least. idk I haven’t seen it addressed much but it just seems too fetishy and reductive and I don’t like that that is more commonly coming from queer people themself

[orcelito]

Thinking again about my plans for Vash and Knives in ITNL

Which I can't really get into the specifics for How I'm going to do things w/o going into spoiler territory. But I Do have Vash & Knives tagged on the fic for a reason. I set up in the first chapter that Vash is determined to try to save Knives too.

Which. That choice, as well as the entire basis for all of this, depends so much on that final fight in trimax. The one that was literally a scene away from where ITNL Vash went back in time. His mentality just a hair's width away from that...

At the end of trimax, there was reconciliation, however brief and incomplete it was. In ITNL, my question to myself was How could I induce that again? Under different circumstances, How Else could we get there? And that is the long-game in ITNL.

[gayemoji]

this week on I DONT THINK HE WOULD FUCKING DO THAT: house ramming a car into cuddys house while she has guests

[fishyartist]

Ok.

[qualityrain]

making sure i dont fit in by shipping kanna/chiyo

[bittwitchy]

the fnaf movie novelization is ofc v different in multiple ways to the movie itself bc it's shows inner thoughts and things, and alternative versions of scenes (Aka some lines are like what the test audiences didnt like so they cut) but its also a lot funnier in certain aspects

[3416]

ppl genuinely mad theyre breaking up 88 and 34 are so funny as if every game i don't have to hear "another missed pass" fkljdslf or as if auston isn't self-fueled rn. like. 599188 was better than 233488 has been in this stretch of the last whole month they've got and if you don't want the second line to get eaten alive, you gotta change something man. first line's not even been that good either on the whole, it just looks insane w auston willing the whole team back into games. willy's point yesterday and a couple over this ten game stretch haven't even had much to do with his own line like lmfao.

ppl only support the whole "we have two talented right wingers so switching them when things go stale is reasonable" when its auston and mitch being split up and that's it. like it's a fairly low stakes move when everyone's played together now, so it's insane i have to read takes about mitch marner and his ~family~ pulling strings in the leafs org like that's a reasonable thing to think or that people constantly complain abt this not making ~logical~ sense when it does ? and they never complain when it's the other way... we just lost 9-3,, like that's not an accident and the leafs are rightly not happy about that. the leafs think auston can drive his own line and if you all really thought willy could, you'd be wanting that second lining firing again bc then that's TWO usable lines and not just one like we had with the lines yesterday.

[dirt-str1der]

Self shipping is always the morally correct thing to do

[ancient-reverie]

this system has no fucking idea what's going on with the other systems of the world and avoids discourse like the plague. inadvertently losing touch with community-used words and looking like a fool for using incorrect labels.

we don't care whether you're a system, plural, a collective, tulpas, alters, head mates. you understand the experience of living with another consciousness. so you get the basis of it. the other issues are semantics in this topic. if u are more than one then that's it.

in our case, we dunno why the brain decided to use the stress response of 'make another one' instead of any other fight or flight. but the brain had different reasons for each one who came up. some of them were from trauma, almost drowning twice as a kid. emotional neglect bc my parents had shitty parents.

and being absolutely RIDDLED with mental health problems from birth, and my parents were and are clueless as to what to do about it so the brain split up the symptoms between everyone so it's at least "manageable" for one at a time.

some alters exist for really strange and benign reasons.

some of us exist bc we had a love for something we had to let go, like singing.

and some exist bc alters got traumatized INSIDE of mindspace and have full on PTSD. we can also mildly trace who came from whom, like a system in a system.

we even thought most of us were tulpas for a long time until we came out of the denial stage and started learning more about DID... and we still don't actually label ourselves with any specific disorder. we don't know and we don't care.

but yeah brains are fucking weird and no one is going to share your same experience, even if you have the same label from a diagnosis.

[orcelito]

OK WAIT here's a ITNL chapter 14 section that's not really spoilers. just a sweet lil section

after this is where it's more Spoilers. but for now. HERE U go. happy birthday vash & also Uhhhh @ ITNL readers I PROMISE i am working on the chapter. things r just hard lol

[safyresky]

TSCS butchered so many things. Honestly, I'm just going to continue to believe that Charlie took over as Santa (because they did my boy so dirty), that Scott was not the first human Santa (wth? seriously), and that this was all just some fever-dream induced vision thanks to the Sandman. Thankfully they cannot take away the weenie whistle away from my sweater-loving fool that is Neil.

And THANKFULLY they stayed very far away from Neil and Laura and Lucy so at least we still have them 😭😭😭 and their sweaters and feeling inventory sessions and general silliness we know and love!!

[pepprs]

beaver gnawing on wood noises

[royalphantompain]

Ugh

Probably gonna private this later

TW Illness and cancer warning