#crossroads god

[hecatesdelights]

Papa Legba, god of crossroads in Vodou, and emissary between the gods and man, he is also guardian of the poto mitan, the central pole in the place of worship, which acts as a channel through which the gods may descend and temporarily possess the faithful during ceremonies.

[martyreddie]

one thing i absolutely love about eddie is the fact that he is always on the lookout for ways to sacrifice himself for the people he loves. girlfriend pregnant? i'll provide for her by risking my life in the military. twice. without asking first. my traumatised son is scared that my job is too dangerous? i will transfer to another one that makes me deeply miserable. also without asking first. can't seem to fall in love with my new girlfriend even though my kid loves her? guess i'll just stick it out. my parents hate my wife even after her death? i will push down every bit of anger i ever felt at her and defend her like a rabid dog. hell, i will romanticise that relationship so bad that I literally cannot move on from her and am haunted by her ghost in both a metaphorical and literal way for years to come. and when, as the crowning result of all my disregard for my personal well-being and healing, my kid has run to texas, and now he does not seem to want to come home? i will bear every bit of pain and embarrassment his obvious disdain and my parents' flagrant disinterest in letting us heal from this causes me, and if that doesn't work, i will upend my entire life, forsake every bit of progress I have ever made, and come crawling back to the city i grew up in. without asking first, of course.

eddie diaz will see a cross, ask "is anyone going to die on that thing?" and then not wait for an answer

[emulatorstar]

the view from beneath the top layer

[nicollekidman]

don't have a leak of taylor swift's new album but i went on a date this weekend with a girl who's friend is a music journalist and according to him it's a very sad album with a lot of jazz influences. hope this helps at all <3

OKAY…… OKAY……… OKAY…… WAIT……. OKAY…

[randomminty]

Yippee

[atomicradiogirl]

band of brothers (2001) part 5 - ‘crossroads’ dir. tom hanks

[beebobeebo]

[ludinusdaleth]

matt saying dominox "probably" showed ludinus "the souls of people he had cared for but had to be sacrificed for the greater good…coming back to question if he had done the right thing". what if this was my 9/11

[majorasnightmare]

thinking about isobel and ketheric, and my durge and ketheric, and isobel and my durge

like ketheric whos entire personality is centered around being a failed father, dirge who lives solely and exclusively for a father who does not love him, isobel being horribly violated for the sake of fatherly love in the name of a person shell never be again like excuse me this trio of people makes me go insane

ketheric and dirge like!! zealot recognizes zealot, ketheric knows what its like to be devoted wholeheartedly to a god who will discard you and thats explicitly why he has a businesslike relationship with myrkul, who KNOWSSS ketherics heart isnt in it but doesnt care, ketheric who never fully believed in the absolute plan but carried it out nonetheless, ketheric who nonsensically traded the death of the world for his daughters life, who in reality most likely traded his afterlife for isobels life, knowingly condemning himself to never see melodia again, to an eternity of torture at myrkuls hands, just so isobel can breathe again. dirge knowing with perfect clarity his own father would never do that for him. ketheric knowing that kind of hopeless devotion and willful blind ignorance leads to a kind of iron will that makes dirge genuinely dangerous but pitying the poor fool nonetheless because despite dirges clear intelligence and skill, despite his overwhelmingly obvious power, hes shackled to a self destructive idiot whod bite off his own arm just to spite the world who couldnt give a single fuck about dirges mental state or how that affects achieving bhaals OWN goals and fulfilling his OWN desires, because ketheric understands perfectly well a god will be stupid and selfish first and reasonable and measured second. dirge hating ketheric not just for being a wishywashy traitor who cant settle on something to be devoted to, but because ketheric has the shit figured out. its a zero sum game. theres no winning, only different types of losers, and embracing that truth means acknowledging his entire life has been a pointless self destructive waste that will never give him the satisfaction and actualization dirge craves, so its easier and more stable to just interpret ketheric as a coward. except hes going to kill himself for isobel. going to go through hell for her. theres a level of devotion and love and care there that dirge has only experienced once in his life and the memory of it is enough to drive him to madness, but despite it all ketheric IS competent. is level and measured and powerful and capable of looking past his own self interest to the far horizon of victory, is tactical and clever and willing to wade into the fray. so dirge hates, and admires, and envies, and pities, and reflexively seeks out and avoids ketheric in equal measure. wants to carve him up until he finally breaks, screaming for a god that wont hear him as just rewards for his insolence (because dirges loyalty will SURELY be rewarded, loyalty to his god and to his father, certainly), cant stand the idea of working alongside anyone else, hates being around him but hates doing things without him, falling into old habits of depravity just to get away from the cacophany of emotion and the introspection it tries to trigger.

and then ketheric is doing all of this for someone who doesnt really exist. the isobel he wants to revive isnt real. its a version of her thats stripped hollow of the things that make her, HER. he wants an isobel that doesnt love aylin, he wants an isobel that is content to remain in place and be protected by him, where he was the center of her world. he wants an isobel that hasnt existed for over a century. he wants an isobel like he remembers thinking of the days before melodia died. its why despite everything he gives up for her, if ketheric gets his hands on isobel he tadpoles her. the tadpoles are just a convenient tool for cutting away the unnecessary parts of a person, things they dont need and wont want afterwards. isobel mourns the father she had after her mother died, but ketheric wants the isobel she used to be when melodia was still present in their lives. the isobel after melodia died eventually left him for aylin. grew up and became a person outside of their small family and community. had interests and desires and goals that took her away from him. she doesnt need aylin, doesnt need anything besides family. thats whats important, thats whats worth ruining lives over. everything after isobel was just a failed copy, not even worth reminiscing over. everyone beyond isobel doesnt matter. desecrate the family tomb, abuse your son, drag your aunts and uncles and brothers and sisters out from the grave just to see if it works, if it sticks, because the whole world revolves around a little girl who stopped existing long before she died, because she became someone else someone new and left you floundering alone. youll get them back even if it means you burn in hell forever, those few precious moments are worth it, itll all be worth it, its already worth it. kill yourself kill the world because the only god worth dying for is the one found in between poorly scratched letters on a paper rotting from age that say "love you papa, -I T". live every day with the smoke and the rot knowing that your father loved you so much he cant even look at who you are now. live every day knowing its a gift you cant return to a man who doesnt see you, knowing that all youll ever have are ghosts that seek to hollow you out and play pretend with the shell. hes awful. hes horrible. hes a monster. hes your dad and he loves you so much its killing you. will kill you. has killed you. has killed everything you could ever want in your life. hes your dad. he read you stories when you were small. kept you from falling apart when your mother died. your rock in stormy seas. he wants to read you another story. its dark outside. its scary. this story has a happy ending. its just for you. the girl in the picture book has your name but doesnt look like you at all. its written in silver blood. theres an ache that wont leave, a rot that refuses to mend, a scar that wont close, and its all for love

thinking about dirge being the one to drag isobel from her coffin, to bring her back for the sake of sealing a pact that will end the world, going against his entire religion the whole reason for his existence just for the sake of fulfilling his own fathers dreams. children living at the behest of their parents, denied death for their fathers selfish whims. isobel autopsied and opened, layers peeled back. gortash and ketheric never exhumed a body, never prepared it for the grave, never made such an intimate study of death. gortash unwilling to bloody himself unnecessarily, ketheric unwilling to look past the deathmask to see isobels interior, so its dirge, it has to be him, the only one willing to bite down his own desires for the greater good. an unforgivable violation of autonomy, but the only one who thinks of it as such is the scion of the murder god. she cant consent. she cant choose to be apart of this, to sacrifice herself for a cause greater than herself. he has to inflict this upon her. life is suffering and madness and delusion. death is peace, and he is the holy vessel of transition from one state to the other. this? this is blasphemy. she has already fled this horrid blighted world for a better one, and here he is participating in blasphemous ritual. its for the sake of their plan, its for the sake of enacting his fathers dreams (as all children know, you are naught but a vessel to achieve the goals they could not in their time), but she cannot even take glory in the knowledge of her sacrifice, cannot even know she is a sacrifice until its too late to go back. carves open and peels back the picturesque skin, preserved by gloom and arid darkness and sealed stone to keep away the rot. peeling away the mask of Isobel Thorm to see the visceral rotting insides of a person ketheric cant stand to see.

clearing away the ruin and decay so something new can take its place. corpses are objects fled of souls, no longer a person, no longer anything and thus free to toy and play with as boredom and curiosity desires, but this is not a thing. this will again be a person, a vessel to trap someone inside of, to force them to suffer and persist and delude and live and he cant even ask if shell do it. do it to help him break the world and put an end to this madness forever. cant convince her of the rightousness of it, the necessity of it, cant help but use her for it. to gortash she is a token exchanged for power, to ketheric she is a snapshot of a better world he wants to go back to, but only here on this dirty bloodstained table with a bhaalspawn elbow deep in her organs is she a person, whos autonomy and personhood is being irrevocably violated. his nature is to free them of these shackles, to snip the cords and revel in the ensuing destruction, and here he is binding her again. the humiliation, the horror, of being set loose from this hellscape only to be brought back. to be dragged, kicking and screaming, back into living. to be subject to such awful blasphemy. here in the dark and the quiet where there is no voice to speak back to him, when there is no rushing blood or beating hearts to call forth his purpose, there and then does armageddons prophet desire forgiveness, only in this shadowed purgatory can someone truly see. when all the world lies dead at my feet, i will beg forgiveness from no one but you. lamb on the altar, holy blood, if such desecration was not necessary for the cleansing of suffering, i would never deign to subject you to it. to you alone do i tender my apologies, my blessed father may forgive this sin in light of the retribution it will call forth, but cruel fate has chosen you without your knowledge to bear this disgusting violation, and the only salve i can offer is that, gods willing, you will not suffer long. to live in a world that could give rise to something like me is a torture i would not wish upon anyone, and for the sake of my father i inflict it upon you nonetheless. when you rise, my only thoughts will be of murder, holy and pure. but here in the dark, when you are at peace and i am not, i think of you, and what youd want, and how no one would ever, COULD ever, ask for what i do to you here. here in the quiet i breathlessly whisper a prayer meant only for your ears, a second sin i cannot stop myself from committing, here where you cannot hear me but God surely can, a wish that i will surely pay for dearly, a punishment i endure willingly and without complaint, a smallest fraction of the torment i knowingly inflict upon you. i live, and soon so shall you, and for that, i will never know peace.

im so sorry. i did it for love

[vigilskeep]

someday somebody in the team is going to actually make sol explain some of their motivations and reasonings and they are going to respond “you DID let an antivan crow be put in charge” and nobody’s going to have a real answer to that

[deimossie]

✦ PURPLE: VALE

[longer-than-i-should-admit]

Thirteen (point six) hours in now that it’s finally downloaded…I tired…I’ve been up since seven am lol, it’s so much better than I expected!🥰

I’ll post better images once I figure out where in the hell my screenshot folder is but my baby Fenalan turned out so so gorgeous oml🥹

Spoilers mentioned under the cut:

I’m so glad Varric is okay. He gave Fenalan a little pep talk when she cracked under the pressure a bit so she’s doing her best to hold it together for the team. She left the mayor bc he’s a shithead and she’s generally been rather purple-coded, as I thought.

She has also given Solas a hard time at first, as planned. I wasn’t expecting him to clap back like he did in that second scene lol, but now that Varric has given her more insight into Solas’ personality she’ll be more cooperative going forward (while still being a lil shit of course).

God I know I’m waiting to romance Lucanis for Khalida but I understand why people are so I love with him. He went grocery shopping for them🥹and the delight in his voice when Fenalan got him the wyvern tooth dagger? Oh my lanta, my heart. And the fact that he noted her favorite drink being tea? That slew me on the spot. By god I am going to smooch you so hard next time. Get ready for it. (Rn he and Neve are flirting up a storm and it’s so damn cute I want to die.)

Honestly all the companion missions so far have been so sincere and sweet. I can’t wait to see more! I’m starting to get all the little side missions branching out so I’m trying not to get overwhelmed with them all by taking them one at a time. I think I’ll tackle more of arlathan forest first thing tomorrow.

I unlocked the memory where Solas fights Elgar’nan, so is the elf who was with him Felassan? I’m assuming it’s Felassan. And if that’s Felassan I am going to cry bc he seems so nice and outgoing.

Also who summoned the fish in the Lighthouse? (I think it was Felassan lol, he seems like an agent of chaos. The “you summoned them, you’ll have to feed them” line took me out.)

I’m mentally cataloguing all the little differences I’ll be making with Khalida, who is more of the soft-spoken, shy, diplomatic type. Her favorite drink will be the “something sweeter” option, she’ll have supported Varric’s plan, and she’ll be more open to Solas’ input off the bat once she gets over her initial fright of him. She’s such a sweet little thing and Lucanis is going to be an utter disaster with her since she’s a bit oblivious lol

God idk if I’m going to be able to sleep after all this but hey, here’s to trying lol

On nydha, lethal’len!🥰

[lleccmte]

WOO DOHWAN ? não! é apenas ARTHUR DUNCAN LECOMTE, ele é filho de ARES do chalé 5, e tem VINTE E SETE ANOS. a tv hefesto informa no guia de programa��ão que ele está no NÍVEL III por estar no acampamento há DOZE ANOS sabia? e se lá estiver certo, ARTH é bastante CATIVANTE mas também dizem que ele é INESCRUPULOSO. mas você sabe como hefesto é, sempre inventando fake news pra atrair audiência.

cnns.

ABOUT. shirts off, and your friends lift you up over their heads. beer sticking to the floor. cheers chanted, cause they said : ' there is no chance, trying to be the greatest in the league. '

Camile Jeon era uma jovem de família pobre que tinha sonhos de grandeza muito além do que os conservadores de sua pequena cidade diziam que poderia alcançar. Via na televisão, as lindas meninas dançando no gelo e queria ser como elas ; mas era diferente - muito diferente. Filha de um caso do pai, professor do ensino fundamental, com uma mente brilhante e um diploma renomado que não lhe conseguiu muito na vida, com a deusa Atena. 

Sempre soube de sua herança divina, o pai solteiro - muito criticado pelas mesmas bocas que diziam que ela não seria nada na vida - , foi honesto consigo sobre a linhagem especial de qual vinha desde que era criança , em partes porque não sabia como lidar sozinho com a excentricidade da filha. Como sempre tinha feito, Camile tomou conta dos dois, e fez as melhores escolhas para que eles pudessem prosperar - sempre com um plano, sempre estrategista. Aos quinze, era uma das campistas mais celebradas do acampamento, missões bem sucedidas e bênção divina para dizer que foi valente e importante para os deuses. 

Porém, aos dezessete, sabia que seu tempo ali tinha acabado - trabalhou incessantemente para se manter acima d'água, podendo tomar conta do pai, e conseguir treinar patinação. Estava além da idade e sabia disto, mas como sempre ; havia um plano para sua vida, e mesmo que fosse cortando caminhos, ela alcançaria glória. 

Pois dito e feito, aos dezoito anos foi convidada por uma treinadora francesa para se juntar ao seu time, e embora tenha - por um instante, que fosse - hesitado em aceitar, sabendo que o pai tinha dificuldade em se virar sem ela ; o plano era o plano. Desta forma, foi para França e começou a se preparar para as Olimpíadas. Contudo, seu caminho, não foi sem adversidade e reconstrução. Primeiro, a morte do progenitor que a deixou sem família, depois uma fratura que a deixou longe da equipe por um ano. Já tinha vinte, já devia ter alcançado sucesso naquela altura e tudo que parecia acumular desde que deixou o acampamento eram fracassos. Contudo, Camile era esperta e inescrupulosa - qualidades que mais tarde passaria ao filho - , e escreveria seu próprio destino, como bem entendesse.

A sorte mudou completamente quando achou em Alistair Lecomte, sua passagem para o tão sonhado êxito. Alistair era um jogador de hockey, que foi forçado a se aposentar cedo por conta de um ligamento rompido, mas não estava fora de forma e mantinha paixão pelo gelo. A filha de Atena encontrou um técnico para os dois, que os transformou em uma dupla formidável, porém era mais que isto. Além de patinar juntos, os dois mantinham um romance público que gerou inveja em todos na França e ao redor do globo, e fez com que torcessem ainda mais para os patinadores, que eventualmente ganharam medalhas e mais medalhas, troféus e mais troféus, fama e mais fama. Juntos, eram imbatíveis - porém, apesar do que acreditavam os tablóides, Camile e Alistair eram apenas melhores amigos, que fingiam estar apaixonados para esconder a verdadeira orientação de Ali da família afluente. 

Depois de se aposentar no topo de suas carreiras, os dois resolveram se casar . Foi o evento do século, casaram-se uma vez em Las Vegas para manter o pretenso de paixão, depois tiveram cerimônias na França e nos Estados Unidos, a mulher decidida a mostrar para todos que duvidaram de si, exatamente o quão longe tinha chegado. 

Na vida particular, Alistair mantinha o homem que amava em segredo e Camile tinha seus casos sem importância - apesar de serem apenas amigos, Alistair era sua pessoa, sua alma gêmea e tudo que precisava. Ela não contava, no entanto, que o deus da guerra fosse tomar interesse por ela, em uma noite de verão, em um cabaré exclusivo em Viena. 

Nove meses depois, uma criança nasceu desse encontro - com uma colher de ouro na boca, e amado tanto por Camile quanto por Alistair, que já tinha dado seu nome a esposa e fez o mesmo com o filho. Afinal, assim via o pequeno Arthur, como o filho que sempre quis ter. 

Camile fez com Arth, o mesmo que o pai tinha feito consigo - foi honesta sobre quem realmente era. Sobre a existência dos deuses, as guerras que este mundo já tinha enfrentado, e a possibilidade de que iria enfrentar muitas outras, fazendo com que ele tivesse de se proteger quando ela e Alistair não fossem o suficiente para mantê-lo seguro. 

Desta forma, como tinha sido com a mãe, Arthur foi para o acampamento meio sangue aos treze, descobrindo então seu poder que antes se manifestava principalmente quando estava no colégio, envolvido em algum esporte, ou se metendo em alguma briga. Odicinese, era como chamavam, comum aos filhos de Ares - podia manipular os sentimentos mais latentes que vinham da guerra , entre eles, a raiva - sua especialidade. No começo, se sentiu perdido sobre como usar aquilo a seu favor, demorando para sair do nível I em seu treinamento - mas como a mãe, era esperto e inescrupuloso, e depois de certo tempo descobriu que encontrava prazer em ver as pessoas lutando contra aqueles que diziam amar, respeitar e venerar.

Por pouco, antes de ter controle sobre o poder, não destruiu o casamento dos pais. Os dois entrando em combates, às vezes até mesmo violentos, levados à loucura por uma força que não podiam nomear . Apesar de amá-lo, a mãe o ressentiu então, por quase tirar de si , a única pessoa mais preciosa que ele - o melhor amigo que lhe trouxe glória. 

Foi no futebol americano que encontrou uma escapatória de sua própria fúria. Aos vinte e dois, já tinha sido contratado pelos 49ers, e jogado um super bowl. Todos faziam festa quando ele estava em campo, estrategista como era, sempre se destacava nas partidas e mais que tudo, quando pegava na bola, os adversários salivavam com competitividade ; era como se estivessem em um campo de batalha e ele gostava assim. 

Apesar de passar as off seasons no acampamento, ou com o pai e seu namorado, Nick , a quem ele e sua mãe adoram, dando apoio para que um dia Alistair venha a público com a verdade, estava no meio de uma temporada de treinamento quando recebeu o chamado de Dionísio. Tentou convencer a mãe a vir consigo, mas sabia que ela jamais iria abandonar o pai, portanto foi com uma despedida, em sua opinião, excessivamente melosa, que se despediu da família, e da vida que sem saber , estava deixando para trás, os 49ers encerrando seu contrato depois de dois meses fora, causando cólera nos fãs - afinal, ele era o melhor na liga. 

MORE.

PODERES: Odicinese, a habilidade de manipular sentimentos e emoções da guerra, como ódio, raiva e medo. Arthur, em especial, se destaca manipulando a raiva, transformando-a em sua maioria em grande competitividade. 

HABILIDADES: sentidos aguçados e força sobre-humana. 

ARMA: ' basileus ' , rei em latim - uma adaga de ferro estígio que ganhou do próprio pai depois de uma missão bem sucedida onde salvou a vida de um irmão. a arma é intrincada com desenhos de batalha em prata, e afiada como é, corta pela pele de qualquer monstro e também qualquer coração, ele imagina - embora nunca tenha a testado em um humano. no dia a dia, ela se parece com um anel que fica no dedo indicador e tem o formato de uma caveira. 

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 membro da equipe azul do clube da luta, instrutor de combate corpo a corpo e patrulheiro. 

[girlfriendline]

🥰🤗.

[kitkatkatrene]

Rob Benedict and Alexander Calvert

Crossroads 8, Birmingham UK, 26-28 April 2024

[doctorwhoisadhd]

i cant believe rtd called him "the god of traps" he literally . never actually sets an actual trap ever all you have to do is be like Actually i take back my deal with you and he just goes NOOOO god of fucking consent more like