#cursed netflix spoiler

[dismas-n-dismay]

Reminder that Hex quite literally means a spell/curse.

Hextech, hexcore, inherently it was all always meant to go wrong and was not meant to be there to save anyone- it was a curse to have befallen them.

The universe without the hextech is quite literally- Hexless.

[cursed-onepiss]

the way my ass was not prepared for shanks rolling up to marineford, immediately intimidating every still-conscious major player on the battlefield including gd sengoku…

and then whipping around like a soap opera protagonist the second he realized buggy was there

*:･✧BUGGY?✧･:*

i don’t have to ship them when shanks does it for me

[deer-with-a-stick]

WHY ARE BELMONTS ALWAYS SO BAD AT THIS

TALKING TO EACH OTHER

EMOTIONAL MATURITY

MAKING FIRST IMPRESSIONS

BEING TRAUMA FREE

WHAT THE HELL GUYS

[dadralt]

Ciri in The Witcher Season 3, Volume 2 Trailer

[lancedoncrimsonwings]

I have a mighty need for someone to gif both Gawain The Green Knight from Cursed going "Well it's bloody mad!"

And Gwayne Hightower from HOTD going "It's fucking madness!"

Please. For science.

I love my sassy boys!

[tang3r1n]

i don’t like arcane anymore y’all. cut the cameras, hate that shit.

[mandrakeboo]

one of my favorite things about arcane is how genuinely intelligent jinx is. like, yeah she's pretty crazy, yeah she had to watch almost every family member she's ever had die a violent death and it still effects every decision she makes, yeah she's only 16, but she's an engineering genius. she was just a poor, malnourished, neglected, mentally ill kid - but she knew she could build things, and she did it. and she never, ever stopped. and it's always gotten her into more shit than it has good graces, but she does it anyway. she sees the world through a mechanical lens, and for her, her machines and creations are more real than reality itself. in this essay I will,

[stuffimscaredtoshowpeopleiknow]

I made a little Daybreak tribute video, because I love that violent found family.

[nbkdramathings]

WAAAAIT!

Ok so I actually haven’t rewatched the episode yet (watched it at work today on my phone) BUT I just saw a clip of when Sinyu was trying to help her out of the ditch and she had her first flashback. Someone put the scene of them in the snow right after it and a lightbulb went off!

What if the garner in the past life does something to Aengcho (I hope that’s the proper spelling) like, idk CURSE HER (or both her and Mujin), and she ends up in the ditch (by past life gardener) but Mujin saves her. They go to escape but realize they can’t, so they both decide that it would be “best” (aka hurt the most) if Mujin shoulders her curse so that she can escape the shackles of whatever the curse is!

And as a result, Sinyu experiences the red hand because Mujin has finally been reincarnated (I believe it was mentioned in his talk with Eun Wol that he had “finally” been reincarnated in this life or something like that) and Aengcho is reaching out to him in a heartbreaking lovers lost kind of way!

[starlyte-writes]

*ARCANE S2 ACT 3 SPOILERS WARNING*

No cuz wdym they spent an entire episode showing a world where she got to grow up and be (mostly) happy as Powder, healthy and (mostly) untraumatized, a beautiful young woman who had a whole life to discover in front of her only for our reality to be one where she lost every good thing she ever had, every time things seemed to maybe possibly get better they got worse, and in the end her spark lit an explosion that died as quick as it came, and Jinx never even got the chance to have a future like that Powder had I AM GOING TO LOSE IT WHAT THE FUCK-

[tear-catch3r]

something i've been thinking about 1899 is that scene where maura grabs eyk in the mental hospital and goes "maybe we've both gone mad 🥺" and like it's a nice moment for them good chemistry etc and sure it's valid from their perspectives and all but it's so funny how they keep acting like they're they only ones that know something is wrong while every other character on this damned boat is also experiencing the Horrors

[therulerofallpotatos]

Morticia: why Tyler is essentially family!

Wednesday, already planning where to bury Tyler alive: Is he now?

[kindlyones]

@Dorset I am available for hire

[everlastingdreams]

Still writing Born In The Dawn.

Status between y/n and the Weeping Monk at chapter 19 : It's complicated.

Lol

[tnc-n3cl]

Castlevania fic idea rambles 1

I recently rewatched the entirety of the 2017 Castlevania animated series and season one of Castlevania: Nocturne.  Love the shows, great action, lots of satisfying emotional moments, cool characters.  Everything was fine until I made the mistake of opening my fic notes I made last year when I watched the 2017 series and started having ideas and cursed myself.  So, I’ve been spinning my wheels on worldbuilding for a Castlevania fic for the last couple weeks.

So now I’m going to share those thoughts…  This time it’s going to be geography!  The fic I’m thinking about is mostly based on the game series but I’ll work in what I can from the animated series.  The 2017 series is mostly set in Wallachia which is part of what is now Romania, and includes a few real-world locations and seems to more or less follow real world geography.  The games… not so much.  They’re mostly set in Wallachia or Transylvania, but there are some creative liberties that were taken with geography, and that’s going to be the topic of this post!

I’ll put the rest of this below the cut.  I will warn you that there are spoilers below, both for the games and the 2017 series, but maybe more for the series.

So, like I said there’s some liberties taken with geography by the Castlevania games.  First, I’ll start with Order of Ecclesia, since it gives us something of a world map and doesn’t take place entirely within a castle!

The map depicts a shoreline, an island, and a couple of watery locations that the area descriptions call sea or ocean.  Now the problem is that Wallachia and Transylvania are landlocked with limited access to the Black Sea.  Now it is possible that Order of Ecclesia is not set within Wallachia or Transylvania.  However…

There’s a map from the opening cutscene of Curse of Darkness.  First off, they call Wallachia Valachia instead, but we can see that there are three bodies of water here, one to the west and one to the south, and one to the east.  The eastern one is obviously the Black Sea, but what about the other two…

Comparing this map with a real-world map (I just typed Romania into Google Maps) it looks like the southern one is the Aegean Sea, while the western one is Adriatic Sea.  Which would mean that Transylvania and Wallachia (or Valachia) take up the entirety of the Balkans/Southeast Europe, something that historically never happened as far as I can tell. Curse of Darkness takes place in 1479, three years after Castlevania III/Castlevania (2017 animated series), so one could argue that Dracula’s war against humanity changed things…

In contrast, here’s a couple maps from the 2017 animated series.  This first one is a map of “Greater Styria” that was featured in S3 (spoilers for this second link!).  This second map is a zoom in of the first map that focuses on Wallachia.

Interestingly you may notice a town of Wygol on that second map, there’s a Wygol Village in Order of Ecclesia and Lords of Shadow (but that’s an alternate timeline).  The people over on the Castlevania Wiki speculate that Wygol may be the same as some other settlements seen throughout the game series.

You may also note a Bukharest on the map near Wygol, that’s an old name for Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. Wygol Village is important for plot reasons in my fic, so placing it near Bucharest gives me details to work with so I’m go with that.

So where am I going with all this?  Either in the world of the Castlevania games Wallachia took up most of Southeast Europe or there are two inland seas in between what is now Romania and Bulgaria and Romania and Serbia. I have set my fic in the fictional year of 1056 PC (Post Calamity), which translates to 3128 AD.  The Calamity being a series of natural and supernatural disasters which reshaped the world and took out most of the more modern technologies and what have you.  So, I think I’m going to go with adding fictional bodies of water to Europe.  Apparently, there’s a Pelargic Ocean in Lords of Shadow so maybe I’ll call one of them the Pelargic Sea…

[lancedoncrimsonwings]

I am ridiculously sad I joined this fandom late. But 100% I will always ship these two, hsjnajakaja Just all the feels all of them.

Also, Gawain's "body" being encased by Nimue's plants at the same moment as Lancelot faces up to the Trinity guard with that beautiful music, as well as the music that happens when they share a look in the torture tent END me.

We so deserved better than this show getting cancelled.

I NEED TO TALK ABOUT LANCEWAIN FOR A SECOND!!! PLEASE EXCUSE MORE OF MY INCOHERANT NON WHUMP RAMBLINGS! I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE.

So i’m head over heels in deep for this ship and here’s why

The Weeping Monk fights and captures Gawain and ends up revealing to the man that he’s Fey.

Then while in the Paladin camp Gawain doesn’t outright tell everyone about him bit he hints it enough that now Lancelot is nervous af and veeery confused.

So he goes and visits Gawain and asks him and Gawain! Gawain sees him! Not as the Paladins dog but as a Fey who has brainwashed, who’s lost! He calls him brother and starts saying things that perhaps he’s already subconsciously thought of like:

And:

Then what happens?? Squirrel is taken prisoner and he tries to help him and gets slapped for it!!! Mayhaps Gawains words about how he doesn’t harm the children but stand idly by and lets it happen echoes through his brain in this moment? Cause he is no longer standing idly by while they hurt the boy! He’s now actively trying to help even if he’s a little awkward and unsure about it.

But here’s the thing, when we next see the Weeping Monk he’s since whipped himself BECAUSE HE CAN NO LONGER FEELS GOD GRACE!!! BECAUSE GAWAIN’S WORDS HAVE AFFECTED HIM SO MUCH THAT HIS ENTIRE SENSE OF SELF AND HIS BELIEFS ARE BEGINNING TO CRUMBLE AND HE ASKS IF FATHER CARDEN LOVES HIM BECAUSE HE WANTS TO FEEL LOVED AND SOMEONE HELP ME I HAVE FEELS

And Father Carden, omg I cant right now, Father Carden unknowingly gives Lancelot a piece of advice which turns out to be the final piece of the puzzle that finally pushes in the right direction that he needed. This right here:

“Do you have the will to do what is necessary to save your soul?”

What does Lancelot do next?

HE SAVES SQUIRREL FROM BROTHER SALT AND DECIMATES THE TRINITY GUARD AND LEAVES THE PALADINS!!!

HE HAD THE WILL TO DO WHAT WAS NECESSARY TO SAVE HIS SOUL!!! Just not in the way Father Carden had in mind!

ALL OF THIS BECAUSE OF GAWAIN!!!!!!!

BECAUSE OF GAWAIN’S WORDS! If Gawain hadn’t found out about him being Fey and then tried to reach through to him, I don’t Lancelot would have done any of that.

Yes this part of him, the good, was in him but I generally believe that without Gawain’s words to him in that tent, Lancelot might never have questioned things, might never have betrayed his beliefs and saved Squirrel.

It was Gawain that ultimately pushed him towards it and its because of this that I ship them so damn hard. No one could come close for me now (Sorry Nimue). Not when I have Gawain who was the person to push Lancelot on the path of redemption. Not when I have Gawain who was the first person to accept him for who he is. The first person to believe in him.

Lancewain forever.