#dark sides of the muses

[beatrice1979a]

Monsters

The Dark Side

Sentimonsters - Monsters - Monsters (alt ver) - Savior

original:

The Dark Side (alternate reality) by Muse

I hail from the dark side For all my life, I've been besieged You'd be scared living with my despair And if you could feel the things, I am able to feel

Break me out Set me free

Save me from the Dark Side

[kaitlinamberxo]

“Don't lecture me, Obi-Wan! I see through the lies of the Jedi. I do not fear the dark side as you do. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.”

kaitlin's 100 favorite fictional muses — 43/100: Anakin Skywalker

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

divorced!au gabrielamala is so hilarious to me for many reasons. for instance, i love how it recontextualizes amala's rather controversial disposition. but also, it makes him and kiran's canonical close friends-y dynamic so much funnier. imagine you're gonna fly to your homeland for the first time ever to see your sibling again, who arrived earlier due to work, and then the person accompanying you, who will also work with them, is your ex-brother-in-law. IMAGINE how awkward the flight must have been...

[ghost-bxrd]

I don't know if you are aware of Epic The Musical, but I want to point out a couple of lines from Ruthlessness that remind me of Jason (re batman not killing the joker).

"You are the worse king of good 'cause your not even great ... cause you fight to survive, but won't kill and don't get the job done"

"You are far to nice, mercy has a price ... Unlike you I've got no mercy left to give"

Dang…. Yeah those lines are screaming Jason.

Jason started out as this sweet boy who didn’t let his tough life dictate his future and found happiness despite it all only to have it ripped from him in the most brutal fashion.

And then he comes back. And he’s large, he’s powerful, he’s scary. And he’s trying to make the world a better place no matter the cost. Regardless of how many bridges he has to burn.

But at the core of it all he’s just a hurt little child asking his father why he wasn’t enough.

[zenerased]

MUSE - SIMULATION THEORY FILM The Dark Side

[the-silver-peahen-residence]

Sen was wondering the streets at night till he thought he saw someone that looked like his friend walk into a bar. He was unused to this place and was getting hungry after not eating for a few days due to research.

Hyasha was also looking for his friend but got lost in the woods. He spotted a woman with long hair and dark eyes. She looked like the crimson moon. "Um, excuse me, miss. Can you tell me where I am and how to get to town?"

(for Diluc and Arlechino)

During this time in the same bar, Diluc was eating something himself but he keeps his eyes gazed forward. Wondering what will happen or what he'll do for now. He didn't question it only to rethink about it. He noticed the other and wonders if he was lost or something else.

Arlechino was looking up at the sky wondering what time tells of her. She was always busy yet not too bad to where things get in the way. However, she blinks hearing someone speak to her. "....Hmm? Your lost?" she looks to him but thinks. "Well, you aren't too far from the town. It's due north from here so again not that far." she said showing the direction.

[lokisasylum]

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[blackwood4stucky]

from what i've tasted of desire, i hold with those who favor fire because the sun also delights in moonlit nights...

From the moment the mystery boy came inside the cafeteria, Bucky knew his soul no longer belonged to him. There was no other conceivable way for him to make sense of the quivering in his lower belly, the pounding of his heart, with just a single look in his direction. That glacial stare turned on him in full force set his blood aflame with want, with desire. He wanted to know more but the boy was surrounded on all sides by what appeared to be a formidable family.

"Who is that?" Bucky asked, his attention solely captured by the blond.

"Oh him? Just another one of the Romanov Children, the good doctor and his wife seem to pick up strays like fruits attract flies." Peggy's posh accent grated on his ears but he listened anyway.

"Peggy, come on. Don't be like that," Sharon said turning to Bucky, nudging him with her shoulder. "That's Steve, Steve Rogers."

musings from a dark twilight stucky au

[stcries]

me watching moots on dash also getting infected with arcane brainworms

[stclker]

What if... corrupted Ellen AU

[lilsciencequeen]

simulation theory is the perfect driving album

[lord-squiggletits]

I need to reread the comics again to have specific arguments/evidence for this, but like

I feel a bit like I could've been sympathetic to the way other Cybertronian colonies view Cybertron, if it weren't for the fact that at least several of them (as in, ones that get notable dialogue/screen time) are so low-key self-righteous?

Like, idk... there's a lot of criticism of Cybertronians because they're so "warlike" and how their obsession with violence and vengeance is just dragging the whole galaxy down with them, but uh. The Autobot-Decepticon war was basically a product of societal ills bubbling over for like 6 million years beforehand and then finally boiling over into a 4 million year war that lasted as long as it did because the people involved had immense social/psychological trauma from being "raised" in an oppressive society.

So when the colonists come in being all 'omg you people are so violent and uncivilized why don't you just like, stop fighting' it kind of pissed me off a little bit as a reader/person like. Idk the colonists really came into this society of people full of massive amounts of trauma where even before the war society was super oppressive and no one has any experience of living "normal" lives unaffected by violence and bigotry. And the colonists were like "ummm wow why don't you guys just??? stop fighting???." Like idk it wasn't EVERY SINGLE MOMENT, in fact I think that when it was played for laughs it's quite a funny "fridge horror" type element. It was just annoying because like.... IDK???? It's just really annoying to watch a bunch of people who lived relatively sheltered lives on their own planets come to a different planet full of traumatized people and be like "omg why are you people so fucked up" IDK BRO MAYBE BECAUSE THEIR SOCIETY WAS OPPRESSIVE AND THEY LIVED THROUGH A LIFELONG WAR???

It also doesn't help that the colonies were literally founded based on imperialism and conquest so like, it's fucking rich to hear colonists scolding Cybertronians for their violence ruining the whole galaxy while literally sitting on planets that their Primes colonized from others. The hypocrisy of this is briefly mentioned in Unicron (literally the FINAL STORY OF THE SERIES) but like, that's basically the only time Cybertronian characters are given a reprieve of sympathy from other characters in universe and it's so tiresome.

I've talked to other people who didn't like the colonists and thought they basically (narratively speaking) existed just to shit on the existing characters, and it's actually really easy for me to sympathize with/outright agree with that assessment of the story considering how much of exRID/OP seems to be preoccupied with "Cybertron/the Primes/Optimus sucks" with very few reprieves for anything positive happening and even fewer chances for characters to get to explain themselves and experience a little bit of justice? Like, as the audience, it's just very frustrating to see the characters you spent hundreds of issues keeping up with get shit on by a bunch of "literally-who"s and then not really get a chance to ever defend themselves, either by literally defending themselves in conversation or having some sort of narrative thing happening that vindicates them at least symbolically

[idolsummons]

Side Muse: Wen Li

The history of the Li family can be traced back hundreds of years to Zhiyuan Li. Zhiyuan did not make a name for himself in the traditional ways, such as plying a trade or becoming a well-renowned artist; rather, he became known for rising up through society through his study and extended use of dark magic. He married Lingyi Feng, a woman from a family which had both wealth and knowledge of dark magic, and together they had children of their own, to whom they passed down their knowledge and riches, who in turn passed it down to their children and so on.

In the modern day, the Li family is still prosperous, and though their history and practices have been forgotten to society at large, dark magic is something which is still passed down to the children in the family, who begin learning their dark practices when they are old enough to speak and read at even the most basic level.

Wen Li is the "middle" child and only female with three siblings: her twin brothers, Chun and Qiu being the oldest, with herself in the middle and a child brother, Bao. Each and every one of them is no exception to learning dark magic, and are even expected to help the younger siblings with their practice (and it was so difficult for her to learn from the twins, who relied heavily on one another to cast more powerful magic).

Since the moment she was able to read and write, Wen had a fascination with the family archives, an expansive library filled with everything one might ever hope to know about dark magic and its various sub-classifications, coupled with a desire to write.

Her very first writings were made up instructional pieces for dark magic and her characters casting such spells. Of course, as a child, these often took the form of summon a puppy or turn the whole sky into a rainbow.

As she grew older and learnt more of the magic passed down by her family, Wen grew out of writing such things, and instead turned to the fantasy genre. At the age of 12 was when she first conceptualised the world of Yaoguo. With few friends to speak of in reality, she spent every spare moment she had in this world, drawing maps, creating characters and creatures, putting them in situations and pitting them against one another.

It was through perusing the family archives at the age of 13 that the young writer and eager reader made quite an interesting discovery: a series of rituals which were carried out not through blood or human sacrifices, by drawing a sigil on the ground and chanting words, but rather, through the act of writing.

Poetry was the key to it, and a language long forgotten to humankind the scribe's tool. The text promised near anything the writer wished could become reality, with the caveat that the work had to be published in such a way that many eyes would fall upon it and many would read it themselves, whether aloud or internally; the more who read the passages, the more tangible the writer's desires would become.

And so, rather ecstatic about the idea and having nothing to lose were it unsuccessful either due to her own failings as a writer or the spell being nothing but the ramblings of a madman, Wen established a new species for her world and incorporated the language as their own - some of the greatest writing of all time is nothing more than borrowed ideas, after all.

Her first wish was a simple one: to become a famous and revered writer.

It started with her family reading her first novel at age 14 and collecting their feedback, and ended at age 16 with the publishing of the first novel in The Yaoguo Fables. Perhaps it was a fluke that her first novel became a best seller not only in China but around the world, but as she published more novels and put in riskier and riskier rituals, Wen knew that it was only possible for the words to indeed be imbued with magic.

Now 24 with six novels in The Yaoguo Fables series under her belt, Wen Li has even more fame and wealth than all others in her family. Having never been much for socialisation, she lives in a remote manor where she can focus on her writing without being disturbed, save for the occasional calling of her family (she's considering writing in a ritual which would see them visit less often). The Yaoguo Fables is a global sensation and its popularity is ever on the rise, and many wish for the reclusive writer to make a public appearance if only once. However, it would take more than a written ritual for her to work up that kind of courage...

[darth-maul-of-dathomir]

Against my better judgement, I have been convinced to return to the nightsister's temple, for a festival of sorts.

The trap was two fold:

One, I see now that I was romanced slowly with breadcrumb tales of culture long denied to me. This event is to showcase these things. Foods I have never tried. Rich wines and sweet meats. Mysticism on display, in honor of the people's gods. Revelry in the darkside.

My curiosity makes me weak, it seems.

Two, I was given solemn oath that no binding would be laid on me, no nightmagick cast. Not poison, nor bother to breed, nor insidious game would be played. Hospitality, and hospitality alone.

... again my curiosity strikes. I doubt their veracity and their intent, and I wish to be proven correct.

This is how I've come to be set on a pile of cushions, a spread of treats on one side, and a comely nightbrother curled up on my other. I am still waiting for the trap to be sprung, but in the mean time I am enjoying the cheese.

[resolutepath]

📱( Ling/ Ed )

LETTER I: UNSENT

Ed, I hope you don't mind but I put the room charges on your research account. You probably shouldn't have left that information somewhere where I could spot it. I'll try not to make a habit of it. Ling. UNSENT.

LETTER II: UNSENT

Ed, I know you won't understand, but for my country this is my choice. Forgive me. Ling. UNSENT.

LETTER III: UNSENT

Ed, I know I'm not there right now, Greed is, but I still see you and the weight you carry. You're not alone. I'll share the load. Ling. UNSENT.

LETTER IV: UNSENT

Ed, If we die today, you're the person I want to go down fighting with. Ling. UNSENT.

LETTER V: UNSENT

Ed, It has been six months and I still see you wherever I go. My father has passed and I am now the Emperor, and while I am running my country, my mind still wanders to thoughts of you in the quiet moments. I doubt you even realised it, the way my gaze lingered on you more and more as we travelled. It's probably for the best. I hope you are enjoying Amestris and Al is recovering well. I miss you. It'll be some time before I can leave Xing but know my thoughts are with you, always. Ling. UNSENT.

LETTER VI: SENT

Ed, By the time you receive this I will be well on my way to Amestris to join you. Mei has grown tired of my long sighs and distance stares and insisted I take a sabbatical, leaving the country in her care as my heir and Lan Fan's protection. I cannot fault them, it has been some time since one of us has been able to visit the other and while I am content in what we have, I am also at heart avaricious and crave your company, so I am doing something about it. I have a month of free time and I intend to spend it invading your space until you tire of me, and sating that craving in my chest that simply wants to be with the one who walks around with my heart in his hands. Start making plans, love, we should make the most of the time we get. Do you want to play house? Or shall we travel? Of course it'll be on your coin, I can hardly use Xing funds for my personal pleasures :) - Ling

SEND 📱FOR 5 UNSENT / 1 SENT. // @intcritus