#dewinter

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Sondaggio Time:

Non facciamo il terzino destro perché attualmente ci sono solo Weah e De Sciglio, tra l’altro infortunato.

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is this not how that scene went (og meme under cut)

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Do you have any Magisterium headcanons

OH BOY DO I!!

Okay, first of all I believe that Sarah and Alastair would not have lasted had she survived, but the thing keeping them together was that Call was an oops baby in the middle of the war. Also another telling thing was that Alastair wasn’t in the ice cave with them, but you know who was? DECLAN! I bet that Alastair’s internal monologue there was going, welp, there’s no way I’m gonna be a better parent than Sarah and I’m feeling the need to self sacrifice and die in battle so she and her brother can go raise the kid. also, I’m feeling guilty about not preventing Constantine’s descent into madness and murder.

and then they died and Alastair became the kind of parent that lets their kid eat dirt and drive at twelve.

next, CONSTANTINE MADDEN BLEACHES HIS HAIR PLATINUM BLOND. (and Jericho does not. He is very happy with normal brown hair.)

When Sarah got pregnant, her parents were Not pleased so Alastair and Sarah had a super fast civil ceremony at the town hall to appease them. Then Sarah died and her parents got super pissed at Alastair, (and Alastair’s parents are dead) so that’s why Call has no grandparents.

Alastair’s wedding ring was buried with Sarah.

Alastair and Constantine had a very messy friends with benefits relationship (that literally went until Constantine blew up a section of the Magisterium and ran off) where they both had feelings for each other but never said anything.

The Maddens are from Russia. They are also Catholic. Will not elaborate.

Call got babysat by Miranda (that tailor/antique shop lady from TBK) a solid bit when he was super young. Alastair needs his screaming and sobbing time by himself without freaking out his Tiny Baby Three Year Old.

After the Cold Massacre, Alastair almost became a Devoured trying to heal Call with earth magic but pulled himself back cause gotta be a human to raise My Son !!!

Alastair is also in Crippling Medical Debt from Call’s canonical Many Surgeries.

Alastair has no concept of children’s books so Call got read Shakespeare for bedtime stories.

Call is a white chocolate hater.

Constantine had a wolf named Mayhem so when Call brought home a wolf named Havoc Alastair was like, ah, the consequences of my actions have come back to haunt me

Aaron was seriously considering going into the military before he found out that he had magic.

The Rajavis are for real rich famous people outside of the magic world too.

Only child Jasper. Lots of cousins (for his parents to compare him to) though

Bilingual Jasper but Boy is he completely illiterate in Japanese

Ravan was a huge wake up call for mage parents to stop teaching their kids to learn magic through dangerous methods (like the whole eating matches for fire, blood for air kinda stuff in the first book)

One of Gwenda’s parents isn’t a mage and has her enrolled in summer school so that she actually knows like, physics and calculus and shit.

Alex is a strong believer in Sun In. However appalling the result is, Call still finds him cool.

Alex plays piano pretty well for being self taught. (Most of the things he can do is self taught. Don’t think about that too much)

When Aaron was in foster homes, he cut his own hair with kitchen scissors in the bathroom. The first time the Rajavis take him to get his hair cut, he thinks that it looked better when he did it himself.

During TCG, the Rajavis were in the process of adopting Aaron cause it would look super good for the Makar to have such a strong connection to them. (And totally Not to replace Ravan)

Call eats styrofoam

Ravan was Tamara’s favorite sister.

After TCG, Tamara learns how to drive (normally) from Stebbins. When her parents enroll her in formal driving lessons right before TSM, they’re a little surprised at how “naturally” good she is.

Before the Magisterium, Tamara learned flute and violin. Call is completely tone deaf, and Aaron can plunk out some pop song chords on a keyboard.

Every single time they have an oddly specific problem, their “I know a guy” is Aaron.

[ashpkat]

i succumbed to brain rot

[claudiadiary]

Do you know what’s the worst thing you can be as a character? Annoying. That’s why I hate Umbridge and Gilderoy and I hate any ship that might involve one of them. (This is me coming out as a Peter/Gilderoy and Regulus/Dolores HATER)

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Screenshots to convince you to read the Magisterium series :D

part four

The Copper Gauntlet spoilers

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femme4femme sapphic gothic romances save me

save me femme4femme sapphic gothic romances

(there are not enough of them and I am Sad)

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did jasper teach them how to mew or something bro

[theenemyod]

I am actively choosing not to sleep at this point

[thekoboldi]

the christmas special was good and normal

[ariainstars]

Rebecca: Why does Everybody Get it Wrong?

Warning: spoilers ahead.

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Though I am a fan of Daphne duMaurier’s 1938 novel, one thing always strikes me as odd. For some reason almost everybody says that Rebecca is a Gothic novel, a thriller, murder mystery etc. When I read the novel, I had a wholly different impression.

How can a story be a Gothic story, thriller, murder mystery etc. when everything is out in the open?

Maxim is a widower; he chooses to remarry; nothing spooky or unusual about that. Manderley is a gentleman’s country seat, it’s not a castle or old, haunted house. There are no mysterious things happening. There is no atmosphere of suspense. There is no one trying to solve some mysterious circumstance or happening.

The genius of duMaurier shows in the way she tells the story through the eyes of the protagonist, a naïve, inexperienced woman of twenty-one who believes everything that is said to her and takes everyone at face value.

The protagonist’s mistake is believing that she knows what is going on in Manderley, which is why she never suspects that there might be something strange.

The truth is that she doesn’t know anything.

There is indeed a secret lingering about Manderley and its past, but the protagonist is not aware of it; she believes in things as she sees them and does not suspect that the trials she must go through are due to outside circumstances, instead always blaming herself and trying to be better.

Without a family or money of her own, working as a companion for a rich gossip-addicted woman, the heroine is nameless; it is said once that her name is unusual but we never get to know it.

After the first weeks of her marriage the heroine feels more and more downcast, finding traces of Maxim’s beautiful, poised and popular ex wife everywhere, not knowing how to go on as the mistress of such a big house as Manderley, and additionally the victim of scorn and, more and more, psychological terror by Mrs Danvers, the housekeeper, who resents her because she used to know Rebecca since she was a child and doted on her. Mrs Danvers initially seems a plain woman who only carries out orders and apparently has no wishes or feelings of her own; until it is revealed that she hates the new Mrs deWinter with the same, sick passion that made her adore her dead mistress.

The protagonist feels more and more that she can’t take Rebecca’s place, that she will never be good enough for Manderley and that Maxim only married her on a whim, feeling lonely. This peaks the night of the infamous Manderley ball when the protagonist convinces herself for good that she is „badly bred” and wakes up on the next morning telling herself that no matter how much she loves her husband, she can never be his equal, and that her marriage is already ruined after only three months.

A few remarks made by Maxim („Some women think of nothing but clothes”, „Are we happy? I don’t know anything about it”), the relief she reads in his agent’s, Frank Crawley’s, eyes when he first sees her, the fact that Maxim’s sister immediately bonds with her while openly telling her that she’s very different from Rebecca, all of this should have made her suspicious; but it is only when Rebecca’s sunken boat and her corpse are found that Maxim finally confesses the truth to his second wife.

When he first married, Maxim had been told that Rebecca had „breeding, brains and beauty”; his second wife, on the contrary, is remarkable for kindliness, honesty and modesty, qualities pointed out to her by Frank, Maxim’s agent.

It has often been speculated whether Rebecca and Mrs Danvers were lovers, or whether they had a mother-daughter-relationship; my impression was that of a morbid worship on the side of an ugly, elderly, penniless woman who saw in Rebecca everything that she could never be or have, a person who, in her words, was born to get everything she wanted in the world. Rebecca had it all - beauty, style, intelligence, learning, charms, courage. She was the one who invested money and knowledge to make Manderley as beautiful and famous as it is when the novel takes place. Mrs Danvers sees Rebecca’s incapacity to care for anyone as a virtue, saying „she was above all that” and adding that her mistress laughed at how easily she could manipulate people. She cultivates a morbid death cult around her dead mistress, obviously denying (or belying) all facts that would have told anyone that her master’s first marriage wasn’t happy.

At the end of the day, when the protagonist is arranging flowers in a vase and Mrs Danvers is irritated about an order she gave, she simply answers, „Yes, but I’m Mrs deWinter now, so we’re doing things my way.” She has finally overcome her inferiority complex, being sure of her husband’s love, and turns on Mrs Danvers, who had made her believe all this time that she was usurping the place of a person much better than her out of her own, misguided and possibly insane convictions.

This is where the story was leading: the woman with no name becomes Mrs deWinter. And with that, the actual story is over. What follows is the inevitable revelation of the circumstances of Rebecca’s death. The fire that destroys Manderley in the end is usually the scenario of a great finale in every stage or film version, but in the novel it’s barely hinted at. It is also unclear whether the fire was lit, or it only was an accident. The most famous film version is the one from 1940, which won an Oscar for “best picture”, and Hitchcock being Hitchcock, of course he started the actual mystery story with the investigations following the discovery of Rebecca’s body and Maxim’s confession to his wife. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an excellent film, but in my opinion it’s a free interpretation of what is, in fact, a coming-of-age story and not a thriller. My guess is that most people know this film version best although there half a dozen (or more) others, and that for this reason whoever picks up the book has the wrong expectation.

There are a few other movie versions, mostly TV dramas like the ones with Jeremy Brett or with Charles Dance, which I can recommend more if you want a faithful adaptation.

If you want to read the novel, I can only recommend it; but as I said, do not be surprised if there is a lot of talking, walking and drinking tea and following the heroine’s train of thought. It can be quite enjoyable, provided you do not see this book as a whodunit but read it for what it is: a journey of self-discovery.

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Natural Six

The most ambitious thing I've ever painted, I think

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Pierces - Secret

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Magisterium Actors AU

[The Bronze Key]

Call: I keep on forgetting that this house isn’t real

Aaron: Did you shit in the fake toilet again?

Call: Again??

Call: No I was trying to turn on the water

~~~~~ Alex, bopping Aaron on the head with the Alkahest: Cain instinct

~~~~~ Call, holding a crystal: Dude guess where I just got this from

Jasper: Wait where

Call, pointing back at the chandelier, missing several crystals: It’s sugar glass and it’s so good

~~~~~ Kimiya: Hey babe, how are we feeling about dying

Jennifer: The contour’s going crazy, I’ll be the deadest corpse in the water

~~~~~

Tamara, sneaking through the cave wall set: *hums mission impossible*

~~~~~ Alex, holding out the Alkahest: Whoosh! Kablam!

Rufus: Cut!

Aaron: Stop making mouth noises! This is the fourth time I’ve had to die!

~~~~~ Tamara, pointing at a fish: Hey Captain Fishface, it’s your twin!

Call: I’m demoting you to petty officer fishface now

~~~~~ Call, gesturing to the truck of animals: Wow!

Call: Look at all these chickens!

~~~~~

Call and Aaron: *eyes closed, intensively focusing*

Alma, whispering: Jen?

Jen:

Call, cracking open an eye: Jen are you fucking asleep?

Jen:

~~~~~

*Alastair napping with Havoc on his lap*

Call: Dads when they didn’t want a dog

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Alex: So… I just wiggle my fingers?

Alma: Yes, the CGI’s going to put everything in later

Aaron: You look so stupid doing that

Alex: This is literally why I kill you

~~~~~

Jasper, vlogging: Hey guys, this is the storeroom

Jasper: This green noodle is gonna try and kill Call

Tamara: And this green noodle is my sister!

~~~~~

Call, filming Panopticon scene: Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats and rats make me crazy.

Anastasia: The youth of today

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Iron Trio, imitating poster behind them: Hang in there!

~~~~~ Tamara, behind the camera: Me when I pretend to be straight

*phone pans over to Jasper and Celia’s date scene*

Jasper: -so this ferret, yeah?

~~~~~ Part One Part Two

[ashpkat]

my magisterium ship charts (not pictured: sarah and alastair, telia, sons of darkness and stars AU alastine bc im too tired for this its 4am)

[alohaasaloevera]

The first 2 magisterium books were so banger bro they were so descriptive the characters were amazing the plot? Amazing.

Don’t forget when Call slapped Constantine’s head on a table. that was a banger move, Call.