#enforcer-of-the-dead

[leonardcohenofficial]

the more i rewatch twin peaks i am reminded more and more that albert rosenfield (and to a lesser extent bobby briggs, though he doesn’t quite articulate it as clearly as albert with the exception of him breaking down at laura’s funeral) is THE only character to recognize laura’s death for what it was—completely avoidable, unromantic, and caused by human evil that nobody recognized the signs of or did anything to stop

[yuwuta]

gojo would kill your work husband. but if he were the work husband, that's a different story

REAL!! he’s such a hypocrite because if someone mentioned you had a work husband, his entire world would stop and he wold devise the absolute worst plans to make sure that your co-worker, everyone at your job, and everyone in the next building over knew that he was happily committed to you 

but if he is the work husband, he’s very........ dutiful in his role. there’s a loose office/lawyer au in my head where satoru is your secretary, and for all intents and purposes, your personal assistant, and he’s good at his job, but mostly because he considers his job to be pleasing you. he has coffee for you when you arrive, he moves your schedule around without you asking, he has answers to questions before you can even ask them, he has fresh flowers on your desk weekly, pokes into your meetings to pretend to hand you a file that’s really just maybe a single document in a manilla folder with candy on top of it—he’s made himself your business, your partner; he’s made himself irreplaceable, and he loves to remind everybody of that fact. 

he’s also extremely loyal. sure, he could day a week’s worth of work done in about a day, but that doesn’t mean he’ll just use his talents for anybody. he’s your secretary, so he’s at your beck and call, and everyone knows it. they know he’s the best, but also that he’s off limits—not because you won’t share him, but because satoru won’t let himself be shared. 

he also extends his duties beyond work, of course. when he hands you a print out of your schedule for the day and you’re confused by the three-hour block of time you have in the middle of the day, satoru just helps you shrug your coat of your shoulders and smiles, “that’s for the lunch date you have with me, of course!” hanging up your coat in your closet for you, “i’m paying, see you soon, sweets.” and because you’re great at your job, and satoru helps you be great, nobody really questions when the two of you have time for a 13-course tasting menu at 1pm on a tuesday afternoon. and if they did, all satoru would say that you two had a lovely date 

[starry-nights12]

Vi:

[mollysunder]

I wonder if the mural of Vander already existed and someone else painted Jinx into it after she became so well regarded?

I just feel like the portraits aren't that well integrated in theme. You have Vander's profile bordered in yellow flowers to represent friendship and joy. Then you have the more detailed painting of Jinx looming over Piltover exploding it with smoke bombs. Jinx is framed around doves while stylized into her latest attacks.

It feels like the artist(s) wanted to associate Jinx with Vander rather than the other way around because the actual subject of the Jinx's portion of the mural is Jinx violently provoking Piltover, but the nature of Jinx's portion is practically whitewashed to make it work with Vander's theme to the point Jinx is surrounded by DOVES. It might be an attempt to harmonize Jinx's persona with the ideals Vander left behind, which are the complete opposite of what Jinx is actually doing.

I think this is on purpose because Jinx is the most politically relevant member of her family now. Jinx is the one being valorized and venerated, and EVERYONE knows none of this would have been possible without Silco. Silco was the one who dedicated his resources to train Jinx and was openly anti-Piltovan to Jinx and the rest of Zaun.

I've seen some claims that Vander and Jinx are together because Vander was more beloved than Silco. But Silco never made it illegal to mourn or even celebrate Vander's memory. Silco allowed and a giant statue of Vander to be built in the middle if Zaun and he'd TALK to it.

But now Silco's dead and there are people running around in the background wearing Jinx's X and Silco's color scheme on their clothes. It feels like there's an ideological custody battle on behalf Silco and Vander through their supporters on who was Jinx's "true" father and gets the lions share of historical parental acclaim.

Tldr: The mural seems more like an effort to save face for Vander rather than bolster Jinx because Vander's actual values inexplicably lead his KNOWN favorite to becoming an enforcer. Meanwhile, everyone knows, especially Silco's supporters, that Silco's responsible for how Jinx turned out, and she's currently Zaun's favorite.

[cairafea]

i think the fast travel in this game is very cool 👍

[foreverchangingfandomsao3]

te nuhaatyc a kyramla besbe’trayc (the invisible but deadly weapon) (2,377 words) by foreverchangingfandoms

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi

Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Stitch (212th medic OC)

Additional Tags: Whumptober 2024, Whump, Obi-Wan Kenobi Whump, Hurt Obi-Wan Kenobi, That's Not How The Force Works (Star Wars), All Magic Comes With a Price, Well the Force comes with a price, Protective Obi-Wan Kenobi, POV CC-2224 | Cody, Worried CC-2224 | Cody, Worried Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi Gets a Break, Well he gets a coma I guess so same thing, Hopeful Ending

Series: Part 7 of Whumptober 2024

Summary:

The Separatists have a new weapon, one that kills everything in its path and Obi-Wan protects his men from it the only way he knows how.

My fill for whumptober day 7 - Only for emergencies (unconventional weapon | magic with a cost | “it’s us or them”)

[dynamitekansai]

wweonfox: Solo just called out Roman Reigns! 🤯

[2btheanswertothequestion]

I wonder if the bullet Caitlyn shoots in the trailer is the one Jinx wears as a necklace later on

[microwave-core]

bashing my head into the wall how dare you be so cute

[ssaltlicker]

People watching s2ep7 and thinking the point is that vi is the root of everything bad and her death “fixed” everything is like reading moby dick and thinking the point of the book is what whales are evil and if we killed more whales mental illness would be fixed

[12pt-times-new-roman]

I do want to point out:

Ludinus knowing Laerryn's name is not, in and of itself, proof that he was alive during the Age of Arcanum.

Laerryn was on his list of "people to reach out to." But this document was in his home in Molaesmyr, a city he arrived in 500 years post-Divergence. Why would he keep that document, knowing that Laerryn fell with Avalir and that her body was irrecoverable? Why would it be pinned on his wall like it's important, over 500 years after Laerryn's death when speak with dead is off the table?

We know that Avalir itself is known about in present-day Exandria by esoteric scholars and specialists. Imahara Joe has a book that talked about it, so it's not like it's completely forgotten, and honestly, the entirety of the Ring of Brass were so involved with Avalir's internal politics and inner workings that there's no way their names weren't written down a hundred times over in various records, reports, and news clippings. It's not out of the realm of possibility that Ludinus was able to get ahold of this information, especially with Laerryn being so prominently involved with Avalir's most intricate arcane mechanics and experiments.

So I think that this list was of people Ludinus wanted to contact using the contact other plane spell. It reads as follows:

You mentally contact a demigod, the spirit of a long-dead sage, or some other mysterious entity from another plane. Contacting this extraplanar intelligence can strain or even break your mind. When you cast this spell, make a DC 15 Intelligence saving throw. On a failure, you take 6d6 psychic damage and are insane until you finish a long rest. While insane, you can’t take actions, can’t understand what other creatures say, can’t read, and speak only in gibberish. A greater restoration spell cast on you ends this effect. On a successful save, you can ask the entity up to five questions. You must ask your questions before the spell ends. The DM answers each question with one word, such as "yes," "no," "maybe," "never," "irrelevant," or "unclear" (if the entity doesn’t know the answer to the question). If a one-word answer would be misleading, the DM might instead offer a short phrase as an answer.

Personally, I think that Laerryn would most definitely count as "the spirit of a long-dead sage," as would most other pre-Calamity archmages (which I can only assume Vishtaron and Vatora were). The spell is on the wizard and warlock spell lists, so it's entirely within the realm of possibility for Ludinus -- plus, it even plays into his particular flavor of anti-theist magic, since it's essentially a non-divine version of commune.

[profoundbondfanfic]

A Beginner's Guide to Communing with the Dead

A Beginner’s Guide to Communing with the Dead by suspiciousflashlight (@huntingthehaggis) Rating: Mature Word Count: 77k

Maybe it's the little girl whose disappearance turned into a murder, and whose murder turned into a cold case, and who has now apparently decided to move in with him. Maybe it's the unacceptable hole left in his life when his dumb best friend and partner in (the prevention of) crime decided to go and get himself killed. Maybe it's his brother, whose high-profile career and fantastic girlfriend and first-child-on-the-way are steadily leaving Dean in the dust. Pick one. Pick all of them. The why doesn't matter so much as the what, and the what is this: Dean is pretty sure he's going completely, certifiably insane. Sure, he hasn't started wearing all his clothes inside out, and he still showers on a regular basis (anyways, that's not crazy, just a little eccentric); but there's no getting around the fact that he just threw away his life, his career, and his reputation by dragging out his mom's old necromancy book and summoning a Class A Forbidden Entity to his attic. A cranky one, too. With horrendous bed-head.

Okay, my friends, if you haven’t read this one yet, drop everything now and click on that link!! Don’t wait around, just do it!

(And even if you already know the fic, I’m pretty sure it’s time for a reread, don’t you think? Since it’s always time for a good reread!)

Because this story, it’s simply something else.

It is told from Dean’s POV who is in a kinda dark place at the beginning. Either everything is going to shit around him or everyone is living their best lives without him and the gruesome murder case that lands on his lap one day surely doesn’t make things any better. Soon enough he finds himself at his wit’s end and in a desperate attempt to get justice for the victim he does something very, very stupid - illegally summoning an entity that should never be summoned, that is.  

Dean isn’t really sure what he expected, but the blue-eyed, grouchy creature certainly takes him by surprise. Castiel seems devoid of emotions and alienates everyone in his vicinity without even trying which, of course, makes it extra hard for Dean to hide his true identity from his colleagues and family. Over time, however, he learns to appreciate Castiel’s uniqueness and Castiel in turn starts to change the closer his relationship with Dean becomes.

The worldbuilding of this fic just sucks you right in, transforming the whole thing into some sort of extraordinary urban fantasy crime novel. Thanks to Dean’s POV the writing style is witty and oftentimes hilarious in that special Dean sort of way and often enough you can’t help but laugh even in the grittiest of situations. 

The development of Dean and Castiel’s relationship is simply captivating, both a nod to canon as well as its own special kind of insanity. It’s just addicting to watch those two slowly but gradually get their shit together.

And on top of that the actual case is truly riveting, keeping you on the edge of your seat the whole time.

So yeah, what are you waiting for? Happy reading 😁

[arolegos]

actually comparing jinx to caitlyn is crazy i hate tiktok. they are not remotely the same. one is a grieving woman who turned to fascism, the other is a mentally unwell person who was raised in an insanely toxic environment that encouraged destruction and fed into her mind what she believes to be truth now. sorry i fucking love caitlyn but there is nooo wayyyy people on tt are justifying her fascism and turn to MARTIAL LAW. not that im saying jinx is all crimefree and has done no wrong but u see the difference. u KNOW the difference. u cannot say cait is unaware about the undercity bc she witnessed it all in s1. she literally wanted to defend them at first. but at the end of the day cait is in a position of power and privilege and is a COP!!!! and just because of grief and hatred shes LEADING MARTIAL LAWWWW YOURE KIDDING MEEEEE!!!!! yes yes yes i GET why she went there and i sympathize THAT DOESNT MAKE IT AGREEABLE WHY R U FREAKS ACTUALLY SAYING U AGREE W THE CHANGE!!!! "i wouldve done the same if jinx blablabla" DIE!!!! LASER BEAM!!! "jinx did bad things too" WE KNOWW!!!! SHE WAS RAISED TO DO IT!!!! CAIT WAS NOT!!!! CAIT KNEW BETTER SHE LITERALLY DID. I SAW SOMEONE SAY SHE SHOULDVE JUST SHOT EVEN IF IT HIT THE KID!!!! URE INSANE!!! ITS OK TO LIKE CAIT U DO NOT HAVE TO JUSTIFY HER FASCISM NOR TURN TO MARTIAL LAW?!??!?! JUST SAY U LIKE HER??!?! I DO THAT??! WTF?!??!?

[starry-nights12]

Well, mAYBE,

If they didn't look at each other likeTHAT then they could have avoided the bedroom eyes/belligerent sexual tension allegations🙄

[silverislander]

day 8: blue

the uniform itches. some days it's easier to put on than others, but of course it always fucking itches, even after caitlyn had let her get away with numerous dress code violations; typical topside clothes, starched stiff, built for show before basic movement.

vi still doesn't like it, probably never will. part of her feels like a coyote at a dog show, out of place with a leash too tight around her neck, and part of her just wants to vomit every time she looks in the mirror. if vander could see her- if her younger self could see her- if powder could see her-

jinx. it's jinx now. right.

that makes her want to vomit too, every time it comes out of her fucking mouth.

it's going to be worth it, though. vi will call jinx whatever she wants, she'll lie through her teeth when caitlyn kisses her and she'll put up with all the mockery she deserves if that's what it takes. all she needs is patience, which, yeah, vi has never had a lot of, but for her sister, she can manage. all she has to do is follow in caitlyn's footsteps to find her sister again, convince caitlyn not to hurt her and then she can burn the fucking dress blues and- and-

(she hasn't really thought about what comes after the happy ending.)

[beens-on-toast]

I am re watching the ending of Arcane because "Jinx is alive", I still think it's open to interpretation. But I am still screaming Singed got off scott free. My man's experimented on people and creatures in the most unethical way, made a drug that destroyed people's lives, created a wolf man hybrid that killed more people than Jinx's bomb, and basically made the war in Piltover possible. My guy indirectly got the highest kill count but is alive and well with his daughter. And cait is looking at the architecture of the her gates. GO ARREST HIM. HE IS ACTUALLY UNFORGIVABLE HE HAS NO REMORSE FOR HIS ACTIONS. My god man, it's like the real world war criminals just get to live their lives. I'm so fucking tight. I would've been satisfied that he got his daughter back only to never see her again, but no. Singed was the one who got the biggest W in Arcane. Wild.