#except they are thousands of years old

[hir444eth]

the double entendre of “smitten” in this scene truly stabbed me in my heart and twisted the knife on the second watch

[bixels]

vague-posting about this here cuz i don't feel comfortable yapping about my su takes on twitter, but after everything that's happened the most interesting thing about the su fandom to me is that so many are 100% there for applying the "everyone can change and deserves a second chance" message to everyone, even the diamonds. except for one ☝️ she doesn't count. cuz she's dead.

[notbecauseofvictories]

so my aunt is turning 70 in a couple weeks, and I've planned a blowout birthday for her---rented a lake house, invited every member of our family and also some of her friends; I have delightfully kitschy decorations (including a glittery BIRTHDAY QUEEN sash and paste-jewel crown, thanks for asking); my freezer is full of cakes, frosting, and cookies, so all I have to do is defrost, assemble and serve. I have been working on this since February, and I plan parties like a quartermaster just before the army decamps---there are a lot of lists involved.

My most recent task is assembling a guest book, filled with both blank space (so people can write nice messages) as well as all the photos I could get from family members. There's something almost meditative about assembling these pictures---here is my aunt as a teen, standing awkwardly next to her grandmother; here is my aunt as a grown woman, admiring a niece or nephew's sloppy Christmas present; here she is on vacation, or with a friend, or at the interminable succession of Sunday dinners, birthdays, and graduation parties that are the fabric of our family life. Despite having no biological children, she's so involved, she's so present---and this is just what we could grab from phones, my personal photos, facebook!

(She maintains the family archive, so I can't ask her directly.)

I don't know if I have a firm conclusion here. Just that---well, may we all be blessed with more photographs of ourselves than will fill a scrapbook, and a niece who will spend 6 months thinking about how to gently bully you into celebrating your birthday.

[armandposting]

marius does seem to have a lot of complicated feelings about what he did to armand and I really hope one of them is guilt for his thinking in buying armand originally. he talks in blood and gold about how when he heard armand's mind, the entire reason he wanted him was because he thought, here is a child who has been so hurt that it will be no loss to the world if I make him a vampire. and he wavers on this later and I hope it's because he saw this child make friends and learn things and love rings and watches and swordfighting and realize that actually there is never a child so damaged that taking them from humanity is no loss. I wonder if part of the reason he never tried to talk to armand after seeing him with the children of darkness is that he saw that boy changed into a lonely stoic cult leader with no more will or verve and was too consumed with guilt to even try. I hope that guilt started when he took armand to kiev rus and saw how much armand still loved the family he hadn't seen in years and for a while barely remembered from trauma. also I hope marius explodes into one thousand pieces but that's mostly irrelevant

[nintooner]

I mean he said you've got an attractive shell so that's pretty good right??

[crowleycorvid]

My Garmadon ponderings. I think he is not good at self-care ever at all and I think living with Vinny is good for him in that respect I think Vinny would help him out

Esp since he's so so old. And that combined with the lack of properly maintaining his body makes things harder on him physically. I think the resurrection was horribly painful and he simply did not have any time to recover and immediately put strain on himself and it fucked him up more so it makes "menial" tasks all that much more difficult

Since my oni Garm's got really thick hair and a lot of it Vinny helps him wash and brush it when he can I think. And just generally helping Garm with cleaning and washing up since he's all scaly and probably needs a good scrubbing esp in hard-to-reach places like his back. Take a brush to him like a horse..

[squidgirlautism]

wanting to go by my hebrew name irl vs watching the spike in antijew hatred and pre-shoah similarities

[syn4k]

re the system ask game: how does divinity/godhood work in ur headspace? like is their power directly related to what they represent or their followers or is it a fixed static thing irrelevant of everything else or is every divine being equally powerful or something else?

along a similar thread: has anyone ever ascended to divinity from being mortal/has a divine being ever became mortal permenantly?

(if everyone is immortal or smthn yk what i mean by mortal. like not a god or devil or equivalents)

(also sorry if i assumed smthn or said smthn insensitive or wrong im using like fantasy godhood as a framework for ways how ur pantheon could work)

(ofc u dont need to answer or even address anything in this ask u dont wanna talk about/wanna keep private as always :3 )

OH SHIT YOU HAVE ASKED. THE FUCKING QUESTION. OHHHHHH BOY.

OKAY

SO.

up here, every god but three have either been created or ascended from mortality!

the three primordial deities (life, death, and fate), who have existed since the start of everything, hold the sole power to appoint gods and their stations. all three aren't required to agree on someone's ascension since fate was asleep for the vast majority of history, instead it's a 2/3rds majority, but yeah.

a deity's power is essentially based on their domain, but a select few of the older ones have collected a large and/or devoted enough following to gain more power in that way.

underneath the primordial gods are the regular gods, and boy howdy are there a lot of them. they're generally grouped into "major" and "minor" categories based on influence, power, and the importance of their domains, but everybody and their mother has different opinions on what exactly constitutes a major or minor deity and theyve been arguing about it since the start of time so i won't get into that right now.

very few gods formed naturally or even semi-naturally! all of the primordial ones did, of course, but there's also a few that by virtue of their domains already kind of half-existed before they were officially dubbed deities: notable examples of these include Time, Nature (specifically relating to the non-human flora and fauna of the Overworld), The Nether, Entropy, Destiny, and the Moon.

(Some notes on the list I just gave: The End and the Void have no god assigned to them due to the nature of their formation and structure. The Sun doesn't have one dedicated god but instead a council of sun gods who all take turns with it. There are regional Sky Gods. There's also an Ocean Queen (formally the Lady of the Waters), but she's not the goddess of the sea because the ocean and all water in general are kind of ungovernable due to other reasons).

The rest of the major gods, however, and all of the minor ones, were either created or were originally mortal and were chosen by Life and Death to ascend to godhood. It's actually fairly common for a mortal to become a champion of one of the more powerful gods and then ascend to minor godhood themselves later after a while of service.

oh yeah! forgot to mention that earlier but champions are a thing up here. basically they're mortals that were granted immortality by their god(s in rare cases) of choice in return for helping said god(s) run their domain and doing their will down on Earth. it's a mutual contract and it usually lasts for a set time or until both parties agree to drop it, in which case the champion is no longer bound to the god's service and continues to age like normal.

a god being stripped of their godhood and becoming mortal again is a rare event, but it does happen sometimes nonetheless. usually this requires a full discussion by the Godly High Council, but in Extremely Rare cases one of the primordial deities has done it alone for emergency reasons, because they have the power to do that. most of the time it's a vote tho.

it's a pretty serious thing though and being stripped of godhood is not the same as retiring from it. (retiring is common amongst gods who were originally human because the vast majority of mortal minds can't handle long-term immortality and that's okay.)

also, in this case, the definition of being immortal up here means that you have respawn enabled just like in minecraft. that's it. those who die permanently are mortal and although not all immortals are gods, all gods are immortal.

i think that should be most of your questions answered? thanks for the ask! :D

[beetlepaints]

comic wip, “first meeting”

hoping that i can finish this once I really finalize their designs<\3

[alicenteffieltower]

listening to the anastasia broadway album and listen. rhaenicent au with rhaenyra as anastasia, alicent as dmitri, and otto as count popov

[faaun]

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[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Random thing I enjoyed that they changed in adapting the Wingfeather books to a tv show (that’s also in the short film but anyway):

~*SPOILERS*~ if you haven’t read book 2, “North! Or be Eaten”

The scene where Leeli sings Yurgen’s Tune with the dragons on the cliffs in the first episode and Yurgen pops up over the cliff and just hovers over her. In the books, the dragons are watching from the Dark Sea, but they keep their distance from the cliff walls, so while the kids still experience the magic of Leeli’s singing and the dragon’s memories, there’s no enormous creature hovering there speaking directly to them.

Why I like this change so much is because at the end of book 2 we get the exact same visual, except this time Yurgen isn’t just curious, he’s trying to end them, he’s ready to straight up destroy the ship they’re on. And as he hovers there, massive and intimidating, tiny Leeli gets out her whistleharp and stands there in utter defiance of him and plays Yurgen’s tune, which calms him down enough that he doesn’t just immediately kill them.

(And then Leeli reaches out and touches him, the first person to touch a dragon in epochs.)

And the parallels of these scenes, when we have them both visually done, are going to be so powerful and impactful. The first episode of season 1 and (what I assume will be) the last episode of season 2 with the same visuals but in vastly different context.

I can’t wait to see it.

[yelloworangesoda]

gotta get off the internet and only interact irl with people who were 30 before they got their shit together i cant keep doing it like this

[pizzazz-party]

Do you have an tmnt/uy au you're working on?

YES.

So the gist of it is, is that the UY cast are native to Rise’s distant past—from way back when the Krang first originally invaded.

After successfully sealing away the aliens, Edo-period Japan collectively gets, like, zero seconds of rest before their key explodes—damn I wonder what (ninja turtle family) caused that—and present-day New York’s timeline comes crashing into theirs like a bus.

[junebugtwin]

A half werewolf half hydra oc of mine, her names Charlie and she’s a 300 something year old lesbian with a biting problem. She has so many mouths to smile from :)

[weirdlizard26]

i think i should be allowed to redo my teenage years as a treat i think i just need to be 11 again and then everythings gonna be ok