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seas-storyarchive · 8 months ago

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Angelradio - au

look, to those who want sera and rosie at each others throats for the antler in alastors pants, i offer you another solution:

they are at each others throats because rosie wants what's best for her bestie who doesn't know shit about the sweet words he spews and doesn't trust the seraphim not to take advantage of him. also hellborns are possessive over what they consider theirs. she can read a situation better than alastor, but she will die and ascend to heaven to protect her dumbass friend from his stupidity if she has to, the ultimate ride and die fiendship (yes, fiend ship) if you will.

Alastor held in a sigh - as he knew this whole endeavor was pointless. Him, Vagatha, Charlotte - in heaven, to plead for favor of the Hotel and the progress it would have on the souls of sinners. The opening number to Heaven? Hmm.. not bad.

"And, this is Sera!" The smaller Serraphim intoduced the taller one.

"Greetings." She said, her voice monotone.

Oh, it's charm time - Charlotte was dismissed and- hmm.. Vagatha looked nervous. Oooh, delicious. Well, his charms always worked. Time to lay it on.

He bowed to them, ever the gentleman. "Hello, fairest Serraphims. My name is Alastor." He took their hands and kissed them, fighting his instincts to take a nibble. "We thank you for hearing us out in our endeavors for helping Sinners atone for their lives led of Sin to have a chance for redemption. It is the highest of honors, to bask not only in heaven," he smiled at Sera, "but in your beauty."

Emily was excited. "He's so nice!" She flapped her wings to hover up and look Alastor in the eyes, blocking Sera's face from him. "I hope you get a chance to see Heaven, for more than just a day at least. I mean, I hope you get redeemed but- oh why are you even down there!"

Ah, energy to match Charlotte's. Welp, time to play along it seemed.

"Ah, worry not about myself, young Emilia." He waited for her to land. "No, no, I am but a humble hotelier for our cause. My job is to help others, moreso than help myself, so they may cross those gates to be with loved ones upon these high clouds of light."

"Y- yeah! He's helping us with the hotel!" Charlie had been too shocked to speak. "But, well, we were hoping to get heaven on board. To smooth the process along." Vaggie nodded beside her.

"We.. will see." Sera said finally, as she had finally blinked away her initial starstruckness at Alastor's charms.

"Why hide the fact that you're an angel just like us?" Oh, so Vagatha was an angel and-

"There has to be some way to get Heaven on board!"

Vaggie and Charlie looked at Alastor like he'd suddenly gained a second head.

"Serraphims, Angels, Saints, Arch Angels! Please! There has to be something, ANYTHING!" What was he even saying? He wanted to watch people FAIL. He'd made that clear- but.. they'd come this far, fought so hard. Had a bit of hope truly come back to him? No.

But.. but Angel HAD come so far, that those on high hadn't seen. Had no frame of reference for-

"Fine." All heads as one turned to Sera, Alastor heard some pops - curse his ears.

"Wait- what!?" Adam and Lute were outraged.

"I- thank you! Thank you, Sera! We-"

"There is, one condition." Sera explained, cutting Charlie off. "You, Alastor," the Serraphim looked to the deer man, "must fully commit to this program."

Alastor tilted his head. To get Heaven's support.. he had to fully commit to the program. The Program that he was SPONSORING. That he had no interest in doing. That.. he promised the help with. He'd.. made a deal. That was why they were there to begin with. God, this was his punishment, wasn't it.

Fuck.. oh for-

Alright, fine.

He took a deep breath. "Of course. I accept these terms."

Just.. slow progress. Let himself take part, but slowly. It was for the sake of the hotel. For the sake of.. the future.

"But!" He pointed from Sera to Adam and his extermination friend. "The extermination in one month must be cancelled!"

"You can go into your stupid little program," Adam got in Alastor's face, the First Man was angry while the Radio Demon feigned calmness thanks to his smile, "but fuck OFF with you telling me what I-"

"Very well."

"WHAT!?" All eyes looked to Sera again, some necks snapped.

"Hmm." Alastor hummed, genuinely grateful, with a smile. "Much appreciated, High Serraphim. Truly."

"I look forward to seeing you succeed, Alastor." Sera said with a soft smile.

"Al! I'm so happy you decided to join the program!" Charlie said with a smile as they stepped out of the Heaven embassy.

"I.. said what I did to help the Hotel." Alastor said with a sigh. He'd fucking done it now. Ho boy.

"You alright?" Charlie asked, looking at his face.

"I just don't think they'll follow through on ending the extermination." Alastor said, being partially true.

"Why would you say that?"

"Charlotte, oh dear Charlotte.. you know nothing of the world of Men." Alastor sighed. Pitiful, really.

"So, Al.. what did you want to talk to me about?" Alastor was with Rosie, having hung around Cannibal Town after Charlie led the Cannibals to the Hotel as a precaution.

"It's.." he sighed as Rosie poured them some tea. "You know how you are my best friend, in all of Hell, yes?"

Oh, this shit again? No, he wasn't about to butter her up and NOT discuss anything with her. "What did you do now?"

Alastor made a groan, distorted by his staff, as he flopped back dramatically. "I agreed to partake in this.. reforming of a sinner dribble."

Oh? Oh! "So, you're leavin' me? Aftah all these years of friendship and-"

"No! No! I.." Alastor groaned. "I said it to help get Sera to promise not to-"

"Oh! Sera is her name?" Rosie was now curious. "Is my little Ally-waly finally becoming a man? I'll give you tips on what to say, how to act! Oh! I'll even make you a new suit! Tell Auntie everything!"

"Never call yourself that in reference to me ever again. And I don't need your patronization."

Rosie laughed. "I just, ya know, you found someone."

"She is merely a business associate."

"You wanted an army because you don't trust her. That's more than an associate, doll face." Rosie said, sipping her tea quickly before looking to him again. "So, what does she look like?"

Alastor groaned. "Super tall, cedar-brown skin, white freckles and a white streak going down her nose, and hip-length curled hair colored in a silver-like ombre, white irises, blue-gray sclera, deep-purple pupils- are, are you taking notes?"

Rosie ignored him for a moment to finish jotting down the description. "I need to know who to look for up there if you get your heart broken. Continue."

"I- this is ridiculous! How would you even know if-"

"I'm a woman, we have our ways. And this will be your first relationship, gotta be ready to put the fear of whatever her god looks like into her if she hurts my wittle Ally-waly." Rosie pinched his cheek with a laugh, only to get her hand smacked away and laugh harder.

There was silence, both sipping their tea.

"You'd really hunt her down if she harmed me?" Alastor was curious, and genuinely touched.

"I'd hunt that bitch for fun." Rosie said. "Just give me the word."

"If the hotel gets attacked, consider it sent." Alastor said, grabbing a biscuit.

#alastor x sera #angelradio #crackship #platonic radiorose #radiorose #those two are besties #rosie will hunt whatever romantic partner al has for sport and he will let her #the bestest fiendship in all of hell

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pico-digital-studios · 9 months ago

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Into, Across and Beyond!: Shared Universe Mentions

So just yesterday, I got praise from @robovoidfrog for the inclusion of their character in IAB!, and I'm honestly chuffed to get this feedback! So through this post, I just wanted to talk about the prospect of the shared universe idea between this project, Funkinverse and the original Spider-Verse trilogy.

NOTE: None of the mentioned points are canon to either of the projects outside of IAB! unless stated otherwise.

So first off, as you saw through the aforementioned post, The X not only had a run-in with this project's Quill Society, but he also seems to be the most remotely aware of the nature of film fics based around Spider-Verse. A lot of these indeed kick off with that world's iconic hero dying and someone else having to take their mantle for them, which leads them into quite the whacky crossover situation.

In this continuity, some things are different for the Funkinverse storyline due to what goes on with the base FNF universe here. For instance:

Boyfriend died long before through the events of Mario's Madness, and a universal reboot is what gave way to Benjamin.

Though, like in canon, BF's WI and Twinsomnia incarnations are generation counterparts in the base FNF universe, they're also separate counterparts in Funkinverse (Twinsomnia's BF being Brooke's little son).

Softie/Benjamin Fairest's counterpart in Funkinverse is separate to the one who's linked to IAB!'s FNF universe.

As Benjamin had befriended several of the other BFs and GFs (those from B-Sides, D-Sides, Neo, Minus, B3 and Arrow Funk specifically), any of those that are linked to the Funkin' Society are quick to understand after Cam's hostilities that Salty's in the right for aiming to save his legal guardians from The X and quickly switch sides against Agent Blueballs' ideals for canon events.

The Sky counterpart encountered by the Funkin' Gang is a more hostile variant compared to ErrorSky, who changed her ways after enough time.

As mentioned above, The X was successfully detained and neutralised by the Quill Society post-Funkinverse, but the fact that it took FOUR of its members to detain him, compared to just two (Pana and SS!Amy) detaining Speedy in his Chaos Emerl guise, speaks volumes of how he is indeed a threat on par with The Spot and Crimtake.

As Beyond the Spider-Verse isn't out yet, we still don't know whether or not The Spot was successfully beaten.

Sunday ending up with protanopia after their encounter with The X didn't sail well with Carol, Benjamin OR Grace, hence why Benjamin calls him out on it. To think it was all because of a little disagreement about breakfast foods.

The Childhood Memories universe canonically NEVER encountered the Corruption (which is apparently a canon thing, according to Agent Blueballs), and even if it did show up, it'd never effect any of the children's shows. Yeah, get lost, Pibby kids.

In the IAB! continuity, Lexi Robin ended up defecting from the Funkin' Society after seeing just how wrong everything is, and she was rooting for the Funkin' Gang and Benjamin's crew from the sidelines.

After Cam's clash with Benjamin, Soft Pico and Neo GF (their original counterparts) sided with Benjamin in a bid to get their boyfriends back out of the Funkin' Society and back to doing the right thing in general.

Identically to Funkinverse, there's a lone repeat customer that the therapist of the bunch dislikes. For Funkinverse, it's the Boyfriend/Keith from Earth-666 (I Can't Sleep) who Softie dislikes, whereas in IAB!, CD Alt Ending Sonic's disliked repeat customer is Charlie (the Sonic from the god-awful "Sonic 2 Lost Prototype" fangame). That said, he does try to bear with the guy's emotional turmoil, though the other major therapist of the Quill Society, Sara, seems to have caught on as well.

In terms of the Gangs' members having possible canon interactions:

Miles, Salty and OMT!Tails would definitely help learn from each other on how to better protect their respective worlds, and also find solace in the fact that they were all treated as anomalies at different points.

Peter B., Brooke and CR!Sonic would be the doting dads after their first outings and talk quite a bit about their sons/daughters.

Gwen, SNS GF and OMT!Mina would be a sort of comfort group to each other, considering their rough pasts and how broken each one is deep down. Gwen, having been most successful thus far, would definitely be the beacon of light girl the other two clearly need.

Noir, Toon BF and Mini Sonic would interact quite a bit about the Rubik's Cubes that they were given as souvenirs, and their different reasons for admiring the cubes.

Spider-Ham, Mobian BF and Mr. Needlemouse are definitely the kind to goof around with their cartoon antics. That said, with the lattermost being the biggest prick, he is prone to being called out for it by the other two, though barely giving a care about it.

Peni, Aloe and EX!Alice are the tech geeks of their respective dimensions and would love sharing their robot-building (maintaining, in Aloe's case) knowledge with each other.

Hobie and the D-Sides versions of BF and Mighty would find common ground in their ideals of screwing over intended consistencies and going their own way in life.

Pavitr, Golden BF and Black Knight Amy would have a way with each other being the naïve newcomers of their respective teams, and BK!Amy, harbouring the most experience, can share some tips for her companions.

The Sonias and CR!Manik would be happy to look after Mayday and Twinsomnia BF, due to them both being toddlers. Them being children sporting superpowers makes it click more.

Margo, Boom, Nicole and Nine could bond from their computer-based knowledge, and the majority could also aim to lift Nine's spirits if he's feeling a bit down.

So that's pretty much the basic gist of things. Another few tidbits:

Of those instigating the canon events, between four candidates: - Melanie / MP (the kid pictured below), despite having tried this himself, didn't do it willingly, and was forced into it by so-called "superiors" who got the short end of the stick big time from Nitro, even after their passing made it look like they could get away with it. - Miguel and Agent Blueballs, despite their cruel methods, at least have good intentions in mind for their approach, but go about it the wrong ways that alienate those around them. - Lost Memory Sonic is the only one of these four to stoop lower than the others would've done, and actually tries DESTROYING universes to maintain the status quo.

(Art will be updated when @mcgamejolter finishes it)

Of the major protagonists between the three universes, OMT!Tails is the only one that's rarely had to use his nanomachine gear to disguise his identity with. That said, he has used it when he visited the dimension of the Hues of Metal (Dimension HoM-2023), and the suit's robotic sheen actually FOOLED the robots. At least, until LM!Sonic was driven away from their base (apparently for, as Rocket Metal put it, being a stereotypical Australian tourist).

In the above point's case, Metallix is the one to catch out OMT!Tails when they're alone, though is ultimately overpowered... from OMT!Tails mentioning that a certain web series isn't officially canon, causing Metallix to go poof from existence. Again.

Despite being a supposed "canon event", Sonic.EXEs are surprisingly quite rare to see in universes that aren't meant to have them, like with the Corruption, Darkness and Venom Symbiotes. That said, the first documented case of one showing up in a Sonic universe in the Quill Society logs is in the Sonic Robo Blast 2 dimension (Dimension SRB-1998), a universe that doesn't even have a canon appearance of the demonic entity.

After "Rivals' Madness" (my unofficial expansion/sequel to Mario's Madness/Vs. Sonic.exe (RERUN)), several of the worlds encountered are their own universes, so the characters within are not solely bound as digital slaves to Ultra M, Xenophanes OR 2011!X.

Related to the above, pretty much all the major cast of FNF ended up dealing with the mess of Ultra M and Xeno in that one adventure, most of which put up with one enemy each; Sophie from Left Behind for Tankman, Mr. L, X.nes and Requital for Pico (the lattermost he fights again later), Stranger for Skid and Pump, OMT for Mommy/Martha Mearest, Awe's Chromophobiac for Senpai, and NMI (No More Innocence) for Daddy/Daniel Dearest.

There are alternate versions of Heaven AND Hell in the IAB! multiverse that aren't solely bound by the Christian bible's depictions. For instance, there's a genuinely friendly community in my version of Hell, which an alternate version of Benjamin dubbed "Keith" discovers after his passing.

Akin to @thestrongestjewel's Eepytale, the Frisk, Chara and Asriel of the IAB! continuity have been living together for some time, albeit independently from adoptive parents like Toriel. Kris also spends some time with them as the biggest sibling of the group, akin to their role in @akanemnon's Twin Runes series.

The full list of those lives lost to the "canon event" theory are as follows:

OMT!Sonic, OMT!Vanilla and OMT!Sally (OMT!Tails)

Uncle Chuck (Crossover Realm Sonic and Extraterrestrial Encounter Sonic)

Sonic and Tails (OMT!Mina)

Caffrin (EX!Alice)

Marc Smith (Nitro; he couldn't even avert this in the Rewritten universe)

Sonic (Antho and Mobiverse Tails)

Amy (ChaosIIUniverse Sonic and Sonia)

ALL of his friends (Hog)

Silver (Lost Memory Sonic)

Tails and Amy (CD Alt Ending Sonic)

The original Boyfriend and Girlfriend (via the original FNF universe's events that led to its rewrite)

Cassandra (both from a tactic Pico pulled to end his school's terrorism early in the new timeline, and for good following the Corruption's events)

Proto Man/Blues (alongside Wily, Bass and Treble) (Mega Man/Rock; these four lost their lives to a rogue Zero build who remains shut down to this day)

For now, that's all I can really discuss. Took me some time to think about all the stuff I could mention here. Until the next post, have a great day/night!

#sonic exe #sonic the hedgehog #spider verse #sth #sonic #sonic fandom #sth au #sonic au #spider man #friday night funkin #funkinverse

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20genderchild · 6 months ago

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was tagged by @galwithalibrarycard thank you!

last three movies you’ve watched: so the Important Cinema Club podcast hosts 24 hour movie marathons on Twitch and the latest one was specifically movie musicals, the only one I saw in full was Cats on Park Avenue/Kôendôri no nekotachi which is a 1989 Japanese movie about a neighborhood’s street cats and a group of girls trying to put on a musical about the cats and it is Perfect. besides that I didn’t watch any of the movies in full but the ones I saw the most of were The Haunted Castle/Das Spukschloss im Spessart which is a 1960 German film about a young woman who lives in a castle with ghosts and apparently the beginning is batshit insane but I showed up like 10% in. And the one I saw maybe an hour of was Winter Evening in Gagra/Zimniy vecher v Gagrakh which is a 1985 Russian movie about a guy who wants to be a tap dancer. If we’re not counting the ones I didn’t see in their entirety then it’s The Color of Money and Holes lol

four movies on your watchlist: I need to FINALLY watch RoboCop, and also need to watch The Wrestler if only to see fuckin Necro Butcher and also Claudio with hair in a movie. and then uhhhhh I’ve heard good things about I Saw the TV Glow. and speaking of important cinema club I wanna watch one of the Farley-Roxburgh movies, probably Magic Spot

last three songs/artists you listened to: Nineteen by Charly Bliss, Little Chaos by Orla Gartland, and I Just Think I’m Smart by Wild Party

four songs/artists on your to-listen list: I want to listen to Sydney Sprauge just from hearing her lyric “stone cold stunner, homestar runner”, I keep meaning to listen to Redveil, I mean I listen to Everything Everything but I need to listen to their newest album, uhhhhhhhhh I can’t think of anyone else atm

last three books you read: I have fallen completely out of the habit of reading for over like seven years i think it’s all stuff for the podcast. Checking storygraph yep it’s Holes, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Fairest

four books on your tbr: okay so I’m reading two books I need to finish so I think they count as tbr, I need to finish Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow. Zoë recommended Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko to be and that looks cool, and I also have an ebook of A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft that I’ve never gotten around to

I’ll tag @reyantilles @all-chickens-are-trans @sirenofthetimes @greatestvoyageinhistoryofplastic and anyone else who wants to do it!

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theghostinthemargins · 2 years ago

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Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written fewer than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.

Thank you for the tag @amethysttribble!

In a shabby tent at the end of the world, there was a carpet spread across the ground. (in the breaking)

Angrist was forged by the greatest of the Dwarf-smiths in the master-workshops of Nogrod. (the fairest stars if that counts)

He stands, the cold grey sky above him, the wind carrying the scent of salt and smoke and blood, his sword held loosely against the throat of a small dark-haired boy. (but two remain)

Sirius Black was a beautiful child. (Toujours Pur)

Charlie woke to find his mouth was intolerably dry and his tongue felt like sandpaper. (After the Funeral)

The first time is the worst; of course it is, this is it, this is the moment that will forever divide his life into before and after. (Deathbeds)

Faramir sleeps. (The Manner of His Return)

Everything else I already have published is very old and not really worth reading so I'll share three opening lines from upcoming WIPs instead!

In the great stone hall of Himring Ever-Cold there had been, of late, an uncommon level of bustle and activity. (a currently untitled thing)

Idril is staring at the ground when the light comes. (all the world lay then in wonder)

Fingon had a tent to himself in Araman – a modest little thing, as far as they went, with none of the finery of his father’s, nor the spaciousness of Turgon’s, who was sharing with his wife and daughter. (The Unburied)

Ten people sound like a lot to tag, especially after this has been going on for a while, so here are 7 since I only technically did seven of these: @arrivisting, @cycas, @pearlescentpearl, @leucisticpuffin, @that-angry-noldo, @tathrin, @potatoobsessed999 (no pressure, and sorry if you've already been tagged!)

#tag game #my fic

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ask-tdw-0666 · 7 months ago

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Tough Love (The Villains Lair) (Minecraft Villains Version)

Alvar:

Ever since I was a boy my own father vowed I must find the way to power through a noble brow I married once for love, then my senses came I must marry for the stature of my wife's name Onto marriage number two I knew what I had to do And my poor wife was killed in a year or two Solved problem number one, now to problem number two Her doe-eyed little boy with gentle point of view

Would I ship him off to school? No! I told him if he stayed that he'd have To earn his keep and so he became the maid

Charlie and Joey:

He was lazy He was crazy He was talking to the mice

Alvar: Janis was hopelessly naive, so he had to pay the price I moved him to the attic out of sight and out of mind I could have thrown him out, but I'm benevolent and kind

Charlie and Joey:

Sire, your heart's too big for you!

Alvar:

I knew what I had to do After all, difficult children will take advantage of your good nature

So you lock them up from away the key There's one on every family tree

Charlie and Joey:

Ungrateful Hateful Vile too, the things he put you through

Break their spirit so they obey Now they'll do anything you say Maybe you'd call it cruel but others would call it love Tough love

I ask you, is it a crime to strive for perfection in all things?

Walda:

Oh no, they're so cute when they're little but Then they grow up and just ruin everything

I never wanted children, life was better on my own All the screaming, nagging chilled me to the bone But then one day I came across a flower growing free It's magic kept me young, so I kept it all for me But someone dug it up, now a baby held the power So I "borrowed" him, locked him up and hid him in a mansion, Years went by, Oh, the sacrifice And against my better judgment, I fed him once or twice Teenagers now I know I wild eat their young But that's messy Manipulation's easily more fun A little guilt, a lot of force of course you have to lie Remind them that without you, they'd shrivel up and die

They only have themselves to blame If you'd been there, you'd do the same

Walda:

So work them hard 'til they fall in line There's one way and it's only mine The children are lazy Spoiled too

Alvar and Walda:

But we know what to do Govern them with a heart of stone Lock them up, so they're all alone Maybe you'd call it cruel but Others would call it love, tough love

Herobrine:

Ugh, his own room with a water view and He runs away, the first change He gets?

Alvar:

These wretched brats think the World owes them something, but it doesn't..

Herobrine:

Far and wide I rule the kingdom with a heavy hand But there was more, I had in mind a greater plan I never cared to share, so my brother would have to fall But his "child" blocked the way to me and "Fairest of them all" He was chubby, He was dumb And grotesquel optimistic He needed structure in her life He wasn't realistic I give him chores and took away the things that he'd enjoy But then I caught him singing songs with birds and then a girl Love? Was I just sit by and wait? For him to take my crown? No He had sealed his fate He had to go, and so he did and you know what They say, "An apple once a day keeps your enemies away"

All:

Don't be fooled by their tender smile Give an inch and they'll run a mile

Our idea for a happy home Is one where we live all alone Dark Depressing Desolate Now let's all drink to that Call us wicked call us mean Cruel and everything in between You could say it's unjust Turning their dreams to dust This is what we call love, tough love!

#minecraft oc #minecraft #mineblr #alvar thornburn #rotai walda #herobrine #disney song

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ultimateplaylistmaker · 9 months ago

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Imagine the reputation in Charlie's eyes.

"The fairest Overlord"

"HEY YOU TAKE THAT BACK"

Kokichi scoffing: im the SPIDER im the WEED i grow and grow into any crack I find!

Angel Dust: Lmao I heard this loser puts out clauses in their contracts like a loser

Kokichi: I could have you killed!

Angel Dust: hot

Kokichi: hate it here!

#ndrv3 #anon chaos #overlord ouma au

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beyonddarkness · 2 years ago

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This is going to take a while to unravel, so bear with me. Everything is so intertwined, it is difficult to split into sections. This sequence will be in two or more parts.

Galadriel’s arc in season one revolves around her task.

"[Sauron] sees Galadriel, and knows that what she needs more than anything else is to find the evil that has plagued her for so long, and save Middle-earth." JD Payne, The Rings of Power Podcast 1×08

Remember that according to Patrick, “character after character in the show” tells Galadriel that her obsession is not a good thing. One thing we know with certainty: Vengeance cannot satisfy it.

Her task is directly associated with two things: 1) the dagger, and 2) the mark that Sauron carved into Finrod’s flesh.

While it makes sense on the surface (or to someone like me, who had not read the books before watching the show), there is much more than meets the eye. From Galadriel’s perspective, the dagger is special because it was Finrod’s, and (it is assumed) she views it as a symbol of his task—now hers. However, on The Boat, we see a peculiar attachment as she struggles to let go.

The reason behind this is simple. “The most important truths often are,” says Finrod, but we must learn to discern them for ourselves; JD and Patrick will not always be there to speak them to us.

First, we trace this back to the source.

In response to this, Sauron poses excellent questions, with which we may begin. He most certainly knows the answers to every single one by this point, which means each question is rhetorical. It would not be the first time he interrogates in this manner. But what is he trying to accomplish in the workshop conversation, specifically?

He is trying to make her think.

Referring to the season finale, Charlie Vickers reveals that Sauron wanted Galadriel to figure out who he was.

Do you think he wanted Galadriel to figure it out? "Yes. He’s ready for her to see him for who he is, and he thinks she’s ready to know it." Charlie Vickers, The New York Times

We will return to this idea later. Now that we have established that every question is rhetorical, let us thoroughly answer each one:

“What do you know of darkness?”

Galadriel first touched the darkness as she mourned over her dead brother; but for her, ‘touching the darkness’ was more than figurative.

Yes, Sauron could have seen (or perceived) this memory as it flashes through her mind, but he somehow knew about this moment before. He triggered this memory for a purpose: to make her stop galloping, and give herself a moment to think.

He is trying to tell her something, while giving her room to figure it out, herself.

“And there, in the darkness … “

” … his vow … “

” … became mine.”

Next question. It is no wonder that Sauron knows who the dagger belonged to, but to mention it as a follow-up seems like an answer, in and of itself. It is as if to say: “This is what you know of darkness.”

“Whose dagger was it, Galadriel? Who is it you lost?”

Answer: Her brother, Finrod Felagund, who was the High King of the Elves at the time of his death.

“What happened to him?”

Wow. We have suddenly been asked an extremely loaded question. Galadriel gives the short answer:

“He was killed in a place of darkness and despair, by servants of Sauron.”

This is a wonderful summary, but even Galadriel asks, “Is that enough for you?” She knows (as well as we), how long it would take to explain.

… But Sauron asked for it.

We must make an attempt. This is one of the most crucial pieces of information. A gander in The Silmarillion answers this question more fully; (and oh boy, is it a long one). We shall delve deeper into the story of Beren and Lúthien.

WHAT HAPPENED TO FINROD?

There is so much to cover, but we will dissect as much as we possibly can. Let us begin a bit before Beren’s arrival in Nargothrond, for a little background (taken from The Silmarillion: Of Beren and Lúthien).

King Thingol loved and cherished his daughter, Lúthien, above all things. When she brought Beren before him, he said “in scorn and anger”:

‘Who are you, that come hither as a thief, and unbidden dare to approach my throne?’

Insults were exchanged, lives were threatened, and at length, Thingol said to Beren:

‘Bring to me in your hand a Silmaril from Morgoth’s crown; and then, if she will, Lúthien may set her hand in yours. Then you shall have my jewel; and though the fate of Arda lie within the Silmarils, yet you shall hold me generous.‘

To which Beren laughed and responded:

‘For little price do Elven-kings sell their daughters: for gems, and things made by craft. But if this be your will, Thingol, I will perform it. And when we meet again my hand shall hold a Silmaril from the Iron Crown; for you have not looked the last upon Beren son of Barahir.‘

Thus, Beren undertook a daunting task, indeed. A while after his departure, he saw Nargothrond afar off, and “being destitute, without hope or counsel, he turned his feet thither.” The Elves of Nargothrond were aware of Beren as he traveled through.

But knowing his danger he held ever aloft the ring of Felagund; and though he saw no living thing, because of the stealth of the hunters, he felt that he was watched, and cried often aloud: ‘I am Beren son of Barahir, friend of Felagund. Take me to the King!’

The Elves surrounded him, but spared his life, and bowed to him upon seeing this ring. They led him by night “lest their paths should be revealed […] to the dark gates of their hidden halls.”

The stage has been set, and we switch gears momentarily. Galadriel explains what she thinks is Finrod’s vow in the beginning of episode one:

“My brother vowed to seek [Sauron] out and destroy him.” Galadriel

Considering that Galadriel has a habit of assuming things, and jumping to conclusions in the first half of season one, it is understandable that this is not Finrod’s true vow. [Sauron also has a habit relevant to this, which will be discussed later.]

Finrod did make a vow, though, and it came “upon him for his death”; just not for the reason that Galadriel thought. She had to have gotten her belief from somewhere (there are some possibilities, but let us not get sidetracked). This part of the story was not changed for the show; there is a purpose for this. [I do not believe the Tolkien Estate would have allowed something like this for no reason. You will see why.]

First, we must go back to Dagor Bragollach: The Battle of Sudden Flame.

[…] King Finrod Felagund, hastening from the south, was cut off from his people and surrounded with small company in the Fen of Serech; and he would have been slain or taken […]

[…] but Barahir came up with the bravest of his men and rescued him, and made a wall of spears about him; and they cut their way out of the battle with great loss. Thus Felagund escaped, and returned to his deep fortress of Nargothrond; but he swore an oath of abiding friendship and aid in every need to Barahir and all his kin, and in token of his vow he gave to Barahir his ring.

The Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Beleriand

What was Finrod’s true oath? It was one of “abiding friendship and aid in every need to Barahir and all his kin.” What is the token of his oath? Not the dagger. It is his ring, which he gives to Barahir. It is eventually passed down to Aragorn.

Knowing Finrod’s true oath, let us return to Beren’s arrival in Nargothrond (again, taken from Of Beren and Lúthien).

Thus Beren came before King Finrod Felagund; and Felagund knew him, needing no ring to remind him of the kin of Bëor and of Barahir. Behind closed doors they sat, and Beren told of the death of Barahir, and of all that had befallen him in Doriath; and he wept, recalling Lúthien and their joy together. But Felagund heard his tale in wonder and disquiet; and he knew that the oath he had sworn was come upon him for his death, as long before he had foretold to Galadriel.

“But you must learn to discern them for yourself. I won’t always be here to speak them to you.”

“You won’t?”

Ow.

“Behind closed doors they sat,” it says. A crucial detail. Finrod’s conversation with Beren was in secret.

Beren, being the son of Barahir, fell under the ‘kin’ category in Finrod’s oath. Finrod had to help Beren with this task (which was to retrieve a Silmaril from the Iron Crown of Morgoth, and bring it to Thingol), and knew that it would spell his own death.

He spoke then to Beren in heaviness of heart. ‘It is plain that Thingol desires your death; but it seems that this doom goes beyond his purpose, and that the Oath of Fëanor is again at work. For the Silmarils are cursed with an oath of hatred, and he that even names them in desire moves a great power from slumber; and the sons of Fëanor would lay all the Elf-kingdoms in ruin rather than suffer any other than themselves to win or possess a Silmaril, for the Oath drives them. And now Celegorm and Curufin are dwelling in my halls; and though I, Finarfin’s son, am King, they have won a strong power in the realm, and lead many of their own people.’

This next statement is the key.

‘They have shown friendship to me in every need, but I fear that they will show neither love nor mercy to you, if your quest be told. Yet my own oath holds; and thus we are all ensnared.’

Finrod basically said: “If we tell anyone about your task, your life is in jeopardy. If your life is in jeopardy, I must protect you. Thus, revealing the details of your quest would start a war.”

It is interesting that this scene cuts from Finrod’s statement straight to this:

Then King Felagund spoke before his people, recalling the deeds of Barahir, and his vow; and he declared that it was laid upon him to aid the son of Barahir in his need, and he sought the help of his chieftains.

Finrod did not say what Beren’s specific need was. Yet, Celegorm still repeats the oath of his father (because a ‘great power’ was moved ‘from slumber,’ by Thingol simply mentioning the Silmarils in desire). The following statement shows that if the details of their mission were revealed, the outcome of Finrod’s announcement would have been far worse.

Then Celegorm arose amid the throng, and drawing his sword he cried: ‘Be he friend or foe, whether demon of Morgoth, or Elf, or child of Men, or any other living thing in Arda, neither law, nor love, nor league of hell, nor might of the Valar, nor any power of wizardry, shall defend him from the pursuing hate of Fëanor’s sons, if he take or find a Silmaril and keep it. For the Silmarils we alone claim, until the world ends.’

Proof of the threat of war:

And after Celegorm Curufin spoke, more softly but with no less power, conjuring in the minds of the Elves a vision of war and the ruin of Nargothrond.

Then, their land was darkened, and the sons of Fëanor (having their hearts darkened) wanted to usurp the throne from Finrod.

What does all of this entail? It means that there was room for rumors to be spread, and assumptions to be made, as to why Finrod helped Beren, and what the task was. Finrod’s was an oath of friendship; why did Galadriel say something that was rooted in vengeance?

Threat of treason did not sway Finrod from fulfilling his oath. “I must hold my bond,” he says. He and Beren, with ten (very) loyal companions set out. They came upon a company of Orcs, slew them, and by the arts of Finrod, thoroughly disguised themselves as Orcs. They came “far upon their northward road, and ventured into the western pass, between Ered Wethrin and the highlands of Taur-nu-Fuin.”

But Sauron in his tower was ware of them, and doubt took him; for they went in haste, and stayed not to report their deeds, as was commanded to all the servants of Morgoth that passed that way. Therefore he sent to waylay them, and bring them before him.

In other words, Sauron noticed some suspicious activity from these twelve supposed Orcs, and had them brought to him. Thus, the contest of the songs of power took place between Finrod and Sauron, and “the King was very great; but Sauron had the mastery.” Finrod lost, Sauron stripped them of their disguises, and “they stood before him naked and afraid.”

The question: ‘What happened to Finrod?’ will be answered in a few moments. As you read the following, ask yourself why he died.

But though their kinds were revealed, Sauron could not discover their names or their purposes.

He cast them therefore into a deep pit, dark and silent, and threatened to slay them cruelly, unless one would betray the truth to him. From time to time they saw two eyes kindled in the dark, and a werewolf devoured one of the companions; but none betrayed their lord.

Sauron obviously knew of the existence of Finrod. However, he clearly did not know that this particular Elf was the High King.

One might say that Finrod’s task is one of the most important things in the show, considering Sauron tortured and killed to know it (along with his identity). Even though he never found out, he still sees things, and therefore perceived something.

In the pits of Sauron Beren and Felagund lay, and all their companions were now dead; but Sauron purposed to keep Felagund to the last, for he perceived that he was a Noldo of great might and wisdom, and he deemed that in him lay the secret of their errand.

Unfortunately for Sauron, saving Finrod for last meant that Beren would have to go first. This brings us to Finrod’s end. Why did he die? Because his task (and identity) were kept secret, and he was bound by an oath.

In answer to your question, Sauron …

“What happened to him?”

Here is the long answer.

But when the wolf came for Beren, Felagund put forth all his power, and burst his bonds; and he wrestled with the werewolf, and slew it with his hands and teeth; yet he himself was wounded to the death. Then he spoke to Beren, saying: ‘I go now to my long rest in the timeless halls beyond the seas and the Mountains of Aman. It will be long ere I am seen among the Noldor again; and it may be that we shall not meet a second time in death or life, for the fates of our kindreds are apart. Farewell!’ He died then in the dark, in Tol-in-Gaurhoth, whose great tower he himself had built. Thus King Finrod Felagund, fairest and most beloved of the house of Finwë, redeemed his oath; but Beren mourned beside him in despair.

[To be continued … ]

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hellosallylovette · 1 month ago

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Every book I’ve ever read (not including short stories or comics, not necessarily a recommendation list)

1. Mosquitoland by David Arnold

2. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

4. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

5. The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

6. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

7. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

8. Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor

9. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

10. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall

11. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

12. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

13. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites by Zac Brewer

14. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Ninth Grade Slays by Zac Brewer

15. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Tenth Grade Bleeds by Zac Brewer

16. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eleventh Grade Burns by Zac Brewer

17. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Twelfth Grade Kills by Zac Brewer

18. No Flying in the House by Betty Brock

19. Wish by Alexandra Bullen

20. Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman

21. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

22. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll

23. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

24. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

25. Little Bee by Chris Cleave

26. Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

27. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

28. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

29. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

30. Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton

31. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

32. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

33. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

34. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupêry

35. No and Me by Delphine de Vigan

36. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

37. The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo

38. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

39. The Brotherhood of the Conch: The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming by Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni

40. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

41. The Kind of Friends We Used to Be by Frances O’Rourke Dowell

42. Where I’d Like to Be by Frances O’Roark Dowell

43. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan

44. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

45. Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic

46. Who Is Stealing the Twelve Days of Christmas? by Martha Freeman

47. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

48. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman

49. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

50. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

51. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green

52. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

53. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

54. Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix

55. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

56. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

57. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

58. How to Steal a Car by Pete Hautman

59. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

60. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

61. Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse

62. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

63. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson-Burnett

64. The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson-Burnett

65. Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes

66. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

67. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

68. The First Last Part by Angela Johnson

69. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

70. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

71. The Shining by Stephen King

72. Carrie by Stephen King

73. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

74. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

75. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

76. Fairy Tale: A True Story by Monica Kulling

77. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

78. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

79. The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis

80. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

81. Every Day by David Leviathan

82. Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg by Gail Carson Levine

83. Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

84. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

85. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

86. The Giver by Lois Lowry

87. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

88. Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev

89. Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev

90. Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas

91. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

92. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

93. The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne

94. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

95. Girls Rule by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

96. The New York Grimpendium by J.W. Ocker

97. 1984 by George Orwell

98. Animal Farm by George Orwell

99. Willa by Heart by Coleen Murtagh Paratore

100. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

101. Witch and Wizard: The Gift by James Patterson

102. Witch and Wizard by James Patterson and Cate Tiernan

103. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

104. Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce

105. Ripper by Stefan Petrucha

106. Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

107. Anthem by Ayn Rand

108. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

109. Emily the Strange: Lost, Dark, and Bored by Rob Reger

110. Across the Universe by Beth Revis

111. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

112. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

113. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

114. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan

115. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

116. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

117. The Kane Chronicles: The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan

118. The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

119. Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

120. Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

121. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

122. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

123. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

124. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

125. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

126. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

127. The Tales of Beadle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

128. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

129. The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer

130. Princess From Another Planet by Mindy Schanback

131. It’s Raining Cupcakes by Lisa Schroeder

132. Pretty Little Liars: Book One by Sara Shepard

133. The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith

134. Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

135. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

136. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

137. Dracula by Bram Stoker

138. Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner

139. Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor

140. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

141. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

142. It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

143. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

144. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

145. Ghost Hotel by Lawrence Weinberg

146. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

147. Who Censored Roger Rabbit by Gary K. Wolf

148. The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf

149. Christina’s Ghost by Betty Ren Wright

150. The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young

151. Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (12/9/16)

152. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (12/27/16)

153. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2/7/17)

154. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (4/27/17)

155. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (5/15/2017)

156. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (1/04/18)

157. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (1/10/18)

158. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (3/9/18)

159. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (11/1/2018)

160. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (11/14/2018)

161. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (2/14/2019)

162. Forrest Gump by Winston Groom (3/6/19)

163. The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara (3/27/19)

164. Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden (4/4/19)

165. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck (4/9/19)

166. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (4/13/19)

167. We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach (4/17/19)

168. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (7/12/19)

169. Matilda by Roald Dahl (8/7/19)

170. The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (8/8/19)

171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (8/21/19)

172. The Tea Girl from Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (8/24/19)

173. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron (9/13/19)

174. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (9/26/19)

175. The Quiet American by Graham Greene (10/22/19)

176. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1/2/20)

177. The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian (1/30/20)

178. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (3/17/20)

179. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (7/26/20)

180. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne by Ann Radcliffe (9/13/20)

181. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (9/29/20)

182. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (11/15/20)

183. If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous (12/26/20)

184. My Ántonia by Willa Cather (1/9/21)

185. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1/13/21)

186. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1/17/21)

187. Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao (1/28/21)

188. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (2/1/21)

189. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (2/14/21)

190. American Son by Brian Ascalon Roley (2/22/21)

191. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2/18/21)

192. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (4/14/21)

193. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (4/20/21)

194. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (5/4/21)

195. The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (7/7/21)

196. Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (11/29/21)

197. The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls (12/13/21)

198. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (7/22/22)

199. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brönte (9/2/22)

200. Persuasion by Jane Austen (10/14/22)

201. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (10/22/22)

202. King Lear by William Shakespeare (10/28/22)

203. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (11/3/22)

204. The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (11/5/22)

205. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (11/19/22)

206. No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (11/27/22)

207. Rebecca by Daphne Du Marier (12/2/22)

208. Sense and Sensibility (12/23/22)

209. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1/13/23)

210. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1/18/23)

211. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (1/26/23)

212. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (1/31/23)

213. Othello by William Shakespeare (2/5/23)

214. Girl, Interrupted by Susana Kaysen (2/27/23)

215. Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood (3/2/23)

216. Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. C. Young (3/5/23)

217. Cuban Refugees: Cuban Roots, American Freedoms by Deborah Kent (3/21/23)

218. Frida Kahlo by Hettie Judah (4/5/23)

219. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (4/15/23)

220. Beloved by Toni Morrison (5/28/23)

221. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (6/12/23)

222. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (6/30/23)

223. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (7/21/23)

224. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (7/24/23)

225. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang (7/28/23)

226. Never Broken: Songs are Only Half the Story by Jewel (8/6/23)

227. A Therapeutic Atlas by The School of Life (8/18/23)

228. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (8/22/23)

229. The Vietnam War, 1945–1975 by New-York Historical Society (8/23/23)

230. White Fang by Jack London (8/30/23)

231. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (8/31/23)

232. Austral by Carlos Fonseca (10/2/23)

233. The Dreamkeepers by Gloria Ladson-Billings (10/4/23)

234. Emma by Jane Austen (10/13/23)

235. The Monk by Matthew Lewis (11/3/23)

236. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett 2/11/24

237. Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya 3/5/24

238. Never Grow Up by Jackie Chan with Zhu Mo 3/14/24

239. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 3/27/24

240. The Third Wedding Wreath by Costas Taktsis 4/25/24

241. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 7/3/24

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truearchangel · 2 months ago

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It's nice to have someone interested for once. ”

@themosthatedbeingg Hazbin Hotel Prompts

What a very weird choice of words. Michael can’t say he was… interested in the way that Lucifer wishes he was, but he was interested in general. In the answers that it can give him, in the things he might be able to understand just by studying the place. Or, perhaps, did his brother mean he was interested in Lucifer himself and not the Hazbin Hotel? Because that would be more accurate, but he was always interested in his twin. Just because they had a fall out (if that is what that can be called), doesn’t mean he ever lost interest in him.

If that was the case, he wouldn’t have Lucifer’s violin and sewed duck in his office. He would have gotten rid of anything that reminded him of his siblings. Instead, he kept those things and buried himself underneath his work to try and ease the pain in his chest.

The thing about his reason for being down here, was it–was kind of selfish. The questions that all of this had risen in him, that continued together in layers beneath him, he wanted to find the answers to them. No, not wanted, needed to find them. He was hoping that the answers he got down here would help direct him back onto the proper path. He trusted himself to be able to do that, but he needed to find his answers first. Which was the reason he was interested in the hotel and down here.

Lucifer didn’t need to know that though. Part of which was his fear of confessing to the literal devil that this entire situation had caused doubt in him over things in Heaven. Not a very good thing for the Leader of the Archangel to confess.

Which left him in an awkward situation of not entirely knowing what to say to his twin. Which was something that wasn’t unfamiliar between the two of them, that empty silence that Lucifer himself tended to fill with ramblings. He was good at that, finding words for the both of them, but in this case–surely he wanted something. Surely he wanted Michael to convey that he was actually interested. In listening to him, listening to his daughter, trying to understand everything that was going on out of the kindness of his heart.

Taking a deep breath he adjusted his papers in his hands and curled them up against his chest. He shifted forward in the chair he was in and raised his gaze to his twin. They were in his office, Michael had been asking some general questions to understand the hotel, and–things dissolved into this.

He wondered what was going through his twin’s head. He didn’t trust him, right? There was no way that he would open up to Michael again. Want to get to know him and have him close again. Trust after what was broken between them, wasn’t so easily repaired like that and he understood that. He would honestly expect, until the end of whatever end there was, that Lucifer wouldn’t ever trust him again.

It was entirely warranted.

“I–” he pressed his lips together and shifted in place. “My interest is purely selfish, Lucifer.” Honesty, and admission to a sin more or less. “Let that be what it is, I will still give Charlie the fairest assessment of this that I can. No matter what the end result will be.”

#themosthatedbeingg #( when an angel confesses to sinning in front of the devil )#long post cw #○ — 「 verse 」 the sword of god.#○ — 「 asks 」 prayers answered.

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ao3feed-destiel-02 · 3 months ago

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A Heart of Purest Gold

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/BERT9gS by serragracewn In a kingdom ruled by a vain and wicked queen named Abaddon, Dean Winchester is the fairest of them all, a young man with a heart as pure as gold. This young man loves Prince Castiel. And Prince Castiel loves him. But some obstacles cause them to stay apart. At this time, Dean is raised by his cruel stepmother, Dean is forced into a life of servitude, his beauty and kindness a threat to the queen’s desire to be the most beautiful in the land. When the queen’s magic mirror declares that Dean has surpassed her in beauty, Abaddon orders her huntsman, Benny, to take Dean into the forest and end his life. But Benny, unable to harm Dean, lets him go and tells him to flee. Lost and alone, Dean finds refuge with seven dwarfs, each with their own quirks and personalities, who take him in and protect him. Meanwhile, Castiel hears of Dean’s plight and is determined to find and protect his love. When Abaddon discovers that Dean is still alive, she sets out to destroy him once and for all, leading to a final confrontation where love, courage, and sacrifice will be tested. Words: 5814, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 2 of Destiel Version of Disney Movies Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural), Benny Lafitte, Charlie Bradbury, Gabriel (Supernatural), Bobby Singer (Supernatural), Sam Winchester, Jo Harvelle, Kevin Tran (Supernatural), Garth Fitzgerald IV, Abaddon (Supernatural) Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Fusion, Prince Dean Winchester, Prince Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester is Like a Disney Princess, Established Castiel/Dean Winchester, Protective Castiel (Supernatural), Caring Castiel (Supernatural), Comforting Castiel (Supernatural), Possessive Castiel (Supernatural), Fairy Tale Elements, Rescue Missions, Castiel Saves Dean Winchester, Castiel Takes Care of Dean Winchester, Fluff and Angst, Emotionally Hurt Dean Winchester, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Protective Charlie Bradbury, Protective Gabriel (Supernatural), Protective Bobby Singer (Supernatural), Nicknames read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/BERT9gS

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seas-storyarchive · 8 months ago

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Angelradio, but swap genders - au

Note: I listened to a mashup of Extraterrestrial by Katy Perry and Cannibal by Kesha.

Alastriona accompanied Vaggie and Charlie to Heaven. Hmm.. too bright for her liking.. oh well, she'd spent nearly 70 years in hell.

"Al." She felt Charlotte nudging her.

"Hm?" She turned from the brimstone dust that she had become fascinated with to see a tall man with cedar skin, white freckles and a white streak going down his nose, and curled hair cut into a fade along his ears, colored in silver-like ombre, white irises, blue-gray sclera, deep-purple pupils. "Oh, pardon my manners, inexcusable for a lady!"

She curtsied to the tall man. "My name is Alastriona, good sir." She stood to her full height again. "I thank you for agreeing to meet with us on this fine day."

The tall man took her hand and kissed it. "I am Cyrus. Pleasure to meet you, fairest maiden of the underworld."

Oh. Oh this poor fucking sap.

"So.." Rosie began over tea, seeing her best friends face. "Who's the new mook?"

"His name is Cyrus." Alastriona said, letting the name roll off her tongue.

"Oh, a fancy fella?" Rosie poured Alastriona some tea as well.

"Indeed." Said deer removed the lid from a tray of lady fingers and small sandwiches.

"Do I know him?"

"No." Alastriona took a moment, waiting for Rosie to take a sip of her tea before continuing. "He's far too.. heavenly to be known down here."

Rosie choked and spat out her tea. "What!?!"

Alastriona nodded. "Yes, I know. What a poor, unfortunate, soul. Too bad. He WAS easy on the eyes." She sipped her tea. "I wonder how they'd taste in a martini."

As they chatted about this and that, Rosie had to wonder if her friend knew that she was falling for this Cyrus angel. Rosie could see it, could hear it even, on the way Alastriona mocked the man. Oh.. oh, poor, poor Alastriona..

"Al, honey, has anyone given you.. the talk, yet?"

"The.. what now?"

Lucifer have mercy.

#hazbin hotel #angelradio #genderswap angelradio #alastriona x cyrus #one shot #genderswap #rosie the bestie to the rescue lol

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fishrpg · 7 months ago

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2024-04-27: Dockery Farms (Town)

Dockery Farms (sometimes called Dockery Plantation, but usually just simply “Dockery”) was founded in 1895 by Will Dockery. It’s located just inside the western edge of Sunflower County and about 2,000 tenant laborers grow cotton on its 28,000 acres. Though Will Dockery didn’t much care for the music of his tenants and shared many of the prevailing beliefs of white men of the era, he had a reputation as one of the fairest men around when it came to wages. Pay at Dockery was consistently higher than at the other farms in the area, which in turn attracted many laborers.

However, the pay was usually made in company scrip that was only accepted at Dockery. Scrip could be exchanged for cash, but almost never at face value. Payday happened once a month and was known as “Furnishing Day,” and saw thousands of people lined up outside the commissary to collect their pay. There are grumblings about the unfairness of being paid in scrip, but any legislation that might stop the use of script is still a few years away (the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938).

Points of Interest

Cotton Gin

Housed in a barn-sized building with corrugated metal siding, the cotton gin is a roaring monster of wheels, belts, and teeth. Few people who deal with the gin regularly manage avoid losing at least part of a finger during their years of tenure there. It’s a machine to be respected and feared. The ginning process spits out fine clouds of cotton lint that settle on the sweaty skin of the workers, leaving them looking like fuzzy ghosts by the end of their shift. Without the gin, the money doesn’t come to Dockery; and without money, there is no Dockery.

Big Lou’s

Big Lou owns a house just past the one-lane bridge over the Sunflower River. On Furnishing Day (always a Saturday), the bluesmen pay Big Lou to move all the furniture out of his house and set up mirrors and oil lamps so they can perform. While this was happening, the bluesmen would play music for the captive audience of people waiting in line. Although the musical performances while waiting in line were free, the best and most popular music was saved for Big Lou’s house, and you had to pay a toll to cross the one-lane bridge to Big Lou’s house. The toll was split among the musicians who performed that night.

Pea Vine Station

Rail was the best way to get cotton shipped around the country, and cotton farms that weren’t located near big rail lines had to make their own branches. Officially known as the Kimball Lake Branch, nobody calls it by that name. It’s just the Pea Vine, named for its indirect and circuitous route that resembled the unfurling vines of a pea plant. The station in Dockery runs southwest to Boyle, a community about 2 miles south of Cleveland, to connect the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Company tracks to the Illinois Central. The Pea Vine runs twice a day, making a round trip each time, and functions as a convenient way to reach the entertainment options of Cleveland.

Trulight Baptist Church

Pronounced like “True Light,” this is an all-Black church with a graveyard where many of the laborers would end up being buried. The church was first established in 1906, and the graveyard holds the remains of Annie and Bill Patton (the parents of legendary bluesman Charlie “Charley” Patton).

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somewhere-south-of-neutral · 4 months ago

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Honestly, though, that's the fairest criticism I've heard against Tress. Like, I definitely agree that the curse breaking felt kind of hand-wavey and anticlimactic, and even if he didn't want to go there Tress and Charlie both read as very aspec to me anyway. Definitely not worth giving the book only one star, though

I just found a 1-star book review featuring my all-time favorite piece of literary criticism:

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meadowclarke · 4 years ago

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Charlie Prince ❦ Fairest

"Oh, I can't give you this," Charlie said, reaching behind herself to leave the script on a side table, "are you kidding? That's only for people in the show. Are you a people in the show?" "You play dirty, Charlie Prince." Ivy chuckled, and for some reason she didn't lean back when Charlie moved even closer than before. "All's fair in love and war, right?"

❦ THE BASICS ❦

Full name: Charlotte Floriana Prince.

Known as: Charlie, almost exclusively, since she chose her stage name at 18. Her parents and siblings still call her Charlotte.

Age: 32.

Birthday: August 15.

Zodiac: Leo ↬ Creative, passionate, generous, warm-hearted, cheerful, humorous, arrogant, stubborn, self-centered, lazy, inflexible.

Sexuality: Lesbian. Out and proud since high school.

Hometown: Greenwich, Connecticut

Family: parents, four siblings (she’s the middle child, and A Middle Child), her dog/soulmate Irish Wolfhound aptly called Horse.

Occupation: actress. She used to be a dancer, but that's been set aside to focus on her acting career. Her online D&D guild friends have no idea TheTiddyPaladin is actually the Charlie Prince.

Height: 5'4''

Build: Naturally slim, though she couldn't tell you if it's genetics or the fact that she's been constantly on the move since she learned how to walk. She's a professionally trained dancer and has the muscle definition to show for it. She will neither confirm nor deny she sticks her favorite thirsty tweets from fans to her bathroom mirror to get an ego boost in the morning.

❦ THE BACKSTORY❦

Charlie Prince is the apple of Hollywood's eye. She showed up seemingly out of nowhere, wearing a spandex suit and a cape for what was supposed to be a minor (very minor) appearance in one of the biggest superhero franchises in the world. Her character was so inconsequential she wasn't even given any rules or recommendation as far as PR and her public image. After all, why would anyone even interview someone who was in the movie for a grand total of five minutes?

Charlie flew out to Vancouver, shot her scenes, and immediately went back to her job at the NYC Ballet. She was almost twenty-five, and she was so close to her first solo at the ballet she could almost taste it. And then the movie premiered. Charlie was invited out of politeness and (she suspected) a need for the cast pictures on the red carpet to look a little less male and white. Charlie was walking the red carpet, happy as a clam to enjoy the glamour of a premiere as one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences, when a journalist stopped her to ask her a question: was the handsome gentleman by her side her boyfriend?

Charlie laughed and then laughed some more, and then she said the words that would turn her life upside down: "No, no, that's my brother, and I'm really gay. If you wanna come to the after party, though, hit me up."

The flirty wink that followed those words went viral within minutes. By the time the premiere ended, Charlie Prince had become an icon, a social media sensation, and a very real problem for a very large media empire. Her acting career (what acting career?) was on the line, they said, and Charlie nodded politely and went back to her pointe shoes and her rigorous work schedule. Hollywood had been fun for a night, just like the nice reporter whose name she couldn't quite remember anymore. But she was now ready to go back to real life.

But Charlie's words and her wink and her five minutes of screen time simply refused to go away. She started rehearsing for her first solo one week before her action figure hit the shelves of all major retailers. There were petitions for a solo movie, invitations to talk shows and podcasts and fan conventions. An ever-increasing amount of fans -- fan-fans, mind you, not ballet aficionados -- crowding around the stage door every night. The most surreal experience of her life in the form of her own face printed on the lunch bag of a little girl walking to school.

Charlie Prince was famous, and she still had no idea how.

The months that followed were a flurry of experiences Charlie honestly wasn't prepared to process. Everyone knew her. Most people loved her. Some people hated her. Both groups were loud and relentless and seemingly everywhere. She took a leave of absence from her job to spend some time holed up in her family home back in Connecticut with her parents and siblings, who were delighted to remind her she was still the same old Charlotte. Still getting into trouble for not thinking before she spoke. Still so very different from her quiet, academically-oriented family.

When her agent called her to talk about a solo movie and a recurring role in the big franchise crossovers, her parents laughed and told her to not be silly -- ballet was her life. She'd devoted twenty-five years of her life to it. She had the skill and drive to make it. Who in their right mind would give up a chance to become a soloist at the New York City Ballet for the glitz and glamour of a Hollywood life?

Charlie Prince, as it turned out.

Once she made her choice and jumped fully into acting, Charlie was an instant star. She was flirty and witty and naturally charming in a way that made every talk show appearance go viral within minutes of it landing on YouTube. She was bold and confident in a way that would absolutely have come off as arrogant in most people, but she somehow made it work. She led blockbuster after blockbuster, and her name became synonymous with box office hits.

If there's one thing Charlie's missing, it's that feeling of being respected for her craft. Superhero movies may make billions, but they're not exactly the kind of credits that give you Serious Actress points. So when they offered her a chance to work in a Broadway show, opposite legendary actress Rhiannon Braeburn? Charlie didn't even think twice. Live theater is serious enough -- prestigious enough -- to push Charlie from superhero actress to actress actress.

And if it helps distract people from that pesky little lesbian heartbreaker reputation she's earned (and deserved, if she's being perfectly honest) over her seven years in Hollywood?

Well. She's definitely not going to complain.

❦ THE TAGLIST❦

[Please let me know if you’d like to be added or deleted!]

@howdywrites ❀ @aziz-writes ❀ @musicofglassandwords ❀ @ladywithalamp ❀ @tiredlittleoldme ❀ @wildswrites

#wip: fairest #fairest: charlie #writeblr #character intro

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