#far-shores tag

[steveshcrringtons]

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Sienna

“Who is your OC’s favourite person? Why is this person the top of their list and have they actually met them (an idol or rolemodel or celeb can be someone’s favourite after all!)”

So Sienna’s favorite “regular” person is Letty ( @eddiemunscns ). She’s her best friend in the whole world and is the sunshine to Sienna’s storm cloud.

Sienna’s favorite celebrity is Hayden Christensen. He shaped her taste in guys growing up, and she’s watched everything he’s ever been in. Anakin Skywalker will always be her first childhood crush and she loves how sweet and humble Hayden is. She’s met him once as a convention and she nearly died. Letty had to calm her down afterward, but he was so very sweet and kind to her.

“Who does your OC absolutely hate, the one person who they’d sell to Satan for one corn chip? Why do they loathe this person so?”

Sienna cannot stand her ex, Luke. Most people she knows think he’s a twat anyway, but he cheated on her for months during their two year long relationship and when she found out and broke up with him, he convinced her she would never be good enough for anyone and would never be enough for anyone to keep them from cheating on her again. He absolutely obliterated any self worth she had and it’s a mountain she struggles to get over and climb.

[vynnyal]

Turns out Sunlit Trail isn't quite done just yet, so after all that they just send you to a dead end 😂

[bucketsofmonsters]

Can you rate your monsters in terms of who gets hottest under the collar if you enact skillful violence in their defense to who absolutely hates any confrontation for their sake? Which monsters see you headbutt someone and make it a bar brawl defending their honor/safety and immediately start thinking about tearing your clothes off? I think Caspian/shark hottie's right in the middle of the scale, and he thinks it's ever-so-cute and it gets a little smile from him anytime you viciously defend him.

I absolutely can

Simon is our number one violence fan here, if you so much as lifted a finger for him, he'd be all over it. He'll read into fucking anything, you fighting for him, it might as well be a marriage proposal

Vincent does not like violence in theory but he does very much like you and the second you throw a punch for him he'd be absolutely swooning, hearts in his eyes

Do not do this in front of subject 251 unless you want them dead!! He doesn’t understand it as a protective thing he assumes you’re fighting to kill and they will be dead soon. He loves you fighting for him but they will be deceased

Caspian is vaguely amused more than anything, a little smile on his face for sure but it does make him a little nervous, especially because you’re probably fighting outside the water where it’s difficult for him to help if he needs to

Rook has a bit of a savior complex and I think he'd be hyped about it, but part of him would be like, damn I didn't get to help them😔 He wants to watch you do sick kicks and stuff after tho he makes you do a whole little show for him, maybe tries to get you to flip him just to see if you can

Posy fucks with it Hard she’s hitting people too, she’d be with you. She would however likely get herself hurt in the process and then be a little grouchy at you later (she would forgive and forget quickly but she’s giving you huffs and crossed arms for at least an hour)

Nocturne would not be into this he’d be trying to usher you out the door like can we just go?? Why are we hitting people lol, don’t give these assholes the time of day

Lucien is at the bottom but he is the most volatile. In most instances he is kind of annoyed, it draws attention to both of you and it’s unnecessary, he’s not big on physical conflicts. However if it is at an actually dangerous person like Eden he’s both proud of you and so pissed you would put yourself in danger, he might yell at you after bc you Cannot be throwing yourself into these situations. He’d be more supportive the period where you’re super agoraphobic, he’s ur number one fan but he’s so worried about you you cannot be doing this

[the-insouciant-scientist]

what are hyakinthos's thoughts on the boatman and the slow boat in general?

Ooh, taking a quick sidestep from the rest of the ask game asks to answer this real quick! Short answer: a little complicated but generally friendly! Long answer: Gotta give some backstory first, bear with me. I have been thinking so much about belief systems vs established canon. Canon says that every human who dies regardless of belief (there may be nuance I'm forgetting but I'm in full speed infodump mode rn so that's a problem for future me) goes to the Far Shore. I say that's... kinda bleak? Also I'm just not a fan of stories where there is only One Real Belief and the rest are played off as silly distraction or whatever, but I digress.

A lot of his everything is based around the idea that both belief and proper death/burial care are important to get people to the afterlife they're meant to be in. Ritual makes all the difference between going to the Far Shore vs the Fields of Asphodel, for example.

His Boatman is Charon, or at least accepts the name. Hyakinthos has a working relationship with him and has probably taken up the oars at least a few times, especially for people who need the extra care in getting to where they need to be.

There's respect there, but there's also a certain... I'm not sure I have the words for it. The idea that death in the Neath is uncertain in so many ways (whether it'll stick that time, whether the person will make it to their afterlife or if they'll slip between the cracks and end up in the wrong place, etc) can be... discomfiting, to him. So while he does hold the boatman in high regard, there's always some little uncertainty there.

(Every so often, by their standards at least, Hyakinthos will bring him a very old obol. The Boatman will always refuse it. This is a ritual of its own. They'll sit for a while and talk anyways, and then part ways afterwards a little lighter.)

[mari-lair]

Akane’s backpack is super big, arguably bigger than Nene’s, so let’s talk about it.

We know why Nene’s bag is full: her plan was to stay with Hanako forever so she brought lots of things.

But Akane is just part of their rescue mission, which makes him comically overpacked.

He is the only character whose bag Aidairo put a light focus on it too, and they did it twice: First in this twitter art, where he stays up late to pack.

Then in the chibi art of vol 17, where things like the water bottle, food, and berry flavored snacks are flying as the characters fall: All items we see Akane putting in his backpack at night.

Even the fallen items we don’t see him pack, like the band-aids, the bread sticks and such, are all ‘essential’ items, which feels very Akane considering our only other reference points are Nene, who just packed games, and Teru, who packed a chopped demon hand, and yet there isn’t a single fun game or exorcist tool in the art.

But why did Akane pack so much? He has no hidden agenda like Nene, his plan was to work with the team: Once he saved Aoi he indulged enough to hug her, but was still quick to regroup, ready to get back. He even got angry at the Minamoto brothers for fighting instead of focusing on the mission.

He truly didn’t seem to have a grand personal plan, so I’m assuming it was a precaution.

Akane took this mission very serious. All the information he had is that they would go through a well, so he dressed up in complete hiking clothes, including gloves, and even brought a flashlight.

I believe he got ready for anything that could go wrong, including the worst possibility possible: That Aoi might be beyond saving. 

I cannot see any other reason why he would pack a big blanket (which is rolled up on top of his bag), and so much comfort food (him and Aoi likes raspberries).

He wants them both to live, and he will do everything he can to achieve that, but if they had proven to be too late and Akane was informed Aoi can’t come with them, he wouldn’t hesitate to stay behind with her. Because he loves Aoi more than his own life.

Abandoning her again just isn’t an option.

[itspileofgoodthings]

I asked my last period class if anybody had read all of David Copperfield so far without skipping any (I told them to skip some so as to keep up with it if they had to.) none of them raised their hands. I did a hand heart thing (this one, 🫶) and then snapped it in half. they all went “noooooooooo”

[lotrmusical]

My high school did a yearly poetry recitation contest (Poetry Out Loud), so Oh Boy do I know some poems. My favorites are Ozymandias and "the world is about to end and my grandparents are in love," by Kara Jackson. Also in 8th grade we had a Poe unit and had a class contest to make the best music video of the Raven, so I still know a good chunk of that.

i hadn't heard of the kara jackson one! just read through it and enjoyed it, particularly these lines > 'grandma returns to her love like a hymn, marks it with a color. // when the world ends will it suck the earth of all its love? /will i go taking somebody’s hand, / my skin becoming their skin?'

[i-gwarth]

Realitatea Ilustrată ("Reality Illustrated, or Things As We See Them")

This is the (I think) February 20th, 1927 issue of a long-running Romanian illustrated newspaper. Ever since I found a December 1934 issue in an antique shop years ago, perusing old issues of illustrated newspapers has become a hobby of mine. It delights me to no end that these talked of exactly what you'd think an early 20th century Balkan newspaper might be talking about.

"God, that war in China sounds like a catastrophe", " Isn't it weird that people still believe in strigoi (vampires)?" and, of course "Hey uhh... what's going on over in Italy? Guys? It sounds like we should be concerned about that stuff."

It also has a lot of stuff like this:

Long, moralizing thinkpieces trying to figure out and explain the perils of the world to a population that was hungry for knowledge despite not being fully literate. In "The eternal peril - war" the writer tries his hand at broad historical analysis, to explain how the insincerity of conniving politicians and the failures of educated elites (here named "philosophers", but broadly referring to the intelligentsia of the time) will inevitably lead to revolution and war. He even expresses a hope that a brighter future lies ahead, where universal literacy and education will make people less prone to violence and more able to settle disputes through negotiation and compromise.

Looking around today, it's a quaint perspective. Almost 100 years later, we both have and have not arrived at that prophesized, hopeful future. Political violence on the scale of 1920's Europe is nearly unthinkable today (as in, trains loaded with veterans no longer machinegun communist revolutionaries by the score in the streets - that's the atmosphere of the 20s), but it has been replaced with stuff that's alienating, dehumanizing, isolating and corrosive to the soul. We joke about what modern things would blow a medieval peasant's mind but explain the concept of social media and the rise of Qanon to a poor 1920s Balkan gazetteer and he will buy a ticket to the big city just to find a tall building to leap to his death from.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine today's problems persisting in a reduced, mutated form and supplanted by greater, stupider, more incomprehensible problems.

[1800-needs-help]

Being so loose with all your interests is insane. Like your brain is filled with old man yaoi, the funniest shit you've ever seen on television, and The Horrors all at once.

[keeps-ache]

[walking around, peering into people's faces like i'm in an art exhibit] hm. nice

[steveshcrringtons]

💗 What would your OC say is their best feature? Why? What do their friends / family / lover(s) / people they know think is their best feature and why?

Tess

Tess would say that her eyes are probably her best feature physically and her personality is her best non physical feature. Her eyes are just very big and they are a nice shade of brown you don’t normally see.

Her family think her best feature is her personality for sure. She’s so unique and true to herself and they love that about her.

Jamie thinks her best feature is her mouth. Particularly when she smiles. Even more so when she smiles at something he said or is just smiling because of him in general. He loves seeing her happy because of him.

[the-breloominati]

doc after is3 ending 3 spending most of whatever free time they have given the circumstances by the ocean. maybe they wade just a little ways in and the water feels a little different than before, somehow more viscous yet easier to move through, like it’s pulling them in and pushing them away at the same time. maybe they watch the setting sun bathe the surface in red and their tears make the sea just a little more salty. maybe if they focus hard enough they can still see his face in the water, maybe they would go out at night to see the soft blue glow in the gentle waves lapping at the shore, so beautiful a sight yet such a bitter evocation of their last memories of Him as he was

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[horizonzerodawnaesthetic]

I have no way of playing Burning Shores so I hope you all realize you’re legally obligated to tell me if there’s anything about the frozen wilds in there

[dancing-with-stars]

i am losing my mind

[coopsgirl]

One of my favorite OCs from my fics is Dawn in "From a Far Away Shore". She's a mortal child that Thranduil found abandoned in the forest. Using an AI app, I now have pictures of her. She's so sweet!

Here's a snippet from the chapter where Thranduil finds her.

Occasionally, Thranduil needed a day to himself and today was one of those days. It had rained in the morning and as soon as the drops ceased falling, he left the palace and walked out into the forest. He left his crown behind and although he could not entirely leave his responsibilities, these walks in the woods did help to clear his head and lift his heart. He realized he had walked nearly to the border of the eastern edge of the woods when he heard the sound of someone softly crying. The voice sounded young and thinking one of the elflings must have wandered away from their home and gotten lost he followed the sound until he found them. A little girl was sitting against a tree with her face buried in her hands as she continued to cry. This was not an elfling but a mortal child.

Elves can walk about so quietly that others of their own kind may not even hear them so she did not realize he had knelt down in front of her until he spoke. “Hello little one” he said in a warm tone in the common speech of Westron. This startled her and she jumped up to run away but he caught her before she could take a step. “I will not harm you. How did you come to be here?” He was holding her tiny hands in his and she looked into his bright blue eyes and smiled, realizing she was in no danger. She pulled one of her hands free and pointed at his ear and asked, “Why does your ear look like that?” “I am an elf. We all have ears like this” he replied as he tapped his pointed ear with his free hand. This made her giggle and he asked her again why she was alone in the woods. Her face took on a sad expression and she said, “My daddy left me here.” Thranduil was sure this couldn’t be correct. “Are you sure you did not get lost?” She shook her head no and said, “We rode in the wagon and then he put me down here and told me not to move.” “Did he say when he would be back for you?” “He’s not coming back” she said as her bottom lip trembled while a tear ran down her face.

He couldn’t imagine any one being that cruel to such a small child and he was filled with anger and heartbreak. “What is your name child?” he asked forcing a smile past the rage he felt building inside. “Dawn.” “Well Dawn, my name is Thranduil. How would you like to come back to the palace and stay there for a while?” “Are you a king?” she asked. “I am.” “Where’s your crown?” “It is in the palace. I will show it to you when we get there and I may even let you try it on.” “Okay” she said. He picked her up and she put her arms around him and rested her sweet little face against his neck. “How old are you, Dawn?” he asked as they walked back through the trees. She held out her hand with four fingers extended. “Four. Why, you are quite grown up” She laughed and then raised her head and kissed his cheek. “What was that for?” “I like you; you’re nice.” “I think you are nice too” he replied with a grin. Her clothes were a little damp along with her dark brown hair pulled back in a braid so he surmised she had been there since the morning. “Does your mother know where you are?” he asked trying to find out more about what led her to be left in the woods. “Mommy went to sleep but didn’t wake up.” Thranduil began to understand what must have happened. Her mother died and unable to care for his child, she was abandoned by her father.

They walked the rest of the way home in silence until the palace came into view. “Look my child; here we are.” Dawn raised her head and looked up to see the building of white stone rising on the hill with the caverns beneath. “A real palace, just like in the stories my mommy told me”, she said with wonder. The guards gave their king curious looks as he made his way inside with the precious cargo. He went to Galion’s office and found him working at his desk. “Hello my lord. Who is this?” he asked kindly seeing the child still held in Thranduil’s arms. “This is Dawn and she will be our special guest for a bit. She looks about the same size as Feleth’s daughter. Would you ask her if she could spare a few outfits for her?” “Of course. I will go right away” he answered. Feleth worked in the library inside the palace and Galion waved goodbye to the little girl as he left to find her.

This is from Chapter 5. The full completed fic can be read on AO3.