#galysh

[completeoveranalysis]

It has been actual years since I've managed to catch a live liveblog (pun unintended), so I had to say something. XD Hope you're having a good weekend, thanks for blessing us with your thoughts, once again!

Oh gosh I'm so glad you mentioned it! It's definitely worth celebrating.

Admittedly I am the least consistent person possible when it comes to the liveblogs since they revolve almost entirely on factors outside out of my control, but it thrills me that people still enjoy catching them in the moment! It's extremely touching.

[bemused-writer]

Slides in~ How are we feeling about Witch Hat Atelier chapter 37?

So many feelings! :D I wrote some of them up as meta, but I have yet more. My main thought is “they’re up to chapter 40 at least in Japan and I need to know.” :0 As such I was digging around the Internet, looking for stuff about the more recent chapters. I found a Japanese site that was talking about the recent chapters and there were some pictures, but that only told me so much, and my need to know has only grown. XD

At any rate, since I have to wait, I’ve been thinking about what our likely trajectory is. I figure Coco has to go to the Tower of Tomes because it would be kind of anticlimactic if she just returned to the Great Hall after all this drama. XD I mean, she could and that would probably be the sensible thing to do, but in my heart I feel pretty certain she’s going to go for the Tower. I wonder if this will count as her taking the third test? And if so, will this count as passing or failing...?

Considering this is kind of Sage Beldarut’s fault and he’s in charge of education, I really think he should, uh, cut her some slack and let her pass if she does a good job? I mean, he single-handedly smashed her dreams (probably the same way he did to Qifrey) and that’s kind of rough. 8D Luckily, Qifrey was able to renew her determination.

But, if Coco does pass the test, where does that leave the other students? If she doesn’t pass, does she get to retake it considering the circumstances or will it be null? How is this test normally supposed to work...?

As for Olruggio this chapter, he seemed surprised that Beldarut had the same reservations he did. I get the sense that these two often have similar opinions, but that Olruggio is used to being there for Qifrey in ways Beldarut maybe failed at, so maybe he’s realizing the two people that knew Qifrey best didn’t trust him. Either way, I think he’s feeling guilty over the accusations he threw at Qifrey. Granted, I don’t think his concerns were entirely unwarranted; things have been absolutely crazy at their atelier of late and it’s his job to report this stuff, only he isn’t because he cares about Qifrey and they’re all going to be in so much trouble at some point, I can feel it....

Also, Qifrey and Olruggio’s friendship has been receiving a lot more attention this arc, so I figure it’s going to continue to be important. I figure this is the point in the manga where Olruggio and Qifrey either bond closer together or they drift apart for a time. I’m inclined to think that with Olruggio’s worries eased, they’ll be able to work things out; I don’t think Qifrey wants to push him away just yet.

Beldarut is the one I’m most puzzled over. His methods strike me as kind of ... shady. It’s pretty uncool to try to snag someone else’s student, reveal their dark backstory, and openly doubt them all in one go. I mean, it seems unprofessional at the very least and a betrayal of Qifrey’s trust at worst. It makes me think these two have a lot of friction for a good reason; while Beldarut was absolutely very kind to take Qifrey in, I don’t think he always understands him as well as he thinks he does. Also, if Qifrey is willing to lie and sneak around to get what he wants, I think it’s fair to say he learned that from Beldarut himself. I feel like this entire debacle may have been a roundabout way of Beldarut testing Qifrey, and that seems suspect to me.

[vncsecretsanta]

Hello, I was looking at the character options for VNC secret Santa and noticed that Teacher de Sade was not an option. Does that mean that people cannot request him, or...? Additionally, I read through the rules but found myself a little confused. You (artist/author) sign up in October, and receive a gift request that you then fulfill and send out by the 24th, but is it a mutual thing or are you sending out gifts to a previously arranged list? Thanks!

I’m not sure what you mean by the Teacher not being an option! The only time we specify what characters are allowed is in the second line of the general rules section where we say “This event is for canon characters only so fan made characters are not allowed.”, so all canon characters are allowed. The participants sign up in October (filling the form telling us what they want and what they’re willing to make for someone else), on the start of November we will send everyone their assignment and the posting date is December 24th-26th (with January 2nd for people who weren’t able to finish on time for some reason). The only participant list we have is the one we’ll receive by the end of October and we’ll match people at the start of November. We only make the list then and everyone gets their gift list on the same day. And (unless you ask us to post it for you) the person making the gift is the one to post it, not us.

[punk-aziraphale]

So, I know I've recommended Stars Align but have you read/watched Given yet?

No! I saw the picture you posted and I liked the art style. What’s it about?

[celestial-leaves]

“Galysh”

[shepherdsoreydidnothingwrong]

In that case, may I place a request number #19 for Eizavie, please? I wish you the best of luck for the real life shenanigans!

Of course ^_^ Thank you for the support

#19: “So, can you fly with those or...?”

Warning for some blood and possibly uncomfortable imagery. This will be angst. 

AO3 Link

 Zaveid arrives at the cave late in the evening. He stands in the rain with the slope of the mountain at his back and stares at it for a while. 

It is a deep, dark cave. The perfect place for a local monster to hide and terrorise the village that stands at the foot of the mountain. He can understand their fear, their quick conclusions. He can understand it all. It still sucks. 

His shoes click on the stone floor as he enters. As he walks, he brushes his hands through his hair, then over his pants. They dry unnaturally quickly, leaving only fading wet footsteps leading inside. His footsteps echo in the small space. 

It does not take long for the sound to mingle with something else. He has better hearing than most, but it is not far into the cave, still. There is a faint sound of ragged breathing, followed by the shifting of clothing and the clatter of pebbles on stone. 

Zaveid steels himself and keeps walking. A dark form takes shape before him, huddled on the ground like a man injured. 

He stops there, some distance away. He reaches out a hand and lights a flash of magic. Just a brief flare of green, but it tells him all he needs to know. 

Eizen lies on the ground before him, curled up and shivering. His clothing is worn and torn, a far cry from when Zaveid last saw him. His hair is a matted mess, his face gaunt and pale. 

Zaveid focuses on his face, and in the next brief flash of magic, he sees the beginnings of dark scales forming on his cheeks. One of Eizen's eyes is spotted with sickly yellow, the pupil a slit like that of a cat. 

But the most shocking thing about him is the pair of black leathery wings which have torn through the back of his coat. They curl close to him as he shifts uncomfortably, as though he is trying to make them smaller. Zaveid sucks in air through his teeth. 

"You look like hell," he says. 

Despite everything, Eizen manages a dry chuckle through wet lungs.

"Thanks."

There is little more he can say than that about what is happening. Were they different people, he might have been frightened, panicked, even. As it is, he simply reaches into the pack at his hip and pulls out a thick and neatly folded blanket. A girl in the village gave it to him after he healed her little brother. They were the only ones for miles with any good resonance. 

Eizen makes a sound that may be a growl as the blanket is draped over him. Zaveid sits down next to him, reaches into his bag, and lights a small torch which he sets up between two rocks. The light flickers and draws their shadows out over the floor of the cave. 

There is a moment in which Eizen shifts and visibly considers throwing the blanket off, but then he settles in beneath it with a weak sigh. 

"You shouldn't be here," he says. 

Zaveid leans against the cave wall and shrugs. "There are many places I shouldn't be."

Eizen shakes his head, and even that seems to hurt judging by how he cringes. 

"You know what I mean. The malevolence will get to you."

Zaveid huffs, nonchalant. "Please. I eat malevolence for breakfast."

There is some truth to what he means, at least. He stayed so long with Theodora that he must be practically inoculated at this point. Either way, he will not leave. 

"If you get corrupted before you can fulfil your promise," Eizen says slowly, "I swear I will eat you."

"Fair enough," Zaveid says, instead of the many jokes that come to mind. 

Silence falls over them then, and the sound of the rain begins to seep into it. Were it not for the convulsing wings on Eizen's back, it may have been soothing. 

"How did you find me?" Eizen asks quietly. 

Zaveid looks out towards the rain in the distance. 

"The village thinks you're going to eat them," he says. "Some of them saw you getting here."

"Oh." 

"Don't worry," Zaveid says lightly. "I told them you only eat naughty children."

"Fuck you," Eizen hisses softly, but when Zaveid looks at him, he can see a hint of a smile. 

"Nah. You don't seem up to it right now."

He could move closer, could settle on the ground just next to Eizen, but something tells him he would not be welcome to do so. Eizen looks feverish and clammy, and Zaveid hopes that the blanket will warm up him soon. 

"I went to see Edna," he says. To his surprise, Eizen actually moves to look up at him. 

"How is she?" he asks. 

"She's fine," Zaveid says quickly. "Still at the mountain and safe. Missing you, though."

Eizen's eyes fog, and with his eyelids close to closing, his yellow eye almost looks normal in a certain light. 

"I regret very few things," he says. 

"I know," Zaveid says before he can continue that particular train of thought. Eizen relents on it quickly. 

"Take care of her?" 

Zaveid looks him in the eyes and says "She won't let me."

Eizen smirks. 

"Fair enough. Stay close?"

He nods. "That I can do."

It will not occur to him until much later that Eizen may not have meant staying close to Edna. Perhaps he meant both, but it is not something Zaveid understands right now. He has no time to think on it, because Eizen continues. 

"And speaking of, can I ask you to do something else?"

Zaveid looks away from him then. He knows already what this is going to be. 

"Can we just not talk about that for one night? We never just hang out anymore."

Eizen shakes his head softly. "You know what I mean, Zaveid. You promised, and I think this is far enough to be proof that it's not going to change."

"Velvet went much further than this and still restored the world's balance," Zaveid says casually. "I told you we'll figure something out."

"You promised me you'd kill me first. Are you going back on that?"

Zaveid bristles. 

"I'm not. Can we just have one night of not talking about it?"

Eizen stares at him. Zaveid sighs. 

"Look. If it helps anything, I can kill you in the morning. Deal?"

Eizen stares for a moment more before before adding, "Deal."

They glare at each other for a bit, and now Zaveid is unsure of how to continue the conversation. Grudgingly, he reaches out and pulls the blanket a little further up Eizen's shoulders. 

"Dick," he mutters.

"Douche," Eizen mutters back and curls up a little more. 

They stay like that for some time. At first, that seems to be it. There is a long pause in which neither of them know quite what to say. Zaveid is almost swallowed up by his own sad thoughts, looking out at the gentle rain. 

Then Eizen coughs and groans pitifully, and he reminds himself just why he is here in the first place. He did not come for the two of them to sit in a cave and break each other's hearts more. 

He looks at the gangly wings. One of them is unfolding, stretching piece by piece towards the wall as though Eizen is working out a cramp in it. Eizen looks less than happy to do this. 

Zaveid knows that this hurts him. He knows that Eizen is heartbroken that he will be a danger to others, but there is nothing Zaveid can say to make that better. He knows what his place is, and he cannot go through what he went through with Theodora again. He draws in a deep breath. 

"So," he says lightly, carefully, "can you fly with those or...?"

It has the desired effect. Despite everything, Eizen still has it in him to give a weak laugh. 

"You are such an asshole," he says. Zaveid shrugs, smirking. 

He can do nothing more than this, just being here, but perhaps that is enough for the moment.

So he stays there, sitting on an uncomfortable rock and refusing to shut up, until Eizen is finally able to fall asleep. 

***

Eizen wakes from a nightmare to a searing pain in his back. He stretches the wings awkwardly, and warm blood runs down to seep into his shirt.

The world blurs a bit as he opens his eyes. The first thing he sees is a sliver of sunlight. Then he opens them fully and looks out at the mouth of the cave. The sun is already up. It is long into the morning. 

He has not slept like this for a long time, and for the first time in a long while now, he actually feels a little better. Annoying as he is, anything, including Zaveid's presence, would have been soothing in the hell that was last night. 

Eizen sits up, keeping the blanket carefully wrapped around him and looks at the green sunlit glade outside. He does not have to look beside him to know that there is no one there. He knows that. He knew that it would be so when he fell asleep. It still makes him angry, but he is too tired. 

"Asshole," he mutters into the soft fabric. "Curse you and your hope."

[shenanigumi]

21 Questions

I was tagged by @galysh​ for some reason! Thanks!! But once again, I’m going to be blatantly ignoring the “tag other people” rules, to the extent that I won’t even bother posting them this time. You can all guess at this point anyway.

Nickname: Alley.

Zodiac sign: Double Aquarius, cusp of Pisces, with Aries rising. Also a Wood Boar with Snake ascendant. I was born on the last day of both.

Height: Somewhere between 5′4″ and 5′5″, I can never remember.

Last movie I saw: I’m pretty sure it was Love Yourself in Seoul, if that counts.

Last thing I Googled: “got7 97 young and rich lyrics”.

Favorite musician: Brendon Urie if we’re going with playing instruments. BTS if we’re going with singing and performing.

Song stuck in my head: “Hard Carry” by GOT7.

Other blogs: @alley-cat-sunflower​ (personal); @crystalline-lifestream​ (Final Fantasy); @thestorytellersprotege​ (writing/occult); and the brand-new, as of yet content-free @i-got7-bulletproof-biases (K-pop, specifically BTS and GOT7).

Do I get asks: Occasionally. It seems about proportional to how active I am.

Following: 715.

Amount of sleep: Averages out at about 8.

Lucky number: 16.

What am I wearing: Light blue skinny jeans, a Beatles LOVE shirt from Cirque du Soleil, and my new favorite article of clothing: a Panic! at the Disco “P!ATD PFTW TOUR 2019” sweatshirt, which has the band symbols in a sweet constellation style along one arm and on the back.

Dream job: Author and editor.

Dream trip: At the moment? Arcata, preferably with @chibitorra​ (who can answer these questions if she wants, since I tagged her, even if it wasn’t at the end).

Favorite food: Hard to say; it varies depending on my mood. Overall, I’m not very culinarily inclined anyway. The most commonly neglected part of all the video games I play, and the most commonly skipped description, is cooking.

Play any instruments: I’ve never had any formal musical training of any kind, but I can noodle around on my Ocarina of Time just fine.

Languages: Just English so far, but I know some Japanese and a few scattered phrases in Mandarin, and I’m interested in Korean.

Favorite song: I’m just going to copy-paste my last response, because my answers haven’t changed. In no particular order, some of the best are “Just Right” (GOT7); “Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time” (Panic! at the Disco); “Lie” (BTS’s Jimin); “Zanarkand” (Nobuo Uematsu); the instrumental version of “Turn Loose the Mermaids” (Nightwish); “Competing with the Honor of the Land” (Go Shiina); and “Oath to Order” (dj-Jo/Zenpaku).

Random fact: My biggest turn-off in any kind of relationship is possessiveness.

[sionnac]

Have you heard the news about Voltron's season 7, yey?

Nope.  Is something cool happening?  Admittedly, I like Voltron, but it’s not something I keep super up to date with XD.

Edit:  I went looking.  I’m going to assume the news exciting me -- SHIRO GETS A NEW MECH ARM -- isn’t the thing that’s exciting most people :D.  I’ll assume all the normal un-cybernetic obsessed humans out there are more excited for Shiro being gay.  LOLLLL.   

[romera-rp]

Good afternoon, I didn't see it in the FAQ, so I wanted to ask. Will you be letting us know who has been accepted once you've reached 10 applications or is it on more of a first come first serve basis? Thank you. Sincerely, Galysh

On friday I will be going through the applications and posting who has been accepted, yeah! If there is anyone who has applied for the same character, which I don’t have at the moment, I will have to pick who is the better application and accept them over the other.

[galysh]

Random thought, but y'all. Y'ALL.

This Brat was born in 1875.

1875!!!

When does VNC take place? 1887-1888.

How old is our murder baby?

13!! Aka 1888!!

Aka we can have that Kuroshitsuji and Vanitas no Carte cross over that NO ONE ASKED FOR but I THINK WOULD BE HELLA NEAT.

Just one short case fic, that's all I'm asking for - a team up between the Kin of the Blue Moon and the Queen's Watchdog. 😍

[completeoveranalysis]

Heya! Since you’ve been introduced to several Syaorans, here’s a little guide to help you out. :) 

GRUMPY BEAN!

I love my collection of angry children

[bemused-writer]

For the Ship Ask Meme, would you mind sharing your feelings on Rolivier, please? (Vanitas no Carte, Roland and Olivier) Or er, I don't think they have a ship name... Qifrey and Olruggio from Witch Hat Atelier, please?

Of course! For Roland/Olivier:

A+: OTP A: I love it B: It’s really cute C: Not a bad ship D: I’m neutral on it E: I don’t really like it F: NOTP N/A: I don’t know the ship well enough

I think these two would make a very good ship and the more I see of the two together the more intrigued I become. There’s a lot we don’t know about them, but what we do know is that they’ve known each other for years and seem to trust one another quite a bit. And yet, there seems to be a lot of exasperation on Olivier’s part and a certain cavalier nature coming from Roland. It makes me wonder what Roland really thinks of him and vice versa. I also have to wonder how they met since I get the impression they’re from different stations with Olivier being from the aristocracy and Roland from the countryside. That could certainly be disproven, though.

The impression I get from these two is that they might not even know how important they are to one another. They feel like brothers-in-arms, comrades, but they might be willing to turn on each other if it came to it. Makes for an intriguing ship, and one that could rise to an A for me once I see more of them in the series. ^^

As for Olruggio/Qifrey, I’m not sure they have a ship name either! I actually answered an Ask for those two already, which you can find here, but they are an A+ in my book. ^^ I really can’t wait to see more!

Thanks for sending these in, @galysh!

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[punk-aziraphale]

Have you read the "Humans are space orcs" threads or the "earth is space australia" threads? they're lit.

I have read the space orcs one! But not the space Australia one, that sounds amazing!!! Do you have a good link to it????

[celestial-leaves]

Guess who started playing Dragalia Lost?

Rough Doodle is Rough.

[shepherdsoreydidnothingwrong]

Just dropping by, to inform you that I was dragged into the Nightblade epic by your coffee shop! AU, and now I have feelings. So, thank you, I guess? Though, now I can also ask you your opinions on it without worrying about spoilers. If you would be so willing, fav character? Least favorite? Fav plot twist? Have a great day\night!

If you’re not worried about spoilers, you’re further along in the series than I am ^_^; 

I’m so glad you’re joining in! I’m always available to discuss feelings. I’m happy to answer these ^_^ And thank you!

Spoilers under the cut.

Favourite character is a hard one. I relate a lot to Loren (on account of the disaster bi) but the kids are great and Jordel and Albern are awesome. And Mag, omg. And Xain my trash son. Ok, yeah, hard choice. 

Least favourite is a bit predictable, but I’m not fond of Loren’s parents. Jerks.

Favourite plot twist or one that hurt a lot? Because Jordel hit pretty hard and I’m not okay with that ok.