#going to update this as we go along!

[thatwasthenightthingschanged]

NAVIGATION: Eras Tour Germany

Below, you'll find a navigation regarding all useful information (made by me or others) for the German dates:

THE CONCERTS THEMSELVES:

information on the shows in Gelsenkirchen

information on the shows in Hamburg

PRE-SALE:

pre-sale masterpost (all 3 dates)

FANSALE:

link to the Taylor fansale page

a very useful instagram carousel explaining what fansale is

INFORMATION ABOUT THE VENUES:

VELTINS-Arena Gelsenkirchen:

link to the venue's site for the concert

the venue's instagram/twitter

a very useful instagram carousel with basic information

Volksparkstadion Hamburg:

a very useful instagram carousel with basic information

Olympiastadion München:

link to the venue's site for the concert

the venue's instagram/twitter

a very useful instagram carousel with basic information

OUTFIT IDEAS/RECS:

erastourwardrobe is a neat, fan-made website that can serve as a starting point

check out @taylorswiftstyle - Sarah has a catalogue of nearly everything Taylor has ever worn & where you can buy it & she also often has cheaper dupes up!

THINGS TO DO IN EACH CITY:

Gelsenkirchen

Hamburg

Munich

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First moon(s) of 2024!!! WOOO!!!

[every-sanji]

[campbyler]

ACSWY MASTERPOST

CH01 ☼ CH02 ☼ CH03 ☼ CH04 ☼ CH05 ☼ CH06 ☼ CH07 ☼ CH08 ☼ CH09 (I) ☼ CH09 (II) ☼ CH10 (I) ☼ CH10 (II) ☼ CH11 ☼ CH12 ☼ CH13 ☼ CH14 ☼ CH15 ☼ SERIES

[heartkade]

I have attempted to make sense of it.

Green = positive

Red = negative

Blue = unknown

edit: They decided not to use the name “Darki” (due to that being too similar to a slur towards the black community- Leo didn’t know it translated so badly from the Spanish term “Oscurito”!) so instead, just call the entity “Oscuro” for now ^^

[howdoyousleep3]

never in my life have i wanted a Daddy more than i do rn 😭

[not-poignant]

Baldur’s Gate 3 - 30/? - Palmarosa - Astarion/Raphael

Title: Palmarosa Rating: Explicit Pairing: Astarion/Raphael Tags: (Check AO3 for the full list) Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Deals with a devil, Contracted sexual slavery, Bad BDSM etiquette, PTSD, Communication issues, Flashbacks, Trauma recovery and Retraumatisation, Dark and disturbing themes, Blood consumption, Minor character death, Canon typical violence, Dominance/submission, Top Raphael, Bottom Astarion etc.

Summary: (Set post-game / end-game) The love of Astarion’s life has disappeared to go live in the daylight with the druids, and Astarion is stuck in the darkness once more, yearning for sunlight with every fibre of his being, while bitterly reflecting on all the things that were denied to him in the end - love, sunlight, the option to kill thousands of people and become a near-god…

Raphael knows Astarion’s desperate, and comes to him with not one, but two horrid contract offers that Astarion loathes and dreads in equal measure - but the prize at the end of both are too good to turn down, and he’s become too cynical to care about how much of a good idea it is to give his body to a devil for a month or two, because really, comparatively, how bad could it be?

Palmarosa (Baldur’s Gate 3) - Raphael/Astarion - 30 - The First Solar Coin III

In which Raphael completes the ritual, and Astarion had no concept of how much pain he’d be expected to endure, and just how much agony it would take to make a single Solar Coin.

[secretsoftheuniverse1987]

Forgot that I put The Moon Will Sing on my Jamie Tartt playlist until I was singing "Tell me once again I could have been anyone, anyone else before you made the choice for me" while trying to make progress on the thumbs finale

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

Welp… I’m bawling like a baby… just read Chapter 36 of Fourth Wing… and I am not okay.

[crazy-ache]

The final update for Dear Lucien, Dear Elain is tomorrow and I’m getting in my feels 😭

@zenkindoflove

[snowangeldotmp3]

please go on and on about agatha and medea i wanna hear ur thoughts

omg okay i hope u know i had to bust out my copy of medea so i could draw semi-coherent comparisons but. here we go.

medea, first and foremost, is a witch. like. that's her whole thing. she's married to jason, or was married to jason. she helped him grab the golden fleece in his tale, but in euripedes medea, we see the after of the glory that jason gets.

medea is a play about revenge. it's a tragedy, actually, but what medea wants most is revenge. she wants to make jason pay because jason is now in love with creon's daughter instead of medea. jason already had kids with medea, and now he's seeking out creon's daughter and medea (kind of rightfully so) wants to make him pay for this. SO. what does she do? she devises a plan. or two. it is an awful, evil, absolutely wretched plan, but she wants to hurt jason. she hates jason so much after what he's done, that she wants to bring him pain and suffering--even if it means she has to suffer as well. (it's important to remember here that medea is not greek. she is a stranger in a strange land. also her grandad is helios but that's a separate can of worms) so the plan is broken into 2 parts. part one: kill creon and his daughter, who jason is absolutely enamored with. and she does! she poisons a crown and successfully kills them both. jason is devastated.

and then, to make sure she really drives it home. part two of the plan: she's going to kill her children and make sure that jason can't touch the bodies. so he doesn't get to hold them or ease their pain etc etc. he doesn't get to grieve them. she kills her own children just to make jason see how badly he messed up. throughout the whole play medea is constantly called wicked and evil and all of these things. one of the most famous lines is the from the chorus, "you would become the wretchedest of women." then medea: "then so be it." (worth noting that in my copy of the play, the interaction goes: first woman-chorus: "not justice; vengeance. you have suffered evil, you wish to inflict evil." medea: i do according to nature what i have to do.") HOWEVER! it is also important to realize that like, medea does mourn her kids, and if she thought there was a better way to do this, she probably would have done it. but there isn't. she must make jason pay for what he's done, and this is the only way to make him suffer--by taking away something they both love. medea loves her children dearly, but she hates jason more. and so her kids must die, and she must be deemed an evil, wretched thing.

NOW: the comparisons with agatha are not like, 1 to 1 exactly. as far as we know, agatha is a witch, she traded her son for the darkhold, and she has mom issues. but where i see the most comparison to medea is trading nicky for the darkhold. we know that agatha loved her son, but she craved that knowledge and power more. another comparison could be the fact that agatha's own mother tells her that she was born evil, so agatha accepts this, internalizes it, and if she must be evil, then so be it. like the line in medea, if she's born evil, then, "i do according to nature what i have to do."

this turned into a dump about medea in general, but i do believe the connections are there, and they might not be exact, but they are there regardless.

[battybrownboo]

Chapter Summary: Joker takes some time to think. He's not a fan. Bruce's investigation continues.

[aswegoalong72]

November 2024 Writing Update

Hello again! Thank you so much for your patience. Between my health, the election, and all kinds of other things going on in my life, I haven't really had the time to sit down and write.

Thankfully, that changed a little bit in November! I wasn't able to get as much as I had hoped done, but I made a lot of progress, and am very grateful for that.

Moving on into December, I'll be switching gears back into art for a little bit once more. I have a few projects I'd like to get done for people, but once they're done, I'll be heading back into writing then. Hopefully, this time, coming out on the other end with a finished book!

Onto business! Here are the changes made since August, 2024.

Dawn - 12% complete (28,634 words) +18,084 words since Aug., 2/7 short stories complete Yuniv & Semat - ~1% complete (0 words) Planning stage, finalizing story beats Deep Freeze - ~1% complete (0 words) Planning stage, waiting on prior books to be finished To Touch Tenav - ~1% complete (83 words) No change, partial intro only, planning stage Piercing The Veil - ~22% complete (120,531 words)/(9,149 rewrite) +539 words since Aug., on backburner while Dawn is in progress Head Above Water - ~2% complete (483 words) No change, partial intro only, planning stage Book 7* - ~1% complete (0 words) Planning stage, waiting for prior books to be finished Universal Ideal - ~1% complete (0 words) Planning stage, waiting for prior books to be finished

And there you have it! Again, wasn't able to make as much progress as I had hoped last month, but that's what comes with being chronically ill sometimes.

Looking forward to getting back into it again soon though, I've been laying a lot of groundwork for future parts of the series! It's been a lot of fun planning out story beats and the like. I've been focusing a little more on Yuniv & Semat too, since that'll be the one coming up right after Dawn.

Thanks for your time, I hope you have a lovely day! Until next year!

-GB

[gastersans]

Hey guys!

I’m sorry I haven’t been around much lately. It’s not fair to people I care very much about to be silent! The long story short is that life hits you very fast and all at once sometimes on many levels, and my unfortunate tendency in hectic mode is to shut out and focus on just getting to the next day. It’s no excuse, of course, but I do hope you understand—and I hope you all are hanging in there as well.

I’m not sure when I can return to writing again, but I hope to. It always seems like I’m waiting to have some time and energy, but I think I’m just going to have to intentionally build a block for the creative things important to me among everything. Even if I’m not publishing anything, I am always thinking about it in one part of my mind. I love those stories, and I’m so glad to share them with you.

Thank you to anyone who was checking in! I love you all always, even if I don’t have the words to reply—and I’m always going to try to better show that.

Tl;dr below the cut: details of life been going on.

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Thanks for being curious! I’ll try to be as brief as I can, but I have traditionally failed at every attempt at that in these posts. To be honest, the past year or two has been a bit of a blur, so I’ll just talk in generalities rather than a specific timeline.

Everything at work changed at the organizational level. Unfortunately I can’t say much about it—for personal reasons, which I know is odd to say. My work is mixed in with family ties, justices and beliefs I advocate for, etc, so I can’t talk too much about it—but boy is that lasagna layered. That dynamic alone is both a hugely important but often very stressful to navigate in of itself.

Among the organizational change, my position drastically changed—I went from clinician to a manager of the sizeable department I worked for—and then a couple months later inherited a second, nearly double the size department to manage on top of it when my fellow manager left.

Right as my position was changing for the first time, my dad—living states away—got sick with some still undiagnosed illness. Bizarre body movements, signs of a stroke but no evidence found—not Parkinson’s, though the symptoms seem somewhere between it and a slow rolling dementia. If you’d like to read a small loving rant about my dad: My father is the most wonderful, kindest, politest, humblest human who is also a literal unrecognized hero twice over—he dedicated his entire life his two jobs. One was his role as an assistant Harbormaster—not infrequently rescuing people, lost in dark seas in the dead winter nights (among much grimmer tales)—a job which got paid pennies for, with decades-old resources and, if he was lucky, his name might be pages deep in the local paper. The second job was as a teacher in the worst school in the city next door—and he taught the “behavioral needs” kids. He was stabbed multiple times—the final time was in the stomach, shortly after he had come back from his leave after battling prostate cancer. He understood the kids were sick, or needed help. In addition to being a great teacher (I didn’t appreciate it at the time, but my dad often help walk us through homework to ensure we knew it—requested or not), my dad would take his students to different places— the beach for a wildlife lesson, or the local laser tag place just for fun they often couldn’t afford)—on his own dime. He tried to give them an education about the world and life, and not just books they had given up trying to read. Jeeze, sorry, I need to be able to do a cut under this cut. I could go on for days.

After that attack, my dad has had much random issues, landing him in the hospital and my family in crisis mode one time after another. We find (but never confirm) that the neurological attack might be from an infection in his knee—a botched or failing knee replacement (his third—standing on a choppy boat or at a chalkboard all day is murder on your knees). The infection has spread terribly. We nearly lose him. He continues to show cognitive decline. He improves. He gets pneumonia, we nearly lose him again. He comes back to us for a while. A random night a few weeks later, the mesh in his stomach from his prostate cancer a decade ago has failed and is suddenly twisted around his intestine (they guess related to the coughing/pneumonia). We nearly lose him again. He survives. He needs a knee replacement surgery now, but they don’t know if he can handle it or the risk of infection. He survives. Theyve noticed something wrong with his heart. He has heart surgery, survives. Another heart surgery, survives again. All the while continuing to cognitively decline. He’s a brilliant man—it’s heartbreaking to see, but I know he’s still in there all the while.

I know I missed some things above. As all of this is going on, I’m flying back and forth between states, trying to manage two departments that were previously handled by two incredibly competent, incredibly busy people that is now just me. The work is important, there’s pressures of family legacy involved, it’s nonprofit and clinical and complex and often dealing with very serious physical, mental health, ethical or even legal matters.

And, of course, trying to balance the normal things of life—making time for friends and family, trying to maintain (and sustain) my home, dating and now maintaining a beloved partnership… These things are also important. And then my parents were here for just the summer, so I’m trying to spend each moment I can stand to spare with them, in that horrid phase where it’s in your face of how little time may be left. And of course, there are the other things—other loved ones lost, trying to do what you can and pay attention to the important things in the world, trying to enjoy sitting holding my cat’s paw while marathoning YouTube and a phone game after a long day at work.

Again, I hope to be back to things someday. In my free time I write snippets, dream scenarios. I miss the writing—and the people—and it’s hard to find a pinhole to carve out for any time for myself. I’m trying, I’m trying, and I love you all.

Hope to talk more soon.

[acourtofquestions]

A new day, and the final one (to put it dramatically cause I’m in the feels)

Kingdom of Ash Chapter 100 here I come… I’ll see you in some random spam mini posts (maybe — I’m mostly reading at this point non-stop lol) but there shall be some large posts after the Epilogue…

Mostly right now theories, thoughts, concerns😅: I’m pondering Aelin’s power; she hasn’t had it most of the series and doesn’t need it but we do have 1,000 Ironteeth + Maeve & Erawan on the way (currently my theory is she’s been storing her magic in Goldryn somehow and will be able to use it to unleash her power at an insane level… mostly because they keep mentioning the ruby looked like it’s sparking or her hands on it and it’s rare that SJM does that at this frequency without reason), plus Maeve is out of magic so she should be ready, & Dorian is fired up for his father against Erawan; maybe with Aelin combined they can do it. Or a classic Rowaelin Carranam. And I bet Essar can teach her the gifts in small ways.

I’m hoping Lys meets Falkan (my soul needs this). I need Gavriel & Aedion to makeup & get their oaths (Ren too), gotta get that LysAedion kiss (and no one better die). I need Dorian to go comfort Manon along with everyone else because they understand; Aelin, Elide… Terrasen’s children lost everyone. I need a Kingsflame bloomed and a coronation, I’d like to know who the heck killed Aelin’s parents and what does the damn owl mean! I want Aelin to meet Nox! I want Fleetfoot to meet Abraxos! I wanna know the Chaorene baby name😂 I want at least one scene of Empress Nesryn! Lady of the Ghost Leopards Lys! GIVE ME A MANORIAN “I LOVE YOU”. And wants/hopes that prob won’t happen but I’m saying it anyway: I know it probably won’t but I’d love if Elena got some sliver of peace. I want the white wolf and the wolf together, Aelin & Rhoe’s Shield + an Aedion reunion & an Evangeline/Fleetfoot/family hug, one moment of all of them together (again no one dies immediately after). AND THEY ALL DESERVE A SOFT EPILOGUE & future with long therapy filled lives! & a Rowaelin baby since they’ve both said they want a family together like that🥹

Mostly I’m worried over people dying… Sarah has proven that she will & can kill a lot of characters at once… I am in shock & grieving so… A little worried about about Dorian but I think he’ll be fine, a lot of worry about side characters: Murtaugh (for Ren), Ren (generally speaking which would suck cause I want to know him more), Kyllian (Aedion clearly loves him I don’t want to see that heartbreak), Ansel (because her people are gone and Manon is the Witch-Queen… I’d prefer an alliance, healing moment cause they both lost them all & maybe see if she’s got a thing going with Ilias cause the irony there👌😂👏). Hafiza (for Yrene; please don’t do another big sacrifice… I’ve already lost twelve today😭 the number is off… no…), oh and I’m pretty sure Darrow will die. Then the bigger ones: above all The Cadre have me concerned; Lorcan (cause him & Elide will always be running out of time), Fenrys (for Aelin or Lorcan), Gavriel (for his son). & otherwise: Aedion (he does not need to die for redemption Sarah DONT YOU DARE).

So, here we go… the first read of the ending of the books I’ve loved since February and will carry with me always… with a lil bit of sleep & the day complete with nothing but reading time: Beginning with Chapter 100: Aedion

P.S. I’ve got Crescent City; House of Earth & Blood on standby to read tonight (I need to pour my feelings in another book with the hope of maybe seeing Aelin again😭) I don’t care if it’s denial I don’t wanna know I just need it🤣

[thenerdofthegroup]

Me… posting something only a day after my last one? *dramatic gasp*

This was meant to be all in one chapter but I think I make people suffer enough with my long stories so I decided to split it up. Call me delusional but I still consider this a one-shot.

Anyway, if anyone is looking for Agatha All Along fics or AgathaRio or just Agatha in general (because people have slowed down on writing about my girl) then I present this. Cannot promise its brilliant but… its there! Haha

(one day I will post without being self-demeaning) but for now just remember to be kind to fic writers! Remember we are doing this for free in sometimes very difficult lives!

Anyway, have a wonderful day and I hope you enjoy!