#i love being cryptic

[angelpuns]

Kid Leo Part 21 coming today at 5:30pm Central

Oh Mikey. what have you done?

[wannabe-minion-of-chaos]

"Chaos theory is a lighthearted au" I say as I give Mysterion yet another existential crisis about the origins to his curse

[barricade-draws]

When does the olive lore drop

Ascension is near… believe and you’ll be rewarded

🫒

[isleofdarkness]

I need you to know that I stalk your blog for every post you make like there is no tomorrow and when one of your posts that I hadn’t seen popped up on my dash I full on gasped and ran here to read whatever new marvelousness you posted.

I can't wait until I get my meds tomorrow and (hopefully) work on a little surprise for y'all. Let's just say there's a reason I'm telling you about the two other additions to the Addams Family right now

[dani-a-arts]

in somnis veritas.

(oc: vernon crawford)

[misty-wisp]

uhhh before anyone asks that post was some pretentious writing hinting at yurushite stuff yeee

[ford-mustang-1969]

yall cant handle me. heh

[totentnz]

came up with an idea to make the fucked up au even more annoying

[real-nature-facts]

I see a picture of a real life person and hit them with the hammer

[casart]

I did such dramatic colouring for what was originally supposed to be a shitpost

[miabrown007]

Félix: kidnapping is a love language Kagami: you have no social skills, idiot

*two weeks later*

Félix: okay, so when Marinette's at her most vulnerable, I'll gaslight her into thinking I'm her boyfriend, so she'll follow me into an abandoned building where we can put her in an altered mental state and present to her my family's life story in the imaginable most cryptic play of theater she has ever seen, which will reveal to her our horrible secret and the fact that her abusive father-in-law is also her arch-nemesis Kagami: you're so big brained, bae 🥰

[fishofthewoods]

Oh my god I woke up this morning and my Stardew Valley meta post had almost 150 notes????? Hello?????????? Anyways I started writing this last night because @moon-is-pretty-tonight left nice tags on the original so thank you so much!!

We know from the starting scenes of the game that the farmer's grandfather loved Stardew Valley. So why did he leave? Pelican Town is a good place to grow old; George and Evelyn are just fine. It's a fine place to raise a kid, but maybe he just wanted to raise his child closer to real schools and other children.

Or maybe, just maybe, he understood.

Was there a day when he was in his thirties where he looked at his friends and realized they weren't like him? That he could run faster than them, work longer, explore deeper into the hidden places of the valley?

Was there a day when he went to the wizard to ask him for help, for knowledge if nothing else? Did he learn then that his family was different? Special? Chosen? And how did he react? He couldn't possibly raise a child in the valley if they would be as strange and fey as him. He had to leave. There was no other way.

But years later, on his deathbed, did he regret that choice?

Is that why he gave the farmer the letter?

Is that why they went back home?

When the farmer steps off the bus that first day, the valley is still on the cusp of winter, just barely tipping over into spring. The flowers are starting to bloom, but a chill still hangs in the air. As soon as the farmer's boots touch the soil there's a change. The air gets warmer. The trees get greener. Not by too much, not all at once, but it changes.

The junimos watch the farmer as they do their work. They're new to farming, but take to it with frightening speed; their first batch of crops is perfect. None of the townsfolk tell them that parsnips don't normally grow in less than a week, that cauliflowers don't grow to be ten feet tall, that fairies don't visit when the sun goes down and grow potatoes and beans and tulips overnight. The junimos talk amongst themselves in their strange, wild language, and agree: this is the one. They're back. The valley recognizes its own, even when they've left for a generation. The farmers have come home.

Things change fast in the valley. The community center, empty and decrepit for so many years, is rejuvenated. (Lewis says it was abandoned only a few weeks after the farmer's grandfather left. Strange coincidence, he says, that it both came and went with the farmer's family.) The mines and the quarry, similarly abandoned, are explored for the first time in ages. The town becomes cleaner, brighter, more vibrant, happier.

And it is happier. Not just the environment, but the people. It's the talk of the town for weeks when Haley does her first closet purge. Leah's art show in the town square is a huge success. Shane's smiling for the first time since he moved to the valley. All of them, when asked, say it's all thanks to the farmer.

People love to ask why Lewis didn't fix the community center on his own. Why Willy never repaired the boat to ginger island. Why Abigail or Marlon never went down to fix the elevator in the mines, or why Clint didn't fix the minecarts.

But isn't it so much more interesting to ask how those things were there in the first place? How they got so broken down? If the stories the townspeople tell are true, the valley was once a beautiful place, flourishing and full of life; why did that change? When did it change?

Was it when the farmer's grandfather, the locus of the valley, its chosen representative, left town?

And if so, what happens when the farmer comes back?

[isleofdarkness]

Wait. W a i t. Does the vault hold the Endless? Or some being with all the power? I feel like I’m missing something but I’m not sure what. Oh hi you have woven an amazing web.

It doesn't hold the Endless, though the curse of the Dark Kingdom is definitely having some consequences for the Endless. It does hold a certain Brit with a trench coat, along with a lot of magical artefects. What it holds isn't majorly important, other than the fact that it can't fall into the wrong hands.

What is important is what the magick is doing to the Isle.

Why do you think Isle kids tend to be so much more powerful than their parents?

[fatedroses]

Many things were used to describe the mad hermit of Amaurot: a drunkard, degenerate, cynical, and even monstrous by those who stirred trouble for the newly appointed Azem. But nothing could prepare Emet-Selch for what he would see for himself, when offered a chance to meet the Sun's Shadow.

[localcryptic]

meet the sidesteps (customizes their tattoo designs to match their personalities)

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

Fear is such a fascinating response isn't it?

But there is no fighting or fleeing from something like this, nor will a fawned plea get you more than a passing glance

I'll say this much- you did not make a wrong choice, just... a choice :)

Oh lord what have I done?? /pos