#i think Elias has enough references for now

[faestunna]

i am a SUCKER for soft domestic headcanons, so i’m intrigued to know what you think for stack!!

PAIRING: elias (stack) moore x vampire!reader

WARNINGS: modern!elias, vampirism (blood, death), just fluff :)

A/N: waittt cus idt i’ve seen any elias/stack fluff so im all for this!! i kept it as vampire!stack and vampire!reader in modern times, hope that’s okay!

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Now, Elias may play around a lot, but he is, above all else, a gentleman.

First date? It may be basic, but he’ll take you to one of the finest restaurants in the city while you wear a new dress he just bought for you. That man spoils you.

He can’t bring himself to go back to Chicago after he last saw Sammie play, but he’ll tell you all sorts of stories about Capone and managing to fool both of the most notorious gangs in town.

At first, he doesn’t talk much about Elijah. Refers to him as Smoke, and you initially assume it was a business partner, but once you’re close enough, he tells you everything about that fateful night.

How he still sees Elijah’s face in his dreams. How he can’t even see his own brother’s face in his reflection anymore. How the last thing he has of him is a faded photograph.

But the two of you have a sweet life in the city. You’ve got a shared apartment that you’ve turned into the perfect sanctuary.

It’s definitely hard living away from the sun, but that just means that the daytime gives you two an entire day in bed. The black-out curtains drawn closed, maybe a candle or two lit for comfort, and the two of you lazily lounging in between the sheets.

I don’t even have to say where that leads to…

And since he is a gentleman, he has a habit of bringing home dinner. He’ll be gone for around an hour or so, but then a knock rings at your door.

“How’d you get this one?” You’ll ask quietly as he leads your unsuspecting guess to the kitchen.

He never has a real answer. Always just give you that grin and says, “Told ‘em I got a real pretty woman at home for them to meet.” You don’t question him much after that.

Elias is a gentleman!! Meals will usually mean there’s a big mess in the kitchen, but he’ll always insist, “Nuh-uh, baby. You go get cleaned up, I’ll take care of this.” One steaming shower later, and you come back to a nearly pristine place.

Naturally, nighttime is your favorite with him. It’s the only chance you two can freely roam, and most of the time, you don’t even pay any mind to the delicious scents of passerby’s. “You smell that?” You ask with a hungry smile, but the two of you have been around long enough to control yourselves.

And Elias loves to see you in the moonlight. He’d burn the whole city to see you in the sun, but he can settle for the silvery glow against your skin. The two of you casually stroll the streets, hand in hand, in sweet silence.

Sometimes, you’ll be out the whole night. There’ll hardly be anyone else around, apart from a few taxis and teenagers breaking curfew.

It’s a sweet life you have together. It may not be ideal to most, and, sure—it can get a little lonely not having anyone else—but at the end of the day, you know in your soul that he’s all you need.

[kopykunoichi]

This whole chapter, man...

Oberon is shipping these two so hard, the randy deviant. Elias and Chise's mutual shock is telling. Elias had clearly not considered this yet. Obviously, we now know from later chapters that his idea of marriage was vastly different than a human's; or rather, it was lacking in some key details. Sexual intimacy and procreation were not even factors for him.

But, at this point in the story, Chise is still uncertain about Elias' intentions. He has proven he's not an actual pervert, but now she realizes that the fae are expecting them to have a marriage in full. Does that mean that he really does intend to marry her and make children with her?

She had been clinging to him this whole time, and then when she thought about him in *that* way, she lets go, embarrassed. This is definitely the first time she's imagined being with him intimately, even with all his talk about "honeymooning".

His reaction to seeing her looking at him like that and blushing, is his non-existent heart thudding against his chest. He's not fully aware of everything that's happening in Chise's head, but he's having a reaction to seeing her thinking about him like that. Then Titania acknowledges that Oberon could be useful. He got them both thinking about kids, or rather the getting of them. Even if Elias still seems clueless about it, Chise is not.

It seems Oberon even got Titania herself shipping them. To her, a wager on whether or not Elias and Chise will eventually be married in full is silly, it's a given. It's wiser to bet on how prolific they'll end up being once they get to that point.

This chapter deals with the topic of sexual intimacy more so than any others, albeit in a way that is safe for teenage viewers to watch. As we see later, the story goes on to focus much more on their emotional bonds rather than their physical relationship, which is both necessary and wise. Neither one are ready for sex, they're still too immature and broken for that. But I don't think that this chapter was the result of a publisher forcing the author's hand, either. I think the idea of this being eventual endgame was presented early in the story for foreshadowing.

Interestingly enough, this is also a chapter that gives a lot of hints as to what Elias actually *is*. Titania refers to him as her own child, but Spriggan calls him a Liath anam - "grey soul".

He is a half-baked thing. Spriggan seems to be implying that many fae souls were lost to make him, giving credence to the idea that he's a chimera. Oberon says that was the result of human sin. This makes me think he may have been created as one of Cartaphilus/Joseph's experiments. Perhaps Titania gave him life.

In any case, I think that these two topics are inextricably linked in the story. Chise and Elias are already married. There are parent/child (or master/apprentice) aspects of their relationship that apply to both of them. At different times, they parent and teach one other. But their bond has grown beyond just those roles. There relationship has become romantic, but not yet sexual. They love each other as husband and wife, and Chise will develop a stronger sex drive as she matures.

I'm not sure if Elias will, but he definitely seeks out physical intimacy with her. I think once he's aware of the possibilities, he'll crave it. He's not totally uneducated on the topic. He knew what Chise meant when she asked if he and Angie were lovers, and he also thought that Renfred might want Alice to further his lineage. He's got at least some rudimentary knowledge, but he doesn't see to want it for himself.

Of course, all that depends on *what* he is. He has no organs, but he has physiological reactions as if he does. His non-existent stomach is in knots when he's worried for safety. His non-existent solar plexus is pained when Angie punches him there. His non-existent heart thuds against his chest when Chise blushes at the thought of making love to him. His non-existant blood runs cold when he's lonely. Might his non-existent...er...man parts experience sensations as he unlocks "new" feelings associated with her?

Could unlocking those feelings be the key to him discovering his true form?

The primary point of Elias finding Chise was a journey of self-discovery. Oberon refers to his flesh as something he wears for her sake and wonders how long it will hold. Perhaps he was simply referring to Elias hiding his more inhuman looking form from her. But I don't think we've ever seen Elias' true self. He shifts forms based on mood and convenience. I think that when he discovers who and what he really is, he'll be able to settle on that form, and that it will be compatible with Chise in all sense of the word "husband". Chise will be able to be completely vulnerable and fulfilled with him, and he will delight in the fact that there are looks she has for him that she gives to no other person.

In the meantime, it is a pure delight to watch them grow as individuals and as a couple. There relationship is so pure and so sweet exactly as is. I do think there will be more for them one day, but they are also content with the way things are now, and that's beautiful to me.

[princesspastel8]

Chapter 6: "It's good to be back!"

Dipper POV

I wake up with a splitting headache. I groan as I sit up, pressing and rubbing my fits against the temples of my forehead. I swing my legs off my bed and hiss out in pain from moving to fast.

"Damnit....Bill.." I said while standing up and leaning against the wall for support. "My head...hurts so much."

I hear Bill laugh before he speaks. "Sorry, pinetree, I couldn't help myself. Seeing the fear in those meatsacks' eyes brought so much joy!"

I tense from his shouting. "Please...no screaming." I beg while slowly walking to the restroom next door to my room.

"Right, you had a pretty memorable night, huh?" Bill chuckles.

I take off my t-shirt and sweat pants, turning on the shower to warm water setting. I step inside, letting out a sigh as my tense body slowly relaxes. I lower my body underneath the showerhead, humming to the feeling of the warm water running down my body and soothing my headache.

"Yes, but enough with games. My plan is to bring you back today, but I can't think of who my last sacrifice will be."

"Haha, oh come on, pinetree. I'm sure there's someone out there who's stupid enough to get close to you -"

Bill is cut off by the sound of the bathroom door opening. "Oh! Oops, my bad dude. Didn't know anyone was in here." I hear Soos say.

I sigh heavily, pushing my wet hair from my face. I peek my head out of the shower currant. "So you're saying you didn't hear the water running through the door?"

Soos shrugs his shoulders. "Nope! But I'll wait until you're done. See ya later, dude." He said while walking out.

A smirk plays its way onto my lips as I pull my head back under the showerhead. "I think I found the idiot I can lead to their death...hehe." I chuckle while washing my hair and body.

"I forgot all about good old question mark! This is going to be hilarious to watch playout! Hahaha!" Bill laughs.

"Indeed." I said as I turned the water off and stepped out of the shower.

I wrap a towel around my waist and walk to my room. I open the door and walk inside, locking it behind myself. I drop the towel while walking to my dresser and pull out black shorts and a black tank top along with some boxers.

I dry my body, putting on my clothes. I place the towel on top of my head, and I walk down the stairs. I raise an eyebrow at everyone. No one's in the kitchen, but everyone is in the living room.

"Uh, why is everyone..." I trail off while walking into the living room. I look at the tv blankly. The news is on.

"A crazed serial killer is still on the lose. The bodies that were found and identified as Robert Stacey Valebtino, Tambry, Susan Wentworth, and Pacifica Elias Northwest. The police haven't figured out a clear motive nor how the murders could possibly be linked. I'm Jessica Jimenez, leaving a warning: be at home before sunset, lock your doors and possibly your windows, and stay safe. And now for the weather -"

Stan turns the Tv off to comfort a crying Wendy and Mable. Ford, however, is taking notes on his notepad, possibly writing everything the reporter stated. I sigh, walking over to Wendy, rubbing my hand up and down her back.

"Ahahahaha! Look at all the chaos and fear you put into those meatsacks! So proud of you, pinetree!" Bill cheers.

I feel my cheeks begin to heat up at Bill's words. I shake my head at the sound of Ford's voice. Everyone turns their attention to him.

"Stan and I will be leaving to hunt down this killer. My thoughts are that whoever is doing this has found out how to summon Bill."

Everyone's eyes widen at the mention of Bill, but my eyes hold shock for a different reason. "Just how did Ford figure it out? The deaths aren't linked in anyway....Unless he's referring to me killing two members of the cipher wheel." I thought to myself.

"What makes you think that grunlke Ford?" I question out loud.

"This killer only needs one more life to take. The fact that this killer killed two members of the cipher will speak for itself. So, in order to prevent such a thing from happening, Stan and I will find this killer and turn him or her over to the police."

Everyone nods their head in understanding as the two prepare to leave. "And no one is allowed to leave for any reason. Do I make myself clear?" Stan said rather sternly.

I sigh heavily while everyone else nods. They walk out the front door, leaving Wendy, Soos, Mable, and me.

"Soooooooo....duck detective?"

Wendy drys her tears and stands up. "I c-can't right now....I have to plan h-his funeral." She whispers, her voice cracking.

"And I have to talk with Candy and Grenda like we promised." Mable said while standing up and walking into her room.

"Oh...alright." Soos said sadly.

I watch as the two leave with a smirk on my lips. I glance at Soos as I stand. "Hey Soos, remember how we used to be dino bros?" I ask.

"Yeah, dude! It was so much fun....you know before the fight we had and almost being killed -"

"Right, right. How would you like to be killer hunters?"

"That would be awesome! It's been a while since I've been on an adventure."

"You didn't understand what I asked. Would you like to come with me to find the killer? Stan and Ford are too old to do it alone."

"Uh...I don't know, man, Stan did say not to leave no matter what." Soos points out with uncertainty.

"Oh come oooon Soos! They'll thank us for catching them!" I answer back.

"Well....if you say so! I trust you, Dipper."

"Great! Just let me get a few things, and we'll be on our way." I said while turning to leave the room.

"Hehe, things just got interesting.", Bill hums.

I chuckle while walking up the stairs to my room. "They have...yes they have."

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Mable POV

I sigh as I lay back in my bed, petting waddles with my good hand. I still can't believe that Dipper did that to me....he changed ever since that day. I blame myself for everything....I was drunk and just wanted to be cool. I can never forgive myself for that.

I sit up, hearing the door open to my room. It's Wendy. She's been down and out since Robbie was killed. She mentioned how he never came home last night but didn't think too much of it. I always thought Robbie and Tembery would last....I wonder what happened.

"Hey, uh Mable, have you seen dipper? I want him to look after the shack while I make a quick run. Soos isn't here either, so...." She trialed on.

"Huh?! But Stan said not to leave....should we tell them?"

She shrugs, "eh maybe...I'm sure they're safe."

But I don't believe it. Something feels off... really off. Dipper is different, far darker than he was back then. I never knew that he got the Cipher wheel on his back...I would sometimes hear him whispering in his room in the middle of the night. I don't know if it's me or the Mable juice, but Dipper isn't... dipper.

I hear Stan and Ford enter my room with a strange expression.....fear? "Grunlke Stan? Grunlke Ford? What's the matter?"

"No time to explain. Where's Dipper and Soos? We looked all over the shake but couldn't find them. We were hoping they were in here..." Ford said while nervously looking around my room.

"I don't know. I saw them walking into the forest through the window, just thought they were going to help you two find the murderer." I point out while smiling.

"Uh kid... we already know who the murderer is." Stan said in disbelief.

"Well, say it, old man." Wendy said in an impatient tone.

"Dipper. He's the killer." Ford finally said, his voice full of dread.

Wendy laughs as if it was a joke, but the look on my grunlkes faces says it all. The feeling in my chest grew heavier. How could my twin brother..be a killer?

I feel tears fill my eyes as I stare down at my broken wrist. "Wh-what makes you think that -"

"No time to explain! Get ready. We are leaving now before it's too late."

"What do you mean?" Wendy questions warily.

"Before Dipper brings back Bill."

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Dipper POV

As we get closer and closer to Bill's stature, the wider my smile becomes. So close...so so close...

"Aye dude, where are we going?" Soos asks while glancing around. "Isn't this where that Bill guy stature is?"

I turn around and chuckle, my vision flashing to yellow. "Yes. Yes, it is."

I can sense the fear coming off of Soos. It only makes my excitement grow. We approach his stature. I see tree veins wrapped all around his poor stature. I groan at the sight but smile as I hear Soos backing away from me.

"I don't know about this man. Dipper, I think w-we should head back..."

I chuckle, my chuckles changing to laughs, my voice becoming mixed with Bill's. "Sorry, question mark! But pinetree has other things planned."

I drop my bag, pulling out a pistol I took from my father before leaving for gravity falls. I turn around, aiming the gun right in between his eyes. "Dino bros... yeah, sure, when I was twelve. But things are different now....very different. Think about it this way! Your sacrifice will soon bring me happiness!"

Soos eyes begin to fill with tears, which only makes me laugh more. "Dipper, you can't do this, dude! Wh-what about your family?...you can't do this to us!"

"Family?....Bill is my only family." I frown before shooting him, killing him instantly.

I watch his eyes roll back as blood spats on my face. I place my gun back into my bag, picking up Bill's stature and placing it in the middle of an open space. I pull out a can of blue spray paint, drawing a huge circle around it. I then draw a star, the corners over the star with circles on the tips. I reach back into my back for the jars and 5 candles and a lighter.

I quickly place the jars and candles inside the circles on the tips of the star. I quickly open each jar, lighting up the candles. I watch as the red flame quickly turns blue. I stand before my art, my hard work finally paying off.

My smile disappears as I hear my name being called. I ignore it, holding my arms in the air as the palms of my hands glow with blue flames. "L-T-O-L-O-X-A! His time has come to rise! I invoke the ancient power that Bill has returned!!" I shout to the top of my lungs as my body begins to float from the ground.

"We're too late...." I hear Ford whisper in grief.

I watch as Bill's stature begins to float from the ground as the souls merge with it. The sky darkens, and reality freezes, turning to black and white. A bright yellow glow comes from the stature, causing everyone's eyes to shut tightly. Once everything settles down, I'm greeted by the voice I've yearned to hear from outside my head after all these years.

"Oh, gravity falls, it is good to be back! What is this? The second time?"

[miifu666]

Yandere isekai! Alpha!

Who you met during your mindless scrolling through the brainrotting reels and videos thats feeding the addiction part of your brain, in no time you're suddenly transported in the middle of a busy street with your pajamas.

Not knowing if you've accidentally sleepwalked or if you were daydreaming, you noticed the strange waft of different smells the people around you have.

Its all too much for your brain, the smell of different perfumes clashing eachother is making your head spin. In no time, you accidentally hit your head on someone.

A tall person, maybe 6'7 you note. You have to crank your neck upwards to see him, apologize and run back to your home despite forgetting that you're in the middle of an unknown street.

"S..sorry..?" You half muttered, trying to get a glimpse of the man by squinting, the backlight of the sun isn't helping the unfortunate circumstances you're in.

"No problem! ...hey are you lost, little thing?" The man tilted his head, blocking the sun and giving you a bit of how he looks now. "You don't smell like an average beta.. or omega... even alpha"

He's an attractive person, a lazy smile etched on his perfectly smooth face. Pulling the fat of the cheeks a little and curving his cat-like eyes just beneath his golden rimmed glasses. Theres a few moles you see near his left eye, under the eyebrow and bottom lip. He looks like one of those pinterest models you see, one that people put as a drawing reference.

"Uhm.. what?"

"You're okay?"

"I think so? What do you mean.. average beta?"

Hearing your answer, the tall man can only hummed and fix his dark blue hair. It wasn't long enough to reach his shoulder but not short enough to reach his ears too, a layered cut maybe? You try to figure out the man's body action before hearing out what he has to say. Theres a small fear of you getting kidnapped, pulled into some drunken bar or maybe a dimmed and empty place to steal your organs.

"Betas? You know, the second gender?" He muttered, the lazy smile is still stapled on his face. You asked if he's talking about the same beta, omega and alpha that you know about. The ones that you've read in fiction and posts, a universe where people have secondary genders instead of just the usual biological male or female. "Hmmm... yes?".

You wanted to laugh, make a weird face, punch him on the guts, to say he's joking would be an understatement. He looks serious, in fact. He looks at you judgingly despite the small smile he kept. You panicked, finding out that those isekai fictions are actually happening to you, during your scrolling on the dumb thin brick of electronic. Maybe if you weren't so focused on it, you would realized you're slowly being transported into another dimension.

The man tilted his head again, a small humm is heard despite the loud steps of the crowd walking past you. The crowd, you're also in the middle of the busy street. The sweat on your palms feels more wet now that you realized everyone is seeing you in your pajamas, the only pair of outfit you wear to be comfortable alone, uninterrupted in your small abode.

"You look so anxious.. wanna go somewhere to talk? Seems like you need something to straighten your mind"

Time moves quickly, you're now sitting in a thick sofa. One that feels like its been used for years, the comfortable dent it has gives you a sense of belonging. The man, introduced himself as Elias. Explained to you how this world works, after noticing how despite having betas around. You have a particular smell that isnt too strong or "unique" as he would say it. "Quite the catch you are" he smiled as he tilted his head again, the act reminding you of an owl. "An alpha like me have sharper nose... but i can barely smell you. Its like smelling a deer.. small deer"

Now you're lounging in his house, holding a warm chamomile tea he brewed. Feeling snug despite being in a strangers house, waiting for him to finish changing. He discussed about you having a place to stay, urging you to live in his house for awhile till you can figure things out in this world. 'How kind..' you think, 'maybe the alphas in the fiction isnt as horrible as it actually is in here... '

You didn't noticed the lingering look he's giving you, the licking of his lips each time you tend to appear skittish and unsafe. He has a need to keep you alone, keep you safe around him and maybe spoil you a bit. Who knows? Maybe throughout all his life being an Apex Alpha, you are his true mate. The reason he's been so devoid of any feeling and not so obedient for his wolf side is because you haven't appeared in his universe.

Fortunately hes a patient man, so patient. He can easily break you down to become his perfect little omega, no matter if you'll have it as a second gender or not. In his eyes, you'll always be an omega. His omega

Elias is an old yandere oc i created, i had some ideas of how he is but i wanted to show more of his personality here. Theres a few notes past me put on his character but the rest, is improvised.Sooo this is all not proofread.

[hellostarposts]

Episode 41 - Too Deep

Season 2 time baby!!!

Jon why are you exploring the tunnels alone

I don’t think that Martin would actually do that to him

Jon really should’ve stayed on leave longer. But the tunnels were calling his name

Martin only cares for your well being

Nah dude it’s your boss watching you. Yes I did get the Elias being a creep spoilers. 

Jon you are hella traumatized 

Oh Elias did notice but he doesn’t care

WHY ARE YOU GOING INTO THEM DURING THE NIGHT

Jon, you are going to get the Sasha treatment. Stop being a dumb bitch

Who lubed up the hinges?

Yes I’ve heard that silence. Leaving the club. 

I can’t realistically call these tunnels a pocket dimension. Because too many people have seen the tunnels. Also, for the others I doubt that the entrance would stay the same. 

The cops are in on it! Jon is never going to be near those tapes

Rookie mistake not writing down the time

Dude don’t compare the dead worms to sausage casings

“I’m not stupid” says the very injured man exploring tunnels

I bet Jon is bringing chalk trail spray next time

Worm Summoning Circle!!

Wait, the circle was on the wall?

Warped stone inside the worm circle

Oooo someone else visited the worm circle

Jon is having a panic attack

JON YOU DUMB SLUT

HE BROUGHT CHALK!!!!

Mans is going on an expedition with what he packed

The poor cashier checking Jon out on that shopping trip

Oh making the arrows point the way he came is somewhat smart

At least this dumb slut learns from his mistakes

Millbank prison if back

THE PANOPTICON

I am a fucking history major. How did I not remember millbank prison. 

Because the panopticon idea was lowkey dumb in practice. Psychological torture some might say. 

I had to go back a bit because of the panopticon feelings.

Robert Smirk, is back.

OH DAMN, me saying psychological torture was not supposed to be a guess as to what Robert was going to do to the prison.

But to be fair, his additions made it so far removed from the original panopticon idea that it is now his original theory. Obviously, this is some kind of ploy in order to get the inmates easily down into the tunnels. For what purpose we do not know, but wow do I have material to work with now.

Unpausing it now.

Closed in 1890. Are we really surprised by the old prison having secret tunnels? Like really.

Ooo winchester mystery house staircase.

That curvy chalk arrow has way more horror vibes to it than I would’ve thought. Like either it adds to the whole Gertrude Robinson mystery. OR the tunnels are actually a dimension and its trying to get Jon lost. But most likely, it is just some entity in the tunnels (which are very real) who is trying to confuse Jon. Either way, Jon is going to become a cave dweller.

Oh wow Jon, you’re stubborn? Had no clue.

For funsies, it’s Elias running around barefoot with chalk.

Okay, at least people are still drinking in the tunnels. Likely was used for smuggling alcohol.

HMMMM tunnels are changing.

I still don’t want to say that its a pocket dimension. 

WAIT I AM COOKING

Oh good, Jon is at least smart enough to not go back into the tunnels after that incident.

I dOnT CAre abOUt tHe TuNnELS says the obsessive idiot. He deserves the dunce hat for this one.

The fucking paranoia tape recorder.

Are we getting meta up in this shit?

Jon is going to end up having Martin force him into a grippy sock vacation. Mans is already unhinged and not in a good way. 

What a way to start off season 2! So obviously we are going to be way more focused on Jon’s investigation and subsequent spiral into paranoia and insanity. While I do have preemptive empathy for what he is about to go through (pretty self induced). It will not prevent me from calling him stupid because holy shit is he being dumb. Taking the whole “curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back” way too literally. I did see something about stalking, which I’m not excited about but it would be pretty essential to Jon going insane.

Onto my feelings about the panopticon reference. If the history references keep coming I won’t complain. Normally I find the panopticon theory to be pretty lame when used in the media. Mostly because while it was supposed to encourage rehabilitation of the prisoners, it was more about making them too scared to break the rules not actually changing. It’s purely based on control and fear. In practice it was proven to not be possible, solely because of the physical limitations of life. However, the twist that Smirk changed it to be more convoluted and changed the premise into darkness and isolation. Chef’s Kiss. Crank up the psychological horror of this theory. Honestly, being in complete darkness can also foster the whole “constantly being watched feeling just as much as no walls. It’s due to the paranoia that not being able to see at all will make you equally as fearful. 

Anyway, I strongly believe that the point of Smirks deviations from the original concept was to get prisoners into the tunnels. The prisoners were going to be shipped off to Australia anyway, therefore if they went missing no one would be searching for them. Additionally, due to the way that medieval Britain society worked with criminals. While they cared enough to not want them worked to death. They really didn’t care if they went missing, which makes the prisoners perfect targets for supernatural shenanigans. There’s two real ways that I can imagine this idea working out. The prisoners get lost in the tunnels without assistance. Or that they are being physically dragged down there. 

Now onto whatever these tunnels are. The main reason why I don’t want to call them a pocket dimension is because they are too permanent. So far, none of the other ones have been able to consistently be revisited like these tunnels. However, a way to satisfy both of these elements is to say that the tunnels are a pocket dimension but are also so old that it has become more permanent. Basically, it got so big that it became “real”. I can’t deny that it is not supernatural because of the way it is seemingly changing. But, Jon did describe how there are various different sections to the tunnels. Thus, I am led to believe that these tunnels are growing and their construction is somewhat based on the time period. Or it is based on whoever the “master” of this dimension is. Which adds to the idea that it’s very old.

My only other working theory is that the tunnels are real and were/are being used by a cult. But there is an entity who is now manipulating the tunnels. So no pocket dimension, just some supernatural being who is having fun.

All in all, I am so excited to be done with the worms and entering the psychological terror that is Jonathan Sims.

[aoioozora]

So I drew Hesh in different hairstyles

since it was in high demand (?) and I reblogged it from that post directly but I think it deserves a post and a whole analysis of its own.

Here's the entire piece of 5 sketches:

I get quite lazy to draw and even though it wasn't specifically requested of me, I went ahead and drew Hesh in diff hairstyles because it's a fun concept to think of and honestly it was so much fun!

I got to study the face of this Sexy Man™. I hadn't noticed it before but he had low cheekbones! Now I'm not used to drawing low cheekbones since my default state is drawing them high, but it really challenged me

Right here in the first sketch. His face looks so flat 😭 I had to get my eyes used to the low cheekbones. Looks like I have a lot to learn lmao

As for the hairstyle, I love it, but I definitely think that Hesh wouldn't have his hair like this. He seems to prefer his hair on the shorter cleaner side, like this

But I can see him having a phase where he had long, luscious hair enough for Elias to go "kids these days..."

I honestly think he'd rock long hair ngl. Maybe he had a Metal phase at one point lol

I enjoyed drawing the long hair the most because I love making long, loose strokes. For once I got to fix the faulty way I draw side profiles, and improve my observational skills because Hesh looks a bit like Hesh over here lol

But my obs skills improved way more because Hesh LOOKS like Hesh in this one

Realistically he'd have this hairstyle since he's a 90s-00s boy. Saw the Brad Pitt reference and I just HAD to draw it. If I'm not wrong, he has a similar hairstyle at the beginning of the gameplay

It's really giving surfer boy. And since he's from California, he must've dabbled in surfing, who knows

Also this one is my personal fav. I think this hairstyle REALLY suits him.

Also also appreciation for his big ass nose.

In conclusion:

IMHO Hesh looks best with a style slightly longer than a buzz (clean and Brad Pitt)

Hesh is hard to draw (including his facial hair)

That being said, if you have more hairstyle ideas for our big boi here, let me know ;) I'd love to draw them hehehehe

[moonlight-coffeebean-147]

Doodle Dump: Watts Madworx

My lad based on the Mad Doctor. The sixth member of the Ramshackle dorm (Usagi and Grim count as one member lol). He’s the absolute definition of a mad scientist. Some folks are friends with them. Others are absolutely terrified of him. Now here’s a doodle dump of the madlad themself.

One of their main quirks is that he has a deep fascination with the non-human mages that attend Night Raven College. This includes the beastmen, the merfolk, the giants, the faes, etc. Due to being isolated for so long, he has never come into contact with any other mages other than their family. Thus one of his main goals is to conduct his own experiments at NRC and to a certain extent RSA. He’s also got a severe case of cuteness aggression, as well as odds ways of expressing their love and friendship. Basically to Watts “I want to dissect your brain” and “I want to cut you open” is their way of saying “I want to get to know you better”. “I want to live in your skin” is “I love you” to them 💀. For the most part they mean well and just want to be friends with everyone despite most of his words coming off as threats 😭.

One hobby of his is that they love to modify stuffed animals in order to fit their own vision. He would never experiment on live animals as that would be too much for him. According to him, it would be cruel and unusual to experiment on those who cannot give say into whether or not they want to be part of it. Basically if you tell him that you don’t want to be a part of their experiment, they’ll usually respect that. Of course this plush is a reference to the Mad Doctor’s debut short, just a more morbidly adorable version. Though with that said…

He has asked Jack, Elias, and Beck if they ever wanted to be a part of an actual experiment like that. (Though lord knows where Watts would find a chicken beastman)… the answer was a unanimous no.

One of the inspirations for Watts’ personality was Hange from Attack on Titan. And I feel like he’d have the same excitement when seeing giants like Gareth and Billy. On another note, I feel like Billy would be the only one immune to Watts’ experiential ask attempts. To Watts he’s too adorable to be experimented on 💀. Though Billy is not immune to the cuteness aggression comments from him.

This leads to where Watts lands when talking about core scale. To me, Watts would be a perfect prey… under different circumstances. He’s a willing prey, but in terms of if the predator is okay with being literally dissected from the inside. Add to the fact that Watts never leaves the dorm without a scalpel or one of their tools, to eat him would absolutely be a pred’s biggest mistake. This leads to most of the pred students to be absolutely terrified of Watts despite him literally begging to be eaten. It is just not worth the risk to them 😭

Cue the funny chase sequence. This doodle I honestly do want to turn into a full piece. That way I can draw some lads that he’d be chasing. So cute yet oh so terrifying… don’t ask where they got the bone saw.

One another note… Watts is transmasc and goes by he/they. I don’t exactly know how hrt would work in this world or if it would be like a potion one would take to change one’s gender permanently since that’s normally a thing within fantasy settings, I personally go with the latter. But either way, Watts did their own top surgery even before finding out potions were available. I think that one of things he wanted to used their inventions for was to improve their life… that includes looking more masculine. He does make other kinds of inventions and robots though. But either way, now he’s got some scars and the pride of saying they did their own top surgery. Usagi certainly thinks it’s cool at least.

One of Watts’ best friends outside of Ramshackle is Rook…. Chernabog help all the students. If you’re vigilant enough you’ll be able to tell and see the both of them spying on the other students ^^

And that’s the end of another doodle dump. I’m really happy with Watts and can’t wait to do more with them in the future. For our last doodle. Finger guns. Watts is fairly chill once you get past his eccentricities.

Watts, Usagi, and Beck(Mentioned)- Me

Billy and Elias(Mentioned)- @twistedtummies2

Gareth- @twistedbrainrot

[atwhughesversion]

another petey x leo interview!! i translated it below via google translate (so again, apologies if there are any mistakes):

After a tough and injury-plagued season, Pettersson has a lot to prove this fall. In 2024/25, he was limited to 45 points (15+30) in 64 games, almost halving the 89 points he had the year before. The criticism has been fierce, and the $11.6 million-per-season contract with the Vancouver Canucks adds extra pressure on the 26-year-old to bounce back.

For Leo Carlsson, it's the third and final year of his rookie contract with the Anaheim Ducks. A strong season would put him in a very good negotiating position for his next contract.

“I want to be able to start the season the way I finished the last one,” says Leo Carlsson, referring to his 25 points in 28 games after the 4 Nations Face-Off in February.

“I just want to keep at it and find confidence in it. I want to try not to have any slumps, which is hard to say now of course. But that's what's been a bit bad about my game, that I haven't been able to keep a consistent level in my game. Is that what my goal is right now?”

Is that something you think comes with experience?

“I absolutely think so. You become more and more comfortable in the league too,” Leo answers and adds: “Then I'm keen to win a draw against Elias this winter too.”

Hasn't that happened yet?

“One maybe, but there aren't many,” he chuckles.

“I think I had my record against you, I think I had 20–5 in draws,” Elias Pettersson smiles.

How are things going for you, Elias? What are the goals for you?

“The goals for me? Yes… Of course, the last season was nowhere near the level I want to be at. But what can you say… That’s in the past. I just look ahead and want to find myself again and be the player I can be next season.”

How are your preparations going, Leo?

“Just training, training a lot with the guys in Karlstad. Going on the ice a little later, a normal hockey summer really.”

I guess the answer is similar from your side, Elias.

“Absolutely, training all summer. The preseason was longer this year with the missed playoffs, so it's about taking advantage of it and using the extra time to get in as good shape as possible next season.”

You missed the end of the season due to injury. Have you had time to recover?

“I've recovered. There were a few minor hiccups during the season, but everything has healed now and it's full steam ahead in the gym.”

We're going to finish by turning it around a bit, so I'm going to ask you, Leo, how many points will Elias score in the 2025/26 season?

“Just say more than last season,” Elias laughs.

“Hmm, I think you can score 92 points next season, absolutely.”

Would you be happy with that, Elias?

“Yes, absolutely.”

“I think you could score 100 points too. 92 to 105,” Leo adds with a big smile.

Elias, how many points does Leo score?

“I say he's at least over a point per game.”

It's a contract year too…

“Yes, you always get better then,” Elias laughs. “There's something to that. But I think he does… Okay, if you play every game I think you'll score 85 points.”

“That's more than enough,” Leo says happily.

That's 40 points more than last season.

“Yeah, something like that,” Leo laughs.

Bonus question, what do you think Leo's next contract will be, Elias?

“Should you have a bridge contract or eight years,” Elias asks Leo.

“Eight.”

“Okay, then we'll say eight years and 9.5 million dollars.”

Oh, you'll take that?

“I'll take that, that's for sure, Leo laughs.”

[atopvisenyashill]

Hiiiii what are your theories on what post-resurrection Jon with be like?

So I AM curious if he’s gonna be a bit more animalistic. I went back to look at Varamyr and I feel like Varamyr is a weirdo but he doesn’t act like an animal, despite spending a lot of time as an animal. Now you can contrast this to some of the Starklings who will do shit like growl and howl and stuff, and Jojen in fact warns against staying an animal for too long.

“Bran the boy and Summer the wolf. You are two, then?"

"Two," he sighed, "and one." He hated Jojen when he got stupid like this. At Winterfell he wanted me to dream my wolf dreams, and now that I know how he's always calling me back.

"Remember that, Bran. Remember yourself, or the wolf will consume you. When you join, it is not enough to run and hunt and howl in Summer's skin."

But the thing is - it’s Rickon Bran and Arya doing that. Bran & Arya are barely old enough to be self aware and Rickon is a literal toddler (I think all the Starklings refer to him as “the baby” not as in “the youngest” but as in he is TINY still). Jon is sixteen. I do wonder if he adjusts better simply because he’s older. But to flip back again…Varamyr is our only reference and Jojen explicitly warns against it. So will Jon have a temper? Will he growl, go nonverbal when emotional, like Rickon does? Will he howl at the moon like Bran and Arya? Will other people find him unsettling? Not in the “why is this grown man acting like a wolf” way but in that way that actual wolves are unsettling….you know the stories about how you KNOW if you’ve seen a wolf because they’re fuck off huge, they LOOK like predators, and your instincts tell you “this thing can kill me” in a way they don’t when you see a regular dog? What if he’s just unnerving to be around?

I do wonder about his physical look as well. Every person who ~comes back from the dead~ still bares the scars they got while dying. Beric & LSH’s injuries seem to healing human slow - that is to say, if they hadn’t received killing blows, Cat’s vocal chords would be healing at about the rate we see LSH start to regain speech, and Beric’s various cuts are scarring & healing at a normal rate. Bran is paralyzed. Drogo is…all of that. Will he face some issues with his body because the wounds are still healing? Will he have some more stiffness in his limbs, like the way his burnt hand has problems? I don’t really know how he would pick up the red eyes and white hair from ghost - Beric, LSH, Bran, even Drogo, they don’t suddenly change eye or hair color or something, and Brynden was BORN albino it’s not like his magic made him that way later - but I’m ngl I still kind of hope he’ll have the red eyes, I think it’s neat. He doesn’t need white hair tho I think that’s overkill.

When it comes to his priorities, I think we're going to see a huge shift. I know everyone ragged on the show for just having Jon be like "yeah i'm peacing out bye" bc there's going to be more hubbub than that but I do think Jon is going to feel incredibly jaded when it comes to the Night's Watch. I always come back to his confrontation with Maester Aemon and the fact that Aemon is distressed by his choice to not attempt to help Elia and her babies...

Maester Aemon sighed. “Have you heard nothing I’ve told you, Jon? Do you think you are the first?” He shook his ancient head, a gesture weary beyond words. “Three times the gods saw fit to test my vows. Once when I was a boy, once in the fullness of my manhood, and once when I had grown old. By then my strength was fled, my eyes grown dim, yet that last choice was as cruel as the first. My ravens would bring the news from the south, words darker than their wings, the ruin of my House, the death of my kin, disgrace and desolation. What could I have done, old, blind, frail? I was helpless as a suckling babe, yet still it grieved me to sit forgotten as they cut down my brother’s poor grandson, and his son, and even the little children …” Jon was shocked to see the shine of tears in the old man’s eyes. ...“Once. So you see, Jon, I do know … and knowing, I will not tell you stay or go. You must make that choice yourself, and live with it all the rest of your days. As I have.” His voice fell to a whisper. “As I have …”

There’s nothing he could have done and he knows it. AND YET. How do you justify to yourself hiding out at the Wall in safety while children of your house are slaughtered? How do you make your peace with it? You can’t! Love is the death of duty!! Aemon doesn’t ever make peace with it! He spends the last days of his life hating himself for being so old, being unable to help Dany, reaching out for the brother he’s long lost in his dreams. I think being murdered by his men, after months of arguing with them, of trying to get them to put aside their shitty little beef with the wildlings and focus on the real threats to their safety, and the knowledge that “Arya” is ALIVE OUT THERE, it’s all going to massively change his priorities. When you factor in the girl in gray turning out to be Sansa (don’t boo me i’m right!!)…I don’t think he’s going to hem and haw about being a brother of the night’s watch, I think he’s taking his shit, and he’s getting the fuck out of dodge.

But when it comes to his state of mind…again, I’ve come around to the idea that Jon is going to be resurrected 100% due to Northern type magic, and not anything Melisandre is doing. I’m willing to be wrong on this one btw, I do think there’s still a shot some funky magic brings him back but I think with all the build up to Jon actively warging, to accepting his magic, and opening his third eye, is in fact building up not just to Jon spending a long time in Ghost while his body is found and resurrected, but that his body will HEAL while he’s not in it the way Bran’s does, and he comes back to an injured but on the mend body.

If he’s waiting around for his body to heal though, he’s going to be spending a hot minute inside Ghost & greenseeing. Possibly longer than Bran did. I think like Bran, he’ll have his own mini vision quest as he wanders and sleeps in ghost’s body - and I think he’s going to find out Bran is still alive. See, Bran figures out that Robb is dead through a green dream, then buries the memory-

The dream he'd had . . . the dream Summer had had . . . No, I mustn't think about that dream. He had not even told the Reeds, though Meera at least seemed to sense that something was wrong. If he never talked of it maybe he could forget he ever dreamed it, and then it wouldn't have happened and Robb and Grey Wind would still be . . .

And we know Summer is aware of his scattered siblings, dwelling on them often. I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility that the connection works the other way. We also know Bran is still dwelling on his family, with his weirwood dreams focusing on Ned. Similar to Aemon, similar to Jon’s whole story, Bran struggles in balancing his love for his family with what he feels is his duty. Not only that but imo there’s a lot of connections between Jon and Bran when it comes to magic. Jon is the only character we see saying goodbye to Bran, which has always stuck out to me. Bran also attempts to open Jon’s third eye before Robb (presumably - i think if bran was talking to robb in his dream, he would have brought it up) Sansa, Arya, or Rickon (again, presumably).

It seemed to sprout from solid rock, its pale roots twisting up from a myriad of fissures and hairline cracks. The tree was slender compared to other weirwoods he had seen, no more than a sapling, yet it was growing as he watched, its limbs thickening as they reached for the sky. Wary, he circled the smooth white trunk until he came to the face. Red eyes looked at him. Fierce eyes they were, yet glad to see him. The weirwood had his brother's face. Had his brother always had three eyes?

Not always, came the silent shout. Not before the crow…. Don’t be afraid, I like it in the dark. No one can see you, but you can see them. But first you have to open your eyes. See? Like this. And the tree reached down and touched him.

And Bran has that near miss where he and Jon are in the same places at the same time, with Bran running into Sam & Gilly. Additionally, we get all those scenes with Mormont’s crow doing weird stuff and we have no idea if it’s Bloodraven or Bran - it’s very possible Bran At Some Point In Time has been trying to get Jon’s attention for a long time.

All of that to say I think there’s a build up to Jon and Bran being the first Starklings to reunite, but not in body, just in mind! While trapped in Ghost’s body greendreaming about his thought to be dead brother, Bran will have the opportunity to jumpstart Jon’s magic the way his was, and Jon will realize Bran is still alive - potentially even exchanging important information about the Others, Winterfell, and Jon’s real parents…Both boys return to their bodies, turn to the people they’ve sworn their lifetimes to and go “actually fuck this shit and fuck you too” and try to leave.

Try, being the operative word here, of course.

[batsplat]

What race is doomed by the narrative / not for long at or before omggggg

(text posts here) catalunya 2007!! here's other photos from the presser

and the presser photo:

some nice sweet photos in their own right, valentino chatting up casey and all that. but as readers of this parish will presumably be aware, catalunya 2007 also just happens to be one of the best races in that particular rivalry. it's the kind of race that is basically valentino's speciality - a one-on-one duel that goes on for much of the race and culminates in a final lap showdown. (dani is right behind this duel for much of the race, but never manages to involve himself.) at montmelo, no less, where valentino has won big dramatic duels with sete (x2), with jorge, with marc... hell, he even won a duel with casey for p2 in 2008. this is the kind of race that over the course of his premier class career, valentino has lost extremely rarely - the list basically reads sete gibernau, toni elias and casey stoner. it doesn't really happen!! catalunya 2007 is where casey proves himself as a serious threat... at qatar you could argue that ducati/bridgestone carried casey to success, superior on the long straight to valentino's yamaha/michelin combination. at catalunya, it's quite the opposite - michelin was strong that weekend, and the fast and twisty layout has generally suited the yamaha rather nicely over the years. this was a very tight duel won on merit

because casey is an insufferable contrarian, he has gone around generally downplaying the importance of that duel, saying it wasn't his best race of the year ('it doesn't stay in my memory' shuuuuut uuuuuuuuup) and also doing his whole 'I don't care about who I beat' schtick (liar). luckily, everybody else has summarily ignored him on this - it's a beloved race for a reason, and one where casey really establishes himself as the rival. and, well, if we're talking about casey having traits to foil valentino... it feels like it isn't a coincidence that valentino has quite so many dramatic late stage duels at this particular track. my guess is that it's the tyre-munching characteristics of the circuit that play into his approach. it's a race track that's all about preserving tyres, of managing races to still have enough tyre late on - in the heat of montmelo, the track becomes particularly slippery and the bike considerably less stable under the rider. valentino tends to be better later in races anyway, generally preferring harder tyre compounds (in part because of his height and weight) and prioritising lasting pace over immediate speed. his ability to focus even when exhausted (something jorge recently talked about), his quick-thinking and precision with the bike in those conditions generally helped him pull off something a little special very late in races

except unfortunately for valentino, much of the stuff I just said is true of casey too. from casey's autobiography (this is about qatar 2006, more on that race here, but for reference catalunya 2007 is the hottest race of the year):

Qatar was always a good race for us because of the hot conditions, the tyres would overheat causing the bike to move around a lot more, and that suited me. I enjoyed racing in the heat but because of my lack of sleep and the hectic flight my sickness started to get worse again.

(admittedly they did both at times look rather worse for wear after these hot races even though they were GOOD at them. casey quite dramatically so but he has his myriad of health issues to point to, valentino just kinda wilted. both rather sensitive to the conditions bless)

which, again - unfortunate for valentino, right. this was kind of his thing in duels, and now baby casey comes along and also happens to be extremely good at the exact same thing as valentino is. big win for narrative foils - if in quite a practical competitive way

the other element is a rather more sweeping analysis of their rivalry, and admittedly this is a particular bit of narrative foil-ing where valentino ended up having an answer to casey. because this race proved something else to valentino: gone were the days where he could sit on his rivals' rear tyre all race and force them into a mistake. casey was too oblivious to what was happening behind him, too self-possessed, too confident, too unscarred... and the problem is, this is basically valentino's whole playbook. this is what he does! he exerts pressure, pressure, more pressure... he makes rivals crack. this is who he is as a competitor and he has come up against his match (x)

now. uh. obviously we do have to note for context here that... I pulled this text from a write-up of laguna 2008. which does involve valentino changing the script of the rivalry in rather dramatic a fashion. but the point is that he had to!! just as casey learnt so much from valentino, valentino had to also learn from casey - in some ways imitate him to beat him. I talked about this dynamic a bit here, but again - isn't this text evocative

'turning the doctor's usual tactics against the old master' 'flattered by such attention, rossi returned the compliment, looking positively stoneresque' that's what we in the business call narrative foils, baby

so you've got these two warring elements, right - the ways in which casey clearly does have traits that foil valentino... but also how valentino ensures that casey is just a little bit doomed by the narrative himself. obviously it's been a bit of a recurring theme of the discussion of this rivalry in this parish that valentino just happens to represent every possible way you could torture casey in one neat package. another theme is that casey was forced to learn from valentino whether he wanted to or not - something he reiterates so often that at a certain point, you should maybe just take him at his word. from the post linked to above:

obviously this post has focused on catalunya 2007 and the more... practical elements of how casey and valentino function as each other foils, the competitive picture. you can dig in further into the ambition vs talent theme that crops up throughout their rivalry (see here), look at catalunya 2007 within the context of their rivalry as a whole (here), or look more broadly at how valentino functions as a foil/shadow to casey - how casey learnt to fight valentino off the track as well as on it (here)

but the point is that they DO manage to complement each other so well, at times make each other better and at times make each other a whole lot worse. (certainly they do bring out the pettiest in each other the way nobody else can, unsure if that's a good thing.) and catalunya 2007 is one of the key races to symbolise that dynamic

and... well, obviously there's one aspect of that race that I've failed to mention. first off, while we're already here, let's get valentino congratulating casey after the race in a valiant attempt to beat the 'became a sore loser after qatar' allegations (no head rub, 0/10):

more importantly, catalunya 2007 has been featured before in a previous edition of the text posts, though I'm not quite sure if people picked up on it. here's the text post accompanied by another photo of that handshake

which more generally refers to casey's role in that rivalry - valentino is the god of motogp, at times explicitly referred to as such, and casey is the heretic who dares to challenge him and even dares to win. who is resented by many for his accomplishments, all while failing to be quite what the motogp world wants him to be. casey is denying valentino. BUT this is also a specific reference to one of the top tier valentino quotes about casey:

He is very, very strong, very young - a great talent who rides without many problems. He is riding like a god!

and he also separately said this:

having also dubbed casey a 'devil' after turkey 2007:

and after shanghai 2008:

and even 2011:

valentino has on at least one other occasion used the devil epithet for another rider, so it's not a completely casey exclusive thing... but, well, pretty close yeah! and isn't it just FUN when we're talking rivalries and narrative foils and all the rest of it to have valentino come along, this bloke who is seen as a god by much of the world of motogp - to have him essentially anoint casey to the pantheon himself in the way he describes casey. 'rarely guilty of making an understatement' is fair, perhaps, but valentino doesn't generally talk about his rivals like this. it's a casey thing! that's why they're such great rivals and foils, right - casey's talent versus valentino's ambition, this lovely dramatic contrast between two blokes who are so strikingly similar on some dimensions and violently different on others. truly two of the best to ever do it

anyhow, I shall leave you with the podium photo. casey always was the one enemy valentino made sure to stick close to

[booksiboo]

I like to write! So here are my favourite creations as avatars bc- I LOVE THEM.

The Siren. Avatar of the web. (Monologue!)

"Well you are.. you're alive, better than most who visit but still boring.. and Jonah Dearest told me you'd be interesting.. I hope he didn't lie..

Hm? Well, in all honesty, I didn't think either of you would make it. Most don't and you're hardly good at survival, though I suppose you've had help from the Watcher.. hm?

Now.. enough baseless mumbling, you want a statement, don't you? I'll waste no more time.

It's a strange thing, the ocean. Though I'm sure many would contest this, I find it truly beautiful, the way it only offers a simple answer of obscurity. The way it rids you of the control people try so desperately cling onto like it's the only thing people can grasp at. Truth be told, it's the only thing they don't have when it comes to the great unending blue. Each fear takes its piece of the ocean, every death is another for the end or the desolation, and each drowning falls to the vast or the buried, though the implosion of that submarine was quite interesting to divvy up. The Buried wanted to claim it, since it has been starved for food for many a century, since coffin bells were made, it has been rather difficult to bury someone alive you see, but in the end, like most useful things, it came to the great puppeteer. The creature of stolen control, the monster of manipulation. Many names it has acquired over the past millennia, as has the rest of them. Recently, I've heard it referred to as the Mother, but I have always had a soft spot for Puppeteer. Just like how the Eye has preferred Watcher to Beholding. It's all just curiosity turned cruel, like many things. I suppose I could tell where I am from, but it would mean nothing to you. Well, not quite nothing.. but still, not far off. Your uncertain knowledge makes it difficult to tell you anything. Like I said, Elias told me you were interesting, but that doesn't make you smart enough to find your way out of the web you brought yourself to, out of your own senseless curiosity.

How fun, it felt interesting to be uncertain as to what I would say for a moment! But, alas, here is where we part. Enjoy finding your way out, even The Watcher finds that part difficult, though I am sure you'll get there.

Farewell, parvum archivum.

NEXT AVATAR.

The Executioner. The end. (Monologue)

"Ah. Jon is it? I suppose by now you've met Oliver, and I wouldn't want to waste the great Archives time, now would I? After all, we have such a limited amount, all things considered.

I know, I know, so very insensitive of me. None the less, I would ask of you that you don't force a statement out of me, I am being quite considerate of your dear friend and I do believe he'd find it rather uncomfortable to witness. So, now we are acquainted, I am quite certain you'd like to know at least one thing... Whose afraid of me? Who is afraid of death?

No. No. The answer is dual. No-one is afraid of just death, but everyone holds it in their mind. Cold and unforgiving, it will find you."

AND THAT IS ALL. If you like these characters, then I am working on a fantasy podcast with them in it! Feel free to ask any questions about it! <3

[horizon-verizon]

I think George dont realised what happen to season 2 was a butterfly effects from season 1 yet George still praising season 1, he actually did similar with his complain about Targ sigil, isnt he too late for that? That four legs was already there since season one (Harry Llyod costume), if George still enjoying season 1 and can separate them with his book why can't he do that with the following season they never intent to follow his story btw.

What GRRM was trying to say in the dragons post was what he continues and expounds on in his Maelor/Sophie's Choice post: if you mess with the most critical, moving parts of the plot, you're going to strip the story of its meaning AND empty yourself of logical lines towards future events. that's what anon's referring to.

Well, anon, in that dragons post, GRRM didn't give examples [that had the, in my opinion, very necessary and well warned spoiler] and didn't explain what he meant by "Fantasy needs to be grounded.   It is not simply a license to do anything you like. Smaug and Toothless may both be dragons, but they should never be confused.  Ignore canon, and the world you’ve created comes apart like tissue paper."

What's different now, anon, is exactly what he said in his post, anon: they are messing with VERY CRITICAL MOMENTS that have to do with the end of the war itself; they crossed a particular line in the telling of the story itself, something that should, at all costs, be retained in the show for the ending (Maelor). This isn't about costumes or anything that could be easily reshaped into a "close-enough" storyline, esp bc Jaehaera NEEDS to make it to the end of the Dance and no she cannot replace Maelor. No, she cannot become Aegon's heir; bc the greens were steadfast abt it having to be a boy, having the succession go through males, thus stick to their own guns/reason for going into the war in the first place and going towards their fall. And this part abt Jaehaera, again, is not even the thing GRRM was talking abt out the post.

It's like asking someone to be happy with someone making Nymeria have mostly men instead of women in her group of Rhoynar-rescued; like having the Mountain not kill Elia Martell and her kids, which leads to Oberyn going after the Mountain, which goes into the acceleration of the Dornish plot against the Lannisters going on right now. At least, this is the thing he notes. And he's entitled to expressing what he sees and observes are not-great changes to his story when he see/observes them. As we all are when we're looking at something created for us to watch/read; with him, the actual writer, he has even more "right" to.

In season 1, he also wasn't promised (seemingly) something would happen and then that thing then not happening, as what was the deal with Maelor and Ryan promising Maelor would exist.

the following season they never intent to follow his story btw.

This is conversation of the definition and parameters of "adaptation", but first, GRRM was basically giving us an extended....not metaphor but an extended parallel of what he [the guy who wrote this story for anyone to adapt or not] thinks are the most important elements of the story; and he chose dragon legs likely bc it was one of the most incentivizing amongst many fandoms, he takes great pride in his reasoning for those legs; he wishes to express to his/the show's fans an arm of care and relation towards changes eh doesn't think production or execs should or had to cut or distort BEFORE he he heard of HBO's plans to produce it and when he met with the producers/Condal about it.

Because--before that ill-fated post--from how GRRM writes abt HotD, even when he's positive, it gives off the impression that he's never in the actual writer's room despite how many fans argued that he was and had to have been as an exec producer (that must have been awkward for those fans upon seeing GRRM demonstrate how wrong that notion was). If he's not in the writer's room or has proper authority, all he can really do is sit back and watch the product...maybe a little earlier tha most, but still, he's not involved and he's reacting and thinking about the show.

Anyway, what, anon, do you think entails an adaptation "following" a story? How closely or far from the original plot would you say is "too far", when it finally becomes something that is not the actual story anymore but an invention by those who want to make a completely different story? And does this actually sound like an adaptation? Or a fanfic?

Definitions:

adaptation: a composition rewritten into a new form, or to fit a different medium; a screen adaptation of a novel fanfic: stories written about TV, film, or book characters by their fans (= people who admire them); stories formed from existing, usually published material with a plethora/array of possible interpretations of the source materials present themes, characterizations, etc./the purpose of creating fan material for the sake of personal enjoyment

HotD was always going to be more fanficy sorta thing bc it is a hotly debated section of a history book IN YERMS OF THR MIST INTIMATE OF RVENTS AND DETAILS BETWEEN CHARACTERS; however, like what historians and history books have always tried to do and continue to do so, F&B is container if actual firsthand records as eell as secind hand. There ARE more probable and likely options of situations the history book creates for us to....not "solve" but piece out when it comes to possible biases, and some claims by some narrators are very easy to mark as false.

And what you piece out will be very much a reflection of how you view certain behaviors, characters, ideas, AS WELL AS you actual knowledge of what inspires GRRM, why it does, why we care abt those things (I'm talking real history) what the lore of the world Rhaenyra and the rest are in. I'm talking laws, how some people view some of them and how they will twist them to their own emds. And most of all, as I already said, somethings without a doubt...precisely bc it i IS a history book, happened. And some of those need NEED to be on screen for the end to make any sort of sense the way it was intended to.

But I also think he's hopeful abt Ryan making some script changes from his very rare assertiveness.

I also think that this is all part of a reckoning with the different degrees people are willing to tolerate the "inventive" adaption that really changes the source material that many have not actually read or understood; some want the adaptation to match as close as possible to the orig (a lot of book readers), other don't care how far away the story gets from the org, others are in an undefined but just as variant "middle".

[8unknowndoee]

!!!!!!! MAGNUS PROTOCOL SEASON 1 EPILOGUE SPOILERS !!!!!!!!!

So, I want to scream. Forever- preferably into the black hole / universal brain altering horrific beauty that is the reality wound.

The next few paragraphs should be proceeded with caution- I might have actually gone insane while writing this and you can tell by the strange paste and everything as it slowly goes down and drowns with other t.v. show references because my mind was racing.

So, I guess don't read if you don't want random unimportant references to Gravity Falls, Teen Wolf and My Babysitter's a Vampire.

Okay, first off. I both live in fear and excitement for the OIAR under Gwen's leadership because she is clueless. She is in the same position of power as Elias as in Archives but the exact opposite on everything else. She has no clue of the horrors that are truly around her, the few externals she has met is nothing in comparison to what Lena must know- to what Elias knew. Unlike Elias, Bastard of the Eye, his eyes are wide open to everything.

Gwen? Gwen has her eyes shut closed tightly and those few moments with the externals she spent was just her squinting at the bright light of horror that the actual world she lives in is. She doesn't even know what to do now that she is appointed Lena's position, she's just waiting there, tapping her nails away on her desk. She doesn't have a clue on what to do. She might have honestly aimed for a position of power she had no clue about, she just wanted the position and maybe the power that came with it within the OIAR without clearly seeming to think through what Lena might have been doing behind closed doors.

She's floundering and maybe if things had been alright, she could have learned slowly- if not in its own spectacularly horrible way but now? Now? Now is actual hell, Sam and the Archivist, in their eyes, presumably died. Colin is most likely dead inside their own work room's servers. The only one who may have had some sort of clue was fired and gone, leaving someone who has their eyes shut leading it all and we still don't know what Teddy might bring to the table.

Also, about the Colin ending, he might actually be dead or that ending became the most fucked version of Soos crawling into the arcade game machine in the world- it'll be that episode of My Babysitter's a Vampire where Rory was taken over by the sentient tree's crossbreed roots of electronic and plant life except it's all in one server machine rather then a school's computer room and crossbreed of him rather then plant life. Which is horrifying if he's still aware.

Which, Hello?

Did the Freddie Program do this separate to the three voices within it, just a machine that has been corrupted in a way similar to the tape recorder being able to bite? Did Jon? Martin? Jonah? Some fucked sense mix of the three's consciousness trying to move things along? Will Jon, who has been shown to place his hands into things via emails and specifically placed statements, send Gwen emails as a way to guide her into doing what he wants, guide Alice or Celia into something else?

In a fucked up sense will Jon become the Eye to this group of people, except more hands on? Will he be something similar to the Web and the Eye in the way where he isn't just watching as the Eye had but also playing a part in it well enough to pull strings along?

Is Jon building his own web of manipulations and schemes in this world, to become a later antagonist? Are the other two aware of this?Is Jon aware of this? I might actually go insane with how many random thoughts my brain is just coming up with as I write this.

Colin- Colin. My bastard, I'm in pain because we saw so little of him, less than Sasha which is why I'm leaving that horrified ending scream not as a 'he's dead!' and more of an horrifying open-ending of Colin pulling a Corey being part of the train stations's electrical manufacturing in Teen Wolf- like, it would be horrifying if he's alive let alone aware of everything that is happening but anything to make the problems here even larger. Colin fighting Jon literally from the inside.

Finally, the smallest but biggest thing of the whole Epilogue, Sam. He's alive! Hadn't doubted that because main character but what of the Archivist- what of the world they landed in? Is it our post-apocalypse world of Magnus Archives or new, crueler/kinder world? The tape recorder is there and we heard from it so we will hear from Sam still in this new world along with those in the OIAR within the computers, phones and lines.

I'm passing out now, the black hole / universal brain altering horrific beauty that is the reality wound has been screamed into.

[tibialtybalt]

MAG 4 - Page Turner

Episode that has literally everything in it let's go

Dominic Swain doesn't know that every statement giver spends the first half of the statement talking about their job and it's the best part of the episode. Come on man

I want to draw the woodcuts........... It would be a fun experiment

That is a crazy dangerous mishap. Xenon-mercury lights like??

Oddly enough, I somehow hadn’t learned any more Latin since I bought it twelve hours before

Lol

The only thing I found that looked even remotely relevant was a listing on eBay from 2007. The auction was titled “Key of Solomon 1863 owned by MacGregor Mathers and Jurgen Leitner” and had been won for just over £1200 by a deactivated user – grbookworm1818.

Smiles so sneetly over this.

WHY would Leitner commission people to bind them 😭😭 he sucks so bad

Walking felt as natural as falling.

Really really good sentence

Hi Mary

Gerry art <3 tmagp I love you

Dominic is so lucky to encounter 2 leitners and be hurt by neither of them. Why does bro only have contact with the 2 safest ones

Well I guess ex altiora almost ate him just now. But still

MIKE 🫵 hi Mike

Hi Gerry ^-^ hiiiii

Wait I don't know my timelines at all is this before or after MAG 12. Bc he burns himself later and goes "eh I've had worse" which is surely referring to 12? But Dominic doesn't mention his sick tats. Maybe Dom just doesn't think they're that distinctive lmao.

Poor Gerry :(

Ugh he's so cool

Bro stole Dominic's trash? Or did he put it down again before leaving.

If Jon were 9% less professional he would be reciting the leitner rant rn. I will do it off the dome in his name after I finish listening

Given that she was Head Archivist for over fifty years, then that is… This might be a bigger job than I originally thought.

Lol........

Martin couldn’t find any records of Ex Altiora as a title in existent catalogues of esoteric or similar literature, so I assigned Sasha to double-check.

LOl.......

true Leitner tome

WHAT is his deal man. Tome? Tome????

Still, all the other books from his library have been custom editions of known texts on dæmonology or the arcane. If there are Leitners out there that we haven’t even heard of, I fear that may be cause for some small alarm.

ME WHEN I LIEEEEE oh Jon buddy my love my friend. Bestie. Beloved. Is this helping? Are you winning? Grisps him

We’ve also been unable to locate Gerard Keay at all. Aside from this encounter, he seems to have almost entirely disappeared following the end of his trial.

Huh. I guess all the info about him would be hidden in the tunnels?

He brings it up with Elias. Ouuaagghhh. What do you think that conversation went like.

Okay the episode has ended. So. This one's for you Jon and Gerry

JURGEN LEITNER? STUPID IDIOT MOTHERFUCKING JURGEN LEITNER GODDAMN FOOL BOOK COLLECTING DUST EATING RAT OLD BASTARD SHITHEAD IDIOT AVATAR OF THE WHORE. BIGGEST CLOWN IN THE CIRCUS COWBOY MOTHERFCUKING JURGEN LEITNER. STOP PINNING ME WHEN I TALK ABOUT JURGEN LEITNER! I HATE HIM SO MUCH WHY DOES HE HAVE SO MANY FUCKED UP BOOKS WHY DID HE DECIDE TO FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT JUST SET THEM LOOSE! IS HE DEAD? IS HE A BASTARD? MAN HAS SUCH A VISCERAL AFFECT ON ME NOT EVEN IN THE ROOM NEVER SEEN THIS MANS FACE AND I ALREADY KNOW HE HAS THE WORLDS SHITTIEST BEARD GET AWAY FROM ME. IF I DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN AND GOD SAID JURGEN LEITNER WAS WAITING INSIDE I WOULD PISS ON GODS FEET FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF BEING SENT BACK DOWN IF I HAVE TO HEAR HIM SAY ONE WORD ON VOICE IN PERSON ON PODCAST I WILL NOT ONLY CLOSE THE TAB I WILL DELETE MY BOOKMARK OUT OF SPITE AND HAVE TO RELISTEN TO THE ENTIRE PODCAST FROM THE BEGINNING WITH THE JOY OF BEING ABLE TO SKIP ALL THE PARTS WHERE HE IS MENTIONED OR ALIVE I don't even know why I hate him so much. He collects books I am just mad because I am angyI don't remember the rest sorry

[hellostarposts]

Episode 44 - Tightrope

Yuri Utkin

Going to Russia in the 50s, Iron Curtain

GERTRUDE!!!

Wait wait wait

Isn't this the grandfather? Like the calliope and dolls grandfather

Went back and checked not the grandfather but two Russians going to the circus? Not a coincidence.

Steam organ. I’m fucking on to you!

Is the tiger a puppet?

It’s definitely a puppet.

“The tiger isn't finished” soooo a puppet

Flamboyant man in a red coat.

They kidnap children “we haven’t lost one yet”

Freakshow

What kind of human experiments did this kid witness?

I can’t realistically give a kid shit for going into the tent.

The clowns are throwing hands literally. 

I bet that the audience isn’t seeing what is actually happening.

Ivan is going to have to cross the tightrope

Is this like a fear fed entity?

The father is going to be pissed, for no good reason.

Yearly nightmares are somehow worse.

Gregor Orsinov

The whiplash that I got from Gertrude knowing what the fuck is happening so quickly made my already existing whiplash hurt.

I dislike how she goes about it just assuming that everyone knows what she is talking about. But also, how very professor of her. 

Supplemental

Why are you continuing to throwing shade at the dead lady who obviously knew more than you

Probably because she decided to not fuck around with this shit. It still got her killed but like, she didn’t munched on by worms. 

Ooo someone is snooping. Probably Elias but Jon will accuse Martin.

And now we have a reference to the lovely bones.

I feel like Jon is going to get increasingly bitter as he listens to more of Gertrude’s tapes. So far she hasn’t come off as the person to help others out in connecting dots. And I was like partially right, same circus, different Russian man being impacted by it. A new worse thought than the tiger being a puppet has occurred. It’s a dead child inside the body of a tiger. I have no explanation for it but like maybe if the chosen child dies they get experimented on. Because why else would Gertrude say that there must have been something special about the boy. Gregor Orsinov is very obviously important. Now I’m going to take a wild guess, when R read my notes they told me that the “two guys with cockney accents” are important and I should have clocked it. Are they the two guys who grabbed and dragged Yuri to his father? 

Okay self correction, how dumb can I be. Dead kids do become puppets because when the friend/bf died in Strange Music he showed up as a doll. Which would mean that the freakshow tent inhabitants are failed ones. Why not just kill them? Somehow, the calliope is the catalyst for it to take place and I can’t connect the dots right now. Sent R a video yapping about it, I think it’s got to be like a time rift situation. It’s not close enough to the regular pocket dimension so the calliope is just messing with time/reality while its being played.

[samobservessonic]

I know it’s supposed to be that they’re running back across the bridge, but this accidentally looks like the others are just kind of walking away because they got fed up of Knuckles and Trogg fighting

No Morain, what you need to understand is that he’s Sonic & Knuckles. Get it?? (I’m sorry that I keep making this tired joke)

We get what I assume is an unintentional parallel to when Sonic knocked Robotnik off the Floating Island and felt bad about it, as Knuckles does exactly this with knocking Trogg off the bridge into the no-dimension soup. I’m counting this as a SonKnux hint - the couple that has heroic regrets together stays together

Everyone made it home safely! Once again, I wish I knew if the Enchanter Kings are gay, buddies or related, because depending on the answer to that depends on if I can joke about one of them making bedroom eyes at the other one lol

Knuckles is still having a great time going along with the joke, even if Morain is onto him at this point

But then… but then… Errol’s back!! He’s safe! Generic fantasy twunk fox guy, my beloved! He’s back again, so I can stop planning my fan comic about how he gets turned back to normal

Thank you to everyone for not spoiling this for me. I know it’s tempting to tell me stuff sometimes, but I’m grateful to be able to discover these early stories without spoilers. Honestly, I was convinced that Errol stayed a monster, because for some reason I thought Morain angsts about that later on. But he’s here and thus my headcanon that he at some point dated Elias Acorn from Archie Sonic can continue

I love how Morain takes one second to be glad her brother is safe and then goes right back to “No wait, I’m still angry”

Speaking of still angry, Trogg somehow survived becoming nothing

He tells them that he just managed to hold onto the rope and now he’s back for revenge. But before that can happen, he keels over like a guy who’s just been tossed out of the village pub

…Turns out he did change back, it just took longer! So now we have our third Enchanter King, who I think was called Shirob? Regardless, I’ll just be lumping him in with the other Enchanter Kings for my tagging system now and dropping the Trogg tag. Oh, and I guess these kings are categorically “companions”. That’s still vague enough I can joke about them being "roommates" while confirming they’re not related to each other - hooray!

Aww, Shirob has a nice smile! And with Morain’s question remaining unanswered, the duo head off back home. I also like the tongue-in-cheek reference to how many letters they get asking for these characters, with Kitching saying that angry Tails fans should write in about Knuckles being the one to get the next solo story. But there’s no shortage of StC comics for both of these characters in future, so nothing to worry about there

So yeah, I really like this story. I mean, obviously I like the Nameless Zone stuff, I’m pretty transparent about that. But now that Morain’s here, it feels like that cast is complete. Not to mention that my boy Errol gets to be saved and even though Trogg was great, now that he’s defeated I guess we’ll have to see what other enemies the Nameless Zone has to offer next time Tails visits

But wow, Tails has missed a lot in the main plot, huh?