#i think that eira probably sees her as such and also i definitely think that pete seems stabbier than eira

[catsteeth]

Do you plan on doing anything with the twins from TCB&TLD? Like a second series with them? If so do you have a facecast/face claim for the twins???? Im so sad this series is ending sorry !!!!!!!!

So- yes. and… no(?) and also yes.

I plan on doing updates on their story. Probably going to be far into the future (10 years or so). You’ll definitely see the twins in that and get a bit of their actual personalities. In terms of face casting, I do have people in mind. (Keep in mind they are fraternal twins)

Eira is meant to look like her mom so this is subjective to each reader!! But… I kind of thought of Eira as her character in Ondine. She has a hair color very very similar to Sandor’s so i think it works.

Jon is supposed to like Sandor but a bit prettier lol. It is so perfect that Tom Taylor was cast in HOTD bc we can see the vision.

[pantherlover]

A Local Habitation Re-Read: Part 3

Hello again! As always, these commentaries are not spoiler free, and please come talk to me about stuff! It's way more fun that way!

Chapter Eight:

I keep forgetting how much I loved Toby having Tybalt's jacket. (Also lol at Toby going 'the scent of Tybalt's magic comforting for some reason. This is for sure a thought that I don't need to dwell on Ever')

I really like the idea of inanimate objects having Opinions about being enchanted. It feels like an offshoot of knowes being alive.

I would love to know more about Dryads and whether April having control over how old she presents herself (at least I assume she does; I know she looks older at the end of this book, and I'm pretty sure she looks younger again when January gets brought back) is a Dryad thing or a being part computer thing.

Everything that Toby says about how the Daoine Sidhe are viewed is really interesting given that we now know that she's not one. She says that they're mostly known for being bloodworkers, but I think for most of the series they're better known for their illusions (and for overwhelmingly being the ruling nobility)? I wonder if she thinks that Daoine Sidhe are more associated with bloodworking originally because that's what she and Amandine are associated with.

Relatedly, she says that the Daoine Sidhe 'didn't sign up for the position of "most likely to handle your corpses"'; given what we know about Eira now, I don't think that's true at all. Considering how often Eira (and all of her children) were responsible for death, it actually makes a lot of sense that they'd be able to steal a person's secrets/memories after killing them. (That's SUCH a grim thought; that after a taking a person's life, Eira would be able to take from them anything they wouldn't give her)

Chapter Nine:

Okay, their (probably specially designed) security cameras were turned off, the bodies had wounds that were likely made with the machine *they* were designing, and Toby tells them that the blood no longer contained memories - you know, the thing that they were specifically trying to do - and it still took them THREE MORE DEATHS to admit what might be involved in killing people?? They are putting *effort* into being in denial about this.

Toby always worries that she broke Quentin when he charges head first into danger, but he's asking to stay and help roughly 30 seconds after seeing his second and third bodies, so I don't think Quentin's self-preservation was as well developed as she tells herself it was.

Chapter Ten:

I don't think Gordon's actually too bad at diverting suspicion from herself, although she does hit 'the lady doth protest too much' levels a couple times. The most suspicious thing about her is probably that she's never the first person to find the body.

I love April kinda-sorta conveying appropriate emotions (presumably to optimize people's responses to her requests) but not quite caring enough to seem genuine.

Chapter Eleven:

It's weird for Toby to not automatically arm herself. I give her a lot of grief for her lack of common sense, but I will admit that there are lessons that she's learned.

Although Toby definitely shouldn't be giving anyone shit over not being sensible.

'Three of us jumped at every shadow, while Gordon just walked blindly on.' Okay, that's also really suspicious. I know none of them are great at staying in pairs, but everyone other than Gordon was at least a little bit nervous about it. Gordon being the only one to point out that being in pairs isn't helpful if one of them is the murderer also feels a little ironic, like she's thought it through more than everyone else because she had to. I might just be projecting a bit on that because I know she's the murderer though.

I feel like this situation where April has to be rebooted is demonstrating a flaw in their plan to digitize everybody. (Also, did anyone guess that Seanan McGuire would predict the Metaverse?) Even if you could digitize most of Faerie, *someone* still needs to be on the outside to make sure that the system is running. That's a lot of trust to put in someone to not just shut everything down and effectively kill everyone who was 'downloaded' onto the server.

It's possible that Toby was so bad at picking up clues in this situation because Alex's enchantments was making her more willing to dismiss anything suspicious.

That's it for now! Please feel free to come talk about things with me.

[sothas]

44, 71 for Nils/Eira?

hii thank you for the ask!! c:

44. Who's more likely to bring the other coffee or breakfast in bed?

eira!! nils is very much acts of service, for giving and receiving, but i think she’d struggle to wake up before eira.. though it means she can return the favour in the evening with dinner!! i think both would probably make hot drinks for each other throughout the day, but immediately forget about them half the time LOL

71. If someone were to insult their S/O, how would the other handle it?

nils would 100% be confrontational about it! i can’t see eira having it completely easy in mortal environments, being a daedra and all, so nils would definitely call people out if they’re shitty. she’d be smart about it, try and make them eat their words yknow?

eira would also be confrontational! she’s very emotionally intelligent so i can imagine her dealing with it in a similar way to nils, but also differently? i feel like she’d be more straightforward c:

with nils you could probably see her restraining her anger, whereas eira would most likely be calm, and the only indication of her emotion would be her eyes!

ask game can be found here!

[words-writ-in-starlight]

To be fair, I sincerely doubt Eira ''suggested'' to High King to send Quentin to Mists (and given what she is like, whenever she is talking to Daoine line between suggestion and brainwashing gets incredibly blurry) out of honest wish for Quentin's safety. She probably had some plan with him (or even worse, plan is still on going but we won't learn what it is until it's too late). Also rereading some things and I gotta give her: she has taste for dramatic decorating. I mean entrance to 1/2

Goldengreen is jumping off the cliff? I mean, that is just awesome and horribly trollish (unless it wasn't her who established that entrance, but Amandine. Honestly, Firstborn at their absolute best of sibling dynamics were ''turned in snake then stabbed me'' level.) 2/2

I mean, I’m assuming that whatever scheme Eira had re: Quentin’s blind foster was dependent on, A, being in a position to groom and manipulate the next High King (not so much, on account of how Toby got there first and turned him into a Noble Person and shit), or, B, having him hidden away somewhere so that he could be quietly bumped off and replaced with someone more biddable in the event that Plan A failed (also likely to be challenging, on account of how incredibly poorly concealed Quentin is).  Or, possibly C, in an attempt to consolidate her political sway into the Mists between the false queen, the heir to the Westlands, and multiple Firstborn, plus the entirety of the family line destined to save Oberon, all being in the same zip code, which might work better if, again, Toby wasn’t out there making friends and breaking thrones.

Eira just wants to fucking run the show and while I don’t find that to be a particularly interesting motivation, I can respect that she’s absolutely deadly in her pursuit of it.  She just might’ve gotten further in the Mists if Quentin didn’t look fucking identical to his father, which she should probably have seen coming.

(Also, Pete, when questioned by a curious and fearless Quentin: “Oh, yeah, Eira and I always hated each other’s guts, she never wanted to admit that the Merrow were worth anything.  One time I turned myself into a fish and when Eira came over to throw me into the water, because she hates fish, I turned back into myself and went ‘AHHHH’ and stabbed her.”)

(The Luidaeg, amused: “I love one (1) child of Titania.”)

[mymilkhasice]

Eira Hale vs Flint Solvieg

Oh boy I love vs debating (even when the characters don’t actually have any canon feats or anything)

Well for starters, this is going to be a pretty close ranged fight. It’s true that they both likely have some ranged attacks due to their magick but it’s still mostly going to come down to fist vs sword.

Now, here’s why I think Flint wins. For starters, we know that at some point he will be fighting Diana who uses a gun. Considering her abilities, I can say with confidence that Flint is definitely going to get shot multiple times meaning he is more than capable of shrugging off attacks that would pierce and cut him which is the main thing Eira would be trying to do since, ya know, sword. Eira likely would not have this same advantage seeing as most of his fights with Lance would be weapon to weapon and, considering what little we know of his backstory, Eira would already be trained to deal with this. Simply by comparing their training and experiences, we can see Flint has a clear advantage. (Also Flint is probably better at dealing with cold than Eira is with heat but that’s honestly a minute point)

[morethanaprincess-a]

I know this is quite a bit of time after I posted this meme, but I wanted to respond to all of the kind comments I received on the positivity meme when I really needed some last week! So I thought I’d save it for a Munday post, complete with pet tax beneath the cut. Mundays are better with pet tax, right?

@electricea

Thank you so much for your compliments, Jassi! I adore writing with you too, it’s so much fun coming up with new AUs for Ryuji and Sonia (and expanding on our established verses as well). You’re such a positive and encouraging person in the tumblr RPC and I’m pretty sure your dash agrees. Here’s to more IC adventures and me sending you ramen related news and saying “we’re working this into a thread, right? Right??”

Does Ryuji have the ramen pool float/raft already? Because that needs to happen.

@cadcnce

So uh, on a scale of 1-10 how mad will you be if I get a draft back to Eira by mid-week? To be fair, it’s not the same day please don’t point that gun at me

Joking (about what will likely happen on my dash) aside, I love writing with you and your many muses too! Bonus that we have plenty in common too, including being Old Muns with Old Mun Problems. Like roleplaying before tumblr and the fact that pogs are a bottle/milk cap game (I think I had close to 100 of them as an elementary school student, before I said I wanted beanie babies instead).

In short, I have so much fun both writing IC and just chatting about fandom and life OOC. Though the more I keep looking at Las Vegas-related things for RP research I’m just “Well, now I want to go and not gamble at all but do everything else.”

But I’ll finish with this: I do try to put my happiness first, and for me that’s when I’m writing every day and have a consistently-running queue. This is partly due to how organized I am about my work and my hobbies, and partly due to content creation and social media being a large part of my professional life. It’s not that tumblr RP is work, it’s that I can’t help but approach it, in a way, in a professional sense, taking in algorithms, patterns, activity, etc. into consideration. I look at a variety of statistics tumblr provides on my blog and often make judgement calls about content I post here that way.

It’s super nerdy and I know it. I also just can’t help it because it’s ingrained in me at this point: content planning, creation, calendars, analytics, etc. Pain for me is disorganization, a queue that isn’t updated, or answering asks/taking on more threads when I have replies I could write. 

@despairfiles​

Excuse me, every hour is Sin loving hours! Thank you so much for your encouraging feedback. You’re absolutely right: I’m definitely someone who likes to develop complex, long-term interactions over a variety of interesting situations. I know that can be frustrating sometimes with queued replies and wall-of-text replies, but it really is fun for me to show so much of a scene: the setting, the dialogue, the action, the thoughts and feelings. I tend to come up with most of my headcanons through threads at this point, too.

And I’m always going to say ‘challenge accepted’ when it comes to writing new stuff with Hajime and Shirou. If you feel compelled to bring Hajime back at some point I’m always here to write with you, and there’s so much story to tell with Sonia and Shirou too. I actually have a plot idea development for one of our verses on that front, I just haven’t put it into words yet!

Oh, and of course: Chatting OOC with you is one of the best parts of my day! Politics, spilling tea, me bemoaning that England lost Euro 2020 (the rest of the world doesn’t agree with me and I know it), you sharing your adorable dogs and wine sodas (I’m going to find the wine soda here. Somewhere.), agreeing that Lord El-Melloi II is a SNACC even if the fandom doesn’t agree with us, I adore it all. 

Seriously though I love him he is A++++ husbando material. This is where Sonia and I differ: she loves Shirou and I’m here just “He’s a professor who barely adults and realizes it is, indeed, a crisis when your favorite tearoom is closed. Husband material right here.”

@phantasmalcalamity​

Thank you so, so much for your compliments regarding my Sonia portrayal! That’s really nice of you! I’m not sure that my version is perfect by any means as plenty of people offer different takes on her, but I’m so glad you enjoy writing with her! Our Sonia/Gundham threads have been such a joy to write so far and I hope to continue and do more of them (without adding too much to your plate of course. I’m hoping you start feeling better, first and foremost!). You’re also wonderful to chat with OOC and I love seeing your costumes when you share them. It’s so cool having RP partners who are also cosplayers because you understand that unique struggle of “do I write drafts or do I work on costumes for upcoming con/event?”

I’m trying to balance both but it’s been interesting. Definitely after the fall cons/events I should have some more photoshoot stuff to share. I miss cons and photoshoots so much!

And as promised, some pet/life photo tax underneath the cut!

One of the two usual views I have when writing drafts/shitposting/chatting with you all on discord. Princess Molly received a new bed recently, befitting her royal status. She’s judging the quality of my drafts and wondering when she will be given pets.

And the other view I usually have while on tumblr. I’m missing Paris (and London. And Edinburgh. Let’s just put missing the U.K. and France in general here) quite a lot. I don’t know when I’ll get a chance to go back (probably whenever I go on my honeymoon), so I’m having a small taste of it at home. My family’s going next month, but work wouldn’t give me the time off to join them. 

The Laduree Marie Antoinette tea is my favorite version of the MA tea, and with shipping so expensive, it made sense to grab some macarons to go with it. 

I just miss Europe so much right now. Most of my off-tumblr friends are trying to plan trips to Japan next year, and I’m over here just “I actually miss Heathrow and Charles de Gaulle.”

[idontmeantosoundrudebut]

I've never really posted any of my fan art on here before so here is a collection of some of my HTTYD art haha lol

This is the first drawing I did after rewatching HTTYD 2 and I wanted to give Ruffnut a makeover so that bitch did get one! I gave her Zippleback shoulder armour things and I really think they missed an opportunity but hey, if everyone was a genius then I would be out of a job (bitch you got no job now the fuck you talking about)

Next up is a character design! As you Pagans may already know, I am abso-fucking-lutely besotted with our smol Snotlout and in my writings which are currently on hold due to my favourite seasonal festivity, um, uh Seasonal Depression :) this is Halla, Snotlout's Mother and because Hiccup and Snotlout are cousins in the majority of my AUs, she is also Valka's older sister. This idea came to me because Valka has beautiful blue eyes and well, our favourite bastard also has beautiful blue eyes. Halla is HEAVILY inspired by the Vikings character Lagatha, so she is obviously a great nearly legendary shield-maiden, and though my backstory for her isn't complete, I assume she takes little to no shit from assholes and most likely divorced Spitelout. (Because, by the Gods, he is THE Asshole™)

But he didn't always used to be an asshole. Haha lol bruh

Here we see a young Spitelout simping over a young Halla, who looks rather unimpressed at whatever bullshit he's throwing at her. Also IM simping over the young Stoick I drew because damn, I'd let him tie me up if he was looking at me like that

Um, Chile✨👁️👄👁️✨ anyways so-

Now here are my designs of the Riders parents when they were younger! I am rather poor at character designing and I am only capable at drawing heads and shoulders constantly (I ain't about no knees, toes or torsos)

So first is Siggy and Nuffnut. Now I've internally redesigned Siggy to be a complete replica of Floki from Vikings because I love him soo much and I just want to write about a character with that personality and humour. I haven't drawn her new style but I will soon, she looks too sane rn. But Nuffnut I like a lot. In all of my AU he dies when the twins are around twelvish I guess, probably in battle or something or other, which is why I think Tuffnut would lock his hair and get piercings to pay tribute to his dad.

Next on the roster is Fishback and Heidi. Fishback is like the opposite to Fishlegs besides their curiosity for knowledge and dragons, and Fishlegs gets his tenderness and all that stuff from his mother. That's really I got for these two.

Then Iric and Eira. Iric cannot cook and has a love for axes that is near obsessive, also the headband he's wearing is the one Astrid wears haha lol bruh. Eira is also a shield-maiden and Astrid is like her carbon copy, except Eira has brown eyes haha lol bruh.

And finally I did Spitelout and Halla. Really, Halla is just Berk's Baddie Bitch and Spitelout is just simp that got lucky.

I didn't do Stoick and Valka because fuck you that's why sorry I'm just really lazy bitch sack me haha lol bruh.

Now this is where you see my obsession over a certain smol man called Snotlout. Ee yikes. He's crying a lot because I am still really over Race to Fireworm island and y'all know the drill that if you have a favourite character, that bitch has got to suffer because you have to use someone to vent on bitch haha lol bruh. Theres two drawings on the same page that contradict each other where it's Spitelout being a good father at the bottom and being an abusive cunt at the top. I both am obsessed over redemption and revenge and I still can't choose which one Spitelout deserves. (Bitch probably revenge but okay)

Also for all the goes out there I did do some Eretlout because that shit is slept on. Hope you like haha lol bruh. Snotlout does give me bratty bottom vibes and is definitely a touch-starved bitch. Eret is also HENCH and Jesus, imagine that voice in the bedroom like oh lord im a boutta bust! Smol touch-starved bitch and Tol British-boi hunk. Proper nice proper bargain

I also gave RTTE Snotlout a redesign. Gave him scars, an emo-fringe and a little pony-tail thing. Haha lol Bruh

My favourite two are definitely Snotlout enjoying a nice flight with hiccup and toothless in back ground. And of course, the angriest picture I've ever drawn- SHEESH boo you mad! Betta be yo daddy you screaming at and I ain't talking about Eret. 👁️👄👁️

And there it is, my shitty fan art page haha lol bruh bye

[seawitchkaraoke]

Simon is actually Sylvester's fetch, here's why:

Points in favour:

- Simon's magic (cider and smoke) smells completely different from Sylvester's (daffodils and dogwood flower) but it could be argued that smoke and ashes aren't all that far apart and May's magic is ashes and cotton candy

- Sylvester according to Patrick never treated Simon right. Logical I guess not everyone would be as comfortable adopting their fetch as Toby is

- The Torquills have known Amandine for a VERY long time. Amandine can break the connection between fetches and the person who's death omen they're supposed to be

- simon does a lot of transfiguration magic. Transfiguration is water magic which is Maeve's terrain, the nighthaunts and therefore the fetches are claimed by Maeve (at least I think they are)

- when Eira influenced Sylvester he seemed to be entirely under her control not regretful about anything he was doing, not questioning it either, we also see this in Toby when Eira almost gets her. Yet Simon manages to have enough awareness to try and warn Toby, to try to save her by turning her into a fish rather than outright killing her, to give toby a regretful look as he puts a choking spell on tybalt and in the shortstory, to brew potions to ward himself against Eira's influence

- toby doesn't know exactly what kind of magic fetches are capable off. Simon is one hell of a sorcerer. We assume a lot of his magic is borrowed from Eira or other people and that may be true but it might also be covering up what he can do himself

Things that are problems but I can explain away anything try me:

- if he is a fetch toby should have smelled/tasted his heritage - simon may have a way to mask that plus I don't remember Toby ever being like "i could taste her fetch heritage in the air" or anything. Even if she did notice something she may have put it aside as the general fucked up ness that is simon

- toby should have seen it in his blood - toby only went far enough back to when he thought amandine was hor. Of he has been a fetch for as long as I think then he, at that point, wouldn't have been thinking about it much anymore

- the luidaeg didn't stop him from hurting tybalt - this os admittedly the biggest problem but she may not know he isn't daoine sidhe and therefore just have assumed she couldn't hurt him. We don't know exactly how her "don't hurt Titania's children" geas works after all

- simon and sylvester mention growing up together - yeah well sylvester did something stupid very early on and got some nighthaunt(s) to taste his blood. That or they're lying

- simon never once mentions or even alludes to it - if he's existed like this for so long it may be a hard habit to break to stop hiding it. That or he himself doesn't know, memory spells are probably a thing, Sylvester's parents might have adopted him and changed his memories and never told him

- he can do blood magic and May says she can't do blood magic - maybe may just hasn't figured it out yet (has she ever tried?) Plus anyone can steal someone else's power if they can make the blood charms or have someone to make them for them. Simon has had Eira to "help" for a long time

- why would eira even want him if he isn't daoine sidhe - fetches are rare and definitely useful and she used Oleander too who also wasn't daoine sidhe

In conclusion:

[lu-kiddos]

Some smol Things about the kiddos to give a better idea of them :)

(Unified and Child timelines bc I don't want to make this ridiculously long. The rest are gonna come tho!!)

Cirrus: Will absolutely nap on you. Stays up late then pays the price, but not by choice. Hums lullabies to herself. Good at giving hugs and comfort and advice. The mom friend for sure. Would probably be an essential oils person but like... not obnoxious. Lavender vibes? Lavender vibes. Does her best to be helpful and somehow manages to keep calm almost all the time. Adella: Storms and fire and wind. Out to cause problems on purpose and will not apologize for it. If she doesn't agree with a rule she'll go out of her way to break it whenever she can. Gullible but also a bit of a trickster. Once she has her mind set on something she will get it done. Robin: Sort of just along for the ride. Tends to get caught up in things and get carried away. Really sweet, she's here to make friends and help. Sometimes things that she doesn't mean slip out or things come out wrong and they bother her. Has most definitely committed arson before. Scared of heights but loves loftwings. Caera: The "oldest" of the Royal Quartet, and Eira's twin. Very sweet, loves to help. Doesn't get a whole lot of time to herself though. Tends to bend over backwards for others then not think about her own needs. A klutz, but a Responsible klutz. Not a smith like her siblings. Enjoys running errands for others. Makes plushies in her free time Eira: Will fight you and win. Everything is a competition to her. Apologizes a lot because sometimes her mouth is faster than her brain and she says things she doesn't mean. Very talented blacksmith and metalworker. If she uses or wears it, chances are she made it. If you see her and she's not doing something with her hands, chances are something is very wrong. Corentin: Oblivious as hell, and gets distracted very easily. Loves flowers and showering his friends with gifts and affection. Small but gives the greatest hugs. Not as skilled a blacksmith as his siblings, but makes toys with Auntie Erune. Piaras: The "youngest" of the Royal Quartet, and Corentin's twin. Tidy, tidy, tidy. He looks at his siblings' chambers and just. Sighs. Very detail-oriented and a huge fan of intricate designs. Big reader, because of course he is. Navi: The other mom of the group. Is still coming to terms with this whole being an adult thing. Has a lot on her shoulders right now. Lots of experience but lots left to learn. Likes the water. Silas: Protective. Feels as though he has to be helpful to others, otherwise he has no purpose. Loves cooking. Stress-bakes. Headpats over hugs. Gives good self-care advice and then never follows it himself. Melora: Very sweet, loves horses and wildflowers and fairies. Also stories. Physically affectionate. Knows how to grass-whistle and makes convincing bird calls and animal impressions. Delia: Always eager to learn something. Will snark at you. Would play a rogue just for the potential to be a little shit. Has fox vibes but crow instincts. Conri: Older brother type, rancher boy, gets his little sister out of trouble on the regular. Animal lover. Can talk someone in circles but has no idea what he's doing in a physical fight. Edmund: Very good with a sword, very bad with magic. Gets jealous easily, but hides it behind cockiness. Enjoys poetry and writing. Actually pretty quiet, but when the attention's on him he Absolutely Has To act as confident as possible. Needs a good cry but will he cry in front of anyone ever? No :) Adair: An older sibling's worst nightmare. Thinks he can take care of himself, can do it but barely. Laurel!! Wreaths!! Or really any wreath/crown made of leaves. Gets restless when he has to sit still and/or is in an enclosed space. Often craves salty food and carries a bag of small pieces of rock salt that he'll just pop into his mouth sometimes. Has a habit of trying to eat his dad's... less edible elixir ingredients

[lilxmcrtes]

My URL, The URL Meme

Send Me A URL and I’ll Respond With My Opinions... | @thornstocutyouwith | Mun

Roleplaying/Writing

My favorite muse(s) of theirs and why

Gosh dang it. You’re really gonna make me pick? Alright... for now I’m gonna go with Lief because he’s a Good Boy (tm). So sweet and caring to Oliver. Their relationship is so nice when Lief isn’t bringing / cooking wild animals in his home x’D Also I just enjoy his view on things. So simple, and amusing at times

My favorite interaction/thread of theirs

Again. Pick?! Hm... That food fight in the IMs was pretty funny x3 Aeron and Jace making play bites their Thing (tm) was also good. Or that thing with them as kids playing with dino toys together. It wasn’t a thread but it was so freaking cute

My thoughts on their unique characterization/interpretation of their muse(s)

CONTENT. ALL THE C O N T E N T!!!!!

Anyone that gets to see such content should feel blessed. You have SO MANY muses and they’re all so unique and real. Also seriously love how they connect in this relationship web that I’ve only seen part of

My thoughts on their writing style as a whole

Good shit bro. Sometimes a little overwhelming but good

Situation(s)/Plot(s) I’d love to see their muse(s) in

ALL OF THEM??!?! But to be more specific, H.unger G.ames or T.he G.ood P.lace plot would be cool. Ooo A.merican H.orror S.tory? C.oven or A.pocolypse? Omg humor me with a C.ells At W.ork AU. ( Eira and Tancred can be the white and red blood cell!!! ) Or another anime, P.arasyte? U.mbrella A.cademy?! D.etective P.ikachu / P.okemon?!?! All the plots Thorn.

Someone else I love seeing them interact with

I honestly don’t read a lot of threads n stuff outside of what I’m doing. Sometimes things will catch my eye but otherwise... heh... I do be seein u with ofwondersandhares a lot tho. So there’s that?

Anything else I want to say about their roleplaying

I really don’t get why people don’t write with you more. There’s a lot of opportunity right there for people. :/

And did I mention content?! You know so much about your muses. I aspire to be that in tune with these guys one day

If We Know Each Other

What I Think Are Their Best Qualities

Honesty. I mean sometimes it can be pretty blunt but I don’t really have to be guessing what you might not be saying. I figure if you have a problem with me you’ll tell me. Which is kinda relieving to me. Helps when I overthink.

Also ridiculously imaginative. I mean do I really need to elaborate on this one?

What I Think Are Their Strengths

Besides the answer to the above question, you don’t take things to heart too much, which I admire since I do that all the time. It’s great you can brush things off and move on to other good things without getting too caught up in being upset

A Memorable OOC Interaction Of Ours

First game night. Absolutely one of the best nights I’ve ever had. Hilarious. Can’t wait to do it again. The fact that we named the killer Asher was AMAZING

Why Others Should RP With Them

Hello if it’s not clear from what I’ve been saying then idk how to help you. The sheer vastness of content for all the rp you could ever want is right there man. So much opportunity! All the little details and plots too!! Bonus, you get a friend that will give you head pats- no, wait. those are mine. But still, good fren! *pats their head* A lot of friENDSHIP can fit in here

How Others Should Approach Them

You could toss them some memes. Pretty sure they crave them lol ( Not like they don’t post about it ). And as a multi I am well aware of the specifying muse deal but I don’t think they mind so much that they won’t answer. You’ll just get whatever they roll lol BUT definitely specify muse if you can bc like I said, as a multi, it’s just better that way especially with the number of muses they have. OR you could do the big brain move and IM them “Hey I wanna write with you but I have no idea where to start with your muses. Do you have a preference?” and you guys can talk about who would mesh well together and then you can send memes or write a starter or even get a starter! Pretty sure it’s the same for anyone.

Funny note on that one tho. I think they approached me ooc by just sending my a post in IMs. I don’t even remember what it was or why they sent it. I was wildly confused but ya know. Gotta start somewhere lol Point is, you’ll be fine approaching them however you do. Just don’t ghost.

Other Roleplayers I’d Recommend To Them

You could write with the Teares’ siblings ( in the verse where they are related at least. Haven’t talked about if that’ll be a main thing or not ), baby sis @the-wonderland-jinx and Aeron’s twin @faultycode. The other muses on there are also great.

@klavz​ is a great Klaus imo. The dialogue is so on point. Like I could actually hear Klaus saying those things. Whether you feel the same is up to you but... definitely give ‘em a chance.

There are others but it’s more of a general ‘I like them’ rather than having specific reasons you’d mesh well with / be interested in them.

Anything else I want to say about them

I think I’ve said quite a lot already lol Anything more is pretty much a repeat

I like writing with them. I like talking to them. I think they’re pretty cool and I think other people ought to check them out. A summary by me

If We Have/Plan To Interact Together

A plot I’d like to write with them

Ooo. Um. I know a lot of plots probably got lost bc I’ll come up with an idea and then get distracted with something else. But if I remember any of those definitely lol Also now that I’m on a fresh new blog I will heckin put that shit in a post so I don’t lose it.

That thing where Aeron drops into Wonderland and runs into Soulless!Asher is still in my drafts if you still want that to be a thing. So not all things were lost! lol

But getting back to the question, outside of those sort of things, and being more specific than just everything... T.he G.ood P.lace plot seems good. Pretending these people got into ‘heaven’ when they’re actually in a special hell that tortures them psychologically by picking a set of people that would eternally torture each other bc their personalities and behaviors clash perfectly. Asher ( or all your deadly sin demons really ) would definitely get a kick out of that I bet. Especially on Aeron. Ooo and Oliver.

A muse I want to introduce to them

Max. He’s a muse that’s gonna be on my other multi. He’s a soft boi like Oliver but not as fragile. Very friendly, and actually not human! He’s a changeling that ended up being raised human. Still working on him but I feel like he is basically the peak of my creativity lmao

A ship/broship I’d like to propose to them

I mean I know we mentioned it but Post!Oliver and Tancred would be cool. And I say Post! bc I’m pretty sure Tancred would stay the heck away from him otherwise lol

Also! Lorelei should meet Killian sometime. I’ve never really figured out her and Oliver’s relationship soo... It’s bound to be interesting whatever I do on the fly lol

A thread with them I’m excited about

Every time I see you in my notifications I get excited. But I suppose I am pretty excited for that band ask to turn into a thread 👀

Anything else I want to say

At this point, you might as well follow them if you follow me. Spice up your dash with whatever they’re into for the moment. Find new interests. Learn how to develop your muse

Please read that with the same energy as ‘fuck around and find out’

[cadcnce-archived]

Send me an OTP (rom/plat/whatev) || [ open ]

@psychcdelica​ sent:  Boss and Wylan for the Brotp

Who’s the messiest one:     Have you seen Boss’s office? Stuff is all over the place. Wylan if you can believe it actually keeps his own place pretty orderly. And as we know his apartment with Sae is pretty orderly as well. They both work at it there. Boss is definitely the messiest of these two. And I think she’s proud of it honestly.

Who feels the most uncomfortable about PDA:     Again, Wylan feels no shame so this would go to Boss and I mean- given her relationship with Date is... uh... nonexistent?/secret? this feels like another no brainer. Geez, step it up. You won’t see Wylan hesitating to smooch Sae at any time ever.

Who's the funniest drunk:     Hmmm... what would Boss drunk be like? I feel she’s pretty experienced in that foray and good at holding her composure. Between the two of them Wylan probably takes the cake but he’s just a funny idiot in general, so.

Who texts the most:     This one might be close with Wylan edging out on top with the frequency of bugging/messaging people. I actually see them sending ridiculous pics back and forth to each other so it’s definitely not a clear win for Wylan. Though it’s probably one sided with others. But yeah, both of them are texting... even when they shouldn’t be. For example, I think both of them are likely to do it during meetings for very different reasons. Thanks Sae for sexting him as you do. Talk about distractions.

Who has the most embarrassing taste in music:     Boss listens to boy bands. And even husbandos them. This is no contest.

Who reads the most:     Probably Boss since she gets all the emails and reports to go through. I also see her being into books every now and then? At the least she’s more inclined to do so than Wylan is. Even post-incarceration he prefers lived experiences than read ones.

Who’s better with kids:     Wylan happens to be excellent with kids thanks to his ridiculous flamboyancy, magic tricks, and daredevil attitude. They love to watch and chase after him and I think ... well, your Boss gives off a vibe that they don’t really know how to handle kids so much. Maybe I’m wrong! But I think Wylan takes this win.

Who’s the one that fixes things around the house:     This one may be a tie? Wylan is handy and Boss seems the sort to be good with that sort of thing too... then again, when it comes to the coffee machine she seems to be at pretty much a loss. Then again that’s because she hasn’t had her coffee, so HMM. I may give this one to Wylan unless you prove me otherwise.

Who’s got the weirdest hobby:     Have you seen Boss’s office? Wylan didn’t stand a chance against her.

Who cooks and who cleans up:     Hello? Neither. They’re ordering PIZZA and then they make Date or someone clean up once it’s over. Or one of the other unfortunate folks down in ABIS. They know better than to make Eira do it at least.

[omgrachwrites]

May Queen (Loki Laufeyson)

Pairing: Loki Laufeyson x OC

Summary: Astrid, the princess of Vanaheimr relocates to Asgard to seal a betrothal to the youngest prince and an attempt to escape unforeseen forces. She soon finds happiness and a multitude of new friends. Unfortunately treachery and deceit lie in the court of Asgard in unlikely places, and she learns that true love never dies.

Warnings: fluff, little bit of angst

Words: 2075

A/N: This is just a filler chapter but I hope you guys enjoy all the same! xxx

Part Ten -  The Party

Astrid saw the blunt flat of the iron blade coming straight at her and she ducked, preparing her defence. Unfortunately – although she saw the blade coming – she was off by a mere couple of seconds and the flat of the sword whacked her right in the centre of her forehead. It hit her so hard that her ears started to ring. Rubbing her head she looked up at Sif who opened her mouth to apologise, Astrid shook her head and got right back into the correct fighting stance.

Fighting with real swords – no matter how blunt or light – was much harder than Astrid had anticipated, Sif was an amazing warrior too. Astrid was living proof of that for she had blisters and calluses all over the soft skin of her hands which were fit to burst, she had a cut through her eyebrow and by the stinging feeling of her forehead she knew she would soon have a dark bruise. However, Sif still looked perfect apart from the tangled mess of her hair that was the only indication that she and Astrid had been sparring, it was very impressive.

Sif laughed as she looked at the princess, “I admire your persistence my lady but perhaps we ought to take a pause. You’re bleeding.”

Impatiently, Astrid wiped the trickle of blood that was running from her eyebrow and she was about to persist even further. She wanted to keep training; however before she could even think to string a sentence together there came a snide remark. It came from a visiting prince who had been watching the whole thing from the shadows of the trees, unbeknownst to everyone else.

“Maybe that’s why princesses shouldn’t try to fight, do us a kindness Your Highness and leave the fighting to the men and capable warriors. My lady,” he finished by addressing Sif and bowing his head. Loki surged forward angrily before Astrid stopped him with a hand on his wrist.

“You know, I can do something about the way that I fight, I can practise at it every day until I’m one of the greatest warriors that Asgard has ever seen. On the other hand, there is nothing you can do about your twisted face and ugly heart. I truly do pity the woman that has to marry you.” The prince was stunned into silence; all he could do was muster an angry look before he strode off.

Astrid rolled her eyes as she saw the expression of disappointment on Loki’s face and the amused expression on Sif’s.

“Look, I know that I shouldn’t have said that and I’m sorry,” she threw her hands up in surrender though she didn’t regret it and she wasn’t sorry. Not one bit.

Sif laughed and she shook her head, “on the contrary, I think that you just said what every woman in Asgard is thinking. But really, I think that we need to take a break from this whole sparring session.”

Astrid bowed her head, knowing that she wouldn’t be able to talk Sif around; she made her way to the near trickling fountain to get a drink of water. Loki followed her, hot on her heels.

“Are you okay? You seem distracted,” Loki cupped her warm cheek as he inspected the cut on her eyebrow, “hmm, it’s not deep. There probably won’t be a scar.” Astrid smiled as she saw that his nose was slightly red from the exposure to the spring sun.

“Yes, I’m distracted, it’s because of the dream that I had last night, it was very unsettling,” she had hoped that all memory of her dream would drain from her mind that following day. Unfortunately, the dream was just as vivid as ever, it felt like she had really entered that room of ice and snow. The freezing man seemed all too real, the memory of him made her shiver.

Loki sighed as he pulled her into his arms and kissed the top of her head, stroking her hair, “I promise you there is nothing to fear, and there is nothing like that room here in Asgard. If there was I would have seen it. As for the freezing man, my father is a hard man but he’s not a monster, I am certain that he’s not keeping any prisoners such as that.”

Astrid smiled, resting her head on Loki’s chest, gazing up at him, “that’s definitely a relief. Was your father angry this morning?” Odin had found Loki in Astrid’s bed – nothing intimate had happened between them – and he had seemed to be extremely angry.

Loki winced, “yes, he was ranting and raving, shouting about things that he did not mean. About how he wasn’t happy about our marrying or the alliance,” he paused, “though I have to admit, it is odd, he was the one who brought up the subject of our families allying in the first place.”

Astrid’s heart sank, though she hadn’t been happy about marrying Loki at first he had come to show her that he was a caring man, a kind man and of course he was handsome to boot. Also, she just couldn’t go back to Vanaheimr without having a prince for her husband, her mother would be so disappointed. She sincerely hoped that Loki wasn’t in the same mind of his father.

“And what about you? Do you want to marry me?” Astrid asked nervously and thankfully he nodded.

“Of course I do, I wouldn’t go to all this trouble if I didn’t,” he beamed and Astrid smiled, cupping his cheek.

“Do you love me?”

At Astrid’s bold question Loki raised an eyebrow, “well no, I mean, how could I? We haven’t known each other for very long. I care about you but it’s not love.”

His words came at a blow; though she knew that that would be the answer it still hurt to hear him say it out loud, “yes, of course. I’m sorry for asking,” her face blazed red and she wanted to get out of there, she’d go anywhere as long as she didn’t have Loki’s pretty soft eyes looking at her, “excuse me,” Astrid excused herself and walked back onto the sparring field, “thank you for your lessons today and for giving me a thorough thrashing,” she laughed, “I was wondering whether we could continue with this at the same time next week?”

Sif nodded with a smile and suddenly there came a girlish musical giggle, “then in the meantime please allow me to properly introduce you to the ladies of the court,” Ingrid smiled; Ingrid was very beautiful, she looked every inch the goddess. She was married to an extremely wealthy but considerably older lord.

“I accept and thank you for your kind offer my lady,” Astrid smiled, ignoring Loki’s look of confusion as she set off with Ingrid.

Over the next few days Astrid didn’t see many people outside of Mara or Ingrid’s group of ladies, she couldn’t face Loki, she was still embarrassed and hurt by his words. The ladies of the court were very pleasant to be around and they all seemed to welcome Astrid with open arms. Astrid knew better now though and she knew that appearances could be very deceiving and as a result she didn’t really trust any of them with her secrets.

Odin decided that his youngest son was set on marrying the heir of Vanaheimr so he decreed that there would be an engagement party to properly announce it to the kingdom. He also announced that nobles from every corner of the kingdom would be invited. Unfortunately, that meant that Astrid’s mother would be attending and Queen Eira was a perfectionist and she wasn’t truly happy unless she was complaining about something.

The night of the party arrived much more quickly that Astrid would ever have wanted and just like old times Mara was helping her to ready herself.

“You must look every inch the goddess because that’s exactly what you are,” Mara beamed as she placed a crown of green spring flowers amongst her curls, “these flowers will go perfectly with your dress.” When Mara got the dress out and laid it on the bed Mara groaned internally when she saw that the dress had a golden bodice with a splaying skirt of emerald green.

“Gold and green? I don’t think it will go with my complexion very well, I’m sorry Mara,” the excuse was feeble but it was an excuse all the same.

“Nonsense, you’d look absolutely beautiful in it and besides, Loki favours green and gold. In that dress you’d look truly like his bride.”

Astrid wanted to argue but she decided that it would come to nothing; she supposed that Mara had had that dress made especially for the party and she didn’t want to hurt Mara’s feelings by refusing to wear it. So, she sighed in defeat and allowed herself to be dressed in her future husband’s colours.

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The engagement party was in full swing, though it was very much missing one of its guests of honour, Loki was confused, he was sure that Astrid had known the time. The party had been started when the moon was barely visible and now it was high in the sky, its light casting the party in a silvery light. Asgardians were very good at making merry so Loki allowed the party to be started before Astrid had arrived.

“She’s late,” a booming voice sounded in his ear and he felt a hand clapped on his shoulder; it was Thor looking very red faced and his words were slurred.

“She’s angry with me, she asked me if I loved her and I told her that I didn’t.”

“Oh brother, don’t you know that you have to lie to women sometimes? You’ve truly got a lot to learn,” he sighed, “brother, look,” Thor pointed to the stone steps and there she was, descending them in beauty and grace. She looked positively radiant in robes of green and gold.

When the princess reached him he completely forgot about her being late, “you look so beautiful.”

She smiled serenely but it almost looked cold as she gave him a gentle kiss on the cheek, “thank you. And you look very handsome,” she whispered against his skin before gliding across the hall to greet her guests.

Loki knew that he had to make amends; he had obviously hurt her feelings so he accosted her while she was on her own.

“Would you like some wine my lady?” he asked, offering her a jewelled golden goblet full of Asgard’s finest wine. Astrid looked at the wine with an almost scared expression and Loki didn’t really know why.

“That’s kind of you but for certain I completely prefer Asgardian mead,” she said, picking up a bottle of it.

“Okay, well, would you like to dance?”

“I’d love to but just not with you,” Loki sighed at her words and he took her hand, leading her out to the balcony beneath the starry sky.

“Do you love me Astrid?”

“No,” she sighed and elaborated when she saw Loki’s confused expression, “I didn’t expect you to love me either, truly I didn’t but it still hurt when you said that you didn’t.”

“I’m sorry, I never meant to hurt you,” he said tucking a stray curl behind her ear, “but we’ll have nothing if we don’t try. Can we promise to try? With the moon and all of the stars as our witness?”

“As long as we seal it with a kiss,” Astrid smiled as she cupped his cheek, her thumb rubbing over his bottom lip. Loki grinned and swooped down, kissing her long and hard, Astrid’s hands clutched at his hair as Loki deepened the kiss. They only pulled away when they heard a giggle and a rustle of the bushes.

“My mother has been dying to see you, probably to give you some advice about marriage,” she paused with a pretty bashful smile, “or me.”

“Well, we can’t keep her waiting then can we? Come on,” Loki chuckled as they walked back into the hall, scanning the room for Queen Eira.

“She’s over there,” Astrid pointed to the further side of the hall before sighing, “talking to Erik, this won’t be good.”

“No, I imagine it wouldn’t,” Loki chewed his lip; it wouldn’t be good to see Erik again, not after Astrid had ordered the execution of his wife.

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@void-imaginations​ @theonelittleone​ @for-the-love-of-the-fandom​

[blue-mood-blue]

Lately, I have realized something.

I miss October Daye.

It's a silly realization because I have the series in my possession and I can read them at any time, I was in fact reading them rather quickly before life got in the way, and so my plan is this: recall the facts that I know up to where I left off, and then read all of the rest so that I can catch up in time for the next release.

Please beware of spoilers for all of the books up until A Red-Rose Chain (and also if you would like to remind me of things I've forgotten that's fine, but please don't spoil anything in/beyond A Red-Rose Chain pls and thank)

The Facts:

Toby Daye is always covered in blood. Usually it's her own blood. On rare and fun occasions, there's someone else's blood. Toby can do scary and impressive things with blood

Tybalt loves Toby. Toby loves Tybalt. They're engaged, which makes me very happy and soft

Toby has two cats who may also spy on her, lives on coffee, probably needs a nap at any given moment

Toby's family includes one King of Cats (Tybalt), one doppelganger sister (May), two princes/sons (Quentin and Raj), an aunt (the Luidaeg), a sister in law (Jas), a (human) daughter (Gillian), and a selection of nieces, nephews, and niblings who may or may not know they are nieces, nephews, and niblings depending on where they are in the absorbed-into-Toby's-family scale

Toby's family used to include one uncle/father (Sylvester) before he decided to go and be an ass. I am adding Simon, Luna, and Amandine to this pile because they have also been asses and need to atone for their behavior. Oh, and also Eira

Toby's good family who loves her is unimpressed by how often she puts herself in danger, and Toby seems to be getting better about that

Toby seems to be getting better in general, which makes me very happy and soft

Every time I see a koi I think of Toby, which I'm pretty sure wouldn't please Toby

Every time I see a particularly luxurious cat I think of Tybalt; I have no idea what Tybalt would think of that

Toby has done a lot of impressive things, like walking on roads she shouldn't be allowed on and killing Blind Michael who, in my opinion, definitely deserved it. Toby could use a vacation

The Queen of the Mists (whose name I still don't know, suspiciously) has been dethroned in favor of the true heir, who (I think) likes Toby a lot more than the previous ruler

The Luidaeg’s past broke my heart and I’m still not okay

Toby used to be a lot more human than she is, and has discovered the ability to shift her own blood for better and worse. Luna asked her to do that for Rayseline, who seemed to appreciate the effort, and I dearly hope that means better things for Rayseline whenever she wakes up

Related: Toby is a Dochas Sidhe, the full implications of which I don’t think I yet know

Toby has almost died so many times

There's a sister who isn't May? No word yet on whether sister deserves a seat in the real family or should be thrown in the asshole pile, but she has a lot to live up to with May as comparison

Toby is kind of the mom friend, but not in the usual way; she doesn’t explicitly act like a mom but she naturally moms. She has an innate mom-ing skill, which is probably why she has a following of ducklings

There’s a lot of family drama, in general, what with Oberon, and Titania, and Maeve. Also, the parents left and all of the kids and grandkids seem to think they’ll be back eventually, but they’re gonna have a hell of a mess to clean up if they do

[pantherlover]

Rosemary and Rue Re-Read: Part 11

Here’s part 11!  As always: possible spoilers up to Night and Silence!

Chapter 23

We finally get to meet the Luidaeeeeeeeegg I’m so glad to seeeeeee heeeeeeeerrrrr

Toby says that according to rumor, the Luidaeg has been settled in San Francisco for nearly 70 years.  I wonder what made her come then.

It’s interesting comparing Evening’s persona with the Luidaeg’s.  Evening’s intimidating because she Seems Fae, even while she’s pretending to be mortal.  Toby says multiple times that mortals would know that there was ‘just something’ about Evening, and even other fae were intimidated by her.  

The Luidaeg, on the other hand, seems entirely normal; she’s not even really Impressive by mortal standards considering that she looks like a 19 year old girl who thinks it’s a good idea to tie her hair up with electric tape.  She’s not unusually tall, no abnormally clear skin, she isn’t so beautiful you can’t stand to look at her she’s just completely, 100% ordinary.

And that’s the most terrifying thing about her, because how can someone who’s so old, so powerful, so wild just hide that???

... water and fire, blood and burning.  She and her sisters were goddesses then, she and Black Annis and Gentle Annie, tending the younger children, roaming the bogs and rivers of the world.  Maeve’s Firstborn, pulled from her in blood and screaming while Oberon walked far, far away.  But they died one by one at the hands of men and fae, by iron and ash and rowan and fire they died, until the Luidaeg was the last, running, always running, called monster and demon because her blood was so much older and wilder than their own... ... did we lose it all for the roses?  Oh, Mother, you fool...

So, this seems... significant.  This is what Toby reads from the Luidaeg’s blood, and I think it’s the closest we’ve gotten to actual backstory about the Luidaeg.  Most of this past is hinted at in the rest of the books, but I don’t think her sisters’ names are mentioned again.  I kind of wonder what races of fae they were Firstborns of.

Also, this part demonstrates why this series is awesome for re-reads, because if I re-read this after The Winter Long came out, I would’ve assumed that the ‘did we lose it all for the roses’ line was about Eira.  Now?  I think it’s actually about Janet.

And just like that, Toby has switched her categorization of the Luidaeg from ‘horrible monster’ to ‘friend?  Scary friend?’

Is it just me, or does Oberon seem like he was kind of a jackass.  Like, he’s considered the final authority for all of Faerie, but he doesn’t seem like he actually pays attention to what anyone was doing, he didn’t consider changelings worthy of protection, and he seemed to get led around by his dick a lot for a king who was, like, actually good at his job.  Plus, he was a horrible husband to Maeve and a terrible father to Maeve’s children.  No wonder the Luidaeg’s so angry with him.

Also he seems kind of dumb?  Like, if you’re going to force Maeve’s oldest Firstborn under a geas to protect all of the descendants of your second wife, why did you not force Titania’s oldest Firstborn under a geas for the same reason?  And either Eira is way better at finding loopholes than the Luidaeg is, or Eira’s geas to stop her from harming the people of Amandine’s line was very poorly worded.

“I was wondering how long it would take for a member of [Amandine’s] line to bother tracking me down - although I’ll admit your blood’s a bit thinner than I expected.  Tried to fix matters on her own, did she?  She always was brainless.  Runs in the family.”

Okay, a couple parts of this confuse me.  By this point, August has tracked the Luidaeg down and demanded help on a quest.  And the Luidaeg already knows how thin Toby’s blood is, because she’s the one who stopped Amandine from turning Toby completely human.  A possible answer to this is ‘Seanan McGuire hadn’t come up with August or decided the Luidaeg was the one who intervened yet’ but a) that’s a boring answer, and b) I’m not 100% sure that tracks, so I want to see if I can come up with an in-canon reason.  The Luidaeg isn’t supposed to be able to lie, but maybe that’s only if she’s asked direct questions?  And that’s how she can indirectly lie about August?  I wasn’t really sure why the Luidaeg brought up Toby’s blood in the first place, but maybe she’s trying to get Toby curious about her blood; because that line makes sense now, but I think I remember being very confused the first time I read it.

Annnnnd the Luidaeg refers to Evening in the present tense.  Didn’t catch that the first time.

“You were that stupid by yourself?  Wonderful.  Amandine’s line is going to die out all on its own.  I won’t have to lift a finger.”

Even Toby thought that was noteworthy, so that line is probably going to be important in some way.  Maybe it has to do with Evening not being able to hurt Amandine’s line?

I wonder if the Luidaeg heard that Toby didn’t know that drinking the blood would make the curse stronger and thought, ‘Damnit, Amy, you are going to get your daughter killed.’

“The first hope chest was a gift from Oberon to Titania, to allow her to adjust her Court to her desire.  She passed it along to the first of her half-blood children, and somewhere along the line, there were more of them.  No one knows who made the later ones.  I don’t know, so don’t ask.”

This doesn’t quite match up with the short story The Fixed Stars.  In that story, the Luidaeg helps the changeling/merlins in a war against the fae in order for Oberon to step in and create the hope chests.  According to that story, the hope chests were created specifically to help the changelings.  Maybe the first one was made for Titania, and then the other ones came after that war.

Ahhh, my theory about why the Luidaeg owes Devin is wrong.  She says that it’s because he stopped people trying to burn her at the stake.  Although, she said that it was sixty years ago; who (and where) the hell was burning someone at the stake in 1949???

Hahaaaa, the Luidaeg called Toby pretty smart.  I bet that was the last time the Luidaeg ever thought that.

Did the Luidaeg ever ask Toby the question that had to be answered completely honestly?  The Luidaeg asked her a question, but I don’t think it reallly counted.

Chapter 24

Cagney and Laceeeeeeey.  I think this is the beginning of them being personal messengers to their King.  I think that should be utilized more often.  (I’m biased; if there’s a way to add cats, I want to add cats)

I’m confused about Toby not wanting Tybalt to know about the curse.  I thought the binding was the curse.  If it is, then he doesn’t need to hear about it from everyone else, Toby; you told him about it already.

Annnnnd here’s Julie attacking Toby over Ross’ death.  I have never been particularly sympathetic to Julie over this.  I understand being angry at Lily over this; if Toby’s right about her motivation, then Lily did send them out despite knowing they were best suited to actually stopping the assassin.  But both Ross and Julie knew what they were getting into when they agreed to escort Toby to her taxi.  It’s definitely a tragedy that Ross died, but it’s not Toby’s fault that they both agreed to do the dangerous thing, and then it turned out to be dangerous.  I could maybe understand it in this book, but it’s more and more childish the longer Julie insists that it’s Toby’s fault.

I didn’t really understand why Tybalt kept Julie in his Court, since Toby’s already said that he’s kicked her out when she’s refused to listen to him before, but then I realized that if he kicked her out, there would be nothing stopping Julie from tracking Toby and killing her, where as if she was part of his Court then Tybalt would have the authority to stop her.

Ahhhhhh Tybalt’s trusting Toby with access to his memorieeeeeeesssss

That’s it for this recap!  I THINK there’s only going to be one more, but we’ll see.  I’m hoping to be done by Tuesday, but we’ll see how it goes.  As always, come talk to me about the books!

[writings-of-a-narwhal]

May I potentially see how your kids would react to falling into the world of Damatys and interacting with Emery, Ava'lyn, Jaxon, Aiden, and Diane for an AU please? Thank you! And Congratulations for reaching that high of a milestone! You deserve every one of us followers and so so many more!

thank you so much, friend!! i’m doing this with my Broken Thrones kids! :D

Damatys AU

- so first of all i absolutely adore all the magical creatures you have in this world like wow. they’re amazing

- all of your ocs will be adopted by Warin i promise you. he loves adopting people, no matter how old they are. he will be Aiden’s father figure whether he likes it or not. also Jeris would also adopt Aiden and everyone else. they both have a problem with adopting people.

- Warin adopting Aiden and Co. means that they now have many more siblings, including Jayi, Culraes, Sazai, Lei-ya, and Tasiriti. 

- which means that there are two people who are willing to help the gang train and just learn how to use swords more. also they just like to fight, swords or no swords

- also. Ava’lyn would either get along great with Amary or they’d butt heads. i’m not sure which. they’re both stubborn princesses. but! Rosar would probably like her, if she’s not a bit stressed with another Amary-type around

- i think that Rosar would befriend Emery, no matter how hard it would be. she just has such a soft and gentle presence i feel she could befriend him.

- also Rosar would also like Diane. 

- everyone would like Diane except for Erihhn but Erihhn doesn’t like anyone and i don’t like Erihhn. i would sell him to satan for less than one corn chip.

- i think that maybe Eira would help Jaxon bake but she would also be very stressed about baking because she’s never really baked a whole lot

- Lumi would definitely paint with Jaxon!!! and Eira would hang out with them while they’re painting!

- as for the sand dragons. Jayi wants to find one and possibly fight one. she’s a dragonborne and loves to get in fights. getting in fights with a dragon, whether it’s one of those sand dragons or not, sounds like fun

- but Athum things the Scryndru are super interesting and wants to know all about them

- unicorns. Jeris would be very interested in the unicorns. just as i am interestedin these unicorns. 

- Jayi, Culraes, and Amary would definitely train and fight with anyone who wanted to

- don’t get started with the pixies. there would be some misunderstandings, i’m sure. trouble.

- it’d just be madness tbh

- there’s so many characters and they’re all so different and already get into trouble in their own world who knows what kind of trouble they would get into in a world different from their own

[terramythos]

My thoughts on October Daye #12 “Night and Silence” oooor “Dammit, Janet!” (suggestion courtesy of @mistressofmuses ).

And with this I am officially all caught up! Well, I haven’t read all the novellas and short stories, but caught up on the main series. Now I have to wait for #13 this year like a normal person! Gah! 

-So, leading off from all the horrible shit that happened last book, things aren't going.. great.

-You know that intense, extreme trauma 2 members of the main cast experienced @ the end of last book? Yeah that. Didnt go away

-There's a line about how Tybalt keeps seeing Toby as her mother Amandine... the person who kidnapped and basically tortured him last book. And he's basically terrified of shapeshifting at all and has just stayed in his humanoid form. And he's refusing help from anyone and disappearing for long stretches. And maybe going just a little bit Fuckening Crazy. G-great start, guys!

-And there's a flashback where he's just MEAN and like you can understand why but MAJOR YIKES and also pain.

Ok unexpected May feels ;-;

-Gillian Is Missing Again but I have a feeling this is not gonna be much of a retread...

-And.. boy this sure is a callback huh? May and Quentin being the found family, Gillian is missing, Tybalt is antagonistic...

-ok Jocelyn is a creepy fangirl character

-ok I'm 5 chapters in and wondering where this is going. Apparently there's Quite The Twist in this one or at least that's what I suspect is going to happen

-oooohkay they find like this weird pocket dimension with like. A miniature house that is also a chicken (and no one even mentions Baba Yaga). And idk what it is about the scene but it is fucking eerie and creepy as hell somehow.

Shade appeared in like book 6 as a Literal Cat so.. here she is showing up and being relevant for 5 minutes

-but what the FUCK is with this place. I got nothing and that exposition just raises more questions. There's no magic scent at all (except MAYBE cinammon), a bunch of rare fucking plants, and a fucking miniature baba yaga hut just wandering around

-that opens another rabbit hole because Golden Gate Park is ALSO completely unclaimed for no particular reason 🤔

This might be a waste of picture and might get deleted later but like, that's fucking creepy, right???

-god I know there HAS to be someone with cinnamon in their magical signature who we've MET but... it's been 12 books, dog. I dont fuckin remember

-The closest I can think is Simon with "mulled cider" because that's cinnamony... BUT it's pretty unlikely he did this, and that part of his magical signature is PRE corruption and we have the corrupted version running around.

-We just found a SECOND creepy unexplainable house hidden in plain sight so that's starting to feel Thematic.

-And she smells the false Queen's magic in this house :) someone supposedly asleep for 100 years in Silences. So that's great.

-Aaand there's Gillain! Not even halfway through the book. Way too easy.

-It's not Gillian. It's a Baoban Sith which is apparently *googling* a.. vampire. Ok

-My crack theory is pretty much dead in the water lol 

There's more than this bit but ;---; fuck dude

-But yeah! After a book and a half of hiatus, Tybalt's back! A little.. broken and suffering from severe PTSD, but you know.

-They go to Goldengreen based on a hint and Marcia is there baking cinnamon rolls. It really stresses the fact that she's making cinnamon rolls.

UM.

-.... holy shit.

-Ok. Ok ok. Assuming that's the truth that means Amandine's mother was.. a human? Making her a fucking CHANGELING Firstborn? What the fuuuuuck

-Oh that is fucking hysterical with what a fucking blood purist Amandine is. She looks down upon changelings and the beast races SO MUCH. Janet implies Amandine has no idea her mother was human, or at least never knew Janet. I'd bet she figured out she was part human because the Dochas Sidhe's whole deal is messing with one's heritage for fun results. Gosh. Hmm.

-And this mirrors everyone hiding October's heritage from her BEAUTIFULLY.

-I don't remember quite when "Miranda" was introduced but it was pretty early on. And now that I think of it there was NO REASON for her to fucking exist! What the fuck! The story would have made just as much sense with Cliff being a single dad raising Gillian. Miranda was just an antagonistic extra detail who didn’t... really do much. God damn it. 

-Cliff “accidentally” marrying Toby's maternal grandmother who is somehow Human and also like, alive, in order to help raise Toby's daughter is. Fucking Something, huh.

Oh lore??? (Oberon, King of Faerie, kinda a nice guy it turns out, accidentally knocks up a human. Uh... whoops?)

-Fuck dude, that was the blood memory flashback we had in book 9. The Luidaeg begging her mom not to leave on The Ride. Oof.

-So Janet is, yes indeed human and YES INDEED Toby’s grandmother. She’s cursed with immortality because of all that shit she pulled. 

-And BOY does that lore regarding Janet make the whole "Amandine was doted on and given everything she ever asked for" make sense cause... THAT'S WHAT THEY DID WITH HUMANS. And here we have a fucking FIRSTBORN born from a fucking HUMAN. Gosh. Jeez.

-and Katy pointed out to me that that's a big book 3 reference because Toby's family holds her down when THEY try to remove her from Blind Michael's version of the Ride, and SHE wildly shapeshifts through dozens of forms.It was a Tam Lin retelling only I don’t think I ever expected the actual thing to be relevant. 

-And FUCK Evening/Eira, by the way. I think that goes without saying at this point.

-So is Blind Michael's Ride supposed to be a replacement of the old one? 500 years ago the fae used The Ride to sacrifice a human every 7 years--until Tam Lin and Janet fucked it up. Fast forward to the present and we had Blind Michael showing up every couple years stealing children for what HE called The Ride.

-soooo Toby killing Blind Michael might have not been a great thing if you follow that line of reasoning. I mean, he was a fucking monster, BUT... Because The Ride is supposedly to maintain balance, hence the sacrifices. Whatever the fuck that ultimately means. And by stopping it...

-Add that on to all the stuff last book about how Blind Michael wasn't always such a shitty person, and... uh hmmm.

-OK this part might be a stretch but: the Dochas Sidhe are the only descendants we know of that are just... one hundred percent descended from one of the Three. The human part is largely irrelevant in fae terms. They’re directly Oberon’s, not some mix of Maeve/Oberon or Titania/Oberon. Would that mean Oberon is actually Dochas Sidhe? He did, after all, create the hope chests, and the Dochas Sidhe are literally living, breathing hope chests. IDK MAN. 

Tybalt, PLEASE.

-So it is, predictably, the false Queen behind this whole situation, helped by Jocelyn. And I just FUCKING REMEMBERED that it was that dickbag Dugan who had cinnamon in his magical signature .-.

-The Baoban Sith just be like "yeah sorry about almost eating you I uh straight up hadn't eaten in 40 years lol. Anyway I'm Kennis, what's up?"

OH FUCK! I FUCKING *CALLED* THIS SHIT OUT IN BOOK SIX! I remember it being mentioned offhand as something that could happen. I fucking KNEW we were going to turn a character into a Selkie for plot reasons. But I gotta say I didn't expect it to be Gillian!

FUCK DUDE ;___; in this house we stan The Luidaeg. Best character. I'm not crying. (I am.) 

-She has a line a few pages later about anxiety and catastrophic thinking, and how what you THINK will happen is never as bad as what actually happens. She compares it to "chasing the tide" and honestly that's such a useful metaphor, as someone often caught in that trap...

-They take down Dugan, yay, he was a loose end. He's not DEAD, but.. This is another one where the villain felt pretty secondary to the big plot revelations. 

-And Tybalt stepped down (temporarily) as King. Jolgeir's daughter is apparently going to temporarily take things over so I expect we will be introduced to her later?? 

---

-And, like the last few books, theres a novella epilogue at the end. This one is "Suffer a Sea-Change" and looks to be from Gillian's perspective.

-ok so Gillian has this whole scene where she TALKS to Firtha (whose skin she's wearing now) and I can't help but wonder if all selkies have this weird scene with the Roane whose skin they inherit when they ascend or whatever?

-The Answer Is "No", The Story Explicitly Says 

-Gillian is honestly pretty funny. She's up to here with this bullshit.

-The Luidaeg would like to remind everyone that she’s nice to October and Quentin but she’s not actually all that nice to most other people and Definitely Has Her Own Agenda. Although she seems to have taken in Poppy as an apprentice of sorts so... *vague shrugging* 

-And The Luidaeg speaking fondly about her "little brother Michael" who liked interior decorating despite being entirely blind. This is my uncomfortable face based on all my Analysis earlier.

-So Gillian is a Selkie now! That's not a twist I expected. And the next book (not out until September) is about The Luidaeg finally calling in their debts. So uh. That was one hell of a way to make the stakes personal on that.

-Im probably gonna make a master post overview of the series now that I read the whole thing in relatively short order. I'm glad I'll have a chance to read other books, but I'm anxious for the next one too based on the recent developments...