#instrument of law

[chaotic-hypnotic-erotic]

It began with this.

Last year, we got this.

Today, 2000 AD confirmed that this version of Cassandra Anderson was the one who made a deal with Satan.

[attyrocious]

Law seems like a bas(s)ic guy

[sky-neverending]

The Clave: Fuck the Downworlders

Alec: Yeah, fuck them

Magnus: *walks in*

Alec:

Alec: Especially that one

[julescarstairs]

It always bothered me at the end of CoHF when the Council decided to not look for Mark and exile Helen because of the Cold Peace. Like, I understand if these things didn’t happen we wouldn’t have TDA, but that’s not to say it doesn’t frustrate me still (as I’m sure it’s meant to.)

Because how can they be all like “Shadowhunter blood bleeds true” but then decide, “oh no, we can’t seek out Mark Blackthorn. He’s one of them now.” As if this was Mark’s choice, to depart from the nephilim and become part of the Hunt? He was literally traded off as a gift. To secure political relations. Mark didn’t ask for that! (I know that obviously it would be unwise to try and take from the Wild Hunt, but they didn’t even THINK about ways of negotiating that. Lowkey sucks!)

And then there’s Helen! Who was literally, as of that point in the narrative, the best fit caretaker for the blackthorn children. But, somehow, to consolidate the Cold Peace that meant sending her away? Why is Helen, a Shadowhunter first and Faerie second, being punished for fighting on the nephilim side of the war? (I could be forgetting details here it’s been a minute.)

Anyway, justice for Mark and Helen Blackthorn, doomed by the plot from day one, because I think the Clave and Council of yesteryear owe them a formal written apology and then some.

(But I also can’t help but be grateful for these happenings because I wouldn’t get my favourite trilogy if they didn’t happen.)

[witchlingcirce]

Cassandra whyyy have I not seen Clary and Kit interact more??? That’s literally Kits oomf in law like… fix this problem 🤨

[cryptidwithacopiccollection]

I would LOVE to see Klapollo! Is Klavier a different species from his brother? Less sharp teeth? The player of some sort of underwater instrument? A mer who spends all his time sitting on a rock in the air playing his guitar?

And is Apollo the same species as Trucy? Differently coloured? Or is he a human who becomes entranced by Klavier's singing?

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PROVIDING THE ACE ATTORNEY MERMAY CONTENT THAT WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR!

THANK YOU!! It makes me so happy to see other people enjoy these sillies as much as I enjoy making em! The renders weren't rendering but here's a pile of klapollo sketches

(below the cut is the infodump)

First up: Klavier Gavin. The guess about him being a different species from Kristoph (with less teeth) is very accurate.

The reason we chose a lizardfish for Kristoph is the similarities and contrasts with Klavier's assigned species. Both are mostly sedentary, resting on the bottom of the seafloor to wait for food. They also bear a superficial resemblance to each other, and while their hunting styles are similar, one is armed with massive fangs and strikes quickly, violently, and with nearly no warning, and one is just chilling until a small enough piece of plankton floats in front of it's mouth- similar to how the two brothers behave.

Apollo, who has a full color drawing here, is a thorny whiplash squid-a different species than Trucy, but, as with the Gavins, bearing certain simiarities. Most obviously, they're both red cephalopods, as well as their little ear/head fins.

How did Klav end up with his rockstar status? To put it simply, he's very pretty and social. Most deep sea mers (and animals in general) aren't a huge fan of ROV's, much less submersibles, but Klavier enjoys the attention and company. It helps that his eyes work about to the extent a human's would, making him essentially blind in the deep ocean, but comfortable under floodlights, whereas specialized, deep-sea eyes would not fare so well.

His friendly and outgoing demeanor has essentially made him an ambassador for deepsea merfolk. His first encounter with people was via an ROV, which tracked him through his singing vocalizations, which can be heard and felt for miles underwater. Tripodfish, or abyssal spiderfish, also have relatively weak swimming muscles, meaning they're equipped to snatch prey in sudden movements, but they can't swim very well in open water. On the other hand, thorny whiplash squid are built for open water, so Apollo has to carry Klav if they want to move up the water column. There's probably going to be more but that is all I can think of rn. Thank you so much for asking, again, and I hope you have a wonderful month<3

[gingermintpepper]

One of my favourite little things about Apollo is how casual his and the Fates' relationship was.

Now, this isn't to understate how grave the Fates were in any way, as a matter of fact, it's written multiple times about the complex interplay between the Fates and Zeus (Stobaeus even wrote that the Fates were given the seat closest to Zeus' throne so he could better give counsel on all things from their machinations)

Indeed, even Zeus was beholden to them and even though the Fates usually left things up to natural course (and Zeus in his position as Moiragetes - that is, the Leader of Fates could even intercede on these events, even interrupting when a someone was set to die) in a lot of ways, there are many, many things that even Zeus could never interfere with, things that were above even the King of the Heavens. Some really good examples are things like Persephone's Abduction which the Fates ruled as necessary for the propagation of the seasons and his marriages to Themis and Hera.

By all accounts really, the Fates were incredibly stern, incredibly grave deities who presided over law, order, birth and death and even worked with the Furies to punish those who broke the sacred laws!

And then you have Apollo who was also known by the title Moiragetes (In Delphi, there were only two Moirai depicted and in place of the third was Zeus and Apollo Moiragetes according to Pausanias) but who did things like, checks notes, send the Fates to be the midwives of his paramour Evadne when she had to deliver his son alone in secret (by the way, he also sent the actual goddess of childbirth to help. The Fates absolutely did not need to also be there, he was taking every precaution:

and get the Fates drunk so they would agree to save his bestie Admetus' life:

Keep in mind btw - this con Apollo pulled for Admetus was multi-layered and even included getting Heracles to wrestle Thanatos and keep him still so Apollo could proceed to help Admetus cheat Alcestis away from Fates when Admetus expressed regret for making his wife die in his place:

And I cannot stress enough that Apollo faced zero consequences for this nonsense. NONE. The Fates weren't even cordial with other Gods - they're almost never referred to directly, they were often depicted apart from other deities or described as old, ugly and unable to walk (though, generally speaking they were artistically depicted as young maidens!) and apart from comforting Demeter by going to personally explain what happened to Persephone in some versions of the story, they didn't really get humanised the way most of the other gods or spirits did. Usually they're referred to euphemistically, or someone will speak distantly about a prophecy they once heard was designed by the Fates but Apollo? Apollo knew the Fates! He was good friends with the Fates! And I think it's even cooler when you consider that both instances of Apollo showing off his Fate's Favourite privilege have to deal with birth (of Iamus) and death (of Alcestis/Admetus) which were the two points most deeply associated with the Moirai and why there were usually depictions of them as a pair over that of a triad.

(Excerpts sourced from Theoi, Aeschylus' Eumenides, Pindar's Olympian 6 and Statius' Silvae; though just a note, one instance of the Fates' involvement with Apollo is misquoted on Theoi - that is the Fates being present for Apollo's birth, that's actually a misinterpretation of Evadne's birthing of Iamus.)

[pistachions]

"Dakota, play me out"

[t8oo]

there is some symbolism iv never considered in that one episod of pt5 where zenigata rescues fujiko before she kills lupin

[spadefish]

does anyone else have a favourite movie/game composer? like when you just love their particular scores? for me that's thomas newman i love his work so much i listen to OSTs from movies i haven't even watched if he scored them

[vivaciousoceans]

I’m trying to put the dots together, which is MY fault, obviously we’ve accepted that this show makes no sense. But wtf was the phone call between eo at the end of the last season??? What was the point?

[numberonebestratedstimboard]

“Who DARES to interrupt a sonata number one in G Minor?”

A stimboard of Karl from castle of nations (not requested)

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[thirdity]

The culture-heroes of preliteracy and postliteracy alike are robots.

Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan)

[send-me-a-kae-via-subspace]

very very excited for the album

[cyber-punk-rock]

Working on a Brook character playlist. I had ideas for songs at work today and this one could be really good!! I’m so excited for it!

[love-giveme-love-giveme-love]

If highschool doesn't kill me, I will.