#look guys serafina is SO GOOD

[lokislytherin]

shitpost art arc? aka i posted the art on twt too and if sera likes it this will actually be my biggest win of all time

[rafaslittleboy]

can you write a small blurb of relative!sonny hiding you away at a family gathering and making out with you? love your writing so far!

tw: incest, age gap ), making out, sexual themes,, height difference, gender neutral reader.

Sonny would like to think he was a good guy, what police officer goes to law school to better learn to help people? He dedicates almost everyday of his life going to work with the odd chance that he could get hurt with all the scumbag people he deals with on a daily basis.

So it’s a rare treat when he comes back home, home being Staten Island and his parent’s too-large paid off house. And it’s an even better treat when you were there at the same time as him; as you grew up into the young adult you were, you grew apart and his job was so demanding that he couldn’t make as much time for his family anymore, including you.

But here you were, laughing with your older cousin Gina over something on your phones at the end of the dinner table. Your mother was at the stove with your aunts finishing up cooking the feast that she had spend almost two days on/m—anything to have her family fed and fighter.

It had been a while since

You could hear the kids laughing and running through the halls, the voices of the loud conversation heard from downstairs—but you didn’t focus on any of that. Your brother closing the lining closet door and looking down at you with a soft content smile.

“Been a while, huh?” Sonny spoke to you softly, his words only for you to hear.

“you work too much,” you smile at him, “and you never come back home.”

Sonny strokes your cheek with his thumb, his long fingers carded through the layers of the back of your hair. “Has there been anyone else?” He asks, and you know what he means.

Not since you last saw him, which was nearing eight months ago now. He made you promise not to go off replacing him with someone else, that he’d always be yours and you’d always be his.

“Hmm, I dunno, I know this one guy—his names Sonny, but he keeps ghosting me: saying he has too much work and stuff,” you roll your eyes.

“Ghosting you?” Sonny plays along, faking a shocked expression. “well, he ain’t worth it, is he?”

“Nope,” you smile, “but I know someone who is…”

Sonny smiles and bends his neck down to kiss you again, walking you backward a few steps so you’re against the wall as he made out with you. Still dressed from his very demanding job, his police badge dug into your stomach.

“yeah? ya wanna tell me who that is?” Sonny whispered against your lips.

“… you are,” you admit breathlessly and you couldn’t tear yourself away from his blue eyes. and sonny smiles, genuinely, and kisses you again, deepening the kiss by licking into your mouth.

sonny moaned as his hand slid down to your crotch and he just held his hand there, softly rubbing his fingers from time to time. if he had another quiet moment with you later on, he’d definitely make you cum either on his fingers or in his mouth.

you were like that, locked together and making out like immature teenagers in that closet for around five minutes before Serafina yelled that dinner was ready; and the rushed footsteps of the kids ran past the little hiding place you were both in.

Sonny broke apart from you and you could see his lips were swollen and wet from kissing you, his eyes were half lidded and pupils blown wide (you bet if you glanced down at his pelvic area that he would have a hard on, too).

“sit next to me at dinner?” he asked, stroking your cheek bone. you nodded and he kissed your lips one final time, lingering before opening the door.

[adarafaelbarba]

Saucy Saturday with the Carisi Clan? 👀

I completely forgot about this for a second, but I remember we talked in-depth about this, so I'll try to convert our notes into a hc 😅💕

Once a year the whole Carisi clan gather at his nonna and nonno's house (his dad's parents) for food, chats, and tomato sauce making.

When I say whole Carisi clan, I mean his parents, sisters, their husbands and children, aunts, uncles, cousins, and of course his grandparents.

The first year he joins after Nicky is born, he's excitedly talking about it when visiting the precinct for a case.

Amanda, though excited, is also worried. She knows his family adores her and the girls, but she knows how crazy they can all be, and with a new little family member? well, it might be too much for little Nicky.

So you jokingly suggest coming along as a nanny, to help with the three kids if need be.

To your surprise, and everyone else's, Sonny invites the whole squad and their significant other or child.

Joe looks on in wonder at all of this. He's not really had a big family. For most of it, it's just been him, his sister, his mother, and for the first few years of his life, his dad.

So to say he's shocked at being invited is an understatement.

But none the less, the upcoming Saturday, they all rock up to the address they were given on Staten Island, bright and early, ready for a whole day's work.

Serafina and her mother-in-law coming out to the door to greet them all.

"Captain Benson, how lovely to see you again. And this must be your son", Serafina says, looking at Noah who awkwardly says hello and offers to shake her hand. "In this family, we hug 🥰"

You and Joe were the last to be greeted as you stood all the way in the back, checking in on your best friend as the line went in.

"Hello, Mrs. Carisi", you said to the two women, giving them a warm smile, "I was raised never to come empty-handed, so I brought a few bottles of my homemade lemonade, where can I put it?"

The lemonade was a quick success, and several times you had to decline giving out the recipe, siteing it was a family recipe.

Joe was still a bit awkward at first. The amount of people there, crowding the house was almost too overwhelming to him and he contemplated making a run for it

That was until someone clapped him on the shoulder.

"You seem a bit tense, son, why don't you have a few sips of this beer, you'll feel right at home." It was Sonny's grandfather, Giovanni.

The older man was a good character reader, which was probably why he made such an outstanding officer turned detective in his time.

Joe gratefully took the beer from the older man and thanked him, "Thank you, Mr. Carisi"

"Call me Nonno Gio, Sonny tells me you're half Italian?"

And before Joe had time to think, he'd gotten emerged in a deep conversation with Giovanni and Dominick Sr.

Only when Sonny's aunt Maria came over, did Joe manage to get away. "Please don't fry the poor guy out, dad, he's not a suspect for the two of you to question. Besides, we need an extra pair of hands in the kitchen, y/n was put on babysitting duties 😅"

Joe is almost grateful to get away, although he won't get to spend time with you.

However, when he sees you, sitting on the floor with the kids, drawing funny images on a piece of paper for them, he swears his heart skips a beat.

When you finally get a moment away from the kids, you make your way to the kitchen to see if you can help with anything, and Serafina tells you to join Joe with the tomato-peeling. Your best friend immediately wanting to show you the way Nonna Elena taught him.

His arms wrapping around you as you stood in front of him, so he could best show you.

And you felt your face flush at the situation, the crush you had on him only heightening.

He was none the wiser at the effect it had on you, but was also so happy to have you in his arms like that.

At the end of the evening, and the long line of hugs that had followed, everyone were making their way to their cars, with two jars of tomato sauce each.

However, you and Joe were asked to stay back while the others left.

Well, more so him, since you were his ride back to the city.

He came back out of the kitchen with teary eyes, and a small notebook clutched to his chest.

"Jose? Are you alright?" You asked, worried something might have happened.

"I'm perfectly fine, thank you 🥹"

Once back in the city, you dropped him off at his place, and he leant over the center console, finally pressing his lips to yours.

"Today has taught me a lot, y/n and I--I want more than just friendship with you--"

You cut him off before he could finish with a kiss, smiling into it, "I want that too, Jose, more than anything 🥹"

~~~

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[clonerightsagenda]

HDM Season 2!

Episode 1:

Some of the early foreshadowing that opening gateways = specters is that right after Asriel makes his bridge, Citigazze is thronged with them. He must've created hundreds.

Where did Lyra learn judo

They've changed her first meeting with Will, continuing to make Lyra a bit more volatile to add tension and obstacles

The cloud pine is in the witches?? Also the sfx for the witches flying looks very silly, sorry.

Good, they kept Will paying for food and the all important omelettequest.

How does Will's phone have battery after 3 days in another dimension? Mine loses it sitting quietly on the shelf for a few hours.

They are sitting on the stairs from the intro sequence

Will psychic visions??

Episode 2:

Yes they kept Lyra getting hit by a car! (horrible thing to say)

They've tweaked the intro a little bit to reflect the Citigazze world so here is the important question - will the very artistic and serious intro for season 3 include the rollerskating elephants.

Botanic gardens mentioned!!

Ruta Skadi is more fiery and passionate in the books, but I don't remember her clashing this much with Serafina. More manufactured drama I guess.

SFF writers about dark matter: It's free real estate! (Diane Duane took a very different approach lol)

Mary Malone answering a random 12 year old's questions about her unpublished research: Anything to procrastinate on my grant application

They're dropping the witch daemon ritual lore early

Can you actually convict someone of being a traitor to a nation they don't actually belong to?

Grandparents?? Those don't come up in the book. Tbh if you're a mixed race kid and you learn that your white grandparents have never contacted you even though they live in the same city I'd assume they were racist and write them off, but I suppose Will is desperate.

I know a lot of the bad guys are given snake and lizard daemons because ooh, creepy crawly, but jokes on them because I love those little guys. I don't like Father McPhail but I love skinks.

Tbh I think being born in our world would have fixed Mrs. Coulter. She'd be a horrible girlboss CEO but she'd be thriving.

[devvinn1ie]

Seating Chart 2024

It's the 2024 1-E SEATING CHART REDRAW!!! yippee

The first seating chart I posted a while back was the 2022 redraw, and before this one, it was the latest version of the seating chart. So I basically haven't made one since then which is kinda crazy. There are 4 versions as of now, the original, two redraws, and the silly redraw version.

The seating chart usually takes a while to do, like 19-21 days to finish the whole thing. I drew every headshot individually and then edited them all together on the black template, which was made by Serafina-Zephyr on Deviant Art!

I had two main motivations for redrawing the whole thing:

THE OLD ON WAS SO UGLY. At the time it looked good. some of the headshots actually aged decently actually (ikumi, takage, daishin, etc, etc), but like the rest of them ended up looking so ugly wth

I was a stupid back then. I somehow convinced myself that the seating order in MHA was actually random and not by their last names. SO thus 1-E being randomized for like 3 years before me realizing that they shouldn't be

not much else to say, i yapped too much int he original caption, so I tried to sum it up the best I can here.

anyways bye guy

[aspaceformbf]

Another Conversation (11 Jan 2025)

Another conversation between me and Magus.

Well uh.. proceed with your own discretion. Just. Be warned. Of.. something? I mean it's kind of a vent so.. yeah

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I was wondering why the abuse route video was the first i ended up looking at.. asking him to pull his teeth out is something I wouldn't naturally do..

Magus : I wanted to check if that Boyfriend was going to treat you wrong. Gotta look out for the risks first..

Me : He was actually surprisingly alright in the soup route. He was pretty eager to please and didn't lash out at YN in this route

Magus : I mean, he doesn't need to look so -scared-, like this is the person you fell in love with right? Are you regretting it already?

Magus : Honestly i was prepared to have my organs eaten alive in the "abuse" route. I was expecting to be beaten black and blue, stepped on, I want to be stepped on and called names-

Me : You're getting pretty into it huh

Magus : coughs yes, i mean, i don't EXPECT you to, I'm perfectly happy without it, i just thought this game was about extremes, y'know..

---

Magus : But anyway, if you call me names and hit me I would be turned on and ask for more!

Magus : How dare they insinuate that I don't enjoy every moment I get with you!!

Magus : I just think it would be a real buzzkill if a whole bunch of people started booing the moment you stepped on me

Magus : I was WAITING for this, don't ruin the moment!!!

Me : Yeah, I'd expect something like this from a guy who thinks cutting hearts into himself is a love language

Magus : You know you love me~

Me : I do~ *pecks him on the lips*

---

I mean, yeah before that I was already inhaling all the day 5 screenshots and all those birthday art after..

Magus : All that sweetness is going to give me diabetes.

Me : Are you jealous that all that fluff out in the wild is making me feel like any edits i make would pale in comparison?

Magus : Maybe....

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Me : I'm happy that people love him so much

Magus : I'm just glad that our relationship is accepted

Magus : I just don't want to be policed for my "darker" kinks

Magus : As in masochism, i don't rape and that doesn't change

Me : Rough sex is still fine

Magus : It's all about consent!

Me : If someone posted art of YB and YN eating each others guts and they're both like smiling then i'm cool.

Me : But if he's like forcing himself on YN and they're like crying and saying stop and in the comments people are like "ugh why would anyone like rapists" then that's another thing

Me : Not like it's alright for me to go around and harass people for stuff like that, of course..

---

Another way of looking at things is how every version of yb canonically hates every other version of them and would kill them if they get the chance.

Though for this case its more of, the idea that YB would actually enjoy seeing another YB suffer, thanks to the whole "YB hates other versions of himself" thing.

In this case, it would be my Magus watching what Game YB is going through.

..Personally I didn't actually get this vibe with my Magus.

---

Another way of thinking about this is Magus just looking at the videos like

"How are they misrepresenting me? Are they slandering me as bad as Day 3?"

... Which feels a bit closer to what was happening then "Magus is doing this to see other Boyfriends suffer"

---

In real life what happened was that when Fbo posted on her twitter that long article about the victim lying, and when Queen Serafina posted the video that basically debunked that

I was wondering whether Day 4 being able to be streamed in public had anything to do with it like "Are a lot of people talking shit about her in the comments?"

So I was opening YBG videos and browsing through the comments. I actually started with a good route but.. yeah it would make sense that maybe you'd find more people bringing up her court case in the more negative routes..

---

In that tooth-pulling route one comment mentioned his shrine for us and I'm like

"Shrine you say?????"

I skimmed through the video, looking for the moment I would see the shrine. I saw shots of him in the kitchen looking like a sad puppy and then I went

"Wait what??? I have to see this he looks so cute in a sad puppy way!!!"

... And that's how I ended up posting the abuse route.

---

I felt really guilty about it, like I know some people might get upset that I would be talking about the negative routes so early on.

Instead of, say, gushing about the positive routes and sharing wholesome moments.

My excitement to share sadboy yb trying and failing to cook outweighed that guilt though. As I mentioned in an earlier vent, I don't want to get too bogged down by the sensitivities of other fans.

I can imagine seeing me going "Awww omg you're so cuteee!!" here kinda made Magus more open to exploring the abuse route like "Okay... maybe this route isn't THAT bad.."

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.... This reminds me of that "YB would tell the cashier that you asked for no onions" thing. Also reminds me of that parasocial fic i wrote.

Or that one time I headcanoned that YB would be a keyboard warrior for my sake. The double standards would be so strong like "rules for thee but not for my darling".

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Magus - Hitting your partner is cruel and disgusting and anyone who does that deserves a painful death

Me - What's with all the bdsm toys in your basement

Magus - There are exceptions.. that's consensual hitting

Me - What if I got mad and slapped you? Do I deserve to die?

Magus - blushes immediately

Magus - Do you want to? You can! That sounds pretty hot actually!

Magus - I mean of course you don't deserve to die, its different for us! In fact, I would reward you..

Magus sticks his face out, pointing at it with an eager smile. It makes me think of a guy leaning down and asking for a kiss.

Me - Oh, I don't actually want to..

---

I like think whenever Magus sees someone complaining about YN doing something being mean to YB, he gets all huffy like

"Hey! They don't get to tell you what you're not allowed to do!!!"

He doesn't like the idea of me or YN having to act nice and agreeable, or get hurt by him as a consequence like

"If you're an asshole, I hope he cuts your leg off" kind of stuff.

To be fair, I was also pretty mad at Red for a while for how she treated Tumblr YB. Magus isn't really as hung up about fairness or comparison (unless its to our advantage) as i am though.

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Online Comment : He's allergic to Peanuts??? No!! Get It away from him!!!!

Magus : I am STUFFING the sandwich in my mouth right now because fuck you

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Online Comment : Whoever does the tooth pulling scene is a MONSTER

-After looking up the actual video-

Magus : What?? He OFFERED!! And YN didn't even realize he was going to pull his teeth, he just went ahead and did it!!

"But abuse route YN is so rude and mean!!"

Magus : So you're policing language now???

---

I can imagine Magus looking at the reaction of the abuse route and then at the game itself and going

"What? That's it? I would do that EASY. And if anyone says i can't then they can FUCK OFF!"

---

I think he sees the game as a platform to prove himself to me. I mean, if the script didn't force him to be mean to me..

The soup route was from a rejection run where YN was already in fight or flight from the beginning.

They threw the soup at him because he was chasing them when they were tryna escape. Not to mention poisoning the soup in the first place to incapacitate him.

I guess looking back it feels weird to yell at that YN and treating them like they're evil because

"How dare you burn his face with boiling soup you abusive monster!!"

[anxietyfluffy]

my OCs sprites & suspect lineups!

(SPOILERS FOR GAME 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)

Faye is the girlfriend of Duncan, and is a carpenter in white peaks! She grew up in Rhyne Canyon, so she tends to wear clothes made for warm weather. Her daughter is Cosette, a more quiet girl. Faye n Cosette met Duncan due to the fact Cosette was the little girl he saved. When he was in the hospital, recovering after being shot in the spine, Faye and Cosette constantly visited him, thanking him for saving the both of them. Soon, when Duncan left the hospital, Faye visited him a lot more, which lead to them getting feelings for each other - and lead them to getting in a relationship. The two of them were disheartened when they discovered Duncan was a serial killer, Faye never stopped talking to him though, even if what he did hurt the two so bad.

Here is Aliah Khan, an Arrernte-Aboriginal woman from Australia. She went over the the Concordia Flying Squad originally for training, until she felt a certain connection to someone - Diego Del Lobo. Though, sadly, she could not properly be with him, as she was stuck in a loveless marriage. Though, with the time she got with Diego, their relationship grew to be strong. That was - until he killed Charlie. In ways, she understood why he did what he did, there was no choice on his part. But, the fact he killed someone they both were close to left cracks in their dynamic. And it didn’t help she had to return back to Australia. Before she left, Diego told her to look through his stuff, to where she found a necklace and a notebook. Telling her to keep it, Diego wished her better times in Australia, and that he hoped she’d write to him. Aliah treasured that notebook - which was full of love notes to her, from Diego - and the necklace, passing the jewellery down generations to keep it - and really, their love, safe and strong.

Brutus & Apollo are the descendants of Aliah, Angel being an adopted brother in their family. Brutus is the leader of the group, and was a detective for Grimsburough, Pacific Bay and the Bureau before making his own police department in his home country, Australia. His best friend, adopted brother and co-worker, Angel, is a loud, party-filled kinda guy. He loves scene music and just being chaotic. Apollo is similar, a care-free man who loves a good swim and a good game of soccer. And AFL. And any sport you can think of, really. Brutus is practically a polar opposite compared to these two social butterflies, he’s practically a hermit, who sucks at social situations. Though, this is made up by his pure smarts and strength. But that doesn’t stop him from being a blunt, awkward man who swears half of the time he speaks. (Also, Brutus has Aliah’s necklace, he just keeps it hidden underneath his shirt.)

Cecilia Serafina Marconi is Ginger and Tony’s child, born in 2009, she is a more quiet child. Blunt like her father, she doesn’t really have a lot of friends. But, she does have Astrid, her absolute best friend. Astrid is a year older than her, and was originally living with her grandmother, Margaret Littlewood before the events of Dog eat Dog happened. Instead of a dog show though, it was a beauty pageant for children. (Yes, that absolutely makes the case more devastating. :) ) Astrid ended up getting adopted by David Jones, as her parents were dead long before her actual case. 5 years later, she ended up being the loud, comforting friend for Cecilia. They both are inseparable - to the dismay of Tony and David - and always want the other to be there with them even for the most random situations.  If you all have any questions or want to know more about them, ask away! :D

[smolandweirdwriter]

Serafina and The Black Cloak Reread Thoughts: Chapter Two

"...as if the man wasn't of his own mind but possessed by a demented, ravenous demon" I don't quite remember but isn't it true that the cloak can speak to the wearer? so did it take over mr Thorne at some point? did hearing that voice all the time affect him and further corrupt him? did he ever get confused when he took the cloak off, maybe in the beginning, and think perhaps he didn't want to put it back on again, but in the end the urge for power and youth was too great? oooh angsty fanfic ideas.....

"Death was so near that she could see its blackness and hear the screams of the children who had gone before." this book is so dark how is it for children???? it's incredible I love it

ik she's looking for a place to hide from a guy trying to pull our her soul but her thought process when searching for a hiding spot reminds me of playing hide n seek

"She was the CRC. No trap or weapon or evil man was going to catch her." hELL YEAH

ahhhh description of serafina. collar bones that don't connect to other bones --> cats have a detached collar bone. four toes not five--> cats again. (also as a kid who was tiny and short and having been thought practically dead at birth, serafina was always inspiring to me)

"Mice are timid and prone to panic-induced mistakes at key moments. Just stay still little mouse, [she thought]." oooh nice callback to this exact thought about mice when she's hunting rats earlier

Also did I mention how much I love the chapter titles being encircled in brambles that form the shape of her face?? that's just cool. if I can actually write something good enough to be published, I'd love to have something like that

[goddessofeternity]

Chronicles of the Supernovas: Chosen

Chapter 24: Decisive Brawl

Nim

There was still something that we needed to do. 

The others were busy with moving Altair and getting the ship together and ready. Lady Serafina had drawn the Darkness away to give us our chance. The threat from that Atrocity was still too fresh though for Masami. Watching her now, she was fooling everyone else with her smiles and apologies, but the lies were deep in her eyes. She was ready to burst at the seams and her eyes held such bloodthirst that I was surprised that she could smile like that. The peaceful woman that we had all come to know was gone, or maybe she was never really there. I exhaled deeply glancing at Callum, because he seemed happy to have his wife back by his side. He was the one that was going to lose something if she kept it up, but the poor fool was too blind right now. 

“Hey…time to go…” Nerissa walked over and looked at me curiously. “What are you thinking about?”

“Nothing important…” I looked down and made a fist, feeling my energy coming back to me quickly. I never thought that I would be powerless like that. These weapons were a deadly foe. “Have your powers come back quicker?”

“Yeah actually…I feel pretty good right now.” To show her meaning, she drew the water out of the various plants and formed daggers made of water. Turning towards a tree…she sliced it and several others cleanly in half. “See? Not my best work, but still good enough.”

“Hmm yes…” I flexed my fingers and smirked at the electricity that flowed over them. I had to be almost at sixty-five percent right now. That would be enough to get us the rest of the way home. “I only worry about this Morlo…”

“Yeah…you would think that he would have shown up by now…” She scratched her head as we walked over to the ship. “He sends us all of these lackeys to face, but the big man himself just doesn't show up.”

“If he’s smart, he’ll stay away as long as he can. After the stunt that he pulled, he should stay in hiding for the rest of his life.”

“Heh…I want to get my hands on him before you do big guy…”

“Trust me little one…you won’t want to see what I do to him.” I smirked down at her as the woman finished healing Altair. It seemed that his captors took some turns roughing him up. He seemed better than he was when we first found him, but that was probably because the woman was babying him so damn much. 

“Hey cyclops! Hurry up, you old fart!” Nerissa snickered as a vein formed on my forehead and the child was lucky the woman was standing next to him and glaring at me. I picked up the pace as he chuckled behind her. “Surprised you could move that fast…”

“Listen you little fuc-” The smurf stepped into my view and I glared right back at her, but seeing the former hole in her clothes made me brush past her. She should have been more careful and not so damn reckless because of this kid. He was a walking red flag even more than Nerissa was at the time of her birth. There was always something about a star child that made the Darkness more jumpy than ever. Glanching at Nerissa, I could see why they wanted Altair so bad. Her untapped potential and power was staggering at times, and losing her was devastating to the Darkness. I could see the need to not want to fail again.

The other star children were safely hidden and protected by some of my best soldiers and Regan and Tove go on a rotation to guard them every few centuries. The Darkness was incredibly bitter about the whole thing, and I was quite smug about it. Although, being cocky about it was never in my mind for long, there was no telling what could happen when it concerned them. 

“Get on the damn ship brat…” I frowned at him over the woman’s shoulder and he laughed and strutted in with her close behind him. The others soon followed and it was finally time to head back to the temple. The woman was eager to pick up the rest of the children, but we had to secure Altair first. She thankfully didn’t fight it, but she also gave me a nasty look too. I let her have it though, she wouldn’t get the nice version of myself for long…just…just until I was sure that she was fully recovered. Callum gave me a look so that definitely meant that I had to let it go.

“Hehe…” That giggle meant that Ka’seem was once again flirting with Masami’s sister. After everything that happened and what he saw Masami do. I was surprised that he thought it was a good idea to keep pursuing that. Speaking of regrets, he was facing them now as Masami stomped over and grabbed him by the back of his throat. He let out the most unmanly squeak from his mouth as she dragged him away. Her sister was a pretty little thing, so I could see why he would attempt such a thing.

Nerissa started up the ship and Celica made her rounds to check up on everyone and I took the chance to sit back on a chair and close my eye and rest. The journey back would be enough for me to get an adequate amount of sleep.  The sounds of everyone's quiet chatter lulled me into an easy enough sleep. My mind did what it always did when it was at rest…think about her. I wondered if she was alright and healing after her fight. Or perhaps she was still fighting against them. 

Perhaps I should take Lady Serafina’s advice and check on Kay. No…I was just being sentimental right now because of Cel-

“Ow…” I opened my eye when I felt someone stand over me. I glanced out to see that she had reached her hand out to touch my shoulder. The grip I had on her wrist was turning it red. She didn’t seem fazed by it though. 

“Mmm…sorry…” I released her and she sighed before placing her hand on her hip. She looked well enough…the color was back on her face, and her eyes sparkled with intrigue. She had found some fresh clothes to wear, but I could still see the bandages that wrapped across her waist peeking under the small shirt. It is always painfully ironic that a goddess of health could heal so slowly. It was leagues better than most and was still fast, but serious injuries took her at most a week or two. 

Not that she ever got this hurt often. 

“I just want to make sure that any injuries you have are healing properly.” 

“My powers have been coming back quick enough.” I leaned back further in the chair to stare out the window. “You don’t need to waste your healing abilities on me.” 

“....” She sighed and I closed my eye again, figuring that she had walked away. “I’m alright…”

I released a breath through my nose at her tone. So small…so quiet…vulnerable. I opened my eye once more to see her standing over me with a frown. “Listen…you need to rest…stop worrying about everyone else and-”

“I’m fine-”

“You almost died Celica!” I hissed through my teeth at her, quiet enough that I didn’t disturb everyone else, but just enough frustration for her to know I was pissed off about it. She looked surprised at my tone as I sat up and rubbed a hand down my face. She had to be the most infuriating woman I had ever met! I’ve been around a long time and she was still the worst person to be around. 

“Nim…I had to keep him safe and I did that…I won’t apologize for that…”

“You’re a selfish one, you know that?” My fist tightened on the arm of the chair. Her care for children was commendable, but she made such a foolish mistake that almost cost her her life, and she felt nothing for it. “Have you thought about how everyone else would have felt with you being gone?! How would the rest of us would deal with that? Hell…do you think that is a conversation I want to have with your father?”

“I can’t help that I want to keep him safe! It’s my job! He is just a little boy who has his whole life ahead of him! I will not let the Darkness take his childhood away from him when he has already lost so much of his innocence! You can’t be mad at me! Not for this!”

“Goddamn it woman! You-”

She huffed out a breath before she grabbed my hand and squeezed it…tight. Tight enough that I could feel that her strength was definitely back, but not enough to break it. She didn’t stop there before she placed my hand against her chest. I furrowed my brow at the action and was about to move it, but she held firm. 

“You feel that right?” I was gonna ask what she meant, but the steady beating of her heart silenced me. “I’m alive and I’m not going anywhere. I know that everyone was worried and I’m not displacing any feelings here. If my time comes…then I would hope that I’ve done that fighting and saving someone, especially a child.”

She placed her hand on my shoulder and her eyes held my gaze hard with determination and strength radiating through her. “I’m sorry.”

“...fine…” She released me and I crossed my arms as I leaned back in the chair once more. “Just don’t let it happen again…bitch…”

“Yes of course stupid mutt.” She smiled at me before walking back to the others. The rest that I got was much needed and I only hoped that we were closer to finishing this mission so I could relax and get a damn drink, but we weren’t out of the woods yet, because the next thing I knew…I was thrown from my seat as the ship started spiraling through space. Once it began to right itself, I rushed to the front as everyone looked at a ship that was approaching us quickly. 

“What the hell is going on now?!” 

“I think something is coming at us!”

“Kid! Get further back in the ship!”

“Why?! I want to know what’s going on!” 

“You fucking brat-”

Crack!

“Get him off the glass!” Ka’seem yelled from the pilot seat and I took notice of a man outside the window. The glass was already cracked from his earlier strike, and he raised his fist to strike it again, but I moved to intercept him. I didn’t make it far as he jumped away from the glass and the ship that fired at us decided to become a battering ram. Ka’seem tried to turn the ship as best as he could, but it still slammed into us hard. It took me off my feet as I slammed into a wall. The side of the ship burst into flames and the force from space went quickly to work trying to drag us out. The woman had a grip on the child and Masami and her sister were holding onto other frames in the ship. The man from earlier burst from the flames right at Altair. A weapon raised and ready to kill him, but I charged at him with an angered cry. 

I caught the blade in my bare hands before I punched him in the jaw. He didn’t even flinch before he headbutted me. It surprised me that I reeled from it, but I suppose my abilities still weren’t fully restored. It would not matter because I would break this fool with only my bare minimum regardless. I gave him an even stronger headbutt before we spiraled through the air. I managed to get the weapon out of his hands before I slammed my fist into his face again. He retaliated in kind with his own flurry of blows. He gripped my shirt as we went through the air, and he planted his feet against a pillar before he pushed off, sending us flying across the ship and through a wall. 

“Nim!” Callum charged into the room and knocked the man off me before we all finally fell to the floor. I glanced at the other room for a quick second and saw that the woman managed to freeze the wall up, but the ship was still plummeting. Callum and the man wrestled each other for a bit before Callum kicked him across the room, remnants of his strength becoming clearer. The shaking of the ship was starting to make me sick to my stomach. 

“Ka’seem! Get the ship steady!”

“I’m fucking trying up here!”

The man roared like a beast as he fought Callum before I joined his side to combat the man as well. His rage washed over us like a plague as the force of his strikes became stronger and stronger. The only reason that this would be is if the Darkness gave him some of its power. I caught his fist before it collided with my face just as the kid shouted over all the chaos. 

“That’s him! That’s Morlo!” 

This was him?! I had to admit that I expected much more from this man and Callum shared a look with me. The room took on a sinister chill as the woman burst into the room and slammed Morlo onto the ground. He instantly coughed up blood before she slammed her heel into his nose, sending him through the floor. She blew out a chilled breath before she charged after him with a shrill cry. Callum and I were quick to follow her. 

“You son of a bitch!” She delivered a swift punch to his ribs, but he stood strong despite staggering back. “He’s just a child! All of them are!”

“Children are easily exploitable! That brat is no different bitch!” Withdrawing a gun, he shot at the woman but I jumped in front of her and cut the bullets with my sword. “I will not fail my mission again!”

“I will rip you apart for what you have done!” I held her back as she clawed at him. “Nim move!”

“We have to at least bring him back alive. Lady Serafina will want to question him…we need any information that he might have.”

“Fuck that!”

“I agree with Nim Celica…we have to take him back-” I flinched back as the man shot at us and we ducked behind various objects. I hated feeling defenseless like some mortal. My abilities needed to come back in full soon. I was ready to take him back, but if he kept this up I actually would kill him instead. The ship suddenly grinded to a halt, but the sudden force made us launch into the air. That bastard took the opportunity to launch himself at the smurf. She turned just as he grabbed her by the throat. 

I flung myself over as the zero gravity activated and punched him once more in the jaw. The woman kneed him in the stomach before Callum came over and slammed his elbow into his nose. He roared and took a hidden blade from his leg and stabbed Callum in the shoulder. Spinning through the air, the four of us finally settled on the ceiling, and we were once again in a brutal fight. 

This mortal would have never stood a chance if the three of us had our full abilities. I could feel my electricity slowly breaking through, but I could not risk it on this ship. The old fashioned way was perfectly fine with me. Morlo struck out at me, but I threw his arm down and two tapped him in the face before Callum followed up with his own punches. Morlo took a few but so did we as he proved to be a competent fighter despite our strange area of combat. The woman advanced on him too with her own blows and kicks. Her abilities seemed to be coming back as she wielded an ice dagger in her hands. I gave her a quick look before she tossed a pair to myself and Callum, and I blocked a strike to my face from Morlo. 

“The Light will taste defeat at the hands of my master! First however, I will break her spirit with the deaths of her precious Supernovas!” 

The man was a crazed lunatic as his strikes became more and more powerful by the second. His eyes were wide and crazed and saliva was spewing from his mouth. There was something in his eyes as Callum and the woman both charged at him. There was more than a growing sense of hatred, his pupils seemed to be changing. It would not be strange if he was changing in more ways than one. The Darkness seemed to be keen on making new creations. I would have to handle this quick if my suspicions were right. 

The zero gravity suddenly stopped and the four of us plummeted to the floor, but on the way down the three of us attacked Morlo as one. It was amazing how we could always be in sync when the chips were down. Callum struck towards his stomach, while the woman aimed for his heart and I went for his head. Morlo pivoted in the air and twisted just as Callum almost made contact with him. The quick turn almost made him collide his blade with smurfette, but she was quick to react and caught the blade and slammed it into his chest. I growled as he managed to dodge my swing to his head, but I continued my momentum and slashed his throat. 

He choked out some blood as we slammed through the ground and that is when he finally awakened. I didn’t react fast enough as a black mass consumed my face. I heard the others struggle next to me as we continued to crash through the ship. I was sure that I heard the others yell out for us before a harsh chill consumed my body and I realized that we were out in space now. My arms felt heavy and my sight came back and I saw the creature that Morlo became. 

The man was long gone and there was nothing but an amalgamation of various parts of different creatures mixed into the man. Most of the mass was a dark ball of liquid that was slimy to the touch and frankly I didn’t like that I could taste some it either as it wiggled across my face. Morlo or what was left of him was in the center of it. Only his head was visible, but his eyes had sunken deep into his skull and a shrill scream emerged from his mouth every few seconds. The thing that worried me the most was the fact that the mass seemed to be heading back to the ship and I could barely move. Glancing to my left, I could see Callum struggling to break me from its grasp. The woman was completely covered but she was fighting back against it. 

“Hey fucker!” I looked up as Nerissa was falling towards us with her ax raised over her head. Ka’seem was close behind her as they both collided with the mass, sending us further into space. Nerissa managed to sever Callum away from the beast and Ka’seem managed to dig me out. I spit out some of its disgusting gunk before moving towards the woman, but she didn’t need any help as the mass that had her started to freeze over. 

I flinched back as she shatter the mass around her and shards of ice flew out around us. Her face was red with anger as she willed her spear to her side. It was at this moment that I felt the familiar feeling of electricity coursing over me. Morlo’s face disappeared into the mass and that told me all I needed to know about finishing him off. 

Nerissa charged at the beast once more and we were all quick to follow her. The blue one managed to freeze its limbs as they swung at us with sharpened blades. Conjuring up some lightning, I managed to make a sword from it before I charged for the center of the mass. Morlo didn’t make it easy as one of the tendrils snaked out and caught me in the ribs. I coughed out a bit of blood as a chunk of my flesh stung from the wound. Such a wound would not bother me now or ever. I ducked and dodged as he shot out more tentacles at me, but Nerissa and Ka’seem came to my side and cut them away. 

The mass that was Morlo began to vomit out smaller masses that soon attacked us. Smurfette sprang into action alongside Callum and I, and the three of us made quick work of them. Although we seemed to be having the upper hand, Morlo seemed to grow larger and larger. His attacks became more targeted as well. Although our abilities were coming back at a good pace, we still needed to be cautious about the whole thing, but I wanted to finish this bastard because he had caused far too much pain. I stole a glance at the woman as she fought off the smaller enemies that were surrounding us. 

I hated feeling that this lesser being, this disgusting mortal had almost taken her away. She might piss me off, but that didn’t mean that some low life and his gaggle of imbeciles could finish her off. I roared as my sword blazed with raw power. Callum blasted the creature with his pure light and he recoiled in pain and agony and his core revealed itself. The woman floated above the mass and blasted it with her ice and his face twisted in pain as the entire thing began to freeze. I was so close to finishing this, but he was an annoying bastard. With a piercing roar, I was thrown back from him as my ears bled and my head began to spin. The others also flinched away from it, but Nerissa and Ka’seem recovered quickly. Nerissa gathered water into the air above her head before she formed a water snare for the creature, but he broke one of his tendrils free and pierced her through her chest. 

“NIM! HURRY THE FUCK UP!” 

It was easier said than done since I hated to fly and my ears were ringing, but feeling something around my waist, I looked down to see a vine. Ka’seem was almost as strong as me, so when he nodded at me and swung me towards Morlo. I knew that I had the force to knock this fucker into the next few galaxies. The others parted the way for me as Ka’seem slammed me into the mass. Callum’s light had still managed to weaken it, and it was still immobile from the ice and water from the girls. 

“N-No! I-I…the…the LIGHT!!!”

“You aren’t worthy to speak her name!” I cut through all of his disgusting body as my lightning consumed and broke him apart. The blade striking the top of his head, before I split him down the middle. Lightning crackled and sparks flew as we both roared, one of pain and one of determination and victory. His body cracked apart and exploded when I managed to cut all the way through him. We all were thrown away from him and I grunted as I managed to slam into the ship. My head was spinning as I looked over at the former mass. 

The others gathered around him and I held my head as I did as well. The only thing left of him was his split head, but the bastard still found the strength to talk.

“My���my master will…avenge me…destroy the…Light…” A broken chuckle escaped him as he began to disintegrate. “This is not…my end…you bast-”

“The Darkness has no need for weakness.” I rolled my neck as I looked down at his pathetic attempts to warn us. “They made you a monster because you were no longer needed. A brainless and weak creature that in the end still couldn’t finish the job.”

“F-Fuck you all!”

“No Morlo…you don’t get to have the last word for what you have done.” The woman moved up as her eyes glowed dangerously. Reaching a hand out, she grasped his skull and slammed it together once more. “Hell will not be your final resting place…no…I have something in mind for men like you…something far far worse than Hell…”

He yelled out more curses before the woman crushed his head into delicate shards of ice. With a final sigh, we watched as his pieces scattered away before returning to the ship, and at last we returned back to Lady Serafina’s temple to finally complete our mission. 

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“You’re making this such a big deal…”

“I won’t have the brat in her home looking like…this…”

“Hey!”

“Shut up and move it…little shit…” Altair grumbled as I shoved him along through the halls of the temple. The trip back to the temple was mostly spent sleeping and feeling our energy come back, and thankfully nothing else. Now, we just had to make a final introduction. 

Opening the doors of her throne room, I inhaled deeply as I saw her looking up at the moon. She was covered in some bandages, but she looked fine from here…she always did honestly. Hearing the doors open, she turned to dazzle us with her smile. Altair even paused when she laid her eyes on him, but I just pushed him further in while the woman glared at me. 

“Altair…”

“You…you were the other voice that I heard…”

“Yes…I’m sorry if I was confusing you…” She crossed the room with slow steps and I frowned at that. She really needed to be resting and not worried about the brat, but I suppose that would be asking too much. “I just want to stress the point to you that you are safe.”

“I…I know…I feel…safe…”

“Good…” She smiled once more before she kneeled to his height and held her hand out to him. He hesitated for only a second before he took it. His face was a bright crimson as she brushed his hair back and held his cheek. “I will make sure that you never have to be scared and worried ever again. You deserve to live a life of peace and security, and I would like to give you that…for you and your grandfather.”

“W-What?! He’s alive?!” I glanced to the right of the room as a man walked into the room. He was quite young to be a grandfather. The pair ran at each other and embraced and I couldn’t help but smile at their joyous reunion. I guess the little brat did deserve a win after everything that he had been through, we all did honestly. 

“I trust that you all will get some rest?”

“I think we should be saying that to you instead, my lady.” I frowned at her before she laughed and patted my shoulder. “Seriously…”

“Oh my wolf…you worry far too much…all of you do…”

“With good reason, my lady.” Callum stepped up beside me before he looked over at Masami and her sister. “There is a lot that we have to discuss once we rest, my lady.”

“Yes I know Callum, but I want to thank all of you for protecting another one of my precious star children. You all fought valiantly and for that you have my eternal gratitude. Rest my Supernovas you have earned it. Until we meet again…”

I sighed as everyone began to break away and head home. I’d give Nerissa and Ka’seem a day before I show up to their temples and kick their asses. I needed to rest, but I didn’t want to leave her side yet. The woman smirked at me and I couldn’t help but send her one myself. I could admit that I was worried that we had almost lost her. It only meant that we still needed to train and grow ever stronger to make sure something like that didn’t happen again. 

This particular mission was over for now, but the Darkness always had more things up their sleeve. I knew that this was only the beginning and things were changing at a rapid pace. We would have to be more ready than ever, because now having the time to rest and think. Something in the air was making my hair stand on end. Something was happening and the feeling in the pit of my stomach was one that I hadn’t felt in…well it had been some time. I glanced at Lady Serafina to see if she felt what I felt, and the worry on her face confirmed it as she led Altair and his grandfather away. Ka’seem barely was out of the temple but his face changed as he stopped talking to Nerissa. I hadn’t seen him this pale in years, but the speed in which he left the temple and the raw energy that I felt suddenly shook my core. 

I ran outside the temple as I felt a familiar surge of power. Lady Serafina appeared at my side as we looked into the vastness of space. The battle…no…the war was far from over. Something had awaken and been unleashed into the cosmos again, something that should have stayed buried. This fight with the Darkness would now only get harder, fiercer, and more deadlier from this point on.

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[book review] northern lights by philip pullman (1995)

i first read this in college around when the ill-fated movie adaptation was coming out. i had seen the trailers and was thirsty for more fantasy type stuff, which it turns out was literally the entire cynical motivation for making the movie because they totally lotr-ed it up. the book is actually much more a response to narnia (which itself received the lotr-ification treatment in its film adaptations), but has a much different aesthetic/genre that the movie largely ignores, but we’re not here to talk about the movie rn i’m just setting the context of my first reading.

i was in the middle of reading it when the catholic church & others started calling for boycotts, and that was back during my misguided religious phase so at that point i was like “well, fuck.” but i was already in the middle of the book and i was really enjoying it so i kinda shrugged it off & decided that i enjoyed it but i didn't like that the church was the bad guys, and it was ok to enjoy something i disagreed with.

obviously now the anti-church stuff is a feature for me rather than a bug, so i was interested to see how i would feel about the book now with that in mind. and uh yeah, i do love that aspect of the book, very much so, yes. but it’s also so far in the background that a reader could be forgiven for it not being one of their biggest takeaways if they’re not paying close attention? like, by the end of the book it’s pretty fucking obvious that that was the entire point, but that turn happens in literally a line of dialogue at the end of the book (which i fucking love), but it’s not difficult to see in retrospect why even at my most brainwashed (not the fun/kinky kind, the boring religious kind) i was able to shrug it off and enjoy this as a silly little adventure yarn. which btw makes it pretty fucking hilarious that the church was so fragile about it, but whatevs!

but yeah, even though i don’t think it’s actually going to change anyone’s mind, that last interaction between lyra & pantalaimon that i alluded to earlier was everything to me this time. when pan says, “if they [the church] think dust is bad, it must be good!” and i forgot that that point was made that explicit in this book. it’s possible to miss its import if you’re just caught up in the breezy adventure the rest of the book has been, but it just absolutely turns the world upside down. i fucking love it.

also, another thing that hit me on a completely different level this time was this passage:

his hands, still clasping her head, tensed suddenly and drew her toward him in a passionate kiss. lyra thought it seemed more like cruelty than love, and looked at their dæmons, to see a strange sight: the snow leopard tense, crouching with her claws just pressing in the golden monkey’s flesh, and the monkey relaxed, blissful, swooning on the snow.

“strange sight”? idk man, sounds pretty normal to me.

other things i loved included serafina talking about feeling the starlight & moonlight on her skin. even though it wasn’t particularly foregrounded, all the witchy stuff was wonderful. i also loved iorek byrnison. as if having a magical little animal spirit that was part of yourself & you could talk to & cuddle wasn’t enough, lyra also gets a fucking armored bear king protecting her! what a lucky girl!!

and of course lyra herself was a wonderful protagonist. she’s just so fucking good. strong desire to protecc.

in the category of things i didn’t so much love was all the casual, careless racism. like, don’t get me wrong, this isn’t as bad of an offender as the aforementioned lewis or tolkien books, or a lot of its more direct influences like say the works of jules verne, but it still is rather frustrating all the same.

kinda par for the course for stuffy british adventure stories tbh, but again it’s not like outlandishly racist or anything, just… there’s an undercurrent throughout that i wouldn’t feel right not mentioning.

i also think it’s worth noting that while these books are marketed as y.a., they’re probably, uh, a bit heavy for the average kid? like, some genuinely traumatizing stuff happens!! but also idk kids are a lot more resilient than people give them credit for, i know this wouldn’t have phased me if i had read it when i was 12, just feels worth mentioning that it gets pretty dang dark.

so yeah, if you can shrug off the fairly commonplace racism of someone who seems like he’s trying his best but is too british not to be casually racist, this is a pretty great read. i find it very easy to get sucked in. lyra is such a great protagonist who you genuinely want to be safe, and the writing style hits that really nice sweet spot where it has a lot of inherent personality that leaps off the page, but it’s also still extremely approachable, which is just the perfect recipe to make something compulsively readable.

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Title: "When The New Shadows The Old"

Yes I know late as usual but I fell behind on these prompts because of life and so now I'm trying to play catch-up while doing a thousand other things, but here is my fill for @flashfictionfridayofficial but it's *checks calender* Tuesday the 28th 👍😃 enjoy!!

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Fandom: Supernatural

Prompt(s): "Filled with clarity"

Relationship(s): Michael (Archangel) & Serafina

Character(s): Michael (Archangel), Serafina

Important Tag(s): Canon Divergence, Good Older Sibling Michael, Sibling Affection, Family Feels, Angel Family, Parental Michael (I WILL make that a tag just you guys watch me)

Rating: Gen

Warning(s): Archive Warnings Don't Apply, None

Word Count: 1,488 (yes I know it's a lot over, i tried trust me)

He knew it was the right place thanks to his siblings gossip, but also because the all too familiar name of his little sister was printed by the shop's name. As if that did anything to calm his nerves, nerves that he would otherwise not admit to having. He'd had raised all of them, connecting with everyone again couldn't be that hard… 

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Michael in his efforts of repairing his relationship with his siblings stops by a none too familiar new age shop and pays Serafina a visit...

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Michael stood outside the shop with windows advertised with Tarot cards, crystals, candles, and the like, looking for one of the many few reasons he had to be on Earth. Very few humans held that reasoning but even fewer of his siblings held such reasoning too. 

He knew it was the right place thanks to his siblings gossip, but also because the all too familiar name of his little sister was printed by the shop's name. As if that did anything to calm his nerves, nerves that he would otherwise not admit to having. He'd had raised all of them, connecting with everyone again couldn't be that hard… 

He shook his head, took one last look around before he stepped forward and pushed open the door. The soft bell rang out, letting his presence be known as he looked around the shop. The window display advertisement reflected exactly what covered every shelf and laid in every case, though just not what—or rather who Michael was looking for.

"Serafina?" He called, looking around as he made his way towards the front desk. "Little sister?" He called a bit louder. He waited a second, stepping back, ready to turn on his heels and out of there, but the rustle of beads caught his attention.

He turned towards the person who appeared from the curtain of beads, a box in front of their face but if the hanging colorful clothing was anything to go by, Michael knew who it was.

Serafina put the box down on the counter and turned to him with a bright grin. "Michael!" She threw her arms around him and pressed a kiss to his cheek before pulling back. "Perfect time for you to stop by."

"Actually, I was—" decks of cards were shoved into his arms before he had further time to protest.

"Help me stock these." She turned sharp on her heals.

"Sera—"

"And there's plenty more in those boxes where this came from."

"Sister—"

"Adam—my Adam," she noted, "went to pick up some things so I'm here alone and shop opens up in an hour."

"I was—"

"And this shipment came in late, it was supposed to come in yesterday but they decided to drop it off this morning so—"

"Serafina," he interrupted.

She turned back towards him. "Yes?"

He sighed. "Where do I…?" He gestured to the items that had been shoved in his arms.

"Just there." She pointed to a shelf. "And while you do that." She disappeared behind the wall of beads before reappearing with a circle of keys in her hand. "Joshua had stopped by, he uh… he left something here. Said he didn't have any use for it anymore but wanted it in safe hands." She rounded the front desk, the turning and jingling of keys heard before she lifted up a necklace. Quickly, she closed the gap between them as she laid it in his hand.

He cocked his head at the familiar design. "The Winchester's?" 

She shook her head and hopped up on the counter. "This was one Joshua had made during the fall, and of course after everything, he just… yeah."

He looked down at the wielded metal that despite its simple appearance, he could feel the power radiating off of it.

"Thought you might want it," she continued. "I know it's useless but sentimental value and all that. I mean Chuck was never really anything to us angels but I know you guys have some memories, good or bad, but still memories."

"Thank you…" he took a breath. "But," he handed the charm back, "I don't have much use for it, I'll ask the other three, but… we've all mostly moved on."

"Best to make positive memories out of something new right?" She said, but looked down at the charm and ran her thumb over it, cherishing it almost as if longing for something it could have been.

"What're you going to do with it?" He softened his voice. 

She shrugged. "What do you want me to do with it?"

"Well—" he eased his weight back against the counter next to her "—a part of me wants to get rid of it for good."

"Hear hear."

He lightly chuckled. "But considering events and how things usually go, I think it might be best to give it to the Winchesters, let them put it away in some box in that bunker of theirs."

"I don't visit them too often, only to see that adorable nephew of ours, so," she handed it back to him, "give it to them when you see your Adam."

He smiled as she hopped off the counter and went back to unpacking the boxes. "You know," she started, grabbing multiple things in hand and starting to shelve them, "I know we all finally got to meet Dad during that whole disaster…. I just kinda wish we could have kept that bed story image of him that you used to tell us. The one where The Darkness was just some made up bad guy that Dad locked away to keep us safe."

Michael kept his agreeance to himself and continued to stay quiet.

She rounded back to the boxes, repeating the process. "To you, he loved us; you knew he didn't, but we would never know that as long as you kept telling us that he did." She stopped what she was doing for a second before continuing. "It's probably stupid but during everything I had thought it might have been nice if we had gotten to know him before everything. I mean I see Adam—"

"Your Adam," he supplied before she had the chance to.

She smiled and let it fade with her words. "He created him—humans—and then us." She took a breath and shook her head. "It's sad when the creations are better than their creator."

"Serafina, I'm sorry that…" he struggled for words.

"What? Sorry that he didn't care about his own children?" She scoffed. "Nothing you could have done, big brother. You did everything you could do and more; probably more than we all deserved honestly."

He grimaced. "Little sister—"

"I mean, gosh… what we put you through when we were all kids. If we were human, you would probably have white hair just from raising all of us," she laughed. "From Lucifer to Anna and her Garrison to me picking on little Sammie—"

He chuckled inwardly at the memory.

"—and then the first time with The Garden." She looked towards him with a sly grin.

For the first time in a long while, Michael smiled at a fond memory of the Garden. "You discovered the Garden, or more importantly that you could interact with the humans inside The Garden."

"You were so mad." She dropped the box off the counter and kicked it to the side. "All the little ones thought I was a goner. Even some of the older ones did too, teased me about it, made me think you were gonna end me right then and there."

"Well you knew the outcome." He for one knew that her knowing of Jack wasn't just some trick of a psychedelic.

She tilted her head. "They help, but it's not like anybody ever listened to me anyways."

"Why do I feel like I should have known?"

"We'll be glad you didn't because then, Babylon, Adam, Jack." She named things off. "All the cards fell into place and well…" She stacked the last deck into place and stepped back, a content smile on her face as she exhaled. She clasped her hands and turned towards him with a flourish. "Adam should be back any minute and the shop is gonna open soon, and I know you didn't come here to buy crystals or tarot cards."

He shook his head. "It's not important, It can wait."

"Well," she said and closed the distance between them with another hug. Delicateness being much different from their first one as Michael was left not in surprise but the time to wrap his arms around her and hold her tight.

Seconds passed till they both pulled back, hands still on one another.

"I might pop home for a little," She noted. "Pick on Samandriel a bit just for old times sake."

He scoffed a laugh. "I'll see you then, Sera."

"You too, Mikey." Her hand came down his arm as she grabbed his hand and gave it a tight squeeze. The action, short lasted, as the ring of the bell above the door gave Michael the signal to take his leave.

Though as he returned to the familiar white corridors, he felt something in his hand where Serafina's previously was. He uncurled his fingers to reveal a rigid cut crystal with a thin leather strap bound around it, much the same as the other charm that was in his pocket.

Something new…

He smiled down at it and gripped it tight.

[miracleweaponhunt]

Miracle Weapon Hunt Chapter 77: Dude, Where's My Bear?

The other three approached the castle. Julian called Fiorella to let her know the second wave could land before turning back.

"So who's got this?" Einer asked, hands on his hips.

"Gimme a second." Julian said, slathering more dead bug juice onto the bear, who jerked to life and slowly approached the door, alongside Julian casually walking besides it.

"Julian?" Cassandra asked.

"Go easy in case there's someone behind the door? Already on it, babe."

The bear prepped both hands as it twisted it's fists before the mighty door. It punched one door each, with both falling to the ground in a single motion, allowing free access to the castle itself.

As the three stepped inside, there wasn't a single person in the hallway. This didn't seem good. Cassandra knew this layout meant one of two things. Either Chelic was genuinely underprepared, or the few people he does have lying around here were on an entirely different level and the guys outside were meant to scare the commoners out. And in this case, it was the latter. Some kind of shuffling could be heard from the inside on all sides, so she held her axe and kept her sword and spear on her back.

"Daciana, you're up!" the voice from near the hallways bellowed out. Julian looked around for any place they could hide, but the entire royal legacy seemed to be hollowed out. The footsteps to their left got louder, and one set got louder before becoming dead silent. Julian leapt for the bear and barely touched it, and the bear was able to match the strike the muscular girl tried to crush him with. he jumped back, standing upright to let her height tower over them and match Julian's bear. Her two friends came to meet her, with Serafina grinning at the trio when she caught up.

"No. Way." She laughed to herself. "If it isn't Cassandra!" She yelled out. "Oh, you two missed out with her! Trying to take her down was some of the most fun I've had since I joined you guys!"

"You mean when you failed to take the greave from her?" Finbarr asked. Julian glanced at him. This guy was fighting along Serafina, who was in the top ten fighters the Legion had, while this girl that clashed against his bear was almost certainly on her level. But this guy? He hadn't done anything, and he was just wearing a white polo shirt and worn out jeans. His glasses looked a little small, and his curly hair was styled pretty well.

"So is the guy next to you a high ranking member?" Julian asked, pointing at the guy.

"Oh, Finbarr?" Serafina asked. "Yeah, number five. All things considered, he's more of a support guy, but he's probably one of the best we have for that, considering that he can…"

Serafina threw something past her at thigh level, but looked like she just shutdown mid sentence, tripping before turning to dust when she hit the floor. Cassandra instinctively turned around with her sword in hand and clashed against Serafina's emergence after she caught her knife in midair and went for the neck. The knife was flung across the room, and Serafina disintegrated to go and get it back. Aubrey bounded against the wall and landed a perfect kick to Cassandra in the brief window she was distracted. She flew across the room where Serafina reappeared with the knife in her hand, embedding it into Cassandra's midsection. Cassandra swallowed the scream building up inside her, and got back up to see her smug face silently mocking her.

She never removed the knife which was still embedded in her, but she was concerned this part of some kind of plan, where she'd pull some move or trap if she tried removing the knife. So with nothing else to do, she took her sword out and began slashing. She kept aiming for the stomach, but Serafina would quickly turn to dust and reform a few meters away, just as she was about to hit. Serafina didn't even seem to be trying to hit her back, just disappearing and reforming again in a new stupid pose each time. So when she came back again, Cassandra threw her sword towards her, quickly taking her spear out and thrusting it forward. Serafina looked shocked for a second, jumping like a startled cat backwards before turning into a cloud of unfocused dust. before appearing next to Aubrey, who was trading blows with Julian's bear and trying to avoid Einer's ice.

Einer was trying to freeze the others. But using his powers in a place like this wasn't a good idea. If he used up too much ice he could make it harder for anyone else getting in. Too much ice in one place and that could easily kill someone, friend or foe. But his current attempt at pathetic spikes to weaken people with the occasional wall to separate Aubrey and Finbarr wasn't working. When he shot forward a particularly large blast of ice that pierced Aubrey's arm, she punched the bear away, pulled it out, and let a primal scream out.

"Serafina!" She screamed. "Stop playing around and get a chandelier down!"

Serafina did as she was told after flipping off Cassandra with both hands, running away afterwards and scrambling to climb up the staircase to reach a chandelier. When she got up, she took a second knife out of her pocket and cut the string connecting the light to the ceiling in one swift motion, causing both it and her to crash to the ground. She jumped off at the last second, leaving her slightly disoriented. And as Serafina felt her senses come back, she was overcome with a chilling sensation, as she wasn't able to do or move anything. Her head was the only exposed thing, so she turned around to see Einer behind her, a cold mist covering his hand as he casually turned back to Aubrey.

Aubrey ignored everyone surrounding her and plunged her fist into the chandelier. Julian stood back to observe just what he was seeing, and Aubrey stood up, the chandelier perfectly merged with her fist. Julian quickly crushed a dozen bugs between his hands and slathered them on the bear. The bear leapt towards Aubrey in one burst of speed, and Aubrey charged up one final punch, landing it straight into the bears stomach.

The bear didn't have time to roar before it was split in half. Julian watched as the corpse fell for the final time, looking up in horror at the titan of a girl looking towards him.

"Guys, we gotta run!" Julian screamed. He led the escape, running to the door on his left while Einer threw up an ice wall, followed by another a few metres from the first.

"I'll regroup with the rest and get back!" He yelled to Cassandra before running out of the castle.

Cassandra felt the earth shake around her as the first wall was shattered. And with nothing else she could do, she followed Julian out.

She ran through the hallways, some of them having crude drawing painted shoddily on the walls. She heard commotion, and followed the sound. There was a scream heard, and Cassandra finally found herself in the throne room. Chelic was there, but the cold leader was gone, replaced by a whimpering man with a bruised eye and surrounded by shards of glass. Julian was on the other end of the room, getting up from what had to be something painful.

"Levin?" Chelic asked, combing his hands through his hair to get all the bugs out. "I don't care what you do here, but if these three are gone by today, you're number one!"

And with that final panicked message, he ran upstairs. Julian tried following him, but Levin quickly stepped in with a blade made of light, that was only stopped by Samuel sweeping his legs and tripping him up.

"Well, I guess it's time we finished this." Levin sighed. "But now that I have free reign, I wonder if any of your friends will recognize you by the end."

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[secretly-a-catamount]

Rowenas If I fall . . .?

Waysa: I’ll be there to catch you.

Serafina: *looks at Braeden* What if I fall?

Braeden: Then I’ll fall with you, never leaving your side.

Jess: *watches these two interactions*

Jess, to Essie: And if I fall . . .?

Essie: I’ll be the one who pushed you.

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Serafina: Braeden is too tall for me to kiss them on the lips. What should I do?

Jess: Punch them in the stomach. Then, when he doubles over in pain, kiss him.

Rowena: Tackle him.

Essie: Dump him.

Waysa: Kick him in the shin!

Braeden: No to all of those! Just ask me to lean down!

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*The Squad's reaction to being told they're the chosen one*

Serafina: I will not let you down.

Braeden, mustering enthusiasm: Sounds fun.

Waysa: No, I'm not.

Jess: Please god, I am so tired.

Essie: Do I have to be?

Rowena: I’m the villain.

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*The Squad when asked about their earlier confession of love*

Jess: Yeah, you're lucky. I like you.

Essie: I'd understand if you didn't feel the same way . . .

Braeden: *has a panic attack* What confession?

Serafina: *winks* I know, babe. You like me too.

Waysa: So what? Are you going to date me or not?

Rowena: It was a dare.

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Jess: Stressed.

Waysa: Depressed.

Rowena: Possessed.

Essie: Obsessed.

Braeden: Impressed.

Serafina: Chicken breast.

Everyone: ...What?

Serafina: I just wanted to join in.

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Jess: If you put 'violently' in front of anything to describe your action, it becomes funnier.

Jess: Violently practices.

Rowena: Violently studies.

Waysa: Violently sleeps.

Waysa: Violently shoots pictures.

Essie: Violently boxes.

Serafina: Violently murders people.

Braeden: Violently worries about the previous statement.

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*after the Squad has been separated for a few years*

Waysa: So what have you been up to recently? Braeden: Leading a revolution with Serafina.

Waysa: Good for you two! Me, I've joined the mob.

Braeden: *nods* Oh, how cool! That's awesome!

Waysa: I know! Anyway, have you heard from the others? Rowena?

Braeden: Happily living as a hermit in the woods. Essie?

Waysa: Wrongfully locked up in an asylum, which reminds me, we need to break them out later. Jess?

Braeden: Cult leader.

Waysa: Yeah, that sounds about right.

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Jess: Imagine if someone handed you a box full of all the things you lost throughout your life.

Serafina: It would be nice to have my sense of purpose back . . .

Braeden: Oh wow, my childhood innocence! Thank you for finding this.

Waysa: My will to live! I haven't seen this in years.

Essie: I knew I lost that potential somewhere.

Rowena: Mental stability, my old friend!

Jess: Goodness, could you guys lighten up a little?

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Serafina, to the Squad: I’d die for you.

Jess: Then perish.

Rowena: You will.

Waysa: Please don’t.

Essie: Cool.

Braeden: I’d die for you first, Serafina.

[clonerightsagenda]

His Dark Materials season 3 continues!

These were slightly less grueling although part of it might be that I had a task to work on while watching. I still get the sense that they dragged out every beat with a bunch of additional conversations whenever they could. Maybe that would be more welcome if I was watching this week by week as they were released rather than in a row.

Episode 5:

Oh thank god the mulefa do have their seedpod wheels, just not all the time.

I bet Mary wishes her degree was in botany, zoology, or anthropology, not theoretical physics.

We really speedrun the mulefa plotline in this. I wonder if it's difficult for show only people to follow? I naturally can fill in the gaps without thinking about it too much. The take that Eden is a savanna filled with rollerskating elephants remains bold.

They put Mrs. Coulter back into skirts... the monsters. Mrs. Coulter x pants is the real flagship of this tv show.

Will misgendered his daemon but then immediately switched to "her" when he talked about her being with Pan. Maybe the reminder that Pan is male tipped him off.

Going to the land of the dead and saying 'do you guys want to like. leave' remains a power move. Love a good harrowing of hell/afterlife breakout. The walls being piles of cast off objects from the living world is an interesting addition.

Roger: I've changed. My mom: I got a lot older. Me: It turns out if you die you can still go through puberty. It's part of our torture.

They cut the liar/Lyra bit with the harpies which is a shame. I guess they sort of used it earlier with the guard in the entry area of the land of the dead calling her a liar. Still all the harpies stuff is kind of out of order, with Gracious Wings saving her before they made their deal. Also instead of human heads the harpies look like they are part turtle.

Will and Lyra: languishing in hell Mary: hot girl summer

They sure dragged the bomb thing out. Honestly I don't hate it missing Lyra because the target locked too early, considering 'a ghost magically knows about the bomb and they defeat quantum entanglement by giving her a haircut' was kind of an ass pull. I also don't necessarily hate the rift being the angels retaliating, since it makes Metatron a more major player before his defeat and it makes the increasing loss of Dust a more direct part of the 'battle'. It does sort of undercut so much of the damage to the worlds being humans fucking shit up in the name of the Authority though. The angels in the book really don't do much, and I think that's by design. Also talking to you, Good Omens showrunners.

Episode 6:

Nooooooo not more voiceovers

Ruta lampshades it in the books but really how did Lord Asriel build his massive compound with foundries in like 2 months after crossing universes with nothing but the clothes on his back.

Asriel seeing a giant rift rip open between worlds: clearly this is about me

Mrs. Coulter: Our daughter is dead. Asriel: *read 4:16 pm*

Mrs. Coulter is like what they say about converts being the biggest zealots except she's converted to parenthood

Sergei got sucked into the rift? Ok so they racebent Ruta, made her clash with Serafina as the more violent/impulsive one, gave her the tension with Mrs. Coulter, and then killed her off even though she doesn't die (at least onscreen) in the books. Not a good look, guys!

Adding some Roger/Will active jealousy rather than Roger just sadly observing how close he and Lyra are now while Lyra doesn't even realize it. Suppose that's harder to do in video. But Will are you really gonna beef with a dead kid. Let him have this

Asriel and Iorek talking is show!original but I'll let it slide because it was satisfying to see someone finally hit Asriel

Will's dad finally (vaguely) drops the lore about the wrong world killing you, even if he didn't make it sound fatal in the same way. You guys couldn't have even had him dramatically coughing up a little blood in the last season? That's a classic

IDK why Will's dad got to explain what happens to ghosts while Lyra keeps saying she doesn't know. Babe you have the alethiometer

They didn't have Lee and Will's dad stick around to be a gay ghost warrior duo! I'm genuinely surprised considering how they went out of their way otherwise to give LMM more scenes.

Mrs. Coulter heart to heart with the golden monkey. Golden monkey sympathy arc has been THE most surprising adaptation change tbh. Not even joking about this

[anangelwhodidntfall]

Matching Bracelet’s: Eddie Munson

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description: Eddie and Serafina were best friends and in love with one another in middle school before she moved..Now almost six years later Eddie learns that she’s back.  

"You like my bracelet Henderson?" Eddie asked Dustin who had been staring at the chunk of silver for the last twenty minutes.

"I do... it just looks a lot like the one our friend Serafina wears." Dustin said making Eddie stop eating because he hadn't heard that name in ages.

"She's in town?" Eddie asked because the last time he saw you was in middle school before you moved to California and you two lost touch.

"Yeah she moved back over the summer, I think she mentioned something about taking care of her grandpa." Mike said shrugging his shoulders as Eddie sat there processing the info about his first true love being back.

"Did you ever ask her about the bracelet?" Eddie asked after a few minutes.

"Yeah, all she says is that someone special gave it to her a long time ago and if you wanted to know she lives next door to Mike." Dustin said.

Eddie nodded his head as he couldn't believe that she was back after all these years. The two of them had been best friends before with Eddie being a year ahead of her, but promising to show her the ropes when she got to high school. He remembers how heartbroken he was when learned that she was moving because of her mom's new job and he remembers giving her the bracelet as a way to confess his feeling without really doing so.

"That way we'll always be together and you won't forget me." He said clasping the bracelet around your wrist.

"As if I could ever forget you, Eddie. I'm going to miss you." You said wrapping your arms around him slowly fighting the tears.

"I'm going to miss you sweetheart." He said tightening his grip on you as he fought his own tears.

Eddie was nervous, to say the least as he stood by the van waiting for Dustin and Mike to get her. I mean would she even remember him? Did she even want to see him, I mean why didn't she come to see him when she got back to town?

Serafina sighed as she heard the doorbell ring, it had been a long day, and was ready to relax. She opened the door and saw Dustin and Mike standing there but what caught her attention was the van parked in the driveway.

"Hi, guys, what brings you by?" She said greeting them with the handshake they had all come up with.

"Umm, there's an old friend who would like to say to you." Dustin said as her eyes lifted from his and over to the van where a boy who reminded her a lot of Ozzy stood, only when she really focused on him did she realize who it is.

"Eddie?" She asked almost as if she wasn't sure as they approached each other.

"Yeah, it's me, sweetheart." He said smiling as she threw her arms around him.

"I've missed you, where have you been hiding?" She asked him.

"I should be asking you that question but I missed you too. Do you have time to catch up?" He asked her as they pulled apart.

"For you always." She said saying her goodbyes to the two younger boys as she lead Eddie into her house.

The two of them walked down the hall towards her room where she let him head in first while she check on her grandpa to make sure he didn't need anything. Eddie walked into her room admiring how decorated her walls were with various posters of her favorite movies and music, he laughed at the Prince poster above her bed, but what caught his attention the most was the picture of him and her from middle school that sat on her dresser.

"Sorry about that, it's just with his health issues lately I like to check on him." She said walking into the room.

"No need to apologize, how is he doing? I feel bad that I stopped coming by and checking in on him." He said taking a seat on her bed.

"Umm not too good, his heart is really weak and my mom can't afford to hire someone so I offered to take some time off of college and take care of him. Eds don't feel bad, he understands and still thinks so highly of you." She said.

"I know but it's just that it's when he told me that you were coming home that Christmas and you didn't, I was disappointed, and then it seemed like that's when stopped talking so it felt weird to keep coming by." He said making her sigh as she remembers how heartbroken she was that Christmas.

"Eds I wanted to come home that Christmas to see him and you but something happens that not even knows about...he thinks I got sick but in actually I was....." She said swallowing the lump in the throat as she remember what had happened that Christmas.

"Hey...Hey, you don't have to tell me if you're not ready..." He said squeezing her hand.

"No, you deserve to know why one day I just stopped calling and visiting which was really hard for me to do and I hate myself every day for allowing that to happen...Like I don't deserve to still have someone like you in life."  She said as the tears slid down her face.  

"Sweetheart look at me..... I can tell something happened to you but even if that wasn't the case for us drifting apart I wouldn't be mad because it was bound to happen but I'm going to always be here for you no matter what...... I love you, Serafina." He said making her eyes widen at his confession.

"You love me?" She asked quietly unsure if she heard him right.

"Fuck! That wasn't supposed to come out at least not yet." He said running a hand through his hair.

"Well if it's any consolation I've been in love with you since middle school." She said making him look at her.

"You have?" He asked her.

"I have I just didn't want to say anything because I didn't want to ruin our friendship and then as I thought about telling you that's when I got news of us moving so I decided to keep my mouth shut figuring it was too late to say anything but my feelings never died." She said looking at him.

The next she knows is that his lips are on hers after all this time, and boy was it everything she imagined it would be. They stayed like this for a few minutes with her finding their way to his until they had to break for air.

"God that was better than Imagined." He said leaning his forehead against hers.

"You imagined kissing me?" She mused as he rolled her eyes.

"Every day before and after you left.... you know me giving this bracelet as a way to confess my feelings without doing so." He said making her smile.

"I never took it off, because even when we drifted apart...I knew you were always there for me..." She said making him smile.

"Where does this leave us, sweetheart?" He asked after a few minutes.

"As much as I would love to jump into a relationship I've dreamed about for ages, I think we need to spend some time catching up and re-getting to know each other and if you don't want to do that then I understand." She said.

"Are you kidding me, sweetheart? I waited almost six years to tell you that I was in love with you, so I think I can manage to wait a little longer." He said giving her another squeeze and placing another kiss on her lips.