#narritive

[crybaby-tarnished]

With the advice of both Alberich and Gideon at hand, Fyra managed to get to where she needed. A soft rap of her fist in the room Rya mentioned having sounds, and the wall dissolved away.

And so she went deeper, avoiding lava, man serpents, and tormented nobles, until...

She pulled her sword out of the man serpent, looking at the portal that they had been revering.

This must have been it. Praetor Rykard was here.

She touched the portal, and with her stomach dropping, was yanked away to a large cavern, and laying far before her, a giant serpent stirred.

Her eyes darted quickly around her, until it fell upon a massive spear. They were not her strength, but she took it in both hands, and wind whirled around the blade, her eyes trailing back to the now awake snake.

She lifted her bell, and rang it. Oleg appeared next to her, twin blades drawn.

It was time to end this so called immortal serpent.

[daisychains111]

Thalia doesn’t keep many things in the hundreds of years she’s been alive. 

But long ago, there were people, their names all but distant memories, who mattered in her 1st lifetime. It’s their things that stay hidden in her bag, reminding her of her mortal life. 

A blue hoodie, worn almost threadbare. The scent of its original owner, long since leached from the fabric. But if she closes her eyes, she can almost see the blue eyes of her first and only love. 

A pair of glasses. Frames cracked and crooked. A reminder of a brother she never got to truly know. 

A baseball cap. It’s magic long faded, branded with a forgotten logo. Memories of a blonde girl laughing hidden deep within. 

A letter. Ink fading, paper yellow. The last words of a dying friend. Words that wish her well, words that wished her well in a world they had fought side by side to save. 

Thalia doesn’t keep a lot of things, but even after all this time, Luke, Jason, Annabeth, and Percy will stay with her forever. The memories of her first family to remind her why life is so beautiful.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I know those eyes.

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[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

Episode 19 - Here Comes Knuckle Joe! (Here Comes the Son) Episode 84 - Curio's Hidden Treasure? (Mumbies Madness)

My two submissions for the KRBAY Poster Collab!! It was such a blast and I had fun showing my spin on these episodes!

[speaking-riddlish]

Thinking about how Riddlish is handled in cannon and in fics. I've seen people just put random things that happen to ryhm anytime they want someone to be speaking Riddlish and it's like, a minor pet peeve of mine? But every time we see Riddlish spoken in cannon, it kind of makes sense in a way? Like, if you think about what is said, and try to piece together any symbolism based on context, you can kind of understand what they're saying. Like Maddie said, "Riddlish is not an exact language". Putting together the metaphor and symbolism gives you the general idea of what they're getting across. And whenever a fic does this well, it's like an instant favorite.

Let's look at and dicect some cannon examples (I've always kind of found these facinating):

"Feathers and Friends, together alone!"

"Feathers" could refer to Raven, since she's named after a bird. She also has feathers fairly prominent in her character design, so it'd make sense for Giles to say this even though he doesn't know her name yet.

"and Friends" probably refers to Maddie, since she's known him for a while and is presumably his friend. It could also refer to their friendship, and maybe even be a way of including Raven in.

"together, alone" They're here with him, joining him in his solitude.

Putting it all together we get "Raven and Maddie, you're here! You came to visit me!" Which lines up pretty well with Maddie's translation of "he says it's nice to have us here!"

"Can a musical chair change its tone, when the tablet of granite is inscribed with a bone?"

"Can a musical chair change it's tone" The music in musical chairs is integral to the game, yet the song played does not come from the chair, but from the people playing. The tone of a musical chair is something fundamental about itself, and also something imposed by something outside itself. Can it change? Can something change something about itself that someone else has decided is fundamental?

"When the tablet of granite is inscribed with a bone?" A tablet of granite inscribed with something is literally that thing being written in stone, another reference to destiny and inevitability. And what's written on that stone is a bone, is death. Death is what is written in stone. Death is supposedly inevitable here.

From Raven's tone and terrified body language when asking Maddie to translate for her, it's fairly clear that the thing that wants to change is referring to Raven.

Putting it all together we get "Can Raven change from what others have said she's supposed to be, or is death the inevitable consequence of that like we've been told it is?" Which lines up pretty well with what Maddie was asked to translate: "What'll happen to me if I don't sign the book, am I really gonna disapear?"

"The king that sings with pages of sky fears too much the dawn that rises with lies"

"pages of sky" is in reference to the book, and maybe the fairytales themselves. The sky is often used to symbolically reference heaven and the divine. The book, determining people's destinies, fits fairly well into that category. It's almost like he's referring to the book as being from above.

"The king that sings with pages of sky" would then be Headmaster Grim. He's in a position of authority over the students like a king is to his subjects. He "sings with" the book/the stories with his constant insistence that people must sign the book and follow their stories, speaking in unison with them.

"fears too much" this part is fairly clear, Milton's paranoid. The consequences he thinks are inevitable aren't as inevitable as he claims.

"the dawn that rises with" would mean something like "the consequences of" or "the fallout from". Then there's one of two ways the rest could be. "lies" could refer to that which is contrary to what the stories say will happen. If you take the stories as "truth" then changing the stories would be "lies". Or, "rises with lies" could mean the consequences coming from Milton's lies being brought to light. The dawn rises as Milton's lies rise.

Yet the whole thing sounds rather foreboding, giving the impression that something is seriously wrong.

Bringing it all together, we either get "Headmaster Grim told you to follow your destiny because he's paranoid about what'll happen if you don't. But those fears are unfounded. Also something is very wrong." or "Headmaster Grim told you to follow your destiny because he's afraid of what will happen when people find out why you don't need to (and its emplied that that reason is something very bad)" This lines up fairly well with Maddie's translation of "There's something wrong with the book, and if you don't sign, your story will continue... I think". I like the touch that Maddie wasn't as confident in this translation, since the last phrase is more ambiguous. It's not really clear how the foreboding tone integrates into the message without more context than Maddie has, so Maddie doesn't really know what it means.

"The baby bird flies. The snake, it slithers. But the cage holds both, to die and to wither."

"The baby bird flies. The snake, it slithers." The baby bird and the snake are two very different creatures, they move and interact with the world in two totally different ways. Most people also would look more favorably on the baby bird than on the snake.

"but the cage holds both, to die and to wither." the cage doesn't care what is inside of it, it will indiscriminately hold them both captive. The things that make the baby bird different from the snake, and the adorable charms of the baby bird will not free the baby bird from the cage, nor will they protect the baby bird from the grisly fate that awaits it in the cage.

The context is also relevant, since she's talking to Alastair and Bunny, two of her subjects who have just been arrested, but also two of her daughter's friends.

Putting this all together we get "Yes, you enjoy privileges that others do not have, but my affection for you will not compromise my judgement. You are not above the law. I am not above punishing you like I would anynother citizen." While we don't have a cannon translation to compare this to, it seems to make sense. Its immediately followed up with her letting them off with a warning, and despite this interaction, Bunny later tells Lizzie that her mom really is a good queen, but that the curse has stressed her out. I think the Queen of Hearts probably made exploring illegal to protect people from the curse. If she really is a good queen, then this type of objectivity ("I don't care if you're my daughter's friends, crime is crime") would make total sense.

[orphiclovers]

han sooyoung, on being the villain

[zwoftt]

okay but what if the silken squall is at the council meeting and forces dorian to face his responsibilities, the self he hated and was purposely trying to change/leave behind, having to admit that cyrus is really dead(TO HIS FUCKING PARENTS) and his family issues that he had been running away from ??? what if bro.

[you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be]

So I’ve noticed something about popular games (and ones I like) in the past decade….

[veth-brenattos-mental-state]

I know this sounds cruel, but Fcg was a great choice for a PC death. I dont say that because I'm not sad. They were a favorite of mine! It's just that he was at a good place in his story for it. If Imogen or Fearne, who have really important plot/personal connections that still need to be explored died, it would feel like we lost too much of the story. While Chetney nearly dying felt more somber than tragic because he'd already lived such a full life. Fcg was at a good middle ground where it feels like we could have had more while still being a satisfying end for them. His story feels both complete and incomplete, and that's what makes it such a great tragedy.

[artificialhaunts]

🩸The Patron Saint of Daughters🩸

[compressedrage]

*sidles in* I have another Green parallel hehehe– well, kind of. this one is more of a pattern in terms of him and the rest of the CG.

okay so remember the Build Battle episode? Green is super good at building, and gets cocky about it, so the CG try to find a way to take him down a peg?

Yeah, they let Green reach a high point of arrogance, and then once he messes up (summoning a Wither by accident) they leave to him to it.

the parallel breaks down, but in the Influencer arc, Green reached a high point and began hurting his friends, and because of this they kinda left him alone for a little while. did they mean to leave him alone as long as they are right now? I honestly don't think so, I think something happened to them. But that's not what I'm talking about rn.

The CG's method of dealing with Green's bigheaded-ness seems to be just kinda letting it run its course, since he'll burn out eventually.

[dyslexic-mess]

I buy that Alistor is on Liliths leash. How he got there, no idea, but I'd believe the real reosen he's hanging around Charlie is under orders considering how vaugh he's been about his motivation.

BUT. What I don't buy is Lilith being the big villen. I've seen a lot of people theorise that she's been missing because she's screwing around with heaven or she left because she saw Lucifer as weak or something, but I'm sorry. I just don't see it. Like.

This Lilith???

Your gonna argue THIS woman just up and left her family??? No. Just- no. I don't believe it for a second.

So where IS Lilith, then? If she's not the big bad, pulling strings from behind the sceans, then where is hells queen? Well, this is where I get into speculation territory:

I think she's been kidnapped by Roo.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A lasting impression

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[saturnniidae]

Ough the found family in Sweet Tooth hurts so bad.

That scene when Rani finds out Johnny is Abbot's brother and she says "I've seen how he treats you! Why haven't you gotten out of here?" And his reply is "he's family, and that's in short supply." The parallel of that compared to Gus, Jepp and Bear as well as Aimee and all her adopted kids ghrhrnr going feral

[thesupernaturalhouse]

So I made a post last night, and it was mainly finding out how ep9 contradicts ep 4(?) To make Blitz look like he's in the wrong, by not going to help Stolas despite multiple reasons

It was the finale straw for and fueled by hatred and annoyance, ranting and talking to my friend about how much Stolas sucks was just not enough, and I made a post. I have 0 regrets, the owl can go fuck himself.

Anyways I made an edit!! 2 actually, because I swear to God, episode 9 is terrible. It's the worst episode in this show, specifically because of the gaslighting, guilt tripping, and hypocrisy Stolas gets away with and does. And the contradictiosn the narritive/writing does to shit on Blitz

Anyways here's the edit! I am very proud of it, it was worth all the effort and its made to specifically show how guilt tripping/gaslighting/hypocritical Stolas is

And what ticked me off so badly in the first place

[backpackingspace]

Anyway will never not be over shi qingxuan going from strip each other naked to tell everyone here your worst experiences like my guy pick an extreme