#ophelia dawn

[dawn-the-rithmatist]

Rereading the scholomance (yes again, shush) and I’m a bit obsessed with the differences between Ophelia Lake and Gwen Higgins. Strict malia vs strict mana. Lives in a luxury enclave apartment vs lives in a yurt in the middle of nowhere. The way that they raised their kids.

Mostly though it’s their worldview that hits me, because they’re DEAD OPPOSITES. We spend three books being told that Gwen gives as freely as a person can, even when logic says she could stand to take more in return, and when she’s in need she just kind of blindly trusts in the goodness of humanity and the universe at large. Even when summoning the sutras, it’s the same pattern! She didn’t name a price, trusting that the world would be kind enough when asking her to pay!

On the other hand, Ophelia is a full maleficer. She takes even when she absolutely doesn’t need to- she has New York’s mana supply at her fingertips and STILL drains the people in her lab every day. And when confronted with the horror of mals being made when people use malia, she defends it by saying that everyone uses malia anyway- she builds her life on the assumption that the world will be selfish in the end, the exact opposite of the way Gwen banks on it being kind.

I just think it’s so fascinating the way that these two women are foils, even as El is trying to set up her and Orion as the ones truly balancing each other out. Every time she says that she’s balancing out her mom’s goodness, I need to shake her because 1) honey you are every bit as good as your mom, you’re just angrier, and 2) OPHELIA is balancing out your mom, you just don’t get to know it until after you survive graduation!!!

[opheliapenning]

Our past had crawled into the trees,

Into the seas and from the valleys.

It showed us what had been, what would be

And what would never cease being.

Ophelia Penning

[eeriemilyworlds]

[vxlturebones]

guys turns out getting a new oc that u think is so so beyond adorable can tickle the creative bones in ur body <3 ive decided to make Dawn and Ophelia a couple, and I can’t stop drawing them :3

heres a couple of doodles Ophelia and Dawn (plus Cad but only once shhh i love his big head) ughhh i can’t take it i love them so much

their couple name is Delia :)

[blackthornwren]

Sing for Her. Sing of the dawn, a sky shot with rose and gold. A song of reeds and rushes, rising from the waters. A song of the Sun’s return... And Bride will come bearing fire.

[officialdaydreamer00]

OC LIST

🎮 IRENE LOVEJOY

(YUUSONA — THE CHILD OF WISDOM)

"No offence, but I'd stab you with a butter knife. How, you ask? I just do."

🖋️ AEON HALLOWS

(TWST OC — THE CREATOR)

"Pray and repent, o wayward child."

💗 OPHELIA ANGELIS

(TWST OC — THE SEA ANGEL)

"Try not to lose your head~"

🐦‍⬛ ERIN

(RP CHARACTER — THE CHAOTIC AVIAN ARCHER)

"Bring it on."

🧨 LILITH

(OC — THE TRAUMATISED CHILD)

"Connection terminated. I'm sorry to interrupt you, Lilith, if you still even remember that name. But I'm afraid you've been misinformed."

"This misery ends here, for all of us. End communication."

💉 IRIS AMBROSE

(OC — THE LIVING DOLL)

"Like I've said, you don't touch my chemicals without consequences."

💫 ESTHER STARLING

(PJO OC — THE HUNTER OF ARTEMIS)

"DISHONOR! Dishonor on you, dishonor on your family, dishonor on your cow!"

⭐ STELLA DAWN

(OC — THE BRIGHTEST STAR)

"Heh... D'you think that you can kill me that easily?"

🪽 YULLIANNE BISHOP

(OC — THE ANGEL WHO SPEAKS NO EVIL)

「 Be not afraid, child. 」

🍁 LILIA VON WILHEIM

(OC — THE SILVER BULLET OF RHINELAND)

"Checkmate."

[shiningdesignersreflections]

You Know Who Loves The Arts?

Queen Ophelia. You know who doesn't - or at least doesn't care enough to keep them around? The council in the Reflection for First Light of Dawn. Ophelia tries to change their mind about the arts festival. But can she save it in time?

And as we move into a new month, we'll be getting a visit from a moon goddess. Hope she and her bunny friend have a safe journey...

[slasherscream]

could the girlies send me thoughts to my inbox! give me little ideas... thoughts....tidbits... leave them at my feet so i can nibble them... let's discuss

[eritvita]

The white flowers of hells’ fire threaten to lap at the bottom of his eyes, but his face is overtaken by that low gloam of Ophelia, riddled like incense in the curl of her eyelashes, that downy, predatory expression that comes for him to sit within Roland’s belly. He places his freed palm o'er her own that sits upon his thigh, and rubs he his thumbs upon her knuckles. “Thus is entire to consume and to be consumed, precious, and difficult to displace whence fully within that Meadow. Art thou sure, for this kiss?”

made by @ramblingsofamoonwatcher ���✨✨

[borkborkheresadork]

I really hope talisen Jaffe realizes that he made hamlet in d&d

[dusks-doodles]

Made a buncha’ icons for artfight!!!

Had a lot of fun doing everyone, especially since I’ve been doing some universe rewriting, so everyone say hello to Harper, Val, Dawn, Ophelia, and Lyn in that order!!

[ask-thedawnseekers]

🎁 @bitchofsteel

In the box is a power are, hand crafted by the mother primarch herself and a few dozen packages of homemade jerky of several varieties.

Under all of that is a note.

"Dear Freyja,

My daughter says she's looking forward to your next visit and that you should be expecting contact with the Silver Shanties here in the near future.

I'd keep my eyes peeled. Pirates are good at plundering, after all. And Ophelia is very fond of you.

Yours truly,

☀️"

@bitchofsteel

[blood-teeth]

"...and, at the end of it all, this is the truth of you. The truth of your ruinous, shaky hands. The truth of you whole, de-fleshed, flayed. Your bones are harbingers, your fingers methods of decay. You are the mouthpiece for death. You remember the Bhagavad Gita and I am become death, destroyer of worlds. Look at me, you say, I am Time itself, and I must one day destroy your world as I have always done. 

In the light of a long dead star, the last astronaut wakes up. After six decades, the worst has come to pass. The earth is dead, the sun has gone, and the mission to find a new, viable home has failed. There are no more horizons for humanity.

This Grave Calls You Home is a sci-fi thriller set in space after humanity is forced to leave Earth's ravaged surface following nuclear devastation and an environmental collapse. You play as an ER nurse aboard the NEW HORIZON, an immense space station courtesy of THE COALITION OF THE LAST FRONTIER. This colossal facility, a self-contained city in orbit, houses the remnants of humanity. And it is here that your days pass in monotony, caring for the irradiated people born from Earth and the critically ill, trying your best to survive the relentless demands of the Emergency Room and your own deteriorating mental health. When a patrol flagship discovers the ARCADIA-II - a long-forgotten relic from humanity's past - and finds within slumbers an astronaut who had failed at delivering humanity from destruction, the routine of your life is throughly interrupted. As the mystery of the ARCADIA-II and PROJECT ODYSSEY unfold, you learn that your part in this could mean humanity's salvation.

Or you could be its extinction.

YOU WILL LIKE THIS IF YOU LIKE: - INTERSTELLAR - THE LOCKED TOMB SERIES - BLADERUNNER - HEAVEN WILL BE MINE - TIME TRAVEL AND TIME LOOPS - GHOST STATION - ALIEN

THE LAST ASTRONAUT(M/F 25)- ALEX STERN "...my love, i no longer know what it is to be warm." The lone ranger, the last star. The failure of deliverance. Feel their breath against yours, cup their ribcage into your hands to feel the long, dead beat of their heart. You know them, you know them. You swear you do.

THE SCIENTIST (F 23) - OPHELIA VALDEZ "...in the wake of dawn," she says, "it has only ever been you." The General's daughter and the brightest mind the world has ever seen. You brush your fingers along the bone of her brow and marvel at her atoms meeting yours. maybe science is religion, you think. maybe you will bend and lick and worship her taste on your mouth.

THE ENGINEER (THEY/THEM 24) - PUCK GOODFELLOW "is that your real name?" "no," they smile. "nothing has ever been mine own. i belong to you. give me a new name. give me a new life. i am yours." The scent of engine oil and gritted teeth. Place your mouth against their neck and taste the blood of a covenant past. They hold you in their palms; you feel the promise of something greater, something before.

THE BOTANIST (M/F 25) - CAIA / CAIUS CAIN "i am no good at words. i'm good in the dirt and the roots and the trees. darling, you've been in everything i touch." the cool touch of water, liberation at their smile. Take the bite and know what it means to become. Dig your hands deep, deep in the earth and feel what it means to love.

THE MAJOR (TRANS M 27) - JONATHAN STERN "i have given my life to duty, to sacrifice, to obligation. i wish to give it to you, now, instead. it has been an honor serving you." A past marked by violence made by hands meant to touch. To soothe. He holds you tight against his chest and if you close your eyes you can still smell the smoke. He holds you like an apology. Like a prayer.

DEMO (coming soon!) - PLAYLIST - FAQ

[duncan-tashi]

MOVIES VS PAINTINGS, Part I..

Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson vs. To Prince Edward Island, Alex Colville.

Pennies From Heaven, Herbert Ross vs Nighthawks, Edward Hopper.

The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam vs The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli.

The Mill and the Cross, Lech Majewski vs The Procession to Calvary, Pieter Bruegel.

Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock vs House by the Railroad, Edward Hopper.

Nostalghia, Andréi Tarkovski vs Golconda, René Magritte.

Melancholia, Lars von Trier vs Ophelia, John Everett Millais.

There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson vs Jeune Homme Nu Assis Au Bord De La Mer, Hippolyte Flandrin.

Carol, Todd Haynes vs Chop Suey, Edward Hopper.

The Cell, Tarsem Singh vs Dawn, Odd Nerdrum.

[rosieethor]

ace books ace books we got 'em

Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria

Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

What We Devour by Linsey Miller

The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson

The Kindred by Alechia Dow

The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray by Christine Calella

Silver in the Mist by Emily Victoria

Not Your Backup by C.B. Lee

The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

The Circus Infinite by Khan Wong

Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim

Love Letters for Joy by Melissa See

Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

Aces Wild by Amanda Dewitt

I Am Ace by Cody Daigle-Orians

ACE by Angela Chen

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality by Sherronda J Brown

Being Ace ed by Madeline Dyer

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🖤🩶🤍💜 Happy Ace Week, Bookish Bats!

❓ What was the last book you read that featured asexual characters? If it's been a while, here are a few to consider adding to your TBR!

🖤 Aces Wild - Amanda Dewitt 🩶 Loveless - Alice Oseman 🤍 That Kind of Guy - Stephanie Archer 💜 We Awaken - Calista Lynne 🖤 The Kindred - Alechia Dow 🩶 Scavenge the Stars - Tara Sim 🤍 Fire Becomes Her - Rosiee Thor 💜 A Snake Falls to the Earth - Darcie Little Badger 🖤 Forward March - Skye Quinlan 🩶 The Romantic Agenda - Claire Kann 🤍 The Reckless Kind - Carly Heath 💜 Summer Bird Blue - Akemi Dawn Bowman

🖤 The Charm Offensive - Alison Cochrun 🩶 Meet Cute Diary - Emery Lee 🤍 Cupid Calling - Viano Oniomoh 💜 The Bruising of Qilwa - Naseem Jamnia 🖤 The Loudest Silence - Sydney Langford 🩶 Kiss Her Once for Me - Alison Cochrun 🤍 So Let Them Burn - Kamilah Cole 💜 Dear Wendy - Ann Zhao 🖤 Exes & Foes - Amanda Woody 🩶 The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray - Christine Calella 🤍 Firebreak - Nicole Kornher-Stace 💜 Never Been Kissed - Timothy Janovsky

🖤 Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle 🩶 Baker Thief - Claudie Arseneault 🤍 The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester - Maya MacGregor 💜 The Story of the Hundred Promises - Neil Cochrane 🖤 Adrift Starlight - Mindi Briar 🩶 Help Wanted - J. Emery 🤍 If You Still Recognize Me - Cynthia So 💜 Bad At Love - Gabriela Martins 🖤 The End Crowns All - Bea Fitzgerald 🩶 The Winter Knight - Jes Battis 🤍 The Meister of Decimen City - Brenna Raney 💜 It Sounds Like This - Anna Meriano

🖤 Fallen Thorns - Harvey Oliver Baxter 🩶 Don't Let the Forest In - C.G. Drews 🤍 Just Lizzie - Karen Wilfrid 💜 The Siren the Song and the Spy - Maggie Tokuda-Hall 🖤 Wren Martin Ruins It All - Amanda Dewitt 🩶 She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan 🤍 Poisoned Primrose - Dahlia Donovan 💜 How You Get the Girl - Anita Kelly 🖤 Lord of the Empty Isles by Jules Arbeaux 🩶 Moth to a Flame - Finn Longman 🤍 Little Thieves - Margaret Owen 💜 Someone You Can Build a Nest In - John Wiswell