#or fall further behind

[fiyero3305]

TUA Fic: Witchy Prompts 01

It's day 2 and I'm already behind, but I love these prompts, @myloveforhergoeson!

01. Cackle

Klaus is sitting cross-legged on the sofa, hunched over the phone in his hands. It’s a familiar sight lately; Klaus has been working his way through the American Film Institute’s “100 Greatest Movies of All Time” in an effort to catch up on all the pop culture touchstones they missed out on in their childhood.

“NOOO! You can’t kill her off!” he suddenly exclaims, leaping to his feet.

“The hero dies in this one?” Ben asks

“Ugh, I wish! Podunk little brat just straight up melted my main bitch”

“Ah, Wizard of Oz?”

“You’ve seen this??”

“Read the book. Loved it as a kid”

“Well I’m done with it forever. She dared to serve cunt beyond these people’s comprehension and they killed her for it”

“I don’t really remember much about the witch to be honest”

“Are you kidding me?” Klaus gapes at his brother “The bone structure? The drama? The all-black ensemble? The nails???”

“Oh that's why you love her, sounds like she’s basically you”

Klaus lets out a peal of laughter that he transitions into a cackle as he hooks his fingers into claws and stalks toward Ben.

“I’ll get you my pretty! And your little Horror too!”

[beneathsilverstars]

anyway related to my "gullible" post i do think bonnie didn't really have a lot of friends / any good friends. i'm taking a watsonian approach to "some of the things bonnie does seem more like age 5-8 than 10-12", and a doylist approach to "everyone in this party grew up kinda lonely and feels disconnected from their peer group"

[thirdtimed]

thinking about the jimmy scar pearl venn diagram and absolutely just disintegrating over it

[sysig]

Guess who :3c (Patreon)

[tonydaddingham]

Yeah one hole I've noticed with the argument against Crowley being an Archangel is that Crowley doesn't seem to be an average demon, even from the start? We know that AZIRAPHALE was sent to Earth as a punishment and he's low on the hierarchy. That's something that gets repeated. But they never indicate its the same for Crowley. He scored Hell's first and arguably most important victory. He constantly gets commendations. He's chosen for the "starring role" of delivering and raising the Antichrist, which Dukes of Hell are openly envious of and gets him direct praise from Satan, albeit with warning that not even Crowley will be exempt from punishment if something goes wrong. Shax refers to his place on Earth as a huge promotion she had to work hard for and he was just handed. They never actually say what Crowley's position is.

hi anon!!!✨

please would you mind referencing where aziraphale is described as being sent to earth as a punishment? i genuinely can't remember this detail from the show or book.

and also, in terms of hierarchy, my understanding from what neil has told us is that aziraphale is middling in rank (i will find the ask im remembering and link it, or correct if im wrong); that it goes:

god > metatron > gabriel > high archangels (eg michael and uriel) > lower archangels (eg sandalphon) > principality > angels lower ranked than principality (eg muriel).

i would imagine that the number of angels that form the lower ranks are the majority of the 10 million that gabriel mentions, and so would hazard that whilst not high ranking, aziraphale is by no means low ranking either.

but otherwise yes, completely agree with you!✨✨ but to anyone reading that still doubts, this is my logic (and by extension i imagine is anon's too!):

crowley re: his power, his recognition, and that he ensured original sin, this all indicates that he is in fact a ranked demon. so why would it not stand to reason that he is indeed a lord rank? hastur would rank above him as duke, which explains why he's the one to keep tabs on crowley, and then beelzebub as prince which would put them on the same ranking as gabriel, essentially ruling over their respective dominions (not a ref to the angel class, i mean hell and heaven respectively).

so by that same logic, wouldn't crowley indeed be a lord? a rank higher than whatever aziraphale's equivalent in heaven would be (ie a lower archangel)? and again, this would all fit with what shax is intimating; that if crowley was a lower archangel, he'd naturally fit for a lord of hell and his station on earth, whereas if she was lower-ranking she would have had to work to be promoted for it.

as for the scene i snipped, i can't imagine that hastur wouldn't call out crowley for saying he was a lord if he wasn't. yes, crowley was bluffing the situation to stall hastur (ie the legions of the damned), but it seems strange that he wouldn't immediately call out crowley for placing himself in that rank if he wasn't... does that make sense?✨

[danthropologie]

Looks like that points gap clause was not delusional..

me watching max risk life and limb to scrape up every last point possible in the first half of the season: lol is there a points gap clause or something 🤪

meanwhile three weeks later:

[darkaac]

Fin.

[raeathnos]

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[constantlyquestioningg]

would i be better at hanging my washing on my diagonal washing lines (string tied around my room) if i was a physicist. they do strings right?

[nervocat]

Guys I'm slacking so bad in all my games sobbing

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

So you mentioned how you leave Hawke in the fade, do you ever bring Varric with on that quest? (Maybe I'm just a sucker for angst ((which I totally am cuz for my canon warden I have her date a soft Alistair who is pissed and dumbs her when she makes him king and then she makes the ultimate sacrifice and Alistair is devastated he never got to talk it out with her)) so I always take Varric and Cassandra with cuz I think it's nuts that the game doesn't have him react in the fade to leaving Hawke. So I picture a dramatic speech like fuck this Hawke let someone else be the hero for once, you deserve to live. And Cassandra is there seeing someone she put on a pedestal and saw as an unstoppable hero met their end.)

I've brought a few different combos into the fade but my favorite combo is definitely Varric/Cassandra/Solas; Varric because of Hawke, Cassandra because of Divine Justinia, and Solas for the fade itself.

I love and hate the fade quest for a number of reasons, but the part of me that revels in angst just adores it, it's such a heartbreaking part of Inquisition's story. I keep Alistair a Grey Warden, so it becomes a final choice of either making him stay behind, or my Hawke, Ed... it's a brutal choice that ends with Ed staying behind.

The meta reason for making this choice is I love Alistair too much. I want him and my warden to remain together until the end so I'd leave nearly anyone in the fade just to save him. And I don't want to make him king just to avoid the hard choice; he never wanted it, and Rose wasn't ever going to force it onto him.

But from a story-telling standpoint, Ed staying behind hurts so much because that's literally his fear; if he had his own fear engraved tombstone in the fade, it'd say something like "Abandonment" or "Being Left Behind." It's one of the reasons he stays by Anders' side after the events of DA2 despite ending their romantic relationship, he can't abandon the man he's loved for years even when everyone tells him he should....until, of course, we get to the fade and he feels he no longer has a choice.

Ed never wanted to be some hero or champion, but it's so engrained in his identity now that he constantly feels the burden of sacrificing pieces of himself for others. He feels the guilt of every loss he's suffered, whether it was actually his fault or not. In his mind, no matter how much it hurts, or who it hurts, it's the "right" choice to leave him behind... he's read enough of Varric's tragedies to know how this goes.

I also headcanon that when Carver's made a warden, he goes back to Fereldan to serve under the Hero of Fereldan and becomes best friends with Alistair. So I imagine that's another reason Ed insists he be the one to cover them. He went to great lengths to keep his brother out of this mess [even though Carver protested every step of the way] and doesn't want Carver to lose his best friend, even though he would also be devastated to lose his brother, but y'know.... Ed's just like, "Tell Carver I'm sorry, and that I always thought the world of him."

Even as Alistair, who never got to know his brother and dreamed about meeting his sister only for her to reject him, argued back... it's no use. Ed made up his mind to face his greatest fear to save them, and Ash begrudgingly agrees with him.

As for Varric, it hurts to watch him ask happened to Hawke... and then to listen to him recount a story about the kind of person Hawke was... and to give him a comforting hug... it all hurts.

But... that being said, I have thought about possibly doing a run where I do leave Alistair behind in a worldstate where Rose made the ultimate sacrifice. Alistair lost her and became disillusioned with the Grey Wardens, only remaining because what else is there for him? When it comes to someone staying in the fade, he insists it be him. He faces the nightmare as Hawke and the Inquisitor escape, and mutters under his breath, "Wait for me a little longer, my love," before attacking.

...because why not break my own heart some more, y'know?

Whether I'll be brave enough to attempt that is yet to be seen.

[despairforme]

Is this a fucking vacation?

[loscampbracket]

actually devastated that who fell asleep in lost ... like to tundra is good but not as good as the lesbian lc! song yk

man i'm sorry anon </3 we need to start a support group for everyone about to lose their favourite songs.

[inkykeiji]

hi clari! random question but have u started house of dragon?!

also! have u seen the bear? i think u would like it (not anime)

hi anon bb!! <33 i watched the first season but my boyfriend and i have been sooooo lazy with starting the second season >.< i’m going to catch up soon tho!!!

i have not! tho i had someone irl recommend the bear to me as well! i have heard good things about it, and u all knowwwww i love dysfunctional + tragic families, but i am so picky when it comes to tv shows!!! the time commitment scares me LMAO >.<

[qvietspvce]

made a fucking error in not skipping the lewis capaldi song on my playlist and made myself saaaaaad

[astriiformes]

Trying very hard to have personality traits other than "crippling depression" but considering I spent 45 minutes lying on the bedroom floor today unable to even get myself to move, I'm thinking it may be a lost cause.