#petra bellweather

[byulyi]

Motherland: Fort Salem 3x06 - Book Club

[kutekoolkat]

The Warriors that Built This Town

This is still one of my fave shows. I wish the writers had gotten the chance to bring the story to a close the way they wanted, with the amount of seasons they planned for.

Anyone missed my long captions that I doubt anyone actually reads 😂 i started this vid so long ago, intending it to be out before the season 3 finale but life definitely had some curveballs coming my way that made it difficult. Im happy i finished it though.

One of my fave things about making fanvids is that moment that it clicks, the moment where I know what I’m trying to do with the particular video. And for this vid it was when I placed Petra’s diologue about her oath of office at the beginning. I’m pretty proud of how it all turned out especially some of the match cuts and the titles.

[cosmic-llin]

If you wanna break these walls down, you’re gonna get bruised.

A Motherland: Fort Salem ensemble vid.

Content Notes: occasional flashing and fast motion throughout, blood, depictions of colonialism/imperialism, depictions of the military, hanging, injections, mild violence, misogyny, threat to children

More info and vidder's notes on AO3.

[ferrisraccoon]

For #AbigailBellweatherWeek organized by @badwolfkaily

Day 2: Past (Baby Bells)

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[markedbyindecision]

Abigail’s family history

(Motherland: Fort Salem, S3E9/S3E10)

[arbitrarygreay]

No matter her ambitions, Petra named her daughter, her sole heir, after Alder's sister, and that says multitudes about her specific regard (and even moreso in the context of the other Bellweathers over the years)

[nomi--sunrider]

Then, Now, And Always

Chapter 24: Judgment

Summary: The United States Army faces the consequences of Alder’s choices.

[crea-miserymind]

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[unbeleveable]

BECAUSE IT IS HALLOWEEN, AND I JUST FINISHED MOTHERLAND: FORT SALEM, INDUCTING SOME NEW WITCHY MUSES:

Sarah Alder Petra Bellweather Nicte Batan

[randomthingsthatilike1]

I know I've written a lot about how units in Motherland Fort Salem have been made and like. how Petra might have arranged for Raelle to be on Abigail's team bc of guilt

but there might be a more simple explanation

Bellweather, Collar, Craven.

Did the unit get put together because their last names were the closest to each other in the alphabet

was that all?

[littlesolo]

Talder AU - Potential

After the war, Petra Bellweather hears about a young girl who has visions. For a girl her age, it's an impressive amount of raw magic ability so she sends Alder and Tally to go and meet her. To see if she's a very young Knower or possibly an oracle.

Apparently, they're not the only ones taking an interest either. Gwendolyn Blake is going to be a handful, they know that within seconds. Sharing a look and a smirk, Alder and Tally have a feeling this is going to be interesting.

Scene from the movie The Black Phone (2021). Gwen is played by Madeleine McGraw

[queerstuffonscreen]

Motherland: Fort Salem (2020-2022)

Episode length: 41-51 min.

Country: USA

Genre: Supernatural, Drama, Science Fiction

Language: English

Set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the government to fight for their country, the series follows three young women from basic training in combat magic into early deployment.

Season 1

Episode 1: Say the Words

Episode 2: My Witches

Episode 3: A Biddy's Life

Episode 4: Hail Beltane

Episode 5: Bellweather Season

Episode 6: Up is Down

Episode 7: Mother Mycelium

Episode 8: Citydrop

Episode 9: Coup

Episode 10: Witchbomb

Season 2

Episode 1: Of the Blood

Episode 2: Abomination

Episode 3: A Tiffany

Episode 4: Not Our Daughters

Episode 5: Brianna's Favorite Pencil

Episode 6: My 3 Dads

Episode 7: Irrevocable

Episode 8: Delusional

Episode 9: Mother of All, Mother of None

Episode 10: Revolution, Part 1

Season 3

Episode 1: Homo Cantus

Episode 2: The Price of Work

Episode 3: Oh Elayne...

Episode 4: Happy Yule!

Episode 5: Cession in Session

Episode 6: Book Club

Episode 7: She Returns

Episode 8: Petra's Favorite Pen

Episode 9: But I Don't Even Have A Dress...

Episode 10: Revolution, Part 2

Watch on BBC iPlayer, PrimeVideo or Disney+

[kutekoolkat]

Nicte and Petra: 😏 Abigail: 😠

art by @dbenitez95| commissioned by me [posted on instagram | twitter]

I adored the experience I had with Diana and her style so I had to commission her again. This was from last year or two years ago? idk what is time?? I just really needed this Nictra + Abigail idea to come to life

[cosmic-llin]

Rewatched this episode and I am obsessed with Petra deliberately smudging her eye make-up because she knows President Wade will notice and let her know about it.

[itsalexwin]

Nick: so the water could be super toxic we need to test it here's my super efficent plan

Not Petra Bellweather: lolz I reject your help and plan and will just take a nice relaxing bath and drink some sweet sweet water this fine evening

*evil starts occuring*

Not Petra": by gods this can't be happening

[arbitrarygreay]

I'm back on my "defending Alder" bullshit, but to be fair, the show is on my side! Eliot says in After The Storm 2x6 that he retains empathy for Alder's decision making, that he is still Team Alder. That bears out in the writing for the show, in that we see all of the characters basically concede all of the points Alder made to justify herself. (And let's not even get into the potential consent ethics around the Mycelium making everyone witches. We'll allow that feel-good hand-wave.) Obviously, the most important characters to consider on who compromised are Tally, Petra, and Anacostia, the characters who had the most stake in condemning Alder's actions. Khalida, too, but her turn is already quite obvious. Tally, of course, made the call to kill Penelope, and then embraced receiving training from Nicte. Don't quite remember if she was present for Scylla controlling people with crows, but everyone else just accepted it, so I don't see her suddenly finding that a crossed line. Of the three, she does the least to concede Alder's points, but she's also quite far from being a part of military authority for most of the season, so. Anacostia murders Vira for Pushing Sterling, and then uses (Spree-specific!) Pushing herself to have the Camarilla surgeons murder each other. The only Spree tech Anacostia doesn't eventually use is the delayed-charge bottle/balloon burst. Petra, meanwhile, is subject to that old TV chestnut of "fuck Civilian Oversight" (second only to "we love prosecution attorneys, defense lawyers are scum"), and Petra doesn't even have the excuse of immediately necessary self-defense that Anacostia had. Preceding that, Petra had to sacrifice the conscripts in order to delay the Cession invasion (which, sidebar, mirrors the Battle of Juarez, where Jem Bellweather led a "disastrous" cover charge to give the Swythes time to create a storm). Not to mention that the show kind of hand-waves Willa's complaints against Petra's leadership in the field, though perhaps Petra's "they're killing my soldiers" moment in S3 was meant to be a contrast in attitude to that past. This all goes back to that campfire conversation in 1x10.

Tally: How are we any different from the Spree if we just puppet whoever gets in the way? Alder: Taking the body and will and voice of another is a violation. It is against our code. But I had no choice. If you knew what was at stake, you'd understand.

When we slice away the actions that everyone eventually shared with Alder, only a few unique transgressions remain: 1) The Liberian Martyrdom. Balanced by their kid-gloving of Nicte and Scylla having done way more of it. 2) Alder's puppeting and pushing of Wade. What differentiates this from the cases above is that Alder did it to a nominal ally, not an established enemy, in reaction to the threat of retirement, and against The Spree instead of the Camarilla. Alder's true sin is that she kept going it alone. We see what she could have done instead through how Wade is treated in S3. In 2x10, Petra was actually following Alder's footsteps in trying to intimidate Wade. That relationship was by no means destined to be productive. However, in S3, Petra invites other people to the table. She states that she would bow to Anacostia serving as her conscience. Then, she has M build an honest relationship with Wade, keeping Wade in the loop of information. And most importantly, Minerva speaks of how they got over themselves and the power-jockeying games to find common ground, instead of holding onto that military-civilian divide, which Alder could never let go of. Petra's growth over the course of the show is mirrored in her relationship with Abigail. It may well be the case that if she had pulled off the coup in S1, she wouldn't have done any better, still trying to be controlling to the expectations she had for herself and others, the "her high haughtiness" that Willa loathed. By later S2, Petra has become much more sensitive to the personal over the abstract, allowing her to decide that she would fight alongside Nicte, and then let her go on the run. But still. Petra's murder of Colonel Jarret is quite a blurry line from puppeting Wade. Just who gets to decide who is the enemy of the nation, foreign or domestic? It's really easy to interpret Wade's actions in S1 to be what Jarret did in that office. Tying her hands, threatening her power. Having the audacity to ask that there be some accountability to non-witches. If the Camarilla didn't have protections for Silver, should they have just permanently puppeted the man?