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[iamhereinthebg]

Let's talk about the clock keepers boundary!

(warning: spoilers until chapter 124!!)

I've had some guess on where they could be from so let's look at what we have in the manga for now. I will keep things on surface level for the most part but it's just some things I noticed!

The first mention of the town is in chapter 111, where we finally have a view on their boundary.

A lot of fans already guessed from their clothes that they were not from Japan, this panel definitely confirms it and even points more precizely to a European country, mostly Western Europe. And also a country where Winter with snow exist.

It's also not an English speaking country, since Akane cannot understand the language and we know he has english classes at school.

Now there are several things we can look at to have more clues!

First, the architecture.

This type of house is called Timbered framed houses. It’s important to note that the roofs on those houses are really really sharp here. Which means theywere built for snow, so it can slide off the roofs more easily. The trees are also pines, something that can be found in a lot of Europe. (wood was needed to be able to create houses made of wood/with visible Framework( Little note: I know Italy was a guess for a lot of person because of the link to Pinocchio, but Italy main material for houses is stone not wood. And it is also not known for its winter.)

Here we can also see bricks which is something more associated to countries like Germany, Belgium or the Nertherlands, we don't have the colors so we can't guess from which minerals it was made for now.

But we have even more informations when we look at chapter 124!

The bridge and tower may be inspired by a fortified city, something that you could find A LOT in Western Europe during the middle age, not a lot of cities still have their entire walls but you can still see it if you go into old medieval towns. We can also see something that looks like a Belfry on several panels. Towers used mostly to indicate each passing hour of the day (may be a campanile or a bell tower (the difference is wether it's linked to religion or not basically)

Second! Let's do a little bit of clock making history!

I won't go into details, but there are some countries to point for this. England, The Netherlands and Germany. We already took out England before and we can easily erase Nertherlands from the list with the next step (my favorite one).

The food! I already had my suspicions confirmed with this bonus art from volume 22.

First of all, they have tea which is not something that was in Europe before the XVII century. But let's look at the sweets they have here.

Chocolates which look close to Belgian chocolate ( I say Belgian but other countries' chocolate is pretty close to it) , Christstollen Cake, and Spiztbuden.

We have even more to look at with the new chapter! And they confirm that it's indeed a stollen cake.

With all these foods it's now pretty obvious which area the clock keepers are inspired from.

Stollen cakes are German cakes, ginger cookies are from Germany too. I will also add that there is a chance the crescent moon cookies are VanilleKipferl. We have another panel showing Sausages and bread. Only the Almond is something not typical from Germany but which clearly was all over Western Europe with trades.

Their city already looked like the 'perfect christmas city' you can see in movies, inspired by German culture. And they also mention Mulled Wine which is THE beverage to take in any chritmas market in Europe.

Chritmas markets are inspired and coming from Germany first, but I wanna point something more.

My main guess was, Nuremberg, the city where the ancestor of the pocket watch was created, the Nuremberg Egg. It's also a Fortified city and it has forests around it. It's also known for its Ginger cookies!

So Germany would be a great pic, but the more I think about it the more I can also see the link to another region: Alsace.

Alsace is a region from France right now BUT it's a mixt of german and french culture (I will not make a history lesson but it is a place that always switched between France and Germany basically, now it's French).

All the food mentionned before are also made in the Alsace region!

It's situated in the Vosges, a chain of mountains known to have a lot of forets of pines and which is known to have villages like this:

Which were also the main inspirations for movies like Howl's moving castle for example. You can see the similarities between the artchitectures

The first ever Chritmas Market was in Strasbourg, the capital of Alsace, when it was German and it spread accross Europe after.

I will now look at something I usually don't do because I exclude Aus from canon but it's just a funny thing to point out.

This au shows a snow town inspired by ginger bread houses. I just find it funny because Aoi is shown as a baker, with bread (which are not baguette I think, it's way larger here) but with some croissant on her table (disclaimer: Croissant are not french at first, this form here is, but it's from Austria otherwise) And Kako clearly has something similar to a Wine bottle in his hands. This au is the only one featuring them, was given with their volumes and the vibes are really similar to their boundary.

I would say no matter what it's definitely closer to German culture but I wanted to point out this region which is known for it's Christmas season and its typical houses.

I will mostly say that it's an inspiration from this region of Europe, I don't know if a real country is the reference for it since we don't even know where tbhk takes place, but it's always funny to look at those things :DD

Little bonus:

In a more messy note, the clothes. I put them at the end because besides their hats, I had no idea how to describe it, since it seems pretty typical of what people could wear in winter.

I did the research in the other way, to look for German and Alsacian clothing to see if it match and it kinda does but I don't think it's speficific to this region. The girls wear classic white Charlotte and big clothes with layers for Winter.

The clock keepers clothes are different, it looks like a mixt of Japanese and western European clothing (especially from england).

Their main outfits for Akane and Kako really just look like a typical waistcoast/costume you can find in the XIXth century in Europe and Mirai's seems more inspired by a mixt of a Kimono with several layers(she also has sandals and frills) and a coat? The little knots Kako and Akane have on their coats look like something inspired from Mizuhiki knots too (I actually saw a costume with those exact same knots in a museum but I didn't take a picture rip)

So I would say they probably changed slowly their attire when they arrived in Japan, we don't know since how many times they are here, but we know that what is happening in the deeper place of the boundary is linked to memories previous to their arrival. According to their origin I think we can say that it's pretty sure they arrived after the Meiji/during the Meiji Era in Japan (1868/1912), since it's a this time Japan mostly imported Western culture (for clothing here, the first contact was before this. And note: it was mostly rich people who dressed like this). And If we look at some others dates like the things they are eating, used to have or even their clothes, I would say it's more probably the Meiji Era and not in the XVs.

Another note is that their clocks have the numbers written in japanese on it (in the og version but it maye just be so it's readable for the japanese readers? idk if it's a choice or not).

I haven't searched much on their clothes but it was still something I wanted to note here ^^

[yourminecraftboyfriend]

stupid idiots <33

[l3viat8an]

Soo- my headcanon was actually canon!! well close enough for me anyways!-

• “Levi would totally spoil you with merch of your favorite character because he understands how exciting ‘n important it is to own merch of your favorite character!!! He also knows all the early releases dates so he gets you rare / event exclusive stuff all the time!”

[faislittlewhiteraven]

Fais fanfic rambles: Introduction to my 'Selkies by Starlight' ISaT AU

Note: Not to be confused with @looped-140-and-counting / Soren_793's wonderful Selkie AU oneshot series 'The Northern Islanders are Selkies' which was hugely inspiring for this if potentially VERY different in vibe (we got very into talking about cloaks! XD)

Basic premise/summary:

In an alternate version of the precanon adventure, the party lead by Mirabelle to stop the King freezing Vaugarde in time, recruit Siffrin as per usual.

Thing is, Siffrin is a Selkie.

A very skittish selkie without a cloak of their own, who openly wears the cloak of another, and due to Reasons is under the impression that the party know all both of those things and the Implications about them, and for whatever reason have decided to welcome him into their group anyway.

Which er, he's completely wrong about as the party know absolutely nothing.

Mira and Isa like most Vaugardian humans think 'shifters' are just fairytales, Odile knows shapeshifters are real but is only really familiar with how foxes like her father work, and Bonnie is actually able to sense some pretty major things but is a preteen dealing with a lot and hasn't even joined the party yet, so this pretty major misunderstanding is sustained for quite a while...

Cue the AUs' main focus being on the resulting party dynamic shifts as more and more canon divergence due to Sif's 'selkie stuff' (both cute and serious) comes into play, the party slowly realising something is up, and all of it hitting an eruption point right around the time of the 4th Orb/the loss of Siffrin's eye...

Some key world building notes: (Note: very summarised from my docs. I have like 20k+ words on this stuff XD)

The Island - Probably the most drastically different thing from canon here, the Island was not forgotten or erased here. Rather it is hidden away and permanently shrouded in Wish Craft generated fog from 'those without cloaks'. Side note: Sif is still unable to return home and continues to have some very plot critical memory problems but those are due to unrelated issues, which means yay I get to have Sif talk 'home culture' with the others in this =D Also idk why the King is freezing Vaugarde still. I've got a few ideas I'm not sure about and he's not in focus enough for it to even matter really, but random suggestions -especially those with possible selkie motivations- would be very much appreciated.

Selkie powers in my setting - Went into something of a deep dive regarding selkie folklore for this and did you know they have an absolute ton of seer/oracle based stuff going on?

From selkie being summoned by their human lovers shedding seven tears into the ocean, to a selkie man telling a former lover that he and their child will die at the hands by her genuinely good and loving future husband, to a selkie woman forseeing her fisherman husband about to die out in a storm just in time for her to swim over there and rescue him, etc.

So... Yeah. This AU has a lot of plot relevant sensory/seer stuff going on as well as the standard seal shapeshifter stuff (Islander selkie traditionally believe it to be the Universe talking with them, in the same way Wish Craft is talking to the Universe), and going off all the stuff I read decided it'd be most fitting if the general rule for how it all works is: - Selkie always passively have a bit of it going on (aka Sif's canon 'you sense someone nearby' stuff) which like most things can be enhanced with Craft use a bit. - Near perfect understanding of all 'connected' bodies of water (aka they know EXACTLY where the tasty fish are/will be and can probably get a general sense of location for most people on a boat) - Potentially get strong 'visions of the future' and/or instincts on what they need to do to avert an outcome when it comes to loved ones being in danger/distress.

They also maybe get to pull very fast, high power Wish Craft 'curses'/miracles' at idk, the cost of something major like their cloak or lives (mostly based off of the The Legend of Kópakonan where the whole island of Kalsoy was cursed with death by a selkie in retaliation for her husband and children being murdered) but not super attached to this idea past it being in 'seal shifter' stories in-setting.

Other non humans in setting and regional differences in shifters - Pretty much only selkie and selkie issues are in focus here, but just as a general thing, all non humans in setting are shapeshifters and originated from human ancestors who went crazy with the the Body Craft and/or used Wish Craft in some way.

Ka Bue in particular has a ton of them since yokai, with their origins being various sects/clans back in the warring eras going so nuts with trying to weaponize Body Craft (super soldiers, enhanced life spans, infiltration, exploiting attraction to furries, etc), that after some particularly high profile incidents (for an idea plz see: Kiyohime, Tamamo no Mae, Kachi-kachi Yama) and 'Body Craft misuse leading to shut down of the brain/vital organs' being the most common cause of death for 10+ years once peace time was established, eventually Ka Bue's authorities set their foot down and banned Body Craft altogether.

Currently the shifter population in Ka Bue is around 30% of the population, shifters are required to have ID regarding their forms (or potential forms if they're merely 'half'), and it's considered distasteful for a shifter to be in non human form outside of private settings/necessity and even ruder to ask a shifter about their non human forms if they haven't brought the topic up yet first (kinda like seeing/asking about someone's underwear or something XD).

In contrast the Vaugarde, Mwudu and Porteria region is extremely shifter sparce, with most of its original shifter population being the result of various Universe worshipping peoples (mostly small groups, like greek mystery cults) deciding to use a big Wish Craft ritual as some sort of religious rite and becoming shifters as a side effect of their primary Wish (usually stuff like 'we wish for us and our descendants to be one with You and the sea/air' or 'may we Change with the phases of the holy moon' etc) which granted them some pretty neat skills but also tended to come with some 'potentially nasty' drawbacks attached (see: selkie and swan maidens with their cloaks, werewolves Changing in both body and mind etc) Which er, lead to some issues born of lack of knowledge about this stuff, later some very nasty anti shifter sentiment in the region, and then around... IDK 200 to 300 years ago or so ended up exploding into violence and other very nasty things, with most shifters able to do so fleeing the region, and those that couldn't either enduring horrible conditions until they could escape/died or went deep into hiding, with the Island's Country being founded by the two later groups who used Wish Craft to hide their new home, erase awareness of their existence from their enemies (a short term, fully intentionally 'forgetting' blast centered specifically around shifters), and developed a LOT of culture and traditions regarding when, who and what can be told to 'outsiders' about themselves, Wish Craft, etc in order to keep their people safe.

There are shifters living in present in Vaugarde of course (anti shifter sentiment died back a LOT after most people stopped thinking they were real, and most modern day Change Believers are more likely to view these 'totally fictional/allegorical' beings as children/messengers of the Change God rather than 'evil demons who stole power by tearing apart the Change God's cloak for themselves and thus have to be hunted down and made to repent' propaganda take that was everywhere back then) but numbers actually living outside the Island as opposed to merely visiting remain low, since either the shifters know their history and stick firmly to their 'stay secret' traditions or quickly pick up on how oddly unknown shifters are around these parts and decide to err on the side of caution... Also 'trust worthy' humans who do learn about them (usually northern coastal folk, gee wonder why) tend to help cover them up so... Yeah =D

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And... Yeah!

This is hella long as is, so will stop here and ramble about the actual 'how this all affects our beloved Sif and Co plot and culture wise' stuff that is the actual meat of the AU in another post later, but hope this made for an interesting/idea provoking read, know that I have no issue with anyone using any of this for their own works (just please, don't use the 'Selkies under starlight' same story name unless it's actually a fanfic/fanart of my 'hopefully soon has a chapter/one shot up' fic/Ao3 series of the same name so people don't get confused), and I would love to chatter with you about any thoughts/questions you might have so...

Wishing you a good day =D

(sighes in relief finally getting this post finished after literal months. Pheeeeww~)

[bahrtofane]

the stardust between us

hell yeah sci fi charlos yearning melancholy poetic sappy fic

read on ao3 here ! https://archiveofourown.org/works/64948303/chapters/166957951

tags - sci fi au. grief/mourning. aircraft crashes. prosthetics.

watch it - graphic depictions of injury, blood etc more in authors note

my shameless self promo. sneak peak under the cut!

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summary -

There is much less hope for someone like Carlos. Brushed by melancholy. Echoed in his eyes. Forever chasing his own sky, painted in hues glittering gold. Of a family he will never know again.

Grief is a funny thing Charles thinks. He mourns the future and Carlos mourns the past. Each stuck in the spaces between. They complete each other in a sense. Past and future, destined to navigate the present together. Finding a way to fill the gaps and pieces missing within each other.

Carlos wonders how different his life would have been if the crash was delayed by only a second. Would he have ever known him? Charles crashed right into him nonetheless.

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In which Charles crash lands on Carlos's moon, his home. Fate brings them together, and it's fate that seals their end.

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Charles watches the interaction from the branches of the towering tree at a far end of Carlos's property. He tries to climb as high as possible. He really shouldn't be doing this in the first place. It's been years now since the crash, but his nature remains with the stars, endlessly chasing. This remains the closest he can get to the sky.

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The sky is filled with red. It fits Carlos, he thinks. Full of passion. Bold. 

Watching the beat up truck back out of the winding driveway is like a punch to the gut.  A sick, twisted feeling replaces it when it's out of sight. If this is to be the last, will it have mattered? Should he run after him?

Charles ignores it. 

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[lovelyladylavie]

If 4KIDS got ahold of Dungeon Meshi the theme song would be something like:

*bopping Donkey Kong-esque like beat with a xylophone to hype kids up for adventure*

🎶 De-De-Delicious! IT'S DELICIOUS!

Delicious-in-the-Dungeon! 🎶

Gotta snack, but we got no money!

Not a worry! We can eat, Honey!

Cause it's

De-De-Delicious in the Dungeon!

De-De-Delicious in the Dungeon!

Ever try dragon?! Makes your lips smack

(Second female valley girl voice) "ew, you can eat that?!"

(Senshi voice: )Sure you can, its full of fat!

De-De-Delicious in the Dungeon! 🎶

De-De-Delicious in the Dungeon! 🎶

(Diff goofy character voices:)

Meet us down there

Lets catch a mushroom!

Watch out for bugs!

Save some for me!

(Female voice again) "ugh no way!"

You'd be surprised, its alllllll

De-De-Delicious! Delicious in the Dungeon! YEAH! 🎶

*Group pose made of stock imagery of the characters*

It gets immediately canceled before episode 11, and no one ever sees it again.

[moraent-keys]

The amount of shit I will shove onto one canvas and then try to post the pictures as if they’re separate is ridiculous

[ruelin024]

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[lover-of-skellies]

Why does it sound like there's a creature breathing real loud in the vent intercom thing in this break room right now

[ghostie-jakxy-gray]

I do not have the brainspace to make it, but it's come up enough times in my thoughts that I need to outline it:

Arcane fanfic x Swan Lake thoughts

Bear with me here, but Singed as Baron von Rothbart

it works! Trust me! old court guy who gets shunned away and/or hides to conduct his freaky little experiements; Returns to make things infinitely worse in collaborations?? (depends on the version but the Mercedes Lackey retelling has me Convinced) with the current Queen of the land, ends the piece in a schrodingers-living-and-dead toss up based on the production, a little too focused on his daughter(s) to be healthy.

Kirraman & Sponsored (Jayce) as Sigfried. We'll get back to this point, but they've both got the "oh shit I was gonna kill them" to "oh shit I don't WANT to kill them but Apparently I Might Have" pipeline for their respective love interests. Also Cait as the Hunter version of the prince, look me in the eyes and tell me it doesn't work. You can't, you simply can't convince me.

Vi as Odette. Enough said.

Okay actually not enough said because the protective older sister falls for the person who might have harmed them, who in turn turns around and protects them when they thought they would not need to be protected? Also very real "I don't care if you cheated come back and make out with me / help me kill god" vibes for both

Viktor as Odile. The [somewhat] protege of our von Rothbart, made palatable to upper society, dooms everyone by being too pretty for the prince to resist, except for maybe they don't because depending on the interpretation...

Also the joy of giving the part with the 36 victory-fouttes variation to that man.

Heimerdinger as the old man at the maypole dance, lol. [If we're digging in with my references to the Lackey version this would also make him a philosophy professor which... yeah it works]

Ambessa as the queen. Obviously.

Alternatively tho... Silco as Rothbart, Jinx as Odile. Not as many parallels but it keeps the drama relegated to one thread of the story-weave and not spilling all over the place.

Alternatively Alternatively, Ambessa as Rothbart, Mel as Odette, Caitlyn as Odile. Many more parallels and the plus of an almost all girls cast; although that does end up making Vander the Queen - which is certainly not a downside but a very funny image.

I don't know where to fit everyone else in here, and I don't have any actual plot sections. There's something here though, if somebody else wants to figure it out!

[pillowbee]

If we must start again

Ian’s not sure where things stand with him and his husband. They’d been fighting, right before Mickey left to join Carl’s scavenging mission on the outside world. But Mickey is back now — he’s covered in blood and is sporting a split lip, but he’s fucking alive, thank fuck.

Ian wants nothing more than to hold on to him and never let go again, but—

He’s not sure where things stand with them now.

//

Or:

The (frankly vague) zombie apocalypse AU where Ian and Mickey’s bond as husbands is put to the test.

Chapters: 1/1

Tags: Zombie Apocalypse

Read it on AO3 🌻

[l3viat8an]

I am sooooo normal rn 😇

[ysaefinn]

"Mdni" you and i both know they dgaf 🥀

[kirsteinsangel]

the way the cloaked dudes who supposedly follow sephiroth in rebirth kept going to fun places like costa del sol and the golden saucer is kinda funny to me, because i just imagine sephiroth going to those places and having a very mini vacation while the world is nearly in flames cuz of him

[its-all-papaya]

the thing about being in ur 20s is it's like hm which one of my friends can i talk to about my horrible mental health without triggering THEIR horrible mental health and making that worse also

[herrscherofmagic]

So, I just finished the new Trailblaze Continuance mission (no spoilers here), and I'd like to share my thoughts. Although I haven't done the event that follows, so no spoilers for that please x-x

All i have to say is... what the f***!??!

/pos btw, this is a "WTF" in all the right ways

Out of all the crazy things that happened throughout the game's story so far... I don't know how Mihoyo managed to go even further off the rails.

and still write a beautiful story with a shockingly deep message.

and also weave in the iconic Trauma(tm) here and there.

I'm still processing what the in the name of the Aeons I just witnessed

Anyways, on a totally unrelated note, I hereby declare myself a ninja initiate!