#post rewrite

[motherstone]

Flight

Hmm when I was working on this, I decided to experiment a bit with letting loose, not to make it look refined so I left visible brush strokes in/the sketch layer. The background is referenced from Houses with a Story (it's a great book, been flipping through it)

Headcanon time:

Y'see, in the Rewrite, I shifted some worldbuilding around, and one of those is the differences between stonekeeping styles, and elves only keep to the ground, but recently (like past few decades or so) Cielan stonekeepers started incorporating prolonged flight to their fighting style - because Vigo discovered how. Typically, stonekeepers can hover for a second, Vigo's developed it to be able to keep in the air for a few minutes. It's not a common skill though, but to give themselves an advantage, Vigo has managed to hammer it into these two, as a result - flight. It's not a very practical long-term way of travelling though, so they still rely on airships.

[aethersocietyofficial]

OOC POST UNDER CUT

Hey!! I'm Cwitchy and this is my first time running a villain blog or a blog with more then one person, so this should be fun!

Pelipper mail/malice on

Musharna mail/malice on

Magic anons uncanon is on

Hate anons is on and encouraged

I'm running this blog as writing practice and as a confidence boost since I heard playing villains can do that- we'll see. My other much tamer pokeblog is @kalosiandogmom and my main blog is @unduh-da-c

These characters are villains and also assholes- that being said I do not condone nor agree with any of their actions. Ooc hate won't be tolerated.

PLEASE LET ME KNOW THROUGH DMS OR ELSEWHERE IF YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE RPING WITH THESE GUYS! I will fully understand!

These guys are going to deal with emotional abuse (from each other. Lol.) and some pokemon abuse, so be warned! I will do my best to attend every post that deals with that but please let me know if anything slips through the cracks! I'm still kind of new at this.

All art except for the banner is placeholder and will be replaced- I'm working on their character designs and new logo.

Hope you're having a wonderful day/night!!

[norrthie]

he looked like a moth to me

[promniight]

The Five Beasts

[lilianade-comics]

INFINITE REALMS

[starry-eyed-psychopomp]

You’d think that omegaverse aus would work really well for SVSSS, what with PIDW being a shitty internet porn series with 10,000 variations of sex pollen, but if you really try to rework the whole universe for abo you’ll find that it would actually crumble the very foundations of the series. This is due to the simple fact that the entire plot is spurred by Su Xiyan’s pregnancy, with her giving birth to Binghe alone while Tianlang-jun is imprisoned, but if the series was omegaverse there is no way in all hell that notorious dom sugar daddy masc Su Xiyan wouldn’t be the alpha to submissive and breedable omega Tianlang-jun. ANY other possibility is OOC on a world-breaking level. In this essay I will

[touchlikethesun]

during my reread today, i was struck by the difference in shen qingqiu's opinion of liu qingge and what is actually happening, or rather, how liu qingge views their relationship. over and over again, shen qingqiu refers to liu qingge as a "brute," one time literally calling him "his hired thug." he calls out easily to liu qingge, but he seems to view their relationship as mostly if not entirely transactional, and one where he is reaping more of the benefits. liu qingge is reliable for protection, for help with-out-a-cure, but the only time shen qingqiu thinks about him outside of needing his help - or remembering his original faith - is when he meets a cute new potential disciple for him.

but what he doesn't notice or comment on... from an outside perspective, it is so obvious just how fond liu qingge is of shen qingqiu. he has correctly identified shen qingqiu as an accident prone and self sacrificing person that needs someone looking out for him to save him from himself, and he has fully accepted that role for himself. when woac flares up, liu qingge firmly refuses to let him endanger himself with the practice and patience and love of a parent keeping their toddler from touching a hot stove. when shen qingqiu is in trouble with the ba qi cultivators, he calls for liu qingge who shows up immediately, and despite his current frustration with shen qingqiu, he agrees to take him where ever he wants to go. and it's not just babying, liu qingge knows shen qingqiu well enough to be able to tease him, like when he threatens to drop him for being ungrateful! of all the peak lords, liu qingge is the one who understands just how much luo binghe means to shen qingqiu, and he's the first to intervene when shen qingqiu is threatened by the other sects, and he was ready to tear thru hhp's water prison the moment it seemed like qingqiu was in physical danger. while he may not understand shen qingqiu all the time, he seems to know him so well, seems so endeared by him, so protective of him. and whether it's romantic or platonic, it is clear that liu qingge decidedly does not view himself as shen qingqiu's "hired thug"

[motherstone]

Return

Trellis, the start of his return journey after his exile, the plot from this post.

[mmyashas]

Why is vikkstar driving the bus

[deancasforcutie]

a million years later I'm still emotional about how Dean's last word to Cas in the series was "Cas". the name he gave him, his brand on Cas as Cas' handprint was on him, marking all the ways they've changed each other, both affirming I am yours and you are mine. he was going to say "I love you" back but he already did

[archergirl]

lily never threw away any of the notes james passed to her during classes, she kept them in a small, red box. but all of them were wrinkly due to her dramatic crushing of them in front of him; a regular yet dishonest show of hatred towards the boy whose name was scribbled on multiple pages of her journal, every time accompanied by red hearts beside it.

[nuclearconsole]

i love the theory that fallout didn't just stagnate in the 1950s, it returned to it. not just out of nostalgia, but desperation.

as the world fell apart, oil drying up, war time anxiety piling on and trust eroding, the government needed something familiar to sell.

and what better tool for control than the most sanitized, era of “american values” they could find?

aesthetics of nationalism, conformity, mccarthyist paranoia, all dressed up in chrome and smiles. it wasn't a freeze in culture, it was a calculated reversion.

the mythologization of a golden past becomes the scaffolding for fascist ideology. not because that past was ever real, but because it can be weaponized

myth, dressed up as memory.

in fallout's case, that myth is the 1950s. not the messy, violent, contradictory 50s that actually existed, but a state-manufactured fantasy of chrome smiles, and "american values." a world where conformity is virtue, fear is patriotism, and war is just another product.

because when people are scared, you don't give them answers:

you give them slogans. mascots. marching tunes.

you roll out project brainstorm, an actual pre-war initiative, and start pushing "covert and overt messages of extreme patriotism" into every corner of pop culture. comics. toys. music. sports.

whatever it takes to wrap the war machine in a smile.

prewar's retrofuturism isn't just for the vibes. it's state-sanctioned denial. it was a tight wrap around a dying empire, and the more things fell apart, the more they clung to that futile image.

like if they smiled big enough and said “apple pie” enough times, the oil crisis and global collapse would just blink away while the world burns behind it.

it's the same old rot, lacquered in vintage.

a country that chose the past over the future, and got exactly what it asked for.

not progress. not reform. just reruns of a dream that never existed.

and then it ended, the only way it could end:

with a country so in love with its own mythos it pressed the button waving a flag in one hand and a nuka-cola in the other.

[beneathsilverstars]

i think if you’re doing mirabelle’s rpg. you have to put isat right in the middle. i think it should go like… she goes through vaugarde collecting the orbs and noticing all these mysteries about her companions and mourning all the frozen towns, and she wants to get to know her friends better, and figure out what’s bothering them and help with it, and go do fun touristy things with them, etc etc, but they have a country to save. there’s no time, and everything is frozen. if that wasn’t the case, they wouldn’t even be traveling together at all! and the whole time mirabelle’s struggling with anxiety and imposter syndrome and the weight of being The Savior. she has to fix things but she can’t, she wants to help her friends but she can’t, she has to change but she doesn’t want to. she’s getting a bad grade in rpg protagonist!!!

but then we hit isat. and you expect it to be the culmination of mirabelle’s arc, but she’s not ready for that yet, just like she’s felt unprepared and unworthy all game, stuck in this role, under the weight of everyone’s expectations — of course doing the thing everyone wants her to do can’t be mirabelle’s defining moment, no matter how much she also believes in the importance of the quest. when she vanquishes the king, it doesn’t actually fix any of her personal problems. it wasn’t even really about her.

instead, the focus of this event is on siffrin, since it turns out the unchanging king was his foil all along, not mirabelle’s. mysteries are answered about both siffrin and the king, but more importantly — this is the turning point for everyone. the result of the most seemingly-stand-offish character’s arc is the key to making progress in everyone else’s: the party admits they care about each other and decides to keep traveling together.

the second half of the game, then, is going backwards through vaugarde, visiting all the same places again. and now that they’re not on their blessed quest in the name of change, they DO have time and they ARE all officially friends. everyone gets a little arc, echoing the five orbs, starting with isat as siffrin’s. they’re still clearing out sadnesses — and there’s some really strong ones as everyone takes stock of how much time has passed and how much damage has been done — but they don’t respawn anymore. people are starting to recover! and instead of dungeon puzzles, there’s fetch quests and mini games as the party helps vaugarde rebuild. a lot of the quests relate to things they saw while frozen, a bunch of mysteries and tragedies that they can finally DO something about. and in the same way, the family can finally get closer and talk about important things and meet each other’s friends/family and share their interests etc etc, all these old mysteries and maybe-some-days getting resolved!

and then, finally. mirabelle has been doing work that she CHOSE, helping vaugarde rebuild. and sometimes people use the opportunity to rebuild differently, but sometimes people just want the same familiar things back, and that’s not actually bad, it’s nothing like being frozen. you can keep living in the same house but making new memories, fixing things as needed, both different and the same. and mirabelle realizes that she doesn’t need to change. she realizes she has changed, and she will keep changing, but she can stay the same the whole time too. she doesn’t need to be what people expect, not the perfect housemaiden or the rpg protagonist savior. she can just strive to be the best version of herself!!

and that’s the end of the game, bc mirabelle isn’t trying to figure out how to do everything right to win the game anymore. she’s just living ^^

[junocandraw]

stupid creepypasta doodles i made during a sermon have a good night freaks 💜✌️

ALSO EDIT: i cant believe i have to clarify this THIS IS NOT SHIP ART 😭😭😭 TICCIMASK IS DISGUSTING AND IF YOU SHIP IT DNI WITH ME

[gothamite-rambler]

Jason: Bruce, I know we’ve made amends and I’m back in this insane family, and I’m well aware you tried to kill the Joker to avenge my honor. You didn’t go through with it, but still, there’s a lot to unpack here. I want that soldier memorial removed. I never wanted a statue that labels me as a damn child soldier.

Bruce: Yeah, I told Alfred the same thing. Honestly, I’m thinking we could replace it with photos of you, Dick, Tim, and Damian.

Jason: You told Alfred the same thing?

Bruce (swishing his Cognac in his glass): Alfred set up that memorial and included the soldier line. I hated it—not because it reminds me of you but because equating you to a soldier reduces the fact that you're my son who chose to fight alongside me. I may be emotionally distant, but I do love you. You were never a solider, you are my son.

Jason blinked, momentarily stunned, and turned away, coughing to maintain his composure. Bruce half-smiled, noticing his son misty-eyed.

Jason: Right, back to the Alfred comment. He put that up? Jesus, I know he’s old and things were different back then, but “soldier” for a teenage Robin? How is that okay?

Bruce: Alfred means well. He tends to do insane things without my approval. He made Tim a Robin after I vowed never to have another child sidekick.

Jason (shocked): What the hell?!

Bruce chuckled dryly as he drank the rest of his Cognac and poured another glass.

Bruce: Yeah, when you died in that explosion and I cradled your lifeless body, I thought about you—my sidekick, my son. I reflected on Dick and what he went through, how he was going low contact with me. I spiraled, thinking, “What kind of monster does this to his son? To the kids he claims to care about? I just buried a kid… a kid who lost his life before it even started.”

He downed the second glass of Cognac, his throat dry, and slammed the glass on the table.

Bruce: So I vowed to never get another one. Obviously, that didn’t stick. Tim figured out Dick was Nightwing and the first Robin; I couldn’t resist rubbing that in his face for weeks once I felt better. But before that, I turned Tim away. I didn’t want a child sidekick. I thought I could handle this alone. Dick and I were still on terrible terms, and I was losing it. This was after I tried to kill the Joker, by the way.

Jason: Right.

Bruce: I was, to put it lightly, losing my mind. I was inches away from having my one bad day moment, on the brink of insanity. But Alfred and… I think Dick got Tim your old suit—

Jason: My old suit? The one I died in?!

Bruce: No, the backup you had. Keep up. So they gave him that suit, and he saved me. Alfred was like, "Master Bruce, I got you a new sidekick. You don’t have to thank me." I didn’t thank him, but Tim was precocious and adorable. I probably would’ve died without him. But yeah, Alfred was behind that as well.

Jason: …

Bruce: I know it’s a lot to take in. I hope you aren’t angry at Alfred for this.

Jason (burying his head in his hands): I’m so conflicted.

Bruce: That’s usually how I feel when Alfred decides to do things I didn't agree with. He means well though, the man was there for me when I had no one after my parents died. Do you still want to remove the memorial? I have a small one set up for you already, just photos of us together.

Jason: Aww, Bruce, that’s actually nice and makes sense for you. Let’s keep the memorial. I don’t have it in me to get mad at Alfred. Can I have some of that alcohol, though? I think I need it.

Bruce (already pouring him a glass): I expected that. If you have more questions, I’m two drinks in and becoming an open book like that time we got hit with truth pollen.

Jason: I actually wanted to ask what you said to Superman after he stupidly tried to stop you from avenging your son.

Bruce: I’d love to talk about that, and I hope he hears us.

inspired by this kaylee.jaye

[phibsies]

simple pixane thingy <3