#quillan games

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I've been struggling so bad to draw for long periods of time or sometimes at all, and I haven't posted photos in so long so some silly little pictures I took today/recently hahaha.

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Title: The Quillan Games | Author: D.J. MacHale | Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2006)

[haveyoureadthisseries-poll]

1. The Merchant of Death

2. The Lost City of Faar

3. The Never War

4. The Reality Bug

5. Black Water

6. The Rivers of Zadaa

7. The Quillan Games

8. The Pilgrims of Rayne

9. Raven Rise

10. Soldiers of Halla

[ja-lin]

Night of Sin: Encore Stage is the sequel to Night of Sin: Pride, taking place in the same alternate universe. This will be my second visual novel fanfic project!

After 2 months of writing, drawing, and coding I've finally finished Ripley's prologue! Available for reading on web/mobile browser (Chrome works now!) and Windows PC. (Please note: You'll need to input your custom name each time you start the game.)

Find my visual novel fanfic projects here: nightofsin.itch.io

Two routes are planned for Encore Stage, but in the future I may add more! Please note this is a non-canon work of fan fiction, but very much inspired by a lot of the original routes.

Ripley Summers (Envy assassin) Slowburn, second-chance romance. 

Quillan Tan aka Shadow (Sorrow assassin) Whirlwind, childhood friends to lovers romance. 

I'll be working on both routes simultaneously, there is no set schedule. But, feel free to check back once a week cause I post sketches, previews, and updates on my blog. That's the best way to see when the next episode will be released!

Since I'm working on this project solo, all I ask for is your patience and support! My visual novel fanfics will always be free to read and I'll never ask for payment.

[worldssmallestghost]

Ibara should exist, actually

Hey, another little essay about a book series that hardly anybody even thinks about anymore, but I do!

If you're a fan of the Pendragon Adventures series, you're likely aware of the... Ibara paradox. If you're not, let me explain:

In the book series, it's explained that there are "travelers" from each "territory", which are different times and places in the vastness that is the greater universe, called Halla. The main antagonist, Saint Dane, has the goal of throwing each of these territories into chaos by forcing them to go against their set timeline. Most of the time, he loses and moves on, but sometimes he succeeds and gets stronger. He views his losses as inevitable wins, as each fallen territory is like a domino effect.

Book four brings upon his first win.

He relies on the local traveler's knowledge of the world in order to trick her into programming a computer virus that is supposed to make people realize that the virtual utopia of "Life light" isn't perfect so they'll willingly leave their perfect worlds to keep their real world alive and functioning. However, Saint Dane's trick is that it straight up kills people before they can get out. The world falls and, is implied to have created a separate timeline and whole new territory in the form of Ibara, a distant future version of itself.

Travelers are not of the worlds they inhabit. They are, for all intents and purposes, gods that maintain order without having any personal effect on Halla. Saint Dane, being one of them that broke order and left, wants to watch it all burn so he can become the ultimate god. Aja is a traveler, and thus, by series logic, she's not supposed to have effect. She was never supposed to exist to create the virus (the reality bug).

Hence where people start screaming "PLOT HOLE!". And I have been guilty of that until recently.

Saint Dane has never been the kind of man to create problems. He just exacerbates them. In book three, he messes with the morality of the travelers by forcing them to leave the Hindenburg to its fate. The Hindenberg was supposed to explode. In book two, is one of the few times he gets as close to creating a problem for a while. Poisoning fertilizer that the ship-inhabiting people of Cloral need.

I believe that Saint Dane just pours gasoline on turning points to accelerate things. Like putting nitrous-oxide in a car to make it careen into a wall. It's the speed that makes it hard to turn things the right direction.

Ibara was always going to happen. Veelox was doomed from the get-go. Saint Dane, time and time again, puts down humanity by calling us selfish and self destructive. In The Quillan games he breaks Bobby down by telling him that it's just human nature to refuse change. The people of Veelox wouldn't want to leave Lifelight, why would they? They get to have perfect dreams forever until they die. Reality can be whatever they want.

The Reality Bug was just to speed things up. Forcing a slightly different version of Ibara to exist.

"What about Aja Killian helping with the creation of Rayne? If she removed herself from the equation, how could she have been there to help people build a better future?" I think that, alongside Saint Dane speeding up the inevitable, Aja was never supposed to be the person leading the charge, it was supposed to be someone else much later. She was forced to fill a role that would eventually be taken by someone else under different, but similar circumstances down the road.

The series has, in my opinion, never made itself quiet about its ideas of how important fate is. Even after the travelers are given the chance to either go back to being immortal spirits, or mortals, they just live normal, unexceptional lives. Like a tiny little bug in a much bigger program, a little quirk that in the end, changes pretty much nothing.

Anyway, if you made it this far, damn, I'm sorry you had to put up with my fan theory for a very, very small fandom lmao. But thank you.

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

Series info:

Book 1 of Pendragon

Book 2: The Lost City of Faar

Book 3: The Never War

Book 4: The Reality Bug

Book 5: Black Water

Book 6: The Rivers of Zadaa

Book 7: The Quillan Games

Book 8: The Pilgrims of Rayne

Book 9: Raven Rise

Book 10: The Soldiers of Halla

[aqua-beam]

Do you have a favorite book? (Or several favorite books?)

YES.

thank you soso much for asking it gives me an ~opportunity~ XD <333

okay SO favorite bookS because my indecisiveness cannot pick just one >:DD

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

my dream, my darling, a cute book 🥺 jo is literally me and i strive to find a laurie someday and not reject him 🥺

The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett i have no words that are enough to describe this book it's so BEAUTIFUL 🥺🥺🥺

Queste of the Septimus Heap series

I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH???? like the worldbuilding the characters the writing it rewired my brain <333 also the fact that there's a dragon?? and the lore?? mwah mwah

the Pendragon series by D. J. MacHale, but specifically The Quillan Games

EXPANSIVE world + mysteries of the problem + AMAZING cohesiveness and intriguing storylines ASDFGHJKL

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2024 Toronto Marlies playoff stat leaders

Games played: Nick Abruzzese, Kieffer Bellows, Joseph Blandisi, Kyle Clifford, Dylan Gambrell, Dennis Hildeby, Roni Hirvonen, Mikko Kokkonen, Max Lajoie, Robert Mastrosimone, Topi Niemelä, Matteo Pietroniro, Jake Quillan, Marshall Rifai, Logan Shaw, Josiah Slavin, Zach Solow & Alex Steeves (3) Goals: Marshall Rifai (3) Assists: Kyle Clifford (3) Points: Kyle Clifford & Marshall Rifai (4) +/-: Kyle Clifford (+4) PIM: Kyle Clifford (25) Wins: Dennis Hildeby (1) Fewest losses: Dennis Hildeby (2) Fewest goals allowed: Dennis Hildeby (10) Saves: Dennis Hildeby (86) Shutouts: Dennis Hildeby (0)

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📍 -> Introduction!!

Breaking news!! Local idiot returns to tumblr!!

Sys Name: Endervoid Syndicate

Coll. Name: Quillan

Host Names: Quillan/Raphael & Karkat

Body Age: 18

Coll. Prns: he/they/sweet

Dni: proship, transmeds, & general assholes/bigots

Carrd here for more details on dni & interests (+ cat pics!)

More below the cut

Special Interests ->

Hatsune miku

Video game lore

Pink

Stars

Cults

Frequent Fronters ->

Quillan/Raphael

He/they/it

18 (/ageless?)

Host

Angel

Interests: religion, cults, stars, medicine

⭐️

Karkat Vantas

He/they/red/musi

Uh... adult

Co-host, soother/caretaker

Alternian troll

Interests: gaming, art, source

🦀

Oliver Swift

He/they/it

Mid 20s

Prefer not to say

Dialtown human

Interests: film, horror, monsters, source

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[pendragonthegreat]

Something I think abt a lot is regarding the heel turn the Ravinians had on Third Earth, toward the end of book 10, where they deactivate the dados and turn on Saint Dane.

Cause, like… was that reflected across other territories? If so, what would that look like? Like, the biggest example I’ve been thinking of - what’s the state of Quillan now? The book says the Ravinians had power over Blok, and that there were no people left to bet on the games, so if they went through the same arc as they did on Third Earth, where would that leave the territory?

i've thought about this before too! as far as i can tell, the intention is that, without SD's influence, the territories will go back the "they way it was meant to be." i have a few problems with that...

for one, there's no guarantee that the other territories would have the same kind of rebellion that happened on third earth. it's kind of implied that what happened on third earth only did because of what the travelers did first.. so.. are the rest of the territories just out of luck?

maybe a fun post canon au could be about the traveler's next job being trying to help their territories recover from SD :) i don't want this answer to get too long but i will elaborate on my ideas for this au if asked

anyway it's hard to believe that all of the territories could come back from something like ravinia, or that even if they get back to a good place, they won't be changed forever. which is a little sad but most things about solara are. solara has this concept of being as impartial as possible irt the territories/the light, so when the travelers (whose very creation already went against those established rules) defeated SD, ie their job was done, solara pulled them out and decided to continue letting the people of halla write their own futures.

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Realised I never really share my screenshots other than on twitter occasionally so I wanted to dump some of them here. My hunter too, under the cut. Cringe alert though, I do take pictures of my hunter and him together in moments of weakness.

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HARTFORD WOLF PACK ARE BOUND FOR THE PLAYOFFS

By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings PROVIDENCE, RI - The Hartford Wolf Pack extended their winning streak to seven games with a 5-3 win over the Providence Bruins. Combined with a Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 8-2 thrashing of the Bridgeport Islanders to clear the last hurdle, the Pack ended an eight-year playoff drought. The Pack extended their winning streak to seven games and punched a playoff ticket in the process on Libor Hajek's early third-period goal, which stood as the game-winner. The winning streak, the first since the late season run in the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 season, along with the deadline acquisitions of Will Lockwood, Anton Blidh, Wyatt Kalynuk, and Adam Clendennine, paid off. With the win, the Pack returns to the Calder Cup playoffs for the first time since 2015-16. The last playoff series the team won was against the Hershey Bears, with two of the home games played in Worcester. The eventual Calder Cup champions, the Manchester Monarchs, swept them in the conference finals. The Wolf Pack started the third like they did the first - by scoring. Bobby Trivigno had a game-best three assists. He was stopped from the right wing. Turner Elson, already with two goals in the contest, made a hat trick. However, he was stopped as he went to play the rebound attempt. Karl Henriksson took a swing-and-a-miss, but Libor Hájek came in off the left point and caught the puck instead. His blast made it 4-2. Josiah Didier made it 4-3 and doubled his goal total with a right-point low shot with two Bruins in front, creating havoc as the puck eluded Pack netminder Dylan Garand. Tanner Fritz scored his tenth into an empty net at 19:34 to clinch the game and secure a career-best 42 points. In the second period, the Pack took the lead and showed resilience. Trivigno started with a shot toward the net that hit some skates and sticks and came to Tim Gettinger. He tried a wraparound that went to Ryan Carpenter, who fired his 21st goal of the season at 6:03 The Pack had the game's first goal. The team has been getting solid offensive zone entries. Henriksson came across and found Zac Jones. He, in turn, found Elson as he deposited his 14th from the right-wing circle. Ty Emberson, who seems to have one big hit per game during the recent surge, took down Didier early. Providence showed why they have been at or near the top Atlantic Division most of this year. Didier curled off the right-wing wall and fired into traffic. Samuel Asselin moved in front and created a screen getting Didier's shot past Garand. Then the Bruins took a 2-1 lead as Luke Toporowski, back from an early season injury, was on the left wing side. He zipped his 14th into the net using Jones as a screen as he beat his former junior teammate at 10:54. Elson tallied his second of the night and 15th of the season as he filled the gap in front of the net while Kale Keyser made a shoulder save. Elson found the loose biscuit and put the Pack in a two-two tie at 16:46. The Pack saw the Bruins nearly score late in the first period as Wyatt Kalynuk intercepted Justin Brazeau's feed bound for Toporowski. LINES: Cullye-Leschyshyn-Brodzinski Gettinger-Lockwood-Carpenter Fritz-Pajuniemi-Blidh Elson-Henriksson-Trivigno Jones-Emberson Hájek-Scanlin Clendening-Kalynuk Domingue Garand SCRATCHES: Matt Rempe (healthy) Blake Hillman (healthy) Adam Edström #34 (healthy) Brett Berard #27 (healthy) Adam Sýkora  #29 (healthy) Bryce McConnell-Barker #8 (healthy) Matt Robertson (upper body, week-to-week, may be ready by the first of the playoffs) Patrick Khordorenko (season-ending shoulder surgery). C.J. Smith (hip area surgery done for the season). NOTES: Wilkes Barre/Scranton romped over Bridgeport 8-2 at the Total Mortgage Arena. The win by the Penguins also sent Charlotte and Springfield to the Calder Cup playoffs. On a set play, Quinnipiac University's Jacob Quillan zoomed in on the left wing, taking Arizona Coyotes draftee Sam Lipkin's backhand pass ten seconds into OT to score and secure the Bobcats their first NCAA title of any kind for the Hamden-based school defeating midwestern powerhouse Minnesota. HARTFORD WOLF PACK HOME Read the full article

[noybusiness]

Thanks for the mention, @minalblood! I'm glad I helped keep up your enthusiasm for continuing. Now in the home stretch!

Mary, why didn't you just knock the nice policewoman unconscious before she could take John, the way a normal person would? 😉 You'd have been out of town in moments, and she's a fraction your size (I hate to say it, but Betty doesn't make a very convincing officer for the 1970s; today, yes, but not then).

Poor Kyle. Once John's name is cleared, his folks will think he lost the plot, committed suicide and tried to frame John for it.

It was good to see Maggie in the almost-flesh and see how close she and Lata were, which hadn't been mentioned much before. She looks not unlike Mary and Dean, too. Given that it was a vampire who was said to have killed her, I have a slight suspicion we might have seen her again in Season 2 and learned she was actually turned instead of killed.

Erebus's bracelet is like the Sword of Shannara in Terry Brooks's Shannara series (which was made into a TV show called The Shannara Chronicles on MTV that is actually quite good despite diverging from the books a lot, but in ways that actually do more with the post-apocalyptic theme the books set up and the individual characters). It gives its wielder the power of truth to use on others but they have to endure it themself first. 

Also, I appreciate them using one of the relatively obscure primordial Greek deities. A Dictionary of Classical Mythology was one of the first books my parents gave me to read as a little kid. My early passions were Greek mythology and family trees (which I combined in a family tree poster of the Greek gods, heroes and monsters - the heroes and monsters are all related to the gods and therefore to each other - for Home Room in middle school).

I don't think Millie, John or Mary has canonically been taken in on suspicion of being delusional, but it's an interesting idea and would make a good fanfic (although Mary would be sprung by her parents pretty quickly, I imagine, legally or not). In Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, we learned Buffy had been briefly institutionalized before the first season after she famously burned down the gym to destroy vampires at her old high school in LA, before moving to Sunnydale.

Would definitely be interested in those real-time notes!

 "There are two kinds of people in this world. People who hate and fear clowns... and clowns." - The Quillan Games by D.J. MacHale

I'm back and I'm so sorry! I won't make any promises for the last 2 ep of the Winchesters, but I will be reviewing/rewatching them anyways just ... who knows when, I dont!

But let's get started on You've got a Friend 1x11.

I hopefully will be a bit less rambly since O have a draft of my thoughts already written for this and its less... as Im watching (i can post that too if yall wanna but dunno if ull understand my handwriting)

We begin where we left off and I love that we have this scene of them needing to clean up, adds realism, adds dimension to the world. Love also that we begin with Lata being the Lata we all love - dejected in this case about her chimera paw was ruined. Queue Carlos with the teasing. The 2 of em banter a bit before Mary redirects us all to the matter at hand.

And Mary has come a long way in these episodes, because she may not join the banter (still closed off somewhat as opposed to Carlos and Lata's easy repartee) but she is going off of it and adding them into her area of interest.

But all stops when John come in blood soaked and in shock - Mary instantly worried he might be hurt, but nope, not this time.

I am so happy to see them portray the actual shock and numbness John is feeling, then the guilt and sadness, just all the reaction to Kyle's death really. And considering the survivor's guilt John is lugging around, it makes it even more heartbreaking. I also love seeing that Mary is the level headed one here - she,.imo, is clearly pushing down the grief to focus on John's issues here, hell we see very little of her grieving in this episode and everytime we do, she's quick to redirect that feeling into action - sometimes into violence point blank. She does it here, asking what the Akrida could want, she does it even moreso with Millie, where she does open up a bit since Millie is offering comfort, but then it turns into Millie coming with a plan which directly leads to Mary wanting to storm the police station guns blazing and the ep ends with Mary and John discussing Kyle (also god Mary looks absolutely exhausted here, fuck) but Mary derails it by saying they need to find Dean instead. She's def not allowing herself the moment to deal with Kyle's death which may prove relevant when discussing next episode.

I'd forgotten this ep was the Lata episode. Like ep 8 was Carlos', this one is Lata's. And god does it hurt.

1st, move the feather boa, Carlos!

2nd, I do genuinely believe Lata and Maggie were together. Everything in this episode points that way to me (but especialy the sweetpea nickname) We'll round back to this though.

The other thing we note in the sequence in Maggie's room is how close Carlos and Lata are to each other. Which we knew, but I always love seeing it again in action.

Before we continue with the emotional core of this ep, we have to get back to plot with Betty! I love Betty..I also can't blame her for being ....hesitant to say the least. Like imagine what she's seen so far: the guy who, before leaving to the marines illegally, proposed to her, is suddently interacting with, apparently, imfamous Mary Campbell, who is seen at several murder/investigation scenes suddenly appears ro have killed someone? And she already knows John had anger issues before hand. Like i get her here. And still shes trying to be nice while doing her job.

Which leads me to the next part, her job. So the detective... he's wording (even with him being really Akrida) echoes a lot of corrupt cop rethoric which only gets further emphasized when he later threatens to have John... killed 'accidently'. And, on top of them, speaking pf policw corruption even a 'good cop' like Betty becomes complicit simply because of the power the Akrida gained via the detective role cuz she was unwittingly helping them throughout.

But god, was John a bit too cocky here. (My notes have this marked as "this is why you let villains monologue, John!"). Especially since he actually doesn't have any info on Dean. (Love that we see the pic of Dean, missed him) l.

Meanwhile Lata and Carlos have found the bracelet and it's fucked them over. Also, I fucking hate the shadows thing, very creepy. Also also it reminds me of the daeva that Meg uses in s1 of SPN. I'm also reminded of SPN with the story the detective tells John about how they'll get rid of him - SPN's own crooked cop ep featured exactly this sorta plan too, but in killing Dean.

Really though, the main thing I found interesting upon rewatch is just how much Lata is our Dean mirror in this one. Specifically, in getting targeted by the bracelet she's forced to relive a trauma (Sania's death) via Carlos acting as substitute, only this time she succeeds where prior she thought she failed (which lemme make clear, no, Lata was at no point and in no way at fault, but she did internalize that guilt - much like Dean tends to internalize guilt) . Which Dean, much like Lata ends up doing when getting involved with this universe, ends up reliving a trauma (his parents death - Mary especially) of something he failed, in his mind, to prevent/save via rescuing this universe's Mary. And much like Lata, who can't undo what happened to Sania, but can "begin to make it better" (the Hey Jude line just hit me so I had to use it), so too can Dean. It won't change what happened in his life, wont save his mom, but it will help him heal nonetheless.

Adding to this Maggie? Who opperates as a Cas parallel here - she was Lata's person, who shared everything with Lata but Lata couldn't in turn for fear of judgement/shame, who notably is dead and thus Lata can't ever reveal her secret to. Well, it hurts is what it does.

But watching this I noticed another interesting thing though, for all that the bracelet seems to work like Osiris (pulling on the guilt the person feels is most agregious), the bracelet actually seems to want the wearer to get out. Carlos is taken just as Lata begins wondering which secret it's trying to make her face and is sent to Sania's room - direct answer. Then later,.even more blatant, using Maggie's face, tries to get Lata to disclose the secret, but Lata talks around it instead til the creature takes her too.

It seems like Erebus had a test for his warriors, one he wanted them to win.

Throughout all of Lata's story, I was seething. I truly hate her family and Carlos was 100% saying exactly what I was thinking.

Another thing I appreciated though, about Carlos, is the emotional maturity. Yes they were dying and yes it was urgent that Lata disclose her secret but Carlos made certain to reassure her throughout. Tried to give her as much space as possible.

In other thoughts, Lata's mom making that "vs family" distinction, uuuh it rattled sth in me only to them have Lata say "my parents would never look at m the same way"? In the Dean Winchester show? God, the echoes of John's shitty parenting were deafening. Bur yes to eveything Carlos said. It truly wasnt Lata's fault.

And I adore also the ending conversation between Lata and Carlos (both wearing blue and god I want Carlos' coat) because yes, this kind of stuff shouldn't be forced out on anither persons whim. Lata doesn't have to tell John and Mary anything, it is her story to tell, but also yes, Carlos is right to reassure her that if she wants to share it with them, they'll likely react well like he did. And yes the reason this particular scene hit so hard is partially personal, but because of that it drove me insane in SPN where there was a tendency for people to push other to open up at their own whim (and yes, Sam did it often to mutiple people, hounding them until they cracked and spilled whatever trauma they were trying to deal with but then have nothing to give in return, no comfort or even really reaction, and yes he most of all did it to Dean a lot and it did puss me off) So yea, love this episode for the Lata and Carlos of it all!

Also I have a few questions, when Millie was trying to convince Betty about the supernatural, at one point she said "it's not like-" and cut off. She was trying to defend against the accusation of 'playing make believe). Also, Betty says sth like "Mary, I expected.this from" with relation once more to her not believing in monsters soooo.... has Mary ever been taken in under suspicion of being delusional? Was Millie? Or John?! I've questions ok i need y'alls opinions on this one.

Also, I would've soo cracked if the Akrida asked about Dean, cuz I def miss him a lot and id fucking gush about him at that point.

Anyways, that's it for this one. See you guys next time where we'll be clowning (have I mentioned I hate clowns?)

@noybusiness thanks for push earlier this month, i needed that a lot and thanks for the support for this rewatch ❤

@shallowseeker thanks the new posts, been inspiring me to get back to writing this ❤

[zangetsusundelion]

Some favorite book quotes.

"Sometimes leading meant herding." -A Crown of Swords (Robert Jordan)

"The term 'all over the news' was never a good thing, especially not first thing in the morning." -Pendragon: The Quillan Games (DJ MacHale)

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I had a school project for pendragon so naturally for it i drew some stuff. Here are some on the highlights.

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Bobby Pendragon is what everyone wanted Percy Jackson to become.