#rosamund on the wurst

[fangirlingpuggle]

Just picturing time quangle AU with Liam adopted by Gilear (and Hallariel) and Fig's baby brother. Him as a rouge at the adventuring academy all the other bad kids adopting him as a baby brother and him following them around like a ducking.

Fabian having minor rivalry with him (Liam has zero idea) as Hallariel dotes on Liam so much,

Hallariel: 'oh my sweet boy'

Fabian:'I THOUGHT I WAS YOUR SWEET BOY! I'M THE SWEETEST!'

Fig: 'I mean Liam is literally made of candy'

Preston also being so spoil by Hallariel the biggest dog bed and treats for the little pig.

(Also Preston and Boggy hanging out)

Plus Rosamund and Zortch romance on the wurst, Rosamund charms everyone and becomes a sharpshooter for the crew as well as one of their negotiators for deals, she is very charming.

Aurora nebbins loves her (and she can actually talk to her using talk to animals so she translates for the crew) and she and Sidney are the best of friends! Barry also adores her instantly adopts her one of the Barry's and is full big brother mode with her.

[arotheosis]

(Semi-Spoilers for Time Quangle episode 5) Its really funny to me that Rosamund technically has 2 royals aboard the Wurst she could have chosen from, and while they wouldn’t have gone for this for obvious reasons, the mental image of Rosamund attempting to proposition Skip for marriage (when Skip canonically has never even recognized whenever multiple people have flirted with him) has been in my head ever since.

[remidyal]

End of Year Game - Writer's Edition

Pick out five different passages you wrote this year that you really like and share them, saying as much or as little as you want about what you like about them. This is a chance to show off! You can reblog this or start your own post, up to you.

All mine are going to be from D20 fics - 1, 3, and 5 are FH fics, but 2 is ASO and 4 is Never After and both of those contain spoilers so watch out if you're not yet seen them.

First, from Twelve Hours, it's Aelwyn learning completely the wrong lesson from the experience:

Aelwyn looked over, tears in her eyes.  "...Aah.  Adaine.  It's fine.  I've learned.. I've learned a lot of really important things, these past few years.  About how important it is to have others helping you, and about how much I might have hurt.. you and others.  And I am sorry for that.  I do love you.  But most importantly, I've learned... I've learned from Arthur Aguefort that if you're a powerful enough wizard and you have enough wards on your house, you can get away with any number of crimes and the government can't really stop you."

Adaine made at least a half-hearted attempt at a counterspell of the Teleport that followed - none of the others had gotten that far in wizarding - but Aelwyn was ready with a counterspell back of her own, and maybe it really was for the best.  They had the information they needed, and they had Ostentatia's palimpsest, and if Aelwyn wanted to find somewhere to hide from Kalvaxus other than a jail cell, that did seem fair enough in exchange.

Next up, from Gallivant's End, the initial two paragraphs which I think do a really nice job of setting up the interior conflict the piece is about:

Being deep underwater and finding a current that leads you swiftly and perfectly to where you need to get to, Riva for short, did not even know the name of the ship they had hopped onto, nor the two before that since leaving the Wurst.  It was information that could easily be found, of course, plucked from the minds of any of those on the ship around them, but all they really wanted to know was whether they were headed in the right general direction to get to home eventually, and they were.

Gallivant had been lovely, of course, and by the end full of love, and in fact the only person of the crew that Riva could no longer be certain they fully loved was themself.

Third, from Locate Creatures, Riz and Penny interrogating a responsible adult, showing my usual level of respect for Gilear:

"I do not have your money, as I have...  Oh.  Riz.  It's you."  Gilear said, sitting up.  "Is there something that you require, or have I offended you in some way?"

"We need to know who this is and what their address is right now, and if anyone asks why you gave out an address you can say it was at gunpoint."  Riz said, Penny adding "And knifepoint!" from behind, holding the sketch out with one hand and her knife with the other.

"Aah.  Yes.  I do recognize this student.  I trust you have a good reason for this, Riz?  Do I need to talk to your mother again?"  Gilear said, and Riz shook his head.

"No, it's just a kidnapping case.  We'll have it resolved first thing in the morning, I promise.  Just get me the address." 

Four, from Glass, Cinderella preparing to do what she wants and doesn't want to do:

Unfortunately, they weren't as fast as they could have been.  A bare twenty seconds after they'd gotten started on the ritual, the doors behind them had opened, the six of Rosamund's group with their own seventh impossibly in the form of the Baba Yaga bursting through them, and Cinderella felt ill to the very core of her soul.  She had convinced herself that she would be able to do Rosamund the kindness of an ending she was unaware was coming, wherever the girl and her group had retreated to, and yet...

She raised a javelin in salute to her sister of the Crown, before shutting the visor of her armor that would render herself completely unseen.  She could put Sleeping Beauty to rest, one last time.

How much it hurt her to do would not matter.  The End drew near.  Cinderella would make certain of that.

Last, from Missing, a completely wild paragraph in a completely crazy stretch of choices from our protagonist Aelwyn:

Aelwyn swerved, scraping against a car with a horrifying sound, yanking the wheel to and froe and trying to save it, and there was an awful noise from the tires, and...  she definitely didn't have control, now, and the time had come to abandon this plan.

Moments before the police car plowed into the side of a building, Aelwyn Misty Stepped out of it and thirty feet away, dropping the Disguise Self as well - it was close to expiring anyway - and just hurrying along towards the docks on foot, trying to ignore the screaming and sirens behind her.  She couldn't do anything about those now; hopefully nobody was hurt, but the important thing was to not get caught.

[thesausagequest]

Sausages Cooler than I

That isn’t meant to imply that I ate sausages that were not as warm as me, a human adult, because that would be disgusting. Sausages, unlike revenge, are not a dish best served cold. Like revenge, however, they are a motivator for some truly heinous acts and should be treated with the respect they deserve. 

Anyway before you got me on cold sausages - really, how cold would they be? I can do room temperature? Any lower than that and it isn’t something I want anything to do with I am afraid, you will have to find another chilly sausage chump - I was going to explain the title. This title, the one that has thus far caused nothing but confusion, for which I assume partial blame, is meant to imply that I ate sausages in an environment that contained people who are more hip and trendy (and disappointingly all impossibly younger) than I am. Specifically, I met some friends in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to have a sausage session amongst pals. 

I know where your mind has gone but that is your responsibility I am pure. 

Rosamunde in Williamsburg is a sausage and beer establishment that is clean, will run you a Rolling Rock and a whiskey for $5, and has an extensive food brochure which apparently I’m told is now called a ‘menu’. This is the sausage situation:

The Sausage Situation is what I would call my band if I hadn’t seen this sticker. 

‘Good evening Peoria, Illinois, we are Straight Up Sausage who’s ready to rock??’

This is a jar of eggs but you knew that anyway look at you. 

There is a bounteous collection of meat pipes to be selected but since gout hasn’t got me yet I played it safe and just got one, I see no reason to tempt fate and anyway I drank a prodigious amount of German beers to the point where now I don’t think my body will survive Brexit. 

I wasn’t that careful though because I did get a sausage with cheese in, which I think is called a kaesewurst but I’m not googling the combinations needed to discover whether that is accurate as, as I am sure you can imagine, googling to find out what a German sausage with cheese in is called will lead me to some of the internet’s darker corners. 

My friend got a bratwurst with sauerkraut and onions because he fears colorful food and this is how it looked:

I can’t be sure how it was as he has his own mouth and I have mine, but he said it was good and as friendship is built on trust I have to take him at his word. You don’t have to, you don’t know him, but I would ask you to not find him and hound him. 

Here’s mine:

I had the disgusting search terms wurst with sauerkraut and peppers because I am a Capricorn and we enjoy foods of that Pantone. Here is me before the action:

I had to keep my jacket on as I was wearing a Fred Perry polo and I didn’t realise that they’re what white supremacists wear and I’m not a white supremacist because that would mean I’m the master race and what a terrible world that is to imagine. 

In a way I was lucky I had dressed like a racist as my jacket protected my porcelain skin from the vagaries of being totally covered in food. It was out of control, I had peppers dropping from my gaping maw like a dog who can’t work out if he likes them. Stuff was everywhere. I couldn’t control my eating functions. I had bread in my hair. Neigbouring tables were taking cover. I had no idea food could simultaneously be very good and also one of the earlier challenges on American Ninja. 

The sausage itself was excellent as you would expect from somewhere with a sticker saying that the sausages are excellent. The cheese got a bit lost - feel sad for the cheese it is lost - but that was because I topped the sausage with so much shrapnel. This was a really, really good sausage, it added length to my total but it also added joy to my heart. It is becoming more and more obvious as this project continues that I have no idea how to review food. Eat there and tell me what I think about it. 

CURRENT LENGTH - I WOULD SAY THIS WAS ABOUT 10CM BUT I DIDN’T MEASURE IT WAS I WAS IN TRENDY WILLIAMSBURG AND I FEAR THE REJECTION OF PEOPLE YOUNGER THAN ME WHO DON’T KNOW I EXIST SO 530CM

SAUSAGE RATING - ONE OF THE BEST I’VE HAD SO FAR 9/10