#seems like it runs in the family

[blueteller]

Cale, using Instant in front of Raon for the first time: "Raon, don't be like me." Raon now, bleeding from his mouth: "What was that, Human? Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of you sacrificing yourself again"

Tcf part 2 chapter 325

RAON PROTECTED HIM!!! RAON PROTECTED HIS BIG BROTHER!!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[n4rval]

BUT YES.

family history.

[myokk]

Hi! I'm still feral for these two, would you mind giving us some art of them in their later years together!?

Hello angel!!!!

Sorry it’s taken so long to respond🫶🫶 but I wanted to draw some new art for this ask💓

We have: Sebastian and Eloise trying out their new fancy camera with a selfie, pictures of them with their daughter, and finally…idk I just always felt like this drawing is when they’re a bit older💓

I want to take this ask as an opportunity as well to talk a little about how I imagine their future (I have no chill & you can ignore this and just enjoy the art if you want😇).

I am a COMPLETE pantser - I never know how a chapter’s going to end when I start writing it (I always just have a few scenes I know I need to include to keep the plot moving forward). Although I have different *big* scenes I’m always writing towards, and themes/plot elements I’m always foreshadowing (shout out to @elliecutte for catching *almost* all of my hints and appreciating my general no chill😆), IM STILL NOT 100% SURE HOW I WILL END THINGS !!! 😳 I have a lot of endings I see as possible, and I think soon it will become more clear to me what will work the best💓

HAPPY ENDING:

Eloise and Sebastian become Unspeakables. I have a LOT of thoughts on this profession that could be its OWN post, and I feel like Unspeakables are generally specialized in one or two departments, but as their interests/research change they also change.

Eloise becomes an Unspeakable in the Mind and Death departments, with the occasional foray into Time. Her ancient magic is connected with all of these things (my version of AM is NOT like the game) & the Department of Mysteries is one of the only places that gives her any useful information about these things. Plus she thinks too much (it IS her hobby after all😆💓) and is very introverted so a hermit job like this is a perfect fit.

Sebastian becomes an Unspeakable as well, but I feel like it takes him a long time to specialize in anything, if he ever does. I just feel like becoming an Unspeakable is the adult equivalent of sneaking into the Restricted Section🥹🫶

They grow old together (I won’t explain TOO much) & have a lovely little family🥹 at least one daughter that they both dote on. Sebastian had an amazing childhood (idyllic until it wasn’t), and wants to give his daughter the same, and Eloise works hard to make sure their daughter feels the love that she never had growing up🥺

When Sirius is burned off the family tree, Eloise and Sebastian take him in🥹🫶 (they’re like 100 years old but WIZARDS LIVE LONGER…) The same happened to her all those years ago, and she wants him to know that his whole family hasn’t abandoned him.

Eloise LOVED her nieces - Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa - when they were younger, but as Voldemort becomes more powerful & people realize WHAT he’s doing, she has to separate herself from them. Her heart breaks seeing Bellatrix go mad, and seeing Narcissa engaged to a Malfoy out of obligation😔 (iykyk)

I haven’t thought any more about happy ending but I think it’s fun to think about how their future story might weave in with the actual canon events, ESPECIALLY since Eloise is a Black🥹💓

SAD ENDING:

After Sebastian gets his hands on Slytherin’s relic, it really starts to consume him and makes him even MORE obsessive than his natural tendencies - I imagine it similarly “talking” to him like Slytherin’s locket/horcrux did in Deathly Hallows (😳)

Eloise is deathly afraid of the changes she’s seeing in Sebastian and steals it from him (he would never willingly give it to her ESPECIALLY if it starts to feel like a precious item to him)

BUT the relic triggers the latent Black Family Madness in her - the madness that afflicts almost every woman in her family since…🤭 - and she herself starts to lose touch with reality. Her body and soul are already destroying themselves between the curse and the ancient magic inside of her, and the relic is what triggers it in her.

Sebastian becomes an Unspeakable, focusing on the Mind, in a desperate attempt to find a cure for his Eloise🥺

He never gives up his research, and sometimes when he comes home she is lucid and they talk about his research - otherwise, he just loves and takes care of her.

(He’s never successful in finding a way to reverse what he feels he caused in the first place - his ambition and single-mindedness is, to him, the reason why all of this happened)

Honestly who knows if I end their story either of these ways😌 I just love thinking of AUs and different endings and I have a few others I’ve considered as well!!! And whatever endings I don’t write will be immortalized on this blog and in my art as well🙏

[shkika]

thoughts on watcher if you've had time to play it?

im so happy you're here we welcome you!- rough wip

rambling in the tags about the dlc!

[adam-scott]

more pictures of the kitten I'm fostering 🫶

[tolkien-povs]

Just something about how Maglor composing the Noldotantë and committing three more kinslayings afterwards has the same/ similar vibe as Fëanáro yelling, "Get thee gone from my gate thou jail-crow of Mandos" and him literally trying to follow and enter the gate of said jail-crow.

[rustedleopard]

I know that it's common fanon belief to see Starlo as the younger sibling between him and Orion, but I actually like the idea of Starlo being the older brother and what it means for his family dynamic. Generally, the older sibling is expected to be the more responsible and mature sibling in the family. There's this expectation that the older sibling sets an example for the younger sibling(s) and that they'll look after the family/business once the parents get too old to do so themselves. So, what does it mean when the older sibling sorta betrays those familial expectations by behaving immaturely and ditching the family to do their own thing?

I'm trying to figure out how to put this into words in a clear and concise way, but I feel like if it's a case of Starlo being the younger brother, then there's this sorta "Ah, that's just the younger brother acting like a kid, y'know how it is. He'll grow out of it" dynamic, whereas if Starlo is the older brother, then it's more of a "Okay, he should've grown out of this by now, why's he still acting like this? Even Orion is more mature than him; what is going on?" sorta deal. (This frustration would be especially felt by Orion, who has to pick up Starlo's slack in his stead because his older brother isn't mature enough to work like he's supposed to!!!)

These are just personal musings, don't take my word as gospel! You can still do tons of interesting things with the Sunnyside family while having Starlo be the younger brother and Orion the older one. I just find myself gravitating more towards seeing Starlo as the older sibling.

[hylian-prosecutor]

what do you MEAN it isn't canon that Ford is autistic?

[vanityangel]

JACOB FATU & SOLO SIKOA WWE SMACKDOWN (FEBRUARY 14, 2025) 💔

[beifong-brainrot]

sorry your post got to THAT crowd, i understand why you're not gonna bother engaging with them any further they're too entrenched in their cultish echo chamber mentality to have any productive discussions with. i have never seen a ship fanbase as bitter, insecure and as miserable as zutara shippers, i almost feel bad for them

Eh, i put it out on the internet people are allowed to interact with it. I've since talked a little with one of the people who reblogged it and come to a semi? Agreement.

Honestly it's not that I even hate Zutara. Frankly when I first entered the fandom I was ambivalent to mildly intrigued. But at this point I can't engage with the ship without thinking about a good chunk of the fandom around it and it's tiring.

Honestly I don't think they would be half bad if they weren't convinced that they were somehow robbed of their ship becoming canon. A ship being canon isn't the end all be all. Hell, I've built my entire online presence around a crackship with like 2 interactions. And yeah I have probably joked about weilin being the "superior bolin ship" or something but I can't imagine having the level of bitterness i often see in the atla fandom.

This isn't to say I have the moral highground here or anything. It's just like. Fandom etiquette in my eyes

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Continues to be exceptionally difficult to like this one girl at church.

[thebirdandhersong]

also whether or not God has called me to teach high school, I do WISH that that were my calling because it would make everything easier. Well. Not easier. Just simpler.

[jacqcrisis]

My biggest hater opinion for jayvik fanon is that I don't think they'd make good parents especially Viktor.

Man's a workaholic, isn't a fan of people, mostly self interested on a micro, interpersonal level even if he wants to help other people on the macro level, has no concern for personal safety, especially when it comes to solving a problem as he will brute force a solution to the point of taking bodily autonomy from people, isn't even nice to their assistant until shes dead.... even when he is responsible for a community of people, we never see him interact with any of his commune after the initial healing he does. He spends all his time in his meditation bubble once the interesting 'problem' has been fixed and at no point are we shown him doing anything remotely leading or nurturing to the people directly connected to him.

I just cannot see this man dealing with a child well. For me, fanon has to have a foothold in canon and there's no easy translation from the Viktor presented in canon to the nurturing, caring parent often depicted in fanon. This is made even weirder to me when coupled with the fact that there's a trend to headcanon Viktor as a trans man and then add/exacerbate as many feminine qualities onto him whether they are present or not in the canon of the show which... idk man. Seems kind of weird to me. Not a fan of those two things happening in conjunction.

So I'm a hater. Don't like that fanon idea. The baby art is cute, but that's of a guy who's not my guy. My guy would take his niece to the hospital, build her a playground, but don't ask him to babysit because he will give her a shot of whiskey in her juice cause it kept her quiet in front of the TV while he finished the work he really needed to get done and she's fiiiiine anyways, what are you freaking out about...

[caeslxys]

here's the thing. laudna would have stopped it. if she knew delilah was about to fracture the gnarlrock. if she could parse her own feelings from hers.

and here's the thing. imogen has been plagued by nightmares for a decade. and this rock is the first bit of solace outside of her trust in laudna that she has ever had.

and laudna was just involved in shattering it. this tiny bit of solace.

and. here's the thing: laudna would've stopped it.

and. here's the thing. imogen would've stopped it. the only reason imogen didn't go is because she was specifically afraid that she would attempt to intervene and ruin their relationship with the volition before it ever began.

and here's the thing. liliana set out 25+ years ago specifically to spare her daughter. and that seemingly has not ever wavered as her core motivation. but people keep being drawn to the moon. kids keep being drawn towards the moon. and liliana is a mother. she was a mother before she ever knew she was an exaltant.

for 25+ years she has worked to "cure" imogen. the only solace she probably ever received was in at least attempting to console the kids who found themselves lured in by her same pull.

liliana begs imogen not say that they may have to kill each other. she breaks at hearing imogen's resolve. but there's kids, imogen. there's kids here. imogen. she can't leave. she's a mom.

and, here's the thing: imogen's her daughter. the daughter liliana left. or tried to leave. the daughter she only had through dreams. and imogen is working with the volition. and imogen has been her sole drive for 25+ years.

and imogen might have just been involved in shattering the little solace she might have ever had.

and, here's the thing: imogen would've stopped them.

[ranchwamen]

You mentioned something about becoming human/taur being spells in the tags, what's stopping non-taur humans from learning it?

Thanks for the question! Same thing with Waterspeak, nothing really! In fact I think Sirpa was born as a two-legged human, but spends and has spent considerable amounts of time in the water as a mermaid because her mother is a mermaid. I guess you could consider her “half mermaid” as a result! She could’ve very well been born as a mermaid but her parents had to think long and hard about what form would be easier for her to live in as her original form, given their location and fears about water pollution it was undeniably two-legged

Sirpa tangent aside, anyone at all can learn the spell that makes you a mermaid, or the spell that makes you a terrestrial taur, or the spell that makes you a taur that can fly, so on so on! However, it can be seen as really weird if someone who was born as a two-legged human to a family that’s pretty much always been only two-legged humans to suddenly start living life as a taur. Taurness is not only just a body shape, after all, but a culture. Several cultures! Even if taurs are humans with human sensibilities, they’re shaped so different, they wear clothes that are different, they move differently, they can do things that two-legged humans can’t and can’t do things that two-legged humans can, they specifically have had many many stories about how they could’ve come to be (two-leggeds not so much), they need their own furniture, sometimes they’ve even lived separately from other types of humans. Merfolk are the most extreme cases, since they quite literally live where terrestrial humans can’t go naturally and every bit of their life has been adapted to an aquatic environment. Even if it would be very cool to live as a taur in theory, it’s fundamentally a very different experience, a more difficult experience sometimes, and people would probably give one many glances if they decided to become a taur one day for no other reason than “just cuz”. You may have the shape of a taur, but are you really even a taur if you’ve never experienced the culture?

Nuance exists, of course, like if you have a lot of taurs in your family and ever since you were a kid you’ve lived your life as many forms that are all equally “you”, or if your taur friend was like “lol wanna see what your true animal form would be” one night and you tried it out once and that was it, or if you have lived for a while now with many taurs — usually taurs are a minority on land but there are exceptions, for example in a very mountainous, difficult-to-traverse region a good bit of people might just be taurs for their better balance — and eventually decided to become a taur to fit the customs of the community better, or if you paid one billiam dollars at an exotic recreational center where they “Let [You] Feel the Wilderness Inside You (TM)” by having folks explore like a wildlife area as taurs, then like, yeah lol those are some random examples where no one would bat an eye! Also ironically, even though merfolk are definitely the most removed from terrestrial humans as a whole, it would be most acceptable to become a merm if you have an extended stay underwater (work, vacation, whatever) and need accommodations for breathing and moving in the water and things like that. It’s simply seen as the easiest way to do things, however true that may be! Similarly merfolk on land have a lot of pressure to “simply become two-legged” even though accommodations like wheelchairs for merms exist (and all merfolk can already breathe air). It’s a little… sad. A lot of merfolk don’t really like that their own selves are treated as unimportant and disposable and that the “best way” to go about moving in a foreign environment is to literally ditch your own body away to become something else. Many taurs never become two-legged because it would remove a big part of themselves, so why are merfolk any different? These are unfortunately some societal problems of the Sirpaverse.

TL;DR: Any non-taur can learn the spells that make you a taur, however there are societal and cultural implications of doing that and it might not be very appropriate in all situations.

[vice-like]

now that we know that kuromisa can be any matoba this got me thinking abt who was it that clara actually saw... like, besides nanase, there isn't many women working with matoba, in chapters where we see his entourage i don't remember seeing many women at all so who the hell could this be?

ofc it could be some pretty boy or even matoba himself but i'm not so sure abt this 2nd one, as readers we have our favorite character designs and all but the only way to know if someone is considered pretty or good-looking in canon is when other characters point it out; for example we know natsume is considered handsome or beutiful bc other characters point it out, be it yokai or humans but when it comes to matoba's appearance we don't hear much besides that the eye patch and long hair are eye-catching or even weird lol now, it could be bc he's a matoba and the clan leader to boot and his reputation is terrible, so ppl don't have nice things to say abt him and maybe out of this context and under another guise someone could pay more attention to his supposed beauty but if we entartain the idea it was another matoba, then who?

well considering that midorikawa decided to point this out thru clara i'm going to suppose it's an important detail to keep in mind which got me thinking: what if we get introduced to another sibling? maybe even a cousin? a more distant relative and/or clan member from one of the 11 families? or maybe in classic ancient clan tradition there's a main family of direct descendants of clan heads and a side family with a little less power but still matobas nonetheless? the possibilities for clan drama are endless and i want a matoba clan politics arc so fcking bad y'all, i want to see the subtle fight for power from an unaware natsume's pov sooo badly