#so these three are magically connected

[gingermintpepper]

Tbh, I'm kind of obsessed with the almost tragedy of Eiland and Caldarus in Fields of Mistria. Eiland's dedicated his life to uncovering the secrets and stories hidden in Mistria's archeology - he's single-mindedly devoted to it, so much so that even his side hobbies are influenced by his love of history and desire to know more about Mistria's but it's that devotion that makes him so blind to the magic right in front of him.

It's Eiland's sharp eye that sees Caldarus' statue behind that tree on the farm. It's Eiland who whacks away at the bark with the axe fruitlessly until he's assisted. It's Eiland who coaxes the player to help repair Caldarus' statue and subtly ropes them into joining his History Society. It's Eiland who is devoted to the steles, who gets so excited at the prospect at uncovering a new piece of old Mistria's puzzle that he cuts his outing short to rush to the museum. It's Eiland who realises that all of the different eras of artefacts dug up in Mistria's soil must mean that Mistria itself was once the cradle of civilisation for Aldaria.

And yet, with all of that knowledge, he's still so, so blind to what's right in front of him. He doesn't realise that Juniper is a witch, he merely knows that she is familiar with all manner of the arcane and assumes it's a scholarly pursuit like his instead of what it actually is - Juniper's lifestyle, Juniper's culture. And ultimately, I think that's why he's blind to Caldarus and the magic right in front of him.

Eiland isn't taking the time to stop and really think about what all these artefacts and armaments mean. He isn't considering that remnants of old Mistria still live, he isn't even able to grapple with the question of whether or not it's right for him to dig up the armour at the stele when it's clearly hidden there for a reason. Eiland is completely detached from the history he's searching for and that's why, even with magic and the truth about Mistria right in front of him, he'll remain blind to it.

[crippy-tangerine]

Pros of dissociating so much you cannot tell what’s going on: it is easier to ignore bodily disability symptoms! Yay! Get to pretend you are healed and abled!! Able-bodied and healthy!! Yay!!!! We are the epitome of health 🎉.

Cons of dissociating so much you cannot tell what’s going on: it is easier to ignore bodily disability symptoms…. (You are NOT healed, you are getting worse!) (your body is deteriorating and all you do is pretend it isn’t happening) (uh oh!!).

-> Our body is low-key falling apart and we are simply ignoring it. This is so healthy and good. We are so able bodied.!! (/most sarcastic tone ever… This whole post is in a sarcastic and frustrated tone! Cannot recommend ignoring your symptoms at all!!! We just… Cannot get the level of care we need right now, and it is taking its toll…).

[fluffypotatey]

I’m still laying in bed kind of woken from a ShadowPeach dream and like, there were a few things going on I can’t fully grasp enough to share, but there was this bit with Mac leaving to get a thing, maybe a key, and he finds it after smooth talking the villain of the mansion, and Wukong is like how’d you do that? And I’m watching this dream like “I don’t like how that villain was petting you like a cat, why are they so handsy with you” and then I realize that’s just canon. Villains are ALWAYS doing that like Mayor and Nine, or tying him up if you include LBD too. Or just regularly, like MK, his own powers, and possibly Wukong. How is he not claustrophobic yet. There was something with “I didn’t do that the wind pushed my tail onto yours.” Uh huh. And scrolling your blog got me thinking about Mac’s power core stealing theories again. The fact the chaos is part of the staff means it’s a part of MK. Because he went to the chaos? Because Nine cracked his little swirl egg? Is MK connected to the Warrior yet again because Macky stole his chaotic little egg power core that one time and all these events activated some dormant chaos magic they both have now?

antagonists sure do like getting handsy with Macky….i’m there’s nothing to be too worried about that pattern (<-being sarcastic)

there was a post i saw, forgot to reblog it but, it was about how despite fandom’s popularity in headcanoning Wukong as a serial dater, Macky is the actual guy between the two who’s got chemistry with majority of the lmk villains lmao

anyway, with all this newfound teasing about Macky’s alleged “deal”, it is very likely we may get some insight on his magical core and MK’s. lmk’s magic system isn’t really concrete (and in my opinion, calling it open is a little generous), nor has it truly been explained thoroughly. they just kinda do magical shit and hope we, the audience, ignore any technicalities behind it (not to mention, the lamp shading of “how did MK learn that? exactly?” which is a poke at stories of this genre) so i’m crossing my fingers on some explanation in the near future, season 6

even since s1, Macky’s been heavily associated with playing with magic (stealing MK’s core, the lantern artifact, somehow building a mech, knowledge of the Samadhi Fire), so lmk please, please, please give us some magic lore 🥺🥺🥺 do it to explain our emo monkey 🥺

[elisedonut]

Bill/Fleur/Lavender

is this anything??

Lavender surviving the attack and not becoming a werewolf because that night was not a full moon but now not only is she scarred which she absolutely hates

but has to deal with all the extra emotional issues and weird changes to her body that she wasn't expecting

the random bouts of anger

the stronger sense of smell

whatever else that you think are fun side effects those are like the main two I've explored before

point is!

Everything sucks!

But while in the hospital Fleur ends up visiting her and getting attached because of the similar situation to Bill and ends up taking the poor girl under her wing and getting very very attached very fast

Like Bill looks at Fleur looking at Lavender once and is just knows what she's after and just gives in without question

like that very night is talking to Fleur like

"Alright what is the plan here?"

"We invite her to live with us at the cottage."

"And if she says no?"

"She won't"

And Bill doesn't believe that but also knows by now that he's not going to be able to talk her out of it.

And when Fleur does ask Lavender agrees with very little convincing and then it just escalates from there

the whole time Lavender is not even considering they Like her but falling for them regardless and suffering

While Fleur is already head over heels and acting it

And Bill's over here falling a lot more slowly through the similar situation

[kuromi-hoemie]

lol i love how yesterday morning i was like “i love nightmares pls send me one” and i had 3 back to back 💀

*hesitantly* i ... i love nightmares..? send me one... once a week? no, twice a week

[solitaireships]

shepherd i forgot to ask, what did you think of the new arcane trailer if u saw it already? :o

I haven’t gotten to watch it yet! It came out while I was at work and then I forgot to watch it </3 I was told this one actually has Jayce and Mel in it for like a single shot so finally, one that has even the slightest bit of crumbs for me. I’ll come back to this once I get a chance to watch the new one tho!

EDIT:

I just watched it and I blacked out everything but them. I’m pretty sure these are old scenes bcs they don’t want to reveal too soon that they’re both alive (they definitely are) but ough I live my bf and gf. Kissing them

[unproduciblesmackdown]

another day another "applying the concept 'disposability' to 'someone withdraws from a personal relationship, & that wasn't signed off on by the other'" kill me

[phosphorus-noodles]

hmm. thinking au thoughts aloud

[percentstardust]

dany is like if a dragon were a person.

[arolesbianism]

Some stuff I've drawn semi recently

[amatres]

any time im given free range to make a dragon age oc i beam them with mixed race dysphoria

[ajaxgb]

Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

[ancat-dubh]

harvest moon over the marshes + nighttime canal walk, 18 September

[writerfae]

Fun fact about Talon’s family:

His mother isn’t originally from the Willow Court, she was born and raised at the Aspen Court.

Now the Aspen Court is pretty close to the Willow Court, both in relation and location. It also happens to be the Court where all good artists/musicians come from.

That explains both the family’s love and talent for music and the fact that Talon’s favorite uncle was actually a quite popular bard.

Anyway, Cyrus and her fell in love and got married (which gained Cyrus’ family some reputation- really practical) and he took her to the Willow Court with him.

She adores her life there, yet she also missed home, which is why she spent every summer there, visiting the old family estate with her two children.

Their yearly visits stopped when her favorite brother died some years ago, and with them her connection to her home court.

Until many years later, Sera moved to the Aspen Court after marrying a high lord there. Now she visits the court she grew up in again, to see her daughter and grandson.

But she didn’t go back to that summer estate she, Sera and Talon visited a lot back then, since it reminds her too much of her brother. Talon hasn’t been going there either for the same reason.

[skaterboysavior]

w/ the release of act 2, it seems that nobody is asking the big questions such as:

where is ekko?

if viktor died once and came back after a few days of being in the sourdough starter, does that count as his three-day jesus resurrection?

if the above is true and he's dead again, are we about to witness the second coming?

do we think cait and vi had enough time in between tousling around in the dirt and planning their little ambessa betrayal to have a quickie?

if the 'get jinxed' song is canon within the arcane universe, was that a self-titled mixtape she released or is it just a famous pop song that everyone was getting down to... good marketing either way

where is ekko.

was it mel's mystery magic/connection to the arcane that saved her (and by jayce by proxy since he was standing so close) from jinx's rocket?

jayce.... no bitches ....

where is ekko????

where the hell is ekko?????????????

[nullen-void]

For a long time I wondered if the final TF2 comic would ever come out. For a longer time I wondered if I wanted it to. They built it up so much, hyped the Administrator's big plan so high, and then waited so long, could they possibly ever meet expectations?

I don't know if what they did was what they originally planned, or if there even was a plan, but I think they knocked it out of the park. It feels... right.

And it cemented the Administrator as one of the most terrifying villains in history. But before I discuss that, SPOILERS:

It was all pointless. None of it ever mattered.

The Gravel Wars, the fighting, the Australium, the deaths, the Classic Mercs, none of it mattered at all. Because Helen or whatever her name is just an addict getting her fix.

She kept a man alive for near enough two hundred years, trapped in the moment just before death by a thousand diseases, because she dedicated her life so thoroughly to ending him that when he finally croaked, she had nothing left. So she brought him back to suffer more. And then extended her OWN life so she could keep making him suffer.

And she doesn't even remember why. She was a child when Zepheniah Mann killed her parents, and she's something like a hundred and seventy years old now. It's been three normal lifetimes since then, and she's forgotten. But she never forgot the hate.

She sabotaged two infant's futures by raising them to be bafoons just to hurt their father. She orchestrated a forever war to spite a single man. She was prepared to keep this going until the heat death of the universe.

Do you know what would have happened if Pauling had lost her nerve and admitted they found a new stash of magic metal? With all three Mann brothers dead, she probably would have gone after Olivia. The last Mann standing, and a girl who at the time was only seven and had barely any connection to the Mann legacy at all, and probably didn't know her grandfather's name! And Helen would have gone after her and ruined her life just to make Zepheniah watch as yet another generation of Mann was ruined.

What a pointless, misspent life. What a waste of time. What an ending.

It makes what comes next all the greater. Scout and Soldier are dads with happy children, Spy still can't admit their relation but gets to be part of his grandkids' lives and he and Jeremy trust each other enough that Scout doesn't blink when he takes his mask off. Team Fortress is happy. They moved on. Found new lives.

Helen couldn't. She had all the time in the world and then some, and she just couldn't move on.

What a waste.