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[maskofenigma]

another fallen london essay ramble whoo boy (i dont plan these btw) (spoilers for firmament and light fingers in particular plus general spoilers)

ok so do yall remember that one line in Firmament Chapter three where Summer drinks moon milk and looks directly at the player character and nothing happens? if not i get it, that section was pretty hard to follow and it was ultimately inconsequential and also optional so here it is

(from the fallen london wiki - Suggest Summer do it instead)

anyone whos played Light Fingers or is familiar with that plotline knows that this makes zero sense. even normal moon milk has extreme effect if ingested. and unless we're going to have some kind of toxic romance arc with Summer (which would be great but given the lack of foreshadowing and other aforementioned reasons is highly unlikely) we can chalk this up to sloppy writing and unfamiliarity with that ambition on whoever wrote this. such frustration seems to be the consensus on this chapter, at least on here

But! ive been following some liveblogging of early Light Fingers, reminiscing etc etc, when i remembered one other odd tie in to moon milk, in the cave of the nadir. now analyzing the nadir is similarly difficult to zenith because its very vauge and theres a lot of disconnected elements in there all in service of making a place thats confusing and dangerous and unknowable and whatever so take this with a grain of zalt. im sure theres some juicy deeplore in there but what i want to focus on is this

(from the fallen london wiki - "It was the milk... it was the milk, wasn't it?")

this is a weird callout, right? afaik thats one of the very few connections to an ambition in the nadir, alongside whatever the frost moth does in nemesis (havent gotten there yet). so like what gives? its not an especially rewarding action, and it doesnt progress the ambition or anything. its possible, given this comes after the orphanage section, that these two are like escapees of the orphanage after the fire / riot, but it could also be some disconnected memory its all very difficult to discern. and even if that is the case it doesnt really tell us much except maybe foreshadowing for Hephesta's situation. the best i can say is that, taken in context with the other options on that card, maybe its a parallel to Clarabelle's situation, with the references to eggs? there has to be some reason behind this reference, and if there isnt one, than at least let me headcanon this

i think the two instances above tell us very little on their own, but taken in together have fascinating implications. irrigo and violant are thematically opposed colors, forgetting vs remembering, and zenith / the nadir are explicitly connected both textually and in their names (zenith means the highest point of a space or object, nadir means the lowest), so that they both reference moon milk is interesting to say the least. I think this could be telling us that moon milk has different effects when under these two neathbow colors. Moon milk induced obsession seems to be resistant to the psyche destroying affects of the nadir, persisting for the two people in a place where memory is actively unravelled. the woman, even as she tells her companion to forget her, still clearly recalls the affect of the moon milk and her newfound obsessions. maybe this is somehow due to the milk's affect of overwhelming the victims previous life, in essence forcing them to forget what was previously important to them. or maybe, given irrigo's connection with lack of perception and drawing inward, the idea is that when the victim has nothing else to cling to in the nadir, the love instilled by the moon milk persists as a sort of internal source of comfort. in zenith, the violant light seems to dull or entirely nullify the milk's effects if that moment with Summer is to be believed. its stated that the violant forces the player character to be aware of every detail at once, able to perceive even distant objects with total clarity, splitting your attention everywhere at once. the way moon milk works is just an extreme version of a classic love potion: a victim falls deeply in love specifically with the first thing they see. maybe, because one perceives everything at the same time, the moon milk cannot properly take effect. or maybe the violant is just too oppressive, preventing the milk from occupying a victims thoughts as they are overwhelmed by the light.

whatever the case may be this is a very odd pairing. for a section so filled with moon misers, firmament has very little by way of references to Light Fingers, odd given thats one of the main places one would encounter a moon miser. no comment. and that moment in the nadir has always struck me as peculiar, if only for it being seemingly out of nowhere and disconnected to everything else. but moon misers are linked to apocyanic light with some degree of regularity, so i dont think its too great a stretch to connect them to other neathbow colors as well. one wonders how everyones favorite roof beetles might be affected by the other colors of the neath. even if im totally off base and disproven by some text in the high sancta or sunless skies or whatever there has to be something here im sure of it. or maybe ive lost it who knows certainly not me okay bye

[yuri-is-online]

Silly idea at work: In Book 6, Vil will give you a little smooch on the cheek.

Imagine Yuu just dropping in conversation somewhere that Vil's kissed them before, it doesn't even occur to them to specify it was a kiss on the cheek in gratitude, they were just trying to convince the others that Vil can be affectionate in his own way or something. But Ace spends the week just trying to decipher what tf is going on between Vil and Yuu. Are they dating? Why didn't Yuu tell him? Why didn't Yuu choose him? Did Vil make a pass at Yuu and Yuu wasn't that upset by it? When did it happen? During VDC? When Yuu ran away with Epel and Rook? Does Yuu want Vil to kiss them again? Was that their first kiss.

It takes Deuce and the other roommates finding Ace with a Pepe Sylvia style conspiracy board before they decide to talk to Yuu about it. Epel holds this over Ace for the rest of their time at school.

Or something 💦

Ace's love (it had ceased to be a crush, according to Epel, long before he had joined the friend group) for Yuu is perhaps the best worst kept secret at NRC. Sure, everyone thinks you are going to get married after graduation, but everyone doesn't include you or Ace. So when you dropped that little piece of information casually because that's what it was in your mind, just a fun little fact about your friend Vil that you really looked up to-

It had sent Ace into a bit of a spiral, because sure what you said was "Vil gave us a hug and kiss" but all Ace had heard was "Vil kissed me." And the way you spoke about it suggested he should think that was normal, which if Ace had his way it very much would not be. It's hypocritical to have dreamed about being your first kiss, you wouldn't be his but still. Trying to be better than his ex isn't much of an ask but asking him to be better than Vil fucking Schoenheit- he's not delusional. He knows he can't. But that didn't mean he wouldn't have tried! He watches you so closely, how could he have missed someone making a pass at you? Did Vil wait until he wasn't around, were you charmed by his presence? The contrast between how he was with everyone else and this new gentle side he decided to show you? Or was it one of those silly scenarios where you wanted to have your first kiss and Vil volunteered because who wouldn't want to kiss you and it's not like Vil has never kissed someone before so maybe you would feel safe kissing him. Maybe that kiss had been so magical you had instantly fallen in love with him and Vil had accepted your feelings in relief he'd no longer have to be pining from the sidelines-

A conspiracy board is too obvious but he's got it all drawn out on his homework he was supposed to be working on by himself not that you're ever really alone in Heartslabyul as is quickly proved by Deuce's laughter and the confusion of his other roommates. Epel gets a picture of the notes and a very red faced Ace he immediately shares with Rook (for safe keeping and nothing else he promises) but no one shows the picture to Yuu. Sure it's fun to give Ace a hard time over his feelings but they don't want to make you uncomfortable. A simple "lol Ace thinks you and Vil are dating" is all Epel needs to say.

Balls in your court now Ace, try not to fumble the shot again ok? Your friends are going to laugh at you both either way so stop refusing to ask Yuu out because you don't want to look "uncool." Denial makes you look so much worse.

[lesbiansforangusmcdonald]

Ok, finals are over, so now I can FINALLY post my Pepe Sylvia theory about Porter actually being evil that has been ruminating in my head ever since I saw season 2! (spoilers for s2 of fantasy high, obviously)

(sorry if someone’s talked about it before and I couldn’t find it, but like WE NEED TO DISCUSS THIS BEFORE S3!)

Ok, so I noticed something when Ragh talked about the first time he saw Kalina in episode 4 of season 2 (“Heartache on the Celestine Sea”). He says that he saw Jace talking to some elven woman (who is revealed to be Adaine’s mom, Arianwen) and to “someone he couldn’t see. I just assumed somebody was invisible.” This is most likely Kalina, as Arianwen was there to get the Nightmare King’s crown and Kalina could have been helping her do that. However, this is important because, since Ragh could obviously see Kalina later on, this is a point in time when he couldn’t see Kalina.

Then Ragh says that after he saw that, Jace and Porter came to talk to him, and “Porter did some barbarian healing with me.” This seems normal enough, as Ragh had just been in a huge fight, but Ragh stipulates that “I didn’t feel that injured, honestly.” So this line already makes it seem as though Porter may have had some ulterior motive for healing Ragh.

Then, Ragh says that as he was walking home after this, he was approached by Kalina, who threatened to kill his mom if he said anything about seeing Arianwen at the school.

(the clip of the scene is here, if you wanna watch it, edited slightly for clarity)

So this makes me think that Jace and Porter knew Ragh saw Arianwen at the school, knew he would probably tell the Bad Kids about it, and Porter intentionally passed Kalina to Ragh through healing in order to ensure his silence.

AND if you’re thinking this may be a bit far-fetched, I’ll remind you that Landren Leir, the cleric of the unnamed goddess who infiltrated the elven Galicaean church after the fall of the unnamed goddess, also passed on Kalina via healing of the high-elven clergy, which she was then murdered for.

But in order to pass it on to Ragh at all, Porter must have been infected with Kalina as well, so here are some of my theories of what that could mean;

1. Porter had no idea he was infected and was just trying to heal a student.

I mean, totally possible, right? From most of the other angles, Porter seems like a decent guy; he supports Fig in barbarian class, he’s part of a community at his local gym, and he did get sucked into a palimpsest when Kalvaxis/Goldenhoard was trying to take over the school — why would that happen if Porter wouldn’t have been opposed to what Kalvaxis/Goldenhoard was doing? And there are plenty of people who are infected with Kalina and never show any symptoms, and therefore never know. It could have been totally innocent. BUT it’s just a little too convenient, isn’t it? Ragh sees Arianwen at the school, and then right after he’s “randomly” infected with Kalina? It just doesn’t seem like a coincidence.

2. Porter knew he was passing Kalina onto Ragh, but wasn’t aware of the full plot to steal the Nightmare King’s crown.

I mean, also possible, right? Maybe Jace put Porter up to it, maybe he knew more than Porter did about the whole situation? Porter wasn’t initially mentioned as talking to Arianwen, maybe Jace just manipulated Porter because he knew that Ragh would trust Porter as his teacher. BUT I think that it would be kind of weird for Porter to be in the school, be infected, be around all of these other people who are in on this wider plot, but they don’t get him involved. Maybe they thought he wouldn’t go for it, thought he was too nice, but I’m not sure. I mean, I think this theory has more merit than the first one, like it’s possible, just would be a little weird.

3. Porter was in on the plot to bring back the Nightmare King.

I mean. Like I know this may not be another Loose Duke situation. But it’s possible! Like, he’s in the right positions! He works at the school. He has the trust of some of the bad kids. He didn’t openly support Kalvaxis or anything he did. Maybe their larger organization (which they do hint that there are more people throughout the world that want to bring back the nightmare king throughout the campaign) thought that he should lay low and hold onto the trust of the bad kids, just wait until the right time to strike. Again, the fact that he would knowingly put a student, one of HIS barbarian students, in such serious danger, in order to protect the larger interest of bringing back the Nightmare King, does not stack up well against him.

So, do I think that Porter will end up being the big bad of season 3, or even the elusive season 4? No, probably not. BUT I do think that he’s sus as fuck and we need to stay on our toes, because he could turn out to be more of a threat with the right opportunities.

[questionable-chnt-hc]

BREAD ANON. ITS BEEN A WHILE.

HOW LONG AGO WAS SYDNEY CURSED TO BUTTERED BREAD??? HES HAD UNICORN HORN SAP SOUP. HES HAD THINGS OTHER THAN BUTTERED BREAD BEFORE, HES TALKED ABOUT EATING THINGS THAT ARENT BREAD. WHEN .. AT WHAT AGE WAS HE CURSED?.

CAN HE HAVE VITAMINS????? LIKE .. GUMMY AND/OR SWALLOW ABLE SUPPLEMENTS? I KNOW THAT MAN IS LACKING EVERYTHING,, COULD HE FIX IT A BIT??

WHAT WOULD EVEN HAPPEN IF HE ATE SOMETHING OTHER THAN BREAD? WHATS THE WORSE THAT COULD HAPPEN? HE DIES? BOOHOO.

THE BREAD AND BUTTER COOKIES.. YKNOW. IM DAMN NEAR CERTAIN THEY’VE GOT MORE THAN BREAD AND BUTTER IN THEM. AT WHAT POINT DOES IT STOP QUALIFYING AS BREAD AND BUTTER???

Reading this with the same intonation as the Pepe Sylvia bit from Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia

[thebluestbluewords]

I think the metric might be based on an event that we don’t see in canon- most of the villains are defeated at the end of their movies, and some of them are heavily implied to be actually dead.

And then we get the opening of the first Descendants movie, where King Beast rounds up all the villains that have been threatening the kingdoms and sends them to the isle- but they haven’t been threatening the kingdoms recently, because most of them have been defeated already in their classic movies. Did they come back? Was there a villains revival? Did the people of every fairy tale kingdom decide to dredge up their defeated villains just because a handful started to cause trouble again?

My personal headcanon is that there was some sort of villainous uprising, which is how a number of the villains became relevant again, and also why Maleficent is widely considered to be “the worst of them all” now. Maleficent did curse Aurora, but even her dragon form caused pretty contained damage to one singular kingdom, which doesn’t really warrant the kind of reaction that we see from King Beast in the first movie at the mention of her name. I think it makes sense if there was some sort of uprising where the villains started working together, and that’s what got them all banished, as well as establishing the new “worst of the worst” hierarchy that we see in the Descendants movies.

This is all purely a head-canon, but I think it could make sense, and a villain uprising offers a little more consistency to the reasoning behind the isle. If the villains are an active threat, they give the kingdoms more reason to band together against them, and also a reason for the people of Auradon to support such a harsh punishment. Even if the general Auradon citizens don’t know about the living conditions on the isle, exile is still serious business, and locking them up and basically throwing away the key is a pretty extreme form of exile.

So... Did Ben base his assessment of "worst of the worst" on the one (1) museum exhibition ?

Or was the exposition set up "in honour" of the VKs?

[iantimony]

a very uncertain tuesday

listening

TWO new Jim Gordon Must Die episodes in the past few weeks !!!!! I am eating well.

gym music was Painted Paradise (Fleshbore) and their other album Embers Gathering which I don't think is on bandcamp. not my standard fare and I definitely can't pick out a song to be my favorite but it's good yelly gym music.

Redd & The Paper Flowers will be playing live near me at a nebulous date but I unforch won't be able to go. they're good! all singles so far, no full albums. reminds me of laufey so I found myself going to listen to her instead. favorite tracks: ljams, dipsomania. (dipsomania reminds me of the beatle's song "my guitar gently weeps", something about the chord progression maybe?)

reading

The Playlist Power Broker Who Makes or Breaks New Artists (Anne Steele): on one hand, I'm surprised her job hasn't been algorithm-ified yet. on the other, I feel like this kind of recommendation system works best when it's a close friend going "yo, check out this album, it's great". especially with the drama from last year with spotify's genre categories or lack thereof because they fired that one guy this feels a little like trying to come back from that? also lol didn't I just see a post about how spotify did something at the Trump inaugeration ...

Her dad, the 10,000 records he left behind and a viral lesson in grief (Janay Kingsberry): lots of articles about dead dads across my radar lately. this is a really sweet story.

watching

I'm watching Serial Experiments Lain again with my beloved boyfriend! my charlie day pepe sylvia moment was trying to explain the parallels to gnosticism I was seeing in the show to two different friends who had seen Lain and having them both go "??!" so I'm very excited to have that conversation with someone who DOES kind of know what gnosticism is already so I can be told whether or not I'm insane for seeing it

got my friends into Comrade Detective. gotta finish rewatching that with the boyf as well, and he suggested Death of Stalin after we watched the first ep together.

I've Been Keeping a Secret From You (Florian Gadsby): he is sooo meticulous.

Creating a Classical Tanto (Crossed Heart Forge): this dude is fucking insane. months of work to just lacquer the handle...

Making the Banana Knife (Bobby Duke Arts): I forgot about this guy! good to see that he's still making things though I do still find him slightly annoying! his setup also seems to have been significantly upgraded since I last watched so good for him

playing

more hades game, more dnd, doing session 0 for a blades in the dark game this weekend!

making

working on the fingerless gloves still! I have about a week to finish less than a dozen rows so I'm feeling good about that. early birthday present for my mom, gotta get a card for my grandma as well...

eating

Creamy Miso + Coconut Butter Beans from beloved mutal girlfriendsofthegalaxy - REALLY fucking good. maybe the coconut is a little too rich for me but it's sooo tasty. I added more liquid to make it more soupy but I do still have about half a can of coconut that I gotta figure out what to do with asap.

boyfriend made keema matar that I am just finishing tonight. really yummy over rice. this plus the bean soup thing has had me in Slop Food mode (appreciative) lol

moving

only one gym visit this past week! 11am-noon: leg extension (60lb, 3x8 then 2x5 slowly), inner thigh (70 lb, 3x8 then 2x5 slowly), outer thigh (70lb, 3x8 and 80lb, 2x5 slowly), hip thrust machine (no weight, 2x5 and 10lb, 2x6), leg press (80lb, 3x8), and inclined bicep curls (15lb 5 4 2, 10lb 3x8) for fun on this leg day

I still really want to integrate more yoga and stretching...goal for next week.

misc

[looks at the state of scientific grants and funding in the USA right now] Uh Oh Sisters! tune in next week to see if I still have a job!

[barbatosgossipsection]

I can't take the people that hate the writing seriously because every single time I reread the story and whatever events, texts, calls, and devilgrams, I notice something new hidden in there.

A new perspective, a new connotation, a new emotion, a new mystery. I think half of OM's fun is connecting all of these dots together to reveal these bigger and smaller pictures.

Maybe it's just me, but I have fun putting bits and pieces together. My thoughts be looking like that Pepe Sylvia meme fr. It's fun, and it bears a lot of fruit tbh. It's kept me enthralled all this time, and I've been playing since OM's launch!

Even when everyone was getting pissed about how the events in OM became repetitive with the boys fighting all the time, that happened for a REASON. There was an unspoken story happening behind all that, and those events still have a rippling effect on the story to this day.

You think it's a coincidence that those events happened, it all reaches it's peaked where MC finally snaps, and then while everyone was doing damage control, MC suddenly got whisked away to Nightbringer? Nah my theory brain has been going BRRRRR this whole time.

Okay, ramblings over. I have more to say but I'm treading into "confession is too long" territory. Have a good day!

— Anon

[professor-amaryllis]

Hello there! My name is Professor Bellamy Amaryllis, though most people who know me call me Amy. My kid @eartheats encouraged me to make an account on here- I guess that's what all the cool kids are doing nowadays, haha!

I’m agender and intersex and use They/He pronouns- She for some specific people as well. I'm Polyam, as well, so no need to go telling my partner about seeing me out and about- I assure you she knows!

If you were a child or have been around children anytime in the last 7 years you might know me as the Wild Guy, from my TV show Professor Amaryllis’s Wild Days! While I've been off the air for a year or so it's bloomed in popularity even still- it's hard to go too far without someone knowing who I am, hah!

I'm a poison specialist (though I have an affinity for fairy types as well) and one of the overseeing professors at the Goldenrod Ecological Society, really just a fancy title for the person who makes sure all the science is ethical, reliable and well documented. It's a lot of admin and outreach work and while it keeps me busy it's quite fulfilling.

This is a personal account, so I’ll be talking more about my life than my job, so sorry if you’re looking for a blog of just pokemon facts, because this certainly is not it.

//This is a soft reset of amy- you may notice that a good 90% of post from 2023 have been deleted! I realized that my early rp was not in line with what i'm doing with amy going forward! most plots, major events, and interactions from that time have been Retconned or Rewritten!! if you have questions feel free to DM me!

Hello!!! My name is Rabbit and I’m an adult, so be warned that there may be suggestive themes at times on this blog! I also will be doing some high stakes stuff!

I don’t interact with sentient pokemon or eebie deebies with very few and select exceptions (if you arent sure, ask!), and I’m picky about players with legendaries as well, as I have a specific cannon I’m working with!! No magic anons, crossover blogs, crack rp, or dream mail, though some peliper mail sent to amy's GES location is acceptable (within reason!! no magic anon but item things ahaha)

Amy’s a flawed character so please keep in mind that not everything he says is the objective truth! He can be biased, emotional, unprofessional and he can and will lie, though he prefers to tell half truths and avoid topics first.

Amy has a very detailed past, and he has his secrets and motives!! there’s usually at least something going on under the surface hehe so I wish you luck in trying to puzzle this man out! This character is my own personal Pepe Sylvia red string board and I enjoy playing him that way :)

I hope we can have fun together, but please please please remember that there is a person behind this blog, be nice!! or at least just not incredibly hateful. some negative asks can be fun but think before you send things please.

[time-is-restored]

hi guys, now that we're all collectively processing the season finale of tmagp.......... anyone have any idea what these little letters in each statement file number is?

i think everything else about the system is more or less solved. category 1/2/3 for person/place/thing, the four numbers after the letters are the DPHW complex binder thing that has the key words (transmutation - human / isolation - urban), then the incident date followed by date of recording.

but I haven't been able to find any pattern at all in the letters. All of the options (barring the fact that ive made a few mistakes) so far are:

RBC

RAB

C

RB

RC

RS (one instance, in the finale)

and here's a brief summary of all the episodes and what they featured (out of context spoilers):

I know I've personally been reading 'RB' as 'recorded by', but that leaves 'C' and 'RS' as nonstarters. I also don't think there's a correlation to what type of statement it is/what part of Freddie reads it out (the two 'C' statements, for example, are read by Augustus and Norris, are in different categories, and take place in wildly different times + places). 'RS' could possibly be something along the lines of 'recorded in situ', like how tma sometimes prefaced its statements...? But that's all I've got.

(also, this is maybe chasing shadows, but when alice talks about an example case in ep 1, she says that the table indicates '2-C' and the statement is then filed as "CAT2RC..." but where did the 'R' come from? It's not in every statement, so is it a 'always there unless [xyz condition' is met?

AND ANOTHER THING!!! Why is episode 15 the ONLY one that has a hyphen AFTER the letters? is it a typo? or is that just what they WANT US TO THINK!!!!!)

. anyway. who up pepe-ing their sylvia...

[meggannn]

30 & 37 for the fic ask!!

30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?

Across the Hellespont Strait technically fits that bill because I don't normally write "x times" or "x theme" fics, or if I do, then it tends to happen naturally and I only realize what I've done when I'm like halfway through? lmao but this time I specifically set out with the intention of writing an "x times" fic and I think it turned out okay, at least judging by the reception. truthfully I'm not sure I learned a lot about my approach other than that I confirmed I don't like starting out with "I'm going to write X theme because X interests me with Y pairing, and I'll figure out the details of the plot/emotional beats as I go." I think I can solidly say I prefer to figure out the plot before the tags, if that makes sense. (it's also why I don't use as many tags as others on AO3, because I never know what to tag something lmfao.)

so I probably won't ever feel fully comfortable getting a prompt like "Fenhawke + soulmate au," and one reason I don't participate in or ask for things like fic word prompts (despite that I'd probably benefit from any challenge that gets me writing more often) is because in general I really prefer to let the idea of a broader concept percolate in my head for a loooong while before I start connecting scenes together in my head like a pepe sylvia conspiracy board. I've also noticed that when I receive a single one-word prompt, I feel the urge to subscribe to a single tone or mood for the whole fic, like "angst" for "soulmates" or "comedy" for "coffee shop au" or something, and any time I deviate from it then I feel like I'm not really fulfilling the request. IDK why. anyway I hope that makes sense, it's like 2am where I am rn lol

37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

I'm gonna go with Stars From a Distance, the only Portal fic I've ever written! it was a little weird but wonderful, and I like imagining Chell's doing fine out there outside of Aperture despite what Glados said. there are a few other fics I've written more recently that I should probably also promote, but since the question was "deep cut," I wanted to choose an older fic that I still think very fondly of but didn't make a lot of waves.

question for fic writers

[variksel]

GUYSSSS what if ron isnt in heaven but in purgatory and hes just ... completely misunderstood it . "i am in heaven and the business prospects are dire. everybody seems to want everything for free!" YALL ???? THAT SOUNDS SO ODD???? i personally think he is definitely just talking symbolically and hes just happy that, wherever he is, he is happy there and likes it. OR. it could be that he is actually dead, and that hes actually somewhere else (because someone in hell has said that since the hell system changed so much, they really didnt know what happened after death, but they didnt think heaven existed) AND i think we got pretty good confirmation that heaven didnt necessarily exist in this show, but nobody said anything about purgatory...

yall. "business prospects are dire, everybody keeps asking for free things" sounds a loot like a business persons purgatory for me yknow? and if theres something we know ron will do, its completely misunderstand a situation he is in (miss you king fly high if you Are dead).

also im 1000% sure that the reason ron was talking about time was because hes in another plane, maybe one we havent even seen, and the time dilation is so weird that THATs why the messages werent going through thank you for listening to my pepe sylvia moment

[hazeldragonblossoms]

Decay Is an Extant Form of Life

for today’s entry to wiztober 2023, i’m posting something more akin to a theory than a fic. i just couldn’t make it work as a story.

apologies if this has been brought up before, and fair warning for discussions of terminal illness and eventual death, but. have we considered that sylvia drake might have had cancer?

like, okay, i’m gonna get a little pepe silvia here (…pun not intended, noticed, and then very much intended). but cancer is, to me, the most likely (non-magical) answer. consider who we’re talking about, here.

sylvia drake is a theurgist. a life wizard. and a massively talented one, at that, if she was selected to teach at ravenwood.

it’s even noted by those who knew her, such as gloria krendell, how strange it is that she was killed by an illness.

but no other, more nefarious explanation is ever stated, or even implied. she just… got sick. it was a cruel twist of fate with no one to blame for it.

part of life magic is renewal, and healing, and growth, and new things. cancer is a mutation — a new thing in the body — that grows like a weed in a garden, stealing nutrients from other living things. it spreads, and it flourishes. and, like decay, it is an extant form of life.

just, y’know. one that kills things.

but the first spell a theurgist learns isn’t the healing sprite, is it? life magic is just as capable of killing as any other.

[fearowkenya]

what if zhijie met sonon before zhijie met sonon and made it everybody's problem

it's fucking insane to me that there is NOTHING in the way of zhijie/sonon did you SEE the intricate secret handshake?? anyway here is a wip. sonon's not in it, but his presence is implied.

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what the hell is this fic about you might be asking. thats a great question

hi, under read more so i dont make somebodys dash eighty miles long.

uh this fic started as a joke when my friend and i were like 🤨🏳️‍🌈❓about every single moment sonon and zhijie are in proximity to one another, then it spiraled out of control. many such cases.

despite that being the starting point, the actual crux of this fic is more about how avalanche's sector 7 cell coped after the splinter cell cuts ties with the main branch, and how people (nayo specifically) are feeling about it a year after the fact when shit hits the fan vis-a-vis the plate. it's not really relevant in this part but i promise it makes up most of whats currently written.

cool few things about this fic that arent necessarily super obvious from this wip but im too excited about not to share:

nayo is one of jessies roommates. "but isn't jessies place for aspiring actresses" nayo is their weird extra guy who wants to paint the sets and stuff instead of being on stage. i think it could be fun. and also the drama would be off the rails. imagine having a catastrophic friend-group fission and having to live with one of the people on the other side of the split. except in addition of it being a friend group it's a climate extremist cell, and it's vital that your other two roommates DO NOT find out about it. also you are gay (so much of this fic is unresolved not-requited-but-also-not-unrequited jessie/nayo anguish. hows THAT for a rarepair huh. im in hell)

it's already implied in-game that sonon and zhijie spent some time together in wall market, but my friend was like 'wouldnt it be really funny if the two of them met and had this wild night in wall market before sonon like. actually showed up to the avalanche hideout. like what if zhijie didnt KNOW'. and i was like holy fuck youre a genius

my apologies to polk for fort condor being his only personality trait. i intend to go back and comb through all of his lines to try to glean as much from canon as i can, but for now its all fort condor i guess

its not directly stated but i am also using this to push my insane gamer theory that zhijie is corneo's bastard child. it probably wont come up but my main reasoning is this very pepe-sylvia meme type of conjecture linking the assumption that zhijie frequently hangs out in wall market to him inexplicably knowing that the plate is going to fall. who the hell told him. corneo fucking sucks but i think if he had a child who was in danger of being crushed by the plate fall he'd probably warn him to get out, even if the child in question hates his fucking guts and would prefer not to be associated with him

i love thinking about how throughout most of this, cloud is (checks notes) parachuting off the plate after a high-speed motorcycle chase.

i am so in love with stories where we get a look at what a B-team is up to while the A-team is in the spotlight doing something else entirely, ideally creating absolutely disgusting amounts of tonal whiplash. like what do you MEAN everybody is having the worst day of their lives while cloud is being made to pick flowers and rescue children at the behest of a very pretty girl??? horrible!!! me too please!! i want to play in this space as well!!

and thats what this fic is meant to be: my contributions to the insane shit happening in the background of The Sector Five Reactor Incident as well as aerith dragging cloud on errands with her, both during the day in sector 5 and later on in the evening during their stint in wall market. there is SO MUCH interpersonal nonsense that they will just NEVER know about. but i know! (: and maybe you will too!

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left is something i posted to Twitter comparing and contrasting petrigrof and belavue as my favorite m/f (usually. Simon and Be have a lot of fans who Do Things to the chara’s gender) ships of all time with a shocking amount in common at least as i read them. don’t try to actually read this picture it’s a mess. just take note of how Pepe Sylvia Core it is. right is reaction of my poor friend who doesn’t know any of these people except thru copious fandom diffusion. compelled to share this just now bc i think it’s the counterpart experience of me just now giggling at Edelgard Palpatine in @chromeedwardian’s post

[all-pacas]

wait because i've fallen deep into the weeds (ie: am thinking way more about this than the writers did BUT EVEN SO)

Stacy says that Chase met with the brother "last Thursday." That was the day Chase got himself sued. House aired on Tuesdays: The Mistake aired on November 25th, 2005. Flashbacks aside, no one changes clothes in the episode; the episode spans a single day. It's also generally established that episodes take place the week the episode airs, spanning several days. So we can assume Hunting began on the day it aired, Tuesday, November 22nd. (I know I am going full Pepe Sylvia on this, but this is fun for me.)

So, here's the useless deep dive into Hunting's timeline: (tl;dr: Cameron and Chase had their meth hookup the night before Chase tried to get himself sued.)

TUESDAY the 22nd: Day one. The team starts work on Kalvin's case; House visits Stacy that day, hangs around her house, and finds Steve that evening. Outfit reference.

WEDNESDAY the 23rd: Day two. First thing in the morning (it's the first scene we see of the day), Cameron visits Kalvin and gets coughed on. She partakes of the hospital showers and wears scrubs for a while, before changing into a turtleneck of sadness to search Kalvin's hotel room. It's at this point Chase invites her out for drinks, although she doesn't accept (or decline). They return to the hospital to report their findings to House. Chase is wearing a blue button down with an ugly tie and suit jacket. Cameron returns to Kalvin, who tells her about how great drugs are. House ducks over to Stacy's again, but when he returns to the hospital it's still the same day, no one's clothes have changed. Kalvin tells Cameron to try drugs, and House leaves the hospital for the day to lurk at Stacy's again. Cameron invites Chase over — he's wearing the same blue shirt, although hilariously he's untucked it to show he's off the clock — for sex.

THURSDAY the 24th: Day three. Cameron has a meth hangover. Chase is actually dressed sort of casually here too — or, more than he usually does: he's skipped the tie and hasn't buttoned his shirt all the way. No one can accuse him of being a sharp dresser but he actually does usually to always wear a tie; I kind of like the implication that, you know, he got dressed in a hurry, too.

This is also the day that he got Kayla's brother to sue him. In the flashback in The Mistake he's wearing the same blue shirt as he was on Wednesday, but a different tie, in that scene. On the other hand, we see Chase briefly in the locker room with Cameron in Hunting and then he vanishes from the episode until the final scene (where he's shirtless), so, you know, I could buy that Chase just threw on yesterday's shirt and grabbed a random tie (it would explain the light blue + emerald green combo he has going) for clinic duty. This is the final day of Kalvin's case: we see Cameron with him briefly — it is night time — at the end of the episode, still in her Meth Turtleneck (although she's put her hair up). (Hmmmm something about Cameron wearing her hair down when on meth, literally.)

btw if nothing else this adds an insane layer to chase's story that he was hungover, that he'd been up half the night drinking, because, again, this is the day after he was up half the night having a meth hookup, and cameron currently is hungover out of her miiind

Never realized I until I binge watched this time that the episode where Chase and Cameron first have sex is the episode before his dad died. Once again I must ask if he’s doing okay (he’s not) and can time loving people without making me wonder if he’s displacing daddy issues

It's actually even more nuts! Because in The Mistake, they give a timeline; Stacy actually gives us dates. The Mistake aired, for context, November 29, 2005. Episodes last multiple days usually, but we know from holiday episodes they tend to take place around the air date. (Hunting aired November 22nd) So according to Stacy:

Cursed aired on March 1st, 2005. In the episode, Rowan tells House he has about three months. This turns out to be an overestimate.

Kayla first showed up to the clinic May 11th, 2005. This puts that case right between Love Hurts and Three Stories in the episode order. This is also just a couple weeks after the whole Vogler debacle. Chase was very much on House's shitlist for most of that spring, only seeming to get off it around Kids, after a last hurrah of bullying.

Kayla leaves the clinic, and returns the next day for a planned followup. This is when Chase gets the phone call his dad died, so Rowan Chase died either the 11th or 12th of May.

Everything goes wrong with Kayla, but she gets a liver transplant and lives three more months before being diagnosed with (her brother's) cancer. Chase is doing follow ups and seems to be pretty close to her and the family at this point: she's filling him in on her kids, he's someone they trust. This would be around August. Once the cancer is diagnosed, Chase says Kayla dies "a week later." So probably still August, maybe September. Presumably, the hearing is still scheduled, but Chase seems to be doing okay. His dad's been dead a few months, Kayla and her family like him. He's made a mistake, but he's dealing with it.

Chase continues to be her brother's doctor and point of contact. And this is where it gets good. "Last week," Stacy says, the brother suddenly decided to sue. A week before The Mistake, Chase finds out Kayla's family (who he likes!) has to move and has no money and in a fit of self-flagellation, he lies to her brother and provokes him. He has to provoke him. Chase actually works pretty hard at it:

SAM: Ever since the operation I've been on disability and there's the mortgage so… moving out of state somewhere cheaper. Anyways, thanks. [they shake hands, Sam is not at all mad at Chase.] CHASE: [as Sam is leaving] I killed your sister. I misdiagnosed her ulcer. Killed her. SAM: Shut up man. She liked you, just— CHASE: [not meeting his eyes] I was hung-over when she came back to see me. I'd been up half the night drinking, had a headache and I just wanted to get the hell out of there. Couldn't have cared less what your sister was saying about her stomach pain. [Sam kicks a table or something, makes a mess. Chase flinches.]

He really has to try to get the brother to hate him! He puts in a fucking EFFORT! And it's at that point the brother decides to sue and destroy Chase's career, because Chase feels guilty and wants the family to get the money and not have to move.

And again. This was a week ago. What else happened a week ago???????

I am insane about this. Absolutely insane. Cameron, quite possibly, tells Chase he's not a good guy the same exact day Chase had already convinced a man who liked him that he was in fact a bad person. Of course Chase immediately fucks her (and falls in love with her). Of course

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Where did you hear about Rachel and her yesmen spying on the community?

Well for starters, there are the lads over in Broseidon's Palace of Fishposting who confirmed it as people who were there that RS joined the group and attempted to micromanage the admins, telling them what they were and weren't allowed to post and essentially trying to wrangle control away from these fan groups.

People on reddit clarifying it (including a Broseidon's Palace member who was there):

Rachel also stated in an old interview, "I don't know, I feel some people are like you need to not make them so saturated and I'm like no! More saturated, no one can stop me. So that's them." Which gives off very "take that, hater!" energy. And it feels like it's just been getting worse in recent weeks as new critic communities and accounts have been opening up (particularly /r/UnpopularLoreOlympus). Many things that are discussed in the crit communities end up being addressed randomly in the comic and often very preachy-like (Persephone talking about the "hegemony" of virginity, Eros and Daphne suddenly acting considerate towards Persephone's feelings after literally prying into the sex life of an SA victim the week before, Hades saying shit like "the pace of our intimacy should be up to us" after people criticizing how Rachel was making a huge fanfare out of Persephone finally getting laid, etc.) or otherwise seem like Rachel is 'doubling down' on things she knows are being said about LO.

Again, these all come across as paranoid assumptions, I'm sure, but considering her pre-existing history of lurking in and being booted from fan communities, it's hard not to feel like Rachel isn't doing this still to this day and responding to the criticism as if these groups are in any way attempting to speak directly at her (which they aren't, they're discussion groups made for the readers).

There are a lot of other examples too but I feel like I wouldn't be able to go over all of them without looking even more paranoid than I likely already do LMAO

The most recent example was the other day, both the UnpopularLO subreddit and Discord made staff posts reminding people of the rules - that discussing Rachel's personal life isn't allowed as it's not the purpose of these groups (after people had been discussing what Rachel's relationship with her mother is like due to how she writes Demeter, also the fact that Hermes is apparently based on her partner but Rachel's own self-insert continues to pursue the rich CEO billionaire anyways and now Hermes is nowhere to be seen, etc.) - and that very same day she came out with this:

Aaaaand this is half of why I'm pulling away from LO. Not just because of its very problematic creator (with or without the stalking) but because it's also turning me into a crazy person LMAOO

(I promise, it's just the ADHD/autism hyperfixation in me, it's not keeping me awake at night or anything, but I still also need to like, step away from this bullshit because I shouldn't even have to be this paranoid over Rachel peeking on us, because best case she isn't and we're just being chronically online, and worst case she is and she continues to ruin her own day and her comic with all of her constant backpedaling and retconning and doubling down lmao)