#still a cardinal in this though

[mardyart]

omega3

[do2faj]

The Antichrist

I made MISTAKE after MISTAKE while making this and oh my god I do not have a single idea how this piece even came this far in the first place.

I believed until the last moment that I can fix whatever was going on with my quirky little brush strokes but my patience is just out of stock and I don't think I can stand another hour staring at it

(I am very sorry that I cannot find my reference photo for this piece due to me abandoning it for a month please inform me if you recognize it.)

[conjuring-ghouls]

Cardi's thighs for @ramblingoak

[autumnblooms]

WIP || “You work too hard Papa….why don’t you come take a break?”

[krooliis]

Fuck it, new headcannon.

None of the Papas' are related. Nihil just "adopts" them when they're going to ascend to papacy so it's "kept in the family," since he has no legitimate heirs. Primo is the same age as Nihil to add a bit of comedic relief.

[goldensunset]

amazes me that people can remember information about routes in pokémon games. like ‘i loooove route 217 ❤️’ ‘route 209 has such a banger theme!!!’ ‘have you made it to route 225?’ ‘you can find this rare pokémon on route 210!’ bestie those are numbers. those are just numbers to me how do you remember which area is which. i think i have a general idea of most of them but i still have to look them up every time i need to refer to them in conversation

[tea-cat-arts]

Working on a thing and looking for suggestions: What mythical creature would you associate the major clans with?

So far, the only three I've decided on are Lan= dragons, Su= snakes, and disciples of Boashen Sanren= Huli Jing. I also know I want the Jiangs to be some kind of water creature, but which one I have no idea

[nocturnal-birb]

Here's a quick lil' sumthin' sumthin' for y'all- specifically the ghesties who followed me because I did not expect this blog would hit 1500 followers so honestly? A big thank you to everyone

[copiawife]

this was the plushie i was looking for by the way. knockoff version of the papa one i have. he's extremely goofy looking and lacks a lot of detail the same as the other knockoff plushies i've seen/have

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

thinking about Mac's scars for the AU and what his face ends up like. two different kinds of fucked up. Aesthetically I prefer the one on the right and might go for that one... I think it's a little more accurate to how i describe him grabbing his face when he bonds with Red anyway. Left is gnarly fun though.

bonus carnorpion sketch:

tfw you get your ass kicked by a guy with metal octopus arms and then accidentally give life to and bond with a symbiote clone bud and also your jaw has been destroyed and the symbiotic being you've bonded with is not in a state to properly heal you, et cetera.

suffice to say, symbiosis goes differently for mac than it did for peter or trish. lmao.

[thatsnotbuddies]

me getting ready to go my uni friend's y2k themed birthday even though all I feel like doing is flinging myself into the ocean

[idontknowwhattocallthisanymore]

cardin's aura deficiency and thus lack of semblance is actually hereditary. he got it from his ma and his future children will also have it

[capaldiera]

man idgaf about what treville and richelieu have going on (mostly nothing) (they dont like each other but they work together a lot bc of their jobs.) (i guess treville holding onto a sense of honour whilst working with the cardinal is interesting but like that's not. thats not really those two having something interesting going on). lets talk about the king and the cardinal man.

[andr0medafallen]

I never understood the trope in media made for young teenagers about their diary being read.

I still have my 9th grade diary (would have been about ~13-14) and the majority of the content is just "I hate my dad I hope he dies on the way to work, the best part of my week are the 4 days where he doesn't live with me, my friend always tries to make me feel guilty about her parents divorce but she's lucky, I wish my parents would finally get divorced so that I can choose mom in the custody battle."

And like, I would be fine with anyone reading that.

[theradicalace]

found my kandi beads and abruptly realized there is a non zero chance that my ex still has the bracelet i made and gave to her.... >:[

[hedge-rambles]

So "not quite the thing" is a slightly archaic British idiom, which is a feature of the Fifth's speech patterns it seems, and it means that something is not appropriate or socially acceptable, or historically not healthy or normal. Saying Silas and Ianthe were "never quite the thing" can be taken to mean "There's something seriously wrong with those kids" or possibly like "They have bad personalities".

And also yeah actually, thinking about the ghosts that were there and having to deal with the whole Situation. You've got:

Dulcie - a necromancer who's been dreaming of excitement her whole life and wants to get messy.

The Teens - Abigail put a stop to that as fast as she could.

Marta - a seasoned soldier, at least somewhat experienced in dealing with combat, death and high pressure situations.

Pro - former soldier at least, and remarkably stoic.

Silas - had his religious worldview seriously rocked and then found himself trapped in some sort of exotic new heresy, with that murderous little bone nun, and noped out.

Ortus - not exactly prepared for this, but it's realistically only like the fifth worst thing that's ever happened to him.

Abigail - foremost researcher in the study of ghosts and the River, she's having a fucking blast, like, guys! She's in the River! Top notch research opportunity!

And then there's Magnus - a bureaucrat who went to a scientific conference with his wife and got brutally murdered, now in a fucked up replica of said place dealing with an armed and invulnerable maniac on a killing spree.

No one is exactly in their element there (except maybe Abigail) but Magnus is so many levels of Out Of His Comfort Zone it's unreal. And his darling wife, his rock, is probably not helping by being fucking jazzed about the whole thing.

Can we talk about Magnus in Harrow the Ninth? Because there's a tendency to paint him as this constantly cheerful figure and he's not - he's just very Fifth.

He's the only person who seems even slightly upset about the whole gun-toting horror thing:

“Did the Sleeper get them?”

“Only by assumption,” said Harrowhark, while Abigail’s dolt of a husband said, “I bloody hope so.”

“Magnus,” Abigail said, a touch disapprovingly.

“Well, if the Sleeper didn’t, that’s two maniacs with an ancient weapon and a love of blowing off faces, dear,” said Magnus.

And he's got a very low opinion of Silas:

"She won’t tell me what he said to her, just that he ‘was horrid.’”

“Cheeky little so-and-so,” said Magnus. “If he were my son, I’d give him something to think about. I’m not surprised he’s gone to ground.”

“I would hope your son might be of different character,” said his wife, half-smiling.

“Protesilaus should have biffed him.”

“It’s strange,” said Abigail, ignoring her husband’s exhortations to biffing.

Behind the jolly Jeeves and Wooster-esque talk of biffing people, let's remember that this is Magnus - who from Gideon's POV never saw a teenager he didn't want to adopt - earnestly wishing that a grown man had hit a 16 year old kid.

And when Harrow explains that she thinks she saw him jump to his death, Magnus isn't particularly sympathetic:

“We should have made him a greater priority,” said Lady Pent.

Magnus said, “I’m not certain.”

and

“We didn’t need him,” he said bracingly.

Abigail said, “We need everyone.”

“I never thought he was quite the thing.”

This "never quite the thing" line is the same one Abigail uses when she says Ianthe shouldn't have become a Lyctor and you get the sense it has a quite specific meaning on the Fifth. You get the distinct feeling Magnus is saying "good riddance" in response to a teenager's apparent suicide.

And then of course there's Magnus' conversation with Harrow as the River bubble collapses, as Harrow debates whether she should leave her body to Gideon:

She said: “If I go back, it will finally destroy her soul.”

It was Magnus who stepped forward and looked at Harrow face-to-face. And perhaps she felt that more keenly: that he was the man who had, in Gideon’s own words a lifetime ago, been nice to her cavalier. His mouth was hard now, but his eyes were as kind as they had ever been. And kindness was a knife.

He doesn't pull any punches in laying out his understanding of the situation to Harrow:

“This whole thing happened because you wouldn’t face up to Gideon dying,” he said, which was a stab as precise as any Nonius had managed. “I don’t blame you. But where would you be, right now, if you’d said: She is dead? You’re keeping her things like a lover keeping old notes, but with her death, the stuff that made her Gideon was destroyed. That’s how Lyctorhood works, isn’t it? She died. She can’t come back, even if you keep her stuffed away in a drawer you can’t look at. You’re not waiting for her resurrection; you’ve made yourself her mausoleum.”

His wife looked at Harrow’s face and murmured, “Magnus, you’ve made your point,” but he uncharacteristically ignored her.

He's trying to get through to her in a very fraught situation, but he's certainly not pulling his punches:

“You’re a smart girl, Harrowhark. You might turn some of that brain to the toughest lesson: that of grief.”

Abigail is also trying to talk her out of things, but she's much more discursive and apologetic. Magnus is kind, but it's kindness as a knife, not a cushion.

Magnus is so often written off as just a silly, goofy character, when he's more complicated than that. He's allowed to have a very real frustration with the River bubble and with Harrow, however much he does also care for her and want to help her.

And you know what, he's a CFO stuck in a horrorscape with his delighted ghost nerd wife and a bunch of soldiers. He runs with it - he cracks one of his House ordinal jokes while physically tackling a gun-toting ghost and makes a decent go at it before getting shot. But he's very much out of his comfort zone, angry, and no longer entirely held back by propriety.