deshani99dananjana

[bugflies00]

RIGHT so the pirate au

well it's nothing very original don't get your hopes up or anything BUT. basically it's mainly lmancrew (with a crimeboys focus) and tntduo centered and it's set in like a medieval-esque fictional setting like basically six of crows minus the magic. like i literally typed six of crows into pinterest to get good images those are the vibes

wilbur's captain of this ship called the l'manberg (ok no but i hesitated between naming the ship or their og town lmanburg but i ended up naming the ship that because i just think it's such a good ship name like . she/her in a boat way. does this make sense) and the crew is niki, jack, eret, fundy and tubbo (well obviously theres more people cause how would a ship Function but the rest of those are Unnamed background characters).

wilbur's also a pretty high ranked official like idk general or captain of the guard idk how the military works i would have to figure that out, but basically he's kinda famous and so's his ship. they aren't participating in a war it's more of like an explorer position because wilbur's known for being a brilliant cartographer and so the previous king just kinda appointed him to this new position to let him fuck off & do his own thing mapping the whole world with his crew. the issue is the old king died with no heir and replaced by his nephew (dream) who's much more controlling and power-hungry than he was and who doesn't want to waste money & resources on some bs like maps. this will create Conflict (im so good at narration guys. Help)

tommy's like a homeless orphan (as he alwyas is) and really needs a job and money and all that and he hears the l'manburg isn't at sea for once and wilbur & his crew are taking a rest at the capital for a couple days before sailing back off again. naturally he sneaks in, lives in the storage room for like a week or two, surviving off scraps of food . then tubbo stumbles across him and almost reports him, but tommy convinces him not to and so tubbo helps him for a couple days. then someone else finds him, and he's brought to the captain and they all threaten to throw the stowaway overboard (they wouldn't actually they're all kinda softies) and tommy's like pissing himself from how scared he is especially cause wilbur's like . this really famous general who's had books and songs written about him and shit (he doesn't know yet hes just an annoying pretentious prick (/lovingly)) so he's like Ohmygod im dead and then wilbur's like . "Can you cook" "erm no" "can you clean" "yeah ig" "Can you fight even somewhat decently" "yeah bitch me and my knives are the best they call me th-" "Ok you're hired" AND THUS tommy joins the crew

and so they keep on sailing with their mission yadda yadda and WHAM they encounter the most notorious pirate crew of the continent, named, you guessed it, las nevadas. and tommy's heard a lot of proper horror stories about them and he's terrified but the crew have fought them off a bunch of times before so they're mainly annoyed because they're gonna have to deal with the frankly disgustingly homoerotic rivalry that their captain and the pirate captain have been passionately engaging in for several years now. THATS RIGHT TNTDUO BABY oh they are so pathetic and so gay it's actually embarrassing they'll have like sword duels . wilbur's the uptight, bitchy, and somewhat pretentious general with perfectly styled hair and ornate coat always huffing and puffing and waxing poetry meanwhile quackity's the fuckin bad boy stereotype with like a half unbuttoned poet or blackshirt (slut) (wilbur cannot stop staring its embarrassing) and he's always hanging off ropes and shit and doing sick acrobatics and taunting wilbur GOD they're so. and yeah they have sword duels where all they do is "distract the opponent" in order to "efficiently win the battle" which is code for "practically make out while hurling insults at each other"

also crimeboys is like "in awe of the legendary general" "who is this child on my boat" >>> "oh my god the general's a prick" "oh my god the child's a demon" >>> "maybe he's not that bad but i would rather die and curse his entire family line than admit that" >>> "that is my brother i would die for him and if you lay a hand upon him you won't have hands anymore" (the funny thing is they both end up with that same level of protectiveness and making the same threats despite wilbur being a like Adult and high ranked official with power and influence and decades of training of elaborate swordsmanship behind him . and tommy is a stowaway fifteen year old orphan with three knives and teeth and a whole lot of anger . but they're both like "no i must protect and die for the other" im sorry i just love them ok theyre so stupid) i just LOVE crimeboys having to go through begrudging bonding instead of instantly being ride or die brothers GIVE ME TO MORE ENEMIES TO FRIENDS TO BROTHERS anyway

also we also get emerald duo in the form of them being co-captains (please pretend that is a thing i know Nothing about anything ever) of this other ship and they're like independent merchants or whatever idk i have not figured out that whole bit yet MY POINT IS they're not affiliated with anyone they just sorta do their own thing and only help people if they want to or are indebted . they help out wilbur sometimes cause he's a dumbass

speaking of wilbur like i said he's had books and songs written about him (his age is kind of a grey zone like on one hand he's pretty young for a general but he's also had time to become this like famous and mysterious figure so can't be Too young . so i think probably like 27-29? smth like that) and one of them was a legend about how he fell in love with a mermaid . yes she had red hair and teal scales and her name was sally BUT SHE'S STILL AN OCEAN MERMAID I KNOW SALMONS LIVE IN RIVERS anyway . also for little tntduo crumbs he's called quackity a siren multiple times (in his mind he's insulting him like "ooh you manipulate people" and everyone around him is like "that is the Gayest thing you could possibly have said") and quackity's like "didnt you date a mermaid" "yeah but sirens are like evil mermaids" "so you want to date me" and then wilbur stabs him

ALSO more about wilbur's character development (this is a bit spoilerish but also it's not like im ever writing this full fic so you're not exactly risking much but just be warned) he starts out like i said as this really uptight military official who started when he was really young and trained really hard and flew through the ranks really fast because he worked his ass off . And so he's Very protective of his rank & title & prestige not so much because he's snobbish but because he worked so hard for it but so it often comes across as him being this like pretentious fuck (well he's also pretentious but thats just wilbur) . also he originally dreamed of being a cartographer and he spent his whole childhood drawing up maps but then he realised he couldn't make a living out of that so he decided to work hard enough to be at the top and then do what he wanted. and so he wears like his tricorn hat with a feather and his ornate coat and neatly tucked in shirt and everything cause for him it's like Proof that he Did it yknow . but then as time goes by, especially in the presence of quackity (who's very antihero-esque and so does not give a shit about ranks or whatever he's a pirate he does his own thing) and also a bit tommy (who was literally dressed in rags until they clothed and fed him but still behaves like a street rat on the most famous ship of the country) he slowly loosens up and he ends up ditching the coat and the hat and instead wears more stuff like loose poet shirts (open because he's a slut) . and so yeah character development through clothing and whatnot

ok so YEAH those are the tidbits that were plaguing my mind the most but there's definitely a whole lot more in my head like ive got a pinterest board and shit

[t4tdanvis]

Dante selfcest rant 👀 👀

-@gendervoid-zane

im going to shove a couple (read: many) posts ive previously made about this here and then rant about it MORE bc im MENTALL ILL!!!!!

now AHEM

u see this could work with mcd dante ending up in the mys universe OR mys dante ending up in the mcd universe - or even they go back and forth between both!! either way could be very interesting and silly

with mcd dante ending up in the mys universe, it would be very funny to watch him try to figure out what the Fuck is going on bc mf has no idea what a phone or a computer is and is just so fucking confused. at first mys dante is more focused on going "hey wanna play video games!!!" to stop and process that mcd dante doesnt even know what a video game is. and then seeing mcd dantes confusion at Literally Everything he decides to sit down and try to explain things (unfortunately mys dante is Dumb - fortunately mcd dante is equally Dumb so mys dante going "this is a phone... it does... stuff.... you can call people!! idk how they made it able to do that tho dont ask me :D" is good enough for him)

on the other hand, with mys dante ending up in the mcd universe, itd be even Crazier because mys dante (who is used to having the internet and a car and big cities etc) is now stuck in the medieval era. thankfully mcd dante is here to help!! except he does a horrible job of helping bc he just goes "well im sure he'll figure everything out!" and then hands mys dante a sword - and is shocked when he ends up getting injured. mys dante doesnt mind because running around and throwing himself into danger is fun (especially when he gets to do that with a "friend" (read: boyfriend who he hasnt figured out hes dating yet))!! mys dante is also Struggling because adhd meds dont exist yet and his brain is completely fried and he can barely function until zoey figures out how to make potions thatll help. which leads to mys dante bouncing off the walls and mcd dante having to practically drag him to bed every night to get him to go to sleep, until mys dante Finally is able to function properly again

and, of course, the inherent romantic comedy of "i cant be in love with this other version of myself nope nope nope- oh god the other version of me is hot". the first time they kissed they stared at each other for a solid five minutes before mcd dante went "so uh.... yeah....." and mys dante just went "that was like... kissing myself. haha"

they are both Dumb and do not know how to function correctly around each other. they are mischievous silly little guys who cant stop getting into trouble and getting injured and doing stupid shit (but its ok bc their friends somehow keep them from getting themselves killed). and also they definitely tried to make out in a tree but ended up falling out of it and getting hurt. and at one point they tried to make out underwater and somehow didnt realize how stupid of an idea thatd be until they almost drowned. theyre gay and silly and dumb ur honor

this post was uhhhh way longer than id expected but thats ok ty for listening to me rant sorry it took a bit to type all this LOL

[the-game-spirit]

god, and the fact that her whole argument stands on a fucking statement like "if you menstruate, you're a woman, end of story"...

first of all, uh, Yikes??? is that seriously how you see womanhood as being defined?? periods and childbirth??? way to. yknow. reduce women down to their wombs. real progressive there, karen, you're really breaking down the patriarchy, truly, a feminist we should all admire, /s

second of all; do... do women stop being women after menopause?? are young girls not girls???? seriously because That Is What You're Saying

third of all?? intersex people???? exist?????? like do you ever think before you tweet i swear to god,

[baeddel]

Please. Please can you tell me what a baeddel is and why people (terfs?) used it in a derogatory manner on this website for a hot minute but now no one ever uses it at all

you asked for it, fucker

[2k words; philology and drama]

baeddel is an Old English word. i have no idea where it actually occurs in the Old English written corpus, but it occurs in a few placenames. its diminuitive form, baedling, is much better documented. it appears in the (untranslated) Canons of Theodore, a penitential handbook, a sort of guidebook for priests offering advice on what penances should be recommended for which sins. in a passage devoted to sexual transgressions it gives the penances suggested for a man who sleeps with a woman, a man who sleeps with another man, and then a man who sleeps with a baedling. so you have this construction of a baedling as something other than a man or a woman. and then it gives the penance for a baedling who sleeps with another baedling (a ludicrous one-year fast). then, by way of an explaination, Theodore delivers us one of the most enigmatic phrases in the Old English corpus: "for she is soft, like an adulturess."

the -ling suffix in baedling is masculine. but Theodore uses feminine pronouns and suffixes to describe baedlings. as we said, it's also used separately from male and female. but it's also used separately from their words for intersex and it never appears in this context. all of this means that you have this word that denotes a subject who is, as Christopher Monk put it, "of problematic gender." interested historians have typically interpreted it as referring to some category of homosexual male, such as Wayne R. Dines in his two-volume Encyclopedia of Homosexuality who discusses it in the context of an Old English glossary which works a bit like an Old English-Latin dictionary, giving Old English words and their Latin counterparts. the Latin words the Anglo-Saxon lexicographer chose to correspond with baedling were effeminatus and mollis, and Lang concludes that it refers to an "effeminate homosexual" (pg 60, Anglo Saxon). this same glossary gives as an Old English synonym the word waepenwifstere which literally means "woman with a penis," and which Dines gives the approximate translation (hold on tight) male wife.

R. D. Fulk, a philologist and medievalist, made a separate analysis of the term in his study on the Canons of Theodore 'Male Homoeroticism in the Old English Canons of Theodore', collected in Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England, 2004. he analysed it as a 'sexual category' (sexual as in sexuality), owing to the context of sexual transgressions in the Canons. he decides that it refers to a man who bottoms in sexual relationships with another man. i don't have the article on hand so i'm not sure what his reasoning was, but this seems obviously inadequate given what we know from the glossary described by Dines. Latin has a word for bottom, pathica, and the lexicographer did not use this in their translation, preferring words that emphasized the baedling's femininity like effeminatus, and doesn't address the sexual context at all. Dines, however, only reading this glossary, seems to decide that it refers to a type of male homosexual too hastily, considering the Canons explicitly treat them separately. both Dines and Fulk immediately reduce the baedling to a subcategory of homosexual when neither of the sources to hand actually do so themselves.

by now it should be obvious why, seven or so years ago, we interpreted it as an equivalent to trans woman. I mean come on - a woman with a penis! these days I tend to add a bit of a caution to this understanding, which is that trans woman is the translation of baedling which seems most adequate to us, just as baedling was the translation of effeminatus that seemed most adequate to our lexicographer. but the term cannot translate perfectly; its sense was derived from some minimal context; a legal context, a doctrinal context, and so forth... the way Anglo-Saxons understood sex/gender is complicated but it has been argued that they had a 'one sex model' and didn't regard men and women as biologically separate types, which is obviously quite different from the sexual model accepted today; in any case they didn't have access to the karyotype and so on. the basic categories they used to understand gender and sexuality were different from ours. in particular, Hirschfield et al. should be understood as a particularly revolutionary moment in the genealogy of transsexuality; the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft essentially invented the concept of the 'sex change', the 'transition', conceived as a biological passage from one sex to the other. even in other contexts where (forgive me) #girlslikeus changed their bodies in some way, like the castration of the priestesses of Cybele, or those belonging to the various historical societies which we believe used premarin for feminization [disputed; see this post], there is no record that they were ever considered men at any stage or had some kind of male biology that preceded their 'gender identity.' the concept of the trans woman requires the minimal context of the coercive assignment at birth and its subsequent (civil and bio-technological) rejection. i have never encountered evidence that this has ever been true in any previous society. nonetheless, these societies still had gendered relations, and essentially wherever we find these gendered relations we also find some subject which is omitted or for whom it has been necessary to note exceptions. what is of chief interest to us is not so much that there was such a subject here or there in history (and whatever propagandistic uses this fact might have), but understanding why these regularities exist.

a very parsimonious explanation is that gender is a biological reality, and there is some particular biological subject which a whole host of words have been conjured to denote. if this were the case then we would expect that, no matter what gender/sexual system we encounter in a given society, it will inevitably find some linguistic expression. if, like me, you find this idea revolting, then you should busy yourself trying to come up with an alternative explanation which is not just plausible, but more plausible. my best guesses are outside the scope of this answer...

anyway, all of this must be very interesting to the five or six people invested in the confluence of philology and gender studies. but why on earth did it become so widely used, in so many strange and unusual contexts, in the 2010s? we're very sorry, but yes, it's our fault. you see apart from all of this, there is also a little piece of information which goes along with the word baeddel, which is that it's the root of the Modern English word bad. by way of, no less, the word baedan, 'to defile'. how this defiled historical subject came to bear responsibility for everything bad to English-speakers doesn't seem to be known from linguistic evidence. however, it makes for a very pithy little remark on transmisogyny. my dear friend [REDACTED] made a playful little post making this point and, good Lord, had we only known...

it went like this. its such a funny little idea that we all start changing our urls to include the word baeddel. in those days it was common to make puns with your url (we always did halloween and christmas ones); i was baeddelaire, a play on the French poet Baudelaire. while we all still had these urls a series of events which everyone would like to forget happened, and we became Enemies of Everyone in the Whole World. because of the url thing people started to call us "the baeddels." then there was "a cult" called "the baeddels" and so forth. this cult had various infamies attatched to it and a constellation of indefensible political positions. ultimately we faced a metric fucking shit ton of harassment, including, for some of my friends, really serious and bad irl harassment that had long-term bad awful consequences relating to stable housing and physical safety and i basically never want to talk about that part of my life ever again. and i never have to, because i've come to realize that for most people, when they use the word baeddel, they don't know about that stuff. it doesn't mean that anymore.

so what does it mean? you'll see it in a few contexts. TERFs do use it, as you guessed. i am not quite sure what they really mean by it and how it differs from other TERF barbs. i think being a baeddel invovles being politically active or at least having a political consciousness, but in a way thats distinct from just any 'TRA' or trans activist. so perhaps 'militant' trans women, but perhaps also just any trans woman with any opinions at all. how this was transmitted from tumblr/west coast tranny drama to TERF vocabulary i have no idea. but you will also find - or, could have found a few years ago - i would say 'copycat' groups who didn't know us or what we believed but heard the rumours, and established their own (generously) organizations (usually facebook groups) dedicated to putting those principles into practice. they considered themselves trans lesbian separatists and did things like doxx and harass trans women who dated cafabs. if you don't know about this, yes, there really were such groups. they mostly collapsed and disappeared because they were evildoers who based their ideology on a caricature. i knew a black trans woman who was treated very badly by one of these groups, for predictable reasons. so long-time readers: if you see people talking about their bad experiences with 'baeddels', you can't necessarily relate it to the 2014 context and assume they're carrying around old baggage. there are other dreams in the nightmare.

the most common way you'll see it today, in my experience, is in this form: people will say that it was a "slur" for trans women. they might bring up that it's the root of the word bad, and they might even think that you shouldn't use the word bad because of it, or that you shouldn't use the word baeddel because it's a slur. all of this is a silly game of internet telephone and not worth addressing. except to say that it's by no means clear that baeddel, or baedling, were slurs, or even insulting at all. while Theodore doesn't provide us with a description of how we can have sex with a baedling without sinning, and it may be the case that any sexual relations with a baedling was considered sinful, sexuality-based transgressions were not taken all that seriously in those days. there was a period where homosexuality within the Church was almost sanctioned, and it wasn't until much later that homosexuality became so harshly proscribed, to the extent that it was thought to represent a threat to society, etc. and as i mentioned, there are places in England named after baedlings. there is a little parish near Kent which is called Badlesmere, Baeddel's Lake, which was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Domesday Book (as having a lord, a handful of villagers and a few slaves; perhaps only one or two households). it's not unheard of, but i just don't know very many places called Faggot Town or some such. it's possible that baedlings had some role in Anglo-Saxon society which we are not aware of; it could even have been a prestigious one, as it was in other societies. there is just no evidence other than a couple of passing references in the literature and we'll probably never have a complete picture.

[halcyonterror]

I Left My Friend on a Cliffhanger, it was Hilarious (by Fall Out Boy)

I was talking with @redorich and they decided to pick my brain.

Redmin

do you have any.. clownzy aus or ideas or anything youve been rotating in ur head

if i dont talk about them i will edxplode and die

Halcyon.Terror

I like the idea of Clown being a really powerful witch

and maybe Branzy is his failwhale familiar?

redmin

OURGH. YEAH

THATS GOOD

what flavor of witch and familiar are u thinking of here?

Halcyon.Terror

yeah and Clown's terrifying but really kind/gentle

a green witch and a demon

Branzy's terrified of clown at first, but the green witch thing removes some of the intimidation factor

redmin

oh!!!!! demon familiar!!!!!

green witch? wdym?

Halcyon.Terror

Clown's like Poison Ivy but magic

redmin

OOOOOOOH THAT FUCKS THAT FUCKS THAT FUCKS SUPREMELY

Halcyon.Terror

Right?

redmin

i want cringefail shitty demon branzy that gets one (1) moment where he's intimidating and cool

Halcyon.Terror

the only reason he's a shitty demon is bc he's kind but mischievous, not evil

fallen angel esque demon

redmin 

idea-- you can discard it if it doesn't fit with your idea..

Halcyon.Terror

it doesn't fit with my idea

it's an idea all to its own tho

and I kinda love it

redmin 

naurrrr i meant more-- he's still a demon, but he's just-- not a very good one?

anywya i wanna talk about your idea!!

Halcyon.Terror 

i made up that concept in barely a minute, it'd be a near plotless slice of life except for an event.

it'd be a medieval kinda vibe and Clown would be accused as a witch

or made pre revolution Salem Witch Trials... that's an idea 

redmin 

ourfh........ yeah thats good that's good

what's some slice of life stuff, then? like, what does clown do as a witch?

Halcyon.Terror 

welp he works with the local midwife, making medicines

practices the craft in secret, would have a coven

he doesnt do much as a witch, day to day little charms to make things better

things that wont be noticed

redmin 

awwwww

Halcyon.Terror 

jealousy lurks within the coven, though and Clown is 'caught' and set to be executed

redmin 

so, how does he have his reputation that scared branzy?

Halcyon.Terror 

I'm gonna go with the excuse of as a demon, Branzy has an innate sense of magical power. Clown's summons were so strong against a weak demon, that it scared the shit out of Branzy

he thought he was gonna die/be tortured/cease to exist

does that sound too hand wavey?

redmin 

no it sounds wonderful!!!!!

sorry for late responses im. literally in class learning

Halcyon.Terror 

have fun

by the way, Branzy accidentally makes Clown immortal

Redmin

OH WRM IM ON A BREAK BC CURTSY LUNGES ARE EVIL, HOW DOES BRANZY DO THAT

Halcyon.Terror 

^^

[justanotherpersonsuniverse]

Okay so a while ago I wrote a chapter of a fic where the Miracuclass get thrown into a Persona Shadow world, however I lost motivation immediately for it and never continued writing it cause it sucked

HOWEVER HOWEVER! I STILL WANTED TO WRITE ABOUT THE SHADOW IDEAS I HAD FOR IT! Not in order, but Marinette’s shadow would most likely be last sense that was supposed to be the final boss of the fic. Note: I’m never working on it again, but I still wanted to throw out the ideas I had. Hope you like it!

The Shadows—

Marinette: Shadow Marinette is basically Saltinette. Has lost hope in the entire class. She’s very mean and demeaning, and does her best to convince Marinette that she should leave them. She’s a culmination of disappointments, pain, anger, spite, and the feeling of hate with her job as Ladybug because of how much it steals from her life. Shadow Marinette also carries much of her ptsd as ladybug with her, including Chat Blanc. She’s covered in red string that slowly starts to cover and wrap around her more, before it ties around her throat like a noose. Eventually, her monstrous shadow form becomes Lady Blanche, and the school turns into the rotting, broken, and fallen down remains of the Eiffel Tower.  She confesses who she is as Ladybug, and jeers at the class at any time she has, but who she targets the most is Marinette, whom she practically torments.

Adrien: A caged bird. Shadow Adrien is a prisoner of his own heart, desperate for escape. He’s begging for death, for love, for acknowledgment. He sees himself as nothing and asks why “she doesn’t love me?”. Turns into a monstrous, corrupted, decaying, melting cat and bird monster(or I guess.. griffin) trying to protect a treasure box it’s chained to. The dungeon/palace is in the theme of a medieval castle.

Alya: So you know Yosuke’s shadow? How it was based on boredom but in the most realest sense? Where he was just looking for a story to be a part of because the life he lived up until that point was really plain, dragged out, and tired feeling of just monotony? Yeah, that. She feels like nothing, so she wants to be something more, like the stories she’s read, watched, she’s longing to be more. So that’s why she became obsessed with Ladybug, why she took her job as Rena with such hope and excitement. For the first time, she’s felt like she’s finally living, and she’s scared that it’ll go away. Most likely gets the design I gave her with my other fic. If you don’t know what that looks like, it’s a centaur like monster who’s skin is made up a ton of faces, bodies, limbs, and contorted creaming beings. The humanoid top side has two faces, one half being a camera, and the other a snarling fox.

Nino: Issues with his divorced parents, he feels like it’s partially his fault and it fucks him up. He carries a lot of his family on his back due to this, and it’s a feeling of incomprehensible guilt. His Shadow clings onto Nino and tries to smother him, before turning into his shadow form. I don’t know what this form would look like. A giant deformed lion turtle maybe.

Chloe: HOO BOY THATS A BUNDLE OF ISSUES. Pulling an Adachi here, the shadow’s monster form is quite literally just an inverted and corrupted version of her. Because she’s already a monster in her own eyes. Only thing that makes it different is that it has a yellow bandana covering its eye’s, because all across their arms and on her palms are blinking eyes. This thing is fucking out for Chloe’s blood, begging to just fucking die. To disappear already. Because if Mother doesn’t remember them, they’re as good as gone right now. Because mother’s approval is all that matters, right? Shadow Chloe, when defeated, just falls to her knees and just starts to cry from her eyes underneath her bandana. As it’s taken off, the other eyes bubble away and she just digs her face in Chloe’s shoulder, finally letting her pain out and being acknowledged.

Sabrina: A game show host, Shadow Sabrina puts Sabrina up onto one of those spinning roulette wheels, making the others literally have to play for her life. The stakes continue raising as she keeps telling them to just back out already! Sabrina’s gonna die anyways why don’t they just quit and move on! But they refuse, and it breaks her. She’s just supposed to be a puppet! They let her be a puppet! So why the hell are they doing this now?! Eventually everything falls apart and Shadow Sabrina doesn’t even get a chance to turn into a monster as she just falls to her knees. She tries to spit bitterly at Chloe only to receive a teary hug, and she crumples in her arms.

Lila: A mirror maze, Shadow Lila always being a step ahead and taunting. Her body is glitching, and she almost low key looks like light hope from she ra. Every mirror has a reflection of what she thinks of people, what she remembers events as, and her multiple personas she puts on. Shadow Lila is sick of it. And she as a shadow, she can’t lie, and despite being Lila’s subconscious, she asks her what the truth is. Because Lila lies to herself so much to the point that Shadow Lila herself isn’t sure what she is.

Juleka: I didn’t have any completely solid ideas for this, however! I had ideas of the class walking into like, a circus fair thing. Festival? Idk. And Shadow Juleka would try and throw Juleka into one of those water chambers while setting shit on fire. I was more focused on aesthetics than story. Think Coraline for this one.

Maybe one day I’ll draw these shadow forms. These are the only ones I had ideas for. Shame I abandoned that story, but thanks for hearing about my rambles, maybe one day I’ll do a rewrite

[ask-mortarion-the-death-lord]

Some other interesting things to note in the old rogue trader 1st edition 40k book

The book itself has a fascinating structure to it because its actually frontloaded with the game rules, equipment and the like first [including a mutants table] and backloaded with the 40k setting details. Partly because unlike the modern 40k which is about playing games within the setting, the old rules seem more so geared towards creating rules to play a game of your choice. That is, well im not sure how well it would actually work the book does seem to encourage you to make shit up or even use a completely different setting like star wars instead.

some space marine chapter symbols on one of the opening pages. you can see chapter symbols for 7 of the modern big 9 of the loyalist chapters [blood angels, imperial fists, iron hands, space wolves, ultramarines, white scars] but they seem to be placed alongside the blood drinkers, flesh eaters, flesh tearers, and the... i think the rainbow warriors and silver skulls chapter symbols as well. Best guess is that they were originally suppose to be a lot more important then they ended up being. Also interesting to note but of the 7 of the big 9 here, only the iron hands symbol seems to get any major modification later on [if it is the iron hands anyways]. the early dark angels symbol has a thin in the middle fat on the end shaped sword in early versions and the space wolves symbol gets more bestial in modern versions, but the iron hands logo in modern 40k is flipped with pointier finger tips compared to here.

an interesting note here, since the modern 40k setting has a tendency to make the imperium seem and feel so monolithic and all encompassing on the galactic stage. Here its more so emphasized that even with the imperium being fairly large its only a blip in terms of the actual galactic scale of things. Something i wish was more carried through into modern 40k.

a little blurb on how warp space/travel worked in 1st edition. You could arguably still apply this to modern 40k too, that in terms of practical application its like using river systems to travel rather then going by sea

the section on warp drives and how they work, im not sure how accurate or effecctive 1-4 light years per jump is but it is the most detailed explanation ive seen as to how it actually works [as opposed to warp travel being random as fuck]. i also rather like the explanation as to why you can’t exit out of warp space right next to suns [and likely planets as well though thats conjuncture on my part] as youll just fuck up your ship if you do. On a side note, it says navigational drive instead of machine spirit/servitor or the like here cause 1st edition 40k imperium utilized robots instead [im guessing the men of iron and their rebellion wasn’t a thing yet].

Warp gates were also a thing and seemed to be implied as a common method of warp travel, and likely the main method of going long distance in a practical length of time.

they were aliens alll alonnnng! kidding aside, i like the idea that the dangers of the warp was more so psychic predatory alien species just chillin there rather then it just being a one to one copy of fantasy battles chaos gods. gives the setting a more unique flavour ya know.

some early info on warp storms with a 10% stastic of all solar systems cut off by warp storms to highlight the frequency of them.

early navigator info, seems their appearance was a lot less strictly defined and the third eye doesnt seem to be a thing yet. some info that explains why their so useful as well to keeping the imperium together despite it being “so thinly spread” compared to other space empires.

early figures on the astronomicans range. it not covering the eastern fringe at all i find fairly interesting cause ultramar in modern 40k is positioned firmly in the eastern fringe of the galaxy. 

for reference, heres what i assume is a map showing the effective range of the astronomican

nothing particularly notable outside of the weird implication that the emperor was far less of a vegtable here then he is now.

seems the imperium was far less monotheistic then as it is in modern 40k. Makes me wonder what other gods an imperial pantheon might have.

1st edition emperor was far less of a punk then modern emperor it seems, since it doesnt look like he needed 1000 psykers a day just to keep him goin. 1st edition emperor kept himself alive through sheer force of will. Also the ecchlisiarch didn’t exist back then and instead seemed to function in place of what the high lords do now. Though arguably a lot more effectively since they also seem to cover the ecchlisiarchs duties as well.

the direct subdivisions of the adeptus terra, which in this context gives a much more religious connotations to their jobs. Early custodes were just warrior priests i guess? and the arbites were priest judges? maintaining the astronomica also seems to have originally been a more voluntary effort then the other 1000 psykers sacrificed a day to keep the thing running it is in modern 40k.

the administratum also falls under the direct control of the adeptus terra.

the inquisition is basically the same then as it is now though it seems master of the inquisiton used to be a much more desirable job then it is now.

imperial governers were also basically the same despite in 1st edition being appointed by a religious priesthood administratum.

the adeptus astartes originally called legiones astartes cause space rome. Note the effective origin of the continuing space marine problem of scale of numbers cause this effectively means that in 1st edition 40k there are only one million marines in total spread out across the entire imperium. Though the imperium is also implied to be smaller then it is in modern 40k that still seems... insufficient for fighting across an entire galaxy. Also chapter masters were commanders back in the day and like governors not strictly speaking religious just taking orders from the priesthood.

even back then these guys got no respect. Though from the sounds of it the imperial army was closer to the pdf back then well the imperial fleet and space marines were more so responsible for the conquering.

we need more rogue traders with space marine squads under their command in modern 40k, cause that sounds a lot more interesting then deathwatch.

the officio assassinorum was a lot smaller back in the day that they didnt even deserve a proper mention it seems.

some classic imperial infighting here, with people willing to kill each other over grain quotas. Which sounds like a hell of a basis to make a scenario around let me tell you

civilized worlds, aka hive worlds light/modern earth transplantations are the most common planet type here. I do like the note however of imperial citizens being the usual imperial citizens.

feral worlds are basically the same though i find the early setting pieces on the legion astartes and the imperial commanders fascinating for all the implications it provides.

some hive world stuff, most notable is the implication of routine purges to maintain manageable population levels. Which is something you dont surprisingly see very often in modern 40k [usually its just rebellions that have to be put down that call for ‘purges’] and also implies that despite the misery of living in overcrowded hive cities people are still banging like crazy.

as i said, robots were much more of a thing for the imperium then as opposed to now.

apparently grabbing medieval peasants, stuffing them in space suits and telling them to go murder jibbering orks with hand cannons was considered a worse idea then grabbing a caveman to do the same thing? Guess you could consider a medieval world a developmental stage before reaching civilized status.

paradise worlds were space marines do tai chi and yoga i guess and research stations, aka what can we exploit out of this planet.

cappin it there for now, let me know if ya wanna see some more stuff from this fascinating book.

[brunhiddensmusings]

What about Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves? I love that movie because it's such a wild ride (Satanists! Secret brothers! Secret mothers! And cancel Christmas!) but I distinctly remember a LOT of sutff that could probably make a historian scream. Also, how about The Eagle and/or The Last Legion, if you watched either of them?

engaging requested historical movie based rant in 3,2,1 okay, that movie is a beautiful MESS and its hard to pick somewhere to start partially as i cant decide to criticize it against the history of the period its supposed to be or as an adaptation of the legend, both of which it varries wildly as i could talk about how inconsistent it was about who robin hood was or what the merry men were about, chiefly that the concept that robin hood gave what he stole to the poor didnt arise untill about the late 1600s when people dressing up as robin hood and crew to recreate his stories became essentially the precursor to the renesance faire where such events would draw wealthy spectators who would then ‘pay tribute’ to robin hood who would then use that money to buy drinks for all the players eg ‘the poor’ as a compensation for the performance but no, i cant reasonably get too mad at that because its not widely enough known to actually expect people who make movies to know, id be more mad about how they insisted on making robin meet all his merry men as the movie goes on meaning none of them have more then a few days of backstory, and even more mad they insist on making all the non-named merry men illiterate morons, and more mad that they decided to amazingly actually include will scarlet but not have him do anything of note other then the drama about being a brother, and beyond that the part that actually gets me mad is you included will scarlet but not alan adale? thats a baffling missed opportunity considering you put the effort into making it an actual crew and not five guys in the woods, why the fuck not have a minstrel prancing around? the freaking disney furry one got that part better then you did and he didnt even interact with the main cast! i will give a few honorable praises to this movie though as friar tuck is possibly the most accurate friar tuck in any movie ive seen so far considering in the legends the first thing he does when he meets robin is put on a helmet and scream ‘have at ye’ while charging with his sword cause the friar is down to brawl with anyone at anytime. also his first appearance in the movie hes singing a rendition of bacce benne, the oldest known drinking song we know both the lyrics and tune of, which at the time would have been how tavernkeepers knew you were still sober enough to give another round to the irony of that statement being robin hood was largely circulated as drinking songs in taverns, and a medieval man replied to an accusation of him being stupid by saying ‘nah mate, i know all 70+ verses of the song of robin hood’ much like someone today would say ‘nah mate ive seen every episode of the simpsons up till season 12′ to prove he was up to current events i could get mad that everyone and everything is brown brown BROWN, nothing but rags for clothing half the time and the houses look like they congealed out of mud thats afraid of windows, but ive grown to accept that kind of garbage aesthetic choices that are somehow inferior to monty python and the holy grail depicting how people dressed. i also cant be mad about how they portrayed the sherrif, despite at the time a sherrif would have been a shire reeve or sherriv which the whole point of him being in the story is that hes more or less a corrupt union rep who is technically supposed to be the one the villagers rely on to relay their complaints and demands to the local lord but is instead a crony of the nobility appointed to a position that hes supposed to be elected to by his peers.... but to be fair it would make the story hard to process in a movie if sherrif wasnt sherrif. no, what im going to get the most mad about is their batshit crazy satanist witch i know witches (two kinds), i know satanists (two kinds), i know medieval society, and none of the above would for a minute agree with any of how the freaky ass nutbag making eyeball soup worked in t his movie. holy shit, you just threw whatever you wanted at a wall to see what stuck didnt you, the upside down cross is a common image in actual catholocism its literally everywhere at the vatacin and would have been as offensive to a medieval person as a beetroot, the medieval peasantry wouldnt even have been very putoff by witches as for the most part a witch was either your aunt or your chief source of medical coverage or both so you usually gave a ‘witch’ respect and bought your beer from her at reasonable rates. literally the only thing of the witch scene that is at all related to anything sane is the blood runes, which also make no sense as the runestones involved are norse but the practice of blood shouldnt be even known about by a witch in Essex, if you had wanted to imply how evil the badguys were in the movie theres better ways to do it in fact you already did that without agnes nutters more insane cousin arranging sticks in blair witch, if you wanted to imply fortune telling or magic was at their disposal theres about a dozen better ways to have done that too

yall just raided Elviras prop department when she wasnt looking didnt ya

[kiwibirdlafayette]

Tagged by the wonderful @brigita-byrd !

1. Why do you like to write?

(whataboldassumptiontosay-) hA just kidding

To be honest, I’d probably say its because I’m a storyteller at heart. Not to sound cliche or anything but writing’s basically the biggest escapism I can get and getting to escape into these worlds is, just fantastic (even if that means writing only in my head and never putting it to paper oops)

Also, character acting

2. Would you like to meet your characters in real life?

A lot of them... absolutely, absolutely I would love to meet them. Others, not so much. I’ll leave it up to y’all to determine which is which.

3. If your story was getting an adaption, would you like it to be live-action or animated?

I’m an animation guy, so I’d like to say animation (for IWAY, and IRE at least) and an animated version of Arcadia of Avalon would be neat as well but... live action might be better for the tone of the story but hey, you never know

4. What is the hardest part of writing for you?

Putting the pen to paper, and putting the scenes into words. I first got into writing from improv acting, and I’m more of a visual guy so a lot of the time it’s like- how to I describe this particular emotion? How would I accompany this dialogue with supplementary action? How should I craft this passage in a way that the reader sees the exact same visual composition I see in my head?

(It’s also a reason I draw a lot of scenes before I write it, so I have something physical to work off of)

5. Badly explain your WIP in one sentence.

A repressed gay knight living in medieval England is tasked with finding a fancy piece of dinnerware, and alongside a bunch of other inhumanly attractive guys and gals, learns the meaning of love, family, and destiny.

(and)

Goth musician reflects and grapples with the implications of his past, and tries to resolve it if he ever wishes to be prepared for the end of the world.

6. Do you prefer to plot or fly by the seat of your pants?

It depends on the context, to be honest. When it comes to dialogue/character interaction within a single scene, flying by the seat of my pants is way better because I’ve found its ten times harder to write when I’m trying to stick to certain parameters.

However, in terms of long chunks (ie; anything that’s not a oneshot or concept scene), I’ll try my damndest to stick to whatever plot I have outlined or you get scenarios like IWAY where I go on so many tangent from my outline that the plot goes from 7 to 14 chapters

7. Would you live in your story if given the chance?

IWAY/Perceptions, god that would be fantastic because hell, who wouldn’t want to live in Arcadia Oaks? In terms of AoA I don’t know-

Actually. Changed my mind. I’d want to be a knight I’m completely down to live in this fantasy version of the Medieval era

8. Have you laughed or cried while writing?

hA absolutely I’ve laughed so many times at my own bad jokes I’ve stuck in IWAY and Perceptions like I’m a damn comedic genius (Im not this is practically a roast) To be honest, the only time I think I’ve ever cried was writing the prologue to I Remember Everything (which is Mordred in the Battle of Camlann) and... fuck I think IWAY 9

9. What’s a trope that you love to death?

Emotional vulnerability, hands down.Theres nothing that gets to me more then this character, so caught up in everything, repressed emotions everywhere convinced that its them against the world just- finally breaking down those walls, opening their hearts to those who care about them and letting themselves be loved without regret, and realizing they dont have to carry the weight alone

(sorry slowburn enemies to lovers, although thats a close second)

10. Do you have any goals for your WIP?

For IWAY/Perceptions: Definitely, just... find the motivation to write the last chapter for each of them

For IRE: Get the next chapters out! They’re outlined it’s just a matter of writing it out :’)

And for Arcadia of Avalon- Currently my goal is to solidify the storyline- pick which narratives I want to include and which ones to cut (since the outline I had last year isn’t quite what I want to do anymore) so that I can get a final plot lineup done by the end of the year and start actually writing 👌

And my questions for the folks below

1. Why do you write? (ie; what’s your motivation?)

2. Who, of your characters would you want to spend a day with?

3. What’s your favorite part of writing?

4. What is one genre and/or trope you despise writing?

5. Who are your biggest influences?

6. If your work got a film deal- Animated or Live action?

7. Are you more of an outline person or write-as-you go person?

8. What’s the most emotional thing you’ve ever written?

9. Would you want to live in the world(s) of your story?

10. (and, because I’ve seen most do this)- Any goals for your WIP?

I tag: @shadowofcimmerion @violetcancerian @tunafishprincess @zonbiconbi @akozuheiwa @kouvei-matarra (and anyone else who’d like to give it a go- consider yourself tagged :D) sorry if any of yall been tagged already aaaa

[crazyopinionatedwriterchick]

Response to an Elia Stan

Hi, @super-sonic-woman

I hope you don’t mind I started a new post. I hat clogging up the comments section and this makes responding to you a lott easier and concise because, I’ll have your arguments in bold and mine in italic. So to begin with

So any criticism of you is unacceptable unless it’s kind and mannerly?

No, I am all for constructive criticism and healthy friendly debate. What I’m  not up for  is being talked down to or disrespected for having an opinion that differs from yours. Telling me “Fuck you” was uncalled for. You brought that energy into my life so I gave it right back to you. For that I apologize, it was harsh and I was on the defensive. Still its not excuse for treating you with anything less than courtesy hopefully you will offer me the same. 

 Just because Rhaegar was in love doesn’t give him the right saunter out of an marriage built on an alliance between KL and drone just to have another child. 

Doesn't it though, Strictly from a medieval monarchial and political stand point? Yes, Rhaegar was in love with Lyanna, and while that was a big motivation let’s put that to the side for the moment and look at the other reason this course of action would make sense for him. The cold hard facts if you will. His marriage to Elia was just that a political alliance.  A bargain between the Crown and Dorne, that Elia would be the future Queen of the Seven Kingdoms by marrying Rhaegar, thus strengthening Dorne’s own political power within the realm and in return she would give Rhaegar as many MALE children as he needed (Usually at least 2) to assure the line of succession and cement the future of the kingdom.

This practice is colloquially referred to as “The Heir and The Spare”. The practice in essence is that the King or soon to be King needs not only a male heir to inherit his throne after he is dead but also a spare son in case something happens to the heir. Being as Westeros is a pseudo-medieval society, this practice is notably in place not just for the royal family but all the highborn Lords of the major houses.

 Elia gave him two children. A girl and a boy. One boy. After her son’s birth she was told that she could have no more children. So that leaves Rhaegar with an heir and no spare which he needed. So what’s a Prince to do? What every King, Prince, and  Highborn Noble has done since that dawn of time. Take a new wife. 

Would Dorne be salty about it? Probably. God knows Spain was salty about what Henry VIII did to Katherine of Aragon but thats the way the cookie crumbles. Elia was not able to fufill her end of the bargain that Dorne struck with the crown. So bargain null and void. Its a harsh reality but it is a reality and as long as Aegon remained in the line of succession I think they would have gotten over it. 

It was your last line that just pissed me off. Oh rhaegar deserves better does he? he brought everything on himself. he CHOSE to annul the marriage in secret. he CHOSE to be with Lyanna without telling anyone. I’m not saying he deserved to die but he did some pretty shitty things that had grave consequences. 

Your right he did bring alot of grief on himself. He made choices and he was not free from their consequences. When i say he deserved better I mean he deserved to be able to make the choice to love Lyanna and marry her. Now he’s not free from being held accountable for that, but he did not deserve to die and he does not deserve to be held accountable for the death of Elia and her children. That was entirely the Lannisters doing. However the fanbase vilifies him for it. The Martells clearly didn’t blame him for it or they would hate the Targaryens as much as the Lannisters. Which clearly they don’t given that they were trying to support a Targaryen restoration by putting first Viserys and then Daenerys back on the throne. 

He is not a victim. Elia is. she didn’t have a choice in anything. 

Ok this where you completely lose me. He was a victim, so was Elia, so was Lyanna, so was Brandon Stark, and Rickard Stark. So was basically everyone, some were less of a victim than others but still a victim of circumstance none the less. 

We don’t know if Elia had a choice or not. We’ve never even had any lines of dialogue from her pertaining or around the time of Robert’s Rebellion. That's what pisses me off, everyone assumes Elia was affronted and betrayed by Rhaegar’s choice. She could have just as easily been fine with it. WE DON”T KNOW HOW ELIA FELT ABOUT ANYTHING BECAUSE ELIA HAS NEVER BEEN GIVEN ANY DIALOGUE. So its easy for her to be painted as pure as a lily, naive and passive to what ever mean horndog Rhaegar forced her into. Because we know so little we try to fill in the gaps. Well she must be totally free of any decision that lead her to the position she found herself in. She must be this scorned woman who was left to be bullied by her Mad father in law after her heartless bastard of a husband left her for another woman and was then brutally murdered at behest of the Lannisters. Its easy to just say Elia was a victim which is I think mysognitic and bullshit. We don’t know, don’t assign characteristics to someone based on very little evidence. 

You kept going on about love and how Rhaegar deserved to be with the woman he loved but that’s not how this world works. Marriages are not built on love they are built on alliances. Rhaegar broke an alliance. this world has different rules than our own. but you know that cus your okay with Rhaegar being in love and impregnating a 15 year old. but having to be with Elia even tho he didn’t love her is worse to you? i just want justice for Elia. was that kind enough?

He did deserve to have love and happiness we all do unfortunately your right that’s not how this world works. Marriages for the high born were not built on love but alliance. (Arguable since the Targaryens spent hundreds of years intermarrying, if they were so worried about alliance, they would have stopped doing that when their dragons died out but that's a different post.). But your right and it was an alliance. An alliance that Rhaegar kept even after he met Lyanna and crowned her the Queen of Love and Beauty, signifying his interest in her. Still he stayed with Elia remained to our knowledge at least faithful to her.  Gave her another child even though he was probably in love with Lyanna at the time. It was after Aegon was born and Elia could no longer give him more sons that Rhaegar left her for Lyanna. So the alliance (bargain) as I stated before was already broken. 

I want justice for Elia as well. I just wish people would stop seeking it tearing down and blaming Rhaegar. You want justice for her?  Seek it from the people who deserve to pay for what happened to her. The Mountain. The Lannisters. Just as Doran and Oberyn do. 

[twinkubus]

so I read Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

short description if you haven’t heard of it: its written by a trans guy. a trans dude marxist prof finds manuscript that purports to be the accurate confessions of Jack Sheppard, 18th century thief, wherein it reveals that jack is Also a trans dude. the prof annotates it w some notes and also about whats happening in his life (being put on unpaid leave by evil capitalist dean, failed dates)

it uhhhhhhh left me with a lot of conflicting emotions. i also realised i haven’t really read any novel by a trans guy before which was like, i was like, is this what cis people feel when they’re reading about cis people?! i’ve been missing this so long?!

On one hand: i don’t even have words to describe how weirdly like, similar it was not only in ~Trans Experience~ but also in the similarity of Metaphors used that i also used for my own life, and it fucked me up in that sense. Like usually what surprises me w/ similarity in books is that it feels the author is siphoning things from my head and could peer into my brain. In this case what was surprising about the similarity is that it had somehow emerged from outside of me. Like just finding something completely extermal to me, that happened to match SO CLOSELY with my own experiences, was extremely fucked up and wack and I was astonished. And not only the Metaphors but the References to Foucault and Herculine Barbin and Derrida and that one fucking queer theory essay that talks about a “pussy” or w/e being “a loved point of entry”-- not that I agree and love every reference but just that Constantly i was being put upon by things that I knew and understood, and had also read. It was bizarre.

Also somewhat related to ^^^ is that in places it was almost Embarrassing, as in i was receiving extreme Secondhand Embarassment to be seeing these words and experiences being put out so plainly, and in the public eye, to the point where I almost don’t want to recommend it to people because the recommendation would be some sort of exposure of feelings better kept hidden. Tho that is the point of a book?! It had me very flustered.

The third part: both Jack and the prof are straight trans guys. In theory I am not really opposed to straight trans people calling themselves “queer” bc I really just, don’t care, I don’t have a stake in it, & it makes sense to me that ppl with non cis bodies would relate to a word that expresses that sort of thing, particularly in regard 2 their relationships. So to be clear, IDC, officially. ....In practice, though, it made me SORT OF UNCOMFORTABLE that these guys getting with women kept having their relationships and love be described as “queer.” Bc me as a gay was like, What Am I Then.... What’s OP consider me.....I think overall this is something that is just like, a personal insecurity on my part, because I doubt that OP would think I’m not ~actually~ gay. I also think it gets into an area thats really uhhhh....potentially rife for troubles. Because like: I think we can talk about how sometimes trans guys have history with and reason to relate to the ~(cis) lesbian community~ and how trans women have the same with the ~(cis) gay community~ but ALSO that history and relationship sometimes won’t be there, or will be broken off, and/or trans guys will feel comfortable with the (cis) ~Gays~ and same w trans women for the (cis) ~Lesbians~. And we can acknowledge BOTH of these experiences w/o making it so one invalidates the other. Like, trans people have a complicated relationship to dominant modes of gender!! Its literally stated right there in the “trans”!!!!

BUUUUUUUT, having said that, i ALSO have a problem when one narrative gets more attention with the other. So Im also kind of upset that the “straight trans person w ties to the gays of their aab  gender” is like the ONLY narrative that gets ANY sort of traction,like recently I read Joseph Cassara’s The House of Impossible Beauties which had the same thing w/ trans women and gays. And starting both of these I was like “Wow! Amazing how these trans books seem to have gotten a lot more attention than say, Casey Plett’s Little Fish!” And then I saw that both of them had the “straight trans people are Kinda Gay” perspective and was like “ohhhhhhhhhhh” bc you know cis people eat that shit up.

Anyway those are my #thots, i sort of want to rec it to the prof i had whos a socialist that i worked on medieval manuscripts and talked about foucault with bc i think he would find it entertaining but i also have the problem of,,,embarrassment lmfao. (thats another thing bc it has trans experience that is sometimes relateable and sometimes not and im always worried cis ppl will read it and be like “oh this is what trans ppl are LIke” and thus think thats what I am Like aaagh. maybe i’ll rec it to trans ppl only idk lmao!)

[jasperlion]

ummmm another question~ after five years when alm become a king, what changes noticeable in valentia? makes people go oh wow ok thats different

Once I have that thing written down of differences in ruling tactics its over for you fuckers—

Jokes aside, I think first and foremost the most notable thing in the rule of the first Rulers of Valentia would be the lack of Gods. Gods in Valentia were deeply entrenched in the political go-ons of the previously-split countries; they determined laws, calendars, dates of importance and could even decide who would rule next rather than follow a line of succession (the notable example here is Duma picking Rudolf over Rigel IV). The duty of the royalty was, in the end, to carry the Will of the Gods in their rule, reason why Rudolf would have to invade Zofia either way to keep Duma appeased instead of having the Dragon God decide ‘actually no, I’m picking someone else who will do what I say’.

And so, now, it is the people themselves who make all these choices, big choices previously thought to be the business of Gods alone. This is likely thought to be too big a task at first by man, and likely met with resistance from both Rigelian and Zofian courts (even if there is no Gods to turn to now).

Final Hurdle aside, it would lend itself to a lot more changes, most notable being: trade routes. Both countries relied for the most part on themselves, petitions for aid or trade were extremely rare. With trade routes suddenly opened to open the flow of goods as well as uniting marketing practices and prices, it would likely be one of the bigger differences between what was once Zofia & Rigel and is now Valentia. And with Celica having ties to Archanea now in the form of the Whitewings, a whole new difference would be Valentia opening up trade with the continent of Archanea, something unheard of during the Era of Gods (especially with Duma being so fucking pissed at Naga that his wholeass tower was built for the exclusive purpose of SPYING ON HER). It would mean that during the first few years the market would have to adjust to the sudden influx of goods as well as pricing differences from one country to the other (and then, later on, how to handle foreign trade), but after five years I figure the trade and market would have stabilized enough to be healthy and thriving.

Another notable change would likely be the unification of the Mila and Duma faiths, likely with Sage Halcyon helping Nomah on the Faithful end (especially since he was the previous head priest before Jedah’s ambitions overthrew him). I feel like religion would, also, suffer a blow to their power and influence in politics. The head priests used to help in defining the will of the gods to the royalty, and had a seat of power because of it — no gods, no seat of power. This might have even angered some nobility that hinged on family members being part of the clergy for their power and notoriety, and it would have likely caused enough malcontent to create minor civil disputes that would likely have to be slammed down by force.

Finally, and I say this because I have a lot more but I’m focusing on the Biggest Changes, would be the requirements to Enlist. As implied by Forsyth and Python’s dialogue from before they joined the Deliverance, Knighthood in both countries was restricted exclusively to nobles. With folks like Gray and Tobin joining the ranks of the Valentian Knights, the status within the ranks of the Knights would be toppled and started anew from scratch. This, also, would cause discontent among the nobility who used to have this all to themselves — something that could also likely end in fights. Five years later would see the rank of the Knights filled with folks from all backgrounds who wished to serve the King and Queen, something likely unheard of in most other countries at the time (after all, that’s what knighthood meant in medieval times, so its a pretty radical shift). The Valentian Knights might become an order more focused on meritocracy instead of aristocracy!

[permian-tropos]

TIME TO GUSH ABOUT TLJ cause I was looking through screenshots and here’s a bunch of things I might not have mentioned before and a few that I have

1) Paige Tico!!!! PAIGE TICO! her entire time in the spotlight is such a perfectly crafted, perfectly tense scene

2) UM THE OPENING SPACE BATTLE IS SICK the bombers have such striking silhouettes and this is used for some amazing shots

3) PAIGE’S DEATH BEING PRESENTED AS TRAGEDY (and not being softened heavily with the promise of being part of something meaningful the way R1′s deaths are) 

4) Captain Candy Crush’s death is given gravity too and I stan this, he’s not made sympathetic and still there’s nothing triumphant about people being blown up. war is not good

5) Finn’s pod is very flattering and angelic even though his water suit is silly. he basically has a halo and no filmmaker would accidentally give a character a halo so jot that down

6) Snoke’s throne room being utilitarian AND extravagant at the same time is impressive. also I still love the way that Snoke’s real form was made to be this exaggeratedly WASPy old man with the skin texture and wrinkles and pale tufty eyebrow hair, and you know what else? the fact that the camera favors showing the undamaged side of his face. I fucking stan the fact that Johnson took another disfigured villain and played up his old caucasian grandpa looks and made his disfigurement blend into his age. Snoke is a caricature of horrid old white men, possibly the first successful caricature of whiteness in speculative fiction. he looks like Henry Kissinger

7) Kylo Ren’s bandaid has a pattern on it. we ask ourselves. why. did he get to pick out the pattern. are there multiple patterns. are they all edgy and black. I’m now completely invested in whoever decided that they would have patterned bandaids but not make them TOO fun

8) the movie is so pretty im just. the fuckign. aesthetic. all of it. the palette seems to have been taken from a thunderstorm and it’s perfect. the use of gray is a reason I happen to think people didn’t like the film. they were like what the fuck is all this gray in star wars. star wars shouldn’t be gray. but it’s so unique, it’s not the gray of lazy color grading, it’s the gray of someone who knew that the feeling of haze and uncertainty needed some gray and rolled it in like a fog. I’m going to have to post more screenshots

9) I like the fact that the puppet porgs, as opposed to the CGI porgs, are actually kinda ugly cute

10) everything mark hamill does is perfect. every line, every facial expression, every pose. every moment from luke in tlj is unbelievably iconic. alec guinness would be so jealous 

11) Luke perking up and genuinely smiling when he sees R2D2 is the purest moment I have to just 

my eyes are moist

12) the architecture and set design is so amazing too? I love this shot introducing Rose, the harsh contrast that draws your eye away from her, the way she’s fading into her corner of brownish-gray, it’s so good for evoking... idk, just how the world seems too bright and too stark and made of shapes, after someone you love dies

13) I really love how much time we spend on Ahch-To, and how none of it has any campy space action. you’d expect to see some training there, but a lot of people were clearly hoping that Luke and Rey would leave the planet. but we linger so much on the setting, a setting which wholly embodies Luke’s state of mind

14) old luke is a handsome gent. i don’t see enough people with the hots for old luke. this is a big mistake

15) this shot foreshadows Kylo Ren becoming the Supreme Leader IMO. we see him surveying the war machine, watching the instruments of death be constructed, set apart from everyone -- a glimpse into Kylo’s desire for absolute power without anything being direct. maybe he’s contemplating his isolated existence, how much he doesn’t belong in the Order. or maybe he sees an allure to all this. this is what he wants to possess. it’s probably a mixture of both

16) Rey and Luke!!!!!!! everything about how the film frames them develops their relationship!! even as Luke is testy with her, we get shots like these where they’re sharing a warm sunset light and having deep heart to hearts. 

and you know what you know what what what

the fact that Rey starts asking WHO her parents are after meeting Luke is uhh clearly suggesting that she’s wondering if maybe Luke is her dad. I love in this one shot how he’s slumped and she’s sitting up straighter, making him the vulnerable one. I love how the sunset light highlights Rey’s buns. I love that she keeps her buns for a while. I love that people have headcanoned she kept the buns so that her parents would recognize her, and she has the buns in the whole time she’s trying to get Luke to act like the hero she believes in. like she’s trying to get him to recognize her

Rey adopts Luke as her dad and it’s beautiful get out of my face

17) ye there’s a lot of dead children but also I hadn’t really thought about the fact that R2 watched this as well? and R2 was powered off for so long, until the end of TFA? R2 was traumatized and grieving too, and he’s seen this before, he remembers all the way back to when it was Anakin

18) hors!!!!!!!

19) what the SHIT is this why is this movie a fucking painting why does it keep outdoing itself in paintingness argh the way this film uses the day-night cycle is unbelievable, having Rey and Finn’s stories be connected by having the same time

THE HCKING MOON THOUGH 

20) Ok we could talk about how the cold blue moonlight of uncertainty has become the warm orange light of companionship but we can’t forget what firelight also represents re: Kylo cough burning temple nice little double meaning, is Rey making a new friend or is she being tempted, is he going to warm her or burn her

but also I haven’t thought about how fucking awkward Kylo looks!! is he sitting on that barrel?? like since he’s not there is he just sort of compositing himself into the scene? using a convenient barrel

21) see what I mean about blue being cold. blue = asceticism, red = indulgence, the two extremes 

22) Luke sinks into darkness

23) BUT HE DOES ONE THING! the thing that breaks him out of his depression. he takes the fire -- which represents the burned temple, represents Ben Solo, represents the humanity of the Dark Side -- into his own hands. we see the fire symbolizing destruction, then intimacy, then change, in such short succession

fire represents light-dark, something that is both at once. we’ll get back to this

24) you could say that balance is about making your own light in the darkness

also this is why Poe’s line about being the spark that will burn the First Order down isn’t ~too violent~ cause fire has become a symbol of change, of destruction reclaimed as something restorative, thank you very much 

25) can we talk about the fact that between this being like a coffin and the way Rey is holding the saber, this actually has the heaviest resemblance to the way medieval knights were depicted atop their sarcophagi. I don’t even know what it means but maybe it hints that Rey sees herself as a martyr and a crusader in this quest to redeem Kylo and prove her valor

26) the fact that Poe isn’t the only one who gets in on the coup. because the Resistance isn’t a real military it’s a few thousand antifas gathered from all around the galaxy and their numbers are dwindling fast. people kind of put it all on Poe but Connix and Finn and Rose and this woman and this man and this alien were part of it too, and they could have told Poe to cut it out. I like how the blonde woman seems like she’s not sure what’s going on, she’s evaluating the situation 

27) you know what I stan? I continue to stan aspects of how Snoke is portrayed. I stan the fact that he gets all close up in Rey’s face and grabs her cheek and it kind of mirrors the way Kylo gets in her personal space in TFA but even less so than in TFA, Rey is not framed in the way girls often are when they’re restrained and in distress. when she’s being tortured, we’re not given any tantalizing views of her body. Snoke floating her around the room has her stiff and awkward, and the close-up of her screaming in pain puts the camera behind her head so we see this from her POV, we’re not voyeuristically staring at her, we’re experiencing this indignity with her

28) Kylo Ren killing Snoke has the exact same light on his face as when he killed Han Solo. this is very very interesting

here I am in my corner of Kylo having twisted affection for Snoke as well

29) I wish I could ship this more cause I don’t need all this talk of fairy tale weddings and force pregnancies when here they are slicing up lobster boys with laser swords

30) oh but this is where he makes Rey look sad and thats where!!! you know hes gonna have to pay!!! basically everything about the scene where Kylo tears Rey’s heart out and stomps on it and then asks her to be grateful is extremely well done and it did its intended job of making me Big Mad At Kylo 

also look the fire is back its Symbolic

31) you know what I can’t show in this post? the FUCKING SOUND THAT COMES AFTER THE HYPERSPEED RAM. that sound is the most glorious sound I’ve heard come out of a movie. it’s like a massive metal whale’s death scream. Star Wars has always run on sound design but literally that sound (along with the scene it’s attached to) outdoes everything that has come before it holy wow

32) Finn WHACKING Phasma. he didn’t use a lightsaber in this film, but he uses the baton he picked up the same way he used the lightsaber, and it even glows blue for good measure. and we can’t forget that this movie shows a boy holding a broom like a lightsaber, and Rey practicing saberplay with her staff, so -- objects that are not lightsabers symbolizing lightsabers is a thing 

33) I didn’t think about the fact that the Supreme Leader’s throne room is designed to display a view of the outside, or be cloaked in red. possibly it could display anything it pleases. this is great fun for imagining First Order characters making it display things they want to see, like beautiful vistas, or holofilms. possibly it can recreate whole scenes, like a Star Trek holodeck

34) I don’t have to talk about how Leia is framed by the dawn on Crait do I? we already got the picture when it comes to the day-night cycle and how beautiful it is

35) BABY 8 I can’t believe this droid gets belly scritches and nuzzles from Poe

36) fucking love when Kylo finally snaps and starts throwing petty tantrums again at the end of the film like he holds back his brattiness for 12 hours and then here comes the screaming and foot stamping and flailing

I have thrown too many temper tantrums in my life to not want to see one on the big screen in its full glory. no one has pushed him to the point where he’s just ugly crying on the floor, spewing snot and tearing at his hair

I got vicarious pleasure out of Poe’s outburst on the bridge too. people being angry and not being in the right. it’s something I need for catharsis

37) miniaturized Death Star technology aka BIGGEST LIGHTSABER. Kylo stop compensating

but AU where a ginormous person uses the cannon as an actual saber

38) I’VE TALKED ABOUT HOW FINN’S MOMENT IS IN MY TOP TWO FEELS MOMENTS (top one is the hyperslice) but basically if you don’t think he was affected by seeing the slave kids on Canto Bight, what do you think he’s so angry about here, what do you think has him in a blinding rage?

why do movies have to spell everything out for people in exhaustive detail? the only new thing Finn gets from his experience with Rose, is seeing how the First Order isn’t this isolated enclave of evil. the most powerful people in the galaxy have been supporting it all along. he stops trying to run away because he realizes there is nowhere he can run that won’t have injustice. and he’s seen villagers being massacred, he’s seen the Order attack people he cares about, he’s been personally threatened and had one-on-one duels, but on his trip with Rose he sees children being beaten into submission with electric whips

can’t believe people think Finn wasn’t affected by that when it’s the one thing motivating his character growth

every time he sees civilians getting hurt -- children and families -- he sees himself and the family he’ll never know in them, and is so overwhelmed that he does something brash and radical and self-endangering every time, and his arc is about learning to live with that anger. he runs away from feeling and his angst is so beautiful

and I’m still in the camp of Finn having had a Zuko-like arc when he was a teenager because that boiling frustration at not being able to express his natural empathy is what drove Zuko to angst so hard

FINN IS THE SOLIDARITY KING! HE CARES SO FUCKING MUCH 

39) fire. Luke facing his demons involves him walking through a gate of flame, out of the darkness, into the light

I will say that this is also very Buddhist imagery -- the flaming sword symbolizes wisdom, which cuts through the veil of illusion, specifically the illusion of duality

“Mañjuśrī is depicted as a male bodhisattva wielding a flaming sword in his right hand, representing the realization of transcendent wisdom which cuts down ignorance and duality”

and of course fire being the bridge between light and dark has come up before in the film. the veil is visibly burning here, Luke having fully reclaimed the image of fire, which was earlier in the film held by Kylo Ren 

I mean. just. YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

40) something about this shot is extra special. everything that’s going on on the salt flats is like on this higher dimension, this spiritual plane 

41) for a moment it looks like Luke and the First Order are standing against Kylo. gives you a glimpse into Kylo’s state of mind. is the Order his weapon, or his enemy? it’s both, and he’s absolutely terrified of it

also I’ve talked about how Palpatine’s Contingency plan is about getting revenge on his Empire because he hates its power as much as he revels in it, and he dedicates a good deal of time plotting ways to kill it, because he needs to prove that he is more powerful than it

being the Emperor or Supreme Leader carries with it the distinct horror of knowing that you can never be more powerful than the thing that has empowered you

42) 

43) Luke achieving 100% maximum Buddhist allegory

44) the slope of the floor is the slope of the opening crawl of a Star Wars film 

all right that’s all folks

[bellismaperry]

YOUNG GOD {Loki One Shot}

HII GUYYSSS, so this is my first One shot ever!! its short I know and I may have some grammatical errors but thats because english its not my first language too plsssss work with me, IM STILL LEARNING. but I hope you guys like it!!  pls send me some feed back I would love to know you if you guys like it or not!! For the next one I promise it would be longer!! bye!!! love guys lots!! 

Warnings: cursing

Word count : 1,096

Vera’s POV.

 Never thought in a million years, I would be millions of galaxies away from home, sitting in a throne with a crown in my head and beautiful man looking at me with love and desire ,like if I was the last beautiful thing on the universe. My way of seeing things changed when I met him. He looked everything with a different sight and state of mind, It was like I was starting to learn how to live all over again.

 I remember the day I met him, I was lonely and sad with my self, everything I touched died and everything I loved hated me. I was in the edged of falling and giving up with my self.I was sitting on a park bench in central park, when a tall, lean , green eye man sat next to me. With no explanation at it all, he just sat and look up at the sky like looking for an answers or something. I didn’t know of course, I just knew about his existence a seconds ago. But now that I know, it was like it was planned to for us to meet each other, you may say faith it was what brought us together. But in reality it was destiny, he was meant to me and I to him.

 A minutes passed and he was still looking at the sky , by this point I was amazed of  how in the world his neck didn’t hurt from looking up all this time, but other than that it didn’t bother me it all, the light from the moon and starts would light up his face making it look flawless with no imperfection it all.

 After basically eye raping him, I decided to have courage and talk to him. I go and sit side ways and slight tap him in the shoulder. “hi?, Are you ok there buddy?” I say nervous of course, its not everyday you see a walking master piece. He takes a deep breath closes his eyes and ignores me like I was some trash laying there. I bite my lips and shake my head, by this time my head already label him as an asshole. But there was something in my heart that told me to keep going until he responded.

 “you know its rude as hell to sit next to a person in bench that its very noticeable its taken and not respond when talk to’’ I say crossing my arms against my chest. See this my problem with me, my temper gets a hold of me and fucks shit up. But with him turn it for the better.

He still didn’t respond; by this time I was ready to slap his perfect face. “you are still not going to respond aren’t you? Are you deaf or something?” I snap at him. And this time I did get a reaction, and a big one.

 “Woman you don’t know what you just got your self into” he says with a strange thick accent as he finally looks down and gives me the most deadly glare I've seen. I stand up from the bench and face him. “ oh really? Try me” just when he was to answer me an alarm goes of in the park, lights are all over the park, people shouting, it was straight out of a movie.  “what’s going on?” I yell over the noises. And I tell you, If I knew what was going on I would have ran for my dear life in a second, but I’m glad as hell I didn’t.

 lets remember I still don’t know who he was or even know his name and yet I let him grab me by my arm and pull me over to his chest. just in seconds my whole vision went black leaving me in pure bliss. When I woke up I remembered looking at my surroundings and not believing what I was seeing. The place gold and orange colors a little futuristic and medieval in a mix. I look to my right and see him standing in all his glory looking at the far. “ Where Am I?” I whisper he looks at me and gives me a devilish smile. “Asgard” he responds as he bents down to my level. “Asgard?” I say to my self in confusion. I never heard of Asgard until he said it, and man what I was missing out all this time.

 “yes, it’s the best kingdom of all the nine realms” he says with light in his eyes and a smile in his face.”really?” I respond with a smile, its not everyday your basically kidnap by some hot ass balls man and takes you to a place that is basically brought out of a story book.

 He shakes his head starts laughing “ Of course not!, were only were cause this only place where I wont get killed!” he says laughing. “ You people of Midgard are still so stupid” I looked at him at shock. In my mind the only thing that was circling  around was. ‘what the hell I just got myself into’.

 I stand up from the ground and I push him to the ground making him fall over to his back. “ why did you took me!” I yell to him. He looks at me and laughs again. I stare at him with confusion. “oh please don’t act like you didn’t want me to take you with me, you were basically asking for it” he says. I shake my head “You only spoke one sentence! And it was to warn me! How in the hell , you conclude that me a woman who you just met, well not met cause we bery can count what you said to me as talking, wanted to go with you?! Is this a freaking prank or something? Cause you must be fucking joking” he stares at me for a solid minute before answering to me. “ it was all over your aura, sadness, death , depression , it was all disgusting. We both know you wanted to go to a place your people call heaven and I can tell you it won’t be tonight or soon”

 And just with that he destroyed my walls down. Sense that day I was never the same. And practically ignored the fact that the whole time we were in the park, he was wearing a strange leather and green thing with a specter in his hands, and just because of that I knew it was destiny for us to meet.. 

[fluerfanee-blog]

Reaper, Sombra, Window

A  LA  MORT  ::

—  how often do i play them  ?  ::

NOT VERY. i play overwatch on the PS4 and, honestly, i’m too lazy to pull up my career stats, but i know reaper is under three hours, and that’s mostly from when my dad had him as his main.

— which maps do i like to use them on ? ::

ldkjsffkdl NONE ! i’m a tracer main and reaper is .  .  .  so slow. but if i have to choose, anubis and lijang tower c: 

— which skin do i currently have equipped ? ::

plague ? plague bringer ? gosh idk what it’s called and i honestly dont wanna look ‘cause it’s like.… . 11 : 30 on a saturday and i am . .. so so tired dlkfj but… ..  the.. the one with the green smoke n’ medieval doctor mask n shiz haha.

— who do i ship them with ? ::

don’t be surprised when i say widowmaker hah,, uMM there are more but I’m not… huge on reaper so i cant name them off the top of my head??, gabe x jack bUT LIKE… tbh i dont ship r76 bc I’m a SLUT for revenge but liKE ALSO GABRIEL HAVING DATED JACK plus like,,,, lost relationships and i just sdklajhfg,,,, obviously i love gay erasure ksak

—  how often do i play them  ?  ::

uhh.  .… . i mean, as a tracer main - ( dont bully me i know i talk about tracer a lot i just love her and want her to marry me ??  ) - i really,,, LOVE playing sombra ?? and i play her when i can / when I’m not too dead set on winning but like,, when i wanna play her someone locks in as her and :,//

— which maps do i like to use them on ? ::

all the lijang maps, dorado, anubis, nepal !!

— which skin do i currently have equipped ? ::

I AM GAY FOR HER LOS MUERTOS SKIN!!!! SLKDJHGKL ims o in lvoe i just.. ..    gorgeous gorgeous girl i love her na d  i    sjdfhgjsahkjlasJHGFDH WHEN she came out ibought both her legendary skins bc i lobe her love her i love her so muCH i even had a sombra blog BEFORE SHE CAME OUT BC I LJSUYTSFGHJDAKJ!!!!! QAHGHAAHHHH

— who do i ship them with ? ::

symmetra, d.va, widow.. , ,, uhh ? thats it I’m uh,, i tried to spare you the rambles w/ sombra bc you have a storm coming for widow lksdjh

—  how often do i play them  ?  ::

37 or 38 hours BUT she was my second main !! i suck at aiming now since i stopped playing her as much but I’m picking her up again, ‘cause the only way to get better is to practice, yeah ?

— which maps do i like to use them on ? ::

eichenwalde and hollywood are my favorites on both defense and offense but hanamura defense is always fun !!! anywhere i can fite and easily have places to grapple away too bc being widow makes you an easy and tiny target and you cant get your health back sl;kdjf

— which skin do i currently have equipped ? ::

the swan one bc i LOVE her and I’m need it and laskjdhfgsjgkah!!! she’s so beautiful and graceful…… m’lov… also ?? amélie ballet dancing being canon is my reason for living i mEAN WOULDNT IT BE SO BEAUTIFUL ?? 

— who do i ship them with ? ::

AHHH !! symmetra, sombra, mercy, reaper, mccree, even zenny at times !! used to ship her with tracer but also idk I’m a little skeptical abt that ship now but also Alive was the gayest thing i have EVER seen ?? like what the fuck ? hlksdjfh… and widowsymm is GREAT ok like.  . they’re the couple that goes to a restaurant and share gossip and its so good..  … and WIDOWMERCY JPOAKJHSGDJFJ!!!!!! iLOV widowcree also ?? uh,, coughs,,,

MCCREE BLOGS SHIP WITH ME..  . .  .

[ofcowardiceandkings]

okay since i said i was gonna ages ago and a few people asked anyway and i need a distraction really fuckin bad right nowww im finally gonna post my notes on making the artwork for the fairytale metaphor - tjlc advent videoooooo ,, 

Very Excuse Me for being a dork in advance lksdjksdjfdkls

scroll to the bottom for my Fave Bit its cute promise

heres some waffle first;

the general style of early english stained glass which i love [yells] ye get attached to weird shit when you write your coursework on the evolution of churches in england fnjdksjf ( you can read it here if youre interested in this kind of mess , be warned its 43 pages long and just over 11k words but my own work beyond the context essay is new research) --- anyway its an easily simplified style of framing at its most basic level since it was all very practical up to a point the mash of norman + saxon stylings are pretty simple and sturdy - the british isles were late to the gothic architecture party which is why early english gothic is very distinct --- in terms of stained glass the british isles were VERY late to the party and windows stayed very basic right into the gothic period when the full package of technologies arrived completed in the 12th century and only took a generation to make it from cathedrals into parish churches --- as is pretty much the point of my coursework the two can exist perfectly together anyway !! the vast majority of christian buildings in the uk contain several phases where newfangled extensions and fashions are chucked in to make the best of your little local church and a lot of the earliest cathedrals are full of stained glass now , id say this set mostly follows the impression we get of old sarum cathedral (now salisbury they literally just moved the site from the hill to the town) and if you have a chance to visit PLEASE do :’) the museum opposite is amazing too fyi

I REALLY ENJOYED MAKING THE FONT !!!!!! i couldnt find one i liked enough that was free so i just .. made one lmao GO HARD its an odd mash of studies from the lindisfarne gospels with later medieval documents i photographed for a project and saxon writing / “celtic” fonts, and studies of full manuscripts

the illuminated letters are mostly based on lindisfarne again (xcuse me i love it)  they just ended up coming out far more saxon / northern early christian than the rest of the text but i fully blame that on the context of my archaeology course being run by a catholic geordie who specialised in the dark ages who took us TO holy island lmao

the chainmail tabard combo is all very crusader-ish but its very archetypal of the knights of the era so fuck it, its historically what WOULD have appeared on stained glass anyway [shrug]

i had the hardest gd time figuring out what colour to put sherlock in like so i Create Anew or recreate his clothes ,, purple is wildly historically inaccurate this is my One Thing leave me be i think the purple suits him lmfao

kicks ya door down mAGPIE DRAGON !!!!! which was VERY FUCKING HARD TO FIGURE since its kind of at odds with what your medieval monks bestiaries made dragons look like i wanna know what the fuck they were up to making those things jesus

jus by the by its also very hard to make animals look like andrew scott i can pull that off for ben and martin without too much trouble but HOOO BOY ANDREW ur cute face is difficult lol

thats the tower of london in the background there it was the only (vaguely) relevant landmark that would have been around about that time-frame fjjfjksjf WOW @ SELF why did london have to like .. burn down lol, fuckin wood

the castle behind the moriarty dragon is vaguely styled in a similar fashion to the original tower structure but theres a dragon in the way

while we’re in this realm the background on sir-boast-a-lot is a wing-it affair based on what we kinda knew about medieval town houses with cobble streets and what your average parish church looked like but mostly i love the beam and whitewash structures put me in a bin

anyway

i kinda dressed john up a little more like an archer than full on crusader ?? archer john is life so, using a longbow is also something all boys were legally required to learn for the longest time so its not even out there, i still dont know many people who havent learned how to use a bow and a few people own them too lmfao the countryside is a parody of itself

oKAY THIS IS FUN the navy/yellow stripes and the blue chevron on white are simplified versions of the usual holmes and watson coat of arms’ respectively 8)  these are what 4crests (arms archive) puked out on them both;

theyre so similar in colour its cute !!!!!!

I LOV THAT !!!!!! 

for the sake of not making them clash i made sherlocks blue more navy though its the aesthetique and took out the moons and birbs on johns because Hey Thats Clutter 

i spend way too long on this stuff lmfao

if you made it to the end you deserve a hug and a milkshake thanku 💙