#the navigator’s children

[codenameantarctica]

Someone‘s here early

Official release is on the 12th but the company I ordered it with sent in out early 😱🤩

[mumblesplash]

if i’m being honest everything i can remember getting in trouble for saying as a child ended up being entirely justified and correct. they (every adult) hated me because i spoke the truth

[nyxi-pixie]

alicents finger picking habit is so dear to me because she so desperately tries to stop it. its unbecoming for someone of her station, it reflects poorly on her, its the kind of thing you ought to leave behind in childhood. and she can stop for a time, but she never quite breaks it. its one of two habits of girlhood she never manages to shake

[crown-and-stallion]

The Hounds of Nakkiga

Jarnulf and Salt are in a bit of trouble, but i'm sure they'll be just fine! Not an actual scene from any of the books, but I got this image in my head and just had to draw it.

I feel like I should have made the background a little darker, the hounds aren't quite luminous enough for my liking.

[thatskylynn]

light whisperer my beloved im glad you appeared in the event <3

also silly interaction w them and navi

[sarafangirlart]

Idk why some Mouthwashing fans want Anya to keep her baby when it’s clear she didn’t want it.

If you want a victim of abuse who kept her child, raised them and had a happy ending, Danaë from Greek mythology is right there.

[creatureprofessor]

For day 5 of @terroryuriweek - alternate universe

(click for better quality!)

Portrait of arcane navigator Le Vesconte and saint-guided navigator Fitzjames, who were assigned as core navigators for the expedition tasked with mapping out the spatial anomaly known as the "Northwest Passage". Taken in 845 A.C. near the skyport of New Greenhithe, colorized.

More about them and this AU under readmore:

This is the Skyship Navigators or simply Navigators AU, which exists in a universe I created a couple years ago, and just plonked the Terror guys as women in there. Actually, there are 2 stories taking place in this world before this AU which have nothing to do w The Terror, but more on those at another time.

In a nutshell, this universe is somewhat similar to our Earth, yet the rules of magic, science and such are different. No machine more advanced than a steam engine can really exist in there; at least, not in a large scale because of Anomalies.

Centuries ago, an event called the Seven Days of Calamity happened, which then made advanced machinery unusable, and caused pocket disturbances all over the planet (think of the book Roadside Picnic or the Divine Cities trilogy). These Anomalies vary in shape, size and abilities, but they essentially made land travel very risky and travel by sea nearly impossible. This is why humanity uses skyships for trade and travel, and the role of navigators has changed as well.

Because in the aftermath of the Calamity, new powers entered the picture: the fae, the arcane and saints which each existed before, but on a much more obscure scale. Also, there is no Christianity or Catholicism here they way it is in our world, it all works differently as the saints don't pray to God to grant miracles or to save someone, they themselves help their navigator.

There are 4 types of navigators: the Faeguided, arcane navigators (commonly known as ‘conduits’), saint-guided navigators (c.k. as ‘vessels’) and the Comedians, a rogue faction relying on lost then unearthed knowledge. Their job is to ensure the ship takes a safe route through the sky, with some help.

For brevity’s sake, arcane navigation relies on harnessing arcane magic to find safe paths, but it is highly addictive, and prolonged usage will lead to loss of sensation in the limbs and then to gradual paralysis. This can be mitigated by using arcane yet again to regain feeling, but this will make it all worse in the long run. But it’s the most powerful navigation type, as a conduit can also protect the ship itself from outside damage by conjuring shields.

Saint-guided navigators, as the name suggests, rely on the guidance and protection of their patron saint, each navigator having one. It is the “safest bet” of navigation, and the most prestigious. The Aerial Admiralty, who issues out navigators and deals with their training prefers it over the others.

Now for Dundy and Fitzjames:

Henriette Tamsin Dundas Le Vesconte (or Dundy to her friend(s)) is a middle-grade, but competent and reliable arcane navigator, assigned to be the core navigator on HMS Erebus alongside Fitzjames, with HMS Terror having saint-guided navigators Garnet Gore (originally from Erebus, a last-minute change) and Johanna Irving. Dundy is easy-going and easy to like, yet under the surface she can be quite headstrong and selfish, and can sometimes treat people with elegantly disguised impatience. She and Fitzjames have known each other since their early days at the Admiralty, had a thing back then, split while remaining the best of friends, but still land in each other’s arms from time to time.

Now, “She Who Lights the Way”, James or Jamie Fitzjames (she uses both) is the poster child of the Admiralty, the ideal saint-guided navigator. Her patron saint is Saint James the Unblemished (partly why she decided to stick w James), whose jawbone she keeps sealed inside a compartment in her helmet (many vessels do this with relics). Normally, a prolonged patronage of a saint leads to the loss of individual identity, hallucinations and dissociation, but so far James remained largely unaffected. Graceful, decisive and brave, she is often first in line to protect the ship and has been employed on warships before, earning a gilded reputation. However, she keeps her past battle injuries a secret and her presence can be somewhat of an annoyance with her seemingly endless anecdotes. She never said it out loud, but losing Dundy would be a great tragedy for her, as she remains her best, and perhaps only friend.

But much will change during the course of that fateful expedition…

[catofaurora]

The TS comes like

[violentlyexplosive]

it's always so funny to me when i get a new follower and they have shit like "proship DNI!!11!1!1" in their bio or pinned post. like brother my blog is not a safe space for you (neither is the entirety of the real world, but I don't think you people are ready for that conversation. on account of being probably 12 years old. cus that's what you're acting like.)

"censorship is bad" should not be a radical take in the year 2024. stop trying to sanitise the internet into some uber-puritan, ultra-virtuous, squeaky clean space. like what are you, catholic? i beg of you- grow up.

[squarecubetesseract]

Playing sky is crazy coz why does it feel like I know my way around a fictional world better than where I have lived my whole life

[sandwormrp]

Watch Party: Children of Dune

Here's a transcript of the nonsense we were discussing while watching Episode 1 of Children of Dune. It was a lot of fun. We'll be doing it all again in 2 weeks for the next episode!

Enjoy!

Yeah, these are the events of Messiah, then Children afterward So you're watching Dune Part Three, essentially

Somewhat nun-like robes on the attendants with Alia

There are always old folks grouching about how the young people behave

paul makes the mistake of reading the comment section

I'd be freaking out too if my unborn child was harassing me through time and space already

'dad can i have a grilled cheese' 'dad' … 'dAD'

Omg is this a corrino

Yes

I can tell, they don't fall far from the tree do they

I love Wencicia's team rocket villain vibe. (1) very villain (2) not in a million years gonna get that pikachu

'whatever the need, we have the breed' i wonder who came up with that slogan

I'll stop looking at it, see if that helps

oh no i was pronouncing it ghoula gowla

I def prefer "cha-knee" over "chain-ee"

It's gif not jif!

Frank Herbert himself had some interesting ideas about how to proncounce the words and names he used.

WOAH LOOKAT THAT HAT

Jawbone hat

Ribbed for muad'dib

Makes a convenient backscratcher too

Son, put your shirt on, seriously

Can't rn future son wants a caprisun

Imagine trying to manage all these goobers AND Alia too

Is this a Corrino I see before me? Its handle t'ward my hand?

You know irulan is scrawling down scathing things

'aliaa sucksss'

Alia's blog is peak bitchy Irulan hate-reads Alia's blog posts

In the book, Irulan actually makes the cuckolding threat right to Paul himself. It's an interesting exchange.

'cuckhold him all you like; this LINE

Don't mind me, just sweeping up the shattered Bechdel test …

that child is like 6 years old, what do you mean its his turn

TO BATTLE CHILD

wendy !!! wendy what about parental love!!!

Caw caw motherfucker

the caws add to the dramatics

And there's someone with his shirt off already Look on the bright side, he could be a child in House of the Dragon

Ghoul - Ghola Golem - Ghola

I always though GO-la Yeah, he's a fuckin' Go-la, mate

man mad that ruler of the universe does not come around for tea anymore

Yeah what gives He used to write me poems and stuff Ghosted by the Emperor

Get darted, buddy

Music player: I didn't see shit

above her paygrade when you ban your grandma from your planet

I liked how in the book they go into how Scytale has an ethic as an assassin where he always gives his target a chance to escape & genuinely feels bad in a compartmentalized way

MY HOUSE, MY RULES NOW GRANMA

Sassy-ass seating pose Chill out Paul

He's a thing to look at

Definitely kind of a mermaid look with the legs bonded together

he lookslike the neomodians (not spelling that right) from star wars and paul looks like neil patrick harris

Hayt from the book had metallic eyes, too, pretty cool

"He's also trained as a sex toy, sire"

'cool eyes' is suuuch a fun element to a story and we're 0/2 so far with implementation

irulan is slayinggg

I love her dramatic cage Dangit the secret language will stay secret

Oh its cool to see the training things in action. I imagined them different from the books description

Oh theres the naked

Wha— is that his sister or chain

That's his sister.

oh well that's awkward

Frank would be pleased

i like how they're keeping with the same music throughout the entire thing

oh they're speeding through this book

Ah yes, the spitting disease, of course The disease that makes you spit

Paul: pls see a doctor

are we not concerned by that wording

"empty me as your will"

Bijaz is to Dune Messiah as Mushroom is to Fire & Blood kinda

thomas the train engine crashes through a wall

"paul what are you doing in the road" "getting hit by a car like I had a vision I would? was I supposed to just not go in the road"

Irulan: I was here first

something chani would never say from denis version but book accurate right

Movie chani would be going in there SWINGING

yeah this version is very sweet

Lady I'm just playing with my balls, you came to talk to me

i feel speaking in italics

The vibes, Alia. I feel the vibes.

Alia displaying her red flags

"I can handle it-" cuts to spider curled on the floor

oh her silly hat is great

i adore her silly hats

Best silly hat

Imagine her bird flying into that accidentally Cute lil ship Is it from Naboo?

CALADAAAAN

Jessicaaa Jessica!!! jessica!!!

Let her vacation in peace away from her wretched children

so obviously green screen

The greenest of screens

they live in a cool screensaver

They live in a scene from that Encarta digital encyclopedia

oh but i love it, its so camp

Son being the original troll lmfaoo

Lemme get drunk on you instead

Glad I'm not the only one seeing that hahaha

ooh i like his black eyes

aww look at his lil mermaid outfit I bet they did that for the lols

He looks like a harpy

Fingerprint wall goes hard

It really does, I love that Smacking the glass LMFAO BAD FISH smack

i think i am in love with her

Book Edric did get bullied quite a bit, lol

He really did

plans within planss. i think it was said in the denis version too. is it repeated in the books a lot?

A couple times if I remember right

that's a neat sandworm

Lol the teeth

Imagine trying to get a tooth from that

somethin out of the thing

Worm dentists must get paid pretty well

couldntitjustdigdown

Now to their credit, those grapple things were actual props there

Didn't we learn anything from jurrassic park

Not for around 10 movies now

"dw I'll just go lie to her again about having eternity"

"Hey babe, about that eternity? Turns out the store is all out of it. Sold out completely." “People are panic-buying eternity."

what made his eyes go black? i mightve missed that

The 'stone burner' weapon

He won a small person and got blown up

The conspirators used an atomic-type weapon, but Paul was on the edge of it and his eyes were burned out.

Even though the conspirators knew exactly what house Paul was going to.

Oh that isn't terrifying

the warcrys hmm hmm hmm hmm

two bros in the same tank

five feet apart

Jar buddies!

hallucination: hmm hmm hmm hmm

Same tank, like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito

getting into fremen music would be so neat

when paul first came in like "i stepped in a puddle" i was like: this is the dumbest thing you can say until I remembered arrakis

maybe a wandering kind of tune? like you could try to guess the next note but be wrong every time

Hahahaha guess which planet Semuta comes from

See that statement, "What do you see with those eyes" is a little less impactful when his eyes are just normal juicy eyeballs

Alia: dibs on the robodick

I do like how the blue eyes glow in response to spice (even if they're Wrong)

The eyes of Ibad

Paul is very zen considering Irulan was practically poisoning Chani to get rid of the baby

maybe the standards are different when you've killed 1004494949 trillion people

OH THEY KISS

Paul this ain't going to make things easier?

The dramaaaa

A much more modest kiss thank goodness Oh I forgot about this

that looks uncomfortable

why is he doing that with his hips

With his pants on no less

sounded like a fight

Walking the dude out into the street still full-mast

That shot looks pretty good! Her on the cliff looking out Not bad for 2000's

yeah and "i am a desert creature, I know when to hide"

I love that they include their lil chat from the books Love how everyone is telling duncan he's scared

why she sound like that

LMFAO gma still in her cage

we should use cages more on sandworm we don't use cages enough

Hm mm Increase cages, noted

Ones with just a table and a lil chair

oh they put his pants on!

lol dramatic face shots of him to her birth

that's nice of them

This music is not quite tonally there…

Scared they were gonna show us his nakedness then Thank god hes wearing pants now, which poor guard had to do that?

Is this really the music we want for murdering attempted assassins and painful childbirth?

omg no fishy boy

The guard "Hey man, I don't like this any more than you do"

oh a TOMB, that is rough buddy

He's getting Mummy'd (as in the movie with Brendan Frasier)

Paul remembers it from his ancestral memory

The black eyes and him tipping his head while shes having birth is a little much lmao. its like if feyd was watching someone give birth

That was Mohiam getting killed, btw

man there is a LOT HAPPENING

A rather ignominious end

bye chani

Those babies shot outta there like rockets, My Lord

Midwives waiting with catchers' mitts

never saw children in his entire life?

'i kissed your arch nemesis just earlier'

It was a hatekiss? Maybe? Man she looks great for someone dying of twinbirth No sweat stains, hair looks good

oh no. the script was just too dramatic for them. a disservice to good actors. lol

Neck'd!

he cant change clothes that fast… cowards not wanting him to be in a dress tbh

unless the clothes are flesh which is also a disturbing thought

Such a bummer

like sylveon's ribbons (nodding)

If I ever run Scytale, gender will be as fluid and changing as the desert They're super weird, facedancers In a cool way

I like Scytale

stop saying moodib

are we naming Log's cows again?

Using her voice to fuck with him dang

Leto II get your nipples outta here dude We're kinda busy

shirts went out of style , its not his fault

Oh no my…. hip? My weak spot? There's probably an artery in there

The funky connection between prescient and preborns is fun to play around with

'Nice shot, dad'

yeah a gigantic time loop

Time to bail on these kids SEE YA

Fuck dem kids

"Irulan will take good care of these kids, surely" “Also my extremely troubled sister"

“Alia will do a good job ruling, surely"

Nothing will go wrong

"Notorious philanderer Duncan will be a good partner for Alia" “Why not add my mom into the mix, yeah she's not got a ton of baggage on this planet"

Crushed by a giant penis

eyyyy

Death by Desert Dick?

not the triple d it was violent

The end scene was like a hurricane of everyone pouting and then dying

[death-himself]

i love every reference to Jesus that makes him canonically exist in the PJO universe because it means that there’s a slight possibility that in the riordanverse there’s a God Camp

kids are chosen as prophets of god or maybe they’re the nephilim and they learn God Powers™ Blue Exorcist-style

i need a kid from God Camp to meet nico di angelo i need a trilogy about God Camp with 20 crossover books

[firstprinced]

edvin knows wille so well and nor i or him will take the hate ✋🏻

[crown-and-stallion]

Quick drawing of Ki’ushapo's horse Shadowswift from The Navigator's Children. Kind of inspired by Donato Giancola's take on the sithi horse tack for the Grim Oak Press editions of memory sorrow and thorn, but I also did my own stuff.

The horse is inspired by the american saddlebred and akhal-teke breeds! I did it straight from memory so the anatomy might be a little wonky :)

[cherry-treelane]

I find it so ironically funny when hardcore Debbie defenders use the defense that she was just a victimised teenage girl (agreed) and then proceed to slander Fiona and express their hatred for her character and lack of sympathy

as if being an adult magically absolves an individual of the horrifying trauma that precedes them and screws up their mentality and actions

funnily enough these people get mad at others for "expecting Debbie to be an innocent angel and hating on her for acting out as a result of trauma" (also agreed, debbie does deserve more sympathy, she can't be expected to grow up to be a perfect saint when she's been through so much) yet seem to hold Fiona to the same unattainable standards and put her on a pedestal as if she wasnt a child that was forced to intensely grow up while never actually being raised

like lets put this into perspective and remember that fiona grew up surrounded by corrupt morals and insanely screwed up behaviour yet still emerged as messed up, yes, but surprisingly good considering the situation she was in??? she had to navigate basic things such as morals and being a good, responsible person on her own. imagine how difficult it must be to lead a bunch of kids, including yourself, with no previous role model or good example of your own to follow. most of the time, she always tried to do what she thought was best and would have the most desirable outcome

[cerubean]

finished my horse ranch gp sims and yes they have unnecessary extensive lore that only matters to me

in order left to right

sullivan (sully) nakai: animal lover, green fiend, serious

jacquelyn (jack) loloma: loner, genius, overachiever

mackenzie (mack) loloma: daredevil

**(i might change some of these traits idk)

sully and jack were childhood friends and eventually fell in love as they became teens. unexpectedly, they became teen parents to mackenzie, and shortly after graduation they got married.

as the years passed a feeling of resentment grew within jack. she loved sully (and still does,) but she didn't want to become complacent in life and give up her dreams of going to law school. naturally, sully and jack grew apart; they wanted different things in life. she wanted to venture outside of her hometown and live in the city, and sully perfectly content tending to his late father's ranch with his brother.

so, they got divorced and jack left with mackenzie to live in san myshuno. sully is someone who doesn't regret anything in life, but sometimes he wishes that he had fought harder to keep mackenzie in his life. their relationship is quite strained now that mack is older and also due to the distance. with jack's busy schedule as a lawyer they don't go back to visit often, so they mostly communicate through the occasional video call when mack isn't too busy terrorizing her classmates at school.

now that mack's out of school for the summer, jacquelyn feels it would be best for her daughter to spend her summer vacation on the ranch with her dad. she'll get a chance to have some quality time with sully and bond with him and also learn some discipline (hopefully).

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anyways that's all i could think of lore wise, can you beleive that this is the short version!! i suck at summarizing pls forgive me lol

if you read all of this then i appreciate you so much bc wow i really do just be talkin.