#the nova council

[the-nova-council]

We saw your keychains post (super cute keychains by the way, y'all did great!) and had a Spider-Man pointing meme moment!

We're also a system named The Council!

Well, our full name is The Council of Others, but The Council for short ^.^

It was so startling (/positive) to see your post :D

Ah same hat!!!!! Why hello fellow Council!!! We are The Nova Council for long but go by The Council and Nova Council!!!

Glad you like the keychains!! We are planning on making painted hair clips as well, we are trying to make interchangeable visual cues for our partner system and therapists!! And some of our councilmembers prefer clips, some keychains, a couple liked the bracelets but we all agreed they irritated our wrists too much overall as even those who weren't bothered by the feeling of them noted that when they removed the bracelets say to wash our hands our skin was itchy ;-; this may be related to our plastic allergy. ANYWAY sorry for the oversharing I got excited and I have also been hyperfixating on making beaded things for like, a week. Hahaha!

Hope y'all are having a wonderful night!!!

-Cora (&Eerie)

[rottingfairy01]

The council will decide your fate.

(srry for low quality pic, my phone sucks.)

[marveltournaments]

[dremilioastutoworld]

Christmas Eve Again With Palestine! 又是巴勒斯坦的平安夜! By É. Roscha!

[kitsunebattleboxer]

WHO was going to tell me that Ki-Adi-Mundi was granted special rights to have a POLYAMOROUS MARRIAGE to FIVE WIVES????

[hershelwidget]

decided for no apparent reason that i needed to draw the five natural quads. so uhm

names shown are based on the council members that appear in TBoCI :)

[kaeda-the-wolf]

A couple of concepts for Star Wars fanfic ideas/character concepts. 

One is for a fic set a few years prior to the events of The Force Awakens, featuring my girl Khara Tazim. She is the daughter of a former Imperial officer who flees the empire upon realizing that his young, blind daughter is incredibly powerful in the Force and ends up on an Outer Rim planet of Antivion, an icy world that focuses primarily on it’s fishing industry. Her father, Kharth Tazim, realizing that his daughter will still be at risk if he stays with her, leaves Khara on Antivion with people that he trusts, and she lives a relatively peaceful, unassuming life.

And then Resistance pilot Poe Dameron crash lands on her planet. Early days of the First Order, features a sassy, repurposed Imperial Security droid, Brendol Hux being an absolute douchebag, a young Armitage Hux, Leia, and a happy reunion. 

The second is for a Clone Wars era fic; Daenyrah Andar is the daughter of very outspoken senator, Drax Andar, who was sent to live at the temple as a young child when her power with the Force became too obvious to ignore. She’s a seasoned padawan by the time the war breaks out, and soon after (through some rather tragic circumstances) rises to the rank of Jedi Knight and assumes command of her own legion, the 109th, along side her second in command, Nova. The story starts just before Order 66 and through a series of flashbacks; it follows the events of the war, exploring the relationships between Daenyrah and her troopers, as well as her especially close relationship and eventual romance with Nova, and the aftermath of Order 66.

The story has two different endings; a light side ending, and dark side ending. 

Because of course it does. 

[sarcasticsweetlara]

That phrase makes more sense for Laena.

And technically that's what they did many times, Rhaenyra and Laena used to fly together and spent a lot of time gossiping, chatting and being darlings

“I want to fly with you on dragonback, see the great wonders across the narrow sea, and eat only cake."

I love HOTD so much and any complaints I personally have will never overruled that, but the one thing I could never forgive is the replacement of Laena with Alicent, nastiest woman ever drew breath.

[cast-a-shadow-on-the-wall]

1958 Kings District Council (Nova Scotia) Wolf Cub Field Day

[rabbitcruiser]

British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council ordered the deportation of the Acadians on July 25, 1755.

[tagnoob]

Eyes on EVE Fanfest 2023 This Week

EVE Online Fanfest is coming up quickly, with the official opening on Friday. That is a little later in the year than usual, but happening all the same.  CCP has the Fanfest Mega Blog posted with all sorts of information about the happenings of the event. Once again I will be skipping EVE Fanfest.  I opted to spend my vacation time on a volcanic island in the Pacific rather than a volcanic island…

[the-nova-council]

✨ Updates Related To This Blog ✨

Don't worry we're not dipping or anything, we just had a meeting today and decided on some ground rules for ourselves as well as new organizational stuffs.

First: We're starting a queue and filling it with stuff from our drafts so that way when the hosts review the posts together to make sure nothing too oversharing is said (a new rule we implemented like yesterday because Artemis decided Apollo was oversharing and he had previously had sole discretion over what was considered inappropriate), which can only happen once a week or so due to us not being able to control who is in the front room very easily so we kinda have to wait for the Core Four to just happen to all be co-con at once, a whole bunch of stuff isn't just posted all at once. Our chosen tag is #thankqueue.

Next: More specific tagging will be done for organizational purposes, as well as more specific trigger tags. Organizational tags include: #ramble #life update #job related #sys gossip #headmate intro #medical related #mental health related #med related #not-system-related #source [name] #special interest [name] #rebagel #photo post #council speaks #system mapping #our art #faceclaim . Trigger tags will include: #food #food mention #nsft #body pic #body discussion #medicine #tw pills #sh mention #depression #tw depression #anxiety #medical anxiety #tw anxiety #tw paranoia #tw medical #tw hospital #tw psych hospital #tw scars #tw doubt #tw fakeclaiming . If you would like any additional tags to be added for your filtering use, please let us know! We will be keeping anonymous asks open.

And finally: With our new rules set, many overly cautious restrictions are being lifted on what is allowed to be said and posted here. Now that we will have specific trigger tags, Elas, Felix, and Wildfire will be allowed to post more of their personal things with the appropriate tags, as well as others. Expect more posts in general and please don't feel bad about filtering tags or requesting others to assist in your filtering!

We also wanted to say, we invite anyone to send asks to the system in general or to specific ones of us! If it's to someone specific we will wait until they are front or co-con to be able to answer. Anon asks welcome, all asks welcome! Also, feel free to DM us if you want to make friends!

Anyway, we love y'all, thank you and goodnight!

-The Council

[raayllum]

Anyway I did my 2nd watch of the season after sleeping / with the end in mind and it totally worked for me, especially with the understanding that there is 30% of the story left (and thereby Callum and Rayla's arcs aren't Over and room for more growth/plot had to be left open) and watching with the ending in mind.

I'm not upset that this is where Arc 2 ends, in some ways because it's sort of like season 2 of Avatar where Zuko doesn't join the Gaang in their 2nd arc (book two) because from a character basis he really wasn't Ready to do that / they had more story to tell, so I don't think with what they're doing it would've made sense to rush it in TDP. Nor do I think any of the previous set up for other outcomes (i.e. possession fight, salvation, etc) were wasted. Merely that TDP likes to do layer upon layer, and also have foreshadowing come back once (so you think you're safe) and then twice. I also don't think that Arc 2 resolved all the threads (i.e. Rayllum and greater good conflict / Aaravos & Callum) and ended them, and instead nudged them forwards in interesting ways for continued future exploration. I'll probably write more about the specifics later if this post doesn't get unwieldy or condensed with them for now.

In the meantime, these were things that I found really clicked for me on my 2nd watch through for S7 and with Arc 2 in general:

1) Arc 2's overarching focus on the Archdragons / the finale resolution with it.

We had a focus every season on at least one of the archdragons, with Zubeia (S4-S7), Luna Tenebris mentions (S4-S6), Rex Igenous (S4), Domina Profundis (S5), Sol Regem (S5-S6), and Avizandum mentions (S4-S5).

With that in mind, while I'm sure Aaravos' intentions was for no one to know of his plans ahead of time (7x01)... his actions also led to Callum and co. making connections to all the other Archdragons that they could pull on to bring everyone back to Lux Aurea, and Aaravos could destroy them (with no real consequence to himself, as his spirit was now free and his body could reform), taking a massive swing at the Cosmic Council's grand order that'd been enforced by the archdragons. He said the elves and dragons would fall hard... and now the dragons have, with the Cosmic Council being next (and thinking that the real focus on the Cosmic Council would be predominantly in arc 3 was, I believe, the general fandom consensus anyway).

AARAVOS: Now this is familiar, isn't it? Hasn't this all happened before? Arrogant fools. Again and again you make the same mistakes. (7x09)

Suitably, though, the Archdragons sacrifice themselves to protect all of Xadia, making amends for past / previous actions in their own way (narratively). They upheld the Cosmic Order, and then chose to break it.

Now, Aaravos will be returning to a world where there are no archdragons, and the only thing that can destroy his mortal form again would be the Nova Blade or some dark magic spell to take his spirit (but more on that later).

This also caps off S7 being about the destruction caused by one Archdragon (Sol Regem) and then the salvation through sacrifice from the other four as the finale. It comes full circle, but without repeating the cycle.

It also seems like the Nova Blade hasn't actually ever been used, as Aaravos states in 7x07:

She could have used the blade to destroy me, but chose instead to help imprison me. To spare me.

Or if it has, it still has a massive consequence that Zubeia is familiar with (the wielderdies if it's used to kill someone?), given that she is worried when Zym (and Ez wielding the sword) appears, intending to use it:

I'll also talk a bit more about why I think Aaravos designed 7x09 to be a win-win scenario for him no matter what when I get to Callum's section, but in the meantime...

2) Rayla's arc

Listen, y'all know I wanted Rayla to save Callum, like a lot, and thought there was a good chance she would if he was possessed again. However, neither of those things happened (also circumstances were crazy) and it was built up throughout the seasons, as well as in S7:

RAYLA: We can't save everyone, Soren. There's too much at stake. (4x05) RAYLA: But I can't help you yet... because right now, the world needs me. Callum and Ezran need me. There's a great evil returning to Xadia and we have to stop it, at any cost. (5x01) RAYLA: It hurts me to know they're trapped like this. It's agonizing. But our mission comes first. The world is in danger, and you can trust me to stay focused. (5x04) RAYLA: No, Callum. I want to help my parents, but I won't let it bias me. (6x01)

The season 7 setup is most prominently seen in S7 during Rayla's trial, in which she emphasizes that the assassins' deaths were not in vain due to the subsequent impact on the world as a whole, and in how their assassin pledges were upheld in their own way:

Life is precious. life is valuable. We take it, but we do not take it lightly. All of your lives were taken. But your sacrifices, they weren't for nothing. Callisto, you pledged your breath for freedom and we freed ourselves from an awful, pointless war. Andromeda, you pledged your eyes for truth. And we found the truth, a truth that changed the world. Skor, you pledged your strength for honour, and now humans and elves have finally begun to treat each other with honour again. And... Ram. You pledged your blood for justice. But what is justice? The king died that night. A life for a life. Is that justice? How much suffering is enough to paid for the mistakes we've made? I don't have the answers. But I'll carry you with me, all of you, forever.

So it made sense for her assassin oath to come back in some manner ("My heart for Xadia"). She had to honour her team's sacrifices by being willing to make her own (killing Callum and herself by symbolic extension), partially because her and Callum's "ride or die" dynamic had become a "ride and die" dynamic": this was his plan and his choice, and the alternative was to let him succumb to a fate worse than death AND to let Aaravos destroy the world through his hands.

And I get why this feels kind of backwards, because on the one hand, it seems like Rayla made a lot of progress, even questioning the validity of her own suffering for mistakes she / choices others have made, which is Huge!

And yet she's willing to suffer, and sacrifice Callum. The paying the price motif is even brought back in Aaravos' dialogue with the archdragons ("And what will your sacrifices buy?"). So what gives?

Well, I think in a lot of ways Arc 2 was Rayla learning to accept and ask for help (S5-S6), that she wasn't alone (S4, S7), and working to come back every time she leaves (S4) but... still being prepared to leave:

and still with sharing or acknowledging her own burdens not being her instinct.

There's a reason we all went "Rayla refusing to sacrifice Callum would be Character Development" after all. I also think it's quasi-similar to Rayla leaving after S3. She had a lot of opportunities to learn that she didn't have to do everything alone in arc 1, but those lessons didn't stick; in a similar fashion, Rayla had opportunities throughout arc 2 to learn that she doesn't always have to sacrifice something, but with Callum being increasingly sacrificial... Those lessons were there, but didn't stick. The other side of her sacrifice arc is not resolved.

With that in mind, I wanna talk about our favourite dorky mage, and then maybe arc 3.

3) Aaravos' Grand Plan & Callum's Corruption

This is a little hard to parse out just because we don't know what Aaravos' next step / goal was in bringing about Eternal Night (presumably to get the attention of the Cosmic Council, but who knows). That said, a few things I'm chewing on:

Aaravos, as previously discussed, found the most effective way to rid the world of (presumably) every Archdragon other than Zym

Aaravos, for whatever reason, wanted Ezran to have the Nova Blade, which Aanya even sets up for us in 7x09

Aaravos knew all along that Callum would turn to dark magic to take him down.

AARAVOS: Very soon, your brother will embrace dark magic to save those he loves. EZRAN: I suppose you've seen that written in the stars? AARAVOS: I have seen it written in his eyes. (7x07)

Furthermore, he wanted to have Callum be corrupted again, gave him the apple in 7x01 as the first attempt. The apple corruption was lampshaded with "Is there anything I can do to help?" + identity/name motif. Aaravos was actively goading him into dark magic in 7x09, even when he knew there was an assassin ready to kill Callum (Runaan), and smiling even when Callum began the spell (once Rayla had stepped in).

As of S7, Callum has been called (and not disputed being at least partially) a dark mage, used Viren's staff and now has it in his possession (and we still don't know why it was never supposed to be used again), and has a white streak. The willingness to go that far "has always been a part of" him and is now permanently reflected in his character design.

Secondly, we know that Aaravos' game with his pawns is not over, due to the secrets of the cube being ongoing (but confirmation in 7x09 that it indeed points towards Elarion) and due to framing with Claudia.

While I did consider that maybe Callum's pawn intro imagery had come back around in the conversation in 7x06 featuring the cube so heavily (!!) and then Callum choosing to do dark magic to stop Aaravos and save everyone as his destiny ("The one I write myself")... He's still corrupted, Aaravos is still going to come back in 7 years with Callum as a vessel, and the Key to the Book (metaphorically to literally the Book of Destiny) is still unresolved.

TLDR; think about how much it'd Hurt in a Good Way for Callum and Rayla to both know she would've sacrificed him for the greater good (fulfilling her end of foreshadowing from 6x03) only to be smacked in the face that Callum refuses to sacrifice her in Arc 3 with the other side of his ("if you ever have to choose between me and the greater good...").

The fact that the Cube canonically points towards Elarion, which feature stories about "a fair exchange of beloved for beloved" after a season in which Aaravos mandates "Your beloved is an assassin who cannot kill" is just the cherry on top. It also means that both Callum and Rayla have accordingly hit the 50-75% wavelength of their arc(s), with us now having a definitive basis for her being willing to that sets up more clearly her being not willing to in the future, the circumstances we'd need for a possession fight re-established, and the cube beat still on the table because the cube itself is still waiting to be plot relevant.

Rayla always follows Callum's lead ("Say the word and I'll go back into that tower with you") and reflects him ("Who told you that?" "You did") and the lessons he teaches her about love. He'll pave the way, and she'll follow, and then their arcs will come to a close.

We just had to get here first.

Conclusion??

Anyway I hope you enjoyed, I want to do a bigger Arc 3 predictions post (the ruby project, Evrkynd, Claudia, Harrow, etc.) sometime soon, but I hope in the meantime this brought some potentially needed assurance, excitement, or another perspective to consider.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Council for the Town of Lunenburg has decided to move forward with the renaming of "Cornwallis Street" to "Queen Street" more than a year and a half after the town approved recommendations from its anti-racism special committee. This comes several months after a councillor was removed as deputy mayor after he was critical of the decision to go with Queen Street. A motion to rescind the name change to Queen was put before council by Coun. Ed Halverson — the same councillor who was removed from deputy mayor duties — on Tuesday and resulted in a tied 3-3 vote, leaving the motion dead on the floor. The street was originally named after Edward Cornwallis, who the town described as a "controversial former governor of Nova Scotia" who "issued a 'scalping proclamation' bounty in 1749 to anyone who killed Mi'kmaw men, women, and children."

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

[teojira]

Hi! Do you think you could write some head cannons for Pota Maurice, like reader trying to befriend him and wanting to be around him a lot (platonically)

have a nice day :)

[Maurice and reader friendship headcanons!]

Summary: Maurice comes to accept you as a loving companion despite his previous doubts.

Warnings: None! Platonic friendship with Maurice!

A/N: I was so excited to see this request that I immediately did it. Whoops. I hope this is good!! I love Maurice so bad, I see him as a friend that kinda takes on the role of dad.

Maurice out of the entire ape council is the best suited to become friends with.

He has his fair bit of trauma related to humans and at first, he is hesitant to let you near him, he respects Caesar undoubtedly, but the deep rooted fear still exists within him, the abuse and punishments still fresh in memory.

But the orangutan has a good sense of character, so when you're taken in by the colony per Caesar's allowance, it's only natural that he places you with the calmest of the apes.

The way to win Maurice's favor is easy, treat him with respect and treat the small apes he teaches with respect. That's really all he asks.

Don't touch him without permission, and don't try and be forceful. He'll come to you when he's ready. He knows you have good intentions!

You can not buy his friendship, but finding him berries and herbs that he can eat will soften him to you and eventually boom, you're one of Maurice's friends now.

He doesn't care for meat like the others, so the fact that you've gone out of your way to help him find stuff to his taste makes him warm up to you all the more.

He doesn't mind that you tend to cling to him. Honestly, he's gonna see you as a kid. He can't help it. You're new to the colony, no friends or family, so he decides he'll be the one to be your family.

He'll drag you along to classes he teaches, asking for your help. You, of course, know a lot more human words than he does, and with your help, teaching goes a lot more efficiently, more apes learn the better.

Maurice expects you to eat with him at dinner, waving you over with his hand when he sees you awkwardly stand around. You have him. You're fine.

It's usually Maurice and Caesar who dine together and they can smell the anxiety radiating off of you, so they try and make conversation for your sake, their hands sign slow for you to read with ease.

'Take more berries.'

"I'm fine! This is plenty, than-"

Cue Maurice giving you a look that is pretty much saying it's not up for debate. Take the damn berries. You're not gonna go hungry.

Fast forwarding to War, everyone knows you as Maurice's companion, and it's due to you that Nova is able to travel with you all.

Maurice can't help but see parts of you in her, small and alone, just like all those years ago.

You, Malcolm, and his family have proven that the cruel and sadistic humans that he once dealt with were a minority.

So he gives Nova a chance and is happy when you accept her without thought, immediately forming a friendship with the young girl.

It makes him ever wonder why he disliked humans before then, the circus and the army soldiers being long forgotten due to you.

[bat-snake]

So first of all, gonna remind everyone that the Nova Blade can't kill Aaravos. A bunch of ya'll just let that information continue to go right of your heads. We've basically been handed "don't expect Aaravos to be killed" on a silver platter.

But also in stuff around "defeating" Aaravos...

It's been a theme at length that death is not the answer for anyone. Avizandum's death, for as awful as he was, was still portrayed as horrific. Lucia was given a sentencing of restorative justice, in a beneficial way to her and to the community she had insulted, instead of killing her. To suggest death being the answer for anyone in the show (yes, even Karim) misunderstands what the show says about killing in the name of "righting wrongs". Especially if those deaths are in response to pain inflicted. The trouble with figuring out what to do with Aaravos is that his means for finding justice for Leola are already severely limited. He doesn't have a peer group equal to him in power/mortality that could help him retaliate in a less destructive way. He certainly made his choices to sow the "chaos" the Council seemed to fear.

There's not really a description about what that "chaos" is exactly (I'm guessing it's something that would be a threat to their power) Which comes back to one of the other things about the show that I really appreciate: how peace and easing grief comes from building communities and extending a hand from across divides. Team Zym has come together they way they did because of how they have leaned on each other through hardship and found comfort in their shared, if not occasionally mutually inflicted grieving.

Which is something Aaravos did not have and could not build since he is immortal. He did not have an ingroup that could keep him in tow and help him find other avenues. He's probably more like Leola than it seems on the surface. His "quirkiness" was just far more masked than Leola's could ever be, but it seems very clear that he did not entirely fit in with the rest of his own community. So the question becomes...how do you quell someone in that situation?