#thread: zola

[youllalwaysbemyporcelain]

@vcndetta

Derek was on his way to his apartment. He'd gotten one close to the hospital so he get there quicker. He was focused on getting home, but the sight of someone that felt familiar to him caused him to stop. "Excuse me. I think I know you." He waits for her to turn around, and then beams. "Zola?"

[gaydexvocaloid]

happy bday vy2!!!

[frozcnhearts]

cont. from x - @petitexmagician

To find what he looked for was out of reach for many more years probably. So all Aether could do, was to force a warm smile about her words, to hide the pain it caused deep inside his heart.

Another year in this world had passed by in such quick manner - another year, without his sister close by. “I once heard that, whenever people feel lonely they look at the sky.”, he spoke, amber eyes going from Zola to the stars above the court of Fontaine, but it was unseen because of all the fireworks. However, he still could feel their watch upon everything underneath them and oh, how he longed to be connected with them again as well.

“Because there might be another person, looking at it right now as well. I always hope, that it's my sister who looks at it too.”.

It was a heart-warming thought and the blonde, sitting in the grass of the wilderness outside the city walls, wished it was true. “Every year I watch the new year in a different nation. Every year it’s without her.”.

[saltedair]

ask meme for @vcndetta ( zola : patch )

"are you sure you don't mind doing this? it's just at an angle i can't see myself." violet said as she turned her arm.

[cannib4l-a]

[ save] from michael to zola?

" we are at a charity event, do we really need to cause a scene ? "

[leletha-jann]

Actually, wait, whoa, I can substantiate this. On circumstantial evidence, of course, but supporting evidence nonetheless.

Watch the shuffle here:

Gil pulls Tarvek out of the timestop.

The Librarians kidnap Tarvek away from Gil.

One of Princess Terebithia's agents kidnaps Tarvek from the Librarians and takes him back to his grandmother in Paris.

Yes?

Gil wants Tarvek back because Gil wants Tarvek back.

OK, stick with me here.

The Librarians want Tarvek because - we can eventually deduce - the Librarians have a possibly homicidal Muse-equivalent they want to repair, understand, and possibly use, and if you have an unexpected Muse on your hands, Tarvek Sturmvoraus is the person you want to talk to.

My understanding is that this is the "Lord" she's talking about - the Lord High Conservator, who is specifically away on the "go fetch the best expert on the Muses we know of" errand, and who is not coming back alive:

OK, so far so good.

And at that point Terebithia's agent and assorted Smoke Knights killed everyone, grabbed Tarvek, and hauled him back to Paris by the scruff of his neck.

So...what did Terebithia want with Tarvek that she went to so much trouble to kidnap him from the Librarians? We never found out. It's not to play figurehead Storm King - she has Martellus doing that quite nicely. And I don't buy that she just wanted one of her grandchildren back, because A) Terebithia has tons of grandchildren and she seems pretty indifferent to which of them are going to survive, and B) Tarvek acts much the same way towards Terebithia as he did towards Lucrezia - cooperate, flatter, charm, agree with everything she says, and get the hell away from her the moment he has a solid way out.

...this is where I pulled out the thumbtacks and string today.

What if Terebithia wanted him for the same reason the Librarians did - because she also has a possibly homicidal Muse-equivalent on her hands and needed an expert? Namely, Anevka.

And who better to wrangle clank Anevka - who is essentially a Muse - than the man who designed and built her (and built in overrides and behavioral controls while he was at it)?

How pretty would that be if that parallel was there all along?

...

At this point this is the wildest speculation. I have no doubt I'm wildly off base and this conspiracy theory will age badly, at which point everyone can point at me and laugh. But I'm having fun building sandcastles now.

I have a new Wild Theory, just in case anyone thought it was safe to come out from behind the sofa (it's not):

If Klaus is indeed aboard Castle Wulfenbach, which I believe he is, and acting under wasp-enforced orders, the question becomes: "Who's giving those orders?"

We've been guided to think about Zola, which is a reasonable guess because we haven't seen her in a while, and she's not just going to conveniently vanish.

But...

I suspect the involvement of Princess Terebithia, because she was last seen with Zola, because we were recently told that she's conveniently missing, and because she scares me.

But that still leaves the question of "How are they giving Klaus orders?" Zola has a Lucrezia copy in her head, but she doesn't sound like Lucrezia as far as I know. She doesn't have the Command Voice.

...you know who did have the Command Voice? And who Terebithia in particular might have managed to get hold of?

And who would be a fantastically out-of-nowhere player to reenter the game at this point?

Anevka.

...

So here's my math:

Terebithia would have had access to Sturmhalten, where clank Anevka's head was stored. (It's controlled by the Empire, but it's her family's castle.)

Anevka has the Command Voice and can command revenants (thanks, Tarvek).

Anevka could give Klaus orders under her grandmother's instruction.

Anevka sounds like the Other - because the version of the Other that Wulfenbach troops have encountered most is Agatha. Anevka has Agatha's voice. So that could be affecting the reports coming off of Castle Wulfenbach from the evacuees right now.

...

This could be nothing more mysterious than a Valois power play...and I notice Martellus is oh-so-conveniently right here to take command if the opportunity presents itself. If his family has - without his knowledge, I think - set the stage for him to do so.

But. Yeah.

Who could be giving Klaus orders?

Zola to provide the information about useful pawns from her copy of Lucrezia. Terebithia to organize and plan. And Anevka to give the orders to all these wasped revenants who've been in motion lately...

...

Like I said, a Wild Theory, and I'm probably wrong. But I'm still not coming out from behind the sofa just yet.

[youllalwaysbemyporcelain]

@vcndetta

Sam sighed as he closed his book, looking at Zola. "I think that's enough studying for tonight. I'm hungry, can we get food?"

[frozcnhearts]

She is gonna murder somebody very soon.

[taahko]

"the vampire lestat" is his 800 post thread on twitter which is very popular with a specific kind of ironic gay terminally online audience and hes even been dmed about movie rights zola style but he doesnt know how to check dms so hes never seen it. unclear if he knows other people can see what hes tweeting at all or if he thinks it is some kind of sweet little diary, très charmant! also he dictates all his tweets out loud to mademoiselle siri while chain smoking (actually just draining the battery on his bubblegum flavored vape). it all makes him feel very cosmopolitan and modern

[moondustlings]

"shh," she chided, removing her mouth from her breast as a playful smirk crossed her features. "you're going to get us caught." not that she cared even in the slightest. sure, they could be a scandal considering her social status, but that's why she always had a crisis manager on standby. her fingers flexed possessively around the other woman's waist as she resumed her activities, teasing sierra for a few more moments.

when she felt like she had her fill of her chest — for now at least — she began to make her way south. her feet deftly moved the dress so she had something for her knees to hit once she was pressing open mouth kisses just under sierra's belly button. "is this what you want?"? she asked teasingly as her teeth gently tugged at the poor excuse of fabric that was covering her. one of her hands moved to cup her center and she let out a low moan at the heat she was met with. "you really do want this, don't you?" want me, she wanted to add but thought twice. no matter how much pleasure zola brought her, she was paid to be right in this spot and she couldn't let any of those pretty sounds that left her lips make her think otherwise.

her fingertips hooked into the floss that dug into the soft flesh of her hips and she tugged downwards, bringing the fabric down her amazing legs. carefully, she helped sierra step out of her panties before she returned her attention back to her core. two fingers parted her lips and she admired the wetness she was met with. "let's see how long you can keep quiet," she challenged with an arched brow. "if you're a good girl, i'll make sure to give you a nice reward when i take you back to my place."

the reminder of the other girls zola had hired, caused the younger's stomach to drop in jealousy. she was well aware that she had no right to feel jealous, but she couldn't help it. a part of her had begun feeling possessive of zola, meaning that after tonight… she'd have to end their business arrangement. she sucked in a deep breath in a mix between arousal but also a way to center herself after the realization. "unwrapping will have to wait until next time," she chuckled as a small smile appeared on her lips, despite knowing there wouldn't be a next time. the thought alone put a bit of a damper on her mood, but as soon as she felt deft fingers unhooking her bra, leaving her standing in a public bathroom wearing only a thong and sky high stilettoes that made her short legs look incredible, she was back in the moment.

the appreciative whistle zola let out caused sierra to bite her lip to suppress a smile. in recent months she'd realized that making the other unravel, had become her favorite pastime. there was no time to think about the fact that they were in public or that anyone could pass by on the other side of the door and would more than likely hear sierra's moans. no, all that mattered in the moment was zola. as the other woman's mouth descended on sierra's nipple, she gasped in surprise despite knowing what was coming. "fuck… baby," she whimpered, placing her hand at the back of zola's head, while arching her back to feel more of her mouth. before sierra could raise her hand to stimulate her other nipple like she'd felt the need to, the other's hand was right there, as though she knew what sierra needed before she did herself.

"zola," she moaned, tilting her head back to rest against the door, eyes closed to enjoy the feeling of pleasure coursing through her body. "baby, i need you," she admitted, her core already clenching and feeling empty, wanting the other to touch her where she wanted it most.

[chaoticamelay]

MCU Bucky Barnes: Migraine. TBI, and Headaches

aka "Of Course His Head Hurts, Did We Not Watch The Same Movies?"

i saw a post where the OP said they headcanon that bucky barnes has chronic migraines due to the head trauma he's experienced. as someone with migraine who LOVES yapping about bucky barnes I have THOUGHTS

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Basically, i agree with the headcanon that bucky is still dealing with the side effects of all the head trauma he has experienced. Even with the serum, there is no way in hell he doesn't have headaches after *gestures vaguely at his entire life*

Does that mean bucky barnes has migraines? Nope! Allow me to explain why (and also what I think bucky has instead)!

There are two main kinds of headache: primary and secondary (and also a few other exceptions like some neuropathies). Primary headaches are caused by a headache or head pain condition/disorder, with no other known underlying cause. Secondary headaches are a symptom of another underlying condition. There are four categories of primary headache disorders: migraine, tension-type headaches. trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs), and other kinds of PHDs such as cold-stimulus headache, aka brain freeze. Causes of the secondary headache types include... well. everything else, up to and including trauma. Which Bucky has. Obviously.

The word migraine is often used to mean 'severe headache', but this is inaccurate: migraine is a neurological disorder with unknown cause (although it is believed to be a mix of genetic and environmental factors.) Before i got off twitter I wrote a thread talking about migraine misconceptions, i have it saved in my drafts for migraine awareness month but until then here's some starter info from Migraine Canada.

We don't see anything pre-war or during the war before the train that would make me think Bucky has migraine. It's possible, obviously, since it doesn't seem like it was a disqualifying condition for US Army service during WWII, although some types of aura would have been. But it doesn't seem likely to me that he could have had migraine attacks and still gotten promoted to sergeant, particularly if he had migraine with aura and and had to work around that. (Visual or sensory/motor aura symptoms, for example, would make it real hard to shoot a gun, especially at long-range).

On to secondary headaches, then: let's specifically look at headaches caused by trauma, which obviously Bucky has. Beyond what's shown on screen, there is a canon tie-in book called The Wakanda Files which includes some of Zola's diary and Shuri's notes on Bucky when he was there. I don't own this book, but when I went looking I found that a lovely human named @samwontshare has made several posts with its contents, complete with image descriptions! Go check it out, but here's a quote from their Bucky masterpost of Shuri talking about Bucky (cw for torture, obviously):

Hydra’s methods were effective in making Barnes hyperaware and highly suggestible. They caused what I can only describe as noise in the electric activity of his hemispheres. An EEG on Barnes revealed just how murky and extensive his brain damage was. Hydra’s Winter Soldier program subjected Barnes to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) followed by suggestive keywords and phrases to activate a brain soup knot that could take years to unravel. If we’re able to reverse it at all. ECT is extremely painful, and Hydra didn’t administer any dulling agents. (The Wakanda Files)

It is MCU canon that Bucky Barnes has a traumatic brain injury. And it is my opinion that post-HYDRA, Bucky has a neurocognitive disorder as a result of that TBI. I'm not getting into that though, because that could be its own post, and honestly it might be at some point but probably not anytime soon. Back to Bucky and headaches.

The International Headache Society maintains the International Classification of Headache Disorders, which is currently in its third edition (ICHD-3). This framework is used for diagnosis and treatment of headache disorders. There are also headache disorders coded in the WHO's ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, but this isn't as exhaustive as the ICHD-3 on headaches specifically so I'm using that instead.

We might assume that Bucky's head pain is Post-electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) headache (A7.6.3). Although "clear descriptions of headache associated with electroconvulsive therapy are sparse", which is why it's in the appendix of the ICHD-3 and not the main diagnostic manual, if anyone was going to have it, it'd be Bucky. Even so, one of the diagnostic criteria is that "each headache has resolved within 72 hours after ECT", so this doesn't fit even if the name makes it sound like it does.

I think the better explanation is ICHD-3 5.2.1: Persistent headache attributed to moderate or severe traumatic injury to the head. (In the ICD-11 this would be coded 8A84.1). The diagnostic criteria for that is headache persisting more than 3 months after a head trauma, and the 'moderate to severe' qualifier is added if one of several conditions are met, one of which is "imaging evidence of a traumatic head injury" which hey! we know from Shuri's notes Bucky has!

"But Amelay! Wouldn't the serum have healed the TBI?" I mean, i feel like it did a LOT. With what they did to him, Bucky would be dead multiple times over if it he wasn't enhanced. Wakanda is the most medically advanced place on the planet, and Shuri is a genius, and she's not confident in her notes that she'll be able to even begin to fix what HYDRA did, even with Bucky being enhanced. Bucky gets significantly better by the time he leaves Wakanda, but even the serum has limits, and the brain is so incredibly complex- it's not like fixing a GSW or broken bone. In my opinion he still has a TBI.

"But Amelay! Yes, Bucky has a TBI, but you can't be sure he has headaches!" True. But a) he's fictional, and b) you also can't be sure he doesn't. And I want to believe that the reason he wears sunglasses is not to look cool as hell, but because the light is hurting his head. Let Bucky be disabled, cowards.

And also he looks cool as hell.

(Before anyone asks why he's okay with gunfire if the light hurts his eyes: HYDRA had incentive to train noise sensitivity out of him, if they wanted him to be in a firefight. But they gave the winter soldier dark googles during the bridge fight (during the day), but not when he shot fury or killed the starks (both at night). And then i think when he didn't have them during the helicarriers because it was a punishment. Afterwards, he was really fucked up, and possibly felt like he deserved the pain? idk man alternatively headache disorders are super fucking weird, sometimes stuff just doesn't seem logical.)

[misanderousmisfit]

a Zola style twitter thread of the whole movie's plot narrated by Patrick (or Art) would be Chef's Kiss.

I wish I had thought of this.

[cyclogenesis]

✨ per @some-stars request, the F. Scott Fitzgerald part of my review of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast:

After chapter upon chapter of events ranging from "I went to the cafe to write and an annoying guy talked to me" to "I was hanging out with this famous writer and he was such a dweeb lol, believe me I'm a normal guy myself and very qualified to judge everyone I meet" to "I went to the cafe to write but then got drunk. Crazy that I'm so broke" we eventually got to my favorite part, where Hemingway meets F. Scott Fitzgerald and gets so mad at himself for having the gayest possible feelings a man can have that he just has to be a passive-aggressive bitch about it for several thousand words.

TO BE FAIR: F. Scott Fitzgerald is a manic pixie nightmare girl. He's Kylie Jenner writing the Great American Novel. He's my personal series of exciting-but-horrible Aries situationships/girlfriends that I chased throughout my teens and twenties. He and Zelda saw you from across the speakeasy and they like your vibe. Do you want to have the most bad idea threesome imaginable? It involves a magnum of champagne and screaming at each other until you pass out. That's how they fuck. Yes he just asked if you had sex with your wife before marriage. That was his pick-up line. He is a lunatic. He is Zelda's disagreeable wife. You wish that Scott was your OWN disagreeable wife. He has undiagnosed ADHD and a drinking problem (related?). You are never bored with him. God, you wish sometimes you could just be bored with him. He's asking you to rate his dick. You, Ernest Hemingway, take a look at his dick and give him a fair rating (7.5?). You take him to the Louvre to look at statues of naked Greek and Roman twinks and you're literally like, "maybe you're a grower, not a show-er." You tell him his wife sucks. Ernest you old queen. You butch little TEASE.

F! Scott! Fitzgerald! Sorry, this is all because I'm jealous that Hemingway got to hate himself while flirting with My Most Horrible Boy. And it's here that the book comes most ALIVE, that it becomes ABOUT something other than a broke guy in Paris trying to write a book. Finally, instead of just being about ol' Hem secretly disdaining every person that tries to have a conversation with him, we get Hemingway wanting somebody, wanting their attention and regard and time, and it's a delicious disaster. Scott's a wreck, a disappointment, a drunk; Scott's gorgeous, dazzling, and so full of talent Ernest is SEETHING ABOUT IT. They chase each other like carousel horses. It's a clown show. Scott lovebombs him when he's not too drunk to forget to, and whines about missing Zelda when Ernest won't take the hint and kiss him already.

Something very funny about all this is that at the time Ernest was about 25 years old, and Scott - who Ernest thought of, at the time, as "an older writer" - was all of 28. So it makes sense to me that much of this section reads like an @ Zola-esque Twitter thread combined with a Tana Mongeau YouTube storytime video: Romantic Road Trip with F. SCOTT FITZGERALD?! (The Beautiful and DRUNK! not clickbait!) "Hi guys, welcome to my memoir or welcome BACK to my memoir. Before we get into it, don't forget to like and subscribe, and comment down below to let me know if you'd like more storytimes about me being a deeply repressed bisexual, OR if you want me to vlog the next time I go on a bender with Scott and we DON'T hook up, at least not as far as I can remember. So anyway, I was heterosexually at work on my next adjective-less short story..."

Sorry, I'll stop. Five stars for that entire section of the book, minus one star for the rest of it. Now can someone make a deeply homoerotic film about their relationship, PLEASE.

[evcrlasting]

How dare he even try to deny it. "I have jumped out of windows for you, 'course I'm cleaning up your messes." Granted the times she had jumped out of windows, it had been her own window, to hang out with him. And he had always caught her but that was besides the point. When Zola had said yes, her brain had started running into overdrive. All the things he could say, should say, yet nothing could prepare for her for his next set of words. The line that they had been dancing around? He had crossed. If they weren't so entangled with each other, she would have taken a step back. "I'm —" she struggled to find what to say. "I didn't expect that." Honesty slipping from her lips. "What happens now?" Blaise confessing was not on her list.

He tried to stifle a laugh, though it came out quietly, amused at her witty comeback. "Ah, you've been cleaning up my messes?" he retorts, a brow raising at her. " He was still holding her, practically ready to do anything just to keep her there. Blaise hadn't expected her to say yes, though that was probably the best outcome for him. He figured it wouldn't hurt to be honest, at least this once, right? He had asked her because he wanted to tell her, and there was no better moment than the present. Right? "I haven't been able to stop thinking about you," he finally said, "at all. Since before that night, even, but especially since then." His voice was low but genuine, showing a side of himself that had been buried by everything else that made up Blaise. "I think I like you, Zola."

[tedtalkkaczynskipedo]

But according to tedtalkkaczynski aka Joseph Gelman he died in 2013 but updated his facebook page up untill 2017 untill he switched to a new fb page he blocked my alt from. Big think! Also looks just like the formerly employed by webflow Joseph Gelman here with his supposed wife according to the Zola registry page

Same angle too look at that 😱

Gasp! Is he dead or a ghost or just a dumbass liar?

Authors note "former sr marketing manager at webflow"

@tedtalkkaczynski @infagnito

Formerly Officialmacgyver which was termed for "targeted harassment" as my email said.

I got him fired as well due to code of conduct violations and he himself with his lackluster performance in said role. (Just watch those presentations he made, funny shit!)

https://incels.is/threads/major-inceltear-users-doxxed-suck-it-joe-gelman-dieselpunkcyberpunk-inceltear-is-full-of-pedos-advocatedoogy-is-just-the-beginning.445216/

[youllalwaysbemyporcelain]

@vcndetta (for a random starter)

Sam walked out of his last class of the day with Zola. "I am so glad this is my last class. I have so much to do when I get home, but I just want a nap. Or coffee."