#throughout the dark months of april and may

[christinescupofcoffee]

DAY 3 — Creatures — What animals/beings/entities exist in your wip? Are they more lore or plot related? Do any have a special connection to the human/mortal characters?

Quarter After Twelve

Andy befriends a Frenchie, a Bedlington terrier, a Skye terrier, a cocker spaniel, and a Newfoundland, and he protects them all with his life.

Jeremy and Zero have Dachshunds. Spanakopita has a Rottweiler.

Tina talks about wanting a horse, and that she’s loved horses since she was a girl.

Allison befriends a Yorkshire terrier and names her Frida after Frida Kahlo.

As the Seasons Grey series

Bats, birds, and all things that fly. It’s implied that it’s Chris watching over Christine from beyond the grave.

given the motif of water throughout, there’s also a few aquatic creatures in Christine’s dreams. It’s meant to symbolize deep, often sensual emotions rather than sadness, and also letting go and starting afresh.

A kind of blink-and-you-miss-it one with Nelly: her “feathery” blonde hair and her pointed false nails at Halloween. Plus her knowing everyone in the school.

there’s this odd equine theme throughout, and I didn’t realize it until recently, either: Marlene, Valentina, Sabrina, and Colette are collectively referred to as the Sundaes, a play on the Sundays, an English Mazzy Star-ish band most known for a really pretty cover of “Wild Horses” (chapter three of Dark Roots of Earth is also titled “Wild Horses”) plus you have one of the chapters being titled “A Horse with No Name” after the America song and Alex giving Christine a broach in the shape of a horse, too (Alex and Christine also make a joke about being “hung like a horse” at one point). Taken literally, horses symbolize strength and courage. Taken figuratively, it’s a metaphor for being high, as “horse” is slang for heroin.

Throughout the Dark Months of April and May

Ziggy the labradoodle. He keeps Richard company.

the farm animals on Jeremy’s farm: there’ll be a chapter where he points out that they know more about a person than humans do.

Midnight Oil

There will be those big draft horses/Clydesdales, given we’re in Germany and Central Europe.

CATS

The Skeleton Key

In the latest chapter, Alison tells Alex that she would love to see him on the back of a palomino. She also calls him a stallion.

The Confectioner’s Tale

Not so much actual animals, but Hannah makes cookies in the shape of bats, cats, dogs, rabbits, and unicorns, and introduces a Swiss roll with a jaguar pattern on the cake part.

Time is Coming

The witches, being witches, have familiars (cats, bats, ravens…)

There’s also a blackbird that haunts the shores of Lake Ontario and it gives Chuck an uneasy feeling. Helps that it’s inspired by the blackbird of Chernobyl.

[aaknopf]

Welcome to poetry month! In a time of wars and painful divisions both at home and abroad, we hope in the next thirty days to offer what poetry can: the signal voice of the individual in darkness, the value inherent in truthful seeing, the connection to hearts and minds different from our own. We’ll begin with a powerful connector: Kevin Young, whose volume Stones comes out in paperback this week. Here he reflects on “kith and kin”; throughout the month, we’ll revisit the work of some of our Knopf ancestor kin and celebrate their wisdom alongside the vital contemporary voices.

Kith

All week I have wondered            what kith meant—

always paired            with kin, can it be the same thing?

Kin seems like like, like kind, as in our kind,

us—kindness,            we hope, or something to like.

Kith is more            helpless, married as it is to kin—

Kith is what you find            in the cemetery, names effaced from their graves,

names you may not            know, but share, or share though don’t yet know.

Kith is not            yesterday— that’s ancestry—nor

is it today—kin            keeps that close— no, kith

is tomorrow            & who knows? Is outliving

the dead, but means            the dead too, resting here on the sill

among the blue            bottles—both the flies & the glass

that once held what? Kith is that. The pair

of shoes that still            keep the wearer’s shape after removed—

whether moments ago, dog-tired,            or years later, still standing—

though nobody asked            them to—long beyond when the wearer’s gone.

More on this book and author:

Learn more about Stones by Kevin Young.

Browse other books by Kevin Young and follow him on Instagram @thehungryear. 

Join Kevin Young in Cambridge, MA, at the opening of the ARTS FIRST festival, on April 24 at 5pm, when he will receive the 2024 Harvard Arts Medal. The festival (April 24-28, 2024), showcases the creativity of the Harvard arts community through performances, art exhibitions, and art-making activities. 

Visit our Tumblr to peruse poems, audio recordings, and broadsides in the Knopf poem-a-day series.

To share the poem-a-day experience with friends, pass along this link.

[cywscross]

Hi cywscross, I was reading your fics recently (I love them so much!!) and I saw that you're working on a lot of bingos. I was thinking about signing up for some myself but I'm not really sure where to find them. If it's not too much trouble could you recommend me some?

lmao don't call me out like this I'm glad you liked my fics! And yes, I can list some here for you. I can list a lot for you.

First of all, there's a couple on Dreamwidth that I signed up for a few years ago and are still ongoing right now:

Tic Tac Woe - This one is a 3x3 bingo with a focus on apocalypses. Multifandom. No posting deadline.

Gen Prompt Bingo - 5x5 bingo with gen-style prompts, so no specific focus on romance or sex. A new round (with renewed prompt list) begins every April and December. Multifandom. Technically you should try to finish a card in the round you signed up for, but you can keep working on it and post it to the corresponding collection even after the round is over, and you don't need to finish a previous card to sign up for a new one.

Tarot Bingo - This one isn't on Dreamwidth but I'll slip it in here anyway. Like it's name, it's basically a bingo made up of tarot cards. It's on hiatus at the moment but you can check back at a later date. Multifandom, no posting deadline.

For the ones on Tumblr, there are quite a few more:

@fandombingo - Advertising my own bingo first lolol. You can sign up for a 5x5 bingo for a specific fandom or crossover of your choice. This one has no posting deadline, you can sign up anytime and post anytime. Recently, I also added mini-bingos to the line up, with prompts drawn from a specific fandom of my choice, but you can use the prompts for any fandom you want. Mini-bingos run when I have time, but so far, I've managed to stick to a monthly schedule, so signups for each one opens on the 5th of every month. Also no posting deadline.

@badthingshappenbingo - 5x5 bingo with a focus on dark/angst/whump prompts. Multifandom. No posting deadline.

@anyfandomgoesbingo - This one has a whole bunch under its umbrella - angst, AU, dark, fluff, kink, etc. You can get a 5x5 card for any (or all) of them. Multifandom. No posting deadline.

@julybreakbingo - This one has so many prompts it's insane. JBB runs only in the month of July (signups are currently open but end July 7th this year!), but they have a Post-July Break Bingo that starts after July is over and runs until next May-ish, and Pre-July Break Bingo starts May/June-ish until the end of July. They might also host a couple other events throughout the year so you can keep an eye out for that. They have various card sizes you can choose from, and it's multifandom.

@sweetspicybingo - Sweet & Spicy Bingo has hosted several bingos so far, they tend to be a couple months long each time. At the moment, their latest Hurt/Comfort Bingo has closed, but they'll probably come back soon with something new. Multifandom. Some have posting deadlines but you can keep working on them afterwards, you just won't get a badge for it.

@hurtcomfort-bingo - As you can see, this one is a bingo for hurt/comfort prompts. Their second round is open at the moment (closes August 9th) so you can check that out. It's multifandom with no posting deadline. They've also run one mini-event so far (closed now) so they might run another in the future.

@seasonaldelightsbingo - This one has hosted several bingos with a focus on that particular month/season (winter, valentine's, spring, etc.). They're also on hiatus at the moment but they should come back in the future. It's multifandom, and the posting deadline is I think a year from when signups open. But again, I think you can keep working at it afterwards.

@lyricalescape - A 5x5 bingo with song titles/lyrics for prompts. I think they're still running? Their queue list hasn't moved in a while but they also haven't made any closing announcement so I'm assuming they're still open. Multifandom with no posting deadline.

@fandom-free-bingo - This bingo is a heavyweight too. It hosts a new bingo at the start of every month, with a different theme each time, usually based on the month. Their July bingo is Plurality so you can check that out. Signups run for the whole month. 5x5 and 3x3 cards, multifandom, they'll reblog your works for up to a year but no real posting deadline.

@multifandom-flash - This one also hosts multiple bingos, and all of them are open indefinitely. They have calendar events (bingo based on the month) but also other random ones (soulmates, fear, Marvel, etc.). Card sizes vary. No posting deadline. Most are multifandom, some are fandom-specific.

@eclipsingbingo - This bingo has prompts with a focus on angst and fluff. Their main one is always open, but they've also run one flash bingo, so they might do that again in the future. Multifandom, no posting deadline.

And that's about it! There are others, but these are the ones I've signed up for. It's a lot lol so you can take a look and see if any of them strike your fancy. Have fun!

[blackcrowing]

Important Facts about Bealtaine from an Irish Celtic Reconstructionist

Spelling and Pronunciation

OI. Bealtaine (Bell-tin-Na) has more recently been written as I. Beltaine or Anglicized Beltane (Bell-tain). In the Cormac Glossary it is said to derive from the deity Bel and OI. 'Tene' meaning fire.

Dates

Most Reconstructionists celebrate Bealtaine on April 30th-May 1st, sundown to sundown. Iron age Irish (and other Celts) structured their days from sunset to sunset so while we now track this time as stretching over two days, they would have seen this period as one single day, being the first day of the month of May by the Gregorian calendar. Some Reconsructionists might prefer to celebrate by the Julian calendar which would place this holiday on May 13th-14th (by the Gregorian calendar), still of course from sundown to sundown. In the most traditional sense this holiday would have been celebrated when the livestock was moved from the winter grazing fields out to the summer grazing fields.

Importance in Mythos

Most mythological reference to this holiday comes in the form of the movement of peoples or invasions of peoples.

The mythological invasion of Partholon and his people occurred on Bealtaine and the plague that wiped them out also began on that date and lasted a week. The Tuath De Danann are said to have arrived on the island on Bealtine as well and lastly the Sons of Mil are said to have invaded on this date also (Macalister, 1940).

In later times when Christianity had made its mythologies the way of the land and the old deities were moved to the status of Fae this idea of movement and invasion seems to have persisted. Traditions hold that this date is a dangerous time for mortals as the aes sídhe are moving amongst the daoine sí and may stop by unsuspecting homes to ask for butter or perhaps some water, but if this request is granted they will steal the homes luck for the year.

I will make a note here that while the Cormac Glossary notes the deity Bel there is no Celtic/Gaelic deity of this name (though there is a Mesopotamian one) and this seems to cause a lot of confusion, especially when it comes to Wiccancentic ideas and articles. Cormac was likely referring to the Celtic/Gaelic deity Belenus NOT the Mesopotamian Bel. Belenus/Belenos was associated with the sun and healing and during the Gallo-Roman period was often noted to be the Gaelic Apollo. There is evidence to suggest that Belenus/Belenos was known throughout the Celtic/Gaelic world, though we don't have any specific information about how prominently he was worshiped in Ireland itself it is relatively safe to assume that the Iron age Irish would have known who he was.

Celebration Traditions

Like on Samhain, at the opposing 'end' of the year livestock were transitioned from one grazing area to another. While on Samhain, when the 'dark' half of the year begins and the livestock are moved in from summer grazing to winter grazing, Bealtaine is the opposite. It begins the 'light' half of the year and livestock are moved from the winter grazing out to the summer pastures. At both holidays to ensure healthy animals and protect them from any malicious factors great bonfires were built (most notably on the hill of Uisneach) and livestock would be driven between them.

There seems to be a traditional emphasis on the protection of homes, barns, livestock, peoples, and crops. Generally this seems to be a time when warding against ill luck for the community became a focus. Yellow, specifically yellow flowers (primrose, gorse or hawthorn blossoms), appear to have played a role in this as they have been used to decorate, but when exactly this tradition originated is unknown. The healing wells of Ireland and specifically the dew on the morning of Bealtaine have been thought to be important. Some traditions hold that the dew, when washed with will bring beauty, while others think if drank by the milk cows it would cause them to produce more, but again the origins of these traditions are relatively unknown.

Interesting History to take into Consideration

Given Bealtines long lasting history in Irish mythological tradition of being associated with mass movements of peoples and a need to protect ones family and community in this tumultuous time it is -possible- these ideas persist due to the movements (and possibly famines or plagues) during the "Megadrought" of the Bronze age (1250-1100 BCE). Most studies have focused on the effects of the Mediterranean at this time, but it is reasonable to assume the ripples of effects could have been felt strongly enough in Ireland to leave a lasting impression, especially since it is not outlandish to assume that people fleeing the Mediterranean area, which was no longer able to adequately sustain them, may have fled to the more temperate British Isles and passed on their trauma through oral tradition. This could possibly be backed up by looking at the etymology of 'Bel' not as referencing Beleus/Beleos but as referencing the Irish Balor (or perhaps they are different aspects of the same figure) who embodies not the life sustaining properties of the sun but the deadly and destructive ones. Balor balcbéimnech, 'Balor the strong smiter,' Balor birugerc, ' Balor of the piercing eye,' Balor mae Doit meic Néid, 'Balor son of Dot son of Néit.'

This is obviously only my personal opinion and can be taken or dismissed as one likes.

My Kofi

[aevumisles]

╰┈➤ AEVUM ISLES :: 1ST YEAR ANNIVERSARY ❂

Hello, All! It is with absolute pleasure that Aevum Isles Staff can finally announce Aevum Isle's first year anniversary! To celebrate, Staff has compiled a few OOC Goodies for members of the Isles, ranging from exclusive charms to a full Marketplace Sale! In-universe, the Guardians may be spotted around the Temporal Gardens. Echoes may ask them any question during any Inbox Run throughout the month!

A Foreword, from the Mods .

Even just one year ago, it could not be said that multi-fandom roleplay groups had much of a place in Tumblr's larger ecosystem. The larger roleplay community has seen plenty of fandoms rise and fall. New and old faces come and go, and as life goes on, things change within the larger RP scene, and Tumblr at large. When it comes to tumblr-based MFRPs, most often, groups start with great ambition, and grand ideas, only to find themselves doomed to fade out within four to six months of opening, if not less.

Aevum Isles is not that group. Nor will we be.

As the first year anniversary comes and goes, Nov. 13th marks a monumental occasion, not just for the Isles and our community, but for Tumblr MFRP as a whole. Despite everything, Aevum has made it through a year, and continues to go strong. It is not lost to us that it is entirely thanks to each and every one our members that Aevum Isles has been able to grow and thrive as a roleplay community.

Some of you have been with us from the beginning. Others have only joined recently. Some have passed through and gone again, and others have appeared from seemingly out of thin air! Regardless of how, when, or why, each and every member who has been a part of Aevum, past, present, and future is a big part of something wonderful. Our community wouldn't be what it is today (or here at all!) without all of you to be a part of it.

So from us to you: thank you.

— 🏵️ Creo & Leillis  🌸

NOTE: While this is not an event and will not count towards event participation, that does not mean that the Isles should not celebrate! All of the following are available for redemption and/or application from November 13th - November 30th!

Anniversary Charms.

The following charms are available for redemption at the Marketplace! To redeem one off the below charms, please send the following message to the Marketplace Inbox:

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First Year Anniversary Charm

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Ebenos and Ivurie Stats Page Charm

Light and Dark. Stillness and Motion. Energy and Mass. If you have ranked up, participated in an Festival or Blue Moon or redeemed an item or ability, this charm is for you!

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FIRST DAY FOUNDING MEMBERS will receive an exclusive pin from the Aevum Isles Masterlist Blog. Please be on the lookout for a private ask/submission from Staff with the pin by 8PM EST 11/16/2024. If you are a founding member and do not receive your pin by 8pm EST on 11/16, please send the Masterlist an ask to let us know that Tumblr ate it!

Marketplace Wares.

Marketplace Sweep!

For the month of November, every item (including ability and item unlocks) in the Aevum Marketplace is 50% off!

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The normal Marketplace Item Form is still required to buy items from the Marketplace.

Aevum Isles Anniversary Voucher! | ITEM LIMIT: 1

The Anniversary Voucher may be used on ONE applicable item up to ONE MARKET TIER ABOVE your current rank!

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Aevum Magical Items | ITEM LIMIT: 3

The following items can be claimed throughout the Anniversary.

These items are FREE, and can be redeemed through the ask format below.

Aether Staves

Curved staves that, when used together, can locate pools of Ebenos (silver) and Ivurie (gold) Aether.

A specialty craft by the Ebenos Metal Arts Council, who once used them to siphon Aether into ancient magical tools and weapons.

The practice is no longer as prominent, but they are cool collectibles!

M.I.M.I. Hologram

M.I.M.I. is the well-known virtual assistant of all Kiwi Electronics. While she typically can only be heard, East Tower Company has manufactured a holographic version of the beloved A.I. Now anyone can have a mini M.I.M.I. of their own!

M.I.M.I. typically takes the appearance of a teal cat that follows nearby when she is activated. She cannot directly interact with the real world, but can interface with technology when instructed.

Aether Terrarium

A single-plant terrarium that will constantly monitor and maintain its environment in accordance to your plant's needs.

A glass cloche surrounds the plant, ensuring the correct amount of sunlight and moisture is maintained.

Designed by the West Tower Society for plant lovers who struggle with care... or have a finicky house plant!

Illusional Toys

These toys can be found at Buster Barns Toys in the Crystal Heights Mall. While these toys may seem ordinary, each of them is enchanted with minor effects to give them some extra pizzaz.

The toy can be anything, with one of the following effects:

Elemental Rune - This toy always matches the day and night cycles of the Isles.

Emotion Rune - This toy's color matches the mood of the owner.

Animation Rune - This toy can move on its own, or create minor effects such as sparkles or smoke clouds.

Illumination Rune- This toy can glow, and does not require charge from sunlight.

Deception Rune - This toy (typically game pieces) will always let you win.

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Hello! I'd like to redeem the [item name here] with 'rune here (if applicable)] for [muse name] from [muse series]. Today's date is [date]. Thank you!

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Aevum Daily Updates

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General Aevum Isles Guidelines (Update!)

Acceptable Characters (Update!)

EXPECTED: 11/16/2024

[homestuckreplay]

Same Wasteland, Different Wanderer

(page 722-738)

THIS IS IT. This is like the moment when Rose comes back online on page 240 and John rushes to complete the initial alchemy process and one step leads perfectly to the next and to the next and John takes a bite of the apple right as the meteor impacts. This is the adrenaline rush, the moment when everything comes together, all these disparate elements that have been introduced throughout the act sliding into place, looking down at the finished puzzle and how naturally it all fits after four months of mystery and confusion. THIS IS IT.

I’m so unbelievably excited by this set of pages that it’s hard to even know where to begin.

WV and GG have been silently paralleled all along, our green coded, initials based characters. WV is so drawn to the color green because they have spent so long in ‘an arid, sandy wasteland upon which nothing green has grown in years’ (p.724). In every two-way pesterlog GG has taken part in (p.169, 293, 382, 442) besides the most recent one, they’ve discussed the mail. WV has a mailbox flag as a knife, and our new character, the Peregrine Mendicant, has a whole cartful of mailboxes. This Mendicant is a tall, white chess piece, and is here from the luminous planet, in the same wasteland as WV.

It turns out that WV’s bunker consists of not one but three rooms. These are marked by a Sburb house logo (the room we’ve already seen), a Sburb spirograph (which is locked), and an alchemical fractal, similar but different to the one on John’s alchemiter (p.161). In the alchemiter room are two screens and a programmable display. On the left screen, a three dimensional view of planet earth, currently showing the Americas. On the right screen, a diagrammatic representation of WV’s art project (p.702-704) and Nannasprite’s lore (p.422-425). Four planets in a circle, each with seven gates leading to a central Skaia, orbited and defended by a luminous planet, this whole system orbited by an ominous planet separated from the rest by a veil of darkness.

On the programmable display, a set of coordinates – latitude, longitude, elevation and time. The geographical coordinates correspond to a remote part of the South Pacific ocean. The closest landmass is Baker Island, and the closest populated landmass is Tokelau. It’s close to the international date line, but not over it – the timezone is likely UTC-11 (based on this proximity and on Midway Atoll, several thousand miles directly north). The time coordinates are April 13, 2009, 12:13pm. This is Homestuck, so this must be 4:13pm John’s time – placing John once and for all in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7).

Pressing the large button below the coordinates allows WV to ‘appearify’ an object from the place and time the coordinates are set to. In this case it’s a pumpkin, and not just any pumpkin – it has a symbol carved into it, one we’ve seen before in our one glimpse of gardenGnostic (p.665). GG isn’t on another planet and doesn’t live in the future, at least not when the story starts.

All of these things we know, and I’m on such a high of actually knowing things in this story. But there are, of course, still some open questions.

There are two other buttons either side of the blue ‘appearify’ button – a Sburb house button and a button with the bunker layout. Their function is unknown, but the Sburb button might switch the focal screen from Earth to the full Skaian system, allowing WV to select a different planet to enter coordinates for, and the bunker button may set the coordinates to the present location.

The ‘previous user’ of the bunker, mentioned on p.733, still isn’t known – but they locked the screen showing Dave in the Sburb house room, locked the spirograph room entirely, and set the coordinates to GG’s current location. It is possible that GG herself was the previous user, and was somehow able to use this machine to send herself to these coordinates in space and time. Her being a time traveler would explain some things.

In the sky, as the bunker’s timer ticks down, another celestial event is occurring. This one, linked from page 723, looks similar to our first glimpse of John’s meteor (p.195) – however, this is happening ‘not as few [minutes in the future] as implied by circumstance’, so the timer is not counting down to its impact. Its exact nature, I would guess, will be revealed by the end of the act.

[josiebelladonna]

last night, somehow, by some whim, i started reading about my favorite f1 drivers, and i’m talking back when i was watching it religiously with my dad—2005-2011; 2012, i was watching it for the most part by myself; i remember i quit watching in 2013 because things were getting way too political to be enjoyable and everyone i liked was either without a drive or they sucked in the previous season and i wasn’t in the best headspace then. then somehow, i caught the 2016 season, right after jules passed away and that was it after that.

one of my first cartoon endeavors was called “life in the paddock”: a hand drawn comic/fanfiction that i made when i wasn’t focusing on school. i made my last cartoon in summer 2011 when my home life was in shambles and i had to focus on going to college and also surviving; i wouldn’t even touch the cartoon world again until that following may with my soundgarden ones. i remember it so well, from january 2007 - july 2011. in fact, just last night, i got the honest to god stupidest idea to resurrect it from the grave, 13 years after its untimely demise à la soundgarden’s reunion—if i do, it’s going to have to wait until i finish my kinktober fics, which i actually plan on signing and sealing and queuing up all the way in the coming days. it + throughout the dark months of april and may could be a wonderful balance to my testament fics. things that go vroom vroom to balance out the complex crush that i never want to stop exploring.

my guys are always going to be kimi räikkönen, robert kubica, nick heidfeld, jenson button, mark webber, takuma sato (his winning the indy 500 back in 2017 was easily a bright light for me in that summer), adrian sutil, “the nicos” (rosberg and hulk), the schumacher brothers, and i even liked bruno senna and timo glock for a while; i had the weirdest fucking soft spot for vitaly petrov, too (and when i say weird, i mean it—the dude was backed by putin and the mob, so i remember being seen as like the “bad girl” or even the “hellraiser” on the old groups and boards i used to frequent—that title literally just stayed with me the last 12 years 😅)

it’ll never not be wild to me to see how much it’s changed now. how americanized it all is now. the fandom now is like kpop twitter before twitter fell under elon’s control, a far cry from the kind of sassy, snarky fandom i had cozied up with initially.

when i was watching, it was insulated away from everything. it was a very ritzy, very glamorous atmosphere. it was all very high tech.

i’m literally not sure what happened after 2016. it’s got this “how do you do, fellow kids” vibe but slightly to the left.

[ofepiphxny]

✧ ― 𝐑𝐇𝐘𝐍𝐄 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍

〈  daniel sharman  /  cis man  /  he + him  /  36 (360) 〉in the great land of prythian, RHYNE EVERSTON of the AUTUMN COURT (FROM SPRING COURT) begins their journey towards a new future. known to be RESOURCEFUL AND AMBITIOUS, their suspected BLUNT AND CALCULATING habits might prove to be their undoing. if the fae could compose a song for them, it could tell stories of CALCULATING GAZES SHIFTING THROUGH THE CROWDS, THE MEMORIES OF WAR NEVER QUITE SUBSIDING, AMBITIOUS INTENT LINGERING WITHIN EACH STEP, AND TIGHT SMILES THAT HOLD MORE BEHIND THEM. the fates whispers to the EMISSARY OF THE AUTUMN COURT and it is said that their loyalties lie with AUTUMN COURT & PRYTHIAN. only time will tell if the HIGH FAE has what it takes to live amongst the ruin.

name: rhyne (rine) everston nicknames: rhy face claim: daniel sharman pronouns & gender: he/him & cis man orientation: pansexual, panromantic age: 36/360 date of birth: april 22nd zodiac sign: taurus place of birth: the spring court court: the autumn court position: emissary species: high fae abilities: spring court specific magic (plant manipulation – competent, shapeshifting – novice), winnowing, hasn’t learned autumn court magic family: unknown father (status unknown), ollana everston (mother; deceased), brea everston (older sister; deceased), serrah everston (younger sister; deceased) moral alignment: true neutral mbti: istj enneagram: 5w6 vice & virtue: envy & diligence character inspos: derek hale (teen wolf), sasuke uchiha (naruto), azriel (acotar) inspo songs: stories by jackson guthy i’ll be good by jaymes young lost in the moment by nf and andreas moss exile by taylor swift and bon iver dying in la by panic! at the disco our house by you me at six ━ history (death tw, murder tw) (tl;dr below)

Spring used to bring a sense of peace. Now it was a reminder of the opposite. Rhyne could still remember the fields of flowers, rolling green hills, and music filling halls. But perhaps the Spring Court was always fated to go down a dark path despite the beautiful surroundings outwardly whispering otherwise to the ignorant. The High Lord at the time had made a truce with dark forces, a cruel domino effect unleashing as a result. Rhyne’s elder sister and younger sister, with Rhy the middle child, stuck close to each other during this time, attempting to stay out of trouble. Battles erupted throughout Prythian, all while there were a few fought within Spring Court too. Those who tried rebelling, only to be met with harsh ends. But even innocents were used as part of the warnings, threats signifying that this was what would happen if you didn’t obey the hierarchy of power.

Rhyne’s youngest sister, a sweet girl who was merely a bystander, was killed in front of him and his other sister. She had been there, not harming anybody, holding her basket of freshly picked flowers she would usually sell to the citizens. The flowers fell to the ground, trampled on and forgotten. Rhy had seen red. He remembered clearly. It was only his elder sister who kept him from doing something that would’ve gotten him killed too. Rhy had never been a warrior, barely ever wielded a knife. If anything, it was the sister who held him back who had always been much stronger and more tactful. Beyond that, much wiser. Even as grief had struck her too. Wise even then. Their sister’s burial had been hard, Rhyne having held one of her favorite flowers in his hands as if it were the most delicate thing ever. He had placed it upon her grave, whispering a broken apology that may as well have been lost to the wind.

A few months went by with careful planning. Members of the court had hatched a plan to escape, to try and find refuge in the neighboring courts. Intentions to defect from the harsh rule they wanted no part of and were sick of. Various faes silently prayed that stealth was on their side as they made for Autumn Court territory. But guards were alerted not long after and intercepted them. But the downcast look on Rhyne’s face flickered to sheer bafflement as his elder sister pulled out her sword to start fighting them off. Two others followed suit to assist her. “Go!” she had shouted. “Go, Rhy! And don’t look back!” His sister’s face and those last words still haunted him. A shuttering chill had run through him as she was being cut down, just as his feet began taking him through that tunnel. The guilt Rhyne felt had never subsided. He was a coward that day. He left her even if she had ordered him – pleaded him – to do so.

Spring greens were replaced by the reds and oranges of the Autumn Court. Not only due to his new surroundings, but also the clothes off his back, as if washing off the past. For the ones who made it across, they were a little surprised at Autumn’s acceptance of their arrival. It wasn’t that it was right off the bat, but it didn’t take as long as they had braced themselves for. But maybe any deflectors from their adversaries were welcome when they had common enemies. Rhy, on the other hand, had been a mess and blacked out for what felt like days after that. And it took a while, but he gradually began accepting more of the hands outstretched toward him. Both of his sisters were gone now, and something had changed in him. A light in his eyes had dimmed. He had become less sociable. Blunter. Even started learning to fight, enough to not be helpless like he had felt before.

He began helping the Autumn Court with information too. Having been a Spring Court deflector, anything would be invaluable. After the queen’s sacrifice, war had started to subside. Maybe on the battlefield, but battles still played in the hearts and minds of those in Prythian like haunting violins. After dismissing the offer several times, Rhyne eventually accepted the role as emissary. That was around fifty years ago. Even now, it is still difficult for him to step foot onto Spring Court territory on Autumn business. But he does it. Maybe the wounds will eventually heal all together but so far, time has felt like a blur. ━ tl;dr

Rhyne grew up alongside fields of flowers, rolling green hills, and music filling halls in the Spring Court, but the court ended up going down a dark path

Their High Lord at the time made a truce with Hybern, and Rhyne and his sisters stuck close to each other during this time, trying to stay out of trouble

There were some rebels in the Spring Court who tried going against the new hierarchy but were punished, including with death

Rhyne’s youngest sister was someone who was used as an example, killed even though she was an innocent as a threat to everyone else thinking of picking fights

Months later, a few Spring Court members planned an escape to deflect to other courts, this group including Rhyne and his remaining elder sister

They were intercepted at the borders, and his sister and others fought off the guards to allow the remainders to escape, Rhy included

Fleeing to the Autumn Court, he helped them with information on Spring, and he eventually became the emissary for his new court

━ headcanons

Whenever he’s in spring court on emissary duties, he’ll visit where his sisters’ graves are and also what used to be their childhood home

Usually keeps a flower or two in his pocket because they remind him of his youngest sister, who loved flowers and used to put them in his hair too

Doesn’t fight much but has learned general combat, and usually at least carries around a dagger and/or short sword

Is more of a minimalist and has a pretty small home that he hasn’t bothered decorating

[kayzero]

So like. Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII don’t exist in the Pokémon universe. So there’s no reason for the Julian or Gregorian calendars to exist. Angels don’t exist in the Pokémon universe either, so the Enoch calendar, but the story behind that is Uriel came down and gave Enoch a calendar with exactly 13 weeks in all four seasons for 364 days.

Black and White confirmed that the Pokémon universe has four seasons, and it’s entirely possible for a human to have created a calendar splitting Arceus’ eighteen Plates throughout the year, each month containing 4 five-day weeks.

And if they did, the months could look something like this:

[ Image ID: A list containing all eighteen Pokémon types split between the four seasons. Spring has Normal, Fairy, Poison, and Electric types, with Electric underlined. Summer has Grass, Bug, Fire, Steel, and Fighting types, with Grass and Bug italicized and Fire underlined. Autumn has Psychic, Flying, Ground, and Dragon, with Flying Underlined. Finally, Winter has Rock, Ghost, Ice, Dark, and Water, with Ice and Water underlined. / End ID. ]

Explanations under the cut.

Summer and Winter have five months because of math Fire and Ice are the Summer and Winter Types. These are explained in-universe as the Supreme (Type) Months, the months in the dead middle of their respective seasons without any dimming or bleeding into the next season. And this is TRUE in the Pokémon universe because (most) people aren’t stupid enough to cause ecological disasters when causing an ecological disaster awakens an all-powerful legendary Pokémon that’s angry at you specifically for causing an ecological disaster! Global warming doesn’t exist! People are afraid of Cappy the Polar Ice Cap Legendary smacking them out of existence!

I’m open to discussion and suggestions about where to shift each type.

Italicized types were considered for a different season, and will be explained more thoroughly.

Underlined types probably won’t be changed without an Astounding Logical Argument that makes me feel stupid for even considering anything else.

Spring:

Animals give birth in the spring and Normal Type Pokémon are based on normal animals.

Fairies are associated with. Um. *flips notes* n. nature. i’m gonna be real with you in every planned-but-not-written explanation of a human sensing fairy type energy i describe it as “smelling wildflowers” and that’s all that went through my head.

Poisonous animals like frogs and snakes and the like. They hibernate. They come out of hibernation in the spring. Yay! This could easily be Winter for the same reason PLUS the fact that you store poisons in cold, sometimes freezing, temperatures.

Electric likely will not change. Thunderstorms happen most frequently in the spring months, because of the moisture and the heat present in the air. Electric could have easily been a Summer Type but I figured that because it rains more frequently in the spring because of snowmelt (“April Showers … May Flowers”), it would be easy to rationalize thunderstorms happening more often in the Spring in Pokéland.

Summer:

Grass and Bug were both considered for Spring because of the whole winter melts away and grass blooms and whatnot and then of course once the plants bloom it attracts the bugs. If I were going to change these two Grass would go to Spring and Bug would stay in Summer maybe.

But I ended up choosing Summer for these two because the summer sun makes the Grass grow and also all the other plants and then the heat and humidity brings all the Bugs to the yard. and they’re like. your sweat is tasty. why do bugs swarm humans we’re so much bigger than them.

Fire is unlikely to change. It’s the Sound of Summer. Summer hot. Sun go brr. Heat Wave Waves Heatingly. Etcetera.

You use fires to forge Steel. Or something along those lines. Honestly I just pulled that out of my butt, I was thinking about Heatran and like Heatran is a legendary and sub Steel. Volcanos or whatever.

THE FLAMES OF YOUTH IGNITE WITHIN FIGHTING TYPES and that’s why they’re in the summer. If you try to fight in the winter you like. Cramp up or something right? Is that bias? I hate winter it causes my body pain.

Autumn

Psy. chic? Fall Season is. appropriately. brain. y. (this is literally my favorite type i was NOT going to put it into the Evil Winter Season. die winter. i hope the global warms faster i’d rather drown than freeze.)

Flying was unlikely to change... however, migration plus tornadoes sneason was my initial thought. But Tornadus-Therian Searion is actually in the spring and migration is a two way street, the birds come back in the pringles. I might just. Switch Flying and Poison. If you Aggron Agree with switching Flying with Poison let me know in the comments.

You know how you run out of spaces and a type just HAS to go into a slot? Luckily I only had one of those. Unlucky it was Dragon. You smart folks probably have a better idea as to what Dragon should switch into but unless you have a good reason as to why the second Type should switch out, don’t @ me (or do @ me I like the attention).

Winter

Mountains are wintery and snowy because they’re so tall. And do you know what mountains are made of? …You do? Can you tell me, I’m lost, I thought they were made of chocolate but they don’t melt in the summer time so that idea’s washed…

Ghost was originally in the Fall, because Spooky Halloween, except not only could October totally be in the Winter now that I’m in charge of the calendar, and if it can’t, then Halloween doesn’t have to be a Fall holiday, it can be a winter holiday!

Ice? Ice. Baby.

Do you know how Dark it gets during the winter? How quickly it gets Dark? Even if we eliminate Daylight Savings (and we are eliminating Daylight Savings) the Equinox still happens in Winter. Days are still shorter. Darker. Sneasel type.

Water is unlikely to change. Like, it was initially in the spring because “oh look the ice is melting it’s time for spring” no bitch that shit cold. the ocean is cold. even during the summer the lakes are cold. it’s at the end of Winter towards the Spring side of things but That Shit Cold.

and that’s it that’s all i have does anyone have ideas for month names or day names aren’t the months named after like. emperors or something. should we name the months after legendaries. If someone comes up with a month name that’s a palindrome that starts with Ho and ends with oh I’ll give you $10. Call that a fiction commission.

[christinescupofcoffee]

one of my 9 wips — Throughout the Dark Months of April and May

the other 8:

Quarter After Twelve | As the Seasons Grey | Love is Not Enough | Blood & Chocolate | The Confectioner’s Tale | The Skeleton Key | Midnight Oil | Time is Coming | (i also have a few works that are anonymous)

started — April 2024 | genre — black comedy, murder mystery posing as fanfiction | pov — 1st person perspective | status — first draft | currently — writing! | themes — illness, death, mental trauma, body horror, poverty, loss, adult fears, tragic romance, a painfully unreliable narrator

blurb | Following his mother’s illness, Richard finds himself all alone. But after taking a ride with the friendly woman back to his house, maybe he’s not as alone as originally thought. And more so when he uncovers her secrets.

excerpt | “The passenger window rolled down, and I spotted a woman behind the wheel. She clicked on the overhead light so I could see her smooth black hair and her olive skin.

“You look like you’re headed somewhere,” she called out to me, and I inched closer to the window to better speak to her.

“I’m waiting for my friend,” I confessed to her over the roar of the motorway off in the distance. “But I don’t know where he is, though.”

“Doesn’t seem like much of a friend,” she so bluntly put it. I swallowed at that. “I could give you a lift. I came to talk to the hospital administrator about something really quick, but I think they went to dinner.”

“Yeah, it’s… getting a bit late,” I remarked.

“Hop in, and I’ll go and do that really quick. It’ll only take about five minutes, if that. If you don’t mind waiting.”

“Well… as long as I’m in a really beautiful car, I don’t mind at all.”

note: originally started anonymously back in April of this year, immediately following my mom’s blood clots, plus our nearly losing our house and her falling out with my brother and his showing us that he’s kind of a verbal abuser. We have been struggling for money pretty much all year and aside from the $155 we made on a gofundme that I started for us (and we spent it on a week’s worth of dinner, we were that desperate), it feels like no one wants to help or support us.

Richard has always struck me as tragic, being from the gutters of Birmingham and, knowing how many head injuries he’s suffered makes him into a prime unreliable narrator (for one thing, is Gabby’s Porsche red or blue?) This fic has been somewhat of a flagship for my mood this year given the Antarctic references—“Throughout the Dark Months of April and May” is a Cocteau Twins song, which they borrowed from David Attenborough and his book on Antarctica; my kinktober this year has been tagged “antarkinktober”; for mermay, my lead mermaid was named Vostok, and she hailed from the Southern Ocean. I’ve just felt… cold, for lack of a better word.

[felassan]

Spacelab9 have revealed more details about the upcoming Dragon Age Vinyl box set. (It's a 70 track collection which will include songs from DA:O, DAII, DA:I, DLC and also some DA:I bard songs.)

I found this new info blurb about the cover art really interesting 👁️ (emphasis mine):

Deluxe package features all-original artwork by Dragon Age Concept Director Ramil Sunga and Lead UX Artist Danny Richardson, created exclusively for this album set. The beautifully detailed artwork presents a pictorial timeline following the lore of the Dragon Age series, beginning at the dawn of the Golden City, throughout the City's Fall and culminating in its re-emergence as the Black City, seat of the Old Gods. [source]

hello??? (the announcement blogpost for the vinyl contained the flavor text "From the land of Thedas, at the dawn of the Golden City".)

they also announced that the pre-sale for the box set was scheduled to begin April 27th (can't see it atm unless I'm missing it, maybe it's not yet started?) and that on the BioWare Gear Store it will begin on May 10th. each outlet will offer their own exclusive color variant of the vinyl.

lastly they also posted the full track listing (emphasis mine):

"DISC 1 SIDE A [DRAGON AGE ORIGINS]

1. DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS (2:49) 2. ELVES AT THE MERCY OF MAN (1:21) 3. RUINS OF OSTAGAR (1:18) 4. THE COMMON DWARF (1:24) 5. THE PARTY CAMP (0:44) 6. THE DALISH (1:18) 7. DARKSPAWN IN THE WILDS (1:13) 8. HUMAN NOBILITY (1:21) 9. URN OF SACRED ASHES (1:01) 10. JOIN THE GREY WARDENS (1:53) 11. BATTLE THE DARKSPAWN HORDES (1:05) 12. MAGES IN THEIR CHANTRY (2:01) 13. LELIANNA'S SONG (2:33)

DISC 1 SIDE B [DRAGON AGE ORIGINS]

1. THE CHANTRY'S HUBRIS (3:16) 2. THE NATURE OF THE BEAST (1:30) 3. TAVERN BRAWL (1:15) 4. THE DALISH ELVES ENCAMPMENT (1:18) 5. FERELDEN AT WAR (2:57) 6. KING EDRIN (1:32) 7. CHALLENGE AN ARCH DEMON (3:12) 8. THE CORONATION (1:03) 9. I AM THE ONE (HIGH FANTASY VERSION) (4:02)

DISC 2 SIDE A [DRAGON AGE II]

1. DRAGON AGE II MAIN THEME (2:03) 2. HAWKE FAMILY THEME (2:00) 3. QUNARI ON THE RISE (2:04) 4. LOVE SCENE (1:39) 5. VISCOUNT (1:29) 6. TAVERN MUSIC (2:11) 7. KIRKWALL ARRIVAL (5:13) 8. ROGUE HEART (3:12)

DISC 2 SIDE B [DRAGON AGE II]

1. JOURNEY TO DEEP FEAR (2:55) 2. MAGE PRIDE (4:03) 3. KIRKWALL TOWN ACT 2 EXPLORATION (2:05) 4. DARK DAWN (3:22) 5. FENRIS THEME (2:30) 6. NIGHT ATTACK AND VICTORY (1:56) 7. DESTINY OF LOVE (3:25)

DISC 3 SIDE A [DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION]

1. DRAGON AGE INQUISITION THEME (2:52) 2. THE WRATH OF HEAVEN (5:25) 3. ESCAPE FROM THE FADE (1:14) 4. CALLING THE INQUISITION (1:59) 5. IN HUSHED WHISPERS (4:49) 6. THE WESTERN APPROACH (2:07) 7. JOURNEY TO SKYHOLD (1:48)

DISC 3 SIDE B [DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION]

1. THE DAWN WILL COME (1:58) 2. ORLAIS THEME (2:44) 3. THE SCAR (0:56) 4. SIEGE OF ADAMANT (1:14) 5. WICKED EYES AND WICKED HEARTS (3:35) 6. THEDAS LOVE THEME (1:59) 7. CHAMPIONS OF THE JUST (3:55) 8. SACRIFICE (1:01) 9. RETURN TO SKYHOLD (2:13) 10. EPILOGUE (1:10)

DISC 4 SIDE A (BONUS DLC TRACKS)

1. I AM THE ONE (DARK FANTASY VERSION) [DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS] (4:10) 2. MAIN THEME [DAI DESCENT DLC] (2:58) 3. AFTERMATH [DAI DESCENT DLC] (1:29) 4. DARK SOLAS THEME [DAI TRESPASSER DLC] (3:01) 5. QUNARI ATMOSPHERE [DAI TRESPASSER DLC] (2:41) 6. LOST ELF THEME [DAI TRESPASSER DLC] (3:58) 7. D'READ KODA (1:08) [HIDDEN TRACK]

DISC 4 SIDE B (DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION - THE BARD SONGS)

1. ENCHANTERS (3:23) 2. GREY WARDEN (2:12) 3. I AM THE ONE (1:58) 4. ONCE WE WERE (2:10) 5. RISE (1:26) 6. SERA (1:45) 7. FALL OF THE MAGISTER (3:01) 8. SCOUT LACE HARDING (2:08) 9. THE SLIGHTEST ONES (2:28)" [source]

👁️ Hidden track - "D'Read Koda"? ^^ Koda like a coda? (of interest here is that the recent Mass Effect vinyl collection contained some previously unreleased and some rearranged/remastered music.)

[source]

[feverinfeveroutfic]

i use my sex as a weapon and the drinks are for free, i’m as cold as ice on the floor of the desert, i burn with the blood of water to find the sea, i use my wounded sex as a weapon and the drinks are for free

Victorialand __ a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from 70°30’S to 78°00’S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after Queen Victoria.

In 1981, lichens found at Victoria Land attracted the attention of NASA because lichens may give clues about where to look for the existence of extraterrestrial life on Mars or elsewhere. Dr. George Denton, a glaciologist at the University of New Hampshire, looked for microorganisms on Mount Lister, one of the highest in Antarctica; it has the same kind of sandstone in which lichens grow.

2. Victorialand is the fourth studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Cocteau Twins, released by 4AD in 1986. Working without bassist Simon Raymonde, vocalist Elizabeth Fraser and guitarist/producer Robin Guthrie opted for a subtler sound on the album. […]

The album title refers to the part of Antarctica known as Victoria Land, after Queen Victoria (and forming the British claim to the continent, currently dormant under international treaty). Some of the track titles were borrowed from passages on the Arctic and Antarctic in David Attenborough's The Living Planet, A Portrait of the Earth, the accompanying book to his 1984 BBC nature documentary series The Living Planet; an example is "Throughout the dark months of April and May, the birds display to one another and finally mate" on page 54.

the fics i’ve penned so far with the actual victorialand collection are anonymous so i’ll leave the links out until further notice 😉

the title refers to tequila sunrise and Tijuana sunset as well as “Tijuana bible” because at this point in time, you need to have brains and balls to do erotic fic.

you must donate exactly one (1) fuck to me for every 500 words i write. two fucks = 1000 words, three fucks = 1500 words, so on so forth. i have a tendency to get wordy with my erotic writing so a 10k beastie is a whopping 20 fucks given. no need to give up your anonymity if you like! there’s no dodgy behavior here so i’ll not only respect your privacy but i promise you, my hand on my grandparents’ ashes, there won’t be any potentially dirty money going around making the fbi give you the side eye as time goes on. money’s tight, anyways, go spend it on flour or tissues.

anything goes with me, but since this is kinktober we’re talking, i should tell you that i’m not comfortable with anything pregnancy/breeding kink related, anything daddy kink-related, or anything having to do with virginity. i am also completely bored with standard penetration. i like it weird, much to everyone’s chagrin.

i’m currently on hiatus/summer vacation on main and i’m working on my other wips right now, but i’ll be off from vacay the day after labor day, september 3rd, 2024. kinktober 2024 fics won’t be dropping until 9pm pacific time on september 30th, so mark your calendars! i have my own prompts and i’m going to leave them as a little surprise for spooky season.

also: september 29th is alex’s birthday. Rosh Hashanah this year is on october 2nd at sunset. the 16th is the start date of Sukkoth. the 11th is Yom Kippur. who knows, i might pour out a little extra shot of whiskey instead of tequila for him. make a really gorgeous, really sexy jewish libra boy a nice manhattan 🍹

fic titles:

”Treacle”

”And You Will Know Me”

”Cactus Jack’s”

”Cardamom Kisses”

”Bluebonnets”

”Wandering, Wandering”

”Hai-Bar”

”Espresso”

”Songkran Drought”

”Tierra Del Fuego”

”Jack of Hearts”

”Areias do Tempo”

”Red”

“Lily Munster Has Got Nothin’ On You”

”Ugly Truth”

”’Til Tel Aviv”

“Sandstone”

”Playa La Ropa”

”Bastards and Boozehounds”

“Pulmonaria”

”Prayer Hands”

”Spiderwebs on the Heart”

“Olives”

”Don the Beachcomber”

”Lady Godiva’s House”

“Devil’s Tea Time”

”Ten Miles High”

”Amorsolo”

“Lilac Treehouse”

”Painted Roses”

”Lunatic Kibbitz”

shabbat shalom, by the way ✡️

[this-daydream-is-dangerous-13]

How do you interpret Wildest Dreams and Curel Summer

So to answer this, I need to establish a bit more of a timeline. We know the official Haylor one - stuff starts in April, model incident in Australia caused estrangement, stuff starts up again in fall. But that doesn’t line up with Harry’s tattoo timing and the May 20th stuff (see that post for more details). Time to look at late April/early May.

After the incident while in Australia/NZ, Harry gets back to England April 23/24, 2012. He is photographed in Holmes Chapel all week. But on May 1st, he’s at Heathrow. He flies to LAX, where he is met by…a security escort?

Then he completely vanishes. Nothing until night of May 5 or May 6 in England. A certain blonde is also not spotted during this time.

So everything I say here is based on that timeline and speculation based on lyrics. For Taylor, that’s Wildest Dreams, the IKYWT music video (filmed while H and T were dating in Nov 2012), and Run from the Red TV vault. For Harry, the clearest indication would be his recollections from the 1st verse of Keep Driving, and maybe a bit of Little Freak.

So during this period of time, there’s:

- a return to her door (a midnight pickup?). The secret message for The Last Time was “on your break in LA”.

-some sort of road trip (to the desert) together as per Run, Wildest Dreams, and Keep Driving, and the IKYWT video.

- a possible introduction to Ed at her house where the tennis court is no longer covered in a tent-like thing and now has a trampoline on it.

Wildest Dreams and Run cover the same trip - running and hiding to get time alone together. And I bet it’s to some desert location like the music video. And it’s like Treacherous the road trip - she’s hesitant because she is scared it won’t last (this thing was a shot in the dark) but she tries anyway.

He goes back to England and then the band heads to Sweden in mid-May to songwrite for TMH, but it seems like they are in near constant contact until he heads back to the US on May 20th.

Then, they are in and around NYC, and they spend a bunch of time in LA in June. Lots of opportunities for meet ups in hotels, bars, and—in LA—late night pick ups and sneaking through “garden gates”.

Here’s the Ferrari he has in LA by mid June (this cowboy got a fancy car AND the girl):

Here’s a key to Cruel Summer - the “garden gate” reference is a lyrical parallel throughout their songs. Betty and James go to the garden; they run in the garden is Sweet Creature; rose garden filled with thorns in Blank Space; he sits in the garden in Grapejuice. I bet she found it funny at first since what North Americans would call a yard is a garden in the UK.

Anyway - all the sneaking around, no rules in breakable heaven, being scared to declare her love, angelic girl and bad boy with the “devil-may-care” attitude, the growing resentment at keeping everything secret - those months of sneaking around in May/June/maybe early July.

[justinewt]

Meet Emily Holt - AS DUSK FALLS REWRITE OC

[AS DUSK FALLS - MASTERLIST]

Do not use my character without my consent thanks <3

warning: any arts and pictures you’ll see are not mine (I found them on pinterest) and I chose instagram model (insert actor)celeb used) to portray my oc, Emily is a character 100% created by me, Justine but the style of the bio has been inspired by (insert fic universe) wiki and bios made by director Guillermo Del Toro <3

words: 2k

EMILY CHARLOTTE HOLT bio by me

INFORMATIONS

DATE OF BIRTH: around late April 1980

AGE: In May 1998, Emily is freshly 18. She’s about about a month younger than Jay.

(Tyler is 25, so born sometime in September 1973; Dale is 21, born in mid-April 1977 – Dale and Emily are exactly 3 years and 1 week apart – and Jay is 18, born in around March 1980.)

ZODIAC SIGN/MBTI TYPE: Taurus/ISFJ

(headcanons for her family members: I feel like Tyler is ESTJ, so probably a virgo, Dale is ESTP/Aries and Jay INFP/Pisces)

SEX: Female 

NATIONALITY: American

ORIGINS: British (mainly)

OCCUPATION: High school Student at Bridgeley High (1994-1998, she graduated just a month before it all went down)

SKILLS: Horse riding and she was very handy, given she always wanted to work in the barn with her brothers

HOBBY: Horse riding, listening to music and hanging out with her brothers

CHARGES (if she was arrested/went to prison): Conspiracy (12 months of imprisonment); Complicit to burglary (class 3 felony) and guilty of 3rd degree burglary (3 years and 6 months of imprisonment); Complicit to hostage taking with no criminal intent, charged as Class 1 misdemeanour (6 months of imprisonment)

POSSIBLE TIME IN PRISON: minimum 5 years (if arrested, Tyler gets the death penalty if arrested, spends 14 years on death row before being executed in 2012, and if caught, Jay gets the same sentence but his death sentence is commuted to a life sentence without parole)

FAMILY

PARENTS: She’s the only daughter and youngest biological child of Sharon and Bear Holt

SIBLINGS: She has two older brothers, Tyler and Dale, and Jay, though they’re technically cousin.

RELATIVES: Brooke, her mother’s younger sister, Deceased. And unnamed paternal family members; mention of her deceased grandfather.

FRIENDS: Her best friend was the unnamed younger sister of Jessica (Dale’s crush)

EARLY LIFE: Emily was born in late April 1980, exactly 3 years and 1 week after Dale, and exactly one month after Jay, on the same day. So, when he was born and his mother, Sharon’s sister and Emily’s aunt died, and Sharon adopted him, she passed him as her daughter’s fraternal twin and raised her two oldest to consider him their sibling. While Dale and Tyler, their older brothers, grew up treating him as such, they both knew the truth, though Tyler, being older, was more aware of it. Emily was kept in the dark by her mother and learned about it way later.

Their brothers, Tyler and Dale, were respectively 7 and 3 years older than the “twins”. Both helped raising and caring for them, but essentially Tyler as most of the responsibility to care and protect his siblings fell on him as he was the eldest. Dale was very playful, and much more careless and tempestuous so Tyler also had to deal with him, on top of everything else, and was somewhat of a bully towards Jay, at some point using a BB gun on him. He teased him way more than he did Emily because when he did, Tyler would kick his ass (metaphorically speaking, or not), so he contented himself with making jokes. Sometime after Emily was born, Sharon let an almost 8-year-old Tyler hold his baby sister and it seemed to form some kind of bond already as he never forgot how she looked at him with her big eyes and smiled. He grew up to be very protective of his family but even more so of his sister, being on the contrary, quite distant and unaffectionate towards Jay, though he did care for him as well. But throughout their lives, he seemed to subtly, or not, make Jay understand that he cared more about Emily, as if he wasn't as much family.

Until she entered high school, Emily’s favourite brother was beyond the shadow of doubt, Tyler. He raised her and Jay since they were babies and kept Dale from teasing her, teaching her valuable skills, making her grow up to be someone very handy and skilful. She never realized that he felt some resentment and jealousy towards them still, but mostly towards Jay as he knew he wasn’t his biological brother and more or less subconsciously held it against him. He knew everything about his younger siblings, how they kept a squirrel as a pet when they were young, and he knew before she told anyone that she started liking grunge music when she was 11 or 12. For her 12th birthday, he got her the Nevermind album from Nirvana and a CD player, which she ended up sharing with Jay. He didn’t get such gifts for either of his brothers. She already idolized Tyler since she was a child, but he had officially become her favourite brother. At the time, and because she was too young to work, and they weren’t exactly rich, she wanted to find a way to get some money to get herself a pair of Converse, to do like Kurt Cobain so Tyler got her to help him fix things around the house and do chores and a month later, he came home with a box and gave her a pair of black converse, which she started wearing 24/7 at school.

She had a rocky relationship with her father and was quite scared of him for a while, mainly because he could get violent when drunk and hit their mother sometimes and would hit Tyler and Dale too when they got in the middle. But when she was younger, maybe 8 or so, he one day brought home some rabbit he had caught and she wouldn’t listen to him and sit down because she wanted to go play outside with Jay but also because she didn’t want to skin the animal, so he smacked her across the face, bringing her to tears and she ran off. She hid in the barn, in a corner, curled up and quietly crying, until Tyler, then 15-year-old, found her. He had a bruise on his cheek, and she cried even more and asked if he got hit because of her. He dismissed her worries and got her to come out and help him somewhere else on the property. At dinner, her father awkwardly apologised, coming up with excuses and empty words, talking a lot but basically saying nothing, and she just nodded, not really saying anything. She already didn’t trust her father, or feel safe around him, but she certainly wouldn’t after that. After that event, Dale would always crack jokes and used the fact that he was always teasing Jay to make her laugh. He very lightly teased her too but with Tyler watching her, he never went as far as he did with Jay. She was definitely Tyler’s favourite too. The first memory he had with her was her smiling at him as a baby, so he hated seeing her cry. He was as protective of his mother as he was of his sister. 

When she and Jay entered High school, they quickly found out how well-known their family actually was in that school, because all four Holt kids went there and the parents too back in the day. During their first year, Tyler was already 21 and very much working and Dale was already out of school, having dropped out about a year prior, and he would come pick them up everyday when Tyler couldn’t. Jay and Emily were in the same classes, so they were always together but as the freshman year went on, she made friends with other people in some of the classes they didn’t share, though always trying to include Jay in the group, but he went back to staying alone. By the end of the first semester, she had ditched her new friends and preferred to hang out with her brother, though she had kept one good friend, another girl from the group she hung out with and one boy that she liked. The two siblings began being isolated by their classmates. They would often call Jay a “weirdo” or “loser” and she would defend him. She acted exactly like Tyler did with their mom. She almost got into a fight with a couple of other kids at the school and after telling Tyler, he basically scolded her - more out of worry for her than actual anger - and told her not to get into any fights and not act like Dale, which for some reason made her want not to listen to him.

She began to act as Jay’s protector at school and it emboldened her, she was more rebellious, and it reflected in her relationship with her dad. She started to test his limits, which was probably not the best idea as he would get mad and try to hit her, but she often managed to dodge and run away, Tyler and Dale getting hit in her place, which she felt bad for. She began to think Tyler hated her because she realized he was more distant. In the beginning of the second half og her freshman year of high school, she met again a boy who was in the friend group she had temporarily joined in her first year, but he had developed a crush for her. She reciprocated his feelings and they shared a kiss. He asked her out and one week-end, Emily lied, saying she was going for a girl's pajama party as her best friend's house when really, she was going to the arcade with her boyfriend. The next morning, Sharon told Tyler to go get his sister and when he got to Emily's friend house and she wasn't there, he asked to use the landline to call his mom and told him. Sharon told him to drive around town and come home. He came home half an hour later and she was already there, getting scolded in the kitchen because she didn't want to tell them where she was the night before. At some point, she stood up because she wanted to leave, and accidentally yelled back at her mom and her dad got angrier. He swung his arm in her direction and upon dodging him, she fell against the fridge, curled up, her arms up in front of her face, eyes widened and her whole body shaking like a leaf.

Tyler and Dale got inbetween her and their dad and got hit in her place. Later, she told Tyler where and who she was with the night prior and told him she was with a guy from school. He told her not to lie and she admitted that he was her boyfriend. Dale heard and got worked up knowing a boy "touched her" and she yelled that nobody touched her and it took Tyler shoving him to make him shut up. One day at school, Dale came to pick up his siblings and he saw Emily come out of school with a boy. When she crossed his gaze and saw him, she put a distance between her and the boy but he now knew who her boyfriend was. He walked up to them and beat him up bloody. He was arrested and because he wasn't yet 18, he was sent to juvenile detention. She wouldn't talk to Dale for months after that, and didn't speak to him during the three months he spent in juvie. The boy was transferred to another school and wouldn't talk to her anymore, telling her her brother was a "fucking psycho". By the end of their second year of high school, as they turned 16, Jay dropped out and she really was alone now. She had her best friend left and that was about it for the next two years of high school.

Then, in May 1998, the events of the game happened. She wasn’t supposed to be involved in their plans, but she refused to stay behind, and Tyler agreed to let her come along, on the condition she did exactly as he said.

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Published (09/25/2024) by Andrea

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