#trees to meet you

[raayllum]

4x04 / 5x02 / 6x03

[project-sonadow]

So, in the Happy Hour Au, three days are looping, and they have jobs?

Do they have to keep reapplying for their jobs or did the loop somehow magically adjust so that they’ve always worked there??

I’m loving this au it’s so much fun!!

the time loop didn't start right away! they were able to move into the town and establish themselves a little before it began. and it chose a very inconvenient day to start, too, since they'd been putting off getting groceries and cleaning and such...

so, during the loop, they have their apartment, transportation (read: shadow's motorcycle), and jobs. their coworkers kind-of-sort-of know them already. (they're not, like, good friends or anything, but they're not strangers either.) they're still New(TM), but not new enough to have to keep reintroducing themselves to everyone every single Monday.

the thing is, neither of them knew that the time loops would be a thing when they first arrived. sonic and shadow were just sent there to investigate a "strange energy anomaly"--which could've led to anything. it was only when the two of them started getting deja vu that they realized that pesky little energy anomaly had turned into something bigger than just a blip on GUN's radar.

[that-disabled-princess]

ADHD to ADHD communication

[son1c]

Oh the simpler times

(Pretend I can draw out-of-focus backgrounds x3) (I also did not remind myself what motobugs looked like when I drew this)

filing this under "art i would hang up on my fridge in real life"

[beautifulterriblequeen]

Remember when we all thought Callum made up "Trees to meet you" and then Terrestrius walked out and said it too?

[leiaorganicsolocup]

sorry not sorry one more post

literally can’t wait to see if Terry joins the heroes and starts the convo with “trees to meet you!”

Callum will lose his shit and i’m so here for it lmao

[raayllum]

depending on the circumstances (and mostly because i am currently writing like 3k of terry and callum having to work together), I don't actually know how much they'd get along. Terry will be associated with Claudia in Callum's mind (and he probably assumes Claudia is the one who killed Ibis at first as well), so he'd have a lot of walls up. And while Callum is saddened by Ibis' death, canon doesn't give us a lot of indication that the two were particularly close, not anymore so than say Callum is also mentored by Lujanne and Villads in S2 - I also think, if Callum had the context of how it happened, post-s4 he'd be harsher... post-s5, well, he just got handed a very big reminder of how he's also willing to do something horrible to save the person he loves. Nor is Terry gonna be unaware that Callum and Ibis are connected somehow - opposite sides, Callum has the staff - if anything he might assume they were closer than they actually were, and be more nervous than just outgoing and goofy

They're nice friendly guys at their best, yes, but Callum can be cold (S4) and mistrustful (S1) AND Terry already overthinks things, and this is one of those big things; I think when a lot is said and done and worked through they'd get along pretty well, but I think it's a far bumpier road to get there

i saw some posts that were saying about how great callum and terry's friendship can be. and i agree. like yes, both of them have a friendly, a bit dork nature, they are madly in love with their girlfriends, of course, callum will be super excited about earth magic. but everything changes at the moment when callum learns who killed Ibis, his first mentor. then the universe explodes.

[boltlightning]

hey guys you heard of these things called trees ??? wow

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS x ISAT part 2: Grandmaster of Time.

(Part 1)

[itsybitsybatsyspider]

Hiccup finally gets a proper illusion spell for his elf disguise. Too bad Jack didn't fully think it through before giving it to him.

bonus:

The Dragon Prince AU Masterpost

[solarpunkani]

Late night wishful thinking but like

I think planting funky things around retention ponds should be more normalized!!

Like okay I get it retention ponds are meant to hold the runoff water from parking lots and drive throughs and the like so they aren’t exactly the cleanest water around. But like!!! Maybe this is different in other areas, but the only plants I ever see grow around retention ponds are cattails!! Which, like, are fine and great and dandy lets go cattails, but like

Where’s the whimsy?? Where are the flowers?? If I’ve got to see retention ponds whenever I go to a store or drive down the highway or pick up food for my mom, at least bring in some flowers!!

And it’ll benefit so much! A wider variety of plants can make it a more welcoming home to wildlife! Maybe the plants will filter some of the runoff stuff and the water can then be nicer for even more wildlife! Maybe the flowers can be a nice food source for butterflies and bees on their journeys and day trips!! And humans like seeing things be pretty!

Maybe its easier said than done! Maybe most places already do this and its just my city or state that doesn’t really I’d be willing to believe that! But lets get some color in these goddamn retention ponds!!

Swamp milkweed! Aquatic milkweed! Pickerelweed! Water lilies! Irises! Cardinalflower! Fuck it, put some goddamn duckweed in there!! Get some color in those things or so help me!!

[raayllum]

I've thought about Terry and Rayla parallels before ("I think too much, get confused about the right thing to do" / "says I think too much about everything" / elves supporting their mages / Rayla leaving as love vs Terry refusing to leave as love / lovingly watching your partner sleep, etc etc). Even the way they can sometimes enable Callum and Claudia's actions.

This is more true, of course, in Terry's case than Rayla's, but in a similar vein that their bonds of love are unbreakable (look at Rayla and Runaan) and that it would take a LOT for Rayla to ever even consider maybe that Callum could make a Seriously Bad Decision (she got straight up told he had a heart full of darkness and went "you're the best/goodest person I know" + the idea of Callum being controlled by Aaravos in a bad way being unfathomable to her in S4).

However what I want to talk about today is their attitudes towards dark magic.

Part of why Terry loves Claudia, I think, is that he doesn't see anything 'wrong' with dark magic. He's seen her do "a lot of awful things, dark magic things" but dark magic to him is also useful and fine and has a tingly aftertaste. It's not a hangup for him with Viren or Claudia; all he see is that she has a Good Reason, and that's all he needs, because there's no moral wedge in the way to begin with.

That doesn't mean he has zero discomfort with dark magic ("You think if dark magic did this to someone, they might not do it") or Claudia's actions ("The way you treated that Moonshadow elf, it was just cruel" / "Please, Claudia, you don't have to do this, it's trapped, you won").

But even Sir Sparklepuff's murder gets couched under "had a good reason" because it did bring Viren back, which Terry happily joyously celebrated when it happened. With all that in mind, Terry has always reminded me of Ethari — you fell in love with someone who engages in "dark work, bloody work" (Lost Child) and you knew what it would involve, and love them regardless. That's not a choice or mindset that's easily broken, but it does lead to Terry's lack of assertiveness fucking him up in ways that Claudia's passivity can too ("Please Terry, tell me what to do" / "[to Aaravos] Tell me what to do").

Terry's lack of moral qualms with dark magic is clearest to me in 6x04 in some ways, because of this exchange with Claudia:

C: All I see is parts, for spells. T: But...? C: But it's so adorable!

His but being an 'okay but WHY is this a problem for you now?' not 'yeah Sounds Concerning (and like a red flag) jc'. Claudia says she's all messed up inside, but Terry (for whatever reason) can't fully conceptualize what she means. This also leads to him not truly understanding what it is and what it's doing to his partner (probably because he met her when she was already more than mid-spiral) because if Terry fully understood how it was hurting her...

Don't you think he'd tell her to stop?

Meanwhile, even though Rayla does have moral qualms with dark magic, she doesn't focus on any of them in her argument with Callum just an episode earlier. Instead, it's all about him and the risk it poses to him and his emotions.

But most importantly because it makes you more vulnerable to the thing you're most afraid of.

Not "well Aaravos could control you and that'd be bad for everyone else / the world" but that it scares him, it hurts him, it puts him in danger. Granted, she still switches to the greater good concern later both for mitigating the harm Callum might do ("If you ever have to choose between me or the greater good, do the right thing: make the sacrifice") and on her own end ("Yes. I promise [to kill you]" + "taught me to never break my promises") but that's not her primary concern, at least not in my head.

And it's precisely because of those reasons that Rayla tells him very overtly what to do, both in regards to sacrificing her and in regards to saving him:

Rayla has unbreakable bonds of love, too, nor are her moral qualms about dark magic why she's making this point. It's because her main drive has always been to protect Callum, not even necessarily to help him, and therefore his safety is at the top of her list, so if something hurts or puts him in danger, she's going to tell him to knock it off. (And that includes saving her, but anyway.) Their mutual assertiveness with one another is one of the reasons why Rayla and Callum work, and one of the reasons Terry and Claudia were going to crash and burn, because Callum is likewise Rayla's anchor, and Terry and Claudia didn't realize they needed to be each other's until it was too late

I risked losing the best thing I ever had: you.

[shelovesskiez]

For you I'd.

© - shelovesskiez

[son1c]

I have no idea what game you’re playing but “volo” in Latin means “I want” so I’m curious to see what his deal is

did not know that. that's awesome

[meamiki]

[reverse entry AU]

so glad the work week is over!

no more meetings!

what do you mean its only tuesday.

[arthursfuckinghat]

The long sleep loosens it's grip as your eyes flutter open. The warmth of sunlight kisses your skin, and a soft breeze combs through your hair, as if welcoming you back to a place you've always belonged.

You find yourself cushioned by the rustling grass around you, serving as a meal for horses in the distance. The chirping of birds and the trill of crickets create a nostalgic symphony from a time you can't quite remember.

You look up to the sky, eyes following the clouds to the outline of mountains that stretch before you. The view of New Hanover welcomes you.

The breath you didn't know you were holding is released, along with all the uncertainty it contained, you remember that you've been here before.

But this time, it feels like you're home.