#vitae redux

[riverxsong-ao3]

The Knights of Walpurgis: Chapter 17

“Tom!” he demanded. “No, Lord Voldemort – you know why I have called you out from your Horcrux. I wish to speak with you.”

For a moment, his older self’s eyes narrowed at him, then they flicked up and away, glancing instead across the room – at Harry.

“I have seen your heart and it is mine,” Voldemort hissed. It was Parseltongue. It was English. It was no language ever heard upon Earth, a thought projected directly into their minds. “I have seen your desire, Harry Potter, and I have seen your fear. You crave Tom Riddle’s attention, his affection, and yet you worry he does not feel the same.”

“That’s not true!” Harry shouted, and it was a testament to his strength of will that he could withstand a direct attack on his mind by this piece of Voldemort’s soul and not succumb. “I know Tom loves me as completely as I do him!”

“Are you sure?” To Tom’s horror, a figure was emerging from the locket in his hands – Voldemort, age 24, clothed in bespoke robes and standing tall, taller than either of them and elegant, was taking form. Unlike Tom and unlike the version of himself that had come out of the diary, however, he did not fully materialise, leaving a smoky trail behind that connected to his Horcrux as he alighted upon the floor and crossed the room to Harry. “Can you be certain of the depth of his feelings?”

“Don’t listen to him, Harry!” Tom screamed, pulling the locket tight to his chest, as if he could somehow tether Voldemort closer, keep him away from his most precious person. “Don’t let him corrupt your mind!”

“He lies, that one,” Voldemort purred, reaching one hand up, black mist rising from his skin, to caress Harry’s face. “Did he not hide from you his true nature for three years? Did he not, when you discovered our secret, try to pretend you were wrong?”

[sl33py-g4m3r]

game collection ramble~~~

wonder which games I'm gonna need to download a rom of and play on the computer... or play on steam assuming i buy the steam versions too...

rpgs in general have some kinda small text~~~ I hope if it does come down to me having to do that to play my games it's not a crime or something; cause as a teen emulation didn't bug me but after I got really worried and scared about torrenting stuff, I've kinda lost it for emulation too...... (I've posted about this before i think)

where do I even start with megaten? I'm not exactly that big on (or good at potentially) juggling my time with social links... but it could be fun~~~

current games I have just bc i like collecting things:

persona 1-4 golden (vita) might have persona 5 but idr i have the artbook somewhere tho~~~

devil surviviors (overclocked and 2 3ds)

strange journey redux (sadly not og cause I heard that one's better (3ds))

Shin Megami Tensei iv and apocalypse (3ds)

nocturne remaster (switch; which is garbage cause minor nit pick i like the text in the older version and the lighting, lol but also raidou in switch version i think)

devil children light book and dark book (gba) how obscure were these ones?

and that's it to my knowledge.... I think I dug through my files of (extra content) on my 3ds after looking through all the games and it says I have Persona Q data there but I don't have the game installed and bought it digitally.... guess I made room for something else and now can't redownload it if I bought it cause the 3ds servers and eshop have been dead for a while....

also had Persona 1 and the earlier games started but for some reason my vita decided to spit up a screen after my battery died for idk how long and deleted everything I had for some reason.... thx vita..... had to reformat and redownload everything ~~~

(collects games... never plays the games...... I'm also the same way with books...)

hate how rpg interfaces are kinda small~~~~ but I'm the blind one so that's a me problem~~~

rip persona q forever lost in the void bc I can't redownload you~~~

I've loved this franchise for a while~~ but haven't played any of the games at all.... Just collected the games and some stuff~~ don't really even remember how I found it tbh~~~

idk if it's a text and sight issue on my part or just anxiety about playing something new~~?? which I've just made a post on actually, lol. could be all of the above~~

might need to emulate cause as I've said on this blog; I'm disabled. Legally blind and the text in RPGs is usually too small for my good eye to read, so I'd need either emulation to read the text or to play older rpgs with bigger more readable text...

the limit of 30 tags on this website is dumb cause now I can't put the (visually impaired) tags there....

tldr; don't know where to start with megami tensei, and just wanted to share my game collection~~ of this franchise specifically, lol

i hope this post isn't near as scattered as I think it is. the bad part is if it is in fact scattered and hard to follow; I'm not even tired yet and completely competent to my knowledge....

just scatterbrained i guess~~~ idk..... and super excited to share my megami tensei game collection~~ however small it may be~~~

[theredhairing40]

[2sidesofthesamesoul]

Hi I was wondering if you have any must-read tomarrymort fics? Or any other Harry Potter fics??

okay ive only been reading them since last october so this is about to be probably the most basic list you've ever seen anon but these are my tomarrymort must read:

No Glory by ObsidianPen (anything by ObsidianPen tbh)

Either must die at the hand of the other by Metalomagnetic

draw me after you (let us run) by ToAStranger

Dripping Fingers by May_May_0_0

A Dangerous Game by Cybrid

Of Kings, Of Pawns, and Of Men by mads999

Heir Apparent by MonsieurClavier

What Souls Are Made Of by Emeralds_and_Lilies

A Future Without a Face by Divida

Vitae Redux by RiverXSong

everything mosiva ever wrote

the Writing Bottom Tom Causes Subscriber Loss series by Divida

[carefulfears]

like someone's along with me

(jamie anderson / the x files conduit / jazmine hughes / audries the mummy / the x files my struggle / the x files redux / michael dickman killing flies / the x files paper hearts / the x files amor fati / ? / the x files sein und zeit / louise gluck vita nova / the x files closure / the x files dreamland ii / emma cameron cinnamon rain / the x files little green men)

[ao3feed-tomarrymort]

by RiverXSong

Ten-year-old Harry Potter is in his final year of primary school, as friendless and alone as ever - his awful cousin Dudley sees to that. So when the new boy, Tom Riddle, offers to be his friend, Harry is thrilled. Soon, they are inseparable, and with Tom comes the revelation that Harry is special - he is magic. Soon, they're off to Hogwarts for the adventure of a lifetime, together.

OR

When part of Voldemort's soul gets a second chance at life, restored to his youth at age ten, the year before everything went terribly wrong, he decides to use the opportunity to rise to power once more. His first priority, however? Making sure Harry Potter is safe, happy, and properly taken care of, even if he has to do it himself.

Words: 6636, Chapters: 1/24, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Vitae Redux

Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Harry Potter, Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, Arabella Figg

Relationships: Harry Potter/Tom Riddle, Horcrux/Harry Potter

Additional Tags: Hogwarts First Year, Hogwarts Second Year, Harry Potter is a Horcrux, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, (The Enemies to Friends Part is Over in a Flash), Harry Potter & Tom Riddle Attend Hogwarts Together, Young Tom Riddle, Good-ish Tom Riddle, Possessive Tom Riddle, No Albus Dumbledore Bashing, But He Gets Some Much-Needed Wakeup Calls, Horcruxes, Tom Riddle Both is and is Not Voldemort, POV Tom Riddle, Tom Riddle is His Own Warning, Manipulative Tom Riddle

[laurackmusic]

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Vitae redux

Reblog to give the person you reblogged this from motivation to work on their WIPs

[riverxsong-ao3]

The Knights of Walpurgis: Chapter 13

“Tom,” Harry said suspiciously as they snuck into the Room of Requirement the following Sunday, nearly a week and a half after Umbridge had begun her reign of tyranny, “I’ve heard an awfully strange rumour going around the school – it seems that Umbridge has landed herself in the hospital wing because she can’t stop vomiting blood. You wouldn’t happen to know anything about that, would you?”

“Interesting effect,” Tom murmured, pondering the combination of the Nosebleed Nougat and Puking Pastilles and neither confirming nor denying his involvement.

“I knew it!” Harry cried. “You were behind it.”

Tom shrugged. “I thought you didn’t want to hear about it,” he replied.

“Yeah, well, I couldn’t exactly miss it,” Harry sighed. “Not when the whole school is whispering about it. When I said ‘no Unforgivables,’ I didn’t mean something nearly as bad!”

“She’ll be fine, darling,” Tom assured him. “The poison will wear off in a few days and she’ll be back to her horrible self once more.”

“That’s not the point –”

“What’s this we hear about Tom using Unforgivable Curses on Umbridge?”

Tom spun in place, breathing a sigh of relief as he saw that it had only been George Weasley making his way into the room, followed shortly by Fred. The twins had somewhat of a vicious streak that he could appreciate, Fred in particular. He felt that, much like Harry, he could count on them not to reveal his secrets – though for very different reasons, of course.

“I didn’t use any Unforgivable Curses on Umbridge, nor do I plan on doing so,” Tom insisted. “I merely brought her some sweets as a peace offering. It’s not my fault her digestive system was too delicate to handle them.”

“That’s my favourite little snake charmer,” Fred said affectionately. “Nougat and Pastilles, am I correct? Interesting effect when combined.”

“That’s what I said,” Tom replied, smirking.

[flowerdoll23]

Vitae Redux / Book 2: Death Eaters - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own] https://archiveofourown.org/works/51312715/chapters/132381118

[eris-eveningstar]

Nuh uh. No way. Tom and Harry are gonna pull a vitae redux and Tom will come back from the power of Harry's love mark my words!

...But it's not real

[xtruss]

The Italian resort town of Sperlonga can be seen from a cave that was once part of Roman emperor Tiberius’s villa. The first-century A.D. ruler hosted solstice viewings at the site. Photograph By Horst Kløver, Lauf/Redux

See The Summer Solstice From A Roman Emperor’s Party Cave

Ancient Roman Elites Marveled at an Astronomical Alignment from this Cavern on Italy’s Coast. Now You Can Too.

— By Susan Van Allen | June 20, 2023

When summer arrives, celebrations of the solstice happen all over the world. In Italy, la dolce vita unfolds in Sperlonga, between Rome and Naples, in the middle of a coastal stretch called the Riviera of Ulysses.

Sperlonga is set on a promontory, with a curve of beach clubs below, adorned with perfect rows of colorful umbrellas. Bordering the beach is an alluring sight: a giant cave opening to the sea. Recent discoveries reveal Sperlonga’s cave to be the location of an extraordinary astronomical phenomenon dating to ancient Roman times.

Roman Holidays

The cave at Sperlonga was the place to be in summers of the first century A.D., if you were lucky enough to be invited by Emperor Tiberius. It was part of his massive villa, remodeled to be an awe-inspiring, open-air banquet room. Romans would boat there, escaping the heat of the Eternal City, and dine while reclining on benches in the cave’s dining niche (the triclinium), which was decorated with mosaics and shells.

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It was an atmosphere that mixed myth with reality. As this coast was thought to be the location of events in Homer’s Odyssey, diners were surrounded with enormous marble sculptures that recounted the trials of Ulysses (Greek name, Odysseus)—dramatic images of the hero thrusting a spear to blind the giant cyclops Polyphemus or of his ship being attacked by monstrous Scylla. The natural backdrop was the same that enchants travelers today: sparkling sea and Mount Cicero, where Ulysses was captured by the sorceress Circe.

A copy of a Roman Statue depicting Ulysses blinding a Cyclops is among the displays at Sperlonga’s Archaeology Museum. The original was made for the cave villa of Roman Emperor TIberius. Photograph By Emanuela de Santis, Anzenberger

During the summer solstice, guests to Tiberius’s cave experienced a wondrous event: The dining niche was designed by his architect and astronomer to be directly lit by the rays of the setting sun. The discovery of the marvelous alignment was made only recently by archaeologist Marina De Franceschini with archaeoastronomer Giuseppe Veneziano of the Astronomical Observatory of Genoa.

While sites like Stonehenge, the pyramids of Egypt, and Teotihuacan in Mexico have long been known for their astronomical alignment, De Franceschini says discoveries show that buildings in Imperial Rome were also designed to correspond with the sun’s path.

“The power of the sun was seen as a sign of a divine presence, and when Emperor Tiberius stood in his cave’s niche on the solstice, he was glowing, proving his divine origin, that he was an intermediary between men and gods,” she says.

In this mid-20th-century photo, workers excavate the cave in Sperlonga, Italy, which was once part of a Roman emperor’s villa. Photograph By David Lees, Getty Images

This discovery also reveals another dimension of Tiberius, whom historians nickname “the reluctant emperor.” His succession was fraught with intrigue, as all believed his mother, Livia, killed off potential heirs to the throne to put him in power. Gloomy and unpopular with the Senate, he retreated from Rome to rule from Sperlonga. Although he may have been unhappy about his role as emperor, De Franceschini’s cave discovery shows he strove to emulate rulers who came before him.

Tiberius’s party times in Sperlonga ended abruptly when the cave collapsed during one of his banquets, nearly killing him. Spooked, he abandoned the place for Villa Jovis in nearby Capri.

Seeing the Solstice at Sperlonga

De Franceschini brought her cave findings to the new director of the National Museum of Sperlonga, Cristiana Ruggini, who collaborated with her to stage a 2022 Summer Solstice Event. It will be repeated this June 24.

On that evening, visitors can enter the museum and then the nearby cave after-hours to experience the luminous effects in the niche. Slide projections will recreate what a banquet scene may have looked like on those long-ago summer nights. The presentation also shows how the Ulysses statues, now in the museum, were strategically placed in the cave. De Franceschini believes that “The Blinding of Polyphemus” statue was made for the summer dining niche, where the sun’s bright rays would also create a blinding effect to the viewer.

The solstice event is one of many initiatives Ruggini has spearheaded, reviving the museum and archaeological site, which is celebrating 60 years since its founding. Along with expanding the site’s archaeological research, Ruggini envisions the museum as a cultural center.

Situated halfway between Naples and Rome on Italy’s Adriatic shores, Sperlonga has been a resort town since ancient times. Photograph By Mauro Flamini, Reda & Co/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

Though Sperlonga has long been a popular vacation destination for Romans and Neapolitans, it’s still under the radar for foreigners. It can be reached from Rome by car or train to the Fondi-Sperlonga station, and then a taxi or bus, in about two hours.

Travelers can wander the pedestrian-only historic center, a labyrinth of whitewashed stone buildings, archways, and narrow stairways. Sperlonga’s beach clubs serve seafood dishes, such as spaghetti alle vongole (with clams), or Caprese salads, made with fresh mozzarella from farms near Naples. After lunch, a walk along the beach leads to the museum and archaeological site with Tiberius’s cave, where the heart of Sperlonga’s enchantments await.

[2sidesofthesamesoul]

organizing my TBR and reading WIPs here else i'll never be able to get through my reading list, dont mind me but in case u want to see im putting a read break

Tomarrymort TBR

Avarice by KaedeRavensdale | 104k | est. 22h to read

equals in life (partners in death) by reggieblk | 264k | est. 28h to read

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned by Odys_seus | 11k | est. 1h to read

The Untouchable by TreacleTeacups | 78k | est. 8-9h to read

Til Death Do Us Part by duplicity | 117k | est. 13h to read

It's A Masquerade, Darling by ChubbyPanda15 | 55k | est. 6h to read

Plains of oblivion by milkandmoon | 3k | est. 20 min to read

Desolation by souein | 142k | est. 15h30 to read

Stand Against the Moon by Batsutousai | 86k | est. 9h30 to read

Tender Reigns Our Night by noumena | 96k | est. 10h30 to read

A Light That Never Goes Out by kippies | 62k | est. 6h30 to read

Terrible, But Great by Isalise | 161k | est. 18h to read

not the only traveler by kkeithkatt | 371k | est. 40h to read

And the Living Will Envy the Dead by Severus_divides_into_H | 80k | est. 3h to read

Tomarrymort Currently Reading WIPs

draw me after you (let us run)

Heir Apparent

Mary Magdalene

No Glory

Of Kings, Of Pawns, and Of Men

Seeing Sand

Sunspots

Vicious Circle

Vitae Redux / Book 2: Death Eaters

Voldemort's the kinda guy to ask, "Is anyone gonna take this?" and not wait for an answer

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[metaljesusrocks]

Recent Game Pickups for 2021! I have 20 games to show including PS5, Xbox, Dreamcast, Switch, NES & MORE!

GAMES SHOWN: Hitman III (PS5) Sackboy: A Big Adventure (PS5) Ketsui Deathtiny (PS4) Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Switch) Brawler 64 Wireless Controller for N64 by RetroFighters Turok 1 & 2 (Switch) Limited Run by Night Dive Studios Gundam Breaker 3 (Vita) Battle Crust (Dreamcast) Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning (Xbox One) Project Warlock (Switch) ITTA (Switch) Flea! (Dreamcast / NES) Outer Wilds Limited Run (PS4) Downwell (PS4) MiSTer FPGA by MiSTerAddOns - Journey - DoDonPachi - Discs of Tron - Satan’s Hollow - Jazz Jackrabbit - Lords of the Realm II - Space Quest 4 Nox Archaist (Apple II / PC) Centipede (Atari Lynx) Quadromania Redux (Atari Lynx) Championship Rally (Atari Lynx) SIMIS (Atari Lynx)

[t-underneaththeradardancing]

yester - now - zen   chemistry      things change     in an instant 

coffee y bother  - karma on the other hand

unpoet murder feeding yah - they drop by often  - offer comfort - sometime scolding cuz - yah they know t   one gave me some nesting material to make one 

so vita gonna road trip for a bit - things got fukked up fast - no t didnt fux it up or even make worse  

so ghost town    redux 

pick up pieces 

o my yes the kitty a good one - always 

birdsong

and fuk u to the virus 

dont get me started on the racists 

im feeling fucked up enough already 

gotta hallelujah anyway 

try believe in truth to power 

the only thing thats real

is

love

[operationrainfall]

E3 2017: ATLUS and SEGA Release Trailers for Upcoming Titles

E3 2017: ATLUS and SEGA Release Trailers for Upcoming Titles

As part of their E3 plans, ATLUS and SEGA have released several trailers for a number of their upcoming lineup of console games that they will be releasing in the future. The titles featured are Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth, Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux, Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth, Yakuza: Kiwami and Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. Each title…