#which is on brand for Tristan

[dysthanasia-series]

Decided to make this symbol for the deceased Tristan Knox and their cronies, the Bleeding Hearts 💔

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[forgottenamira]

OOC | Amira & Event 5

so as we know, our girl had a son, two brothers, and a husband competing in the tournament

so some stuff ive noted elsewhere she was up to:

tristan ~wants to ask for eithne’s [favor] but he’s not gonna put her in that position; he wears amira’s instead, which is a black ribbon bearing her badge

amira is betting on her brothers. sorry, edmund, you’ve disappointed her one too many times #momgoals

as it turns out, she shoulda betted on edmund and ~not on godfrey (she WILL remember this next time, godfrey!!!!!) lkadjfkjdsf but tristan worked out pr well overall lakjsdfkjsdf

also idr where i said it, but she ~is planning to poison @forgottenarthur, post-tournament (not enough to kill him, just enough to punish him), for showing up edmund, bc who says she isn't a great mom!! alsdkjfakjsdf

ok but!!!!!! amira ~also has some other plans!!!! so, as we know, she and @forgottenroderick had a long fight chat abt first arthur and later abt @forgottenedmund and ultimately even sebastian re: house malconaire and the supposed potential pregnancies of @forgotteneithne, @forgottenaoife, and @forgottenroisin alkjdfjkdsf and now her boy's getting married so she has to pick out the perfect wife to serve ~her i mean...edmund's...goals ;DDD and that is noT smth she is enjoying!!!

this is honestly all her own doing kinda blowing up in her face bc she legit thought arthur knocked up eithne and possibly even @forgottenarias and so, hoping to get one over on team arthur, she told roderick abt eithne, and roderick got mad and talked to marian who suggested it was edmund, instead, and amira countered that @forgottensebastian was probs at it too and now here we are lkajsdflkjsdfjksdf but anyway!!!!!!

roderick is deffff tryna suppress these rumors, and has decided to get his sons married asap to prevent anything like this happeneing again, etc, but!! amira has been busily circulating the rumors abt arthur and sebastian behind her husband's back klajsdfkjdsf

ok so on top of all of this, as we know from her bio, amira's always had an eye towards capturing a demon/guardian and forcing the spirit to do her will, and since she's going to malconaire to deal w all the above, i think she may clock, what w all her knowledge of witchcraft, that the great oak is, in fact, just what she's been seeking all these years and she's gonna look into tryna capture it somehow akljdsfkjsdf

obv we know that won't work out for her since the guardian of malconaire will die saving malconaire from roderick bUT i think it will confirm for her that this place wiLL serve her interests and esp w roderick taking action re: edmund that amira doesn't approve of, it might just be time to take magical action and effectively ~become the witch she's so long been rumored to be...

aha! i found where i first talked abt it all...

[amira] stirring the pot [by mentioning out loud to marian ~at malconaire abt how eithne is carrying arthur's baby] the way that is soooo on brand 😂🤦‍♀️ she probs said it near Valentina intentionally just to see her reaction heehee tryna figure out if it’s true AND hurt Marian all in one go it’s a good day 😂🤦‍♀️💀 meanwhile @forgottenvalentina like ‘damn…this is gonna hurt but…it could work!!’ [in getting @forgottencassimir to break things off w eithne] Sfjlgdshkgdj

phabblebabbles 5d @quillington Okay now I wonder if Marian went to Valentina’s party, too?! She’s like “I gotta see this place” quillington 5d @phabblebabbles !!!!!!! The treehouse home what was roderick talking abt 😂😂😂 amira like ‘since ive had such delightful teas w lady eithne how could I reject the invitation’ and she really just wanted to dig up dirt on Marian’s kids 😂😭 (and also find out why edmunds so enamored of this place but you’ll NEVER get her to admit that)!!!!!!! quillington 5d @phabblebabbles Amira: even tristan can’t seem to stay away! What magic are they doing over there? Amira upon realizing its the magic of kindness: gross

butttttt then she learns that there ~is real magic there and yeah!! now, since we know she doesn't succeed in capturing the tree guardian, im like omg is amira ~also gonna get involved in the sigil treasure hunt situation?? lakjsdfkjsdf tho if she got the sword first lbr she'd def be bestowing that thing on edmund -- same w godfrey but we already knew that was ~his endgame for the sword lkajsdfjksdf

and, fun fact, another ~deeply enticing reason to visit malconaire is ofc to meet up w @forgottenbrigit the reputed witch who escaped the pyre walk...

[servants-hall]

While Tristan's imminent return in All Creatures Great and Small season 5 is cause for celebration, Samuel West (Siegfried) has revealed that the man who left Skeldale to serve in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps is not the same man who returns.

"He's obviously changed," he explained. "And he's changed in ways that I don't fully understand. He's obviously seen some horrible things which he's not talking about. And he's obviously masking with drink and good humour."

West also went on to say that "Tristan’s war stories" make Siegfried feel "old and a bit out of touch", but it's not long before normal service resumes and the brothers realise they're still a solid duo.

"We can still trump a cantankerous old farmer, and that's a great satisfaction," he added. "But it's not the same geekery as Carmody (James Anthony-Rose) and Siegfried together, looking at droppings or playing cribbage."

Siegfried is "anticipating the difficulty" of Tristan (Callum Woodhouse) "getting along with Carmody", according to West, who has begun to settle in nicely, and was even given his room to sleep in by Siegfried in the 2023 Christmas special.

"They're two such different people," he added. "And of course, Tris being Tris, who is an almost immediately annoying person, despite the fact that I love him."

Woodhouse said he was "slightly daunted" returning to the show in case he felt "a bit out of the loop?".

"But my first day back was a full day in The Drovers, which is probably the best place to film Tristan's first scenes back," he said. "We did the morning and warmed into it, and then coming back after our lunch break it didn't feel like I'd been away at all to be honest.

"I just slotted back in so comfortably and so well and was having all of the same banter and jokes with all of the same cast and crew that's still with us from series one. It was just really lovely."

Season 5 of All Creatures Great and Small picks up in the spring of 1941.

Following his work looking after animals in Egypt, Tristan will be "training new recruits who are going to be getting sent out to similar places that he's been in".

Elsewhere, Helen (Rachel Sheton) has her hands full with baby Jimmy while James (Nicholas Ralph) is away at RAF Abingdon, and is also considering her "contribution within the community" as World War II ramps up, Siegfried is doing his best to keep the surgery ticking along, Mrs Hall takes up a brand new role, and "Carmody is eager to step up".

[adhd-merlin]

@gellavonhamster asked me to share my thoughts about John Erskine's Tristan and Isolde when I finished it, so here they are – though they're not particularly interesting – in a stream-of-consciousness format (I just wanted to write them down before I forget what happens in the book. Because I will forget.)

I need to preface my comments by saying I've actually not read any of the medieval sources about Tristan and Isolde, so I can't really compare these characters to any of the "canon" versions. I mean, I broadly knew what happens in the best-known version of their story – the love potion, the affair, their tragic death – but not much more than this. So I don't know how much of their personality and characterisation can be traced back to Arthurian texts. But I can't say I particularly liked either of them. As in, I couldn't feel much sympathy towards them.

Tristan was such a fun character, I was so prepared to love him, actually. He's bold, brazen and funny; even when he had already lost my sympathy some of his lines made me laugh (the way he returned Phenice to her husband and told him that he had sex with her but that it didn’t count? lol).

I can see how a woman would fall for him. What I cannot understand is why she would remain obsessed with him after he promised to be faithful and then went and had sex with another woman just to prove a point. How did he put it? "It was one of those things which just has to be done", or something? Had it been a momentary fancy I would've been a little sympathetic, but he didn't even like the woman! He only did it to spite her husband and his uncle. And when he told Isolde "A man is a man"? Oh my God. I would have slapped him.

It's not even a matter of "morality" because I've liked characters who've done more questionable stuff, but he literally didn't have to do any of that. Why are you doing this to the woman you proclaim to love, I don't get it??

I found Isolde just as infuriating because 1) she just took it, and 2) she didn't care about anything or anyone besides her precious Tristan. Telling Brangain she knew nothing about love after she slept with Mark so that Isolde wouldn't have to was so unbelievably insensitive and out of touch. Literally jaw-dropping moment for me.

In short, both Tristan and Isolde were so self-absorbed and selfish that they were frustrating to read, and at some point I was like, "Okay, you two deserve each other. Please run away together and never involve anyone else in whatever the two of you have going on."

Had it been the effect of a love potion, I would've understood, but no! They chose to be like that.

I liked Brangain, and although I'd like to say she was the only sensible person in the story, she's exactly the same brand of crazy as her cousin and she told Palamade as much. But I liked her gentle teasing of Palamade and how perceptive and kind she was.

I loved Palamade. A gentle soul in love with the idea of love. An idealist dreaming of forests in the desert. (I liked the forests vs sea motif – at least I think there was a motif, though I only picked up on it towards the end – the forest as Palamade's quieter, more reflective side and the sea as the more passionate side of his nature).

I thought the story dragged on a bit at some point after Palamade got to Mark's castle, but I'm not sure how much of it was due to the pacing and how much to me getting distracted and putting the book aside for a while. I understand Palamade being passive and refusing to act on his feelings was kind of the point, but at some point I was just itching for him to do something.

The ending felt very abrupt. I don't even hate stories with an open ending, generally speaking, but after building all the tension between Brangain and Palamede I would have loved to see a final confrontation between them. I get it, we're free to imagine whatever ending we like for them (incidentally, I think a happy one would be unlikely) but still, I would have liked to get a taste of it.

I did not dislike the book, however! I like John Erskine's writing, I think he's great at characterisation and I adore his dialogue. I don't think there was an exchange in this book I didn't like (my feelings towards certain characters notwithstanding), and in fact I was disappointed that there weren't more interactions between Palamade and Isolde or Palamade and Tristan. Especially since Palamade and Tristan were narrative foils, it would've been great to have a few more scenes with the two of them together.

Another thing I love about Erskine's writing is the humour that underlines most of the story. I felt like he was smiling at his characters' antics all along, but with a certain fondness, never in a mocking or patronising way – like, "Look at them, aren't humans silly sometimes?"

The humour was also what I loved about his novel about Galahad, which overall I liked better, possibly because it focused on characters I cared more about (there's even a bit of Gawain in it!). I won't spoil it if you haven't read it, but Bors encounter with Bromel was hilarious; Elaine was delightful, in an insane kind of way, and Guinevere was also fascinating. So I'd recommend that too to anyone who's not read it – though the title is a bit misleading as the novel focuses mostly on Lancelot and Guinevere.

[invinciblerodent]

I'm a very decisive person and I need genuine help because I'm like. straight up unable to choose one myself 🥲

Propaganda:

Tristan is very direct and "thinks in straight lines"- he's very much an "ends justify the means" person, which both makes sense for someone who's been possessed by a spirit of Purpose since he was just 17, and will create an interesting dynamic with Solas. (Doesn't leave a lot of time for gathering relationship experience though, so he's going in blind on that front- which, the undead/necromancer thing is just...! Chef's kiss.) Cons, he's a warrior like my first Rook, and him making a key choice with this "greater good" mindset will create a similar overall game.

Coris has a very specific plan heading into the story, which she will fail spectacularly at step one by catching legitimate feelings for her target- definitely something the Crows would discourage. She's a bit less tied to the main plot, but for her worldstate I rolled a solavellan one, just to see, and rogue gameplay has been new and a lot of fun in the short segment I've played so far. (plus, there's the thought that "no one in house Dellamorte kneels", but she's a dwarf, so that's the only way she and Lucanis can actually see eye to eye, which I like a lot.) Cons, I just finished an run in which I played a female character and romanced a male one, and I kinda want some change on that front.

Marcus has a lot of gender-thoughts (he/him nonbinary), a gentle affection for the strange or macabre, and a knack for getting himself into trouble in all new, and excitingly strange ways despite meaning well. His affinity with loss and grief is also going to work really sweetly with Bellara's romance path (it'll give me a chance to stretch my philosophy muscles), and I'm kind of excited to finally try out a mage- so far mage gameplay has never jived really well with my style, but this one feels dynamic and pretty fun so far! Cons, he'll probably make a lot of the same decisions as my first character, just by virtue of being nice (and maybe even somewhat naive). (Pro, he's, like, really pretty.)

Tanner will need a severe redesign, if not a complete reroll, because I'm not really in love with the face she currently has, but I'm still a sucker for her anyway. She's 500 pounds of whoopass in a 120 pound bag, a definite knife enthusiast, and one who, in her poetry, will likely exchange imagery of rolling waves likened to the curve of a lover's hip for that of a star-filled, infinite sky like an inverse map of freckles. Cons, there's a part near the ending that is going to be really, really difficult emotionally for her story specifically, and it'll probably color the entire experience somewhat. (My partner is also planning a Harding-kisser f!dwarf for his second run after he's done with his first, Neve-kissing run, so that dings Tanner's score too.)

.... And all Verbena needs as propaganda is 1. she's a Davrin-kisser (and now that I KNOW how that goes I can get more purposeful with it for fic-fuel), and 2.

helplessly gesturing at her pretty, pretty face

[bunji-enthusiast]

Can I request Tristan with a giant gf who’s jealous of Gawain and Isolde because they’re human size and she’s not and Tristan can’t pick her up and hug correctly since she’s so big??

Monachopsis

(n). the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Ugh, I didn’t really like how this turned out but I hope you liked it! Characters like Tristan and Isolode are certainly interesting to say the least, okay those are my two cents byeeee! ✨

Content || characters involved may be ooc, short story, 1,619 words total, one brief mention of real-world issues.

Being interlinked beyond the vast perceptions of time and space was something uniquely so close, unordinary yet so ordinary. That was in itself a majesty, perhaps a rarity. For many races, one can imagine the difficulty that comes for inter-racial relationships, again it’s perhaps a rarity – a sight to behold; but something that never truly comes to fruition without the opinions of external forces outside the relationship. 

Unfortunately, you’ve come to be a victim of such a thing. You were a giant, a proud member of your race. You were raised with morals ingrained and values meant to overthrow the thinking of anyone else in the process, yet it was all suddenly knocked down the day you met Tristan, the Prince of Liones. You don’t know how, or why — something about him drew you closer. 

You hated that so much, it was the constant reminder that you are a woman. A girl, yet you were also a giant. You hated all of it, but you never voiced these concerns to Tristan. Being a proud member of the Giant race meant you could handle things yourself, battles and even the mental ones. It was all in due part to your old-fashioned parents who raised you the old ways of the giant race, even with how estranged and toxic they were, they were still very old-fashioned. You had been raised with love and toughness, but memories of the harsher times had ingrained so deeply in your heart – the self-resentment still remained. 

Sometimes here and there, you eventually run into people of other races who aren’t shy of telling you what they feel. The effects of the Holy War and the constant racism had still lingered harshly throughout the races from what you’ve seen, it still gave you serious whiplash just from remembering such interactions. 

That’s an unfortunate difficulty to just merely exist, though there remains some deep-rooted hatred and evil. One can find love and peace, surround yourself with people who sincerely understand and love you with all their hearts. Which had led you to meeting Tristan, one day out on the plains. 

You were traveling, out and about. Honestly, you didn’t have any particular reason to do so. Only that you found traveling to be fun and exciting, and possibly seeing brand new beautiful sights that you haven’t before. Although some of your friends and family back at Mega Dozer (homeland of the Giants) were unsure of letting you leave in the first place, they reluctantly gave in when you argued; “This could be a good learning experience for me! Besides, it might be good that I am alone by myself.” 

In hindsight, you wished you would've said those words differently. Being alone by yourself was becoming quite the scary experience, but you trudged onward in order to better face your fears of being alone by yourself. 

Was it being alone that you were scared of though?

“I think i'm getting pretty close to somewhere,” You muttered, looking down at the map in your large hands. You squinted, albeit a little closer than you needed too. Yet something had suddenly snapped you out of your stupor, causing you to look down and seeing two small forms who bumped into you. 

“Hello! I’m so sorry for that.” One had apologized, your brows furrowed as you tried to make out the appearances of the two beings. One clad in gold and white armor, golden gleaming aura and impossibly imposing, which somehow had you impressed for a brief moment. The other appeared to have long silver-length hair and heterochromia, one green and the other being blue. You shook your head as you crouched down to properly get within ear-shot. 

“No, I should be apologizing.” You grinned nervously, scratching the back of your head. “I wasn’t looking where I was going, that’s on me.”

“Ah, well the name’s Tristan.” He smiled warmly with a quick wave as he introduced himself, sensing your anxieties. The prince then asked for yours, and with a quick nod, you had introduced your name. 

Upon hearing your name, he repeated it. It rolled right off his tongue, beautifully done and divine to say. “That’s a really nice name.” He smiled once again, yet his smile softened into a grin, talking with you a little further before he finally decided to introduce you to the knight he was traveling alongside with. You couldn’t see the knight’s face, thus not knowing the knight's gender, but it wasn’t your business to know anyway. 

“This is Sir Gawain!” He exclaimed proudly. You raised a brow. Oddly, the knight clad in white and gold armor had not uttered a word since the beginning of the interaction, but you paid it no mind. 

“Not much of a talker huh?” You joked, now sitting down. Tristan laughs, nodding along in agreement. Though it was a curiosity, how Tristan knew his name, you decided not to pry. 

Ever since your eventful meeting with the prince, it was from there that somehow everything went downhill; Getting to know him, finally entering the kingdom of Liones, meeting so many brand new people, his parents, some of his friends, and apparently finding out that Sir Gawain was indeed a woman. 

Then there was also Isolde, a tall woman with pink hair and green eyes. You thought without a shadow of a doubt that she was beautiful for her age, Gawain too. But you sincerely were unable to fathom how you could get along with Tristan after getting to know these two ladies. 

You began to feel weird, odd even. A thrashing turmoil of feelings and hate toward yourself, them. Being small was something they all had in common, they could easily hug each other. If you’ve ever even attempted to try to do something like that, you would no doubt hurt your would-be boyfriend in the process. 

Feelings weren’t exactly a linear thing, sometimes not easy to recognize either. But you could somehow know it, sense it. You really hated it, but the memories you made with knowing Tristan’s friends, him too — were something all so dear and precious to you. Not something you could so easily throw away, all for the sake of distance. 

So you began keeping your interactions with his friends to a minimum, that had also meant keeping your interactions with Tristan sparsely small. 

God, you hated it so much. He was smaller, you were huge, being a giant had its perks – but not being able to give Tristan affection was something that had killed you on the inside. You just sometimes simply wished that you would just one day wake up as a small person, and hug Tristan wholly with all your heart without injuring the boy. 

A particular someone, though his interactions with you were quite brief, could notice the way you began to get distant and had rarely interacted with Tristan, much to the detriment of your mental health. Chion wondered if he could be of some help in mending the relationship between you two, because frankly to him, it was beginning to be very tense and stuffy whenever the both of you were in the same vicinity. 

“Hey, woman.” A crass, but firm tone. You looked down, having already been crouched and stuffed your face in your hands for the last few minutes, scratch that — an hour. You sighed, a notable huff escaping your lips at your clear distrust of Chion, having seen his personality in action before. 

“What do you want?”

“I don’t want anything to do with you, but your distancing with Tristan is bothering everyone.” He iterates, and despite his blunt and forward speech – he was also very worried about you. Actually both you and Tristan as well.  

You frown, re-adjusting your position to better face him. “You don’t get it Chion, I–” You paused, the thoughts flooding back in, and making you hesitant to continue. Causing the purple-haired boy to raise an inquisitive brow, so he waited for you to speak, though he was albeit known to be impatient at times. 

“Uh..” You sighed, shoulders deflating in defeat. Despiste knowing you could finally get things off your chest, it was so hard to actually force the words out your mouth. 

Chion simply walked closer, patting your knee with an understanding elation. “Keeping it in will do you no good, I should know.” He remarked, his single eye briefly closing. You chuckled with a slight chagrin inter-woven of your tone, though, you collected yourself. 

“Oh yeah, like the time you withheld information from everyone that Percival was a knight of prophecy?” You joked, causing him to sigh in disappointment, but nod along in agreement nonetheless. Oh how you wondered how Chion had even met Tristan, the only thing you knew about this particular piece of information was how the one was saved by the former, and from there Chion’s admiration for the prince grew. 

Chion fiddled with his staff for a moment, then spoke: “You should try speaking with him again, voice your concerns.” 

Suddenly you could feel your blood run cold at his suggestion, almost causing you to shout out to refute it. But you calmed down, reeling yourself in with a sigh, “How.. could i?” You were unsure of how to approach the subject, to talk to him about such things suddenly seemed so silly to speak of. 

“Try.” He insists, tilting his head as if the idea was the easiest thing in the world to execute. Your eyes flitted over to his form, a glimmer of recognition shining brightly in your pupils. 

You rested your head against your knees, sighing after a few moments. You closed your eyes as you responded with an exhausted tone, “Okay.”

[sea-of-dust]

Aigami x GN! Reader

There's no summary my demons won. Wrote this during April fools watch it come out 3 months later.

Upd: it's july.... it's also my birthday🔥

He'd be on edge when he first meets you. As soon as you took interest in him he's already thinking that you might know something about the Plana. When finding out you're just someone interested in him he'd continue on with his act, would judge you without saying a word, but still hungout with you.

He'd fall hard, realizing it after a while but to everyone else it's aggressively obvious, the way he stares at you while you two talk and sudden dropping of the act around you kinda made it obvious to everyone in that classroom. "Aigami, did you get anything he just said?" "I did, not that I'd give it to you" he continues scribbling down the notes. "I know you remmber" he smirks to himself narrowing his eyes "and if I didnt?" You glare at him "I'll ask Bakura" never fails to get him to help you

He would get a little jealous, your one of his friends totally not crushes, you shouldn't talk to Joey for more than two secounds and not expect a certain cube person to just slide in and add nothing to the conversation just staring into Joey's soul. "It's too hot in this mask" "drink this" "ah thanks y/n AHHH" he jumps back covering his face, the mascots stuffed arms blocking him from view. "I can take this anymore, please buy him eye contacts" "I think he'd still do that" you sweat a bit

You got the pleasure of being the first person he asked for almost anything. "What's this?" He shows you a small toy with "B'LOONIES" in colorful bubbled letters near the top. "These you kinda blow into a straw and it makes plastic bubbles" "I see" this would also extend to certain brands, attractions, heck even games. You still told him about them without judging him, assuming he was just heavily sheltered. You'd notice this when you date him but he does stare alot at your face while you try to figure something out. When you're just friends the stares full of innocence and curiosity, as if excited for the answer, when you get closer to him however he looks with more uncaring eyes, still curious however lacking the child level curiosity as if only giving it to you just to watch and hear you.

He'd ask to go to places after school. Some girls talk about a spot? He's taking you. He dosent want you to go home even if you spend 8 hours a day with him just school alone.

"Do I exist in your thoughts?" "You're in all of them" a quick reply, no hesitation espically when you unironcally showed him a picture of him looking unenthusiastic with a cat filter on in your wallet. "Why am I right next to your id?" "You exist in my thoughts" You got him to crack a smile revealing a small crumpled up photo of you he had kept in his pocket, all cheerful with a different he clearly found stupid. "Where do you keep that-" he scoffs "you might exist in my thoughts"

He's not used to physical affection but one hug left him wanting a few more. So he starts greeting you with them, which shouldn't be as terrifying as it is. "Y/n!" He nearly tackles you a bright smile on his face. "Can you return my aigami please I think someone switched mine out" "?" He giggles at your joke making you a bit nervous. "Are you ok?" "I'm fine" "you sure?" "." You bring him back in no time

If you'd organize a date, Sera would try to hype him up while he'd just be internally panicking. Fiddling with an outfit he found while Sera smiles and details random ideas she had, about hand holding, winning prizes at fairs, sacrificing all of your known possessions. He'd have to tell her to stop a few times just so he could focus on what to do without images of you saying or doing exactly what she said

You two could go on dates only for Joey and Tristan to sneak around and watch. "Don't look but" you try to hold in your giggle and mumble your words, leaning in for him to hear you "Joey's wearing a wig and he thinks he we don't know it's him" you cover your mouth with a napkin trying to mutter the laughter, it was such a cheap wig and he didn't even put it on correctly it has just sitting on his head, Tristan didn't even bother he just wore heart shades he probably stole from Tea. They got the bill for your food

With you around, he let's his guard down by nearly every bit of it, leading to unfiltered Aigami momments. For example you allowing him to be a passenger on your bike. "Are you sure this is safe?" "Yea Joey does it all the time with Tristan." He carefully steps on gripping your shoulders for dear life. "You're gonna suck the life from me" "should have equipped seat belts" he enjoys the fresh air of a bike ride to school, the soft wind while observing his surroundings...before being blasted to next year by a down hill ride. He's not doing that again.

[bevanne46]

Quilts

Quilting has a long history that can be traced back to ancient civilizations. The earliest known evidence of quilting is an ivory carving of the Pharaoh of the Egyptian First Dynasty, which dates to around 3400 BC.

A quilt is decorative textile, often used as a bedspread, made by stitching together a top, middle, and bottom layer of fabric.

Quilts are practical and beautiful bed blankets that keep you warm on cold nights. Some Quilts are works of art that can be hung on a wall for display. The Tristan Quilt (14th century), made in Sicily, is one of the earliest surviving examples of a decorative quilt. 

But Quilts can also be so much more!

Quilts can be loving memories of someone we lost, of our past, of family and can tell a story.

Quilts can be a tribute to our life's work or military service.

Quilts can be a security blanket and support for a frightened child or the sick.

Quilts can be used on windows or doors as draft stoppers like tapestries of old.

Quilts can be used as tents or forts for children's play time.

Quilts can be beautiful, unique gifts for someone else or yourself.

Quilts can be made into practical garments such as jackets, capes & skirts. (Crusaders in the Medieval Days, wore quilted garments under their armor)

Quilts can be used to recover upholstered furniture like stools & chairs.

Prior to the development of the sewing machine, quilting was always done by hand, sometimes with a long running stitch or by hand tying. Women would get together to hold a "Quilting Bee", a group to help complete the hand stitching of a large quilt. Quilts were traditionally made from cotton and when times were tough people would turn old clothing into quilts.  The original Reuse, Repurpose, and Zero Waste! 

In today’s world, some will try to tell you that Quilts should only be made from Top Brand Quilting Cottons but really Quilts can be made from almost any fabric: cotton, polyester, wool, flannel, t-shirts, uniforms, etc.  

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[starrrling]

TASK 006: THE TALENT SHOW [ ... encore ... ]

“Actually, wait, can I go again?”

Even at the heights of her alcoholism, Reece had always been sort of a lightweight: she’s been the same height since middle school, and she’s held her liquor like an (alcoholic) eighth-grader indefinitely. Seventh months of sobriety, though, had rendered her tolerance at an all-time-low, and she felt dizzy and warm almost as soon as she swallowed against the familiar burn of the liquor.

She floated her way through the final six performances; she was sickly, shamefully satisfied by the way the heat moving through her cells made everything feel better, exactly like she knew it would. Who had she been to try and pretend that she could suffer through a lifetime of white-knuckled restraint? Not every unloved child could grow up into somebody who’d been worth saving. She was, after all, her mother’s bastard daughter: an aberrant footnote at the end of somebody else’s better story. Why not drink?

After a few minutes, the shot settled, Reece’s cranium loosened, and all of the rest of it went away, leaving behind only the simple, salient question, something that didn’t make her sad at all: Why not drink?

Through Naomi’s knife-throwing, Vikram’s recitation of Pi, Natalia’s dreary Debussy, Reece floated, and she thought, Why not drink? And she didn’t know that she was going to sneak another shot until she did it, and she didn’t know she was going to take the stage again once everything was over until she did it, but once she was up there again, blinking against the light as if she’d woken up there, mid-sleepwalking, Reece understood that the entire evening was irreversible. She’d already stood up in front of everyone again, which meant that the worst thing she could possibly do would be not to make it count.

“Actually, wait, can I go again?” Reece interrupted what might have otherwise been the end of the talent show, not waiting for anyone to grant her permission—she was flailing in the focus, looking out at all of those sets of eyes, spilling irradiance like headlights, auspicious of roadkill. “Because I think I did it wrong, before. With the song. He didn’t even like that song,” she explained, with a derisive snort, as if she and Richard’s ghost and all of them in the room were in on some kind of inside joke at Reece’s own expense. “

I actually have a confession to have instead, if that’s cool, ‘cause I lied before, the other day. Mickey started talking about the last time she saw Richard, and I said the last time I saw him was July—I did see him then, on my grandma’s birthday—that story was true, I mean—but I saw him again, too, after that.”

There had to be some reason that she was telling them this, but she didn’t think it was absolution. She didn’t think. “Last time I saw Richard, it was the first week of August.” She’d made the drive with the brand-new six-month sobriety chip in her pocket—homemade, courtesy of Zelda, a shiny plastic party-store coin with three googly eyes super-glued to each side; one for every month since Reece got sober. “I drove up from Staten Island without calling first, and when I showed up here, he said, ‘Reece, what a pleasant surprise,’ and then I turned and puked on Jerry’s feet, instead. Now, I know what you’re thinking, ‘cause it’s what he was thinking, which is why I told him, ‘don’t worry, I’m not drunk! I’m just pregnant. Also, can I have 500 bucks for an abortion?’ He was quiet for the longest time—like, somebody was on the floor, cleaning my puke off of Jerry, and Richard was still just looking at me. I thought, my God, I’ve finally done it, Mrs. Tristan was right, I’ve given the poor man an aneurysm; I’ve killed him. But then he finally cleared his throat, and he went to get his checkbook. And then he went to get his keys." He'd driven him there himself, Reece silent in the passenger seat, unendurably grateful. "He let me crash here that weekend. And when I left, he, uh—he told me to… to take care of myself, and to… come again soon,” she said, her voice cracking, breaking off, rising up into a reedy, lachrymal pitch. “So, that’s, uh—that’s the last time I saw him.”

[blam-marie]

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IT’S NOTHING PERSONAL, Chapter 01

Tristan Jones stared out of the café windows at the cruise ship moored at the docks with the same unnerved trepidation he imagined straight people must feel, just before they married someone they would proceed to jokingly call ’the ball and chain’ in their wedding vows. He didn’t want to get on the ship. He was going to, and he had been reliably informed that he was expected to have a good time while on it, but he personally remained dubious that such a good time could be achieved.

For one, he would be far away from any means of repairing his electronics if they broke, and his electronics were his life-line. For two, the planned itinary of the ship was set to take him into several areas where he would be completely outside of signal range, which was worse. He hadn’t even known such areas still existed in this day and age of magically-boosted satellites and wizard wifi. For three, he was supposed to go on the cruise with Klaus Reed, of all people. Now, it wasn’t that Tristan had anything against Reed. He liked him well enough, had even worked together on occasion. But Reed was excited about the cruise, and a mismatch in attitude like that was always a pain to work around when you were trying to settle into a new cover identity.

Oh, right. There was also that: Tristan Jones wasn’t going on the Three-Months Dream All-Around Tropical Wonder Cruise as a vacation or anything of the sort. He was going on it as a spy working an undercover assignment against his will.

Think of it like a reward, his boss had told him, because he was an asshole. You’re my best agent, so you get the best assignment. In agency parlance, that meant: ‘you pissed me off somehow, but since you consistently bring in results, I’m not allowed to punish you. So I’m going to send you somewhere very scenic, for a mission that will be either mind-numbingly boring if you’re lucky, or extremely fucked up if you’re not.’ And since Tristan was an experienced agent, and he had a sense about these things, he could already tell that the second option was the most likely, even though he’d hadn’t even set foot on the godforsaken boat yet. He’d only needed one look at the mission brief to be able to tell.

According to the files he’d been given, half of the passengers of the cruise were set to board today, and another half at the next destination. Given the speed that the tickets had been sold, the lack of publicity for the cruise, and previously gathered data on some of the passengers, there was a high possibility that most if not all of the people about to board already knew each other, and may be involved in some manner of scheme. Unfortunately, what manner of scheme remained unclear, and it was one of the things that Tristan was here to uncover. With his luck, it might turn out to be anything from a terrorist plot to a weird sex cult.

Tristan scrunched his eyes shut and shuddered at that last thought. In the back of his mind he prayed to whatever deity oversaw spies (like all good spies, the god of them probably knew better than to let anyone know its identity, so he never put a name on his prayers and trusted that they reached the right godly department anyway) to not let him walk into a sex cult. Or at least not while partnered with Reed.

Once again, he didn’t have anything against the guy! And it’s not like Tristan was a prude or anything. He just… not with colleagues. Or other agents, even if they weren’t colleagues. Never again. That was a hard limit that he had set for himself years ago and he was going to hang on to it. It made his whole life so much less complicated.

Speaking of Reed, he sure was taking his sweet time. Tristan checked his watch. It was very fancy and very obviously a knock-off of an expensive brand, and would likely break down on him halfway through this mission. You’d think that would be annoying, but he knew that it was a feature, not a bug. Nobody thought that you were an undercover spy with military-grade equipment if your phone screen was cracked and your watch was a piece of shit. (That wasn’t the reason why he had been given it, though. The reason was that the hacks who worked down in Equipment hated him. It wasn’t his fault if they got offended when he returned his gear with obvious improvements in the softwares and hardwares. He wasn’t trying to insult them, he just needed shit to fiddle with on long boring stakeouts. He was a technomancer, of course he was going to mance the tech! What else did they expect?)

At T-minus-30 minutes to departure time, Reed still hadn’t shown up and Tristan was fidgeting with his undercover identity’s cellphone. He wasn’t actually supposed to turn it on until he’d boarded the ship, to reduce the risk that his movements before embarking could be retroactively tracked. But his partner was way beyond late now, and Tristan needed to know what the fuck was going on. Reed had been delayed, obviously, but Tristan didn’t think it was a catastrophic — or permanent — delay, or he would have received some signal to abandon mission and gtfo. So, what, was Reed just stuck in traffic? Did he slip on a banana peel and twist his ankle? Had he misread the briefing packet and was waiting in a completely different coffee shop? Tristan’s thumb hovered over the phone’s home button. He was just going to text him real quick using the café’s wifi, and then hack into the router to erase his tracks. With his skills, he was reasonably sure that no one but his partner would ever see that message.

The café’s door jingled. Tristan glanced up and away, reflexively, then froze. He slowly put his phone back down and shifted, ready to spring up from his chair. Right, so the mission was fucked-fucked. Good to know.

[maygirlsposts]

4,14,24,37,39 and 40 for Piper and Leo!

@scarareg Thank you so much for your ask!

leo x piper is kinda my self-indulgent secret ship heh, it's nice to talk about it sometimes hgjfkl;

4. Their favorite show to watch together?

I think they would love watching stupid movies (romcoms or unnecessarily sentimental and cheesy) together not bc they like them but so that they could make fun of the lines/scenes together like best friends do (bc ofc they are best friends first, lovers later). leo mimicking them in his stupid way, and piper giggling and rofling about like a buffalo the way she can't before others. they are the kinda couple who would enjoy everything they watch together.

but their ultimate fav, repeat to 10000x movie list till they have memorized every line is HTTYD, cuz yeah, leo-hiccup, toothless-festus, and ig piper is a lot like astrid? AND DRAgons!!! so yeah their go-to, top-of-head movie when they are lazy to try something new

(the only thing they never watch is tristan mclean movies lmao)

14. Who falls asleep during a movie?

Neither, but on hectic days when they are super tired, both of them catch the sleep bug and fall asleep.

if Leo is first to wake up to find the movie is over, he'd pick up piper and carry her to their bed, taking care she doesn't wake up (watching her sleep is secretly his fav thing, yk cuz of piper's cute way of sleeping: "inhaling through the nose, exhaling with a little puff through the mouth" and "her hair looked like it had become a nest for a friendly hamster")

on the other hand, if piper is first to wake, she'd prob simply arrange some pillows for their necks and go back to sleep, snuggling into him bc no chance she is getting cold lol

which brings me to the next choice!

24. Sleeping/cuddling positions? (Big spoon, little spoon, etc.)?

ggfhjk i love this question specifically for this ship cuz Piper is 100% the little spoon!

iirc (forgive me my knowledge of HoO is getting rusty! seriously, it's time for a full reread T_T) both piper and leo are the same height, right? maybe as adults, leo gets a late growth spurt of a couple of inches over her (which is annoying cuz leo is finally taller but secretly she likes it, cuz perfect for a side snuggle)

even otherwise, piper is always, subconsciously snuggling into his side cuz he is so hot warm. even if he hasn't used his fire, there is always some residual warmth in him all the time, which she has got used to searching out for. say, if leo gets up in the middle of the night to drink some water/got a brand new design idea in his head he just has to jot down NOW,,, by the time he returns to bed, piper is completely rolled up in his side of the bed, searching for him in her sleep (he loves this habit of hers! it also probs makes him feel better about his fire too)

iirc, his mom's warehouse caught fire in the middle of winter, right?? ig he'd slowly come to like winters better, bc of piper snuggling more into him during winters agfhjk

and iirc, he likes to sleep with a hug pillow, right? his old hug pillow has been replaced by piper!

39. Do they get along with the other's family? If not, how do they deal with the other's family?

on leo's side, hephaestus will be very suspicious of the daughter of aphrodite (cuz of his own experience with her) but talking to piper, he will be slightly mollified abt her… yet, his advice for Leo always will be to trust his machines more than the human specimen of his girlfriend (ofc leo won't take it seriously)

//toa spoilers/// now josephine and hemithea are his foster mothers i am sure piper would get along with them super well as well <3

on piper's side, leo has already met Tristan in Lost Hero and knows him as piper's friend, so he'd be pretty much chill with what pipes does and who she dates,, he might try to give Leo The Talk as his duty as her father, but Piper would kick her dad out before that ever happens (Leo just being the awkward bean like during the whole helicopter ride in TLH lol)

oth, leo would be mildly (understated) scared of Aphrodite. if they ever meet her (by chance) he'd keep fidgeting and tapping 'i love you' on his jeans till piper clasps his hand and taps back 'it's okay' but i think aphrodite won't be as scary as leo imagines in his head; she'd probs find him amusing and intrigued that her daughter actually prefers leo over jason.

40. Who is the skilled shopper for holidays? Who always waits 'til the last minute to get all of their gifts? (Which one gets stressed out easily)?

piper! she won't--but she would use her charmspeak to bargain for the best prices in those overly expensive, money grabbing malls, something that leo always finds terrifyingly awesome lmao,, piper gets excited for holiday shopping and stuff whereas leo tags along obediently (and use his magic toolbelt to stove away the shopping bags lol)

leo always forgets all of the important days because of his adhd (extreme even by demigod standards) and piper, having known him for long, understands this and never gets mad or anything but he'd always feel guilty about this and makes up for it in a completely random surprise gift he handdesigns for her. Of course, piper loves his stupid (affectionately) and most times, completely non-functional (cuz Leo himself doesn't know what they do loool but they are always weirdly complicated) gifts so much! like say a music box that goes moo! but bake out fresh cookies lmao

[servants-hall]

All Creatures stars on Tristan's welcome return: 'He means so much to so many people'

"It was a joy having him back."

[...]

"I've said it time and time again that the show missed Tristan, and we missed Callum," said [Nicholas] Ralph. "It's just wonderful to have him back and always a treat to work with Callum. Any scenes we have together were brilliant and a lot of fun."

He went on to say that "Tristan, as a character, means so much to so many people within the house, so it was a joy having him back".

"Seeing him interact with Carmody (James Anthony-Rose) is a lot of fun because they are both so different," he added. "And Callum is just a great laugh – a great guy to have around both on and off set. It was a real treat."

[Rachel] Shenton described the character's return as a "joy", in part due to the "mischief" that Tristan brings to the house.

"Helen and Tristan share that sort of cheeky mischief, because neither of them, especially at the moment because he's not practising at the Skeldale, neither of them are employed, so they can always manage to get away with a little bit more or laugh a little bit more," she added.

[...]

"It was really nice to take the time away to do other projects and then come back home to my family, really," [Callum Woodhouse] said. "It was slightly daunting in the sense of, 'Is it going to feel weird? Am I going to feel a bit out of the loop?' But my first day back was a full day in The Drovers, which is probably the best place to film Tristan's first scenes back.

"We did the morning and warmed into it, and then coming back after our lunch break it didn't feel like I'd been away at all to be honest.

"I just slotted back in so comfortably and so well and was having all of the same banter and jokes with all of the same cast and crew that's still with us from series one. It was just really lovely."

Following his work looking after animals in Egypt, he's since been ordered to return to Skeldale, where he'll be "training new recruits who are going to be getting sent out to similar places that he's been in".

As for the rest of the characters, Helen has her hands full with baby Jimmy while James is away at RAF Abingdon, and is also considering her "contribution within the community" as World War II ramps up, Siegfried (Samuel West) is doing his best to keep the surgery ticking along, Mrs Hall (Anna Madeley) takes up a brand new role, and "Carmody is eager to step up".

[vivianbernadetteaurora]

Let's talk 👄

. This farm leaves since day one have always been about their appearances and keeping up with appearances. Especially Kim and her mother who crafted the sex tape along with Ray J, because they saw how it catapulted Paris Hilton into fame.

Funny thing is Paris was famous way before the gaussians but she will never get to that level of vulnerability because she does not know how to be vulnerable she has to speak in a baby voice if she’s at events like as a comfort and to be honest I blame a lot of it on Kathy Hilton, because she is one crazy lady and she wants her daughters to be so anyway I mean you see with Chris the different styles of parenting of what they want you to show and she comes across better than, Yolanda Hadid. And Kathy Hilton

But yeah these girls,

,These girls definitely have a way and there is such a thing as yachting as I’ve said many times on this account why you make brand deals with rich Arabs in Dubai on boats with David Geffen and Spielberg allegedly so these girls were being pimped out I mean who goes on tour with Diddy when they don’t have a talent for singing dancing or anything else for that matter but Khloe Kardashian did maybe that’s why she’s quite the **** up.,. nothing wrong with that we love Coco if I like any of them the most it is Coco. she like the entry level Kardashian who you can feel closest to but they still ripped people apart in each different ways the Jordan wood situation with Chloe and Kylie well for Kylie it wasn’t even her fault she just get put put in this awkward situation between her best friend who I’m sorry was more like a lover to her they had like a wedding ceremony I’m sorry don’t tell me those two weren’t sexual together because I don’t believe it and another thing about the Kardashians is they often have quite incestuous relationships and that’s why I say, entered Jordan woods. because she's a friend of the family, who ever kissed Tristan Thompson or more. but all the others they all seem to have the same dating history two of them dated the game Chloe and Kim and then Kanye does a song with the game after that divorce etcetera Keep your eyes out for these witches and if they were witches though it would and it would come from the mother’s side surely if they’re including the jennas and Chris I mean pretty cold to be aware and have these powers but yet they’re always gonna be ahead of the game than Paris because they know how to be vulnerable I mean some of it not like the drugs that’s not shown but that’s a lot of celebrities anyway hey like I said to my mom yesterday if you're in rehab for alcohol it could be cocaine if you're in rehab for pills maybe it's heroin if you're in there for coke maybe it's crack like there’s these little short hands they do and even instead of exhaustion exhaustion they now use lymes disease which isn’t fair for people who actually suffer with the illness but it’s a good one for celebrities with drug problems to use and to Justin Bieber who how ******** is this I find Courtney the most funked up she’s my least favorite one along with Kendall because she picks people today and hang around with who are a lot younger and vulnerable considering she’s the oldest I find it very weird and I think a lot of society does especially the Addison ray or she training her to yacht.

[theprinceofliones]

Someone said something about Lancelot perhaps being the first so called "Elf" in the 7ds/4kota universe and like. YES??? If Tristan, a halfling himself, has a name like Nephilim, then can't Lancelot definitely have a name like Elf? I mean, that'd be so cool! He'd be the first of a brand new species in Britannia just like Tristan!

I did look it up though and technically Lancelot would be considered a "Changeling" which makes sense considering he can literally change his shape and form. So I don't think Nakaba would go the route of naming him an Elf, but like...he hasn't specifically named his species yet sooooo ELF IT IS HEHEHE!

[queeranotkira]

So, Andrew Tate’s brother Tristan Tate has a sex diary (which I regrettably read) but a recurring theme is him placing his father’s watch within the frame of the creepshots he takes of women. The watch imagery just made me think of Light.

Which gave off Light vibes

Although Light isn’t the same brand of degenerate that would go out of his way to showcase all the babes he fucks, because he ain’t even interested in them in the first place

[lordofthestrix]

♧: something my muse is really good at

I will die on this hill: For all his dark-heartedness and Machiavellian tactics, Tristan has implausibly high leadership skills. One of the consistent facets of the vampires of the TVD universe is that they are extremely bad at staying in groups for long periods of time with any degree of success. The other two mildly victorious attempts on the top of my head are the vampire community of Mystic Falls during 1864, who were progressively having lots of problems with the human population and the local werewolf family noticing their existence, culminating in their imprisonment, and the vampires of New Orleans who seemed to be living pretty well under Marcel before the events of the show but...You can't really count as a consistent group afterwards? They continuously got massacred and replaced by a new sired bunch. There is the pre-Gia generation, the Gia generation, the post-Gia generation...They were never the most talented at staying alive. And the Strix, at their earliest chapter, seemed to be following the same mold as the other vampire groups. They existed for a short while, Elijah left and they were self-admittedly doomed. But add as touch of Tristan and they began singing a different tune. Let's move forward a couple of centuries to discover if those crazy kids actually survive: Tristan: Now that Constantinople has fallen, the Roman Empire is no more, my Strix endure beyond even that which was deemed eternal. In time there will be no place on Earth where our influence is not felt. Not even the Mikaelsons hold that power. Okay. They are still there. Big projects. Big ambitions, it seems. Let's go really into the future and see how that turns out for them: ELIJAH: Only the most dangerous and influential congregation of vampires the world has ever known. AYA: We're the top of the food chain-- the smartest, the strongest. And, we take what we want. So, yes. I give credit to Tristan as the one who unlocked the secret of how to keep vampires thriving under the same banner. And mind you, Tristan is not an Original. He is your classic kind of immortal. Not impossible to plot against with enough ancient vampires involved. You can't read Aya's description of the organization and tell me that it doesn't attract, among others, the kind of personalities that join an elite group and instantly wonder if they shouldn't be the one on the throne. Still, he remains unchallenged as the one leading them for the better part of his millennium. Still he gives them reason to be loyal to him. I talked quite a bit in the past about Tristan's brand of loyalty (The whole "But nothing more important than how to not be you. Where you betray, I remain loyal. Where you abandon, I remain. And, should you find a knight or two in shining armor still foolish enough to fight for you… They will die right alongside you.") but here it is more relevant to point out that Tristan finds that loyalty corresponded when it comes to the Strix. In fact his last words concerning the organization addresses it so high as to regard it as a form of love. (For Tristan, love and loyalty are even more intrinsically connected than to the average person but that is a headcanon for another day) Here is this extremely cunning, extremely ambitious legion of vampires. And instead or scheming power plays and take their chance the first time I leave the board, they are using all of their guile and resources to try to bring me back. That sort of sentiment. Tristan: You realize that I am here because my people love me? You are here because those same people loathe you. You have driven them to this. I do think that Tristan has an unexpected and rather ferocious talent for inspiring strength in others. And, as arrogant as he is other ways, I actually don't think he realizes how personally good he can be at doing that.

AYA: Tristan has been a collector of extraordinary talent for the better part of a millennium. He chooses the best of the best and helps them evolve. AYA: Tristan de Martel guided this organization for centuries. He was a radical thinker, decisive leader, and, to each of us here tonight, both mentor and friend. He was, in a word, irreplaceable.