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thekingofwinterblog · 1 year ago

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Why Arnor Failed as a State

So in lord of the rings, Aragorn, the titular returning king of the Third book/film, is the last descendant of Elendil, the first High King of Arnor and Gondor.

The entire plot is about how the royal family finaly, after all these years comes home to Gondor in the south from the cold, hard north, where the other realm of the Dunedain failed.

That said we are never really given a particularily detailed breakdown of why Arnor ultimately failed beyond the obvious military one(It was defeated by the rising power of Angmar before that too crashed and burned), the geographics one(the population never really managed to reach the level it could have, and that was before the plague), and the political one(the realm split into 3 lesser realms that squabbled).

On paper these seems easy enough reasons for why the northern realm crashed and burned, but once you actually start digging into it, it becomes pretty obvious that unlike Gondor, Arnor had some very serious fundamental problems that it never really managed to fix, which brought it down in the end.

1. It mishandled it's amazing geopgraphy

Looking at Arnor from above, it seems to have ALL the advantages. It has mazsive, open fertile plains, 2 great rivers, mild climate except for the far borth, clear, easy to defend natural boundaries, with the only open pathway into the realm being the hard to pass through corridor feom forodwaith.

Politically apeaking it was also set for success as the realm had managed to unify all the local peoples within it's borders underneath its banner, which they were content with for a very long time.

So with all of this in mind, where did Arnor go wrong?

It failed to harness it's rivers, that's how.

When choosing the place for capital for the new realm, one would expect it to be on one of the rivers, either at the mouth, or at an important spot.

The Dunedain chose to build the capital Annuminas at the great lake from whoch the Baranfuin/brandywine river originates from.

This isnt a... A terrible choice for a capital.

It allows the royal family to dominate the trade flowing up and down the river by controlling the spot where you can build ships, and have a massive riverrine fleet stationed in case of conflict.

So whats the problem?

The Dunedain never dredged either of their rivers, thats the problem.

Rather than wideding the bottom, to allow bigger, more usefull ships to pass up and down the river for transport of food, trade goods, and troops, Arnor instead did the exact opposite, and not only let natural fords stand, but built bridges that would prevent any trading river network from flourishing.

As far as i can tell, Arnor didnt have any particular noteworthy ocean navy, but even if Arnor was never going to invest into one such, the fact that they never did the work to make their rivers into a fountain of wealth, trade was one of the major reasons for their big decline.

But if they didn't invest into making their rivers more navigable, at the very least they would invest in horse power, in order for their people to travel quickly across the plain, allowing a caravan based trade netowork to do what rivers did not, right?

Well, no, and that leads me into my next point.

2. They Failed to turn into a cavalry based military, economic force, or political one

When the last king of Gondor(then prince) before Aragorns coming near a millennia later, came to destroy Angmar with a truly stunningly large relief force at the end of Angmar's power, he noted to his surprise just how perfect Arnor's plains would be for his cavalry in the task ahead of him.

And he was right. While it was the overhwelming numbers that won the day, it was the cavalry that was the main star, and allowed the army of the west to sweep over Angmar and end it forever with such ease.

With this in mind, it brings the question of why didnt the Arnorian Dunedain switch over to a completely horse based army, or at the very least make knights the shocktroops of the military the way Gondor did?

The reason seems simple enough.

Gondor was forced to fight endless wars against all of its neighbors and had to constantly adapt and change and improved, while Arnor was at peace for the better part of a millenium before it broke.

When the successor state of Arthedain had to adopt to new warfare, it always found itself outnumbered, and from the accounts of it's wars with Angmar, what they ended up doing was simply rely on powerful fortifications to fight defensive wara, and it's alliance networks to rally addiational troops.

Not strategies withouth merrit, but it's clear that Arthedain never managed to become a particularily great military powerhouse... But it could have if it had changed over to cavalry as the main feature of the army.

Instead they relied on what the numenoreans of old did. Arrow, sword and shield.

They no doubt had mounted troops of some sort, but it was clearly not their speciality just looking at how their successors, the rangers of the north prefer fighting.

But the fact is, Arnor should have had Cavalry centered armies from the very start, leaving behind the old Numenorean way of fighting the moment they realised all their future fighting would be on open plains.

However, this lack of focus on horses had another side effect. One that along with their squandering their rivers would contribute to another problem.

3. A lack of integration of the kingdom's ethnicities.

When Arnor broke off into 3 different realms, while the impetous was 3 sons fighting for control, when you look at the bigger picture, its clear that what actually happened here is that the 3 realms broke off very neatly along the kingdoms 3 main ethnicities, who each backed their own prefered candidate.

Arthedain, the biggest and strongest, centered around the heartland was populated by mostly ethnic dunedain, along with breemen as a smaller ethnicity.

Cardolan was ruled by a dunedain elite, but the ethnicity that dominated was the natice, pre numenorean population who were centered around the barrow tombs they would later be buried in(and would be corrupted by the witch king).

And finally Rhudar was also ruled by a dunedain elite, but the real power behind their revolt against the capital was the natice hillmen, who, being dissatiafied with Dunedain rule, and fueled by ambition decided to ally with Angmar in a bid for supremacy(only to later be exterminated by angmar once they no longer served their purpose).

What we see here is a very clear breakdown of the kingdoms, caused by a failed integration policy.

Clearly Annumias and later Fornost failed to bring these minorities into the fold successfully the way Gondor did eith its minorities, who became proud gondorians.

And we can in large part blame this on the capitals inability to project a sense of unity across the land. Which would have been easy to do if they had successfully tamed and harnessed their rivers, making all 3 corners part of a connected riverrine network, or had used horse based travel and trade as a matter of course to ensure everyone was connected into one economic and political policy.

Its very telling that the only people the Dunedain successfully integrated into their realm were the two minorities who lived right by the capital of Fornost(The hobbits and Breemen). Because these were the people who lived close enough that you could actually get there by foot at a reasonable time.

So with all of this in mind, there is a question to be raised. Why did Arnor squander all of it's natural advantages so badly?

Well i've gone over the military one. A stupily long amount of peace made the realm unprepared for innovation that allowed Gondor to become a powerhouse.

But no the real reason why the Arnorians would have seen no need to make changes to bolster trade, in and outside the kingdom, is due to a factor i have not gone over yet.

4. Trade mistakes.

Arnor and Arthedain both sit on an ancienct road used by the dwarves, both from across the misty mountains in the direction of rivendel, but also from gondor, and far more importantly for this dissection, during both Arnor and Arthedain's lifetimes, this road systwm would have been used by Khazad-Dum, Moria, at it's height.

All 3 directions heading to the Dwarves mines in the blue mountains and the great harbors of the Elven realm of Lindon.

It would in short, be one of the most lucrative trade routes of the age.

But, and this is critical, it was not a network Arnor actually had to do some work to take a advantage of.

They did not need to make caravans, or build trade fleets, ocean or riverrine. Hell, they didn't even need dedicated traders of their own.

They were middle men, who by virtue of sitting right on this route got to toll and harness the wealth this route generated withouth hacing to do any real work.

And that, ultimately was the problem. They didnt need to innovate. They didnt need to adapt and improve and put their land to full use, because all the wealth they could possibly use was there withouth work.

And that sucks, because clearly Arnor had A LOT of products they could have sold abroad. We can tell that just by looking at it's most prosperous successor state(the shire) and looking at what sort of technology they inherited from their original overlords.

The hobbits of the shire has paper mills, clockmakers, dye industry, matches, bound books, door knobs, integrated locks and latches, and on and on. Compare it to rohan, and they are centuries ahead in tech by our standards.

It's often easy to forget(give tolkien was clear that hobbits just did not move past a certain point in techonology) that by the standards of the day, the Hobbits are very technologically advanced compared to most... And ALL of that is things they inherited from their overlords.

Wheter Arthedain and by extension Arnor invented all of these technologies themselves(as there are a number of things clearly not found in gondor it cant all have been inherited from numenor), or they adapted it through Trade with Khazad Dum or Lindon, improved upon such foreign concepts, or kore likely a mixture of all of these, it's clear that Arnor had the capacity to make these, and by extension the fact they are still around after the kingdom fell, in the form of the hobbits being self sufficcient(otger than presumably the raw metal materials they trade for with the dwarves) means this was not some exceptional level of tech for the kingdom.

It was the kingdom's standard, and if they had been interested in actually exporting these things abroad, Arnor would probably have been more wealthy than Gondor by a far margin.

But they didnt. Because they didnt see any need to innovate their trade capacity in such a manner. Which in turn led to them not harnessing their lands capacity for cheap, easy transportations, which in turn led to them not integrating their people the way gondor(who's people are all connected through the sea and Anduin, and what comes with them), which led to them being far more divided than they should have been.

And while their long period of peace allowed them to overtake Gondor in so many things, when it came to military advancements, they were not only voefully behind, but when it came time to innovate, they lacked both the resources, and the spark to truly overhaul their military and tactics, instead relying on the same old classics until it brought the kingdom crashing down.

#arnor #gondor #numenorians #technology #meta #trade #military #lord of the rings #tolkien's legendarium #statecraft #statebuilding

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bigmack2go · 6 months ago

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Also here are my notes. Not all of them make sense anymore but some do lol.

So we all know i love musicals and thats why i chose this topic. i knew from the beginning that i wanted to do smt with musicals for this but i wasnt sure whT to chose. I was debating doing the portrayal of death in musicals but nit all of you answered in time whether thya would trigger anybody so that was out. The second option was costumes in musical whoch wooild make sense for us as fashion forst graders but then u realised i could include that in this.

Now obviously there isnt one way to make a good musical and its always a matter of opinion. And while i do have an opinion, i tried to form a critical opinion on everything.

Theres a lot of stuff that goes into musicals. When you think of a good one you may think of one with good lyrics or a cool story. But theres also stuff that you don’t think of at first, that alone couldn’t’make’ a good play, but in combination are the most important parts! Like the light design >insert rest of agenda.< (kannst einfach ablesen, was auf der folie steht!)

story wise i think heathers did a great job. Heathers is about a girl who falls in love with a killer. Ups and downs, and just a generally creative and good story with a good and,,more or less sense-making plot. The layout is very good too: a great hook, some happy stuff, scary and then things go down with a bittersweet ending. Im not sure how to explain what makes a good or a bad plot but for reference imma give you cats in comparison as an example of a not so good plot

Talking lyrics, i dont need to think twice to tell you hamilton! Its about alexander the great and his life. There is no way to convince me of anything else. Its a peotic masterpiece which especially brings out alexander hamitons own lyrical genius. Lin Manuel Miranda is a great fan of motifs and mass rhymes, and methaphors. His stylisation is nit only unique but really really good!

but I honestly didn’t like the choreo: it was sloppy and ensemble based. They were just rearranging furniture and stuff. There was only one song, “Satisfied” that was choreographed well. i do however think that westside storry has an awesome choreo! Westside story is about racism and separation between gangs in the 1960’s new york city. It tells storry but it’s still dancing. Good dancing i mean. They mixed elements of ballet with hip hop, flamenco and countles other kinds of dancing and it came out with perfection

and while the tunes are awesome there, there are better ones. Like Rent. But even better: hadestown. A modern retelling of the story of greek mythology god orpheus and his love interest euridacy. The tunes are everything there! It captured the mood and it was,,, seductive to your ears! The orchestra and composer did a great job! Its not easy to make all instruments work with each other so well. Or in the hights! Awesome composition!

yk what else is great about in the hights? The mood! It has ups and downs. An awesome balance thats brought acroos awesomely! Some would argue that SIX is by far the play with the best mood and don’t get me wrong SIX also has a great mood but i dont think they found a good balance for that. The mood is almost exclusively positive for what its worth and it didnt have enough variety

while its not like in the heights had the chance to, they still didn’t have the greatest costumes… however six didn’t have the chance either, but they still did it. They’re original and iconic and make the characters! Six tells the story of the six wives of henry the eighth who were divorced, beheaded, died, divirced, beheaded and survived. Of course there goes a lot into costume making which makes this even better Theres a lot to concidder:

-cholortheory

-color psychology

-prises

-fabric

And then of course the require some necessary qualities like

-quickchanges

-dancable

-rechognise characters (especially when one actor plays several) and set the ensemble apart

-makes no noises OR make specific noises

-You need to concidder the period in which the play takes place, and clothes aren’t the only complicated part of costumes: wigs/ hair and makeup or facepaint can make a whole look!

And the kind of musical can also influence the kinds of costumes. Some examples are

Types/ways of costumes (I tried to make this as few categories as possibles possible)

(Erklären!!!)

- Normal clothing. Examples: come from away, Illinois, the prom

- Periodically./accurate (unter punkt: seemingly adequate) Examples: newsies, the greatest show, something rotten

- Periodically modernised: Hamilton who had periodical clothes and hair and make up modern,

- Modernised: SIX which was almost robitic, descendants

- Interpretation Starlight express, (where trains and cars wore roler skates), tarzan, and lionking? Possibly? I feel like lionking could be a category of its own though to be honest

- made into outfit:: spongebob, Arielle/the little mermaid, (starlight express)

- Actually just costumes: cats, Shrek, beauty and the beast or wicked

- Inadequate: six

- Portraying: into the woods and parts of starlight express

- Simplified: hamilton

- using the stage: illinois, ride the cyclone

then theres storry telling for which i say cats. cats… which is quite ironic. Cats is about…. Well… cats

They could have done better but i still think it’s the best there is! They TELL their storry. Like in six exept they actually have a present that like,, exists. The lyrics alright i guess but the composing could have had a little more variety, however i did love the stage there as well because it was always the same but still did awesome stuff like the train thingy

talking about stages! I think the stage is such an important part thats often overlooked. There are musicals like dear evan hansen, the prom, be more chill or tuck everlasting that have a variety of different sets with self driving probs but it’s just actually different things and not very creative. There are two versions of good stages. One that take you in the setting, but that only works if your setting is a special place. There are many musicals that made this one very well. My top two are frozen on ice and tarzan they are actually in an icepit with icedanging and stuff and in tarzan they swing around like actual monkeys and spray you with water and stuff. The second type is when there is one element thats used through the whole show and that makes the setting. This is also called a Uni-set. One of the best examples for this is probably the grey cube: Falsettos. It’s about aids and judaism (?)

But whats part of the stage design is the light design which is overlooked even more than the stage itself. I know i said said that i didnt like the stage of dear evan hansen but it does have an awesome light design! In general the technical aspects and also the sound design there is really good! Dear evan hansen is about a boy who pretends to have been friends with a kid that recently passed.

then theres what i call the manipulation aspect which is choices that were purposely made but not pointed out. I think that hamilton did a great job here too. A lot of people talking at once when to much is going on in his life and only him talking when he makes the dumbest decision in his life. Walking in straight lines when thinking simple and good but in circles when it’s complicated and a lot. That sort of stuff.

the last aspect is performance. Its hard to rate this since for stage musicals the actors and therefore the performance changes constantly but i think the original tuck everlasting cast did a great job! Tuck everlasting is about a girl, Winnie, who meets an immortal family

something that i honestly probably shouldnt count but gives bonus points is: every musical should have at least one singer tht seems to not even be able to miss a tune if they tried. Sure all singers should be good i love when theres just this one over the top adelle level person. The greatest showman has one and its epic, like,,, goosbumbs throughout the whole song “never enough” with the swedish nightingale. The greatest showman is about Pineas Barnum- an actual guy- who believed in true happiness and that as long as a smile is real, it doesn’t matter if the ‘cause’ of that smile is. He was the reason for the saying “freakshow”

however those are only the best in their aspects but if you’re asking what the BEST MUSICAL IS I definitely say Newsies! im not saying that because i like it -which i do- but actually critically thinking!

Newsies is a Musical based on the newsboys strike of 1899 where the Newsies working for the World and the Journal held the first ever successful strike in america that was organised by kids in history. The story centres Centers around a Newsboy Jack Kelly and his new friend Davey. They start a strike against the owners of the Newspapers and stop selling because they raised the prices for the papers even tho they have more than enough money, when the Newsboys barely make a living. Davey tries to talk him out of it at first but doesn’t succeed. Eveantually he gives in and actually gets really invested in the strike himself in the end.

Now your prolly thinking: why? Well. This presentation is far from over. (That was a lie. Its almost done dont worry)

Lyrics are honestly great! I have zero complaints about that. If anything, i have complements! Sure, its not as good as Mirandas works but, lets be honest: what is? I think the lyrics were still more than A+! The story is simply great. i personally think its harder to make something that already exists or happened into a storry. It requires much more creativity despite already having a ‘template’ you have to make the whole thing fit and make sense with your own thing and still be accurate and theres a lot about this actually. Newsies did great with that! It’s composed geniusly too. Menken/Ortega outdid himself by far with it. The choreo? Bombastic! Don’t even get me started. Prolly the best I’ve even seen! And I‘m not just saying that. I actually don’t think i’ve ever seen anything choreographed this well before. They have dance breaks in songs, DESPITE DANCING THE WHOLE TIME anyways

Tunes? Through the roof top. (Haha get it— cuz of santa fe— laugh>:()

The mood was great but it had a balance! It was introduced with a good mood, making u invested but still,,, deep and sad.

You just need one picture -and this is gonna sound really bad for my case but- this[bild zeigen] is all you need to know about the show

While the costumes aren’t too original they’re definitely iconic and not too bad.

Story telling is fantastic! There are some talking to yourself/the audience and telling the story! Some telling it WITHIN the plot (which they did a gooood job making it seem natural and not forced info) and some middle grounds. I really liked it. They also blurred the lines there perfectly.

Stages! I love using newsies as an example for a good stage because they have BOTH kinds of a good stage! (sorta) its one element that is rearanged to make a whole different setting. They only needed some little elements that weren’t always the same. Add a few tables and chairs? Diner. Ad fancier chairs? Pulitzers office. Typewriter? Boom! Editors office. I also think that the metall stuff did a really good job reminding u where and when exactly this is taking place and that that combination of time and place: lower manhattan in 1899 wasnt the best mix of time and place to live in so that sorta counts for the first type.

We dont even need to talk about the “manipulation” aspect bc i wouldnt even know where to start. Im not even sure it was all on purpose. What character has what choreo, the double meaning of some things, the reprises, the rhymes and so much more

They have medda and jeremy jordan as jack kelly so they have not one but TWO of those perfect singers!

And Ive honestly never seen a bad performance of newsies . So yes. Chritically, Newsies is the best musical

Anyway my favourite is and always will be

Starlight express

Despite not being on place one in even ine of these

#newsies #my posts #kosa newsies strike #heathers #hamilton #cats #SIX #the greatest showman #come from away #lionking #descendants #tarzan #frozen #starlight express #beauty and the beast #wicked #into the woods #in the heights

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speakyskelly-1999 · 1 year ago

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hey

so i know i've been doing fuck all for a while

i've had a lot of work to do and i've not been the wellest of people

and like i have other anime i need to talk about first but errr

OMG WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST FINISH

i just finished watching I'm in Love with the Villainess and errr i don't know whatt o make of it

it was like fine for the first 7 episodes, hell even good

but then it throw me a massive curve ball, tolerated it. watched the the next couple episodes. and err let me tell you thoes curve balls just kept on coming and just kept on getting worse.

now did i enjoy the final episode. well kinda. ignoing the first errr 6 minuets it was fiiiiiiiiine. but holy shit

and like they're not really curve balls in terms of plot exatly. they impact it of course but like it's more how they chose to drive the plot thats bugging me

some spoilers by the way

claire, who's the love interet looses her maid whos been with her for ages. fine plot point. WHY SHE LEAVES. ERMM!!!! lets just say forbidden love in the forgers christmas ad variety

ha ha ha i'm in so much pain

aaaaaaanywaaaaay

then we get some one who tests rae and claires love (rae loves claire but claire hasn't realised that she loves rae yet basically)

i need ceral break one sec

okay i have food to get me through this trying time.

it's so yummy

so err yea character who turns up to shake up the relationship

me: okay show whos this person

show: claire's first love

me; okay like a kid next door kinda thing

show; her sisterrrrrrrr

me: say sike rn

show: hahaha yea that's not her sister

me: oh thank god, weird that she calls her that but i guess if its a they were really close as kid but driftedf apart or what ever that's tolerable. as long as their not related i can tolerate-

show: sheeeeeee her cuuuuuuuuuuuz

me: kill me now

so like you might be wondering why i stared watchging

i'd like to nkow the answer myself

i think i reached a level of dispar that destoryed me mind body and soul that i had to know if it got worse

it did

cat break

aaah that cat doesn't have a care in the world

no work, no school just moew moew

okay is everyone refreshed

good back tot he shit show

now the show does a bait and switch but not really , i think

the concept of claire's cuz (i cannot fucking spell her name and i don't want to) is that in the game (yes this is a reincarnated into a video games one, i had some idea of the quality i was getting into but geez) she's one of the only ally characters to the protagonist (rae) to hepl her get with one of the love interest that she likes. now in the game you can only pick from one of the three princes but rae is going after the villainess (hence the title) so she doesn't know whoch side she'll be on.

now to save everyone some trouble, claire's cuz was deliberatly playing the "bad guy who gets in the way of their relationship to make it deeper" cos claire still haddn't realised her feelings for rae really (it is a bit odd tho cos claire's cuz also just says she was actuaslly trying to get with rae at one point and i wanna die)

god call me errr junko what ever the fuck her surname is cos that despare vortex has be by the fucking neck

okay back to it. the way. THE WAY in which claire's cousin goes about her fucking plan, her fucking deal is the worse. she flerts with claire infront of rae to deliberatly provoke her into a fight. this dosn't work so she just straight up chalengers rae and almost FUCKING KILLS HER. so i was like "ah shown your true colores now, this was the plan, no one will like you anymore and you'll leave."

rae lost the bet so she had to quit being clair's maid beacvuse thoes there the tems and conditions tehy came up with for the fight in essence.

SHE👏🏽 THEN👏🏽 GETS👏🏽 MAD👏🏽 AT👏🏽 RAE 👏🏽FOR👏🏽 QUITTING

tells rae that she dosn't really care for clair cos she gave up. rae states that like by law they can't be together and also claire dosn't like her back. manaria (i fucking learned her name for this, are you happy now. it's claire's cuz i didn't know if that was👍🏽errr) talks about how she had a love who she didn't wanna say anything and then ended up hurting her. sounds like weirdly placed moral support considering you caused this to happen and knew rae couldn't win against you in the fight but okay i guess

NO NO NO NO NO

the thing that manaria did (well "did" cos idk if she was just bullshitting to get them to get back together or, as she states later, just wanted to see rae mad cos she thinks that's cute) is not nothing you lie about if she did lie. AND DEFINATLY NOT SOMETHING TO LIKE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND ON HURTING THE PERSON YOU LOVE. because rae just quit her job. manaria did something incredibly horrific. and i'm moving on cos i don't wanna talk about this part anymore

look another emotional support cat

ain't he just a darling

that's a good cat right there

you can tell i'm coping hard

yea so erm fuck

ultimatly love wins. rae and claire end up together, yay/ manaria goes home, thank fuck. and all the side characters are happy (that deserve happiness). cool is that the end of the show now. can i go home. they semi set up a season two

ooooh they semi set up a season two

yea idk man like the first 7 episodes get a 7/10 and idk what the fuck the rest of it gets. it broke my scale

don't wantch it, but like if you want to just watch the first 7 episodes and you have a decent enough ending. don't watch the next time.

#pain #i'm just in so much pain #okay but like the op and ed were kinda finre #at least for me they were #i really don't care about the coherency of this ones guyss it's just pain #my flatmat gone be made at the fact i used a different bowl eheheheh

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dry-valleys · 1 year ago

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"It is precisely the capcity to absorb elements of previous cultures (Hellenistic, Roman etc.), which has been one of the defining charachteristics of Islamic societies.

If one restricts one's observations to the geographical area of the Mediterranean, which was extremely diverse culturally at the time of the emergence of Islam, one will discern quickly that this initial moment does not represent a break with previous history in the least".

Museum with No Frontiers.

The Saadian Tombs of Marrakech. (TLDR- 10 is a picture of a cat).

The first part of my Morocco series; please see here, here, here, here and here for the rest.

What is now Morocco has been home to the Berber for thousands of years; they still make up more than hall of Moroccan stock and their language and culture are alive in well as we'll see in a later post in this series.

The Berber have been added to by traders and conquerors including the Phoenicians, Romans (who conquered the area they called Mauretania in 44 AD and ruled it until 429), the Arabs (who conquered Egypt in 649 and beseiged the Maghreb, which includes what is now Morocco, whoch they completed in 709).

The Arabs brought the Arabic language and Islamic religion. Since then, Muslim dynasties, Arab and Berber, have ruled Morocco for almost the whole time and the Almoravid dynasty, who were Berber, founded Marrakech as their capital in around 1070 AD.

In the Middle Ages, Morocco was part of a shared Andalusian civilisation which you can read about in the Museum with No Frontiers book 'Andalusian Morocco'. Andalusia encompassed North Africa and what most of what is now Spain.

However, as the Spaniards reclaimed their country, they booted out not only their Moorish rulers, but all Muslims and Jews; after 1492, they were both expelled and many fled to Morocco because it was the nearest safe place.

Later the Morisco and Marrano, who were of Muslim and Jewish origin but had lived in Europe for hundreds of years, were also expelled from Spain; they also mostly went to Morocco, where they went back to their old faith but kept some European ways.

This accelerated in the Saadian era and explains why Morocco is distinct in the Arab world and has always been open to new influences; this building is far from a traditional Islamic style, especially as tombs tend not to be as important in Islam as in the Christian world, though they clearly are here.

The Saadians took power from 1510 onwards as their ruler, Abu Abdallah al-Qiam emerged as a leader of the fight against Portuguese invaders, and had their work cut out; they took in the above named refugees and fought off the Portuguese (whom they again defeated at Agadir in 1541 and at the Battle of the Three Kings in 1578).

The Saadians were also beset by the Algerians, the Spanish, and their neighbours in sub-Saharan Africa, the Songhai dynasty, whom they defeated at the Battle of Tondibi in 1591 and prevented from coning north again.

They also fought off and outwitted the Ottomans (thanks to the Saadian victory at the Battle of Wadi al-Laban in 1558 and the efforts of other Moroccan rulers, Morocco was the only Arab country not to become part of the Ottoman Empire). And in death, they came to this place to rest.

None of their victories helped the Saadians themselves in the long run, as they were replaced by the Alaouites after the killing of Ahmad al-Abbas (who is also buried here) in 1659.

The new dynasty, the Alaouites, took over in 1666 then had to fend off invaders including the Spanish, English (we had a colony in Tangiers from 1661 to 1684 but it was a flop and we were booted out (by the Alaouites, about whom more in a later post), which is why you don't hear much about it in England!

They could not withstand the French power though, and through the Treaty of Fez (1912) the parts of Morocco including Marrakech became a French protectorate, while a Franco-Spanish treaty the same year meant that areas to the north and south were ruled by Spain.

This was so unpopular in Morocco that it sparked the Fez riots of 1912 which took the lives of 600 Muslims, 66 Europeans and 42 Jews, and Sultan Abd al-Hafid had to flee, ending up in France of all places (where he died in 1937)

Morocco won its independence from France in 1956, though there are still Spanish colonies in this part of Africa at Ceuta and Melilla (something to remind the Spanish government of the next time they hold forth about Gibraltar).

Morocco was now ruled by King Mohammed V, who was also an Alaouite (sultan since 1927, now king) , who had been deported by the French government in 1953, but whose fortunes turned around 3 years later and who was seen as the only unifying ruler of the new state, which he was until he died in 1961.

Mohammed V's son, Hassan II, ruled from 1961 to 1999 and, despite two coup attempts and despite an ongoing conflict over Western Sahara (which was ruled by Spain until 1975 though claimed by the Moroccan state as part of Morocco and with an ongoing independence movement), Hassan II cemented his father's achievements before dying in 1999.

Mohammed VI, who is one of the Alaouite dynasty, has been King since then and is highly popular in Morocco and his picture can be seen everywhere; not glowering down with threats like Assad or the ayatollahs, Mohammed VI is there because his followers want him to be there.

Although not easy to find, this place should be sought by those who want to understand why Morocco is different and what Moroccan-ness was and is.

#photos #morocco #africa #marrakesh #marrakech

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klara-rosa · 1 year ago

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yesterday i had a really shitty therapy session and i came home and felt very honestly like i want to commit s****** because nothing made sense and everything was overwhelming and I've been saying for the past few weeks that i really am close to breaking point and that i want to go on sick leave and do nothing FOR ONCE and today i woke up and had a really bad day the moment i opened my eyes and really bad body dysmorphia day and nothing i put felt right and everything was too tight and was touching my body too much and i honestly was so close to call in sick and i've been miserable at work all day and my coworker even asked me what's up with me lately and if i need to talk so now i also feel bad because i put the mood down at the office and then i went to my parents' house to pick up my dog and just wanted to unload for ONE MINUTE and my mom snapped at me and because i didn't want to be put in that position i got up and wanted to leave and then my dad did the same thing he so often does whoch is to ask ME why I've been reacting that way and why i talk to my mother that way when in reality I WAS DISRESPECTED and didn't wanna take it and i hate that they always want to emotionally manipulate me and put me under so much pressure mentally and I REALLY JUST WANT TO CALL IN SICK AND SLEEP FOR HOWEVER LONG I WANT AND STAY IN MY PYJAMAS ALL DAY AND NOT HAVE MY DOG WITH ME FOR ONE.SINGLE.DAY AND JUST REST AND DON'T TALK TO ANYONE AND I JUST DON'T WANT TO PUT ON THE MASK FOR ONE DAY I JUST WANT TO BE MISERABLE IN PEACE

#I'm so utterly and completely alone i have no one to talk to no one who cares #I have been doting on my mom recently because she's been sick too but it's interesting to see that they wouldn't do the same thing for me #I said to them this morning 'i have a really bad day my back hurts and my neck hurts and i'm mentally at breaking point'#And the only thing my dad did ask was why my back hurts #and it's like...just no one cares #I have no one #and i've been hurting so much recently and struggling and no one cares #my therapist does i think but i'm unable to open up to her because my brain won't let me open up to anyone

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randomshipperhere · 2 years ago

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I’m still in a lot of pain after the MLDD server shutdown.

Even though I lost all my progress I am so glad that there are fans who do so much for the community by posting high quality version of the pics for free. Translate the game for free and make fan content for fellow fans to enjoy.

If this post gets seen by anyone who has contributed anything for the fandom I’m sincerely grateful to all of you.

#I missed lucien all of a sudden #whoch is why this came up #will start reading date translations soon #mlqc #mldd #mr love queen's choice #text post #i know there was a data transfer thing and whatever but the thing is #fandom went through a lot in the months leading up to termination #that it made it hard to continue playing #so i decided to step away from it #and i finally felt like i could come back with the mindset where i can enjoy it fully

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gardeningintrests · 4 years ago

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What if Aliens dont need education to our level in order to work?

like, we humans study for years on end and some even kill them selves because they cannot pass the examinations whoch means they wouldnt have a fufilling life. Now what if the Aliens dont work that way? what if they just need you to trian and pass a normal and easy test, physical test and some of you ability to do things and then they see which job suits them best. what would they think about our education?

little story down here :)

Log 12 #4567 logger : TEVILAAN

Subject: Travelling to Teran and do a log on how humans operate their tests's for their species and how they sort them.

Time : 2nd of Summer, 30394

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As we land to the port of the Terran International Space Station, we are quite looking foward to how Terran looked from the inside. We were accompanied by Humans along the way, some of them looked to the screens infront of them as they keep walking! This is incredible! I really want to know how they did that (this is going to be in another story) The humans brought us down, and we went into medium metal compartments, inside the compartment is nice. The humans informed Xi and Xi's crew that we are going to be visiting one of their universities { Xi has no idea what that is but Xi'm sure Xi will understand soon enough }

As the metal compartment { also known as "cars" } came to a stop, we exit out of it and was impressed by what we saw, a castle like building was infront of us. Xi and XI's crew are very keen to undertand how it works! it looks beautiful with the culture of modern technology and Art. Once we reached inside, we heard from the humans that it was class time so there arent going to be "students" around, Xi was curious and asked what are "students" and The human said that they are adolocents humans { human younglings from the age 10-21 but human ages differ diffrently at diffrent regions }who are studying for their future. Xi is very upmost confused Students? studying? Human younglings got the jobs so quickly? Xi wondered so much that i asked the human what age do Human Younglings get sorted into their workspaces. The reply Xi gotten was... unsettling.. The human laughed. Xi and Xi's crew was...dumbfounded, what were they laughing for? Then the human told Xi something horrifying, Human Younglings dont have a specific age for them to do the Job test! They dont sort them into Jobs! They have to study loads of subjects and then every year they have examinations where they have to rely solemly on their heads! if they fail, they might not get something called a 'degree" and without this so called "degree" they are unable to work and provide for their families or themselves! Humans have to find work themselves! While the human younglings are studying, some dont sleep for nights! and according to the 《Human Health Menu》 Human younglings need at least 8 hours of sleep daily in order to work preperly for the day and stay healthy for their growth! Xi and Xi's group were shocked and didnt know how to respond. why would they shove subjects they cannot handle to their children? CHILDREN! Children arent suppose to study! that is an adults { Matured Talibaans ( the species of Tevliaan) } and by the time they explained their so called "education system" a bell rang. "ah it seems like it is lunch time for the students " lunch time, time int he afternoon where humans eat their second meal of the day { humans need to eat 3 meals a day, breakfeast, ,lunch and dinner } We heard loud voices comming out of the hallways and stairways, Xi and Xi's group saw humans! Hundreds of them walking, and talking, some were holding books, papers, pencil cases and simple comunicating technology al so known as phones , some where holding onto medium high technology also known as Laptops

They all look diffrent in some way, but all Xi could see was that the humans are younglings sure enough, and most of them havent even touched their food the moment they came down, they were reading and writting eevrywhere and working on their medium high technology device.

Xi were expecting the human younglings to look at Xi and be scared or shocked on the sudden appearence of a so called "alien" but they paied no attention to us, some even walked pass us without a single word. they were like the living dead. after the visit to the so called university, Xi and Xi's crew found out that humans are...very pitiful...

to be forced to study subjects you are not good at and even memorise useless information that take up your brain memory is really unfortunate, they start doing this even just a few years after their younglings were born! it really is, if they have such vast internet and information directly in their hands, why do they still need to do such useless and wasteful process in order to provide for their own lives? When Xi got onto Xi's ship, Xi prayed for the unfortunate Younglings that has to go through such process. Maybe its just in the human nature, maybe its just the effect of another horrible history they have. end message

#humans are space australians #humans are weird #humans are space orcs #humans are space fae #humans are terrifying #earth is a deathworld #earth is space australia #humans are deathworlders

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percyscourt · 6 years ago

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percy jackson godly parent swap

(those who aren't mentioned in a different cabin stay the same)

PERCY:

son of aphrodite

sally jackson falling for aphrodite in a male form, skin tan and hair jet black, with eyes everchanging between gold, blue and green. sally confused when aphrodite visited her in her usual female form, but realized she loved her just the same

percy asking his mom about his dad, who his mom calls "the most beautiful person she'd ever met"

percy growing up and using charmspeak without even realizing it; "Nancy, just shut up." and Nancy immediately shutting her mouth close, as if she was a robot of some kind. percy brushing this off as the fact that nancy just didn't want to get in trouble

grover and his mom telling percy that they didn't really know who his dad was, but grover had suspicions based on the aura he radiates

his fight with the minotaur still staying the same, except at one point he had to will himself to get up using charmspeak

aphrodite's symbol popped above his head as soon as he was conscious after his fight with the minotaur and percy was sure it was a mistake; how could the goddess of beauty be his father? it wasn't even the fact that she was a god!dess!, it was the fact that percy didn't really see him good enough to be an aphrodite kid, not handsome or stylish enough

percy's siblings annoyed by how little he cares about his looks at first, then helping him find his right style- which they describe as new york skater junkie

aphrodite constantly sending him gifts; letters with love advice, new clothes, all that. and percy secretly reading the love letters but throwing away everything else. (hey he's a confused teenage boy, can you blame him?)

aphrodite constantly voicing her approval of annabeth, and begging percy to just ask her out

percy being absolutely crushed about silena, whom he was closest with, and him and clarisse shutting down anybody who called her a traitor or the enemy

percy being the cabin counselor due to a note silena left behind, just in case, and him stopping all of drew's dumb ideas (the ugly shoes, which were actually percy's shoes he showed up to camp with)

percy arriving at camp jupiter after training at the wolf house and fighting off the gorgons with hazel and frank, only to have people look down at him for being a son of aphrodite

percy trying to impress everybody so much, always trying to show he's so much more than such a pretty face

percy always trying to show everybody he is strong, smart, and a valid addition to the prophecy

percy and his mom fighting against gaea, and them kicking ass at it too

percy learning that being an aphrodite demigod is about loving yourself and caring for yourself, and how that doesn't make you weak, but rather stronger.

ANNABETH:

daughter of ares

annabeth meeting thalia and luke, being quick in words and with her knife, nearly cutting luke's throat

them traveling to camp and annabeth having the natural battle instinct, dodging and slicing at monsters with uncertainty, yes, but also with a little ease and reflex

annabeth being claimed her first night at the dining pavilion, going to sit down with only about six campers, all glaring daggers at her. annabeth not feeling intimidated, but weirdly at home. more peaceful here than at her dad's, anyway.

annabeth and luke swordfighting, and annbeth slowly yet surely becoming one of the camp's best, though she prefers daggers any day.

annabeth getting named camp counselor despite being eleven, because of her seniority in years of being there

her first act as counselor is to redo the exterior of the cabin, because honestly, it's horrendous. she still keeps the theme of war and everything, just minus the bloody boar, because annabeth gets creeped out by it's following eyes

her second action is stopping the "camp initiation" of dunking kids' heads in toilet bowls

annabeth's battle strategies being the best of camp, and her cabin and the athena one always going head to head in capture the flag.

her being one of her dad's favorites and always trying to please him, always pushing herself to be the best

her fatal flaw still being hubris, and she wants to tear down this world for a new one

her having the strongest Odikinesis at camp. her walking into a room and suddenly people remember that thing their friend did to them months ago, then everybody's fighting

annabeth getting the blessing of ares, and oh my her muscles. she's so fit and muscular and built even before the blessing, but after it's like just. wow. percy gets a lot of shit from it "wow you're girlfriend is more jacked than you" but percy thinks she looks great.

annabeth becoming so lost and distraught after percy goes missing that any time somebody mentions him, her grey eyes go black, and an aura of fear falls over that person. of course, annabeth hates that.

annabeth proving to people that ares demigods aren't just dumb, hot-headed jocks, but also smart, strategic heroes.

JASON:

son of invidia/nemesis

jason arriving at camp jupiter as the first and only invidia demigod, determined to join the fifth cohort and turn it around, to avenge those in the cohort who were mistreated and to bring honor back to their name

reyna choosing him as a leader because 1) his strong sense of justice 2) his refusal to let anyone bully other people of a lower ranking 3) while also giving out fair punishments

reyna, along with having her two dogs in her meetings, but also jason as he can sense when people are lookin for revenge/trouble

him getting his memory wiped, waking up in the bus, feeling a strong sense of missing, something he needed to do

seeing that guy hit on and flirt with piper, and jason hating it. he didn't know much- but he knew that he hated people that thought they were everything, people with big egos

jason and his friends getting picked up by this butch guy and annabeth girl, and jason noticing that annabeth was radiating this very vengeful aura. he was so intimidated he almost didn't get on the pegasus, but he didn't think he'd be better off here

jason arriving at camp and getting claimed almost immediately, a glowing scale hovering over his head.

jason walking into the cabin, on one wall seeing a picture of who must be his sister thalia with annabeth and another dude, and on another seeing a bunkbed pushed against the wall. with somebody on the bottom bunk.

jason meeting damien white, his half-brother, and learning about ethan nakamura. at first, jason was completely appalled by how traitorous his brother had been. then, hearing more about ethan and becoming sad, wishing to have met him.

jason even more sad learning that his brother didn't get a cabin while he was alive, and jason vowing to make it up to him by making sure all the gods' kids got their own cabins

jason and the seven fighting against gaea, and jason almost passing out by all the energy people were putting out. wirh every swipe of somebody's sword, it was as if they were basically yelling, "you! this is what you deserve!" and while jason did not see his mother at the fight, he felt her presence near him, giving him extra power

jason dying, begging piper to fulfill his promise of building the minor cabins, because all jason wanted was to keep his promise.

PIPER:

daughter of hermes

tristan mclean falling for hermes in female form, running into her on the beach. like, actually running. tristan running away from the waves after an early morning surf, and hermes literally going for a run on the beach

hermes and tristan going on dates, spending time with each other 24/7, hermes getting pregnant. then hermes leaving, days after piper had been born, unable to tell tristan the truth about gods.

piper growing up wondering how her mom could flake, and how her dad could still be so in love?? with somebody seemingly so normal?? he was tristan mclean after all.

piper growing up, being able to influence people very easily with her persuasive words alone. and when that didn't work, her talent of stealing and lock-picking came in handy

piper finding out about how all her memories with jason were a trick of the mist and her immediate reaction being to hate the gods, and to hate her mother, whoever she was, because why would she let them do that?

piper arriving at camp, nobody sure where to place her. piper walking into the hermes' cabin, instantly feeling at home. but hermes couldn't be her mother. piper was sure.

piper being claimed in front of the whole camp at the campfire, hermes himself showing up to deliever her a special package equipped with top of the line tennis shoes, a winter jacket, and a demand request for her to be apart of the new quest

piper being insanely annoyed with hermes and how he just waltzed back into her life. and how it seemed like he could read right through her

piper hearing about luke and understanding how he could feel hatred towards their dad (or in piper's case, mother), then immediately feeling horrible for feeling this after meeting the stoll brothers

who by the way, became super protective over piper as soon as they met, and who also told her of their prank rivalry with katie gardner in hopes of her joining them. and she did. of course.

piper growing to sort of like hermes, whoch made her feel horrible about betraying the gods in order to get her dad back. piper telling hermes before her friends, to let him know she wasn't a traitor. piper afraid of hermes grouping her with luke. hermes forgiving her, and recognizing her as the hero she is

hermes and piper fighting side by side against the giants, working together as if it was routine

piper beginning to understand how her dad fell for hermes

LEO:

son of athena

athena falling for all of esperanza: her brains as much as her beauty, her strength as much as her character

leo being born with all of esperanza's exterior; curly hair, dark freckles, long legs, and naturally tan/ethnic skin. this making athena love him one hundred times more, seeing him embody the woman she fell in love with, knowing he was going to be unique. knowing he was going to be that much special when he grew up

leo never forgetting anything, especially not years of torment from tia callida. and especially not his mother's death, how everybody blamed him, the words of gaea, everything. wishing he could forget everything, but having a perfect memory. of everything.

this keeping him up all night through every foster home, forcing him to run from each one, guilt dragging him down every step

leo being top of the class at every school he goes to, without even trying. even with his reading dyslexia. leo carrying these grades to the wilderness school, with all the troubled kids who don't care about their grades, just for everyone to bully ask him to tutor them

leo finding out about his friendship with jason being a trick of the mist, and beating himself up about it. constantly. how could he not see it? how could he, the top of every class, the school's pride and jewel, be that dumb?

leo getting claimed as soon as they landed, and being assigned will to give him a tour. leo arriving at the cabin, immediately feeling out of place in the sea of blonde hair and gray eyes

his half-siblings more or less annoyed with his jokes, but nontheless giving him a chance, and them forgetting how they even got along in life without him

him becoming the backbone of the cabin and, soon enough, getting named camp counselor by malcolm pace, who, quickly became one of leo's bestfriends

leo and malcolm making fun of all the couples, and malcolm spilling about the time he accidentally walked in on percy and annabeth hugging, and it quickly becoming one of leo's favorite stories- which he uses to make fun of both parties

leo arriving on ogyia, calculating ways and distances he'd have to travel to get off the island as soon as he landed. thinking the island was something he could solve, and getting extremely annoyed when calypso pointed out it was just magic

leo flying above his mother during the giant war on his invention, festus, which he built with the help of the hephaestus cabin, throwing off his calculated and mathematically composed weapons.

leo waking up after taking the Physician's Cure, finally able to sort of appreciate magic over logic. sort of.

HAZEL:

daughter of hekate/hecate

marie falling in love with the mystery and magic of hekate, and hekate falling in love with marie for the magic she saw in her

hekate granting marie's wish but warning her of its trouble and refusing to stick around long enough to see her and hazel hurt

marie's wish turning into hazel's curse, hazel touching jewels and treasures and them instantly becoming tainted with unfortunes of marie's selfishness

hazel growing up with things happening to her: her wishing something and it coming true, but marie telling her it was just marie's power of fortune telling and whatnot

hazel's eyes and lips trained to read and speak roman, as most of hekate's enchanments are spoken in roman

hazel's little white lies turning into a mist trick, if she lied and said she had an apple, right after marie saw that apple. it was little things, but not too little to go unnoticeable by marie

marie moving hazel to alaska despite hekate's pleads, and hazel feeling as if some part of her was dialed down, as if moving to alaska had diminished this "light" of hers that her mother loved

gaea choosing hazel to manipulate because of her powerful aura

hazel using her Umbrakinesis to shroud gaea in darkness, then caving the world in around her, taking hazel down with her

hazel and marie getting to the underworld and hazel trying to hold on to her life as much as possible, who knows how much time passing, then being tapped on the shoulder by this scrawny boy

this boy, nico, claiming to be hazel's half-sibling, here to bring her back from the open doors of death, with a tip from their mother

hazel arriving at camp jupiter, the first daughter of hekate, hazel being able to manipulate mist and the shadows, even learning how to shadow travel through nico

basically hazel being a badass all throughout the war alongside nico and their mom

hazel's friends helping her realize that her powers are not a curse, but a blessing that she can use to help others.

FRANK:

son of apollo

apollo meeting emily zhang during war, where lots of his kids were

emily thinking he was an egotistical airhead, yet falling for him all the same. emily falling for his never wavering bravery and risk-taking, and apollo falling for emily's safeness yet strength.

frank growing up wondering how anybody could leave his mom, his great mom. frank growing up not missing his dad. frank growing up hoping his dad was at least a good person, and if he wasn't that he didn't pass that on to frank.

frank being a horrible singer, stumbling over his words, yet still being able to heal with his voice, strength pouring from his words to people's ears, telling them to keep going, you got this. like this warm ball of light and comfort was radiating off of him

apollo visiting frank after his mother's death, in the form of a demigod, giving frank his second bow and arrow

frank getting claimed two days after arriving at camp. frank at first sort of hating his dad, this self-absorbed, annoying dude.

people giving him one glance, unable to believe he was a son of apollo. despite his archery skills, he was shy, in the worst cohort, and had none of that "pizzazz." people usually laughed in his face.

frank being ashamed to be in the fifth cobort, when his father was so used to being in the spotlight, so used to being loved and adored, frank being so scared that his father might think he was less

frank getting a blessing from apollo, making him tall with movie star good looks and seemingly glowing skin. frank begging him to dial it down a bit. apollo demanding his son go on the quest, or else

frank's dad constantly popping in during the quest in forms of some homeless man or another, which frank strangely appreciated

frank growing to like him, as he went through the quest, seeing why his mother liked him. seeing a little of himself in apollo, even

frank having the perfect shot, with anything. frank being able to sense the perfect places to put arrows into monsters' chests, being able to sense which place would kill them the fastest

frank meeting will and the apollo cabin, who, unlike camp jupiter, immediately accepted frank and made him feel at home. who never doubted for a second frank's worth, shy, chubby kid or not

apollo constantly voicing how special frank is, how proud he is that frank can be such a geniune hero without all the bravado that apollo himself used.

REYNA:

daughter of pluto

reyna's dad, Julian Ramírez-Arellano, falling for pluto as a pale woman, jet black hair with purple-ish eyes. reyna's dad coming back from war, scarred, becoming more scarred by learning who pluto really was after reyna had been born, and being disgusted by himself and pluto.

julian shoving this disgust on his daughters, screaming, yelling. julian never being the same afterwards. julian always thinking people are out to get him, ideas of war and pluto always haunting him.

julian reduced to a ghost, but appearing to reyna and hylla as a still alive, solid person. reyna driving an imperial good dagger through him, evaporating him forever.

reyna and hylla meeting Circe, and her telling them who their mother was. her promising them a grand future, one where they could get away and above abusive, crazy men, like their father.

then percy jackson and annabeth chase coming, turning reyna's world upside down. reyna going to camp jupiter, hylla to the amazons

reyna's first time shadow travelling being an accident. reyna and hylla being cornered by the pirates at night, reyna just wanting to hide in the shadows of the forest. and then they did. reyna and hylla appearing just five minutes away from circe's spa, both drained from their joint effort but most of all reyna

reyna arriving at camp and almost instantly earning her title of praetor

reyna being able to cast this feeling of fear over people with a single gaze, leaving people frightened days later still

reyna leading her legions into battle practice, hearing the voices of the dead who once held the same weapons in their hand

nico bringing hazel to reyna, asking for her to let the other girl into camp. reyna sensing almost at once that hazel had just came back to life.

percy coming to camp, reminding reyna of the life she could have had. reyna reading his feelings, reyna knowing his past too inckuded death of close ones, maybe even recently. reyna deciding to give him a chance

reyna meeting annabeth and seeing what she saw in percy in her eyes alone, times ten

reyna touching statues of war gods, and being overwhelmed by waves of dead soldiers pleading, begging for help. reyna being able to communicate with some of them, but most of them just mumbled incoherently

reyna going to find the Argo II only for scipio to later get injured, reyna having to put him out of his misery, but reyna still being able to feel his presence as a ghost

reyna shadow traveling the Athena Parthenos alongside nico and coach hedge all the way to camp, nico helping with his powers as a son of hecate

them stopping for breaks at all these historic places, the dead screaming at reyna, begging to be raised

reyna finally raising them at the battle at camp half blood, hundreds of dead demigods rising, tightly gripping their weapons, ready to win back their honor

NICO:

son of hecate

maria falling for hecate's mysterious yet caring, nature and hecate falling in love with maria's soft spoken and kind words paired with her dark hair spilling over her shoulders

zeus trying to strike down the di Angelo kids but hecate tricking him with the mist, though later it backfires as zeus strikes down maria

hecate, furious and devastated, begging hades to help erase their memories, and later place the kids in the Lotus Casino

Nico and Bianca almost breaking out of the daze of the Casino, and having to be served several flowers just to get them to play games; their mom's magic trying to break through and protect them

the di Angelo kids getting out, going to Westover Hall, and hecate paying all the fees

nico falling in love with this game all about magic, studying the plays and spells, learning them. realizing that if he worded them right, he could do some of the minor stuff; levitating, starting little fires, even being able to hide in the shadows sometimes. bianca convincing him that it was all his imagination

percy, annabeth, and thalia showing up and helping the di angelos escape, bianca becoming so scarce and quiet that she turned invisible. everybody thinking it to be a trick of the light

nico being the opposite, drawing attention to himself, all his questions loud, the sound of the forest and nature suddenly shushed, cut off

nico getting to camp and feeling out of place, as no hecate cabin was built, not being claimed. bianca leaving, percy promising, then bianca dying. percy bringing back a hecate figurine, but it being too late; nico slipping into the shadows

nico slowly teaching himself shadow travel and mist control but having to stop days after a simple trick

nico arriving in the maze, using what he could of the mist to distract and confuse monsters

percy and them finding nico, who casts a black stone wall (a trick of the mist) to stop kronos from coming after them, revealing his godly parent

nico having a little bit of necromancy powers, but only for fellow hecate demigods. nico using this in his advantage in the titan war

nico leaving camp after the titan war, only showing up when percy went missing to help look for him. nico finally having his own cabin

nico's mom tipping him off about hazel, and hades and hecate's agreement to let nico pass through the doors of death safely

nico traveling with reyna and coach hedge, helping reyna shadow travel and healing with spells

nico teaching will stronger and faster healing spells to use on the campers

nico learning slowly how to embrace his powers, despite remarks he got over the years of people calling him a freak. nico not feeling so left out and alone

WILL:

son of iris

naomi solace falling for iris' kind eyes and smile that stretches to her eyes, iris falling for naomi's shining eyes, as if the sun lived there

will getting to camp and staying in the hermes cabin until after the titan war, where he was claimed the minute the iris cabin was finished being built

will being able to pull light out of nowhere, in the darkness of nights, like a beacon

will seeing being a healer as art, fixing what's broken and putting it right again

will using his mom's communication skills to calm people down in time for him to heal them, occasionally with the help of nico

will helping the aphrodite cabin with educating people about acceptance and accepting their selves and others

will being chosen to help apollo after he was turned human because of his kind nature and patience

will overall being a ray of sunshine whenever people need him, whatever the circumstances

BONUSES:

clarisse as a nike demigod, and being almost intolerable with her competitve behavior

meg mccaffrey as a dionysus demigod

alex fierro as a hermes demigod

magnus chase as an apollo demigod

mallory keen as a dionysus demigod

halfborn gunderson as an ares demigod

tj as a nike demigod

blitzen as an aphrodite demigod

hearthstone as a hecate demigod

you're welcome

#pjo #hoo #au #pjoau #hooau #percyjackon #annabethchase #jason grace #piper mclean #leo valdez #hazel levesque #frank zhang #reyna avila ramirez arellano #nico di angelo #will solace #clarisse la rue

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karaxreds · 6 years ago

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Best friends ( Part Two) - Dele Alli

It been almost five weeks since you last saw Dele, you tried calling him, texting him but nothing. Ever since the two of you spent the night together, he was avoiding you. You woke up the next morning to an empty bed, finding out that he already left but you smiled when you found a small note saying that he had a training session and that he would stop by in the afternoon.

He never did.

You waited for him, for hours but he didn't show up. You called him, many times but he never picked up. You wanted nothing but to erase that night from your memory, you knew that you should've never slept with him.

You thought that the next morning everything would be different, that the two of you would start off into a whole new direction together but somehow he found a way and destroyed everything.

You blamed yourself for a whole week, that maybe you should've let him walk away that night. Because it didn't just ruin you, it ruined your precious friendship.

You never found out what happened, why did he just ignore you.

So you decided to do the same, you were now completely over your ex, and you were finally back to your old habits.

You told your best friend what happened with Dele but didn't really go into the details, she thinks that you two just made out.

According to her he's an asshole just like ninety nine percent of the boys on this earth, If you look back to your past relationships you cam't help but agree with her.

It was a champions league night, you're absolute favourite football nights, especially when your team has made it into the quarter finals.

You were sitting with your best friend and her boyfriend in the stands of the new tottenham stadium, it was the first time they were playing a champions league in there.

The three of you were wearing a tottenham Jersey, the two of them with the number 7 on the back while you chose to wear the number 15, Eric Dier's one. You were obviously not going to wear Dele's one, dedinetly not.

There was still thirty minutes for the match to start, the fans were now starting the fill up the stadium.

You watched them as they started to cheer when the players came out for their warm up, Man City players were the first one then followed by the tottenham boys.

"Hey!" A voice suddenly caught your attention back.

You turned your head and your eyes widened when you noticed who it was.

"Ruby?!" You smiled, trying to cover up your shock. "Heey!"

She smiled before wrapping her large arms around you pulling you into a quick hug.

"How are you? Haven't seen you in so long." She beamed, she looked stunning just like she always did.

"I am good." You nodded,"You? How have you been?"

"I am great." She said, the wide smile never leaving her lips. "I am glad I saw you here, Dele told me about happened. I am really sorry."

You froze at her words, what did she mean by he told her? Did he tell her about the two of you?

"I always told him that he didn't deserve you." She shrugged. "You're way better than him, babe." She said, running her hand up and down your arm.

"I- Um what?" You were confused.

"Matt?" She raised one of her perfect eyebrows. "Didn't you two break up?"

"Oh." You relaxed. "Yeah, almost three month ago. He's an arse, I am completely over it. Just wasn't meant to be." You give her a small smile.

"You'll find someone who'll treat you like a princess."

"I hope so." You pursed your lips, "So you and Dele?"

"Oh, yeah." She nodded, smiling shyly. "We're kinda working on things."

"That's amazing!" You spoke, forcing a smile on your lips.

"I am sorry, I need to go back to my friends, when I saw you I told them I need to say Hi." She pointed to the group that was sitting a few stairs down from you. "We definitely need to catch up soon though."

"Yes, we will." You nodded.

"Bye." She waved, before turning away making her way down.

You felt a small pang on your chest when you noticed the name on her back, Dele.

Your Dele.

"You Okay?" Alex, your best friend's boyfriend asked.

"Yeah." You nodded.

Your best friend tightly squeezed you hand, giving you a sympathetic smile, she knew how you felt.

You chose to ignore how you felt for now and enjoy your ninety minutes of the game even though you're going to have to watch him also for all of those minutes.

-"What a feeling! What a night!" The three of you sang your heart out, jumping up and down once again.

The match was and tottenham beat Manchester City 1 - 0, thanks to Lloris for saving that penalty.

The three of you couldn't stop smiling, you knew that they still had to win the second leg at the Etihad but for now you didn't care.

"Are you coming or?" Alex asked, holding your best friend's hand.

"I'll just go down say Hi to Eric and I'll join you outside, yeah?" You told them and they both nodded.

"Text us when you're done." She sent you a wink before the two of them walked away.

You made your way down into the pitch, most of the fans have left the stadium there just a few ones left celebrating with a couple of players on the other end.

Showing the security guys your pass, they easily let you walk down to the pitch amd into the tunnel.

"Is that my name that I see there?" A voice behind you yelled. "Well, who's this beautiful girl that decided to show up with my shirt."

You turned around facing him and he immediately smiled, the second he spot you he recognised you he just likes to mess with you.

"Hello gorgeous." He said, openning his arms widely.

You didn't hesitate to throw yourself into them, Eric was like a big brother to you.

"I missed you, sweetheart." He said, once the two of you broke the hug.

"I missed you too, Dier. And Congrats for the win."

"Haven't seen you around that much, called you a few times but no answer." He frowned. "And thank you little one."

"Yeah, I um..." You paused, "Had a rough couple of months to be fair."

"Why didn't you call?"

"Didn't want to bother you with my stupid break up."

"It's not stupid." He shook his head, "You know you can tell me everything."

"I know." You smiled.

"Maybe start with how come you're wearing my shirt and not Dele's ?" His eyebrow arched up waiting for an answer.

"We...We're not really talking at the moment..." You mumbled. "Why?" He tried to hide his smirk, but you could clearly see it.

"He told you!" You whispered loudly making him laugh, as you lightly punched his chest. "Indeed." He nodded, "I knew it would happen sooner or later."

"Did you not hear what I said? He's been ignoring me ever since." You narrowed your eyes, "And apparently he's back with Ruby."

"What? Who told you that?"

"I met her in the stands before the game and she told me."

"Man, what the hell is wrong with him?" He opened his mouth to say something else but he quickly closed it and you give him a questioning look, you turned around to see someone standing behind you.

Dele.

"You came." Were the first words he spoke when he saw you. "Yeah." You nodded, turning back to look at Eric sending him a look whoch meant 'don't leave me with him'.

"Ah well, babe it was great to see you!" He smirked, "How about I call you and we meet up tomorrow? Maybe for launch after training?"

"I hate you." You mumbled. "I'll text you where and when." He said, placing a kiss on your cheek before he left the both of you standing. "Can we talk?" Dele said, before you could around and leave.

"Oh so now you want to talk?" You crossed your arms against your chest. "Please, I know I kind of screwed up." He let out a sigh.

"Kinda?" You scoffed, "You left the next morning and you never called or texted back."

"And I am sorry about that." He said, his eyes not meeting yours. "Sorry doesn't fix things, you know that right?" You pointed out. "Do you know that what you did...Is much worse than what Matt did to me."

"Don't say that! You know I would never want to h-"

"Save it, Dele." You cut him off loudly, "I don't think we should see each other anymore, not that you did want to see me these last few weeks anyway." You laughed humorlessly. "I am back with Ruby." He blurted out, making your heart ache once more.

"I know, I saw her earlier." You nodded. "I get it,you don't want me to get in the way."

"No, you don't understand s-" He was once again cut off but not by you this time, it was Ruby who came down running to him then jumped into his arms.

You eyes widened as you watch them share a kiss and it made you feel uncomfortable, it usually never did but now..."I am so happy, Baby." She told him, once the two of them broke the kiss. "Thanks, babe." He give her a small awkward smile. "I think I should go, my friends are waiting in the parking lot." You auickly told the two. "It was great seeing you again,Ruby."

You didn't let any of them respond as you were already speeding down away for the couple, you walked rapidly your head down as you tried hard not to cry. "Ouch." You head a person hiss in pain, as you collided into soneone's chest. "Oh god, I am so sorry." You yelled, looking up and immediately smiled when you recognised the boy. "Winksey! Are you okay? I am sorry,I didn't see you."

"It's all good, doll. Seems like you were running away from something." He chuckled, his eyes looking behind you noticing the couple standing a few feet away. "Or someone?" "Definetly not running away." You shrugged. "Sure." He spoke, clearly not believing you. "How are you? I heard about you and Matt."

"How come everyone knows about me and that arsehole?" You groaned throwing your head back in annoyance. "I am good, really."

"I am glad though, seems like he moved on quickly." He said, "Saw him a couple of weeks ago at the club with some girl. The words that came out of his mouth made you feel nothing, no jealously, no anger just pure disgust and Harry could notice that, he couldn't help but chuckle at the face you made.

"How is your thigh?" You asked, reffering to his injury he had earlier in the middle of a match. "Is it bad?" He had a pack of ice rulled around his thigh, didn't look really bad from when you were looking. "They don't know yet, I'll have more tests to run in the morning and they'll know." He sighed, "I just got back from an injury, I don't want to miss the second leg."

"Hey, let's be optimistic yeah? I am sure it's just a small step back, you'll be fit for the next game." You smiled, as if you knew anything about injuries. "You were great tonight."

"Thank you." He give you one of his charming smiles, "I was wondering though..."

"Yeah?" You nod your head as a sign for him to continue, you felt you phone buzz in your pocket, pulling it out you saw a text from Alex telling you to hurry up. "A-are you leaving?" He asked.

"My friends are waiting for me in the parking lot, so what did you want to say?"

"I was just,Um..." He stuttered, "I was wondering if you would like to go out some time this week?"

"Wait, as in go out on a date?" You arched in eyebrow up. "Yeah, It's okay if you din't want to though, I mean I know you just broke up with you-"

"I would love to, Winks." You smiled widely. You watched his eyes lit up at your answer and you could see his shoulder roll back in relief.

"Really?" He smiled "Of course, I would love to! Just text me when and where?"

"Sure, Yeah." He looked like he was over the moon.

"Text me tomorrow though, about your results." You said pointing at his injured thigh.

"I will, don't worry."

"Then, I'll see you soon winksey?"

"Definetly will." He smiled once again, you stood up on the tip of your toes and give him a small kiss on the cheek before walking away. You couldn't help but turn around to give Dele one more glance, and once you did you couldn't help but smirk as you watched his face turn bright red in pure anger.

Part three out tomorrow night xoxo I hope you enjoyed it!

#football imagines #footballers imagines #football one shots #footballers one ahot #Dele Alli #one shot #imagines #football #tottenham Hotspurs

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