#yay for timeline fuckery

[sunshinechay]

Is the show trying to imply that Gun might have feelings for Jade?

Or has the bl trope of lover a helping lover b with an injury to further the love story just rotted my brain?

Cause I honestly can’t tell…

[arolesbianism]

Thinks abt comic Siffrin. This could be a playground I think. If I felt like it. If I so chose.

[caliblorn]

I promised to make this post months ago and completely forgot about it until the last few days (a classic!), so here I am now. Making it. And with silly art included. Yay!

As many of you know, Mannimarco and Vanus Galerion in Elder Scrolls Online are portrayed as 2E contemporaries who mirror each other journeys to leaders, out of the Psijic Order and into their own groups. ESO makes it clear that they're meant to be similar in age as well, and it does so both by de-aging Mannimarco's model for the "Half-Forming Understandings" quest, and by making it say by Vanus himself in Artaeum Lost.

BUT! If you have played Morrowind or Oblivion, you might already be familiar with Where were you when the Dragon Broke?, an account of different people's experiences during the Middle Dawn, the 1E Dragon Break. And oh! Look who it is.

(notice also he says God, not King) The Middle Dawn happened between 1E 1200 and 1E 2208. Time fuckeries as much as you want, but nonetheless, 1E ends in 2920, and we know FOR SURE that Vanus was born the first years of 2E and that he joined the Psijics as a 11 yo. So, even if we took into consideration ONLY the latest period of the Middle Dawn, Mannimarco would have been a... 700+ years old novice when he met Vanus. Very funny to think about, but an old mer having an intellectual rivalry with a teenager doesn't really scream "brilliant" to me.

I'd say the retconning of his age is also supported by Worm Saga, were he doesn't mention at all his period in the Maruhkati and makes it sound like he was either born or taken to Artaeum at a very young age.

Plus, both in Worm Saga and in the Vault's flashbacks and in every other source ever (WRITTEN FOR ESO. AHEM.) we see that his "discovery" of necromancy happened on Artaeum. Like, it's screamed into our ears a couple of times or more in the game itself.

The problem with all of this? The book that implies he lived through the Middle Dawn is still present in ESO.

Which is to me one little example of a bigger issue with ESO writers rewriting/retconning things without taking away/trying to somewhat link the original sources. But I digress, there are different ways to make this work but since some are too complicated to be discussed now, I'll just share with you what I usually go with;

Mannimarco is a great liar. Not only a liar, a politician. A sales man. A guru. He knows how to give himself prestige. What "Where were you when the dragon broke?" is to me is either fake accounts fabricated by the Cult themselves, or stolen accounts (probably from Artaeum's archives!) where his false experience was added and then sent around Tamriel.

If I had to make a TIMELINE for all the pieces cited, I would say the publication order would be "Where were you when the dragon broke" (used as propaganda by the Cult to make Mannimarco's figure important)-> "Artaeum Lost" (disproves what was fabricated about Mannimarco)-> "Worm Saga" (new attempt to give himself prestige with that "aldmer, scion of et'Ada").

[marasschino]

that makoto with nyarly tattoo 🎤 please i beg you i must know more

Ok ok so * kicking my feet like a school girl *

Basically similar to how Tatsuya refused to let go of his memories and nyarlethotep ate that shit up, Minato hesitated when making the seal and in barely a moment of hesitation and regret (yknow bc he finally found a reason to live even tho he's always been willing to die) Nyx and Erebus meet and the Fall is solidified. Can't exactly make a seal between two primordial beings that are no longer seperate from each other. And when the world ends and it's just shadows/demons fucking around nyarl is like "yay thanks king you're a real one"

Ofc we haven't gotten to all the other angst of the fact that almost everyone dies

So just lore first for how the Fall works in this au is that regular humans are consumed/turn into shadows, persona users directly fuse into Nyx (they can't really be consumed by shadows and can't turn into shadows bc of their persona), and wild cards or those with the potential of the wild card can withstand Nyx (that doesn't mean they're *not* slowly being fused with her it just takes longer) that combined with nyx lore from p1, everything is the Midnight Hour now and the world has kinda just frozen in time

With that in mind the only two people left from sees are Minato (who's now marked by nyarl bc he ruined a timeline) and Aigis who awakens to her ability of the wild card.

I haven't figured out everything for this au because I am so scatter brained but Ryoji is here too (I can probably make it work with the whole meta space fusing w the real world + when that happens nyarl's rumor thing is functioning again + cognition fuckery + I also think it'd be funny if Nyx just kicked Ryoji out bc he's still a little too human and she doesn't like her ugly little shadow son)

This is a lot and it's also all I have for this au that I am 100% sure of, everything else I haven't shared is easily subject to change lmao

Also here's some extra little sketchies:

[glowingmin]

analyzing the adjuration ravio board

ALRIGHT MOTHERFUCKERS SIT DOWN SHUT UP WE'RE GOING OFF 4 CUPS OF WATER AND A MIGRAINE BUT WE ARE GOING TO COPE

i unfortunately have an abysmal zoom so i've Enhanced the writing for bits I couldn't quite read but anyways LETS GET INTO IT. WITNESS THE ANALYSIS FROM AN IDIOT WHO BASICALLY ONLY KNOWS THE LORE OF FOUR SWORDS.

@not-freyja hi i hope you like this insane loveletter to adjuration (idk how else to. share it. yay)

alright starting off with the timeline and all the looping fuckeries (motherfucker got more arrows than an ikea checkout lane)

time is scratched out and replaced with sapling. because of the war of eras? nickname yipee?

the music notes linking time to wind must refer to how the song of time sent time back and left that timeline w/o the hero's spirit

the triforce linking legend to time has to mean something but my minimal zelda lore knowledge is leaving me to die. ik its the downfall timeline, so is it a reference to how the triforce got Fucked Up by pig man? did it get messed up??? never actually played cards meaning to learn /reference

there's so many scribblies around hyrule (i love the hearts on the 'i's its adorable). hyrule found the book and thats why he gets loops?

[ hi revision glowmin here. had a thought: what if there's multiple timelines that branch out from when rulie first used the book. what if the first visit wasn't legend. how many fractured timelines could that one event have caused ]

from chapter 49: “So this entire situation is Rulie’s fault?” Twilight’s side moves as he talks and Hyrule leans away from him, falling into Wind instead." haha no don't dump all the fault on hyrule you're so sexy aha /reference

'dink does something fucky' has me cackling. is wild's existence caused by dink? three question marks, 3 parts of the triforce, mmmm that is cooking?? or could just be irony

that line also points to rulie again so i Think this has something to do with. the blood curse. that i only know about from fanfiction.

ALSO THE LINE CONNECTING RULIE TO WARS!! IS SCRATCHED OUT!! (also from chapter 49: "Dead, lightning bug,” Ravio soothes. “He’s dead, you killed him.”)

who's dink is it anyways

the line about four's shadow has me. okay listen i don't remember the chapter but i KNOW there was a line abt the yiga talking about a small town forge. is that four's home from minish cap.

bc back when they met ravio the first (? i forgor) time, ravio told four to remind him about some dark magic (??) book. i thought this would be to revive shadow. is it. is it to revive red instead??

i am not okay abt red death

okay back to the flowchart: shit they haven't been to skyloft yet. i did not realize that until now

'palace' you mean the fucking TONGS FOUR SWORD PALACE??

the line drawn to the underlined dark link beneath time: 'hylia said "mouth of the river". i think this could either be time or sky. time bc he breaks the timeline into 3, sky bc he literally got cursed for being too cool

rulie: i am going to fucking SCREAM. the line from cia to rulie has 'why' written next to it and that's what i wanna know!! 'not safe' is in a fucking box!! underlined question marks!! ravio bbg please.

oh and 3 x's but idk if thats more triforce analogy or just. there to be There

recycled ganon had me cackle. inconsistent dates tho,,, is that like. linking up to why they're going in reverse in wild's time? bc twilight is the direct predecessor iirc???

wind: i cannot read what it says next to dead. looks like,,, 'masko' maybe? evidence of there being a dark: i have not beaten wind waker yet but I HAVE got the master sword. is the time lock shenanigan at the bottom of the ocean dink's fault or the master sword's fault.

i know like 2 things from hyrule warriors: traitors are cringe and cia apparently is creepy. thats probs why talking about dark versions of him is 'personal'. i wonder what 'safe' means in this context; safe to visit? safe to rule out? shaking ravio like a paper bag.

wild drives ravio to apple juice alcoholism more at 11. it is personal is underlined. is it wild's dark? rulie's dark? why are they going backwards? are they going to show up in wild's hyrule for when he DIES because they're going backwards? bro what is up with kyle.

the visits lets fucking go

WHY IS 8 VISIT BLANK. HOLUP

revision glowmin again. We’re not at visit 9. I have no clue why I thought we were there. Migraines are shit.

visits 2 and 3 being about shadow and red. dont look at me i'm crying | visits 2 and 3 are in the same order both for ravio and the links. hmmmmm that's Odd

RAVIO LEARNING WHO RED IS AND THEN NEXT VISIT HE'S FUCKING DEAD. HE GOES TO WAR AND THEN HE'S FUCKING DEADDDDD

visit 6 'got em' what did you get ravio. huh?? you silly merchant man what did you get??? it certainly wasn't bitches

this is the part of the lore board that i actually fucking. bro the circles this is running me through is insane. like how do i even analyze this its making my headache die so we're just gonna spitball.

it. kind of goes in reverse? not really but kinda?? visit 9 is first for all the links, but last for ravio. is this linked to wild's visits being in reverse?

if it ends at 9 i'm gonna throw a sock at my wall

for visit 5 on ravio's side it looks like it says pregnant. ik it doesn't but i cannot make out what it is

[ revision glowmin here again. its research. why did i think it said pregnant. that has literally nothing to do with the fic. ]

crying begins because i can barely ready any of this so bear with me here (BEAR WITH ME!!)

the first like. act of the fic summarized in 1 easy (/s /lh) flowchart. they see the what? rooms? runes? ruins? rains? god i'm illiterate

starting panic for the Dark. singular. i forgor how/if they figured out it was just one.

ravio crossing out where wild should be in the timeline is sending me. i think he's got shit from all 3 timelines in his hyrule (yadda yadda A GAME THEORY) so that would explain why they all just cross each other out.

'wind said shit' that's a good observation. is this as in he said STUFF or as in he cursed and actually said the shit word. important distinction. maybe Wind says something in the war of eras??

the question mark between cia and rulie. is that dink. whats up with the question marks after hyrule. does that imply that it fucking disappears at some point?? or do they just not know

the part where i think ravio's mental state went wewewewewewewwoowowwowow

'evil god hylia?' the Potential though. i don't think its gonna happen but man that'd be a twist. how do you stop the reincarnation of your lover's soul: fucking kill all of them

'evil blink' is that. vaati?? nvm it says evil link i'm illiterate again oopsies!! now we know how ravio came up with dink. cooked

'inconsistent travel more than one person in control' yeah fucking kohga is in on this. drag him ravio

'resurrected monsters by blood curse/blessing' is this related to hyrule's blood curse. i don't think dink wants to revive ganon so what does he need the blood for. is he wanting to ascend to godhood?? vague sputtering sounds

one timeline makes sense when we hear abt why ravio didn't tell everyone about red's death. still sad but that line paired with 'so we keep going forward [...] no counting on do-overs [...] one step at a time [...] together [...] or not at all' really hits home.

this took 3 hours but yeah i'm Normal about this

[8cfc00]

just finished wbg s9 on my relisten.

I went into it thinking "oh shit this is a boring season" BUT then i realised its not!! It's got some very interesting things going on.

Like... The repeated surreal aspects like in dream in "The Bear Is Dead", and then the Tex and Sly dream, and the weird Tier 3 stuff that happened. I think it fits well with the whole situation, both the dramatic irony of Mike(s) without Edgar (like 101) and the messy timeline fuckery.

Generally, it's a pretty low point, which makes it less enjoyable on the relisten, since like... i know what's going to happen and i know the plans are going to fail. But tbh i think its still pretty good, like the character moments are interesting and funny, there are some sick images (tex in that elevator, augh) and A LOT MORE VOICE ACTORS!! YAY!

I think some of the eps aren't as iconic (in the way i think of it), and some feel a little disconnected from the rest of the season (eg 98 The Did Us Dirty and 97 The Outpost Tavern Bar And Grill) and some also feel disconnected but only because we don't know much about what's going on (103, 104, 105 i think).

BUT. this season has some banger episodes. Favs in order are The Bear Is Dead, What A Wonderful Day In The Valley, The Elephant And The Dog, The Posse and Distance From Me which is the intermission but its so peak its actually one of my favs ever

The music in this season is actually so good though, i can't wait for ihbtf (i think thats the acronym for it) to be out on spotify cuz im eating ALL OF IT up

[a-rogue-god]

uhh UHHHHH fuckin. alt timeline shoreside dove lore brainblast GO (idk where the whole. leland shoot house thing comes into this so lets pretend this is before that 👍)

same spiel: 5'5", same gender fuckery (leaning more toward transfem dove with leland but still very whatever you imagine)

i imagine shes still in florida for the same backstory family reasons THIS time though she works in a lighthouse! an island off the coast that has dual lighthouses! she works in the one and a silly 5'11 guy named leland works the other! :3 very close in ages, leland at 22 ofc dove at 25. they'd get along really quick! (i mean they're the only 2 on that island working the lighthouses they kinda have no choice) have a lot of shared interests id bet. friends :3 and then. um. i think itd be cute if leland got a crush on her first! they get along so well and dove would be SO SO excited to learn about whatever leland likes/interested in he'd feel so SEEN by her where he's eventually like... um... pretty girl so nice to me O///O probably would take him a bit to work up some courage. or maybe dove can sense he likes her so shes like. LELAND. you're my boyfriend now :) and he's like YAY so now they're a thang. he's glued to her hip, following her around like a lost puppy when he can. watching her work. her watching him work.. LITTLE LOVE DOVES! thunderstorm hits hard and he gets nervous/scared and runs over to her lighthouse. is let in where she towel dries him, gives him one of her big shirts/shorts to wear where she then SNUGGLES HIS ASS !!!!! leland is taller but his ass is the LITTLE SPOON. AND YKNOW WHAT??? HE LOVES IT!!! EEEE mmmm cozy comfies,,,, dove soooo warm,,,, honk shoooo .

cute couple :3c

[sunlitmcgee]

I should also mention Hyrule Warriors pulls from a lot of the Zelda games made before it.

And since timeline fuckery is involved.

That means just about anyone is possible to play as. And since the gameplay is slashing through hoards of enemies , there's a pretty big character roster to play as.

Ya want to play as Link, yeah sure.

Ya want two or more different playable Zelda's? Sure.

Ya want to play as wind waker Link?

Ya want small ocarina of time Link?

Ya want the kid who tried to deck you from Majora's mask?

Ya want Fi?

And since Fi is here, it'd be a shame to leave her without her counterpart.

That means Ghirahim is here.

You can play as Ghirahim. And other baddies .

He's back <3

Prophecy-anon

yay!

[hydrate-or-diedrate]

I DONT WANNA BE JACK NOIIIRRRR

GODDAMMIT

NOOOO THEY WERE SO HAPPY TOGETHER

Prototyping Bec made him love Jade?! Awww

Oh hi Aradia! I guess you're actually still alive, huh?

Oh my gosh she's so happy about a hat I love her

We stand Aradia for forgiving the human kids and also acknowledging they actually didn't do anything wrong (yet)

Kanaya your skin is GLOWING what products do you use?

Oh yay Kanaya is the vampire! I trust her more than the other trolls with that responsibility

MEOW, t1CK, t0ck, what's next? Bark? Boof, perhaps?

Oh haha, 8r8k, very funny

AW COME ON, "H34DS" ISNT 4 LETTERS

honk HONK

:o)

[With immense disdain] Hi Scratch

Oh Rose! It's been a while!

"Jokes are only temporary lies" ',:/ suuuure pal

"I've always had a soft spot for young ladies" Yeah that's creepy as fuck, Scratch

Cal is Scratch's dad?! Wtf

I refuse to believe the scratch is gonna kill the kids, I do not wanna sit through them learning how to play the game again

Yeah yeah L🎱rd English is a bad guy we get it

Uh oh guys Rose found out about her mom

Andrew is on a one man mission to destroy my eyesight with flashing gifs

Aw damn, Rose got eldritched

SNOP

(splinpers)

Karkat why are you here this is John's moment with the Zillyhoo

Oho? It's DESCEND now, eh?

Oh boy, another giant record

Green curtain? That's new

Oh not just one, 6 of them

JOHN

Rose middle name Lalonde be nice to John it's not his fault that shit hit the fan

OH GOD ALL THE SOLDIERS ARE DEAD

What you're gonna tell me that letting John see and mourn his dead dad isn't the right choice? Bitch

UGGHHHHH and now I have to watch the intro again. Not that it's a bad intro or anything, it's sick

Oh wait... I was supposed to use the teleporter instead of walking all the way back on my own... oops...

Well come on John time for trauma

NO

SHIT FUCK

NO

GODDAMMIT

Dave you fuckass

BITCH ASS MOTHERFUCKER JUST "END OF YEAR 2"ED ME LIKE ITS GONNA STOP ME FROM READING

G-gamzee? Or Andrew's office? Aaaaa

She's blind, you idiot

honk.

STRIDER STYLE?!

Oh gosh the glitching

Uh oh timeline fuckery

ThE dIsK iS tO bAdLy DaMaGeD oh shush

Ughhhhh I don't wanna talk to Scratch agaaaaiiiiin

Blegh

We're done for the night that was a lot lmao

Day 10 of reading homestuck

I forgot about the horse music oh gosh

Okay, the puns are banger tho

Nepeta and Equius' moirail relationship is so precious and sweet 🥺

AWWW NEPETA HAS A CRUUUUSH

Oh Jesus, Gamzee is even going around writing messages in people's blood the fuckin weirdo

There's not enough room for this madness on this tiny little meteor

Ohhhhh God what did she see through the grate

THE HONKS I CANT

OH FUCK GAMZEE HI

OH MY GOD HES REALLY LOST IT OH SHIT OH FUCK

I'm so glad I didn't play this last night I would NOT have slept well

Oh honk HONK honk sure like it's fine! Equius was top of his whatever before he took an arrow to the knee you motherfucker!

GAMZEE PLEASE TURN KILL MODE OFF OH GOD

NEPETA NO DONT DO IT

GAMZEE WHAT THE FUCK

NO

NO BEEP!

IT IS NOT TIME TO BEEP! IT IS NOT TIME TO AWOO! IT IS NOT TIME TO HONK! IT IS TIME TO TURN OF KILL MODE AND STOP KILLING PEOPLE!!

Oh for fucks sake, John

Vriska [squint]

Hey Vriska! Murder does not solve friendship problems! Discussion or simply cutting of the relationship can, but not murder!

Again, I do not appreciate the troll caste system, but eh aliens. Also it's being portrayed very negatively so I hope it will be "solved" by the end

Everything's gone to shit

Sollux's eyes have gone black holy shit

Aradia why are you in cosplay

Hi ghost tavros

Tf you mean you're "not dead" Aradia you are the most dead person here

John perhaps violently drilling directly next to what you believe to be a bomb isn't a good idea

Awww John's dad and Rose's mom are on a date :)

JACK DONT YOU FUCKING DARE

YEAH VRISKA FUCK HIM UP

Uh oh

The Honkening

Okay so we know it's not Vriska going around biting people, at least. And of course it's not Karkat or Sollux because one was out cold and the other is too big of a softie, and then it's also not one of the many dEAD PEOPLE

SHOWDOWN BABY

[Kool-aid man voice] Oh no!

Kanaya?!

HELL YEAH KICK HIM IN HIS TROLL BALLS EQUIVALENT

YEAHHHH

KILL HIM, KANAYA YOU DESERVE IT

Andrew what the fuck is this supposed to mean

Oh they're hearts

[hxtties]

@courtcomposer

this was probs before he ended that dry spell lbh XD

[taetaespeaches]

hey again liv! i just wanted to ask u how the "timeline" of each couples worked, like which one of them is the one that has been in a relationship the longest, and which one is the newest, or how many years/months have each couple been together (idk if this makes sense, sorry for my bad english tho lmao) and i also wanted to thank u for the nickname u gave me, from now on i will use it every time i tell u something :) have a nice day love! - the min/kid stan :p

Hi lovely! I love this question every time I get it because I love talking about the couples haha. BUT FIRST OF ALL YOUR ENGLISH IS GREAT!!!!!! And yay!!! I love the nickname :))

Ok so the timelines are as follows, listed in order of when the couples got togehter. Also I included brief descriptions of how the couples got together. 

Hobi/Petal: our og couple, bless :( they get together in January 2017. They had friends in common so knew each other a bit before they ever dated and Petal thought Hobi was arrogant and she thought Hobi found her to be boring and stuck up. However, when they hang out for the first time she realizes Hobi liked her all along and she realizes she was wrong about him.

Jin/Poopsie: these two crackheads get together in June 2017, but they were really close friends for about a year before that. They themselves don't even really know when the feelings developed, but all of a sudden they were both in love with each other and when those feelings made themselves known, they started hanging out more and more. It still took a broken nose for these dumbasses to get together though lol.

Joon/Daisy: lmao what even are these two? They start their "thing" in February 2018 after meeting at a club which turned into a supposed to be one-night stand. The morning after he asks her to stay and she can't bring herself to leave, so she literally just spends the whole day in his apartment alone?? while he's at work and they just have this casual but exclusive thing for a bit before Joon asks her to be his girlfriend like a month and a half into knowing each other. He brings her around the boys a bunch (even before they are officially a couple) under the pretenses that "this is my new friend" and like maybe 2/7 of the boys actually believe that fuckery. They just for some reason want to keep their relationship secret for a bit as they fall into a rhythm together- but Joon tells the boys like right away after she becomes his girlfriend.

Min/Kid: aw our babies. They meet in February 2018, around the same time as Joon/Daisy. The exact day they meet is actually the day of Hobi's Daydream shooting haha. And then they have this thing where the labels and intentions are unclear for a few months, even though they are both obviously SUPER smitten. They eventually put a label on their relationship about two and half-ish months in after a rough patch (late-April). Poor Yoon just cares about Kid a little too much for his own good sometimes.

Jimin/Dear: these two lovely beings get together at the end of April 2018 (early 2018 was a busy time for these boys lol). They were best friends for a couple years before getting together even though they both knew they were into each other from the very start- it was just a bad time for Dear and they decided to just be friends. When they decide to get together they fall right into a serious relationship straight away. Like no looking back, Jimin and Dear are a practically married right when they cross the line of friendship. They get together just a few days after Yoongi and Kid put a label on their relationship. 

JK/Holly: these cuties meet in January 2019, shortly after the Downey shortage lmao. They know right away that they are going to end up together, it’s some soulmate shit. Their relationship is super lowkey and easy and it has this honeymoon stage vibe almost all the time because they’re just buddies who also are in love and have sex. They have a very casual conversation about being a couple about two months in where they admit they already consider each other boyfriend and girlfriend.

Tae/Peaches: these stubborn babies didn't get together until September 2019 after six years of friendship. Like these two were besties since Tae's pre-debut days. Tae was kinda always into Peaches but Peaches is a clueless one (bless her soul). Even when they both figure out they're into each other and the feelings are *probably* mutual, they WILL NOT ACT ON IT. It literally takes a big ass fight out of jealousy and hurt for them to accept the feelings and let themselves express them, and then they still fuck around unlabeled for about a month? before they have sex and start calling each other their boyfriend/girlfriend.

[stained-brutal-crackpot]

*looks at the last ask you answered* TELL ME ABOUT UR SIGNUS HCS

This post might get long, which is pretty much standard for all my other headcanon dumps, so. Yeah

Okay so the standard stuff: what's canonically confirmed about Signus?

- They're some kinda void cryptid, no one knows where it came from

- They were worshiped by the Statigel clan until they all got Fuckin' Merked. This also included them deriving some of their weaponry & equipment from the power of Signus itself, which was pretty much lost once the whole place was destroyed. I haven't managed to find any information on what happened to it after this.

- Their next appearance in the Calamity timeline is when someone hired them to kill Yharim, but they weren't able to because DoG pulled a fucky wucky and trapped them in a pocket dimension for god knows how long

- After this, they had at least some hand in Statis's death, meaning that they switched sides before the rebellion leaders died

Alrighty so. Everything from this point forward is Very Non Canon and I'm being very careful here because Signus in particular does not leave as much room for lore expansion as some of the other chrs and I'm particularly interpreting them as being a lot more sympathetic than the "unga bunga I kill whoever you point me at" characterization that seems so popular these days. Got it? Good. Anyways moving on (take a shot every time I say 'anyways' or 'moving on')

- I have a lot of thoughts about Signus's exact origins but at risk of getting too far from canon I'm not going to talk about that here or possibly ever. We're starting off at their first known appearance: being worshiped by the Statigel clan.

- It's mentioned that the clan used its power to improve on and strengthen their equipment. The Statigel clan doesn't seem like the type to exploit their deity's power for their own ends (*cough* ANAHITA *cough*), and neither does it seem like Signus wouldn't know about what was happening, so they were probably fine with what the clan was doing. Plus, worship seems to be what strengthens gods in the Calamity universe, so the clan likely wasn't on Signus's bad side.

- Gonna digress a bit here with one little tidbit of a theory I have, and it's to do with the cosmic kunai. Yeah, that confusing ass knife I don't know how to draw. In the lore, Statis is reported as having received it from his clan's elders, which isn't unreasonable because as we've established, they've been drawing upon Signus's power for their weapons, right? But the thing is that the cosmic kunai can't be crafted— it drops directly from Signus. (And I know, you don't have to tell me, don't try to get lore from gameplay and all that, crafting recipes are non canon, etc etc. This is a theory and I'm not claiming it to be canon at all, I'm just reading way too deep into it.) I've taken this (probably incorrectly, but whatever, I'm too far gone by now) to mean that they were, at some point, directly given that weapon for one reason or another, implying that Signus was probably genuinely cool with the whole worshipping deal.

- Okay so everything is cool and dandy for maybe a couple hundred years until the unrest within the clan and outside of it due to the royal family's fuckery starts to happen. Signus likes these silly flesh bags enough to give them free shit, but not enough to go through the hassle of saving them from imminent destruction. They give their best equipment to some kid, unleash said kid upon the world to do some good ol' fashioned mass murdering, and then subsequently die.

- Whoops. No more worshipping perks. They're kinda bummed out about the slight loss of power, and they do check in on the sole survivor of the people who venerated them from time to time, but revolution and trying to take down tyrannical shitty governments is boring— frankly, this void cryptid has better things to do, and anyways the kid seems to be doing just fine on his own. It's basically the deific equivalent of putting your Sims on "care for self" and scrolling through your phone for three hours. Oh hey would you look at that, there's some new dude in town aiming to become Calamity's Next Top Tyrant. Huh.

- Moving on: as it turns out, this vengeful new upstart and his cute pet dragon are horrible, horrible people! Who would have guessed? Signus is kind of appalled but not nearly enough to take action. There's a growing rebellion too, which coincidentally just so happens to be located in the mountains where their old worshipers used to live! That's fun. They sit back with some popcorn for a bit and watch everything go down, but they're not gonna interfere unless someone asks them to.

- Shocker! Someone's asked them to interfere! Mr. Sole Survivor kid over here does some summoning ritual at one of the mountain shrines and hires them to do what they do best: murder! Signus is like "Yeah ofc I gotcha bro" and blips off to go do some tyrant murdering. It's an important job from a loyal customer, so they zip over to the Jungle Temple and get ready to rock.

- Oh, shit. Oh, fuck. This is not good. What the fuck is this spiky blue hotdog doing? They clocked in for another regularly-scheduled murder for hire and now they're trapped in a pocket dimension with this worm trying to kill them? They did not sign up for this. So now Signus, feeling pretty terrible now that they both A) have lost some of their power due to the worshiper situation and B) have failed their first and possibly most important contract ever, is decidedly not having such a good time. And when said worm offers them a job, they decide it's not like they've any other way to get out of there and accept, figuring that they'll just work out the failed contract another time. Maybe they'll offer a refund or something.

- This decision quickly proves to not be good, as later this kid shows up at the temple looking frighteningly dead inside, and then Signus has to kill the last remaining person with any sort of faith in them.

Whoops.

- So, having had the one thing they even marginally gave a shit about destroyed, they resign themself to working for this edgy teenage emo worm in exchange for more power and something to do to pass the time. Yay...?

[cryptid-crusader]

How about ✨ 🍰 and 💻?

Oooooooh yay!

✨ Choose three adjectives to complement your own writing:

Oh man uhhhh descriptive, declamatory, emotional? Maybe? I'll go with that lol.

🍰 Name one of your fave comfort fics (doesn’t have to be your all time fave):

Honestly pretty much all of my comfort fics aren't actually very comforting. ^^; They are usually pretty dark. I read a lot of yandere writers and most of my favs write for series I don't even really like that much, but their writing is so damn good I devour whatever they post. I do also like to read a lot of cute little fluff pieces from various writers here on good 'ol Tumblr as well though, so I haunt those a lot. Naming just one is too hard LUL I gravitate towards so many...

💻 Do you do research for your fics? What’s the deepest dive you’ve done?:

I honestly probably do too much research for my fics. I can stress myself out if I write something that's a little off thinking that people will dwell on this minute detail, even though I know that's bogus lol. The hardest I have yet to go is for my Bioshock Infinite fic. I have word docs, spreadsheets, timelines, etc saved for that fic. Any time you write for anything that involves time travel fuckery and alternate times lines YOU ARE IN FOR SOME SHIT AND MANY HEADACHES. But it's also hella fun to write for, so that's a plus. :)

Thank you!!! This was fun! :D

[thiah-2]

Gawdfuckingdamnit!

Outline fuckery, but this time timeline fuckery. So the cool idea(s) that I had that expanded my outline by five fucking chapters... Actually pushed fic events over a year after I’d originally had them planned. Nbd. Plot beats and chapters worked out easy. Actually better in a few instances. Except. No! Damnit. When we first meet Cass, she’s supposed to be a sophomore. If we push the ending to a year later, that’d make her a super senior; because I want her to be in school while she dates Raph. (Because I don’t want to write her after school in Warm. It Can Not Happen.) Sooo... bumping her back to her freshman year when she’s first introduced! ... Shit, did I say what grade she was in college in the posted chapters? Fuck. ... Nope!! YAY! Only one tiny minor edit needed in a crazy far future chapter. Whew! Disaster averted! 

... Oh look, I discovered I’d skipped a whole month... good thing THAT was easily fixed, HA. But. Wait. Shit. I skipped a few random months later?? Well... ok, those ones make more sense. They don’t need anything.

I’mma etch this thing into STONE and never touch it again.

[charlottedabookworm]

I’m already fucking with timelines for this fic so whatever, Nyx and Prompto now share a birthday

Because Prom’s birthday isn’t listed on what files Nyx was able to pull from the lab before he blew it to kingdom come, and he looks about 15 months old and it’s latish January at this point and when Nyx gets the age estimate and works it backwards for paperwork purposes it comes to a birthday in late October and Nyx just goes - fuck it, we can just share, he’s my kid anyway and everyone should have a birthday

And that is how Nyx ends up sharing a birthday with his son and it’s also why Nyx is now born on October 25th despite me usually headcanoning him as a spring baby (which also makes him 15 when he adopts Prom due to timeline fuckery so yay)

So, yeah, Nyx and Prom share a birthday and Nyx is super cute about making sure that Prom has the best birthdays ever and they are just basically really adorable about it all and urgh words

[haveyouseenmymind]

Phantasmagoria

Yay, it’s Trek Fest 2018! All thanks to the lovely @outside-the-government for this great event. :)

I have finally broken through my fluff phase and wrote something a bit differently to my other fics. (At least I hope so?) Of course it’s McKirk, that seems to be my muse lately, but it’s not too heavy on the relationship part, as it concentrates mainly on Jim. That’s why I thought this would be perfect for his special week.

However, I hope you guys like it, cause I wrote this over the weekend instead of doing uni stuff. :D

For general info and better orientation, this takes place during the end of STID.

Fandom: Star Trek AOS

Pairing: McKirk

Warnings: angst, mentions of child abuse (once), kind of mind fuckery

Words: 3115

Phantasmagoria: random series of associative images, illusions or phantasms as in dreams or under feaver.

He remembers this place. Not only the house, but also the farm surrounding it. The dry dirt dusts up into the air as he takes step for step, coming closer to the old farmhouse. He has been here before, but when?

Curiously, he steps up the porch and knows before he actually hears it, that the second tread will make a horrible squeaking sound, alarming whoever lives here of his presence. He flinches at the noise, hates it, always has.

He remembers being forced to avoid it while sneaking back into the house, but also getting caught once due to his carelessness. And the thorough beating he got for it. After that he had learned his lesson, so he had found a way back into his room over the roof and his window. Frank had never caught him again after that.

His eyes grow wide. Of course, Frank.

He’s in Iowa, back home. Back at the farm he had hated so much when he was a child, where his mother had left him and his brother back in the care of the pathetic excuse of a stepfather.

Why is he here? Isn’t he supposed to be somewhere else?

“Jim.”

Someone is calling him. A man. Does his voice come from the inside? Why does it sound so familiar?

He’s in front of the door, and he’s not sure if he wants to go inside. What will expect him in there? Empty rooms? Or Frank on the couch, surrounded by dozens of beer bottles, and his glassy eyes, hazy from too much alcohol, glued to the vidscreen? Giving a shit about Jim coming back?

No... Frank doesn’t live here anymore. He’s long gone.

Jim’s thoughts are growing messy, his head is spinning while trying to gather the right memories. He has to close his eyes, take steadying breaths to calm himself down, as he can’t afford to panic now.

When he feels calm enough to face whatever awaits him, he opens his eyes, and reels back immediately.

He’s inside the house, but how? Just a second ago he was still standing outside, and he can’t remember moving an inch away from his position in front of the door.

What the hell is going on?

There are noises coming from the kitchen, but it’s not Frank, can’t be Frank, so who is in there? He slowly starts moving, wariness mingling into his confusion, and when he steps into the room, sees what’s in front of him, he stops right where he stands, too shocked to say anything.

His mother is standing at the stove, with a silly pink apron, the ribbon, sitting on her lower back, neatly bound. She’s humming as she stirs the content of one of the pots on the stove plates with a wooden spoon, not looking up, but instead completely entranced with whatever she’s cooking.

It’s wrong. So, so wrong and Jim has no idea what’s going on, cause this can’t be his mother.

Winona Kirk is a messy cook. Jim knows this from his own experiences, the last one made at an awkward attempt to bring the family back together, to amend her wrongdoings from his and Sam’s childhood.

When he had been back after… after what? Images flash through his head, a planet destroyed, a ship exploding, and Jim tries to remember, but the memories flee away from his mind’s grasp.

But he remembers setting foot back on earth, his mother waiting for him with Sam by her side. Days later they were back at this house, the kitchen a mess and no aprons with pretty ribbons.

She suddenly looks up, turns around and spots him standing in the door, and he stares at her. She looks the same as that day, same clothes plus the apron, wrinkles around her eyes, made of worries and old, ineradicable grieve that’ll never grow out of her heart, no matter how much she tries, how much she runs away from it.

But she smiles at him, looks even happy?

Suddenly Sam rushes into the room, straight towards the coffee pot, but his mother is still looking at him contently, until her eyes stray away from him, move towards the kitchen table.

“Look George, Jim is back home.”

Every muscle in his body tenses as he goes immediately rigid, cause she is not talking to Sam. He turns towards the table, afraid of what he’ll see.

Jim must have gone crazy, cause indeed, there’s he sitting, not a day older than 29, looking the way Jim knows him from uncountable holo pictures his mother had tried to hide from him at the attic.

George Kirk, his father, looks up from his own mug of coffee, staring at Jim and scrutinizing him with a calculating gaze.

“You’re not supposed to be here, son.”

It’s too much. Jim can’t handle this, can’t cope with what’s happening here, as he must have lost his mind. He whips around and starts running, runs to get away, to get out of here, and suddenly he hears the voice again.

“Jim, you need to come back.”

It’s leading him towards the outside, so he runs for the front door, stumbles through it, only to be blended by bright light.

He closes his eyes for a second, and when he opens them again, he’s not on the farm any longer.

Instead he finds himself in a desert of ice, no living soul to see far and wide. He looks down on himself, and again he’s taken aback. His clothes have changed somehow, he is clad in a dark grey parka, it’s hood drawn tight around his head, protecting him from sharp storming wind whipping snow into his eyes, making it hard for him to even see his own hands.

It should be cold, freezing as hell, but he can’t feel it. He doesn’t know why, but nothing so far has made any sense.

Looking around, he can’t see anything but ice and snow. What is he supposed to do now? As he has no better idea, he starts walking into whatever direction. He can’t orientate himself, there’s nothing to hold on in this barren landscape, but he has to do something and waiting for anything to happen won’t do him any good. He has to get away.

Jim doesn’t know how long he’s walking, if it’s minutes or hours, as his sense of time is completely lost to him.

But suddenly, he sees a dark figure in the distance so he’s mending his pace in hope that this person knows how to get away from this horrible wasteland.

He’s getting closer, and faster than anticipated he stops behind the figure, who turns out to be a man, standing at the edge of an icy cliff.

The man turns around to him, and Jim recognizes the old wrinkled face.

“James T. Kirk.”

Spock. The old Spock, stranded in this universe, cut off from his own timeline and suddenly Jim remembers the planet.

Vulcan. Destroyed, from the inside out. Billions of lives lost.

Remembers the ship, the Narada, steered into it’s doom by a madman craving for blood and revenge.

He’s on Delta Vega, this is where he met the old Spock, though not like this. Jim knows that he should have stumbled into a cave, where Spock scared a monster with only a torch away.

But still, he had turned around the same way, greeting him with the exact same words.

Why was it different this time?

There is no time to wonder though, with Earth in danger, and every other planet belonging to the Federation.

“Spock, we need to go! Nero, he’s after the Earth. We need to find Scotty!”

But the old Vulcan doesn’t move from his spot, just turns back towards the edge of the cliff and looks up in the sky.

“It’s too late, old friend.”  

Jim feels a pang of sympathy, of course he does, not only did the man lose every way back home but he also had to witness his planet dying. His gaze follows Spock’s up, to where a red planet should be seen, but is gone now.

And he’s right, Vulcan is not there, but in its place is another planet.

Jim feels nauseous, cause this is his planet, it’s Earth, but that doesn’t make any sense, as it should be light years away from here.

He keeps staring, and sees how his home slowly crumbles down, collapses with the outside getting sucked inside, and then - it’s gone.

Rage fills him, this is not how it had happened, they were supposed to save his planet, the whole Federation and not stand by, watching the catastrophe without being able to do anything.

Tears fill his eyes, so many more lives lost, and it’s his fault, Spock’s fault, Nero’s fault.

He roars at the Vulcan, gaze still caught on the now empty sky.

“Spock!!!”

And he lets the anger consume him, overtake his mind as he launches himself at the old man, ready to throw punch after punch.

But Spock suddenly vanishes, there’s nothing left but silent air, so he stumbles over the edge, rolls down as he falls and falls and falls.

This has to be it, he thinks. He wants it to end, wants it to stop hurting, wants to believe that his planet, his home, his friends are not gone, lost to the endlessness of the universe.

He can’t stop it, maybe he can escape this somehow, and in a last attempt of desperation, he closes his eyes and hopes.

It seems to work, as he feels that his falling has ended, but he also feels dizzy, all his senses overworking until everything stops at once.

He lets out a harsh breath, tries to calm down once more, and slowly opens his eyes again. Looking up, he sees the white ceiling of a room and realizes that he’s lying on his back on a couch. Ice and snow are gone, but he has stopped wondering and second guessing his mind. Maybe he should just accept that he’s gone crazy.

“Are you finally awake, sleeping beauty?”

His head whips around, to see who’s there.

Christopher Pike is sitting at his desk, scribbling down on his PADD, and not looking up. There’s this smirk on his lips, the one that always sneaks up on his features when he’s teasing Jim, or when he thinks that he has outwitted him.

He sits up and realizes that he’s wearing his cadet reds, that he’s in Pike’s office at Starfleet’s campus.

By now he has given up to find any logic behind all of this, he’s tired and just wants it to end.

“You know Jim, I really approve of your hard work, but you also need to look after yourself. There are these things called sleep and food, you really should try them sometimes. I heard they are supposed to work miracles on exhausted minds and bodies.”

The Captain finally looks up from his work and grins smugly at Jim.

But Jim doesn’t find it in himself to smile back, as he sees images of a broken man flashing through his mind, remembers his hand squeezing a lifeless body, desperation welling up in him. Hatred blooming in his heart, pouring through his veins, the cause another monster unleashed onto the world, who killed Pike and so many more.

He remembers their last conversations, and finally breaks down.

“Sir, I’m so sorry. Oh god, you were right. So right.”

Pike frowns, as if he doesn’t know what the blond is talking about.

And Jim buries his head in his hands, can’t look at him, can’t stop the tears streaming down his face, and he’s ashamed for losing his composure in front of the older man.

But Pike says nothing more, he just raises from his chair and sits himself down next to Jim.

He lays his hand reassuringly on his shoulder, but Jim doesn’t feel the touch. It nearly drives him crazy, he wants to feel it, needs to. Needs it as proof that Pike is really here, alive and well and his soul not lost between fire and debris in the ruins of Starfleet’s Headquarters.

Pike smiles softly at him, as if nothing is wrong, as if he hadn’t died an unneccessary death that could have been avoided so easily.

“It’s going to be ok, son.”

And Jim swallows his next heaving breath, cause Pike is mirroring his own words uttered not long ago in a seedy bar where Jim was trying to drown his sorrow on the bottom of a glass of bourbon.

Jim thought he had felt miserable that day, but that is nothing to the pain and devastation he feels right now, cause this is just his mind playing tricks on him. It can’t be anything else. He’s tormented with the image of this man he respected and admired, and Jim wishes nothing more for this to be real, to be more than just his own delusional wants.

“It’s ok Jim. You did your best. But now it’s time. You have to go.”

He lets himself be pulled off the couch and shoved towards the door, though he doesn’t want to go. This time he wants to stay, cause Pike’s office is safe, is right, is…

He turns around when he’s through the door, opens his mouth to speak, but when he looks back the scenery has changed again and he’s staring at the warp core of the Enterprise. With a pang in his heart he remembers what happened, his ship falling out of the sky and the sacrifice he had to make in order to save his crew.

The core is aligned, so all that’s left is crawling back through the Jefferies tube leading towards the entry of the chamber.

“Jim, don’t do this to me.”

The voice is back again, starting to sound desperate, and Jim tries moving faster towards the direction he believes it to come from.

He knows that he should be in agony, cause he remembers it, white hot searing pain running through him, but again he feels nothing.

He finally reaches the end of the shaft, closes the door that seals off the radiation and separates it from the rest of the ship.

Someone is waiting for him. It’s his Spock, the on from his own universe, crouched down on the other side of the glass, and again his mind doesn’t get the memories completely right.

But that doesn’t matter now, as he starts growing tired, slumps down in front of the Vulcan and looks at him.

A single tear is running down his cheek, and Jim, who has never seen his first officer this devastated, tries to console the grieving man, as he presses his hand in the Vulcan salute against the glass. Spock mimics him, looks at him while more tears threaten to fall and follow the first one.

“You need to wake up, Captain. He’s waiting for you.”

Jim has to close his eyes, can’t hold them open any longer when it’s the most exhausting thing he’s ever done.

He’s afraid of closing them, fears where he’ll find himself next, but in the end it’s too hard to stay awake and so he gives in.

The world turns dark, and Jim feels like he’s floating, caught between sinking and rising up towards the surface.

But what surface? Where is he? And who is waiting for him? Who is he?

“Jim don’t you think you have slept long enough now? Come on kid, let me see those pretty baby blues of yours. Please, Jim.”

There is no doubt, Jim knows this voice, the man it belongs to. And his heart is aching, can hardly stand how broken he sounds, wishes he could comply to the pleading.

“You know, you even made Nyota cry. Don’t you think you owe it to her to wake up?”

Oh he wants to. So badly and with every fiber of his being, but he’s still floating, doesn’t know how to move, how to leave this dark and endless void.

“Spock keeps coming every day. I don’t know if it’s me or him who’s more uncomfortable about him sitting here in silence and staring at you. It’s kind of creepy, so do us a favour and save us both from the awkwardness.”

The voice keeps talking to him, creeps into his thoughts and mind until the urge to rise is unbearable and Jim needs to move, needs to get away from here.

“Scotty is blaming himself. Every time he comes to visit you, he keeps apologizing and how he should have stopped you. I think he needs you to wake up even more than I. Do him the favour, that man is not supposed to be this mournful.”

He doesn’t understand everything, only snippets reach him but they are enough to make him want to fight.

“Sulu and Chekov came to see you today. Do you know how hard it is to look into the kid’s sad puppy eyes? I told them you’re going to be ok. So don’t make me a liar, Jim.”

Jim holds onto the voice, on the man behind it, that his mind is desperately trying to remember. He’s important to him, that’s a natural given and the only thing he can be sure of in this otherwise maddening silence.

The man keeps talking, telling him about people, their life without him. About his little girl waiting for her uncle Jim to wake up and answer her letters. How he’s going to take Jim back home to Georgia with him so that they both can recover and escape to a save retreat for a while, until he’s fit to go back to duty. About how Jim will make his life miserable by whining and complaining how bored he is, but he’ll take that over Jim being unconscious and still for the rest of his life.

And suddenly Jim remembers.

He starts fighting for real, cause they all were right, he needs to get back to him, can’t let him wait any longer.

Other voices start to mingle with his, they interrupt him, his parents, Pike -  their words an infinite loop that help him rising closer to the surface.

And then it happens, he’s waking up.

His eyes snap open, the voices are gone and his senses start working again. He feels sheets prickling on his skin, and he wants to sob in relief, cause finally everything is real and he knows, that he is right where he's supposed to be.

He turns his head to the right, as he hears someone shuffling around, and there he is.

Bones.

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