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gay-otlc · 2 years

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Flashback Recap

In case you've forgotten everything other than Sophitz, fear not, I am a reliable source of information

Sophie's trich is getting better! It took her four whole pages to pull out an eyelash, which might be a record.

Biana tackle hugs Sophie and they aggressively compliment one another's appearance. No homo

Speaking of homo, Fallon Vacker definitely dated Bronte at some point.

People always bring up Alina/Alden drama at the least convenient time and it embarrasses them both so much. This is fantastic.

Della can beat people up with ease and she is so hot (-livvy sonden, probably)

To avoid living with Alvar, Fitz considered moving in with Keefe. We were robbed, I tell you.

I SWEAR I'LL WRITE A FIC FOR THIS SOMEDAY

Fitz also considers moving in with Tiergan. The Keefitz option is undoubtedly better but I'd never say no to the "Tiergan adopts everyone" agenda

Sophie roasting the Neverseen is fantastic and something we all need more of.

A murderer wearing spandex called me out on my daddy issues. This is probably a low point in my life.

Umber probably has a personal connection to the Vacker family. No one else contributed a theory, so mine is that she was/is in love with Della.

Wylie attacked the Neverseen with rainbows. He is straightn't and probably cisn't.

SOPHIE CONSIDERS ELWIN FAMILY BRB HAVE TO GO CRY

"Tiergan and Prentice happily raised a child together. As bros do. No homo." -Shannon, 2018

Sandor made me feel emotions? Him blaming himself for Sophie getting hurt got to me okay-

Bronte has been in regular contact with Fintan and working with him for weeks... what are they "working" on... making out?

Grady needs a hug.

Keefe needs a hug, and also therapy, and KOTLC needs to not be for eight year olds.

POCKETS. That is all. Shannon definitely wrote the pockets monologue after getting pissed at the "pockets" in women's clothing.

Biana Vacker saying "I’m sick of being treated like I’m some broken doll because of what Vespera did- and you know that’s what you’ve been doing" supremacy.

Biana's stuffed yeti named Lady Sassyfur supremacy, also.

The Keefe and Elwin dynamic! Let's be real, they've been acting like father and son this whole series.

It's canonically a definite possibility that Keefe lets Fitz win at splotching. Their earlier book friendship is so sweet and I'm still not over losing that.

When Sophie expects Elwin to be the responsible adult and he just shrugs and grabs popcorn... they are a family... they deserve to be happy okay

The Ballad of Bo and Ro.

More Dadwin!

It may not be canon that Elwin and Livvy are besties but it's canon to me.

Livvy keeps a list of the top ten grossest things she’s done. Marrying Quinlin is on that list. Alden thinks Livvy has terrible taste and will marry Quinlin if ce doesn't want to. Quinlin is thrilled.

Keefe pretending he wasn't that worried about Fitz while nearly crying with relief... beloved...

After Cassius tore up Keefe's sketchbook, there was some Keefitz hurt/comfort, and I need to see this for science.

Forkle stop using gendered titles for the collective and kotlcrew, all of whom are clearly nonbinary, challenge. However he got nailed in the face with a pillow (Keefe saw) and that is punishment enough.

Elwin absolutely despises Cassius. We all need protective Dadwin in our lives.

Tiergan not giving a shit about the heterosexual drama part ???

Keefe is such a bi idiot, panicking when Fitz touches his head.

Gisela gave him the PERFECT opportunity to propose to Fitz, bi the way, and he didn't take it!!

All elves are nonbinary, confirmed once again

Tiergan is the epitome of the "how many kids do you have" "biologically, legally, or emotionally" meme. He has so many children emotionally it's hilarious.

Within like 2 seconds of meeting a traumatized queer child he's adopted them.

Forkle knows how to braid hair

FORKLE BRAIDED FINTAN'S HAIR

Tinker is Not Cis.

Sophie saying "They didn’t break me. They’ll never break me" supremacy. Same vibes as the Biana line.

Biana kicked Fitz in the shins.

Good for her!

(Not Fitz hate, we'd just all like to kick our siblings sometimes)

Considering how jealous Keefe is of Fitz being closer with Sophie than with him, I'm not sure Fitz is the one he's jealous of.

Villain Sophie foreshadowing? Villain Sophie foreshadowing.

✨fitz getting caught in the chandelier✨

The normalization of relying on one romantic partner for all of your emotional needs features a bit too prominently in this book for my liking. Kill amatonormativity please.

Protective older brother Wylie!

Biana telling Sophie "You look… really good," with those ellipsis. That is so loaded with suppressed lesbianism wtf-

Alvar doesn't remember Ruy :((((

Someone get Sophie some self esteem. Like. Now.

The day with the alicorns being born must have been so wild for Stina.

Also, the alicorn birth scene is pretty batshit.

It's Sophie’s right as a bisexual to insult the council whenever possible, particularly Alina

Keefe middle name angst!

Don’t think about the conversation where Fitz told Keefe he was dating Sophie :) :) :)

By which I mean think about it! Think about the Keefitz angst!

Vespera and Luzia are exes.

Fintan and Forkle are also exes.

I want more Fintan backstory tbh. Which definitely involves dating Forkle. Also dating literally everyone else the man gets around-

According to him, Fintan has no flaws other than being a fucking drama queen.

He also knows Caprise? Apparently? And I would like details.

Someone who is not Fintan was the one to start the Neverseen.

Fintan is very funny someone calls him out for murder and he just shrugs.

Vespera was, and I quote, “fixated on Luzia Vacker.”

FINTAN AND MARELLA RELATIONSHIP it lives rent free in my head

I will shut up about Fintan now.

In my defense his scene is pretty interesting.

Somehow, Sophie is unaware of Luzia and Vespera's past relationship. Luzia is not at all subtle, so I don't know how she hasn't connected the dots.

Marelliana 🧡

Marella struggling with her power is the best concept ever 10/10 I need more content for this despite having already written two fics about it.

I need Wylie as an older brother. We all need Wylie as an older brother. That is all.

Fitz is jealous of Keefe's relationship to Sophie... and Keefe isn't the one he's jealous of...

Fitz yeeting the alvar-tracker-device is both hilarious and a terrible decision, really.

OH SHIT (keefitz argument)

Queen shit from Biana Vacker (going off at Vespera. as she should)

Fuck Alvar (-ruy ignis, probably)

"Yes, Luzia says many things, does she not? It gets very hard to determine when she is fooling you and when she is fooling herself" okay Vespera we know you're in love and she broke your heart you can stop villain monologuing

Tam being stunned by succeeding at shadow shit but immediately pretending he knew what he was doing all along is so funny.

Fitz and Alvar is a realistic sibling depiction. Who among us hasn't attempted to murder their sibling honestly?

Hehe this is the last time Tam and Linh see each other for a while- they hug and she tells him to be careful- and then there he goes!

We were robbed of getting to see the rest of Tam's family react to this. It's on the list of fics you might see sometime in the vague future.

Sophiana angst

Thinking about dating Fitz makes Sophie pull at her eyelashes... that's... not great honestly.

#in summary:#keefitz. tiergan adopts everyone. sophie has trich. the ancients are all exes #trich tw #trichotillomania tw #kotlc recap

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hanmegumi · 3 years

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YOUR WOUNDS BLEED ON ME, written by your irresponsible and overly charming Ginny

Chapter 1

Pairing: Sokeefitz

Summary: 19th century, London, Fitz Vacker finds himself in a difficult situation: He's taken it upon himself to charm his best friend, a young lady named Sophie, who comes from a well-known family, and is at risk of being hurt by the cruel society. Trouble comes with artfully disheveled blonde hair and ice blue eyes: Keefe Sencen, who not only will stick around for a while, but who also can charm both Sophie abd Fitz in no time.

TW: None :D

A/N: BRIDGERTON SUPREMACY- No but for realsies, I actually carried this out and im proud qkkajsjjsjs hope you like it (also amsterdam keeps going dw, i will update it on weekends)

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1: THE BEGINNING OF A SEASON

Fitz stared out the window of his chambers, both hands behind his back. Today, it started a new season, where all the ladies his age would start looking for a husband, and all the boys his age—including him—would try to get a wife.

His mother had always said he had to marry for love. No one could be able to force a Vacker into marriage, it was only up to them to choose who to spend their lifes with.

Fitz pursed his lips. He loved Sophie. He enjoyed the afternoons they spent together, reading in the vast library of his father. He liked dancing with her when alone. He adored her.

But never had it been romantically, not in the past, not now. Yet as the season had approached, Fitz grew anxious. Even if she was his age, Sophie had always looked young—too young to marry, and too young to get hurt.

He didn’t wish to get engaged so soon.

But perhaps his plans would have to change. Perhaps, he would have to get in the game.

“Fitzroy.”

He turned. “Yes, brother?”

Alvar cocked his head, standing under the threshold. “Our carriage is here. Mother has been shouting for you to make haste.”

“Oh.” Fitz glanced at his reflection to see if he looked good, and then smiled. “Let us leave then.”

As he and Alvar made their way to the first floor, his brother said, “You are wearing fragrance.”

Fitz’s eyebrows shot up. “Mm?”

“It smells like pines.”

“Ah.” Fitz cleared his throat, suddenly self-conscious. “Yes.”

“I thought you didn’t like it?”

“Things change.”

“... I thought you did not wish to marry, either.”

“All the same, Alvar. Things change, most of the time for the better.”

Alvar opened his mouth to argue, but his words were drowned out by Biana saying, “Finally! I thought you would never come!”

“It took you hours to get ready,” Fitz replied.

“I am not the one who has to be there.”

“No bickering,” Fitz’s mother, Della, said. She walked in the hallway, wearing a bigger version of Biana’s teal dress. “It is time. You better be prepared.”

“We are,” Fitz, Biana and Alvar said at the same time.

“Then, let us get going.” Della sketched a snowy smile. “This one will be a night to remember.”

On the neighboring house, the Dizznees were just starting to get prepared—quite the challenge, considering the triplets were a mess. Not far away, the prestigious Ruewens were already on their way to the soiree, hosted by the queen and king: Oralie and Kenric. The Songs were already there, chatting with the Heks—and avoiding the Redeks. Such luxurious family would never acquaintance a family that was followed by rumors as if they were shadows.

Fitz got out of the carriage. He heard whispers by his side, and soon realized they were whispering about him.

He forced a smile and, with his family tagging along, walked inside the palace in which the soiree was being held.

And The Waltz Goes On was being played by the king’s orchestra. On the tables rested several golden plates that offered food, and by their side stood tall fountains. Laughter and chatter filled the room.

“Who knew so many people would attend?” Fitz breathed to himself, and smiled when he spotted a blonde hair. He turned to Alvar. “Take care of Mother and Biana. I will...” He gestured toward the Ruewens.

Alvar pursed his lips. “Well, then. Am I to remind you that you are not the only one seeking marriage?”

“Look after them. As a viscount, that is your job.”

And he rushed away before his brother could argue. When he reached the Ruewens, he grinned and touched Sophie’s shoulder.

His best friend gave a little jump before looking at him. She broke into a wide smile. ”Fitz. I did not expect to see you here.”

“Do you think I would leave you alone?” He grabbed a grape from a plate. “How do you find yourself to be?”

“Nervous,” Sophie admitted. “Why are the Dizznees not here yet?”

“The triplets.”

“Ah.”

“Would you like to dance?” Fitz blurted out. It was not hard to know she was not in love—yet—but to know that he was not, either. Looking around, there were many pretty ladies and boys. He was throwing a life away for her.

“Miss Foster,” he added when he realized her father was listening.

Sophie blinked, then snorted. “Dance?”

He nodded.

“With you?”

He nodded again.

“Fitz, I will dance with a suitor. If I dance with you, they will believe I am taken, and I do not...”

She trailed off, staring at something. Or at someone. Fitz followed her gaze, and felt a tiny surge of anger when he saw a certain family.

Ah, he thought. The Sencens are here.

#sokeefitz #keeper of the lost cities #b: kotlc #sophie foster #keefe sencen #fitz vacker #kotlc fic #your wounds bleed on me

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team-council · 3 years

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TW: SEMI-GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, SWEARING, INJURY, ABUSE

Evil Council AU! Part 1(??)Just in time for spooky month! I have a lot more to say than I thought so this doesn’t cover nearly the whole thing. Most of its very general save the parts with bronte (because I’m not capable of restraining myself)

Just a loose collection of ideas I’ve had floating around in my mind brain! Less ‘Evil Council’ and more of a ‘Role Swap’ AU if you want to get really particular. But I don’t. Could alternatively be called ‘Fallon Vacker Is A Piece Of Shit and Ruins Everything For Everyone’. The later half of this is Bronte-Centric and I don’t have any shame about that if I do a P2 it’ll mostly focus on everyone else.. probably…..no promises… also the tags have misc. ramblings I didn’t want to put here enjoy

- Starting the Evil Council AU of strong with some non council-related content here but it’s important to note that Sophie and Keefe kind of swap roles in this AU. Keefe is wholesale the moon lark- raised in the lost cities, brown eyes, teleports, alicorn blood, the whole shabang- and Sophie is… Well, this is where the ‘kind of’ comes in. She’s still the Neverseen’s anti-moonlark but rather than having been raised under the delusion of normalcy like Keefe she’s always known about the Neverseen and their plans for her. She fronts the facade of typical playful, sarcastic Sophie at Foxfire whilst spending all of her free time training to assume her rightful place as the Neverseen’s ultimate weapon.

- Kenric and Oralie are Sophie’s biological parents in this AU. They both resigned from their positions on the council to get married about :rolls dice: 70 something years pre-cannon. They come away from their time as councillors incredibly disillusioned with the state of their world, finding that regardless of the fact that they dedicated hundreds of years of their lives to bettering and protecting the Lost Cities virtually nothing has changed since they joined the council.

- Fallon Vacker’s totally epic evil schemes are already well underway by this point in time, but he sees an opportunity to gain valuable allies in the still wildly popular power couple that is Koralie, so he approaches them. And by them I mean Oralie. He’s off the council by this point but served *much* longer in this timeline, enough to spend at least a few years working alongside her and they’ve kept in contact. From what he suspects Kenric would be more proactive than her but would be more likely to try and alienate Oralie from their plans under the guise of protecting her- which won’t do, he wants them both involved.

- Seeing as he’s made his appearance I’ll now take some time to explain Fallon and his grand vision. I know some people speculate differently than I do, but for the sake of this AU elves have always maintained the facade of being a ‘peaceful’ species due to their fragile minds. Fallon’s spent he majority of his life on the council and in the nobility tap dancing around the real issues that face their world- whether it be humans, ogres, internal prejudices- and assigning asinine non-solutions to legitimate problems. The solution to the elven race’s terminal ineffectuality, he believes, is to shatter the illusion of peace they’ve manufactured so thoroughly that they’ll have no choice but to become stronger in order to survive. Like the Neverseen in the proper books he’s also like, a raving bigot and of course the end goal in all of this is elven supremacy- but in order for that to come about elves have to grow some balls. Also Fallon and whoever is taking Vespara’s place were experimenting on humans to replicate their indestructible minds, but also experimenting on other species as well. Specifically ogres since they seem to have a certain amount of telepathic skill.

- He doesn’t come out of the gate with any of this stuff though. Instead, when he approaches Oralie he softballs the idea of his rebellion to her. He recalls specific moments in her career when she was blocked from actually improving things, denied access to important history and information because it was deemed better forgotten, he has her relive every infuriating defeat she’s suffered throughout her entire career and then gently suggests that perhaps she can still do something despite no longer sitting on the council. She’s immediately intrigued but she can tell Fallon’s hiding something from her. She finds it ironic that even though he laments the state of Eternalia’s underhanded politics he’s still acting no better than an average nobleman. Fallon can tell Oralie’s figured him out before she’s had the chance to press him about it and decides to preempt her inevitable prying by testing the waters of her… moral flexibility. Being an empath he didn’t expect much of her mental fortitude, but to his delight she seems to be in agreement with him on the idea that elves have grown too unwilling to take action and that perhaps it’s time to abandon their ‘peace’ and reveal it for what it is: cowardice masquerading as benevolence. They have several conversations like this over the course of a year or so and Fallon finally comes clean about the entire plan to her. Oralie hesitates only briefly before agreeing to join the neverseen.

- Kenric is less enthused about the plan than Oralie is when she finally tells him. He dislikes the idea of working exclusively in shadow, but more than that he dislikes the idea of Oralie putting herself in such grave danger. He knows there’s no talking her out of it and before he’s even had the chance to decide whether or not he agrees with Fallon he’s come to accept that he will have to partake in his scheme if he’s to keep Oralie safe. After talking with Fallon and Oralie more extensively though he does come around, albeit more slowly, and once he does he’s even more excited about the idea than Oralie is and beings active work with the Neverseen- mostly gathering information, manipulating his social status and connections to access classified documents as well as any available information on the Black Swan.

- More important than any of that to Fallon, however, is the request he has for the pair. Now that he knows they’re on his side, implicated so thoroughly in his plans they’d rot in exile for treason if they betrayed him to the council, he asks them to submit their first child to him for genetic modification, to have it be the Neverseen’s penultimate weapon. Kenric and Oralie are appalled at first. The idea of using their own child as a pawn disturbs them, and rightfully so, but as Fallon explains what the modifications would entail they start to understand. He says he means only to strengthen her mind and ensure she has a couple of abilities that will be necessary for their war against the council, primarily inflicting (I made this AU before unlocked came out and since the reason for Keefe’s special ability or even how it fully works aren’t known I found it too much of a bother to rewrite this so that it takes inflicting’s place). They both tentatively agree, submitting their DNA to Fallon so that he and his team can handle the modifications. The process takes decades and during that time Kenric and Oralie find all of their guilt over the matter completely subsiding. They dig themselves deeper and deeper into their work with the Neverseen, watching with contempt as the Elven world spirals into inefficient madness around them.

- By the time Sophie’s born they’ve wholly given themselves to Fallon’s ideals. They’re prepared for war, prepared to make their only child an instrument of that war. She’s trained to fight, trained to resist pain, resist telepathic prodding, trained to analyze the weaknesses in other people and exploit them without mercy. The black swan won’t be very active until their Moonlark returns to its proverbial nest but even as a child Sophie’s warned of their existence, of the threat they pose to the Neverseen and the dogma she’s been fed. She’s told she will one day manifest an incredible gift and that she’ll have to use that power to wipe them out. Perhaps more so than any of her other training, the preparation of her mind for that moment is absolutely imperative. She was already designed with an infallible mind, but that of course has to be put to the test. Through out her childhood she is put through a series of experiences that escalate in the severity of their violence. At first she’s watching violence be done to an animal, then a person. Then she’s made to be the victim of violence. Then she’s forced to enact violence upon animals, and then finally another elf. She manifests as an inflictor, finally, during the last portion of her conditioning, losing herself in the brutalization of an elf she’s been told betrayed the organization.

- Oralie and Kenric have watched her progression with pride, joy even. Their daughter is remorseless. She’s capable. She’s efficient. She’s everything an elf hasn’t been in thousands of years. She will end an era of mock civility that has survived extinction events and countless wars. They don’t notice that she looks at them both with utter contempt when their backs are turned.

- So Sophie’s an inflictor, albeit with some adjustments made. Rather than targeting someone’s mind specifically she’s only capable of inflicting on a given radius around herself- the expanse of which grows as she harnesses her power. Anyone within her range will fall victim to a pain like they’ve never known. She’s incredibly violent, incredibly volatile, and desperately in need of training.

- So let’s talk about Bronte! Honestly, I agonized a little over what to do with him in this. The idea that I ended up going with is something of an… unconventional evil Bronte take? I almost felt like I was absolving him of responsibility by going the road I did, but at the same time I don’t think anyone’s convinced Bronte’s incapable of being a bad person. In another world- fuck, in Keeper’s proper cannon- he could easily find himself a self-aware, wholly responsible for his own actions villain. Thhhaaat said I felt like this AU didn’t have much of a need for another disillusioned former politician convinced they’re doing the right thing™️. Also, Fallon being who he is in this AU it seemed.. on brand that he’d show up yet again to make a mess of things.

- To being I should mention that Inflicting was banned instead of pyrokinesis in this AU not long after Bronte became an emissary- albeit not for the reasons you might suspect. Fallon had taken a particular interest in Bronte and his ability as soon as he manifested, watching from afar and occasionally arranging meetings where he would pry into the nature of his ability, the way he processed violence, and even provide encouragement and validation Bronte desperately needed. By the time that Bronte graduates from Foxfire Fallon’s already arranged for him to be a personal attendant of his and emissary soon after that. Bronte completely adores Fallon. He’s one of the only people that will acknowledge his ability without treating it as an affliction- if anything he seems excited to know more about it. Fallon sees his ability as a gift as opposed to a curse and Bronte in turn hates himself less for possessing it, eventually even coming to embrace his inflicting with enough coaxing. Bronte will do anything for Fallon’s continued approval and as such becomes an incredibly useful tool to him. He often dispatches Bronte to do his dirty work in regards to matters dealing with the nobility, the kidnapping of subjects for Nightfall, and other various problems. It doesn’t take long for Fallon’s enemies to realize that if he were to lose access to Bronte he’d lose a pretty substantial advantage as well. So they frame Bronte for an abuse of his power. Fallon attempts to protect him but inflicting has long been an idea that’s made everyone uneasy and they’re more than happy to sentence it and Bronte to the highest punishment elven society has to offer: being forgotten.

- Bronte is stripped of his title as an Emissary and is put on indefinite house arrest as punishment for the ‘assault’ he committed. While he formerly had an outlet for his ability in the form of assignments from Fallon he can now do nothing but let resentment and hate build in him without relief as he rots alone with only his spite for company. Due to the fact that Fallon constantly encouraged him to explore and use his ability in this AU Bronte never discovered a means of keeping his inflicting at bay. He never graduated beyond ‘being an irritable fuck who’s constantly on the verge of losing his shit’. Had it not been for the fact he kept up appearances for Fallon’s sake it’s very likely he would’ve been punished a lot sooner for a crime he *actually* committed. Anyways, by the time Fallon is able to see Bronte again he’s a complete fucking wreck. Reigning his ability in hasn’t even occurred to him. He feels slighted, scorned, ill-used and those emotions are only heightened by an ability that feeds off of them. He’s totally trashed his house and apparently every other living thing that’s attempted to come near him- he hasn’t been very kind to himself either. Fallon’s sure that when he approaches him he’ll be greeted with the full force of his inflicting, or at least a fist to his gut. He’s surprised to find that he’s met with neither. If anything, his presence seems to calm Bronte and they’re able to have a discussion. Rather than suggesting that Bronte control his ability, Fallon suggests that Bronte find another outlet for his violent urges. He posits that hand-to-hand combat might do the trick and arranges for him to meet with a goblin instructor on the matter. It’s a difficult idea to sell to the rest of the council, but Fallon assured them it’ll be a good means of keeping Bronte occupied and reduce the likelihood he’ll snap and hurt others- and more pressingly himself.

- Fallon doesn’t make this decision out of the goodness of his heart though. No, originally he saw the weapon he created Sophie to be in Bronte. He figures that if Bronte’s to be unable to assist him then he can at least be acquiring a useful skill in the meantime. And boy does Bronte set to acquiring. He takes to combat well if not a little too zealously, but it doesn’t satiate him in the way that Fallon had said it would. If anything, it makes things *worse*. He can wail away at as many training dummies as he wants, it’s not inflicting. It’s not draining all of his pent up, festering rage, only adding to it. By the time Bronte’s able to leave his house again and his supervision is relaxed he doesn’t even care what Fallon’s planning so long as he can fuck something up. Fallon’s never been one to look a gift horse in the mouth and obliges him, testing the extent of his newfound inhibition by ordering him to torture various prisoners of the Neverseen. At first Bronte finds himself satisfied to just unleash his ability on captives. After centuries of frustration and unvented rage releasing the unbridled force of his power is a euphoric experience. He’s spent years rotting in purposelessness and now finally has something that puts his skills and his time to use. The satisfaction, the bliss of it all is overwhelming. Whatever guilt he feels at hearing the agonized screams of his victims is washed away by a tide of long overdue relief.

- To Fallon’s intrigue, however, Bronte’s new position as torturer doesn’t satisfy him either. Inflicting, like pyrokinesis, seems to be more of a gluttonous creature in and of itself than a passive power that can be manipulated. But where the consuming nature of a pyrokinetic’s ability is lost in abstractions about the vague ‘nature of flames’ Fallon finds inflicting very easy to explain.

- One of Bronte’s charges is refusing to talk. They make a small jab at him, something juvenile, something stupid. It doesn’t really matter what they said. Fallon’s called to the scene and finds their captive simultaneously covering the floors, walls, ceiling, and Bronte. Fallon expects this to shatter even an inflictor’s mind, but his friend surprises him again by taking things in stride. For a while, anyways. It’s a month or so before another incident and in that time Fallon’s come to the conclusion that an inflictor’s mind is simply a naturally superior version of a humans, the perfect step 2 in elven evolution he was always striving to achieve with his research. It’s not a presumption he gets to hold on to for very long. The next time that Bronte mangles one of their ‘guests’ he doesn’t seem to recover so well. He’s not grieving though, not stewing in self loathing. No. He’s agitated. Fallon finds his moods to be increasingly more volatile. Sometimes he’ll maintain his cold, sarcastic demeanor but as soon as something displeases him slightly he’ll lose his shit, usually not calming down until Fallon’s soothed him or he’s done severe harm to someone else. Fallon’s still struggling to figure out what’s going on, but Bronte already knows. The first time he inflicted on someone after such a long hiatus he felt so… satisfied. But when he did it again that sense of fulfillment was nowhere near as great. Emotions started to build in him again, every minor annoyance compounding, silly little aggravations multiplied a thousand fold until he could see nothing but red. Brutalizing someone with his bare hands… it felt like that first time inflicting again. Satisfied. Relieved. He thought it was his answer. The next time he felt his anger piling high he went to marring his victim as he had the time before, horrified to find that this pleasure too had become dull to him. With no way to truly feel as if he’s dispelling his want of violence he becomes trapped in a downward spiral, a perpetual loss of control. He finds that it gets difficult to pay attention to things, that he can’t listen to anyone- save Fallon- speak to him without wanting to floss their teeth with their vocal chords. It gets to the point where he doesn’t even notice time passing all that much. All he desires is to have an enemy pointed out to him, to partake in whatever meager rush of dopamine ripping into somebody gives him at this point. Fallon decides that this is the true nature of an inflictor, the monkey’s paw-esque cost of their exceptional power. In order to keep the mind of the, for lack of a better term, ‘host’ from shattering under the weight of their power’s inherently violent nature the ability consumes it. True, the ‘host’ is no longer capable of caring for their victims but they are also no longer capable of caring for much of anything. By the time the process is complete what’s left of the inflictor is little more than a vessel of violence. It’s not the result Fallon was hoping for but he nevertheless thinks it’s comforting to know that elves *are* capable of violence.

- he decides the best thing to do from here on is to keep Bronte sedated or otherwise drugged when not in use. He does occasionally pay him visits just to be ‘social’. Bronte rarely says anything to him anymore but he’s always listening when he speaks.

- When Fallon creates sophie it’s with the intention that she be a compromise between Bronte’s power and a normal elves’ sanity. Unbeknownst to him, his design is imperfect. While she’s not prone to losing her whole self to her ability she will struggle with violent urges her whole life. Even if she’s incapable of breaking due to the guilt of her actions they still make her wonder just what kind of monster she really is.

- she doesn’t wonder anymore after she’s introduced to Bronte for the first time. He’s the personification of her urges. His hair’s long and matted. His nails are long, their undersides coated in thick clusters of rot. She can’t see much of his face except for a hellish, bloodshot eye. His stare is empty of everything except hatred and for the first time she feels as if she’s really looking at herself. Fallon has explained her situation to Bronte and up until seeing her he had thought he would test her limits as he’d asked. Test her limits and then go back to drifting between assignments. But when he sees her… Well, Fallon’s always had theories about why he did what he did. His ego likes to think Bronte was scared of being replaced by her, that he’d only ever lose control of Bronte if he were afraid of being cast aside again. The answer he likes less is just as plausible though. That Bronte saw in Sophie the potential to fall just as far as he had, and in a brief moment of awareness had.. done his best to prevent that from happening.

- Sophie spends months in the infirmary after Bronte attacks her. He’s broken her jaw, torn her stomach open with his hands, practically flattened her throat. For the first time in her life Sophie has a lot of private time to herself. For the first time in her life she considers what all of this has been for. If that creature is the incarnation of violence.. the culmination of everything Fallon aspires to, the ‘gift’ he wants to bestow upon elven kind… What was everything even for? That creature was farther from salvation than anything she’d ever known in her whole life. What good could possibly be done by bringing that darkness into the lives of ordinary people?

- She keeps these thoughts to herself though. The Neverseen is still all she’s known. She has no other support systems. It’s where her family is. She won’t give them up so easily. (and besides, who would welcome a monster into their ranks anyways?)

- During her recovery Sophie is allowed a break from training even after she’s no longer bound to the infirmary. Her injuries have been explained to Foxfire and all concerned authorities as the result of an accident at Havenfield. Jolie, who is alive and collaborating with the Neverseen, helped sell the story by claiming she was a witness and had invited Sophie over to help with animal care when some of the security systems failed and a few dinosaurs escaped. Grady and Edaline have left the property to Jolie and Brant in this AU is well and are taking (a very deserved) vacation somewhere. Brant is an emissary of the council and was personally trained by the still sitting Councillor Fintan but that’s for part 2.

- Anyways, when she returns to school she’s surprised to find that gossip isn’t so much focussed on her as it is a new student with peculiar brown eyes.

#keeper of the lost cities #god there’s so much I didn’t touch on #I didn’t even talk about everything with Bronte #pretty much everyone has a place in this except #like lihn #and tam and Dex #if you wanna send some asks or something telling me what they should do feel free it’ll be ‘cannon’#fintan gisela tirek and Emery are all still councilors #Emery and Tirek are evil #fintan and gisela are not #Emery is still the speaker but Fintan is the real voice of reason #Because seniority #And unlike Bronte people actually like him #And think he has a reason to be serving aside from the fact that they can’t impeach him #fintan and Bronte have a complicated history that I didn’t even have time to touch on #kind of like. In the regular books. :)#hopefully part two will cover that #Fitz and Biana are still black swan aligned in this #Fallon never felt the need to collaborate with Alden #he always thought he was kind of spineless and ineffectual #since the Neverseen has a hard on for violence now the BS is a bit more combat oriented as well #this is to say Biana kicks ass #also you can read Fallon/Bronte into this but you won’t like the implications #also also Sophie has a second ability that is legal and I haven’t decided on it yet #TW violence #TW swearing #TW abuse #councillor bronte #sophie foster #Fallon vacker

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Books I Read in 2021.

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew (audiobook)

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Circe by Madeline Miller

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2029 edited by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain

The Book of Hallowe’en: The Origin and History of Halloween by Ruth Edna Kelley

God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships by Matthew Vines (audiobook)

Dusk Night Dawn: On Revival and Courage by Anne Lamott

Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff (audiobook)

102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn (audiobook)

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe

Resurrected to Eternal Life: On Dying and Rising by Jürgen Moltmann

Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump by Spencer Ackerman (audiobook)

Trick Or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton

The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson (audiobook)

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin (audiobook)

#reading list #reading list 2021 #books #personal #reading #2021

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shopgoddesss · 6 years

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Creator,Brianna: It's so beautiful to see so many Goddesses embracing who they are and embracing my concept and creations! I want to take this time welcome you into my creative space and send you positive energy ❣️ I also want to acknowledge the questions or concerns I got recently about "leaving out" transgender people out of women empowerment. I want to start by saying, woman empowerment is not just for women, it's for anyone that embraces and accepts the ideology. My creations are not to shame anyone. My creations are inspired by womanism ,what speaks to me. I love vaginas I think they are a creation of art in itself like Georgia o keef. I love how nature often imitates the art we naturally possess . I love how you can find flowers,fruits and trees that rule a uncanny resemblance to us . I love what power it holds and how it can bring life into this world, It's beautiful . This is me being true to myself and not stealing anyone else's shine. Because we can all prosper out of whatever form of feminism you choose to support. Transgender Goddess: you don't need validation from me or anyone else that your existence is enough but I will anyway. I acknowledge you and support your journey to a better you . Always remember, Goddesses Support each other how else would Supremacy work 😉

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In my previous column here at Just the Good Stuff, I took a look back at works of African-American literature in graphic format. In the column before that, I reviewed three graphic biographies of extraordinary Black Americans.

This time, I’m focusing on African-American genre fiction.

All of these books are good stuff, and I’d recommend them all to anybody and everybody. I think kids would be particularly interested in these books and their heroes, so school and public libraries will definitely want copies of these trade paperbacks.

And now, without further ado, here they are…

Blackjack: Second Bite of the Cobra

By Alex Simmons ; illustrated by Joe Bennett ( Dover : 2015 ). Blackjack is a mercenary looking to avenge the humiliation of his father at the hands of The Cobra, a charismatic Bedouin warlord. He hires two other mercs, white Southerners named Bo and Red (“short for Redneck”), who function as sidekicks (I liked this reverse tokenism – after all, these sidekicks are fighting for money in Africa, where they’re a minority). Silas Lincoln, best friend to Blackjack’s father, is crippled when he goes solo after the recently re-emergent Cobra, who is robbing caravans in a carefully targeted manner. Since Silas can’t fight, he introduces Blackjack to Maryam, an Arab woman who took sanctuary with Silas after she was targeted for honor killing ; trained to fight by Silas, Maryam is eager for battle. Blackjack gathers support from the merchants being robbed, then leads his forces in an exciting climactic battle. Joe Bennett’s art is distinctively stylized, and the color in this Dover edition is stunning.

STORY 4.6 ART 4.6 OVERALL 4.6

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Dayblack

By Keef Cross ( Rosarium Publishing – 2015 )

This is a story about Merce , a great tattoo artist and the world’s coolest vampire, ever. He collects blood with modified tattoo equipment of his own invention, and this allows him to have something like a normal life in the town of Dayblack, Georgia, where a permanent darkness in the sky blocks out all sunlight, keeping the town in perpetual night. I could go on and on about how great DayBlack is, like how the art is a real source of wonder, but I still wouldn’t be able to tell you all the good things between the covers – so I’ll just say Read It.

STORY 4.6 ART 4.6 OVERALL 4.6

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Shaft: A Complicated Man

By David F. Walker and Bilquis Evely (Dynamite: 2015)

In this, John Shaft’s graphic novel debut, Walker successfully re-creates the magic of Ernest Tidyman’s savvy knight-errant. Here, a young Shaft has just come home to Harlem from Vietnam, chased out of the boxing game by the Mob when he won’t throw a fight. He takes his first case, tracking down a missing person for his girlfriend, and winds up as a target of both gangsters and dirty cops. I especially liked the art in this one – it’s carefully detailed, with first-rate draftsmanship. In closing, I’d note that I’m not the only one who likes this book, since Shaft : a Complicated Man was the winner of the 2015 Glyph Award for Story of the Year.

STORY 4.5 ART 4.5 OVERALL 4.5

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Watson and Holmes, Volume 1: A Study in Black (2013)

By Karl Bollers ( writer ), Rick Leonardi and Larry Stroman ( artists ).

This is the only graphic novel I’ve come across from publisher New Paradigm Studios – and that’s a shame, because this is one great comic. Bollers has written comics for 20 years for Marvel and Archie, and it shows here : re-imagining Holmes and Watson as Black men couldn’t have been easy, but Bollers transplants the pair to twenty-first century Harlem with a surgeon’s sure touch, and the resulting story is eminently satisfying. I especially liked the work of both of the artists on the series.

STORY 4.5 ART 4.5 OVERALL 4.5

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Bayou, Volumes One and Two ( Zuda/DC Comics 2010)

By Jeremy Love, is a mythic tale set in 1931 in the Jim Crow South. Lee Wagstaff is a young Black girl who must find her missing white playmate Lily before angry whites lynch her father. Lee’s search will take her into the bayou, where she enters the magical reality of the spirit world – there, she meets up with Bayou, a gentle, gigantic Black bluesman, caught up in sharecropping peonage and oppressed by Bossman, a living symbol of white supremacy during the Jim Crow Era. Bayou takes Lee on a monomyth quest, introducing the fleshly girl to this strange, supraphysical world and its host of totemic bayou denizens, who call her Pigmeat because the living can usually only experience this world through dreams – but Lee is different, marked by destiny to change the world.

To create this mystical reality, Jeremy Love uses allegory to weave together traditional Black folklore with the popular Black culture of the early Blues era, e.g., one of the secondary characters, B’rer Rabbit, is a bluesman who plays the juke joints with Bayou. Like the other supernaturals, he can take on human appearance, but he normally travels as a chain-smoking rabbit-man. Another supernatural, Staggerlee, is an assassin conjured up by Bossman from the bowels of Hell to hunt down Lee and Bayou.

This is a great story, even if it was never completed : it’s still a must-read for the art alone.

STORY 4.5 ART 4.7 OVERALL 4.6

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And that’s it for this special extra edition of Just The Good Stuff – see you next week !

In the meantime, please also see :

my last column, where I review some great graphic adaptations of African-American literature ;

my column from last week, where I cover three first-rate graphic biographies of extraordinary Black Americans ; and,

my review of the March trilogy by Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), the third volume being the first graphic novel to win the National Book Award.

Just the Good Stuff SPECIAL EDITION: African-American Genre Fiction

In my previous column here at Just the Good Stuff, I took a look back at works of African-American literature in graphic format.

Just the Good Stuff SPECIAL EDITION: African-American Genre Fiction In my previous column here at Just the Good Stuff, I took a look back at works of African-American literature in graphic format.

#comic books #comics #DC comics #Dover Books #Dynamite entertainment #Just The Good Stuff #Review #Rosarium Publishing

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This time, I’m focusing on African-American genre fiction.

And now, without further ado, here they are…

Blackjack: Second Bite of the Cobra

STORY 4.6 ART 4.6 OVERALL 4.6

Dayblack

By Keef Cross ( Rosarium Publishing – 2015 )

STORY 4.6 ART 4.6 OVERALL 4.6

Shaft: A Complicated Man

By David F. Walker and Bilquis Evely (Dynamite: 2015)

STORY 4.5 ART 4.5 OVERALL 4.5

Watson and Holmes, Volume 1: A Study in Black (2013)

By Karl Bollers ( writer ), Rick Leonardi and Larry Stroman ( artists ).

STORY 4.5 ART 4.5 OVERALL 4.5

Bayou, Volumes One and Two ( Zuda/DC Comics 2010)

This is a great story, even if it was never completed : it’s still a must-read for the art alone.

STORY 4.5 ART 4.7 OVERALL 4.6

And that’s it for this special extra edition of Just The Good Stuff – see you next week !

In the meantime, please also see :

my last column, where I review some great graphic adaptations of African-American literature ;

my column from last week, where I cover three first-rate graphic biographies of extraordinary Black Americans ; and,

my review of the March trilogy by Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), the third volume being the first graphic novel to win the National Book Award.

Just the Good Stuff SPECIAL EDITION: African-American Genre Fiction In my previous column here at Just the Good Stuff, I took a look back at works of African-American literature in graphic format.

#comic books #comics #DC comics #Dover Books #Dynamite entertainment #Just The Good Stuff #Review #Rosarium Publishing

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