#Stories: All New tales

[chronologiical]

why can't the entirety of the tunguska event just be taigong wang & daji's flashback

#my art #fate/grand order #fgo #taigong wang #daji #koyanskaya #fate/ #ok so #they can't just have this kind of relationship and not have a 20 chapter story about it #don't just give me a brief flashback #tbh i would've liked the tunguska event way more if koyanskaya was daji #it felt like i got lied to the whole way since china's lostbelt #WHY NINE TALES THEN #WHAT'S THE POINT OF HAVING TAIGONG WANG THEN #SUCH A WASTE FOR ALL THAT BUILT UP #happy new year everyone! #i came back from art hell to complain about how fgo robbed us from some good tragic content

[get-back-homeward]

Did he talk much about the Beatles?

All the time.

Did he feel like it was a weight on him?

No, he absolutely loved it. I used to have a little Sony blaster that I would put up… It’s funny because now I do my fucking mix through a Bose wave radio, but then it was a Sony blaster. A fairly good one. And if you sounded good in there, everything was right. And one day in a few moments when nothing was going on, he would put on WNYW FM and listen to the radio. He loved to listen.

And when a Beatles song came on the radio, he would tell you everything about that session. Everything that happened. He never had a problem talking about how much he loved that band. And how much he loved those guys. He was a little annoyed at George, because George had written a book and he didn’t mention John much in the book, at that time. But he felt that that would come around.

But his love for that band. Phenomenal. It was great. It was what you hoped he would be like.

He loved them as much as everyone loved them. Did he ever discuss why they never reunited, or why they had those near-misses? Well you know he and Paul were already in the process. This Ringo album I think was going to be big.

That could have been a big stepping stone?

Yeah.

Did you ever see them together, any of them?

No. But I know that Paul was up at the Dakota.

Did they jam together?

I don’t know. All I know is that Paul was preparing stuff for Ringo’s album.

—Jack Douglas, producer of John Lennon's Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey albums [x]

#went looking for this and realized it was still stuck in my queue #mine #double fantasy #john stories #1980 what ifs #1980 #dec 1980 #jack douglas #he's in the news again for that new doc i will never be watching #have we talked about how ringo and paul worked with him in 2022 for grow old with me #i think it's significant bc he's stuck by this story all along #if he was telling tall tales about plans that never were you wouldnt think ringo or paul would seek him out again #jpr #estimates for the dakota meeting i've seen are nov 5 #but im still lost what went into that date

[sercj]

Alright, I'm finally typing it out. Gather around, all, for the tale of the time my friends and I kidnapped a blueberry and drug them into the Vault of Glass.

Once upon a time, I used to have friends I would play Destiny 2 with regularly. None of them that feature in this story still do, to my knowledge, but at the time we were pretty cracked on the PvE side of things. At the time, we were raiding semi-regularly (when schedules lined up), and as Vault of Glass had just been added to D2 recently, it was our raid of choice that one, fateful evening.

We, like any sane PC player, were using Discord for comms, and so I had hopped into the channel to wait, and headed to the Cosmodrome for my favorite time-killing passtime - blueberry watching. For those of you unfamiliar, blueberries is an affectionate term for new destiny players, named after the color of the low rarity gear they end up decked out in, blue. The Cosmodrome, being the first public area a New Light ends up in, is often a place where you can see adorable new players getting the hang of things.

At this time, the voice channel began to fill up, and one of my compatriots joined my fireteam. We initiated some hug emotes with a blueberry and were just all-in-all chilling when we got word that one member of our team would be unable to join us. Then someone (I forget who) suggested 'hey, what if we took this blueberry along with us?'. It was a patently absurd option - we had no communication with them. Their mishmash of blue armor and crappy weapons would clearly be outclassed by the raid, leaving them unable to damage enemies and likely to die instantly if any of the vex even looked in their direction. But we started to plan a bit - really, we could do every encounter with just 5 people. We'd have to protect the blueberry, but that could be done, theoretically.

I think, in the end, we came to the conclusion that we'd try it, but they weren't likely to stick through it. After all, we weren't (and never did) using the in-game VC, or text chat. The two of us hanging out with them in the Cosmodrome sent a fireteam invite. And the blueberry accepted. So we joined the rest of the team in orbit, and launched Vault of Glass.

I could go into our specific strategies for each encounter, but for the most part it was pretty same-y. We'd use emotes and shooting to get the blueberry into a defensible position, then 5-man the encounter. And somehow, this worked. I have taught many, many people many raids in my time (including many people from this friend group!), and I have never seen someone pick up so quickly on what we needed them to do. With no actual words passing! An absolute, biggest-brained legend of a guardian.

We did get this guy all the way to Aetheon. And with some tricks (and good RNG), we were able to even defeat Aetheon. With some random blueberry nobody knew, or talked to! Unfortunately, they didn't get Mythoclast (can you imagine, though!), but they did celebrate with us with their default dance emote, and we all went our seperate ways. Nobody friended them, we just re-released them into the Cosmodrome like they hadn't just helped us save all of time or whatever the point of Vault of Glass is.

Now, perhaps this was a returning player, or someone on a new alt, who already kinda or entirely knew what was going on. But there's no real way of knowing, and it's just as (if not more) likely that this was a brand new player. Can you imagine what kind of a 'first experience' that new player had with the game? How puzzlingly odd to begin with, developing into concern as the activity we brought them to was clearly beyond them, to the 'fuck it we ball' attitude to stick with it all the way through. A true champion.

And imagine the lore perspective too. Fresh guardian, still got gravesoil in their armor, hasn't been to the tower yet, and they get scooped up into the Vault of Glass? Battle Aetheon? AND WIN!? The reaction from Shaw, or hell, the Vanguard as a whole would be amazing. Our guardians getting reprimanded for taking some fresh new light and dragging them through such a crazy difficult experience they weren't prepared for. Fun stuff to think about.

I wonder how that player is doing now. If they still play, how this particular experience flavored their perception of the game and its community. I know the community at large can be extremely toxic (and worse), but I still strive to embody the community impression we made on that day. Patience and Understanding, being goofy and silly about it, inclusive and kind. Dunno, maybe that's just me being sappy about a fun memory with friends gone by.

#destiny 2 #d2 #vault of glass #aetheon #story #long #i hope this tale brightens one persons day #the original occurence was a very fun night #i miss having people i loved to play destiny 2 with #now i just have to lfg everything #which is okay about 60% of the time #genuinely enjoyable maybe 10% #and the remainder is just bad #and that's AFTER screening lfg posts for ones that seem more chill #pro tip: if it says 'KWTD' skip that shit #buggest thing the new system lacks is a definite warning label like that #anyhow i'm just rambling now #shoutout to all the blueberries #i love you guys

[absolutebl]

First of all I want to appreciate your blog and for putting all the effort in explaining different bls. I have found so many good shows through your blog 💗

Can I request a list of adult bls with meaningful themes? Not too pg rated like kinnporche but towards a softer side like old fashion cupcake. I am an adult myself and can't seem to relate much to high school dramas. So I would love to watch more mature bl series if you have any recs. Thank you!!

adult bls with meaningful themes & soft

Hi & thank you!

Here is an older post, but that means it might have some you've not seen before.

Your "adult" criteria is interesting because BL is called "Boy's Love" for a reason. Even if the characters are adults they often don't act that way, or are going though things we associated with high school and college (like first love). Still...

My top 15 that fit your criteria are:

example: Old Fashion Cupcake

A Tale of Thousand Stars (Thai YT)

My Ride (Thai iQIYI & YT)

Our Dining Table (Japan Gaga)

The New Employee (Korea Viki)

Unintentional Love Story (Korea iQIYI)

My Tooth Your Love (Taiwan Viki)

Wish You: Your Melody in My Heart (Korea Viki & Netflix)

Restart After Come Back Home (Japan Gaga? grey?)

DNA Says Love You (Taiwan Gaga) - first half requires patience but it's worth it

Like In The Movies (Pinoy YouTube)

You Make Me Dance (Korea Viki)

Just Friends? (Korea Gaga)

All the Liquors (Korea Viki)

Ocean Likes Me (Korea Viki)

Happy Merry Ending (Korea Viki)

BL sides: Love is Science?

Yes but x-rated and/or not so soft: Bed Friend, Moonlight Chicken, Long Time No See

shorts: Some More

I think there are a few under-appreciated gems in here that really might resonate with you. My Ride is re-airing on YouTube right now and Like in the Movies (Pinoy) is also available there. Both are a little gritty and thoughtfully slow, but ultimately worth your time if you have patience for something longer than Japan churns out. If you want to go shorter, stick with the Japanese and Korean ones.

Most of these explore themes of loneliness, acceptance, and found family - as, indeed, do most queer romances.

I loved it but I'm not sure about the "meaningful themes" bit but they grown ups with grown up issues...

Our Dating Sim

To My Star

See You After Quarantine?

Be Loved In House: I Do

Cherry Magic

Love Tractor

HIStory 3: Trapped

Manner of Death

Triage

What Zabb Man!

Nobleman Ryu's Wedding

Behind Cut

Candy Color Paradox

Choco Milk Shake

Happy Ending Romance

Mr Cinderella

Oh! Boarding House

Plus and Minus

Roommates of Poongduck 304

The Tasty Florida

Tinted With You

Vice Versa

Despite it being Uni I still think you might like it:

The Eighth Sense

Life: Love on the Line (follows characters throughout their lives, this is Japan and seriously atmospheric so, of course, it's meaningful)

#asked and answered #A Tale of Thousand Stars #My Ride #thai bl #Our Dining Table #japanese bl #The New Employee #korean bl #Unintentional Love Story #My Tooth Your Love #taiwanese bl #Wish You: Your Melody in My Heart #Restart After Come Back Home #DNA Says Love You #Like In The Movies #pinoy bl #You Make Me Dance #Just Friends? #All the Liquors #Ocean Likes Me #Happy Merry Ending

[fromtheseventhhell]

Seeing people clutch pearls over Arya having killed people is so funny cause the list is literally rapist, murderer, torturer, criminal, some combination of the bunch...and all people who Arya has personally witnessed, or directly heard about, committing these acts. Like, contrary to popular belief, she is not just a mindless killing machine.

#arya stark #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #won't somebody please think of the poor rapist who laughed while recounting the tale of participating in the brutalization of a young girl? #of the torturer who came up with new ways daily to torment people????? #of the man who murdered a child without a second thought??? what about HIS-story huhh???? #yeah George writes Arya as a gray character but he also makes all of her acts justified...that's truly his daughter fr (dany too) #seeing people clutch pearls over raff and the tickler is insane kind've...crying about the brutality of it but look at what they've done??? #personally I think Arya should kill more rapists and murderers but that's just me #also she should've killed that lady who threatened to her with the broom handle cause what the FUCK #like I would literally stand by Arya even if she was 100% worse understand that #but if you get killed by Arya chances are you deserved it 🤷🏾‍♀️

[feluka]

you know what? *refills your sage*

#🌻 #the story behind the name 'refill' always cracks me up #raine sage #tales of symphonia #my art #tries a lot of new stuff with this one! #that's why it took so long hehe i tried like. all the default photoshop brushes #and all the brush settings lol

[w1tchybusiness]

i could write a 100 page essay about what a fucking masterpiece warframe is. i will write many words in the tags. please readem if you want my 'tism.

#ive been playing on and off since 2019 but its only recently when i dumped destiny 2 (probably for good) and picked it up #to fill the grind-shaped hole in my heart #that i have uncovered just how FUCKING INCREDIBLE warframe is #everything about it makes me incredibly autistic #from its masterful utilization of an incredibly styled and individual soundtrack full of absolute bangers #to its seemingly unique understanding of how and why an MMO is special to and because of its players #and its truly special story- a uniquely human take on the “post-ruin scifi” tale #it knows exactly how and when to yank on your heart to make you weep like a baby #and it knows exactly when you're going to get angry and want vengeance #and it knows when to let you let loose and unleash hell #SPOILERS FOR THE NEW WAR AHEAD #IF YOU THINK YOU COULD PLAY THE GAME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO #SPOILER WARNING #i think the narmer corruption of fortuna was genuinely one of the most gutpunchingly horrible moments ive ever experienced in a video game #i started playing when fortuna was already in the game but the story of fortuna and vox solaris was really what made warframe stand out 2 m #i would drop into the orb vallis as gauss and dash around doing bounties and fishing and mining because i really loved everything about #fortuna and wanted to spend as much time there as possible #for me vox solaris was my proudest achievement (in warframe.) to say “i helped that! i did that!” was an incredibly good feeling #the story really spoke to me on a deeper level #and vox solaris has always been my favorite faction as a result #so to do absolutely everything that i could #to lift together with my tenno brothers and sisters and yet STILL fail? #and to have it rubbed in my face by the corruption of the greatest shining pillar of hope in the warframe universe? #felt like i got kicked in the stomach #i felt sad and angry. but most of all i was DRIVEN. #which is GOOD. because RARELY does a video game present you the “you lost” scenario and have it feel not only satisfyingly painful #but MOTIVATING. #my only complaint with the new war is that i didnt get to hack ballas to pieces by myself #i had real flashbacks to running around helping people as gauss while approaching the final boss with erra #and to step onto the ballas arena as gauss prime. i nearly came from the narrative significance

[bookshelf-in-progress]

It's so nice to have this tiny little selection of WIPs to prioritize. Really helps me to keep my focus where it should be.

Wait, what's this?

IT'S A LONG-ABANDONED WIP WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!

#so two days ago i was looking back at some of my stories i like and thinking that they were all garbage #well then yesterday (actually at 3 am shh don't tell) i was looking at some things i liked less and found that they were surprisingly good #(my imagination kicked in during the interim and supplied some really nice mental movies that made the stories come alive) #and guys that arateph princess and the pea retelling has me going feral #both povs have fantastic conflicts #the fairy tale gets to tie in perfectly with the politics and philosophy issues in this world #and now i really really want to get to the core of this story and try to figure out how to finish it #because there's a ton of thematic and internal things happening #but how to realistically tie it in with the need for action is logistically difficult #i've got at least three threads here and the 'assassination attempt' thing is the most concrete possibility but also the hardest to fit in #i may just have to open a new doc and rubber-duck it to see if something comes together #incidentally the fact that this kind of thing regularly happens with my backlog of seasonally-specific ideas is why i rarely finish anythin #ah well what do you do? #adventures in writing

[imwritesometimes]

I feel like every review of the Barry series finale that's like 'it was just meh...' is intentionally missing the point cause if they actually had to confront 'hey we as a country venerate service members to an insane degree when, just like normal people cause that's what they are, some of them are bad people. we will jump through hoops to absolve any wrongs these people commit. the police do get it massively wrong sometimes. justice is not always dished out. and we will make a butchered spectacle out of a tragedy for ticket sales.' they wouldn't get many clicks.....

#the way law enforcement overall were portrayed through the series alone I have not seen really talked abt anywhere #but GODDDDD like Janice was ~one of their own~ and they're all still so incompetent and stupid they can't even get her case right #like this show is screaming at you that this dude is PEAK delusional at the end #that's not what god wants for me #Sally tells him. to his face. if he wants to be absolved. he must take responsibility for what he's done. #but he doesn't. and he's absolved anyway. cause they twist his story to fit the #brave marine doing the best he can narrative #when really he killed his friend who was *also* a marine. he killed a lot of ppl. and never took responsibility. #and let's not even touch on how Noho Hank and Christobal are ENTIRELY written out of and forgotten #in the new narrative the movie makes. like those pesky queers further ruin this sterling service member triumphs over evil tale #I'm *obsessed* at this point idk. I've had all night to ponder cause I was up sick all night 😞 #hbo barry #hbo barry spoilers

[invinciblerodent]

brb, i have to go and. make strangled noises at nothing real quick; it just hit me over the head how Wyll's use of the metaphor of dancing as a stand-in for romance and intimacy really just. accompanies him all throughout his story, and how perfect it is

I guess I should have expected a character like him, that's both deeply poetic in his speech and courtly in his upbringing, would come to idealize a chivalric romance a bit, and translate his feelings on/of love to an element of courting that's as ritualistic and processional as ballroom dancing, but sometimes just realizing the obvious can really knock you off your feet for a second

like. just like how there is almost a blueprint to a perfect storybook romance in both stories and -consequently- in his head (I think romance might even be one of the literary genres with the highest number of unwritten rules that need to be fulfilled for a work to count as a romance), there is also a fairly strict method to a court dance. There is a series of well-known and practiced steps that was laid out in advance, and one is to perform them in succession, and in sync with one's partner. If one of the parties doesn't know or doesn't want to follow the rules/steps, it gets... tangled, messy, and you both stumble. The dance and the relationship both fall apart. The happy ending of a tale is not reached without all the steps in-between being followed, and he so dearly wants his fairytale ending, his happy, fulfilled love, I just---

it's such a perfect metaphor, and what makes it even more perfect is that Wyll is ostensibly aware of it, and he chose it, purposefully, and i don't want to watch the Act 3 commitment scene because I've not yet done it myself and don't want to spoil it, but I would be so surprised if he a.) made no mention of storybook romances, or b.) didn't just straight up propose y'know

i'm (metaphorically) crying, if it were possible to play this game on six different characters simultaneously without getting bored or confused I fucking would

#squirrel plays bg3 #yet another way my Trevelyan works very well in this situation for me #oc: raymond trevelyan #back in the day i made him... actually very similar to what Wyll is now #he was a young man of noble birth who grew up idealizing the storybook heroes of legends and romances #and while he wasn't really that stuck on the 'perfect romance' bits; being not interested in the ladies at all... #the Noble Hero On A White Steed image and the Charming Knight Saving the Realms images did appeal to him immensely #he was gregarious and brave and chivalrous and overall just... trying his absolute best to be good #he wanted to be the a gallant hero and to experience a sweeping passionate love- both wooing and being wooed #which he did get! and he did eventually find his happy ending! #only... the stories rarely mention that heroes don't often live this far past the end of their own tales #when the evil is slain and the damsel is saved; the story simply... ends #the characters; they live on frozen in the perfect moment of true love's first kiss #and nobody really talks about what happens after- not until you must experience it for yourself #so now he's... a burnt-out ex-knight #a has-been hero whose usefulness ceased and his happy ending was torn from him by pointless intrigue #and I just LOVE the thought of him finding a new happy ending; of starting over with someone who'll rekindle his passions #and dance the night away with him #YAY FOR TAG NOVELS

[asjjohnson]

Danny transformed with a stumble in the alley near the school, not even looking for possible bystanders, and ran as fast as he could. He was just so tired. He’d been up until dawn chasing both Technus and Desiree, along with all the appliances and wish-monsters that had been roaming the city.

He was so, so tired. His eyes ached, and his head felt staticy. He’d woken up late, and really needed to get to class on time, because one more tardy would mean a letter being sent to his parents.

He reached down to pat his pants, making sure he’d remembered to change out of his pajamas. He barely remembered to grab his backpack on the way out of his window. But he kept thinking there was something he was supposed to remember.

Something about today specifically…?

Or maybe he’d just forgotten his pencil. He could just ask Sam for one later.

He blinked, and the feel of closed eyelids felt so wonderful, he had to focus on making his eyes reopen before he could fall asleep on his feet. He saw double for a split-second, before the scenery in front of him lazily drifted back into focus. A large yawn followed, his eyes watering and mouth opening so wide that he was left with narrow, blurry slits of vision.

He slammed face-first into something as hard as a wall.

After a second or two, he started to tip backward. Not understanding what was going on, he just stared at the sky as he landed on his back.

That was when he noticed the laughter.

He could feel his face heating up as he pushed himself to his feet. Dash and a few of the other jocks were pointing his direction as they laughed and continued walking toward the front doors. And, of course, there was also Paulina among the crowd.

The other students walked around him—and right through the glowing green dome that now surrounded the school.

Ah. That was it. This was the day the school was supposed to switch on that new ghost shield his teachers had been talking about for the past week.

The laugher faded as the last of the students entered the school. Then the first bell rang.

He had to get to class!

He desperately pressed his palms against the shield.

He pushed hard against it, a strained whine escaping his clenched teeth. His tennis shoes started to slide, scrapping against the sidewalk beneath him.

He stopped, breathing heavily as he leaned his forehead against the shield, trying to figure out how to get to class.

He glanced at his bare hands, seeing that he was definitely Fenton at the moment, so that wasn't it.

Backing up a few feet, he craned his neck to see that the shield disappeared over the top of the school. He walked a few feet to the left, into the grass, before walking back to the right and doing the same on the other side of the sidewalk.

The front doors of the school opened, and Lancer walked out, and marched toward Danny.

“The Tell-Tale Heart! What are you doing?!”

“Um… Trying to get to class.”

It was kind of obvious, wasn’t it?

“You can explain your reasoning after school, in detention.” Lancer grabbed Danny’s arm and pulled him forward.

Danny again slammed into the ghost shield.

The laughter was back, though not as loud. Danny traced the sound to the school’s second-story windows.

He sighed.

Lancer turned and came back through the shield. He gestured toward Danny's backpack. “What do you have in this?” he asked, taking the backpack and setting it on the sidewalk. He tried pushing Danny through the shield, and again Danny was only pressed up against it.

“Empty your pockets.”

“I don’t have anything!” Danny insisted as he pulled his pockets inside out.

After fifteen more minutes, and Danny removing his shirt, and then his pants, the shield was temporarily taken down for him.

The next morning, Danny kept his head down as he walked toward the front doors with Sam and Tucker.

It took awhile to realize the hushed whispers following him weren't at his expense, but because everyone had come to the conclusion that he was Phantom at some point during the night.

At least the school decided against sending a letter to his parents.

#DPREVELATIONS2022 #It counts as comical if there's laughter right? #danny phantom #danny fenton #asj writing #asj post #The new shield that's installed to help put a stop to ghost attacks in the school is a little too sensitive. #I was looking for a story with 'cage' in the title but The Tell-Tale Heart was near the top of a famous short-stories list #I thought it seemed to work. Danny is experiencing something no one else is. And his dead heart/core is giving himself away. #This partially draws from me being tired; and partially from something that happened to me once #except with lawn sprinklers and ending up soaked from pushing through to get to class on time. #I think someone was about to turn them off for me but all I could think of was how to get around them. I'd walked off the sidewalk to dodge #and hadn't realized the spray was even worse but invisible in the grass.

[mariocki]

Alfred Burke puts on his best policing face as Parisian detective Inspector Maron, in Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!: The Billion Franc Mystery (1.6, ABPC, 1957)

#fave spotting #alfred burke #overseas press club exclusive! #the billion franc mystery #1957 #classic tv #public eye #abpc #an obscure series‚ even by the standards of pre 1960s telly. OSPC was a coproduction between Ardleigh Films and Associated British Pathé #(they of the famous news reels‚ and themselves a subsidiary of Associated British Picture Corporation). a year or two later and this #would probably have been made in house by ABC themselves‚ but the franchise was only a year old at this point and still finding its feet #the concept is simple but promising: each week‚ a member of the Overseas Press Club of America (a real and still extant organisation) tells #a tale from their careers‚ an unusual instance or shocking event that makes for good tv. these tales are true! says the narrator in the #show's opening moments‚ and these ppl exist! frankly that's something i take with a large grain of salt; whilst some stories certainly have #direct factual origins (there's an episode about a catholic priest going undercover with a gang of street toughs which ends with footage of #the actual figure that inspired the ep) but others are highly questionable (the first‚ about a Norwegian resistance fighter who has plastic #surgery and takes the place of a relatively high ranking nazi officer; i feel like that's something that would be better known‚ yknow??) #this ep is about a nazi plot to destabilise the French franc just prior to ww2; quite believable and certainly the nazis did dabble in #producing counterfeit money‚ tho the examples i found online all relate to pound sterling or latterly the us dollar‚ not the franc) #our journalist of the week is played by Lee Patterson‚ a minor film star in british b movies at this point‚ with swooningly handsome Anton #Diffring (who had fled nazi persecution himself) as the villain. Alfie's part is pretty small‚ he's just the french cop keeping every one #in sight and letting events play out (cue some wonderful Alfie cheshire cat grins). Patterson (and maybe Diffring) got to fly out to actual #real Paris to film some location work and establishing shots (a benefit of making a series about the OSPC was that they arranged flights #for cast and crew). poor Alf didn't get a holiday tho; his scenes are conspicuously studio based‚ even when he's meant to be on the banks #of the Seine... #so yes‚ a fun little series‚ even if (so far) the wide scope of potential stories does seem to favour ww2 stuff. good luck finding a copy #tho; it took me months of trawling to find a reasonably priced 2nd hand copy (Amazon currently have a copy for £79.99 which.. for 2 discs #is kind of insane). a victim of the price gouging which seems to have affected some of the lesser known network titles since their #dissolution. sad times for the fan of painfully obscure old tv.. if I ever learn how to make things be on a computer‚ tho‚ I'll happily #share

[finelythreadedsky]

i'm fundamentally opposed to book titles in translations of ancient epics ('beguilement on mount ida,' 'a hero's son awakens,' 'the olive tree bed,' 'camilla's finest hour,' 'juno served by a fury') bc it just seems like too much to me to presume you know what single thing the book is really about, but christopher logue is allowed to do it

#i have the collected volume but just bought the husbands (books 3-4) and yeah. he's right. that IS what books 3 and 4 are about #fitzgerald does call iliad 3 'dueling for a haunted lady' which is cool but the rest of his book titles suck #iliad 18 isn't 'the shield of achilles' and aeneid 8 isn't 'the shield of aeneas' there's a LOT more going on in both #even aeneid 5 isn't just REALLY about the funeral games (bc its also about the first punic war) #and all the more so with the homeric epics whose book divisions were not intentional and who had no author to focus on a single thing at on #titles are useful indicators of what the translator thinks the book is really about and what they think everything else is supporting tho #like does the translator think the embassy to evander is central and the shield a supporting detail or vice versa? #(aeneid translators are 50/50 on whether book 8 should be titled based on the shield or based on evander and the arcadians btw) #and like. does odyssey 4 take its title from menelaus' tale or helen's tale or do you call it 'the king and queen of sparta' or something #its really funny when translators try to do book titles with the metamorphoses though #'impious acts and exemplary lives'? 'of the ties that bind'? #those tell me nothing about what's even in the book let alone what the translator thinks the most important part is #(this is a not small part of the reason i have not gotten the new stephanie carter translation. #efforts to divide epic neatly even into the book divisions used by the author rub me the wrong way. #going beyond that and presuming to be able to say where one story ends and another begins... it's not for me) #mine

[not-poignant]

Why is Augus nice to Gwyn in Green as the Ragged Grass but so mean to Mosk in Smoke in Autumn?

Does this au Mosk just simply trigger the worst in Augus?

Tbh, Augus isn't that 'nice' to Gwyn either, in As Green as the Ragged Grass! He's definitely nicer overall, but he's extremely pushy, he plays very fast and loose with both boundaries and safewords, and he doesn't pre-negotiate 95% of what he does. It just looks nicer than it is because a) Gwyn is a masochist and he finds Augus very attractive, so from Gwyn's perspective, everything that's happening is a good thing even if it's hard, painful, or difficult, and b) Gwyn doesn't understand BDSM etiquette, so he won't spot all the ways Augus flouts it knowingly.

But there's definitely a few things that have already been touched on in Smoke in Autumn so far that account for why Augus behaves the way he does with Mosk vs. the way he behaves with Gwyn:

Gwyn isn't rude. Mosk is. Augus has been like... pretty obvious that he can't really abide rudeness and anyone who disrespects him who he can dominate will earn consequences/punishments from him. Gwyn, on the other hand, is respectful, admiring, and awe-struck from the beginning, and that never changes. He's never intentionally rude to Augus, so Augus has no real reason to intentionally punish him, and doesn't really pick up that dynamic with him.

Augus doesn't know who Gwyn is, but he certainly knows who Mosk is, and they have a history together where Augus has flirted with Mosk just to see how rudely or standoffishly he'll react. He's never really considered Mosk a serious prospect in the past, and it's clear from the beginning that there's been a long history of Augus just making passes at Mosk for his own amusement, and Mosk being like 'ew gross.' Mosk's ongoing rudeness definitely keeps bringing Augus back lmao.

Augus deep down is bitter that Mosk is the only one who survived the fire that killed Mosk's family (especially given rumours that Mosk may have been responsible for the fire). Some of Augus' actions are certainly rooted in a kind of bitter, twisted revenge for losing his friends/acquaintances (Mosk's parents), as well as a twisted, misdirected guilt at never being as close as he wanted to be with Mosk's parents.

Mosk is Augus' kind of 'perfect' project. In that... Mosk has genuine resistance, genuine struggle, genuine moments of withdrawing consent, and genuine suffering, along with genuine arousal, genuine response to praise, genuine submission (occasionally), and a genuine need to have his limits pushed. Gwyn is 'fun' for Augus, Mosk is like... darkly appealing to him. Augus is a dyed-in-the-cloth sadist, which means he likes a submissive who is genuinely struggling more than he likes one who genuinely loves everything he's dishing out.

Finally, Augus likes pushing limits and boundaries, and he likes doing things he shouldn't do (he's an asshole, lol) and Mosk will let him. Like, Mosk won't safeword and doesn't want to, and refuses to even when Augus pushes him relentlessly for it. He won't talk about any limits except for like one or two. He doesn't negotiate and he doesn't want to negotiate. And he's already proven he won't retaliate against Augus with legal action (which like...he could - even Augus says so in chapter 4). So Augus kind of getting an opportunity to do things to someone that would be illegal if he did them to anyone else, is to Augus, very appealing.

For Augus, Gwyn is a passing diversion, which is why he doesn't really push for anything more with him. Gwyn is just enough aligned with what he likes that he has a good time, but not quite aligned enough that Augus wants anything long-term with him - he wants him as an arborist more than he wants him as a lover.

Mosk is...destructive, pretty, rude and desperately in need of training, discipline and structure. Not only that, but he has a lot of trauma, and it's a trauma that Augus shares to a degree with him. They are connected by their pasts, and their losses. (This is why Augus is often very frequently thinking about Mosk's burns, the pain they must have caused him, and Mosk's family).

Augus finds him fascinating and repulsive at the same time. And frankly, Mosk feels exactly the same way about him.

...Man writing this out makes me want to write more chapters with these two in this particular story, lol. Smoke in Autumn is pretty much the only story for me where the outcome is 100% Augus/Mosk OTP, and anyone else is 'passing diversion' level to this Augus.

(But both Augus and Mosk don't know this yet and they'd be horrified if they knew lmao).

#asks and answers #smoke in autumn #mosk manytrees #augus each uisge #fae tales au #omg anon when i say i enjoyed responding to this #anyway all of this stuff is actually in the story and none if it's new #so it's nice not having to be like 'oh shit i forgot to put this in there' #because sometimes it's like that instead sdfalkfjsad #gwyn and mosk are very different people in this series #gwyn is adoring awe-struck and worshipful of augus' garden and augus himself #mosk is rude petty mean and bitchy lmao #idk gwyn is 100% not the end-game here

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Challenging Destiny chapter 20

Toby finally gets the courage to apologise to Strickler for using rule three on him, after an ingredient to destroy the Genesis Seals calls for tears of a father. Only for Strickler to already have been expecting him...

Aja and Krel interrupt in order to ask advice about the mission the following day to retake Akiridion-5. And from there they gather a team.

I am so happy that I've reached chapter 20, fingers crossed I can finish this in under two years lol.

#Challenging Destiny #trollhunters #tales of arcadia #toby domzalski #walter strickler #Aja tarron #Krel tarron #Jim Lake Jr #Douxie #Archie #Vex #Angor Rot #There's more characters as always but I'm not listing them all #Thank you so much to everyone who has stuck with this story so far especially since there's so much more left... #But my other fic is nearing completion and I'm going to work on a new fic that's an AU of Challenging Destiny... So watch out for those!

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#content warning for detransition #it is hard to exist in the world as someone who regrets transitioning #i'm not transphobic. i support trans people. it just wasn't right for me #and yet my experiences get lumped in with people who spout hateful rhetoric #i'm not here to take away anyone's right to do anything. i believe in bodily autonomy. #i don't want to be a precautionary tale or a right wing news story. fuck terfs. #all i want is empathy #i can't talk about how traumatic my transition was without people assuming that i'm talking about all trans people #i'm just talking about me. my experiences are not normal. #i am a victim of homophobia and malpractice. i was tricked and abused. #i saw a post about detrans positivity and it was all about how you can change your mind and it's fine #it's not fine for me #there are major irreversible medical changes i underwent that i did not truly consent to #i struggle with it every day. i can't just turn back. and people tell me it's my fault. #i'm happy for people who feel supported by that sentiment but i don't feel supported by it #i need love and support for people who DO feel broken because of transitioning #the grief that people like me experience is unimaginable #and so often we have to face it alone because we are seen as traitors #i promise i still support you and your transition despite my pain #please. acknowledge that I exist.