#and Emperor Intermission

[pallastronomy]

Every day I wake up and think about how irreversibly Arcana Arcadia has altered my brain chemistry. They did not have to go that hard for an arc exclusively in the mobile game and yet

#azureisms #revue starlight #Yes this is about Frontier. Aruru and Shizuha specifically. The Girls are Unwell </3 #But also like. everything else too #Death Intermission Fool Intermission Temperance Intermission I’m staring at you fuckers #and Emperor Intermission #and both of Rui’s revues #and Revue Siegfeld #Honestly the entire back half of the arc does not miss whatsoever which in an already great arc overall is an achievement #minus my gripes with the conclusion of Revue Frontier which I can never tell if they’re just me things or actual writing faults #but that’s a story for another day #also shoutout to justice intermission but for completely different reasons than the prior four I mentioned #‘You like Aruru-chan.’ ‘Yes… I do. I love her.’ I’M GOING TO EAT DRYWALL #Fellas is it gay to consider another girl your ‘life saver’ #sorry gang I’m unwell

[lilly-white]

#jodhaa akbar #it's so gooooooooood #also i'm like 'oh no making my story too long wah wah' #this film is 3h33 and has an intermission lmao #and it's absolutely gorgeous all the way through #people who wanna take the time! will take the time to stay! #for context; he's a Muslim emperor and she is his Hindu bride #the dragon's concubine #movie recs

[toh-tagteam-au]

Tag Team AU Synopsis – Separate Tides

Synopsis Masterpost Link

Previous Part [Intermission: Yesterday's Lie]

Next Part [Escaping Expulsion] [coming soon]

Welcome to the official first episode of Tag Team season 2! Time to really get started. This episode went through so many rewrites in the beginning ngl.

WE’RE BACK AT THE OWL HOUSE BABYYYYY!!! 

We open with Eda and Lilith talking at the dinner table, discussing ways to get money now that Eda doesn’t have the portal. Lilith questions why she gave it to the Golden Guard, and Eda says that Luz needed it more than she did. 

Enter: Hunter. He doesn’t talk as he enters, and Lilith gets quiet. He starts making a sandwich in silence while Eda and Lilith start talking again. Lilith says something about Luz and the portal door again, and Hunter leaves suddenly and slams the door behind him.

They talk a bit more about how Lilith regrets treating them terribly when they were in the Emperor’s coven, and how their relationship constantly reminded her of what she lost when she cursed Eda. 

Suddenly Hunter rushes back in again, holding a crystal ball.

The camera follows Hunter as he heads up to his room.

Cut to the market. Hunter is walking with King on his shoulder, hood up. People whisper as he walks by. King questions if this is a good idea, and whether or not Luz will even be on this mission. Hunter assures him that bounties this high only come from the Emperor’s Coven. 

So they go on the selkidamus mission. He excels like canon Luz does, but is a bit more serious. King goes off on his own to explore the ship and look for Luz while Hunter does his work. Eventually, King finds himself in the captain’s quarters.

Cut to Hunter, outside the ship and keeping the selkidamus restrained with plant glyphs. It’s working until the ship is hit by Eda. Before she can run off, though, Hunter uses Flapjack to dash over and tackle her down. They grapple for a second before both of them realize who it is they’re fighting.

Cut to the three of them in a ship cell. They have a small back and forth about how they’re both hypocrites for telling the other to not harass the EC when Luz finally enters.

They hash out a secret plan before Luz calls out to them to hurry up.

Haven’t written the entirety of the fight scene out, but the gist is that Hunter and Eda use the glyphs to trick Luz a similar way it happens in canon. The only differences are that she’d want to go in the cave with them at first, and King is free, so the plan is a bit more complex. Luz also doesn’t look at the selkidamus “corpse” because she feels bad and doesn’t want to see the dead animal. 

Luz regretfully mentions they should probably find a separate way home, since scouts will probably try arresting Hunter on-sight if they’re on the EC ship pulling into port. The siblings hug, but it’s still fairly tense, and Luz leaves.

Hunter and Eda get back to the Owl House on the bath-boat, entering to see a messed-up Lilith looking jolly. She went through the whole situation with making the scrying potion, and presents it to the both of them. She points out that the scouts are helpless without her as coven head, and Hunter disagrees – they look more productive than they ever did under Lilith’s supervision.

Previous Part [Intermission: Yesterday's Lie]

Next Part [Escaping Expulsion + Keeping Up A-fear-ances]

Synopsis Masterpost Link

#Tag Team Synopsis #toh tagteam au #toh #the owl house

[devilsrains]

aoike character guide book

places visited in yasuko aoike's works (translation under the cut by the lovely @asnowperson)

ENGLAND 1- London (Midnight Collector side story among others) 2- The National Gallery (London) (Pt.1 A Thousand Kisses) 3- British Museum (London) (Pt.1) 4- Salibury Military Base (Lieutenant Colonel Eberbach side story) 5- Heathrow Airport (No.11 Seven Days in September among others)

GERMANY 6- Plymouth (El halcón) 7- Bonn 8- NATO Bonn Office 9- Cologne 10- Thermal Spas on the Rhine River and the old castles (Eroica, among others) 11- Lilienthal Monastery (Shuudoushi Falco) 12- Berlin (No. 15 Nosferatu, among otheres) 13- Trier (No.17 Trojan Horse) 14- German Military Hospital (Intermission side story) 15- Dresden (No.16 The Panda’s Maze) 16-Hamburg (From Lawrence with Love side story) 17- Eberbach Mansion

FRANCE/ITALY/GREECE 18- Paris (No.17 Trojan Horse) 19- Louvre Museum (No.1 A Thousand Kisses) 20- Charles de Gaulle Airport (No.11 Seven Days in September) 21- Nice (No.17 Trojan Horse) 22- Avignon (Alcazar Oujo) 23- Catacombes (No.8 Veni Vidi Vici) 24- St.Peter’s Basilica (No.8 Veni Vidi Vici) 25- St.Peter’s Square (No.8 Veni Vidi Vici) 26- Parthenon Temple (No.4 Love in Greece)

SPAIN/PORTUGAL 27- Sevilla (Alcazar Oujo) 28- Sigüenza (Alcazar Oujo) 29- Toledo (Alcazar Oujo) 30- Jerez Castle (Alcazar Oujo) 31- Jerez Monastery (Alcazar Oujo) 32- Jaén (No.18 Judgment of Paris) 33- Plaza de Toros de Jaén (No.18 Judgment of Paris) 34- Córdoba (Eroica) 35- Zuera, Alcala (No.11 Seven Days in September) 36- Aragon region (Eroica) 37- Calatayud (Alcazar Oujo) 38- Granada (Alcazar Oujo) 39- Barcelona (Eroica) 40- Valencia (Alcazar Oujo) 41- Lisbon (No.3 Achilles’ Last Stand)

SWITZERLAND/AUSTRIA/LICHTENSTEIN/ROMANIA 42- Zürich (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 43- Luzern (No.12 The Laughing Cardinals) 44- Vienna State Opera (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 45- Vienna Central Cemetery (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 46- Innsbruck (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 47- Innsbruck Airport (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 48- Hofburg Palace (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 49- Tyrol region (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 50- Lichtenstein (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 51- Romania military base (No. 15 Nosferatu)

THE NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM 52- Amsterdam (Eroica, Madan no Shashu) 53- Bruxelles (No.17 Trojan Horse) 54- NATO HQ (No.19 Poseidon 2000) 55- European Commission HQ (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 56- Antwerp (No.17 Trojan Horse)

NORWAY/SWEDEN/DENMARK 57- Oslo Airport (No.11 Seven Days in September) 58- Mora (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 59- Copenhagen (No.19 Poseidon 2000) 60- Kronborg Castle (No.19 Poseidon 2000) 61- Lousiana Museum of Modern Art (No.19 Poseidon 2000)

TURKEY/SYRIA/LEBANON/ISRAEL/PALESTINE/IRAN 62- İstanbul (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 63- Rumeli Hisarı (No.11 Seven Days in September) 64- Turkish air base (No.6 Inshallah) 65- National borders of Anatolian plateau (No.6 Inshallah) 66- Historical remains of Palmyra (No.6 Inshallah) 67- Beirut (No.6 Inshallah) 68- Jerusalam (Saladin no Hi) 69- Gaza (Saladin no Hi) 70- Tehran (No.6 Inshallah)

EGYPT/TUNISIA 71- Ancient remains outside Cairo (No.6 Inshallah) 72- El Alameyn (No.6 Inshallah) 73- Giza Pyramids (No.11 Seven Days in September) 74- Alexandria (No.11 Seven Days in September) 75- Hotel Rosetta (No.11 Seven Days in September) 76- Carthage (No.17 Trojan Horse)

RUSSIA/JAPAN/USA/OTHERS 77- Moscow (No.19 Poseidon 2000) 78- St. Petersburg (No.18 Judgment of Paris) 79- Hermitage Museum (No.18 Judgment of Paris) 80- Siberia (A Tale of Alaska side story) 81- Uspensky Air Base (Eroica) 82- Tokyo Tower (Hiiro no Yuuwaku) 83- Alaska (A Tale of Alaska side story) 84- FBI Fairbanks Office (No.9 The Alaskan Front) 85- Tazlina Lake (No.9 The Alaskan Front) 86- Hawaii (No.9 The Alaskan Front) 87- West of Eden (Eve no Musukotachi) 88- Olympos (Eve no Musukotachi)

#this ones actually in order since everything is numbered #charabook #from eroica with love #sons of eve #el halcon #alcazar #etc etc #yasuko aoike #my scans #mine

[angy-mouse]

Chapter 8: A Brief Intermission for Panic

I decided keeping tumblr a chapter behind ao3 was more trouble than its worth

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“Make a hole, people!”

If you were calmer, you would take the time to reflect on how much you appreciated Minx and her ability to send people scrambling out of her way. It was the kind of brash authority that you simply couldn’t exert as a royal- you had to keep your authority very dignified, something that was more subtle and unspoken.

However, you were not calm, and ninety-five percent of your brain was focused on not fleeing to your bedroom to hide under the covers forever.

“It’s fine- everything’s fine. It’s not like I’ve spent weeks planning this, sending out invitations to four kingdoms' nobility and dangling the promise of a possible joint heir for three princes over their heads only to possibly cancel an hour before the ceremony-”

Maids and butlers alike flattened themselves against the walls as Minx stormed past them, knowing infinitely better than to not heed her warning- especially when she was dragging you by the wrist like a naughty child.

You happened to lock eyes with Niki and knew the look on your face must be something awful: she chucked her armful of napkins at the nearest person and threw open the doors to your drawing room like there was a fire. “In, in, in,” she chirped, letting Minx stomp her way inside with you right behind before she closed the doors behind you three. “What’s wrong, sweetheart?”

You swore someone had your throat in a vice. Your heart was swinging a sledgehammer against your rib cage with every beat, desperate to get out. You stubbed your toe on the couch before you realized you were pacing. “H-How could I overlook this? I planned everything- I planned for everything!”

“Pumpkin forgot what a concubine is,”

“Did you notice neither Prince Corpse nor Karl’s parents were there? Because I didn’t! Because I was distracted, ogling at two of the most handsome men I’ve ever seen! I don’t ogle! An emperor doesn’t ogle!”

Minx’s voice rang through the room, barely noticed by your racing thoughts. “It’s okay, hun, just talk it out.”

“I mean, at least Dream seems to be a smarmy, pretentious sleaze, but he’s still physically attractive, I mean that was the point of not just accepting randomly, but it’s completely different when they’re standing right in front of you. Even Sapnap grew up to be a total hunk, I mean when I hugged him I thought he could snap me in half with those arms, he’s built like a brick wall, and I’m totally into that. But I can’t think of him like that, I mean we’ve taken baths together, for gods’ sake-” You saw Sapnap- present-day Sapnap- reclined in a bubbly tub, beckoning you to join him, and flung your hands to cover your face. “No, no, bad mind, stop that!”

“She’s had dirty thoughts before this, right?”

“I honestly don’t know at this point.”

You parted your fingers to glare at them, though based on the heat in your cheeks, it wasn’t at all intimidating. “Those are thoughts! These are real men, who I’m supposed to regularly have sex with- oh, god, I could get pregnant.”

“Okay, that’s enough spiraling,” Niki decided firmly, crossing the room to hold you by the shoulders. “Sweetie, take some deep breaths and listen to me, okay?”

“Okay,”

“You are the emotionally strongest woman I’ve ever met.” Her lips twitched into a faint smile as you mindlessly nodded along, accepting her words without question. “You can keep your cool while dozens of uptight nobles stupidly debate your decision, and you can look Babish in the eye with crumbs on your lips and tell him you didn’t sneak a snack. You can totally handle a few guys being flirty.”

“Yeah,” you realized with a nod, “I can handle this.”

“You are a gorgeous, sexy, full-figured woman who turns every head in the room without even trying. Those princes are in the library right now, each one praying to catch your eye.”

“I am gorgeous!”

“And if they dare try anything you don’t want, Minx will cut off their dicks.”

Minx raised the glass of brandy she’d stolen from the end table. “Hear, hear,” she chimed, downing it in one go.

“Plus, you wrote the contracts to expire in a year, so worst case scenario we have a eunuch wandering around for some months.”

“You’re right,” you breathed, slowly nodding. “You’re absolutely right. I’m in control here, it doesn’t matter how handsome or charming… kind… did you see the flower crown Karl made me? O-Or the ring from Corpse? Sapnap brought me-”

Niki snapped her fingers in front of your nose like you were a puppy for her to train. “Focus.”

“Right, right, focus. Calm, cool, collected, confident.” You took a few deep breaths, squaring your shoulders and fixing your posture. You set your features as pleasant, but stern, and tried to embody your mental image of a glorious emperor.

“Just like that,” Niki cheered, spinning you around by the shoulders. “Now, go get ‘em, tiger!” Her hand cracking down on your ass spurred you into action, and you strutted to the door, throwing it open with a confident flourish. Your little party’s footsteps echoed through the long hall as you walked, until you had a sudden realization and froze in place.

“Wait- Niki, you can’t spank me, I’m your emperor.”

“Just go, I have tables to set.”

“Yeah, okay,”

#angymouse #mcyt smut #minors dni #teah

[cactusspatz]

pre-reveals YT recs

I hardly ever manage to do these before reveals, but I love the anonymous aspect of Yuletide, so I made an effort! Two prior recs here for Goblin Emperor and Nine Worlds, and these are in alphabetical order by fandom:

(Batman: WFA) It Takes a Village

Roy and Jason are pining from afar. Romantic strategery isn't Dick's forte. As per normal, it's a good thing the women are around.

Very cute WFA romcom. I especially enjoyed Lois's contribution.

(Breakfast Club) Mirror Mirror

In which Allison and Claire trade makeovers. Adorable!

(Biggles) In Step

Biggles and von Stalhein are taken prisoner together. Worse: they're handcuffed together.

Chock full of tropes: best enemies! handcuffed together! daring escape! adrenaline fueled sex! pining! Happy Yuletide to me!

(Jeeves & Wooster) Supporting Partner's Suit

Never let it be said that Bertie Wooster will abandon a pal in need, even if that pal is a woman who is temporarily in possession of his body and he doesn’t fully understand what’s going on.

In which Bertie bodyswaps with Honoria Glossop for maximum hilarity and inadvertent lesbian yentaing.

(Knives Out) the most riveting intermission

“Rough day, eh?” Phillip asked. “Confounding. Absolutely confounding,” was how the man chose to answer. “The crux of the matter seems most certainly to be banquet, and yet not a hint of malice was cooked into any of the dishes. No poison in the duck, nothing slipped in the wine. For the life of me, I can’t parse it out.” Phillip stared at him for a moment, before throwing out another handful of rice to the ducks. “I’m sorry, what?”

Adorkable first meeting.

(Princess Tutu) To Dream Upon Paper and Silk

While cleaning the practice rooms at the end of the day, Ahiru comes upon Rue preparing her pointe shoes for the week to come.

Vivid and wistful missing scene. Canon levels of pre-friendship - er, pining for friendship?

(Temeraire) Intercession

During the ragged flight from Istanbul, Granby and an injured Tharkay reach an understanding.

Lovely character piece.

#yuletide #fic rec #batman #wfa #batman wfa #breakfast club #biggles #jeeves and wooster #knives out #princess tutu #temeraire

[onhoude]

I recently read through the current fifteen chapters of the manhua Fall In Love With The Empress!

Alt.: 这昏君的黑月光我当定了; Zhè Hūnjūn De Hēi Yuèguāng Wǒ Dāng Dìngle; I'm Determined to Be the Dark Moonlight).

The original Jinjiang Literature City's novel of the same title is written by 游鲲/Yóu Kūn and the manhua art is by 鲸元社/Jīng Yuán Shè (?).

Here we have the transmigrator MC, Duan Weiying (and her cute System):

The love interest is the "Emperor" (female) Yun Shao, who she read to be a cold man who couldn't forget his previous love and was cold because of it towards his eventual wife, the original novel's MC.

The art is stunning! The story is very much a comedy (for now, I've been had many times before), but it (already) has its heartwarming moments.

I'm also happy to see that the novel's original lead Xiao Qianxue has a love story of her own as she tries to extend a helping hand (though she needs Duan Weiying's help and knowledge of the novel in that regard).

Though I yet know very little about the source text, author and all that, this has been a quick intermission of me briefly talking about what I've been scanning through as of late!

The manhua adaptation is a lovely story about a hamster woman mimicking chickens to win over the noblewomen while she herself is fawning over her mysterious jiejie, while said mysterious jiejie is actually the Emperor and just wants to get to know Duan Weiying, but Duan Weiying frequently forces her to briefly be madly in love with her own horse.

#Fall In Love With The Empress #gl manhua #girl's love #baihe #baihe manhua #百合 #I'm Determined to Be the Dark Moonlight #zhe hunjun de hei yueguang wo dang dingle #yuri manhua

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Time Out says

5 out of 5 stars

Michael Sheen is captivating in this epic production that marries 18th century Vienna with the Beatles circa Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

You could be forgiven for thinking that this latest production of Amadeus had reworked Peter Shaffer’s 1979 Tony Award-winning play into a one-man show, so thoroughly does acclaimed Welsh actor Michael Sheen dominate the marketing material. And you’d only be half-wrong. At times there are around 40 people on stage together, but Sheen’s turn as the preening, pompous, guilt-wracked, self-aggrandising Antonio Salieri is so captivating you find yourself having to drag your attention away from him even when he’s simply sitting quietly in a chair on stage while the action of the scene plays out away from him. 

When we first meet Salieri the once-revered composer is a withered old man, dressed in a wig and a red robe reminiscent of Gary Oldman’s first appearance in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. And much like that film, Amadeus tells the tale of a devout man who declares a war on God. In Salieri’s case, it is unquenchable professional jealousy that drives his mutiny against heaven; on meeting the prodigiously talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Rahel Romahn, recently seen on screen in Here Out West and excellent here) at a salon in music-obsessed 18th century Vienna, he simply cannot reconcile the man’s unarguable compositional genius with his boorish, scandalous behaviour. Aghast at the injustice that God would grant such talent to such a man, he resolves to destroy Mozart – to strike back at God, he tells us, not for any mere personal grudge. If you say so, Salieri. 

...this is 18th century Vienna by way of the Beatles circa Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

From there we flash back to see how Mozart’s fortunes wane even as his talent swells, all down to Salieri’s Machiavellian machinations at the court of Emperor Joseph II (Toby Schmidt of Black Sails, fantastically foppish in Hugh-Laurie-in-Blackadder mode) – who loves music as long as it doesn’t have too many notes, and whose mercurial whims can spell fortune or disaster for all around him.

It all plays out on an impressively deep stage designed by Michael Scott-Mitchell that caters to expansive crowd scenes, yet also conveys an almost claustrophobic intimacy during the dramatic two or three-hander scenes. Indeed, Amadeus is something of a chamber piece, and it’s interesting to wonder how it might play out on a smaller stage than the Opera House’s (spectacular, have no doubt) recently refurbished Concert Hall. There’s a tension between the scope of the story and the scale of the production.

The splendid costumes by Anna Cordingley and local fashion legends Romance Was Born take no prisoners, evoking the OTT court fashions of the time and then some – this is 18th century Vienna by way of the Beatles circa Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Veteran actor Sean O’Shea’s outfit as Baron Gottfried van Swieten, frenemy to both Salieri and Mozart, is impressively peacockish. Salieri’s dourness and religiosity is conveyed by his comparatively sober black and silver ensemble, while Mozart looks like he can barely be convinced to dress himself, his sleeves loose and ragged.

There’s not a bum note in the cast (if we can’t use music puns here, where can we?) and Lily Balatincz is particularly impressive as Mozart’s increasingly desperate wife Constanz, bringing nuance to what could have been a rote victim role. But this is Sheen’s show, make no mistake. 

Back at the dawn of his career, Sheen took on the role of Mozart opposite David Suchet’s Salieri in a landmark production that took him from the West End’s Old Vic to Broadway and Los Angeles, so there’s a pleasing symmetry to him essaying Salieri now. It’s an immensely challenging role, the character bearing the burden of attention for almost the entire two-hour and fifteen minute running time (a 20 minute, slightly-too-short intermission included). But Sheen handles it beautifully, adjusting his posture and changing his accent to embody both the elder (who has reverted to his native Lombardy accent) and younger court composer. Crucially, Sheen has the charisma to make us, his audience and confessor, complicit. Salieri is one of the great villain-protagonists of the stage, and while Shaffer’s deft writing does a lot to help us connect with this self-crucified man through his pettiness and hypocrisy, there needs be considerable charm in play to seal the deal and make us want to spend a little under three hours in his company. Sheen, wrapping himself around Shaffer’s delicious dialogue like a mongoose around a cobra, has it in spades.

This is a superb production from director Craig Ilott (Smoke and Mirrors, American Idiot) and Red Line Productions, who manage the transition from their usual cosy environs of the Old Fitz to the Concert Hall with aplomb, anchored by a sublime, textured performance. If you make this your first show of 2023, you’ll be giving the rest of the year a lot to live up to. 

Amadeus is playing until January 21, 2023, as part of the Sydney Opera House’s mammoth calendar of events for its 50th anniversary celebration.

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#michael sheen #amadeus #sydney opera house #five star review #deserved

[resetting37]

Funerals in Evelow

hi !! I have not done a world building wednesday segment in a long time ! but I am back, and I wanted to talk about how (most) funerals go about in Evelow, the primary setting of my story.

I'm going off of this prompt, and just answering the funeral and death related questions. Death is (unfortunately) not that big of a plot point in my story, but it does come up, especially at the beginning ('wait, there's a timeline to this nonsense ???')

How is a funeral held? funerals are held actually around a month after the death. However, if it was a terminally ill person or someone whose death was predicted to be coming, then it may be a lot sooner. This is because funerals are planned very slowly and time is taken to decide on tomb arrangements, location, scripts, etc.

(If you're wondering if the attendees are looking at a super decomposed body or if the embalming methods are hella advanced, um, both ? The decision to embalm does have to happen early on, but some people believe that the decomposition makes mourning more effective. Others want to look at their loved one as they remember them. Also, Evelow is the city that has advanced genetic therapy, so some cell manipulation is complimented with the chemicals to preserve the body longer. Freezing is also done, but don't forget to thaw them out in time ! sheesh.)

So after all the planning, people must register to attend or else they cannot enter. (If the dead person was apart of the planning before their death, then they can make their own invitation list.) This is because there are strict arrangements and many people have duties within the ceremony.

The funeral begins at the burial site. (Unless there were wishes to be buried in secret !! In that case, it can be anywhere. We'll talk more about burial sites in the next question) Everyone in attendance is expected to have a turn at saying something publicly to the dead person. You can technically opt out, but you'd have to be a sobbing mess in order to avoid the stigma that comes out of attending a wedding and not having anything to say about the dying person.

There is a scribe present who records everything. Everything written down will be put into a book(let; depends how much was said) and that book will be attached to the burial site. This is so anyone who visits in the future can read the book that talks about them. Evelow greatly values historical texts and recording everything, so remembering passed people in this manner is appropriate.

So yes, funeral ceremonies can last a very long time. This is why they take a long time to plan. If anticipated, intermissions can occur. There have been occurrences of them lasting days. Fatigue is expected. But many times, people want the funerals to last, so they'll accept the fatigue.

What happens to the body after someone has died? So yeah, bodies are buried ! Usually. Really depends on the person. Preferably in a casket because of the stigma Evelow has against the natural world. In fact, it's more labor-induced to bury them without a casket. To get approval on open burial (i.e. just burying them as is. no coffin or cardboard box or anything) the ground has to be tested for toxicity and purified. In general, the ground is fine.

If you have made recognized achievement within Evelow, then you can be nominated to be buried in the inland garden. The garden is what surrounds the temple and even has statues and other highly decorated tombs. The council has to approve this. And given that most of the figures here are either past councilmen, emperors, etc. It's kind of an unfair little secret club.

So where are people usually buried ? Usually at the home of a loved one or a place significant to them. So yea, there's just little books scattered across Evelow being like "hey this person was buried here, want to read what others said about them ?" (if it's a public place, it has to be approved, blah blah) If there's no designated location, there's a mass graveyard on one of the far reaches of Evelow. It's very large and there are lots of people buried there, but many people try to avoid this fate. There's another stigma behind being "buried in the graveyard."

I don't think they call it a graveyard, just the burial ground (that's 'the' not 'a'.) Though some people like to be metal and call it the "land of the mournless" which brings me to the next question

How do people mourn? There's A LOT of mourning involved in Evelonian deaths. No celebrations (unless you despised the person lol) not even to be happy that they lived a good life, etc. (Which is kind of why cloning is a thing in this city. It's very much not a common thing, but man, some people don't want to die, is there harm in preserving yourself in some manner ?) So yeah, it ties with the desire to record everything as mentioned above. There's a lot of value in preservation in Evelow, so to lose a person ??

Which is why it's considered very important to spill your heart out when it's your turn to speak at the ceremony. You have to say it all, so it'll be recorded and kept by the body forever ! So much so that loud crying is encouraged. (Which I'll give credit to Evelow for that, good for them. However, this also means that if you're not publicly mourning someone, people might take that as you not caring about them. Which is fine if you're not close to them, but you know. People have to be mindful of that.)

What is consider an appropriate amount of time for mourning? However much time you need ! There's no obligation to be like "okay this person died a year ago, time to move on" you can mourn as long as you like. Of course, this can be harmful when it comes to the mourning person's health, but people are welcome to continue mourning while going on their daily lives so that the mourn does not consume them.

What color is used for mourning and funerals? Okay, so as of now, many colors have the same symbolism in Evelow as they are how I'm familiar with ? I should change that (at least to a degree, since I am also an artist and I like to consider color theory) but I do want to keep black as the symbol for death and decay and mourning. And since death is feared in Evelow, then everyone wears black to a funeral.

People are supposed to wear their heaviest garb, wear custom made attire, and go all out for the ceremony. The more extravagant you are, the better (which means that I should redesign the camryns outfits as shown above, it was their mother that died ! We shouldn't able to see these guys under all the veils and cloaks !! Um. remind me to draw that sometime.)

"You mean people are supposed to wear layers of black drapery and attend a multi-hour-sometimes-days-long ceremony ??" Yes, it's supposed to be exhausting.

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Okay so that's about the end of my ramble ! I should talk a little on how funerals and death is seen in other places like Recom and especially Dile. Dile was where Audrey grew up and when her parents died, she was kind of alone in her mourning. So when she goes to Evelow and sees people acting like it's the end of the world to see their loved ones die, Audrey's like "finally, someone who gets me."

also disclaimer I'm not implying that I think this is the right way to go ! this is just how Evelow does it. And not even everyone in Evelow. It's considered controversial to show any happiness behind a death, but some people are pushing back and insisting on celebration of life, and that death is such a regular part of the life cycle that it should be properly incorporated into people's lives, and not seen as this tragedy for all cases of it.

#world building #okay I'm gonna go ahead and post this now since it's past midnight and you guessed it. wednesday ! #I should make world building wednesday part two: color symbolism #but I can wait for the morning. (or next week)

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People, picture this : Edelthea modern reincarnation AU, except that both of them remember their past lives, but no one else around them does.

That means that they both try to live normal lives up until the day they meet ; then, they decide to try and rekindle the flame of their love, assuming the other doesn’t remember them, but very quickly figure out that the other DOES remember, which is a relief because that means they can just pick their relationship back up where they left it off in their past lives.

When they died of old age.

A thousand years ago.

After being married for 50 FUCKING YEARS.

Which means that their friends and family see them meet, fall in love, start dating and start acting like an old married couple in the span of, like, a month, two at best.

It freaks them out.

First week in the relationship, Dorothea is hanging out at Edelgard’s place, except that she’s still living with her family (all ten siblings and all six parents because polyamory is a thing in our modern day as well) and she had a very urgent, very unplanned video call starting just after Dorothea got there, so because Dorothea is a loving wife who remembers all too well how hard-working her Edie was as an Emperor, she lets her get to her call and goes to brew her some tea in the way she knows Edie loves her tea to be brewed, aka bergamot tea with two and a half teaspoons of cinnamon put in the teapot before adding the water, which you have to take off the heat right before it starts boiling, then leave the tea to infuse for two and a half minutes instead of the regular three to five and add three sugar cubes. 

Papa Ionius is in the kitchen for the whole process and is floored because his definition of brewing tea is put a tea bag in cup, pour boiling water, let rest for five minutes (or thirty if you forget about it) and curse the tea for being so bitter before adding five sugar cubes (he never understood Edelgard’s weird way of brewing her tea, especially since she’s been making her tea like that since she was 6 and never tried any other way. He’s starting to wonder if this is tea sorcery or something).

Dorothea also brings her girlfriend/wife an assortment of tea cakes and, of course, only selects Edelgard’s favourite from the ones she can find in the kitchen. Advises Papa Ionius to visit the bakery two streets over and buy their macarons because they’re delicious and one of Edie’s favourite. The man sits there rethinking his worth as a father for half an hour.

Dorothea is, once more, a Songstress for the Mittelfrank Opera Company and uses her salary to help her mother pay the bills since her father never recognised her as his child and doesn’t give them any money (as a parallel for her game backstory and because I want her mom to be alive). She’s close with Manuela who is a music teacher at Enbarr’s University and former Songstress herself. The first time (in this life) that Edelgard and Manuela meet each other since Edelgard and Dorothea started dating is for one of Dorothea’s representation : they sit next to each other during the opera and chat about the performance during the intermission between two acts. Except that... Well...

“Dorothea’s voice is as gorgeous as ever... Though I think this role’s lines are a bit too high-pitched : she really shines the best when she can drop her voice for deeper tones, like when she played the villain in “The Immaculate One”. (I am no singer, I have no idea what I’m talking about)

“... Edelgard, the Mittelfrank hasn’t performed this play in at least three hundred years.”

“... She sung the villain lines for me not too long ago.”

Edelgard’s family never owned animals and generally stayed away from them because a few members have allergies to cats, dogs, horses... So the first time Dorothea mentions Edelgard’s love for cats, they are all floored, even more so when Dorothea shows Edelgard a compilation of cute/funny cat videos she made just for her Edie and the family sees her eyes sparkle like they never have before.

Edelgard’s older sister is certain Dorothea is playing some sort of double game because there’s no way she learned that much about Edelgard in just two weeks

“Admit it, you’ve been stalking her, right ?”

“I assure you Estella, I was studying in Enbarr the whole year Edie was in Garreg Mach, and you know how much she posts on social media. I really didn’t know anything about her until we met at the university.” (liar)

The Black Eagles and their classmates from their former lives also don’t know what to make of the relationship, since most of them have known Edelgard their entire lives, have never seen her date anyone and are now discovering a completely new side of her while she acts like it’s the most natural thing in the world.

“Edelgard, how about we study together for this exam next evening ?”

“Sorry Ferdinand, it’s Dorothea’s birthday, I booked us a table at The Fisher’s Net.”

“The Fisher’s Net ?! Even I have to call two weeks in advance to get a table there !”

“Of course, it’s one of the best restaurants in the whole city. By the way, I’m picking up her birthday gift later today from that jeweller you recommanded on Main Street, want to go with me ?”

“... Edelgard, you two have been dating for only a month, right ?”

“Yes, why ?”

“... Nothing. I planned to ask you two to come with me to that new restaurant downtown on Sunday, would that work for you ?”

“I don’t think that’s a good idea, Dorothea doesn’t like seafood.”

“... You remembered that in only a month of knowing her, yet still can’t remember my dog’s race even though you’ve known her for ten years.”

“I don’t care for dogs.”

The first time they do a movie night with the Beagles, half the team is convinced those two are telepaths because to choose the movie they communicate through nothing but eyebrow movements, hums and nods and later, as the movie is playing, they keep throwing each other smirks and meaningful glances and dissolving into laughter at apparently random moments.

(that’s because the movie they ended up watching was an cinematic adaptation of the opera Dorothea wrote about Edelgard and the war, so they looked at each other, shook their heads and/or laughed whenever one of their friends’ characters’ would do something “out of character” or reference an inside joke or something)

There’s a concept there : a ship fic where you follow the point of view of the side characters looking in on the relationship, without any other context than what they know, or think to know, about the ship, except that the readers actually know more than the POV characters and are able to make sense of the things that leave the POV characters utterly confused.

An idea to keep in a folder somewhere.

#fire emblem three houses #fire emblem three hopes #edelgard von hresvelg #dorothea arnault #edelthea #fic idea

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Splatoon TOH Crossover Timeline/Concept

This is mainly for my own reference and ill be drawing art/designs for it later but I wanted to get everything outlined in one place. If you've been seeing my instagram you'll have seen some sketches already, but here's the IN DEPTH timeline and concept.

Philip's BS:

Humans are Octolings, and Witches are Inklings. The Boiling Isles is on the Surface, while the human realm is in the kettles.

Great Turf War ends. Octarians retreat underground and keep the militaristic lifestyle. They constantly fight against the Squidbeak Splatoon but fail.

Philip and Caleb are the only surviving members of their squad, and stuck together when reassigned. Their new squad was frontlines, and SUPER anti-inkling. Caleb played along to fit in, but Philip was heavily indoctrinated.

Caleb gets the chance to escape to the surface with the help of Evelyn the inkling, one of the members of the Squidbeak splatoon.

Philip goes after him under the impression that he was taken by force. Finds out otherwise. Kills him. You know the drill.

Ok this is getting long. Putting the rest under the cut

The Clawthornes are weapons specialists and bomb inventors. Evelyn hits Philip with a Fucked Up Bomb that has some sort of slime ooze, resulting in the "curse".

Philip lies low, steals his brother's corpse, and starts foraging for Octarian tech that makes its way up to the surface. He uses Octarian cloning tech (that exists in canon, thankfully) to clone Caleb. Grimwalkers are a go.

Philip finds the collector!!! (Idk how time travel is gonna work here so we're going to skim past that) But the collector is an advanced AI created by humans. It teaches Philip about technology, and Philip promises to connect it to the grid, "freeing" it.

The draining spell is a Giant Ink Canon (like in octo expansion). He's gonna use the blended Dna sludge ink (which he gets from "petrifications" of "wild witches") to wipe out all life on the surface.

Philip is now Belos. He cuts his round ears to blend in, and starts preaching about "Main Purity". Basically no one should have more than one main for the good of team balance. Each main has a color associated with it probably? Covens are called Clans, and each clan focuses on one weapon type.

He becomes Emperor. He edits inkling society into something more militaristic, resembling Octarian society. Think like... if everyone only cared about Ranked Mode. It sucks.

Clan Association Intermission (literally just went by vibes for this one):

Bard: Brushes

Construction: Rollers

Beast Keeping: Shooters

Potions: Blasters

Plants: Splatlings

Illusion: Dualies

Healing: Chargers

Oracle: Brellas

Abomination: Sloshers

Emperor's Clan: All

Idk about splatanas and trishots yet lmao

EDA TIME:

Eda is an inkling who is incredibly cracked at every weapon. She's SKILLED. She's a blaster main. She destroys. the only thing is that she goofs off too much. Squidpartying in ranked, painting amongus and hearts with the brushes, etc.

Lilith is good (squiffer main in my heart, Bella secondary), but not as good. She wants to join the Emperor's Clan with Eda, where inklings can use every weapon, but only one of them can make it. She finds a sample of Feathery ooze and infects Eda with it.

The "curse" turns Eda into a bird monster if she runs out of ink.

Eda finds a kettle to the surface. This is the portal.

Relationship with Raine is the same, not much changes. Raine is a brush main tho. Imagine Raine using a killer wail in place of the whistle during the Covens Vs Wilds game.

Eda finds King!!! King is a salmonid Chum, but is actually a King Salmonid Spawn. We'll get to that later.

Eda starts selling octarian tech she finds when she goes through the kettle! Her "potion" business is a bomb business. She also probably illegally mods her weapons a-la grizzco, making her the most powerful Inkling on the surface.

Season 1 - Luz time babyyyyy:

Luz is a young octoling obsessed with AZURA, and inkling idol group from the surface. Has only ever used an octoshot. She doesnt fit into the military-like society of the octarians, and is sent to boot camp by Camila.

Camila is an adult octoling, part of the Med Division. She also used to be obsessed with the surface too, along with Manny. Similar vibes to canon.

Luz is lured through the kettle by Owlbert, who im debating between him being a smallfry a-la lil' buddy situation or a sentient auto bomb. Haven't figured that out yet.

We're at the Owl House boys.

Hooty is a zapfish btw. If you care.

THE HEXSQUAD. Willow is originally in the "slosher" track (abominations) but moves to the Splatling track (plants) and She Will Kill You. Hydra Main in my heart.

on that note for the Teenage Abomination episode I can imagine Luz helping Willow mod tf out of a explosher for her project, or she hides inside some sort of weapon to sneak into class somehow.

Gus the dualie main. He kicks ass and does flips. Head of the Octarian Appreciation Society.

Amity mains sloshers in my heart, probably also dabbles in the really hardcore shooters like splattershot pro or 52. gal. The Blights are super expensive/professional weapons specialists/inventors.

Oh my god the Covention Amity vs Luz witches duel. 1v1 final destination. Luz doesn't have a weapon.

Stuff in season 1 pretty much goes by like canon. Luz wants to main all the weapons but with her own modifications (octarian tech stuff). Idk how the whole "Luz is a human and can't do magic" thing translates here, but im guessing it's kind of like... her ink doesn't calibrate easily with the inkling weapons, maybe?

King is obsessed with Salmonids instead of demons. The Intruder is him trying to teach Luz about "his kind", ie the salmonid bosses. This is also going into season 2 territory, but his section of Knock Knock Knocking on Hooty's door is them trying to figure out which boss salmonid he is (which he isn't one. He's a KING salmonid).

OH the petrification ceremony is Eda about to get Blended like in onto expansion.

And Luz's witch's wool cloak is modeled after agent 3's cloak in onto expansion. It's ink resistant.

The Belos vs Luz fight is just Luz w her octoshot trying to keep up with an X Ranker. She gets a lucky shot with an ink mine though.

Season 2

Belos has the damaged kettle. Lilith and Eda are both infected by the feathery ooze. Luz starts learning about More Weapon Types and Mods (glyph combos).

PHILIP'S DIARY. It's a video diary. I'm imagining its projected from a squee-G.

HUNTER is an octoling. His Golden Guard main is the octobrush (the golden guard staff).

Ok I JUST remembered purblethinkin did an octoling hunter design and also gave him an octobrush and this is EXACTLY what I was thinking. The kelp. The Golden octoling goggles. Yes.

Im starting to like the whole "Sentient Autobomb being Palismen" thing. Robot Flapjack. Either that or Lil Buddy flapjack.

VEE!!! There's two options for Vee. She's either a sanitized inkling or a fuzzy inkling.

The fuzzy inkling thing would fit better with her whole "technically im not supposed to exist" speech, since mammals are extinct, but Sanitization fits better with Belos's plan to wipe out all life with his sanitized ooze canon. Idk yet, could go either way.

The entirety of Yesterday's Lie is instead of Luz appearing in reflections, she appears in the loads of electronic screens underground. The beta portal they make is a communication device to connect underground.

Jacob Hopkins is an inkling conspiracy theorist lmao.

Stuff is p much the same as canon.

Oof. Hollow Mind. uhhh. It probably takes place in Belos's secret lab instead of his mind. the teleportation spell/walkie talkie is a super jump beacon.

The Titan Trappers are grizzco-like. King Trappers. They dress like salmonid chum/cohocks/smaller versions of cohozunas.

KING'S TIDE. King's salmonid powers are golden egg adjacent, which im going to say he has the ability to mess with technology. This allows him to "free" the collector and connect him to the grid.

Titan Blood is replaced with Golden Eggs in general btw.

Belos's curse turns him into a mud/ooze/sanitized ink creature.

OH the Sigils. idk about them. They're not really necessary since the canon is gonna kill Everything regardless of if they're in a clan or not. They're probably just licenses.

When the collector is free, he takes over all electronics on the surface and sets it up for THE MOST FUN SPLATFEST EVER.

Belos gets splatted (lol) like normal. Except it's probably by one of those octarian machines that the collector can take control of. You know the octobot king and the giant fists it has? Bam.

The Hexsquad ends up underground with Camila and Vee.

Season 3!!!!

Luz goes to school, which is just Octoling training. She's depressed like normal.

I kind of like to think that the underground isn't Intense Military like it used to be in Philip's time. It's generally pretty chill with some militaristic aspects bc they don't have a lot of electrical power.

The two new kids ("give me books about crusty old women") are octarians who LOVE Luz bc they heard about the mods she used to put on the basic-grade octoshots

The gang tries to get a working portal to the surface but it aint workin.

The gang finds the rebus to a hidden golden salmonid egg that can power a kettle to the surface.

Halloween is probably an octarian version of a splatfest/celebration. The Haunted Hayride is mild anti-inkling propaganda warning octolings about the dangers of the surface, using the Whittebane Squad as an example.

Hunter gets possessed like normal. I really want to include the brainwash glasses in this somehow but idk how to do it realistically so thats just on the back burner.

Aaaaand that's it so far! Feel free to suggest stuff. I think I got a general idea of everything though, except the palismen, sigils, and Vee's whole deal.

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #toh #the owl house #splatoon toh crossover #crossover #casually combining my two obsessions rn

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Greetings and Salutations! And happy FairyTale Tuesday!

Today, your characters, whether they be ocs or your favorite book/show/movie characters, will be traveling through the magical world, which is that of the land fairytales.

Now, on with the show!

What fairytale are your characters traveling to?

What fairytale characters are your characters going to be in this story?

How did your characters get into the land of fairytales?

How did they react?

Are they trying to get back home?

Or are they happy in fairytale land?

Who do they meet?

Is there something about fairytale land that irks them?

Is there something eerie about this fairytale land?

Like there's something dark underneath this seemingly cheerful land?

What exactly is wrong with fairytale land and the people who live here that give your characters this odd feeling?

What goes wrong?

Are the fairytales beginning to go awry?

How did the fairytales go wrong?

Did someone die?

Are the fairytale creatures and people beginning to go crazy?

Are the buildings crumbling and changing? Did Grandma's cottage just turn into a slaughterhouse?

Is that blood seeping out from under the door!?

What's that screaming sound coming from the bakery?

How do your characters try to stop the madness unfolding?

What makes your characters unable to stop the fairytales from unraveling?

What makes them decide to give up and leave fairytale land?

How do they leave?

They need to leave.

Before it's too late.

Hurry!

Get out!

Run, run, run!!!

Who's chasing your characters?

There after you!

Hurry!

Back to your world characters!

Run, run, run, run, faster than ginger bread man can!

Did they make it out?

Is it just me, or is it kind of dark in here?

Oh! Look, a blue glowing orb has appeared on a pedastal!

I think there's an image inside of the orb!

Why does the image make your characters scared?

"....."

Are you sure you made it out of fairytale land?

Ohoho…you’re really making me pull out the Word document to write the draft for this one out! Finally, a bit of a memory challenge! I’ve chosen a few of my own characters none of you have heard of before for this one. I like to keep things fresh.

Meet Rafflesia Mallory and Jacob Amond, cousins. They hate each other for genuine reasons, and that’s all you need to know about their relationship with each other.

Rafflesia Mallory is a mix of the most naive extrovert you’ve ever met, a tragic hero, a war criminal, and the kid in school nobody wanted to be friends with. In the later parts of this story’s canon, she is entirely twisted (both morally and multiple times physically) thanks to Hemlock, a god of corruption who is considered her lover.

Jacob Amond (who is actually dead in canon by the way), on the other hand, inherited the Joker’s manipulative qualities, got full custody of indifference from his divorce with Garfield, and found anger issues upon looting the cold inventory of Emperor Palpatine. Oh, did I mention his sense of humour? He has one.

On with the show indeed! This is going to be a long one, perhaps with a planned intermission.

The fairytale randomly chosen by a spinner is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, one I’m (thankfully) fairly familiar with.

Rafflesia would most likely be the Queen of Hearts, Jacob being the Cheshire Cat.

I can see two scenarios play out for how they arrived. These two were most likely going for a walk together (as they often do) when they came upon a large hole and Rafflesia was dared to peer in. Jacob would push her inside  and Rafflesia would grab onto him and grab him down with her. Alternatively, since I have the privilege of using the most recent version of Rafflesia (where she dons the titles of war criminal, mass murderer, and part-time witch), I can also say that she attempted to create a doorway to a dimension in which she could imprison Jacob for good and got sucked in.

These two are in awe of their new surroundings but are confused and mildly horrified all the same. Jacob would immediately berate Rafflesia, insisting that this and everything else about their lives was her fault (and for some of it, he’s not wrong). Rafflesia would be miserable and Jacob would want to explore, but in the end would be desperate to return home.

Yes, they definitely would attempt to get back home. Rafflesia’s the type to escape Jacob for a bit and try to make a doorway to escape without him. However, that would not happen, due to her minimal experience with magic while not having anyone around to guide her.

Neither of these two turn out to be happy where they are.

They’d meet the White Rabbit, the Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse. I’m sure they’d meet others, but it’s for certain that few of them would leave alive.

Nothing special would irk these two much, other than the fact that they literally entered a place that should have stayed in the pages of a beloved children’s book.

If you know anything about any of my work, you always know that I’m a sucker for corruption. Obviously something sinister is chilling under the noses of everybody. Luckily, I have a few masters of corruption up my sleeve. Aside from the dead one. Yeah, he’s really dead. Like, he literally got himself looted and this was before he even died. He was the embodiment of time, by the way. The only reason anything is still running somewhat smoothly is because Rafflesia decided to steal his weapon and run off with it, only to have him killed. She still very much has that freaking sword.

What’s wrong with Wonderland, you ask? [laughs in angry corruption god who can’t enter Wonderland to find his girlfriend altering and destroying the characters within so one of them might be able to bring her back out upon fully bending to his will] Not much. The characters are starting to lose resemblance to their original selves (in both personality and physical appearance, the latter occurring a considerable amount of time after the former). Oh yeah, and some of the ones that the duo had killed coming back to life. You know, the usual.

Everything goes wrong. Rafflesia and Jacob find themselves cornered at every angle in Wonderland, and since the characters (including Alice!) have been mutated beyond recognition, they are unable to speak. Rafflesia and Jacob are unable to find out their true motives, so they resort to attempts to kill the entities. However, their deaths barely last a few hours. This forces them to regroup in the forest, where they are surprisingly left alone for a more noticeable length of time. There is a downside to this, though, as the characters begin to meld with each other, gaining more abilities with each character joining. I think this covers the next few points, but I will talk about the changes in setting.

The areas such as the forest, gardens, and castle are the same, just…entirely lifeless. There’s no one left in any of them, and the sky has been reduced to a greyish-lavender cloud cover. There are no screams, everything is eerily silent except for the occasional gust of wind. Jacob and Rafflesia would kill for some sort of music, no matter what it may be.

Apparently violence is the only thing either of them can think of to stop all this, as if their many failed attempts didn’t say otherwise. Either way, Rafflesia is seeing red and Jacob is more than willing to best her in the art of getting rid of what seems to be a zombie apocalypse. Little do they know that Hemlock is behind all of this, and refuses to let whatever is destroying his ambassadors to hinder them entirely.

Only when they are in the heat of battle once again do they realize that there is no hope in fighting. They run as far as they can, buying them time from the abomination that was once each beloved character stalking them.

By this point, I can imagine Rafflesia trying to open up another dimension door, only to fail (for the thirtieth time or whatever). By this point, I can see Jacob getting consumed by the beast due to being the slower of the duo, which would be extremely funny to Rafflesia, considering how much she hates him. This would, in turn, cause Hemlock to realize a new presence within his monster and begin to piece together what had torn his lover from him. In his now even more aggravated state, the behemoth would end up chasing Rafflesia faster than before, seemingly offering no escape.

Rafflesia would not be able to make it out, thanks to the increase speed and strength of the creature chasing her.

Alright, this is our planned intermission. Go get some water or food or something. Stay with me just a little longer, okay? Thanks.

Thankfully, she would not be consumed by the monster, instead awaking inside of a dark, cold room.

Upon first glance, the room appears to be entirely devoid of, well, anything. After walking through it , though, Rafflesia stumbles across a twelve foot stone pedestal, one she swears she’s seen before.

She’d climb the pedestal, using its intricate designs to keep her grip, and would eventually come to the top to see said glowing blue orb. The colour almost reminds her of a brand of toothpaste, but not quite.

Since she is naturally curious, of course she’d look inside the orb, only to be met with the frightening sight of someone staring back at her. They bear some resemblance to her, the only differences being their lack of a red shirt, their gaunt looks, and longer, more slender figure. The joints of their fingers make the skin around them bulge out in ways Rafflesia feels they shouldn’t. The reflection slowly tilts their head up to make eye contact with Rafflesia, revealing their face to match the impossible frailty of their hands. Their eyes are sunken entirely, appearing only as small, dark marbles that shine in the little light nearby. Rafflesia gets the sinking feeling of familiarity. A few letters from above the reflection’s head, made of the strange fog which is now visible in the room, glowing red. “The Story Master” they read, sending a chill down the young woman’s spine. The letters begin to make the fog more visible, glowing like a pair of headlights. Heck, the contents of the room begin to change, as the pedestal shrinks to a measly four feet high and the fog begins to behave more like smoke.

Rafflesia begins to back away from the pedestal until only two small red lights are visible from within the smoke cloud. She has only ever seen one case like this before.

“Hemlock?” she whispers, to no audible response.

The pedestal grinds against the ground as it moves rapidly toward her, stopping just three feet away. She cautiously approaches, and finds the text on the orb to have changed. The reflection is gone. The only thing present shining with the blue glow are the words “You want to see him? Then write,” before the orb is replaced with a lantern, a notebook, and a pen.

Thank you so much for the prompts! I missed writing for this work, even though it technically is complete and this is (as of now) not canon. Perhaps I can take inspiration from this for a dream sequence...

#answered ask #woohoo this was fun #I have been sitting at my desk for hours to research and write this out #thank you so much

[toh-tagteam-au]

Tag Team AU Synopsis – Intermission: Yesterday's Lie

Synopsis Masterpost Link

Previous Part [Agony of a Witch + Young Blood, Old Souls]

Next Part [Separate Tides]

HOOOOOO alright. Welcome to Yesterday’s Lie, 10 episodes early. I’m a little nervous about this one, for reasons that might be obvious. Just bear with me.

We open on a storming lake in a Boiling Isles forest, when suddenly a 7 year old Luz pops out of the water, gasping. She crawls onto shore and looks around at this seemingly normal forest – except the leaves are red and the rain hurts.She runs under a tree and huddles there. 

Timelapse as the storm ends, Luz is asleep under the tree, looking slightly more ragged and holding a stick. She wakes up from some rustling coming from some bushes and she hefts her stick, saying she’s not afraid to use it. 

A coven scout comes out of the bushes with his hands up, saying he’s not going to hurt her, and he takes off his mask revealing Hunter. They look at each other for a moment in silence.

We cut to the abandoned shack in the human realm. Luz emerges from the portal into the human realm, dressed in her Golden Guard outfit. It’s dusk. She walks through the trees, eventually coming across a street, and she finds herself in front of her house. 

She takes a deep breath, and knocks on the door.

(stuff in brackets was meant to be in spanish)

Camila lets her into the house. Luz looks around, seeing Hexus Holdem cards on the counter. Eventually they get to the sitting room and they’re on the couch. Camila asks what happened when Luz disappeared, and she says that she remembers wandering off and falling into water before she came to the Demon Realm. Camila explains that she never accepted her disappearance, and when Eda came by they managed to help each other. 

Luz asks what Eda needed help with in return for looking for Luz, when Vee walks in. 

(Side note: Vee is in her Thanks To Them appearance, not her Luz appearance).

Camila explains that Eda asked her to take in Vee in return for looking for Luz, since it was too dangerous for her to be in the Boiling Isles with the Emperor looking for her. She introduces the two, Vee understandably concerned since Luz is wearing a Coven uniform. There’s some… very intense things unsaid as Luz looks at Camila’s newer daughter.

At some point Luz is in the bathroom, looking at her eyebags. Vee comes in and Luz apologizes to her for freaking out before. Vee says it’s okay, and asks where she stands with the EC now. Luz explains she’s not sure, given her brother was planning to defect and she had no idea. 

They sleep in the bunkbed, Luz on the top. She takes the portal key out and looks at it for a second, before going to sleep.

Breakfast in the morning! Luz is LIVING. She can eat things!!! Vee says she wants to show Luz around, acclimate her to the Human Realm a bit. LUZ GETS HER CANON OUTFIT (it reveals more scars than her golden guard uniform does). There’s some cute-if-awkward dialogue between Luz and Camila. And then.

So then Luz and Vee go out. Vee points out different stuff through town, acting as her guide. Eventually, they run into Masha and the other camp kids from canon. Vee mingles for a bit before introducing Luz, who looks incredibly uncomfortable. 

They all talk for a bit, Luz kind of being on the edge of conversation, when one of the others asks about her scars. Luz, relieved to be involved in a conversation, starts explaining where some of them come from. It gets… awkward when she mentions how her Uncle was responsible for most of them, and the rest were almost fatal. Everyone is quiet and awkward, and Vee takes Luz aside to explain that humans don’t really like it when you dump your trauma the first time you meet them.

They return back to the group, and Luz is a lot quieter. At some point, she sees the Whittebane statues in the square. Masha notices her interest, and gives her a general overview of the Brothers Whittebane story. Luz expresses surprise that she wasn’t the only human to go to the Boiling Isles, and then realizes she said too much. Masha just winks, implying that they already know the gist – they’re dating Vee, after all. 

There’s a slow zoom in on a camera blinking on a tree before we cut to night again. Everyone eats dinner. Camila asks what they got up to, and Vee says they met up with some of her friends. She also mentions Luz got along with Masha really well, despite some awkwardness at first, and Luz agrees. Luz asks how many other people know about the demon realm or that Vee is a demon, and the table gets quiet.

Apparently, Vee didn’t tell Camila that Masha knew. It gets awkward as Vee and Camila have a tense back and forth about keeping safe and staying under the radar, and Vee goes to her room upset. 

Camila apologizes for that, and explains that they’ve been trying to keep a low profile since being a demon is pretty dangerous in the human realm. There’s also some subtext about Camila being slightly traumatized about losing both Vee and Luz. 

The night passes, tense. Luz looks at the key again before going to sleep.

In the morning, Vee apologizes to Luz about how she acted. There’s a throwaway line about how she shouldn’t blame Luz for not knowing how stuff works here, which affects Luz a bit more than it should. Luz says she’s going to explore Gravesfield on her own, and assures Vee that she’ll be okay – she just wants some time alone. 

So she goes out, having mixed feelings on the Vee situation. She passes by the statues again, and at some point she makes it to the Historical Society building where she meets Jacob.

She heads around, coming to the display areas and recognizing the Golden Guard sigil. She questions why the sigil is here, when she decides to check the back room. 

Then she sees the screen with the camera footage, focusing on the Noceda house. She’s unnerved, and she looks at a covered pinboard.

Jacob calls Luz a demon, assuming “the changeling” (Vee) has started to gather reinforcements to attack earth.

Cut to Vee, who is hanging out with Masha. She’s talking about how she feels bad for Luz, since she was in her position when she first came to the human realm, and how Vee isn’t really making a great first impression. At some point, the other two friends run up, panicked, and say that they saw Luz going into the Historical Society building. 

Cut to Vee kicking down the doors of the building with her bat, and then running into the back room.

(Luz is supposed to look legitimately intimidating here, eyebags and dead expression. She’s tired.)

They get out of there.

And they go home.

Cut to that night. Luz is in the bunkbed, eyes open. She checks to see if Vee is asleep, and jumps down to the ground silently. She starts packing her things, and takes out the portal key.

Vee interrupts, having been awake and watching, and asks what Luz is doing.

(For reference, Luz is on the Boiling Isles side with the training wand. Vee is on the human realm side with the portal key.)

Luz slams the door closed with Vee holding the key, and uses the training wand to send a fireball directly at the door, destroying it. 

After staring at it for a few moments, she gathers the remaining pieces of the portal and runs off. 

Cut to the Emperor’s Castle, in the throne room. Kiki is speaking to Belos about how he should probably appoint a new head of the Emperor’s Coven, since both Golden Guards are unaccounted for. Before he can respond to that, Luz runs in (in her human realm outfit, cat-hood up) and kneels. 

Zoom out to where Kiki is standing, looking PISSED.

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[lampmanliveblogs]

Some last thoughts before episode 20...

Before I start on episode 20, I wanna go over just a few quick things, just to sorta recap some of my theories and predictions. A lot of this I went over in my Conspiracy Corner 3.0 post, so I’ll try not to repeat myself too much.

The Day of Unity Comes And your world is already lost

The Day of Unity is upon us. The end of the world is nigh. Can our heroes stop it? Probably. Maybe. I’m not sure exactly what they’re going to do or what their pan is. It is a commonly reoccurring trope within many stories that a if a plan is unspoken and not revealed to the audience beforehand, it will succeed. Whereas if a plan is presented to the audience, something will inevitably go wrong. Because tension and all that.

What I do know is that the CAtTs (more on them in a sec) have a plan to try and stop Belos’ mad plans. The Hexside Alliance (more on them in two secs) are most likely also going to try and stop it.   

What is Belos’ plan then? He plans on draining the magic of all witches on the Boiling Isles with a draining spell. The magic energy is channeled through nine powerful witches, the Coven Head Witches. What the ultimate purpose of the spell is I’m not sure, but it appears its purpose is to wipe out all life in the Demon Realm.

As a side effect, this will somehow also release The Collector (more on them in three secs).

The Coven Against the Throne Hisssssssssss

Referring again back to my Conspiracy Corner 3.0 post, the Coven Against the Throne (or CAtTs for short) is a fusion of the Owl House Crew and the Traitorous Trio, with a few exceptions. This rebel group consists of Eda, Lilith, Luz, King, Hooty, Raine, Amber, Katja, Derwin, Darius, Eberwolf, and last but most certainly not least, Steve.

(oh, by the way, called it on Steve joining the good guys)

This group has a plan and a lot of skilled and powerful witches. Raine, Darius, and Eberwolf being part of it also throws a wrench in Belos’ plans, as they are needed for his draining spell to work properly.

The Hexside Alliance Goes on a school trip

While they haven’t shown up as an official rebel group yet, it was strongly hinted in Labyrinth Runners and I believe they will show up during the Day of Unity as allies to the CAtTs.

This group consists of Hunter, Amity, Willow, Gus, and various other Hexside students, as well as teachers, including Mattholomule, Skara, Viney, Edric, Emira and principal Bump. Hunter, with his insider information can hopefully orchestrate some form of attack plan.

I think it is a given that Hunter, Amity, Willow, and Gus will be there at the Day of Unity, seeing as they are very important characters. And any extra allies are always a good thing. Exactly what The Hexside Allaince will contribute with I don’t know, but I’m sure they’ll do something important.

The Lord of the Fireflies In The Collector’s Shadow

As I pointed out during O Titan, Where Art Thou, if Belos plans on exterminating all life in the Demon Realm, and The Collector just wants company after so long buried beneath the bones of Ymir, then their desires clash. With that in mind, I think it is very likely that The Collector will betray or go against Belos in some way. Maybe they’ll stop the big spell once they’re free or something.

It is very hard to get an exact read on The Collector. Based on what we learned in Edge of the World, this Grand Huntsman seems like some wrathful god. In Hollow Mind, he came off more as a childish and mischievous spirit. It is this level of unpredictability that made me label The Collector as a wildcard.

Fight through this, Blight Find the light at the end

Unless this is somehow the very first post of mine that you’re reading, you will by now know of my ”Alador will betray the Emperor and turn the abomatons against the Emperor’s Coven” theory. I’ve had it since… I don’t even remember when I first got it, but I think I brought it up in the Mid-Season Intermission I did between episode 10 and 11. So a while now.

I think that he will see Amity (and possibly Edric & Emira too, although he didn’t get an episode to bond with them) fighting against the Emperor’s Coven and chose to stand on the side of his kids. Odalia might also do that, but like… she didn’t get an episode where she bonded with Amity. Just saying.

For now, Alador remains a very useful potential ally to our heroes. Speaking of which…

Chiroptera Queen In the Forest of Misfit Palismen

Hey, remember when Luz promised Bat-Queen to help her find out about her past? I sure do. I don’t know if Luz does though, because there has been no follow-up on that plot thread at all. Still, she last appeared in Hunting Palismen, they did make a point of showing that Eda still has the whistle and that Bat-Queen still owes her a favor.

Now, I can see it going one of two ways during the Day of Unity. Either Eda calls on BQ to help  out during their attack. I do think it might be some nice karmic retribution to see Belos swarmed by a small army of damaged palismen.

The other way is if things go wrong, Eda might call on Bat-Queen to get them out of there.

In Conclusion

I can go on and on, imagine countless scenarios, come up with all the theories and predictions I want. And at the end of it, I would still have no idea what will happen. The only way for me to find out what happens is to just watch the episodes. Which is why I will do that now.

…right after I make one more post.

#the owl house #liveblog #the owl house liveblog #toh s2e20 #clouds on the horizon

[takerfoxx]

I've to catch up on RD latest arc. I'm usually able to read and react to them as soon as you post them, but look at me now! Late on half the arc! The truth is: life is a lot sometimes. The good part is that I've convinced a friend to 1) watch Madoka and 2) go down the RD hole with me. So, I've been using my free time to read everything again to be able to properly react to my friend's screams in our chat. That has been a lot of fun. I'm just here to share one funny thing that just popped into my head while reading "Intermission: Looking Up" (ch 36). When Hungry - in her own way - stood up to Velken, I instantly got reminded of that one scene in the Emperor's New Groove in which Kronk is talking to his Angel and his Demon. My mind did me the favor of replacing the characters of the movie with the ones from the fic and what I got was the funny mental image of Hungry yelling "HUNGRY", Mundy being "wha", and Velken saying "No, no. Zzzhe hazzz a point, zzz"

It is a rite of passage for Madoka Magica fans to make their friends watch the show blind and laugh at their trauma. Sharing the pain is a legitimate coping method!

Dockengauts pleasantly agreeing with people about food does seem to be an unintentional running gag.

[thatonespriteobsessedbitch]

ok bad batch finale time! here's my thoughts!

The Summit

ok I'm so scared rn, the opening credits haven't even finished and I'm terrified for my babies

please please go save him

yes tech!!! family comes first

ok I didn't like Phee at first but her interacting with Megs 🥹

oop tech and Phee moment

lmao tech can't do emotions (yk what, same tho)

(cue tiktok sound "walk him like a dog sis, walk him like a dog")

poor tech he's so fucking confused 😂

that fucker is back 😒

I hate this doctor so much

his voice annoys me

also fuck tarkin, what an ass

low-key so mad at hunter but it is what it is

bad enough that he left cross on the platform but trying to argue that they shouldn't go rescue cross makes me so mad

(believe it or not, at one point I was a hunter girlie and not a cross girlie)

which planet is raxus again??? tbh they're all blending together at this point

lol omega is joining wreckers scared of height club

gd tech is doing something to me today

don't get caught guys, please don't get caught

I did not have hunter willingly killing multiple troopers on my tbb bingo card

*brief intermission in my tbb commentary to inform you that my cats are wrestling and the older one (spock) refuses to just deck Hex when he's annoying him*

again, this dr pisses me off

"test subjects" well that is definitely not ethical

again, fuck tarkin

wtf is project star dust

techs little leggings 🤣 I love them so much

mouse droids!!!!!

stay focused on the mission guys ffs

run omega run

ok prediction: they're not the only ones breaking into the summit

called it lol

tbh saw gerrera really pisses me off, idk why tho

and covers blown lmao

stormtroopers wearing Corrie red hurts my soul so much

let me guess, saw gerreras team is going to grab the one shuttle they aren't supposed to grab

nope they just blew up the ship instead

I don't think they're gonna save crosshair

are we gonna get a season 3????

Plan 99

please I want them to save my boy

please Filoni I'm begging you

I already know something is gonna happen to tech (I opened up tumblr to block all the spoilers tags and unfortunately there was a whole bunch of spoilers on my dash 🙁)

tarkin just really doesn't care about his own troops huh

run tech run

fuckkkkkkkk

tech is gonna die

wrecker is too heavy, he'll make it worse hunter

omg I'm literally sobbing

tbh this was not how I wanted to start my day 😭

tech's dead honey, he won't hear you mega

wreckers little neck brace 😂

don't fucking tell me, that after tech sacrificed himself, that you aren't going to go try and save crosshair

you've already lost one brother, you don't need to lose another

omg they're gonna have to tell Phee 😭

cid sold them out

wait maybe they'll get taken to the same place as cross!!!

ah for fuck sake

it's doctor asshole again

yk they were kinda stupid to go back to ord mantell

cid told them this was gonna happen if they showed face again

and omega is playing right into their hands

doctor asshole brought up tech and wreckers reaction was my reaction

Hemlock is such a fucking dick, like giving hunter his brother's cracked goggles and saying that's all he could salvage?!?!!

I hate him more than krell

"she's long gone" except she's literally venting lmao

god I hate him

at least he found echo

"why did they bring me here?" because they needed Nala Se to cooperate

wait are we gonna find out how the emperor did the thing he did in the sequel trilogy???

don't tell me she's gonna see cross barely alive

for fuck sake the empire is traumatizing this child so fucking much

omg the assistant or something is her template I'm calling it right now

ok I mean I was close, they're sisters so I'm not far off

omega don't look so surprised, it's kinda obvious

so anyways I think that's practically confirmation of a season 3

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