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Through Rocks and Snow Ch. 15 - Reflection

FFN: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14146784/15/Through-Rocks-and-Snow

AO3: Through Rocks and Snow - Chapter 15

15. Reflection

Prompt: Wretched

Ignorance is bliss, but knowledge is permanent.

Ironically, both can be used to wash doubt away. But once you know something you can’t unknow it. You may forget it; its meaning may change. But it will stay there. Always.

Celia knew this. She figured out the best she could do was to make herself comfortable with her demons.

Ignorance is blinding, so knowledge is permanent.

To forget it is to invite trouble. And troubled always arrived at one’s doorstep. Always.

When it does, it causes a commotion. A commotion such as the one Celia felt first in the air, then at her feet. The mountain spoke a language her demons taught her. A language of pain and fear.

Such language lured lost souls into Celeste Mountain whether they understood it or not. Especially if they didn’t.

Such as it did with that red-hair girl and even redder spite. It had been a long time since Celia had seen someone so hot-headed. She knew for a fact that may be as well the sole reason she had made it thus far.

Until then. Celia could feel it.

The mountain told her. That stubborn girl had tried forget.

And fell she did because of that. She fell long and hard. Deeper than she’s ever seen someone fail only to throw the towel and leave the mountain.

Trouble is like pain and fear and life: It finds a way, Celia remembered well as she made her way down into the deep caverns of the mountain. She knew where to search and it was not where Madeline fell.

Why search on the only place she knew she won’t be at? She knew that girl was too stubborn to settle with defeat; she recalled the look filled with determination when she first saw her at the feet of the mountain.

It was funny to Celia how Madeline carried her struggle now so deep in the mountain in contrast to back then. There was a fine line between determination and stubbornness. Stupidity and braveness. But it didn’t matter to know which one was which at the end at the eyes of fear and pain—in a blizzard all snowflakes came from the same breeze of wind.

Celia found Madeline fed up with her failure, or rather, Madeline found Celia at the deep and never-ending blue and colorful caves after the older woman descended in an elevator.

It was even funnier when she heard Madeline was unable to address her problems to herself and created this whole story about how “someone” threw her down there. Experience told her this was all Madeline’s doing.

The icing on the cake was Madeline not realizing she meant the mountain as a whole and not just where the two of them found each other at.

“This girl you’re talking about. It sounds like she’s holding you back. Talk to her. Figure out why she’s so scared.”

“You think she’s…scared? I guess I never thought of it that way.”

“Stop wasting both of our time and ask her. What have you got to lose?”

Celia may have lived many years in solitude in the mountain by now. Her way to update herself of the world outside was to learn from adventurer visitants through the years. It amused her to know things haven’t changed much.

Yes. She was aware her advice to go and “find yourself” was one of the most—if not the most—regurgitated piece of self-help advice out there.

She was also aware Celeste Mountain was unlike any other place; so were the rules that dictated this place; so were the ways in which one interacted, failed to follow…and bended its rules.

Celia’s wretched knowledge didn’t make it any less applicable.

Ignorance is unapplicable. That is how knowledge is permanent.

Still, ignorance was durable as long as one wanted. Celia had saw previous climbers who believed by reaching the summit, all of their problems would be magically solved.

They were so encaptivated in seeing the forest they forgot to see the trees.

A journey’s last step was as important as any other.

“A glimpse at the truth is good for people. Even if most can’t accept what they see. There’s no shame in running back to your car and driving away. Someday you’ll be ready and then you’ll come back.”

Madeline looked at the elevator next to Celia with a dreading temptation. Her breath became heavier for a moment before she shook her head. “No. I’m going to see this through. No more running.”

“I thought so. Good luck.”

Madeline breathed in as deep as she could and exhaled. Her eyes got lost in the distance deep into the caverns. Her expression turned cold as snow and hard as rock. She was seeing something. Celia was convinced of it. But she was not one to ask such things.

“How can you stand living here? Isn’t hard to deal with this all the time?”

“It’s true, you never really get used to it. But it keeps me sharp. I like that about it.”

Ignorance is dull. That is the way knowledge stays permanent.

“But the mountain is so…confrontational.” Madeline gulped down as memories of recent days flashed in her eyes. Celia could tell it did.

“Sure, it doesn’t beat around the bush. Celeste Mountain is a place of healing, dear. The first step of healing is confronting the problem. Is never easy.”

Madeline’s face filled with an expression of being done with it all. Except she wasn’t. “Tell me about it.” And with that, Madeline went to chase shadows.

So Celia didn’t told her about it. She didn’t tell her the second step of healing was to hurt.

To hurt her comfort zone? To hurt her limits? To hurt the fragile calmness?

To hurt all her non-sense problems she dealt with?

All of the above. In the eyes of pain, they were all the same.

Celia didn’t tell her the third step was to hurt until she shattered herself, so she could rebuild herself from the broken pieces, like a broken mirror. If Madeline made the mistake of arranging the broken pieces in the same place, then they would break in the same way in the future.

As Madeline walked away, the light coming from the hole above Celia flickered due to a blue bird passing by covered the light. Celia’s shadow silhouette flickered along for more than a single moment, and then the shadow detached itself from Celia’s body and positioned itself next to her, who reacted only enough to acknowledge its presence.

The shadow started to spread like a small mass taking form and growing taller until it shaped itself into a replica of Celia, with wrinkles, cane and a tan almost as white as snow. The two of them stared at the red-haired girl disappear in the distance.

“You truly believe she’ll make it?” The shadow asked.

“Is a matter of time before we find out. The girl’s got spirt I’ll give her that.”

“That’s why you insisted on helping her that much?”

“Yes. And no.”

Her shadow understood in a mild disinterest and disappeared back into the ground back to follow Celia’s steps. The old woman turned back to the elevator. Even though it was only a few steps away, the effort took her breath away. In her way up to a much higher area she stretched the muscles around her shoulders as the nuts and bolts turning filled the silence.

Her shadow once again left her body and manifested itself next to Celia. “It was fun while the girl lasted.”

“It was.”

For a moment the elevator trembled, Celia used her cane for support until she could stand just fine. Both of them smiled in amusement. “Kid must really have a grudge against herself to have such effect.”

“That reminds me of the time you threw me off that cliff.”

“Ah yes. I had to drag you from the ridge all the way back to the cabin.”

“You gonna apologize for what happened to him?”

“Don’t tell me about it.” The shadow mimicked Madeline’s voice and the two of them laughed their breath off until the elevator reached right at the main entrance to the caverns and walked to a small outpost there.

Inside the cabin Celia found the frame of a photo of herself when she was younger next to a man in a suit with a small mustache and the mountain behind them. The black and white colors denoted its age. Celia rubbed the wrinkles in her face softly with her fingers.

“You think she will have something similar like what happened to you?” The shadow asked seeing how Celia took the frame with her.

Celia endeavored until she reached a chair outside the outpost to rest, upon sitting she left a deep sigh and making herself comfortable in her chair and waited. “Don’t know. Don’t matter. Either way she’ll come around, then we can take it from there, and then she’ll do as well.”

“You think “he” will have something similar like what happened to him?” The shadow asked again with her attention now at the entrance. Small trails of snow went into the cave until they disappeared in its depths. “This it’s not for him.”

“No. If that boy is different than this old fool, then there will be nothing to keen about. I trust him, he seems like a good man.”

“He. Seems.” The shadow accentuated her words.

“That’s enough Necia,”

And the two of them laughed.

Ignorance is ignorant. That is why knowledge is permanent.

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Granny's chapter is finally here! I waited a long time to write this out and I'm extremely happy with the results.

Just in case you're wondering, yes. Celia is Granny's name. Funny enough, it was not only half way in the chapter I realized if I was writing this from Celia's Pov, then why the hell I was calling her Granny?!

Anyways, I wanted to make this one chapter a bit special.

I'm sure you can tell the reminiscence of past chapters in this one. That was what I talked about in previous chapters about the topics I wanted to ilustrate in here. It's all about sides of the same coin, I'm not talking just about Granny and Madeline, but Theo and Oshiro, even Badeline too. You see, I'm still fixated in wanting to show you what the game couldn't and that lured me to the question why they came to Mountain Celeste in the first place.

Why Oshiro and Celia stay?

Why Madeline and Theo don't?

What is Badeline to the mountain?

What did Theo's grandpa did in Mountain Celeste?

Among other questions, the most important of them all:

What do they ALL have in common?

What do they all have in common to have come to the mountain in the first place?

Madeline and Granny are not meant to be depicted as two sides of the same coin. Madeline is meant to be depicted as her turning to the same side of the coin Granny is in.

Also, the idea of Granny having her own "Badeline" was one I had for a long time. But I failed to notice I should have given some hints about just that sooner. There is this tip in writing that says that your readers being able to predict a plot twist or a sudden revelation doesn't mean you're too predictable, it means you gave off enough hints to make the something believable, and that, after all, is the main job of a writer.

Anyways, I failed to do just that, so...can I justify narratively Madeline had been just starting to understand the magnitude of the powers of the mountain and she was too busy with her journey to notice such thing? Anyways this little rambling here is nothing but a reminder to myself to not make that same mistake again in the future with other releases.

I kept myself to my word and I wrote as much as I thought needed to be written all for the chapter's sake, but still, the question of whether I should have done a novelization instead of these prompts-based chapters floats around my mind as I write this. Again, this gives us the benefit to explore sides of the game we could have never seen otherwise, but I have to remind myself this whole series of chapters, besides of a distraction of my other work, was meant to be an exercise to capture atmosphere in small spaces.

To polish my skills or to explore the unknown. To be or not to be.

I think that's all the rambling I have for now. You know what's coming next and by just thinking about it I'm having mixed feelings. Don't worry, the right kind of mixed feelings.

That's all, see ya.

#celeste game #celeste game fanfiction #celeste madeline #celeste granny #celeste celia #fanfiction #fanfiction writing #writing #celeste reflection

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manicpixiedepressedwitch · 8 months

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#black girls are beautiful #Solange #solange knowles #brown #celia rose gooding #tessa thompson #celeste o'connor #syd tha kyd #syd #ariana simone #black queer women #black lesbians

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ecoamerica · 23 days

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rirelestes · 1 year

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GOD Celia is so fucking hot tho she is literally the only one I care about in tpof

#her name is literally one letter removed from mine own too so. 👀👀👀#I’m GAY!! okay #I have a whole headcanon about Celeste interacting with dilf ren and it’s not as appealing to me as just. Celia.#girlfriend to death real w Celia tbh

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ghost-town-story · 2 years

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The more I think about his story, the more I realize just how much backstory is necessary simply to explain... *gestures at Alex* this lil shit lol

Am I still gonna write the fun scenes tho? Oh ya you betcha

#writing #shitposting #the og story: second gen #asthc #the more i type that the more it looks like i'm misspelling aesthetic whoops #anyhoot this is the last shitpost of the night i swear #also to explain in the tags why alex is... a hot mess #it's because his mom's family is a hot mess lol #and alex inherits some of her powers so..... unfortunately pulled into that mess lol #celia and celeste are the only valid evenstars #christian is on thin fuckin ice since he hasn't gotten a proper reworking yet and he was on thin fuckin ice in the first place lol #anyhoot #ramble ramble: tag edition #(ps if anybody wants to ask about why tf the evenstars are a hot mess i will gladly ramble lol)

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best-character-named-x-poll · 3 months

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Best Character Named X Poll

I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day. New polls scheduled for 1:30PM BST everyday. Run by @femmehysteria

please send suggestions via ask so i can see them, replies get lost in the notes. I reply chronologically so very sorry if it takes a while for me to answer

If your favourite character is not included in the poll very sorry i have either never heard of them or actively chose not to include them as theres only 6 characters per poll. Characters will only count of that is their first name, surnames do not count.

Round 171: Sophie

Round 172: Jake

Round 173: Ellie

Round 174: Leo

Round 175: Annie

Round 176: Julian

Round 177: Lily

Past Polls

Poll Ideas under the cut

Names that I have a complete list for*

Caroline, Rebecca, Steve, Victoria, Katherine, Robin, Clark, Phoebe, Julian, Nancy, Penny, Erica, Theresa, George, Felix, Michael, Charlotte, Diana, Zoe, Connor, Daisy, Maya, Andy, Alma, Nora, Juno, Chris, Otto, Donald, Todd, Angel, Judy, Jo, Hazel, Diego, Miranda, Lila, Duncan, Dexter, Meredith, Pearl, Malcolm, Napolean, Joan, Nico, Jamie, Kiera, Tam, Klaus, Luna, Laila, Zack, Imogen, Felicity, Cindy, Alicia, Kelly, Alan, April, Astrid, Delilah, Jodie, Claudia, Juliet, Jonas, Milo, Celia, Joy, Katya, Atticus, Ian, Cynthia, Boo, River, Corey, Minerva, Ebony, Zia, Beverly, Rudy, Quentin, Marvin, Miriam, Roxy, Percy, Bianca, Shirley, Beatrice, Amara, Cleo, Cecil, Amaya, Ryan, Mabel, May, August, Leela, Manny, Francis, Matilda, Deborah, Josh, Jared, Sabrina, Kendra, Angus, Ophelia, Liesel, Zelda, Fitz, Aurora, Ramona, Misty, Talia, Orion, Roy, Kala, Madeline, Anastasia, Anna, Kit, Marian, Lena, Polly, Cora, Leah, Jules, Artemis, Irene, Margo, Laurie, Laurel, Hilda, Valentine, Reggie, Felicia, Joe, Monty, Quinn, Skye, Walter, Christine, Marissa, Edmund, Hope, Oberon, Lorna, Ace, Wally, Calvin, Alana, Jasper, Fergus, Bridget, Ulrich, Roger, Mason, Stella, Lenore, Wanda, Miguel, Winona, Hannibal, Newt, Aiden, Oscar, Tobias, Dorian, Dorothy, Una, Marnie, Mirabel, Wendel, Dora, Mort, Olympia, Toby, Chip, Harvey, Mara, Fearne, Axel, Gil, Bo, Remy, Rue, Leslie, Isabelle, Silas, Agnes, Luther, Sally, Delia, Zeke, Richter, Skylar, Scarlet, Bernard, Rusty, Ray, Nigel, Cosmo, Ruth, Selina, Harley, Blue, Cain, Warren, Missy, Perry, Paige, Duke, Tao, Gemma, Cornelius, Declan, Wendy, Apollo, Celeste, Clyde, Nicole, Summer, Hugh, Esther, Cole, Jean (french), Tatiana, Carl, Kieran, Melody, Adrian, Travis, Vivian, Haley, Elle, Prudence, Hans, Ralph, Azrael, Constance, Lauren, Molly, Agatha, Pauline, Athena, Darcy, Stan, Dana, Lee, Ford, Red, Stuart, Camille, Bruce

Names I have an incomplete list for (welcome to send character suggestions)

Richter, Dylan, Chad, Moe, Dean, Guy, Yasmin, Woody, Alina, Freya, Adora, Piper, Gabriel, Owen, Noah, Taylor, Dawn, Ayesha, Parker, Chase, Hunter, Tina, Tanya, Cameron, Rudolf, Melvin, Melanie, Melissa, Melinda, Wolf, Orlando, Adele, Adeline, Jem, Dolores, Jude, Callie, Irma, Lara, Ginger, Terry, Bellamy, Jacob, Jackson, Reese, Nemo, Addison, Adelaide, Candy, Harriet, Abraham, Ragnar, Rupert, Ella, Destiny, Wendy, Bernard, Hero, Drew, Anita, Raphael, Wallace, Jean (feminine), Elena, Cheryl, Rita, Blair, Hugo, Ike, Gaius, Lance, Lois, Riley, Shane, Cliff, Rod, Tegan, Matthias, Liam, Jed, Caeser, Ellis, Dennis, Josie, Mick, Mike, Heather, Trixie, Amber, Bailey, Esme, Ada, Briar, Puck, Eden, Annette, Letitia, Giselle, Suki, Zain, Keith, Ron, Olaf, Wilfred, Blaine, Pam, Brianna, Clive, Sabine, Roman, Carina, Kalina, Mindy, Wade, Julia, Marlene, Lex, Edith, Monet, Marina, Zara, Tsukasa, Octavia, Marcus, Elias, Mira, Sasha, Glen, Yukari, Dinah, Sloane, Farah

Feel free to send more suggestions

*subject to change, you can still submit a character if there is no strikethrough if you think theres a character that its an absolute crime i dont add. Please don't suggest anything for the names with a strikethrough as they are polls that are already in my queue waiting to be published.

#best character named x #poll #poll game

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daxwritesstories · 1 month

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College AU Part 3: You're So Cool

Scene 1: One of the Boys

(Scene title by Katy Perry)

INT. Theater Room - Day

Connor is sitting alone in one of the middle rows. Class hasn't started yet. A few other students are sitting down but most are standing in the aisles chatting. Connor looks around the room at the other students. Eventually his eyes land on Cyra, who is chatting with a couple girls.

CONNOR: Hey! Cutie with the red hair!

Cyra stops talking and looks at Connor. The other girls look over too, wondering who's yelling.

CONNOR: Yes, you. C'mere.

Now curious, Cyra walks over to where Connor is sitting.

CYRA: Can I help you?

CONNOR: The guy I normally sit with isn't here today. Wanna sit together?

CYRA: Mm... Sure, but only because you called me cute.

Connor laughs and Cyra sits down next to him.

CONNOR: Thanks. Now I won't be alone.

Cyra smiles and sets her bag down on the floor in front of her seat.

CONNOR: I'm Connor by the way. I just moved here so I don't know a lot of people yet. Uh, my brother's actually one of the profs at this school.

That catches Cyra's attention and she squints to get a closer look at Connor's face.

CYRA: Wait, are you Connor Diaz?

Connor seems surprised that she knows his last name.

CONNOR: Yeah. Do I know you from somewhere?

CYRA: Yeah. You're Tony's brother, right? I'm Cyra Drake. I'm friends with Tony.

Connor's jaw drops and he smiles.

CONNOR: No way! Cyra Drake in the flesh?

Cyra puts her hand under her chin and smiles.

CYRA: I'm the real deal. So you're the infamous Connor I've heard so much about.

CONNOR: Tony doesn't talk about me that much, does he?

CYRA: Well apparently you're always doing some crazy shit so...

Connor laughs.

CONNOR: I'm not as bad as he says I am.

CYRA (sarcastically): Sure you aren't.

CONNOR (sarcastically): Oh? Then I'm sure you're just as crazy as he says you are.

CYRA: Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm definitely crazy.

Connor laughs again.

CONNOR: Good. I like crazy.

Cyra smiles at Connor, who smiles back.

Scene 2: Arabella

(Scene title by Arctic Monkeys)

INT. Biology Lab - Afternoon

Celia is sitting at one of the desks by herself, looking at her phone.

Arabella walks into the classroom and immediately notices Celia. She walks over to her desk.

ARABELLA: Celia!

Celia looks up from her phone to see who called her.

CELIA: Hey Arabella.

ARABELLA: Looks like we both got into the botany program. Should we be lab partners?

CELIA: Sure.

Arabella sets her bag down on the desk and sits in the seat next to Celia.

ARABELLA: Congratulations, by the way. I don't know about you but I had a hard time getting into this program.

CELIA: Thanks! Yeah, it was hard for me too. But we did it!

ARABELLA: We did.

Arabella pulls a textbook out of her bag and starts flipping through the pages.

ARABELLA: So, who's your roommate?

CELIA: Cyra.

Arabella laughs.

ARABELLA: Wow. Good luck with that. You'll never guess who my roommate is.

Celia smiles.

CELIA: Tell me.

ARABELLA: It's Celeste.

CELIA: Oh! Like...?

ARABELLA: Yeah. That Celeste.

Celia laughs.

CELIA: I shouldn't be laughing, but that's really funny.

ARABELLA: Yeah. Like, what are the odds?

The pair fall silent for a moment as Arabella contemplates something. Then she leans in closer to Celia.

ARABELLA: So... what did you do over the summer?

Celia shrugs.

CELIA: Not much. I spent some time with friends but I mostly just stayed home.

ARABELLA: Fair, fair. No dates though?

CELIA: Um... no. Haven't really had the energy for that. Why?

Arabella smiles and gently brushes Celia's hair out of her face.

ARABELLA: Just... wondering...

Celia blushes and looks at Arabella nervously. Arabella just giggles.

Scene 3: Boys Boys Boys

(Scene title by Lady Gaga)

INT. Connor & Devin's dorm - Morning

Connor is lying on his bed, listening to music. He has his eyes closed, looking relaxed.

The lock on the door suddenly turns, catching Connor's attention. He sits up and takes his headphones off as the door slowly opens.

Devin steps into the room, pulling a suitcase behind him. He stops when he notices Connor there.

DEVIN: Oh, hey! Are you Connor? I'm Devin.

Connor smiles.

CONNOR: You finally decided to show up!

Devin laughs and pulls his suitcase all the way in. He closes the door behind him.

DEVIN: Yeah, there was a screw-up with my flight and it got rescheduled for the next week.

CONNOR: Damn. That's a long time to wait.

DEVIN: I know. I hope I didn't miss too much in my classes.

CONNOR: I'm sure you'll be fine.

Devin lays his suitcase on the floor and opens it.

CONNOR: You know, I was really enjoying having the dorm to myself.

Devin laughs and grabs a hoodie from his suitcase.

DEVIN: Yeah, well–

Devin stands up and pulls the hoodie that he's already wearing over his head. His t-shirt underneath lifts a bit as he raises his arms, revealing some of his muscular body. Connor stares at him shamelessly and bites his lip.

DEVIN: You'll have to put up with me now.

CONNOR: Eh, I think we'll get along...

Devin throws his hoodie on the floor, swapping it for the new one. He notices Connor staring at him but doesn't say anything.

CONNOR: Are you straight?

Devin laughs as he finishes putting on the fresh hoodie.

DEVIN: Uh, yeah. I'm assuming you're not?

CONNOR: I'll fuck anyone.

Connor keeps looking Devin up and down. Devin smiles and nods.

DEVIN: Fair enough. Well, I'm not homophobic or anything so you don't have to worry about that.

Connor smiles and Devin goes back to emptying his suitcase.

CONNOR: I wasn't worried. I get a good vibe from you.

Devin holds up an "ok" symbol with his hand. Since he's facing away from the other bed, Connor freely checks him out.

CONNOR: So... you got a type?

Devin smiles.

DEVIN: Hitting on me already?

Connor laughs.

CONNOR: Just wondering... I can't be the first guy to ever hit on you.

DEVIN: Nope. Definitely not the first.

Devin opens one of the dresser drawers and starts piling clothes into it.

DEVIN: My type is hot girls.

CONNOR: Ayy, something we can agree on!

Devin laughs.

Scene 4: You're So Cool

(Scene title by Nicole Dollanganger)

INT. Music Classroom - Morning

Cyra is sitting in on one of Roman's classes. She sits next to Drew at the back of the class but they aren't talking to each other, listening to the prof instead. Roman is discussing music theory.

A knock at the door catches Cyra's and Drew's attention, along with a few other students who are in the back row. Drew moves to stand up but Cyra stops him by putting her hand on his leg.

CYRA (quietly): I'll get it. I'm not even in this class.

Drew snickers. Cyra smiles at him and gets up, walking towards the door.

INT. Hallway - Morning

We see a shot of the door as Cyra opens it. Someone is standing in front of the door but we can only see their side. Cyra's eyes widen when she sees this person, but she quickly regains her composure and shuts the door.

CYRA: Hi...

We finally see that the person standing at the door is Ace. He has long, wavy black hair and is wearing a lot of makeup. His clothes look expensive, a fur sweater, perfectly fitted jeans and designer shoes. He is standing there impatiently, holding a fabric bag in one of his hands.

ACE: Is Roman in there?

CYRA: Uh, yeah. He's in the middle of a lecture though.

ACE: How annoying. When will he be done?

Cyra shrugs.

CYRA: I dunno. This isn't even my class.

Ace gives her a confused look.

ACE: Huh?

CYRA: Roman invited me to sit in on his classes.

ACE: Hm...

CYRA: What?

ACE: How old are you?

CYRA: I'm eighteen.

Cyra tilts her head in confusion.

CYRA: Why do you ask?

ACE: Just wondering...

Ace glances at the door behind Cyra and sighs.

ACE: Well, since you're here, be a doll and give this to Roman for me.

Ace holds the bag out towards Cyra.

CYRA: What is it?

ACE: Mind your own business.

Cyra ignores Ace and looks inside the bag.

CYRA: Clothes.

ACE: Roman left them at my dorm.

CYRA: What? Why was he at–

ACE: Connect the dots, nosey.

Cyra shuts her mouth, a bit taken aback by Ace snapping at her. Ace rolls his eyes and flips his hair over his shoulder.

ACE: Anyway... tell the prof I said hi~

Ace turns around and starts walking away.

CYRA: Sure... Wait!

Ace stops and looks back at Cyra.

CYRA: What's your name?

ACE: Ace Diamond. And yours?

CYRA: Cyra Drake.

Ace raises an eyebrow when he hears Cyra's name. He doesn't say anything about it though.

ACE: Hm. Well I'll see you around.

Ace continues walking away.

CYRA: See you...

Cyra waits until Ace is out of earshot before quietly finishing her sentence.

CYRA: ...I hope.

Cyra pauses to think for a moment. She seems to suddenly have a lot on her mind. She soon goes back into the classroom though.

#cyra’s world #college au #screenplay #creative writing #I think we all need a little more Connor in our lives #I'm in love w him #cyra college au

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ALL GROUP A POLLS ARE NOW POSTED!

Thank you all so much for voting so far!! Please feel free to send in propaganda for your favorite actors!

In particular, if anyone is interested, these polls are currently the tightest:

Matt Damon vs Martha Scott

Dorothy McGuire vs Joan Plowright

Jason Miller vs Matthew McConaughey

Celeste Holm vs Bill Nighy

Simone Signoret vs Michael Douglas

Katina Paxinou vs Michael Keaton

Yul Brynner vs Margaret Rutherford

Celia Johnson vs George Clooney

Maurice Chevalier vs Rachel Griffiths

Nina Foch vs Richard Harris

Anna Magnani vs Jack Nicholson

Telly Savalas vs Eddie Redmayne

Robert Redford vs Merle Oberon

Brenda Vaccaro vs John C Reilly

Anouk Aimee vs Maggie Gyllenhaal

Giancarlo Giannini vs Dexter Gordon

Peter Finch vs Samantha Morton

Melissa McCarthy vs Barbara Harris

Sondra Locke vs Barbara O'Neil

Anthony Quinn vs Rupert Crosse

Estelle Parsons vs Teresa Wright

Mare Winningham vs James Gleason

Marisa Pavan vs Elizabeth Bergner

Elisabeth Shue vs Mischa Auer

#nominees group a #not a poll #management

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Through Rocks and Snow Ch. 19 - The Core

FFN:https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14146784/19/Through-Rocks-and-Snow

AO3: Through Rocks and Snow - Chapter 19

19. The Core

Prompt: Intend

Celia stood at the edge of a cliff at the deepest caverns of Mountain Celeste. Waves of lava clashed at the stones below her feet. Her shadow behind her quavered like a soft leaf.

It had been a little over two hours since she last saw Madeline. She had insisted to dive into the caverns that led directly to the heart of the mountain.

Any new visitor to the mountain would have advised doing such thing was not necessary, or even a resident that had not spent as much time at the mountain as Celia.

But she knew the mountain and she knew the red-spirit girl.

There was one thing they had in common, if anything else.

They were two forces of nature to be reckoned with, and as such, it was unwise for them to go against their flow, just like boats in the sea, or birds in the sky, they fly with the wind, not against it.

So what would happen when one clashes against the other?

Celia stared at the large rivers of lava, they flowed as fast as they were hot. Yet she saw with a disinterested amusement, like a kid in a classroom staring through the window.

Then, the rivers flew faster. The sound of lava flowing bounced on the rocks filling cavern after cavern, Celia’s ears along with it. Her shadow still stood behind her, its silhouette vibrated stronger as the lava flew wilder.

In certain moments, the lava clashed with such fierceness it leaped countless meters into the air, almost touching the ceiling. Celia’s shadow disappeared and returned just as quickly.

Did she react? Or even flinched so far? No.

That did not stop the mountain from creating even bigger waves of lava. They struck against the old rocks and the ground at Celia’s feet shook.

Quickly again, lava splashes rose high in the air, Celia’s shadow extended as well behind her. Tall, deformed, vastly unproportioned. Its silhouette covered almost the whole wall and entrance Celia came from.

As if such thing would have not been unsettling enough for anyone else, the shadow remained at its place after the lava fell. It moved on its own, even after the lava had calmed down It expanded larger, like vines and roots overtaking long-abandoned buildings.

Celia didn’t pay that much attention to Necia. Not now, not like this. Necia came for Celia, not the other way around.

Before Necia could reach Celia, she stopped. Celia stopped her. As if an unbreachable wall had manifested between them.

Still, that did not mean she could leave Necia unattended.

She was a sister to her, in some way, a little one at that.

Funny enough, she could have stopped her from almost the very beginning. What was happening so far only happened because she allowed it.

When one lived in a mountain as a hermit, zealous-like, one had to use whatever was at their reach to not lose their mind. Keep it sharp.

This cave had been named “Heart of the mountain” for a good reason. Long ago before, before even Celia had put a foot into the mountain for the first time, decades ago.

As such, and as hearts were hot, fiery, zealous, so was this cave. A rocky embodiment of fire, whereas blood ran through a heart and its veins, lava did the same everywhere Celia could see.

For the great fire there was in the mountain, there had to be an equally great cold to temper it.

Tame it, yet let it roam free. Never lose it out of sight.

Too much cold, and there would be no effect.

Too much fire, too much short-sightedness and one could…

She just hoped Madeline did not forget that.

Having enough, Celia sauntered away from the edge into the soft shadow the entryway to the cavern. She sat down with a deep, tired sigh and waited for Madeline to return.

…

Madeline was far beyond anyone’s reach. Almost, anyone’s reach.

Like a drop of water falling into a well, Madeline dived deeper into the cave as fast as she could, past the gaps, past the fire, she burned brighter.

Too bright. Too hot.

But she was only human, ascending above lava quickly rising, but only human, while the mountain was beyond flesh.

Her determination may be comparable to steel, yet steel could bend, break as a leaf.

Despite she had returned to the mountain, despite she had adventured to find that part of herself again. She had not had such luck.

Edges to climb and move up grew thin and scarce the more she climbed. The lava rising ever so swiftly.

She remembered the times when she believed she didn’t need Badeline.

When she believed everything wrong that had happened to her was her fault.

The truth was, some of it, had been her fault. The fault had been hers as much as had been her own.

Badeline only did it in order to help her, in the best—only—way she knew.

She screwed up. Badeline screwed up. There was no denying that.

“I hate you.” Madeline one night threw into the air with a flat tone back at her apartment.

“A part of me will always hate you. It’ll even wish you had never existed. It’ll always wonder what could have been of me if you never existed. I know you did what you did seeking what was best for me, but you fucked me up. I don’t know if I can forgive you. I don’t know if I even want to. A part of me will always keep you tight and close to me, because you’re the only one who knows what it feels like. The only one who will ever know, and I hate that of you. I can’t get rid of you. I truly can’t.

“But…”

Madeline leaped off the edge she was holding to. There was nowhere else to go.

“I’m tired of bearing this burning hate inside of me.”

Her arms extended as far as they could. Her fingers numbed.

“If you once sought what was best of me…”

She began to fall down.

“Could you help me do it again?”

A pale cold hand reached hers at the last second.

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I truly, TRULY didn't know what to make out of this chapter. It is a popular opinion among the game community that The Core is perhaps the least liked chapter in the game, competing very closely with Celestial Resort for that title.

Another popular opinion I've saw, and I share, is...what the fuck is the core about to begin with? Why does Madeline seeks the heart of the mountain? Or why Badeline only appears once in this chapter. Especifically near at the end of the level. I couldn't help but feel I was trying to achieve a task that was flawed at its core...no pun intended, but yeah, it felt like trying to do something a bit impossible, but I managed.

I had serious trouble to make justice for this chapter, so much, I decided to seek help by re-visiting the fanfic that inspired me to write this in the first place. Echoes of the fallen, a hollow knight fanfic. The most important thing I re-learned is that changing POVs is a powerful tool. At first, Madeline would have it fully, but uh, let me check again how that went out...

Anyways, giving the POV to Celia was a great choice. Writing her really makes me want to write even more. I see her as an extreme version of Madeline. Really makes me want to write a prequel to Celeste, but that'll take an awful amount of planning and forethought.

Another problem I had was, what I wanted to make out of this chapter, related to the next ones. I realized my biggest problem was the way I wanted this chapter to be connected to the future ones and with each other. I don't know exactly what to call it or how to word it.

Nearly all previous chapters are standalone chapters, gotta say, looking at that as a whole, it makes me realize it gave me quite some liberty.

There was, or there is this over all theme I want to carry across all chapters, and I think that is my problem?

Sigh, I will be able to talk more about it the more chapters I complete.

That's all for now. See ya.

#celeste game #celeste game fanfiction #fanfiction #celeste madeline #celeste badeline #celeste granny #celeste celia #celeste the core #fanfiction writing

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#celeste o'connor #celia rose gooding #laura kariuki #black girl moodboard #black girl aesthetic #sunglasses #black queer women #lgbtqia #wlw #biseuxal

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ecoamerica · 23 days

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Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

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mattmurdocksthighs · 2 months

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MY OCS + THEIR LOVE INTERESTS

Amelia Thompson x Rafe Cameron

Astraea Collins x Matt Simmons

Juliet Shepherd x Alex Karev

Astryn Stark x Jacaerys Velaryon

Riley Morris x Reggie Mantle

Nina x Raphael Santiago

Lucas x Jace

Celeste Lucas x Daryl Dixon

Celeste Lucas x Eliza Moore

Olivia Cohen x Toni Shalifoe

Celia Rhodes x Reggie Peters

Lady Dove x Sir Leon

Mila Carson x Kirin O'Connor

Theo Barnett x Michael Gray

Leah x Finn Shelby

#original character #outerbanks oc #criminal minds oc #greys anatomy oc #house of the dragon oc #riverdale oc #shadowhunters oc #the walking dead oc #the wilds oc #multifandom #merlin oc #julie and the phantoms oc #peaky blinders oc

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Hi!! Can I please ask for some female (or non binary) faceclaims between 20-29 that have resources set in a sci-fi/space setting, please? Thank you so much!!

Blu del Barrio (Star Trek: Discovery) Argentinian - is non-binary and uses they/he.

Ian Alexander (Star Trek: Discovery) Vietnamese / White - is non-binary and uses they/he.

Mason Alexander Park (Cowboy Bebop) Mexican and Spanish - is non-binary and uses they/them.

Quintessa Swindell (Voyagers) African-American / Unspecified White - is non-binary and uses he/they.

Celeste O'Connor (Ghostbusters: Afterlife) Kenyan - is non-binary and uses they/them.

JayR Tinaco (Another Life) Filipino - is non-binary and uses he/they.

Olive Gray (Halo) Zambian / English - is non-binary and uses they/them.

Lio Tipton (1988) - is non-binary and queer, uses they/them - not sure of their role as I couldn’t find much on Google but they’re in In Space with Markiplier.

Women:

Moses Ingram (Obi-Wan Kenobi) African-American.

Lou Llobell (Foundation) Zimbabwean / Spanish.

Leah Harvey (Foundation) Black British.

Jess Bush (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)

Taylor Russell (Lost in Space) Black Canadian / European.

Celia Rose Gooding (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) - is bisexual and grey asexual, uses she/they pronouns.

Gia Sandhu (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) Punjabi.

Rong Fu (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) Chinese.

Emily Coutts (Star Trek: Discovery) - is queer.

Sara Mitich (Star Trek: Discovery)

Mary Chieffo (Star Trek: Discovery)

Sara Mitich (Star Trek: Discovery)

Jess Bush (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)

Frankie Adams (The Expanse) Samoan.

Adria Arjona (Andor) Guatemalan / Puerto Rican.

Varada Sethu (Andor) Indian.

Elizabeth Ludlow (Another Life) Unspecified Mixed - uses she/they.

Jihae (Mars) Korean.

Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars) Vietnamese.

Sibongile Mlambo (Lost in Space) Zimbabwean.

Charlie Murphy (Halo)

Elizabeth Debicki (The Cloverfield Paradox)

Kim Tae Ri (Space Sweepers, Alienoid) Korean.

Banita Sandhu (Pandora) Punjabi Indian.

Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Obi-Wan Kenobi) Afro-Jamaican / Irish - is a lesbian.

Pearl Mackie (Doctor Who) West Indian / English - is bisexual.

Georgina Campbell (Krypton) Aro-Jamaican / British.

Mackenzie Davis (Terminator 6, Blade Runner 2049)

Sasha Lane (Loki) African-American, Māori, English, Scottish, Sorbian, French, Cornish, distant German, Italian, Belgian Flemish, Russian, and Northern Irish - is gay and has schizoaffective disorder.

Adeline Rudolph (Resident Evil) Korean / German.

Ella Balinska (Resident Evil) Nigerian / Polish, English.

Chanté Adams (Voyagers) African-American.

Katy O'Brian (Z Nation, Black Lightning, The Mandalorian) - is a lesbian.

Bolded = those with resources at time of posting!

Here you go, thanks to @rey1x1 for some of these suggestions too!

#fc help #rph #rpc #scifi fc

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It was early 2022 when I got to the Josh sitcom on my list of things to watch. I watched all three seasons in a few days, and it was exactly what I’d expected it to be: an extremely sitcom-y sitcom. A weirdly sitcom-y sitcom, in this day and age (or even the day and age when it was made, which was 2015-2017). It had all the sitcom tropes. It had sitcom plots where everything resets at the end. It had formulaic jokes and scripts. It was mildly amusing. It was quite endearing in the way that most things Josh Widdicombe does are. It had three main actors who were not particularly great at acting, but weren’t (usually) comically terrible at it. It was incredibly average. Sometimes it was funny. Josh Widdicombe sure did write a sitcom. It seemed like he watched every sitcom in existence (which, according to the way he talks about himself, he has in fact done) and distilled all the little bits of their essence into eighteen episodes. I had a good time while watching it.

I did have a really long, detailed post going at the time, which I updated about eight times as I watched new episodes, in which I kept track of all the cameos in it. I think that ended up being my favourite part of the show – seeing all the comedians who’d just wander in for an episode. It started with Mike Wozniak in episode 1, with a full beard, and seeing that when I wasn’t expecting him to be in the show at all was quite a shock. So I made a post about how weird that was. And then I updated it when the second episode started with James Acaster just sitting on Josh’s couch.

It kept going from there. Every episode had at least one new stand-up comedian in its lineup, sometimes two or three. I was going to find my old post and link to it, but as I’ve recently said I often cringe at the thought of things I might have said more than five seconds ago, so let’s not do that (I’m pretty sure I spelled Elis’ name as Ellis every time I wrote it, I figured out about halfway through 2022 that his name only had one L and realized I’d been spelling it wrong for ages).

So instead of going back to my post where I had screenshots of all these guest stars, I’ll just go to IMDB so I can list them: Mike Wozniak, James Acaster, Tom Allen, Cariad Lloyd, Jennifer Fucking Saunders (playing a character who was the mother of the main character who was played by her real-life daughter), both other guys from Three Bean Salad (Henry Paker and Benjamin Partridge, whom I didn’t recognize at the time but now do off IMDB), both people from Lazy Susan (Celeste Dring and Freya Parker, whom I also did not recognize at the time), Miles Jupp, Lolly Adefope, Felicity Ward, Mike Bubbins, Suzi Ruffell, Romesh Ranganathan, Ellie Taylor, Celia Pacquola. That’s not counting the comedians in the main cast (Josh Widdicombe, Elis James, Beattie Edmondson, Jack Dee) – those are all people who turned up for one episode each, except for Wozniak in two and Saunders in three. That is a lot of cameos from comedians to pack into 18 episodes.

This makes it extra funny to me as I listen to the John Robins and Elis James radio shows from that time, and listen to John Robins continually notice the same thing. Before the show started airing he got in some run-of-the-mill jabs about Elis swanning off to be a successful TV actor while John can’t even get verified on Twitter, but after it started airing, the complaints quickly turned to the more specific issue of why they have cast every fucking comedian in Britain in at least one role except for John Robins. A complaint that’s funnier to me because I have seen the show and can confirm that it is true. I even made a whole long post about it at the time, explaining that I’d stopped looking at the show’s IMDB page while watching because I considered IMDB to be a spoiler, since the most fun part of the show was trying to guess which comedian would suddenly turn up next. It did not, at the time, occur to me to wonder what it would be like to watch this as the one comedian in Britain who didn't get a cameo role despite being in a double act with one of the three main actors.

I have enjoyed listening to John Robins get increasingly petty and annoyed about this on the radio, and I was going to cut out some examples, but then I went on YouTube and found that someone else has already done it for me. Has helpfully collated clips of all the chats about the Josh Widdicombe sitcom to happen across several years of radio episodes.

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I haven't actually heard everything in this YouTube video yet. I'm currently on episode 120, in mid-2016. I skimmed the video and found that I think the most recent clip I've heard from that video is about halfway through it, when they've just started filming season 2 and John keeps asking if he'll have a cameo in it and Elis tries to deflect with an extended joke about how John can only have a role if he's okay with doing naked fencing, and John plays along for a minute or so before saying, okay, but seriously, have you seen the entire script and do I get a role? And Elis says I have and you don't and then they immediately cut, which is great comic timing on the podcast editor's part. I'm quite pleased that that clip is only halfway through the YouTube video, suggesting that there is plenty more awkward chat along these lines coming up in episodes I haven't heard yet.

#Youtube

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