#i will burn as those cities burned

[thelaurenshippen]

#polls #yes these are all true #in order: #I hold my pen between my middle and ring finger #and yes it has caused both fingers to curve in weirdly #I had scarlet fever when I was 23 #benedict arnold's wife? peggy shippen #so yeah #(I'm descended directly from her sister sarah #hence related to benedict by marriage but his children by blood) #two cross country road trips #two coastal road trips #several 12-14 hour drives #I have a typewriter now! and send my friends letters! #when I was 16-20ish #I used my older sister's old learner's permit to get into 18+ or 21+ concert venues in the city #I only used it to drink at one of those shows ONCE #mostly I just wanted to see music #the last CD I burned for someone was in 2019 don't look at me #I ran into a family from my very small hometown several thousand miles away #small world and all that #lauren says things

[y-rhywbeth2]

Hello, I have two questions for you: first, may I borrow your idea that the Undercity is a crashed Netherese city for a fic, and second, how would you like the idea credited if it's okay to use?

Sure, and I have no preferences. Probably an unhelpful answer, sorry.

Although if you plan on using the nation/city I mentioned in that headcanon it's worth noting that I need to correct something I got slightly wrong: Rdiuz is the state the city would've belonged to, so the Undercity itself would not have been called Rdiuz.

I don't know how many Enclaves (as the flying cities are called) there are, though there were probably at least seven seeing as in order to become an archmage in Netheril you had to have created a mythallar and an Enclave, and Rdiuz had seven Crown-Sorcerers. Meigg is the only named one.

#The Mythallar shares some similarities with the Mythal - an ancient elven form of powerful protection magic. #and if you've played a certain game and looked at that name and thought 'wow what a coincidence' or are feeling suspicious #Wait till I tell you about the exiled elven god Fenmarel Mestarine the Lone Wolf; who is in exile for betraying the Seldarine #(no he is not bald as far as I'm aware) #...I wonder if - following this headcanon - the Mythallar is still down there? Is it dead? Malfunctioning? #I hope it was Urgund Mezeketh's Enclave because the idea that Bhaal and Bane worked for this guy and they all went their separate ways #and then those two assholes turn up again and break into his house and effectively burn it down after stealing his stuff... #Then Myrkul steals his staff; Bane steals his phylactery and calls dibs on enslaving him; and then Bhaal steals his ruined city.

[despairforme]

Summer always makes him want to cut his hair.

#[ L O L i accidentally gave my s/o a buzzcut ] #[ he was like babe please cut my hair i'm too lazy to go to the hairdresser ] #[ AND WELL OFF I WENT I GUESS ] #[ i feel bad ahahaha ] #[ now i'm thinking about nnoitra with short hair ] #[ - i would never let him cut his hair because i'm not about to edit all those icons but ] #[ WOULD BE FUN ] #[ nnoi would love having short hair ] #[ ANYWAYS - i've been hanging out on my doflamingo account ] #[ also been doing some drafts here ] #[ my writing game is sloooow these days ] #[ i'm just enjoying the summer weather uvu ] #[ hope you guys are doing gooood! :D ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #burn the city. ╱ main verse.

[synonymroll648]

au where the black swan never had to abandon alluveterre, and sophie and biana keep sleeping in the same bed so much it becomes routine and they gradually get more cuddly as time goes by. and then they get more affectionate and emotionally intimate with each other too. and then they’re at the classic sapphic ‘are we dating or just really good friends?’ stage for a stupidly long time 

#the more time this takes the better #also bonus points if they do end up leaving alluveterre anyway to go back home and whenever they're alone they go koala mode on each other #personally i think of biana as the one who's always clinging to sophie but i'm open to it being the other way around #particularly on hard days for sophie when she just needs the comfort of her...biana #definitely not gf what are you talking about #also if you think ahead in this au to the point where they're living either in the elite levels together or on their own together please #consider: the two of them actively seeking each other out as roommates and only ever using one bed and being. well. Roommates TM #whether this is established relationship or pining at this point i would be soooo in man #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #sophiana #sophie foster #biana vacker #kotlc fic idea #this is one of those ones where the slower the burn the better if you get what i mean

[vampirepunks]

Honestly my favorite thing about Higgs is the fact that he looked at all of the post-Stranding political problems around him and said "there's enough resources to go around actually, everyone can thrive if we remove greed from the equation"

He was so right

#boy's a perfect little anarcho-communist. stg i could talk about nietzsche and marx with him for literal hours. days even #reminder that he's remembered by everyone that knew him pre-amelie as 'a damn good leader' #like. the west was thriving under his care. i cry every single time i see the state of edge knot city in ep. 9 #because like. that was HIS city. those people trusted him. relied on him. NEEDED him. loved him even #that place didn't belong to bridges. it belonged to him #and amelie convinced him to destroy it all in a blind fury. king midas burning his own golden garden #breaks my fucking heart every single time #death stranding #higgs monaghan #logan.txt

[ff7boi]

think it's crazy that cloud was convinced that he wasn't a real person sometimes,, like shinra and sephiroth fucked him up so badly that the end product was a mentally broken cloud who genuinely believed he was never real and just essentially a lab experiment like how badly you got fuck with someone mentally to get them to that point man

#ff7 #not rebirth spoilers only OG for now tee hee #sorry this thought came from thinking about cloud and his mental state too long #like he was a child solider when his life was ripped from him #like thats fuckikg heartbreaking 5 years of his life were just taken from him like that #i cannot imagine being 16 and then waking up and suddenly being 21 and in a new city thats owned by the shitty company that screwed you over #do u guys think cloud freaked out at any point alone #like maybe after getting his own apartment with tifas help #he tries recalling what even happen and he cant because those 5 years are just a messy blur #and then getting random headaches and visions of the dude who burned your home out of no where #if I was cloud I'd have lost it in midgar i wouldnt need no northern crater LMAO #my post

[ssreeder]

“He didn't want to think about the ramifications of the Fire Nation successfully flying one of those war-balloons over the Lower Ring… The only protection available for those poor people would fall squarely on the shoulders of those new recruits, and they would have to be ready to carry that responsibility. This situation was already a mess and they were still in the planning stages.”

Can’t believe I ignored this last chapter. Good thing Zuko isn’t in one of these meetings or there’d be a fight. Interested to see if this is a redemption for Iroh though to think of the little people or if everyone is just completely fine with the lower ring being burnt to a crisp. Bato clearly has his mind on other things so someone else needs to step up. Jeez

Bato isn’t the only one concerned about this, Suki is also pretty fired up about it in the next chapter… the tension of the upcoming battle gets heavier as we go along.

Unfortunately, there really isn’t much they CAN do to keep the Lower Ring from experiencing casualties…. but how many citizens survive & how bad the destruction is will depend on how many resources they send down there and what their plan of action will be to save lives. (If they even care about saving those lives… many of them being refugees and ‘lower class citizens’)

I am also curious to see if Iroh shows any interest in trying to help the citizens in Lower Ring or if he keeps his focus strictly on keeping the forces from reaching the Upper Ring (where his precious Zuko is)… chaos in the Lower Ring can keep troops from advancing, and there is limited space to flee depending on how Azula advances upon the city… idk. I can’t see it going well, and even Iroh, as powerful as he is doesn’t hold much authority over what the generals do with BSS… He is a tentatively welcomed guest after all. Haha.

we’ll see I guess!! Haha thanks for the ask!!

#Stick a bunch of middle aged military men in the room and see if they give a fuck about the women and children in lower ring #I’m not saying their all like that but I would think the focus would be on destroying the FN before they can advance further into the city #To where the ‘worthy citizens live’ #Where the architecture they give a damn about protecting is #Hakoda and bato are the ones thinking of those women and children #Because they know what it’s like to have their women and children killed #& they know what FN soldiers are capable of I mean fuck they stole their water benders and locked them in metal prisons #Hardcore… so yeah I do think iroh is a good guy #But I don’t know if his mind thinks of the little guy… not when he was raised to believe the little guys were only there to for kindling #Idk maybe I don’t give iroh enough credit or I give him too much credit and know just because he loves zuko and wants to be the happy goofy #Fun uncle he needs & not still the dragon of the west who chuckled when he talked about burning BSS to the ground #WE WILL SEE I GUESS haha #We are getting clossseeeerrrrr haha #& we get some iroh time next chapter which is super fun #For everyone but zuko haha #Thanks for the ask anon #Liab #ITF #leaving it all behind #ask

[raayllum]

been kicking around this theory with @kuno-chan but basically

Aaravos fell in love with the human founder of Elarion (probably female, possibly a mage) and was tormented inside that their livespans wouldn’t match. He used his knowledge of Deep Magic to be able to form dark magic (hence the precision of the recipes and ingredient collecting, how much we see dark magic be used for death-related spells, etc) in order to elongate her life. She was horrified and/or the spell didn’t go according to plan, and Aaravos kept an eye on Elarion the city after her death, even if the way humans / elves / dragons continually turned their backs on her / them turned him bitter. Also means that he uses human mages and they’re his favourites because she was, even if all his pawns could never compare to her, of course, in his eyes, with her goodness, grace, or intelligence

#aaravos #like i've been operating under assumption he fell in love with the founder of elarion since #the s2 poem was translated? #i never got why ppl jumped ship just bc it was a city and not a person bc it's like. you can have Both br #*bro #tdp theory #aaravos x elarion #tdp #predictions #dark magic #also for those Sweet Sweet rayllum parallels #and as always: cube hostage exchange theory if he wants to burn the world down for her #THOSE WHO FAIL TESTS OF LOVE AM I RIGHT

[godstrayed]

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Send 🖼️ and I’ll make a moodboard of our muses’ relationship

#platiinums #&. steve rogers | visuals. #&. connection — steve & bee ╱ i can't stop starin' at those ocean eyes: burning cities & napalm skies. #&. edits.

[candlesoul]

sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.

#a close friend of mine wants to prepare a gift for me and you can't imagine how painful it is for me #exactly what kind of heart do I have that when someone prepares a small gesture for me #it becomes a pain and a burden to me? #and what I call burden is actually this #I feel guilty #i will owe that person #like I don't deserve it #meanwhile i saw on tiktok someone crying because their lover lives in another city #and they was in airport crying together #and i cant imagine what it would be like to be loved like that :3 #all those wrong feelings sit on my heart and my heart suddenly starts to burn. A little kindness sets my heart on fire #i will say yes to her but still its painful #how much i want to be loved but it is too painful too me. i used to be in freeze mode all the time #agh #i will make gift for her too #my heart needs should update #i wish everything was differenr

[kideternity]

Easily one of the pettiest reasons I've gotten mad at a spider man retcon was because one arc tried to tell me via retcon Mysterio was from California. He is absolutely not from fucking California. You are lying to me and everyone else reading this comic. Take that back right fucking now.

#mysterio #quentin beck #spider man #marvel #dinu yells into the void #QUENTIN CANNOT BE FROM CALIFORNIA IT RUINS EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM #Quentin 100% READS like a guy whose from like any other city in america trying to get by #who hears about hollywood and gets all starry eyed and places all of his hopes and dreams on going to tinseltown #and then gets BURNED SPECTACULARLY BY THE CRUEL REALITY OF SHOW BUSINESS!!!! #Quentin being like from some fuck ass town in California means NOTHING #like yeah OF COURSE then he'd go into filmmaking what else is there to do in California #you only fucking go to Los Angeles and whatever to become famous #thats why all those youtubers are there #(for clarification i mean this all with a degree of humour behind it idk im not american lol) #edit: LAST OF THE DRAFTS im free for now

[diabolicjoy]

this is very specific but the way she sings the ~”I just need…” at 2:29 . that ”I” … you know??????????

#also this instrumental is gorgeous is one of my favorite songs of hers though i’ve been listening to the live version that’s on soundcloud #more often… but it’s very nice to go back to this one too it’s a different vibe… those first 5 seconds just make my heart clench #also this is on my favorite category of mitski songs where they aren’t super upbeat (me and my husband or even brand new city) nor too slow #(like a burning hill or bdcmmd). they’re just intense & good & melodic and!!! like old friend / crack baby / thursday girl / i dont smoke #they grow!!!!! #and i also just need a quiet place to scream etc #Spotify

[only4soo-won]

So I read this chapter and....

HEAD EMPTY ONLY WON'S SMILE PROTECTION SQUAD ❤❤❤

Soo-Won! Look!! How much you mean to them😢

YEP MUST PROTECT HIS PRECIOUS SMILE😭😭😭

#pls I can't hold my tears #Im dying to see him smile again...but I also want him to cry first to let go off all those emotions & burdens #nice to see ogi & lili back #and once again it's proved that Ogi is one of Soo-Won's found dad #also ofc not the city but I'd prefer if they manage to burn down that damn shrine #akatsuki no yona #soo-won #suwon #su-won #king soowon #ogi

[despairforme]

He's (not so slowly) turning into the sort of person who REALLY dislikes Christmas.

#[ happy december 1st !! ] #[ november really was a catastrophe writing-wise xDD ] #[ i was so busy and tired and i ended up only writing like 6k fjfjfjf ] #[ it's not my poorest month EVER but it's... it's up there xD ] #[ my hope of writing 300k for the year.. it's just a dream at this point LOL ] #[ december is usually quite busy for me ] #[ i'm inspired for some personal projects so will probably focus on those >-< ] #[ but i'm still keeping my goal of finishing my drafts + asks before the new year ] #[ hope you're all doing good guys! ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #burn the city. ╱ main verse.

[areyoudoingthis]

I'm gonna have to get on the evil pills pms is really ruining my life

#i swear it's fucking with my adhd and making my life 5 times harder #i hate it when mental health professionals don't take pms seriously like it's not in my mind it's literally my hormones going haywire!!! #and the chemicals in my brain are always already going haywire don't you think those two things may have some negative interactions #anyway i hate taking contraceptives but at least i don't need an adhd diagnosis for those #which I'm working on getting but what do you know it's hard to find a professional who knows what they're talking about in this city #the neuropsychologist i saw was useless #also transphobic and voted for the fascist asshole #i hated every second i spent in there #my therapist found me a better second option but i was burned out from the first try and when i finally called she didn't pick up #and guess i have adhd so i haven't called again #it's a fun catch 22 to he stuck in #alex txt

[a-passing-storm]

I need to get on a stage and, like, viscerally yell something along the lines of “I see it now, by the light of my burning city. You did this.” (Thinking about Aeneid 2.559-582 or so.)

#we were translating that in class today and by God #i had such a vivid mental image of it #and i need to yell it with a raw voice ykwim? just a Need #self fulfillment needs #<-- probably my fav tag bc everything in it gives me such visceral feelings (morpheus glasses) #the aeneid #aeneid book two #i love tragedies so much #i already made a post abt this i think but old men seeing their sons die (priam!!!) #i love the moment of absolute loss and fear as aeneas sees his city burn around him #i love the fact that it's those very fires that ignite his anger and illuminate the target of it #i love that helen is in vesta's temple bc it's so ironic #god the aeneid has grown on me #dante dicit #latin