#incidental chapter

[lady-harrowhark]

I promise I’m going somewhere with this but I am currently fixating on how seeing Naberius’s trident knife in the beginning of HtN gives Harrow the Gideon Memory Migraine™, despite no clear connection to Gideon:

Ianthe considered this. She nudged the confection basket hilt of the rapier at her hip aside, and took out a long knife that, again, ran a hot rill of pain down your temporal bone. It was—though you had never bothered to learn—Tern’s main-gauche, his trident knife, a long blade from which two other blades would spring at the press of some hidden mechanism; she flicked that mechanism now, and with a snickt they burst out like a firework, two hard points of gleaming steel. She flicked it again, and the blades went snickt back into their housing.

Is it simply that it’s something from the Canaan House era in general? Or is there more going on? Stick with me here.

One of my pet theories I’ve been harboring since Kiriona’s wounds were revealed is that Harrow herself wounded Gideon after she threw herself on the fence, paralleling Jesus’s side wound from being speared after his crucifixion. They needed to ensure Jesus was truly dead, and presumably Harrow also needed to be well and truly sure that Gideon was dead before proceeding. Ianthe says she put a sword through Naberius’s heart to pin his soul in place for her ascension, and we see his body run through with the sword. Harrow needing to do the same to Gideon would certainly be some very juicy angst fuel.

The other crucial component here is one of my other favorite pet theories: that Harrow knew Gideon’s sword was haunted, likely before even coming to Canaan House. I’ve seen a few people do some more detailed explanations about that, but I’ll do a brief rundown here. 

Harrow says as far back as GtN about the sword “I never liked that cursed thing anyway; I always felt like it was judging me.” After the events of HtN with the River and Canaan House 2.0, we know she has an innate and potentially subconscious talent with spirit magic; it seems likely she was able to sense what was in the sword whether she knew exactly what was going on or not.

In HtN, Guideline #3 in her her pre-lobotomy letters to her post-lobotomy self has several stipulations (wipe it down with arterial blood nightly, coat it in regenerating ash, don’t cut flesh or bone with it) that sound a lot like precautions one would take to keep a soul from hopping out of it.

When discussing the sword with Abigail in Canaan House 2.0, we get some very specific qualifiers around how much information Harrow is able to provide about the sword. Directly before remembering that the sword was Gideon’s we have: “Harrow’s brain, though still a jumble, was no longer a mess in a darkened room. Memory had gifted her a small torch she could light the disarray with.”

After that, she struggles to recall further details, her own brain providing obstacles: “The light was not proving helpful enough: she was, in desperation, kicking over piles of the rubble in her own brain.” In the end, she’s able to tell Abigail: “I hated that damned sword for years. I don’t know why; it just felt strange - rancorous. I cannot deny that I often assumed its edge would be the last thing I saw. I don’t know.”

Circling back to the final battle of GtN, we get my favorite little nugget of support for this: Harrow is described as looking “affrighted” when Gideon tells her to go get her two-hander. I’d initially taken that to mean she was startled (and maybe a bit annoyed) to find out that Gideon had brought it at all, or freaked out at the situation in general. But I’ve begun to wonder if she specifically didn’t want Gideon to bring that sword with her to Canaan House because she knew, or at least suspected, what it contained.

Which brings us to the trident knife. If Harrow needed to fix Gideon’s soul in place by impaling her herself, and she knew there was a malevolent soul in the two-hander that could conceivably hitch a ride in another body that it came into contact with, she would have needed a different tool for the job… Which may very well have been the trident knife. Seeing the weapon she used to mutilate her cavalier’s body with seems like exactly the sort of thing that would bring on one of Harrow’s Gideon-induced headaches, no? It’s also notable that when Harrow sees this knife, it’s directly before Ianthe stabs her through the hand, again analogous to crucifixion wounds. I gotta say, if this holds water, there’s a certain poetry to both Harrow and Gideon receiving versions of the Holy Wounds on the blade of the same knife.

(Edit to add: further theorizing prompted by @camilla-rekt‘s fab addition can be found on this reblog)

#this is really just a jenga tower of theories but i'm still sitting here rubbing my hands together like a cartoon villain #i am just ripping biting tearing to know what happened between those two chapters #(and incidentally there may have been actual ripping biting tearing involved but i digress) #i wonder if this could have anything to do with the favor harrow owes ianthe… hmm #Nona the Ninth spoilers #harrowhark nonagesimus #Gideon nav #kiriona gaia #ianthe tridentarius #Nona the Ninth #ntn #the locked tomb #tlt #tlt meta #tlt theories

[pegasusdrawnchariots]

what's with this guy

#I'm still reading #The Count of Monte Cristo #it's gotten good again at chapter 41!! now that Carnevale is over #Mercedes is back :D #although her name was dropped entirely incidentally like we all knew who this countess was #& I had to go back like WAIT WHAT & listen to her entire discourse w Edmond w new ears 👀 #I'm at the bit w the runaway horses & the lasso rn #genuinely have no idea how Edmond knew the horses were going to do that. this shady bitch fascinates me endlessly... #meme #ceci je l'ai fait

[atissi]

i’ll be real i did kinda forget how to draw him but im back in business now

#so glad i made him a character ref because i did not fucking remember anything about how to draw mecha #i used to draw him everyday...hyperfixations are a strange beast #incidentally i was rereading some v/ikjayce last night because ive kind of been starving for. well-written fanfic. so my brain was primed #although i did do these raffle pulls a week ago so i might've been subliminally influenced.... #very proud of this one author who made like one chapter of a fic half a year ago and put in the notes that they're bad at updating #and now they're at i think 18 chapters? that's growth we love to see it #my art #league of legends #do i tag it like that. #edit: okay i used to tag it LoL which i assume isn't really conducive to tag searches #so ill just live with the shame of having a league tag #its for organizational purposes.

[miodiodavinci]

what reading dungeon meshi will do to a man

#THIS WAS SO GOOOOOD #i finished binge reading the entire series thus far the other day and was overcome by the desire to make senshi proud #incidentally i didn’t plan this but it kind of reminds me of the hot pot from the first chapter w #i don’t know anything about plating though so dhksgjdjkf #g o d the shrimp were good though #i sauted them in the shell with butter and parsley and fresh garlic puree #and the mushrooms and snap peas were seasoned with soy and ginger and garlic and honey #and cooked down until soft #i want to make this again once my brother comes home w #good fuckin meal w

[storming-raumo]

So, we’re all in agreement that whatever destroyed Lulusia was what destroyed God Valley 38 years ago... right?

#op spoilers #one piece spoilers #op 1060 #one piece 1060 #like it has to be #also during the god valley incidente a bunch of celestial dragons were involved so it would make sense for imu/wg to use that #ahhhhhh anyway yea still screaming about this chapter fuuuuuck

[last-hourglass]

Heyyyy~ question of the “you don’t have to answer if you don’t want to” variety, but…. Is there any chance we’re gonna get another Last Hourglass chapter within the foreseeable future?

I LOVE your fic so much and I eat up your writing every single time I read it, and I am BEYOND excited to see where it goes!!

I appreciate the enthusiasm of the latter half of this ask so I am going to try my best to be polite about this.

Please do not ask me if/when this fic or any of my fics are going to be updated. I work a full time job. I have other projects to work on. I have straight up fallen out of this hyperfixation. I really, really would love to see both of my ROTTMNT fics through to the end, and I ALWAYS love to see new comments, but being outright asked about when new chapters are coming out or if they're happening soon just feeds my burnout even more.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk everyone

#rottmnt #last hourglass #fics are Free people #don't ask if/when they're going to be updated #just don't #let the authors work at their own pace #i know the question wasn't meant in bad faith #and incidentally yes the chapter is nearly done #but seriously. guys. please do not do this to fic authors #we're doing the best we can

[fortune-maiden]

One thing I really like about the Demo version of 'Last Night I Dreamt of Manderley' that feels a bit lost in the later versions, is that some lyrics were adapted straight from the novel

Excerpts from Rebecca, Ch 1

Moonlight can play odd tricks upon the fancy, even upon a dreamer's fancy. As I stood there, hushed and still, I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before. Light came from the windows, the curtains blew softly in the night air, and there, in the library, the door would stand half open as we had left it, with my handkerchief on the table beside the bowl of autumn roses.

A cloud, hitherto unseen, came upon the moon, and hovered an instant like a dark hand before a face. The illusion went with it, and the lights in the windows were extinguished. I looked upon a desolate shell, soulless at last, unhaunted, with no whisper of the past about its staring walls.

Verse from the Demo Track:

Moonlight can play funny tricks on your fancy The house seemed full of life again Lights in the windows and curtains that blew Just as it was back then Then a ragged cloud came upon the moon Like a hand before a face All the lights went out and the burned out ruin Was a soulless dreary place

(In the German/West End version, this is replaced with the verse about Rebecca's ghost)

#rebecca #rebecca das musical #rebecca the musical #do i think way too much about this show? yes. yes i do #but I started rereading rebecca and those paragraphs just really stuck out to me #because i've listened to the english demo a lot xD #i am pretty sure i had this same impression the first time i read rebecca too lol #are these great lyrics? no they're a bit awkward in places. but i just like how recognizable they are in the novel haha #incidentally the hitchcock movie starts with the heroine reading the first chapter of rebecca as we pan over shots of manderley #it's a nice touch

[definitelynotshouting]

Hey!! You dont have to respond to this publicly but i realised after sending that ask in today that i didnt do my usual quotes for the recent chapter and i just wanted to reassure you that i dont love it any less 😭. Ive just had a lot on my plate (im doing fine, just busy) and havent found the time so im really sorry if you were expecting something and ive just been quiet. Hope all is well with you!! :)))

-☀️

AWWWW WAIT SUN ANON,,,,, DW KING UR ALL GOOD U HAVE NOTHING TO APOLOGIZE FOR!!!!!! getting comments and quotes from people is a gift that i am SO happy to receive but it is not something i ever feel that i am owed!!!! Your life comes first and foremost-- i absolutely treasure everyone's comments, but i will never fault anyone for just not having the time, energy, or even desire to leave one.

Im really glad you liked the chapter, and its nice to hear that you enjoyed it just as much as the others-- i know it was a relatively slow-paced one, despite having actual physical action going on for once. i hope things slow down for you soon!!! It was a really nice surprise to get an ask from you, and i hope you're doing just as well :] ❤️

#shouting speaks #asks #hunger au #compliments #WAH THIS IS VERY SWEET #im doing alright sjdbsjdjd altho ive been trying to make it to the local cafe for a full week now and no dice 😔😔😔 #pensive emoji. oh well #incidentally chapter 10 is roughly 2k rn heehoo. we preserve<3 /ref #txt

[pentacass]

So I'm reading through Ves and Lana series again and thinking about how Lana takes care of an injured Ves, but what about Ves taking care of an injured Lana? How does Ves react to, say, the time Lana got tossed around like a rag doll by Vaylin?

and here i was, thinking of ways to hurt Lana to reverse their hurt/comfort roles >:3 thanks for the ask!! (art by skullinacowboyhat)

Depends which phase of their lives they're in. In the Empire, Ves won't risk showing overt concern and having Lana targeted as Darth Avriss' weak spot. So an injured Lana has to care for herself, while receiving care packages from her friends, Ashara and Talos (read: Vestra's proxies). What Ves can do, is destroy those who hurt her.

In the Alliance, Vestra doesn't hide anymore. She cares for Lana herself, but doesn't get overprotective (it's the same vice versa). Lana's tough, and Ves treats her with that sort of dignity; Lana hates being coddled anyway. She'll stay close, ensure Lana's needs are cared for. If Lana wants to work, Ves lets her work within reason. If she goes overboard, Ves puts her foot down and whisks Lana away for some needed rest.

For the Vaylin scene - due to the timeline of events (getting yeeted to Iokath right after the Gravestone hijacking), I'd planned for Ves to fight Vaylin alongside Lana, and draw most of Vaylin's ire to keep Lana from harm. But, let's have a lil thought exercise :3

Say that Ves stuck with Aelirra to defuse the bombs on the Gravestone, and Lana had to fight Vaylin alone, as in canon. When they find Vaylin and Lana in the last bomb's chamber, Ves sees Lana thrown across the room and loses her mind. Not caring that they're standing right on top of a quantum bomb, she unleashes a fuckton of lightning at Vaylin. Aelirra has to step in, blowing Vaylin back with the Force, and convinces Ves to step away, 'Go to Lana! Listen, Lana's hurt bad. She needs you. Go!'

Ves snaps back into herself and rushes over to Lana, dragging her to the side to assess her wounds. She'd just started healing Lana when they get hit by Iokath's superweapon. They're split up and stranded on Iokath, and Ves is painfully aware that Lana's still hurting from the fight, getting Big Mad at herself for losing Lana (even though she had no control over it). Her top priority is to find Lana and ensure her safety.

When she finds Lana, limping and looking like she was thrown into a trash compactor, she pulls Lana into a secure corner and heals all the wounds she can. As they head to Theron's location, Ves insists on taking point while Lana guards her flank, allowing her to face whatever dangers they encounter first. Basically, 'leave the heavy lifting to me, you take it easy'.

Reuniting with the Alliance crew makes Ves less tense, but she won't leave Lana's side again, and keeps an eye on her as they carve a way to the Gravestone. Part of her wants to find Vaylin and rip into her, but her thirst for Vaylin's blood has to wait until her love is safe.

Only when they're back aboard the Gravestone and free of Iokath, will Ves take Lana into her arms for reassurance, and escort her to medbay, where she'll sit with Lana until they reach Odessen.

#incidentally lana gets hurt in the next chapter but #not enough. i need MORE #i need them to flirt with DEATH #also yes ves during her dark lord era had so many 'i wanna be there for u but i cant' pining moments it drives me insane #swtor #vestra lenshe #lana beniko #yzwrites #ask #intheinkpot

[linskywords]

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Men's Hockey RPF Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Leon Draisaitl/Connor McDavid, Connor McDavid/Matthew Tkachuk, Leon Draisaitl/Matthew Tkachuk, Leon Draisaitl/Connor McDavid/Matthew Tkachuk Characters: Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid, Matthew Tkachuk Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Werewolf, ot3 is endgame, gray-ace!Connor, (very gray though), some pandemic stuff, Mild Internalized Homophobia, Undernegotiated Kink, Matthew just wants attention okay Series: Part 12 of Wolfverse Summary:

If there’s one thing Leon knows, from the very beginning, it’s that Connor McDavid isn’t for him.

If there’s a second thing he knows, it’s that Matthew Tkachuk is a grade-A asshole.

(Can be read as a stand-alone)

#chapter three! #also incidentally the end of part 1 #*evil laugh* #hockey rpf #wolfverse #mcmattdrai

[itsbinghebitch]

NO REST FOR THE WICKED | E | 13.3k | vegaspete AU

chapter 3: Kinn takes everyone on a forest hike. It goes poorly.

“And on the verge of meeting his inevitable death, Pete curses Kinn and his stupid high difficulty route. No, he curses Porsche for choosing to marry someone like Kinn, who’d choose a high difficulty trail in the middle of nowhere in the first place when there are literally a million other things to do on the island, like animal sanctuaries, and pools, and restaurants, and beaches and many others that Pete will never get to enjoy in this lifetime just because his eyes were glued on his goddamn work e-mails instead of what was right in front of him—

A hand shoots out and grabs him at the last second.

Pete’s exhale punches out of his lungs. He’s right over the edge of the footpath, sole driving painfully into the soil. The fingers clutch at his hand, and Pete’s eyes shoot up to meet Vegas Theerapanyakul’s.

Of course.

Of fucking course it would be Vegas catching him.

Pete contemplates throwing himself back into the ravine.”

☀️🏝️👬🏻 fic details under the cut ❤️‍🔥⛓ 

☀️ summary:

Pete has long left Thailand. He is now living the American dream, working long hours to make his rich clients richer and himself more miserable than ever.

But when his best friend Porsche invites him to his destination wedding to the mysterious Kinn, Pete finds himself suddenly thrown into the world of the Theerapanyakul family, the silent machinations underpinning their wealth, and Kinn’s cousin Vegas—who, for reasons unknown, has made it his mission to tear down every assumption Pete holds about his life.

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resort romance AU where Kinn & co are still mafia (except Pete doesn't know)

🔥 tags:

Alternate Universe, Corporate Consultant Pete, Pete POV, wedding shenanigans, Thailand, Secret Relationship, Plot, Mental Health Issues, Depression, some strong language around mental health, Injury, Angst, but with a happy ending, Explicit Sexual Content, things happening on balconies, Kink Negotiation, Dom/sub, pete meets vegas and is immediately like 'disgusting......tell me more’, the inherent bdsm of capitalism, the inherent bdsm of mafia romance, class fallouts, pete’s many dormant kinks, Other Additional Tags To Be Added

#vegaspete #vegaspete fic #vegaspete fanfic #vegaspete fanfiction #my fic #kinnporsche #kinnporsche fic #nrftw #this was one of my favorite chapters to write!!! #family drama and psychological issues galore (incidentally what kinnporsche the series is about)

[theminecraftbee]

chapter 9 of last days! in which things are definitely going really really well, why do you ask?

#a bee fic #incidentally FINALLY get to actually show a specific character on stream this chapter and it's great

[ladylynse]

For anyone interested in my Huntsclan!Jake AU fic Unbound, I've been doing some tallying between what I've written and what I've got planned, and I can confidently say this fic will crack 50 chapters so chances are very good it will also crack 125 K.

#my writing #ladylynse #fic: unbound #adjl #huntsclan!jake au #incidentally of all the OCs in the last chapter Jerry is my favourite #who doesn't love a grim reaper who steals food from funerals #I've kept the OCs to a minimum in this but let's face it that wasn't a part for Marty #don't worry there's a familiar face in the next chapter to make up for it #I am also having fun with chapter titles #if anyone's curious leave me an ask and I'll share a few

[gideonisms]

3 more days of the semester dragging my feet to the finish

#incidentally i need about 3 more paragraphs to be done with this fic chapter draft finally. jesus #need to respond to my sister's 3 messages in a way that sounds like i'm a real person

[threewaysdivided]

Of all the questionable sane creative choices I've made in my life, sticking myself in a situation where I have to continuously come up with 8-way character dialogue to fill 11 short stories has got to be one of the stupider ones.

#young justice: deathly weapons #Mission 2 #gyeeeehhhhhh #it's so hard #I called this mess coming at Chapter 10 #WHY did my brain decide to commit anyway? #every single time I'm having to headcount them like an overworked teacher at a daycare field trip #which one of you has been quiet for too long? are you still there? has anyone wandered off? #Zatanna has weaseled her way into being the lunchbox character for incidental dialogue but now M'gann's not getting a chance to talk :( #writing update #3WD

[redcoded2]

hot sherlock agenda this hot watson agenda that WHERE is the hot mycroft agenda

#incidentally the best hot sherlock agenda is sherlock holmes chapter one. Yes the video game #every like. non live action version of him is just. my god can we calm down everyone #please make him look so bizarre i am begging atp #i just want more mycroft content. in general ok #SPECIFICALLY I want the brothers to talk!!! dynamic pls