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kmartmithril · 24 days

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Cold Conviction: a one off about what Lucy Frostblade’s last moments might have been like. Some mention of gore, mention of death. Some creative liberties taken and I have not gone back to check this for spelling or grammar ( forever posting a first draft 🫡)

“Please, Lucy- just listen to me—“

“Do you know what you’re asking me, Kipperlily?”

Tears well in Lucy’s eyes, a hand on her chest tugging at a well loved sweater. There’s pain in her heart, pain for the brief second in which she considered what is being asked of her. The pain of giving up on something she has held so dear for so long.

Ruvina. She couldn’t give up on her goddess, the very thing that connected her to her culture. Harsh as the cold and the wind was, she was a part of Lucy’s heritage, and keeping close to others made them warm against her cold. Why would she need anything else?

There’s a whisper at the back of her mind, the pull of something familiar, as Kipperlily promises something strong, something powerful. Something full of rage. They can face down whatever, they just have to give themselves over to this god. The sensation of warmth, of light, a counterbalance to Ruvina’s own domain.

The warmth becomes a burning heat. A signal that something is wrong.

Some gods speak directly to their followers, others give them visions and feelings to interpret. Ruvina is trying to tell her something, a warning against a darker path.

Lucy looks down at her hands. Hands that have healed, hands that held Kilperlily’s as they promised to watch each other’s backs. How they held hands as Kipperlily argued in favor of keeping the name “The High Five Heroes”. Hands that held her dying friend in the Mountains of Chaos not long ago.

They are now clenched in defiance against stacking odds.

Emboldened, she takes a strong stance against her friends. Her friend.

A tear escapes her eye.

“I won’t be bullied into this.” She declares. “Don’t you hear yourself? You want me to pledge myself to a different god so you can get your revenge?”

Kipperlily’s back is to the woods, a dagger in her hand. Her brow creased so hard Lucy wonders if it might be stuck that way. Beside them, the lake glistens in the dim light from the moon over head. Even in this light, Lucy can see a mix of fear, anger, and sadness in Kipperlily’s eyes. It’s the anger that’s the strongest, replacing the annoyance and frustration that had been so prevalent in the past couple of years.

“You’re making a mistake.” Kipperlily says through gritted teeth, her grip on the dagger intensifying. “We can be heroes! we can do the things we’ve only dreamed about doing! We can be better than them!”

There is venom on the “them”. Kipperlily is blinded by her ambition, a need to surpass someone who seemingly has it all. The tragic backstory, the skills, the friends. It was something Lucy could never fully understand, but she listened to her talk about wanting to be one of the best rogues in the world, how she wanted the chance to save someone - save the world.

Lucy herself never had any quarrels with the Bad Kids, another adventuring party at their school. One of many, but one of the only ones to really take a stand in recent memory. They’d killed Kalvaxus at the end of their Freshman year and by all accounts, that was a pretty rad thing to do. Killed by Riz Gukgak, then slain again by the Maidens who, understandably, wanted to get their revenge.

But Kipperlily was seemingly upset by the fact that Riz had this tragic tale to him, that he “got” to have his father eaten by Kalvaxus and “get” to have that revenge arc. Kipperlily wanted for nothing, and yet she wanted for something that would give her glory.

At first it was petty jealously, but ever since her death, her tune had changed. They all had, in fact. It was gradual, but Lucy was beginning to notice a rage building in all of them. Subtle in some, Mary Ann was still Mary Ann and Oisin still appeared relatively calm, but she could see it in them too. She was starting to feel very lonely.

Lucy’s hands are balled into fists. “Is that all you want? You want to be better than them?”

“Yes!” Kipperlily sounds exasperated. “What’s so hard to understand about that?!”

Anger boils in Lucy.

“Isn’t it enough that we’re together?!?” She snaps. “Is it not enough for you that we get to hang out with our friends? Think about everything we could be doing! All the problems we can solve- we can get better and go back to the Mountains and do what we set out to do in the first place!”

Kipperlily looks down at the dagger in her hand, then back up at Lucy. For a split second, she sees the young halfing girl she met on the first day of school, a book clutched to her chest, a bright smile on her face. She thinks about how in the following months, they’d braid each other’s hair and share secrets no one else knew. She thinks about their promise. A promise to face the world together.

“Don’t you trust me?” Kipperlily asks. Another twinge of pain, this time at the deception. Kipperlily knows how to get what she wants. “I’m doing this for us! When the rage god returns, we can be glorious, Lucy. The two of us- together.”

Ruvina’s warning returns. Warmth, heat, fire - Rage.

Lucy stands her ground. She shakes her head and Kipperlily’s bravado falters.

“I’m sorry. I can’t do this. I can’t turn my back on everything I’ve ever known.” She pauses. All she has to do is say one thing, and she knows what’s coming. But she can’t back down either. “Im sorry you can’t be him.”

Rage flairs in Kipperlily’s eyes. Shes too quick, she’s on her in a matter of seconds, cold steel cutting through Lucy’s body. Lucy closes her eyes, accepting her fate and falling back with arms outstretched.

It’s cold. It’s so cold. Shes doesn’t even feel it as Kipperlily continues to slice at her out of sheer anger.

She doesn’t want to die. She doesn’t want to leave her friends, her family, everything behind, but little choice is given to her.

There’s an embrace, deep and cold, as Ruvina takes her in. But then the feeling is jerked away, warmth and light finding her instead.

No, not warmth and light. Rage, it’s the heat of rage.

A hand reaches out to her, coal black with ribbons of fierce hot magma. She looks up, seeing a stern face looking down at her coldly. In this moment, she realizes the connection to Ruvina.

“I’m sorry, but my answer is no.”

The hand withdrawals. A flash of something on the face - pride. Pride in her conviction, in a sense of personal justice.

The heat fades to warmth, then the loving embrace of a goddess returns, briefly, to cradle her. Shes not sure if she’s at peace, but she’s fine to rest here until such a time comes.

#fantasy high #fantasy high junior year spoilers #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 #lucy frostblade #kipperlilly copperkettle

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thegrimdog13 · 9 months

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Ideas for a Creepypasta fantasy au Pt. 1 ?

•Jeff is a king of a kingdom and Jane is his rivaling kingdom.

•Jeff was is war with Jane’s kingdom and Jane’s dad was in the royal army. Jeff’s army killed many of her people in the war including her dad.

•Jane’s mom jumped in a lake days later drowning herself.

•Laughing Jack and Laughing Jill are twins that were separated at birth.

•Laughing Jack ended up being Jeff’s court Jester while Jill ended up being Jane’s

•Sally is a little girl in Jeff kingdom that runs around taking to animals around the kingdom.

•Jeff isn’t known for being a kind king but he has a soft spot for Sally after she brought him his dog back.

•Jeff hired nurse Anne his healer to take care of Sally. So basically they stay in a cute little hut together .

•Clockwork is a bounty hunter that works for Jane’s kingdom.

•Clockwork and Jane have been besties since they were young.

•Clockwork was a local peasant while Jane was a princess.

•Jane has crush on a local woman who works at a flower shop named Mary.( if you know who I mean )

•Slenderman is a god that Jeff and Jeff’s kingdom follow while Zalgo is the one Jane’s kingdom follows.

•Ben is a expiring knight in Jeff’s kingdom.

•Ben’s fear of water is the main thing stopping him from passing the training. Because they learn how to fight in different environments and he refuses to go near water.

•Ben is secretly has powers but doesn’t really know how to control them.

•Eyeless Jack is a local blind man that people say are a bad omen because of his dark eyes.

•EJ was cursed with his appearance by a witch at age 15 because he stole an necklace from her.

•He was always bindish but his gray skin wasn’t there before and he went fully blind as well.

•Liu was cast out of the kingdom by Jeff because he disagreed with Jeff’s ways and tried to reason with Jeff on some things.

•Liu is a wizard and when he was cast out by Jeff he has no choice but to seek shelter somewhere.

•Jane took him in to her kingdom under the conditions he would help out around the kingdom. He of course agreed.

•Liu got a crush on their local nurse.

•Nina is a witch that has a giant crush on Jeff.

•Jeff let’s Nina stay around and hang all over him so she doesn’t curse him and the kingdom.

•The bright side is she often “helps out” with his hatred for certain people. So he quite enjoys that aspect of her being around.

•Jeff also likes the attention he gets from Nina.He often flirts with her just for her reactions.

Sorry I can’t think of any other characters right now I’m tired. If you guys have any idea’s or suggestions on this au or something I should change just let me know! Love you all ❤️

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stunnedgorilla · 7 months

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OK I absolutely adore Stede as a character, but I'm disappointed with how they handled him in season 2.

Achieving fame and respect as a pirate was his main goal throughout the whole show, and once he got there by murdering Ned, it's painfully obvious he regrets it (or at least feels badly about it). And then he chooses to have sex with Ed instead of talking about it, going against his whole motto in season 1--talk it through as a crew. It makes sense, it's much easier to avoid hard feelings, but they didn't even talk about it the morning after.

Instead, Stede doubles down and gets drunk at Spanish Jackie's and lights a man on fire as a joke. We never see how this affects Stede. He murdered Ned and lit a dude on fire and it's just...not addressed? And then he finds Ed (who doesnt know that Stede LIT A MAN ON FIRE), and they break up again. He literally calls Ed a coward. Which like, true! Ed has commitment issues like a bitch, but like are you really not going to run after him?

Like damn, Anne and Mary were right. They don't know how to love without hurting. They are fucking 14 year old boys. Just imagine this:

"I think Anne and Mary were right," Ed mutters.

"What?"

"Anne and Mary were right. We don't know how to love each other, Stede."

Stede takes Ed's hand.

"Then let's figure it out."

But instead, the next time they see each other, Ed says he loves Stede, and he's sorry for being a dick. And Stede says life's a dick. I think with the constraints on season 2, this was a pretty good concise way to tie that issue up. But there's still so much that's going unsaid.

Ed didn't leave to become a fisherman. He left so he wouldn't be hurt by Stede leaving again. He left because Stede killed a man, and he can't become a better person if Stede is fucking killing people.

And Stede didn't kill people because he's a killer at heart. He killed because all he wanted was to be respected. To be a man. From childhood, he was taught that violence was synonymous with masculinity. But in his heart, he liked picking flowers and walking in nature and rowing out onto the lake.

That's who Stede is. He's gentle. And I'm kind of heartbroken that that part of his character is gone.

He doesn't need to be sexy, dominant, violent, masculine to be a man. To be loved. Ed fell in love with the silly, sensitive, gentle Stede who had a secret closet full of frilly fabric and summer linens. He fell in love with the Stede who told him he wears fine things well. He fell in love with the Stede who swapped his clothes with him just for fun.

If I wrote season 2, I would have the first half of the season stay pretty much the same. But, when Stede kills Ned and achieves infamy as a pirate, I would have him discover that he is deeply unhappy even though he has everything he thought he ever wanted. I would have him realize that he doesn't know who he is, and who he wants to be. And THEN I would have him and Ed TALK ABOUT IT.

Stede would day something like "I thought I'd be happier." And Ed would say, "I told you so" only in a nicer way. And then Ed would tell him about why he fell in love with Stede in the first place. And Stede would shake his head in disbelief and Ed would keep going. He would say how alive he felt with him, and how enchanted he was with Stede. He would tell Stede that he'd love him even if he wasnt a pirate. And then Stede would start to feel like himself again, and say the same back to Ed. And then they hug!!!

Anyway TLDR: I love Stede but bro is not a murderer and they should have explored his identity crisis much more.

Also: I know that there were a lot of constraints on season 2, so I'm not directing blame at any one person. I'm still disappointed though. They deserved much more time to properly tell their stories.

#ofmd #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death #ofmd meta #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #bro is NOT a murderer. bro has an IDENTITY CRISIS.#anne and mary

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sleepywitchlory · 6 months

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Get to know…

Lorraine Jones

Full Name: Lorraine Juniper Jones

Nickname(s): Lory, Lora, little pumpkin (just used by Sebastian)

Age: 15/16 (ingame), 18 (fanfiction)

Date of Birth: March 16, 1875

Birthplace: New York, America

Blood Status: Muggleborn

House: Hufflepuff

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Height: 167cm

Hair Color: pinkish blond

Hair length: Shoulder length

Eye color: blue as the ocean

Details: freckles on her cheeks, nose and her shoulders, scar on her right cheek

Favourite class: Potions and Herbology

Favourite place: the great lake by hogwarts

Traits: Brave, stubborn, protective, naive, loyal, friendly

Likes: Beast, everything related to pumpkins, duelling, reading, exploring, autumn

Dislikes: spiders, bullying, thunderstorms, dark wizards

Patronus: Chinese Moon Moth

Parents: Mary (nurse) & Richard (shop owner) Jones

Brother: Matthew Jones (5 years younger)

Extended Family: unknown

Her parents love to travel. Each holidays they will travel somewhere else and Lory comes with them until she befriends with Ominis and Sebastian. The summer holidays between fifth and six year she took Ominis with her. The small holidays she would stay at hogwarts.

The Jones family left america because Mary and Richard wanted to stay in london. Her father was send there because his boss ordered him to open a shop of the franchise in london. So Lory had to move with them. She hated to leave Ilvermorny and america.

From a young age Lorraine felt something strange inside her magic. Her magic was always different, she learned spells faster than others and they worked instantly for her. The ancient magic also caused the visions she’s seeing then and there. Her parents were relieved when Professor Fig reached their daughter and discovered with her the source for these visions. Professor Fig and Lorys parents were in regularly contact per letters, in the holidays Fig got invited to the Jones house. He became more and more like a family member to them. Lorraine saw him not only as tutor but also as her grandfather in some kind of way. Figs death was hard to handle by the whole family. They put up a framed picture of Fig with the parents and Lory, standing over the fireplace. Mary says that Professor Fig and his wife Miriam are finally together again and that they should be happy for him. Even without being a witch Mary is always positive and open minded for nearly everything. Richard had a hard time accepting that his daughter became a witch. Why exactly has to get explored in the fanfiction 🙊

Partner: Sebastian Sallow

Friends: Ominis Gaunt, Poppy Sweeting, Eric Doyle (Male MC), Imelda Reyes

Enemies: bullies, Rookwood, dark wizards

Career: healer

Spouse: Sebastian Sallow

Residence: Aranshire

Children: Jasper and Rosalie Sallow

Sebastian left Hogwarts at the end of the fifth year right before Lorraine fight against Ranrok. He only left one letter behind for Lory. The sixth year he wasn´t there and never gave a sign of life. In seventh year Sebastian returned, trying to make it up to Lory and Ominis. Ominis hates him for leaving without traces of life. Sebastian talked to Lorraine and explained to her, that he was searching for Anne and that he is afraid, that she will die very soon. He asks Lory for her help to find a cure and slowly gain back Lorraines trust. After a half year she trusts him more and more.

- Talent for potions and herbology

- in fanfiction she can see visions, of things that will happen or had happened in the past, she can´t control it

- She has no idea why she can control ancient magic when she´s a muggleborn, thinking of it to be a gift

- Sneaks food and snacks out of the kitchen

- Stands up for house elves rights

- Her favorite beasts are thestrals and nifflers

- When she’s nervous or wants to avoid a topic she starts reading

- when she´s lying she will play with her hair or her hands

- She came from America and went to Hogwarts for her fifth year, before that she was visiting the Ilvermorny school, which she still misses - she was a Pukwudgie back there

- She has the scar on her cheek since the fight against Ranrok. Sebastian feeling guilty for letting her fight him alone and that he wasn’t there

- After arriving in Hogwarts for the first time she was scared and felt left out. Poppy was the one who talked to her right after Lorraine got sorted into Hufflepuff, then she introduced Lory to Natty and Garreth and during class to Ominis and Sebastian

- Her favorite flowers are white roses

- She love to sit a the Great Lake by Hogwarts and is fascinated by the merpeople

- is easy to impress and manipulate by Sebastian, whatever he wishes for she would do it, sooner or later (Crucio, the relic, … )

- can play the piano

- loves to bake cakes and cookies

- cats do love her, which is why kneezles are very kind and loyal to her

- dragons don´t scare her

- When one of her friends are sick she makes sure that they are comfortable and will help them using muggle medicine. Sebastian doesn’t like bitter medicine so when he’s sick Lory makes sure to just use sweet or neutral medicine, tea and soup

- She learns how to knit, just to gift her friends a handmade scarf in their favourite colors

- MC univers fun HC: Lorraine and Aurélie (@morelikeravenbore) are hiding a dragon named Nugget in the Undercroft from Ominis. Sebastian would keep that as a secret (not canon in Lorys story but a fun HC between Aurélie and me🩷).

- She would love his love language of physical touching (holding hands, caressing each others hair, linking each others pinkie fingers while walking)

- Lory will sit at the slytherin table for breakfast and dinner

- Sebastian would love to tease her with kisses, calling her out of whistleing when she walks around and saying how small she is

- Sebastian is overprotective and stares every guy down who just looks at Lorraine

- Sebastian would take care of her beasts in secret without letting her know

- She always call him Seb or Sebby, but not when she´s angry with him. Then she would call him Sebastian or Sallow

- They would sit in the RoR at weekend nights and talk about their past while eating snacks. Lory would be the only one Sebastian ever tells more about his parents

- Lorraine would love to visit america in her summer holidays to meet her friends from Ilvermorny. Sebastian would travel with her to meet her friends and see her old school

- when it comes to romantic, he wants to make everything right and when something went wrong he is frustrated with himself for messing up, which Lory finds adorable because she just wants to be with him and don´t care about the rest

This post isn’t nearly finished and will get edited every now and then as more as the story continues ☺️

#hogwartslegacy #harrypotter #hogwartslegacymc #hogwarts #wizardingworld #Lorraine jones #hufflepuff

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for-the-sake-of-color · 9 months

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Happy Oc Sunday! For Nihlus or any one in crisis company!

👑: What does your oc want to be remembered as? Why?

🔫: Do they trust people easily? How easily will they turn their back to someone? Have they been backstabbed before? Will they betray someone if given an ultimatum?

💧: Random angst headcanon

☄️: What do people assume about them? Are they right?

Thanks so much!!! asdjghasgh Sorry this took so long, tumblr desided it didnt like this post so its been hard tryinga get it to post

One Nihlus and Crisis Company, coming right up! (under the cut for lenth purposes) Gonna stop trying to format it and just post it cause this website likes to shit itself anytime you use its own built in features

What Do they want to be Remembered as?

Nihlus: Doesn't want to be remembered, and actually goes out of his way to make sure he is generally never perceived in the first place. To Nihlus, for Nihlus, knowledge about him is a weapon against him. Better to pass through most of life like a ghost. Jet: Wants to be remembered as a smart Captain and a Good Man if he can, someone effective and reliable at what he does. Jet would have deserted the GAR after Geonosis if he didn't believe in the cause of protecting the innocent from the horror of separatist occupation and destruction, because he doesn't believe in the republic itself. He doesn't want to be a hero or maintain a system, he just wants to end the suffering. Margo: She want to do something cool! Mostly just wants to be remembered as that awesome uncle that fixes everything everyone needs Cynic: Would love to be a beloved artist. He wants people to want what he makes. He wants to be remembered for what he can do rather than what he is. Many of his watercolor sketches already sit framed on the walls of Mary Ann's fine dining restaurants, so it could be a reality if the galaxy is kind to him. Heron: Doesn't want to be remembered by anyone except those closest to him. People would be harder to lure in to back alleys to try and mug him if they know to stay away from the guy with the prosthetic leg. And how can he commit crimes against the force gods if no one attacks him first? Lake: Chronically unsure, Lake thinks he wants to be remembered as a decent guy all things considered. Thinks they're all going to be remembered as monsters, but whatever. That's whoever comes next's problem to deal with, he's just trying to have fun and stay alive. Torch: Torch doesn't care if or how he's remembered after he's gone, he's also just here to have a good time while he can. His captain would probably say he's going to be remembered as a goofy problem soldier, but he's going to be remembered as absolutely devotional to his squad, and an excellent sharpshooter. Sprig: He wants to be remembered like a kickass fantasy spy advisor like leliana or zeveran from dragon age. Course the only reason they're deeds are known is because they're part of a video game. Maybe.... he thinks about writing a blackmail book. It would highly embarrass so many senators and office officials for petty (usually illegally so) shit, but that's what they get for legally making him the guy who had to deal with all the bomb threats by chance of birth. Empty buildings give him time to riffle through their shit.

Do they trust people easily? How easily will they turn their back to someone? Have they been backstabbed before? Will they betray someone if given an ultimatum?

Nihlus: He trusts trustworthy people.... as long as they aren't Jedi or Sith. Anyone capable of resisting his ability to unconditionally access their thoughts and intentions is an eventual threat even if they chose not to resist him.

-He doesn't do things for the good of doing it, if he wants to help even at risk to himself, he really has to like someone. Otherwise that honor is reserved for his clan, for whom he would give himself at the lightest provocation.

-Nihlus ended up in the Era of the Clone Wars due to being locked into a stasis chamber in his archive meant for fragile documents by his former master and oldest friend, Kishta, who had lured him in there to prevent his attempted assassination of the sith emporor for the destruction of his previous clan

- Nihlus is physcially incapable of betraying any of his squad no matter the cost (one of Jets orders), nor would he want to if he could. that is trust for Nihlus. Anyone else is fair game to whatever else serves the needs of him and his people

Jet: Has a healthy suspicion of others because to do otherwise would be irresponsible, but it does not stop him from reaching out, from trying, when he feels that the person is worth it

- Jet will never turn his back on his squad, his family, by his own admission. Has, though, on numerous occasions given some orders that put them in unnecessary danger for appearances sake. no one is perfect.

-Jet has never been truly back-stabbed, but he has been lied to on numerous occasions

-Jet... is initially ready to trade Nihlus life if and when he has to, for the sake of his squad and their family, as was his deal when becoming the Siths Captain. However, the longer he has him, the less likely he is to actually do so. Would not be able to choose between the lives of his squad even if their lives depended on it.

Margo: She trusts hard and fast, but if her trust is ever completely lost... that's it. Good fucking luck ever getting it back.

- Puts her trust in her Captain, and would turn her back on anyone he deemed it necessary for. Otherwise, she goes with her gut to do what she thinks she has to, to be able to sleep soundly at night.

- There have been several times where Margorashly believes they have been betrayed, by Nihlus... by Jet... by militia allies... for the first two it turned out alright, the last one... is still up for debate

- Will betray anyone she has to, to protect their family. She's the second in command, and that saddles her with a certain level of responsibility damn whatever her own morals say.

Cynic: Does not trust a single soul outside of their squad, although its less of a "all of you are sus" and more of a "none of you are reliable"

- it's not turning your back on people if you weren't really going to help them in the first place. Anyone who isn't squad is just fodder for the cause, although he has far more of an affinity towards helping other clones than to even looking a natborns way

- you can only be backstabbed by people you trust and he believes his squad wouldnt do that, everything else is just an unanticipated attack

- has a tier list of who he would trade for who within his squad if he had to that he would never tell anyone else about. It's not based on who he likes best, but rather who he thinks would be able to best keep the squad going

Heron: Doesn't trust easily outside his squad, that's how you get caught. and he hates nothing more than when the jig is up, tehee

- easily, he'll easily turn his back on people (who arent his crew). The only people worth sticking your neck out for are the ones as willing to kill for you as they are to die for you.

- Definately thought Nihlus did that one thing that one time like Margo but was also wrong, although he didn't take it as personally as she did. He is well aware there are worse people them him out there.

- has a tier list like Cynic does. two, actually. one that he publically shifts around as a joke anytime someone fucks with him, and the real one that he holds close to his heart.

Lake: Wants to believe the best in people at all times, genuinely wants to

- would, in the opinion of much of the rest of his crew, would give his life too easily in order to do the right thing. would not easily turn his back on anyone that needed help

- All the time, if by back-stabbed you mean 'dissapointed', Torch is too cautious though, so Lake has never had the chance to be seriously betrayed

- Would never betray his crew outright, no matter what. the morality of his crew matters less than the vows he has made to them. Has been given an ultimatum before, and he made his choice.

Torch: Wants to believe the best in people, but always expects the worst, he has to. it's kept them alive before, and it will do so again.

- will trust easily, and will break that trust easily if he thinks he detects the slightest threat. His squad comes first, always. Will tattle on them to the Captain if he thinks it'll be funny though.

- His initial fuck-ups almost cost his training batch their spots in the GAR, but they didn't have to throw him as under the bus for it as hard as they did

- Will die with his crew before he betrays them, but if he thinks accepting the initial offer will get him a way to help, he can put up a pretty convincing front

Sprig: Trust is hard earned with Sprig, but he notices potential and offers tentative trust accordingly

- socially, he will not be caught unawares. he's spent too long watching people.

- Has never been truely betrayed. had brothers who told him they'd come back who never did, but it's hard to blame the dead, isnt it?

- Sprig will betray anyone he has to, again, for his crew. Jet built this squad well. for his crew? He also has a list of who's life comes first. like the others, his isnt on top of his own.

Random angst headcanon?

Nihlus: Sometimes he looks in the mirror tries to grin and wishes he could smile in full like he could when he was young and happy and didn't had nerve damage over a full third of his face

Jet: gets migraines from his numerous head injuries

Margo: Several of the squad she commanded before she became Jets second died very soon after she transferred, and sometimes she wonders if she had turned him down whether or not she could have done anything to prevent it

Cynic: feels a lot of insecurity initially over his place in the squad, although he doesn't show it, since it was Margo that requested (demanded) he join with her rather than Jet offering.

Heron: Gets phantom cramps in a foot that no longer exists if he leans on that side for too long without a cane, and nothing except straight 'sith magic' has ever seemed to help make it go away

Lake: For better (and through worse) Lake will stay by Torch's side, no matter how often he ethically disagrees with the rest of their squad, because the rest of their batch is DEAD and Lake will be damned if he loses his last batcher, no matter what sort of monster he has to become to keep them that way.

Torch: Constantly puts up a front of whimsy because he's afraid that what he has underneath it isnt worth loving.

Sprig: So, so scared of dying. It's one of the reasons he transfered out of the ordinence corps

What do people assume about them? Are they right?

Nihlus: People often see Nihlus' lightsabers and lack of clone armor when the squad is together and assume that he's either the Jedi, or the one in Charge. They are oh so very wrong on both accounts. He will get really pissy if they're stubborn about trying to talk to him over his Captain about mission shit he could really not care any less about. Jet: People assume that the Sith is some how mind controlling his Captain into doing what he wants, when he wants. Jet just scoffs in Blood Oath and orders Nihlus to scrub the refreshers for the third time this month as punishment for breaking some ships rules or ditching drills to hang around Kix, again. Margo: People often assume she's a mechanic, when she's just a tech. Sure, she dabbles in machinery, but she's much more capable on the software than the hardware aspect of technology. She can rewire the engines power cells but for the grace of the force don't ask her what model of spark plug the damn thing needs. Cynic: People assume that by his name and attitude, he hates fun. a real stick up his ass stick in the mud. Truth is he's an early twenty-somethings man trying to make the most of things, he's just a little pessimistic, like, all the time. Absolute party animal otherwise Heron: People assume that as a Medic he's a real 'save everyone you can, do the least amount of harm' mildly Hippocratic oath inclined kinda guy like a majority of the medical professionals in the GAR. Unfortunately, he has... serial killer tendencies. Bit of a god complex, Giver and Taker of Life kinda thing. See enough guys with your face die under you hands and your knife and it's bound to do something, warp you in some way. Lake: People may assume that as like, one of the few people with a truely morally compassionate compass of the group, that Lake would be the weak link to press on to coerce into betraying the squad, but they would be very, very wrong. He values his families life above all others, just not his own. Torch: His whimsical nature might trick one into thinking he's a fool, but Torch is actually one of the most tactically brilliant soldiers in Crisis Company, and has the best aim out of all of them. He's just... occasionally taken over by the urge to Have a Good Time. Sprig: Is a real Seems like a Cinnamon Roll, Could Kill You, kinda guy. Really great at drawing people into just talking. In reality, he's filling it all away to use at a later date should it come in handy. (rarely does it, so he always just comes off as a peoples person)

#star wars #star wars clone wars #star wars ocs #swtcw #swtcw ocs #clone trooper ocs #crisis company tag #jet tag #margo tag #nihlus tag #cynic tag #heron tag #lake tag #torch tag #sprig tag #sith oc #ask game tag #ask game

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Jean-Luc Godard, giant of the French New Wave, dies at 91

Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss director who was a key figure in the Nouvelle Vague, the film-making movement that revolutionised cinema in the late 1950s and 60s, has died aged 91. French news agency AFP reported that he died “peacefully at home” in Switzerland with his wife Anne-Marie Mieville at his side. Liberation, quoting an unnamed family member, reported that Godard’s death was assisted, which is legal in Switzerland. “He was not sick, he was simply exhausted. So he had made the decision to end it. It was his decision and it was important for him that it be known.” Godard’s lawyer Patrick Jeanneret told AFP Godard’s death followed a medical report of “multiple disabling pathologies”.

Best known for his iconoclastic, seemingly improvised filming style, as well as unbending radicalism, Godard made his mark with a series of increasingly politicised films in the 1960s, before enjoying an unlikely career revival in recent years, with films such as Film Socialisme and Goodbye to Language as he experimented with digital technology.

The French president Emmanuel Macron tweeted: “We’ve lost a national treasure, the eye of a genius”. He said Godard was a “master” of cinema – “the most iconoclastic of the Nouvelle Vague”.

Film-makers who paid tribute included Last Night in Soho director Edgar Wright, who called him “one of the most influential, iconoclastic film-makers of them all”.

Born in Paris in 1930, Godard grew up and went to school in Nyon, on the banks of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. After moving back to Paris after finishing school in 1949, Godard found a natural habitat in the intellectual “cine-clubs” that flourished in the French capital after the war, and proved the crucible of the French New Wave. Having met the likes of critic André Bazin and future fellow directors François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette, Godard began writing for the new film magazines, including Bazin’s soon-to-be-influential Cahiers du Cinema. Godard struck a maverick note from the start, defending traditional Hollywood film-making and promoting the likes of Howard Hawks and Otto Preminger over more fashionable figures. Godard also had a reverence for Humphrey Bogart, something that would come out in his first feature, Breathless, which he released in 1960.

Before that, however, Godard eased his way into film-making via a series of short films, such as Charlotte and Véronique, or All the Boys Are Named Patrick in 1957, which prefigured his loose, apparently slipshod film-making style. An earlier idea of Truffaut’s, about a petty criminal and his girlfriend, had been abandoned, but Godard thought he could turn it into a feature, and asked for permission to use it. Truffaut, meanwhile, had scored a major success with his own feature, The 400 Blows, and his clout helped Godard get his project off the ground. Shot on the Paris streets in 1959, with negligible use of artificial lighting, and a script written day-to-day, Breathless turned into a bona fide cultural phenomenon on its release, making a star of Jean-Paul Belmondo and winning Godard best director at the Berlin film festival.

Godard went on to make a string of seminal films in the 1960s at a furious rate. His next film, Le Petit Soldat, suggested the French government condoned torture, and it was banned until 1963, but it was also the film on which Godard met his future wife, Anna Karina, as well as coining his most famous aphorism, “Cinema is truth at 24 frames a second.” Other highlights included A Woman Is a Woman, a self-referential homage to the Hollywood musical, which again starred Karina, along with Belmondo and won more Berlin awards; the extravagant, epic film-about-film-making Contempt, with Michel Piccoli, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance and Fritz Lang; and Alphaville, a bizarre hybrid of film noir and science fiction.

By 1965 Godard’s marriage with Karina had ended in divorce; their last feature together was Made in USA, a homage to American pulp fiction that ran into copyright trouble in the US. By this time Godard was also thoroughly identified with the revolutionary politics of the age, and his film-making reflected this: he set up a film-making collective named after Dziga Vertov, the Soviet director of Man with a Movie Camera, helped to shut down the Cannes film festival in 1968 in sympathy with the student riots in Paris, and collaborated with young Marxist student Jean-Pierre Gorin on Tout Va Bien, a study of a strike in a sausage factory featuring Jane Fonda.

Godard also met, in 1970, film-maker Anne-Marie Miéville who would become a regular collaborator, and later partner after the breakdown of his second marriage, to Anne Wiazemsky, who had starred in Godard’s 1967 study of student radicals, La Chinoise.

As the 70s moved on, Godard’s strident political and intellectual stances began to lose their cachet, and his work reduced in impact in the 1980s – though, improbably, his 1987 film of King Lear, reconfigured as a post-apocalyptic farce featuring a gangster called Learo, was financed by action specialists Cannon Films.

His 2001 feature In Praise of Love marked a comeback, being selected for the Cannes film festival, while the release of Film Socialisme in 2010 preceded the award in 2010 of an honorary Oscar (the citation read: “For passion. For confrontation. For a new kind of cinema”). Typically, Godard failed to collect it in person. His 2014 film Goodbye to Language saw him pick up a major film-making award, the jury prize at Cannes, and Image Book, which was selected for the 2018 Cannes film festival, was given a one-off “special Palme d’Or”.

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9 people you would like to get to know better

I was tagged by @alittleflashvibe. Thanks, Flashy. ⚡️

1 - 3 ships - Ann Marie and Donald Hollinger, Lucy Scarborough and Zach Greenfield, and Eric van der Woodsen and Damien Dalgaard (doing ships I don't post about much to shake things up).

2 - first ever ship - I'm never sure, and I probably say a different ship every time. I know I one of my first big ships was Stevie Lake and Phil Marsten from The Saddle Club books.

3 - last song - Chokehold by Adam Lambert

4 - last movie - The Apple Dumpling Gang? Maybe?? I'm almost certain I watched something more recently than that, but that's all I can think of.

5 - currently reading - Very slowly working on Kilmeny of the Orchard by L.M. Montgomery. Also still need to finish the Anne books.

6 - currently watching - Rewatching Frasier season 1.

7 - currently consuming - A Dairy Queen cherry limeade.

8 - currently craving - Ice cream. Shoulda got one while I was there, but I knew I'd be too stuffed from dinner. 🍦

9 people to tag - some of the folks I was gonna tag already have been tagged, soooo let's do @magic-is-real-sometimes @music-stories-and-lots-of-sleep @vividly-violet and @fictionandmusic, all of whom have been my mutuals for A While, but y'all might have fun with this anyway.

#tag thing #alittleflashvibe #vividly-violet #magic-is-real-sometimes #music-stories-and-lots-of-sleep #fictionandmusic

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emmashouldbewriting · 1 year

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Dearest Emma, Marmie was right. Jo and Laurie were too much alike in temperament and he's too young for Jo and Jo would definitely be miserable if she had to be in Laurie's social circle (imagine Jo in parties & pretty dresses!! The horror!!). Amy was the one for Laurie (their scene at the lake is my absolute fave romantic scene) and Prof Bhaer was the one for Jo (he understood her and gave her space). I admit I'm bias, because hot temper Jo & Laurie were paired with even tempered Amy & Friedrich, and that's me and my husband. Me impatient with bursts of temper and him with infinite patience & good humor. Anyways, I like your books, got them from library, and fun facts: I only started reading romance less than 10 years ago. My usual reads for the longest time were murder mysteries and serious books (lots of historical fictions!! biographies!! books with life lessons!!). Then daily life got heavy, needed something fun, started with Sophie Kinsella. Then Lianne Moriarty (not her recent ones, those are bad) and Jojo Moyes. Now I have Jasmine Guillory in regular reads (she's so good!!), Helen Hoang, Alexis Daria, and many others (mostly young-ish authors), including you. Life is better with romance books!! And murder mysteries books, those are still my number one faves, probably because my first books were Enid Blyton's the Famous Five. Agatha Christie, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women; those are my most re-reads. Recent good books were the latest RIchard Osman's Thursday Murder Club (the Bullet that Missed), Jasmine Guillory's Drunk in Love, and Courtiers by our main rota Val Low (his writing was very good, much better than his writing in the Times). Currently reading Mrs Harries Goes to Paris (Queen Camilla's recommendation) and TBR is Hennesy's Queen Mary's bio, Maggie O'Farrel the Marriage Portrait, and the new Jojo Moyes. My Hogwarts house is Gryffindor, but I cheated at the sorting quiz, and I know that deep down I'm a Hufflepuff. And I only want corgis and golden retrievers in every books, including yours (I don't like cats, sorry to your babies, they're cute tho').

Oh, I know Marmie was right now, but there are some things you never get over LOL

Life is best with romance AND murder books, if you ask me! I love cosy mysteries and is my usual reading, there isn't much romance on my kindle tbh!

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primary muses.

women

elizabeth 'lizzie' opal rojas | fc: rosa salazar. retired drug dealer trying to make a name for herself in the digital art world when she's not waiting on tables at a greasy diner.

felicity isabel mendoza | fc: odette annable. former biker girl in her teenage years, now a single mom and midwife who is undoubtedly the glue to her family.

nancy inez martin | fc: deborah ann woll. mousy former combat medic dealing with so much trauma from war that she's in compassion fatigue and in need of human warmth and connection.

peyton marie tower | fc: halston sage. the nepo baby who dared to be something else, refusing money and fame from her tech giant CEO father while forming a legacy with her small-town game shop.

soleil jessamine smith | fc: madison davenport. rebel without a cause seeking the spotlight, trying so desperately to be different from her backwoods roots but losing herself in the meanwhile.

twyla mae mooney | fc: margot robbie. a rainbow personified, left a cushy cosmetology job in north carolina to do makeup and costumes in los angeles.

una carys tempens | fc: samara weaving. petty thief and stripper, all in the name of supporting her much younger twin siblings while her mother suffers from drug addiction.

men

beacon jace namara | fc: daniel kaluuya. old soul music teacher in love with jazz, constantly seeking gigs where he can show off his trumpet skills.

elisha 'eli' james king | fc: jon bernthal. loud but also a sweetheart of a former firefighter from jersey living in a firewatch lookout in honor of his late best friend.

ezekiel 'zeke' isaiah lim | fc: steven yeun. mid-tier gamer/streamer who is the anchor of his large family, having spent a lot of his 20s caring for his mother who was diagnosed with alzheimer's once he graduated college.

ford atticus smith | fc: adam driver. quiet and stoic veteran who is taking care of his large family farm, as well as running his own ferry business across lake pontchartrain in lousiana.

jamie alexander thompson | fc: paul rudd. english professor and lover of sports with a few published books, mostly a dork but also occasionally perceived as a dilf.

jesse gabriel mendoza | fc: jd pardo. fresh out of prison and trying to find his place in society again, keeping out of trouble by taking care of his motorcycle and dabbling in tattoo art.

kirk tiberius james | fc: andrew garfield. longtime comic book artist looking to make his big break in the profession while managing a coffee shop in a college town.

quinn 'soap' philip shepard | fc: pablo schreiber. brooding mercenary with hardly a soft spot, thinks with his fists before his brain, and will likely try to intimidate anyone who dares to peer behind his guard.

**horror-based AU details under the cut.

please go to each individual muse to see the horror-based plot ideas i have for them! and please keep in mind muses aren't limited to the plots i've quickly scribbled down for them. i'd love to explore more verses and horror-based fandoms! some of my favorite horror movies/franchises/genres include but are not limited to:

the conjuring/insidious/the nun

evil dead

saw

slasher - child's play, friday the 13th, halloween

nightmare on elm street

ready or not/you're next

the thing/alien/predator/annihilation

pearl/x

the witch

hereditary

giallo-type stuff/dario argento horror

#masterlist

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janeeyreheresy · 1 year

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Stupid Girl

All the facepalms by all the regulars of all the Star Treks (ALL of them, including all the new shows and the Kelvin timeline) are not enough facepalms for this.

Jane, at the beginning of the story, was a naïve and inexperienced girl. That is no longer so. She bravely escaped the only home she had, with nowhere else to go, fell to an almost literal rock bottom, met people outside of her previous limited experience--not teachers at girls' schools or servants in country mansions--had long talks with a man other than Rochester, lived by herself in a small cottage, therefore running her own household, getting groceries etc, instead of having staff to rely on with domestic tasks. She inherited a fucking fortune, making the commendable decision to split it with her cousins because she felt they deserved it. Yet she has not learned a thing.

You know why I think Jane chose to divide the twenty thousand four ways? Because she wouldn't know what to do with all that money. She made no use of it. The only activity she found pleasure in was giving Moor House a good scrubbing, top to bottom, to make it ready for Christmas, and buying some new furniture and decorations. She started learning German, because Diana and Mary did so, later Hindi because St John asked her to, and occasionally taught at the Morton school, but that was it. Briefly she considered going to India as a missionary, not because it was something she was passionate about, but on St John's suggestion.

When she first came to Thornfield, before the arrival of Rochester, she found life there dull and it was dull. But here she is, all the opportunities for excitement at her doorstep, and she doesn't take them. She does no travelling. She takes no trips to other cities, or to London, to museums, or theatre or opera, or just sightseeing. We know she sneers at fashion, but surely she likes some type of clothes, at least she can't be wearing the same thing every day. In that interrogation by Rochester at the beginning, she admitted she's not read many books and those she did were not very learned, but there's no sign of her buying any new books. The Marmion she reads was a gift from St John. She likes painting, but seemingly has no interest in visiting galleries. To put it plainly, she has no fucking life.

She doesn't open her own school, but I'm thinking she doesn't actually want one--at the time, in the gypsy fortune teller episode, opening her own school was the best it could get for her. Now that she has money she has more options, obviously, she doesn't have to go on "schoolmarming" for the rest of her life. (I mean, who would want to...) Except she doesn't even consider any other option. She's still never visited a city. Or the seaside. All her life experience is limited to countryside; to villages and country mansions. The only men she's ever got close to are Rochester and St John. No wonder she has such a scarcity mentality. She doesn't believe life can get better for her. She's not yet twenty, her whole life ahead of her, healthy and of sound mind and rich to boot. Yet she does an absolute fuck all, apart from listening to St John's long monologues. She thinks she will not marry, not because she doesn't need to depend on a man anymore, or out societal pressure, but because she doesn't believe anyone would ever love her, she doesn't believe there is any man for her, despite talking to all of TWO men in her life.

She likes to paint, yet seeks no new landscapes to capture with her brush. Explore the world, or England at least, Jane! Visit York, see the Minster, the Shambles. Go to the Lake District. Go to the coast. (Anne Bronte loved Scarborough, she died there too, poor soul...)

Yeah, so that double fare didn't cause any dent in her finances. I know that. She was still stupid to pay it, though. Whether she got there on the same day, or on the morning of the next would have made zero difference.

Jane continually looks down on other women for being shallow but it's not that she's that deep herself. Honestly, all she cares about is Rochester. Nothing and nobody else exists for her. During the month of their engagement, she worried she was making him her whole world. She knew being that obsessed with him was not a good thing, but she did nothing to change it. Even after she put a physical distance between herself and him. She was in the prefect position to get over an ex. New life, new friends, and even a new fortune. But no. She passes judgements on everyone that crosses her path, yet brags about not getting over a married man.

There is being in love with someone. And there is being stupid.

The next day, Jane gives an account of what she went through after her escape from Thornfield. Rochester starts asking about St John, as he features so heavily in her narrative (what can I say, I wish he didn't). You know what Jane does now?

She teases Rochester with St John. Because St John was good looking and young and of good character (in Jane's eyes; she likes him, she just isn't in love with him), she is able to make Rochester jealous. Which... girl.

Too little too late. It's like sending a health and safety inspector to Thornfield the day after it burned down. What's the use of it now? She's just travelled all this way to see Rochester, clearly she has no intention to be with another man. She is sitting in his lap, for heaven's sake.

She should have done this when she was still his governess. When the merry company was there and Rochester was pulling that stunt with Blanche. True, there was no suitable guy for that around, but that wouldn't matter, she could have made one up. Say, for example, she comes back from her day or afternoon off and Rochester asks her what she's been doing and she says "oh nothing much, met an old friend from Lowood today for a cup of tea in the village, he used to give us music lessons, he's on his way to Manchester for a new job but stopped by here so that he could see me, we were such good friends back in the day, you know." Even better, ask for an extra time off when the said friend is passing by, so that she can meet him. It doesn't matter if she'd spend the time sitting alone in a village pub.

Another one to file under "what could have been".

And it's not that her teasing goes on for long. Pretty soon she spills out the truth, that St John doesn't mean anything to her and neither does she mean anything to him, that he only wanted to marry her because she would make a good missionary wife.

"But if you wish me to love you, could you but see how much I do love you, you would be proud and content. All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence for ever.”

Sir. And she used "my master" sixth time (to the reader, not to him).

He tries to protest, pointing out his disabilities. He compares himself to that chestnut tree under which he proposed to her, the tree that was struck by lightning. (The tree deserved better. Rochester didn't.) Jane responds by continuing with that metaphor and he thinks she means they would be friends (she just declared her love for him (again) but okay).

“Ah! Jane. But I want a wife.”

Of course you do, Edward. Who else will look after you? Mary does all the housekeeping tasks, but it's only a job to her and she has her own husband.

Marriage is beneficial to men. Married men live longer than single men. Don't believe all the lame "ball and chain" jokes.

So he asks her to marry him and she says yes. He emphasises that she will have to wait on him, but she's happy with that.

Of course she is happy with that. She literally walked back into his life carrying him a tray. She'd give her life to serve him. She's always done what he asked her to do, things that were outside her job as a governess. She sat in the drawing room with the guests at Thornfield, she stayed up at night when he needed her to, she kept running to his bedroom the night Richard got stabbed to fetch things, which included a highly suspicious substance (that everyone seems to ignore), she complied with his demand not to talk to Richard, she didn't advertise for a new job when she believed her stint at Thornfield was coming to a close because he told her not to advertise, she keeps calling him "sir" and "master" long after she is not his employee and has her own money. My master, my master, my master, waah-waah-waah. The good, obedient girl, who will help him bury the body. That's Jane Eyre.

And yes, Jane was in no position to refuse her master's orders, especially not as a live-in staff. But she doesn't even wonder why he gives these orders. So much time she spends in her head, talking to the reader, observing Blanche's behaviour, suspecting Grace of arson, pondering Richard Mason's existence, but she doesn't stop once to think about Rochester's motives. Not "why does he make me sit in the drawing room, what's his game?" Not "why should Mr Mason not to talk to me?" Not "how come he has a vial full of liquid from an Italian charlatan? What does he use it for?" The only time she doesn't comply is when she runs away.

At the beginning, when she arrived at Thornfield, she thought it strange that Mrs Fairfax was so friendly to her, when she believed her to be the mistress of the house. But she showed no such surprise when the real master started behaving like a friend.

I think it's real shitty of her to not even acknowledge that Grace Poole wasn't the bad guy after all. But if she did, if she, only in her head, said to herself, "I've been a real fool suspecting Grace of criminal activity", she'd have to also acknowledge that her beloved master was a piece of shit.

And it wouldn't kill her if she allowed at least one semi-friendly thought towards Richard Mason. She didn't have to like him, or talk to him if she didn't want to (not because Rochester demanded it), but again, she could have at minimum acknowledged that it was nice of him to care about Bertha, despite everything she was. And if she really cherished the hope of meeting her newly found uncle one day, why didn't she ask Richard about him?

After they agree they'll marry, Rochester goes on to say that he was wrong in what he did but--let me copy it here:

“Jane! you think me, I daresay, an irreligious dog: but my heart swells with gratitude to the beneficent God of this earth just now. He sees not as man sees, but far clearer: judges not as man judges, but far more wisely. I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower—breathed guilt on its purity: the Omnipotent snatched it from me. I, in my stiff-necked rebellion, almost cursed the dispensation: instead of bending to the decree, I defied it. Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the valley of the shadow of death. His chastisements are mighty; and one smote me which has humbled me for ever. You know I was proud of my strength: but what is it now, when I must give it over to foreign guidance, as a child does its weakness? Of late, Jane—only—only of late—I began to see and acknowledge the hand of God in my doom. I began to experience remorse, repentance; the wish for reconcilement to my Maker. I began sometimes to pray: very brief prayers they were, but very sincere."

I don't know. It's at best a half-assed apology. He found Jesus. And it only refers to his demanding her to become his professional mistress. Nothing about all the other stuff, or how awfully he treated the women he had relationships with.

He called her name--loudly--that time she heard him in Morton. But she doesn't tell him she heard him, so as not to frighten him. I can buy it. It's a gothic novel. Still more believable than her collapsing on the doorstep of the people who turned out to be her cousins.

I would have liked it better had he added "waah-waah-waah".

He swears he will live a clean life from now on.

Not like he has any choice. He can't be running off to London or Europe and chase after women anymore. He can't host parties because: 1. nobody wants to attend 2. Ferndean Manor is a hole and a dump 3. he can't see. Sneak in a 4. what is his financial situation now?

Lovers reunited or not, the real winner of this chapter is the driver who got the double fare. I hope he spent it wisely.

#jane eyre #edward rochester #rochester is a villain #stupid stupid STUPID girl #jane eyre meta

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Infodump on me about Dorothy Wordsworth pretty please

Okay!

Her full name was Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth, and she was born in Cockermouth (obviously double entendre but it's pronounced kind of like cocker-muth for people who aren't familiar), England, on Christmas day in 1771, making her just a year younger than Wordsworth. Her mother died early, but she was very close with her siblings, which were the famous William, Christopher, Richard, and John, and she had a fairly happy childhood. She wasn't very close with her father, who was a lawyer for an earl (which meant that they had a large mansion in town), but when he died in 1783 it still greatly affected her.

After her father's death, Dorothy went to lived with her aunt, Elizabeth Threlkeld, in Halifax. While there she was like... okay... but didn't get to see her brothers at all and judging from letters etc from the time missed them greatly, especially William.

She was finally reunited with William in 1795, and they quickly became inseparable. Coleridge also enters the picture in 1795, and he was also very good friends with Dorothy, including the fact that several of his poems in Lyrical Ballads were probably conceived of on walks with Dorothy, not William. She was also legitimately very concerned for Coleridge during his later drug-fueled downward spiral, which in a period where addiction and mental illness were seen as moral failings shows that they were really very good friends.

Dorothy Wordsworth is most famous for her journals, and rightfully so. They are priceless biographical information on the whole Lake Circle, and they give a good window into daily life in rural England during the early 19th century, and they contain some of the best description of natural features around. She also, however, wrote some poetry, which is really nice and really hard to locate, and wrote large sections of a guide to the Lake District, which was published under William's name.

Hills To Die On for me about Dorothy Wordsworth:

She didn't want to be published, and she gave William permission to use the writing of hers that she used. Attributing it to only his name was kind of a dick move, but her never being published under name was a deliberate move by her, because she was famously self conscious and too shy to publish. Whether or not this was because she lived in a misogynistic society and had been taught that women should be seen not heard or just because she was naturally this way isn't really clear I guess, but her never being published under her name was her idea. Terfs who want to use her as a case of "poor oppressed woman :(" can go die especially, not only for obvious reasons but also because saying that she was nothing but a thing for William to be a dick to makes me rabid

The chances that she was in romantic and/or sexual love with her brother William are very very slim. That kind of thing happened in the past (unfortunately) but 1. she didn't seem interested in any of that very much at all 2. the whole William-Dorothy-Coleridge-Mary-Sara (Hutchison) dynamic was really really weirdly close in the first place so like. it wasn't an isolated thing that she just talked about him like that 3. if you want to see chemistry her letters to her friend Jane Pollard are a billion times more 'woww what was going on with you guys' so make of that what you will. There's always a chance that something was going on, but like. personally I think it's really small and as someone with siblings and very close friends it just looks to me like a mixture of those relationships

Some random things about Dorothy:

she was the same height as Thomas de Quincey (4'11")

that time Coleridge walked through a thunderstorm to the Wordsworths' house and was like "I finished Christabel!" and she was like "well I don't feel well so you have ten seconds to get the fuck off of my property"

one time she went out to buy plants and bought so many that she couldn't carry them and had to leave them sitting in the middle of the road while she ran home for help

all of her accounts of people she met while wandering around Grasmere at night are pretty interesting, including a guy who completely unprompted started talking about how the middle class would become obsolete without revolution, a family that said they couldn't have a house so they were just kinda wandering around the uk on foot for a bit, a lady who started asking her where Coleridge lived, and a boy who was carrying a sack of meat and coins over his shoulder

she sometimes went to funerals of people who didn't have many friends or family members just because she could and because she felt bad for the person

overall she just lived the absolute cottagecore dream as her daily routine was pretty much just "baking bread and gardening and writing poetry and wandering the countryside"

And to finish, things to learn more about Dorothy:

there's Frances Wilson's The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth for a biography, but let me be totally honest, it's really boring and pretty much just "well idk. maybe she thought this maybe she didn't" for 350 pages. read it if you want, but

going straight to the woman herself and reading her journals is always my go-to. you get the facts and her personality really comes through, they're great

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3 Terrifying True Hotel Horror Stories Animated | Definitely Avoid These 3 Hotels!

In the heart of Savannah, Georgia, where Spanish moss drapes like age-old curtains and cobblestone streets whisper tales of the past, stands the Marshall House Hotel. As the oldest hotel in the city, its walls steeped in history have borne witness to events that have woven the rich tapestry of Savannah's past. From its days as a hospital during the Civil War and the yellow fever epidemic to its present-day existence as a beloved landmark, the Marshall House's story is one that intertwines the past with the present in a hauntingly beautiful symphony.

Similarly, nestled amidst the bustling streets of San Francisco, California, is the Queen Anne Hotel, a Victorian-era treasure rich in both history and mystery. Once a boarding school for young girls, its elegant structure now serves as a sanctuary for modern travelers and, according to popular belief, for spirits from times gone by. The hotel captivates with its blend of past and present, drawing visitors with promises of luxury and the hope of encountering something supernatural.

Moving further inland, we come to the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, an iconic landmark set against the majestic backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. Renowned for its eerie reputation and supernatural allure, the Stanley Hotel has been immortalized in literature as the inspiration for Stephen King's novel "The Shining." Its grandeur and regal demeanor belie the ghostly tales that have woven themselves deeply into its fabric, making it a destination not just for luxury seekers but also for those intrigued by the paranormal.

Each of these historic hotels holds within its walls stories that blur the line between reality and the supernatural. Guests and staff alike have reported mysterious encounters that defy explanation, from ghostly apparitions and eerie sounds to inexplicable movements of objects. These tales serve as a reminder that history is not just a collection of facts and dates but a living presence, continually interacting with the present.

The Marshall House Hotel, with its tumultuous past as a hospital during times of war and disease, bears the scars of its history in the form of lingering spirits and eerie occurrences. Guests often speak of hearing harrowing screams echoing through the corridors at night, reminders of the hotel's harrowing past. The Queen Anne Hotel, once a haven for young girls under the care of Miss Mary Lake, now harbors the benevolent spirit of its former headmistress, who is said to tuck guests into bed with a gentle touch. And the Stanley Hotel, with its infamous Room 217 and spectral residents, continues to captivate visitors with its tales of ghostly encounters.

Despite—or perhaps because of—their haunted reputations, these historic hotels remain popular destinations for travelers seeking a glimpse into the past and a brush with the supernatural. Their stories serve as a reminder that history is not just a collection of facts and dates but a living presence, continually interacting with the present. As night falls and the shadows lengthen, the echoes of yesteryear play on in ghostly whispers and phantom melodies, reminding us that the past is never truly gone.

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Having the opportunity to explore this year’s Met Costume Exhibit ‘Women Dressing Women’ gave me the chance to learn just how big of a role that women had in helping shape the fashion industry into what it is today. Presented in what I would call a four act play, act I titled ‘Anonymity’ begins with the entrance of women in the fashion world. Dressmaking was first seen as an extension of domestic work in the 16th century done by women, but as the growing vocation made its way to the United States women would begin embroidering their work as to have it be rightfully credited to them, but also helping fashion historians keep track of who designed what.

Act II is what I could only cheekily refer to as “old maiden clothes.” Or the birthplace of female autonomy in creating pieces such as lingerie and evening gowns. As I was walking through this part of the exhibit I couldn’t help but chuckle at the idea of some of these pieces being considered lingerie. For example, when staring at Marie Gerber’s ‘Evening Ensemble’ I kept thinking how conservative it is when I compare it to big lingerie brands such as Victoria’s Secret and Savage Fenty. Having grown up on those brands it’s not that strange to see why I would think Gerber was being a bit too modest with her design. Another of my favorite look from this act included Jeanne Lanvin’s ‘Cyclone’ evening gown who would create her own boutique with no financial backing.

Act III titled ‘Agency’ and could be compared to the third wave of feminism, saw a more revealing woman break into the scene. With the rise of the British Punk scene and popular rock bands like The Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols and Black Sabbath, it inspired British designers like Betsey Johnson and Vivienne Westwood to help create a new, edgy look that could match this subversive culture. Fashion was no longer just for the elite, it became an important symbol in cultural revolution and rebellion. Something that women designers could understand and relate to as they continued to push into the mainstream and make their collections not just works of art but a loud disruption to a corrupt and stiff society. Some of my favorite looks from this act include Betsey Johnson’s ‘Paraphernalia’ that I consider paying homage to the rise of hippie culture and the Beatles smash hit ‘Yellow Submarine.’ It was made most famous by model Baby Jane Holzer. Vivienne Westwood’s ‘On Liberty’ recognizes the British High Class and fun fact Vivienne Westwood’s second husband Malcolm McLaren was the manager of the Sex Pistols and Vivienne would often times design their wardrobes growing popularity for both her and the band. I would also be remiss if I didn’t mention the work of Ann Lowe, an African American designer who would go on to make, and then remake the day before due to a flood in her basement, Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress which she would receive no credit for.

Act IV titled ‘Absence/Omission’ would introduce the “modern woman” created to feature and examine the inclusion of women with different body types as well as showcasing designs made for women who live with disabilities such as Aaron Philips who would have a mannequin modeled after her wearing peices designed by Collina Strada. Aaron Philips is most notable for her debut in the Moschino Fall ‘22 show. This act will also feature pieces from Danish designer Jasmin Søe who creates ensembles for those who live with achondroplasia(little person syndrome) as well as Ester Manas who is known for championing plus size women with her creations.

Though my favorite pieces would in this exhibit would come from Marie Grazia Chiuri ensemble for Dior. Marie captures everything I love about Dior, the combining of high luxury activities with haute couture to match in this fencing inspired ensemble. Tory Burch’s 2024 resort white dress is simplistic in nature but reminds me of something out of the classical Swan Lake ballet show(or if you’re a bit edgy the 2010 cult film ‘Black Swan’). Along with Simone Rocha’s couture dress that I can absolutely give no notes on, these would be my favorite pieces that I found myself coming back to often. Donna Karen’s ‘93 evening dress is honorably mentioned too due to Hillary Clinton wearing it (very distastefully in my opinion) at the 1993 State Dinner. However the gown itself was beautiful and reminded me of a longer version of Maddie Perez’s New Years dress in season 2 of ‘Euphoria.’

Overall these collection was both inspiring to see. I have only had the opportunity to visit the Met costume exhibit twice. The previous time focusing on works of Karl Lagerfeld. This exhibit however taught me more about women’s role in fashion and their struggle to breakthrough than any fashion course I could potentially take. The importance of preserving this history is obvious. Without the knowledge of Ann Lowe, Jackie Kennedy’s famous wedding dress would have continued to go uncredited and a Black woman would have been forgotten to history. These are the types of exhibits that matter. In preserving and showcasing our history, we are able to teach and inspire a new generation of fashion critics, designers and models to see what is possible in this amazing industry and if you find yourself in New York I would highly recommend making time to check out the exhibit.

#dior #fashion #new york #vivienne westwood #betsey johnson #tory burch #simone rocha #met museum #fashion history #black history

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