#shaftlands | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

Visit Blog

Explore Tumblr blogs with no restrictions, modern design and the best experience.

Fun Fact

Total funding amounts to $125.3M.

pinkpruneclodwolf · 2 years

Text

I refuse to call Pyroxene (the previous name before the Twst English translation) Shaftlands.

It sounds gray and dreary and like it rains all the time and I get where they were coming from since Jack Howl is from Pyroxene and is based off of White Fang (read the book it eats) but like,,,, I'm still not calling it that.

Isle of Woe? More like Isle of Lamentation.

Shaftland? Pyroxene.

#twst #twisted wonderland #im so serious i will not for the life of me call Pyroxene Shaftlands #it makes no sense to me #therefore i will omit it #as a fanfic writer sometimes you realize that the original writer can be wrong its ur job to be like #no #shaftlands #sounds muddy #and rainy #and like its in a constant state of sludge snow and dirt and water and no city would sit there

15 notes · View notes

raven-at-the-writing-desk · 16 days

Text

something i noticed

A while back, I wrote this analysis reviewing how unfair the magic education system is in Twisted Wonderland. I would recommend reading that before this post, as it provides tons of context for what I’m about to talk about and add onto the discussion.

In 2-6 of the Tapis Rouge event, Vil has stylists from Luxe, a high end fashion brand, dress up Azul, Jamil, and Ace to be a part of his red carpet entourage. Once the boys come out in their new threads and makeup, Jamil and Azul, two individuals who are meticulous about details, provide some telling commentary.

According to those two, the team of stylists that helped them were mages. Azul further remarks that they were quite skilled mages and that having this kind of talent indicates a “first class brand store”. Their hair and makeup is also suggested to be done via magic, though this service is not normally performed for customers. Previously, we knew that skincare can be infused with magic (Vil does so with his own) and that magic can be used to style one’s hair (Jamil tells us in his Birthday Boy vignettes that he does his intricate hair with magic and used to take far longer with it when he lacked the precision). Idia states in book 6 that Jamil had no formal magic training before NRC, so that means Jamil was self-taught in his hair-handling magic.

… Okay but 😭 WHAT DOES THIS IMPLY ABOUT MAGIC AND CLASS??? Is it just a coincidence that the teams of stylists who staff a high class store are ALL mages? Surely not, given how uncommon mages are in the general population. The store (or maybe the brand itself?) must be going out of its way to hire them because I guess being dressed with magic is a more “luxurious” experience than the normal way. We can also guess from Azul and Jamil’s accounts that the degree of magic these staffers use requires significant skill and precision, which either means they need formal instruction or lots of practice on their own. Neither option is afforded to people with naturally low or no magic reserves at all 💀 meaning jobs like this are gated to mages only.

Now, this doesn’t inherently mean the rich and famous people who frequent these stores are also all mages (Kalim’s dad and Vil’s dad are two non-mages who are extremely wealthy and influential); the majority of them must still be regular people since humans seem to be the majority, and 90% of humans are non-mages. It also doesn’t guarantee that the Luxe stylists are paid more than a non-Luxe stylist (although I do think this is possible for a prestige brand, especially if we factor in commissions on sales).

What’s sticking out to me here is that there exists an association between magic and luxury. The reverse also appears to have some truth based on what little other lore we have; Ruggie states that there are not a lot of mages from his hometown, which could imply a history of non-mages being driven into poorer communities. It all fits together a little too well to seem coincidental… but obviously, Ruggie’s hometown is just one place and could be an outlier rather than the exemplar. We know that most non-mages must live an average lifestyle, not the extremes that Ruggie has experienced. Still, the claim that magic is typically associated with the upper class holds and it continues to be perpetuated in the lore.

Anyway, Fellow and Rollo were right—

537 notes · View notes

twsted-seas · 3 days

Text

*half wakes up at 6 am*

*checks Tumblr*

*falls out of bed and faceplants on the carpet*

SAVANACLAW ROOK?!?!?!

#marks it down along with firelight sky Jamil and shaftlands Vil as cars I Need #and all the Halloween ones too #twst #twisted wonderland #rook hunt #twst rook

219 notes · View notes

merakiui · 29 days

Note

i have a feeling that the moment they drop azul’s look for the new hometown event, you’re going to go weak on the knees for him again, i’m calling it

also masterchef azul soon mera!!!!

aaaa you're right,,, (⸝⸝⸝- ᴗ -⸝⸝⸝ ;) I fear I am always weak when it comes to new Azul cards. Every day I hope and pray for Azul hometown event ssr (or Jade ssr,, PLEASE, TWST!!! RELEASE MY LOVE FROM SSR JAIL!!!!!)...... I will be weak in the knees for the Coral Sea event, for Azul's overblot illustration in the manga, for Azul's club card, for all of the Azul. <3

And masterchef!!!! AAAAAA I'M EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!! >w< I can't wait to see my beloved in chef attire,,, will he roll up his sleeves? What dish will he cook? What expression will he have in the groovy? So many questions!!!

#twisted chit chat #sr azul in shaftlands event............#my knees are already so weak orz #praying they let my love show more skin like in suisui

54 notes · View notes

lucyfloyenworkshop · 9 months

Text

Twisted Wonderland: 5 Homeplaces and Countries I wish to see in futurs “Travel Events“

It’s been two years now since the first Twst’s “Travel Event“ Scalding Sands' Al'ab Nariya was released. In theses events, groups of four NRC’s students goes to explore and discover countries outside of the College’s ground. Event if the unstanding Crimsom Flowers and Bell of Salvation that take place in the City Flowers (XVI century like Paris) and Port Fest : Breezy Brass Beat make us discover the town that separate Night Raven College and Royal Swords Academy are indeed “Travel Event“, I will focuced there on the “Travel Event“ which NRC main characters’s to visit one of them’s homeland.

So there is a kinda of Top five of the homeland/birthplace that I wish to see in futur “Travel Events“ :-)

1) Briar Valley (Malleus, Silver, Sebek and Lilia)

I don’t where to start for that entry...

It’s feels so unreal. It’s just wasn’t so expectating to see Briar Valley and that beautifull tribute Evelyn Earl art for Sleeping Beauty by designning the forest just like he’s. When, at the end of Chapter 7 Part 3, the forest background appeared on screen with this little soft medieval medley, I was crying of joy... before Past’s Lilia show up and Part 4′s releasing. I am currently working on a review centered on Part4′s narrative and lore events, and artistics easthetics (I hope to published it before Part 5 releasing ( There is too much things that I wish to talk about T_T )) but in paralle to give a such turmoil of angst, tears and melancolia, Part 4 give more expectations and for finaly seeing Briar Valley.

I wouldn’t be suprised that some time after the end of Diasomnia Arc, we got a Briar Valley’s Travel Event. Even in the Main Story, the only Valley’s locations that are revelead to us are the forest and a frontier wasteland. The rest of the time we got the area’s map with the charaters in front. We heard and read that they goes into villages and towns... And I thinks it’s on purpose. First, to stay in the dream/memories’s easthetics (some locations are clear in our mind while others, of least importances are shady or blure) but also, indirectly give us, tease us with that countries, so often mentionned by Diasomnia boys, but so mysterious. Like them ( and the others characters) make us care and wanting to discovred their homes.

In plus of the towns and folk only evocated in the Main Story, I wish to finaly see Silver and Lilia’s house, the rest of Zigbolt family, how the relation involted between Humans and Fairies and also modern days Royal Castle ! And one of the castle’s location, I wish to see, is Malleus’s Roses Garden ^///^

According to Malleus's Silk Adorned Voice Lines, one of Briar Valley traditions is the creation of fabrics by spinning wheel. It’s can be an interesting festival. Even if, the fabrication of the fabrics from the transformation of the flax fibers to fabrics will be assist by the using of magic (as is the Briar Valley fairies’s way), the final production’s qualily may be depend of both the imagination and emotions of the group (elements that are the base of magic in Twst Lore) and also the bound between them. It’s can be, like Elinor and Merida’s tapissery a way to restore the bounds between the characters, after Diasomnia Arc...

2) Northern Pyroxene/Shaftlands (Jack and Vil)

We need to talk.

If in Sunset Savanna's Tamashina-Mina, I can understand that he couldn’t take part to the story (I means Leona, didn’t cross your mind that an artic wolf beastmen cannot handle a place so hot !) but Haverston... The whole story is about one of Jack’s trainning... Sledge !!! It’s true that Jack’s intervention could change at some point the story and perphash put some shadow on the team and Epel’s leaderships. I don’t know... But still, it’s been a long time that Jack don’t had his glory’s moment.

More I read, listen trivias and stories about his hometown, his familly, more I wish so deeply to see to discover his hometown. For some reason, it make me imagined it in a kinda place as a kinda Alaska land type, just like in Brother Bear or Disney’s adaptation of Jack London’s White Fang. In theses both movies, and specialy in Brother Bear, we see how, Nature is an unstanding wonder.

I imagine the group leading by Jack participated at some exploration races across the mountains, maybe setting during autumn. And all alongside Jack’s little brother and sister. I think he is the only student with Jamil ( and Idia) to have blood siblings much younger than him. All the others are olders and already having a job. I wish to see them so much ! Who they look !! To know their names ^^

3) Port O’Bless (Sam)

I know ins’t a NRC student’s homeland. It is Sam’s but he is one of NRC’s character ;-)

I loved and still love so much the Princess and the Frog . I remember when I see it for the first time in the movie theater. The movie is so beautiful , the music so entrainante (Down to New Orleans, Friends form the Other Side etc), the story, the charaters, Dr Facilier... Everyting is so gorgeous. I wish so much to see the NRC’s boys go there !

According to Jamil Union Birthday Personal Story, in which we got some informations about the town, Port O’Bliss is the setting of many movies productions. It’s can be an opportunity for the Film Studies Club to goes on location for studing/exploring or even better making a short movie on famous filmming locations ! To make references to New Orleans’s Quartier Français and its legends... In that same Personal Story, we learn, like in the animated movie and real life’s New Orleans, music take an important part of the town’s history. I know that mascarade, and music processions like Port Fest ~Breezy Brass Beat or Crimson Flowers and Bell of Salvation were the main topic but, like for Jack’s potential event, may be there is a way to make a twist of theses topics and bring theses in Port O’Bless’s esthetics.

With Crimson Flowers Event (Let My Wish Resound) and Chapter 6 (Absolutely Beautiful , Ya-Hoo with Everyone!, Piece of my World’s NRC tribe version), we got indeed some songs, but Twisted Wonderland differ from the Disney’s animation pictures. If the characters sung, it’s a performance, planned with trainning and preparation. So, like the Princess and the Frog maked a tribute to 2D muscial animationed movies, a Port O’Bliss event can be the tribute to the game inspiration...

4) The Coral Sea and the Lands of Dawning (Azul, Floyd and Jade)

To be fair, it’s was until I was preparing that post, that I realise that I was wondering about how look Octovinelle’s three unfamous residents’s hometowns and surroundings XD. Until know we know only the seeting of Atlantica Memorial Museum (Chapter 3), in what it’s can be called the Coral Sea’s “Warm Area“ because of the vivid colors of the corals, fishes, water temperatures etc... But it was reveled in Chapter 4 and recently in Chapter 7, that the northern area of the Coral sea is more cold-tempered or completely artic, with the formation of icebergs when winter came. When we take a look closer, we notice that Coral Sea occuped at least half of the map. So much of variations of submarine ecosystems and seafarers’s cultures !

According to Azul in a conversation with Riddle during Ignihyde’s Arc, there is some “intercultural gathering centers“ in the Land of Dawning that can allowed to Seafolk to meet Landfolk. The event can be based on that easthetic, meeting the Ocean and the Shore may be trought a kinda of treasure chase in a shipwreck yard... Prehasp with some pirates’s eathetics.

After Dragons and medieval legends/easthetics, I love sea and pirate’s stories. During the both Halloween Event, thank to Savanclaw theme’s booth, we got some Pirates of Carribean‘s vibes and I think that will be a good mix with a potential Coral Sea based event... or being the topic of an entire event.

5) Kingdom of Heroes (Idia and Ortho)

According to Chapter 6, it was indirectly and directly presented that, the kingdom of Heroes is the twisted version of Hercule’s Greece. We learn, trought the fun video-game sessions planned by Idia and Ortho, about the Legendary Hero’s Entrainer (Phillip), the Legendray Hero (Hercule), a authentic Hydra monster etc... But that all. Just the legacy and all most nothing of the Knigdom itself.

Since Sclading Sand, all the “Travel Event“ narrative struture is based about local festival, like fireworks in Al'ab Nariya, ritual challenge of Tamashina-Mina, or races for Kelkkarotu and White Rabbit Festival. The more close I can get and which is present in the animated picture, the Old Greek Games Festivals, the most famous ones are Olympy’s, Delphi’s or Corinth’s. Theses sportive games where organised to celebrated the Gods and a way to confront in an no-military situastions the differents cities. There was also, artistic festivals and in partirculary theater’s competitions.

But it’s where I am running out of theories. As far I wish to see that location and see a Twisted Wonderland version of Greece, there a tiny, little problematic detail... Idia. In each event there was a true and solid reason to gathering the group that will discovred the country, with ahead the student how is originated from. What could encouraged, no motivated Idia, that dear hermit, to goes there ? Not family’s reunion certainly. A convention with Olympus’s Compagny and playing with Ingihyde’s Big Five Heroes vibes or there is no need of an external motivation. Maybe, it could be the change for Idia, and Ortho, to finaly reach their childhood promise. To discover and explore the World outside and upside Island of Woe...

Twisted Wonderland is a such vast world. There is so much countries and distant lands to discover. Maybe one day we will see Cater, Riddle and Trey or Rook home towns. Some countries are only mentionned like the Kingdom of the Crimson Dragon, the Sunshine Lands or all theses territories that are charted on the map but not ( yet) named. Maybe in the futur, we, and NRC’s students, will goes in a country inspired by Brave’s Scotland, Encanto’s Columbia, Book of Jungle’s India ...

I hope you enjoyed that post. Take care where you are :-)

#twisted wonderland #twst #twst event #twst location #wishlist #briar valley #twst shaftland #twst coral sea #twst kingdom of heroes #twst port o'bliss

42 notes · View notes

yuri-is-online · 1 year

Text

Trien is kind of underrated in the father figure department for Yu tbh. He has children, daughters sure, but multiple kids. He's got to have some left over clothes hanging around that no one's using, and if he mentions to those kids that a child from a completely different world got dropped into his school with no belongings and no real way to get some I'm sure those girls wouldn't mind shipping over a couple grocery bags of things they were "going to throw out anyway" for Yuu to pick over. If the underwear and socks are still in their packaging, well nobody needs to know.

#twisted wonderland #twst headcanons #i'm still playing dreamlight valley and got a set of overalls with a pumpkin on them labeled as “cinderella”#and had some idle thoughts of Yuu having casual clothes with that sort of embroidery because in the Shaftlands or wherever #there's a popular children's book about a pumpkin carriage

45 notes · View notes

dulcesiabits · 2 years

Note

plot twst fem! prefect is actually dating this girl outside of campus and she's been secretly sneaking out the building so they can hangout

bye i'll see myself out 🚶‍♀️

No wait come back!! You’re a genius for this!!

Fem!prefect who’s a lesbian and gets isekai-ed into twst and goes “hey. Where are all the girls haha?” And Crowley goes “oh, this is an all boys school :)” and she starts screaming and crying because what’s the POINT of going to another world if there are NO cute girls around???

Also imagine: fem!prefect being besties with Cater and going over to his house for break and immediately hitting on his cute sisters who, horrifically, start flirting back. Worst day of his life tbh

#liya answers #twisted wonderland #screaming crying begging for a new female character #an npc even. I’ll take anything #PRAYING WE GET TO SEE CATERS SISTERS IN A SHAFTLANDS EVENT

173 notes · View notes

raven-at-the-writing-desk · 4 days

Text

ace…

From the Tapis Rouge event, when the group is touring the film studio: “Oh, there’s a prison set here. Why don’t you (ie Yuu) get in there for a sec?”

Ace… I think Stage in Playful Land must have permanently changed your brain chemistry… 🤡 Fellow Honest got to you…

#twisted wonderland #twst #Ace Trappola #Fellow Honest #disney twisted wonderland #disney twst #notes from the writing raven #tapis rouge in the shaftlands spoilers #Yuu #stage in playful land spoilers

466 notes · View notes

hoboyherewego · 1 year

Text

Ok so, after finding out that Mount Moln is Swedish (meaning the area where Epel lives is probably Sweden) we now learn that finnish is an ancient language in twisted 😀