#swords would be a must

[who-gives-af]

thought: a horror movie set in the victorian era where they have to survive through something like in the ritual or the blair witch project. may write something and see if it even seems good but like. idk the thought of a bunch of victorian women slugging their way through the wilderness and getting caught in some sort of supernatural thing they cannot and will not understand is truly doing it for me. also would def include wlw rep bc i said so

#victorian lesbians my beloved #just like. they fashion clothes better made for surviving out of their dresses #they have infighting but learn to grow closer through it #someone may die but also idk #remains to be seen #also kinda like the idea of a midsommar-esque ending but instead of only one surviving they all decide #to join the community that worships the supernatural being #and that community accepts every type of love and even encourages wlw and mlm #like. the vibes im getting from this >>>> #swords would be a must #but also addingthat they’re actually quite familiar with survival tactics from reading things for no reason #and using common sense #i love it #story #horror #victorian

[appeypie]

Demise and ghirahim remind me of rose quartz and pearl from Steven universe

DO IT FOR HIM…..

#I cannot disagree anon #there are a couple.. themes that rose/pearl gets into that I don’t think fit them and I would not like to explore with ghirademi but #the vibes are simply immaculate #I don’t know if I could explain what I mean. my brain is fried. but I hope you all understand #the legend of zelda #skyward sword #ghirahim #ghirademi #demise #crossover #Steven universe #also I’m so sorry to the su tag for putting this bullshit on your feed but hi #I must tag appropriately #ask #anon

[vitamin-zeeth]

Matt is so correct Colin is just the player character in the Calorum video game. He doesn't know what he's fucking doing and literally just latched onto the first guy who gave him a Quest and has not left him for 2 years. He looks exactly like every Skyrim/Assassin's Creed/other similar game player character. I can just imagine him going around pressing X to interact

#hes so average except he has a sword and is bad at talking to people #like npc characterss are so one with the setting theyre basically lart of the furniture while colin is just in the wrong place #tell me he wouldnt go into a shop to get supplies and the shopkeeper would go 'welcome traveller. You must be new around these parts' #this is a man who would walk a few steps away mid conversation and start breaking a barrel and whoever hes talking to would keep speaking #like 'i think im gonna figure out how to just hang out on the roof' yeah said everyone playing any open world game ever #d20 #dimension 20 #the ravening war #trw #colin provolone

[otaku553]

A certain first encounter

#genshin impact #demon slayer #crossover #kaedehara ​kazuha #shinazugawa sanemi #first chapter is in progress for the fic lmao I just felt like doing a little drawing of their first meeting #why is sanemi so hard to draw actually #I love the idea of kazuha seeing the demon slayer uniform and just noping the hell out of there #not shown because I didn’t plan this comic out great: sanemi has just seen kazuha killing demons with a broken nichirin sword and #nichirin swords are generally only within the corps— but Kazuha’s not a demon slayer clearly #which means to sanemi that he must have stolen the blade somehow or picked it up from a corpse somewhere #which sanemi will absolutely get angry about #anyways their second meeting both of them are definitely more eloquent but also no friendlier with each other #really pushing it in the fic with how sarcastic and passive aggressive I think kazuha can be #never seen him interact with Raiden directly sadly so very little reference to go off of on kazuha interacting with people he doesn’t like #I’m determined to believe that kazuha would be extremely petty but in a classy way if someone pushed his buttons enough

[avieaerie]

Have some sword dancing 🗡️

Description under the cut:

[ID: Mollymauk Teafleaf from Critical Role. Mollymauk is a purple skinned tiefling, wearing a heavily embroidered red and teal coat around his waist as a skirt, patterned leggings and a long teal scarf around his chest, trailing it's ends over his arms. He is facing away from the viewer, standing in a spotlight up on his toes on one foot, throwing a sword in the air while holding another behind him. End ID]

#mollymauk week 2023 #mollymaukweek2023 #critical role #cr c2 #mollymauk tealeaf #cr mollymauk #i havent posted art in a loooooong while but its my blorbos week so im BACK BABYYYYY #yes i know im late but in my defense i forgot #i am SO not going to be able to do all the days but i've been wanting to draw molly sword dancing for FOREVER #ive had the idea of his coat doubling as dance skirt for awhile #also i would Kill for a bolt of the fabric that lines it. iridescent moons??? gimmeeeeee #edit: WHAT DO M E A N CARNIVAL ISNT EVEN A DAY. folks i may be stupid. i saw carnival somewhere said IM DOING IT and I didnt even check #should i check the damn blog to see what the day prompts are? NAH i saw ONE PERSON do carnival so it MUST BE CARNIVAL #whatever XD

[timothylawrence]

Just realized that Wyll's sleepwear outfit is probably a pair of pajamas he ripped/cut apart to fit him while living out in the frontiers all alone. The sleeves are obviously torn and the pants rest at his calves instead of his ankles… same with his shirt coming up short which makes me so sad actually.

#ewbie.txt #why must things be sad. im so hurt #bg3 #wyll ravengard #it makes sense!!! because why would he have nice clothes! hes been living out on the sword coast chasing devils and saving ppl or 7 years!! #i wonder if they used to have longer sleeves.... or if he's had them since he was 17... ;-;

[puppetmaster13u]

You're making me want to write about deadly decisions and I'm scared of the enemies and lovers energy they have going on inside my brain (⁠ ⁠；⁠∀⁠；⁠)

Mwahahaha, goood, yesss. lol. Perhaps you would like even more ideas >:)

#ask answered #deadly decisions #dcxdp #dpxdc #They deserve to have spontaneous sword fights #Maybe a hint of magic vibes #to outsiders it's like a pair of fae-things spontaneously trying to murder each other #Dusan Nyssa & Talia: Oh boy mother has returned we must be ready for sneak attacks from Jordan & Ellie now #They can flirt normally but No why Would they #what is the point if a reunion doesn't have at least one murder attempt and a bucket of spilled blood

[kristoffs-lullaby]

Voy a navegar en tu puerto azul

Quisiera saber de donde vienes tu

Vamos a dejar que el tiempo pare

Ver nuestros recuerdos en los mares

#song is Soledad y el Mar by Natalia Lafourcade #theyve so terribly invaded my mind #Yes i took killian’s blue eyes #This usually happens to blue eyed characters i like LOL #he looked like that one blue eyes meme u know the one i did him a favor #ouat #captain swan #once upon a time #btw did u know killian is he/they nonbinary and emma is trans all pronouns haver #theyre t4 t if u think about it #dumping my captain swan hcs here for mo reason other than i must talk about them #in my perfect world killian is shorter than emma #killian taught emma to sword fight #emma taught killian to drive but he hates cars so she drives him everywhere #he WOULD however give motorcycles a chance #his love is his ship tho but u cant get everywhere via sea smh #emma would only call killian babe when shes quoting something btw i know this in my heart #the only contact killian has saved on their phone is emma’s every body else whos ever texted/called him has remained as Just A Phone Number

[thatswhatsushesaid]

currently thinking about just how much su minshan was willing to sacrifice--of himself, and of other people who relied on and trusted in him--to protect jin guangyao

goes 2 my knees, clutches my hair

#suyao #it's The Devotion™️ ok??? #he abandons his whole sect at the second siege of the burial mounds for jin guangyao #he will pull a sword on both hanguang-jun and zewu-jun over the HINT of a slight against jin guangyao #he puts himself in mortal peril and ultimately dies brutally to protect jin guangyao #uggggGGGGHHHH #i'm fine!! i'm fine #(i'm not i'm really not) #edited to add: like!!! regardless of how you choose to interpret the nature of the relationship between them #i don't think it is a stretch to look at sms's devotion to jgy and interpret it as something beyond friendship #or beyond the loyalty of a vassal to his liege lord #and i think what most fucks me up about their dynamic (in a good way) #is that sms never expects the same depth of devotion from jgy #given how deeply seated minshan's resentment towards the gusu lan is and how easy it is to trigger #a truly nuclear grudge response in him (looking @ u jin zixun) #i remain endlessly fascinated by the years he must spend knowing that jgy would always choose lxc over him if he had to #and yet he does NOT become bitter or resentful of jgy over this #he does not make his devotion to jgy a problem for jgy to manage #like if you lean into the one-sided shipping angle he's like a guy who has fully embraced his place in the friend zone #is he fine with it?? who knows! but he isn't going to make his feelings on the matter jgy's problem #anyway i love him send post #emotional support henchman

[bleaksqueak]

Groose is the best Zelda character, no one can change my mind.

#I still haven't played tears of the kingdom so no spoilers for that pls #unless groose is in it #then you must tell me #I know he's not in it though #because god can only descend from his heaven once #else the power of his divine spectacle would melt all whose greed deigned to gaze upon him twice #I can never choose between twilight princess /skyward sword/majora's mask for which zelda is my favorite #and it hurts my soul a bit to see just how many “OCARINA WAS YOUR FIRST ZELDA IF YOU'RE AN OG FAN” statements there are #when my ass was over here like “...the first zelda was my first zelda....hahaaha..haha..haohno” #this isn't me bragging about being a “REAL FAN” btw this is me measuring the gaze of mortality by zelda entries

[youareunbearable]

Watching Bridgerton and My God all im craving rn is Valinor!Russingon with Regency Era courting style

Hand kissing, balls with big sparkly outfits, courting seasons, Maglor willing and ready to shoot Fingon for kissing Maedhros and breaking his brother’s heart and honour by not marrying him after (CAUSE ELVES ONLY MARRY/LOVE ONCE!!! HOW DARE YOU NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY!!!), a Russingon scene with the "I Burn For You" line

Feanor would also be just like Anthony at the beginning of season one, scaring the hell out of all of Maedhros' suitors until his wife forces him to back off, Maglor and Feanor alternate between telling Fingon to Watch Himself and treat Maedhros with respect

Oh and a scene with Nerdanel with a heartbroken-but-doing-his-best-to-hide-it Maedhros, asking him if he really does want to marry the Teleri Prince, because all she wants for him is to be happy and marry for love, not power, like she did. And Maedhros with a schooled face and heartbroken eyes, who knows his family NEEDS political ties, NEEDS a favorable connection like what a good marriage would bring, just smiles at his mother and says that this marriage would be a good thing, would bring their family honour. And Nerdanel’s heart breaks for her beloved son who was put through so much and is sacrificing So Much

All of the other Feanorians are also there and doing the absolute Most to be Problems On Purpose and getting front row seats to their eldest brother's train wreck of a love life

#amber rambles #Silmarillion #russingon #maedhros #fingon #Nerdanel #maglor #feanor #listen i just think maedhros would marry himself off to make sure his family is secure #and with rising tensions he knows his father isnt making friends in court and so he Decides To Marry #slap this drama into the place instead of the sword waving thing because now feanor is TOO BUSY to care what nolo wants #his First Son wants to marry and MARRY OUT OF THR FAMILY????? NO!!!! but ofc i cant make his choices for him #SO THEN IT MUST BE THE ABSOLUTE BEST FOR MY FIRST SON #and maglor is throttling mae like How Dare You Try And Leave And Make Me Heir??? Do You Hate Me??? #mae gets so many suitors and Fingon is boiling with jealousy and Nolo is like Ohhhh Whats This??? You Also Want Marriage??? Great #and announces in court that his son is Looking For A Wife and Fingon is Distressed cause he doesnt want a wife he wants Mae #then Drama happens and its so fun

[inamindfarfaraway]

Many people have said that Stephanie Lauter deserves a song of her own giving more insight into her mind. I agree. She's a really interesting character when you ~think about the implications.~ I've written about what a deceptively tragic character she is here. I wish the duality of her being cool and popular at school but having her own parent as her bully was explored more in Nerdy Prudes Must Die, to show her contrast with the losers. So I wrote this! It would take place when Steph thinks that Pete stood her up after saying he'd help her study, before much character development. It ties into the themes and motifs of NPMD (e.g. power, control, religion), very much being Steph's counterpart to "Cool As I Think I Am", and I would love for you to analyse it. Or make any comments on it.

@mollyjeanne615 @blueskiesandstarrynights @peterstankoffski @keepthebeanscool

#i LOVE her #stephanie lauter #steph lauter #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #hatchetfield #would steph be able to reference macbeth and the sword of damocles? #probably not #but. songwriting! #solomon lauter

[mayasaura]

sorry if someone has asked this before, but is there a canon explanation on how Wake ended up revenant-bonded to Gideon's sword? and if not, do you have any theories? trying to figure this out after my reread of harrow

No one ever explains exactly how it worked in the books, or at least they haven't yet, but they do give us enough general information about revenants to come up with a theory.

Short version is that she probably first formed a connection to the sword while Gideon was visiting her bones, and was called to it by the blood offerings that naturally happen when an energetic child is first learning how to use and care for a blade.

Longer analysis of what we know about revenant theory and how it relates to Wake under the cut, because of who I am as a person.

So here's how I've pieced the events together:

When Wake died, the first thing the nuns of the Ninth did was call her spirit back to ask her "what the fuck?". In chapter one of Gideon the Ninth, Gideon says that the shade of her mother "could not be tempted back for fresh blood or old," and describes her soul as having been "too far gone" for conversation by the time the nuns "had tethered her by force". That's obviously what the nuns told Gideon, though knowing what we know now about Wake I'd guess it was more a refusal to participate than faded strength. Either way, they did manage to force her back, if only briefly.

It's established in the Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex that calling a spirit can be enough to create a revenant bond, even if the spirit doesn't make contact. The nuns briefly trapping Wake's soul is how she initially became a revenant.

Okay, cool. So that's how she stuck around on the Ninth, but how did she get from her bones to Gideon's sword?

To have a revenant bond, she needs to have first had a thanergetic connection. None of the specific examples Ianthe suggests in the lesson with Augustine apply to Wake and the sword. It's a standard-issue Cohort sword taken straight from the still-wrapped box eight years after Wake's death. It wasn't used to kill her, it wasn't buried with her, and she had no connection to it in life. So there's no ready-made explaination to find there.

The important thing from that lesson is the concept of how those connections form: all it takes is exposure to a strong source of the revenant's thanergy. Usually that's something to do with their death, or something buried with them, but it doesn't have to be. If the person was murdered, just having come in contact with the murder weapon could be enough to form a weak connection. Seeing as a revenant has a much stronger connection with its corpse than it does to its murder weapon, the same is probably true of something that has touched the bones of the deceased.

That might be enough on its own to explain how Wake got there, but I think it being specifically a sword she was connected to helped strengthen the connection. It's mentioned several times that ghosts are hungry, and that revenants feed. The first offering made to tempt their hunger is always fresh blood. The most reliable source of fresh blood on the dried-up Ninth was probably Gideon and her sword, while she learned how to use it. Fumbles while learning drills, a slipped hand while sharpening or cleaning, that kind of thing. With Wake already having a connection to the sword from exposure, fresh blood being regularly applied to the blade could have tempted her revenant to take up residence.

The funeral niches of the Ninth House aren't closed; Gideon just chucks a rusted sword into one to get rid of it in chapter four of GtN. The bones are just chilling on little stone shelves, out in the open-ish air of the catacombs. All it would have taken for Wake to form her initial connection would be for Gideon to lean the sword against the edge of Wake's niche so that it brushed against her bones. It could have happened accidentally. Kids also do weird stuff sometimes, especially when they're trying to process big shit like dead moms and neglect. Maybe Gideon laid the sword in the niche with Wake to share her prized possession with her mother.

I'm going to be a little more speculative here, going into the whys and hows of it all. Why blood? What is it that revenants eat, and how did Wake sustain herself for almost twenty years on the Ninth?

Augustine gives us part of the answer in his comparison of Resurrection Beasts to revenants:

Resurrection Beasts feed like revenants: they find thalergenic planets and guzzle them up wholesale, crack them open like clams, and take the soul for meat.

So revenants feed on thalergy, which is something living bodies produce and what living souls are made of. Feeding them blood does make sense, then, because blood contains thalergy. We learn that from Pyrrha, when she advises Harrow to use fresh blood wards on her room to keep herself safe from the Saint of Duty. He can drain thanergy, but not when it's mixed with the thalergy of fresh blood.

If revenants eat thalergy, that means Wake has most likely been subsisting on Gideon's thalergy, either from the blood she spills on her sword or through a direct connection with Gideon herself. Good thing Gideon's slightly immortal or that could have become a problem, depending on how much energy Wake needed. If Augustine is being entirely literal about revenants and resurrection beasts feeding in the same way, she may have even been snacking a bit on Gideon's soul.

And I don't really know if this means anything, but I noticed something interesting about the timeline.

Gideon started visiting Wake when she was seven, and Wake's skeleton was taken from its niche to be processed and added to the rotation when Gideon was eight. I'm guessing that's when Wake ditched the bones and changed her address of primary residence. The interesting part is that Gideon first started training with a sword around the same time: when she was eight years old.

But... the average height of an eight year old is 128 cm, a couple inches over four feet. The sword's six feet of steel would have been half again Gideon's height. There's no way she was being effectively taught how to fight with it at that age. I guess she could have had it anyway, to learn how to care for it and as a goal to aspire to while Aiglamene graduated her through more child-sized training weapons.

So Wake jumping directly from the bones to the sword only works if Gideon started training with a full-sized sword at the age of eight. That's not impossible, knowing Aiglamene. It's also not impossible that Harrow, who signed the order to give Gideon the sword, was already helping administer the House at the age of six or seven. Her parents don't seem to have ever imposed very firm oversight. Harrow may have had the legitimate power to do that, or maybe she started forging her mother's signature well before she died.

That's the most likely explanation, especially given how there's nothing in Harrow the Ninth to suggest that revenant can fully anchor itself to an occupied living body. Wake must have needed to possess something exterior to Gideon herself, or she wouldn't have had a reason to set up in the sword at all. But a revenant can haunt a person. It can create a link, and chill in the subconscious without anyone knowing it's there. I wonder if she did that with Gideon.

Edit 11/9/22: Changed some wording for clarity and added a bit on the sword's origin to the body of the post.

#the locked tomb #tlt meta #htn spoilers #harrow the ninth #awake remembrance of these valiant dead kia hua ko te pai snap back to reality oops there goes gravity #commander wake #gideon nav #tmsods spoilers #the mysterious study of doctor sex #doctor sex spoilers #tumblr do not nuke my post it's the man's damn name #anyway yeah Gideon would not have reached her adult height for a full six years or so after getting her sword #so there MUST have been blunt intermediary child-sized training weapons #maybe they were made of plastic like Ortus' sword! #then she would need the real blade to learn how to care for one

[crown-ov-horns]

I had a dream that Apollo was training Briseis to become a warrior with divine strength. I don't remember the why, or how he got access to her, though.

Sounds like one Helll of an AU, no? She might not be able to save Troy (because fate), but she could avenge it by killing Greeks. She could even be the one to kill Achilles (she deserves her revenge, for being made a sex slave). Or, like Aeneas, she could later travel further into Europe, and be the ancestor to some great tribe, maybe even an empire.

I think, I'll put this idea on my notes (or dream journal, at least). What's with me recieving story concepts in dreams, when I already have an ungodly amount of wips.

I suppose, Apollo decided "I know what Troy lacks! A warrior prodigy teenage girl chosen one with trauma!"

#greek mythology #the iliad #briseis #diary pages #dream journal #greek mythology fandom #greek mythology fanfiction #story ideas #warrior!briseis #seriously I can't remember how the whole thing happened I just remember the concept #but hell that's fascinating #now that would be a cool twist #and her killing achilles would be the coolest thing ever #apollo #i suppose she'd be an archer?.. #Apollo is hardly a sword or speak guy #hmm if I write it Ares must join in to help his half bro train the Wrath of Troy #teenage girl warrior prodigy chosen one with trauma is the key to success usually

[glassrooibos]

I think about Fi always, every day. Every single day.

#totk #botw #loz #loz fi #skyward sword #when you hear her little TWINKLE??? #SHE'S IN THERE. SOMEONE TALK TO HER #I also think. It would be cool if maybe her whole vibe is more mature now. Since she must be ANCIENT now #Also I've swapped her legs for arms #Forgive me #I love you Fi. #illustraion #character design

[olympiansally]

The way I’ll only be happy if Kyoka is the one to save Aya, continuing the cycle of saved orphans saving others

#WHERE is Kyoka where is she #the way Kyoka is currently the holder of the skk sskk legacy #the way Kyoka must save someone else to keep the Oda - Dazai - Atsushi - Kyoka line going #the way she is simply nowhere rn #the way we’ve seen demon snow carry someone else down to safery before with Tanazaki in the canibalism arc #the way Aya can still be saved by the agency #the Kyoka can still go somewhere cmon don’t forget her don’t leave her to the side of the action #the way Kyoka is to sskk what sskk is to skk #and yet #where is she? #where is Kyoka rn is she in the airport!? #is the Kyoka who represents sskk’s work together in the airport with us rn and about to save everyone #she is the current last generation and the rest of them are all dead or dying #the way she was the last to join the agency and could be the one to save them all now #the way this would make so so so happy #anyway #Kyoka saves Aya from the fall and they get the sword out together #that is all #bsd #bsd spoilers #kyoka izumi #aya koda