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ourbygoneage · 1 year

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Ch 15: Making Connections Verse 3

As the group moved through the dark, damp tunnels, they couldn't shake the feeling that they were being watched. Suddenly, they heard the sound of footsteps echoing through the cavernous space, and before they could react, they were surrounded by a group of men in old-fashioned suits and fedoras, each wielding a gun.

"Looks like we've got ourselves some trespassers," one of the men sneered.

Trace stepped forward, holding his hands up in a gesture of surrender. "We're not looking for any trouble," he said calmly. "We're just passing through."

The leader of the group didn't look convinced. "What are you doing down here?" he demanded. "This is our territory, and we don't take kindly to strangers."

Tailor tried to step in, hoping to use his tech skills to diffuse the situation, but before he could say a word, one of the men raised his gun and fired a warning shot into the air. The group flinched, and Erzabet bared her teeth in a warning growl.

"Easy there," Rachelle said, holding up her hands. "We're not here to cause any trouble. We just need to pass through this area to get to our destination."

The men exchanged a look, and for a moment, it seemed like they might let the group go. But then, one of them spoke up.

"You can pass through our territory, all right," he said slowly. "But first, we're going to need something from you."

Erzabet let out a low growl, and Trace shot her a warning look. "What do you want?" he asked, trying to keep his voice calm.

The man stepped forward, a wicked gleam in his eye. "We've been hearing about your group," he said. "We know you've got skills and resources that could be very valuable to us. So we're going to take you back to our boss, and he'll decide what to do with you."

The group exchanged a look of resignation, realizing that they had no choice but to go along with the men. As they were led away, Erzabet muttered under her breath, "This happens every time I go underground. I should have known better."

#ambushed #captured #underground #Prohibitiontunnels #trespassers #notrouble #territory #warningshot #destination #valuable #resignation #everytime #vampireproblems #chronological

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somevagrantchild · 6 months

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Window shopping on the Rue Royale.

Why are none of the good stores open at night? #vampireproblems

Featuring me! Photography by @monstersinthecosmos

#vampire chronicles #interview with the vampire #the vampire lestat #lestat de lioncourt #cosplay #new orleans #photography

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highladyluck · 6 months

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Tag Game: 9 Favorite Characters

I was tagged by @anyboli, @asha-mage, and @spectrum-color (Stop! stop! I’m already tagged!)

Aladdin (Disney’s Aladdin)

This is definitely where my love of the rogue-with-a-heart-of-gold archetype started. Lay the blame squarely at his bare feet. I watched all the sequels including the direct-to-VHS Aladdin and the King of Thieves.

2. Mat Cauthon (the Wheel of Time series)

He’s 12 different literary/historical/mythological references slapped together, chained to a lovable rogue archetype, rolled in accessories, doused in foreshadowing, and given #vampireproblems. He probably has ADHD and dyslexia and definitely has anxiety. I’m obsessed with him and I have the essays to prove it.

3. Fortuona Athaem Devi Paendrag (the Wheel of Time series)

Liking Mat is the gateway drug to liking Tuon, at least in my case. She’s so fucking weird and mysterious and infuriating and I really wanted to understand her and her role in the story. Then I wanted to figure out how to fix her. Now I still want all that but also I want to make her worse, make her make other people worse, and just generally Put Her In Situations. She is endlessly fascinating to me and I want to chew on her until I rip out her squeaker. Then I will put in another squeaker and the process will begin again. My username, originally chosen because somebody else snagged matrimonycauthon, has very appropriately become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

4. Ael i'Mhessian t'Rllalielu (the Rihannsu series)

No one should be surprised that I love Diane Duane’s take on the Romulans, and Ael is the archetypal honorable Romulan type that Star Trek originally introduced. As the aunt of the Romulan Commander in the Enterprise Incident (the Federation steals technology from the Romulans) she has good reasons to hate Captain Kirk and the Federation personally- but as the tagline says, when there is no help from her friends, she turns to her enemies. She’s the star of the Rihannsu Star Trek novels: start with either My Enemy, My Ally for the first book or the omnibus Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages.

5. Tertius Lydgate (Middlemarch)

I was trying to sum up what I like about him and I think it’s something about the quiet tragedy of good intentions and ambition getting banally corrupted by unquestioned systems, practical considerations, and bad but personally inevitable choices. If you’ve ever worked in nonprofits or a b-corp, you may recognize yourself in Lydgate in a way that will make you uncomfortable. Or maybe it’s just me? Anyway, go read Middlemarch. It is always the right time in your life to read Middlemarch.

6. Tau-Indi Bosoka (The Masquerade series)

I’m love them! Tau-Indi is such a sweet person, and they follow a favorite character arc of mine: characters whose assigned or chosen role is to be the best representative & highest expression of their specific ethical and political milieu, and then they experience or learn something that forever disqualifies them from their former role, and then they have to keep on existing and build their sense of morality and place in the world from the ground up, on firmer foundations than the ones they started with. Also an excellent foil to Baru.

7. Miriam Beckstein (the Merchant Princes series)

Merchant Princes is basically an isekai story where a biotech journalist finds out she’s a long-lost heir to a group of alternate-universe-teleporting refugees. It’s not actually very fun for her at first, but she’s making it work. I love competence porn and she definitely delivers, and there’s also a very sweet slow-burn romance tied up with her funding and leading the socialist revolution of yet another alternate universe.

8. Glimmer (new She-Ra)

Glimmer? She’s just my bisexual teleporting deeply morally questionable power fantasy, it’s not that deep. Also she’s hot and I love her hair.

9. Mark Pierre Vorkosigan (Vorkosigan series)

What an incredible foil! Every time I read him I’m so impressed by how fucked up he is and how hard he’s working to figure out who he is and develop in a direction he chooses. Control issues, daddy issues, sexuality issues, identity issues… he’s an entire wall of magazines and I think he’s just great.

Tagging: @unmarkedcards @veliseraptor @ameliarating @gunkreads @liesmyth and anyone else who wants to do it

#9 characters #tag games #I am noticing some trends here

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pyjak-shit-slinger · 8 months

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#vampireproblems

#series: baldur’s gate #vg: baldur’s gate 3 #ch: shadowheart (bg3)#ch: tav (bg3)#ship: tav x shadowheart #oc: jacey harper #tw: blood

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vampsoc · 4 months

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My cat sat on my cape, trapped eternally #vampireproblems

#spoonstalk

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phoenixnakama · 3 years

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He said. "You had hard time with me for long time, so go, visit the beach, swim and relax. You are old enough, the sun can't hurt you". #sketchadayapp #sketchaday #sketchdaily #dailysketch #oc #vampireart #vampireoc #vampire #vampireproblems #swim #swimart #digitalsketch https://www.instagram.com/p/CTJnG1tMjua/?utm_medium=tumblr

#sketchadayapp #sketchaday #sketchdaily #dailysketch #oc #vampireart #vampireoc #vampire #vampireproblems #swim #swimart #digitalsketch

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7hirteenclothing · 3 years

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❗️WARNING❗️ KEEP OUT OF DIRECT SUNLIGHT 📸 The stunning @lenascissorhands #summergoth #vampireproblems #nosferatu #7hirteenclothing 7HIRTEEN.COM https://www.instagram.com/p/CSiNAmuNZHw/?utm_medium=tumblr

#summergoth #vampireproblems #nosferatu #7hirteenclothing

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u-mind-me · 4 years

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The view from my desk while I’m recording the @u_mind_pod (creepy babies need love too!) . . . If you watch our videos, you’ll see that I usually film with either a pink, red or green light. I’m pretty light sensitive, and being a digital artist and painter, I’m either staring into a glowing monitor or a brightly lit art board for hours on end, and I need to spare my eyes whenever I’m able. . . . Lower wavelengths (red light) are less harsh for me, and green light (though I use it sparingly) is less taxing than white light but allows better differentiation of details in the environment (I used a green light in my interview with @nyxievonrose). One can’t discount the added atmospheric bonus as well! . . . And of course, bright lights cause my nictating membrane to deploy, to protect my eyes from possible ultraviolet radiation, and that looks bad on camera! 👽 Now you know!#redlight #greenlight #brightlights #podcasting #podcastersofinstagram #podcastlife #podernfamily #creepydolls #spooky #creatureofthenight #hybrid #alien #hybridproblems #amarathian #vampire #vampireproblems #goth #angelic #babies #creepybabies #lightsensitivity #theumindpodcast #skypesessions #creepingwaveradiopodcast #lucidnapproductions #dollies (at Vista, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCogzrXpk6G/?igshid=yb4tsoitow6p

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awesome-monica · 7 years

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How much convincing did Bella have to do to get Emmett to try Halloween candy again...he seems to forget how bad it is every year. Nessie thinks this is the best part of Halloween!

#Emmett Cullen #renesmee cullen #bella swan #bella cullen #happy halloween #VampireProblems #the twilight saga #twilight

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hrhprincessbitch · 5 years

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It looks like the school is hosting a blood drive in my honor for my birthday. Go donate blood to help people live and not for a vampire birthday feast/jamboree. #vampireproblems https://www.instagram.com/p/B35lRgggJtt/?igshid=z3v4ahrqt893

#vampireproblems

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puffdragonpuff · 7 years

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Does summer

Depress anyone else? Like all the other seasons make me cheery and active. But summer fucks me up hard...

#brujapost #vampireproblems #paleskin #ithurts #legithurts

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highladyluck · 4 months

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My Minor Meta

Part 3 of my Reference Posts series! These are the not-quite-as-comprehensive posts about the white-hot pulsating core of my WoT obsession, or posts about other WoT things I find interesting. Sometimes the line between these and jokes I take seriously is quality, length, or how much they shaped my thinking.

Categories:

The Science/Metaphysics of Wheel of Time

Mat

WoT on Prime!Mat

Tuon

Mat/Tuon

Mat & Other Characters

Other Characters

The Seanchan

The Ajahs

The Science/Metaphysics of Wheel of Time https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/642695973462786048/highladyluck-the-math-behind-adding-male-and Linking rules are based on electron valences

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/687528565697396736 Robert Jordan's Gals Law states that the power of a woman’s personality varies inversely with her height.

https://wot-tidbits.tumblr.com/post/636152027386380288/highladyluck-its-been-a-while-since-i-looked-at Age of Legends Moonbase truthing (also RJ dumped Africa into the sea)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28398306/chapters/69585366 Fic: Fly Me To The Moon, where Talaan din Gelyn and Bodewhin Cauthon teleport to the moon. Also invents a spacefaring backstory for the Sea Folk.

https://www.tumblr.com/highladyluck/636134450633326592/one-of-the-most-irritatingly-compelling-things Every day I am haunted by Robert Jordan’s batshit worldbuilding

https://www.tumblr.com/highladyluck/704437824685015040/wheel-of-time-theology-oh-yeah-the-devil-is The devil is real and he’s leaking out of hell

Mat https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/666229600066650113/eotw-reader oh my god Mat what is your problem

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/643398044203761664/in-honor-of-absolute-favorite-dumbass-mat-cauthon Early Mat Cauthon Playlist

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/634094870653550592/i-started-looking-up-mats-family-in The Theory of Big Cauthon Energy

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/642151079975534592/i-know-this-canonically-happened-in-the-gathering Mat's too good a liar to do elaborate backstories

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/681289701813108736/is-there-anything-word-of-the-creator-definitive https://www.theoryland.com/intvsresults.php?kwt=%27mat%27s%20luck%27 On whether Mat's luck is the dagger or ta'verenness (I'm firmly in the former camp)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30434337 Fic: How To Spot A Grey Man; relevant meta is the idea that Mat's ability to spot Grey Men comes from the dagger

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/658499271022280704/mat-cauthons-terrible-horrible-no-good-very Mat's #VampireProblems (this is one of my most popular playlists and it's been a really useful framework for me to think about Mat)

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/680481481243639808/robert-jordan-and-this-is-mat-cauthon-my-adhd RJ sent Mat to military school to fix his ADHD

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/667381653566603264/run-son-of-battles-playlist Run, Son of Battles Playlist

WoT On Prime!Mat https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/666111991091527680/been-thinking-about-the-wot-show-character-blurb Thoughts on the WoT on Prime character blurb for Mat

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/668701687303766016/thoughts-on-wot-on-primemat Thoughts on WoT on Prime!Mat

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/672024739162800128/i-like-this-observation-they-are-the-most The unreliable narrators got the most screen time increase in show vs book

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/703105973430206464/luckhissoul-wait-did-the-gifmaker-add-the-little foreshadowing win in S1

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/730438025904046080/i-liked-the-mushroom-tea-as-an-alternative-to Season 2 Mat

Tuon https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/686332178014093312/tuon-is-the-kind-of-asshole-who-looks-gift-horses this bitch looks gift horses in the mouth

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/662761130347855873/winters-heart-ch-14-you-certainly-were-not Tuon and fear

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/645230396513058816/tuons-empathy-doll-shot-he-remembered-the-face Tuon's empathy doll shot

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/664206707888635904/faile-and-fortuona-some-commonalities Faile and Fortuona parallels

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/640667946003415040/my-5-favorite-wasted-join-me-speeches-in-wheel Favorite wasted join-me speeches

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/648805384399749120/ok-remember-that-scene-in-tgs-where-rand-attempts The Rand vs Tuon scene I'm obsessed with

https://www.tumblr.com/highladyluck/649354806063988736/tuon-i-have-some-knowledge-of-herbs-me-at Why Tuon knows first aid

https://www.tumblr.com/highladyluck/651024860391342080/fortuona-athaem-devi-paendrag-playlist Tuon character playlist

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46184641/chapters/116270389 Fic: Daughter of Battles, Wheel of Fortuona (aka the fem!Mat/Tuon courtship retelling that is maybe saying something about gender but mostly saying a bunch of unsettling things about Tuon)

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/665901848609325057/how-it-started-how-its-going-matrim-cauthon-is Premise & teaser for the fic The Fox That Makes The Ravens Fly, which is basically me trying to get Tuon to commit to reforming Seanchan in the main book canon while still keeping her in charge of Seanchan troops at the Last Battle.

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/731430893058654209/for-the-fic-questions-3-4-17-and-37 actually a lot of people remember Hawkwing's face & I'm obsessed with kidnapping Mat's baby

Mat/Tuon https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/665656421206163456/mat-in-book-1-i-stole-this-so-the-accompanying the stealing is non-negotiable

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/647084040929886208/mat-correctly-reads-a-situation-mat-thinking the seed of all the superstition/prophecy/influenceability meta

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/634706790960037889/robert-jordans-like-alright-were-doing-a Spelling out the trip to the underworld

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/679997042603458560/mat-i-can-fix-her-its-just-gonna-take-a no fix! only make worse!

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/652249065525002240/tuon-and-mat-each-have-their-fate-hidden-in-the Mat and Tuon have their fates hidden in the other's name (absolutely excruciating puns warning)

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/738629196659703809/i-truly-thought-there-were-no-more-worlds-to Tylin is a pun too

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/710084122473857024/what-im-learning-from-the-kiss-marry-kill-poll oh god imagine introducing Mat to Empress Radhanan

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30425868 Baby's First Knife; relevant meta is the idea that Mat's first problem with raising a kid in Seanchan culture is going to be the assassination attempts. Not that the kids channeling won't be an issue down the line, but this one is big and urgent.

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/641433164386091008/for-the-fic-title-meme-lay-down-your-crown-and Outline for "Lay Down Your Crown and Sword" which is an exploration of Mat's immediate priorities post-LB (convince Tuon to abdicate; when that fails, kidnap baby.) The accompanying playlist is all Mountain Goats songs, so this is mostly a 'bad ending' for them.

Mat & Other Characters https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/190503592888/theres-a-bit-in-cot-a-cluster-of-rosebuds-about Abell is a used car salesman and you can fight me about it

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/612294199398760448/the-moment-in-amol-where-egwene-is-like-oh-shit Egwene and Mat trading the same thought

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/680549423170879488/mabus101-and-i-were-talking-about-your-mat-flicker Here's how Mat/Nyneave could happen

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/669388289337376768/setalle-anan-is-also-one-of-my-absolute-faves secondary characters in Mat's circus arc

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/723416667921776640 Perrin as the Dragon Reborn

Other Characters https://www.tumblr.com/highladyluck/636254191659188225/i-went-from-wow-i-hate-lanfear-shes-very-bad-at How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Lanfear

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/644290325380251648/anyboli-highladyluck-just-like-every-time I love Elayne because she could do so many atrocities

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/673001095251050496/sixth-light-reading-the-wheel-of-time-companion The Green Ajah needs Elayne and her ter'angreal skills

https://www.tumblr.com/highladyluck/695239911816691712/we-should-be-grateful-that-elayne-never-got-chance Mad scientist Elayne masterpost

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/683956402992087040/why-egwene-is-really-good-at-inventing-weaves Why Egwene Is Really Good At Inventing Weaves

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/639618641871224832/highladyluck-yall-is-galad-like-that-because Why Galad is Like That

https://www.tumblr.com/highladyluck/636639559899348992/rating-the-forsaken-an-incredibly-subjective-list Rating the Forsaken

https://www.tumblr.com/highladyluck/642309620823654400/wheel-of-time-relationships-where Assassination is a WoT love language

The Seanchan https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/611623395692544000/i-have-too-many-things-to-do-already-which-is https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/665252064193118208/wot-musing-the-seanchan-and-aiel-as-parallel extremely vague thoughts on the parallels between the Aiel and the Seanchan

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/701098314375020544/an-adventure-in-conlang-etymology-or-we-cant Mardhol ('We can't keep calling it Randland')

https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/691590789349916672/a-tragic-update Ajimbura is proof that mainland Seanchan is not a monolith

The Ajahs https://highladyluck.tumblr.com/post/644381100851036160 How the Ajahs will change post-series

#wheel of time #the wheel of time #wot book spoilers #wot on prime #wot meta #meta #mat cauthon #tuon paendrag #problematic fave tuon #mat/tuon #seanchanposting #mad science elayne #mardhol #every day I am haunted by robert jordan's batshit worldbuilding #highladyluck reference post #reference post 3 minor meta

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