#You guys this show is so frelling good

[tropicalcryptid]

My Favorite Detail in Farscape is [Spoilers!]

Ok for real spoilers for the entire show including Peacekeeper Wars, so I'll put a gif here and you all agree to scroll on past if you don't want spoilers for a show that ended in 2004.

Ok, so for everyone still here, my all-time favorite detail in Farscape is one that I didn't catch until my second watch-through, and I don't think it's common knowledge in the fandom. (Edit: apparently it's more commonly known about then I realized! Obviously this is because Farscape fans are keen-eyed and insightful and starved for content lol). It's certainly never mentioned or pointed out in the show itself. But it's just so perfect that I get giddy everytime I think about it.

So after Crichton gets twinned, in "Thanks for Sharing," Crichton A gets injured in the bar explosion on that planet that puts lobsters on your head. He is left with a cut above his left eyebrow, and the resulting scar can be used to tell the two Crichtons apart for the rest of season 3 (Crichton A is the one on Talyn with Aeryn).

Wound in "Thanks for Sharing"

Scar visible on Crichton A

No scar on Crichton B aboard Moya.

(Also frell me it's hard getting clear pics / gifs for this show somebody get on that)

Anyway, the scar/injury is never really addressed after that first episode, it's just a super-subtle costuming detail that shows the two Crichtons are now living separate lives. Crichton A then dies after finally achieving everything he ever wanted, Aeryn is heartbroken, drama ensues. The question is raised and discussed often, with much angst: which Crichton was the real one? Did Aeryn fall in love with the original or the copy?

Of course, Crichton B eventually accepts that they were both "him" and yet both individuals too, and Aeryn eventually says "There is no longer any difference in my mind." So it's resolved, mostly.

BUT.

2.5 seasons later, at the end of "The Peacekeeper Wars" Crichton B finally activates the wormhole weapon. After Einstein unlocks the knowledge for him, he returns to Moya bloody and hurt. And for the rest of the movie, he has a wound, and then a scar--a small cut above his left eyebrow.

It's never mentioned. It happens right near the end, when obviously a lot of other things are going on. It's really, super easy to miss. But I think it's amazing. They both really were the real Crichton. And even when they split and began leading separate lives--their destiny was still the same. The timelines reunited, kinda, or two separate possible outcomes synced up. It's such a beautiful, perfect bow to wrap up one of the most emotionally powerful arcs in the show. I just love it. Farscape really is in a league of its own.

#farscape #john crichton #aeryn sun #Deep media analysis #long post #scifi #You guys this show is so frelling good #Nothing else like it #I still can't watch S3 without crying #Props to the makeup team idk whose idea it was but they did a good job

[angelofarts]

MASTERLIST OF FICS

Feels like about time to do a masterlist of fics so here you go

Music Sounds Better With You (Everything’s Better With You) - complete - fic here, moodboard here

Flynn shifted to sit up, as did Julie - they both had to get ready for class. “Why don’t you tell him what you told me a few days ago? About how music sounds better around him?”

“That’s not really an indicator,” Julie pointed out, waving a dismissive hand. “Everything is better with him.”

Welcome to Lessa’s - complete - fic here, moodboard here

Something about Lessa's seems... wrong. The staff have too many teeth and use stilted language, none of the clocks show the right time, and is that a *dragon* in the corner? But you have to admit... they make amazing coffee

This is How You Fall in Love - complete - fic here, moodboard here

A present for the amazing @flynn-taylor because I got sucked into her big bang world and she was nice enough to let me play around in it.

Dear Future Husband I Just Want You to Dance With Me Tonight - complete - fic here, moodboard here

“It is KARAOKE DAY,” Flynn announced in lieu of a greeting when Julie closed her locker. Julie snorted and picked up her backpack.

“Hi, Flynn, and how are you today?” she said wryly, looping her arm through Carrie’s. Carrie snorted and continued to type on her phone.

What’s Done is Done (and It’s Pretty Clear We Both Know That) - complete - fic here, moodboard here

“Are you sure about this?”

Julie raised an eyebrow at Reggie. “Reg, he’s your best friend.”

“But you’re like a sister to me. And I hate seeing you upset.”

Julie smiled sadly and patted his shoulder. “Thanks for dropping me off, Reg. I’ll see you in a bit, okay?”

He gave her a pointed sigh that said he wasn’t happy, but he would trust her. Julie got out of the car and took a deep breath, staring up at the Eats n Beats sign.

Build a Prom For Every Dragon - complete - read it here

“Luke is mad that Carrie said dragons aren’t allowed at prom,” Reggie said promptly, withdrawing Firefly from the pocket of his leather jacket. The baby didn’t even wake up, merely turning over to snuggle more affectionately into Reggie’s palm. “Carrie said it might be Sir Alistair’s fault, because Luke can’t guarantee that the gym won’t burn down if his dragon goes with.”

Julie frowned. “That feels like an unfair rule. Have you spoken to the rest of the committee? Surely they can’t ban everyone’s dragons just because of Sir Alistair.”

“You’d think,” Alex said drily.

You Will No Longer Be Obedient - complete - fic here, moodboard here

Fairy tales tell, as their labels imply, stories of magic, of creatures that fly. With giants and dragons and ogres and elves, and inanimate objects that speak for themselves. There’s romance and danger and plotting of schemes. There’s good guys and bad guys and some guys in between. A fairy tale also reveals some sort of truth, the perils of choices we face in our youth. But our story today is different in theme, for our hero had no choice, or so it would seem. It starts with a fairy bestowing a spell. This one’s for a baby named Julie of Frell.

The Simp verse - find the series here. Mostly complete, camp fic on hold

After her mother's death and her subsequent loss of music, performing arts student Julie Molina is at risk of not graduating from her performing arts high school in New York, possibly set to lose her scholarship to the college of her dreams. When a friend suggests a trip to LA to jumpstart her creative batteries, Julie figures she has nothing to lose and agrees.

In LA, Luke and his friends are just trying to enjoy a night out at the (very illegal) dance club they frequent. A chance encounter leads to a dance battle and Luke left with a jacket with one name embroidered in the collar - Rose.

When Carrie introduces her friends to her brother's band, sparks fly like wildfire. But Luke and Julie are both torn between the person in front of them, and the mysterious stranger they met at the club...

The Celestials Series - two fics finished, two planned - series here, moodboard here

After growing up on Mars isolated from the rest of the human race, Luke is given the chance to go to Earth to find his father. Recruiting the help of his pen pal Julie and her family, Luke will find family where he least expected to on a road trip full of surprises. But Luke is hiding a secret from Julie, one that has the potential to destroy everything they're building together.

Flowers Can’t Bloom Without Light - finished - fic here, moodboard here

Five times Julie Molina entered Camp Half-Blood, and one time she left it

Welcome to Lessa’s - finished - fic here

Something about Lessa's seems... wrong. The staff have too many teeth and use stilted language, none of the clocks show the right time, and is that a *dragon* in the corner? But you have to admit... they make amazing coffee

What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? - in progress - fic here, moodboard here

The beautiful stranger grinned, but it had twisted. This wasn't the smile of a genteel courtier trying to flirt with the daughter of a Duke at a masquerade ball. This smile glinted like the light of a candle in the edge of a blade - beautiful, but if you were careless the results could be fatal.

Julie had the sinking feeling that she'd been careless.

What Do Stars Do Best? - in progress - fic here, moodboard here

How does Julie Molina intend to capture the heart of her one true love, Carrie? Well, it's easy, isn't it. Cross the wall and retrieve a fallen star, make it back in time for Carrie's birthday, and live happily ever after.

One problem. The star has a name, and it's Luke. And he is not very pleased about being given to anyone, thank you very much.

Tumblr prompts - oneshots - series here

A range of prompts the wonderful people of tumblr provided me with 

Like a Dying Phoenix - finished - fic here, moodboard here

The zoom au that got weirdly popular, now with a fun side fic!

A Wreckingball, Three Himbos and a Dragon Walk Into a Studio - in progress - read the fic here

Magic has been passed down in the Molina line for generations, but usually it is small magic - manipulating light, helping plants to grow. When Julie shows promise for greater things, her parents insist on a full magical education to realize her inner potential. She could do great things one day with her magic - if she was not so distracted by the cute bookbinder teaching her how to make her spellbooks, that is...

Mr and Mr Mercer - on hold - fic here

“Let’s try something else. Describe how you first met.”

“It was in Columbia,” Alex offered. “Five years ago.”

“Six.”

Alex gave him a pointed smile. “Five or six years ago.”

“Why don’t we start from there?”

PLANNED OR UPCOMING FICS

Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou Romeo - moodboard here

After a plague hits the world and you’re facing the actual zombie apocalypse, you’d think your ability to be surprised would vanish. And yet Julie is about to meet the one zombie who will change her perception of… everything.

Sun Goes Down, and We Are Here Together - moodboard here

A JATP version of Barbie and the Island Princess

Like The Dawn Breaks Through the Night - moodboard here

Every year, fourteen teenagers are sacrificed to the minotaur to keep the safety of their kingdom. Alex has grown up knowing this, and has dreaded every year watching the sacrifices be picked. But this year is different. This year his brothers are being offered, and Alex wont let that happen. With the help of a dragon, a prince and a witch, Alex is hopeful that somehow he can bring his family safely home.

The Rainbow In Your Eye - moodboard here 

The JATP version of Barbie Fairytopia and Mermaidia

You’re a Lizard, Reggie - moodboard here

When Rose and Ray found out their foster son was a wizard, they took it with a smile. When he came home and brought three other underage wizards to visit, they welcomed the boys into their home. And then Julie accidentally turns her brother into a lizard and they realize - there are two magical children in this house. Or: Julie and Reggie at Hogwarts as told by their letters home.

Looking at You I Can Tell You Want Me - fic here

They’d lost.

They’d lost and there was nothing she could do about it except make the boys comfortable in their last hours.

#masterlist #my fics

[beatriceeagle]

I'm more of a fantasy than sci-fi person, but consider my interest piqued. Why should I watch farscape?

Okay, the thing is, every Farscape fan’s pitch on Why You, Yes You, Should Watch Farscape ends up sounding very similar, and that’s because Farscape is a black hole that sucks you in and does things to your brain, and after you’ve watched it you are never, ever the same, which incidentally is basically the plot of Farscape.

I would summarize the basic plot for you, but that’s work, and luckily, the show’s credits sequence includes a handy summary that I will provide instead of doing that work: “My name is John Crichton, an astronaut. A radiation wave hit, and I got shot through a wormhole. Now I’m lost in some distant part of the universe on a ship, a living ship, full of strange alien life forms. Help me. Listen, please. Is there anybody out there who can hear me? I’m being hunted by an insane military commander. Doing everything I can. I’m just looking for a way home.“

So let me break down that monologue into its component reasons you should watch Farscape.

1) Some of the strange alien life forms are Muppets.

Farscape a co-production with the Jim Henson Company, and while there are many aliens played by humans in make-up, there are also a considerable number (including two of the regular crew) who are Muppets. By which I do not mean Kermit. I mean really gorgeous, elaborate works of art.

Also, even a lot of the humans-in-makeup aliens just look cool, and incredibly weird. Here’s an alien who appears in a single episode of season 1:

Not that there aren’t, you know, occasional Star Trek-style “these guys are just humans with weird hair,” or whatever, but in general, the aliens on Farscape look really alien. And that’s more than an aesthetic choice; it’s Farscape’s driving narrative principle. The aliens look alien, they act alien, they have alien values.

You know how a lot of sci-fi shows will have a stand-in for “fuck,” like Battlestar Galactica has “frak”? Well, Farscape has “frell.” And also “dren.” And yotz, hezmana, mivonks, loomas, tralk, snurch, eema, drannit, dench, biznak, arn, drad, fahrbot, narl. Some of those are swear words, but some of them are just words, never explicitly translated, that the alien characters will pepper into their speech, because, well, why should translator microbes be able to completely translate all the nuances of an alien culture? You’ll pick it up from context. One time, in passing, a character mentions that he’s familiar with the concept of suicide, but there’s no word for it in his language. I cannot emphasize to you enough how fleeting this moment is; the episode is not about suicide, we’re not having a great exchange of cultural ideas—at the time, the characters are running down a corridor in a crisis, as they are about 70 percent of the time—it’s just that the subject got brought up, and this character needed to talk around the fact that he literally didn’t have a word, in that moment. Things like that happen all the time, on Farscape.

Because more than anything else, Farscape is a show about culture shock. John Crichton is this straight, white Southern guy, at the top of his game—he’s an astronaut! he’s incredibly high status!—and then he ends up on the other side of the galaxy, where none of his cultural markers of privilege hold any meaning, where he doesn’t know the rules, where he literally can’t even open the doors. And he has to unlearn the idea that humanity is central, that he is the norm.

2) John Crichton, an astronaut, is pretty great.

A show that’s about a straight white guy with high status having to learn that he’s not the center of the universe could easily be centered around a really insufferable person, but one of the subtle things that makes Farscape so wonderful is that Crichton is, for the most part, pretty excellent. He has a lot of presumptions to unlearn because almost anyone in his cultural position would, but he’s also just a stand-up guy: compassionate, intelligent, open-minded, decent, forgiving, brave, hopeful.

And the galaxy tries to kick a whole lot of that out of him. It doesn’t succeed, mostly, but if Farscape is about anything other than culture shock, it’s about the lasting effects of trauma. How you can go through a wormhole one person, and experience things that turn you into someone you don’t recognize.

That’s kind of grim-sounding, but ultimately, what I’m trying to say is that Farscape is almost fanatically devoted to character work. Crichton is not the only character who sounds like he should be one thing and ends up being another. All of the characters—all of them, all of them, even the annoying ones—are complicated wonders. And you don’t have to wonder whether the events of the episode you’re watching are going to matter. They will. Everything that happens to the characters leaves a mark. Everything leaves them forever changed. Whether it’s mentioned explicitly or not—and often enough, it’s not explicit—the characters remember what has happened to them.

3) The living ship houses a lot of excellent women, among them the ship itself.

Ah, the women of Farscape, thou art the loves of my fucking life.

There’s Aeryn Sun, former Peacekeeper (that’s the military that the “insane military commander” hails from) now fugitive, currently learning the meaning of the word “compassion” (literally). She will break your fingers and also your heart. John/Aeryn is the main canon romantic ship.

There’s Pa’u Zhoto Zhaan, a priestess of the ninth level, current pacifist, former anarchist. Sorry, leading anarchist. She orgasms in bright light! (Oh my god, Farscape.)

There’s Chiana, my fucking bestie, a teenage(ish? ages in Farscape are weird) fugitive on the run from a repressive authoritarian state. Chiana is like a seductress con artist grifter thief who mostly just wants to survive so that she can have fun, damn it. Characters on Farscape do not really discuss sexualities (sex, yes, sexualities, no) and it would be fair to say that several of them do not fall along human sexuality lines generally, but I’m gonna go ahead and say that Chiana is canonically not straight.

Then there’s Moya, the ship herself, and it’s hard to get a straight read on Moya’s personality, since she mostly can’t speak. But she definitely has opinions, and things and people she cares about. And she moves the plot, though that gets into spoiler territory.

Past first season, further excellent women show up: Jool (controversial, but I like her), Sikozu (I once saw a Tumblr meme where someone had marked down that Sikozu would lose her shit when someone pronounced “gif” wrong, and that’s absolutely correct, and it’s why I love her), and Noranti (who is incredibly weird, and incredibly hard to summarize, but man, you gotta love her willingness to just show up and do her thing). Plus, there’s a recurring female villain, Grayza, who I could write probably multiple essays about. (I don’t know how you will feel about Grayza, as not everyone loves her, but I think she’s fucking fascinating, especially because she’s not actually the only recurring female villain. We also get Ahkna!)

(Side note: I should mention, here, that the cast of Farscape is really, really white. There is one cast member of color, Lani Tupu, but he pretty much represents the entirety of even, like, incidental diversity in casting for the series.)

Anyway, Farscape is full of awesome women, and also awesome and unexpected men, and it really enjoys playing with audience expectations of gender roles, generally. Literal entire books have been written about the way that Farscape fucks around with sex, sexuality, and gender. It’s a little weird because it was the late 90s/early 2000s, and sometimes that does come through, but Farscape’s guiding principle was always to try not to present American culture of the time as the norm, so like. It is not.

(An aside on Farscape and sex: Literally every character on Farscape has sexual tension with every other character. If you are a shipper, this is a Good Show, because no matter who you ship, there will not only be subtext, you will get a Moment of some kind. Multiple characters kiss the Muppet. Farscape is dedicated to getting into the nitty-gritty of the galaxy—I like to think of it as showing the guts of the universe—so a lot of the show is kind of squishy. They live on a biomechanoid ship, instead of androids there are “bioloids,” there’s a lot of focus on strange alien biologies, and lots of weird glowing fluids and things. I think the sex thing is kind of part and parcel of the larger biology focus: Farscape is really fascinated with how we all eat and evolve and live and die and, well, fuck. Which is in turn, kind of part of its focus on making everything really alien.)

4) Other stuff you should know.

Farscape as a whole is excellent, but it was kind of the product of creative anarchy—an Australian/American coproduction (oh yeah, everyone except Crichton speaks with an Australian accent) that was also partnered with the Henson company, whose showrunners were based in America but whose actual production all took place in Australia, and who was just constantly trying new things. So individual episodes can vary wildly in quality. It really takes off in the back half of season one, but no season is without a few off episodes.

It is extraordinarily funny, and I really think I haven’t stressed that enough. It’s one of the shows I want to quote the most in my daily life, but almost all of its humor is really context-dependent, and if you just wander around going, “Hey Stark? What’s black and white, and black and white, and black and white?” people look at you really funny.

It’s very conversant with pop culture generally (although obviously sci-fi  specifically, and Star Trek most specifically of all) and really enjoys deconstructing tropes, often to the effect of, “Well, Crichton really does not know what to do here, does he?” but sometimes just to be interesting.

There are also a lot of themes about science, and its uses and misuses.

The whole thing is fucking epic, and if you get invested at all, will take you on an emotional ride.

This show is weird. I know that that’s probably come across by now, but I think it’s worth reiterating as its own point: Farscape is so weird. Like, proudly, unabashedly, trying its hardest, weird. An amazing kind of weird.

If you’re into fantasy, you should know that there’s a recurring villain who’s just a wizard. Like, they don’t bother to explain it any more than that, he’s just a fucking wizard.

In summary: You should watch Farscape because it is a weird, wild, emotional, epic romance/drama/action/allegory full of Muppets and leather and one-liners and emotional gut punches and love, and if you let it, it will worm its way into you and never let go, which, now that I think of it, is another Farscape plot.

Send me meta prompts to distract me from my migraine!

#farscape #meta

[theimaginatrix27]

So I’ve been on a Farscape kick for the last few days. Can’t rewatch it because I don’t have the DVD’s (or a DVD Player in my computer), or Amazon Prime where it’s hosted online, but I have TVTropes and the Farscape Wiki. Which doesn’t help me as much as I’d like when it comes to the fanfic idea I picked up again.

The premise is basically the crew of Moya, sometime between Out of Their Minds (one of my favourite examples of body-switching in any media I’ve ever seen it in, if not my absolute favourite for how brilliant it is) and the Season 2 finale (I wanna save Zhaan, you know you’d do the same thing too), encounter a dimensional rift created by the Unown, and end up in the Pokémon Universe, right near Poké-Earth. Most of the crew go down to the planet, find out about Pokémon, discover that the translator microbes help them understand Pokémon, and they sort of become trainers. Except they only use Pokéballs to prevent their friends from being captured by anyone else and as transport. Also something-something a Poké-transfer link is made between them and Moya something-something. Crichton has so much fun, but there is the neural chip to deal with. Fortunately a Ralts joins his team early on and is able to keep the neural clone subdued until she’s a Gardevoir and can Psychicly remove the chip.

Oh, and the Unown make sure everyone can be understood by the inhabitants of Poké-Earth because the Unown can do really crazy awesome things in large numbers.

There are several big reasons why I don’t think this story will make it to publishing for a while, if ever.

I missed a lot of stuff in Farscape because I’m blind. I’m still trying to wrap my head around Pilot’s appearance and whether Rygel will have to have a rig-up to throw Pokéballs, as a couple of examples. Also the interior of Moya is not something I have a good grasp on. Spatial constraints are important when there will be Pokémon going up to her. Communication as well. There will be a period of about a year where the crew (and Crais too, because we need to keep things interesting) are stranded in the Pokémon world, and I’ve decided they don’t really participate in leagues or anything. That’s not why they’re there. So they travel all over the place and can get any mons I know about that I feel would vibe with them. But there have to be some limits imposed, especially where the amount of space on Moya (and Talyn too but Crais is only one person so he could probably be more flexible) is concerned.

Because this is Farscape, I can’t help but think there’d be some conflict in how Pokémon are treated. Unless I make it a version of the Pokémon world where humans aren’t a thing, but that kinda spoils half the fun of the idea (”It’s Earth, Aeryn, but not as I know it,” +kids throwing Pokéballs at Rygel until he snaps and yells at them, +very neat tech, etc). So I’d probably have some critique on Pokémon being a slave race (which I don’t really see them as but when the aliens show up and can understand everyone...), which I don’t think I’m mentally equipped to tackle in a thoughtful and respectful way that doesn’t do a disservice to either franchise. Farscape is very deep and complex and I do not wanna frell this up.

Names. The bane of my writerly existance. Frelling. Pokémon. Names. Not normal nicknames, like those bestowed by characters in Magina, but names that the Pokémon would conceivably come with, or if they didn’t get given a name (such as Starters bred in a lab), names the Farscape characters would bestow on said Pokémon. Names are so hard guys.

So. That’s a lot. Also there’s not much of a plot yet, just goals.

Zhaan doesn’t die. She ends up with a Meganium (able to revive dead plants with a breath) and a frelling Celebi just to make absolutely sure she’s okay. Also she attracts Grass-types. I’d be tempted to give her one of everything if there weren’t so many Pokémon now.

Aforementioned means of getting the neural chip out of John’s head.

Everyone gets a circle of protectors. I don’t know if I can guarantee how safe the Pokémon will be when they go back, but they’ll all be aware of the risks.

Crais redemption arc that doesn’t lead to his death. What can I say, two of my fave characters from other fandoms are Prince Vegeta and Seto Kaiba. I like this type of chara.

John and Aeryn get it together much sooner. Because their respective Pokémon teams set them up.

I’m also torn between whether D’Argo and Chiana break up or Chiana gets her shit together (but if she did that would she still be Chiana?)

Chiana gets Dark-types by the way. Lots of them. Including a Zoroark. And D’Argo has a lucario. If anyone was going to, it would be him.

But I’m going to stop yammering about this now. I just had to get it off my chest because it’s been sitting on it for days. I may never get it to the point where it’s worth publishing. I’m not that good at Sci-fi and I just noticed I had guessed. Multiple. Spellings. Not in this post but in the files I’d written up. I can fix that easily, but still...

#Farscape #Pokémon #Farscape x Pokémon Crossover #I'm calling it #Of Peacekeepers and Pokémon #For now anyways #One of my more nebulous ideas

[maverick-werewolf]

Werewolf Fact #56 - Arthur and Gorlagon, pt 2

Wow, that last post was a hit, huh?

Here’s the riveting conclusion to Part 1, which you can find here.

And, as before, this is the translation from which I will be drawing quotes. Let’s get to it and see how this story ends!

I want to warn you THIS IS A REALLY BIG POST. So read the rest of this story under the cut - because otherwise this post will eat up my blog the moment I post it!

By the way? This is a GREAT werewolf story if you want to see a classic folkloric example of just how badass werewolves are really meant to be (and also get to see them using their paws as hands - or does he have clawed, hairy hands, as is implied by one particular passage where he takes a baby into his arms? who knows? - and breaking chains and generally being frelling awesome).

Here we go...

Well, we left off with our werewolf king ravaging the countryside, and then came a young king to hunt the beast and slay it. Our werewolf is not a fool, though, and this is yet another reminder that werewolves retain their human intelligence...

So one night when the wolf had gone to a neighbouring village, greedy for bloodshed, and was standing under the eaves of a certain house listening intently to a conversation that was going on within, it happened that he heard the man nearest him tell how the King had proposed to seek and track him down on the following day

The werewolf returned to the woods and wondered what to do. He didn’t really want to be killed by this hotshot king and his entourage of hunters. So when the king and his hounds and hunters arrived at the forest, the werewolf hid and waited for everyone to go by (hounds got nothin’ on him, good luck finding a werewolf)...

He waited until the king approached. And then he, in the spirit of Bisclavret... and I’m going to quote this entire section because I love it, so here we go--

he saw the King approaching (for he judged from his countenance that it was the King) he dropped his head and ran close after him, and encircling the King's right foot with his paws he would have licked him affectionately like a suppliant asking for pardon, with such groanings as he was capable of.

Then two noblemen who were guarding the King's person, seeing this enormous wolf (for they had never seen any of so vast a size), cried out, "Master, see here is the wolf we seek! see, here is the wolf we seek! strike him, slay him, do not let the hateful beast attack us!"

The wolf, utterly fearless of their cries, followed close after the King, and kept licking him gently. The King was wonderfully moved, and after looking at the wolf for some time and perceiving that there was no fierceness in him, but that he was rather like one who craved for pardon, was much astonished, and commanded that none of his men should dare to inflict any harm on him, declaring- that he had detected some signs of human understanding in him; so putting down his right hand to caress the wolf he gently stroked his head and scratched his ears.

Groanings, not barking. These people knew what a wolf actually sounds like. If It was a modern story, I bet they’d have said he barked... Anyway.

Then the werewolf went home with the king! He even rode on a horse. So with his new werewolf friend, the king ordered everyone home. But he didn’t get very far before a great stag appeared. Wanting to test “his wolf” and see if it would obey him, the king ordered the werewolf to go after the stag. The werewolf caught and killed it instantly.

So the king said,

"Of a truth you must be kept alive and not killed, seeing that you know how to show such service to us."

And here, yet again, we get another small interruption of Gorlagon beseeching King Arthur to eat. And again, Arthur stays true to his word and refuses. Gorlagon then resumes the story...

So the wolf remained with the King, and was held in very great affection by him. Whatever the King commanded him he performed, and he never showed any fierceness towards or inflicted any hurt upon any one. He daily stood at table before the King at dinner time with his forepaws erect, eating of his bread and drinking from the same cup. Wherever the King went he accompanied him, so that even at night he would not go to rest anywhere save beside his master's couch.

However, we come to the twist in the story...

The king had to go away for a long time, so he left “his wolf”/the werewolf with the queen. But this queen hated the wolf and told the king that she was afraid of the wolf, saying he might attack her in the night. To which the king said,

"Have no fear of that, for I have detected no such symptom in him all the long time he has been with me. However, if you have any doubt of it, I will have a chain made and will have him fastened up to my bed-ladder." So the King gave orders that a chain of gold should be made, and when the wolf had been fastened up by it to the steps, he hastened away to the business he had on hand.

And here again we are interrupted for Gorlagon to ask Arthur to dismount and eat - which he still refuses to do. So back to the story...

The king left, the werewolf remained chained up, and the queen didn’t care for him as she should have. The king ordered that he be chained up at night only, but she kept him chained constantly. And then she did something, uh, not great - she cheated on the king.

In fact, she cheated on the king with a guy in that exact bedchamber that the werewolf was in. Can you imagine - this poor werewolf. Well, he didn’t like that much...

And when the wolf saw them rushing into each other's impious embraces he blazed forth with fury, his eyes reddening, and the hair on his neck standing up, and he began to make as though he would attack them, but was held back by the chain by which he was fastened. And when he saw they had no intention of desisting from the iniquity on which they had embarked, he gnashed his teeth, and dug up the ground with his paws, and venting his rage over all his body, with awful howls he stretched the chain with such violence that it snapped in two.

When loose he rushed with fury upon the sewer [the lover] and threw him from the bed, and tore him so savagely that he left him half-dead. But to the Queen he did no harm at all, but only gazed upon her with venom in his eye. Hearing the mournful groans of the sewer, the servants tore the door from its hinges and rushed in. When asked the cause of all the tumult, that cunning Queen concocted a lying story, and told the servants that the wolf had devoured her son, and had torn the sewer as they saw while he was attempting to rescue the little one from death, and that he would have treated her in the same way had they not arrived in time to succour her. So the sewer was brought half dead to the guest-chamber. But the Queen fearing that the King might somehow discover the truth of the matter, and considering how she might take her revenge on the wolf, shut up the child, whom she had represented as having been devoured by the wolf, along with his nurse in an underground room far removed from any access; every one being under the impression that he had in fact been devoured.

Werewolf stories are so cool, you guys. I love werewolves. Have I ever mentioned that? I bet I haven’t.

And now again Gorlagon tries to get Arthur to eat something - and Arthur refuses. Thus the story is resumed.

The moment the king returned, the queen dressed herself up in blood and torn-up clothes and cut her hair short to pretend she’d been mauled by the werewolf, and she rushed to the king beseeching him to do something about it - and telling him that the werewolf had devoured their infant son. However, the werewolf heard all this and ran out of the bedchamber and into the king’s embraces--

jumping about joyfully, and gambolling with greater delight than he [the wolf] had ever done before. At this the King, distracted by contending emotions, was in doubt what he should do, on the one hand reflecting that his wife would not tell him an untruth, on the other that if the wolf had been guilty of so great a crime against him he would undoubtedly not have dared to meet him with such joyful bounds.

Happy werewolf!

Anyway, the werewolf invites the king to follow him...

the wolf sitting close by him touched his foot gently with his paw, and took the border of his cloak into his mouth, and by a movement of the head invited him to follow him. The King, who understood the wolf's customary signals, got up and followed him through the different bedchambers to the underground room where the boy was hidden away. And finding the door bolted the wolf knocked three or four times with his paw, as much as to ask that it might be opened to him.

The werewolf knows where the queen hid the son. Well, when he can’t get inside, he just busts the door down - “the wolf, unable to endure the delay, drew back a little, and spreading out the claws of his four paws he rushed headlong at the door, and driving it in, threw it down upon the middle of the floor broken and shattered.” - because you can’t expect a silly door to hold back a werewolf.

And then he picks the child up - “Then running forward he took the infant from its cradle in his shaggy arms, and gently held it up to the King's face for a kiss.”

This is such a great werewolf story, lemme tell you - noble werewolf bowing and asking for mercy, werewolf breaking golden chains, busting down doors, using his paws as hands, cradling infants in their shaggy arms-- my goodness, I’m swooning over this werewolf, here. This werewolf is the best werewolf.

So the king goes to the sewer (the lover) and talks to him about it, the werewolf wanting to tear the guy’s face off (again) the entire time. Eventually, the sewer confesses to his crimes.

And... thus follows very graphic descriptions of how the queen and the sewer both were put to death because this young king was a real fiery dude. So anyway, now they’re dead.

And now again Gorlagon asks Arthur to eat... and again Arthur refuses. He’s holding fast here. Haha. Get it? Holding fast, because he’s fasting. Anyway...

After that, this king really began to wonder about this incredible werewolf with all his intelligence and nobility. He asked his wise men what they all thought about the situation, and he tells them that he couldn’t possibly be a beast. When he says this, the werewolf gets very excited and licks the king’s hands and does everything he can to gesture that the king is telling the truth.

The king catches on, and he declares that he well and truly wants to restore this wolf to his human form, “’even at the cost of my worldly substance; nay, even at the very risk of my life.’” What a bro, this king, after all the werewolf has done for him.

So he lets the werewolf go and will follow him wherever he leads, hoping the werewolf can lead him to the source of this curse and the king can help him find a cure. He immediately went to the ocean and indicated he wanted to cross - so this king launched an entire fleet and took the werewolf across the ocean, back toward his own land.

And yet again, Gorlagon tries to get Arthur to eat. Arthur refuses.

At last, they land in the werewolf’s kingdom. There, the werewolf signals them “by his customary nod and gesture” that this was his country. The king sets off with an army - and the moment they arrive in a town, the king realizes that this particular land is under very cruel and tyrannical rule by an evil king. And somebody nearby, too, was helpfully “lamenting their master, who by the craft and subtilty [sic] of his wife had been changed into a wolf, remembering what a kind and gentle master he was.”

So now we draw to the close pretty quickly here - the king finds out the truth and attacks this kingdom very suddenly, conquers the place, and captures both this king and the queen and makes them his subjects.

Woo! Victory for him! He’s getting a lot of good stuff out of this, this king.

AGAIN Gorlagon tells Arthur to eat, and Arthur gets pretty annoyed: “You are like a harper who almost before he has finished playing the music of a song, keeps on repeatedly interposing the concluding passages without anyone singing to his accompaniment.“

So Gorlagon finishes the bloody story at long last. He tells of how the king ordered this evil queen to undo the wrong she’d done to her werewolf husband. After, you know, torturing her with all kinds of horrible things and getting a confession out of her.

Until, finally, she gives the king the sapling that started all this mess. The king then undoes the werewolf curse-

The wolf became a man as he had been before, though far more beautiful and comely, being now possessed of such grace that one could at once detect that he was a man of great nobility.

The king and the werewolf have all the best bro-hugs and the king gives the werewolf back his kingdom. Then the king yote back to his own place and they all lived happily ever after!

There’s some more, too, like how Gorlagon was actually the werewolf all along. And how he hated his ex so very, very badly that he literally kept her around and made her kiss the severed and embalmed head of her lover every time Gorlagon kisses his new wife.

Yeah. Wow. Harsh, huh? I’ve heard things about people and their exes, but... yeesh.

When I became a wolf it is evident that the kingdom to which I first went was that of my middle brother, King Gorleil. And the King who took such great pains to care for me you can have no doubt was my youngest brother, King Gargol, to whom you came in the first instance.

So now we know why there were three kings in the story, even if I skipped over the first two to get to the fun werewolf stuff!

And then Arthur FINALLY dismounts and has something to eat, at Gorlagon’s beseeching, with Gorlagon and his new wife.

The end! Wild, huh?

But we can’t deny that the werewolf in this story, Gorlagon himself, is freaking awesome.

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[hot-takes-and-random-things]

S11 E1

Thanks to @kitkatwinchester for getting me this far We’re in season 11 already? Oh yeah, here we are, giant smoke monster. Who is that?  That isn’t Rowena. LAY OFF THE HORN DUDE! Oh, it’s broken. Now it’s REALLY broken.

WE’RE GOING TO OZ, BITCHES!! The Darkness is a lady?  Okay then, we’ll go with that. Oooooooooh, nice title card. “We know jack.”  Not yet, you don’t. Hiii Cas! Hiii flashback!Crowley!  Oh shit, Crowley!  Oh? Shit? Crowley? Yeah, he’s not dead. *as Foghorn Leghorn* Boy don’t you point a gun at him! Poor city workers... they were just doing their job. Poor people.  They just wanted to go on vacation. Hello, hot lady officer.  Consider me horny. “Show me some skin!” STRIP, BOYS! Okay, this hospital is freaking me out.  I am scared. SAM! STOP THAT GUY! “This job is supposed to be about saving people.”  And doesn’t that just hit home for Dean? Excuse me what? Hello again, Darkness Lady.  Consider me horny AND scared. SAM HURRY THE FRELL UP! Poor guy.  Sam please help them. Hiii Crowley.  Crowley, you are not Q, you cannot snap your fingers and do stuff. These people are kinky.  Crowley, you can absolutely get down with that, right? Poor guy. Okay, so Sam and Dean can take the baby and raise her in the bunker, and Cas can babysit.  Or Jody can take her, because what’s one more kid, right?  Or the hot police lady can take her? Poor guy! Poor baby! Poor hot police lady!😭 More proof of the Destiel! So the Darkness is the Mark of Cain except everyone can have it? GOD DAMN IT CROWLEY! “That’s the menopause, sir.”😂 “Old and farting sawdust” lol what? “Dean, if we don’t change-right now-all our crap is just gonna keep repeating itself.”  THAT’S WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS WHOLE TIME, SAM.  EVERY. DAMN. SEASON. “Hunting things-we’re good at that.  Sure, we’re great at that.  But that’s only half of the bumper sticker, man.”  SO META😂 “Saving people means saving all of the people, Dean, not just that baby.  Not just each other.”  So true. SAM NO.  I know what you’re thinking, and the answer is no. ...Damn it guys, every single time! So the infected dude is using something to beat down the door, which shows that the infected are not just mindless JESUS CHRIST THERE WAS ONE IN THERE WITH HIM ...annnnd it bled on him, wonderful.  Ah, he’ll be fine, he just needs some Listerine. Poor Mike! Oh, hi Crowley, nice to have you back. The cage?  Michael or Lucifer?  Oh yeah, those guys. Why are most of the angels in this show complete dicks? “Godspeed.”😂 Sam, don’t lie. OH WAIT WHAT The BABY has the mark???

#supernatural #spn #dean winchester #sam winchester #castiel #reactions #what the hell is this show #i should have asked that sooner #supernatural reactions

[sarahscougall]

Book to Movie Differences: Ella Enchanted

You know when you watch a movie based on a book, and there’s that one person who points out everything that’s different from the book? Everyone loves that person, right? Good, because I’m going to be that person right now.

If you’ve seen and read Ella Enchanted, you know that they are entirely different stories. I usually say that the only thing they share is Ella’s gift of obedience. There are a few more similarities, but not that many. If you’ve only seen the movie and are wondering how different can they actually be, the answer is: extremely. Before I proceed, here is a major SPOILER ALERT for both the book and the movie. Here we go.

The Background

Ella of Frell is gifted (cursed) with obedience by Lucinda the fairy in both the book and the movie. They both have a birthday scene where she can’t stop eating her cake, and eventually her mother tells her she can’t tell anyone about the curse. The curse works slightly differently in the book though. Although Ella has to do what she’s told, the curse doesn’t do the work for her. If she doesn’t do what she’s told, she starts sweating, gets dizzy, all sorts of stuff. So if she’s told to do something she’s not good at, she has to work hard to do it right. Remember that scene in the movie where Ella is told to freeze, so she literally freezes in midair? Yeah, that wouldn’t have happened. Admittedly, it was funny. On a sadder note, Ella’s mother dies in both book and movie. She also gets her mother’s necklace, and loses it to Hattie who finds out she always has to do what she’s told. Both book and movie have Ella gifted with a book from Mandy, one of the servants. However, in the book, this gift is just a book. Sort of. More on that in a second.

Mandy

In the movie, Mandy is a young, beautiful fairy who isn’t that good at magic. Book Mandy is also a fairy, but she’s old, and Ella’s fairy godmother. She’s very good at magic, but she doesn’t use it. The idea is that she won’t use big magic that could affect other things, including changing her appearance. Fairies are more secretive about who they are in the book, in order to avoid people asking for magical favors all the time. Lucinda is the anomaly who makes herself look young and bestows gifts on people at births and weddings. Back to that book, now. Mandy isn’t terrible at magic, so this book she gives Ella isn’t her boyfriend caught in a spell gone wrong. It’s still a magic book, with maps and letters and things, but sadly it doesn’t talk.

School/Areida

Ella gets sent off to finishing school in the book. There’s a scene in the movie of a school, but it’s more of a day to day school than a boarding school far from Frell. Ella isn’t childhood friends with Areida in the book; she meets her at finishing school. Hattie does tell her she has to stop being friends with Areida, because Hattie is a horrid jealous monster. But, Ella never has to say anything to Areida because she runs away from school to do something else that also happens in the movie. Namely, searching for Lucinda at a giant’s wedding.

Ella’s Father

Ella’s family seems to be just nicely getting by in the movie. Their house isn’t that grand, as Dame Olga quickly points out. In the book they live in a manor, her parents are Sir Peter and Lady Eleanor, and they’re kind of filthy rich. It doesn’t last forever because Ella’s father, who is loving in the movie but distinctly not loving in the book, gets caught in some dirty dealings and loses all of their money. He then tries to marry Ella off, but his first choice isn’t rich enough for his liking, so he marries Dame Olga. Dame Olga and Ella’s father do marry in the movie, but Lucinda has a hand in it in the book. She “gifts” the two of them with eternal love, which Ella’s father is none too happy about, and he spends the rest of the books traveling in order to love from afar.

Ella and Char

The relationship between Ella and Prince Charmont (Char, as most people know him) is a classic enemies to lovers, at least as far as Ella is concerned, in the movie. There is no such relationship in the book. They are friends from the start, she makes him laugh all the time, and everything grows from there. There’s much more buildup in the book, too. That’s to be expected, because there’s more time to build on things, but the book takes much more time to build it up. They know each other for over a year, spending time together and writing letters back and forth, before any kissing or declarations of love. It’s understandable why the movie sped up the process, but that slow burn in the book is very much worth it.

Human to Magical Creature Relations

This one’s a biggie. The movie shows Char’s uncle (more on him later) forcing giants and elves into slavery and claiming ogres are bloodthirsty monsters. The book shows an entirely different relationship. There is peace between humans and other magical creatures, except the ogres. While in the movie ogres are said to be evil but turn out to be just kind of disgruntled, in the book they’re actually evil. Ella gets captured by NiSSh and some other ogres like in the movie, except she saves herself, and Char just shows up at the end to lend a hand. Slannen, the elf who joins Ella on her adventure, is in the book too, but he has a much smaller part. He’s the chief trader of elven goods, and he’s perfectly happy with that. No lawyer aspirations whatsoever.

Cinderella

Ella Enchanted is first and foremost a Cinderella retelling, but you might not know that if you’ve only seen the movie. The movie takes the story in an entirely different direction, with much more action and adventure. The book keeps Ella in Frell for most of the time, and has many more Cinderella parallels than the movie. Ella is forced to be a scullery maid in Dame Olga’s house, there are three balls supposedly meant to find Char a wife, Ella finds glass slippers she then wears to these balls, and loses one of the slippers as she runs away. Talking about it like that makes the book sound unoriginal, but I promise that isn’t the case. Don’t forget about the curse and the ogres and all that other good stuff.

Lucinda

Lucinda the fairy is the catalyst for all the problems Ella has. The movie has Ella spend almost the entire time tracking her down, and then when she finally finds her, Lucinda won’t help her and actually makes things worse, again. The book forces Lucinda to learn her lesson. Mandy bets Lucinda that she’s too scared to try out her gifts on herself, and Lucinda takes the bait. After her ordeal with obedience, Lucinda is horrified and renounces big magic like the rest of the fairies in the book. Unfortunately, this means that she won’t do the magic required to take away Ella’s curse, so Ella still has to find a way out of it herself.

Breaking the Curse

Ella is able to break herself out of the curse in both the book and the movie, and it is because Char is in danger. However, it’s Char’s hypothetical danger, that someone could tell Ella to kill him, that keeps her from saying yes to marrying him, which breaks the curse. It makes sense that it was made into actual danger for the movie. It’s much more dramatic for Ella to be pointing a dagger at him and then drop it. The book was plenty dramatic, but in proper book fashion, where everything’s happening in her head. There was no actual danger because there was no one to create such danger. Which brings me to the last and most important of differences.

Char’s Parents/Uncle

So you know Char’s uncle? The guy who killed his dad and is trying to kill him? The main antagonist of the movie? Yeah, he doesn’t exist. He, and Heston the snake, are complete fabrications of whoever made the movie. Char’s parents are alive, he even has a little sister. This lack of evil uncle is the reason there are good relations between humans and magical creatures, it’s why Ella doesn’t hate Char before she even meets him, and it’s how the movie was able to create actual danger for Char rather than hypothetical. One extra character drastically changed the entire plot, making for a completely different story. But you know what? The fact that they’re so different means I can love both of them, without comparing the two, even though I just did exactly that.

#ella enchanted #book review #book vs movie

[witchcraftforabuck]

Needed Interactions

People I want to see Wanda interact with more than her battery operated boyfriend: 

The Avenger she was obsessed with and joined Hydra to kill, the guy whose hero backstory is specifically what happened to families such as hers?  

In “Civil War” their main beef with each other was over him “locking her in her room.” All the serious shit, they somehow buried the hatched about between movies... and we never saw it. 

Did she ever feel bad about triggering his PTSD to cause all that destruction, and try using her powers to help fix his mental problems after switching sides? (And maybe make another boo-boo, this time by accident?) Did Tony ever use his money and influence to help her, to try and make up for the mis-sold weapons? Do they ever relate their guilt complexes to each other or talk about PTSD? Is Tony pissed for what she did to Bruce? Did Tony give her the money to buy that new red Goth outfit? Did they two of them ever get mistaken for a sugar daddy and his young Russian mail-bride and be comically grossed out? These are things I need to know!

The Avengers’ first former villainess who was brainwashed from childhood to work for an evil organization and is from a former Soviet country

There’s a fan theory that Nat helped Wanda gradually erase her accent over the course of the movies. Did Nat also help Wanda with the guilt and all that? Or teach Wanda how to live/blend in normal society? Is the fact that they were both “saved” so to speak by Hawkeye anything worth bringing up, MCU? Like, are they both super protective of Hawkeye, or is Wanda semi-jealous of Nat due to teen/unsocialized-young-adult hormones? 

Basically, Nat should be Wanda’s big sister in the whole redemption arc thing. And everything else.

The other Hydra lab-rat who committed atrocities for them... but didn’t volunteer.... and was specifically a victim of mind control... and whose main condition that needs (needed) fixing was mind-related? 

Look, I worship Shuri, but having her fix Buck’s brain and provide the new arm was such a cop-out. Tony should’ve made the new arm, for obvious reasons, and Wanda should’ve cured Bucky’s Hydra programing, or at least helped with it. (Maybe a combination of her mind-powers and Tony’s BARF tech) That is of course, after having to earn his trust. Bucky, if/when he learned her history, would likely despise her for a while, since she “volunteered” for the Hydra labs, and specialized in mind-control. In fact, did Bucky and Wanda perhaps already meet, back at Hydra? Was Wanda, or previous agents given similar powers, used in Bucky’s Winer Soldier programing? 

Speaking of mind-control victims who might despise Wanda...

The other guy whose severe mental problems she deliberately triggered, with the intention of harming civilian life

Damn this would be heated. (Not in that way. Ewe. Age diff, yuck. I’m talking platonic relationships here.) Bruce should hate her trillions of times worse than Tony or Bucky would combined... but Bruce is such a cinnamon roll, you can bet he’d be one of the first to forgive her--or at least pretend to, even if he was still feeling daily rage and struggling to keep the Other Guy quiet whenever she’s in the room. 

Frankly, Bruce should have the role that Hawkeye does in Wanda’s life. He shouldv’e been the one to give her that pep talk, make her switch sides, and become her big brother. Even if he still privately--or openly--hated her while doing so. 

The other traumatized orphan girl who saw her parents die in an explosion, and joined “Shield” but (probably) really Hydra, killed for them, and seek “revenge” on a snarky scientist for a flimsy connection to her situation? 

As Nat should be Wanda’s big sister in this area, Wanda should be Ava’s. The fact that both are perfect matches for Bucky just adds fuel to the fire. 

The toned-down, more innocent version of Wanda

The one who was born with her mental powers, who was a timid pawn to the villain she served rather than an eager volunteer, and who hasn’t a negative bone in her body. If Mantis and Wanda were to “read” each other, what would that do to each of them? 

Would Wanda’s self esteem go to the gutter, at seeing someone with such a similar background who turned out so much more pure? Would she be scared for how naiive Mantis is? Would Mantis then stun her by having some wisdom Wanda never expected her to, and then remind Wanda she’s actually centuries older than her? (I have no idea how old Mantis is, but given how old Ego was, it’s possible.) Could Mantis help Wanda control her powers? 

Two more! Wow. 

Let’s just start a club for ladies who were indoctrinated to work for villains growing up and are now pissed about it. 

“I’ve never read the mind of a tree before. Or an opossum.” 

Every single Avenger plus Dr. Strange has to meet these two, if only for one brief exchange. You can’t toss a talking raccoon and tree into the MCU and not show us what everyone’s reactions to them would be. 

Could Wanda’s magic dig up Groot’s memories of his past life, from the first movie? Can her energy-balls make Groot grow or sprout leaves or whatnot? Rocket obviously would hate her, because he hates anyone who probes under his angry “armor” so to speak. And she’d certainly make some remark about how she and Pietro used to eat trash-pandas like him for dinner when times were slightly tougher than usual in Sokovia, with all the starvation and whatnot. 

Also, didn’t Wanda’s brother have a problem with impulsive stealing, much like Rocket? 

Another sorcerer villain-turned-good(?), who originally went bad because he was an orphan with a sob story, and whose magic specifically specializes in manipulation 

“The universe wronged us! The Avengers wronged us. And each of us alone is more powerful than most of them combined. Together, our magic would be unstoppable. Rule by my side, as my queen. Just Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave!” 

Duh.

So, you’re on the run from most every world government, because your magic was out of control, and maybe you’re sick of the Avengers defining your life in some way or another. If only there was some secret getaway that would teach you how to control your magic and more, with a guy who disdained the Avengers and wouldn’t mind at all stealing one of their young upstarts? 

When Wanda learns magic from Dr. Strange, she has glowing discs like he does, but hers are red. 

Loki may also be learning alongside her (possibly against his will, as a rehabilitation order by King Thor). Wanda would obviously be the star student and Loki would be the little bitch. 

The Mind Stone 

If you’re gonna make this her main relationship, at least give us some more about what it’s like for a telepath to be in love with the Mind Stone... and the fact that the guy she loves only exists because of her crimes. Frell, this could actually be an interesting ship. Why isn’t it? 

#wanda maximoff #scarlet witch #wanda maximpad #wanda #bucky #winterwitch #scarletwinter #tony stark #bruce banner #hulk #johnasberg #johannesburg #ultron #mantis #telepath #gamora #nebula #nat #natasha #natasha romanoff #black widow #female #superhero #marvel #mcu #avengers #guardians of the galaxy #dr strange #loki #labyrinth

[belabellissima]

AU a day - 4. Fairytale

Fairy tales tell, as their labels imply

Stories of magic, of creatures that fly,

With giants and dragons and ogres and elves

And inanimate objects that speak for themselves.

There's romance and danger and plotting of schemes

There's good guys and bad guys and some guys in-between.

A fairy tale also reveals some sort of truth,

The perils of choices we make in our youth.

But our story today is different in theme,

For our hero had no choice or so it would seem.

It starts with a fairy bestowing a spell.

This one's for a baby named Andrew of Frell

For as long as Andrew can remember, he’s been cursed.

His earliest memory, from when he was five and in school, had been of another child throwing taunts at a girl. The girl was staying quiet, retrained and pacifying, so Andrew walked up and pushed the other boy away. The boy immediately turned the scowl on Andrew and told him to bite him. Without hesitation, Andrew had reached out and grabbed the boy’s arm, obliging the command.

When the boy had run off screaming, Andrew had turned to leave, but the girl had stopped him. “Thank you,” she said. “I’m Renee.”

“Andrew.”

And from then on, they were friends. Andrew didn’t know yet why he had bit the other child, but as more and more occurrences happened like it, such as when he was unable to speak for a week because of someone yelling at him to shut up, or when his newest foster family gave him back to the orphanage after he had been told to steal from them by another child, or even worse, when Drake found out that he couldn’t say no, not if he phrased it a certain way, Andrew found himself almost clinging to Renee, to the one person who had never made him do anything.

Even Kevin, the household fairy who’d been with Andrew at every house, claiming that he served Andrew and Andrew’s blood only, had accidentally ordered him to do things throughout the years. He was the only person Andrew didn’t hate for doing it, because he stuck with Andrew no matter the consequences to himself.

Apparently, when Andrew was too young to remember, before he even was given his curse of obedience, an ogre looking for an easy meal had tried to eat Andrew, but Kevin had intervened, at great cost to himself. Kevin’s hand had been shattered by the ogre’s club in the fight, and ever since, he hadn’t been able to do magic with as much accuracy or skill as before.

And then, when Andrew didn’t think any of it could get worse, Cass remarried, bringing a new “father” into the picture, along with a new “sibling.” Andrew wondered if the new people would be just as bad as everyone else, or if, Fairies forbid, they would somehow be worse.

They pulled up in a yellow carriage, horses in front gleaming with sweat from the journey. The father stepped out first, tall and imposing as he took in the small house they lived in. Andrew thought it strange that he was moving here, rather than Cass, Drake, and him moving there, but he didn’t dare speak his curiosities aloud. Drake thankfully wasn’t there, was off fighting in the ogre wars, so Andrew didn’t have to worry about him while the new people moved in.

Behind the father, a woman only a year or two older than Andrew stepped out. Blonde as he was, they could’ve passed for blood siblings if it weren’t for how tall she was, especially in her highly impractical heels.

“Sir Reynolds,” Cass said, stepping forward with open arms, kissing her new husband once on each cheek before turning to the daughter. “And you must be Allison.” She hugged the girl briefly, then gestured an arm back at Andrew. “This is Andrew. I took him in when the orphanage wouldn’t take him back again, he’s quite sweet. My son is away however, off fighting those terrible ogres.”

Sir Reynolds nodded with an easy smile, then strode right by Andrew as if he didn’t exist. Which was fine, really. If Andrew couldn’t even be noticed, it was all the better for him.

Inside, things changed. While Sir Reynolds went off to talk with Cass, the previously quiet Allison took off like a whirlwind, throwing up posters and picking up every little trinket around to look at it closely, only to put them down in a random place, uncaring of the mess she was making.

“Is this hutch meant to be a closet?” she finally asked, turning to Andrew with an incredulous look. Without waiting for a response, she continued, “It’s pathetic. My clothes need more room than this.”

She looked around for a moment, then, with her gaze landing on Andrew, declared. “I’ll have to use yours.”

Andrew didn’t deign her outburst with a response.

Allison clearly wasn’t having it though. “Well come on,” she said. “Show it to me.”

Instantly, Andrew was turning and heading for his room, leaving a stunned Allision behind as he dutifully carried out her command. He ground his teeth together as he opened the closet door, eyes narrowed as she stepped into the room. She was watching him closely, a curious gleam in her eyes, before she looked away.

“It’s so… quaint.” She looked around the room one last time. “On second thought, I think I’ll make my own space work. Show me to my room.”

Andrew hated the expectant look she tossed his way. From just one action, she already suspected. Andrew didn’t want to listen, didn’t want her anywhere near him, especially once she found out that he couldn’t say no. He wanted to fight her, to fight the command. With all his being, he tried.

“Well, hurry up,” Allison said.

Andrew went.

#bela writes #andrew minyard #allison reynolds #aftg fic #no profreading we die like mne #AU a day #day 4 #AKA THE ELLA ENCHANTED AU THATS BEEN ON MY MIND FOR WEEKS #warning drake is in this but don't worry he will eventually die in the full version #FUCKING FINALLY IVE BEEN WANTING TO WRITE THIS FOR SO LONG AND ITS FINALLY HERE JUST A LITTLE #I CANT WAIT TO FINISH WRITING THIS WHOLE THING OH MY GOD

[fatstevewrites]

For writers: How NOT To Write Dialog

Hey, guys! Like... All three of you.  Content has not been forthcoming because the past few months have been kinda crazy. First, Best Buy got weird. Then, I went full-time at Allegory, and quit Best Buy, and it was weird getting used to long days and consistent scheduling, and I had a bunch of stuff to catch up on at home. Which I didn’t, because of course I didn’t. And now, thanks to some financial crises coming up all at the same time, I’m being laid-off at Allegory at the end of the month. Yay, stress-induced mouth sores and motor tics! My favorite! So, this all means that I’m losing my job and my schedule stability, I haven’t cleaned my house properly for a month, it’s finally stopped raining and my lawn desperately needs to be mowed. Sounds to me like the perfect time to write another blog post! Today, I’d like to talk about writing, from the perspective of a reader.  As an aspiring writer, I read. A lot. A really, really huge lot. Part of why I have such a hard time getting anything done, in fact. I recommend this personality defect to everyone, it makes you smarter than TV will, in addition to being drastically more useful to someone trying to learn how to write, themselves. Writing is, at its heart, specifically for reading, isn’t it?  However, it’s also true that there’s no small number of things amateur writers can do to make themselves look like they need to read a little bit more. That’s why today, I’m going to talk about a few things writers often do that consistently take me out of the writing, specifically involving dialog.  1. Ridiculous children’s dialog.  Children are young and inexperienced, and as a result, their dialog is going to quite often sound very different from adults. However, since “young and inexperienced” does not universally translate to “severely mentally disabled”, there are some wrong ways to do this. Keep in mind when writing a child, what age and sex they are, what sorts of words they should (and shouldn’t) be using, what sorts of grammatical and pronunciation corruptions they should be using, so on, so forth. WHen in doubt, look up videos of children from the associated age range on YouTube. It’s very difficult to take your child character at face value if they’re 13 and everyone accepts their inability to pronounce the letter R as an artifact of their youth, and not a legitimate speech impediment. Your contemporary 4-year-old is probably not going to come across as believable if they never use contractions and they address their parents as “mother” and “father” rather than the significantly easier to pronounce “mommy” and “daddy”. That shit is creepy. If that’s what you’re going for, great! But more often than not, you probably aren’t. Perhaps the most important, is in hyper-pluralization. WHen children learn a grammatical rule, they try to apply it as a blanket across all examples they see. For example, words like “mice”, “geese”, “deer” et. al, usually get redundantly or incorrectly pluralized to something like “mouses”, “geeses”, “deers”, so on, so forth. What this DOESN’T mean, however, is sprinkling extra letter S’s into every second or third word of the dialog. If yours child characters is talkings like this, that’s not Timmy Toddler you’ve just written, that’s Skwisgaar Skwigelf.  2. Hyper-formal speech for no good reason. I always found the most unnerving, jarring, uncanny-valley part of The Matrix trilogy to be the parts where the characters are in the distant future, living in a grimy underground city, eating recycled protein paste and rubbing their USB ports together in carved-out stone alcove beds, but suddenly everyone has forgotten how to use contractions, and their vocabulary choice makes them sound like they’re reading off of a formal business letter. It gets even worse when you watch movies like Battlefield Earth, where the unwashed post-apocalyptic masses don’t even have the benefit of learning how to speak in such a stilted manner while plugged into giant cornstalks. It’s weird and it’s jarring, not old-timey and proper. This goes for all time periods, but especially for contemporary and futuristic. People are lazy. The internet, the biggest and most gloriously complex invention mankind has ever conceived of, was originally drawn up by college professors who didn’t want to get up out of their chair and use two different computers. It’s hard to believe that as time goes by, people will resort to more complicated and time-consuming speech patterns just for the hell of it. 

 3. Middle-English pronoun abuse. If you’re trying to write Middle English, on the other hand, don’t just sprinkle in the flowery pronouns to sound pretty. There are appropriate times to use thee, thou, thy, thine, and ye, and they are not interchangeable, and it’s *really* embarrassing to use them incorrectly and have someone who understands them, have absolutely no idea what you’re trying to say.  I won’t go too deep into grammar and specific use, but a simple reader’s digest is that “thou” and “thee” are simple second-person pronouns, subject and object respectively, “thy” and “thine” are possessive forms, and “ye” is the plural. There are a whole bunch of really good, quick-and-easy guides on when to use these pronouns, along with more Middle English stuff such as early contractions and grammatical corruptions that sound cool and help to add immersion to your work. Since it really is sort of a different language, it’s important to understand it before trying to write it. The alternative is to just keep being the literary equivalent of that pixie-cut mommy type driving the burgundy GMC Acadia with an unrealistically large stick figure family and “LIVE LAUGH LOVE” on the liftgate window, who tries to communicate with the Latino cashier at Best Buy by adding “el” to the beginning of every word and ending them all with “-o”. 4. Stammering. Like, a whole lot. Emotion in dialog is a funny thing. When the word choice and punctuation are just right, and the line breaks reflect pauses and body language, the reader can really be drawn in and feel like part of the story. On the other hand, some people just make everyone fucking stammer all the time like the poor character has just finished recovering from a stroke. I don’t know about you, but that *really* takes me out of the moment. This is especially common when a character is being portrayed as shy or nervous, and for some reason, amateur writers seem to like to turn the stammer dial up to 11 when writing dialog for a sexually submissive character in an erotic scene or story. In these situations especially, it makes absolutely no sense. If your character doesn’t have some sort of neurological disorder or a severe stutter, and isn’t freezing to death, th-then th-th-they sh-shouldn’t b-b-b-be t-talking l-li-like th-this. Normal people will stutter or slip in speech once in a while, especially when they’re stressed or excited, but sounding like Porky the Pig is not normal, and it certainly is not sexy. Seriously, think to yourself for a moment. When’s the last time you heard a real person, excluding those dealing with an actual stutter, or currently dying from hypothermia, who sounded like that? And no, the token shy new kid in the latest Fantasy-Themed High-School Of The Week anime doesn’t count as a real person. 5. Obtuse F-bomb surrogacy. This is almost exclusively within the realm of sci-fi, generally limited to young authors attempting to be edgy but worried their friends or family might see their work and think they’re uncreative or vulgar. It’s happened a bunch on network television, as well, but the extent is quite different. Imagine a dark and serious sci-fi adventure following the exploits of a sexy cyborg mercenary badass involving gratuitous, graphic violence, complicated, deep adult themes, and occasionally even fairly explicit sexuality, and the strangely incongruent use of hyper-sanitized nonsense versions of contemporary profanity.  One moment, our heroine is  murdering a band of armed thugs with a piece of broken pipe, and the next, she’s telling someone to go frell themself, or that she can’t find her fracking space helmet. It’s true, language changes. New words replace old words, the meaning and common use of such words changes and evolves to suit society’s agreed-upon use of said words. However, I promise you that this isn’t going to happen to “fuck” for a very, very long time. The word “fuck” has been in documented use in current form since as early as the 12th century, and came into relatively common use as early as the 14th. If we’re using the word in essentially the same context with virtually the same meaning more than 700 years later, and it only gets more popular, more widespread, and more socially acceptable by the day, it stands to reason that another 700 years probably won’t have a huge effect on its linguistic use as the ultimate profanity multitool. To keep it right to the point, your audience (me) is going to find the tone bizarrely discontinuous if you’re fine writing about some very dark, adult themes involving graphic violence, death, and eroticism all silhouetted against the backdrop of a grand battle to rescue humanity from the brink of cosmic oblivion, but your protagonist isn’t allowed to scream “Fuck” at the top of his lungs when he stubs his toe. You know, like normal human beings do. If you’re concerned about being seen as vulgar or uncreative with your dialog choice, then maybe use some other words in addition to “fuck”, like normal people also do. And on the off chance you’re writing for younger audiences who shouldn’t really be seeing that kind of language per modern social standards, then perhaps the adult themes, graphic violence and eroticism were a bad place to start. Just say “Fuck”.  By not showing these issues in your writing, regardless of whether that’s by not having done them  in the first place, or by eliminating the ones you find yourself guilty of, you make your dialog dramatically more relatable and more readable, and by extension, you and your work look a whole lot more professional.  So, now that that’s done, I’d like to talk about my own writing project a little bit. It’s a long time in the making, a science fiction piece involving heavy cyberpunk and space opera themes, centered around historical allegory. Imagine about 600 years in the future, where mankind has industrialized, though maybe not perfected, long-range, faster-than-light space travel. Finding habitable planets to colonize is hard and costly and time-consuming, and terraforming planets to make them more suitable for human life is only slightly less so. In 2686, humanity is only a scant 45 years past its first large-scale interstellar war, which has just totally decimated the economy of the Core Systems, the nation which really kinda started the whole thing as a land grab. Clifford Cryer is an aging private security contractor who, aside from heavy cybernetic alteration, is not quite human.  His entire subspecies was genetically for the purpose of reinforcing dwindling troop reserves during the latter half of the war, and when they came home after the Core Systems surrendered, the economy didn’t really know what to do with them. With each passing day, the sentiment against the cruel and excessive sanctions placed on the Core Systems by their enemies in the previous war cause public sentiment to grow against foreigners and nonhumans, and things take a turn for worse when his home is rocked by a massive terrorist bombing. As a result, Cryer is framed as one of the perpetrators in a massive conspiracy, forcing him to decide whether it’s more important to him to fight for survival, or to fight for the truth. 

#writing #fiction #new author #writing advice #scifi

[hannibalcreative]

Hannibal Creative’s #EatTheRare Fic Roundup

A thousand thanks to @breannadolly for the wonderful banner! 

Special Dreams by Edge_sama

Summary: Set after the kiss scene from Fromage (S1E8). Both Will and Alana felt their decision to have a professional relationship was a good one, but they couldn't help but think in each other after that kiss.

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Alana Bloom

Willana

Waste a Moment by 11Mydesign11 and Destinyawakened

Summary: Nigel wakes in the United States in a hospital bed. The FBI want answers for a few things, but Nigel's more interested in the guy down the hall with a smile carved into his belly.

Explicit

Graphic Depictions of Violence

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Alana Bloom, Nigel

Will Graham/Nigel

Hunting Scene by Cinnamaldeide

Summary: Their light steps betrayed the solitary nature of their selective pack, which likewise included no more than two individuals; much like a lone predator instructing its progeny.

Mature

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Garrett Jacob Hobbs

Gen ( no pairings)

Where Is It? by TigerPrawn and victorine

Summary: Hugh takes revenge when he sees Mads is sharing clothes with other co-stars. Well, if Mads is going to wear Ben's jacket instead of his cute leather one, Hugh will just keep the damn thing!! Part of the Mad Bear & Little Pup Madancy AU Series - Neither Mads or Hugh are married but have been in a secret casual relationship since King Arthur. As both their careers were taking off they didn't want it all foreshadowed by a relationship and the celeb gossip that goes with it. Both remain single and they see each other when they can on and off over the years. Feels and hilarity ensue.

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen

Madancy

More Interesting Than the Average Conference by hchannibloom (bleepin_ufo)

Summary: Bedelia Du Maurier attends a conference and chances upon a bright, delicious young Alana Bloom

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Alana Bloom, Bedelia du Maurier

Bloomdelia (Alana Bloom/Bedelia Du Maurier)

A Necessary Lie by starkaryen, FlyingRotten

Summary: Adam Towers is investigating what could be the article of the year if the rumors about Evelio Thanatos' experiments happen to be true. What he didn't expect, though, was to find a distraction in the Thanatos house, but that's exactly what he finds in Elias... Or, at least, that's what he thinks.

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Adam Towers, Elias

Basic Chickens

A Flexible Arrangement by Hannibalsimagopurplesocrates

Summary: Allan is trying to rebuild his life on his return from the Hague and has been told he needs to take yoga classes as part of his anger management. Begrudgingly he agrees but soon is distracted by a man wearing pink shorts who seems even more broken that he is. Allan needs to know more about this ellusive man but can't seem to catch him to talk to him. That is until they crash into each other and have no choice but to get to know each other.

Explicit

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Lucas, Allan Fischer

Allan Fischer x Lucas

And So the Flamingo Fell in Love With the Wolf by CarpeDiemForLife

Summary: When Chilton shows up on Will's doorstep, bloodied and desperate, Will has every intention of turning him over to the FBI. But then he hears something that changes his mind. Canon divergence 2x07. My take on what could have happened if Will had chosen to harbor Chilton rather than call Jack.

Teen

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Frederick Chilton

Chilly Willy

Once upon a dream by 11Mydesign11 and You_Are_As_Alone_As_I_Am

Summary: A young pop star - Prince Charmont - is being stalked by a dangerous, threatening fan, and is compelled to hire a personal bodyguard, a well respected man named Draco. As they get to know each other, sparks fly, and the hunt is on for Char's stalker.

Explicit

Graphic Depictions of Violence

Charmont, Draco

Clash Enchanted

One Night in Miami by vix_spes

Summary: Being back in Miami was hardly how Luke had envisaged it but a mysterious man in black might just turn things around.

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Le Chiffre, Luke Brandon

Le Chiffre x Luke Brandon

A certain liquidity of the eye by levi163

Summary: War is not the place for love, and yet, a gaze held a moment too long changes everything.

Gen

No Archive Warnings Apply

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Citron/Jørgen Haagen Schmith

Lonely Soldiers

Lead Me Home by Firuflies and starkaryen

Summary: After the difficulties both Lucas and Joe had to overcome in their past, they decide it's time for a new beginning. It turns out, they end up teaching in the same school in Copenhagen.

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Lucas, Joe Connor

Luconnor

The Overthrown Prince by AlexandraCole

Summary: Amidst the civil war in Kyrria, Prince Char is captured and taken prisoner in a foreign land. He knows he will have to escape if he is ever to return to Frell and reclaim his throne, but his only hope is a child and a mute, one-eyed man Char isn’t sure he can trust.

Explicit

Graphic Depictions of Violence

Charmont, One Eye

Valhalla Enchanted (Charmont/One Eye)

Time and Death by FrostyLee

Summary: More talks of death and time, maybe something in between.

Unrated

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Lee Fallon

Lee Fallon/Hannibal Lecter

The Fair Lady's Game by shiphitsthefan

Summary: Dr Hannibal Lecter has enjoyed a casual long-distance relationship with Bedelia Du Maurier for years. As an opera diva and popular starlet, Bedelia’s rendezvous with him are typically short, whirlwind affairs. Hannibal fell in love with Bedelia the first day they met, but respects her wish to remain an independent woman, though it pains him to do so. Only Hannibal’s friend and adventuring companion, consulting detective William Graham, can solve the case for romance. His methods for doing so, however, remain as unusual as ever.

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Abigail Hobbs, Bedelia du Maurier, Jack Crawford, Chiyoh

Bedannibal

Infamous by Ruby BakeNeko

Summary: Nigel is at a bar, looking for someone to pick up. He meets Will, a man who is both antagonistic and irresistible. Unbeknownst to Nigel, he looks a lot like someone Will knows.

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Nigel

DogsDogs (Will x Nigel)

Putting the Pieces Back Together by vix-spex

Summary: A year ago, Lucas built a new life for himself away from Denmark. The start of the new school year brings him something that he hadn't realised he wanted.

Gen

No Archive Warnings Apply

Lucas, Joe Connor

Luconnor

Of magic and love by FhimeChan

Summary: A normal wednesday afternoon in the life of Char and Draco. Since they live in an enchanted kingdom, how can a day pass without a magical emergency?

Gen

No Archive Warnings Apply

Charmont, Draco

Clash Enchanted

A fleeting taste of freedom by hchannibloom (bleepin_ufo)

Summary: In a post-apocalyptic world, Hannibal and Alana are left alone. They decide to take a few precious moments of freedom.

Explicit

Major Character Death

Hannibal Lecter, Alana Bloom

Hannibloom

Death and Time by FrostyLee

Summary: Talks of teacups and time were over, now there needs to be talks of death and time.

Teen

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Lee Fallon, Tobias Budge, Cathy Jamison

Hannibal Lecter/Lee Fallon

Thunder Follows Lightning by QueenofLit

Summary: Gideon is speaking words his soul knows. Instead of moving to speak of Alana Bloom, however, he mentions Garret Jacob Hobbs. Will's life shatters to pieces as the waves rear up in response to the ferocity of lightning's strike, but warm hands lead him up and away to safety in the clouds of the storm. He can hear the thunder of an oncoming storm, and it is soothing to know that the lightning will never leave him.

Unrated

No Archive Warnings Apply, Dubious consent

Will Graham, Abel Gideon

Will Graham/Abel Gideon

stay with me under these waves tonight by MargaretKire

Summary: Elias responds to a desperate mayday during a storm. He finds a ship-wrecked Adam.

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Adam Towers, Elias

Basic Chickens

Ghosts of the past by hchannibloom

Summary: After the events at the Verger Estate, Alana reflects on her relationship with Hannibal.

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Alana Bloom, Margot Verger

Hannibloom

Map of the Problematique by 11Mydesign11, Destinyawakened and Identically_Different

Summary: Lucas is on the hunt for a new life in California, what he doesn't expect to find is an Omega who pulls so hard at his heartstrings that he can't live without him, even through the ups and downs, and the trials of trust.

Explicit

Major Character Death, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics

Lee Fallon, Lucas

BearHunt

Better Things by whatkindofcrazy

Summary:

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Tonny, Roberto Bellini

Toberto

Craving by hannibalsbattlebot

Summary: "You realize those candidates thought we were having an affair. Why didn't we?" "You were already having an affair." This fic assumes that the affair Hannibal was already having was with Donald Suttcliffe. It explores a possible past which may have lead to them working together to deceive Will Graham about his encephalitis. Donald Suttcliffe and Hannibal Lecter meet in medical school and have a long tangled relationship which leads them to the scene in Suttcliffe's office in Buffet Froid

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Donald Sutcliffe

Hannibal Lecter/Donald Sutcliffe

Pumpkin Spice by Llewcie

Summary: Le Chiffre is in need of a bodyguard. No, not that bodyguard.

Teen

No Archive Warnings Apply

Le Chiffre, Buddy Wittenborn

Royale Evening (Le Chiffre/Buddy)

Moonlight by starkaryen

Summary: Char decided to go on a little trip with the royal doctor, Johann.

Gen

No Archive Warnings Apply

Johann Struensee, Charmont

Charmont/Johann Struensee

Leaf Piles by Llewcie

Summary: Lucas takes his new dog for a walk. She's not as good on a leash as she could be, and she gets away from him, right into his cute neighbour's newly raked leaf piles.

Teen

No Archive Warnings Apply

Lucas, Joe Connor

Luconnor

#Hannictober: Pumpkin Spice by shiphitsthefan

Summary: #Hannictober: Pumpkin Spice [Bedelia/Will/Hannibal college AU]

Unrated

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Bedelia du Maurier

Bedannigram (Bedelia x Will x Hannibal)

Luck Against Wisdom by creepypastaprimavera

Summary: When her son asks for a bedtime story, Alana adapts a Jewish folktale to tell the story of how she met Margot.

Teen

No Archive Warnings Apply

Alana Bloom, Margot Verger

Marlana

Pile of Leaves by shiphitsthefan

Summary: Bedelia/Will/Hannibal college/dancer AU

Gen

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Bedelia du Maurier

Bedannibal, Willdelia, Bedannigram

#eattherare #fic #roundups

[lentils-writes]

Day 29: Pick your favorite TV show set in the present/future.  Your ship is now the main characters. Which means Farscape AU!!!! (sofisdojdf I’M SO BEHIND SORRY OOPS. This is sort of a rough rewrite of parts of the Farscape pilot based on the wiki descriptions and very vague memories since I haven’t watched it in awhile. I would recommend like...youtubing the Farscape s1 trailer so you sort of get an idea of what these characters actually look like???? or at least google for a cast picture or something. It basically goes: Kara = Crichton, Melinda = Aeryn, Hunter = D’Argo, Raina = Zhaan, Fitz = Rygel, Jemma = Pilot, Ward = Crais [Daisy = Chiana but she’s not in the pilot so]. Also just watch Farscape tbh. It might be a pain in the ass to find idk but it is WORTH IT)

Kara Palamas is not having the best day.

First her ship gets sucked into god knows where, through what she thinks must be a wormhole because she doesn’t recognize anything about this place. There are freaky-looking aliens everywhere, some of them not even humanoid, and then on top of everything else, she’s been accused of murdering some guy’s brother with the ship that brought her here. Great.

He’s yelling at her, from the other side of the jail cell she’s currently in. Ward, is that his name? He’s saying that his brother was in the ship that she ran over when she suddenly appeared in the “white death pod” and that she’ll have to answer for her crimes. The weird red alien dude - Hun’ter - and the woman who looks more human than any of the others, but insists she isn’t - Melinda May - are in cells on either side of her.

“You bitch!” Ward is hissing at her. “I’ll make sure you face justice for murdering Thomas!”

“Dude!” Kara protests. “I told you, I didn’t know what I was doing! I’m sorry your brother’s dead, but it’s not like I purposely crashed into his ship!”

“Don’t bother,” says Melinda, in the cell next to her. “Ward’s impossible to reason with when he gets fixated on something.”

Ward turns to her, snarling. “How could you talk to this monster! You, a Peacekeeper! You sympathize with her, don’t you?”

Melinda spits at him. “I don’t have to answer to you for anything.”

“I’ll make sure you rot too!” he yells, turning to storm out. “You’re irreversibly contaminated from spending time with this Human.”

“Frell you!” she responds, then turns to Kara and rolls her eyes. “He might be a drelk, but I wouldn’t be in here if you hadn’t dragged me into this.”

“Me? I was trying to help you!” protests Kara. “You were the one who tried to sabotage that ship full of people who were nothing but nice to us!”

Melinda scoffs. “Criminals. They were all criminals, and you made me complacent in their escape.”

Kara sighs and is about to argue when a guard comes by. “Come with me,” he says, then notices the puzzle ring on Kara’s finger. “What’s that? Why wasn’t it removed with your other weapons?”

“It’s not a weapon,” scoffs Kara. “It’s a puzzle. You know, for fun? Here, you can look at it.” She slips it off her finger and, when the stupid guard reaches for the ring, she takes the opportunity to grab his firearm and point it at his head. He yelps and jumps back, but she cocks the trigger. “You’re gonna unlock these cells,” she growls. “Mine, hers, and his.” She flicks the gun to indicate Melinda and Hun’ter, who’s been mostly quiet the last few minutes.

“I’d like that, thanks very much,” calls Hun’ter.

Once the guard has unlocked the cells, Kara pistol-whips him before he can call out for help. (She’s never done that before, but she figures since she’s apparently just living in some kind of sci-fi movie now, she might as well do the cool shit before the dream or whatever this is ends.) Hun’ter immediately steps out of his cell, grinning. “Let’s go, Human! Back to Moya!”

“Wait,” says Kara. “She’s coming with us.” She nods at Melinda.

“What?” The grin melts off of Hun’ter’s face, replaced with horror. “She’s a Peacekeeper! They’re monsters who’ll torture and kill because they can!”

Kara shakes her head. “She’s still coming with us. We all get out of here or none of us goes.”

Melinda hesitates. “I can’t come with you.”

Kara frowns. “Why not?”

“I’m a Peacekeeper.” Melinda looks deflated. “I was born and bred for the life of a Peacekeeper and I have failed at my duties. I am meant to maintain order in the universe at any cost. What am I supposed to do, if not that?”

Kara steps forward, looking Melinda straight in the eyes. “Look,” she says. “Back on my world, some people feel like they have duties that they were born into too. Some people are told they have to take over their parents’ business or go to the college their parents pick out or find a nice person to marry and pop out a dozen babies. But everyone has a choice. Everyone can choose to take a different path. You can be more, Melinda May.”

Melinda pauses, then steps out of the cell with a nod. “Fine,” she says. “I’ll come with you. I shouldn’t trust you, but strangely I do.”

Kara nods, breathing a sigh of relief. “Now,” she says, turning to Hun’ter, “you said you can get us back to the ship?”

---

“What do you mean we can’t go any faster?” she hisses.

“I’m sorry,” says the strange crablike creature that calls herself Pilot, “but Moya’s energy is depleted. If we tried to starburst again, I don’t know that we would make it.”

Kara sighs. “Great. That’s great.” She glances around, frantically trying to think.

“I can’t believe I got on this disgusting ship with all of you fekkiks,” groans Fitz, the annoying little slug-thing who insists that he’s royalty and should be treated with respect. Kara just wants to drop-kick him, honestly.

“Wait!” she shouts. “Paper, I need paper!”

Raynah, the blue-skinned priestess, looks confused. “What do you need that for?”

“Ah, never mind!” She pulls a pen out of her pocket and starts scribbling on the floor. “I have a theory about how we can overcome the atmospheric friction and starburst our way out of here.”

“Hm,” says Pilot. “That...that might actually work.”

“But you’re gonna need to do exactly what I say,” says Kara.

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A harrowing few minutes later, they’ve successfully jumped away from Ward and his fleet and are coasting through space, letting Moya rest. Raynah gives her an approving nod, saying, “Well done. I knew I had a good feeling about you.”

Now Kara’s trying to get settled in what seems to be one of the rooms of this weird ship. Melinda comes up to her. “You know he won’t give up that easily,” she says, face stony. “Ward will hunt you down, and the rest of us too.”

Kara shrugs, trying to brush it off. “I’ll figure out something. I always do.”

Melinda narrows her eyes. “This won’t end well. And it’ll be on your head. I just wanted you to know that.”

“Alright,” says Kara, and once Melinda’s gone she mutters, “Jeez, what’s her problem?”

She spends some time trying to repair one of the broken droids scattered around Moya, hoping maybe she can use it as a recording device for back home. Finally, she manages to get it working.

“Dad? I don’t know if you’re ever gonna hear this, but I hope you do. I’m okay, Dad. I’m just somewhere...else. And there’s life out here, Dad. Weird, amazing, dangerous, beautiful life. I’ve found somewhere safe for now, but I’m gonna do my best to get home. I don’t know exactly where I am, but I’m not giving up hope. I’ll see you soon, Dad.”

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