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zuppizup · 3 days

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Fuel the Pyre: Chapter 9

Summary: For almost a decade now, life has been peaceful for the royal family of Katolis. All out war is becoming a distant memory as efforts to unite the continent continue. Open borders let more than friends in, however, and whispers of dangers lurking in the shadows are growing louder and more insistent.

Callum, Rayla and their adopted daughter Tio have bee trying to ignore the growing unease as best they can, but when the threat comes banging at their door, they can no longer turn a blind eye.

Pairing: Rayla/Callum

Rating: Mature

AO3 Link: Fuel the Pyre

The sun was beginning to rise as Callum finally spotted a suitable clearing to rest. He had hoped to make it to the Nexus in one flight, but the winds were against him, and he couldn’t focus enough to change them. Alighting on the forest floor, he banished his wings, rolling is stiff shoulders for a moment before he began to undo the ties of Tio’s wrap. His hands shook and he told himself it was from the effort of flying.

“Dada?” Tio asked, having been unnaturally quiet the entire time. She normally enjoyed flying, the Skywing in her, he assumed, but there hadn’t been a giggle or even a murmur from her the entire time. He had felt her wake not long into their flight, but she hadn’t spoken. Not once.

“Yes, sweetheart?” His voice cracked as he pulled the last of the wrap away, slumping to the forest floor as he held her tight against his chest. He felt weak. Empty. He’d tried to control the winds, to get them to the Nexus as quickly as possible, but his mind raced with thoughts of Rayla. Alone, abandoned in the castle.

“Where’s Mama?” Tio looked up at him, her dark eyes wide and terrified.

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#rayllum #rayllum fanfic #the dragon prince #tdp #the dragon prince fanfic #tdp fanfic #rayla #callum #tdp rayla #tdp callum #zuppi fanfic #fic: fuel the pyre #series: life is what happens #oc: tio

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sprucewoodmpreg · 5 months

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wickedfarter · 6 months

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you know i had to jump on this

#my art #ldshadowlady #ldshadowlady fanart #zombiecleo #zombiecleo fanart #shadowrot #GUYYYYSS😭😭😭😭#I WON literally dont care about what happens i got my shadowrot win #i can die happy now #secret life #secret life spoilers #trafficblr #life series spoilers #secret life smp

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wotchernewt · 26 days

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seriously though nothing can stop me from interpreting Real Life as canon just for how it progresses the canary curse situation. i'm obsessed with it. the curse gets broken in secret life and then in the very next "series", as much of a joke as it is, you get a situation like THAT. jimmy enters a mineshaft and everyone but him dies. not just his team, though obviously it's more significant because they were all red, but ren/martyn/skizz all get a mineshaft-death apiece. that canary's not doing his job anymore. he escaped his cage and made a break for the surface and everyone else is paying the price for it, and i for one could not be more proud of that little bird.

#that's not to say however that real life is on the same level of seriousity as all the other life games #the watchers grabbed all these players from the aftermath of the wildest party anyone's ever seen #the only ones not hungover were the ones drinking until dawn (now sleep deprived and plastered)#no one's going to have more than the vaguest memories of what the hell happened there #none of them sure if that was an actual Game or if some genius thought it would be a great idea to play-act one. while drunk.#the watchers know though. the watchers think it was funny.#wotcher talk #solidaritygaming #life series #life series smp #life smp #trafficblr #life series spoilers #real life #real life smp #rlsmp

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kyasunn · 6 months

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Past life series winners are all having vastly different experiences this season and I am so here for it!

#Secret Life #grian #scott smajor #pearlescentmoon #inthelittlewood #trafficblr #life series spoilers #traffic smp spoilers #martyn's wet cat arc is incredible... i must see what happens next at all costs...#the funniest thing would be if the canary curse was broken just because of his pathetic wet meow meow-ness #ky-posts-drawing #1k

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uhohgottashreep · 1 year

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trying to collect my thoughts about The Bad Boys (that is, jimmy grian and joel)

like. joel and grian are by far the most bloodthirsty people on the server ("aw i'm not the boogey :(" and grian's 3L murder spree while green). meanwhile jimmy is constantly referenced as the most likely to die. they're all horrible chaotic influences on each other, they're egging one another on -- but then they hasten to warn each other about leaf waterlogging on bucket jumps. they spend their afternoons quietly fishing in their little wooden clubhouse... then go back to doing property damage and stealing things and setting fires

it's two short + one tall, but the one tall is all ineffectual bravado and the two short are these totally unhinged berserkers

"we're the only ones allowed to bully jimmy" + "i love my terrifying murderous besties" energy, is this making sense??? they're driving me mad

#fellas please help me rotate them #solidaritygaming #limited life #limited life smp #joel smallishbeans #grian #trafficblr #the bad boys #of the life series lol #shreep #he asked for no pickles DO YOU GET ME #this is what happens when my partner takes a nap and i'm alone with my thoughts pff

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dredgesnails · 7 days

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i don’t think jimmy’s broken his canary curse. i think it’s just been evolving, slowly, and he’s figuring out how to work with it instead of trying to fight it. hear me out:

3rd life - flower husbands. jimmy dies first. scott is 10th out in the series, the only time he places outside of the top 5

last life - the southlanders. jimmy is first out. mumbo is out next in quick succession. impulse dies shortly after. the only southlanders to make it into the top 10 are grian, who killed jimmy and mumbo (and still only ranks 7) and martyn, who left the southlanders for the shadow alliance

double life - ranchers. jimmy dies first, and takes tango out with him. tango is the one responsible for their first death, though

limited life - bad boys. joel wants to sacrifice himself for jimmy, but jimmy dies first before he can. joel still dies shortly after, and grian becomes a nosy neighbour, surviving to 6th

secret life - big dogs. jimmy dies second, but lizzie might be falling forever in the end so maybe he does die first. martyn is the first to yellow and red, and he dies 11th. the worst he’s ever placed. (also, mumbo dies only moments after jimmy again*)

real life - (do they have a name??). jimmy and ren’s groups get into a fight in the mines. jimmy is the only one who makes it out without dying at all. his allies are out of the series.

the canary curse isn’t about jimmy dying first. or at least, it isn’t really anymore. at first he was used to signify it, the canary dying first to warn everyone of danger ahead. but the canary has learned how to escape the coalmine now, and his friends are still stuck inside. they might survive if they have friends on the surface or they’re willing to betray their allies, but if it’s just been them and their canary to warn them of danger? then they’ve doomed themselves.

*mumbo might also have his own unique “killed ten seconds after jimmy by the same person/thing” curse, which is different from the general jimmy “bad luck charm” solidarity curse

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greeenchrysanthemums · 4 months

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Gem and Etho are from the same snowy mountain village, and it was his footsteps she followed in when she left her home behind to join the royal army in search of something greater.

Etho never wanted to be a solider, he only did it to protect his home and his family.

For as long as she could remember, all Gem has ever wanted was to be a knight, to be the strongest and the greatest.

Gem has no idea that Etho is the same knight that inspired her when she was young, his appearance and mannerisms much too different for her to make the connection.

Etho knows exactly who she is. All he can see when they cross paths is the little girl who followed him around the village with a wooden sword. He hates what she has become.

#GG rivals au #ethoslab #etho #geminitay #life series #hermitcraft #their connection is not ultimately important to the story but it is something I have not been able to stop thinking of #in my mind they are maybe 8 or 10 years apart in age in this au #and he left to be a royal knight when he was a teenager so she was just a kid #and he had already left the ranks by the time she herself joined them #she always wonders what happened to him

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theminecraftbee · 18 days

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Here is a dream Jimmy has had again and again: he is sitting in a cage.

It is, he thinks, probably not a particularly nice birdcage. No one’s bothered to gild it; maybe he should consider it lucky for the white polymer enameling that means the bars don’t rust, but in some ways, it’s more insulting that no one’s tried to dress up that it’s a cage. There is straw on the bottom, a water dish, a small plate of fruit. There are mirrors and colorful bells and perches hanging from the ceiling. There is a knife on the floor, half-hidden by the straw and so polished that it almost looks like a mirror.

As he starts to pull his hands away from the straw he’s been sat upon, recoiling from the knife for reasons he doesn’t know how to explain, he can see he’s not alone. There’s a bird in here with him, a little yellow canary. (Of course there is.) The bird mostly hops, rather than flying, but its wings aren’t clipped; it could fly if someone let it out of the cage. It has a lovely song, and it sings it over and over, as though it doesn’t know what else to do when it’s locked in.

That’s normally when Jimmy looks for the door, then. There’s a little black digital lock holding the cage shut. It’s on the wrong side of the bars and the bars are too close together for him to reach anyway. The first time he had the dream, he spent the whole time there, trying to figure out how to get at the lock. He couldn’t figure it out, though, not before he suddenly stopped being able to breathe.

The rest of the times he’s had the dream, he’s bothered to look outwards. There, he sees people; many of them are familiar, but most of them are strangers, blurry figures that are only distinctive in that all their eyes are looking at the cage. He yells for their attention, rattles the cage, rages, and sometimes, one of the familiar faces sees him. Tango and Joel at least tried the lock; they didn’t know the passcode any more than he did. Others talk to him, but don’t bother with the lock. Jimmy tries not to be angry. It’s not like it will open without the code.

No one else seems to see him at all, though. They’re too focused on the bird. His words steadily get more and more drowned out by the birdsong, even as the room starts to heat up and smoke starts to coil on the ground. By that point, not even the people who know Jimmy seem to be able to hear him over mesmerizing birdsong, and as he desperately tries to get someone’s attention, vision swimming in and out, desperately tries to reach the lock again, do anything, nothing happens.

And then, one time, they turn to look at him as the bird succumbs before he does to the smoke.

They still don’t get the door open in time.

But the last time Jimmy has the dream, it’s shown him what to do.

He picks up the knife.

And as he exits the mine with blood and yellow feathers on his hands, he does not regret it at all.

#trafficblr #trafficfic #a bee fic #jimmy solidarity #no specific life series for this one #anyway have you ever had a piece of imagery hijack your brain? because that’s what happened here.#animal death #also obviously this is all ~a metaphor~ interpret it however you will.

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iindigoeyed · 6 months

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so. Torchy

#ok look i KNOW this isnt miraculous IM SORRY it wont happen again but i had to draw him #tangotek #secret life #trafficblr #life series #what tags do i use #secret life spoilers #<- does that even apply here? it's been a week #sorry if this looks like shit i ran out of steam halfway thru #I honestly gave up on colors and background. best i can do is whatever this is #also i dont keep up with what the consensus on everyones skins look like so this is me eyeballing it #indigarts

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salemoleander · 4 months

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His thumb shakes, resting over the send chat button.

"Grian?" Martyn asks, floating nearby. "Everything alright with the server?"

Blunt as ever, Lizzie chimes in, "Why haven't you killed him yet? C'mon, we need to get going. Some of us have already been waiting ages for this one to wrap up." She punctuates her statement by sweeping an arm towards Mumbo and Jimmy, loudly talking with Bdubs a few dozen blocks away.

Could ghosts sweat? It didn't seem like ghosts should sweat. Grian feels stress prickling over his skin anyways.

"I'm- I can't," he admits, voice small. "Not like this."

Grian would happily kill Scar in PVP, in jest, in competition. But the idea of just striking him down is... uncomfortable. No chance of survival, no fairness, no fighting back at all. He's already done that once to Scar, at the end of the start. Grian won't do it again.

THIS IS WHY HE IS THE WINNER thrums through his mind. From the winces around him, everyone else can hear the Secret Keeper's message too.

"Why? Because he was willing to kill?" Grian snaps to its stone face, mouth twisted down. "That's sort of the point."

NO, INSOLENT ONE the Secret Keeper rumbles. HE WON BECAUSE HE OBEYED MY INSTRUCTIONS BEST. NO MATTER. I AM EQUALLY CAPABLE OF ENDING THIS GAME.

Cowardice sits like blood in his throat. Grian screws his eyes shut a moment before lightning strikes and thunder peals out below.

#slsmp #secret life #grian #life series #salem fic #slsmp spoilers #secret life spoiler #:D just a little ficlet while im inspired. tomorrow is gonna be such a Writing Day i can feel it #wanted to explore scar not dying in his ep and what happened after the end

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zuppizup · 1 month

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Fuel the Pyre - Chapter 5

Summary: For almost a decade now, life has been peaceful for the royal family of Katolis. All out war is becoming a distant memory as efforts to unite the continent continue. Open borders let more than friends in, however, and whispers of dangers lurking in the shadows are growing louder and more insistent.

Callum, Rayla and their adopted daughter Tio have bee trying to ignore the growing unease as best they can, but when the threat comes banging at their door, they can no longer turn a blind eye.

Pairing: Rayla/Callum

Rating: Mature

AO3 Link: Fuel the Pyre

They exited the throne room, Rayla still carrying Tio. She had perked up a little since Callum had calmed down, but she was still pouting and looking grumpy. She did go to him when he reached for her this time, and he relaxed a little as he held her.

“I’m assuming I missed out on a lot.” Rayla reached for one of his hands, her head moving in the direction of the dungeons. “Care to fill me in?”

“Yeah, of course.” Callum nodded, shifting Tio on his hip, his mind still reeling. “There’s, yeah…a lot.”

“Let’s swing by the kitchen and see if Barius has some jelly tarts.” Rayla grinned at Tio, then smiled warmly at Callum. “I know I need something sweet and delicious to take my mind off that whole mess. And we probably need some treats to keep this little crazy busy while we talk.”

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#rayllum #rayllum fanfic #the dragon prince #tdp #the dragon prince fanfic #tdp fanfic #tdp rayla #tdp callum #rayla #callum #oc: tio #zuppi fanfic #fic: fuel the pyre #series: life is what happens

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p4nishers · 6 months

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no but why bring up thor falling in love w a mortal and completely changing as a person in the process if that's not exactly what the fuck is happening with lokius bc sylvie sure as shit isn't the one loki changed for and went out of their way to defend like literally what was the point if not to parallel lokius

#they didn't even technically finish their thought like?? it wasn't as if they were trying to be vulnerable or shit they just wanted to make #sylvie understand...what exactly? that love doesn't make you weak infact it holds you up and brings light into ur life like that's #literally the opposite of what's happening w sylki like genuinely WHAT else could've been the point #loki spoilers #loki season 2 #loki series #lokius #loki #loki laufeyson #loki x mobius

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ultimate88 · 8 months

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