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SOMEBODY TALKING ABOUT MY FAVOURITE MOVIE!! i still have to read the books but i love the movie and its themes so much! I love how the "alien" doesn't want or destroy anything, it only changes the world around it.

the southern reach sending their ‘world’ into area x and area x taking it and transforming it and sending it back, the southern reach thinking they’re investigating the creation of area x but really they’re just aiding in it, and just as they send emissaries to it so too is area x sending them back, almost putting its feelers out into the world it’s expanding into. it’s give and take, push and pull, area x growing piece by piece as the southern reach accidentally (?) feeds it. it’s not symbiosis it’s not quite parasitism and anyway i feel delirious

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Tumblr feels so weird to me. It started like this very cool space to exchange ideas, get to know new people and express your truest self. Now I'm seeing all of you all grown up and changed/deactivated blogs and realize we've grown apart from each other and have outgrown this once familiar space that now feels like a void. Now I'm here like "wow, growing up is just as weird online as it is in real life :')"

#callmeweeeh #personal #late night thoughts #rambling

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I actually giggled at the 'peas- uh people' lines and Cosima's reaction to her sacrifice. Also amazing work with the description and flow of the fight and the last lines 🍄

Fall from Grace

A Guide to Liminal Matters and Ghastly Kinds - short story

for @flashfictionfridayofficial, 880 words. Content warning for a sacrificial ritual, but it's very light hearted. Also for what appears to be character death. This is probably Cosima's backstory that turned out so much sillier than I planned ^^ Also, sort of spoiler warning for those who follow GLMGK and want to meet her somewhen in part four? But I don't think it actually spoils much. Works really well as a standalone.

If Cosima had some semblance of a choice over how people would tell her story--her history, then the most important part would be that it’d be clear that she had done nothing wrong. Not in all her life, of course. There were so many decades now, and she wasn’t above admitting that once or twice she could have made a better decision or fought better.

But in this particular instance, she really was not at fault at all.

She had simply followed the call for help. At first, her advisor had handed her the letter and she had followed its directions. Then, once she was inside the forest, it was quite easy to follow the actual calling. A distressed voice crying out deep within.

Okay, yes. Maybe she should have changed into pants, in hindsight those would have been much more practical garments to fight in a forest, but alas--she wore her battle dress. Leather heavy on her waist, her hips. The skirt caught on thorns and sticks every now and then but she trod on.

Her longsword nearly brimmed with the energy that sat heavy in the air, Frostblade the Vengeful reacted heavily with the looming threat.

And what a threat it was.

Too soon, Cosmia found herself in a clearing, an old oak tree in the middle. One of its branches must have fallen off, leaving behind an enormous gap in the wood. The sight was slightly unsettling right in the moment as the cries for help stopped.

As were the people in armour. Their stances were broad, ready to attack.

But so was Cosima. She unsheathed Frostblade the Vengeful, held it with both hands in front of her, ready to counter anything those people would throw at her. Just that the first thing they threw at her were not physical attacks but words, and, really, who could be prepared for such a thing?

“If it isn’t the one and only”, one of them snickered.

“The witch that haunts these lands--not for much longer!”

“This dark age of your reign is over!”

Cosima was flabbergasted. There were people who didn’t like her? Since when?!

“I demand an explanation. Is there actually anyone in danger?” she asked and looked around. But aside from the foliage and the insects, no other living being seemed to be present. Clearly, the people in front of her were just fine. She had been called for nothing.

As she turned around to leave, the people exclaimed again, furiously.

“You will not leave! You will fulfil your purpose!”

“Yes! Do the one good thing in your wretched and cursed life that you’re good for!”

“You owe this to us!”

Irritated, Cosima turned back to them. Only now she saw the ropes and knives, several items of stones and bones and herbs.

Ah, yes. She was going to be sacrificed. That was actually a bit inconvenient. There was just the next hunting season coming up and Cosima was set on getting a rarity in her hands, not even that terrible Baron Münchhausen would be able to foil her plans--

“Excuse me? Are you even listening?” one of the peasants--ah, uh, people hissed.

“Huh?”

“We will sacrifice you to this oak tree of eternity!”

Cosima pointed back to the path she had taken, unsure of how to proceed, no one had ever tried to make her a sacrifice before.

“Uh, I’m kinda busy. Like, you know, ruling actually takes a lot of time and work, and I really appreciate the whole eternity.thing? But I am already pretty much immortal, so I think that would be a bit wasted on me. To be honest.”

“We are aware”, one of them grit out. “That’s why it has to be you. The tree isn’t eternal yet.”

Well, that certainly explained things.

What followed could only be described as an utterly unfair fight as Cosima was, well, she was Cosima and the peasa--people were just people.

There were a handful of them and two were already down, just hurt, not dead.

And then Cosima tripped over a root that she had not seen, could not catch herself and the attackers were on her. On one hand, Cosima was still much, much stronger than them. But on the other hand, she had maybe, perhaps hit her head on the forest floor and suddenly she couldn’t see clearly. So this was really not on her, but the forest. Let it be said, just this once, for history: She was not at fault.

The people dragged her to the tree, its crack, pushed her inside. Took the ropes, bound her in place. Sacrificial ropes. Strong enough to hold a god in place, if so desired.

Frostblade the Vengeful fell out of her grip, all the way down to the forest floor, right next to her honour and grace.

Maybe, someone will find me soon, Cosima thought while the people chanted around her and completed the ritual.

She still thought so as night fell.

And the next day.

And the next week, when bark started to grow over her skirt.

And a year later, when vines grew over her torso.

And a decade later, when a bird nested on her head, secure behind her tiara.

And then, she didn’t think anymore at all.

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callmeweeeh · 2 years

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Katerina Marchenko on Etsy

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callmeweeeh · 2 years

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Do you know the Gods you pray to?

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callmeweeeh · 3 years

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Ooh I'd love to read more of Evelyn and Ariel. Sorry for not interacting with your previous posts, life's been super busy these past weeks.

WIP INTRO

A GUIDE TO LIMINAL MATTERS AND GHASTLY KINDS

general facts

novella series

genre: Urban Fantasy | New Adult

status: Part 1 (Heart of Silver) completed and readable here. Part 2 (Words Long Spoken) is currently being drafted. Part 3 (House in Mourning) planned.

themes/other: depression & friendship, episodic storytelling

synopsis

Evelyn is a tired university student who works somewhat illegaly as a ghost hunter in her freetime. Ariel is a professional curse-broker with questionable google reviews. Together, they fight monsters and curses until they both find what they’re looking for: appreciation.

characters

Evelyn - Evelyn grew up as a ghost hunter and tried to leave that life behind her. But after her good friend Ariel brought her back to the ghosts, monsters and curses, she decides to embrace that work in her freetime. However, she not only fights harmful creatures, but her own demons as well.

Ariel - Ariel is a curse-broker with passion. They hand them* out, break them*, experiment with them* to their heart’s content. What comes first in life? Curses! So they will do everything (!) in their power to become the best curse-broker in the whole wide world. (*referring to the curses, not Ariel’s clients; please don’t believe all those google reviews, thanks!)

Joshua - Joshua is a ghost living at Ariel’s apartment (living, hehe, you get it?). He is absolutely not trapped there. And it is also not boring at all. Helping Evelyn and Ariel with his ghostly connections is still more exciting than fighting with the cat. It also just makes him feel more… alive?

links

upcoming links to relevant posts will soon appear here! the tag for this WIP is #wip; GLMGK

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ask to be added or removed from the taglist!

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callmeweeeh · 3 years

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“What does the god of your childhood look like? A soft apparition pigeoned in the attic, a wound eating you one year at a time?”

— blud, ‘outhouse’ by Rachel McKibbens

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callmeweeeh · 3 years

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Richard Kadrey

#i sure hope so #💘

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callmeweeeh · 3 years

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hi i literally could not stop thinking about this ghost a guy was saying he saw to the point that I went to the trouble of transcribing part of the podcast ep it’s in. Im so obsessed with this hold on (emphasis mine):

"It got to be about 2:30 in the morning, [...] and I woke up, and I see this kind of tall figure at the top of a pretty big staircase. [...] it was kind of just the silhouette of the figure I saw, and I couldn't make out any facial features or anything like that. [...] I remember one of the first things I saw when it started walking down the stairs was how weird and strange it looked like when it was walking. The best way I can really describe it was kinda almost like it was a puppet on a string in a way? You know, it was very unnatural. [...] So it was kind of walking down the stairs in that weird, weird way, and it finally got to the bottom of the stairs, and it started looking around, like I could see its head tilt back a little bit, almost like someone who had come home after a long time, and hadn't been there. It was almost looking around like, you know, "God, it's great to be back" or something, you know what I mean? [...] And it was looking around, and kind of moving back and forth in a weird wavy way still. And you know at this point I'm starting to get a little freaked out, because I can't tell exactly what's going on. And then all of a sudden, and this completely caught me off guard, I heard in a very weird deep male voice it said, "Oh my love, what a mirror image we are." And I'll never forget— [...] At this point it was still kind of almost like bobbing backand forth almost, and kind of looking around, and it didn't seem to direct that to anybody in particular, which was the weird thing too. [...] It was very clear, and the way that it sounded when this thing said it was it was almost like someone saying in like a cave? It was kind of like a weird echoey kind of thing. [...] It was very strange, I never really experienced anything like that. And I'm one hundred per cent sure that it said, "Oh my love, what a mirror image we are." And I still don't really know what it means exactly, or exactly what it was—if it was talking to the house? I don't know if it was someone who previously owned the house. [...] It walked into another room to the right of me and it just never came back."

from Jim Harold’s Campfire ep 500

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callmeweeeh · 3 years

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art by @jmfenner91

#my writing #the mirroring god #tw blood #writers on tumblr #writeblr

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callmeweeeh · 3 years

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Nothin gets me fucked up like dishonored like theres no fucking video game out here that gets me actin a whole fucker. I jus lose my higher brain functions ill see some aesthetic posts or quotes or ‘the outside walks among us’ or ‘the blood drained and i became a god’ or ‘strange how theres always a little more innocence left to lose’ and i black out

#reblog #same same #tw: blood

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pov; I'm finally in college and can write things I actually enjoy and care about

The Mothers’ Plague

A mad man stole over the railing,

Hammer in hand, inconsolable,

And wrecked Michaelangelo’s Pieta.

Mother Mary’s face, already fallen in grief,

For her boy, who lay dead in her arms,

Was broken.

What is the plague of men

If not belief?

Yet what is the plague of belief

If not men?

Belief sews the heart of men.

Breeds them.

Bears men like Athena,

Born from her father’s skull.

But they, wrought of belief,

Reach their dirty hands

Into her texts, her pews, her holy cathedrals,

Like the leers of men chasing a frightened mother.

And they take what they want.

The belief twists,

Like a spring ready to snap.

The strain grows

And the shimmering metal of belief whines.

But the plague warps it.

What was once created, bright and good,

Deteriorates in dirty hands.

Belief, the mother, wastes away.

Because she is not enough.

She could not justify hate if she wished,

And she could not make violence law.

So the belief twists until it screams.

Until the face it had been breaks.

Until we stare into what had once been a loving gaze,

And see no resemblance of a mother

Mourning her dead boy.

Rather, she shatters into what we wanted.

She becomes our mirror.

k | h | @rhyaxxyn

#going FERAL over this!!#i've had a conversation about religion and how it was both constructed & deconstructed by humans through violence in search for peace #with friends last night and seeing this just made my heart jump #💘#tmg

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callmeweeeh · 3 years

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Omg sorry that I'm late again, tumblr doesn't show me all my notifications on mobile anymore somehow.

It's all good though, I didn't even notice you replied multiple times thx to the feature or bug I mentioned above lol

Diving deeper into Jindosh's childish traits (even though it sadly most likely comes from childhood trauma and him constantly searching for approval in the end due to that), is so cool of you two! I love Jindosh and Breanna the most out of the coup crew (I like everyone involved aside from Luca tbh), especially their relationship with each other. And therefore I find Jindosh's child-like side very interesting, but wasn't sure if his childishness was something I only noticed because I've been influenced too much by the one sentence referring to how his mother didn't love him or something like that. Also due to his relationship to Breanna it's very possible that they found a way to heal his mind with magic, even if it isn't canon. That's what fanfic is about after all, so I hope my comment didn't come off as me judging your story, I was just curious. Thank you so much for explaining these things to me. Is there any way I can read your fic? Only if you're comfortable sharing it of course.

Anyway, I will write a bit about Adult!Noa and Marked!Noa AU where she goes to the Academy of Natural Philosophy and has her own supernatural adventures and gets touched by the void (you can read about her powers here). Putting it under the cut because it will be long-ish.

Brief backstory on Noa (and Jindosh Lives AU): She is born in Karnaca in 1845 to a single mother who is killed in 1847 by the Grand Guard in a crossfire between them and a local gang. Noa is adopted by her mother's sister and her aunt, Ronny, at age 2. She is later unofficially "adopted" by Kirin Jindosh, who her aunt Ronny is dating, in 1854 after he miraculously recovers from the electroshock but is serving an indefinite prison sentence at his mansion.

The AU: Noa grows up in the Clockwork Mansion with her aunt Ronny, who is a Doctor, and Former Grand Inventor Kirin Jindosh. Because of that, she develops interest in Natural Philosophy from an early age and Jindosh is delighted to be her mentor through most of her childhood and teenage years. In 1864, at the age of 19, she gets accepted at the Academy of Natural Philosophy and travels to Dunwall to attend.

At Dunwall she makes friends with a girl from Gristol she met once in Karnaca when she was on a vacation years ago and a young man from Tyvia who she later discovers is Sokolov's illegitimate grandson.

(pictured here, Noa and Them)

While at the academy, she finds old records of her mother attending, only for one winter and with the help of her friends, pieces it together that her mother left because she became pregnant with her with one of the other students. Her friends help trace him down, and he is now a professor at the Academy, however he refuses to accept that she might be his daughter and she grows resentful for him as well.

While Noa is studying engineering, following in Jindosh's footsteps, but she has a certain curiosity about The Void and is obsessed with collecting reports about the rifts that have been opening all around the Isles and the mysterious figure who has been closing them, as well as the effects of these void portals on the people. Along with few other ambitious students, against the warnings of her two close friends, she makes a team and they construct a machine that will try and keep one of these anomalies open and have one of them access The Void. They study rituals and whale bones in secret and finally conduct their experiment one night. As they open the portal, they gaze into the void and one of Noa's colleagues attempts to go in it. They prepared a rope made of metal wire to pull her back with and she goes in. However the device begins to break under the pressure and the anomaly implodes on itself, cutting the metal rope and injuring everyone in the room.

They begin cleaning up and vow to try their best to recreate the device and get their friend back while also keeping it a secret from the Academy so they won't involve the guard or have them expelled. Noa blames herself for this and begins to believe that much like Jindosh, she is cursed to kicked from the Academy for her unethical experiments. As they recover from their injuries, Noa observes the cut on her leg and notices that while the cut healed, the skin has become strange and stone like around it. She spends the night studying her own leg and sending her doctor aunt Ronny a letter describing the injury, after which she learns that the cut glows blue where it once bled.

At the same night, there is an attack in the Academy and it ends in the death of a lot of students and staff. While everyone is in panic, Noa goes to the main hall to find the professor who is her biological father gravely injured and begging for help. She goes to help him and he confesses that he wished he got to know her, but was afraid what she would think about him abandoning her and her mother before her birth. Despite her efforts, he dies in her arms and the City Watch arrives with one of Noa's colleagues. He tells them that Noa conducted an experiment and that she is responsible for what happened. As they try and arrest her, Noa runs away and has to escape the Academy and reach her friend's apartment in Dunwall to hide. The City Watch are not the only ones after her, as whatever killed all the professors and students is also hunting Noa down.

From here on, I have not really thought about all the details, but basically she learns that whatever hurt her has given her powers but is also slowly turning her leg into stone and she needs to find some of the followers of The Outsider (unsure if he really exists right now) and try and find answers for what's happening, all while she is hunted by something she doesn't know. She is joined by her two friends, the girl from Dunwall and Sokolov's grandson and goes around trying to find all of the surviving members of her team and save them from whatever is after them all. I was thinking of her befriending cultists and witches who can teach her many things through it all!

I was thinking that it culminates when they reach Tyvia and she goes back into The Void to find her friend, only to realize her friend has been consumed by the void and she is the "thing" that has been hunting them all down trying to get revenge. At this point, the regretful and apologetic Noa can choose to free her friend's spirit by taking her powers with her own, thus cursing herself to become trapped in the void as a monster forever or take her friend to the heart of the Void and let the Void consume her and make her the new "Outsider".

If Noa does return from the Void, her leg is damaged beyond saving and is slowly killing her so her aunt Ronny decides to cut it a bit above the knee and stops the corruption which also strips Noa of her Void powers. She does get a cool clockwork leg from Jindosh after that and clears her name at the Academy, thus being allowed to continue her education. If she is stuck in the Void she gets to relive the worst moments of her life and the lives of everyone she knew over and over until she loses her mind.

So that's sort of the vague idea I have about this AU and I just wanted to write it out. I should definitely draw it, but if you read until the end, thank you and I owe you my life 🥺️

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— TERRAS TOWN | ask to be +/- from tag list.

haha body control go brrr. haha im still around

#💘#tw violence

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I don't know if this has already been said/ discussed within the community but it's so cool to me how the powers are a reflection of their wielders (Spoilers for both Dishonored Games and their DLCs as much as the novels ahead!). Corvo can use Blink, Bend Time, Dark Vision, Possession and Devouring Swarm. Blink as the ability to teleport could symbolise his regret on not being fast enough to stop the Whalers and in the end save Jessamine. You could say the same for Bend Time. He wishes to control and go back in time to make things right. Dark Vision plays into his profession as someone lurking in and melting with the dark, an assassin. Possession plays more into his role as a diplomat for the Empire and spy. He has to get into the other person's mind or rather understand them in order to know how to convince them and to foresee their next move. Devouring swarm is a reflection of the hatred Corvo must have felt right after the coup. He had only been away from Jessamine, and therefore didn't know about the treason that was being prepared in the Empire, because of the Rat Plague. So when his lover is dead, his daugther's fate is unknown to him and his position as the Royal Spymaster has been taken away, he doesn't really have anything left to lose. Why not let the world go down and let everyone else die because of the Rat Plague too? Daud can also use Blink and Bend Time. Dark Vision gets replaced with Void Gaze in his case but is basically the same and Summon Assasin/ Arcane Bond are unique to Daud. Well much like with Corvo, Daud also regret his past actions and would like to go back in time to change them (slight spoiler for the novels/ post DOTO: note that time travel is a recurring theme throughout the whole series). Void Gaze is also an allude to him being an assassin. However for his powers connected to the Whalers, why does he have them? Sure, it's a cool thing to summon others to your aid, but he could've also gotten doppelgängers like Emily did to do the trick. It's because Daud has a deep connection to the Whalers. For him they are the people closest to a family. "If we go down, then we go down together" translates to, if I get supernatural abilities that grant me advantages, you'll get them to. Not because I willingly chose to get Arcane Bond from the Outsider, but because you mean so much to me and we share everything. "I love you bitch. I'm never gonna stop loving you, bitch".

Emily's unique powers in the second game are Far Reach, Doppelgänger, Domino, Mesmerize and Shadow Walk. She got Far Reach because she always wanted to escape Dunwall Tower and explore the City. By having her grip over the entire city, by knowing it, she wanted to truly be able to rule Dunwall rather than just own it. I think at some point in the game she even said herself, that she did know very little about the actual people and fates she ruled over. Doppelgänger is an allusion to her double life as an Empress at day and an Dora the explorer at night, who wished not to rule. Domino could symbolise the fates that are connected and influence she has on them with her decisions as the Empress. Mesmerize serves as a look into the Void I guess. On my last playthrough I've heard some npcs talk about their past and things they regret while being mesmerized. Maybe it also served as a way for them to reflect on their lives, just as much as the coup helped Emily reflect on hers. Shadow Walk shows my point the clearest. This ability tells us what Emily could become and maybe even wishes to be sometimes. She wants her Throne and Father back, no matter the cost. Yeah, sure, she talks about being a better ruler etc. but ultimately she wants her life in a comfy home and her family back. I guess the coup even triggered her feelings from her mother's assassination, as shown by the drawing she made as a child when you leave Dunwall Tower from the secret chamber. She's so scared of losing a parent yet again, that she'd even turn into a monster to prevent it. She's fully aware of the opportunities her powers grant her, of the havoc she could wreak and the possibility to just cut her way through whoever's standing between her and her father. In canon she's careful not to become that monster but having acess to that power implies, that Emily sometimes thinks about choosing the easy way to just kill everybody. Billie's abilities all have to do with switching places rather than bending time. This could refer to her questioning her identity and who she could have become if only she had made other choices. As much as she loves Daud and thinks about following his instructions blindly again throughout DOTO, she's curious about the positions she could be in if she had chosen another life. She had been in hiding under a different identity after the first and during most of the second game after all. Displace shows the possible points where Billie could go. Of course it isn't implied that this alludes to her life overall within the game, I mean the way you can use this power is of course limited within this medium. Semblance literally lets her take on a different identity for a while and even plays an important role during the auction for example. So to end this really long post, I don't know if I'm totally mislead by my interpretation of the character's powers, but I assume there's a reason why they got the powers they got. I think they are a reflection of both the point they're at in life and the humans they desire or fear to become. I'll tag some people here who might be interested in this theory but please don't feel pressured to react. @incorrect-dishonored-quotes @grandinventor @kirin-jindosh @corruptedbonecharm @tsainami

If you took the time to read this, thank you so much.

#dishonored #dishonored spoilers #rambling

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callmeweeeh · 3 years

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I'm sorry for only seeing this now but damn!! That sounds soo cool and actually got me invested. I love stories that revolve around students studying cool things at an odd academy or facility of some sort. Also Jindosh being alive and actually helping someone sounds kinda like a fever dream to me but the kind of fever dream I'd never wanna wake up from (him and Breanna are my faves out of Duki Luki's ganggang).