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sfsolstice · 2 months

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exurb1a, from "Inventory" in Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too

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nights-at-crystarium · 1 year

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Their eccentric nature seeps into their body language as well.

#be my respite is the name of the faraway chapter 6 of fragments #i drew this back when i was merely daydreaming about the comic well maybe scripting already #i was oblivious to the fact that their story won't be short #so i started stashing some art away to use as comic covers sometime later #well now i know this sometime later comes in at least 2 years from now #i already have a different approach to covers so i'm just posting this C:#gonna draw a different thing for the actual cover #ffxiv #vivien rell #crystal exarch #g'raha tia #wol x g'raha tia #wolgraha #own: next lvl

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aroaessidhe · 9 months

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2023 reads // twitter thread

To Shape A Dragon’s Breath

YA fantasy

a young Indigenous girl finds & bonds with a dragon hatchling - the first time in many generations for her people - and is required to go to the coloniser’s dragon academy in their mainland city, to learn how to raise her dragon and the science of its magic

historical inspired setting on the cusp of industrial revolution with steampunk vibes

bi polyamorous MC, Black lesbian SC, nonverbal autistic SC

#To Shape A Dragon’s Breath #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #this is really really good i loved it!#the chapter titles are all like snippets of a story. or like sentence fragments that match up. which is cool #it is definitely more about being indigenous in a coloniser institution than Dragon School - not Super dragon heavy if you want that #I suspect the subsequent books will get into that when she gets big enough to ride and stuff #t’s also def YA! i’ve seen a few ppl assume it’s adult and be like its very young :( but like. I mean its perfectly reasonable for a 15yo m #definitely a Lot of racism and colonialism which is not fun to read! though it's still through a YA lens. there was def a part of me that #was imagining consequences of the narrative as if it were an adult novel #on that line of thought - at the end a lot of it is kind of solved by them going to the king and he's is like. oh no racism is happening?#that's bad i'll deal with those people! which felt like. a little simplistic. but maybe the easiest way to end the narrative for book 1 -#I don't think the author ACTUALLY is going to portray the king as a Good Guy throughout the series - it just felt conveniently like -#a simple YA solution to some very big and complex elements? if that makes sense? (but again - it is YA so it's allowed I suppose!)#some of the worldbuilding (like all the science learning) is probably setup for next books - we don’t really see any practical application #the romances are also subtle and not Overbearing In Book One which i like - leave some space for the series!#also her getting fanmail from a 10yo mixed race girl who looks up to her 🥺#anyway. i really loved it!#oh also it reminded me a little of leviathan. i guess just the steampunk/time period/european culture....#To Shape A Dragon's Breath

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y-rhywbeth2 · 3 months

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Call me an edgelord, but I just find the idea that "you made a horrific deal with the devil and got everything you wanted, no drawbacks" is really boring and a waste of a perfectly good Faustian bargain. Where's the theme of it all?

It's like defying Bhaal, or becoming a vampire spawn and then dumping your master and running away: where's the fun in these choices without some consequences??

#I do prefer unascended Astarion and his silliness and potential “hunting people for fun and profit” date nights but #Why would I chose the dracula+ ending if I'm getting a human with fangs or some shit as some ascended fans inform me?#This started about an interpretation of Ascended Astarion but:#You get to live a life free of Bhaal! Happily ever after!#Strangely I don't think he's just going to accept my resignation Withers!#Being a fragment of the god of murder with no mortal heritage or ties should mean something maybe!#babbling #griping #?

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fromtheseventhhell · 5 months

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what do you think about the affc 2003 old script release? sansa fans are claiming because it says “take north” it means actually retake the north instead of heading north

It's interesting to look at George's notes and try to line them up with the plotlines we already have, but it's hard to make predictions on future ones because of how fragmented they are. The only reason it's being used as proof is because Stansas have already decided that's how her story will play out; It's just confirmation bias.

Regarding Sansa's portion, I think it lines up with what we've already gotten from her AFFC + TWOW chapters. Her final AFFC chapter includes LF outlining his "plan", which is supposed to culminate in her revealing her identity, gaining the support of the Vale, and retaking the North...hence the "take the north" in the outline. The fact that it predates the Tourney on the list, introduced afterward in her TWOW sample, seems to line up. LF's "prizes" of returning her identity and Winterfell give us her motivations + reasoning for why she is, for now, willing to follow his plan. The only actual new point seems to be "Kill the Mouse".

It's hard to theorize on any of these because they could all be subject to change/revision but to me, this outline shows that George has an entire arc in the Vale planned out of her. The Tourney hasn't even begun yet, we have Myranda potentially realizing Sansa's identity, Sansa hasn't even begun allying with the knights of the Vale, an engagement to Harry hasn't been secured, SW's health is up in the air, I doubt that the Mad Mouse will be killed off anytime soon, etc. She has a lot of story left to play out where she is and nothing actually indicates that she will be physically heading North anytime soon. The issue is that people keep trying to align her book arc with the show. Ultimately we won't ever really know until George releases TWOW, but it is funny to me that this is taken as ultimate proof when there's so much from George that they ignore. They'll rally around a few fragmented thoughts from 10 years ago, but then they ignore it when he outright says he has no idea what D&D are doing with Sansa and that things will be very different in the books 🤷🏾‍♀️

#ask #anon #anti sansa stans #just in case #George has said several times that the books and the show are different but somehow that's always ignored/debated #but I'm supposed to take a bunch of fragmented scribbles as absolute proof...asoiaf fandom logic in a nutshell 😭#also not to be a party-pooper but that transcription is debatable given how sloppy George's writing is (he's just like me fr)#looking at George's notes makes me realize why we don't have TWOW yet 💀#wished he didn't cross out some of those points cause they could've been really interesting...maybe he'll circle back #it would also be very interesting if Sansa was the one to ultimately kill the Mad Mouse considering he's targeting her #like if he does kidnap her but she kills him before they reach her destination #I doubt it will play out like that but it's fun to think about

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fairydrowning · 2 years

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Here's a reminder that it's totally ok to feel sad after making some right decisions. It's ok to feel sad when you leave your toxic friends. It's ok to feel sad or cry when you feel everything is going wrong. It's ok that you are not who you thought you would be. It's ok to not be ok sometimes.

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forestfullofberries · 4 days

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oh wait. i interpretated No Longer You as Tiresias saying "i can't help you if you don't change" meaning that becoming the monster is the only way to get home.

but is it what he meant? or did Tiresias just straight up refuse to help because he saw who Odysseus is going to become and he didn't want to help this person?

#i'm trying not to think about prophecies too much because i end up thinking about determinism and free will #does a prophet get to change the future by chosing what to tell other people?#i'm not smart enough to answer this #fia.post #epic the musical #tiresias #“i see past and future running free” tells me that his vision is not just some vague fragments it's continuous and responsive to changes #maybe he can't prevent the bloodbath that is suitor slaying but he can not take part in helping the murderer #or does it even count as not taking part if his words still influenced odysseus to become the monster?#or maybe tiresias doesn't care and is saying presenting the future as it is #i don't knowwwww i don't understandddddddd

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erytherion · 3 months

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I knew watching it again would probably result in some different perspectives from when I watched as a kid, but I remembered the film really well already and wasn’t expecting anything particularly ORV-related to suddenly hit me out of the blue, but like. Right at the end. RIGHT at the end.

Sing-Shong (or Han Sooyoung and KimCom, if you’d rather - or maybe both!) really did put so much thought into everything that got included, didn’t they?

You could say that ORV itself is exactly the same to them as this story was to the Rose who shared her story - Jack’s story.

I guess the idea is that, without ORV, we would never have known about Kim Dokja at all, because nobody would have remembered him. Maybe without those specific people surviving, there would not be any other record of him at all. Maybe that is part of the change between what may have ‘actually’ happened and what we read. Maybe he really, truly is ‘just some guy’ trying to survive like Jack Dawson, but nobody even knew he was a part of their story in the first place? What we read is a story saying ‘he was there, here is evidence of him being there’, but maybe he was just like Jack, there unplanned and undocumented, even in the <Star Stream> itself.

And they are still there, telling every world line outside of their own: He was here too. We want to find him. As the only ones who know he was there - maybe without any statue, any documented heroism. Just like everyone in the background of the film, saving each other, dying together, trying to survive.

And a promise, of course, to never let go. Not of a hand, but of a promise: A promise to survive, to live to an old age, and die in a warm bed.

I think a young Kim Dokja would appreciate the kind of message that provided, even in film form. Or at least, it’s one Han Sooyoung (or Sing-Shong, if you’d rather) would consider would want to convey to her readers.

Maybe they don’t even have a picture of him either. Maybe the only record of him exists within their memories. And that was the only source they had with which to try and recreate the ‘him’ that they knew, whilst knowing that, as with the film Titanic, the story would out of necessity become somewhat dramatised to sell the story as plausible or to make it popular enough to reach him.

Anyways, this quote (from the movie transcript - couldn’t find screenshots to do it justice) was what really hit me the most as being relevant to his story, too. Since they were there too, in the theatre dungeon, on the Titanic. It being a fictional rendition of a historical event makes it even more relevant too, and even as a kid I wondered - how can everyone be so okay watching these people die so horribly? But it’s because it’s fiction, it’s fiction. But, in this case, was it? How much of it?

Interpretations of fiction could still be close to reality, in universes where these things did happen, in their reality. As history. So are the things we read, watch, play all the same, in the end? Artists’ renditions, dramatised documentaries, or similar? Fiction, yet also reality.

Like ORV. Fiction, yet reality. Always both and the same.

And they always say ‘it feels like a dream’, too. What do dreams count as? Fiction, or reality? The memories stay in your head from them too. Does that mean they are or are not real?

Just some guy dreaming of the helping his friends through the apocalypse, who came out of nowhere just like Jack Dawson on that ship, walking the fine line between fiction and reality that never had any distinction to him in the first place. It’s always been both, for him, with his story.

Anyways I am crying right now so feel free to cry with me! We have many tears with all these stories and histories, I think.

#orv #orv spoilers #omniscient reader’s viewpoint #titanic #reminder that I have psychosis and some strange thoughts/beliefs at times #fiction is not purely fictional to me either #it’s just happening somewhere else than here #in another dimension or universe #getting dramatised during retelling #inspiring actions that create ‘spiritual successors’ of the original plotlines #like handing stories down to sponsored incarnations #the message wasn’t for me but it’s a good message to keep you going #never let go of the promise to survive please #maybe we promised someone else something similar in another universe #in a fragment of a story we took part in in our sleep #look after yourselves dear readers

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lonelysucker7 · 3 months

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Found this in my drafts

Quick reference idea for near future (11/12/23)

“Im not good for you.”

“Tell me why?”

“…step back for a second. Just do it.”

You didn’t question him, immediately taking a step back from him. Kaine stood there with an expression sort of darkening for a second, before he jerked his hands quickly forward unsheathing spikes from his wrists. Your eyes widened slightly and your body froze. He didn’t meet your eye, just glared at the spikes.

Carefully he beckoned you back with a finger, and you listened, getting closer to him. Then you stood in front of him, bravely meeting your eye up at his 6’4 stature.

Kaine stared down at you, his breathing steadying a bit.

“Do these scare you?” He questioned quietly. He brought a stinger a bit up and dragged it slowly on the bare skin of your arm, careful and gentle. It’s smooth yet sharp edge sent a shiver down your spine. You couldn’t tell if it excited you or scared you. But you had to think rationally about this. You had to take a moment to think. Glancing at them did give you some shivers down your spine. You had to be honest about that.

“Yes.”

Kaine’s steady breathing became slightly heavier, his eyebrows knitted almost closer together. You weren’t sure if there were right answers here and the idea almost made you scared, more than his spikes. You heard him open his mouth again, and spoke with a rather hesitant hardened tone

“Do I scare you?”

You thought of all those moments you were with him. You thought of the first time you met. You knew there was more to him than just his usual grumpy attitude. He made you feel safe. You never saw a reason to feel afraid of him. Not unless he showed you this side of him. You shook your head and answered truthfully.

“No.”

You felt a bit of relief when Kaine’s shoulders slightly slumped a bit hinting the tension was already lessening.

part from the beginning

#suckerrambles #I know I know #The chapter isn’t ready… I’m having severe doubts atm #So I’m gifting you all some bit of what may or may not come in the future for this #I was cleaning my drafts also and I forgot this existed lol #strangers on a train #For your sakes and mine let’s not put our hopes to high #Might use this as a rewrite in the future to fit the story #This obviously doesn’t sound like Kaine or maybe it does but this will not stay the same #Like I said it’s to fit the story and this is a fragment of my imagination to a scenario between Kaine and and reader #kaine parker

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autisticlancemcclain · 2 years

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“I left so you could stay!”

“I didn’t want to stay without you!”

Lance’s chest is heaving, and tears blur his vision. Keith looks shocked, mouth dropped open and eye blown wide. “I didn’t want to stay without you,” Lance repeats through a sob. “But you left, and I didn’t have a choice. You left me, and then so did everyone else, and I was alone, and you left me.”

“Lance,” Keith whispers, close to tears himself.

Lance breath hitches, and he can barely speak over the lump in his throat. “I never wanted you to leave. I would have followed you, but I knew you didn’t want me to. You needed to figure something out on your own, and I did my best to accept that, but you broke my heart, Keith. There was nothing I wanted or needed more than to be at your side but I wasn’t worthy of you.”

“Lance,” Keith begs again, reaching over to cup his face. “You were always worthy, okay? Always. You never had to earn my respect, or fight for a place at my side. It was always yours to take. We’re equals. There’s no one I need more than you. When I left… I was struggling. I was afraid. I was afraid of my past and my future and I was afraid of what I wanted to be with you. Of what I already was with you. I didn’t know how to handle myself, and when you came to me worried about five lions and six paladins I thought I had a solution. But I was wrong. I was scared and I made the wrong choice. But,” Keith wipes Lance’s tears with his thumbs, pressing their foreheads together. “I want to fix things. You and me. I’ll do anything, Lance. Anything to earn back your trust, your love.”

“You don’t have to do anything,” Lance sobs. “You just have to stay.”

Keith cradles Lance’s head to his chest, and he goes willingly, clutching Keith’s shirt in clenched fists. “I’ll stay,” he promises, petting Lance’s hair as he cries. “For the rest of my life, until the end of my days, Lance McClain, I will stay with you.”

#here take some emotions #vld #voltron #lance #lance mcclain #keith #keith kogane #klance #post s6 #maybe #who fucken knows #hurt/comfort #fight but only the makeup part lol #angst #my writing #fic fragment

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warlordfelwinter · 6 months

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"i didn't get to play your past like a vr game like fiver did but"

#i like the implication that with the extra soul fiver's echo has gotten more powerful #since this is the first one since ardbert and it's the first one where you get to play a little mini game inside #so now fiver has to like Feel and Experience things from others' pasts instead of just see them #which he will certainly love and will not be more disorienting and unpleasant than the regular echo visions #i also like that we ostensibly learn to control the echo somewhat in elpis with venat #and then as i recall it doesn't really matter and it still sorta just Takes us whenever it feels like it #need a few more pieces of soul and we can do it on command maybe #and i'm like 99% sure we gave one of our soul fragments to ryne in that memoria crystal #og golbez HAS to have been the azem chunk for the 13th he makes the most sense to me #so hopefully we get that back at some point and get new spicy ancient powers #fel's ffxiv #shadowbringers lb #oc: fiver

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angeltism · 6 months

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when did we as a society start w the "doubles of me don't exist uu guys are just crazy and stupid" / "if uu think uu love [character] uu need to check uurself into a psych ward because they only love me" all over again

#➳ the fool speaks #like ok uu can be uncomfortable w doubles . i purrsonally do nawt relate but if those are uur boundaries i will listen to them bc that is #basic respect . but uhm . can we . purrhaps . nawt be ableist about it and throw around insults like that .#this isn't directed at all btw i've just noticed a massive influx of doubles being referred to as non-existent/insane/crazy/delusional/etc #which . wasn't that part of dnis a few months ago ??#shrugs #it just feels weird like ok idk man uu are ru.i and he's one of my main fragments or uur lyn.ette and even tho she's one of my lesser #fragments uu still don't want me to interact ? (RANDOM EXAMPLES) sure idm those are uur valid boundaries #but being called insane feels a little disheartening #and uu are allowed to be uncomfortable and i know for some it is highly distressing to interact w doubles which again . VALID .#but i think throwing an insult like that out there to somebun who maybe hasn't even followed uu yet . idk . . .#is this understandable ???? like is this making sense . am i uncomfortable for no reason . idk #ask to tag

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kayzero · 9 months

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i was going through some old art and i found some redesign concepts i drew while reading zero win game!! i dont think i ever posted them anywhere, but i hope you enjoy them nonetheless ^^

well this is just fucking cool

#zero escape #zwg #you have like. color theory and shit #and like. actual attention and care for the designs #meanwhile in the actual text #akane has a front pocket hoodie specifically because of deviation (and one other fragment)#and aoi wears white while junpei wears black to play at being opposites #and literally nothing else matters #which means stuff like this could be canon! isn’t that neat!#it’s like i was telling my beta some time ago #in zwg canon #phi is trans and mira is an aro lesbian and literally any other headcanon is valid because it isn’t plot relevant #…don’t. don’t look too deeply into that.#(you’re gonna look too deeply into that maybe i should delete it.)

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leonardalphachurch · 1 year

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ε-gamma is so funny. gary is all like, oh i’m going to be gay and evil and torture the alpha again and try to take over the galaxy and fall in love with a man with a mustache and ε-gamma is literally like bro i am just s i am just sitting here

#rvb #this is my ‘gary and alpha were genuinely friends’ propaganda train. epsilon remembered him fondly.#‘what about all the murder’ ‘uhhhhhh it’s okay this one didn’t do that’#the way that ε-sigma is just this nebulous evil thing is also fascinating #like i know it’s bc. elijah wood expensive. but. in canon #he doesn’t talk! and if i will remind that is What Sigma Did. he talked.#but Sigma is not how epsilon remembers sigma. Sigma is not who epsilon introjects.#epsilon introjects The Meta.#obviously nothing like the actual meta. just this terrifying growling concept that epsilon can only understand as ‘the bad man’#i don’t think epsilon could let himself think of what the meta’s actual goals were. could let himself understand that HE is #essentially what the meta wanted to be. he IS the complete meta. in some ways #we KNOW miles understands what the meta actually was. price says it clear as day. the meta wanted to be human.#yet epsilon still presents it to carolina as a bid for power #because i don’t think it’s the meta’s goals epsilon is afraid of. i think it’s its methods #i think it’s epsilon knowing so deeply inside of him. that he could’ve walked that path. to get to her.#everyone seems to know what’s best for texas right? sigma seemed to know what was best for the other ai #and maybe he was right yknow? maybe he was right. isn’t epsilon so much happier now that he remembered the fragments?#was sigma wrong for wanting to gather everyone again? was epsilon wrong for wanting to see her again? were they wrong?#who has to die to prove they weren’t wrong??#oops i. wrote a sad novel in the tags of silly post.

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derelicthorror · 4 months

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Wait, you write actual wf fics? Send them to me, I'd be more than happy to read and give feedback on them!

i do!! i always tag them under "#derelict drabbles" for ease of access but i also have about seven unproofed pieces plus a misguided backburner crossover i've been daydreaming about, so those should end up popping up soon!

of course, if anyone has a Concept that they want to toss my way so i can see what takes shape in the word processor, i always find that a lot of fun, too!

#featuring everything from zariman scraps to unsolicited oc fic to what was going to be an honesttogod ordis/reader fragment??#the misguided crossover is currently with prototype . btw. because something is the matter with me. it is my white whale #ty for the ask !!#there are also some exclusive wf cringefics that i Maybe should crosspost one of these days lol. maybe someday

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sadlazzle · 3 months

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i gotta say im enjoying elden ring so much. like im jst rlly having fun. im probably missing quite a few things n i need to explore more n get some cooler armour n spells but honestly im jst havin a rlly good time

#i lov it so much. i love the wide open world a lot #cause even places ive been too are exciting cause i forget abt some of em #n i get to discover them again !! fun !!!#i mean that too i think it’s so fun #it’s rlly nice especially after my ds3 experience #cause it made me worry i might not like er #bc one of my biggest issues in ds3 was getting lost a lot #n i was like oh god. what if i don’t like er bc i’ll get lost #but that didn’t rlly happen. only briefly bc i forgot to collect mao fragments but tbh that was fun bc i was exploring it all fresh n new #like i genuinely didn’t realise for maybe a whole 5 hours of playtime that i didn’t hav a map #but oh i love it. i could go on abt it for days #and i would love to keep going on abt it. enable me #plum plays elden ring

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