#Esther whom I love

[forbidden-sunlight]

yandere!holy knight with saintess!reader scenario [part two]

Warnings: obsessive behavior, profane language, religious themes, implied manipulation, attempted sexual assault, attempted drugging.

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Part One

Part Three

Hey guys, welcome to part two of the yandere!Holy Knight scenario! As a final reminder, the content is going to get much darker so if you do not feel comfortable continuing, please exit now. Bullying is not tolerated on here, so if there is I will take this fic down.

For those who are curious about who is the pretty lady featured in this chapter, this is the one whom the Head Priest claims to be the real saintess, the one whom God truly loves, Reverent Sister Esther. Special thanks to @deathmetalunicorn1 for helping me find this pic and writing out the difficult bits in this fic.

So, with that being said, sit back, relax, and let us return to the Holy Temple of Aesir.

Yandere!Holy Knight rose from his cot on the third morning since he had seen you, exhaustion seeping into his bones even when he should have felt refreshed and ready for the afternoon patrol. Instead, he felt his skin prickle, his calloused hands started to become wet with sweat. His heart was hammering in his rib cage. Will he be able to see you today? He thought. Will he see Reverent Sister Esther? Aesir, please let it not be so! 

He could only assume that you were making yourself scarce around the Holy Temple because you were still trying to find any information on the Affection Level while the rest of the congregation began the preparation for the Festival of Stars. It was supposed to be an auspicious time. To reflect and be kind to others as the long, winter dark nights crept across the land. 

Yet Reverend Sister Esther did not share those sentiments. With Aesir as his witness, Yandere!Holy Knight can testify under oath that the newest member of the congregation does not possess empathy. Why? Because…of what he saw behind those closed doors leading towards the sanctuary. He didn't mean to see it, he shouldn’t have. Yandere!Holy Knight had only dared to go there before the morning prayers began because he was concerned about the bell-ringer. In its five-hundred year history, there has not been a single morning when someone did not hear the bells of the Holy Temple announce the dawn of a new day and awaken the Brothers and Sisters from their slumber. 

He pushed the doors open just a breadth and saw everyone, even the bell-ringer, sitting in the pews in awed silence at the beautiful blue-haired woman in a modest white dress standing behind the pulpit. Reverend Sister Esther smiled softly. 

“There is no need to exhaust yourselves by kind to everyone. The world is a dark, cruel place.” She said, spreading her arms outwards.. “There are people we should not speak to, and those we should not lend our ears to. We must turn them away, and only listen to Aesir and what he desires from us. We are his precious children. They are the dregs of society. The common, vulgar, weak, and licentious. They do not deserve Aesir’s salvation! It is through Him, Through I, His Beloved, that we will find our Paradise!”  The pews erupted into applause, some of the Brothers standing up as they declared that her words to be sacrament instead of heresy. The High Priest was in wholehearted agreement, smiling widely with flushed cheeks. 

Yandere!Holy Knight’s stomach churned in awed disgust before he quietly closed the door, leaning against it to steady his wobbling knees. This is why the number of visitors, of people who have come here in search of guidance and love? Because these fools are being deceived by a devil with a honeyed tongue? He fingered the silver chain around his check, fiddling with the tiny peridot. Sister Harrowhark. He thought about you, concealed behind staggering towers of tomes, dark circles under those jeweled eyes and ignoring the growling of your stomach as you continued to search in the archives. He swallowed thickly at the image in his mind, feeling the tips of his ears burning. 

Forgive me, Aesir. These feelings I have harbored for Sister Harrowhark are threatening to sear my flesh and bone. Protect me, Aesir, from Reverend Sister Esther and her wickedness. Guide me, Aesir, what can I do? What must I do?  He prayed to his God. He recited the penance of Lust and Sloth, then two verses from the Book of Salvation and then pulled himself away, hoping that the morning sparring sessions and afternoon patrol would be more than enough to keep him busy until he could sneak into the kitchens when the cook was on her break. You might have a responsibility to protect the congregation as Aesir’s Eyes, but you will not do it by exhausting yourself like this, especially if you haven’t eaten a single piece of bread. Yandere!Holy Knight will be absolutely furious if he had to find out the hard way, which is seeing you passed out at a desk, using your arms as a makeshift pillow with [Hair Color] strands all over the place. 

And he did. And he had every right to be angry at you. But he willed his boiling anger to a low simmer, focusing his efforts on cajoling you to rise from the chair, carefully placing a hand on around your shoulders as he led out into the hall, to your quarters. He had gotten only as far as to have you eat some sliced meat, bread, and a bit of cheese. You promised that you would take a bath as soon as he left. 

Yandere! Holy Knight could only believe your words, though he had a few of his own to say to you. 

“Lady Harrowhark, please…you cannot keep doing this to yourself! If you have seen what I have seen happening to the Holy Temple, to our home, then you must know that we must be at our full strength to combat this wickedness!”

You didn’t even try arguing back. You were just as upset as he was, and had seen what he had seen through secret passages located throughout the temple. You both knew who the culprit was, but without solid evidence, all claims would be dismissed as accusations created from jealousy and hate. Seeing the downtrodden frown, how you calmly dismissed him and turned away to look out the stained-glass window….the memory fractured Yandere! Holy Knight’s heart even more. 

After his early afternoon patrol, Yandere! Holy Knight went to the training grounds. He swung, parried, and lunged at an invisible enemy until the wooden sword splintered at the handle, sharp pieces slicing through the palm of his hand. He inhaled deeply, feeling the pain throbbing followed the warm wetness of his blood trickling down his fingers. He carefully covered it with his other hand. He needed to get it treated.

He cut through the training grounds, entering the cloister leading to the hospital wing  when he heard a silvery voice call out to him. He glanced over his shoulder and saw Reverend Sister Esther running towards him, face flushed pink and the hem of her skirts lifted just enough to expose her ankles. An expression might have been seen as the look of someone who is in love….but Yandere!Holy Knight felt nothing except disgust and wariness. He straightened his spin and just kept moving, quickening his pace. 

Or he would have liked to. He couldn’t act too out of the ordinary. After all, he and Lady Harrowhark are the only ones immune to the Affection Level spell casted by Reverend Sister Esther. Inhaling a deep breath through his nostrils, he lowered his head to the heathen. 

“Reverend Sister, how may I help you?” He asked cooly.

“You’re hurt!” She gasped. Her blue eyes were wide with false concern, the faintest hint of cunning wickedness glimmering in the sunlight as she ever so slowly cradled his injured hand in both of her hands, fingers languidly grazing the outside of his palm. Yandere!Holy Knight felt his skin prickle. Aesir, grant me strength! He exclaimed in his mind. He was about to pull away when he felt something enter the open cut with a soft shick. He almost missed it. He looked at her, now frightened. 

“What did you -” His words were soon cut off when she covered his wound with a handkerchief that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. “At least bind it to slow the blood flow!” Esther smiled brightly. He nodded, quickly pulling his hand away. That was when he felt it. Nausea. Then something crawling under his skin, like the roots of a tree, slithering and making his body hot and please Aesir help help help HELP!

Yandere!Holy Knight stumbled backwards, landing on his side and the warm fog in his mind worsened. He couldn’t think….he…needed….he needed what? What? WHAT?!  When he glanced up at Reverend Sister Esther, his hammering heart thudded harder against his ribcage. The look on her face was foul, evil.

Like a cat who had finally caught a canary in its claws. 

Terrified out of his mind, he pulled himself up from the stone floor and ran. He ran until the exertion and whatever poison that she had placed in his body had taken its toll. He vaguely remembered entering a room, but not locking it. Another wave of pain surged through his body, and more blood…it went south. Yandere!Holy Knight felt ashamed, disgusted. And he needed you. He needed you so much right now. 

Somehow, Reverend Sister Esther found him. And her grin had become impossibly wider at seeing like this. She was giggling. Kneeling in front of him, her dainty hand reached out and stroked his reddening cheek, causing the already overwhelming heat in his body to bloom again and make his…problem get worse. 

“Now, let’s have a little fun, shall we~? My dear, sweet little bias~.” Esther purred, dragging her hand down his face, his neck, and then to his chest before she gave a gentle push. When he collided with the floor, she raised her skirts and straddled his hips. Yandere! Holy Knight tried to push her away, but he felt so damned weak. What in Aesir’s name had she done to him?!

“What is the meaning of this?” A cold, calm voice broke through the stifling silence. Esther stiffened, her beautiful face contouring into disbelief and anger, the irises of her eyes becoming slitted like a cat’s before she looked over her shoulder. He did too, and saw a tired-looking woman in mother-of-pearl robes. You. 

“You!”

“I asked you a question. Answer me.”

“I don’t answer to an extra, screw off!”

The uncomfortable heat was soon replaced with relief, followed by the lewd desire to have The Possessor of the All-Seeing Eyes in his arms and succumb to his touch. So lost in this haze of lust, Yandere!Holy Knight barely registered seeing you stride across the room and flinging white powder into Esther’s face. The heretic immediately fell forward, and you easily caught her, though she was heavier than she looked. Glancing around the room, you turned your attention to him. 

“Get to my room. I’ll be right there, I promise.”  You commanded quietly, swinging one of the heretic’s arms over your shoulder and placing your hand around her waist. You looked left, then right, and then disappeared, the tail of your robes billowing from the corner of the doorway. Exhaling a shaky breath, Yandere!Holy Knight stood up and went to your room as fast as his legs could carry him. 

He waited on your bed for ten agonizing minutes before the doorknob turned to the right, and you entered, quickly locking the door behind you. Yandere!Holy Knight barely contained a sob upon seeing your ethereal form. Unlike the disgust he felt earlier in Esther’s presence, he only felt relief. Comfort. And another feeling blossoming deep inside of him, something that he liked as he gazed upon your scorching eyes. 

He watched as you went to the bookcase on the opposite side of the room, pulling a heavy book from the second shelf on the left. He heard the grinding gears of the secret passage spring to life click-click-click-click-shhnk. 

“Come.” You said urgently, grabbing him by the arm and hoisting him upwards. Hot energy coursed through him, his body screaming for wanton release even as you repositioned your body in the exact form as you had carried Esther. You stumbled down the stone steps, almost losing your footing more than once on the way down because he tried to press her against the wall, to press her body against his, anything to make him feel good, to make you feel good - it wasn’t his fault!

You just scowled. “When this is over, you and I are going to have a very long talk.”

“So…long as I am with you…I do not care. Please, Lady Harrowhark, touch me.” Yandere!Holy Knight moaned. “Touch me, the light of my life, and let my desire for you burn inside of me forever more, a pyre that no can ever extinguish -”

“Aesir forgive me but shut the ever-living fuck up and sit down on the bed, Sir Palamedes.” You snapped impatiently. Yandere!Holy Knight quickly obeyed the command, not wanting to anger God’s Beloved any further because if you are angry, you will not touch him like you are doing now. 

Seemingly satisfied with his obedience, you quickly rummaged around the workspace and collected supplies but not before you illuminated the secret room with a flick of your wrist. You threw a rag in a bowl of cold water, you pushed him on his back to lie down, and rung out the cloth, laying it over his face. 

“This is going to hurt.” You warned him.

“I know.” He said.“

You need to keep still.”

“I know.”

“I’ll be as gentle as I can.”

“I know.” Yandere!Holy Knight whispered. “I know…you would never hurt me…as Reverend Sister Esther. No, the heretic would have. So please…do whatever you want with me just please let me feel you, please.” He pleaded. Instead of receiving an answer, he heard the clink of a knife being removed from its leather sheath, and his shirt being ripped open from the bottom to the top. Yandere!Holy Knight arched his back, moaning.

“Lady Harrowhark!”

“Shut. Up.” 

That was the last thing he remembered before Yandere!Holy Knight lost consciousness. When he awakened, there was no trace of the fog in his mind nor the heat in his body. He could think. He could feel his pulse…it was normal. His eyes widened. Wait, if this is normal!

He shot up from the bed, the rag falling from his face. He saw you hunched over the desk, panting loudly and grunting before you turned around. In your hands was a large jar, filled with holy water and a writhing black mass of roots. He paled. What was that thing? Is that what the heathen had placed inside of his hand, letting it fester? What you had removed from his body with your holy magic? Dear Aesir. 

When you turned around, saw him…you smiled. You smiled with those jeweled eyes and flushed face and blood sweat trickling down your nose and mouth. You staggered towards him, trying hard to keep yourself steady. And you did until you reached the edge of the bed….and you fell forward. Yandere!Holy Knight caught you. He hadn’t expected to feel as weak as he did. It took a tremendous amount of effort to pull you up from where you had landed, right on top of his legs, and repositioned himself…so that you could lay your head against his chest. 

He remembered meeting with Esther in the cloister. She treated his hand, then…

Murky violet orbs widened in horror and shame as one fragmented memory after another fell into place, filling the gap between then and now. He looked down at you. How could he have called out to you like that, shamelessly lusting after you like the foolish, licentious sinner that he is. Yet you risked your health yet again, this time to save his soul from damnation. 

Yandere!Holy Knight felt tears welling up in the back of his eyes, choking back a sob as disgust and guilt somersaulted in his stomach. 

How could you forgive him after what he had done to you? What he might have done? He didn’t deserve it. It was his fault for allowing Sister Esther to get close to him when you told him to stay away from her. He turned to the jar that was rattling on the desk, the….seed, if he could even call it that, wriggle and tap its inky tentacles incessantly against the glass. It wanted out. 

And as much as he wanted to destroy that thing with his own hands, you would never keep this foul thing unless you had planned to use it as the evidence they needed to convict Esther of her crimes against the Holy Temple of Aesir. 

In a moment of selfishness, Yandere!Holy Knight took one of your hands and pressed his lips against the knuckles. He recited the penance of Lust in his mind twice, murmuring under his breath. He prayed for Aesir’s forgiveness, for your forgiveness, for you to wake up soon. 

The Holy Temple needed you. You were the only one who could save the congregation from being condemned by the Empire. It was his home, your home. 

He needed you. You were the only one who could ever quench the flames of his desire, even if you were to never feel the same towards him for the rest of your days. So long as you are by his side, he will never ask for anything else. 

©️do not repost or use any of the characters depicted here without the author’s permission. forbidden-sunlight, 2024

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[tikkunolamresistance]

Anti-Zionism & Purim:

Purim is a wonderfully joyous, often colourful and very tasty, Jewish holiday celebrated every year on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar (which corresponds to late winter/early spring). A holiday where drinking is a mitzvah, some dress up as characters from the Book of Esther, we gift good food and most definitely argue about which hamantaschen filling is best. Purim is about Jewish joy, resistance and outliving those who wish for our destruction.

Purim starts the evening of Saturday 23rd March, and ends at sundown the following day, Sunday 24th.

What’s the Purim story?

It is a story of salvation, of Jewish survival and being against all odds. The story of Purim comes from the salvation of the Jewish from Haman’s plot “to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews, young and old, infants and women, in a single day”. Haman, or Haman the Agagite, was a royal vizier in the court of the Persian empire, to King Ahasuerus/Xerxes I (465 BCE) who was agrivated by Moredcai, of the tribe Benjamin, and his refusal to bow down to his demands— thus Haman seeked revenge on his rejection and convinces the King to issue a decree to kill all Jews in the Persian empire. However the genocidal plot would soon be thearted by Hadassah, or as we know her, Queen Esther.

Queen Esther was an incredible Jewish woman whom the King Ahasuerus (transliteration of Xerxes) had fallen in love with. The Queen revealed her Jewish identity and pleaded with the King to spare her people, to which then, the King was appalled by Haman’s treachery— ordering his execution and granting Jews permission to defeat their enemies.

This story is apart of the Five Melligot (Melligah meaning “scroll” in Hebrew), the Book of Esther.

How is Purim celebrated?

Celebrating Purim depends on minhagim (customs) amongst Jewish cultural and ethnic communities: Ashkenazim may celebrate differently from Sefardim, who celebrate different from Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian and Ethiopian Jewry!

However, these are some universal rituals:

• Listen to the Purim story, the Book of Esther, typically at a Synagogue.

• Eating good for Seudah, a meal had during the day of Purim. Including foods such as pomegranate and wine brisket, hamantaschen, boyosa, challah with various toppings, rugelach, onion and poppy seed rings, hojuelas, kreplach, pickled vegetables and so much more.

• Mishloach Manot, gifting food to friends and/or family.

• Tzedakah, charity, and Metanot L’evyonim, supporting those in need.

• Haka’at Haman: during Megillah reading, there is a custom to make noise at the reading of Haman’s name. From stomping your feet to booing, this minhag is associated with Jewry of France and Provence, though has roots in Talmudic sources. You can read more here.

• Drinking lots of wine!

If you have any specific cultural Purim traditions, leave a comment! Traditions vary from family, to minhag, to cultures!

So, what do we learn from the story of Queen Esther?

Where our Rabbis may dress as Queen Esther, and we get drunk because it’s might be your favourite mitzvah, where we stick to tradition and try a new hamantaschen filling, and hearing the megillah like it’s the first time, all over again. Purim is where we introspect through our celebration; the very expression of joy, against all odds, is where we seek our growth. We exercise our liberty, our bravery and boldness— like Esther, we do not hide our Jewishness, instead we decorate ourselves. We do not stand in the face of adversity and let it through, we crush it and celebrate our resilience. Purim is a reminder of pride, of resistance and using your voice for those who may have theirs silenced. Like Queen Esther, we must not allow genocide and violence, and certainly not in our name as a people who have faught against it through out history. In honour of Purim, we must use what power we have to call for Tikkun Olam— a better future, for all.

Purim is where live to see ourselves dance and sing, the complete expression of G!d— HaShem, the Divine, the Universe, our collective human spirit— we live to build a future of many more Purims, many more celebrations of collective resistance. We dance and sing, and dress up, and drink, as is written, so that there is no world without this freedom.

Families often get creative in teaching their children, and communities, the importance of Purim, by making decorative masks to communicate the importance of identity, or dressing up in fun costumes inspired by strong characters, wether from the Purim story or just fictional worlds. Art is an incredible and important way to communicate, so if you want to get creative and make your own mask, costume or simply create artwork inspired by the story of Purim— tapping into your creative liberty is a wonderful ritual to add to your own traditions.

You can also show your gratitude to people, such as friends, family, service workers, activists, with gifts and letters to celebrate them and their bravery, their selflessness. Do you have anybody you’re greatful for, who’s inspired you to be more selfless, to give back?

What can I reflect on for Purim?

Think about how you show your Jewish pride, how you express your Jewish joy. Do you want to be more loud, more unapologetic, more open? How can you show up for others in need, who are in need for their voices to be uplifted? How can you do your part in building a future that celebrates total liberation from what tries to destroy us? Purim is about celebration, about joy, so as you join in on the festivities however you celebrate, remember that this full expression of your Jewish self is an act of resistance against a history of Jew hatred, a history of antisemitism, and that our existence will outlive the powers that pretend to be on our side.

How can I incorporate Palestine into my Purim celebrations?

Following traditions of donating and tzedekah, you can donate funds to GoFundMes of Palestinian families seeking refuge outside of Gaza, to ensure these families can make it to safety and eat well. We’ll be reposting and sharing GoFundMes and other calls for aid all day on Purim, if you’re looking to do some tzedekah.

As millions of Palestinians in Gaza are imminently facing starvation, you could aim to organise protests and rallies with your communities to demand action to be taken for immediate food distribution into Gaza. Be vocal on Purim, we’ll try to update you with any anti-Zionist events that may be happening across the world.

If you live near a Mosque/Masjid or Islamic community centre, you coulf drop off some Halal-safe food packages for Ramadan celebrations; sweets, pre-packaged/cooked foods and pastries. Your local Islamic food stores can definitely offer more guidance, and be sure to look out for the Halal logo! But, importantly, it’s always good to contact the Mosque or Community centre beforehand to see what donations they’re accepting!

If you’re visiting Shul, now more than ever is your time to challenge the narrative. Why must we turn away blind eye to a genocide whilst we celebrate our survival? Why must we allow the pain we have felt, pass to another, in the name of our survival? If you feel it is safe to do so, it is so irrevocably important to challenge the Zionist narratives that use our history, our holidays, our peoplehood to inflict harm that we once felt. As Queen Esther did, we must speak, and we must not be afraid to do so.

Further Purim readings:

The History of Purim

Laws and Customs of Purim

History of Purim costumes

We’re wishing everyone a happy, safe, healthy and beautiful Purim— please share with us how you’ll be celebrating this year, and keep an eye out for tzedekah posts to donate to Palestinians in need!

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[dazzlinghazefics]

Derek Hale x Reader : Hale and Mikaelson.

(part 1)

guess this is gonna be a series.

Derek Hale x Reader ( fem!mikaelson, Elijah's daughter)

Part 1! ~

Being an Original's daughter, and a witch with little control on powers had a lot of perks, so it was no surprise that Y/N Mikaelson, the miracle child of Elijah Mikaelson had to be under strict observation of her father and huge af family, especially her Hybrid uncle, Nik.

Y/N came into existence due to a procreation spell done on her mother, the love of Elijah's life, who had died at childbirth.

If anything that she inherited from her mother, was her witch powers ( a lil bit from her grandma Esther too lol ) and sense of humor ( well, her Uncle Kol says she has the humor from him) and rest is all from her father ( expect sense of fashion, thankfully. Who the heck wears suits in the summer heat?)

Elijah taught her values and virtues and literature, Klaus taught her art and how to kick someone's ass, Freya did her best to help with magic, Kol would often help her pull pranks, sneak around and have her share of fun, Rebekah would doll her up in the latest fashion and Marcel helped her to get relief from the family drama.

Beacon Hills. It's where her father decided to keep her safe. Throughout their existence, the Originals have made numerous enemies. And he couldn't afford to lose his child, his baby, to them.

And she fell in love.

With none other than her father's old ally, Talia Hale's son, the current Alpha of the renowned wolf family, Derek Samuel Hale.

Elijah, for the first time had found her interested in something other than books, music and magic, so was lenient in letting her meet him and letting him court her (much to Klaus's annoyance and possessiveness) .

But he absolutely hated it when his little one would sneak out and run into dangers just to help the pack. He couldn't stop her though, because she was fiercely loyal and stubborn and knew how to save herself.

Elijah knew Derek's the one for his princess, for his young one. His ample knowledge on the supernatural had told him his daughter and Derek had been destined to be together.

She had triggered her magic in the Beacon Hills preserve, while playing with Derek, as a child and one look of Talia had told him everything.

Derek Hale is her trigger and anchor, both.

She gained control on her magic while helping the werewolf in a faceoff with Gerard Argent, the one whom all the supernaturals loathe.

Elijah had to leave this daughter back in BH, for the safety and run to NOLA for handling his family's stupidity, warning her ( read literally pleading her ) to not get in trouble.

But things are never normal in Beacon Hills too.

That f*cking protection broke and here she is, pregnant. At 21, thankfully ( or her father and uncles would have straight ripped out Derek's heart, instead of going for a slightly less painful way)

" Derek Samuel Hale, istg, am gonna castrate you and then kill (pls, their baby is not going to grow up without their father.)"

" Calm down, sweetheart! We'll go through this together."

" Don't sweetheart me, Derek! We're going to be parents fgs!"

" I love you, and I love our child too."

" I know and I love you too, Der, but am scared."

" Our child had the Mikaelson-Hale gene. And we won't let anything happen to our child. Come here."

Later, they both visited the hospital for a checkup, completely unaware that they were being watched upon.

" Y/N, love, I think we owe an explanation of your presence at the hospital earlier today with your boyfriend."

Shoot. Her whole family.

Klaus's voice boomed in the house as soon as Y/N had stepped in, followed by Derek, who immediately felt he is in front of the hungry lion lions.

Elijah, Klaus, Kol, Marcel.

Guess he won't live to see the next day.

" What's wrong, princess? Are you sick?" Elijah asked worried and panicked, walking toward her.

" Uhm..ermm..."

Derek didn't know from were he got the courage, but he did.

Softly taking his girl's fingers in his, he said, as calmly as he could, "We're expecting a child. Y/N's pregnant."

The room was silent until Derek was shoved against the wall both by Elijah and Klaus.

"Dad! Uncle Nik!" Y/N cried out, dread and panic filling her face, as Kol hugged her, to calm her.

"Leave him, Dad!"

Kol humored, " It takes two to have a baby, brothers."

Klaus and Elijah's glare shut him up though.

"Dad, leave Derek please!"

Derek was coughing due to the choking.

All of a sudden, Elijah loosened his grip and started laughing.

Marcel rolled his eyes, " The news has sent him into a shock I think."

"Brother?"

"Dad?"

" Mr. Mikaelson?"

Rest were left shocked.

PART TWO?

sometime later if there's response on this one, (joking lol).

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[sam-t-a]

One of the reasons Hank and Cristobal seem to have been Not On The Same Page with the sand thing is probably how differently they approach other people.

Cristobal is community oriented almost to a fault. On our very first introduction to him, he's telling Goran that they should have been working together, and when he ultimately dismisses that option, the reasoning is "you killed a bunch of my guys. I have to stand by my people," rather than "you attacked/insulted me".

We see the same "we're stronger together approach" with Esther, and the same "you killed my buddies" grievance with Barry, always in terms of the group, rather than a direct personal or even business concern. Aside from Hank, we never see him get particularly attached to any one character. Even his kids never get mentioned once he leaves Bolivia because they now belong to a community that he's left behind, rather than one he also actively belongs to.

So when Cristobal decides to go "legit", it's natural that he doesn't pick an actually legitimate business, just a less violent kind of shady business. Right and wrong aren't the governing concerns here. What matters is that "the killing must stop". He has a strong desire to belong to a group and Zero willingness to lose more "buddies" in the process.

Hank, by comparison, has zero group-oriented concerns. Like Cristobal, he cares more about the people than the business, but it always comes down either to the specific people to whom he feels personally connected or the image he projects to those around him.

We're first introduced to him as Goran's right hand man, but in a task that has to do with Goran's personal affairs (cheating wife), rather than anything to do with the business. When Barry was building him an army of assassins, he was more focused on Barry than that group. Even when he was "opening up" to them and apologizing, he wasn't aware of what was going on with them. That's the joke, but it's also the rule with Hank.

Compare that to the lengths he would go to when he felt like Esther was replacing him or when he felt like the specific people he cared about (Barry/Cristobal) were at risk, and you see just how important "50/50" situations are to him. He isn't picky about what his "50" would entail as long as it's with someone he cares about.

That's why I don't think it was possible for them to remain in Santa Fe. However few Hank's personal connections are, he guards them jealously and doesn't give up on them easily, even when they end up on opposing sides. He couldn't NOT come back for Barry. And however much Cristobal loves Hank, he functions best as part of something bigger (and not necessarily better) than himself. He can't do 50/50 in a vacuum.

So it's natural that killing their partners in order to save themselves would be a move that's totally consistent with Hank's needs and priorities, and that he wouldn't understand why it's so fundamentally opposite to Cristobal's or why it would be a deal breaker for him.

#hbo barry #barry hbo #noho hank #cristobal sifuentes #barry spoilers #clearly I am not well

[andreal831]

I loved your answer about the Bennetts and it makes me curious how you feel about how the originals show handles/barley mentions them

Honestly relieved.

Let's be honest, The Originals didn't handle POC characters any better than TVD did. So I know they would have handled it just as poorly. Don't even get me started on how the show treated Marcel and Vincent or any of the many women of color they killed off for the plot.

Now in reality (if the show was real), the Bennetts would have been all over New Orleans. The show really said the Bennetts were in the Americas before Europe had even invaded and then pretended that the Bennetts didn't have ties to nearly every coven in North America. We know they were focused in Salem until they were run out and found their way to Mystic Falls. But we also know they are often not found together and we see them in so many cities, so it would make sense that they would have ties to most of the covens. Especially in a city like New Orleans that is flooded with magic. The Bennetts would have found their way there at some point.

The Mikaelsons also have a long history with the Bennetts so even if the the Bennetts hadn't already been in New Orleans, I would think the Mikaelsons would have dragged them into their drama at some point. Now I could see the Bennett witches fleeing the city as soon as the Mikaelsons landed knowing they only bring pain to witches. But if the Bennetts had been there, they likely would have prevented the Mikaelsons from settling.

There were so many times throughout The Originals that they were stumped and the audience was yelling at the characters because Bonnie already solved these problems in TVD. Now I don't compare witch powers because the show is so inconsistent with power level that I don't think it's possible, but Bonnie was a powerful witch who would have been incredibly useful. A witch whom the Mikaelsons were all very aware of.

A couple of moments where I was expecting Bonnie to get dragged in or at least mentioned:

When Hope was sent with Rebekah. They said she was cloaked by a witch but the Mikaelsons didn't have a witch in the family yet. Who would they have trusted to do it? Who would be powerful enough to make the New Orleans coven/Esther unable to track her? I could see Klaus calling Bonnie up with all kinds of threats to cloak Hope.

When Freya was in the chambre and Hayley was trying to bring them back. She mentions she had a witch but doesn't name one. This would have been an easy moment to mention the Bennetts. After all, Hayley knows Bonnie and could have tried to plead with her to help. She could have at least started there.

The most ridiculous moment is at the end when they die to kill the Hollow, like Bonnie hasn't been creating worlds to trap souls in for years. Bonnie and Freya would have been a cool team-up moment at the end to save the day.

I do think it would be hard to explain why Bonnie was willing to help them at any point, but that goes for any witch. None of them wanted to help the Mikaelsons but did so for various reasons.

TVD created this long history of Bennett witches that constantly interacted with the Original family and yet were not mentioned once throughout their show. It just made no sense.

I don't ship Bonnie with any of the Mikaelsons for many reasons but I think it would have been such a good story to see her come to New Orleans and interact with Marcel, Davina, Vincent, etc. I think they would have welcomed her in as a fellow Mikaelson-anti and I really wanted to see Bonnie with more witch friends. They could have taught each other so much.

But personally, I wanted Bonnie and Enzo to leave the MFG behind and start their own life. I could see Bonnie bringing her distant relatives together and finally creating a home for the Bennett coven. She deserved that way more than continuing to get tied up in the vampire drama.

Thanks for asking! Bonnie is one of my favorite TVD characters and I don't talk about her nearly enough.

#bonnie bennett #bennett witches #bennett coven #tvdu #the originals #tvd #the mikaelsons #the vampire diaries #metas #fandom answers #tvd anon ask #fandom asks #anon ask

[galvanizedfriend]

I am me so I must ask about the two Christmas fics (Xmas Fic 2 and Other Other Christmas Fic). Also so intrigued by Mystic Tours Not This (and the what is this because smut obviously)!!!

-Amanda

Hi, Amanda bestie! 😊

I love silly Christmas romcoms (as you know 😂) and I spent the entirety of the month of December almost nothing else, so I get all these stupid ideas I end up never taking forward because at some point I realize they're too dumb to come into existence. 😂

Xmas Fic 2 was Klaus being a hotshot lawyer or something and inheriting a Christmas tree farm (because of course) that comes with a sort of Christmas village (obviously) from his biological father whom he's never really been in touch with. There are a lot of complicated feelings there. But anyway, he first wants nothing to do it, and then he is convinced by Elijah to at the very least take a look at what is there so he can sell it. So he heads over to the farm and that's where he meets Caroline (duh), Ansel's former lawyer ("I'm a good lawyer") and who also has close ties with the farm. She ends up convincing him to sell the place to someone who will be interested in reopening it instead of whoever, because there's a bunch of people whose livelihooods depend on it (Bonnie, Enzo, some other folks), and there are some complications halfway because Elijah sells the place to Tristan de Martel, who's obviously an evil asshole. But anyway, Klaus still very much wants nothing to do with Christmas or farms, but he does want to keep Caroline (also he gets to find out a lot of things about Ansel that Esther kept from him his whole life).

Other Other Christmas fic (lol) is one where Caroline gets invited to spend Christmas with Enzo and his new spouse (I honestly can't remember whether he'd just married Kol or Rebekah, but it was one of the two) at their family's ancestral home somewhere posh in England. But at Enzo's wedding, Caroline had an ~~incident with Klaus and she absolutely does not want to see him again, so Enzo ensures her he won't be there because he's the Grinch, so he doesn't spend the Holidays with his family, going on skiing trips instead. Except there's a snow storm and Klaus' flight gets cancelled and so he is, in fact, there when Caroline arrives, and then stuff happens. Very creative. 😂

The 'Not This' part in Mystic Tours is because I didn't really want to keep that title or that name in the story, but I was totally out of ideas so I kept it there provisionally. It's another AH AU where Caroline runs a mystical/supernatural tour agency in Mystic Falls she inherited from her mom (who started the business with Sheilla Bennett, who not only is a self-proclaimed witch but also a professor who teaches a very popular occult and folklore class at Whitmore). Now her mom's dead and Sheilla has retired and it's Caroline, Enzo and Bonnie working together to keep the business aflotat, but they're struggling. So she gets this chance to participate in some kind of contest which will bring a popular influencer to town to promote her business (I think I got this idea from Lovelight Farm, or something like that. Have you read it? It's really cute!), except she ends up adding a sob story about how the heart of her business if her own love story with her fiancé when she submits her application. She does that because she knows this influencer has a thing for love stories, but the issue is she not only doesn't have a fiancé, she's not even dating anyone. So after a strong reluctance she ends up asking Klaus to be her fake boyfriend for the duration of the contest. They've been unlikely friends forever and Caroline has had a major crush on him, but she's convinced he's not at all interested and way out of her league because he's a hotshot gallery owner in New Orleans who always seems to be surrounded by beautiful women. Loads of Mikaelsons, Kol being a little shit, Carenzo friendship, Damon is a douchebag. Major tags here are fake dating and idiots-to-lovers.

#yokan answers #ask game #Amanda bestie

[come-hell-or-high-water]

Frances received her first letter from her best friend Maggie. She was glad to hear that she had settled down in a small town up north called Moonwood Mill. There, she had given birth to a girl whom she had named Lily. Frances stared at the photograph of Maggie and her little girl with a feeling of melancholy. She missed her best friend and could wish for nothing more than to meet her and her newborn.

Even so, the letter made her excited and she wanted to share this feeling with someone. She wandered around the house until she found Esther in the library.

Before she could say anything about Maggie and the letter, she noticed that something was burdening her daughter.

"What's the matter?" she asked and tucked away the letter.

"Well… I have something to tell you", Esther said. "Perhaps I should have told you earlier… but there was so much going on and I didn't want to cause more problems."

They sat down opposite each other and Esther took a deep breath before speaking.

"I have continued to visit Ruben, even though I know father forbade me to do so," she admitted. "We love each other and have decided to marry." "You are engaged?" Frances said in despair. "But you're so young. Isn't it better to wait? You can't possibly know that you'll want to spend the rest of your life with him."

"We have decided," Esther said strictly. "This is why I didn't tell you before - because I knew you would be against it. I don't care about getting either of your permission. I'm going to marry him, no matter what." Frances was afraid that her daughter had just made a far too drastic decision at far too young an age. If she regretted it, she would have to live with it for the rest of her life, just like Frances had to when she decided to marry Charles. Suddenly her emotions became overwhelming and Frances left the room, so she wouldn't say something she would later regret. Despite it being the middle of the day, she decided to visit Arnie - to see what he had to say on the matter.

#frances fernsby #esther calloway #fernsby legacy #1920s #ts4 decades challenge #ts4 historical #ts4 legacy #sims 4 decades challenge #sims 4 historical

[wonderlandleighleigh]

@theycallme-thejackal was gracious enough to allow me to write the conversation between Midge and Joel that she described in her fic series Vigilante Shit.

below the cut.

It happens so quickly. 

Lenny heads for the kitchen, and Midge turns to Joel, and four words leave his lips before she can even ask what he wants.

“Run away with me.” 

She stares at her ex-husband in utter shock as he stands before her.

“Joel, what are you-” 

“Pack a bag,” he says hurriedly. “Pack a bag for you, and one for Ethan and one for Esther, we’ll swing by Queens, pick ‘em up, and we’ll-” 

“What?” Midge scoffs, shock still coloring her voice. “We’ll what?” 

“We’ll disappear!” Joel urges. “You and me and the kids. We’ll get the hell out of here. We’ll be safe, and together, and-” 

Midge lifts a hand to get him to stop, and to his credit, he closes his mouth. 

“So,” she says in a shaky voice. “So you want me to pick up and leave my husband and my other two children, one of whom is very small, and disappear.” 

“Sarah will be fine! Kitty’s not even yours. And Charlotte will be-” 

“No they wouldn’t,” Midge says quietly, shaking her head. “You know they wouldn’t.” 

“What the hell is with you?” Joel asks. “Don’t you even care that I’m-” 

“Of course I care, Joel, this isn’t about caring, this is about-” 

“What’s it about, Midge?” he asks. “Huh? You love me. I know you do. Lenny is a…a way to pass the time for you. If we do this, we can finally be together.” 

That snaps her from her shock, and she finds herself laser focused on this man she used to love. 

His words hang in the air between them, and she can tell by the way his expression crumbles a little that he knows he’s crossed a line; he knows his denial of her having moved on from him has tripped over from annoyance to insult.

“Lenny is the love of my life,” she tells him confidently in an even tone. “I would never hurt him this way. And I would never hurt my daughter this way. Or his daughter. Or yours. Or our kids, who would be crushed if they never saw their sisters or grandparents again. To say nothing of Lenny and Mei.” 

“Midge-” 

She starts walking towards him, making him stumble backwards towards the door. “I may not be a perfect mother, but I love my kids. All four of my kids, and I would never destroy my family. Not ever. And especially not for the man who cheated on me and left, and then never learned his lesson and is now facing the consequences for doing it again to someone else. How many more times, Joel?” 

“Midge, they’re gonna kill me,” he says, his voice almost a whimper. 

“And I really don’t want that to happen,” she admits. “But I can't help you, Joel. Not this way."

He stares at her, his eyes going from desperate to angry. "Well, I hope the high ground looks equally appealing when I'm dead."

She watches him leave, and flinches just a little as the door slams behind him.

Briefly, she wishes Sarah were here at home, wanting nothing more than to hold the daughter Joel had just urged her to abandon. She takes a deep breath before slowly heading for Lenny.

#fic #au #tmmm #Midge x Lenny #Jackal fic

[dirtyvulture]

😎 There was the first real snow fall ❄️of the year were I am at and I got a few thoughts on both The Darkest Knight AU and Sergeant Beef AU ( I will probably but that in a different post) .

Also yes Vulture you are 💯 percent right about wolverine R having low self esteem, not really really caring about how she looks and about how she is always waiting for whatever the person’s going to want out of her for helping her out. Think about it , she grew up filthy fucking rich and people always will try getting close and wanting something when your wealthy or famous or whatever no matter the time period. And she also saw how that world works ( all the fake smiles, how people give and receive whatever they wanted . All of it, that was the ONLY TIME R EVER saw her mother Elizabeth smile and laugh. When Elizabeth was working on someone or someone was working on R’s parents. All about that give and take . ) And to add it all together what better way to get in good with wealthy families or potential business partners …….. then getting in good with the children.

So growing up R was constantly around people faking smiles and care and pleasantries because that was the name of the game . R was in her head like : “ All of these FAKE ASS BICTHES !!!!!!” but also wearing that mask and fake smiles because she didn’t have a choice . She HAD to play that game because she was born in that world, so she side eyed Esther Hudson REALLY HARD when they first met. Esther was all genuine friendship and kindness and help and support, something that R had ENTIRELY TOO LITTLE experience in. R hated those masks and fake smiles she had to wear and all the people that did it and R is really really good at spotting “ Fake Ass Bicthes” and fake smiles/ masks. R has ever faked a smile, care or pleasantries again, she never put on that mask again after she run from her house that night and she will die before does that again.

Now on to my thoughts brought on by the snow fall ❄️.

Because R was so fragile and sickly as a young child and because she lived through a time of not as great medical care and such a HIGH MORTALITY RATE of children she was stuck in inside the estate all winter and whenever the weather took a turn for the worse. But R always loved the snow and winter time , how everything is so beautiful covered in white and how the whole world got so hushed and quiet. *R would always be cuddled up in front of the fireplace with her dog that she deeply loved, or she’d be on the couch or lounge just staring at the snow fall or whenever there the a storm of any sort ( snow , rain , thunder didn’t matter as she loved to watch them all and loved them all)*. But her absolute favorite is when her papa ( John) would company her at her place at the fire place or on the couch/ lounge just spending time together in silence or in conversation. R also just loves the  cozy atmosphere over all( especially under a mountain of blankets in her bed in her bedroom) and all the hot beverages.

But being cooped up all winter or whenever the weather turns is really hard and all young R wanted was to just stand there taking in all the winter air , silence and peace. She didn’t want to go all crazy with snow fights, sledding , snowmen , snow angels or anything else like that because she had no one to play with. The Estate and R herself were EXTREMELY ISOLATED ( much like the other wolverines in media ) and R didn’t have children around her age or any at all around her ( unless Rose O’Hara and Dog Logan are in this universe like they were in the comics). Just the adults of estate whom work there, her parents or when ever her parents hosted or the family went to the rich people fancy parties that young R was dragged out to ( this is were R got most of her socialization…… by parties she despises but this is also were she got to meet other children. Most of whom R also didn’t like because they were “ Fake Ass Bicthes” as seen earlier in the post ) . So sometimes R would bundle herself up like the servants did whenever the family had to leave the estate in the winter ( also some of the servants 100 percent helped her out with this and sneaked her out and later on drew her the hot baths afterwards so she didn’t get sick and also gave her hot beverages ) and sneaked out outside just for a few minutes to watch the falling of the snow and the snow flakes all caught in her hair while she took in the winter time air and peace like she wanted, then she went back in side getting out of all her wet clothes and into a hot bath while drinking a hot beverage. There were times that R’s Papa “caught” R ( he didn’t really, he knew about it and he would join her in watching the snow fall and the winter time peace. Those were R’s favorite moments, the only person that R was really sneaking out on was her mother ) doing these but never did tell R’s mother and her Mother was never the wiser. So how the order of or how they dealt with R in the winter whenever the weather turned and the Howlett family had to go out was : Bundle R really tight , get R out of her wet clothes immediately, give her a hot bath and beverage, dry her hair and get her into dry clothes. Then HOPE AND PRY that she doesn’t take I’ll.

The last few bits of this post . R still loves the snow and winter time and will stand in the snow for hours on end because she doesn’t feel that cold and she is a walking furnace that doesn’t really get cold. But there were times people joined her, such as Esther/ the Hudsons, the old friend , Rouge most definitely , possibly Jean and hopefully Nat . When this happens R is very conscious of having them bundled up and not standing outside for too long and doing the same steps that the estate servants and R’s papa did with her .

I saw on tick tock a couple or this guy and girl dancing ( a ball room style dance) in the snow or as it would be snowing and that give me a few thoughts . R and her Papa danced as the snow was falling once or twice on the times he “ caught R” ( Later on R would do the same with Rouge) . In WWI there was a Christmas Truce in the Christmas time of 1914 and the weather of that time was below freezing and it started to snow . So at that time Esther Hudson stepped out of the camp or whatever they all were at while the huge truce and Christmas celebration was happening, but the music and merriment could still be heard as the snow started to fall. R worried but her dear friend went after her and Esther stated that she was missing her family back home and it’s hard to be in a celebratory mood even with the truce on . R asked Esther to dance with her in the snow as they can still heard the music and the party but the celebration will be just the two of them. They did and Esther felt loads better that Christmas by R’s side . Afterwards R made damn sure that Esther didn’t take I’ll.

Hopefully there will be a different person watching the snow fall and dancing in the snow with R ( and I am not talking about Rouge but that would be so cute 🥰) 👀👀👀 .

* These few things were about me a little bit. I love watching storms and it doesn’t matter the kind, something my Granny and I like to call “ dramatic weather” . When I was a kid I’d love to cuddle up in front of the fire place with my childhood dog ( a gold retriever) . He was my fire place buddy. *

Aw, I'm glad you got your snowfall, anon! It doesn't snow where I live, but it has gotten significantly colder and I am very unhappy 😂

I know I've been MIA the past few days, but I'm hoping to have a sneak peek out this week as I continue to write the next part :)

I know my R :) I wonder if she had access to her family's fortune after she grew up. Probably not, since she would forget about them for a time anyway :(

I like to think that is how R got so good at judging people's character. Call it a superpower if you will, but she can tell people's intentions almost right away. And even if R sensed that Esther was a genuine, good person, it still took her a while to warm up to her.

It's so funny to think of R as being this fragile, mortal child when she would grow up to become a basically indestructible menace. But I guess we all start out somewhere.

R could potentially be a personal space heater to whoever she's seeing 👀 She would just hold them in a big wolverine hug until they overheat :)

I think I know just the person R would want to dance in the snow with 😉 But I can't say until Part 3 is out.

Aw, your fireplace buddy sounds so cute! ❤️ Thanks for stopping by anon, I missed you!

#😎 anon #vulture answers #darkest knight au

[gay-salt-amber]

Headcanons of Riddle trying to be sexy by flirting from stuff he saw online and a very clumsy attempt of romantic gestures?

Stuff like barely done romantic lunch and pick up lines like, "Do you believe in love at first sight or should I walk again...hot stuff..?" and ends it with finger guns

The others laugh and shoot finger guns back while floyd (the victim of the line) is left confused

Lilia: "did leona put fucking vodka in your drink or something?"

The others whom have been in the poly the longest are kinds used to it cuz esther is like thst just very unintentionally

Leona made a bet with azul that riddle couldn't be flirty so-

Azul: "leona, baby, you owe me a ten."

Leona: "or I could just pay you back in bed~"

Riddle, still flirty: "I think you're forgetting that's my job tonight~"

Everyone: "ok-"

Yeah they went back to heartslabyul, played spin the bottle, got drunk and...yeah

#twisted wonderland #ask #headcanons #gay #riddle rosehearts #kalim harem #kalim x all

[ariel-seagull-wings]

Egon and sleep

The Ghostbusters and Holidays (what do they celebrate?)

@moonbeamelf @amalthea9 @bixiebeet @spengnitzed

01º In the original movie and the animated series The Real Ghostbusters, he was shown sleeping in the same room in the Firehouse with the other Ghostbusters, each in their bed, while dealing with the fact that a call for help would wake them up more early then they wished.

While the IDW Publishing Comics, there is a recurring joke that he can be so focused on his work in the lab that if he sleeps, nobody ever has seen it.

Considering how much sugar snacks he eats in the first movie, no wonder if he had more dificulty to sleep compared to his friend. Janine likely introduced him to enjoying calming teas like linden to help him calm down.

I can imagine that when Noemi is born, Egon join her during nap times holding her like a teddy bear.

(like in this picture of his original actor, Harold Ramis, with his them baby daughter Violet)

02º In the Real Ghostbusters episode XMas Marks the Spot, which was a retelling of Charles Dinkens A Christmas Carol, Peter acts less excited about Christmas because as a child, his father was working in a get rich quickly scheme during that season and so never spend it with his family.

On their way back to the Firehouse, the Ghostbusters cross a time and space travelling portal and end in 19th century England, where they mistakenly bust the Three Christmas Ghosts. This makes Ebenezer Scrooge unnable to learn the moral lesson the Ghosts were meant to teach him, and he writes a book called "Christmas, Humbug", wich becomes so popular that turns all people in present time into a bunch of scrooges. To fix that, Egon has to enter the Containment Unit to rescue the newly imprisoned thrio, while Peter, Ray and Winston travel back in time to play the role of the Three Christmas Ghosts.

Peter plays the role of the Ghost of Christmas Past:

Winston plays the role of the Ghost of Christmas Present:

And Ray plays the role of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come:

They save a literary classic and people's love for Christmas, and Peter gains an apreciation for the holliday.

Besides that, Peter has the vibe of liking hollidays that are the perfect excuse to get drunk: Fourth of July (the US Independence Day, when people make barbecues and picnics and release fireworks), Mardi Grass (american Carnaval), Saint Patrick's Day and Oktoberfest.

Ray was raised catholic acording to the video game, so he probably has an emotional connection with Catholic Hollidays like Christmas, Lent, Easter and Corpus Christ, and also, considering his passion for spooky stories, really enjoys Halloween.

Winston is a devout baptist christian and may have deep toughts on patriotism due to his time in the Military, so his favorite hollidays may be the Fourth of July, Flag Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, and he may have relatives whom he visits to celebrate the African-American holliday of Kwanzaa.

Egon is frequently headcanoned as jewish, so he probably has more affinity to the jewish hollidays of Passover, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana, and will frequently remind non jewish people that Hannukah is not "jewish Christmas" and is in fact a minor holliday in the jewish calendar.

Janine seems likely to have come from a mixed faith family, half-Jewish, half-Christian, and XMas Marks the Spot tells that she loves Christmas, so she probably celebrate the hollidays from both faiths. Besides loving the same three main jewish hollidays that Egon does, you can always count on her to make a beautifull sukkah for Sukkot, and she loves dressing up as Queen Esther and make hamantashen for Purim. Plus, she thanks your kindness in giving her a Valentine's Day present (after all Janine is a big romantic).

#ghostbusters #the real ghostbusters #idw ghostbusters #egon spengler #headcanons #theancientvaleofsoulmaking

[denebsapphic]

I know the new girls in s2 that obviously weren't there in s1 are going to bother some people, not me though. I like Crystal already, she was introduced with singing Glory of Love, whom I associate that song with Esther from the Orphan movies which I'm a fan of too. I'm looking forward to her friendship with Misty, who clearly had a influence on her since she listens to showtime as an adult still. Unfortunate Crystal is most likely not surviving.

Also with how much of the main cast survived now, they had to throw in more people for them to kill and eat. 💀

#crystal yellowjackets #yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers

[travelinginenvelope]

January 9th 2023

Today was a happy mail day and i got two letters and this is one of them ✨ i got this one from Esther whom i’ve been in contact with for quite a while (we bonded over Stardew Valley 🐤)! I received this cute blue themed letter from her which i absolutely L O V E. It’s so pretty! I’m stunned by all the effort she put into making such a lovely letter for me 🥺 thank you so much Esther, i loved it! 🥰

#snailmail #snail mail #penpal #penpals #penpalling #penpal wanted #penpals wanted #incoming #incoming mail #usa #folder #extras #2023

[isfjmel-phleg]

June 2023 Books

The War Librarian by Addison Armstrong

The concept, regrettably, was more compelling than the execution. It was one of those historical fictional novels that feel more like contemporary people in costume than anything actually reflecting the times. And I had to skip a scene. However, I am interested in learning more about actual WWI librarians if given the chance, so that's something.

Peter Pan and Wendy by J. M. Barrie (reread)

Reread on a whim. It's so good. It gets better every time I reread it, and I've been rereading since I was about eight.

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

Oddly enough, this book captured the tone of historical fiction better than actual historical fiction. It's technically fantasy, but really more like an alternate Victorian Era but with dragons, told as a memoir by a scientist in her old age. There were a few content things I didn't love, and sometimes the narrative dragged a bit for me, but the protagonist was a striking character, and I appreciated her relationship with her husband.

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

Riveting in the usual Christie way. I need to catch up to the miniseries one of these days.

Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

Jones being satirical about fantasy is of course hilarious. Not a quick and easy read, but worth the effort. I wish a scene with an implied SA had been handled differently (introducing this topic at all felt jarring with the tone of this book), but on the whole, I enjoyed it!

Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo

Forgive me, everyone, I wasn't particularly captivated by this one and don't feel especially inclined to finish the series. Not exactly sure why.

A Crown of Chains by Erin Phillips

This is the Esther-but-with-fairies retelling. You already know how I feel about it.

The Secret of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange

Middle-grade historical fiction of the mysterious house and family secrets variety, so naturally that was right up my alley!

The Creeping Shadow and The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

I don't have anything intelligent to say about this series, but I did enjoy it a lot more than I expected to. Stroud's style is a joy to read. (And the series itself has much less of a focus on Romance than I was expecting, judging from how it's talked about around here--yes, it's there, but it's not The Focal Point, and I appreciated that, because the protagonists' platonic bonds were pretty fantastic already.)

Mirror of Danger by Pamela Sykes (reread)

I'm on a reread-the-haunting-mid-twentieth-century-children's-book kick. Bear with me. This one's a ghost story, but it's also about clinging to sameness in the face of loss, to an unhealthy degree, and about the cultural clash between a protagonist who was raised in isolation by a very Victorian elderly woman, and her cousins, who are very much products of the story's present (the 1970s)--which I find fascinating.

Comics

Mercury Falling by Todd Dezago (reread)

See recent posts. You all know how I feel about this one.

Stargirl: The Lost Children by Geoff Johns

I liked this one more than I expected! Goodness knows I have Issues with Johns and what he did to the YJ kids, but here he's writing a protagonist whom he created and handles well, and the entire series reads like a love letter to Golden Age comics and forgotten child characters in general. I'm very curious to see what happens next with these characters, especially now that Secret is back (reunite her with her friends!).

#random personal stuff #sorry this is late #@lady-merian I mention that series again (last time!) feel free to ignore

[cancerian-woman]

I think about it sometimes and after going through the posts with "anti Hayley Marshall", "anti Klaus Mikaelson", and "Tyler Lockwood" tags, I formed an interesting opinion. This came from the idea that "The Originals would have never happened if not for Tyler being the reason Klaus met Hayley" and "Hayley got the werewolf storyline Tyler should have had".

And you know what? In a long run, it's good she had that arc. Hayley is pregnant - so the Mikaelsons would have to keep her safe (regardless if they liked her or not). She had a birthright to a pack that needed her help as the only surviving member not touched by the Crescent Curse to save them - then give them a seat to a tension-filled political table. It's good to see she wants peace in New Orleans because it's not just for her - it's for her baby not to grow up like she did (on that note: We should've met Hayley's adoptive parents for closure as a expecting/new mom). And then, she becomes a hybrid after being murdered on her daughter's birthday. She knows damn well her pack hates hybrids and if not for Klaus making her look good, they would have never accepted her. And she then gives the Crescents a magical "copy and paste" of her hybrid abilities through her marriage to Jackson (IMO: For all his meddling, he was the few good things she never deserved). And in response, the pack calls her their "Queen" and fights to help protect Hope (which is hilarious as the werewolves are decimated by Dahlia on more than one account up to Lucien having them killed while they were trapped in their wolf forms). And then, Hayley leaves them alone while she goes on to save the Mikaelsons - leaving them at the mercy of the Hollow. And even better, after watching 3 seasons of old Mikaelson family members and enemies be a threat to Hope (counting Esther as S1's true mastermind) - here's the kicker: The Hollow not only created the Werewolf Curse (and tbh, we should have recognized a witches hand in it since TVD) and it's Hayley's ancestor, whom also played a reason in her being orphaned in the first place!

In one light, you can say everything with the Crescents is her redemption for the Hybrid Pack (because let's be honest: If they knew what Hayley did - she would have never been accepted!)

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But in another light, this is a universally, planned long-con of karma. As much as we dislike how Tyler was portrayed in TO, it was to showcase the point: TO was dedicated to make Hayley look good, thus Tyler had to look bad in everyone's eyes. Hayley became what she mercilessly betrayed - which that and her own actions led to her pack losing numbers and not trusting her. And the icing on the cake is that she died a vampire, but not by her own enemies but Klaus's! She'd been kidnapped by her kid, Klaus's enemies found her and ripped her Creacent birthmark from her body, and then her very werewolf natured was bounded away, leaving her a mostly weakened vampire that goes out in a fiery blaze (the elemental opposite of Carol Lockwood's death).

In a cinematic, gross conclusion: Hayley did get her comeuppance.

In gaining significantly after betraying the hybrids, ends with her stripped of her the werewolf heritage she prided herself in (symbolically with her birthmark, literally with the Hybrid Curse). And the people she loved ended up being what put her in danger and led to her death.

So, in retrospect, it's good she got Tyler's potential werewolf plotline - because she would be systematically paying for her crimes in TVD in the most painstaking way possible, gaining only to lose more than she had. And it's ironic because while his death was undeserving, at least Tyler goes out with his werewolf heritage intact.

And that's something poetically satisfying about that.

Well this is an interesting way to look at it. Yeah, the plot of the originals is because of Tyler’s connection to Hayley. Although their existence is due to the Bennett bloodline as most of the things in tvdu are but that’s another topic. I do want to say Hayley’s struggles in her story doesn’t erase the lack of story for Tyler. Yeah, you can look at it as some karma storyline. But most people don’t view Hayley that way. They think she simply deserved better and all she wanted to be was a mom to Hope…..anyways

All of Tyler’s greatest accomplishments we don’t get to see. We don’t get to see how he adjusted to being a wolf. But we do see how he becomes a hybrid and Klaus’ slave. Then later on we learned he became an alpha. We also learned he was helping those wolves break free from their sirebonds. He continues to be some placed in character when the plot needed it versus showing us how he did those things. How did he function as a alpha? What about other Lockwoods? Following tvd’s rule the werewolf curse can be dormant throughout someone’s life. TVD loved taking away characters family members one by one and then moving on from it as nothing happened. This is prominent through Tyler & Bonnie. The other characters are allowed some support but for them we get nothing. Also…writing that these characters have long lasting bloodlines and turning around to kill/claim they were dead is just bullshit?….Personally, didn’t care much for Parkwood but Tyler didn’t even get to have that as an ending relationship. Klaus/Caroline/Stefan all contributed to enslaving &/or villainizing Tyler. Klaro/Kcers can be described as more in your face with it while Stefan/SC was a bit more lowkey with this.

As you said we did get to see Hayley become a werewolf queen. We got to see her struggle and be rejected. Find love, etc. Again all of this to say none of the things she went through can ever erase Tyler’s lack of story and I’m going to pinch in Klaus’ lack of wolf storyline in TO.

however lol. it’s ironic the characters in TVD who came from legacies have zero children or actual connection to the show legacies. Tyler’s been dead for years by then and Bonnie is only referenced when they need a spell that requires Bennett blood. I do want to say what irks me deeply about Tyler’s death is no one beyond Matt reacts to it. What happened to the MFG being friends since they were little kids? It’s a complete disrespect to his character. It’s just as irritating as Bonnie’s funeral in s5.

#Dria responds #tyler lockwood #Tyler lockwood deserved better #anti hayley marshall #bonnie bennett #i mean if u squint lol #anti klaus mikaelson #anti stefan salvatore #anti klaroline #anti steroline #and the constant run around with Tyler’s character intentionally treating him like shit is why Trevino left #i wished kg would’ve took note with that but alas…. #anti legacies

[andreal831]

What's your thoughts on the Bennett coven and their lore?

I'm not sure if you're asking about how they are depicted or just generally about them so I'll answer both. It has been a while since I've rewatched TVD, so correct me if I'm wrong on anything.

Generally, the Bennett coven is one of the oldest and most powerful covens in TVDU. I know there is so much debate over the different witches and I'm not here to do that. While, yes, there are other powerful witch families, the Bennetts have a very long history and enough members to make an actual coven on their own, unlike a lot of other families. If the writers and producers were different people, I would love to see a spinoff focused on them. You could pick any time period and it would be an incredible story.

The show tells us they are so powerful because we consistently see other powerful beings (witches, vampires, and even werewolves) coming to them for help. Silas and Amara rely on Qetsiyah, without whom there would be no TVDU. Esther relies on Ayana, the brotherhood relies on a Bennett witch, a Bennett witch creates the weapon used against the sirens, Katherine relies on Emily, and then the entire TVDU on Bonnie. Even at Grams' age, she still had Damon backing off. Every time they bring up a new villain, somehow the Bennett coven has been involved.

So while we can argue witch against witch (which I'm not going to do), I don't think you can say there is a coven that could go head to head against the Bennett coven. They just have a much deeper history than any other coven we are shown. The Travelers may be the only ones that have as much history, but the Bennetts derive from them through Qetsiyah.

Now I don't think we can talk about the Bennett witches without mentioning the racism that permeates the TVDU. No matter how powerful they are, the Bennet witches are often delegated to sidekicks, which makes no sense given their power. Qetsiyah is the only Bennett witch that we see actually get revenge for the wrong that was done to her and she is seen as a villain for it. The Bennett witches are constantly losing their lives helping people who are just taking advantage of them. People like to paint it as they are helping their friends, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Especially when you factor in the time periods these "friendships" happened in. Katherine and Emily were not friends. The Bennett witches were constantly used and abused until they died trying to help others.

The Bennetts are not given their own storylines that don't directly impact the "main characters." They don't even get relationships (both romantic/platonic/familial) unless it can be used against them. Throughout history we always see the Bennett witches on their own, removed from their family.

A big reason that they could be so spread out is because of how powerful they were. If the Bennetts all stayed together, they would be an unstoppable force. But they would also attract a lot of attention and put an even bigger target on their backs. The Bennetts have a deep respect for their ancestors, so you would think we would see them form a coven like the New Orleans witches or even the Travelers. But because of their power, they are forced to live separate lives, not even staying in contact. I would have loved to see an actual Bennett coven.

Bonnie not knowing she is a witch until her teenage years goes against everything we know about witches. Hope has access to her magic as a baby, yet Bonnie doesn't until she is well into her teenage years. I would have loved to see it where Grams raised Bonnie herself and she grew up as a witch. But honestly, the show couldn't have done that because most of what happened in season 1 and season 2 wouldn't have if Bonnie had fully understood her power. She easily could take down the Originals, so a couple newbie vamps wouldn't have stood a chance.

Not sure if this is what you wanted, but if you have a more specific question that I didn't answer, feel free to ask!

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