#Golden Age AU

[midoristeashop]

Nightlight!

been going down a rabbit hole of golden age fics and this is my take on the nightlight design tee hee (I love him with all my heart and soul)

also it’s my personal head canon that nightlight was a past life of Jack’s and can access his star boy powers in life/death situations?? Idk but wouldn’t that make a cool future scene where jack can access past PAST lives’ memories and just see his cool space protector self like

anyway I love him bye

#nightlight #guardians of childhood #jack frost #rotg #oh and yes I’m making a golden age au with hijack #TEE HEE #I am very normal about him #unlike jack he doesn’t talk much #when he does it’s all twinkly and echo-y and just how you’d imagine starlight to sound like #can communicate like sandy with lil stardust pictures #oh and the sword is apparently like moon child tears #please correct me if i'm wrong #I love love William joyce’s sketchy style I wanted to mimic it #golden age au

[ask-playtimeco]

wheres the animation department for the smiling critters TV show?

and do any of the toys (bigger bodies) watch it?

#poppy playtime #ask blog #au ask blog #golden age au #poppy playtime au #ask answered #answered #dogday #catnap

[knightsofthethicktable-fanfics]

“Come Merlin. I need a break from all the paperwork and council meetings to legalise magic. Let's go hunting.”

Merlin sighed, then smiled as a thought came across his mind. “Ok, but not hunting. I have a different idea.”

The warlock Merlin led King Arthur deep into the forest and after a while, it became clear Merlin was tracking something.

Arthur searched for signs of what Merlin was looking for. It was big. Heavy. Four legs with claws. Occasionally, the tracks would fade, and Merlin would look up to where some branches high above were broken. The creature had wings.

A griffin. In fact, several of them.

Arthur had always been disappointed it had been Lancelot, and not him, who slew the griffin. He’d always wanted to kill one himself. Arthur relaxed into the trip and enjoyed Merlin's prattle about unimportant things. More than a few times, Merlin lost the creature’s trail, so Arthur set him right.

Eventually, Merlin dismounted and beckoned Arthur to do the same, which he did. Merlin snuck to a ridge in the forest. Merlin pointed to below the ridge where there was a stream fed by a waterfall which created a small island of grass. 

Arthur counted multiple griffins. He raised his crossbow, but before he could line up a shot, Merlin pushed the crossbow down. “No. Just look.”

The adult griffins preened each other’s feathers whilst the foals? Owlets? played in the stream. One of the small ones jumped off a rock, flapped its wings and fell to the ground, making a sharp cry. A larger griffin nudged the smaller one with its snout and it got back up and climbed onto the rock again.

Very slowly, Merlin scooted towards them. Arthur followed. Initially, the griffins were wary of the two humans, but soon settled, perhaps with a little help from Merlin’s magic.

Merlin sat down on the grass and drew a picnic out of his pack. He beamed a smile. “I think this is much better than hunting.”

“Of course you do. You’re sitting down doing nothing,” Arthur teased, but he sat next to Merlin and watched the griffins.

“I misunderstood them. They’re social creatures who live in groups. When they’re alone, they get scared and violent. I didn’t know that when I killed the one that came to Camelot.”

“That was Lancelot.”

“Course. Yep,” Merlin said too quickly.

Arthur groaned as he heard the lying tone in Merlin's voice. “Come on then, tell me what really happened.”

And so, Merlin told Arthur the tale of Sir Lancelot and the Griffin. The pair enjoyed their picnic; watched the griffins play and chatted aimlessly about magic until stars dotted the night sky.

#merlin #merlin fanfic #fluff #merthur #merthur fluff #ficlet #griffin #storyteller merlin #how to train your king #golden age au

[hallucinateonpaperspines]

That what if is insane!!! I loved it oh my god, maybe I’m just biased abut Megatron or something but I don’t care. To be honest that could be its own fic and I’d read the hell out of it because that’s such an interesting plot line and I love how you write stuff like that

hahaha thanks! Honestly, my brain started working and I had to bat down the ideas like I was playing Wac-a-Mole

My Brain: Too many WIP! Too many exams! Too little time!

Also my Brain: But what if we do this hyper-specific scenario, plot out a novel's worth of content, with an interconnected plot that maintains the original lore with a twist, and then go ahead and split that into two different scenarios again.

I've got like 10 WIP and I've just added some more to the pile ( מּ,_מּ)

no promises, but I'm curious.

#ao3 author #ao3 #tfp #transformers prime #aligned continuity #Golden Age AU #of timelines and trolleys

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Master manipulator vs Master manipulator

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #xue yang #a-qing #The scenes with XY and A-Qing are so delightfully tense and anxiety inducing #They are both so deep in the mind games with each other. Convinced they have the leg up when in reality they do not know the full scope #Also is is just me or do XY and A-Qing give off the vibe of internet nemeses? #A-Qing coming in hard with 'Oh you think blind people cant do XYZ? Get canceled idiot' #Meanwhile XY is the kind to purposefully use leet speak in descriptive text to antagonize the screen reader population. #a teen girl and a 4-channer who found his way to tumblr would be awful to watch fight irl but the vibes are equivalent. #Meanwhile XXC is going on a nice little walk to pick grass. I love him so much actually. #through writing these notes I have also gone down the rabbit hole of trying to pinpoint Xue Yang's age. Hello? Is it actually not known? #The best resources I could find put him as 1-3 years younger then xxc and song lan #So? early twenties? late teens? Someone who has absorbed more mdzs knowledge...Please help #Oh no I'm even deeper in the rabbit hole now. What do you mean the ages are mostly just relative? #What do you mean cultivators can age differently (usually slower in xianxia) #Oh no oh no wwx doesn't have a golden core. I was too accurate in my homestuck AU re: lifespans. I want to go back. #(I love angst and am now marinating this thought in my little thinking chamber)

[kavinskhhy]

Darrow and Lysander by iparwing

#fanart #red rising #golden son #morning Star #iron gold #dark age #darrow of lykos #lysander au lune #light bringer #pierce brown #red rising series #red rising saga

[retconomics]

i am mentally broadcasting the colors im too tired to add to all of you just imagine them thank you

#berserk #my little golden age college au is so precious to me. copium fr #my art #griffguts #casca and guts are going to the gym griffith is off to important (not) business school classes

[virginiaoflykos]

I don’t think I ever did it before, so here are @merwild ‘s red rising bookmarks.

#red rising #golden son #morning star #pierce brown #dark age #iron gold #light bringer #darrow of lykos #sevro au barca #virginia au augustus #red rising saga #cassius au bellona #Ragnar volarus #red rising fanart

[hootbon]

can you make a crossover of hellbound golden age and freakshow au interacting?

They’d get along.. maybe

#the amazing digital circus #tadc #freakshow au #tadc freakshow #poppy playtime #golden age #mommy long legs #freakshow gangle #hellbound #cuphead #baroness von bon bon

[sarcasmiclife]

Darrow literally has more light scenes with Cassius than with Sevro or Virginia and Cassius isn't even there with him for 3 of the 6 books

(he so clearly wants what Darrow and Sevro have😭)

Wait there are more in the reblog-

#red rising saga #pierce brown #red rising #golden son #morning star #iron gold #dark age #light bringer #red god #darrow of lykos #cassius au bellona #they are literally married #and i cant stop crying cant stop crying

[midoristeashop]

self-indulgent doodle before I pass out <3 ( @bignostalgias did it first i was very influenced)

at least starboy knows how to greet royalty!

#hijack #golden age au #hiccup haddock #nightlight #couldn’t stop thinking about this #when ur bf turns into a space warrior?? #omg just realized even their armor kinda mirrors the other— #no plot just vibes <3

[ask-playtimeco]

To Stella Greyber,

Has there ever been a time that a child said a curse word? Or just said it without realizing it was even a bad word?

#poppy playtime #ask blog #au ask blog #golden age au #poppy playtime au #ask answered #answered #mommy long legs #huggy wuggy #stella greyber #boxy boo #catnap

[fang-venkas]

Book 1: The Jackal is a nameless, superhuman creature, no one knows what he looks like, some think he’s not even real, his sole name evokes dread in the protagonist

Book 2: AND he’s got daddy issues!!

#idk something about this is just unbelievably funny to me #red rising #adrius au augustus #the jackal #golden son #Darrow o Lykos #the reaper #morning star #iron gold #dark age #lightbringer #red god #virginia au augustus

[sad-endings-suck]

One of my favourite details from the original Red Rising trilogy, is that no one ever came close to guessing or even suspecting that Darrow wasn’t a gold.

It shows the inherent flaw in their sense of superiority. Octavia had Darrow right there in front of her, with an Oracle wrapped around his arm, and even though she suspected he was a Son of Ares, she never asked if he was anything other than gold, didn’t even come close.

Adrius and Virginia are geniuses, but still, neither of them could have possibly fathomed that Darrow was a red until they had the concrete evidence of his carving right in front of them.

To this day (in canon) the only reason anyone knows Darrow is a red carved to be gold, is because the video evidence of his carving was leaked (initially from Harmony, and later from others).

No one, no matter how intelligent, practical, paranoid, cautions, clever or skeptical, ever figured out about Darrow’s carving through their own suspicion or means of investigation. They were either in on it from the beginning (Dancer, Mickey, Quicksilver, etc) or they were shown video evidence. No one figured it out themselves or “unravelled the mystery” so to speak. Because no one even knew there was a mystery.

And before people say “it was extremely unlikely, they had no reason to suspect” Yes, Darrow’s carving was incredibly difficult and expensive, but the same procedure was performed on Titus not long after, so how rare or hard could it be? We even get a dialogue from Mustang in Golden Son in which she details that different colours go to carvers all the time to have “intrinsic” parts of themselves altered, far more often than the public realizes. So the possibility should have been on Octavia’s radar, but it wasn’t, because she simply couldn’t fathom it. It was too obscure.

How could a red be the spitting image of what gold society idealizes? How could a red be so tall, strong, and beautiful? How could a red graduate top of the Institute, become a peerless scarred, a Lancer, her own grandson’s celebrity hero? Neither her nor Nero or Lorn or even Adrius were capable of even entertaining the idea. It was not a thought that was ever going to occur to them naturally.

And I really love that, from a narrative perspective, because it says so much about how the Society operates and upholds itself. It says so much about how high on their own egos golds really are. It says so much about how the colours are not as different from one another as golds would have them believe.

Cassian Andor: What? To steal from the Empire? What do you need? A uniform, some dirty hands and an Imperial tool kit. They're so proud of themselves, they don't even care. They're so fat and satisfied, they can't imagine it.

Luthen Rael: Can't imagine what?

Cassian Andor: That someone like me would ever get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food, take their gear.

Andor (2022-)

#andor 2022 quote #the golds simply couldn’t fathom a red walking right into their house without their knowledge #star wars quotes #red rising #red rising series #golden son #morning star #iron gold #dark age #light bringer #red god #darrow of lykos #Octavia au Lune #Nero au Augustus #adrius au augustus #virginia au augustus #lord au arcos

[tartsinarat]

Luz: I can't believe I did that… I don’t even know how I can even make it up to you for abandoning you when Eda-… I'm so sorry… I- should have tried harder…

Pip: Luz, look I know you’re wrapped up in all this guilt… but you didn’t abandon me. I really mean this, none of the events that have taken place was your fault-

Luz: …even then, I still ran away like a coward

Pip: So? I don’t blame you

luz:…

Pip: Luz let’s be logical, you would have probably ended up dead.. or worse if you didn’t

Pip: You’re just as much as a victim of Belos as I or Eda, you shouldn’t feel guilty about a situation that you couldn’t control.

Luz: ….

Pip: I can’t believe I’m the one who’s going to ask this… but would you like an “awkward sibling hug”

luz: *is in slight shock* sure? But since when do you-

Pip; *interrupts luz with a hug*

Uh context here to this,

and even more context to this au here

#the owl house #original character #toh #toh au #golden heir au #the owl house au #art #oc #owl house au #oc stuff #luz nuceda #luz the human #the owl house luz #grimwalker oc #grimwalker #owl house oc #the owl house fanart #the owl house season 3 spoiler #grimwalker au #toh comic #philip wittebane #gravity falls reference #ngl ive been art blocked for ages so im sorry for not posting in ages

[drrav3nb]

PARIS BLUES (1961) - aka the romance between Ram & Connie that we should've gotten

#paris blues #paris blues 1961 #old hollywood #1960s #1960s movies #1960s films #diahann carroll #paul newman #classic hollywood #golden age of hollywood #oldhollywoodedit #poctvfilm #classicfilmblr #vintageedit #tvfilmsource #tvfilmedit #classicfilmsource #connie lampson #ram bowen #au #still upset that we never got to see their romance :(