#TRIALS WRAP

[latinopercy]

HERO'S SOUL // CURSED BLADE (from the last olympian episode of monster donut!)

#if you want to submit a question or analysis or anything for our series wrap up send them here! or dm me #pjo fanart #percy jackson #luke castellan #the last olympian #rick riordan #riordanverse #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #kronos #artists on tumblr #my art #i added lighting from the hearth so this is the TUMBLR EXCLUSIVE version. btw

[canisalbus]

To me, Machete kind of has the energy of a secondary villain/coldhearted side character in someone else's story that a lot of fans latch onto, moreso than the protagonist. Question is, would he be the villain in anyone's story?

Why, thank you! I'm actually glad to hear he gives off that vibe. I don't think he set out to become a villain but a lot of people certainly view him as one.

#in the 16th century canon he starts out as an introverted but sincerely well meaning guy that never quite manages to find his social niche #he was a sensitive kid and when subjected to enough pressure #his insecurity fearfulness and powerlessness mutate into distrust resentment aggression suffocating repression and self-restraint #I don't think he's a bad person in fact he consistently tries very hard to do the right thing #do his job properly avoid letting people down and get through life with a sense of dignity #but he is supposed to come across kind of cold impersonable and difficult to be around if you don't know him personally (and very few do) #people can sense there's something wrong with him and are put off by it #Vatican is a nest of vipers and as the stakes rise he retreats deeper into his coldblooded untouchable work persona #he has no choice but to start lying scheming blackmailing and eliminating his enemies #in order to maintain his position keep Vasco safe their relationship under wraps and his own head above water #essentially playing by the same rules everyone else in the holy see has been playing with for centuries #eventually he loses his spot as the secretary of state and is manipulated/forced to take on a role in the roman inquisition #and if people were sort of iffy about him before being the authority overseeing trials torture excommunications and executions doesn't help #and since he has so few allies and such an infamous reputation he's an easy target for scapegoating whenever necessary #towards the end it dawns on him that he's become the kind of twisted cruel corrupt person he used to fear and despise #and the guilt moral injury and abject self-loathing had largely sapped him of his will to live by the time the final assassin gets him #answered #anonymous #Machete #Vaschete lore #he thought his dream of priesthood would make him a better person more worthy of admiration safety and love but he climbed too high #and got roped up in the dangerous games that take place under god's nose and slowly got strangled to death

[plastikstarz]

I headcannon Apollo/Lester as trans- hear me out-

So you know how twins of opposite genders are usually pretty hard to find in mythology?

What if Apollo was born as female, but 1 second in he decided "ew no" and changed into the form he felt most comfortable in? In the beginning, he enjoyed taking more effeminate and androgynous forms (see old statues of him), but then maybe someone made a comment about it and he became self conscious of it and dysphoric, hence the change to performative masculinity (see book decriptions of him, his obsession with having abs, his fashion style).

But then Zeus makes him mortal. And this time around, he decides to toy with him some more.

So he assigns Apollo to an afab body, to truthly torture him mentally and to make every second of his mortality nightmarish.

At first, he tries really hard to pass, because he's terrified of the validity of his gender being questioned. And he succeeds for a while. Maintaining a low voice hurts. And he knows running around, fighting, and even sleeping in a binder 24/7 will wreck his mortal body. He doesn't care. He keeps doing it. He runs behind everyone, he struggles to breathe, he has to deal with horrid pain. But he considers it worth it. He loathes his body. He loathes the extra fat that gives him feminine curves. He wants it all to end. He desperately wishes to get his godly form back as soon as possible.

Eventually, he collapses. His ribs are badly bruised, and he can no longer pretend to be cis. As terrifed as he was of his peers' reactions, most of them don't really care. Meg calls him a dummy, punches him, and proceeds to tackle him in a hug and punch him again. Leo tries to crack a joke to lighten the mood. Calypso reminds Apollo back in their days nobody would have given a crap.

Lester tears up. Weirdly, he feels loved. He feels accepted, he feels understood for the first time in millenia.

Maybe being a mortal isn't so bad

#trials of apollo #trials of apollo headcannons #toa headcannon #trials of apollo headcannon #pjo hoo toa #trans headcannon #i'm losing my mind #he's my baby he's my blorbo #wraps him in blanket like a burrito #this is my first headcannon post ever aaaaa

[padfootastic]

hello! i am back with yet another…thing. thank u for the tag @lovelymasks <3 (i realised, upon second reading, that this was supposed to be a sunday snippet but i’m an idiot n therefore this is now a saturday snippet mwuah)

I think you should go to a Healer, Sirius. 

Why, he’d asked, flippant. What was there to do with a Healer when you were a convict on the run? Besides, Sirius was wrong in a way that couldn’t be made right. He was past the point of return. Healers would’ve barely known what to do with him before Azkaban, let alone in the condition he was in now. 

Because you look like a stiff wind will blow you over, Harry’d answered, though the answering flippancy didn’t quite land the way he intended because what Sirius heard was ‘Because I don't want to lose anyone else.’ 

What Harry didn't say, and Sirius didn’t want to hear, was ‘Because I can’t lose another parent.’

He quietly acquiesced after that. The trembling, hopeful smile growing on his godson’s face was enough to wipe away all apprehensions after that. 

Until now, when Harry was at Hogwarts, and he was second guessing this whole business. 

Did he really need a Healer, like, really?

One look at the mirror in front of him gave him a solid, sturdy answer. 

He was dressed in his old rags and it was a testament to the conditions of Azkaban that clothes from when he was younger, before hitting his final growth spurts, were barely just fitting him now. Sirius’ back was almost constantly bent these days--all days spent curled up in a ball seemed to have reshaped his skeletal structure, who knew--each vertebrae gaining a distinct notch in the column of his skin. His stomach was a fascinating blend of too small and too bloated. He couldn’t keep anything down, but he wasn’t able to eat much either. A mystery for the ages. 

Less said about his face, the better. Sirius wasn’t vain, never had any reason to be, but there was a certain…pride he’d maintained, a level of outward appearance that was considered bare minimum for a Black, a conditioning he’d never managed to shake off. 

It was that conditioning itching at him now, turning him away from any reflective surface before he could see his distorted features, grotesque and inhuman, staring back at him. 

And ultimately, it was that, he realised with a shameful sort of guilt, that pushed him to see a Healer. Not his godson’s pleading look, not concern for his wellbeing--but leftovers from an upbringing that he hated, his mother’s words he couldn’t stop hearing, his father’s sharp commands. 

Ultimately, it was his blood that made him give in, as it always did. 

further tagging @jmagnabo92 @soopsiedaisies @groundzero-v 💜

#sirius black #harry potter #mwuahahahahaha #i am feeling. on top of the world #bc ive written like. 3k for FoD in the past couple days #and writing has been so hard recently!!! #but i had a therapy sesh the other day that actually literally rewired my neural pathways #so i guess here i am. turned a new leaf or wtv #anyway! this is from FoD ofc. from way down so it probably wont be posted for a bit #but i rly like it #and im trying to keep from posting the entirety of the nasty molly-sirius fight i just wrapped up #(ive already bothered the pf server w way too many snippets hehehe) #so this is what we're left wih #im so excited for the next chapter (even tho i sort of have to figure out what'll be in it--the fight or the trial or sumn else) #but just. yeah. its very fun. #pen’s writing #fic: foundations of decay

[rainhowls-arts]

@aadefenseweek

Day 3: Contradictions/"The only time a lawyer can cry is when it’s all over”

#ace attorney #diego armando #Trials and Tribulations #ace attorney spoilers #cw blood #THAT scene holy shit #also #I love how this single quote wraps up the whole story of T&T

[natp20]

if this is what we got for what is essentially vax attuning with the deathwalker's ward

can you guys imagine the absolute magnificence of fjord attuning to the star razor

#critical role #the legend of vox machina #tlovm #tlovm s2 #tlovm spoilers #all hail the matron of ravens #and her champion #the tone shift from the raven queen to the wildmother is going to be WILD #raven queen is putting vax into a trial of single combat and wildmother is gently wrapping fjord in a tree hug #my screenshots

[freuleinanna]

The monkey chatters sharply. Marisa glares. Hateful creatures, both of them, she thinks, like broken mirrors only capable of showing the worst parts. Their worst parts have grown wild in isolation, clashing all the time. Following an impulse, she holds his gaze, then sinks to her knees, leans forward – then, after a moment of consideration, growls. Her upper lip curls to show teeth. Vocal cords strain dangerously. A menacing grumble is rolling somewhere so deep in her throat she didn't know a sound like that could be produced. Her daemon drops to all fours and mirrors the note, prowling toward her. Golden fur on his neck bristles, he even paws at the ground a couple of times as if aiming for a blow. He wouldn't dare, and neither would she, but both feel rabid for wanting to. Snarling, they inch the distance between them and stare at each other, face to face – repulsive, repulsed, and ugly.

Marisa x daemon + exiled together, in wait of a trial after Edward's death.

#whatever i got angsty #and still trying to wrap up the masriel trial fic #so im gonna post random excerpts with questionable gifs sometimes #just to let it out & stop obsessing over every word #i have a few chapters ready so i'm itching to share #but can't finish the last one to post the whole damn thing #ughhhhh #marisa x daemon #marisa coulter #golden monkey #hdm #his dark materials #hdm fic

[someslothcheese]

Just a few little digital works

I'm learning digital :] (I'm a paper kinda guy)

#among us #chilledchaos #zeroyalviking #aplatypuss #kn0vis #cheesybluenips #kyrsp33dy #sidearms4reason #kara corvus #The reference pages is just for my brain to wrap around what people look like in my brain without pulling up 80 different things #(even if I constantly go against it) #adding more too if you couldn't tell #maybe ill also share my wall spread of paper artworks #also the second image is my Outlast Trials AU that i might work on at some point #teehee #we do a little gaming and stuff #private recording 1 #not in love with these the more i look at them #but i cope #stop reading these tags how do you care about my thoughts that much sob #much love or something??? #ahahahah help #Also #third image is my skyrim AU #which i might never improve on #but i hold them dear to my skyrim obsession #taydertot

[incorrectnevermoor]

Mog: you call it a near death experience, i call it a vibe check from the gods.

#wishing you all a very pleasant Spotify wrapped day #nevermoor #nevermoor: the trials of morrigan crow #wundersmith #wundersmith: the calling of morrigan crow #hollowpox #hollowpox: the hunt for morrigan crow #morrigan crow

[inspector-montoya-fox]

Franziska talking about Americans

#the entirety of Bridge is iconic but Franziska’s arc is probably my favourite thing about it. true character development #it’s my birthday tomorrow! i want to wrap up Trials & Tribulations today to play some Sly tomorrow as a birthday treat #also kinda excited for the Apollo trilogy honestly i know i’ve given DD so much shit and SoJ was moderate but still #i want to see how they’ll change the games’ interface their menus any special features? exciting stuff

[greatwyrmgold]

There's an alternate universe version of me who got really into One Piece instead of Wildbow's stuff. I wonder how that would've turned out.

#random thoughts #I only have room for one longform hyperfixation #(and honestly I'm pushing it with Wildbow's stuff) #(Pale's wrapping up and I still haven't finished the Alabaster trial)

[baylardo]

Hope you get better soon! Sending threshold hyperevolution vibes your way

ty for this!!! 😭💕💕💕💕💕 i yearn to scream about lizards again. im feeling a lot better today, i totally effed my arm up over the weekend and inflamed it i think WHOOPS lol. still cant straighten it but i guess thats something to work toward. 😤👍

#Ask #Thresholdbb #i told my department i called out bc i kept crying and they said just come in and cry in court its ok lololol #its so funny when the trial’s parties are like YOURE BACK!!!!!!!! i called out for 2 days #this trials wrapping up today after having been going 2 weeks so everyones Very familiar with each other haha

[sobeautifullyobsessed]

Sooooooo...

I've been trying my damnedest to finish 'Wrapped Up In Christmas Memories' and even thought I was nearly there last weekend until I went back and reread an earlier snippet...and sadly realized I had no idea how to incorporate it in the second chapter.

Thinking about it on and off this week, my plan is now to make it three chapters. Wherein chapter three should have the most satisfying payoff 🤞🤞🤞 (in my imagination, anyway🫤). Hopefully, for anyone still interested, I will be posting chapter two sometime today.

I want to thank everyone who has been so patient and supportive of my efforts, especially amid the neverending writer's block I'm mired in. With extra heaps of love for those who have come to love my OFC, Hope Collins, and her pairing with Stephen Strange, almost as much as I do❣️

I hope you will find the completed story worth the wait!

#Wrapped Up In Christmas Memories #writer's block #and other writerly woes #trials and tribulations of a writer

[motheatenscarf]

It is June 12th.

I finished Shadowbringers MSQ 21 days ago.

I am still waiting for friends to catch up to me to get through Shadowbringers so we can all start Endwalker together.

We were all at roughly the same place as of like May 6th, that's JUST how busy people have been, I am at most like a week's worth of content ahead of them and I'm trying to be patient, but I'm starting to go insane.

#a bitch made a promise and will keep it but GODDAMN #i did the trial/raid/duty series after shadowbringers and stretched that out for like a whole extra week #and friends are like 'oh we'll do those FIRST rather than wrap up story!' #and i'm like no! NO!!! do the story first PLEASE i need to talk about it

[cleaner-in-grey]

00c

-quietly and secretly dusting off an OC for a different fandom-

#I'm dusting off a Good Omens OC who's a nephil...his dad's a Dominion so they really wanna keep it under wraps for now #they don't want a scandal so they just have someone following the young man around to make sure he doesn't do anything...supernatural #his father hasn't fallen per say but he's also not doing his job anymore they suspended him “pending a trial” that they're too busy to do #they moved it to after the apocalypse #so yeah....delayed as hell

[ilovecoralineandotherbooks]

November Wrap-up:

Mix of romance dramione fanfic & fantasy, didn't read all of my November TBR butidid read a couple.

Any questions on content, or anything you want to know & any recs you have my DM's and asks are open.😊

Psycho shifters⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jasmine Mas

psycho fae⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jasmine Mas

Psycho Beasts⭐️⭐️

Jasmine Mas

Wicked beautiful lies⭐️⭐️

L.A. Ferro

Auctioned to the pack⭐️⭐️

layla Sparks

The hidden falling⭐️⭐️⭐️

kelly Cove

If we were villains⭐️⭐️⭐️

M L Rio

Perfectly in pieces⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

CDLynn- A03

The Slytherin Princess⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

taylorikari - Ao3

Heart of desire⭐️⭐️

Liana Tiomzon

Rosemary for Rememberance⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

rubbersoul02- A03

Trial of the sun Queen⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Nisha J Tuli

friends, enemies & all the broken people⭐️⭐️⭐️

lostpoet - A03

Rule of the Aurora king⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Nisha J Tuli

Ever thine⭐️⭐️⭐️

evergreentuesdays - A03

Heart shaped bruises & late night kisses⭐️⭐️⭐️

dramionewrites - A03

fortuna Sworn⭐️⭐️⭐️

k J Sutton

Denied⭐️⭐️⭐️

evelyn flood

Devoted⭐️⭐️⭐️

Evelyn flood

Sugar & Spice⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In love with forever A03

The gloriana Set⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

TheBemoon - A03

too much labour⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ceilidhchaos - A03

various storms & saints⭐️⭐️⭐️

Viridianatnight - Ao3

Imprisoned ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Stein048 - Ao3

Fast burn ⭐️⭐️

Abigail Davies

Deep burn⭐️⭐️

Abigail Davies

Unperfect ⭐️⭐️

Susie tate

Once upon a broken heart ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Stephanie garber

The ballad of never after⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Stephanie garber

A curse for true love⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Stephanie garber

Look what you made me do ⭐️⭐️

Catstclair -Ao3

#november wrap up #if we were villains #m l rio #dramione ff #hermione x draco #dramione recs #dramione fanfiction #trial of the sun queen #caraval #stephanie garber #look what you made me do #booklr #bookblr #2023 reading challenge #i💙coraline&otherbooks