#WE DID IT BOYS.... WE GOT HER

[delizbin]

Katniss Everdeen

#katniss everdeen #the hunger games #thg fanart #book canon #yes! we got a second one for the serie! #I’ll put them all together eventually #for now #take them singularly #she’s the moment #I hope I did her justice #next one: the bread boy #probably #like… 80%

[quietwingsinthesky]

it ever hit you out of nowhere that castiel is living in a dead guy's body and the show just does not care. it does not care. jimmy novak might as well not exist the moment he or claire is out of sight. cas stole a guy's body and his face and his life, and we can't ever talk about it or discuss it in detail because of how fucking horrifying it is that sam and dean's best friend just walks around in a dead guy suit. there's not even a human soul in there anymore. it's just a corpse. stone-cold body snatcher indeed.

#castiel spn #spn #this is not like a Castiel Crime (tm) to be clear. this is more me being (un)surprised that the show is Like This. #castiel is a horror story he is so much a horror story in the rapture #and then they just uh. never bring up again how horrifying and fucked up this is for another like 7 seasons #and when they do its to briefly go :( claire lost her dad :) but its okay! she forgives cas for it! #which!! NO SHE SHOULD FUCKING NOT!!! #but we can't have that discussion. we can't talk about that. because to acknowledge that it's fucked up would mean making cas kind of. evil #in a way that would vastly improve his later character arcs btw. if we had to reckon with not only this massive transgression #but with the fact that cas himself STILL DOESN'T SEE IT AS ONE. #that on a lot of fundamental levels. he is still functioning as he did in s4. a lot of that base programming is still there. #something something how cas never changes out of his suit under his trenchcoat #but it's like. jimmy said yes. so it's fine. that's what it is to him. #anyway. i wish they hadn't been scared of making all three of the boys more fucked up in later seasons. #thank GOD for dean being interesting in how he becomes Worse <3 because they were not bringing that for castiel. #again. good version of spn where jimmy's bloodline is an off-shoot of the lucifer vessel bloodline. explaining a) how lucifer Got In There #and b) letting lucifer possess claire later so that the two of them can have daddy issues together. #something about cas being the monster-not monster that jimmy let in that destroyed his life. #something about lucifer being the monster-not monster that castiel lets in later. the cycles. they are cycling.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

[<==PREV PAGES] [NEXT PAGE==>(not out yet.wait a year.or maybe more.imagine.]

saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #GONNA START FORMATTING MY COMICS BETTER. W THE PROPER 'PREV' 'NEXT' LINKS #REALLY DIDNT EXPECT TO CONTINUE THIS SERIES BUT AAAUUUHH MY BRRAAAIN MY BRAIN IS SO IDEASSS. I HAVE 3 OTHER PAGES SKETCHED OUT #NO PROMISES ILL FINISH EM ANY TIME SOON OR EVER. MY WHIMS ARE THEIR OWN BEAST AND I ONLY DRAW ON MY WHIMS #THAT BEING SAID IF U COMMISSIONED ME ILL GEEETT TO YOUUU IM SORRYYYY. ART IS AN EMOTIONAL RELEASE FOR ME N BABY I HAVE EMOTIONS. #ESPECIALLY ABOUT GILLION TIDESTRIDER CHAMPION OF THE UNDERSEA HERO OF THE DEEP.for the desc here i put smth that i typed up in the tags of #another thing i made. i gotta make a proper Baby Gillion tag or smth. eventually.. eventually...I LOVE DRAWIN THIS LIL BABY GUY.. #i also LOVE depicting the teachers as just being so fuckin mean. ofc theres variation in that. just like in all things.like the teacher her #idk if itll be mentioned but the octo lady is named Ms Octburn.an octopus pun based off the name of an actual councilor i had #when i was in elementary school i got bullied alot but teachers never did anything. i hated adults and didnt trust them. #but this councilor o mine was so genuinely sweet. i remember spending alot of time w her. she doesnt work there anymore. #but that one school adult that actually earns ur trust and is there for you when they can be.its SO important for a child i think #i hope she knows how much she helped me.youll see in the next page that ms octburn isnt perfect either.but she tries. they all try.somehow. #ALL these comics are gonna be inspired by somesorta experience o mine in the school system. school is so fucked up u ever thing abt that #AND GILLIOOOOONNN IN THE MOST FUCKED UP LITTLE SCHOOL OF ALL. MAINTAINED BY A CULT. CENTERED AROUND HIM. OUR CHOSEN ONE #I IMAGINE ALOT BANKS ON HIS SUCCESS. THIS IS THE WORLD. THE WHOLE WORLD. THE PROPHECY IS GOING TO COME TRUE N UR TELLIN ME #THAT ITS THIS LITTLE IDIOT THATS GONNA BE SAVING US? WHAT IF HE FAILS. IF HE CANT GET THIS RIGHT THEN HE WILL FAIL AND WE WILL DIE #WE NEED TO TRAIN HIM. WE NEED HIM TO LEARN. AND TO SUCCEED. OR ELSE WE'RE DEAD. WE'RE ALL FUCKING DEAD. I IMAGINE THAT MUST BE STRESSFUL #in other news i hope ppl actually giggle when they read these. they ARE intended to be comical. dark humor or whatever. like its also sad #this is intended to be a sad comic series. but a funny one too. does that make sense? god i hope so.saw some1 say they had flashbacks- #-reading this. like YES!! THE INTENDED EFFECT!! YOU GET ME!! i love seeing ppl get upset on this lil baby boys behalf. i LOVE seeing ppl- #-wail n weep n cry in the comments. i LOOOVE seeing ppl RELATE to baby gillion. and i love letting u all know that this wont be a happycomi #gillion gets his happiness arc in the actual show. this series is one of unfortunate events. teehehehe. do u guys remember that show #i keep listening to the lil songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events for inspiration. GOOD STUFF!! #anyway uuhh uhh thats all i got in my brain. for now. feed me ur comments give me ur input i NNEEEEEDD THHEEEMMMM

[hella1975]

it's been pointed out on here before that a lot of terf arguments are actually rooted in sexist idealology that feminists fought and died to unnormalise decades ago and that's its own kettle of fish but one thing i also find very frustrating about this so called 'radical' feminism is that it's so... defeatist? like the moment you categorically label an entire section of society as Bad and Inherently Evil then there's also the implication that nothing can be done about it, and it completely takes all accountability away. saying all men are evil is just another way of saying boys will be boys. he raped her because he's a man. he hit her because he's a man. he didn't listen because he's a man - it's almost offensively oversimplified. there's no point trying to fix this issue in society because men are just Like That, okay! so now what? it's not like they're going anywhere, so you just accept that 50% of the population are evil and will forever treat you terribly and there's nothing to be done about it bc they're biologically predisposed to it? like is that fr the argument here? you're soooo radical for that

#this is coming from someone who used to very genuinely be a misandrist #ironically it was only when i started actually analysing my own feminism that i got MORE confrontational with men #and started respecting my boundaries a lot better BECAUSE i started holding them accountable again #like when men treat me like shit nowadays i dont just write it off as 'what did you expect? he's a man' i get MAD about it #because i EXPECT BETTER FROM THEM even if it's just tiny shit women have to deal with daily #i hold them to just as high a standard as im held to and i make them take accountability when they dont meet that #and whether you realise it or not even on a subconscious level the MOMENT you black-and-white blanket statement all men as bad #you stop holding them accountable. #like it is literally just boys will be boys. do terfs seriously not realise they're sending feminism BACKWARDS #like if a girl came to me with her trauma and people - other girls no less - tried to comfort her with 'yeah all men are evil' #id be fucking furious. like no he did that because he was a piece of shit that had it normalised to him that women arent to be respected #dont you dare let him off the hook with something as simple and uncritical as 'he's a man' #i promise you men like that will MUCH prefer a blanket statement such as 'all men are as bad as each other' #than actually being point blank told they're an abuser or a rapist. because being lumped together is comfortable and even empowering #wheras isolating their behaviour with words that are Bad and Ugly (LIKE 'rapist') is not comfortable at all and has heavy connotations #idk i dont think radical feminism is always bad on its own it can be v liberating. just terfs and misandrists that i have a problem with #dropping this post in a piranha tank and closing tumblr knowing im gonna have some thirty year old karen yelling at me within 5 mins #i probably wont respond to any terf comments bc they literally mentally exhaust me with their stupidity #but that also depends on my mood and ability to keep my mouth shut LMFAO we shall see

[edorazzi]

It’s Tintin Day again! 💖

I’ve been watching Thunderbirds (original and reboot!) lately and I’m just obsessed with the whole thing, so here’s a fake book cover with both my beloved Tintins! 🚀🔎

#the adventures of tintin #tintin #thunderbirds #tin tin kyrano #snowy #thunderbirds are go #i love the original series; of course some parts aged poorly but that just makes it even more relevant to tintin #there's a certain era of tintin we just don't talk about and that's universally agreed #but i'm like.... obsessed with the 2015 reboot just for the character designs and family banter #it's so much better than it has any right to be tbh. and have you SEEN what they did with john. help me :'0 #i'm trying so hard not to pester my friends about it but my only other outlet is drawing the team a hundred times so :/// #and i like kayo but i wish we got her AND tin tin. they coulda been girlfriendsssss :/ #anyway tell me your fave tracy boy in the notes please and thank you

[scampizoid]

my fate the winx saga woulda been so good and full of bisexuals who were not evil. the vaping can stay. #justicefortecna

#the only goated thing they did was combine all the boys into one boy. we never needed more than one. #also JUSTICE FOR WITCH SCHOOL. TF #fate the winx saga #winx #winx club #yall got me thinkin about this again #also sorry to whoever asked where aisha is i dont really know her and anyway shes lola to me #i need to watch more of the show tbh but if its not the very specific dubb i am familiar with from my PIXTER i wont accept it lmfao #2021 #2023 #pls dont arrest me for drawing them as hot stoner lesbians #rival headmistress romance WHEN

[pittsburghhockeybirds]

Enola flirting with Tewkesbury on one of their dates: If I had a garden, I would put your tulips and my tulips together.

Tewkesbury:

Enola:

Tewkesbury, already getting on one knee: marry me

#you know you've been through the Imagine Your Otp tag when you're here making a post yourself #we all know Tewkesbury would downright propose to her without a second thought if she ever tried to flirt with him #this might have been a fanfic......... IDK THERE'S TOO MANY GOOD FANFICS OF THEM and.... keep it coming!!!!!!!!¡ #let's not ignore the fact that Tewkesbury really got on one knee while helping her climb the gate like he's TALLER than her.... #boy didn't really need to get on one knee for that but he did~~~~~ #Enola would flirt with flower puns because it goes hand in hand with Tewkesbury flirting with flowers #this ship has taken over my life help #enola holmes #enola holmes 2 #incorrect quotes #imagine your ship #imagine your otp #enola 2 #lord tewksbury #tewkesbury #enola x tewkesbury #holmesbury #louis partridge #millie bobby brown

[imminent-danger-came]

something about mk brutally smashing his head against azures sword till it shattered. something about mei modeling her sword after azures (im insane)

I went ahead and gifed both scenes (which proves that I'm very clearly normal)

So, Mei shatters her family sword defending MK. She then models her sword after Azure's. MK later brutally smashes his head against Azure's sword, cracking it (and Azure) apart. Azure then uses that sword to stitch the universe together, losing his life in the process.

The first thing that comes to mind is the Curse's words, "Such pitiful creatures: cowardly, reckless, monstrosities; all doomed to play a roll in tearing this world apart! To cause nothing but chaos and destruction.", with 4x13 being titled "Rip and Tear" and Azure quite literally tearing the world apart. You trying to do what you think is right but that still leading to bad outcomes—to shattering and breaking and destruction.

Other bonus parallels/contrasts include:

Mei breaking her sword to defend MK, while Azure breaks his sword attacking MK

"But how am I supposed to protect everyone if I don't have my sword!" and then Azure uses his sword to save the entire world aka everyone.

Mei: "If you're not giving everything you have to protect the people you care about you are nothing!" Azure: "I would have done anything in my power to bring them back—but it wasn't in my power, it was in yours." (Using power for the people you care about) (Interesting to note however, Azure is fine with his friends as collateral ((love you 4x10 roar)) where as Mei will put a lot at risk for her friends ((she doesn't object when MK suggests going into the scroll even if it'll risk the curse being released)))

Mei: "What's the point of having power if you won't use it! [...] Inaction is careless! [...] Then maybe you don't deserve power!" Azure: "I did not sacrifice everything simply to be an idle deity! I will do what my predecessor did not!" (Aka those who deserve power are those who will use it)

Both were totally willing to sacrifice Wukong for their goals (Mei in 3x12 and Azure throughout s4, but especially in the special)

Mei: "Wukong knew the risks—that's the hard part of being a hero!" Azure: "Nothing is won without sacrifice!"

Jade Emperor Azure and Samadhi Fire Mei as containers for uncontrollable power (I talk about this one a lot)

Do we think "How could you lead us into this fight without a real plan!" applies to the Brotherhood's attack against heaven

They really did not need to have Mei model her sword after Azure's, so I wonder if this is building to an eventual "Mei V MK" fight (where Mei is most likely fighting MK to save MK) and Mei uses her sword to protect herself from one of the people she cares about.

I feel like there's more to the sword situation, but I can't put my finger on it.

#big fan of Mei having modeled her sword after a person who is currently dead #Good for her for having a dead man's weapon #Joining the rest of the gang (excluding MK) finally #MK beating his head against Azure's sword is one of the scariest scenes for me ngl #Like go boy! Let it out! #But also you did not react this way even against LBD in 3x14 #Like hmmm idk guys did he get worse over the course of s4 #HMMM WAIT HOLD ON #AZURE LBD AND THE JADE EMPEROR ARE THE ONLY 3 CHARACTERS TO HAVE EVER WIELDED A SWORD IN THIS SHOW #HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. #Okay we got two current candidates for who is getting Jade Emperor-ed next season #new tag #jade emperor mei #lmk #lmk gif #lego monkie kid #my gifs #lmk MK #lmk Mei #lmk Azure Lion #lmk parallels #asks #Wait wait wait LBD Samahdi Fire mech also wields two swords #HMMM. Swords as proof of *using* power perhaps

[kikie-e3]

Small CS art dump of stuff I haven't posted

#We got Zack being Zack #(Being TRANSGENDER) #Istg its an agenda #BEING FORCED ON OUR KIDS #/j #Then some Carmen #and her cat bestfriend #(Cat!Player fr) #And a small take on scene Player #wanna draw Team red in different Aesthetics #Did i spell that right #anywho #boy i wonder who my favorite CS character is #such a mystery #cs player #carmen sandeigo 2019 #carmen sandiego #carmen sandeigo netflix #carmen sandiego player #carmen cs #cs zack #carmen sandiego fanart

[beeg-bark]

pinning someone down and they're struggling against you and then they hit you with the dom stare, and so you don't really want to let go but you're excited to see what will happen so you loosen your grip a little bit and they say "you're loosening your grip" and you say "yeah i wanted to see what would happen" and they hit you with the "don't let go" with the fucking dom death stare look in your eyes so you have no choice but to obey and then they spend the rest of the time criticising you and making you readjust your grip ughhhhh

#dogbone #asexual kink #fear kink #this is the same fucker who gripped my leg with theirs and uhhh #told me how entertaining my reactions were #bro gripped my chin with their hand #and when that got a reaction out of me #went #ooooooh im good at this! #in like a delighted tone #like #did you think you were bad????? #why are you surprised?????? #we went to a concert this weekend #and during the opening band #there was a lyric that said 101 dalmations and i still want that one dog #and she tilted my chin up with her finger and made me look at her during it #and uhhhhhhhhh #it bluescreened me #it wasnt this weekend actually it was yesterday #i lied #sorry beeg bark nation #im like high as shit rn #and whoo boy #kink and weed are a beautiful beautiful combination let me tell you #monster kink #t4t nsft #listen man #excellent day to be a monsterfucker head over heels in love with a monster #sometimes i worry that she secretly hates me and then she pulls shit like this

[raayllum]

Can we expect any chet in your Snake Boi fics? 👀

For Snake Boi Callum fics I have

i can't help it: in which Kpp'Ar gets out of his coin and at first, mistakes Callum for Viren

i asked god to take the damage out on me: Callum does the same spell Viren did to save Soren in order to save Ezran

some say in ice: Callum uses the blood freezing spell in order to protect Rayla.

it still floats: Soren POV fic on Callum's selective loyalty (and what it means to be adjacent to, but not directly, have it)

CHET plans are being reserved for my fanon S6 fic "Teach Me How To Name The Bigger Light" (4/26ish chapters done? Maybe?) as anyone who follows me / my theories will not be surprised by much of the lore or endgame plot decisions.

However, if you do want some CHET fics, there are some lovely ones written by other people:

Post-exchange fic by @zuppizup

Post-exchange fic + 5 related drabbles (scroll to the bottom of the screen to start at the beginning) by @jelzorz

prelude / buildup by @mandaloriandragontrainer

exchange & aftermath by @rayllurn

the exchange & the aftermath by @lawchan89

these art pieces by @chimpukampu in order: 1, 2, 3

As well as a few by me such as

My own post-exchange fic

the originator, featuring like 12k of buildup and AU as of S4 but I'm still very proud of the fic as a whole

loosely adjacent post-s5 drabble

a post-s4 speculative (s6?) prelude

10.2k oneshot that's not CHET but it is about callum being all "i'll do whatever it takes to keep you safe" (post-s4) about dark magic so it was 100% written as a CHET prelude, canon confirm (and one of the reasons 5x08 made me do a lil happy dance)

As you can see there is quite the little collection, and I am excited to add to it one more time - as getting to said scene and being able to write it again to reflect how the theory/scenario has matured and evolved since its first inklings - god, a full three years ago? - is one of the reasons I'm most determined to actually make my way through writing all of fanon S6.

And of course if I missed anyone's fic or drabble or art piece, feel free to add it in the replies/reblogs - I'd love to see/read it! <3

Bonus: my favourite meme I've probably ever made

#the dragon prince #tdp #rayllum #snake boi callum week #upcoming #cube hostage exchange theory #thanks for asking #compilation #tag ramble #anonymous #did not realize just how many other people had written till i was making this like #holy shit u GUYS!! :') <33 #rayllum fandom #stuff for me #or insp by me <3 #literally if it doesn't happen it'll just be bc they don't want to repeat 5x08 too much bc #we got an unsuccessful hostage exchange that was only unsuccessful bc finnegrin was a bitch #callum did his part so like #if they don't wanna repeat i get it #but also would take her being stabbed so easily like there's still #Something here mark my woof

[front-facing-pokemon]

#taillow #i do believe this was the first “normal/flying route-1 bird” pokémon that i ever saw. probably. i still don't know which pokémon game was my #first one between colosseum‚ diamond‚ and sapphire. all of which i still have the physical copies of to this day‚ but none of which still #have their original save files remaining on them. so i can't check the dates‚ otherwise i would #but my first pokémon game was One of those three. maybe i could ask my mom. like‚ hey‚ which one did i get first. maybe she'll remember #‘cause we always played pokémon colosseum together. she ended up thinking that that was the core series and the ones on handheld were #spinoffs because she thought the core series would be on home console. oh how naïve she was…… #ok i've texted her and asked her. i'm gonna add this one to the queue and start writing the tags for swellow while i wait for her response #and i'll come back and edit this one with the results. see you then #hi! i'm back. final verdict is that i got the game boy much sooner than the gamecube. i didn't know that but now i do. she got it at #a yard sale‚ so it came with a bunch of games on it‚ which is how i ended up with pokémon sapphire. thus‚ i played that first #however‚ i didn't get very far in it because the game i liked playing the most as a kid was tony hawk underground‚ which i also had #from the yard sale. and thus i remember pokémon colosseum much better‚ because i probably didn't even get to the first gym in sapphire #so that means this IS the first normal/flying route-one bird pokémon i ever saw. we did it #now i will take my meds

[hecksupremechips]

The 999 cast is very important to me and there’s so much good about them but I think one big thing they have is that they’re all smart and contribute to the story

#zero escape #999 #this is where the other ze casts really lack I think #like all the 999 characters are there for a reason they were hand picked by zero #and all of them were really smart and they all worked together to solve the mystery #in vlr we got characters who just willingly participated in the game for shits and giggles #even more so with ztd like they didnt even try to make the q team important #plus just like so many of the characters are wasted and pointless #quark contributed nothing. alice was needed only for a math problem. tenmyouji was just screwed over #clover is the one who really makes me mad cuz they did the aini thing where they erased her whole arc #and reduced her to a ditzy joke of a character #shes not fucking ditzy shes smart and her bond with junpei is literally why everyone survived 999! #without her your ass would be dead #makes me so mad 😤 #they only added her to vlr just to get people interested in the first place since she was popular #ztd is the same like none of the new characters introduced mean anything #and all the stuff they do with the old characters is just awful none of it is good #honestly 999 is too good of a game to be attracted to the other ze games #in my mind 999 ended and everyone lived happily ever after and idk quark can magically be there somehow cuz hes a good boy

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Girls Are Never Gone

a girl does a summer internship with the historical society cleaning up an old estate where a girl died 30 years ago, so she can investigate it for her ghost-hunting podcast

she’s a skeptic who privately thinks she’ll be able to find evidence of non-supernatural, but weird things start happening to her and the other two girls in the house

spooky lake & creepy dolls

bisexual diabetic MC with a service dog, f/f

#The Girls Are Never Gone #sarah glenn marsh #this is. fine. #it’s like. not creepy until maybe 70% imo #why is she releasing episodes of her podcast every few days….even when she hasn’t discovered anything particularly? #is it not much more realistic for people to finish doing these things and form it into a coherent narrative before releasing episodes #Like that wouldn't have worked for the plot but it stood out to me #If it was one of those things where her personality and influencer-vibes is the main draw that would be feasable #but I didn't really get that feel from the two podcast excerpts we got. #Taking out some of the random stuff slowing the first half and putting bits of the podcast in the actual narrative so we got the feel for w #might have made things more interesting. And put more tension between her paranormal podcasting persona and real life skepticism #don't love stuff that engages with true crime fans without actively critiquing it. Like this doesn't get super deep into that. idk #I did laugh when they see the older lady putting salt around the door and question it & shes like 'it uh works for the boys on supernatural #ajshgfhajgf #anyway it was ok i just think it could have been better! #sapphic books #bisexual books #aroaessidhe 2023 reads

[sysig]

Horse girl arc (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #The Captain #This scene was so cuuuuuuuuute <3 <3 <3 #Genuinely gave me the vibes of an ingénue meeting a unicorn <3 So saccharine and adorable <3 <3 #And then of course he closes it out with wanting to add the horse to his menagerie lol ZEX! Incorrigible ♪ #And also the fact that he was openly obliviously displaying his hickeys pffft ♫ He didn't know! #I'm pretty sure he was wearing a hoodie actually but like - wide necked collar tho. Gotta show off lol #I love that they'd both never interacted with a horse haha ♥ So many things Zelnick never got to interact with being an Unzervalt boy ouq #And how ZEX automatically assumes danger haha - just because YOU collect dangerous beasts doesn't mean that everything you find beautiful is #His tastes do tend to skew pretty ravenous tho - in several ways hehe #Also is it clear that I myself never had a horse girl arc lol - one of my friends did! But not me so much haha #I did look up references! ......After I'd mostly drawn her look I'm trying lol #Horses are shaped so funny haha #I definitely feel like I nailed the silhouette horse - ignore that she's mostly a stick figure there lol #The ship is more meant to be shorthand than literal lol - y'know a UFO abduction we all know what those look like lol #I thought it might not communicate the same if I actually drew an Intruder no I'm not just putting it off because I haven't drawn one before #Maybe if I drew a little more outside of just my offline days lol but I find so many other things to do!

[recitedemise]

MODERN VERSE. (the number of worlds as infinite are as the cosmos.) Gale Dekarios, hailing from Waterdeep (or England, all Greek heritage if it's rooted in reality), is a professor with a doctorate in illusionary magics (or, if magic isn't real, then astrophysics) in the University of Baldur's Gate (or Berkeley). He's incredibly decorated, a prodigy in his field turned a credited pillar in the realm of academia. Gale is of accomplishment, a recognized voice among his peers, and that, as rumors claim, is for his relationship with Mystra, the department head of magic (or the natural sciences) of the university where he currently teaches. Unbeknownst to most everyone, Mystra had first met Gale during his last year in further education taking some pre-college courses. At the time, an impressionable, bright-eyed eighteen year old, his grades, resume, and notable accomplishments had very unfortunately caught her interest. There, Mystra lent her aid, offering to tutor and mentor him to entice him to join the University. Of course, being an academic with no small amount of renown, the offers she presented weren't at all necessary; Gale, ensnared, was thoroughly convinced. From there, he pursued his degree under her very close supervision. One thing led to another, and a very unprofessional relationship cropped up between them, but considering the nature of said unprofessional relationship, no one, not a person, knew of the pair. Still, Gale was in love. Gale thought his love was returned. But during a project Mystra had forbade him to pursue, Gale, over-confident, had erred considerably, and for his troubles, found the netherese orb. Panicked, Gale went to Mystra, cursed tome held feverishly in his hands. Mystra, with cold eyes, told him she'd very plainly warned him, and without a care in the world, she took the book from his grasp, ended their relationship, and barred his growth. Now, Gale is chronically in pain, a deep throb pulsing around a cruelly-grooved chest. Mystra, of course, knows how to balm his ailment, but she very much believes one must live with their mistakes--and so, Gale, disillusioned, is left remarkably alone. He's living alone again. And his projects have been pulled. In fact, he's now no longer allowed to teach any field beyond illusion, and in the lowest point in his life, Gale is worn threadbare as anything, frustrated, confused, and incredibly stressed. Sensing a hostility between them, even the faculty can't help but to give their laughter. Now, they ask him where he'd scurry off to if not for Mystra's coat tails. Between that or the looks of passing sympathy, to be honest, Gale can't say which he hates more.

In a world without magic, the netherese orb isn't there to hurt him. Instead, Mystra breaks things off for his unauthorized research, something she calls a clear demonstration of his blatant disrespect. He has no book, and he has no magical ailment eating at his nerves. Rather, he'd rushed out of their then-shared home, clamoring into his car when she ordered him to leave. Utterly distraught and thoroughly distressed, it was shortly after this that Gale found himself struck by an inebriated driver, both glass and warped steel gnarling his chest. After some weeks, he'd recovered, of course, but not without a terrible scar above his sternum. Hurt flashes from it often, something in the manner of a phantom pain, and though finally recovered, Mystra's still barred him from progressing in his field. In fact, she'd not visited him once. Gale feels that keenly.

#MODERN VERSE. #I really got into this... It's my ONLY AU so y'know. Let me indulge. #You know I think I did a pretty good job translating all of Gale's story beats to a modern verse. Very pleased. (wrings my hands together) #I nerfed the netherese orb. We are just keeping that bad boy to chronic pain because Mystra isn't a goddess here... #Though I CAN play it as her still being a goddess. I am versatile. : ] But for now these are what I wrote up. #Mystra is maybe...10 years older? Smth like that. #Also a tangent but I had to write about Gale being groomed. I hate how obvious it is. #It's obvious in canon and yet some ppl still think he wasn't abused. When I write it out like THIS though I wonder how many can deny it