#Words From A Wanderer

[literally-fuck-it-all]

Despite the struggles you face, you’re beautiful. Continue to be reliable and transparent with your journey. The world sees you even when you feel invisible. Your willingness to love even after being discarded & forgotten is admirable. Be proud that you’ve grown to acknowledge your worth.

#words from a wanderer #alexandra elle #poetry #porch swing #fn needed this

[deuteragonist1]

Merthur really have it all huh. King and lionheart dynamic. Fucking hate at first sight then speedrun to trying to die for the other. Slow burn? Never heard of her. One of them wears gloves and one doesn't and I'm not even gonna bother to explain why that is top fucking tier. Lies and secrets that could bring about the doom of the kingdom. Obviously adore each other but will actually fucking die before saying it with actual words. The prince is a gigantic asshole who doesn't know how to show care or ask for attention like a person who had healthy emotional development as a child and oscillates between pulling pigtails and acting like an over-eager puppy or both at the same time. Domesticity levels previously unheard of. They canonically wear each other's clothes. One of them makes up words and the other promptly starts using them. Both are extremely into the other's specific brand of dumbassery. Their love language is fucking playing together. "I don't want you to change" fuck this fuck everything

#also i just thought about arthur using one of merlin's made-up words in front of uther at dinner or something #and uther is like come again???? #also i said hate at first sight but i'm pretty sure that was entirely one-sided #it came from merlin's side in case that wasn't clear #arthur got tingles from this peasant boy insulting him and didn't know how to deal with it so he threw him in the stocks #argue with the wall #when merlin isn't there he is just so fucking lost #imagine being a servant in camelot like #oh here's the king. wandering about the castle in his nightclothes again #checking corners for his daydrinking servant #again #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #bbc arthur #arthur pendragon #merthur

[moonilit]

I just love how if there was no enemy these fellas just go explore apparently

#This was the pic i got them all together they kinda wander #Gosh i love them my little friends #We need to write 100k words of dialogue for them immediately #If any fic doesn’t involve these guys in any form i will riot #They are a sit do not separate furina from her buddies!! #genshin impact #Furina

[twistedappletree]

me trying to explain the plot of Word of Honor to my friends: ok so 2 husbands lie to their adopted kid and tell him they have important shit to do then drop him off at daycare so they can go out, drink, be gay and do crime—

#I cannot explain plots to save my life lmfaoooo #word of honor #wen kexing #zhou zishu #wenzhou #zhang chengling #faraway wanderers #wuxia #chinese drama #cdrama #happy pride #disclaimer that I haven’t read the novel yet so I’m only going by what I know from the show ajdhajdj

[wander-over-the-words]

As awesome as it is to see the LGBTQ+ representation in the Baymax show (and it absolutely is), can I just give a shoutout to the fact that they also included - during the scene where Baymax is getting the period products - a dad getting period products for his daughter?

Way too often, I hear about how men should have nothing to do with periods and how they don’t wanna know when any of their period-having relatives hit their monthlies, and it is amazingly refreshing to see a dude casually recommending the period product that his daughter favours. It shouldn’t be, but it is, so thank you, Baymax show

#wandering over the words #Baymax #as someone who comes from a family #where two out of the three dudes I live with are all ''don't talk about periods'' #(one of whom is my oldest brother who has a daughter himself and refuses to discuss anything puberty related with her) #it put a BIG smile on my face when that dude popped up over Baymax's shoulder like that #Like goddamn not-period-havers it ain't gonna kill ya to buy someone products #Shoutout to that one dad #you're doing good

[kedreeva]

did u read the good omens book? if so, what are your thoughts on it compared to the tv series?

i followed u for the steddie posts but fell in love with ur meta too 💜

I did, but honestly they're separate entities unless I want to steal something specific for a fic. They're both good, for different reasons and in different ways. They are written by different men, literally and figuratively, about different subject matters, for different reasons. You can compare an apple to an apple blossom, but even though one became the other, and came from the same tree, doesn't mean they are the same thing anymore, nor does it mean one is better than the other.

That being said, I've only read the book once, and I've watched the show over a dozen times, most likely because I saw the show first and read the book second. I enjoyed the book, but I think it was probably a better read in its day, by people who were the target audience at the time, and who didn't just read about or know the context, but understood and lived it. I can't be that, I can't go back in time and read the book before the series, I can't go back and read it in a time where it would have meant what it was intended to mean to the world it was born into.

#probably not the answer you were looking for #and please believe i did enjoy both #the book tends to wander far more #it has a lot of tangents and addresses a lot of people #like the second set of horsemen #that had meaning but honestly not that much purpose to the main plotline #such that removing them entirely #didn't render the story any harder to understand #which i actually find fascinating from a writer perspective #since we're always told that every word and character and side story etc has to be essential #has to further the plot #has to be something that can't be removed and still have the story make sense #and then there's AO3 #where nothing has to be essential to anything other than what i want to read about in a given moment #and good omens the book kinda just put that stuff in the canon #so idk man it was a good book that had extras in it #good omens #asks #anon asks

[the-converse-high-top]

Would love to hear about potential parallel stories/lore in judaism 👁👁👁👁💞

i realized that i actually havent thought very in depth about parallels and themes in the bible in a LONG time but let me think...

one that jumped to the forefront of my mind is something that idk if its a theme/parallel or not, but it has to do with moses. in the torah (really in the talmud i think which is a bunch of rabbi's headcanons about the torah that were then accepted as canon later on), when moses was taken in by pharaoh a test was performed to see whether moses would overthrow him, and by extension whether he was safe to keep and raise. that test was to show baby moses two pots: one of gold and riches and one of hot coals, and whichever he grabbed would be indicative as to what kind of son he'd be. so obviously, being a baby, moses starts to go for the shiny stuff. but (so the story goes) since moses has plot armor an angel (of death [?]) reached out and moved his hand to the hot coals. this is important because not only did it secure his safety to grow up under pharaoh's watch, but it burned his hand, which he then put in his mouth which permanantly burned his tongue and gave him a lisp. now the lisp isnt really talked about much more until later on, and its kind of minor so i get why its often left out, but it changes the whole feeling of the story! because of the lisp, moses gets nervous to speak in front of pharaoh's mages, and so it's aaron who does the talking when they turn their staffs into snakes. it's aaron (iirc) who speaks to the hebrews and tells them the word of god. moses is the one who speaks directly to god and does his bidding in the stories, but aaron is the one who conveys the information. and AND i just remembered this continues!! it continues to be true that moses doesnt always tell his own story!! in the scientific world it is generally accepted that there are a few different authors/compilers of the torah, but in judaism there is one main accepted truth of how it was written with two endings: moses wrote the whole thing up until the last chapter when he was on mount sinai, writing down word for word what god told him to. the ending, though, changes because at the end of the bible moses dies there is a debate over whether moses wrote his own death before it happened (since god is omnipresent blah blah blah) or whether joshua took over for him after he died. if the latter is true, that would be the second time someone tells moses' story for him!! first aaron tells the mages and the hebrews who moses is and why he was sent to save them, and then joshua tells the story of his death and his exile from the holy land! there are THEMES and MOTIFS i can SEE THEM

i have no idea if this is what you were asking for but thank you for inviting me to infodump XD <3

#theres other stuff about moses too now that i think about it #i think this was just at the front of my mind since i just watched the prince of egypt last sunday lol #or whenever it was #i almost talked about something else and now i legitimately cant remember what it was #but if i flipped through im sure id remember more #oh i remember now it was how moses wasnt allowed to get into the holy land #even though he was the one chosen to deliver the hebrews #and even though the hebrews were forgiven time and time again #moses fucks up once when god was having a bad day or something #and boom exiled from the holy land #like my dude wanders the desert for 40 fucking years #cant you give him a break #themes and motifs my beloved <3 #im sorry this is so long this is kind of my word vomit #ty for asking <3 #id also love to talk on the server if thats easier just so you and me and jed can all talk at the same time lol (no pressure tho for real) #asks #alistair my beloved <3

[deadgayturtles]

— souviens-toi des jours passés // des chansons qu'on a chantées

happy barricade day <3

#les miserables #les amis #les mis 2012 #les mis #barricade day #my edits #enjolras #grantaire #courfeyrac #combeferre #jehan prouvaire #joly #bossuet #bahorel #feuilly #marius pontmercy #gavroche #the word flood is the original french version of drink with me if you can’t tell! i just thought it was fitting hehe #the quote at the bottom is from this wandering day from trop bc i’m doing a theme on ig where i edit every line of the song #anwww happy barricade day!!

[divinekangaroo]

rewatching S6 in bits and pieces for current fic and ahhhhhhhhhh but the whole Jack, Diana, Mosley and Lizzie final dinner is so *viscerally* fucking satisfying on every sensory and intellectual and emotional level of consumption.

#every single movement facial expression breath flick of an eye the choice of 'mosley' not 'mr mosley' #the way mosley says 'lizzie' for the first time #jack's buildup and his mad fucking innuendo just before diana and oswald show #particularly how every drink is taken and by whom and when #lizzie constantly holding herself back the entire time from Saying Something all these flinches and half-breaths #insane #INSANE #as much as the end of S3 is roaringly wrenchingly furiously emotionally good #this dinner is something else #this whole episode is pretty much something else though fffffffffffff #jack's patronising constant reference to tommy as if he's a much younger man/boy when you look at these two guys and jack looks younger?? #by design i am sure #in the scene with the tie before the dinner.the way tommy's face says one thing while facing away from lizzie #then he puts on that mask as he turns to face her and you can SEE HIM DO THAT jesus #it would a writing exercise and a half to actually try to capture that scene in writing and work out what needs to be said/described #to carry the same effect because @coffeeatnight23 -> this scene is totally Tommy ripping his own heart out then eating it with relish :) #it *is* the saddest thing but also a fucking *reclamation* of something that tommy hasn't had since his suicide attempt. there's lots of #small reclamations of self that happen in post-Ruby S6 i seem to recall. despite flicks old trauma/foggy memory wandering also this- #-sort of structural shift/acceptance he is who he is and that is how he has agency (not solely money?) #anyway it's not triumph but there is *something* that i haven't found the word for yet #acceptance is one word but there's something more vicarious and dark in it that acceptance doesn't connote

[noriee404]

‘Do you even know how to wear it?’

#lumine wore this kasa hat in one of the hoyofair vids i fell in love with thaat #sorry im just so happy to draw them #i cant really put into words which dynamic i mean #like they are really annoying when talk #with no power imbalance #like they are just both equally silly #but when silent they are really understanding like yk #both struggle from abandonment issues lol #scaralumi #scaralumine #wanderlumi #scaramouche #scaramouche x lumine #lumine #wanderer #genshin fanart #genshin art #scaramouche art #wanderer art #lumine art #fanart #genshin impact #genshin #my art #art

[etiketka-ot-banana]

some guy and his unfinished husband

#Harold is from video #it's an accident I swear :D #artists on tumblr #my art #vector art #word of honor #faraway wanderers #tian ya ke #wenzhou #zhou zishu #wen kexing #далекие странники #веньчжоу #чжоу цзышу #вэнь кэсин #work in progress #wip

[goldencorecrunches]

the most important thing to know about zhou zishu and jing beiyuan is that they saw each other when they were 15 and were like "lmfao that's one depressed bastard" and they've been best friends ever since

#also that they've fucked #i don't need to die on this hill because they both have already. but i Would. im Prepared To #word of honor #qi ye #jing beiyuan #zhou zishu #not mdzs #really it's hard to wrap my head around coming from woh and then the faraway wanderers novel first #and then jby's narration in qi ye but #zzs being a depressed bastard was. not common knowledge. im. almost certain. right #we know jby was hiding it #but zzs is consistently described as unreadable. or as charming.... #we know he has his third rate nobleman persona..... #/WE/ know his backstory and his mess but..... #anyway. love them 💜💙❤️ #do murder together besties. don't let the prince run you ragged.

[edaworks]

Can’t I get at least one goddamn drink in me before y’all start a barfight? Christ…

My LW, Ben Jamison. He just wants to have a cold one in peace, is that so much to ask?

#big time vibes these past couple of days #yo I’m here for an ice cold pint of Content #hard to drink with the bar brawl in the background and half the patrons chucking the furniture around #y’all just #have a drink #and remember: #not every disagreement is a personal attack and not every anon ask is from whomever the suspect du jour happens to be #in the immortal words of Judge Kozinski: the parties are advised to chill #ben jamison #lone wanderer #oneifbyland #fallout #fallout new vegas #fallout 3 #fallout 4 #benjamin jamison #eda draws

[bonefall]

Tribe of Rushing Water Redux

It’s probably impossible to completely "fix” the Tribe, but here’s my attempt at making it a fully realized culture from which the clans broke off from, instead of a primitive imitation.

Notably, the Tribe is actually the root of cat civilization in this geographical area. The Sisters, the Guardians, and the Clans could all trace their histories to the Tribe, many, many generations ago.

Living

First of all, there are now three different ‘colonies‘ on the mountain, all of them touching the river that flows from the cave spring. There’s the Cave Wards which is the one seen in the books, the Stone Wards down the waterfall, and the Valley Wards at the foot of the mountain facing the lake territory.

A colony is to a Ward what a camp is to a Clan, only with much higher populations. There are no boundaries and cats move freely between colonies. Only the Cave is closely guarded; reserved for Tribe members, grand celebrations, and honored guests.

Combined, the three Wards make up the collective known as the Tribe of Rushing Water, because of their shared connection to the waterfall.

Hunting

The Cave Guard and Prey Hunter roles have been eliminated completely. The path of a To-Be is not decided in childhood. Instead, there are many types of specialized hunter, and a To-Be spends their adolescence learning from many different cats.

The mountain has a bounty of species, so cats typically live in the camp closest to their chosen prey’s habitats. In its rivers are crayfish, char, ducks. In the caves are bats and insects. Eagles roost in the peaks, and twolegs leave their sheep out to graze. The terrain makes hunting hard and risky, but provides enough to support many skillful hunters, if they work together.

Eagle and sheep hunters take on the most difficult, dangerous, and rewarding prey the highlands have to offer, and are highly respected as a result. Such cats are usually trained after they’re already accomplished hunters of more common prey.

As a result of this extreme cultural emphasis on hunting, they do not have ‘fighters.‘ Attacking other cats is a massive taboo, akin to making prey out of them. Most insults involve telling another cat to starve or be hungry, and implying that no one will hunt for them when they’re old.

Healing and Spirituality

There is still one Stoneteller; but the Tribe is democratic. Stoneteller is technically a religious figure, not a political one.

There is a fleet of medics, and the Stoneteller has a constant stream of cats visiting them to learn or seek advice. For this purpose, the Teller of the Pointed Stones relinquishes their mortal name, and accepts a special power from the Tribe of Endless Hunting; they’re completely invulnerable to illness, heat, hunger, and cold, and their ancestors can speak through their body.

The new Stoneteller does not need to be trained for their role. As soon as the old Stoneteller passes away, the oldest medic accepts the role and is trained by the old Stoneteller’s spirit.

Death comes for this nearly invulnerable cat only after their body completely stops working. Being killed is the only way to end a Stoneteller’s tenure early; and it’s an ‘early‘ death if these cats die in their 20s; average age of death is mid-30s.

Conflict

This is the hardest part for me. Up until this point I’ve just been building the culture out, but one of the worst problems of the books was the fact the Tribe was unable to sustain itself and the Clans had to rush in and save them from nearly everything, particularly physical threats like invaders and Sharptooth. I’m not sure how to tackle that from within the Tribe without also making the Tribe a battle culture...

And, well, I don’t want to do that. I’d like for the Tribe to remain a largely peaceful entity that’s been kept safe for surviving in such a harsh environment that simply doesn’t get invaded often... They have an emphasis on cooperation and hunting, not combat. I do NOT want to ‘fix‘ them by making them into a 6th clan.

That said, I don’t want to completely remove TNP’s Sharptooth or PO3′s Tribe Invasion plotlines either. The Tribe and Clan should be equal, and that does mean that Clan cats have a skill the Tribe cats don’t, just as the Tribe has skills the Clan cats don’t.

So... below are my working ideas.

The Tribe is more connected to the Clans for a while, sending a few of their numerous medics to help teach the medicine cats about their new environment, even lending a hunter or two. For Flick’s invaders, they request combat aid on purpose, not because they’ll be destroyed without the Clans, but because they’ll be a big help. And for Sharptooth? He was a supernatural force, not a random cougar in England the Tribe inexplicably couldn’t deal with.

KEEP IN MIND these are working ideas. If these ideas still invoke discomfort in a way I can still fix without just straight up deleting the Tribe, I’m extremely open to changes here.

Sharptooth

oh fugg a gougar

Sharptooth is a curse, and the newest mortal form of the creation deity who previously appeared as One Eye at the Dawn of the Clans. The Tribe has killed him several times before (possibly in different forms- a hog, a bear, a human), but not before Sharptooth slaughters several hunters. “A Silver Warrior“ is fated to break this cycle.

What they DON’T know is that by ‘breaking the cycle‘ this just means that Sharptooth’s next target is going to become the Clans (either the Tribe didn’t know either, or Stoneteller purposefully didn’t relay that half of the prophecy to anyone). He is a god and doesn’t die like mortals do. The cat who landed the final blow on One Eye was from the mountains; so he haunted the mountains. Since Feathertail was from the clans, he will now haunt the clans.

But anyway, that’s a plot device for me to hold onto. I’m undecided on if this means he’ll haunt the Lake or the Forest from now on; either way it’s moot because he wouldn’t be back for several series’ worth of books and I hopefully won’t still be in this fandom in 30 real, additional human years

hopefully

Flick’s Rogues

After training the clan’s medicine cats, the medics of the Tribe and their hunters leave for home; but are followed by a group of rogues. The Tribe is open to welcoming outsiders, but the rogues set down borders, stole prey from hunters, and eventually attacked the Valley Colony directly; forcing its cats to retreat up-stream.

The Stone and Cave Wards are able to defend their positions, and given enough time they’d outlast and drive the invaders out, but why risk so many lives to do it alone? The Tribe votes to request the help of the Clans knowing their whole culture revolves around warfare and they’d be good at handling this sort of thing.

After all, what else are allies for? The Clans are taken aback by the boldness of just... asking for help (as their culture obviously has an issue with ‘admitting weakness’) but they won’t say no. In fact, they’re a bit taken aback by the way the Tribe is so relaxed about the whole thing; RiverClan and ThunderClan fought a multi-generational war over some rocks and the Stone Wards are ready to play the long game and wait for winter to freeze their enemies to death.

“Why even ask for help if you have it covered?“

“...why would we not? We could just wait, but we’d have to hunt twice as hard on the rest of our land, and we don’t want them to suffer and die over several months either if you can just help us send them on their way.“

Anyway, that’s what I’m planning thus far. It’s particularly difficult to not just completely nuke the Tribe, but here it is, gutted with its bones completely intact. STILL, if anyone has input or ideas or thinks a particular aspect is still sus, hit me up and I’ll do what I can to fix it.

#The Tribe of Rushing Water #Warrior cats #The Tribe #Bonefall Rewrite #For the record I also just completely avoided taking any inspiration from any culture #I worked backwards from the Clans and tried to make something closer to the Ancient Lake Cat culture seen in Jayfeather's dreams #So they're democratic (casting stones) and have a really loose apprentice system #And in contrast to the Clan's combat specialty the Tribe has a hunting specialty #Also I picked the word ward specifically to hopefully invoke images of a game warden #Linguistically it's also close to Guard which is close to Guardian to imply a relation to the cats Tigerheart and Dovewing met in the ruins #The evolution went something like Guard = Ward + Colony = Clan #And the sisters are descended from medics who broke off and wander #Tribe of Rushing Water #Clan Culture

[bectheturtle]

Me when. Me when In Stars and Time where the themes of the story are irreparably wrapped up in the character's deep set loneliness and self loathing

#i was going to make a much longer post about how self loathing is such a consistent theme is isat #and how Loop is such a perfect twist character reflecting all that self loathing back unto themselves; getting to look from the outside in #and how Siffrin is i think the most perfectly fitting protag I've ever seen for a story's themes #just ough. the timeloop is interwoven with who Siffrin is and they cannot be untied #but when i tried to write it the words got all scrambled in my brain. so yeag #oh my god and dont even get me started on how siffrin's loneliness ties directly into how they can't remember their home at all #and feel a permanent sense of wandering #and mal du pays also!!!! back to the self loathing!! i forgot about mal du pays as the literal manifestation of siffrin's self loathing!!! #just. god i love this game it's brilliantly tied together #isat spoilers

[evilkaeya]

meursault girlies but it's a modern au and they're paranormal investigators

#nikolai came up w the idea #they're all college students and have nothing better to do #sigma does. he got dragged into this against his will. #dazai believes ghosts exist #fyodors knows they exist #nikolai wants proof to believe that they exist #chuuya thinks they exist but would neverr admit it out loud #sigma is neutral about it but also knows it's stupid to wander in abandoned places #instead of making videos they do livestreams #'adds to the thrill' in nikolais words #also established skk as bonus #them secretly holding hands in the bg and the viewers are like we see u btw #dazai not returning from a solo investigation and chuuya is worried sick #10 mins later hes back covered in cobwebs and goes i got stuck in the attic entrance it was too small #idk what this is but i kinda wanna write it