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tokiro07 · 2 years

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As a follow-up to my @jelloapocalypse-inspired post about the precedent set by Gen 2 and 6 for the proportion of Pokemon needed to justify a new type, I started thinking about the fact that the only existing Pokemon that were reclassified between Generations 1 and 2 were Magnemite and Magneton

So...what if enough Pokemon had been reclassified to Steel and Dark that both types made up >4.5% of the 251 present at the time?

To reiterate from my previous post, the required number was 11, and Steel and Dark both introduced 6 for a total of 12, so my goal is to find at least 5 Gen 1 Pokemon to reclassify for each type. To that end, I’m going to go down the list of Gen 1 Pokemon, read through their Pokedex entries, and note the ones that I think are interesting candidates, whether or not I decide the actually use them

Note: Since I imagine the decision not to reclassify most Gen 1 Pokemon was pretty deliberate, I’m going to play this pretty fast and loose and literally take everything I can get. If there is any trace of metal, it’s gonna be Steel type. If it’s in any way malicious, it’s Dark (since Dark is the Evil type in Japanese)

Right off the bat, that gives us Charmeleon/Charizard as Fire/Dark and Blastoise as Water/Steel. Charmeleon is explicitly described as vicious and merciless in its Stadium and Ruby/Sapphire Pokedex entries, and Charizard is battle-crazed and prone to becoming furious (R/S and Gold respectively), so while these traits may not have been prominent enough for the Pokemon company to qualify them as Dark at the time, they work fine for our purposes today (2/5 Dark)

Blastoise is a little more obvious with its literal cannons. They probably aren’t meant to be made of metal and are more likely keratinous like its shell, but they look metal, so we’re counting it. Blastoise’s Red and Blue entry describes it as brutal, so it could also have been Dark, but the Charizard family has a strong reputation for having a nasty attitude thanks to the anime, so they work a lot better in that regard (1/5 Steel)

Arbok is said to be vengeful (Silver), and its pattern is explicitly meant to instill fear (R/B and on), so while warning coloration doesn’t at all speak to having an evil personality, we can call Arbok Poison/Dark (3/5 Dark)

Nidorino is aggressive and has a violent disposition (R/B and Black/White respectively), so it could be Poison/Dark, but I hesitate to either A) make a second Poison/Dark or B) reclassify the Poison/Ground Nidoking since it and Nidoqueen are the only Pokemon of that combination. This is a bit of a shame, since Nidoking is known to go on unstoppable rampages (R/S), but I don’t want to compromise Poison/Ground for another Poison/Dark. What I would be willing to compromise that combo for would be Poison/Steel, which COULD work if we wanted to be really pedantic since its Yellow entry says its hide is steel-like. However, this is clearly metaphorical and meant to illustrate how hard its skin is, not to imply that there is literal steel in Nidoking’s armor. It would be cool for Nidoking and Nidoqueen to be Poison/Steel and Poison/Ground respectively since that would be a neat way to further differentiate them while still demonstrating their similarities, but again, it’s not literal, so unless we absolutely need to, we won’t bother with this one

Golbat’s gluttonous desire for blood could definitely work for Dark (R/B and on), but again, I don’t quite think that justifies another Poison/Dark. I also don’t want to make it Dark/Flying over Poison/Flying because not only did Gen 2 already have Murkrow, but there is literally no other Poison/Flying type in the entire franchise. I do think that GameFreak should have actually referenced its Poison in its Pokedex entries, but whatever

Meowth is...an interesting case. It has a metallic coin on its head, so I think that it could feasibly have been Steel type, but Persian has a gemstone instead, so it definitely wouldn’t carry over. They both definitely could have been Dark as well, with Meowth’s love of coins and shiny objects being interpretable as it being a thief and Persian being notoriously mean-spirited and barbaric (R/S and Crystal), but the problem here...is that Meowth eventually received regional forms that took inspiration from both of these aspects. To preserve the uniqueness of the different forms, I can’t in any good conscience reclassify Kanto Meowth and Persian, no matter how much sense it would make

Mankey and Primeape are probably our best bet for Dark type, being some of the most famously ill-tempered and rage-prone Pokemon, to the point that they were actually the second Pokemon I thought of for this post (I’ll get to the first later). I will say, though, that Primeape could also have been Fighting/Steel since it seems to wear metal shackles (speculated on Bulbapedia to be for weight training), but I don’t think it would do for Mankey to be Fighting/Dark and Primeape to be Fighting/Steel, so we’re going with Fighting/Dark here (5/5 Dark)

To make up for ignoring Primeape’s shackles, we then run into Kadabra and Alakazam who wield metal spoons that they somehow are able to conjure (Alakazam’s Platinum entry), implying at least a minor ferrogenesis ability. Technically the spoons are silver, but Copperajah is a Steel type because it’s covered in copper, so I’m pretty confident that “Steel” type can cover any type of metal. Therefore, since the Abra line has only ever been shown being able to conjure metal and no other substance, I think we can qualify them as being Steel types (3/5 Steel)

Dodrio is known for using its three heads to collect data for enhanced strategizing (Stadium), so one could potentially make the argument that they’re sneaky or crafty, but that’s not really evil and we’ve already hit 5 for Dark. It’s one that could work with some stretching, but not one I think is necessary at the moment

Though the substance of their shell isn’t stated, Shellder and Cloyster are noted for having extremely hard shells that could reasonably qualify them for being Steel types. I realized while looking into them that another Gen 2 Steel Pokemon, Forretress, doesn’t even look like a Steel type, it just looks like it has a normal shell the same way that Cloyster does. Interestingly, Forretress’ Gold entry only refers to its shell as being “steel-hard,” implying that it is as hard as steel and not literally made of steel. Given that it’s a Steel type, I think it can be taken at face value that it is in fact made of steel, but the language used isn’t much different from that used to refer to Nidoking’s armor. Therefore, Shellder and Cloyster’s shells that are “harder-than-diamond” (Staidum and Yellow) could reasonably be qualified as Steel if you really want. The issue is that Shellder is pure Water and Cloyster is Water/Ice, so I’m not sure how to reclassify them. I don’t want Cloyster to be Water/Steel since we already have that with Blastoise, and Ice is such a rare type in general. I suppose we could do Water/Steel into Ice/Steel, but this is all hypothetical anyway, so we won’t worry too much about it (5/5 Steel)

Gengar is known for being a prankster and mocking people it victimizes (R/B), behavior that is generally extrapolated to the rest of its line, so the entire line could be justified as Dark, but I’m not willing to sacrifice Ghost/Poison, so we’ll consider it more of a tertiary type than anything else

Hypno has a metal ring the same way that Kadabra does, but it’s not quite as prominent as Kadabra’s spoon and it’d be a bit redundant to have another Psychic/Steel. However, Drowzee and Hypno both have a reputation for being creepy, with the former stealing good dreams and the latter being rumored to kidnap children (FireRed, but I’m pretty sure it was mentioned before that too), so I think it’d be fair for them to have been Psychic/Dark (7/5 Dark)

Voltorb and Electrode are supposedly made from the same material as Pokeballs. which as far as I can find don’t have an established material. I’ve seen some people suggest that they’re made of plastic (being cheap and effectively toys), glass (like the housing for wires in transformers), and metal (since they house holographic reflectors that generate a miniature world for the Pokemon they catch), so any of those are possible. Since we don’t currently know which is the case, we can reasonably say it’s metal without contradicting established canon. Therefore, both could have been Electric/Steel, though I think the reason they didn’t do that originally is because they had already done so with Magnemite (7/5 Steel)

Now for the Pokemon that inspired this whole thing: Electabuzz. I’ve always thought that Electabuzz, with its reputation for aggression (mostly from the anime) and being inspired by oni would have been perfect for being the first Dark type. Its Pokedex entries don’t really imply anything malicious, with its “worst” feature being that it steals electricity and causes blackouts, but that’s definitely just because it’s an animal and is seeking out its preferred food. If I had to guess, I would say the reason it didn’t get reclassified was so it wouldn’t be too differentiated from its counterpart, Magmar, which is pure Fire. Still, I think it fits quite well, so I’m counting it. However, I do think that Elekid would remain pure Electric (8/5 Dark)

Pinsir’s Pokedex descriptions don’t really imply anything about its personality, but it’s got a scary face, and watching it in the anime it always felt like it could be Dark to me. It works especially well because it’s considered a counterpart to Heracross, which is Bug/Fighting. Having Pinsir be Bug/Dark would make their relationship a little more interesting in my opinion (9/5 Dark)

Tauros, similar to Primeape, is nearly always furious and famously violent, as this is brought up to some capacity in effectively all of its Pokedex entries. If we’re going to count Primeape as Dark because of its rage, I think it’s only fair we do so for Tauros, possibly as Normal/Dark (10/5 Dark)

Along the same lines, the single most famously rage-filled Pokemon has to be Gyarados, to the point that it’s known to evolve from sheer rage. While Electabuzz is my first pick, Gyarados is by far the most appropriate. Had this list been made earlier, I definitely would have suggested Gyarados be reclassified as Water/Dark. There’s just one problem: GameFreak made that its Mega Evolution. I assume that this was because GameFreak realized that rage was a valid trait for Dark type (its Mega Evolution is defined by Gyarados following its “destructive instincts” according to Sun) and wanted to rectify Gyarados’ double weakness to Electric, so they took the opportunity. Still, I don’t want to retroactively invalidate the Mega, so we’re not going to give Gyarados Dark even if it makes a ton of sense to do so

And with that we’ve come to the end of the Gen 1 Pokedex that would have made at least some sense to reclassify, giving us a total of 10 Dark and 7 Steel. On top of the existing six of each, that gives us 16 and 13, plenty more than the 11 we set out for

TL;DR: to reach >4.5% Dark and Steel type representation among the 251 Pokemon present in Gen 2, we would need to reclassify at least 5 more Gen 1 Pokemon to each of those types. The best candidates I could find were as follows -

Dark:

Charmeleon - vicious nature

Charizard - battle-crazed

Arbok - vengeful; inspires fear with its markings

Mankey - quick to rage

Primeape - relentless pursuit of targets

Drowzee - eats dreams, both good and bad

Hypno - believes to kidnap children

Electabuzz - oni, known to be violent, causes blackouts

Pinsir - scary-looking, violent

Tauros - famously violent

Steel:

Blastoise - metal cannons

Kadabra - conjures metal spoons

Alakazam - spoons

Shellder - shell is harder than diamonds (precedent set by Forretress)

Cloyster - shell

Voltorb - likely made at least in part of metal

Electrode - may be metal

I considered Meowth and Gyarados, but both are already associated with one or both types for various reasons. Nidoking could have worked for either, but its current type is too unique to tamper with. Gengar works extremely well for Dark, but is also too unique. Dodrio could have worked for Dark in a pinch, but the connection was far too subtle for me

I’m a little hesitant to reclassify starters, but Blastoise makes too much sense not to make Steel, and honestly I think people would have been super excited at the time to see Charizard lose a double weakness to Rock and gain immunity to Psychic

As a final note, I do also think that Feraligator should have been a Dark type for its savagery and iconic bite (Bite is a Dark move for crying out loud), but that’s not the point of this post

If you have your own interpretations on how other Pokemon could have been reclassified at the time, I’d love to hear them!

#pokemon #pokemon types #jelloapocalypse #long post

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enbyboiwonder · 3 years

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idk when I’ll finally finish going through all my drafts (that aren’t just original posts saved to finish and/or queue later), but at least I finally have fewer drafts than followers again lmao

#and i have 251 followers which may not be a lot but it is a lot of drafts #i'm back down to 244 rn #though 40+ of them are dq and will periodically be going into the queue #i only queue the next day's 2 ops tho bc i have my queue in a certain order and tumblr likes to mess it up when i try to reorder anything #it's annoying as hell #mine

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therealvinelle · 3 years

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Hi, I was reading a post here in Tumblr about how Edward has two gifts, he can hear thoughts and is super fast, so I wonder what is your opinion about this topic?.

Furthermore, what others power might the Volturi's leaders and guards might have?

Edward has one gift, and it’s telepathy. Being fast isn’t a gift.

Strength, speed and even senses is varied among vampires. Some, like Emmett, are on the extreme end, but that doesn’t make Emmett gifted, nor does it mean that the rest are at an equal level. The Cullens have clear variations between them.

Physique appears to play a dominant role in how these variations play out: Alice, who was malnourished and never made it past 4′10″, is the physically weakest of the coven, while Emmett at 6′5″ and a mountain of muscles is the strongest. This is made very clear during the baseball game:

“Emmett was hovering close to third (base), knowing that Alice didn’t have the muscle to outstrip Rosalie’s fielding." (Midnight Sun, chapter The Game)

There’s also the fact that it’s taken for granted that Emmett would be intimidating to other vampires, and he is dismayed when James is more worried about Jasper, who is lean.

I suspect this disparity exists simply because a large frame means more tissue to have blood in. Newborns, animal, and human-eating vampires all having a difference in terms of strength is proof that blood has the final say in a vampire’s prowess, so Emmett being able to contain more of it than Alice and therefore being stronger makes sense to me.

This isn’t the meta for me to get into that, but I don’t think vampires have muscles in the sense we do. Or rather, we can’t know that they do. Renesmée is proof that Edward retains his human DNA, or she would be a clone of Bella. Nahuel is proof that Joham retains a Y-chromosome. Does this mean that vampires have different cell types? Does a vampire’s stone-like skin still contain human DNA? One would think yes - except, if you rip a vampire apart, you get rubble. The parts are all solid. There’s also Carlisle theorizing that vampires digest blood by absorbing it through porous tissue, which makes me wonder why he dismissed his digestive system (my guess: vivisection fun times with Aro in Volterra. Carlisle couldn’t have done it on his own, and Aro is the only one mad and curious enough to be down for that). I’m getting off-topic - what I’m saying is, we don’t know how vampires work, meaning I can’t build this meta off of the assumption that they have muscles. I simply can’t know for sure that they do.

The important thing is that a vampire’s physique is a deciding factor in how strong they are.

There’s also Laurent’s warning about James, that he has “unparalleled senses”, meaning some vampires are better at sight, hearing, and smell than others. I can believe that, because we have canon examples of vampires being bad at tracking.

There’s Edward in Port Angeles, who couldn’t track Bella’s, his singer, scent to her location, and (I admit this one is conjecture but it’s so probable that I say it goes) Carlisle’s creator, who after taking care of the mob must have realized he’d bitten one of the humans, meaning a newborn would soon be loose in London. This is punishable by death by the Volturi. The fact that he didn’t return to finish Carlisle off means that he was unable to find him. I remind the audience that Carlisle was bleeding and suffering the effects by a venom intended to paralyze the victim. To put it this way, Carlisle wouldn’t have survived James, or anybody with a trace of tracking competence. By comparison, Carlisle was able to locate a dying Rosalie by the smell of her blood, even though there wouldn’t have been a trail for him to follow, as her body had not been moved.

When it comes to these disparities in strength and speed among the Volturi, I imagine Jane and Alec are the physically weakest members of the guard, and among the slowest. They’re prepubescent, meaning no muscle for them, and their height (a humble 4′8″ and 4′10″) implies very short legs. They’re simply not going to get as far as an adult would, not in the same number of steps. Renata at 5′0″ is another tiny vampire lady who likely isn’t very strong or fast.

That’s not to say I think these physically weaker members of the Volturi guard are necessarily useless in hand-to-hand combat, Alec at least is a boy stuck in a playful age, and the males around him are trained warriors. He’s probably picked up a few things over the years.

As for the others, Aro is described as frail-looking, which hints at him being quite thin. I don’t think he’s weak, if he couldn’t win a fight he wouldn’t be around, but I do think he’s probably below average in terms of strength. Caius I picture as a Harrison Ford type, so of course I’m gonna think he’s a bit burly, but this is me headcanoning and not actually hinted at in canon. Marcus is 19, so I imagine he can only be so strong.

Back to Edward’s speed.

He’s a 6′2″ teen, that’s code for “very long legs”, though I’m actually going to go ahead and posit that he’s not actually that fast. Strap in for this next part:

The guy was a teenager who lay dying for an undisclosed amount of time. The fact that Carlisle had the time to get to know his mother points to a few weeks, at least. And Edward was very ill:

Elizabeth worried obsessively over her son. She hurt her own chances of survival trying to nurse him from her sickbed. I expected that he would go first, he was so much worse off than she was. (New Moon, page 21)

Muscles atrophy quickly, never more so than when you’re a teen ravaged by fever, on your deathbed. And as I’ve explained above, I think your physique in life ties directly into your vampiric prowess.

I think Edward is certainly the physically weakest of the male Cullens, quite likely weaker than Rosalie as well, maybe even Esme.

Now, speed is not the same as strength. However, for humans, the two are connected. It’s the muscle fibers in our legs that determine our speed. Basically, type I fibers make an enduring runner, type II fibers make a speed runner. So, assuming that vampires retain their human musculature, one could argue that Edward had a lot of type II in life. However, Carlisle when he was human was able to outrun the mob he was with:

He ran through the streets, and Carlisle — he was twenty-three and very fast — was in the lead of the pursuit. (Twilight, page 158)

Carlisle clearly had a lot of type II fibers, and unlike Edward he was in peak physical condition when he died. He was also an adult who’d had more time to develop musculature, while Edward was a seventeen-year-old. If musculature was a deciding factor, one would think they would at the very least be of equal speed, though realistically Edward should be slower.

So, if it’s not muscles, what is it that makes Edward faster than the others?

It could be a matter of technique. Except, the way Bella describes movement when she wakes up as a vampire, it’s all very automated. Her body knows exactly how to do everything, and executes it without much input from her:

After that first frozen second of shock, my body responded to the unfamiliar touch in a way that shocked me even more.

Air hissed up my throat, spitting through my clenched teeth with a low, menacing sound like a swarm of bees. Before the sound was out, my muscles bunched and arched, twisting away from the unknown. I flipped off my back in a spin so fast it should have turned the room into an incomprehensible blur—but it did not. I saw every dust mote, every splinter in the wood-paneled walls, every loose thread in microscopic detail as my eyes whirled past them.

So by the time I found myself crouched against the wall defensively—about a sixteenth of a second later—I already understood what had startled me, and that I had overreacted. (Breaking Dawn, page 251-252)

Growling, crouching - those are all distinctly vampiric, non-human ways to act. Bella didn’t learn this, her body knew it of its own accord. When she later runs, she explains it as happening the same way - she just does it.

The way Bella experiences it, vampiric movement is like a package she downloaded, and that executes her instinctual commands with no need for her to actually know how to do any of this. Her grace is another example of this - Bella Swan may be in charge of her own consciousness, but the venom is entirely in control of her body.

Given these facts, I don’t think it’s technique that makes Edward a better runner than others. His technique is likely similar to everyone else’s. If it isn’t, if technique is what makes the difference, then who is and isn’t fast is an arbitrary process.

With that, we get to my controversial theory about why Edward is the fastest Cullen: he’s not.

Running and being fast is the only thing about vampirism that Edward enjoys. This is for another meta, but Edward is extremely depressed about every single other bit of it. Every aspect of being a vampire torments him.

Except the running. He enjoys all of it, especially being the fastest, so much. And as a newborn, he would have been faster than Carlisle.

But after that, when his newborn strength faded…

I honestly think that Carlisle decided to just slow down a bit when running with him, let Edward have this. It’s no skin of his back, and it makes Edward happy, so why not.

Esme joins the family, and of course she would be down for this. Nothing is more parental, more maternal, than losing at checkers to make your child happy, after all. Could also be she’s not very fast herself, but even if she were then she would downplay it to make Edward feel like Jesse Owens.

Enter Rosalie, who would think it’s completely ridiculous, yes, but she would also recognize this excellent opportunity to call in a big favor from Carlisle later on. There’s also the fact that I think Carlisle has a gift (yes, yes, meta is coming, people) that makes him very persuasive people. And also that for all that Rose gets a lot of bad rep, she is very generous and loves her family, if being fast makes Edward happy then alright.

Emmett is an easy-going guy, he goes along with things. Alice adores Edward and would go along with it. She also has tiny matchstick legs and couldn’t outrun him if she tried. Jasper could not care less.

Bella does get outrun by Edward after waking up, but she also did zero exercise in life (listing this in case musculature matter), had Renesmée devour her from within rendering her emaciated, and then died like a slasher movie murder victim. There’s not a lot of blood in her, and what little blood there is doesn’t have a lot to work with. She does defeat Emmett at arm wrestling, so I’ll concede that. However, there are enough extenuating circumstances surrounding Bella that I think my “Edward isn’t that fast” theory survives his ability to outrun her.

So, I believe Edward is the fast Cullen because Carlisle told a white lie in 1919, no one ever corrected that, and now it’s too late.

#tumblr ate this ask and i had to spend twice as long writing it #i'm dying #edward cullen #carlisle cullen #volturi #alec #twilight vampires #twilight meta #twilight renaissance #twilight #long post #Anonymous #ask #edward speed debacle

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Tag 9 people you want to get to know better

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this probably matters zero bc i always have a 300 post queue but if we're mutuals and you wonder why I'm ignoring your posts and have suddenly not been annoying, i just refuse to waste my data plan on tumblr till the wifi at home gets fixed

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I was tagged by @aquafinha to do this (thank you Katie🥰💖)

1. Why did you choose your url?:

for a long time my personal brand was the friend that loved glitter vfx and makeup in general, ofc i would go all out and leave trails of glitter everywhere lmao also i like having a url that is recognizable but not fandom affiliated

2. Any side blogs?:

yes lmao so many but the active ones are only @ellavaday for rpdr stuff, @ccantaloup for cute animal videos food and reminders to be kind to yourself (it is where a lot of... not particularly good stuff used to be documented and instead of deleting it i decided to rebrand it and keep it as a reminder to myself) and @ateneawrites for fic writing (this one's a baby and it's brand new bc i haven't written for fun in a good 6 years, i'm rusty but definitely having fun at least)

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2010ish

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nope, y'all gotta figure out if i'm online or not by yourselves lmao (it's not hard i usually blog a lot of things in a row when i'm online vs one post every half an hour when i'm not)

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i had just moved to a new continent and didn't have many friends and was bored

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because i lost my old one😭 i put a cute pic of a ghost for halloween and lost the one i had before of a bottle shaped like a heart that said poison 😔 the one i currently have just looked okay with the no header look i like on mobile

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i don't like the look of headers 😬

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in this blog? It's buried bc this blog is old as sin but it's either a post about leon orcot from psoh or effie trinket from thg, rn it's a screenshot of choriza may's last look on the rpdr runway because this might not be the drag race blog but the stickers of a peach with "chocho" written on it definitely belongs to this blog lmao

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probably about a hundred-ish but i am not sure since the rpdr blog is quite more popular than my main

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this blog has about 1.1k and the drag race blog has about 4.8k followers (which is absolutely insane but most of those have to be inactive by now tbh.. that sideblog exploded when i first made it bc of t&k), fully have no clue about the other ones but those are the ones i frequent the most

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have i made anything but shitposts?

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i started to check it daily again just recently, kind of left it abandoned in 2017 but i'm here probably more often than i should currently

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love those too!

my favorite thing is the mutuals that will send you things to your ask box unprompted too btw or play things like "assign me a time period in history" or a dessert (@msaudreyanne @woodswit @jackredfieldwasmyjacob are probably some of my favorite people to follow bc of those things)

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if we go by "people that represent their fandom" i think I'd be remiss not to add @goldenliartrash and @sapphicfolch to the list (hello ministericos how are we doing) and then @ellanainthetardis (or hayffie fanfiction god) and @junosjukebox and @veronicasanders (for rpdr fanfiction specifically)

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Obsessed with these stickers, i too would like a giant peach sticker that says chocho

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I just saw your ring headcanons - headcanons accepteddddd. can you do ones about how they propose mabye

(Apologies for the late reply.) OK, this one will be an interesting one. Give me a moment to think.

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Egon Spengler

Who Proposes: Egon

Time Dating: Probably a year or more

Where: Probably at a museum or something

How: He would get down on one knee, of course. He would take her hand, express how he’s fond of her in his own unique way such as ‘I am tolerating your presence more and more and am accustomed to your specific energy field within my personal boundaries’. (Which would probably be offensive to some.)

It would have to be planned and done right. Of course, convincing him it’s a good idea might take a while. But he’s not 100% against it. Though, the logistics of it all do worry him. The cost, in particular.

Peter Venkman

Who: Peter... Reluctantly. Possibly Rae if she needed to.

Time Dating: Probably a long time

Where: Pizza place? Burger joint? Maybe even on a mission during an argument about commitment

How: He wouldn’t get on one knee at first. It would probably take a while to even convince him it’s a good idea and that she wants it. It would no doubt cause many arguments between them which would probably result in him yelling ‘nuts to it’ and proposing on the spot because of the frequency.

Eventually, after sulking a bit, he would produce a ring and get on one knee to do it right, but only in private.

Winston Zeddemore

Who: Winston

Time Dating: 10 months or so

Where: Either a restaurant, or a sports venue. (Can someone say Kiss Cam?)

How: Of course, he will do it right. Down on one knee and everything. He would express how much he cared and he would ooze confidence when saying it too, while most would be shaking in their shoes.

Ray Stantz

Who: Ray

Time Dating: 6 months

Where: A restaurant, or comic convention

How: After a lot of nerves and umm-ing and ahh-ing, he would find the perfect time to get down on one knee. He would be a sweating, stammering mess, but he would get his sentiments across just fine. How much he cared, how much he was looking forward to spending his life with her.

He would apologise for not being able to get a bigger, better ring too, let’s face it.

Janine Melnitz

Who: Rae

Time Dating: This could go either way. Long or short.

Where: In one of their apartments during breakfast in bed

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PLEASE can you do a follow up to the pregnancy prompt and do a fatherhood with rae one??

Hmmm. I feel I may end up repeating some of it, but OK sure. I’ll give it a go.

Egon Spengler

Names: Einstein, Galileo, Socrates, Darwin. (Rae dislikes.) Probably settles on Linus (After Linus Pauling), Isaac (After Isaac Newton), Edwin (After Edwin Hubble), Ada (After Ada Lovelace), Hildegard (After Hildegard of Bingen), or Lise (After Lise Meitner)

Hesitant at first

Can’t hold the child right, scared he’ll break it

Eventually gets used to it and multitasks while holding the kid

Absolutely buys books and things way over its age bracket

Onesies with atoms, stars, planets and DNA strands on them

Plushies? Probably science stuff like microbes and the like

Enjoys reading to the kid at night, even though it’s probably stuff like fungus textbooks

Has trouble when it reaches toddler age due to little hands getting into things

His idea of a bedtime song is listing off the Periodic Table to a slight melody

Peter Venkman

Names: Suggests Skullcrusher. Rae is not impressed. Ruby, Daisy, Rosie, Brad, Felix, Harrison.

Terrified as all heck

When he does come round he’s into it

Enjoys napping with the baby

Absolutely buys little things that are probably inappropriate for babies

Plays rough, wrestles, chases, hangs the kid by its arms and feet. kid loves it

Any excuse to watch cartoons, right?

Lets the kid run around naked because it irks Egon. “Hey, they’re a kid, let them enjoy their freedom!”

Probably gets peed on every time he changes a diaper. Even tries to time it so he avoids it, but still gets it anyway

Hates that the kid likes Slimer

Winston Zeddemore

Names: Marlin, Auston, Ruth, Carmen.

Owns up to the responsibility

Helps Rae make a nursery room in her apartment. Visits every day

Buys plenty of stuff for the kid

LOTS of baseball stuff

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13 notes • Posted 2021-02-21 20:57:35 GMT

PLEASE give us some personal GB headcanons - about your oc too

Oooh, this might be fun! Though, I’ll base them on a more modern era, rather than in the past just for fun.

Ray Stantz

Probably a weeb. Lat’s face it, he likes comics. I can only assume he would love anime too.

Is actually really good at illustration. It probably comes from engineering sketches and the like.

Has a waifu pillow. One he illustrated himself. Is perfectly fine with people knowing too, he feels no shame in it. Probably even offers to make some for the other guys. Has to convince Egon by saying it’s great for spinal alignment when sleeping.

PLUSHIES! EVERYWHERE!

Attends cons. Has a secret collection of cosplay photos from them posing next to celebrities.

Probably binge watches shows due to his love of TV. Particularly enjoys period dramas when people aren’t looking. Cries. Eats ice cream under a duvet as he binges the episodes.

Way too sweet when it comes to love. Way too considerate to the point nothing probably happens, because he’s always asking if the other person is OK.

Collects Transformers and other old vintage toys. Likes to fix them up.

Dad bod, but with firm muscle structure. Can lift pretty heavy stuff.

Loves to cook. Isn’t the best cook.

Peter Venkman

Absolutely wants to steal Ray’s waifu pillow. Probably does. Ray ends up offering to make some for him. He ends up with several that stay in his bed around him. Every night he sings Mambo Number 5 to himself.

Serial womaniser to the point he probably has a lot of love children floating around and doesn’t even know it.

Collects nude pictures and tapes pics of the faces of women he likes to the bodies. He calls them his ‘secret love pictures’ if ever found out.

Actually has a genuine soft spot for Janine, but she intimidates him a bit, so never acts on it despite flirting occasionally.

Likes limelight, but hates the responsibility, so often gets overwhelmed.

The idea of marriage actually scares him.

With regards to love, he’s a free spirit. He’s confident and can back up his words, which can be infuriating at times, as the other individual would probably hate ever telling him so for fear of boosting his already massive ego.

Secretly likes soaps. Will punch you in the eye if you ever told anyone.

Athletic build, but not ridiculously so.

Probably plays Pokemon Go.

Egon Spengler

Struggles with social cues and relies on his team members to help him out with them.

Is not so much a-sexual, but more overly focused to the point that it takes over every single other thing in his life.

May be prone to flights of sudden heroism or whims based on adrenaline rushes. This may include amorous actions. He will regret it afterwards and feel extremely guilty.

Ray’s offer of a waifu pillow would scare him, but may be eventually convinced.

Absolutely loves culture. Art, theatre, museums.

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13 notes • Posted 2021-02-18 02:07:39 GMT

WIP - The Real Ghostbusters - Rae’s Hair

An uncoloured preview of the latest Tumblr-based idea from this anon:

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14 notes • Posted 2021-03-02 00:06:07 GMT

A KNIFE

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I've seen things like this before, but idk, I made one myself.

So, send an ask with a ship and an emoji!

💐- Who's more likely to give flowers, and how does the other feel about it?

🎂- When baking together, who's the one actually trying to follow the recipe, and who's the one eating all the batter and putting in random ingredients to see what happens?

🐈- Who's the pet person, and who's the one who "didn't want a pet" until they got one?

🥄- What's each person's favorite way to cuddle?

💖- How do each of them feel about pet names?

😒- Who is more protective/gets jealous more easily?

🤡- Who's the feral gremlin and who's the "has to physically restrain them from consuming a single milligram of caffeine"?

💍- Would they get married? If so, who would propose? What would they wear?

😤- Who's the first one to try and make up after an argument?

😳- Who realized their feelings first, and were they the first to confess, or did they keep it locked up?

💌- Who would be more likely to write sappy love poetry for the other?

🤒- Who dotes on the other more when they're sick?

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236 notes • Posted 2021-05-03 14:14:29 GMT

I see people Talk about only having one style of Fashion and it confuses me so much bc,,,

Like, on any given Day, I am a randomly selected one of the Following;

Host of a Dinner Party where someone is going to get poisoned

Pirate. Just, just a pirate.

Doctor Who

Victorian man who will Probably duel Someone who said the Tea he served was oversteeped

The eccentric Owner of an Antique Store which may or may not contain some kind of Magical Force

A Cryptid who is bundling up for the Winter

Lumber-Jack (GET IT BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF MY NAMES I'M FUNNY I'M FUNNY)

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As close to a 2012 Hot Topic shopper as you can get without actually having a Hot Topic available

And finally, whatever you call this

238 notes • Posted 2021-11-30 02:44:29 GMT

Okay, but what if, what if, what if,

Elliott is french!! English is his second language, and he picked up a lot of his speech patterns from old books, which is why he talks so fancy.

Why french? Simple. Because I'm weak and basic and I like french accents. Sue me.

251 notes • Posted 2021-07-21 06:17:57 GMT

So um

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Moodboard for turning the frickin frogs gay

(have a nice day 💫💫💫)

I hope this is satisfactory :]

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I have been following for quite dome time now and I see Kaamelot a lot on your dash. Is there somewhere I can watch it to understand what it is about?

Yes! Kaamelott is a French show from 2005-2009 of 6 seasons. It's a parody of the Arthurian legends. There's going to be a movie, which is coming out this July! We've waited literally 12 years, and the trailer dropped yesterday, so I'm very hyped.

You can watch Kaamelott on YouTube, there are English subtitles. The four first seasons are 3 minutes-long episodes, but the two last seasons have 45 minutes-long episodes. I'd recommend you to start at season 3 because the two first seasons are quite forgettable, even if they settle the story.

Trigger warning: the 5th season is way darker, it deals with depression and there's a suicide attempt at the end, so please be careful if this subject triggers you.

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Me in a nutshell

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Top 5 de mes passages préférés de KV1

1. Arthur à la Tour. Les feels étaient intenses, et pourtant je ne shippe même pas spécialement Arthur/Guenièvre d'habitude, c'est dire si la scène était réussie ! Mais le fait qu'il décide de monter par la haie, comme un prince de contes de fées, parce qu'il sait que c'est ce qui plaît à Guenièvre, ça m'a touché.

2. Les retrouvailles entre Arthur et Perceval, avec ce dernier qui cite le psaume 23. J'ai toujours aimé le fait que Perceval ait une mémoire un peu sélective et retienne particulièrement bien des éléments inattendus, comme c'est le cas ici. Et ça concrétise encore plus Arthur en tant que figure christique.

3. La deuxième TS d'Arthur. On ne peut pas dire que ce soit une scène préférée dans le sens où elle m'aurait enthousiasmé, mais clairement, les émotions étaient là, donc je ne peux pas ne pas en parler.

4. La Table Ronde faite maison, encore plus proche des valeurs d'Arthur, et qui réussit à le convaincre car c'est exactement en ça qu'il croit. Le moment où il commence à analyser la Table Ronde et se rend compte qu'elle est composite, faite de bric et de broc, est extrêmement fort.

5. La Taverne en ruines, et qui sert maintenant d'entrée aux souterrains de la Résistance. J'ai été très ému en constatant que la Taverne, qui appartenait au père du Tavernier, avait été rasée. Mais la symbolique du fait que ce soit un point de départ pour les souterrains est magnifique.

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Ça me fume totalement que notre petite série française soit passée en top tendance devant Loki AKA Tumblr sexy man par excellence

227 notes • Posted 2021-06-10 19:52:16 GMT

Top 10 de mes blagues préférées dans KV1

1. Robobrol ("l'important c'est les points !")

2. La Dame du Lac qui tabasse Arthur quand elle le revoit

3. Le running gag de Dagonet qui sait toujours pas quelles terres sont à lui

4. "J'ai bien ma chemise mais c'est mou"

5. "La duchesse d'Aquitaine est une pute !" + "Arrêtez-nous, arrêtez-nous"

6. "Tout le monde a changé" "Pas vous, vous êtes toujours moche"

7. "Il sait pas nager ?" "Si mais il nage comme ça"

8. Le moment où Perceval essaye d'enfoncer la porte

9. "Arthour ! La guerre est une illusion !" "Ah mais il parle notre langue, maintenant, lui ?" "Arthour ! La guerre est un salsifis !"

10. "Récupérez votre bassine, des fois que votre beau-père en ait besoin pour se faire un bain de pieds"

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Voluptas Noctis Aeternae {Part 2.3}

*Severus Snape x OC*

Summary: It is the year 1983 when the ordinary life of Robin Mitchell takes a drastic turn: she is accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Despite the struggles of being a muggle-born in Slytherin, she soon discovers her passion for Potions, and even manages the impossible: gaining the favor of Severus Snape. Throughout the years, Robin finds that the not quite so ordinary Potions Professor goes from being a brooding stranger to being more than she had ever deemed possible. An ally, a mentor, a friend... and eventually, the person she loves the most. Through adventure, prophecies and the little struggles of daily life in a castle full of mysteries, Robin chooses a path for herself, an unlikely friendship blossoms into something more, and two people abandoned by the world can finally find a home.

General warnings: professor x student (however no underage romance), blood, violence, trauma, neglectful families, bullying, cursing

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Read Part 1.1 here! All Parts can be found on the Masterlist!

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"Good morning, class!" Professor Morgan cheered as he stepped out of his office at last and down the steps to the classroom's level. "Today's lesson shall start with a short demonstration on my part. Miss Mitchell, would you be so kind?"

"Of course, professor." Robin put on a fake smile and ignored the whispering around her as she made her way to the front. She had already started building on her internal wall during breakfast, and by now Robin didn't even feel nervous anymore. All that was left in her conscious mind was the here and now, and an eerie calm to go along with it. While she took her stance in front of the class, Morgan turned towards the other children once again.

"You needn't be afraid for your… beloved classmate's well-being, I can assure you, even if what you will be witnessing now might sound like she is suffering from… severe pain." He finished with an innocent smile at Robin, and Robin merely reflected it right back at him.

Some people in the class snorted and whispered, surely picking up on Morgan's sarcastic remark, but Robin didn't even care. She had left all nervousness and every hint of fear behind before entering the classroom today, and now she was absolutely ready to begin. Professor Morgan however wasn't done talking and inflating his own ego yet.

"You see, this is a highly dangerous spell and not part of the regular curriculum, but I believe it is important to demonstrate what real power looks like, for a change. And I repeat once more: Miss Mitchell agreed to assisting me for this VITAL demonstration. So do not let the following agony you will be witnessing fool you into thinking otherwise."

The laughter had died down now, and Robin noticed how half of the class looked rather nervous about the prospect of seeing a fellow student in pain, while the other half simply seemed to be waiting for a good show. She felt no particular response to either. There was only neutrality on her mind.

"Ready, Mitchell?" Professor Morgan took a rather ridiculous stance opposite of her so that they both stood sideways to the class, then he drew his wand and pointed it at Robin.

"Yes, sir."

"Legilimens!" He said loudly, and looked Robin right in the eye, however without any intensity. In return, Robin felt a minimal tingle in the back of her mind that was barely strong enough to be noticed at all. She held his gaze, leaning her head to the side a little as if in question, and lifted her eyebrows with a calm smile. Professor Morgan's eyes widened in irritation, and he took a step closer towards Robin while however his own focus decreased so that she could barely feel anything in her mind at all anymore.

"How… do you… do that?" He asked through clenched teeth, a frown falling onto his face as he did exactly the wrong thing by tensing up and losing focus.

"Oh, did we start already?" Robin returned innocently. "Is this the part where I am supposed to wail in pain under your power, sir?"

The roaring sound of many laughters broke through the classroom in return, but Robin didn't allow herself to be pleased. She kept her mind blank, unreadable, and simply kept on looking at Morgan in mocking innocence. A short moment later, he dropped his wand and even the most minimal intrusion in her mind came to an end. Instead, Professor Morgan grabbed her by the collars of her button up shirt and black jumper, and pulled her closer with a furious glare.

"You failed to mention that you're an occlumens, Mitchell." He hissed at her while the chattering in the classroom picked back up, most likely to joke about Robin's remarkable embarrassing of their teacher.

"A what, sir?" Robin kept her face neutral with a touch of mocking cluelessness. She didn't need to feel her victory in the form of pride to know that she had won this time around.

"Sit. Back. Down." He merely ordered in a tone that would've made anyone shudder, then released her collar from his grip and gave her a little push back towards her seat. And while Robin did just that with her still perfectly neutral face, Morgan turned back to the entire class with a forcefully bright smile. "Well, why don't we skip the demonstration for now and start on our new topic, shall we? Page 251."

… … …

Robin didn't have to wait long for Professor Morgan's payback. In fact, it came just a few hours later, on Monday afternoon, in the form of an older students. The redhead made his quick way to the front of Robin's transfiguration class, whispered something to Professor McGonagall, who in return nodded and looked right at Robin.

"Miss Mitchell, you were summoned to the headmaster's office." She said, then nodded at the redhead once more, upon which he led Robin out of the classroom and right to her place of destine in silence. All the while Robin's heart seemed to burst out of her chest at any moment, and she felt dangerously close to throwing up.

"Just knock and go in. He's awaiting you." The boy said, then made for a quick disappearance before she had the chance to even thank him for escorting her here.

Honestly, Robin hadn't ever exchanged a word with Professor Dumbledore in her one and a half years at Hogwarts, and she very much would've preferred to keep it at that. But she didn't have a choice now, did she… Morgan had obviously told on her, even though she hadn't technically done anything wrong at all. No, really, she had not done one wrong thing. That's exactly what Robin would tell the headmaster as well. She took a deep breath, and built her internal wall. There was no use for tears or anxiety in the discussion that would surely follow, and she preferred to keep her head clear in order to ensure the best possible outcome for anyone involved. She had no intention of lying, but neither had she the intention to reveal Professor Snape's involvement in any of this. If things went how she planned them right now, he wouldn't even have to hear about this incident. With very little anxiety remaining in her processing mind, she knocked three times and then let herself in.

"Ah, Miss Mitchell!" Professor Dumbledore greeted her from behind his desk with a kind smile. "Do come in, don't be shy."

"Good afternoon, headmaster." She nodded her head in acknowledgement and stepped right up to his desk without further hesitation. "You wished to see me?"

"Well, I received a rather lengthy complaint from Professor Morgan about you, just an hour ago. He demanded for you to be punished for your behavior in class today."

"I see…" Robin replied neutrally, but politely. "If I may ask, what exactly is it that he accuses me of, professor?"

"Why don't you tell me, Miss Mitchell?" Dumbledore smiled at her in obvious amusement.

"He called me an occlumens in class today, that is all he said to me personally. But I'm not aware of any fault on my part." She shrugged, then quickly added, "Which is not to say that there is none, of course, just none that I'm aware of."

"And what do you think Professor Morgan meant when he called you an occlumens?"

Before Robin could answer that question, the door to Dumbledore's office was opened after but one brief knock, and Robin's heart skipped a beat in nervousness despite her wall as she saw who entered.

"You wished to see me, headmaster?" Professor Snape's deep voice sent a shiver down Robin's spine, and once his eyes fell on her with that stupid risen eyebrow of his, she turned back to looking at Professor Dumbledore instead. Otherwise her wall would come dangerously close to crashing right down in a heap of tangled up emotions.

"Ah, Severus!" Dumbledore greeted in a delighted tone. "I'm sure you already know Miss Mitchell…"

"Indeed." Was all Snape replied as he came to stand next to Robin in front of the headmaster's desk.

"I've asked you here to confirm a colleague's suspicion." Dumbledore explained in what to Robin looked a lot like subtle amusement. "About Miss Mitchell."

Robin once more dared looking at Professor Snape out of the corners of her eyes, but regretted it immediately when she caught his hard gaze. Her eyes flew back to Dumbledore in an instant.

"I see…" Snape replied neutrally, just like Robin had done mere minutes ago. "If I may ask, whose suspicion am I to confirm?"

This time Dumbledore smiled a little wider but still not enough to call it a grin, and Robin probably would have straight out laughed at the parallel phrases as well, had she not been trying to keep every emotion at bay.

"Damion's." Dumbledore replied easily, and his expression dimmed back down to the previous subtle amusement. "He came to me under the impression that Miss Mitchell is practicing occlumency."

"And how exactly did he get that impression?" Snape's voice took on that dangerously inquiring tone again, and Robin wasn't sure if he was going against Morgan or herself with the question.

"He did not say." Dumbledore smiled almost knowingly, and Robin wondered if the two men always had their conversations in cryptic remarks or if it was because of her listening in.

"To my knowledge, Damion would have had to use either a curse, a potion or means of legilimency to become aware of such circumstance, none of which is commonly allowed or recommended to use on… students." Snape stated, and Robin could feel his eyes on her for a moment while she still refused to look at him. He must be so disappointed in her…

"This just happens to have been my line of thought as well when Damion demanded for Miss Mitchell to be punished for her supposed ability, which is precisely why I declined the request." Dumbledore said mildly and gave Robin a kind smile before turning back to Snape. "However I would still like for you to confirm his suspicions, Severus. Should Miss Mitchell indeed be an occlumens as he says?"

Now Robin actually did look at Snape, neutrally, but she knew that her wall was but a joke to keep her anxiety at bay at this point. If he even barely tried now, she wouldn't stop him. But while he did meet her eyes in that intense gaze, he did not try to look into her mind at all.

"Yes." He finally said, gravely almost, and turned away from Robin to look back at the headmaster. "She seems to have quite a… talent for it."

"Miss Mitchell…" Dumbledore's direct address made Robin turn back to look at him once more. "Were you aware that you used occlumency to resist Professor Morgan's attempt to enter your mind?"

"Yes."

"And, I'd very much like to know, how is it that a second year student is already aware of this ancient magical practice?"

"I read about it." Robin replied honestly, as her rational mind was slowly starting to function again. "I read about it in a book I came across while I was actually looking for something entirely different."

"And why did you decide to practice this skill?" Dumbledore lifted his eyebrows in question, and Robin didn't even have to look to know that Professor Snape was doing the very same thing.

"I did because I was afraid." Robin started, again opting for nothing but honesty, even if only on a broader scheme. "As you might be aware of, I was born and raised in the muggle world. The discovery of magic itself was, to me, equally exciting as it was frightening, and that hasn't changed much. Magic, to me, is something I will never fully understand, and that is what frightens me most. From what I learned about occlumency, I foremost believed it to be a tool to protect myself against things I can't fight as of yet. However I found that the focus and clearness of the mind required for learning it are a good way to deal with my fears. And my anxiety."

"I see…" Dumbledore replied with an all-too-knowing smile, and Robin had to return the smile at least ever so slightly.

"Will I get into trouble for this, sir?" She still found the need to ask, even if her nerves were already a whole lot easier to tame.

"I see no reason for that. While it is highly surprising indeed that someone so inexperienced in the use of magic should be able to make even any use of a powerful skill such as occlumency in the first place, there is no fault in it, nor a reason for me to scold you. I rather wish to congratulate you for your already remarkable proficiency in the subject, and would strongly advise you to continue your private studies. Despite what Professor Morgan or other teachers might have to say on the issue." He finished his small monologue with another oddly knowing smile, then looked at Snape for a brief moment and back to Robin. "I'm sure Professor Snape would be willing to assist you in your studies, should you wish to continue them. It would be a shame to neglect a young talent merely based on prejudice and inept opinions, wouldn't you say, Severus?"

"Certainly, headmaster." His neutral tone really didn't give away any sentiment he might feel concerning the issue, and Robin found herself wishing for once that he wasn't this good at this game. She would've liked to at least know if he was indifferent to being told to possibly continue teaching her outside of potions class, or if he was mad about it. But his face was absolutely blank.

"One more thing, Miss Mitchell…" Professor Dumbledore said then, and Robin let him know that she was paying attention by lifting her head ever so slightly in acknowledgement. "Did Professor Morgan at any point indeed manage to break into your mind?"

Robin frowned at the question, thought for a second, then smoothed the lines back out of her face as she replied. "No, sir. He… he didn't even get close, if I may say so. Why do you ask?"

"Oh, I was merely being curious." The headmaster smiled at Robin in amusement and folded his hands on his desk as he leaned forward a little. "Thank you for your time. You may go now, both of you. I believe it should be time for dinner anyhow…"

"Thank you, professor." Robin replied politely as she walked backwards to the door. "I hope you have a nice evening." With that she turned around on her heel and disappeared through the door, out of the office as quickly as was still considered graceful. To her surprise, Professor Snape was right behind her and closed the door behind the two of them before she could. As they made their way down the narrow stairs in silence, Robin walking ahead, she found that while the silence wasn't uncomfortable, she still felt the need to say something. Just to test the waters, to see if he was mad at her. However, much to her surprise, Snape spoke up first.

"You did not mention my involvement in the events." He simply said, more statement than question, in a neither scolding nor praising manner.

"I promised you I wouldn't."

"However you also did not cease to speak the truth the entire time."

"I never lie, sir. I do leave things out sometimes, and that usually suffices to alter the other's perception of reality, but I never lie." Robin shrugged, which resulted in her having to readjust the strap of her backpack on her shoulder. After a small pause, she finally made herself add, "I'm sorry that you were yet again dragged into the consequences of my actions. I had no idea that Morgan would be dimwitted enough to tell on me despite being the one to do the questionable thing."

"The general dimwittedness of the average person is a necessary nuisance to get used to. But you will, eventually." He almost sighed as they walked next to each now, towards the great hall where dinner would be served shortly indeed. Robin had to smirk at his comment, and didn't even bother hiding it as she looked up to find him looking straight ahead, in equal amusement that was probably invisible to everyone but her. She quite liked his not-smirks.

"Morgan really did not get into your head?" He inquired then, almost curiously, and Robin once again felt tempted to sass back.

"You sound surprised, professor…" She merely stated in an innocent tone, looking ahead now as well while she tried not to grin.

"With Professor Morgan's talent for magic, it would not even surprise me if he had used the spell against himself in the first place."

"I doubt that he would find a single useful thing in his own mind though." Robin mused with a frown to herself and got a quiet snort from the man next to her in return.

"You clearly should not be talking about teachers in such a fashion, Miss Mitchell." He replied, but the usual bite was absent from his superficially scolding tone. And yet he was right, Robin realized, gossiping about a professor with another professor wasn't quite the best idea.

"Anyway, it was sheer dumb luck that Professor Dumbledore encouraged my out-of-class studies today, even suggested me to ask you for help." She said instead, coming back to the lingering core of her concerns. "I know you say you're responsible for all of your students, but that doesn't mean I can be nor want to be a constant bother. So I will keep my problems to myself from now on."

"I would rather you don't." He was quick to reply, but ever-factual about it, of course. Why did he only ever let her see what he thought when it was about something absolutely irrelevant?! "You give me a constant headache, Miss Mitchell, but you are not a bother."

Robin didn't know if she should smile or frown at that, so she did neither and only looked up at him once more while she waited for him to continue. When he didn't, she decided to speak instead. "I'm seriously not a bother?"

"Seriously."

Only once they had almost reached the open doors to the great hall, Robin dared to ask another of her burning questions. "But honestly sir, what do you get out of helping me out all the time other than trouble and headaches?"

"Chocolate cake, for example." He replied almost easily, with the same pointedly unimpressed expression he usually wore in class. Yet, Robin could clearly tell by the not-smirk that this was a mere charade. The smirk was on her own face before she possibly could have stopped it, but she bit her bottom lip to not grin up at him too brightly as he added, "Have a nice dinner, Miss Mitchell."

"Same to you, professor." She added as politely as her smirk would allow, while Snape already made his entrance with the return of his usual stone-set scowl.

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After the original occlumency incident, Robin continued practicing her ability to disconnect from her emotions on her own, and whenever she came to Professor Snape's office to borrow or return a book, they would test her progress.

Sooner than expected (as always) it was Christmas break once again, and Robin made the surprisingly easy decision to stay at school this year. She had written to her parents in advance to let them know of her decision, and they hadn't even questioned it. While on one end Robin was eternally grateful for the freedom they gave and always had given her, she also felt weighed down by their obvious indifference that was merely wrapped in ridiculously sweet nicknames and expensive presents. It felt like they only loved the idea of Robin, and not Robin herself. But she pushed the feeling away like she was getting so good at doing, and simply imagined that she hadn't even had the choice to go home over the holidays.

As most of the other students left to head home however, the castle got a lot quieter, as did the Slytherin common room. To Robin's bad luck, it was almost exclusively the students who couldn't stand her that had stayed behind in her own house, while the members of the other houses that were still here almost never left their own common rooms in return. Rarely there was anyone in the library whenever Robin sat down with a book to study for fun, and seeing as all girls in her dorm room had gone home as well, Robin soon got the impression that outside of the meals, she was the only current resident at Hogwarts. To say it wasn't boring would've been a lie, and to say she didn't feel lonely an even bigger one.

However, against the boredom at least, Robin quickly found a cure: reading up on the tradition of magical duelling, which Professor Flitwick had briefly mentioned in charms class before the holidays, as well as studying the many attacks and defenses suitable for a 'friendly' duel, even if that fell more into Professor Morgan's subject. It was quite a bit like fencing in terms of rules, actually, but adapted to the magic involved of course. And while it was snowing like crazy most of the time, Robin still felt motivated enough to go out into the cold to try out the spells she discovered, and to practice them on some innocent trees throughout the day. It at least posed a welcome change to reading all day, every day. Which, admittedly, still was all she did after dark.

Since her common room had basically been turned into idiot-headquarters, Robin found a little joy at least in finding a different spot in the castle to read in every night. On new year's eve, Robin found the castle outside of the common rooms to be especially empty. Everyone was probably getting ready to celebrate the new year, staying up with their friends until midnight… Robin however made use of the permission from Professor Snape to stay out after curfew, and simply stayed sitting in one of her favorite spots in an arch in the arcades around the courtyard, overlooking the white snow creating a sharp contrast to the blackness of the night. She'd wrapped herself up in as many layers of clothes as she could fit under her winter robes, and taken her latest book on duelling spells with her as well, before coming out here to simply be alone with herself and the night. And despite it being the last day of the year, it was as good a night as any. She looked at her wristwatch… half past eleven. That meant she would head back inside no sooner than in forty minutes.

"What, pray tell, do you think you are doing out here at this time?"

Robin almost fell off her spot in the arch as she jumped at hearing a voice for the first time in hours. "Professor Snape! Bloody hell, you scared me…"

"Obviously." He mused as he came into her field of vision at last and stopped his stroll right in front of Robin, arms crossed behind his back. "But that did not answer my question."

"Would you like the full truth or the pretty one?"

"I always expect the entire truth, Miss Mitchell, and you are well aware of that."

"Well, in that case, I'm here because I didn't want to spend the last night of the year among idiots. You gave me the permission to move around the castle as I see fit, and seeing as I might as well be poisoned by the glares shot at me in the common room, this is the best possible option to spend the evening. I enjoy the serenity of the night, and the soundlessness of the snow." Robin simply stated as a matter of fact, in the knowledge that he wouldn't accept anything but the truth indeed. She however left out the part about possibly crying her eyes out over sheer loneliness had she stayed in her room alone.

Professor Snape looked down at her with a frown for a moment, studying her intently as if making up his mind about what to do about the situation. The fact that he had to think about it in the first place, instead of sending her straight back to the common room without further ado, brought a small smile to Robin's lips, as she turned back to her book in her lap. A few seconds later she heard more than saw that he moved, and she didn't know if she should be happy or upset that he had simply left without another word.

"What are you reading?" His voice startled her yet again, and Robin jumped just as badly as she had the first time. "Could you stop being startled every time I talk to you tonight?" The eye rolling was practically embedded in his tone, and Robin rolled her eyes in return.

"Could you stop startling me every time you talk to me tonight?" She muttered under her breath as she leaned out of her arch a little to see him sitting in the very next one. The column in the middle was blocking most of her view, but Robin could tell that he was staring out into the snow covered courtyard. "I'm reading a book about duelling. Attacks, defenses and such…" She finally said, a little more loudly, and without the mocking tone.

"And what would be the use of that for a second year student?"

"It kills boredom." Robin shrugged even though he couldn't see her, and flipped her book shut with a soundless sigh. "I've been practicing some of the spells over the holidays."

"Any insights worth mentioning?"

"Mainly, I've realized that attacking snow covered trees isn't the brightest idea." Robin rolled her eyes at herself as she leaned her head against the cold stone wall behind her to stare out into the night as well. It really had been a rather unpleasant experience to be drowning in a heap of snow… she shuddered at the memory.

"Still better than attacking your own reflection in the mirror…"

"Have you ever tried that?!" Robin snickered, and almost regretted not being able to see his annoyed face in return. Why would he do that though? Somehow, the thought that he had also just been a student once made her smile.

"I will not admit to such a thing." He said rather pointedly, but Robin had to grin to herself nonetheless.

For a long moment, both of them stayed in comfortable silence as they watched the snow falling continuously, in a hypnotizing pattern of random black and white. For the first time in over a week, Robin didn't feel lonely at all.

"I will grant you however that this place is indeed rather calming in its… serenity." He stated almost uncharacteristically quietly at last, and Robin had to smile again.

"Told you so…" She replied under her breath, unsure if he even heard her or not, but unwilling to harm the silence by the use of sound. Maybe that's why his words had been spoken so very quietly as well… did he appreciate the fragility of silence as much as she did? At least he seemed to appreciate something about this moment, seeing as he was still here in the first place. He had no reason to stay, and that made Robin appreciate his company all the more. They stayed like that, watching the snow falling in silence, until the silence at last was disrupted by something other than them. Robin looked at her watch in surprise, having entirely forgotten about it being new year's, to find it showing midnight at last.

"That would be the people in Hogsmeade." Snape commented in rather obvious distaste, sounding almost as annoyed that the silence had been disrupted as Robin felt too. It had been nice… very nice even.

"Happy new year, professor." Robin said quietly after a few seconds of listening to the distant sound of fireworks, a little afraid that he would mock her for the sentiment and thereby ruin her future memory of a beautiful night.

"The very same to you, Miss Mitchell." He replied instead, in a sigh that was stuck between feignedly annoyed and sincerely calm, but that was enough already, and Robin felt truly happy for the first time in weeks. He didn't need to know that though, which is why Robin waited another moment before she got up to her feet, stretching her frozen limbs, and walked to stand in front of his arch now. Even when sitting, he still was a little taller than her and Robin almost would've laughed at the sheer randomness of the thought. Why did she even pay attention to stupid stuff like that?

"Thank you for letting me stay out here." She finally said, as neutrally as she could. "I know you didn't have to do that, but I really appreciate it. It's…" Her voice trailed off as he rose to his feet as well, and they started making their way back into the castle.

"Do go on." He encouraged, or rather inquired after a few steps, but Robin didn't know if she even wanted to. She should've thought about that before she had started speaking… now she also had to finish it.

"It's rather lonely inside the castle, with just those imbeciles who despise me no matter what I do for company… Studying by myself is a good enough distraction during the day, but at night I feel like I can hardly breathe inside those walls." She explained in a quiet calm, and once again expected him to mock her for being so pathetically emotional. However, once again, he surprised her.

"I understand." Was all he said, and yet Robin felt like he actually did understand. Maybe it was his tone that led her to believe this, or maybe it was having shared half an hour of silent existence outside of school or learning… it didn't matter. Robin felt understood indeed.

"May I ask, professor, what would I need to do to get detention during the holidays?" She wondered then, as they made their way down the stairs to the dungeons, thinking about how even scrubbing cauldrons or whatever else he might make her do would be an improvement to her current situation of daily boredom.

"Are you truly that desperate for something to do with your time?" He asked in return, not even trying to hide the amusement from his voice anymore as he still looked down at her with a frown.

"Quite." She sighed, giving him a small shrug. "Reading is lovely, as is practicing spells, but I'd like to give the poor trees by the lake a break for once. And my brain as well. Do something less-…"

"Redundant? Pathetic? Imbecile?"

"I was going to say lonely, but redundant is fine with me as well." The reply earned her a full not-smirk, and Robin smiled at the darkness ahead of her as well.

"You could always use that unparalleled ability of yours to make up dimwitted insults for the teaching staff." He suggested surprisingly tactfully, and Robin had to snort at the comment.

"You mean like calling a certain defense against the dark arts professor a bloody pillock?" She suggested with an innocent smile as they stopped in front of Snape's office door.

Instead of actually answering the question however, he gave her one of his indecipherable looks for but two seconds, then turned to open the door. "I'll see you for detention after breakfast tomorrow. Goodnight, Miss Mitchell."

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chibivesicle · 4 years

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Golden Kamuy chapters 251 and 252 - rumble in the brewhouse

These chapters show the beginning of the mess that is happening inside of and outside of the Sapporo brewery. Or as I’d like to colloquially call it Abashiri 2.0. Chapter 251 is a color cover page featuring Tsukishima and Koito. Let’s just take a second to look at this page. I personally love this cover page and as the manga has continued many of you know that I’ve warmed up to Koito since Karafuto.

Both men a surrounded by items related to them. For Tsukishima there is the bag that Edogai made, his bathhouse supplies, one of Koito’s trunks, various firearms, a grenade like the one he threw at Abashiri, a bayonet and lots of shells and military packs and bags. On Koito’s side there are his menko, umbrella from the circus, his childhood motorbike, saber, an anpan and his photos.

What I find interesting is that some of Koito’s items are from his past and are related to Tsukishima as one of his kidnappers while other items are present Koito. In contrast, all of Tsukishima’s items are from the current timeline and events in the manga, but not from his past, e.g. not hair from his fiancee.

One of the question posed on the cover is asking if ‘love’ is found on the battlefield which really gets back to Tsurumi’s epiphany about the power of love and how he uses that to create his super loyal men on the battlefield. Looking at both of them I read it as Koito looking forward to perhaps finding his own ‘love’ and purpose as he stands in a stiff and serious pose. Meanwhile, Tsukishima looks down, his eyes shaded and his hands in his coat pocket. It seems that Tsukishima may be reflecting on all of his past deeds on and off of the battlefield. This makes sense to me since Tsukishima has much more experience than Koito.

We also know that since both me disobeyed Tsurumi’s orders in regard to Tanigaki and Inkarmat, they have tied each other together in their independence from being total Tsurumi loyalists. Well enough about the cover, let’s get into the action.

The chapter starts with Sugimoto leading Asirpa and Shiraishi towards Ushiyama, Kadokura and Kirawus. Sugimoto boldly claims that they need to hurry since Kadokura and Kirawus are unreliable and useless. Burn.

Noda quickly updates us on everyone’s locations while Usami meets his match in Ushiyama.

It is clear that Hijikata’s group is now at a disadvantage as the other groups are running opposite of Jack. Sugimoto comments on Usami trying to fire a rifle at Ushiyama, and the others rush even more quickly to the location.

Usami, quickly realizes that Ushiyama is no man to be trifled with and he drops the rifle in favor of judo. The situation only becomes worse as Ushiyama has a moment of thought in the heat of conflict to ask Kadokura to confirm Usami’s identity. Good job Ushiyama!

Kadokura of course confirms he’s working for Tsurumi and at that point Tsukishima, Kikuta, Koito and Nikaido arrive. Again, Kikuta is the one in charge as he orders them to step away from Usami. Tsukishima has his rifle already drawn and Kikuta has his pair of revolvers ready. This really shows that the 27th is ready for action.

The next page has Koito taking charge, telling the others to stand down so that he can attach with his saber and prevent the chances of friendly fire hitting Usami.

I don’t think Koito is being an idiot rushing in without thinking in this instance. Instead, he’s thinking of the best course of action with the ‘safest’ option to try to help Usami without harming him. The fact that he makes his order and then gives a rational reason tells me that Koito is becoming more mature in how he thinks about things. Unfortunately, he doesn’t know that Ushiyama is no some normal guy. It is Nikaido who advises against close combat and Koito doesn’t even manage to get that close as Tsukishima tells him to dodge as he can see that Usami is about to get tossed into the air.

The next page is a repeat of Ushiyama’s ability to toss people long distances. Recall that back when Hijikata first recruited him to join his faction, he tossed a naked prostitute through the air in a similar fashion. Tsukishima’s warning is enough for Koito to show his athletic abilities and we are even given a slow motion panel of Koito looking at Usami’s face.

I think this shows that Koito and Tsukishima have reached a better level of communication between the two characters. I think if this were back before Karafuto, the timing would have been off and instead of avoiding the UFO (Usami Flying Object) Koito instead would have been taken out by Usami. But he doesn’t get hit by Usami, he’s able to dodge and they are able to quickly recover to pursue Ushiyama, who smartly jumps into the brewery to escape knowing he’s outnumbered since they have rifles and revolvers. This was a situation that could have backfired, but it worked out well as there is good cohesion between Tsukishima and Koito.

With Ushiyama’s escape, Kikuta takes charge again. The fact that Tsukishima has been working with him on and off for a long time likely means that he respects Kikuta as a strategist. We’ve seen indications that Kikuta thinks quickly on his feet and has good basic urban combat knowledge. The failing of Tsukishima, Koito and Kikuta is an inability to reign in Usami.

They saved him fro Ushiyama and ran into the brewery while he gets up on his own and with his bayonet targets his favorite tanuki, Kadokura. It is clear that Usami’s obsession with Kadokura goes completely against his current orders from Tsurumi to catch Jack. For a man who was dedicated to catching him to show his worth to Tsurumi to receive his love, it is clear his love of Kadokura overrides that. Could it be that Kadokura is Usami’s Tsurumisexuality kryptonite?

The adrenaline filled chapter continues with our dapper convict approaching the wee babe Kantarou. Hijikata’s aura is strong enough (indicated by that intense screentone action!) that Jack turns and Kantarou stands up to slow down his escape.

Kantarou is slashed by him, but by slowing him, Hijikata is able to pull up his Winchester and aim at the killer. As a result, Hijikata proves to be an accurate shot hitting him in the left shoulder and takes a few more shots before he escapes around a corner. Hijikata orders Nagakura to launch their firework. This is similar to Abashiri where an artificial light source leads to downstream effects for various players. First off, the result is confusion. Sugimoto is confused and Shiraishi wonders what is happening. Boutarou asks for clarification for the direction of the killer and Toni makes it clear that the gunfire was Hijikata’s, he suggests that they split up. The firework also shows us the location of Vasily.

He’s on a roof with his mosin-nagant ready and looking through his binoculars in search of Ogata. The next page is a dramatic zoom in on a fire watchtower. Thanks to @goldenkamuyhunting updating me on the information from @osomanga that this is a fire watchtower. I had been looking for what it was and the best guess I had come up with was an early grain elevator due to the double roof and the location near the brewery. I thought this was a decent guess since most of the agricultural development was driven by Americans in Hokkaido and the wooden grain elevator was once a hallmark of a huge portion of North America. Noda uses classic manga techniques to zoom in on Ogata’s location from Vasily’s point of view to show that he’s spotted his target.

This creates dramatic tension indicating that Ogata is potentially in trouble as he’s been spotted by Vasily and he’s instead paying attention to the action on the ground. Gasp! Ogata is in danger! Of course, I wasn’t worried since, well Ogata is a main character and Vasily isn’t exactly fighting fair for their ‘rematch’ that Ogata isn’t really even aware of.

Hijikata checks in with Kantarou, as he quickly bandages his forehead to stop the blood from running onto his face. Hijikata is proud of him and gives him words of encouragement that he isn’t the type of man to turn his back in battle. Of course he tells him to follow him and Kantarou is beaming in pride and excitement!

We don’t see enough of Kantarou, but I’m honestly proud of him here. He’s a capable gangster, and is becoming more than just a gangster. I mean his eyes are almost sparkling and the screentone behind him is sparkling. I hope Kantarou doesn’t meet an unfortunate end, he’s a solid guy.

Sugimoto, Asirpa and Shiraishi catch up to Kirawus finally who must have hung back and wasn’t noticed by the 7th. Sugimoto of course charges into the building with Asirpa following close behind as indicated on the next page. Sadly, Kirawus isn’t fast enough to get Sugimoto and Asirpa to pause and he only is able to finally tell Shiraishi that there are five soldiers in there.

Of course Shiraishi is concerned and by time he enters, he’s become separated form Sugimoto and Asirpa as he tries to find them and warns them the 7th is inside. Only after some time does Asirpa realize Shiraishi is missing. Yep, excellent leadership skills there Sugimoto. You can’t even keep your party together!

Sugimoto has his rifle ready as he thinks perhaps he’s found Shiraishi. But of course not! It is Nikaido and he’s ready to kill Sugimoto as Sugimoto aims his rifle with his eyes white with murder intent.

All in all this was an epic failure of so many levels. Shiraishi the brains of their team is lost, Asirpa blindly followed Sugimoto and now he’s up against a man who is beyond obsessed with killing him.

Tumblr started to be weird so, I’ll have to split this meta into two parts. Sometimes it can’t deal with images . . .

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dampfloks · 4 years

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Der Rasende Roland auf Rügen

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Wie Ihr vielleicht an den letzten Posts gesehen habt, habe ich ein paar Tage auf Rügen verbracht. Neben traumhaften Landschaften und der wunderschönen Ostsee gibt es hier den berühmten "Rasenden Roland". Eine 750mm Schmalspurbahn, die auf eine Geschichte bis auf das Jahr 1895 zurückblicken kann.

Hier wird noch täglich Plandampf gefahren.. Die Strecke des "Rasenden Rolands" verbindet folgende Orte (Orte in Klammern sind Bedarfshalte):

Göhren - (Philippshagen) - Baabe - Sellin Ost - (Sellin West) - (Garftitz) - (Jagdschloß) - Binz - (Serams) - (Seelvitz) - (Posewald) - (Beuschow) - Putbus LB - Lauterbach Mole

Dampflokfreunde kommen hier voll auf ihre Kosten. Die RüBB verfügt über eine Vielzahl von Dampflokomotiven und auch das Wagon-Material ist alles samt historisch und in fabelhaftem Zustand.

Entlang der Strecke gibt es (wie überhaupt auf Rügen) sehr schöne Sehenswürdigkeiten. Deshalb lohnt sich eine Tageskarte, mit der man munter ein- und aussteigen kann wo man will, noch mehr.

In Sellin-Ost befindet sich die wunderschöne Selliner Seebrücke. Sellin ist ein einladender Ort mt einer schönen Promenade, Die an der Seebrücke endet. die Seebrücke ist gleichzeitig der Anleger für Ausflugsschiffe mit denen man z.B. zu den berühmten Kreidefelsen fahren kann. Besonders am Abend (wenn die Seebrücke beleuchtet ist) ist das ein schöner Ort zu verweilen.

Seebrücke - Sellin

Nicht weit von Sellin liegt das Seebad Binz. Auch hier sieht man die wunderschöne Bäderarchitektur, einen schönen Strand und natürlich auch eine Seebrücke.

Seebad Binz Nahe an Binz liegt die Station Jagdschloß. Inmitten zwischen der bewaldeten Hügelkette zwischen Binz und Sellin befindet sich auf einem Berg das Jagdschloß Granitz, welches Fürst Malte von Putbus Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bauen ließ. Inmitten des burgähnlichen Gebäude befindet sich ein 38m hoher Rundturm, der als Aussichtspunkt genutzt werden kann (wegen. Corona herrschen hier allerdings zur Zeit einige Einschränkungen).

Jagdschloss Granitz

Ein Höhepunkt für Eisenbahnfreunde ist natürlich die Station Putbus LB, die auch als Betriebsmittelpunkt des "Rasenden Roland" dient.

Hier sieht man natürlich einiges mehr vom täglichen Betrieb der Bäderbahn und der angeschlossenen Verbindungen (Dieseltriebwagen nach Bergen) und die Dreischienenverbindung nach Lauterbach Mole. Hier wird an den "Rasenden Roland" eine Diesellok angehängt, die den Zug nach Lauterbach begleitet und auf dem Rückweg nach Putbus zieht. In Lauterbach gibt es keinen Möglichket die Lokomotive zu drehen oder an das andere Ende des Zuges zu hänge (Kopf machen). Deshalb wird der Zug bis Putbus von einer blauen Diesellok der Pressnitztalbahn* (PRESS) wieder nach Putbus gezogen.

PRESS Diesellokomotive 251 901-5 am Zugschluss des “Rasenden Rolands” *Die Pessnitztalbahn werden einige Leser diese Blogs sicher schon kennen. Sie ist auch der Betreiber der Museumsbahn Steinbach - Jöhstadt im wunderschönen Erzgebirge. Auch hier finden 750mm Schmalspurgleise Verwendung. Seit 2008 liegt die Infrastrukturverantwortung für den "Rasenden Roland" bei der PRESS/RüBB. Wie auch im Erzgebirge sind hier alle sehr freundlich und es wirkt hier alles perfekt gemanagt.

Außerhalb des Bahnhofes ist in der recht ruhige Residenzstadt Putbus (Rügens ältestem Seebad) der berühmte Rondellplatz mit seinen weißen Häusern (Circus) zu bestaunen.

Andere Sehenswürdigkeit auf Rügen:

> Kap Arkona (ganz im Norden von Rügen) mit seinen 2 Leuchttürmen

Kap Arkona

> Königsstuhl mit den beeindruckenden Kreidefelsen > Baumwipfelpfad > Die geschichtsträchtige ehemalige KdF Anlagen Prora > Oldtimer-Museum (ehem. Eisenbahn- und Technikmuseum Prora)

The “Speedy Roland” on the island of Rügen

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As you may have seen from the last posts, I spent a few days on Rügen. Beside fantastic landscapes and the beautiful Baltic Sea you can find here the famous "Rasender Roland". A 750mm narrow gauge railroad, which can look back on a history until the year 1895.

Here still daily steam is driven. The route of the "Rasender Roland" connects the following places (places in brackets are demand stops):

Göhren - (Philippshagen) - Baabe - Sellin East - (Sellin West) - (Garftitz) - (hunting lodge) - Binz - (Serams) - (Seelvitz) - (Posewald) - (Beuschow) - Putbus LB - Lauterbach Mole

Steam train friends get a lot of fun here. The RüBB has a large number of steam locomotives and also the wagon material is all historical and in fabulous condition.

“Rasender Roland” Steam locomotive 99 783 at Binz Station

Along the route there are (like at all on Rügen) very beautiful sights. Therefore a day ticket, with which you can get in and out wherever you want, is worth even more.

In Sellin-East there is the beautiful Sellin pier. Sellin is an inviting place with a beautiful promenade that ends at the pier. The pier is also the landing stage for excursion boats, where you can go to the famous chalk cliffs. Especially in the evening (when the pier is illuminated) it is a nice place to stay.

Sellin Pier in the evening hours

Not far from Sellin lies the seaside resort Binz. Also here you can see the beautiful bathing architecture, a nice beach and of course a pier.

Binz - Pier

Close to Binz is the station Jagdschloß. In the middle of the wooded hill chain between Binz and Sellin, on a mountain, there is the hunting lodge Granitz, which Prince Malte von Putbus had built in the middle of the 19th century. In the middle of the castle-like building there is a 38m high round tower which can be used as a lookout point (because of Corona there are some restrictions at the moment).

Granitz hunting lodge (staircase inside the main tower)

A highlight for railroad enthusiasts is of course the Putbus LB station, which also serves as the operating point for the "Rasender Roland".

Here you can see more of the daily operation of the Bäderbahn and the associated connections (e.g. diesel railcars to Bergen) and the three-rail connection to Lauterbach Mole. Here a diesel locomotive is attached to the "Rasender Roland", which accompanies the train to Lauterbach and pulls it on the way back to Putbus. In Lauterbach there is no possibility to turn the locomotive or to hang it to the other end of the train. Therefore the train to Putbus is pulled back to Putbus by a blue diesel locomotive of the Pressnitztalbahn* (PRESS).

PRESS Diesel locomotive 251 901-5 at the end of the train of the "Rasender Roland

*Some readers of this blog will probably already know the Pessnitztalbahn. It is also the operator of the museum railroad Steinbach - Jöhstadt in the beautiful Erzgebirge. Also here 750mm narrow gauge tracks are used. Since 2008 the responsibility for the infrastructure of the "Rasender Roland" lies with the PRESS/RüBB. As in the Erzgebirge, everyone here is very friendly and everything seems to be perfectly managed.

Outside the station, in the quite quiet residential town of Putbus (Rügen's oldest seaside resort), you can admire the famous Circus square with its white houses.

Other sights on Rügen:

> Cape Arkona (very north of Rügen) with its 2 lighthouses > Königsstuhl with the impressive chalk cliffs > treetop path > The historical former KdF plant Prora > Oldtimer museum (former railroad and technology museum Prora)

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