#ashcliff

[101flavoursofweird]

Chapters: 10/10 Fandom: Layton Kyouju Series | Professor Layton Series Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Flora Reinhold, Original Characters Additional Tags: Layton Kyouju | Professor Layton Spoilers, older flora fic, in which flora solves a mystery, and girlbosses, and processes a lot of grief, there is death and catharsis, that's what professor layton is all about babey, also we are just pretending the anime didn't happen because i truly cannot be bothered Summary:

Six years after leaving St Mystere, Flora is an adventurous young woman pursuing a career as a journalist where she hopes to learn how to solve mysteries. But sooner than she thinks, she is thrown headfirst into a mystery in the remote Ashcliff House, where a little girl claims people in her family cannot die. With only her wits to guide her, Flora must investigate this strange old house and its residents, and find the answer to this death-defying puzzle.

Because ghosts don't exist... do they?

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Finally finished reading this fic! A amazing Flora-solo mystery fic!

#professor layton #fanfic rec #flora reinhold #pl fic #Justice for Flora

[thatscarletflycatcher]

I raided Project Gutenberg the other day, and I bring you:

One pleasant surprise:

Washington Irving's Bracebridge Hall. The narrator visits the manor house of that name, and paints a portrait of its inhabitants, surroundings, visitors, and customs. Subplot about g*psies aside, a short and enjoyable read if you like costumbrist storytelling.

One interesting concept which execution is worth studying to try and pick apart why and where it went wrong:

August First, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray. Somewhere in the US, a parish vicar is left in charge of office hours while the pastor is away on vacation. A young woman comes in, determined to commit suicide that very night unless he can confirm to her in no uncertain terms that she'll go to Hell. The vicar manages to talk her into waiting for a letter where he will try to convince her not to end her life. The concept itself could be interesting enough if the first third of the novel wasn't dedicated to long philosophical and theological arguments against suicide (effectively making the "lesson" that should be at the end of the story appear on the first part? It's very strangely structured), and the plot events weren't so rushed and constrained in the last third.

A novel that seems like a riot and that I will most likely DNF:

Ashcliffe Hall, by Emily Sarah Holt. You know you are in for something when the book opens with a detailed description of what the characters are wearing. The kind that reminds you of My Immortal, in a way. The author died in 1893, but you could swear she was born to write screenplays, as her style has a strong, visual, cinematic turn. The story is, however, set in the 1600s, and I have reached a scene where a group of Catholics are conspiring to do some Very Important Secret Mission For The KingTM, which, coupled with the fact that the author is known for her evangelical, protestant themes, which tells me this is likely to go in a direction I won't like. I can tolerate Charlotte Brontës anti-Catholic antics, but I have a limit.

[sscnguine]

embracing my punk/goth side by drawing blake in punk and goth clothing

#hi my name is blake dark'ness dementia raven ashcliff

[alexdoodle]

OC lineup all done!!!!!!! I love all my beautiful kids.... 💖💖💖

#original art #original character #nix #echo #yastra #arius #kel ashcliffe #ronan #keros #myart

[krastbannert]

3, 18 and 25 for Corvin, please. Also if you have something a bit more on the happy side to share, I would love to read that as well :)

Happy things? In an angsty ask game? Don't think that works, amigo.

...just kidding! So, something happy? Well, a couple things I can think of for this. First, he's really not good at reading (he has like...maybe a 3rd-4th grade reading level, equivalent - he's not dumb, he just never really got taught to read beyond what he absolutely needed, which wasn't much), but he's discovered he actually loves to read. In a slightly more hilarious note, he has a somewhat graphic tattoo on his thigh of a naked mermaid with the words "Hey Baby" above her. This made Rya very perturbed when she found out about it.

Now, to the asks!

3. What is your OC’s worst memory?

The day his father - an Ashcliffe City Guard - died in a freak training accident, one of the other City Guards came to tell him what happened, and take him to a local orphanage. He cried himself to sleep that night, because he'd lost the only thing he had resembling a family, and he was thrust into hell (the orphanage was...not a kind place).

18. What is the worst possible ending for your OC and why?

Ever since his father died, and he was left alone in the world, he's been searching for a family, a real family. Corvin's worst possible ending is one where he never finds that in his life, where he ends up cold and alone with nothing to show for his entire life.

25. What does your OC love most, and what would they do to keep it?

Corvin really...doesn't have anything in his life. Everything he had in the world, he left behind when he ran away from Ashcliffe aboard the Blue. I wish I could continue but saying any more than that would, legitimately, be spoilers for Sins of the Past.

#krast answers asks #@likelalikesmuffins #corvin alara neumeyer #songs of the sea #ask game #my ocs

[underthekissingmoon]

Archaeological Records from Pennington Wellseley

Excerpts from "Into the Realm of the Ancients" and "Four Years Among Ancients". #illyriancodices #ichlowand #ethnography

“The Southern Ashcliffe Peninsula is a swampy mire meant only for the most adventurous of souls and this is especially true along its coastlines where the fingers of land reaching into the sea well up with chemical compounds that belong in the acid pools of the innermost Nihiran Plains. The heat is oppressive, the air sticky. Bathing quickly becomes an exercise in frustration because there is no…

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#ethnography #fantasy #fiction #high fantasy #Ichlowand #mythology #science fiction #soft scifi #the illyrian codices

[bunniewartooth]

Shutter Island

Seen Shutter Island? Check out the book!

by Dennis Lehane Length: 369 Pages Published April 15th 2003 by William Morrow Medium of Consumption: Paperback The Rundown: Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane sits on an island in the cold Atlantic waters eleven miles off the Boston shore.  Ashcliffe houses only the most violent patients, and unfortunately one has escaped.  U.S. Marshalls Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule have been sent to…

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#book review #books #currently reading #fiction #mystery #thriller

[daydreamsanddarksides]

Nightmares. We all have them, you know. Oh yes, even the bravest among you. We all fear the things that hide in the dark. Perhaps they look like monsters, crawling, oozing things, insectile or grotesque, twisted. Or perhaps, worse still, they're not monstrous at all. Perhaps they look very much like you and I. That is the tricky thing about nightmares, you see. They needn't stay in the dark at all.

an excerpt from “Ashcliff”, a story by daydreamsanddarksides.tumblr.com

#nightmare #dark #grunge #depression #ashcliff

[alexdoodle]

The boys are getting married!💛💚❤ For the occasion, Benny and Kel are wearing each an hairpin from Heron, Benny and Heron an earring from Kel and Kel and Heron rings handmade by Benny. They're so in love you guys 😊❤ (@losebetter & @erebones )

#original art #original character #kel ashcliffe #benny borden #heron luther #its the boys yallllllllllll #myart #love them more than anything

[alexdoodle]

Forever my favorite boys do y'all understand how much I LOVE THESE KIDS?!?! (ft @erebones & @losebetter )

#original art #original character #benny borden #heron luther #kel ashcliffe

[alexdoodle]

BOYS BOYS BOYS 💚❤️ (Heron is @erebones 's and Kel is mine)

#original art #original character #myart #nudity cw #heron luther #kel ashcliffe

[alexdoodle]

This is what my dream woman looks like.

#original art #original character #tilra ashcliffe #myart

[alexdoodle]

Kel and his boys 💛💚

(Benny belongs to @losebetter and Heron to @erebones )

#original art #original character #kel ashcliffe #benny borden #heron luther #big gay mood in my house today

[alexdoodle]

Boys part 3! Kel is mine Benny belongs to @losebetter

#original art #original character #benny borden #kel ashcliffe #myart #its them good boys!!!!

[krastbannert]

worldbuilding ask number 10 and 15 for your own world, because I wanna know about the political structure

You just opened a huge can of worms. So, in Songs of the Sea, there is no "one-world government". There's some international organizations ala the post-First World War League of Nations, but no world government. There are...many, many, many countries and city-states.

I'll do my best to give some sort of overview, though.

10. Is there a single leader, multiple, or are decisions made by the people? If the former, how are the leaders chosen? If the latter, how are decisions made?

In terms of "major" powers, there's a variety of governments, but most are monarchies of some form. The Heliran Empire is a form of constitutional monarchy where the emperor/empress is the head of government whose decisions must be ratified by legislature, while the Auroran Empire, Kasoni Empire, and Kingdom of Mastar are absolute monarchies. The Confederacy of Rivair is an oligarchy ruled by a "Grand Council" of 5 elected members, who collectively hold executive power, and a larger legislative bodies that makes laws and ratifies decisions of the Grand Council (nominally, anyways - the reality is that power resides almost completely with the Grand Council).

Another major player, the Republic of Demitria, is a direct democracy. Of additional note are the Free Cities of the Diamond Coast, a collection of more than two dozen city states and their claimed territory (6 of them - Ashcliffe, Springstream, West Bay, Caldera, Laketown, and Riverside - make up the largest powers). These city states have dozens of governments - monarchies, meritocracies, technocracies, oligarchies, republics, theocracies, aristocracies; you name it, it's probably there.

The two most common forms of government are monarchy and republic, in some form. There are also hundreds of tribal confederations across the known world.

Like I said: lots of government types, all over the known world.

15. What is the social structure like? Are their classes or castes? Does treatment depend on class or is everyone treated equally?

Again, depends mostly on where exactly are you, but most nations are pretty equal. The Kingdom of Mastar has some somewhat strict caste requirements, and they're not always easy to circumvent, but generally civil or military service is an easy way to get around them (this is how Ilaera's family became nobility - her father became a military officer). Some of the nations of Calavai, Larosha, and Nifaël, have stricter classes, but it's very dependent on the particular culture of that nation - in the Republic of Demitria or the Free Cities, for example, castes/classes are all but non-existent, while in Rivair, for all its pretense as a democracy, class factors into many decisions.

So, again, very situational. Depends nation-to-nation, culture to culture. I'm not trying to be evasive, I swear, it's just that this world is somewhat similar to our own in that there are widespread cultural, religious, and national differences.

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Asks came from this list!

#krast answers asks #@struggling-author #songs of the sea #ask game

[underthekissingmoon]

Transcript: Build (Einstein-Rosen) Bridges Not Fences

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L: “Welcome back to Build Bridges Not Fences. I’m Lyra, with my co-host the lovely and brilliant Xia’ja who is known far and wide as lovely and brilliant. For those listeners just joining us, Xia, would you give them a recap of what’s been…

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