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infrxred · 6 months

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Damien Bloodmarch/M! Reader

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“Dad! Are you dead?!”

Is the first thing I hear when I open my eyes. I yawn and stretch my arms, propping myself up on my forearms to look around. I see my daughter, Amanda, in the far corner of my room. She seems to be touching around my vanity. I see her pull a few things from my drawers.

“Hey! Are you stealing my rings?”

I stumble out of bed in my drowsy state and I nearly fall flat on my face. I pick myself up and walk over to Amanda. She puts her hands up in defense as I approach her.

“Knew that’d get you out of bed. Freshen up, pops, let’s go to the mall.”

I never knew I’d get bossed around by my own kid until now. Or even allow it to happen, but I do. I comply with Manda’s demands and I get myself ready for the day.

I meet up with Amanda in my car and we begin driving. The scenery of Maple Bay was breathtakingly beautiful. It was much better than the loud city I had came from. I look over to Amanda who was texting rapidly on her phone. I rustle her hair a bit.

“So, whaddya think of the new neighborhood?”

“Dad, we’ve only been here a day.”

“Well..yeah, but we haven’t fully explored.”

“For good reason, you were totally winded when we got all the stuff in the house.”

“I am not as young as I used to be.”

I chuckle, looking back at the road occasionally to reaffirm that I’m not about to crash.

“You have any friends yet?” I tease.

“Do you?”

She counters with a smug expression. I raised her well.

“Of course I do there’s uhm..”

Shit.

What was that guy’s name? Christian dude. Creepy twins. Hottie Mclovely. He brought a plate of cookies the other day..

“Justin..?”

She erupts with laughter and I sulk in my seat. My face reddens, knowing I completely butchered it.

“Wasn’t his name Joseph?”

“Yeah I obviously knew that I was..I was testing you, to see how well you know our neighbors. Congrats, you passed.”

I pull into the parking lot of the mall. Amanda runs out of the car as if she’d been kidnapped and makes a beeline for the entrance. I jog over to her in a desperate attempt to catch up. I meet her by a pretzel stand and I heave, putting my hands on my knees to catch my breath.

“Where..where do ya wanna go, Manda Panda?”

I gasp for air dramatically in an attempt to embarrass Amanda. She only laughs at my behavior.

“You already know, pops.”

We walk over to Dead, Goth, and Beyond. I haven’t been in one of these stores since I was 16. Although when I walk in, it’s less loud and dark as it was a few years ago.

Amanda runs off into the t-shirt section before I could get a word in. I’m sure she can manage on her own. I awkwardly walk around, not sure where to go first.

I end up in the mug section and look at funny-looking cups alike. I browse a little more to gawk at the cheesy text. A certain mug catches my eye and not for the sake of comedic purpose. I see a beautiful ornate tea set. The careful floral details were magnificent. I step closer and I reach for it.

I feel the cold tea cup underneath my fingers, along with a warm sensation atop my hand. I look carefully and there’s a pale hand directly on mine. My eyes travel to the owner of the arm and I see a tall man standing beside me, probably reaching for the set as well. I step back for a moment, looking flustered.

“My apologies. I assume you were interested in this tea set as well?”

The man expresses politely.

“Yeah, I was..”

I trail off. God, why is this so awkward.

“Hmm..I see. Would you mind if I take it? It would look great alongside my collection.”

My head perks up at this. Come on, let’s be civil.

“Oh. I uh..sorry, but no? I was actually interested in this specific tea set. I mean, I haven’t got much..porcelain myself.”

I awkwardly explain, trying to stand my ground.

His eyes narrow at this as if he expected me to give it up instantly.

“Really now?” He hums. He looks like he’s holding back some words.

“Really.” I shift awkwardly in place.

“If you’re so interested in this piece, it should be safe to ask you what time period the detailing was inspired of, correct?” He asks, stepping closer to me.

I wasn’t prepared for trivia today. I rack my brain, thinking of any time period I learned in history class.

“..The..Baroque period..?” I answer hesitantly.

He smirks in a pretentious manner.

“Good guess. By the floral arrangements and color combinations, it’s most likely this work was inspired by the Victorian era in England.” He says, taking the tea set from my hands.

“Hey—“ I begin, but he retreats to the cash register before I can finish my sentence.

I sigh in defeat and walk around to find Amanda.

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Amanda finishes her mall-run and we drive back to our home. I pull into our driveway after a few minutes of driving, with Amanda blasting My Chemical Romance the entire way back.

I step out of the car and give Amanda the keys to the house. I walk over to the mailboxes in front of the cul-de-sac, where everyone had to go to access their mail. I fumble through my pockets to find the key to my mailbox.

I eventually find it and I reach to open my mailbox. Until I feel a hand on mine.

Please no.

I hesitantly look up and see the same man from the mall.

This day is going well. Totally.

I clear my throat and step back, keeping my eyes glued to the floor.

“Fancy seeing you here.”

He greets

“Probably. I just moved here, actually.”

I chuckle nervously.

He looks at me and moves his head with my eyes, trying to meet my gaze. He grabs my hand lightly which catches my attention, causing me to make eye contact with him. I blush slightly.

“Look, I would like to apologize for my behavior at the mall earlier. It was un-gentlemanly for me to grab the tea set from you and run off.”

He seems sincere, so I smile and nod my head.

“It’s alright, don’t worry about it. You definitely deserve the tea set, I’m genuinely impressed by your knowledge on the subject.”

He smiles and his eyes light up, as if he had an idea.

“If you’d like, I’d be glad to have you over some time for tea? As a greeting to this neighborhood, of course.”

My eyes widen, but I’m grateful nonetheless.

“Oh. Yes, I would love to. Thanks for the invite..?”

I trail off, suggesting I’d want his name.

“Damien, Bloodmarch.”

“Right, Damien. I’ll find you later?”

“I look forward to it.”

We shake hands and I walk back to my house. I shut the door behind me and smile brightly like a teenage girl.

“Ooo~ Someone’s got a date?”

Amanda gawks while leaning against the windowsill.

“Were you spying on me?”

I put my hands on my hips, trying to act serious.

“Nuh uh. But aren’t you forgetting something, pops?”

I think for a moment and I fall silent.

“Amanda, are you making a joke? What could I be forgetting?”

“The mail.”

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HI THANK YOU FOR READING THIS ! I might write another part to detail the “date” but only if it’s demanded of me 😭

I apologize if there’s any grammatical errors, I don’t proofread my work which is a bad habit of mine, I don’t suggest picking it up— Expect to see a shit ton of DDADDS content on my page, I just got back into the game which is unfortunate..in a way.

#fanfic #ddadds #dream daddy #damien bloodmarch #male reader #damien bloodmarch/reader #dream daddy a dad dating simulator #fluff #amanda ann #dadsona #reader is dadsona

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signalwatch · 6 months

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X - 2022

Watched: 10/27/2023

Format: Paramount+

Viewing: First

Director: Ti West

A xerox of a xerox of movies you've seen before, the greatest sin of X, the 2022 horror smash, is that it's fundamentally boring.

Look, I don't make the movies, I just watch them, and when you're drawing obvious comparisons to your own movie, in the movie, and you choose to draw the audience's attention to Psycho (which I happened to have just watched), you're soft-breaking the cardinal movie rule of not showing a better movie during your own movie. But, yes, the movie is a slow build for literally the first hour of people making a porn film in a rustic cabin on some farmer's property in the middle of East Texas nowhere, with some light hints that something is up with the elderly owners of the farm/ ranch-land where the filming is taking place.

The problem with this, imho, is that Writer/ Director Ti West is under the impression that by borrowing Psycho's slow build and pivot, which he calls out, he's doing the same thing. But we're 62 years on, we've all seen a lot of movies, and at this point I was looking at my watch instead of the movie when we don't get our first kill til 58 minutes into a 105 minute film. I don't know how to tell Ti West - my man, Hitch did this 30 years into perfecting tension in movies. This ain't that.

The actors are good enough, with only one of them doing anything resembling a Texas accent, and the rest doing movie-southern. I won't get into the nuance of Houston accents, because that's tedious, but I will point out the suggestion is that they're in Houston at the start, but Ti West means Pasadena, where they filmed Urban Cowboy around the same time.

Weirdly, the movie is filmed in New Zealand, doubling for East Texas, and it's a surprisingly good match, if you've driven through that region. Flat with patches of tall trees and plenty cleared for farming and ranching. What I can't buy is that a building built in the 1920's, let alone during the Civil War, would still be standing without major restoration effort, given the weather and mold of Texas anywhere within 3 hours of the Gulf.

The pitch of the movie is essentially "old people are scary, and more so if it's clearly low-budget old-age makeup". What drives the elderly woman, Pearl, to murder, is that she's horny, and unable to sate her endless desire as she once did with her husband, and, we assume, many other lovers. I'm unsure if we're supposed to find old people having sexual desire frightening - I personally don't, and am perfectly aware old folk's homes can basically have the the same amount of hanky panky happening behind closed doors as freshmen dorms.

Why lust turns to homicide, I can't say. And the movie doesn't care to make it clear. But we're told that seeing Maxine, played by new indie film darling Mia Goth as both Maxine and Pearl (under makeup) and catching bits of the filming, her desires are stoked, and when she's rebuffed, she gets stabby.

It's an interesting decision. The way Pearl is played is as a frail old woman, and its kind of tough to buy she or her husband can do much but shuffle around the house hoping not to break a hip. There's no magic or anything, just a misdirected libido and a too-understanding husband.

But, yeah, you'll watch the movie and say "huh, that's Boogie Nights. That's Lake Placid. That's Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That's Psycho." and so on and so forth. In it's way, it's just another "ooooOOOoooOOoooo people who live in non-urban places are creeeeeepy" movie. But the cast is small, they're all written to be morons. It takes *forever* to get from death to death as the movie *finally* gets around to being a horror film. But none of its that interesting (I did have a laugh at the reference to the actual farmer's daughter joke reference in the movie, even if it made literally no sense).

I think maybe West is trying to say something about sex, but it's kind of like - nothing particularly interesting. So.

Anyway.. it's fine. If all you're looking for is a movie where people get murdered, this is that. I won't watch it again, but go nuts on your fandom here. I found the pacing absolutely deadly, and the attempts to repackage better films kind of ill-conceived.

Oh, yeah, this also has Jenna Ortega, who is having her breakout year, and she's pretty good! As is the entire cast, I guess.

#movies #horror #x #movie reviews

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writer-and-artist27 · 3 years

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Or, ships are finally settled in one universe. Ayako’s tired, I think. (Ayako belongs to Pan, though, not me! She’s included just because I got Pan’s permission to do so.) Newcomer Gray is just taking in things.

Dedicated to @panyum and @partialdignity, since I wouldn’t have gotten this far without their support. Not to mention @withanina, because friendly energy does good things. (=ﾟ▽ﾟ)/

Also, I think I can let myself post silly romance fluff things after a bad midterm result. -`д´-

FFN link here, along with the OST list, new song included. Translated lyrics to the song can be found here.

Now to go study my butt off.

#passing days #fanfiction update #robin hood #ayako #mastersona Vy #fate grand order #writing #links #gray #tamamo no mae #scathach skadi #archer emiya #written just in time with case files raid finishing #np5 gray is best gray :)#not that she was bad before #but goth daughter is good civilization #robinvy #roby

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foreveraphan14 · 3 years

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So um the ocs are Danny's and Sam's future kids

*inhales* *exhales that slowly turns into screaming*

OKAY...so, I found the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpHGc5hFeb0&t=433s

Okay, first off, lets get this out of the way, Jackson and Misty.

I'm okay with the name Jackson for the son, but not Misty for their daughter. I figured that her name would be Lilith cause I'm sure that it would be Sam's choice to name her. It was the name she used for the flower sack so I think she would be dead set on naming her after a demon cause that's goth af.

Second, I'm not a fan of the clothing designs for these kids, especially the color schemes. It looks like he was trying to combine a jumpsuit design with average clothing and it just doesn't work. Also, why would they want to have their fathers insignia on their clothes? It's literally the equivalent of when Jack and Maddie put "Fenton" on practically everything.

As for the color scheme, it doesn't work either. Both Danny and Sam's hair are black, and unless the kids dyed their hair, it should be white in ghost form. Also something about them having a the same dominant color for not only their clothes, but their hair and eyes, is just too much. I guess you could say that Danny's was the same with the black and white theme, but at least the color of his eyes were different color for it to feel right or balanced out. It made you focus your eyes on something, but here, I don't know what to focus on.

So apparently, they find out the have ghost powers when they turn 10 years old??? That doesn't make any sense on it's own.

As for powers. While Jackson gets ice powers and teleportation, Misty gets ghost fire and can create ghost portals. Other abilities aside from basic ghost powers (flight, invisibility, and intangibility), that's all that was mentioned. Now I know that they'll get more when they're older, but can they do other things like basic ghost rays, overshadowing, will one of them inherit Danny's ghostly wail? Who knows.

Also, they'll be fighting the offspring of some of Danny's villains?? Let's be honest, you know as well the I do that they'll be friends with those kids. Just by looking at Jackson alone, you know he's gonna be rocking out with Ember and her kids. And Misty defiantly looks like she hangs out with Kitty and Johnny's kids. Maybe that's why her hair's green.

Okay, onto the villains, dubbed "The Faceless". (pretty basic name choice but anyway)

The designs are neat, but they look more like ancient ghost zone scholars, than living breathing creatures though. (how do they breath, talk and eat btw) If he's dead set on these guys being the aliens, it's not good at all. Don't get me wrong, I really like these designs, but nothing about these guys scream, aliens from outer space. Like I said, they look more like something we'd see in the ghost zone, like they were in charge of ancient ghost zone archivists or something like a whole civilization lost to time.

So these things follow Vlad and...

Can we, can we talk about Vlad for a hot second? Don't get me wrong, I like Vlad as much as the next guy, but I'm so sick of his ass being a constant mention in Butch's videos. Mostly because of the type of character he became during the last season, especially the last episode where they completely made into a Saturday morning cartoon villain with the whole becoming ruler of the world and the worlds fortune nonsense. What type of cliché motives are they??? And now that's just his entire character now!?

This whole, Vlad being captured by aliens thing is just ridiculous considering that the dude obviously looked like he died at the end of PP. He gets slammed into an a giant asteroid the size of like a town or city. That's death on it's own, but on top of that, the thing's made out of ectoranium, literally just ghost kryptonite that floats in space for some reason, and hurts like hell if a ghost touches it. So even if he somehow manages to survive the initial impact by some miracle, he'll be essentially tortured to death by the substance.

So now the dude has this huge grudge against Danny for some reason?? It was his own damn fault for his actions and being cast out into space?????

I'm getting off topic, so back to the Faceless. So they follow Vlad back to earth, for some reason, he broke out of their prison or something, and they want to capture Jackson and Misty to obtain their abilities for teleportation and ghost portals because it would make space travel a lot faster. Even though they could just probably find a natural portal and go into the ghost zone and go from there to get what they want, but they're specifically after the kids.

And that's it, that's all there is.

I feel heavily bothered with the whole alien thing now. Which is weird cause I remember a headcanon that since ghost portals can apparently open up in space, some of the ghosts that we see are the ghosts from alien planets that migrated to the ghost zone on earth after their planets got destroyed or something.

But I guess when Butch involves aliens in a show about fighting ghosts, it's just bad.

What a waste.

#yep #ask me stuff #danny phantom #butch hartman

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dragynkeep · 3 years

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moms in rwby on a list from best to ultra shit

+ saphron & terra. best sapphic moms out there. they love their baby, he is very well cared for & they also adopted like 8 kids bc their brother brought them home & so they were like okay who wants sandwiches. love them.

+ summer. from all accounts a very badass mom, who clearly balanced her work & home lives well. wish we actually knew more about her & she wasn’t so idolized because i would love a little more meat to her beyond “saint like mom who didn’t do a thing wrong.”

+ an. another great mom! loves her son, allows him personal freedom & a little backchat playfully, trusts him with chores. spent her last moments reassuring him even though she herself must’ve been terrified. queen shit.

0 pyrrha’s mom. i wish we knew?? anything about her???? good mom for bringing flowers to her daughter’s statue though. hate the line that pyrrha died doing what a huntress does. nah. we hate that shit.

0 kali. by all accounts has a good relationship with blake but the fact nothing was done to rescue blake from the terrorist organization she was in even though by all accounts kali doesn’t have a job??? nah. also fuck that line in the comics she told blake about “women need to civilize men” like girl that almost put you in the negatives.

0 lil miss malachite. good job on not having your children be part of your criminal underground gang??

- thirsty moms. stop flirting with a barely legal boy while he’s trying to do his job creeps.

- nora’s mom. we literally know nothing about you besides you suck but honestly with current nora i’d leave her too / j. sorry rwby can’t be more creative than abusive parent you could’ve been interesting.

- willow. listen here just because you have a fat ass & looked sad one last time doesn’t excuse you parentifying your daughter & abusing your children. cry me a river miss bitch, no one cares. be a mom already or shut up.

- raven. do i even need to speak on you. people only give you a pass bc you’re a goth weeb milf yang & we all know it baby.

- salem. you suck so fucking bad die.

#rwby #saphron cotta arc #terra cotta arc #summer rose #an ren #pyrrha's mom #kali belladonna #lil miss malachite #thirsty moms #nora's mom #willow schnee #raven branwen #salem #owl.txt #WHY DONT PYRRHA OR NORA'S MOMS HAVE NAMESSSSS

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seattlesea · 3 years

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bad representation in the riordanverse

Racism:

-Gave Hazel and Piper gold and ‘kaleidoscope’/brown-blue-green changing eyes and pretty much went ‘Let’s add some characters of color but they cANT HAVE BROWN EYES THAT’S NOT PRETTY ENOUGH’ as if whitewashing isn’t more than just the skin.

-East Asian characters: Riordan pretty much went 'Here are my East Asian characters- one of them looks like a fat baby on steroids and is super undeveloped, his mother is strict and cold, and all the others are just described as 'Asian' because different countries in Asia don't exist and there's obviously no difference between Japanese, Chinese, and Korean'. His portrayal of East Asian characters went like this: Frank: Chinese, chubby, hates himself, underdeveloped, described to look like a 'Chinese Canadian baby man' and a 'panda' as if that's not stereotyping, and only learned to love himself when he looked hotter. Drew: Asian, villainized, rude, shallow, vain, and selfish. Ethan: Asian, rude, evil, a traitor, and deceased. Grandma Zhang- rude, strict, cold, traditional, and deceased.

-Hazel: Has gold eyes. Has 'cinnamon brown' hair even though dark brown or black hair would be way more inclusive and realistic. Had a mother portrayed as a rude and selfish witch who sacrificed, used, and trafficked her own child. Was the only character called or described as a witch while African-Americans were usually accused of witchcraft just for their skin color. Was the only character who was cursed. Had a mother who literally practiced voodoo. The only African-American character in the series before ToA who isn't dead (but she also died). Was paired with a sixteen year old guy even though African women are constantly forced with older men and that's blatantly racist stereotyping.

-Piper: Had 'chocolate brown' and then 'mahogany' hair? Has kaleidoscope eyes. Put a feather in her hair (which is stereotyping)- and it was an eagle feather, which is also wrong because eagles are extremely sacred to First Nation tribes and only spiritual leaders or warriors can wear it or it has to be gifted by an Elder of the tribe, and Riordan basically went 'Feathers are very important and it's racist to make a character wear one at inappropriate times but I'm going to make my character wear one as a cute accessory to make her look cool, pretty, and headstrong and to add to her 'Aesthetic'’ even though Cherokees didn’t wear feathers (which proves he did the bare minimum of research). Constantly oversexualized (56% of First Nation women are sexually harassed and Riordan had the audacity to put Piper in an 'embarrassingly low v-neck' and to have her constantly drooled over by a WHITE MALE and have her sexualized by her 1000+ mother without her knowledge or consent). It's said that her father was from a reservation in Oklahoma...but there are no reservations in Oklahoma, only cultural centers (which also proves that he did the bare minimum of research). She's the only First Nations character and she's the only character (besides Nancy Bobofit) depicted as a kleptomaniac (First Nations people are constantly called thieves by racist assholes). “The week before, he’d turned down several million dollars to play Tonto in a remake of The Lone Ranger. Piper was still trying to figure out why. He’d played all kinds of roles—a Latino teacher in a tough L.A. school, a dashing Israeli spy in an action-adventure blockbuster, even a Syrian terrorist in a James Bond movie. And, of course, he would always be known as the King of Sparta. But if the part was Native American—it didn’t matter what kind of role it was—Dad turned it down.” (The Lost Hero, page 165). So her father is fine with playing an extremely racist and stereotypical Middle Eastern role but not a First Nations role. Uses a cornucopia as a weapon (how she got it- cutting it off a half-bull- is disrespectful to her culture as hurting an animal is banned and she used a cornucopia- a symbol of Thanksgiving- as a weapon). Cut her hair, which is basically taboo in First Nations culture.

-Samirah: Had an arranged marriage (at age twelve, and she believed that she was groomed to be married to a rich and respectable family and nothing else). Ripped off her hijab in front of tons of male characters. The only Muslim character. The only Muslim character and she's the only character who married her cousin (you're supposed to break stereotypes, not enforce them).

Thomas Jefferson Jr: Said that he was thankful to the British for not siding with the South during the American Civil War even though they needed the South's cotton (but they didn't side with the North either). AKA a black man and son of a freed slave was thankful to Britain for not openly oppressing him? And at the same time he was named after a racist slave-owner.

Reyna: She's brown and her entire story revolves around her being independent, strong, alone, and self-sufficient but also desperately needing love and support but then Riordan says that she can't get her heart healed AKA she went through an abusive home, killed her father, left her sister, felt alone her whole life, worked a two-person job alone for months, and had to put on a brave face for others throughout all this then was literally told 'Shut up no one wants to hear about your struggles, just suck it up and deal with it’ and have you seen all the shit brown girls have to go through and keep silent about it?

Extra: -Latino, Puerto Rican, African-American, Chinese-Canadian, East Asian, First Nations, etc. characters and the two most powerful, best, and most skilled characters and who the stories mostly revolve around are two white guys AKA white supremacy.

-"Harriet Tubman, daughter of Hermes, used many mortals on her Underground Railroad for just this reason" and that World War II was caused by a child of Zeus and a child of Hades fighting very blatantly erases the shit those people went through and Riordan just went 'Let's use these racist movements as little easter eggs in my story'.

-Thanatos, who was chained and enslaved, is described with dark skin.

-Riordan writing the characters went a little something like this: Drew: You get common Eastern Asian features like dark hair and eyes because you're arrogant, selfish, conceited, and rude, and because you're an antagonist and you're going to be used to make one of my protagonists- who has unique traits- look good so you're going to have the basic, 'boring' physical traits so the readers know who's the more superior of the two of you. Leo: You get common Latino features like curly dark hair, dark eyes, and light brown skin cause you're the weird, hyperactive unattractive one who's very flirty but constantly gets rejected and you're the only main character without a love interest and the only way you can get a girlfriend is when she's forced to fall in love with you through a curse. Frank: You get common Chinese features like dark hair and eyes cause you're the fat unattractive loser who catches the eye of the African character who already has unique and 'special' traits so you don't have to be super attractive. Reyna: You get common Puerto Rican traits like dark skin, hair, and eyes cause you're the stoic, lonely, intimidating, and cold one who wants all the guys (two white guys for that matter) but none of them want you and they both have girlfriends with traits like blonde hair and gray and kaleidoscope eyes so the readers know who are the more interesting couples. Piper and Hazel: You two get eurocentric features because you're the main characters I have to set apart from everyone else- including other females whom I'm going to make one of you rivals with- so the readers know who's more superior so I'm giving you unique eye colors that literally cannot be found in humans so I'm going to try to validate it by saying that it's from something mildly associated with your godly parent even though neither of them have those traits. Riordan basically said that the common features are bad and boring and that unique and special features- aka features not found in those ethnicities- are good and cool. Also- if gods don’t have DNA how can their traits be passed down to their demigod children checkmate Riordan.

-Cecil Markowitz is the only Jewish character in PJO and the first thing used to describe him is "That kid, always thinking about the potential payout".

-Lavinia said that she was going to bring her date to her bat mitzvah even though you don't bring dates to bat mitzvahs or bar mitzvahs and she said that it was 'awkward' to tell her rabbi that someone was going to be her date even though you don't explain your guestlist to your rabbi, and they're most likely not even going to be at the party.

-Only three Latino and Puerto Rican characters (Leo, Reyna, and Hylla) and all three came from abusive households.

-Leo said 'Mamacita' as if that's not stereotyping.

-Made Nico ‘pale’ even though he had olive skin and gave him black hair and dark eyes despite Italians usually having light hair and eyes just to add to his ‘Goth Boy Aesthetic’.

-Hazel described Pluto to look like Adolf Hitler.

-Carter Kane said that Elvis took African-American music and made it sound like rock 'n roll and described it as cool- like no it’s cultural appropriation.

-Leo was abused and Riordan thought that it'd be funny to make all the other characters line up to punch him and then try to make it look funny.

-Gave almost every single POC character a white name and sometimes gave them white first names and POC surnames, and Reyna and Bianca are the only POC characters with names from their culture/native language and one of them is dead and reborn as someone else and the other’s full name wasn’t revealed until the fourth book in her series and she hates using it.

-Made two POC characters with names from their culture- Samirah and Olujime- go by white nicknames (Sam and Jamie) to make it ‘easier to read’ despite having white characters with the same amount of syllables in their names (like Annabeth) that didn’t go by nicknames.

-Never actually described the characters of color with physical traits from their ethnicities (Reyna, Hylla, and Leo with big eyes, thick eyebrows, brown hair, wide noses, full lips, etc., Piper with almost-oriental eyes, shovel teeth, high cheekbones, black hair, etc., Nico with light or brown hair and eyes, olive skin, a narrow nose, etc., Hazel with a wide nose and lips, dark brown eyes, black or dark brown hair, big eyes, thick eyebrows, etc.).

Anti-LGBTQ+:

-Nico was forcibly outed by Cupid and Riordan and the fandom didn't care and the only thing they thought was 'Aww, he has a crush on Percy! So cute!' AKA romanticizing a forced outing.

-Riordan said that he didn't want to make Reyna lesbian or bisexual because he thought it'd be stereotypical making her LGBTQ+ because she didn't want men anymore even though she could've been bisexual all along but Riordan casually dismissed the idea of that saying "Having a girl end up with a woman after dating men is a bad stereotype" and basically said that real bi girls don’t exist.

-The Hunters of Artemis were made so Artemis/Diana could protect those girls from men and their behavior towards women but Riordan dismissed lesbian relationships- even though nothing about that was said in real Greek mythology- meaning that he thinks that women need protection from other women just as much as they need protection from men.

-Alex Fierro is the only gender-fluid or transgender character and she/he’s seen as rude, snarky, and sharp and Magnus could magically tell when Alex changed gender.

-Riordan said that he wouldn’t make Reyna a lesbian because of stereotypes despite the reader asking if Reyna was going to get a girlfriend, not come out as lesbian AKA Riordan thinks ‘Girls liking girls’ is automatically ‘lesbian’ and completely dismissed bi, pan, poly, omni, etc. girls.

-Used a self-insert to make fun of wlw readers who saw themself in Reyna and thought she could be a cool character to relate to.

-Enforced LGBTQ+ stereotypes like the cold-hearted Asexual, the flamboyant bi/pan, the snarky gender-fluid, the emo gay, the laid-back and rebellious lesbian who dyed her hair pink and chews a lot of bubblegum, etc.

-Has one-hundred fifty-five characters total minus gods/goddesses, Titans, giants, nymphs, dryads, satyrs, monsters, etc. and only has fifteen confirmed LGBTQ+ characters (do the math, that’s exactly one out of ten regarding OCs).

-Only one character that isn’t cishet.

-Saves most the LGBTQ+ for the side characters or only confirms characters LGBTQ+ once they’ve become a minor character despite being a main character before.

-Only stated that Reyna was Asexual outside of his books and on Twitter as if that’s not exactly what J.K Rowling is doing.

-Used the LGBTQ+ community to make Piper seem like the ‘special snowflake’ and to set her apart from her siblings to make it seem like she’s better than all of them and used Hera/Juno and Aphrodite/Venus as excuses for his homophobic mindset that believes that straight is the default cause “Suddenly, much of what she and I had talked about started to make sense. Not being defined by Aphrodite’s expectations. Or Hera’s ideas of what a perfect couple looked like. Piper finding her own way, not the one people expected of her” in synonymous words is 'The expectations for love and the idea of a perfect couple are a heterosexual relationship, and anyone who 'finds their own way instead of the ones people expect' are different'. ‘Different’ and ‘default’ are antonyms AKA if he thinks that LGBTQ+ people are ‘different’, he thinks that straight is the ‘default’. Remember- an author writes their own personal beliefs.

-Josephine is the only black LGBTQ+ character.

-Reyna is said to be Asexual despite feeling sexual attraction towards Percy cause no one likes someone five minutes after knowing them and it’s anything but sexual attraction.

-Magnus and Alex are the only LGBTQ+ relationship whose growth and development is actually shown in the story (while there was also Apollo and Commodus, Piper and Shel, Will and Nico, Apollo and Hyacinthus, Emmie and Jo, Lavinia and Poison Oak, etc.).

-Riordan never canonically said the name of any sexuality and is clearly uncomfortable with the LGBTQ+ community shown by his little to no writing regarding physical affection and deep emotions in his LGBTQ+ relationships.

-Only added in LGBTQ+ relationships for publicity- Percy Jackson and the Olympians release dates: 2005-2009. 2005-2009: LGBTQ+ support was nearly at an all-time low. No LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, or references in the books. The Lost Hero-The Mark of Athena release dates: 2010-2012. 2010-2012: LGBTQ+ support was still very low. Still no LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, or references in the books. The House of Hades release date: late 2013. Mid-2013: the giant spike for LGBTQ+ support and allies. One confirmed LGBTQ+ character. The Sword of Summer release date: late 2015. 2015: LGBTQ+ support was good and gay marriage was legalized. A few LGBTQ+ references but no confirmed characters. The Hammer of Thor and The Ship of the Dead release dates: 2016-2017. 2016-2017: LGBTQ+ support was quite high. Two confirmed LGBTQ+ characters and the first canon LGBTQ+ relationship and kiss. The Trials of Apollo release dates: 2016-2020. 2016-2020: LGBTQ+ support was very high. More LGBTQ+ characters confirmed in one book than all the other series combined. Kind of obvious he was just following the public opinion.

-Legit said ‘Reyna can’t like girls cause she has had crushes on guys before’.

Ableism:

-It was heavily implied in The Battle of the Labyrinth that Rachel Dare had schizophrenia/psychosis but it's never brought up again.

-Grover's fake feet made it look like he was disabled from the Mist and it was said that he was bullied because of it but it was never brought up again.

-It was said that Tyson looked like he had down syndrome from the Mist covering his one eye but it was never brought up again.

-It was stated that every character but Frank has ADHD and dyslexia but never actually showed any symptoms after Percy Jackson and the Olympians and characters like Piper and Leo were even able to read English writing throughout The Lost Hero and the only symptom of ADHD Riordan showed through his characters was ‘a lot of fidgeting’ as if that’s not a blatant stereotype.

Pedophilia:

-Luke, a twenty-two/twenty-three year old had a crush on Annabeth, a sixteen year old. That's a six-seven year age gap.

-The only two girls put into relationships with much older men are black (Hazel and Sadie).

-Hazel, a thirteen year old, got together with a sixteen year old guy. Hazel's crush on Frank is normal- a girl having a crush on an older guy, but Frank's crush on Hazel is disgusting- an older guy looking down at a child and thinking about making out with her.

Misogyny:

-Aphrodite's kids are seen as useless, weak, snobby, shallow, vain, and selfish just because they’re feminine.

-Riordan portrayed Aphrodite’s kids as feminine despite Aphrodite being the goddess of love and beauty, not femininity, as if romance and beauty are reserved for women only.

-Piper is the only 'tomboy' child of Aphrodite and she's portrayed as tougher, stronger, and better than her feminine siblings (and it's portrayed that way multiple times throughout the story like other characters telling Piper she’s "-tough for a child of Aphrodite").

-Piper immediately stereotyped and disliked every single feminine character like Drew and the rest of the Aphrodite cabin just because they liked makeup and skirts as if that’s not shallow criticism.

-Feminine characters like Drew, Isabel, Khione, and Medea are used or even created solely as antagonists to make Piper- the tomboy- look better.

-Calypso is the only feminine character and she sucks at everything.

-Riordan’s take on female characters: Drew: a vain, rude, selfish, snobby, and bitchy mean girl. Silena: a shallow traitor. Reyna: a cold-hearted robot. Piper: internalized misogyny that was never brought up again. Calypso: an island whore. Athena: a rude, aggressive bitch with no emotions. Aphrodite: shallow, vain, conceited, and self-centered. Hera: completely evil with no backstory added into it. Marie: an evil witch who selfishly used and sacrificed her daughter.

-The Hunters of Artemis were blessed by Artemis to protect them from men but Riordan made it only about the men in their lives (again) and portrayed the whole 'losing men' thing like it was a burden and that they're 'giving men up' even though they join the Hunters to leave men. He distorted the original meaning of the Hunters- protecting women- by making it about the Hunters hating and being forced to leave men even though they're asking to have no men in their lives, cause that's the point of it.

-The Amazons and Hunters of Artemis despise men and literally attack them if they so much as speak as if sexism is reserved for women only.

-Portrayed femininity as weakness (and masculinity as strength, it’s even in the word- tomBOY).

-Constantly pit women against women for the sake of romance and love triangles instead of normalizing women getting along despite liking the same people and let the female’s relationships get controlled and influenced by the men in their lives.

-The men always outpower the women in powers and skills. Riordan’s portrayal of powers and characters- Percy: You’re going to have epic water powers and can even create your own personal hurricanes and even though you’ve only been canonically training for eight months total you’re going to be the best swordfighter despite multiple characters having years more training than you. Jason: You’re going to be able to fly, control lightning, create storms, and electric shock people into another dimension. Leo: You’re going to be able to create and control fire and blow shit up with just a screwdriver. Frank: You’re going to be able to shape-shift into any animal you want, even a whole dragon. Nico: You’re going to be able to control darkness and shadows, literally teleport, and raise a whole army of undead soldiers. Reyna: Powers? Nah, your only ability is to lend strength to others as if that benefits you at all. Annabeth: Powers? Nah. Piper: You’re going to be able to manipulate and seduce people and are literally going to use your body and attractiveness as a weapon and your power is literally called charmspeak. Hazel: You have more powers than all the other characters combined that can literally destroy anyone in less than a second but you’re never going to use them or even remember that you have them cause screw the female character being more powerful than the males.

-The men always accomplish the most incredible feats and if the females ever do accomplish something great (Reyna healing the riff and defeating Orion while the Hunters and Amazons couldn’t combined, Annabeth going through Tartarus, Hazel learning to control the Mist, etc.) they are never praised or rewarded or all the credit goes to the men.

-Ares/Mars in real Greek/Roman mythology was the feminist patron of the Amazons who loved his daughter very much and killed a rapist but was portrayed as the dumb, cruel asshole who loved nothing but bloodshed and tried to kill a twelve year-old kid who was trying to help him while Poseidon/Neptune in real Greek/Roman mythology was a greedy, short-tempered, and arrogant asshole who raped almost as much women than Zeus/Jupiter but was portrayed as the kind, caring, and gentle father figure.

Fatophobia:

-Frank is the only chubby character and he hates himself because of it, was constantly fat-shamed, and only learned to love himself after he got rippling abs, muscles, and looked hotter (because fat = ugly in Riordan’s mind, even though it's not).

-Clovis was depicted with a pot-belly and Drew described him as 'repulsive'.

-Dionysus/Bacchus is also depicted with a pot-belly and he's portrayed as a useless, rude, lazy, and drunken asshole.

Lookism:

Basically how Riordan wrote his characters- Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Reyna, Hazel, Piper, and most minor protagonists: You’re all going to be super attractive, have at least one character or more pining for you, have your looks constantly commented on, and some of you will even use your looks as a weapon cause that’s not obvious sexualization cause you’re all the main characters and protagonists that readers need to know are the protagonists. Nico, Leo, and Frank: You three are originally portrayed as unattractive but at some points are described as cute and two of you are insecure about your looks cause you’re scrawny and chubby and one of you hates yourself cause of your body and only learn to love yourself once you magically gain abs cause more muscle obviously equals more attractiveness. Luke, Silena, Chris, and Ethan: You four are going to be super attractive because you’re traitors but all of you make up for your actions and decide to help the demigods and become protagonists again. Octavian, Bryce, Michael, Titans, giants, etc.: You all are the antagonists so you have to be super ugly with multiple physical imperfections cause you’re not allowed to be attractive since you are against the protagonists and I have to set you guys apart and show the readers who’s the better and more superior character.

-Frank hated himself cause he was chubby and only loved himself once he got skinnier and gained muscle through magic but even then was called ‘cute like a panda’.

-Leo was described as scrawny and unattractive and was insecure about being short but even then was called ‘cute in a scrawny way’.

-Piper had facial imperfections and even a pimple on her nose but once she got claimed all of those disappeared and they stayed gone even after the blessing washed off despite all the magic being gone and only then was Piper’s looks commented on multiple times.

-Lester/Apollo hated his appearance cause he had a little flab and acne and his physical imperfections were used as comedy by making fun of it as if insecure readers don’t exist.

-Percy and Annabeth had one canon physical imperfection- a gray streak in their hair- and that magically washed away.

-None of the other characters were described with any physical imperfections like pimples/zits/acne, body hair (despite none of the characters having the care or time to wax or shave), bushy/frizzy or messy hair or eyebrows, big or small hands or noses, blackheads, super thick or thin eyebrows, blemishes, birthmarks, scars, stretch marks, braces, lazy eyes, yellow or chipped teeth, eye bags, glasses, moles, dimples, love handles, flab/fat, visible veins, freckles, etc. unless it added to their ‘aesthetic’ despite none of those being bad and saves it only for the antagonists as if ‘physical imperfections’ = ‘evil’.

Bias:

-Riordan portrayed the Romans as cold, cruel, ruthless, strict, and overall horrible despite them being the more inclusive camp regarding family and godly parents, have multiple families and rules that ensure their camper’s safety, and hold the nicest characters in the series while the Greeks are portrayed as fun, wild, reckless, silly, and cool despite holding the most prejudiced and rude characters, outcasting and ostracizing characters of certain godly parents just for their parentage, stereotype almost every single cabin, and make some campers without siblings live, sleep, and eat alone.

-Every Greek traitor (Luke, Silena, Ethan, and Chris) were portrayed as powerful, kind, attractive, and awesome and each made up for their actions but each Roman ‘traitor’ (Octavian, Bryce, and Michael, and only one of them are actually a traitor) were portrayed as unattractive, cruel, ambitious, ruthless, and extremely weak and never actually did anything useful.

-The Greeks were part of the Union and the Romans were part of the Confederacy (adding on to Riordan adding racist movements as fun little easter eggs in his stories).

-Four out of seven of the main Seven are Greek.

-There are at least 70+ Greek characters and less than thirty named Romans.

-The Battle of San Francisco Bay was used for the sole purpose to weaken the Romans and make the Greeks seem stronger than them and while the Greeks went through two whole wars, their camp laid almost completely untouched but the moment the Romans are introduced, half their population is wiped?

Romanticization:

-Romanticized Annabeth judo-flipping Percy AKA romanticized physical abuse/harassment (emotions, angriness, feelings of love and affection, ‘they went through a lot together’, etc. do not excuse hitting someone) despite Annabeth knowing where Percy’s Achilles Heel was and not knowing he lost it and flipping him on his back anyways (if Percy didn’t lose the Achilles Heel, Annabeth would’ve killed him).

-Romanticized Leo killing himself to see Calypso again and to take her off her island AKA a romanticized suicide.

-Romanticized Calypso yelling at and insulting Leo and Annabeth insulting and canonically lowering Percy’s self-esteem AKA romanticized verbal abuse/bullying.

-Romanticized Will trying to help Nico through his loneliness and depression as if that can’t be portrayed as someone just wanting to help another person AKA romanticized mental illness.

-Romanticized every character kissing another character without asking first and without their consent AKA romanticized sexual harassment.

-Romanticized Piper taking advantage over Jason’s amnesia and mental state and jumping onto him despite knowing there might be a girl he couldn’t remember AKA romanticized manipulation.

-Romanticized Piper and Annabeth’s possessive, overly-jealous, and controlling behavior over Jason and Percy (even before they were canonically dating).

-Romanticized Nico being forced to confess his crush on Percy AKA romanticized a forced outing.

Rick Riordan:

-Refused to apologize for his actions even after being called out by people from the groups he was writing inaccurately and stereotyping (Muslim, Jewish, African, First Nation, lesbian, gay, Puerto Rican, etc.) and tried to make himself look like the victim.

-Claimed he was being ‘bullied’ by readers half his age who were just pointing out his books’ racist flaws.

-Showed time and time again that he is not willing to listen to the voices of minorities.

-Clearly didn’t do his research on ethnicities, sexualities, religions, etc. shown by how he got the simplest things wrong.

-Tried to say that he- a straight white man- was right when people of the actual groups he was writing about (gay, First Nation tribes, etc.) were wrong.

-Used excuses like having a ‘headstrong’ and ‘stubborn’ character who wants to ‘show their culture in their own way’ for his stereotypes. No, Riordan, you want to show the culture that way, not Piper. She’s a fictional character, you’re real. Dumbass.

-Literally said ‘Sorry I put feathers in Piper’s hair, I can’t change what I wrote in the past and I didn’t know that sensitive readers existed’ then continued to write feathers in Piper’s hair in the future books.

The Fandom:

Note: Not to all of the fandom, obviously

-Draws Piper with light skin, light hair, and kaleidoscope eyes with feathers, hippie bands, and beads (yes, it's canon, but you're allowed to change it if it's blatantly racist, and the bead and hippie band thing was created by the fandom and that's also stereotyping).

-Almost always draw Reyna, Hylla, and Leo with light skin and Caucasian traits (props to the few artists who drew them with the right skin tones).

-Draws Hazel with gold eyes, ‘cinnamon’/light brown hair, and an adult body.

-Sexualizes female characters by drawing them in sexy and revealing clothes and giving them all the same exact sexy, slim, and perfect hour-glass shaped bodies.

-Almost never include physical imperfections, muscle, scars, stretch marks, etc. in drawings.

-Fancasts white actors for characters of color and puts actors/faceclaims of white people or people of different ethnicities in the moodboards or aesthetics for characters of color.

-Participates in cultural appropriation by wearing feathers when cosplaying Piper and wearing a hijab when cosplaying Samirah.

-Supports Riordan, tries to defend him, and condones his clearly racist and bigoted actions just cause they ‘like the books’ (if you are straight, white, and/or cishet, I definitely don’t want to see you trying to defend a fifty-five year-old multi-millionaire who is clearly racist, sexist, homophobic, and transphobic).

-Romanticize physical abuse, verbal abuse, mental illnesses and panic/anxiety attacks, etc.

-Ship pedophilic, manipulative, abusive, and wrong relationships.

-Barely allow others to have their own opinions (looking at you Perachel haters) without yelling at, insulting, cursing out, and/or even threatening them for liking or disliking different things than them including ships, characters, books, plots/faults, and Riordan himself.

-Straightwashes characters like shipping Nico with female characters or setting him up with a female character in fanfics.

-Whitewashes characters like drawing Hazel and Piper with eurocentric features, Reyna, Hylla, and Leo with white skin and Caucasian traits, Nico with white/pale skin, etc.

-Try to excuse and explain abusive, manipulative, possessive, and overall very wrong and toxic behavior.

-Fail to recognize and/or admit the toxic, racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, wrong, abusive, etc. faults in the books, ships, and characters just cause they like them.

The Percy Jackson franchise does not add good representation. You can still like the series as long as you don’t condone Riordan’s racist and toxic writing and actions and don’t try to ignore the horrible and stereotypical faults just cause you don’t want to admit that your favorite or childhood story is horrible.

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RWBY Grimm Guardians Arc 4: Re-Bonding In Mistral Special III

Welcome back to Re-Bonding In Mistral! Here’s the third special….and the inevitable reunion of Team STRQ.

The first part will delve into RY and STRQ’s fashion. Second will be the main juice of the reunion, as well as having Qrow make an important decision regarding his alcohol usage.

Raven and Yang will also be making some cosmetic changes.

Prepare for some drama and familial fluff.

Disclaimer: Still own nothing.

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(In Patch at Noon….)

“Are you sure you want to do this?” Qrow asked his sister. Raven sighed, giving a nervous nod as she said, “If I don’t do it now….then it’s going to haunt me….” Yang and Ruby looked at Summer, before she sighed and knocked on the door to the Rose-Xiao-Long Family Home.

“I’m sorry if this gets you anxious. Believe me, I want this to be as civil as possible.” The former STRQ leader told her daughters, before giving the rest of the group an apologetic glance. “Want me to do anything?” Evergreen asked. The Branwen twins looked at each other, before nodding as Qrow said, “Should things get too chaotic, could you and Willow make sure nothing….violent happens?” The former headmaster and heiress both nodded, before noticing the door open.

“Hey, I was wondering when you’d….be arriving….” Taiyang said, opening the door with a smile, before his jaw dropped when he noticed Raven.

Needless to say, he was shocked. Summer placed a hand on Raven’s shoulder, knowing that she was feeling uncomfortable, before saying to the blonde, “We….need to talk.” Without another word, the group all went inside as Summer and the Branwen twins looked at Taiyang in silence.

Knowing that their family needed space for the time being, Ruby and Yang quietly brought their friends towards their bedroom. “You sure we shouldn’t be helping your family?” Pyrrha asked, only for Team JNPR, Oscar, Blake, and Weiss to receive a pair of raised eyebrows. “You really want to get in the crossfire of their discussion?” Yang asked. There was no response, to which Ruby sighed with, “Believe us, we need to stay clear of that for now.”

“Dad will predictably be bitter with Bird-Mom….and depending on what is said, Alpha-Mom will snap.” The red-cloaked teenager explained, before she and her sister brought the group into their room. “Believe me, we do NOT want to get involved with that. Alpha-Mom has tried her best to restore her old team. We need to stay out of this. Alright?”

Ruby then pulled out a few photos with a small smile, “In the meantime, wanna know Yang’s and my fashion sense?” “About that….” Blake started. “Yang said that you were essentially a goth?” The red cloaked teenager grinned, “Yep! Though our moms were the OGs, according to Dad.”

Weiss nodded, “That’s believable.” “Word.” Nora laughed. “If they scream goth vibes now, they certainly did when they were our age.” Ruby then handed Blake and Weiss a photo, before handing two more to the JNPR members and another to Oscar.

There was silence for a good few moments, before Blake said, “No offense, but…. I think you went a little overboard….” “I agree.” Ren admitted. The red cloaked teenager nodded with a sigh, “Yeah, it’s…. NOT one of my best moments. Not to mention that I was essentially breaking the dress code.”

Yang patted her sister’s back, “Hey, it wasn’t that bad! At least you didn’t get into fights.” “Maybe, but you were protecting me from harassment.” Ruby explained. “I had no real defense for my attire, other than I thought it looked cool.”

Weiss sighed, “Please tell me….that you two didn’t get expelled….” “No, the worst we got was detention….” The blonde said, noticing the group’s sigh of relief. “And a scolding, but that goes without saying.” “I’ll take the scolding over detention.” Ruby admitted with a sigh, with her sister nodding in agreement.

“To be honest, these are much better than the dresses Father made me wear….” The young heiress admitted. “I’d much rather wear these.” Blake nodded, “Certainly looks more comfortable, yeah?” “We can ask Alpha-mom about pictures of her and her team later.” Yang explained.

She then looked towards the living room, “Provided that the conversation goes well….”

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(Meanwhile….)

Evergreen, Willow, Gambol, and Ember promised to only interfere if things got physical, which Summer, Raven, and Qrow were very grateful for. They knew that if Taiyang snapped, things would get very problematic.

Speaking of the blonde man, he did NOT want to have this talk. He really didn’t.

However, no one was going to say no to Summer when she was that serious.

Sighing, he sat down on the couch, asking, “What is this about?” “You need to know the truth.” His former leader said. “About why Raven left….” The blonde looked at his former leader, before eyeing the twins in front of him. He then turned to Summer, asking, “And if this is a lie?” The taller woman shook her head, “It isn’t. You know that I wouldn’t be bringing this up if it was.”

“And what if this is the one time you’re wrong?” Taiyang asked, only to get an unamused stare in response. Sighing, he then looked at Raven, who understandably looked very anxious. “Why did you leave, Raven?” He asked in a monotone voice. The elder Branwen twin felt her brother grip her hand tightly, before she said, “Our mother...and the previous tribe elder, Aderyn had….discovered how devoted we were becoming to you, Sum, and Beacon.”

“At first, she didn’t care at all.” She explained. “Until I had Yang, that is. She...realized that I was more devoted to the people that….Qrow and I were trained to kill.” Raven then took a couple deep breaths, before continuing, “She then sent a promise, saying that if I didn’t return to the tribe, she’d murder you, Qrow, Sum, and Yang.” She didn’t need to look at Taiyang...to know that he honestly didn’t believe her.

Then again, given how long she was gone for, how COULD he believe her?

“Even if Rae gave the order to leave us alone, the tribe would’ve committed mutiny.” Qrow explained. “They would’ve killed us all if she tried to order them to back off from the Huntresses and Huntsmen.” The younger Branwen twin could also see the pure disbelief in Taiyang’s eyes. Especially when the blonde asked Summer, “How am I supposed to know that this is the truth?”

“Because we wouldn’t be having this conversation if it wasn’t.” The former STRQ leader said sternly. “I know you asked many times why Raven left.” The blonde’s disbelief turned to annoyance as he said, “And that was almost two decades ago. I don’t care any longer.” Summer raised an eyebrow, “Really? Because you seem to still care now.” Taiyang’s eyebrow twitched, before standing and looking at his leader.

His annoyance was rising to levels of anger, though he was doing a good job at keeping it cool.

“She ABANDONED us, Summer. Any care for why she left is gone.” He said clearly. “I don’t care WHY she left anymore. Raven still abandoned us.” His fists tightened, before asking, “How am I supposed to believe or care about ANY of this….when it’s been almost twenty long years…?” “I’ve known about these events longer than you have, Taiyang!” Summer snarled.

The blonde froze. As did the twins, Ember, and Evergreen.

It had been a long time since Summer got angry at her own team.

Willow and Gambol, on the other hand, seemed utterly shocked by the former STRQ leader’s reaction.

“I was the ONLY person Raven actually TRUSTED when she made this decision.” She growled. “She was threatened by someone that was SUPPOSED to be a MOTHER to her and Qrow….” Taiyang opened his mouth to speak, only to go silent when his former leader glared at him, “And YOU, Taiyang Xiao Long, seemed to have forgotten how insightful and wise I am.”

“If she WAS lying.... If she WAS being selfish, I would have KNOWN.” She explained. ”She wouldn’t be here to begin with. And yet, here we are!” The former STRQ leader almost felt like her Silver Eyes were going to erupt with energy as she growled, “She has been more honest and trustworthy with us than ANYONE! And yet, you don’t believe her.”

There was an unsettling silence in the room after the former STRQ leader’s snap.

The three STRQ members KNEW how terrifying their leader was when she was furious…. And she just let her anger out….

“Raven Branwen, even though she returned to the bandit tribe, did so to protect her loved ones from the tribe….” The former STRQ leader started, taking a deep breath. “No matter how you look at it, she is NO coward, ‘villain’, or enemy.”

After Summer finally caught her breath, she took a good, shocked look at herself, before saying, “Excuse me….” She then quietly apologized to Willow, Gambol, and Ember for her outburst, before leaving. Not a word was spoken to the former STRQ leader as she left the living room. Qrow, Raven, and Taiyang knew very well to stay out of the woman’s way when she was upset….

Especially when they were the SOURCE of said upset….

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(In the evening…)

Raven looked at her daughter with a raised eyebrow, “You know you don’t have to do this, Yang.” Yang nodded, bringing her mother into the bathroom with a stool, “I know…. But I want to.” The former tribe leader blinked, before reluctantly sighing in agreement.

With that, she sat on the stool in front of the mirror, letting the blonde braid her hair. “Tai struggled after Sum’s death….didn’t he?” The woman asked. Her daughter nodded with a sigh, “He really did….even though he’s much better now. He….shut down, essentially….”

Yang explained that Taiyang was significantly depressed…. After all, he lost the two women he loved so much…. “Uncle Qrow was….similar….” The blonde explained. That didn’t surprise Raven at all. Yang stopped braiding as she whispered, “I….essentially had to raise Ruby myself….”

THAT got a shocked reaction from the former tribe leader, who asked, “It was….really that bad….!?” Yang gave a small nod, before Raven sighed, placing her face in her hands.

Now she felt even MORE guilty for leaving….

Yang hugged her mother, whispering, “Hey. We’re healing. We’re getting better. We’re going to be a FAMILY again….” “This is not on you or Alpha-Mom. It’s not on Dad or Uncle Qrow either….” She explained. “Loss hurts. It cuts into your heart and mind….”

The blonde gave a reassuring smile, “But people in our lives help repair that cut….” “Dad knows. Uncle Qrow knows. Ruby and I know. ALL of us know….” She explained. “Okay?”

Her mother gave a shaky sigh, before nodding, holding her daughter’s arms gently.

After a few moments of silence, Yang continued braiding her mother’s hair, finishing up before asking to have her own hair cut. Raven was….predictably shocked by the request, but agreed to it anyway, getting off the stool and helping her daughter wash her hair.

“So, I’m guessing….Alpha-Mom’s not happy, huh?” Yang asked, sitting in front of the mirror as Raven did her hair. The former tribe leader sighed, getting scissors and a comb, “It’s not the first time. We all help each other be better. But she….”

“She thinks that we’re failing to do that.” She explained. “I certainly don’t blame her.”

“I can sympathize with her…. She’s been blaming herself a lot this past year….” The blonde explained. “Ruby’s the same….” She then gave a sad expression to her mother, “I guess that’s the constant in this family….” Raven nodded, sharing the expression, before getting to work on her daughter’s hair.

The two realized it was time for a change. To feel like themselves. And not a reminder of someone else.

Raven couldn’t be prouder.

The former tribe leader began cutting the blonde’s hair, to the point where the style was akin to that of a longer pixie cut. And despite it being sad to say goodbye to her long locks….Yang was very happy with the shorter cut.

“What do you think?” Her mother asked. Yang tilted her head up and smiled, “I love it. Thank you….” Raven smiled, before hugging her daughter, “You should probably talk to your mom. She needs her daughters more than she needs her team right now….” THe blonde nodded, getting up from her seat and heading out to find Summer.

Raven stretched her limbs, before trying to find Qrow….

Only to spot him in the kitchen, looking at his flask.

He turned to face his twin as she walked in. “Something on your mind….?” She asked. The younger of the two gave a small nod, asking, “How long have we been hiding our problems?” Raven sighed, “Honestly, too long…. That’s the problem with this family.”

Qrow nodded and lowered his head. The twins knew that Summer was honest about her issues with people she trusted, especially after the two helped her become more human again back in the early days of their Beacon years….

Since then, she had been trying to get them and Taiyang to do the same. But even now, it seemed that nothing had changed with them.

The younger of the twins sighed, before saying, “It’s time for a change…. I’m….done hiding my problems….” With that, he put his flask over the sink, before Raven grabbed his hand.

She then gave him a smile, “Same.” After a few moments of silence….and recognition, the two began dumping the flask’s contents down the drain.

After a few moments of silence and taking in their actions, Qrow said, “It’s been a long time since Summer’s been that furious with us….” Raven could only nod with a tired sigh.

It had been quite some time since she had last seen Summer truly angry….

And at them for that matter. The only other time the former STRQ leader was pissed off at them was when Raven and Qrow’s identities as bandits were discovered….and Summer being furious was 1: Because of not trusting her enough with the information and 2: Because Taiyang was unable to trust the Branwen twins, despite being shown that they were not like their tribe….

And even then, it was more akin to disappointment than actual anger.

“Well, we’re going to have to speak with her about it eventually.” The older of the twins said. “Just like in the past. Alright?” Qrow just nodded, before feeling Raven hold him gently.

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And that’s that. This was FUCKING hard to do, but I hope it was realistic and reasonable enough for you all to enjoy it.

I wanted Tai’s reaction to be understandable, but I also wanted him to be relatable in trusting his family.

Because while Raven left for a good cause, she only told Summer. And while Qrow found out, neither he nor Summer were willing to tell Tai. And with good reason, as I think he was possibly bitter with Raven showing up in Patch at the end of Vol 5.

NOW, we move on to Vol. 6.

#rwby #grimm guardians au #rwby au #summer rose #raven branwen #qrow branwen #taiyang xiao long #rwby ozpin #rwby ocs #willow schnee #ember celica #gambol shroud #ruby rose #weiss schnee #blake bellodona #yang xiao long #team jnpr #oscar pine

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whatdoesshedotothem · 2 years

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Friday 21 February 1840

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fine morning breakfast at 10 ¼ - professor Eversmann till 11 ½ - very agreeable and instructive – says we shall get quite well avec la neige to Astrakhan – had the courier and George and Mr. E- explained about the route direct from Bolgary to Simbirsk – he has only one copy of his voyage to Bochara but it can be bought at St. Petersburg – Mr. Turnerelli came soon after 12, but the Terenin vassok did not come till 12 25/.. – off in it immediately to the Térenins (Mr. Turnerelli followed on foot) – went upstairs for a moment – several ladies and gentlemen all ready to go off immediately to the mosque – found 3 ladies already there and counting these who seemed well known to our party we were 8 ladies and 10 gentlemen and 2 livery servants – Madame Terenin and her 2 sisters and Mr. T- and the chef de police and one 2 professors and 4 others and colonel Bechmetieff and a Mr. Krudener an intelligent young man who has served in the Caucasus and knows the Tartars and their customs – paganism prohibited in Russia but a few Tchonasses (about 300 men) still by stealth offer their sacrifice in the woods and get drunk for 3 days or as long as their beer lasts at the fête of St. John , as the pagans Fins do – same worship – like the old Goths – not Lamaism – the mosque at 12 40/.. for ¼ hour or 20 minutes

put forward my Arnold watch (before breakfast) exactly 4 hours and it still ¼ too late by the clocks of the house

SH:7/ML/E/24/00020

we had arrived just before the Maeem (priest) began to pray – same service, of course, as at Moscow and there we saw it from 1st to last or we should have known little from what we saw today – largeish mosque – some neat plaster work inside about the windows and in the ceiling – there might be from 100 to 150 men and boys; and we were a talking addition of 20 – Kasembek said the prayers being in Arabic were as little understood by the Tartar people as the Latin prayers by the Roman Catholics – the putting the hands to the ears is as if to hide eyes, and stop up ears, to shew that they are meditating [?] insensible to all around – they really seemed very devout and not disturbed by the talking of our party – K- said it was a merely religion of the exterior from the mosque adjourned to the house of the tartar honey merchant...... not the richest here, but very good and much respected and rich – 4 wives – only saw one son, a nice enough boy of about 7 or 8? three tables groaned under different species of pastry and confectionery – then a regular tartar dinner – a pilare (pilaf) of rice and little bits of meat – Roast mutton – ditto dindon in morceaux (tho’ the Tartars never cut anything up, eat with their fingers) – cold fish etc. etc. etc. – after this the ladies adjourned were shewn into the harem – the 4 wife wives – and a daughter and niece or two, and 2 or 3 women servants about 12 altogether – richly dressed in brocade and ornamented with pearls, turquoises, even diamonds – a stupid looking set – the youngest wife rather pretty – rouged cheeks, and blackened teeth – little Turnerelli was allowed to come in but no other man – at first the woman were for running and [?] but they were soon reassured and even looked at the little man – Poor things! so many human beings – human animals! – except an asylum for Insanes I have never seen any sight so melancholy and so humiliating as this harem – speaking of the Tartar and Persian women to professor E- the day we called on his wife, he observed “Elles ne sont pas de la sociéte” – they are not admitted or capable of being admitted into society – How terrible this degradation of one half mankind! we dispersed at 2 ½ on leaving Monsieur Le Tartar, a very civil nice clean-looking about 60? man – very civil – drank our health and happy voyage and the health of our queen and of England – I returned the health of the Tartars and the Russian Imperial family – Mr. K- our Persian accompanied us (in his traineau) to the observatory – locked – the professors’ wife buried on Monday – could not see it – saw the collection of medals, arranged in armonies on dark green ledges, reared against the back – Asiatic and Russian coins and medals of which we could not judge the value – the principal part of the collection modern – some time in

in the library (the medal-room adjoins it) 2 étages of gallery round the top – 30,000 vols. said K- they have all the leading English periodicals Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews – but the Edinburgh the one K- seemed to prefer – all books defender or not received by the University but 2 months [unreturned] – it was 2 55/.. when we thanked and took leave of our good aimable Kasembek – then drove to the general governors’ – not at home – left P.P.C cards – ditto ditto ditto chez les Térénin but he came up while we were at the door, and took our P.P.C. cards himself – very civil – then left our cards chez les Moussin Pouchkine (they not at home) – Madame E- excused us last night leaving cards chez elle – everybody very civil, and hospitable – and have done their best and enough to make our séjour à Kazan agréable – home at 3 ¼ - Madame de Lapteffs’ carriage and 4 at the door had been in waiting ever since 2 p.m. took it to the Gastinoi [Gostiny] Dvor (bought tea and bougies) and then a little détour, and gave the footman as usual (each after each time) a blue note = 5/. and came in at 4 ½ - then busy packing – had George – the kibitkas were to have been here at 2 p.m. – not ready – promised at 9 a.m. tomorrow – nous verrons – at accounts a little till Madame de Lapteff came at 7 ¼ - tea, and sat with us till 9 ½ - very agreeable person – gave us a letter to countess Warantzoff, and another to a Mr. Spask? (I have put up the letters and cannot turn to the name) at Odessa – then the tea things having remained began again and sat talking and tea drinking till 11 – then till now 2 ¼ tonight – wrote the last 19 lines of p. 32 and all but the first 6 lines of p. 33 and the whole of the last p. and so far of this – I must arrange some better observation in Kazan when I have more time – I must copy my pencil notes of Tuesday (vid. p. 30) by and by – the botanic garden is South west of the Town leaving Boutirka [Butyrka] on the left as one goes from here – an orangerie, but nothing to be seen at this time of year – we have had no time to see one of the 5 Tartar schools mentioned by Kuppffer – toilette and société are not good for laborious research – we have not seen Mr. Emeritus Fuchs – he is about the age of Fischer of Moscou – 70 passé? Eversmann is surely the most distinguished professor of the set – the curator has offered to buy his collection for the university (as he the curator himself told me last night) and will probably agree for it by allowing E- to have it for his life – E- said this morning he should not like to part with it during his life – very fine day – 20° of cold this morning said Madame L- not more than 15° if so much at noon – they say here the climate is less severe than that of Moscow! – very fine day – tis now 2 ½ tonight –

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i-want-my-iwtv · 2 years

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Why Do We Need Heroes? - The Critical Drinker, Dec. 2, 2020 [X]

“See, we’ve been doing this kind of thing for a lot longer than you might think. In fact, ever since us humans have been able to conceive of stuff beyond our own experience, we’re been kind of fascinated by the idea of heroic characters embarking on epic adventures, righting wrongs, and defeating evil enemies. It’s kind of the basis for our whole civilization.

... And I guess this is the real point I'm trying to make here: the heroes we create are a symbol and a reflection of our human potential not human reality they represent the very best of what we can and should strive for they encourage us to reach higher to try harder to go further than we ever thought possible. They push us to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of our everyday lives to dream about what we could be instead of fretting about what we are and perhaps most importantly of all they remind us that there's still something fundamentally good in all of humanity for all our flaws and our mistakes and our weaknesses

It's our ability to pick ourselves up to move forward to strive to better ourselves and overcome our limitations. This defined all of our history, it's what's driven us to build great cities invent new technologies compose great symphonies and works of art to explore the furthest reaches of our planets and to reach for the stars. The potential that exists inside each and every one of us is as unlimited as our imaginations and the heroes that we create to inspire and motivate and guide us reflect the very best aspects of that boundless potential.”

The Hero's Journey - TVTropes.org [X]

Full transcript under the cut.

(I’m not responsible for any typos or grammatical errors, this is the subtitle text captured with https://anthiago.com/transcript/, I added some para breaks to make it easier to read.)

“ah comic books you've got to love them especially in the current year whether it's reimagining bruce wayne as an asian american teenager accompanied by his gay butler alfred or a body positive wonder woman that strikes fear into the hearts of all you can eat buffets everywhere or whatever these two are meant to be the entire industry seems to have spent the past few years self-destructing i mean reinventing itself into something more diverse and inclusive and what could be more diverse than inclusive than a year novel about the gay goth plus-sized daughter of legendary dc superhero starfire struggling to escape the long shadow cast by her famous mother and find her own sense of identity during her turbulent teenage years it's a good premise really allowing the writer to explore questions of family legacy personal identity societal expectations the real world implications of fame and the complex and often difficult relationship between mothers and their teenage daughters so let's take a look at this exciting new work shall we

[Music]

it does prompt a few questions though like why does her upper lip project several inches from her face why does one of her hands seem to be suffering from chronic gigantism why does this front cover look like it was drawn by me after several pints of methylated spirits i thought the whole point of ya novels is that they're intended for well young adults so they're supposed to look cool edgy sexy and compelling this looks like the kind of thing your weird hippie aunt would get you for christmas when you're five years old and you'd politely dump in some cupboard and never talk about again is there a reason the author might have chosen to style her main character like this well let's take a look at her shall we [Laughter] now call me crazy but i do detect a faint resemblance here

the thing is it would be easy enough for me to point and laugh at what's clearly just another cringe-worthy self-insertion vanity project doomed to fall into the garbage can of history written by an author whose ego probably outstrips her creative ability and commissioned by a struggling publisher desperate to appeal to a woke audience that probably should have allocated its declining resources to something with a better chance of success like burning money i could do all of these things and probably have a good laugh along the way but really the bigger question that comes to mind for me is what exactly are we becoming if this is the new standard for our comic book heroes

See we've been doing this kind of thing for a lot longer than you might think in fact ever since us humans have been able to conceive of stuff beyond our own experience we've been kind of fascinated by the idea of heroic characters embarking on epic adventures righting wrongs and defeating evil enemies it's kind of the basis for our whole civilization whether it's achilles and hector and the iliad or perseus slain medusa or beowulf fighting grendel or saint george killing the dragon you could pick basically any culture on earth at any time period and the chances are you'll find legends and stories of heroic men and women accomplishing great deeds characters who could best be described as more than human men of destiny men of great skill or superhuman strength that allows them to overcome the most powerful and terrifying enemies imaginable

jump forward a few thousand years and we're still doing the exact same thing with a new generation of heroes and villains that we've created all for ourselves the classical heroes gods and monsters from our ancient legends have been replaced by modern day reinterpretations and instead of storytellers spinning their tails around a campfire now we have comic books movies and tv to satisfy our needs the technology might have changed but the basic motivation hasn't we still have the same drive and hunger for stories of larger than life heroes and villains the same need to believe in things that are grander and bigger than our own petty existence the same aspiration to be more than we are

and i guess this is the real point i'm trying to make here the heroes we create are a symbol and a reflection of our human potential not human reality they represent the very best of what we can and should strive for they encourage us to reach higher to try harder to go further than we ever thought possible they push us to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of our everyday lives to dream about what we could be instead of fretting about what we are and perhaps most importantly of all they remind us that there's still something fundamentally good in all of humanity for all our flaws and our mistakes and our weaknesses

it's our ability to pick ourselves up to move forward to strive to better ourselves and overcome our limitations this defined all of our history it's what's driven us to build great cities invent new technologies compose great symphonies and works of art to explore the furthest reaches of our planets and to reach for the stars the potential that exists inside each and every one of us is as unlimited as our imaginations and the heroes that we create to inspire and motivate and guide us reflect the very best aspects of that boundless potential

so i guess it's kind of sad and disheartening to watch today's cynical nihilistic mean-spirited attempts to undermine subvert and degrade those same heroes instead of respecting and looking up to them it's become fashionable to mock and belittle and criticize them as relics of a bygone era or symbols of oppression or discrimination without really understanding what they stood for in the first place people who once looked to our heroes as symbols to aspire to as a motivation to become more than they are now see them as an unflattering reflection of their own weaknesses and failures rather than try to better themselves and their lives through hard work courage and sacrifice they instead find perverted joy in tearing down anything that stands higher than them bringing everyone and everything down to their level instead of the harder but more rewarding task of raising themselves up and the end result of this way of thinking is a small petty envious view of the world the kind of thing that belongs in the minds of small petty envious people who hide their dark intent behind a facade of compassion and fairness the kind of people who hysterically preach acceptance of everything no matter how ridiculous harmful or pathetic

because once you accept everything then there's no need to strive for anything and instead of the mighty and inspiring heroes we used to look up to well you end up with stuff like this

now ask yourself who exactly do you think is going to be inspired and motivated by this

anyway that's all i've got for today go away now”

#the critical drinker #video #heroes #not vc #relevant #the heros journey #tvtropes #advice #on writing #comics #long post #cut for length

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shade-romeo · 3 years

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For Sanders Sides writing prompts - Logince with trans! ace! Logan please?

Of course!

I may have gotten carried away. (BTW they're college students in this)

Also, uhhh, don't mind me, sneaking in my goth Roman agenda. OH and a tw for referenced homo/transphobia.

Logan pushed open the library doors, backpack in hand, expecting to walk in, sit down, and start studying.

But of course, just his luck, it seemed that the library was holding an event today.

Occasionally the owner of the library would put together an event to try and get the people in this small town to be civil to one another. The owner was a nice man, and he meant well, but it was hard for one person to do so much. He had heard through the grapevine that he had hired one of his twin daughters to help organize and plan.

Good for him.

Anyway, Logan stepped further inside and looked around, there was a table with food, (admittedly not much food, but.. food nonetheless), and it seemed the other tables were occupied by.. people, all talking and seemingly having a wonderful time.

He was about to just turn around and leave, because, social situations? Yeah, no thank you. But before he could turn, there was another person standing next to him.

"You look confused, and also mildly scared. Are you alright?"

Logan blinked, looking over and analyzing them on instinct.

They stood only up to his shoulders, and wore brown lace up boots with black jeans, and a black shirt with an almost gothic looking playing card design, the queen of hearts to be specific.

They also wore a red hoodie, and a necklace with a sword and sheild charm hanging from the silver chain. And Logan couldn't help but notice the pins attached to their jacket. Both pride pins, one displaying the bisexual flag, and another for the.. transgender flag.

And maybe Logan felt a pang of happiness seeing another person like him in a town that actively shunned those that were different.

Logan looked to their face now, eyes skirting from their hair (which looked as if it was dyed a blood red, but it was severely faded now. The sides of their head were also buzzed, leaving a large fluffy looking mop of hair that fell to the side of their head, going down to their shoulders), all the way down to the piercing on their lip.

He would be lying if he were to say that they weren't attractive.

Objectively of course.

Only when the stranger started snapping in his face, did he come to his senses.

"I.. apologize. I was lost in my thoughts."

They shrugged, "It's fine, happens to the best of us. Which is why it happens to me, very often." They grinned, putting their hands on their hips.

Logan couldn't help but roll his eyes, "Yes, of course. Now uhm.. do you have any information about the event? I'm a bit confused."

"Hm? Oh yeah! It's a pride event! Kinda like a.. GSA, but for the whole town. It's supposed to give all the LGBT people in town a chance to meet others like them, and find people to lean on if they need support!" They explained, and showed off their pins,

"Hence the pride pins. We asked everyone who came in to grab pins from the reception desk, so people can get to know you without talking to you. A trick I learned from my friend Virgil. He's told me that he's an expert on this kind of thing. I don't believe him of course, but you just gotta nod and agree sometimes."

Logan nodded, taking a second to process all the information. "I see.. that's, wonderful. It's amazing that these people are being brought together in the name of helping one another out."

They grinned, "Thank you! I just figured, since my dad gave me full creative control, I'd try to come up with something to.. help people, y'know?"

Logan nodded, "Yes, of course."

....

Wait..

Dad?

Logan's brain went a million miles a minute, tuning out the stranger as they continued talking.

Their father's presumably the owner of the library, from what they said about him giving them creative control over the event, which means that this is one of his daughters, Reina, or Rose. But, they were wearing a trans pin, so they could possibly have a different name, or pronoun then what he's been told, but then again they could also have transitioned to female and now go by Rose or Reina- Fuck! Which twin is this?!

He finally tuned back in when, Rose? Reina? Finished off their rant with an apology, "I tend to just.. talk, and talk, and.. not stop."

"No, it's.. it's fine. You're alright. If I may ask though, and I apologize if this seems out of the blue but, uhm.. what is your name and pronouns?"

They?? She?? He???? went wide eyed, "Oh my gosh, I never even told you my name! I'm so sorry. I'm Roman, he/him pronouns." He stuck out his hand with an apologetic smile, and Logan decided that he couldn't and wouldn't mention the name Rose or Reina. He didn't want to deadname him and come off as an asshole.

"It's alright, I haven't told you mine either." He took Roman's hand, shaking it. "My name is Logan, he/him as well."

"Great! Now uh.. would you wanna join in on the event?" Roman asked with a hopeful smile, and Logan found himself smiling as well.

"Yes, of course."

And so, Roman led him over to the reception desk, waiting patiently as he grabbed a trans and ace pin, connecting them to his t-shirt.

Roman grinned, "It's wonderful to meet someone who shares the same experiences."

Logan nodded with a smile, "I agree."

The two continued to talk for a long while, at some point having gone to sit down at one of the tables. Logan found himself staying and talking with Roman until long after the event was over, even going so far as to help him and his father clean up.

By the end of the night, they had exchanged numbers and decided to meet up at the library as soon as their class schedules allowed it.

And as Logan made the long walk home, he decided that maybe.. maybe Roman was pretty attractive.

Objectively, and otherwise.

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#logince #roman sanders #logan sanders #goth roman #bc hoo boy i love me goth roman #tw referenced homophobia

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earl-of-221b · 5 years

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I can’t get over Maleficent bringing Diaval to Aurora’s important dinner, it’s so chummy and good and stupid. Like, she didn’t need to do that, he could have just waited at home or watched in bird form in the window like normal. You got to keep in mind that Diaval is not a man who can turn into a bird, he is bona fide a bird Maleficent picked up from the wild, Maleficent brought a bird to a prestigious dinner party opposite the king and queen and tried to pass him off as a real human man. And it’s all cos way back when, she saved Diaval from a farmer’s net so he owed a life debt to her so he swore loyalty. “Anything you need.” “I need wings.” Then he spent 16 years getting turned into into anything Maleficent wants to do her evil bidding. But that doesn’t mean he’s some yes-man-bird who is slave to her word, no, Diaval spent those 16 years squawking and criticising Maleficent’s most dumbest shit ideas while tempering her better ones. Every time Maleficent gets stupid Diaval is there to tell it to her face. Every time Diaval’s human face gets too judgy she cringes and turns him back into a bird so she doesn’t have to look at it. Maleficent only has two things to do while waiting for Aurora to grow up 1) Play with baby 2) Argue and defend her choices to a bird. Diaval is at once Maleficent’s hype man and her voice of reason. Then while going along with Maleficent’s revenge plan, they BOTH fall into their own trap, they BOTH start loving Aurora and accidentally raise a daughter together. Then Maleficent turns Diaval into a dragon and he saves her life, so no more life debt. Then Maleficent wins the first movie and gets her wings back - now Diaval is useless, Maleficent doesn’t need his wings anymore cos she’s got her own. But wait, they don’t part ways cos in movie 2 Diaval is still flying her the latest news and is there to coach Maleficent on how to be civil and smile in a non-threatening manner. No one asks why this bird knows civil etiquette and is good enough to advise Maleficent on it, but he does. Maleficent finally gets invited to a party, and she has to bring the bird not for any reason other than the bird is her best and only friend. She dresses him up in a matching extreme goth getup (what he’s wearing is high class fashionable cos Maleficent made it so) and they go to the dinner with Aurora. Of course everything goes wrong, but things start to go really, really wrong when the king and queen’s cat somehow senses this is not a man but a bird, a fucking bird, and ATTACKS him. Maleficent has been swallowing her pride all dinner, trying to divert, trying to be civil, trying not to get angry at the queen’s scandalous accusations of moor murder. But this is her breaking point. Is Maleficent supposed to just let this animal attack her animal? Is she supposed to choose the goodwill of some party hosts over her loyal familiar? Is she supposed to let this mangy cat terrorise her plus-one/ manservant/ rational thinking centre/ best friend? No. So Maleficent destroyed the dinner, viciously attacked a house cat, embarrassed poor Aurora and wronged the king and queen all because in the heat of the moment. She had to save her bird.

#maleficent #maleficent 2 #I'm serious -- what could she have done better??#Was she supposed to let Diaval get mauled????#that cat pounced at her best friend!!#my posts

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Shameless Self-Insert Fan-Fic

One of the earliest headcanons I had for Ramon’s time in Hell involved him as a background character in Helluva Boss Ep 2, meeting Octavia twice---once as a child and then as a teen. Seeing the episode the first time melted my heart with cute and my parental instincts kicked-in HARD. It’d never happen with any Octavia player and was pretty Gary Stu-ish of me, but it was really nice fluff

As we saw in a promo before the episode came out and very briefly during it, child Octavia’s being shoved by a mob of children into Robo-Fizz’s tent and attending his show. We watched through big, horrified eyes as a creepy robot glitched and sparked as it smiled daggers at a child who probably very rarely left her father’s side. I imagined she’d run-off somewhere to escape all the lights and noise, get lost in some dark backstage area or shutdown attraction, then break-down and cry

Enter the knight. He’s also lost in the darkness, hearing these wracking sobs and cautiously moving to investigate. When he spots Octavia kneeling on the floor under a small beam of light, he suspects a trap and draws his sword (because preying on someone’s good intentions by fake-crying and then ambushing the soft-hearted sinner sounds like something that’d happen in Hell). For some very tense minutes, he’s looking for the ambushers while creeping as silently as he can---keeping an eye on Octavia and circling around her

Eventually, he gets tired of tip-toeing in the dark and decides to ambush his would-be attackers. He ignites his palm, throwing a small flame into the air above Octavia, it then bursts and flies overhead to illuminate the whole area. But there’s no one else there, just him and this crying demon in the middle of the room. So he thinks this demon’s just working alone and walks-up behind her

Now comes the moment of truth: he has his sword ready to plunge through her chest, reaches out with a free hand and grabs Octavia by the shoulder---pulling her to face him. Suddenly those large, purple, tear-filled eyes open and stare right at the knight’s helmet. There’s a long pause between them, both confused by what they’re looking at. Octavia manages to speak-up and says she only wants to find her Dad and go home

Well this just breaks the old crusader’s dusty heart. Combine that with the immediate guilt that he was about to shank a little baby, he commits to helping her. With a flick of his wrist, he calls the spinning fireball back to his hand and holds it out for her to take. She’d carry the light in one hand while he took the other, keeping his sword out in case something jumps out at them. It takes some time for them to navigate, but they find their way outside and he extinguishes the flame

The knight is still suspicious of demons and won’t drag his new charge out into the mob. He’s peeking around corners, running behind tents and booths along their way to the front gate. Once they get there, he’s looking around and unsure of what to do next: wait for Dad? Search the parking lot? Does he take her back the way they came---going out where he entered the park and taking her to his shelter? Is he going to have to cross Hell and back trying to find her house by her guidance alone?

Fortunately for everyone involved, Stolas spotted them and called-out to Octavia. She let go of the crusader’s hand and ran to jump into her father’s arms. He was worried when he didn’t see her leave Robo-Fizz’s tent, he was looking everywhere for her, she recounts how scared she was and got herself lost. Both their attentions turn towards the knight

Holding Octavia with his left arm, Stolas approached and shook the hand of the “park employee” who found his beloved starfire. He doesn’t say a word and just goes along with this. But before they leave, Stolas wants a picture and completely confused by the prospect, he just stares at the camera---unwittingly posing for a family photo. Once it was taken, Stolas tucked a dollar bill down the knight’s tabard and left with Octavia. She waved and said thanks to him

Unfortunately, people saw Stolas take a picture with a man dressed as a medieval knight and also believed he was someone working at the park. Cue a montage of imps and other hellborn posing with the good samaritan. Pretty soon, there’s a good amount of cash stuffed down his “shirt”

However many years it takes for a goetia child to become a teenager, the episode continues as normal... Until Blitzo starts a fight with Robo-Fizz, sets fire to most of the park and at some point, Moxxie mounted a dragon. Hearing screams, seeing fire and a dragon, the knight does what knights do and comes charging towards the front gate

The gallant crusader nearly runs right into Stolas and a grown Octavia. There’s mutual confusion for a moment until she actually recognizes him from all those years ago. Stolas is amused, removes the photo from his wallet to reminisce, but says it’s probably not the same “employee”

“I am he,” the knight corrects him---speaking to them both for the very first time. However, all three of the IMPs fall out of the sky and interrupt what would be a very heartfelt reunion. Naturally, the little hellions are injured and need to be loaded into the van. But now, there’s a problem: who’s going to drive? Stolas is too tall for a van made for imps, Octavia’s probably never learned to drive at this point and still pretty tall herself. All eyes fall on the knight

Skipping what has to be either the worst Grand Theft Auto play-through or the slowest of grandma driving, they all arrive back at Stolas’ mansion. The IMPs are still out cold and get carried-off to some guest room on the far end of the mansion to get patched-up. Now returning to the entry foyer, the knight explains and introduces himself to Stolas and Octavia

No, he is not an employee at Looloo Land. Yes, he is the same person who found and escorted the little darling back to her loving father (neglecting to mention the part where he was about to shank her). Yes, he is an actual knight from medieval times whose name is Ramon. And no, he was not visiting the amusement park in either scenario. On both occasions, he was wandering the wastelands outside of the civilized regions of Hell and came across the same owl demonette. But Ramon still remembered the look in Octavia’s eyes and for the first time in many centuries, he felt like he really was the knight he’s supposed to be

Cutting that tender moment short however was a still-furious Stella---who had no idea her husband and daughter left, such was her rage. She noticed his theme park clothes and was about to grill his ass, but then noticed who else was standing in the room. Thankfully for Ramon, the aristocratic woman did not automatically assume he was another of her husband’s lovers and actually bothered to ask who he was

How it went from there, I never really got to plotting-out. One possibility was for Octavia to lie and claim Ramon was a friend, using his black tabard and cloak as proof that he was “goth”. Another idea was that Ramon would formally introduce himself in a courtly fashion, using high society etiquette to make her compose herself (with some mild flattery to lure her away and save Stolas’ feathered ass). There was also the notion of Stolas claiming he was a prospective servant and was right about to pass him off to Stella for final approval

There was also a very crack joke idea that Stella would just grab Ramon by the collar, assert that she was going to dishonor her husband just as he had dishonored her and fly-off with the helpless knight for some petty revenge cheating (which probably wouldn’t actually happen and she’d just interrogate Ramon by herself in private, only wanting to spite Stolas with the notion alone)

#Ramon character stuff

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kimhargreeves · 4 years

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Strange-Beetlejuice

(Based on the movie:Beetlejuice from 1988)

I stared outside at the big house my parents decided to buy,my sister and I looked at each other and she took a picture at the house, "Well sister looks like this will be our new home." I say not amused at our new home.

Our parents are a bit eccentric and loves to spend their money on pointless things,this is gonna suck for both of us. Lydia and I are known as the freaks in the Deetz family.

Lydia loves to take pictures at things while I love to paint,we are inseparable,we're both goths and love to wear weird clothing's. Lydia loves to style up her hair all spiky but I always wear mine down.

"Do you think there are ghosts?" I grin as I look at the place.

"Maybe..what do you think of this place?" Lydia asks me. We both exchange glances and we know what our answers are. We both spoke overnight wondering where we might go cause we are desperate to leave this house,well I kinda like it,it's far from civilization but Lydia wants to leave.

"Lydia did you hear that?"

We walked out of our room and we saw two people with white sheets over them,Lydia took pictures and we saw they had no feet.

"Ghosts!?" I say excitedly.

"Told you this was useless." The voice of a man said. both of them threw the sheets and we saw a young couple, "You two are ghosts then?"

"How come you both aren't afraid?" The man says adjusting his glasses.

"We should've gone with my plan." The young woman next to the guy says,which I assume are husband and wife.

"How come you both can see us?"

"Maybe because we are both strange and unusual." Lydia and I both reply.

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We entered upstairs to the room where Barbara and Adam hide from us and I saw a huge scale of the city, "Wow you did this?" I ask Adam who joins me and looks down at the tiny houses,everything is so detailed.

"Yeah it took me a while but I managed to build it,do you like it?"

"I love it." I look up at him then down again when I heard someone, "And who is this?" I furrow my eyebrows and look down and gasped when I saw a man.

"Hey there."

I leaned closer and saw a man with spiky yellow/blonde hair and torn clothes looking up at me, "She you're daughter I never heard about Adam?"

"(Y/N) don't you dare talk to him,he's bad news." Adam said pulling me away so that man wouldn't hear us.

"He's bad news." Barbara says appearing with Lydia by her side, "He won't help us."

So we learned that Barbara and Adam wanted to get rid of our family but knowing how my parents are,they won't leave. Maybe i'll find a way to help them.

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Lydia was fast asleep and I called out to the ghost couple who werent here,so me being curious I unlocked the door and entered. I looked around when I heard someone calling to me.

"So you decided to come."

I look down at the man who was sitting down on the ground of the cemetery, "What brings you here kid?"

I shrugged my shoulders, "I was just curious."

"You do know that curiosity killed the cat..Well how about you get down here and we can chat." I look at him for a while.

"I can't..that's not even possible cause."

"All you gotta say is my name three times."

"What's your name then?" I ask him.

"I can't tell you."

"So?"

"Come on,I just wanna have a good time in your world! It's boring here..well I better head and have some fun then." I scrunched up my nose when suddenly a whore house appeared.

"Don't go!"

He looked back at me and stared at me for a minute before smiling up at me, "Sure thing."

He surprised me cause Barbara and Adam told me that it's impossible for him to listen to someone, "You're an unusual man..i've never met a guy like you."

"That a bad thing or good thing babe?"

"A good thing."

I saw him smile and he stared at me..almost lovingly? We both started to joke and I quickly left before the ghosts arrived.

It was next day and my mother was preparing dinner for a few guests and Lydia wanted nothing more than to run away, The guests arrived and Lydia and I both stared at Adam and Barbara who were slowly dying again all because of stupid Otto.

"(Y/N)! You have to do something." I stared at Lydia and I knew what to do. I ran upstairs and saw the guy again this time sitting on a gravestone and wearing a stripped outfit.

"I need your help!" I plead, "Adam and Barbara are dying,I need your help."

"Sure you just gotta say my name." I began to think this through and I indeed need his help. I found out his name earlier so now's the time.

"Beetlejuice....Beetlejuice....Beetlejuice!" He grinned and dusted his outfit, "It's showtime."

I smiled and ran downstairs and a second later he appeared,I laughed at a couple of things he did and Lydia ran to our parents, "Just so you know i'll take care of your daughter and you're welcome to visit us anytime" Beetlejuice smiled and grabbed my hand.

Barbara and Adam tried to call his name but failed cause they wanted Beetlejuice away. I looked down and saw my outfit,a black wedding dress and a red bouquet of flowers. "Do you (Y/N) accept Beetl-"

"No one says the B word." Beetlejuice warned to the creature who was about to get us married.

"Beetlejuice.." He looked down at me confusion on his face, "I don't think i'm ready for this...I like you a lot you're strange and unusual like me but.li'm still young..."

Beetlejuice stared down at me and smiled a little, "I understand." He placed a kiss on my forehead and I ran towards my parents just in time before Barbara arrived with a giant worm and Beetlejuice went down to the underworld with it.

Lydia ran towards me and we shared a hug along with our parents..and the new family too.

#beetlejuice #beetlejuice 1988 #michael keaton #lydia deetz #goth #undead #strange and unusual #winonaryder #adam #barbara #bioexorcist #beetlejuice x reader #tim burton

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nadiawrites14 · 4 years

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just thinking about some kiddies tonight

rambling under cut uwu

red white and royal blue who?? jk anyways. these guys. let’s go in order i guess

claude is miss french presidential liv’s nephew!! nephew who lives with her because his parents tragically died in an accident and he was shipped over to france from algeria to go live with his closest surviving relative. and he is a huge anti-establishment computer nerd and emerging hacker. very cool. he loves his dear auntie but really hates everything to do with what she does and is very brooding like all the time. basically just ur local emo teenager with a good heart and who is very sweet deep down! and he’s also 6′2 epic

lanie!! lanie is the daughter of two civil servants, who may or may not be involved in some of ben’s ~*evil*~ schemes. shes a huge activist and also very anti-establishment in all forms and also a lesbian and wants a gf so bad. shes introverted and kind of a social outcast but has a huge internet following. tbh shes just shy and is open and a bundle of energy once you get to know her, shes also not afraid to speak her mind in any situation and activism is the most important thing to her. also baby goth queen

daniel... danny... good bad boy!! sometimes teenagers can be weird and morally gray if they wanna be. danny’s father is part of a militia for rich people (i know right) against the government (i KNOW right. ew) and danny is mostly anti-government because ben hunter may or may not have had something to do with the death of his mother. he appears very naive and airheaded and just the definition of the word lacrosse but hes very intentional and calculated in everything he does and isnt really afraid to use violence to get what he wants. he’s a good kid he’s mostly just misled by the adults in his life and is doing what he thinks is right

these 3 are all internet friends and theyre all anti-establishment and somehow connected to the important government figures in part i....... hijinks ensue. theyre great and i love them

cloten and portia are ben’s kiddos, his wife left him and he gets to see them every other week. as you can see she’s a bit of a shakespeare fan. they both like to call themselves politically active but theyre really not and could give less of a shit about all the awful things their father does, theyre just kinda indifferent and dont want anything to do with it except money and power. fun! love these fucking kids.

#woohoo! i made a post!#claude akoma #lanie butler #danny cavendish #portia hunter #cloten hunter #ironic how ben's son is named after a beheaded prince #isnt it ironic dont ya think #also i know *benedick but i think bens wife did not want dick in her childs name #which is a valid concern tbh?#benedick ily but #haha dick lol #liaisons #my art

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anne-lister-adventures · 4 years

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Friday, 21 February 1840

8 1/4

3 20/’’

Fine morning breakfast at 10 1/4 – Professor Eversmann till 11 1/2 - Very agreeable and instructive – Says we shall get quite well avec la neige to Astrakhan – Had the Courier and George and Mr. E-[Eversmann] explained about the route direct from Bolgary to Simbirsk – He has only one copy of his Voyage to Bochara but it can be bought at St. Petersburg –

Mr. Turnerelli came soon after 12, but the Terenin Vassok did not come till 12 25/’’ – Off in it immediately to the Térenins (Mr. Turnerelli followed on foot) – went upstairs for a moment – Several ladies and gents[gentlemen] all ready to go off immediately to the Mosque – Found 3 ladies already there and counting those who seemed well known to our party we were 8 ladies and 10 gents[gentlemen] and 2 livery servants – Madame Terenin and her 2 sisters and Mr. T-[Terenin] and the Chef de Police and our 2 Professors and 4 others and Colonel Bechmetieff and a Mr. Krudener an intelligent young man who has served in the Caucasus and knows the Tartars and their customs –

Paganism prohibited in Russia but a few Tchonasses (about 300 men) still by stealth offer their sacrifice in the woods and get drunk for 3 days or as long as their beer lasts at the fête of St. John, as the pagans Fins do – Same worship – like the old goths – Not Lamaism –

At the Mosque at 12 40/’’ for 1/4 hour or 20 minutes we had arrived just before the Imaeem (priest) began to pray – Same service, of course, as at Moscow and there we saw it from 1st to last or we should have known little from what we saw today – Largeish mosque – Some neat plaster work inside about the windows and in the ceiling – There might be from 100 to 150 men and boys; and we were a talking addition of 20 – Kasembek said the prayers being in Arabic were as little understood by the Tartar people as the Latin prayers by the Roman Catholics – The putting the hands to the ears is as if to hide eyes, and stop up ears, to shew that they are meditating and insensible to all around – They really seemed very devout and not disturbed by the talking of our party – K-[Kasembek] said it was merely a religion of the exterior from the Mosque -

The Märcani Mosque in Kazan (image c. 1940s).

Adjourned to the house of the Tartar honey merchant …….not the richest here, but very good and much respected and rich – 4 wives – Only saw one son, a nice enough boy of about 7 or 8? Three tables groaned under different species of pastry and confectionary – Then a regular Tartar dinner – A pilau (pilaf) of rice and little bits of meat – Roast mutton – Ditto dindon in morceaux (tho’ the Tartars never cut anything up, eat with their fingers) – Cold fish &c. &c. &c. –

After this the ladies were shewn into the Harem – The 4 wives – And a daughter and niece or two, and 2 or 3 women servants about 12 altogether – Nicely dressed in brocade and ornamented with pearls, tourquoises, even diamonds – A stupid looking set – The youngest wife rather pretty – Rouged cheeks, and blackened teeth – Little Turnerelli was allowed to come in but no other man – At first the women were for running away, but they were soon reassured and even looked at the little man – Poor things! So many human beings – Human animals! – Except an Asylum for Insanes I have never seen any sight so melancholy and so humiliating as this Harem – Speaking of the Tartar and Persian women to Professor E-[Eversmann] the day we called on his wife, he observed ‘Elles ne sont pas de la Société’ – They are not admitted or capable of being admitted into Society – How terrible this degradation of one half of mankind!

“Harem Fountain” by Frederick Arthur Bridgman.

We dispersed at 2 1/2 on leaving Monsieur Le Tatar, a very civil nice clean-looking about 60? man – Very civil – Drank our health and happy voyage and the health of our Queen and of England – I returned the health of the Tartars and the Russian Imperial Family – Mr. K-[Kasembek] our Persian accompanied us (in his Traineau?) to the Observatory – Locked – The professors wife buried on Monday – Could not see it – Saw the collection of medals arranged in armoires on dark green ledges reared against the back – Asiatic and Russian coins and medals of which we could not judge the value – The principal part of the collection modern – Some time in the Library (the medal-room adjoins it) 2 Étages of Gallery round the top – 30,000 volumes said K-[Kasembek] they have all the leading English periodicals Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews – But the Edinburgh the one K-[Kasembek] seemed to prefer – All books defendu or not received by the University but 2 months en retard –

It was 2 55/’’ when we thanked and took leave of our good aimable Kasembek – Then drove to the General Governor’s – Not at home – Left P.[Pour]P.[Prendre]C.[Congé] cards – Ditto ditto ditto chez les Térénin but he came up while we were at the door, and took our P.[Pour]P.[Prendre]C.[Congé] cards himself – Very civil – Then left our cards chez les Moussin Pouchkine (they not at home) – Madame E-[Eversmann] excused us last night leaving cards chez elle – Everybody very civil and hospitable and have done their best and enough to make our séjour à Kazan agréable –

Home at 3 1/4 – Madame de Lapteff’s carriage and 4 at the door had been in waiting ever since 2 p.m. took it to the Gastinoi Dvor (bought tea and bougiees) and then a little détour, and gave the footman as usual (each after each time) a blue note = 5/- and came in at 4 1/2 – Then busy packing – Had George – The Kibitkas were to have been here at 2 p.m. – Not ready – Promised at 9 a.m. tomorrow – Nous verrons –

At accounts a little till Madame de Lapteff came at 7 1/4 – Tea, and sat with us till 9 1/2 – Very agreeable person – Gave us a letter to Countess Warantzoff, and another to a Mr. Spask? (I have put up the letters and cannot turn to the name) at Odessa – Then the tea things having remained began again and sat talking and tea drinking till 11 – Then till now 2 1/4 tonight wrote the last 19 lines of p.[page] 32 and all but the first 6 lines of p.[page] 33 and the whole of the last p.[page] and so far of this – I must arrange some better observation in Kazan when I have more time – I must copy my pencil notes of Tuesday (vide p.[page] 30) by and by –

The botanic garden is Southwest of the Town leaving Boutirka on the left as one goes from here – an Orangerie, but nothing to be seen at this time of year – We have had no time to see one of the 5 Tatar schools mentioned by Kupffer – Toilette and Société are not good for laborious research – We have not seen Mr. Emeritus Fuchs – He is about the age of Fischer of Moscow – 70 passé? Eversmann is surely the most distinguished Professor of the set – The Curator has offered to buy his collection for the University (as he the Curator himself told me last night) and will probably agree for it by allowing E-[Eversmann] to have it for his life – E-[Eversmann] said this morning he should not like to part with it during his life –

Very fine day – 20º of cold this morning said Madame L-[Lapteff] not more than 15º if so much at noon – They say here the climate is less severe than that of Moscow! – Very fine day – ‘Tis now 2 1/2 tonight –

[symbols in the margin of the page:] + ✓c ✓c

[in the margin of the page:] put forward my Arnold watch (before breakfast) exactly 4 hours and it still 1/4 too late by the clocks of the house

Page References: SH:7/ML/E/24/0019 and SH:7/ML/E/24/0020

#anne lister code breaker #anne lister #ann walker #moscow to baku 1840

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