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purimgifts · 4 months

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Podfic Requests on Purimgifts

Below is a list of all fandoms in which podfic is requested on Purimgifts! Fandoms with more than on request are marked with *.

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

12 Dancing Princesses (Fairy Tale)

A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys

A League of Their Own (TV 2022)

A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine

A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket

All-of-a-Kind Family Series - Sydney Taylor

Ancient Egyptian RPF

Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate

Archive 81 (Podcast)

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)

Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

Bluey (Cartoon 2018)

Bomb Girls

Call the Midwife

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)

Captain America (Movies)

Captain Marvel (2019)

Captain Marvel (Comics)

Carmen Sandiego (Cartoon 2019)

Charmed

Chasing Liberty (2004)

*Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis

Contact (1997)

Criminal Minds

Dance of the Vampires (Broadway 2002/03) - Steinman/Ives/Kunze

Deadloch (TV 2023)

Deep Impact (1998)

*Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Disney Princesses

Downton Abbey

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine

*Emelan - Tamora Pierce

Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede

ER (TV 1994)

*Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms

Felicity (TV)

Final Fantasy VIII

Firefly

Football RPF

For All Mankind (TV 2019)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Ghosts (TV 2019)

Giselle (Ballet)

Hacks (TV 2021)

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (Song)

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Hawkeye (TV 2021)

Hellspark - Janet Kagan

Hockey RPF

*Hunger Games Series - All Media Types

In the Loop (2009) & The Thick of It

InCryptid - Seanan McGuire

Jewish Hero Corps - Oirich/Randall (Comics)

*Jewish Legend & Lore

*Jewish Scripture & Legend

Kairos (O'Keefe) Series - Madeleine L'Engle

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger

Kamen Rider Decade

Kamen Rider Kuuga

Killing Eve (TV 2018)

Kim Possible (Cartoon)

Le Chat du rabbin | The Rabbi's Cat (Comics)

League of Legends

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree

Leverage

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

Loki: Agent of Asgard

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Mediator Series - Meg Cabot

*Megillat Ester | Book of Esther

Merlin (TV)

Mirabile - Janet Kagan

Moon Knight (TV 2022)

Ms. Marvel (Comics)

Ms. Marvel (TV 2022)

NewsRadio

Numb3rs (TV)

October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire

Old Kingdom - Garth Nix

One Piece

*Original Work

Our Flag Means Death (TV)

*Post-Biblical Jewish RPF

Protector of the Small - Tamora Pierce

*Rabbinic and Talmudic Judaism RPF

Rise of the Guardians (2012)

*Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

RWBY

Schitt's Creek (TV)

Sefer Makabim Alef | 1 Maccabees

Sefer Yehudit | Book of Judith

Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem (Visual Novel)

Sfarim Chitzoniyim | External Books (Judaism)

Shadow Unit

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)

Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo

Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies)

*Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik

*Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)

*Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Enterprise

*Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon)

Star Trek: Picard

*Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)

*Star Trek: The Next Generation

*Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek: Voyager

Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV)

Stellar Firma (Podcast)

Supergirl (TV 2015)

Teen Titans (Animated Series)

*Teixcalaan Series - Arkady Martine

Temeraire - Naomi Novik

Tennis RPF

The Americans (TV 2013)

*The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types

The Ballad of Lost Hollow - Shapera

The Defenders (Marvel TV)

The Diplomat (US TV 2023)

The Gilded Age (TV 2022)

*The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker

The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo

The Innsmouth Legacy - Ruthanna Emrys

The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir

*The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types

*The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

*The Old Guard (Movie 2020)

The Owl House (Cartoon)

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce

The West Wing

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

This Is New Gehesran Calling - Rebecca Fraimow

Titanic (1997)

*Tortall - Tamora Pierce

Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold

Warehouse 13

Westing Game - Ellen Raskin

What's Up Doc? (1972)

*When the Angels Left the Old Country - Sacha Lamb

White Collar (TV 2009)

Women's Hockey RPF

X-Men - All Media Types

X-Men (Comicverse)

Yentl (1983)

Young Justice (Comics)

Young Wizards - Diane Duane

*Zionist Galactic Federation

Zootopia (2016)

הגדה של פסח | Passover Haggada

טעוויע דער מילכיקער - שלום עליכם | Tevye the Dairyman - Sholem Aleichem

*מדרש | Midrash

*תלמוד | Talmud

*תנ"ך | Tanakh

名探偵コナン | Detective Conan | Case Closed

文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs

機動戦士ガンダム水星の魔女 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Anime)

王様戦隊キングオージャー | Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger (TV)

#purimgifts #purimgifts: 2024 #podfic

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cruger2984 · 6 months

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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT MARTIN OF TOURS The Patron Saint of Reformed Alcoholics, Riders and Quartermasters Feast Day: November 11

"Lord, if your people still have need of my services, I will not avoid the toil."

Known as 'Martin the Merciful', the patron of those who against poverty and alcoholism, beggars, hotel-keepers, innkeepers, the Archdiocese of Bratislava, the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, and the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, was born in 316 or 336 in the Diocese of Pannonia (now Szombathely, Hungary). At the age of 10 he attended the Christian church against the wishes of his parents and became a catechumen. Christianity had been made a legal religion (in 313) in the Roman Empire. It had many more adherents in the Eastern Empire, whence it had sprung, and was concentrated in cities, brought along the trade routes by converted Jews and Greeks (the term 'pagan' means 'non-combatant'). Christianity was far from accepted among the higher echelons of society; among members of the army the worship of Mithras would have been stronger. Although the conversion of the Emperor Constantine and the subsequent programme of church-building gave a greater impetus to the spread of the religion, it was still a minority faith.

According to his biographer, Sulpicius Severus, he served in the military for only another two years, though it has been argued that these two years, 'are in fact not nearly enough to bring the account to the time when he would leave, that is, during his encounter with Caesar Julian (the one who has gone down in history as Julian the Apostate) Martin would have been 45 years old when Julian acceded to the throne, and at the usual end of a military contract.'

Being the son of a Roman officer (tribune), he was forced to enter the army at 15, and was required to join a cavalry ala. At the age of 18 (around 334 or 354), he was stationed at Ambianensium civitas or Samarobriva in Gaul (now Amiens, France).

While he was stationed at Gaul when Martin was 23, he saw at the gate a beggar almost frozen to death. Immediately, he cut his military cloak into two pieces with his sword, and gave one to the poor man. That night, Martin saw Jesus Christ in his sleep, dressed in that half cloak. Thereafter, he wanted to leave the army to serve God alone. But the Barbarians were about to attack, and Julian interpreted it as an act of cowardice.

Martin replied: 'I am prepared to stand in the battle-line unarmed and to advance alone against the enemy in the name of Christ.'

Martin declared his vocation, and made his way to the city of Caesarodunum (now Tours), where he became a disciple of Hilary of Poitiers' Christian orthodoxy. He opposed the Arianism of the Imperial Court. When Hilary was forced into exile from Pictavium (now Poitiers), Martin returned to Italy. According to Sulpicius, he converted an Alpine brigand on the way, and confronted the Devil himself. Having heard in a dream a summons to revisit his home, Martin crossed the Alps, and from Milan went over to Pannonia. There he converted his mother and some other persons; his father he could not win over.

The following day, the Barbarians miraculously asked for an armistice. Thus, Martin was allowed to leave the army and to receive baptism. Having preached the Gospel to his family, Martin became a monk at Ligugé in France.

Martin was elected as bishop of Tours in 371, proving himself an excellent pastor. He founded monasteries, educated the clergy, and gave particular attention to the conversion of the rural population. He is also credited with destroying many pagan temples and sacred trees. He spent the last days of his life with his hands raised to heaven.

To those who suggested he got some relief by lying on his other side, he answered: 'Allow me to look toward heaven rather than the earth.'

Then, he saw the devil standing near and cried: 'You, bloodthirsty brute, will not have me for your prey!'

With these words, Martin gave up his spirit on November 8, 397 in Candes, Gaul (modern-day France) at the age of 60 or 81. Martin of Tours was proclaimed patron of Italian volunteering by the Italian bishops in the spring of 2021.

#random stuff #catholic #catholic saints #martin of tours #martin the merciful #san martin de tours #u.s. army #quartermasters

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krispyweiss · 11 months

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Dead & Company at Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 13, 2023

Not only do Company men outnumber Dead men on Dead & Company’s Final Tour, they also dominate the music.

This was the case June 13 during a more-than-three-hour, rain-soaked gig at a sold-out Riverbend Music Center on Cincinnati’s Ohio River banks.

There’s bassist Oteil Burbridge, laying down thick, thumping grooves & willing a quickened tempo into the back half of the show-opening “The Music Never Stopped.”

Now, here comes guitarist and singer John Mayer, breathing 21st-century life into such Pigpen-era chestnuts as “Next Time You See Me” & “Viola Lee Blues,” which occupied the No. 2 slots in sets one & two, respectively, & were among the gig’s many highlights. Virtuosic keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, meanwhile, joins Mayer as half of Dead & Company’s corps of soloists & the pair engaged in an electrifying conversation in “Viola” as Chimenti, on electric piano, answered Mayer’s calling guitar in a jam that seemed to briefly lift Riverbend off the ground.

There’s Burbridge again, handling the “Hey Jude Coda” out of “Dear Mr. Fantasy” essentially solo & making it sing. Joining longtime Dead man Mickey Hart behind the array of drums is the Company’s newest hire, Jay Lane, who replaced wayward Rhythm Devil Bill Kreutzmann & added some youthful punch to the drums while he & Hart celebrated the late sound man & LSD maker Owsley “Bear” Stanley with T-shirts in his honor.

Kreutzmann’s unexpected departure left Bob Weir as Dead & Company’s lone OG - original Grateful - & he stepped up, singing songs associated with Jerry Garcia (an almost-too-powerful-to-signal-set-break “Aiko Aiko”) & himself on the weather-appropriate “Looks Like Rain.” High in the mix, Weir’s unique style of rhythm guitar continually evoked the father band even as Mayer & Chimenti were gleefully taking over numbers like the 1970s arrangement of “Here Comes Sunshine” - ironic in the rain - & an “I Know You Rider” that seemed destined to never end as it capped a more-than-hourlong run toward “Drumz.”

Out of “Space” came a new arrangement of “The Wheel” that showcased a calypso jam in place of the reggae workout of the past several years, proving Dead & Company plan to evolve to the last.

& lest anyone still doubt Mayer’s ability to burrow into this music, he took over the show-proper-closing “Casey Jones,” singing with confidence & writing his own guitar solo on the spot to add some serious sparkle to one of the Grateful Dead songbook’s most-static arrangements.

For all the fireworks, there were a couple of fizzling duds. Sung by Mayer, “Row Jimmy” was plodding; “Cassidy”’s lengthy jam went nowhere; & the Weir-sung “Wharf Rat,” was a vocal train wreck of epic proportions. But over its eight-year run, Dead & Company, much like the Grateful Dead of 1994-’95, has only occasionally put together shows without a few dips in energy along the way & the group’s final Riverbend appearance was, in the big picture, a joyful fare thee well for those hopping off the bus at this stop.

Grade card: Dead & Company at Riverbend Music Center - 6/13/23 - B+

6/14/23

#dead & company #grateful dead #2023 concerts #bob weir #mickey hart #jay lane #oteil burbridge #john mayer #jeff chimenti #ratdog #jerry garcia #ron pigpen mckernan #pigpen

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mainscost · 2 years

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beatrixyagri · 3 years

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Fanfiction ideas I will get around to... eventually.

- Fate/zero crossover with game of thrones

- foxhole court crossover with batman where Harley killed Mary and raised Neil. Neil was dunked in acid yes, no I will not explain.

- buffy the vampire slayer and Tokyo ghoul.

- untamed crossover with supernatural, Wei Wuxian's ghost is very attached to his flute, which has survived to modern times and smuggled out of China and sold to a museum or private collection. Separated from Lan Wangji's guqin and ghost. Wei Wuxain decides to be a problem. Sam and Dean investigate, now he's their problem.

- Marvel and Green Lantern crossover.

- Foxhole court crossover with Alex rider fanfiction, devil in the deep blue sea.

#fanficton #crossover #the foxhole court #neil #buffy the vampire salyer #the untamed #mdzs #supernatural #tokyo ghoul #marvel #green lanter corps #boku no hero #alex rider #devil in the deep blue sea #fate/series #got #game of thrones

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ecrivant · 3 years

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a castle and the devil within | reiner braun

(reiner braun x reader)

the night of the ambush on utgard castle; the air, pregnant with the impeding deaths of his comrades. reiner, plagued by guilt, ruminates on the idea of loss and culpability, and with you shares a moment that will undoubtedly come to haunt him.

a.n. – canon divergent in assuming the warriors knew of zeke’s plan to attack the castle.

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The group moved in the swathe of night like some serpentine unity towards an unknown. The moon, incandescent and looming high above the earth, enfolded the terrain in a ghostly haze which of all it touched made apparitions. In the air, a disconcerting quietude, silent all but for Equus footfalls dampened by sogged pasture and sniveling muzzles and the cracks and pops of low-burning torches. The topography, undulating, and from it emerged towering palisades of spruce which sectioned the land and curtailed the interminable and verdant hills. Clouds, by lunar glow illuminated and resembling exhalations in cold air arrested, roved the sky and overhung land so primeval Nyx herself present for its creation. Nocturne was refuge from the diurnal beasts who within them harbored a taste for humanity, but the cerement of pitch did little to lessen the unrest among the riders—in this world, serenity, erroneous.

At the horizonal marge of sky and land laid twin towers seemingly erected from the earth itself. Spires traced in moonlight. As the group rode forward, exhausted and pace lagging, drawing with their path the outline of the sloping land and leaving a trail of muddled footmarks in their wake, the castle entire materialized. Surrounding the towers, a crumbling stone bulwark, at once a product of precise masonry now by worldly destruction ruined—the fortress’ impotent aegis. This manmade edifice so alien in its surroundings, as if a misplaced afterthought meant for another milieu but forgotten and left for this bucolic landscape.

The group, looking strange and scarcely manlike, finally was before this decrepit palace—its courtyard, barricaded on three sides, was rife with debris, and vegetation grew over and between the laid stones which once formed the yard’s floor. The horses staggered on the unevenness. Each rider, form sore and tender, dismounted and tied their horses to what he or she could find and uncomfortably shifted between feet, readapting to bipedalism all but forgotten in the wake of such journeying. In this momentary recuperation, his eyes drifted to you—in no worse shape than the rest of the group, situated towards the back of their shapeless unit. Your back to him, slouched as if incurring an immense weight, and shoulders rolling beneath clothes.

Within the castle, a campfire, amber alight. Pitch dispelled as if a demon exorcised. Deep shadows in visages’ creases, casted in the fiery glow. The group here indistinguishable from fatigued miscreants of past and future.

He knew outside Zeke haunted the landscape, both specter and wraith, poised to strike. He knew this verily, just as he knew you rested, a stride away, in wary repose. His guilt, corrosive. You may die tonight, and he, delirious and consumed by misguided pathos, could only wait for this terrible inevitability. And perhaps one day he would make peace with his complicity in it and see your death as one of many needed to secure Eldian posterity, but he at this moment knew better. He knew your death would in fact eviscerate him, and he knew he would never be absolved, and for it he knew, upon his own final moments, he would be driven to perdition under the weight of his transgressions against you.

Your face, with delicacy, painted in light and complexion made orange by fire’s illumination. Aura beguiling, no less so than the first encounter. If, in your voice, the proposition to forsake his life’s purpose was made to him, he would fain relinquish it. And he would invariably sacrifice his life in exchange for yours, though perhaps not in the noble light the act was so habitually painted—it was not a gesture of loving sacrifice but rather the embodiment of an abject selfishness by which he was possessed. He knew he would not be able to bear the burden of your death, regardless of whether or not by his hand delivered, and would rather himself meet this inevitable and fatal eternity than ever live to see your end.

These terrible and penetrative thoughts of demise—a ghastly, mental seepage—were debilitating. He, as a warrior, as a member of the Survey Corps, was so well-acquainted with death yet had never acclimated to it and knew the last death to which he would bear witness would be no less harrowing than the first. And as he uncomfortably ruminated on these thoughts, he came to realize he, his presence, his mission, was the scent of death which hung over his comrades, the one which they so desperately tried to evade. Perhaps it was some unarticulated curse which followed inheritors of the titans. As misfortune and pain had fallen on his predecessors—the same who now inhabited him as ghostly memories and feelings—these miseries now fell on him, as if he was not a blank slate but rather a prewritten history destined to recount and repeat itself. Did he have any choice in what he had done or come to be? Or was the first inheritor as culpable as he in the terrible fates he wrote for those around him?

Even with his stoic form, highly controlled and for years constructed, he could not assuage the tremor in his hands or the accumulating bile which at once burned his stomach and throat.

He thought at one point he had distanced himself from you—an act of self-preservation—but you, aura infectious and penetrative, always remained. There in presence and in spirit, beside him always as if a phantasmal servant.

Beside him you rose and waited for a moment then moved to ascend the stairs of the tower in which the group found shelter. Someone called out for you, voice indistinguishable in the muted silence; a call less words articulated and more akin to a spectral exhalation of a once-present form. Your voice in response, a quiet assurance of your safety—you simply needed a moment alone. Yet against your wishes, he erected himself and moved to accompany you, informing you of his presence rather than asking permission.

“My knight in shining armor.”

Voice coy. A slight smile.

Yet, over him, horror settled, and he, overcome by unspeakable sickness, fought against the bile which threatened to spill forth. His knees trembled, and the stairs swayed and moved below him, and within him burgeoned a caustic remorse which eroded his conscience, creating from once plane morality a chasmic and unnavigable wasteland. In this moment, he wished he had returned to Marley after Marcel’s death. For his titan, and his responsibility and mission and resolve, would have been inherited by another—his entire being reduced to pitiable memories in the mind of his successor. And he would never have come to know you, or your strong resolve, or your aching concern, or your voice, velveteen, the sumptuous way you articulated his name. Or your laugh which swept past him with airy carelessness and within him bred a distant and warm and melancholic feeling, like a far-removed recollection, a memory of déjà vu. Or your quiet and unassuming history once marked by genial tranquility which was so violently uprooted by his own actions.

He stumbled as his body anticipated a stair which was not there. Your grip on his arm, strong, steadying. His eyes met yours, and in your gaze, that stupidly sincere concern, and in his, unspoken gratitude. At the top of the tower, contained in the interstice between the outside overlook and the end of the staircase, you seated yourself against the wall and he, beside you. He tried not to think of Annie or Bertolt or Zeke or Marley or his mother who within him placed her hope entire, and instead focused on the way you smelled of campfire and cold air, and the way, among the silence, the sound of your breathing stilled his heart. With a vacant mind, he simply sat and tried to match his breath to yours.

Still trembling, he inched his hand along the stone floor until he found your touch, and he twined his fingers with yours, and aside from a slight and barely-there hesitation, you did not react. Your hand cold and his clammy, and in teenage and involuntary reaction, he felt embarrassed.

The last time he desired you so blatantly came in ambush. He could not recall the situation, or even the moment before or after, but you were together, and in movement you had drifted past him, and as his eyes followed your hallowed form, the idea of kissing you abruptly and wholly engulfed him. He often yearned for you under the shroud of night or in the aurora of dawn, in response to a smile or a laugh, in the wake of a day spent together or a moment exchanged, but never after such inaction. He had supposed it made sense: for a space, moment, to become consecrated, you merely had to occupy it, and perhaps the moments where he did not crave you, though few in number, did not truly exist and were instead simply obfuscated by your very presence.

He rued each and every time previous he had not set aside his fear and held you. This touch, for the first time, in such a chaste and quiet way, and perhaps on the eve of your demise, felt vile. Your shared intimacy, perverse.

But the constricting grip of your hand on his, tightened and loosened as a tide ebbs and flows in conjoined action, brought him back from his negative ruminations. As if you sensed his need to be grounded.

And the look of your face in the barely-there starlight was enough for him to press his lips to yours, a loving movement made shy by hesitance. The kiss, ephemeral and dissolving in the night as suddenly as it came to be. He pulled away, face hot at your nonreaction, but you followed his mouth as if now linked and did not let him go. Is this what it felt like to be wanted, needed? In a second, you returned to your seated position and he to his, resting in silence as if previous exchange forgotten. Or, perhaps, never having existed. He suddenly saw your mutilated corpse before him and could no longer luxuriate in the aftermath of this intimacy exchanged, the grip on his hand and the closeness of your shoulder and his own breathlessness and palpitations now feeling like heresy.

He felt in the air your hesitation, the quietude preceding the break of a storm, before you spoke, words uttered in tone eerie as if invoked then manifested from the night itself:

“Do you trust me, Reiner?”

In few moments was he struck as speechless as this. His implicit answer was one of affirmation—he knew amply of how you so presently and continually heeded him—yet he, dazed and aphonic, spoke not. Perhaps fearful of a forthcoming dialogue in which you would state your misplaced trust on him conferred. He preemptively contemned you for saying such things, though it was scorn quickly and rightly turned on himself. You trusted him under the same pretenses he did you, and no reassurances, no matter how constant, could convince him he did not for you experience true and attested concern. It was not a matter of you falling for his acutely maintained artifice but rather one where he had, simply and unequivocally, fallen for you.

Your gaze bore into him. Patiently waiting for his answer and seemingly unfazed by his hesitance. He swallowed and shook his head yes and spoke to substantiate this claim:

“Of course I do.”

You nodded your head as if satisfied and looked up to the ceiling in musing and spoke again after a shared and pregnant pause:

“I trust you. More than anything.”

You began another phrase, but it trailed off, lost in the night’s permeant sombre.

And he did not hear it, instead intent on edifice around him crumbling, and conscience, crushing and destructive, under which he collapsed, and ire which burned him like flame, and dread which gored him and spilled forth his viscera, black and befouled from deceit. Intent on his blood now bile, and complexion now rotted flesh. And the eldritch bawl, suffused with ruefulness and agony and lamentation unmatched by even the most repentous sinners, which nigh spewed from his gut but instead caught in his throat in a choked sob. And intent on the manner in which he violently ripped away from you, suddenly and acutely aware of the way his hand twined in yours was the quintessence of sinful hypocrisy—what one should be made to embrace the sadistic numen who in its hands held his or her ultimate fate? And intent on the countless bodies of victims, past and future, coalescing in a single, fleshed mass of sanguine gore and tortured and malformed faces whose expressions more resembled demons than humans, each and all prostrate before him, supine in some perverted reverence like an agonous congregation in worship.

“I feel you bear my burdens for me.”

Spoken with a quiet and slumberous quality, as if your first words after waking. His mind prayed for your silence, a wish, unarticulated, as he could only hold his head in his hands and rock forward and back with mouth open in a wordless scream. And the emotions with which he was suddenly inundated did not result in tears, and instead he sat beside you, breathing hard and in shock and doing nothing, as if struck dumb. Your hand on his shoulder, a touch which in it held such comfort and concern, which he cowered under and tore away from as if beast threatened and made prey. And upon this reaction, the space seemed too small and your presence, repugnant. The crucifix proffered before the devil.

He himself, cursed, and now he cursed you.

The trapdoor above, wood weathered and water-logged and laying heavy and flush against the stone ceiling, burst open with a tempest gale’s force, and one of the veterans plummeted from the tower’s crown towards the floor and paid no mind to your pair and instead rushed down the stairs and called for the rest of the group. And just as suddenly as he had fallen under the yoke of his own fervor, he repressed all thought and set his jaw and ascended the final steps of the tower to emerge in the night. You beside him.

From above, the terrain a banished landscape. The trees which once towered towards firmament’s ceiling now sat in small and sparse clusters littered over the land’s spanning hummocks. And the moon, now at arc’s crest, bewashed the purgatory below in that same haze from before, the one which made all things wraithlike and seemingly ephemeral. And within that courtyard on three sides barricaded by the crumbling bulwark and rife with lapidarius debris and vegetation made bluish by the night which encroached upon the yard’s stone foundation posed dozens of those unclad leviathans, climbing over architectural remains or coming forth from arboreal cells or clawing at the tower’s base with hands all but human and much more vehement. Monstrous and aberrant pilgrims converging on their infernal holy land.

Knowledge of Zeke’s intentions made the sight no less grim.

In the moments before the veterans descended upon the beasts below in instinctual response, they were struck still, shock and fear in their eyes clear. And for some reason wholly unknown to him, the reaction, so involuntary and raw and basally human, impressed upon his mind and burrowed deep within him. His body shuddering. The nightmarish air, pregnant with the threat of impending carnage, and in it, unspoken fear.

Under blade the brutes fell silently and with their impacts shook the earth. Even with the dexterous hands with which the veterans fought, the tower’s entrance—a large and wooden and rotting door—was breached. Authoritative calls, tinged with desperation and fear and sounding more like cries, ordered the group’s remainder to secure the edifice. To fight to their final breath.

He could not bring himself to look at you, yet he still felt your presence, the air around you leaden and viscous and suffused with dread.

As he ran down the stairs, leading the charge to secure the entrance breached, he pondered his intentions. Atypical of his carefully crafted persona, and perhaps his true self, to waver in the face of danger and at the chance to protect his friends, or rather those who he had acutely deceived and convinced of his friendship, he resolved that his actions were integral to the role of Reiner—the protective and stoic hero who, out of fraternal love, laid down his life for those around him. A role with which he had no qualms assuming. Even if it was one through Paradisian Eldian’s eyes seen—he cared more about the perception than those who perceived him. But as he heard your voice with unprecedented fear call out, his name from your mouth a desperate invocation, all notions preconceived wiped away. He did not fight for the longevity of his own ego, nor even for Marley, or Bertolt or Annie or his mother, home in Liberio. In this moment, he fought for you.

Upon reaching the staircase’s base, and beyond the open door, he found himself before a titan with stretched grin and ravenous gaze, all humanity absent. In torchlight, the beast’s grimace, devilish. And he slammed the door and threw against it his weight entire and called out an indecipherable—perhaps an order, perhaps a cry for help—to the ones descending the stairs behind him. A sudden plosion of splintering wood beside his head, and through the hole created shot a fleshy and steaming appendage, furiously and blindly reaching for him. He felt shame as he realized he had already consigned to dying, and in the seconds before this infernal arm enveloped him, he thought of Marcel. And of Marcel’s scream—his final and desperate expression of abject fear—halted at its climax and then punctuated by the ferric and sour smell of fresh blood and the sound of bone crushed and brains liquified.

No, he was not to die here.

His movements, automated—his body, propelled away from the door and brushing against the arm which all but had him; Bertolt beside him and pushing a spear into the goliath; his form responding to a warning call, diving out of the path of the unloaded canon which flew down the stairs and as a bludgeon crushed the titan.

His consciousness divorced from corporeal form, only united again as the agony of teeth sinking into his arm suffused him with an unknowable pain. He was made sick thinking this was the feeling which marked Marcel’s final moments.

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Trembling hands struggling with makeshift gauze. Punctuating, shaky breaths. Though you tried to hide it, eyes focused on dressing his wounds in silence, he could see you were thoroughly harrowed by the moments prior. While he was plagued by thoughts of your death, were you by his? As much as it would cause you great suffering, he would still rather die before you—in his selfishness, he would rather have you alive and obliterated by grief than he. He was reluctant to believe true love was this selfish. Though, when one says they would die for their lover, is it a product of selflessness or self-preservation in the face of grief? Perhaps in a world different from this one, selflessness possible.

You finished your work on his arm and sat back. He looked at you for the first time since you last spoke and found he could barely hold your gaze.

“I promise that if I die, I will be with you. Always. Just look for me.”

Were these his words or yours? There was no distinction in this place, voices and bodies and human and beast all made one primeval unity in this cold dark.

He wished for you to hold him.

And when this wish remained unanswered, and the group was called to the towers peak again, and he quickly and silently ascended the stairs next to you, he became aware of a painful and agonous truth: he would never know your touch again, nor he did not deserve it, for the hours and days that followed held admittance of his duplicity; a look in your eyes which so clearly reflected how he violated you; between you, an establishment of mistrust and enmity. And he would perhaps know your touch again, but it was touch imbued with lethal intent, hateful, your vitriol unspoken but not absent, as you, with all your resolve, tried to wholly annihilate him.

And yet, in an ironic turn where you, in your hands, suddenly held his fate in a way not dissimilar to the way he did yours, he still wished for his own death to come first, for he would not and could not resolve to live a life devoid of you.

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ah hi there! was this one week’s worth of work? perhaps no. but i hope everyone enjoyed it regardless! thank you so much for reading and thank you to the anon who sent in a request for this fic! i loved your idea, and i hope you enjoyed the piece!

all the recent support means the world, and feedback and all that is always so appreciated. have many requests on the way, so look forward to more stuff coming soon!

request: ok so there's this scenario that's been itching my brain in the wrong place 😭😭 reiner and reader in the castle ruins? before the armored titan reveal? possibly the reader "confesses" to reiner by saying that out of everyone in the corps they trust him the most. and later on he just... does that. spare me some angst please

masterlist

taglist: @flam3bird, @sakusas-whore

#attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #aot #snk #attack on titan x reader #attack on titan imagine #aot imagines #aot x reader #reiner braun #reiner braun x reader #reiner braun x you #reiner braun imagine #reiner x reader #writing!

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Snowflake Reviews Master List

▪Abbie Zanders

Callaghan Brothers-Abbie Zanders

Dangerous Secrets(Callaghan Brothers #1)

First and Only(Callaghan Brothers #2)

House Calls(Callaghan Brothers #3)

Seeking Vengeance(Callaghan Brothers #4)

Guardian Angel (Callaghan Brothers #5)

Beyond Affection(Callaghan Brothers #6)

Having Faith(Callaghan Brothers #7)

Bottom Line(Callaghan Brothers #8)

Forever Mine(Callaghan Brothers #9)

Covendale-Abbie Zanders

Five Minute Man(Covendale #1)

All Night Woman(Covendale #2)

The Connelly Cousins-Abbie Zanders

Celina(The Connelly Cousins #1)

Jamie(The Connelly Cousins #1.5)

Johnny(The Connelly Cousins #2)

Michael(The Connelly Cousins #3)

Cerasino Family Novella-Abbie Zanders

Just For Me(Cerasino Family Novella #1)

Just For Him(Cerasino Family Novella #2)

Just For Her(Cerasino Family Novella #3)

Sanctuary-Abbie Zanders

Protecting Sam(Sanctuary #1)

Best Laid Plans(Sanctuary #2)

Shadow of Doubt(Sanctuary #3)

Nick UnCaged(Sanctuary #4)

Organically Yours(Sanctuary #5)

Prodigal Son(Sanctuary #6)

▪Chantal Fernando

Fast & Fury-Chantal Fernando

Custom Built(Fast & Fury #1)

Custom Made(Fast & Fury #2)

Custom Love(Fast & Fury #3)

Knights of Fury-Chantal Fernando

Saint(Knights of Fury #1)

Renegade(Knights of Fury #2)

Temper(Knights of Fury #3)

Wind Dragons MC-Chantal Fernando

Dragon’s Lair(Wind Dragons MC #1)

Arrow’s Hell(Wind Dragons MC #2)

Tracker’s End(Wind Dragons MC #3)

▪Harper Sloan

Coming Home-Harper Sloan

Lost Rider(Coming Home #1)

Kiss My Boots(Coming Home #2)

Cowboy Up(Coming Home #3)

Corps Security-Harper Sloan

Axel(Corps Security #1)

Cage(Corps Security #2)

Beck(Corps Security #3)

Uncaged(Corps Security #3.5)

Cooper(Corps Security #4)

Locke(Corps Security #5)

▪Jennifer Ryan

Hunted-Jennifer Ryan

Saved by the Rancher(Hunted #1)

Lucky Like Us(Hunted #2)

The Right Bride(Hunted #3)

Chasing Morgan(Hunted #4)

Everything She Wanted(Hunted #5)

Montana Men-Jennifer Ryan

At Wolf Ranch(Montana Men #1)

When It’s Right(Montana Men #2)

Her Lucky Cowboy(Montana Men #3)

Stone Cold Cowboy(Montana Men #4)

Her Renegade Rancher(Montana Men #5)

His Cowboy Heart(Montana Men #6)

Montana Heat- Jennifer Ryan

Protected by Love(Montana Heat #0.5)

Escape to You(Montana Heat #1)

True to You(Montana Heat #2)

Tempted by Love(Montana Heat #3)

The McBrides- Jennifer Ryan

The Return of Brody McBride(The McBrides #1)

Falling for Owen(The McBrides #2)

Dylan’s Redemption(The McBrides #3)

Wild Rose Ranch- Jennifer Ryan

Dirty Little Secret(Wild Rose Ranch #1)

Restless Rancher(Wild Rose Ranch #2)

Tough Talking Cowboy(Wild Rose Ranch #3)

▪Mia Malone

The Brothers-Mia Malone

Gibson(The Brothers #1)

Padraig(The Brothers #2)

Joke(The Brothers #3)

Day(The Brothers #4)

Mac(The Brothers #5)

▪Winter Travers

Devil’s Knights-Winter Travers

Loving Lo(Devil’s Knights #1)

Finding Cyn(Devil’s Knights #2)

Gravel’s Road(Devil’s Knights #3)

Battling Troy(Devil’s Knights #4)

Gambler’s Longshot(Devil’s Knights #5)

Keeping Meg(Devil’s Knights #6)

Fallen Lords MC-Winter Travers

Nickel(Fallen Lords MC #1)

Pipe(Fallen Lords MC #2)

Maniac(Fallen Lords MC #3)

Wrecker(Fallen Lords MC #4)

Boink(Fallen Lords MC #5)

Clash(Fallen Lords MC #6)

Freak(Fallen Lords MC #7)

Slayer(Fallen Lords MC #8)

Brinks(Fallen Lords MC #9)

Kings of Vengeance MC- Winter Travers

Drop a Gear and Disappear(Kings of Vengeance MC #1)

Lean Into It(Kings of Vengeance MC #2)

Knees in the Breeze(Kings of Vengeance MC #3)

Midnight Wreckage(Kings of Vengeance MC #4)

Thrill Seeker(Kings of Vengeance MC #5)

Livin’ on the Edge (Kings of Vengeance MC Book 6)

Blacktop Freedom(Kings of Vengeance MC #7)

Ride or Die(Kings of Vengeance MC #8)

Nitro Crew-Winter Travers

Burndown(Nitro Crew #1)

Holeshot(Nitro Crew #2)

Redlight(Nitro Crew #3)

Shutdown(Nitro Crew #4)

Powerhouse M.A.-Winter Travers

Dropkick My Heart(Powerhouse M.A. #1)

Love on the Mat (Powerhouse M.A. #2)

Black Belt in Love(Powerhouse M.A. #3)

Black Belt Knockout(Powerhouse M.A. #4)

Skid Row Kings-Winter Travers

Downshift(Skid Row Kings #1)

Powershift(Skid Row Kings #2)

Bangshift(Skid Row Kings #3)

▪Scott Hildreth

Biker MC Romance-Scott Hildreth

Hard(Biker MC Romance #1)

Rough(Biker MC Romance #2)

Dirty(Biker MC Romance #3)

Rigid(Biker MC Romance #4)

Nuts(Biker MC Romance #5)

Thick(Biker MC Romance #6)

Devil’s Disciples MC-Scott Hildreth

Baker(Devil’s Disciples MC #1)

Selected Sinners MC-Scott Hildreth

Making the Cut(Selected Sinners MC #1)

Taking the Heat(Selected Sinners MC #2)

Otis(Selected Sinners MC #3)

Hung(Selected Sinners MC #4)

Ex-Con(Selected Sinners MC #5)

Money Shot(Selected Sinners MC #6)

Hard Corps(Selected Sinners MC #7)

#booklr #bookblr #books #adult books #abbie zanders #chantal fernando #harper sloan #jennifer ryan #winter travers #bookworm #recommendations #january 2022 #contemporary review master list

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limoe13 · 7 years

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BattleWorld was a great read .

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heroicadventurists · 4 years

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DC Future State: Justice League Family

A thread of great change runs through the Justice League heroes: a new League is built upon secret identities (even from each other), but an old and evolved enemy will use these secrets to try and overthrow the world. For the supernatural heroes of Justice League Dark, the very fabric of reality has shifted, and heroes are being hunted.

For Flash, Shazam, and the Teen Titans, it all begins when the four Riders of the Apocalypse unleash hell in a battle at Titans Academy, Barry Allen is cut off from the Speed Force, a Famine-controlled Wally West may be beyond saving, and Billy Batson makes a deal with the devil that will change Shazam forever. Off-world, John Stewart and the remaining Green Lanterns are stranded in the shadow of a dead power battery; Jackson Hyde and Andy Curry are separated across the galaxy; and Amanda Waller executes her ultimate plan with a new but terrifyingly familiar Suicide Squad on Earth-3.

At the end of time, Swamp Thing reveals its true intention, ruling supreme until a remnant of humanity launches a rebellion, and Black Adam looks to the past as the only way to save the future of the Multiverse.

Oversized Comics:

Future State: Justice League #1-2

Future State: Green Lantern #1-2

Future State: Suicide Squad #1-2

Justice League, by Joshua Williamson and Robson Rocha

Justice League Dark, by Ram V. and Marcio Takara

Last Lanterns, by Geoffrey Thorne and Tom Raney

Tales of the Green Lantern Corps, by Josie Campbell, Ryan Cady and Ernie Altbacker, with Sami Basri and Clayton Henry

Suicide Squad, by Robbie Thompson and Javi Fernandez

Black Adam, by Jeremy Adams and Fernando Pasarin

Monthly Miniseries:

Future State: Aquaman, by Brandon Thomas and Daniel Sampere

Future State: The Flash, by Brandon Vietti and Dale Eaglesham

Future State: Teen Titans, by Tim Sheridan and Rafa Sandoval

Future State: SHAZAM!, by Tim Sheridan and Eduardo Pansica

Future State: Swamp Thing, by Ram V and Mike Perkins

#dc future state #dc comics #justice league #green lantern #Suicide Squad #aquaman #The Flash #Teen Titans #Shazam #swamp thing

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emeraldoodles · 4 years

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Long Grindeldore Fics

Here’s a list of Grindeldore Fics that are longer. I tried to pick only fics over 10k or are going to be over 10k in the future.

Zwischen Immer und Nie (Between Always and Never) by sudowoodo

Words: 38563

Albus smiled and tossed the manuscript back on the table. "It's the rest I don't agree with. I simply cannot get behind that American rule."

Gellert laughed loudly. "You wish to marry a Muggle, Albus? There is something you're not telling me, yes?"

Albus tipped his head sideways, growing weary of his friend always missing the point. "Oh, I don't know. I feel some sympathy with those who are not allowed to love freely." Gellert's gaze became fixed on the floor before his eyes roamed up to take in Albus' face. Albus placed his hands on his stomach and sighed gently. "I can only imagine what it's like not having the freedom to walk hand in hand with my love, or marry them, or kiss them in the street."

There was a long pause. Then, seriously, "What are you talking about, Albus?"

"I think you know."

-A summer of 1899. Has a Victorian feel with themes of homophobia. There’s a cry scene that got to me. I like how Ariana and Alberforth are written.-

Hold on by OUATgirl

Words: 26,631

After their famous duel in 1945, Albus Dumbledore decides to give his old friend another chance. Instead of being held in Nurmengard, Gellert Grindelwald will serve his time under the watchful eyes of the new hero of the wizarding world. But Albus cannot plan everything, and things might be more difficult than he anticipated

-I like how Dumbledore was written. Very cute and slow. Writer is currently working on a sequel-

same apartment, roommate's gone by Anonymous

Words: 10,176

After nearly five decades of imprisonment, Gellert Grindelwald was ready to break free.

-Very funny, but it is serious too. Gellert takes over the mind of Lockhart because there ain’t nothing there.-

Defence Professor Wohl by DarthKrande, NeverBeyondRedemption

Words: 54,421

Gilderoy Lockhart landed himself in St Mungo's after his 'Cornish Pixies' class. Where can a headmaster now find another Defence teacher, one who's knowledgeable beyond doubt, willing to face the curse on the position, and available to start in a few days? In Nurmengard, that's where.

-I really like the beginning of this fic, the ending dragged after chapter 18, but that’s probably because the later chapters focus on Harry.-

rummaging for answers in the pages by kittysorceress

Words: 37,620

It is the summer of 1899 and Albus Dumbledore is ready to venture into the great wizarding unknown. Instead, he finds himself at a dead end, keeping house for his siblings in Godric's Hollow. Bored. Lonely. Wasted.

That is, until he meets his equal.

-A collection of Albus's journal entries from the summer of 1899, detailing his adventures and the innermost workings of his mind, from the mundane to the sublime.-

So Many Chances Unseen by The_Marron

Words : 32,043

Dumbledore wants to die, Severus Snape doesn't want him to, and there is also an ex-Dark Lord trying to get his ex back. Maybe.

-This is broken up into 5 parts that total the word count. Is completed. Albus is an ass and I loved it! Slow burn with old men. Loved the ending! Wish this is how the books ended.-

Thirty-Five Owls by Letterblade

Words:11,284

Being a correspondence between Albus P.W.B. Dumbledore, Grand Sorcerer, Supreme Mugwump, etc., and the prisoner Gellert Grindelwald, of some decades in length.

-Gellert and Ablus are penpals? Kinda. It’s sweet, it’s angry and it’s sad. It’s Grindeldore in a nutshell.-

Extreme Incantations by meanwhiletimely

Words: 10,043

Gellert makes a discovery in Albus's bookshelves that results in a revelation.

-Very much smut, but with a plot… no maybe just a point? Dark magic sex during 1899. Bottom Gellert.-

My hands in yours by FrozenBrownie

Words: 21,452

A student of Hogwarts, died in Albus Dumbledore’s arms. What impact this unnecessary death of a child (again) would have on him, on England, on Hogwarts, neither the watching centaurs nor that desperate wizard with his wrists in unconnected metal chains could have foreseen. There was a man, of course, who did, roused in his sleep from the agitation of his husband over a thousand miles away. And thus, a story different from the one that could have come to pass began.

-Albus is shackled and leaves his life to find Gellert.I’m a sucker for fics about magic restriction shackles. Several parts.-

Happily Ever After, Being an Account of a Victorian Fairy Tale in Five Parts by azurish

Words: 10,281

When you’re hunting down the stuff of fairy tales, you shouldn’t be surprised when your own life turns into a fairy tale. In a universe in which Ariana wasn’t killed, Albus and Gellert attempt to track down the Hallows. Gellert knows that Albus is in love with him, and it’s convenient to indulge him – but that’s all there is to it. Right?

-Albus and Gellert go on their journey for the Hallows and have been traveling for a while together. Gellet is a piece of shit and Albus is dumb (stop just putting on unknown jewelry!)-

His Majesty's dragon by FrozenBrownie

Words: 18,369

Used in Open Combat – Dragon Corps in short. Albus’ magical power, ability and control apparently were up to the required standard to be considered for the training program for Aviators. Of course he had had no intention to go into the military whatsoever, but then, Gellert Grindelwald had stumbled into his life. Oh, how they had loved one another, fiercely, fiery, distructive -

-Dragon riders and set in 1759. Is a series. Writer working on 2nd part.-

Let Perpetual Light by tehtarik

Words: 65,726

In the village of Godric's Hollow, the Dumbledore family is falling apart. Kendra Dumbledore is dead under mysterious circumstances, and Albus is the unwilling guardian to his wayward brother Aberforth, and Ariana, their mad sister in the attic. But everything changes with the arrival of Gellert Grindelwald, violently charming juvenile delinquent with an obsession for the fabled Deathly Hallows.

-Ariana is a main character. Summer of 1899.-

Nurmengard by red_camellia

Words: 12,002

After Grindelwald's defeat in 1945 he is put in Nurmengard, unable to move on and haunted by memories of their past Dumbledore begins visiting Grindelwald. "But whenever Dumbledore was there, it was like looking into the Mirror. They both looked at each other and yet, did not see each other."

-A melancholy fic. Albus keeps visiting Nurmengard years after the battle of 1945.-

Shadows Die Twice by Phytine (Taouret)

Words: 68,922

Albus Dumbledore, after having been expelled from Hogwarts, has no choice but to go to Durmstrang in order to finish his education. There, he meets a very charming boy, Gellert Grindelwald and, despite the warnings, decides to befriend him.

What Albus doesn’t know is that Durmstrang is the Devil’s territory. Before he can understand what is happening, he gets caught in a dangerous web. The unconscious prey has fallen.

But there is one thing that Grindelwald hasn’t taken into account: Dumbledore is no man to be taken down easily and, the monster is never far away in a wounded heart.

-Do you want a really fuck up Albus and just as equally fucked up Gellert? This is your fic. Warning, includes rape, abusive relationship, blood fetish, chocking. Not completed.-

Phoenix Tears by PrincessElectra

Words: 46,739

The summer of 1899 ends with less destruction and heartbreak, but love is not a victory march and the darkness is still a seductive temptress. Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald.

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. I refuse to accept that there is any future where the world is better place with us apart.”

-Gellert decides to stay with Albus but he can’t quite give up on his old goals Lots of fluff.-

liminality by verivala

Words: 7,981

Instead of killing Albus, Gellert imprisons him. Neither of them have a good time.

Grindelwald Wins AU

-Still being written. Gellert is trying to cage Albus and Albus is trying to escape, if only mentally. It does have darker themes like mind control, magic restrict, twisted love.-

The Trial of Albus Dumbledore by Aurora_xx

Words: 51,613

Albus Dumbledore has to attend a disciplinary hearing for withholding invaluable information about Gellert Grindelwald, deliberate misdirection and performing a blood pact with the person who currently represents the biggest threat to the wizard community.

Unknowingly, he takes Veritaserum before.

-Albus is held trial and forced to speak the whole truth.-

The Glass House by Skurf, TheMoonGuardian (moonchampion)

Words: 24,327

Brightest student of Hogwarts's 1899 graduating class, Albus Dumbledore was about to set off to travel the world. He was going to revolutionize the Wizarding World. Then Ariana Dumbledore killed her mother in a fit of uncontrollable magic, and he was sent back home to be her caretaker.

He was 18, resentful, and utterly miserable. Until Bathilda Bagshot introduced him to her alluring nephew, Gellert Grindelwald.

(The one where Ariana doesn't die, and the boys take her along on their quest to find the Elder Wand.)

-I almost feel bad putting this on the list, because it looks to forever be incomplete. But the bantering between Albus and Gellert is just too enjoyable not to include.-

Never Too Careful by DrSalazar2U

Words: 29,694

"So that, when my mother died, and I was left the responsibility of a damaged sister and a wayward brother, I returned to my village in anger and bitterness. Trapped and wasted, I thought! And then, of course,

he came..."

Gellert presents a life changing opportunity, but Albus quickly learns that when it comes to eternal glory, one can never be too careful.

-Lot of smut, but there is still a plot. But lots of summer sex. I like how Ariana and Abeforth are written.-

#grindeldore #Albus Dumbledore #gellert grindelwald #ggad #Harry Potter #fantastic beasts #Gelbus #Dumblewald #fanfic #rec list

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cruddyborderlandstheories · 4 years

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this DLC has me FUCKED UP and i keep screaming

spoilers for Bounty of Blood under the cut, keep reading at ur own peril. Also some Guardian Takedown spoilers for anyone who hasn’t beat it yet

tl;dr: a comparison between something taken from BL2 and a thing taken from Bounty of Blood. more spoilery tl;dr below the cut.

also the siren thing is not spoilers so i’ll share it here for anyone curious, it’s just this: siren tattoos are blue but when lily absorbs eridium in 2, they turn pinkish/purple. just like how vaults do from bl1 to bl2. they’re white/blue in bl1, then purple-pink in bl2 (and tps), y’know, after Eridium begins erupting from the ground. just a neat little detail i noticed that im not entirely sure was intentional but im gonna believe it is.

tl;dr: Gythian Blood = Core and the Ruiner is of Eridian Origin even tho everyone in the DLC likes to say it was created with Jakobs’ bioengineering. disclaimer: idk if I’ve found every hidden ECHO so I may be missing a few things but I have done every side quest and took ample screenshots of all important dialogue in the DLC : )

“man i just sat here for like 15 minutes staring at my keyboard mentally comparing core and eridium like the dumb bitch i am.

it's not like we can do an actual comparison because we have no idea what the natural fauna of gehenna was like before jakobs came and mutated everything with core unlike pandora where we know what skags and rakk and shit were like BEFORE the eridium crust erupted.

altho!!! there's a neat comparison between joey ultraviolet and rose. like obviously he wasn't getting tattoos and was just doing lines of crushed up eridium but the point stands they both have glowy eyes and unique powers so i don't necessarily think this means rose is a siren just because she has magic powers especially when we know she got the whistling passed down to her from her grandmother.

especially because we've never seen a siren interact with core before. altho that leaves the question we have seen core tattoos now what are eridium tattoos like? actually rose's tattoos were on her right arm obviously she isn't a siren as we know them right now (I saw a post on reddit where people thought rose was a siren)

of course that brings up the point perhaps siren tattoos ARE eridium tattoos. but then we hear the general's log about how the devil riders were tattooing a man with core and blood so obviously they're not ‘naturally’ occurring unlike siren tattoos. so odds are they're probably not equivalents but something interesting i thought of while thinking about this is how well siren tattoos compare to the Vaults from borderlands 1 and borderlands 2″

anyway. this is all ive been thinking about. yes yes i know guardian takedown post but! >:( im still salty even tho this update has been lovely (outside of Blane not getting his correct damage scaling ‘till today......). so i’ll do that at my own damn pace. now let me elaborate so i can sleep at night lmao

Eridium

refinement produces slag, which weakens people and can mutate things

has mutating properties, mostly with imbuing elements into shit- possibly causes insanity

seems to be connected to another dimension, likely the one the Eridians are from

Core

has a secondary form of Infused Core

has mutating properties, mostly regarding a thing’s body and mind

apparently radioactive

there are some things i wanna note

1) People throughout the DLC say the Ruiner was created by the Jakobs corp (the company) thru bio-engineering but I’m 99% sure that’s not true. The paperwork seems to me like they found the egg somewhere on Gehenna and decided to roll and experiment with it like all corporations do when they find weird alien shit. so maybe they experimented with whatever was inside the egg, but I don’t think they actually created it entirely

“Excavated from [REDACTED] ... Local legends speaks of a [REDACTED]. This theory is not endorsed by our research personnel.

2) The Ruiner’s design reminds me a lot of the Warrior.

3) Core immediately reminded me of Gythian Blood from Guns Love and Tentacles and I don’t think that’s coincidence to have 2 back-to-back DLCs where the big bad is focused on green death juice. I think Gythian Blood and Core are of the same stuffs.

4) Therefore, I think the Ruiner is (mostly) of Eridian origin (if you haven’t already guessed).

This gives us an amazing look into how the Eridians actually create their beasts!!! And I’m so happy they showed us this.

(side note, Interitus Regina (the long name for Ruiner) literally means Destruction Queen and I think that’s beautiful <3)

i mean the idea that they plunge them from orbit to create an explosion similar to a nuke is fucking horrifying (but holy shit I love it so much ahhh it’s so cool!!!!)

the one side line from Oletta about how the company couldn’t control the Ruiner deffo makes me double down on this theory. I’m not entirely sure how Rose’s grandma knew about the whistling (I don’t think I’ve found every echo log in that area YET), but I would bet it was part of the testing given how many fuckin’ tape players they have throughout the facility. The Warrior was controlled by verbal commands via Jack, so it’s possible that the Ruiner was intended to be controlled similarly, but Jakobs intervention (or something like the way Rose hatched it) fucked it up.

now we know the Warrior was created to protect the Vault of the Destroyer (hmm.) so what the heck was the Ruiner created for? Ruiner is a name given to it by Jakobs/the people of Gehenna so we can’t really assume, but then again the monster names are pretty apt in this series even tho they probably technically shouldn’t be.

it was only an egg, so maybe it was another test of Core? A Vault Monster incubating until it was ready to protecc and attacc but was never hatched because the Eridians ‘sacrificed’ themselves before it could? (I’m still not convinced the Eridians are the good guys. Listen. LISTEN. The guardian takedown is something to think about, BUT it doesn’t disprove that theory and I’ll stand by it because I 100% trust the Overseer more than bitchpants mcgee over here who thinks he’s soooo special for no reason fuck you and your dumb ‘I did what the Watcher could not’ bull you haven’t done shit.) ok sorry im done he just angers me. stupid guardian man. your whip is stupid and you should feel bad. oh also I totally called us actually being Guardians thru Guardian Rank before the game came out aha yeah.

I definitely think Gythian was a test/use of Core from the Eridians. We see in Bounty of Blood that core seems to mutate more the physical (and occasionally mental) parts of people, like with the crew challenges u do for Juno with all the weird hybrid people and whatnot. Gythian had the whole ‘the heart still beats’ thing going on (which is definitely a physical mutation if i’ve ever seen one), plus the whole, you know, mind control and shit. Which is p similar to what the menta gnats can do when charged with Infused Core. And keep in mind in BLaT we see DAHL notes on what happens to test subjects when injected with Gythian Blood. They mutated physically and went insane.

What im saying is Sirens and Eridium and Elements are connected, so what does Core equal? body/mind sure but are there unique creatures for core (yes holy shit I’m not talking about h2o au for once and FINALLY they gave us a canon name for the green stuff!!!). If not, I’d love to see a Siren interact with Core to see what it does to them. seriously why hasn’t tannis interrupted us yet. horrible excuse for a science lover (kidding kidding, I love her). I’d also really love a fuller rundown on what the hell Rose’s powers were. Because the whistling thing seemed to just be her grandma’s thingie passed down to her from her mom

but the core stuff

her gun seems to be infused with it. So did her sword thing. I didn’t really get a good look at it i was too busy trying to see thru my blurry tears of LOVE for this DLC.

Strangely while her tattoos are (mostly) green I actually don’t know if they’re core infused bc look at this

n look back at hers. hers aren’t very lime.

anyway

her eyes

I’d love to know if the core gives her immediate future sight or just increased perception or reaction times. there’s a huge difference but she seemed to be able to shoot the gun outta the sheriff’s hand near immediately and it seems kinda implied its because of the core (or at least because her eyes are glowing green)

there’s a possibility she has some unique core powers/possibly implants because of her relations to the project in the first place, or as leader of the devil riders after looting the facility. it’s really hard to say without more info and like i said im not sure if i missed an ECHO or two or not regarding her backstory :(

Her hair is also green which I just noticed. Maybe she has core powers bc her grandmother got suuuuuuuuper irradiated/influenced working on project horizons and it passed down thru her n Rose’s mom, to Rose. Tannis does have a line about Sirens having unique hair colors and, if Sirens are linked to Eridium, perhaps those linked to Core also have unique hair color. Could also explain why only Rose seems to have those whistling powers. That said we don’t really see anyone else trying that whistling thing out afaik and idk if it was, like, a special ability or a certain tone/ditty or w h a t.

i know being vague with everything gives them more creative freedom to create amazing characters and scenarios, but dammit I want A N S W E R S.

All THAT said man I’m so glad magic is real in the borderlands universe. oh, sorry, “magic”. It’s magic. Science it, tannis, I dare you. either way, I win. Either it’s magic and H2O AU is canon, or it’s science and I finally get my goddamn answers. Hey gearbox can you make a book just explaining all the science and eridian stuff. please. I’d love you forever. please. pleaheheheheaaasseee it’s all i’ve ever wanted.

oh also can i just say, suuuper disappointed we didn’t learn anything about anshin. Really wish non-fan favorite corporations would get the spotlight/lore for once. Like, I like Jakobs as much as the next guy, and I get WHY they did it (can’t have a corporation looking too good!!!) but they now have 3 DLCs (Jakobs Cove, GLaT, and Bounty of Blood) and also a hefty chunk of the main game. Like... we all know Jakobs fuckin sucks, look at what they did on Pandora. I really just want info on a medical corporation 😭 I have to do everything my damn s e l f. but SERIOUSLY IMAGINE the possibilities that could come from a medical corp getting its hands on eridian tech. like, yeah obviously the weapons corps are gonna use it for weaponry and stuff BUT WOULDN’T THE MEDICAL CORPS MUTATING PEOPLE MAKE MORE SENSE??? ldfhgldfshg I have to do everything my damn self...

anyway all that aside, this is definitely by favorite borderlands dlc by a LONG shot. Nothing comes close. Ahhh the lore, the nuclear aspect, the a e s t h e t i c (seriously, have I mentioned how much I adore Trigun???), the art, the music, the cryoslinger, the fact I can bust out going beeEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAans like Ray Chase at any time and it will MAKE SENSE. I love all of it.

oh, also, Rose is totally not dead. C’mon, they couldn’t find her body. She pulled a Lilith. “Are you sure she didn’t just suffer a wound that LOOKS fatal, only for her to come back in a blockbuster sequel...?” is a line from mr Jones himself (the movie guy)

I just hope when she comes back she gets to meet Captain Scarlett. I’d love to watch their interactions plus pirates and or ninjas. That’s 2 DLC villains now that have vanished without a trace. And I like Captain Scarlett way more than Rose (seriously I spent the entire beginning of the DLC complaining about how her voice bothered me- I was so happy she was a villain, I was hoping that was the case).

oh yeah, reminder, the people of vestige were living next to highly radioactive egg for likely years. i feel really bad for them :(

also!!!

this made me smile

#im tired #good night #bl3 #borderlands #borderlands spoilers #spoilers #bl3 spoilers #borderlands 3 spoilers #bounty of blood #bounty of blood spoilers #dlc3 #dlc3 spoilers #dlc 3 #dlc 3 spoilers #i don't want to spoil anybody please lemme know if there's any tags i missed!!!!

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DC Comics Announces “DC Future State”

DC Comics is kicking off 2021 with DC Future State, a line-wide event taking place from January to February 2021. The event will feature monthly and twice-monthly over-sized anthologies and monthly miniseries and one-shots.

DC Future State find the Multiverse saved from the brink of destruction. Hurray! But the fabric of time and space has been shaken loose. Boo! New characters will take up iconic mantles. Don’t worry about your favorites, though, in March 2021 the regular line-up resumes and will continue 2020′s story arcs.

The Batman Family

DC Future State finds Gotham City controlled by the villainous Magistrate. The city is under constant surveillance, masked vigilantes are outlawed, and Batman is dead. A new Batman will lead Gotham’s guardians and restore hope.

Oversized Comics:

Future State: The Next Batman #1-4

The Next Batman - John Ridley, Nick Derington and Laura Braga

Outsiders - Brandon Thomas and Sumit Kumar

Arkham Knights - Paul Jenkins and Jack Herbert

Batgirls - Vita Ayala and Aneke

Gotham City Sirens - Paula Sevenbergen and Emanuela Lupacchino

Future State: Dark Detective #1-4

Dark Detective - Mariko Tamaki and Dan Mora

Grifters - Matthew Rosenberg and Carmine di Giandomenico

Red Hood - Joshua Williamson and Giannis Milonogiannis

Monthly Miniseries:

Future State: Batman/Superman, by Gene Luen Yang and Ben Oliver

Future State: Catwoman - Ram V. and Otto Schmidt

Future State: Harley Quinn - Stephanie Phillips and Simone Di Meo

Future State: Nightwing - Andrew Constant and Nicola Scott

Future State: Robin Eternal - Meghan Fitzmartin and Eddy Barrows

The Superman Family

DC Future State’s Clark Kent has be rejected from Earth due to his involvement with an international crisis. He rises through the gladiatorial ranks in Warworld in order to defeat Mongul with some new allies. Meanwhile, Jon, Clark’s son, has become Superman. In order to protect Metropolis from what happened to Gotham, Jon bottles up the city, putting himself at odds with Supergirl.

Mister Miracle, aka Shilo Norman, find himself caught between his home city and the planet in a story connecting the two Future State: Superman titles.

Meanwhile, meanwhile, a new Wonder Woman has been chosen in the Amazon Rainforest - Yara Flor. The new Superman and Wonder Woman will, years later, find themselves teaming up to save their cities.

Oversized Comics:

Future State: Superman of Metropolis #1-2

Superman of Metropolis - Sean Lewis and John Timms

The Guardian - Sean Lewis and Cully Hamner

Mister Miracle - Brandon Easton and Valentine De Landro

Future State: Superman: Worlds of War #1-4

Superman: Worlds of War - Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Mikel Janin

Midnighter - Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad and Gleb Melnikov

Black Racer - Jeremy Adams and Siya Oum

Mister Miracle - Brandon Easton and Valentine De Landro

Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #1-2

Immortal Wonder Woman - Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad and Jen Bartel

Nubia - L.L. McKinney, Alitha E. Martinez and Mark Morales

Monthly Miniseries and One Shots:

Future State: House of El - Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Scott Godlewski (one-shot on sale February)

Future State: Kara Zor-El, Superwoman - Marguerite Bennett and Marguerite Sauvage

Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes - Brian Michael Bendis and Riley Rossmo

Future State: Superman/Wonder Woman - Dan Watters and Leila del Duca

Future State: Superman vs. Imperious Lex - Mark Russell and Steve Pugh (3-issue series ending March 2021)

Future State: Wonder Woman - Joëlle Jones

The Justice League Family

DC Future State’s new League is built upon secret identities, even from each other. An old but evolved enemy will use the secrets to try to take over the world. Over at Justice League Dark, the heroes are hunted as the fabric of reality has shifted.

The Four Riders of the Apocalypse unleash a battle at Titans Acadmey, kicking things off for the Teen Titans, Flash, and Shazam. Barry Allen has been cut off from the Speed Force, Wally West is controlled by Famine, and Billy Batson makes a deal with the devil. Meanwhile, John Stewart and the Green LAnterns are stranded due to a dead power battery. Jackson Hyde and Andy Curry are separated, and Amanda Waller starts to execute her plan with a new, but familiar Suicide Squad on Earth-3.

Finally, Swamp Thing reveals its true intentions at the end of time. It will rule supreme until the last of humanity rebels and Black Adam will look to the past to save the future of the Multiverse.

Oversized Comics:

Future State: Justice League #1-2

Justice League - Joshua Williamson and Robson Rocha

Justice League Dark - Ram V. and Marcio Takara

Future State: Green LAntern #1-2

Last Lanterns - Geoffrey Thorne and Tom Raney

Tales of the Green Lantern Corps - Josie Campbell, Ryan Cady and Ernie Altbacker, with Sami Basri and Clayton Henry

Future State: Suicide Squad #1-2

Suicide Squad - Robbie Thompson and Javi Fernandez

Black Adam - Jeremy Adams and Fernando Pasarin

Monthly Miniseries:

Future State: Aquaman - Brandon Thomas and Daniel Sampere