Yes, I would be very interested hearing your head canon (@tim-ribbert-56) (in response to this post)
I have decided for my personal entertainment that Clarisse de Cagliostro is related to Lupin III, and here's why.
-pulls out Arsène Lupin's Wikipedia page-
In the novel La Comtesse de Cagliostro, a young Arsène Lupin (at the time going by the name Raoul d'Andrésy) was courting Clarisse d'Etigues, a young lady of a well-to-do family, and trying to win her hand, despite her father's disapproval.
Throughout the course of the novel, Lupin meets and falls in love with Joséphine Balsamo, aka the Countess of Cagliostro, and abandons Clarisse in favour of her. To clarify, Joséphine is not actually countess of anything, she is (or claims to be) a descendant of Giuseppe Balsamo aka the Count of Cagliostro (who was also count of jack shit), a famous conman from the 18th century.
Shenanigans ensue, which I will not go into in details on, but oh my god I am insane about Raoul and Joséphine, I want to dissect them and study them under a microscope. It turns out Joséphine aka Cagliostro is evil as fuck, Raoul/Lupin realizes that and goes back to Clarisse (whom he had previously abandoned like an old sock, I fucking hate this guy), marries her, and a few years later has her kid.
Unfortunately Clarisse dies in childbirth, and Joséphine, who was still around and very very pissed at Lupin (and jealous as hell of Clarisse whom, may I mention, had never personally antagonized her in any way whatsoever, Joséphine is just fucking bonkers). Joséphine also kidnaps Lupin and Clarisse's son, Jean, and raises him as her own son. (I have not yet read the following novel The revenge of Cagliostro so I don't really know what Jean's deal is, I just know he's an antagonist).
The following is my headcanon, based on these events. In the universe of Lupin III, Joséphine Balsamo was actually countess of the small kingdom of Cagliostro (maybe Giuseppe was count, maybe he conned his way into becoming count, maybe he bought the land and built a fake kingdom with a fake history, who knows).
After the events of The revenge of Cagliostro, Jean settles down in the country of Cagliostro, gets married, has a child, and that child will later have a daughter of their own, who they name Clarisse, after their late grandmother. Clarisse de Cagliostro, of Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro fame, would thus be the great-grand-daughter of Arsène Lupin, making her Lupin III's cousin/niece/whatever you call this specific degree of separation.
I am choosing to make Clarisse de Cagliostro a great-granddaughter of Arsène Lupin, rather than a granddaughter, because Arsène Lupin was very young when the events I described unfolded: he is 20 years old when he meets Clarisse d'Etigues and the whole Cagliostro debacle happens, and 25 by the time Jean is born. I'm assuming he had Lupin II much later in his life. So Jean and Lupin II (half-brothers) would have a significant difference in age, and so Jean's hypothetical child (grandchild of Arsène Lupin, so of the same generation of Lupin III) would be much older than Lupin III. Clarisse de Cagliostro is younger than him, maybe around the same age if you stretch it, so she's have to be a great-grandchild.
Now I need to read The revenge of Cagliostro and study Arsène Lupin's wikipedia page in more detail to determine when exactly Lupin II was born and who his mother was. And also where Albert's family branched out, because the fact that he's called D'Andrésy should theoretically place him as a descendant of Arsène Lupin's mother but not of Arsène Lupin himself; but Jean was also going by that last name, so who fucking knows.
No I am not insane I promise, I am just a gigantic nerd.
me, out here realizing people who hate Jude and Cardan are reading books set *checks notes* in the kingdom and courts they rule over and are angry at their inclusion in any story set in Elfhame and are comparing their fans to acotar: the fuck you say?
I like the idea of an alpha's instincts going completely haywire because of their omega (definitely used this idea in stories before, I don't write much fanfic, but I do write a lot of original work). So just Azula going batshit insane until Mai comes back to her, it works like magic. Suddenly she's her normal calm, rational self and focused on being that alpha that Mai fell in love with.
A lot of people kinda hate cheating, I think it's almost funny because I love to find a way to make it happen. Like, the novel I'm writing is currently titles "a cheating omegaverse porn romance novel".
In this one Zuko tonight he could get with Mai because between nobles, she's kinda the only that didn't treat him terribly for being a beta. At least in the beginning. Later on he noticed how close Maizula were and then he got obsessed with having Mai as a mate. (I change Zuko a little, but I keep the canon that Azula is a better sibling. Especially because like dragon!Azula claims people, alpha!Azula claims platonic mates and Zuko was one of them until he betrayed her.)
Mai's way too strong to be afraid. And even when Azula threatens to burn her (because in this AU, The Boiling Rock happens almost the same way), Mai doesn't feel scared. Azula has accidently burned her before, and Mai knows it'll hurt but she'll be fine.
Azula's very clingy and very protective. She's very soft when she's allowed to be soft.
- Ash 🔥🍌
Thanks for this, Ash!
I like the idea of an alpha's instincts going completely haywire because of their omega.
I like it too! It's as romantic as the Alpha goes crazy because he's not around his Omega.
So just Azula going batshit insane until Mai comes back to her, it works like magic.
Azula: MY OMEGA! WHERE THE FUCK IS MY WIFE? ...Oh, Here it is.
Suddenly she's her normal calm, rational self and focused on being that alpha that Mai fell in love with.
This is so cute! How Azula does everything she can for Mai, and is so obsessed that she is willing to make her Omega fall in love with her again and again!
Later on he noticed how close Maizula were and then he got obsessed with having Mai as a mate.
Please tell me Azula killed her traitor brother! How dare you mess with his younger sister's mate?
I just hope Mai punched him in his ugly face when he tried to hit on her.
Is Maizula a secret couple? Or does everyone know their relationship but it is something discreet?
Alpha!Azula claims platonic mates and Zuko was one of them until he betrayed her.
Shit, I wonder if Azula will trust anyone again when she saw how her own brother tried to make a pass at her Omega.
Because in this AU, The Boiling Rock happens almost the same way.
Almost? details, details! Tell me what things change, I find that interesting.
Small changes can change the whole story.
Mai doesn't feel scared. Azula has accidently burned her before, and Mai knows it'll hurt but she'll be fine.
I rather like the idea that Azula finds it impossible to harm her lover, as if her fire didn't burn and hurt her Omega, it would be so impossible even if she wanted to!
Azula's very clingy and very protective. She's very soft when she's allowed to be soft.
I love the idea of Mai saying "Tick" to Azula because that's her alpha! She is always above her.
Azula is soft when they are in their nest without any interruption, while she is in an awkward position because she doesn't want to hurt her Omega's belly, because she doesn't want to hurt her baby or her Omega.
@meerudraws admitting they posted their bullshit without even reading the full document is comedy gold.
"Worst Christmas ever" you're the one who engaged yourself bestie! You didn't have to! No one put a gun to your head and told you to engage! No one put a gun to your head and told you to release that post before you finished reading the whole document!
If you still believe that Poi/Poy is a victim and not an abuser, watch these two excerpts from a 43 minute voice record:
https://twitter.com/__yakibbb/status/1621503393167720450
https://twitter.com/__yakibbb/status/1621504866773536769
You can listen the full voice record here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=735491641248430,
And read translation of the voice record here: https://www.facebook.com/khunthao2557/posts/pfbid036kWc3E9WAFY6Sz1EKpq3ytoGuAdoLdfiDRS84EJRSh2E3qVwiKvjaeDUeQYdQnPsl
This is just part of the evidence against her, go to twitter if you want to know more.
I love all the videos I took during this show but this is one of favorites because if you listen closely, you can hear the exact moment that I realize which song she's introducing and immediately start crying. Mine has been one of my all time favorite songs since it came out almost 13 years ago and I truly do not even have words for how much being there for this surprise performance meant to me.
Video transcript:
Taylor on the big screen, sitting at her piano: This isn't my life, but what if it were? Like we're watching a movie and trying to write what those characters might be feeling. I say this because I wanna play a song that, um, when I wrote it I was writing about all these relationship things that hadn't happened to me yet, like, like there's -
Me: no...
Taylor: a drawer, um -
Me, tearfully: no...
Taylor: of my things at your place and things like that -
Crowd: [goes nuts]
Taylor: and like working through fights and not just breaking up, um, sorry there's a hair in my mouth that is aggressive. Anyway, so those are things that I was not partaking in at 18 and 19 when I wrote these songs but they're things that I really... it's been such a privilege and such a treat to go back and rerecord them 'cause relating to them now, um, it's, it's really crazy to go back
Me, overlapping with Taylor, in a shaky voice: [only partially intelligible but I think it's something like "The only other one it could be is Speak Now but she already played that one like last week"]
Taylor: and listen to these songs that at the time were fantasy but now feel really relatable to me, and so this is, um, this is called Mine.
i can't even come up with a cohesive list of what i liked about those episodes they were so perfect. and for a second i thought hm giving scanlan a fakeout death is going to make the raishan fight hit a little less hard. but now that i think about it him purposefully acting dead? for the punchline? and when they inevitably go to find him again and they go ohh scanlan you can stop playing around and he doesn't get up?
working on this Madame Web redesign and like.. I have thoughts:
I haven’t seen or heard much of anything about that movie for her, but I just hope they do something actually cool with her character and her source material backstory. that’s all I really ask.
something like this that I have planned for my take on Madame Web would honestly be really cool to see.