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pursuedbyamemoryy · 3 months

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omg omg could i do cupids arrow??

(rdr2 + fem preference)

some stuff about me!!

- i lovee art and poetry and anything of the like

- i am in love with nature and love to go out hiking and exploring

- i’m a little introverted!! but very talkative around my friends and loved ones :))

- i’m an INFP-T

- i love to listen to hozier and lord huron

ok that’s all i think!! i love this idea it’s so much fun tysm <333

author's note: tysm for requesting, sorry it's a little short!! also omg i love hozier sm 😭 i'm seeing him for the second time in june, im sooooo excited :,) also i NEED to start writing for more rdr girls.. or girls in general bc im literally a lesbian and i only have 1 fic w a woman charcter LMAO

i match you with... mary-beth!!

mary-beth is also a writer, so i think you'd get along well! i can see you two sitting under a tree at the edge of camp somewhere sharing your writing with one another. she is quite self depricating when it comes to her work, but i think she'd appreciate having someone to share it to before she starts publishing. especially if you encourage her to continue, no matter how "silly" her stories may be. she'll definitely return the favor, and i know she'd love anything you've written.

she'd definitely be interested in your art as well, and would be just as supportive of it as she would be of your poetry <3

i feel like mary-beth likes nature as well, probably not as much as you do, but she has a definite appreciation for it. i can see her joining you on walks outside of camp every now and then, chatting with you about anything and everything as you enjoy the scenery.

despite her past as a thief, she is very kind, and i feel like she's someone you would warm up to pretty quick. after getting to know her a bit and spending time with her, i think you'd get along very well :)

if mary-beth was alive during modern times she would absolutely be a hozier enjoyer. she's always reading romance novels and is most definitely a hopeless romantic, how could she not love hozier?? her favorite songs are i, carrion, would that i, shrike, and work song, she actually told me... and her fav album is most definitely wasteland, baby!

i wish she had more significant moments in the story.. i love her sm my sweet girl <33

#dawn’s valentines event 💌#rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #red dead redemption fanfic #mary beth gaskill #mary beth rdr2

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magireco-minibang · 1 month

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Here’s an ongoing list of all the fanfiction and fanart created for the Magia Record Mini Bang! Check back throughout April (or follow @magireco-minibang) to see new stories and art as they’re posted!

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Title: A Wish to Understand

Author: @gorochuva

Artist: @puellamagiholyquintet (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Iroha, Madoka, Homura, Kyubey

Pairings: Kaede/Rena, Sana/Ren, Homura/Mabayu

Warnings: None

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Ending, what if, Hypothetical Character Development, Musical References

Summary: "Kyubey, I have some questions about the wish you supposedly granted for me when I became a Magical Girl." What if Ui Tamaki didn't exist? What would be the truth behind Iroha's wish? As it turns out, a few simple words at the right time changed everything...

"I wish you could understand how they felt!"

Title: Cage of Briars

Author: @chairteeth

Artist: @sicksweetcreamy

Additional art by @karinmisono (here)

Rating: M for Mature

Major Characters: Nemu Hiiragi, Touka Satomi

Pairings: Nemu/Touka, minor/background relationships

Warnings: no archive warnings apply

Tags: Psychological Horror, Adventure, Puzzles, Eldritch Art Gallery, Medical Trauma, Aged Up Characters, Alternate Universe - Ib, Violence, Canon Typical Child Neglect, Mentions of Nemu's Past Flings, Purple Prose, Banter, Flirting, Angst, Romantic Fluff, Drama, Minor Character Death, additional tags on AO3

Summary: The primary reason that a rose grows thorns is self-defense. Nemu likes to think the same applies to herself. When her good friend Alina Gray offers entry tickets to an art gallery for her nineteenth birthday, likely out of pity, she hopes to have a quiet afternoon to herself, away from her family, only for the gallery to go empty during her visit and swallow her into its depths. Now trapped with no way home and her very life tied to a flower, Nemu is sure she can find an exit before the homicidal artwork does her in. (And if possible, Alina Gray is going to court with a broken spine for the worst prank in history.)

But inside the gallery, there is something else, someone else. A shrike. And a shrike doesn’t let its prey know when it’s watching.

Title: Manaka★Magica : Chaotic Supper

Author: @shitposterxdxdxd

Artist: @sicksweetcreamy (artwork here)

Rating: M for Mature

Major Characters: Manaka, Ria, Tsumugi, OCs: Ichigo, Ringo, Momo

Pairings: none

Warnings: Graphic depictions of Violence, Major Character Death

Tags: Canon Universe, Action/Adventure, Magical Girls, Doppels (Magia Record), Canon: Magia Record, Being Meguca Is Suffering

Summary: Do you know "Peanut's Fast Food Restaurant"? Or Peanut's for short? You know,the restaurant that is just across the road from "Walnut's restaurant".

Well lately Peanut's has been gaining a lot of popularity and Manaka Kurumi doesn't like that at all! She is the daughter of the owner of Walnut's and she decides to investigate the recent and surprising popularity of Peanut's. Since she suspects that this is due to a special miracle that she knows very well...

Title: Kamihama Ultra Beast Files

Author: @abarero

Artist: @kyrakyrakitty

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Iroha Tamaki, Sana Futaba, Mikoto Sena, Hanna Sarasa, Mitsune Miwa, Yachiyo Nanami

Pairings: Main Pairings: Iroha Tamaki/Sana Futaba, Mikoto Sena/Hanna Sarasa, Yachiyo Nanami/Tsuruno Yui, Jun Kazari/Mitsune Miwa

Side Pairings: Rena Minami/Kaede Akino, Rika Ayano/Ren Isuzu, Masara Kagami/Kokoro Awane, Touka Satomi/Nemu Hiiragi, Momoko Togame/Mitama Yakumo/Kanagi Izumi

Warnings: none

Tags: Alternate Universe- Pokemon Fusion, Action/Adventure, Action & Romance, I put Arc 1 of the Game Magia Record story in a blender with Pokemon Sun/Moon+Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon enjoy, also there’s some Arc 2 girls here bc I love them

Summary: Welcome to the Kamihama region! Join Iroha on her Pokemon journey as she travels the land, meets new friends, encounters the mysterious Winchester Foundation, and searches for her missing sister Ui.

However, not all is as it seems. Something strange is happening in Kamihama- wormholes appearing in the sky, creatures attacking that are more beast than Pokemon, and people and Pokemon going missing. And it turns out these odd occurrences across the region are more closely connected than one might think...

Title: 5 times Yachiyo got someone a mug and 1 time she got one instead

Author: @automatic-purification-system

Artist: @rwbypro

Rating: G for General

Major Characters: Nanami Yachiyo, Azusa Mifuyu, Anna Mel, Minami Rena, Mitsuki Felicia, Sakurako | Uwasa of the Eternal Sakura

Pairings: none

Warnings: none

Tags: 5+1, Found Family, Friendship, Yachiyo's love language is mugs, refrences to canonical character death, takes place from Yachiyo's backstory to early arc 2, Minor Angst, Fluff

Summary: After Yachiyo moved into Mikazuki Villa, the first thing her Grandmother had done was take her to buy a mug for herself. "If you're going to be living here, then you can hardly use a guest mug!"

It'd taken her a while to pick one, but after she did, the fear and trepidation from the move, and from her new modeling job all went away. Going back to her Grandmother's boarding house afterwards, she truly felt like she was going home.

Ever since then, making sure that the people who stay at her house have mugs of their own has been a topmost priority.

Title: The Book of Wishes

Author: @enderprophet

Artist: @automatic-purification-system (artwork here)

Rating: M for Mature

Major Characters: Ui Tamaki, Iroha Tamaki, Touka Satomi, Nemu Hiiragi

Pairings: none

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Tags: Angst, Hospitals, Religious Imagery & Symbolism (But not in the first couple of chapters), Near Death, Make A Wish Foundation (Kinda), Terminal Illnesses, (Not if Iroha has anything to say about that AND SHE DOES)

Summary: Ui is saved from near-certain death, and proceeds to learn many things about the world. The beginning of a tragedy.

Title: Calcite Connection

Author: lilaclegionnaire

Artist: @garnetsandroses (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Ren Isuzu and Rika Ayano

Pairings: Rika/Ren

Warnings: None

Tags: canon compliant, witch shenanigans, dream logic, takes place during Arc 1, hospital imagery, implied/referenced self-harm

Summary: After an attempt to practice a new connect technique goes unexpectedly wrong, Ren finds herself waking up on a brilliant, technicolor beach. Meanwhile, Rika finds herself a new resident of a strange, colorless city. The two try their best to figure out what's going on and find their way back to one another.

Title: Abyss of Leaves

Author: @shaymeme

Artist: @harunakonomi (artwork here)

Rating: M for Mature

Major Characters: Kuroe, Ashley Taylor, Iroha Tamaki, Konomi Haruna, Mami Tomoe

Pairings: Ashley Taylor/Kuroe

Warnings: Severe bullying and xenophobia

Tags: Alternate Universe, Crossover and Fandom Fusion, Black Clover Manga Spoilers, Alternate Universe, Crossover, Angst, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort

Summary: “The leaves of a clover are each said to contain one thing.”

That was what they had told her when she asked them about their magical texts, about "grimoires".

"The first three are given over to faith, hope and love. The fourth is given over to good luck, and in the fifth… there lives the Devil."

That was what they said, and that was what scared her so much. Hikari Kuroe is not from the Clover Kingdom, but tomorrow, she will receive her grimoire, and she has no idea what she will do in the future. Grappling with the love she left in her home country and her past, and the friendship she has in the Clover Kingdom and her present that is filled with difficulties and strife, but beauty of its own, Kuroe is torn between her two halves, past and present, love and hate, light and dark… abyss and ascent. What choices will she make? Where will they lead her?

If the leaves of a clover are each said to contain one thing… then what leaf is she?

Title: Farewell, Felicia Mitsuki (Well… Not For Long-)

Author: thatcloveplant

Artist: Dinugs (art posts here and here)

Rating: G for General Audiences

Major Characters: Felicia, Sana, Iroha, Mokyu, Tsuruno and Yachiyo

Pairings: Felicia/Sana

Warnings: none

Tags: slice of life, fluff, friendship, romance

Summary: After a petty argument with Yachiyo, Felicia decides she’s had enough and ‘runs away’ from Mikazuki Villa. Sana follows her to make sure she doesn’t get into trouble, almost certain that she’ll calm down and come back home by the end of the day. After trying to calm her down and uhh many a Lesbian Moment ™, Felicia seems to come to her senses. They stay out just a bit too long for everyone else’s liking and Tsuruno is sent out to find the two of them and bring them back home.

Title: Knight Errant

Author: @garnetsandroses

Artist: @woogie-g (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Rena Minami, Kaede Akino, Momoko Togame

Pairings: Rena/Kaede, Rena/Momoko, Kaede/Momoko, Rena/Kaede/Momoko

Warnings: none

Tags: Alternate Universe - Medieval, Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, Chivalry, Chivalric Romance, Action/Adventure, Romance, Historical Inaccuracy, Knights- freeform, Witches (Madoka Magica)

Summary: Rena Minami is a knight fallen from grace, Kaede Akino is a scribe longing to escape her court life, and Momoko is a lady-in-waiting who just wants the two to reconnect. When Rena is sent on a suicide mission through the witch-infested forests of legend to deliver a message to the neighboring kingdom, Kaede joins her on her doomed quest.

Title: Growing Pains

Author: @azusamifuyu

Artist: @randomartsideblog (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Felicia, Yachiyo, Juri

Pairings: Side Pairings: Yachiyo Nanami/Azusa Mifuyu

Warnings: none

Tags: Time Skip - a couple years after Arc 2, Slice of Life

Summary: Several years after the conclusion of Arc 2, a 17 year old Felicia encounters Juri Ooba, now sporting a face full of piercings. Deciding that this look is totally badass, she endeavors to get piercings of her own, come hell or high water. The only thing standing in her way? Yachiyo Nanami. Remembering the age-old maxim, "It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission," Felicia goes and gets her first piercing without asking Yachiyo. Hijinks ensue as she tries to hide it.

Title: A Couple’s Dance for Three

Author: GoggleLad

Artist: @rinasatsu (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Himena Aika, Alexandra Kurusu, Hiko (Magia Record)

Pairings: Aika Himena/Alexandra Kurusu, Aika Himena/Hiko, Aika Himena/Alexandra Kurusu/Hiko

Warnings: None

Tags: Fluff, Romance, Polyfidelity, Introspection, Mild Angst, Love Confessions, Dance Metaphors, actual dancing, Sharing a Body

Summary: Himena knows her own feelings, and Sasha knows her own feelings, and Hiko knows his own feelings. But as long as they keep dancing around the issue, they're never going to be able to untangle this web they've made for themselves. Still, if they can stay true to themselves, they can take it one step at a time, and just maybe they'll be able to get that happy ending they're all after.

Sometimes a relationship is a girl, her bestie, and the disembodied boy in her head, and that's okay.

Title: Layers of Paint

Author: @mjlol52

Artist: @solsis-equone (artwork here)

Rating: T for Teen

Major Characters: Alina Gray, Azusa Mifuyu, Misono Karin

Pairings: Alina Gray/Azusa Mifuyu, Alina Gray/Misono Karin

Warnings: None

Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Doppels (Magia Record), Addiction (doppels)

Summary: After a day of capturing witches goes wrong, Mifuyu is left to take care of Alina alone, but it seems like she may be able to get some help from this so called in Alina's phone contacts.

More to come! Follow @magireco-minibang to see the updates as they happen!

#magia record #magireco #puella magi magia record #pmmm #puella magi madoka magica

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tommyssupercoolblog · 1 month

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Self-Indulgent Septicinnit Playlist BC It's My Blog, And I do What I Want!!!

format from @brett-is-afraid's playlist posts because I rlly love how you can see part of the lyrics for the songs (I assume the ones that were most fitting, or why it got picked lol)

Her hair is a dark strawberry blonde, and when I'm with her, nothing is wrong. Takes my hand in hers when the lights aren’t on; Smaller than mine and oh god, I am gone.

We'll be runnin' down the street yelling, "Kiss my ass!!" I'm like, "Yeah, whatever, we're still living like that", When the sun's going down, we'll be raisin' our cups, singing, "Here's to never growing up"

'Cause my heart is my keep; And you are threatening me. Oh, my God, You're the one I've been holding out for, for so damn long, for so damn long- And you're a far cry from an empire at peace

And if you ever leave, I'm coming with you. Stuck to the gum that's stuck on your shoe. If you ever leave, I'm coming with you. I'm forever locking myself in the glass of your rearview, Trying to makе friends with the friends you'rе close to - If you ever leave, I'm coming with you.

Used to live inside this box with everyone noticing me. I used to leave the evening feeling right. I'll be with you each and every night, Chasing that horizon in our eyes. You want a garden, but you got a balcony, And you're always lookin' for some company; You want a say, well, what you got to say? Give in to me, give in to me and see

Heaven-sent is a coffee cup, Or the way you weigh your head on mine. We are sunflowers begging for light; We turn our face to these great blue skies. Heaven-sent is a beach by sunset; Stand on the edge, just a little too high.

I'd no idea on what ground I was founded; All of that goodness is going with you now. Then when I met you, my virtues uncounted. All of my goodness is going with you now. Dragging along, following your form, Hung like the pelt of some prey you had worn. Remember me, love, when I'm reborn As the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn

You only hold me up like this 'Cause you don't know who I really am. Sometimes I just want to know what it's like to be you. We're making out inside crashed cars, we're sleeping through all our memories. I used to waste my time dreaming of being alive (Now I only waste it dreaming of you)

It's all up in the air and we stand still to see what comes down, I don't know where it is, I don't know when- but I want you around when it falls in place with you and I. we go from "if" to "when" your side and mine are both behind its indication. This is gonna bring me clarity. This'll take the heart right out of me. She is everything I need that I never knew I wanted; She is everything I want that I never knew I needed.

#I didn't add “Talk Too Much” because that's too obvious #and no songs from brett's speticinnit ones or otherwise posted under the ship tag because they're all SO GOOD but i wanna be original #also. honestly. the coffee cup line is just too good for a guy who OWNS A FUCKING COFFEE COMPANY LIKE HELLO???#you can tell which songs @septiccoffeefreak picked lol <3 my bbygirl #i made a textpost #septicinnit #youtuber rpf #rpf shipping #RPF #rpf #youtube rpf ship #mcyt rpf #pro rpf #rarepair rpf #rpf ship #RPF rarepair #rpf rarepair #rpf youtube #youtube rpf #Pro rpf #video blogging rpf #YouTube RPF #proship #rpf ship playlist #rpf playlist #anyone else think it's so annoying the way poppytwt is treated like it's like. it's own thing versus just proship (or even just rpf!) mcyt?#like talk about a millitant fanbase. the (redacted)SMP fandom is SO anti that they exiled proshippers AND rpf writers to their own fandom #and then pretended it was just a synonym for pedophile??? that's fucking crazy what the hell.#hell fandom. HELL FANDOM.#poppytwt

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tallysescape · 7 months

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actually I need to know how that playlist is going for you just in general any thoughts

ok so i was listening to the playlist all day in school so i wasnt thinking too deep on the songs besides “wtf wtf this is SICK” but!!!!

im on a pearl by mitski and here’s some other songs that stood out to me

everyone by mitski. rori you are fucked up for putting this. botw zelda. shaking sobbing on my knees jumping out a WINDOW. SHE HELD BACK THE CALAMITY FOR A CENTURY WHAT IF I DUCKINF LOST IT. “but it didnt want me yet” THE GODDESS. IM DEAD

i want you by mitski.

im ignoring garden song bc you already know how insane it makes me an i cant hit the image limit yet

FROM EDEN BY HOZIER OH MY GOODDDDD i will never shut up abt pre-botw link and zelda they’re so fun (awful terrible im going to cry) to think abt

wasteland baby by hozier. botw zelda is playing this as she pulls up at the castle me thinks

sunlight by hozier (NOTE: there is so much in like all these songs that drive me crazy but im just pulling my fav lines) OUGGGGGG. i could say so much.

i bet on losing dogs by mitski. you didnt have to do this

we’ll never have sex by leith ross. shaky thumbs up

like real people do by hozier MY GOOODDDDD THIS LINE THIS ONE RIGHT HERE. CRAZY. hateno house 💥🔫

about you by the 1975 THIS ENTIRE SONG MESSED ME UP. SHE DIDNT THINK HE WOULD REMEMBER HER BUT HE DID AND I JUST KNOW HE COULDNT WAIT TO TELL HER I JUST OUGOUGHHHHHH AND ME PERSONALLY. i love the hc where the sheika slate can replay the memories like holograms in game so. that hurts me.

seven by taylor swift. SERIOUSLY WHATT. “passed down like folk songs the love lasts so long” HELP ME.

kiss goodnight by idk how but they found me. genuinely dont ever send me links again

shrike by hozier. ough. “i was housed by your warmth thus transformed” “remember me love when i am reborn” ok. totk. i jump in a lake

carefully steps over forth of july like its a landmine

line without a hook by ricky montgomery. I CANNOT ESCAPE THIS GUY. pre botw they were both so messy im gonna die i cant DO THIS

cosmic love by florence + the machine. im literally so sorry jjk fucking stole this song you im SORRY. thinking abt fake zelda so hard i might fuck around and write something

punisher by phoebe bridgers. i just think its crazy how everyone know them through each other. im soooooo normal abt this

gold rush by taylor swift. I ACTUALLY DIDNT GET THIS SONF UNTIL THE END??? i seriously cannot think of anything but fake zelda here. i really might just write the fic. like. he followed her ALL OVER THE KINGDOM AND IT WASNT FUCKING HERE. “so inviting i almost jump in” WHAATTTTTTTTT. “cause it will never be gleaming twinkling eyes like sinking ships on the water” WHAATTTTTTTTTT (PLEASE YELL AT ME ABT THE SONGS TOO)

i guess by mitski. ngl. jjk also got this one. apologies. im in the trenches. BUT. how often to you think they’ve sat somewhere thinking about the second chances they’ve both offered each other. casually slides this to notes app

francis forever by mitski. need i say more. once again i think its fucking insane how tied to each other they are like. oh my god. don’t think abt them in hateno don’t think hateno

first love late spring by mitski. ough

iris by the goo goo dolls. THIS RUINS ME

a pearl by mitski RORI WHEN I CATCH YOU

#👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼#SEE IM THINKING ABOUT THEM I SWEAR IM THINKING #i told jayme this but the reason i had so many jjk thoughts was bc i was listening to the playlist while reading a jjk fic #and thats how they stole cosmic love and i guess 😭#GENUINELY THE ENTKRE OLAGLIST IS SO SO SO GOOD IM ON MT KNEES SHAKIN SOBBING AND I HAVEMT EVEN FINISH KT #loz #ask

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im-a-goddamn-cat · 6 months

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wait i just realized something (potential ftwd spoilers?): alicia is the first ever character to survive a bite infection! 🤯 ik june already mentioned that alicia lived through the infection bc of the radiation she was exposed to but i wasn't sure if that was a confirmed thing bc i didn't know if they were really gonna go the route of alicia being alive lol. also shrike said something about how there could be a genetic factor to it too, so for example madison could also have it, but june wasn't sure. but i think that makes sense bc when june was doing her treatments, the amount of radiation that would've been enough to actually stop the infection was a fatal amount and alicia didn't die from the radiation so there had to be something else going on too, whether it was genetics or maybe she amputated in enough time so that only a little bit of the infection had gotten to her. but anyways, they didn't really go into that much and that's like... a HUGE thing to just gloss over and not really bring up again lmaooo. 😭 i mean, i guess they couldn't really do much considering that alycia debnam-carey didn't wanna be on the show anymore until the finale, and tbf what could they really do bc it seems like alicia got the most perfect, lucky circumstances to survive, and also if they found a cure then the walker threat wouldn't really work that much anymore... lol. but still ??? wtf haha. but that's so cool that we now have a canon bite survivor! 🥳 (unless i missed something and alicia was sick with something else and not from the walker bite 🤔 my memory is awful so 😆) LMAO sorry for the rambling about this, i actually do find the virus aspect of this universe very interesting, i love whenever it's brought up. 😆

#meowing #ftwd #fear the walking dead #alicia clark #ftwd spoilers #twd #the walking dead

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nikomedes · 3 months

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(thinking about my durge again. normally)

i realized i rly don’t think shrike ever saw orin as a threat, but not in a dismissive way. i think he was grateful. on a certain level once he’d been brought to the cult of bhaal, sprayed with a garden hose (so he could be re-blood-drenched properly), re-domesticated, and filled in on the religious dogma of bhaal, i think he looked at younger orin like. okay she is blood of bhaal but she’s a descendant of a descendant. bhaalist worship loves children of bhaal fighting to the death, but that made shrike cagey around sarevok, not orin. orin was a bright spot. dangerous enough not to need coddling but young and full of surprises and just as fucked up as he was. i think having been functionally dragged out of the woods as a rabid animal and then made to lead a church, her digging at him or dogging his footsteps or ambushing him wouldve made him feel more normal, almost? like i imagine theres a sharp division between bhaalspawn and bhaal devotees, and orin was technically on his side of the line but not a clear and present danger. predator pups will play fight, play hunt each other. i think thats how shrike saw their relationship

on the other hand, i think orin fucking hated him lmao. she killed her own mother and was cosseted by sarevok and likely knew from a young age that because sarevoks time had come and gone she was to be the scion of bhaal, at least in baldurs gate. and then sceleritas fel drags in this nonverbal twitching cannibal elf and is like “actually this guy is MADE from bhaal and thus supercedes u.” and sarevok presumably just accepts this once shrike does enough killing. and shrike unintentionally always broadcasts the fact that he doesn’t take her seriously. he finds her cute. he won’t even just kill her off and be done with it— for some reason he likes the idea that she’ll just hang out in the temple with him forever. they can braid each others hair. no one in this temple has the rational thinking or emotional intelligence to try to really understand each others perspectives and hash out this utterly fucked family dynamic. bhaal would probably see them killed for trying. so shrike dotes on orin in his way and orin seethes and then finally she bashes his fucking head in and gets everything she wanted. but then of course he comes out of the woods again to ruin her life

and god. this is so crucial to me bc for me canonically shrike will always handle cazador with astarion before facing the temple of bhaal. he helps strike down the monster who ruled over astarion and pitted him against his siblings, and astarion gets to kill him, is free of him, and while theres no touching reunions his “siblings” are free too. it all (from a truly fucked perspective) works out. and shrike rejects bhaal bc he’s taken onboard shadowheart rejecting shar, lae’zel rejecting vlaakith, astarion killing cazador, etc, he knows he has a choice now that he didnt when he was compelled to kill his clan and then dragged feral out of the woods. and shadowheart still got to meet nocturne, lae’zel finds kinship with kith’rak voss, astarions “siblings” lived. i rly think he goes into the temple of bhaal thinking he can somehow get orins netherstone and save her too. and that is not what she fucking wants. its fucking insulting. even after she nearly succeeded in assassinating him, he won’t take her seriously as a scion of bhaal. i rly think its only moments before shrike has to kill her that he realizes a fight to the death was all she ever wanted, because at least in this he has to acknowledge her as an equal, finally. and shrikes misery is 100%. he rly went in and thought, even if hes now remembered in gory detail killing his foster mothers and their whole clan, he might leave bhaal with a sister. and that was never going to happen

literally if he didnt have a new sort of adoptive relationship with jaheira, his comraderie with the other companions but particularly lae’zel, and his relationship with astarion, withers couldnt have called him back. he just wouldve let bhaal kill him and been added to the wall of the faithless. on a fundamental level he was born a predatory wild animal, taught the warmth of a hearth and place to belong by his mothers in a way bhaal has been trying to blot out ever since, and no amount of devolution of him as a person could get rid of the knowledge of love on a basic, maybe instinctual level. if someones kind and loving life can be shattered by an act of violence, i think someones life of violence and misery can be shattered by an act of love. i think he carried love like a disease even when he repressed his childhood to survive in the wilds, and he tried to spread it the first chance he got, to orin. it just didnt take. it wasnt something she needed the way he did (she thought she had it. thats why her reaction if u convince her sarevok betrayed her hits so fucking hard. shes destroyed by the loss of love, even as fucked as it was). and if he’d made his way back to the temple alone to face the truth about orin he wouldve died of love like a terminal disease. rabies parallels but not the obvious ones

anyway. is there anything as undoing as a sister. etc. god i gotta write for shrike again

#THIS IS LONG SORRY #im pacing the damn floor #shrike #niko plays bg3

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oifaaa · 2 years

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Hey so i was thinking about your role swap au and how some of the batkids (dick, jason and tim in particular) learned how to fight, since bruce wasn’t there to adopt and teach them. Then I remembered Vengeance academy from robin:year one and it all kinda spiraled from there.

So dick runs away from juvie and lives on the streets for a while where he shows of his acrobatics and gets picked up by shrike similarly as to how it happened on robin:YO, except he stays longer and learns how to fight (it is where he learned how to fight with eskrima sticks in canon after all) until they get a job from zucco, at which point he kills him and runs away.

That’s where and when he finds jason. They’re both distrusting at first, but bc of their circumstances, they strike a deal: jason shares his room with dick and in turn dick teaches him how to fight. And bada ding, bada boom, it all spirals out from here. (It also could then turn into a sibling bonding thing, where they all teach each other what they know, be it fighting, stealth, puzzles, languages, basically anything they’re good enough at to teach)

Oh see I was just gonna say that cass helped train them considering she's been taught how to fight since she was little and would probably want to make sure her new family can protect themselves in a crime ridden city like Gotham but I also really like your idea so hmm I'm gonna steal that thank you

#Ask #Anon #I'm still gonna keep cass training as well #Her and dick together train the others #Aw I just realised #Two oldest siblings teaching the other siblings how to fight #I just think that's so cute for some reason

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queen-scribbles · 9 months

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(kicks door down) commentary meme for the opening of ch5 of TLBT? I’m not not sure how long 500 words is at a glance but at least through the scrying part? -emeraldgreaves

If you mean the whole beginning of ch 5 up through the scry, it's actually 877 words, but who cares, we'll do it anyway, bc you're one of my foremost enablers(especially for tLBT) and I can't really find a good place to cut part of it so it's 500 or fewer. xD Also, excellent choice. :3

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After spending a few more minutes annoyed at her inability to talk to Red about the gala, Xaeryn managed to wrench her thoughts back to the case. There was still daylight, she had time to investigate the alleyway following up on what Ferrin had said. Just in case she wound up pushing toward evening, however, she opted to drive rather than walk. There’d been a few news articles recently about an uptick in pickpockets, and it wouldn’t do to make anyone worry.

There was, as luck would have it, a spot not far from the mouth of the alley, and she deftly maneuvered her car into the space between two much newer-model automobiles. Their gleaming black finish made hers look positively dingy by comparison but also brought to mind her tail from the last visit to the museum. Neither, however, had accents of any color, and she was equal parts disappointed and reassured as she headed for the alley.

Xaeryn's been a fun challenge to write as the main/only POV bc she's more closed off, formal, and straightforward, less the charming, friendly, lightly sarcastic banter type of character I usually gravitate towards. She eases up a bit around Red bc he rubs off on her whenever they're together(also bc she's stuck on him). She's normally not shy about making her wants/needs/requirements etc known--see her convo with Riel in ch 1, or any of the times she talks to Aerin--and is usually very good at separating the personal and professional, so for her to get tongue-tied and chicken out of asking for something absolutely vital to her investigation for personal reasons has her v irritated at herself. She's also v good at focusing on the task at hand, or at least pushing on through potential distractions. Hence the being annoyed at herself only lasting a few minutes before plowing on with the case. And I'm p sure we all know she really means when she thinks she doesn't want anyone Red to worry. :3 I had to put that in there, the lil exaggerated snipe-y mental eyeroll that's also 100% for real. She doesn't want him to worry. Mostly bc then he'll fuss, which is almost as annoying as it is endearing.

She started at the entrance and worked in toward the gates, figuring she could continue down the other side if she came up empty. Part of her was cynical about finding anything so long after the fact, but the stubborn part--frustrated by her slow progress on this case--refused to give up without confirming. It didn’t look like this alley was cleaned all that often, maybe there was something useful.

It's very fun having a character who's equal parts stubborn and cynical. A lot of "this has a 99% chance of being useless, but my other option is giving up SO I'm doing it anyway."

Besides, it was a distraction from the other thing she needed to find--the nerve to ask Red about the gala. It was much more elusive quarry than anything case related.

Ngl, I'm very proud of this pair of sentences.

What was so hard about asking him?

YOU KNOW, XAERYN SHRIKE. YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHY.

I don’t want to inconvenience him when he’s already doing so much for me.

You know he’d be happy to help, floated through her mind and only made matters worse.

The fun part about this is she genuinely doesn't want to inconvenience him. He's done a lot for her already and she doesn't want to take him from his "real job" to help her. And is also using it as an excuse. Both things are true!

She also knows he'd drop literally everything in a heartbeat to help her just for the asking(and she would for him).

Disrupting his schedule to travel all the way to Haven is a little different than turning him loose on a research project, she countered, nudging aside a tattered tarp with her shoe. Nothing.

He just told you he doesn’t have as much going in right now. And both of you would drop everything to help the other and you know it.

Alright, fine, I don’t trust myself. The fact sat solid in her chest as soon as she admitted it, brusquely poking around a stack of discarded pallets. I’m afraid if I ask him to do this, even if it is genuinely as a friend, I won’t be able to hide the way I feel under those circumstances.

Her mask is only so good, after all. And she's been hiding this a long, long time. It's had plenty of opportunity to grow.

It was a tricky thing, carrying a torch for your best friend. And delicacy had never been a strength of hers. She was all honesty and no varnish, too blunt-

Forthright, Red’s voice corrected gently in her head.

--too forthright to be good at playing games and she dreaded what might happen if Red picked up on something bothering her.

I love "all honesty, no varnish" as a description for Ryn, another thing I'm v proud of. I love her hearing Red's voice in her head, correcting her to be kinder about herself while also being honest about what she sees as a shortcoming.

Well, your options are ask him or not go, so if you want to make progress on this case you better get ahold of yourself. You can do this. You are a professional, aren’t you?

Her foot hit something that skittered away with a clattery rasp, breaking through her internal debate. A keen glance after the object revealed only a rusting crowbar, and Xaeryn gave a soft growl of disappointment. Not far from the crowbar, however, something silver and promising glinted from a jumble of discarded paint cans and crate frames half-stacked into a shelter. She shifted the debris enough to reach and found herself holding a fine black leather sheath, dagger-sized, silver tipped and accented. A silver insignia at the top, opposite the beltloop, bore an unfamiliar crest--what looked like crossed lightning bolts or vines surmounted with a sword, or maybe a lance. It was difficult to tell at that scale.

I can't make it too easy on her, or the payoff's no fun :D (Also, I wanted her to go to the library for the Ysa cameo)

She balanced the sheath on a nearby broken crate, pulled out her notebook and a pencil and took a rubbing of the crest. A quick shorthand annotation where she’d found it, and then she started to stash it all in her handbag. It would be a bit of a tight fit, but better than carrying her find where it would raise eyebrows.

Very professional, this gal. Immediately makes a copy of potential evidence, and a note where she found it, takes steps to not draw attention.

Xaeryn paused just before slipping the sheath in her bag. She studied it again, catching her lower lip between her teeth. What if... A quick glance at the wall behind her to ensure it was relatively clean and she leaned against the stone while focusing hard on the small sheath. There might, if this belonged to the green-haired man, be enough trace of the owner left to Scry a clue.

The world fell away in a watery grey roil, clarifying into a scene almost as disorienting as the shift itself. The viewing angle was odd, a blur of motion off-center drawing her attention. It shifted into focus, resolving into a pair of figures mid-scuffle. One was a green-haired man, clothes decent but nondescript aside from currently being mussed by the fight, the other she couldn’t make out beyond a wild beard and the impression of ragged clothes. A street bum maybe? They tussled, each getting in a few good licks, there was a gleam of metal in their grappled hands, then one’s foot caught the sheath, sending it spinning toward its resting place and jolting Xaeryn out of the vision.

By this point in the planning/outlining process, I had solidified Darius and Briony's actual role in the plot(Ryn was actually supposed to talk to them in the museum, when she follows Briony during the gala, but then ch 6 ran away from me BIG TIME and I had to bump it lol), but this being a detective story, I had to keep the suspense up a little longer and be a little vague about whether Mr. Green Hair is one of the bad guys or just Sus™. Scries are fun to write, bc it's a way to give her a little bit of bonus information, especially when it's bonus info with no witnesses she could've talked to. When they work. And I have a reason for the ones that don't. :3

#commentary meme #tlbt #i have such a Thought Process about this fic #and such an OUTLINE #and NOTES #i'm so excited about the next chapter or two #i'm gonna get to connect/show some threads i've been sitting on since the beginning and i'm equal parts giddy and nervous #bc i have to do it RIGHT or it'll be a mess

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aristre · 1 year

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please assign songs to characters from guardians of the lamb.. i will listen to them <3

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dude i haven't read the updates in so long i bet moogil's gay ass is in the icu now. these songs are exclusively recent from my liked songs <3

songs + guardians of the lamb characters

yang hari

friction by cafune

i think some of the repeated metaphors in the song, falling asleep, running away from issues, really fit hari :)

[fold under / a deeper slumber / i left you with what didn't fit / i ran so far away from it] i feel like these lines work well with mideum as hari's way of escaping from her memories teehee

[i think we've waited long enough / i think we might be old enough / to face the things we've avoided] and this for the recent arc where my beautiful amazing gorgeous girl is confronting her past dude i need to catch up on guardians of the lamb.

lee moogil / gale

dan the dancer by mitski

i TOLD you. always a mitski song when katherine assigns songs. after going through a couple mitski songs i settled on this one bc it's about loving someone more than life itself but never letting the other person know. because moogil loves hari sooo much he's always getting beat up for her but he never tries to make her worry he's selfless about his love which is so unlike him which is why that genuine love he has for her is the bedroom dancer of the mitski song he really does love her he really does

[and when she'd ask to hold hands / he would smile and / let one of his hands go / his whole life in one hand] the titular dan the dancer of the mitski song is hanging from a cliff with both hands but willingly uses one hand for a kind but ultimately simple gesture for the one he loves. MOOGIL

[once back in his room / he'd return his waving hand / back to its cliff / he liked her more than life itself / i'm sure] once again he is self sacrificial in regards to his love for hari but its okay. happy ending please. please

ahn kangsoo

shrike by hozier

dude i've been listening to more hozier recently and this is one of them. i think i focused too hard on unrequited love (deserved tbh) and this ended up being the first one that fit! teehee

[i couldn't utter my love when it counted / ah, but i'm singing like a bird about it now / i couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted / ah, but I'm singing like a bird about it now] HE MISSED HIS DANG CHANCE WITH HARI!! good but still

[then when i met you, my virtues uncounted / all of my goodness is going with you now] also i feel like he tries sooo hard to be nice and good and the moral one of the love triangle but the truth is moogil loves her more. sorry for the slander mr kang

all of hari's friends bc i don't know the difference

#girlspkout by taeyeon & chanmina

yeah

[come on girls / this is our generation] they're girls generation

[girls speak it loud / speak it loud, speak it loud / come on, girls] you asking the hari friend mole to speak out loud who they are during that long long period of time LMFAO

evil cult people

runaway by varsity

i won't lie i couldn't actually find a song and the first verse of this mentions worship so here we go.

[idols in the air / vanish, then they disappear / how can i worship properly?] this is mideum disappearing i think.

[runaway / i don't even know your name / you're not going anywhere tonight] and this is them kidnapping hari i think.

uhhhhh mideum

seek and destroy by sza

this one is a reach cuz idk any songs about being miserable and jealous off the top of my head. she's just jealous she's not fun and beautiful and cool like hari so this is about her wanting to destroy hari. lol

[the art of war, goddamnit, i'm drained / now that i ruin everything, i cannot complain / now that I've ruined everything, i'm so fucking free] she makes attempts to take over the body or get moogil but they don't work except i guess she probs feels better. i guess

[all the pain i know / is used to fuel my soul / no control] she has no healthy coping mechanisms

#guardians of the lamb #to save yang hari #yang hari #lee moogil #ahn kangsoo

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