#sorry they're a bit short ;;

[stealingpotatoes]

ok 1. sorry for decapitating your ask like this, i DID read the whole thing dw and 2. I imagine in the Republic, Jedi had a pretty well-rounded schooling, like most of it DEFINITELY focused on force and jedi stuff but come on you've gotta know maths and physics for all that wild force shit and do literature and history to understand ppl n cultures.

the new jedi order is at a disadvantage bc it's made up of 3 ppl who dropped out of school ages 17 (whose education got shitted by war), 12-13, and 7 respectively and only one guy who actually finished school -- and he went to school on Tatooine of all places. I imagine a visiting Leia, who had the best tutors/went to the fanciest schools on Alderaan, is probably the one to be like hey this is a school you guys-- are you guys teaching them like, stuff that isn't weird force techniques and immediate survival skills?? please say they know maths and literature outside of jedi texts?? which probably devolves into "Cal Ahsoka and Ezra have to sit there while Leia tries to teach them basic high school classes"

#in short: there's an ATTEMPT to make sure they're at a similar schooling level to their peers from back home #thank u so much so glad ur enjoying my stuff sm!!! #also (this makes no sense bc i beheaded the bit that said this) hope ur igcses went well!! #sorry for cropping I just become a neat freak when it comes to long posts i cant put readmores on loll. my blog must be Neat and Nice #thanks for the ask!

[simgerale]

CHAPTER ONE ; 1/3

TRANSCRIPT:

[sounds of swords clashing and rowdy cheering]

geordie: Your highness, apologies for the intrusion, but her majesty has asked me to remind you of the time.

killian: [panting] The time? And what exactly is the time?

g: Half past noon.

k: So she wished to inform me of my tardiness. Thank you, Geordie. I will be with you shortly.

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k: Am I the only late one?

g: I am afraid so. Even the princess arrived promptly.

k: Drat. Dara will never let me live it down. The one time I lose track of the hour…

g: No matter, your highness. Soon you will be Knight Captain and have plenty of excuses for tardiness.

k: I sincerely hope not. I am perfectly satisfied with my rank.

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luca: There you are, at last.

k: Apologies, apologies. What did I miss?

#progeny #ts4 story #i changed the training grounds a bit #realized it made more sense for the walkways to have brick short walls lol #SO!! first chapter!!!! here we go #as you can see Killian is a knight #geordie is a minor side character but he's like the closest thing to a bff that killian has #he mainly patrols the palace which is why he was sent by the empress to get her son lol #where are they walking on the way to the palace? tHE UNDERGROUND TUNNEL SYSTEM #one of the coolest things i made up for the volais capital is that they have underground tunnels that connect all the important places #also i haven't named the capital yet. just referenced as the capital lol #it's how they're so defensible even when they have a river running through the city #it's sort of their secret weapon #but also good for traveling when you are low on time #Killian was late to a family meeting lol nothing crucial but his mama puts a lot of importance on them #call it her version of a sunday dinner #aaaand... oh yeah! we see through killian's words that he is PERFECTLY SATISFIED with his rank #by the end of the chapter you will see where he stands on things #okay! enough rambling! SORRY #nooo I just noticed one of the balconies isn’t lined up with the window 🤧 oh well I guess

[butchsophiewalten]

Man this is so random but this theory is stuck in my head and I wanna see how other people feel about it because I don't see people talk about it a lot (I have no clue if the link will go through properly since I've never put a link in a ask box)

https://www.tumblr.com/art-w0rm/667910993425350656/theory-time

Oh god not this theory again. I really truly try not to be mean to people for no good reason on this blog, but this theory is literally one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever seen in my entire life. I don't talk about this theory because to me it's like the walten files theory equivalent of that tubby custard mechanically separated chicken post.

Most of the time I genuinely don't even consider it worthy of my time, because it's nonsense, but this is a very nicely worded ask, and I really don't mean to dedicate any of the vitriol I hold towards this theory to You, poor anonymous person, so I will deconstruct it. I will go through the theory point-by-point and deconstruct why I disagree with it.

First up, this:

Showbear is not a character in The Walten Files anymore. Showbear was fully retconned and is never going to appear in the series again. He was effectively just a cameo of ThunderingStatic's (one of Martin's friends) OC, but when The Walten Files blew up and people started assuming Showbear was Martin's character, Static decided to withdraw his character from the series and focus putting him in other projects.

Martin talked about this on Twitter forever ago, but I wouldn't be able to find that tweet now. But here's a bit from the interview he did with KnowYourMeme back in 2021 where he talks about it:

Now this:

This is just stupid to me? Like a complete logical incongruity? I barely even know how describe what is dumb about this because I can't even fathom how anyone draws this conclusion from this information. How is it strange for a man to say 'if my wife isn't home by the time she said she was going to be, let me know, in case something happened.'????? Why would Rosemary be out cheating on her husband with her fucking daughter with her??? If Rosemary was cheating on her husband why would her whole life collapse when he went missing? If Rosemary was cheating on her husband why would she show up at the restaurant every day after he disappeared asking if anyone had seen him and hoping to find him alive??? Why would she make paintings of herself and him together after he disappeared????? What the fuck are you talking about?

Ok now this:

Whatever. This is maybe the most coherent part of the theory, to me. I definitely agree that Sha evokes a 'wolf in sheep's clothing' sort of aesthetic, but I do remember Martin saying something in a Twitter Q&A at one point about how that wasn't actually intentional, and that Bon was the character he actually meant to seem unusually predatory. I looked for a while and couldn't find a screenshot of that, but I did find this one where he says the thing about Bon:

So whatever. take that with a grain of salt.

I don't even know what to say. here. Whatever. sure she was rolling in the hay

yeah Rosemary is asking if she's still beautiful because she cheated on her husband and not because she was chopped up and stuffed inside a big animatronic sheep. I think this is correct and is the True Deep Lore.of the walten files. I'm sure this doesn't have anything to do with the recurring motif of the double-meaning behind the word Beautiful either.

I don't know why it's weird that the lost lingering spirit of a mother would be calling out to her only living child. I Don't know why that needs additional explanation involving this batshit infidelity conspiracy theory.

Sha's chest is also ripped out

So is Banny's, honestly? Just a little less?

ok now this:

I guess I can't disprove this except that I think this is dumb. I think this is a really incredibly stupid logical leap to make. Y'know I really meant to go into this levelheadedly and very calmly go through every point and talk about why I think it's Decisively Disagreeable or whatever but I can't. I really can't. I just cannot keep my patience with this sort of thing.

You'd think if there was an infidelity aspect here it would've been lampshaded in some respect, at all, in the old /sophiewalten findjackwalten page text. Where it's literally Sophie talking to Jenny about what she remembers about her family.

Especially if the idea is that Sophie is meant to have been there. You'd think something like that would have come up here. Not 'she was nice and a good mom until my dad disappeared and her mental health started getting worse'

#ask #this theory always feels like someone's pulling a prank on me. like they're trying to see how much stupid bullshit they can say convincingl #before i notice and get mad #i'm sorry i couldn't keep it together for you anon I really dont mean to make anyone feel like an idiot #i just really don't have the patience for something like this today I think. #we haven't seen a lot of rosemary's characterization in the walten files yet #but everything we HAVE seen externally characterizes her as loving and compassionate but also sharply protective of the people she loves #and also so very deeply incredibly in love with her husband #and there's actually a decent bit of positioning her and jack as equals in their relationship which isn't exactly usual for the time #yknow. she has her own car and she has a job (even if its working for her husband's company.) #she's headstrong and ferociously talented and her husband is very supportive of her and of her artistic endeavors #yknow. the tragedy of jack and rose isn't that their relationship was bad #it's that their relationship was great and it was cut short over factors outside of their control #and now it lingers through the hallways of abandoned buildings as a broken facsimile of itself #there was a wonderful family full of people who loved each other intensely and had their whole lives still ahead of them #and it took one summer for all of it to be gone

[nonuggetshere]

GOD I HAD AN IDEA AS I WAS FALLING ASLEEP TODAY

About FaaF naturally

A sad one, TW fir near child death and harm

Involves Xero's attempt at an assassination, or it could be literally just any guard controlled by the Radiance

PK and WL need to talk about something private, and WL looks at the tiny vessel tagging along by her wyrm's side

"Should it be here?"

"It wouldn't understand anything anyway."

"Still, it's...a little..."

He sighs lightly, "Yeah, I get where you're coming from... Vessel, come here."

He kneels down and orders them to sit by the door and wait for them while they talk, says he'll come pick them up once they're done and not to move, then the two go to talk on the balcony and close the door behind them

At some point, Xero/the guard bursts in and attacks PK in the middle of the conversation, managing to take them by surprise and so gets one good swing in before PK darts away and retaliates, pinning them down with soul blades, though he has to keep his wife from killing them on the spot - he doesn't want to be so hasty, knowing they're infected and not themself. He pulls out the sword from his chest and that's when they realise, it's covered in void...

Child harm/near death TW beyond this point

After a moment of shock White Lady, who's closest to the doors, runs out and all her husband can hear is a horrified, heartbroken scream. He feels nauseous, his stomach twisting into knots and feeling like his heart is in his throat as he runs out after her. He sees her in tears, cradling a tiny bundle soaked in void. There's- there's so much void. It covers the floor where he left their child vessel and soaks through his lady's shawl and clothes as she cradles them in her arms.

For a moment he's paralysed, before he just snaps. He flies back onto the balcony, screaming at the possessed guard that he'll kill her, he'll make her pay for this, and he slays them in his rage (something he'll regret and feel ashamed of later), still hitting and screaming at Her well after the possessed person is dead and she can't hear him anymore.

He collapses, panting, near tears, and just gets himself up and stumbles out the door and towards the two, he wants to see how bad it is for himself.

Flower survives, but just barely. They had multiple stab wounds and lost their left arm, if not for their parents immediately healing them they'd be dead. They're barely older than 5, still so very little and defenceless, PK is horrified at how could anyone hurt a baby this young and helpless (hypocrite), even if they're not alive.

They're still on bed rest because that was so much damage and their mother doesn't leave their side and their father only leaves when necessary. They still don't realise Flower's alive and they know they shouldn't be so attached but it still feels like their baby and they can't just leave them. WL spends the entire day by their side, gently stroking their hair and horns with her now permanently void stained hands and softly coos and sings to them

Of course, they quickly realise they ARE alive because no way in hell a toddler is getting this hurt and NOT crying and screaming the second they wake up <3

Which just makes this situation so much worse

#thylacines can talk #faaf au #mentions of child harm and near death in tags too btw #so dont read further if its something youre sensitive to or cant handle rn #i like to write him as more sympathetic in faaf but i cant state enough what a gigantic hypocrite he is #pk: How can you hurt a child?! they're FIVE! #child harm cw #radi: ...dude. #dont make your kid a child soldier but also you cant 'all fair's in war' your way out of stabbing a toddler radi #unrelated tangent but they both suck and god i need to focus some more on FaaF Radi. Ik this AU at times feels like sympathetic PK and evil #villain Radi AU but it's really not. They're both morally grey and while Radi is a bit more. questionable and less sympathetic imo. doesnt #mean shes completely evil. they're both meant to be morally grey and both did equally horrible irredeemable shit that they come to regret #and wish to fix. ik it doesnt come off this way at times because i have my things i prefer to write at times and this AU was always a #relationship dynamic exploration between Flower and all different characters. but neither PK nor WL are by no means forgiven. Most of their #kids range from ''i literally dont care about you you are not my parents dont contact me again'' to ''i hate your guts'' #with sometimes an added flavour of ''And I WILL murder your ass if I see you again'' for some of them #(Razor my beutiful wife with unchecked anger issues <3) #sorry if the tags are incomprehensible it is 5 am and i instantly forget anything i write the second i cant read it fully #once i finish writing a tag and it collapses the contents of it instantly leave my short term memory. im not being dramatic btw the amount #of times i have to back out from editing tags to read them back bc i forgot what i wrote is annoying

[dokidokistart]

abu dhabi trauma cap & mafia cap

#mafia cap will only be available for a short time bc i don't want to risk getting sued #it would be a baby crime compared to their multiple crimes and robberies but they can and will put me in jail! #i'm sorry they're a bit pricy but i swear if I put a lower price I'm losing money #merch tag

[werecats2]

I was gonna draw a Medusa based on that Yoshitaka Amano pic but of course it became medusathena yuri somewhere along the way

#my art #medusa #athena #medusathena #sorry... they're so toxic yuri w to me though #still playing around with their designs #this medusa is a bit more inspired by kid icarus medusa though w some sumerian influence still #her headdress is VERY loosely taken inspo from queen puabi's headdress + the representations of medusa with wings in her head #bc i think they kind of slay (no pun intended) #while i have fallen in love with luomanart's short-haired athena but she's still a blondie to me

[you-will-return]

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#i just noticed that i've been suuuper inactive on this blog #for which i'm sorry #but also uni has been hell #one of my professors has decided that we should do two courses worth of reading for her seminar every week #and i've been stuck in group project planning hell for like three weeks now #i also might have put a bit too much pressure on myself when it comes to project so besides correcting the new Hot Mess chpt #i've also been working on three other projects and still need to do work for my uni classes #i really wanted to put out the new chapter this week but that has.... left the realm of possibility #i want to write so so badly but i have to finish like 30 stickers/ finish 2 other chapters/ knit 2 scarves/ hand in 3 more projects #all before christmas #i read a post yesterday that was like name one thing that you're gonna do for yourself this week #and i came up blank #eveything i'm currently doing is either for class or for other people so they're happy #don't get me wrong i enjoy writing/ drawing/ knitting but... #i don't know #Hot Mess used to be my self-indulgent project but now #the seasonal mentol illness hasn't been helping either #all my friends are miserable and all i do is either drown myself in work or be miserable too #my last short story made my bff tell me to go talk to my therapist about it #so that's how my non-fanfic efforts have been going #there's another story i need to write a date chapter for but I haven't been able to write actual romance for about a year now #idk what's wrong #maybe nothing is wrong and this is just what i'm like when i'm off my meds and i simply forgot #i've been forgetting a lot of things

[the--highlanders]

Hi :) favourite 2 era books? (im looking for some to read and you seem v knowledgeable about them lol) thank you :)

hey!! honestly I'm not sure that I'm super knowledgeable on two-era books?? I feel like there's a WHOLE bunch I haven't read. but I'll have a go!! & if anyone else wants to add on more recs then please do <33

the roundheads is my personal fav - it's a no-aliens historical with two, jamie, ben, and polly finding their way through 1600s london, & honestly the plot has always been secondary to the character moments crammed into it, especially with two and jamie. if you've ever seen people talking about them going to a frost fair, this is the book it's from. it's a good read as a whole but also for going back and reading specific cute/funny scenes imo

the wheel of ice is also good (though it does have two referring to jamie as 'boy', which. always throws me off every time I read it ngl gfdjskh). the overarching plot is pretty standard iirc, but again there's a bunch of cute moments (including some parental stuff with two and zoe), so it's a fun read!!

if you're just looking for stuff to read in general rather than new content specifically, I'd also recommend reading the target novelisations! they're not always perfect, and I find that they struggle with writing jamie a lot?? idk I find that some of them make him dumber and. hm. hypermasculine in a way he's not on screen, if that makes sense. but also sometimes they add a bunch of background detail to the stories and especially the secondary characters, which can be fun! like, iirc the underwater menace novelisation gives ara (the servant girl they befriend) a whole backstory with her father having opposed zaroff), which just adds a nice bit of depth to an otherwise pretty bare-bones character.

but in terms of written content my go-to is usually the big finish short trips books. which may be somewhat harder to find (I saved my copies literal years ago, so idk how available they are these days?), but definitely worth it if you can get hold of them! something about the format of short stories on specific topics seems to push them into being a lot more character-focused than some of the novels can be, and doing some interesting/thoughtful stuff. there's quite a few of them, though not all of them have two-era stories - some of the ones with the most memorable two-era stories for me are:

destination prague - my all-time favourite for personal reasons but also because I genuinely think the stories in this one SLAP. there's two two-era stories in here, both of which are probably 6b (in the sense that they're not explicit about it, but two and jamie are travelling alone, and I think thematically/character-wise they work best there). they both deal a lot with grief and how two in particular copes (or doesn't cope) with it. and they're super easy to read through a two/jamie lens if that's your thing!

the quality of leadership - jamie meets william wallace. what more do you need to know. slightly dubious historical content aside, this is a GREAT jamie character study, having him deal with meeting one of his heroes and being disappointed - imo it really gets into what jamie values and admires in people, and there's a Lot to get into there. there's also another two-era story in this (with jamie, ben, and polly) which I haven't read in ages but which I think has some really good ben and polly characterisation, so I've been meaning to reread!

life science - if you enjoy victoria, read. the. age. of. ambition. I am absolutely unable to be normal about this story I swear to god. just. the image of jamie being unable to shoot someone and victoria having to step in and do it for him. it's also got a bit of victoria backstory which is always fun

but there's a whole bunch of others!! ranging from 'two takes zoe to work at a soup kitchen over christmas' to 'jamie gets turned into a literal bear'. so, you know, probably something for everyone's taste.

back to actual novels for a second - I wouldn't necessarily recommend the indestructible man unless you're prepared for something REALLY heavy (like, 'this feels more like a dark au than a doctor who novel' sort of heavy). it occupies this weird space between 'this has so many two/jamie moments' and 'this needs to come with about 50 different trigger warnings'. but if you're into that sort of thing, it's there!! & I would not recommend combat rock at all, it's just. a racist sexist mess from the bits I've seen. absolutely not worth it

#replies #gunpowdertimvsthemoonkaiser #i'm SO sorry this took so long #i've just had a very braindead week & i've been a bit lazy #wanted to post this earlier today but i was being blocked by the threat of Emails #anyway i am a destination prague stan first and a person second #but i do genuinely think the short trips books do a bunch of cooler stuff with the characters #plus they're quick and easy reads so you can cram in a lot of them if you can find them #if you're ever wondering where my hc for jamie's home area is from. it's from one of those stories ghjdfks

[sheyshen]

got distracted tonight with some outfit swaps when i was only trying to get a ref shot in gpose haha.

with bonus of the reason i played around with the rest:

let thancred wear a miniskirt you cowards.

#those aren't the shorts i use for layla's set but they convert to pants on guys #and the little bit between the boots and shorts is very important alright #since i can't view raya's main gear on thancred he got stuck with the set she used while leveling #many came out cute though gaius doesn't suit anything vincent has saved #thighs out for hien hahah #i only did set pairs though i might try naran and ryse tomorrow since they're fwb #sorry beni you don't have anyone

[gamingstar26]

a dumb doodle cause i have nothing better to do. yes i fucked up on the hands, im tired its 1am and im going to bed.

Link and Luigi both cant catch a fucking break from the universe i swear. and have gone through so much shit. my favs always have some sort of suffering to them.

#my art #luigi #havent drawn luigi in ages so sorry if he looks bad #link oot #also dumb headcanon about Luigi #I headcanon him to be about 6’3 feet and a half and link is around 6’0 #so both tall boys are with link it’s based on the shades estimate ingame model height #i just think they're neat #love these two Nintendo green boys who get the short end of the universe #and both have red heads that love them #I might repost some old Luigi headcanons and change them a bit

[arborescreens-a]

EEK EEK ABORT MISSION. THE TEENAGERS ARE MOVING INTO OUR HOUSE TOMORROW.

#john rambles #long story short theyre getting evicted for the second time in a handful of months #and of course. because we care about them. they are. moving in. to our house :) #SO now we're going to have! #a woman and her two sons living in our guest bedroom! great! #these kids have been eating us outta house and home :( #and their mother (my aunt) is extremely... whiny. and honestly abusive to them #so i can't wait until i eventually Have Had It and snap at her for her treatment of them :P #especially cause one of them is autistic and the other has ODD and she does not treat either of them with care #yes i am scared of them. but i respect their mental illnesses and what they need because of said mental illnesses #mainly i'm worried about their pet cat too!!! kratos can't come here because all our cats hate him! :( so i don't know where he's gonna go #sorry for the tag rant gosh! :( i'm just a bit stressed and worried #and overwhelmed by the amount of food leaving our cupboards #and the amount of dishes re-piling into our sink because we can't wash them faster than they're used if there's 7 people living here

[confusedcoast]

I love my little divorced short kings

#deltarune #spamton #jevil #sketch #spamton deltarune #jevil deltarune #deltarune fanart #uni is kicking my ass so I'm very inconsistent with posting I'm so sorry #but I was listening to Touch-Tone Telephone on loop and tried to sketch them a bit #mostly because I Have No Idea how to draw them #they're so Shaped they confuse me #anyways [reproduces 'Short Kings Anthem' while showing them] they're my little short kings your honor #i hope the Divorce Arc is real

[longagoitwastuesday]

Do you have favorite actors for the various roles in "Cyrano de Bergerac"? I would love to hear your thoughts!

I do! I actually rambled a lot about this while I was watching the different productions I could get my hands on (I tagged it "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "I talk too much").

My favorite productions are the one with José Ferrer and the one with Benoit Solès, and those actors make the best Cyranos in my opinion. Though that's probably something in part beyond the actors' choice, their dynamic with their respective Roxane and Christian are the best ones, I think, and I find how Cyrano moves around these two particular characters at the core of a good Cyrano characterisation.

José Ferrer's use of his voice, which is arguably Cyrano's true most characteristic feature, is unmatched imo (although McAvoy does a very good job with this too), and he manauvers very well several of the different aspects of the character, such as his playfulness, his shittiness and longing. By the end of the play you believe he is the most beautiful man on Earth. Cyrano, however, is a bit pathetic (not just in a "pathos" way), and I'd say Ferrer gives off an air full of dignity very fitting of many scenes, but that eats almost entirely this aspect of Cyrano; Benoit Solès manages this very well, while also playing well with some of the other ones, such as the playfulness, the longing, the pain and the despair. Both Ferrer and Solès are hilarious, tender, a bit shitty, vulnerable, playful and sad. Albeit neither of them portrays 100% what Cyrano is, I think both come pretty close in slightly different flavours, and by the end of the play one ends up being terribly fond of them.

My favourite Roxane is Clara Huet in the production with Benoit Solès, but Mala Powers in the 1950 film is a close second. I think they portray wonderfully Roxane's spunk, and her mix of honest playful cheerfulness and her haughtiness, her intelligence and wit, and how much like Cyrano she is.

I've not come to love for now any Christian as much as I've loved Ferrer, Solès, Huet and Powers, but again I think the Christians in the 1950 film and the Solès productions are very very good. I love the dynamic they have with their Cyranos, especially the one Christian and Cyrano have in the 1950 film, enhanced positively by the added scenes (they actually work so well in showing their developing as friends, their deep love and care for each other!). I don't want to expand too much on this to avoid spoilers (beyond the already known 'Christian dies' ones I mean), but some things they do with both these Christians are a thing of genius, and both feel vulnerable, kind, ready to fight and truly desperate at times; I like when they do that.

There's an Italian production which has a Cyrano I truly enjoy as well, despite how they dumbify him more than I usually like my Christians. His mix of anger and deep pain when he discovers Cyrano's feelings for Roxane were so well made, and his physical presence makes you identify who Christian is even before the play starts.

The Podalydès production has two different Christians. The one in the version on youtube isn't bad, but @ride-a-dromedary likes Éric Ruf a lot. I actually adore him based on the clips and gifs she's posted of him, but I haven't been able to find the version with him online, so I can't know. But he truly seems one of the best. Based on what little I've seen, I love his intense gazes and subtle gestures.

I'm not entirely sold on any Le Bret, De Guiche or Ragueneau yet.

I think the German musical has a decent Ragueneau in vibes, and the 1990 French film does as well. I found his poem made song for what I think is a Spanish production (I'm not sure if it's a fan creation based on the Spanish production), and while I've not been able to find that production online, the song works well in vibes too I think.

The German musical's Le Bret in vibes is very good. He encompasses well his deep love and worry for Cyrano while also being done with his shit. They truly feel like close friends. The 1950 film kind of combines Gaston de Castel-Jaloux and Le Bret into one character, which sadly changes Le Bret's dynamic with Cyrano a bit, but that's a very good Le Bret as well. The one in Solès' production is pretty good too. He has my favourite delivery of the scene in which Le Bret chastises Cyrano for risking his life sending letters.

De Guiche is complicated. I think productions often make him too pathetic and laughable or too bad, so bad it makes the last act kind of not make sense. The 1950 one, the 1990 French one, the Kevin Kline one and the Solès one are all good, but I am not passionate for any of them either.

And basically that's it!

#I'm sorry for such a long reply‚ it wasn't my intention. In fact I tried to keep it short but oops #As an extra I'll say that the Japanese film based on Cyrano‚ Life of an Expert Swordsman‚ has a quite good main trio #The Christian character is pretty‚ noble and kind. The Roxane character is smart and well-versed in poetry and a writer in her own right #I loved when productions enhance these aspects of these characters #Kline isn't a bad Cyrano‚ but he is a bit too unbelievable to me. He is too pretty being too old. I already don't like these characters #being old because it makes it lose some sense (they're idiots in part because they are young) but he is so fit for a ~60yo which is like... #Really? The nose? A young man with the same traits is more believable to be self-conscious and think himself unlovable I'd say #I like that Kline comes off at times as a bit cruel and violent and I think it works well with how he is a lot of fun #But at times he is so much fun it ruins the mood‚ although this is a problem of the production in general and of it being based #on Burgess' translation‚ which is something I could ramble about on its own and that makes me kinda mad #I think Depardieu on the other hand falls short on being fun. He tries so hard it isn't funny and it often feels a bit pathetic to me #but not in the way Cyrano is meant to be. On the other hand‚ I felt Depardieu was too full of himself in this film and was too aware #of being he protagonist. The thing about Cyrano is that he doesn't think he is #All in all‚ the more I watch this film the less I like it and his portrayal of Cyrano. I also don't like their Christian and Roxane #(although she isn't as bad as the Klein production of Roxane‚ who is for me among the worst) #I'm not sold at all on the 2021 Roxane either‚ and this Cyrano is so much the dashing tragic hero that he isn't funny #which is one of Cyrano's main characteristics. So I don't like the 2021 Cyrano a lot either. But that's not due to the acting‚ #but because the musical does a poor work at being an adaptation of the play and its characters I'd say #The worst Cyrano out of the ones I've seen is perhaps the one in the Italian production I've mentioned that had a Christian I liked #Their Roxane was awful too but iirc Le Bret was good and Ragueneau was decent #I'm not into the Podalydès Cyrano at all. One of the Cyranos I enjoy the least I must admit. But at least he isn't that Italian one #I conclusion‚ and I always feel kinda sectarian‚ everyone should watch the Benoit Solès version #The José Ferrer film is popular enough not to mention #I talk too much #Cyrano de Bergerac

[spkyscry-a]

@royalreef​ sent: "Vera! Joy!!! Amira!!!!!" She chirps out the three names in tandem, fins perked up to their full height as she rushes over. It's easy to presume the excitement is over her luck of spotting all three of them together, that it makes her trips easier — but this is a little too much, even for that.

There's a joy in her today. An excitement, a happiness that goes down to the bone and keeps digging from there. It makes her tremble, body shaking ever so slightly and tail twitching and fins fluttering no matter what else she does, and oh, that smile!

The expression isn't native to Miranda's face, it doesn't fit her features in the same way as the twitches of her fins or the brightness in her eyes, but the ear-to-ear grin nonetheless manages to make a home of her yet. It comes more and more naturally every day, lovestruck and whole, and more and more she welcomes it in. This is her home too. It's fitting, that it should make such an impression on her.

"I am glad I could find all of you, I have so much to do today — it is mine and Aaravi's anniversary! And in my kingdom, it is traditional that it is celebrated with the giving of food to others, so-"

One by one, Miranda shoved a basket into each of their hands. They were made of woven seagrass, treated in some way to make them hardy and easy to keep, and to give them a pleasant dull purple color. From their handles hang carved trinkets — made of carved bone and ivory and pearls, some in the shape of some stylized type of eel, some in the shape of shells, and some in more artistic shapes, giving them flair.

True to her word, there's Merkingdom baked goods inside. Crab shells stuffed with meat and spices derived from corals and sponges, whale jerky that's tender and pulls apart easily between teeth, a baked pie of giant squid meat with chunks of seal for flavoring, fanciful desserts made of sugar in the shape of conch shells that can be seen through like crystal — all of that in more, little treats from Miranda's people, a small bounty of the ocean.

All except for the piece that sits on top. A slice of cake, just like any that would be found on the land, and iced over with elaborate little pink and purple hearts.

"I made them myself! I am quite pleased with the results too — let me know how you like them! Happy Valentine's Day!"

And then Miranda thumped her tail, and fluttered her fins, and grinned all the more, and she had darted off again.

“I get a few surprise admirers’ and attempted lovers’ letters this time of year myself, Joy, but you really do take the cake.” Vera mused, watching as a heart-shaped box of chocolates fell unceremoniously from the sky. She caught them from disrupting the pile of letters, instead tossing it over her shoulder to the ‘food’ pile.

“Girl, this is NUTS. You really don’t have any fancy ward thingies for this sorta stuff?” Amira asked, juggling a few plush hearts around before each one is soundly shot out of the air with a burst of magic from Joy’s fingertips.

“Of course I do, but then they get stuck in limbo and the backlog eventually just shows up anyways. So I figured I’d try just dealing with it this year-”

The three amidst chatter pause at the sound of Miranda’s voice, attention diverted to the princess closing in rapidly on them. The trio are quick to turn fully, even if perhaps Joy and Amira are just a bit taken by surprise at Miranda’s overflowing excitement. Vera, on the other hand, can only let out one of those genuine little cackles of delight at the sight of just how elated she looks today.

“Oh, hello, love! Congratulations to you both.” Vera replied, even as she took the basket with a bit of surprise herself this time. She can’t particularly recall Miranda ever speaking of cooking, so it takes even her off-guard this time.

Amira is the first to peek into the basket, unable to suppress the quiet admiring whistle at the sight of it all. It wasn’t often she had this much food in one place that was given to her, especially when it admittedly all looked this good. “Oh dang, girl, congrats! Happy anniversary and many more, y’know?”

“Oh yes, I’m happy for you both! It all looks lovely too, you did a great job.” Joy added last, smiling all the wider herself with a chuckle. She looked a bit drained herself, though that can be answered when she swats another magically delivered love letter off the table the three had been conversing at with an annoyed utterance. They’d been at this for awhile.

“Happy Valentine’s Day!” They add as she departs, Joy watching Vera flick one of the many continuously appearing envelopes into the air for Amira to shoot down with a small controlled jet of flame.

#Seem So Unsafe ;; Vera #I'm Your Wild Girl ;; Amira #My Girlfriend is a Witch ;; Joy #royalreef #We're Different In A Good Way‚ Together's Where We Belong | The Subs Have Unionized #sorry this is a bit short ofc you know i havent written them in a bit ajksbdkshaj #also so mad that my FUCKING TAGS ARE ALL RESET THEY'RE ALL GONE THEY'RE JUST GONE #I HAVE TO FIND EVERY ONE I WANT TO USE AGAIN THIS IS SO HELLISH

[solradguy]

The GG2Overture art book is a real treasure because they transcribed all the playable characters’ gameplay dialog (like their lines when you do an action, etc) and Sol’s are just like variations on annoyed noises, grunts, and swears. Some guy had to go in and listen to all that and transcribe it lol 

#textpost #Sol's units in this game are also really interesting in that they're the only ones with dialog nearly entirely in English #Even in the Japanese version of the game #Paradigm is the only other 'American' and his units' dialog is in Japanese #I'm not going to translate all the pages in this art book like I am with the GGX one btw #There's just waaaayyyyyy too much in it and I don't think there'd be any real interest in it. Sorry!! #I'm gonna do all the short stories and the illustration captions (which are 100% done and queued) and then maybe anything else- #-that's mildly interesting from the concept art section of the book #But absolutely not every single bit of text in it

[shrunkupthejams]

WIP Intro but I have too much ADHD for this Edition: Of Sea Jewels and Great Lords 

(Finally my favourite one!! (kind of))

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About title: So, for this I wanted to tie the meanings behind the main characters' surnames into the title while invoking a sense of certain colours and adventure, kind of? It's honestly a bit misleading.. one main character's surname is Bijoux, which is literally just the French word for jewel, and I associate them with indigo, so I put sea jewels in the title. The other main character's surname, Meredith, means something like lord/great lord, so I threw that into the title, too. It's a fantasy adventure story, so I wanted that to carry into the title, and I think it does, but the characters don't actually encounter sea jewels, or great lords; it's mostly just mountains and learning to navigate each other. 

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About: So, in recovering bewitched lost villagers for the village of Nomen, magician Geo Bijoux is saddled with the responsibility of depositing Chad Meredith under a mountain in return for the missing villagers that the local dragon has been protecting. In their reluctant travels in search of a good, uninhabited mountain, Geo learns more of the reason for Chad's eternal imprisonment, and the two, against their wishes, grow closer through their adventures and the unavoidable shenanigans that come with a pair of young magicians traversing a continent. 

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Setting: So I lied when I said Giselle & Darius is chronologically the first story that happens on Dirt; this actually happens 200-300 years before that. (I don't have exact numbers yet,,) Also, it's set all over Astelle, but mostly south of the Heart of Astelle, which is a big mountain.

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Featuring: the gays; healing from trauma; moral grayness; questioning morality, motives, and life choices; riyals to lovers (in a way); getting sick of the person you're roadtripping with, as is wont to happen; competitions of basically who can be the biggest asshole; lots of homesickness; learning to follow your heart. 

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Do I have a playlist for it? OH YOU BET I DO :)

wip stuff taglist: @multi-lefaiye

#ps.txt #wip: of sea jewels and great lords #wip intro but i have too much adhd for this edition #hi sorry #i am SO HYPED to share this one bc my brain is just buzzing about geo & chad rn and i've barely talked about them yet :/ #but i read the most recent wip i have w/ them today (the one i posted the tantalus line from) and it was good i want to work on it!! #there was some creation myth stuff entwined in there that doesn't work and im going to mame into its own thing but!!! this wip is such new #territory for them!! (*coughs* vulnerability) and like thete are so many feelings being allowed to happen #like it's a TURNING POINT. THIS is where they start getting to a point where they're on equal groubd and can start developing feelings #for each other <3 bc they've spent the rest of the story being bitches to each other honestly but i mean chad's NOT dealing w/ his feelings #about the dragon damning him. and geo just doesn't care about chad at all so why would he be nice? there's literally like nothing in it for #them. but yk travelling together and only spending time with each other for like 9 months will change that.. #**why would they be nice #i frequently fuck up geo's pronouns ughh #they use they/them but i debated using he/him (too) bc i started this wip as a short story for a gr 10 english assignment and got attached #but i was debating bc like anxiety and what would my teacher think? (which: she was literally the theatre teacher so??? what was there to #worry about??) so yeah i get mixed up a lot #ig geo's a bit masc too? more androgynous so yeah #and chad is just he/him but he definitely has tboy swag even tho this is theoretically taking place in some sort of medieval times #but gender works really weirdly in astelle so it works <3 #god these tags better not be longer than the post ive been going on for too long aaagrhfhhdh #also omg i love the header for this it's perfect <3