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deus-ex-mona · 1 year

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If You Don’t Give Me Some Treats, I’ll Fanservice You: Chapter 6

tag yourself; i’m the questionably competent assistant

previous part (chapter 5)

next part (chapter 7)

After parting ways with the sisters—

mona: (Oh no! I’m running a little late!)

mona: (I have to get my makeup and hair done when I get to the venue… and I gotta do my vocal warm-ups too.)

mona: (Will I have enough time for all of that…? Hmm…)

As mona headed for the car with the accompanying staff, the assistant suddenly made an exclamation.

Assistant: Ah..! I-I’m sorry…

mona: Eh? What happened?

Assistant: I let another staff member take the car a while ago…! We thought that we just had to bring the sweets to the venue first…

Staff: Huuh?! What the hell were you guys doing…?! Do you mean to say that we’re left without a car right now, then?!

Assistant: Yes…! I’m sorry…!

Staff: My apologies, mona. I’ll flag down a taxi for you!

mona: Ah, sure…!

mona: (What do I do? I caused trouble for the staff because I was taking my time…)

Staff: Ah—... No taxis are passing through this area. Maybe we’ll get one faster if we hail one over the phone…

mona: (What do I do? I may not… make it in time for the live…)

As mona fretted over her worries, a voice called out to her from a distance.

???: mona!

???: What a relief…! You’re still here!

mona: (Eh…? Who is it…?)

Fan: I’ve been watching your live stream since it started! I saw that you were really close by, so…

Fan: You’ll be able to flag down taxis real easy over there!

mona: Eh…?! Really…?!

Assistant: I’ll head over to hail one then!

mona: What a relief… You were a great help! Thank you so much!

mona thanked the fan who had passed on the information to her, to be met with a starry-eyed gaze in return.

Fan: You’re really amazing, aren’t you?!

mona: (Eh?)

Fan: You were superb in the programme just now!

Fan: I really get the feeling that you treasure each and every single fan of yours!

Fan: I’ll be rooting for you! Do your best in the live!

mona: Th-thank you very much…!

Staff: mona…! The reactions to the broadcast on social media are amazing!

mona: Social media…?

When mona took out her phone to take a look—.

“The way mona quickly ran out to the sisters was really great.”

“She really cares about her fans! She’s so cool!”

“I used to think that she was just another ordinary idol, but I kind of fell for her after today’s stream. I love her.”

mona: (You’re kidding… There are so many nice comments…)

New posts continued to fill mona’s screen before her very eyes.

“mona! Are you seeing this right now?! I’ll support you forever! You’re super cute and I really look up to you!”

“I’m a fan of mona! There are tons and tons of people at today’s live! I’ll definitely attend your lives again!”

“I had prepared some treats, but I didn’t get the chance to meet you. mona! Do this again next year, okay?!”

mona: What do I do…? I’m so happy…

mona: I’m gonna cry…

mona: (...Ah, what’s that? A text from Big Sis…?)

Sena: “If you’re gonna take a taxi at this time of day, be sure to tell them to take the back roads!”

Sena: “I’ll send you a map!”

mona: (She really did tune in to the programme…!)

mona: (Thank you, Big Sis…!)

#all i want for halloween is mona~#just honeypre things #there wasn't really any screenshottable moments in this chapter sorry~!#look forward to a surplus of screenshots in the next two chapters... maybe~?

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iamnotthere-idonotdie · 2 months

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i saw a youtube comment today on a video essay about the batman (2022) and i just felt the need to screenshot and share some things on it:

i’ve had thoughts about this for a while.

i wrote in a draft a while ago about how i love the costume design in the batman because it made each character feel like real people and i decided i might as well share those thoughts now.

the costume design in the batman was one of the key elements that drove this film home for me. it made it so much more gripping, because it humanized these characters we’ve grown to see as just drawings on a page. these aren’t superheroes and supervillains. they don’t have powers, they don’t live in a fantasy world. they’re people who wear combat boots with their capes and cut holes out of their cat-eared ski masks and wrap cellophane under their army/navy-surplus store hoods. they’re just people with skills and agendas and trauma who are just trying to fight their way through life in whatever way they think is necessary and right.

they don’t rely on their suits as their strength.

and to touch on the point the commenter made in the first part, about how bruce wouldn’t be a “master of dual lives”: i think that’s a perfect way to sum up this character at this point in his life. he’s only been the batman for two years. and during these two years he’s been acting as vengeance. he still harbors a lot of anger in him and it’s been radiating through the batman. he hasn’t learned how to compartmentalize those two sides of himself, if he ever will.

we’ve seen a little bit of this in other batman movies and other media, but not to this extent, in my opinion; not so that it is defining him as a character in this significant of a way. it adds so much more complexity and depth to bruce wayne and it makes it so much more realistic and believable.

one thing i think shows this really well is how bruce and batman ride the same bike throughout the film. it’s not an expensive bike. it’s not specially made with gadgets and a bat symbol, we don’t see a new bike for batman until the very end of the film.

the batman is no longer vengeance, he’s hope. and hope doesn’t hide in the shadows. hope isn’t waiting to find a fight. hope is a beacon, not a warning.

the dark knight trilogy was a turning point for superhero movies. it showed that they didn’t have to be campy and comic book-y. it showed that they can be gritty and poignant and cinematic. the batman just took that thought and elevated it to an even higher level by making these characters feel like real people. by adding even more complexity, more richness, more gravity to these characters we all know and love. and in a market as over saturated as batman, this take on the story was like taking a sip of water when you wake up in the middle of the night at three am: refreshing as hell.

i don’t know, maybe i’m rambling and maybe this is kind of all over the place. but i just love the symbolism in this film and i literally cannot wait to see what more incredible and genius moves matt reeves and the rest of the cast and crew make in part two.

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heroes-villains-side-blog · 1 year

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Help, my brain wants to create another blog (blog #8!!!!)

On the one hand, I'm not into the genre much and can very well just use this or my main blog for the rare few writeblr works that interest me

On the other hand... I like organizing and wanna see what I can accomplish in the name of community

It'll be like this blog, where I reblog prompts, snippets, advice, or other things that interest me but from the following genres

🖋️ Fantasy 🖋️ Sci-fi and aliens 🖋️ Horror 🖋️ Alternate history 🖋️ Utopian 🖋️ Dystopian 🖋️ Apocalyptic 🖋️ Post-apocalyptic 🖋️ Supernatural 🖋️ Myth retellings 🖋️ Fairytale retellings 🖋️ Medieval 🖋️ Pirates 🖋️ Science fantasy 🖋️ Urban or modern fantasy 🖋️ Light fantasy 🖋️ Etc, just separate from #heroes and villains stuff, but sometimes the lines could be blurry.

The issue is that the stuff I love in the genres is so rare, and the common tropes that most authors use are stuff I don't like. No hate to those writers who like those tropes ofc. We just have different preferences.

So the blog won't be community-centric, it'll be biased towards stuff I like. Which is fine, just don't come after me lol (I ain't getting paid for this, I just like organizing).

I have hyperfixated at times on media that's fantasy, sci-fi, supernatural or myth related, so the interest is there if done right

My main novel is fantasy, yes, with a knight, royalty, magic… but it's more humor than anything and that's what I love about it. And excluding fanfics (which were fantasy or supernatural anyway), I've written some fantasy/ supernatural/ myth work so, again, the interest is there... And let's not forget the huge fairytale retelling dark aesthetic database that I made.

And I do have some fantasy stuff I wanna write but lacking an outline to start :P

Inspired by this thread because there are writers who wanna write, but finding readers seems to be the issue which could be due to the lack of systemization of the genre (just #fantasy could be used by snippet writers and writeblrs promoting their actual books, both have vastly different audiences so you can see the problem)

I'll go ahead and tag the self-proclaimed "fantasy squad" from the thread @thepenultimateword @writing-on-the-wahl @watercolorfreckles @amethystpath-writes @snowshower @puddleslimewrites @muses-of-the-mind and @surplus-of-sarcasm who accidentally pushed me down this rabbit hole today when I just told @eahravinqueen a few days ago stuff I don't like about the genre XD

For everyone else, ideas for new tags and/or systemization are most welcome! Just leave a comment or reblog in the tags or send me a message or screenshot of stuff you've seen that works or whatevs!

#speculative fiction #writeblr #new tag ideas #fantasy squad #speculative fiction squad

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nerdasaurus1200 · 3 months

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Okay so I won’t show them here but from the screenshots I’m seeing it looks like Lucifer’s gonna be getting two songs in his episodes and I for one can’t wait to see the surplus of Varian edits that’ll come from them XD

#tts #rta #tangled #tangled the series #rapunzel's tangled adventure #hazbin hotel #nerd talks #varian #lucifer morningstar

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sigridhawke · 2 years

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Putting my surplus of game screenshots to good use for this header💪💪

Now that the draft is finally complete I want to properly announce/show off something I’ve been working on! An incredibly self indulgent blend of Yugioh, Assassin’s Creed Origins, and general Egypt mythology. Follows the idea of Atem coming to power after Akhenamkhanen’s death and the incident revolving around Kul Elna with a twist!

The diabound orb is an ancient artifact with the power to create, destroy, and manipulate the course of history. As the last living descendant of the great Pharaoh Atem, the last owner of such an artifact, it falls to Yugi Mutou to follow the genetic memory of his ancestor to find the artifact and protect the present.

But what happens when delving into the past brings more questions than answers?

Why does tracing the Pharaoh’s memories land him in the body of the a man named Heba?

Fandom: YuGiOh (primarily) + Assassins Creed Origins (you don’t need to know about the series to understand the story!)

Pairing: Puzzleshipping/Blindshipping

Rating: M

Notable Tags: Ryou and Yugi are trauma buddies. The line between Heba and Yugi gets blurred. Character death/past character death. Egyptian Gods/beliefs. Slow burn. Angst and fluff. OCs for story. Technically a happy ending.

Chapter One: The Eye of Horus

#Yugioh #assassins creed #puzzleshipping #blindshipping #fanficiton #yugi mutou #atem #heba #ygo/creed au #Leather and Linen AU #my writing

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dandelionrevolution · 22 days

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Good News - March 22-28

Like these weekly compilations? Support me on Ko-fi! Also, if you tip me on here or Ko-fi, at the end of the month I’ll send you a link to all of the articles I found but didn’t use each week - almost double the content! (I’m new to taking tips on here; if it doesn’t show me your username or if you have DM’s turned off, please send me a screenshot of your payment)

1. Scimitar-horned Oryx: A Story of Global Conservation Success

“Eight years following the first reintroductions of the species in a protected range in Chad, the species has been downlisted to ‘Endangered’ [an improvement from “extinct in the wild”] in the most recent IUCN Red List update.”

2. Thailand moves closer to legalising same-sex marriage

“Under the law, it describes a marriage union as one between two individuals, rather than a man and a woman. It will give LGBTQ+ couples the ability to adopt, have equal access to marital tax savings, rights to property and the ability to decide medical treatment when their partner is incapacitated.”

3. Juvenile platypus found in NSW: a sign of breeding success

“A baby platypus was discovered in the Royal National Park less than a year after 10 were reintroduced to the area, marking the end of a half-century local extinction. […] “Finding the juvenile platypus is a clear sign the reintroduced population is not just surviving but thriving, adapting well to their environment, and contributing to the genetic diversity and resilience of this iconic species.””

4. New Laws Protect Bird-Friendly Yards From Neighborhood Rules

“A blossoming legislative trend prevents homeowners associations, which set landscaping rules for a growing number of Americans, from forbidding native plants.”

5. Bookstores Around The World Are Flourishing Again

“[I]t’s not just the major chains like Barnes & Noble that are flourishing, as the US book sales market continues to both grow and diversify, the majority of the retail book market is controlled by small indie stores.”

6. 'Like a luxury condominium': Providence zoo unveils new red panda habitat

“"Kendji and Zan's new home boasts a spacious two-story, climate-controlled indoor space designed to mimic their natural Himalayan habitat," the zoo said in a news release. "This ensures their well-being regardless of fluctuating Rhode Island temperatures and humidity."”

7. The first CULTIVATE Mobile Research Lab on food sharing in Barcelona

“[Volunteers] engaged in growing, cooking and eating food together, and redistributing surplus food, as well as other actors involved in food sharing and sustainable food systems in Barcelona and its surroundings.”

8. New Methane Rule Will Reduce Natural Gas Waste, Generate Money for Taxpayers, Help Address Climate Change

“The Bureau of Land Management’s final rule on reducing methane waste from oil and gas production on public lands will conserve critical energy resources, with the added benefit of decreasing toxic pollution [….] The rule will benefit wildlife, public lands, water resources, and nearby communities. By requiring royalties for wasted methane, the rule will also generate more than $50 million each year for American taxpayers.”

9. 'Exceptional' Two-Headed Snake Undergoes Surgery in Missouri

“Tiger-Lily's [the snake’s] abnormal ovaries were then removed during surgery at the Saint Louis Zoo Endangered Species Research Center and Veterinary Hospital on March 11. The procedure went smoothly, with her ovaries being successfully removed, and the snake is recovering well.”

10. Aruba Embraces the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment

“A draft constitutional amendment would make the Carribean nation the second country in the world to recognize that nature has the right to exist.”

March 15-21 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)

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fiercynn · 14 days

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trying to avoid rb-ing the other post on ao3's finances and why you shouldn't donate to them, except when i get mutual aid requests to share, but omg y'all i found something even funnier just now:

you know how otw is only earning miniscule amounts of interest even though they have an almost $2.8 million USD surplus, because they only have about $10k of that surplus in an interest-bearing account? well, i just realized that in 2022 (the most recent year we have their tax documents for), they did in fact transfer some more money into that interest-bearing account, but they only transferred...ten dollars

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP

[ID: Screenshot of the top of page 11 of the 2022 Form 90 for the Organization for Transformative Works. The key information is the amount that they have in non-interest-bearing accounts, which was $2,292,636 at the beginning of 2022 and $2,757,161 at the end of the year; and their savings and temporary cash investments, which was $10,181 at the beginning of 2022 and $10,191 at the end of the year. /end ID]

#otw finances #ao3 #otw #archive of our own #organization for transformative works #iirc at one point in their history they were keeping most of their money in paypal accounts...........#so yeah it's always been this bad #they've literally been talking for YEARS about investing more of it and i think at one point had a volunteer working on it or something?#but no results apparently. they are so fucking bad at this #id in alt text #id included

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doozclops · 3 months

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I have a surplus of screenshots to post so I'm going to speed up my queue or else it'll be full of BG3 stuff for days.

#enjoy seeing them if you find yourself lonely through the night #or something

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hourlyastarion-deactivated202312 · 5 months

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Do you have rules or stipulations for screenshot submissions? I wanted to ask before I sent in anything.

They should be of Astarion (obviusly).

Apart from that? Anything goes.

Personally, I like to crop out other people and surplus environment. Or spoliers. But I can tag for spoilers and my taste isn't everybody's taste. 🤷‍♀️

My one request is, please, one image per submission. that makes the queueing up easier for me. 😅

Does that answer your question? If not, feel free to ask more.

#anon ask #anon answered

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wr1t3w1tm3 · 6 months

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Live Editing SEAWOLF - Chapter 2

So this is all new territory for the most part. There'll be some overlap with Chapter 2 from the original work, but what I'm "editing" now is essentially just rewriting.

The post-it notes are a thing I got into IRL going into this semester, because I like to color code my pen, highlighter, pencil, and post-its going to classes every day. Makes everything slightly more bearable. Any who, I basically have a surplus of lime green and classic sticky-notes that I can never use.

Ring doorbell comes from some people down the hall in my dorm. They have a ring doorbell mounted next to their door so they can see who's trying to get in without getting up and going to the peep hole. It's kinda genius.

Google searches 'what kinda shirts to bougie middle to upper middle class white men wear?' goes to images 'oh. button ups'.

Me trying not to make this too long but also living for this tension between Iceman and Theresa? Like bruh, this dude could be intimidating and this is perfect to bring that out. He's COMPACFLT for a damn reason.

To the Perry the Platypus theme song: Tension, tension, tension, trying to build tension, without being bulky. Tension!

Trying to keep dialogue distinct but also cohesive between these characters is... interesting.

God I hope the dialogue is cohesive and makes sense for the characters.

Google searches: Airports in Wyoming. Airports in Alaska. Dirt airstrips in Alaska. Wolf Population Alaska. Images. Alaska national parks. Near islands. Opens website. New tab. Denali national park location. Images. Back. Nearest airport to Denali national park. Nearest airstrips to denali national park. Opens website. New Tab. Healy River Airport to Inyokern airport. Finally finds a flight calculator. Screenshots. (It's 5 hrs and 9 min flight time, but Sliders gotta drive to the airport from his homestead/home so it'll be a bit longer.)

Pages written: 4 plus like a 5th of a 5th page.

Words written: 1,237.

Total words in the rewrite: 4,104 (I made a couple little edits to chapter 1 as well).

#ao3 author #ao3 fanfic #top gun fanfic #top gun #top gun maverick #werewolf bite #werewolves #iceman lives #tom iceman kazansky #original character #Theresa Bradshaw Quintar #Theresa Quintar #ron slider kerner

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shitpeoplesayinhypixel · 7 months

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Apologies for not posting in days, I keep forgetting to crop screenshots and add them to queue likely due to mental health reasons

Thankfully, due to this I have a bit of a surplus, so there’ll be quite a bit of posts for the coming days

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night-dark-woods · 2 years

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mara sov mommy issues compilation

this is long uh. sorry.

transcript: So then. The brave voyagers' fate, the timeless birthing-place, my Milton reenactment, the ruins made ours, the riven twice riven, the daughter's blood scabbed hard on mother's wound. All things told, all truth revealed, if through mist and mystery. If you have grace, then see our sorrows, but swallow back your tears. We were made to pay this price. I led us to our fate. End transcript.

these are all going to be screenshots followed by transcripts, with no added text.

"You can't keep doing this," Uldwyn complains, as the big woman stares at Mara in awe. "Mom is going to die of worry."

"I really don't care what risks you take," Mara's mother sighs. "That's the deal we made, my little yellow star—"

She is also very blunt: "Mara, even when you were little, you wanted me to treat you like an adult. So I have. But you remember what I told you, don't you? If you don't want to be my daughter, I can't watch over you like a mother would. I can't put you first, like a mother would. I will always be your friend, but I have to make my own choices too."

"I didn't do anything. People liked my captures. People left me presents, spare parts, tips—then Uldwyn got into it, you know how he is—"

"Don't!" Osana wheels on her. "For shame, Mara. You know your brother will follow anywhere you lead. You know he's not capable of the same, ah," her lips twitch, "imperial remove. You knew he'd brag about you living on the hull—and you let him do it. It is one thing to have a particular power over people, Mara. But it is another to deny that you are using it."

She has gone outside Yang Liwei to die in starlight. She cannot bear to let anyone see her fear or her awe at the scale of destruction or her pity for the billions of souls dying in darkness back around Sol. She cannot be among the other crew as they cling to each other and whisper reassurances; not even with her mother. She cannot surrender her mystery.

So she kicks off the hull on fifty kilometers of tether.

But there's no starlight to die in. The darkness is absolute. Gravity waves tug on her line, pulling her back toward Yang and then hurling her away. In time, she feels another vibration in the line. "Sister," the tether transmits. "I'm coming out to get you."

Brother, she thinks, you'll lose yourself trying to follow me.

"Mara!" Uldwyn shouts. "Mara, you're too far out!"

Mara thinks of her mother's face. She hears Osana say: I can't watch over you like a mother would. I have to make my own choices now.

She fires the detach command into the tether.

But there remained in the forests many tribes of huntresses who preferred their lightfooted freedom-from-comfort-and-duty to the painstaking surplus of the city. Among these tribes, Mara lived with her brother—whose name had returned as Uldren—and with Osana, their mother. It is said that Osana lived as a negotiator and that her son brought her news from other tribes, for he was a scout and hunter of renown. Mara dwelt alone on a mountaintop.

Up these hills comes a man and his mother. The man moves with practiced wariness. But his mother is tired of walking, so she sits down on a giant melon and bellows, "MARAAA!"

A fountain of startled birds shoots up into the dawnlight. Not far away, the woman looks up from the broken body of a juvenile gray parrot and softly says, "Mom?"

That night over the fire, after Mara and Osana talk around the oddness of long separation,

A shear force as powerful as tectonics has divided Mara's heart. She wants to sit down with her mother and ask her everything, but she is afraid of Osana's insight. "What brings you to my little camp, Mother?"

"Lies," Osana says. "Lies and secrets. And the girl who didn't want to be my daughter, who doesn't know the difference between them."

"I know the difference between a girl and a daughter," Mara says, purposefully misunderstanding. The drip pan sizzles beneath golden meat. Her stomach growls. "Your daughter picks up your baton at the end of the race, and goes on living the life you've taught her. You wouldn't want that, Mother. Because then I'd be all your fault."

"That's true," Osana sighs, "but you know what I meant."

Osana takes her portion of pheasant meat and rolls it in the bowl of sweet cooked nuts her daughter has prepared. The stars are coming out over the mountains, and the forest birds sing. "This place is good," she says. "This world. Whatever you remember of our lives before, Mara… I know they cannot have been this good."

"No," Mara says. "But you were both with me. I hope you always will be."

"Always," her brother promises.

"Eat well." Mara claps her hands and stands. "Tomorrow we journey."

"Where?" her mother asks.

"I have star charts to share." And heresies to tend to. And a new eagle-crow to find for her bereft brother.

Yet she has never been so lonely or so worried for the future. Mother has told her that she, Mara, uses her power over Uldren too freely; that she must learn to stop, or her mother will no longer be her friend.

"Conventional relativity would suggest that time outside an event horizon passes quickly compared to a clock within, but our universe has a peculiar relationship with its mother. Thousands of years have passed”

"I know." Alis lays a hand on Mara's, and for a moment the touch almost makes Mara sigh in gratitude: to be seen, to be known, without revulsion. Then Alis' old strength pins her palm to the table.

"Please," Mara begs. "Please don't say that."

Alis Li rises from her chair. "I'll support your fleet," she says. "I'll use every favor and connection I have to get your Hulls completed and through the gateway—and I will do it so that I can hasten your departure from this world. I will do it out of hate for you; I will do it so that every good and great thing we achieve here will ever after be denied to you, you snake. No forgiveness. Do you understand me? It is unforgivable. Go. Go!"

"I'd be very glad if you didn't tell my mother," Mara says.

Mara thinks of her mother. She doesn't want to but she does, and the memory blindfolds her and muzzles her and plugs her ears so she can hear nothing but Osana's voice on that final night. They're tipsy together, and the evening has wrapped around to morning. Now they sit side by side, mother and daughter, watching the sun rise over the Chriseiad range from Osana's little ranch house on the tundra.

"I'm not coming with you," Osana says.

Mara has been so afraid of this answer for so long that she actually giggles. This can't be happening, of course. This is a nightmare; one of those stress dreams where your powers of persuasion and manipulation fail. "Sure, Mom," she says, "you've got a ranch to run, after all. More?"

"No thank you." Osana squints into the dawn. Little age creases surround her eyes, illegible encryption, unbroken despite Mara's centuries of effort. The rising light draws a tear. "You'll have to send my goodbyes to Uldren. He's not speaking to me."

"What?" Mara gasps, as if this is the real shock, and not losing her mother forever. "Why?"

"Because I already told him I wasn't coming with you. I'm happy here."

"Mom," Mara says, with rising anger, "I'm happy here too. That's not the point—" A conversation that did not so much end as beat itself to an unsustainable emotional pulp, hours later. No catharsis. No closure.

The Hull screams with thrust. Mara's suit floods with cushioning gel. She thinks of her mother's face, trying to fix it perfectly in her mind, and her sensorium tries, vainly, to open a channel to Osana. As the Hull plunges into the singularity, the last thing Mara sees is the mournful error message: No connection. No connection. No connection. Cannot connect to Osana.

Numberless are the spaces that surround the universe. Subordinate and superordinate are their relationships to the intrinsic world-that-is-only-itself. We pass now through analogy space that will reify what was once subject into object. That power I held, which was agonist to a mother's rapprochement, will be realized and reified.

Last of all, leaving Mara imperious with disdain toward her own feelings, curtly aloof toward all who asked her what troubled her, it showed her Osana, who had remained behind.

First of all, Mara went into the gardens and planted a flower for her mother, who she thought must still live: though she might by now have forgotten her first daughter and her first son.

"Mother," she said, "I asked to be your sister rather than your daughter, and so I denied you the chance to tell me your secret, the mothertruth that is mapped in the negative space defined by the lies mothers tell their daughters. Well, here are my secrets. I love you. I have always loved you. Without you, I could never have been anything at all."

Shuro Chi: Osana Sov. She does not deserve the respect my lady grants her with that statue. Uldren argued against putting it up; he thought Osana should be forgotten. But Queen Mara chose to remember.

Queen Mara Sov: If it is still unclear, the twin kestrels represent Uldren and myself. Their mother is Osana Sov. Uldren found Osana's prescriptions restrictive. I never considered her a mother myself, but her dreams of foresight interested me. We both saw calamity looming, Osana and I. In the Distributary, where the Awoken were born, we were eternal. Osana would hide there forever rather than face the enemy. When we left to form the Reef, many chose to hide with her. You're done here. I'll send for you when more skews reveal themselves.

#my posts #destiny #destiny 2 #man. man.#posting this at. 12:13am. i am mentally stable and do not project at all onto this character #(obligatory caveat that she is morally grey and does bad things and commits the crime of being a woman who isnt perfect etc etc)

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