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MEKAMECHANIC NATION HOW WE FEELING???

speaking more from my last post about shadow magic and its just. so interesting tbh. like the first mention of shadow magic comes from khrysalis when we enter the eclipse tower and it gives us interesting looks into how shadow magic as a whole is regarded in the spiral...

its so insane to hear that its a forbidden magic and that grandmother raven and BARTLEBY of all people forbade it to be taught. raven i could probably understand, but considering we are now bartlebys scion... it's hard to think about the possibility that he didn't trust us before. an outsider from the spiral learning a forbidden magic...

i think what's also interesting is the fact that the shadow magic the wizard learns is a wholly unique one. shadow magic corrupted the moon magic inside the tower, so there's a possiblity that our wizard only knows this specific subset of shadow magic—one that's been permanently altered by moon magic in the eclipse tower, and one that can only be taught by sofia darkside.

it makes me wonder if velma knows the same kind, or if hers and the wizard's shadow magic is different... is one more volatile than the other? or if there's no difference at all and im looking into it too much lolol

knowing this and knowing raven forbade anyone in the spiral from ever learning shadow magic, it would make a little bit of sense for how hostile she initially seems towards the wizard... if we take what we saw from the book of secrets, then we know that magic law states that nothing is an accident—magic is reactive and 'sentient' to a certain degree, so there was no mistake in the wizard freeing grandfather spider from his prison using magic, because that's what they wanted.

granted it was for other reasons... but it doesn't paint a pretty picture of any of us. the wizard learns shadow magic, the wizard frees spider, and then spider goes on to say that theyre his favorite.

i think what makes this particularly more tragic is the fact that the wizard didn't even have a choice. sofia says this herself!

they need to learn it. the sword of kings isn't enough. being a child of prophecy isn't enough. they failed once before, and theyre not eager to fail again. theyll try anything, and everything, and that includes... freeing grandfather spider.

which, you know, speaking of backlash... sofia mentions it too lol.

which is interesting to me... i always complained that the morganthe fight needed a bit more oomph—which, i still believe it does, to some extent—but i think how she died was a fitting end to her. crushed underneath the weight of her own powers, her own shadow—her backlash. she was the instrument of her own defeat, and, well... that could have very well been the wizard. she's our reflection, our parallel. i think it's why the wizard never mentions or claims that theyre the one that did her in—because they technically... didn't, but they also did. which is cool!

much to think about....

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sprite credit to (the based) @masochistfox :] !!!

Hey since Izzy is the unicorn are Stede and Ed looking for a third— *gets shot*

lhughes_06: Happy 24th 🎉

I don’t deserve you

watching full grown adults online vehemently defend their right to [checks notes] Keep giving money to businesses who are being boycotted for supporting a genocide while slathering their statements in social justice buzzwords is so fucking. Wow you guys are fucking spineless. "yall cant even boycott chick fil a" is an evergreen statement isnt it

shapey demon

god i have been so art blocked these are literally the only 'passable' things ive drawn in months

“I’d like to know why you are all alone while I’m…”

“Lost at sea…”

(A version without the cage)

ME WHEN VIDEO GAME SERIES CALL BACK TO PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS BY REFERENCING PAST MUSICAL THEMES AND MOTIFS EXCEPT IT'S INCOMPLETE OR OTHERWISE ARRANGED DIFFERENTLY REMINDING US THAT IT'S THE SAME SETTING BUT WILL NEVER AGAIN BE EXACT SAME STORY

god why is vortex such a delicate little snowflake i have to hold this shits hand to get it to do anything

for @catnippackets​​ 💕

Your recent Childe fic genuinely blew me away with how well written it was!! Your writing is incredible even with my short attention span it somehow captured my entire attention throughout it all. Do you plan on making a part 2 to it? I would love to see the aftermath of the entire situation but seriously it’s one of the best fics I’ve read bravo. 💖💖

Hello (^_^)

I’m so happy people liked IlyIoy so much;; When I say it’s been in my drafts for a while, I created the document and first couple of paragraphs back in June last year (TT) I was really into the idea, which is why I took so long trying to make sure it works well - at least for me. I also tried experimenting with the writing, I had a lot of fun coming up with the narrative and ways to portray it.

A part two is definitely in the works, though! I have a bunch of ideas on how things could continue, I definitely have a direction I want the story to go with the parents and Andrei and his family! I feel like, for this part I want to amp up the narrator’s unreliability - since the whole story and point of view we see is, in a way, influenced by Childe’s preconceived notion of the situation. Even when MC/you come into the picture, everything you know is solely because of Childe, the set-up for the story is all as he’s understood it without directly communicating with anyone directly involved! I really want… to make Childe seem unreliable and biased, since from this point onward, the situation should unfold from a more critical perspective since the other parties are finally having a say, but due to the… situation they find themselves in, let’s just say Ajax has more influence on the outcome than he should have! We’ll definitely hear from their point of view, since we’re going to be in a (spoiler) for good chunk of the next part but it’ll still be influenced by Ajax and what he’s said to you (^_^)

There’s a reason Fontaine, albeit being flawed, is considered the nation of justice and not Snezhnaya (U_U)7

I'm sat at work trying to do adult things but all my brain can focus on is how happy I was to get S2 and HOW SAD I AM NOW.