i finished The Fragile Threads Of Power a few days ago…
when i first found Lila Bard, it felt like a miracle. by the time i finished acol, i didn't think it was possible to feel any closer to her. but fuck me was i wrong.
i don't have the words to explain how i feel right now. i will always have Lila Bard, and that means more to me than i can ever explain. i don't know how to explain why she's so important to me. but oh my fucking god.
and it's not just her. kell, oh kell. i would do anything for him, no matter what.
alucard, rhy, and others for reasons i won't elaborate on right now for spoilers' sake.
i will write something that resembles coherence when my thoughts settle.
but just know that this book was perfect in every possible way. it was everything i ever wanted, and everything i never knew i needed.
this book destroyed me. i have not cried so hard in years. but having read it i just feel truly happy, even though it tore me apart.
this book is home.
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The Wizard Spite
(The Wizard, The Witch, And The Wild One Original Character)
The Wizard Spite, an illusionist of The Citadel.
When he chose his name cloak, it was not due to his feelings towards the world around him in the current, but more so to how he wanted to feel eventually.
An illusionist of the Citadel has little use outside of psychological warfare. But at the core of an illusion is creativity. If you can't imagine what you want to create, then your illusions have no substance. A Minor Illusion is the most basic of cantrips, and really only used to clean up minor details that you don't need to bother with. But only an illusionists would include shading
The Wizard Spite showed immense aptitude for learning and memorization. Being able to look at a page of incantations and see it clearly in his mind caused him to get noticed quickly. Passing the required tests, he began tracks to become a wizard. Though it was often noted that he would take notes on the Faunaloges more than the magic theory. His notebooks contained writings and minor sketches of people and objects. Their movements and idiosyncrasies, the clothes and light.
Spite assumed he had to be a wizard. It's something people of Citadel aspired to, and what his parents recommended to him. If he is able to, then he should. He didn't know what else he wanted to be either. So becoming a Wizard felt right.
When it came time for him to pick a specialization and track, he tried for Conjuration. He hoped that conjuring things would allow him to gain a better understanding of the mechanics of physiology. Though the magical theory around Conjuration ended up not being for him, and he was transferred over to an Illusionist track, one not sought out by many.
An illusionist has two goals when they are casting their spells.
1) To Deceive, Distract, and/or Entertain their target(s).
2) To Study, Analyze, and Observe their Target(s).
An illusion's effectiveness increases with knowledge of the target.
Spite knew how to watch people, when he was with his friends he found his mind wandering to how their mouths moved as they spoke, or how eyes move. Those subtle differences in how people react to things is what Spite was best at.
In the year he would get his Name Cloak, he initially was going to become The Wizard Scrutinize. Though he then found out exactly what Illusionist do in and outside the Citadel. Fear is a powerful tool, and is held in the Empire's hand. Not often are they called upon to do so, but sometimes a Wizard that has stepped to far out of line needs to have zipped lips. Enchanters and their abilities to Modify memories can only last so long. But the image of their world burning around them lasts forever.
He accidentally found this information out, though he wasn't as shaken as he might've thought he would be. After all, this is what he has been trained to do so far, and more yet to come. He knew this was right, wizards are defined by their secrets. If the Citadel let all Wizards and Soldiers speak so freely, then how quickly might everything crumble?
When he stood their and chose Spite as his Name Cloak, the meaning was not directed at the world around him, but at the person he would become. Hatred directed towards his future self for what he will do for his Empire.
The Wizard Spite lives alone, a man known for his bitterness more than anything else. Once a great artist and entertainer in his 20's, now a drained and bleak individual in his 50's.
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Hiii new Wolfwren followers. While you’re here may I interest you all in watching Willow? It is a Lucasfilm series but with MORE women and MORE swords and a QUEST and you have to know a secret handshake to watch it because D+ pulled it but it’s all I have wanted to write about all year.
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Blackout hit 100 kudos today! In celebration, have the first 100 hundred-ish words of my Colin/Isaac/Michael long fic
Michael’s so spaced out that he almost misses it.
Luckily not even the anxiety of a high profile job that depended almost entirely on Michael could distract him enough that a bright green Lamborghini with white smoke spewing from it on the shoulder of the road didn’t catch his attention. It doesn’t exactly blend with the picturesque English countryside. He hits the breaks.
Bandits had been using decoys to make potential victims stop for as long as humans had been traveling, but given how expensive the other car looks compared to Michael’s rented Honda, he feels safe parking behind the Lamborghini and getting out. The driver’s side door is open and the hood popped.
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okay but Fernando IS kind of napoleon coded the minute I saw that I was like you are so right. is it the demonic short king energy??? what is it???
You guys are not prepared for the deranged Fernando-Napoleon web weaving post I'm inevitably going to make. Or should I say...Nandopoleon Alonsoparte.
No, because seriously there are way too many parallels and similarities, it's kind of insane. I was comparing quotes from s1e1 of Fernando, where his friends/family/himself are basically giving testimonials as to what he's like, to quotes from the personality/image section of Napoleon's wiki....theres so much that's practically verbatim. Just as people, as well as how they chose/choose to present themselves on a greater scale, I think is very similar. Their personality traits, their mindsets, their motivations, their goals and ways they go about obtaining that, all very similar imo.
But please, come and join me and @sweatyflytrap in the Nandopoleon brainrot, it's very disconcerting to me how well it fits!
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What music do you like?
Oh. Yall wouldn't believe me if I told you. Really. Last time I answered this question, people didn't believe me.
I appreciate all music, but my preferred genre is very niche. I have maybe 1 acquaintance who enjoys the same bands as me.
There are tons of hints about my musical interests in my writing. I name bands, I quote lyrics from songs I love. I use song names to describe things.
I will tell you though. I am a metalhead. But it's even more niche than that. I listen to specific metal that's fast, symphonic, chior-esque, and has cheesy af lyrics about how beautiful life is and riding dragons into the sunset. Even other metalheads look upon me in derision because I'm not "edgy" with it.
I can't help it. I love powerful, positive, exciting songs that I can scream to and feel good about it.
Ofc, some of them are more emotional. Sometimes I listen to songs about trauma and mental illness. But it's usually in the vein of "Things will get better". Or "I'm gonna get justice for this injustice!"
And I like metal from ALL over the world. It doesn't have to be in english for me to thrash to. As long as it has the vibes I'm after, it's for me.
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seeing other people healing their relationship with food helps me along in the process to heal my own, and you are one of the biggest examples ive seen of this recently. thank you so so much for sharing your joy in cooking and sharing love thru food!! i hope you have countless wonderful meals in your future <3
i won't lie 2 u it's still really really tough sometimes and i absolutely have lapses in recovery, but learning to enjoy cooking (and through that, to enjoy eating) has been the single most helpful piece of my healing. every time i get asks like this i get soooo tearyeyed, u r so deserving of recovery and the vibrant life that comes with it. i love love love love u <3
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