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the many faces of cassius (cosmosdex)...... they're probably all the same guy (CASSIUS) just at different times . get to heaven is wild!!!!!!!
#love you hollow betrayal <3 <3 <3 <3 <3#he's such a cringefail little neo tailed. it's AWESOME#ocs#cassius mode#cosmosdex#get to heaven#g2h#ill choose a tag latarrrrrrrrr
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cassius STOAT i just found ?
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also whomst will ship w me
#y'all know i love ships and these 3 r all so good 2 ship with#theyre each like their own difficulty level#easy mode is cassie hard mode is tate nightmare mode is cassius#but also nightmare mode is cassie#cassie is easy mode until u get serious and then discover all the horrors <3#but she is easy in that she is pretty and nice and very lovable#tate is just a difficult man to deal w its the trauma#bc theres no world in which he and benji break up permanently which means benji never domesticated him and he is feral and insane#cassius is nightmare mode but only in the sense that he is very much the same as tate except w the added difficulty of#being scared of dating bc of being trans so hes really just like. hard mode new game plus u know#cassius and tate r both easier once u domesticate them a lil bit#cassie is worse when u domesticate her#there is no winning but also its all winning
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I think the problem with this fandom is that it contains way too many people who would read Julius Caesar and think the assassination is an Irredeemable Villain Moment for Brutus* while also thinking Antony is super valid for burning down half the city and doing proscriptions to avenge one (1) guy.
* Cassius already had his Irredeemable Villain Moment by sending anon letters because that means he LIED. Cassius is lying all the time, you see, even when he is talking to himself.
#I am curious to know the cultural breakdown in both cases#for Caesar the prevailing tendency in mainstream US academic/theatrical circles is to side more with Antony#and view the massive loss of life for the sake of one individual (who also happens to be an authoritarian leader but shh) as more excusable#than the deliberate murder of that same single individual for the sake of Rome and the concept of representative governance as a whole#Brutus is therefore a sympathetic tragic figure because he’s a good man misguided by that wicked Cassius#(who is presented as simply envious of Caesar rather than genuinely committed to a vision of a republic)#rather than because his commitment to his principles takes a great personal toll and leads him to make unwise choices#so I am WONDERING if the Jiang Cheng haters especially are coming from the same mode#and if US and UK people in particular hate on him more than others do
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looking back at spite and the Rough Era™ of tess and joel's partnership, what do you think were the genuine root causes of the angst and tension between them? and if you had to pick, what did each of them want in that whole mess but couldn't ask for of the other?
This is a hard question, I guess because I don't really view the story critically, I just kind of feel my way through. That's how it makes sense to me. So I'm feeling my way through this answer too, lol. I hope it makes sense and answers your question properly!
The Rough Era™ in Driftersverse really covers two periods, which are the Indy years (which is in Dawn but covered in better detail in Spite) and the Boston years, which are briefly in Dawn, Cassius blue and will be covered more in a future fic. In each period, they essentially faced the same set of issues that led to some estrangement from one another.
The Indy years were worse because it was earlier in their partnership and they were still finding their way as survivors, and what they were capable of. But the resolution of Spite set them up to be able to survive what would later come in Boston, if that makes sense. By Boston, there really wasn't anything they could do to one another that would threaten their partnership at all. They'd survived it before. They were set by this point, and understood one another on every level. Without the Indy years they wouldn't have survived Boston. (Plus also, Tess was different by Boston - she had moved forward, while Joel was still wallowing in the past). The dynamic was strong but it was different.
With that out the way ...
The root causes of angst and tension were probably the stationary aspect of their situation. They were relatively secure and didn't have to worry about food or shelter, and it gave them all this time to really turn on themselves. They had a similar situation in Tennessee but they weren't around other people then, they could just get on with building chicken coops and gathering food, without all the fear and aggression and worst of humanity crowding in around them. When survival wasn't at the absolute forefront of their everyday, there was time to reflect on what they'd lost and how shit everything was and all the terrible things they'd done to make it. (Incidentally, Tess would return to that stationary mode of thinking in Jackson, but Joel doesn't, and that's a Whole Other Thing).
And what did each of them want but couldn't ask of the other? Tess wanted Joel to heal. Joel wanted Tess to give him her whole self.
Thank you for the ask, lovely. xxx
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There are many reasons I appreciate the Red Rising series. At first, I enjoyed it because it cured my boredom. Then, I was thankful for it because when some people got too loud, I could elect to read a fantastic book instead of throwing rocks.
And then there's everything else, really. There's wayyyy too much to spell out coherently. Jumping between one reason, and then having some god give me a divine boon in the form of yet ANOTHER reason why RR is the most underrated gem I've ever come across.
But right now, after finishing Lightbringer (literally today on the way home from a lecture) the thing I appreciate most about RR is its narrative on strength? And how absolutely soul touching it is?
Like. Pre-Book 1 and during book 1 is just survival mode. You've gone semi-emotionally numb with the strain of just. Getting Through The Bad Times. Darrow has somehow survived the mines, and it took so much out of him that I don't think even he really realised. And then Eo. And then the revelation. So now he lives and pushes through with rage - like a helldiver. It's all he has, along with a goal, so it's gotta be enough. There's no other way.
And then Books 2-3 are, through insurmountable setbacks, even through outgrowing your original goal, which fueled his spite entirely, he rises. He can no longer just be angry, even if its still in grasp, even if it's his oldest friend. He has other things he's discovered - his own abilities, a support network. The mantra 'Stay Strong or Die' continues. And even if it is aided by things other than single-mindedness, it is upheld. Darrow is the strongest he's ever been end of Book 3. He chose option 1. He can take on the world, and then another, and then another, and then all of them at once. It was hard but he stayed strong, so he will be strong.
And then the second part of the series. Um. Well. It does not go well for him exactly. You see, he has been in the mindset of survival for so long- as long as he can remember, really. He believes its natural for him. Its not, its learned, but it hasn't really had a chance to distinguish himself. He severely underestimates exactly how much prolonged service of his mantra takes from him - but at this point, can he even create another one? It's all that's gotten him to this point (not necessarily true), it's his oldest crutch. When in stressful situations, we do not rise to the occasion nor to our ideals, but rather we fall upon our base training. And anger is at his core.
You can see things slowly loosen themselves around him - the Vox, Mercury (Jesus, everything that happened with Mercury). Stay Strong or Die is unravelling at the seams. What do you do when your basic, core tennate, the thing which kept you from falling, the pillar on which you balance to spin various dishes, wobbles?
Darrow comes crashing down, and for once, anger isn't what leaps forward to catch him. In fact, nothing catches him. Instead, he lays, and is blanketed by tiredness. He stays there awhile.
He's not Strong.
He's not strong.
Hesnotstronghesnotstronghesnotstronghesnot
There are two options. If he's not the first, the second one follows, no?
No.
By pure fucking luck, happenstance, or whatever benevolent God saw the absolute shitstorm that was going on with Darrow, clutched their pearls in shock, and with trepidation waved whatever blessing they could Darrow's way, Darrow does not die when he is not strong.
Because that blessing, what used to come second to him whenever his rage bullied itself into the forefront, stays when his rage leaves just as fast as it came.
Eo. Sevro. Virginia. Electra. Orion. Cassius. Ragnar. Alexandar.
Pax.
His strength leaves him, but it is replaced with something else.
Death begets death begets death.
Love begets love begets love.
Begets strength.
#Red rising#Light spoilers?#Red rising saga#Yes I know I'm projecting and rambling#Sometimes it be like this tho#I relate to characters purely based off of their rage because it is the only emotional response I cannot simply choose to shut off#When it does not suit me#And my personal mantra of Stay Strong or Die fits early Darrow quite well.#Also sidenote#Love the fact that Darrow creates#Or borrows from Path to the Vale#Essentially the Mind's Eye#Seriously tho if we don't get some spin off after this series of the Path to the Vale.
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Writer vs oc
I maaayyyy have gotten a bit carried away with some edits lols I love me a good picrew :3 thank you for the tag @cleric4vampire
picrew here!
Top left to bottom right:
Cassius (he/him), my sweet resist durge. Half high elf berserker barbarian
Violet (they/them/she), my beloved tiefling hexblade warlock Tav!!
Kestrel (she/her), my boss bitch embrace/evil durge and cassius' twin sister. Playing her unsuccessfully in honor mode, so builds vary but currently fighter/storm sorc
Saeth (she/they) currently my only active dnd pc. Disaster bisexual with amnesia, a dead lover, and a beeeggg gun stuck in Barovia. Tiefling-flavored reborn gunslinger
It's ya skrungly boi, Wren (they/them) except my very faded and grown out dye job direly needs a haircut and rebleaching lmao
And finally my Viera Warrior of Light, Usari (she/her)! I kinda hit a wall with my au ra monk Rheaus and haven't played in months, so Usari has been my healer/tank alt. Perf for relearning how to final fantasy again. She's hot and she knows it, I don't dare go anywhere near balmung LMAAOO
Tagging @dragon--sage @autistichalsin and anyone else who'd like to join in on the fun:)
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21 kotlc asks that make you think
an ask game by me! please remember to tag #kotlc discourse if you are arguing against other fans. also, feel free to answer any of these without being asked!
If KotLC was rewritten from a different POV, whose would you want it to be?
Do you think Keefe made the right decision running away at the end of Unlocked? If not, what do you think he should have done?
Which character would you most like to grab lunch with? What do you think you would talk about?
Do you think Lord Cassius is redeemable?
If you could give one character any item, what and whom would it be? (Hard mode: You can't give anyone a gun.)
How do you think more "human" animals, like dogs or horses, fit into the elvin world?
What's your opinion on the elvin economy?
If you could go shopping around Atlantis for a day (and money was no object), what would you buy?
Do you think the elves and gnomes have a mutually beneficial relationship, or is it skewed?
If you could make one character a Councillor, who would it be? Whom would you replace?
Do you think light leaping sounds more fun or frightening?
Why do you think Sophie didn't realize Dex, Fitz, or Keefe had feelings for her?
Do you think Alden and Della were right that Alvar should be given a second chance in Flashback, or do you think Fitz was right that having his memory erased didn't make him innocent?
If you could change just one thing about the elvin world, what would it be?
Who do you think is genuinely the evillest of all the characters?
Who do you think is genuinely the most heroic of all the characters?
Which species do you find the most interesting?
How do you think the Council should have handled the Pyrokinesis deaths, instead of banning the ability?
What do you think is the full education system of the elves (past Foxfire and Exillium)?
How old do you think Councillor Bronte is?
Do you think the Council is evil, or just in over their depth?
#hope u guys enjoy :] u can definitely send these to me too but don't feel obligated. just if you're curious about my answer!!#kotlc#meta#kotlc thoughts with catherine#from the drafts
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Hm. Well, on the bright side. Cassius has gone fully no bullshit mode, it appears. I think some of what you said was received, at least by him.
I can't even be happy about that right now (╥_╥)
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okay, following up with headcanon for the ask game--vesnia has absolutely caught a fish by a) doing the super-quick scoop-out-of-the-water thing and/or b) catching one when it leapt out of the water for a second (that one could be either in her paw or in her mouth asjk;ldf) :) @kerra-and-company
kitty hours !! AND YEAH. ABSOLUTELY. she strikes me specifically as someone who grew up never using fishing poles and she wouldnt TODAY either. this is her fishing style now. also this idea briefly possessed me actually:
"Hey, watch this," Swiftreign broke off from the group, casually wading into the river. Behind her, Cassius sighed as he smiled.
"Bear cat mode?"
"Bear cat mode," she gleefully called back, suddenly buckling down and shoving her mouth into the water. She turned back around, a rather large salmon twitching in her jaws.
"Well," Khozzak could barely hold back their chuckle, "I guess we're fishing for dinner."
#c:Vesnia Swiftreign#thank you so much for the ask !! <3#this made me burst out laughing at work and i've been thinking about it for HOURS now !!! <3 <3 <3#my writing#<- i mean. its in here! kjasdhasuhd
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A set of 3 little things with Cassius, which were supposed to be, like, "how to make backgrounds all ornate-looking and cool-looking" except I kinda lost that by the end (very sad). They still look cool though lol
background only under the cut, cos they, similarly, look pretty cool
#ocs#cassius mode#they were also kinda colour study-ish and they very much so succeeded in that regard i think. i think i know how to do like#relative colour...a little more now........maybe#i'll probably end up doing one of these for other characters someday#they're pretty fun
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this kid walks up to you wdyd
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#SublimationIsWar : guerre après guerre, battle after battle
Donald Trump et Elon Musk étaient les "visages" de la mixtape créative originale Cancel Culture. Les Louvin Brothers, ceux de Satan Is Real (soutenus par le Dr. Victor Frankenstein). Muhammad Ali, aka Cassius Clay, aka The Greatest, personnifie le nouveau mix War Of Sound, le troisième volet de la trilogie de deejay-battles #SublimationIsWar Vs. Serge Coosemans. Sa parution est prévue le 3 juin.
« Tu vois, le jeune, c’est comme ça que les hommes se parlent entre eux » peut-on entendre dans une séquence de transition de The Second Battle, le deuxième volet de la trilogie. Ce sample d’une tirade de la voix française de Clint Eastwood (dans Gran Torino) prend place au moment d’un changement de contrôle. Et ce dans une séquence belge (improvisée) du mix, un morceau méconnu de Front 242 répondant à une perle oubliée de Major Problem, obscur side-project de Lords Of Acid. C’est comme ça que les vieux punks se parlent entre eux.
Auteur (“La Guerre du Son”, “Glossaire du DJ”…), blogueur (Casacosmani), chroniqueur, ancien journaliste (Rif-Raf, Voxer, Focus Vif), lui-même un temps co-animateur de podcasts (Focus Brolcast) et assembleur de mixtapes éclectiques sur Radio Rectangle (Le Grand Remplacement), Coosemans est le Mocker, un artiste de la punchline. Il participe à une nouvelle manche de notre saga Guerres et Paix (2 podcasts et 3 mixtapes). L'effet de surprise est passé mais l'intensité va crescendo.
Une troisième battle un mois après la précédente. La paix n'en finit plus ?
War And Peace (The Battle) n’avait laissé que de bons souvenirs. Sa réalisation, en mode compétitif (pour ceux qui n'auraient pas compris ce qu’est une battle…), fut une expérience divertissante, et le résultat nous semblait plutôt plaisant à écouter. Le mix a reçu de bons échos tant de connaisseurs pointus que d'un petit public de curieux, moins initiés. Coosemans et moi avons des #opinions radicalement différentes sur… à peu près tous les sujets sérieux, en plus d’un historique personnel ultra-houleux, mais placez-nous devant une pile de disques et nous serons souvent sur la même longueur d’onde... Nous nous sommes à nouveau bien amusés durant The Second Battle, la décision d'organiser un troisième round fut donc prise de façon naturelle.
Qui joue quoi dans ces sets ?
The Second Battle a un côté jeu de pistes. J'ouvre le set, puis tous les les changements de contrôle (sauf un) sont subtilement annoncés. Il y a des surprises... Tones On Tail, joué par moi, faisait partie de la pré-sélection de Serge. Je l’ignorais. Killing Joke, choisi par lui, émarge aux classiques incontournables de Sublimation; j'en avais longuement parlé dans les derniers podcasts de la série #SublimationIsBack, The Public Image et Poptones.
Killing Joke, Tones On Tail, Bauhaus, The Dead Kennedys, Gang Of Four, The Human League, Eno... Je crois bien que l'album My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts de David Byrne & Brian Eno est aussi culte à ses yeux qu'aux miens... Ces références, entendues dans les battles, se trouvent à l'intersection de nos goûts musicaux, lesquels sont quelques fois très différents mais souvent complémentaires.
Ces mixtapes contiennent des titres d’artistes beaucoup moins connus.
Chacun amène son univers particulier et ses propres armes sur le champs de bataille... On s'insulte par samples interposés, ce qui est rigolo, mais c'est surtout évidemment sur le choix des morceaux - et de la manière de les amener, de les enchainer (généralement deux par deux) - que la compétition repose. Je dois reconnaître que je ne connaissais pas plusieurs des titres joués par Serge; je pense l'inverse exact. Parfois, de temps en temps, l’un de nous joue même un « tube ».
A quoi s'attendre dans cette troisième battle ?
War Of Sound (The 3rd Battle) comprend des choix audacieux et inattendus, des mashups… On y entend des samples de Muhammad Ali, mais aussi de Klaus Kinski et d’autres intervenants plus surprenants. Il s'agit, de mon avis, comme de celui de mon partenaire/adversaire, du meilleur épisode de la trilogie; le plus profond, le plus cohérent, le plus sérieux, en un sens, même si l'humour y est à nouveau bien présent.
Serge a dit de ce troisième tome sur Twitter qu'il était "plus proche de Heroes que de Lodger" (en référence à la trilogie berlinoise de David Bowie; Heroes, le deuxième opus, étant assurément le meilleur et le plus abouti des trois disques). À vous de juger... Le 3 juin sur Spotify, Deezer et Apple Podcasts.
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Shosh was standing in line at the bar—which normally she didn’t have to do, except that Plasma was absolutely packed with patrons tonight. She was tapping her foot with seeming impatience, but in truth, Shosh wasn’t all that bothered by having to wait; she was happy for Robin, that the place was doing well. And Shosh was just genuinely in a good mood.
Her hair felt heavy and hot after some hard dancing, and Shosh gathered it up in a fist and held it up and off her neck to get some air on her flushed skin. She was bobbing a little, subconsciously, in time with the music, when suddenly a pair of very muscular arms hoisted her up from behind and spun her around. Shosh yelped in surprise, and was about to go into defensive mode when she was set back gently on her feet, and she realized it was just Derek. “Holy fuckin’ hell Derek, you gave me a fright—I was about a second away from kicking you in the nads…” Shosh said, blinking away her dizzy vision.
“Oh, my bad!” Derek replied apologetically, harmless and obtuse as ever. “But hey—what a coinkydink, huh? When I saw you I was just about to grab some drinks for me and…”
In that moment, as Shosh looked over Derek’s shoulder and laid eyes on her former best friend moving their way, time seemed to slow down to a near halt. She could no longer hear Derek’s voice, or even the skull-reverberating music that was blasting from the club’s speakers, over the stuttered thump-thump, thump-thump of her own pulse in her ears. All the color drained from her face (not that Shosh really had that much color to her pale complexion to begin with).
Everyone held their positions for one very tense minute. Say something. Don’t give that prick the satisfaction of the first word—
“Cassius,” Shosh blurted out, curt and abrupt. She sniffed, her spine straightening. “It’s good to see you so…out and about. Not really your scene, if I recall…”
@casshasfangs
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He still feels a bit haunted sometimes by the presence of his Porygon. Error had just... shown up in his boxes one day, his OT listing Xavier even though he’d never caught or been given a Porygon by any means.
Trying to bring it up with Cassius didn’t get him anywhere either, nobody was claiming that they lost a Porygon anywhere. Error was undoubtedly his, but...where had he come from?
The digital pokemon was seemingly in sleep mode sitting by Xavier’s bed, and Xavier wasn’t about to wake them. He just looked on in confusion, but knew he wouldn’t receive any answers either.
#status updates ::#wrench in the machine :: ERROR#we've deemed your identity unnecessary :: glitch verse#not quite but referencing that so#ALSO HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL I DIDN'T MEAN TO START THE YEAR WITH THIS POST BUT IT WAS IN MY HEAD
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I never thought I was going to write a headcanon post about my ocs' butts but here I am, I guess.
I won't be going into every single npc here because there's too many to keep track of and this post will never end if I did that. Cyril's ass is up to your interpretation lmao.
Let's begin!
That little icon is indeed of Ozzie, for a joke drawing I'm not sure I'm going to finish because the perspective and anatomy is way off. I wasn't using any of the 3D models and you can tell.
The Feathertons are renowned for their voluptuous derrières. So much so that poor Cassius had the "ass" in his name emphasized all throughout his time as a student (and occasionally when women are admiring his physique). Ebony doesn't have as much of an ass compared to the other women in her family (she's more top-heavy), but it's still there.
The Abberquacks, on the other hand, aren't as fortunate. They're occasionally called the "Assless-quacks" because they tend to be basically non-existent. Johnny/Nate has a tiny one, but his is probably the most prominent in the bloodline aside from Walter's (who takes more after the Feathertons in that regard). Alroy has no ass, like, at all.
I don't believe it's possible for it to be any flatter. I'm so sorry, Zanna asdfghjkl.
The Crossfeathers have a varying level of ass, by nature of having a lot of children. I can't go into all of them because there's too many of them, but I'll say that Rylund and Lundyn have cute lil rumps.
Still trying to figure out the rest of the Gen 0 body types. The only other one I'm certain about is Penelope, she has an hourglass figure that she flaunts...a lot.
I'm not entirely sure about Franklin—I don't see him having a Featherton booty, but he's definitely not an Assless-Alroy either. He's just...average ass I guess? Bre's in a similar situation, though hers would be more prominent than her father's because of her body type.
If you've seen any of my recent drawings of Kathleen (after I got her body type figured out), you probably know about hers already. Patrick has a lil booty himself, though I'm not always consistent with how I draw him. Vivian is very petite and though she's not as flat as Alroy (no one is as flat as Alroy), she doesn't really take after either of her parents. Her dresses sometimes give her the appearance of having an ass though, which comes with the territory of wearing Victorian-esque clothing.
Damn it, almost forgot Corbin! His physique resembles his mother a lot when he's in Dysphoria Mode and it made him self conscious about his butt. Even though it's not as prominent with the body he feels the most comfortable in, it's still pretty plump and girls make comments about it (which he hates). People might not mean to cause him Dysphoria, but Corbin would prefer if no one talked about it at all.
#{behind the magic} | ooc#headcanons#《 w e l p 》#《 I shame Alroy so much here but I'm not one to talk lmao 》
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