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theimperialnuisance · 2 years

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FFXIV Write 2022 //ffxivwrite info//prompt list//characters//master post//

Prompt twelve: Miss the boat | Idiom; to lose an opportunity to do something by being slow to act | Word count: 774 Characters: Kien's ancient, Apollo (before he took the seat of Azem), Hermes, Meteion CW: None Notes: At first I thought I'd do a Kien x G'raha story but then the intrusive ancient brain worms said "but what about Kien's ancient Apollo and his unrequited love for Hermes?" SO HERE YA GO XD I’ll probably go back and add more to this at a later date cause I wrote this pretty late last night and I really love this connection—I hope I was able to capture his story well! Endwalker spoilers!

Before I had taken my place in the Convocation, I had been a scholar on Elpis. At first, it didn’t make sense as to why I was there. I was clumsy, hardly any good at creating or overseeing anything except maybe the check in desk at the library in Amaurot. Someone out there must’ve seen potential in me. I suppose they found my journal of drawings of all the different creation ideas I had and places I had hoped to one day visit. I just hope they hadn’t learned about my accidental creation of quite possibly the most hideous and strangely affectionate creature on my first day there.

Even so, I’m glad I was assigned to Elpis. I had a chance to meet Hermes. He was the Chief overseer of Elpis and while his title made him seem intimidating, he was actually quite kind and approachable. He helped me settle in on my responsibilities the first day; he even thought my accidental creation was clever, even if my fellow scholars didn’t agree.

I’m not sure what drew me to him. He was handsome, sure, but also passionate and truly caring about life not just on Elpis but all of Etheirys. I’d often catch him by himself, just gazing at the sky with his beloved creation by his side and though he smiled often, there seemed to be a sadness deep within his heart. Even so, I found myself wanting to know what life was like through his eyes.

I threw myself into my work. Any excuse to be near him. After some time, it seemed my dedication paid off. Hermes approached me and asked me to be his assistant and how elated I was. The days I spent by his side were the best days. We spent hours talking about everything—I learned so many new things not just about Elpis but all of Etheirys. We had become even closer than before and I couldn’t help notice how much more relaxed and happy he was. I found myself falling for him.

I never worked up the courage to say something to him though. I was too afraid of what he’d say, too afraid of rejection. I kept my feelings to myself. Meteion knew though. It was hard to hide anything from her but she was happy to have someone love him just as much. We both wanted his happiness.

The day I left to take the seat of Azem was both the happiest and saddest day. It was a chance to finally go see the world like I had dreamed of but it also meant leaving him and Meteion. Hermes understood of course but Meteion didn’t want me to leave—she gave me a feather as a parting gift to help ease the sadness and made me promise to return every so often to tell her all about the things I saw. I agreed as she hugged me tightly and Hermes thanked me for my hard work and that was it. I resolved to myself I’d never see him again and that my feelings for him would be left unsaid.

I returned from a trip when I learned he had accepted the empty seat of Fandaniel and oh, how happy I was to be near him once again. But, he was different. He seemed sadder, more absorbed in his work than ever before, and worse of all, he told me Meteion became unstable and that in itself seemed to drive him closer to the choices he made as the Final Days approached.

He became enthralled by his own creation. It was too late for him. It was too late for any of us, really. I was opposed to the Convocation’s plan—I stepped down from my seat and defied my colleagues wishes. Before I left though, Venat told me everything that had happened that day on Elpis with him and Meteion.

I don’t know why she did. Mayhap she thought that in my knowing of the truth, it would help me better understand the choices he made, that it might ease the pain and confusion I had been feeling. In a way it did, but I was overwhelmed by my own foolishness of how blind I had been to just how much sadness and longing was locked inside his heart.

You were looking for the meaning of life, Hermes…and I believe I had found the answer that you had been searching for, even if it was just on my end. Life with you was all the more worthwhile.

If only I had told him that. Mayhap, it could have saved him.

–a page from Apollo’s journal

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junaip3r · 10 months

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Good Omens + Parallels

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #gos2spoilers #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #david tennant #michael sheen #my stuff #probably exist so many posts with parallels lol #and of course here are more scenes but i can only add 10 gifs

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hitokiri-izou · 2 months

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How Black Swan led the dance vs how Acheron led the dance. The purple lighting and sea of stars was Black Swan's stage, and the red wasteland and black shadows was Acheron's. The golden lit one is of course what we, the audience, sees

#i saw parallels and blacked out #girl help its fucked up yuri i cant resist #for real i took so many screenshots all the visuals were so good #black swan did try to trespass into acheron's memory so what happened here is her own consequence #and god was it chilling <3 #honkai star rail #acheron #black swan #hsr black swan #acherswan #nanjya.txt

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eight-pointed-star · 2 months

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#fëanor #maedhros #my art #silmarillion #the brainrot continues i'm afraid. yes i'm aware of how much feanor&maedhros stuff i've drawn and written here in the past couple of weeks #i too am horrified. not surprised though #fëanor & maedhros #why so many floral ornaments on their clothes? they're noldor! you might ask. and you would be completely right #i have no idea what i'm doing #i have a very limited fantasy i just copy the ornaments from whatever clothed i find on pinterest and like #i DON'T enjoy thinking ohhh what kind of clothes and ornaments would these characters wear if we take into account their culture and the we #ther (which we know nothing about) their individual personalities their character arcs and symbolism the parallels between them and the oth #r characters. i DON'T care!!!!! and i can't just leave their clothes unadorned. so here we are #i say if the clothes match the characters vibe — great amazing good lovely. if they don't — fantastic splendid beautiful wonderful

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zukkaoru · 3 months

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are we as a fandom ready to talk about the potential for post-canon beast kunichuu. or should i keep waiting

#HEAR ME OUT--#i want to write a fic for them so bad but it would have to be so long to be as good as it is in my head ouygfhhhhhhhh #anyway arguably this is the only beast ship i'm particularly interested in besides ss.kk #like.. just think about it #it could parallel canon universe kndz to some extent.... guys i'm having so many thoughts hElp #hello grace here #bsd beast #kunichuu

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marrfixated · 4 months

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Hi. Priya being adopted by Alejandro and Noah. Bye.

#no reasoning or context here #welll maybe a little 😇#I just think Alejandro and Noah balance each other out in how much work they put into things #Noah is the youngest of many sibling so probably knows something about feeling neglected and that need for independence #Alejandro grew up with a drive for perfection and insecurity when compared to his older brother #I think they’d make her feel loved and never too pressured #also I think they would love for her to go to med school #like yes girl escape the terrible reality tv life #Noah did a lot of reality tv so her could also help talk with her about that #also why did they drop the whole Priya going to med school thing? that was really important to her character #also Alejandro is super athletic and Noah is not so I think it’s good juxtaposition #and Alejandro being really good with people #but Priya not #and he would have a redemption sort of arc #Also Priyemma! because I talked about the parallels before #conflict with strategy and feeling with your teammate #original post #Alenoah #td priya #td Noah #td Alejandro #total drama #total drama 2023 #total drama island #total drama reboot #Noah td #Alejandro td #Priya td #Alenoah and Priya AU #rambling in the tags again teehee

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love-has-a-way-ofgrowingbackward · 11 months

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something about the water metaphor where alex is a funny little rock floating in the sea of henrys love. and the lakehouse lake scene where alex lays his heart and love out for henry and he leaves him alone in the water. waking up in the middle of the night with REALISATIONS today.

#casey did that on fucking purpose ohmygod #the parallels my god #good lord #well fuck #red white and royal blue #rwrb #i just keep discovering details about it #man. there are many metaphors here and there but some overt overarching ones like water henry fire alex run so DEEP in the work

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atlas-five · 16 days

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FINALLY was able to listen to the new ep and a lot happened good lord

I am VERY excited tho, seeing as there's now been a reoccurrence in the presentations (specifically ocean/water-based, "The Deep"). As well as the presence of something similar to the hunt and/or the flesh which is fun (I add the flesh just because cannibalism was more often a flesh thing than a hunt thing 🤷)

#as MANY have said #trying to fit the fears into boxes didn't work in tma and it definitely wont work here #but it's a good parallel or baseline to start from so im going to make comparisons #if only because i find the parallels interesting; even if they arent connected in any way #tmagp spoilers #the magnus protocol #tmagp #ALSO ALICE OH MY LORD #shes so.#yknow???

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junebugdunes · 6 months

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I hope the guilt hits you like a brick

#YOOO WHAT'S UP IM GONNA GO ON A WHOLE RANT IN THE TAGS #FAIR WARNING #i #am so incredibly obsessed with this parallel #ive been wanting to do an art piece for it for a while but #jeez #its the look of absolute and total #betrayal #on both gwen and miles faces that breaks me so much #because they both felt safe with their mentors/parent figures in the midst of total chaos #only to find out that they're not actually listening to them #they dont actually care what they have to say #because heres the thing i know the location thing for peter mightve been an accident #but he could've done so many things better in that situation #he was my favorite character in itsv but man #hes gotta clean up his act in this one #really hope him and miles have a good reunion next movie cause they've got such a good relationship #complicated feelings about captain stacy though...#anyways rant end #spiderverse #itsv #atsv #spiderverse fanart #atsv fanart #miles morales #gwen stacy #peter parker #captain stacy #my art

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discjude · 17 days

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Hi prequel community. If I said that I think the reason why there were only two prequels compared to the three that the other parts of the series got (3 TSY books and 3 TCY books) AND the reasons why Rhian's eye colour changes miraculously from Rise to Fall from green to blue (I think he's described as having green eyes in Rise? someone might have to correlate me on that) is because in Rise he's supposed to parallel TSY Sophie (green eyes, doubtfully good, multiple boyfriends) and then in Fall he's supposed to parallel Japeth (blue eyes, fratricidal, insane, gets cool one liners) how would you react to that

#the brackets make this unreadable im so sorry #but like you've got to hear me out on this right. right.#im cooking something I dont know what it is but its being cooked #the downsides ive spotted here is that I don't know if Rafal goes from TSY Agatha --> TCY Rhian that is a problem #but I might've just not spotted it #there's def some rhian sader in rafal cause of the whole “idc if you're evil and I'm the One (true king) we can still rule together”#and the whole Getting Murdered #I didn't pick up much of Agatha in him in Fall but the Sophie parallel was DEFINITELY there for Rhian #and “the One” being introduced as a parallel to “the One True King” makes way too much sense #this is also a convenient explanation for the wrong eye colours (though that also doesn't apply to Agatha. applies well to TCY twins though #is “cool one liners” solely a japeth trait? no. did he get the best ones? absoLUTELY. “welcome to hell then” okayyyyy go off #submitting this for peer review #there's so many little observations I have about prequels that I don't want to make full posts about #for example how the school masters' colours in the movie are the rise + fall ones #but whatever #sge #tsfgae #school for good and evil #the school for good and evil #fotsge #rotsge #sge prequels #japethposting #if anyone spots any more parallels that I missed pleaaaassseeee tell me I need to build a case file for this #rafal mistral #rhian mistral #oh also this was accidentally inspired by a wisteriaum post so thank you 4 that #MORE TAGS oh my god sorry I just remembered that Rhian gets described as serpentine/snakey a LOT in Fall that's def something

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evenings-at-the-seaofquanta · 8 months

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Neuvillette went from "The judgment of the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale is, by law, the final verdict of the court. We must accept the guilty verdict" to "This sentence is too severe. Forgive me for overruling it".

That's character development at its finest babey!!!

#genshin impact #PLEASE tell me im not the only one who saw the parallel here #this whole cutscene was so good for so many different reasons #gi neuvillette #gi fontaine #evening rambles

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gonersgoners · 3 months

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remember when i said over a year ago that vegapunk's arc would start revealing even more of sanji's power and potential and how hard that was worrying me? yeah

#i'm clearly talking to myself here since this blog is basically a corner of my brain #but last chapter having sanji deflect a light beam and both kizaru and franky reacting the way they did #and zoro commenting in wano you cannot possibly block a laser... lmao....lmao!#ooooh man i just. feel oda is cooking something for sanji. and since there was a parallel with the wings of the pirate king #in recent chapters (where oda typically shows both sanji and zoro fighting and not just one of them)#just... man. man! man. lol #i know i can't let myself go and talk about all things going through my mind anymore because of. lol guilt and fear of being annoying #but god. that moment stirred something in me. like you're resurrecting a fucking corpse #so i am both scared and excited about next chapters and what this means for sanji #i was saying from DAY ONE of this arc being centered about vegapunk that it would eventually #touch on sanji and this is it. this is happening #if this for some reason isn't it. and oda will for some reason just let this slide or die in the shadows? i won't understand it #because of JUDGE and VEGAPUNK and QUEEN being partners and being linked to vegapunk! like come on. the connection is there #and this laser deflecting thing seems to finally touch on this red thread i've been holding with both my fingers like an insane person #so yeah. lol. listening to a video right now about it and finally. FINALLY i see SOMEONE ELSE point out that #not mentioning judge still is giga weird. so here's hoping. here's hoping #also lol it was very fun to be on reddit and look at so many people being MAD that sanji managed to do that. and that we got a little bit o #mr prince vibes. LMAO STAY MAD. my boy is being treated good right now and i can't wait for oda to destroy me #(again) lol #GG rambles

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tsukana · 10 months

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BITCH AND ANOTHER THING. the way david tennant played that last scene when he was like “i was going to say it before you said your whole thing and im still gonna say it anyways (because i owe it to myself)”... bitch broke my fuckin HEART. the voice wavering?? the breaking off to recompose themselves????? fucking EXCUSE me?? and the lead-in into crowley’s speech back because like. the disbelief. the refusal to believe because he knows his angel and he truly, truly cannot believe that aziraphale would say anything but no, but he also knows aziraphale, and must ask. god. heartbreaking.

and lets not fucking forget the first ineffable husbands kiss being like that to THE SLOW BUILDING PEAK OF THE TRAGIC BACKING MUSIC????? HELLO????????

#tsu talks #good omens #go2 #go2 spoilers #im so not okay #GODDDD and the fucking. the tragic parallel of the songs. of literally thematically the whole season calling back to beelzebub and gaberiel'#s song // and here at the end. crowley and aziraphale dont have the nightingales anymore ;-;#aziraphale fully willfully blinding himself but like. idk i cant say its not in character because its so very much in character.#and him fully to the end to the moment that crowley leaves the shop committing to his choice b/c he's gone this far and if he steps back #he would need to admit to too many things being right and him being wrong that he wouldnt want to #good omens spoilers

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askatriangleandastar · 2 years

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Insert “Was anyone gonna tell me [Blank] or was I supposed to just find out from [Blank]” meme here about how DEXTER IS THE HAPPY FELLAH OH MY GOSH

this makes things so damn tragic when you see the notes while this man was spiraling. When we see him in Deadly Smiles he is on that VERGE of a meltdown, past the point of being able to restrain himself from hurting even kids. And even then- EVEN THEN!!!-man is trying to get AWAY from Skid and Pump when he can, to find a fix elsewhere, from ANYONE else if it’s an option, and by majority going at adults!

A willingness to be brought home by Roy at seeing the bullying happening, to go at the homeless guys, the van kidnapper, even the criminals in jail. But time and time again, getting thwarted, being diverted, until the promise of never getting away from these kids and starved makes him SNAP.

I have to rewatch Deadly Smiles and just, take this all in with this new perspective I am REELING.

#Octa Talk #spooky month dexter #spooky month happy fella #I- how did I MISS this I was JUST TALKING ABOUT THEIR PARALLELS ON USE OF THE TERM 'NEEDS' AND VIOLENCE #Seeing the double date of death on the wiki and the notes showing his losing the time of year and getting less and less refined in writing #that note saying he couldn't kill them they're kids over and over until it's just 'I can't I can't I can't' gave me chills #HE NOTICED PUMP'S EYES CHANGING COLOR #ITS DIEGETIC #IM SCREAMING #THAT MEANS OTHERS COULD HAVE SEEN THAT ON BOB TOO #Dexter was not a good person by damn he didn't deserve this route of insanity it sure looks like lila set him up for this from his pov yikes #I kinda hope he's still out there honestly? The establishment of other dolls having been problems might mean there's more to understand here #I have so many questions a a a a a a a AA A A A A A A

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dreiiton · 3 months

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....idk how to say this w/o sounding concerning, but I just wanna say that I'm truly truly Truly glad I've come to know you.

I'm glad I've come to know the 'silly little gay ppl' on my phone, to put it in a silly way (...that sounds dumb now that i tyoe that jdjhxjdj). I'm glad I've come to know such wonderful people who care, in big ways and small ways, who care so much.

I'm glad I've come to know you, to be able to laugh with you, to create with you. I'm glad I've come to know you.

I'm truly glad.

#tbd #the worlds been...not so great as of late #but it has not been so cruel that ppl have stopped caring #ppl are still fighting praying reaching out however they can to help #ppl still care about each other #and i care about you #(nothing personal happened. just trying to put into words the good things.)#(and i could go on for hours abt the good)#as much as i (and many others fjjdxj) may not like tumblr im glad i came here #bcuz i got to meet such wonderful ppl #even if we dont talk a lot. im happy that i get to parallel play w/ you #(damien and the best boy that is gus. crow and their delightfully creepy and strange ocs)#(roach and the wonderful world that is promethea that im delight to see grow)#(tai and their fascination w/ sphinxes that always delights me. mau and mew's always warm and inviting art)#(n and his written work that encaptures me every time i read)#(im truly glad ive come to know you all. i really really am)

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textbasedgameenthusiast · 6 months

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i finally caught up on story quests...

i saw so many spoilers and thought i knew what was gonna happen, but NONE OF YALL MENTIONED THE PLOT TWIST WAS THAT AL FONTAINIANS ARE OCEANIDS WTF

oh my god when i say my pre-modern day lore obsessed brain started whirring like a broken ceiling fan at the implications

also THE BIG FUCKING SHIP OH MY GOD THE BIG FUCKING SHIP WAS SO COOL I LOVE YOU HOYO I LOVE YOU HOYO I LOVE YOU HOYO

#spoilers #i have forgiven hoyo for everything because of BIG FUCKING SHIP #also it's really funny that wrio has 2 ships he's really into (the actual ship and the two inventors who worked on it)#also oh my god the story #the dialogue writing is still bad but oh my god i was so into the story i kept playing without using autoplay so i could read #i havent been this into a major quest since zhongli's quest where you go into the spooky domain of the dead salt god #also i have so many thoughts about furina posts i read before now and i know the most obsessed of yall dont get her at all smh #also i read a really good fic this morning and now i have so many neuvifuri parallel and identity thoughts now #also: people who insist the tag should be foca//llette are fake furina fans bc she spent so long pretending to be her and now shes free #and yall are out here STILL insisting she should use that name for her ships smh #focalors the oceanid was not the same person as focalors the god #focalors the oceanid turned god (aka focalors 1) split herself into a god and a human #the god decided to take on the name focalors as well (aka focalors 2) and the human became furina #furina had to pretend to be focalors 1 NOT focalors 2 bc nobody even knew focalors 2 existed #has inuyasha identity philosophy taught yall nothing

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