#this is now a hostage situation
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The Long View of History
The long view of history is a peculiar thing. For those who see history from beside it, the rising and falling of Corobel's great eye blurs together into a comfortable twilit hue. With such a view, it is not days but events with which life is punctuated and portioned.
And so, for the ataila of Etevaasin, these blurry years were like a time before time. They knew peace well; there were no wars, no tyrants, no catastrophes to punctuate those nascent days. They had no use for slaves when the heavens fed them well, they had no use for monuments when their legends never died, and they had no use for division when all was well and all manner of things was well. So they knew the long view of history.
Until the worm came.
On that day, there was great thunder heard throughout Etevaasin, though the sky was clear and bright. Instead, it was the land that thundered as the eld and venerable trees which surrounded the city fell and cracked under its mighty bulk. A pale mass, half-veiled by the dense Laaseran jungle, with a surface as craggy and sheer as a cliff began to slide around the city like a predator encircling its prey.
Etevaasin did not wait. Voices rose and horns were blown. The city's bravest rallied, though these ataila were peace-forged and untested, and were thankful that their trembling was hidden by the growing tremours and their whimpers by the deafening cries of the jungle as it shattered and died. And as those wisest ataila beckoned what citizens they could to safety, the Beast coiled tightly around the city -- not once, not twice, but three times. And when the thundering stopped and all became still, Ohm knotted itself at the highest point of the city like a noose and waited.
It was not the guard that approached Ohm first, nor the elders, but a young atai, still in training. It was mere coincidence: to avoid their tutors' lessons that day they had hidden within the upper terrace's gardens, above which Ohm's massive head now hung. The gardens were quiet. Whether it was curiousity, naivety, or bravery, the young atai stepped out from beneath the fruit tree they had hidden under and approached the First of Worms.
Ohm's massive eye watched them step forward as its many teeth shifted and churned. The young atai balled their hands into fists before they bravely spoke:
"Wh-Who are you? What are you?"
They winced as the great Beast spoke, its voice of tumbling stones coarse and deep.
" π ππ πππ, πππ π ππ ππ¦πππ£πͺ. "
"... And why have you come here? Have you... come to eat us?"
They dug their heels into the soft ground of the garden as Ohm's rumbling and cascading laughter threatened to knock them off their feet.
" πππͺπππ‘π€. π πππ§π ππππ πͺππ π₯ππ π₯ππ€π₯π π π π₯πππ€ ππππ ππ£πππ₯ππͺ πππ π¨ππ€π π₯π ππππ ππ₯ ππππ. ππππ€ πππ₯πͺ, π₯π π , ππ π£ π ππ πππ£π₯πππ ππ₯ ππ ππ₯ππππ€ ππππͺ ππ©π π₯ππ ππππ§π π¦π£π€. "
"So... you have come to rule us? Like a king?"
" ππππ π πΎπ π. βπ π¨ ππ π₯π π₯ππ π π₯πππ£π€. π½πππ, πππ π₯πππ πͺπ π¦π£ ππππππ£π€ π₯πππ₯ π₯πππ€ πππ₯πͺ ππ€ ππ π¨ ππππ, πππ ππ₯π€ πππππ€ ππ£π ππ π¨ ππππ, πππ π₯πππ₯ π₯πππͺ ππ¦π€π₯ πππͺ ππ π¨π π₯ππππ£ ππ£ππ€ πππ πππππ ππππ π£π ππ. πΈππ ππ π πππππ π₯ πππ§π ππ₯... " Ohm's maw spun and its teeth gnashed as it considered the banquet that was Etevaasin, " ... π₯πππ π₯πππ€ πππ₯πͺ πππ πππ ππ₯π€ πππππππ₯πππ₯π€ π€ππππ ππ ππ ππ π£π. ππππ€ πͺπ π¦ π€ππππ ππ ππ π£ ππ π π£ π π€ππππ πππ₯ πͺπ π¦, πππ ππ ππ ππ¦π₯ ππͺ ππ π₯πππ£ π€ππππ π£πππππππ£ πͺπ π¦π£ ππππ. "
"No."
Ohm's vast pupil contracted. It had not considered 'no.' No was a word for it to use, not others. Its maw spun faster as it reeled at this impertinence.
" ... 'βπ '? "
"No. I will tell them what you've told me, but I will not stay with them. If you truly mean to rule Tehwatzin, then I shall be your speaker and help you."
Again, Ohm laughed, and again the young atai stood their ground. What impetuousness! Ohm reared back to swallow them whole, but in that moment it caught something in the way they looked at it. There was a sort of opportunism in their gamble with oblivion, a willingness to risk it all to have it all... a similar hunger that Ohm knew so well.
It paused.
" πΈππ π¨πππ₯ ππππ‘ ππ π¦ππ πͺπ π¦ πππ§π ππ? "
The atai took a breath.
"You are... very large. Large enough that little things will escape you. I can see things that you can't see, and influence things that you can't reach. ... And I'm being trained to become a advisor someday, to aid the judge of my tribe; I know how Tehwatzin works -- surely you can find use for those skills?"
They swallowed hard and waited to see what it would do. There was an oppressive silence in the air as Ohm stared at them while its alien mind worked.
" ... πππ£πͺ π¨πππ. βππ₯π¦π£π π₯π πͺπ π¦π£ π‘ππ π‘ππ πππ π₯πππ π₯πππ π¨πππ₯ π'π§π π₯π ππ πͺπ π¦, π₯πππ π£ππ₯π¦π£π πππ£π. ππ πͺπ π¦ πππ€π‘ππππ€π ππ, π π€ππππ πππ§π π¦π£ πͺπ π¦. "
A sigh of relief and a smile. With an unpracticed bow, the atai turned and fled the garden with all due haste. Ohm watched them leave and in that moment knew that, someday, one would devour the other. Ohm truthfully knew not who it would be, but that was a concern for the long view of history.
The young atai ran to the protectors and judges of Etevaasin with Ohm's words. They spoke its demands with confidence and pride as befits their station, and quietly left as murmurs rippled through the crowd. The assembled ataila were uncertain of what to do; many feared death, but many more feared losing the precious gift of freedom that VelariΓ« gave them. No rational being lets themselves be shackled willingly.
And so, of course, they fought. Valiantly, in fact. And, though those peace-wrought warriors steeled their knees and fought as bravely as they could muster, they lost. The ataila did not lose when their spears did nothing to Ohm's hide, nor did they lose when their arrows did even less, and nor did they lose when one hundred and one of their greatest warriors charged the Beast and were, in one bite, swallowed whole.
No, it was when each atai there, who watched those heroes' charge with bated breath, felt dark fingers slip into their minds and steal away the memories of those warriors' voices, their faces, their lives, that they lost. And in the moments before those heroes' names finally faded away forever, the ataila had laid down their arms and wept, kneeling before their new master and its high priest.
(This is a late Turn 8 action. I intended to publish it on Saturday but had to push it back.)
(Omeara spends 1 to Command Avatar to take control of Etevaasin and the ataila who call it home via Corrupt City, bringing them under Ohm's, and by extension Omeara's, sway. 6 - 1 = 5 power remaining.)
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tfw you, as a mind reader, have to team up with a man who thinks too much
Slight spoilers in tags
#wednesday spoilers#marvel spoilers#your honor they're my emotional support dysfunctional couple#as everyone should know#i love tony stark#hes baby girl (derogatory)#and I also love emma#I feel like they're great foils to each other but I dont want to talk about that#theres so much controversy around their wedding#however#people do not realize how funny their friendship could be#tony βi think a mile a minuteβ stark#Emma βWorst time to be a telepathβ Frost#you could not tell me the shenanigans that would happen if the situation was not so dire.#if it was not life or death#emma would be flooded with Tonys nonsensical ideas against her will#she is being held hostage send help#yes i know emma wont read his mind without consent but also mindreading would be smart now#especially since they're kind of alone in this#I have so many thoughts on them#AND THEY SAID MRS. AND MR. EMMA FROST#Literally called Tony malewife#Also Feilong is terrifying as an Iron Man villain#The Invincible Iron Man (2023)#I know this isnt how Tony looked in the comic but this is how I draw my tony#tony stark#marvel 616#diddlydoo#emma frost#irondiamond
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Prompt:
Titans Tower Au!
Tim is showing a starstruck Bernard around the Tower when the Red Hood breaks in.
Jason doesnβt know what happened, but thereβs a civilian kid charging at him just when he was about to get to the good bit and clip the Replacementβs wings, screaming and crying to stop hurting Robin.
Heβs never been so confused in his whole damn life.
#Jason todd#catapulted out of pit rage by the power of young love#jason these-are-now-my-children Todd#Tim hide-and-do-not-make-a-peep-bernard Drake#bernard i-will-totally-attack-red-hood-with-a-spoon Dowd#bernard ready to die for his bf#Tim is totally NOT on board with that plan#Jason switches for violence to victim comfort in a split second#heβs taking them both back to crime alley#titans tower au#bernard keeps trying to vivisect him#Jason thinks he might come to like the kid#Tim drake terrified this is a hostage situation where his bf is leverage#Jason trying and failing to do damage control#Tim drake#bernard dowd#red hood#Robin#hero worship#batfamily#identity shenanigans#enemy to caretaker#accidental child acquisition#prompts#Timbers#tim x bernard
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Bells Hells didn't know, but it seems they stumbled onto a situation similar to the occupation of France during WWII. The power in place is absolutely not a democracy and controls the agriculture and the production of things for the war effort, and don't hesistate to increase the demand on specific things. Some Reilorans are clearly collaborating. We know some don't. We didn't see it 100%, but my guess is : the majority of the population of this town is indifferent, just doing their daily tasks, like Dono. There is an opposition but the necessity of the secret means the contacts through the opposition network is slow and help will not find its way immediately. The population is at risk if they align with the opposition even in spirit or small gestures (hiding people). The population can and will be used as a litteral meat shield if anything happens.
#i'm remembering that battle with Grog's uncle in CR1 where that bastard used some hostages as shields...#it's a horrible situation and for now (I'm at 3'20'00) BH are honestly handling that not bad !#Orym tried to do non-lethal damage and FCG took half of the damage on himself...#critical role#cr spoilers#cr campaign 3#CR3E84
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I need Joe Keery to give a detailed walk through on the decisions that gave us a scene where Eddie calls out for Steve, he turns around with hopeful puppy dogs eyes but when Eddie says "make him pay" after hesitation, Steve looks disappointed.
Why did he make that face? What was he hoping for? Eddie had been flirting with him, Joseph confirmed. So what was Steve hoping for? Joe Keery I need answers.
#stranger things#steve harrington#eddie munson#steddie#joe keery#answer my question right now this is a hostage situation
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the sos awl development team really looked at rock and said βeven if we could fix him (we canβt) he would never agree to it, carry on kingβ
#and iβm eternally grateful they responded this way#my odd worldview king has every possible brain disease and disorder and heβs perfect just the way he is#cora clownposting content#sos awl#multiple interviews stress that rock was left unchanged because he was always a fucking weirdo and will remain so eternally#i also love that they use the same logic i do. sorry couldnβt redesign him he wouldnβt let us. sorry rock insisted on being drawn this way#what? just change his personality? sorry our hands are tied because he would not fucking say we can rewrite him#explains why his risquΓ© first heart event dialogue was left entirely unchanged in the jp yet maya canβt call him a nanpa anymore#english localization toned it down this time. natume used literal translations and some roughly equivalent english double entendres#sometimes just ignored them#xseed did decide to make him wink when inviting you to be fun-buddies so idk#xseed definitely held a gun to his head for his toned down lines they have Hostage Situation vibes#βhi there platonic buddy pal!!β *winks in morse code to spell the words βSEX NOW??β*#psychic damage posting#bokumono#hm awl#rock (awl)#this was in my drafts when the heck did i write all this#rock tumbling (sos)
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fav Kusuo and Kuusuke dynamic is the saddest one and also basically what we see in canon. Aka two guys who really donβt want to love each other but Do and it is awful and their relationship is awful and they hate each other but Kuusuke built that Time Machine and Kusuo offered to be his playmate instead of his enemy and Kuusuke held himself hostage because if anyone should kill him he wanted it to be his brother and βhas he really changed?β And GAHH.. itβs so bad itβs just terrible Iβm obsessed with them like What are these guys doing in a (mostly) comedy series
#tw suicide#< implied#i have to tag that every time i talk about Kuusukes whole hostage situation thing now#They get into wacky hijinks one chapter and then next time theyβre together itβs all#Can you really kill me kusuo? If Iβm going into this prepared to die can you really stop me?β
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Picked up a first-edition copy of Killing Time and oh my fucking shit you people were not joking about how homosexual it is
#it's got the ''who hurt you?'' trope#it's got the spirk-classic soulmate flavour#and now we're neckdeep in a hostage situation to manipulate one half of the ship#and we're ONLY HALFWAY THROUGH#oh I'm gonna be sick i am chomping through this book at record speed#i was going to say ''i do enjoy the actual plot of the story'' (which i do) but it's looking spirk IS the plot so#R.I.P.#spirk#tos#tos novels#killing time#star trek#star trek tos#spock#james t kirk
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sasuke has been raised to be polite to women and respects people that offer him the same. the only reason he gets snippy with women is when they fucking harass him
Men complaining about women sexually harassing them is almost always treated as a joke in SocietyTM ("u have chicks all over u and ur complaining???")
The thing is Sasuke isn't even complaining or being mean about it. And even though he's surrounded by a cast of girl characters with this personality, he's never made generic remarks that suggest he views the entire female population as love-crazed mindless groupies (unlike *cough cough* shika- *cough*)
He's literally just uninterested, and rejects it mildly without any mysogynistic insults attached either.
#now hes definitely been 'impolite' i mean I GUESS if u wanna call it that#ex sacrificing karin in a hostage situation but thats not mysogyny thats just supposed to show u hes 'off the rockers' and sacrificing#/a comrade/. that has nothing to do with sex based violence etc etc#asks
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if the riddler asks you for directions, does he actually want you to tell him where to go or is this a trick?
#time sensitive question#asking for a friend#and totally not because i'm in that situation right now#maybe this is promo for that show he's doing#at least i hope so#i don't want to be taken hostage again#i have an essay due tomorrow#the riddler#just gotham city things#only in gotham#unreality
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Pitanui - Kirei Kotomine by Kotobukiya
#i ran out of kirei figures. we're posting plushies now.#kireisweep hostage situation#anime figure#figure collecting#fate#fate series#fate grand order#fgo#fate go#fate stay night#kirei kotomine#kotomine kirei#plush#plush mascot#pitanui#kotobukiya
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@febuwhump day 17 - Hostage Situation
Yet again, drawing is A Pain In The Ass, so we aren't doing it. This one is us pulling from a longer work. Don't worry about it.
The cell was bare. Vi clutched the package to her chest, wrapping her claws so tight that they threatened to shred the parchment, until they stopped trying to pry her claws open. She could hear them speak, talk of ransom and money and negotiations, contacting the Queen for her bee back, every conversation inspiring an ever-stronger feeling of dread.
Time was running out.
She could feel the tension build under her skin, day after day - the bars were wood and flimsy, her chains so brittle that her bare bee claws could ruin the finish. The steel collar around her neck chafed, but she knew it wouldn't be enough, knew it like she knew the cycle of the moon.
To be held until her employers paid the bail. To be held until her employers paid the bail. How long before Zoza noticed she was missing? How long before someone knew that her missive'd never been delivered?
Were she a year younger, she'd fear that she'd change any moment. Were she a year younger, then it would be unknown, unpredictable, unplannable - but Vi had spent a year beneath the desert sky now, a year by the lunar calendar of the Grasslands, a year mapping the nights when the transformation came.
The beast always, always, came on the full moon. And she could feel the clock slowly, slowly, running down to nothing.
#whump#my posts#bug fables#writing#febuwhump#febuwhumpday17#febuwhump2024#hostage situation#wereweevil vi#our apologies to anyone who expected quality. we are staring at our screen going βOUGH we don't wanna fucking drawβ#so nothing gets illustrated now
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I agree that bury your gays is a bad trope but I can't say I'm thrilled with how many undead gay romance novels have ended with 'jk they're not dead anymore!' like GEEZ sometimes I just want the tragedy of knowing your lover has to go someday!!!
#and before anyone says 'is it a YA trend' NO the worst offender was an adult gay ghost romance#that one made me so angry I skimmed the rest of the book and skipped the epilogue lol#the best of them has been a zombie YA one because he wasn't dead dead just affected by a parasite and it was gross and had lasting effects#the one I'm reading now is a ghost romance YA and it has a better excuse than the other ghost one at least but I'm still a bit let down#like I GET IT! I know it's a bad trope with roots in the hays code! but also I want sad! you're not killing them because censorship demands#you're doing it to make a story have some teeth#anyway if I'm ever in a hostage situation but have access to my blog I'll type 'Isidore stops being a zombie' and you'll know I'm in troubl
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Reading about Kfir Bibas's first birthday, a baby who has spent a quarter of his life as a hostage, while holding my own red-headed baby boy. My heart hurts. Bring them home! Release the hostages!
#israel#hostages#tw hostage situation#bring them home now#no hate allowed on this post this is literally a baby being held hostage
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Timβs pretty sure Bernard has a concussion. The light is too low to see whether his pupil is dilated, but his speech is slurred, and heβs scared β theyβre all scared β but heβs clinging to Tim in a way he doesnβt, usually, when he knows Tim has to leave. Thereβs minutes, maybe, until the guards come back, and Tim has to be gone if he wants to slip out. He canβt do this in his civvies. Itβs the hope people need, more than just punching a few goons.
βPlease donβt leave me,β Bernard says, again, tugging at Timβs sleeve, and he canβt. He has to hope the promised bombs all over the city is some kind of lie, an exaggeration. These guys are new. Maybe they donβt know Gothamβs history, maybe they donβt know just how many bombs people have put βall over the cityβ in the long, long history of Batmanβs legacy, and every other superhero in every other city, too.
Heβd be more worried if they were at a crappier restaurant. This could easily pass for one of the highlights of Gotham, one of the nicest places in the city. Tim thinks maybe they only hit city hall, the city center, a couple tourist traps, a couple of the glamorous spots. Maybe only places people will be looking, anyway. And he knows thereβs a bomb here, one he can still disable, if they make a mistake and let him at it. So he stays.
βPlease,β Bernard says again, clinging to Timβs shirt and crying, hair rough against his neck where Bernard shakes too hard, muttering words that trail into incoherence and Tim has to hope thatβs only from terror, not from the injury getting worse. He strokes Bernardβs head as gently as he can, trying not to wince every time his fingers hit blood, because if Bernardβs not flinching over it, neither should he.
βIβm not going to leave you, Bear,β Tim says, softly, scooching closer, pulling Bernard practically into his lap, despite the anxious looks of the other diners, the judgmental expressions on a few faces. The city needs him, but Bernard needs him too. Bernard is repeating himself, so Tim repeats himself too, arms wrapped tighter and tighter, not letting go.
#look i said something#my writing#fanfic#batman#timber week 2023#I know this is shorter than the other ones I don't know I could probably put it in a longer thing but it made sense to stop here?#yeah it's another hostage situation I don't know they feel very emotionally fraught to me I don't think canon uses them enough#I'll get to the rest promise I'm just not feeling real confident on my writing right now and it's making me anxious
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