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horizon forbidden west | varl 7/?
#horizon forbidden west#hfw#varl#haven't had a varl pic in a while#which is a TRAVESTY#ilu varl#hfw varl
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DesmondxHytham???
@fanworldbuildingfun and I had this idea where Desmond gets kicked into AC Valhalla’s timeline and he builds his own Brotherhood because he thought the Assassins didn’t exist by this time and it ends with his Brotherhood and Hytham’s bureau having some kind of turf war.
That could be our jumping point with Hytham being both annoyed and impressed by Desmond’s informants and recruits while Desmond is just under the misconception that Hytham might be some kind of proto-Assassin (which he is, the problem is Desmond doesn’t know about the whole Hidden Ones history since that was lost in time, hell, Amunet was only called a ‘proto-Assassin’ and isn’t even remembered as a founder by this point).
So, once Desmond is sure that his Assassins would be okay without him for a while and all of their bureaus are safe at the moment, he goes to Ravensthrope to check the competition.
What does he see?
An overworked lonely man who was nice to everyone and who looked at him with wary at first, only to show a friendly side once Desmond told him that Eivor sent him here (a lie) to help out.
Desmond starts helping out in Ravensthorpe, doing errands and hunting. Sometimes, he’d help bring deliveries from nearby settlements. Other times, he’s working as Randvi’s messenger for any settlement conflicts that arises.
In his free time, he checks up on Hytham.
At first, it was because of his Hidden Blade.
He had seen Eivor’s Hidden Blade and knew that she was wearing it wrong but he had assumed Eivor had gotten it from one of the Proto-Assassins or something.
But Hytham…
Hytham was the one who told him about the Hidden Ones.
About Alamut…
And, now that Desmond thought about it, it made sense that the Assassins didn’t just sprung up out of nowhere. They had to have come from somewhere.
A secret organization stationed mostly in Alamut would make sense, Desmond supposed.
Hell, he had been thinking of going to Alamut himself but that was mostly because there were memory seals in the Temple underneath that he could use to leave messages for Altaïr and maybe even the ‘next’ Desmond Miles.
But this…
This changes… well…
Not much, really.
Desmond has no plan to join the Hidden Ones. He has his own Brotherhood and they’re doing well on their own.
It sucked that they didn’t have Hidden Blades but being an Assassin was never about the Hidden Blade.
It was about the Creed.
And it seemed that the Hidden Ones also had the same Creed.
So…
Desmond stayed.
And he tells himself that he’s staying to learn more about the Hidden Ones.
Hytham stresses that he was not a mentor (“Yet.” Desmond adds, making Hytham chuckle and rub the back of his neck) so he cannot recruit Desmond but Desmond just waves it off, tells Hytham that he’s interested in the history and the traditions of the Hidden Ones.
And Hytham indulges him…
They have tea over it.
One time, Hytham showed him how to perform a leap of faith and it took all of Desmond’s willpower not to be a total showoff like Hytham was.
.
.
And then…
Eivor returned from her latest successful alliance and she sees Desmond in Ravensthorpe.
They talk and Desmond tries to tell her that he’s not here to sabotage Hytham’s bureau or whatever malicious plan Eivor believes he’s capable of.
Hell, the whole turf war between the Brotherhood and the Hidden Ones was started by a very gung-ho recruit and it’s not like Hytham had any other people in his corners other than Eivor and some informants.
It would be like pulling the pigtails of a girl peacefully making her sandcastle.
“I know we both have a list of people that should die and that’s not exactly peaceful, Eivor, I’m making a metaphor!”
But Desmond is good at making people do what he wants so Eivor just sighs and agrees not to say anything… for now.
If she even hears a hint of Desmond planning something nefarious against Hytham, she’d kick him out of Ravensthorpe herself.
And Desmond agrees.
.
.
So Eivor began to observe Desmond.
She tells Randvi that she’s doing it because she wants to make sure she did the right thing sending Desmond back to their home without her (and she wants to smack Desmond on the back of the head for making everyone believed she had invited him).
That’s when she noticed it.
What everyone in Ravensthorpe had noticed before.
Desmond and Hytham…
… were definitely acting more like a couple in the middle of courting one another than actual friends.
And that’s when Randvi told her that…
All of Ravensthorpe agreed not to say anything to either of them because watching them be oblivious to one another was more fun.
And Eivor…
… can’t help but agree to that.
#then sigurd and basim returns#dun dun dun#i mean#maybe?#idk#this ended in a nicer place#but if you want conflict#sigurd and basim are both there XD#i just realized#this might be#the first hytham x desmond i've written#which is a travesty#anyway#ask and answer#assassin's creed#desmond miles#teecup writes/has a plot#fic idea: assassin's creed#hytham#what'll we calling this?#hytdes#deshyt#???
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I've learned not to trust my memory, so I wanted to make a note for myself of some things I enjoyed from the Neptune production of RAGAD before it all leaks out my ears. It's mostly for me but thought I'd post it here in case it's interesting to anyone else.
Note for people that aren't me: this is the only production of RAGAD I've seen live. I've seen the movie and the 2017 NTL recording as of writing this, for reference. So, forgive me if I gush about elements/choices that are common to RAGAD productions and not unique to this one lol. Also I was an English major but not a theatre guy outside some Shakespeare, so also bear with me if I'm lacking some specific terms.
Performances:
I feel like this almost goes without saying but Boyd and Monaghan are excellent as Guildenstern and Rosencrantz. Their chemistry is great. There was an excellent rhythm to their dialogue together that was really fast-paced without feeling artificial (imo there is a certain point where performers talk so fast it can only feel fake. They were all believable enthusiam).
I particularly liked Monaghan's Rosencrantz! like there was just something so earnest about him. He had this character tic of chewing on his finger most of the time out of anxiety or inattention and that stuck out for me for some reason. It was endearing. Also the line "I wanted to make you happy" made the whole theatre let out a wounded animal noise.
Also Boyd's Guildenstern really did a good job of projecting an aura of "person trying really hard to appear in control but may also snap any moment". Control freak recognizing control freak o7
The Player (Michael Blake) was amazing. He had such huge stage presence that you really believed the character was a seasoned performer. I fully believe this man could successfully sell me snake oil with the power of his presence alone.
Personal note but I was jazzed to see Drew Douris-O'Hara as Alfred. I'm not a regular Neptune patron so I don't know how often he appears in their productions, but I have seen many a Shakespeare By The Sea show in my time so he's a very familiar face. Always a really fun presence.
I also feel like I have to mention Ophelia (Helen Belay) even though she obviously doesn't get much to do here. The actress really sold every small appearance though like my heart broke a little every time I saw her in anticipation for her off-stage fate. Less important but have you ever seen a woman so beautiful you started crying?
Costumes:
I really liked Ros and Guil's tattered suits. They looked like they were dragged behind a horse. These are the clothes of two guys that have been trapped in a play for like 50 years, truly.
They also had an inverted colour scheme (Ros had a blue suit with a green waistcoat, Guil had a green suit with blue waistcoat) that really emphasized the two-sides-of-the-same-coin/ yin & yang vibe. Also the colours weren't really shared by the rest of the cast much (they tended to be a bit more muted) so it made them stand out as separate from the rest of what was happening.
Also personal note but I was enchanted by Monaghan's slightly stupid-looking grown-out fauxhawk. He basically had a lesbian mullet haircut. That combined with his single dangly earring was a Look.
The Player's coat was gorgeous. It felt grand but also appropriately dated/worn. It wasn't fully a feather jacket, but it had a smattering of large feathers that got more dense as it went down. It kind of reminded me of a vulture, honestly, which I think is fitting, with him being an opportunist that loves some corpses.
Script:
Misc. Stage Stuff:
Unless I'm really mistaken, I think they cut/modified the few lines with some outdated racial terms (I have two specifically in mind, referring to Chinese and Inuit people). So unless I just somehow missed hearing those, that's nice.
Just a note to say that the line about who the English King is will depend on when they get to England got a huge laugh. Thank you to King Charles' cancer for making everything funnier
The lighting !!! It really did a lot to separate the scenes from Hamlet from the rest of it. The stage was dark for most of it, with cool lighting (like a blue darkness). For the Hamlet portions, though, the lights were suddenly bright and warm yellow. That combined with the differences in the performances gave a strong impression that the curtain had just suddenly risen on a more traditional production of Hamlet right in the middle of Ros and Guil just doing whatever.
I really liked how they used the two risers on wheels they had (not sure if that's the right word -- they were those three-tiered platforms I remember from doing choir in school. Kind of like bleachers). They looked like they belonged on an empty stage and also gave the actors something interesting to climb on. They were able to reposition them pretty easily with the wheels, which really worked for the portions on the boat tbh. They just pushed them together so that the lower tiers touched to create a half-pipe-shaped skeletal "boat". They could climb "above deck", or even go below while still being fully visible from whatever angle. The whole thing was spun around a lot during the pirate attack, which was fun.
The risers also separated the stage really well in the first two acts. For most of it, there was one on the left side facing the audience, for characters to sit on, and one on the right facing backwards and partially obscured by the curtain they had covering that side of the stage. The curtain was backlit, so you could see the silhouettes of anything behind it. At some points, you could actually see shadows of events in Hamlet happening in the background while Ros and Guil were doing their thing in the foreground. Unfortunately I didn't get the best look at them, bc I was sitting at far right of my row, so the far right of the stage was partially out of my sight line. Still a really cool effect!
They did turn the risers fully around to face the back during the players' performance of The Murder of Gonzago, with the curtain pulled across. You saw the shadow of the king standing up and storming out.
For the final scene, they did the expected thing, where Ros and Guil are alone in the dark, illuminated by a single narrow spotlight each. The spotlight goes out when each of them die and they disappear from view. The detail that made me insane though is that each time a spotlight went out, they played the sound of a flipped coin hitting the stage and the audience was so quiet it felt like a gunshot both times.
After all the deaths they had Rosencrantz and Guildenstern start from the opening scene again tossing coins for a bit before the final curtain. They did not escape the narrative 😔
Will add more if anything else comes to mind?
#this felt good to write out#cementing the details in my brain#since alas I cannot follow the show to toronto#and it doesn't look like it's going to get filmed#which is a travesty#beyond lucky to be able to see it at all#things like this never come out my way it's nice lol#reilly.txt#rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead
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Isaac Appreciation Post
Heartstopper is amazing, adorable, and heartwarming. The characters and cast are incredible but, I want to spread love and appreciation for this underrated aroace icon!
Look at him! I can't wait to see him and his growth in the next season. Couldn't ask for a better aroace character.
#heartstopper#heartstopper Issac#isaac heartstopper#isaac henderson#he deserves the entire world#aroace#love this character#he deserves more love#charlie spring#tao Xu#elle heartstopper#i don't knkw her last name#which is a travesty#aromantic#asexual#ace representation
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loki fans mostly write him getting raped or getting tortured and like to write him as weak and pathetic whatever while Thor fans joke around calling him an absolute slut they at least give him some dignity. It's just that Loki stans doesn't care about other aspects as long as Loki is getting fucked. That man dresses from head to toe but Loki stans think otherwise. It is very hard to find a Loki fic where he is not sex maniac or getting raped
i'm not going to disagree with the range of angst people dump on Loki, and i don't think there's anything wrong with exploring those themes, but I do think the disproportionate skew is soooooooo mean
#like okay i don't mind if Loki is weak and pathetic or if the fic is plain noncon or with recovery like that's fine#but very often with Loki people don't seem to *like* the character#that's why there's so much wild stuff with characterization nowhere near canon i think??#just use him as a pincushion#you can dump any trauma on him fr fr#it's not bad on it's own but you look at like. Thor. and you struggle to find noncon fics with Thor at ALL#which is a travesty#Language!#L!#TriggerWarningAndTheSexualKind#TWATSK#i just think they should be treated equally#given equal opportunity to be thrown into trauma#let Thor be weak and pathetic too sometimes :(#even though it's not weak and pathetic to be a victim but yknow what i mean
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also ryan is the number one himbo in my HEART
#cant believe shane didnt put ryan on his list like CMON#ryan wouldnt put himself bc he doesnt consider himself hot and jacked#which is a travesty#sophie speaks
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Listen. LISTEN.
I need you to understand that whenever I read a Genshin Impact modern AU that has Diluc and he is not a bit of a freak fashion-wise, I'm judging the fuck out of your basic existence.
Dude is clearly goth or emo or into the sort of doom/death/black metal that has a special wardrobe or even hilariously visual kei. This is non-negotiable.
We're talking about a character that wears a black wool coat in a place with mild weather. A city where everyone wears soothing colors but he wears black.
A guy that has Special Fighting Clothes in blood red (to go with his hair and make sure people remember him) and accessorizes his flaring coat with chains and a choker.
Don't you dare put this guy in a fucking polo shirt.
#genshin impact#diluc#this here modern AU that I was reading isn't even as bad as usual-- there are some sartorial choices going on they're just not spooky#which is a travesty#other characters always get their style respected :(#and yes I know the rule about reading fic and disagreeing with it-- I'm morally obligated to write my own#well fuck my modern AU WIP gotta stay in the back burner until I finish Masks#(but yes he's an absolute goth in my WIP and I do not cut his hair)
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dadJames !!! dadJames !!! 🥺☺️😁
I am ILL
Dad!James 🥲🥲🥲
The only Dad!James I've written has been when our dude dies 😭😭😭
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a train that is the body of an extremely powerful demon that lulls people into a hyperrealistic dreamstate which they have to kill themselves to awaken from vs a train whose personality is basically what happens when you don't update Windows for a couple hundred years and can be knocked out of commission by one dumb ass dead baby joke. get real
#the only reason mugen isn't winnin is bc ain't none of y'all watched demon slayer#which is a travesty
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fire alarm went off in my building just as i was making my lunch, and we weren’t allowed back in for ages, so have now walked to the programming labs in sliders and trying to complete some of my coursework
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Ok but the things that’s sad is that the original Witchers and the breaking into different factions and the moral dilemmas that caused that are like. Really interesting. And we’re not gonna get that. Instead we have this.
#about me#there’s breadcrumbs of stuff about the origins of witchers in the games#the most info is in the fucking Gwent mobile game#which is a travesty#but god#a show about like ivar evil eye would be so good!!#dude!!#but no.#we get this shit#mannnn
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i rly want a dog but i cant just bcos my mom doesnt want to
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i will fucking finish TMA so help me god
#have been busy listening to ghost so i couldn't listen to tma#which is a travesty#because its so fucking good#aaaaaa
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