Call me Dilly! I chose this alias on a whim after joining a LiveJournal Roleplay group in 2007 and it's stuck ever since
Born in the 1980’s
British Londoner
They/Them since 2020
Originally this was a fanblog for The Vision of Escaflowne, focusing on Dilandau Albatou and Celena Schezar, but since 2020 it’s evolved into my multifandom art/shitposting space.
I’m an adult and my intended audience is other adults. Minors are welcome to browse my blog but please be aware I'm speaking from the perspective of someone old enough to be your parent. While in real life I make sure to be a good example around minors, on here I'm being my terminally-online-since-1999 self.
If you saw me ❤️ your artwork but not reblog that means I’ve put it into my queue - it delighted me so much I want it to appear on my dashboard a second time.
Caveats/Check if I match your DNI lists:
I don't have my own DNI list. I don't agree with my mutuals on all their opinions and I certainly don't agree with many of my followers either, but as long as you're not actively spouting something that disgusts me I'll live and let live, blocking tags that irritate me as necessary.
Occasionally I post my hot takes under the tag being too serious on main. Feel free to block that tag as you fancy.
Having spent my teen years tormented by social justice drama in the Harry Potter fandom, only to witness Our Liberal Angel JKR topple into the abyss of transphobia, I can't take fandom moral posturing seriously any more. These are my general views on fiction and fandom:
Villains are more fun
I love a story that sets up consequences for an action and then follows through to the bitter end.
If I like a character I'll ship them with anyone who makes for an intriguing/funny/heart-rending dynamic.
And there was only one bed is the best trope cliche
Genderbends are an important genre and one of the few fandom arguments I still need to touch grass over.
My honest opinion on pro-ship/anti-ship is that anyone who looks at the centuries-long and multifaceted debate on the limits of acceptable topics in fiction, one that has as many frameworks as there are cultures in this world, and reduces it to an artificial My Side or Your Side binary choice is internet-poisoned. If you’re one of them I’m begging you to log off, go find some history books in your local library and stop taking advice from anyone in fandom because every single one of us is talking out of our arses. Seriously, the only thing that actually matters is understanding what the laws on censorship that actually affect your life are and how they've altered as the power of various religious/cultural/political/economic forces have waxed and waned and clashed and collaborated through time.
This is a gun we’re talking about. The projectile is fired using an explosion, not by compressed air of a toy gun or the elastic forces of a sling shot. People would be lucky if they only lost their finger.
The finger won’t block it - the shaft is only there for keeping the bullet straight, all the propulsion happens behind the bullet. The bullet would rip through the finger, not that many would actually fit without the victim being a child, and beyond.
Why the dingleknockers would you even consider sticking your finger in the barrel of a loaded gun?? the amount of force propelling the bullet at that close of range would shatter the finger at the very least; this is a petition for 1,000,000 people to loose the use of their hands. If a bullet explodes the back of a persons skull when they shoot it in their mouth it sure as hell will explode a finger.
You guy who think the bullet would stop at the finger have never shot a gun and can volunteer to it their fingers in the barrel of my 9 mil and I’ll I’ll the trigger and see if it will stop the bullet. Dumdasses
These fuckwits are back again? How’s it going, Nine Finger Nasty? About to turn into an Eight Finger Egghead?
@meatswitch @raptorific this is a US based site. US Americans are known for two things- obsession with guns and incredible stupidity. Had this been anyone else, I’d say they’re trying to fuck with us. But with US Americans, about 70% of them are dead serious about mangling their hands trying to stop a bullet.
….Mythbusters WELDED A METAL SPIKE into the barrel of a gun to obstruct it, something heaps stronger than a human finger (and sealed the barrel better with the filler metal used to fuse the metal spike into place and prevent the explosive gases from escaping) but even that didn’t stop the bullet from doing damage.
At this point in time it behooves me to point out that the petition began in 2015 yet here in 2026 we've heard no news of thousands of peoples fingers getting exploded off, let alone an entire million.
still thinking abt this cus she would INSIST. she'd be beaming with delight whilst ciel sits on his horsie with as much dignity as he can muster. the whole time wishing the ground would swallow him. and every time they go round he sees sebastian smiling like the horrible evil bastard he is. ciels personal circle of hell
That devil had better be careful, if he tried to taunt encourage his master to play in Lizzie's earshot he'll end up being dragged onto the carousel too and made to fold up his legs to sit in a teacup/drape over a horse while Ciel snipes every encouragement right back at him.
Fuck me I don't how you lot all out and proud ask people to use your pronouns I nearly died yesterday that was so embarrassing.
At the end of my departments' monthly meeting, after a terse discussion about stock controls, I stuck my stinky little hand up to add one more thing and completely bottled the whole pronouns talk. It ended up something like "I hate doing this, you don't need to understand it or respect the concept just be polite and also don't talk about if it's dumb when I'm at work too. They/Them, I've got a really big obnoxious pronoun badge on as a reminder."
Absolutely atrocious, I don't mind getting attention for the things I do but that felt as embarrassing as if I stopped the meeting to show everyone I've got doublejointed thumbs.
But on the plus side a bunch of people floated over to my desk after to go "I'm going to mess up CORRECT ME IF I DO do not hesitate" which was nice, also had to apologise to our new assistant for throwing a spanner into the works of English grammar after he's barely mastered the language
None of them get it and that's okay, they're a good bunch. Guess I'm officially the office queer now. I did get a fistbump from a patient who saw my pronoun badge and was excited to encounter another of their own kind in the wild
good news guys. i found a falcon nest cam where two wood pigeons come by several times a day trying to build a new nest on top of the falcon nest. the falcon nest with falcon eggs currently inside of it and two parent falcons guarding it
I support the theory that Undertaker is Ciel's grandpa only because that would mean Aunt Francis could very well have inherited a touch of the Reaper ability to snuff out demons despite their disguises. She knows something is off with that butler, but with no context for that intuition she's defaulting to the fact that he's forever smirking and blatantly refuses to properly groom his hair.
sorry i'm back at it... janeway calling tuvok her moral compass... girl that man is NOT a neutral observer that is your defence lawyer. your ride or die best friend. your checks and balances are not checking and balancing.
I’m learning how stop motion works and i have to say, though i know animating with a digital program will let me get what i want at a far better quality, there’s something so fun about producing a little video that’s all scrubby pencil sketches
Endgame Part 1 of the very long fic with a very long name has finally been published, and I can't tell you how happy I am to get that off my working google docs folder after 7 years of it hanging around like a dark cloud. Just the 2nd part left and then the main plot of Those is effectively done! It's 18+, mostly for violence and language reasons. Tread carefully.
Also, actually managing to post it to ao3 from my phone was some kind of torture. Since I post so sporadically (like twice a year maybe?), 30k seems fair in a novella sort of way, but apologies anyway. 😆 It's mad. It'll make sense by the end, I promise.
AO3 linky dink
FFN is very grumpy at the moment, but I'll update it when possible.
Spotify playlist is especially good if you support the Chicago Bulls, probably.
Thanks to everyone who reads it, but especially Jess for being the bestest beta and friend. Any typos or silliness will be my fault through either missing a comment or formatting issues.
Disclaimer and blah under the cut. Spoilers and whatnot.
Laura moans about formatting and the trials of life.
As said, I've been writing this damn endgame thing for about 6 or 7 years on various phones, tablets, and computers, and using different fonts and keyboards, so some of the quotation marks are the wrong type. The straight ones. They should all be curly and whimsy. Does anyone care? No. It's just an annoying formatting issue and formatting isn't a strength of mine. Neither is punctuation, but I've embraced that through basically making up my own way of dealing with long monologues and dialogue generally. My beta, Jess, helped A LOT with everything! ♥️ There are horizontal breaks regularly, which in my mind are 'tea break time and live life opportunities' for any poor soul reading it. Please take every opportunity or you may well go a bit nutty.
Any translations are hopefully correct, but since I'm essentially a monolingual "Where is the bathroom, please?" sort of useful touristy stuff + random insults and slang person, I'd appreciate any corrections. Many thanks to Bleu for the Japanese and French check.
Now, The Temple of Lies is a real place (!) and that's what it really is known as now. It was also called 'Bra Temple' but not so much now. Urban explorers might be aware of it, but there was a big fraud scandal and the site was abandoned in the early 2000s. I changed the location to Gunma Prefecture because they're very cagey about the actual location, since they don't want arseholes visiting it and settling fire to it and just being weird leaving bras and dolls everywhere. So, I initially had trouble finding the location, and by the time I did, I'd already plopped it in Gunma because I have no patience.
One of the main buildings where Light hears noises and sees the figure is sadly no more now due to arson since I wrote this. The insane steps, red lanterns, barbie dolls, and bras are also a feature of this place, and there are videos of it by urban explorers on YouTube, if you're interested in it. It's pretty cool. You can't imagine how excited I was to read about it, because I needed a setting, preferably a real one. Yes, I am that nerdy.
In a way, I'd like to preserve it, because that particular shrine building probably won't be around much longer, it's so delapidated now.
Anyway, disclaimer, Gunma is apparently beautiful (it looks beautiful), and a lot of people visit it. Ignore Light.
I have a lot of photos of the actual site, and as I find them I'll post them here. The building the main action happens in is a lot bigger than it is in real life. Artistic licence all over it, dude, but you can see the basics and get the idea.
Translations, etc.
1st Song: Yo soy aquel - Raphael (should have won Eurovision way back when imo).
Yo soy aquél que cada noche te persigue
Yo soy aquél que, por quererte, ya no vive
(Translation:
I am the one who follows you every night/I am the one who, because he loves you, no longer lives.)
Yo estoy aquí, aquí para decirte
Que, como yo, nadie te amó
(Translation:
I am here, here just to say to you/That no one has ever loved you the way I have.)
2nd Song- Happy Heart - (preferably) Andy Williams (it's so damn happy it's frightening. Also thanks to the Shallow Grave film because using this song it messed me up for life and this is the resulting tribute?)
3rd Song - Les feuilles mortes - Yves Montand
Toi tu m'aimais, et je t'aimais, nous vivions tous les deux ensemble.
(Translation: You loved me/and I loved you/we lived together/just the two of us.)
"Quiero un jamón ibérico de bellota entero con un jamonero para llevar."
(Translation: 'I want a whole acorn-fed Iberian ham with a ham holder to take away.')
"Je suis immunisé contre tes petites magouilles de narcissique, pauvre connard pathétique."
(Translation: "I'm immune to your petty, narcissistic schemes, you pathetic bastard."
Note: "a thrush in a bush is worth two in a paddock" is a nonsense proverb I made up and it's a family favourite.
“L’avenir appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt."
(Translation - "The future belongs to those who get up early.")
Traditional French Proverb.
"Tu es tellement beau à mes yeux je vais devoir te tuer."
(Translation - "You are so beautiful in my eyes, I’m going to have to kill you.")
Gaijin hunter/gaijin hantā/外人ハンター
a Japanese person who targets foreigners for whatever reason.
Gaikokujin aite no danshō / 外国人相手の男娼
Lit. Male prostitute who services foreigners
‘La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas.’
(Translation: 'The devil's greatest trick is convincing you he doesn't exist.')
"Juste ferme ta putain de gueule."
(Translation: "Just shut your fucking mouth.")
Notes
Light vaguely references the Jonestown massacre, and not for the first time.
Ok, so the thing with Those!B is that he's a truthteller but also mad. That's good to keep in mind
The “concrete block” monologue is a critique of British tabloid fear-mongering and true-crime mythologising, with a vague reference to the murder of Lucie Blackman and an extremely abstract reference to serial killer Dennis Nielsen. Of course the media exploited both cases massively, and the monologue is deliberately inaccurate, exaggerated, and rooted in how crime narratives become distorted, so the victims become lost in sensationalism. The result of the media effectively 'choosing' stories to cover is influenced by systemic bias, societal prejudices, and the devaluation of certain lives. B takes it up to 11.
"Ambushed by a cake" is slightly tweaked but based on something said during the Partygate scandal in the UK in January 2022. It was leaked that there was a party in Downing Street in June 2020 during the height of Covid and its strict restrictions, which were enforced by arrests and fines on everyone apart from politicians and other so-called 'elites', apparently. People were very annoyed about it, understandably. An MP defended Boris Johnson (Prime Minister of the UK at the time), saying that Johnson had been “ambushed with a cake” for his birthday, implying that people simply surprised him with a cake and he just happened to be there, it wasn't his fault that they were breaking the rules, etc., blah, blah, political twaddle.
The "Oh, hi Mark" is hopefully recognisable dialogue from Tommy Wiseau's masterpiece which is The Room.
Lots of call backs in this one because the plot demands it and I'm a sucker for a circle back. There's the alleyway scene in Chapter 8 and the signing of Light's candidacy papers for PM scene. Quite a lot of call-backs to chapter 10 and the first arc in particular, but a bit of everything. I'll try to catch them all like Pokémon but sometimes I can't remember which chapter they're from exactly.
Harold Holt was indeed an Australian PM in the late 60s (I'm think 1969 but please don't quote me, and I'm too lazy to check) who disappeared while swimming, assumed drowned, never found his body. My Aussie friends here will know all about it, for sure. 😄
I think that's it? I'll add more if I missed anything. Thank you to anyone who actually read this. It's more a disclaimer-ish sort of thing so I cover references like a thesis. 😭
Welcome to the Fanelian Archives. An Archive focused on The Vision of Escaflowne (天空のエスカフローネ), an anime original series by Shoji Kawamori that aired from April to September 1996 in Japan.
This year is the series 30th anniversary. During that time lot has happened and, noticing that fandom artworks and writings can be lost due to different circumstances, this archiving project was created with the goal of rescuing works from the fires of time.
"The Library of Fanelia" is named after the real Library of Alexandria parallelism. Fanelia was destroyed and its people scattered, the King misplaced and having to fight to regain the right to go back to the remains of the kingdom and work on bringing it all back.
What is the archive about?
The current focus is:
Fanfiction
Artbooks
Magazines
Doujinshis
General Scans
Translations
Essays
Websites
If you want to contribute, send me a message stating:
Type of work
Name of work
Author/Raw provider
Publication year
URL where the work is hosted (website, blog, drive, ao3, etc.)
File download link (in case it's not already hosted)
Send works that you have permission to share. At the time being, Fanart, videos and audio are not allowed.
In case you see your work shared without permission or wrongly credited, let me know. No AI works allowed.
The work on this archive will be slow! A step at a time.
