from the ashes a fire shall be woken

allison | 28 | a blog full of things that i like and sometimes opinions | history, mythology, classics, space, memes, et cetera | fandoms include star trek, dragon age, a song of ice and fire, star wars, lord of the rings, temeraire | sw blog is chaosintheunknownregions

[lets-steal-an-archive]

[travellingdragon]

The cliffs had fallen away behind them; the Continent was a faint smudge on the horizon. One of the large ships of the blockade—a first-rate, or a second-rate? He should have to ask Laurence—was beating up the Channel on control, working against the wind that was diving beneath them. Only mizzen and mainsails spread, but she was still impressive, and to Temeraire’s surprised delight she fired a salute as their shadows came streaming over the waves and ran up her sails. “Laurence, what is that ship?” he asked. Laurence trained his glass upon her and after a moment said, “My dear, that is the Temeraire, herself.”

League of Dragons, chapter 14

[doctorslippery]

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald returns to Klingon music charts regularly. A holo-program based on the historical event and the song are massively popular.

[wildtornado-o]

Challs <3

[exigencelost]

I have incurable Woman In The Margins Of The Story disorder.

[exigencelost]

She’s dead she’s immortal she’s haunting you she doesn’t care about you she’s muzzled she’s screaming at the top of her lungs she’s unnoticed she’s unforgettable she doesn’t have control over the story she doesn’t have control over her body she doesn’t even have control over her voice. And I’m obsessed with her.

[exigencelost]

This story isn’t about her but there would be no story without her. She’ll never get out of it and she’ll never die.

[unit-1312]

[tanoraqui]

my ideal Galavant revival s3 of course starts with the main cast all being resurrected by some sort of necromantic cult, then traveling the Seven Realms under attack by zombies and monsters to assemble the Super Magical Weapon of Good from its component parts to defeat/rescue Madelena, now a powerful dark sorceress. But MORE IMPORTANTLY, Isabella is pregnant.

Not the whole time. Obviously she goes into labor right before the climactic battle, then fights it with the newborn infant in one arm. Maybe hands it to Galavant for a moment so they have to trade off who's wielding one- vs two-handed.

Her pregnancy is partly played for laughs, because no self-respecting comedy writer is going to skip jokes about cravings, mood swings, the infinite struggles of back pain...

But moreover, Izzy has a compelling character arc about her current and incipient struggle to maintain her sense of self as a (retired) warrior princess versus a mother. She literally can't fight as well while pregnant, and it's arguably irresponsible to throw herself into battle the same way - and that's going to be her whole future? The rest of her life, no longer a svelte young romantic lead but a doting mother or, at best, nagging wife?

Galavant is also having his own anxious pre-parenthood arc, mostly about "oh god I don't want to be a shitty absent father like my dad. he's my only role model! yeah, he turned out okay later, but not when he was raising me!"

These issues collide in Galavant trying really hard to care for Isabella, protect her, help her on and off horses, etc - partly because he's correcting to overprotective and treating her like spun glass (she accuses), but also because he, y'know, loves her and their unborn child, and wants them to be protected, comfortable, and loved…

They are both being dramatic about this all season. It's a driving source of conflict and development...

Then in the final 5-10 minutes of the final episode, it's revealed that this is their third, maybe even fourth kid. Isabella's parents have been babysitting the others during this whole adventure. Galavant and Isabella go through this exact same drama every time Isabella is pregnant. Sid knew this, Gareth didn't (despite the fact that those two had been traveling together for much of the time between seasons). TBD anyone else. At least one person says, "Are you KIDDING me?"

[tanoraqui]

The other main character/plot element of Galavant s3 is that this is the culmination of RIchard's sword-assigned destiny of the One True King to Unite Them All. In the decade(?) since the s2 finale, he's taken up rule of 6 of the Seven Realms:

Valencia (Isabella's parents retired to a beachside cottage next door to her and Galavant, to be full-time grandparents)

The kingdom of those sister-princesses who were cruel to Madelena (mass peasant revolt -> Reign of Terror-esque bloodbath -> Richard & Bobby conquered it for everyone's own good really)

Hortensia (it's technically a Protectorate, or maybe a Regency, because of course they had an 11yo king and 0 army.)

Princess Jubilee's kingdom (sold it to Richard for three crates of beer and a ticket to fantasy!Paris, where she's now kicking ass and partying bisexually)

2 other realms that no one really cares about, they're just, like, peasants and fields, and maybe a castle or two.

HOWEVER in the week that Richard was dead, Valencia, Hortensia, and Jubilee's kingdom all rebelled! Bobby, with Tad Cooper and maybe the obligatory heir & spare she and Richard probably had, are in the former-Reign of Terror kingdom, cut off from the rest of the party!

So, as they travel the kingdoms to get the McGuffin pieces, they're also re-persuading people to accept Richard's rule...while Bobby trails like an episode behind, picking up the pieces of whatever that leaves behind, and dealing with all hte practicalities of rule. She's narratively cast as Competent Wife to Hapless Husband, but she keeps insisting that she's so overworked in this because usually Richard does half the work. To Richard's credit, he is genuinely effective - with other characters' help - at convincing people to re-join his mega-kingdom.

The reason Hortensia rebelled is that little Prince Harry has actually grown into a totally fit & handsome young man who has roused the people to retake their own kingdom. We're going to have to let them be, ultimately, only re-joining in alliance. Jubilee's kingdom has rebelled because she came home and was like was like, "Yo, still mine." Richard gets thrown out of her kingdom; Isabella stays behind and she and Bobby convince Jubilee to join the alliance, too (while Isabella gets help going with her warrior princess/motherhood issue.)

The culmination of all of this of course, is Richard returning at last to the one holdout: his birth kingdom. He will have to participate in a democratic election and be CHOSEN as king...with limited executive power even in emergencies like the obviously ongoing one right now, with all the zombies and monsters. What sort of idiots would give unlimited emergency power to a sole executive on the grounds of said executive declaring an undefined emergency?

Btw Bobby has a Tad Cooper on a leash the whole time, which goes off screen so the mighty dragon is never seen. Sometimes there's a burst of fire from that direction. When she FINALLY catches up with everyone for the season finale, Tad Cooper has a dramatic entrance where he scours a battlefield of monsters with a blast of fire and we finally see him, a grand shot from below, he's haloed by the sun...

He's an iguana on a tall rock, about 5ft up. Cut to everyone standing around and looking down at the iguana. Galavant says, "That's...a full-grown dragon?"

"Yes!" Richard says indignantly. "Yes," Bobby says tiredly.

Tad Cooper breathes fire again [they spend half their entire SFX budget on this moment alone], and everyone leaps back to avoid it. "Alright, that's a full-grown dragon!" Galavant concedes.

[allsonargent]

Lucy Liu as Joan Watson in ELEMENTARY (2012—2019)

[polysucks]

I drew Arya in the Smallwood acorn dress like a year ago and then I forgor about it.

So have Arya in the Smallwood acorn dress doodle

[hockeydiva]

my collection

[weepingmusicmilkshake]

Friends

[plasmapop]

20/04/20 • title is the subject line of an email about middle egyptian classes. italics are ‘quotes from my middle egyptian prof that i happened to write down’ 

[cozy-fish-crow]

i am almost done the Temeraire series (!!!) and i am stuck staring at these two words that sum up a lot of this story

[gleerant]

if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.

[gleerant]

this one took off quickly - are you guys ok

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

WIZARD PSA: Chronomancy might be weird and confusing, but one of the few solid rules of the discipline is keep your promises. Time is a library, and you don't want to meet the librarian.

[voyage-of-the-porn-spreader]

your email has found me on the fucking brink

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

[onlytiktoks]