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˚₊‧ ( 𝓛 ) 𝑾𝑯𝑨𝑻 𝑰𝑺 𝑴𝒀 𝑺𝑯𝑨𝑫𝑶𝑾 , 𝑰𝑭 𝑵𝑶𝑻 𝑨 𝑹𝑰𝑶𝑻 𝑶𝑭 𝑪𝑶𝑳𝑶𝑹𝑺 a private , independent & selective reimagining of madame inna lebedeva a vila and magician from cathyrne m. valente’s deathless. portrayal derived from slavic folklore, fairytales & byliny tchaikovsky's swan lake, and howl's moving castle | as styled by caliope ( 30 , she / her , pst ) | also found at @koschyei

˚₊‧ ꒰ა 𝔟𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔪𝔶 𝔪𝔞𝔤𝔦𝔠 𝔦𝔰 𝔞𝔰 𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔰 𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔯𝔪

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studying . . . the hero villain's fairy godsister, conquests of love & war, the fear of sylphs & enchantresses, the wolf in swan's clothing, vanity as a virtue, color theory within animism, and the alchemy of the feminine soul

𝓲 ˚ info : @chyertsveta 𝓲𝓲 ˚ aes : @roshchavily 𝓲𝓲𝓲 ˚ prompts

#rules under the cut until we get a carrd up !#up. 1/7/26

laperlina

[ sms ]: do you need me to come pick you up?

*⁑. txt talk. 🪞｡˚ * 𓂃 ࣪ ˖ ➷ ❪ @lebedevya ❫

[ ➵ 🦢 ] : yes rodnaya

[ ➵ 🦢 ] : and fast

[ ➵ 🦢 ] : i think your brother is trying to eat me

[ ➵ 🦢 ] : i told him that i think hes very ugly

[ ➵ 🦢 ] : but that only made him worse

[ ➵ 🦢 ] : by the way, you never said he was 198cm

[ ➵ 🦢 ] : AKGKG

[ ➵ 🦢 ] : HES COMING

[ ➵ 🦢 ] : PLSLECALL ME🚨 🚨 🚨

lebedevya

[ ph.Z 🌊🐬🌈 🫧] : tell lurch i'm outside egging his firebird 😡

[ ph.Z 🌊🐬🌈🫧 ] : that should buy you some time

[ ph.Z 🌊🐬🌈🫧 ] : is this tatia's party???? guska never invited me

[ ph.Z 🌊🐬🌈🫧 ] : whatever i bet it sucks anyway

[ ph.Z 🌊🐬🌈🫧 ] : also don't believe a word he says i'd never own a brother that ugly

[ ph.Z 🌊🐬🌈🫧 ] : he's my cousin

[ ph.Z 🌊🐬🌈🫧 ] : even then idk

[ ph.Z 🌊🐬🌈🫧 ] : p sure my aunt picked him up at a carnival or something . . .

[ ph.Z 🌊🐬🌈🫧 ] : be there in 10, my lady !!

#laperlina #˚₊‧꒰ა 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆 . ˚ ( iwwv ) so shows a snowy dove trooping with crows #AKSJDHKAJSHDKAJDH NOSFERATU UGLY AS SHIT

♫ muah

˚₊‧ ꒰ა ꨄ︎ ˚ @rozenov ( 𝒊𝒍𝒚𝒂 ) . . . dynamic playlist ↳ accepting

⋆౨ৎ˚ motive, ariana grande • 'cause i see you tryin' / subliminally tryin' / to see if i'm gon' be the one to sing along / i admit it's exciting / parts of me kinda like it / but before i lead you on / baby, tell me, what's your motive? / what's your motive? / what's your motive? / so tell me, what's your motive? / (what's your motive?) / what's your motive? / what's your motive?

⋆౨ৎ˚ gimme! gimme! gimme!, abba • half past twelve / and i'm watching the late show in my flat / all alone / how i hate to spend the evening on my own / autumn winds / blowing outside the window / as i look around the room / and it makes me so depressed to see the moon / there's not a soul out there / no one to hear my prayer / gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight / won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?

⋆౨ৎ˚ only angel, harry styles • i must admit i thought i'd like to make you mine / as i went about my business through the warning signs / end up meeting in the hallway every single time / and there's nothing we can do about it / told it to her brother and she told it to me / that's she's gonna be an angel / just you wait and see / when it turns out she's a devil in between the sheets / and there's nothing she can do about it / she's an angel / only angel / she's an angel / my only angel

#rozenov #˚₊‧꒰ა 𝓛 ˚ ( study . )#all fun and games ALL FUN AND GAMES #and then #:')))))))

lebed's pending birthchart, if you care !!!

⋆౨ৎ˚ pisces sun: highly intuitive, deeply empathetic and sensitive, a dreamy idealist

⋆౨ৎ˚ libra moon: hates conflict and injustice, craves absolute harmony and balance, moved by color, beauty, and aesthetics

⋆౨ৎ˚ leo rising: walks into a room extremely confident, always best dressed but in a way that has to be dramatic and uniquely expressive. may initially come across as vanity/showing off

⋆౨ৎ˚ gemini mercury: incredibly witty, a social butterfly, can flirt with anyone, debate any topic and match energies as needed. enjoys the diversity of thought, but paired with her libra moon, she will use her wit and charm to make others see things her way for the sake of maintaining peace and diplomacy

⋆౨ৎ˚ sag venus: an optimistic mate-for-life swan girl who knows she has a soulmate out there, but also seeks freedom and fun !! absolutely in no rush to settle down and sees dating to be a playful and adventurous part of life until the perfect fairytale comes; however, with enough heartbreak and blows to the confidence/ego this can cause her to seek partners that aren't suitable for commitment or the vision of her perfect love as a form of evasion/self sabotage.

⋆౨ৎ˚ leo mars: driven to out-perform, highly competitive in her craft (most leo mars folk lean into the arts or athleticism and she's a mix of both as a mage and vila warrior -- or ballet dancer in other verses). it's not enough to succeed, she needs the success to be recognized. her temper flares most when she feels discredited, disrespected, humiliated or ignored; passion is displayed with grand gestures and mood setting, she has high energy and stamina in bed, but all eventually comes back to the venus sag need for playfulness and excitement. she's not one to linger in broodiness or too much seriousness ( which isn't to say she isn't attracted to those types, it's just not the energy she brings at all )

#˚₊‧꒰ა 𝓛 ˚ ( study . )#idc idc this is important character work oKAYY #still subject to change but feeling good about it #and do want to get into a meta at some point about the essence of the vila / magical maiden as a folkloric figure #being both the idolization and ridicule of the unmarried woman #and tying it back to maenads in ancient times muses of the renaissance and glamor icons in the modern age #but that's for another timeee

♫ @tsarmorevna :>

˚₊‧ ꒰ა ꨄ︎ ˚ @tsarmorevna ( 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚𝒂 ) . . . dynamic playlist ↳ accepting

⋆౨ৎ˚ wolf, first aid kit • when i run through the deep dark forest long after this begun / where the sun would set / the trees were dead / and the rivers were none / and i hope for a trace to lead me back home from this place / but there was no sound / there was only me / and my disgrace / wolf-mother where you been? / you look so worn / so thin

⋆౨ৎ˚ holding out for a hero, frou frou • somewhere after midnight / in my wildest fantasy / somewhere just beyond my reach / there's someone reaching back for me / racing on the thunder / rising with the heat / it's gonna take a superman to sweep me off my feet / [ . . . ] i need a hero / i'm holding out for a hero til the end of the night / he's gotta be sure / and he's gotta be soon / and he's gotta be larger than life

⋆౨ৎ˚ de madrugá, rosalía • the cross on my chest calibrates my body / i've got every right to get even / the chains are too heavy / (at dawn, at dawn, at dawn, at dawn) / from looking back so much / (at dawn, at dawn, at dawn, at dawn) / there ain't a gun glock or beretta / which i'll shoot and bring you back / i'm not seeking revenge / revenge is seeking me

#tsarmorevna #˚₊‧꒰ა 𝓛 ˚ ( study . )#ASKJDHAKSJHD HEAR ME OUTTT HEAR ME OUTTTTT #original fairytale vibes !!! we're clearing the spiritual static !!!#and maybe kissing about it #if she can calm down !!! and not be seducted by the devil waving a white flag #especially when there was an angel right there PINING THE WHOLE TIME

mcflymemes

AS SAID BY THE INQUISITOR, PART 1 * assorted dialogue from dragon age inquisition, updated version

what do you mean everyone's dead?

i'm starting to worry about these "stories" that everyone's heard.

i was hoping to steal a moment of your time.

let's do something interesting.

you think i'm responsible.

i don't know what that is, or how it got there.

where are you taking me?

how did i survive the blast?

if you're going to lead me through a demon-infested valley, you'll have to trust me.

at least this is good for something.

that's a nice crossbow you have there.

i'm just trying to get through this alive.

are you calling me a criminal?

i don't remember what happened.

don't talk about me like i'm not here.

now you're asking me what i think?

it was worth saving you, if we could.

i'm assuming you have a plan to get me up there.

what's going on here?

is this another prison?

so you're saying... they're happy with me?

so i'm still a suspect, even after what we just did?

let me guess. you need my help.

what more do you want from me?

five minutes ago you wanted me dead, and now i'm your savior?

what if i refuse?

i just wish i knew what it was.

what harm could there be in powering up something we barely understand?

that didn't take long.

it's a little unsettling.

you don't think that could be an ambush?

i'm told you asked for me.

what happened was horrible.

they want to execute me, and you think i should just walk up to them?

it's good of you to do this.

so far, you're the only one who's insisted we can't work together.

don't let anyone riot while we're gone.

we came here in peace, simply to talk, and this is what you do?

we must unite to stop it!

what's the meaning of this?

was that display supposed to impress me?

haven't you already made up your mind? why ask me now?

there's got to be a way to calm everything down and clean up this mess.

we had to do something.

you think the invitation could be some kind of trap?

that does sound odd, i agree.

do you have proof? it could just be a coincidence.

is this some kind of test?

who's in charge now?

i'm sure we can come to an arrangement.

we'll be careful, but we need to figure out what's going on here.

who are you?

stop talking like you're waiting for applause. just tell me what's going on.

are you the one that sent the note?

i hope that's less dangerous than it sounds.

you're asking me to take a lot on faith.

do you have any suggestions?

we can't just give up. there has to be something we can do.

if my friends can't enter, then i won't go in either.

don't bother. i know you invited me here to kill me.

you wanted me here. why?

blah, blah. "my cult is better than yours." i've heard it a thousand times.

that... doesn't sound good.

what did they do to you?

we have to get out of here.

i promise, i will do everything in my power to set things right.

i've never fought a god before. this should be memorable.

are you sure you want to find out?

it's really me, and i'm definitely not dead.

i should have been here, but we'll set things right.

you look wounded.

i should have been there to help you.

i didn't mean to frighten you.

#and theseeeee!!#done spamming hehe

leneemusing

BLOOD RELATED PROMPTS

requested by my bestie

WORDS:

“ is that your blood? ”

“ woah— hold up you’re bleeding. ”

“ your bandages— you’re bleeding through them. ”

“ shit, i think i pulled my stitches. ”

“ i’ll make them bleed for this. ”

“ a little blood never never hurt anyone. ”

“ why the fuck is there blood on the carpet? ”

“ your nose is bleeding. ”

“ you can make me bleed all you want, i’ll never scream for you. ”

“ you don’t understand, i had to do it. i had to kill them. ”

“ stop fussing— this isn’t my blood. ”

“ i did what was necessary. ”

“ why are you bleeding? what happened? ”

“ who hurt you? why is there blood all over you? ”

“ i think you’ll look quite pretty when you bleed. ”

“ who did you kill? whose blood is that? ”

“ i’m not usually a sadistic sort of person, but i will take pleasure in spilling your blood. ”

“ i don’t actually enjoy killing. it’s messy. the blood gets everywhere. it’s just necessary sometimes. ”

“ it looked kind of beautiful in a fucked up sort of way. blood on snow. the kind of thing you usually only see in stories. ”

“ i can’t get it off— i can still feel it on me! ”

“ just calm down. breathe. i’ll take care of this. ”

“ hold still— you’ve got blood on your face. ”

“ why is there blood on your knife? ”

“ oh, it’s just a little bit of blood. don’t nutsack out. ”

“ i’m going to drain every ounce of your blood. nice and slow. like you deserve. ”

“ i’ll kill anyone who ever makes you bleed again. ”

“ your/their blood is just too pretty to keep inside. ”

“ there’s something fascinating about blood. it’s captivating. ”

“ blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb. ”

“ you made me bleed on my shirt— i fucking loved this shirt! ”

“ leave me alone, it’s shark week and i got blood on my sheets. ”

“ should i be concerned about why there’s blood in the sink? ”

“ do i ask questions or do i just help you clean up all this blood? ”

ACTIONS:

[ ALONE ] for sender to show up on receiver’s doorstep covered in blood.

[ ARRIVE ] for receiver to show up on sender’s doorstep covered in blood.

[ CLEANSE ] for sender to find receiver trying to clean blood off themselves.

[ DISCOVER ] for receiver to find sender trying to clean blood off themselves.

[ AID ] for sender to help receiver clean blood off themselves.

[ ERASE ] for receiver to help sender clean blood off themselves.

[ ESCAPE ] for sender to find receiver after they’ve killed someone.

[ SEEN ] for receiver to find sender after they’ve killed someone.

[ HELP ] for sender to clean up the aftermath of receiver’s crime.

[ ACCEPT ] for receiver to clean up the aftermath of sender’s crime.

[ FOUND ] for sender to discover receiver covered in blood.

[ EXPOSE ] for receiver to discover sender covered in blood.

[ ATTACK ] for sender to stab or shoot receiver.

[ WOUNDED ] for receiver to stab or shoot sender.

[ BROKE ] for sender to punch receiver hard enough their nose bleeds.

[ INJURE ] for receiver to punch sender hard enough their nose bleeds.

[ WITNESS ] for sender to see receiver get hurt enough to bleed.

[ WATCH ] for receiver to see sender get hurt enough to bleed.

[ RETALIATE ] for sender to make receiver’s attacker bleed.

[ DEFEND ] for receiver to make sender’s attacker bleed.

[ SURVIVE ] for sender to realize receiver is bleeding after getting through a fight.

[ FABRIC ] for receiver to realize sender is bleeding after getting through a fight.

#some more of these for lebed tooooo

ohisms

↪ 𝚂𝙴𝙽𝙳 “ ♫ ” 𝙵𝙾𝚁 𝙼𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝙻𝙸𝚂𝚃 𝟹 - 𝟻 𝚂𝙾𝙽𝙶𝚂 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝚃 𝙸 𝙰𝚂𝚂𝙾𝙲𝙸𝙰𝚃𝙴 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷 𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙼𝚄𝚂𝙴𝚂 , * bonus points if receiver specifies lyrics !

#˚₊‧꒰ა 𝓛 ˚ ( prompt . )#TRIED AND TRUE WAY TO GET PLOT JUICES GOING #don't be shy hehehehe #we don't have to be married to anything and you'll be surprised how many non-romantic dynamics i kick off with this too

stars-bean

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

#˚₊‧꒰ა 𝓛 ˚ ( study . )#can’t tell you how big of a vila mood elizabeth is

raven really tried asking if she was single but she just brought her a book instead

was it the works of saphho? can raven read it to her while she makes them tea?

#SHE WOULD HEAR HER LOUD AND CLEAR !!#START SWOONING FR #civi don't play with me like this i need their regency verse so bad

enchantedbook

'The Six Swans', illustration from 'The Candlewick Book of Tales :by P. J. Lynch

#˚₊‧꒰ა 𝓛 ˚ ( study . )#part ii of lebed backstory coming but 🥲#the way the swan trying to untie her makes her look like she has wings too 😭

𐙚 ˚ wee starter call. just to get the ball rolling a bit now that i'm back from hiatus, will keep these very short !! multis specify muse or i'll pull a wildcard <3

#might also pull from old memes !! but idk free-balling is less daunting to me rn for some reason

annabelle--cane

it's rotten work. especially to me especially if it's you. I'll fucking do it but christ alive.

#˚₊‧꒰ა 𝓛 ˚ ( study . )#big fairy godsister mood

dvaurga

❛ you must sit with me tonight at dinner. i must have you close. i want us to be the best of friends. ❜ 🥰

⊹ , a time before grief was inconceivable, the nymph seemingly born into a realm of tears. lady of salt and sorrow; the woe of life had sharpened her teeth and fashioned her vicious. any rounded curve, any smooth span of skin was mere illusion to draw in the guileless. the only kindness she could bestow was that of truth, the vast atrocity of mourning. a reflection of what such profound loss could make of a godling, her hollow heart adorning her every limb. such malevolence could only be spawned by a blossoming love never to meet its fruition. yet she was a tender creature once, the soft scales not yet hardened by the upper ether of atmosphere. that is who arrives at the gates of buyan.

plucked from the water like sunken treasure, arriving on land perfectly preserved into her husband's kingdom of grand fruition. for all its majesty, it was a lonesome land with devils who didn't bear the same marks of peculiarity as she. the swan maiden having seen such discomfort beckons to the soreness of her isolation. there is no meekness to the vila. magicians could bend the will of the world, what could frighten those could alter the story by the loveliness of color alone? yet bound by blood a single red thread that could be held loose or pulled taught at a moment's notice. ❛ friends ? i suppose that is not such an awful thing to be ━ ❜ an arm curls around her own, there would be no permitting of anything. demands here are posed as sugar-laced suggestions and madame lededeva has a tongue of pure confection.

❛ i have seen how the folk here move, is there a bargain to be struck between us ? or is the country life as generous as it is bountiful ? ❜ she moves along the sea of feathers, a cascade of white cresting silver as the two are adjoined as a pair. approaching the banquet as if they had been girls together, having grown into themselves at one others side. one would not believe it was the tsaritsa of water that was casting loyalty into question at that very moment.

🌩️ ₊ a dowry of blood prompts 𓂃 @lebedevya

lebedevya

love in stagnation, with no where to go to ease its swelling — that is grief; and the one who dares past both comfort and cruelty to cut into the abscess — that is a one true friend indeed. there was once a time, before the war and its immeasurable losses, when lebedeva thought the ruslka queen had understood the sanctity of their own arrangement. but it matters not how high the rock she mourns over, or how thick the scale she swims in, water maids like waterways will always find their way into the heart of any matter.

❛❛ ah, that is true. to be confidante to both the tsar and tsaritsa comes with its privileges — so the critics will remind me everyday, ❜❜ inna hums, wiggling her fingers in a dainty wave to a cluster of scholars seated in an odious little corner of the dining hall. they'd all decided they hated her since their academy years, finding it easiest to blame her rapid climb to the cabinet of archmages on cronyism, rather than admit they'd fallen into pedantic obscurity by their own unexpansive contributions to the magical arts. from the way they turned to whisper their conjectures so openly in the face of the queen, it seems they might have already resolved to hate her too.

❛❛ in fact, i think it will cost me a great deal, being your friend. but you will need one all the same, as he did. ❜❜ before he became zoya's husband, before inna had ever called him a blood-brother, ivan had been a schoolmate, though no one in alatyr would have ever guessed at first meeting him that he'd been royalty. sure enough, a boy king raised as an apple farmer had learned much in the ways of life's most primordial mysteries and principles, but ( as the vila had so graciously pointed out ) he lacked the finesse and tact for mitigating the ancient feuds and devilry which so often plagued its royal courts.

it took quite a bit of work to bring his social graces from rudimentary to . . . well, something manageable. at the very least, she could say he now looked the part ( crowning the farthest end of their table, he was a distant sun drenched in reds and golds, a spitfire paragon breaking bread and smiling generously at all who entered the room — his wife most convincingly of all ). to the left of the tsarita's high seat sits the dinner's guest of honor: a stout man, irregularly shaped like a boulder and nearly as stimulating in conversation.

❛❛ prince rogday hails from the country of iron, ❜❜ inna whispers between the delicate lilac flaps of her silk fan. ❛❛ miserable fellow. more so of late, after his father's untimely passing. ❜❜ it is the only morsel of knowledge that their pace of the room allows, yet enough to suggest a heartfelt greeting. with talks of defection to viy's tsardom floating about, inna hoped a consoling word from the new monarch may yet prove a balm to such tensions. as the two women part and inna claims her seat at zoya's right hand, the prince bows his rotund head, offering a curt and irreverently brutish: 'majesty.'

#dvaurga #˚₊‧꒰ა 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆 . ˚ ( deathless ) no one is now what they were before the war #hey so.... that first paragraph you wrote?? CRIMINAL

lebedevya

bton verse incoming but whatever fran and michaela got going on.... yea this one's for the sapphics

lebedevya

#WALK WITH ME HERE !!!!!!!!!#u thought koschei was the rival threat to your pookies??!#the black swan is literally having tea IN YOUR HOUSE ALREADY

bton verse incoming but whatever fran and michaela got going on.... yea this one's for the sapphics

#vitamin string quartet if you can hear me 🧎‍♀️release the rise and fall of a midwest princess IMMEDIATELYYYYY

stars-bean

Porco Rosso | 紅の豚 (1992) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

#˚₊‧꒰ა 𝓛 ˚ ( study . )#madame gina 🤝 madame inna

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