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@summoning-stars
This is my Transcendence AU blog. My current project is to read through every post on the main TAU blog and reblog anything I find interesting. I try to have a pretty comprehensive tagging system here. I might start making more original posts someday, we'll just have to see. Feel free to send asks or tag me in posts.
I'm SummoningStars on ao3.
happy pride
i genuinely think that it's so so valuable to have stories about people that have done horrible things existing. and getting better. and worse. forgiven and resented. seeing their crimes age with them, their weight shifting, shrinking, growing. is it redemption? further corruption? is it just existence?
you lived, now what? is i think one of the more interesting questions we can pose with fiction, and i think it's maybe one of the most powerful vehicles for conveying the notion that there is no point at which you stop being a person. the most unforgivable irreparable harms are caused by people making choices. and we will make bad ones and keep making them. you're not immune. no one you love is immune.
and crucially, we don't necessarily build a better world by defining criterion for forgiveness, redemption, punishment, penance. forgiveness is relational and as much about the person who has been harmed as it is about the culprit. punishment's effect is rarely improvement. societally, our ideas of redemption and penance are firmly rooted in legalistic notions of judgement — whether based on human morals or divine — where personhood and worthiness are contingent on ticking off boxes that we could argue endlessly about redefining and relitigating.
if you move the story out of that frame, though, it's not a story about "making it up." its a story about living. it's a story about making choices. it's about reflecting on the ones you've made. it's about their impact on your relationships, your sense of self. and i think that inherently has value.
you're going to fuck up. you're going to do something bad. you're going to hurt someone. you might be forgiven for it. you might carry it with you forever. you'll always be the person who did that, so long as you live. but you're going to live. you have not become a different category of person condemned to non-existence. you still have choices to make. you get to keep making them. that's the point.
Portal Fantasy, Epilogue
In universe 53’\, three Pines kids have a birthday, and Alcor the Dreambender celebrates with his family for the first time in 1400 years.
Three years working on this fic, I can't believe it's done. Thank you to everyone who stuck it out with me. Transcendence AU is real and will never die <3
realllly fw stories where a normal character gains powers so insane they’re functionally a god. like you feel like the same person you always have been and yet suddenly you could kill millions by accident and it wouldn’t even be hard. you’re feared and admired in equal measure and it’s put you on such a tall pedestal that you’re completely isolated from the rest of the world. you still love the people you had before you became this and you love the people you’ve met since. every relationship you’ll ever have will include a power dynamic uncomfortably in your favor and you’ll live to see everyone you ever meet die. you can’t fix it or change it. you can’t be hurt in the way they can. you can’t age in the way they can. you’ll never be one of them. you used to be one of them.
Made a cover mockup for Reincarnation Blues!! for uhhhh not sure what to do with this. click on this for higher quality!
silly little alcor doodle i did cause i got frustrated with the art im currently working on :3 💖
I visualized the Alcorian Myth Cycle into a fairly readable graph. I imagine this would be used in-universe to discuss mythology and history surrounding Alcor as an entity.
This is really cool. It reminds me of the description in Gauvain's fic Digital Demon:
johannesjohanna: alright so the deal is that as far as anyone can tell alcor goes through phases. when the academics really get going over a pint or two we tend to sort them into categories: Hermit, Evil, Troll, and YFND (Your Friendly Neighbourhood Demon).
I was actually directly referencing this fic, you are correct :) Jo mentions that none of these are academic terms, so I wanted to give them actual academic terms.
I visualized the Alcorian Myth Cycle into a fairly readable graph. I imagine this would be used in-universe to discuss mythology and history surrounding Alcor as an entity.
This is really cool. It reminds me of the description in Gauvain's fic Digital Demon:
johannesjohanna: alright so the deal is that as far as anyone can tell alcor goes through phases. when the academics really get going over a pint or two we tend to sort them into categories: Hermit, Evil, Troll, and YFND (Your Friendly Neighbourhood Demon).
Aspens in September
Sometime my blog will go off hiatus but I really don't know when.
Big Dipper- Natalia Shchipakina; 2019
my own personal take on this (op deactivated or i'd link directly)
How I imagine Keyhole from @biplet’s Portal Fantasy!
I made this a bit ago now but I forgot to post it.
Some changes there are from canon:
The keyhole is now a wound (Biplet’s idea)
He is no longer naked
His pupils are also shaped like keyholes
He has scars from his time in the nightmare dimension
His loincloth is made of human skin, and decorated with keys and bones alike. The charm with blue beads is meant to be a token to signify his alliance with Bill
okay executive decision I’m starting a transcendence au renaissance. a tauissance if you will. everyone needs to get really insane about alcor the dreambender right now
