#glaivemaiden

[glaivemaiden]

okay, i didn't mention Ingrid in my last posts about Welcome to Derry. her insidious bullshit needed its own post, because she is the embodiment of how white women perpetuate white supremacy.

she is married to a violently abusive man who is also a white supremacist, and she uses that to her advantage. the perfect victim (TM). we're left to wonder why Hank Grogan would risk his life for this affair, and (barring the influence of It) the answer is simple: he's got a soft spot for people who are being abused. we see that in how he and Ronnie cover for Matty before he's killed.

she used her situation at home to create a damsel in distress narrative for herself, knowing the man who runs the movie theater is just as enthralled with the fantasy film offers as his daughter. he takes on the role of her knight in shining armor, come to save her.

and as soon as three more kids disappear after being at The Capitol, she goes to the police and turns Hank in, lying about where she saw him that night.

that lie was the first domino to fall in a line that leads straight to Hank escaping the bus to Shawshank and Ingrid setting him up at the Black Spot. she made that call to Clint Bowers, knowing full well what they intended to do to Hank, at the very least, but you can assume she knew it would be more than just him.

all of this bullshit about missing her father is frankly irrelevant. her very willingness to sow chaos the ways she did shows an intimate understanding of how white supremacy works, not just Derry.

Ingrid Kersh is as racist as the men who burned down the Black Spot, because she was happy to set up the deaths of more than a dozen Black people to see a facsimile of her father who would have eaten her right there if she had been afraid of It enough. she shows no remorse when she realizes she was wrong, only anger that she was "tricked" by a monster, while being one herself.

it was also a white woman's lie that killed Emmett Till seven years prior to the events of Welcome to Derry season one. Ingrid Kersh is no better than that woman, and she deserves as much sympathy (none) as far as i'm concerned.

[moonless-if]

hi yes what inspirations have you drawn from to create this beautiful universe? who has been the easiest character to write? the most difficult? if you had to choose one of your own romance paths to follow, who would it be? the world needs to know!

lmaoo so many deep questions 😂 I'll put on my thinking cap!

As for inspiration, it's been mainly ancient Rome/Greece that started off as my inspiration (for Spala, where the first book mainly takes place), but I'm also drawing inspiration from other ancient cultures around the Mediterranean Sea, like Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, etc. I've always had a love for ancient cultures (and media about/inspired by those cultures like Troy, Captive Prince, A Song of Achilles, etc.) so rather than making a more classic middle ages fantasy, I wanted to make one inspired by ancient cultures instead!

I've also been inspired by Swedish/Scandinavian history, but that'll come up more in the "spinoff" story, I think.

When it comes to the moonless race, I don't know if I can pinpoint any certain inspiration, other than like colorful art in general? And bits and pieces of stuff I think is cool/interesting, like cats eyes glowing in the dark, or fantasy races that are larger than humans.

And the mind walking is from numerous horror movies/games like Nightmare on Elm Street where Freddy kills people in their dreams, and also a bit inspired by the Dreamers lore from the Dragon Age games.

The easiest character to write is a pretty even split between Silas and Mal/Malik/Malika! Those two are probably the most "clear" characters in my mind, not a lot has changed about them during my plotting/re-plotting stages, I don't have to think too much to know how they'd react, say or do in a certain scenario.

The most difficult character to write is definitely Rainn. They're the second character I created for the Moonless, but they've changed SO MUCH over time while still at the same time not having changed, if that makes sense? I'm still figuring them out.

I'm pretty much planning on romancing them all myself (just for play-testing purposes) but if I could only choose one romance path I would probably go for Rainn, because I like painn (get it? Rainn/painn 👀 Sorry, my humor is terrible lmao)? Or Rainn&Mal/Malik 👀

[brennacedria]

Yeah, I've got you. 😉 So many people fluctuate that it's hard to catch back up, though.

[dalishious]

my suggestion for fixing the Marethari = Keeper problem (assuming asker is wiling to throw out the previous bit of canon entirely for the retcon) is having Mahariel's father be Second once Merrill joins the Sabrae clan (since she'll need more training). they rarely have third mages in clans, but if it's important to keep his magic, they did send third mages off to protect the clan, and it could just be a matter of rearranging events so he was Marethari's First before Merrill.

@houseofaustrich

[echthr0s]

@glaivemaiden replied to your post “the problem with having only just now seen Rosemary’s Baby is that...”

LISTEN i watch so many horror movies i literally do not get scared anymore. i think what helps me get the... right? experience going into a classic i haven't seen is talking to a friend who saw it for what it was. not the other movies i've seen, but the movie itself. but i did also see a chunk of classics (Wes Craven's filmography, p much, both of the Blobs, Hitchcock after Hitchcock) when i was a kid/teenager.

honestly, I don’t watch horror movies to get scared (I am only afraid of deeply personal things that can’t and wouldn’t be represented in horror movies), I watch them because they’re fun as shit

but older horror movies have just been mined for inspiration in newer horror movies so many times that it’s like watching the same movie over and over again, which dulls the “fun” part

kinda why I like “cult” movies, because that’s where you get the wild ass ideas that no one else dared to do... and also John Carpenter because he is REALLY FUN

also I think the older ones would be more fun if I was younger because I did see The Birds as a child and that shit was great back then (not... not so much now lmao)

[elfyourmother]

what are some activities Khedira and Viv do in their downtime?

they play music together

i have this habit of assuming every time i see any kind of instrument in a character’s space that they know how to play it and this is why i’ve had a hc for ages that vivienne knows how to play the lute

khedira teaches her old rivaini folk songs and vivienne teaches her orlesian ones. viv sings soprano whereas khedira is more an alto and they sound lovely together

they also like to go for long walks and just talk about things. comparing notes about magic, yeah, but they’re also intensely curious about one another and they talk about their lives and the things they’ve seen and experienced. vivienne tries to play coy during these conversations but it never lasts for long, because khedira has a way of making her want to open up.

also ngl sometimes, they just cuddle up with a book and they’re perfectly content to do that (it’s their favorite rainy day thing to do)

[glaivemaiden]

Charlotte Hanlon is hands down the best character on the show. like 10/10 no notes.

[glaivemaiden]

i have to make stuffing, mac and cheese, and lasagna (Italian mac and cheese?) before noon. i made the sauce for the lasagna last night so it shouldn't take long, i just don't want to lmao.