#isagrimorie

[grimorie-dos]

"All roads lead to me."

Rio Vidal as her true self, Death. (reposting from my original gifset as an experiment.)

[evarelis]

[ettadunham]

I just saw the news!!! Congratulations!!!🎈🍾🎉

Thank you!! From what I heard from my apartment in the outskirts of Budapest, there was a hell of a party downtown!

I admit, I am a bit cautious and jaded, but in any case, there's hope for a change at last! (After 16 fucking years, like, Jesus, there were kids voting yesterday who didn't know anything else than this system.)

[alicentsgf]

I stumbled on Silent Six, False Nine and loved it, I love reading how different things would have gone if Jackie lived. And in the middle of reading it found this and I've been enjoying your thoughts on Jackie and soccer. Which is so great because I also found reddit and uh, was a bad idea since from the few posts I've seen people didn't think Jackie was good at soccer. And I was so thrown because not just anyone could be on a team that's undefeated.

Anyway, I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your metas, yj soccer posting and your character analysis! Thank you!

Fully on a mission to get the yellowjackets fandom to understand how the on field dynamics of the team reflect in the show lmao. Half the reason SSFN exists. And that just because Jackie wasn't AS naturally talented as some of the others, that doesn't mean she didn't have her strengths. Personally think Coach Martinez perhaps didn't see the truth of those strengths, and so he didn't value her as much as a player, that would make a lot of sense for a character thats so misunderstood by everyone in her life.

Thanks for letting me know you loved my fic and thoughts on Jackie I love talking about all the allusions to soccer in the story 🫶🏻

[terapsina]

Ask Game: Agatha All Along:

Fandom: 1, 17

Ship: Agatha/Rio (Vidarkness): 7, 10

Character: Agatha OR Rio: 6, 7, or 8

(from this ask game)

Fandom:

1. ...the moment in the story that I started shipping my OTP from this world.

That whole scene where Rio blows in the door at just the most dramatic moment and the following throwdown fight made me pay attention. But this sentence? This sentence was a direct hit to alllllll my weaknesses.

It immediately gave me so much delicious information. Like, despite all that 'I want to see you burn... or hang... or drown' aggression? that this woman clearly was utterly gone for Agatha.

*be still, my beating heart 😍*

17. ...the world-building aspect of the story I have the greatest admiration for.

That SONG. I adore the way they used The Ballad of the Witches' Road in this show in so many ways. The way we kept getting different versions and the way they were so slightly and significantly different based on the purpose behind that particular version.

Like how the Sacred Chant version was all about the community of witches (and the way that hid the trap Agatha had used for centuries).

The way Lorna's version was full of a mother's unconditional love for her daughter and the lengths she'd go to for that love.

The way Nicky and Agatha's version was about their coven of two (and how even while Nicky was alive, the way Agatha had already kinda corrupted it even as her love for her son remained the one true thing about her).

Just. The way the song informed every aspect of the story... it's frankly incredibly impressive.

Ship:

7. ...the scene that I like to point to as proof that they're perfect for each other.

I could probably choose literally ANY of their scenes to make that particular point but I really like this one.

Like. Agatha has been angry and avoiding Rio for centuries. Rio has recently made it clear she wants Agatha dead (though admittedly knowing her nature this is basically at least 70% her wanting Agatha back).

But despite that, as soon as they know they have to do this particular ritual both of them know THEY are going to be the ones exchanging the brooms. They don't need to talk about it, or discuss it, or consider it, it's just... instinctual.

They are just always on the same wavelengths and it's both beautiful and really tragic.

10. ...rate the level of stupid they reach in their pining.

I mean... *murder threats* followed by...

*Agatha trying to claw Rio's face off* followed by...

*Rio painfully reminded Agatha she's never going to get her son back, a day ago* followed by...

*Rio saying she HATES ghosts* followed by...

(obviously not... no, she took a calculated risk on being able to continue irritating Rio for the next eternity).

Also just... we have one case of a dum-dum who fell in love with the literal embodiment of death. And another case of a literal embodiment of death who turned full dum-dum because she met a very pretty witch.

They're SUCH dumb. I love these pining idiots SO MUCH.

Character:

6. ...the scene that I think shows just how awesome they really are.

(I'll answer this one for Rio)

This is really boring of me maybe, but like.... how do you top a badass show-stopping moment like THAT?

Rio Vidal. Full Lady Death, everyone! *cheers and applause* *CHEERS AND APPLAUSE*

7. ...the scene that I think adds depth to their character or the relationship this character has with someone.

(...and this one for Agatha)

This scene just... shows that Billy doesn't just remind Agatha of her son... he reminds her of herself.

At the end of the day Agatha is a survivor, and so is Billy. And that both connects and differentiate them. And I just find that very interesting.

8. ...a headcanon I have about this character.

(...and Rio again)

Rio absolutely lied about being pulled onto the Road by their summoning spell. She's Death, she could have shaken that thing off with the flick of a pinky but was she really going to waste an opportunity that good?

[lovecanbesostrange]

I don't wanna add to an existing AAA post (x), because it's long already and I started to think about a tiny detail, so here it is, mostly for @isagrimorie

I want to know why the MCU Sorcerers have such contempt for witches. The way both Wong and Strange say 'witch' in Dr. Strange 2 was not great.

The general contempt for witches, well, I don't think we have a good sample size overall for that. But I can see a certain rivalry, because magic is so fluid and it can work for people in such different ways. The mythic arts are so vast and not a science to pin down. Even though there is so much overlap (just think about Jane explaining Asgard in science terms). And so we have witches, all down with nature, conjuring, divining, using resources from earth, all in very small communities of a little coven. And there are the sorcerer monks on the other side, more structured, focused on discipline, studying the arcane on a wider plane. And neither can claim to have a grasp on all magic.

Sorceres and witches could be seen like splinter groups of the same religion. Same basis, different interpretations, being at odds. While outsiders just say "sorry, you both believe in the same god use magic" and then everybody is offended, because "no, it's totally different!!!!!".

The contempt for the Scarlet Witch specifically is clear through the Darkhold and what Agatha herself tells us: “The Scarlet Witch is not born, she is forged. She has no coven or need for incantation. Her power exceeds that of the Sorcerer Supreme. It is her destiny to destroy the world.”

We just watched a fabulous show that highlights the power of a coven, finding your people. And the Scarlet Witch isn't even bound by that in her power. She is as powerful alone. And she can make the Sorcerer Supreme look like a little child, because as a reality warper she is not strictly bound by any laws of magic. Yes, Agatha's runes held her, but we've also seen how she learns to escape very sophisticated magical prisons. She can rewrite reality itself in bigger ways than even the sorcerers do; I love the scenery bending stuff in DS1 but while that takes skill, it's a parlor trick in comparison to what Wanda can do. And it's so scary how much of her magic is inside Billy, who shouldn't even exist at all. But he just turned a lie into actual magic.

Personally I would love if the bigger result from AAA would be that the Witches' Road is absolutely real now. I mean, Jen doesn't know, to her it is. Billy formed it all based on his imagination and fed by every single idea they had along the way, all of the impromptu stuff Agatha made up is a thing. And it would be amazing if this still lingers in the fabric of magic, that now if a coven gathers to sing the ballad, it could open again. The Road building itself and reading the ones who enter to form trials. And the funny thing is, tell that to a sorcerer. "Hey, so we have this one witch who made up a total scam, but there was this other witch with almost unlimited power who made this come true and now it's a thing. Write that in one of your sacred books. Don't forget to mention some of the stuff was made real because of the internet." Of course sorcerers would scream about this.

(Remember Derry Girls 2x01 Across the Barricade, when our beloved Catholic girls had their little weekend with Protestant boys? Make that witches and sorcerers. Ghost!Agatha can be Sister Michael.)

[sapphoshands]

Fandom in Review: 1, 2, 11, 15,

1 Favourite fictional characters this year

goddddd agatha my BELOVED. she's a genius she's a mess she's perfectly dressed she's a muddy wet cat she likes knives she sometimes wants to be treated like a BAY BEE. she has three hundred years of history and eight million emotional defenses to explore. i love! her!

rio is also up there for me just because the concept is so wonderful - what does it mean when death falls in love with a human? i am so looking forward to spending more time with rio in upcoming fic!

i took something of a break from thinking incessantly about wheel of time this past year but my excitement for more moiraine and siuan, not to mention more alanna and liandrin and lanfear and MORE, is riding high. 73 days? is that right? omg.

2. Favourite ships this year

not including my yuletide fics which have not revealed yet and which may or may not break this streak, the only ship i wrote about was agatha/rio. as always, i am a complete sucker for relationships with long complicated histories. doesn't get much longer or more complicated than this!!! moiraine/siuan also fall into this category, of course.

11. Biggest squee moments of the year

godddd the entire airing of agatha all along? i LOVED being part of the fandom excitement of that. there's no experience like it! within that: the agatha/rio almost-kiss in ep 4 - hell, the entirety of ep 4 - and also the marvel that was ep 7 were probably my biggest squee moments. and god, just the return of agatha! in such a spectacular way! oh, going to the agatha panel at fanexpo (i actually... called in sick to work for that...) and getting to listen in person to the way kathryn hahn talks about agatha was hugely fun. made up a little for the intense disappointment of NO agatha at SDCC.

also ohhhhhh my god the wheel of time s3 trailer. the collective buidup and joy and experience and analysis of that! AND ALSO the official announcements of shohreh aghdashloo and olivia williams' casting in wot.

ahaha also also getting my weekly production list email and it having agatha s2 on it. yeah that.

15. Favourite f/f ship of the year

iiiiiiii meeeeeeeean do you EVEN need to ask. it continues to be all about agatha/rio. i was thinking about them on the drive back to where i'm staying tonight... that moment when rio says that she watches agatha the way agatha watches everyone else. and of course part of why agatha watches everyone is to learn how not to be hurt by them. but rio just sees what's coming for her and accepts it to be with agatha while at the same time not seeing so much that will blindside her. anyway lots of feelings about them!!! lots!!!!

[wistfulwatcher]

"#(emily and meta are just synonymous tags these days sorry guys)"

Don't apologize! I, for one, *love* your tag metas on Emily! And gahh you're so right about Emily self-regulating and making things harder for herself. But also maybe liking the struggle too.

I don't think Emily was told 'no' but I can see how, in so many ways, Elizabeth Prentiss would have set up a bunch of rules that Emily *must* follow. Emily knows about High Society Rules. And, she can slip into those roles so seamlessly. She can be talking to other politicians and the next night she'd be putting on eyeliner and teasing her hair up to go to a concert that her mother would not approve of, and never know she went to.

hehe, thank you!!

Absolutely, I think Elizabeth was such a foundational piece of why Emily was such a successful spy. Her mother's political career, paired with her own natural (or nurtured, or a bit of both) inclination toward contradiction of anything thrown at her for the struggle of it all, really taught her to live in multiple worlds. And then, having to move around all the time leading to her desire to, and problems with, fitting in...no wonder Emily can become whoever she needs to become when it's required of her 🥺