#spoilery

[uptonogoodart]

Very quick and silly doodle about Jake and Spider (a bit spoilery!)

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[slunkopunk]

Tvor z Otortenu

Dnes jsem zhlédla pár nových naslouchačských fanartů, tak jsem si vzpoměla, že bych mohla nasdílet můj pokus o nakreslení Otortenské zrůdy z před 2 lety.

Pro referenci je vyznačena Ravenova vyška ;))

[ribbondee]

Regarding The Gaslight District, there's the fact that Mel came out of an egg laid by The Angel Mother, and supposedly the Angel Birds come from the same source...

MEL AND THE BIRDIES ARE SIBLIINGS, Y'ALL.

I've also been invested in the idea of Mel having bird-like mannerisms (at least as a baby), such as being able to squawk.

That reminds me of an AU-ish idea I have even tho we only have the pilot, aka what happens when the prophesized human lives for too long and thus is forced to fulfill her destiny... the Angel Of Death.

Bit long, details under the cut! Tw for body horror, death, etc.

It involves Mel gradually undergoing a horrible, painful metamorphosis into a bird-like monstrosity, something resembling a Harpy but a million times worse. Soon Mel is a horrific mass of a mangled, bird-like body, black feathers, and all that's left of her is her hair and her face. She loses control eventually, preferring to feed on Rotlings aka destroying them permanently.

For a time Ken keeps his daughter locked up somewhere in the butcher shop, feeding her random Rotlings from time to time to keep her pacified. But eventually, he knows it has to stop. He takes it upon himself, and, out of both love and guilt, he forces himself to put Mel out of her misery.

Yeah, that's what I got. Dunno if I'll ever make it into a project, but I still think it's a neat concept.

[lilac-den]

How I envision my MC in silver king

[katzungcullen]

OKAY SO THIS POST IS VERY SPOILERY (for wicked: for good) BUT……

The best thing about the whole sex scene was how ready fiyero was to get it on with elphaba. Like the guy’s only been in her home for one minute and he’s already shucking off his jacket, undoing his pants, he’s got his tits out n everything. The man was on a mission and I respect that very much.

[campurri]

[whimsisadie]

a pancake..?

[kimboo-york]

A Short Treatise on Madam Yu

This is all about Madam Yu as represented in my fic The Bastards of Yunmeng, not canon!

Okay, first off, I need to make clear that I am not a Madam Yu respecter. I loathe the character, probably for very personal reasons. If Madam Yu is your babygirl, I’m sorry, this is not the meta for you.

WARNING: If you have not read up through chapter 11 of the fic, this meta is super spoilery!

This meta is not particularly spoilery for The Bastards of Yunmeng past chapter 11, but does have some information about characters that will become important later on. So, the usual warning about spoilers are in place here.

Read at your own risk, yada yada yada…

Importantly, nothing that happens in this story is meant to redeem Madam Yu. My personal headcanon is that she was a narcissist and unable to genuinely, selflessly love other people, and that is how I’ve written her here. She was in a very unhappy situation, but also she was simply not a good person overall, IMHO. It is interesting to consider if she was born that way or corrupted by circumstances, sure, but in the end, she was who she was. You can slap whatever diagnostic labels on her you want, I’m just saying she was toxic. Some people found that out later rather than sooner.

Honestly, I don’t know the specifics of how her affair with Wei Changze (and, very likely, Cangse Sanren) came about. What I DO know, however:

Jiang Fengman is sterile. She figured that out pretty quickly and took steps. This might be her villain origin story, actually; the only reason she was married off to him was to produce heirs, and so she had to do that no matter the risks. That Wei Changze was a cousin of Jiang Fengman’s and a strong cultivator in his own right made him a very attractive option, as any child of his would at least look like a Jiang.

Wei Changze is a complicated character in this story, but he’s also dead and cannot answer for himself. But here are a few important points: a) He did NOT cheat on his beloved wife. Not sure how that all went down, but it was consensual for all involved. I’m pretty sure Yanli was conceived before WCZ and CS officially got together, anyway. How Jiang Cheng happened, I’m not sure, but there was NO cheating. Well, aside from WCZ cuckolding JFM. I know this doesn’t paint Wei Changze in the best light, but what we know of Wei Wuxian is that he sometimes made outrageously dumb decisions with the best of intentions. (Maybe it’s genetic?) Personally I suspect he always disliked Jiang Fengman, though I’m not sure why. b) Also, I believe that when she was younger, before the bitterness and resentment took over, Madam Yu was very good at manipulating people (as many narcissists are). Yunmeng Jiang needed an heir and she was going to get it done. Anyway, I can’t say if Madam Yu seduced both CS and WCZ or convinced CS to share or what, but consent was given.

Madam Yu’s rage against Wei Ying had a lot more to do with her fear that a direct comparison to her son would reveal her secrets than with the rumors that he was JFM’s bastard.

I’m pretty sure that her feelings for Cangse Sanren were obsessive in nature, flipping from love to hate once she realized that CS well and truly had everything that she never would, including both WCZ and freedom. This definitely played into her hatred of WWX.

Why did she keep the letters? Because I’ve written her as a narcissist, and if there is one thing narcissists believe, it is that they are smarter than everyone around them and that rules don’t apply to them. She wanted to keep the letters, so she did. To be fair, they would never have been discovered if not for a freak lightning strike/fire in her quarters while she was away from Lotus Pier. Bad, bad luck.

I did toy with making Jiang Cheng’s father Wen Zhuliu, but I really wanted to bind the children closer together and I think that would have made JC feel isolated and left out instead. (I will maybe someday write the story of him being WZL’s son and inheriting his core-melting abilities, but that’s not this story.)

In Madam Yu’s favor, she offered to submit to her imprisonment and execution without a fight and make no attempts to escape if Jiang Fengman would at least let her children go free. He agreed, which is what led to their being immediately cast out rather than imprisoned. Would he have had them killed, eventually? I honestly don’t think so, but he might have sold them off or something.

Jiang Fengman offered Jinzhu and Yinzhu the option to return to Meishan in disgrace, but they declined and demanded to be executed along with their mistress as a point of pride. Yanli will find this out eventually, but it's not really important to the plot.