#wonderings

[traveledlight]

Flower of Your Day

I've become your every good morning,

the sun that warms the start of your day.

You carry me in your pocket,

and your hand finds its way to me

whenever you have something to say.

We share memories,

pieces of old lives,

and with every story,

I feel something grow inside me.

So what keeps me on your mind?

Am I really the flower of your day?

[deathtodickens]

For the Team never gets old.

The strangulation.

HG fake flirting with coach as a distraction.

Yoinking Myka into the sky.

Walking step-in-step in the gym.

HG yelling at Myka about amino acids.

The ice bath love stare while Claudia nearly dies.

The montage of everyone just embracing their destiny, thinking we can’t see these paraLLELS.

And finally, Myka being so fucking familiar with every square inch of the Warehouse that she knew exactly where to find a box that was exactly the right size to house HG’s grappler.

No other show.

[kezahex]

What do you think the Batfam would do if they found out kids wrote letters to Red Hood like he was Santa, telling him about the abusers in their lives, asking him to make the stepdad/dad/creepy uncle/mom/pimp go away, because Red Hood is the monster that will get rid of the monsters in their lives?

Like, they can make excuses about Justice all they want, but what is their reaction to a letter from a seven year old asking Red Hood to make mommy stop burning them or daddy says it’s our secret but it hurts? Or Uncle got out of jail but he’s still hurting sissy?

Like where does victim welfare fare vs the system to each one?

[ephemeralinstance]

Arlathan timeline stuff

Mulling over some questions about the timeline of events in ancient Arlathan and how that changes the interpretation of some of Solas' memories.

One question is about the lyrium dagger. When Solas criticizes Elgar'nan for seeking godhood, Elgar'nan refers to him as Mythal's 'annoying lapdog.' Which is quite a strange response if you consider that Solas must have fairly recently crafted the weapon which won the war against the Titans; you'd think that would make Elgar'nan realise that Solas is very valuable and should be placated.

So I wonder if Elgar'nan maybe didn't know that Solas was the one who made the dagger, at that point? After all, we only see Solas making it; there's no indication that he was the one to wield it. And given how ashamed he was about it, I doubt that he would be particularly keen for it to be public knowledge. This whole episode makes much more sense to me if we imagine that Mythal pretended she had made the dagger, or that she didn't tell Elgar'nan at this point who had made it. If so, I'm curious about when Elgar'nan and the others found out (perhaps even not until after they had killed Mythal with it?)

Another question is about the beginning of the Titan war. Mythal's conversation with spirit-Solas is interesting because it seems clear that Solas at least does not know at this point that lyrium is the blood of the Titans: he says 'When you took the glowing stone to build your body, did the earth not shake?' which seems to imply that he thinks it's just a stone and he doesn't understand why this resulted in the earth shaking.

This seems important in terms of the overall moral weight of what the elves/spirits did. If they knew, then they deliberately stole the blood of living creatures and then made them all Tranquil when they tried to defend themselves, so they're indubitably the aggressors. But if they didn't know, then in many ways the whole thing seems more like a tragedy of misunderstanding - the spirits/elves took what they thought was just a stone, and the Titans were afraid and tried to destroy the threat, and the elves had to defend themselves, and the elves and Titans probably had no way of efficiently communicating to get past the original misunderstanding (as Harding puts it in one conversation, they were just too different - in size, language, mode of existence etc) so with horrible inevitability, it was always the case that one group would have to finish by wiping out the other.

This conversation also seems to indicate that the Titans must have taken a significant time to respond; they evidently didn't strike back immediately after the first elves took lyrium, since Mythal seems to have had a body for some time at this point and yet Solas doesn't yet know the origin of the danger. This makes me wonder a lot about the Titans' sense of time: maybe being so big, they also process or experience time on a different scale to the elves? Which of course would contribute to the impossibility of reaching mutual understanding.

Though I also wonder if Mythal knows more than she's letting on at this point, and deliberately isn't telling Solas because she knows he wouldn't consent to make a body out of the blood of another creature. Which, if true, would make this conversation even more upsetting; she's pushing him into doing this knowing full well that it would be morally repugnant to him.

I also have a lot of questions about the timescale on which Solas decided to rebel and the amount of time that passed between the death of Mythal and him making the Veil. I guess we'll never know, but anyway, interesting to think about!

[corvids-and-cardinals]

I wonder what the Forbidden Five think about Oni.

[littlemoonbeamlullabies]

He gives his most challenging of battles, to his softest of warriors

[chaoortu]

see sometimes im like yeah role reversal where nick is the one bullied in his year ten is kinda hard to pull of because like a) nick is bigger than shit he could, in theory, punch the fuck out of his bullies and that would be that. but he wouldn't because he's nick. but i think the webcomic is actually setting up something interesting bc it feels like nick has been the butt of these smaller jokes that are starting to slowly stack up that i could definitely see nick in the situation (as I'm want to do...) where if he's neurodivergent, he fully wouldn't realize he's being bullied in the first place and oh that would sting so much worse, wouldn't it?