resident riddle wizard

cecil - icon by carrotchipper - side blog - he/they - mostly memes but also: comic & animation fan stuff, bandom, movies, art that i love, occasional thousand word literary analyses

[memorycycle]

its always scary to me how you can just do anything like i could spend the last of my money right now to ride a train for 3 hours and then just be stuck out there and walk around until i die of exhaustion

[dogpuppy]

[fujoshane]

when i add ........... to the end of my sentence im leaving room for curiosity. i'm encouraging you to get comfortable with the unknown.......

[orcboxer]

excuse me

[thewitchoftheweast]

[avaricevinegar]

no pants im afraid

[perplexi]

after work cuddle for a busy olly💖

[whatsupspaceman]

okay witch hat gang are we ready to discuss my qifrey DID headcanon (manga spoilers below)

qifrey as a system. lapses in memory from the trauma he doesn’t remember before he was left in the ground and then later lapses from dissociation and splitting. maybe DID first presenting being fuzzy and unclear when one of his alters takes the brunt of the tower of tomes memory with olruggio as kids. caused by qif being unable to bear causing olly to suffer alone so a protector splits off & is the one who ends up taking the task of olly’s promise every time he uncovers their secret. so qif AND olly end up having memory problems surrounding the promise but for quite different reasons.

caretaker qif who fronts/cofronts to cook w olly in kitchen & do more parenting with the girls as qifrey canonically didn’t care for cooking. one who enjoys embodying the mentor role to ease the guilt off the host qif that he feels for taking on the apprentices specifically to help his condition. the caretaker can embody this role fully and doesn’t have that same level of guilt when interacting with their family, and is also the one who most often cares for their little. he embodies the mentor that he needed as a child and takes heavily after beldaruit! veryyy silly and playful. most often seen in witch hat kitchen.

host qif is also playful to an extent but always has an air of sadness and responsibility undercurrenting this that caretaker does not remember. not many people can see the subtle differences between host and caretaker but i bet olly can pick up on them, and probably over time comes to know all of the alters, even if there is a time when qif doesn’t exactly know or share that he has DID.

host is also the most okay at being “social” around not-family. can manage to keep a disarming smile on in conversations just like olly taught them.

protector/prosecutor as the qifrey who comes out to do the “difficult” tasks that he can’t bear thinking about, who is quick with tongue and threat and constantly makes sure the system is prepared with battle spells and fallback plans. the one who is most often drawn with those heavy black brushstrokes in the manga. this alter is lightning fast and not personable, caretaker usually has to come out to prevent the girls from seeing anything unusual during a conflict, or host comes back out to lie and do damage control.

a little in his system who he has to protect very veeery tightly within them because if the little ever fronts they want to run straight to olruggio and seek comfort from him. little is shy and sassy, sees wonder and magic in the world, and these feelings bubble out when qif is around his apprentices, is constantly seeking “freedom” from something unknown but also comfort. unclear if this is the original kid or if there’s another one. doesn’t have a name because none remember their name before the tree situation, and it feels weird to give them one beyond “the kid.” NOT actually the main host when first becoming friends with olruggio, that was a different qif who ended up splitting into others. kid has mostly been hidden as long as any alter remembers.

one note: i am not a system, so if there’s anything i need to correct please let me know— and feel free to add on to the post with your own takes and headcanons as well! i have a lot of thoughts

[dogpuppy]

[viralfrog]

[greengableslover]

THE FALL (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh Costume Design by Eiko Ishioka

[battle-dog]

[commsroom]

more important things than sanitized pagan rituals 🍕 (by @quibbs)

[conquered-gnomes]

I need everyone who’s been simultaneously posting about Project Hail Mary and Iron Lung to go listen to Wolf359. If your current special interest is men being sent to die in space you are gonna LOVE Doug Eiffel

[truelovevip-deactivated20190324]

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

I love "/" I love using multiple different words/synonyms to get a point across in a more confusing/complicated way than is strictly necessary/helpful/legible

[batavias]

Doctor says I got the depression from a lavender bush growing outside my house. Yep. The smell drifting in through open windows in the summer heat made me melancholy. [reacting to everyone's incredulousness and getting defensive and aggressive] I'm telling you that's what he fucking SAID. He said scents can bring about a mournfulness in the soul. No. He said there's nothing to be done about it now

[loveridden1999]

now that the world cup is out of the way can we focus on me instead

[64mpg]

i can’t wait to be saved miraculously and get out of all of my predicaments