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because i fell in love with this maker have a morrigan!

Mors’ son that he threw into another world so that when the time was right he could come back and revive the LC line.

Expect that doesn’t work because he gets dragged back far earlier than planned and winds up in the Crystal chamber with Regis when six years before shit hits the fan and Insomnia falls.

(Regis takes one look at Morrigan, one look at this man bursting with rose gold magic and knows.

Brother, Regis thinks staring into defensive eyes that match those of their father, Brother, Regis thinks again and this time the thought is fierce. His brother is so much younger than him, Regis thinks, his brother cannot be older than thirty and Regis feels a fierce protectiveness toward his newfound sibling.

Morrigan eyes the man in front of him. Morrigan eyes the man in front of him and ignores how something in the air between them seems to sing of family.)

sparklecryptid

Morrigan is a pretty, pretty OC! Whose expression is - decidedly ambiguous, in the very best of ways. And I like Regis’s attitude towards this new family member!

…Regis will also find it. Ironically appropriate that Morrigan’s name starts ‘Mor’. And that his nickname is probably ‘Mor’. 

(…why do I see Cor assigned to Morrigan’s guard, and Cor just. Feeling that he’s come full circle, guarding ‘Mor’ again…)
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“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

- Sun Tzu (via machiavellianminds)
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sparklecryptid:

because i fell in love with this maker have a morrigan!

Mors’ son that he threw into another world so that when the time was right he could come back and revive the LC line.

Expect that doesn’t work because he gets dragged back far earlier than planned and winds up in the Crystal chamber with Regis when six years before shit hits the fan and Insomnia falls.

(Regis takes one look at Morrigan, one look at this man bursting with rose gold magic and knows.

Brother, Regis thinks staring into defensive eyes that match those of their father, Brother, Regis thinks again and this time the thought is fierce. His brother is so much younger than him, Regis thinks, his brother cannot be older than thirty and Regis feels a fierce protectiveness toward his newfound sibling.

Morrigan eyes the man in front of him. Morrigan eyes the man in front of him and ignores how something in the air between them seems to sing of family.)

sparklecryptid

Morrigan is a pretty, pretty OC! Whose expression is - decidedly ambiguous, in the very best of ways. And I like Regis’s attitude towards this new family member!

…Regis will also find it. Ironically appropriate that Morrigan’s name starts ‘Mor’. And that his nickname is probably ‘Mor’. 

(…why do I see Cor assigned to Morrigan’s guard, and Cor just. Feeling that he’s come full circle, guarding ‘Mor’ again…)

hamelin_born 

thank you! i do have a soft spot for pretty boys don’t i? *snickers* and Regis is just- an emotion right now. because he can feel the untrained magic teeming underneath Morrigan’s skin and so close to bursting that Regis is genuinely worried about his brother. His brother who has had no training with his magic, his brother who, as Regis later finds out much to his and Morrigan’s shock, had his magic mostly sealed away and that the fact the seal broke is why Morrigan got thrown back onto Eos so soon.

Regis: ….*cursing his father softly*

Morrigan: *pats him awkwardly* there there. I can’t change my name Regis.

Regis: I don’t want you to just- our father was a vain bastard.

Morrigan: Yeah, I kinda got that from the whispers in the court.

ALSO i love that idea. I love the idea of Cor being assigned to be Morrigan’s guard because Regis trusts him. Regis trusts Cor with his own life and that of his newfound brother. And there is a sense of deja vu with that I believe, but also, I feel like the more that Cor and Morrigan hang around each other and get to know each other the more that Cor realizes that Morrigan-

Couldn’t be more unlike Mors if he tried. Morrigan is kind to a fault, lacking the cruelty of kings even though his wit is just as sharp. Morrigan is the type of person who seems unimpressed with everyone and everything but cares too much and expects too little in return.

Cor likes him even. He doesn’t expect to but he does.

#my brain just wants me to toss nyx in there and make it a threesome now whoops#nyx voice: who is this royal thats- what HES FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHTS WHAT#and lo; morrigan winds up with a pack of guard glaives because he actually gives a damn about them#tomorrow and tomorrow verse

sparklecryptid

Woot! Threesome for the win!

Oooh, was there a signifying event that led to the breaking of the seals on Morrigan’s magic?  A - triggering, final event, I mean? Something traumatic, an Astral interfering, or just Mors plain miscalculating how long it would take for said seal to erode? 

Wait, do Regis and Morrigan share both their parents? Or just Mors? 

Morrigan, ‘Mor’ is just. So unimpressed that his biological father named him after himself, more or less. Then again, he has literally no memory of the man - and besides, this is his name. He’s not going to go around changing his name just because some people find the name/associations disconcerting. Speaking of, what’s Morrigan’s reaction to  - all the things he learns about Mors? What’s his reaction to learning that he’s magical royalty? ‘

Morrigan: I like my name. It means ‘phantom queen’, or ‘great queen’. 

Cor probably just. Stares at Regis, All Deadpan the first time Regis asks him to be ‘Mor’s’ bodyguard. And then does it, because there’s a job that needs doing, because Regis asked him, because he’s just a little bit curious, perhaps - and Mor, Morrigan, is, as you’ve said, nothing like his father. Mor seems - like the kind of person who is endlessly kind, but who doesn’t - doesn’t make a big production of it. He seems unimpressed and almost deliberately ambiguous, and that deters people from seeing just how kind he is - and who is always, always surprised when anyone is kind to him in return. 

…oddly enough, Morrigan seems to have the guise, the appearance, of a perfect politician, enough so to make a lot of people nervous - but he’d rather not play the Great Game, has no lust for power beyond what is needed to keep his precious people safe, and is self-knowledgeable enough to suspect that he’d be horrible at it. 

…Clarus, meanwhile, is trying to figure out just who can Shield this new Lucis Caelum. He’s - not really coming up with any  suitable candidates. Mor thinks Iris is darling, but she’s a child. 

And yes for Morrigan standing up for immigrant rights! Yes! 
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Have a Glorious 25th.

To all of Terry Pratchett’s little angels: wear your lilacs if you got'em, support Alzheimer’s research, love our Pterry and keep his name alive, and rise up high.

For Peace! Truth! Justice! Reasonably Priced Love! And a Hard Boiled Egg!!
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i think traumatized 14 yr old protagonists of edgy anime shows should form a union

Get on the fucking picket line, Shinji.

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Night Watch is one of Sir Terry’s most hopeless novels - and, by the same token, because of the same things, one of his most hopeful.

It’s a parody - and I use that word very loosely, because there’s really nothing funny about it - of Les Miserables. It’s about a failed revolution, and a barricade, and the people who fought and died there for nothing. Nothing changes. Politics with a capital P goes on, and even the most pure and noble of intentions only becomes food for the pit of snakes who pull the strings. The powerful remain powerful, the powerless, despite their solidarity, their desperation, their violence, their hope, remain powerless. Their little lives don’t count at all. Things continue exactly as they always have, minus a few faces in the crowd.

It is also, I think, where we see Sam Vimes at his lowest. Sure, Thud! does similar things in stripping him down, but that is under an outside influence, and he has his family to think of. He has something to fight for.

In Night Watch, though, all of that is taken away. Sam Vimes, eternal cynic, for once has Cassandraic knowledge that his cynicism is absolutely founded. He knows how this will end, and there’s no Corporal Carrot to make the world magically better around him, no Sybil and Young Sam to push through for, no city to protect. The absolute best that he can expect is to succeed, and lose that family, that future, forever. The absolute worst? He dies. Everyone he cares about here dies. And it’s all in vain.

Sam Vimes is an alcoholic. It’s something that we tend to bring up when we’re talking about how amazing he is, how much he’s overcome, but gloss over otherwise. Which is a little sad, because it’s fundamental.

Sam Vimes faced this exact dragon, years ago. Sam Vimes saw there was no way to slay it. He saw the ants eating at the heart of every hope, every effort. He saw the first man he really knew as a good and kind and just - but never passive, never weak - man die, horribly, slain for no reason but petty grudge and Politics. He saw John Keel’s garden wither and die in its bed. He saw the hope of a better, brighter Ankh-Morpork squelched, and the sacrifice of a good man wasted. He saw the world, in all of its rotting, miserable, pestilent despair, spoiling every good thing that dared show its face, its only ordering principle the slow decay of entropy.

Young Sam Vimes had no anchor. Young Sam Vimes had nothing left to turn to but the bottom of a bottle and the smelliest part of an Ankh-Morpork gutter.

Sam Vimes, as of the events of Night Watch, is back there. Not only physically temporally displaced. He has nothing. There is no reason for him to stand up, to take on the role of John Keel, to take responsibility for the barricade, to try to bring Carcer back to justice. To fight the doomed fight. There is nothing between him and finding a quiet seat at the Broken Drum, ordering himself a pint, and giving up. There is nothing between him and despair.

But he gets up anyway. He intervenes anyway. He tries to help anyway, even when he can’t believe it will make any difference. And it doesn’t, in the end.

Except that people lived who, save for the actions of John Keel, would have died. Except it quite literally meant the world to them.

And that’s where the hope is hiding, in this hopeless, bleak, despair of a book. There is no glory. There is no revolution. There is no good thing that cannot be corrupted. There is no point. Except.

The Disc turns on the ‘except’. Always has. Always will.
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thebibliosphere:

If you’re not in the Discworld fandom and wondering what all the 25th of May posts are about, just know this is our fandom day of “Help I’ve Been Emotionally Compromised, Everything Hurts, Don’t You See, They Weren’t Heroes, They Were Just Men Who Did The Job They Didn’t Have to Do And They Died Doing It, Oh Gods My Heart.“

Plus a little bit of They Fought For Those Who’d Been Abandoned, They Fought for One Another, And They Were Betrayed.  Just Let Them Be.  For Ever and You Do The Job That’s In Front of You and It Could’ve Been Great, Sarge.
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Coming onto my dash today like
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On this Glorious 25th of May, I’m thinking about how Night Watch is—appropriately, and despite all it’s humor—the darkest of the Watch books. It revolves around a failed revolution, around men that “did the job they didn’t have to do, and died doing it” while the people in power betrayed and abused them. It’s really, unfortunately, a book for our **interesting** times.

And this darkest and most despairing of Discworld books ends with the promise of sunrise. It ends with birth—the birth of Baby Sam, and also, way back on Treacle Mine Road, of Sam Vimes the Copper, who will one day crawl out of the gutter and out of the bottle and drag Ankh-Morpork kicking and screaming into the light. It ends with our Vimes, older and exhausted and still dragging justice along by the collar, trudging home to his family as the night watch ends. Compared to most of Discworld it’s a damn dark book but it ends with just…this quiet and tired and ceaseless hope. The world turns, the turtle moves, and morning comes. Rise up high.
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millennial-ring:

words-on-pages:

I’m telling you right now if you think authors only read your comment on their fic once you are dead wrong

#haha yeah#and sometimes if we’re having a bad day or feel like our writing is crap we’ll re-read and entire story’s worth of comments#to try to get back into writing mode (tags sitabethel)

okay but i literally did exactly that today. i reread every single comment ever posted to haunted (both ff and ao3) before i sat down to write. 

Yep.

I do this every time I’m about to write a new chapter of a fic. The good reviews make me happy and willing to type more.

A year. It’s been over a year. And my ass was Down yesterday and I read through the old comments and guess who’s fuckin writing some shit tonight.
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rockstadius:I wear the lilac today.

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rockstadius:

I wear the lilac today.
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draconym:

“Dragon” is such a vague category of creature with such a ridiculous diversity of bauplans. It doesn’t matter how big it is or how many legs it has or whether it has wings or not: you can call it a dragon if it is kind of snakey, and/or breathes fire (virtually anything that can breathe fire has the potential to qualify as a dragon).

Case in point, look at all these different things that are dragons:
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Violet Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster) with feather detail. Iridescence in bird feathers is due to microstructures of the feather refracting light like a prism. Fossil evidence has shown that birds have had these structures in their feathers for at least 40 million years.
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It’s the Glorious 25th of May! For the first time, I’ve done art in advance. Out of all these, I’m proudest of the first one.

Follow me on Instagram!
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“‘This is stupid. There’s barely a dozen of you. What can you do? All that stuff about “keeping the peace” – it’s rubbish, lads. Coppers do what they’re told by the men in charge. It’s always like that. What’ll you do when the new captain comes in, eh? And who’re you doing this for? The people? They attacked the other Houses, and what’s the Night Watch ever done to hurt them?’ ‘Nothing,’ said Vimes. ‘There you are, then.’ ‘I mean the Watch did nothing, and that’s what hurt them.’”

—

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

On this most Glorious 25th May keep in mind that you are responsible for your inaction as well as your action.

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‘Really? And some sort of inspiring slogan?’ said Vimes.

‘Yes, indeed. Something like, perhaps, “They Did The Job They Had To Do”?’

’No,’ said Vimes, coming to a halt under a lamp by the crypt entrance. ‘How dare you? How dare you! At this time! In this place! They did the job they didn’t have to do, and they died doing it, and you can’t give them anything. Do you understand? They fought for those who’d been abandoned, they fought for one another, and they were betrayed…’

He may be gone but his words never lose their relevance.

Support the people doing the job they didn’t have to do, and not just with catchy slogans and clapping.

GNU Terry Pratchett.
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Cat Faber writes:

Reddit is doing something cool: inspired by Terry Pratchett’s depiction of how the names of the dead were sent home by clacks along the Grand Trunk Line on Discworld, they are working out ways to do the same for Sir Terry here in the real world.
And that inspired this song: Send Him Home.

A man’s not dead while his name is spoken
We will send him home
Down the line in a chain unbroken
We will send him home

   Send him home, send him home
   Hear the shutters clack and comb
   Down the line his name will roam
   Send him home

(Full lyrics here.)

elenothar elenothar LOOK AT/LISTEN TO THIS IMMEDIATELY ASAP NOW NOW NOW

lectorel sparklecryptid 

Melt with me in the face of the awesomeness of this song. 

GNU Terry Pratchett!

seananmcguire 

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― seanan mcguire, every heart a doorway
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sar-kalu:

it really fucking is

yarnlegend:

This is 100% what Shakespeare would have wanted

henrydefencesquad:

for any doubters here’s an excerpt from an article on it ! by the financial times for some reason

henrydefencesquad:

ok people wanted the whole story here are the most Memorable Moments™️

•the production made a lot of people very very angry and the reviews were calling it ‘a desecration of shakespeare’ , other people said it was akin to vandalism

•a warning letter had to be sent home to parents because it was too late to cancel the booking

•all the teachers there looked like they wanted to die cause we were 13-15 years old lmaoo

•the play opened with really aggressive confetti cannons and in the centre of the stage there was this really muscled guy wearing almost nothing and there were four women in essentially lingerie just.. gyrating over him

•this had nothing to do with the plot by the way it was just there

•we’re only five minutes in and i think the teachers were considering evacuating us

•romeo’s dad is in an inflatable dinosaur costume for an entire scene.. no context was given

•i’ve blocked the actual sex scene out of my memory

•i might have imagined this but in the masked ball scene i swear someone was in full bdsm gear i SWEAR

•mercutio was played by a woman and just started stripping during a monologue which was an Experience

•lots and lots of twerking from background actors

•romeo was just dressed like an emo the whole time

henrydefencesquad:

did i ever tell u all that when i was 15 i went on a school trip to see romeo and juliet at the globe but my teacher didn’t realise until after he’d booked it that it was a ~sexy~ version with bdsm in it

At all my fellow literature/literary history nerds: Your opinion? I ask in genuine curiosity. 
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25th of May

Lilac brooch. Tribute to the memory of Terry Pratchett 💔

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“I mean, when a man reaches…a certain age,” he tried again, “he knows the world is never going to be perfect. He’s got used to it being a bit, a bit…” “Manky?” Nobby suggested. Tucked behind his ear, in the place usually reserved for his cigarette, was another wilting lilac flower.

Night watch. Terry Pratchett.
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“‘You are in favour of the common people?’ said Dragon mildly. ‘The common people?’ said Vimes. ‘They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose I’ve got to be on their side.’”

— Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay (via discworldquotes)
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