Geology is one of those sciences that everyone forgets about. It sits in the middle of magic and ideology, blurs the line between history and knowledge, channels catastrophes and the ways of life to create a record that cannot be undone.
The gentry understand this blurring of lines; they, too, dance around their ideas to channel a thought that cannot be spoken. And yet.
They fear geology, for the formations beneath the school predate them. They fear the idea that what was once there will be again, that the earth will all become nothing but silence- for while they do not like being mentioned, they would hate to be forgotten.
It’s a small department: the building is modern, like it was built as an afterthought once the giants of chemistry and physics and biology had constructed their own homes. The outside is all faded cement, twisting in on itself in a way that doesn’t seem quite flush with the laws of physics.
Commission for @cappucinotarts I had so much fun making I decided to do it as a short comic 😀 thank you so much for giving me those three to play with!
Give me a story where Qui-gon survives, but at the cost of Obi-wan losing an arm and his legs. A mirror image to the loss Vader suffers.
Let me see all that physical pain and adaption that Lucas loves to put into his villains turned into something light and amazing.
Let Anakin see the Jedi’s hypocrisy when they cast Obi-Wan out because he’s angry and in pain and they say he can’t access the living force anymore. When Obi-Wan always favored the unifying force anyway.
Let him ask why they fear he’ll go dark and see the parallels to slaver ‘mercy’ when they free slaves too weak or injured to work because it isn’t worth paying slave tax on them and you have to pay a fine if you kill off your slaves in order to dodge taxes.
Because the Jedi don’t have money or things. When he gets cast out all Obi-Wan will have are the robes on his back, a lifetime of fighting skills, and mounting debt as he tries to get prosthetics and pain management.
All Jedi who leave the order go grey or dark is a self fulfilling prophecy when you toss them out without trade skills or money.
Let me see a Anakin who picks a path with Obi-Wan still. Two gray force users. Making a life for themselves of the fringe of society, freeing slaves, learning to force heal and build prosthetics. All with the queens of Naboo and Mandalores quiet and unofficial backing. Dodging Jedi and Sith interference at every turn.
Until one day they stumble on a planet in the middle of nowhere and are shown thousands of slave children waiting to be sent to die for the Republic and the Jedi they are trained to serve.
They steal them away a little at a time. Covert opps they tell anyone that asks. And when they check the boys for slave chips and oh do they find them.
Palpatine doesn’t even know his plans have gone astray until it explodes all over the net that a thousand fighters have appeared out of no where to destroy the Hutt empire. All the slaves are free and any system wanting to break from republic rule are free to petition to join the new alliance. Naboo and Mandalore are some of the first to join.
There are all the clones he had planned to use against the Jedi along with the chosen one and his mentor who have remained annoyingly too hidden for Palpatine to gain control of.
And here are Yoda and Mace faced with two men who they cast aside as too broken and likely to fall. Now shining in the force so brightly that is has cleared away shatterpoints and the ever encroaching sith influence.
And lots of days Obi-Wan is in too much pain to leave his bed and Anakin is so angry his aura rolls in like a thunderstorm darkening the very force around him. But that’s okay because the force is not a power limited by emotion or trauma no matter what some religions may say.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers – All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Starscream/Sunstreaker, Rodimus/Starscream/Sunstreaker Characters: Rodimus (Transformers), Starscream (Transformers), Sunstreaker (Transformers) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe – Escorts, BDSM Scene, Heavy BDSM, Restraints, Bondage, Blindfolds, Piercings, Cock Rings, Sticky Sexual Interfacing, Dom/sub, Threesome – M/M/M, Open Relationships, Implied/Referenced Past Abuse, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Multiple Orgasms Series: Part 5 of All This and Heaven, Too Summary: Rodimus gets invited to play with Sunstreaker and Starscream, and finds himself learning more about them than he ever thought they’d share.
Commission for @theaircommand. I had such fun with this that I went way over my word budget, but somehow, I don’t think she minds. 😉
A new season of the Steven Universe Podcast launched January 25, 2018, and here is a recap of episode 2, released February 1, 2018! The official description:
The Steven Universe Podcast is celebrating Amethyst… with creator Rebecca Sugar, former Executive Producer Ian Jones-Quartey, Michaela Dietz (who voices Amethyst), and Deedee Magno Hall (who voices Pearl). Discover what inspired Amethyst’s weapon and shapeshifting abilities, some of the original design ideas for her character, why she’s the one who’s changed the most over the course of the series, and what Amethyst represents about Rebecca Sugar’s real-life relationship with her brother, Steven. Plus, Amethyst and Pearl both join the pod to talk favorite shapeshifts, snacks, and the benefit of a good remote control!
This is very long because the podcasts are getting long, and I don’t want to skimp on the detail because it’s all very interesting to this wonderful group of nerds who like to read these, but I also don’t want to overwhelm anyone with all the text, so I’ll give you the bulleted highlights first and a more detailed narrative under the read-more.
Highlights:
Amethyst’s earliest character designs, before she was “Amethyst,” were in Rebecca’s Lars/Sadie comics from college.
Amethyst is based physically on Rebecca’s college friend Valerie.
Amethyst represents the present.
The “we kept Amethyst” joke was written BEFORE the writers themselves knew Amethyst’s real origin.
Amethyst’s whip is meant to be Dionysian: fluid and flexible.
Amethyst’s tendency to shapeshift reflects both freedom to be whoever she wants and feeling lost and confused about who she is.
Amethyst has changed the most since the beginning of the series.
Meeting other Quartzes has allowed Amethyst to define herself with more clarity, leading her flexibility to become a choice rather than a reaction.
Smoky Quartz’s yo-yo moves were real tricks derived from Rebecca’s observation of a real yo-yo master.
Smoky represents a Fusion born out of two Gems at their lowest points, reminding viewers that sometimes you do need to ask for help.
Michaela’s favorite Amethyst forms are the baby and Purple Puma.
Deedee thinks Pearl would shapeshift into a graceful bird if she was interested in changing form.
Zach Callison has a theory that Steven and Peridot’s Fusion would be smaller than either of them, and adding Amethyst would make a tiny Shorty Squad Fusion that’s also super loud.
Michaela, performing as Amethyst in the fan Q&A, says she likes her eggs whole (including carton, plus motor oil), that she has indeed posed as someone’s cat for an extended period and has laid eggs as a chicken, does not like eating overcooked remote controls, and loves most of all to shapeshift into Pearl. WOMP WOMP.
The detailed summary, including Rebecca and Ian discussing Amethyst’s origin, Deedee and Amethyst discussing voicing the characters, and fan questions answered in character …
I need werewolf grandmothers who are eight feet tall with thick fur graying around their eyes and muzzles, wearing shawls they knitted themselves because regular old lady shawls just don’t fit their immense shoulders the way they do in human form.
With a slight stoop to her back from standing on two legs and running on all four. Heavily scarred from her rambunctious youth hunting, running, roaming the lonely roads, leading the pack. Now she is content to offer guidance to the younger generations, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t still have a hunt or two left in her.
She may not be able to run down a buck the way she could at twenty-eight but by golly when one of her grandcubs faces down an angry brown bear in the wilds her claws come back out and she is every bit the alpha she has always been.
Werewolf grandma who nuzzles her adult kids when they come to visit for Christmas and fawns over how big her grandcubs’ paws are. Who cooks a feast of venison and wild hog with herbs from her own garden. Who entertains the local sheriff and his family for dinner on weekends because she saved his father on a hunting accident when he was just a little kid; now he keeps trespassers out of her territory and she teaches his kids how to camp and regales them around campfires with stories about a world their teachers tell them only exists in TV shows.
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