continuing from this post, i think i’ve figured out why i ship talisto and i blame it all on holly black: jude duarte and cardan greenbriar are talia and mephisto coded.
lemme try to explain the dynamics.
What’s there to say? They’re both badass strategists and natural-born leaders. They will make themselves heard and will not take nor tolerate bullshit. They are both clever with their plans and also don’t trust easily. Their guards are up constantly and they don’t tell their allies/friends everything (ie Jude’s coup and the whole Princess Brenda thing). They have also adapted to the rapid and traumatic changes in their lives — Jude with the murder of her parents and Talia with the fall of Xeris — and of course the adapting to a new world.
Sure, Jude takes things to an extreme by pursuing murder on occasion, but you can’t tell me that Talia wouldn’t do the same in her shoes (albeit with some hesitancy, but none the less will do so as a last resort). These two girls are a force to be reckoned with, and do all the research necessary to make sure they know all the facts and know all the plays to win.
I don’t need to explain this. It’s so obvious that Holly went so far as to basically make Mephisto Cardan’s faceclaim.
Cardan and Mephisto are both younger siblings, so they are familiar with the shadow of their older — and better, in the eyes of their father figures or something — siblings. They also both have no shame in being the villain of their stories while also being sorta carefree and charismatic I MEAN LOOK AT THEM!! But they also, deep in the core of their soul, have goodness and love inside, and a strong urge to protect and sacrifice everything for those closest to them (Jude and Praxina respectively). They grow over the duration of their screentime/booktime into lovable and openly more caring characters.
Seriously guys the parallels between them are right fucking there.
What else can I say? Enemies-to-lovers is the superior trope and if the Jurdan dynamic — while slightly questionable bc ✨bully romance✨ and just general canonical confusion — doesn’t give you tingles, imagine the applied to Talisto’s already current dynamic. I can already see Talia’s fuming face ready to absolutely destroy Mephisto and his obnoxious, degrading laughter as he walks away in Faerieland during their lessons. I can also see how the turns have tabled with Talia holding a knife to Mephisto’s neck and Talia’s grinning face as she pulls of the greatest coup in history…
I guess what I’m saying is that I would not be opposed to a Talisto Cruel Prince AU because it just makes sense.
i feel like if tartaglia and lyney had a child that child would in fact be aventurine
she’s the reason i’m still tethered to mlp honestly
sunset shimmer: element of empathy RAGE
Chapters: 1/6 Fandom: Barbie Fairytopia (Movies), Barbie - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Carlos/Willa (Barbie Fairytopia), Carlos & Willa (Barbie Fairytopia), Catania/Mariposa (Barbie Fairytopia), Mariposa & Willa (Barbie Fairytopia), Carlos & Mariposa (Barbie Fairytopia), Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Willa (Barbie Fairytopia), Carlos (Barbie Fairytopia), Mariposa (Barbie Fairytopia), Catania (Barbie Fairytopia), Marabella (Barbie Fairytopia), Gastrous (Barbie Fairytopia) Additional Tags: Opposites Attract, idiots to lovers, Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Slight Mention of Trauma, Library Shenanigans, Fluff and Angst, More Fluffy than Angsty but still, One Braincell, Ficlet, (i say as there are six long-ass chapters), Canon Compliant, No Beta We Die Like the Skeezite Victims (rip soldiers), Mild Language, Movie: Barbie: Mariposa and her Butterfly Fairy Friends (2008), Movie: Barbie: Mariposa & the Fairy Princess (2013), carlos needs a hug, willa needs a hug, idk anything goes, Semi-Canon Compliant Summary:
nobody knows the butterfly effect like the butterfly fairies themselves.
eat up lovelies :)
you mean this wasn’t word-for-word what happened??
Patricia and Eddie meeting for the first time be like
it should not have taken me three watches and several years to realize that Voltron is just very gay Power Rangers 
which is more culturally significant the renaissance or youtube shows created by 12-17 year olds playing with children’s toys.
both have been on the brain recently and let's be so real: w.i.t.c.h. could fit in the realm of genshin i bet so thanks to picrew i made the w.i.t.c.h. girlies. i didn't do elyon or orube since i wasn't sure which of the visions would suit them best but if you have any recs lemme know :)
WILL VANDOM:
Electro, 5-star (all w.i.t.c.h. girlies are 5-star), Sword, Monstadt
IRMA LAIR:
Hydro, 5-star, Bow, Natlan
TARANEE COOK:
Pyro, 5-star, Catalyst, Sumeru
CORNELIA HALE:
Dendro (could also be Geo), 5-star, Claymore, Fontaine
HAY LIN:
Anemo, 5-star, Polearm, Liyue
Elyon (and Caleb) would DEFINITELY be Khaenri'ahn - long-lost kingdom in shambles, unknown whether it's still existing? Talk about Meridian-core lol. Orube would be Inazuman - she's kinda giving Kujou Sara vibes??
That's all i got tho have fun with that.
to the six people in the spirit animals fandom, i need it to be known that tasha is literally the reilin child.
the brain got thinking…
s4 rayla said something about all of them making it out or being safe and just being super worried about everyone’s well being (been a hot minute since i’ve watched s4) and it just sounded — and i thought i read somewhere from another user with a similar theory — like it came from personal experience. and how stella was found alone and she just adopted the lil thing. and for some reason i got thinking…
okay, hear me out
rayla’s venturing through xadia or wherever and she comes across a(n elf?) girl not too much younger than herself. they just kinda run into each other in the wild — elf girl is running from undisclosed reasons and rayla’s is obvious — and elf girl is like “hey! let’s stick together!” and it’s like golden retriever/black cat duo.
but of course, as they journey they become super tight and along the way the elf girl finds stella and is like “LET’S ADOPT HER. I SHALL NAME YOU STELLA.” anyway they’re venturing, something something somethinggg, and then suddenly they’re ambushed by elves hunting down elf girl. elf girl is frantic and like “we gotta go” and rayla is confused/concerned. as the three are fleeing from the elves, an arrow hits elf girl to the point rayla is supporting her as they flee. but the ambushers are closing in and she’s slowing rayla and stella down so elf girl looks at rayla straight in the eyes and says “you need to unal1ve me.”
of course, rayla’s like “fuck no!” but elf girl starts telling her that she’s only slowing them down. the ambushers are after her because she knows too much, is too much — descended from the first ones (but she doesn’t say that) — and it’s better for her to d1e then and there than for the ambushers to find her and do something so much worse. she’s begging her to, forcing her to promise her she’ll go back to that human mage she knows rayla’s absolutely smitten with, promise to take care of stella, promise to end her now before something worse comes for her.
and rayla keeps that promise.
elf girl is bleeding out to death and rayla and stella are gone in the foresty expanse of xadia or whatever. it haunts rayla in the back of her mind, and then at full force in season six when suddenly dots start connecting like stars in a constellation and she’s forced to admit what happened. to callum. to her friends. to the new city of elven folk they encounter up in that new location where the nova blade is (memory is fading i’m sorry).
everything begins to make so much sense now.
this is the kind of random fandom shit i post on my wattpad announcement board 😳
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