Okay so I know Casta is a real name ok it’s own, HOWEVER imagine it’s a nickname. She got it as a child living on Aeaea.
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When she was young, her cousins, the Nereids, would laugh and welcome her into their pools when they noticed her. Her babbles would transform one into a small fish. The others would hold her close to their sides, caress her hair, and call her “Casta” after the spells she weaved
When she was older, her mother first showed her the herbs that grew in the soil. Together, they dried and crushed leaves into fine powder before tossing it into the boiling pot. Circe would hold her shoulder, not tight enough to hurt but tight enough to show she was proud. The potion would hiss in her ears, but though it all she heard her mother mutter “Casta”
But she was not “Casta.” She was not whatever “pure” thing they saw in her. She was cursed since the moment she rose from the sea foam her grandmother claimed, her grandfather’s golden touch burning her back and shoulders.
She was Cassiphone. “Brother killer.”
She hadn’t paid her name any mind until another form emerged from the earth. This one, a young boy her mother called “Spelldon.”
And when she first held this small, precious thing, delicately enough he must not have known she was there, she was glad she was “Casta”
ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help
EXACTLY THEY MATCH. THEIR COLORS MATCH BECAUSE THEIR SOULS MSTCH
They’re so sweet and good and soulmates 😭
My least favorite part of having a small social media platform isnt even the number of likes I get it’s just that nobody leaves comments 😭 like please talk to me
When you’re looking for an open space in your note pad and find:
“…like a wicked form of Eros, not because Kieran was evil, but because in spite of all of Spelldon’s yearning, he would never be Psyche.”
Like???
(The general context is from a [probably] scrapped fanfic idea, when Pegasus is behind Kieran so it looks like he has wings)
what to do when you have 4 different love spell fanfic ideas and no motivation for any of them
Two best characters fr
Trying to explain the lore and plot of my “short story” without giving away the fact it’s a jegulus fanfic
Kieran Valentine messing up era fashion and mixing them, or wearing something entirely wrong or outdated
One day, he wears a line of red lipstick down the center of his lips (because CA’s made him think it was acceptable). Spelldon has to be the bearer of bad news that no, it wasn’t a current trend, and no, people weren’t staring because they were into him
Kieran had been so disappointed (“what do you mean? You should’ve seen how much business this got me during the tang dynasty!”)
JNWKRNEJWB AWWW I NEED THAT FOR THEM THATS SO SWEET
My least favorite part of having a small social media platform isnt even the number of likes I get it’s just that nobody leaves comments 😭 like please talk to me
knife crow is a dad now omg
Another thing is that Spelldon’s grandfather is Helios (the titan of the sun) and Kieran is a vampire—who can’t go in the sun
His name also means “dark,” while the sun is a paragon of light
It just hit me that Valentine’s (who canonically loves animals) love interest is the son of a witch notorious for turning people into animals
I don’t know what to do with that information just putting it out there
(Sigh-v)novelist and fanfic authorYes this is like entirely Kieran Valentine
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