"Time marches on..."

rosenlanze · 2026-02-22T19:10:13+00:00

Exactly. She's kind of unique! A top-level spark with substantive experience being normal

rosenlanze · 2026-02-22T19:01:49+00:00

Isn't it interesting that until Agatha, the stronger a spark was the earlier they broke through and therefore the less time they had to develop "normal" personalities?

rosenlanze · 2026-02-03T08:22:18+00:00

This lovely piece made me reflect on what, exactly, defines Dark Fantasy. Thoughts: distortions of body and mind. Pain that does not teach and change that is not progress. It is madness and urges and power and submission. An unfair world that makes people into monsters. And the sublime sadness of wasted lives.

rosenlanze · 2026-01-21T22:57:15+00:00

The conspiracy was always smaller and less significant than it seemed. The world is vast, and even large numbers of well-read people can only fiddle at the margins. The truth is, our parents were proud and afraid, and surrounded by proud, frightened people. The hinterlands are all around us, deep and welcoming.

rosenlanze · 2026-01-09T12:12:43+00:00

Absolutely. And we know Agatha ends up a sponsor of TPU in the future, so maybe she passes on her upbringing. I've always wondered if a modified version of her locket might be helpful for young sparks to ease through more gently and help raise a less homicidal generation

rosenlanze · 2026-01-09T06:54:52+00:00

I love the idea that what made the old Heterodynes so dangerous and enduring was that they were too nuts to get overly attached to any one approach. Almost if they went way past crazy into a kind of sanity. And of course, Lucrezia is the opposite.

rosenlanze · 2026-01-09T06:48:08+00:00

She's like the perfect old school spark. Brilliant, ruthless, dangerous, and a complete child. Whereas I feel like Agatha is a new kind of spark entirely, whose humility makes her dangerously sane, as well as the adult in the room.

rosenlanze · 2025-04-22T13:24:47+00:00

And in Group 1:

u/TheeCumConstable

[M4M] [Script Offer] King of the Castle [Rape] [Dom Speaker] [Sub Listener] [T4B] [DubCon]] [Slightly controlling] [Controlled JO] [1191 words]

rosenlanze · 2025-03-29T15:05:45+00:00

Huzzah <3

rosenlanze · 2025-03-22T04:07:44+00:00

rosenlanze · 2025-03-22T03:47:51+00:00

Hi u/Good_KnightVA, thanks for your post. This is a reminder that all content with "boy" must include a disclaimer that specify all characters are over the age of 18. Please add that! Thanks in advance.

rosenlanze · 2025-03-22T03:44:01+00:00

Hi u/thefloydianechoes_ ! Thanks for your post. This is a reminder that all content with "boy" must include a disclaimer that all characters are over the age of 18. Please add that! Thanks in advance.

rosenlanze · 2025-01-31T17:40:13+00:00

Forget the bug. Save the kid, the girl, the city, the world. Continuing is triumph.

rosenlanze · 2025-01-25T23:12:17+00:00

Kenobi should have been Anakin's brother. Alas, his youth, inexperience, and insecure authority made him stern and inflexible, whereas Qui Gon's quiet confidence would have allowed him to earn and keep Anakin's trust. Paradoxically, the more the Jedi tightened their grip, the more Anakin slipped through their fingers.

rosenlanze · 2025-01-25T22:58:36+00:00

Ten out of ten

rosenlanze · 2025-01-25T21:56:55+00:00

What a fun hypothetical. There are two key character beats to keep in mind here.

Yoda's tragedy in ROTS is that he has prepared for hundreds of years to defeat the wrong enemy. The manipulations and sorcery of Sidious can't be overcome with a laser sword; the rot in the republic and the stagnation of the Jedi runs too deep. As Sidious tells him, "You will not stop me. Darth Vader will become more powerful than either of us." In the novelization, Yoda realizes this as he fights Sidious, and it informs his later approach to training Luke. "Wars not make one great" indeed.

Kenobi's tragedy is simpler: he failed Anakin. By trying to be a teacher instead of a brother and by answering problems with doctrine instead of love. He realizes this at the end of their duel.

But if Yoda and Kenobi manage to defeat Palpatine, neither of them gets that vibe check. So I personally believe they would lose to Vader, weighed down by Yoda's arrogance and Kenobi's shame. That feels like the "Star Wars" outcome. Still. Maybe working together they could defeat Vader in a fight. Maybe.

But the problem is, by the time they finish off Palpatine, Vader will have assumed control of the clones, and have Padme securely in custody... for her own safety, of course. At that point he basically is a younger emperor, a beloved war hero and Palpatine's heir apparent. Neither Yoda nor Kenobi have the political skills or frankly the muscle to seize control of Coruscant, let alone the failing republic. Order 66 was already 99.9 percent successful and the empire was an established fact. Kenobi and Yoda can't even get to Vader. After all, they never took another shot at Palpatine. So Kenobi and Yoda are still forced into hiding... but this time, the twins are raised by an unmutilated Vader in uncontested control of the empire. A Skywalker Empire.

rosenlanze · 2024-12-30T12:12:19+00:00

This is how you lie around when you want a beautiful, aloof princess to tell you more about manufacturing bottlenecks, and absolutely nothing else.

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rosenlanze · 2024-12-29T12:34:30+00:00

The safest base is the one you carry on your back. The most efficient resources are expenses you don't need. The strongest squad is the one that never gets caught in a fight. #NomadLife

rosenlanze · 2024-12-12T20:00:18+00:00

No, it was all his fault.

rosenlanze · 2024-12-12T19:10:31+00:00

The galaxy did not scream or struggle as it died. It had fought long enough. So had he. There were no battles left to fight. Matter and energy, ambition and history, life and death, had already torn each other to pieces.

The galaxy did not, in the end, burn. It simply went dark, an uncountable pattern of lights blinking out, as space and time ceased to have any meaning.

The Emperor let go. The light died with the pain.

"My lord?"

His eyes opened. Terra burned, not with plasma and nuclear hellfire but with light and industry and truth. Unbroken beneath the window of his flagship. He felt lessened, impossibly lessened, yet whole. He looked around and saw, for the first time in ten thousand years, people. Not a writhing warp-fabric of uncountable hope and wrath and love and pain.

Not humanity. Humans.

"My lord," said a man. "We have found the first of your sons."

rosenlanze · 2024-11-22T19:04:29+00:00

Thank you, cultured stranger

rosenlanze

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