Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
the issue with growing up in the 2000s and 2010s was like there was this really big push toward "accepting your weirdness" overall but they meant like idk wearing mismatched socks or something not being tangibly beyond the norm in any way shape or form
BREAKING NEWS: Man So Insufferable He Has Been Paid To Leave Every Project He Has Ever Joined Becomes Richest Person In Existence. "Le Epic Win", Says Man
Like unironically we should be subsidising at least 50% of their educations. What do you mean we have a shortage of doctors we should have surplus. What do you mean they’re being overworked they should be treated like royalty, they can fix human bodies
I don’t care if some of them are only doing it for the money. I don’t care if all of them are only doing it for the money. Intentions don’t matter to the stitches in my nana’s leg or the ten billion other lifesaving treatments we all get at a detriment to their finances and mental wellbeing. Entire cities are kept alive by just a couple thousand of them what are we DOINGGGGG
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
i was in the grocery store and saw an onion on the ground and picked it up, absently saying “poor little guy.” behind me a teenage girl started laughing and then stopped and went “aww. i’m sorry for laughing. that’s nice actually.” and the cycle of cruelty is broken for another generation as a young person realizes that it is not embarrassing to have empathy for another thing that was once living, because certainly to be a lone white onion rolling on the ground in a supermarket would be terrifying to anyone
[Image ID: Tumblr tags from spaceFuneral reading: #this reminds me of how these two teenage girls apparently come into my work often and i didnt recognize them but they recognized me #and they were like " do you just have a collection of mystical cat shirts" #and i was like oh god im about to be bullied by teenagers #and i was like haha yeah! #and said that one person gifted me one and then suddenly i was collecting them #and they were like "i love that i love your vibes" #and "thank you for sharing your lore" #and i was like god damn.......... peace and love on planet earth /End ID]
Does anyone else think that Lucrezia Mongfish has, perhaps, become a parody of herself?
People who knew her 20 years ago-- Klaus, the Jaegermonsters, Prince Aaronev Sturmvoraus, the newly ascendant Rat Queen, etc-- say she was always like this. They testify that they're not surprised she turned out to be the one who devestated Europa with aerial bombardments and horrific Mind-Control Wasps.
And yet.
I can't help but think, she wasn't always like this.
Once upon a time, she was one woman, with one physical body. She was a brilliantly powerful spark, and she wasn't afraid to lie, steal, copy notes, and cheat to get ahead, on top of that.
She had at least 3 powerful men wrapped around her finger-- Agatha got some of that Rizz from her Mom's side, but Lucrezia was actively trying to seduce and manipulate the boys, and play them against each other.
Let's say the Heterodyne Boys were actively doing heroics for about 25ish years, before it all went wrong. Bill would've been in his 40s when he finally got married.
Lucrezia Mongfish would've been in her 40s when she got married. She's still beautiful, still desired, still healthy-- but time marches on, relentlessly.
Pouting at her Daddy to come help his favorite daughter... It just isn't cute anymore.
Castle Heterodyne was no doubt glad that Bill finally brought a wife home, but I'm sure that it ALSO encouraged him & Barry to open the Seraglio for some younger models, if she didn't produce a healthy Heterodyne Heir or five fast enough.
.
Lucrezia Mongfish wanted Eternal Youth. She wanted to be "Forever 21." She wanted that Second Breakthrough, that ascendance that was promised to her when the Geisterdamen called her Goddess.
But she's in her 40's, and she's shipped off Klaus so he won't cause trouble, and Aaronev's hair is thinning and he's looking at a political marriage, and she has the Heterodyne, but Mechanicsburg does not LOVE HER.
She is a Spark, and she is brilliant and ambitious and determined, and she has been studying mind-manilulation and transferance for years. She finds a Muse, in the catacombs of the ancient Heterodynes, and she successfully transfers a mind from machine to flesh, with the personality intact.
I'm sure there were many test-subjects, and many experiments, before she was ready to try it on herself.
I think something went wrong.
.
Lucrezia Mongfish was once a woman with a singular body, with a heartbeat and breath, and appetites for cake, for sex, for power, for love, for adoration, for music, for jewels... She wanted it all.
But she still had to sleep, and hydrate. Take bathroom breaks. Experience boredom, and itches, the relief of removing restrictive garments, the minor pleasures and frustrations of being alive.
Then she made herself into a bodiless ghost, distilled "essence" that could-- in theory-- jump from host to host, or take on MANY bodies., so that she would never have to age, and never have to die.
Something went wrong, of course.
There are fewer compatible hosts than you'd think, out there. Her brilliant machines are delicate, finicky, and the processes were executed imperfectly by her devoted followers.
She wanted to turn back the hands of time. She found herself adrift, trapped outside of it, for untold ages. Stuck in a box, going insane, with nobody to rescue her from her own bad decisions.
She wanted a brand-new body-- but this one is inelegant, that one can't hold a Spark, this one is missing some parts-- like skin, or taste buds, or a foot-- and that one isn't PRETTY ENOUGH!
She's throwing a tantrum. She is the ghost of A Woman With Appetites, but she no longer exists in a body that can crave cake, or sex, or water, or sleep. She has the distorted memory of an emptiness inside, and she must force everyone to love her, to adore her, to OBEY HER EVERY WHIM so that she can feel right again.
She used to hunt cats for fun, on her family estate. Her father taught her to respond to pain by spreading it around. She was spoiled, and played both Wicked Schemer and Damsel In Distress, for longer than she should've gotten away with it.
Was she like Zola? Was she like Sephie?
Who was Lucrezia Mongfish, when she was a young woman with a father, and sisters, and a mother who is never mentioned, friends and frenemies and rivals from University, and dozens of handsome young suitors to choose from?
Who was Lucrezia, when she was no longer quite as young, when she was married, when she was pregnant with her second child, and ready to take the plunge towards Immortality?!
Would she recognize the person, the ghost, the demonic legion, that she has become?
#girl genius#lucrezia mongfish#character analysis#ooh excellent#much to consider here#we do not know what lucrezia originally wanted#but she can't have wanted this#how did she go so wrong?#what happened to her?#how did she get here?#the essential tragedy that is lucrezia
This makes me passionately wish that the timey wimey stuff on the story's horizon will give us a glimpse of Lucrezia before the Other War, because yeah, there is just so much unexplored space there and I have a mighty need.
There was that passage way back in the naughty flashback, where Klaus asserts that her decision to join the 'good guys' must be one of her schemes, and she replies,
“No, Klaus. This isn’t a game. I am determined to change. I do love him. It should be enough.” A brief look of frustration flickered across her face. “Besides, they always win. There must be something to their philosophy.”
(Quoted from the novel adaptation)
And like... Lucrezia is, of course, profoundly untrustworthy, but this is Lucrezia just before she drugs Klaus into a stupor and banishes him to Skifandria to get him out of the way. She's speaking to someone she does seem to like, in private, who she plans to immediately prevent from telling anybody what she says. In fact, she distracts Klaus from this argument by seducing him. Every framing of this scene does seem to present this as what was her honest perspective, at the time.
What happened to that? What happened to the woman who was determined to change? How did she go so wrong?
Very much agree, @imrix, I think the story demands some explanation of "what is Lucrezia's whole deal" - and she is not a reliable witness to her own actions, much less her own motivations! She's spinning off copies of herself, and perhaps has been for a very long time, and each instance learns, and changes even if only slightly, and makes their own decisions independently!
And are these copies accurate? How accurate, exactly? Is she sure? How would she know? Because each copy, even if slightly divergent, could not possibly be trusted to recognize - or report - that accurately... And if the copies can make copies, as we've seen recently...
Whatever Lucrezia started out doing, or intended to do, she has had so much time to diverge from that. I doubt she fully remembers at this point what her deal was in the first place.
(Now, grudges - grudges I'm sure she has a long and detailed list of. But she may be a little creative about why she's holding those grudges, at this point.)
I think the Lucrezia we're dealing with now has iterated herself so far away from her original goals (and means, and priorities), that Original Model Lucrezia probably wouldn't recognize where she's come to now.
And that is interesting! That is a fantastic failure in method of what I believe was Lucrezia's original goal - immortality.
(She's been pursuing the God-Queens, famously powerful and long-lived if not exactly, as Lucrezia has proved, immortal. Before that, she was chasing body-swapping - certainly one way to keep oneself alive over long periods of time, as long as you're not too picky about your original body. Her plan to copy herself into Agatha - and her pickiness, up until recently, about which forms she was willing to accept - has always said "immortality" to me. And it's one of the classic alchemic goals, of course.)
Lucrezia as we now see her has found a form of immortality, between copying herself into other bodies and being extremely time-lost (probably).
And it's not working! She's losing herself. The goal of immortality isn't enough - because she's achieved it, but she's lost the point of it, if she ever looked beyond "immortality" as a goal at all.
So you're functionally immortal. Now what? What do you care about that makes immortality interesting?
And at this point, Lucrezia has lost so much of herself that all she has left is self-obsession and spite.
What a disaster she is, if even half of what I've conjectured here is even close.
I wonder if she's ever actually examined what the Good Guy Philosophy actually was, even if it was just as far as Bill and Barry understood it.
From what the Jäger mention, she... did not. She may very well have tried, but... who would say no to The Lady Heterodyne, in Mechanicsburg? Who would even recognize her slipping back into villainy?
Before that, she had a plan that is fairly easy to understand:
-Also far as MOST Knights of Jove & assorted allies among the Fifty Families knew, Lucrezia planned to *make sure* she had a daughter, and that a suitable Storm King Heir was born as well.
-A Heterodyne Girl has a melodramatic meet-cute with a direct descendant of Andronicus Valois, Arranged Marriage dressed up as Fairytale Romance goes through, and the couple has a merry little propaganda-machine behind them as they conquer unify Europa and restore full power (which has recently been increasingly threatened by Sparks) to Nobility.
-Inner Circle and/or People Already Mind-Controlled know that Lucrezia ALSO intended to use Slaver Wasps and Mind-Control to facilitate the whole "bringing peace & unity to Europa" thing.
-Prince Aaronev, who worshipped her as she felt she deserved, knew that Lucrezia intended to possess her daughter's body, rather than trust the plan to the next generation. She had likely promised to share the body-swap technology, so he could be the Storm King to her Heterodyne Princess, if he did his part with the Summoning Engine and the Geisterdamen.
.
All of it adds up. All of it makes sense.
Shattering the fabled Castle Heterodyne, killing all the minions AND the male Heterodyne Heir, and disappearing before the second pregnancy was publically confirmed?! That does NOT sound like part of the original plan!
A lot about the Other's original attacks don't make sense, in the context of the Original Plan, as non-Lucrezia conspirators knew it.
But yer, the 'attack' on Castle Heterodyne is definitely where Lucriaza's plan fully slipped off it's bearings.
The explosions seems like mix between her long term plan, and making it up on the fly.
She'd already confirmed the pregnancy and that it was girl. So she needed to saborn and remove the safety features protecting her son and husband. To be able to have herself as Agatha declared as the Heterodyne.
Her original plan looks to have been control the Castle, to be able to murder little Klaus-Barry, without Castle retaliating. Because killing family is something Castle Heterodyne will kill you for. It's how the Heterodyne boys' mother died, for killing their father.
She orchestrated for Bill, Barry and the Jägers be out of town while she did this.
One of the multiple explosions was targeted to hit the nursery, with her son and the town seneschal.
Severing another point of her husband's power, by killing him along with the baby.
I doubt that the imprisoning part of the Castle in the muses body was responsible for any of the explosions. As the epicenter should have been the lab, if that was the case. And they only found her notes burnt and her two servants murdered.
The fight in her lab, the only two servants who knew she was pregnant with a girl being slain, and Lucriaza's note burned, as she did a runner... All this looks like the pivot to on the fly.
I think Lucriaza killed her two lab assistant (the Geisterdamen Glimtockka and Mozekbeing); because they knew she failed.
Both were pretty invested in the well being of Agatha, throughout the pregnancy too. Especially Glimtockka who was all in on the prophecy of the holy child, and Lucriaza failing. "I've told you that stupid prophecy is wrong! It is predicted on failure! My failure!"
It seems pretty likely that the idea of braking off a piece of the Castle, into Otilia's body; was to try and mind control the Castle. Like she managed to do with Otilia in Von Pin's body, and keeping the Heterodyne girl safe.
Before trying to upload that mind controled copy back into the larger structure.
This appears to be confirmed by Castle bot as Lucriaza's plan that night.
But I don't think Lucriaza expected the Castle's mind to shatter and go mad; when she tried to catch a piece and forced it into a muses body. Think this is where it all went wrong.
She probably expected it to neatly shutting down, for her to try brain washing.
From Lucriaza's reaction it seems like the Castle is taking the piss, playing along with the joke of being loyal to her after every thing.
And her failure to become the new beloved Herotrodyne; looks to be what's driving her extreme hatred for the town, wanting to obliterate the it from the sky's.
It's likely Lucriaza has been working on the Wasps while married, as a way to force Mechanicsburg to love her as the new Heterodyne. (As she uses them in the first Other attack a few months after this).
Though she appears to get the idea of using vocal harmonics, to exert that control on the wasps, from Otilia/Von Pin trying to dissuade her from her plan to capture part of the castle.
"It's won't work, Lady Heterodyne." "You are attempting to pour the ocean into a teacup. And you have actually found a teacup strong enough to hold it." (P2-3 the siege of Mechanicsburg).
We know a few bits about how Lucriaza treated the Castle, the Jaggers, and the town's people, and just the town it's self; and her husband and brother in-law. And it's all purely for her own benefit, with zero love and loyalty to them.
Lucriaza would have also needed to have murdered Barry and Bill at somepoint, after Klaus-Barry.
Because she didn't have access to spark wasps to mind control them. And they appear to have gone to war with her to stop Lucriaza replacing their new baby's mind.
Klaus' bedtime story getting message to Gil about himself being controlled by Lucriaza; shows exactly how Klaus knows she reacts in a position of being power behind the throne.... Not well.
She really hates even the appearance of someone else having the power over her.
Treating the Jaggers like property. Demanding and recieving the master bedroom all for herself, from her husband.
Klaus proxies in Euphrosynia in for Lucriaza and Andronicus for himself.
But it seems like an amalgamation of how Lucriaza treated both Klaus and Bill, in relationships.
The wolf is even described the "good Heterodyne", seems telling that this is how he feels his friend Bill was used by Lucriaza.
Lucriaza did so much of this to get made the Herotrodyne, to take the town of loyal minions, to fully own a comply compliant Castle, to get rid of her baby son and lovingly husband to get it.
Lucriaza tells Castle Herotrodyne that she's "Tired of being under the thumb of my husband's House and tired of being a good little wife!" "And that is the last time you will tell me what I should do or not do!"
And I wonder how long, Prince Aaronev would have lasted after stealing Tarvek's body; and marrying her for the lightning crown. She really really does like sharing the limelights.
Circling back to this after only know realising the discussion kept going, something that interests me about this is that, like... @whimsilica asks if Lucrezia ever really understood the hero philosophy. i don't know if Lucrezia's original plan was as @elf-kid2 and @timkontheunsure lay out, but the pieces seem to fit, so assuming for the moment that we're on the right track, I wonder.
Because like, the eventual arc of the plan seems monstrous, naturally, but the seed of it? Ensure the birth of a Heterodyne daughter raised in the Boys era, and a Storm King heir grown for purpose, matchmake the two of them and leverage the fairy tales (and mind control) to take control of Europa? It's... Well it's a very diplomatic plan for world domination, isn't it? Like, it's not exactly gumdrops and lollipops for everyone, but this is pretty much just regular noble marriage alliance stuff with a few extras added on.
We know from the novels that the Long War never really ended. The Boys quelled the fighting but never really ended it, there's a passage somewhere in the novels that asserts the Heterodyne Boys never saved Europa, but that the value of them was that they inspired hope, reminding people that there was someone out there subduing the madboys and vanquishing the monsters, and succeeding.
Lucrezia was determined to change, to try to be a hero. But she was always going to try to do that as Lucrezia, highborn daughter of Lucifer Mongfish and obviously someone very skilled as a temptress and manipulator. We can presume that the Heterodyne Boys were in at least some sense okay with this; if it were only that she were pretty and alluring, well, 'villain's beautiful daughter' is a common enough trope for Othar Trygvassen (GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!) to holler about it, Bill would've been spoilt for choice.
How much of this plan was cooked up between Lucrezia and the Boys? "End the Long War for real, bring peace to the land, and it doesn't even need us to kill anybody" is the kind of goal the Boys could've gotten on board with, I'd say. How much did they agree to, and how much was Lucrezia modifying the plan behind their backs, as irritations and insecurities ate away at her resolve?
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
today my wisdom is: the ecological crisis of our planet is not a thing that will Suddenly destroy us sometime in the next century—it has taken decades of continuous work for our biosphere to be preserved thus far, and it will take decades more of continuous work to continue preserving it.
The apocalypse is not a single event hovering in the future bearing down on us while we sit helplessly. We are at least 150 years into an ongoing "apocalypse."
Things will continue to steadily get worse without steady action, but "augh! it's already too late to stop climate change and mass extinctions!" is specifically the worst response
what I mean is, there is a persistent fallacy that the present situation of a thing is always worse than the past, even if there have been fluctuations in badness.
This is not true. There is a great wealth of specific cases where ecosystems/species/a specific anthropogenic impact on the environment is CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, better than it has been at any point in the past 100 years
I've been researching the history of conservation in the USA...and I think current doomers would benefit from knowing just how bad things got throughout the 20th century.
The eastern USA's natural environments were fucking razed. We went scorched earth on everything.
In the 1930's, DEER and WILD TURKEYS were almost eliminated from my state. Deer. Wild turkeys. Common animals that you can see all the time.
I've seen animals close to my home that a person in the 1970's would not have been able to see. I saw river otters and a bald eagle a couple months ago! Farmer family friend remembers when a bald eagle sighting here made the news. There is a thriving population of elk (16,000 animals) in the Appalachian Mountains, for the first time since before 1850!
We actively tried to exterminate so many species. Bison. Wolves. Mountain lions. The US GOVERNMENT PAID PEOPLE TO KILL CARNIVORES. They're still here. They're reclaiming their old territories. All is not lost
There was a time most American cities almost never saw a blue sky. Brown and yellow smog was the norm and rivers were garbage sludge that are now teeming with fish. People don't know that government environmental regulation actually did succeed, that the EPA really worked as intended. Now it gets eroded because people think it isn't making a big difference, and they think that because they haven't seen what it's still holding back.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Heh, she’s speaking Portuguese! Here’s what she’s saying:
*baby voice* “… and if you have any questions, just ask me! And now… yeah. And now you draw the roots. You draw them all twisted up! Got it? A flower? Now draw it. Did you get it, Luis Roberto? Did you get it, Jurandir? Look. Did you get it? That’s how you draw a flower.”
Luis Roberto and Jurandir are people names (Jurandir is especially a name associated with older men) so it’s extra funny that the cats are named that, heh.
snowghoul
pixelskylines
dailybridgerton
