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Fic: Web of Fate, Chapter 7
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rodoTitle: Web of Fate
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author:rodo
Chapter: 7/17+E
Length: 4,420 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.
Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.
( Their second meeting was even more awkward than the first, if anything. )
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author:
rodoChapter: 7/17+E
Length: 4,420 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.
Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.
( Their second meeting was even more awkward than the first, if anything. )
"We had asked for an egg, promising to return it as soon as possible"
Jul. 4th, 2026 08:10 amrydra_wongUpdate:
The Lefebvrians have issued the most hilarious, sanctimonious, jaw-droppingly egotistical, self-martyred, AND THEN YOU'LL BE SORRY response to their excommunications imaginable:
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpresjigf22z (thread)
Commentary:
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mprgjiy73k2h
https://bsky.app/profile/azasloth.bsky.social/post/3mprfzbkikk2s
Also now I'm hung up on the egg thing:
https://bsky.app/profile/malachitetiger.bsky.social/post/3mprkixqaos2r
The Lefebvrians have issued the most hilarious, sanctimonious, jaw-droppingly egotistical, self-martyred, AND THEN YOU'LL BE SORRY response to their excommunications imaginable:
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpresjigf22z (thread)
okay on today’s episode of “Give Us Thia Day Our Daily Thread,” guys the official response from SSPX to their excommunication is fucking hilarious. absolute whiny baby shit
“you are so mean and unfair, yet we heroically forgive you for it with our saintlike forbearance” girl please
Commentary:
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mprgjiy73k2h
Possibly if you thought the church needed you so badly you should not have spent the last 40 years screaming "You're not my REAL Pope" at the guys who were, in fact, your real Popes
https://bsky.app/profile/azasloth.bsky.social/post/3mprfzbkikk2s
You EXCOMMUNICATE Miette like the heretic? Oh! Oh! Jail for Mother Church! Jail for Ten Thousand Years!
Also now I'm hung up on the egg thing:
https://bsky.app/profile/malachitetiger.bsky.social/post/3mprkixqaos2r
I love how badly this metaphor got away from them.
What exactly do you need an egg for so bad that would nevertheless result in you *returning the egg later*??
rydra_wonghttps://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpp226iwoc2j
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=irimtated.bsky.social&post=3mpns6zsf3s2q (thread)
https://bsky.app/profile/hammancheez.bsky.social/post/3mpnzbdcnrs2a
https://bsky.app/profile/mostlybree.kitrocha.com/post/3mpp4xs7bfk2n
https://bsky.app/profile/neolithicsheep.bsky.social/post/3mpoyyzxtek2v
I just think in my heart of hearts that Christofascists don’t ever expect to face consequences because it doesn’t happen nearly as often as it should
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=irimtated.bsky.social&post=3mpns6zsf3s2q (thread)
I've been thinking about how I've been feeling about this, and my friend and I feel slightly guilty about being *so happy about this*. And I wonder if part of it is that we (particularly as brown women) are always asked to bend & build bridges to people who think of us as less than human 1/
https://bsky.app/profile/hammancheez.bsky.social/post/3mpnzbdcnrs2a
Pope : with mercy and love and deep regret, i must call this a schismatic act
Half of bluesky with their shirts off and earrings out ready to brawl outside applebees : GET THEIR ASSES WOOOOO
https://bsky.app/profile/mostlybree.kitrocha.com/post/3mpp4xs7bfk2n
We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases
https://bsky.app/profile/neolithicsheep.bsky.social/post/3mpoyyzxtek2v
It's not that I am suddenly embracing Roman Catholic doctrine wholesale, it's that I am suddenly embracing the amount of spite Bob from Chicago is bringing to the function, as it were.
Chicago pope with a baseball bat
Jul. 2nd, 2026 04:56 pmrydra_wonga) IT'S OFFICIALLY A SCHISM!!!
b) Excommunications for EVERYBODY!!! Not just the consecrators/consecrated!
Not just official members of the society, either, but anyone who formally adheres to them:
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican-declares-sspx-bishops-priests-schismatic-says-lay-faithful-risk-excommunication
Details on what people need to do to get un-excommunicated: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-07/fraternity-saint-pius-x-ways-to-repent-return-full-communion.html
This is a Big Fucking Deal.
And all sacraments administered by the priests from now on are invalid, including marriage and confession.
c) The Vatican is now being very consistent in referring to them as "Lefebvrians" just to make sure everyone knows we're talking about the followers of this antisemitic piece of shit:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/feb/19/richard-williamson-lefebvre
https://www.ncronline.org/news/lefebvre-movement-long-troubled-history-judaism
d)synecdochic is awake: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpod4qebxk25
and explaining things: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpojo257e22r (thread)
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpokam4ft22r (thread)
Conclusion of thread: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpos4ov4t22r
e) For anyone catching up, Claire Willett has been providing invaluable Schismwatch reportage:
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpkuvtp2ms2s
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mplzv67h7s2j
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpnitsarss2h
f) Also I need to make sure that everyone knows the schismatic act had MERCH:
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/sspx-consecrates-bishops-in-defiance-of-rome-s-schism-warning
Also white baseball caps printed with "Écône 2026" were distributed at the entrance, apparently.
b) Excommunications for EVERYBODY!!! Not just the consecrators/consecrated!
Not just official members of the society, either, but anyone who formally adheres to them:
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican-declares-sspx-bishops-priests-schismatic-says-lay-faithful-risk-excommunication
Though the statement did not define what constitutes formal adherence to the schism for laypeople, it explicitly upheld a 1996 note from the then-Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, which said formal adherence to the schism was comprised of two elements: consciously choosing adherence to the society over obedience to the pope, and "exclusive participation in Lefebvrian 'ecclesial' acts, without taking part in the acts of the Catholic Church," referencing the group's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
Details on what people need to do to get un-excommunicated: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-07/fraternity-saint-pius-x-ways-to-repent-return-full-communion.html
This is a Big Fucking Deal.
And all sacraments administered by the priests from now on are invalid, including marriage and confession.
c) The Vatican is now being very consistent in referring to them as "Lefebvrians" just to make sure everyone knows we're talking about the followers of this antisemitic piece of shit:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/feb/19/richard-williamson-lefebvre
https://www.ncronline.org/news/lefebvre-movement-long-troubled-history-judaism
d)
synecdochic is awake: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpod4qebxk25and explaining things: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpojo257e22r (thread)
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpokam4ft22r (thread)
Conclusion of thread: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpos4ov4t22r
No more His Holiness Nice Pope indeed. Benedict and Francis tried the carrot. Leo is bringing the Chicago baseball bat of loving fraternal correction to the problem now.
e) For anyone catching up, Claire Willett has been providing invaluable Schismwatch reportage:
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpkuvtp2ms2s
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mplzv67h7s2j
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpnitsarss2h
also in case you have missed the excellent memes about this in the replies:
yes, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith did in fact used to be called the Inquisition
you may be familiar with their earlier work
f) Also I need to make sure that everyone knows the schismatic act had MERCH:
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/sspx-consecrates-bishops-in-defiance-of-rome-s-schism-warning
For the occasion, the SSPX even sold commemorative items, including an exclusive 75 Swiss franc box of wine — about $92.50 — called “Cuvée des Sacres,” featuring pinot noir, syrah, petit arvine, and fendant, with each bottle decorated with the image of one of the consecrated bishops.
Also white baseball caps printed with "Écône 2026" were distributed at the entrance, apparently.
Birds of War
Jul. 1st, 2026 08:36 amrydra_wongThe Guardian: ‘Get away from there – run!’ The stunning film about love blossoming amid the carnage of Aleppo
Like Boulos, I also covered the siege of Aleppo from afar. Every day, I would check the shifting frontlines and where bombs had dropped via real-time maps, exchanging messages and voice notes with civilians and activists, getting to know a place and its people intimately, but through a screen. The documentary is the best depiction I’ve come across of the powerlessness and guilt that those of us on the other end of a shaky internet connection feel while friends and loved ones in besieged and blockaded places go through hell.
They talked about the traffic light footage classification system in the Q&A, but I didn't know they'd actually had a psychotherapist involved. In the Q&A they said part of the function was to avoid traumatizing their editor too; they had extensive discussions in advance so the editor didn't even have to see any red footage unless they were certain it was necessary for him to.
https://www.birdsofwarfilm.com/ -- has listings for where it's showing in the UK and Ireland
Like Boulos, I also covered the siege of Aleppo from afar. Every day, I would check the shifting frontlines and where bombs had dropped via real-time maps, exchanging messages and voice notes with civilians and activists, getting to know a place and its people intimately, but through a screen. The documentary is the best depiction I’ve come across of the powerlessness and guilt that those of us on the other end of a shaky internet connection feel while friends and loved ones in besieged and blockaded places go through hell.
They talked about the traffic light footage classification system in the Q&A, but I didn't know they'd actually had a psychotherapist involved. In the Q&A they said part of the function was to avoid traumatizing their editor too; they had extensive discussions in advance so the editor didn't even have to see any red footage unless they were certain it was necessary for him to.
https://www.birdsofwarfilm.com/ -- has listings for where it's showing in the UK and Ireland
"for everyone who is rubbernecking the 'big boat stuck' of the ex-Catholic world"
Jun. 30th, 2026 05:30 pmrydra_wongsynecdochic is explaining Catholic Church inside baseball again:https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpj5yrntqc2v (thread)
Previous rounds of Pope-exegesis:
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3loqsfhswjk2r
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3m3eovdxmwk2z
Fic: Web of Fate, Chapter 6
Jun. 28th, 2026 12:01 pmrodoTitle: Web of Fate
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author:rodo
Chapter: 6/17+E
Length: 4,341 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.
Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.
( “The cushy job with command, I see,” Malthus said. )
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author:
rodoChapter: 6/17+E
Length: 4,341 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.
Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.
( “The cushy job with command, I see,” Malthus said. )
