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Happy weed day here's a shitty doodle of Casey doing weed

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Marlowe doesn't remember Mia before her death.

Not well, anyways. He doesn't remember how she smiled after their first kiss, he can barely recall what started it in the first place. He doesn't know every freckle on her skin off the top of his head anymore. Marlowe can't remember how Mia's skin felt when she was still warm.

No, Marlowe remembers how she looked like dead. Only remembers how her eyes looked once they were cold, glazed. Marlowe remembers the way her throat was maimed, how the blood felt pooling down his face and onto his feet, hot and sticky and sickening.

Marlowe remembers feeling so hot and cold at the same time, remembers the way he gasped and wheezed for breath, unable to get enough in his lungs for it to actually do anything. He remembers how he felt better after, how he felt sated, how the ache in his stomach and chest was gone when he came to his sense.

And Marlowe hates himself for it.

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Istg if someone makes art of Marlowe and Mia based off Jack Stauber's library vid I will kiss them on the mouth with tongue

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“Not to mention your drop dead gorgeous~”

“Then when I actually saw you, I nearly dropped them for an entirely different reason..”

Here a sketch of gem that’s a little less chibi like. fun fact their eyes are apparently green!

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Tw: guns??

Anyways uhhhh Dove art I don't feel like finishing!!! 🔥🔥

Original under cut

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WHY THE FUCK IS THE MASOCHIST TANGO IS CYRILS SPOTIFY PLAYLIST??? HE ON THAT FREAK FREAK SHIT GODDAMN..

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General Reverie-verse hcs (not character specific) because it's fun and I'm fucking insane

So there was this paranormal TV show back in the 2000s, and the host was constantly trying to prove the existence of aliens, except all of his proof was just from the attuned. He has become very famous for this, but not for the reasons he probably wanted, just because he's an inside joke for attuned people.

Elves have tails, essence eaters have two rows of teeth. The tails are because elves, to me at least, feel like if humans evolved to be more animalistic (hense the ears), and the teeth are just because I think it's cool.

A very popular debate online is whether or not it's okay to have sex with a shifter in their shifted form. It's not, that's fucking gross.

There's this book made by an attuned author that, to the average person, seems like fantasy, but is completely based off true things. It was written because the author thought it'd be funny to see how long people go before finding out 'oh my god, the book isn't fantasy.'

There is a witch on tiktok who worships the same gods fire demons do to seem different and cool. She gets half the mythos right, has no clue that they're inferno dominion gods, and isn't aware of the attuned.

The paraphilia for someone who is only into the attuned is called Archanophillia

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Uhhhh so Cyril could outlive Dove and basically everyone he knows so here's some hcs for if he makes it to like 70+ (because Altair said IF and I'm still hung up about that

Dove ends up being forced to retire by the higher ups around 55, Cyril found it extremely funny that they had to be dragged out of The Institute kicking and screaming. (Cyril will act the same way when he is forced to retire, and he will think it's ironic.)

60 is when Dove starts rushing to just do things before their body gives out on them. It takes a few months of being forced to watch them do dangerous, terrifying shit until Cyril realizes that "oh, right, people can die"

Cyril watches as they grow feeble, as their skin starts to sag off their bones. They're not as scared as he is, why aren't they as scared as he is?

Dove ends up perishing at 74. Heart problems, it ran in their family. Cyril didn't cry in the hospital, standing over their deathbed. He didn't process it at the time, or for the next week or two. It's like something in him was telling him that this will be over soon, that Dove will come home one day and things will be back to normal.

Elis is the next to go, dying at 76 due to natural causes. Their partner went a couple years earlier, Elis cried at their funeral.

The house is so quiet without them, without anyone to peak at his work from over his shoulder, or to find the weirdest fucking books for him. Cyril only gets to visit the bookshop once before it was bought by someone else. They kept it relatively the same, of course, but going near it makes his throat close up. He really wishes he took more pictures of his friends, he's started to forget what their face looked like.

Cyril stops talking to as many people after Elis dies, especially if they weren't coworkers. He ends up in the hospital for dehydration twice, and, with nobody there to remind him to eat, he ends up losing a lot of weight.

Cyril dies at 128 due to natural causes. He's buried next to his Dove.

Uhhhhh I don't really have anything else and this is embarrassing enough as is to post, soooo... Elis and Gem get a second cat and name it French Toast, there.

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If Talus was human he'd be that one rich girl on tiktok who was asking homeless people why they don't just buy a house

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head in hands thinking about faustin and reuben. assorted hcs / writing about them cus im insane and this will be long no matter what i try to do. the lauriet family is taking over my mind

i think it's an adorable idea that perhaps faustin was just absolutely diabolically pining over ruben for a decent few years. especially if they had a similar academic rival relationship before dating like cyril and dove, which is one reason reuben is so up to teasing cyril about his newfound love.

both are around 70 y/o and have been together for at least 30 years because they had cyril in their 40's

but having a child together is not a early-relationship decision so i'm going to just say they were together for about? 10-15 years before having cyril? so in total thats ≈40-45 years of being together !! so by elven equivalent they've been together since late highschool-early college. but because of human lifespans that means they were likely apprentices at the institute and such together in their respective fields.

maybe it was through dumb luck, maybe fate, maybe some sort of divine intervention, but at one point their studies overlapped and that's how they met and faustin fell first, no doubt in my mind. perhaps he even fell harder as well, after all, they are said to be "sickeningly in love" and that faustin would just listen and nod as reuben rambles while still fully listening...

he caught himself staring at this completely strange elf more than he found himself working with him. at first maybe he was furious he was now finding himself rivaled by a stranger, but then he found himself studying botany in his freetime just to have something to talk to reuben about or even going as far as having lunch with him under the guise of "team bonding".

he had absolutely no clue why his heart practically burst through his ears with how fast it ran whenever reuben would grab his arm to get his attention, even less of a clue why he found himself falling horribly in love with a botanist of all people.

he even surprised himself when he found himself drunk that night, pressing messy kisses to reuben's lips as the other equally-drunk man roamed his hands down faustin's spine like he was trying to memorize every groove of his academic rival.

(the gossip spread horribly fast after that night, faustin wanted to die then and there when he woke up in reuben's bed without a shirt, trying to figure out what the hell happened)

but that's when reuben started waking up early, coming to his room every morning early as a bird just to braid his hair. before faustin knew it, he barely even touched his own scalp anymore, his body preferring the warm hands of the man who'd become reuben faustin alongside him.

before he knew it though they were dating, and then he was proposing, then he was planning a spring wedding with the man he had at one point been trying to one up at every corner, and then having a child of all things?

he will never admit the way he cried when cyril was born, either, pushing his glasses up onto the top of his head to wipe his eyes as his husband teased him relentlessly for it, even though he himself was crying at the sight of this newborn boy reaching up towards the stars trying to capture them in his coo-ing grasp.

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Finishing editing Cyril's patreon audio and it's a doozy. Just to give you an idea- while recording, it got so intense that my hands temporarily went numb lmao

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so yk how Marlowe said that feeding through the flesh used to have two meanings? Uhhh au where Axel does both :33

Mysterious syran wrapped meat appears in the circle's fridge sometimes and nobody knows who's it is. Also Sunshine is a masochist now

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Took a break from working on patreon stuff to finish up my character relationship map and now that I'm zoomed out... hm

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my mental cyril design is like 99% taken from dnd moon elves (subrace of high elves lmao) tbh. mostly bc of his color palette

yk, like. greenish eyes with parchment-gold flecks in them (or like the golden embossing on the books on cyril's color palette image)

also cyril with black hair just makes sense fight me

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HC: most of Dove's visions get sillified

Spoilers(?) but this is to say that this is 100% how Dove knows abt the Starlings (unless..?)

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So uh I started listening to Redacted and the freelancer listener playlist and I just got to Huxley and GRRTASBBBHAHGAG BARK WOOF BARK BARK I NEED TO VEAT HIM TO DEADTH WITH A SLEDGHAMMER

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So I watched the end of the stream..