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Still shuffling furniture 💀💀💀

Hopefully it'll all be done by Monday

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Pieces had to come in through the window but it worked 🤘

Still moving furniture but there's an end in sight 🎉

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Still moving furniture but there's an end in sight 🎉

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A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

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I really enjoy Audrey being a highly disruptive presence in people's lives. She tends to look at things from an outside angle and doesn't mind saying so, she can be impatient and impulsive, and she doesn't easily take "no" for an answer. But still, she tries to have a good time and wants to bring other people along with her, even if they're not completely on board lol.

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Pinned post update: Audrey's fc is Stephanie Beatriz in Brooklyn 99

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This should have strangely colored billows coming off it actually

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I have so much lore and story and worldbuilding built around Audrey but how to articulate it??

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New worldbuilding tag currently being populated

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Take a walk on the wild side kids

//credit for the amazing art goes to @d-d-disgusting who is absolutely stunning in every way and you should go give them some love right now

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he’s right

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Big Fish

A story from Audrey, in her own words:

Do you want to hear a ghost story?

It's not a very good one

It's only a ghost story because there's a ghost in it.

There's a fort in Russia, in the gulf of Finland, not too far from St. Petersburg. It's not that old, not even over 200 years, and never even saw battle. It was used to research the plague for a little while, a few people died there, but it stopped being useful and the government left it to rot.

Now the place is pretty big, there's three floors in the walls and several inner buildings. You can keep a lot of people in there at once and after it was abandoned in the 1980's it got to be a popular rave spot.

So round about 1987, I happened to be in the neighborhood for some unrelated business and fell in with some local kids who mentioned they needed security for a party they were having.

As it so happens, I said, that's what you might call one of my skills in trade, aside from looking good in a sleeveless knit crop top and a leather skirt and being stone sober.

Whether it was the skirt or the sober that sold it, I was on the staff and riding a boat out to the island one week later.

Now the thing about this place is, it looks spooky. Add all the lights and DJ's and booze and acid you like but under it all its still a big old Soviet brick of a building. It sits on the Gulf like a great bloody toad and people walk in and out like flies.

It's not a nice place.

But the acid kids and the goth washups and the punk wannabees like that sort of thing so they piled into their rafts and pontoons and dad's stolen fishing boats and headed right for the dock.

As raves go it was a pretty good one, nothing especially unusual about it but still pretty good. Decent enough music and lots of pretty lasses and lads running around in their dishevelled best and high off their bonces.

I was keeping busy booting drunks off the dock and breaking up little fights most of the evening but in the wee hours of the morning I had the chance to find myself a cute bloke without any unfortunate facial piercings and we were hitting it off on one of the battlements.

Another thing to remember about this place is, it being in the bloody Gulf of Finland, there's water birds everywhere.

Geese, ducks, scoters, gulls, you name it, they were nesting there. A lot of them buggered off when the party started up but plenty still stayed behind on the roofs and upper halls and battlements.

So this bloke and me, we're getting to know each other, when suddenly every damn bird on that island lost its bloody mind. Such a ruckus you've never heard with the squaucking and honking and screaming all at once.

And just as sudden every single one took off like a shot, like it was that bloody Hitchcock movie, and still screaming bloody murder. Everywhere it was feathers and birds, birds, and more birds. It wasn't just the ones on the island either mind you, I could see them coming in from the mainland too.

And all of them were above us, circling in a flock like I'd not seen in ages. The closest I've ever seen like it was the mad starving flocks you get around fishing boats coming in with a catch. All of them waiting for the opportunity for an easy morsel.

At first none of us knew what the hell to think. Even with a clear head it was bloody baffling and I can guarantee you I was the only one there who was totally clean save a whiskey or three.

But then we saw it.

Everyone was looking up, even in the dark it was impossible to miss.

Right over our heads, swimming through the air like it was a thousand feet of billion year old ocean was the biggest damn fish I've ever seen.

It looked old. Like how you look at crocodiles or sharks or certain birds and know that right there is an animal whose blood hasn't changed a drop in ten millennia or more.

It was as big as a whale but there was none of the soft or sleekness. Just edges of bone and scale and a jaw that could break a ship in half.

You could see through it too, to the bones and fleshy bits, and the birds flying in and out of it like gnats.

I don't know why it was there. That's the unsatisfying part of the story. I don't know of any fossils in the area or any odd rituals conducted by prehistoric worshipping cults or planets aligning just so.

It was...

Mesmerizing

And terrifying

I saw it in a museum again several years later.

It was a dunkleosteus. I could have laid down in the jaws with room to spare and it was still tiny in comparison to what I saw swimming through the sky. I've never seen anything quite like it before or since.

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I am not your rolling wheels

I am the highway

I am not your carpet ride

I am the sky...

I am not your blowing wind

I am the lightning

I am not your autumn moon

I am the night

Meet Audrey Schwartz, a monster hunter, psychopomp, hedonist and werewolf. What can she say, when you've been around for 400 years you've got to stay busy somehow yeah? So are you gonna sit in the corner and stare at your shoes all night kid? Life's too short for regrets!

Rules, info, links and sundry under the cut

Hi, I'm Tora, thanks for stopping by! I'm rebooting this blog after being away for a while and I can't edit the original pages I made but things have changed a bit so feel free to ignore those. Most of what you need to know will hopefully be here to keep things easy.

About me:

I'm well over 21 and have been rping for something like 10 years. I like both long and short rp forms, I'm not too heavy on formatting (I'm stuck on mobile currently) and I mainly enjoy action and adventure themed threads with lots of character and relationship development. I'm unsure how I feel about writing smut at the moment but I'm open to plotting sexual relationships otherwise. Mainly I enjoy things that make me laugh, tho I'm not above some juicy angst and drama lol. My biggest inspirations currently are Discworld, Hellsing, Hellboy, David Lynch's works and the supernatural and strange.

Rules:

Idk, the basics. If I follow you I think youve got something cool going on and want to play! It may take me a moment since I'm busy but bear with me. I'll do the same for you, I know we've all got lives and obligations offline. Take your time. Please no weird drama shit, I'm here for fun. If something bothers you, message me, communication is king and I don't want to upset someone unintentionally. Audrey can be an asshole but I don't want that to bleed into a relationship ooc.

Special note: this is not an ABO blog, I'm not interested in it unless it's to dunk on it.

About Audrey:

Born around 400 years ago to a werewolf and a human in Swedish Livonia, Audrey's had a busy life. There's been ups (fighting demons during the French Revolution) and downs (working for a vampire crime lord in the 60's) and run arounds (eating zombie Hitler?), but that's how it goes innit?

Likes: food, rock music, dancing, sex, video games, old movies, scifi, sticking her nose where it doesn't belong

Audrey is inspired mainly by the story of Thiess of Kaltenbrun and was written to be at home in the Hellsing manga canon but is flexible for most other settings. It means she's rather OP but I try not to take advantage of that, it'd spoil the fun!

Faceclaim: Stephanie Beatriz in Brooklyn 99

Dislikes: the ocean, small spaces, ghosts, gods, faeries, being looked down on

Morality: Chaotic Neutral leaning towards good. Sometimes.

Abilities: super strength, speed, senses and regeneration. Wolf transformation (partial and full), shadow manipulation, shadow wolf transformation, dimension walking, sin eating. Skilled in firearms and bashing skulls with her steel staff.

Weaknesses: silver and wolfsbane. An injury caused by either one will heal at a much slower rate. Loses control of her shifting powers without her wolf-belt. In that case she is forced to transform during the full moon as well as the preceding and following night. She maintains her humanity during her transformation at these times but can lose that coherence under stress.

Personality: Outgoing, passionate, loud, Audrey is determined to live a life without regret by doing what she believes is right. Loyal to her friends, deadly to her enemies, although the two are rarely distinguished by their morals. She travels far and frequently for her job but enjoys making friends whereever she goes and adding to her constantly growing adopted family. She’s honest, often to the point of rudeness but she expects honesty in return and dislikes lying and deceit. Ironically she’s become very good at twisting her words and hiding the truth without actually lying herself. Although she often acts without thinking, she means well and tries her best to help those around her. She's at home with flings and one night stands and flirts easily, tho she tries to respect boundaries if they're laid down. Outside of sexual relationships, she tries to be a mentor and a problem solver although she sometimes causes more problems than she solves. It doesn’t help that she’s extremely confident in the rightness of her actions, particularly when they may be morally questionable.

Links:

Headcanons

Drabbles and Audrey stories

Worldbuilding

Human looks

Wolf looks

Everything in between

My art

Relevant music

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I answer the door covered in blood and bruises and bite marks and I’m like “you should see the other guy” and he’s covered in kisses

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((Audrey questions, you say? I for one would love to know more about the Hounds of God. Literally anything about them that you feel like sharing!))

Alright lessee. They’ve been around for ages. They started out as an Etruscan chthonic guardian cult about oh… 500BCE although the tradition of fighting demons goes back even farther. They went under a multitude of names over time but they always would gather at certain caves once a year and via a magical salve and a few other rituals, become wolves and travel to Hell to fight demons and take back the virtue they had stolen from the land.

The Etruscans traded widely with the ancient world and while their vaults filled with treasures from as far as Celtic Ireland, the Hounds spread their influence, gaining participants across the entirety of Europe. Trading companies were accompanied by at least two senior Hounds who would both protect the merchants and perform their duties of the cult, fighting demons and other agents of Hell wherever they threatened human civilization.

Eventually, Christianity gained influence over the western world and ironically the Hounds were driven underground. They still practiced their rituals every year but they did so in secret, traveling from place to place as performers, tradesmen, tinkers and merchants in order to fulfill their duties.

They could do a lot more than just become wolves. They mastered an in-between form and used five foot long iron rods to beat their enemies. Some members, like Thiess, went on to become powerful magicians and used other magics such as sin eating and world walking, among many others. They were deeply involved in interdimensional politics and helped maintain Earth’s independence from external influence several times over the course of history.

Also, the magic they used to become wolves was strong enough to be passed down to their children and it eventually gave rise to eleven distinct werewolf clans, although barely three are still in existence.So it’s a possibility that Audrey is very distantly related to Thiess by blood, especially given how extensively the clans interbred.