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wheres that post thats like "was it a glow up or were you 13" bc that's how I feel about some ppl talking about claggor

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dogs playing poker is over, it’s time for them to hustle at pool

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i got embarrassed trying to find more examples but like fuck....... fuck.............

kinda feel like santa is the final ideal form. like sometimes i see iterations of him that are just like. fuck.... i wanna look like that eventually...

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everyone take a look at my friend @reborn--maggot 's gay ass OCs who are gaymarried

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everyone take a look at my friend @reborn--maggot 's gay ass OCs who are gaymarried

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just checked into the hotel california. hope there’s nothing unusual about their checkout policy

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kinda feel like santa is the final ideal form. like sometimes i see iterations of him that are just like. fuck.... i wanna look like that eventually...

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grinding and cramming for finals when I'd rather be grinding and cramming. in like a sex way or something. i guess. i dunno. shuffles away sadly. hits my head on a low-hanging branch and bleeds out in the snow

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i should star trek.............

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a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

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ok last question(s) (maybe) 1) i would love to know more abt cliff’s touched powers and 2) what is the household like when eddie is living there?

Cliff's powers are generally modeled after folk creatures akin to Nixies and suchlike, but they've become kind of freeform after a while, with deciding on "rule of cool" powers and whatever feels like it makes sense in whatever context I'm working with.

With effort, the persuasion power can definitely get very intense, to the point where if there's enough desire or willpower behind something, he doesn't even really have to say something specific to get it to happen. This does take a LOT of effort, and he can absolutely overexert himself doing this.

There's also general things as well that aren't necessarily powers, like his ability to hold his breath underwater for a very very long time, the aforementioned night vision, other things that come with the concept of effectively morphing into a deep sea creature. He also heals faster than normal, he can last longer without food or water, so on.

As for the household... honestly, it was very quiet. Since Cliff and Johnny moved into Voss Manor, there were still some staff members who had been there before the tragedy. Eddie had tutors, general caretakers, etc, and Cliff and Johnny still had.... intensive full-time jobs. Eddie was a reserved and quiet kid even before everything happened, so he didn't really seek out much connection with the guys, choosing to focus on school and research and eventually work and dedicating herself to that completely.

Voss Manor is where Cliff grew up, and being back there did not conjure many happy memories, so combined with the fallout from the tragedy (physical as well as emotional), AND with his general disinterest in big changes in his life, it didn't make for a very good time for a while.

Ed and the guys coexisted peacefully, and they cared about each other, but there wasn't much... family stuff happening. Which was fine. It just meant that it was quiet.

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Hello dear,

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I cannot afford the treatment I need and am struggling to cope with the pain. If I don't receive help, my suffering will become unbearable.

Please consider donating to help me get the necessary treatment and travel abroad for further care. Any contribution, no matter how small, will make a huge difference.

https://gofund.me/4745e8d0

Thank you for your kindness and support.

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Hello dear friend 💚, my family and I have lost everything in the Gaza war 💔. We're struggling to survive. Even a small donation (5 dollar) could make a huge difference for us. Please check our pinned post. Thank you so much ❤️.

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PLEASE expand on cliff is not technically human. and literally anything else ur thinking abt rn they are lowkey my everything i love gay edwardian weirdos. (also us 🤝 having gay weirdos around the turn of the century and i love that for us)

SO this world is very. Magic and monster heavy it's like. Magic steampunk. Very fun. But what that means is that there are! Monsters! And humans come into contact with less friendly ones from time to time. Cliff in particular interacted with a very nasty monster that I've dubbed "Welly" because I haven't figured out a proper name and it hung out in the well behind his house a lot.

Cliff did not have an awesome childhood so he would hang out in his backyard or in the woods near his house, and Welly was also there, and it tried to get him to be its friend, so that it could. Basically kidnap him and turn him into a monster! <3. He never actually agreed, but there was enough happening that Welly locked in on Cliff and did not ever give up on trying to get him. He and Welly 'talked' probably between ages 8-12, before he decided he genuinely didn't want anything to do with it and stopped going out and talking to it.

During a walk into the woods with his older brother, Theo, when Cliff was around 13, they ended up near a smaller lake and Welly (being a water-based creature) just kind of reached out and grabbed Cliff and dragged him under the surface to try and drown him out of anger (since he refused to go with it), and... it did! It just didn't kill him.

Cliff after that was different, of course, fitting into a type of person I've been calling Touched people- humans that have been exposed to enough magical/monstery interference that they start slowly (or not so slowly) experiencing physical changes and becoming more and more like the monsters/things that 'corrupted' them, in a sense.

The changes were kind of subtle at first, like his eye color slowly shifting from green to blue, but other things have cropped up over time. Physical changes for Cliff range from "he's a bit paler now" to "He has fangs now" or even eventually a spikey gnarly fin situation running down his spine. He also gained the ability to shift his appearance after a while, which he typically uses to hide visible scarring on his face or hands/arms.

Other things Cliff can do include some mind-control-esque things I've been referring to as like, persuasion powers? It works roughly like Allison Umbrella Academy's rumor power, in which he can tell someone to do something and pump just enough willpower into it that they simply follow through with whatever that is. He does not like this power and does not use it often (intentionally). He did actually use it on Theo specifically to force him to leave Johnny alone, making it impossible for Theo to directly harm or attack Johnny... ever. This was necessary, but their sibling horrors can be saved for another time.

He can also soothe/cool injuries (in particular burns) with his hands, he's not really sure how, it just works. On the more extreme side of things he can (on occasion, as it takes a lot of focus and skill) pull the water out of plants (and probably animals if he tried but he's not interested), killing them pretty quickly and definitively. He can also after a certain point produce a sedative-type venom that mixes with his saliva, which he found out about... while making out with Johnny. And he accidentally knocked him out for upwards of 9ish hours. It was spooky!

But all of this to say! He is no longer technically human. He has sensitivities to iron and silver, to the point where it does burn him if he touches it for too long, his eyes are weird and fucked up (guy has night vision effectively), he's stronger than most people reasonably are, his body reacts to most things... differently!

Conveniently, Johnny is one of the leading medical researchers on how best to treat and care for Touched people due to the uniqueness of each person's circumstances, and he and Cliff definitely talk about/research a lot of things directly.

I was trying to keep this one relatively short because there's just SO much to say regarding Cliff's beastliness, and I definitely didn't cover all of his abilities, but this seemed like a fair amount of yap for now.

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THEY ARE SO SWEETIE i would love to hear more abt what they’re like at home just chilling <3 (also. which one is the blue one and which is the green one 💀)

(Cliff is the blue one Johnny's the green one lmao 💀💀💀)

Since they both work pretty intensive jobs, they don't typically have a lot of chilling time (although I do think they've worked out days off at some point) but they definitely spend that time RELAXING. They usually will find each other wherever they are and just hang out in each other's presence.

For instance, if Cliff's sitting on the couch and reading in the living room Johnny will wander in and lie down with his head on Cliff's lap and just stay there, maybe reading his own book but sometimes just looking up at Cliff and admiring him bc he's dumb and also gay.

There's a lot of just casual clinginess between them, and when they're at home it's amplified so so much. Cliff is very physical contact focused it's very nice for him autism style so even just holding hands with Johnny is heaven. This is specifically really obvious with how much they grab/hold/cup each other's faces (a lot. so much.) or snuggle up next to each other. Unfortunately, Johnny is banned from sitting on Cliff while Cliff's actively trying to work on things at his desk because they get very distracted very quickly and no work gets done.

Expanding on the inability to escape in the morning Cliff is such a snoozer he will usually wake up when he needs to but on days when Johnny has an early morning and Cliff doesn't, Johnny will try and wriggle out of Cliff's arms and he'll wake up just enough to say "noooo....." and hold on tighter and trap him. Forever. Johnny does this too but he doesn't usually wake up when he does. Johnny will typically end up clinging fully onto Cliff like a koala so it's hard for Cliff to free himself.

Overall they distract each other a decent amount due to being gay and in love so they have to be conscious of how much cuddling/kissing/etc happens while they're cooking so they don't burn their house down bc they're busy making out. Lmao.

They're so so so sweetie for real they love each other so much they're each other's WORLDS genuinely. Gay people forever and ever. And ever.

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can we hear more abt ur gay little edwardian weirdos (clifford and johnathan) please 🙏

YES we can!! Cliff and Johnny Butler-Voss they can never make me hate you...

So Cliff and Johnny are technically side characters in the world of This Too Shall Pass, featuring Eddie Voss and Kal Marsalis, but this ain't about them.

The key points about Cliff and Johnny are that they are (were.) gaymarried, met at work and pined over each other for TWO YEARS or something stupid before they realized they liked each other and went on some silly goofy dates, dated for a while, got married, lived happily ever after for about 10 years before Johnny. Died. Thumbsup emoji.

They work at an organization that's basically just Candela Obscura but shifted slightly bc I originally created Edwin as a playable character for the game and it just snowballed. Cliff works more on the monster hunty field agent side of things, and Johnny is a doctor, so they saw a whole lot of each other due to Cliff's impressive and chronic recklessness. It was torturous during their mutual pining phase since Johnny had to keep being in Cliff's personal space. A lot.

Due to Cliff's amazing combination of autism and trauma, he didn't realize a relationship was on the table until probably their 5th date when Johnny actively brought it up, and after a major freakout and a vague apology, they started dating! Yay! There were some vague obstacles regarding their relationship and it being respected by their relatives, as both of them unfortunately have mildly (Johnny) to incredibly (Cliff) homophobic relatives lmao, but it was mostly resolved and Johnny's parents did end up attending the wedding so yay.

They are CUDDLEBUGS the amount of PDA these guys put people through is embarrassing. They cling to each other constantly, usually Cliff draping himself over Johnny's shoulders while he's doing something (working, writing, cooking, etc), but Johnny will lean into Cliff's side a lot and Cliff will instinctively wrap his arm around Johnny bc they are gay and in love with each other. They snuggle up with each other overnight to the point where they kinda need to wake up at the same time because if one of them is still asleep the other one will not be able to escape with how tangled up they get. They love each other. Bad. Bad bad.

I do feel like there's an obligation to go into how/when Johnny died but also I'm in sweetness mode so in as few words as possible, it was very violent and traumatic and Cliff was there but he was not there on time. It was bad <.3.

IFFF YOU HAVE! Any questions comments concerns requests for elaboration et cetera. Please let me know. I love these guys so so bad it's embarrassing. It's goofy. I love them.

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WHOA!!!!! i love my friends' ocs