#:chinhands: beloved

[redoceanlikethat]

Vegas Tags Preserved For LOLZ:

#RULE NUMBER ONE PEOPLE#NEVER ACCEPT FOOD FROM THE FAE#THIS IS THE VAN CANDY OF FAERIELAND#do not do it#even if its jeff 'totally normal human guy' satur

HE BROUGHT HER FRUIT??? 🥺🥺🥺

[exaltedfuzz]

*Chinhands* Tell us more about your... scaly? Boy Siegvard. :vc

Quite excited to hear that you're interested in him, anon!

Sieg is a dragon. He's technically a DnD character, but I don't play, so I've let my DM friend use him as an NPC, and it's been exciting watching them put him to good use. Had him kicking about in the OC bucket since 2018, but I got super into developing him last year. Ended up writing 35 pages of straight prose (with interspersed poetry, would you believe it) about him. He was very informed by the characters in the texts I was reading at uni at the time (mostly Beowulf, which is, confusingly enough, the name of Sieg's closest friend in the text.)

Generally though, the blurb I gave my DM goes as follows. He's a bit more complex than this, and he has a lot of backstory, but it's quite a lot to go into.

Siegvard (CHAOTIC NEUTRAL) Born from the crest of chaos’ flame, Siegvard von Morddrache is the formidible, imposing figure lurking in the doorway of Barenhunger’s guildhall. His frame stands at 7 and a half feet, though many argue more. He’s fierce, intense and can hardly hear reason, let alone listen to it - he’s an old man, after all - or so it would seem. At a glance, you’d say he was nearing 50, were he to be human, yet he’s not one second past his prime. His reactions are sharp, his eyes wide and wild, and his axe, bigger than any normal man and almost like another limb.

He’s quick to anger, and his anger is quick to fruition. However, he has a soft spot for his beloved guild. Having founded Barenhunger longer ago than most care to recall, he’s upheld his promise to his partner in life, Beowulf, to never let down or betray their guild. He’s like a father to his people, respected and feared, but on the occasion that he cracks a smile, full of sharp, bright teeth, it’ll be with his guild. When he’s with them, he’s affable, jovial, and entirely unlike himself. Ask a guild member and they’ll say it’s because he’s with Beowulf’s lingering spirit. He was never really the same after his death and can rarely bring himself to speak of him now, bar in the occasional weak, fond remark.

His anger is one thing, but his rage is explosive, past what anyone could imagine. Some say they’ve seen him break out in more scales, his eyes have glowed, but no living man, and very few dead, has seen the upper limit of the hunger of Siegvard’s axe. He locks himself away often, and turns at the drop of a hat. He’s unpredictable and dangerous, and he who dares stoke his flame shall have to be contented in knowing it will be the last light he sees. He’s solemn, usually quiet, and when he starts shaking with anger, bowing his head, and labouring his breath, be thankful that he’s trying to delay the inevitable - the unleashing of the Monster of Barenhunger.

[pissthena]

For the character opinion bingo, you’d think I’d say Crowley (and I do, pls do him), but also I’m curious how you feel about Cas and also Dean so *chinhands* hi

Hi! :D *waves*

Crowley, my beloved

(Bastard and biting lovingly♥) I love my little guy, he's one of the characters in any media that made the biggest impact on me.

Castiel, baby boy

I love his design so much, its so simple yet so recognisable. He's just a lil guy :3 (ignore his genocide)

Dean, cutie patootie

Early/mid show Dean will forever be my favourite version. I do like later season Dean, but he was often so angry or aggressive :( I miss when he was more fun. That being said, he was still great♥

[fleet-off]

*chinhands* talk to me about the WIPs you want to share with the world and how they came to be.

Lilyyyyy. Baiting me with this question when you know I have too many WIPs (16! 16 with 2k+ words apiece! it's a compulsion!). Here are my three immediate priorities once Lapping at the Edges is complete:

Body Bag: The one where Pete finds playing dead relaxing and Vegas decidedly does not. It’s a nonsexual bondage body-disposal roleplay gone wrong, featuring failure to safeword on Vegas’s part and dom drop, followed by hurt/comfort aftercare sex next to the shallow grave Vegas dug for Pete on his request. Their sex life is so weird here. Vegas’s preoccupation with death symbolism is a delight to write from the outside, and the remnants of Pete’s fucked-up passive death wish equally so. And I get to write my favorite unhealthy kink headcanon for them, where they’re both terrible at safewording because one of them has been conditioned to accept punishment and the other believes he deserves it. I am incredibly excited for this fic.

And speaking of bad communication and a preoccupation with death!

Stable Delusion: the resurrection AU, beloved. My little novella about shadows and concealment, empty mirrors and guilt, still waters and autonomy, and Vegas achieving a horror so miraculous that Pete can never know. I woke up months ago with the prologue in my notes app and no memory of writing it, and I’ve been obsessing about it since. Here’s a fresh excerpt (warning for the physical results of S/M):

On the other side of the mirror, Vegas’s skin was a tapestry of damage. Rope burns crowded the insides of his wrists. Dull red lines scored his chest and what Pete could see of his throat. He wore a mass of bite marks on his stomach and bare legs, and a circle of them around his hip. The body was Vegas’s, but the marks belonged to Pete—each a match for one Vegas himself had laid into his flesh. Outside his own skin, he could better appreciate the skill in the patterns of welts peeking past the insides of Vegas’s thighs, the artistry in the pretty chaos of bruises blooming across his belly, the affection in the purples of Vegas’s thumbprints on either side of his throat. In the logic of Pete’s dream, all of this seemed just. If the marks were Pete’s, then they were Vegas’s too, surely. But if Vegas was to have marks, shouldn’t Pete be the one to bestow them?

and third,

Off the Handle: Vegas doesn’t know how to handle low-level family conflict. A tiff over the dishwasher leads him to start sabotaging the means for Pete or Macau to harm themselves. Here’s the bit of the outline that made me fall in love with this one:

And finally Pete approaches him like. “Hey, so Macau found all the kitchen knives stashed behind the DVD player. Is this why we’ve been ordering so much takeout lately?” And, “It’s not ideal as a weapons stash, is the thing. People reach back there without looking. It’s not accessible during an attack. We need those knives for cooking. Also, Macau’s not going to tell you, but it really freaked him out.” And at last, “Is this because I tried to put them in the dishwasher?” “You don’t put wooden handles in the dishwasher.” “…Right.” Pete steels his shoulders, curls his hands in Vegas’s. “Hey. Are you planning something?” Vegas blinks. “The fuck could I be planning? I have nothing to plan.” “You hid the kitchen knives. You said the old ropes were starting to fray, but it’s been two weeks and you keep putting off buying new ones. The lock on the bathroom door is still broken. Your pain meds are gone. Why are your pain meds gone?” “Why are you getting into my meds?” “You know we need you, right?” And Pete’s eyes are dark and earnest, and his fingertips flutter, broken wings against Vegas’s palms. “Vegas, you know I need you?”

Thank you for the opportunity to ramble, Lily! Of course, there’s also a wip that a certain someone has been encouraging me to write despite my own protestations (thank you), and perhaps a recently-learned definite date around which I’d love to offer the story to that particular someone…but I’ll leave those details up in the air (😋) for now.

[sleepynegress]

Guess Who Already Got a Season 3 Filmed?

UPLOAD is back. I am down for the strike, but selfishly happy this show got another season filmed. It'll drop in October. That second season was mid so I'm hoping they recapture the magic they had in season 1.

So, I said some ish in the tags, but I'm gonna make my case for why #ThisIsARec (at least season one is) here, since I never see or hear much talk about it! The show centers on a young woman named Nora (played by Prince protegee and Cameroonian actress and musician Andy Allo) who is in a capitalist future dystopia working as a low-paid customer service agent for a digital "after-life" conglomerate. So, it is one of the only shows lead by a black woman (mixed race). One of her clients is a newly dead digital "upload" of a man who may have been murdered for his freeware version of a digital afterlife (played the non-problematic member of the Amell family, Robbie). The show is a sitcom, without multi-cams or laugh tracks, created by the people who brought us Parks and Rec. It dropped in the mid-2010's but is weirdly prophetic with all the near-future markers, from masks to casual treatment of insane classicism and an inflation economy, far-beyond living wages...

There are even hints at the solar-punk solution that was well covered in Pop Culture Detective's recent video about it, centered on the Disney bomb (another one that they didn't promote but should have, Strange World another rec, btw). It's dark comedy, but somehow comforting to watch too? IDK how they did it. The leads have good chemistry ( a scene where she touches his arm has more heat than full-blown sex scenes in other media) and she actually has black family and a black BFF(!), which is like a 'there can be only one' Highlander rarity in media...They never let WOC/black women socialize in these things! Mind you, I did think her friend, Aleesha, played by Zainab Johnson leaned a little bit too much on the sassy trope, but after rewatching, I like that she round-the-way, but *still* the smartest in the room. It's just QT and charming and a lovely uplifting watch, with an underpinning of that dark laughter of recognition of how well it skewers capitalism.

And the lead couple is *chinhands* shippable. It's a very quick binge with 9 half-hour eps and one slightly longer pilot ep. You know I am super-picky with my recs. I can distinguish from my terrible but beloved media which you won't see me tag with #thisisarec.

So, even tho that second season is a rushed, mid, disappointment... #ThisIsARec

UPLOAD is on AmazonPrime

[lambentgrey]

👯‍♀️🔬✍️? :chinhands:

send me some q's abt tlt!

thank u pal!! <3

👯 which twin is worse and why?

look i'm Aware of the almost-naming lore (and like. i'm assuming the names that end with "-beth" went to the same character, but that's a big assumption to make lmao) but from what we've read so far, i feel like ianthe is worse because she's both calculating and able to carry out whatever plans she has. idk if we can say that for certain abt corona (yet--i'm fully prepared to reevaluate how i see corona based on whatever happens in atn). ianthe was doing necromancy for two for 20+ years, is powerful even as what harrow perceives to be a dilettante, and makes decisions that get her closer to power (see: saving jod instead of her mentor at the end of htn). i think she has her own agenda but is willing to go along with jod's so long as it serves her purpose too

🔬 who is your fav lyctor and why?

MERCYMORN MY BELOVED. i want augustine carnally :/ (i think bc i've assigned him like. a polished, older version of james-marsters-as-spike but with leyendecker aesthetics in my head) but mercy <333 i love immortal characters whose immortality makes them terminally fucking weird and she fits that so well. i love that she was one of the few people in htn openly opposing jod, even on seemingly small things, and that she gets so close to pulling off a decades-long plot only to fuck it up because she became too overwhelmed, and that she STILL loves cristabel so much that she forgives john for EVERYTHING because he claims he honestly meant cristabel no harm! also learning about what she was like pre-resurrection versus what she Became was narratively satisfying (put that woman in moral quandries!)

✍️ of the supporting characters, who's pov would you be most interested in reading?

i gave one answer to this question here but! i'd Love to read hot sauce's perspective tbh, particularly her backstory. she's a victim of the empire in a very literal sense that we haven't seen directly; like nona, she has a completely different understanding of the nine houses and necromancy than what we've been privy to so far

[toestalucia]

speaking of the anime,,,,s1 art direction my beloved,,,

chinhands

pained smile (best scene in the WORLD BTWWWWW U SHOULD WATCH S1 FOR THE ENDING and then s2 for the vira arc

acturally rly fond of these (only s2 stuff i have thats not screenshots of the ferry ep JKBKADBJKAD THE 2ND GETS ME SOO BAD CUZ its the frame with io & vyrn being like that too................im so fond of gran & io, kids with important parents............ios mom who died saving the town....dearly departed your legacy lives on............gambantein (tears up). idk when i last talked about this but im a strong believer of gran & io lamenting their family situations together but also feeling bad about it cuz they lov their parents -> ppl who Gets e/o. refuses to have these conversations in front of the letter / gambantein cuz it does Not feel okay. ios reactions to hearing about grans dad & gran laughing like haha yeah thatd be something in s1 is like. to this day. so important to me. I THINK THEYRE GREAT the one person i actively see gran viewing as a little sister

[magesmiths]

wish that lil discord bot would stop bothering me every time i type a custom emoji out in dms with pals

no i don't have nitro

no that won't stop me from saying :chinhands: leave me alone clyde

[tahthetrickster]

i just want more horror games to effectively play with the concept of “player-as-a-character” that were done so well as such a creeping horror genre in “off” and the no mercy “undertale” run... like, i’m still not over the effect of growing increasingly uneasy with a fairly generic fighting rpg as you play through it only to have the game itself confront you, the character, at the end in such a jarring twist to the narrative. you spent this whole game thinking how twisted this main character is, but... it’s a video game. you may have forgotten, but that character doesn’t do a thing without you telling them to. you could’ve stopped at any time. you may have been deceived to start, but by the end of the game you knew this was wrong. you continued on in spite of it. this suffering was at your hand, and this suffering is on your hands. you actively enabled every single atrocity. sit with that for a minute. now live with yourself

[sleeplessangelsgame]

chinhands 😌 how would the ROs react to being referred to as my little meow meow by their beloved 😌

😌 Chaos, as it should be.

Abel: He finds it strange, but a little amusing, too. He asks what it means but still doesn’t really get it. It doesn’t bother him, not exactly, but he likes to be called other things by the Seeker.

Aris: Completely unamused. They don’t give the Seeker the satisfaction of responding to that, and they glare at anyone foolish enough to repeat it around them. Briar picks it up, of course, though Aris’s glare is less deadly when it’s aimed her way.

Cal: They get it immediately, and it spirals into a whole different language. A constellation of little references that seem odd to anyone around the two of them. Cal personally likes to quote the ‘Miette’ meme when Seeker calls them that then tries to get them to do something: You KICK Cal? You make Cal do the dishes? Oh!! Jail for beloved!!

Delvalle: Doesn’t get it, but doesn’t really care. Theo finds it mildly amusing, if only because he is considered the deadliest monster in this city and yet he’s called ‘meow meow’ by his own vampire. Mercy only shakes her head and lets this phase run its course. Keeping up with young trends is too difficult, at times.

Midas: Like Cal, she understands it, but she doesn’t launch into a full meme reference language. It takes time, though, because one night they’re both lying in bed and Midas will whisper, “Tired, my poor meow meow?” and it will send the Seeker into hysterics.

[nyehilismwriting]

hiii :chinhands: so... after seeing the Project Hadea one i gotta ask,,,,, how would the Sentinel ROs react in an orpheus/eurydice situation? my heart must know which of my beloved disasters would look back :wahhh:

just as i clawed my way out of this particular pit smh

shaw: looks back almost immediately. what else can he do? he never stood a chance.

eva: doesn't look back. keeps walking, mechanical and numb, up and up and up until she can breathe the fresh air, hear your voice at her back - then she breaks down.

amari: there's a version of the myth where orpheus makes it out, and so excited to embrace eurydice, he turns back, forgetting that they both need to be out. that would be amari's fall, the thing that ruins everything - pure, sheer joy, crumbling in a split-second.

levi: doesn't look back. he knows duty like none of the others, does what's needed of him despite everything. and maybe, if he still slept, he'd have nightmares after - but that's not really a concern, is it? the point is - he doesn't look back.

[suddenrundown]

Re this post: Over here like 👀👀👀 *chinhands* abt this. Where is the rest. Pls tell me more.

Oh, plotless Leverage magical realism enemies to lovers au that’s been living rent free in my brain for almost a year (derogatory), my beloved.

Ok imagine a world in which Dubenich needs to get some airplane designs for himself, so he hires a group of experts to steal it for him. Individually. No way three people with skills and personalities like theirs will work together on this.

(Hey, where’s Nate? Well….probably at home with his wife and kid, what’s he got to do with this?)

Hardison, Parker and Eliot are hired to get the plans but instead of this being the formation of a team, it all goes terribly wrong and ends in a fight that leaves them all needing to slink off to recover in a “no one’s winning this one and no one wants to die today, back out slowly the way you came in, no funny business, and watch your back because the next time we cross paths…” kinda way. The three of them scatter, enemies now, hoping they never see each other again

They do, obviously, despite their best efforts, but something weird happens when they do: they keep getting random flashes of memories about each other. At least, they seem like memories? They definitely haven’t happened though. Eliot would remember being handcuffed to Hardison in the woods, that seems like a big deal. Parker knows she doesn’t even have Hardison’s number, so why would she have been on the phone with him once, and why was she so desperate about it? Hardison doesn’t remember ever kissing Parker in the back of a van or wanting to run his hand through Eliot’s hair sitting next to him on a couch….but damn, actually, he sure would like to!

Slowburn enemies to lovers magical realism au in which it becomes clear that, even though they don’t know each other, they definitely must have once. Before. Somehow.

Fun facts:

I think (?) the plot of this is that they’re trying to get back at Dubenich and get what’s owed to them. Kind of hard when they aren’t working together!

Hardison is the first of them to be like “hey, I don’t know why, but I know that I know you and that I like you and trust you so we should hang out maybe?” about all this. There’s no Leverage team but there is Hardison trying his best.

The very first memory Eliot ever has is an inconveniently timed “dammit, Hardison” montage

Parker’s the most skittish about this whole thing. She puts absolutely no stock in the memories at all and unlike Hardison who’s like “this means we’re best friends now!” she just wants to be as far away from them as she can get. Kind of hard when Hardison tracks her around but he seems kind of nice and every time she gets memories of holding his hand she’s like “I guess he’s not all bad?”

She Does Not Like eliot though. Most of her memories of him involve (misinterpreted) sadness and pain and so that’s what she associates him with.

She also hates Hardison’s stupid van he weirdly named Lucille. Looking at it makes her skin crawl and hair stand on the back of her neck.

I have this tag that I use for things that sound like they fit in the au a) to bully myself into one day writing this thing or b) in hopes that if i tag enough things i won't have to write it at all lol

[veeples-archive]

top 5 incarnations of faustus beloved :chinhands:

😐 erin.

ok.

fine.

5. twc faustus - bottom of the list because he’s a fucking c*p, we hate that for him

4. dnd5e tiefling faustus - a loose game that is very dead, never found his lover and their egg, supremely cursed

3. body count faustus - hot flirty summer sexy murder thriller - he can be the ultimate slut he was meant to be lets hope he and syd lives and that syd isn’t the killer 💖

2. og faustus - started off as an evil and vengeful god who got easily broken in by a mortal lover.

1. faustus in oc ships (multiple) - faustus has at least three oc ships (ferric, valingram, valinter) and it is the best version of him SKSKSKSKSKSKSK he is allowed to grow and fulfill dreams and change and be happy.

honorable mention: faisel, the atoc adaptation.

ask me for a list of top 5 things!

[thegoldenharp]

REN BELOVED: which is your fave character to write and why? also who (if anyone!) do you find most challenging to write? :chinhands:

hello!! <3

that’s really tricky! lorcan’s a lot of fun (he’s a little shit but he’s also Big Sexy), though sometimes there’s a bit of a balancing act between “hello allow me to charm you into my quarters” and “i’m the baddest bitch on the seven seas Don’t Fuck With Me”. robin’s a sweetie, but they also have their own shit going on that bubbles beneath the surface. and gray is BabieTM underneath layers of practiced indifference.

i think the most difficult so far has been the other? but it’s partly to do with me working out the pacing of their route as well, i think - all the more difficult because they don’t (yet) have a physical body...

[carrsuniverse]

It is me fae. (Faelan) Forget all and fuck all

The only wisdom thst needs passed on

Beloved, Fae, I knew this was your blog already :chinhands: thank you for your wisdom

[jaskiersvalley]

🍷 🤡 🎉

:chinhands:

Kuri! My beloved! I haven't forgotten about your sweetest ask and have a half written fic hidden away in my drafts. Thank you so much for indulging me in this game while I procrastinate.

🍷 Do I drink and write? Alas, no. I very rarely drink on the whole and mostly rather than get drunk I skip straight to the headache stage. The one time I did deliberately set out with the intention of seeing whether drink affected my writing, I wrote a grand total of zero words and procrastinated more than usual.

🤡 A scene or exchange I've written that made me laugh. This would require me remembering what I've written. Most of the time I write it then promptly forget all about it. But, talking to a friend about Kylux made me remember something about clowns in that fandom which then turned my mind to the clown!Lambert post with the line "Don't fuck the clown." said by Geralt to Eskel. Only to later on in the fic say, "Fine. Fuck the clown." All I can say is that those around me are resigned to the fact I have a terrible sense of humour and they are gems for willingly suffering it.

🎉What leads me to consider a fic a success. Whether, when I finish writing it, I feel happy about it. I don't think I surprise anyone when I say that I write primarily for my own entertainment. If it makes just one other person happy or feel some kind of emotion then I'd say I have had excellent success with that piece. Given that I mostly write rarepairs, likes/reblogs/kudos/hits don't really give a good measure (not that they ever did in my opinion). That doesn't mean I'm not a slut for comments and feedback though XD I just recognise that I'm more niche than mainstream in my fandom writing so don't put much thought into numbers.

Come ask me a question!