#ANYWAY WOW THIS GOT LONG

[raviollies]

Hey! I love what you've done to characters and Lorelei is now living in my head rent free! Raha and Blythe are amazing and adorable!

It's very inspiring the way you keep yourself together even when everything falls apart! Keep it up!

If my question is annoying or if it bothers you, you may not answer on it.

Originally I followed you when I saw your Ireena and Blythe art. It amazed me how much both of them and Ireena in particular got fleshed out!

In my dnd game and tbh in many other games, players don't get invested in Ireena's journey, they don't fall for her and don't care for her sadly. That's why many DM's usually replace her with a player character, in order to raise the stakes. In half a year I will be running a new cos game, for the group of three and I am honestly considering to replace Ireena with the PC, but don't really want to (especially fearing how the game might go, if the player will turn into strahd-simp).

Could you please describe Ireena's character in your game? Perhaps her bonds and flaws? So other DM's and I can do a better job of her portrayal!

Thank you for the kind words! Here is an updated Lorelai WIP for your to pay rent

(and Blythe and Raha are very married yes)

So rather than referencing my game, as I am not the DM, I will provide my own suggestions as I was planning on running CoS as well. Spoilers for the campaign

I will also suggest against a Tatyana PC. Everyone is very much free to write and interpret the character however they want but to me it is very important that the Tatyana reincarnation does not want Strahd. In fact I would remove the interaction with Sergei too. Having her instantly forget herself as this new person in favour of Tatyana erases the entire point and kind of proves Strahd right in him refusing to see Ireena as her own person.

The way I would approach Ireena; she is her own person. She grew up with her family that wasn't Tatyana's. She lived a life that wasn't Tatyana's. She's met different people. It doesn't MATTER if she's a reincarnation of someone else, after all everyone in Barovia is a reincarnation of someone else. It's very important to establish that the main crux of the issue is that Strahd does NOT see her as Ireena, but Tatyana. He does not know Ireena. He only knows Tatyana. I would even have him call her that rather than "Ireena".

Ireena's story would be one of becoming independent and confident in her identity. To no longer be just Ismark's sister, Burgomaster's daughter, Tatyana's reaction, Evil's bride --- she is Ireena Kolyana. Nothing more, nothing less. I would start her off as unsure of herself, and being hesitant to take up space and over the course of the story become more confident in standing up for herself, with an eventual climax of expressing extremely clearly to Strahd that she is not Tatyana. She never was. He doesn't know her. That that person is gone, and she will never be back. He can chain her, do whatever but that will never make her Tatyana nor will it make her love him or know him. She is a woman who is constantly assigned identities by other's, but she want's to just be Ireena, she wants to do her hobbies, decide on where she wants to go, what books to read, what food to eat.

The relationship between Strahd and Tatyana is irrelevant. It could have been real, or a figment of his imagination, but the point is that...she is gone. If he had a soul of someone else, would it be fair for them to lay claim to him?

As for personality wise ; I would write her as sheepish at first, she is someone taking their first steps into adulthood in a way, outside the comfort of their home, their village. She should be curious and wonderstruck, curious and wishing to explore every nook and cranny. Because of that she would be unfortunately naïve to the problems that arise in bigger cities as Vallaki. A village and a town are very different - a big thing she's be stupefied by how impersonal everyone is. Rural villages often have people knowing everyone, it's commonplace to help your neighbor because you KNOW them. Vallaki is different...people go about their day and do not care, after all there is so many people. You physically can't know everyone.

She is down to earth and finds camaraderie with someone simpler than a noble, providing practical suggestions and being very handy with most tools and identifying local flora. On a flipside, I would say she struggles when dealing in very formal settings where it's less about honesty and more about saying a lie by omission to get what you want. When interacting with Vargas or Lady Wachter, she's visibly uncomfortable and stumbles over her words; they speak in such a way to purposely confuse her, like a lawyer would. Not only that but she most likely would refuse to do anything morally questionable, her heart is very pure!

So in all, a kind hearted, down to earth little lady who values honesty, hard work, and family but is naïve, stubborn and socially awkward. She will support and protect the party, even to her detriment but she will not stand with them to commit Crimes (so RIP if your party is murder hobos)

[possamble]

Needlessly close reading and long commentary on chapter 57 and how the audience actually has an extremely limited view on what Marcille has been like over the course of her life.

I am once again thinking about how pre-dungeon Marcille is so quiet and stoic that she seems like a completely different person. How jarring chapter 57 is for the audience. Like you have Marcille, who has been just the most blindingly expressive person with resting baby face

And then the chapter drops a title page of Marcille hearing from Falin for the first time in four years and it's like.

Who is that. Genuinely. Would you even realize that's Marcille without the context clues?

And then the chapter just keeps coming in with the sucker punches.

We have SEEN Marcille meet strangers. It was never with this understated of a smile.

literally who the hell is this. the few times the audience gets to see some Signature Marcille Faces that they're used to is when she finally gets to see Falin again

when she's testing out her new spells

(and when Laios and Falin are fantasizing about her being their damsel in distress, funnily enough)

And then finally. Finally you get to a fully recognizable Marcille when she fucking DIES and comes back to life to geek out about necromancy.

We know she loves magic. We know she loves Falin. So it's not so surprising that she wouldn't be able to keep a mask up when thinking or talking about the things she loves. But why the mask in the first place? Where does it come from? It's tempting to think that, maybe, Falin's departure just hurt her so much that it turned her into a quiet person.

But that's only half true. If you go back, the first instance you see of this incredibly mild personality is actually introduced much earlier, in chapter 17.

What if she was always like that. What if her default after her father died was to hold people at arm's length, to never really emote past being polite and friendly. What if Falin was the first person who was able to bring her out of her shell, and when she left, Marcille just went back to how she was.

And when comparing her detached demeanour with someone else...

It's not exact, but wouldn't you say there's a resemblance? Wouldn't you think she might be trying her best to imitate what she saw of her own mother working as an accomplished mage?

It would certainly explain why she's hiding behind her portrait in her nightmare, at least.

We aren't told that Marcille has been distancing herself from everyone around her using a mature and dignified personality she modelled off her mother. But we sure as hell are shown it, I think.

[weirdglassthing]

GRIMMORNING NATION RISEEE. Criminal lack of grimmorning on this site so I’m making it my personal mission to spread my propaganda

Ignore whatevers going on with torbek, even I don’t know. I just drew some lines for his body and called it a day

[kaiserouo]

civilian in the mall

[beetleoops]

You keep getting married to Beetlejuice

This fucker loves to party (and he loves you), so you are having weddings constantly

You officially get married in private, with only Lydia, the Deetzs and the Maitlands there. You take it easy so he can adjust to being alive, but Delia still throws a pretty fun party- if a little...odd. Still, it's enough for Beetlejuice to learn his alcohol tolerance isn't NEARLY as high now that he has a heartbeat.

"Babes!! I cannot fuckin wait to get married to you all over again." He's half asleep, laying his entire weight on you, reeking of booze, smiling like a dope. "Uh-huh. Me too, Beej." You pat his back.

(Also, turns out now that he sleeps for real, he snores. you think its cute.)

Once he's human (and more or less used to it), you have a more traditional wedding with your friends and family all there, and throw an all night reception and after party at a bar - beej loves the energy and is cheering on your grandparents to throw ass on the dance floor all night

"Fuck it up Agnes! Hell yeah!" (This is probably not your grandma's name. Actually, is that even your grandma?)

This goes over not great, but better than expected; everyone has a good time. You do too, of course. You are drunk and wearing white and laughing so loud, and when you aren't dancing, Beetlejuice can barely keep his hands off you. Hell, when you ARE dancing Beetlejuice can't keep his hands off you.

you go to Las Vegas for the honeymoon and get married again - Beej insists on the most tacky wedding possible and you agree.

You get married by an Elvis impersonater in a sticky little chapel on the strip. You wear a suit, and he wears a tight, short wedding dress with a veil and pumps.

"third time's the charm?" You ask, when Elvis finally says to kiss the groom. " Oh no, babes. We're hitting the drive through wedding chapel next."

"Deal!" And you dip him before kissing him square in the mouth.

You keep getting married to Beetlejuice, because you both want to make fucking SURE it sticks.

[xfreischutz]

hello store is open for ff14/witch hat atelier/tristamp/misc other merch. there is unfortunately no dragon age or overwatch at this time.

please allow up to 7 days for processing as i am working 44h/week at the day job and have no one else to help me

store will likely remain open until apr 1 (or earlier if I run out of stuff).

shipping to the US remains open, no shipping to the EU due to the gpsr laws, sorry ;;

the pricing is like this because i'd say most of the charms are b-grade.

thank u

[brandwhorestarscream]

Now I'm thinking about the kids aging

Cybertronians are biologically immortal. They don't die unless some outside force kills them, and they age incredibly slowly. Bumblebee has been a late teenager for hundreds of years. Arcee has been in her late 20s/early 30s for even longer. Even fussy old Ratchet has been this way for millenia. It takes them thousands or even millions of years to go from one mental development stage to another, and some mecha never "age" past a certain point because they've reached what feels like the oldest/best version of themselves.

But the humans don't.

Imagine the shock, when one day they realize that Raf is 'older' than Bumblebee. He starts losing interest in his racing games with Bumblebee, stops tinkering around the base. Now focused on studying for the ACT and SAT, apologetic but firm when he tells Bee, "Sorry buddy, I can't play with you right now."

They all thought Rafael would go into the tech field and stay with them forever, but no dice. Imagine Ratchet's delight when Raf tells him that, while he'll always enjoys computers and electronics and helping with base maintenance where he can, it's not what he wants to do full time. He's thought about it a lot and he wants to go into the medical field: he wants to be a doctor. Like Ratchet. Specifically, he wants to be a pediatrician. He loves kids, and wants to help them the best way he can.

They're all proud of him, and when he flies across the country for undergrad, they don't see him for 4 years. He works internships and student research all summer, and his family can't afford to fly him home for the holidays. When he finally comes back, he's a completely different person: several inches taller, having completely grown out of his baby face compared to when he graduated high school. There's stubble on his face and dark circles under his eyes, but he looks happy.

He greets Bumblebee's eager beeping with, "Hey kiddo! I missed you!"

While he's been gone, a lot has changed with Miko and Jack as well. Miko went home to Japan after graduating: she loves the bots and had come to enjoy her time in Jasper, but after 4 years she missed her parents, and wanted to spend time with her cats before they passed away. They were beloved members of the family and were getting older. She goes into teaching, and becomes a beloved kindergarten teacher at an international school in Tokyo, where her fluent English combined with boundless energy make her extremely popular with the children and parents alike. She doesn't manage to get time off to fly back to America until she's in her late 20s, and by then 🤭 she's a fully adult woman. She doesn't dye her hair anymore and is wearing what she used to gripe at as "normie clothes", and has developed an unfortunate tendency for migraines. The rest of Team Prime swore they saw Bulkhead’s soul leave his body when Miko told him to, "TURN THAT SHIT DOWN, MY HEAD HURTS!"

Jack is the only one that stayed in Jasper, mostly out of concern for his mother. She's getting older and doesn't have anyone to take care of her after Fowler passed away, and he can't just leave her alone. He goes to the local community college/trade school and becomes a full time mechanic. It's simple work but he really enjoys it, especially since it means Arcee can hang around without arousing too much suspicion.

But all the bending over vehicles all day and the heavy lifting have started to take a toll. His back has started to ache, he has callouses all over his hands. His rides with Arcee get shorter and shorter, until eventually he asks her--very remorseful--if maybe... she wouldn't mind if he road with someone else, or just drove a normal car. He's too old to be riding around on a flashy motorcycle like he's still a teenager, and honestly, it really hurts his back to have to hunch over her alt mode, and

Arcee is so confused. "'Too old'? Jack, you're only-"

"'Cee," he sighs. "I know you don't age the way we do, but I'm 35. I'm tired. I- I just can't anymore, and besides... with the baby coming, I need something with more than one seat. And airbags. And space for a diaper bag. Hey, c'mon, don't make that face hon, it's not personal."

She knows it's not. That's not why she's frowning.

It just really hit her that he's an adult. That they're all adults.

They continue to watch them age, even after the war ends. Even after they go home. They visit earth frequently, whenever they can, but Cybertron needs most of their attention and in the blink of an eye, several human years can pass.

They grow up. They find their careers. They make their own families and have children of their own... and eventually, those children have children. Their hair starts to lose it's color, turning gray and white. Their faces wirnkle, and their fingers turn thin and brittle. Suddenly, they're rushing to earth after a frantic call from Raf's grandson, saying great aunt Miko fell and broke her hip. She's in the hospital for weeks, and after the replacement surgery, she has to learn to walk again. Even though she swears up and down that she's fine, quit worrying, she'll be up and about without her walker before they know it, they can all see the way her hands tremble and she struggles to hold herself up.

Jack is even worse: he starts showing signs of dementia, his memories fading and becoming more and more disoriented. Arcee visits at least once a week, and her spark breaks seeing what used to be her little recon partner withering away to nothing in his bed. Until one day, he reacts with fear when he sees her, screaming and yelling about, "What is that thing?! Sabrina, SABRINA! There's a robot! A big blue robot!" and his flustered great granddaughter, who works as his hopsice nurse, runs in to soothe him. "Papa, shhh, it's Aunt Arcee! She's not gonna hurt you, she's-"

"Get it outta here, go AWAY!"

"I- Auntie, I'm sorry, could you please step out-"

He dies only a few short months later, and they unfortunately aren't able to get a wheelchair-bound Rafael to the funeral. Miko isn't physically able to make the trip, even with offers of a ground bridge. Says she's too old to go jumping through space portals. She's 95, after all.

95 years to a cybertronian is nothing. 95 years is barely enough time for a sparkling to stop nursing. But for a human, it's their entire lifespan. Bumblebee is still a teenager. Arcee is still in her late 20s. Ratchet has barely aged and their three little human children are now older than him. And theyre slipping away one by one: Miko passes only 8 months after Jack, and Raf lasts another 4 years. They've left their descendants behind, doznes of people that share their bloodline, but nothing soothes the ache.

In light of their death, their visits to earth become more and more infrequent, before drying up all together. It's just too painful, and they can't stand to watch any more humans slowly wither and die.

[violent138]

Batfamily member's civilian identity becomes some serial killer's target because it fits some profile. Cue said murderer going after this member of the Batfamily, earning a very shocked and mildly exasperated set of swear words and then getting their ass kicked. The Batfamily member doesn't even bother calling the cops, just tosses the would be killer in the back of their car (which has bloody gloves in the seat and weird files on people), leading the murderer to conclude they're in the presence of a much worse serial killer.

Tldr: Outsider POV fic where a Batfamily member earns the undying adoration of an actual murderer and it's a slow, convoluted process to getting the evidence to arrest them while also protecting their secret identity.

[soveryanon]

What about eating your own beanie, Mr Clown.

EAT YOUR OWN BEANIE

[helly-ena]

“it’s not a binary did love transcend question”

@helenaeaganenjoyer i've been thinking about your tags and i just wanted to say, there's so much to chew on here. it's not a binary did love transcend question!!!! i've been trying to put my finger on why we see that question manifested differently in mark/helly/helena vs mark/gemma—and the thing about making sweeping statements on whether love transcended in either case is that: it ignores the fact that love is not one single, static thing. in mark (both innie and outie form) and helena's case, chemistry and attraction transcended. in (i)mark and ms casey's case, affinity and trust transcended—as well as between (o)mark and gemma's final innie. (i personally don't think it's just a matter of him being the first real person she sees; hell, that man is covered extensively in blood. we know gemma can be strong-willed and combative too—she tried to break dr mauer's fingers!—so there must've been something about mark that made her 'blank slate' innie trust him.) and the thing i keep going back to is—i think mark and gemma have both just changed too much as people. once we've gotten to know the 'real' gemma in 2.07, it's so obvious just how different ms casey is from who gemma was. how much of that is because of her extremely short 107 hours lifespan? hard to say, but considering that helly at her 'blank slate' woke up absolutely feral... just what else did they do to gemma to turn her into ms casey, who had this somewhat eerie, unnatural quality to her?

the other thing you mentioned here is individuation as time goes on, which is definitely more interesting to think about in the case of mark, who has been severed for much, much longer than hellyna. the s2 finale that took two whole seasons to build to culminates in the conflict between innie and outie mark, a conflict that stems from the fact that they have different and incompatible desires (which the show uses helly and gemma as shorthands for, but it's about so, so much more than that; it was never about 'helly vs gemma'). and all of this is caused by just how long mark's separate selves spent accumulating experiences in completely different and segregated environments, thus forming different (divergent) identities; how then, do you recombine two halves with edges that no longer fit together because they have been reshaped in independent ways? is this incompatibility what caused petey's reintegration sickness?

one thing i do want to add though, is that even given all this, i still don't think it makes the innies and outies different people, but just the same person with different identities; each identity possesses a full agency as any other human being does, of course, but this also largely has to do with the fact that these different identities can't coexist at the same time—only one is in control of the body at any given moment. the closest analogy we have to 'co-sharing' is when helena was impersonating helly at the beginning of the season. and, like you said, helena has the unique advantage of having access to her innie's memories via external means (security tapes). all of this, i think, is the basis for why we saw this 'natural reintegration' (converging of personalities) happen between helly and helena towards the end of the season. most important of all though, i LOVE the point you made about strong feelings being the key to reintegration—because we did see reghabi attempt to use shame as a trigger for mark's reintegration. except the thing is, like you said, there's no stronger feeling than being in love. love, in whatever form, is what bleeds through the severance barrier over and over. being in love is the catalyst for both helly and helena's transformation. of course it's love. it's always love.

[ilonacho]

cock shame

[coolnonsenseworld]

Samurai and Ninja in crappy pics because December here is under a constant cloud and I just want y'all to see them all golden and cute without learning how to take aesthetic pictures 🥴 💙❤️😆🥰

linktr.ee/Mezzy

[hplonesomeart]

When you…when we….when I uh….uh…it’s the day :)

[scifur]

[chewyhanniebug]

oh okay

[solariex]

yeahh uh who wants to know how my break from the red blog is ?? basically this

alsoo bonus because i thought it was funny LMAOO

(also also if both look like red avm its cause im a red fictive (but i also go by marz) who ironically runs the blog woww plural system stuff i bet i havent said that 50 times by nowwww—💥💥💥)