#Deity Roselle Fair

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“I used to think you were all I had.”

“I was angry, and lost. You’d been taken from me without warning.”

“Over the years, I stopped smiling. I could no longer see the world you’d taught me so much about as a child. I soon began burying myself in baking..one of the only real things I could ever take solace in. A comfort, for when my mind drifted to you and the family I’d lost in the storm.”

“Things soon changed. I realized family can be anywhere or anyone. It doesn’t have to be blood and sometimes family can come along when you’re not even looking. Mom, Dad..I hope you’re proud of me. I still miss you sometimes, but..I’m okay now.”

((These are commissions done for me by @grumpy-zane and @tyeler-kostlan . You guys are great, and thank you for helping me with this.))

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Skidmarks: Universal Truth? Lead photo by: Cesar Godoy Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. —Ralph Waldo Emerson Here’s a sure way to get six conflicting opinions: put three motorcyclists in a room together and show them a photo of a bike. Some will love it, some will hate it, and then they start tearfully remembering all the bikes they used to have. Why did I ever sell my ’79 CB750K? That was the best bike ever! (No, it wasn’t.) I recently posted a photo of a particularly tasty Triumph TT custom on a local forum of a bike I loved from the moment I saw it. The builder, Spain’s Pepo Rosell, took the tough, brutal form of the blocky ’90s-vintage Triumph Legend TT and its three-cylinder motor, modernized it with Daytona 675 suspension and wheels and topped it off with a modified Suzuki Bandit gas tank (with old Laverda gas cap). The fairing and tailsection are vintage-racing bits, but I really like the custom monotube subframe that matches Triumph’s hulking monotube backbone frame. Rosell put “Rocket III” livery on it because… well, maybe just because F-you is why. Pepo likes it, and I like it too. Pepo Rosell’s clean-yet-brutish Triumph Legend TT-cum-BSA Rocket doesn’t have the universal appeal I thought it would have. Photos (top image and above): Cesar Godoy Not so the general public, though. The peanut gallery acknowledged it was sorta cool…but didn’t like it as much as I did. The seat was too stubby and looked uncomfortable, and the bike just lacked visual balance. But maybe the big sin for many was that it just didn’t look rideable. They missed the point, I thought! This is about aesthetics. For some more perspective, I headed down to Todd Chamberlin’s shop, Naked Moto in Hayward, California. Todd’s hardly some ordinary moto-shop owner – he worked for Polaris Industries’ Victory division, and though he lacks formal design training, he was closely involved in every phase of bringing Victory products to market, from clay mockup to manufacturing. He worked for four years alongside Michael Song on the Victory Vision and built a V92C roadracer (yes, for real), but most importantly, put a Ducati 900 mill into a DR-Z400 chassis, because somebody had to. That bike was stolen, and I wonder if the bike thief made it home unharmed and sane. Todd’s customizing skills are bona fide. His specialty is taking sportbikes – his favorites are SV650s and Honda CBR600F2s – and stripping them down to the essentials. When I asked him what he thought made a bike visually appealing, he wouldn’t talk about line or form or shapes – instead, he said it had to look like it would “run 20,000 miles before you have to do a major service.” Many in the general motorcycling public agree; a trained eye and brain, honed by many hours wasted towing, pushing or dragging stricken bikes to dealerships just knows if a bike looks tough and rideable, and you can spot the customs and factory designs that hew to that ethic. Back at the discussion forum, a rider named Russ wrote that “lightly modified bikes… add improvements to increase performance and usually the bike is well sorted.” That’s the only sort of “custom” he’s interested in: ones that look like you can ride them. Naked Moto’s Todd Chamberlin worked with designer David Song on the Victory CORE concept. That monocoque chassis is underneath the sculpted bodywork of the Victory Vision and Crossroads tourers, which do not have carved hardwood seats, don’t worry. When pressed, Todd told me that there “are no right choices” when it came to making bikes appealing. “You can’t build a universal bike – I’ve been trying for years – but if I did build one, it would be a naked supersport of some kind.” His perfect bike would be “cleaner: no fairings, no subframes, the seat just kind of floating out there.” And of course, it would run well, with long service intervals so you could ride and ride. Todd, like most customizers, can’t start with a totally clean sheet of paper, so I decided to talk to someone who had. Marc Fenigstein is the CEO of Alta motors, and if you haven’t heard of Alta, you will: it’s an American manufacturer, based near San Francisco International Airport, that builds competition-ready battery-electric motocrossers and supermotos that are also street legal. The company’s been around for a few years, like most automotive startups, but this is its first year of production. Alta Motors will unveil this Redshift ST concept at the One Moto show in February 2017. Again, I’d like to say I cornered Marc for a rare, exclusive interview as part of my relentless pursuit of world-class motojournalism. The truth is Marc lives a block from a restaurant that serves a hamburger with a doughnut for a bun, and I was hungry, so I invited him to join me. As we munched, I asked what made motorcycles appealing – and got a real education about some basic principles of moto-design. I told Marc how much I liked his company’s latest project, the Redshift ST. It’s a minimalist take on a street-tracker, with abbreviated bodywork and dirt-track style 19-inch wheels. Created by Alta co-founder and designer Jeff Sand, it’s a styling exercise showing what Alta could do with the basic platform. Like Rosell’s Triumph, the shape of the bike instantly grabbed me. That’s primarily because of something Marc and Jeff call “massing.” That refers to the basic proportion of the shapes, and Marc says “it’s the most important [element], and manufacturers get it wrong the most.” Compare the Ducati 916 superbike to Japanese superbikes of the same era – where the 916’s proportions look light and balanced, a Honda CBR900RR or Yamaha YZF1000R look bulky, hulking, “like a guy with short legs and a big torso.” They’re more like bulldogs than cheetahs, and bulldogs are cool, “but nobody associates them with going fast.” It’s the same for cruisers; the Japanese manufacturers as well as European ones seem to struggle with getting proportions just right, and even someone with limited motorcycle knowledge can spot a non-Harley cruiser from a block away. It just looks wrong. Fenigstein picked these two bikes – Yamaha’s new R1 (top) and MV Agusta’s F3 to illustrate the difference in Japanese and European motorcycle design. Also telling the story is “gesture,” the flowing lines that tell a visual story and give a sense of motion. Marc shows me an MV Agusta F3 as he makes his point. “Well done, it makes a bike look fast when it’s standing still and when done poorly, makes a bike look like it’s standing still when it’s going fast.” Gesturing guides the eye along the motorcycle without it getting lost or offended, and many American consumers have a tough time with modern Anime-inspired Japanese designs that shock the sensibilities with clanging Cubist features and distractions. Rounding out a motorcycle’s visual style is “detailing,” and that is where Alta has an edge, according to Marc. “Function comes first,” he tells me as we eye several doughnut-burgers headed to their doom. “There’s no room for flourish or excess for the sake of design.” Sand has a rare quality in a designer, as he knows manufacturing as well as design, specifying materials that he knows can be translated into practical, cost-effective end products. Japanese OEMs often use plastic covers and baubles to hide ugly parts or mimic the look of aluminum or steel. If you have to use plastic, says Marc, “design forms that are beautiful in plastic.” By manufacturing the part in the designer’s material, “Jeff’s final result is true, authentic. There isn’t a single part that’s trying to look like something it isn’t.” Oh boy. There’s that word: “authentic.” Hipsters have commoditized authenticity just for authenticity’s sake – my $400 Redwing boots and $250 Pendleton shirt show you I’m a real outdoor guy, even though I’m a marketing associate from Brooklyn – but motorcyclists actually need authenticity. A trained eye knows a thin seat will be uncomfortable for rides over 20 minutes, that you need fenders to avoid getting a skunk-like strip of mud down your back, and lights, turnsignals, mirrors and horns are more than just legalities – they keep you alive. So a bike doesn’t just have to look right: it has to look right to ride. After chatting with Marc and Todd, I understand that the naysayers didn’t like my pick because it simply didn’t look good to ride. And that may be the most important aesthetic of them all. Gabe Ets-Hokin is one of the principal deities of Hinduism, and the Supreme Being in its Vaishnavism tradition. He enjoys shattering worlds and plays jazz accordion. Skidmarks: Universal Truth? appeared first on Motorcycle.com.

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((Heyyy everyone, guess what time it is? Time for the final chapter of Deity’s origin story! I am, super late with this and I apologize for that. I’m also working on commissions for everyone, so please be patient.

So here you go, the last chapter of The Siren’s Legacy: A Parting Gift

Fanfiction: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12976179/3/The-Siren-s-Legacy

Wattpad:

https://www.wattpad.com/675818578-the-siren%27s-legacy-a-parting-gift

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(( Mun took a small break from completing major fanfictions to bring you guys a fluffy little one shot between Deity and Cole. I really hope you like it! Here it is, Before Breakfast with it’s only chapter; Reassurance.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13016767/1/Before-Breakfast

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“Er..Yeah. These are my pajamas now. Cole has no say in this.”

Hey… Deity, your pajamas look very familiar…

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((Good evening everyone. Gee, I let them hang on that cliff for a few days, didn’t I? I’m sure they’re fine..maybe. Well, why don’t we go check on them? Here you go! Chapter eleven of What it Means to be Human: What I was Built for.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12900306/11/What-It-Means-to-Be-Human

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(( Mun will be working on some writing projects today, but in the meantime, asks are open for Deity!

You can ask anything, really. Relationships, feelings, fears, traumas, likes and dislikes, hobbies, whatever you want man. ))

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(( Good morning everyone, it’s about three thirty in the morning, and mun has a surprise for all of you! The first chapter of Deity’s origin story! It’s going to be a long fanfiction, seeing as it’s her backstory. I hope you like the first chapter for The Siren’s Legacy; Defeated Cries to a Stormy Sky.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12976179/1/The-Siren-s-Legacy

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(( Gh you guys are gonna kill me with art, I love you guys-

Check out this birthday gift from @ceata88 ))

Gift for lovely @ask-the-blind-archer of their lovely OC Deity. Had fun designing the uniform. Y’all should swing by the blog to find out more about her if u want!

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(( 60 followers? Where did you all come from? Oh well, there’s plenty of space here. The more the merrier. Hn..what to do for sixty..oh! I know. How about all of you can ask one question of your choosing about deity, or deity and Cole..or even deity and her best broski, Zane! Anything you want. ))

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(( Alright everyone. Mun needed to cure some writers block, and she woke up in a pretty good mood! So she decided to write a one shot that’s been in her brain for a long time. This is set before any fic I have written about Corrupted Cole, Deity or Grumpy Zane so far, but it’s set after a specific ask on @grumpy-zane ‘s profile.

So here it is, a one shot called Fate is Strange, with it’s only chapter: You Can’t Hide it Away.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12957543/1/Fate-is-Strange

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(( Hello everyone! Mun is feeling a little less sick today, so she decided to crank out a chapter of What It Means To Be Human, for all you wonderful people. I may be posting another chapter later tonight, as well. So, here it is. Chapter Nine of What it Means to be Human; Apologies and New Strategies.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12900306/9/What-It-Means-to-Be-Human

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(( I love deity too! And I LOVE fanart of her. You guys are amazing, truly.))

@ask-the-blind-archer I love this girl

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So Deity. On the topic of dimensions, what's the last one you visited?

“The..last one I visited?” Deity rubs her face. “It was a fairly strange realm, I don’t remember much about it but..I do know it wasn’t pleasant. Everyone was..dead.”

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(( Goooood morning everyone, it’s 2:16 am and mun is sleepy! Gasp! This post will serve as a minor PSA for my blog for today, May 15th, as well as me giving you all a lovely chapter for Frayed Ropes. Today will ..not be the greatest for mun, and I will likely work on Will You Catch Me-two chapters of it actually-but likely not much else. Asks are still open for both myself and Deity, it will actually help me keep my mind off of the significance of today. Dm’s are open as well!

Without further distractions, here is chapter two of Frayed Ropes, called Damaged Bonds. Trigger warnings are in the tags!

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12935649/2/Frayed-Ropes

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(( Hello everyone! I have the second chapter of Deity’s nice and wholesome origin story! So without any other delays, here is chapter two of The Siren’s Legacy; An Unkind Sky.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12976179/2/The-Siren-s-Legacy

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