#GOD this was an undertaking

[raviollies]

Introducing Lorelai & Raha! Some lore tidbits for them below cut (& an update to Blythe's sheet to adjust to this change :)

Lorelai Von Berdusk - A half elf born to one of the many noble families in the city of Berdusk, Lorelai spent much of her life sheltered by a controlling patriarch of the family. Through unknown methods, her father had contracted Vampirism, and using his newfound power had turned his wife and daughter into spawn. Unwanting to remain subservient now in a more literal sense of the word than ever before, Lorelai devised a plan to ambush her father and drink of him, in order to become a fully fledged vampire herself. Unfortunately in the scuffle, she had accidently fatally wounded him. Unable to face what she has done, and her mother's possible reaction, Lorelai fled the estate. She now explores the world with her companions, experiencing life for the first time.

Raha Faeli - An elf displaced by humans during a campaign to lay claim to their land, Raha lost his parents and was forced to relocate to a different Elven settlement as a young child. Unfortunately due to the proximity of his home to the human city, he along with many others struggled with Elven, some not speaking it all. Feeling ostracized, and not-quite-elf-not-quite-human, Raha left the settlement upon becoming an adult, preferring to earn his keep through monster hunter and mercenary work. Quiet, stoic, and brooding at first glance, he is a stark contrast to his more lively of companions, so it's curious how he fits into this dynamic (Don't mind the little lizard that lives in his pocket - he is a sweetheart) Blythe is not much different - though the recurring raven of Poe is now a familiar of hers. A rather silly and air headed raven that often soars above the party.

[sheerakk]

Cementary visit gets disrupted by a wild witch

[shallowseeker]

Cas is right. Dean, with all of his free will intact, would NOT have murdered the Stynes kid.

Like Cas, with his free will intact, would never have murdered Samandriel.

Their assessments of one another are actually correct.

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Both are on their way to becoming mindless super-soldiers who feel nothing.

And essentially, they tell each other, "you're gonna have to go through me" (to become that).

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Some similarities in the fight scenes:

They both reach out a hand to the other's shoulder, saying the other's name:

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Both twist the other's hand away:

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They ask each other to: "Stop," both telling the other in so many words that "this isn't you."

Their styles differ, of course. Dean goads Cas defiantly: "Come on you coward, do it!" Cas tries to remain level-headed and controlled, only moving to block and restrain.

Essentially, their desires are the same, for the other to stop.

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With everyone telling them who they should be, and trying to make them into things other than what their big hearts would actually want, they beg each other to stay as they are.

I don't want you to be what they want you to be.

Just be you. Just be.

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And then, much like Cas in the crypt... flight. Cas leaves.

Dean leaves.

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And here's what's on my mind... They were both GOOD at being soldiers. Unbelievably good.

Their talents were recognized early and exploited. They became chained to their respective battle aptitudes.

Both had to reckon with becoming addicted to war, to the feeling of adrenaline and black-and-white causes (see: Purgatory, hunting, etc.). Both often feel too much responsibility, punishing themselves and undertaking penance.

They struggled with thinking it's all they were good for, battle or WORK.

Or worse. For Dean, it was often being one of the "crazy ones," only "good for a fling." For Cas, it was often "being expendable."

They're looked down upon by the likes of Metatron: Cas is like a "dumb puppy," a "stupid, lumbering jock." Even Crowley talks to Dean this way on occasion: "It's math (idiot)."

It's also like when Death calls Cas a "stupid soldier." Or when the British Men of Letters call the ones on the ground doing the fighting and getting their hands dirty "dogs." Or when Henry calls hunters "apes."

Despite their supposed "legacy lineage," Sam and Dean inherited the Campbell class. The soldier class.

Interesting to me that Jack inherits this, too. Despite his aptitude for nearly everything he touches (computers, research, even blossoming machete skills when he kills Noah the Gorgon), Jack too will inherit this Campbell-coded "stupidity."

That's what Chuck charges him with in Unity: "TOO STUPID."

Jack has Cas and Dean's class: the soldier class.

[impcr3atur3]

IT'S FINALLY DONE!! i made a big ol animation for my favorite game that isn't out yet - check it out!!

(also wishlist great god grove on steam)

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Peter Lorre

The Comedy of Terrors (1963) dir. Jacques Tourneur

[sebfreak]

Grim Reaper

[every-grelle-sutcliff]

[6urn1td0wn]

Some of my fanart as a sacrifice…please find me I want mutuals xx

[lanabenikosdoormat]

Jed Solaris.

[elfkissing]

My piece for the FREE TO DOWNLOAD @bg3zine!! What an absolutely incredible project, can’t overstate how talented this group of contributors is! If you’d like to grab it for yourself the link is here!

[greytern]

some very self indulgent lady undertaker drawings

[queenwendy]

My favorite thing with Relativity Falls is trying to wrangle Dipper and Mabel’s gender with the identity theft. Are one of them trans? If so, which one? If they don’t have any siblings, that means one of them is Stan and Ford’s grandparent. Is the remaining twin pretending to be the other or are they honest about being a different one? There’s a lot of fun combinations:

I flip flop on which twin works better as the author, but I really love Grauntie Mabel so if I ever made Relatively Falls fanfic I’d probably have Dipper be the Author with Mabel running the shack. I also really like the secret identity angle so I fully support Mabel impersonating her brother. To solve the gender issue you can either go the trans route or the crossdressing for 30 years route. The most “natural” feeling one, at least fanon wise imo, is that Dipper is transmac but fell into the portal before transitioning. But the dipper as transmac headcanon bugs me for reasons not relevant here, and I like Grauntie Mabel too much to make her crossdress as a man for 30 years; so I actually prefer transfemme dipper who fell into the portal after transitioning (I am also definitely not impartial, I am a trans woman lol). That also ties into Dipper feeling like a weird outcast who would study cryptids a la Ford, as opposed to him just being a mystery loving nerd with a constellation birthmark (of course, that’s if you make Dipper study the same things as Ford, which lots of people don’t).

Of course, that line of reasoning leads to all sorts of interesting questions as a result: who is the McGucket analogue? I usually see Candy or Pacifica, but if you wanted to mirror the show (and lean into the queer angle/a relatively falls fiddauthor), Wendy works pretty well. That also helps put Fiddleford in the shack so he can go on adventures with Stan and Ford. And Shermie? Oh god, Shermie.

Shermie is his own can of worms. If he’s Stan and Ford’s brother, is he older or younger? Is he there with them over the summer or is he back with Filbrick and Caryn? Maybe he’s still the unseen grandpa, making him Dipper and Mabel’s brother and sidestepping which one of them is the grandparent. Imo, Shermie works best as Stan and Ford’s older brother adventuring with them. Maybe even as a Soos analogue.

As for who the grandparent is, I dunno! Maybe Soos is, making him Dipper and Mabel’s brother. Maybe Mabel was, making the fact she faked her death and impersonated Dipper all the more tragic and gut punch-y (and very different from Stan, who Alex Hirsch thought never would do that). Maybe Dipper was, and so Mabel is pretending to be a grandparent. If it was Mabel or Dipper, who’s the spouse?

I like swapping Soos and Aubelita too much to make Soos Stan and Ford’s grandpa (though it’s a fun idea I don’t see anyone do). So then one of the mystery twins has to be the grandparent. I don’t think Mabel would abandon her family, so Dipper as the real grandparent has to happen via process of elimination (meaning until Not What (S)he Seems, Mabel goes by “grandma mabel”). Who the other parent is up in the air; Wendy or Pacifica are already popular ships with Dipper, and also potential McGucket analogues. If you wanna get really weird with it, Bill is, imo, a valid choice given the implied romance between him and Ford.

And that snowballs into dealing with Bill. Does he get swapped? If so, with who? Gideon kinda makes sense, especially if you want to keep the Hand that Rocks the Mabel(Ford? Stan?) plotline (as opposed to Stan x Bud which… okay that’s actually funnier). But Dream Demon Gideon sounds kinda stupid to me, even if it fits oddly well (I actually think that works better if Mabel is the author). Do you swap Bill with Euclid and Scalene? Then there’s two dream demons and baby bill running around, but Bill’s parents are kinda nothing burgers of characters. Why do they want a portal? You can also just keep Bill as Bill. I mean, the Book of Bill indicated that there’s a Bill for every universe. I dunno where I stand there, but I lean towards keeping Bill as himself. But swapping any obsessive ex tendencies of his from Ford to Dipper for obvious reasons.

I dunno if I’ll ever write anything, and that’s obviously not all the questions this AU raises (if Pacifica is swapped with Preston, how does Double Dipper play out? Does Boyish Dan work at the shack or is he the estranged son? Who do Candy and Grenda swap with? Are they the Rico and Jorge of Mabel’s backstory? How different is Mabel and Dipper’s backstory to a Tale of Two Stans?) but this AU is probably my favorite and every time I reblog art or an idea about it I get more and more drawn in. It’s really thought provoking.

[drowndrawn]

FINALLY ended my adaptation of Edward Burne's "Night" into Undertaker. It had been in my drafts folder for sooo long.

If you ask my why he would be in such a scene you can think of him being recently born as a reaper (the stitches are still recent and all). He's probably still in the island of the dead.

Now I'm wondering why and how he died and to have such gruesome wounds (he's now my little kitty, as you can see). Do you have any guesses?

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Peter Lorre

The Comedy of Terrors (1963) dir. Jacques Tourneur

[sebfreak]

Undertaker

[amethystroselily]

I hope Undertaker revives Claudia Phantomhive by the end of the series resulting in the most awkward moment of Francis’s life.