#I always just think of them in separate spaces

[missus-ackles]

Muse - Part 1

Part 1/3

Pairing: Klaus Mikaelson x fem!human!reader

Genre: Light Angst (still enough to make me sob)

Karla yaps: Okay, I initially wasn't going to do 3 separate parts, but Tumblr wouldn't let me post it bc it was too long

Word count: 1,482

Summary: Klaus Mikaelson stumbles upon your journal while you're out, discovering heartfelt poetry that reveals your hidden feelings for him. Surprised and deeply affected by your vulnerability, Klaus confronts you, leading to a raw, emotional exchange where both of you confront fears of love and abandonment. As the tension builds, Klaus lets down his guard, revealing a rare tenderness, and the two of you share a kiss that signals the start of something deeper. For the first time, Klaus begins to believe he might not have to face eternity alone.

Klaus Mikaelson never paid much attention to the little details. The fluttering glances. The subtle hesitations. But there was something about your journal that caught his eye when he picked it up, absentmindedly, while you were out with Elijah.

The leather-bound book was worn with age, its pages slightly yellowed, as if it had lived as long as some of his memories. Curiosity piqued, he flicked it open. The ink on the first page was neat, almost delicate. Klaus’s smirk twisted as he read:

"His eyes, like a storm, dark and wild,

A glint of mischief in every smile.

And yet behind the dangerous mask,

A heart, untamed, but tender, asks."

He froze. His name echoed in your words—your heart written out in verse. His fingers skimmed over the next lines, a knot forming in his chest as the weight of the words sank in:

"I watch from shadows, unseen, unheard,

Longing for a touch, a single word.

But he is a beast, untamed, unknown—

Could someone like me ever call him home?"

Klaus closed the book slowly, and the smirk wiped from his face. He hadn’t expected this. You, the quiet, composed one who had always been the picture of independence, had penned such raw, unfiltered longing for him.

When you returned, your eyes bright from a day spent with Elijah, you immediately noticed the journal missing from the table. Your pulse quickened, a subtle shift in your demeanour. Klaus raised an eyebrow, leaning casually against the doorframe, the journal resting in his hands.

“You always hide your secrets so well, Y/N,” he mused, voice laced with amusement—and something darker beneath. “But this... this is a little too tempting to ignore.”

Your heart pounded, cheeks flushing crimson. “Klaus—” you started, but the words caught in your throat.

Klaus flipped the journal open to the page you’d written, reading aloud with a slow, deliberate drawl, "Could someone like me ever call him home?"

The room was silent, save for the soft rustle of pages. The vulnerability in your poetry hung heavy between you, and for the first time, Klaus didn’t know how to respond. His usual confidence faltered, the weight of the situation sinking in.

Finally, he closed the journal with a soft thud, his gaze softening, though the mischief never fully disappeared. He stepped closer, his voice low. "It seems you’ve written me into your heart, love. But tell me... do you still think I’m a beast?”

Your throat tightened, but you met his gaze. “I don’t think you’re a beast,” you said quietly. “I just think you’ve built too many walls.”

Klaus smiled, though it was more of a curve than a full expression. “Then I suppose I’ll have to make sure you’re the one who gets to tear them down, won't I?”

Your breath hitched as he closed the distance, a single, lingering kiss the only thing left unsaid between you. The journal, forgotten on the table, contained a poem that had come to life.

Klaus pulled back just enough for his breath to ghost across your lips, his eyes searching yours with an intensity that made your heart race. There was no teasing now—only a quiet, undeniable pull that made the space between you feel impossibly small.

"You’ve made me curious, love," Klaus murmured, his hand gently brushing a lock of your hair behind your ear. His touch was tender, but there was an undercurrent of something darker beneath, a hunger for something you weren’t sure you were ready to give yet.

You swallowed hard, fighting the urge to look away. "Curious about what?" you asked, voice barely a whisper, as if saying the words out loud might make the moment break.

His lips quirked up at one corner in that familiar, knowing smirk. “Curious about the woman behind the poetry,” he said softly. “The woman who writes about me like I’m a muse… a monster… and everything in between.”

You looked down at the ground, suddenly shy under his gaze. The words had come easily when you’d written them—when you were alone, caught in the quiet of your thoughts. But now, with him so close, everything felt exposed. “It’s just poetry,” you muttered, trying to brush it off, but the vulnerability in your voice betrayed you.

Klaus’s thumb stroked across your chin, lifting your face to meet his eyes. “You don’t write poetry about someone unless they’ve already claimed a piece of you,” he said, his voice low, but no less certain. “And I think I’ve claimed more of you than you care to admit.”

A shiver ran through you at the weight of his words. His presence was like a force pulling you in, and yet, you couldn’t tell if you were ready to give him the final piece of yourself.

“You think I’m just some fleeting muse for you to conquer?” you asked, voice more confident than you felt. “That I’ll fall into your arms because you read a few words on a page?”

Klaus chuckled softly, the sound low and full of something dangerous, but there was warmth in his eyes. “Oh, darling, I don’t conquer. I seduce, I tempt, and sometimes—sometimes I wait. But what you wrote, the way you see me... it’s not about conquest. It’s about something else.”

He leaned in closer, his lips almost brushing your ear as he whispered, “Tell me, Y/N... what do you see when you look at me?”

You could feel his breath on your skin, could feel his presence wrapping around you like a force you couldn’t escape. The words were there, buried in your heart, but they felt too raw, too much to say aloud.

But you said them anyway.

“I see a man who’s been alone for too long,” you confessed, your voice soft but steady. “A man who’s forgotten how to let anyone in. And maybe... maybe I see a man who’s afraid of being loved, because once someone loves him, they leave.”

Klaus didn’t pull away. Instead, his hand found the small of your back, pulling you closer until there was no space between you. He exhaled sharply, as if your words had struck him harder than any blow could. "You’re not wrong," he admitted, his voice low. "I’ve spent lifetimes convincing myself that no one could truly love me, that I’d be better off pushing them away before they got too close."

The vulnerability in his voice stunned you. You had seen the confident, charming Klaus—the one who ruled with power and pride. But this... this was a side of him that rarely saw the light of day.

“But you…” Klaus continued, his hand cupping your cheek gently, “you’ve already gotten closer than anyone ever has, Y/N. And now... I don’t know what to do with that. With you.”

You felt your pulse quicken as you realized how much those words meant. Klaus Mikaelson, the infamous Original hybrid, feared something that no one had ever been able to make him fear before: love.

Without thinking, you reached up, your fingers trembling as you traced the line of his jaw. "You don't have to do anything, Klaus," you said, your voice steady now, the fear of the unknown slowly slipping away. "You just have to let me in."

For a moment, Klaus stared at you, his eyes dark and searching, as if deciding whether to let the walls he'd built crumble before you. But then, without warning, his lips were on yours. It was slow, deliberate—a kiss that spoke of years of loneliness, years of pushing people away, and years of pretending he didn’t need anyone. But in that moment, he did.

You did.

When he pulled back, just enough to catch his breath, Klaus’s lips curled into a half-smile. “I think you’re going to be a problem for me, Y/N,” he murmured, voice thick with something both dangerous and intoxicating. “But I’m quite looking forward to it.”

You smiled back, your heart pounding. “Good,” you whispered, “because I’m not going anywhere.”

And for the first time in what felt like forever, Klaus Mikaelson didn’t feel so alone.

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[forsaken-headcanons]

I’m part of the mcyt community as well as forsaken, and hybrids are a huge part of the fandom space, so I decided I wanted to assign hybrids to the survivors as if they were part of a mcrp (minecraft roleplay for those who are unfamiliar) along with hybrid related hcs for them smiles. Some will be minecraft mobs, some will be real animals NOT featured in minecraft, and there is like two bugs bc i love bugs smiles. 

Starting off strong we have Noob as a butterfly! Specifically a painted lady butterfly. They have wings, antennae and no nose. In order to account for the wings, whenever they get a new top, they cut out the back almost completely, and sew string on both sides on the bottom to tie together so it doesn’t flap around uncontrollably. At some point after being forsaken, a killer (probably 1x) ripped off their wings in an attempt to kill them, which didn’t work, so they no longer have wings. Their antennae are still there though, and are used to express emotion and are used as sensory organs in place of a nose.

Second we have Guest 1337 as an ocelot! Minecraft ocelots were sorta left to be forgotten after cats were added as a separate mob TwT but that won’t stop me from making Guest a catboy!! He has the ocelot fur pattern on all his hair. The hair on his head, body hair, facial hair, all of it. The fur is blue instead of yellow to match his canon hair color. Its hard to see the pattern on his head hair due to all the combing and styling he did before being forsaken, but after he was forsaken, he couldn’t do much with it so it eventually got more clear as it got messier. He was bullied while in the military for being a catboy, ppl called him Lieutenant Whiskers. They only stopped after he beat the hell out of some newbie who threatened to cut off his tail “as a joke”. Speaking of his tail, he mostly keeps it hidden in one of his pant legs because he thinks its easier than either forcing it out the top of his pants or cutting a hole in them. 

Next up is the wonderful 007n7 as an Enderman! His hybrid genetics aren’t as prominent as some other people’s, so he can’t use his teleportation without assistance (he made the c00lgui specifically for this). He doesn’t like eye contact, although it doesn’t really provoke him like it does real Endermen, it makes him really uncomfortable. As a result of this, he tends to look towards the floor. He is fine with looking at Dusekkar though because he has a pumpkin as a head. He is fluent in the galactic language (enchanting table language) and he also encoded the c00lgui in it. Bugs remind him of Endermites, so he despises them. Bug hybrids are alright, but they aren’t his favorite. 007 is also pretty tall (maybe 6’0-6’3?)

After that we got Taph as a Creeper! He’s furry all over, but it feels more coarse than soft. Unlike 007n7, his hybrid instincts are very prevalent. He is unable to speak, hissing instead. People obviously don’t understand him, and that’s why he uses sign language. Taph has four legs, but they’re hidden by his cloak. 

Dusekkar is part phantom! Since phantoms burn in the daylight, he wears a pumpkin to prevent this. He has wings which he uses to fly. He can’t go too high though, as they are small. Dusekkar never sleeps as he is nocturnal and it always seems to be night in forsaken so idk

Shedletsky timee! Of course my boy is an avian. Avians aren’t mobs, for those who don’t know, but they’re typically what we call bird hybrids. Shed is a chicken avian, ofc!! He has those head wing things that some people give avians. He also has a bird tail (it doesn’t look like a chicken’s tail for some reason. He doesn’t know why) and small wings on his back that stick out of a small slit he made. It isn’t wide at all, he just took a pair of scissors and sliced through it carelessly. Shed’s chicken is real chicken, his reasoning is that since he isn’t full chicken, it’s not real cannibalism. 

Chance would probably be a piglin. Piglins in minecraft are sort of like gambling. You give them gold, they give you a random item from their loot table (Not sure why they arent utilized more in minecraft casinos, piglin gambling would be really fun). Chance tends to hide his piglin features, like his ears are hidden under his hat, his tail is hidden in his pants, he tries to squish his hooves into his shoes (it hurts but he does it anyway), and he sometimes wears a mask to hide his fangs. He doesn’t have the mask in forsaken. His body is slightly fuzzy, but not furry. It’s also slightly tinted pink. He tends to collect (steal) gold items he finds. If you give him something with gold on it, he’ll do you a favor, or give you a gift in return. He definitely has a stash of gold underneath his bed. The coin he flips is also pure gold, and his flintlock has gold accents. 

Two time is a death’s head moth 100%. They have their spawn tail present on their canon design, but rather than the spawn wings, they grow moth wings with a spawn-like pattern where the skull pattern would be. The way they expose their wings is through a large, diamond-shaped cutout on their back.  It was cut out soon after joining the cult in anticipation for entering their second life. All members do this. (This is actually a hc i have overall for the spawn cult, not just for the hybrid version of two time) Two time’s wings are grey, black, and white. Their antennae are pitch black, but shift to a bright white in their second life. They are also fuzzy, which is most concentrated around their neck and cheeks. 

Builderman and Elliot are hard to assign. We can technically have non-hybrids, but thats no fun. 

I’m gonna say builderman is a vex. I don’t have much to say about him, but he has downwards pointed ears, sharp teeth, and tiny wings. He doesn’t see it as being worth it to deface his clothing to show them off, so they’re just sitting under his shirt. His hybrid traits aren’t too obvious, so the other survivors thought he was human at first. 

I can’t really see Elliot as anything but human, so he’s the only non-hybrid on the list (girl in an all boys glmm ahh survivor). He’s definitely nervous about suddenly being the only full human after being forsaken, but he doesn’t let it get to his head. He ended up bonding with 007n7 because he’s mostly human, despite hating 007 previously.  He does the same with Builderman. The three ended up forming a little group they call “Human Club”. Although two of the three members are hybrids, their hybrid traits are subtle enough to count as normal humans in Elliot’s eyes. 

Anywaysss thats my hybrid au/hcs i hope u liked it smiles ^^ I may come back later with more hybrid content for yall if i can come up with anything. Yay!!

I’d like to go by Hybrid anon, if thats ok ^^

I always love headcanons of the survivors being hybrids! I feel like it adds more onto their character, and makes their designs a lot more interesting and fun!

And I certainly had fun reading this. You did such a good job at assigning the hybrids for the survivors, I like them.

It's nice to have you, Hybrid anon!

also ydid you just say minecraft.... heh... chicken jockey...

[brisim-claimhte]

One of said historians here. I specialise in religious pollution, and have spent the last year obsessing over it's relationship with bodily fluids specifically. This course of action has culminated in the fact that I will soon be giving a presentation that requires me to discuss anal fisting at nowhere less than Oxford University itself.

As a result of my interest in Greek religion, I have encountered so much misinformation regarding religious pollution in HelPol spaces, and so here is a crash course on how it worked for the ancients.

But first, a couple of general facts about ancient Hellenic polytheism that I often see misconstrued

The ancient Greeks did believe that myths were real. They saw them as part of their history, which is very clearly displayed in the lack of differentiation between myths and historical events in their own history writing.

They did not however, believe they could interact with the gods other than through the medium of an oracle. They believed that once the Age of Heroes ended, the gods stopped interacting with mortals beyond their chosen messengers.

The did not think their gods were inherently good or evil, they just were. You prayed to the gods to keep them on your side, not because they were some benevolent greater being.

You could not worship other gods alongside the greek ones. You could however, declare that non-Greek gods were actually Greek and did so through a process we now call syncretism.

There was a mythic canon. Generally if a god or muse is invoked at the beginning of a story then it was considered to be the truth (homeric epic, the argonautica, homeric hymns). The god is invoked and asked to use the author as a conduit to record the true story. If a god is not invoked at the beginning of the story then that story is not intended to convey the true myth, and was essentially ancient historical fiction, eg. Euripides.

Athens does not represent the Hellenic world. The reason we have so much surviving from there is that the Ptolemies decided to prioritise Athenian literature, and made knowledge of it essential to social status and mobility within their empire. The people in Ptolemaic Egypt wrote said literature down on papyri, which was able to be preserved in the dry, oxygen free environment of the desert.

there was no personal religion. Unlike the Romans, the greeks did not have household spirits etc. All prayers and their accompanying sacrifices took place at communal temples. Some of these temples could belong to private groups, but they were just that, groups. Not individuals.

Their religion was so embedded in their society they did not even have a word for it. Not a single aspect of their lives was separate from their practice, not politics, not trade, not farming. The gods were present in everything.

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Terminology

miasma - religious pollution, a fact of life intrinsic to being mortal. Miasma is what separated the mortal from the divine, its unavoidable, can be cleansed, but will always return. The gods are immune to miasma

asebeia - to act against the gods. There is no moral connotations associated with asebeia, some asebeiac acts are immoral (like murder) and some are just a fact of life (pissing, shitting, bleeding).

lyma - physical dirt/filth that can be removed via water

ritual norms/sacred law - does what it says on the tin, a series of rules to be followed regarding conduct related to religious activity. They are found on inscriptions, and are extremely patchwork as the rules of religious practice were transmitted orally. The CGRN is a free to access digital archive of the laws, with the original greek, translations into both English and French, and commentary on their contents. It is not complete, and focuses mostly on laws concerning purity and sacrifice.

there are more terms, these are just the ones I see come up the most.

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Ritual Purity At the entrances to sanctuaries, there was normally a large shallow basin of water that people would sprinkle on themselves to symbolically cleanse themselves of miasma upon entering. Water was not inherently sacred, this is an idea you'll see come up a lot in academic texts, but it has no precedent in ancient practice.

Women were considered to be more miasmic than men because they were, for want of better terminology, leaky. This is because human bodily fluids were considered miasmic, and women's bodies had more uncontrolled emission of bodily fluid than men (discharge, breastmilk, menstrual blood). Additionally, women's bodies were considered spongey, and so would absorb more moisture that would then be excreted.

Additionally, said bodily fluids were usually considered forbidden in sanctuaries, with the notable exception of blood for extreme purification rituals, and what ever the fuck they were doing at Orthia.

Sanctuaries had regulations for how long you had to wait after miasmic acts to be able to enter. Examples of such acts were sex, childbirth, eating garlic, and menstruation.

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Menstruation's status as miasmic is extremely contested!!! Parker argues that it isn't, as we have only four surviving regulations deeming it so, and all four are either in Magna Graecia or for syncretised gods. I disagree, I have argued that the reason that these regulations were found was because their was a high proportion of non-greeks using these sanctuaries and therefore they would not have been familiar with these norms. Additionally, menstruation is notably absent in any form of non-medical text (Including Aristophanes who is noted for his humour based on bodily fluids), with the exception of Hesiod's discussion on ritual purity, where according to Plutarch's scholia, the reason he warns against men using women's bath water is because of womanly emissions aka, menstruation, discharge, and breastmilk. His lack of differentiation indicates that all three, like all other bodily fluids, are miasmic. And therefore its absence in surviving literature on the topic is due to an intense taboo, rather than not being relevant.

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Other things that were majorly miasmic/asebeia were but not limited to:

murder! especially of family members (I'm looking at you Medea)

death in general

plague

knowingly offering the wrong sacrifice to a god (Atreus)

forgetting to offer sacrifice to a god after sacrificing to the others! (Caledonian Boar Hunt)

refusing to worship a god (Hippolytus)

acting as if you are equal to the gods aka hubris (Arachne and Achilles)

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Miasma was thought to be contagious, and so in Athens we see the murder courts being roofless, and if you committed murder outside of Attica, you were tried on a boat, rather than letting you touch Attic soil.

We also see the temple to Eileithyia at Athens being located outside the city walls, and having an area around it where there is no evidence of man made structures, essentially a blast radius for the miasma associated with a temple of childbirth.

The Chthonic gods were worshipped separately to the Ouronic because for them asebeia worked differently on account of their close relationship with death.

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Other readings on these topics are Miasma by Richard Parker, Greek Religion by Jan Bremmer, Transgression and Deviance in the Ancient World by Gilhaus et. al., Bodily Fluids in Antiquity by Bradley et. al., and Greek Sacred Law by Lupu.

But really, the best way to inform yourself is by reading myth and with its accompanying commentaries if you can't read ancient Greek because otherwise so much nuance and specificity is lost (not Wilson's Homeric translations, I know the marketing says they are accessible but the author has stated in an interview that they are intended to be subversive, and therefore are not going to be accurate to the Greek).

And do it critically, actively avoid using your own lens and instead try and understand the logic within the stories. Who gets punished for what, and why? what patterns of behaviour emerge? Try to understand the logic around what is considered honourable within their world, and then see how you can adapt it to your everyday life.

hello :) not sure if you'll ever see this or respond in time but why not I'm having some issues finding reputable sources on modern Hellenism and reconstructionist Greco-Roman religions for my university work! Not nessecarily academic sources but stuff that someone might normally come across to get an understanding of it.

Thanks :)

Accurate sources on Modern reconstructionist Hellenism? That's a tricky one. If you have access to a university database, I'd start with Antoine Faivre's work on the new age and the reconstructionist movements for background. But if you're looking for current stuff youre probably gonna end up interviewing people.

[genericpuff]

Hello! I actually have a tattoo question for advice!

Long story short, I've got 5 cats. I want to get pawprint tattoos but I also want to incorporate something of theirs that's unique to each of them like their eyes or something, just as an example

What would you as a tattoo artist think would be good? And where would you recommend it be placed on the tattoo itself?

You could always incorporate watercolor as a 'background' to each pawprint, changing and transitioning the colors per pawprint to represent each cat! (and that color could be whatever you feel works, like their fur pattern, eye color, etc.) That would be a pretty way to both separate each pawprint as unique but still tie them together wholly without making the overall design too busy.

As for size, simpler pieces are always better suited to smaller locations IMO. I often get people asking for small or simple designs to be placed squat in the middle of their thighs / arms / etc. and oftentimes it just makes the space look bigger and/or gets in the way of future designs. So if you're not sure as to where you should put it or don't have your heart set on a specific location yet, ideal locations for these kinds of ideas are usually best near the smallest part of the arms / legs (like wrists and ankles), or along the back of the neck, collarbones, tucked along the elbow, etc. It really depends on how big you're going though (but considering they're pawprints, I assume not huge haha)

That said, that's also just basic advice from experience, definitely prioritize the advice of your artist, whoever you end up going with! And of course, at the end of the day, the best place is the place you like the most <3 Obviously getting a professional opinion is important and you should absolutely take it into consideration, but remember to communicate your own needs and stick to your own boundaries too where you can, because you're the one who's gonna have the tattoo for life ! Do all the research you can, look into both fresh and healed tattoos from the artists you're considering. You don't want an "okay" artist or someone who can just "get the job done", you want an artist who's good at what they do and will do it right!

I hope that helps! Good luck! :)

[dj-wayback]

((ooc feel free to ignore if there's too much here or just cus. Couldn't make up my mind on what I wanted to send. My first ever ask so I'm not used to this (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠) ))

Sep strikes me as someone who might appreciate fidget toys. Or just having something to do with their hands (I'm partial to making origami myself). I'm sending over a package with a few small fidgets of varying types and materials (metal, plastic, etc.), a crochet kit, some yarn for finger knitting, a small booklet of tear-off origami paper, a couple hair ties, a puzzle, and a pair of those funny oblong magnets that make that odd sound. And a weighted plush of 33 because I don't think you've gotten many (any?) of those. Sep, I'd appreciate if you'd humor me and try a few of these out. Shouldn't get in the way of your productivity since I don't think you really need your hands for that (correct me if I'm wrong). Give it a shot if for nothing other than the sake of the scientific method (I'm testing a hypothesis here). Up to you though, of course.

This also made me think of fidget spinners, so I'll send a couple of those (one classic plastic, one light up) Wayback's way. And some of those foam capsule dinosaurs you put in water. Bet he'll love those :) .

Khm, hmm, that is, I do value the gesture. I am not one to refuse offerings. Especially ones of high quality such as these. I can tell this was a lot of thought and work, and…but…

I fear you are utterly mistaken in your impression of me. I do not need “something to do with my hands”, I don’t—I do not know why you would…this is not to undermine your efforts, of course, but I am quite unsatisfied with my chamber being used as a place to accumulate purposeless objects.

Because, truly, I do not know what expectations of my actions you had in mind when you sent these over. I do not “fidget”. I do not need “something to do with my hands”. These items add nothing to my productivity, they simply take up space and…I don’t have the time for this. Even if I did have time, I would not be utilizing it in such a senseless way. It’s really not…

A-and if you genuinely needed these tested for…the sake of science…you could have easily done that yourself, I apologize as that is inconsiderate, but it is the truth. Of course in every other circumstance I am always, always happy to provide help and do what’s required of me—this, however, is just…what you ask of me is…

…

Play with them!

I do not—(Needless Separation scoffs in disbelief, like that was an answer they weren’t completely anticipating)—“play”. Who do you take me for? A toddler?

heeeey, what’s the implication here, man? Playing’s fun! Playing with the things you got looks fun! There, logical conclusion just for you brother. PLUS they said it’s for their Hypothesis‼️‼️

I do n—

You Do Not Do Fun, right? Or something like that? You Have No Need For The Fun? You Do Not Require The Fun? did you know you speak like a cartoon villain

…

…….

Okay, fine, you don’t have to Play, but you got other stuff in there too, right? Like—oh! OH!

I—uhhhaha, yyyeah? i mean, what’s not to like, right? it’s also really fun and you get to make a pretty picture and feel smart about it, it’s like, very high on my tierlist of Activities. straight up A-tier

I simply did not take you for someone who…

…

Well, I would not use something as unsophisticated as “fun” to refer to it. I would call it intellectually stimulating, if anything.

oh, it’s intellectually stimulatingggg, okay whatever you say Mr. Serious (definitely not cartoon villain)

I—

i still think you should do it! i—well, i don’t know if you want to—probably not—but i could, y’know, help……or i couldn’t…..or i…………could………………………or i couldn’t. Or could I

…While, yes, this activity seems to at least serve as a solution to a problem of some kind and has a designated purpose, thus being made more appealing than all the…other ones, I am still, ah, busy. As you can see.

i can?

Yes.

Are…you busy?

…Yes. Was that—was that not obvious?

Oh, um…right.

…

So…

No, then.

…

…

…

I…will give your offer some consideration.

[ohno-the-sun]

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CLOSED

Thank you to everyone who applied!

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Yayaya done with the MAP call art and video

If you would like to participate in this Daycare Attendant themed MAP please fill out this form and read the rules listed there.

I have also made a part breakdown for everyone's reference

Latest I will contact people by will be September 1st, if there's still parts open by then I will extend the deadline

A discord will be made for all the animators so they can talk and collaborate if they like (not mandatory to join)

In general I want to give the artists as much time as possible but timeline will be around 3-4 months.

The parts are pretty long so make sure you have the time/motivation!

And for organization I'm gonna put all the stuff relating to this project under the tag #DCA animators project

If you have any questions or concerns please let me know!

Also shoutout to @chaireem and @garbagechocolate for helping me with the form and logistics

Tagging everyone who expressed interest in the tags or comments on the first post below the cut

Sorry if I missed you!

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[sergioguymanproust]

Use your imagination I was told in my youth, but I decided to wait, because I somehow knew that they were real.A 15 foot tall bípedal alien , wearing a space suit looking more like one of those original diving suits . Think if it was a must to wear a spacesuit to walk on the moon, it is easy to imagine them entering our atmosphere being deadly to them with a precise formula,a mixture of gases,si far we count 57 extraterrestrial races visiting us,some settling here,feeding on us,killing our domesticated animals,contacting our government and signing pacts in exchange for their technology,millions still think these tales are just lies to keep us from facing a much harsher reality.Well,getting back to Australia ,there’s so much about the aborigines and their culture and their encounters of the third kind.If not from outer space ,then from the spirit world and their ancestors.As a shaman in my book both alternatives ring true to me.When the white men arrived in those shores with their brainwashing and their sodomizing techniques by the church,separating ,well ,more like kidnapping children from their parents,a disgusting and cruel,forcing them to forget about their culture,just like the white man did in North America against the already established nations which they called them Indians. We lost much of their tales and rich culture.Sad but true .Aboriginal paintings have a significance that tells so much about the contact between inter dimensional beings and their purpose for communicating with humans.Desert locations on this planet are ideal places for extraterrestrial races to land and establish first contact.So in my humble view this creature did come from outer space.We shamans often leave our mortal coil and roam the planes ,because that is where our ancestors chose to live.We all are immortal beings but the common folk is never taught in school about the reality of inter dimensional planes of realities ,those planes are often more real than this so called reality. Heck , even our dreams are more real than our present world. millions of children should be taught this lesson of alternative realities. But the sad truth is that religion has always gotten in the way of,mass manipulation of humanity. Think ,without we could be free of exploring our dreams and traveling out of our bodies.Well,more in coming postings.Words by Sergio GuymanProust.

JACK KAREDADA Aboriginal bark painting of a Wandjina

[ryllen]

Look what came through the mail today! The letters & ( •̀ω•́ )σ 3 little gremlins from letterstoear.

Just wanna say i adore the flower stickers on the letters too much, they are that much worth mentioning.

[spookyfurybouquet-53d553e6]

*absolutely* mystery shows where human and daemon are getting different sets of clues so you've gotta try and put it together from the evidence you have and the *vibes* you're getting from your other half, movies specifically designed so one way of watching gets you to take a different character's side than the other one, all the cool ways you could intertwine stories and rewatch them in fascinating new ways, and now I'm wondering how this extends to other types of media (novels with parallels on opposite pages, perhaps?)

Oh yeah, definitely! Or maybe they’d separate people with colors or have one set of captions on the left and another on the right

Hell yeah! Soulgore, my beloved XD (and as a bonus, you get to increase the stigma towards actual severed folk ><)

(Wait, is Dust actually big enough to see? I always assumed it was a subatomic particle) (though maybe the gold glitter effect happens when there’s *a lot* of it concentrated in one space, like when a dæmon dies (or maybe it’s movie shorthand so the audience is clear on what’s happening)) SAME - around the time of settling my MC desperately tried to stick to smaller forms since settling as something larger would absolutely crush their astronaut dream, and still ended up with a form that's just *barely* under the size limit of course, that doesn't matter anymore, since his daemon's dead now, but- Also, yeah, it kinda stretches credulity a bit to have so many small/flying daemons when you're so far in the future that people are born and raised in space now, but it still happens because Small Daemons = Space Daemons

I love the bug-dæmon idea! As a bonus, it makes it plausible that people never noticed and that animals *could* actually have their own little communities/civilizations under the nose of humans! (This might also give bugs more cultural symbolism than they have in our world, since you still gotta have all the classical dæmon tropes with bug dæmons)

(also now I'm imagining two human actors getting uncomfortably close off-camera so the one's bug dæmon has enough range to convincingly act as the, for example, lion dæmon's dæmon) Now that I think about it, there might be dæmons that specialize in playing sapient animals, so their human doesn't really act much at all, which is interesting to consider! For things that are like, this is an animal civilization instead of a human one, they'd probs choose a subset of animals to be sapient, like mammals, and choose dæmons from the non-sapient species

Yeah, that totally makes sense, re: robots/AI! Maybe it could be a lil mechanical/holographic dæmon, I think that would be fun!

Yesssssss (I wonder if the dæmon-in-human-form would still be able to touch other dæmons or if they can touch humans instead, now (personally, I’d vote the first option, b/c the body they’re in doesn’t change the fact that they’re the externalized soul (this also has the potential for *shenanigans*, with them desperately trying to avoid getting in contact with other people not in the know) Also re: the late-settling teen actor thing, I think this would probs lead to a higher rate of Issues among actors that started as kids/teens, because like, you're actively selecting for people that don't have a strong sense of identity/don't know who they are I also think book adaptations would be a lot better than in our world because here you have a built-in mechanism to showcase the characters' internal thoughts/conflicts on screen!

hello !! what are your thoughts on actors and acting in a world with daemons ? how do you think they would work ?

oooh this is super interesting...i've been thinking over this most of the day and i honestly think there wouldnt be a lot of like, huge and drastic changes. i do think people would cast for appearance of the human actor AND the daemon actor, so there would 100% be casting calls that would be like 'canine daemons only' because whatever character youre auditioning for would have a canine daemon.

BUT ALSO i think there'd be like. daemon costumes!! for places where you need a specific form but your actor isnt settled as such--like, maybe youre doing a documentary about a real person who settled as a parrot, and your actor is AWESOME but a rat. so there's a rat with a parrot costume :3 i feel like this would be more common on stage than on screen (think like, if youve ever seen the costumes of lion king on broadway, thats sorta the vibe i could see), since i feel like CGI tech would make it a tad easier to pass off one animal as another.

like i dont think cgi would replace a daemon actor entirely (to me thats like casting a human actor, and then using cgi to turn them into an entirely different person) but you would use cgi like how cgi is used today, like i know some cgi is used for costuming and stuff. so maybe a daemon has a sort of green screen type costume and thats how you get some species-changes, but like, their face and general shape is still their own.

on the same thread of movies/tv/shows etc, i do think on average there'd actually be less characters per show...like a show in our world would have four main characters, but a show in a world with daemons would have two--because the daemons are characters now too! so this might mean acting is even more competitive than it is today, since there's just less roles even if theres the same number of productions.

tho this varies based on how you present daemons in your world lol, in my 'ideal' sort of daemon-world they'd get as much sceentime as their human counterparts so you'd just have to cut down on total characters, but i write worlds where things are Not good for daemons lol.

along those lines i bet theres also daemon forms that are more vs less likely to get cast--i tend to go canine + feline are the most desired and thus like. "uplifted" forms so every hero has a lion etc, so if you wanna act but youre a sea slug you are going to struggle a LOT to be cast, bc productions would be like sorry we just need dogs <3 i think there would be a mammal bias and i wonder if there'd be anti-discrimination laws passed about this? i feel like that would be really contentious in-universe though, like a thing often argued about--people like, there are totally roles for snakes! (theyre only villian parts). or you can get cast with a fish daemon! (you will never get a main part and most of the time cant even get an extra part because its "too much work" to make the space fish-daemon accessible.) basically you can take this a lot of ways too!

if anyone else has ideas feel free to add on! or send me asks about unrelated daemon topics. i love talking about daemons :3

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

thinking about superheroes unfortunately

[icewindandboringhorror]

just a few little bits from the past few days

[cinnabeat]

literally what was the point of hiding brains face in the beginning

[novelconcepts]

not fic related but you and your wife seem so happy! any advice for a couple of newly married queer ladies?

Hey, I love any excuse to talk about being gay and happy! Congrats on being newly married! I dunno, my advice is always really straightforward. Like. Keep prioritizing communication, keep talking to each other about your day, your headspace, the stuff you love, the stuff that freaks you out. Keep that line open no matter how long you're together, because I really do think marriages fall apart when you start just assuming you can read one another's minds. My wife and I are always really careful to be honest with one another; for example, in the event that one of us is having a bad day and the other person's jokes aren't landing, 'cuz we're just sensitive that day, we talk about it. it soothes hurt feelings before they can really take root.

And find ways of making your own fun. Try new foods together, travel if you're into that, remind yourself that intimacy (if that's your bag) is an excuse to just play with one another and learn about the other person. Cherish the comfort of knowing your person is there for you no matter what, make sure you're on equal footing together, make sure you're allowing each other the space to change and grow and learn. And just take as much joy as you can out of being in love. It's not an easy thing, living in the world right now, but love makes it a damn sight more bearable. Queer love is awesome, queer joy is awesome. I wish you all the best, friend.

[lanternlightss]

sighs. oh how the human and inhuman meet together in their understandings of one another, we’re really in it now …

[kleptonancydrew]

Niche observation perhaps but, does Leo give anyone else major Jesuit vibes? He is clearly Catholic coded (at a Catholic cathedral) and wears a clerical collar but does not go by 'Father' or any other ordained title. (He's clearly not a seminarian at this point in his life.) Jesuits tend to be the only ones I know who do this - but that's very much an American thing I think.

[oldestenemy]

oh sometimes. sometimes reading my own notes is a bad plan.