#Non-Standalone

[typing-catastrophe]

It was lonely. Empty and cold; ever so cold with no source for the freezing feeling that seeped deep into your bones.

But the worst part was, it didn't have to be. He could see you. You knew it.

This wasn't like the times when you were screaming and crying and pleading for him - for anyone - to hear you.

He. could. see. you.

And you knew it.

[watatsumiis]

Xiao knows how to read and write - of course he does. He knows enough to be able to read any missives sent his way, and scratch out basic messages and reports to his commander, but any further than that and he gets lost pretty quickly. It's not something that was ever really required of him. He's fine with spoken word, but often defaults to using the older Liyuen script, which isn't always ideal for most situations.

He'd have others think that he's perfectly capable of these things and simply chooses not to, but in reality, he often finds himself ruminating, silently brooding to himself as he realises that the world has seemingly left him in the dust, with both a more modernised form of Liyuen, and Teyvat's universal common language, which has changed so much over the millennia that it takes everything he's got just to speak and understand it.

He quickly gets prickly and embarrassed if anybody brings up the subject, even if it's in passing or has no relation to him whatsoever. To anybody who bothers to pay attention, his cues are almost painfully obvious, and the underlying frustration even more so.

Xiao isn't normally one to be so embarrassed at his lack of skill in certain areas that he'll resort to feigning them, but in some cases, especially around those he looks up to, he may pretend to be reading signs, or observing whatever books they're reading, when in reality, he can barely understand any of it outside of the most basic characters that haven't changed since he first learned the alphabet, all those centuries ago.

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[bishopony]

damn I went to write some notes on my bg3 tav-turned-OC on toyhouse so I could remember their full story and ended up just writing a bunch of narrative for them and now I have no time to draw them 😔✊

[monsieuroverlord]

One of Marvel's Pride Stories this year, apparently:

(Hi, still internally screaming, thanks for checking in!)

[girlwithadragonheart]

Is anyone here interested in OCs? I love mine so much and if there was enough interest I would talk about them more and introduce the ones that have had the biggest impact on me.

I’ve also been thinking about doing self indulgent OC x reader fics because I love my babies

[thatofabeavers]

Just watched Twisters-

and you instantly know who the love interest is when they look like Dean and survive a near miss with the protagonist xd

[kurokoros]

first of all, the duffers absolutely didn't have the full series planned out from the start because Stranger Things was originally pitched as a limited series with 1) the potential for a direct "sequel" that would follow the younger kids as adults (basically, they pitched "It") or 2) an outright sci-fi horror anthology. second of all, even if the duffers did have everything mapped out from the start that doesn't mean that plan isn't garbage.

[zoekrystall]

Did that fav pkmn thing on a whim and I'm sorry for all my babies I didn't choose bc I really like too many by some.

Love how it's mostly pretty ones and then there's clodsire. Even tho I got it in my team since the beginning of violet do I continuously forget its name bc I just call it by the nickname blobby (one of the rare times I didn't spend hours googling the perfect nickname but it nonetheless is a perfect one)

And for fun without any legendaries as fav

Reg nicknames I even write all down so I only spend decades once for each pkmn (unless I don't like the prev one anymore). Need to update that someday since it's mostly old revolution ones but hey. Blaze do I use for arcanine nowadays more and ninetails got others. Gardevoir got soteria nowadays which I prefer more. Etc.

[sylvarilining]

They both bite

[barbieaiden]

i love sam and aiden but damn sometimes they are very depressing i literally havent seen them smile in 8900 years they are always like :| or :( or :/

honestly. it's mostly because i can't perfectly capture the way they smile in my head in blender so i just make them. not smile lmao. but they will smile eventually!!! and genuinely too i will give them good moments that don't mention anything bad at all and they will smile the entire time

[danothan]

YOU DIDNT ASK so im sorry in advance (especially because i wont be explaining this well) But. ill be so honest i dont think the t-shirt kon is bad in a vacuum like it could be cute 😭 i do think its genuinely kinda fun when the characters wear their own little merch. the t-shirt outfit is even kind of funny because hes literally just wearing a t-shirt and jeans 😭 i love kon no matter what!!

but in the context of the transition from young justice (the comic) and the gang "graduating" into the teen titans (vol.3) i feel like it was a regression for him. idk i read into kon and transness+being lgbt too much so ive seen interpretations of it being his internalized homo/transphobia because its also a time where he has a secret identity for the first time in small-town america... and i do enjoy that, but it was Not intended by the writes (especially considering who was writing him in the mid-late 2000s)

kon's character to start off is really about identity and the reclamation of it when he was intended to be a Thing, and how he struggled under the weight of acting like he thinks he should/expectations placed on him (especially because he did not have an alternate identity or a name at first, he was just superboy. THEN kon el and conner kent) and how he expresses himself by replacing a tag cadmus put on him with a gold earring and generally dressing in a flashy and flamboyant and alternative way

so then when we transition to the teen titans kon, they sort of......strip him of that expression of personality. hes put in a t-shirt and jeans. they take away his earring. hes put in a relationship w/ cassie sandsmark (who btw. is very wlw coded to match him in the YJ comic, and both of their designs suffered what we call the cishetifcation) that is ultimately so bad for their characters (meanwhile kon is written into the most gay coded friendship w/ tim drake for like. a decade.)

and the young justice cartoon is an adaptation that was attempting to take the teen titans run from the 80s i believe? and young justice 98-2003, AND the 00's teen titans run. (decades of story to work with and way too many characters and groups, leads the cartoon to, in my opinion, suffer from a too many cooks situation)

and it does not handle kons character very well at all either </3 AND they used the t-shirt design while sticking him in a very unhealthy relationship w/ a character hes never really interacted w/ much in the comics. so umm. TL;DR very mixed feelings on t-shirt conner

i do recommend reading young justice though <3 (AND IM GLAD YOU LIKE MY DESIGN !! tysm <333 the curly hair is a must <3) sorry for the essay i just wanted to expand on why i put the t-shirt boy in the "sigh" categories 😭

ah, when i said i liked t-shirt conner, i didn’t mean the outfit, i was specifically referring to the young justice cartoon’s characterization ^^; i do acknowledge that it was a mixed bag that was forced to cherrypick years of history as an adaptation, and i get why conner fans don’t see him as Their Conner, but i’m gonna be so real with you. i liked him a lot in the cartoon 😭 as a standalone show, the first season does a rly good job of letting you understand his struggles and thought process, there were a lot of moments that endeared me to his angst while also letting him still feel like a kid. but i think i’m also biased towards characters that default to anger as a trauma response (completely unrelated to recent events believe it or not! wacky coincidence tho! foreshadowing even…?)

conner and m’gann’s relationship was def not the most interesting to me, but it’s also not the worst one. i have other biases against. other couples. but i’m curious to see how it develops bc unhealthy or not, i wanna see how it affects the characters, ykwim? like i’m not in it for the shipping, even if we All know there’s a better conner ship U__U

idk i just feel worn out by comics cynicism bc while i get it (i’m a hal fan, by god do i get it), i also don’t want to treat anything in dc too sacred. it’s more fun for me personally to view new iterations/adaptations as puzzles to work out rather than view them as character assassinations if even that. there are some truly unsalvageable things out there, but i generally think there’s smth good to gain in everything. and the young justice cartoon gave me a t-shirt conner to gain in my heart, so i can’t fault his character change too much as drastic as it is

all of this to say tho: the alt look is obviously superior. NOTHING beats a cropped jacket <3

[avalentina]

So... I'm working on something big!, Should be around 20k or so words when I'm done, but we'll see. Stay Tuned for more details!

[leviathanlies]

Excuse me did they just show elden ring and dark souls are in the same universe ?????

[beckgreyauthor]

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[coreydoras]

if you use multiple, pick the one you use the most, not your preferred one.