#THANK YOUUUU this was fun!!

[nocturnalzhagreus]

8, 11, 22, 26, and 30 for Florence; 12, 14, 16, 23, and 28 for Henry :)

Oh boy its going to be a long one, lets just start with the girlie!

8) What hobbies does your OC have? What do they do to unwind?

Florence is a type of person who gets curious and interested easily so she embodies this trait into cooking. Her personal favorite is to make cookies and pasta, which she likes experimenting with new recipes. In some occasions if she's a bit worn out she likes to make a cup of goat milk and read a couple novels to unwind herself

11) What was your inspiration for your OC?

It all started when i got back to the twdak fandom and was also in a brainrot after reading agatha christie's novel "and then there were none". (Spoilers if you havent read it) I was a big fan of Old Justice Wargrave (or Laurence Wargrave) because he was such a well written villain with a strong sense of justice yet an "innocent" and calm sadistic demeanor. At that time i already had Florence in my drafts but i haven't got any good refs, so i decided to make my favorite old man as the refs for my girlie :>

22) Fight or Flight? Are they a lover or a fighter?

In a fight or flight situation, i do think she likes to take the risk. In making decisions or to put it simple, when she joined Krueger corp. she already knew theres no turning back because her father had already "given up" on her. So she will strive to prove that she's strong enough without him. So, a fighter.

26) What flower do you associate your OC with?

As much as i wanted to answer with wacky pretty flowers, i think daisies symbolizes her quite well, since it represents "innocence", loyalty, and ability to keep secrets

30) My OC and your OC are friends. This isn't a question. I'm not asking. (How do they respond?)

Theyre besties, your honor. Florence would really be grateful for Fiish's company because Albert could be quite a tiring boss, especially if he asks her to clean up the recent mess his patients did. Its just girlies supporting girlies yknow (and yeah they'll probably bully him also its part of the silly agenda lmao)

Now its time for Henry's turn!

12) Does your OC interact with other people's OC? If so, who's their best OC friend?

Yes. If you have seen the small comic i made with my friend (@im-bored-so-i-draw )'s oc, Jameson Heelshire, he's one of his homies. I dont know if they let me spoil another one but theres also another guy named Gabe, and he's also part of the group.

14) Who's a character your OC cannot stand! It's on sight when they see them!

With the events of him being rejected when he signed up for Myers corp, he absolutely despises Monsieur M. (Or just Myers in general) So everytime the tv at his press office has news about Myers he would reach put for the remote and change the channel to something else. He met Albert too at some point in while working, but he's still tolerable.

16) How's their relationship with their parents? Are they alive?

Henry's parents is indeed still alive. But the relationship is complicated. His mother was actually forced to marry his father because she was already pregnant before they were married. And Henry's mother was a scientist at Voorhees corp. And she was actually half-hearted when she had Henry. So they got divorced, and since his father regretted all of these occurences, Henry was taken in care by his uncle, Harlan. As for his relationship with them now, he still calls his dad and also his mom. Henry could only hope one day that his mother actually aswered the call when he did.

23) Is your OC reliable? Can I call them up at two in the morning if I have a flat tire?

Only if it also benefits him. Like if you call him with the said prompt he'll just reply "and what will you give me?" And if you answered something that pleases him (like you'll help him with his "work") he'll grab his sneakers and a brand new tire to run to you with aid.

28) What clique would they be in? (Draw them in the clothes of said group!)

I have really small understanding of english terms (it isnt my first language) so what i could gather is cliques are like those groups in highschools who has specific interests (?) So i would say he would be like a movie geek ig

(I dont know what they wear so apoliogies for not drawing :'>)

[iwantmochisoup]

uhh if doodle requests are open then maybe bram and/or aya?? (if they're closed just ignore this)

hii, thank you for your request :3c i always wanted to draw them both like this, hehe hope you like it~

[rancidsugar]

Commission for @timetodiverge keisjwdj ily ❤️❤️

[ask-the-invincible-crew]

Mack, please. Let the crew leads eat in peace.

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

what's your dissertation about? you mentioned it in the siltcord and i'm really interested

oh my god hey I'm so happy you're interested! broad strokes because I've only been working on it for a few weeks but: the current theme is 'resistant landscapes' (both man-made and natural) in the later writing of Shirley Jackson!

Essentially, my main thread is that Jackson had two parallel strands to her work, which as far as I can tell began kind of interrelated but then diverged quite significantly? She's probably best known now for The Haunting of Hill House and to a lesser extent We Have Always Lived In The Castle, which are these. weird surreal psychological horror novels, engaging explicitly or implicitly with the supernatural, and centred around introspective, strange and sometimes deeply misanthropic female characters from isolated social units with dysfunctional, possessive relationships to each other.

Aaaaand then on the other hand she was known for being a 'happy housewife' who wrote these whimsical, quasi-autobiographical stories about all her children and how hopeless her husband was. These were popular too. Betty Friedan called her out in landmark 1963 feminist manifesto The Feminine Mystique for essentially spreading patriarchal propaganda.

The interrelation between the two is really jarring, because in one family is a source of horror and tragedy and in the other it's a source of, like... laundry. And Jackson's home life wasn't everything those stories made it out to be-- her marriage was unfaithful, her mother could probably be fairly called emotionally abusive, and as I talked about on the siltcord, she developed severe agoraphobia which often left her housebound.

So, yeah. My plan is to explore the depiction of families as constructed social units in dialogue with the environments they are constructed in in that work. Obviously a lot of that is relation of house to family, in the context of which Hill House is especially rewarding to consider, but I also want to look at relationships with nature and urban environments (especially in the context of settler colonialism and how that has had an enduring legacy in Jackson's particular part of New England), xenophobia (largely in regard to class, though racism and anti-Semitism are presences in her writing), domesticity and the idea of the housewife, and how horror relates to All Of This. The ideal of making a home within a hostile environment and of that environment turning on you, essentially.

I don't yet have particular areas of focus within that broad umbrella, but I might update with bits and pieces about it as I work? I don't really talk about academic stuff on here but I am very much Critical Literary Analysis Guy and I do also post relentlessly about haunted houses as a concept so if people would be interested in it maybe I will

anyway if you've read this far I recommend Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition (2024) by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing which is a book about how horror movie tropes can be mirrored in built environments! I'm reading it right now and it's conceptually fascinating plus fairlyyy comprehensible by academic standards (if a little dense) if you, like me, are a Fool who knows nothing of architecture. very good also for getting to look at pictures of some of the most Fucked Up Buildings (affectionate) you've ever seen.

[suprababka]

Hey, just wanna say, Happy birthday :). Thank you for giving us fanfiction and please don't overwork yourself

Heeeey!👋 Thank youuu!🥰 I'm really happy to have people who enjoy what I make! Love you guys with all my heart!🫶❤️‍🔥 (I'm trying not to overwork myself, but... yeah... Thank you for your concern!😚)

*I found the original pic here

[neathyingenue]

🎲 forrrrrr,,,twitch and silvia?? (sorry silvia)

I rolled 32--a kiss while someone is watching. (with apologies to @zeebreezin)

[we-are-dogclan]

Wasn't Steampaw the cat mentioned to have liked cardinals? Is Coyotekit basically them reborn or something? I see a lot of red feathers and I AM A SUCKER for symbolism. OR DID STEAMPAW PULL A QUIET WHERE THEY CONFUSED COYOTEKIT FOR PINE!!! Sorry huge fan of all this.

:)

(THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT AAA!! I LOVE HEARING ANYONES THOUGHTS ON THIS TY)

[serve-cunt]

please miss, who is in the Olympics off of tennis au and do lando or oscar win and which other athletes do they have raging crushes on?

omg the whole top 20 goes OF COURSE & they keep seeing each other in the olympic village and being like "hehe!!" because they're all in their patriotic country kits instead of their sponsor gear, carlos and fernando have to wear that winnie-the-pooh ass spain gear, max is in BRIGHT ORANGE ... lewis, george, alex, and lando all have to wear .. this...

sorry guys.

this is what oscar has to wear, which. fine.

galex are a doubles team (CUUUTE) and lando & lewis play together which uhh. does not go well. galex win silver and fernando & carlos win gold. pierre & esteban win bronze LOL

in singles max wins, of course (it wins him the career golden slam, & he's kinda mad because if lando hadn't won the australian open he would have had the golden slam practically guaranteed for 2024), charles wins silver (LESTAPPEN OLYMPICS PODIUM) and the fire poker of patriotism up George's ass wins him bronze (FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY)

oscar develops a weird crush on clark kent aka Stephen Nedoroscik, aka Pommel Horse Guy, and lando makes fun of him for it MERCILESSLY but then proceeds to get sooo dopey around leon marchand, so they're mostly even by the time they go home :))

[tonycries]

that panty stealer gojo was so hot wtafff

[zukkaoru]

I think i forgot to send you some the other day and i definitely meant to so. Hi<3

15 + skk or kunizai (or kunichuuzai) up to you!

23 + chuuran

hello! i come bearing gifts!! chuuran first and the other one is under the cut bc it is. slightly more m-rated lol

chuuran + a kiss influenced by alcohol

This is a bad idea.

Chuuya knows this is a bad idea. But their common sense is clouded by alcohol and Ranpo was staring them down with those stupid green eyes, like he was trying to undress them from across the room, and fuck.

Chuuya groans as he bites down on their lip. They have him pinned against the wall, but that hasn’t stopped Ranpo from acting like he still has the upper hand. Like this is exactly what he wanted.

Chuuya knows they’ve played directly into his trap, but it feels too good to stop now.

“You are so goddamn annoying,” they grumble between kisses, voice nothing more than a harsh whisper against Ranpo’s smiling lips. “I hate you.”

“Mhm,” Ranpo hums. “That must be why you want me so bad right now.”

“Shut the hell up.”

“Make me.”

And oh, that is a challenge Chuuya most certainly will not back down from.

-

skk + a kiss along the hips

“Chuuya…” Dazai murmurs, tightening their grip on his hair. They don’t pull him back, though, so Chuuya continues carefully unwinding the bandages wrapped around their thigh.

“Is there something you want?”

Dazai whines.

“Sorry,” Chuuya smiles, “I can’t understand you if you won’t use your words.”

“Chuuya!”

Chuuya laughs. Having finished with the bandages, he tosses them aside. Then, he presses his lips to Dazai’s hip bone. Too soft to fully satiate them but enough to soothe them for the moment. “Be patient,” he instructs. “It’s not my fault you feel the need to mummify yourself.”

“Chuuya’s being so mean!”

Chuuya kisses them again through a teasing grin. “I think you like it, though.”

Dazai doesn’t argue. When Chuuya glances up, he finds their face is flushed all the way to the tips of their ears.

They’ve only just started, but he’s having so much fun already.

[ghostwise]

checking to see what they think or feeling a flutter after something they've done dozens of times for the what are we? moment prompts

“I don’t know, Varric,” Harding says. “This archipelago isn’t on any of the maps I’ve sourced. We’ve come so far—what if it’s another dead end?”

The table in front of them is covered in nautical charts, along with tools and a roll of parchment full of notes. She has stared at these charts for countless hours. She feels intimately acquainted with the monstrous little creatures drawn at the edges of the maps, but it’s gotten her nowhere.

They’ve been aboard the Siren’s Song for weeks now; long enough for both of them to acclimate to the weather and settle in.

Harding had hoped that the local maps would serve them better than the old charts from Ferelden—certainly, the Lords of Fortune had the truest telling of the Boeric Ocean’s most distant reaches—but she’s seen nothing of the mystery archipelago mentioned in so many Venatori missives. It is beginning to worry her.

“Isabela says we’ll soon reach a point where the Siren can’t maneuver. Too many sand bars, too narrow for the ship. We’re running out of time. We’re going in blind.”

“Good thing we have a scout on the case, then,” Varric says. “The finest in Thedas.”

“You think very highly of me,” she tells him, in stern disapproval.

“It’s warranted.” With a rumbly laugh, Varric rises to his feet and walks over. He rests a broad palm on her shoulder.

“Why do you think Lady Lavellan put us on the job, kid? I can see the narrative. But you can see the path.”

Harding sighs at those words.

She cannot help but feel nostalgic when he talks like this. The lines on his face and the gray in his hair certainly don’t help. She has spent a decade devoting herself to this cause.

Before she can dwell on it further there is a knock on the cabin door.

“Lunch,” Lirio Laidir says when he walks in. “For my favorite guests.”

“Aw, you didn’t have to!” Harding says, instantly brightening. “I’m sure glad you did, though. I’m sick of looking at these.”

“Trouble?” Lirio asks.

“We can’t find an archipelago matching the descriptions we’ve gathered,” Varric says, taking the wooden bowl from Lirio’s hands. “What… is this?”

“Caldeirada,” Lirio says.

“Fish stew again,” Harding clarifies. “Hooray!”

“Well, mostly fish.”

“I’m getting a taste for this mostly fish,” Harding admits with a smile. Then, she pauses around a mouthful of stew, and waves a fluttering hand at Lirio. “Actually—since you’re here, think you could have a look at this? Maybe you’ll see something we’ve missed.”

Varric glances at her over his stew. The notes are not exactly a secret, but they detail Venatori movements and communications they have shared with no one, not even Leliana. And Lirio seems all too eager to help.

Varric would find it suspicious, if he didn’t know better. If he didn’t see the narrative.

“You know,” Lirio hums as he and Harding pore over the charts and annotations, “I heard a rumor from a Dalish friend of mine. He said he once saw a volcano that had formed new islands around it. He said this happens from time to time, but when there is a lyrium vein inside the volcano, curious things start to happen. The islands pop up fast. The Fade gets weak around them. There is a lyrium trade in the area.”

“So… look for volcanoes on islands?” Harding suggests.

The idea is compelling. It seems so unlikely, but it’s a route they hadn’t explored, so she quickly takes to the idea. Her frustration and fatigue from before seem to vanish.

They carry on that way, hunting for volcanoes in the charts and swapping stories, until Lirio is called to tend to the sails.

In the silence that follows, Varric sets his hands on the table politely. He gives Harding a knowing look, and a slow, inquiring smile.

“Well,” he says.

Harding sputters for a moment, a light blush on her cheeks.

“What?”

“Nothing. That was a very enlightening conversation, is all.”

[extantformoflife]

haha im sure this is just a funny little joke and definitely not something that siffrin Actually Believes in a way that is just so sad. haha.

[dudewhy3]

Have you ever written fake dating? This classic romcom scenario seems right up your alley

hiii, thank you for the ask!!

i've shared this fake dating headcanon a while ago, but i've never written anything lengthy with that trope. but if i was to, it'd go something like this (i played around with some more tropes and stuff, hope you don’t mind :3)

they work for the same police department as detectives and initially don’t really like each other, because they keep stealing the other’s cases

until one day they’re both given the same case and made to work together– some crime of passion, a guy murdered his wife during their huneymoon and then vanished into thin air

so they’re sent to the secluded island where the scene took place and accomodated at the same hotel– except the place is specifically designed for couples and hosts all kind of coupley activities, like dance nights and fishing dates and trips to the mountains and baking classes and so on and so forth– so they have to pretend to be a couple to fit in and not raise any suspicion (and also they share a room)

between turning the place upside down for clues and faking a relationship to fit in, they actually start liking each other and seeking out the other's presence– Annie, usually quiet and straightforward, slowly opens up to him, and Armin, usually calculated and five steps ahead of everyone, lets himself just be. But they tell each other it’s just for the mission. The mission comes first, it always does.

But the more time they spend on the island, the more complicated the case gets. The clues don’t add up, the husband is found inexplicably dead, yet the staff claims that they have never seen that man before. They soon find themselves in a dead end, running in a loop. The couples they now live with soon begin to vanish, one by one. The staff gets weirder by the day. They feel like every step they take is watched and closely monitored. No ship comes to the island and none leaves. They're trapped, and getting frustrated with this case, and yet they have to keep up the facade of a happy couple so that they’re not discovered.

Until one night they snap and take their frustration out in all ways they know how.

ok i'll stop now because this is lowkey turning into a mini outline lmao but yeah!! it'd go something like that! they'd solve the case and deny their feeling till the very end, and finally admit to them when one of them gets a job offer out of state weeks later.

Thank you again for the ask!! ✨️

ask game in question

[bookinit02]

spotify wrapped thing: 37 and buddie!

oooh tysm!! 37 is asc. scorpio by the oracle sisters (a banger). my first thought was that “an elephant in hunger, a power grid and thunder / a child in a crib, in a rocking chair, sister says ‘nightmares are gone’” are THEEEEEEE most buck coded lines i have ever heard. my second thought, looking at: “i’ll look you up when i pass through / man, it’s been so goddamn long” is very much. angst post eddie moving to texas. stay with me okayyyyy so this is in a world where the move Does happen and they are estranged for a significant length of time (which, knowing buddie, could literally just be like six months).

so, given that, i’m thinking buck pov reflecting on abandonment issues/wanting to start a family after eddie leaves LA, but he’s striking out everywhere he turns and overall just feeling pretty hollow/passionless/going through the motions. BUT! eddie is coming back to town! just to visit, of course, for some reason or other that i cannot think of at the moment. maybe a wedding/vow renewal/new baby? if i was REALLY cruel, maybe even buck getting married. but we know they are freaks and that would never work. in any case, eddie’s coming back and there is a… Reconnection. fic ensues.

[thecollectionsof]

by unpopular demand, I'm back! We're throwing a giant costume ball in a fancy castle for Halloween. The grander the better. There's no budget constrictions to take into account, the world's your oyster, tell me, what would you go dressed as? How would it look? Does the party have a theme? If you were to host it what'd be the vibe? Where are you usually found at in parties? 😊

a glitterask !!!!! hi sandra !!!!!!!

i’m gonna be a bee :) 🐝 they call my cohort a hive so i have to dress the part !!! i think the actual occasion would be big and fancy (i mean a ball…. that’s a perfect time to be big and fancy) but i don’t think i’d limit what anyone would wanna go as for something like a dress code. i mean… i’m a bee, so i can’t say anything about that :)

as a host i think it’d be laid back?? i love to host things because !!! friends!!!! but i tend to be a very go-with-the-flow type host, so the vibe would be whatever the event would end up being. we’d have to see!!

usually at a party i stick near my friends, but as long as we can have a good chat i’m happy to flit between groups :) and i feel like i usually end up on side quests, so maybe i’d be off somewhere exploring. who knows !!!!