#about denizens

[andstuffsketches]

"expand my world? I'm trapped on this train."

[flickering-nightfall]

[dingodad]

i wonder if the denizens being simultaneously web browsers and eternal gods who exist simultaneously across realities is supposed to imply that skaia's "well of potential from which every conceivable possibility arises" in some way IS the internet

[biggestdickinohio]

Yellow buddies I see in an elevator sometimes

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The West Passage

medieval fantasy set in a giant crumbling palace of traditions with forgotten origin, ruled by giant eldritch Ladies

when winter weather comes in the middle of summer, and a beast below the palace begins to rise, two teens from Grey who have suddenly gained a lot of responsibilities set out on separate journeys to the other towers to find a way to stop it, and meet all sorts of strange people and creatures along the way

world where pronouns/names are based on people’s roles

tons of cool medieval-style chapter illustrations by the author

[michyeosseo]

Do you know why she is honored as goddess? Bedridden for a long time due to her incomplete celestial roots... a deity everyone thought could not be saved... Lord Xingzhi came to take to the Extranatural Heaven. And cured her. Therefore, the Divine Realm's Heavenly Lord gave her a title: Luotian Goddess – blessings from the sky. The girl blessed by the [ancient] gods.

Li Jia Qi as YOULAN

THE LEGEND OF SHEN LI (2024) 1.17-1.19

[yui-hibari]

So...

While reading SVSSS it was easy to (mostly) ignore Shen Yuan's behaviour, since he has an excuse for everything. But once I took a couple of steps back, all I could think was Hey, what the fuck

[statementlou]

hi it's just me being nosy and asking a follow up to your vinyl anon--what are some of your non-1DCU favorites? collection tour please 😇

hiiii gosh and look you even put the link on for me to make it easy! The question itself is NOT EASY though I was like BUT WHAT IF I FORGET ONE?? Like what CATEGORY of favorite?! But the timing couldn't be better, I am currently as previously mentioned in the process of moving all of my stuff around, a huge project that 1) is perfect for listening to records while I do things like move books from one shelf to another and 2) means I just today moved my record player to a far better place where I am actually using it again for the first time in ages (for one thing onto an actual properly non wobbly surface) so I listened to records today and picked a few that will do sorry to all the others I forgot and love even more I'm sure

I picked first up Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth not just because it's so good (IT IS THOUGH) but also because it's an album that having it on vinyl feels SO right and it makes me happy just to handle; the pretty Gerhard Richter painting cover, a little crackle and pop with the music, the aesthetic of it all! I mean Sonic Youth probably literally birthed the indie hipster luddite aesthetic, it seems Right™ Second is The Bonny by Gerry Cinnamon, because being able to listen to the songs The Bonny and Ghost specifically on vinyl feeds my soul in deep and important ways. Also the 4th side is blank and etched with lyrics, like the JHO single, very cool. And last the record/album I've almost certainly played the most times in my life, even though the copy I have has skips now (to be loved is to changed and all that yk) and I haven't to date been able to bring myself to buy a reissue or pay $$$ for another original: 24 Hour Revenge Therapy by Jawbreaker. It's just important in like 15 different ways okay? Tip, if anyone is like huh! I will go listen to this album I've never heard it (DO!! also then tweet it at Louis a lot, he would REALLY LIKE IT) I think the best way to do this is to skip the first song the first time, it's a whole different vibe than the rest. Also right now my fave is LTLIVE on vinyl 😭 playing records makes me want to put it on SO BAD :((( also bonus content, one of my favorite things about records for some reason is seeing who goes next to who idk I just find it fun and if I were naming a band it would totally be a big consideration... so for extra tour of the shelf, Gerry Cinnamon is between the Germs and The Gits (listen the Cs are crowded, it's my shelf I can do what I want), Sonic Youth was between The Snuts and Social Distortion- which the astute may notice is not correct, she will be going back other side of Social D- and Jawbreaker nestle cozily between Japandroids and Jerk With A Bomb. Louis, for the record, lives between very twee girl band Tiger Trap and very fast hardcore band Tragatello, lol. A weird bill, that, but they do have one thing in common- all feature queer musicians

[s-aint-elmo]

in my head hikari is the proud owner of the canon url @mrwhite and is known on mascotblr for her stoic yet fanatical devotion and encyclopedic knowledge of mr. white lore. it is only weeks after The Tower(TM) that mahiru, suzdal cat blogger, catches an accidental glimpse over her shoulder and learns that they've been mutuals long before hikari ever set foot in japan, and that mrwhite's inexplicable months-long hiatus has suddenly become blatantly explicable.

[possiblyfunny]

With all the Missing Numbers Doodles popping up today, I finally found it in me to actually doodle and not care about how it looked. Anyways—

Here is Aster’s Halloween Costume! I didn’t color it, but Aster is Little Red Riding Hood and Del is the Werewolf. He’s not trick-or-treating, by the way—he’s just handing out king-sized chocolate bars to everyone he passes while walking around!

It’s not much- Just a goofy little thing to celebrate the holiday. Happy Halloween, everyone!

(Psst-! Hey, @100nebulas ! Starry! I know it’s not a lot, but I promised! Here’s your small dose of Aster content :])

[rxj-the-punk]

I'd like to imagine Trein giving out an innocuous assignment one day--pick a children's song/nursery rhyme from your home country, trace its origins, and write an essay on it. Nothing special, just trying to show how deeply entrenched history actually is in culture.

Except for Yuu, for whom this is very special.

Due to their unusual circumstances, he considers assigning a song himself, but decides to use the honor system. Yuu is trustworthy enough, and--sue him--he's a little curious what kind of songs they sing in a world without magic.

Small problem: Yuu doesn't actually know much about that many songs. Oh, my Darling Clementine? That might be a bit morbid, and Trein would probably expect them to explain the gold rush. And also isn't there a line about fairies in there? Good luck explaining the difference between them and fae. Ring Around the Rosie? Not actually American, although nobody can contest them on that, and their last history teacher skimmed the part of the textbook with the Black Death, so no dice. A Tisket, A Tasket? Yuu isn't even sure what part of the world that came from, although "Europe" is probably a safe bet.

...the point is that they can't think up anything that would get a passing grade. And sure, they could admit they've got nothing and accept 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat' or whatever. Or make something up and hope their teacher wouldn't notice, although he'd probably figure it out anyways.

And then they see Malleus walking by Ramshackle and it hits them--Puff the Magic Dragon. It's pretty recent, so they won't need to remember 200+ years of historical context. The lyrics are pretty straightforward, and it should be easy to make up something reasonable sounding to fill in any gaps in their knowledge.

A few drafts and several conversations about the origins of dragons later, Yuu's ready to hand it in. Nothing left to do but wait.

[heronchildlove]

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CASSIE'S KICKSTARTER IS OUT AND IT WILL FEATURE NOT ONLY THE SOBH BOOK BUT ALSO AN UPDATED FLOWER BOOK AND 2 OTHER BOOKS OF COMPLETELY NEW STORIES (1 WITH NOVELLAS ABOUT TSC AND OTHER THINGS AND 1 ONLY WITH SHORT STORIES ABOUT TSC COUPLES) AND A JOURNAL!!!

IF YOU BACK IT UP IN THE FIRST 48 HOURS, YOU'LL ALSO RECEIVE THE FIRST CHAPTER OF TWP BEFORE ANYONE ELSE SO CLICK ON THE LINK AND CLICK "NOTIFY ME ON LAUNCH" TO GET THE ALERT!!!!

[alliluyevas]

are people not allowed to find a subplot/trope boring or uninteresting anymore? is a story boring if it doesnt have a cheating plotline?

every story needs to hit a quota of five extramarital affairs before I crack open the page that’s exactly what I meant

[lime-bloods]

i've kind of talked offhandedly about how the denizen represents the parent while mostly sticking to the pipe-smoking Typheus and the trolls' dead denizens as examples, but as usual Jade is an interesting outlier here... it seems reasonable to guess that Jade's Mother Of All Monsters being a sexy blue lady would suggest Jake's sexy blue ladies came to be the closest thing Jade had to a mother figure

my first thought, though, was of Jake's ostensibly blue wife Ms. Claire... is she Echidna in some way... Hiveswap does of course have a whole bunch of Monsters who so far have no known Mother? so for all we know she's connected to those

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Eridan: it’s time for dinner! i made fried angel wwings!

Equius: D-> i’m a vegetarian, do you have anything for me?

Eridan: starvvation

[beetroot-merchant]

can we please talk about them