#alary tag!

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im so sorry for the length of addition on the reblog of the fic rec ask that will be occuring shortly. deeply, deeply sorry

oh i am SO excited!!!!!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN :) trick or treat [i give you a nice little wood puzzle]

ALLLLL HI HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

wei wuxian the birthday boy for u!!!! >:333

[bambouche]

i am once again returning to making fanart for indie visual novels. anyways fenir autism drop is huge and i love him (character belongs to @crescencestudio )

[martyrbat]

pierre alary

[ID: black and white artwork of Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. Harley is standing up with one of her legs lifted behind her to bring her foot up near her calf. She's holding a gun as she reaches a hand out, her slightly curled fingers facing the ground. Underneath her, Pam is leaning back as leaves flutter out from around her, starting at her legs and going all the way up the left side of the page. Her arm is thrown out as the other is bent and slightly in front of her chest, almost in a defensive pose as she looks to the right. They're both sneering and are in front of a plain white background. END ID]

[allu-viia]

If anyone wants to follow the side-blog where I write stuff ... fanfictions, headcanons and all that jam, search @alluviia-writes !!!

[crescencestudio]

ALARIS SIGHTING IN BELOVED WUDGEY'S @/HEROTOME DEMO WAAAAAAAAAH

binged my first playthrough and i unfortunately have to go to sleep BUT I HAD TO UPLOAD THIS REALLY QUICK BECAUSE WAH

ALSO GRIFFIN & JADE U HAVE WOOED ME.......

[spring-bud]

end of clownvanguelion :) redraw of the screenshot below (ft Atlas Alarie of @awe-24 fame)

[alyxmoonstrike]

“You just give them a little NUDGE!” -Vivienne before shoving Reg.-

ft @space-diablo​ ‘s character, Flo! <3  and the CroFiStale gang.  Reference picture:

[crossdressingdeath]

Huh. My brain's been mostly on a 24/7 BG3 lockdown and now suddenly it spits out "Hey if Alaris was saved from Templars by an actual literal bear as a kid wouldn't that add something tasty and fun to the Dirthamen stuff". I mean it's right, it's just odd timing.

[laireshi]

Fic: Comfort in Familiarity

Alaris/Tal’kamar

Summary:

After yet another run-in with Nethgalla, Tal'kamar goes to Alaris.

...all I want to do is to cry about the two of them, so here’s a tidbit from when they were still on the same side.

read on ao3

[liminalmemories21]

9 Books To Read in 2024

tagged by @jesuisici33. Thank you!

In release date order:

1- Holly Black - The Prisoner's Throne

After the shocking events of The Stolen Heir, Prince Oak is in deeper trouble than ever before. As his situation grows more precarious, Oak is desperate to find a way out, before all of Elfhame is caught in the coming storm.

I love pretty much anything Holly Black writes, but I particularly love the Folk of the Air series. I'm a sucker for a good dark faerie court drama.

2 - K Ancrum - Icarus

Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father’s impeccable forgeries. For years, one man—the wealthy Mr. Black—has been their target in revenge for his role in the death of Icarus’s mother. To keep their secret, Icarus adheres to his own strict rules to keep people, and feelings, at bay: Don’t let anyone close. Don’t let anyone touch you. And, above all, don’t get caught.

Hi yes, I am predictable.

3 - EK Johnston - Pretty Furious

In the small town of Eganston, Ontario, five good girls have had enough. They’ve experienced the best of what their community has to offer, but they’ve seen the darker side too. Together, they’ve decided that it’s time for a reckoning and that justice is their privilege to give.

If you have not read her earlier novel Exit Pursued by a Bear, go read it. It is so angry, but also so beautifully about healing and friendship.

4 - Leigh Bardugo - The Familiar

Set in the Spanish Golden Age, during a time of high‑stakes political intrigue and glittering wealth, The Familiar follows Luzia, a servant in the household of an impoverished Spanish nobleman who reveals a talent for little miracles. Her social‑climbing mistress demands Luzia use her gifts to win over Madrid’s most powerful players but what begins as simple amusement takes a dangerous turn. Luzia will need to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even the help of Guillén Santángel, an immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.

I like most things Leigh Bardugo writes, so curious about this.

5 - Tess Sharpe - The Girl in Question

Four teens. Three henchmen. Two thousand acres of remote forest. One very bad man. And a whole lot of new secrets to unearth. The unmissable, thrilling follow-up to The Girls I've Been.

First go read The Girls I've Been. Then Five Times We Almost Kissed. Then Barb Wire Heart. Tess Sharpe is such a fantastic writer - and the heart of her books is always people making the best choices they can when none of the choices are good or easy. Also, Barb Wire Heart is kind of like if S2 of Justified had been about the women.

6 - Anna-Marie McLemore - Flawless Girls

The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society—brazen, rebellious, and raised by their fashionable grandmother who couldn’t care less about which fork goes where. But their grandmother also knows the standards that two Latina young ladies will be held to, so she secures them two coveted places at the Alarie House, a prominent finishing school that turns out first ladies, princesses, and socialites.

Younger sister Isla is back home within a day. She refuses to become one of the eerily sweet Alarie girls in their prim white dresses. Older sister Renata stays. When she returns months later, she’s unfailingly pleasant, unnervingly polite, and, Isla discovers, possibly murderous. And the same night she returns home, she vanishes.

I will read anything they write. No questions asked. They're books are always so gorgeous and lush.

7 - Kristin Cashore - There is a Door in This Darkness

Wilhelmina Hart is part of the infamous class of 2020. Her high school years began with the election of Donald Trump and they ended with COVID. Now Wilhelmina, like so many of her peers, is in limbo, having deferred college because of the pandemic. Compounding the national trauma of 2016 to 2020, Wilhelmina has wrestled with the devastating loss of one of her three beloved aunts shortly after the 2016 election. This is a loss she felt so keenly that she’s spent the last years deep in her personal depression, only obscured by the seemingly endless waves of national trauma. Now on the cusp on the most consequential election in living memory, Wilhelmina may have found a door in her darkness and perhaps the courage to pass through it, if she can decipher the bizarre messages that keep appearing in her life.

I love Kristin Cashore's Graceling novels, so I'm curious about this.

8 - Jennifer Lynn Barnes - The Grandest Game

Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime.

Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year's game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win.

Is this series a little silly? Sure. Is it a lot of fun. Yes. Kind of like a grown up Westing Game.

9 - Margaret Owen - Holy Terrors

third book in the Little Thieves series - which on the surface is a heist story about what if the protagonist of the Goose Girl was the servant not the princess. And at it's heart is about recovering from trauma and loss, and learning how to let yourself be someone different. 

tagging @lemonlyman-dotcom, @ladytessa74, and @strandnreyes

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here's my fun ballpeen interjection. when i was younger i thought a ballpeen hammer was one where the head of the hammer was a balloon or like, made out of rubber. why? god only knows.

NO NO NO THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE ACTUALLY. it sounds so fucking made up!! why would a BALL PEEN hammer be a real tool.it does sound like some fucking looney tunes ass shit forreal.

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vibrating out of my skin i have SO many thoughts about the changes they made between cql and mdzs

LMAOO IT WAS. yr mdzs posting on the dash recently that reminded me i gotta read the original actually. hehe. target audience reached!! anyway i vaguely know likee... some? changes? like wwx keeping his original face in cql vs inhabiting mxy's body + vague character differences + apparently different pacing & stuff but. nothing more than that... anyway i think i'm definitely going 2 start mdzs soon!! u should 100% tell me yr thoughts on the changes 👀👀👀

[sugar-omi]

Have you played other vn games? Like Intertwined, Keyframes, Project Blue. There's this new vn called Alaris.

Or have you tried horror vns like Sunny Day Jack?

i've actually played all of those!!! well, all besides keyframes. i've been meaning to though, all the characters n the art is so gorgeous... ive been knocked off my feet fr...

but oh man i've played so many vn's... can't even remember em all, i keep remembering them as i type haha

although, i've never really played horror games, in fact, i don't think i've ever played a horror game, believe it or not, i'm a bit of a scaredy cat LOL i do watch a lot of horror gameplays though

OH WAIT. i mean, it's not horror, but it's yandere. i've played 14 days, i need to play it again because i only played day 1 demo and never finished day 2 when it dropped. so freaking excited for the full game

oh! i did play doki doki literature club. that was crazyy

i've also played obscura, and again- only played it when the demo first dropped, so i haven't played it if there's been any updates since, although i've seen some stuff from their tumblr/twitter. i think it's bit horror ish. more mystery maybe? not sure what the genre is there

i also played 'teachers. with love and passion.' and it has lowkey yandere themes in one of the routes, and last time i played it, the yandere route hadn't been released but i think it has since then

oh!!! my favorite, besides OL of course haha, would have to be 'fujiwara bittersweet'. if you play that, please please read the tags because it's a bit heavy, but it's so freaking good. last i knew, the dev was remaking it? not sure if they're still doing that, but i'll sooo play it again. loved that game so much

also enjoyd touchstarved. i haven't played it since the first demo, but i've been meaning to play since they updated the demo. literally leander and ais were eating away at my brain for days after i played.. theyre so... hnng i love them. n i love the whole thing going on, the plot is !!!

oh i've also played 'the kid in the back' demo, so excited for the full game!! yknow i love emo boys, he's so cute. n i do Not mind some yandere whatsoever, so i'm verryyy excited

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tagged in this oc questionnaire by @gwynbleidd !!! i did delvyre because my brain is just full delvyre these days, but also my d&d character sirrus, because it just dawned on me that i can spill all his backstory secrets here without worrying about spoilers bc none of you are my party members hehe

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NAME: Delvyre Coppersmythe — Delvyre was the name that her mother, whomst she has never met, gave her and it was embroidered onto her blanket when she was left on her father’s doorstep <3 

NICKNAME: Del, since it’s just a nice shortened version of Delvyre; her father used to call her Little Flame, even before she started learning fire magic 

GENDER: cisfemale

STAR SIGN: I do not have enough braincells to figure out the Forgotten Realms translation, but she’s a Sagittarius Sun, Aquarius Moon, Leo Rising.

HEIGHT: 5’3” (160 cm)

ORIENTATION: Bi bi bi

NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: Her mom’s family are High Elves, and her dad’s family has roots in Kara-tur but they’ve been in Faerun for generations at this point. She’s lived in Baldur’s Gate all her life. 

FAVORITE FRUIT: While she likes cherry-flavored things, her favorite actual fruit is any kind of citrus

FAVORITE SEASON: Autumn! 

FAVORITE FLOWER: Sunflowers!

FAVORITE SCENT: Is it too obvious if I say a campfire? 

COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: All three? I think coffee wins out slightly, because she likes the buzzzzzzzzzzzzz. 

AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: Either more than 10 or less than 6, there is no in-between. 

DOGS OR CATS: I gave her a proficiency in animal handling for no real lore reason, and I guess I’m gonna reverse engineer that and say she’s a big cat person and used to feed stray cats in the Lower City a lot. 

DREAM TRIP: I think she’d love to go to Alm. 

NUMBER OF BLANKETS: So. Many. She likes to bundle up when it gets cold. She wraps herself up into a little nest. 

RANDOM FACT: If she was a Pokemon trainer, her buddy Pokemon would be Nine-Tails. 

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sirrus's has a lot of our homebrew world lore so i did my best not to just gush about it lmao

NAME: Sirrus Montague totally not Eminence Sirrus Mavros Alarie

NICKNAME:  The Red Thief is his, like, criminal name. Also what if I told you Sirrus was a nickname?

GENDER: cismale

STAR SIGN: My DM very kindly provided us with her homebrew months and seasons and said she was working on an astrology system, and my only requirement was that there was one that was Lying Liar that Lies for him <3 (Ahem. Gemini.) 

HEIGHT: 5’10” (178 cm) // but he wears heeled boots and counts his horns when listing his height, so he’ll tell you 6’1” 

ORIENTATION: Pansexual

NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: He says he’s from Endoza, a port city in the Peaceable Kingdoms (our homebrew world), but REALLY he is from the Sentose Archipelago, a pirate-y vibe collection of islands just south of the PK, populated by hobgoblins, tieflings, humans, water genasi, and half-elves. Oh, and he’s a tiefling. 

FAVORITE FRUIT: Starfruit!

FAVORITE SEASON: Summer. Ya boy hates the cold.

FAVORITE FLOWER: Hibiscus 

FAVORITE SCENT: The sea. 

COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: Coffee. 

AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: Eight on the dot. He needs his beauty sleep <3 

DOGS OR CATS: I’m leaning towards cats?? For no real reason????

DREAM TRIP: Our in-game joke is that he’s gonna take our Jimmy Buffet-inspired NPC buddy for a fishing-tour-combo-bar-crawl and the next campaign will kick off with them tied up on a boat and having to figure out how the heck they got here (it won’t happen; I’ve been tipped off as to what the next campaign is). 

NUMBER OF BLANKETS: One but it’s very fancy and cozy

RANDOM FACT: since none of you are my party members, I can actually reveal the big big big backstory secret that i’ve been hiding and probably won’t reveal for some years: HE IS SECRETLY FROM A VERY CUTTHROAT NOBLE FAMILY WHO CONTROLS A RUTHLESS TRADING EMPIRE AND AFTER A TERRIBLE SHIPWRECK HE SAW A CHANCE TO FAKE HIS OWN DEATH AND HE’S BEEN HIDING FOR THEM FOR A DECADE AND HE FEELS HE NEEDS TO ATONE FOR ALL THE SHIT HE WAS FORCED TO DO AS A TEENAGER TO HELP FURTHER HIS FAMILY’S WEALTH AND STATUS ///ok done screaming

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taggin' @criffyzou @sun-marie @yappatadwinks @n7viper @thedeadthree @birbycakes @commander-krios @cynda-queer anddd anyone else with little guys (gender neutral) that they would like to fill this out for!! (tag me bc i always love to read about them :3c)

[ffxivtribehydrae]

I've only ever watched the event from afar before... And when she asked if I could show it I wasn't really sure what to say... or think. But getting out of the house and spending time with someone nice was probably what I needed.

Though it hurt, being surrounded by such a theme.

I was reminded of Neoma's rejection, after all this time... So I just tried my best to make sure Alari had a good time, her excitement was distracting. She even bought me treats, themed for the season. Then when her joy was crushed by a price tag on jewelry, I got it for her. It was the least I could, as a thanks for sharing her happiness so kindly.