#all be in the same small fandom but never interact depending on the characters we pick up from it

[crushedsweets]

BEN Jeff EJ Jane Slenderman and Liu fans are my favorite genre of creepypasta fans

[vicvulpes]

hiii guyyss hiii tumblr dbd fandom

I came from twitter and wanna try using tumblr

a couple of days ago I came to dm of my fandom bestie @adskayapanda with a discussion about painland hanahaki au

then I decided that I wanted to describe it in more detail and post it on twitter AND THEN all this shit happened there that made our beautiful jayden revri deactivate his twitter account and want to stop all interaction with the fandom altogether

so I don't want to post this on twitter yet

hope you like it, have a nice read🤍

✨SO PAINLAND HANAHAKI AU✨

it's a dubious idea I agree BUT PLS HEAR ME OUT

I know it's weird considering that the main point of hanahaki au is that the living characters ARE DYING OF NOT MUTUAL LOVE AND HERE OUR TWO JERKS ARE ALREADY DEAD BUT

let's imagine that in the afterlife this works in a special way: for example flowers in the lungs feel about the the same as cat scratches or iron

and in particularly advanced cases of illness instead of death the ghost may simply disappear forever

btw it's worth noting that cases of illness are rare even in the world of the living, not to mention the dead but we all know how "lucky" edwin is for all kinds of suffering

soo just imagine after confessing in hell charles begins to notice how edwin is increasingly abruptly going somewhere perhaps not turning pale like alives but e.g. sometimes becomes slightly transparent and in principle begins to avoid his company

and then he abruptly begins to find scraps of bright red poppies in the office (neatly collected in a bouquet or bag) and thinks that these are gifts from edwin's new admirers or new attributes for spells (if we are talking about bags with petals you never know what they can be useful for charles is not so well versed)

but one day edwin doesn't have time to escape and charles accidentally finds him in another attack

charles did not really believe that people could have hanahaki at all - there were legends about it and nothing more but for ghosts hanahaki does not make sense at all!! they are ALREADY dead! - charles thinks trying to calm down and watching edwin vomit bright red petals

he doesn't recognize these flowers at first..

but when almost a whole flower bursts out of edwin's throat the realization suddenly comes along with a sudden flashback from childhood - charles often ran away from home at an early age when his father raged too much just to the nearest poppy field - and then brought small bouquets from it for his mother

charles's heart sank with realization

it hurts him to look at edwin in such a state and realize that it is entirely his fault that he did not reciprocate such a wonderful man as payne but it hurts even more to think that he will somehow misunderstand his feelings and break edwin's heart

and therefore after charles took care of edwin during the attack it was tacitly decided not to discuss it as always

(but edwin of course has already studied everything about hanahaki and knows what it leads to, but he tries (unsuccessfully) to calm himself with thoughts that, at least, this is not hell and that he did everything that depended on him - confessed his feelings)

and as a result, it turns out that boys "live", solve cases, and charles literally watches edwin fade away - his body is becoming more transparent, more and more often he turns into a ball shape in order to imbue himself with at least some energy and delay the moment of the inevitable even a little bit, but this is not enough for a long time

and edwin despite feeling as bad as possible tries to hold on as best he can and gets so many cases that there is not thes lightest extra second to think about his tragic situation

and charles understands the horror of the situation (and finally realizes his feelings) when e.g. edwin suffering from a particularly severe attack goes without warning for a week's treatment to some hermit sorcerer in his wilds for a rare ritual that promises to at least alleviate the symptoms of hanahaki and prolong the existence of a ghost and at most to completely cure it

and charles thinks that he is gone forever (cause just the day before while investigating another case leafing through the book "magical diseases" he came across a chapter about hanahaki among ghosts where some main points were highlighted in blue pencil and edwin's hand as well as repeated handwritten notes - edwin obviously studied for a long time and tried to do everything possible to improve his well-being. and in the end of page the inevitable scary result DEATH is emphasized and at the bottom there is a footnote that death for a ghost is a conditional removal from the universe he generally will cease to exist)

and this is the very moment when charles realizes everything - that he simply cannot exist without his edwin and that the feelings in his heart are not just friendly

at first when charles doesn't find edwin he thinks that he just left on business as often happens

then when he conditionally doesn't return in the evening charles begins to worry

BUT WHEN EDWIN HAS BEEN GONE FOR 2-3 DAYS CHARLES STARTS PANICING AND LITERALLY GOES CRAZY

he can't find peace worries panics tries to do something find edwin convinces himself that everything is fine AND THEN CATCHES HIMSELF THINKING THAT EDWIN MAY NEVER COME BACK (AND ALL BECAUSE CHARLES DID NOT RECIPROCATE IN TIME AND NOW IT'S TOO LATE!!) AND HE'S HAVING A TERRIBLE TANTRUM

and when edwin arrives a week later CHARLES IS ALREADY ON THE VERGE OF MADNESS AND AFTER HE SEES EDWIN HE CAN'T DECIDE WHAT HE WANTS MORE - TO KISS HIM RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW WITH NO WORDS OR KILL HIM A SECOND TIME HIMSELF

(after all he doesn't do any of this just hugs and sobs on his shoulder choking in tears wailing how he was afraid that edwin had disappeared forever)

then charles sits edwin down on the couch and interrogates WHAT ACTUALLY THE FUCK WHY THERE WERE NO WARNINGS OR NO NEWS FROM HIM

and edwin rather casually replies that he felt unwell and went to be treated by some sorcerer who promised to rid him of hanahaki (here he adds that his stupid feelings initially interfere with both of them and charles's heart feels like it's splitting)

(wow edwin looks noticeably better, - thinks charles)

and then charles's already nonexistent heart suddenly sinks into his heels - it seems to him, judging by how well edwin looks and holds himself that he succeeded

which means only one thing - he managed to stop loving charles - just at the moment when charles finally so acutely realized that he loves him back, that's so unfair!

having received this realization charles abruptly gathers up wipes his tears pulls away slaps edwin on the shoulder congratulates him on his recovery and begins to leave

and then edwin who bitterly thinks that charles is making such a mockery of him breaks through: tears flow like a stream his voice breaks and trembles and in his eyes there is a mixture of doom fear resentment impotence and PAIN

with tears in his eyes, he explains that even the promised "wonderful" weekly ritual of that sorcerer could not rid him of these painful damn feelings that spoiled everything from the very beginning and no matter how he tried to get rid of them nothing works

charles turns around in shock and sees how because of all these painful emotions edwin twists another attack of hanahaki

bright red poppy petals fly to the floor again

charles hesitates for just a second and then instantly flies up to edwin falls on his knees in front of him gently grabs edwin's face with both hands forcing him to look into his eyes and in an incredulous whisper clarifies: "so you still love me?"

edwin's eyes start running again counting every red petal on the floor just to avoid meeting the deep brown eyes looking at him such hopefully

charles has enough barely audible "sorry" to immediately start covering edwin's entire surprised face with happy little kisses saying between them how much he loves edwin what a fool he was how scared he was that he might lose edwin forever how he wouldn't let go anymore and a bunch of other sugary nonsense

from that very moment on bright red poppies began to appear in their office only in beautiful carved vases reminding of something personally important for these two dead idiots..

thanks for reading!!🤍

and one more: english is not my native language so I'm so sorry if smth is written incorrectly

[wryuxim]

this has been in my drafts way too long, and again, i suck at writing, but i’ve really needed to say this. how the hell is millionsummers so normalized in the fandom? well i know why, but it’s honestly crazy to me how 90% of the pretty small amount of legato fans in existence ship him with knives. like do you even understand his character? sure if you haven’t read trimax (like too many people) you literally wouldn’t know anything significant about him since he’s just kinda there in the other iterations. all you’d see is evil guy x bootlicker right hand that have minimal interactions with each other. don’t get me wrong, i could get behind that. like it even. but the issue is that there’s more to it than just that. even if you haven’t gotten to legato’s backstory in the manga, it’s clear from the start that the way that knives treats him crosses the line of average evil toxic yaoi bull. like literally the very first time we see them interact knives casually shatters every bone in legato’s body bro. causing irreparable damage and rendering someone a quadriplegic(?) after they were probably trying to get you a new body for the past 7ish years is so romantic, right!! He also just disregards him as a person and is generally shitty and all that which is kinda mean of him to do ngl. yeah you could say erm actually knives does care about legato though, he’s just too much of a stubborn bitch to show it!1!1!!1!! and i agree with that (to an extent, not getting into it though) but like…that doesn’t excuse the fact that he’s literally abusive. and that isn’t even considering literally everything about legato himself. he was horrifically abused for as long as he could remember. he doesn’t know what a healthy relationship of any kind is. he chose to serve knives (despite being well aware of how he was) because he never knew a life outside of that. he thinks that’s all he’s good for and knows he won’t be anything more to knives, yet still kills himself trying to prove his worth. knives is someone he is unhealthily dependent on who causes him to become more and more self-destructive. just because knives isn’t the same as his previous abusers doesn’t mean it’s not just another shitty situation he fell into. i do think legato’s feelings towards knives could be some sort of crush, but it’s more of a one-sided obsession than anything. to think that it’s an actually good cute little pairing baffles me. i think what i’ve said so far is enough of an argument, but there’s still my main point left. i held back on this till now because of the crazy amount of people say he wasn’t for whatever reason, but legato was a CHILD when they met. like do y’all SERIOUSLY think he’s an adult here??

i really don’t want to pull up panels from his backstory flashback, but you literally cannot convince me. nightow didn’t need to state it outright for it to be pretty obvious that he was a kid. we see how he draws other characters when they were younger as reference so you can clearly see the differences in proportion. i mean just compare it to how he looks throughout the rest of the manga, especially near the end. just because he doesn’t have a confirmed canon age doesn’t mean that there wasn’t an intent there. y’all are grasping at straws to justify it.

also the same applies to elendira (x knives) because of the super secret third legato flashback:

i won’t count this as proof for legato because tristamp (though a separate canon) kinda muddies it, but woah she’s not an adult. also irrelevant but knives was smiling at him 😞😞 i’d like to think he was nice to them at one point but this isn’t about that. the fact that people probably take this to fuel their millionsummers makes me very very sad.

back on topic though, there’s another side of the copium spectrum. i can’t believe i have to say this, but i’ve no joke seen people say that legato and knives were both teenagers when they met as if that makes any damn sense. the twins are both confirmed over 150 years old. in trimax, the july incident happened ten years by the date before the events of the last few volumes (cited in my last post), and legato doesn’t look all that different in the two flashbacks. and the flashbacks or any other evidence i could pull out my ass don’t even actually matter because knives is old as fuck and legato is obviously a normal human age. again, it’s just straw grasping bro so please give up 😭🙏

and if you don’t give a shit and loooove grooming mentally ill teenagers you pick up off the streets then fuck off?? you’re gross and legato would hate your ass. i probably have more to say but i can’t think of anything rn so that’s it for now. millionsummers is cringe and this fandom is a prison. but like a cartoon one where the bars have large enough gaps between them to walk through.

[ao3-oner]

a ranking of your favorite ships and what you like most about them

Hi, and thanks so much for the ask! Really tough question - I feel like the rankings definitely shift around a lot depending on what I'm writing at the moment, but for LoL RPF ships, if I had to provide a top 3, it'd be:

CanMaker - Kim "Canyon" Geonbu x Heo "ShowMaker" Su

If you asked me a year ago what my favorite LoL RPF ship was, I would not have said CanMaker, despite the fact that they were my first-ever ship for the fandom. Writing for them has really increased my fondness for the pairing, though, because - I think I've said this on here before - I find CanMaker the easiest ship to write since their dialogue and interactions come so naturally. They are a very cozy, comfortable ship, with the crux of their relationship being how well they've come to understand each other through years of working alongside one another. Even if they're a bit unclear on where they stand with each other, they will always anticipate each other's wants and needs. They aren't quite a childhood friends-to-lovers ship (which reminds me: read 'so-called "friend"'), but it almost feels that way since they debuted at roughly the same time and grew up as players together. That's not to mention that they also fit the big x small and quiet x loud tropes very well - they really are a gentle giant x small gremlin pairing, and I love that for them. Overall, I like them because they're fun to write and have a very sweet dynamic, and they have the type of relationship that I one day hope to have.

2. RuLehends - Park "Ruler" Jaehyuk x Son "Lehends" Siwoo

Ruler and Lehends, on the other hand, have a type of relationship that I hope I never have, yet they are so, so fun to read and write because of it. Their relationship is all about give-and-take and banter, it's all tension and build up and eventual explosion in some destructive way or another. The other thing about their relationship is that they both clearly have so much fun with it, like they treat their interactions like a game - watching their old streaming highlights, you definitely get that vibe. Moreover, they just can't leave each other alone - at this point, it's been years since they were together and yet Lehends is still waxing poetic about Ruler's ass and Ruler is still criticizing and teasing Lehends. This relationship is always high, tasty drama, which makes them especially fun to get invested in.

3. One2eus - Moon "Oner" Hyunjoon x Choi "Zeus" Wooje

Talking about One2eus now, for the first time since Zeus's transfer, is kind of bittersweet, but I'm sure the two of them will stay close despite the newfound distance between them. Oner and Zeus have kind of the best of both worlds from the above ships: they have the same foundation of trust and friendship from working alongside each other for years - since Academy - as CanMaker, but they also have the banter and tension of RuLehends, with Zeus acting all bratty and Oner scolding, yet indulging him. I think the moment that I first started shipping them was when I read an interview translation in which Oner called Zeus his "best friend", and I found something very sweet about a decently-social, taekwondo blackbelted, Calvin Klein model of a man saying that his best friend was the fuzzy-haired shut-in maknae with three Challengers League accounts at age 15. I guess this is true of all my top pairings, but it feels especially true here: I also just love Oner and Zeus as characters/people! So, so much. They are both so cute/sweet/funny, and I will miss seeing them interact with each other on a regular basis.

Those three ships comprise my personal S+ tier of LoL RPF ships, but also notable, in the S-tier, we have GumaKeria, KiinCuzz, Zegen, KanMi, and UmMo. I'm more than happy to talk about any of those, if so desired.

Below that, in A-tier, there are a number of other ships that I like, but am significantly less invested in, such as bddker, fakenut, mapo duo, maolan, doper, pernut, vihends, etc. Then, there are the B-tier ships, which I only like in a very specific context/flavor, such as choker, lushow, and kiihends. C-tier is for the ships that I personally don't vibe with for whatever reason, and F-tier is only for ships with uncomfortable age gaps and/or pedophiles involved. If you're ever curious about my personal ranking of any LoL RPF ship, don't hesitate to ask! I will gladly vent about my opinions upon request lmao.

Thanks again for the ask, and happy new year!

[queenofthearchipelago]

The good omens fandom has been disappointing lately, and I don't mean because of Neil. I mean because of the small pocket who lashed out at Neil not long ago.

For those reading my post out of context, let me explain quickly that Neil has always said, very specifically so, that Aziraphale and Crowley are not men, and therefore are not gay. That being gay is a human thing, and angels and demons generally don't even really understand it. (This is not a direct quote from him, but I've read this sentiment from him a few times.) And in response to that, I've seen popular members in this fandom respond in harsh anger because they feel that when Neil says these things, that it comes from a place of internalized homophobia that he's been holding onto like his life depends on it for the last 30 years.

If I may gently offer a different perspective... and please do not come for me, I really genuinely do not want to interact in debate or argument, I simply want to lay out how I see this, and lay it down as a kinder perspective for those it may help.

Neil (and Michael and David) have always used incredibly vague language to determine who and what exactly Aziraphale and Crowley are to each other. The only consistencies are that they are an angel and a demon and they love each other, they're in love with each other.

If it comes to answering any questions more specific than that, like if they're gay, then the answer is that Aziraphale and Crowley are not men, they're supernatural beings.

This is not coming from a place of bias, this is coming from a place of protecting the fandom.

This fandom is such a diverse and beautiful place. I see many people who headcanon them as being gay. I also have met people here who headcanon them as lesbians. As being trans. As being asexual. As gender fluid. As being every different type of orientation and identity possible. The theories and headcanons on who and what Aziraphale and Crowley are, is just as varied as every single person in the fandom.

And that's so important.

For a group of people who know what it feels like to not have representation on screen... for some since the book has come out more than 30 years ago and for some who have only come into this fandom with show 5 ish years ago, you guys know how important representation is.

I can't help but feel that some of this frustration and anger towards Neil for not blatantly saying that it's a gay love story comes from a place of wanting their version of Aziraphale and Crowley to be deemed superior to the others at the cost of erasure of the orientations and identities possible in everyone else's headcanons.

It's a queer love story, whatever that means to you. Before the first season aired, Neil directly said that no one was trying to take your version of Aziraphale and Crowley away from you. And do we not all read the same blog? I see posts from this man celebrating how different members of his readership, young and old, find representation and comfort within this story he AND TERRY PRATCHETT made.

I do wonder if you would treat Terry this way. I sure hope not.

We're never going to get Neil Gaiman saying these characters are gay, because it would crack the very rare and delicate and beautiful thing that's been created here. A couple of characters in a deeply loving relationship where you the audience get to decide what their relationship is? Where you get to decide their gender, because they literally don't have one? A story where the characters could genuinely, canonically, be like you because there's nothing inside the story saying that aren't like you? Where that freedom to interpret is part of the very foundation of the characters?

What other story would you guys be getting that from? Because I don't see any others like that on any bookshelf I've scanned recently.

Neil isn't going to ruin that for you.

And even if he did, he's also directly said that his stories speak for themselves. He isn't Word of God. Neil doesn't pretend that extra information he brings on Tumblr dot com actually adds anything to the story we all watched. That stands on its own, anything extra he may say or not is up to us to decide if we think it's canon or not. Do you, yes you, very specifically YOU... do you care about Word of God? Do you care about Author's Intent?

These are choices you make as a reader, as a viewer of intelligent television.

Aziraphale and Crowley are whatever you want them to be. They're in love. They always have been. And whatever that means to you, is yours and you can have that and share that and no one (not even Neil Gaiman) is ever going to take that precious thing away from you.

So write your fanfics and draw your fanart and participate in roleplays and take your comfort and guard your peace.

It's supposed to be safe here.

[enjomo-arch]

𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄. / ACE !

♠  WHAT  IS  YOUR  OTP  FOR  YOUR  CHARACTER(S)  ?

I  suppose  my  real  otp  ever  for  ace  was  ace  /  sanji.

♠  HOW  LARGE  DOES  THE  AGE  GAP  HAVE  TO  BE  TO  MAKE  IT  UNCOMFORTABLE  ? 

dunno,  usually  above  10-11  years  is  a  no,  anything  that  goes  to  /  under  10  is  fine  however  i  don't  ship  /w  muses  under  age  of  20

♠  HOW  FAR  DO  STEAMY  MOMENTS  HAVE  TO  GO  BEFORE  THEY  ARE  CONSIDERED  NSFW  ?

i  am  as  i  said,  pretty  laid  back  to  write  out  of  context  one  night  stands  and  such.  these  are  just  particulary  if  we  don't  ship  but  test  the  waters  and  such.  when  it  comes  to  actual  development,  going  from  the  very  beginning  i  suppose  everything  starts  when  ace  actually  catches  feelings  but  doesn't  understand  them  yet.  like,  exploration  of  different  ways  of  touching  and  why  it  feels  better  than  he  imagines.  so,  pretty  long  but  not  as  long  to  never  reach  that  point.

♠  ARE  YOU  SELECTIVE  WHEN  SHIPPING  ? 

yes.  i  do  like  relations,  and  shipping  doesn't  have  to  be  romantic,  y'know  ?  im  selective  with  seeing  if  it  can  work  towards  the  romance  or  just  stay  as  platonic  relation  because  muses  mesh  better  as  friends  to  me,  or  found  family.  i  love  many  different  kinds  of  relation,  exploring  them.  with  romance  i  can  usually  tell  when  ace  peeks  curiously  towards  someone.

♠  WHO  ARE  OTHER  CHARACTERS  YOU  SHIP  YOUR  CHARACTER  WITH  ? 

from  one  piece  it's  ;  law,  isuka,  deuce,  nami,  zoro,  hiyori,  killer,  smoker.  not  opposed  to  try  but  i  gotta  talk  a  lil  abt  it  too  cuz  i  always  seen  them  as  silly  guys  having  fun  -  yamato. law  is  exclusive  ship  with  sev,  no  exceptions.   non  one  piece  ;  i  ship  ace  with  blade  from  hsr  with  my  bestie  sentii  too. i  dunno  from  other  media  ships  i  can't  really  pinpoint  what  charas  would  be  good  mesh  with  ace.  it  all  depends  on  building  up  the  relation  so,  ya.  i'm  v  open  to  canon  x  oc  ships  as  well.

♠  DOES  ONE  HAVE  TO  ASK  TO  SHIP  WITH  YOU  ? 

just,  lemme  know  you  wanna  build  a  ship.  be  it  romantic  relation  or  not.  i  don't  bite  and  most  times  i  do  say  yes  if  i  see  it  through  interactions.  i  prefer  to  be  asked  after  we  wrote  a  little  bit  so  i  can  just,  say  my  opinion  about  it. i'd like to know the general direction as well, any plot with dynamic settled and wishing to explore etc. just, something to start with.

♠  ARE  YOU  SHIP  OBSESSED  OR  SHIP  MORE-OR-LESS  ? 

i  go  from  more  or  less  because  ace  isn't  a  shipping  machine  and  i  ain't  here  to  look  for  only  1  type  of  dynamic  but  the  more  we  talk,  the  more  ill  in  the  head  i  get  about  them  and  imagine  50  scenarios  in  my  head  /w  them  ...  you  may  also  get  cute  small  doodles  of  our  muses  in  package.

♠  ARE  YOU  MULTISHIP  ? 

yes,  every  ship  has  their  respected  universe  unless  i'm  shipping  trios  like  ace/zo/san  with  @celestiialnotes  &  @goreburdened  then  i  try  to  work  out  a  shared  verse  /w  both  of  the  muns.  only  exception  is  trafalgar  because  i'm  exclusive  to  @kiriage.  i  however  don't  collect  ships,  i  don't  like  it  so  i  usually  have  only  3  ships  of  the  same  character  in  their  respectful  universes.  i  don't  wish  to  make  people  upset  that  i'm  shipping  ace  with  too  many  versions  of  the  same  character,  and  i'd  feel  bad  about  it  myself.  so  i  have  my  limit  when  it  comes  to  canons.  

♠  WHAT  IS  YOUR  FAVOURITE  SHIP  IN  YOUR  CURRENT  FANDOM  ? 

ace  /  law,  ace  /  sanji,  ace  /  nami,  ace  /  zoro,  ace  /  deuce.

♠  FINALLY,  HOW  DOES  ONE  SHIP  WITH  YOU  ? 

just  tell  me  please  i'm  dumb  as  fuck  and  i  can't  read  signals  if  ur  trying  to  ship  or  being  nice  or  smth  sobs  i  need  to  get  it  plastered  to  my  forehead  to  see. otherwise im !!!!

[dahves]

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𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐑: this is a creative writing blog , i do not own the rights to brooke davis or one tree hill . i do not support m*rk schw*hn in any way .

𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒   :

I . THIS IS AN INDEPENDENT , SELECTIVE & MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE ROLEPLAY WRITING BLOG FOR THE CHARACTER BROOKE DAVIS FROM THE CW'S ONE TREE HILL . MY PORTRAYAL OF BROOKE IS OF CANON & MY OWN CREATION . I DO NOT SUPPORT MARK SCHWAHN OR HIS DISGUSTING BEHAVIOR SO IF YOU DO THEN PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW OR INTERACT WITH ME AS YOU WILL BE BLOCKED . I HAVE NO AFFILIATION WITH SOPHIA BUSH , SHE IS JUST BEING USED AS THE FACE FOR BROOKE .

II . HIYA ! I GO BY KATE AND I AM CURRENTLY TWENTY FIVE YEARS OLD , LIVING IN THE CST TIMEZONE AND GO BY THE PRONOUNS SHE / HER . AS THIS IS NOT MY ONLY BLOG , ACTIVITY WILL DEPEND ON MUSE .

III . I AM MUTUALS ONLY , THEREFORE I WILL ONLY INTERACT WITH THE BLOGS I'M FOLLOWING AND WHO FOLLOWS BACK FOR MY OWN COMFORT & SANITY . I WOULD ASK THAT IF I’M NOT FOLLOWING BACK , THEN TO PLEASE NOT INTERACT WITH POSTS OR SEND ASK MEMES AS IT MAKES ME ANXIOUS . YOU MAY STILL SEND IN ASKS ABOUT THE MUN AND MUSE .

IV . THIS BLOG IS PLOT DRIVEN BUT SENDING IN MEMES CAN TURN INTO THREADS IF PREFERRED TO GET THE BALL ROLLING . I MUCH MORE PREFER GETTING STARTED WITH MEME THREADS AS I’M SOCIALLY AWKWARD AND WILL TAKE FOREVER TO REPLY UNLESS I FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH A MUN OVER TIME .

V . MY PORTRAYAL OF BROOKE WILL BE BISEXUAL , AND SHE WILL BE WRITTEN AS SUCH . WITH THAT SAID , I DO SHIP BROOKE WITH LUCAS & JULIAN , BUT AM MOSTLY CHEMISTRY BASED . IF YOU WANT TO SHIP OUR MUSES THEN DON'T BE AFRAID TO MESSAGE ME . I'M ALWAYS DOWN FOR ANY PLATONIC , ETC DYNAMICS SO HIT ME UP ! THIS BLOG IS MULTI-SHIP SO BRING ALL THE LOVE TO BROOKE . I DO NOT WRITE SMUT ON THE DASH SO DO NOT ASK OR ASSUME . IF IT GETS TO THE POINT OF SMUT , IT WILL BE FADE TO BLACK .

VI . AS EXPECTED , THERE WILL BE MATURE AND TRIGGERING MATIERAL PRESENT ON THIS BLOG , SUCH AS DEATH , VIOLENCE , MURDER , BLOOD , ILLNESS , ETC . I WILL TRY MY BEST TO TAG ANY TRIGGERING TOPICS AS TW TOPIC . THEREFORE I WILL ONLY INTERACT WITH MUNS & MUSES 18+ . MY OWN TRIGGERS ARE FAT SHAMING , RACISM , TRANSPHOBIA , HOMOPHOBIA , CANCER , CLOWNS , GORE , NEEDLES , TRUMP , & FATHER'S DAY . I BLACKLIST THE TAG KATE DON'T LOOK TO KEEP THOSE TRIGGERING CONTENT OFF OF MY DASH .

VII . I'M ALL FOR IC DRAMA , BUT I WILL NOT HESITATE TO BLOCK YOU IF YOU TRY TO START SOMETHING WITH ME . WE CAN HAVE A CALM DISCUSSION TO TRY AND RESOLVE A PROBLEM , BUT I'M NOT HERE TO BE BERATED AND SUCH . WITH THAT BEING SAID , THERE MAY BE SOME THINGS I'M UNAWARE OF , WHICH WILL HAPPEN ON OCCASION . IF THAT OCCURS THEN THE SAME RULE APPLY . I DO NOT TAKE PART IN CALL OUT POSTS UNLESS IT GETS BAD ENOUGH AND THERE ARE SOLID RECEIPTS . I’M HERE TO HAVE FUN WRITING , NOT TO GET INTO DRAMA ON MY DASH .

VIII . * CURRENTLY ICONLESS * FOR MY FORMATTING I USE 38x38 ICONS , SMALL TEXT AND A DASH OF COLORS . I AM VISION IMPAIRED SO I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND IF YOU CANNOT READ MY REPLIES IN OUR THREAD . SO NEVER FEEL AFRAID TO ASK ME TO ADJUST AS I WILL BE HAPPY TO .

IX . THE PSD I AM USING IS STARRY NIGHT BY VVUNDAGORE WITH SOME EDITING OF MY OWN, AND THE ICON BORDER & EDITED BLOCK QUOTES ARE MADE BY TBA .ALL EDITS ARE MADE BY ME UNLESS STATED. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT STEALING ANY OF MY RESOURCES , YOU WILL BE HARD BLOCKED AND EXPOSED TO THE RPC .

𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒 …

𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄:  brooke penelope davis

𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄(𝐒):  b. davis , pretty girl ( by lucas )

𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄:  march 4th

𝐀𝐆𝐄:  eighteen to twenties

𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑:  cis female

𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐒:   human

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄: tree hill , north carolina

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐒:  she / her

𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍:  verse dependent

𝐒𝐄𝐗𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍:  bisexual

𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐒:  sophia bush

𝐄𝐘𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑: green

𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑: brown

𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐑 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃:  right

𝐎𝐂𝐂𝐔𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: founder / ceo / clothing designer for clothes over bros & baker man & co-owner of karen's cafe

𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌:  teeth by 5 seconds of summer

𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘...

𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒: robert davis ( father ) & victoria davis ( mother ) 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐍: twin boys davis & jude baker

𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐘…

brooke davis , your typical rich popular girl with the absentee parents , living in a lonely mansion . if she wasn't at a random hookup's house overnight , she would be crashing at peyton sawyer's , knowing she would be safe and taken care of . throughout her teen years , she continued to party and date , achieving in being student body president and cheer captain despite her grades not being the best . senior year , the fashionista created her own website which she would sell the clothes she made , the soon to be fashion empire clothes over bros .

graduating high school , she moved out to los angeles to start collaborating her company with victoria's secret , eventually moving on to continue to build her empire . connecting her mother to help run the company , brooke moved to new york for three years , only returning to tree hill to be there for her friends .

opening up the first small town store , she ran her company herself , eventually taking on the role of co owner of karen's cafe , and the eventual clothing line for children , baker man .

[preciouslittletoonette]

I... have been very irritated lately by the sudden discourse or debate (depends on how amicable these sort of discussions ended) over the Ink Demon design in both Batim and Batdr.

Now on a usual day, I'd say "They're both great and everyone's entitled to their own opinion" but today is not such a day. What triggered this you may be thinking?

The whole notion of one demon being scarier than the other.

That..... hmmmm.... that got me.

So I have decided... to do a thing. I would like to say beforehand I really do like the Ink Demon the character. Both Batim and Batdr (Even if I'm more biased to DR). But all this talk of who is better is really irritating. And it repeats over and over and in such a medium-small, relaxed fandom on its way to sleep mode rn: that's something akin to a broken record.

And I hate being told the same things over and over and over again.

So I'm gonna, perhaps quite harshly but at best, just criticise and at very worst completely trash both the BATIM and BATDR Ink Demon's designs and mechanics because as much as I love this character and his flaws, I'm two bad takes of "one is scarier than the other" away from just never interacting with anyone in the Fandom again.

If you haven't caught the vibe already, I don't take anyone seriously who says one Ink Demon is scarier than the other.

Are you seriously trying to convince me that Batim's Ink Demon is scary? BATIM? The guy whose head looks like a crescent-shaped stress ball smacked onto a malnourished human body? The guy who can get stuck to a crate during a chase? BATIM? Ink Bendy?? Gtfoh

BATDR Ink Demon ain't very scary either. Grotesque, maybe, certainly more than stress ball. But the gross does not scare me very much

Almost like horror is pretty subjective and its not worth fighting over what's scarier

BATDR: The hunchback ain't it chief. Why couldn't we see him in full size, back straight in places where his height wouldn't be restricted. Your posture sucks babe.

BATIM: The legs. The fucking legssss. Need I say more

BATDR's thighs are stick thin and honestly no way will his lower body be able to support his gigantic upper body. I'm not willing to "cartoon logic" reason him out of this.

You cannot tell me that between DCLT and the first cycle of Henry's newborn hell that the Ink Demon is still limping from the injury Buddy gave him. What happened to invulnerability

Ways to incapacitate/kill the Ink Demon (Guarenteed to work): Go for the Legs Apparently (on both of them).

Look: getting chased by a monster is scary and slightly distressing in certain situations, but if the monster constantly gets stuck/glitched in the stairwell and amongst the crate and debris while you're trying to run away from him, he loses intimidation and a lot of it.

Also does not help if a good amount of his chases are scripted. Also does not help if his story presence is next to nothing in the most lore heaviest chapters.

Speaking of glitch: The glitch of the Ink Demon being able to get you in the vent. Makes my eye twitch.

"But Precious these are game glitches that's not fai-" I know

Honestly the nature of being chased by the Ink Demon on both games is relatively the same. It all ends with you hiding from him. Why does it matter that he chases you vs appears in front of you after a certain amount of time. You're still experiencing the same anxiety of trying to find a place to hide before he can kill you.

BATDR's claw length is annoyingly long. Honestly a lot of his body proportions are annoying. If he insists on walking on his hind legs holding his hands like a Jurassic Park Velociraptor, he best prepare to fall flat on his face. His balance must be so off holy fuck.

I still find BATIM's zombie walk wack, I'm not sorry.

BATIM's design just isn't all that visually interesting imo, this I am sorry for.

BATDR's design is interesting but it's both too little and too much. I'd list what I like but this is meant to be a negative post. I'll keep my positives in different post perhaps. I think Dark Revival's would benefit from some cartooniness but not as much as BATIM's ugly stress ball head.

This felt good to get out.

[soupiyamashuu]

major oc plots and scenarios 🥶

Long Post WArning -- beware....

major plots = the overall school-oriented plot, the shadow of israphel plotline, and the heroes rise plotline ... all of these have a couple different subplots too but ill just write about the overall crap. i will also talk about a plot ive had brewing in my mind for millions of yrs but have never done anything with (yet..?)

1.) the general story:

major characters involved: all ocs setting: a major university in america (primarily modeled after NYU and set in a large city like NY but ... i dont want to force them into a specific zone so :shrug:) genre: slice of life .. romance .. funni... about: this one involves my ocs going to the same college and interacting / hanging out with each other after meeting at a program designed to help international students + non-traditional students (lgbt/poc/poor/etc) adapt to university* ... after settling into the school year they form a big roleplay group that RPs on discord... it's just fun slice of life stuff ft. my little guys * this was based off my real life college experience where we had a program for underrepresented groups to get used to university life so i thought itd be a good way for everyone to meet up since a majority of my ocs are either lgbt, poc/international students, or otherwise eligible to join the dang program.

notes: since the next two that follow are fandom oc-insert plotlines that dont make use of every oc, just assume that they're more small group or private roleplay plotlines ... though in all technicality, both of them can be made into like. (original character) is roleplaying as (canon character) :shrug:

2.) the shadow of israphel plotline major original characters: akihito, elena [sometimes guest appearances from others like makoto/markus/cecil/toby depending on how i want to have the story go] setting: shadow of israphel universe -- yogscast original story [i.e., anything that happens in the 3rd season of the yogscast's minecraft series] genre: adventure ... CANON about: xephos, honeydew, and their allies (lysander, peculier, etc.) have to save both the WORLD and old_peculier's crush daisy from israphel ... starting from the YOGCAVE and ending off at the damn desert zone or w/ev, its a big chaotic adventure OC additions & revisions: akihito joins the party (yes its like an rpg fkgfhkg). in my version he and lysander Can be a thing [depends on how im feeling] and he primarily travels around with xephos and honeydew. akihito and elena work with adaephon at verigans hold which, in my canon, is more like a tourist destination/historical museum type place (based on the fact that adaephon has the freaking tale of the sands recorded there... i assume that it serves as a larger historical record place; therefore thats how i treat it when i think about it). not much is changed in terms of the core story except that there are expanded interactions ... i try to keep my additions to this one relatively small but it's so fun to imagine...

3.) the heroes rise plotline [PRIMARILY HR 1 AND 2] [[LONG AF IM SORRY]] (aaand im giving up on the color coding sorry)

major original characters: akihito, makoto, [maybe markus, sometimes i pretend he's the mc but ... ill explain below KFGHFKGK] minor ocs (i.e., they show up either briefly or randomly depending on how i want the story to go): elena/cecil/dimitri setting: wherever the hell heroes rise takes place -- typically millennia city tho genre: adventure / superhero bs

CANON about: heroes rise is a choose your own adventure game revolving around being a notable superhero in millennia city and saving ur parents from prison, essentially. the original trilogy is what i base my plotpoints off of -- the prodigy, the hero project, and herofall. the prodigy is about ur rise to stardom essentially ... the hero project is PRIMARILY where my ocs come in since theres a lot more potential for them to get added; this one is about your hero competing in a national competition to find the best american heroes to join the first USA superhero team or something like that. herofall is the third game in the trilogy and im not gonna lie i havent played it enough to cement the plot into my mind but it ends the major trilogy arc and picks up where thp ends.

OC additions and revisions -- broken down by game

the prodigy: no huge changes to this one except that akihito is mentioned in the background to set up his role in the hero project ... like, ppl will mention him as a major foreign celeb or something. in some variants i have him meet the mc / contact the mc at some point but primarily he plays a small role here.

the hero project: Huge role..... like whole-new-story ahh changes. so in this one theres a pre-story competition going on scouting for the number one international hero to join the american protectorate group (APG; i THINK thats what its called) -- its essentially like the olympics initially ... all the heroes have to go under a huge set of tests (intellectual, physical/mental health-based, power-based, etc.) to get rankings; the top 100 compete and blah blah blah. in this one akihito is the #winner and joins the APG as its first new member [technically like. im p sure rebellion or w/ev the hell is the leader so :Shrug: akihito is the first non-leader member]. for a majority of the story he kind of just works alongside everyone to scope out who's going to be efficient on the team and whatever... one plot point is that he runs classes for japanese/french learning since those are his native langs and its helpful to know them in that case.

theres a LOT with this one like. i might just have to write it as a full ahh story at this point and post it on here. thats where freaking that note about markus comes in, ill probs make him the mc just bc he seems quite ... pliable. like he could just fit in here as the mc i suppose. oh also makoto is a major character too but he's like. a staff member on the med team / works as the like on-site nurse in training #tbh FHKGFKHGKFH [again ill just have to write it out at some point cuase... wow]

4.) the unnamed elemental plotline

theres not a lot of stuff ive made as a concrete thing but essentially i wanted to make my ocs representatives of various life elements (time, space, weather, nature, seasons, etc.) and kind of make it into a thing like that ... i actually made it in FOURTH GRADE but couldnt figure out how to turn it into a big story. akihito was going to be a representative of time (ive kept this as a weird trivia fact -- ex: he's very good at time-based things like knowing what time it is without a watch) and elena was going to be in charge of cold weather (which is why i think i made her norwegian KFHGKFHG).

maybe someday ill get to actually write this one out...? AKLHSDGHKASDG its very cool but i feel like its been made already so idk itd be cool anyway tho

[assemb1e]

assemb1e: indie comic multi muse featuring characters from dc and marvel. crossover and oc friendly. paneled by molly (25). you can also find me over at @svpe. temp rules and muse list under the cut:

muse list:

artemis of bana-mighdall / prime earth / pre n52 and red hood and the outlaws (2016) influences

emma frost / earth 616 / generation x (1994-2001), new x-men (2001), marauders (2019-2022) & wolverine and the x-men (tv show) influences

jessica cruz / prime earth / n52 and rebirth influences @greenlanthern

jennifer walters / earth 616 / slott and rowell influences

jim gordon / prime earth / batman: year one and batman: turning points influences

kyle rayner / prime earth / green lantern (1990 - 2004) influences

miles morales / earth 1048 / insomniac influences

peter parker / earth 6160 / ultimate spider man (2024) influences

stephanie brown / prime earth / batgirl (2009-2011) influences

yara flor / prime earth / wonder girl (2021-2022) influences

if you're interested in writing with any of them, please read the rules below 😌

rules:

hi,i'm molly, 25, she/her, gmt, and this is my comic multi muse. i'm very familiar with dc comics and pretty competent when it comes to marvel comics. i have also watched most live action superhero films, but will be keeping all of my muses comic based. however, i am happy to interact with live action based muses.

i am always up for plotting and starting threads, so don't be afraid to just slip into my IM's if there is a plot that you would like to try between our muses. my writing style is extremely flexible and will adapt to that of the writing partner. replies can get lengthy, especially when it comes to plotted things, but matching length is never mandatory. as long as there is something that i can reply to, i'm good.

this is not a 'shipping first blog', and most romantic ships should be natural and discussed beforehand. if nsfw appears, it will be tagged #nsft. i will obviously not write this with anyone under the age of 18 or with muses under the age of 18. if you try, you will be blocked.

if we already have a thread and you would like to start another, let's do it! there is no limit to the amount of threads i have with one partner at the same time. please note that sometimes i'm super fast when it comes to replying, and other times i an take up to a week or more. it all depends on muse and time i have to come online during a week.

my default for format is small text, normal spacing, and icons. want bigger text? want to go iconless? done. i don't mind how you format as long as it's legible. also, never be afraid to turn an ask meme into a thread!

i don't do follow for follow, so if i hit that follow button, it means that i want our characters to interact! if you follow me and i don't follow back within a week of myself being active on tumblr, it probably means that i won't follow back, sorry. ocs, multi-muse blogs and characters from other fandoms are always welcome. the only blogs i won't ever consider following are personal blogs. if you don't follow me back within a week, i will unfollow as i assume you don't want to interact (and that's perfectly okay!) when it comes to unfollowing, i may do that if you post more ooc than ic. i will definitely unfollow if you fill the dash with negativity and drama. i prefer to keep my dash a friendly and safe space. this is, after all, a hobby that we're supposed to enjoy.

[strilonder]

(Got rid of all the colors and kept the text sizes WITH translations :V)

Shitty Blog Intro

[text reads: “Shitty Blog Intro” text ends.]

Hallo this is Timothy Simmons Rey and i will be creating this SHITTY AND LOW EFFORT introduction for our, uh, system?? I dunno, i dont really give a fuck. (/neutral) We have no collective pronouns/terms because half of us are the other half’s opposite gender and it’s sort of infuriating to try and decide what we all want to be called. Just ask for our fronter’s/s’ pronouns. Please? We use alters, parts, and headmates collectively—however, some are more into just saying parts.

Also if you have “18 & older” or “MDNI” in your bio/intro, please block us. We are bodily a minor and a vast majority of us are too. We don’t want to break your DNI because one of the adults in our system had followed you or we didn’t read your blog’s DNI.

>8< (cool little spider)

SMALL DISCLAIMER: Just because most or some or maybe even just one of us have an odd/differing opinion doesn’t mean we all have the same exact thought. We disagree and argue as much as every other System.

Our DNIs (even though we literally cant do shit about it in two whole different ways):

Most of our humans are uncomfortable interacting with proshippers, which includes two of our hosts. Our trolls don’t mind interacting with them while our (currently singular) pony does mind if they interact. You might wanna ask whoever’s fronting if they’re okay with you talking to them since our stances are very diverse. The last statement applies to every single discourse on tumblr actually. Whatever you are, you might wanna ask if we’re okay with it, whether it be radqueer, endogenic, whatever. We’ll usually say we arent okay with talking with you but there are occasional okay’s depending on the alter.

Since a lot of us are minors from universes where our adults weren’t the best, we won’t be directly talking (DMs, private group-chats, etc) to to people at and over 18. Our adult alters don’t mind interacting as long as you aren’t asking for anything suggestive or romantic (half of them are either happily taken and happily single).

On the topic of relationships: don’t be weird to us about what character you ship with our source. No, Dave doesn’t romantically like Karkat, Rose doesn’t romantically like Virgo (Maryam), Dirk doesn’t romantically like Jake, etc etc etc. Of course there are exceptions but those are rare (an eighth of our Parts are “popular” or at least “well known ships”). Don’t go poking us with your elbow saying “[Alter] is cute, arent they? winky face ;D” because it’s really uncomfortable to hear for literally everyone.

Our alters/parts have certain source characters that they are uncomfortable with (that also overlap into our system). Those of them that were directly stated are Beta Bro Strider, Alpha Bro Strider, possibly Vriska’s lusus, most definitely Dreamwastaken and Wilbursoot, and probably a bunch of more adult character sources. However, this isn’t the case for all and there are exceptions (such as our Beta Bro who never had Dave), you will just need to ask the alter personally.

We will block you if you concern more than half of the system or our protectors and gatekeeper.

[text reads: “We will block you if you concern more than half of the system or our protectors and gatekeeper.” text ends.]

On to our system info: (At this point, Timothy S. R had already Switched places with me, LZ. I am now in Front.)

Hello, travellers, most likely from the Homestuck fandom.. We are an untitled, (fictionally) Introject-heavy System under the handle “strilonder”, which you may use as a collective name for us! :3

Our Alter/Part count is currently unknown; 16 discovered and whispers of 40+ existing. (We have literally no idea.) That is an older statement. We are now nearing 50 Members. Fuck our life. As we stated beforehand—bodily, we are a minor. If you didn’t catch it before, the many Parts in our system that relate to the Body’s age group would not like to directly contact (via DMs, private group-chats, etc) with adults, so please ask us if any Middles/Littles are Fronting before conversing (this is for the others’ comfort and safety <3).

Since we are leaning low tolerant when Splitting/Forming new Parts and we currently have a massive hyperfixation, we have a lot of Homestuck Introjects. We have one DSMP/MCYT Introject (the aforementioned Timothy who goes by he/they/dee/dem/red pronouns) and one MLP:FiM Introject (Applejack, who goes by she/they/he pronouns). Please excuse us if we have no translations for any typing quirks, we forget a lot and people who don’t really care. x(

Unfortunately, when I (LZ) had first tried using tags for the System to use, it didn’t work at all due to people forgetting to tag or forgetting the tag/s even existed and it doesn’t help that all(?) of us have shit memory so we are gonna just stick to sign-offs/proxies or names in the tags to keep track of who posted what.

Hosts: (They will change over time.)

LZ (proxy -LZ), any & all pronouns : The Core of the System. (Despite how problematic the coined term “Core” is, we have all collectively agreed it doesn’t affect us. This is a personal term to differentiate the other hosts from the human child they had split from, primarily because the Core has most of the memories + experienced them. Of course, we will take offense to it if it’s used offensively/incorrectly.)

Karkat Vantas (proxy -CARCINOGENETICIST or -CG), he/him : The Gatekeeper of the System. He has been keeping track of the other Alters’ activity and roles.

Dirk Strider (proxy (🧢)), he/him : The second Part to Form/reveal himself and made it clear he was Formed to protect the System. Has been fronting ever since he went dormant.

Past Hosts:

None.

[feliicis]

FELIICIS. an independent, selective, and private oc blog, connected to @spiritdreamt. loved by puck, she/they, 24. est. 3/24. 18+. rules below the cut.

first of all, hi! i’m puck. i work full-time, and i have other blogs, so activity here will fluctuate as my muse does (i also have adhd, so… where the hyperfixation goes, my inspiration follows). DNI if you are under 18.

this blog is mutuals only. that means that any starter calls, open starters, or memes i post are only open to people i'm following back. if you repeatedly ignore this rule, i will block you. mutuals, feel free to im me to plot, ask for my discord, or just send me memes! memes never expire on this blog, so you can go back as far as you want in my tag to find something that piques your interest. the only thing i ask is that you reblog memes from the source (unless the source is unavailable) and that you try not to reblog the same memes as me without ever sending anything.

sometimes i format my posts, sometimes i don't. if i ever use small font for an interaction & you have trouble reading it, let me know and i'll 1) change it and 2) try to remember in the future to use regular text with you! i probably won't use icons, because i can't find screencaps of joe. also i'm lazy

my various verses are still in-progress, but i love crafting aus, so even if i don't have an au for a certain fandom listed, if i'm at all familiar with it i'm more than likely happy to figure out how felix could fit into it.

i love shipping! not without plotting, of course, but oftentimes if i post a kiss meme or something along those lines it's open to anyone, even if we haven't plotted a ship. this blog is multi-ship and oc friendly (obviously). however, felix is not the healthiest man, and ships with him consequently won't be, either. additionally, he's married in his main verse!

speaking of his main verse: felix is a character i originally created in connection with my dearest oc percy. as a result, she is canon to his main timeline. he entered a relationship with her without her knowing that he was married, and she broke things off when she found out. they have a child together that he may or may not know about, depending on how long it's been since he and percy broke up. she'll probably be canon in other aus as well, but she has the most impact in his main verse.

this blog may contain nsft content! i'll probably make a sideblog to contain it at some point, and then link that here.

psd is aquila by poohsources. header is by ariapsds.

[trashprinceward]

Lack of interaction bothers everyone, you're not saying things that don't make sense. It hurts and it's relatable. Problem is that the more you complain about people not interacting, the faster they'll leave. For example, its not true you never had fanart of your AUs. I remember when you got both text and art for it. You still do sometimes. Less than I could say about me myself, you know? Or many others in this community. You're lucky because you are one of the few people who can say this happened to them. Everyone wants it. You had it and yet you complain it's not enough. It's normal that people who did, might not feel appreciated by you anymore. Because you don't seem to remember it. Sometimes you make comments about how weird it is that people don't like the way you draw Faith characters, but at the same time you jab at those who draw John or Garcia looking too slim for your standards. Or too young. Once a person got nervous, tagging the fandom and telling them to stop drawing John in ships with old men. You didn't like to read that, rightfully like many others. Because people draw what they like. And yet you tag in the fandom and say things like "finally people stop drawing him as a twink! He's not one!" as if you are the only right one here. Maybe they also use their bodies as reference. You're angry and you don't realize you hurt people with what you say. You also talk about how you want your ship to be liked more but people like what they want. Insisting won't change anything. You act like you're the only unlucky one with nobody posting John and Garcia. If people don't like it, you can't make them like it. Which isn't even true, since there are many fan fictions out there on AO3. How many did you link on your page, saying "hey, fellow followers, go read this one!" to give them a hand? How many fan art did you draw for those people who like a ship you say to be less famous? There are people out there that I've seen liking ships I don't even care about who support each other. Such small ships that are even hard to consider. They don't attack, they don't insist. Criticizing Garyjohn and having people leave happened because not many like to have something they like criticized, people get touchy. But it also depends on how you write it. For example I don't care about Garyjohn. I don't even like it, I just shrug and ignore exactly as I shrug an ignore Johncia, because yes. I don't like it. Yet I followed you. Neither are ships I like but that infamous thing that happened some days ago on AO3 made me very angry too. You never did something like that. But you won't decide how sensitive a person is to things they like. About the pillows, it was an investment you decided to do by yourself. I don't know how many people wanted it, how many didn't see it. But it's not always other's fault if your art doesn't get reblogged, if you didn't reach enough people. I don't know how marketing works. I don't know how you guess how many people might be interested or not. This time it went poorly, and it hurts. But it's not our fault. And, we never wanted you to get hurt from drawing too much. Yet you had to almost make us all feel guilty because of that. Because you got hurt. I didn't want you to get hurt. I never told you to work faster and harder.

Happy ides of March everyone!

[achillesuwu]

I don’t usually do these (so if you tagged me before on something like that sorry x’D some social interaction are quite hard for me rn and I’m often quite tired) but I guess this once I will try it out ! Tagging some people but feel free to answer even if you didn’t get tagged ! @gdn7-dollopole @miyriu @ramblings-of-a-chaotic-neutral @tansyuduri @theroundbartable @regulusrules

As I said I get tired easily so I 100% understand if you don’t reply, don’t feel like you have to !

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

32 ! If you see only 30 when you go on my ao3 it’s because one is orphaned and the other is anonymous !

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

73,273 so far

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Huummm that’s honestly a hard question, I actively write for Merlin rn but I have a Scum Villain’s Self-saving system (SVSSS) LiuJiu ship body-swap fic in wip that I comeback too every once in a while. There is also my The grandmaster of the demonic cultivation (MDZS) fic that is still ongoing (but I didn’t write for it in a long time)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Oh, I’m quite surprised by the answer but honestly, it isn’t so strange these fic are 5 yo so they amassed a lot of kudo over the years

An unexpected return | MDZS | Kudos: 1,632 | Don’t read it honestly, I don’t like it that much anymore. It’s just a fic where WWX suddenly get his old body back. Now that I think about it I will maybe put it in anonymous.

Alive | MDZS | Kudos: 1,358 | THAT FIC IS MY SWEET BABY. I love it so much !!! It’s a time travel MDZS fic but I wanted to actually explore how time travel actually impacts people. Like if you distance yourself from someone you can’t just be close to them you know ? Just because you came back in time doesn’t mean you didn’t live it. It’s also going to get quite fun because with the time line I took it look like Wei Wuxian got a child (A-Yuan) as a teen and ran away (no mpreg) lmao. So if you like time-travel that isn’t just like « I’m going to do everything differently but also the character will still have the same dialogues » then check it out !

Drabble SVSSS/MDZS | SVSSS & MDZS | Kudos: 738 | Just some small stories I wrote, nothing much but I like it |

Protecting endangered species a guide by Wei Wuxian Grand Master of Demonic Cultivation. | SVSSS & MDZS | Kudos: 615 | it’s quite a funny fic about WWX summoning Meng Mo

Our farewell was more like a see you next time, I wish I had seen it. | MDZS | Kudos:364 | If you want to cry check it out !

Honestly they aren’t my best fics ^^ Except for Alive because as I said they are quite old and I posted them in the era where the MXTX fandoms were at the peak of their activity. I heavily recommend these books if you have never heard of them ! They are very very well written and the fandom (especially SVSSS !) are so nice ! Also they are all canon gay ship !

5. Do you respond to comments?

It depends. I tries to respond to all of them but sometimes I get quite tired so I don’t. I cherish all of them so know they make me very happy !

However, I’m less likely to respond to comment to comment who are just like « GIVE ME MORE » (it’s ok to ask for more but if your comment is just « more more more » I won’t respond to it) or just unasked proofreading of my fic (like, you can ask if I would like you to correct some mistakes but I don’t want to know that you found X word not being a good descriptor because you just don’t like it)

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I literally have a serie called « Let's explore together all the ways to kill these characters we love. » lmao So my angstiest ending are just killing my boys 😔✊ (I don’t regret anything) but the angstiest of it would either be You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain. Or Bloody

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I genuinely do not know. I either write angsty thing or just crack. This make me notice that I actually prefer to write hopeful ending instead of just « happy » ending. Also to have a happiest ending you would have to have quite a journey I think, so it can’t be just crackish and just a slice of everyday life can it ?

I would guess : Will the world remember me when I fall? Could it be my death means nothing at all? Will you weep, my dear, for me ?

I should definitely write a fic alike in the Merlin fandom. Basically I had that idea when I thought about the usual trope of when you meet your soulmate you idk see color (which is the case in this particular fic), feel something, if you have a mark representing the first word you heard, the moment you meet them… BUT WHAT IF said soulmate is literally dreams (or in the Merlin fandom literally Magic) then when you dream for the first time (when you see magic for the first time) then you would trigger it wouldn’t you ?

For the peace of my years, Will be yours, yours and yours is arguably quite a happy ending (despite the whole Arthur come back 1500 years in the future) If you want to read a fic where post return arthur turn so small that he can fit in a pocket then this one is for you

8. Do you get hate on fics?

No, the only negative comment I get are people complaining that I should write more quite rudely or people criticizing my wording without being asked (I’m never going to put « No beta we die like men » on a fic ever again lol)

But I never got awful thing like I see sometimes. My fandoms are quite nice on that side (especially svsss LOVE OF MY LIFE)

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes, I do ! But if it gets a bit kinky I post it anonymously because I have irl people I know that know my ao3. Honestly, so far I have only published smut from the Merlin fandom but I would say my smut highly depends on what fandom I’m writing for. But I often like to put my characters in a situation TM.

If I write for Merlin… hum I’m quite new in this fandom so it may change but generally it would have a lot of magic and Arthur getting a bit bullied. I’m not into old man yaoi but I would definitely write old man merlin having sex with Arthur just for shit and giggle

If I write for scum vilain it will be something very very stupid with some sex pollen and a lot of cursing. Some wife plot (if you are in that fandom you know what I’m talking about lmao)

If I write for MDZS it would be a bit more serious stuff and generally before Wei Wuxian’s death (this is not a spoiler if you want to check it out btw), yiling loazu era or maybe an incense extra (with some actual sword and no it isn’t an euphemism 😌)

All of those are quite dark in some aspects so I wouldn’t mind writing more toxic dynamic for it. Nearly all of them also have some kind of « despite everything I can’t hate you » which I think can be very interesting to explore !

Arguably I wrote smut for the Sandman fandom too ? But it isn’t technically smut… Do you consider someone dreaming about someone else and like finding pleasure in just their presence smut ? Idk that’s why I tagged it « schrodinger's sexual touches »

The only constant is that if I write smut the character that is generally topping in most work of my fandom will be the bottom and the main character (often the bottom in most works) is going to top. Sorry but Arthur Pendragon, Jim T Kirk, Hob Gadling, Lan Zhan, Luo Bingge, Luo Bingmei, Liu Qingge, Mobei-Jun,… are all bottoms to me.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I do write crossovers but only in fandom from the same author. Like SVSSS and MDZS are. Protecting endangered species a guide by Wei Wuxian Grand Master of Demonic Cultivation. is short but definitely crazy

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Hum, I don’t know. So I think no ?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

So.

No

But arguably my oldest fic were all written in French THEN I translated them in English so they DO exist in another language than they are on ao3.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

(I consider thread fic to be fic)

Yes on twitter in the scum villain fandom. There are some thread fic that we have co-written with other people ! It’s quite nice to do it

I also made a little threadfic on blue sky with @sylviawitch check it out https://bsky.app/profile/achillesuwu.bsky.social/post/3lawp22owxc2c for the merlin fandom

On tumblr with @gdn7-dollopole idk if it can be called threadfic on this app but we did expend on many idea !

So far I do not have co-written fic on ao3 but maybe someday :)

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

Hum, I don’t know. I guess the ship I never get tired of is Wangxian even after 7 years I still think fondly about them quite often !

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Alive, I love this fic so much and I want to finish it but I have quite an hard time to continue multiple chapters fic. That’s why when I post fic now I try to have it fully written in my draft.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Honestly I do not know because no one ever told me really « specifically » what they liked about my fics. So I do not know if I manage to express it in my writing. But I always take great care into writing well people being familiar with each other (soft touch, character feeling known, realistic dialogue) and I like to bring a different turn to some common trope so I hope that one of my strengths is having quite original ideas :)

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Well, I find that I have a HARD time writing people waking up. Which can be quite annoying when you wrote in a fandom where a character is literally DREAM and where you like writing post-return Arthur fic lol

I’m aroace so it can be a weakness idk, I hope my smut and my romantic subplot are believable

I’m a non-native English speaker too and sadly it seems that my inability to conjugate properly or put any plural in French is chewing my English too.

( I speak French but I’m not French btw, don’t call me French 🫵 Belgian gang rise up !🇧🇪)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I wouldn’t do it (I definitely can in French) because I don’t like reading it (because I just go back and forth between ao3 and DeepL. That’s the problem with being bilingual you just get too curious lol) so if I did I would do something like that

« Mange tes morts, connard ! » (Eat your dead, cunt)

So dialogue + translation (if the pov character knows the language I would simply say they are speaking French or whatever )

If I think the reader shouldn’t get the translation right away I will simply make the pov character says that he does not understand whatever is said.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Technically, wakfu but like, 3 sentence when I was 10 so : Scum villain self saving system !

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

Obviously Alive but I have talked enough about it today lol so :

It’s one of my less popular fic BUT I LOVE IT SO FUCKING MUCH Will the world remember me when I fall? Could it be my death means nothing at all? Will you weep, my dear, for me ?

But also it may soon get dethroned by one of my wip where Arthur + knight came back from death but they trip on a spell and nobody (not even Merlin) can recognize them or by my other wip with Arthur coming back when BAMF Merlin is a king regent 👀

And my arthur is pocket sized fic is quite close behind !

Twenty Questions for Fanfic Writers

Thank you @liviapeleia for the asks <3!!

Tagging longtime frond @breadkween, fabulous runner of @merlinmicrofic @queerofthedagger (thank you!) and reader and writer who's left me lovely comments @achillesuwu. @mythandmagic, Ao3 is down rn so I can't check but if you have any fics yourself, here's an ask game for you! There's no obligation, presh or time limit of course! Also like @liviapeleia said before me, consider yourself tagged if you see this!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

11

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

265,960

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Right now just Merlin. I've written for other fandoms in the past but each of those works have been standalone.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Always His Destiny | Merlin | A true love's kiss, resurrection and golden age AU written for Glompfest 2024.

Like Every Tree Stands On Its Own | Merlin | A longfic inspired by other Arthurian media/sources featuring Wildman Prophet!Merlin and a magical forest. This is my magnum opus.

What's Mightier Than a Sword and Robs a Prince of His Servant? | Merlin | Pre-slash Merthur minor canon-divergence in which Merlin's talents in speech writing land him a promotion and Arthur is Not Pleased™.

Only Human | Venom | A short gift/exchange fic about masturbation, lol. The fic I received in exchange was also about masturbation. In my defence this was a writing exercise (I promise).

The Sky Is Falling | Nightvale | Unfinished fic about alcoholism recovery, love, community and the complete collapse of reality.

...Okay wow what a mix :D

5. Do you respond to comments?

I really love comments and I love getting into discussions with readers! It really makes my day to see that someone has commented on one of my fics.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Am I allowed to choose a soon to be published WIP? Words Are Dead, a microfic inspired by the Agnes Obel song of the same name in which Merlin and Arthur are unable to communicate when Arthur returns. Merlin has lost Brythonic, his first language, and his capacity to relearn it. He's simply been alive for far too long and his mind has suffered :(

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Like Every Tree has a prolonged bittersweet kind of ending but I think Always His Destiny wins.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Nope/not yet!

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes, though so far it hasn't been the focus of any of my works, there's no reason why that can't change though (the Venom one doesn't count, I make the rules here). As to what kind I'd say loving and intimate, I guess? Sometimes with a bit of a hurt/comfort element to it. Again, no reason why I can't branch out in the future ;)

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

While not labelled as a crossover, Like Every Tree was heavily inspired by Arthurian media both new and old, and one medieval Irish source. I did so much research for this fic and I'm still down those various rabbit holes. It was a homage to my favourite, janky cartoon movie from my childhood Quest for Camelot. Otherwise I don't write proper crossovers.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Don't think so.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Also don't think so.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No but I would love to!

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

I guess it really has to be Merthur! I don't recall a ship ever having such a hold on me. Those two are doomed but made for each other. The way they interact is so much fun to read/write.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Damn, this is definitely Be Here When the Weather Turns, a Mushi-shi fic. It has a very soft, restful and liminal vibe and I adore it. I really do wish I can finish it someday. So sometimes like a song, you share a piece of media with someone, or you associate it with a particular chapter in your life, and that song/piece of media brings up feelings. I'd like to think it's still worth a read. If you don't know Mushi-shi, please consider checking it out, it was weird and quiet and beautiful.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I can't deny that I put a lot of love into this hobby. Also @breadkween has told me that they really like my dialogue :3

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I'm really prone to typos. I can re-read something a hundred times and just fail to see them. I'm a very slow writer; what I put out usually goes through months of edits and change-ups. Lastly I have embraced a faux-pas or two for fun, such as starting sentences with 'and.' And no one can stop me >:)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I'd only be comfortable writing dialogue in a language I've formerly learned and have some level of familiarity with for fear of getting something wrong.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Okay I love this question because the answer is the highly formative Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom series, a YA series I was obsessed with, and have continued to read, and re-read as an adult and as unexpected prequels and sequels popped up in more recent years. I wrote it on a literal floppy disk :D First fandom I wrote for that I actually published online was Undertale.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

Definitely Like Every Tree. I'm just really proud of it :3

[fandom-imagines]

Sweet little darling~

Fandom: House of Wax (2005)

Pairing: Bo Sinclair X Fem!Reader

Warnings: Canon typical violence, domestic abuse (abusive relationship; not Bo) Kind of out-of-character Bo, depends on how you headcanon him for liking someone! Also not proofread yet.

Words: 2.55k 

Summary: Kindness can get you killed, but it can also get you out of a sticky situation.

Part Two!

To anybody that saw their relationship, it was evident that the feeling wasn’t mutual. Perhaps it once had been, but it no longer was, and for good reason.

“You fucking bitch!” The scream echoed throughout the building, one body looming over a small, cowering young woman.

“I’m sorry,” she mumbled, doing her best to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall.  “Please don’t hurt m-“ her pleas were cut short as a tight hand grasped her arm and tugged her onto her feet, a harsh slap hitting her cheek shortly afterwards.

“Please don’t hurt me,” he cruelly laughed, mimicking her frightened and desperate tone. “How pathetic.”

“I’m sorry,”

With one final laugh, her boyfriend tossed her to the ground.

*

Laughter filled the truck the group of friends were currently seated in, music blaring through the speakers of a radio one of them had brought but their drunk selves were unable to remember who.

Four of the friends engaged in conversation about anything their clouded minds could think of, whilst the final friend lay against the side of the car, desperately avoiding the demanding gaze her boyfriend was giving her and had been giving her the entire night.

It was clear what he wanted.

Eyes fixated on the green of the grass beneath her, Y/N noticed an approaching truck. Choosing not to say anything, she silently waited for somebody else to notice the vehicle.

“Guys,” Lucy, a close friend of Y/N’s boyfriends, called. “Who is that?”

By now the headlights of the truck were focused on the gang who were circled around the campfire, narrowly avoiding Y/N’s figure.

“James, do something?” Y/N winced as she watched another of the girls grasp onto her boyfriends muscular arm, her blonde hair rubbing against his bare chest.

“Can we help you?” He yelled over the sound of the roaring engine, their music having been paused the second they had notice the driver. “Look dude, this isn’t funny. Just fuck off!”

James’s final sentence was one that made his girlfriend cringe, body remembering the way he had hurt her the night before using that exact same tone; it almost made her cry.

Deciding to stop him before this escalated any further, Y/N made her way towards James before placing a hand on his chest to signal him to back down. This seemed to only anger him further, something that was clear by the way his hands balled into fists. Nobody noticed, except one other person.

“Leave it,” she whispered into his ear, hand dropping from his body to hopefully ease his anger.

James’s hand reach out to her, grabbing his own with a bruising force and tugging her into him as he leaned down to her ear, ignoring the whistles from his friends who assumed he was saying something sexual.

“Just you wait till I get you alone,” James snarled in her ear, unaware of the way an unknown man glared at him before driving away.

*

“Are you fucking kidding me?” James spat, smashing his hand against the cars hood. “It’s busted, the fan belt is fucked.”

His anger seemed to put everybody on edge as they all fell into an uncomfortable silence, something that was uncommon for them.

“You needed a new one anyway,” Y/N mumbled, just loud enough for him to hear.

“Don’t you fucking start,” while his words were directed towards his girlfriend, the others assumed it was aimed at the car in sarcasm; ignorance is bliss after all.

“I can help y’all.” A seemingly kind voice yelled from behind them, having heard the entire conversation. “Sorry, couldn’t help but overhear ya. There’s a town not to far from here. A guy, Bo, runs a gas stop, I’m sure he’d have some.”

Before James could rudely decline this man, Y/N decided to respond. “Do you know how to get there?”

“I’ll drive ya! Truck can only fit two of you though,”

“That’d be great!” She gave the unnamed man a gentle smile, one which he gladly returned. “When are you ready?”

“Now is good,”

She simply nodded, rushing towards the car without giving James a chance to say anything, only leaving him time to follow her, but not before a “fuck sake,” left his lips.

*

“Thank you so much, Lester!” She grinned once again as she hopped from his truck.

“It was no bother, pleasure to meet you Y/N,” he smiled back at her, ruffling her hair slightly before realising the angered look on James’s face. “And you of course,” he nodded awkwardly whilst his hand dropped back to his side. “You two take care now,” and with those words, he drove away.

“Fucking slutting yourself out to weird men, typical,” James spat as he tugged Y/N’s hand so that she was following him into the town, ignoring how she almost tripped in the process.

“I’m sorry, I was just being nice. He was helping us!” She all but yelled, silently praying for him to loosen his grip so that she doesn’t have to use all of her concealer hiding, yet another, mark from him.

“Sure he was. He didn’t just want to get into your pants or anything, huh?”

Ignoring his hurtful words, Y/N began to look around the town.

It was quiet, too quiet. But when she began to think, it was Sunday and there was a Church up ahead at the end of the road which would make more sense, especially considering how early in the morning it was.

“There’s the garage,” James said, dropping her hand to instead point at the small garage not far from them. “Let’s go,”

Y/N followed him, quickly striding to keep up with his large legs.

“There’s nobody here,” she sighed, watching as James just barged his way into the unoccupied garage. “You can’t just go in there! That’s rude.”

“Do I give a fuck? Wait out there for all I care,”

So she chose to do just that.

*

“Oh, hi!” A tall man in a suit gave Y/N a bright grin, accidentally startling her slightly. “You need something?”

“O-oh, hi! Uhm, my boyfriend is in there, I’m sorry I told him not too, he needs a fan belt? I have no idea what one of them is but I-“

The man chuckled, smiling once again as he put his arm around her waist to guide her inside. “Don’t worry, darling. I got ya,” his words were somewhat calming, as though he was offering to protect her from James, despite not knowing what was going on, or perhaps he did.

“You finally grew a p-“James’s words fell short as he turned to see a man, who was significantly taller than him, stood beside his girlfriend. “Hello?”

“Hi, names Bo,” Bo’s tone was a lot blunter than the charming one he had been using previously. “You need something?” He repeated his previous words, instead this time to James and less kind. “You are in my garage after all.”

Despite knowing that Bo could easily subdue him, James chose to get angry anyway. “You got a problem with me? Don’t leave it unlocked if you don’t want people coming in,”

“James leave it,” Y/N gently pushed herself between Bo and James as James began to try get into his face. “Just ask him for what you need and let’s go.”

“Fine, we need a fan belt. Fifteen inch.”

“I might be able to do that, but you’ve already had a look so let me know what I’ve got,” Bo smirked at the angered expression on the mans face at his words.

So maybe he did have a problem with James, a problem neither of the couple knew of.

“Not a fifteen,”

“Then they’re back at the house,”

“The house? Why would they be there?”

“Deliveries are delivered there, easier for everyone really.”

Y/N watched as the two men interacted, Bo incredibly calm whilst James was boiling with anger. Part of her was scared of how he would react, his threat about ‘waiting till they’re alone’ floating around in her mind, yet some strange part of her felt safe knowing that Bo was there. Perhaps it was the fact that he could fight him with ease, or maybe that James would, most likely, never harm her in front of another person.

“Let’s just go,” She pleaded, desperation swimming in her Y/E/C orbs.

“No, I’ll stay, you go.” James seemed pleased with this idea, smirking at the way his girlfriends body tensed; he enjoyed the fear he caused her.

“That’s fine with me,” Bo chimed in, offering Y/N a smile. “That fine with you?”

“Yeah, yeah that’s fine.”

“Let me just lock up,” Bo said, leading the visitors out into the street, much to James’s dismay, before locking up. “Let’s go then.” He gave James one last sarcastic smile before leading Y/N away from him.

*

“Do you live with anyone here?”

Y/N and Bo had been talking for a while now, having chosen to take a slow walk instead. He was nice, to her anyway. She felt as though he understood her, despite not knowing a thing about her.

“Nah, I live with my brother,” Came his response, winking at the girl as he ran a hand through his dark hair, enjoying the way she blushed under his gaze.

She knew it was wrong, finding him both attractive and sweet. But he was both of those, and James was neither, not to her at least. Maybe it was because he was the first person to be this kind to her in a long time, or maybe it was the feeling of safety she felt around him, but she was enjoying his company more than anyone else’s.

“Oh, that must be fun!”

Bo chuckled at her enthusiasm, “I suppose so,”

The pair walked up to Bo’s home, guilt filling the girl’s chest each time she let Bo’s hand brush against her own. She simply enjoyed the sparks flying throughout her body, forgetting about the pain she would receive later as a punishment.

“We’re here,” Bo’s words pulled Y/N from her thoughts, almost tripping over a rock as she came back to reality. “Easy there,” Bo shook his head whilst smiling as he caught her, sneakily pulling her body into his own without her realising it was not an accident.

“Thank you,” she blushed, unknowingly allowing herself to melt into his touch, feeling the need to savour every kind and gentle touch she was getting from a stranger.

“No problem, darling,” he smirked, once again enjoying the way she blushed at the nickname he had given her.

Hand still around her waist, Bo guided her into his home.

“Take a seat, I need to get out of this horrible suit.” His words caused a giggle to leave Y/N’s lips, her head nodding as she took a seat on the faded leather couch, watching Bo leave the room to go change.

*

“Sorry to keep ya waiting, Darl.” Bo’s voice startled Y/N, her body jolting in a way that made Bo feel slightly guilty, something that he rarely felt. “Sorry, didn’t mean to scare you.”

“No, it’s okay. It was my fault,” she offered him a weak smile, twiddling with the hem of her short-sleeved t-shirt when he seated himself beside her.

“That looks painful,” his hands cautiously reached out to gently take her hand, fingers lightly running across a hand-shaped bruise that had began to form. “You shouldn’t let him treat you like that,” Bo’s spare hand reached up to her face, hand cupping one cheek which made her flinch, Bo frowning at the action.

“S-sorry,”  

Bo had no idea why she was apolgoising to him. It had been him that touched her, but it all made sense in his head.

“Does he hit you?”

Her lack of response was enough for him to understand to full situation.

“I’m sorry,”

“Don’t be, darling.” He sighed, hand moving from her cheek to her neck to pull her head towards his lips, planting a soft kiss on it, something that made her almost cry along with his sweet words.

“Thank you,” her own arms wrapped around his torso, grateful to be given affection without it feeling forced.

*

“You took your time,” James spat as Y/N walked towards him, Bo having quickly headed to the gas station for something that she couldn’t remember the name of. “Were you shagging him or something?”

“N-no,” the nervousness in her voice was something that caused Y/N to cringe, knowing that he wouldn’t believe her.

“Oh, you were.” James’s hands balled into fists as he stalked towards her, ready to attack.

“No, I had to get changed,” Bo’s deep voice startled both of them, James’s fists unclenching immediately.

“Sorry, man. Can’t be too careful with girls like these, can you?” He laughed, trying to play off his previous words as a joke.

“Can’t be too careful with men like yourself either, can you?” Bo’s words seemed innocent, despite having a deeper meaning.

“What?” James snapped. “You told him about us?” He yelled as he turned to face Y/N whose breathing was becoming laboured in fear. “You little bitch!”

As James began to march towards his girlfriend, a tight hand grabbed his fist, spinning him to face the holder only to not be able to see because of a hard punch hitting him in the jaw. The only thing he could hear was a gasp from Y/N and the ringing in his ears as he dropped to the ground.

“Not so tough now, are you?” Bo sniggered. “You can hit a woman but the second a man touches you, you’re out cold. Pathetic,”

Y/N stood frozen to the spot, unsure of how to react.

She hadn’t expected Bo to attack him. In fact, she hadn’t expected him to do anything at all to him or about her situation. Those who knew didn’t care, so why would a stranger?

“You fucking dick!” James screamed, climbing back onto his feet to throw a punch at Bo, one that he barely reacted to.

“Leave him alone!” Y/N yelled, darting between James and Bo, shoving James away from him to the best of her ability.

“You fucking whore. I should’ve known this is what would’ve happened. Actually, I guess I already did.” His words were fast, but his fist moved towards her faster.

Bo was quicker however, grabbing the man’s fist and twisting it behind his back before kicking his legs from beneath him, effectively knocking him to the ground again.

“Vincent!” Bo yelled. “Got one for ya,” both Y/N and James were confused at his words, fear filling them both as a masked man came running out into the street, knife in hand.

Bo took Y/N’s hand, pushing her behind his hand so that she couldn’t see the horror that Vincent was committing to her boyfriend in full glory.

“Y-you killed him…” Her words were quiet, watching from one eye as the man, who she assumed to be Vincent, tugged away the lifeless body. “Are you going to kill me too?”

“You’re safe here, Y/N.” Bo’s words were quiet, praying nobody else heard his true self speaking. “I’ll take care of you. Nobody will ever hurt you again, my sweet little darling.”  

[thefools-journey]

So. Some of you may be wondering why we haven’t written a whole ton about the secondaries or what have you. Here’s the reason: we were waiting for them to end before we really dug into the problems we were noticing. We felt that it was only fair to wait for the routes to finish so that we had an understanding of the writers’ vision. Who knew, we thought, maybe they would see the problems themselves and course correct, maybe they are building to something we can’t quite see yet and these issues will have actual payoff, maybe-

In light of Muriel and Lucio’s endings, and the general mess that has dominated Portia’s route for a year plus now, we are breaking our silence. We are actually going to talk about this shit show.

The fandom at large has talked about a bunch of issues with the secondaries but for me, the cardinal sin, the thing that really all the issues lead back to, is this: the writers lost sight of the tarot themes which so strongly defined and held together the primary routes. Let me explain.

The primary routes each center around three thematic cores:

The Love Interest’s Major Arcana and its Reversed/Upright meanings

The MC’s Fool’s Journey, both how it can go right and how it can go wrong

A question about the MC’s identity and their relationship to said identity

Asra’s route asks: Who was the MC? How does the MC navigate a past they cannot and will not remember? What do they owe a past they cannot remember? How do they handle the revelations of what Asra, Nadia, Julian, etc did? How do you right the past? Can you?

Nadia’s route asks: Who is the MC? The MC has no past. Are they the Fool only? Are they actually the same person they were? How can they tell? Who are they, really? Are they an imposter? No one can answer these questions for them.

Julian’s route asks: Who will the MC become? How does the MC see their future? Is there anything worth fighting for for that future? What will become of them and their loved ones? 

Now, if you notice, these themes are expertly woven throughout the primaries. Asra’s past dominates his route, Nadia is also missing memories and trying to construct her identity both with her family and with Vesuvia, and Julian’s fear of the future drives his flailing for control. Asra has to learn to take a broader view of his actions to get his Upright Ending, Nadia has to learn to trust herself and those around her for hers, and Julian has to learn how to let go for his. These lessons are the issues their cards stand for. The primaries are so dang elegant and delicate in their handlings of theme it is honestly awe-inspiring.

Thematically, the secondary routes have completely lost their hearts. First of all, the MC does not have strong, core questions which need to be answered. They just don’t. I suppose the writers did not want to retread old territory (which is weird considering how tightly bound the primaries are; it really tricks you into thinking you’re living the same events but from different angles depending on your route) but they did not replace the old with anything new. Muriel’s route is, on the surface, about discovering and owning his past, the good and the bad. Why not tie MC’s self-discovery to that story? Or they could have taken the angle that Muriel’s route is about convincing him to be present and active in the world while MC builds an identity for themself outside of Asra, the shop, and the memories they cannot retrieve. Why not tie the investigation themes running through Portia’s early route back to MC and their past? Portia has the unique angle of being as in the dark as MC about all of this, why not discover the past together? And for goodness’ sake, Lucio has no future when his route begins, why not tie that to his need for growth, responsibility, and MC’s own future between the Fool, the Devil, or something mortal and in between?

Secondly, the routes lost their tarot backbone. We have a primer on how to get specific endings for each LI and it still holds, but the writers did not follow through on the thematic coherence of each secondary. The Hermit is looking for something, be it perspective, insight, a solution to a problem, whatever. The key here is that the Hermit must find or learn what they are searching for, this thing must change their understanding of the world, and finally, they must bring this lesson back to the world from which they retreated. Can someone please enlighten me as what exactly Muriel learns then teaches the world around him? Nothing Muriel learns from Morga, MC, or even the Hermit ties back into anything. The Devil warns that you are out of control and exerting a lot of manipulative, destructive behavior on the world around you. It asks you to take responsibility for yourself and your actions. So can someone tell me why Lucio’s route actively avoids any interaction or reflection on two of Lucio’s biggest victims: Muriel and Julian? Why does the route only try to make amends with the “easier” of his victims in the cast? The Star is first and foremost the card of clarity, the light at the end of the tunnel. Perseverance, if you will. Yet Portia’s route has been the muddiest of the trio; the writers drop the investigation aspect of her route in favor just handing her and MC information they could have easily found and muddying the waters with Tasya (she blows up the palace but it’s all okay bc she has a secret daughter Julian never thought to bring up or mention) and the complete removal of the Devil as antagonist. 

So that leaves just the Fool’s Journey trying to hold this stool up with only one leg. And well...it doesn’t go well. At best, the secondary route books pay the barest surface level homage to the themes of the individual cards. At worst, they ignore the cards completely. Muriel's Moon book has nothing to do with illusions or delusions or lies or even an Alice in the Looking Glass upside down world. Portia's back half is a complete and utter mess, starting with her Temperance book being so badly mangled that Muriel's aftermath book does it better. Lucio's route too bungles the Tower and the Star. There just isn't enough here to carry the routes alone.

Add to the core loss the loss of intertextuality. The primary routes are very good, even great but they too do have their moments and mistakes. What helps strengthen them when the cores stumble is how the trio is woven together. Things you learn in Asra's route can inform the way you play Nadia's, for example. Julian's route informs what is going on in Asra's route and slots some missing puzzle pieces together. Nadia's route tells you of the power struggles she is facing and informs the other two routes' handling of Julian and his trial. On and on, the three routes support each other because they are built out of the same basic plot beats, just tackled in very different ways. Now, the writers are allowed to try and write whatever they want. They apparently wanted to be more experimental and less tied down to an overarching plot with the three secondaries. Okay, fine, they are allowed to do that. The problem is that they sacrificed one of the key strengths of the primary trio and didn't replace said strength with anything else. They also, on some level, harmed the very premise of the game, which is that only the player's choices and route selected change the overall plot. Instead of feeling like legitimate possibilities or offshoots of the same timeline/plot, the secondaries feel almost like Arcana AUs. The secondaries throw out all relations to the primaries and each other as quickly as possible and for what? 

It is probably the height of arrogance to suggest fixes for works whose behind the scenes I do not know. At the same time, some small, obvious changes could have salvaged Muriel and maybe Lucio's endings (rip Portia). Instead of having the Hermit appear as a disappointing cameo, why not have him say something cryptic to Muriel, then have MC start trying to seal the Devil. Then let Muriel use his forget me mark to cloak MC and hide them from the Devil's attacks. Protecting MC by hiding them from Lucio, keeping him focused on Muriel, seems to me a simple third solution between Muriel's desire to run and his desire to never fight again. It lets him stand up to Lucio and let him have it while holding onto who Muriel has become. The Reversed End would have MC try to draw Lucio's attention at some point, disrupting the sealing, and eventually leading to Muriel killing the Devil. With Lucio's Upright End, I just have to ask: why doesn't MC fully claim the power of the Fool instead of the Devil? We don't need the other Arcana involved in this fight; we have three routes that demonstrate that. Just have MC pull Scout into the conflict, then have Lucio tell MC he believes in them, then add his power to the mix. You got yourself a full Fool who leaves Scout guarding the realm until they and Lucio's mortal bodies fail and they return to the realm to be together forever. Boom, you're done, you can even add some ambiguous lines so that players can decide how happy their MC is with this arrangement, send me the check.

Here is the bottom line. Our group is full of aroace, and several combinations therein, individuals. We are the last group who should have gotten into a dating sim of all things. But the Arcana did something with the primaries that was special; they wrote a compelling plot with dazzling lore, complex characters, and strong themes wrapped up in a dating sim bow. The writers know better and we know they know better. I do not know what happened with the secondaries, especially around books 10-11, which is where minor issues slowly start spiraling into major ones, but it is clear that Nix Hydra needed some more planning before they released these routes. Hopefully they will learn.

TL;DR: Nix Hydra fired their tarot consultants about eighteen months ago and it has wrecked their secondary routes until they were just embarrassments. They never intended for the secondary routes to even exist and once they had to make them, they scrambled and threw out everything that made the primaries work.

- Mod Telos