#also i personally am an o’[name]-[name]

[looseduke]

okay insane thought about names and the feelings i have about them as a transgender blended family kid. it requires a leap of logic where the fantasy high parent couples remain dating and get married or otherwise legally bind themselves together but follow me on this for a moment. also i don’t know or care if this follows canon im just deciding it does

gilear took sandra lynn’s last name

could not afford to change it after the divorce

gilear is just one of those ppl who really likes having the same last name as his life partners, doesn’t have to be his name, he just thinks it’s nice

(sandra lynn liked her name and though she has Many Issues and might have changed her name in an attempt at normalcy gilear’s name was definitely something outlandishly stupid and he suggested it first anyway so it worked out)

do u see where im going with this

gilear seacaster.

fabian is furious but this ain’t about him

something so funny about taking your (way funnier if they don’t even get married) girlfriend’s dead husband’s last name

he keeps faeth as a middle name bc it’s still a connection to fig that he values and wants to keep

anyway. jawbone hears about all of this. absolutely loves it. thinks it’s awesome

jawbone o’shaughnessy-faeth!

yes with the apostrophe and the hyphen. yes every time.

he likes the connection to gilear and fig as much as he does the one to sandra lynn <3

when consulted fig was SUPER enthusiastic about another dad. gilear was like sigh. that might as well happen. im already being dunked upon by my mean stepson. go ahead.

okay the grand finale. the reason i even made this fucking post

adaine kills her dad, gets adopted, and starts to wonder if she should change her name

adaine makes amends with her sister, and starts to wonder if she should keep it

jawbone lets her know right away that he’ll support her decision no matter what, but it takes a long time for her to decide

it takes watching gilear and fabian bicker over their shared last name, watching fig get sappy over gilear holding onto the name faeth, watching fig and jawbone get sappy over THEIR shared last name, watching sandra lynn hide a smile whenever it comes up, watching, watching, watching

watching her sister learn and grow and love her unconditionally

she makes her decision, and when her dad brings her home from the fantasy dmv, there’s a new name on her ID

adaine abernant-o’shaughnessy-faeth. yes all three names. yes with the apostrophe. yes with the hyphens. every time

it’s for her dad, yes, for the man who gave her a home, who helped her find her strength, who is always her safe space, but it’s for more then that too

it’s for her sister, who for better or worse is in all of her earliest memories. who never underestimated her. who’s trying, every day

it’s for her sister, who called her awesome on the first day of school. who’s always there for her. who wears her heart on her sleeve and teaches adaine it’s okay to be emotional. who’s her best friend

it’s for the man who took her in when he had next to nothing to offer, who shared his extra garlic knots and vending machine snacks, who hosted his daughters strange friends night after night without question or complaint

and it’s for the elven woman sitting across from her at the dinner table, who understands her greatest fear better then anyone else and has built a life for herself despite her mistakes. who protected her on their quest. who opened her house for about 6 teenagers to live there permanently and anywhere between 3 and 10 more to hang out as much as they want

adaine abernant-o’shaughnessy-faeth, the people’s oracle <3

[skrunksthatwunk]

ohhhh this essay was like. definitely plagiarized at least a little bit (<- peer reviewing in the club tonite)

[cerealmonster15]

🥞👑🎡 - Pick an OC. Or pick multiple~!

WAHOO YAY!!!

🥞 PANCAKE - what is their comfort breakfast?

yale likes fish and apples at any time of day. perhaps he'd be a salmon + bagel + cream cheese + apples on the side kind of guy 😌

👑 CROWN - what does your oc want to be remembered as? why?

orion spends a lot of his time weaving his way in and out of people's lives and relationships. i think he wants those he crosses paths with to remember him as the alluring, mysterious, and powerful entity he is lol. leaving people in his wake with thoughts of confusion and longing, or the BETRAYAL of his last second reveals before he vanishes lol ✨

🎡 FERRIS WHEEL - are they someone who wants to kiss at the top of the ferris wheel?

hmmm i think most of my characters would think that's fun or cute! but maybe dañarte thinks it's stupid and cliche but will keep that a secret to go along with whatever the other person's doing, because he's Trying To Keep Up A Facade lol. or maybe he's secretly afraid of heights. i need to humble that bitch one way or another. we'll see 🤔

[prompt post!]

[crispyliza]

An old classmate from highschool has become an actress and she's in a pretty popular tv show here in Greece where she plays a teenager. and it's just so wild to see while knowing what she looked like as an ACTUAL teen. She'll be 25 soon lmao 😭

[beauzos]

every time i read one of B&N's picks of the month they're sooo... profoundly Not Great. except for Your Utopia which was actually pretty good. Fairy Bargains was alright. i actually would read it again, i liked it but it could be so much better than it is, too. Book Eaters was one of the worst books i have ever read.

i'm reading The Last Animal now bcs paleontology! local author, too, and it's signed and i have a mammoth doodle in it!!!! and after 5 pages i got one of those mental flags that feels like a death knell for me. one of the quickest ways to determine whether a book is good or not, in my view, is if you think, at any point, "people don't talk like this" then that's usually a good indication that a book isn't very good KRKF

dialogue's goal is not realism. but if your dialogue is so stilted or unnatural that someone notices it, you fucked it up, basically.

i don't like the dialogue, i don't really like the characters, i don't even like the prose. the book is kind of... pretentious? strange? paced weird? i don't know. i'll finish it, though. i've read about 80 pages so far and i am really not feeling it, though.

[short666bread]

[bunnyboy-juice]

mkay its been a few days and i dont have the most perfect words to express this but uh. please remember just bc i reblog certain kinks on this blog and am publicly horny in general doesn't mean that you can try to engage in that kink with me without asking first, especially if we are not mutuals.

[razzafrazzle]

amnimation!

[image description: a short work-in-progress animation of a person getting ready to throw a much smaller person like a football. the bigger person nods, backs up with a few short hops, and aims their shot before throwing the smaller person offscreen. end id]

[soft-serve-soymilk]

idk why my brain is suddenly hung up on torturing dism but i'm here for his fraught and tortured questions :)

[keeps-ache]

many notifs, but i sigh

[chronicparagon]

Headcanon: Owls

Many cultures all over the world view owls as bad omens. American Indian tribes are no different. While this would vary by tribe, many tribes and Indigenous nations see owls as bringers of death or as shapeshifters of people who practice bad medicine. Bad medicine is a term for hexes or curses that can be minute or as severe as death.

Some tribes and nations say owls are the spirits of these practitioners or restless spirits of the dead.

Harmony's tribe, the Lakota, sees owls as harbingers of death, especially the great horned owl and screech owl. Great horned owls have feathered tufts that look like horns, hence their name. Many Indigenous people believe that animals with horns or antlers have great spiritual power. The fact they are nocturnal, their vocalizations like the hooting and screeches, and their silent flight influence much of the fear towards owls and the beliefs that they bring curses or death.

Harmony knows there are owls who are ordinary owls, and she thinks some are beautiful or cute. However, she believes in spirits, both good and bad. This means she is going to be uncertain if the owl she encounters is an ordinary owl or an evil spirit. It will make her nervous around them and she will try to keep her distance from the creature. She knows it is not a well-known fact, so she doesn't hold anything with owls on them against people. She is okay with sharing this with other people who want to know.

She is very reluctant to be near great horned owls and screech owls. This is because, in her culture, a great horned owl means that someone will die in the near future. A screech owl's presence warns that a child will die. This is due to the fear that the owl is actually an evil spirit that came to take the victim away.

[maeflower]

my taste in media is just people cooking for and having meals with each other huh

[deadboyswalking]

staring into space as I realize this chapter is going to be like 8k

[ascel-vibes]

EEK EEK !!! DEADNAME JUMPSCARED AAA AA !!! (but funni /lh)

[starseverance]

😇 and 💖for the insert special tag name here f/o :)))

Hi hi Anon! Thanks for the ask! Ask game link.

💖 What kind of dates would your villainous F/O take you on? Or if they’re not the date type, how would they romance you in general?

In all honesty, 🪙is a selfish person who may not be capable of loving anyone other than himself.

If he felt so inclined, I think that 🪙 would take me to the ruins of the beautiful places he once ruled (technically he still rules them but they're not in the best shape atm,) and tell me about how things were back in his glory days. But a new age of glory returns with him *cue villain monologue while I gaze at him adoringly.*

Another time he might take me to one of his libraries and let me pick out some books (about him) to read which I would ADORE! Gods, it's unfair that those books don't exist IRL. I want to read books all about 🪙 so badly.

😇 Has your F/O ever done something heroic, or directly against their villainous nature? What caused it, and how did you both feel about it?

Hmm, 🪙 never did anything heroic or against his nature in canon, and I don’t think he would.

[mrskayathefrog]

yes, and

sometimes I do like to read about a healthy relationship and healthy communication and good friendships. sometimes it is nice to have an occasional actually good fictional model to base some (some! *some.* just some. I really want to emphasise just some) actionable good behaviour (like, how to Do A Confrontation that isn't too aggressive and will Get The Things Done that You Want Done, or how to make a phone call, or how to calmly explain why you did something that looks indefensible from the outside but which is relatively reasonable from the inside).

sometimes it's nice, you know?

Healthy relationships are clearly better in real-life but fucked-up ones are way more dramatically interesting in fiction. In much the same way–indeed, in exactly the same way–that feudal monarchy is a hell of a lot of fun in fantasy and historical fiction novels, but complete shit to actually live under.