#anyways i'm off on a tangent again. thanks for coming to my TED Talk i'm gonna crawl back in my hole now

[seventh-district]

again and again i find myself lamenting that audio roleplay isn't taken more seriously by some people. like yeah, they often have a romantic element, and by nature they usually directly involve/address the listener- and i totally get that those things aren't to everyone's taste. no art or entertainment is universally appealing, and that's okay! but.. it still makes me a lil sad that the "cringe" reputation of asmr/audio rp precedes it. there's a whole lot of talent and creativity being poured into these audios by so many people that i feel goes unrecognized and/or disrespected simply due to the medium that the stories are being told through.

[ash-asteroid]

Winx "Flower Princess" gowns redesign kinda.

I say kinda because I struggle with dresses. And it's more practice for me. Man, I can't believe I was a winx kid that draws and can't design dresses. Probably a by-product of my "I'm not like other girl phases." Anyway gonna ramble about the designs a little.

I did the flower princess ones first because they are my least favorite gowns of the series. I think it's mainly the flowers, so I tone them down, having them being more like accents. Also forgot to design earings for most of them smh.

Bloom I had a lot of trouble. These dresses were used while they were "politicing," so I originally wanted to make Bloom look like her dress was from Domino. But I didn't like how it turned out, probably because Marion was my only reference for a dress (unless there's some background fairy in a dress from Domino. I'm too lazy to check.) So I went back to the general princess vibe instead for all of them. But if I were to redesign them again, I'd love to mix their homeworld's fashion with the typical fairytale princess look.

I have nothing really to say for Flora or Stella. But I wanted to change Flora's hair because I thought it was too casual. Wish I did something other then a bun looking back.

Skipping to Tecna for a second. I did base her dress off those "furtistic" dresses, which is just minimalism, really. And had to change Tecna's purple because if you grey scale the purple and green in the original design, it's pretty much to the same. I do like the color I chose, especially for the contrast, but I feel like it's a little too dark and messes with the vibe a little. Also gave her pants under her dress. I was just about to go on a tangent, but I'll just add it to the end.

Finally, for Musa and Aisha. Idk I felt like their hair didn't fit the vibe. I love them, but they didn't really go with the regal look, and more look like prom hairstyles. For Musa's dress, I wanted the front to be open and have her wear shorts. It just felt like a hint of masculine in a pretty feminine design. Aisha's dress really made me realize I need to look at more dresses because I was struggling with ideas. The rnd result is fine, but man, I need to work on more on gowns.

Anyway, heres me rambling about masculine Tecna. It has no real clear thought or direction and only losely ties to the redesign but whatever.

Hi to nobody, probably. If you are here you should tell me 👉👈. Anyway, I see Tecna and Musa as the most masculine. Musa is the most outloud about it, while you might not even notice how masculine Tecna is. Up until season 6, really. Tecna, for the most part, wore shorts or pants. Dress was saved for the gowns. Her skirts were usually pretty short, and something about them had masculine vibes. I can't quite explain it, but there is pretty simple I can almost think a few are shorts. Personally, I headcanon that Tecna doesn't care for dresses at all. Maybe if she has to, but that's it (maybe I'm projecting, idk. Granted irl, I'm not comfortable with dresses or skirts at all. So partial projecting.)

Basically, I think Tecna should wear suits instead of gowns. And Musa should wear something in between for that non binary energy.) But imagine a gender confused Musa going to her roomie Tecna for advice because Tecna is way more comfortable with leaning a lot more masculine.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[caxemiira]

@skrtomg Perfect, thank you for taking the bait

disclaimer I guess since this is the internet in 2024: these are my opinions, that's it

First off, I've seen so many people arguing that Louis would get pregnant since he's more "parental", but that's exactly the point that I'm getting at. I think if they had a baby and Louis carried it, Lestat would wind up feeling left out and resentful, and it would be a whole repeat of what happened in 1x04 when Louis and Claudia are using the mind gift with each other. It would be a classic case of husband-is-jealous-that-wife-gives-their-children-more-attention, again.

Now if Lestat is the one getting pregnant, then Louis' "parental" feelings wouldn't be focused inward but instead would be projected onto Lestat, thus "saving" the marriage. Now they're both happy, since Louis wants and gets a child while Lestat wants and gets Louis' love and affection. Louis also (in the show) dragged Claudia's charred body to Lestat and begged him to give them a child, since he couldn't bring himself to do it (I will expand on this in a minute).

As for physically being pregnant and all of the body horror and mental olympics it requires you to just sort of accept, I think Lestat would be much better suited for it. This is not to say that he would like it the whole time, he's incredibly vain, but I do think he would learn to roll with the punches quicker thanks to his "capacity for enduring".

Louis, I think, would be into it for five minutes and then very quickly grow tired of it and wallow. He's also a shoo-in for developing PPD since he's so depressed to begin with, so there's that can of worms.

To talk about Claudia: there's the show's version and the book's version, both of which include Lestat admitting that he only turned her to sate Louis. The first book errs more on the whole Lestat baby trapping/"you can't leave I'm pregnant" side, whereas the show (esp. s2) shows more that Louis essentially got down on his knees to beg his husband to pleeeeease give them a baby. And then had his back to both of them when Lestat turned her. Which feels very symbolic. Louis is the one who wants it, but Lestat has to bear the weight of it. I could go on a whole other tangent just about the implications of that entire arc, too, but I'm getting off topic.

So should they have a baby to save their marriage again? Probably not. But they will.

It also doesn't help that whenever I look at Sam Reid, all I can think is that if any cisgender man should have the ability to be pregnant it should be him

Anyways. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

Love to go on ao3 and see more people agreeing with the narrative that Loustat would 100% have a baby to save their marriage (again) and Lestat needs to be the one to get pregnant or it doesn’t work

[umbral-reign]

You know, I definitely hadn't thought of that angle re: Gavilar, but I definitely am of the belief (until and/or unless proven otherwise) that her implied(?) psychosis had to do with seeing into Shadesmar.

In the prologue of WoR, I always found it of particular note that while her experiences with seeing into Shadesmar were certainly terrifying in their own right, she always seemed more concerned by *other people noticing her actions*. It's also made explicitly clear that these are not new experiences for her, but there's also a very distinct absence of a timeline regarding "how long has she been experiencing this type of thing" - just that when it starts, her immediate reaction is "Not again," and, "Did anyone else notice me acting strangely?" Put that together with what Ivory says to her in Oathbringer (though I feel itsy implied that this is a frequent point of discussion or even debate between them), and I do definitely think we start getting a pretty pointed outline of what happened with her "insanity."

“Ivory, you think all humans are unstable.”

"Not you,” he said, lifting his chin.

“You are like a spren. You think by facts. You change not on simple whims. You are as you are.”

She gave him a flat stare.

“Mostly,” he added. “Mostly. But it is, Jasnah. Compared to other humans, you are practically a stone!”

......

Something stirred deep within her. Glimmers of memory from a dark room, screaming her voice ragged. A childhood illness nobody else seemed to remember, for all it had done to her.

It had taught her that people she loved could still hurt her.

“Have you ever wondered how it would feel to lose your sanity, Ivory?”

Ivory nodded. “I have wondered this. How could I not? Considering what the ancient fathers are.”

“You call me logical,” Jasnah whispered. “It’s untrue, as I let my passions rule me as much as many. In my times of peace, however, my mind has always been the one thing I could rely upon.”

Except once.

Oathbringer, Chapter 47

I also do think that Gavilar had some form of ulterior and malicious motives regarding branding Jasnah as "insane." I totally agree with your assessment of Gavilar seeing upset or even angry at the fact that Jasnah was likely to be released soon, but as of yet I've got no real idea why. I mean, I have my own personal headcanons - and I can't help but wonder how much of it was meant as a bid to get her "under control," and if any of it had anything at all to do with Amaram........but that's a whole side tangent of thought that I'm not sure anyone wants me to get into right now, lol - but textually speaking, I don't think we've got much to go off of...yet. Though your point about him being jealous, angry, spiteful, or possessive regarding her potentially bonding a spren would definitely fit.

Anyway, yes. Thank you for coming to my ted talk. This is a subject I have a lot of thoughts and emotions about, and the strength of my opinions may have gotten the best of me here. But yes. All that to say, agreed.

What if Jasnah’s “delusions” that resulted in her being locked up for an unspecified amount of time at age 12 was that she started getting attention from a spren but Gavilar had already begun having the visions and he took the directive of refounding the Radiants to mean that he must be the first one so he sent Jasnah away out of spite until she forgot all about it?