#aromanticsky

[trixierosewrites]

happy STS! Do you have a favourite character? Also… did Aidan kill wife number 3…? “mysteriously died young” is suspicious

Happy STS!! And definitely Emilia. No hesitation. I love her to pieces, I'm putting her in a jar and shaking her, I'm blending her to a fine paste, I'm buying her yellow lipstick. I love her. There's a reason she's the only character I've commissioned artwork for.

As for Aidan... well, this actually comes up in Memento Vivere:

Aidan was no stranger to the cruelties of abusing someone’s love for someone else. His third wife—of four, so far, and unlikely to be more if he couldn’t get out of here, which was looking less and less likely—had looked at him like he’d hung the moon, and had been twenty years younger than him, only eighteen when they’d married. He’d married her because she was easy, because she was beautiful, and because she’d loved him. She’d fallen into his arms, believed anything he’d said, and he hadn’t even had to try with her the way he tried to convince the country that he could do better, this time, and he deserved the seat of power he was planning on embezzling money from.

[...]

Her father was in Aidan’s first cabinet for his new party. He’d been seeking power, much like Aidan, and had gladly handed his own daughter over for the chance to curry his favour. Anyone with eyes knew that Aidan was going to win—again—and anyone with eyes also knew that Aidan flipped through wives almost as quickly as he flipped through political parties, and so Aidan married his barely-legal wife on a cold December day, rain spitting down about them like disapproval from the gods. Amy had squealed with delight when he’d kissed her for the first time in front of the small crowd, mostly of her father’s friends. Her mother wasn’t told and found out through the newspapers, but Aidan hadn’t cared that he’d married a teenager and split the family into three. He had a pretty new wife on his arm and in his bed and she’d hung onto every word he said, and it had been satisfactory. Later, when she’d caught him balls deep in Miriam Fucking Fischer, he’d talked her around, telling her that it didn’t matter, he’d been married twice before her, that she was pure and touched only by Aidan, and that it didn’t matter what he did with his cock, and she’d agreed, and then he’d talked her into killing herself as he fucked the prostitute beneath him. Ten minutes later, and he’d talked Mary Mayland into revealing her real name.

She overdosed, and he made it look like an accident (she was so tragically young, after all, only twenty-one by her death), and then he got married again because he's awful.

Thanks for the ask!!

And that was a huge ass Memento Vivere chunk so I'll throw the taglist on here: @callmelyrae, @planets-collide, @mthollowell-writes

Ask to be +/- from the taglist!

[cepheusgalaxy]

Līs was a ritual sacrifice and is undead btw

wait what

[aromanticofficial]

💌 send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome 💌

aaaa thank youu

[septimus-heap]

alright Septimus Heap THIS is what Canadians call Rockets and Americans call Smarties

[ID: a plastic tube of colourful sugar tablets. /end ID]

Oh like fizzers??? Or love hearts. Or those other ones I can't remember the name of that r the same but bigger

ID: same as above but a different brand /end ID

[theriverpointace]

Happy storyteller Saturday! Does your character have a favourite person? Are they also that person’s favourite person?

[steampunk paris. because i think he and hellen are silly <3]

this is something that i think will probablyyyy? stay the same from the myths/my original idea: paris being deeply in love with hellen. and she's like "i wish you would go die."

and like. obviously not the whole time. hellen does like him, a little, at the start. idk if i'd go so far as to say he's her favorite person, but she likes him. loves him. maybe. likes him well enough to run away, so.

paris' favorite person is hellen because if she's there then he's not lonely. if she's there he's not alone. he's been alone for so long ... his childhood in the empty countryside, his recent years in the city so loud nobody can hear him.

hellen's favorite person is not paris. she hates the underside of ilium, misses her husband, her daughter, her life, her home. and sure, paris' family isn't so bad, at least considering they're the most powerful and dangerous group in the capital. her favorite person is probably menelaus.

thanks for the ask!! it's making me realize how much i still have to shape in this world haha 😅

[angleofmusings]

oh my god I've been reading your url as "angelofmusings" this whole time only to realize entirely by chance that I mixed up the l and the e and that's in fact a different word

oh no it was that until like a week ago you were reading it correctly

[aromantisk-fagforening]

Do you want to see pictures of my cats?

yes :D

[compassionatereminders]

I hate when the "recovery" posts act like disability isn't a real thing in their efforts to "encourage" self care and productivity...

Like the implication that the only reason why someone might struggle with self care is that they aren't making the right choices and are spending too much time on their phones? Fuck off with that shit...

[ID: underwater screenshot which reads: “These are not difficult tasks. If they are difficult for you, you’re not spending enough time with yourself. Put your phone down and get your life together [heart hands emoji].” /end ID] ID by @aromanticsky

[seastarblue]

Heads Up Seven Up Tag!

I’ve been tagged by both @trixierosewrites and @aromanticsky ! thanks you two 🙏

Rules are to share seven(ish) lines of writing, then tag seven people!

sadly I haven’t written in a hot minute, writers block is my biggest op rn BUT! have some old stuff!

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There was a killer in the forest. She knew it.

There was no one around for acres, as the rest of her team had gone off searching for game to hunt. It had been a particularly long mission, one where they had to venture all the way to the Daeyri Mountains, just south of the Faelands. Kaiden supposed she should have felt somewhat at home, considering she was so close to Daeryn, her hometown, but it was hard to feel anything but dread for the creature looming above her. The Wild Ones tended to do that to a person.

There was a killer in the forest. She heard it.

———

teehee now time to tag seven people… think I’ll skip on the tag list rn and tag…

@bardic-tales @frostedlemonwriter @cepheusgalaxy @threedaysgross @wormnextdoor

@aalinaaaaaa and for the seventh, have an open tag!

[mapplesand]

well GUESS WHO DECIDED TO POST MORBID MINDS ON AO3 NOW

it's me, of course

it's not much for now but you do get 2 chapters in a row because i feel like chapter 1 is really short

huuuh i'm sorry for tagging yall I just think it may interest you guys so here goes nothing idk @gioiaalbanoart @jbartholomew-botg @justcallmealt @aromanticsky @iolite-flames @mzhydes-funtimes @everett-fornow

(you may tell me if you're interested in getting notification for update because i really feel guilty about tagging people i dont want to bother anyone)

[cepheusart]

[ID: A drawing of Jue, a teenage boy with spikey blue hair and blue robes, playing the violin in a room lit by the sunset light. There is a black framing around the drawing with the words "Happy Birthday!" at the bottom. Jue also wears many colorful rings and a hearing aid. /end ID.]

Thank you for waiting (XD) congrats on turning 18 @aromanticsky!

Happy (late) birthday!

[trixierosewrites]

how did it come to be that Aidan Whitney was prime minister four separate times?

Hii, thanks for the ask!

Aidan is, first and foremost, a prick. He first came to be Prime Minster as a Conservative (probably about twenty-three, twenty-four? AKA crazy young), so he was yet another Tory making promises he couldn't keep, yadda yadda. He held his four years, then Labour won, and so forth. Eight years later, Aidan had flipped sides and was making promises as a Labour member - he'd seen the error of his ways, he promised. He wouldn't be waylaid by Conservative policies. He really did fancy himself Tony Blair.

Unfortunately for Aidan, all his pretty words get him into power, but they don't keep him there.

After another four years he was voted out. This time he wasted no time switching parties, campaigning, the Liberal Democrats take power outside of a coalition for the first time; four years later he's voted out. Immediately makes his own party, lots of campaigning, wins with a hung parliament because there was a lot of infighting in the other parties, becomes PM on like, a 38% vote? I have the maths somewhere. It was pretty bad.

(For the timeline: if he's PM at 24-28 (Conservatives), there's then a Labour government for four years, then another Conservative government, then Aidan again at 36-40 (Labour). There's then four years of a Conservative government, then Aidan again at 44-48 (Liberal Democrats), then four years of Labour, then four years of the Whitneys with Aidan at 52-56, then a year with him out of power before the story starts, placing him at 57.)

(For anyone curious as to how this matches up with his marriage timeline, he got married for the first time at 29, divorced at 40, married the second time at 41, divorced at 46, married to an 18 year old at 48, she dies when he's 51, and then his final marriage at 54. Aidan, stop. Just stop.)

Aidan's whole thing is his ability to talk people into things, which works well for a career in politics. It just makes everything look stupid when you do the maths. And yes, his marriages are timed to redo his image, because he sucks immensely.

[cepheusgalaxy]

At first glance, what stands out most about Meine’s appearance? What's his distinguishing feature?

That's easy! It'd be his third eye. However, he has some bad memories related to it so he usually covers it with his bangs.

[transmasc-wizard]

heads up 7 up tag! my first time doing a writblr tag game in a very long time :) tagged by @aromanticsky tyty

share: 7 lines. tag: 7 people

The woman reached for Arthur's bag and he pulled it back sharply. He shook his head like a madman, and she backed away. “Okay,” she said softly. To the man: “I don't think we can keep him here. He doesn't seem… well.”

That was generous wording on her behalf. Arthur picked at the blood on his hands, then moved to the blood under his fingertips, and then, blood gone, onto the raw pink skin beneath. It stung more with each tug. He saw Alexei every time he blinked.

tagging: @albatris @multi-lefaiye @itsnotovertillitsover @cream-and-tea @planes-like-vultures @approximately20eggs @chaylattes !

[septimus-heap]

I got my little sister reading Septimus Heap. I am staying one book ahead of her while I reread it and she reads it for the first time. She is really enjoying it!

You said she had no taste, but I just had to wait until the Time was Right.

I'm not sure if I did say that?? Bc I don't remember hearing abt this before but SO TRUE I'm glad she likes it!!!!! :O

[librarycards]

tagged a while ago by @petesdragon and @noahclay to do this!! thanks for your patience as i have been In It with everything i have going on but here it is! :3

nine people I'd like to get to know better

last song/album: VII by jasmine wood

favorite color: aubergine purple / olive green / deep creamy brown / i love earth tones

sweet, spicy or savory: uhhh, yes. <<< gilly was so right about this so im leaving it. preferably more than one at a time

last tv show: i don't watch tv, but the last podcast i listened to was an episode of Decolonize Social Work

last film: ginger snaps (2000) with @gwenderqueer my beloved

last thing I looked up online: [the address of the starting point for the 5k i'm running on sunday so i don't get lost on my way]

relationship status: polya & with gwen for almost 2 years ++ qpps with elliot (not active on here anymore) for like ever.

current obsession: xenoidentity + Madness + alter//humanities + radical opacity aka chap. 2 of my dissertation

tagging 9 people but anyone can do it! @passerea @aers @path-forbidden @aromanticsky @emptyemptycorners @felgueirosa @lesbianlizzybennet @growtiredofpublicvulnerability @slowtides