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[ashesforart]

hi! here's a question: how do you feel about arthur in the 21st century? bonus question: what do you think would surprise him the most if he were to be dropped in the 21st century right now?

-rei (poisonedfate)

Hey!! It's is so fun that you ask this because @noodles-and-tea (I hope they don't mind if I tag them) has recently done a few super cute drawings of merlin + arthur in the modern day, where arthur is all confused about modern day technology. I look forward to them every time they come up on my dash!

ANYWAYS that didn't answer your question(s). I'm actually kind of fond of the idea of arthur returning to complete the prophecy as the once and future king of camelot in the 21st century and scaring the shit out of an immortal merlin. I don't think it will realistically ever happen in a merlin adaption (at least not bbc), as the arthurian legends are traditionally tragedies, but as a fan concept I really love it.

As for your bonus question!! I think he would be so down bad for hotels actually. Or like a good motel? The man is always out on his little missions with merlin + the knights and they sleep out in the forest because they have to. And while I personally love a good campout, arthur is royalty and seems really fond of his big fluffy bed (as seen from the many scenes in which he is laying in it in the show), therefore I surmise that he would adore a good hotel.

[ashton-answers]

[hums quietly, walking into the cave]

Where the fuck is everyone?

-?

[he turns a corner and stops, frowning]

Who are you, and how did you get here?

[ashs-cardboard-box]

Rdr2 Sean x Male reader

I'm not sure how to start this but the first of it is that the reader is the leader of a gang that actually has power, like political power, money, land and many men that work for him, he's respected by his people and the people that know/ fear him, he's at the top but the general public doesn't know about him, only people with a really really high status.

The reader meets the vdl gang and befreiend them. He finds it cute how durch thinks that his small little gang is something significant, so he sticks around and helps them from the shadows. At some point the reader reveals who he is and is course they are shocked, but the reader just held them that over the time he's known them he decided that he would give them all the life they deserved so they can all live happily ( except Micah >:/ )

Also while sieben time with the gang he befriended Sean but this friendship turned into much more and when the reader revealed who he is Sean decided to stay with him

I just had this idea in mind with a reader being the leader of a gang that's actually poweful/ intimidating soo... I hope you have time. Don't stress yourself i can wait and thank you :)

Oh shit this is so creative !! Thank you sm !! :33

[nina-ya]

do you think law would be comfortable dating a marine??

(pls tell me im cool for not using anon 😞)

*waves frantically at you* HI HI HI you are very cool for not using anon ima smooch you for your bravery!! This one did make me think a bit but here's my thoughts on that!! I don’t think being a marine would be a dealbreaker for Law when it comes to developing a relationship. Let's look at his bond with Corazon, for example. Even though Law harbored a deep hatred for Marines as a child, that revelation of Corazon being a marine did not wipe away Law’s connection with him- Law’s respect grew deeper despite him hating the Marines them going what he stands for. 

That being said, it’s easy to see how Law could fare similarly in a romantic relationship. If he fell for someone before knowing they were a Marine, I personally think he would be open to a relationship. And even if he knew about the whole marine thing, I don’t think he would just automatically reject that possibility either. After all, Law’s aversion to Mariens hasn’t prevented him from interacting with them before as we can see with him becoming directly affiliated with the Marines via becoming a warlord and the Rocky Point incident. 

Law’s reservations would not disappear overnight, of course. And I can definitely see him wary of betrayal or hidden agendas. But for him, it’s a matter of character over career, and he would be able to see beyond the uniform as long as he believes in the person wearing it.

[aeb-art]

cringe is dead or whatever so… here's a super rough comic about geo getting smooched at a new year's eve party o7 (the mall toons of course belong to @8um8le)

happy new year, go kiss a robot xoxo

[redxcrackle]

Coach Brunt found out that black sheep has a crush on Graham & Brunt finds out that Graham has a crush on black sheep

Hdksndbsjmsbdhdns

Ok ok if I were a teacher and I knew that two kids had a crush with one another, I swear that I would experiment and definitely make a seating arrangement where they sit together and lowkey make jokes.

Ik that Coach Brunt was her mother figure and all, but I’m pretty sure that she would definitely have fun with it (and maybe get mama bear at times lol)

Thank you for the ask

[aleielle-of-roshar]

Aleielle’s TES Species Lore (for their AU) for Those Who Have Like Zero PT. 1

Ft me completely redesigning the uh… iffy one from early days lol

Lilmothiit:

Lilmothiit were VERY against physical attachment to like, non individuals, thats why they only had two known cities. So much of their culture was built around secrecy and disappearing quickly and quietly- but also keeping their friends and familt close in safe. Each individual in fact had three names, their given, familial name by their parents- only used within those they trust, their ‘public’ name which is sort of decided on by the whole close community, snd their ‘secret or true’ name chosen by themselves- which makes it very very hard to track down an individual. Their culture has always been crazy accepting of trans and enby individuals because they view the shedding of the ‘false self’ like the unraveling of a greatly constructed but obviously false lie. Their secrecy is less ‘ooough scary secretive conniving’ and more like… the joyful playful secrecy of an acting troupe- but adapted to an environment that wants to kill them. May or may not also be because of some great trauma they’ve tried to forget but nobody will confirm nor deny this- but it certainly helps with grief when you eliminate most you’d grieve over from the occasion. though most settlements are easily moveable by choice- they mostly moved back into city during the wet / flood months. Buuut since the flu wiped a bunch out they’ve fled underground for the time being- since they kind of worried the other species’d take advantage of their weakness at the time.

Faun:

Fauns were- or their stories say- created by hircine (the god of the hunt) from the bones of both slain predators and prey- and they believe that they themself must uphold the natural cycle of the world at all costs- less so in y’know, the normal ways in some fantasies, but more like- if you cut down a tree for wood, plant another and fertilize its soil so that you gift those you took from with new life. Almost entirely obligate carnivores, but will chomp on grass like a cat or swallow a rock to help cronch up food lol. The reason why some have stories of them committing such ‘horrible’ violence (cough tying someone up, covering them in honey, then aggravating some wasps-) is because they are genuinely sickened by how utterly disrespectful most other sapient species are to the world- just destroying and conquering with zero care of what that will do the ecosystem- so they feel its only right to destroy those who do so- like how when there’s too much wolves in a forest and its killing off all the deer, sometimes special hunting permits are given out. And, in opposite to this, those they find respectful or genuinely willing to learn they eagerly take in and teach them their arts and whatnot- and y’know, not eat. All faun are the same sexe, do they just use they them since they aren’t really male or female. ANTLERS ARE LIKE SUPER IMPORTANT! Losing antlers apart from the yearly shed is basically considered horrific and individuals will make fake antlers to try to well… be less anxious about it? During events of great personal significance, individuals will make their own decor for their antlers (ie pushing through some mental stuff thats been plaguing them for years, marriage, healing from a really bad injury, that sort of thing). Unlike people seem to believe, they do have towns, they’ve just moved them all to hircine’s realms out of worry of what the humans or elves may do 🥲

Lamiae:

The first Lamiae (which in lore are all women and identify as such) were created by the egg mother (in lore thing that literally has nothing but a name) to protect her beloved waterways (they’re amphibians lol), and each subsequent viewed themselves as her daughters- alongside them was created ‘the great egg’ an artifact semi sapient but still technically an artifact- but during some event they refuse to talk about, and didn’t personally cause- the egg was shattered. It is pretty well known amongst them that all living lamia have a shard of this artifact inside them- and is the source of their powers- and it is also what leads them all to be sort of… knowledge horders? Yet at the same time they refuse to stray far from the waters they swear to protect. Their absolute honesty to eating others kinda makes other species look down on them, like, a lot- but they dont do this out of malice or ‘better then thou’ attitude, but because quite literally, each sapient soul consumed increases the consumee’s knowledge, and helps mend the cracks- in fact, they feel its an honour, and would be greatly offended if they weren’t consumed on passing. Otherwise they’re usually pretty chill- don’t hurt their eggs, or pollute their water ways- and they’ll leave you alone- but they will NEVER turn down an opportunity for a good riddle, or trade a powerful enchantment in exchange for knowledge they don’t know yet. Also like, magic lesbians so yippee 🤭. Buuuut the reason they attack other species so often is because they’e rightly pissed for being so frequently driven out of the lands they’ve lived on for centuries, and slaughter like rabid beasts.

AAAAND of course~

Igma:

The igma! Ugh, the igma- they had the potential to be something really cool in reallly early lore but they really just ended up being super racist 🤢. I mean come on! Baboon people? Sick! Anywho! The igma are like, super in tune with time- but as a result some of the more powerful grow downright insane by the passing of it- hence why there have been so many igma liches through history. Before the arrival of the elves they were one of the province’s greatest people- ever devoted to studying and predicting what was to come, and making sure anything horrible was prevented. They were great mages and doctors- and would help the others species buuut had a reputation of being kind of eh to deal with because of how blunt and straightforward they were, feeling that lying was useless because they sort of thought many steps ahead. Unsurprisingly, pretty keen worshippers of Jyggalag, the god of logic. Buuut upon the arrival of the ayleid elves (and the sort of coincidental disappearance of jyggalag), something they literally could not have predicted- a lot of them were killed or turned into well, living artwork like a lot of the other species of tamriel at the time 😔. Of course, the ayleids eventually fell, but the damage and absolute destruction could never outright be repaired. For better or worse they were no longer so utterly sure of themselves, and their philosophy switched more to living in the moment, and finding meaning in the littlest of things. In fact, a lot of the best philosophers and authors come from them. Lately the altmeri dominion has started a bit of a smear campaign against them, but the igma refuse to fight fire with fire, knowing all to well what violence lead to in the past. And are assured knowing that like past violent superpowers on the continent, this one will too fall. But at least, this time they have their uncertainty to defend them

I wanted an excuse to make Jyggalag worshippers lmao

[aishabellasbigblogofeverything]

as an artist, what do you think are the most important aspects to keep in mind if someone is designing/drawing a black coded character? I’m digging into this myself and it’s weirdly confusing because I’m more used to drawing black people as they are. My own concern is when does the character stop becoming black coded and just starts becoming obviously black? is that even a problem? Sorry if this is too much

I'm not quite sure but I think a good way of doing it is trying to make the characters' facial features/hair look as close to a human Black person's as possible, maybe even use a Black character's/person's face as inspiration, and also maybe give them a Black name/name them after a Black person tho that's ofc not a necessity. An example would be like a girl who is an anthropomorphic tree having giant green leaf balls for hair that resemble Afropuffs and brown bark for skin. I can't really think of anything else yeah sorry but I hope this answered your question.

[ashesforart]

another question: if you were to be a character in merlin, who would you be and what would you be like?

-rei (poisonedfate)

I was just discussing this with @crazyfangirl100 the other day! So here's the situation: I've been saying I'm probably Lancelot, but I think that's just because I don't think I'm any other character-- which is not a good enough reason. I guess if I was to create a character for myself, I'd probably either be a druid or a servant working in the castle. Honestly either idea is appealing to me because I either get to have a little magic, or I'm privy to all the merlin-arthur-knights-gwen-gaius-uther-morgana related drama. I like to think my character would be in favor of more progressive magic laws/lifting the ban on magic.

[ashton-answers]

[kisses his neck softly]

I missed you.

Judas

[wraps his arms around him softly]

Missed you too.

[buries their face in xer neck]

Didn't sleep as well without you.

[ashs-cardboard-box]

I love your content, i started praying rdr2 not too long ago and i fell in love with it, and then i find out that the there's hardly any x male reader content, so thank you for writing these amazing fics. I also requested some fics and i just wanted to say that you are amazing!! :)

Aw !!! Thank you sm !!!! <333 I'm really glad you like them :3

I have so many ideas right now that I'm working on + 2 requests (one should be posted later today >:3)

[citrusinicake]

what would one call a hypothetical polyship between ash, red, and zam? cause i am having Thoughts

[ominous-feychild]

Alright, the Vibes for the OCs for Rising From the Ashes are immaculate and I need more knowledge of this WIP immediately!!

Also, love your blog, you’re doing great, and I hope you have the most fantastic day 💚💚💚

RISING FROM THE ASHES

During a routine, staged mission assigned by Kieran Caron—headmaster of Lotus Academy—three unfortunate students get caught in the middle of a disaster that devastates the city of Vemor and nearly kills them all.

Along with the help of a prodigious healer recruited from the relief efforts, will they be able to uncover what caused the disaster? Will they bring the perpetrators to justice, or be able to keep it from happening again?

Or will the four watch as more disasters continue to unfold?

[frostedpuffs]

i feel like i'm the only ml fan who really doesn't care about chloe bourgeois. 🫣

thas okay

[finncakes]

i like to think they patch eachother up a lot since they always seem to be looking out for one another...

bonus kiss-a-roo for ashton under the cut :]