#but i still recommend playing the picrew

[geekiemire]

I was tagged by @peachybeesplease to do this wonderful picrew! I know most dont do picrews anymore but this one is amazing, cute art and a plethora of diverse choices so you can make yourself(or ocs) no matter what.

(i've also played around with this one before but lost where i did it but i was glad to play around with it again!) https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1469769

I'll tag @voiidfriend, @muume, @justjaythanks, @okayrigamarole, and @friendlyhologram

[aidenzhouappreciationweek]

Welcome! To Aiden Zhou Appreciation Week!

This is the official blog for the appreciation week for the amazing Aiden Zhou, from the High School Story trilogy on Choices: Stories You Play!

This year's event will be taking place over October 9, 2024 - October 15, 2024. But we will continue accepting submissions for the 2024 Prompts until August 1, 2025, which is when the new prompts will be announced.

Aiden Zhou Appreication Week 2024: Prompts List

Day 1 (October 9): Music Man Aiden

Day 2 (October 10): Fashion/Design + Beauty + Flowers

Day 3 (October 11): Relationships: Romance, Friendships, Family

Day 4 (October 12): Free Prompt! (also the day I headcanon as Aiden’s birthday)

Day 5 (October 13): Cunty Aiden + Cutie Aiden + Weather/Seasons

Day 6 (October 14): AU + Crossover

Day 7 (October 15): Pride + Culture/Ethnicity/Heritage + Colors

Feel free to suggest your own possible prompt ideas for future years’ events, btw!

See below for the submission guidelines and (eventually) previous years' masterlists!

General Guidelines for Submission:

We’ll reblog pretty much any posts that are Aiden-centric and Aiden-appreciative/positive, whether or not it’s made for this event. But if you want your post to be considered a submission and listed on the masterlist, you must A) mention this blog and B) specify which prompt or prompts you’re submitting for.

The tags #AidenZhouAppreciationWeek, #AZAW, #AZAW2024, are highly recommended, but not necessary.

If your post is very long in length (eg. if it’s a long fic, has images that take up a lot of length), we highly recommend putting a “Read More” button in your post.

Any submissions that lean into NSFW or suggestive territory, and/or feature sensitive topics should be tagged accordingly.

You don’t have to create for each prompt or each day. Create for as many prompts and days as you like.

You don’t have to create for a prompt on its respective assigned day. Eg. You can create for a Day 1 prompt on Day 4.

You don’t have to create only one piece per prompt. If you have multiple pieces you want to create for a certain prompt, then by all means, go for it.

You don’t have to use only a specific day’s prompts together Eg. You can have a piece that uses a Day 1 prompt and a Day 4 prompt together.

We will still accept submissions even after the event dates have passed. You will have until the next year’s August 1 to submit posts/creations for the current prompts! Eg. For the AZAW 2024 prompts, you will be able to submit for them until August 1, 2025.

What IS welcome:

Any medium of human creation. Art, fanfic, poetry, edits, animation, picrews/meikers* moodboards/stimboards/gifboards, icons, memes/shitposts, gifs, AMVs, playlists, headcanons, character recreation in another game (eg. The Sims), etc!

Meta posts. Eg. screenshots of favorite scenes/moments from the Choices game itself, essay/analytical writing, even just simply gushing/rambling over Aiden nonstop!

Pieces or posts that you made prior to this event and/or initially not for this event, but you've decided you want to submit them!

WIP/unfinished pieces.

Submissions can be works that you have made yourself, or works that you have commissioned from someone else.

*If you’re submitting a picrew or meiker piece or anything similar, please link to the template in your post!

What is NOT welcome:

Bigotry of any kind. Posts of a nature that is sexist, racist (especially Sinophobic), queerphobic, ableist, xenophobic, etc. are obviously not allowed.

AI-generated material of any kind. This includes images or writing made by genAI, ChatGPT/character.AI screenshots, etc. Feel free to let us know if we accidentally promote AI generated material. We support human creators here!

Just don’t be a dick, tbh.

Previous Years’ Masterlists

[Will be linked here]

[beloveds-embrace]

Ok I have serious brain rot about your flightless harpy au, so brain dump below

Imagine your wings were taken either bc of rarity or beauty/use. You might be endangered; Nuthatch, bearded vulture (one of my fave birds), itombwe owl, plenty of owls actually etc.

OR, just to make the loss of your wings more painful, your wings are really useful; kestrel (can hover still in the sky), hummingbird (really fast wings), condor (largest land bird, ALSO endangered), frigatebird (really distinct wings, long and held at a crooked angle)

Or really beautiful like the hoatzin, fruit dove, quetzal, kingfisher, etc

Anyway, I did play around with a picrew (https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1564386) and made a potential owl harpy

But I'd also recommend this one, which has an overwhelming amount of choices: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/628795

I love owls sm, so all the owl recommendations and the owl harpy picrew actually makes me so happy to see 😭

I was actually thinking of the wings being taken because of their beauty! For reader, when I wrote the concept it was because I was looking at indian roller birds because imagine having wings that bright and colorful and pretty and then having them ripped from you. The devestation it leaves behind will just be pure suffering imo, but I also really love the idea of them being taken for their usefulness 😩 the angst potential of feeling so incredibly useless and just… nothing without them. Delicious.

Thank you for the picrew links! I’ll definitely play around in them but knowing myself I am indecisive as fuck 😭

[justfinishthedaydream]

rating picrews as a woc part 2/???

today's picrew: 物語コラージュ

picreator: saf.Orion

body: a good amount of skin tones, but not a wide variation if that makes sense. two body types but does it count if its a mermaid tail??? 3 nose types but noses are very hit or miss 7/10

eyes: soooooo many eye shapes and colors. not to mention the choices for the reflections 10/10 (eyes are my weakness)

hair: no curly or texture hair but same 4 part system and! the slut strands can be a different color! ,,,, just not purple oop 5/10

representation: vitiligo!!!!! and scars and freckles. some face coverings 8/10

fantasy elements: pointy elf ear and mermaid fin ear, wings, mermaid tail

clothes: a wide variety,all super cute, and come in different colors. same for earrings and other accessories. lit struggled for ages trying to pick 10/10

backgrounds + special effects: sweet peas yall the picreator went OFF on the bg options. lit everything in the bg is customizable. in all my years of character cust. ive never seen such a detail and indepth configuration. its why this is the second one i've done bc i'm still blown away 10/10

complexity: pretty complex considering the options in everythingggg 8/10

additional thoughts: the amount of options is Amazing. tho can be hard to see on mobile device (not that i would ever recommend playing on a computer). its a pastel theme, but i would have loved some darker skin tones. it can get pretty chaotic too! here's anotha'

try to make one yourself! or not. if ya do feel free to tag me or just reblog i lit dc

[warriorwhiskers]

working on getting my side blogs updated and organized since my brain has decided that tumblr is a Good social media again 💀 ill make an official pinned post for this blog soon but for now i wanted to share my icon with y'all <3

dis guy is my warriors-sona: sleepyspark!!

made with this picrew: https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/254030

(info beneath the cut)

his name is sleepyspark, and he's a cis tomcat (he/him but they/them is also fine)!!

he's only a few moons older than the typical apprentice (young adult of an unspecified age).

he is aroace and has lots of friends and a few platonic partnerships of sorts here and there.

he's shorter than the average tomcat and lithe because he doesn't eat much (his clanmates usually have to remind him or sit down with him to ensure he gets food. he drinks plenty of water tho! and he totally chews on grass lol)

his ears can be flopped or pointy, usually one of each.

he has a naturally short tail, not quite a nub but still much shorter than regular, more like a bob.

he has a scar on his nose/muzzle from a dog attack when he was a kitten that healed nicely but left a prominent scar. he was very self-conscious about it as a kitten, but he likes how it looks now!

he has a small scar on the left corner of his bottom lip which he accidentally gave himself while itching a scratch bc he is silly.

his back is crooked, making his shoulders lopsided (left shoulder is higher than his right) which causes him to walk sort of funny. his left shoulder has chronic pain that flares up particularly badly in the cold.

he is partially deaf in his left ear due to nerve damage as a kitten. standing near his left side or calling to him from the left is not recommended since he either won't hear you or will misunderstand what he manages to hear.

he was born and raised in riverclan and loves it there, but he often goes and hangs around twoleg places for attention. most of the clan knows about it, but he's a pretty well-liked cat and the scoldings don't seen to do much so they leave him be. he sometimes brings home toys and twoleg things (and food if he can) which helps keep the clan more neutral about it so long as he still pulls his weight around the camp which he does. they do nag him to make sure the other clans don't see him there out of reputation preservation, but he's pretty much the clans' silly guy so no one cares that much. (the two legs probably named him "silly" too lmao)

he's friendly with any cats he meets whether they be clan cats, kittypets, loners, or even rogues. in fact, he's not even limited to cats; he is also friendly with twolegs, dogs, cows, horses, and would definitely try to befriend even a fox or badger. there are obviously communication barriers, so it's not like... the same as the friendships he has with other cats. he's just Like That.

he goes along on patrols to help where he can and keep spirits and moods high, and he is known to notice details that other cats might not always catch which makes up for his lack of hunting and fighting abilities while out and about. aside from mediating and serving as a sort of clan therapist, he also plays with and watches the kits, allows apprentices to practice battle moves or healing on him, and generally performs apprentice duties like helping clean up around the camp (nests, walls, dens, herbs, etc) and working with the elders. the elders are particularly fond of him since he is very mellow, patient, attentive, and chatty.

he's always been a laid-back, chatty kittycat who sucks at hunting, fighting, memorizing herbs, swimming (he's technically a "dry-paw" bc although he doesnt mind getting wet and likes water, he can't swim and is scared to learn properly, so he never goes out past the shallows), fulfilling tasks/orders (has TERRIBLE adhd and is also a hypersomniac), and just most things in general so it was only natural he became a mediator (and THAT he is pretty dang good at!!) he was initially training to be a medicine cat, but it just wasn't his calling. he and his clan are very pleased with his position now. he has also been referred to as a "camp cat", "nursery king/tom", "camp keeper", and "permapprentice". (think of him almost as an "omega" type role.)

ill add more info if i think of it, and ill link his toyhou.se profile once i get around to making it. but yeah! here i am! :3

[coordinatorsunny]

Intro

Hello! My name is Sunny☀️ and I use she/her/they/them pronouns. I am a pokemon trainer and and and up and coming coordinator living in Hoenn. I'll mostly post my stuff about the hoenn league, pokemon contests, pokemon or just some random stuff.

Here's my picture 📷

(Picrew by me!)

Other stuff

I have been living in Hoenn for my entire life here so if you have any questions about the region you can ask me! The history, culture, pokemon that lives there anything!👍

I was a huge fan of watching pokemon contests on tv and admired the coordinators performing on stage so that's what inspired me to become a coordinator.

I also learning about pokemon on @quillpokebiology blog. You should check them out there really awesome!

I also have a penpal name Callister who owns the @pokeblogingalar. He's awesome so check him out too!

Also please talk to me I'm really lonley🥺

My team

My mom was a pokemon rescuer and she would adopt them when I was little so my childhood was involved with a lot of pokemon and basically loved pokemon ever since I was a little baby :) Some of the pokemon I had were given to me on my birthdays and some of them I caught in the wild when I was 10 thanks to my dad teaching me (he's a pokemon professor btw). Thanks mom and dad!

But anyways here's my team!

Phoenix the Blaziken ♂️

Move set: Flamethrower, Blaze Kick, Stone edge, Thunder punch

I had Phoenix ever since he was a little pokemon egg. My mom rescued the egg from a forest fire and knew when the egg hatched it wouldn't be able to survive because the eviorment got destroyed and couldn't find it's mother so she brought it home and later hatched into a Torchic. Me and Phoenix are really close and he helped me a lot during the gym challenges. He sometimes acts like a older brother figure to the rest of my team and is really nice, patient and smart!

Siren the Milotic ♀️

Moveset: Hydro Pump, Bubble Beam, Disarming Voice, Aqua Ring

I got Siren from a pokemon breeding center after I got my first gym badge. She's quite shy but loves it when I groom her. She also hates it when she get's dirty but is sweet nonetheless.

Cloudy the Altaria ♂️

Moveset: Mist, Dazzling Gleam, Dragon pulse, Draco Meteor

Cloudy was a present I got from my mom when I was 9 years old. He was a swablu at the time. He's really energetic and loves to play so he's really productive. But sometimes he can be gremlin and loves to bother my other pokemon just for fun.

Aurora the Gardevoir ♀️

Moveset: Prismatic Laser, Energy Ball, Physic, Light Screen

I caught Aurora when she was a Kirlia back when I was on my way to the 3rd gym. I managed to complete the gym in one sweep thanks to her. (She's one tough cookie!). Aurora acts like a older sister to my team so she gets along with them very well. But she doesn't tolerate Cloudy's antics and scolds whenever he does something stupid.

Apollo the Absol ♂️

Moveset: Shadow Ball, Dark Pulse, Ice Beam, Swords Dance

Apollo was another pokemon I got from mom as a present on my 11th birthday. I always gushed about having an absol because I thought they were so cool. I didn't know what to name him so my dad recommended the name Apollo. Apollo also helped me a lot on my gym challenges so I'm really grateful for that. I knew that Absol's dislike fighting so I only used him if my other pokemon had fainted and he was the only one left and mostly use him for contests. Apollo is a bit more reclusive than Siren but still he's nice!

Angel the Sylveon ♀️

Moveset: Fairy Wind, Attract, Swift, Moon Blast

Last but not least Angel! I got Angel when she was an eevee. Poor thing was bullied by a bunch of mightyena so I drove the pack away with Phoenix and Aurora. I guess I got my 'helping pokemon' genes from my mom. Since then she started to follow me everywhere and I didn't wanted to leave the cute thing alone so I decided to catch her! Since then I have been taking of her with proper care, love and attention and then she evolved into sylveon and gotten much stronger. Like her name suggests she is a huge sweetheart and loves to be productive❤

Other:

Via the Shiny Beautifly ♀️

Moveset: Shadowball, Pollen Puff, Silver Wind, Morning Sun

This is Via our newest member of the pokemon peforming team! She is sooo beautiful, precious and I caught her last week! She is a bit shy and not much of a battler like Apollo but a kind-hearted darling♡ I am going to take good care of her!

Well that's all! Also I really have to thank the power of friendship for the evolving Angel into a sylveon!!

Rules:

-I am a minor and this is SFW blog.

-If I see anyone being homophobic, xenophobic(racism), pedophilic I will block you.

-I will not tolerate any kind of bullying or any kind of harrassment.

-No spamming either. I will post here and there so please be patient.

-We all have different opinions about something related to pokemon like 'this pokemon is the best or this pokemon is not the best'. So please respect each other's opinions even if we don't agree.

That's all!

[meanhare]

very specific distractions

because things like "read, draw, walk" are kinda not hepful for me personally (what to read? what to draw? where walk?). also if you have no friends you can do all these alone bc i also have no friends. warning: some of them are kinda edgy

learn about sodas over the world and make a list of 10 (or more) sodas you want to try the most

draw your fav character in decora, scene, patched crustpunk or any other clothes/style that are long and/or hard to draw

learn armenian, georgian, katakana or any other unfamiliar alphabet/writing system

find in library and read any book about antarctica

watch bela tarr's satantango

find hungarian bands that play your fav music genre

google and read about twonosed dog breeds

go outside and take pics of your fav 10 buildings in your city

take some money and buy more pants and/or socks (theres always not enough of them +you dont have to try on them and then cry in change room)

depict your ideal room in details

create an alien/fantastic animal/breed, draw it and describe its habital, height, weight, color, natural enemies, diseases it prone to, how common are mutations like albinism or polydactylia etc

write n details whole 5 pages of how you feel like. if you feel bad, write how awful is everything, how you want (or dont want)it to end, how shitty is your mood. if you feel nothing, write how you are not feeling, how empty and desolated it feels.

learn how to make an origami of your fav animal

burn some trash

create a secret blog. it may be for something you like, for writing honest opinions, for pretending that you are cishet christian gymbro, anything. take time to made out a good name and url and find a good pfp

learn few songs on other languages

try every tea you can find. sometimes theres boxes of assorted teabags with different tastes, its good for trying different kinds

do some jigsaw puzzles. theres many online jigsaw sites

(re)watch or read an interview of your fav obscure music band

find even obscurer music band

learn about some east asian holidays and plan to celebrate some of them

draw your recent dream in mspaint

switch language on you tumblr/phone/computer to one you dont know (but only if you familiar with your device enough and know how to change it back for if necessary)

find some longass 100question ask game and answer every question (no need to post it, you can do it in your head or write it down in a notebook)

make picrews of yourself, ideal you, your friend, your imaginary friend, pet, musician or character

learn how to swear on every language

go to any poll blog and vote

duolingo. yes

if you dont have mustache and beard, draw it on your face and maybe take some selfies with it for fun

watch that movie someone somewhere once recommended you but you still didnt watched somewhy

write or draw something very unsetting what would probably get you termed instantly if you post it online

brush your hair, your dog/cats hair, your toy ponys hair, anything brushable

read the whole wikipedia page about any subculture you find interesting

get some stickers and stick them anywhere in your room

write lists of favs (fav drinks, bands, dog breeds, movies etc)

read modern ukrainian writers. sergiy zhadan, irena karpa, yurij andrukhowych (idk if i wrote their name in english correctly) also make music, check it out

search for your local bands (the easiest way is to search your city tag in bandcamp)

then search for your local concerts. go to your local concerts of your local bands. most of them are cheap

get a blindbox toy. idc if youre adult. its fun. maybe get a kinder surprise egg if you can (a chocolate egg is usually 110-120kcal)

watch some good old bloody slasher or japanese horror movie

get a notebook with a locker and make a fucking anadiary. make it sappy or overdramatic or heroinchicy or 80rockstary. doesnt matter

google about arsons in your hometown and look at cool fire pics

[shivunin]

I love your DA girls, but I didn’t realize you had a Shepard too! What’s her backstory, romance, etc?

Thanks for asking, anon! I haven't talked about her here much, but I love my Shep c:

Jesse Shepard (photo from this picrew)

Earthborn, Sole Survivor, Sentinel, Paragon

Romanced Garrus (but I uhhh. might have some fic of her and Miranda as well...)

She is a cowgirl

More specifically, her mom was a rodeo queen and the daughter of a rancher out in the middle of nowhere (she was actually born in Nothing, Arizona, which is sometimes erroneously called The Middle of Nowhere). Her dad was an electrical engineer and amateur hacker who passed his skills down to Jesse. When she started showing early signs of biotics (a shuttle crash near the family farm when her mom was pregnant exposed her to Eezo), her parents moved even further away from the city to protect her from the possibility of being hustled off to someplace like Jump Zero.

At about 9 years old, they went on a trip to the city. Her parents sat her on a bench for a moment while they went to rent a vehicle. What happened next is unclear, but there was a shuttle crash at the spaceport. No bodies were ever recovered. Still afraid of being taken by some nebulous government agency, Jesse slipped away into the streets and stayed there until she was 17. She took the fall for her girlfriend (also in the Reds) and chose to be sent to an Alliance school until she was old enough to formally enlist.

She played Johnny Cash's "I've Been Everywhere" in the Mako so many times that Garrus had to look up the lyrics (pure nonsense) to figure out what the fuck the song was talking about

She also roped the pyjak to catch it without hurting it on that one planet in the first game with all the goddamn pyjaks

I created her because I wanted to play with Mass Effect's depiction of human culture as homogenous in the era that the games take place. I got to thinking about all the subcultures that exist in the world now, and how they might look/exist in this version of the future. There might be a global human Alliance, but I imagine that all of the rich (messy, wonderful, contradictory) cultural details that exist now would still exist in that future, too. I wanted her to have a more concrete attachment to earth than "orphaned, was in a gang." You know, so it would hurt more to come home in the third game.

In this case, her background is largely formed by Hispanic rodeo culture near where I live. Extremely fun time, highly recommend reading more about it/visiting a rodeo if that's an option for you.

Also---and I know this is apropos of nothing---I take exception to femshep not getting to wear the cool leather jacket that m!shep wears, so that is part of her trademark style.

[veersnz]

hello my dear i am so late but i have just seen you reblogged this andddd if you'd still like to: 💛 🔐🍌🌝 and if u want~ ⭐️ boop (yes, there's a yellow theme <33 to match ur blog~)

Hellooo!! Don't worry better late than never haha (and also that gives me an opportunity to fill the 💛 asked by that poor anon whom I had completely forgotten, I'm so sorry buddy I promise I was just very busy 😭) How cute and thoughtful ✨ - 💛 what is your favorite feature on yourself? Not to sound like a narcissist, but I love a lot of stuff about myself xD (on good days at least lmao) I'd say my favorite is my hands, everyone compliments them at some point or another haha. They're very long and slender and even though I got shit for them (during the anon hate period for those who remember, they said they looked like a skeleton's hand xD) I still love them a lot~ it's just a struggle to find rings lmao - 🔐 something no one would guess about you That I'm bald !! Well maybe a few people know because of that picrew I posted a while ago but yeah I have no hair left lmao xD well I'm not completely hairless, I just probably have 1 cm left of hair (0,3 inches for our american friends~) I think it's absolutely not something people expect, especially when I'm wearing a cap or a beanie but I've been rocking that haircut for a year now almost and I still love it so much xD (this is the sign you're looking for if you wanna shave your head 😉) - 🍌 what is one talent you wish you had Play the piano ! Or any instrument honestly haha. I used to play the flute but I forgot how to and now I wish I could go back in time. I miss playing music. One day I'll definitely get back to it !!! - 🌝 a show you would recommend to anyone Oh god I have no idea cause I watch so much scary or weird stuff, most of the things I think about have trigger warning lists as long as my arm 💀 Perhaps a tamer one would be Love, Death and Robots ? It's a great show, lots of amazing episodes and while some episodes are a bit forgettable, some of them are mindblowing. Definitely worth a watch ! mention of eating disorder and mental health

- ⭐️ what is one of your biggest accomplishments? Why is it so important to you? Definitely overcoming my eating disorders. I struggled for a long time and after 8 years I'm finally free from this hell. It took a lot of work, dedication and sacrifices and I'm proud of myself for surviving and thriving today. It's important because someone close to me couldn't recover from it, to this day they're still suffering in the throes of an0rex1a like I used to be. We still call each other regularly and seeing me recover and have the life they could never have has made them feel a lot better. They will most likely never get better but at least they didn't see me fall victim to this horrible disease too. My recovery is bringing them the happiness they deserve. It's important for me and for them and in the end that's why this is my biggest accomplishment as it goes beyond my sole experience. I hope to one day share my story and help those beyond my circle of friends and family

Thank you so much Waterfall for all those asks 💖

[kalmeria]

(currently unnamed) enstars oc time!

this is self indulgent (as it should be hehe) and inspired by riko and zako doing their own ocs!

picrew link

first image is work clothes, second is casual

he/it

profile

age: 22-23

height: 172 cm

weight: 69 kg

dob: may 26th (gemini)

handedness: right-handed

hair color: verdigris

eye color: cotton candy

favorite food: pizza, most sweets

hobby: baking

speciality: has perfect pitch

image color: #39665e

some info:

- it works at cafe cinnamon part time

- it is kind of neutral about idols, not a hardcore fan but can see the appeal and likes some of the music

- he basically chose to work there bc he lives near the es

- he gets along with niki well, the two of them goof around at work and brainstorm ideas for new menu items (he mostly gives ideas for the desserts)

- usually keeps his hair in a low bun for work, but sometimes wears it in a ponytail and niki and him call each other ponytail buddies

- it isn’t a chef like niki, but works as a barista and makes the drink orders as well as preparing the desserts

- tends to quietly sing or hum to himself while working because it helps him concentrate

- at first was kind of annoyed/ intimidated by the bees who were always hanging out at the cafe (especially rinne who he found very loud), but gradually got used to their constant presence and warmed up to them

- has been roped into playing a boardgame with them once, on the condition that they don’t bet on it with real money. rinne agreed bc he has been trying to make it loosen up a bit and therefore was willing to play “baby mode” (his words) just this once to make that happen. it beat rinne’s ass but himeru ended up winning the whole game

(honestly enjoyed itself while playing and would like to do it again if only rinne stopped insisting on raising the stakes)

((i want him to somehow end up hanging out with asobi club))

- so obviously he isn’t a producer or anything like that but is still kind of aware of all the things going on from chatting with niki and overhearing the customers (although niki himself is often out of the loop so it’s mostly the latter)

- he is kind of an honorary member of sweets fanclub. the members took notice of how the dessert menu has had a larger variety and more limited items recently and started to come by more regularly on their outings. didn’t take long to figure out that niki’s new coworker was behind this, and they started to include it in their conversations about what places they recommend, etc.

- it would never say this to them but it kind of thinks of kohaku and tsukasa as little siblings

[vividescapist]

Turn the Page - PC (Tabetha Darnell)

Let me introduce you to Tabetha Darnell, my PC for the upcoming visual novel Turn the Page @turnthepagevn​. Don’t let the upper image fool you, she enjoys dressing all cute and soft and tries to give off very harmless vibes but the truth is, once you get to know her, she acts a lot less doe-like. Picrews used: 1 2

General notes under the cut.

- 26 years old, 5’5/165cm.

- Aquarius, born February 6th.

- Has a younger sister (who is the MC for Duality @/dualityvn). Tabetha looks a lot like their mother, while her sister Avery resembles her paternal grandfather.

- First impression: Polite, sweet, mellow but direct, delicate and approachable. 

- Second impression: Rebellious, forward and a little rough around the edges but very reliable and protective. Still very sweet but it now comes with snark.

- Current occupation: Freelance video editor.

- Second job? Illegal cage fights on weekends. No, she doesn’t do the bookkeeping, she’s one of the people in the ring. Is pretty good at it, too, but it would get really questionable if she had an office type job and showed up with bruises every other Monday or so. Hence, freelance work.

- Did a lot of martial arts growing up, as recommended by the family therapist, to help with her anger issues. Ended up focusing on kickboxing and capoeira and takes classes for both once a week. Hits the gym on the weekends where she isn’t in the ring. 

- Hence, she’s pretty buff underneath those comfy looking layers.

- Likes: Relaxing evenings with books (especially poetry and fantasy. Her favorite are the Ingary books, which Howl’s Moving Castle is a part of), tea, Spring season, her favorite cardigan and the ocean. 

- Dislikes: Snobby people, her uncle who calls once a week to ask if she’s finally found a boyfriend, clogged shower drains, ironing laundry. Groups of slow walkers who clog up the sidewalks. 

- Special talents: Aside from being proficient in her chosen martial arts, she has a very nice singing voice and can play the guitar. She’s an avid fan of video game music (even if she’s terrible at the games themselves) and when the siblings still lived together, they’d both randomly start singing songs and it would never take long before the other would join in. (Their favorite being The Song of the Ancients from the NieR series.) 

- Yes, her hair is dyed. Her natural color is a really dark brown. Over the years, she’s tried out pretty much all colors available but she’s really come to like the green tones.

- Do NOT let her watch heartwarming videos featuring animals, she WILL cry and it won’t be pretty. I’m talking full on ugly crying.

- Kind of insecure about never having been in a relationship before, which is why her uncle’s phone calls bug her so much. She loves her life and enjoys her freedom a lot and yes, she absolutely has a friend group she regularly hangs out with and whom she loves to pieces. But lately, she’s been thinking about how nice it would be to have someone to come home to. Who will greet you with a hug and a smile. Someone to share the joys and disappointments of daily life with. She hasn’t even gone on a single date, ever, and she wonders what it is like to fall in love. Over the last couple of months or so, there has been this deep-rooted longing for long term companionship. 

- Very much a romantic at heart.

- Way too honest to be good at casual flirting. She probably memorized a couple of lines in preparation for her first date with Robin but when she tried one, it came out as very stiff and awkward. Is far better at natural and earnest compliments given in passing like “The way you smiled just now was very cute.” and “Your handwriting is so nice to look at, it’s gorgeous.” as well as “Thank you for being with me. I don’t think I’ve ever felt this comfortable around anyone before.”

- On the other hand, she is VERY weak to charming compliments and flirting. She tries not to show how much it affects her but on the inside, she’s turning into a puddle.

- Will try to knit Robin a scarf but it’ll come out kind of uneven. Plus, it takes a long time for her to finish, with her busy schedule and her fingers sometimes being too stiff from The Side Hustle(™). Feels a mixture of pride and embarrassment should he decide to wear it.

- I feel like there was at least one moment where Robin decided to pay a surprise visit and she hadn’t applied make-up to cover up the bruises on her face. She played it off with a “You should see the other guy!” but the opponent who inflicted the bruises was never seen or heard from again. Probably moved elsewhere, what can you do?

- Please, for all that is holy… Let her brush Robin’s hair. She is so into nice hair and his is absolutely perfect, she’d love to run her fingers through it and maybe braid it. In fact, if they end up bathing together, she’ll make it a point to wash his hair for him. If she wakes up before he does (or if he pretends to still be asleep), she’s going to play with it and maybe bring a strand to her lips for a kiss.

- Play the piano for her, Robin. She will listen to you for hours and, if possible, she’ll accompany you on the guitar or via singing.

- Yes, she will freak out when Robin reveals his true nature and does try to get away from him. His stalking, the eyes in the shadows and the visions he sends her make her go back to him though, and it’s not out of fear alone. She does genuinely love him but she never knew eldritch beings really, truly existed and she went into denial mode. Needs a lot of coaxing to reach the level of comfort she shared with Robin before but once she’s back there, she’s not going anywhere. She knows it’s abnormal, their relationship is abnormal, what he did to get her back is abnormal but she cannot help but want to be with him.

[sunshine-poodlegirl]

Are you still playing around with drone stuff? It’s always intrigued me but don’t know much about it… 👀 Your profile picture is very cute btw!

Oh a whole whole lot, yeah! I play with @corp-e-1007 most often, who also edited the pfp for me 💕!! You can also find the picrew in my pinned post :)!

If you wanna try it out, I highly recommend starting off reading something like a fanfic or watching a video to see if you’re comfortable with it. It’s a big mixture of a lot of kinks that could make someone feel uncomfortable, so it’s important to ease into it! You can also give this post a read to see my opinion on it all :))

[rodolfoparras]

I just wanted to say thank you for letting me ramble about my ocs so much😭❤ I appreciate it so much and sjhsnssn mwahh❤

I can not draw Virgil for some reason so I used a picrew for the time being😭 pretty boy

https://cdn.picrew.me/shareImg/org/202405/2212914_RoK42RVQ.png

https://cdn.picrew.me/shareImg/org/202405/2212914_inUiStZo.png

Idk if piercings like his would really be around in the 18-1900s but I'm giving him them regardless because I can🙏 The first one is his work outfit, second one is what he wears on his few days off. He has a very tragic story before he becomes a grim reaper :( hence why mitski is being played so much when working on him.

Basically he was a hooker and performer, he fell into a bad depression, felt numb to everything and chased after sex, drugs, alcohol, etc. To try feeling something :( eventually got to the point he was practically rotting in a room, just sleeping with man after man. He realized he looked yucky and his room was trashed, cleaned everything up and made himself all pretty. Everyone thought he was getting his life together finally but he actually ended it :( he wanted to be seen as pretty when he died (last words of a shooting star by mitski🙏)

Virgil was fucking pissed when he was brought back as a reaper, he still tends to lash out at William when he has bad days, not that William did anything wrong, he just needs someone to blame so he blames him. William doesn't really care and just stands there waiting for Virgil to be done so they can finish work😭

!!! Ride the Cyclone is a great musical, I'd recommend watching it or at least listening to more songs from it ! You can find a 'slime tutorial' of it in youtube if you're interested ! Also Ballad of Jane Doe and Noel's lament are really great songs, Noel's lament works for Virgil too :3

And Talia is just woowowow that song honestly made me cry it's just so pretty and his voice???! I ascended

Speaking of Cupid Talia though, he's Slavic too ! He's from Carantania though he lives in London :3 he can travel back and forth pretty easily though with his ability to fly. Also Talia uses his wings as an umbrella for William sometimes🙏 he just holds out his big fluffy wings and covers William, he doesn't care that he's getting soaked, as long as William is taken care of😭❤

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Of course sugar bee!!! I love hearing y’all out!! You have very interesting characters with intriguing backstories and relationships and I absolutely love reading about them!

Oh the haircut is so freaking neat!!!and I absolutely love his clothes what a fancy gentleman he is!

Oh Jesus Christ that was actually a heartbreaking twist😭 idk why but something about him getting his life together before ending it is soul crushing it genuinely made me sad lord

Virgil is very much me I’d be knocking on gods door asking to be set free bc to continue living / existing in this economy? Absolutely not

Ooo I Will absolutely listen to more songs bc I added this one to my playlist I love it!! and I’ll def check out the slime tutorial once I’m done with watching the am play through!!

Also hello we love a Slavic king!!!!! Now I’m imagining talia cursing Virgil out in the thickest Slavic accent every time he tries to cuss out William

[shinxeysartgallery]

A friend and I were horsing around last night and decided to do like a little challenge where we'd use one of those Sonic OC Picrew things to come up with an OC design for shits and grins. We used this one in particular! (https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1249352)

Anyway, I originally wasn't going to keep my result because it was just for fun and non-serious, but I ended up coming up with this gal and I kinda like her. I've decided to give her a bit of a redesign and keep her. :)

Also had some ideas for another new non-related group (as if I don't already have enough OCs LMAO). I was gone earlier so couldn't draw anything, but I still really wanted to work on some of those designs, so this challenge gave me the idea to use one of the other Picrews to experiment with and establish a base design for 'em. And honestly? It's not perfect, but it worked WAY BETTER than I expected it to! I'll have to draw them regardless of if I use the Picrew thing or not, but I might consider doing that again in the future to play around with designs when I'm unable to draw them at the time.

Definitely can recommend using one if you're struggling with a design or want to experiment with one before fully committing to drawing it!

[wyrmguardsecrets]

as the disappointment in those who indugle or use AI tools grows, the number of hoops that these people jump through does as well. anime top 10 poorest attempts at placating others, playing the "i'm poor" card, picrew is too weeby, etc.. i still can't believe you guys are happy with the amalgamations AI spits out: too many fingers, one too many limbs, wildly warped facial features. it's not about if (you) are making money from it, it's about principle. i recommend joining the circus.

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[orange-orchard-system]

I want to watch videos of my source (content creator on social media) but our host hate eye contacts, is afraid of human faces & hate seeing thirst traps.

(Which is what the content is about. Please don't ask how & why I appeared in our system)

Also, there's this big discourse regarding copyright & who is + isn't allowed to reclaim source's face, name etc..

How am I supposed to cope with that ?

Please help, thanks.

Hm, that sounds tricky. I assume your host can't really leave the front or block out the videos from their mind? That sometimes happens when we're dissociated enough – though of course, I don't recommend you make yourselves dissociate to watch videos. Perhaps you can work your way up to the videos you want to watch through practicing with other things, like art of people's faces or nsft posts on Tumblr? If this is a serious boundary for your host, you shouldn't cross or poke it, but those sound like some difficult dislikes to live with, so if your host gives an indication of being alright with working to combat those hates and fears, you should support them. Just don't push them too far!

Another suggestion would be to make your source videos into background noise. You'd still be watching them, but your attention would be split between what's happening in the video and whatever else you're doing, like drawing, knitting, or playing a game on your phone. One way we do this (since our ADHD demands a lot of stimulation to focus) is by putting a video up on our laptop and playing a game on our phone. We can still keep track of what's going on in the video through sound and looking up whenever we want, but we have something else to distract us if the video gets to be too much and we need to quickly pivot activities (plus, not looking at the screen would definitely help with that eye contact problem). Speaking of, watching in short increments could also help, if your host is up for that.

I have no idea how copyright applies to a system, so I don't think I can help much there. Maybe some nicknames would help? That way, you don't have to focus so much on whether your source's name is also your name, because you have a bonus name you can go by (one that doesn't serve to replace your name, because it's a nickname, not a new name). And you could try out Picrew or similar dress-up games/websites if using your source's actual face is an issue.

Overall, ask your host if there's a way you can work your way towards watching your source, or otherwise find a way to watch it that doesn't distress them too much. But if there isn't at this time, let it go and perhaps try checking out fan works of your source (or similar content to it that doesn't bother your host) in the meantime. Your host may need some time to work on getting there – but whether they're eventually okay with it or not, you shouldn't cross a serious boundary that will cause them a lot of distress. It hurts, but sometimes it's best to take a step back and find something else to enjoy.

Hope this helps!