#by the skin of my teeth tag
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thelittlestspider · 3 months ago
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can you share more headcanons/facts about ur oc javier rojas. i keep rotating him in my mind... love him..........
javi is my boy
his family was part of a cult that was like a warped version of their religion bc of a goddess named zeris who sacrifices them to a sea god that gave her her powers. javier's parents were a polycule. he has three moms and a dad. he has a twin brother named iggy and a younger sister helena.
two of his moms were killed for going against the cult. his dad was beaten and left for dead out in the wilderness. his sister helena was exiled for necromancy (luckily she was found and adopted by a kind couple). his remaining mom decided to run away with javier's uncle's family to blackwood, where his wife had family. but they got separated from them and ended up in necropolis, where javier is kidnapped and forced to be a reaper for elysium city (which is a city who claims its a utopia by forcing citizens of necropolis to do labor for them and sucks up their resources. reapers are unwilling enforcers who are tortured and programmed to do the government's bidding).
javier is about 10 or 11 when he becomes a reaper. he thinks his family is dead. he's alone in the world. then he meets peter. who he feels something for. they don't click right away because it's such a hostile environment, where the reapers are pitted against each other and the programming does a bunch of nasty stuff to their perception of each other (like it gives them horrible nightmares about being killed by the other reapers. it also numbs them. but the programming only works for like a few weeks at most. it has to constantly be reinforced).
despite all of this, peter and javier become friends and they're inseparable. they're the only people who understand each other.
for years, peter was like the one positive connection he had.
later, once they get with carter and they settle down, javier is actually the most social one of the three. he has kind of a quiet, down to earth personality where he doesn't get mad easy, but when he does, watch out.
he likes reading about botany and he has plants in the house and in a little garden behind the house.
he likes playing with peter's cats.
the neighbors love javier. they invite him to everything. i think javier has an easier time adapting than peter and carter because he was part of a community when he was young, and it's his natural state to be involved with people. whereas peter and carter were more isolated when they were kids.
when javier meets scott for the first time, it's like meeting his weird guy soulmate. they love going fishing together and going on walks and exploring the woods together (peter is insanely jealous and bites scott when he comes near him.)
javier likes jazz music
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monkesupreme · 14 days ago
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Maybe i SHOULD draft out my ‘Clark is a SuperPlant’ propaganda post
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#chattin#due to. recent tags that resonated w me#im already someone that loathes the ‘theyre completely alien AND they conveniently look AND function exactly the same as a human’ trope#esp when they have the nerve to make them PROCREATE w humans wo any defects whatsoever#ur lying ur unimaginative u suck !!!!#so my compromise is always like#fine. the point is that they have to blend in very well. i will concede on that front#but god as my witness i will make him so fucked up internally.#u should xray him and see a fucking mess of organs pumping in bizarre places#things that let him see things w a microscopic lens#things that let him exist in a vacuum bc he doesnt need to Breathe#u should get him in a red sun room and realize hes still able to exist unharmed in a vacumm and go hey man. what the fuck .#going to reach max tags bc i never seem to behave myself no matter what im yelling about#i need bruce to sit down and finally read whatever kryptonian text is floating around#and realize clark- despite his mammalian appearance- is far more linked to plants than anything else#a plant w TEETH and EYES and somehow became a predator instead of staying as a plant#HOWWW did u evolve into what u are now? what did ur ancestors look like??? a daisy???#if u look at any kryptonian species youd see that all of them behave like clark- like they all evolved in a similar way#saw a post (i GOTTA find it again) that said that clark is brownskinned which seems a little silly when u compare it to human melanin#but that sunlight makes for a healthy kryptonian and their skin will show it#and paleskinned kryptonians are seeking out more sun and starving for it. like. ouuuu.#i wont add that to my own hcs but its that kinda shit i love sooo much#get so caught up on trying to make him human in ur eyes that u end up misunderstanding him entirely#love him#xenobio#for tagging
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femmepire-butchbiter · 5 months ago
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In case you hadn't heard, vampiric femmes (me) are starving for the blood of werewolf butches and studs. The moment I- fuck I mean these femmes get their claws on these wolves it's so fucking over.
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washiinmachiine · 5 months ago
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drew this in like 2 hrs after i saw primordian briar for the first time before swarm got put on the pbe and forgot to post it here whoops.. riot i need her Now......
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thebrainrotsreal · 1 year ago
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Connected the dots between two of my fav characters of all time. They're in a little club now.
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opossun · 2 months ago
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Simple symmetry sketch to kill the time!!
No internet means trying to remember what my dragon on flight rising looked like without any references
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stuck-in-jelly · 8 days ago
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What am I supposed to do now? Go to work like normal? When my blorbos are suffering???? Fuck off
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starzwithapen · 11 months ago
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OUR HCS FOR THESE GOOBERS USING TEMPLATES FROM @koppaitepaladin !! Plus bonus creek because I'm uhhh normal about him . They're All autistic 2 me but Branch and Poppy r most important to me <33
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pearl-kite · 28 days ago
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goodbye october
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where-the-water-flows · 13 days ago
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What are 3 things that are nice around you? We gotta remember that positives exist
tagged by @howlingmoonrise - <3
bingley! the sweetest, stupidest little guy. traded all his braincells for soft; definition of eyes closed three paws can't lose.
my fancy bitch (not really)(kinda) mechanical keyboard, which has a set of lotus ink painting caps from aliexpress and delights me immensely.
a tin of danish butter cookies, which actually (currently) contains cookies, and not sewing supplies.
no pressure tags: @qilingxiong, @lianhuajing, @bettercostume, @junemermaid
yes pressure tags: @a-memory-a-distant-echo
Cat tax: mr beeps himself, asleep in the plush cat bed,apparently unbothered by the heat despite the fact it's like 34 fucking degrees °C
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#waters words#tag games#I would have counted my wife (my WIFE!! idiot fuckin married me. lmao. terrible choice on their part but gr8 for me)#but they are asleep still so. they are actually not in the room rn.#also sort of thinking about swapping the switches out on my keyboard#(which is a skyloong gk104 currently on the silent ruellia switches which have ~50g actuation#if any of you...uh.. care about that sort of thing and aren't my wife who already knows)#if I can find anything that fits in the tiny venn overlap of tactile +#not as loud as a fucking gattling gun next to your ear#+ an actuation force of min 50g but ideally closer to like. 70g+.#and not like nine billion dollars for a full set.#AND in stock anywhere that doesn't cost one squillion dollars for shipping that will take eleven thousand years.#(I want them quiet because I don't actually want the sound I just need the feedback to... know when a key is actually pressed#and not feel like I'm sticking my hands repeatedly into mashed potato filled with like. teeth.#my wife who shares the office would - reasonably! - skin me alive if I went back to cherry green level volume tho.#or like. they wouldn't. because they're a nice person.#but they would be attempting to develop psychic powers to explode me with their brain just like. subconsciously.)#(holy grail is like. dead silent tactiles with an actuation of ~70-80g ish but uh. that is... physically impossible or close to. so.)#you are all being spared the much bigger wall of text about shit I'm doing to my phone. so. I am deeply Just Fucking Like This
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raayllum · 1 year ago
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I'm not afraid that he'll hurt me. I'm afraid that he'll use me to do awful things, or hurt people I care about. Which is why, all I'm asking, is that if he takes control of me again, you have to kill me. I need you to promise.
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thelittlestspider · 7 months ago
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Hello! WIP question about 'By the skin of my teeth'
What is the worst thing your characters have done that they don't feel remorse about?
And conversely, what is the most positive/"good" thing they have done that they wish they hadn't?
- i can't really say killing because they do feel remorse about it. probably stealing? peter especially loves stealing.
- i have been wracking my brain since yesterday and i can't think of an answer to this question. which makes me so mad bc it's such a good question.
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aropride · 3 months ago
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if he gives me a piercing i will never ever shut up about it btw
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hellisanhonourstudent · 1 year ago
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A meta on self-worth issues
Maybe it's just me,but Percy Jackson never seemed to be someone with a consistent low self-esteem problem. While he does have his "down on himself" moments,Percy doesn't seem to struggle much with that kind of negative thoughts and it doesn't cause much of a problem in his life(nor we see him doing much of an effort to control said thoughts). And it becomes glaring whenever I remember Leo,Luke and Nico.
Leo's POV shows consistent thoughts of worthlessness,Nico has self-preservation issues(namely,the lack of it),Luke's acidic envy towards Percy and need for validation. Percy had none of that,a moment where self-doubt got in the way of him getting shit done,nor some sort of "conditional self-worth". In fact,Percy's "self-consciousness" is kinda cute,as it makes him look humble and endearingly self-deprecating.
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sidereon-spaceace · 1 day ago
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There's something very funny about how there aren't vampires in Skysail- despite not only having two characters that check off a concerning number of boxes, but also having other kinds of undead
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nanabanonana · 11 months ago
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ugly snorted and laughed while editing today bc while i was thinking about how to fix a paragraph my brain was giving me the following treat
Zuko: i don't like sweet things
Zuko after seeing Sokka: i have suddenly developed a sweet tooth
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