#crows and ravens are the same thing to me ok

[strellizza]

reposting because this site needs more of them ngl

[sweetbunpura]

ok, ok. Hear me out on the Animal Lover Yuu! Eventually each dorm gets/befriends one of Yuu’s animals and adopts them into the dorm. For example, Murder the raven/crow goes to diasomnia (like Diablo for Maleficent) and vibes with Lilia’s bats. Heartslaybul gets a deer or a ferret (a group of ferrets is a business! And that fits Riddle’s vibes). Our lovely fox could befriend Savannaclaw, he plays underhanded tricks but is a good nap buddy for Leona. Octotrio has a duck, loves the water in the lounge, helps Jade collect mushrooms, chases out riff raff for Azul, and is the same level of crazy hyper as Floyd. Scarabia has a snek (Jamil does not appreciate the irony but does like that it keeps Kalim busy) who is VERY pretty and likes to sit on Kalim’s head like a turban or around Jamil’s neck. Pomfiore has a falcon or other bird of prey, they clean their feathers regularly with Vil, hunt/stalk with Rook, and are ‘manly’ enough to hang out with Epel. Ignihyde gets our lovely loyal pupper, Ortho says it reminds him or the Cerberus dog bots (from chapter 7) and our good boy is patient enough for Idia to warm up to (despite being a cat person).

An unintended side effect of the boys bonding with the animals from Ramshackle is that the animals become biased in the shipping war. Each one encourages Yuu to spend time with THEIR dorm, and thinks their dorm would make better mates for the Ramshackle prefect. The animals all get along back home, but on campus they take sides and aren’t afraid to play the cute/sad pet card to get their way.

Enjoy the chaos hun!! 😘

Each animal tries to sell Yuu on each dorm like it's real estate. Murder's over here like " You get a prince, a general, and two body guards." Marahute, the golden eagle, tells Yuu about the wonderful day they had with Pomefiore: "An actor and a Model, an exceptional hunter such as themselves, and manly apple." Scorch, the ferret, babbles about the unbirthday party they went to: "A baker, a Magicam magician, a nice rebel, a lawmaker, and a law breaker!" Wimdy's taking about the great nap they took with Leona, and all the things they stole with Ruggie (Yuu told them to put it back, but Wimdy kept half of it.)

Hista, the viper (ironically enough), sings a tale of their day: "A merchant's son and his powerful adviser, plus there would be plenty of room for us!" Scourge, the duck, goes on about their day in Octavinelle while humming a familiar tune: "A remarkable businessman, a man who loves nature, and one who can cook up an amazing meal." Floppy's having a field day in Ignihyde: " You two good boys! And a little brother!"

Yuu tries laughing it off, but they're noticing how the animals are trying to pair them up with a few of the dorm members...

[seth-burroughs]

Rain Code characters as birds. Believe me that I am bird man and these were all very carefully thought out no matter what ok. ok

Yuma is a crow (specifically, hooded crow) because these things are just so fucking unreasonably smart even if they're considered so ordinary no one really pays them much mind. A flock of crows is also called a murder.

Makoto is a crow same as Yuma but changes his appearance so that he's looking like a slightly off magpie. Life-saving white dye.

Shinigami is some sort of griffin but I like to imagine her as a galah-leopard kind the most.

Halara is a peregrine falcon. I like the visual of them swooping down from nowhere at 360 km/h stunning every peacekeeper upon impact when Yuma calls for their help

Yakou is a pigeon.

Desuhiko is a lyrebird. Has any of you heard of lyrebirds. I feel disturbed by the fact that there are people who don't.

Fubuki is a cockatiel because it is a common pet bird (making Fubuki an escaped pet in every single au that turns her into a creature) that also fits her aesthetic.

Vivia is a raven. No explanation needed. A flock of ravens is called an unkindness. Me being forced to acknowledge him anymore could also be called an unkindness.

Kurumi is a black-capped chickadee because she's nice, she's friendly, she's curious, she's adorable, and if you hate her, you will die and go to hell. Some doctor also described chickadees as "memory geniuses", which is, huh, cool.

Swank is some seagull. He won't stop screaming and wants your everything.

Seth is a barn owl. Very quiet guy who really wants to nest in that church. Let him nest in that church.

Dominic is a cassowary.

Guillaume is one of those parrots that read your fortune by picking a card or some shit

Martina is a secretary bird. She will always be a secretary bird.

Yomi is a bearded vulture because he purposefully dyes his hair red, and also being continuously described by everyone and everything as extremely dangerous and a satan incarnate but without constantly relying on his subordinates he's honestly not really that threatening like come on guys

Fake Zilch is a black kite. Bird of prey who is also one of the three species of Australian "firehawks", who spread fires on purpose for hunting reasons.

Real Zilch can be a red kite, no one really cares about him

Dr. Huesca is a gray parrot because they're very very intelligent, look kind of old, look kind of evil,

The priest is a shrike because. because he. because. get it get i

[whereispearlescentmoon]

Ok, so starting with Jimmy, my thoughts are mainly based on the animatic and less of Jimmy as a character. Essentially I view him as the person who tries to die in order to save the ones he cares about, and he does over and over again. (I view him as doing this in order to show the inevitability of death each season to try to get his allies to not be complacent in the games) But the part that I think is interesting that no one seems to talk about, is that he fails every time. In third life, his death caused Scott to die trying to avenge him, in Last Life, Martyn died trying to make a deal with a watcher to save him, Double Life doesn't work as well, but you could say that his death caused Tango to die of grief. Then in limited life, Jimmy dies in the exact way that Grian is going to die, but his warning is completely useless and Grian dies in the exact same ways anyways. (I headcanon that this made him finally realize that his deaths were meaningless and the "curse" ends). My thoughts on Pearl started later and kind of build off these thoughts with Jimmy (also kind of based on the posts bigb enthusiast and mapleejay made on nosy neighbors canary in a coal mine). Pearl in Limited Life and Secret Life is desperately trying to be the "canary", using her death in order to save her allies and let them win. In limited life she does this literally with BigB, repeatedly giving him her time. However, she fails as a canary, she outlives the coal miner. Then in Secret Life she has new allies and makes the same promise to them, that she will do anything to get them to win. But then again they all die before her. But then there's scar. Pearl desperately clings to the idea that Scar can be the one that she saves with her death, she makes him an honorary mounder, and then tries to sacrifice herself to him before the final fight but he refuses. Then they win the fight and are the only two left. (next part is mainly headcanony) So then Pearl is left here in the same position Scott was, able to finally sacrifice herself to let her ally win. But Scar doesn't give her time, he immediately betrays her, because he was never a mounder, that was just Pearl desperately needing someone to save. And so she is killed by Scar unable to save anyone

You and I have completely different interpretations of what a canary is (partially why I don't generally vibe with canary Jimmy), and also who Life!Jimmy is, but this is really cool!

For me, Jimmy isn't a canary because, and I'm not saying this to be mean but it's true, his deaths are kind of meaningless. Or maybe not meaningless, but they don't teach anyone anything other than people are going to start perma-dying. This may be a deep pull, but if you watch RPDR or Survivor, there's always a moment when the first person has gone home and someone says, like, "Well it's gotten real now" because even if you know someone has to go first, it's still a hard thing.

Jimmy isn't dying on purpose, and his deaths are ultimately meaningless once the actual blood bath starts and people start killing each other vs his deaths which are accidents or to mobs. Maybe crow is a better bird for him honestly, or raven. A bad omen. The tragedy of Life!Jimmy is that, well, he just keeps getting screwed over by small mistakes that kill him. Letting go of shift for a second or looking an enderman in the eye or not choosing the right path to avoid a warden. He's the universe's punching bag.

Pearl is very specifically a canary in Wild Life because her deaths are warnings. Don't shift near edges because the hit boxes are wonky and you'll fall, don't try to put a shield up because you'll eat your weapon, the snails can instamine blocks and leap over one block gaps. She's not dying on purpose, but her deaths are meaningful. She will be useful, in life or death. She must be. I don't really see Canary!Pearl for the other life series. Yes, she sacrifices herself to give BigB time, but if that's canary criteria, so are Skizz and Scott.

I also don't necessarily see what Scar did as a betrayal. There's two of them left, only one can win. Pearl expressed repeatedly that she didn't want to win, she wanted one of the other Mounders to win. By making Scar a last minute honorary Mounder, she has a duty to lose to him. Yes, she technically didn't sacrifice herself, but I don't think she was fighting to win. Someone who's fighting to win doesn't tell their opponent about the zombie behind them. They don't ignore the golden apple in their hot bar. Hell, she only even got one hit in on Gem because she wanted to step away and let Scar beat Gem himself.

[cerastes]

How do you rate the gacha booty shooter?

NIKKE sure is a game! It's the funnest mixed bag I've played lately. As a side game, it's been pretty good, because it's good at what it does good, and not terrible at its weak points, leaving you with a pretty "Ok :)" feeling overall.

So what's up with Nikke? Yeah, let's have a talk about that so I can explain a bit by what I mean with "fun mixed bag".

Nikke's setting is the same old tired, you've seen it a million times: Once day, humanity was almost decimated by a mysterious enemy that came out of nowhere... We call it... The Enemy! They were simply too strong, so humanity had to deploy its strongest weapons: Anime Girls. And you are the lucky Authority Figure that commands the Anime Girls to defeat The Enemy! But... The Enemy and Anime Girls have more in common than it seems...!?

Replace "The Enemy" with "Rapture", "Anime Girl" with "Nikke", Authority Figure with... Technically "Commander" but more on this in a bit, and you've got Nikke. In other words, the game's setting and premise are just a few word swaps away from being Punishing Gray Raven, Snowbreak, and a bunch of other properties. But here's the thing: Whereas Punishing Gray Raven tells you its story with all the charm and pizzazz of a Wikipedia article, and Snowbreak... Uh, stands there staring at a wall Blair Witch style because nothing ever fucking happens in Snowbreak, Nikke actually has good moment to moment flow. Allow me to elaborate.

Read More break here because I wrote a lot more than I intended:

Nikke has probably the dumbest premise to open with: The Nikkes are basically superpowered cyborg girls (war machines with human brains) that look like supermodels on purpose because they were created, in the game's own words, "with the ideal form in mind". That's all a wordy way of saying they are super hot girls with very powerful guns and superhuman physical capabilities. The dumb part is that Nikkes are treated like absolute shit in-universe by humans. You're telling me humanity is making cyborgs -- not even full on robots or AI, these are straight up people getting turned into weapons -- that are hot as fuck and have tits bigger than my head and asses that could crush cars under their sheer heft and then decided to hate them and treat them like shit, and also these cyborgs are the ones actually keeping humanity alive? Well yeah we need a reason for the Main Character (you!) to be Special and bond with them, so your thing is that You Don't Treat Nikkes Like Shit. In fact, you care for them.

Now, this is all absolutely fucking stupid, but then, the game sort of... Realizes how stupid it is? And some may say "this was always the plan" but to me personally it feels like they kinda realized how god damn stupid this all was as a premise, and they started veering the car mid-trip because for a while this all feels REALLY sincere, not in a foreshadowing way, but then you have some developments such as "no yeah, Commanders are a dime a dozen, are brainwashed into seeing Nikkes as walking garbage and that they'll be heroes, risk their lives for pennies and are extremely expendable", and there's also what I consider a really good and consistent thing the game has done: Nikkes were always a desperate last minute rushed product as a concept, so the safety measures in place so that they don't rebel against humans were never perfect.

This is what I mean by the moment to moment being good: The plot is absolutely whatever, the setting is something you've seen a million times, but the actual scene by scene, beat by beat, is fun. On the micro level, the game knows how to be entertaining and interesting, and when they expand these micro nuggets of gold to a macro level of writing, it's when they end up with their best bits of narrative and world building. I want to use two examples about the whole safety measures thing: Crow and Rose.

Crow is a Nikke that hates humans and is part of a squad of known dangerous elements that Missilis, the most irresponsible of the Big Three companies, is responsible for. This squad is Exotic, and Exotic works with you (your squad is named Counters) on this one mid-game chapter. The thing is, they never really intended to work with you, and Crow wanted you dead because Crow wants to spark a Human Vs Nikke conflict in the Ark (humanity's last big home), because you might quell the hostility between both sides. But, Nikkes can't intentionally kill humans (accidents happen and a Nikke may be ordered to subdue a human, but they are hardwired to not be able to shoot at them or kill them). So, how does Crow go about it when she betrays you? She has her squadmate Jackal plant a steel plate on the ground, and then shoots the plate in a way that the bullet ricochets and hits you. NIMPH, what's used to, among many other things, make sure Nikkes can't turn on humans, was so, so easily circumvented, and this is consistent with what we've been told about the Ark and Nikke in universe development in general: It's sloppy, it's lazy, it's not good. Rose, the other example, is a Nikke from a flashback story around a hundred of years before the start of the game. Rose was a prototype Nikke that was geared for melee combat instead of ranged combat, as all Nikkes are, and she was one of ten such units. Basically, Rose realized that their human Commander was intentionally trying to get them killed until one remained, which would be deemed the success of the line in Darwinian fashion. Rose got so immensely, justifiably angry at this that she plotted to kill the Commander. How can she do this, though, with the NIMPH that prevents her from doing so? Well, Rose was an actual swordmaster, and what she did was wear a blindfold, convince herself that what she was slicing was not a human, but a Rapture, and then she easily killed the shit out of him, unimpeded by her system. The NIMPH, end of the day, is sloppily made, highly dependent on the mental state of the Nikke, and easily circumvented. This is a very important plot point throughout the story, and the way they show this in multiple ways is really good.

Another thing I like is how the game goes about the player's title. It's technically "Commander" but the truth is, most every single Nikke calls you a different way relative to your relationship with them or their impression of you. Rapi and Anis some of the few that call you Commander, because they are in fact your subordinates, but Rapi says "Shikikan" while Anis says "Shikikan-sama" in a sarcastic way initially and after a while in an affectionately playful way, Neon calls you "Master" (Shishou) because she likes the way you use firepower, Liter calls you "Greenhorn" because you are, well, that in her eyes, Moran calls you "Partner" (Ototou, "little brother" in Japanese) because she's the head of a crime syndicate and she considers you as a cool person under her protection, the sports inclined ones call you "Coach", the school themed ones "Teacher", Viper, the flirty one, "Honey" or "Darling" depending on the scene, and so on, the old timey Scarlet calls you "My Lord", the religious Rapunzel uses "Believer", and the coarse, rough around the edges Snow White just uses "You" (Omae). It's a great touch that I like when it's done.

So, basically, you have a charming combination of a setting that's been overdone infinite times with plot beats that vary between legitimately good (the NIMPH and its logistics) and legitimately bad (Whatever the fuck Chapter 18 was, to name one case), and moment to moment that's really charming and entertaining.

The gameplay is honestly extremely unbalanced, and the sheer disparity in strength between units of the same rarity makes you wonder if they have anyone in the team that actually cares about balance, but honestly, putting the issues of balance aside? It's fun to point at stuff and shoot a million bullets and rockets, and they even get pretty creative with the fights sometimes in terms of enemy types and how they use them against you, so gameplay balance is awful, gameplay itself is suprisingly good for how simple it is.

I know people are going to be like "Dreamer, You Didn't Even Rate The Asses" so okay here:

First of all, the ergonomically perfect ass of the VIXEN that lured me into the game in a moment of weakness, Scarlet:

And next up, the Clothed But Massive Ass of Snow White

In fact, I appreciate the variety, because if it was just bare cheeks and panty shots, it'd be kinda whatever to me, but bodysuit ass and clothed but noticeably huge ass? Fresh, to be honest.

Also notable is that progress in entirely gated by passive production of resources and daily stuff because there's no stamina system. Bold!

But yeah feel free to ask more specific questions, but this is pretty much how I've felt about it.

[transguydeuce]

queer twst headcanons pt 7: diasomnia

OKAY HOLD ON TO YOUR PANTS THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG FUCKIN POST

first. we must establish fae genderisms.

(if you wanna just scroll to the headcanons for the lads tho feel free)

i think fae have around 3 “sexes”. i say “around 3” “sexes” bc science has proven repeatedly that sex is way more complicated than it seems lol. anyway i think fae have majority intersexed individuals with some female and some male. this definitely means that there’s not really a gender binary to trans around in, and fae don’t have the same concepts of trans and cisgender that we do. plus the fact that most fae, including both male and female (which here i’m referring purely to whether they produce egg or sperm) have a range of traits that are traditionally viewed by humans as gendered aka breasts, external/internal genitalia, etc. i would say body hair also but tbh i don’t think they have any, baul’s beard looks more like scales or horns to me and unless i’m wrong i don’t think we’ve ever seen a fae with body hair.

i would almost hesitate to say that fae are mammalian but they do have some hair as well as boobs (thank u meleanor for screwing w my fae biology headcanon /j) and it’s also known that they r capable of creating hybrid offspring w humans so they have to be closely related enough to humans to do that so they are mammals, my thought is just that they have adapted to live in environments with higher magic. that’s why they’re typically more magically gifted yet it’s more dangerous for them to be without it (cough cough glomas cough cough) ALSO. BECAUSE THEY LAY EGGS, FAE ARE BASICALLY MONOTREMES. HAVE FUN WITH THAT.

anyway it's impossible to tell what bits a fae has just from looking at them. so they don’t really get assigned a gender at birth and therefore they don’t really have the same concepts of cis and trans that we do. personally, i hc that "he" is the default gender-neutral pronoun most fae use. that is all thank you for your time now ON TO THE HEADCANONS

malleus: personally hc him as intersex :) doesn’t really understand human concepts of gender, but is curious about it since arriving at night raven. he doesn’t really know what an “all boys” school is especially because some of his classmates r definitely not all boy. (he thinks that’s neat though.) dressed masculine primarily for convenience and would have no complaints wearing a gown. he/him pronouns bc it's the default fae pronoun and that’s what he grew up with but after interacting more with humans he enjoys a she or they from time to time. gender is like a fascinating human custom to him. also i love the hc that he’s pan bc he’s attracted to player character regardless of gender so i’m sticking to that

sebek: [just insert the entire knuckles pronouns comic here]

ok all jokes aside he uses he/him as well, and thinks that that’s the default for everyone. the most important human in his young life was his dad who is also he/him so naturally sebek gets very confused when humans have more than one gender. most likely finds out more after asking about why epel doesn’t like being mistook for a girl (uh oh) he concludes he must be a guy cuz he’s big and strong (epel what have you done). i don’t really have a read on sebek’s sexuality and i don’t think he does either tbh.

lilia: THEE genderqueer just look at him. she is genderfuck incarnate. he’s on that immortal vampire gender. he’s on that ftmtftmtftmtftmtf type shit. a different pronoun set each day. throw some neopronouns in and stir the pot. basically he’s genderfluid. gendergas even. she’s traveled all around the world, if you think he didn’t pick up all the different genders like a crow hoarding shiny objects you would be wrong. if you ask them directly they’d probably say their gender is gamer (to be hip with the kids). also a bisexual king and definitely had a thing for meleanor and her husband there is no doubt in my mind.

silver: well he was raised by lilia so….. afab doesn’t really apply to him. he grew up in briar valley and was never assigned a gender besides the default pronoun “he”. when he’s older lilia probably teaches him a bit about human culture and asks silver what he feels like doing and i think he’d most likely go on t, partially for gender feels and also partially to build muscle mass and be a better royal guard lmao. his gender is knight boyprincess. no i shall not explain. i think he’s sex-neutral grey ace that’s just the vibes i get from him

[alyx-the-witch]

Hello! my name is Alyx, and im a Hellenic Witch! i wanted to talk about my practice a little bit, and let other people know that its ok to be unconventional when it comes to your practice. you do what you think is best, and intuition is your best friend when it comes to designing your practice.

anyways, heres some things i do throughout the week to worship my Gods.

personally, i got very overwhelmed when i started worshipping, so i set up a schedule, giving each deity and myself a day of the week that coincided with their historical days of worship.

Sunday

This day is for Lord Apollon. for him, i wake up before the sun and have a glass of orange juice while i watch the sunrise. i also go for a walk, and feed the corvids (crows and ravens) in my neighborhood.

Monday

this day is for Lady Artemis. for her, i record the moon phase, go to a park near my house, and bring some food with me for any animals i might come across. this is also one of the days i cleanse my space and myself.

Tuesday

this day is for Lord Ares. for him, i go to the gym, spend any free time i have with my dogs, and take good care of my mental health.

Wednesday

this day is for Lady Hestia. this day is apart from her historical day, but i trusted my intuition and chose this day because she feels very centering and in the middle of everything, and wednesday’s give that energy for me. for her, i bake or cook something, veil, and make sure that im choosing kindness over everything else.

Thursday

this day is for Lord Thanatos. for him, i wear something dark, honor the dead by visiting the cemetery near my house and leaving offerings, and finding a butterfly in something. finding a butterfly is a bit unconventional, but butterflies remind me of the beauty and peacefulness of death. its actually funny because when i first started to worship him, he would send me monarchs. one of those times, i found one almost dead and drowned in a puddle, and i took care of it in its final moments.

Friday

this day is for me. i set aside time to take care of myself, i make sure i eat well and drink water, i go to the gym, and i try to get more sleep. because i am currently worshipping 6 Deities, i have one day left over, and so i treat myself on that day how i would treat a deity. obviously i never compare myself to them and never hold myself on the same level as them, but its important for me to set aside a day for myself.

Saturday

this day is for Lady Aphrodite. for her, i take an everything shower, do my makeup, and honor Water. to me, she is a Water Deity, because in her birth myth, the blood of Uranus and the sea mixed together, and she rose from the foam, so involving water in her worship is important to me.

Other Things i do for my Gods

i took a vow of chastity for Lady Hestia

i make my own offerings out of clay (im a ceramics student so thats easy for me)

i wrote my own prayers for them

i braid colors into my hair that reminds me of them (i do one color per day and on each of their days i braid it into my hair using string)

i use my hair as a tool for my practice, and take care of it well. i use it to express periods of my life, and periods of change. for example, i cut it all off when i decided to change myself, and morned my old self while it was short, and now that it grew back out, i am out of that period and into a different one.

i offer myself as a conduit for them to experience the human condition of the 2000’s. they can inhabit my body for a period of time and live my life, taste my food, experience working a modern job (🤢🤢🤢), stuff like that.

i have a playlist for each of them with songs they like/songs that remind me of them/ give off the same vibe. i listen to their playlist on their day

anyways, my posts will most likely be about my practice and anything i think might be helpful, please talk to me about any questions you have!

[chickennuggetdreamland]

obligatory pinned post from ME!!!!!!

HI im INK. im 20 years old and i use they/them EXCLUSIVELY!!!!! by the way im lesbian. anyway WELCOME to my blog my "special hell" [specil hell] my "twisted mind" if you will... btw my typology is EII SO469 EVLF 2423 if youre Into that kind of thing.

here on my blog i will post and reblog about various things INCLUDING! but not limited to:

media i like (will list below my interests)

miscellaneous stuff i like

funny things

serious things

nsfw things (nothing too graphic but stuff like nudity and nsfw jokes)

anything i enjoy.

if you are a MINOR (under the age of 18) DO NOT FOLLOW ME ! you will be BLOCKED! i dont care how close you are to being 18 if you are 1 minute away you will be vaporized immediately .

as for anyone else i will just block you if i straight up dont like you for whatever reason from petty to what i think is actually reasonable etc

OK MORE MISCELLANEOUS STUFF BELOW

MEDIA I LIKE (this can and will probably change):

deltarune

undertale

genshin impact (i dont play it anymore . i just like a few characters ok. dont JUDGE ME)

honkai star rail (same as genshin i dont play anymore i just like the characters)

zenless zone zero (same as. well you get the gist now..)

MUSIC I LIKE:

have a nice life

death grips

nine inch nails

mitski

sanguinarius

anything that is alternative i will probably enjoy. especially experimental stuff

miscellaneous things i like:

black holes (astronomy in general but especially black holes)

animals (orcas, cats, snakes, crows, ravens)

philosophy (absurdism, platonism)

psychology (i dont actually know a whole lot but its just cool to me.)

OK obviously i enjoy other things but this is mainly what ill post about on here regarding my interests YAYYY goodbye thanks 4 reading O_~

[fossilzfog]

g r a bs y ou

do you have, hcs about terzo and his ghouls, perchance??

*INHALES* (know I’m writting this at like 12 am because I couldn’t sleep lol)

BUT DO I???? Hope ur ready for rambles, some self projecting and A LOT of queer ghouls

-Terzo-

Some may not like me but terzo is a RAGING she/he (sorta like my nihil) BUT unlike Nihil she is more fem leaning. In my head he only used the title papa cause she thought it sounded cooler then mama. He has a tummy tattoo of the grucifix also piercings (which were inspired by her older brother secondo cause to me bros loaded with them). Out of all his siblings he’s closest to Secondo because they r actually twins! (It makes sense with my hc of Nihil ok?) she absolutely LOVES her omega they are married. Would actually see she doesn’t like wine? (He’d prefer literally any fruity cocktail over it) honestly I can see she doesn’t like the taste of alcohol at all.

-Air-

Element: Air

Air is actually on the older side, Air is THEE sore joint haver. He’s older after all, but I do think he’s had these problems his whole life and they simply got worse with age. He loves warm baths, especially when he’s molting, helps get rid of those stubborn stuck feathers! Actually sorta has a father child relationship with zeph, because not only was he zephyrs mentor he also did in fact raise them!

The animal Air resembles: Raven!

-Zephyr-

Element: Air

Zephyr I feel is not nonbinary but I believe it’s called gender void? (Correct me if I’m wrong!) but basically zephyr has never once felt connected to ANY gender or label. Zephyr also sorta just uses all pronouns. Just like their father Zephyrs got some joint pain more specifically arthritis, so that’s why they sit a lot lol. Also a warm bath enjoyer may I add. Zephyr was actually an orphaned squeak! (Which btw ghestie the word for a baby dove is a squeaker and I think ur missing out on using that for terms for baby ghouls) zephyr was just sorta summoned by accident without their bio parents, so Air got super attached to this tiny little baby and went “this is mine now” no one stopped him

The animal Zephyr resembles: canary! (Yellow is a good colour for them this take is inspired by puppsworld on here!)

-Omega-

Element: Quintessence

Omega is big, he’s also very fatherly, he’s also terzo’s beloved man thing. He’s a very *very* lovey dovey ghoul, grand gestures of affection are like his thing. He volunteers at the nursery! He just loves the itty bitty babies and he must protect. A little sad him and terzo never got to have kits of their own , but at the same time he fully understands that it just wasn’t in the cards. Speaking of cards he’s an avid little card trick guy! Lots of the younger ghouls love getting him to do little tricks for them (Phantom especially). He also likes card tricks, does little magic shows for the kiddos

Animal Omega resembles: a house cat!

-Aether-

Element: Quintessence/Air

Firstly. TRANS AETHER HE IS TRANS, second him and Omega are actually very close! (Someone had to mentor him) Aether actually really looks up to Omega, Omegas even the person who helps him with his T-Shots! On another note Aether is scared of needles, but in the “really works himself up about it. Then he gets the shot and is like “that was easy!” So he agrees to it again” kinda way. Also fond of da kits, but like in the “gets baby fever whenever he sees something small and helpless”. He is an endometriosis haver and literally uses his gf (dew) as his own personal purring hot water bottle (I fuckin wish I had a fire gf for my period problems ugh). Lastly him and dewdrop are T4T babyyyy! (Basically he’s me /hj)

Animal Aether most resembles: A black cat and crow!

-Delta- Element: Quintessence/Water Hmmm I feel Delta is jus sorta there yknow? lol. He replaced Omega when he went and retired, and I feel a possible reason for that is because they are closer. I can also see Delta would like watercolour painting? I don't know guy seems like he would lol. I also feel he might have minor health problems relating to his heart Animal Delta most resembles: A orca and a wolf dog! -Mist- Element: Water

*rubs hands together evily* I **love** Mist, and am a firm believer in she's sorta goes for a gender neutral look. That and all pronouns Mist. Outside of the band I feel like she enjoys a lot of just hands on things? Like my one example I will give is she like whittling, and she often gives her carvings to packmates to show she cares. Because I feel like she may not be the best at properly expressing herself (autism?? Idk maybe me too tho.) Animal Mist most resembles: A reef shark

-Alpha- Element: Earth/Fire Alpha is one of the few canon ghouls who I see as a parent. That being Alpha is the (debatably) proud mama of Ifrit, and yknow it's really embarrassing because Alpha's like one of THOSE moms and calls Ifrit "Apple Fritter" in front of his pack. Alpha and omega did kindaaa have a thing at one point, but like it was really short. So now they are simply best buds!(and yes. Alpha just show alll the embarrassing Kit photos of his Apple Fritter lol). Lastly I feel like Alpha is unlabeled, but in short he likes He/Him but fem terms? Like Mom, Lady, Wife etc (that ones a little self projecty whoops) Animal Alpha most resembles: Thorny devil and domesticated goat -Ifrit- Element: Earth/Fire As mentioned above he's the itty little baby of Alpha, and Alpha will remind him every day that he can never escape his kit pictures/j. He's actually a lot smaller then his mom, like he was born and Alpha had to take a double take cause he was a jellybean to him, now is Ifrit actually small? No not at all Alpha is just freakishly big. (so is Omega!). Now because Ifrit was just soo teeny tiny to Alpha, he freaked out over everything in the beginning because "HES SO SMALL WHAT IF HE GETS HURT???". This was not true to any extent, Ifrit was in fact the biggest kit in the nursery. Good thing is Omega sorta just went "are you dumb?", and helped Alpha realize that his kit was in fact not made of glass lol. Ifrit was born on the surface, and actually does view Omega like a second parental figure (it's really sweet trust) Animal Ifrit most resembles: Same as Alpha

-Pebble- Element: Earth Pebble is in fact the smallest earth ghoul the ministry has ever summoned. But despite what some may believe Pebble does not in fact care. He like Mist likes carving and whittling, they are actually friends because of their common interest. Pebble also likes to stargaze at night, he mainly does this with Ivy. Also him an Ivy got this really weird undisclosed relationship, and by that I mean are they dating? Are they not? No one knows

Animal Pebble most resembles: a white tailed deer

-Ivy-

Element: Earth

Ivy actually had come from a different ministry location! They transferred over to “our” location. Ivy actually is a big fan of tattoos, Ivy even does them for over ghouls! A lot of Ivys tattoos are actually star themed, because it’s special to Ivy since that’s how they and Pebble bonded.

Animal Ivy most resembles: a mountain goat

-Mountain-

Element! Earth

Oh mountain my beloved…Firstly she’s like everyone’s fav cuddle buddy. Because he just lays there and lets the “likely” smaller ghoul friend snuggle riiight up. To no one’s surprise she hates shoes but also socks, the only time he will wear footwear is when glamoured (because hooves gone), and a lot of the time Mountain will wear them because tile floors are Mountains number 1 enemy. Enjoys tattoos like Ivy but gets more botanical themed ones, alongside “special” ones (I.E things designed by her pack or things his pack has said!). He likes poetry

Animal Mountain most resembles: A Shire Horse!!!

-Dewdrop-

Element: Water/Fire

Oh boy ok first. TransFem Dew. Second oooo she likes her big guy Aether acting all lovey dovey to herrr. Like Dew likes classic romance, but also she is definitely the one who will go “mmm excuse me? He asked for no pickles!”, so it’s still probably the most common view of Dew. Like she’s still a hissy gal but in the, “will defend her loved ones with her life” way. She is literally so attached to her whole pack they are hers and she is theirs (besties for life I say!), she likes having any of her pack do her hair while to listen to metal, (Personally I feel Dew would be a NuMetal fan, that or classic heavy). She loves girl nights with Mist, they are basically sisters! Especially since Mist was the one who taught he bass. I also have a strong feeling she likes BBQ…idky-

Animal Dew most resembles!: a koi fish and bush viper!

Anywaaaay those r my like immediate thoughts for the ghouls! (Took lots of breaks writing this because I had to think between abt them lol) so sorry if they are rambley! I really did try! And here’s hoping I didn’t miss anyone lol

[rainingstorms1220]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers ♡

Oooh uh uh that's difficult. Let's see...

1. My OCs and stories

Literally my only motivation to live. I'm very, very attached to my kids—they are the culmination of my blood, sweat, tears and soul. So anything revolving around them makes me very happy, inspired and motivated. I will do everything for them!! Art, writing, even making games if I can! Merch too! Plushies, accessories, anything and everything. All for them. The thousands of little fictional people, worlds and stories living rent-free in my mentally ill brain.

Bonus happiness points when other people also like my kids and are interested in getting to know them better. Like, if you take the time to approach me and ask questions about them, are willing to sit through hours of me rambling your ears off about characters that spawned from the depths of my hellish critter mind, and also actively want to discuss them with me and tell me all of your thoughts—that is like the ultimate quality to my quality time love language right there. It's the most idealistic, unrealistic, impossible thing ever though, mostly because I have a lot of kids and like. 20+ different stories with several more AUs. To have someone else be able to digest all of that information? No way. But yeah.

Fanart and fanfiction of my kids also make me very happy. I will treasure each and every one of the art pieces/writing dearly. Basically anything related to my kids, I will cry over. I will explode over my kiddos.

2. Various media

As of right now, I'm fixated on Twisted Wonderland (LEONA), Bleach (HITSUGAYA AND HITSUKARIN), One Punch Man (METAL BAT AND BATAROU) and Blue Lock (RYUSAE AND KAISER). Very much waiting in anticipation for the TWST anime, Bleach TYBW Cour 3, OPM Season 3 and Blue Lock Season 2 + Nagi movie. I'm also really invested in the Final Fantasy series (III, IV, VII, IX, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, Crystal Chronicles EOT and ROF, etc...)! And I'm a casual player of Punishing Gray Raven (very much looking forward to Wuthering Waves by the same company)!

I also like books! Haven't been able to read as much as I'd like to these days, but I have books I've bought that I hope to read soon. Gotta read Six of Crows (yes, Lune, I'll finish it). Have also been wanting to collect Bleach's light novels (CFYOW currently). And TWST's novels and manga too, once they're translated (Savanaclaw manga and novel C'MERE)! Much to look forward to <3 Fanfics of media I like are also really nice to read. When I have more time, I'd like to write for the fandoms I'm in.

Pretty art is nice. Good games are nice. Good stories and wonderful characters are nice. Beautiful writing is nice. I'm very simple haha, as long as the media strikes my fancy, chances are I'll look into it and derive some form of enjoyment from it <3

3. Writing/Drawing

If it wasn't already evident from the above two points, as well as my own profile, I like to write and draw. Very much an arts kid (creativity is another thing that I'm not sure I have, but let's not get into that). I'm not good at speaking, so having visual representations of the things I feel, be it via written words or artwork, is the best way for me to express myself and communicate, I find. And it's also fun! When I'm not preoccupied with other IRL commitments and stuck in creative ruts, that is.

4. Music

I know nothing about music theory or playing instruments. Not a music kid. I just like listening to good music. In particular, I'm a big fan of J-Pop, J-Rock, Rock, Instrumentals, EDM and Dubstep, Gothic-sounding music, and others, depending on whether they strike my fancy or not. Favourite artists/bands include Tatsuya Kitani, Aimer, Mili and ONE OK ROCK. Banger musicians. You're free to drop recommendations too! I'm pretty open to most genres. Though extremely selective with a few others (K-Pop being one of those genres haha oops).

5. Spending time with friends

Pretty clear cut, I think. I don't have a lot of people I'm particularly close to, but I do cherish those I consider my friends a lot. Quality time love language—just spending time with them makes me happy. We don't even have to really be doing anything. I just like having their company, and if they willingly seek me out and want to spend time with me too, that's even better.

And yep, that's all. I can't think of anything else haha. Thank you for the ask, beloved~

[justatallstick]

oh my god ok this is my first time posting my writing but only because i was vaguely entertained by it

here's my literally not even concealed sandman fanfiction i wrote for a college writing mini-portfolio (it was written last second and i didn't have any other ideas)

He - or, it? Appears to me sometimes in the shadows of corners past 10:50 pm. After the first initial scare (it likes to appear as mostly an outline of a person with glowing eyes) its subsequent short visits still leave me feeling something that can’t be put into words. It’s the feeling that you get when you know you’re next to something that is older than the species that are alive today.

It’s not a feeling of terror, though, something deep within my mind tells me I shouldn't be scared. The feeling is more like a vaguely familiar one, like I’d somehow met it before in a past life, or unconsciously, like in dreams. I ask it questions when I can, and sometimes it responds. 

“Who are you?”

“Humanity asks that question often. They should recognize that they made me, I am a part of all of you.”

Its voice gives me the feeling of listening to a song that was sung by the people at the beginning of recorded time. 

“Why do you visit me like this?” I implore.

“I visit all of my subjects, for it is my sacred duty.”

“Well- what - what does that mean?” 

It leaves in a way that sinks into the inky shadows, and I’m frustrated at this point. I am always left with more questions than answers with this, this thing. I know it’s not a person, it’s more than that. So why does it keep bothering me?

I was out late, trying to avoid another interaction with the ‘entity’. I was just getting more and more confused, and got myself all wound up. I drove to the local lake, and watched its small but steady waves lap the shore. I watched the navy blue of the water's surface reflect white in the moonlight and breathed. I sighed, and got up, heading back to my car. I noticed that I accidentally left the sunroof open, damnit. I hope that not too many bugs or perhaps moths got into it. I get in and slot the keys into the ignition, turning on the car, and shut the sunroof. I exhale as there appears to be no bugs I can visually see. I slowly start to turn out of the gravel lot when all of a sudden - 

“Hey do you happen to, by any chance, have any Nature Valley bars?” A man’s voice suddenly inquires from behind my shoulder from the dark of the car. 

“WHAT-” I flung open the side door and, subsequently, myself out of the car.

“Ohmygod- oh my god - I’m going to be killed out here and nobody is going to know-” 

“Dude, relax,” The voice from within the car says to me.

Just as I’m grasping for the biggest rock I could find in the darkness and holding it tight in my fist, ready to bash someone's head in, the owner of the voice steps - well, hops - forward to the driver's seat. 

“You’re a CROW?” 

“Raven, actually. And I was being serious about those Nature Valley bars.”

What the actual hell is going on. I’m thinking to myself. Did that gas station sandwich intoxicate me somehow? Am I dreaming?

I barely have time to widen my eyes when the voice I’m familiar with is speaking behind me.

“No, unfortunately, you’re not.”

I jumped to my feet, nerves on the fray, and rushed a couple of feet back.

“What the hell is going on here?” Is the only thing I can muster to say. That raven talked to me? And now the ‘entity’ is here?

“Oh, hi boss. Sorry about that, I just really wanted a snack, and humans usually got somethin’ in their cars.”

“Boss?” I repeat.

The raven sighs. 

“Evidently.”

I stand there.

“I just kinda.. Showed up to his doorstep one day.”

“Matthew-” 

The raven's name was Matthew? I wonder to myself.

“What have I told you about meddling with the living world’s affairs, and with mine?”

“I could say the same to you,” the raven - Matthew - retorts. “Why are you always up here scaring these guys? You aren’t exactly the most . . personable guy.”

“I will not put up with this insolence.”

Next thing I knew the ‘entity’ dispersed into what appeared to be sand in some kind of attempt to leave the situation. Some of it gets in my face and I sneeze. 

“That was totally unnecessary!” Matthew squawks to the now empty space. 

After a beat, Mathew sighs and I can hear him grumble something like, “God, I am never gonna hear the end of it.” He then hops off my driver's seat and flies away into the black night.

[jillybean-seighdrasov]

Stardust and The Crow ch 203: Wild Card p1

“OK, first step of every successful mission is a codename.  I’m thinking, 'Operation Finger Guns.' Think about it.  We could do this!  And we know what we’re talking about.” Cayde then finger-gunned at Seighdra and Crow, a playful grin on his face.  

“Oh, my word.  You are too much, Cayde.”  Seighdra shook her head and giggled.  “What is it with you two and the finger guns?  Is it a Hunter thing?” 

“I’m not hearing any bright ideas coming outta you.”

"Well, I'm... um... trying to investigate stuff, ya know," Seighdra said, glancing around and spotting a group of enemies.

"These enemies are glowing with Dark Ether.  Find them and clear out as many as we can," Crow instructed as Seighdra began clearing the area.

“Good call; let’s keep looking.”  Cayde said as Seighdra followed him and Crow.

"Screeb incoming!" Seighdra yelled as she jumped, landing and instinctively swinging her sword at the creature.  It exploded, killing her instantly.  Crow and Cayde stood close by, ready to let Raven revive his Guardian.

"You need to be careful, Seighdra," Raven scolded her.  Seighdra looked at him blankly for a moment, finding his behavior odd.  Shaking it off, she stood up, ready to continue.

“You’re not supposed to hit them with a sword, dummy.”  Cayde laughed.

“Gee, tell me something I don’t know, jerk.”  Seighdra bantered back with Cayde as she stared at him.

“Same ‘ol Seighdra.”  Cayde smirked, giving her a friendly pat on the back.

“Same ‘ol Cayde,” she responded with a hint of irritation, though she couldn’t hold back a laugh of her own.

read ch 203 on ao3

[000marie198]

When the nature speaks. when the when the *crying*

Ok get this, we've been seeing forecast of heavy rain since yesterday (quarter to 5 AM here at the moment)

The forecast was of 3AM. So get this, the winds had been strong all night, but no sign of rain where we live. My brother even got annoyed at one point bcuz it's been raining throughout our country but not where we live. Anyways, wind direction was eastward which is also the direction our windows are towards. Meaning not being able to enjoy the winds from indoors.

Sooo, at about 2AM my youngest brother said he was hungry, my other bro goes downstairs to check if he can find something for him. (Turns out, there was nothing which he agreed on so I texted my bro to return upstairs cuz the hungry one had dozed off anyway).

He returns, I suggest we head to the terrace for a little, I really wanted to feel the winds. We do so and then I wanna go to the roof. Winds are fast but not too strong. So we head to roof and enjoy the weather. Spend some time there.

Then suddenly, I hear dogs barking from far off, bro ignores it, nothing unusual. But there's also birds starting to chirp, loudly, it wasn't even Fajr time yet. I find it very unusual and he doesn't notice. Birds sure sometimes chirp at night but both at once and that urgently? Something must be up. Not to mention, we believe that dogs bark when they see jinnat or something. Not everyone will get what I mean here. Moving on!

Then we hear the roosters, it is said that the roosters crow when they see angels. We also believe angels control the direction of winds and paths of clouds. Right afterwards, we hear the ravens and crows. And suddenly there are numerous loud calls of animals from everywhere all at the same time. Animals which aren't even awake at that time. Now little brother notices. He finds it strange.

It's not even Fajr yet, roosters crow at Fajr or Tahajud, but it was not either of those times. Crows don't even wake up before morning. And then, the wind shifts. Both of us feel it, its whistle changes, gets louder, like a warning, we hear and feel it first and then we hear loud clatter and clangs and thuds of windows shaking a little and clothes fluttering strongly and things getting toppled.

It's like every single sentient being has woken up all of a sudden and is telling us to go inside. So we go inside and we check the time; 2:55 AM, 5 minutes before 3 AM, the forecasted time for rainstorm.

We see the lightning, the clouds and the dusty haze that falls over the neighborhood. The winds have gotten much stronger. But get this, it still doesn't start raining yet.

Let me tell you about Fajr. Every prayer has specific time, Fajr starts when the first, thread-thin ray of sunlight breaches the horizon, it can only be seen in areas with zero light pollution and vast horizon with no buildings in the way. Time for Fajr ends when the sky starts getting bright, when the dawn arrives, when the sun itself just starts to breach the horizon. But the time it takes to actually pray, whether one head to the mosque or not is not too much, just four rakahs.

After I was done praying, and was lying in bed checking through Tumblr, I heard the rain. I hurried outside, the rain had started, and it was dawn. The time passed was just enough for people who pray at the mosque to be done and return home.

Rainfalls, which was forecasted for 3 AM, didn't start at 3AM but stormy winds did, it started once Fajr time was complete.

I just, I can't stop thinking about this. And this isn't the first time storms have done that. I've seen storms going throughout the night pausing during Fajr time, I've seen rain restarting after Fajr time ends, I've seen it stopping at Asar so so many times and it never ceases to amaze me.

[lairofsentinel]

oc meme

Thank you @galedekarios, who linked me in her oc meme

name: Chardry Kalenhad

His name comes from nothing drow since it was given by his human mother. Technically, I wanted something that sounded ok, and at the same time, that would reflect his humour and a metaphor of many things in his background: a dry, brittle char, like a dry leaf. The concept of dryness is a bit attached to him. So, Chardry. lol.

nickname: Chay [by his mother and his friends]. Othorion may call him whatever he fancies.

gender: male

star sign: .... uh... some friend told me he "felt like a Scorpio". I have no idea, so let's keep it as a Scorpio.

height: 160 cm

orientation: gay

race: drow

romancing: Othorion Shadowwater [Rose's Oc], quite married, to be fair.

fave fruit: he doesn't have any, food is something he never cared much about. As long as he can eat to cover his energy needs, he is satisfied.

fave season: Autumn

fave flower: none.

fave scent: In the beginning, none. His practicality made him have none. Plus, he was too accustomed to the smell of dried blood and rot. But after Othorion gifted him a bag with cooilgan [a fantasy honey comb-like thing] that became his fave scent. He would sniff that small bag he always has on him when he wants to relax.

coffee, tea or hot chocolate: tea, and probably some coffee too, specially when he is too focused on working on something.

average sleep hours: between four and six. He is a light sleeper, as a consequence of a child always fearing to be attacked in his sleep by spiders, Lolth emissaries in his imagination, or simply other humanoids that would see in him a danger in the future.

When he was a child, he used to sleep, but as his fears grew, he stopped doing it, and he mostly trances all the time. He can't hold a sitting position during trance, and every time he tried to, he ends up all spread on the ground, ridiculously. He prefers trance because he can be slightly aware of his environment, so he thinks he can perceive any danger before it attacks him. By Othorion's side he will indulge himself in sleeping here an there.

dogs or cats: neither. He doesn't care much about cats, and dogs bring him bad memories, specially if they start barking at him. He prefer the company of his lovely bird familiar, a black, mischievous, smoky mix of a raven and a crow, called Ar.

dream trip: Enjoying the caravan life once more with Othorion. After all, despite the complexity and tension of living with the rest of the caravan merchants, one of the best times in his life was when he was growing up in a merchant caravan with his mother. He would love to reforge nice memories again, but this time with Othorion.

amount of blankets: as many as the weather demands

random fact(s):

He can speak Halfling, as a consequence of living among them in the merchant caravan. He also learnt elvish, but it's badly pronounced, with a heavy accent, because he learnt it only via books. He also speaks Draconic, important for metamagic that he dabbles in. He knows little about Undercommon, only for merchant purposes.

He has asthma since he was a baby. His condition is in check by regularly drinking potions.

He has a scar of a dagger wound on his stomach.

He is always flattening his ears with his fingers or palms, and arranging his hair to cover them. There is a constant concern about his concealed ears. 

He plays the erhu with great skill (in his left little finger he wears a magical ring that can summon an erhu). He has mixed this skill with some illusion spells that allow him to craft sceneries of big size in the company of the music.

More details of his background here

[clotpolesonly]

So, I started a cleaning job where I don't have to talk to anyone, which is lovely, but it also meant I started listening to audiobooks, and I've started listening to some book series I've been hearing about here and there, and the latest was The Raven Cycle. Why? Because you posted about it. You are literally the only person on my dashboard to post about it, but the few ones I have seen over the last months? years? have been enough for me to be assured in it having queer rep, being well written, and potentially worth my time. And yeah, it very much was, cause now I'm kinda hooked on it, like not just Adam/Ronan, tho very much them as well, but Maggie even got me caring about a straight couple with Gansey/Blue, cause she just writes such beautiful and unique characters!!! And anyway, besides asking you if you have some favourite AO3 recs (Don't even care much about the ship, as long as it's with these characters) I come having finished The Raven King a week ago, and now humbly but also very desperately asking, do you have any other book recommendations like TRC for me to listen to?? (Oh, and maybe also whether or not the dreamer triology will be just as good? Cause I'm curious about it having Ronan in focus, but more than the story, it's the characters that got me hooked on TRC, and like Maggie Stiefvater's writing style, but yeah I'm unsure how much of Adam there is in the trilogy, and the new characters, are they just as intriguing??)

YESSSSSS I LOVE SNAGGING PEOPLE AND DRAGGING THEM INTO MY FANDOMS XD WELCOME

the Dreamer Trilogy has its pros and its cons. if does significantly shift the focus of the narrative away from the established group, so if the Gangsey found family dynamic is a really big factor in your enjoyment and you don't want to be without it, you'll be disappointed by TDT because the rest of the gang simply isn't present 😭 it's very much Lynch-(and new characters)-focused.

Ronan is the main character and gets the most screen time, but honestly, Declan steals the show in that series. people can go into TDT Declan haters and come out of it with rabid Declan brain rot afdkjgh, i for one am obsessed with him. Matthew gets a real arc too, which i love for him. Adam doesn't have a huge role but he is around and relevant. i am IN LOVE with some of the new characters, and Maggie got us again with the straights!!! she makes us fucking YEARN WITH THE STRAIGHTS, on par with Bluesey imo, the new canon ship destroys me ok??

i will say that TDT doesn't feel as cohesive and satisfying in the overall narrative structure sense, compared to TRC. there are some things about it that confuse/frustrate me or don't make sense if you look at it too closely 😅 but there's so much really interesting compelling character/relationship work that it makes up for it, for me. i enjoyed TDT a lot, have read it multiple times, and will definitely read it again. it expands upon the world and lore, and i'm a sluuuut for complicated dysfunctional family dynamics so the Lynches get me good.

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as for other recs! in case my unrelenting TRC blogging isn't damning enough evidence, i'll admit openly that i tend to just read the same thing over and over again instead of reading anything new lfkdjgh, so i don't actually HAVE anything else to rec myself, i am useless to you 😅😅😅 so instead i reached out to some other fans on discord and got suggestions from them to share with you!

The Scorpio Races (also Maggie Stiefvater)

The Wicker King (K Ancrum)

Aristotle & Dante (Benjamin Alire Saenz)

A Darker Shade of Magic (VE Schwab)

Iron Widow (Xiran Jay Zhao)

In Other Lands (Sarah Rees Brennan)

Hell Followed With Us (Andrew Joseph White)

The Darkest Part of The Forest (Holly Black)

All Of Us Villains duology (Amanda Foody, CL Herman)

Self Made Boys (Anna Marie Mclemore)

Legendborn (Tracy Deonn)

Folk of the Air series (Holly Black)

Six of Crows duology (Leigh Bardugo)

Winternight trilogy (Katherine Arden)

Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)

The Atlas Six (Olivie Blake)

so, again, i have not personally read any of these books to make the recs more specific or say what part of them invokes TRC vibes, but it sure is a place to start?? 😂

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for fic recs, oh god, my brain is SWISS CHEESE, let's see if i can remember and dig up anything aldkfjg

(ok first i rec my own fics #shameless self promo)

Magnetic i've read SO MUCH and will again, it's everything to me

don't it beat a slow dance to death is a timeloop thing A+

I'm an Empathetic Drunk, Ok? is the first long TRC fic i read i think

All That I Know is Gone has dreamer!Declan, obsessed with this

King by the Roadside Gansey-didn't-die-the-first-time + polyam

A Sound Of Thunder Declan died instead of Niall 😭😭

aaaaaand these are the ones that are coming to my mind as of right now, the first 3 are all Pynch. i think the 4th has Pynch but it's mostly brother feels - that one introduces some elements from TDT but i don't thiiiiiink anything that would be a significant spoiler as long as you've read the short story Opal, which was included in my physical copy of TRK if it wasn't in yours, i have the epub). could hold off on that one until you (maybe) read TDT (if you wanna), but i've read it too many times not to rec it. 5th one hooks up the whole gang in one big polycule and i love it for that, and the last one hurts my HEART as a Declan stan but it's otherwise a great fic 😂

anybody else with TRC recs, add on/reply/hit @so-very-asleep up with 'em!!!

[georgieluz]

Hiiii!! How are you? 7, 10 and 22 for the nationality ask game please??

hellloooo!!

7. three words from your native language that you like the most

ok i have a lot but lemme try and narrow it down... i both love and hate that our word for 'ironing' is 'smwddio' pronounced similarly to "smoothio". our word for ladybird is 'buwch goch gota' which translates to 'little red cow' and hamster is 'bochdew' which means 'fat cheeks'.. actually most of our words for animals are pretty great... raven is 'cigfran' which translates to 'meat crow' lmao. some more fun ones are 'ychafi' which is the welsh version of 'yuck' or 'eww'. all welsh kids hear this on the regular bc mums will constantly use it as a way of saying "please do not do that gross thing again". 'spigoglys' means spinach, and 'sglodion' was my favourite word as a kid, it means chips! "dwi'n hoffi coffi" is every non-welsh person's favourite welsh sentence ("i like coffee") because of the rhyming, but "dwi'n hoffi sglodion" was my fave as a kid. i don't even like chips much tbh, but it just sounds so right on a welsh person's tongue!

and i guess to finish up 'cwtch' and 'cariad' are perfect welsh words in my opinion. cwtch is unique to the welsh language, it kind of describes a type of hug/cuddle that's more warm and intimate than both of them and invokes a cosiness and homeliness that can only come from Your Person/People. it's not romantic, though can be used that way too, but is for times with close friends and family and anyone special to you. cariad means love but it's also a term of endearment. i guess in the same way 'love' can be used as a term of endearment too, but it has a bit more affection and warmth to it than "hey, love". but yeah, people will often call each other cariad here as an endearing thing and it's something i still think is cute even as a fully grown cynical adult

10. most enjoyable swear word in your native language?

i answered this one already over here :)

22. what makes you proud about your country? what makes you ashamed?

proud: that we've never voted for a tory government ever? lmao, but yeah, our resistance against the tories, especially thatcher, definitely makes me proud of wales. also, how we've kept our language alive despite all of england's attempts at eradicating it. bc that's not an easy feat and it very nearly wasn't the case

ashamed: our national performance in rugby and football this year? obviously, there are more serious things that make me ashamed but this would end up being way too long, and i'm not in a great place mental health wise, so maybe i'll talk about those things another time when i can go into them in more depth, etc!

for this ask game!