#cycling clothes

[effemar]

I’M NOBODY’S BABY / I’M EVERYBODY’S GIRL / I’M THE QUEEN OF NOTHING / I’M THE KING OF THE WORLD!

[broresteia]

the gangsey

[lgbtlunaverse]

the wangxian + a-yuan "dads with an adopted son" thing is fine and enjoyable in fanfics honestly but I think we as a fandom are really not utilizing the idea of all of them in unconventional familial structures enough. Like, canonically it wasn't so much that wwx was a-yuan's guardian as that a-yuan was being raised collectively by the wens and wwx was adopted INTO the larger wen family. And lwj got attached to him through that. A-yuan just has these very attached weird uncles/older cousin figures that aren't related to him by blood at all but keep sticking around.

Just think of a modern AU with a lot less death where lwj does as he does in canon and keeps showering a-yuan in gifts as much as he can and when wwx is like "aiyah lan zhan you're gonna spoil him. Not everyone is as rich as you! What's his family supposed to say if they can't buy him all the stuff you do?" lwj just goes "Hm". And from then on out every year once a-yuan's birthday is near the extended Wen family members (well. the ones that are invited that is. No one wants wen chao at a birthday party) wakes up to a wechat payment from lwj.

Random wen cousin number 6 texts granny like

cousin 6: i just got 400 yuan????

granny: oh that's just wangji

cousin 6: i've never met this guy in my life???

granny: he wants you to buy a-yuan a nice birthday present!

cousin 6: how does he know my bank account???

[daeyumi]

misc. design scribbles for cycle of the stars (plus one extra link design from a possible one shot au i may do later down the line)

i will clean these up later but wanted to shove what i have here for now

[incognitopolls]

"Doubling up" could mean 2 pads on top of each other, or 1 in the back and 1 in the front, etc.

Anon isn't saying anyone should do this, just wondering if anyone does. (2 pads at the same time– probably fine if that's what you prefer. 2 tampons at the same time is probably not a good idea, though.)

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[writtenbycassandra]

i literally cannot express how wonderful blue sargent's clothing style is... i've never seen a character with such a great fashion sense before and i love this concept so much. it inspires young girls to be individuals and wear what they want to wear instead of bowing to social norms.

i love it and i think that maggie stiefvater's books definitely help many young readers realize that being yourself is better than repressing your true emotions and interests in order to fit in.

that's such a beautiful message, and i love it.

[elksun]

use your heart

[greendraws]

weird little girl blue sargent 💙

[joshuamj]

Linktober Day 8. Tunic

[simplydnp]

something about dan wearing the moth shirt and phil's socks having holes in them

[kazbiter]

when u think abt it gansey in trc is truly a slay of epic proportions... hot rich buff teenager that acts like an elderly gentleman searching for a dead welsh king having multiple people who see him interact with his pocket eldritch horror call said horror gansey's dog and dressing if not with taste then at least a commitment to a certain aesthetic. kissed a girl one time and then immediately died like cmon now

[y-rhywbeth2]

Apparently mental health care in Faerûn, when it isn't horrifically ableist (the asylums are fucking fantastic/s), mostly consists of priests using enchantment spells to help out with medication. Calm emotions, maybe feeblemind in dire emergencies, etc. I'm going to have to dig that lore out at some point and finish the medicine lore draft *laughs in unfinished WIPs*

And that could work for most of the characters with mental health issues* but 5e's version of calm emotions comes with this annoying caveat that it specifically targets humanoids, as do most enchantment spells iirc, which means that there's no way to help Astarion that way if he wanted it. Can't take herbal remedies/medication; no metabolism. Can't be affected with benevolent spells; not humanoid (undead). Also, by older editions, the undead are fully immune to all mind affecting spells anyway (no brain chemistry to manipulate!)

Of course I'm also not sure how exactly trauma is going to effect him in some ways. A lot of trauma and stress is physical, and he completely lacks biology. Like a lot of the basics will be there, I assume, but... a little off in expression?

Strictly speaking vampires, in canon, express trauma and stress through two specific avenues: bloody raging violence, and asserting dominance and ruthless control (usually related to paranoia and hypervigilance). Temper issues, lashing out and hypervigilance are real trauma responses, but vampires being creatures of the gothic horror tradition that of course gets multiplied. To levels like blacking out and slaughtering everyone within reach in your disassociated grief/rage until you come back to yourself soaked through in blood and surrounded by corpses with no memory of the act (as per Vampire of the Mists). (Also crushing depression where they just go into centuries long naps).

That is actually kinda in-game, or was in EA anyway, since if you push his triggers you get this line:

'You know what separates us from animals? Choice. I choose to travel with you. A dog would do it on instinct. To fulfil a need. Disrespect me again and I won't choose to kill you… I'll do it on instinct. To fulfil my need to hear you scream.'

(I love this line.) Haven't heard it spoken for a long time, but I'm pretty sure his voice audibly starts to slip into something more guttural/inhuman at some point.

The bad days are going to get messy.

On the other hand I'm sure some priesthood somewhere has to have come up with a spell that soothes the undead at times like this (seing as they are almost universally linked to/consumed by negative emotion and trauma). I'll have to look harder, I guess.

[mantaraymax]

late halloween post, you know they argued extensively about which one got to be gansey

[vonlipvig]

i'm kinda having my 50s moment rn and i want to get a pearl necklace so bad, but then i remembered i don't really wear any feminine blouses/dresses, but like, would it be kinda cunt if i wore it with a shirt? thinking thinking...

[cbarc]

reading the first inheritance cycle books makes me emotional for when they held spades and scythes before hammers and swords

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