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May I humbly ask who Nikolae and Katya are? (I assume they're your ocs??)

I've seen you tag half the stuff you've rbed from me with them and they sound p interesting ngl 👀

AHHHH omg of course! So sorry, they're all I think about these days so I'm sure most of my blog at this point is tagged with them haha! Nikolae is my OC, and Katya is my friend @angeyrot's OC! We are writing a long rp with them right now that we're going to turn into a more readable book series when we're done. We've written something like 300k words in the last 3 months alone, so there will be plenty to work with when the time comes to make it available for public consumption.

Nikolae is a very old, very violent and fucked up vampire that lives in a cursed living castle that is slowly dying. He's a very unpleasant, miserable person that I often describe as more animalistic than human, kind of like a maneating tiger that eats people that wander into his territory.

Katya is a vampire slayer that tracks Nikolae down with the intent of slaying him as revenge for the fact that he killed her mother. She's a very clever and cunning girl, but is not very wise. She's also extremely brutal and good at killing, like him.

Katya ends up being imprisoned by Nikolae in his castle, and their relationship develops from there. It's very Beauty and the Beast in a lot of ways, but like.... if they were both deeply traumatized and kind of horrible. She goes from actively trying to kill him to trying to learn more about him in order to hurt him very badly before killing him, and they end up sexually and romantically entangled. In the story we deal with a lot of themes of queerness and shame, and cycles of abuse and trauma.

Here's a post of angeyrot and I talking about the Themes and Vibes.

These two OC asks here and here have a little more info about Nikolae.

Tags: #katya tag/#yekaterina muzafarova, #nikolae tag/#nikolae horvatinčić, #nikkat tag, #slayerverse

Some more recent drawings of them:

Aaaaaaaand for posterity, a couple of old doodles with their old designs before Nikolae became bigger and more unkempt <3

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@del-phin -> @cygnus-art

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Also, if anyone sees an account called del-phin like their posts, worry not! That's just my main.

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TRUE DELPHIN Sign of the Everyman

DEL* = Honey Sign • *PHIN = Prospit + Jest

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#695: The sign of a living masquerade who runs the show from the backstage and the center stage. Machinations set the scene, and masks and smiles get the message across. Patron sign of the honey caste, associated with the aspect of comedy and gravity (on both a physical and emotional level).

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Honey Signs • Jestbound Signs • Prospit Signs

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number 13 for asahi and number 14 & 15 for haikyuu in general 👀 also i hope you're doing well! ^^

OHO YOU GAVE ME SOME GOOD ONES and its not really an unpopular opinion but i think the first artstyle was really nice still?? like improvement and glow-ups look different to everyone but i liked the original just as much, even if the s4 artstyle is really cool i still like the first one :') (mostly cos asahi looks nicer in it hjgfdksl) idk, i don't really have complaints about the show itself, its really good and i love it a lot ^^ maybe some more female characters would be nice? i really love the ones we have, furudate Is excellent at writing realistic women (and giving us male-female friendships which are built on mutual understanding and genuine friendship which is SO GODDAMN NICE OHMYGOD) but im always down for more female characters ^^

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4, 10 and 17 for the crush asks ✨

4. describe them (appearance, personality, etc)10. what’s their star sign?      17. what’s their aesthetic? 

4… brown hair, green eyes, he’s got a mole on his neck and another on his ear and hand, he wears what makes him feel sexy which I think is very sexy of him, he’s a jokester, he’s got an amazing smile, he likes helping people, and he’s loyal10… I don’t know but he gives off an August birthday vibe17… light coloured jeans and a jean jacket and flannels wrapped around his waist and school spirit 

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Demon’s Bride Drabble

Meet the Batfam Take 2

So, around the time I lost my motivation to write a lot of the Adrian salt haters were getting pretty vocal. I don’t hate the canon character so much as I hate what the creators expect us to accept as “romantic” and “heroic” about the canon character.

Unfortunately I disagree with the creators. The canon character is a a sad, abused and abusive character that doesn’t hear what he doesn’t want to (Ladybug has said “NO” too many times for his continued behavior to be anything but harrassment, blackmail....), and throws temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way.

I don’t like the canon character. But fandom does what it will and so many amazing authors have taken this character and given him the redemption he deserves and the chance to be a better person. I was considering doing this and this Drabble came to be, but since I have my other story where Adrian gets his redemption I’m gonna go ahead with the salt in the Demon’s bride verse so you have that to look forward to storywise. Until the next chapter comes out, enjoy this outtake.

Recommendations:

Adrian Salt - Seeing Green by @thyladyanput and

some no salt Adrian Confident by @snowhirl

Both are great stories I absolutely enjoyed.

Drabble Masterpost

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Waking up the day after Damian as Robin dropped her off at her hotel Marinette sent a group of texts. In the lobby she met up with Max, Kim and Alix. They were going to go with her to meet up with Damian and whomever he brought along. Though if she were a betting woman she would place money on that including his brothers, whether Damian wanted them there or not.

Four men waited outside the arcade. Damian smiled and stepped forward to meet Marinette before introductions were made between her friends and his brothers “officially” meeting Marinette.

Three hours of gaming later and the group decided to get lunch at some nearby food trucks. As they walked Marinette held Damian’s hand and would pull him behind her as they walked. She would occasionally drop his hand to pull out a sketchbook where she would spend a few minutes drawing before she would walk again. Each time Damian stood quietly with a small smile and watched her before their fingers would lace and they would continue on with the group.

About halfway to the park the group came across Nino and Adrian who had finally separated from Lila’s group. Lila continued to insist Adrian hang out with her and for some reason his father was pushing Adrian to keep Lila happy.

Seeing them, Marinette dropped Damian’s had and turning to face their group she held her finger to her lips with a small smile as she walked backwards towards the two boys. She stepped so softly that not even Adrian’s Miraculous enhanced hearing heard her approaching, thought the cover traffic provided certainly helped.

When she was only a couple steps behind Adrian must have sensed something because he started to turn around. Unfortunately it was too late and Marinette attacked.

“KITTY!” she yelled and jumped on his back.

Adrian yelped and stumbled a couple steps but kept his balance and gripped Marinette legs where they wrapped around his waist to help.

“Why do you always do this Bug?” He asked the girl clinging to him like a monkey.

“Because it’s fun to scare you Chaton,” she said before shifting her weight so that Adrian stumbled back towards their group to keep upright, “come meet my Gotham friends.”

“Stop, stop, I’m walking, I’m walking,” Adrian muttered as he shifted Marinette on his back so that they were no longer in danger of tripping.

Damian watched with an unemotional mask on his face while the bat boys were trading glances with each other, Damian and the monkey that was their brother’s girlfriend.

As soon as Adrian arrived at the group Marinette jumped off his back and ran through introductions for him and Nino again.

“Join us for lunch?” She asked.

“Sure. It’s better than watching Lila try to scam her way into yet another restaurant,” Adrian agreed.

“Great,” Marinette smiled blindingly and rubbed at an ear, “game of chase?”

Adrian and Nino looked at her questioningly while Max, Kim and Alix smiled conspiratorially at each other.

“Chase?” Dick asked.

Marinette turned back to Damian, “Let the Big Bat know we’re not here for trouble. Just have a few bones to pick with him. Yeah?”

He tilted his head to the side in acknowledgement.

“Tikki, Spots on.”

“Roaar, Stripes on.”

“Wayzz, Shell on.

“Xuppu, Let’s riot.”

“Fluff, Time’s up.”

“Kaalki, Reign in.”

After all six heroes were armored up. Marinette threw a wink at the bat boys. “See you soon birdies,” she said as she threw up her yo-yo and caught zipped off.

The other’s followed her lead and soon the whole group was parkouring over the roofs of Gotham. Unlike during patrols in Paris they allowed themselves to have fun with this. Turning it into a giant game of chase they took turns tagging a team member before running off in the general of the food trucks.

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The bats watched the laughing group take off. Tim was the first to break the spell and pulled out his phone to call Bruce.

“Yeah we got a group of Meta’s that are asking for the Bat’s attention,” he said when Bruce answered.

“Where at?” He asked

“I think they’re headed towards the Botanical gardens food trucks.”

“You think? You don’t have eyes on them?”

Tim side eyed Jason who had shook off his shock only to fall to the sidewalk laughing like a hyena. Damian watched him with a look of mild disgust while Dick was still obviously confused.

“It would be kind of hard to disappear for a change after a group of six kids do a magical girl transformation in front of you. I have too many eyes on me right now. But before they took off they told Damian to let the commissioner and the ‘Big Bat’ they have ‘a bone to pick’ but don’t want to cause trouble.”

“Right,” Bruce said before hanging up. Tim knew that meant that Batman was on his way towards the spontaneous meet.

“Come on we got work to do,” he said motioning for Dick to help him pick Jason off the concrete and carried him in the opposite direction from where the Parisian’s had headed.

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When Batman and the boys arrived it was to the teens sitting around and on the various tables around the food trucks still in costume. Each was eating something from the trucks around them and tourists were taking photos of them. The Gothamites were edging away from the unknown constumes all too familiar with how the city’s rouges often behave. In contrast the French tourists were easily spotted as they were exclaiming over the presence of their city’s heroes across the ocean and taking selfies with the teens.

“Hiya Bats. Want a taco,” the red teen asked the Gotham heroes holding up said taco in offering.

“Who are you and why are you in Gotham,” Batman ignored the question to get to the point.

LadyBug shrugged and finished the taco in two bites before standing and brushing crumbs off her hands.

She jumped off the table she had been using as a seat and stood before the bats. A red-orange, black and white clad hero stood and joined her just a step behind in support. The others quieted their laughter and watched the interactions with seriousness.

“I’m LadyBug, the Hero of Paris. I’m here because I have a bone to pick with your Justice League Bats.”

“The League is unaware of any active heroes in or around Paris,” Batman stated. It wasn’t a disagreement exactly but it was understood that he didn’t believe her.

“You shouldn’t be. Both the Mayor of Paris and myself have reached out to the League when the terrorist Hawkmoth first appeared almost four years ago. A total of 38 requests and pleas for help were ignored. After the last we were put on a do not respond list and prevented from further contact.”

“I am unaware of this. I will look into it,” Batman said.

LadyBug shook her head, “We don’t need you to come help anymore. Instead we, I, want a full acknowledgement that the League failed to do its duty to my city and its citizens. I want a full apology for every death Hawkmoth has caused and that you and your League let happen.”

“You were meant to be Heroes for the world. Instead you failed to protect those who needed it and left a city in the hands of two teenagers who still aren’t adults today,” she dropped the magic to reveal Marinette. “And I want to know what you’ll do to prevent that from happening again.”

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So mostly the interaction between Marinette and Adrian in this take was what spurred this fic on. I think if she were ever to get over the crush she would be super touchy freely with her friend.

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2019 Hugo Award finalists announced

The 2019 Hugo Award nominees have been announced; the Hugos will be presented this summer at the 2019 World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin, Ireland.

Normally, I find that I've read and reviewed a huge slice of the year's finalists, but this year is different; I've done a lot less reading lately, partly because I wrote two books in 2018 and partly because the new EU Copyright Directive ate my life for about 10 months in the past year.

I was a little sad to be so far behind the curve when I saw the new list, but then I realized that this meant that I had a bunch of really exciting books to add to my to-be-read pile!

One notable inclusion: the Archive of Our Own fanfic archive -- a project of the Organization for Transformative Works (for whose advisory board I volunteer) -- is up for "Best Related Work."

Congrats to all the nominees!

Best Novel * The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor) * Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager) * Revenant Gun, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) * Space Opera, by Catherynne M. Valente (Saga) * Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik (Del Rey / Macmillan) * Trail of Lightning, by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)

Best Novella * Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing) * Beneath the Sugar Sky, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing) * Binti: The Night Masquerade, by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing) * The Black God’s Drums, by P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing) * Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, by Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing) * The Tea Master and the Detective, by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press / JABberwocky Literary Agency)

Best Novelette * “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again,” by Zen Cho (B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, 29 November 2018) * “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections,” by Tina Connolly (Tor.com, 11 July 2018) * “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth,” by Daryl Gregory (Tor.com, 19 September 2018) * The Only Harmless Great Thing, by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing) * “The Thing About Ghost Stories,” by Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny Magazine 25, November- December 2018) * “When We Were Starless,” by Simone Heller (Clarkesworld 145, October 2018)

Best Short Story * “The Court Magician,” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed, January 2018) * “The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society,” by T. Kingfisher (Uncanny Magazine 25, November-December 2018) * “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington,” by P. Djèlí Clark (Fireside Magazine, February 2018) * “STET,” by Sarah Gailey (Fireside Magazine, October 2018) * “The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat,” by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Magazine 23, July-August 2018) * “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies,” by Alix E. Harrow (Apex Magazine, February 2018)

Best Series * The Centenal Cycle, by Malka Older (Tor) * The Laundry Files, by Charles Stross (most recently Tor.com Publishing/Orbit) * Machineries of Empire, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) * The October Daye Series, by Seanan McGuire (most recently DAW) * The Universe of Xuya, by Aliette de Bodard (most recently Subterranean Press) * Wayfarers, by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager)

Best Related Work * Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works * Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, by Alec Nevala-Lee (Dey Street Books) * The Hobbit Duology (documentary in three parts), written and edited by Lindsay Ellis and Angelina Meehan (YouTube) * An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953- 2000, by Jo Walton (Tor) * www.mexicanxinitiative.com: The Mexicanx Initiative Experience at Worldcon 76 (Julia Rios, Libia Brenda, Pablo Defendini, John Picacio) * Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, by Ursula K. Le Guin with David Naimon (Tin House Books)

Best Graphic Story * Abbott, written by Saladin Ahmed, art by Sami Kivelä, colours by Jason Wordie, letters by Jim Campbell (BOOM! Studios) * Black Panther: Long Live the King, written by Nnedi Okorafor and Aaron Covington, art by André Lima Araújo, Mario Del Pennino and Tana Ford (Marvel) * Monstress, Volume 3: Haven, written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Image Comics) * On a Sunbeam, by Tillie Walden (First Second) * Paper Girls, Volume 4, written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Cliff Chiang, colours by Matt Wilson, letters by Jared K. Fletcher (Image Comics) * Saga, Volume 9, written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form * Annihilation, directed and written for the screen by Alex Garland, based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer (Paramount Pictures / Skydance) * Avengers: Infinity War, screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo (Marvel Studios) * Black Panther, written by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, directed by Ryan Coogler (Marvel Studios) * A Quiet Place, screenplay by Scott Beck, John Krasinski and Bryan Woods, directed by John Krasinski (Platinum Dunes / Sunday Night) * Sorry to Bother You, written and directed by Boots Riley (Annapurna Pictures) * Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman, directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman (Sony)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form * The Expanse: “Abaddon’s Gate,” written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck and Naren Shankar, directed by Simon Cellan Jones (Penguin in a Parka / Alcon Entertainment) * Doctor Who: “Demons of the Punjab,” written by Vinay Patel, directed by Jamie Childs (BBC) * Dirty Computer, written by Janelle Monáe, directed by Andrew Donoho and Chuck Lightning (Wondaland Arts Society / Bad Boy Records / Atlantic Records) * The Good Place: “Janet(s),” written by Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan, directed by Morgan Sackett (NBC) * The Good Place: “Jeremy Bearimy,” written by Megan Amram, directed by Trent O’Donnell (NBC) * Doctor Who: “Rosa,” written by Malorie Blackman and Chris Chibnall, directed by Mark Tonderai (BBC)

Best Professional Editor, Short Form * Neil Clarke * Gardner Dozois * Lee Harris * Julia Rios * Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas * E. Catherine Tobler

Best Professional Editor, Long Form * Sheila E. Gilbert * Anne Lesley Groell * Beth Meacham * Diana Pho * Gillian Redfearn * Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist * Galen Dara * Jaime Jones * Victo Ngai * John Picacio * Yuko Shimizu * Charles Vess

Best Semiprozine * Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews * Fireside Magazine, edited by Julia Rios, managing editor Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, social coordinator Meg Frank, special features editor Tanya DePass, founding editor Brian White, publisher and art director Pablo Defendini * FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, executive editors Troy L. Wiggins and DaVaun Sanders, editors L.D. Lewis, Brandon O’Brien, Kaleb Russell, Danny Lore, and Brent Lambert * Shimmer, publisher Beth Wodzinski, senior editor E. Catherine Tobler * Strange Horizons, edited by Jane Crowley, Kate Dollarhyde, Vanessa Rose Phin, Vajra Chandrasekera, Romie Stott, Maureen Kincaid Speller, and the Strange Horizons Staff * Uncanny Magazine, publishers/editors-in-chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, managing editor Michi Trota, podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue editors-in-chief Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien

Best Fanzine * Galactic Journey, founder Gideon Marcus, editor Janice Marcus * Journey Planet, edited by Team Journey Planet * Lady Business, editors Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay & Susan * nerds of a feather, flock together, editors Joe Sherry, Vance Kotrla and The G * Quick Sip Reviews, editor Charles Payseur * Rocket Stack Rank, editors Greg Hullender and Eric Wong

Best Fancast * Be the Serpent, presented by Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske and Jennifer Mace * The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe * Fangirl Happy Hour, hosted by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams * Galactic Suburbia, hosted by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch * Our Opinions Are Correct, hosted by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders * The Skiffy and Fanty Show, produced by Jen Zink and Shaun Duke, hosted by the Skiffy and Fanty Crew

Best Fan Writer * Foz Meadows * James Davis Nicoll * Charles Payseur * Elsa Sjunneson-Henry * Alasdair Stuart * Bogi Takács

Best Fan Artist * Sara Felix * Grace P. Fong * Meg Frank * Ariela Housman * Likhain (Mia Sereno) * Spring Schoenhuth

Best Art Book * The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, illustrated by Charles Vess, written by Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga Press /Gollancz) * Daydreamer’s Journey: The Art of Julie Dillon, by Julie Dillon (self-published) * Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History, by Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, Sam Witwer (Ten Speed Press) * Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, ed. John Fleskes (Flesk Publications) * Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – The Art of the Movie, by Ramin Zahed (Titan Books) * Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, ed. Catherine McIlwaine (Bodleian Library)

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer * Katherine Arden (2nd year of eligibility) * S.A. Chakraborty (2nd year of eligibility) * R.F. Kuang (1st year of eligibility) * Jeannette Ng (2nd year of eligibility) * Vina Jie-Min Prasad (2nd year of eligibility) * Rivers Solomon (2nd year of eligibility)

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book * The Belles, by Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform / Gollancz) * Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt / Macmillan Children’s Books) * The Cruel Prince, by Holly Black (Little, Brown / Hot Key Books) * Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray) * The Invasion, by Peadar O’Guilin (David Fickling Books / Scholastic) * Tess of the Road, by Rachel Hartman (Random House / Penguin Teen)

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/dublin-worldcon.html

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Six Questions Challenge

OH MY GOD i am so sorry i literally got tagged for this like a week ago and just remembered im so dsjhdhdhds

anyway thank you so much for tagging me!!! @simonsrosebud i am so sorry this is so late <3

Q1: Relationship status

HA single

Q2: Favorite color?

Orange or pink! 

Q3: Top 3 ships?

snowbaz, solangelo, patroclilles 

Q4: Lipstick or chapstick?

CHAPSTICK for sure!!! i think ive worn lipstick like,,,once 

Q5: Last song you listened to?

under the sea from the little mermaid!! (literally listening to it as im doing this lmao)

Q6: Last movie you watched?

Mamma mia!!! 

i tag: @bitchybazpitch @chvrliespring @paceybunce @neck-mole @sourcherryboy @bazisgay @del-phin @simons-scones @basileafpitch

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Stunning new profile photo by the amazing @delphindraws / @del-phin — if you like their stuff consider commissioning’em ey?

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11, 14 and 18 for the DND asks?

11. if you got the chance to play at a “celebrity” DM’s table (e.g. matt mercer, griffin mcelroy), what kind of character would you design and why?OH DREAM QUESTION - i would love to be a cast member on CR (no fucking surprise) the SHIT out of dandelion because his story lends itself to the kind of campaigns matt run and the long-drawn-out developments that happen and the intricate relationships that develop and just EVERYTHING about dandelion has been somewhat inspired by watching matt’s stories develop and he’d work with dandelion’s story SO WELL and i have no doubts that while he would play up my ideas for dandelion in The Best Way he’d also throw me some AMAZING curveballs i did not see coming and it would just. be. so. GOOD!!! also like. totally not to flirt with taliesin’s character but i’d totally flirt with taliesin’s character 

if i had to design a new character from scratch tho, i’d make someone like dandelion but with their own flavour - someone complicated and layered but with a strong base personality that shines through and is immediately recognisable. so, a well-written character, really, but of course they’d have my own personal spin (and by that i mean projecting whatever trauma im going through and also side dashes of my own childhood trauma sprinkled in, for Zest)

14. a common stereotype about players that applies to you?DICE GOBLIN DICE GOBLIN DICE GOBLIN DICE GOBLINNNNNNNN hfgjdksl i buy so many dice all the time it’s a bit of a problem cos im ruNNING OUT OF PLACES TO KIEEP THEM but its nice having lots of pretty colours

also ‘eh i have 43 HP it’s fine’ *dies in the first fight* ‘motherfucker’ 

18.what’s the first thing you’re doing when you hit level 20?hjfkdls probably turning 70 lol we can never get a session organised so it will be a While before any of my characters in actual campaigns (and not just sessions) hit level 20BUT when teakraal does i might. hhhmmm idk what i’ll do ieve never thought that far ahead tbh.... 

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City Shopping - A Christmas Shklance Fic

Written for the @shklance-exchange for the wonderful @del-phin ! I hope you like it!!

Read it here.

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This is for the dragon prince secret Santa!! My person is @del-phin! Im sorry this is kinda late and not colored like i wanted to but life has been kicking my butt recently 😅 anyway!! I really hope you enjoy your gift! I know I enjoyed making it!!

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Demon’s Bride Drabbles

Daminette December Prompt - Tree

Drabble Masterpost

This one is for @g-arya who sent me a request for information on the relationship between Damian and Marinette. A lot of the prompts from Daminette December were awesome but this one stuck out the most to me.

This happens during the Demon’s Bride universe but not during the story itself.

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Marinette woke up later than usual. She had spent the night before putting the finishing touches on the gifts she had made for Damian and his family. Since this was the first Christmas she was spending with them she wanted to make a good impression on them and had pulled out all the stops on her creative ability.

Walking down the stairs at Wayne Manor she stopped when she saw Damian’s brother Dick standing in the doorway of the main parlor staring at something inside.

“Richard,” she acknowledged the man as she approached to see what had held his attention. Inside the room Damian was decorating a large Douglas fir tree with his little niece Mar’i. Damian was following Mar’i’s directions as she told him where to place garlands, tinsel and ornaments around the tree. The result was an exuberant clash of colors that only a child wold think beautiful, but it brought Mar’i joy to decorate with her uncle.

“You can call me Dick, you know. It’s a perfectly acceptable nickname.”

“Be happy I’m not calling you Grayson and accept that your nickname is a general insult and not a name at all.”

“And I thought baby bat was bad.”

Marinette ignored the man and continued to watch the two decorating the tree. Damian had a small smile and was looking at little Mar’i with a soft fondness that Marinette hadn’t seen in years. Even after their reunion most of their time was spent trying to put an end to the Hawkmoths situation in Paris.

“The first few years after Talia dropped him here we tried to get him to celebrate with us but he refused. Every time he called it a ridiculous waste of a time to celebrate a false belief in a fat red man that would bring toys as bribes for good behavior. Then a couple years ago this started,” he gestured into the room, “I still have no idea what changed.”

Marinette smiled fondly.

“The first year after my family left Tiān we went through the motions of the Christmas holiday. We decorated our bakery accordingly, my mother went shopping for gifts for me and we chose one present to be from ‘Santa’ that I could tell my peers about if they should ask.”

“That doesn’t sound too bad.” Dick said looking at her.

Marinette’s smile turned bitter. “We were aping at a holiday none of us believed in because it allowed us to blend into the society we found ourselves in. We would have stood out if we didn’t do those things and a good assassin is never seen.”

Dick was taken aback at her words.

“For three years we continued this practice of celebrating a belief we had no investment in. The fourth year one of my parents regulars at the bakery needed a last minute sitter so she could go to an interview. Maman volunteered me to keep the child occupied for a few hours.”

“What happened,” Dick asked. Marinette’s expression had returned to the fond smile from before but he didn’t think it had anything to do with the sight of Mar’i sitting on Damian’s shoulders as she tried to put some of the ornaments at the top of the tree herself. Well not much anyways.

“Manon happened. She’s the child I watched and during those four hours I heard all about how she was sad that Santa had been unable to find the perfect doll that she wanted. He had brought her three different dolls, a house and clothes to fill a room in that house but not the doll. She showed me a picture of her mom as a child. Her mom held a soft baby doll that had gone out of production years before. Manon had wanted that doll to give to her mom for Christmas.”

Marinette shook her head, “A child asking Santa for a gift that she could turn around and give to her mother was unusual to me. At school I only ever heard about the things he brought to my peers or their siblings. What they would give to others never came up. It stayed with me after she left with her mother and that night I grabbed bits and pieces of cloth and thread I had around my room. I used what I remembered from the picture to create an approximation of the doll.”

“And you gave it to Manon?”

Marinette laughed, “No that would have been too easy. Making it only took a few hours so it was very early morning when I finished. The sun wasn’t up yet but I decided it was the best idea to go over to their house anyways and leave it there. They often leave a window on their third story cracked a very little bit. Not enough to see it from the streets, but when you parkour over rooftops it’s something you sometimes notice.”

“You broke into their house to leave a doll?” Dick asked in disbelief.

“Yep,” Marinette said proudly. “It took skills from the League to enter on the third floor, make my way down to the first to leave the doll by their tree, and leave through the same window. Manon was so happy to come by with her mom the next morning to show us the doll that Santa had brought her mom. Christmas magic was a toy appearing because she wished for it to.”

Dick shook his head, “Unbelievable. But why are you telling me this.”

Marinette turned so she her back was to the room and she faced Dick directly. Her face turned as serious as stone. “Damian and I spent our childhoods under a regime where our childhood innocence was brutally murdered. My mother risked our very lives to tell us the histories and legends of Tiān. But it was important that we, as the children of Tiān, knew our past.”

“Seeing the joy in Manon over a simple doll, seeing the light in Mar’i over decorating a tree is a gift we are able to give to them. We were never able to be so bright. The Demon made sure any light, any joy that was so pure of childhood was ended either through blood or through death.”

“It was always a aching pain in our souls to see the children younger then us go through the trainings that broke their beliefs in a fair and kind world. That taught them that the world was really a dark place full of pain.”

“Now that we’re out of that place, in a world that allows us too, we do what we can to preserve the magic that children see in the world around us.”

“Damian wouldn’t have cared to celebrate for himself because he knows the world is a broken place. But for Mar’i he would celebrate to help protect her belief in a kind and caring world.”

Marinette nodded at Dick and turned back to the gleeful decorators. Joining them she offered an ornament up to the little girl and laughed as she dropped it on Damian’s head. Richard watched for a moment more before turning away and going to find a quiet place to regain his balance.

While not entirely unexpected the story and understanding Marinette shared of his youngest brother was yet another bitter failing his family had left their youngest. Instead of trying to understand why he didn’t join in their celebrations, they had either dragged him along unwillingly or left him alone during these times.

Perhaps they couldn’t repair the damage Talia, the League, and they themselves had done to Damian so that he was undamaged. But maybe they could fix it so that he could find a bit of the joy and belief he had been forced to throw away as a child. Maybe, this year they could do better to help their family heal as a whole.

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[kirigaya-art]

Another song for the Carry On musical! I was working on this one alongside the last one, so I finished them close together too. This one's supposed to be a little more silly and casual. It's loosely based on a scene at the beginning of the book.

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Let me know if you'd like to be tagged on future songs and/or join the discord for this musical, where we work on composing music and brainstorming new songs!

[snackpointcharlie]

If you don’t know whether you’re coming or going or which way is up these days, well take a number, buddy. When the going gets weird, the weird tune in Snackpoint Charlie for an earful of music from hither and yon and points in between. Last night’s broadcast is now available via WGXC’s patented Podcast-O-Matic™ process, and not a moment too soon:

Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 091 - 2022.05.18 PLAYLIST https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/zpfa9z

1) Ubon Pattana with Surin Paksiri - “Lam Sarawan” from SIAMESE SOUL: THAI POP SPECTACULAR VOL. 2 https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/siamese-soul-thai-pop-spectacular-vol-2

2) May Sumarna - “Untuk Ibu” from PARADE 1968 - VOL. 1 https://madrotter-treasure-hunt.blogspot.com/2019/04/parade-1968-vol-1.html

3) Ian Carr - “Summer Rain” from BELLADONNA https://www.discogs.com/master/437717-Ian-Carr-Belladonna

(underbed throughout) Pinetop Gherkins - “iranaway”

4) Lilis Surjani - “Gendjer Gendjer” from Lilis . . . . Ia Tetap Diatas! https://madrotter-treasure-hunt.blogspot.com/2019/03/lilis-surjani-orkes-baju-lilis-ia-tetap.html https://www.discogs.com/release/12537182-Lilis-Surjani-Ia-Tetap-Diatas

5) Echo Del Africa - “Yiri Wah” from Bobo Yéyé: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta https://boboyeye.bandcamp.com/album/bobo-y-y-belle-epoque-in-upper-volta https://numerogroup.com/products/bobo-yy-belle-poque-in-upper-volta

6) キングコングパラダイス [King Kong Paradise] - “レゲエ ヴドゥ [Reggae Vudu]” from あつさもさむさも [Atsushi and Samusa] https://www.discogs.com/master/1520717-%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%91%E3%83%A9%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9-%E3%81%82%E3%81%A4%E3%81%95%E3%82%82%E3%81%95%E3%82%80%E3%81%95%E3%82%82

7) Los Golden Boys - “Sonrieme” from Cumbia De Juventud https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/cumbia-de-juventud https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4323594/reference/

8) لطوارق = Touareg - “عزف على القصبة = Gasba” from Chants Et Musique D'Algérie RTA N°3 https://www.discogs.com/release/2992160-Various-%D8%A3%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A-%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%89-%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-Chants-Et-Musique-DAlg%C3%A9rie

9) Mdou Moctar - “Asdikte Akal (Yugen Blakrock Remix ft Kanif The Jhatmaster)” from Afrique Refait https://mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com/album/afrique-refait

10) Tom Recchion - “Obscure Joe Doaks” from Japanese Cassette https://feedingtuberecords.com/releases/japanese-cassette/

11) 天気予報 「Weather Forecast」 - “Imminent Sunset” from ひまわり画像 「Sunflower Image」 https://asutenki.bandcamp.com

12) DakhaBrakha - “9 Nedilechok (I'm Sunday)” from Live on KEXP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o88sTCmJlb4

13) Cieba Coqui - “3a” from Coqui of Ceiba, Puerto Rico, 2002 https://fredlonberg-holm.bandcamp.com/album/coqui-of-ceiba-puerto-rico-2002

14) Ahmed Ag Kaedi - “Imouhagh Siwlat” from Agrim Agadez https://sahelsoundscompilations.bandcamp.com/album/agrim-agadez

15) Alhaji K. Frimpong - “Enna” from Abrabo https://hotcasarecords.bandcamp.com/album/abrabo

16) David Greenberger & The Waldameer Players - “Down at the Rock & Roll Club (Ken’s Corner)” from TODAY! http://www.davidgreenberger.com/

17) Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba - “Bassekouni” from Ba Power http://bassekou-kouyate.bandcamp.com

18) Sublime Frequencies/Mark Gergis - “Youth Radio of the Syrian Arab Republic” from I Remember Syria https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/i-remember-syria

19) Daniel Bachman - “WBRP 47.5” from Axacan https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/axacan

20) Geylang Electric Phin Band - “Hek Sib Gau” from Sounds of Lecak Vol. 1 https://kriborecordsggb.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-of-lecak-vol-1

21) “Cucak Rawa (Ropel)” and “Murai Batu (Juara)” from SONG BIRDS OF INDONESIA https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/song-birds-of-indonesia