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u guys remember how I said I wanted to try and get a car this year as one of my resolutionsā¦ after months of researching I think I found the one I want. Finally. I am so sick of reading abt and looking at cars š
#I want to try and buy one by may but idk how realistic that is#depends on a few things#itās a car from 2009-10 and can go for 4-7k which is not BAD considering how highly rated it is#itās just the nearest ones are like 5 hours away lol š#I also donāt know if I can save that much up that fast#I havenāt been able to save much money bc I keep having to loan family money š°#realistically if I want this car itāll probably be more like. Octoberish when Iām able to save up enough#I also have to consider insurance which is a big pain#my vans insurance was cheap bc it was as old as I am lmao!! cannot imagine this one will be that cheap but idk my credit is also better now#but considering the car is from 2009 or 10 depending on the one I go with I canāt imagine it being over 100/mo surely. like. that would#be bonkers#I wanted a small truck but theyāre hard to find and I wanted an rv deep in my heart too. but they r so expensive š¤§#one day one day one day šš#actually the specific truck I did have my eye on is fucking ILLEGAL WHERE I LIVE SO. HUGE bummer#itās supposedly not safe but I think big gas is probably just pressed bc itās cute and tiny and is not a gas guzzler. tbqh.#anyway Iām putting it into the universe rn: by the end of the year she (cute tiny car) will be mine#sanchoyorambles
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If you felt absolutely 100%, no doubt at all, perfectly SAFE, would you have sex with a masked stranger for money?
Maybe š«£
#depends on a few things#itās one thing to feel safe and itās another thing to not be super anxious#I feel like my anxiety would get in the way tbh#but but but#how much money are we talking???#also feel like this is obvious#but only with a condom#Iām not going to let just anyone fuck me raw#but ngl this whole thought is exciting to think about š«£š«£š«£š«£#gonna have some scenarios running around in my head about this soon#ask#anon
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Eternal Bonds: Tim and Dannyās Infinite Realms Marriage
In the Infinite Realms, marriage is an unparalleled commitment. Unlike the mortal world, where love can be fleeting and easily undone, marriage in the Realms is something far more sacred. Itās not just about vows or ceremoniesāitās about merging souls, creating a bond that not even the vast stretches of time can sever. The very idea of marriage in the Realms is rare, almost mythical, because it requires two beings to love each other so profoundly that theyāre willing to bind their very existence to one another.
For the ghosts and entities that reside in this realm, eternity isnāt just a poetic ideaāitās a reality. Time is meaningless when youāre no longer alive, when your very essence is bound to the afterlife. And because of this, relationships are viewed through a different lens. Thereās no such thing as divorce, no ātime apart.ā Once a couple is bound, their souls are intertwined forever. To dedicate your entire beingāpast, present, and futureāto another means accepting that their joys, sorrows, triumphs, and failures will be yours too. Itās a partnership where breaking the bond is simply impossible.
Itās why marriage is such a rare occurrence in the Realms. The ghosts, who have already lived one life and often seen the frailty of mortal promises, donāt enter into this kind of bond lightly. Itās only for the strongest of loves, for the most steadfast of commitments. Because once you marry in the Infinite Realms, that bond holds through eternity itself.
And yet, despite the gravity of it all, Tim and Danny find themselves willing to make that very commitment. Tim, a mortal tied to a world where things end, where nothing lasts forever, steps into the unknown. His love for Danny is so deep, so unshakable, that he agrees to a traditional Infinite Realms marriage. He knows full well the weight of itāheās not just vowing to love Danny in this life, but in every life after. In swearing to this bond, Tim is offering his entire being to Danny, for now and all of eternity.
For Danny, this choice means even more. As a halfa, he exists between two worlds, knowing both the mortality of the living and the permanence of the ghostly afterlife. His love for Tim is powerful enough that heās willing to make this eternal commitment, knowing that thereās no one else in any worldāmortal, ghostly, or beyondāhe would rather be tied to. For Danny, the bond is as natural as breathing. Itās a connection that deepens their relationship in a way that transcends the limitations of their two worlds.
Their marriage isnāt just a declaration of loveāitās a merging of souls, a binding that makes them two parts of the same whole. It overwhelms them with the sense of safety and belonging that theyāve both craved in their lives. In each other, they find the kind of love that doesnāt just endure lifeās difficulties but thrives beyond them. Their bond ties them together forever in a way that no one else could understand, but to Tim and Danny, itās everything.
They are each otherās home. And in the Infinite Realms, there is no greater honor, no stronger connection, than to be bound by love for all of eternity.
#brain dead#dead tired#tim drake#danny phantom#danny fenton#dc x dp#i totally think that marriage should be a sacred thing in the afterlife because you are promising to love someone for all eternity#eternity in a very literal sense btw#tim and danny should also just be undeniable soulmates in like every world ever#you can also totally make this angsty depending on how you think tim will end up in the realms#i had a few ideas#an interesting route could be that the traditional Infinite Realms marriage alters Tim fundamentally#turning him into a halfa like Danny#this transformation would ensure that they are not only emotionally and spiritually bonded#but also physically tied to the same plane of existence#another being tim might age much slower almost as if heās been granted an extended lifespan#so that they can share a near-eternity together#he would still be alive but his mortality would be stretched out far beyond a normal human lifespan#i think this one is more devastating tho:#danny has to watch tim grow old while he remains ageless or only ages very slowly#but because the wedding binds their souls in the afterlife tim would not truly leave danny forever upon death#instead the moment tim's mortal life ends his soul could be drawn into the infinite realms to live with danny for eternity#agh theres just so much potential for this idea!! so many things i can add and have thought abt that would be so interesting to see!#i'm so in love with this concept
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Thought of this while at work, sorry it's a bit hard to read I sketched it out really fast before my last shift lmao wanted to get it done so I could work on other stuff hehe
If it's any consultation Floyd is mostly talking about himself
#my art#trolls#dreamworks trolls#brozone#trolls 3#trolls floyd#trolls john dory#trolls branch#trolls poppy#the way i imagine their 20 years in troll village is that one meme where its the two different nothing in life matters pics#but one is super sad and the other is happy looking and radical#thats floyd and jd#but they switch places depending on the day#branch is a secret third option#also idk what id do with the 3rd movies plot#this scene in my head is 3rd movie era but i like havent decided what theyre doing yet#theres a few possibilities on whos in the bottle or if theres a bottle at all#this would take place in a timeline where clay or bruce is in the bottle#but like heres the thing any of the brothers could be bottled and itd make for a good story#i drift more towards clay only for the irony of finding out your brothers alive but its a race against time cuz hes literally dying#so it adds to the urgency but then its not much adventure cuz they just gotta get bruce and go#cuz we have 3/5 brozone here already#same goes for if its bruce#so like for story purposes that means it would be most likely JD or Floyd which is just most aus and canon#cuz after world tour Floyd would travel with JD on their own tour Floyd going solo with JD as his manager#and in this scenario they came back to tell Branch about finding whoever is in the bottle#but the story of these guys could also work without any bottle so idk we'll just have to see what i decide to do later#also im slowly coming up with a name for this#very slowly but it'll happen#i actually have a google doc that has a name so i may just use that
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Githyanki doodling on post-it notes that I cleaned up a lil bit Lae'zel from memory on the first (im only happy with the profile tbh), and Anma and Mitas on the second (It was SO easy to fit them in BG3 lore it's insane... I even have a whole storyline roughly figured out for them and it came together in like 30 minutes on my walk home from work.) I don't have any energy to draw nowadays except on post-its, but it's better than nothing.
#baldur's gate 3#ocs#oc#mitas#anma#lae'zel#beary sketch#mitas camcara#anma camcara#mitas and anma aren't really classic ācrĆØcheā githyankis... or well they used to be but :^)c#let's say that Anma follows Voss' ideals#Mitas tries to help her but she's never in the same spot so Mitas gets to be Tav's companion#while Anma is an npc you meet on his storyline#the meeting goes.... very differently depending on your choices :^)#zellk#i made a game with the two of them together in it#and most of the time i have lae'zel in the team too (after she learns a few things Anma would get along quite well with her)#so it's like#3 giths team#it's so fucking funny#3 toads#bg3
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Actually based on that other poll:
#flood warning#polls#my favourite film is dons party. which is generally considered good and i would recommend to most people#not necessarily all. depends on their tastes#if they arent australian i do need to like. also explain a few things
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wanted to do a little designing for pop star volo's hoodie! (may do a more fully realized reference later on :D i really just wanted to use this to figure out color and the giratina, give it a little more from the first drawing of it i did)
#pokemon volo#merchant volo#pla volo#giratina#my art#pop star au#this has at least two inspirations haha#not really a stage outfit for him per se probably more of a casual thing he wears#i can't really say most of the boys have real set stage outfits#i know i drew them for emmet and ingo but#let's just say they'll have a few#depends on the performance!
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konig: why was that attractive
support me on patreon (nsfw)
#konig is evaluating a few things#give him some time he'll come to the same conclusion weve all come to#eventually#also please note ghosts reaction to seeing konigs face#i think konigs relationship to the hood and helmet is a lot less dependent that ghost's on his mask#but ghost doesnt know that#his immediate reaction is to leave because he feels bad for barging in#i just#want to emphasise that#hes not COMPLETELY a dick in this#<3#i love you simon#simon ghost riley#john soap mactavish#like#hes mentioned#konig#cod mw2#giragi art#ghost x konig#ghost x konig x soap#eventual
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I have seen a few DCxMarvel dimension travel fics, and quite a few of them are of them are Peter Parker post-blip. Which gives me a crack fic idea: everyone who got snapped ended up in the DC universe. Yes, all of them.
The current world population is around eight billion, so half of that would be 4 billion... Yeah that would cause so so so many problems. But the DC universe is used to crazy shit.
Obviously there would be a sudden influx of "new" heroes and villains but with absolutely no context it is hard to figure out who is who.
Batman immediately trying to make contingency plans for all these new heroes and villains as well as figure out their civilian identities but this is very difficult because literally no records exist yet.
Magic users from both worlds team up, but I think they were still unable to fix it, the infinity stones were just too powerful. Also I think Dr. Strange and Constantine can't stand each other.
While I am at it, Wonder Woman and Loki would probably hate each other too. DC is more Greek but it has had their own version of Norse mythology, so maybe they are the same and have beef?
They would struggle to feed and house that many new people, but getting them jobs and integrating them into society would be hard too. And good luck proving anything anyone says. "You swear you have a law degree from Harvard? Okay I guess."
Do doubles exist? Yeah a lot of people probably don't have an alternate universe double, but it stands to reason some do. How do you deal with having a new kind-of twin? Or a dead friend or relative coming back, but different? Or even someone you never knew/doesn't exist in this world insisting they are family.
Some au double ideas I have seen people toss around are: Dick Grayson as Richard Parker, Kara Danvers as Carol Danvers, Steve Trevor as Steve Rogers, and Slade Wilson as/being somehow related to Wade Wilson, but I am sure there are other fun ideas out there too.
The snap didn't just affect humans/earth! So other planets are having the same problems.
Then randomly, five years later, just when people were getting used to the change, they all disappear again without warning. This causes as many problems as the original appearance did.
#dc#dc comics#marvel#dc x marvel#marvel x dc#marvel dc crossover#dc marvel crossover#dc universe#marvel cinematic universe#dimension travel#batman#the snap#the blip#spiderman#dick grayson#wonder woman#loki#i confess i have a soft spot for dick as Peter's dad ever since i first saw the idea#i want matt and foggy to be one of the snapped purely so foggy can make a joke about batman and Matt's own batlike abilities#alternatively maybe the dc team up actually does manage to fix things early and Thanos is like 'the fuck???'#there is a lot of potential here for both angst and comedy depending on how you want to do it#i mostly imagine this as a comedy but honestly it would be a good drama#but tbh i am more interested in the ways these characters can be forced to interact for comedy purposes#do you understand my vision Internet?#you can tell i have no idea what to tag this as#i just love these types of fics and think this would be a fun crack au#does something similar exist yet? obviously lots of crossovers exist but usually it is just a few characters.#i want q bunch of them being forced to interact for an extended period of time#if such a fic exists please let me know lol
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Steve had watched the world end a hundred different ways. Heād lived the same day more times than he could count, watching the people he loved die or feeling himself die. There were things worse than death. There were memories he didnāt dredge up for fear of calling them into the waking world.
He'd held onto hope for the first twenty recurrent days, which had dwindled to a sense of steely determination until heād lost count of the days. Then all that was left was the comfort of repetition. He was Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the hill, day in and day out. Steve kept trying and failing to save Eddie until it was all he knew.
Maybe he was Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods and spent his life paying for it, tied to a rock while birds picked at his liver, only for it to grow back with each morning. Prometheus whose name, by definition, means forethought; oneās ability to consider possible futures. Steve had spent a small lifetime considering futures. It wasnāt a comparison he wouldāve made on his own. That was Eddie, whoād spent his childhood with his head in thick tomes of fantasy and mythology.
Eddie Munson came to him like cheap furniture, in crudely disassembled pieces that Steve had been working tirelessly to put together. Each new loop brought him another piece of Eddie. His favourite colour was blue. He only woke up early on weekends to watch cartoons. He liked too much cream in his coffee.
The Eddie that existed in a world where Steve stayed with him and Dustin during the swarm of bats had told Steve his biggest dream was to make enough money to buy Uncle Wayne a proper home. His biggest fear was that when he died, no one would remember him.
Days or months later, with Steve repeating the same damn day, heād finally learnt why Eddieās love for his uncle ran so deep. Wayne had taken him in before his dad went to jail when the man caught Eddie holding another boyās hand. In that world, Steve had stayed with Eddie in the RV as the rest of the group searched War Zone. Ā
Eddieās mother died when he was six. Heād told Steve that later, or earlier. Steve had and has lost his sense of past and present. Eddie loved his mother deeply, though was unsure if that love had been misplaced. He recalled two mothers, one who read him bedtime stories and threw herself around the kitchen each morning with her wild theatrics and another mother who was distant and whose temper could turn on a dime. Eddie wasnāt sure which of those mothers was his and which was the mother of memory. All good storytellers know the story shapes itself in the retelling. Eddieās mother was Janus, god of duality.
Steve understood. He loved and hated his parents. These feelings werenāt mutually exclusive. Steve loved Eddie because heād spent the last hundred-odd days getting to know him, but Steve hated Eddie because he kept dying. Until he didnāt.
The boys lay side by side in the red-blue soil of The Upside Down, their bleeding sides caked with mud and demonic bat viscera. In the end, Steve wasnāt sure whatād done it. Itād been so long since heād lived Eddieās original death that itād been smeared by the haze of memory and conjecture. All he knew was that a sea of bats lay dead around them and that it was over. Finally, over.
Steve removed his hand from where it was pressed into his side and extended it to ensnare Eddieās. He felt muscles tug and tear from the walls of his ribs with the effort. Blood flowed freely from the cavity, but Steve didnāt care. He wanted to hold Eddieās hand. Holy shit, theyād done it.
Somewhere along the way, Steve had fallen in love. Itād taken him ten more iterations to reconcile with the fact he could not only like a man but love him. Ā That was months ago, in Steveās time. It was old news. āSteve, you still with me?ā Eddie asked, his voice horse.
He was hurt, though not as badly as Steve. All his wounds were superficial. Heād be okay. Steve had been so sick of watching Eddie die, heād been willing to put his body on the line to make sure it didnāt happen again.
In this loop, he was still āSteveā, not āStevieā. They hadnāt grown close enough yet. Eddie only called him āsweetheartā in the iterations where they kissed. Steve wanted to kiss him, but there was the taste of iron in his mouth.
āIām okay,ā Steve insisted, squeezing Eddieās hand. He felt a sharp pain shoot through his side as Eddie pressed his hand into Steveās wound.
āChrist, thereās a lot of blood,ā Eddie muttered to himself.Ā
He was bad with blood. Heād scraped his knee down to the bone when he was seven and ever since, the sight of gore made him queasy. Steve wasnāt meant to know that yet. In this iteration, he hadnāt told Eddie about the loop. Heād tried before, but it never helped.
Pain and blood loss drag Steve down into a familiar oblivion. He expected to wake at the beginning of the loop, emerging in The Upside Down from Loverās Lake, but instead, he found himself in a hospital room with Eddie in a bed by his side. It was late, too late for visitors, but Eddie wasnāt sleeping. His eyes were trained on Steve, equal parts concerned and curious.
āYou scared the shit out of me,ā Eddie confessed, as Steveās eyes met his.Ā
Steve wanted to cry or scream. He wanted to untangle himself from the knot of cords and tubes to crawl beside Eddie in bed as they had curled up together in the back of the RV dozens of times before. He needed to hold Eddie to know he was alive, to understand he wasnāt going anywhere. Steve blinked away tears, balling his hands into fists. He didnāt want to scare Eddie.
āI scared you?ā Steve choked out a mixture between a laugh and a sob.
Eddie didnāt know what to do. He never knew what to do when people cried. Steve learned that in the iteration where theyād lost Dustin. He didnāt want to think about it. Ā
āYou almost died, man,ā Eddie explained.
He somehow understood Steve wanted him closer. Eddie got out of bed, clutching his I.V. drip as he flopped into the chair by Steveās bedside. He wanted to hold Eddieās hand again, but he was out of excuses. He could tell him the truth, but he didnāt know what good it would do.
Steve was still used to thinking of possible futures. He was Prometheus who, unlike Sisyphus, escaped his torment. Steve wondered what happened to Prometheus after he was rescued. Did he return to a normal life? Does anyone bother to ask? Prometheusā story is always about punishment. Afterwards, he was a footnote in the story of Hercules, but once the heroes leave the story, whatās left?
Eddie would know the answer, but it wasnāt a conversation heād had with this Eddie. That Eddie was dead. This Eddie was and wasnāt him. This Eddie was Janus, god of abstract duality, god of beginnings and ends, god of life and death.
āSorry my lame-ass face is the first one you had to see. Robin and the kids were in here all day. Wheeler left flowers,ā Eddie tacked on awkwardly.
This Eddie didnāt know Steve. They were strangers. Of course, things were awkward. He couldnāt know he was the one person Steve wanted to see more than anything.
āNo, Edāsā.ā Slip of the tongue.
āEddie. Iām really glad youāre here, man.ā
They were back to square one, but Steve could work with that. Heād been working with that for months. This time, Eddie would remember. This time, they had the luxury of taking things slow.
āOne thingās been bugging me all day,ā Steve began.
After hundreds of days of getting to know Eddie, Steve had learnt a few shortcuts, a few ways to jump-start his way into Eddieās heart.
āCan you explain what the hell Mordor is?ā
It was a tried-and-true method. By that point, Steve knew Eddieās response off by heart, but he wanted to hear him say it. Eddie gave him the same perplexed look he always did when Steve asked. It was as though Eddie thought he knew too much like there was some secret he wasnāt letting him in on, but he didnāt challenge Steve on it. He never did.
āHarrington, have you heard of Lord of the Rings?ā Yes.
āNo.ā A million times.
āTell me about it.ā
Read Part 2 Here
#steddie#steddie ficlet#steve harrington#eddie munson#stranger things#drabble#ficlet#Metalhoops writes#I read the post yesterday#and I've been thinking about it ever since#the plot kind of ran away with itself#but I like how it turned out#I'm considering a part 2#from Eddie's point of few in the weeks/ months that follow#depending on if people are interested#shoutout to#@theamazingbard#for the idea
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we let the ocean drown out our voices/enjoying the bitterness/in the chaotic light, I close my eyes and see
#dredge game#spoilers. technically lol#my friend mim (at mimzalot on twitch etc) streamed dredge at it went the FUnniest way it couldve#two streams in we made a joke abt the collector and the fisherman being in toxic old man yaoi#divorcee-on-widower situationship together. and the joke kept up Literally Until The Very End#iykyk#could not have stumbled into a better way to keep the surprise#and The Best Thing Is. I do still think the yaoi is meaningful to the text#like mim brought up how resurrection is inherently a selfish act. I sat on that for a While#but also I do just enjoy body double. abdication of responsibility through othering a specific part of yourself#pairing that with specifically Being A Villain as like. a deliberate act#u see my vision. u ever played dredge#anyways uhhh caption is from no party for cao dong's devotion#yes its bc red candle game's devotion is like a quarter of my personality but also I do listen to no party for cao dong recreationally#also been really feelin this kind of ink recently. U Will See. Soon Ish#seems I have like... phases of trying to figure out specific textures in ink#a long time ago I was Really into drawing metal with just ink. and a few years ago it was fire. and now: water#one day I'll get all five. and then I will be able to see the future#okay I either finish up a thing or go to bed now... depends. we shall see. take care and be kind to urself yeah? lets draw smthing tmr
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Fanfiction is so goated actually
No monetary incentive, just writing in one's free time. Some incentive for like kudos and comments, because who doesn't want to hear that someone else enjoyed what they wrote. Just writing a story that is good and/or enjoyable, no real-life pressure to keep it going because god forbid you and other people are depending on it financially.
Writing a story because you want to write a good story, so you can write what they want the way you want, at a pace that is realistic for you, with exactly the plot pacing you want there to be.
#c*rny posts#thinking about this after the my h*ro academia leaks lmao#i have read barely a few chapters of the manga and then kept up with it through tumblr osmosis#i was interested in how its gonna end#and after reading the leaks i was like 'well its up to the fanfic writers to write a good ending now'#cause. it was kind of underwhelming. like some stuff made sense and some things were just done badly#which is realistic considering h*rikoshi is apparently burned out to hell#and i was thinking. man. if i had to write AND illustrate a story for like ten years straight. because its my bread and butter#and there are other people depending on the story doing well to make money#it would 100% get to me. i would rather end it all lmao#which is why i think fanfic is so great#just writing a story that you want. that makes sense to you. that has elements you want. that is exactly as long as you want.#and there isnt even a possibility of really monetizing it so there is no drive to make is 'succeed' or make it as long as possible#this could be applied to just writing a 'regular' story also that is not intended for publishing#also kinda makes me think about h*ikyuu#i kinda do feel the timeskip and the ending were a bit rushed#but like. if it was me. i would have rushed it too lmao#after so many years of working on one thing and one thing only i would have been so done. just so done#and h*ikyuu ending to me wasnt even bad. it was good with good resolution of everything. with characters evolving and achieving their dreams#not necessarily volleyball related (like tenma)#the progress made realistic sense#but it did feel a bit rushed#anyway#fanfic and writing for yourself is great#and manga authors face way too much pressure from people dependent on them. from fans. even from society in general
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One of the main reasons why I used to avoid Isekaiās, and fantasy works in general, like the plague is because of how over saturated theyād become with things that didnāt feel like they even belonged to the genre to begin withā¦ itās not too hard to find works that stand out but so much of those works have been pushed down and forgotten, it just sucks.
#one of the many reasons why fantasy in general outside of a few things has never stuck with me or have even been a go to genre to engage#with if it was simply just that and nothing else added to subvert the genres š§š¾āāļø#at least enough for me to enjoy myselfā¦ and Iām an insanely picky person too soā¦#isekaiās really did get turned into incel shit and sm of them are pedo/incest pandering as well#the amount of times Iāve run into an isekai where the warrior ends up marrying his daughter at the end of the series-#never got over that one where the son was falling in love with his mom bro that series couldāve been so fun#and a lot of the scenes with them would have them almost appearing as though they were a coupleā¦ the Romantic scene on the beach š©ā¦#kms rn-#and sm fantasty stuff is full of assault as well because they want to be like berserk so badly uhhh#itās kinda crazy#rambling#Iām mostly desensitized to a lot of this stuff in fiction depending on how theyāre presented but I usual usually scroll by/read the things#as quickly as possible just to get done with it#I donāt rly skip most things tbh :(#DM is refreshing though itās very charming and colorful#I donāt have much to say for frieren since I never really cared to get into it but Iām sure itās endearing for most
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Having a childhood ship have a resurgence and making art for them now older and with new skills is honestly what life is all about. This is just a message letting you know youāre winning with drawing disear keep it up and tysm <3
HAHAA YEAH exactly, it truly is something special and I'm definitely having the time of my life over here. Thank you so much!! Glad to hear people are also enjoying my silly stuff for them.
#gene answers#deeneedsaname#inside out fear#inside out disgust#fear x disgust#disear#fashion disaster#fear#disgust#gene art#i had this idea brewing in my mind n i thought it would be#fun to slap this on this ask hehe#tried my best to emulate my 2015 style. i still do the eyebrow thing lmao#if youve known me a bit these past few years#i do this thing a lot. where i revisit old favs and remake them#(MOSTLY for ocs though it's rare for fanart)#because like maintaining my motivation for fan stuff is dependent#on the fandom tbh. and the media it's from#while for ocs i can do whatever the eff. thats MY guys#it's always very fun to look back on where you came from#i say this a lot so i probably wont repeat myself any further#any who. these two ruined me. i love them
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CAESAR AUGUSTUS AND MARCUS LICINIUS CRASSUS
this is about the spolia opima that crassus was robbed of lmao. like, yeah okay octavian could've asked him not to claim it, but nevertheless. a kind of theft happened there.
Fact and Fiction: Crassus, Augustus, and the Spolia Opima, Catherine McPherson
#this is one from the vaults I started a few months ago and finally finished. itās always the furniture details that put things on hold lmao#the former co consuls are fightinggggg (?)#rome is built on top of other people. this is about both the imperialism-slavery machine and the way that all these guys would#politically devour their own generation to sit on a throne. etc. anyway. octavian specifically sits on a throne of other peopleās#accomplishments. thatās a specific kind of debt to carry around your neck. or theft depending on who is doing what#this was theft. anything involving Agrippa was a gift so thereās an obligation to succeed which is itās own kind of currency so to speak#sugghrhfh. every crassus always has to be like this. in my heart i always root for whoever decides to go up against rome#and then i'm stuck with the guy who should've got a spolia opima like. congrats on your win. i guess. i think. RIP.#ACTUALLY YOU KNOW WHAT. while im talking about this crassus. domina fucking sucks. what an absolute clusterfuck of a show#anyway. if anyone ever does augustan age politics again. octavia would be a great character if you want to invent shit#but also more importantly octavian should seduce crassus for this. thank you.#octavian#marcus licinius crassus.....christ how do i write down that he's the grandson of my crassus. i'll figure it out later#roman empire tag#drawing tag
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oc time again! + her town & culture (heavily inspired by pre-roman italic populations)
she is suri sauthon. her story is linked to my swtor imperial agent, tar'x, but most of her life except for the one year away where she meets him, is spent in a town in the mountains of mirial.
despite mirial being cold and desert, and many cities developing underground, her town flourishes thanks to a force nexus, venerated in the form of an ancient, sacred, alive crystal. the ecosystem of that mountain depended on what "the horned crystal" was capable of giving them, but mirialans couldn't live off of that alone, so they developed trade and some rudimental technology, even if oftentimes it was bought thanks to the highly profitable trade of a plant used to make medicines that slowed down aging and had overall healing properties.
note: everything that's generated by this nexus has these healing properties BUT they have to be processed, except for those who bathed in the waters of the cavity under the crystal - the "real" nexus, but not the worshipped one. the waters were sacred but they were not thought to be miraculous, unlike the crystal, who instead was thought of as the keystone of the ecosystem: without it, everything would fall apart (and that is partially true: the cavity was the "real" nexus but thanks to the crystal, also strong in the force, the properties were spread all over the mountains). those who bathed in the cavity's waters - so, all of the town, who had a sort of baptism there - could eat the plant, make whatever food with it, and not only that plant, but everything generated by the nexus, that, again, had similar properties. this allowed people to live up to normal life-spans without advanced medicines or, much, really. to those who didn't live there, though, after the processing, had incredible effects, slowing down aging - for those who took it regularly - and making people able to live up to half a century more than the average]
originally, there were four tribes of nomads that lived thanks to horned farm animals that decided to settle down into one bigger town and other smaller settlements, to live off of transhumance. this division of the tribes stayed into the political and social organization: every person belonged to one tribe specifically, and had slightly different rituals and culture. for examples, each tribe had their own priests and healers, with different techniques and traditions. the town, tho, was guided by a group of people in the high priesthood, a position you could reach only by having earned the trust of all tribes. those high priests had many roles: they guided the people into sacred processions common to all the tribes, they managed the trading with outsiders, they did the maintenance of the temple of the summit (the one that functioned as casket to the crystal) and created a special liquid to offer the crystal that helps it grow.
this particular temple was important because 1. it was very visible, from every angle of the town, and it became an important identity symbol; 2. it stored the venerated horned crystal; 3. it had the altar where sacrifices were made for the crystals. that altar had a hole connected to the cavity, that allowed the liquids to reach the underground; 4. it had various symbols: statues representing each tribe + the high priesthood, and typical mirialan tattoos carved into the wood of the trees that served as columns for the temple, symbolizing 8 values that who dared to enter HAD to have; 5. it was on the way to an important lake (called "mother lake" because the lake the town was built around to depended on the waters of that other lake) where they traveled to in important processions; 6. it was said that a the wizard who unified the tribes made it with its magic, making the plant grow to hold the temple's roof. this wizard was, actually, a force user, obv.
BACK TO HER THOUGH: she's daughter of one of the high priests, who was in charge of managing the trades with outsiders, and lives in a house on the mountains with her mother and him. her parents are from different tribes (that's one of the things that earned him trust from the 4 tribes): when a child is born from two different tribes, they don't pick one to allign to, but they're usually linked automatically to the one with more relatives in it (in her case, the father's tribe: she had many uncles and aunts on his side while her mom only had one sister).
later, though, she got quite tied to her mother's tribe due to a mysterious illness that only her mother's tribe healer was able to cure. she spent 4 years (from 10 to 14 years old) living with the healer and learned her secrets. to better study, she wrote them down. when she returned home, she studied to become a priestess with her father. at 22 (the average age: you can't become priest before your 20s), she was supposed to take a test and become a priestess, but the healer of her mother's tribe died and the tribe asked her to take her place. she couldn't technically do that, but both tribes estimated both her and her parents and she was allowed to become both. she then decided to try to become a high priestess, and became one at 25 (a quite young age). being part of the council, she tried to convince the various tribe healers to unite their knowledges and write them down, and eventually made it. healers still remained tribe based but they now had an "upper, inter-tribe level" similar to high priesthood.
years later, the sacred horned crystal is stolen from the temple by some Hutt mercenaries looking for a profit. given the trust she has earned from all the tribes and the fact that her father is the high priest that deals with outsiders (and she's been hearing stories and advice about it since she was little), she is the one tasked with getting it back. without the growing crystal, the keystone to their ecosystem, the village would have lasted only a few years. in hrr quest, she meets imperial intelligence agent tar'x laran and, as they "solve the mystery" and fight to have it back, they get closer. they'll get married and have a daughter, Vegoia (who's the only one who actually will get to the plot of my story. this was all background)
#i overdeveloped this part of the background. IT'S QUITE LITERALLY USELESS. like. Vegoia will have so few memories of it (she'll become jedi)#i will make a post about her too when I'll finish designing her and outlining her story BUT that may be difficult cuz the frame for the mai#story is quite difficult to match with how developed the other stories are getting and i have to figure it Much Stuff yet#so I'm using these post to like. fix a certain part lf the lore because even my own notes are getting older and messy. better to start over#ANYWAY for those curious & who are still reading (if u exist. WTF THANK U!!); my main story is actually a research file in the jedi archive#BASICALLY i was trying to write my own story for years but then i watched a video (tcw doesn't hold up by sheev talks i think) and i finall#understood how to frame all of these stories together in a way that i feel can add to the star wars lore (because. the others were just#like. okay but who cares unless me? and i did want to have a cool frame that maybe some nerd would be interested in looking into)#so: when ahsoka anakin and obi return from mortis; they tell the council about it (yoda knows about it in s6). sheev talks complained that#it was incredibly full of stuff that was done so poorly it could ruin a big part of the original sw story itself and it was never brought u#again. and honestly i agree. SO my story is about a jedi that is tasked with research on the celestials & by having him figure out stuff i#can minimize/limit/reframe some of the controversial things in there (i love mortis arc so bad but i also agree with his critic. I'll Fixā¢)#so. many stories will be about people who have previously seen the celestials or have been to mortis one way or another (pre-tcw obv) & hav#had experience & knowledge that the researcher is looking for. so i get to have an anthology with many stories#and have a cool frame I'm intrested in developing + i can experiment with different storytelling styles depending on how he finds out stuff#+ there was another sw story with a similar frame i think? so if i decide to write the story as if it was the file itself and not the searc#i can have even a REFERENCE of what a file like that is supposed to be. LIKE. IT ALL FITS!!!#sw#star wars#swtor#the old republic#star wars oc#imperial agent#star wars fanart#mirialan oc#mirialan#star wars story#star wars the old republic#oc: suri sauthon
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