#dont ask if theyre built well (they aren't)

[oathofkaslana]

if you have a tier list id be interested in seeing it!! :] - @floralring

YAYYYYYY!!!!!! :3 i don't use all the built characters too often but i switch them around enough! my yun jin is dps and my xinyan is a shield support. all my cryo dps share the same artifacts. lisa shares w miko but im using her to hold potential gilded pieces for cyno :]

i am curious to see who my mutuals have built but i don’t wanna annoy people by making a tag game (← unfounded fear btw tag games are harmless and dont annoy people) so i’ll probably end up doing a tierlist and hoping people catch on :]

[saiintvalentiine]

saiiiii hi i. okay bit of a weird question but i am trying to write uu fic rn (actually its me trying to make rau into a coherent fic but whatever) and. what the fuck do you think parrot and wifies do in their downtime. between their Big Quests (games) that the videos are about. bcs surely they dont happen back-to-back (except for the obvious ones). and i cannot think of what the fuck theyd be doing in their downtime

like sure, building. wifies built his base (which only appeared in that one video, huh), and was shown continuing to work on it when parrot was flying in at one point. and whenever theyre not doing anth theyre just bouncing around and talking but. SURELY THEY DO SOMETHING ELSE?? and i cant think of anth. so. if this makes any sense at all, i am asking what your thoughts are

what are their hobbies, do you think......

hiiiiiiiii !!! I think they play boardgames and get loud about it. like really loud. it think they have a several week long game of Catan they keep in stasis bc both are too stubborn to just give up after a certain point. Nobody else likes to play those kinds of frustrating boardgames with them bc you lose if you play against them but if they play each other it's like watching a divorce trial every single time. I also think they both read but not that often and completely different genres so their shared library is shockingly diverse.

individually I have a really stupid and baseless headcanon that Wifies really likes to work with fabric and dye. I haven't put it anywhere really but I imagine it's a unique experience for him to express himself that he got really attached to bc it lets him change his clothes whenever. I also think that for someone who does a lot of high-stakes intellectual work, something like fabric work can be really simple and satisfying— immediate visual feedback, immediate satisfaction of finishing. I have literally zero basis for this hc but I like it and I'm offering it to you. I also think he's surprisingly good with magic and enchantments and learns galactic to better work it. he likes the process of making things that will protect people he loves.

Parrot likes to fish. women fear him fish want him type beat. he's the fisherrrrrrrr. you leave that man near a body of water and he will find a way to make a rod and fish. he's every middle aged dad ever. it's very meditative but it has enough suspense/tension to keep him from feeling bored. he also really likes weapon maintenance. in htff I wrote him as sharpening swords at his introduction bc I genuinely think he'd find the process interesting, soothing, and reassuring. he's very used to violence, and even in his downtime he finds that he can't always leave the urge behind, so making sure all the blades are sharp and handles aren't splintering and everything is oiled became a fun experience for him while also reassuring him that they're ready.

I hope these r helpful and I hope rau writing (rauting?) goes well !!!

[summerlycoris]

I made this comment to reddit, for someone who asked what aussie schools (specifically queensland schools) were like, because they were planning on writing a kid going to school there. And i put a lot of effort into it so I'm just gonna post it here.

If youre reading this and want to use it as reference- go ahead! Please!

(copy-paste ahead!)

I went to primary school in queensland for a bit over a year. So I don't have the most experience, but this could help.

(Disclaimer. My experiences were about 18 years ago. So they may be outdated. Use google for more research, as well.)

Depending on year level (year 3, 5, 7, and 9. Year 7 and 9 are in high school now.) There are these tests called Naplan tests. Theyre a bit stressful, and any kid in those years would need to deal with them.

Schools in queensland aren't built much like american schools. American schools tend to be one main building. Aussie schools (and especially queensland schools) are a smattering of smaller buildings, or blocks, connected by pathways. (Mostly undercover in queensland- for the rainy season.) These blocks are typically split by year level in primary school. Sometimes multiple blocks for a year level if the school is big. There will also be an admin block, that your characters might go to if theyre being picked up, or are feeling sick. Blocks tend to have alphabet bames eg a block, b block. Classes will be, say, I-1, I-2, so on. One block will generally hold the art classrooms. Another for music classrooms, another block for the library.

Also- schoolastic book club! I KNOW thats still happening- my little sis brought a pamphlet home for it from preschool. Books can be ordered via the pampthlets, where theyre delivered to the classroom, and sent home with the students. If your characters a bookworm, theyre gonna have feelings about this.

Speaking of- book fairs! Once a year, generally at the library, there'll be a book fair. I think they have these in america too- kids can buy pencils, books, funny erasers, etc. The parents send them in with money on the day.

There's usually a tuck shop, insread of a full cafeteria like in american schools. Most kids will bring a packed lunch. Most schools do not do free lunch- you pay using coins or notes when buying at the tuck shop. Lunch is different at each school- at my old school, senior students (year4+) had to sit in the Undercover Area (where school assemblies were held.) To eat lunch. There were no tables- we sat crosslegged. After the bell rang again, we could leave to the playground. (There wasn't much playground, because we were in the senior section.)

Speaking of the senior section. Aussie schools dont usually do middle school, unless theyre a private school, or a special school. It goes prep- year 6 for primary (these days. Before 2014-ish it went prep- year 7 for primary.) However, young kids and older kids still get a bit segregated. The younger kids had one half of the school, and the older kids had the other. We all ate lunch at the same time, so I don't think they had access to tuck shop at those grade levels. (It mightve been like at previous- Victorian- primary schools. Where an order could be put in before lunch, then the food was delivered to the classroom. Maybe. Or tuck shop was just a big kid privaliege?)

Primary schools tend to have weekly assemblies. At these assemblies they *may* play the national anthum. They also may not, or save that for special assemblies. At my old school, for assembly, we were told to carry our chairs to rhe undercover area for regular assemblies (senior school only.), or to the undercover basketball courts for special assemblies (whole school. Little kids to the front. Had more room than the undercover area.)

Lockdown drills aren't as scary as they may be in america. You just hide in the classroom and the teacher locks the door, shuts the blinds. If there's a staff office/computer room, you may get shapherded in there. (Those rooms aren't big!) Only legit lockdown I experienced was when a kid I knew rode his scooter around the classrooms threatening to throw a brick through the windows. It was a flop- bwcause we were doing pe with a sub and she didn't take us inside lol.

Fire drills are a bit scary. Mightve just been me? Some schools release smoke to make it seem more real. Meeting place is usually the footy field.

Sports- schools in australia tend to have houses. Think Harry potter, except... just sports lol. You get assigned based on last name, alphabetically. (So any of the characters siblings will be in the same house.) You get a colour, a mascot (sometimes racist. One of the houses in my highschool was the indians, with a native american caricature. Which... made no fucking sense even back then.) And a song. Important days are swimming carnival, sports carnival (cant remember exact name? Its the day with the shot put, high jump, long jump etc.) and cross country. Some kids skip those days completely lmao. I skipped swimming carnival most years.

Other important things are year camps. Every year has a camp- and they'll be seperate by year. Year fours arent getting the same camp as year threes. These camps tend to be multiple days through the week, often to a place where you stay in cabins and learn some survival skills/ how to climb up ropes etc. (think stereotypical american summer camps) anyone who misses the camp goes to classes like usual, except they'll get lumped into one combined class with whoever else didn't go, and whatever teacher didn't go. These camps cost money, but theyre fun.

The last year (year 7 in this case) get a special uniform shirt with their year level, date of the year (example- 2024), and a list of their cohort on the back of their shirt. Its pretty cool.

Also, uniforms. All schools have a uniform. There are shops (like lowes- different from american lowes) that sell local uniforms. Most schools will have a shirt, shorts/skirt/skort, pants (if it gets cold in winter) and a hat. Sneakers may be allowed, or they may say leather shoes.

Sports played at primary schools can include things like basketball, netball, cricket, t-ball (sometimes) rugby, afl (if south enough?) Kids *may* get lumped into playing at least one of these during pe, depending on the school. (That might actually be more of a victorian thing though.)

Also seasons are different, due to southern hemisphere. But its not even that simple- if you're story is set above the tropic of capricorn, they're in the tropics. At that point, their seasons are wet, and dry season. Wet season is hot and humid, runs from about november to march. Dry is cold(er) and runs the rest of the year. (Roughly.) Irregardless, there's no snow at christmas unless hell freezes over. There's pretty much no snow in queensland *period*- the alps are in victoria, if you want a snow-holiday.

The school holiday periods are different to what you're expecting, too. Check when schools where your story's set go on breaks. Breaks tend to be two weeks at a time- (one is at easter. Can't remember the others.) Except for christmas holiday, which is six weeks.

Theres no summer camps here. Sadge. There *are* vacation care options for young kids so parents can work- usually at their school, or another school. They wont get taught, but they'll do small activities. One time i won a competition where i needed to eat a doughnut off a string without using my hands.

If the primary school is in a town with a significant army population, there'll be a counselor for the army brats. They might get special activities during lunch, deoending on the school. My school had a scrapbooking class every week during one lunch. I forgot to grab my scrapbook when i left :(

Thata about all i remember. Make sure to do further research- especially for slang, and terminology. That'll be the first sign to an aussie reader that the author doesn't know about school here. Theres definitely things i missed.

[vyladromeave]

04 and 08 for the ask game?

04. what are your favorite episodes/scene?

I've answered this one already here, but why not list another ep i like? I still go back to S1 Ep 68 pretty often!! It's one of the last episodes we're given where Garroth is written well imo, but he REALLY shines in this episode. I really love how Laurance and Garroth's dynamic is handled, + we get our first hints of Shadowknight-hood affecting Laurance more, AND we even get quite a bit of Garte stuff/overall politics things that I find very interesting!

This is honestly the golden era of S1 to me, and some of my favorite bits of how they handled storytelling like, mechanically. (Having the NPCs unpromptedly just start going off at eachother was very cool. Very rarely did NPCs have conversations with eachother that weren't facilitated by Aphmau before that point.) ITS A GOOD EPISODE! The back half is a little boring, it was definitely like that because Jess spent all her energy making the front half cool, but the front half WAS very cool, so I can excuse it.

08. alternatively, what's a dynamic you really want to see in canon?

THIS IS AN EVIL EVIL QUESTION BECAUSE THERE ARE SOOOOO MANY. lets just get Vylad and Literally Everyone down just to start. this is a joke but also not.

Vylad and Emmalyn (their intense irene discussions. Vylad obviously has some sort of academic knowledge of irene judging by the fact that he knows about Irene's Dimension on his own, and brings it up as a thing Zane would do BEFORE Aphmau can explain it. I think it would be cool for Emmalyn to have scholalry discussions around Irene with someone who also has that knowledge)

Vylad and Dante (Oopse Gene Sucks Hope We Dont Bond Over This. It makes sense in canon why Aphmau discouraged their meeting because she didn't want Dante to freak out about more shadowknights and she doesn't know about the dynamic between Vylad and Gene very well, but also I think hearing that validation would be very good for both of them considering Gene is literally gaslight king #1. There aren't a lot of people who can relate to being hurt by him directly who are also able to tell the tale.)

Vylad and Katelyn (HER SEEING JEFFORY IN HIM IS SOOOO INTERESTING AND THEN THE ONLY THING IT EVER EVEN KIND OF GOT USED FOR WAS SHIPPING BAIT WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. theyre some of the two most Emotionally Congested characters there are itd be sooooo interesting to me if they like. they dont even have to talk about it. its fine. they can just hang out silently together. ok. they can vibe together. i think they would enjoy that. please.)

and for some non-vylad options so that I'm not just talking about him for the rest of this post: Dante and Zoey NEEED to have a bigger dynamic with eachother considering they were the big Stayed Behind For 15 Years guys and barely anything ever comes from it im so mad

Zianna and Aphmau is a dynamic that can really only be explored in a post-S2 timeframe. but i think would be very cute :) I can see Zianna being very motherly towards Aphmau (or mother-in-law if thats the kind of thing ur a fan of) when she finds out that Aphmau doesn't have/remember having a figure like that in her life already. + I think Zianna would respect Aphmau a lot as being both a responsible lord and a mother herself. I think the two of them would get along very well :)

Similar to above in regards to timeframe, I think Travis and Garroth would be a fun dynamic to explore. Garroth strikes me very much as a "I Can't Hate Them, They're Family" kind of guy just cuz thats what he was taught growing up, despite having an undeniably negative relationship with people like Zane and Garte. Travis being so openly a #dadhater would help Garroth work out some of his own issues regarding how he feels towards members of his own family. And from Travis' pov, Garroth gets built up a lot over the course of S2, and hearing all these tales and stories only to meet him in person and discover he's kind of just a nervous wet cat of a guy is very funny.

(ask prompts from here!)

[fruitwanderer]

So!! Clothes!! This will include a whole lotta headcannons

3rd Life, it takes place in the fall and into early winter in a place that experiences both of those seasons not quite vividly but definetly notiecably. So at the start the clothes aren't light persay, but they do have easily removable layers because it would still be warm enough rhat physical labour would leave you hot. And as you move further on the pants start getting heavier, nights spent mending holes and adding linings. Wool jackets pieced together, the works. By the end everything is thick but mobile, and requires under layers. This one i have like no thoughts on really unless we want to get into individuals but that feels excessive for my first inbox ramble to you.

Last life is winter, very early spring. Early spring as in the snow is melting and wet and iced over and dirty and disgusting. The clothes are heavy, and everyone is wearing gloves. Everything is furlined and made of wool (good water proofing which in the snow is a neccessity). People like Scar wear spikes on their shoes for grip (if you dont live in a snowy enviorment, look it up, its a thing, and theyre sick af), j name scar because mountains are colder, are probably always snowing, and damn icy. Well trodden paths are probably slick as all hell as well, so in general boots are built tall, thick, and with traction. Hoods and hats become a neccessity against the wind, but with the hoods already being easy to grab and choke someone with nobody dared risk a scarf to wear. Last life was ruthless. Clothes may be bulky but handholds and easy grips are minimized, too thick to easily grab. Everythings tucked in or tapers at the end. This is also generally where people started wearing their hair either aggresively short or long enough to be pulled up tight and secure easily. The comforts of their other servers may have deluded them into thinking things like this couldnt be used against them in 3rd life, but those beliefs dont last long.

Now I don't have many thoughts on double life, but, this is spring into summer. The begginning is wet and muddy and the shoes are boots that reflect this start. They initially namelt wore wool sweaters (mild water proofing, few hand holds, spring can be quite chilly) but as summer rolled in they swapped to tshirts jn a much lighter material. Pants likely ended up being made of the same material. Some people prioritized camoflauge wgere they could in this series as well.

Limited life is summer back into fall and people have begun to grow comfortable in these games. Hair and hand holds might not be present again, but clothes are loose, and like the clockers, fashion statements are begginning to take priority with bright flashy colors and pieces of clothes that are mildly impractical (unbuttoned shirts are not convienent for chasing someone down). This is a reflection of how they were more careless when it came to dying.

Now much unlike the life series your clothing does not inhibit your success on empires or hermitcraft nearly as much. Where you have to think about the practicallity and how others can ise clothes against you in the life series, as long as you can move and do in your outfit of choice on either hc or esmp you can wear it.

In hermitcraft theres a large variety in outfits. Some hermirts wearing big dresses and extravagent outfits that have got to make life some level harder. But you'll also just see a guy in cargo shorts and a branded tshirt. It reflects the freedom of safety. Now they generally do take into account where thwyre living when outside, their bases would be well insulated and climate controlled meaning inside it is a reasonable temperature to wear whatwver they want.

Empires s1 should probably be a second ask but whatever. I'll just keep it to the kingdoms i know

Rivendell is cold, wet, and constantly snowy. Mountain life, man. Wool as an export makes sense, because again, ir's warm, can be used to make clothes, and is mostly waterproof. And if i know sheep they can be fairly resilient and at this point they also likely can climate control their barns to an extent. So the people of rivendell tend to wear one thick outerlayer and a thinner (probably imported) base layer for aesthetics. The royalty (scott) tend to wear several outer layer sweaters, a cloak (typically short) damn thick pants, and medium boots. The several layers are due to the fact that travel is fast, and diplomatic issues come up and are dealt with in the same day so he often needs to be prepared to handle any given climate. The more layers he removes in his hoise when you visit him as someone of another empire shows how much he respects and trudts you (more=more less=less). Rivendell exporting wool, a material widely used will mean their fashion likely influences several kingdoms, but due to how harsh their climate is it is rare fashion is noticeably impacted by others, that goes far more into language and cuisine. (attached below is an example of scott)

Pearls empire (gilded hycanthia i believe) is a much more mild climate as it is the food/farming empire. The traditional clothing is far less present than it used to be as it both saw a huve influx of immigrants from several other empires within "recent" memories, is an export everyone relies on so takes influence from nearlt every empire as their climate allows it far easier, and rheir culture. This is the empire where tou will see the leather accessories of grimlands paired with the light dresses of katherines empire on the same person and no one is confused. But traditional clothing is still extremely present in bith rhe royalty and at festivals (a huve part of their culture). The traditional fem garb included what i believe is a hoop skirt, a plain or striped dress (typically longsleeved) over it, and then a second dress (typically tanktop) over that that could be tied up into a very large pocket in the belt that kept everything together. The second layer came in handy with both harvesting and planting. The layers were lights and the skirts could be utilized to create a breeze around your legs and cool you down on hot days. The masc clothing utilized knee length trousers and loose shirts. They also had a sash belt that acted similarly to the 2nd skirt of the fem counterpart. (Attsched below is a couple dancing at a festival, the lady on the left is in entirrly traditional clothed, where as the lady on the right is acknowledging her familys heritage in the grimlands through no longsleeves and leather gloves)

The grimlands climate has very little to do with their clothes. Most of this empire is accessible without ever going outside and the work they do is hot. So leather is a neccessarry part of their fashion and while their smocjs arent apart of their fashion, theyre always heavily personalized. Tall leather gloves, goggles, tight clothing that is generall fire resistant (leather pants become super popular every other generation or so) are all grimlands staples. Theres very little influence on workdays from other empires, but sometimes on off days, you'll see outside influence run rampant. Thisll be on days such as holidays that are not nearly as serious a buisness as in pearls empire.

I have far more tjoughts but my energy just dropped. Feel free to ask questions or whatwver, no im jot actually super educated, this all mostly bsed but its fascinating to me, and this juat seems logical.

Oooo? 👀👀👀

Tbh clothing is always a fun thing to mess with when it comes to headcanons and gets overlooked so, so often just ;o;

This all actually kinda reminds me of our Nether headcanons related to its different creatures and, to some extent, cultures. Along with gear that non-nether creatures have to wear because of the whole lava, fire, and low oxygen thing. We might ramble about those another time, rn our brain is full of Warrior Cats OC thoughts 😔

Also mini note: We haven't watched Empires s1 and heavily procrastinate on watching it. Absolutely on our list of things to watch and we love to hear or see headcanons about it, just know we don't know all context ;o;

[fluffy-clusterb-paradise]

i have a confession. im a system NPD as well as my partner is a system but they have BPD, and they constantly vent to me about how they feel like id be happier if certain alters of theirs were around more. i always tell them no i love them all equally and i do love them all but i secretly do wish certain alters were around more, i wish the alter i fell in love with was around more. id never tell them this because im not a piece of shit but it kinda eats at me that they cry and i have to just lie to them. i wish theyd stop asking me because im worried one day ill be splitting and just tell them the truth and itll hurt them because theyre an extremely sensitive person. does this make me a bad person??? i do love them all but there are certain alters ive built up more of a relationship with as they dont have a solid host the way i do and tend to switch frequently. it makes me feel like an asshole every time im disappointed one of my closer friends has left

First off, I'm not the best when it comes to romantic relationships, and my verson of relationships can be considered a bit off. So please take what I say as a grain of salt and think through what I'm gonna say.

First off, it's good that you're being considerate about their situation and mood. That is a good thing. About the situation, that's reasonable. But I do have a small piece of advice.

I don't think you should directly say that you miss these people. As that could just make them spiral and become upset. Be patient with them, and enjoy the times you're with them (the ones you fell in love with). And maybe try to see if you can form a similar bond with any of them that aren't the ones you necessarily loved in that way.