#except with my oldest of friends my partner and my parents

[spiritualcuriosities]

Meanwhile in Japan, there's a scene in a drama that is definitely commentary on communication in which they debate how to handle squeezing lemon on a serving platter of chicken. It goes something like:

Person A: wait you shouldn't just squeeze lemon on the chicken! Not everyone likes lemon on chicken

Person B: what? Everyone likes it

Person C: no A is right, not everyone does and you shouldn't assume

Person D: then just ask - does everyone like lemon on chicken?

Person C: no you can't ask, because then it puts ppl on the spot and they might feel like they have to hold back from saying no

Person B: so what the heck am I supposed to do???

*person A and C decide to act out what they think is proper procedure. They don't know each other well and don't use any words to communicate what they think is best, they just go straight to acting it out*

Person A: oh, I see there is lemon

Person C: you're right, there is lemon.

*both turn towards person B, concluding the "demonstration"*

I've been thinking about the "it's not that autistic people don't know how to communicate, it's that we communicate differently" statement. True. Very true. 100% agreed. Absolutely and totally valid. But, hear me out: communication is also highly culture dependent.

In the USA, my being direct, literal, honest, frank, answering what I'm asked, and speaking what I'm thinking, is often considered "rude" and "mean". In Germany, it's neutral, appropriate even. In China, I'm being nice because I'm not actually insulting anyone.

Example: "Does this dress make me look fat" when it actually does.

USA: "Of course not! You look great!"

Germany: "Yes."

China: "It makes your ass look as big as the Yellow River."

Another example: "How are you?"

USA: "I'm very well, thank you!"

Germany: "I have diarrhea."

China: "I need to go shit my brains out for the eighth time, you idiot, go away."

[winterrrnight]

hey angel, please could you write a fic with soft rafe x reader where they have been best friends for years and are finally in a relationship after admitting feelings for eachother and they have cute happy moments where they remember they’re not just friends theyre finally in a relationship now?

Tysm x

oh my goodness, this took me so so long than it should've and I'm so sorry about that! I love and adore this idea so much, but for some reason I never felt satisfied with how I was writing it so there were too many restarts. But we finally have the final product! It's inspired by your request, I don't think it's exactly what you requested, but the main idea was kept in mind throughout. I hope you like this and is up to your expectations 💞

memories

PAIRING: soft!rafe cameron x gn!reader

SUMMARY: a little collection of some of your favorite moments with your best friend, lover, partner in crime all rolled in one: rafe cameron.

WARNINGS: small mentions of alcohol, but mostly fluff and two lovers being mean to each other because it's their love language 🫶🏻🤭

EDITH SPEAKS: thank you to my bestie @runningfrom2am who helped me out with this fic! she told me all her favourite memories with her own boyfriend and that resulted in this very cute fic so thank you sooo much raye 🥹🥹

There is a little KC Undercover reference in the fic, which is like, probably one of the most iconic dialogues of Ms. KC herself and I had this beautiful opportunity to use it so I just couldn't pass it up 🤭

I hope you all like this!! Please ignore any little grammatical/spelling errors. And please like and reblog if you like this 🪂

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It's so easy for you to say how your life has changed for the better when you and Rafe finally became official. He has been your best friend since you both were little, and now to see you both expand your relationship which you had formed since such a small age, always makes you feel like the happiest person on this planet.

It's no lie that it took you some time to finally get to the dating stage. After realising your feelings for each other, you both needed a lot of pushing from your friends to finally confess.

"He looks at you as if you're his whole world! Why aren't you telling him?" Your friends would groan, as they would catch you with your mouth almost agape as he walks past you and gives you a smile.

"No, I don't think he does," you would dismiss your friends' thoughts and before they could say anything else, you would be rushing to your class.

Now, fast forward to three years later, you both are in university and live in a shared apartment. You took your own time to reach to this stage of your life with each other, but you're so grateful where you are now, because there's no one else you'd rather do it with.

"When we'll grow old, we'll be roomies forever!" Rafe would tell you in his little squeaky voice when he wasn't even seven years old. You would giggle at him and eagerly nod. Who knew those little dreams will come true, and you both will be a lot more than just friends?

Sharing an apartment with Rafe is everything you've always imagined it would be, each night feels like the sleepover you had when you were little. Except this time, you don't have this fear of laughing a little too loud that a parent is on their way to scold you for being up for so late. You can laugh and talk as loud as you want to, eat whatever your heart desires and talk about any topic you feel like.

You both have your moments where you tend to forget you're dating and aren't just two best friends who share an apartment solely because they thought it would be fun. One time, you had one of your oldest albums in your camera roll opened, and you were laughing at all the pictures.

"Dude look at this one!" You laughed, finding a hidden gem. Rafe feigned shock as he looked at you.

"You did not just call me dude." He said, deadpanned. You pop a crisp in your mouth from the packet you're both sharing.

"What's wrong with that?" You asked shrugging.

"I'm your boyfriend, that's rude,"

"Whatever bro," you giggled, averting your attention to your phone.

"That's even worse!" He whined.

"OH MY GOD!" You yelled as you laughed out loud, the next picture on your phone seeming pretty unbelievable. It's from a Halloween night years ago, and you both totally forgot you dressed up very poorly as Barbie and Ken. But the thing is, you were Ken and he was Barbie.

You both were dressed in a hot pink from head to toe, and your make up is loud and proud. "You need to be Barbie again," you laughed, as you teased him by nudging his arm with your elbow.

"Definitely not," he chuckled, shaking his head.

It definitely doesn't stop here. It was your aunt's birthday and she had a big party, inviting a lot of your family. It was towards the start of your relationship, and you definitely weren't used to calling this idiot your boyfriend.

"And this is Rafe! He's my uh, my boyfriend! Yes, boyfriend, oh my god!" You said out loud, your aunt laughing at your reaction.

He only shook his head at you and flicked your ear. Your reflexes acted up instantly and your hands went to his hair to completely mess them up.

One thing about you both is that have been extremely competitive since you were little. You've always wanted to beat him in whatever game you're playing, bowling, basketball, or even just Uno. And when one wins, they make sure to remind the other about it every minute.

"Oh my god I totally crushed you!" You yelled, attracting attention from people around you as you jump up and down, looking at the final score of your bowling match with Rafe.

"I won, you lost, I won, you lost," you sang as you danced in front of him, and he just stood there, looking at you.

"Oh shut up," He groaned, walking away as you're there dancing to yourself. You laughed and ran to catch up to him, wrapping your arms around his shoulders and he instantly picked you up, you now on his back with your legs around his waist.

"I'm sorry bub, but I did crush you big time," you mumbled kn his ear. He groaned again, and then threatened to drop you on the ground. You let out a squeal and tighten your grip on him, which in turn made him laugh.

But you both are a whole another level of competitiveness when you are a team. There's not a single game invented which you both cannot win as a team, and the adrenaline rush you both get after you win results in some of the most crazy victory couple dances.

You found yourself at a party, and the game of beer pong is at an edge as people are watching you and him compete against another couple. It was the tiebreaker point, and if Rafe made the shot, you both would win.

"You can do this yeah?" You said, your hands holding his face as you looked him straight in the eye. "Just take a deep breathe, and shoot." He nodded at you and you handed him a ping pong ball.

He took his position and took a deep breathe in, clutching onto the ball in his hand. He shot the ball, and you watched from the side expectantly, your hands clutched together. It felt as if everything was in slow motion as the ball made its way to the other end of the table. You heard a soft plop as it landed in a cup of beer, and everyone around you started to cheer out loud.

You ran up to Rafe with the biggest grin on your face and he picked you up and spun you around. One of your friends came up to hand you the cup of beer. Rafe drank half of it, and then gave you the beer left to drink.

Everyone came up to you to congratulate you and hype you up even more, getting an occasional pat on your back. You looked at the couple who you both defeated, and Rafe made his way to them with you on his heels.

"Ding!" He said out loud. "That's the sound of the elevator, because you're not on our level!" He teased them and everyone around you gasped and cheered out loud, as you hollered around. The couple just gave you both a dirty look and leave, and you just looked at Rafe and gave him a high five.

"That'll tell 'em not to challenge us anymore," he said, wrapping his arm around your waist and kissing your head.

But what was the most concerning yet your favorite moment between you two was when he had this urge to be your knight in shining armor, but he also wanted to be the reason you needed help.

You were planning to take a little boat ride with all your friends, and as you all were standing on the dock, Rafe gave you a little nudge and dropped you in the water.

You screamed out loud as you went into the water, but quickly resurfacing as you swam up. You wiped your face with your hands as you pushed all your hair back, and when your eyes regained their focus, you saw everyone on the dock looking at you with utter shock.

You were gasping as you felt the cold water on your skin, when Rafe quickly removed his t shirt and came closer to the edge of the dock.

"Don't worry darling, I'm coming to save you!" He yelled with his chest wide as if he's a hero. You watched him jump into the water and swim up to you, and just as he reached you, you punch him in his arm, hard.

"What the fuck is this?!" You yelled, and Rafe came closer to you and wrapped his arms around you.

"What do you think this is? I'm here to save you," He said with a proud smile on his face.

"You asshole, you dropped me in the water," you said as he started to lead you towards the dock.

"What are you saying? You tripped off the edge and I'm here to save you. Did you hit your head on a rock or something?" He shook his head. You scoffed as he helped you get onto the dock. "I'm your knight babe, I'll always save you whenever you need to be rescued."

"What a relief." You said, rolling your eyes.

What he said that day is totally true though, all these times you've wanted help from someone, he's been there for you without fail. He picks you up everytime you fall down, even literally (but after he finishes laughing at you).

He makes you the happiest you have ever been. You'll always be so grateful for him.

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[weirdo09]

what to name this jess x rio x jeff au? 🤔 eh it ont need a name rn

anyway i’mma just make a list of ideas

they’re all married

jess is miles’ other mom (because i say so)

miles’ jess and jeff’s child

billie’s jess and rio’s child

jada’s jess and rio’s another child

they’re a happy family

miles, as the oldest, is protective of his baby sisters.

jada n billie always ask for miles as much as he plays with them

jada is a february baby

miles (canonical but i’m addin it away) is a august baby

billie’s a june baby (idk her canon birthday but late june - early may seems right for her)

jada has 4c hair, billie has 3b hair n miles has 4a-4b hair

all of them except for jada are tenderheaded

they all have thick hair tho

jada’s clinger with jess than with any of her other parents (rio fake pouts about this because “my baby doesn’t spend as much time with me!”, the two women laugh it off tho, lil jay’s left oblivious)

the babies are a year apart, jada’s the youngest.

since miles is 13-14 years older than the babies, he likes to act like they’re his babies.

jess is trusted with the kids’ hair most days because of rio’s work schedule and jeff can’t braid.

rio and jess mostly speak spanish amongst themselves and the kids, jeff is left out convos most times but he doesn’t care too much as his wives are just so beautiful when they speak spanish.

rio is transfem (to me 😭😭) and her partners are widely supportive, she began to transition once miles was born.

(if we’re talkin bout transfem miles) rio would be absolutely estatic once she told her that she feels more of a girl than a boy (transfem genderfluid miles has my heart 🫶🏽) she still dresses ‘masculine’ and uses her name n he/him pronouns (genderfluidity at its finest, can you tell i’m slightly projectin?)

jess and jeff would be excited as well, they’d have a party n everythin (he would be shocked how all out they went from her)

(closin transfem miles section)

hobie comes over from time to time to see billie and jada, jada’s his favorite (jkjk, they’re both so lovable)

(punkflower thingy) once rio, jess and jeff heard about miles dating hobie, i’d say jess was the most accepting. she loves the kid, he kinda reminds her of herself so obviously her favorite boyfriend of miles’ (the only one *cough*)

(miles and miles 42 as twins) miles is older by 10 minutes, myle gotta big head and miles would tease him relentlessly about it when jess told them the birth stories. (actually i’mma add this to the au !!!)

myle n jada just clicked when she was born, same with miles n billie but they all love each other equally (or do they? /j)

(au where miles’ spider man and myle’s the prowler) they didn’t know about their secret identities until they went home one night and found each other in their suits. there was a lot of questioning after.

(punkflowerbyte au) jess was really happy when she heard that her son’s dating a black girl (let’s be so honest, black queen’s his type fam) along with his childhood friend who she loves like a son. she was really keen on getting to meet margo, the two hit it off instantly and they’re like best friends (miles sometimes jokes how his momma stole his girl, hobie agrees)

that’s all i gots now, more may be added. i really like this au, it may stay talked about from me really. i’mma def make oneshots on ao3 about it <3

[pseudowho]

Haitch!!!!!! I am in peril!!!!!

So. My boyfriend (let’s call him Jay) and I have been going out for two years roughly, and before that we were friends for about half a year. We met through family friends at an old lady’s birthday (the party was amazing and 40’s themed) and have been inseparable since. And I think Jay is proposing to me on my birthday in a few weeks and idk what to dooo.

My parents were together for like ten years before they had me, and they still aren’t married. In my country there’s this thing where you can like register a “partnership” (it was mainly used by same-sex couples before gay marriage was legal) but my parents haven’t even registered their relationship there either. So, legally speaking, there’s nothing tying them together except me and their house. And I never thought about marriage, probably partly because of my parents. Frankly I thought I’d never even find a partner I loved enough to actually commit to, but I love Jay. But I don’t know if I want to get married. To anyone ever, not specifically Jay.

I think I’m just too pessimistic a person with too many trust issues because I’m convinced that Jay won’t actually want to be with me for the rest of his life. Like, he’s bound to grow tired of me eventually. We’re just 25 and 27. There’s only one forever-relationship, and all the others will inevitably end. And I’m sort of sending myself into a spiral about this.

I feel like… in the grand scheme of things… knowing each other for 2.5 years is nothing. Like, 2.5 years ago the man I share a bed with was a total stranger. And now he’s telling me I might want to get my nails professionally done for my birthday? Snooping around my jewelry for my ring size? Asking if I prefer gold or silver?

In the end I know I need to talk to him about it. But I don’t really want to because I know I’m being silly and unnecessarily dramatic and I’ll probably start crying in the middle of it and I hate crying in front of people. Uwaaaah.

Sorry about this long message lol, I would have asked my sister for advice if I had one but I’m an only child, and the oldest of my cousins. And my mom is not great at advice and I’m not that close with my dad. And I love my friends, but they would just tell me to talk to my therapist about it, but I wanted to kind of… get a non-professional view of it.

Point being: do you think getting engaged after 2.5 years is too soon? And how do you think I should bring my worries up to Jay without hurting his feelings?

Sorry again for a long ask and I hope you have a wonderful day <3

This is a simpler answer than the length of the Ask would suggest:

Marriage, or not marriage, will not increase or decrease the love that's already there, if you are in a healthy, truly understanding relationship.

Our perceptions of marriage are often affected by the relationships of those around us, it's true. If I were to look at the marriages in my family, I would have a very mixed view on its sanctity. However, I was very focused on the man I had chosen to marry, and whether it was right for us.

You don't have to get married. But, you should look into the core issues here: comparing your relationship to that of others, your low self-worth, and your conflict avoidant way of thinking that means you're trying to base one of the biggest decisions of your life, on how others would feel about it.

You need to talk to him. You need to actively discuss what marriage means to you both, and why you would or would not get married. You will probably find that a healthy discussion of this sort does a lot to assuage your worries.

One thing you do need to do, is stop projecting your low self-worth onto Jay. That's unfair on him. It certainly sounds like he wholly believes in you, and his love for you, and commitment to you, and not getting married because you dislike yourself and are convinced that he will eventually dislike you, too, is just hurting yourself to pre-empt the perceived possibility of him hurting you.

Talk to the only other person that matters; Jay. You're not trying to hurt him. Be generous with your emotions and seek to traverse this together.

If you can't get through pre-marriage discussions like this, that's an indication in itself.

Good luck!

Love,

-- Haitch xxx

[firecurls-27]

I would absolutely love to hear about your new cupchal fankids and is there anything new about the current ones?

(Holy shit this was forever ago-)

Yayayay I’d be happy to tell you! (Both fun facts and new facts!!!!)

Important info: these guys grew/growing up in the 40s-50s, cuphead is not grail’s father, elder kettle outlived the cupbro’s parents, I might make more cupchal kids if I gain more ideas-

Grail

- 16 (oldest)

- nothings really changed personality wise, he still doesn’t like cuphead.

- he used to have a twin sister but I decided just not to use her because I had no ideas for her.

- he has a crush on a guy who works at the soda fountain, and takes all his siblings as an excuse to talk to him.

- has an interest in cars and mechanics.

- owns a motorcycle.

- has no connection to his biological father, yet misses him dearly.

- has a part-time job in janitorial work.

- loves singing and dancing with his mom.

Minty

- 14

- adores those 50s skirts with the poodles and the fun patterns

- gets very overstimulated easily (I can imagine why she’s bullied by her siblings constantly)

- her anxiety is so bad. Oh my god it’s so bad.

- if anything happens the others blame it on her. (Except grail and the twins, they’re better than that.)

- loves music and hopes to be as good as her parents.

- despite not being very sociable, she gets love letters constantly from kids in her grade asking her for dates. Cuphead disapproves of this.

- loves both her parents equally and gets stressed when someone makes her choose sides-

Camo

- 13

- mamas boy.

- loves baseball and hopes to be a baseball player someday.

- porcy-Lynn’s partner in crime (more like a villain sidekick)

- terrible at math. Has minty tutor him.

- loves music and hopes to be as good as his parents.

- thinks before he does.

- good at piano like his pop.

- if he gets in trouble he pins it on minty. She’ll take the fall.

- secretly has a pet turtle he doesn’t let anyone know about.

- inherited the country boy-ness. Likes to help out elder kettle with his property.

Pepper & Lemony

- 12 (lemony is 5 minutes older)

- stereotypical “creepy twins” but in reality they just hate people.

- lemony has an interest in herbology, specifically the poisonous plants.

- pepper has an interest in biology, specifically bones.

- both terrible at singing.

- one prefers women over men, and the other prefers men over women. But I’ll let you guess which is which. ;)

- they both have preferred parents, but won’t say who.

- minty tutors them in math.

- they don’t trust Grail that much, but likes that he takes them out for ice cream.

- they rarely sing with their siblings, but enjoy it.

- one has a black cat, the other has a white cat.

- they love Grimms fairytales and always had cuphead read it to them when they were small.

- defend minty when she gets blamed for Lynn and Camo’s antics.

Porcy-Lynn

- 9

- if Shirley Temple could swear.

- her “hair” is made from coffee foam.

- she really is a sweetheart deep down. deep. deep down.

- ride-or-die.

- loves music and hopes to be as good as her parents.

- inspired by Darla Dimple. Just a little bit less evil.

- criminal mastermind. Has all of 4th grade wrapped around her finger.

- her middle name is “Vessel” after the grandfather she never got to meet. They would’ve been best friends.

- cuphead gives her several nicknames such as sweetness, firecracker, honey-bun, and so on.

- daddy’s girl <:)

- very upset that she’s no longer the youngest.

- if she gets in trouble she pins it on minty. She’ll take the fall.

Junior

- 2 months (youngest)

- just a lil fella.

- just sits there.

- no problems.

- he likes to scream.

- loves his blankie. :)

As I said I may create more kids in the future but who knows ;)

[mai-mai-lim]

alright i'll cut to the chase, i have been forgetting to post these OCs cause i had an idea to properly introduce them but blame my brain for keep opening up new wips and say: heck these doodles will do

tl;dr: these OCs (except Mort who is a canon character) are created based on the RC9GN universe, basically the future parents of a few teen characters of the show, with focus on the parents of the main character randy :3

now here's some details, oh boy this is gonna be a bit long after years of notes piling

we start off from randy's parents: Robin and Kiyoko Cunningham (née Suzuki). Tbh I rarely make fandom-specific OCs, and they are originally created for the purpose of my self indulgent RWBY AU, but I wanted to have fun thinking how they fit in the canon universe, hence their freshmen year appearances.

Kiyoko is Japanese-american

because in the AU, Randy's color is purple, hence i made Robin and Kiyoko having the color blue and red respectively (i also want to be funny heheh)

neither of them is the Ninja, when they started school the Ninja is already in sophomore/junior year

Robin wishes to be the Ninja, while Kiyoko is neutral about it

Randy is more closer to his mom while keeping a decent relationship with his dad, Robin often works abroad or extremely busy

Kiyoko's younger brother Tadahiro works as a studio photographer, Randy quite likes his uncle.

by the way, Robin just got like a revamp cause i wasnt being too satisfied with how his hair is just a longer version of his teen hair and his original beard is now used on my human design of a stick figure, below pic was drawn either around 2019/2020

moving on, they got some new schoolmates!

Aside from Robin, Kiyoko, and a young Mort, there's Jessica Sasson, Howard and Heidi's future mom. A freshman together with Robin and Kiyoko, and seems to look at Mort often.

Then there's Penelope Fowler, Theresa's future mom. The oldest one, and the most reserved as she's been in Norrisville High the longest. Made friends with Kiyoko in a class.

Lastly, we have Debbie's future dad Issac Kang. not much thought is given in what he does except his daughter pretty much took the journalism from him that's all

I have not thought of Penelope and Issac's future partner whoops.

and that's all for now! I wish to expand more of them but my brain is currently fixating on funny stickmin game eheheheh, in the future hopefully.

[angrennufuin]

Elflinguistics Part 2: Ravnica

For the currently-paused Ravnica campaign, I'm playing Sûl the elven bard-warlock, currently a courtesan but formerly a noble. Mainly I wanted my Ravnica names to sound different from my Eberron names; these are different settings and vastly different people-groups. Let's, once again, get into it.

Rules for myself

Ravnica is a planet that is all one giant city, but some parts of it are currently less-inhabited and more ruined than others. Sûl's family hails from part of this Rubblebelt; while Linmir's clan is a diaspora of middle-class tradesmen and occasionally warriors, Sûl comes from a stuffy, dissipated high-elf aristocracy clinging onto their former glory.

So the idea here is still poetic eloquence, but where Eberron elves make portmanteaus with layered meaning, Ravnica elves go big or go home. Long names are in vogue, and often include hyphens and/or prepositions. They also have multiple names/forms of names for different levels of connection!

Long, formal name used by strangers + acquaintances

A shortened (usually single-word) form of that name used by friends and family

An entirely different "private name" known only to parents and really serious lovers

Formal names

These are used by strangers and acquaintances, in formal settings (which are most settings, for Sûl's family). Elves have long lives and long memories, and it's considered slightly disrespectful/kind of bad luck to name your child entirely after someone else, whether deceased or living. They can get away with this because there are not, historically, that many elves, period, in Ravnica. There are even less in the Rubblebelt, the sparsely-inhabited area of ruins and urban decay that is home to this branch of crumbling elf aristocracy.

We're not using Sûl as the case study for any of these, for reasons I'll explain later. Instead, let's go with her oldest sister. Her long-form name is Elen-atto-vomentië (=meeting of two stars); short form would likely be Elen, as the first word in the name is most likely to be picked for casual usage. Elen (stars) is an extremely common Elvish name; other possibilities could have been Tië (path) or Vomen (to gather together).

Generally, children are allowed to choose the casual form of their name whenever they want to. Like being named Alexander and going by Alex, for example. Not a particularly weighty decision, and subject to change! The "don't name your kid after someone else" social norm only applies to the full formal name, but if you have like six people in your immediate family tree who shorten their name to Elen, it's considered quite gauche.

Intimate names:

The intimate name is a much bigger deal. Generally only a child and their parents know it & parents would never use it except alone with their kid in a moment of great emotion. Traditionally you'd tell your spouse at your wedding, but modern elves might tell it to a non-marital life partner or even a VERY best friend, if their bond is close enough. It's supposed to be something of a horoscope/prophecy/wish from the parent to the child. Elen's intimate name is Asya-Mekte (=to ease [one's] heart); her parents hoped she would be a kind and empathetic soul.

I cannot stress enough that you Do Not say this name except in private! Think like the True Name of a fairytale creature. There's a superstition that where you give your private name, you give your heart -- with the proper spells, some believe it can be used to control you. Is it true? Who knows! But certainly it would be extremely rude, having been given the honor of an elf’s intimate name, to use it where anyone not so chosen could hear.

[I think I was using an older form of Elvish for these? But I've forgotten entirely.]

Surnames:

Surnames are a lot easier to deal with, because they're just place names. This brand of elves is pretty traditional and keen on long history, so they generally go by whatever region/estate/geographical feature they consider their ancestral home. Sûl's family comes from a region and its corresponding manor called Haudh-en-Calen (= Green Hills/Green Barrows), so that's their last name. In the most formal settings you would stick a possessive from in there: Elen-atto-vomentië Haudh-en-Calenva. If one were inclined to make one's introduction more accessible to non-Elvish speakers (Elen is NOT inclined), one could call oneself Elen of the Green Hills. Or Two-Stars of the Green Hills, but that would be just too assimilationist.

This got long and has been languishing in my drafts for months, so you'll have to hear about Sûl's name another day.

[aprillikesthings]

I run into people--online, IRL--all the time who seem to think I'm this exotic brave creature for traveling alone and going places alone.

And, to be fair, there are places/events I do not enjoy alone!! Movies at the theater by myself aren't as fun. I've gone to a couple of concerts/shows alone and while in many cases it's better than not going, it's not as fun as going with friends. (Except for classical music concerts. I don't know why.)

And, also, I am an extrovert; and for me part of the fun of traveling alone is meeting and chatting with new people, even if just small talk.

(Lol that has come up more than once on forums/groups/etc for people who do solo travel--the actual introverts who don't want to talk to people and that's why they travel alone, getting grumpy that most of us are social and like meeting people!)

And obviously: it's fun to go places with friends or my partner. Showing my fave places and events to Daci will never get old and I still have a long list to get through! Like Astoria and Seattle!

But! I love going places by myself.

And I keep realizing: I've always done this?

I was the oldest kid and only girl among my siblings. I also often had few friends. So I went places alone or I was stuck in the house. So sometimes I just wandered around, to the extent I was allowed to do so, lost in my own thoughts, playing pretend in my head.

In Iceland as a kid (living on the American military base) I would walk around just because. I would go to the USO and drink Lipton tea and read a book because...why not? In Virginia Beach I'd walk to the store and flip through all the magazines and buy a Snapple (it was the early 90's lol) and walk home. I'd bicycle around aimlessly (not that I was allowed outside our subdivision). I would've gone to the beach or the mall alone if I'd been allowed!

My parents were considered overprotective, and I still got to do all those things. Wild to think about, now.

Moving to the Portland area, that first summer after high school I'd take the bus to Barnes and Noble and buy a frappe at Starbucks (they were NEW at the time lolll) and browse the books for hours alone, bouncing off the walls with caffeine and sugar. That fall I got my license and realized I could drive downtown (or drive to a light rail stop and take that) and nobody could stop me. I would poke through vintage clothing stores and Powell's books and nobody would hurry me along or complain that they wanted to go somewhere else. It was bliss!

And I think it was like, ten years ago or so, when I found out a fairly common source of like, anxiety? fear? -was eating at a restaurant alone. And I still cannot wrap my mind around the idea. Like....why. What are you afraid will happen? Nobody is paying attention to you. Nobody cares. Like. What?! Just bring a book.

But I've had so many people tell me I'm brave for going places alone and I just don't feel brave at all? To me being brave means being a little scared and doing it anyway, and while I'm always nervous when traveling about SOME things (taking public transit in a new place, especially when you don't speak the language; is intimidating at first), the general concept of going to a place alone is just exciting to me.

I don't have to worry about anyone's needs but my own. I can eat whenever/wherever I want, do whatever I want, go wherever I want. It's so, so freeing.

[tumbleinthenet]

SamFrazie with 6, 8 and/or 21?

i'm so sorry... you're going to get so many headcanons spewed at you and almost none of them are going to make sense. take this all in assuming that sam: 1. is blastokinetic and 2. killed her father on accident as a child, thus thoroughly destroying her already tense relationship with her mother and probably seeing her very rarely from that point on.

6.) What about their environment influences them?

they're short of options for other people to talk to, honestly. they're very similar kinds of girls, brought up in homes that were never normal, even if the aquatos were happier than the booles in myself and my friend's shared headcanons. frazie grew up molded by the experience of being an eldest sister and so did sam. they have to protect their siblings from the bullshit their parents put them through (though i think sam does a better job of that). i don't think frazie is the oldest technically, i do think she's dions younger twin, but being the eldest sister is still a very unique experience.

they're very abrasive in very specific ways (a little violent, a little unhinged). they don't have much experience with other people their age. they're just going to kind of drift together no matter what. (sorry if this answer makes no sense for this question, its 2 am and im having trouble parsing it so i just threw in every kind of answer i thought made sense)

8.) Is there a third party involved that influences them in anyway?

in most cases, it's probably their brothers that push things forward. raz and dogen being friends would be a good enough push for sam to check out raz's other siblings, and frazie knows sam was the least fucked up to raz when it came to everything so she doesn't dislike her as much as she initially does the other interns.

in some cases, norma is the linchpin. i just don't super ship her with frazie which has led to me putting her into kind of an antagonistic role sometimes? frazie battles her sexuality long enough to confess to norma, they don't have a very fulfilling relationship (norma's bound to other things. she likes frazie well enough but she's probably a little nervous about her own sexuality along with familial pressure and the image of herself she likes to put out into the world. a partner, especially one as reckless and wild as frazie, just doesn't work for her. she gets colder and colder and eventually turns away from her completely.), sam picks her up when she gets dropped and becomes the surprise rebound. they bounce off each other better than expected.

there's also donatella? i don't think she has any specific role in things, but my view of her is as a woman who does not hold any particular liking for her daughters. i love dona. i think she's great. i also think she's a boy mom, and her only involvement with her girls is to teach them how to be proper women. i don't think frazie's into that. i think she worries a lot about how her mom thinks of her. tala's the little primadonna to be; it was never going to be her.

she feels a lot like she's worth nothing in the family dynamic (she has nothing that's her own as compared to her siblings, she has nowhere to go and nothing to be without the circus) and i think dona influenced a lot of that thinking just for bringing up the boys to a different standard. i think she's very much a papa's girl but he fucked her up too, in different but very noticeable ways 😭

21.) How much of the issues are external vs internal?

for them, it's probably more internal. i think of frazie as having a really hard time coming out, and struggling with being a lesbian not because she hates herself for being one or hates the idea, but because she worries a lot about how she'll be seen by her family and by the greater public. it takes a long time for her to get to the idea of being in a relationship, and once she's in one, she's pretty private about it with everyone except dion, when they're getting along well enough for him to listen.

sam talks about it pretty much openly, though it only comes up on occasion. the external bits of this are that frazie has a hard time with pda and it does Not Feel Good for sam, as well that she just really struggles with knowing when is too far. frazie is used to talking with her siblings, she knows what they can take both physically and mentally, and even then she sometimes hurts their feelings. she probably hits the wrong button with sam a few times and doesn't know how to apologize, even if it's kind of hard to tell when sam's feeling hurt at all.

sam, imo, has kind of a fear of intimacy but is trying? she nuked her home life pretty hard and doesn't know how to come back from that. she puts people at lengths. they both don't really know how to navigate a relationship but it's super frustrating to her that frazie doesn't even seem to be trying to get over her own hurdles.

just as well, they really don't know how to communicate. it's probably their first relationship ever in any world where norma isn't a part of the situation, and they don't have many close relationships with people outside of that. plus, they're teenage girls. they're still figuring themselves out. being psychic doesn't help everything. they have to figure out how to talk to each other.

[ciaossu-imagines]

Random Seri? 💙

Of course, my lovely anon! I don’t think I’ve written too much for Seri before, so this was a fun challenge! I hope you all enjoy the headcanons 😊

Seri is still really close to all her family. She is someone who does consider family to be of extreme importance and does have the attitude that, even if someone isn’t always the nicest to you or even if you personally don’t like them a lot of the time, if someone is family, you must love them and you must forgive them. In that way, she does have some really old-fashioned views around family. I’m not saying her family is cruel to her though…her immediate family is a very loving one, though her parents are strict with her in some ways. To her though, their strictness was necessary and helped her grow into someone confident, capable, and useful to society.

She still is close friends with some of the people from her childhood. In fact, her oldest friend is someone she knows from her elementary school days and someone who grew up alongside her. If Japan followed the same tradition of high-school reunions, Seri would be that kind of person who would get really excited for them and would likely even ask to be part of the planning committee for any school reunions.

Going along with that, Seri is someone who just genuinely enjoys planning things. She’s very organized and finds the act of planning out things very relaxing. She definitely has her dream wedding all planned out, has imaginary parties planned that she would love to host, right down to decorations, how the table would be laid out, the menu, the cocktails, etc. She plans dream vacations she will never have the time or opportunity to take, things like that. Even if none of the things ever come to pass, there’s something even just in the planning of them that Seri really does enjoy and finds soothing.

While she likes to think she’s a terrific cook and an exceptional baker, Seri cannot follow a recipe to the exact specifications. She likes to think her palette is very refined and that her tastes are universal, so she always modifies recipes to taste how she most enjoys and just magically assumes that everyone else will love them as well.

Despite her business-like and strict demeanor a lot of the times, Seri is very, very traditionally feminine in some regards. When not in uniform, she likes to dress elegantly, but in very feminine styles. She loves high heels, lingerie, makeup, jewelry. She definitely has more than one handbag and knows several designer brands and lusts after their products, even if she can’t afford them. She’s surprisingly knowledgeable about things like girl groups (though she prefers girl groups that push more towards the ‘girl power’ ideals than those that present as super innocent and cutesy) and celebrities. And she has very little issues with discussing traditionally girly things with her friends when they bring the topics up, like their ideal partners, what celebrity is the best looking, cute things they just bought, the pros and cons of different beauty products, etc.

She is someone who does have some very strict routines. She has a very set bedtime that she likes to observe whenever possible, to keep her body functioning at its best. She has dedicated skincare and beauty regiments. She trains consistently and unless an emergency happens, she will never skip her workouts and training sessions. She calls her parents at least once a week, preferably more. She has specific days of the week where she checks the mail or does certain other little errands and doesn’t really deviate too much away from that routine.

Seri is someone who would like children eventually but not at the current point in her life. She wants to really push her career and excel at that before she thinks about starting a family, as she does plan to put her career on hold for at least the first couple years of her children’s lives. She would prefer to have more than one child but again, her biological clock isn’t ticking fast or anything and to her, those are easily at least ten years in the future.

[autisticlee]

the older I get, the more of a struggle making friends seems to be. it was always a struggle but it only gets worse, never better.

first, the fact that adults don't have best friends, they have partners (ive had several people say this to me when i've said I want a best friend). they go date and forget i exist. second, many adults get so caught up in adult life they forget how to enjoy things.

I saw a post twitter recently that autistic people aren't "more childish" it's just that we know how to enjoy things more or don't care as much about social expectations and all that. I can't figure out how to have friends that don't enjoy the same things. it ends up feeling like we have nothing to talk about. most adults I meet have no hobbies or special interests. they only have jobs and partners and kids and that's their entire life focus. if they do have hobbies and things they like, it's hardly ever thing I like. I tend to enjoy things that are usually fandom based. I was into animes and then paramore as a kid, then I was into kpop and bts, now I like genshin impact (though not on a special interest level, but it's the most prominent interest atm because of one friends I use it to bond with).

the thing about fandom related interests while getting older and trying to make friends is that you're almost always outnumbered by younger people. except for the few years I spent on the internet (my paramore era in my teens) I usually ended up being the oldest or one of the oldest among people I knew and socialized with. that's fine when you're early 20s spending time with late teens or mid 20s and they're early 20s or if you're a teen with younger teens. sometimes it's an older fandom that all grew up and is mostly older now (pokemon). but when you get to 30s+ you can't be hanging out with the teens or fresh adults. first of all, adults generally shouldn't be befriending children, second, you generally have nothing in common with them, even fandom views. when I try to get friends and only teens in a fandom reach out to me, it's very :/

but sometimes it's only the teens that are willing to reach out, try accepting me, and are nice. most adults already have a long-established friend group i'm not welcome to intrude or are more judgey about who they like. then I feel bad when I have to turn the nice teens down. i thought about trying to be like an internet big sibling or parental figure for teens who need adult support figure in their lives, kind of like a found family, but I barely know how to adult and don't think i'd be the good influence/support i'd hope to be. they deserve better🥲

but yeah the point of this was making friends is harder the older you get and it already felt nearly impossible lmao 😭

[inbetweenhours]

 what do you think would have happened if grian jimmy and Joel were never caught in the superhero au

I personally think that if Grian Joel and jimmy never got caught they would have eventually stopped on their own but I still think Lizzie would have left because in both situations she was made a parent at a young age and she would have escaped so grian had to step up as the oldest but he wasn’t very good at it because Grian wasn’t good at comforting the younger two 

Pearl coped by practicing her abilities more and grian who was busy with a clingy jimmy was unable to develop his skills Pearl’s mastery of her powers and athleticism was noticed by heroes and she was given the opportunity to become a super hero and excepted the offer but unlike the original where jimmy and pearl lost contact pearl and jimmy stayed together after all Pearl wasn’t pissed at jimmy and jimmy was desperate for comfort 

when Lizzie left grian couldn’t help because he was used to acting like a brother and not a parent so jimmy gravitated towards pearl who was a little more patient with him Pearl and jimmy grew closer and even moved out together but when pearl eventually became popular and successful jimmy started to feel even more like a screwup and a leach

You see The codfather never came to them so jimmy didn’t find out about his abilities for a very long time and when he did notice it he thought he had bad luck powers with  

No way to use the power for good and after a life of being told he was bad and the only thing he was good at was breaking things he decided to give up his dream of becoming a hero

Instead of being relieved that the destruction he caused wasn’t his fault he took it as confirmation that no matter what he did he is evil and he couldn’t stop or control it so the only thing to do was nothing he distanced himself from people to minimize the damage he caused  

Grian was the final sibling it wasn’t pearl who was bitter it was grian

It was grian who Lizzie gave all the responsibility’s to when she left and it was grian who sacrificed what little he had left of his childhood for his two remaining siblings only to end up not being appreciated for his efforts because he couldn’t be like Lizzie instead they ostracized him and abandoned him 

Scott is not a villain but he isn’t a hero he is a neutral party He doesn’t hate heroes or villains he’s apathetic He has broken the law though he gets away with it by using his wealth and his family’s reputation of being superhero’s to deflect 

His brother is a stereotypical shonen protagonist hotblooded and vocal about his distaste for the corrupt system Raging against the path that was layed out for him since birth He makes friendship speeches and calls his friends his family 

In not exactly sure how Jimmy joel and grian never being caught would result in the change in the brothers but maybe because the codfather never met jimmy he became a mentor to them or just one of them and his involvement had a profound impact on their lives just like it did on jimmy’s 

Jimmy and Scott live together in Scott’s ice palace/liar so when ever jimmy breaks something Scott can just fix it with his ice powers also the two stay away from conflict like they did in 3rd life smp

Joel has a vendetta against grian and Jimmy’s sister for what she did to them but I do think that later in life he developed a huge crush on a fellow vigilante with pink hair and blue skin the two showed their attraction by competing against each other as a way to get closer so instead of Lizzie and Joel being partner vigilantes they are rivals if not outright enemies also they don’t know each other’s identities but are still married … somehow the arrangement works for them 

I put way too much thought into this and I don’t know why my mind decided to fixate on this topic but here it is I’m sorry and goodnight 😢

i don't have anything to add but this is a really cool idea you've made!! I love aus this is very fun to think about :D I don't think Joel, Grian, and jimmy not getting caught as teen vigilantes would be of any consequence to Scott's life, but I like the version of him that got spun for this anyways. I also really like Joel having distaste for lizzie but crushing so hard on her vigilante identity lmao

[random-thought-depository]

Made but then deleted a post yesterday cause I came up with some interesting ideas about how bonobo-like human gender works but then I decided maybe I didn't like the exact model I'd tentatively settled on. Such is a risk of posting first draft concepts. I did get some ideas I might keep though, so I'll talk a little about those now.

OK, you know that thing where male effeminacy is associated with youth, it's a lot easier to get some social advantage from being a kind of cute and feminine guy if you're young, and old-timey systems of institutionalized homosexuality often kind of used age as a substitute for gender with the younger partner being the "woman" in the relationship? I think with bonobo-like humans it might be the other way around; I think bonobo-like humans might think of older males as more feminine! Reasons:

As I said in my previous post, as they get toward middle age bonobo-like human males tend to get less horny (or at least less outwardly horny, it might be the same thing that I suspect is going on with sapiens women; not so much less horny as pickier in what makes them horny and more cautious in expressing their horniness) and less desirous of sexual variety and their sexual attraction tends to become more reactive (i.e. more something that happens in response to somebody else’s desire instead of in response to just the presence of an attractive person) and more focused on intimate partners and friends. In other words, as BLH males get older their sexuality starts to look more like our stereotype of female sexuality! I think BLHs will have enough gender stereotypes in common with us that they'll make a similar observation.

Older BLH males tend to be more involved in childcare than young but adult BLH males (though of course this is a trend with lots of individual exceptions). BLH society, like ours, has an association of childcare with women.

I once saw an interesting post that suggested that gender is a mating strategy, and I think that idea makes a lot of sense. Let's consider possible implications of that idea for the gender expression of older vs. younger BLH males in light of older BLH males being more involved in childcare and in light of how BLH female reproductive hierarchies work. Effective reproduction strategies for a young BLH male will be to appeal to women between ten years and fifty years older than him who are most likely to let him impregnate them in the context of something that's a mix of sperm donation and short fun sexual affair and who will rely on alloparents for childcare assistance with the resulting kid and will expect little or no parental investment from the bio-dad (BLHs mature faster than us and have much later menopause, so the maximum age gap for "bio-dad who just became an adult and mom who's more-or-less the oldest age at which a BLH woman can semi-plausibly get pregnant" is a 67 year old being impregnated by a 15 year old(!)). Effective male reproduction strategies for that context are likely to involve eroticizing your difference from your potential partners. Effective reproduction strategy for an older BLH male will be to appeal to women who are a similar age to him and have roles in family and society not very different from his and whose willingness to reproduce with him may be contingent on the expectation that he'll assist them with caring for the resulting children and the expectation that he'll be good at that. Effective male reproductive strategies for that context are likely to involve emphasizing (and eroticizing) your similarity to your potential partners. So I think older BLH males are likely to do behaviors that signal similarity to middle-aged women, while young but adult BLH males are likely to do behaviors that signal difference from middle-aged women and maybe by extension to a lesser extent difference from women in general.

I think their more intense self-domestication would make adult BLH males look kind of low-key femboy-ish/bishi to sapiens eyes, like they would be naturally beardless and they'd have "finer" facial features than sapiens males. More intense female sexual selection + a heavily alloparenting-reliant family system so it doesn't matter as much if the bio-dad dies or becomes disabled when the child is young also means they've gotten a lot more selection pressure for staying kind of hot-looking in old age. I don't think this would encourage thinking of older males as more woman-like than younger males, but I guess it might remove some of our reasons for associating male femininity with youth, e.g. BLH males almost never go bald.

"Young but adult males" is another way of saying "males of prime fighting age." This isn't a big deal now when the BLH world is pretty peaceful, but it was a big deal in a lot of past BLH societies, and the present BLH gender system, like ours, has a lot of cultural "legacy code" from more violent past eras. The old-timey BLH gender system had basically the same division of humanity into fighting males and protected ones that ours did. Older males would have tended to be less effective as warriors and more physically vulnerable because they were at least starting to suffer the disabling effects of aging. But also... I think human gender roles have been massively influenced by the fact that a guy who dies at 22 can potentially have way more kids than a woman who dies at 22 and all else being equal a community that loses half its males but none of its women will have a much easier time recovering its numbers than a community that loses half its women; I suspect this has as much or more to do with the very strong historical tendency to assign the fighter role to males than sexual dimorphism. I think, especially in the context of non-literate mostly oral societies where almost all the community's knowledge was in people's heads and nowhere else, something similar to that might apply to older males vs. younger males; an older male has more knowledge in his head so losing him would be a bigger blow to the community, but he's basically just as good as a younger male for breeding and likely if anything would do a significantly better job helping raise the next generation, so the people your community would be harmed least by losing would probably be younger males, and in communities that were strongly incentivized to select a disposable class decisions would be made on that basis, either consciously or in an "adaptation executor, not fitness maximizer" way. Basically, I'm saying older males (at least the ones old enough to suffer significant aging-related disabling) actually have a structural relationship to violence that's kind of similar to the one women have - and considering the other features of BLH society that might put into their minds the idea that older males are kind of like women, I think BLH societies might have more awareness of that than we do.

I think this might really change the emotional dynamics of older male/younger male sexual relationships! Like, in terms of that knight/damsel gender roles complex the younger male would be the "knight" in the relationship and the older male would be the "damsel" - that's a profoundly different social and emotional dynamic from something like the erastes/eromenos thing! And, like, yeah, I think BLHs have features that would be highly conducive to the emergence of institutionalized male homosexuality that looks like that. They have very fast puberty that happens just on the threshold of physical adulthood, so they basically go straight from childhood to being physically mature adult males at the peak of their physical power, and the way their low-key female privilege society works means if they're in the kind of social landscape where knight/damsel complexes emerge they'd probably develop a heterosexual version that's, like, older woman with younger guy where the woman is assumed wiser but physically vulnerable and in need of protection and they're supposed to compliment each other by the woman being the guy's mentor and kinda second mom and the guy being the woman's protector, it'd be super easy to take that basic script but gender-flip the woman to make it gay.

So, like, if you want to imagine one of the closest things BLHs ever had to the erastes/eromenos thing, it'd be a middle-aged heterosexual couple trading sexual favors, social patronage, material support (roof and meals), and basically gentle non-authoritarian parenting-lite, and basically informal therapy for war trauma to a 22 year old boy in exchange for some farm labor, him being the person who spends the summer with the community's livestock on the high grazing grounds protecting them from predators and rustlers along with some of the other young males of the community, and him being the one who'd go out with the other young but adult males to meet and repel raiders or invaders if they came. The social conditions for that sort of relationship don't exist on the bonobo-like human world today (except maybe among the equivalent of mafia/Yakuza and the like, I guess), but I expect it shows up a lot in modern BLH romance novels set in their world's distant past.

If you're wondering what sort of top/bottom dynamics this implies...

... The answer is that bonobo-like humans basically don't have them. Bonobo-like human sexual scripts for sex between males are mostly non-penetrative. This is because bonobo-like human sexual preferences have been significantly shaped by selection pressure for behaviors that mitigate the vulnerability to STIs their polyamorous lifestyle creates, and non-penetrative sex is less likely to transmit STIs. PIV and vaginal penetration with fingers and toys is a prominent part of sex that involves BLH women, because PIV is how babies are made so liking it continued to be selected for, but there was no equivalent selection pressure to protect sexual interest in forms of penetration possible between (cis perisex) males, so sex between bonobo-like human males is mostly various kinds of non-penetrative outercourse.

Actually, it's not quite accurate to say that BLH sexual scripts for sex between males are mostly non-penetrative; sex between BLH males does involve a lot of relatively gentle and shallow oral penetration, but, as I said, it's relatively gentle and shallow; the BLH idea of a good blowjob emphasizes diversity of stimulation with hands, lips, teeth, and tongue, not deep penetration of the mouth.

Basically, in BLH society sex between males tends to look a lot like sex between women (BLH scripts for sex between women and our scripts for sex between women are much more similar than BLH scripts for sex between males and our scripts for sex between men).

[ima-ghost-art]

This is a sorta master list of my Cats Oc’s so far!!

(this is all set about a year after the current Jellicle ball for age reference)

Adults:

Bellona Jones (Bustopher's sister and mother of the monochrome siblings and Ex Jellicle protector), Merlinite (Bellona's mate and father of the monochrome siblings, a magical cat who joined the junkyard as a favour to old Deuteronomy before having to leave with his wife for safety when she first became expecting)  (both deceased)     

Magnolia and Magdalene (Merlinite’s sisters who both live in the care of some nuns at a convent, both love their nibbling's very much and try to visit the three often after the death of their brother and sister-in-law!) 

Lyre-Bone (Daughter of Griddlebone and Apollo and current open partner/ unofficial mate of Macavity and mother of 2 of his kittens)                                     

Apollo (father of Lyre and used to live in an Opera house) (deceased)

Tililith (friend of Mungojerrie, mother of Macavity’s twins) (deceased)

Mollycoddle (mother of Jennyanydots, Jellylorum, and Griddlebone, was the Jellicle choice the year before Grizabella) (deceased)

Old Jillymonty (Leader of the street cats tribe. She lives in a bookshop and is about the same age as Old Duet, they are also good friends and have knitting dates together every fortnight!!)

Pippa (Jillymonty’s granddaughter and protector of the street cat tribe who has a big ass crush on their tribe’s storyteller)

Knoxly (Storyteller for the Street Cat tribe, hopelessly in love with Pippa but he is too shy to tell her) 

(Old Jilly definitely knows of the two’s affections for one another and finds it quite amusing watching it play out. She can’t wait to bless them as mates when they finally pluck up the courage to admit their feelings!)

Pennyfathing (He is a member of the Hidden Paw and ex-friend of the Jones family) (status unknown)

Kismet (They are a member of the Street Cat tribe as Pippa’s second in command and becomes the mate of Etcetera and parent to their daughter!!)

MACAVITYS KITS:

(I’m not adding Plato Jem or Admetus to this list since they are all cannon cats in at least one Cats stage show but just know they are there!!)

Alibi (daughter of Mac and Lyre and second oldest of Macavity’s kittens! She is a Magical cat with abilities similar to her father and Mistoffelees, her biggest trick is being able to teleport herself and others, however, using her powers comes with her body overheating exponentially (which can be really dangerous) and a chronic feeling of fire and soot in the back of her throat. she manages to keep the side effects of her powers hidden from the tribe (except Electra who finds out on accident) for most of her time there, Sadly she is the first Jellicle choice after Old Deuteronomy) (yes I accidentally wrote her entire life story shut up I love her)

Lucideus (eldest of her and her twin sister and daughter of Mac and Tililith. She is really close with her two younger siblings as well as Hiraeth (who is technically her nephew but they sick with calling themselves best friends lol) Like her Grandmother Grizabella and Tribe idle Bombalurina, Luci strives to be the next glamor cat, and often is found dancing while Hiraeth sings for her!!)

Tilibubble (younger of the twins and also the daughter of Mac and Tililith, she is closest with her fellow youngest siblings, Hiraeth and later on Russet! Tili was born mute, but surprisingly she finds it can be a great help (but also sometimes a big pain) at her job as when she’s old enough she trains under her Uncle Munkustrap and Brother Plato to be a Protector!)

OTHER KITTENS! :

Eglantine (Middle sister of the Somali cat trio that gets lowkey adopted by Tantomile and Rumpleteazer! She is a magical cat who later gets mentored by both the Physic twins, Mistoffelees and Alibi) (She also finds Hiraeth can be a terrible bore but she also can’t help but enjoy his company)  

Hiraeth Jones (Eldest son of Victoria and Plato!! He is fully blind due to an attack from a member of the Hidden Paw a few weeks after his birth. He is the next flirt of the junkyard and a great singer too!) (he may also have a crush on the newest magical cat in town tho)

Atlas Jones (one of Victoria and Platos triplets and probably the most protective of his siblings and cousins (like both plato and vicky in my hcs) he trains under Munk Alonzo and Cass to become a protector he is also aroace!!)

Diotima Jones (also a Platoria triplet!! She comes across very pessimistic and often very blunt (like her favourite uncle Misto) but she is also a hopeless romantic with a very detailed outlook on love! She also adores to dance with her mother and her auntie Jemima!!)

Aristotle Jones (final platoria triplet!! Ari is a mini Bustopher just with his uncle Alonzo patches!! Hes just a big friendly outgoing guy and loves to gossip with Jennyanydots! Like his triplet he also becomes a protector!!)

MollyMay Jones (May is the youngest of Victoria and Platos kittens and she is probably the most curious of the bunch! She is the reincarnation of Platos mother, and when she was born plato was shocked in that realization and it took time to come to terms with it. MollyMay is also the only one of Platos kids to not meet her aunt Alibi)

Azalea (Eglantines sister!! Aza is the oldest and she is also trans! She loves her siblings a lot and is very thankful for the Jellicle's but she also longs for a life on stage, she loves sitting with Jellylorum and learning about Gus (who was the last years Jellicle choice she didn’t get to meet) Later in life she fulfils her dreams and becomes the next theatre cat!)

Russet (Russ is the youngest of his siblings but definitely the most outgoing! Sadly he is the reason they had to leave their human family as he was born with no front legs (arms?) and was rejected by both their parents and their humans. His sisters didn’t want to leave him so they took him and ran away, bumping into Rumpleteazer who then gave them a home with her and her mate!!)

Oopsie Daisy (Daughter of Etcetera and Kismet!! absolute ray of sunshine like her mother, and just as big of a fan girl! The moment she’s able to speak, she had already appointed herself as Hiraeth’s biggest fan!!) (when she’s older she likes to spend her time split between her parent’s tribes!!)

THE SEVEN!!:

These are the seven kittens Tugger talks about in his song about Misto!! They are normally under the care of Pippa but one day they ran off and she came to ask the aid of the mystical Mistoffelees to help her pull them from a magical Top Hat the group had gotten stuck in!!

Dapple doo (oldest and a bit of a ring leader)

Checker, Morrison, and Chip Butty (Chaos Triplets who all admire Tumble Brutus and Pouncival the moment they meet them!!)                                      

Dylula (magical cat in training and has Sass that will leave you crying)              

James (somehow has the best aim for kicking you in the back of the knees)        

And finally Piccadilly! (youngest and has the pickpocketing skills that would leave even Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer impressed!!)

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WOW, this ended up way longer than planned but tbh this is here to help me keep track of all my OCs XD

At least half of these were created to help add more to cannon characters’ backstories, or to help be NPCs for a Cats DnD campaign I dream of running!! There are a couple other OCs i could of added too but i think im going to keep them as a surprise for now!

[into-the-blorboverse]

Song Family Dynamics

the Songs are a bit of a mixed family, the household has two dads and a mom as a polycule but they have kids from other relationships too. most of them share the same mom, except the oldest, Andréa.

Andréa is distanced from the family due to some Drama with her father, and she has such a age gap from the rest of her half siblings that she doesn't have a relationship with them. she's not even technically a Song but for convenience we refer to her as that lmao. she and Sammy have interacted more than the rest, being the oldest kids of the group, but Andréa was kind of a mess at the time and Sammy doesn't wanna be like her lmao. sorry girl, thanks for dissuading Sammy from substance abuse with your actions though teehee :)

Sammy takes the role of Oldest Sibling on easily though, even if he technically isn't the oldest. he had his time out of the house when he went to college and everything but he came back to live with the family at some point, there was Family Drama (this is a common thing in this family lmao.. vague drama u know how it is) that he felt he needed to come back to support the twins about. the twins have moved out on their own now but Sammy likes being home with the rest of the family, he has fun getting to help out with the youngest sister, Kai. Kai still sees Sammy as the Cooler Older Brother and he tries his best to keep that opinion in check lmao, of course i'll drive you somewhere no problem!

Sammy and the twins get along well, its always a fun wild time when the three of them are together. Kyri and Emma see him for the dork that he is and will tease him about him being their little big brother :) no fair that they're younger and taller than him...!!! arguments often ensue about things like who is the coolest and it gets loud and heated but they're always joking about it lmao.

Kyri and Emma are basically inseparable and have a bit of separation anxiety, stemming from aforementioned Family Drama TM. they live in an apartment together with their respective partners. the twins... you know the twins!! for some reason im blanking on things to say about them jhsfdh. i feel like the separation anxiety is stronger on Kyri's end, Emma could probably manage more distance but she doesn't mind living with her bro, she knows he needs her. and its never a dull moment with him, they're buddies and best friends!!

Laurence was adopted as a teen (13ish maybe) so he didn't grow up with all of them, Sammy was in college at the time so they don't have the greatest bond, but Sammy tries to reach out nowadays now that he's living in the house with him. he is the most reserved of the whole group but the twins try to draw him out a little, Kyri definitely being a bit more annoying about it lmao. Being the babies of the group Kai and Laurence get along well, they can confide in each other for alot of things. if Kai was like 4 when Laurence came into the family i'm sure that was a funny story to share at preschool, yay im getting a new brother! he's older than me though :)

Kai, or Kai Junior (she's named after one of her dads, yes its true), is da baby. the last teen in the house and can always count on a sibling to give her a ride somewhere, oh her social life is thriving thanks siblings! Kyri likes to call her Kaiju because come on that's a freaking rad nickname!!! he's a little jealous though if only he was Kai Junior..... the family is the most stable now at this point so luckily Kai hasn't had to deal with too much drama first hand (its vague timeline but she was probably pretty young), though she does wish that they would let her in on what happened back in the day. she does wonder about her mysterious oldest sister sometimes too, hm! maybe one day she can bridge that gap, when you're a lil older bb girl.

tbh this family has existed conceptually for a really long time and has went through alot of iterations, the parent trio were like OG ocs that i had with my cousins and it was like. alot of drama nonsense you write when you're a teen so trying to re-contextualize it now can be tricky?? like for example one of the dads was a vampire mob boss of sorts lmao. they were all vampires and were-people. how do you make that work. so some of this is Vague but i do like these lil guys anyway haha they hold a special place in my heart :)

[writingamarie]

17! :)

Pairing: Regulus/Barty

Words: 1166

CW: unhinged Barty, implied murder, muggle au, american au

Quote: #17 "If you love me, you don't love me in a way I understand"

i'm going to call this day 6 of my FICmas challenge!

He hated the Midwest. There was nothing refined or beautiful about fields of green that turned to mud every time it rained. But that was where life had gotten him. It was bullshit, but it was life. Regulus could understand when he thought about all the pieces that came together to form the puzzle of his life. Shitty parents, an absent older brother, bad influences -it all mixed together in a perfect storm to ruin his life. But the thing was, Regulus was smart. He didn’t need someone to come around and explain the new pieces that were falling, he’d seen the final image while it was all still up in the air. 

That was why he was packing a bag. He didn’t need anyone else to tell him when it was time to cut and run. Fuck Barty and the mess he had gotten himself into, Regulus wouldn’t let himself get caught up. Barty was his oldest friend, his boyfriend -for lack of a better term for whatever they were. But more than that Barty was the person that had derailed Regulus’ life at nearly every turn. It hadn’t been a surprise that Sirius had raged about his brother falling down a rabbit hole because of the Crouch kid, although Regulus had been a little more astonished when his parents also disapproved. Barty was from a good family, on paper he was exactly what Regulus’ parents wanted in a partner for him. Except Barty had been far darker than Regulus had known and quickly enough he had been pulled right alongside of him. 

Barty was unhinged, psychotic even -if Regulus had to take a guess. The parties had been fun, the vagabond lifestyle had been beautiful while it lasted, and then it all went to shit. Because Regulus couldn’t talk to someone without it setting Barty off. He couldn’t talk about finishing college or getting a job without insulting something personal within Barty. Regulus had never questioned it, he didn’t mind the life they had made together -or at least he hadn’t.

The plan had been simple. Get the fuck out before anything else could go wrong. There were too many people searching for him from all sides. It was bound to end poorly. The door of his hotel room opened gently, like the manager had used the electronic key to silently allow an invader into Regulus’ space. Regulus was quick, but they were quicker. He lifted his hands but before they could go fully above his head a fist connected with his nose and he fell to the ground.

“Jesus! My hands were up, I surrendered you ass” Regulus groaned as he pressed the back of his right hand to his nose.

“Where is he?”

“I ditched him after I realized you’d been following us for two cities. Your guess is as good as mine. Fuck off, you didn’t have to hit me!”

Sirius’ boot connected with his chest, gently but with enough force to keep him on the ground. It was just enough pressure to act as a warning. His big brother, the tough protector, the terrifying FBI agent, the hunter of monsters. Monsters like Barty -Regulus didn’t need to guess what he’d done. There’d been enough hints and clues to put it all together. But Sirius showing up confirmed it, whatever awful thing Regulus could assume was true. Barty wasn’t just a bad influence that had pulled him into something dark -he’d been an evil influence that whispered from his shoulder about the beauty of the devil. Sirius only hunted some of the worst, his team was known for it. Which meant Barty had become one of the worst and Regulus wasn’t sure why that didn’t scare him more.

“Where would he go?”

“I don’t know, I never understood what he was thinking,” Regulus lied.

The thing about Sirius was, he wanted to fix things with Regulus. He wanted a relationship that more closely resembled brothers rather than the strangers they had become. The fact that it took an investigation for him to pop back into Regulus’ life was the exact thing Sirius had fought to avoid. But even with all his hopes for them Sirius never had taken the time to learn when Regulus was lying.

“I have to meet the team, stay put. I’ll have questions for you.”

“Where else would I go?” Regulus asked innocently as if he wasn’t going to run the moment Sirius left the room. The agents he had undoubtedly stationed around the building wouldn’t be able to stop Regulus.

Sirius left with the promise that they would talk later, an empty promise. All Sirius wanted at the moment was to find Barty. Two cities across state lines -that was at least as far as Sirius had followed them. Which meant his desire to do his job beat out his desire to know his brother. Barty was a target and Sirius wouldn’t let the complication of Regulus’ feelings stop him.

Regulus was right that it was easy to sneak out after. The agents were good but no one had been on the roof. Regulus was able to sneak down the fire escape of the hotel and slip into the traffic of people on the sidewalk. Of all the stupid Midwest cities he had at least thought to stop in the most crowded. He paused, only for a moment to assess where he should go next, when the telephone booth rang out. Barty’s old signal.

Regulus stepped into the booth and prepared to take the call, “Barty.”

“Your brother is quite the pain in my ass. Time to go, Regulus.”

“What did you do?”

“Does it matter? They shouldn’t have touched you, now they can’t touch anybody. Fair’s fair. Let’s go home, Regulus.”

“I’ve seen the news reports, Barty. What you did to them, that wasn’t fair, it was revenge. Revenge over something that didn’t happen.”

“I just love you, Regulus, there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Regulus thought of how Barty loved him. The manipulations and difficulties that had popped up between them since they dropped out of school. The pile of bodies and the blood that felt like it was on Regulus’ hands just as much as Barty’s. His love was sharp and painful.

“If you love me it’s not in a way I fucking understand.”

He hung up the phone and grabbed the bag at his feet. He needed to move quickly, if Barty knew the phone booth he was at it meant he had a visual. Regulus was smart; he knew when to cut the strings and run. Barty could love him in whatever violent way he desired but Regulus wasn’t going to be taken down by his brother in the process. Instead, he’d vanish into the wind. It wasn’t hard, he and Barty had managed it before. This time he’d just be alone.