#future!briar

[thelilylav]

GOD sorry thinking about applebeauty again and just... they never get a happy ending. Like I love them so much but for them to work they can end up happy, sure, but never together. And it's all I think about because I would be FUMING if I was Briar. Apple will never put her first, because by necessity Briar can never be the most important person in her story. That position has always belonged to Raven, and that's where all of Apple's attention must go. But that's okay because boys are for the future and for now Briar gets to fill the role that one will take up one day except NO, Apple gets woken up. But not by a prince, no, by a princess. By someone who shouldn't have been able to wake her up at all. And Briar gets to watch her change her mind about destiny again and again for Raven, gets to watch her fate change again and again for Darling, and know that would never happen for her.

[rexterforeverafter]

Anyone else who saw the girl with the purple hair is like that's raven daughter for sure and maybe dexter daughter as well and the red hair is lizzie son, and the green brown hair maybe hopper daughter and briar? Im kinda not sure who's the mother but hey green soo ig hopper I'm not sure who's daughter is with the silverish hair? I think it will be Apple and Darling? Maybe because of the hair I'm not sure

Soo any thoughts?

[s-aint-elmo]

digging out the eah content i created in a frenzy during last year’s summer of obsession part 1: my personal sapphic multishipping guide (created to explain to my friends which of these dolls i think should hold hands)

(more in-depth discussion of the ships below the cut)

the polycule that will take over ever after

kitty/lizzie; kitty/maddie; maddie/lizzie

self-explanatory. frequently purchased together do not separate. bonus shoutout to maddie canonically giving kitty a little kissie on the cheek and getting off scot-free in the books though. a wonderlandiful world was a banquet to me

cedar protection squad

once again a wonderlandiful world and once upon a time i owe you my life. kitty ESP being so adamant abt not giving a shit then turning around and fucking up those boys who were mean to cedar...... i love friendship

kitty/cerise

also self-explanatory. she was a catgirl she was a wolfgirl can i make it anymore obvious. also doribuki’s phenomenal fake dating fanfic....... transformative foundational transcendental

cerise/raven

YOU MUST UNDERSTAND. i entered eah a rapple shipper and exited the book series ready to burn at the stake for cerise/raven. book two was SO MUCH. it had everything. raven befriending cerise despite her attempts to isolate herself. texting in class. winking at each other. raven meeting the parents and hearing embarrassing baby cerise stories. cerise putting it all on the line to save raven. i’m ambivalent about shadow high but cerise gets literally one (1) mention and it’s in raven’s internal monologue wherein she equates cerise’s hood w feelings of warmth and safety. like how was that in any way necessary. i rest my case 

raven & maddie

self-explanatory as well. dabesties. the ride or dies. it means so much to me that raven always has a friend in maddie no matter how many clowns and jokers (derogatory) treat her like the antichrist. maddie the character ever

raven/apple

WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN. the gelphie dynamic is a classic and i am EXTREMELY vulnerable to it. they are THE ship and i will pay my respects to the end of time. i am a big fan of how they trade their roles throughout the franchise and how rich the drama and history are between them. it’s pure fucking poetry.

raven/darling

TBH. a serve. the only thing juicier than evil queen/damsel in distress is evil queen/princess charming. big big fan of darling giving raven the five star princess treatment after a lifetime of being feared and shunned and vilified. equally big fan of raven’s momentous act of rebellion giving darling the courage to be true to herself. ALSO. the absolute archetype-subversion slay of the Pure-Hearted Hero(TM) confronting the Mistress of Evil(TM) and dropping their sword. looking through the smoke and mirrors and the will of Fate itself to see the girl who has wanted nothing but to be kind beneath. swearing their heart and soul and sword to the one true good they have found. picture it. i can almost see the 100-word drabble

raven/apple/darling

now THIS is just THE fairytale couple. the evil queen, the damsel in distress and the princess charming ALL holding hands and riding off into the sunset together. dappling on its own doesn’t do it for me but raven in the mix just makes everything gel perfectly. she’s the tomato in the ratatouille the cornstarch in the spring roll water, etc etc

darling/holly

this is one of those ships where i read a really convincing fic and the more i thought of it the more it just made sense. like they'd read swashbucklers and tales of courtly love together. holly would 100% write a darling placeholder in her self-insert romance fanfic pre-relationship as a way to express her feelings. darling would 100% find out and gently pull her out of the pit of sheer mortification she drilled into the ground to escape. also the height difference is a thing of beauty

safe from the polycule

duchess/poppy

they have one singular episode to their name and it was enough. it was Everything. the dynamic you can extrapolate from that one single interaction is so incredibly appealing to me. duchess’s bitchiness belied by her palpable air of vulnerability coming up against poppy’s spine of steel tempered by her skill in gaining perspective. poppy can challenge duchess into being a better person and duchess can be poppy’s character flaw like idk she just has shit taste in women that was the price she had to pay to be moisturized and unbothered by destiny. i just think they have the potential to be the unexpected, inexplicable power couple of eah

briar/faybelle

do i even need to say anything they had a whole movie to make their case. they’re rapple if rapple got their shit together before armageddon, with the bonus of a potential curse-breaking true love’s kiss for the fanfic authors to thrash between their teeth. truly unlimited. also unlike rapple where raven is 100% against being a villain and therefore it’s apple who has to do the mental gymnastics to open herself to the possibility of a relationship w raven, faybelle is just chomping at the bit to make her momma proud and presents a compelling perspective for the whole “falling in love w your fated nemesis” thing

blondie/cupid

they are icons, they are legends, and they ARE the moment. these two are so chaotic individually, what with blondie’s criminal skillset and habit of menacing innocent woodland creatures and cupid’s matchmaking powers combined w her shitty aim, that putting them together can only mean good things. there’s this whole element of their shared passion as public figures who at their best seek the truth and guide others through matters of the heart respectively that’s always interesting as a point of irony/obstacle when they start catching feelings and have to decide what to do with them. their joint youtuber/podcaster slay can level nations

[moonyasnow]

Brief Guide to Briar Valley Fashion

[ for the purposes of this post I'll be ignoring the 'they can just magic the clothes from thin air' argument because that's boring and doesn't let me infodump about historical clothing materials ]

Hey you!

🫵

Do you want to dress (or draw your OCs dressing) like you're from Briar Valley, but also don't wanna just 100% copy one of the in-game outfits? Well you're in luck, because I made a chart thing about it to show you how to copy the style!

[ TL;DR: be a billionaire ]

SO yeah, here are all the common design elements I've been able to spot in the fashion, from what we can see of the few designs we've gotten

First off I'm gonna share what a potential Briar Valley design COULD end up looking like— a more high-end dress, at least

I don't share W.I.Ps on my blog like…EVER, but this once, as a special treat, I'm gonna share this wedding dress I've been working on for my OC Irina

I am NOT done with the colors yet— this is just my 'first draft' of what I'd want the colors to look like

This was my biggest inspiration:

A dress here illustrated to apparently have been worn by Catherine De Medici

Catherine de Medici is in the right time period, though this illustration does also look to be Victorian, so take it with a grain of salt if you're just judging historical accuracy— but it certainly gets the vibe across. For more references I recommend going to the Wikipedia list of 'Henry the 2nd of France' going to the 'Children' section, and pasting one of their names + 'portrait' into google

And keep in mind that this is just what nobility would wear. So if you wanna design something more commoner-y, I recommend looking at what French peasants wore around the 1500s, since fashion for common people didn't tend to change as quickly back then as it does now.

And for color, I recommend the sort of moss green you see Lilia and Baul wear.

I wouldn't recommend black though if you're going for accuracy, since pure black was also quite expensive to color something back in the day— it was less expensive with a dark shade of another color, like quite dark blue, or dark red, or green, or even brown.

Another two for Veronica— though theses ones are more in the 'inspired by' section, and more ENGLISH late 1500s than French

Now onto the 'Moony yaps about some random obscure knowledge they have on a niche topic' part of the post

If you seriously wanted to dress like you're from Briar Valley I hope you have a MASSIVE bank account because this is going to COST YOU.

Now, contrary to what I myself expected, velvet isn't actually all THAT expensive— at least compared to the other materials I outlined in the image.

But don't be fooled, this is NOT because velvet is just not that expensive.

The other materials are just somehow way more expensive.

Now. The biggest reason for that would be the color purple.

Purple has always been the most expensive shade you can get ANYTHING in, because purple dye used to be stupid hard to actually acquire, due to how difficult it is to procure.

The color could only be procured from snails from the Mediterranean sea. First, they had to be harvested. And you'd need to harvest THOUSANDS for just one ounce of purple dye.

Then you'd need to remove the glands from the snails, and place them in a lead pot filled with brine, after which they were very slowly heated over a course of around ten days.

And this SMELLED. Smelled so bad, in fact, that the places which made the dyes had to be located downwind of cities.

And needle lace....

Is EXPENSIVE.

It requires someone to have strong, steady hands, but also small enough fingers to be the right size for the small needles used for this kind of lace.

So then…

PURPLE NEEDLE-LACE??

And pure blavk fabric!!! Back in the day, pure black was also quite hard to dye; it would be more common with a dark shade of some other color, like dark green, or dark blue, etc.

Maleanor is REALLY showing off her 'Queen' status here because if she were an actual renaissance ruler that would be worth an absolute fortune!

Purple anything and needle-lace are already difficult to make on their own. But put the two together and you'd need to make sure only the best of the best of craftsmen would be working with it, adding yet another layer of 'expensive'.

But yeah anyway.

Hope you found this useful/interesting!

Tagging @chillygourami since you seemed interested 👍

And @babyghoul138 bc VERONICA MENTION

[orchestraaquatica]

Orchestra Aquatica: GrandFest Concert!

Looks like a poster has been released!! Fully A3 sized, ready in CYMK colours for your printing purposes! Display it on your walls, in scrapbooks and anywhere else! (Make sure to tag us when you do!)

Who has your favourite outfit?

Reminder that the concert starts at 10pm AEST on the 15th of September! A link will be provided when it is completed!

[doubleddenden]

We got new characters to look at

Briar, seems interested in the terrastal phenomenon. Personally I think she might be related to the grass gym leader. Her ear rings and jacket patterns seems slightly suspicious to me but who knows.

Perrin is a traveling photographer that's come to Kitakami to photograph a certain pokemon. She's probably related to Adaman. I mean look.

There might be some Irida in there too. I feel like this solidifies Kitakami's connection to Hisui.

Besides Lacey, we have new members of the BB elite 4

Crispin likes to cook and enjoys battles.

Amarys is stoic looking but apparently loves her friends

Drayton is apparently the person who invites us to the elite 4 club or whatever it's called. He skips classes and has had to repeat the year 3 times.

Personally, between his name, appearance, color scheme, and his ace Archaludon resembling a bridge, I think he's related to Drayden and hails from Unova.

You apparently encounter them in the Terrarium after completing trials

[j-liz]

Hii I'm a new follower and I really like your artwork😊 I saw you were taking some sketch requests a while back, so I was wondering, may i ask for an interaction between uncle Yuri and stefan or his nephew and nieces in general?

Yuri of course was’t on board with the kids for obvious reasons. He changed however after little Katie May was born. She tends to act the same way Yuri does when Yor is absent. But seeing this little version of Yor so distraught, he couldn’t stand to see her cry. And considering he reminds little Katie May so much of Yor, she tends to calm down a lot quicker if he’s the one on babysitting duty. Not that he is the first to volunteer to watch her when Yor needs to grab groceries or take a well deserved break. Nope. Not at all. Penelope was on the same boat as Stefan and Anya when it came to Yuri’s affection, but Katie May was always gonna be his favorite.

[miralines]

Hey guess what I finally finished :)

Link

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

Got tired of TCG Pocket giving me shitty luck lately so I ended up buying an irl pack and-

Bless 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[offorestsongs]

what i really love about making up fan kids for my oc x canon ships is thinking about Lysander's (future) big ass found family

[luddlestons]

OC lineup but it's a college AU* so they're all waiting in line at the Fantasy Campus Coffeeshop

*the only college student is Briar on the far right, everyone else is postgrads or professors.

[violant-apologia]

HO HO HO (the sequel)

(a second visit to mr bricks in the neon future; find the first one here!)

An option on "Don your Incarnadine Fur Rube":

Mr Bricks, a Second Time

The Patron Master of the Hinterlands.

This option will gain you a Map of Dead London, a Home Comfort which is Dreaded and increases your skill with Chthonosophy.

A confidence (Success)

Yet again, you notice the spire-emporium's pleasant atmosphere. The air is dry and warm, the upholstery old-fashioned but quaint, and a scratchy old record playing from a phonograph. Time and repeated use has eroded the words, but a British cadence can still be heard. Mr Bricks is hunched over a table comically too low for it, gloved hands planted either side of a large map. You can't make out what it depicts. Bricks seems wistfully engrossed, and you have to clear your throat twice before it speaks. "I took some time away, you know," it says, gaze remaining fixed on the paper. "When it was clear things were reaching their end. I couldn't watch what they would do to my city." Its voice, usually high and erratic as Masters' tend, is even and filled with regret. It's nigh unrecognisable. "But I kept maps. I would watch them, try to notice the shifts and changes of the city streets. They were a comfort, and a connection, and a reminder. And when the maps stopped moving," it whisks the sheet from the table and hands it to you, "I knew that it was done."

You've lost 1 x Incarnadine Fur Robe

You now have 1 x Map of Dead London

Map of Dead London (Home Comfort) Exquisitely charted and lovingly rendered. Its streets are as still as corpses. Dreaded +2, Chthonosophy +1.

[poindexters-labratory]

Trying to make a Snapcube Eggman animatic thing for Toby (<- has never made animatics before) (<- wants so badly to make music video animatics)

It's actually been really good for remembering what exactly his character was :3

[marigoldbaker]

Can I request Briar? 9 for Briar if so. :3 If not, then Thea.

you CAN request briar i forgot that was an option!!!!! we're going to have to get a little vague bc i'm still figuring her out post bg2. going vibey with it.

9. a future historian’s account of your OC’s actions

It may come as a surprise to those who have closely followed the political trajectory of our most well-known Bhaalspawn to learn that she was, by all accounts, a playful, gentle young girl, ill-suited to the path she trod. Many who knew Briar in her youth described her as a girl who abhorred violence, preferring instead to sing a joyous cacophony of songs she wrote and composed herself.

Our records have been checked and cross-checked -- no existing evidence remains that the Bhaalspawn was ever a bard, or ever sang in battle, outside of a variety of semi-reliable witnesses whose descriptions of the Bhaalspawn's performing abilities and musical topics of choice vary too widely to paint a coherent picture. No musical instruments remain; none of the Bhaalspawn's authored songs have survived. Indeed, it is a myth that seems intended primarily to comfort those uncomfortable with the woman's vicious brutality: that a woman such as the Bhaalspawn was once a whimsical young girl, who wrote songs.

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

just a little bit of experimenting with Scarlet to shake the rust off 👍

[beecreeper]

My contribution to Mermay and an EXTREMELY predictable AU for me to draw tbh. It is shocking how little editing Gort’s outfit needs to be a pirate costume