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[historical-fashion-polls]

updates on the topic of tournaments

hello my lovelies! 💕

I hope you are all doing well and treating yourselves with kindness! ☺️☺️ to be honest with y'all, this has been a very shitty week, but I am trying to focus on what spaces of joy I can create, so to that end, I've been doing some thinking on the topic of tournaments 💖💖

based on the results of this poll, it seems there is significant interest in continuing to do the halloween tournament as well as additional tournaments throughout the year. I've also been reading your comments and messages on this subject, and y'all are so thoughtful and lovely in also being mindful of what I might have the time and energy to do, which I appreciate so much 🥰🥰

in light of all that, here's what I propose:

one fixed, yearly halloween tournament

one rotating tournament and/or themed month-long event based on different themes

some occasional themed days or weeks when inspiration strikes

it helps me to start gathering outfits if I know a while in advance what the next event will be, so I've tentatively planned for a month-long themed event in may 2025 (I'm not sure yet if it will be an actual full tournament, but it likely will count for the additional rotating event for 2025) (also, there's a hint to the theme hidden in this post 🤭🤭). and then our additional rotating event for 2026 will be a winter-themed tournament likely happening from mid-january through february 2026 ❄️❄️

little themed days and weeks will happen more spontaneously, but I'll always give a little heads-up post before I start them! ☺️☺️

I hope that this will be a good balance of the normal running of the blog and some fun tournaments and events sprinkled throughout! ☺️💕 as always, if you have ideas for potential themes, or questions or thoughts you'd like to share, please feel free to reach out! 🥰🥰

sending warm thoughts to you all,

the curator 🪶

[leth-writes]

yandere arcane x reader from the undercity

SUMMARY: yandere arcane x undercity reader

WARNINGS: 18+ as always on my blog, though the work is safe for work. Typical yandere shenanigans.

mild spoilers for season two in Caitlyn’s part, but I think I managed to avoid season two spoilers in every other part.

MASTERLIST: https://www.tumblr.com/leth-writes/757800060720496640/requests-open?source=share 

Requests are open!

SILCO

Silco’s job is made a whole lot easier by you being a citizen of Zaun. He’s able to pretty effectively track you around the undercity without much effort, hell, he might even sick Sevika on you just to follow you around and take notes, who knows.

He’s really obsessive about making sure you’re safe. Before you’ve met, he’s got someone on you constantly, taking notes and giving him a detailed list of everything you do. He also manages to bug your apartment. He likes watching you just putter around, it helps put him at ease.

I think he’d have an easier time rationalizing his affection for a darling from the undercity; his whole goal is to make the undercity sovereign, and if you share those goals, he’ll give you a little more wiggle room. You still won’t be able to leave The Last Drop, like at all, but you’ll definitely get a bit more space than he would normally allow a darling to have.

Since you’re so familiar with the undercity, collaring and tagging you is a necessity for him. He can’t have you running away, so he gets Singed to embed a fucking tracker. You won’t even feel a thing, it happens before you even gain consciousness that first day.

Spends a lot of time breaking you down so you never try to run away; everyone knows how important you are to him, and that puts a target on your back.

VI or JINX

She doesn’t really care all that much. It’s a bit easier to get her to open up, but beyond that, I think she just sees the undercity as like the baseline, she doesn’t even consider that she would end up with someone from the topside.

SEVIKA

Makes her job a hell of a lot easier. You already know her reputation, you’re never gonna disobey her. Don’t even think about it.

Makes sure you stay on the premises of The Last Drop, keeps you cooped up most of the time. SHe’s worried you’ll run away if she takes you out, though she keeps you entertained by buying you trinkets and takeout. You’re just amazed to see stuff from the topside, you’ve never been, and it’s easy to keep you busy.

You’re like a kid, staring at the snow globe she buys you. She genuinely thinks you haven’t moved all day.

VIKTOR

Also makes his job easier. As a person from the Undercity, you understand his backstory in a way someone like Jayce never would. 

It also makes it easier to keep you isolated. You do face discrimination as an undercity person when you’re topside, which keeps you running into his arms. He knows you could beat him up, it wouldn’t be hard, but you would have no way to get back home, and your quality of life has shot way up anyways.

Your relationship is actually probably the healthiest out of everyone on this list, just by virtue of him feeling free to take you around town, though he does use the discrimination to subtly remind you not to leave him. You might not even notice you’ve technically been kidnapped, he’s so subtle.

CAITLYN

Season one Caitlyn doesn’t mind all that much.

Season two Caitlyn treats you like a fucking pet. She acts like you’re… lower than her. She loves you so, so much, but she definitely doesn’t trust you the way she would trust someone from Piltover. You’re never leaving the house, and you’ll never return home. She plans on cleaning the place out, anyways, so it’s not safe for you down there.

She probably keeps you on sedatives. She views you as slightly dangerous, so she isn’t willing to take that chance.

You’re a lot more pliant when you can’t tell up from down, and she’s free to just cuddle with you without a worry in the world.

[askthekirbysquad]

Tragically, Tumblr doesn't allow enough options to include every game, so Dream Land 1 was removed </3 (and tragically I couldn't include an option for the spinoffs either </3 )

[silusvesuius]

this tree from my new drawing looking goated afffffff 👑👑

[heymacy]

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[dye-it-rouge-et-noir]

"For particularly important things, it's always more reassuring to write them down like this." - Zhang Beihai

[ID in alt text]

[agirlinthegalaxy]

It's been rolling around in my brain the last few days for some reason, but I still hate the family backstory reveals for Sophie and Eliot. I've seen some of the meta for it, but quite frankly, it still makes no sense. If it had been something actually thought of and intentional in the original, I think it could have been so fascinating. I mean, Sophie's willing abandonment of Astrid to contrast with Nate's loss of Sam or Eliot's adoption in contrast with Hardison's and Parker's? Could have been excellent! But they came out of nowhere in Redemption and don't work with these characters.

Sophie was still actively using the fucking alias that she met Astrid under! She met with someone from her past on the show! Like. Quite frankly, that one is unequivocally bullshit that they made up and threw in and pretended could fit with the established canon. (And I'm sorry, but the idea of Sophie abandoning Astrid and never telling Nate about her just... So much of Nate's trauma was rooted in the loss of Sam, and I think that introducing this element after he's gone and unable to respond to it taints Sophie and Nate's relationship in a way bc I'm not exactly sure how Nate would've responded to learning about this but I think that it's something he'd have needed to know. I don't know how to fully express my thoughts on that but yeah.)

As for Eliot, I don't like the adoption aspect literally at all. The way that he would interact with his family and the memory of his family would be different, and I think that it's flat out ridiculous to think that he'd have never mentioned it to the team in the original show, especially when dealing with the kid cases. (I also dislike the biracial adoption as its own element because if Eliot was actually raised by Black parents in the... idk what 80s/90s? That just. doesn't feel congruent with how they write Eliot interacting with PoC, not necessarily in a bad way, but babe, he's written like a white southern man raised in a specific kind of culture that does not jell with that. It also makes Eliot look... really bad that he was apparently raised with the knowledge of how fucked up the military was and his parents' history and made the choices that he did.) Like the show may not have explicitly stated it but the implication of that relationship was vastly fucking different throughout the original show.

Just. These were not backstories that were congruent with their depiction and characters in the original show, and they're also just moves that I don't particularly like or find interesting directions for those characters. There's also something to be said about how it was apparently unacceptable for a woman to not have kids or someone not reconciling with their biological family when that was something that the original show handled a lot better. Out of all the directions to take Sophie and Eliot's stories, that's just not really one that I think was a good idea.

[myroomismytardis]

Dracula cats! Catula! Again i have been persuaded into sharing art from the @lxgentlefolkcomic discord - this time it's cat designs of the characters of dracula.

notes under the readmore

- the only ones with cat breeds are quincey (maine coon), arthur (british shorthair) and lucy (british longhair) - oh, and dracula, who is some kind of oriental, becausv i wanted him to have that Weird and Slinky look, and also the weird nose shape. he gets more black as he feeds, which obviously isnt a thing cats can do, but it does come in in the same pattern that points do (extremities first) - being a maine coon, quincey is huge. that is all its just worth saying again - jonathans eyes also get a slightly red overlay after his time with dracula. because of the horrors. - quincey harker has his dads freckles, his mums eyes, and also her little wonky cross marking - if lucy and arthur did get to have children/kittens they would have been very cute. alas

[james-spooky]

this is a test

[14dayswithyou]

Bro i was listening to Taylor swift and ‘don’t blame me’ song reminded me of Rin deadass

✦゜ANSWERED: YEAHHHHH!! IT TOTALLY FITS HIM!! @yourunhingedgirlfriend once made a Ren mood board(?) including that song as well, and it hasn't left my mind since ^^ <3

But yeah!! I still stand by the headcanon that [REDACTED] is in his Reputation era and Ren is in his Lover era ;v; Also, in this 391,490,009 page essay I will be talking about how "Mastermind" and "Hey Stephen (Taylor's Version)" are such Ren/[REDACTED] coded songs, and that the entire Evermore and Folklore albums were the inspiration behind Elanor's charac-

[historical-fashion-polls]

Hi! How many of these outfits would kill me if i wore them? (Arsenic poisoning, lead poisoning etc) Asking because risk of death vs fantastic outfit

hi my dear! 💕

thank you so much for asking! ☺️☺️ my first answer here is going to be none! 🥰🥰 I like to think of this blog as an imaginative space where we can envision ourselves in the lovely garments of the past without worrying about toxic dyes or the endangerment of wildlife. for me personally, when I look at the garments in a poll, I imagine the safest and most ethical methods of production were used to construct the garments, or else I conceive of them in a totally imaginary sense ☺️💕

however, I always say that the question on the polls and how you choose to interpret that question is totally up to you, so if you would rather take into consideration the historical methods of production, then you are totally welcome to do that too! 💖💖

if you're more curious about historical production methods, I actually do have a little info post on that right here that I used to always link to polls that featured a green garment, although I admit I've gotten a little lax about doing that 😅😅

I'll just end by saying that this blog is really all for fun, and I do tend to conceive of it as a space for some imaginary dress-up, so you are welcome to interpret the outfits in whichever way brings you the most enjoyment! 🥰🥰

[derelictheretic]

I have become the tumblr guy that pops in every now and then to interact with all my mentions and spam post and then peace out into the ether again

[vellichorom]

The amount of mischaractarization happening in this Fandom ALONE is upsetting and there's so many people that will do it deliberately despite the creator of designs/characters stating they DONT like it is kind of,, concerning. Like how are you that comfortable kicking around OCs or characters/designs for your own enjoyment? I'm so sorry that happened to you multiple times. It really is unsettling at how comfortable people are with making jokes or punching around designs in this Fandom and it's half the reason I don't post tsp content and stay anonymous in ask boxes and I'm sure I'm not the only one too

Sorry for the ramble this has just been on my mind for so long,, like since April of last year

wrapping my arms around you & holding you very closely

[remusjohnslupin]

@ the latest anon who sent me a message (the one that starts with: 'To be fair, it isn’t just ‘someone holding beliefs that you happen to disagree with...'): Yeah, we're not doing this, sorry. I already explained that I actively keep real-life issues out of my blog and I explained why. I am not comfortable with people telling me who I should block. I am not comfortable with people trying to guilt me, as you did, to give some sort of a statement about someone I never even interacted with. I don't know this person whose blog you are referencing. I don't know the person who sent the first anonymous message. I don't know you.

This is the end of this conversation. Hope you have a lovely day.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Mmmhh...

[kedsandtubesocks]

seeing so many incredible and actual legendary fandom writers/legends here and feeling so humbled and grateful but too shy to talk to anyone

me five seconds later realizing y’all are going to discover the truth that I’m Not Cool but instead a worm behind a desktop who writes way too many weird AU’s, writes & loves anime too and watches way too many sports