#i liked it and decided to Expand™

[alanisstonedd]

hey pookiee, can you tell us how marine!rafe & reader met?

YES. yes i can love. got a tad bit carried away 🙂‍↕️ ANDDDDD lets get into this marine!rafe lore:

not proofread so plz excuse errors yall lmfao

first thing, both rafe and reader went to kildare county hs. you were good friends with kie, and dabbled in the same circle sometimes, often running into rafe during parties they all went to, or when sarah invited you & kie over to tanny hill.

and actually lets back up even more bcs - marine!rafe is not a kook. if anything hes a mutt like kie. ward had humble beginnings yk, being the son of a clue collar man - his father, who took over cameron construction co from HIS father. they mostly did framework, structural work, and remodeling for businesses and houses on the cut but the work was amazing quality so they were a very quickly growing name. still, ward grew up on the cut and started raising the kids there.

but fast forward, ward eventually takes over and decides to expand into all interior work, all exterior work, decks & patios, custom woodwork, honestly whatever you can think of - but advertised to the rich tourists and families on figure 8 and stuff. they started RAKING in cash from that expansion and ward decided to build a house on figure 8 like rose always wanted - tanny hill!

NOW, i think you and rafe essentially had a slow burn situation. y'all would sit and talk the whole night at bonfire parties, barely putting a dent in your drinks. for some reason your class schedules were always in synch, leisurely walking each other to the next one, rafe trying to make you laugh every the whole way. y'all would accidentally rendezvous in the kitchen while at you were hanging at tanny hill, sarah and kie rolling their eyes at the giggles carrying all the way into her room.

rafe quickly developed a very intense crush, thanking whatever power made your schedules 95% the same, spending the rest of his time watching you from afar. he just never worked up the courage to act, convinced you'd never be as interested in a regular dude like him. his daily routine consisted of class, then work with his dad until the evening, after that probably linking up with barry or john b & friends™ for a beer. he felt like he had nothing to offer you besides his expert ability to fix just about anything, some wildflowers he keeps in his truck specifically because they remind you of him, and every last piece of of his heart.

chile.. little did he know you were just as in love. just a little self conscious is all. mkay maybe a lot? look, he already had a full sleeve and a half by junior year... not to mention his pierced ears, and the sexiest working man hands you'd ever seen. he BEEN fine, you just knew he was experienced and stuff, definitely not interested in a regular girl like you. so you watched him from afar... you could identify the rumble of his truck from at least a few miles away

he would come to visit you when you got your first job at the wreck. posting up at the bar, pretending to do homework, or catching up with john b & friends™. thats kind of when you started to catch what he was throwin down. the alcohol available loosened him up a lil bit, almost getting you fired from how much y'all would talk.

from behind the bar you had a front row seat to the way he looked at you, feeling hot like you were shoved under a spotlight. that didn't stop him from getting even closer though, behind the bar helping you clean up by the end of the night. your hands would brush, too focused on the dishes, and it was electric - so burning hot you both had to take a beat before getting back to it.

but by the time senior homecoming came around you had fully blossomed, more and more confident by the day, even finer by the hour. so even though you scared the hell out of him, he was willing to shoot his shot thinly veiled by asking you to the event. he planned and planned, wanting to make it so special for you - he was gonna cover his truck bed in your wildflowers and candles, back it up to the beach at sunset, complete with a basket of your favorite snacks and a lengthy heartfelt note asking you to be his date and confessing his feelings...

just his luck though - as quickly as could blurt out his idea to sarah and kie, they awkwardly informed him that some fucker beat him to it. showed up at the wreck after school to ask you with no flowers and a delivery like asking for the math homework. he was lowkey devastated. feeling defeated after the glimmer of hope he let himself have. even thought he did feel the slighest bit better after kie & sarah let it slip that you were NOT into dude, and were less than thrilled that you couldn't go with your girls.

he busies himself with work on homecoming night, selfishly making a quick trip to the island club - where he knew homecoming was in full swing - to grab some plans for their new outdoor edition.... and see if he could check on you. pulls up in his truck to the sight of you perched on the from steps, looking unmoved by the highly anticipated event.

he strolls over to take a seat next to you, softly admitting how beautiful you look. and before you know it you're in the passenger seat of his F-150 backing up to the beach - just in time for the last breathtaking swatch of sunset. he opens your door and carries you around to the bed, not wanting your dress to "get all dirty and stuff".

you tell him about how horrible your fake date was, and he laughs, calling the dude a dipshit and sheepishly confessing that he might've wanted to ask you, fully expecting you to chuckle back. but to his surprise you turn to him and smile, softly admitting how much more you would've enjoyed that. y'all have ur first kiss in that truck bed, snuggled up watching the sunset, just talking like you always do

i reckon from that moment on y'all were inseparable..... at least until you went off to college at the end of the summer. it was tragic, lots of crying. he felt like he lost the only part of him that mattered - so he told ward he was joining the army.

he told you he was leaving of course but it was a somber conversation - y'all already knowing how little contact was in the future for you both. y'all were so young, so much life a ahead of you - promising that if fate ever brought you both back together you'd listen. and sure enough, what felt like a lifetime later, it did.

he'd been back home on leave, same ol' same ol', long days with his dad at the construction company. he was sitting at the bar at the wreck one evening when that same electric feeling hit him like a right hook. you walked in with kie & his sister, first day back home after graduating, doing some much needed catching up.

you told the girls to go on, and sat next to him, sparking up a conversation like y'all were back in highschool. he told you he was leaving on deployment soon so the two of you spent as much time as you could together before he left, no acknowledgement of the tension between you both. he left feeling better than he had in long time, rejuvenated by the time he spent with you even if y'all weren't together.

last thing he thought he'd see when he touched back down at fort bragg, was you in that damn sundress, clutching two miller lites, aviators perched on your cute nose. thats when he knew there was no more ignoring this.

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hope y'all liked this! likes and reblogs and all the rest much appreciated!!!

xoxo, lana 💋💋💋

[joffyworld]

The First Annual JoffyDay™ Contest!

Good evening! Good morrow! Beautiful people gather round! The time for the first ever Annual (hopefully) Joffy Day Contest is here at last! Is it a little late? Yes! Sorry about that, Joffy got the flu!

Anyway, below will be the rules, the prompt and the prizes on offer! If you are interested and wish to participate, please send a DM so I know roughly how many participants there will be! Thank you!

Without further ado:

The Prompt - "Growth"

Whilst villages grow from small tents to stone roofs and empires grow from small townships to eventually span continents, we grow as people from our youths until our inevitable collective demise. The story of life can be told in one's growth, but so too can the story of death. Time is ever-moving, and with it so too shall the vines of nature one day overgrow the busywork of mankind, such as did the sands of time bury the works of Ozymandias.

Growth is change, naturally. Or is it?

The Rules

Schedule and Dates!

No NSFW work!

The contest will be running from the moment this post goes live (26th of March) until the 2nd of April. The final decision on the winners will be announced on the 7th of April, to allow for any problems or troubles in deciding!

Theme!

For this contest, given the origin of this account, I've decided to run with a Cult of the Lamb theme! The works submitted will have to have a COTL setting, with the piece taking place in the COTL universe. However! Alternate takes on COTL such as AU's and HC's are more than welcome, and the piece does not necessarily have to include any Cult of the Lamb characters. As long as the overarching story involves COTL in some way, anything is fair game!

Light gore and violence are fine, just none of the "fun stuff" please! I'd like to keep this competition accessible for all.

Shorter the Better!

I'll be honest and say I struggle to read longer pieces, so as the judge I politely ask for quality over quantity here. The piece should be written as a one-shot, try to go for maximum punch in the fewest words! This is supposed to be fun however, so I won't set a specific word count, just have fun and keep it in mind!

Format!

Any format is fine! Poetry, prose, writing, anything goes! I would, of course, prefer poetry as it's my main wheelhouse but there won't be any extra "points" or anything added for it. Try something new! Expand your horizons! Or stick to what you know, your choice!

Judging!

Judging will be solely performed by me, Joffy! However, in the rare event I struggle to choose between a pair of written pieces, the tiebreaker will be decided by my fellow Joffys over at @joffycourt! This shouldn't be a problem, but that is the contingency plan!

And now, the (hopefully) exciting part!

The Prizes!

1st Place - £15 (or the equivalent in local currency)

2nd Place - £10

3rd Place - £5

Per Participant - £1 to Charity (Max £20)

Payments can be given via KoFi or PayPal! In the event you don't have the means to receive the payments, just let me know by DM how you would like the payment in the event you place in a cash prize placement and I'll do what I can! If you for whatever reason are completely unable to receive the payment, the money will instead be donated to a charity of your choice!

Furthermore, for every participant there will be £1 pledged and donated to a charity as voted on by the public! I'll do some research and come up with 3 or so vetted options that the public will then vote on via poll! Sadly, for now the maximum I'll be able to pledge from this is £20, as I am not a very wealthy man.

...And that's all!

Thank you to everyone who joins or even considers joining! It's been a wonder getting to know you all and it'll be nice to be able to give back in a small way! I know the prizes aren't much, but hopefully in the future this will only continue to grow.

Thank you everyone again, you're all angels,

The Original Joffy™

[teruuu]

Exploring The Complexities of The Lamb and Narinder’s Relationship

Long post warningsgsgsgsgsh!!!!!! 🥺🥺

For those of you who want a quick rundown of what the AU’s about, check out the link at the bottom of the post.

Warning: Mentions of Cannibalism, Unhealthy & Obsessive Relationships, and Spoilers for The Art of Acquiring Devotion

Now, firstly, I’ll have to give my thanks to @nimbudcat for providing me with ideas as to how the relationship would function and opening the gateway for me to fully explore all the nooks and crannies of their romance.

I’m no expert on the deep complexities of toxic relationships, so I don’t have the courage to fully label the Lamb and Narinder’s love as ‘toxic’, but I know damn well that it’s not a normal love at all. Let’s think—what is a normal, healthy relationship composed of? Trust, of course. Mutual love and trust, absolute honesty... Those are the most basic building blocks of a healthy relationship. In this AU, for Narinder and Lamb, those concepts are extremely warped. They have all of those components in their relationship, but it’s so twisted that it’s difficult for me to define their romance as either healthy or unhealthy.

Narinder and Lamb trust each other, and it runs so deep that the best descriptor for that trust is pure devotion. They trust each other with their lives. This may not make sense since they are immortals, but think about it—the cannibalism that they inflict upon one another results in death for the two, each and every time, and they trust only one another for their resurrections. They allow the most vulnerable parts of themselves only to one another, and this is so incredibly meaningful because of all the aspects of their pasts. They trust themselves of course to always only tell the truth to each other, and the love that they share is simply reverent.

Now, let me elaborate on why all the things I expanded on above mean so much. Let’s start with the Lamb. I as I said in my previous post, the Lamb’s past for this AU is derived from my fanfic. We don’t know much at all about pre-sacrifice Lamb in-game, so I took the liberties to expand on their world myself. I’ll allow some passages from my fanfic to speak for itself:

It was through these traumatic experiences that the Lamb became hungry at the thought of companionship. No, the Lamb doesn’t just want some of Narinder’s Big Fluffy Gyatt™. As I’ve depicted in my other artworks, in this AU the Lamb considers Narinder as their savior, their one and only salvation, and perhaps the only person that has ever cared about them. And this is where things start to get murky—it’s because of this that the Lamb is so incredibly attached to Narinder and is absolutely insane about him.

The Lamb isn’t just attached, actually. They’re obsessed with Narinder. So obsessed that they develop a panic if they don’t hear his voice after more than half an hour. So obsessed that they begin to see any and all followers that interact with him as an enemy. This is also why I hesitate to consider this as toxic, because, see, Narinder likes it.

Moving on to Narinder’s part of the AU, it’s important to understand that, although he pretty much brought it to himself because of his high and mighty behavior, he was also quite isolated in his earlier years.

For Narinder’s side, he firmly believed himself to always be in the right. Think of it as a mad scientist whose ideas are way ahead of his generation. He had innovative thoughts and concepts in mind in the duration of his reign. He’d been supplemented by the knowledge that Shamura had provided him with, and that caused him to possess the mind of a radical inventor. Unfortunately, his ideas were less than desirable for the rest of his siblings and his own followers, so little by little the worship he received dwindled. Narinder was frustrated by this—why couldn’t anyone see the genius that he had to offer? Initially he had good intentions in mind, but he grew a tyrannical mind and eventually decided that the only way for the world to see his wonders is to force it beneath his feet.

Eons of imprisonment provided no aid for his mind. What once was a head full of wonders that could potentially change the world for the better became a twisted and cruel version of itself. Violence and revenge plagued his mind, and it became his one and only obsession. So, when the Lamb came to him, he relished in the worship they had to offer.

Their devotion for one another is purely mutual, but at the same time fully in their own self-interests. The Lamb is devoted to Narinder because Narinder is all that they care about in their mind, and they desperately require Narinder for them to continue living on. As for Narinder, he had never acquired such a passionate follower before, and he grew an addiction for the love that they have to offer. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or not.

They are incredibly violent for one another because that’s all they know. They don’t understand what it’s like to have a normal relationship. They cling to one another, kill for one another, and eat one another because they need each other so badly. The cannibalism is an expression of their eager desire to simply blend into one another because that’s just how much they want the other.

They know it’s wrong. They hate that it’s wrong. They hate each other for making each other feel so wrong and so crazy. But they so, so want it to be right.

(Okay sorry for the bad essay lmao adios)

[xechu]

nurse!gojo headcanons

a/n: couldn't get nurse Satoru out of my head. Based on this post. I decided to make a fun little headcanon for now. I've also based this au in a made up city called "Staelum" - in case I decide to expand later with other characters. ;) warnings: 18 + mdni / suggestive themes, swearing, overall sfw

nurse!gojo - everyone’s favorite nurse. Patients, staff, even the grumpy old cardiac surgeon who “hates everyone” lights up when he walks in. Somehow (but, let’s be real, not surprisingly) he’s gained local fame. Unofficially dubbed Staelum City Hospital’s Hottest Nurse™ - there’s even a fan cam floating around on TikTok.

nurse!gojo - who could’ve gone to med school easy, with his intellect and his family’s backing. But the thought of another year in school? No thanks. Plus, spite is a powerful motivator, and he definitely wanted to spite his family. If there’s one thing the Gojo family hates, it’s deviation from tradition. A long line of doctors, high society snobs. Fuck that shit. Honestly, he can’t even remember who the first Dr. Gojo was. Great-great-grandfather? Great-great-great-grandfather? Who cares.

nurse!gojo - whose family cut him off the moment he said he wasn’t going to med school. But he didn’t flinch. Being a doctor was overrated anyway. And being a Gojo was even more overrated. Unfortunately, as long as he stays in this city, he’ll never be fully out from under their shadow. Even in the hospital he works at, a giant plaque hangs in the main lobby honoring the Gojo family: “for their generous contributions and dedication to the advancement of medical research.” Blah, blah, blah. Some other bullshit. Satoru walks past it every day. Doesn’t even look up. But there’s a suspicious dent on the bottom corner of the plaque...and yeah, his giant pastel pink Stanley cup has definitely “accidentally” clipped it more than once.

nurse!gojo - who now shares a two-bedroom hard loft in the heart of the city with his best friend, Suguru Geto (paramedic, menace, absolute ride-or-die). They somehow managed to talk down the rent just a little. Being good looking has its perks, because face card never declines.

nurse!gojo - ER nurse. Definitely the kind who lives off chaos, adrenaline, and high-pressure situations. He’s the guy who can start an IV with one hand while shamelessly flirting with the attending across the room.

nurse!gojo - occasionally runs into Suguru in the ER. The two of them together is some crazy magnetic force of attraction. People can't help but stare. Suddenly, the patient moaning and screaming from severe stomach pain in the waiting area? What stomach pain? Silent. Awestruck. Every now and then, someone bold will ask for a selfie like it’s a meet-and-greet, and totally not a trauma bay.

nurse!gojo - who’s weirdly excellent at calming down aggressive or hysterical patients. He’ll flirt, joke, or throw in a dumb impression if that’s what it takes to get someone to breathe again. Works every time. The pediatric floor loves him too - the kids call him “Nurse Toru” and insist he flexes his arms so they can hang off him like he’s a jungle gym. He eats that shit up like there's no tomorrow.

nurse!gojo - who’s surprisingly good at breaking down complex medical jargon for his patients. He knows it’s something most people skip over, but to him, it’s a huge part of patient care. It’s what makes people feel safe with him. Despite the jokes and the flirting and the smug grin, people feeling safe matters to him - a lot. He understands that being in the hospital can be a very scary situation. Transparency is the best policy.

nurse!gojo - 1000% about the dramatics and the cinematics. Certified girlie pop 💅 by some of the fresh grad nurses. Always in vibrant blue scrubs, with a giant baby pink Stanley cup in hand. He got it during last year’s white elephant - and, Siobhan, the nurse who gifted it felt awful afterward, thinking it wasn’t his vibe. So, naturally, Satoru made it his whole personality. To (lowkey) prove a point. And maybe also because it is kinda cute.

nurse!gojo - who’s been investigating the hospital’s most notorious crime wave: the stethoscope thief. He’s 95% sure who it is, but instead of snitching, he took matters into his own hands. Now his stethoscope is fully anti-theft, decked out in pink and gold, with a custom engraving that reads: “I ❤️ P3N15”... Adults get it, while kids from the pediatric ward stay blissfully unaware.

nurse!gojo - surprisingly not that into social media. No TikTok, no thirst trap Twitter. But he does have a private Instagram account with exactly 74 followers. Just coworkers, a few old friends, and the two baristas he sees every morning at the hospital Starbucks. That’s it. Might occasionally post something chaotic or unserious.

nurse!gojo - speaking of Starbucks, all the baristas know his order by heart. Nothing crazy. Just a venti caramel macchiato with extra caramel drizzle. Every morning, without fail at 7:00 AM sharp. Hot and fresh at the hand off area. Sometimes if it’s an extra long day, he’ll pick another one up in the afternoon. All the baristas have a field day when he visits, and leave sweet little notes on the cup for him. “Hope your day is as lovely as you 🌼”

nurse!gojo - who finally caved and became a preceptor this year. Naturally, the moment the news dropped, every nursing student suddenly had ER dreams. The entire cohort fought blood, sweat, and tears to get on his preceptorship list. Because yeah, he’s a little chaotic. A little too confident. But he teaches like no one else - sharp, funny, patient when it counts. And his students - they walk out better. And secretly (or not so secretly) obsessed with him. It's like Satoru alone carries the future of nursing on his back.

nurse!gojo - who somehow has infinite energy and stamina. You’d think he’d go straight home and pass out after a 12-hour shift, but no. He still finds time to hit the gym and socialize. The man is built different, quite literally. If his and Suguru’s schedules line up, they’ll gym together. And that’s a whole separate spectacle. Highkey, they’re many people’s gym crushes - and probably why the gym is still in business. Some even think Satoru and Suguru are dating. They’ve never confirmed or denied it. Which, of course, just makes the rumors spicier and more fun. ;)

nurse!gojo - who’s never had to use dating apps a day in his life. With a face like his and a reputation like that, people assume he’s swimming in options. And sure, he flirts, goes on the occasional date, gets all the attention in the world. But the thing no one really sees is how isolating it can be. How empty it feels when it’s always surface-level. Wishes that one day, his person would just fall from the roof into his lap and propose on the spot. No games, no guessing. Just someone who sees him and says, “yeah, that’s mine.”

Who knows? In a city like Staelum - possibilities are endless. But until then...

Writing © xechu - please do not redistribute, translate, or repost any of my works.

Dividers owned and done by © @/aquazero - source is here

[tired-reader-writer]

Tentatively decided to name the new OC (Shapur's former tutor who now teaches his two kids) Sadiq, meaning “true, sincere, loyal”— derived from the root صدق (ṣadaqa) meaning “to tell the truth”! I have yet to figure out his whole deal but the vague strokes are that he had probably been taught to be ruthless even against family, tangled up in a succession crisis against his brother, only to eventually go “wait, none of this is even remotely worth it” and fucked off— maybe he even tried his hand at serving at court but got disillusioned and left— probably because Gotatzes deteriorated and he witnessed again brother fighting brother and got so Tired of it all. Kinda gave up on the world, only dedicating himself to his... nephew? of a sort? He probably had blood ties to Shapur's father or something to have been able to become his tutor. I get the sense that he's mellowed out quite a bit since his younger years. Actually, why do I keep visualizing this man as Froi Tiedoll from D Gray Man????

?????????????????

I don't know if the mental image will end up sticking or not. We shall see.

(Man I need to reread D Gray Man don't I)

Some other vague stuff about him:

Has lingering regrets over broken familial bonds. Maybe he wishes he'd known better, known to have not feuded against his own brother when he was younger.

Pretty chil???? (Tis the Froi influence I swear)

(but if he's so chill how'd he produce not one but TWO very rigid students?! my dude??)

“The fact that you two (Isfan and Areyan) have never once considered it (competing against each other for the heir seat, or even feuding with Shapur for the family head and lord position) then it means I have taught you two well.”

Eternal Bachelor™

Could he possibly have been peers with Lushan and Munzhir (Zaravant's dad)? Discuss.

His tutelage likely expanded its bounds beyond just Isfan and Areyan after the clan settles in Shapur's lands.

(now that I think of it I still haven't decided why they'd want to settle there, FUCK)

(maybe Sadiq could've helped convince them but with what arguments?)

Easygoing demeanor hides his sharp mind and eyes

Approved of Shapur trying to rescue Golnar and Isfan.

Wanted to see where Shapur would go with Ayunnen, Kashi, and Kazai, though knew that they probably wouldn't have a good time so long as Shapur's father and Jahanara still held power over the castle so he could have advised to wait until after Shapur became lord.

But then they DIED...

Could he have faint knowledge about things to do with magic? He could have been in Gotatzes' court after all— and that means magic and soothsaying and the like were more prominent during his times (and then Andragoras killed all court sorcerers upon attaining the throne, and here we arrive at Pars' current attitude towards magic. at least in the capital and among warriors?)

Like This™ about his students at all times:

Bonus round: two other name candidates that didn't quite end up making the cut!

Mehdi

Means "guided one" in Arabic, a derivative of هدى (hadā) meaning "to lead the right way, to guide".

Firouz/Firuz/Pirouz/Piruz

From Persian پیروز (pīrūz) or فیروز (fīrūz) meaning "victorious". This name was borne by Firuz Shah Tughlaq, a 14th-century sultan of Delhi who did much to build the city's infrastructure.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Okay post for the "Some of the relationships in Cardcaptors were kinda Sus™ I'm rewriting them for my AU(s)!" thing.

I'm just gonna kinda ramble thoughts on them and I'm including both the age gaps and the 'bro that's your cousin' thing

Anyway taking this bit by bit expanding from the main characters:

Nadeshiko x Fujitaka(Sakura's parents)

Now I could do what the english dub did back in the day and make them the same age but..... I do like the plot of them having a bit of a gap and everyone giving them the side eye. So I want to let them have that while making it more.... 'this is okay but is given the side eye because it could quickly be not okay'.

So what I'm gonna do is age Nadeshiko up a bit to being a college student rather than high school. After all Fujitaka currently a college professor why would he have been a high school teacher before?

Anyway. Same thing happens where they meet and pretty much fall in love instantly. There is some debate because of the teacher/student thing, but things happen so fast that Nadeshiko is like 'ya know what I don't even want to go to college I'd rather drop out and turn the part-time modeling career into something more full-time!'. So she's only his student for a short time.

Both of these decisions piss her family off in many ways. Some are worried because Fujitaka is older. Some are convinced that he's luring her away from a successful career. Some are upset that he's a man who comes from nothing, no money and no family status. But Nadeshiko is determined in her choices and though it hurts she loves Fujitaka enough that if her family wants to cut them off then so be it!

Fujitaka /does/ try his best to make sure that she's okay with this decision and isn't just. Making impulse choices out of love. But he can't say he's upset that the woman he loves is choosing to stay with him.

Sonomi x Nadeshiko and by extension Tomoyo x Sakura

What I'm going with here is just. Having them not be related. Sonomi was Nadeshiko's childhood friend who she saw as a sister, but Sonomi had fallen in love with her. Sonomi was always going to end up a bit jealous and critical of whoever Nadeshiko /did/ fall in love with, but having it be a slightly older man who was her college professor and causing such drama that they didn't get to see each other much after the wedding and then Nadeshiko dying.... well. Yeah she ends up very angry at Fujitaka for a long time.

Similar with Tomoyo and Sakura. Not related, though still up in the air on if the crush is unrequited or not.

Meiling x Syaoran

Just cutting this one entirely. Meiling's feelings toward Syaoran are purely admiration. Her hostility toward Sakura is initially purely because of the rivalry over collecting the Cards, then later more protectiveness as she realizes Syaoran likes her but Sakura is either uninterested and/or unaware and could easily break his heart.

Toya x Kaho

For this I'm just going to squash their age gap so that they were both in high school at the same time. Toya was in his first year, and Kaho was in her final year. Has a similar 'that gap can turn bad quick' but they were in a mutual space and had friends of varying ages around them even if they bonded over having special powers.

Similar to Canon, they broke up because Kaho decided to go to college in England and felt the distance wouldn't work out.

Kaho x Eriol

This one's funky because Eriol's age is funky. He looks like an 11 year old but he should be in his 40s plus he has all the memories of being Clow even if he's technically a different person now. So has he been physically and mentally 11 for 30-odd years? Is he a very old man stuck in a child's body? What?

And in both cases. Either Kaho is the barely-an-adult with the guy a good bit older than her, or Eriol is the kid with a grown ass woman.

I do lean toward the former as that does make both parties adults even if there's still a gap. Mostly what I'm debating on is if Eriol has been stuck as an 11 year old this whole time, or if he /is/ grown but used a spell to make himself appear younger so he could do all the nonsense during the series.

Rika x Mr. Terada

This one is being turned into something one-sided!

Rika has a crush on her teacher. Perfectly normal thing many a student deals with. She's..... I don't wanna say 'delusional' but she doesn't really 'get' why the relationship would be bad and is taking any positive affection from him as confirmation that he loves her back.

Mr. Terada, on the other hand, is completely uninterested in her like that and pretty unaware of her feelings. He doesn't mean to encourage her but he's a good teacher who is invested in his students so ofc he's going to praise her and it's not too out of the ordinary for students to give teachers gifts.

Eventually he's going to catch on and will have to have a conversation with Rika about the whole thing and clearly reject her. Which will be heartbreaking in the now but a few years she's gonna be like "Damn glad he did that because what the fuck"

[sweet-star-sketches]

Coloured Sketches from January 3rd-27th, 2025 Adult life has temporarily stopped the art train (I just need to survive the rest of this week and the beginning of the next and I should be good... I hope) but for now I can still upload some more of my doodle backlog. So, tonight on My Incredibly Self-Indulgent Nonsense™: Dragons! :D

I have a LOT more in the works for these, including silly doodles/interactions, full body drawings and design notes to go with them, but I figured the coloured head shots would be the most interesting to comp together for now :]

For anyone wondering, even for the ones that already have variants here (Saiou, Manjoume) I still consider all of these to be "first drafts" in general, stuff that I came up with on the spot based on what I currently know about each character and their visual and/or narrative motifs, rather than a more lengthy design phase like I usually do that involves more research and planning. So things are bound to change if I decide to explore or expand on these concepts more, but I already really like what I've come up with so far anyway! My buddy @eleanorose123 also gave me some really good suggestions along the way :D Dragons are incredibly versatile for this kind of stuff and have incredibly malleable lore/rules already, so I wanted to see how I could interpret different elements. Even for "first drafts" like these, I still try to obtain some level of context for a character in order to incorporate that into an interpretation like this. It's actually wild how well Yu-Gi-Oh characters specifically translate to dragon designs, I love it! Though it is obviously on my mind, I didn't actually plan for all of these to be from GX specifically, but of course that helps them go together here! That said, there are also soooooo many other designs across all of the Yu-Gi-Oh series that I can and will play with for this though, so stay tuned for more (seriously I could do this all day haha!) For now though, hope you like :]

[padawan-snack-packer]

🌌✧ PΛDΛWΛПS' SNΛCK PΛCKΞR ✧🌌

— ❝ᴍɪssɪᴏɴ ʟᴏɢ n°1: ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ғʀᴏᴍ ʙᴀsᴇ ❞ —

📆 Date: 0502.25 (GSY) 📍 Location: Somewhere between Clone barracks and the Ghost crew’s emotional baggage

Hey Peeps! 🎉

So, uh, first edition of this official log (read: update), I guess? (if there’s any official-ness left in this galaxy, I don’t know anymore) But heeeyyy, I’m here, a real live person behind this account, typing words and getting too into the Star Wars universe!!!

First, major shoutout to everyone who’s been following along because I just hit +80 followers! 🎉💖 I see you, and I’m genuinely flattered you want to hear my chaos!!!💌

Little personal update: I’m deep into a rewatch of Ahsoka (yes, again, I have no self-control) because I’m putting together a full-blown essay on Sabine’s grief representation in the series and, of course, a Sabine/Ezra analysis from both their POVs (Aka "Lover boy is just as down bad as she is" and "Sabine Wren aka' 'how to giftwrap the fate of the galaxy to your enemy to get your boyfriend back (as you should btw)'".

It’s a lot, but it's gonna be good. If I start rambling about their trauma and emotional baggage, just know it’s part of the process!!

So here are the updates from the field, a.k.a. my brain which is currently 83% clone chaos, 10% Sabezra angst, and 7% caf and stubbornness.

Secondly: the clone requests. There are four of them in progress right now and let me tell you—they're like babysitting four feral emotional support war veterans who each think they know best. As I finish them, I’ll be posting them to AO3 as a single work, with each request slotted in as a chapter. Same for the already posted ficlets besties!!! (Unless, of course, one of them decides to expand into a multi-chapter dramatic arc, in which case I will pretend I have control over my life and continue writing anyway.)

Meanwhile, the Sabezra post-Ahsoka one-shot that was supposed to be a sweet little emotional knife to the ribs has casually evolved into a ficlet. It's not massive—don’t panic—but it’s definitely longer than planned because apparently Sabine and Ezra had Things To Say™ and refused to shut up about it. Also they're being soft and he's being unhinged and making her laugh and MY GIRL DESERVES THAT SO YOU KNOW WHAT- Expect angst, accidental tenderness, and at least one line that made me go “oh noooo”, puns and maybe one (1) song about a womp rat lady. It’s that kind of vibe.

Also—and I say this with full awareness that this is my Roman Empire—I’m once again thinking about Mandalorian clans because I, a humble goblin with both daddy issues AND mommy issues, find deep comfort in a culture where love is expressed through teaching you how to stab someone correctly and handing you armor plates like they’re affection. I’m obsessed. I would absolutely love to dust off my old Mando OCs (yes, they all have tragic backstories, yes, I’m fine, stop looking at me like that) or even create new ones for fics or inspo for peeps.

The urge to build a whole found family of emotionally repressed warriors who show care via knife training and shared trauma is simply too strong.

If I start posting about “Clan Unnecessary Emotional Baggage” featuring a foundling who’s never been hugged and a riduur who communicates exclusively in sighs and forehead touches—just know it’s a cry for help, but make it worldbuilding.

✨ Anyway, back to schedule! 🫡📋 Thank you so so much for all the love on the posts, headcanons, metas, and general chaos!!!💖 Y’all are the best, and I’m sending snacks (emotional and actual) to everyone 🧃🍪💫

(Oh and also!! 👀 Just so you know—I do have things planned for May the Fourth 👽✨ (yes, it is currently May 2nd, yes, I am making intense eye contact with the calendar, yes, I am operating entirely on ✨vibes and panic✨). Expect something fun, mildly unhinged, and definitely made with love (and probably at 2am). The Force is strong with my procrastination but SO IS THE CONTENT, OKAY.)

[aaabatteryy]

What if Bill defeated the Axolotl and Time Baby and absorbed their powers SOON AFTER destroying Euclydia?,becoming incredibly all powerful. He is now,the Almighty All Seeing eye All Powerful Triangle,or Almighty Cipher for short. Where does Ford come in when he's literally God already?,well... Bill needs a disciple,a successor,a vessel for his power,someone to channel his endless ability for him on Earth in order to expand his following and domain via a magic scepter that has an ounce of his power inside.

Why he wants a successor/vessel: With him having everything he wanted,power fame and recognition,things got REALLY boring and so he wants to shake things up a little by getting involved in Earth's affairs more,thus he decides to seek out a "genius mind every century" and he's actually being legit this time cuz he GENUINELY wants a genius mind to help him with no strings attached (sort of). And even with his literal op abilities,he's still horridly evil he still has his Issues™ and he's still very very chaotic. Almighty Cipher is literally just Bill but if you gave him the powers of a fucking god (or two. time baby is also a god),he was already powerful before,now i made him worse. In present day,Bill travels the multiverse with Ford and his family who are all now with him as interdimensional criminals but they also lead a double life back on earth as normal kids and a normal con man as unlike Ford they're not really keen on CONSTANTLY going on crazy interdimensional adventures for the rest of their lives,ALSO,Ford is a horrid egomaniacal tyrant that lives in a pocket dimension called Sixerville which used to be a peaceful farmworld dimension the Crop Colony that revolved around humble humans and the occasional anthro animal person tending to their crops until Ford came around and decided to enslave everyone because he couldn't stand watching a "bunch of useless vermin" live their lives without doing anything noteworthy like devoting themselves to research or advancing their technology,so he "fixed" them by forcing the inhabitants to serve him lest their entire dimension gets eaten by Bill who's like his fuckin attack dog/husband. Ford lives with Bill in Sixerville and also occasionally goes over to Gravity Falls to visit his family,Ford is like this because Bill kept influencing him and enabling his egotistical behavior that often makes him value his research more than his dignity (and his family),what happens when a god like being and a human that has a very strong tendency of letting his ego get to him come together?,this guy happens,ALSO ALSO,Stan and the twins are lowkey terrified of him even when his horrid behavior doesn't extend to them as well but can you imagine watching your brother/other grunkle drive whole societies to extinction via mass genocide without a care in the world for "Science"?. Also Weirdmaggedon still happens,but like,every year. It's like a holiday for Almighty Cipher and Tyrant Ford. They pick a dimension,plan out everything,and BAM, apocalypse on yet another harmless society. Ya see this is what happened instead of Ford being in the portal for 30 years. Almighty Cipher found Ford,made him his main disciple,the two build the portal with Fidds,Fidds quits because of seeing Bill eat his exoskeleton (although he doesn't lose his mind),Ford stays with his dear muse/god and ends up starting Weirdmaggedon on Gravity falls which horridly messes up the town and basically makes it a Chernobyl-esque chaos no man's land zone with how fucked up and weird everything is now,Stan visits due to the postcard (sent way later when Ford and Bill have taken over the town 10 years after) but only for Ford to have his brother join him in the chaos which he reluctantly accepts,later the two move onto conquering the multiverse which they succeed in doing but after having their fill of being multiversal overlords they decide to make a living traveling and studying dimensions,with Stan and later the twins joining them. The twins STILL go to Gravity Falls for the summer but uh,it doesn't go as planned as the place seems to be a literal war zone with weirdness bubbles constantly floating around eye bats turning everything and everyone they see into stone and the Henchmaniacs just vibin' while either torturing or killing any human they see for shits n' giggles,Ford saw that this would be a problem for the only family he has besides Bill so he decided to offer them protection in the Fearamid for the summer.

The thing i said i was gonna throw up ^^^^^

chewing on your brain /pos

fantastic au idea, and i suppose an idea like this needs sustenance to continue...... (<- wants to yap JAKAKSJSALJSJSJS)

bill being given even more power more directly after "liberating" Euclydia is such an interesting concept bc you have to think- he's gonna be so much more unstable than canon where he had millions- trillions, even, if the book of bill is to be believed- of years to cultivate and hone his power to get the tremendous amount of control he as by the time he meets ford and later by weirdmagedon. so, in theory, his power would be almost running rampant, which could explain the scepter idea you had (could be used instead of his cane? which is just adorable, really) and the need for a vessel and project to channel both that energy and bill's boredom into.

ford being coaxed into feeding his ego is so important to me, with his (rather shitty) self esteem and need to be recognized and needed, and then being able to get that recognition himself, even if it is through.... questionable means (COUGH mass genocide and inter-galactic terrorism COUGH). i really do think he could have the capacity for it, especially if not only was fidds not going mad from memory gun usage and seeing bill without his exoskeleton on while eating, but stan was called later and joined him, and bill didn't try to hide his plans for weirdmagedon from ford

TWINS! BEING! IN! THE! FEARAMID! OVER! THE! SUMMER!!

^^ very, very important, especially since that means they're fairly safe under bill and ford's protection there and we know that bill could manipulate the fearamid into whatever the kid's need or desire, keeping them, most likely, entertained for the duration of the summer. plus, i just know dipper would love to study the henchmaniacs, fearamid itself, the event of weirdmagedon, and the rift/portal while not fighting for his life

[dollsahoy]

The craft thrift store is expanding, and to help clear out the store in preparation for the construction work, they had a "take whatever you want for whatever donation you want to give" sale, which also included about 30 bins of outright "just take it" free stuff

Now, as much as I love thrifting and crafts, I know that the normal "everything you can fit into a basket for $20" and "everything in the store for $1 or less" and "teachers fill a basket for free" type sales the store has are, to put it politely, feeding frenzies, so I stay far, far away from those

My friend, however, was in the area that day and decided to stop by. They reported spending two hours digging through the free stuff (unknown how much effort was spent fending off other customers) and leaving with about 40lbs of Stuff (they did also go inside and get "whatever donation you think it's worth" stuff, for which they paid the prices on the tags)

ANYWAY

I saw the friend the other day and they gave me some stuff they'd picked out for me, which was mostly jewelry and sewing stuff. Included in the jewelry stuff was...this

Now. I do very much remember the late 80s/early 90s assortment of badly painted and dubiously sculpted resin craft heads, meant to be adorned with beads and charms and lace or Friendly Plastic™ and made into things like this

but I don't at all remember legs

so now I have legs and actually don't know how to use them

[andromedaexists]

WUPDATE: Desecrate

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 || 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙱𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙰 𝙷𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚜

Hi Hello! It's been a long time, how have y'all been? Hopefully the answer is as good as you can be, because each and every one of yous deserves to have as good of a time as possible!

As for me, well, we've been having A Time™

Just to give a quick rundown of this year so far:

Got promoted to Project Coordinator at work (technically happened last year, but really really late in the year so it'll go here)

Restarted my zero draft of DESECRATE

REVERENT: An Anthology of Divinity is released! I have a story in it called Condemn Me!

Attended the Akron Book Fest (my first time showing my books locally!)

We Can Always Tell is released! Featuring my story Fall Into Me!

Finally gave in to the request of one of my friends and downloaded Warframe again... (foreshadowing: i've been so unproductive since this event)

Attended Alt Street Market in May

Got just so much inspiration for DESECRATE through the tragic loss of Pope Francis and the conclave that followed

Restarted my zero draft of DESECRATE

Not long after that, I went on hiatus! There were a few things that happened in this time, the first of which being a road trip with three of my closest friends from Ohio to Philadelphia to Baltimore back to Ohio!

Came home to two (2) weeks of intense yard work while we prepare my house (prev my papa's house) for selling

Did an author interview with my dear friend U.R. Holm, who is the first person to interview me without my mask!

Tabled at Pride In The CLE at the beginning of June

Almost immediately after that I left for yet another road trip! This time I drove out to Philly to meet my friend (one of the ones from the prev trip, ily Xochi) and we took the train up to Connecticut for StokerCon

Published a new short story on Friday, June 13th at StokerCon!

Restarted my zero draft of DESECRATE

Got so busy with work that I disappeared off the internet again for another two weeks

So as you can imagine, I'm kind of tired 😅

As far as writing goes... DESECRATE has been through the wringer, folded and wrung out and refolded and molded into an entirely new shape. That being said, I am really happy with how it's shaking out now!

I've really gotten into the mind of Kit, our beautiful transmasc agender main character who goes through hell and comes out... changed. So much so that I've been going back through his playlist and updating it! At least, updating the one (he has an everything playlist and then a vibes only playlist for writing):

I'm really excited to play around in his brain and see how this draft shakes out. I'm really hoping to have something I can throw at my alpha readers soon! I keep pushing off their meals and I'm fairly certain they're organizing a mutiny in order to obtain food (my writing).

Speaking of alpha readers, I met so many amazing authors while I was at CLE Pride & StokerCon! I'm really hoping to absorb some of them into my writing process, starting with Aubry and Jack. I really appreciated all the conversations I've had with them and I really trust their opinions, hopefully they will be down to help me out at the beta reading stage! (and I hope they keep me in mind with their projects!)

I think I've gone on long enough! The last thing that I want to talk about is the fact that I'm moving my wupdates (kinda). I am re-centering everything onto my Newsletter! (that you can sign up for here) I am running my newsletter through Ghost, which means that I will be able to expand support options as well as host my backlog of content kinda like a Patreon.

After talking to some folks at StokerCon (thank you Aubry i appreciate you Aubry), I have decided to start a few fun projects. Y'all will hear more about them soon, but just know that they are in motion. In preparation for these fun projects, I've decided to expand my options for support!

I was considering opening a Patreon, but imma be honest I don't think I can handle another platform. My newsletter (that I'm working on reviving, starting with this one!), my Instagram, & my Bluesky really take everything for me. Work has been a lot, and if I can I want to contain what I need to do to as few platforms as possible!

Which brings in a fun discovery on my part: did y'all know you can have paid newsletter subscriptions?

Paying to join my newsletter was never my intention, but I have combined my newsletter now with what I wanted my Patreon to be! That means that this portion, the updates, will be available publically for free (and posted here as my Wupdates), but the portion of my newsletter that contains my writing will not be. (i will still be posting shorter snippets on tumblr! don't worry! this is all about my longer form snippets like entire chapters)

If you so choose to support me, there are three tiers available:

Kodi's Towns Folk is the first tier for $5/month. This is the tier that will grant you access to my writing snippets! These will be longer snippets from my current writing and cut scenes from past works! This tier will also be given art updates, including an early showing of any finished art INCLUDING covers!

Adonai's Sheep is the second tier for $10/month. You will have access to my writing snippets as well as access to eARCs of my books before they come out! This tier is also where you'll get consistent art updated. WIPs, finals, everything!

Icarus' Feathers is the highest tier for $20/month. This is a far reach tier that I don't expect anyone to sign up for, but if you wanted to then you would be granted access to my writing snippets, the eARCs from the previous tiers, AND physical (paperback or hardcover 👀) ARCs of my future releases! At this level, you'll also get access to helping me make decisions on art related things and have first dibs on YCHs when I start doing those!

That being said, I do not expect and honestly am not ready for anyone to subscribe just yet! I want to make sure I have a decent backlog to make it worth the subscription to y'all, so I would love a couple months to really get things settled (especially with how much I've been sucked into work and my upcoming Master's program!! That starts this August!!)

Thank you guys for sticking it out to the end of this update, there was a lot to review. My writing snippet this week is from a scrapped chapter of DESECRATE, which you can find on Ghost!

I hope yous have an amazing day, and I will see you next month with another update <3

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[uncleasad]

So @unsiredtribrid had this great post last night that started with Josie x Finch but went much deeper to the real point, and I had a few thoughts.

There are so many great threads there I want to tease apart a little and expand upon.

I

First, the show’s handling of Josie’s love interests or possible love interests; the show had a terrible track record of taking Josie’s love interests and casting them aside.

In S1, her ex was Penelope, we didn’t learn much of anything about when they were together, and she left before the end of the season. Josie was crushing on Raf but Lizzie got to him first and “ruined” him for both of them, and even he ends up leaving at the start of S3 (the end of S2 as it was conceived). And of course the crush on Hope that we learned about and kind of simmered right up to the end, when Josie physically felt Hope being erased from her life.

In S2, Josie started the season with Landon, and he dropped her like a hot potato as soon as he remembered Hope (and then ran off on both of them, because Landon the Leaver™). There was the brief thing with Jade post-prison world/Dark Josie, and then Jade, too, left at the start of S3 (the end of S2 as it was conceived). And the crush on Hope (the Pig telling Red Riding Hope to kiss sleeping Princess Josie). Noticing a pattern?

Then in S3 we got Finch, who was extremely jealous and possessive and didn’t want Josie to help her friend [Hope] who had saved Josie (and her family and friends) over and over in the course of the past two years…and they fought over that often. Then, in a twist, Josie left her to go help Hope.

So the show had a bad habit of bringing in a random character (almost always recurring) that we never learned much about and then casting them off. Contrast that to Lizzie’s ultimate endgame, MG, who was a regular who lasted the entire series, and, at least for the first parts of the series, we saw some manner of development and character growth for both of them in conjunction with that potential relationship (MG liked Lizzie in S1, Lizzie didn’t reciprocate until S2 when he was with Alyssa…); it wasn’t super, but it was something.

II

So in the context of the first two seasons, fans were rightly upset about the unfair handling of Josie’s love interests? What was it about her that always made people want to leave? 😢

And, also in the context of the first two seasons, the writers had set up this long arc pulling Josie and Hope together. The mutual attractions, the close and intimate moments, the saving, Hope always choosing Josie/the twins over Landon, Pig!Josie asking Hope to kiss her (sleeping Princess Josie), and so forth. When S2 had its truncated ending with Josie’s fairytaleland mindscape…if you couldn’t see the Hosie of it all, well…what the hell are you doing reading this post anyway? 😂

And then, inexplicably, after setting up two main characters of Hope and Josie to have a romance, the writers decided to address their flawed handling of Josie’s past love interests by…bringing in yet another side character that we never learned much about (and checked that “person of color” brownie-points box while they were at it) and almost immediately putting them together. And the showrunners were somehow shocked by fans’ dislike of the resulting pairing.

You’re cooking a filet mignon for two seasons, and instead of giving us that prime, tasty, meal, you cut off the fat and toss it at us and want us to be happy about it? Are you fucking kidding me?!

It’s cool for Hope to have a long-running romance with another main character…if it’s a man. It’s cool for Lizzie to have romances with 3 main characters [Raf, Ethan, MG] as long as they’re men (only Sebastian was here and gone). But heaven forbid Josie get another main character for a fully-developed romance! Or Hope and Josie to get the romance the writers set up and teased across two seasons! This is where people rightly get upset about queerbait and scraps and just checking boxes…

I always go back to Buffy when I’m thinking about things, and (it’s been a while) there was a build-up with Tara. We learned about her. She supported Willow. She helped her grow. (Once again, they had the “luxury” of 22-episode seasons to develop things…) And even Tara’s death, as horrific as it was, kicked off an important arc for Willow and resonated long after. Finch was nothing like that for Josie. If anything, Hope was the Tara-esque person to Josie’s Willow.

So there’s that.

III

On the other side of things, as soon as Finch showed up on screen, I immediately said this is exactly the kind of person Josie would date in this situation (given the bizarre situation we had been forced into, with Josie and Hope going from almost kissing to not interacting for half a season). Because Josie Saltzman Has. A. Type.

An outsider, brooding, somewhat-dangerous, loner?

Hope Marshall, anyone? Our archetype.

Penelope’s a bit of a tougher fit, because we know so little about her, but she’s got the dangerous part, and she’s (when we meet her) on the outside of Josie’s social circle, at least.

Raf checks pretty much all of those boxes at the moment Josie meets him, especially as he’s separated from Landon at that point.

Landon’s another weird fit, but he’s been mostly an outsider, and the two are both “alone” when they get together. And maybe killing yourself repeatedly for glimpses of someone ticks brooding and somewhat-dangerous?

Hope Mikaelson…I mean…!

Jade’s a bad girl (maybe with a good heart) and an outsider at the point they get together…and she has clear echoes of someone else.

And then Finch, check, check, check, check. Josie’s type.

As much as I disliked Finch’s jealousy and controlling nature, her badmouthing Hope (whom she didn’t know, nor did she know Josie’s history with her), her unwillingness to fight for Josie, and the ultimate lack of chemistry when they were together, and in general her arrival/presence in the series as part of this bizarre hard-right turn in Josie’s behavior…

As much as I disliked all of that, I could have lived with the run of Josie x Finch that we endured if Legacies had gone on for another season—or Kaylee hadn’t felt the need to protect herself and leave—and we had seen Josie find her way back to Hope. People have bad, inexplicable romantic partners in the real world. Hope had a couple. Lizzie (Sebastian) and MG (Alyssa) had one. But you move on.

And when the writers have set up this epic love, one where they each go to the ends of the earth to support and save each other…and instead we’re left with a box-check-only relationship that feels like it has no chemistry…no, I won’t let people keep trying to gaslight me into believing table-scraps of fat are a five-star dinner when the writers repeatedly not only put filet mignon on the menu but also brought out samples and encouraged me to order it.

[strqyr]

Focusing more on the world building than the actual story is so real 😭

My rewrite au was accidentally born from me wanting to expand upon my ocs own backgrounds. Unfortunately I expanded mainly on the King of Vales family and the Great War, ended up with an entire family with Lore™️ I'm still adding onto, and then I touched upon things surrounding it and I said fuck it and turned it into an au when it was headcanons before

My au DOES have a story but it's mostly like,, just focused on my ocs (teams ROYL and GPVN/Grapevine). It's called Falls the Shadow (which comes from the TS Eliot poem The Hollow Men) or, just focusing on my ocs, the ROYLverse. I've been really wanting to turn it into a fic series but I have no idea where to start with month names LOL (the calendar is split up into 8 months that are twice as long as our months, made that way bc of the moon (called Fragmens) cycle. And the weeks are 8 days long. And there's meant to be an equivalent of a leap year every 8 years. It's a whole thing, I thought it'd be funny, there's 100% jokes abt it in universe).

And ohh my god i HATED figuring out the timeline. ESPECIALLY WITH STRQ AND OZ. I managed to figure out the ages (STRQ is 38 and Ozpin is 44 by v1) but it was a paaaain. It actually makes sense for canon though ngl... but i hated STRQ so much I swear. I was doing that math at 4 am. I still gotta figure out like, backstories n stuff, or little details like religion (Tai being a member of the Orthodox Luxean Church, for one, or Summer being lapsed when she disappears). I am shaking them with my teeth

Sorry for yapping LOLL I can't shut up about anything pertaining to my aus but ugh I love it

i hope your ocs are having better time than mine, they tend to, uh. . . end up somewhat dead, most of the time >_>

but yeah, headcanons are a quick and easy way to end up with a new au. i was already thinking about rewriting a childhood show that is near and dear to my heart just for the fun of it, and then somehow in my boredom of waiting for any sort of rwby news—be it a V10, reboot, or whatever; at this point i'll take anything new—, that turned into "rewriting" rwby.

and thus all my "what if"s and "this would have been cool"s and "i wish they delved into this more"s found a home in a single au. it's in bits and pieces—fragments, like the moon, hence the name lol—, the story mostly focused on what is different from canon rather than anything coherent atm, but it's coming together slowly, and i'll probably end up doing art for it Soon™.

(but before i do any of that, i need to do a to-do list so i don't forget anything 🙃)

also Same Hat for lengthening months lmao. i took the easy way out and simply made it so one month on remnant equals three months on earth (while a year still lasts about the same), and slapped seasons on them, so four months in total. not fully decided on the naming convention, but atm i'm using "moon of winter" and so on, with winter marking the beginning of the year (bc creation), and spring of the school year (bc knowledge). with the greater focus on the moon (i love that broken fucker on the sky so much), i've done away with specific dates, so for example, instead of oct 31st, ruby's birthday would be during the new moon of autumn—a mouthful, i know lol—bc the thought of ruby being born at the very end of the year popped into my mind and refused to leave, and for the rest i just worked backwards from there.

you'd think figuring out the timeline would be easy after i've done it so many times, but NO. it's pain Every. Single. Time. team strq is definitely to blame for the most of it bc not only do they have to be actually, ya know, graduated before any kids are born, but also requires to know when the school year ends, counting backwards from birthdays the duration of pregnancy, while also taking into the account that the maiden cutout is somewhere around 30 (obviously i could change that, but..... idunwanna) which creates an upper limit for certain somebody >:( so it's not like you can just, ya know. add some extra years after graduation to play it safe.

at least i have my previous attempts at strq fics for summer's and tai's backstories. . . as long as i don't decide to change them. again.

summer's semblance would be nice to know tho :( that's my current stumbling block. . .

[profounddefendorcrusade-blog]

Koffin-K and The Boogiemen's Family Dynamic (Pt. 1)

Note: I got back into TS!US and still adore The Koffin Trio, so I decided to expand on my previous points and list all the reasons why I think their relationship is that of a father and sons, and why Harry and Larry always seemed sibling-coded to me. I've got a lot of things to go over, so this "series" will have several parts. And like the last time, if you don't want to read about the Koffin Trio and/or Harry and Larry in a familial light/if you think you might get triggered, it's best to ignore my takes

The Boogiemen's entire arc is about learning that they're equally valuable in Koffin-K's eyes despite their shortcomings, and it screams good dad™ who loves his sons the same, no matter how foolish they are. His speech might have been a "tough love" approach, but it genuinely comforted the two (and made them cry tears of joy). Intentional or not, the framing makes Koffin-K look like a dad solving sibling rivalry (there’s no way Harry and Larry didn’t have daddy issues before Koffin-K told them they're equally valuable to him — they felt unappreciated for years despite Koffin-K’s subtle affection and STILL kept trying to please him)

Harry and Larry didn't fight for a promotion or a higher paycheck, which would have been the case if they were simply Koffin-K's employees. They love to slack off and don't do their job for its own sake (even Flowey admits how boring the chores are) — it was all because they wanted to earn their boss’ affection and make him happy and proud so that he would appreciate, trust and like them. EVERYTHING about the Harry and Larry boss fight screams brothers™, from their back-and-forth bickering, to them hitting each other, to tumbling down the stairs and out of the castle as they’re beating each other up. They even apologized to each other and made up right away like nothing ever happened, even though this was their biggest argument yet. That's incredibly sibling-coded

Harry and Larry's boss fight is framed as sibling rivalry for parental affection/attention/validation. Behind all the comedy, their core conflict reads as "Who does dad love more?" They both desparately wanted to be the favorite lackey/favorite "child" and it's implied that Koffin-K picked up on it. Even before the events of the game, he had been trying to let Harry and Larry know he cared equally about both of them without breaking the "villain" persona (Koffin-K is one of those flawed father figures that are actually trying their best)

If a character avoids favoritism between two other characters, that's a straight up parental move

Harry and Larry were jealous of Chara because they thought Koffin-K had replaced them and that they were no longer his top henchmen/favorite boys

Neither was happy to see Chara even after the fight

The moment when Harry and Larry forgot to do their servant duties was framed as "When you forgot to do the chores your mom/dad asked you to do"

Harry and Larry do chores for Koffin-K as a part of their job, but it feels like they do household tasks assigned by a parent

We won't see a laughing sprite of any other lackey except Harry and Larry if we run into them during the "Scooby Doo door chase" prank. It's just the two of them who will laugh the way Koffin-K does, meaning that the Boogiemen are the only ones who are influenced by him

Speaking of being influenced by him, Koffin-K’s leitmotif is present in both Boogiemen and Let’s Boogie

Koffin-K mentions how he can only remember up to three rooms in the Keep, yet he can remember EXACTLY how his first meeting with Harry and Larry went — they are clearly important to him, even if he isn't aware of it (the Boogiemen are also the first ones on his mind when Chara encounters him for the second time in the Ruthless route)

It warms my heart that he remembers Harry and Larry better than anything in Koffin Keep, which he invested so much in

As selfish and greedy as he was before his redemption, Koffin-K always remembered things about the Boogiemen because he was interested in them and cared enough to notice Larry’s fascination with small, everyday things, how Harry knows to embroider (a "feminine" skill that Koffin-K never judges him for having; on the contrary, he looks happy as he mentions it), the way his hat collection fascinates them, how they take turns spinning around in the washing machine when they think he's not looking...

Koffin-K may not understand Harry and Larry’s online arguments, passion for tile-matching games, and making presentation slides about their UNDERNET history, but he never judges them or tries to stop them from having these hobbies. Instead, he tells Chara that they should just "leave them to it" (there's also something fatherly about Koffin-K being familiar with Harry and Larry's search history and overall computer schenanigans. He just observes them while they're too "busy" to notice him)

Koffin-K seems to have been the one to replace the Boogiemen’s Tab key (he cared enough to notice and fix it in his own weird way)

Harry and Larry could have fixed it themselves, but I think it's more likely that it was Koffin-K — he's associated with bats after all (also, I love the joke here)

Koffin-K called Harry and Larry his attractions; that sounds like a term of endearment, especially because the emphasis was on the word "MY." He treats them as an extension of himself, like a proud parent boasting about their kids. Harry and Larry look so happy, too

Koffin-K couldn’t have been referring to the other lackeys as well, because he immediately turned to the Boogiemen with a happy/proud expression as he was saying this line (and it's established that he doesn't care about any of the other minions)

In these scenes, Larry looks like a kid admitting to his dad that he's done something he shouldn't have (and Harry is acting like 'The Snitch' type of a sibling)

The first two lines make Harry and Larry sound like brothers blaming each other during an argument and the last one makes Koffin-K sound like a dad trying to manage them

Harry and Larry and Koffin-K's introductions parallel. Even the color of their names is the same

It's a 'like father, like sons' moment

Larry internalized and remembered exactly what Koffin-K taught them and both he and Harry put his advice into action. They look up to him so much

After Koffin-K dissmisses everyone except Chara, instead of heading out like everyone else, Harry and Larry will stay behind and turn their heads left and right like they’re looking for him, so that he’d tell them exactly what to do and/or because they're curious about where he went. The Boogiemen are attached to their boss and enjoy being around him (we can also see this based on how they'll run around him when he wants them to run away)

Just like how Koffin-K and Crossbones can easily trick Harry and Larry with free trampoline access and free ice cream, Koffin-K is gullible too (like father, like sons once again)

[mcchipisfried]

I'm watching Hannibal for the first time and I'm not gonna lie I had my doubts. (Currently on Seaon 2 Episode 11)

(ALSO SPOLIERS BELOW though I think I'm the last person on tumblr who HASN'T seen Hannibal)

My forefathers forgive me, I had doubts. So so many doubts. I wanted to go into this show decimating everyone's reasoning that Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham would work as a couple (romantic or otherwise). I wanted to be fed a story about murder, deception, manipulation, betrayal, and maybe even a little but of cannibalism. And don't get me wrong I have gotten this, but I've also been fed a romantic comedy.

I went into this show not wanting to find reasons to want these two together, I wanted to think "Oh the people of tumblr probably pieced a bunch of subtext together and I probably will as well but it'll hardly be anything that I could write about to my friends who haven't seen the show"

I was so fucking wrong.

Really it should have been the moment where Alana and Hannibal were having a ✨️moment✨️ while Will and Margot were also having a ✨️moment✨️ so the way the whole scene played was very. Well. Not what you would expect from a guy that should have every reason to shoot Hannibal on sight. The fucking framing and cinematography got me to send a 3 minute long vm at 2 am to my friend who really doesn't care about Hannibal.

Or maybe it should have been every single time tweddle dee and tweddle dum are even remotely alone together and decide to start eye fucking each other while also making death threats.

But no what got me was when Alana described what was done to Freddie Lounds' body the second time around as a demonstration of a courtship (best way I can phrase it without just explaining the plot that led us here)

Really, its such a small moment.

But the way the two idiots are standing there looking at each other and Alana shouldn't have been as funny as it was nor should it have instantly reminded me of an early 2000's movie where the couple is secretly dating because they just can't help it and some third party, maybe even one the main couples friends discovers them while trying to NOT make it a Big Deal™ because they are in public except y'know, this is happening over the body that Person A burned to a crisp and sent rolling in a wheelchair while Person B got said body after the funeral and made it into an effigy.

Anyways TLDR: I thought the Hannibal x Will stuff was all very insignificant subtext but actually it was just text and it was screaming. I would also like to thank my film, cinematography, scriptwriting, lighting, and storytelling college classes because as it turns out you did do something for me. You made me realize that whatever is happening between Hannibal and Will is not platonic and I will be consulting AO3 to further expand my understanding of these characters as soon as I finish watching the show.

Also yes I know at some point someone says Hannibal is in love with Will. But now I'm starting to believe that.

[rahleeyah]

What do you think of the show having Liv believe in God?

The whole religion thing concerning her feels so random. People bring up Noah’s “baptism” as some proof but I don’t think she ever confirmed that it is her belief.

I know some people turn to religion when they go through trauma and that could be it. But I do think it should’ve been expanded on more than just random moments every few years.

I think there's a difference between believing in God and having a religion.

I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that Liv, over time, comes to believe in God after a fashion. To believe in fate, in justice, in some higher power - she's lived a hard life, and she's neck deep in trauma every day of the week, and a lot of people in circumstances like that find comfort and peace in faith. A lot of people turn to faith in search of a way to make sense of the horrors they've witnessed. Some of Olivia's strongest relationships are with people of faith, and she may have wanted a piece of that security for herself, having seen it in the ones she loves. And there really are some moments of such profound helplessness and fear where there is nothing we can do, and even people who don't Believe™ may find themselves praying, not necessarily bc they think God is listening but bc there's no one else to talk to and we can't carry it ourselves.

So as far as her saying she believes in God, sure. That doesn't get under my skin.

What does get under my skin is when they decide she's more Religious. The angels thing, for example. Church on Christmas Eve even though she's never mentioned going to a church. I don't care for that bc it doesn't really fit with Olivia, I mean the stricter interpretation, studying the actual Bible or whatever.

Or maybe it does. Maybe post Lewis, searching for meaning, maybe she starts looking everywhere for answers. For a reason why we're here, a reason for why bad things happen, a way to make peace with those things. Maybe she isn't especially Christian™, but she's done some homework.

She has Noah baptized in a non-denominational church, and says she just wants him to be grounded in something. I don't think that's too out there. Maybe it was having Noah that changed her mind; I know lots and lots of people who spent years not going to church and went back when they had kids bc they wanted to raise their children in the church. Hell, honestly, I would, too, if that church wasn't full of racist misanthropic gun nuts. Some of them aren't. Maybe Liv's isn't.

You're right that the core problem here is the inconsistency. The vaguerie. We don't know, actually, what she believes or how she came to believe it or when it changed. It's just a plot device they trot out at random with no explanation of how it fits into the broader canon of Who Olivia Is.

I feel certain this is M's doing, m who tells the story of going to church with her husband on their first date. It's something that's important to her, and the lines between her and Liv keep blurring, these little pieces of m working their way into Liv. I don't love it. But I mostly choose to ignore it lol