#i should make a lore tag i feel

[coffeeghoulie]

*crashes in frantically and nearly spills my pink drink*

Dot. DOT.

I just realized.

That fic about the pack getting Swiss jewelry so he can look fancy again at last. Fire ghoul adornments.

*slams desk in time* What. About. Dew.

*long dramatic gasp*What about Ifrit?????

fic for reference

So, I have a lot of thoughts about this, seeing as it leads into a pretty large part of the Big Swiss Fic (tm) I'm working on.

In my head, I see adornment as a more religious tradition? At least for fire ghouls, it was the idea that the more jewelry you wore, the closer you were to the Prince. It's also kind of old-fashioned in most parts of the Pits.

Swiss, however, was born into one of the oldest, if not the oldest fire ghoul family, who thrived on traditions like that. His relatives say they can trace their line back to the Fall. Not to mention, he has actually met the Prince, even if he was too young to remember it.

As a kit, he wore quite a lot of jewelry. There's an.. event that takes place between him leaving his pack and being summoned Up Top that I won't go into too much detail about here. But a large part of Swiss's story to me is him losing his faith in the Prince and how he regains it after he's summoned.

I don't have too solid a characterization in my head for Ifrit, but he's not from one of the Old fire ghoul families like Swiss was. I do mention that he wears jewelry in that fic you mentioned, but he'd wear it more for aesthetic than devotion. (I still think he's devoted to the Prince, I think the ghouls serving the band are all pious to some degree, but I don't think his family would have subscribed to that tradition as heavily). He's still how Aether and Mountain know that copious amounts of jewelry may be a way to appeal to Swiss.

...Now for Dew.

In my head, Dew isn't a full fire ghoul. He's a water/fire hybrid who was raised with the water side of his family. Dew doesn't lean too heavily into his fire until after the Cardinal is given reign and he is made to. (He takes after his mother heavily, and the Era III-IV transition fucks with him in more ways than one) Swiss also plays a large role in Dew's change, and I am rubbing my hands together because of their equal/opposite identity issues.

He wouldn't have been raised with the idea of more adornment -> closer to the Prince (but please don't ask me about water ghoul religious tradition I don't know anything yet), but if he had been raised with the fire side of his family, he might have. Most likely he would have had more along the lines of Ifrit's beliefs.

tl;dr: swiss wore adornment for religious reasons, ifrit wears it more for aesthetics, and dew didn't.

[sneez]

corvin

[id: two digital drawings of corvus from the video game paladins. he is a pale-skinned young man wearing a red and black caped coat with the collar pulled up over his mouth, and has brown hair with a white streak. the first image is a portrait of him from the shoulders up alongside a full-body drawing. text beside it reads 'guy who really needs to stim but isnt letting himself so hes just standing about looking intensely uncomfortable'. the second image is a full-body drawing of him holding his pistol and knife in an action pose against a background of scenery from the game. overlayed text reads 'I'M JOINING THE WAR AGAINST AUTISM ON THE SIDE OF THE AUTISM'. end id. ]

[kelocitta]

What a worthless animal

[starlightswordfight]

GOD writing friendship is making me so happy this is wonderful. friendship is the point of it all (rainbows fly everywhere like that dolphin picture)

[toasteaa]

I don't know what's been going on with me recently but like...there's this tiny shred of guilt that I'm not doing anything really engaging on here anymore? Like, my creative block is fading out (finally), but I haven't drawn or written anything substantial recently and I feel really weird about that. Not just for you all looking at my blog, but also just in a creative bust kind of way.

There are ideas and themes and such that I would love to play with or dabble in, but I keep stopping them because they're either too self indulgent or there's no visual work to go with it. I don't really know how to describe it? Like I feel like I've been lazy creatively speaking recently when I COULD be getting more ideas out, but it's about the same ship all the time and idk, I also feel like I've gotten to the point where I'm talking too much again? Not that anyone here has made me feel like that and I have asks that I need to answer so I KNOW I'm not talking too much but I'm!!!! Being splashed with the self conscious and self critical and imposter syndrome buckets and I need them to stop!!!!

[onirupture]

Unsure if I want to render it, lmk if I should

[moe-broey]

Sketch I accidentally put too close between other doodles

[datamodel-of-disaster]

Ooof.

It's been about a year now, and I'm still not entirely over my devastating friend breakup.

Like, I guess I AM over it in the sense that I'm pretty much fine. I did my grieving (Read: cried my eyes out on the living room rug, downed a bottle of too expensive wine at a sushibar while sorting through the devastation with Husband and QPP, listened to Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball and wallowed in self pity until I got tired of myself, wrote a lot of cruel/angry/miserable/desperate tumblr posts that didn't make it out of my drafts, read The Friendship by Connie Palmen and Take Care Of Yourself by Sophie Calle, found a modicum of peace with the fact that I really felt more humiliated than sad, you know.) and I mostly no longer think about it. It's not really a thing in my life anymore.

....

But holy fuck. I'm NOT over it in the sense that accidentally coming across anything they made is still a recipe for Instant Physical Panic. Like, heart racing, nausea, the works.

It's just...

I can't fucking believe they wrecked me so bad that accidentally seeing their art or their fics or even their bloody username makes my body respond with such instantaneous threat response, almost 9 months later still.

There they are, completely and utterly unaffected, and there am I, having hypertension over seeing their art reblogged on somebody else's blog. It's like the humiliation just won't end.

And whatever can I do about it? Nothing, that's what.

Except this.

One of the reasons I originally gave them the ick was my "bad habit" of publicly processing all my feelings; guess I'm not escaping that allegation. Still. I'm lancing the boils of this grief, one by one. Better out in the open than festering inside.

[hockeyisforthegays]

sending you an ask about uhmmm. what are your nobara family headcanons i want to know the lore

YAY MY FRIEND my kugisakiiii lore... the stuff i built up from nothing .... so we could meet them in my fanfiction.... i basically worked backwards from nobara so i'll show my work

the only like canonical mention of her family AT ALL, that i know of, was i think a passing comment that her grandmother delayed her from coming to jujutsu high

or maybe they jsut said family issues idr right now

but i wrote with the memory that they said grandmother

so the way i chose to interpret this was that her grandmother knew some about sorcery and was against her granddaughter being part of that life... you can see how that kind of was in action in chapter 6!! her husband had been involved in sorcery and told her about stuff and she was like DUDE. THATS ALL SO BAD. so she was relieved when her son didnt inherit it... and a lot less relieved when it turned out it was just lying dormant a generation

then i took nobara's powers to sort of build out her parents and specifically their professions!!

it never came up in the chapter idt but her dad is a carpenter. when nobara ran off and came back with the hammer thats his tool from his workshop :) the idea of her mom being a barber came from the idea of hair and sympathetic magic!

i am choosing to believe, even though cursed techniques are canonically like genetic, that there is some amount of nurture involved in the shape they take

especially outside of the clans that are basically selective breeding for their hereditary techniques

otherwise, like, take the culling game New Sorcerers for example. am i to believe higuruma was just calvinistically predetermined to be a lawyer?

you can look at the way naobito has that very very personal-interest specific technique that then got inherited by naoya (who seemingly doesnt really share that interest beyond how the CT itself benefits him) for evidence of how its both, as if CTs are genetic mutations being passed on but--

this is fucking irrelevant can you guys tell im a Lore Person

THE POINT IS that nobara has shallower Sorcery Ancestry than the kids like megumi or inumaki etc so her technique grew in response to the things around her as a kid :)

also, the idea of a barber carries connotations of like... gossip? in a way i thought fit into the profile i was trying to make. i tried to balance some idea of nobara's personality between the family members we met. so her mother was a gossip who had a bit of a sharp tongue but didnt wear it as openly (joking about yuuji's appearance but only when alone with her daughter), while her grandmother had that strong will take no bullshit attitude, then her dad had more of an indulgent thing going on (will spoil that girl as she grows up)

uhhh im sure i have more in the tank on this but those are the big things i remember thinking abt at the time!!

[rouge-fauna]

I think you’re talking about these posts [here & here], I don’t know if there have been others.

I'm not gonna say what I did was right, you are correct I should probably just not respond to asks getting me to talk about other people. I will say for these two posts those people had already blocked me I’m pretty sure, so it’s kinda hard to talk directly to them in that case. And I was not doing so anonymously and had not blocked them so I wasn’t hiding what I was saying. I did not follow them, I am not part of the innitor community, and not that that makes it right but I do think it is kinda different. Though you make a good point, perhaps we should stop this pattern of responding to asks about other blogs and such.

Still, the biggest thing to me I realized, back in elementary school when I first dealt with this, was that honestly all the time we talk about people behind their back. Talking about people when they aren’t always in the room is kinda just inevitable and part of socializing, however I think the important part is how you are talking about other people. It’s when you are insulting them, talking negatively about them to people they know, spreading false information and so on that it becomes not okay. Hopefully that makes sense.

In these cases I merely focused on the lore. I didn’t insult them or talk shit about them, as a person, as a blog or say their takes were stupid or they are stupid or speculate about their trauma or mental history. I just talked about reasons why I disagreed, or saw things differently and why we might see things differently. They were also not the only ones I saw to say similar things so I think in my mind I was making more of a general discussion, not trying to target them specifically. I didn’t post beyond that about them. But you are right, regardless it was probably not the right way to go about things.

But just to be clear, if I am a hypocrite it is not my intention. I haven’t vague blog anyone or meant to vague reblog anyone. I think this week is pretty much the first time I’ve ever been not naming, passive aggressively talking about blogs, and even then I’m not trying to insult them, trying to cancel them. I’m just expressing that before you go off about how I’m stupid and unable to have a discussion about it, the very least you could’ve done was give me an opportunity to try.

[mothdotz]

Little Guy(s)

[moonlitkilljoy]

finally finished working on this refsheet for my oswald design!! this took forever (largely because i spent forever undoing and redoing things) but i think it was worth it in the end :3

(click for higher quality ^w^b)

[fluffle-writes]

I wanna. Pick them up in my mouth and shake 'em around like a dog obliterating a squeaky toy

[comfortlesshurt]

brutally reminded that somewhere out there is a physical copy of an absolutely terrible detective conan genderbend au i wrote when i was like 12

i am not thriving today so here's a tag rant

[demodraws0606]

Slight hot take but I feel like people who complain about too much lore/angst are the same as the people who complain about there being too little of it.

In the end if the cc! want to do angst or if they want to do lighthearted stuff is really up to them. Complaining about it makes it seem as though the cc! are forced to do it which they are not, if they are doing angst it's probably cause they want to.

Either way, it would be kinda wonky to just make things suddenly lighthearted now at least for certain characters.

For me imo the cc! downtime where they have fun and joke around IS the downtime inbetween the angst.

[beeholyshit]

What would u do if I told you I'm about to adopt another baby?