#im sorry this took me months to answer

[foxilayde]

I know we’ve talked a lot about what the OI boys smell like, but what are the scents they’re attracted to? Like what perfume are they smelling at a bar or a club or the grocery store and are like “damn I need to ask them out” - if that makes sense 💜

Santiago I think is most susceptible of all the boys to getting lured in by a sexy perfume. And he loves Black Opium by YSL. and Good Girl by Carolina Herrera.

Steven likes Vanillary by Lush and Egyptian Musk by Kuumba Made

I don't really see Marc being into scents. He might appreciate something light and natural like Aesop's Tacit, but its not turning his head.

Jake. Good Girl Gone Bad by Kilian. All the Kilian perfumes honestly. Angel's Share, Love Don't Be Shy, etc. Like catnip to him.

Nathan probably doesn't like anything that smells too strongly. I think he appreciates a close to the skin scent like Ghost In The Shell by ELDO, 11 11 by Lake and Skye, Not A Perfume by Juliet Has A Gun, or North Bondi by Ouai and only small small doses on the wrist.

Poe is a sucker for the caramel pistachio-y Bum Bum cream scent, Brazilian Crush Cheirosa 62 by Sol De Janerio.

Blue is a freak. the 1970's formulation of Shalimar by Guerlain or Chanel no 5.

Leto has a great appreciation for MFK scents, he can sniff out Baccarat Rouge 540 and will inhale your neck like the bouquet of a fine wine. He's also partial to MFK's Amyris Femme.

Jonathan- he likes sentimental, uncomplicated scents. Clinique Happy or CK One.

Jack from Mojave - Angel by Mugler. or just eau Naturale, brother.

[ask-queen-arti]

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[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

heeyyy gaaanggg

the pose and the background of the album version (left) are based on oingo boingos only a lad album art. not cause i think he has anything to do with it but just cause ive been wantin to draw that pose for like. weeks and i didnt know who to put there. so why not my latest bug man.

[ping-ski]

Eclipse so question? So the sun and moon who make you do you hear them conversing in your head or no? Just wondering?

short answer? no.

long answer? eventually, he will.

[scatterbrainedbot]

Hello :D

You're so cool

Anyway have you thought that in your rat sons au Splinter might outlive the boys?

You're very cool :D love your stuff dude

(tw for some blood, light gore, implied overdose (kinda??))

hi copper!!! this is a fantastic question!

so obviously typical irl rats have far shorter lifespans than the average irl tortoise. according to google (yes, be awed by my spectacularly in-depth wealth of research) the average pet rat lives between 2-4 years ish, and the oldest on record lived to be about 7. meanwhile, an African spurred tortoise (Splinter's species) averages more around a 50ish year lifespan in captivity, tho is suspected to possibly exceed 75 or more in the wild.

Now, the mutation does give us a lot of wiggle room for playing with these numbers. For the rat sons boys, id say their natural lifespan probably clocks in at about 45-55 years old? definitely not old by human standards, but not young young either. (though, its also important to note that the boys were exposed to the mutagen just days after being born.)

For Splinter, meanwhile, aging is slightly more complicated. He lived the vast majority of his life as a regular normal African spurred tortoise (well, non-mutated at least. there were perhaps some shenanigans of a more mystical variety going on before he was mutated, but thats a separate matter) He was about 70ish i think? when the boys were born and they were all exposed to the mutagen. so he is already distinctly an old man turtle papa. id guess he'd probably still have another eh lets say 25-30 years after his mutation. he could probably push it a little farther even with some mystic nonsense, but when push comes to shove id say his 'natural' post-mutation lifespan would put his death like a solid decade or two before his sons.

of course, the tricky part of the matter is that theres no way for Splinter to know any of this. theres no way for him to know how the mutation affected them all, or if it even affected them all in the same way. especially since the boys dont show many physical signs of mutation for the first few years, and just kinda look like normal rats, (albeit with a more human sort of intelligence) — what sort of health standard do you hold them to? what if they simply dont show external signs of sickness or old age anymore? how do you actually know if something is wrong?

for a while there Splinter is very worried that one of his babies will just essentially reach the end of their normal rat lifespan, fall and not get up again.

so mostly, he just tries to live in the moment, enjoying whatever time he does have with his little ones, taking each day as a gift <3

still,

that fear

never

really

goes

away.....

[cringefailvox]

Had an idea for a fanfic writer AU. Alastor writes fucked up gore fics and maybe has a reputation for doxxing (idk how to translate the overlord murders into fandom drama terms). Vox writes ships between OCs that are transparently a self insert and a thinly veiled Alastor. That's as far as I got

stop this is hysterical. you make the mistake of sending alastor anon hate and he responds with nothing but your IP address and a pixelated photo of your bedroom window. vox has been lowkey trying to get alastor to doxx him for years but alastor just deletes all his provocative asks without reading them

[mossy-paws]

I am obligated to ask anyone with phighting requests open to draw voidstar :3

Psycho ass dog….

[lovesickeros]

lord its so dark in here the sahara desert of tsaritsa content you are like a shining oasis. your characterisation of her compels me & mihoyo would be hard pressed to top it imo.!! caaaaan i humbly request yr thoughts on her first meeting w a reader of any kind, or maybe even multiple kinds (sagau, sagau god au, isekai, etc) if you so desire...

it really is like a desert here. being the fan of a character we aren't getting until the last damn nation is driving me up a wall but i will persevere bc if nothing else i support morally bankrupt women in media. we r in a severe drought over here but i do my best. unfortunately nothing i say is ever coherent so pull out your translation notes its abt 2 be messy

also this got out of hand but thats bc first meetings w the tsaritsa are tricky to write + a LOT of her characterization lies in deeper exploration then just surface level yknow...NOT A DIG AT YOU this is just my excuse for rambling. gently pats the tsaritsa she can hold so much complexity i do not have the word count to delve into it completely :]

gonna talk cult au for a bit here though because that's 99% of my content. and honestly? she thrives in sub au's of the cult au like villain au + imposter au. it's basically made for her. i mean, early days, the imposter au had been going around for a little while but one of the first few ideas was the Fatui taking reader in so like. it kinda technically actually was. pretty sure cult au Tsaritsa popped up because of the imposter au. a lot of it's writers kinda left though which. man am i getting old or.

anyway.

there isn't much of a chance her first impression is all that positive. at best it's usually neutral, imo, but rarely if ever positive. specifically because i view the Tsaritsa as someone who isn't as fanatical as most of the acolytes typically are towards the creator. she's not exactly going to worship the ground you walk on unlike a certain geo lizard. which is partially why i think she thrives in the sub au's i mentioned.

imposter au, for example. she meets you at your lowest. there's no gaudy extravagance or pampering from the acolytes waiting for you because your own acolytes have turned on you. for all intents and purposes you aren't a "god" at all. which is why i don't think she meshes well with normal cult au reader. the Fatui are made up of outcasts, basically, and imposter au slots right in just perfectly. you're weak, at your lowest, when you meet the Fatui in the imposter au. and the Fatui can help you, too.

a mutual exchange, really. the Tsaritsa sees a tool she can use to one up the rest of the nations and especially Archons, and she has no qualms about you using her and the Fatui in turn. you both want something out of it, after all. whether you just want to be safe from the rest of the acolytes, or you want revenge, or whatever else..she'll give you the power to fulfill it, and she gains the strongest piece on the chessboard when all is said and done.

the best way i can describe the first meeting is "practical", i suppose. she sees an opportunity in you. the ultimate gamble. because if she "saves" you, and you dont trust anyone else because they tried to kill you, well..she holds all the cards, doesn't she?

but the Tsaritsa, imo, is just as capable of being just as fanatical towards you as anyone else. she just won't worship you as the creator. but as yourself? clawing your way back to your divine power and taking back what belongs to you? the Tsaritsa is, to me, a character who's character flourishes in long-term fics more because she changes a LOT between "just met reader" and after having been with reader for some time. she's practically apathetic at the beginning but a lot of her character, in my characterization, shines through LONG after the first meeting.

[wyrmswears]

GT/AA crossover thoughties (spoilers):

-Pheonix wouldn't die. Maya 100% would. Probably while getting arrested. You'd save her and clear her name somehow in the 4 mins prior

-After that point she knows who you are so at sometimes you'd be pulled from wherever you are by channeling because she wants you to help her out (She can't reach the high shelf and needs you to rock a bowl or something to drop it)

-Apollo probably has reactions to your presence in his bracelet.

-Athena and Lynne get confused for each other constantly. May even become an important part of the plot. (Some witness saying something about the 'redhead with the yellow jacket')

-Ghost tricking in the courtroom to give the defense a few moments of respite to come up with some contradiction in a testimony. Also possibly to stop a witness from doing something bad.

-Actually maybe Yomiel is the one who gets charged with murder. When he first sees Athena somehow having Sissel he silently cries. (Also some joke about him saying 'Sissel' but the context makes it unclear whether it's the cat or the fiancee)

first things first. i am absolutely obsessed with the idea of using ghost tricks in court. you are a damn genius

secondly, yeah i agree phoenix wouldnt die. he is unkillable, he would just get comedically close to dying. maya absolutely would, and would also exploit the existance of ghosts with powers. yomiel when his cat makes new friends <//3 (me too, this is how i feel when my cat sleeps in someone else's room)

bonus: sissel i drew in an earlier sketch

[soranker]

hi….! any chance we can see your art process ? it’s fine if not! i was wondering if u do a sketch before your lines or you just skip directly to lineart? your art is very beautiful!

HI!!! AUGGHHHJHH THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH T__T my art style is kinda simple imo so my process is pretty bare-bones ^^;; there's not rly much too it!! it also kinda changes depending on how uhhhh lazy im feeling in the moment HAHA

probably around half of my drawings are straight to line art bc they're rly just doodles or things i decide to draw without any planning (but also im kinda impatient so i try to skip the sketching step if i can LOL...). but if i DO have a specific pose in mind for a drawing, i'll start with a sort of mannequin sketch or loose pass, then depending on how messy it is, ill either do the lineart pass on the layer on top or duplicate the sketch and then clean it up.

and then my coloring process is not sophisticated at all i just create a new layer and then paint bucket tool away LMAOOOO

here's an example of a drawing where i did sketch first ^_^

[fiddles-ifs]

Perhaps you've answered this so far, but how easy is it to transfer a game from the COG system to twine? I'm working on my WIP in the COG system right now (it is the coding system I'm familiar with, and I honestly find COG's simple UI much easier to read than the more intricate twine ones), but do not want to release it on that platform. I intend to put it on twine at some point. But the more I write, the more I get worried that I'm just creating more work for myself.

Personally, I think it depends on how much design work you want to do! Transferring all your variables and text from CS to Twine is kid stuff. I found that actually making the game look good was the hard part, because I had to blitz-learn CSS (and am still learning. I have a whole clone of Greenwarden in my Twine files that's just for testing cleaner code) to make it look nice, which is entirely optional. There are also plenty of Twine templates you can use!

Twine has several different versions built in that are good for different things. I use Sugarcube2, which comes with its own customizable UI, and so does @northern-passage. @heart-forge uses Harlowe. There's also Ren'Py, but that's a completely different beast and is mostly for visual novels. There's also Inform, which is a modern version of the coding language classic IF games like Zork and Planetfall were written in!

For that cleaner, classic CoG Ui, I might recommend Twine's Chapbook language! I haven't personally used it, but you might find it familiar and easy to read.

TL;DR: Not that hard, especially if you've already got a strong base to work with.

[eye-of-enigmatic-thought]

Do Grigory and Vahid ever begin dating?

If so what would their relationship be like? And who would confess first?

They do!

After some further interactions from their first meeting, both Vahid and Grigory found a lot in common with one another and became fast friends, to then boyfriends.

Vahid is a Iranian artist who grew up knowing war and corruption in Iran, and Grigory is a Russian mortician who lived through WWII and and the USSR, both of them connected heavily with their backgrounds and also their more morbid interests in the macabre. Their relationship is overall very sweet and the two support eachother with their traumas, and Vahid has come to be a another 'uncle' figure to the Habit family! As for which of them confessed first, wellll...

...It's debatable! XD

(Note! Whilst Vahid is my oc, Grigory is not my character! He is a community fan oc from Smile For Me's fandom (concept came from dr-habitual and starlightcelest i believe!) that I've ended up hyperfixating on for... two years now lol- but just in case there's any confusion! As it's been a while since I've drawn these guys so extensively as I used to!!)

[saltciphblr]

Your lovesick au is nice but I must know more. Does y/n take some time off to process their feelings or what happened or do they come back the next day to discuss it with sun? Will sun and moon try to avoid y/n or tells them? Will these 3 cinnamon rolls finally accept their feeling and run off into the sunset? I really what to tune in next time.

i will update that fic. One Day.

BUt y/n trusts Sun and Moon, they want to talk things out with them! Sun and Moon on the other hand, though they of course trust y/n, are terrified of this new virus that has showed up, having no idea what it is or how it works just yet.

Whether anyone runs off into the sunset or not really depends :)

[themyscirah]

simon : *unable to do something for whatever reason* barry : *nobody fucking asked him* hal could do it

Real and true however you severely underestimate how rude Barry is to Simon lol

Istg its

Whatever problem: exists

Barry: wow this is crazy. I wonder if Jess could fix this with this ring of hers. Let me go run into the next room and ask her, we really need a lantern on this and I bet Jess would know. Or maybe I could call Hal, he's out in space but- *leaves to get Jess or Hal*

Simon (has been standing there the entire time): 😐😐😐😐😐 <<contemplating murder

Like just oh my godd 😭

Barry rlly is such a dick to Simon unprompted at all times. Within like 6 issues of rebirth JL I think I have 3 or 4 different instances saved of this exact thing happening where Barry just totally ignores Simon's presence or what he says just to talk to or praise Jess. It makes me want to explode

[lovinsweethearts]

How did Kevin and Aini met? - @a-special-ship-safe-space >:3

“Ah- Well. We technically knew each other since Middle School actually.”

“We were friends at that time, I didn’t think I had a crush on her. She was just this super cool girl that one day approached me in the hallway and talked about my hoodie. Their hair was longer then, they’ve since then kept it short for that true 60’s cut. I didn’t realize how much I really liked her until high school, though.”

[cursezoroark]

They're perfectly healthy. Which is great, considering the circumstances. I met most of them by coincidence though. My mawile is from my mom.

I don't think I would be alive without them. Nor would they be alive without me. They're strange, but that's ok. They're hard workers, and work together nicely. I love them, plain and simple.

... But if there was any issue, it would be with Xenon.

I met her at Terajuma. As much as she is strong, she's very aggressive. Isolates herself from the team, and clings. However, Beau has slowly been integrating her into our strategies. It's better than it was before, but every so often, she would have fits. She would fall for her own illusions.

I don't know why they happen, but I'm trying to work through it. After all, I'm the only one who could.

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