#it crashed while i was writing this

[theroseempress]

HAPPY WORLDBUILDING WEDNESAY!

(I shouted that in my head)

What are some rituals/traditions your WIP has?

HAPPY WORLDBUILDING WEDNESDAY!

*dives into TGC worldbuilding document and rummages around* aha! (gonna count holidays as traditions as well)

(below a cut because. um. yeah that was way longer than I expected)

Solace-

Solites have a holiday when each season starts; IE Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. (I don't have much on them, should probably elaborate)

The formal way to greet someone is to wrap one arm across the chest with the other at your side, and bow. (female-specific version usually done by courtiers involves using the free hand to lift the skirt) The higher in rank the person you’re greeting, the deeper the bow. A more mocking/showmanlike version involves sweeping the free arm out into the air. The informal way is to stack both fists, or depending on the area fist-bump yourself instead. A version done mainly between friends and family is to press your palm against the other person’s, and then interlace fingers.

In Solace, when someone hits a special event of some sort, they receive a title alongside their name, which is supposed to reflect their personality. Depending on the person, a title might be something you give yourself, someone like a parent gives you, or something a community gives you. It’s used sort of like a second name, depending on the person they are often kept secret. (It’s sort of a self thing, the more comfortable you are with yourself, the more likely people are to know your title. It’s also a sign of how much you trust people.)

Ketra-

Holidays- The First Equinox (fall) Second Equinox (spring) First Solstice (summer) and Second Solstice. (winter) First Solstice is commonly celebrated with lots of contests, while Second Solstice is celebrated at night, indoors, with lots of feasting and merriment. (to drive demons away, since they're believed to have the most power then)

The common way to greet someone is for each-other to grasp the other’s forearm. The formal version is to salute by raising one arm with a clenched fist and placing the other fist under that arm’s elbow. Also, hugs. This is the country where people hug each-other.

A common way to resolve a dispute is a hrîndæl; or an ‘honor duel’. Basically, a sword fight. Most commonly done till first blood, though in older times it was to the death. (and still can be if the dispute is serious enough) Hrîndaels are only done by adults; while children are not allowed to participate they often have mock-hrîndaels. A minor can challenge an adult to a genuine hrîndael, but not the other way around, and they are not allowed to fight to the death or any injury. (while a minor can propose these terms and an adult can technically agree, it is very frowned upon)

If someone is challenged to a hrîndael, they are honour-bound to accept unless a) they’re a child, or b) they have a condition that would keep them from participating. (usually along the lines of ‘has children’ or ‘has someone to take care of’) Soldiers and lords’ guards are also banned from participating in hrîndaels on duty or if their superior says not to, though they usually just postpone it until they’re off work. A hrîndael can be set to any terms, from to the death, first blood, surrender, first hit, etc. It is uncommon to set a reward or punishment for the winner or loser, but it is sometimes done.

the Talin-

Talin don’t really do calendars. They have three units of time, marked by when things start growing, when the harvest comes, and a final one between those. That means the calendar (if they had one) would constantly changing, so they refer to time as ‘Harvest 1’ or how-ever, for example. Birthdays get marked in the same manner (IE someone could be born two days before harvest) so they also move around.

A formal greeting is to grasp each shoulder with the opposing hand and nod. The less formal version is to only use one hand, and among friends or family it’s common to just tap the shoulder instead of a proper clasp.

All Talin have two names, their normal name and their ‘personal’ name. The latter is only given to people who are extremely close to the person, and learning a personal name without the person’s permission is considered taboo, as is telling it to anyone else. They are also very closely guarded. Personal names are usually only given to siblings or spouses.

Shyi-

The most formal Shi greeting is to get on one knee with the head bowed and one hand touching the heart. The next greeting, still pretty formal, is to bow the head and touch your heard while still standing. The most common greeting, usually done with a similar social level and first meeting, is to simply touch your heart. The least formal greeting, usually done among friends, is to touch the back of your hands together.

Shi typically have two sets of names; their Shi name- which will be their name, preceded by the name of their mother/father, (depends on gender) which is used for personal business- and their ‘cloak’ name, which is given to outsiders/non-Shi people. A cloak name is sort of like a mark of age, one usually chooses their own when they’re old enough.

In Shi, the length of your hair is tied into personal growth/etc. Children are not allowed to grow their hair beyond chin length until they can take care of their grooming personally, and they are not allowed to grow their hair past shoulder length until they are adults. Once one is an adult, hair is grown long and kept in elaborate braids/buns. Hair is never taken out of the styles unless with someone extremely important, even then it is usually in a simple braid or ponytail. Only people extremely close to someone are allowed to see you with your hair loose, and it’s very a thing to let someone touch it. When someone’s in disgrace, it’s common for their hair to be cut. Cutting your hair without any disgrace or age reason is a STATEMENT, let me say. Hair ornaments are commonly worn, and also an indication of status/relations. When dating, Shi give each-other (often hand-made) hair ornamentation that matches/coordinates, and when married they give each-other more important/better versions of the same ornaments. The intricacy of styling indicates class, as well as hair ornamentation.

Andha-

The traditional way to greet someone formally is to raise both hands in fists, crossed at the wrists. If the other person is particularly important, you bow while still crossing wrists. A more casual version is to raise one fist.

It’s also a habit for most Amorians to tap the top or side of a doorframe as they enter a building.

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well THAT was a bit of an infodump whoops. hope you enjoyed! most of this was just drawn straight from my worldbuilding document. thanks for the ask! :D

[bluerosefox]

Little Danny's Big Adventure

New idea.

Okay now hear me out.

-Pulls out AU idea cauldron and tosses stuff into it-

Let's put in some Ghost King/Prince Danny.... But also some deaged to toddlerhood Danny that gets yeeted into the DCverse!

Like imagine, tiny baby Danny with his tiny crown of ice floating above his head and his galaxy cape wrapped around him and uses it like a baby blanket. He didn't mean to fall into a different universe, a natural portal opened up and he was being a curious little thing! He didn't mean to trip and fall in during his nap time.

Nor was he expecting to fall into this realm during a rogue attack and knock out said rogue cause they were being a meanie and harming people and now Danny just wants his nap time cause he spent a lot of his tiny engery and he wants to find a nice spot.

Danny finds a place to crash, snuggling himself into his cape and the astronaut bear Danielle got him during her last visit that he takes everywhere since.

He's out like a light as the door to this safe house that belongs to one of the Bats opens up.

Meanwhile. In the Infinite Realms, Queen Regent Jazz is going into Mama Bear Jazz Mode trying to find her deaged brother, keeping the Realms in check, and is resisting the urge to put CW in time out Soup Time because he's being cyptided again about Danny whereabouts!!! UGH!

[wooftisms]

can we normalize disliking shifts please. i see so much positive talk abt shifts and that's great i love that some people enjoy tgem but whenever i come out of a shift it makes me feel so empty inside

like part of me is literally missing (it is)

idk i just wish people talked more about how shifts aren't always fun bc literally all i see on tiktok are people "shifting" after setting up a camera and them jumping around or getting on all fours and doing vocqls or smth. it makes me feel rlly crappy sometimes bc i don't get zoomies when i shift i get angry and mean and my body suddenly feels WRONG on all levels like it knows it's not supposed to be this way but it is for some horrible reason

[royalarchivist]

Pac: In a- in a far far away tower, there used to live a prince called Fit, waiting for someone to climb over the top and save him!

Fit: [Laughs]

Pac: Kinda like Shrek, you know? [Laughs]

Fit: That's right. I've been waiting!

[Context: They were talking about how Fit's "house" looked like a tower / water tower.]

[summoningspark]

so i may or may not have printed out the entirety of @anonymousalchemist's amazing fic like a bird, like a stone onto three Very Large pieces of paper.

you might be asking, why, fay? why did you print out an entire 53k fic for a video game you've never played? well you see, if you read it, you would understand.

[cy-cyborg]

Damn you skyrim, why must you be so janky...

and why do I still enjoy this game?

[jjs-brainrot]

And finished Girls band Cry.

Is it the best band anime of all time? Yes. Is it up there with stuff from Studio Orange as one of the best 3DCG anime? Yes. Is it absolutely my contender for anime of the season? Hell yes!

It's honestly been a long time since I've seen a completely original series just keep up such a consistently high production value and writing quality through out its run time. Like what ever you choose for the "weakest" episode would still basically be the highlight episode in any other anime.

The CGI genuinely might be some of the most expressive and fluid I've seen in a 3DCG anime. Like not even just in terms of framerate or character movement, I mean every scene each character has so much detailed and intricate facial and body language going on at every moment. It doesn't translate well into screenshots but it genuinely feels like you can just get how a character is feeling and what their personality is like in any given scene based purely on body language a lone which is incredibly impressive.

Writing-wise, it's hit after hit after hit. While some episodes are higher then others, there's never a moment where the series isn't doing everything in it's power to hit the emotional beats it's wanting to hit. The writing also just fully commits to feeling just really well grounded? Like nothing feels too out of left field or unearned and it just feels like a pretty natural story about a band coming together to try to make it in the modern music scene.

The entirety of the main cast is just fantastic.

Nina is easily going up there as one of my all time favorite protags. She's brash, goofy, has a sense of justice she never strays from even when it actively does her harm, she's angry af and she genuinely acts like how a teenager who's been though some shit would act. She's a flawed person (an outright hypocrite at times even) but that's what makes her such a relatable character.

Momoka comes across as a hot headed but confident rocker girl, but the reality is she's a bit of a coward. She sees herself as a complete failure and the only reason she hasn't already run away is the angry little hedgehog girl, whom she sees so much of her younger self in (even if a lot of that might be projection), keeps stopping her at every turn.

Subaru: the actress, the liar, the goofball, the hedgehog wrestler. So much of her personality is being as blatantly fake as fuck as she can every scene before someone calls her out on it. And so much of her fakeness just crumbles anytime she has to deal with her bandmate's antics (Nina especially) to the point that she can just be herself around them. She also has the funnest facial expressions and body language. She just has to be extra in every scene she's in.

Tomo and Rupa did feel like they got a little bit shafted in the series if I'm honest. A lot of that is because they really didn't get to get much screen time until the half way point though the fact that the series is much more focused on Nina and Momoka's storyline so the other three got less focus. Tomo tended to act like the band's straight man but she def got her own goofy moments. Rupa is the friend mom of the band. She does have the most depressing backstory but she always has to keep the mood lively (especially if there's beer involved).

The Music in GBC is absolutely fantastic. If Bocchi the Rock! is an homage to the current J-Rock scene, referencing bands like Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Tricot and 88Kasyo Junrei, Girls Band Cry is much more focused on paying homages to J-Rock from the 90s and 2000s, referencing bands like Yura Yura Teikoku, Gingnangboyz, Spitz and Eastern Youth.

Togenashi Togeari themselves might be my all time favorite J-Rock band now. Their music just absolutely hits and I just can't stop obsessing over them. What's particularly wild is that the VAs/musicians comprising Togenashi Togeari are all first time VAs who were all hired through an audition process that was specifically looking for women who never sung in public, played in a band, or played rock before. The series is just that committed to being grounded that it forms a band of nobody's who didn't know about each other before becoming a band to play a band of nobody's who didn't know about each other before becoming a band.

So anyways, I've rambling for far too long. Girls band Cry is amazing, you should all watch it in whatever way you can and then listen to all of TogeToge's songs on endless repeat like me.

[breadstickdeadstick]

i see no difference

[ghostoffuturespast]

Road Rage

[dailykugisaki]

Day 223 | id in alt

Maki thinking some very unsorcererly things over a piece of damn cheesecake.

(Read from right to left💥)

[ichthyorelationships]

an idea i invite anyone else to write about / run with lol....

the premise that The Change gets all messed up for alberto, say it's something that can happen from stress, &/or happens rarely and you just have to wait for it to resolve itself....used as some parallel to struggling through some emotional turbulence / upheaval / questioning / Realizing Things, etc etc

[radarsteddybear]

Does anyone happen to know whether Kinch's shirt + pants are one single garment like Carter's is or if it's two separate garments?

[void-spells]

Not enough Bracca fics where Cal doesn't meet Prauf until a couple of years after the Purge

[petricorah]

i have a fic idea if i ever get around to it i want to start soon where it's zukka modern au where they decide to take really long road trip before sokka has to go back home and it's supposed to be a fun last hurrah but it's tinged by the fact that they both want to confess but it's too late

(aka long drives on the endless road where you really start to think about what you want in life and what you want is the person next to you and you just can't have it.)

and also accidentally getting high on cactus juice because they got lost and sokka thought hey, i'm an outdoorsman, i totally got this (he doesn't have this)

[hazbinshusk]

to the anon who sent me the blitz fic idea about hooking up in the bathroom at a party - i love it, i'm obsessed with the idea... just know I have over 25 requests for blitz right now so while it may jump the queue just because I doubt it will leave my brain anytime soon, there will be a wait while I try to get to some of my oldest requests first. But yeah, just wanted to let you know how excited I am to write it!

for those still waiting on blitz requests (i'm so sorry it's taking so long!), here's some of the ones at the top of my list to write:

blitz fucking the stress out of readers 'pretty little head' (love this phrasing, hate that you've been waiting like 2 months, I'm so sorry)

🕰️ anon, old friend, you have like three or four different requests waiting and I swear I'll get at least one of them done soon! I miss talking to you and I hope you're still around! (I think I started the overstimulation with a vibrator one last week).

Blitz and a reader with sensitive nipples.

most likely the kiss prompts that are waiting too because they tend to write pretty quick.

there are so many in the box and I will hopefully get to all of them soon, but those are the top priority atm.

(there are a few husk requests mixed in as well and the wait on them should be shorter purely because there are less and I tend to try to alternate between my boys to keep things fresh while writing)

[theeflowerofcarnage]

I loved their love....