#it’s soul coooool

[sleepkita]

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[dramaism]

They are a married couple. He is a bright light that protects the world, and she is a shadow that protects him by embracing the darkness surrounding him. ALCHEMY OF SOULS: LIGHT & SHADOW (2022-2023)

[entertext]

HGSN 26-2

Chapter (Japanese)

(Please hit the green thumbs up at the end of the chapter on the Japanese site to show the author some support)

Rough translation by me

P1

(sfx: train clacking over tracks)

Yoshiki: (It'll take a little under two hours on the Tanshou Line from Kibougayama Station, huh?...)

Yoshiki: (I haven't been to the ocean since elementary school...)

Hikaru: Whoaaa!! Coooool!!

Hikaru: What's that!? There's a building that looks like a butt!

Yoshiki: You sure are carefree...

P2

(sfx: train clacking over tracks)

Yoshiki: That reminds me...a while back...

P3

Yoshiki: I had to go to the Mikasa family's place on an errand

(Mom: Take them this as thanks for Kaoru's yukata)

Yoshiki: So I went to the shrine

Yoshiki: Then, at the torii gate...

(sfx: BZZT)

Hikaru: Huh? Why?....

Yoshiki: Dunno...After that, I was able to go inside like normal...

P4

Hikaru: ("Mixed up"...)

Yoshiki: *sighs* Enough about that, let's talk about something else. There's still more than an hour left to go.

Hikaru: Something else to talk about...I don't really have anything

Hikaru: Just stuff like the time when for some reason your room was so packed to the brim with the ghosts of old men that it made me laugh...

(sfx: train clacking over tracks)

Yoshiki: You're kidding me right?

P5

(sfx: stepping on sand)

P6

(sfx: waves)

P7

Yoshiki: Even considering it's evening, there are really few people here...Maybe everyone's gone to the new beach instead.

Hikaru: Whoa, so cool!

Hikaru: It's HUGE! The ocean's amazing!

(sfx: waves)

Hikaru: Yaaaaay!

Hikaru: Shoes, shoes...

(sfx: waves)

P8

(sfx: waves)

Yoshiki: Hey! Come over here!

(sfx: waves)

P9

Hikaru: The ocean's great!!

(sfx: waves)

Hikaru: Hahaha!

(sfx: waves)

Hikaru: Woo-hoo!!

(sfx: ker-splash)

(sfx: waves)

P10

Hikaru: Hah

Hikaru: Ha

(sfx: water sloshing)

(sfx: waves)

(sfx: water sloshing)

(sfx: waves)

P11

Yoshiki: Hey, your pants are gonna get wet

(sfx: waves)

Hikaru: You know, when I went into the hall, I also remembered what happened when I went into Hikaru's body

(sfx: water sloshing)

P12

Hikaru: When Hikaru was dying, he wished for things like "if only no one had to be sad" and "I don't want Yoshiki to be left alone"

Hikaru: Because I granted his wishes, things ended up this way

Yoshiki: Hikaru's...

Hikaru: ...but sorry

Hikaru: I probably won't be able to fulfill those wishes

Hikaru: I'm...going to go back to the mountain

P13

Yoshiki: ... Huh?

Hikaru: The time I attacked you recently? That was probably my true nature coming out.

Hikaru: In order to fill up the empty parts of myself, I have a desire for souls

Hikaru: It probably doesn't make sense to a human, right? I've also only just realized it myself

Hikaru: I think I was always that kind of being.

Hikaru: I've killed a lot of people too, and I might kill someone again in the future.

Hikaru: But I don't want to kill you, Yoshiki

Yoshiki: H-hold...on...a sec...! What?

P14

Hikaru: If I go back to the mountain, even if the real problem isn't solved

Hikaru: At least it'll be peaceful for the time you're alive

Yoshiki: N-no way. You can't. What have we...been searching so hard for...all this time...!

Hikaru: The monster will go away, you'll be able to accept Hikaru's death

Hikaru: And look forward, living on as a human. Happily ever after. That's for the best.

Yoshiki: You..! You want to stay, don't you!? Are you stupid!?

Yoshiki: Enough!

(sfx: splash splash)

Yoshiki: This kind of thing...isn't something you have to learn to do!!

P15

Yoshiki: Be more shameless, the way you've always been...

Hikaru: You know, Hikaru...he liked watermelon, but I like ice cream pops the best. And my favorite kind's not Gachigachi-kun but Papicco instead. I'm probably the one that likes cats.

Hikaru: And movies, too. There hasn't been a single movie I thought was boring. Hikaru hated studying, but I like it. Well, not that I'm any good at it though, haha.

P16

Yoshiki: Stop it

Yoshiki: Stop...

Hikaru: You know, I...really had a lot of fun being with you.

Hikaru: Maybe to you, I was just a replacement for Hikaru, but you gave someone like me so much. I love you, Yoshiki

Hikaru: These feelings might not be romantic and they might not be friendship. But, they're definitely my feelings.

Hikaru: Not Hikaru's, but the monster's. Mine.

P17

Yoshiki: No...

Hikaru: Yoshiki

Hikaru: Thank you for everything

Yoshiki: YOU'RE WRONG!

P18

Yoshiki: You're not a replacement for Hikaru!!!

(sfx: splash splash)

Yoshiki: I don't think of you as Hikaru anymore!

Hikaru: We don't have any other solution...so I've got no choice...

Yoshiki: You've just given up! Don't you dare push stuff like "looking forward" onto me...not now, after everything...

Yoshiki: What's so "happily ever after" about that...!?

Yoshiki: Bullshit...!!!!

P19

P20

Hikaru: Even I...

??: Even if you go back to the mountain, it won't do any good.

P21

Tanaka: 'Cause you see, 'Hikaru'-kun

P22

Tanaka: You aren't Nounuki-sama

P23

Tanaka: Thinking if you sacrifice something, something else will be saved...

Tanaka: You're under some wild misconceptions

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[37alex]

Haha, animation. Suck out my soul. I know nothing about animating except for choppy frames.

Have you guys ever heard of pixel-moss167? Their animations are so fluid, and I’m here with my 12 frame GIF… they’re so coooool.

…I need to follow more tumblr users.

(Transparent GIF and all 12 frames under the cut.)

Hm, yes. Jungle Takahashi. I really like him, if you didn’t know.

[physalian]

On self-publishing, and why I did it

Based on the research that I have done, following other indie authors across multiple platforms, I think I've made an approach to this that is a lot less... shall we say, *intense* than people make it out to be? I've seen some YouTube videos acting like picking one route or the other might be the worst mistake of your author career.

I mean, I guess?

Back a few years ago I had a manuscript I was querying around and couldn't find any takers. Couldn't find any publishing houses that were accepting open submissions to pick up my manuscript either. So many of them had clauses in the application verifying that you were submitting to them and only to them and to expect a reply within 8-10 months. Coooool.

I did not have time for that.

—

The manuscript I had was 120k words. Baby’s first novel sitting at 120k words is not attractive to publishing houses. It’s a risk. I was younger and didn’t know much about finding an agent and all that jazz, so I had looked into self-publishing and was staring down an editor bill of about $3k minimum because of my word count. I did not have the money for that.

So that manuscript got shelved, meanwhile I wrote the sequel and got halfway through book 3 before writer’s block took hold.

Enter February 2024. I have an idea for a new book. 31 days later, I have that book’s first draft done—Eternal Night of the Northern Sky, on sale from draft to publication in seven months.

This time, I didn’t consider for one second trying the traditionally published route. ENNS is 111k words, it’s a doorstopper of a book, but the bulk wasn’t the only reason I decided to bootstrap myself to the finish line.

I wanted complete, absolute creative control every step of the way

If I have to market myself anyway, why am I splitting profit with a publishing house?

I *really* don’t have time to wait around hoping the right person sees my manuscript. I have a new job coming that’s going to eat up all my free time and could either delay ENNS a year or more, or get it out while I still had time to do so

I didn’t do this for money

I think that’s what makes so many of those rather intense arguments for one or the other so harrowing—the pressure is a lot higher if you invested all this time, money, and effort expecting returns to break even, if not actually turn a profit. Publishing with a publisher doesn’t guarantee people will buy your book, mind you, but it’s a helping hand nonetheless. If I even want to break even, let's say just on royalties from the ebook, I'd have to sell over a thousand copies.

Breaking down my above points:

I’m a firm believer in “if you want something done right, you do it yourself,” which does bite me in the ass from time to time, this I know. I didn’t want to get caught up in contracts or editors telling me what I could and couldn’t do or what I had to change. If ENNS fails, I will have no one to blame but myself, and I am at peace with this. If ENNS fails, and I’d gone through the trouble of signing my book’s soul away to a publisher, then I’d probably be a little resentful. 100% of ENNS is mine, even the cover. I had an image in my head of what I wanted the cover to look like, and I sat down and I drew it and it matches perfectly. Aside from the feedback implemented from betas and editors, my story is told the way I wanted to tell it. If it fails, I am at peace with this.

On marketing, I am not a person who does well with social media. Maybe it’s autism, idk, but trying to keep up with an Instagram is exhausting. I just don’t get anything from tiny text posts and blurbs and doomscrolling through influencers and advertisements. Social Media is, for me, exhausting. Tumblr is different, because writing is my strong point and this blog exists to share and curate something useful. But either way, I’d have to market this book alone, so why not do so with full creative control? If it fails, I am at peace with this.

I have a new job coming very quickly. My current job allows me about 5 hours of free time during my 8 hour shift on a good day not including the time outside work, and I work from home. ENNS was written in 31 days thanks to this job. The new one? Not so much. Seeing “please allow 8-10 months” and “please ensure this is an exclusive submission” on so many little publishing houses, and I did search far and wide, was incredibly disheartening. For me, personally, it wasn’t worth the gamble of waiting all that time, following the rules, and being told no or just being flat-out ghosted. Nor did I want to sit around querying agents into the void. This time, I didn’t have time to sift through agents. ENNS had to get out on the shelves as quickly as I could get it, and all that time (five goddamn months of editing, 500% of the time it took to write it) was spent perfecting the manuscript that it is, *not* waiting around trying to find an agent. If it fails, I am at peace with this.

And lastly, I don’t care if I make absolutely nothing from this book. I didn’t do it for the money, I did it to say I could. I have a day job, and I’m about to have a much higher paying day job. Maybe I’m lucky enough to have that, but I am under no illusions that putting in the hard work guarantees success. Success as an author is a crapshoot and being an amazing book is not the metric sales are measured in, if no one wants to read it. I’d like to make money, I didn’t do it for charity. It’s going to be priced exactly the same as another fantasy book of its caliber. But if only one person buys it, and finds something good from it, something in it that changes their life, then I will have succeeded, profit be damned. If all else fails, I am at peace with this.

—

This is not a post meant to sway people one way or the other. I know I didn’t do enough research or scour the internet hard enough to find a good agent. All of this is irrelevant when time was the most important factor in my debut novel. I was in a position where I could drop that $3k on an editor, so I did. I’m a capable enough artist to draw my own cover, so I did. I might be abysmal at managing social accounts, but less than a year ago this blog didn’t exist and it has over 5k reblogs and 950 followers and I think that’s pretty swell.

I’m 25 years old. I was not about to let it keep sitting around waiting for the golden opportunity with the perfect publishing house that might not have been coming. I had the means and motive to get it done, and by god, I did it.

If it fails, at least I can say that I failed trying. I am at peace with this.

—

Eternal Night of the Northern Sky is available now on Amazon in ebook and paperback! It is also available through your local bookstore.

Check it out on Goodreads!

[shunin-gumis]

Designs of Happiness - Track A25

L4mps Main Story Translation

Title: So that the regrets don’t pile up

Characters: Nagi, Ryui, Toi, Netaro, Yodaka

Summary: Due to Astaroth’s power, strange phenomena occur one after the other. Amongst the pandemonium, Netaro alone seems to be enjoying the chaos… 

Thank you aca @/463ce6, myun @/myuntachis Niri @/Niri_riri and jes @/arcanecrayonn for helping me with proofing!

You must never go down those stairs.

Young Toi: Ani-sama, let’s play the swapping game again! 

Where is Toi?

Ryui…!? Why are you here— 

It’s too late. Oshisha-sama will descend soon. 

Young Toi: Ani-sama!! Please get me out of here!! I’m scared!! Don’t leave me please!! Waaahhhhh!! 

Location: Hakodate - Daimon Yokocho Izakaya

Ryui: …hh! 

Elderly Lady: Oh my, what’s got you shivering? 

Ryui: Just… 

Ryui: JUST LEAVE US ALONE…! 

Elderly Lady: …! Have you been drinking too much— 

*rumbling*

Elderly Lady: What?

*ground shakes*

Elderly Lady: Wah! An earthquake!? 

Ryui: No, this is– 

Momiji: W-Woah! This is a big one…! 

Yodaka: Oh? There wasn’t even an alert… 

Netaro: Amazing! Is thiiiiis how a living planet pulses~!?

Daniel: Mama, turn off the gas and the fire. Chief, we need to lead these people outside. 

Momiji: O-Okay! 

Drunkard A: Wha~? This ain’t nothin’ to be scared of! 

Drunkard B: Yeah, this one ain’t much~

Drunkard C: In JPN, a scale of 3 or 4 is just a blip on the radar~ 

Netaro: These earthlings are so coooool~!

Toi: Hahaha! You still choose to think this is a mere earthquake? 

Toi: Then, how will you explain this…? 

*sounds of glass breaking*

Daniel: Wha–!? My drink! What a waste!! 

Momiji: (Wait, that glass just broke out of nowhere…!?) 

*more glass breaking*

Elderly Lady: What on earth is going on!? This is madness! 

Drunkard B: We need to get out, now! Mama, bill please! 

Proprietress: Do you really think now’s the time!? We need to evacuate, quickly! 

Toi: AHAHAHAHAHA! Tremble in awe, howl in fear, cry out in terror, and kneel before me! 

Netaro: Ahaha! Amazing, how fascinating! So this is a real angel! 

Toi: Ahah… You do not fear me?

Netaro: Show me moar and moar~

Toi: Your brazenness disgusts me. You need to be taught a lesson. 

*swoosh*

Momiji: (That knife flew right by Netaro’s face…!)

Toi: I was aiming for the top of your head, but I suppose you are more nimble than a human. 

Netaro: Oh~ Did you make use of zero gravity to control the movement of that object? Metastasis, in other words, is it possible for you to create a warp hole? 

Netaro: You accomplished it with noooo equipment? Or perhaps there is some trick to when you snap your fingers? Please please please let me take you apaaaart! 

Toi: Your face irritates me. 

Momiji: Toi-kun, no wait, was it Oshisha-sama now!? Anyways, you need to get out of here too! 

Toi: Silence. I tire of this now. 

Toi: Disappear from my sight. 

Drunkard A: Ah…….. 

Drunkard C: Ugh……. 

*they faint*

Momiji: Wha– The two of them suddenly just– Are you okay!?

Yodaka: It seems they’ve fainted. I’ll carry them out. 

Drunkard B: I can feel chills down my spine! It’s weird, I think I feel scared…! 

Momiji: You’re right… I don’t feel good either, it’s so cold… 

Daniel: Did you drink too much? I thought it was still okay for you… 

Netaro: What is it? What’s wrooong with you all? 

*shaking*

Momiji: Ugh… My head hurts… Everyone, let’s get outside first…! 

Netaro: Wah- But whyyyyy~? I wan to talk to the angel shum moooore~! 

Momiji: You can’t! You need to leave too, now! 

Netaro: A-Aaaah~! Don’t pull mee awaaay~

Yodaka: Toi, you should come with us…! 

Toi: …… 

Yodaka: Kh…Ah… 

Daniel: Over here, Yodaka! Bring those two over now! 

Yodaka: *panting* A-Alright… 

*door closes*

Toi: …Heh. Finally, it is just the two of us. It’s been a while, Ryui. 

Ryui: …… 

Ryui: Fucker… We made a contract so you wouldn’t use Toi’s soul anymore…! 

Toi: Hah. You dare act so mighty with only one eye? Since you were not available, my only choice was to use what I have on hand. 

Toi: You have been wandering around for weeks. What do you have to show for it? I’m certain you must have found a way to defy fate, yes? 

Ryui: I’ll fucking kill you…! 

*door opens*

Nagi: Um… 

Toi and Ryui: …!?

Nagi: I just came back from the toilet, only to find everyone outside… I was worried when I didn’t spot Toi, so… huh?

Nagi: Oh, it’s Ryui-san. Sorry, did I just interrupt a heartfelt reunion…? 

Ryui: What, you— How’d you get in here so easily? Don’t you feel sick or dizzy or something!?

Nagi: Because of the earthquake? Well, I do feel a little queasy, but it’s not too bad. 

Toi: Heh… To think there is a human who could withstand my true power. I see, so you are one who drowns in despair every single day of your life.

Ryui: Wha!? Is something like that even possible…? 

Nagi: Oh, you were still on that huh, Toi.

Nagi: Ryui-san, you’ll come back now, right? 

Ryui: …This has nothing to do with you. 

Nagi: We’re working as Ward Mayors together so, I’d say it does. 

Ryui: Ward what now?

Toi: Toi decided on it, so he could search for you. 

Nagi: Ah, I’m in the Night Team, same as Toi. My name is Nagi Hachinoya.

Ryui: Okay… 

Nagi: Toi was always anxious, during the first meeting with the other members, and the movie-viewing with all the party people, too… He’d always look sad, wishing his brother was with him.

Nagi: None of us could really comfort him. That’s what it means to be irreplaceable to someone. 

Ryui: …… 

Nagi: The reason why Toi has, uh, turned into someone else right now, probably has something to do with that too… 

Ryui: Not really… 

Nagi: I’m sure it was hard for you to make this decision in the first place, but please come be with Toi again for the sake of his happiness. 

Nagi: Please. 

Nagi: Let’s all go back to HAMA, together. 

Nagi: Let’s all hype up HAMA, and maybe you could even take over as leader while you’re at it.

Ryui: (This bastard’s got some guts, saying whatever he wants.) 

Nagi: You want the same, right, Toi? 

Toi: …… 

Ryui: Oi? 

Toi: Kh… It seems I’ve used too much of my power… 

Nagi: Watch ou–

*Nagi catches Toi*

Nagi: (Phew….)

Toi: *soft snoring*

Ryui: (He’s asleep…) 

Ryui: Let him sleep in tomorrow. He’ll wake up when his energy’s back. 

Nagi: Huh? 

Ryui: I’m leaving the money for the food here. Let that hag know later, got it? 

Nagi: …! 

~~~(flashback)

Nagi: I’m sorry I couldn’t catch him, even though he was right in front of me… I’ll try harder next time.

Toi: It’s ok, you did more than enough. Thank you for trying, Nagi-san. 

~~~(end flashback) 

Location: Hakodate Daimon Yokocho Izakaya 

Nagi: I’m not letting you go…! 

Ryui: Woah!?

Ryui: That hurt…! Oi asshole! Don’t fuckin’ grab my legs, I’ll kill you! And how dare you drop Toi on the floor!?

Ryui: Let me go already you piece of shit! 

Nagi: …Urk….I won’t…!

Ryui: Just fuck off already! I’ll kick a hole straight through your stomach and sink you into the fuckin’ bay! 

Nagi: Just try it…! That’s—

Nagi: That’s way better than losing your family…!

Ryui: …!

Nagi: You don’t get it at all…!

Nagi: The people who leave could never understand the pain and sorrow you put on the ones you leave behind! 

Ryui: And what the FUCK do you know about me!? Huh!? It’s not like I—

Ryui: It’s not like I left him behind because I wanted to, idiot! I had no choice but to do it, for Toi’s sake! 

Nagi: …… 

Ryui: I was lonely as hell too…! Don’t you dare get off on saying whatever you want! 

Nagi: You’re the one doing whatever you want! There’s someone who wants you by his side, so why wouldn’t you reach out to him? If you don’t even make that effort, can you really say you’re treasuring him!?

Ryui: …! 

Nagi: It’s okay if you fight! It’s okay if you’ve got different values, if you never get to sort it out…! 

Nagi: Staying despite all of that is the reassurance you can only get from “family!” So please, Ryui, I’m begging you, stay here!

Ryui: …… 

Nagi: (He’s… stopped resisting.)

Nagi: Oh right, sorry for being disrespectful, Ryui-san. 

Ryui: Which hotel?

Nagi: Huh?

Ryui: I’ll carry Toi. 

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[ntls-24722]

I was thinking about @/artastic-friend's tags on my Comet post, and, first off thank you it was really sweet, but I had also realized that I wasn't even on tumblr to show the REEEAAALLY early designs of Comet, so here they are!

Comet had gone through a lot of changes, the most important one being... not looking exactly like DJMM! Comet originally looked exactly like DJMM since a good 80% of her body used to actually be mechanical, and her organism part was... very minimal and degenerate. But I very quickly found that lame - what's the pizzazz in being ~secretly a manmade organism~ if most of you is still mechanical anyway? I found an old picture of her transition from this (i apologize for the low quality, but much of the old sketches are super smudged n junk.) She still had motors and but much more of her internals filled up the plastic exoskeleton's empty space.

A detail i had actually forgotten now that I read back through old messages and pictures is that she used to be compatible with eating/drinking gasoline AND actual food? She had microbes that could eat it in her stomach and then she'd eat THOSE microbes like a cow??? that was kinda sick, past me, good job.

Comet's actual face being striped originated from her bony skeleton being full of bigbig holes (shown below, left) - they were meant to just be the frame for the plastic cover, but when the mechanical parts were taken out the holes condensed into stripes (shown below, right), partially being inspired from this Clownsuu post (AUGH ITS SO COOOOOL)

The 10 eyes thing stuck because it was like... representative of her kids' souls being infused with hers after she unknowingly ingested them after brain surgery?

She didn't like, pick them up and start chowing on her own children like you would with a bunch of dry cereal - in order to make the Comets less resource-needy the Oort Cloud would give some of the remnant they produced back to them? When Comet found out where it came from and where one of her missing kids went, she refused to eat or sleep at all until she almost died of exhaustion and finally went unconcious. The Oort Cloud took advantage of the fact she was finally not resisting and did the surgery as she slept. She didn't remember anything when she woke up and... ate for the first time in awhile not knowing what was in it, or that she even had kids in the first place.

Making the surgery easier is actually why the side of her head in this picture is exposed and Boneless (in some pictures there's actually huge stitches on there, too) but i realized that any behavioral disruptions would be directed to the frontal lobe, and that's why Modern comet actually has this little plate right between her eyes - that plate of exoskeleton is actually slightly loose and you can take it off n put it right back on for the least amount of scarring. It's also why Luz and Zoey don't have it.

For some reason I chose a marching band theme for her, maybe to cover up her skeleton-y Beneathness, and that is what made her into the star-spangled DJMM we know today. I chose a space-y theme since the Plex is.... somewhat space themed? Not entirely sure why but I'm glad I did it. She was intially accented with minty blue rather than the bold one she is now. This is where she also got her name, though it was initially "Comet Music Man."

She used to, temporarily, also have a 4 pairs of antennae coming from her wrists. I took it out cuz i couldn't find a reason for them

Comet wasn't based on any particular spider BUT there was the initial concept of having her be based off of the mirror spider and have a.... disco ball butt (you can kinda see it in the skeleton face pic) But in another universe, She could've been a spiny orb weaver, or a scorpion-tailed spider.

I did sometimes COMPLETELY go south with how her Beneath would look like in favor of a soft, fleshy interior, and I made...this! I hated it and I'm forever glad I didn't decide to go with this! jesus christ!

There were also the origins of the little harpoons - I had a headcanon that DJMM has little pedipalps on the inside of his mouth that looked like little STAFFbot hands and that got integrated with Comet, too

Alsoalso: the Neck

Couldn't figure out how to do it for a long time, since it's long and dragon-y and flexible and curvy, which is why half of it was exposed skin for awhile. In this outdated organ diagram i actually made the neck a bunch of layered "bowls" like one of those rainbow slug toys (not that you can.... see much of it lol) (also old sona jumpscare HOOH)

There's probably more considering Comet is now a year old and also her entire universe and story got REALLY derailed from a oneshot self-insert fic that i never even finished (the contents of which actually are why Comet and Fritz live where they are, in some abandoned factory - it was Fritz and DJMM's hideout) (also, Fritz predates Comet by a lot) because i thought WAYYYYY tooo hard about the implications of DJ Music Man, the giant spider, being alive

("what are you? are you a species or were you created? for what? By who? why are you pretending to be a robot? Are you pretending? What do you eat, and what's feeding you? Do you need to? Why do you have to be alive, and not an animatronic like everything else?) (also technically Bighand is just the alternate and anticlimatic version where he's just like "yeah I'm alive and I just work here") (both leave bc it sucks)

bonus patch notes that I couldn't cover:

neck became attached further up the head instead of below the jaw because keeping it the way it was was... not good

ALL of her became metallic-looking

She went from being a mirror spider to a sparklemuffin spider because of the coincidence that those spiders had the same yellow stripes from their eyes as she does.

The antennae became just 1 pair because the fact she had 2 pairs was also unnecessary

She used to have 2 little flesh strands from her top jaw and bottom jaw. They served no purpose only to get in the way of things so I got rid of them.

Her dewlap used to have music notes, stars, and lines

The tongue went from being thick n long to being flat and rounded. Fits in the mouth better

[ginnvngagap]

watching the Little Mermaid live action remake, and I'm gonna make it your problem

oooh, shiny scales, I love it

Ariel's breathtaking, I love how her hair flows in the water

her sisters are also gorgeous and their designs are amazing

CGI sea creatures look realistic but still manage to be all magical and shxt, nice

Ursula's not a drag queen (a crime tbh), but her design is so coooool

aaah, Ariel's voice (I don't watch trailers, this is my first time hearing it)

Eric has a personality?!

they gave an actual reason as to why Ariel would be attracted to Eric aside from teenage girl hormones go brrr for pretty boy

oooh, they did the cliff thing

Eric has an I want song now and his voice is heavenly

did... did they just add generational trauma to the mermaid family? great addition, I approve (yes, I've seen the prequel)

had to Google Sebastian's accent, it's Jamaican, I love it, I think it suits him

so many pretty sea creatures dancing, oooh, jellyfish

why the fxck do they swim like that?

Poor Unfortunate Souls slaps, Ursula's voice is aaaah (very eloquent)

huh, Ariel still sings in her head (good decision imo, it would've been such a waste)

Ariel doesn't like high heels and corsets, completely understandable tbh

ooof, her meeting the prince and not being able to speak was so much more devastating with the added thought singing, my baby heart, noooo 😭

apparently Ursula put a spell on Ariel that made her forget her objective of kisskissfallinlove and I don't know how I feel about that (in hindsight it makes sense, this Ariel would've totally jumped Eric's bones, lmao)

Scuttle and Sebastian's banter is fxcking hysterical

roll credits, lmao

oooh, Eric has a stuff room too

Grimsby is best boi

Ariel breaks for goats but not humans, we stan

Anakin would flip his shxt if he saw this dance scene

aaaw, Ariel taught Eric her name

Shalalalalala... You Gotta Kiss The Girl~🎶

Ursula's growly voice 😩👌

I love how Ursula's appearance on shore feels even more sinister than in the animated movie

is... is Scuttle rapping? and she has mad flow?! SEBASTIAN TOO!? also it's actual genius how Scuttle's rap sounds how you'd expect a bird rapping

human Ursula's uuuh... huuuh... 🥵

Grimsbyyy you naughty boi

she's also fxcking terrifying, holy fxckaroni

Eric's waaay too chill about Ariel turning into a mermaid right in his arms, lmao

loving the ominous ink cloud

tentacle raaave

Triton's baaack, baby 👑

I love his character design btw, that clamshell armor is so cool and shiny ✨

mermaid dad sad 🥺😭

the send-off definitely didn't make me cry, shutup

neither did Howard Ashman's name in the credits

[anulithots]

BIO QUESTIONNNNS

any tips on interpreting pedigrees???

How does fermentation work 😭

whats your favourite organelle??

GL on the exam!!!!

THANKKK YOUUUU FORR THE ASKKK

Pedigrees

these guys were sooooo puzzling when I first looked at them. But once you get a feel for them, they aren't too bad. (Then they become a fun puzzle and you feel so smart and smug /pos)

Sometimes they'll include the half-shaded shape, sometimes they won't. On my practice exams they don't so I won't include talking about the half-shaded shapes (which are basically like telling you which ones are carriers, when nothing is half shaded then you have to figure this out yourself.)

Okay so first off, I typically look for sex-linked/autosomal traits. If the affected individuals are usually one sex (male typically) then the trait is sex-linked. If there's siblings and only the males (typically) are affected, then again - sex linked. (I wishhh we could learn biology with intersex people included it wouldd bee soo nicceee)

ALSO ALSO, if the mother is affected, then all of their children are affected - no matter what the trait of the male parent is - then I'd think the trait is passed on through mitochondrial DNA. (mitochondrial DNA is sooo coooool I need to reread those pub med articles. But overall, mitochondrial DNA comes from the female parent only because the male parent contributed only Nuclear DNA, the female parent contributed the cytosol and every organelle in it.)

From there, if neither of the above is true, then it's typically autosomal and either a recessive or dominant trait.

If it's autosomal recessive, then typically it will skip generations/ only some offspring will have it. It's just less likely that the recessive trait will appear, bonus points if there's four siblings and one of them is affected. (Not reallllyyy how it works in the real world since genotypes for each child is independent from the other children... but IDK pedigrees on tests and stuff tend to do this.) Also if none of the parents have it but some children are affected, then one or both of the parents are most likely carriers. (and if you can see the parents of the parents, you can typically find out which one).

Dominant ones just... tend to appear more. They don't usually skip generations, and if neither parent is affected, then the children won't be affected. (You can't be a carrier for a dominant allele under most circumstances... not sure if there's exceptions)

Pedigrees take a bit of getting used to, but they are FUN once you get a feel for them. (Tbh our ap bio class is kind of cursed, we went through a few teachers that all quit. Now I'm the honorary teacher of our class and honestly... I just got a feel for them. Practice I suppose? If you remember how different traits are inherited, then you should be good) Good luck with them!

Fermentation

OKay so not going to lie here.... I usually skipped over fermentation because I thought it would be boring. Once I saw this ask, I looked at it and it's... surprisingly not that bad? (At least to me, I'm insane.)

Okie so basically what happens is

~oxygen~ the most important molecule for us, breathe they say, breath is the language of the soul, our almighty oxygen...

... mops up the waste products at the end of the electron transport chain in oxidative phosphorylation (hydrogens) and turns into water.

But, despite how unromantic that sounds... it's super important. Because without our oxygen janitors, we can't do the electron transport chain. The waste products would build up and we'd probably burst into flames or smth (honestly that is what would happen if our cells tried to metabolize glucose all at once)

So cells that do fermentation decide to forgo the whole electron transport chain, best not deal with it.

So all it has is glycolysis. (I call it the carbon do-see-do, whatever that dance thingy is called. I don't know why.) I'll include a picture here of it

(knowing the names of the intermediate products is probably the hardest part.. I just... don't.)

Basically, add your phosphates to each side, split it in half, add another phosphate (not from ATP this time), Oxidize the heck out of the carbon molecules, then give those electrons to the NAD+, which turn into NADHs (One per half/three carbon molecule.), then you break off your 'caps' of Phosphates and add it to ADPs. ONce you add that extra phosphate, you make the ADPs into ATPs. Four of them total, but because you invested two ATPs, you got two 'new'/net ATPS.

I'll explain a few more concepts because I think I can do better than the textbooks if I do say so myself. (Especially the ones I got for school, mc graw hill ones.... like... ehhhhh it's so weirdly written. The book I read when I was little is called 'the way we work' gorgeous pictures and lots of metaphors, definitely one of the things that got me into biology, and helped me understand it.)

Adenosine triphosphate is basically a kitkat. Lots of energy stored within the last three phosphates on the side. (which slightly repel each other, so there's a lot of pent-up energy stored, which is why it takes all of cellular energy to make these, you have to go against the natural tendencies. The plus is that, like a kit kat, they are easy to break and release a lot of energy)

If you look at biochemistry, signal transduction pathway, transportation across the cell membrane, you use these phosphates (very negatively charged) to power EVERYTHING. Think of using an explosion to power your solar panels so you can make something. Like that. So when you do glycolysis, you're just adding those phosphates onto the ADPs to 'remake the Kitkat'/ put two negatively charged magnets together.

Basically, you're energy harvesting. The electrons hold energy, you take that energy from the glucose to give it to the NADH, your electron carrier.

HOwever, you can't do the electron transport chain. So now what do you do with the energy...

Discard it. You got two ATPs, and without oxygen, that's the best you're going to get. (Compared to around 38 ATPs with oxygen. Helpful little janitor.)

Essentially, you have pyruvate (the 3-carbon molecule you made from splitting glucose in half in glycolysis) and two NADHs that you need to turn back into NAD+ so you can do glycolysis again.

(IDk why I'm using second person now. By 'you' I mean the cell. ANd by the cell I mean I'm personifying, no one really 'wants' anything here. It just... happens.)

To do this, fermenting cells have this little trick, they basically give the electrons back to the pyruvates. Return them from whence they came. (apparently there's a good return policy)

If it's a muscle cell or yogurt or the likes, the NADHs give the energy/elections back to the pyruvate, which turns it into lactic acid.

If it's yeast, the NADHs give the energy/electrons back to one of the intermediate products of glycolysis. (I forget the name). This produces ethanol and CO2

So now you got your NAD+'s back. And you have two ATPs (net, four total). Not the... not the best but it's what you got.

OKIE DOKIE THAT'S IT. I RECCOMEND THE AEOMBA SISTERS IF YOU STILL NEED HELP /pos.

Favorite organelle

akldfjalskdfj tha's like askingg meee to chosee a favoritee ficitonall characterrrr.

..a jdflaskdfjaskdlfjaslkdfj

I can't pick favorites for anyythinggg.

LIke the ER does protein production, but the nucleus has the DNA and such, and of course we have the mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell they say), and the Golgi body post office and the lysosome slaughterhouses and the centrioles with their cytoskeleton and their miotic spindle.... you can't do this to me /pos.

kladsfjasdf ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM BECAUSE THE CELL MAKES PROTEINS THERE. kafjkaadlfkjaks AAAAA-

THank you for wishing me luck! I... I hope I don't ramble on the free response questions...or use metaphors... ha.

(also also, haven't really storyfied cellular respiration because...twas hard to storyfy. THey don't include the enzymes involved because it's too complicated. I tried my best!)

[light-end-dragon]

Chapter 10

Cain: Leonard.

Wandering Lament: …..

Cain: That’s your name, isn’t it? The name of the boy who fought up until  his very last breath.

Cain: You never gained your title; you never even arrived at the fort in the first place. But you still were a splendid, amazing,  courageous knight.

Wandering Lament: …!

Slowly, the area around the spirit's eyes started peeling and flaking away, until eventually, the entire twisted body faded.

A clean bright light began to shine forth, from which its true form emerged. 

It had only taken that instant for me to see now the soul of a young man with a sword in his hand.

He was earnest and brave, and his expression bore his strong will; he looked just like Cain when he was fighting a powerful opponent.

Suddenly he looked away from Cain, like he’d just remembered something. I followed his line of sight, which landed on the men we had tied up earlier.

I thought he’d been looking for the ones who killed him, but I couldn’t have been more wrong.

He was looking for his younger brother.

Leonard: ….Roddie…..

Leonard: Oh, you were safe. Thank God……

His serious expression softened.

Like he’d reached the end of a war that had gone on far too long.

Roddie: L-Leo……..Leonard….

(Sound of wind blowing by.)

A warm breeze gently trailed by us in the night.

His spirit then vanished without a sound, almost as if scattered by the wind.

His smile told me he was satisfied.

(Sound of water dripping.)

Tears once again fell from Cain and Bradley’s eyes, but this time they were clear.

Bradley: …That wanderin’ spirit’s gone. Curse’s all gone too.

Cain: Yeah.

Cain:  Leonard finally reached the place he was meant to be.

-----------------------------:･ﾟ✧:･.☽˚｡･ﾟ✧:･------------------------------

A few days later.

After returning to the Sage’s Manor, explaining ourselves to all the worried wizards, apologizing for making them worried, apologizing again, then getting fussed over-

Akira: (Cain said to come over to his room, since he was holding us all a ‘closing’ party, but….did I come too early?)

(Sound of a knock on the door.)

Akira: Cain? It’s me, Akira. Is it okay to come in? I’m sorry if I’m too earl-

Cain: Akira? ……Aaah-no, don’t! 

(Sound of chaos and clothes rustling. A lot of clothes rustling.) 

Bradley: Snrk-ahahah!!

Akira: Are-are you okay?! I’m-I’m coming in, okay??

(Sound of the door opening.)

Cain: Master Sage! You came in……it sounds like you are…you’re already in, aren’t you? 

Bradley: Ahaha…..yo, Sage-get a load of this. Comedy gold!

Akira: (.....What is even going on here?)

The first thing my eyes landed on was the gigantic amount of clothes scattered on the floor, all in front of the closet.

The second was Cain standing in the middle of this, looking absolutely mortified. He’d gotten caught up in whatever this was; a pair of his pants and one of his shirts were hanging off his head.

And third was Bradley, sprawled out like he owned the place, wiping away tears from laughing so hard.

His hand carried yet another glass of alcohol.

Cain: I-um….uh, my bad for. Uh. Not havin’ the place cleaned up.

Akira: No, no, it’s fine! But…um, what exactly happened here….?

Cain: Well…I thought I’d get rid of all the clothes I didn’t wanna fold before you and Arthur came around, but….

Cain: Basically, I tried usin’ magic to put them all in my closet, but they didn’t fit. So they just kinda….boom, all over the floor.

Bradley: You should’a seen his face when the door fuckin’ burst! I’ll be rememberin’ that one for ages.

Akira: I-I see…that would be difficult to deal with, huh….Oh. Um, Bradley, did you come early too?

Bradley: I’m just fuckin’ off so those old farts don’t keep harrassin’ me.

Bradley: “Bwaaadleeeeeeey, you’re so coooool~! Bwaaaaaaaaad, you’re such a good boy!~~~~

Bradley: You try havin’ that follow you ‘round 24/7. I swear I was gonna go deaf.

He leaned back against the sofa dramatically, looking back at Cain, who was jamming a coat into his closet.

Bradley: Man, you really got yer ass kicked by that thing, didn’t you?

Bradley:  Figaro an’ the twins normally let harmless spirits like that fuck off. An’ under normal circumstance, the thing’s pretty harmless.

Bradley: It doesn’t really bother anyone unless yer cursed, and most normal people wouldn’t be able t’ look it in the eye.

Bradley: But you just straight up stared it down. Do you have like, zero sense of danger?

Cain: Well, I did know it was dangerous. But the Sage and Arthur were there, so there was no way I was backin’ down.

Cain: Also, I know for you it was probably just like a whim, but….

Bradley: Yeah?

Cain: You knew the risk that spirit posed, and that you’d probably get cursed. But you still protected me.

(Sound of a door closing.)

Having put away the last bits of clothing, Cain shut the closet door.

Then turned and faced Bradley, honest and unwavering.

Cain: Why then? Why did you save me?

Bradley: ….

Instead of answering, Bradley just drained the rest of his glass with a large gulp.

(Sound of clothes rumpling.)

He put aside his now empty drink and stood up, walking over to Cain. He didn’t speak; instead, he just put an arm around Cain’s shoulders and pulled him close with a forceful jerk.

Bradley: Never mind that. What’s the best booze you got here? 

Cain: …..

For a moment, it seemed like Cain was going to say something; but in end, whatever it had been was left unsaid. 

Instead he returned Bradley’s gesture with a friendly smile.

Cain: Fine, fine; it’s that tall one over there, but I was plannin’ on savin’ it til Arthur and Faust came.

Cain: What about this beer instead? Faust isn’t into that kinda thing and it’s…probably a bit too early for Arthur to enjoy it. 

Cain picked up the bottle in his hand.

(Sound of magic being used.)

A cupboard door opened on its own, and 3 mugs came floating over.

Cain: Master Sage, do you wanna have a toast with us? I can take out the alcohol with magic.

Akira: If that’s fine by you, I’d love to!

(Sound of drinks being poured.)

Cain: Let’s do it again when Arthur and Faust get here, but for right now…

Bradley + Cain: Cheers!

The three mugs clinking together made a bright and sunny sound.

After we toasted, Cain then faced Bradley, and raised his drink.

Cain: Thank you.

Bradley: …

Bradley didn’t say anything in reply, but the corner of his mouth tipped up in a little smile.

In unison, the two of them knocked back their drinks. 

Akira: (Their beliefs and the way they think are so different, and they said they have a hard time seeing eye to eye. I don’t know if the two of them realize it, but….)

Bradley + Cain: ….Aah-so good!!

(Sound of glasses clinking down onto a table.)

In unison, they put their drinks down too.

Cain pointed at the white foam moustache that had formed on Bradley’s lip and laughed.

Bradley, in return, just reacted with fake anger and grabbed the Central wizard in a headlock, driving his fist against Cain’s temple. Cain reacted equally dramatically, trying to ‘escape’ this overbearing attack.

Akira: (I just hope the two of them can share their laughter like this in the future….)

(Sound of a door opening.)

Arthur: Cain.

Faust: Sorry to keep you waiting.

Cain: Oh, you’re here! We ain’t waitin’ at all-door’s open!

Bradley: You two’re slow! Get yer asses in here, we’re bringin’ out the good stuff!

The two of them both faced the door, while saying the completely opposite things.

However, when I looked at them like this, shoulder to shoulder, I couldn’t help but feel how much they resembled each other.

Like how even though day and night clashed, their opposing forces locked in battle across the sky; at dawn and at dusk the lights and colors softened, and they matched up perfectly.

fin

[weebsh-t]

Wh. Why does white Ichigo have lipstick. This is weirding me out.

Ok the epic music sting (those high pitched repeated beats) is cool but also getting a BIT old. I hope the usage of it becomes more sparing later on. It's a bit too simplistic to be being used SO much.

Why is Hollowchigo southern. Pardner? Also I see how this will improve Ichigo as a fighter but not how it will heal the impalement wound Jiraiya gave him?

I do really like this inner world, it's very pretty.

Someone DEFINITELY ships Ichigo with Zangetsu. But fr, why is Zangetsu so attractive. Wtf HAHA.

LOL Hollowchigo is actually super chill.

Ooh.... spoopy.

NOT MORE RAIN METAPHORS. MAKE IT STOP. 'I wonder if you can understand the fear of being rained on' THIS IS WORSE THAN ORIHIMES 'I WISH I WAS A RAINDROP SO I COULD TOUCH YOU'

Zangetsu cured his heart being impaled. OP sword. God I do not like that gremlin pink child.

HOW HAS THE BLEEDING STOPPED. HOW DOES THIS WORK. Ok i LOVE this musi-COOOOOL!!! Ichigo slashing Jiraiya (i'll learn his name eventually I am so sorry) across the arm so quickly was a rad moment. Also, BLOOD!

Bro self-reflected with a version of himself in lipstick and is now twice as strong. Queer experience.

Ichigo is like 17 man. I don't think he's ready to LOOOVE DEATH.

Yay the fruity Egyptian dudes! Why the FUCK is the fruitier one afro-d up. But huh I figured they'd be utterly irrelevant after their last appearances. Jesus Jiraiya you're scaring me.

God I DO NOT LIKE this pink child.

Oooooh the look with the eyepatch off is cool, I do like the glowing of the soul powers.

Zangetsu why are you so SEXY 🤨

Ichigo pulling more soul power out of his ass. Or rather, Zangetsu's ass.

Hey that big soul projection was shaped like Ichigo's hollow mask thing. I saw that. Oh good grief they levelled the area.

Well shit rip Ichigo

[starmapz]

hiiii there omg hope youre doing well <3

sorry im so awkward i havent sent an ask to an author in so long bc i hardly get a chance to read fics but i started reading “shame on me” (been at the top of my tbr for so long i was so intrigued reading the summary) and ch1 was SO GOOD!!! i just had some thoughts hope u dont mind me sharing 👉🏼👈🏼

“You could only hope the dread you felt in that moment as your father’s presence faded, to be replaced only by memories, wasn’t a feeling the young boy would experience at such a young age.”

likeeee this being said and then the little kid losing his mom over reader’s accidental activation of miriko curse was CRAAAAZY i literally gasped

the dragon scene curse intro was so good it was like straight out of a movie. the i am death and you are my vessel was OUF. you could write screenplay fr, it was like beautifully directed? idk if that makes sense in the form of writing haha but the creativity of the dragon on the boat! stunning

the part where she debates throwing herself outta the vehicle to escape gojo was so funny to me 😂😂 that would be me fr. im like sir im sorry idk what to do w alla you. im outta here

your gojo is sooooo omg he is SO CANON im screaming. i feel like im IN the show im alr so down bad for him. i love canon au fics bc like him w the blindfold n the tracksuit vibes like ughhh its sexy. also when he said “spacing out at a time like this?” you def nailed it his casual confidence that borders on arrogance, rather than just displaying him as one dimensionally cocky👌🏼 his interest in reader is also so canon bc he lives n breathes scoping our sorcerers of all kinds. also. idk. the scene where he was interrogating miriko. i love his dialogue, he’s so hot. LOVE

i like the subtle detail of miriko’s emotions mixing w readers thats so cool. also “The dragon’s scales shone in the dimly lit cave as the familiar lapping of souls against the wooden ship broke the silence of the air.” WWOOAAAHH THATS SO FREAKING COOOOOL the domain descriptions were chillinngggg. the idea of a grim reaper curse is so cool that’s honestly cooler than gojo’s cursed technique imp

the vulnerability that gojo showed at the end w suguru 💔💔 but i can imagine that mustve meant soooo much to him and like also canon gojo wanted to give suguru a proper burial and passing so like reader helping put him to rest kinda healed a part of me ngl

omg love it!! im so excited to read more <3

hiiiii ellie!! i'm doing great, i hope you are too <3

omg pls don't apologize, i'm super awkward but i promise this isn't awkward at all, this is like the sweetest message ever and made me smile so much?? 😭 you're such an angel omg of COURSE i don't mind <3

idk if other authors do this but i pre-wrote that scene in my head like 30 times before finally committing it to a page so seeing that you gasped is like the biggest compliment ever <3 😭

i'm so glad to hear you like everything with miriko 🥹 the amount of time i spent planning the details surrounding her is unreal, that doc is such a mess with how much i needed to go back to it oof- anyway the point is seeing you say i could write a screenplay? that's like the sweetest compliment ever THANK YOU <3

PFF i'm glad we're on the same page with jumping out of a moving car at the sight of gojo 😂

AWH thank you so much, i tried SO hard to get his personality as canon as i felt i could given that i was going for canon au so that genuinely means the world, it's definitely the part of my writing that i doubt the most (writing smut still intimidates me though) so i'm SUPER glad he comes across like i intended because like damn i love an arrogant canon gojo and i needed to make him HOT 👀

idk why but curse/cursed technique ideas seem to live in my head rent free and i absolutely ADORED the idea of making like a benevolent grim reaper and basing it off the river styx, it means the world to hear you think it's cool 😭

UGH ikr that part hurt to write, i just wanted to give them both like a real, proper send off god i love them fr they deserve to be happy

my turn to actually be awkward im sorry omg- THANK YOU so much for reading, it means the world, i like put my life on pause to read whenever you update i absolutely love the way you write and i love how fun and also HOT you write the jjk men UGH ihm gojo has a hold on me like you wouldn't believe 👀 kickoff is quite literally the inspiration behind me wanting to get back into writing (and eventually actually posting) because i just adore your writing sm

i hope you're doing well, stay safe and healthy <3

[stellaralignment]

guitar distortion/metal distortion info dump :3

one tool guitarists use for creating distortion for metal is guitar pedals, small boxes you place between the guitar and amplifier to create various effects, Boss, a division of the Roland corporation, are famous for their iconic and historic pedals like the DS-1 distortion, the CE-2 chorus pedal, and various others.

Boss started making a pedal in 1983 called the HM-2, which at the time only had moderate success and was discontinued in 1991, however it was discovered that while the pedal wasn't popular in most countries, in sweden the pedal was used extensively by various swedish death metal bands, who would have the pedal's controls maxed out and created a unique 'grinding' guitar tone as seen in tracks like Left Hand Path by Entombed, and thus the pedal was given the nickname the Swedish Death Metal Chainsaw

the pedal became a huge hit after At The Gates released the album Slaughter of the Soul which used the pedal, however Boss wouldn't reissue the pedal for people that wanted it, leaving the only options being to either track down preowned pedals or using pedals specifically made to copy the sound of the pedal called 'hm-2 clones' such as the TC Electronic Eyemaster or the Wurm by KMA Machines

it wasn't until 2020 that boss finally reissued the hm-2 as part of their Waza Craft series, giving it modifications like a setting to decrease the low eq frequency focus for the low setting to get a better tone from guitars being played in lower tunings than standard E

i have a wurm pedal, specifically the Guardian of the Wurm pedal which has a built in noise gate because, as you can probably imagine, on max settings it gets really fucking loud and any hum becomes really noticeable

also in some set ups the high knob on max (or high mids for pedals with more eq settings) can sometimes cause self-oscillation, so without doing anything there will just be a really high-pitched screaming sound, but for some reason if i have specifically my boss distortion pedal before it there's no squeal and i can have it on max, idk

that's all i have, thank you for your time :3

pedals and pedal history. This is all so coooool!!! Thanks for sharing >w<

[onlyswan]

What does writing mean to you?

it’s something i can’t live without, comes naturally to me as breathing. when we talk verbally, sometimes there’s a defense mechanism. sometimes our tongue rises faster than we can grasp our thoughts. i am the most honest and most free when i write, and that’s when i feel closest to my heart and my soul :] my writing is also one of the very few things that can record a mark that lasts longer than my lifetime. i hope a thousand years from now someone can unearth one of my journals by accident and read about a day i spent wishing to never grow up or the first time i drew on a cake or maybe even the outline for one of my drabbles lol. that would be coooool

[covenofwives]

Hi coven!! I've had the realization that one of the factors that caused me to absolutely fall in love with your au (other than the fact that it's so well written and amazing) is that I used to have an obsession with Greek mythology as a kid ahfkbdksns and I LOVEDDDD the gods and goddesses I thought and even still think they're so coooool.

So!!! I wanted to ask about the other gods that exist in your world :D since it's been mentioned before both by you AND in fics that the god trio we follow are rather powerful gods compared to others, based on the fact that they each are a god of a Realm. Which means there are many other gods that exist and even some that XD has passed by while walking through the god world! Are they similar to Greek gods then? The ones that aren't powerful gods of a Realm? Are there gods of music, love, war, knowledge, ect? There's even a god of gods, Prime! Is kind of like their version of the Greek Zeus I'm assuming :D

Ik I'm comparing your au a bunch to other things I'm sorry 😭 I just love the comparison and love the world building so much to wanna know more about the godly world of your au ^_^

-emmadoodlewrites

I love this comparison so much because I do take a lot of inspiration from gods mythology. Specifically from greek, roman and celtic of course being the main ones. I honestly don't mind the comparisons at all.

But yes! There are many gods in the AU! I so badly want to write more about them and some with definitely be making appearances in some of the story but there are a LOT of Gods. Very similar to Greek Gods in that each God is the ruler of a thing, or maybe more. It could be a concept, like love or art or it could be something physical, like mobs or fire. I will give a few as examples of Gods, just because I will adore talking about them :D

Under the cut of course to not annoy people

Prime is very much Zeus inspired, being the God of Gods. They are as old as time, probably the first living thing that ever came and from them they created the Realms and let creatures grow and live from it. They are a very inactive God right now, keeping out of the living world and staying away from the Godly Realm too. Only XD knows where they are currently.

The Gods, Knowledge and Madness, are a sister brother duo. While they are Gods in their own right they are considered as lesser Gods with not much power. They currently reside in the End, keeping the End libraries safe.

Cridhe is the God of healing and currently lives her life as a statue at the Healing Pool in the End. She's a very close friend to XD, almost a mother or older sister to him. Dream and Drista have met her before but Dream doesn't remember her much.

Beldam is the God of the witches, though she is cursed at the moment to reside in the Nether and be cut off from her witches. She will absolutely be appearing the story later so won't say much, but I will say she and 4K have an interesting relationship to one another.

CovenTK (designed and made by @an-inkling-of) is the God of mobs and the moon. They are my good good child and I love them and they're canon. I want them to appear so badly in the AU, maybe they will but they got their own thing going and I'm always going to make more stuff with them.

The God of the Hunt is actually connected to CovenTK right now. They were actually punished by Prime thousands of years ago and were split into two souls. Now they are a timid wolf, named Chase, and a hot-headed deer, named Dash. They are both connected and cannot be separated and CovenTK has adopted them for now.

And there are many many more Gods I could go into but I will restrain myself here other wise this will be LONG. But yes, very much greek inspired. There are also tiers of Gods, like lesser gods being a thing and some Gods were made far later than other Gods (like Knowledge and Madness are one of the youngest Gods) and there's other creatures that don't count as Gods but could technically be compared to mortals. It is a whole crazy mess of powerful Gods.

Also some Gods have chosen to live on the Godly Realm, either giving up their God responsibilities or just choosing to live there and still being a God, but it doesn't have much effect on what they are a God of. If the God of love were to retire or, somehow, die then of course there would still be love. The God of witches is cut off from her witches but she is still considered their God and the witches are still around.

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Too the character ask game my dear Loo it’s burn in my soul 🌝

Nacht Faust „18‘19‘20

And Ida Faust „‚1“11

Have a good day my dear Loo🤭

Thank you, thank you for asking these questions, Marune~!

I see you're asking about a canon character and one of your own ocs! Not something I expected to happen from this ask game but hey! I'll definitely answer!

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Nacht Faust

18) How do you think they were as a kid? (Like, were they shy, noisy, wild, etc)

Canonically, Nacht has always been a troublemaker. Maybe not a straight up delinquent but I imagine him walking out of boring tutoring sessions and intentionally showing bad manners in front of guests that pissed him off. He'd use his Shadow Magic as a tripwire or use it to pick pockets. Nacht was likely a precocious smart-mouth too, catching onto subtle social cues and talking smack under the guise of gentlemanly banter. Small and ultimately petty things. He'd only up the ante as he grew older.

19) The most random ship you've seen people have with them

Nacht x Vanessa? It's two pretty people, I guess, but I don't see any chemistry between them, neither friendly (what I imagine for Nacht and Finral) nor antagonistic (Nacht and Zora). I dunno. The most I see happening between them is Nacht not being under the effects of the Red Thread of Fate spell for the longest time because Vanessa just isn't clicking with Nacht so the magic doesn't work on him. RIP.

20) A weird headcanon

Nacht's hair is eerily silky and smooth. Even when he was bleaching it and not putting extra effort into caring for it, it was only once in a blue moon that Nacht got a split end or knot. And bedheads? Non-existent to this man. Even Nacht can't explain why his hair of all things is so pristine.

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Ida Faust

1) My first impression of them

Initially, I was intrigued by Ida's profile. As well as confused and concerned. Her connection to the Faust family definitely meant I was immediately invested in how the Faust tragedy would effect her. I thought it was kinda wild that a 5-6 year old kid would run away from home (this was before you explained things in more detail). Reading Ida's profile for the first time was definitely a "oh I need to see where things go with this oc" impression/experience.

And now I'm very glad that I've seen you write and develop Ida. Cause now I really love her as Morgen and Nacht's sister (and Josele's sister-in-law 💖)!

11) What’s the first thing you think about when thinking about the character?

A fun, chaotic oc~! One of my favorite ocs for BC (not including my own, obviously).

Also, I keep on wanting to write a scenarios involving Ida interacting with Nacht and Josele's children but then my mind draws a blank and I feel so bad because I want to write something for you involving Ida but my brain isn't doing it and kjfjdfhais! 😭 Since I'm mentioning it now I might as well explain the ideas that I've had but have been unable to develop: -Sterling and Ida's first meeting -Dawn seeing Ida's black blood and being like "that's so coooool! I wanna bleed like that!" -Ida sneaking Sirius coffee candies since Nacht won't let his son drink coffee straight -Merel and Ida cuddling because ice skin Merel and fire skin Ida khfaisurht!