#its basically canon already

[my-critical-rolemance]

the thing that gets me about john and mina is that not only would johnathan still love mina if she was a worm, he would fucking kill for that worm. he would spend his life savings building a worm paradise for worm mina. he would go to court to get full citizenship rights for worm mina. he would buy worm mina a worm sized typewriter so she could continue to write her diary. he would do anything for mina if she turned into a worm. you understand this.

[towerofluin]

C’mon Raph, don’t noogie the elderly

(Or: finally, communication)

[ato-dato]

What's your favorite headcanon of ineffable husbands??

I do love the idea of Crowley having terrible eyesight but never telling anyone about it, to be honest.

[puppppppppy]

tw flashing images, implied death

please for the love of god reblog this, it took me 3 days

[charswithbatsmybeloved]

Hi can you imagine

Charles in season 2 (yes it's not going to happen but bear with me) is approached and offered heaven. Straight up. No uncertainty of "you might be given a tranquil eternity", no what-ifs about it. He's told "you are going to heaven if you move on. You will find eternal happiness." And he freaks out. He says "I'm going to heaven?" Because he can't imagine, with all of his anger in him, that he'd ever deserve that. Life hasn't ever been fair to him. It keeps taking everything he loves. Even his afterlife isn't fair to him.

But there it is. A guarantee. He was a good person. Now he can go to heaven. Despite everything he's done, he's earned eternal freedom. And there's Edwin, a foot away, maybe less. And he says, "Charles, you're going. I won't let you stay behind." And Charles can only stare. "What do you mean?" "I won't let you give this up for me, Charles. Heaven is waiting for you. Please, take it."

And Charles hesitates. Because he's never wanted an afterlife without Edwin in it. He can't imagine it. But it's so easy to be convicted when you can't see the other option. For Charles, he's always had a 'what-if'. He's never known what moving on really means for him.

Heaven vs earth should be an easy decision. And it is. Charles always knew what he was going to pick. He picks Edwin every time. "Charles, why do you keep giving things up for me? Please. Why wouldn't you go? How could you do something like this?"

"Because there's no heaven without you in it. Because I won't go anywhere you can't. Mate, it's not even a contest." Nothing else matters to Charles but Edwin. And he'll still choose Edwin every time. Over and over again. Because loving each other means choosing each other over and over and over again and Charles is built to love him, more than anything else in the world.

[serpentface]

Do psychotropic drugs and/or ritual play a role in any of the blightseed cultures? A pretty broad question, lol

Yeah that’s a very broad question, the answer is about as much as it tends to play roles in real history. Alcohol is pretty ubiquitous (outside of cultures that abstain from intoxicants) and used for a variety of purposes, opioids are commonly used in some parts for pain relief or recreational purposes, stimulants (usually in mild, natural forms) are used to provide extra energy, and hallucinogens are most commonly used as part of a larger religious framework (rather than for recreational purposes). Any more elaborate answer kinda has to be case by case in a certain culture or part of the setting.

I'll just take this as an opportunity to talk about the one established sect that pretty much REVOLVES around psychoactive use. This is the Scholarly Order of the Root, which is a sort of mystery religion + elite community of scholars who currently occupy the Ur-Tree and its forest in the far southern Lowlands (southeast of Imperial Wardin, on the same land mass).

The Ur-Tree is the obligatory Huge Fucking Fantasy Tree (and its surrounding forest). It’s a mass of vegetation about a mile tall and almost as old as Plant Life Itself, its upper branches are primeval plants, which become more modern the nearer they get to the ground (and each 'level' holds tiny ecosystems, some containing descendants of LONG-extinct arthropods/other small animals). Its lowest branches and the surrounding forest are contemporary plant life, and all is connected and protected by an incomparably MASSIVE fungal mycelium network (which is itself a living god).

A lot of the Scholars' more secretive practices revolve around experimentation with substance use with the goal of expanding the Mind and transcending the body to fully connect to the Dreamlands, and they have a supply chain of traders and mercenaries called Rootrunners who traffic substances into the Lowlands. Most of their psychoactive use is in a very intentional capacity and not just like, for fun, but a LOT of them are just straight up addicted to cocaine (in the form of alchemically refined bruljenum, which is used for practical purposes of its stimulant effect during long hours of work).

All known psychoactives are desirable for experimentation (particularly hallucinogens), with each having properties that either allow expansion of the Mind, transcendence of the body, or outright divine communion. Their effects are logged in great detail and interpreted to form the basis of the Scholars' understanding of the natural world and reality itself.

The most important substance is Ur-Root, which is root matter from subterranean levels of the Ur-Tree that have both their own intrinsic psychoactive substances and a very, very high concentration of living god mycelium. The tree root contains DMT and the mycelium has its own wholly unique effects (being an actual living god). They alchemically refine it into a purer, more potent form, and use it to expand beyond the body and directly commune with the Giants, a group of entities they have identified as the only true gods.

An Ur-Root trip starts off with minor visual distortion, which turns into shifting fractals that slowly obscure the vision. Eventually the senses are entirely taken over by a 'tunnel' of rapidly shifting fractals and geometries. In a complete trip, the experiencer gets a sense that they have been pushed through a membrane and entered another realm, finding themselves in a distinct experiential Space.

At this point they may encounter entities which communicate to them in a language impossible to describe but wholly understood. These beings are understood to be the Giants, or at least aspects of the Giants that mortals are capable of comprehending (they often take familiar tutelary forms of the Mantis or the Snake, or appear resembling the same type of sophont that the experiencer is, all composed of ever-shifting geometries). The experiencer often feels a sense of unconditional and endless love from these beings, though the Giants may be more hostile and may appear in the form of the Trickster (usually a cultural figure regarded as malicious, be it an animal or otherwise) in a bad trip.

(^Up until this point, this has mostly just been a DMT 'breakthrough' experience ft. 'machine elves' and the like).

They are then removed from this space and returned to something that feels like the real world, but is nearly unrecognizable. They have a sense of rapidly moving through time, and will usually see 'the spires' towards the beginning, which just so happen to look like this:

(source + some context via Implication- the spires are exactly what this art is depicting)

The experiencer continues to move across an unfathomable amount of time, occasionally 'seeing' other such flashes of unfamiliar landscapes and creatures, and yet also being devoid of all their senses, the 'seeing' is pure, unfiltered experience. There is a sense of interconnectedness with all life, and that one has become the forest (or even Life) itself. The sense of time is wildly distorted, the trip lasts only about 5 minutes but feels like an eternity and is understood as literal hundreds of millions of years.

The experiencer has usually lost any remaining sense of Self and individual consciousness during this phase (in which case this time distortion is usually a neutral or even peaceful experience), but some retain a fraction of their identity, and find themselves trapped and conscious while experiencing what feels like eternity (which can be LIFE-CHANGINGLY distressing, even after the fact).

(^This latter part of the trip is the effects of the Ur-Tree fungus).

The trip ends with a sense of rushing through the ground and back up into one's body, at which point they will abruptly return to their senses and consciousness. The details are then immediately retrieved via interview and recorded in immense detail. The whole experience is understood as having been full comprehension of the Dreamlands, communion with the Giants, and then a tour through the act of creation.

This is done as part of the initiatory practice into the inner mystery-religion of the scholars, and as needed for study by high scholar-priests. It is not taken lightly, both as it is absolute communion with the gods and reality, and in that it can be a very, very difficult experience. People who have gone through this often walk away with a permanently shifted perspective, often in a positive and/or comforting way- a sense of interconnectedness with all life, a peace with the concept of death, seeing less of a point in individual ego and the concept of Self, and comfort in the sense of divine love they (may have) experienced. This heavily influences the philosophy of the Scholars and has had effects by proxy in the religious worldviews of the region.

Details of this experience are closely guarded, and initiates are given absolutely no prior knowledge and expectations for their trip. This is seen as a necessity- their naivety will allow for a true, unfiltered experience, and can be used to gauge whether they should or should not be accepted. Those that have a distinctly bad trip upon initiation may be assumed to have been 'rejected' by the giants and thus denied full priesthood, though this largely depends on How they interpret their distressing trip- those who identify this as a test and harsh lesson in a journey to enlightenment may be accepted (as this is how fully initiated scholar-priests interpret and handle their bad trips).

This inner priesthood is only a small fraction of the Scholarly Order, and its greater function is as a hub of education and repository of knowledge, and Scholar-trained doctors can provide some of the best medical care available in the setting ('best medical care in this setting' only means so much but it's pretty solid, relatively speaking). Only a chosen few Scholars ever get to commune with the Ur-Root, and most of the divine secrets revealed in the process are kept hidden (though they indirectly influence the politics and worldview of the entire order).

[p4nishers]

love ships where its like the silliest person alive and their special little meow meow the guard dog

[orionsangel86]

I'm so sorry people are being stupid in your inbox. Here's some dumb sandman content to balance it out.

Imagine everything is the same but the inhabitants of the Dreaming can only wear sleep related clothing. Dream being broody and dramatics in fluffy sheep pajamas, lucienne tidying the stacks wearing those soft velvet sleeping gown, matthew flying around with a little night cap with pompoms. And this rule still applies when any of them visit the waking world. No normal outside clothes, sleepwear only

Thank you!

Omg I love this. Dreaming rules: mandatory uniforms for all staff, residents, and visitors. Everyone to wear sleepwear at all times.

This is hilarious but now we have to decide exactly what sleepwear each character would wear. These are my choices:

Lucienne (a classy lady with high standards):

Merv Pumpkinhead (no fuss classic):

Cain and Abel (old fashioned Victorian Nightgowns):

Death whenever she comes to visit (though she grumbles about having to change):

Nuala (basically what she wears anyway):

Delirium (assorted novelty onesies each time she visits):

Hob *ahem* 👀:

And of course, Dream:

[triglycercule]

swapinverse posting rn,,,,, (WAKE UP UNTITLED29876011111 MY LISTENER I KNOW YOU GET NO SLEEP BUT SWAPINVERSE CRUMBS SWAPINVERSE CRUMBS PSPSPSPSPPSPSPS)

anyways currently reworking savior and godDAMN is he soooo,,,,,,, my boy i love my boy. why does he literally combine the melancholic vibe of dust and then whatever the hell killer's got going on in his lore. hes literally so sad and emo and depressed but also has a perfect amount of i-dont-care-ness and built in commands,,,,,, hes so PERFECT my vision of this modernized savior is soooo amazing,,,,, none of you will be ready trust (hyping myself up over nothing)

i think its because i'm finally starting to THINK about my character's,,,,,,, characters?????? like before they were just concepts. i think. like just IDEAS and now especially for savior i'm starting to actually analyze his character and see where things go from there,,,, its sooooo fun i love this sosososos much,,,, now let's see if this streak of analysis will carry on for the 2 i still need to finish finish (crash and vice.SER my glitchy fuckass sons)

google what is the symbolic representation for ribbons and ribbon dancing and silk acrobatics. google ANSWER ME

[robo-bozo7125]

can we make stanley (of the stanley parable) objectum for the computer in his office please. *remembers the bucket exists* can we make stanley objectum for his computer AND the bucket please

[ailius-suffers-through-art]

Half-asleep brain strikes once again.

(Set in the middle of unwound future. Think that one official art with Clive holding the wrapped rose. Its Clive trying to teach Luke how to do that.)

[Image description: Clive is teaching Luke how to wrap a rose. Luke says "Thanks, Dad!" while smiling, then proceeds to realize that he just called what he knows to be his future self, his dad. Clive is looking at Luke while having A Moment™ because he has many parental issues, is entirely unprepared to be a father figure, and is about to try and level London. He says "ah". Clive then has an early life crisis while Luke hides behind his hat in embarrassment. End Description]

[satorugojoswiife]

idk sometimes seeing all the hate gege gets makes me sad. :( like I know alot of it is jokes/memes, but there are some people that are very serious and weird about it

[apocalympdicks]

Someone literally complained that someone MIGHT make Patrick Bateman like men in a new movie.

Hate to break it to you bestie, but he's been gay the whole fucking time.

[squarebracketsmileyface]

Thinking about Jam again and how angsty I can make the next fic after My Girl

Found this on a discord server I'm on lol and immediately went "me and the urge to make angst as angsty as possible"

[puhpandas]

thinking abt the ggy easter eggs rn

[onedivinemisfit]

Camboy AU profiles - Mitsuhide and Kiki