#its held together with duct tape

[icteridcorvid]

Okay I finally coded a jank ass navigation bar for the cotu desktop theme so now you can hopefully flip through it within tumblr

[deconstructivesurgery]

elder scrolls fans are insane in the way of who else would take a background quest character in an MMORPG and have an entire perception of him as a really in-depth character and then also craft in intricate detail the weird on-and-off again relationship he'd have with one of your OCs who is thoroughly unpredictable and devoted to a mad god that will almost certainly never acknowledge his worship whatsoever because it's funnier

[pourablecat]

SPACE COVEN SPACE COVEN

[t4t4tclethian]

hitman joel x businessman (? not sure about this one but its what ive got) xb where joel was originally hired to kill xb but then xb kept wiggling his way out of every single attempt. and then joel's contract expires but he still keeps trying to kill xb because he wants to finish the job and he has a reputation to uphold here! who's going to hire a hitman who comically fails in every attempt to kill this one guy? and then he tries to befriend xb in disguise to figure out this guy's weaknesses. (xb knows the whole time but is extremely paranoid anyways and kinda wants to see where joel's going with this).

(featuring grian and the rest of the magic mountain gang as joel's hitman friends who bully him mercilessly, keralis as. well i feel like you can't write xb without a keralis. and hypno as xb's necromancer friend who raises him from the dead the few times joel actually Does manage to poison him or whatever)

[teethburger]

quick reminder that every time you post something tagged with “punk diy”, a random baby punk somewhere in the world gains a new chaotic craft idea

[al-luviec]

Here is lady pics from when I was MIA

[s4tvrnsays]

You know, I've always thought that Cigognelle would be the aggressive one in the superhero trio, despite my original au post saying that Chat Noir is the "trouble" in the group. When I noticed this inconsistency, my first thought was to change it, but then it made me think a little bit about that sort of dynamic. A few tweaks were needed, but eventually, an idea formed.

What if that's what makes Cigognelle and Chat dislike each other? What if that's what makes them different?

Maybe Chat Noir doesn't like how disruptive Cigognelle is to their superhero image with her awful character and is annoyed when she constantly says what's on her mind, even when it's to the detriment of others.

She yells at reporters when they're just asking questions, pushes people away when they get close, and insults akumas as if there isn't a camera crew hundreds of feet up in the air, recording their every move for thousands to see. Can't she see their eyes watching them? Doesn't she feel pressured under their heavy gaze? It's so simple and easy to smile in front of them and tell a lie; why can't she just tell a lie?

Cigognelle is unnerved by Chat, him, and his strange ability to flip personas in a switch. One moment, he's charming and charismatic, and the other, he's ruthless, throwing his cataclysm without any regard for consequences.

Perhaps it's his deceit that she hates, the way he gets on her ass for not being nice yet he barely restrains himself from pulling whoever annoys him into a black hole.

He always does that, she noticed. He hides behind his sharp smiles and laughs, then finds a place to "let it out" in whichever way he sees fit. Sometimes, she finds him listening to music, but it's usually just aggression. He'd throw a cataclysm at a dumpster and stare as it dissipates, or he'd send a black hole on the ground to pull in a thug just to watch him struggle.

Cigognelle knows Chat is a fake; he’s nothing but a carefully constructed persona. It gives a sort of uncanny valley effect in her mind.

Her powers crave honesty, and Chat is the furthest thing from it. She may be aggressive, but Chat was volatile.

Cigognelle doesn't know if this will ever become an issue in the future, but she's keeping an eye on him. Fu gave her a duty to protect, and she won't let that cat ruin this for her.

But whatever he happens to do in the future, she isn't too worried about not being able to stop him. She's always watching.

[nyoxt]

@ygtahoy that's the first part to your biiiiig ask, I’ll just divide my answers between characters, because ooooh you threw at me so many questions, and the post would be gigantic (it's already ssooo long) :D Thaaanks!!! (eugh I wanted to sprinkle the texts with sketches, but sketches are not happening due to arteblock, and I don’t want it to take a year or smth to answer, so I’ll sprinkle some sketches once I’m out of the pit😔) For Ram: (tw suicidal ideations for one of the answers down below)

[3]What emotion is the hardest for them to deal with?

Anger! Ram generally tends to swallow and bottle up all the negative emotions, but anger especially so. Mostly because he's terrified of his own anger (not without a reason I guess-he's wildly aware that he can hurt people around him easily if he's not careful; and he has done quite a lot of people-hurting in prison, where he didn't hold himself back in any way) and refuse to even acknowledge its existence.

So Ram's way of dealing with anger is – to push it down and bottle up-> continue 'till the maximum pressure is reached-> then bottle up s'more->explode->scare himself shitless with the result and/or his own reactions->feel immense guilt/shame->swear to never be like that again-> rinse, repeat.

Surprisingly, Duncan can see through Ram's cheerful performances with ease, because that's one of the things that Didn't Change At All since they first met. Also Duncan is probably the only person Ram trusts enough to show at least some anger. Which led the rest of the group to conclusion that they hate each other's' guts,while them getting all heated and snappy was the sign of mutual trust and freedom to express themselves without the fear of being rejected for “bad” emotions. I like to think that Duncan tried to nudge Ram towards some healthy/er ways to vent his frustrations- like taking him to some junkyard to just break some things (just to be met with “Break stuff?? Why?! What's fun in that??? Angry? Who's angry? I don't have any anger issues at all! :) “

[17] What is their biggest struggle that no one around is able to understand or believe?

Augh that's a tough question because I've never thought about it heh. Probably that Ram actually struggles to open up to people and maintain deep connections which are as beneficial for him as for the others. That might be hard to believe because he's always the heart of the company, everyones' bestie, can befriend even a rock, always there to help, to listen, to be the shoulder to cry or to lean on etc etc. And despite talking and asking people about themselves and their wellbeing a lot, he tells very little about himself and somehow manages to be very secretive.

[55] How long does it take for them to make a new place feel like home, and what do they need for it?

Unknown amount of time- he doesn't really remember how “home” is supposed to feel, and what to do to make “a place you have to live in” into one; and treats every place he stays at as temporary, however nice it is. (there are also some unhealthy attachments to some toxic places that are at play). The fact that he has very little possessions doesn’t help either. He started to experience somewhat “homey” feelings towards the Kraken and Heoi, but he didn't understand it until he moved again and got hit with the realization that he lost something very important.

Desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

To never ever be alone again! In all possible meanings! He may not do absolutely anything for that, but make some big sacrifices or cut off parts of himself? Sure! He’s not open about it, but leave him in a room by himself for a few hours and it’ll be crystal clear. As for why is he closed a)It’s not a fully realized desire and b) it’s not something that could be achieved alone (ha!), and god forbid telling people that you’d like to take some space in their lives, what if they’ll reject you after that😱?!? 

is now a good occasion to mention that you can absolutely obliterate him with silent treatment? tee hee))

Future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

Within the frames of HK story the worst future for Ram would be succumbing to the siren’s call of one particular teethy entity, killing his friends and family along the way and being remodeled into teethy-monster-slave, which was happily avoided.

aaaaand after the HK plot…welll…………originally my intention was that after a few years past HK, back to Seattle he’d either kill himself or do something so stupidly dangerous that he’d get no chance of surviving. Because once he’ll get out of survival mode and get even a semblance of being safe- all his past traumas gotta catch up to him and rip him asunder. (and because the tragedy of characters tearing themselves apart to help family-friends-friendly acquaintances while failing miserably to heal and to find their place and to fix their own life, while never getting the same help/attention from family-friends-friendly acquaintances- is was cathartic for me). But then I sketched Ram being older, and thought “woah, I kinda dig this design! Well, to get to this state, he needs to survive the horrible goop state, huh”. Soooo he was saved from me by me getting a neat redesign :D

Secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

Mmmmm, perhaps it's not a secret, more like…Ram is trying pretty hard to conceal his in-prison shenanigans. And the kind of guy he made himself into in there. Like, he was obsessed with only one goal- to get out, no matter what. And for that goal he didn't hold back any of his worst impulses, and was 100% aggressive, and didn’t shy away from betraying and framing ppl and was overall an awful person. Complete 180° turn from his usual personality. And yeeeah, it was out of extreme desperation, but still- that’s a source of a great shame and guilt and embarrassment for him, so noooo, shhhh, no talking abt that :)

[almond-tofu-chan]

@staff get this diamond off my fucking dash

[circusofshrimps]

chuuya the type of guy to look danger right in the eye challenge it to a fight and WIN . then turn around and vomit bc holy shit he was terrified

[blasphemous-lies-and-deceit]

It's finally time. This laptop that I've been using for years- I don't even know how long, it was old when Covid hit- is finally going to be replaced.

Which means I'm going to be very very anxious for the next two days

[gemharvest]

Why the fuck did that display weird on desktop at first.

[a-continuous-cutting-motion]

So are tags just fucking jacked up on this site? Like they functionally don’t work properly for finding content?

[lupismaris]

It has turned into an incredibly long, devastatingly exhausting week (if you are my friend or partner and I have not communicated with you or our time together has been trash i apologize) and it is only Thursday so i decided to order my high maintenance high taco bell meal as my work lunch with the modification of adding an extra large mountain dew Baja blast so i can make it through the fuckin day.

This will either be a stroke of genius or a devastating mistake

[zoro5743452]

Getting flak for putting huge boulders in the cabin again .

[mechahero]

//Because this stupid dumb site ate my post