#karass

[coffee1suicide0]

To conform or not, there's your answer

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Lurking in the nowhere of solitude

[sullimichi]

Arina // Karass

Arina, when she was still in human and her reincarnated form as an ant, with the name the Queen had chosen for him, Karass.

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I’m going to be very busy come March with Fanfics (and starting my very first no spending month) so…

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That’s exactly what I’m tryin so hard to achieve!

my favourite type of fan fictions are like. Slightly canon divergent. Like everything is the same but we fix this one annoying detail you can’t stand and let it butterfly effect the whole story.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

FOR THE LOVE OF VINTAGE SIGNS AND THE CLASSIC AMERICAN DINER ESTABLISHMENT.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on quintessential mid-century Americana -- a vintage sign advertising a dining establishment named Mr. Karass' Charbroiled Steaks, Chops, Chicken, Burgers, & Breakfast Special, unknown state & city, USA, undated.

Source: http://bummercalifornia.com.

[asurrogateblog]

I can totally see why kurt vonnegut is roger’s favorite author. one of the major themes in his works (besides the obviously relevant anti-war commentary) is inevitability. I’ve joked to myself when learning pink floyd lore that it feels like the wall had to happen. there was such an absurd confluence of events that either led up to its inspiration or accidentally foreshadowed it that it makes the wall feels, well, inevitable. and this was only ever like 50% serious, but now that I’ve been reading vonnegut, I am so sure that roger has also noticed and thought about it obsessively. no wonder he’s read all of his books multiple times over, he probably thinks he’s the main character in one of them

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It’s what I’m trying to do right now

when u come up with a tiny change for your story that not only makes the writing flow better but also hammers in the character motivations and story theme

[gameclam4]

plural vonnegut reader who calls their system a karass

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Six Sentence Sunday (Karass Edition)

Heavy fog and a chilling breeze crept with the stealth of a domestic feline.

“How long has it been?”

“Welcome to Duckburg University!”

Outside a quaint and peaceful sidewalk coffee place…

“Directors.” Was the Austere magpie’s response.

Down a pitch black and narrow corridor…

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My AU for The Owl House is Canon Compliant (and ends up being divergent)

My AU for Randy Cunningham 9th grad ninja is me gripping Canon’s hand in a strong handshake and patting its back

My AU for Disenchanted is me using Thanos’ infinity gauntlet and snapping Canon into dust.

My AU for Ducktales is… me abandoning Canon on the closest curb I pass by.

My AU for Arslan Senki is a love letter to canon.

My AU for FMAB is a friendly banter with canon.

My AU for Naruto is a strongly worded complaint letter to canon.

My AU for YuuMori is... me attempting to set canon on fire.

[goodluckclove]

Okay Clove. I've seen a lot of little snippets from Blind Trust and I rock with your writing style a ton. But what's the book actually about?? Something with magic in a contemporary setting ? Hot dogs are somehow involved ??

Geets, it's me, the person who never learned how to properly pitch their own writing! I'll give it a shot anyway. I have a pinned post on my blog that has the fancy synopsis I'll probably put on the back of the book, but I'm fresh from a nap and on my phone and Feeling Frisky so I'll try and take it a different way.

What is Blind Trust about?

Blind Trust is book one of the Songbird Elegies, and it takes place in a contemporary world where magic exists but isn't great. It's not bad in a cool, The Witcher sort of way. Most people only know about magic through The Academy, where anyone can enlist and learn how to tap into the source of magic itself. Which sounds cool until you consider the physical strain of even a minor spell, the fact that major spells can take massive amounts for studying and practice and still aren't that powerful, and how carrying a wand on your person at all times is not easy to do without looking and feeling like a dipshit. Essentially, the average Academic Witch is like an arrogant MFA student or so someone really into craft beer.

But then there is a certain, little-studied medical anomaly that creates birthrights, which are individuals born already tapped into the source of magic by design. They each have a single ability that they can do without a wand (or wand-shaped proxy), but it's nothing innately combative and is mainly used to help interact with society at large. This is because the Birthright Gene is seen exclusively in individuals who are either born with a severe hereditary, genetic, or developmental disability, or will develop one over the course of their life but I'm not supposed to talk about that yet.

Birthrights are often found in a few scattered witch towns, where they use their abilities to focus on social work and community outreach. People also call them genetic witches, but you'd be hard-pressed to get a birthright to call themselves a witch at all. They don't value magic at all in the same way Academics do, and primarily see their "gift" as a chronic illness to manage and accommodate for.

Birthrights and Academics have varying relationships depending on where you are and who you ask but I can't really get into that because in Blind Trust no one knows anything so you don't get to either.

Well, that's not true. There's a mutual understanding of the concept of soul bonds, which are lifelong connections formed between individuals born in the source of magic - though how much people actually retained about this varies. A soul bond is not unlike a karass in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, in that the people involved are cosmically entangled with each other in a very profound way.

They might be born to be companions, family, enemies, or lovers. The last possibility, called a Lover's Knot, is the rarest and is reserved as a way to contain birthrights who would otherwise be capable of reality-shattering degrees of power. Which nobody wants. Especially not a birthright.

Meet Edgar Gallows and Scott Skylark Kaufner. Scott is a birthright from a witch town and Edgar was born into an Academy in Louisiana, despite also being birthright.

At the start of Blind Trust Edgar has escaped his Academy for the time being and has established a ramshackle and pretty lonely life for himself in New Orleans. He never wants to touch a wand for the rest of his life, and his only hope is to be boring and safe and left alone forever.

Meanwhile, Scott has been having a real rough time. He's been wandering the country nonstop for years with an unfathomable cosmic horror feeding on his sanity and gradually eroding reality around him. Birthrights don't use their abilities often, but for some reason Scott can't turn his off, and they've been warped to the degree where he's been forced to manipulate everyone around him. He can't stop, though. The only thing that can make this stop is if he finds the other half of his Lover's Knot, who he now only remembers as a ghostly vision named Eddie.

Scott and Edgar meet in a dirty walk-in of a mid-tier, overpriced bar and restaurant. Stuff changes and continues to change. Magic is involved but it's not really about the magic.

It's asexual and romantic and soft and confused and frightening and frightened and tender and in book two Edgar eats a hot dog for four pages. It's a great book about love and devotion that's sensual but not at all sexual, because the Clove Gardener Pledge is that there is no sex depicted at any point in the series. It's a great series if you're coping with parental neglect and trauma and want to read a depiction of self-love through an unconventional romantic pairing.

Blind Trust. Buy it in June in paperback or ebook, or just ask me for it and I'll probably give it to you.

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Niko and Welsh

Before her death, Niko worked for Gyro at the NGL. She has few memories of her human past, Niko being half her human first name. She no longer recognizes herself in this former version of herself, unlike Arina, who sees herself as an extension of what she was as a human. She is part of a group of three soldier ants, Karass (Arina) and Scolopandra, (much like Leoru's group) before joining the extermination team and becoming their friend. It was her friendship with Welsh that convinced her to join them (like Meleoron or Ikalugo). Today, they are close friends.

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That is a constant mood

[bakersfield-row]

What do you think of Binkly

my sibling in karass what part of "salah al-din yusuf ibn ayyub the custodian of egypt, conqueror of the levant, benevolent kurdish leader of the caliphate" shortens to blinky

[talesofpassingtime]

"If you find your life tangled up with somebody else’s life for no very logical reasons,” writes Bokonon, “that person may be a member of your karass."

— Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle