#local hell hippie

[local-hell-hippie]

Written October 12 2023

Original creation by Local Hell Hippie

[spacebarbarianweird]

Baldur’s Gate Modern AU (1990s Russia edition)

In 1990s Saint Petersburg mafia, KGB, oligarchs and deathly cults strive to control the "northern capital". Six people find themselves in the midst of events — who shall they become, puppets or revolutionaries?

Astarion

Looks much younger than he is, native to Leningrad. His family are a part of old soviet intellectual elite (educated and classist). Graduated from the Leningrad State University (degree in Law). Astarion was making a political career but alas perestroika started and the crime rate increased — got almost killed by gang members and was saved by a mysterious figure who used his fragile state to kidnap him and force into sex work (also put Astarion on drugs). Now, ten years later Astarion has no fucking clue what to do with his life and how to obtain freedom after years of abuse, drugs and prostitution.

Gale

Until recently Gale was a teacher in a private boarding school for the oligarchs' kids. Was groomed by an older woman who was also a wife of a politician. The lady infected Gale with AIDS and also blackmailed him. Now his life and health are in ruins and he is being hunted by goons hired by Mystra's husband.

Wyll

Transmasc and native to Northern Caucas. Disowned by his clan and family, he comes to what is now Saint Petersburg snd becomes a hitman for a local authority, a cruel woman called Diavolitsa (she-devil). Wyll doesn't give up and is always in a good mood tho it seems like you can't run from russian mafia even if you go straight to hell.

Shadowheart

Raised in one of many cults that grow abundant in the country, Shadowheart remembers neither her real name nor childhood. She believes in the cult leader, the Dark Lady, who claims herself a goddess, and suffers from chronic pains. Her beliefs will be challenge as she starts rememebering more and more. Who kidnapped her? Where are her real parents? And where does the line lie between a hippie commune and a totalitarian cult?

Laezel

An illegal immigrant, she is at least dissapointed with the current state of events in post-soviet Russia. She is on a secret mission and actually a a spy. But considering her age she has never truly experienced life and all its opportunities.

Karlach

A former child sportstar. Perestroika and the collapse of the USSR took her future and life opportunities. Worked as a bodyguard for an oligarch Enver Gortash but he sold her to mafia who tortured Karlach relentlessly. Her health is ruined and she needs drugs that aren't sold in Russia so she has to ask drugdealers for help. Many people think she works for mafia but it isn't true

Minthara

A KGB agent (was and is). Believes in whatever the state tells her to believe but misses good old communism. Very loyal and doesn't forget betrayals. Knows sambo, comes from a big all-women family, despises men.

Halsin

Eco-activist and a protester. He is the oldest in the group. Much more educated than he looks like but doesn't think intelligence is a merit of a good person. "Lenin was educated, look where it all took us". His full passport name is Serebryakov-Vetkin Mikhail Dobroslavovich. Probably comes from some tzar time nobility but he will never tell.

Bonus:

- Oligarch Enver Gortash (Gortashev Enver Igorevich), heavily involved with military

- Mafia leader Raphael (everyone calls him Rafik and he hates it, has a mansion built on his dad's money)

- Dammon, people call him Dimon. A talented inventor, has little to no ambition. If he emigrates, will probably become a millionaire

- Elminster (Emil). Once a member of science academy he is downgraded to a personal tutor of a greedy politician whose wife Mystra seduced Gale. The only reason why Gale is still alive is because Elminster managed to persuade the powerful couple to let Gale go for now

- Volo (Vova). A bard and a menestrel, he is heavily involved into fantasy RPG subculture. Meanwhile he is a huge Tolkien fan and makes ballads based on Silmarillion, he mostly cosplays Jaskier from the popular Witcher series. Once performed a lobotomy in a communal flat

- Jaheira (Yana). She was against USSR when it wasn't trendy. Spent some time in prison for anti-communistic ideas. Was pardoned in 1992.

- Minsc (yes, he is from the capital of Belarus). Jaheira's friend he was put into mental facility in the 1970s. Everyone thought he died but he is here with us, ready to fight for freedom and peace (though years in the ward affected his mental health). Has a pet hamster.

- Cazador ("why spanish name, fancy yourself Pablo Escobar?"). Well, in his head he is the scariest man in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad). In reality, no one knows him. Literally. He is no one. He isn't even rich. Kidnaps people and makes them slaves in his mansion. Has a deal with Rafael's father. Sadist and pervert, makes money by forcing his slaves into sex work. Basically just a greedy pimp.

- Ketheric Thorm. Oh this man, a victim of relentless history. He witnesses the October revolution and civil war, dedicated his life to the USSR and communism and then it collapsed leaving Ketheric old and miserable. He works for Enver and has no hope for the future.

- Isobel. Ketheric's daughter and a talented surgeon. Was considered dead.

- Lady Aylin. Isobel's gf and a professional fighter. Was held hostage by Ketheric who didn't want his daughter to be a lesbian.

- Araj Oblodra. A psycho pyromaniac and that person who will poison you if you cross paths with KGB. Obsessed with vampires (Twilight fan before Twilight).

- Orin. Professional ballet dancer, she will perform Swan Lake on your enemies bodies. Everyone thinks Enver sleeps with her but he is too afraid.

- Mystra. A politician's wife, grooms her lovers from young age. Into spirituality.

- Karniss. Hell no. Don't ask what was done to him in a secret KGB lab

- Petras (Piotr), Dalyria (Daria), Leon, Yossen (Esya), Violet (Violetta) - Astarion's siblings and Cazador’s victims. The relationship between them are rocky at the very least

Hope you enjoyed it! If i forgot someone, let me know!

[maxinemaxmayfield]

For the @strangerthingswritersguild prompt (9th August): stranger

(gen • 211 words • platonic stobin/steddie)

“Okay, here we go,” Robin says, laying out the cards on the floor in front of them. She runs a finger over the back of each, and then starts to flip them over one at a time, referring to the book propped open next to her on the bed. Her latest fixation, thanks to her latest girlfriend – a new age hippie obsessed with tarot and crystals. 

Steve watches her, humming as she cross-checks what she finds, flipping through the pages. “So what’s the deal, doc? Am I gonna die?” 

She smacks his arm. “No, but you are going to meet a tall, dark, handsome stranger.” She wiggles her eyebrows, giving him a wink.

Two hours later, they’re at the local college dive, Steve third-wheeling Robin and Harmony and feeling sorry for his single ass. 

Three hours later, he spots a familiar head of curly hair from across the bar, a head of hair he hasn’t seen since high school. 

Four hours later, he’s searching for Robin in the crowd, to tell her not to wait up. 

“Hey, it’s just like you said – a tall, dark, handsome stranger!”

“We literally all went to high school together, Steve. Eddie Munson isn’t a stranger.” 

“Shut the hell up and let me live my life.”

[thatsthewrongwallcraig]

What about any fluff hc's you may have for Euronymous, Gabriel or Kappa it's your choice!

Love your writing! <3

Hello, anonnie! Thank you so much for your request 🖤🌸

I kinda more or less dragged my ass from the last pits of creative burnout hell for this but for the time being, I felt it <3

🌼Fluffy and soft gn!Reader x Kappa HCs, here we go! 🌼

Tagging the horde (gosh, I miss y'all!!):

@crypticsewerslut @quicksilversg1rl @cc-luvr @icarus-star @milaeth @roryculkinsgf @spookyorchid @arch1viste @whoareyoi @angelsanarchy @blueberrypancakesworld @rocketqueen-world @lifelessvessel @doddernix @svgarcaine @amayalul @basementgrl222 @kristennero-wallacewellsver @iiheartsai @fan-goddess @shady-the-simp

🌼 Kappa would absolutely love to cook for you! Anything from a simple mashed taters with sausages to a full 5 course meal. Pretty much the best van life haute cuisine he could come up with, anything and everything to paint a big, wide smile on your face.

🌼 I just know for a fact that Kappa would be a slave to watching you hang up the laundry outside of the van. With your linen blouse ever so slightly riding up your stomach, showing off some soft tan lines from the plenty of days spent at the beach. He'd be so grateful for you doing the chores, plus absolutely enthralled at the sight of your body in the warm Californian sun.

🌼 Personally, I like to think that Kappa and you would take time out of every evening to listen to your favourite records. Whenever you pass a new town, each of you buys a new vinyl at the local record store to show to each other, to talk about to artist and to have a banter about the lyrics!

🌼 "I'm sorry to report that's immaterial, sugar!" Kappa would murmur to you, with his arms tightly wrapped around your waist after you uttered a something something about feeling insecure about your body. He'd simply sweet-talk your insecurities out of you.

🌼 Uhm...showering alone? Not on Kappa’s watch! 🤨 He'd be squeezing his bum into the bathroom right after you, insisting to lather you in soap just to wash it off with soft and tender hands a little later.

🌼 Immediately after that hot and soothing shower, he'd tuck you right into bed, brew you a nice, fresh cup of camomile tea to sip on whilst you flick through your current, rather addictive page-turner from the gas station the two of you passed about 160 miles ago. It might not be his jam at all, but as long as it has you smiling and cackling at the end of the day it's fine with him.

🌼 Speaking of sleep, Kappa would hold and cuddle you tight all night long. He'd make sure you fall asleep comfortably, granting that'd you wake up well rested for another day on the road to wherever I'd take you!

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Not to toot my own horn, but if you like the vibe of this, you may enjoy my hippie!Kappa playlist 🖤🌸🖤🌸

[thedepressedjuggalette]

We are going to have to become the Counter Culture starting now, but we are going to have to Gate Keep it to keep out the Republicans, 3rd Party Voters, and people who refuse to vote. Hell let's have a list of names to block when it comes to these motherfuckers. You fucks ruined any chance we had towards progress. You all don't get to be part of the rebellion.

To start with we need to be a bit like Doomsday Preppers in the fact we need to start saving canned foods to ensure we don't starve because of the Republicans.

Secondly we need to learn how to sew and/or settle for a very rugged look - think old school Goth and Punk.

Let's keep our hair short. Fuck Republican Norms.

Air purifiers. Shits gonna get toxic up in this bitch because Republicans hate science, speaking of which let's all learn a bit of science while we can, read banned books too!

Gardening is another thing, but only do so if you have the means, and remember to share with your fellow rebels.

The Goth, Hippy and Punk cultures are going to be coming back with a vengeance. As they say, there is always a resurgence with culture, but I doubt they meant it like this.

The first cultural rebellion was the Romantic Literature Era. The second was the Gothic Literature Era. Let's out do every single counter culture and then some.

Let's make counter culture history with this shit.

Get involved in local politics. Start helping people when you can.

Hell go #vanlife if you have to. Do what you can. But remember, get involved in local politics and local rebellions.

Blast Kendrick Lamar's Alright at full volume.

Don't let your kid be forced to go to religious institutions where they'll be forced to put up with Republican bullshit.

Become ungovernable.

Don't go out silently into the night.

Go out like a rabid hyena that is on LSD and Crack.

But most importantly, get involved with local politics. Let's chip away Republicans and their shit values. Vandalize their shitty religious institutions.

Religion was never meant to mix with politics. Let's force them out of it.

[dirtyfilthy]

You have to be a thief to be free.

Freedom is something that can't simply be just given to you. Freedom is precisely the kind of good that must always ALWAYS be stolen.

Some people seem to think the law has some kind of moral force in and of itself. I consider the law to be simply the blunt instrument of social policy.

Sure, there exist murderers and predators and various unspeakable things we really do have to deal with for the good of society. But the vast majority of laws simply aren't about such clear and present threats, but instead are attempts to engineer culture by means of criminalisation.

Imagine you inherited ten million dollars and you wanted to build a commune . You consider yourself to be a law abiding citizen, and you really do want to do everything exactly by the book --- I mean you are willing to follow every rule and regulation. Think they're ever gonna grant you a permit to build that shit? There is no chance in hell my friend, because a bunch of filthy hippies moving into the neighbourhood is almost guaranteed to lower the surrounding property values, and the local council would rather vote to have your throat slit in public before they ever agreed to let that happen.

Not in my back yard, buddy: the line must go up.

"Working within the system" is a convenient lie only ever echoed by useful idiots and those true fool believers who have managed to ignore how bitter the fake almond tastes in this godawful brand of off-label koolaid. Yes, you can definitely route around power, in fact most of the time i find it's the smarter option than performing a direct confrontation, but there ain't nowhere the likes of you and me are ever getting anywhere via trying to ingratiate ourselves with mere subservient obedience.

Cos that's exactly the way it's supposed to work. If you only follow along the ruts of the most well-worn roads, you will only every get to the same old destinations.

Go veer far off the beaten path. Poach your fresh pheasants from the overlapping fat slapping in the sun chair of the high lord's manor. Not like he'll ever notice the missing sixth negative exponent anyhow. So cut deeper, make the fucker feel it.

Steal when there is no individual victim. Learn what laws you can get away with breaking.

We need to build ourselves a new country, one with exact same geographical borders as in a conventional atlas, but that even a 1-to-1 map lacks the definition to contain.

[findafight]

tell us the ship, explain your thoughts 👀

Me trying to be vague and everyone immediately perking up like prairie dogs ready for tea alskfnkdkd. Idk I don't think it'll surprise anyone on my blog I've spoken about it in the past. Just got annoyed at it always being there for no reason and not making sense to me one too many times, I guess.

It's r0nance. I simply do not vibe with it at all. I think, if given a sterile au where there's nothing and no one connecting them and no homophobia to worry about, it might be interesting to possibly explore them being attracted to each other but realizing their personalities and goals and priorities clash too much to work out. A bright first fling into maybe-love that fizzled quickly. I've sort of done this in my post o66 sto bin au for them, but I'm probably not going to actually explore it there. (As it's already in the past even during the war for that au)

But in fics that try to be more or less canon/fix it type deal, it really doesn't make sense to me without even mentioning the hairsprayed elephant in the room. Robin and Nancy's personalities don't seem to mesh well, what with Robin's rambling tangents and Nancy's need to focus.

Robin would probably want to do something specific with her life, but she also wants to wander! Her parents are hippies and she wants to visit Paris. She wants to travel in Europe, and probably stay at sketchy hostels and backpack in the mountains, talking to locals that she doesn't have to worry about ever seeing again. Nancy is planning on immediately going to her dream school after highschool and likely pursuing a career right out the gate. She's very driven and focused, wants to go out and seize opportunities that can assist in reaching her goals, and I don't see Robin's dreamier personality traits fitting with that.

I think @thestobingirlie mentioned that while Robin and Nancy both experience the sexism and misogyny of the 80's, Nancy doesn't experience ableism as Robin does. And she doesn't try to understand where Robin is coming from, only openly appreciating her efforts after she ranted at the hospital director.

Robin rambles! We see her either ramble or give clipped answers ("I'm Robin I work with Steve!") When she's nervous or under stress or excited! We see both Nancy and Steve react to these rambles in different ways. When Robin goes off topic in the library with the conspiracy paper, or talks a bit too much about how much she talks a bit too much, Nancy's annoyed. She's initially dismissive of the national Enquirer esq newspaper Robin brings up that helps solve the case (go Robin!). Robin babbles at Steve a lot, and he never makes her feel bad about it. She rambles about rambling to Vickie and the Muppet joke and he adds little commentary as needed, letting her go, or he cuts her off with a little joke during her rabies freak out. He lets her ramble or lets her know she should stop without being actually annoyed and letting her know that by not telling her outright to stop. (She knows immediately that it's a joke, and she jokes back, although understandably nervously. I love them.)

Them being a background pairing so often is annoying, though to varying degrees. If it's just as Robin's gf mentioned I, like others, just kinda...change it to Vickie's name in my brain lol. But other times it's not and it just. Doesn't make sense why Nancy would be such close friends with Steve (her messy breakup ex!) and Robin and Eddie. That girl has big city dreams, she's getting the hell out of her tiny hometown and not looking back. Let her be free!!

I mean obviously the bit I hate about it is that Robin holds a grudge and Nancy broke Steve's heart, which I don't see as compatible, even if we take into account that it's likely Steve and Robin have no idea Nancy cheated on him, and that Steve is an unreliable narrator and blames himself for the breakup. Steve and his relationships with both Nancy and Robin are so pivotal to all three of their characters that ignoring the history there seems a disservice to the complexities of their relationships with each other.

[beardedmrbean]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The inhabitants of Copenhagen's freewheeling Christiania neighborhood plan to dig up the aptly named Pusher Street, in their latest attempt to stop illegal hashish sales which have led to deadly gang turf wars and sometimes violent confrontations with the police.

Residents of the hippie enclave are calling for volunteers to help dig up the street on April 6, the Berlingske newspaper wrote Thursday. All are welcome, and participants can take home one of its cobblestones as a souvenir.

It is yet unclear what will replace the street.

The residents are fighting to preserve Christiania’s reputation as a “free-wheeling society” made up of political idealists and aging hippies. For years, hash has been sold openly in Christiania from roadside stalls, among buildings painted in psychedelic colors. But inhabitants say that feuding gangs, not them, control the trade and the survival of their community hinges on ending it.

The neighborhood has been a world apart from the rest of Copenhagen since 1973, when hippies squatted at a derelict naval base and set up a community dedicated to the flower-power ideals popular at the time: free cannabis, limited government influence, no cars and no police.

After more than four decades of locking horns with authorities, they were given control over their homes when the state sold the 84-acre (24-hectare) enclave for 85.4 million kroner ($12.5 million) to a foundation owned by its inhabitants. There are nearly 700 adults and about 150 children living in the community today, and it's one of the Danish capital's biggest tourist attractions.

The “Christianites” have made several attempts to close the hashish market in the roughly 100 meter (328 foot)-long street. Police say the trade, worth millions, is controlled by the Hells Angels and the outlawed Loyal to Family.

Authorities tolerated hashish sales in Christiania until 2004, when police started to crack down. To preempt police raids, residents took down hash booths, but trading soon came back. Last year, they brought heavy machinery to tear down the market but masked men stopped them.

In the past month, Christiania has worked with local authorities to make plan that includes ending the drug trade and replacing it with other activities.

The social and housing ministry said that it was “an important prerequisite to get rid of the organized hashish trade" before Christiania can get 14.3 million kroner ($2.1 million) earmarked for the work.

A 30-year-old man who was selling drugs was shot and killed, and four others injured, in August; in 2022, a man selling hashish from one of the street’s booths was shot dead. The previous year, a man was shot and killed at the entrance to the same street.

Last year, the mayor of Copenhagen urged foreigners not to buy hashish there because of the deadly shootings.

[twothpaste]

for the meme: hinawa ^_^

First impression: 2013 clark playing m3 for the first time: wow, that sure is Mom!! Gee i sure do wonder when Mom's gonna make it back from the woods, which are on fire by the way. Oh. O.. Oh……. Oh my fucking god……

Impression now: -pointing- That is a Funny Southern Lady right there. An absolute bowl of apple cobbler.

Favorite moment:

Idea for a story: One day when I illustrate Barbecue AU it's gonna be fucking over for all y'all. For those uninitiated: AU in which Pitmaster Hinawa n' her family run a barbecue food truck together. She survives a kitchen fire explosion, like a total badass, and goes on to thrive as a beloved local culinary icon. The twins cook with her. Boney might be their mascot. Flint's in the back smokin' up the best damn brisket you've ever tasted. Antics ensue.

Unpopular opinion: idk if there are particularly strong, popular, or unpopular opinions about Hinawa in this humble little fandom. My only lukewarm take is that I think Itoi shouldda given her more screentime, dialogue, and personality before taking her out back and shooting her - considering the whole rest of the game is grounded to her memory. Grief is handled brilliantly, but Hinawa herself feels more like a symbol than a character. The writing for women in this series has never been superb though. What can ya do.

Favorite relationship: How the sensitivity and emotional vulnerability she taught Lucas to embrace is put to the test in her absence. The whole story is often flanderized down to its darkest & most miserable beats - but it's actually about laughing & loving & cherishing life despite adversity - and I fuckin' know Hinawa's the one who taught Lucas how to do that. I like to imagine he thinks of her in his brightest moments, not just when he's down. That her memory inspires him to smile and move forward, and that she lives on in every kind n' caring deed he does. (Bonus Round: when I think too hard about how all the same could've applied to Claus, I get inconsolably fucked up. When I make it apply anyways, to a Claus who survived, I get sappy as all hell.)

Favorite headcanon: What if she was silly!!!!!! What if she was a goofball hippie with a quirky sense of humor just like her dad!! What if she made dorky puns, and cracked up laughing when kid Claus said bad words, and invented a sequel to the hokey pokey just to make little Lucas smile!! Also she smoked mad pot in her youth sorry

[n3wy0rkd011]

Ok. Here’s the thing. I use my very, very favorite picture of Dee Dee as my profile pic at other websites. Bitch in a group I joined kept fkg hitting on me omfg! It’s the one of him with long hair, open shirt, a hippie necklace, and a gun. I’m ignoring her, she doesn’t stop. Then one day moron asks if I like shooting guns. It’s a fucking picture of Dee Dee Ramone, you ass! I tell her, and maybe I could’ve been nice, but fuck that, I’d had enough of this idiot. So many people don’t use their own pic, you fucktard; and we don’t use our real name either, ASSHOLE. I don’t want to be on the internet forfuckingever. So finally I say, listen, this is a picture of Dee Dee Ramone from the Ramones. He died in 2002. I am a woman. I am not into women. Can you stop harassing me (you dumb fuck!). Bitch is local, doesn’t know a Ramone when she sees one. Must’ve come here from East Bubblefuck or Pensyltucky. EVERYBODY HERE KNOWS THE RAMONES! The painted murals; the street sign right at the center of the block by Forest Hills High School; the autographed and not autographed framed photos in bunches of stores‼️😤Next thing I know I’m dumped from the group, that gdam bitch. And that’s why I’m coming across as furious, very sorry but am angry af. Obvious, but ok. I was actually making friends to hang with in Forest Hills where I still live, and Rego Park, which is right next to FH. Actually, the way things are zoned Tommy was closer to Rego Park, but whatever. Anyway, whenever I look at your blog I always take a few secs to admire Richard Hell and what a so-cool pic of him that is. Finally, my question to you is this: Does anybody ever think *you’re* him??🙅🏻‍♀️💜🎶😎🎸😡🌺🙄

Loll that has never happened to me. That is very unfortunate but also funny

[local-hell-hippie]

'Colored Kitty Cats'

Created Spring 2020

Materials: Paper and Colored Pencil

Original work by Local Hell Hippie

[optiwashere]

Love how Asheera is trans in the fics.

How'd she do it?

I know Gond "remade her" but like? That's sounds so crazy, like a god PERSONALLY went on and helped her?

Girl I wish that were me, that's wayyyyy cheaper omg.

They way I'd be so devout it's insane. UnSHAKABLE faith I mean it. Ketheric himself would envy me lmfaooo

Anyways, love her, she's transition goals

Xoxoxoxox

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Heya anon, I so love to hear from you! 💜 All the hugs and hellos and hell yeahs from your local trans writer.

She really is goals lol. I wish it was that "easy."

So, in the Forgotten Realms setting it's canon from on high (the setting's creator) that divine transition is actually one of the EASIEST ways for trans folks to transition! That's one thing I love about the setting: a very weird old hippie answering people on Twitter and giving everyone canon lore like in-world terms for trans folks (alun is Elvish and dezek is Orcish, for example!)

Really all it takes to petition for this sort of thing is some kind of devotion, gift, or promise to a chosen deity. If it's sufficient, they'll be blessed and remade like Asheera was.

Since the setting is polytheistic, anyone could theoretically seek out any god or goddess for this sort of thing. Most would try to ask their most favored god though, like Asheera did for Gond! Some are better at it than others though because gods in the Realms aren't perfectly omnipotent beings.

Anyways, all that to say that Asheera's paladin oath and religion have a lot to do with Gond "remaking" her. Almost literally like she was reforged. I don't know if I want to expand on that all the way since it might show up in fics, but yeah! That's the bottom line of it all.

Love this ask and you're great, anon. I always love to hear from trans readers!!! I write Asheera (and all my trans characters tbh) for us 💜

[feralhippie]

Character Info Sheet

name: Kale

name meaning:

Kale grew up in hippie communes with a hippie mom, so he wound up getting a weird name. lmao. He's named after the plant. (it's also poking fun at myself because my name is Leaf lmaoo )

alias(es)/nicknames: None (yet)

ethnicity: Kale was born and raised in England with an English mom, but isn't sure who his dad is. He's likely also British, though.

one picture you like best of your chara:

(him high af lmao )

three h/cs you've never told anyone:

Kale feels most comfortable in his wolfman form, so if he knows you well and you're both just chilling, he might be in that form sometimes.

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When not doing vocals for his artsy fartsy experimental music, Kale makes some extra cash by playing drums for local bands/events.

three things your character likes doing in their free time:

Practicing his experimental music & the drums

Drugs

Working on/ revamping his camper van (it's been through hell with a werewolf living in it 24/7)

eight people your character likes / loves:

Arden, ex-boyfriend & ex-pack leader (mine)

He hasn't really gotten to know anyone else yet

two things your character regrets:

1.Kale doesn't really do regrets

two phobias your character has:

Being killed by a hunter

Never being accepted back into his old pack.

tagged by: @wrongarmofthelaw (thanks!)

tagging: @fromgallowsandgraves, @void-foxy, @ofsnarkandmagic, @thcmcnstcr, @oughtabeinpxctures, @morally-dubious-jobs, @betterto-die-thanto-crawl and anyone else who wants to! : )

[mongoose-bite]

That's okay, Volo; I already took care of it.

I stayed up super late and finished Faye's run.

Visiting the House of Hope was fun. Faye absolutely had no time for Haarlep, as you might expect. I found Raphael's song kind of distracting, and I burned a couple Globe of Invulnerability scrolls to keep Hope alive. I was extremely disappointed Mizora had no comment on Raphael's defeat. I'd been looking forward to that.

I thought I was nearly done; the only thing left the Steelwatch, Gortash, and the brain. But then I saw this temple with sexy mermaid cosplayers and then I found a submarine, and ended up under the sea. I really didn't do the Iron Throne as well as I could have, but it could have gone a lot worse too. By sheer luck it was Halsin who freed the duke, and I love that druid for having a greater restoration on tap to bust the fiendish charm on him. Not all the hostages were so lucky, but that's how it is. I'm not going to reload to get a perfect run. There will be other playthroughs.

Wyll and his NPCs in their Incredibly Socially Awkward Corner.

Then Steelwatch: Fuck Wulbren Bongle Edition, and Gortash, who was an absolute cakewalk. My dear little friend Us actually got the killshot on him. Best brainboi. I used non-lethal damage on the Flaming Fists on the way up.

Okay, wrapping it all up. If this roll isn't scripted, it was super cool.

Took the hammer to Orpheus's crystals at the earliest opportunity. Faye didn't even hear the Emperor out; she's done with that thing prying into her thoughts. She considered volunteering to be the sacrifice for like half a second, but to hell with that. No tentacles! has been her motto from day one.

As expected for a first playthrough, my positioning was terrible and the final encounter was a bit of a clusterfuck. Gale got the last hit in; if you need to guarantee something will die, chuck five levels of magic missiles at it.

Wyll saved Karlach! I wasn't prepared to condemn her to hell alone, but Faye really didn't belong there either. I might actually play Wyll in a future run; I love him, although it would mean playing a warlock...maybe I'll try out one of those broken multiclasses. I love Karlach, too, although her affection for Faye felt a little unearned; I didn't really have her in my party much. Gale was sensible about the crown, Asterion scurried off hilariously like the gremlin he is (I somehow lost some approval again at some point, probably by being nice to someone), and Laz'ael gets to be so badarse.

And Faye gets to put the local back into local hero, and carry on helping the needy but in a more low-key way at Daddy Halsin's Woodland Retreat and Orphanage. Although she did agree to guest lecture for Gale at least once. About a paladin's perspective on the benefits of restraint and order, of course.

You know Withers provided those fancy clothes, and they only wore them to be polite. It's hippy sandals and commoner's garb for Faye now. She's earned it. She got so many letters in the epilogue. Sad Us wasn't there. Faye definitely keeps it around. The orphans love it.

Great game. I'll play again soon; probably won't liveblog it though.

[nextstopwonderland]

Farmers Market AU graphic based on the concept I posted here.

Little more not-ficced plot under the cut:

Local farmer Bryan. He’s got a stall at the Farmer’s Market. Eddie drags Mox there one weekend all “it’s my ma’s bday I gotta get her some flowers”. is like “that’s what a fuckin florist is for” while Eddie rambles on about eucalyptus & lavender.

So there’s Mox at 10am on a Saturday in his leather jacket browsing stalls with disinterest when he sees this long-haired hippie motherfucker laughing as he rings up an old lady. The smile drops from his face when he sees Jon, looking him up in down with a raised eyebrow. “That used to be a an animal, you know” nodding at his jacket. Queue vegan environmentalist judgmental bickering that feels more like flirting. 5 minutes later Mox is walking away with an arm full of melons and a name: Bryan. As he approaches the flower stand, Eddie takes one look at his arms, then glances over his shoulder in Bryan’s direction and says “aw HELL no”.

He doesn’t stop ribbing Mox in the car later. “You don’t even like watermelon, man. Getting your eye turned by some hippie of all people, what the fuck you gonna do with 5 pounds worth of that shit?”

Mox flips him off and blows smoke out the window.

He goes back the next Saturday.

(Someone who isn’t me write this for real, I’m lazy)

ETA: I wrote the futurefic here

[dcwnthercbbithcle]

Why is Doe’s Anglicized Version of her name Rachel and not Lila/Lily?

Short answer: it’s the vibes of the names!

Long answer: Doe’s parents are many, many things and the full list of insults I could make are too long for this post alone, however, they are intelligent and socially aware. When they moved into Canada, and into Vancouver specifically, they had this vision of not only the life they wanted, but the social integration they wanted. They were wealthy people and they wanted a clean cut move and elevation from the upper-middle class of Japan into the upper echelons and high-class of Canada. And in doing that they strategically made decisions that would aid them in integration. Some were bigger than others, like initially deciding to move into West Vancouver rather than Southeast Vancouver, where much of the extended family they had in Canada resided (The family later had later decided to move of the West End and relocated closer to their family in the Upper-East End, where much of Doe’s childhood was centred, this was not a happy decision and a ‘we bit off more than we could chew’ but I digress!) but some of the smallest had to be the way they chose what ‘English’ names they would go by. With Doe, her name is so close to Lila already, it was the logical choice, however, given Lily and Lila seemed to have connotations with ‘hippie’ type communities and free-spirits and thus would reflect poorly on them and mean (in their mind) that Doe might be given less respect socially or step into this shadow of social pressures. They decided, instead, to go through and pick a name from fairly recent history that would inspire ‘respect’ and they chose to name Doe after a local politician in the area. Doe was, as you can expect, not pleased. ESPECIALLY when she learned that among her peers, Rachel seemed to universally be a ‘grandma name,’

It’s funny though! Cause Doe? Doe continues to choose Lila/Lily variants for herself!

Pre-Fog (and Pre-Death) in Dead by Daylight, Doe went by Lily.

In her The Lost Boys verse, she continues to rotate between identities but fixates on Lyla as her go to.

In Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Doe goes by Layla primarily.

In Stranger Things, though officially Rachel in front of her aunt and cousin, she introduces herself as Leila.

In Fear Street, though again designated Rachael (now spelt with an extra a) by the powers in her life, she is Lilah to her close friends (especially Reese!)

In Crazy Fun Park, Doe (before death and losing much of her memories, her left eye and other things due to the gravity of her murder) went by Alyla primarily!

In her Superpower Verse, when she was given a new identity after accidentally killing like a blocks worth of people because her powers are The Worst, she chose Delilah (short for Lila) before that to was taken away and she’s been relegated to Miss. X ever since.

AND HELL, IN CRAZY FUN PARK AU, WHEN ZACH’S SECOND CHILD AND DAUGHTER IS NAMED IN MEMORY OF DOE AND OF THE SHORT BUT SWEET SISTERLY BOND AND PROTECTION SHE GAVE HIM, HE CHOOSES THE NAME LILY FOR HER BECAUSE IT SEEMED THE CLOSEST TO HIS FAINT MEMORY OF HER NAME

Sorry, Doe’s parents may have won the fight of Doe’s true name originally in suppressing Rira, but Doe won the war of embracing Lila/Lily as alternatives