#long one sorry

[bananamaxpng]

proper oc post except im just infodumping. why not.

quick lore summary this is from an oc world @tamagoatchie and i are building - they have their own set of ocs as well and we still have plenty more. i hope to be able to finish a small book with a more proper lore dump of them before comifuro (local con).

left to right:

giovanni (johnny, he/him) and carlotta (charlie, he/him, transmasc) - fraternal twins, sons of an assassinated leader of the fictional nation of karteria. they have a very strained relationship ever since the death of their father. johnny serves their mother who is still alive. charlie is on the run after the realisation of why their father was murdered in the first place, and from there meets the crew. they know he comes from a rich background (seems obvious), but they don't know he's the assassinated leader's son.

jinyu gao (goldie, she/her) - just a regular orphan. originally in 2014, i and another friend originally made her as a younger child oc inspired by ponyo. the fish influences are still here, but it blends in well with in-world lore of animal symbolism being tied strongly with resistance and power. she grew up together with ohm and his late sister (who is not pictured here).

brian ong (ohm, he/him) - modified child soldier who escaped with the help of his late sister. they were taken in by a local butcher (adoptive father trope, very sweet) who also took goldie in after them. his nickname comes from the added sound system he decided to add into his cyborg parts, taking advantage of what's been done to him.

saru / xn-1 - robot soldier gone rogue. he wears a scarf knit by an old lady with dementia who mistook him for her late husband and he took care of until her death. he has a human-like face under his mask and takes it off only to those he trusts. every robot soldier has the face of a fallen veteran. he joined goldie and ohm some time after the assassination.

theres a lot more lore that's missed out here but if i kept going i wouldn't be able to stop. so this is where I'll end it lol

[kasaneteto]

so today has really sucked ive just been sitting around randomly crying all day. i haven’t really been able to eat anything or do much of anything. just sat around scrolling or watching shit. wish my new boss would send me my schedule so i can motivate myself to get back into a routine.

im ok tho. ive been thinking a lot about me and finn (thank you hazel for our talk i love yew 🫶) and reminding myself why i needed to break up with them both for them & for myself. but at the same time wishing i could have made it work. but there’s just no way, we needed space. we still need space. last night is evidence enough of that. but nobody makes me feel comfortable like they do. nobody makes me feel loved and appreciated like they do.

the thing ive been thinking about is how understood they made me feel. im not sure we can perfectly understand each other. it’s tricky because something i love about finn is their unique perspective on literally everything. theres nobody on this earth who thinks like finn does. but at the same time… sometimes i just don’t get them & they don’t get me. it can be really frustrating sometimes. they make assumptions about my behavior a lot, & maybe i make assumptions about theirs too but im not sure.

for example i was talking to them about something awkward i did recently and when i told them something i had said they were like “devin……. you should NOT have said that…… you’re trying so hard to be normal that you’re being really not normal” and it really stung that they said that because like… im not trying to be normal at all. i know that what i said & did was super abnormal. i don’t care about whether or not the things i do are normal anymore. i did it because i was being true to myself. so for them to say that im “trying so hard to be normal” that its having the opposite effect was like… idk. in that moment it made me feel like they didnt understand me at all. but seeing it from their perspective… maybe thats how they live around other people… because i know they worry a lot about what other people think and are worried about people thinking theyre weird. it makes me worry for them & their self esteem.

but anyways. they’re all ive been thinking about all day and its been impossible to not feel like ive made a mistake by ending our relationship. i know theres someone out there who would love me as much as finn but will i be able to love them as much as i love finn? i just dont know. its hard to picture. but i have to remind myself why i ended it. we were bringing out the worst in each other and holding each other back. maybe it could work again in the future but it wasnt working now. i have to remind myself. it wasn’t working.

so idk. hopefully ill start this new job soon & it’ll be great and i’ll be able to find out what i want. because i still can’t even tell if im monogamous or not 😭

[elvgreen]

📨 Random simblr question (for the ts3 simmers) of the day: What’s your favorite premade world?

ooh i love anon question game!!!

anyways that's kindaaa hard but my top 3 would be bridgeport, apaloosa plains, and tied between sunset valley, moonlight falls, and isla paradiso. i have the most memories playing in sunset valley and apaloosa plains so it's close to the heart!

one thing that a lot of custom worlds lack compared to ea's is realism. like all the ea worlds are realistic in that you could find a real place in the world that looks just like an ea world. it's a huge reason why i can't play in custom worlds because the houses and community lots don't follow the theme of the world, if that makes sense. but kudos to those custom worlds that DO. ea worlds just have stories and life that are hard to beat.

[theworstfoundingfathers]

Who is the worst? Round 1: John Hancock vs George Wythe

John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Before the American Revolution, Hancock was one of the wealthiest men in the Thirteen Colonies, having inherited a profitable mercantile business from his uncle.

When Thomas Hancock died in August 1764, John inherited the business, Hancock Manor, two or three household slaves, and thousands of acres of land, becoming one of the wealthiest men in the colonies. The household slaves continued to work for John and his aunt, but were eventually freed through the terms of Thomas Hancock's will; there is no evidence that John Hancock ever bought or sold slaves.

In October 1777, after more than two years in Congress, Hancock requested a leave of absence. He asked Washington to arrange a military escort for his return to Boston. Although Washington was short on manpower, he nevertheless sent fifteen horsemen to accompany Hancock on his journey home. By this time Hancock had become estranged from Samuel Adams, who disapproved of what he viewed as Hancock's vanity and extravagance, which Adams believed were inappropriate in a republican leader. When Congress voted to thank Hancock for his service, Adams and the other Massachusetts delegates voted against the resolution, as did a few delegates from other states.

[During his time as Governor of Massachusetts] Hancock took a hands-off approach to governing, avoiding controversial issues as much as possible. According to William Fowler, Hancock "never really led" and "never used his strength to deal with the critical issues confronting the commonwealth."

George Wythe (1726 – June 8, 1806) was an American academic, scholar and judge who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. The first of the seven signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence from Virginia, Wythe served as one of Virginia's representatives to the Continental Congress and the Philadelphia Convention and served on a committee that established the convention's rules and procedures.

Wythe served as a judge for much of his life, first as a justice of the peace and then on the Virginia Court of Chancery. He was also a prominent law professor at the College of William & Mary and took on several notable apprentices. He remained particularly close to Jefferson and left Jefferson his substantial book collection in his will. Wythe became increasingly troubled by slavery and emancipated all of his slaves at the end of the American Revolution. Wythe died in 1806, apparently from poisoning, and his grand-nephew George Sweeny was tried and acquitted for Wythe's murder.

When Wythe's wife Elizabeth died on August 18, 1787, Wythe returned some slaves whom her father had bequeathed to Elizabeth to her remaining relatives. Wythe filed manumission papers for his long-time housemaid and cook Lydia Broadnax on August 20, 1787, two days after Elizabeth's death. Four years later, Lydia accompanied Wythe as he moved to Richmond, where he had previously commuted four times yearly to handle Chancery Court business. In addition, a young mixed-race youth, Michael Brown, born free in 1790, lived in Wythe's household. By 1797 Broadnax owned her own home, where she and Brown lived and took in boarders. Wythe had taken an interest in Brown, taught him Greek and shared his library with him. On January 29, 1797, Wythe also freed Benjamin, another adult slave who continued to work as his servant in Richmond; Wythe named Benjamin a beneficiary in his 1803 will, which included money for Brown's continued education.

Fawn M. Brodie, who linked Jefferson and Sally Hemings, suggests that Broadnax was Wythe's concubine and Brown was their son. Wythe's biographer Imogene Brown notes both Brown's last name and Broadnax's age made such unlikely. Philip D. Morgan notes that there had been no documented gossip about Wythe and Broadnax at the time, unlike the case of Jefferson and Hemings, covered by newspapers and in individuals' letters and diaries

[soaked-doors]

happy birthday zoro 🎉🍾

[captainjonnitkessler]

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.

[magicomens]

First >> Prev

I could say that realizing every artist's dream of completing a project like this wasn't easy, and while it's true, I must thank you all once again for encouraging me with your sweet comments and messages. It's thanks to you that a one-part punchline became a full 202 pages (!!!) story.

Now that it's over and if you still aren't tired of my shenanigans, you can follow my main blog (and see my yearly Snowlin Halloween illustration soon!).

As for the Magic Omens AU, please give me a moment to catch my breath and I'll start preparing the digital release (with bonus drawings) that will be downloadable from kofi!

To the Merlin fans who are keeping the fandom alive, to the Good Omens fans (I'm sure the 90 minutes finale will be great, even if we won't get a full season! stay hopeful!!) and to the fans of both shows for constantly enabling my silly idea,

thank you! <3

[hinamie]

mwah

[miseria-fortes-viros]

guess who

[armiggy]

“hng..! fuck! t-too big, man!” i curse loudly as my roommate starts to pound at my previously virgin asshole, he had me pinned down to the shared couch of our apartment as my legs were slung onto his shoulder, his heavy body weight pressing against me. i cried out, tears slipping out as he uses me. “take it.” he grunts as he fucks his cock into me at a rapid pace.

he came home drunk, and horny. i was the first he saw, his cock already hard when he went in the apartment. i tried to tell him to stop, that i wasn’t interested, yet he slid his tongue in my mouth and i couldn’t exactly fight against him with his large and intimidating figure.

“s-shit, calm down i’m— too much!” i sobbed as i hear the slaps of our skin obscenely, it all felt too much as the loud squelch of his dick ramming my hole resonated through our apartment.

he was grunting and whimpering, head nuzzled into my neck as he inhaled my scent, nosing, kissing, and biting as he left marks on my body.

“you like bein’ fucked like a real man, pretty boy? you like takin’ it up the ass?” he whispers in my ear, his hands going up to my chest as he rubs my nipple — pinching and twisting at the sensitive bud.

“n-no!” i squeal, my body betraying my words as my back arched, cock hard as he rams into me repeatedly, hand reaching between our bodies and stroking my little t dick.

“fuck, fuck, fuck—“ he uttered, i could feel him kissing and biting my neck, leaving dark purple marks all over me. my mind goes blank as my eyes rolled to the back of my head, going dumb as i squealed, clenching around him.

[aqueductaquarii]

egghead law...on one hand i think he would choose battle-ready clothing but also end up pressing the hawaiian shirt button at the last second. on the other hand i think he would wear a shaka-esque coat...

[wanderer-clarisse]

early morning sunlight at Bag End

[orbbo]

I get it man, bureaucracy is just like that.

[404-squill]

more of an ooc question, but genuinely curious: are you still involved with the discord side of squip inc rp?

oh god um

unfortunately no, not really

I mean sure, I'll read through it occasionally, but I'm almost always never involved.

that's how I've been working recently, I definitely read through a lot of what's going on, but I don't have much time to figure out lore and shit 😭

that's one of the main reasons why I've been so inactive recently, I've been on a bit of a creative block. art? not so much, if any of you want like... squill comics or something stupid I could make those, but otherwise... yeah.

[courfee]

17 December 1975 / 15 May 1976

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Being someone who read Under The Red Hood and came out with the firm belief that, for Jason, it's not about killing Joker, it's about Jason wanting proof Batman would choose him over the Joker (bc shelia chose the joker). Makes seeing any other media where it's all about just wanting the Joker dead is a teeny bit frustrating. to be honest

Jason could've killed the Joker himself, really, really easily. Jason kidnaps the Joker before the confrontation. I can't open my comic for a reference right now, but it felt like he had the Joker for quite a bit before the confrontation. He had him. He beat him up with a crowbar. He had every single opportunity to kill the Joker himself, but he didn't because that wasn't his goal. Make no mistake, he did plan for the Joker to be dead by the end of it, but do you see what im trying to say here

Edit: If I knew this post was gonna get 1000+ notes I would've tried to word it better or something, this was a rant I made on the way to the grocery store 😭

It's not about making Batman kill either. When Batman says he won't kill, Jason adjusts and goes, 'Let ME kill the Joker or kill me to stop me' instead. The test is all about Batman choosing him. The whole final confrontation is Jason's first death again. The parent, The Joker, and the explosives. It even ends with Jason unable to move as a bomb goes off right next to him again because the parent didn't choose Jason. And instead tried finding an option that'd benefit them and (consequencely) letting the Joker walk, again, lol, lmao <-in agony