#might do it anyway cause hot

[sparklingbongwatter]

If this post gets 50 notes I will write an explicit POV force masc werewolf transformation

[o0kawaii0o]

Nami on the brain!

[nicomoon69]

holy fuck I took too long drawing this to dump it in the trash

anyways added cute lil eyes to the black veins ^_^ don’t ask how the gold eye thing works, i go by rule of cool

[dear-ao3]

girl you are always going through something

i live an interesting life what can i say

[tleeaves]

There are two wolves inside me. One wants to embrace a new hobby in dance so I can be active and feel elegant and graceful and strong. This wolf wants to try something new and exciting, finally indulging in something I've always had an interest in.

The other experiences such frustrating emotions on a near daily basis that I want to go back to boxing, which is arguably easier to break into since I've already done it before. This wolf doesn't think of elegance, she just wants to fuck shit up until her body's so overworked and warm it fogs up car windows without having to do anything but sit inside.

Which one do I fucking feed??

[definitely-jax]

[shorthaltsjester]

i do not want to dig a hole but i am too much of a laura bailey pc enjoyer to not make this post so:

selfishness ≠ a lack of kindness 

selfishness is a theme that has come up with all of laura's main campaign pcs. that doesn't mean that her characters are always making selfish choices or that they don't care about the rest of the people they're with or that they're not good. it's just that, for the most part, the first thing they're thinking of when they take action or make choices is themselves. 

in jester and vex both it is more typical and obvious selfishness. vex's developed because she needed it to keep herself and vax alive and as safe as possible and it grew into a behaviour that she had to actively work to avoid. it's evident in her greed, her theft of the broom, her reaction to her own death which relied heavily on i'm okay/i survived to which keyleth reminded her that she wasn't the only one who had to witness and reckon with her death. in jester's case, she grew up in an environment that literally trained her to make every decision based on two things - her mother's opinion and her own. so, when she's out in the world without marion for the first time, her choices are those that will benefit her and her actions are those that consider her own thoughts and not really many others' (aside from the traveler's). 

it isn't a criticism of either vex or jester to say that they are characters who act selfishly. in fact, i'd argue that to claim otherwise does a great disservice to exactly how immense both of their character arcs are. because the nuance of both jester and vex is that they are selfish, and they also hold extreme room for self-sacrifice and empathy. vex is much more brash than jester is, and jester is much more trusting than vex, but both of them are characters who begin with selfish impulses who grow with them. neither ever truly shed those impulses, but they use them in new ways, typically transforming them into impulses towards things that are in the best interest of the party. 

you may have noticed the lack of imogen in this post about laura bailey pcs and that's because of two reasons. one, we are an unknown amount of time into her story, i can't analyse her development the same way i can vex and jester's. two, imogen's selfishness isn't the blatant quasi-self-aware selfishness that we see in things like jester complaining about her lack of money to caleb or vex stealing a broom. instead, imogen's is very internal, like a lot of laura's character work with imogen. it is a bit similar to jester’s in the sense that it comes from a lack of awareness moreso than vex’s practiced behaviour, but imogen’s is a lot more tied to inherent beliefs she has about the world and the people in it.

as a consequence of her powers, imogen sees people's thoughts as their entirety, she holds it above their actions to be the truth of who they are - to act against what they think or to say something that doesn’t cohere with what they’ve thought is akin to lying, so for her to act empathetically is to act in tandem with what someone else’s thoughts are, not how they act, which is typically not all that wanted. the same as vex’s greed and jester’s naivety, this is a trait that makes narrative sense and it’s one i find quite compelling, especially when read in the vein of someone struggling through trauma that has made them assume that the world is against them. imogen’s cynicism is coherent cynicism, i can’t say that in a similar situation i wouldn’t have the same predisposition towards the world.

the part that is particularly self-interested comes in if you look at how imogen has actually been treated in the campaign (quite well) in comparison to the cynicism that she’s developed from her past (something that speaks to a world out to get her). certainly, a bunch of shitty things have happened to imogen in the time we’ve known her, but the same can be said for everyone in bell’s hells and pretty much everyone in exandria at this point in time. but, in a fight to save the aforementioned world, imogen’s focus was getting her mother back on her side. which, while very consistent with her character and a choice that i enjoy, is a very selfish one. the fun thing (to me, obviously) about imogen is that she has, more than most, an insight into the opinions of others and she also tends to seek others’ opinions out and genuinely engages with them and supports their choices. but she still very much acts towards what she thinks is best. it’s one reason i enjoy looking at the dynamic between her and orym as one between foils, as orym tends to be stalwart in his beliefs and doesn’t care too much for other’s opinions if he’s already sure of his own, but his actions tend to favour collaboration and protecting others.

as i mentioned earlier, imogen is a harder case to look at because she is still in the process of her story. however, the circlet is clearly influencing how she interacts with the world and in the wake of the solstice, the hostile reaction towards ruidusborn people has started to become more and more apparent and i’m interested to see what route that ends up leading imogen down and how it will influence her relationship with the rest of bell’s hells. (for better, i think, based on recent conversations, but if it's for worse i will be just as seated and excited).

all of this is just to say, please stop assuming that claiming a character has a trait you think is a bad one is criticism or a hate post. in light of the fact that i know that people who don’t believe this will continue to not believe this, i’ll encourage anyone confused about the ability of a character to be good and kind and selfish all at once to look to what the text itself says, specifically scanlan’s words to pelor when asked what vex means to him:

“Her name is Vex, and she is greedy and mean sometimes, and she can steal a lot. She’s a little bit not the greatest person, but her flaws highlight everything that is right about her, which is she does all these things to protect her friends and her family. She would give her life for any of us and for anyone who was truly in need. And she’s not perfect but she’s the most perfect of all of us.”

would you look at that... an ability to be a multitude of things, some in conflict with one another. i know that's hard for fandoms to believe, especially about female characters with agency, but i promise its true!

[leslieseveride]

they were literally in middle school!!!!! why'd they have to go and do all of that?!??!??!?!!!!?!???!!!!!!! 😩😩

[silusvesuius]

nelvas Problematiq*eyes roll back into my skull* *falls flat on my face with cardboard cutout physics* ((7 hours later)) *wakes up in barren wasteland* I know everything now.

[graveyard-society]

the sheer amount of headcanons i produced while i was drawing this is insane

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

you couldn't imagine the things my brain will get possessive over

[discobrainrot]

I've been listening to an embarrassing pop song, and all I can think of is Harry and Kim meeting in their early 20s, and Kim is still in his massively rebellious phase.

Maybe neither Kim nor Harry is in the RCM yet. Harry's a gym teacher. Maybe Kim is doing community service (cleaning up the schoolyard?) because he got caught being a delinquent. They strike up a friendship.

Maybe it's unlikely from the outside - but they're two people chewed up and spat out by the system. Harry just has more advantages than Kim.

Maybe Harry has started seeing Dora, or he's thinking about asking her out. He's head over heels, and it's so fucking painful for Kim to watch. Painful because he's jealous. Painful because he shouldn't be jealous. It makes him alternate between lashing out and being incredibly compassionate. It's confusing for both of them.

Maybe that jealousy spurs Kim on to show off for Harry - dragging him to races. Cars. Motorcycles. Bikes. Daredevil stunts done by people who see it as a win/win situation to survive a crash or go out in a blaze of glory. Kim participating in some of those races - speeding down the highway late at night. Drifting so hard that his shoulder almost touches the ground. Looking over and seeing Harry jumping to his feet. Out of fear? Out of pride? Doesn't matter. Harry sees him.

Maybe Harry notices he's not as interested in Dora. She's beautiful - so fucking beautiful - but she doesn't see him. She doesn't share the passion he does. She's gorgeous, but she's not cool. She doesn't like that he slips out to watch underground racing. She's not a fan of Kim.

Maybe Kim is Harry's first real friend since the other kids of the 15th Indotribe died out. Someone who sees Harry's curiosity and returns it with his own. A friendship that fills his lungs with light to the point of bursting. But he's never been hurt by friendship like this before. Friendship doesn't burn like this - that's reserved for wipeouts, booze, and love.

Maybe the first time they kiss, neither of them knows if it's a mistake.

Maybe the first time they kiss, neither of them cares.

[rotteneldritchhorror]

I desperately need the 0bx writers and the fucking fandom to understand how fucking weird is is to have a fully grown-ass man who's known someone since they were a young teenager (and has attempted to kill that young teenager's friends and is completely antithetical to all her values) to then go ahead and DATE??? THAT TEENAGER? AFTER SHE JUST EXPERIENCED THE MURDER OF HER BOYFRIEND???

yall are fucking crazy, and some of yall started shipping them when kiara was fully still a minor

[tricitymonsters]

Lol wym sulfur smells absolutely AWFUL

CRYINGGG I mean personal olfactory preferences aside, if it really smelled as bad as a fresh fart or a rotten egg they wouldn't make bath soaks/salts with fragrances to specifically mimic the sulphuric smell of hot spring water. ALSO like off the top of my head, sulphur is also a component of gunpowder which is another highly romanticized scent so i think honestly sulphur has a well-earned and positive place in our collective esoteric fanfictiony smells.

[ravennhearted]

Y’all I don’t know if anyone still follows me for that Batman fic I wrote years ago called Falling Together, but if I revamped it a bit and cleaned it up (and added Duke because I was young and dumb and didn’t learn about him until after) would y’all be interested?

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

are there any characters we follow in the dark materials series or the book of dust that have just completely inconvenient daemons. i want to see someone struggle to keep a fish alive for 300 pages