#not fully fleshed out yet

[smol-stardust]

FARMER NENE AU: Characters/Ideas

Nene: daikon extraordinaire, about to turn the abandoned farm into a successful Daikon farm. (Amongst other things). Identified by her trademark coveralls with a daikon patch sewn on and her wide brimmed hat. But there's more to this farm than meets the eye…

Hanako: Haunts the abandoned shed, initially mischievous but warms up to Nene as she tends to the farm. Guides and protects her on the farm but is very mysterious. No. 1 fan of the daikon business

Tsukasa: Discovered by Nene near an old well on the farm, reveals that he died falling into the well under unsavoury circumstance. Is a mysterious little menace.

Kou: bubbly neighbor who has an uncanny ability to communicate with the animals on the farm Always ready to help, ends up forming deep bonds with the spirits. Family has connections with shrines so he has higher affinity in communication with spirits

Mistuba: harvest sprite who resides in the crops. Mitsuba enjoys causing small pranks but eventually becomes fond of Nene, helping with the farm chores in his own mischievous way

Aoi: skilled botanist in the nearby village: visits Nene's farm to share gardening tips and knowledge. Develops a close friendship with Nene

Akane: Aoi’s friend who tends to an ancient tree grove, seems to have connections with it? Has interesting but helpful advice occasionally about harvests and seems to have a way with growing seeds well.

Teru: Runs some of the shrine business. Ensures the right weather conditions for optimal crop growth, but sometimes gets annoyed at sprits and unpredictable storms happen (just another element of strangeness for Nene to overcome)

[ladyxskywalker]

last line wip tag 💌

Rules: Write the latest line from your wip (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog.

tagged by the amazing @imtryingmybeskar 👑💜

just been writing some super cringe poetry lately so let's see what I can dig up out of the drafts folder !

here is a little dialogue action between my silver fox prof galen erso & our dapper space man time traveler ezra in "house of sins & pleasures" 📖

Ezra - We can change things. This is the key.

Galen – I don’t…fully understand.

Ezra – Love. Professor. Love is needed to power them. And Hope.

Galen – You’re not serious.

Ezra – I am, and I know already that all of you can feel it. Beyond the scope of our shared universes. I believe I’ve been kept alive in my world to save you from this one. These self inflicted scars, drowning you in nightmares and immortality! Different beings, and past selves, blowing your lives to bits. It’s wild, surely! But we can take it.

Galen – And what will become of us all? Both here in this life, and where we've lived before?

Ezra – In a matter of seconds, you all will be erased. A light will form, and you will head to it. Like lightspeed. And start anew...

... 🌼💛

[woahjo]

ooooo im thinking about a really sweet reader and campus flirt gojo...

he's got a bit of a reputation as a flirt and he seems to date girls a little too casually, though he's always a gentleman about it (very single minded)... except when it comes to you. for some reason, when satoru is around you, flirtation turns into outright seduction and he is anything but a gentleman. the worst of it is that you pretty much let him do whatever he wants with you.

you're a sweet girl with good grades and a good head on your shoulders. a virgin when you met him, though that's long since down the drain, and your impression to most other people is that you're somewhat straight laced. depsite being so sweet... you're a little slutty. just a little. you can't really help it. you like when satoru whispers in your ear about what he wants to do to you, even in public. you like when he stands just a little too close, when he pats your ass when no one is looking. you like the way heat builds on your face. it's embarrassing, but it's good.

so, you're just a little slutty when it comes to him. you don't want to be, but you can't help it and satoru seems to like that you'll let him feel you up in stairwells if he asks, that you're so malleable when it comes to him. you'll let him do anything because you like the fact that he wants to do it at all.

sometimes, satoru looks at you like he wants to eat you, like you're a meal. he's so single minded, so focused only on you, but the worry never leaves your head that he thinks you're easy. you let him kiss you when he asks, feel you up when he asks, spread your legs and stick his tongue between your thighs when he asks. you're not an easy girl, it's just that satoru does something to you. you can't really resist it.

of course, the flip side of this coin—the side you can't see—is that while satoru may be a flirt, he doesn't sleep around. for some reason, call it hunger, he just can't seem to keep it in his pants when he's around you.

[queenvhagar]

Something I've realized about the women characters of HOTD is that they seem to be aware of modern politics and sensibilities in that they seem to be detached from their time and place in a sense.

Realistically, women in these worlds would want the same thing men do in the situations that they're in. When their families' lives are threatened, when their power is threatened, they are willing to go to war. They want vengeance and justice. They want their enemies to pay for what they've done. They want power and security for themselves and those dear to them. Some have hard power, like dragons or skill with the blade, that they can and will use to achieve their goals. In ASOIAF this is Daenerys, Brienne, Arya, and more. Some have soft power, like charisma, influence, and political knowledge, that they can and will achieve their goals. This is Cersei, Sansa, Margaery, and more. All of these tools and weapons are willingly yielded by their users to help themselves and their families to survive and to thrive.

Yet the women of HOTD seem to view these things differently. They stay stuck on the fact that men don't listen to them, instead of using the tools available to them to do anything about it and help themselves as GOT characters would. When Rhaenyra is talked over by her small council, instead of making a show of force or demonstrating her ability to lead and make competent decisions about warfare, all she does is accept what others tell her to do and then complain about it in private. When Alicent is ignored in the small council, instead of using her influence to convince her vulnerable son the king to do as she wants, she puts him down and isolates herself further. Despite the many decisions that these women could take to help themselves or act in any way that could help their situation, they are stagnant and passive.

It's almost as if these women are stuck on their victim status, in that they view themselves as victims in ways that the GOT women have either long accepted as truth or have been socialized to view differently. The women of HOTD know it's not okay for women to be talked down to, they know it's not okay for women to be interrupted or ignored, they know it's bad that nobody takes them seriously, whereas this is barely a thought of the GOT women, for whom it is a part of the world they've already adapted to and they know how to navigate around. Somehow it seems like the HOTD women are consistently shocked and surprised into inaction by the very fact that sexism exists in their world, despite the fact it's been there their whole life and they've never known differently.

This is what I mean when I say that the women of HOTD feel as though they're separate from their time and place. It's as if they exist outside the narrative, outside of this time and place somehow, based on the decisions they make and the way they behave. Instead of acting as others would in their time and place, they frequently seem as if they are aware of modern sensibilities and politics and it's these things that guide their thoughts, decisions, or dialogue. Their awareness of this prevents them from going to war when they have good reason to want to, and realistically any woman in this universe would willingly go to war, and it makes them say certain things that seems almost out of place in the context of the time and place that sound at times as if the writers are using them as a mouthpiece.

Yet the men of the story behave more faithfully to time and place. They desire action, they desire vengeance, they are allowed to feel angry for themselves and they are allowed to want power for the sake of it. They get to be more fully fleshed out in their motivations and personalities. They're believably a part of this time and place. The men behave no differently than the men of GOT save differences in character and context, but the women are so distinctly different from the women of GOT in terms of how they're allowed to feel, speak, and act.

[moon-moondrop1]

"Where's the machine, Moon?"

"No clue buckaroo"

New au mayhaps?!

[hekateinhell]

Anne Rice plotting out Louis's (permanent) death in the early notes for Merrick...

Since I was already referencing a response I gave to a question about Armand's possible reaction to Louis's suicide attempt earlier today, I remembered this that I stumbled on while going through the Anne Rice Collection at Tulane — which in a way answers that very same question:

This scene has to be major in the novel, and as I see it now, Claudia will be extremely horrible to Louis and drive him to suicide.

Louis will expose himself to the sun, and the others will find his burned body in its coffin on the flat portion of the slate roof of the townhouse.

Those who will come together, having felt the passing of Louis will include Armand and Merrique.

David will be for scattering all the ashes of Louis. But Armand and Lestat will refuse to do it. Then Lestat will be won over. Armand will want to pour blood on the ashes. Armand and Lestat will get in a battle, and finally Armand will give up, and Lestat will pick up the lumps of charcoal of the body, pulverize them and scatter them to the winds.

Okay, but Armand and Lestat battling over whether Louis can be brought back to life? Lestat scattering Louis's ashes while Armand presumably watches, defeated? My heart!

Next time you complain about Merrick, remember... it could've ended like this.

I love Louis and I love him with Armand and Lestat both (separately and all together), so of course I'm very grateful Anne didn't go this route! But the idea that she might've??? 🫢

I'm not up to write this level of Angst™️ and do it justice but it's definitely something that could be explored further in fic! And it is one (of many lmao) instances where you can see such a stark difference between where Anne started and where she ended with her novels.

[spooksier]

I love your tma freedom au!!! (I am not American and I have never even been to USA so I am assuming you are right). And what Entity is ruling Lake Superior? I feel like a lake literally known for never giving up her dead would certainly have some awful horrors amongst its waves.

(I can imagine a statement that's like a person diving in the lake except they go deeper and deeper and soon reach the lake bed and it's covered with perfectly preserved corpses and as they explore all those remains the diver realizes one of the corpse is them, all bloated and discolored naked with autopsy wounds but it is Them. And then their corpse try to reach for them but the diver swims away. And when they reach the surface they realize they had been missing for a whole day. Anyway the end notes is the diver dying from apparently water filling up their lungs, and an hour or two later the corpse goes missing, with the autopsy table where the corpse laid being drenched. Lake Superior never gives up her dead either the past or the future)

omg you asked the perfect person for this (michiganders UNITE!!!!! (<- doesnt even live in MI anymore)) but lake superior and all the great lakes are OWNED by the vast

ppl outside of michigan or the midwest might not know but the great lakes are HUGE, lake superior by itself is almost the same size as austria!! the whole country!! theyre more inland seas than anything else and they go on forever if youre just looking from the shore which is very vast-coded to me tbh…and another very vast-coded thing about the lakes are, baby

theyre clear

you can see straight through to the bottom and see all the shipwrecks that are just laying there. spooky…

tl;dr simon fairchild baby come to detroit

[r-aindr0p]

Design idea I scavenged from a sketchbook to flesh out the design + add a story to it !

He became a cardinal so far (after ~ 140 years of patience bribing and showcasing his spiked flails) and wants to become the pope for nefarious reasons and because he's bored. Talks to his weapons and has no idea he's probably not human. (Never questioned its own identity)

[the-way-astray]

a cool way to show keefe's early-book unserious-yet-meaning-well persona would have been for him to be the one to spill dex's technopath secret instead of sandor, in my opinion

[dont-mind-me-i-just-exist]

hey guys gimme cards to turn into my pjsk ocs

which ocs? depends on the card you pick

i may or may not also edit some cards into my versions of the vsingers of their sekai if i feel like it

[ink--theory]

side order but every run up the spire causes agent 8 to begin to lose more and more of their free will against the grayscaling

[bunny-j3st3r]

making a DnD campaign and wondering how long it will take the players to notice there in tadc

[graedari]

My inherent need to combine my current interest with Pokémon is always strong and I never overcome it.

Anyhow- keep an eye out for my new Tron Pokémon crossover✌️

[Image ID in alt]

[danelloevee-sky]

Herald stuff

Newly born Ved fresh from the sky:

[tuberosumtater]

IT'S THE BOI!!

(Lil guy's now in my plunderin' twitter profile. 🗣️)

[diamondangelkitten]

Junelezen Day 26: Late

"You're late," Guydelot says as Alinea and Estinien make their way towards him and Sanson.

Estinien chuckles as Alinea rolls her eyes at the bard. The noise causes Guydelot to tilt his head back and smirk. Alinea flips him off before crossing her arms.

"Hello Sanson. You didn't have to bring your other half with you if he's been bothering you."

Sanson laughs, now used to their antics.

"He's been rather well behaved till now. Though I'm sorry to say, it seems Sephy's quite attached to us."

Alinea sees that indeed, her pink carbuncle has gone to sit by Sanson. Guydelot had reached over to give Sephy a scratch and apparently found the right spot, as the carbuncle's head was tilted adorably.

"Hm, well at least Demetri has more sense."

At Sephy's sad little chirp and Guydelot's deep laughter, accompanied by smaller chuckles from Estinien and Sanson, Alinea smiles and starts to relax. She makes her way to sit next to Guydelot, with Estinien coming to sit next to her and Demetri. She places a hand on Estinien's leg while leaning her head on Guydelot's shoulder.

"It's good to have you here. What do you think of Thavnair? Oh, and Sephy? I'm not actually mad at you."

Her carbuncle gives a little chirp, while Sanson starts petting her. Guydelot leans his head on top of Ali's.

"This view is beautiful. I know you all went through a lot, but I am glad we didn't have to abandon our homes."

She smiles as Estinien squeezes her hand.

"I am sorry we were late. Trna stopped us on the way. She wants to have another hippo cart race sometime."

Sanson starts laughing as Guydelot's excitement levels rise.

"Really? Can you do it now?! The radio broadcast was fine and all."

"It was great Guydelot."

"Yes, the bunnies sounded adorable Sanson, but imagine an actual bard delivering the story of the intergalatic race for the ages."

Alinea leans forward, looking at Sanson.

"He's not going to let this go is he?"

"Nope."

Estinien laughs, before joining in.

"I do have to say, I was sad to have missed the grand race. But a rematch between the top two participants would be fun."

Alinea sighs, "Not you too."

Her smile however, gives away her own excitement.

"Fine, for you all, I shall do it."

She stands, pulling the rest of the group up with her. Her carbuncles come into step behind her, as she leads the group to Trna.

"After this though, we're getting curry in Radz at Han."