#odessa stories

[anthropologistfromentropy]

Current reads:

Also technically "The Unreal Life of Sergei Nabokov" but I haven’t read it in 6 months... Read 88 pages of The Vanishing Half (in Finnish) 2-3 months ago. Well worth the read but got too repetive and slow for me. Probably gonna give up and DNF it tho, tbh.

Next reads:

Not sure which one my ADHD ass will actually end up reading next 😅 Also want and need to read Yusupov's Lost Splendor and Nijinsky's "diary", really should have ages ago, but I guess guilt is making me more interested in these other books lol.

(It's all related to my Felix Yusupov fic, though The Origin of Others less obviously so. The rest basically screams "I'm interested in early 1900s queers and Jews, tsarist Russia and Ballet Russes" 😅)

I see you already tagged my bestie @dark-wackademia

@delighted-nice-person @aro-spectre @aronarchy @leonardoeatscarrots @eloves-off @odd-little-guy @start-where-i-end @bunny--manders @lunearcher @kyluxtrashpit

Reblog with your current/next reads :p

Current:

Next:

Anyone can, but tagging: @barnbridges @one-hell-of-otaku-is-here @tmin-n @infactilovetea @poeticabomination @memory-the-unconscious

[thehappiestgolucky]

love that this was basically the galar villain arc in a nutshell

[queen-scribbles]

🙃🙃🙃Odessa 'So Very Done With This Shit' Isric 🙃🙃🙃 ---

@commander-sarahs-art hit it out of the park again with my baby girl Ody, who has been through the wringer enough times she should qualify for a discount. Or just less trauma. Fingers crossed, babe.

[affogatosims]

Are you…? 🍼

[ahorrorstorycircle]

The confirmed cast of ‘American Horror Story: Season 12’ revealed so far. More to come soon.

[viperdove-if]

MC's dad is overprotective of them. Yet he arranges a marriage for them which their partner is a bully. I kinda wanna know his thought process with that decision. 😅

MC's dad is over-protective of his assets. His love is quite twisted. He loves his children like someone may love their pet. He wants ultimate loyalty. And he wants people who can execute his desires without him having to lift a finger. I would say he is emotionally abusive (and physically, through corporal punishment.)

Let's say MC comes to their father telling him of O. His reaction would be anger because 1) MC just snitched (big no-no) and 2) instead of crying to him, MC should be fighting back.

He thinks of it as a life lesson. O's father is good for business and if O is an asshole, well, that's MC's problem to deal with. If MC can't shut down one single bully, how can they run the family business?

[scarletsxnss]

@screamiingsiilence ozzie x odessa!

alessia and eddie were out shopping for new leashes, collars, and TOYS. ever since the younger couple moved in, it was obvious they needed more around the house. ozzie knew what it was like to get caught up in life and work. eddie and odessa were essentially GROWING their new beginning here. that meant eddie had been busy, though he hopes alessia can help expedite the process—moving and buying new furniture could be time consuming. 

there was this paternal need to make sure odessa felt SAFE in this time. after getting to know the younger couple, he knew how much she NEEDED eddie. and he knew how much of eddie's time was being stretched from designing the new rooms and making sure everything was okay for the two new housemates. so he surprises odessa with new lingerie, cute cat ears, and a beautiful COLLAR that has eddie's name illuminated in diamonds and gold. he sets it on her bed for her to find and leaves a note directing her to find DADDY in the lounge.

they were all learning to push into this new stage in their lives and relationship. ozzie wanted to make sure it was a smooth transition. so he waits for her in the lounge. the fireplace crackles with a soft flame and gentle jazz plays on the speakers while he rubs his SHAFT through the cotton shorts. when he hears the door he hums from the couch. "come over here, baby. let daddy talk to you for a moment."

[mydarlingdearestdead]

Lottie Baviere. First person.

The name I was bestowed at birth is Charlotte. Miss Charlotte de Baviere.

When I was young, I believed my mother must have hated me. I assumed she named me in ridicule. Therefore, I declared myself Lottie Baviere. Any who disregarded this wish of mine, I left to the figurative dog house.

I was a stubborn child, if that wasn’t abundantly obvious.

I understood that my future loomed just out reach, an envy for many in my generation. Reinventing myself at the age of six may not have been as my mother envisioned, I will admit, but there was never doubt toward the functionality of such a choice.

As juvenile as I may sound, I thought I despised my mother. In fact, I would go as far as to say I hated her.

Lottie Baviere could hate people, after all. A privileged which was hardly afforded to Miss Charlotte de Baviere.

I must ask you forgive me, I believe my bitter tone may be seeping from my tongue to my ink.

Second from youngest, I was hardly the shining jewel of the family.

That is not, of course, to imply I coveted those who shone brightest. I noted early in life and with a horrible note of bitterness that this was true. I shied away from responsibility, as I did with respectability and honourability. It was truly a dreadful manner in which I chose to behave.

I dearly wish I could place blame upon my youthful naivete, however, I believe that to be dishonest- A trait I wish never to possess in my senior years.

You must understand that. I beg of you.

[cassandra-sims]

Can't handle the cuteness!

[monstersandmaw]

I just thought I'd let you know my brain suddenly started furiously thinking about gabe and odessa and how The Conversation is going to go and I'm frothing at the mouth. I haven't been rereading or anything this just happened out of the blue but I want to let you know your writing got me spontaneously doing this and it's pretty fucking amazing, thank you for everything you do and all the work you put into making such great stories!

I've sat on this for a few days because it made me so happy. Thank you so much. I've got The Conversation all plotted out, and ough, it's one for the feels. Anyway, thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to send me this!!!! I

[stuckasmain]

I can’t escape can I? It’s happened again.

I don’t went antiquing and I found some nice sci-fi collections (magazines putting together best stories/most of the years stories into a book) I want to get more into the genre and what do I find on the back?

[mad-maximoff]

I want to share my dream cast for my fanfic/novel Bella Donna

(This fanfic/novel is solely on Wattpad under the same username as here!)

Bella Donna played by Odessa A’zion

Catherine Valeria played by Catherine Zeta-Jones

Vadoma Vivda played by Gratiela Brancusi

Abe (Bella Donna’s father) played by Gary Oldman

Arthur Thomas played by Jack Champion

The Viscount Dracula played by Johnny Depp

AND FINALLY MY DREAM DIRECTOR WILL BE THE ONE, THE ONLY, (DRUM ROLLL)

Guillermo Del Toro

[thehappiestgolucky]

Assortment of easy violet doodles i managed because i care them but drawing is hard

[dgtor-writes]

(I ADORE tumblr because only on here have i had a user dm me to rave about a comment i left on their junker queen post and then after a long exchange on here exchange discords with me so we can rave about her writing)

(I like Twitter because we can have a similar-ish experience, but it stays in the replies and stops after 7+ tweets)

Anyways, STOP SAYING JQ AND MAD MAGGIE ARE THE SAME. They may have similar aesthetics and designs but wildly different arcs.

As previously explained, Mad Maggie is Māori New Zealander, which is super specific to her story and informs her character greatly. Junker Queen is a tan Australian with her skin color having very little influence on her story outside of showing she’s been in the sun a lot. (Personally I head-canon her as a mixed First Nations woman but that’s neither here nor there).

Both characters have their own writing flaws and virtues but that’s more a reflection of the writing team and there’s gold if you know where to look.

Mad Maggie is amazing. I’ve seen fans write her off as “crazy for the sake of crazy”. Which is just… so wrong?

Margarita Kohere’s madness is a duly faceted. She holds real, burning rage at the occupation of her homeland, and the one person who claimed to stand by her who left to seek his own dreams of glory. And her mental state is reflective of the trauma she’s endured from said occupation. She’s had to be tough as nails and even bloodthirsty to secure the autonomy and freedom of her people and do things that are morally dubious. She isn’t deranged for shits and giggles, she’s traumatized and aggressive to achieve what she views as liberation in a system determined to paint her as a villain as they takeover her home and brutalize her people. It’s there for a reason and integral to who she is.

On Junker Queen’s end she’s so cool. But there’s fans who write her off as a “dumb jock muscle mommy” which is also so wrong?! Like where are you people getting these?

(It’s the voice lines, I blame the voice lines)

Odessa Stone is aggressive yes, and her voice lines in game seem somewhat childish, but not even those reflect an unintelligent she-brute. The tough-as-nails attitude, similar to Maggie, is a product of her environment. In the Wastelands, might makes right and keeping your place in that hierarchy relies on having a level of physical superiority that can be enforced. She learned this lesson young being kicked out her home at a very young age and (presumably) losing her entire family to the radiated desert sands. Someone like that grows to understand how valuable power and the numbers to back it up is. Especially in her WL short, she is shown to be intelligent, empathetic, and a team player. The people of Junkertown lover her for a reason. She spared the lives of the former king’s lackeys and even took a hit to the face for one of them. In the art at the end, she’s shown to bring not only order, but stability and prosperity to Junkertown. She doesn’t hold herself apart from the other junkers but exercises her authority when/where its needed. She’s shown to have a great knack and intelligence for battle (as seen in her LoJQ short and the WL short) where she’s taken on a ridiculous amount of rogue omnics and slaughtered them, while utilizing non-lethal force against her human opponents in the reckoning. She’s not even remotely stupid or particularly bloodthirsty and the throwaway line about making widows and not eating her veggies got y’all fucked up.

(Honestly a bigger part of the problem is overwatch not letting their “heroes” kill in their shorts, and she’d been allowed to, she’d have been consistent at the very least from short to game but i digress.)

Overall, they not the same, neither of them suck, and they’d probably be besties if they knew each other irl. PERIOD.

[queen-scribbles]

World Building Whenever~ Odessa Isric

Taking inspiration from @haledamage, bc it's been a while since I did one of these for my children Arkady's next

B A S I C S

Full name: Odessa Isric

Gender:  female

Sexuality:  Straight

Pronouns: she/her

O T H E R S

Famly: Parents(father is Joint Chief of Survey and Exploration, mother is an opera singer), older brother(deceased; Imperial Army lieutenant)

Birthplace: Dromund Kaas

Job: Formerly Imperial Intelligence operative, currently Commander of the Alliance

Phobias: autophobia, her past coming back to bite her

• Guilty pleasures: her relationship with Chance Hot bath with a hot drink and a locked door between her and the rest of the galaxy

M O R A L S

Morality alignment: Neutral/Neutral Good

Sins: lust/greed/gluttony/sloth/pride/envy/wrath 

Virtues: chastity/charity/diligence/humility/kindness/patience/justice

T H I S - O R - T H A T

Introverted/extrovert

Organized/disorganized

Close-minded/open-minded(started off close-minded, got more open-minded post Act-2 of class story)

Calm/anxious

Disagreeable/agreeable 

Cautious/reckless

Patient/impatient

Outspoken/reserved

Leader/follower

Empathetic/unempathetic

Optimistic/pessimistic (Depends on the situation)  

Traditional/modern

Hard-working/lazy

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

• otp: Ody/Chance and later Ody/Rass (lbr, I have way more brainrot about Ody/Chance though)

• ot3: n/a

• brotp: none during the main story, BUT post KotFE 12/13 she and Jorgan get to be surprisingly good friends. Surely this has nothing to do with bonding over loss. :)))))

• notp: Ody/Hunter *shudder*

[viperdove-if]

bet O and damin are besties..i know two assholes of the same feather, flock together.

They actually don't like each other lmao. O thinks Damin is annoying and Damin thinks O is an asshole.

Hilariously ironic.

(O is great friends with Caspian, though!)