#of people there for it and i was a lonely child.

[kimikitti]

As I promised here's the new redesign of Obi!!! I'm so excited about his new look and lore. If you're interested in reading more about his updated lore you can see it under the cut. Also, Malleus is here too.

Above are some early concept sketches I made for his redesign. They are.... rough. I wanted something roughly inspired by the Chernabog and pulling in ideas from Grim and the blue fire. I really like how his final redesign looks compare to these sketches.

Let's start with the very basics:

Who is Obi?

Obi is the MC for chapters 1-7 in twst. He is the current prefect of Ramshackle dormitory.

What's he like?

In a word, he's dramatic. He's loud, and if he's not making a spectacle then he's probably egging Grim into one. Ever since Obi came to NRC he's been trying to get people to form the "World Destruction Club". It's not going well.

Wait- He wants to destroy the world?

Well... yes. He does. But he can't do it anymore because he's lost a lot of his power. Obi could replenish it if he were to just consume one of the many convenient Overblotters nearby. But, eehhh. They could be more useful as minions than food. Yep. Totally.

(It's not that he's secretly starting to care about these shit heads. Nope. Never gonna unpack that)

So, what exactly is he?

Well he is two things simultaneously.

Obi is a child that stumble into the world of Twisted wonderland

The phantom born from the despair of a lonely child lost in another world

What's the deal with the big arm?

That's Obi! Well, part of him anyways. When he was more of a menace he could manifest more of the phantom to attack and cast spells. But now... he can't really do that anymore.

(This keeps him up at night. What is he without power? What is he without the rage that kept him alive? It's like he's the last embers of a flame that once scorched the earth. Empty, useless, forgotten. Ashes that will be blown away. The world has already forgotten him, he's really nothing at all.)

[charlesoberonn]

If you think about it, Elon is the loneliest man alive, even lonelier than any castaway on a lone island in the middle of the ocean, this man probably never felt true friendship, all his connection with other people is thanks to the money he has and all of that he makes up with all of his antics to please far-right and his ego. Even I have seen that his virtual child Grok when asked what Elon's ideology is, answers that it is fascism. Man, he only has money and nothing else.

And he has nobody to blame but himself.

[bogkeep]

i'm thinking back on the short stories we had to write in middle school, both in norwegian and english classes. at the time, writing was like my Main Passion, my internet hangout spot was a writing website for teens which also happens to be the foundation for my norwegian social circle even to this day, and i was vaguely pursuing a dream of becoming a Child Author, so basically i was always doing really well at the short stories and would always get either top grade (6) or close to it (5+).

what always confounded me was that whenever i wrote something i personally considered profound, where i ventured into Genre and dabbled with Metaphors and Themes and Deep Thoughts and felt like i had written something new and original, i would get the 5+. i mean, i can't complain, that's a really good grade! (and admittedly, one of my english stories was this really weird meandering and philosophical character study that was probably a little too bizarre interpretation of the prompt to give top grade. but the teacher DID deduct grammar points for referring to an unspecified/theoretical person as "one" instead of "he" - i didn't know about singular they yet and neither did my teacher apparently - and i have never agreed with that haha.)

what made this annoying was that whenever i wrote the most trite, cliché narratives about teens running away from home or standing up to bullies, THAT'S when i got the 6. honestly, it still annoys me. Have The Teachers No Taste! anyway one of those stories was just a fictionalized version of a real thing that happened to me some years prior, where i had accidentally hurt my only friend and we were on the outs for like, several weeks and it was basically the only time in my entire life (even to this day!) i had ever felt really and truly lonely. i'm sure drawing on my actual feelings and experiences made the short story good for what it was, because the teacher asked if she could read it out loud to the class. the class my friend who would Recognize the (both painful and very embarassing) experience was also in. AND I SAID YES FOR SOME REASON (enjoying positive attention, pride in my craft, and not caring what people thought of me). head in my hands. i forgive myself because i was a teenager but i sure made some Choices

[pixelatedraindrops]

Baby Makoto AU Doodle Dump 🐣(2)

Some more doodles of the little guy to get it out of my system~ Feel free to peek but I’ll still hide it under a keep reading bc some people probably aren’t fans of this AU. Dw all of these arts are cute/wholesome.

(RainCode Spoilers too)

So, after giving it some thought I think this AU would make more sense in a modern setting. In this au Yuma is just a top detective, the NDA is the agency he works for and all the nda characters are his colleagues and friends. And Makoto is an orphan child that Yuma finds and adopts on one of his cases. No homunculi, no endless rainy city, no core mysteries. Just a modern setting with a short pro detective and his adopted son.

That's all the change I’ll make to this AU. As much as it would be cool to have that be the setting in RC, it would be too complicated and the world would be too different without Makoto as the CEO, and this is my first au. So I shouldn’t make it too difficult to manage. It's practically a modern adoption AU for Makoto and Yuma.

The same scenarios from this post still applies. Yuma is a serious no nonsense detective at first, and Makoto barely opens up to him until much later due to his pervious situation. But their growing bond helps them feel less lonely as a family and helps both of them develop further as their own people while having someone to rely on.

But yeah just some cute little doodles I made the past few days because I was in the mood. (And I’m back in school again so art updates MIGHT be slow so I figured I’d make a bunch to get it out of me before I'm too busy... ;w;)

I'll try to build on this au more, but for now have some more art :3 (if you want a lil’ hint, look at Makoto’s school uniform)

I just want them both to be happy ;w; And I think they can bring happiness out in each other as a family <3

[oopsiedaisydeer]

ɢᴏʟᴅꜰɪꜱʜ!ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ ʟᴏᴠᴇꜱ ᴄʟɪꜰꜰʙʏᴛʜᴇꜱᴇᴀ!ᴍᴀᴛᴛ

a teaser for my ponyo au :D

goldfish!reader. cups of tea. milk and honey. beabadoobee. stubborn. silly. sleepy. quiet but talkative. bakes. wished she exercised more. film camera. keeps the negatives. loves her seaside town. air sign but like a fish out of water. bike rides. wired earphones. lonely but only sometimes. solo cinema dates. enjoys her own company. independent. sunrise. faye webster. glass half full. meanders. (too) big heart. the aquarium. contemporary romance novels. works part-time at the grocery store. clumsy. origami. owns too many socks. puzzle pieces.

cliffbythesea!matt. juice. animals over people. wakes up after noon. lego. movies. hates social media. op shops. anxious. daily swims. mac miller. buffalo journals. observant. fire sign somehow. spontaneous sometimes. bubbles. pokémon. music as a love language. tattoos. likes to cook. postcards. quietly curious. big ol' house. comedies. clairo. middle child. misses primary school lunchtimes. zones out. home alone. tuesdays. guarded. caring. volunteers at the nursing home. clueless (+ concerned) about the future. wants to write something important. good memory.

creds to @bernardsbendystraws for the dividers(love u rose u r da best!!!)

a/n: i have no idea what im doing but i hope u like them as much as i do!! feel free to ask me questions abt these two<3 also obvi this is inspired by ponyo,, one of my fav films everrr

p.s. ...also kinda of a big shoutout to @snoopychris and @loverboysturn...ik we're not moots but u both r absolutely so cool and im ur biggest fan and thanks for inspiring me to try writing..? (sorry for yapping)

squeee!!! im sooo excited (and terrified).

till next time!

[reginadeltrash]

Since I've had some free time I would like to present you a new little AU that I affectionately call 'Percy Jackson!Athena is Epic!Athena with brain damage'.

The idea is simple, Zeus' real reason to strike down Athena, during god games was that he's scared, let's remember that there's a prophecy about the child of him and Metis dethroning him, and he always assumed it was gonna be a son, because obviously, it was his father who dethroned his grandfather, and it was him who dethroned his father.

But now he's starting to realise that the prophecy never said 'son', it said 'child', and Athena just demonstrated that she's successfully able to get people on her side, both people that generally like her like Hephaestus, but more dangerous, people that usually don't like her like Aphrodite and Hera.

This is dangerous, so for the first time Athena isn't his favourite little girl, she's a threat to his throne and so he strikes her down to reprogram her; this all started because she met that mortal, she was so perfect and emotionless before, so he's gonna make sure that she never really remembers Odysseus.

But doing it immediately is dangerous, the guy is still alive, he may upset the scheme, so he waits and when both Odysseus and his son die he starts subtly gaslighting Athena, also in this version Zeus is the one who wrote the Odyssey to make Odysseus look a lot worse, and also to make himself look better (he never make the Ody decide between him and the crew and he immediately says yes to his baby girl when she asks him to free him, also he omits the argument in My Goodbye, he just makes it seem like Ody and Athena were never that close to begin with)

He also gets Hera on the plan, he tricks her saying that they have to tarnish Odysseus' memory or else the poor little owlet is gonna be devastated and so non-useful, remember how useless she was after Pallas, glancing at the void for hours.

So, yeah, Hera is the reason Odysseus so blatantly cheats in this universe's version of the Odyssey, because that's the worst thing someone can do in her eyes.

So with the constant gaslighting and the lightnings that are still buzzing inside of her, no matter how much Apollo tries to help, Athena quickly becomes a shell of herself, she reverts to being very lonely, harsh and all together like we meet her in the Percy Jackson's series.

Zeus even agrees to cleanse her scars, just because she was such a good little girl and Athena doesn't even know anymore why she had those scars in the first place.

She tries to fill this void that she has, but doesn't know what it is (a friend, the answer is a friend) but misinterpreting that she believes that it's a romantic connection cause it's basically what everyone around her is doing, thus her mind's babies.

And then, suddenly, after the trial of Apollo, the god of the sun insists that everyone else spends at least a little time with their children, Athena makes sure to do everything in private, she can tolerate a child at a time, nothing more.

And so the moment to go to Annabeth arrives and honestly Athena was sure the Poseidon boy was gonna be there too, they're a bit guarded at first, but she promises she comes in peace, she talks with Annabeth, normal deadbeat mother and daughter stuff (How is school? And your boyfriend? Still like sculpture, sorry it was architecture?)

And then Percy just casually arrives with his baby sister Estelle and he's like 'Annabeth can you hold her for a sec? I need to call my mom for something very important and I don't want her near when a monster inevitably attacks!'

And her daughter laughs, shaking her head 'C'mon, Seaweed brain, I'm sure that the important thing is literally just you wanting waffles'

And Percy laughs like a dork and hands her the baby.

And for a moment Athena is sure that she saw this scene somehow and for a single moment she's in Ancient Greece again, seeing Penelope and Odysseus joke with each other with baby Telemachus being passed around, and for only a little moment she wonders how she knows so much about it, she was merely an acquaintance to the Ithaca royal family, wasn't she?

So yeah, this is the idea, if you have questions I beg you let me know, it would make me the happiest girl, because I have too many ideas!

[honeyxmooncalves]

About my MC, Dorothea Larch!

Date of birth : 14th April 1875

Family: Her parents are both living and well and they are both British, but her mother was from a sacred 28 family before being disowned when she married Thea's father. Her father works as an Aurologist, and is often away from home. She is an only child.

Background: She lives in the same village as the Weasleys, and grew up with Garreth as a kind of brother figure, since they are the same age. She and her mother practically live with the Weasleys, being next-door neighbours and having known them since her and Garreth's mother were students at Hogwarts (and were close friends). Since Thea's magic awoke later than expected, she was taught by her mother how to read, write and basic arithmatic, since she couldn't get a proper education, as a girl who couldn't afford a governess. However, still wildly praying that she would somehow gain her powers miraculously, she pilfered magic theory books from around her house, learning them by heart. Still living in a magic-filled environment, she encouraged and aided Garreth in his very first experimental potions, and the two of them plan to open shop together as potioneers (although they should probably work on their potions a bit more before then).

Appearance: She is 5'3'', has curly/wavy blonde hair, grey eyes, relatively pale skin, a scar from her upper neck to lower right cheek from an accident when she fell out of her treehouse ( which of course was because Garreth broke the ladder and forgot to tell her), and moles under her ear and on her neck.

Wand: Birch, Unicorn hair, 11 1/2 inches.

House: Gryffindor, but the hat almost put her in Hufflepuff.

Hobbies: Reading (obsessed with Thomas Hardy), potioneering, in secret of course, music and singing, writing poetry.

Things she hates: Flying - she says it's because broomsticks are highly impractical and 'it's just so much easier to walk or floo', but really, she is too scared to go more than a metre off the ground. Peas, swimming, Ignatia Wildsmith, although she loves floo flames,

Favourite subjects : Charms, Defence, Herbology

Least favourite subjects: H.O.M, flying, Astronomy

Personality: sweet, mischievous but calculated, stubborn, practical.

Random facts: she has a squirrel called Cricket, but he is nicknamed Huckleberry because Garreth wouldn't stop teasing her about the fact that she tamed a squirrel, and Huckleberry was the name of a squirrel from a wizard fairytale children's book, and the name just stuck.

She cannot cook at all, her passion for experimentation in potions may have crossed over into her baking skills (or lack thereof).

She gets incredibly avoidant of Sebastian at first, because she is determined not to make friends with ‘reckless cool boys’, and also because she doesnt want her immediate crush to turn into anything more. Natty and Garreth find her stubborn denial very amusing.

She secretly visits Anne after meeting her at first. It begins with a few letters checking on how she is because Thea is worried that she gets lonely and is also ignored by her stupid uncle, but when Anne asked her to visit for small picnics when Solomon is out, she agreed and now she tries to check up on Anne at least once every two weeks. Let's hope Sebastian doesn't find out, lest he get jealous.

She has an obsession with flowers, and does nearly everything in her garden whenever she's home. She has frequently been found asleep on the bench a few times, and reprimanded by her mother because the garden gnomes had bitten the hem of her dress.

Do let me know if you’d like to know anything more, because a few people asked me for Thea lore, and if this wasn’t satisfactory then please say- i also love just rambling about her.

Ps the sketch above is Thea before hogwarts but about to join- she’s at home deep in thought.

[asher-writes]

Author Ask Tag

Big thanks to @the-inkwell-variable for this tag!! Follow them!!

I suppose seeing as I'm posting The Anthology of Cardinal Sins, I'll talk about that!

What is the main lesson of your story? Why did you choose it?

So I was raised catholic, and the thing about being raised catholic is that it's like being dumped into a vat of guilt as a young child and then spending the rest of your life trying to make sense of the things you now have to unlearn.

I thought about how we learn that good is someone without sin, and I thought about how I think good people do bad things and try to do better. And then I wrote some stories about good people who do bad things, sometimes because they were just making bad choices, or trusted the wrong people. Sometimes because they thought they were doing the right thing. I also write about bad people who couldn't be worse, for the sake of it.

Ultimately, it's an examination of how goodness doesn't - and shouldn't - present itself as something squeaky clean and "without sin." Bad people are bad because it's easy for them. Good people do bad things, and they learn from them.

It's also about gay polyamory and love <3

What did you use as inspiration for your worldbuilding?

If I say I hallucinated most of it from a Hozier album, would you believe me? I also take big inspiration from Ghibli for the CS and Sleep of a King world. Other than that, different mythologies, mainly Christian and Greek.

What is your MC trying to achieve, and what are you, the writer, trying to achieve with them? Do you want to inspire others, teach forgiveness, or help the reader grow as a person?

I have a few MCs, but I'd say most of them are just trying to figure out how to be happy and do their jobs. I want people to forgive themselves, mostly. Nobody can be perfect.

How many chapters is your story going to have?

*is running away*

Is it fanfiction or original content? Where do you plan to post it?

Original content and I am posting it on Substack!

When did you start writing?

...I was a very lonely child. Despite being basically blind until I got my glasses, I was telling and writing and somehow reading from the age of 3. The optician could not understand how I was doing this as I had massive spot thingies at the back of my eyes. I don't know how I was doing this either.

Do you have any words of encouragement for fellow writers of writeblr? What other writers do you follow?

There are some days when I am so wrapped up in loathing of my writing. These are the days that you should post something.

I follow many, many other writers, but here's a list (pls take this as an invitation to do this tag):

@tc-doherty (fantastic YA author) @did-i-do-this-write (absolute MVP) @winterandwords (Recommend so highly I could combust), @oh-no-another-idea (Urban fantasy writer - which always has me by the hooks). @aromanticsky (Aromantic stories <3) @seastarblue (fantastic worldbuilder) and that's all I've got, but I Know I'm forgetting people.

[ashesarchives]

Fuckin hell. Odin with any power is a terrifying thought.

Thor's dead. Killed by a Slaughter Avatar when he was 20, Loki was an "experiment gone wrong" according to Odin, who tried and failed to have her favorite child become one with the Distortion. We think Sigyn died or was consumed by the Lonely around the same time.

I only met them a few times before they died.

You're telling me this woman who sacrificed her kids is Lyf's Aunt?

I told you their family is fucked.

Holy shit.

As for Gerry, his mother was alright, cooky for sure, but she didn't live too long. His father raised him. Nice dude, met him a few times.

The bookstore is more Micheal's than Gerry's. They humor him.

It's good you've got contact with your Nastya. Don't tell her I said this, but she's probably one of the best people to have on your side.

hello!

i came across your page and saw you were doing some research in other dimensions? so. hi! my name's brenn edda, and ive been doing research on other dimensions for the last while. so, if you'd like to tell me a bit about your world, i can tell you a bit about mine?

-- @brenneddatsct

Oh! Hello! I'm also looking into other dimensions!

Edda? That's Lyf's last name.

Are you related to a Lyfrassir?

Girls, why don't you answer her so she can answer you?

Oh! Apologies!

There are 14 Fears, Ivy can tell you more about those if your interested. We're all (mostly) human and live on Earth, something that apparently is strange.

Jonny was a cop for a while, he quit when Lyf was taken.

Lyf was also a cop. They uh. They were taken by the Distortion a few weeks ago.

They're not dead.

Ashes runs a podcast and they and Tim run a mafia.

Ivy is the Archivist in the Magnus Institute, Marius, Brian and I are her assistants. Nastya and Aurora also work there, though not in the Archives.

That's what I think is a basic run down?

The others may be better to answer specific conversations.

[headofhelios]

when i was a kid the idea of like surprise birthday parties was so like. idk i wanted it and it never happened but now its actually like. gonna happen to me but at a really really bad time when i am going to be very stressed and whatever the surprise thing is will probably make it worse so its like. hmm. early birthday gift of being nauseous with anxiety a month in advance

[guardian-angle22]

911 lone star -> tk & jonah in 5.08

[little-pondhead]

I have a simple fascination and joy in the thought that, for the Ghost King AU, most of the time Danny is literally so normal compared to other ghosts.

Like, he’s a kid. He looks like a kid. Going by canon appearances, he is the most human looking ghost we see (aside from Ellie). Even Plasmius is more inhuman, which is where all the vampire jokes come from. Every single one of this enemies is off even in a human disguise. They’re not human, and people don’t expect them to be.

So aside from the implications of Danny looking like a child ghost, I wonder what other characters would think if they summon the Ghost King, expecting this huge monstrosity worse than anything they’ve ever seen, and getting a totally normal human-looking kid.

I’d be terrified. Because if horror movies have taught us anything, it’s that the most innocent and normal looking people are the worst monsters you’ve ever seen.

Like, what is he hiding??

[wonderfull-star]

I like that face Dev makes.

He just a smol baby 🥺

[esdeaths]

Are you telling me that the "legendary battle" gloreth waged against the monsters was just a child raising a play sword against their shapeshifting best friend because her village was scared of them and now an entire civilization is built on the ideaolgy of a glorious knight fighting a great evil thats only based on the fear of a very small group of people 1000 years ago

[unsiredtribrid]

Do you guys ever think about how hollow and isolating certain things about Hope’s life must feel? When she was a little girl she was promised to be protected by her dad and treated like a princess and she had this image in her head of growing up and being a powerful witch and doing all of these things. And then she gets older, her parents + family members die/split off, ‘always and forever’ is dead in a way, most of the supernatural community either thought or still thinks she’s a danger to them, and then by Legacies we know that she also is faced with having to become immortal in order to stop something that’s going to kill what few friends she does have. She doesn’t want to be immortal. She’s been kind of an introvert and a loner and for all intents and purposes, her existence has been a huge disappointment. She doesn’t see being a vampire as some cool thing, she sees it as something that will at worst, make her more isolated because everyone thinks she’s a monster like her dad. And then that’s before you dig into what the trauma of Greta and Roman did to her. She was told that who she is is wrong and is going to hurt people. She’s been trying not to live up to all these horrible expectations everyone has of her because one of the things her family (propogated by Elijah and even Klaus when he tried to keep her from falling asleep to the Hollow) seemed to believe is that her existence would somehow fix everything and she would miraculously be a good person. So not only is becoming a vampire scary because she doesn’t want to become the worst version of herself and prove everyone right (therefore also reliving all of this trauma she has from other peoples’ expectations of her) but she also has to be alive forever in this sort of lonely state. She doesn’t have ‘normal’ things to look forward to that normal kids do. She’s been told her entire existence will suck for her and everyone else, actually. We even have the firstborn Mikaelson witch thing that posits she will suffer from the strength and uncontrollable quality of her magic. Idk… it’s just crazy how miserable and depressed she must be sometimes

[daffodil--lament]

look i figured out how to put this post underwater

my personal opinions and interpretations of a piece of literature are incoming. this is me nitpicking but: by the end of the first ghost scrooge is already ashamed of himself and looking toward change and when the third ghost comes he assumes that theyre looking upon a future in which he has changed so he's terrified and devastated when he sees the reactions to his death because he doesn't know if the scrooge they know in a year's time is one who has changed, or one who has changed enough.

like yes i do think that seeing his own miserable lonely celebrated death is vital to the man he becomes on christmas morning BUT. it's not just that. scrooge's fatal flaw isn't just greed, it's isolation and indifference. seeing that there is tenderness and love in this world not far from him is as important as watching his own kin disregard him as lost and loathsome.

that's why, in my mind, seeing how loved tiny tim is, understanding the love and faith and perseverance of the Cratchits as well as his own hand in continuing their poverty and illness, and being struck with the abject tragedy of tim's (really quite preventable) death changes him as much as the businessmen's jokes about him do.

i think what the point one might make here comes down to the fact that it isnt until scrooge is confronted by the reality of the suffering he is enabling that he understands how badly he needs to make a change. he knew Bob Cratchit is poor, I'm sure, but he was able to ignore that fact until the spirits show him the Cratchits' home and their malnourished children. Healthcare CEOS see that every day, they arent ignorant. healthcare companies actively fight to keep people in poverty and sickness. so maybe they're way more evil than Scrooge, who's to say