#oh god i have to tag all of them

[goldinrod]

what lies ahead

[silly-ehggy]

Bigass mp100 doodle page (I've posted some of these already but some not)

(Reblogs over likes)p

[apiigeon]

some twst headcanons i have!!

(mostly for characters' appearances)

◍ Rook has dimples

◍ Deuce had multiple ear piercings during his delinquent phase, he no longer wears them

◍ Cater actually has brown hair and just dyes it ginger. he also likes to change his hairstyle every couple of months. sometimes he dyes it differently, sometimes he has different bangs, sometimes he just has something completely new

◍ Kalim, seeing Cater's and Lilia's dyed hair, also wanted to try. you can guess what Jamil's reaction was

◍ sometimes pop music club just get together and paint each other's nails all evening

◍ Riddle has freckles

◍ Epel has long eyelashes

◍ Ortho and Idia have a greek nose

◍ Idia is transmasc. he just is. idk this is like one of my two main gender/sexuality hcs for twst cast (the other one is Vil using he/she pronouns but that's practically canon so)

◍ Malleus has black scales on his body. aside from the canon ones on his forehead, he also has some on his spine, around his shoulder blades and a little bit on his arms

◍ also his nails are just naturally black, he doesn't paint them

◍ many characters have scars:

- Deuce: a few scars on his hands and one on his lips that are left from his delinquent phase

- Epel: a small scar on his forehead under his bangs from the time he fell and hit his head as a kid, as well as a couple tiny scars on his fingers from when he was just learning apple carving

- Ace: small scars on his hands, elbows and knees, also from falling a bit too hard

- Ruggie: a few scars on his hands and knees. also has calluses on his hands

- Lilia: multiple different scars from the war. they weren't able to fully heal, since they were left by iron weapons

- Rook: scars all around his body from all the harsh training he endured as a kid. he used to have calluses on his hands, but Vil gave him a list of hand creams with instructions on how to use them, so his hands are more soft now

- Idia: a scar on his arm from encountering a phantom as a kid

that is not all, i just don't have any specific ideas for the rest

◍ Vil has moles on his right hand and on his collarbone (both of which Rook loves to kiss quite a lot)

◍ Azul has horizontal pupils

◍ he also has a lot of moles on his body

◍ Idia doesn't like his fire hair (for multiple reasons), but there is one good thing about it – it doesn't require any care at all

◍ Ruggie has vitiligo

◍ i really liked people's hcs of Leona having dreadlocks with gold jewelry so im adopting it

◍ Rook, Azul and Sebek are ambidextrous

◍ after a long day (and if she doesn't have any other plans) Vil likes to take a long bath

[webspinning]

for the pride thing!!

1, 2, 4, 12, 13 for Bananaberry, Coereba, Hellion, Ikol, Macaron

14, 16, 19, 21 for you :)

don't need to do all of them if you don't want !!

ouragh !!!!!!!!

OCs 1. Bananaberry - Transfem, girly doesn't really think about it much. Coereba - Nonbinary! They always were but they're much happier to be able to express it more as a dragon. Hellion - He's never labelled himself and doesn't care to, uses he/they though. Occasionally gets she/her used on him when he's out and doesn't care. Ikol - Agender, or perhaps bigender, or maybe he's pangender. He has a normal relationship with her gender [lying] because I projected really hard. Macaron - They're just nonbinary for now, that might change though. 2. Bananaberry - Sapphic and happy with it. Coereba - Unlabelled...they're t4t though. Hellion - Bisexual, biromantic, strong preference for men that can manhandle him. Ikol - Pansexual, panromantic, fictoromantic, ambiamorous..I project hard on this guy and I'm not sorry. Probably grayro? Subject to change. Macaron - Aroace!! They eat aphobes. 4. Bananaberry - Yeah, scavengers don't know shit about human gender so her telling them when she found out was honestly great. May is trans too so everyone was pretty used to the idea. Her being sapphic isn't really a huge deal either.. they're happy to see her happy. [This also applies to Reba] Coereba - Previously, no. Their family was incredibly transphobic and generally awful. Living with Bananaberry they have a very supportive environment though. They have some trauma from it along with other things but they're okay. Hellion - His mother is more disappointed he's forty years old and still emo. His father bought him a bi flag once [he's also bi] so yeah. He does well. Ikol - Same as Reba, horrible environment [all around, Nighthawk was not nice to her] but more in a sense that Nighthawk just Did Not Care as long as Ikol kept doing the work he asked of her. Now he has a mostly supportive enviroment and the ability to punch people in the face. Macaron - Yeah mostly! The HiveWings also don't care as long as they keep doing their job. 12. Bananaberry - No, she's happy with it. Coereba - A lot, they endured a ton of awfulness about it from their family and often wished they could change just to stop it. Bananaberry helps with reassuring them though, and it helps to be in a good environment. For the rest of them also no !! 13. Bananaberry - Possibly? There would have to be communication with Reba but honestly I think she'd be okay with it. Coereba - Same as Baby, communication. They like the idea of having more than one partner. Hellion - Iffy. He's had open relationships before, but it's not really something he's fully open to. Ikol - Yes !! Very much so. Macaron - They'd be alright with a QPR poly relationship :) ME 14. I do! I'm probably going to forget some because i have a lot but Wholewheat and Macaron are aroace, Embers is alloace, and Tiramisu is asexual. 16. Yes, a few of them have had identity changes. Ikol used to be an omnisexual demigirl, for example. I think there's more but I can't remember :C 19. Unsure what this question is really supposed to mean? I depict it sometimes when it comes into play and I try to do it well lmao. 21. Polyamorous dragons, thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[pixlokita]

friendship (?) sillies ✨💕

[heartorbit]

find another role, carry on the show

[puddii-ng]

big fan of the new kids,,

[riuuneon]

headcanon designs🔥🔥🔥

(except they're in stick form... I made gijinkas/human designs first but i need to redraw them... So take these first...!!!!!)

[Alt text contains a few design notes ^_^]

[crimeronan]

i've seen a couple people in the notes of this very good post about fictional polyamory by @thebibliosphere say things along the lines of "oh, i've been doing it wrong :(" or "how do i know if i did this right??" or "i should probably give up and start over, i wrote this badly :(" and. no!!!!

(i AM seeing far MORE people say "oh, this clarified and helped me so much, i think i know how to fix issues i've been having with my own story" which. YES!!!!)

listen. if you're a monogamous person who's writing a polyamorous relationship, and you've been focusing mainly on The Triad and All Three Together All The Time as the endgame, that's literally fine. that's a perfectly acceptable and strong starting point for your plotting, imo. you do not need to give up on a story that you've started like this.

but the things discussed in the post Can and Should improve your execution!

you can keep the same plot beats and overall relationship arc 100%. polyamorous relationships are infinite in their formations, every one is unique. "basically a monogamous romance but with three people" Does exist, as a relationship type. you're not hashtag Misrepresenting (TM) poly people with it

BUT i do think it will help to read up on some poly people talking about how their relationships Differ from monogamous ones.

so i have outlined some basic important concepts about polyamory.

MORE IMPORTANTLY though, i've broken down some questions that you can answer throughout the writing process to strengthen your individual dyad relationships, your individual characterization, & your characters' individual feelings/experiences. this is a writing resource have fun

future kitkat butting in to say i spent over two hours writing this and it definitely needs a readmore. it is also NOT comprehensive. but everything should be pretty simple to follow! feel free to reblog if you find it helpful yourself or just want to reward me for how gotdan long this took KSLDKFJKDL.

i've grabbed quick links for a couple of the important concepts, some have SEO pitches in them but the info largely seems to be good. (if i missed anything Egregiously Gross on these sites i should be able to update the links with better ones later, since they're under the readmore.)

sidenote: this is NOT meant to be overwhelming, despite the length. if you can't read all of this, that's Okay. you do not need to give up on your writing.

here we go:

compersion!

compersion is a BIG thing in a lot of polyamorous relationships. it's joy derived from seeing two (or more) of your partners happy together, or joy derived from seeing your partner happy with someone else.

compersion is really important as a concept because it highlights that every individual relationship within a polycule is different -- and that that's a GOOD thing. it's sort of the inverse of jealousy.

by the "inverse of jealousy," i mean that instead of feeling left out and upset and possessive, you feel happy/joyous/content.

i can use personal experience as an example: it's a Relief for me when my partners receive joy/support/sex/romance/etc that i can't (or prefer not to) give them. and i love seeing my partners make each other laugh and be silly together.

it's 100% okay for a poly triad not to be together 100% of the time, it doesn't mean that the third member is being left out or not treated equally when two people do things alone together.

(i have individual dates with my partners all the time! PLUS larger 3-and-4-person date nights.)

if the third member DOES feel jealous or left out, then the polycule can have a conversation to figure out what needs/wants aren't being met, and solve that. this happens semi-regularly in my polycule, as it will happen in any relationship (including monogamous ones)! it's just part of being an adult, sometimes you have to talk about feelings.

metamours!

a metamour is someone who is dating your partner, but ISN'T dating you. this may not be relevant for people writing closed three-person romantic sexual triads, but it's a super helpful term to know.

the linked article also lists different types of metamour relationships with some fun phrasing i hadn't heard before. the tl;dr is: sometimes you'll be domestic cohabitation friends, sometimes you'll be buddies with your own friendship, sometimes you might not interact much outside of parties, every relationship is different.

there's no one-size-fits-all requirement for metamour relationships. sometimes polyamorous people will end up dating their metamour after a while (has happened to me), sometimes polyamorous people will break up with one partner for normal life reasons, but remain friendly metamours.

the goal of polyamory is NOT for EVERYONE to fall in love. it is 100% okay if this happens in your story, it happens in real life too! but it is also 100% okay for characters to be metamours without ever becoming "more than friends."

(sidenote: try to kill any internalized "more than" that you have when it comes to friendship. friends are just as important and special and vital as partners.)

of course there are a million ways for messiness to occur with metamours within a complex polycule, exactly like with close-knit platonic friend groups. however this post is not about that! there's enough "here's how polyamory can go wrong" stuff out there already, so i'm focusing on the positives here :)

open versus closed polyamorous relationships!

i'm struggling to find an online article that reflects my experience without directly contradicting at least SOME stuff. so i'll give a quick rundown

google has a bunch of conflicting definitions of open relationships and whether open relationships are different from polyamory. the general consensus seems to be that an open relationship prioritizes one partnership (often a marriage), but that each partner can have extraneous flings or long-term commitments (most often sexual in nature).

this is not typically how i use the term wrt polyamory. the poly concept is pretty simple. a closed polyamorous relationship is one with boundaries like a monogamous one. there are multiple partners in the polycule, but they are not interested in having anybody new join said polycule.

an open polyamorous relationship tends to be more flexible -- it just means that IF someone in the polycule develops mutual feelings for a new person, it's fine for them to become part of said polycule if they want to! the relationship/person is open to newcomers.

some groups will need to negotiate this all together, others will just go "haha, you kids have fun." just depends on the individuals!

with open AND closed polyamorous relationships, the most important thing is making sure that there's respectful communication and that everyone is on the same page. but there's no one-size-fits-all way to do that.

i wish i could give you guys a prescriptive "You Must Do It This Way" guide, but that's.... basically the opposite of what polyamory is about, HAHA.

feelings for multiple people!

i was gonna tack this on to the previous section but decided it warranted its own lil bit.

a defining feature (....i'm told?) of monogamous relationships is that a monogamous person only has feelings for One individual at a time. they only want a relationship with one individual at a time. or, if they DO have feelings for multiple people simultaneously, they're still only comfortable dating one person at a time & being exclusive with that one person.

this is perfectly fine!

the poly experience is generally different from this. but once again..... polyamorous people all have different individual perspectives on this.

for me, i have never been able to draw hard boxes around romantic vs sexual vs platonic relationships, & i love many people at once. my personal polycule lacks many strict definitions beyond "these are my chosen people, i want to forge a life with them indefinitely, whatever shape that life takes"

some poly people feel explicit romantic or sexual attraction to multiple people at once, some poly people feel almost no romantic or sexual attraction at all. i'd say that MOST poly people feel different things for different partners, which is not a bad thing!

some poly people are even monogamous-leaning -- they have just chosen one romantic partner who is themselves part of a larger polycule. (so this monogamous-leaning person has at least one metamour!)

or alternatively, they might have one romantic partner AND a qpr, or other ways of defining relationships. (this is a factor in my own polycule!)

i made this its own point because if you're writing a straightforward triad, this is unlikely to come up in the story itself -- but it's worth thinking about how your characters develop/handle feelings outside of their partnerships.

like, is this sort of a soulmateship, 'these are the only ones for me' type deal? in which they won't fall in love with anyone else, and can be fairly certain of that?

that's pretty close to typical monogamous standards but you Can make it work. just be thoughtful with it

alternatively, can you see any of these characters falling in love Again after the happily-ever-after? and how would the triad approach it, if so? what would they all need to talk about beforehand, and what feelings would everybody have about the situation?

it's worth considering these questions even if the hypothetical will never feature in your actual canon, because knowing the answers to these questions will help you understand all of the individuals & their relationship(s) MUCH better.

i've been typing this for nearly two hours and there's a lot more i COULD say because... there's just a lot to say. i'll close out with some quick questions that you can ask yourself when developing the dyad dynamics within your triad

first, take a page and create a separate section for each individual dyad. then answer these questions for every pair:

how does each pair act when alone?

how do they act differently alone compared to when they're with their third partner?

are there any elements of this dyad (romantic, sexual, financial, domestic, etc) that these two people DON'T have with the third partner?

if so, what are they?

are there any boundaries or hard limits within this dyad that aren't shared with the third partner?

if so, what are they?

partner 3 goes out of town alone for a few weeks. what are the remaining two doing in their absence?

(doesn't have to be anything special, it's just to get a sense of how the two interact on a day-by-day basis without the third there)

what is something that each partner in the dyad admires about the other -- that they DON'T necessarily see in the third partner?

what problem do These Two Specifically need to solve in the story before their relationship will work?

how is that problem DIFFERENT from the problems being solved within the other two dyads?

doing this for ALL THREE dyads is VITAL imo. that way, you develop complex and nuanced and different relationships that all have unique dynamics.

those questions should be enough to get you started, i hope

then After you've charted the differences in relationships, you can start to jot down similarities in the overarching triad. what does one person admire in Both of their partners? what are activities that all three like to do together? what are boundaries or discussions that all three share?

but the main goal is to figure out how to Differentiate each relationship!

a polycule is only as strong as the individual relationships within it. if two people are struggling with their own relationship, adding a third person won't fix that.

(UNLESS the third person is the catalyst for those two to, like, Actually Communicate And Work Their Shit Out. i just mean that the old adage of "maybe if we just add a third-" works about as well to fix a miserable non-communicative marriage as, uh, "maybe if we have a baby-")

AND FINALLY.

if you're not sure whether your poly romance reads organically to poly people, you can hire a sensitivity reader with poly experience. if you can't afford that, you can read up on polyamorous resources like a glossary of terms & articles actually written by poly people. (and stories written by poly people!)

you can also just.... ask poly people questions, if they're open to it. i like talking about polyamory and my own relationships so you're welcome to send asks if u want, i just can't guarantee i'll answer bc my energy levels fluctuate a lot and i don't always have time.

polyamorous people are in an uphill battle for positive representation right now & so the LAST thing i want to see is authors giving up on their stories bc they're worried about getting things Wrong. well-meaning and positive stories that treat this kind of love as normal, healthy, & aspirational are So So So Needed. even if you guys end up with some funky-feeling details.

seriously, if you're monogamous then you probably don't have a full idea of Just How Nasty a lot of people can get about polyamory. i wish it DIDN'T mean so much for you guys to want to write nice stories about us, but it does mean a lot. and it means a lot that you want to do it WELL.

in conclusion. this is not a prescriptive guide, it's just a way to raise questions. and also, you all are doing FINE.

[feroluce]

I have finally finished 2.4 and oh my GOD watching Dan Heng be so protective of his friends nearly killed me, MY HEART.

And yes, the cutscene where he pushes the trailblazer out of the way and even cushions their fall with his own body, but I mean even before that! When he was already trying to protect them and March 7th from Feixiao and Lingsha!!

Because if you watch the dango trio throughout the main quest, you'll notice that they often position themselves in the same way, which is a detail that makes me super happy that Hoyo thought to include- when the three of them aren't evenly spaced, March 7th and the trailblazer tend to gravitate towards each other and stand very close together, frequently side-by-side. And by comparison, Dan Heng usually stands slightly away, and often even slightly behind them, where he can pull on their leashes to wrangle them keep an eye on them.

This is probably a habit learned through experience, since March 7th said during Belobog she is the "queen of unannounced disappearances" fjdksajfkldjsak

And of course at least a little bit of it is just done for like, aesthetic purposes. It's a video game. Things have to look nice for the player. The trailblazer and Dan Heng are the same height, March 7th is a bit shorter, and Yanqing is even smaller. It makes sense to have the trailblazer and Dan Heng stand on the ends, with March 7th and Yanqing in the middle, it just looks nicer and more balanced that way. But still! Even when they're accommodating for Yanqing in this quest, they still all arrange themselves the same way, almost every time!

But this changes after Dan Heng and Yanqing become suspicious of the visitors from the Yaoqing.

The dango trio still stand around relaxed and in their usual manner when they go to the artisanship delve and meet Skott,

but Dan Heng takes notice of Lingsha when she arrives, and he and Yanqing mentioned her specifically when discussing their worries.

Yanqing worrying so much about Jing Yuan got me right in the heart, he's such a good boy WEH

And when the four of them go out to the alchemy delve to meet Lingsha for tea, the pattern breaks. Suddenly Dan Heng is standing right up front, and even walks in and enters the scene before March 7th and the trailblazer to get to Lingsha before them. He stays a step in front of them the whole time, too.

And then when Dan Heng and the trailblazer have to go be interrogated by Feixiao! The same deal! Dan Heng walks in ahead of them and stays in front of them! Noticeably so! Enough that even Feixiao takes note and voices it!

Dan Heng is so so fiercely protective of his companions, and I love it, I adore hyper vigilance in the wake of trauma like this, I'm so excited to see what else he does in 2.5, I hope we either get to see him get fucked up or the trailblazer gets fucked up in his place, I wanna see them run through the meat grinder!!!

[zombieslab]

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[nephilimbrute]

peculiar creatures of the sea. if u want u could suggest some other bands for me to draw :3

[vairiance]

[secretagentspydetectiveninja]

Pride Month time! (Dual Destinies version)

[felsicveins]

His heart belongs to another

And no other heart will do

[heartorbit]

revstar emu save me