#princess tries to blog

[firestia]

Little pony princesses 💗

[snufflepup]

You can be the princess, and I can be the dragon that keeps you safe and locked away in my castle !

[signed-sapphire]

Pardon TFS!Asha’s rudeness… she hasn’t quite reached her character development yet

@flicklikesstuff

[robin-5-technically]

robin robin how do you pspspsps wolves? do i need like,,, a snack or something? beef jerky?

- 💵

It just started following me to be entirely honest with you.

[livelaughlaney]

well… have you? 🤨

[thanksvideogames]

(pinned) 5x5 grid of babygirls featured in media I consumed in 2024

[2023]

simon henriksson by @knifecat111 frank west by me (I couldn't find any screenshots from the dead rising remaster that I liked so I just said fuck it and drew him myself)

[lynnmint8]

💜🐦‍⬛🖤

[hazbinsponsoredbyvee]

Say charlie do you keep in touch with any of your old school friends? You scream to me as one of those people who tries to get together with there old school friends every other week or so you don't lose touch, not that it's bad thing mind you

"I'm... not really super close to anyone that I went to school with. I had a lot of friends, but when we got older, I don't really know what changed. Well, I know Helsa started saying things about me that just weren't true, but I'm sure not everyone believed her."

[princess-marble]

I'm confused? This plant isn't edible? 😞👎

[momobear]

would anyone just talk to me maybe? :'3

[brightmoontrigon]

finished twilight princess. midna I love you forever

[eldritchlittleblackdragon]

hello i am very curious about alice van zieks 👀 if you would like to share!

@sevarix-blogs

Sure, I'd be happy to talk about Alice! It's been a hot minute since I talked about her I think. But here's a summary/some characters facts.

Warning for Spoilers Here Since this Talks about Things in Barok's Backstory, Also a General Warning Since Alice's Story Involves Conflict in/The Breakdown of a Relationship, and Victorian Era Sexism

Alice van Zieks (maiden name: Rask) is the estranged wife of Barok van Zieks. She was originally from America, the daughter of Dr. Simon Rask and his wife, Nora. Alice found her father's work fascinating and wished to follow in his footsteps, and while her father was supportive of this, others weren't so keen on her pursuing such a career. Eventually, she was persuaded that she couldn't pursue a career as a Coroner on her own without a husband who could financially support her by her uncle Vester, who had a vested interest in her abandoning (or at least putting on hold) her studies.

Alice's Uncle, Vester Rask, was a wealthy partner in a shipbuilding company, wished to increase his power, standing, and the security of his company by developing ties to the British nobility. He could only do so much without an heir he could marry off to an aristocrat, so he decided to try and see if he could rope his niece into playing the role (and persuade his brother to let this all happen ofc).

He managed to persuade all necessary parties, and so Alice went to England to participate in the London season.

There she met a young Barok van Zieks, introduced to her by Lady Harebrayne, the mother of Barok's long time friend Albert. Alice and Barok developed something of affinity for one another and became friends. At the point they met, it hadn't been terribly long since Klint's murder and he was still suffering very keenly from that loss. He didn't really keep anyone close, but Alice was the first in a while to treat him like a person rather than as the 'Reaper'.

He developed something of a crush for his debutante friend, but at first he thought it was too risky to express interest in her. But eventually something persuaded him it was worth trying. And due to youthful inexperience and not being in the best of headspaces, he rushed into things without really thinking them through.

Alice didn't have the same feelings Barok did, but he was the first person to take her seriously and appreciate her as she was, not what others thought she 'ought' to be. When he proposed she accepted, thinking perhaps she might return the feeling in time.

The first couple of years of their marriage were fairly good in terms of their relationship. But Barok were extremely protective, some may even say overprotective. (Although one could argue he was not entirely unreasonable given the dangers he faced due to his reputation and 'curse'.)

Alice wanted to continue her studies, and initially Barok strongly encouraged this. She met and was befriended by a certain Detective Sholmes and his young charge during this time (completely unaware that this young charge, Iris, was in fact her niece). But, when she expressed an interested in doing work for Scotland Yard, this didn't sit well with Barok (because in his mind it put her in the direct line of fire of his enemies). On this point, he would tried to dissuade her, and it became a sore point for the both of them.

Some of Barok's behaviors Alice discovered didn't sit well with her. He was not keen to talk much about certain aspects of his past at the time (for understandable reasons), but the lack of information upset Alice and in some cases led her to make some conclusions/consider some possibilities on her own (some incorrect).

And eventually, there were other problems in the relationship, conflicts and problems in communication (or due to a lack of communication in some instances) that eventually led to a breakdown in the relationship.

Eventually, Alice separated* from Barok and went to live with her parents again. Only she wouldn't be returning to America. Her father was instead invited by a work colleague he met in Britain to teach at a University in Tokyo, Japan. She would continue to pursue and wrap up her studies there.

(*Separated but not divorced.)

There, she was made to feel at home due to the kindness of her father's friend and work colleague, Professor Mikotoba and his daughter Susato. She also eventually met his adopted son, Kazuma. He didn't seem keen on her at first, maintaining a more detached sort of friendliness towards her (unbeknownst to her because Kazuma had an enmity towards her now estranged husband). But in the end the two of them found an accord, and Kazuma became one of her closest companions.

(Kazuma hoped she could be an ally against her husband when he sought his revenge, but that would later turn out to not come to pass.)

She also met and befriended fellow student Ryunosuke Naruhodo, eventually went to root for both of her friends in a debate tournament, when Ryu and Kazuma met one another and the start of their friendship happened.

At the start of canon, she has decided to fully cut ties with Barok, but as he's not keen to mutually agree to the divorce, she is summoned back to England to hash things out. So she ends up on the same ship Kazuma is taking to go to Britain himself to study law. But her journey back to England starts to go terribly amiss when Kazuma seemingly and suddenly ends up dead and her other close friend Ryunosuke is blamed for it.

(Spoilers: There are disagreements between her and Barok but eventually they come to understand each other. They do get divorced but are eventually able to be good friends again. Because damn it I need more stories of people who split up but it's not because they were bad people and things are eventually okay between them but they *don't* get back together.)

Character Facts:

Alice Enjoys Pencil Sketching, Nature Walks, Foraging, Reading, and Canning/Pickling Foods (in addition to her interest in Forensic Pathology)

Is near-sighted and needs glasses as a result

She is in between in terms of her age relative to other main cast members. At 27, she is five years younger than Barok (32), and four years older than her friends Kazuma (23) and Ryunosuke (23).

She has often played Chaperone for Susato and her friend Rei.

When moving about London, and not on duty (until the end of the games) she has to conceal her face from view or disguise herself to avoid being spotted by Barok's enemies. She has to change it up from time to time to avoid creating too obvious a pattern, but her preferred disguise is one of a widow in mourning, wearing heavy, concealing black clothes.

[nostalgicfun]

When I was little—very little, so little that I was being pulled in a wagon for this story—I was out on a “walk” with my mom, which consisted of me running around at warp speed for half a block and then having to be pulled in a wagon. And at this particular point in the walk, my mom stumbled across something which as an adult is a pretty cool find: someone had left/lost a bunch of little pieces to the game “Cooties” along the road. 

Upon seeing this, she said, “Oh, look! Cooties!” and scooped them up to hand them to me. 

But I was, again, small and young and inexperienced in the world and all the “Cooties” it had to offer. I had never seen a Cooties game before. In my undeveloped little head, my mom was attempting to hand me a bunch of tiny dismembered limbs. And calling them cooties. I had no idea what was happening. But I did know it was scary, very scary. 

I remember crying and shying away and telling my mom I didn’t want to hold them, and the way she doubled down, insisting that I take the cooties. I didn’t have a very good grasp on mortality at this point in life but was aware that people were capable of being killed, and was convinced those cooties would give me actual cooties and that I’d die. So I covered my eyes and hid at the back of the wagon. 

The fact I would not take these tiny, dirty little game pieces she found along the road enraged my mother, for whatever reason, and I was scolded (loudly) and she refused to talk to me the rest of the way home, having declared that I would have to sit in the “time out chair” (my dad’s La-Z-Boy recliner) until my dad got home from work so he could punish me. 

Of course both my parents being mad at me was always the end of the world. 

It was about an hour and a half until my dad got home and I remember thinking he was going to make me touch the cooties and I’d die and be one of those zombies from “my Link game” (which is obviously what happens when someone dies). He came home, and I heard them exchanging words in the kitchen, and then he came into his dark office where I waited in his chair and turned on the lamp. 

“I heard you weren’t good on a walk with your mom today. What did you do?” I remember him asking sternly. I then proceeded to bawl. I don’t remember my wording but I did tell him about the cooties and how they were scary and I didn’t want to touch them. 

My dad’s face remains etched into my memory forever as if carved there in stone. This king of bikers, this military man with what seemed like a million deployments, trying to figure out what to do with his four year old daughter who was afraid of some dirty board game pieces her mom was trying to make her hold. 

He just said “okay then” and hugged me. I don’t remember what he said after, but basically that I wasn’t in trouble and to go play for a bit before dinner. I remember hearing him go into the kitchen and say “WHAT is your problem” to my mom, which looking back at this now as an adult is a good reaction that entire scenario. 

The next day he came home from work with a “Cooties” game.

[revali-is-a-narc]

Hey y'all, I've finally started my YouTube channel! 😃 For now, it's all about crafting, art, and gaming, which means that's where I'll be posting Zelda videos, some that you've seen, some that you haven't seen, and some that you've seen but with some...alterations.

Video Vednesday will still be a thing on the blog (Yes. It's still a thing on the blog.) but I hope to have all kinds of content on the channel and I'll be posting links to videos pretty much whenever I upload them.

But also you should just subscribe. Here's my first video!

[concerto-roblox]

does anyone know any good resources for identifying the specific lines/release dates of disney princess dolls? i have a bunch from the late 2000s but i can't seem to find anything online about the specific dolls i own :(

[lucy-shining-star]

For the character ask, Princess Chloe (Elena of Avalor) for 12, 15, 18, 25

Sorry it took so long I kind of....turns out coming up with answers can be hard

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?-Hmm...'She is a good baker' is kind of first thing coming to my mind when I try to come up with headcanon so yeah that

15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)-With Maliga, I think

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?-Hmm...I think with Elena the most. Really like how Elena make her more thinking of others but then said to not do it too much when she realized Chloe is overcorrecting. Also with Gabe it's cute how despite having crush on him she encouraged him to go to Naomi when she noticed he wants to be with Naomi

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?-...And that is most difficult question cause I don't remember? I guess it might be something like 'She is boy crazy'? Now it's that she is kind, very awkard girl

Ask game: https://www.tumblr.com/epickiya722/726843525120032768/character-ask-game