#ref: hat island

[lndslorepuzzler]

Under Deepspace 07: Moonlight Under Sea, pt 1-11

01: Investigation: Using the high-level access, FMC manages to find a news article from two years ago; a man shot and killed in his apartment, with no evidence about anything. After listening to the recording*1 and viewing the video, she gets an offer to take a bounty: the bounty on Qi Yu's head.

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02: Canvas Enigmas: FMC heads to Qi Yu's place, where she finds him on the floor. Luckily he's not dead, only asleep. All over the floor are sketches, each labeled with 'Lemuria.' When Qi Yu wakes up, he asked FMC to help him up; if she chooses to, Qi Yu yanks her to the floor, and they go out to eat. While at lunch with Qi Yu, FMC lets him know there's a bounty on his head in/from the N109 Zone, which he is already aware of.*2 He also notes that someone has been following them, and the two of them make plans to give the pursuer the slip.

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03: Secret Tracking: As it turns out, their follower is a reporter, looking for gossip re: Qi Yu's possible involvement in Raymond's death by drowning, as his painting vanished from Raymond's room without anyone else being in or out. There were also rumors that Raymond had cut up the skin of his arms and legs to look like fish scales. After some sufficient threatening, Qi Yu lets the reporter go with the suggestion that he make up for his reckless behavior by finding out who exactly has been spreading the rumors/trying to cover up information in the first place.

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04: Under the Waves: FMC and Qi Yu have a quiet moment in a sky garden; Qi Yu mentions that he daydreams in his studio all the time, and has difficulty remembering what the real world is actually like. He thanks FMC for "bringing (him) out of his dreams today." When FMC begins to leave, Qi Yu reminds her that they still haven't gone to find a replacement for the coral stones for his paintings. FMC is less than enthused, until Qi Yu offers his help to get her into N109. He says, "when you see the big picture, you need to use some bait... Trade intel for intel, gamble to make gambles with higher stakes. But whether or not you can play the game is up to you." He tells her that if she decides she wants to go through with it, she can meet him at Whitesand Bay the next day. She goes, of course; as it turns out, and according to Thomas, Qi Yu has rented a rowboat "for a date."

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05: Set Sail: Qi Yu and FMC head for Hat Island*3 while conversing about how Qi Yu is going to try and obtain a protocore to make paint. There's some exasperated banter, and just after making a comment about how he'd rather swim, the trip is interrupted by a very sudden incoming wave. The two of them arrive at Hat Island somewhat worse for wear. Interestingly, FMC says she's the reason they made it to shore in the first place, while Qi Yu announces that "(he'd) rather float in the sea than be on land."

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06: Spring Excursion: On the island, FMC explains field trips to Qi Yu, and he suggests that FMC resonate with the coral to see if she can pick up any Metaflux fluctuations; he stops her from accidentally breaking it, and assists her in resonating; he says, "Everything in this world has a unique, unmatchable frequency. That's why each life is isolated. But your Evol allows you to change your frequency. You can resonate with others. If you open your heart, you can establish a connection. And share your power."*4 It works, which visibly startles Qi Yu, and some Wanderers show themselves.

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07: COMBAT

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08: Weak Fiends: Qi Yu gives FMC the protocore they obtained. FMC is surprised that her resonating with the coral had any effect at all; she and Qi Yu decide to camp for the night. A cat with a metaflux injury makes itself known. Qi Yu is extremely upset about it.

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09: Withstanding the Storm: FMC drags Qi Yu to find the cat, which scratches him. Almost immediately, a 'Deluge Wyrmlord' arrives. It attacks, and Qi Yu splits the water with his Evol. He says, "Guess you like my blood a lot more, huh? Sorry to break it to you, but my fire can never be extinguished."*5

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10: COMBAT

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11: Indomitable Spirit: After defeating the Wanderer, FMC and QI Yu are dragged out into the ocean; seeing Qi Yu in the water, FMC tries to head toward him. After a brief exchange (and a flashback scene where Qi Yu says, "It's settled then. If you don't return, I'll... I'll chase you to the ends of the Earth.") FMC starts to sink, and Qi Yu is going to let her. He only hesitates because he 'hears' FMC ask him not to go. A little red fish appears over his heart. He reaches her, and says, "You forgot everything. Yet, you still insist... All right... This is your choice." His eyes flash completely blue, instead of their usual blue-pink, and we are given a glimpse of his 'real' Lemurian body as he heads towards the surface.

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*1, In hindsight, we will recognize this voice as Qin Che. It's likely that the two people with him are Luke and Kieran. *2, See World Underneath: Long Lost Treasures. *3, The MERMAN is taking his (probably) Long Lost Love out on a goddamn ROWBOAT. Just so we're all on the same page. *4, I believe this is the cleanest explanation of what exactly FMC's Evol is truly capable of, so far. *5, It can be universally agreed that it's a bit strange for the mermaid to have fire Evol, though that doesn't explain why the Wanderer appears after Qi Yu's blood, specifically. There may be some background lore happening there; also, I'm not entirely sure the English translation is 100% accurate.

[remxedmoon]

go my hyucker (human gucker)

ssso my good friend pastell @startagainaprologue mentioned it was struggling with making a human design for the guide and i rubbed my hands together evilly and got to work. aaaaa this was super fun to work on!!!!! thankyou again for letting me draw this graaaa. as always my deranged character design ramblings are below the cut 👍

CHARACTER DESIGN BLAST

most of guide’s colors are slightly shifted to be closer to red and more… desaturated? my default bonnie colors clashed with the palette i usually use for guide so they got changed slightly. i did add the blue on the sash as a reference to my nille design however! and i tend to use cooler colors to represent countries outside of vaugarde, so you could interpret it as a link to the island. if you so desire :3

speaking of the sash, just about everything they’re wearing here is based on another character!! in this case, it’s meant to resemble nille’s waist sash! but with a different pattern. something something only having an imitation of what it lost. the stars are meant to represent siffrin and loop, and also just the universe in general. fun stuff!

i mostly just made their shirt longer for the sake of looking Different from normal bonnie? but combined with the sash it has the fun bonus of having a silhouette similar to siffrin’s cloak. not full intentional but hey! i’ll take it!

the gems on its tail are there to represent odile!! as well as referencing the ka buan tradition of compressing ashes into diamonds. you can draw your own conclusions there! and they go ding ding when it walks :3

the hat/halo isss probably self explanatory? it’s a way to fit guide’s Spiky Head into the design. the halo was added pafter pastell drew buns version of the design auau. i like both! so their hat can be whatever shape you please.

okay! nno more talking about clothes i promise. similar to my ghostlight loop design, i gave it spikier hair!! i have to give sponsors spiky hair to resemble their Spiky Heads. it’s the law. their hair was supposed to be shorter but. i’m pretty sure this is the exact same length i usually draw bonnie’s hair. oops? oh well it looks cute. the stars are honestly just there for fun i didn’t have anything specific in mind

in a similar vein, i changed their eye shape to match the eye shape on guide’s ref! perpetually Sad Looking. on the bright side they aren’t constantly crying anymore!

thheir body is. mostly the same? i decided to make their body Red Tinted for the sake of consistency and i removed the separated limbs aaand. that’s basically it? not much to say! i did add the halo bracelet around their wrist as a callback to the separation though. i didn’t do the same for its shoulder because i am Lazy 🩶

aaand i think that’s everything? well it Isn’t but i think everything else is self explanatory and frankly this is long enough as is. here is the """greyscale""" version as compensation 🩶

[wcspriter]

All the way back in March came a crossover idea that wrote itself to me in a surprisingly cohesive manner. Then again, 4,000 hours in Sea of Thieves might just do that to someone with too much time on their hands. Introducing the Delta Warriors who took a wrong turn across the doors and landed in the Sea of Thieves!

The premise of this extra, fictional chapter is our trio sailing across the seas in search of bottles containing pieces of a map leading them to the grey door but finding it won't be so easy. A handful of islands had been shrouded in a green fog during the events of the 2022 SoT Adventures, specifically the very first adventure "Shrouded Islands". It's up to Kris, Susie and Noelle to carefully traverse these dangerous islands while a powerful skeleton lord watches from the shroud.

I'm overwhelmingly happy with the designs I gave these three, some were easier to do than others.

Susie was definitely the easiest to work on as the Dark World did more than half the work for me. But the colors were going all over the place for me, just couldn't find the right set to be cemented. Eventually I decided to give her the purple and gold Pirate Legend appearance while keeping her Dark World belt. She was also able to convince me to keep their appearances simpler compared to the other pirate sprites like Belle and the Servant. Oh, and Roulx did me a favor with that hat of theirs.

I'm about 60/40 on using Noelle's design. On one hand, this goes against the whole "simpler design" I had just mentioned about Susie. On the other hand, the choice of using the SoT tavern keeper design would be a perfect use for Monkey Island shenanigans on Sanctuary Outpost. But to the most keen-eyed, her sprite ref came from 2022 Underevent Trailer.

And finally poor Kris was given the least-popular clothing outfit in Sea of Thieves, the Sea Dog. Going back to the teaser video, I realized there were literally zero proper outfits for Kris to wear so I hope they can forgive me for this one. But I slightly tweaked it so that Kris' bandana (which ISN'T a thing in the game) matched their soul color. Boots and gloves came off of their Dark World gear which matched the Sea Dog set so no issues there.

There's still more spritework to come of this random, alternate chapter, just you wait!

[anystalker707]

Way too hot

Pairing: Portgas D. Ace x [gender neutral] Reader Words: ~ 1 400 Summary: Ace can't keep his hands off you after you finish working out. Tags: Ace is annoying (/pos) <3 / needy bf / someone hold him, please / absolute dogboy

Requested by anon "Hey can i request a slight nsfw scenario about ace x fem reader with her getting just done with a workout and being all sweaty (...)"

A/N: it's suggestive and reader is gender neutral bc i only say that they got their shirt off--if it's fem reader, it's still implied she keeps a sports bra on, if it's male reader, it's just shirtless, and so it goes; nothing specifying anything. Alabasta Ace is my main ref, btw <3

MASTERLIST

          The day was rather calm—Moby Dick was on the shore of a monotonous island, and while most of the crew had left, you and Ace, along with a few others, had stayed back to watch the ship at the lack of interests in the island—, so it was a great opportunity to put your workout up to date, given the good climate. Soft breezes sometimes soothed the hot weather, so you decided to enjoy it, and made sure no one needed you before changing into shorts and a shirt then grabbing a bottle of water along with a barbell with a few plates on it.

Shadow was cast over some empty part of the deck, so that was exactly where you headed to so you could train. Well, empty when you checked on it earlier because, at the moment, Ace was asleep against a mast with his hat on his face and arms behind his head as if he’d been there for at least an hour now. You didn’t even bother wondering where he had shown up from since it was probably one of the most reasonable occasions with him. Your things were set aside before you approached Ace, hooking an arm around his shoulders and another under his knees so you could lift him up.

Despite the way his head falls back and his hat is only held by the way the cord is stuck under his chin, Ace never wakes up, only groaning and adjusting his position when you set him on the ground again, near a wall. He could be so damn adorable. Your heart fluttered at how he scrunched his nose in his sleep, mumbling something incoherent after you pressed a kiss to his cheek so you could step away.

With a deep sigh, you threw your arms above your head then down to the ground’s direction to stretch yourself before you could start your workout. It was more of strength and mobility working since the cardio was always done by running around with Ace, leaving your focus on less points.

Counting the reps was instinctive. You did it in the back of your mind while you observed the sea or watched Ace talk in his sleep once in a while before you took a pause or switched hands, a routine you kept religiously until the heat became too much, hence you ended up discarding your shirt at some point before you could continue.

It was about an hour and half later that you put the barbell down for the last time today, leaving it in a corner so it wouldn’t bother anybody. Your muscles felt on fire while you moved for the first minutes, heavier and weaker than usual, hence you could barely lift your feet from the ground while walking over to your water, finishing it at once before you grabbed the shirt you’d tossed away earlier to clean the sweat away from your forehead, but it was nowhere to be seen... Nah, there it was.

“Give.” You made a grabby motion for Ace, who twisted his mouth a little and tossed the shirt to you before he smiled. He still had an arm behind his head and his hat now rested on his chest while his legs were one over the other. “Slept good?”

“Yep!” He grinned and was on his feet with a jump, arms in air for a few seconds to stretch himself. “I see you were working out!”

You only hummed in agreement, wiping the sweat away from your face before you let your shirt hang around your neck. The words you wanted to say died in the tip of your tongue when you noticed Ace seemed a little off; he hunched there with his hands in his pockets and a distant expression, but his eyes weren’t on yours, instead scanning your body with an admirable focus.

“Ace—”

“Damn!” Ace raised his eyebrows, biting on his lip for a second. “You look hot.” You scoffed with a chuckle, but he just nodded in response, stepping closer to place a hand on your waist. “Like sculpted by a god or something.” He is leaning in before you can notice, about to bury his face in your neck when you push him away with your hands on his chest.

“No, no, no! Not right now!” You stepped away from his attempt to catch you in his arms, leaving a grumpy Ace to hug the air instead of you. “I’m sweaty and it’s really hot, and I’m not sure if you’re going to take a shower later!”

“But you look so pretty,” he whined with a pout, “so hot! Let me at least—”

As much as it had your face heating up, you knew better than to give in to Ace’s whines, so you continued to shake your head as you walked to the barbell so you could put everything away. He was faster, however, taking a seat on top of the bar with his arms crossed over his chest. As if it’d cause you any trouble. You rolled your eyes and lifted him off it in bridal style easily; he was about to hook his arms around your neck when you just let him fall to the ground.

“(Y/n)!” Ace groaned, but didn’t even bother to complain more once you ignored him, only standing up again to chase you.

And hell, who thought that’d end up being a problem? Ace was fucking everywhere, you didn’t have a second of peace. He was following you everywhere you went, with those lost puppy eyes, for the rest of the day—even when he was falling asleep suddenly, he woke up again at the moment you moved to either hold onto you or follow. Sometimes, he’d look at you with the biggest eyes he could muster and clasp his hands together to let out the whiniest ‘please’ you’d ever heard. He even freaked out after you arrived at the kitchen, fresh out of the shower, and told him to wait until it was night and the others had returned; it’d be safer and the weather would be nicer.

“B—But now there’s barely anyone on the ship! I doubt anyone would attack us without us noticing it first long before! Like—”

“Won’t you shut the fuck up?” you whisper-yelled, pretending you were going to hit him with the big spoon you had in hand before going back to serving yourself your lunch. He flinched at first then broke in chuckles, grinning wide.

“I can’t help!” Ace had a hand on his hip and the other on the counter as he leaned against it—his hands would probably be on your hips while he stood behind you with his chin on your shoulder if you’d allowed him to touch you; maybe you would have already if it weren’t so fun to watch him sulking around and the fact you couldn’t step away from watching the ship. “Like, maybe if you looked at yourself— You should let me know whenever you’re going to work out, y’know? Or wear those more. It really suits you! Actually, it’s more about your body, I—”

“Get your lunch so we can go sit outside.” Your eyes didn’t even meet his, but you were there waiting for him so you could sit on the deck while you had lunch.

“Y’know...” He mumbled, fingers grazing your thigh.

“I told you to wait!”

“Maybe you’re doing all of this on purpose just to torture me...” Ace groaned through the food in his mouth and, despite the partial truth in his words, all you did was to shoot him a playful glare and roll your eyes.

Ace was quiet for the rest of the meal, at least. The next time he bothered you, was when the sun was already a lot lower in the horizon, with a sunset that would start in some minutes. You sat at the table on the deck in an attempt to enjoy the rest of your free day in peace with the book Marco had gotten you. 

“Please, please, please,” Ace mumbled annoyingly, seemingly never-ending. He sat there on the ground with your feet between his legs, beside the chair you sat on. Whenever you forgot about him, Ace would start his ranting once again and hug your leg, keeping his cheek pressed to your knee.

You sighed deeply and lowered a hand to pat his head, at first just playing with his hair then motioning for him to pull away. “Okay, okay, get up, I’m tired of your whining. Let’s fix this.”

.𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟.

[viktuurishipper96]

Douglas and Oliver’s beach day🌊🏝🏖⛱

CW: some scenes contains suggestive themes so viewers (you the reader) discretion is advise.

It was a gorgeous day at the beach at the island of sodor. The sun has shone and everyone is doing their activities. Their you see Donald and duck surfing with bill and Ben; Edward playing volleyball with Henry, Gordon, James, skarloey, rusty, rheneas, Peter sam, sir handle and Duncan are having a good time; Thomas, Emily, Rosie, Percy and Toby are making sand castles and there on the other side there’s Oliver at a private beach and he’s just listening to music for just the two of them. Then suddenly, he heard a beautiful and gorgeous Scottish twin waving at him and said “~oh Oliver yoo-hoo” . Oliver’s jaws just dropped and his shades dropped as well when the most gorgeous man who’s name is Douglas and he was wearing a black to navy blue bikini (the bottoms) and wore a tie up beach dress with lace as he sways his hips back and forth with a voluptuous (curvy) figure and his nice busty chest bounces. He was wearing his sunglasses and a floppy hat so his gorgeous black hair won’t be humid, and he was carrying a tote bag that consist of; sunscreen towels, Cosmopolitan magazine, books, his manicure kit , healthy snacks and a hair tie. When he arrived at a private beach , Douglas was taking off his tie up beach dress and Oliver sees his toned body that is to die for. He then grabbed a hair tie and tied his long hair back so it doesn’t get too hot or oily. Afterwards, he placed a towel and he took off his floppy hat ( he still is wearing sunglasses) and he lied down on his back as he soaked up the sun. Oliver on the other hand sees this Scottish beauty sunbathing and his long toned legs moves and he arches his back and Oliver is in heaven now. Soon after, Douglas decided to turn on his stomach and he said “ Oliver, my darling. Will you put sunscreen on my back and get it real good.” Oliver nosebleeds and blushes and he said “Anything for you Douglas.” When Oliver puts on sunscreen on his hands and began rubbing it on Douglas back, he moans for a bit and said “~mmmmmmmn yes, yess oh yess” as he bites his lips and gives Oliver the bedroom eyes. He continue to apply more sunscreen on Douglas until he’s satisfied and soon after he got on top of Oliver and said “ mmmmnh thank my darling Oliver” . The two kissed and kissed until they parted and Oliver said to Douglas “~Douglas, baby you’re the most gorgeous man of all of the island of sodor.” So finally, the two had fun together including playing in the ocean and cuddle/snuggling time. Oliver had the best beach day ever with Douglas. 💚🖤

hope you’ll like it @pan9materialgirl that I’ve made my hot fanfic

And here’s the ref in case you’re wondering what Douglas is wearing to the beach

[spheredotorb]

WHITEBOARD YIPPEEEEEE

organized by 不夜街(Fuyagai @/Fuwafuwa_yagai)さん, artists who joined were me, すみそあえ(Sumisoae @/mora1249)さん, and さいだもち(Saidamochi @/xbKBnajXBdhzbTE)さん!!! 🫶🫶🫶

which is whose + references + full (aka lots of shit) under the cut

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mine: 1.1) gi-marx waving at gi-magolor - "Heyyy~" 1.2) marx plushie... 2.1) gi-magolor squishing marx plushie - (concerned) 3) "●utlaws" silhouettes with marx+magolor+taranza - "That's too bad!"

by Sumisoae-san: 1.3) gi-magolor waving back at gi-marx - "Heyyy~" 1.4) dancing gi-marx - "let's all dance together" "marx dancing to shin-takarajima" 2.2) gi-magolor holding marx plushie by the hat (+ gi-marx with a knife) - "takahashi issey style" (kill)

by Fuyagai-san: 1.5) catboy gi-magolor and gi-marx - "magolor's a kitty cat ^^" "kitty #2. flehmen response" 1.6) magolor plushie...

Saidamochi-san's are not pictured because they were on the opposite side of the canvas (GO LOOK AT THEIR POST)

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meme/song refs:

1.4) 新宝島 (Shin Takarajima / New Treasure Island) by Sakanaction [1:28]

2) actor Takahashi Issey holding plushies

3) ㋰責任集合体 (Musekinin Shuugoutai / ●utlaws) by Masarada [0:59] (flashing warning esp in latter half)

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linking Fuyagai-san and Saidamochi-san's tweets once more, and here's the full thing because Sumiso-san didn't post hers on main and i NEED yall to see her art too

(part of it is hidden since I missed the chance to ask Saidamochi-san for repost permission. NOW OPEN THE DAMN LINKS and like/rt/follow them if you have a twitter. please)

[dissvicious]

Red may be laughing now at Buggy’s emo phase but once he gets to see her photos of her in her full on neon outfit clad, kandi bracelet stacking, teenage scene kid glory the shoe will be on the other foot /

Related: Do you think the triplets would ever go trough a phase experimenting with alt style outfits themself? Skye already seems to go for an undercut style look when she gets older (which I could speculate on btw but I’m not gonna) , but also Rory feels a little like someone who already leans into the steampunk aesthetic himself, as long as it doesn’t interfere with practicality „Why on earth would I put a random gear on a tophat when I can use it in these new collapsible wielding googles I am working on?“ „Okay but there’s also no need for the wielding goggles to have the gears be that visible…“ „Of course there’s a need for that and the need is STYLE.“ type of deal

Blaze probably just goes trough anything he thinks looks interesting without necessarily joining a scene. One of his later crew mates dresses like a Victorian goth and sometimes he will get bored and be like „I’m bored. Can I try and put on your corset?“ „No because you’re gonna hurt yourself …. So I’M gonna do it. How do you feel about eyeshadow?“ „Tastes awful but looks good on me.“ „Alright then its makeover time.“

Ok but I have to thank you because this message was the kick in the ass I needed to rework the teen triplets charadesign, which I was procrastinating since a while! Propers referencesheets will come later. Let's meet 16 years old Buggy the clown's spawns!

To answer you :

First of all, Red' don't keep any pictures of her past - to Buggy's big despair. So the poor little clown don't have any weapon to fight back! However I can easily imagine that one day the big top will anchor on an island where the crew will randomly meet someone from Reddie's past. Buggy will jump on them and ask them a TON of questions.

As you spotted, Rory has a soft for steampunk aesthetic - big fan of Jules Vernes (yes I HC that a version of Jules Vernes exist in one piece), dreaming about flying machines, obsessed by the idea to go on Skypiea because that's a land you can't reach by the sea. He's also the one of the triplets who cares the most about being ~ classy ~ . A real little dandy! He probably got through some victorian goth phase when he was like 14. When he get the outfit you can see on the ref, everyone in the family and the crew was like "o_o guys is Rory wearing COLORS?!!"

Skye is the one of the triplets who embrace the most the clowncore vibe, probably crafting herself some outfits in her father's old clothes. By the years she finally went ok with her nose, however she still feels the need to compensate with the rest of her outfit, copying her father's crossbones makeup for exemple. She will change her look when she will reach early adulthood (19-20 years old), and yes there is a meaning behind the undercut she got! you can speculate but I won't confirm or deny anything ehe 🤡

When it comes to clothing, Blaze only has two criteria : comfort and color. His hyperactive ass always run, jump, climb anywhere soooo he quickly learned to chose robust clothing that is easy to evolve with. But bright colors! Bright colors always catch his eyes! He's like a magpie! He also kept his beanie hat while growing up, and attempted to wear it with pigtails like his daddy do with his captain hat. He lose one teeth after a bait with Rory, too. Thinking this would make him look more like Buggy, but this dumbass did it the wrong side. His bracelets are very important too, but you'll understand why later! Also, I like your idea of him trying anything (and tasting eyeshadows which. Let's be honest. He did. At 16 years old. And after too.), especially some goth things. I think Blaze is mostly aroace, but if one day he should have a " planotic lovestory" this would be with someone who has a black cat energy, and he probably won't realize he's in a relationship. A gothy teen just appear in his life and it's somehow funny to kiss them, apparently they decided he was their boyfriend now? hey, why not.

[catt-nuevenor]

hi, sorry if this have been asked before, but do you have any refs/inspos of clothes that the characters use/is time/region appropriated for myrk mire?

(also, sorry if this question is confusing - english is not my first language :") )

Hi,

Your English is very good!

Clothing, this has proven a topic of flux in the development of the story. I'll include the original answers I gave concerning clothing style below, but I think it's about time I updated this for you all, as things have changed...

Original answers and historical resources concerning clothing:

Historical costume

Source Material 1

Where the world is currently:

I use a little source document to keep track of clothing, so for the most part I'll be copy pasting the text from that into the post. It's quite cliff notes style, but it gets the important information across and the reasons for various stylistic choices.

Quick terms breakdown for those not 100% up to date with the wider lore around the story.

The Four Shores is a collection of four realms containing Diota, Eard, Jǫkull, and Þinda, located on a collection of islands widely considered north of pretty much everything else. Eard is the realm in which the story of Myrk Mire and TBT takes place.

A Wealdend is a leader within the rulership structures used in the Four Shores, a male wealdend is called a Cyning, a female a Cwén, and nonbinary individuals use the Wealdend title itself.

The Riverlands is a separate region on the Southern Continent, with little to no political, social, or cultural ties to the Four Shores.

Falatu is another island in the north, but not a member of the Four Shores. They have sympathetic political and cultural systems, but maintain their own very separate identity in comparison to their unified neighbours.

The Eahtung is a ruling collective of skilled individuals who work alongside the Wealdend. More information than this would open up a deep rabbit hole...

"Warmth is everything to the Four Shores, so layers are favoured.

Rather than high necklines, shawls are favoured, these decorated with swirling patterns.

Lacking a clearly defined nobility, showing evidence of one’s craft or skill is favoured higher than material expense. A metal smith would display their skill by wearing more metal upon their outfit, a weaver a more elaborate hemming, a woodworker finely carved beads.

Amber is the sole reserve of the Wealdend, and should not be worn by anyone else.

All have their ears pierced, women both ears, men just one, others may choose. Rings are worn here, usually made of silver or gold, often times studded with gems.

Everyone wears stringed beads about their necks. These beads can be ceramic, wooden, bone, metal, or stone.

There is no shame in underdresses or tunics being shown.

Women wear linen underdresses, typically white, with woollen overdresses secured at the shoulders with preónas or brooches and lacing at the sides. The lacing only extends as far at the hips, and the overdress is either slit long these lines without further lacing, or it is one unified flair of fabric.

Men wear mid-thigh length linen undershirts with woollen overshirts that are slightly shorter. In colder months this is supplemented by a wraparound jacket secured by belts or ties. Men also wear trousers of ankle length similar to the Riverlands, but these are secured by fur, or cloth wraps up to the mid-calf.

Everyone wears calf height boots. In the winter months these are fur lined.

 Everyone wears belts.

Hair is traditionally worn long by all genders, and is braided back from the face and tied in horse tails or buns at the back of the head.

Hoods and hats are used out of doors in colder seasons, but it is seen as rude to continue to wear these coverings indoors as it implies that the host does not keep their home warm enough to be comfortable.

The finest of outfits are hemmed with embroidered banding, these vary from simplistic geometric patterns, to full scenes of foliage or animals.

Bracelets are seldom worn, favoured more by the peoples from Falatu, and rings are only really worn as a symbol of office, guild status, or position as Wealdend. The Tug Stone rings are the sole use of the Wealdend, Eahtung and the respective heads of each province.

The ruling families align themselves to animals incorporating them into their surnames, once picked, they cannot wear anything taken from that animal. Otherwise furs are used to line apparel for warmth.

Cloaks are not worn indoors for similar reasons to hats, but out of doors are acceptable, they range from calf-length to lower-hip length."

As for visual aids, I'm a bit lacking in those right now.

Basic rules:

Warmth and practicality are key.

Linen underclothes, woollen overclothes.

Head coverings for outdoor use.

Ear piercings for everyone.

Belts are the toolkit for all and hold pouches and exterior pockets.

I can do a bit of visualisation for weapons, though (surprising no one). The Four Shores use two main forms of bladed arms, the sæx, and the méce.

A sæx in this context is a short, single edged blade with a tapered point.

Image of the Seax of Beagnoth currently held at the British Museum. Image attributed to Wikipedia contributor BabelStone.

A Méce is a long single edged blade with a slightly curving profile. Wielded one-handed or two-handed, it favours a cutting sweep rather than a thrust approach. If you fancy seeing two chaps demonstrate the historical weapon that inspired this, the messer, I highly recommend this video:

The first section though, they later switch to different weapons.

Most important features to look at are the pin crossguard that sits at angle to the blade, how the single edge is used to advantage in the application of force, and the length of the hilt to suit the single versus two-handed approach to wielding it.

Anyway, that's enough to be chewing over, I think.

I'll keep an eye out for visual sources on dress and clothing, so folks have a clearer idea on all that.

[sonicenvy]

Useful Resources for Writers:

Online Etymology Dictionary –– like the OED (Oxford English Dictionary), except you don't need a paid account to access it. Get definitions of words with historical context! Side note, if you have membership at a university library (and even some public libraries) you may actually have OED access, check with your library.

Google's We Wear Culture –– a library of images and information about fashion around the globe and throughout history.

CRV's D&D Reading Room Worldbuilding Checklist –– Though this site is meant for GMs inventing worlds for their games, the concepts are the same and the questions can be super useful anyways!

WordHippo –– online thesaurus. find synonyms and antonyms and rhymes for words using their site!

mynoise.net –– infinite sound generators to listen to on desktop from coffee shops to water, to white noise. great for concentration when reading or writing. Get their App on iOS or Android.

Last Name Generator –– use this site to generate last names for your characters!

Google Ngrams viewer –– will the word I want to use in this period piece be anachronistic? find out the history and frequency of word usage of words in english (various versions) and a number of other widely spoken languages like spanish and french.

Onelook Reverse dictionary –– word on the tip of your tongue?? use onelook to look up a definition and find the word!

my tumblr writing ref tag –– curated list of tumblr posts about writing

@ writingwithcolor here on tumblr –– resources for writing with racial, religious and ethnic diversity.

Social Security Archives –– find out which names were common in US census records from various decades between now and the 1880s.

Polygon Map Generator –– good for GMs and fantasy writers alike, randomly generate maps of fantasy islands

Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator –– another map generator, this is one is more complex than the polygon one, and can make multiple landmasses with labels.

Cold Turkey Writer –– download this program to write without distractions. Cold turkey writer can be configured to keep you from opening anything else until you hit a time limit or a word count, and does not show you pages or formatting tools. Nifty. The app is free, but you can also get a one time paid version with more features for $9 USD.

libreoffice –– free, open source alternative to microsoft word if you don't want to use google docs.

google scholar –– do an academic journal search for free

And, of course, because I wouldn't be me if I didn't say this.... your local library!

*annoying librarian hat on*

if you have research questions, we have answers. You can email research librarians from your local library or from other libraries with your questions, and we can help you. It's literally our job as librarians. You don't need a card, you don't need to live in the area. contact us today! it's free!

Not only that, we have all kinds of databases and resources that we pay for for YOU to use for FREE for research and learning. Heck, the library I work for even offers our cardholders inkie.org for free. nifty!

If any of my followers have anything cool to add to this post, please do!

[ladylyra]

Hey! If you don't mind me asking, but I noticed that Rai has a stitched mouth in their main ref you posted, but in her comic that takes place in the past, it wasn't there yet. Is there history behind that?

omg someone noticed this detail, yes there is history :)

at some point, when rai's island was more accessible, mortals traveled to it and stitched her mouth shut in an attempt to prevent her from eating their dreams. after this incident, rai hid new moon island away so mortals couldn't as easily reach her again. they can eat dreams through their hat that they made as an aid, but have also highly developed their telepathic abilities for communication and can enter peoples' minds, so it isn't as much of a limitation as it used to be

[gaiakoraidon]

I've been meaning to upload her here after some minor issues, but here she is! My One Piece OC Mirai Tatsumi(or Winter Dragon Mirai)of the Straw Hats! Yep I went on ahead and designed an OC for OP cause dang my obsessions with this series is high and this is my first anime/manga OC plus I've wanted to do a human and dragon hybrid character for who knows how long.

Reference to both her base and Hybrid forms(I updated her hybrid point to look more like an actual Zoan type human-beast hybrid transformation like what you'd see in the series); will be drawing more costumes for her in the near future.

Here is the base design for Mirai during the Super Rookies saga aka the first half of the series.

Ref to her Dragon Point form, with more information down below in her story.

Mirai Tatsumi(16 pre timeskip and 18 post timeskip)is a Devil Fruit user like Luffy, Nico Robin, Brook, and Chopper, the first friend she ever made. Her fruit allows her to transform into a dragon hybrid with enhanced strength, durability, and the power to use pyrokinesis. When not in Hybrid form, she can use her wings and fiery skills normally, and has some slight durability to her skin. She's still super strong though.

Mirai actually was born and raised in the Grand Line herself, living to a family and hanging with friends. After when she ate a Devil Fruit at the age of six, her whole life was turned upside down after when her own family and village casted her out of the village she lived in, calling her a "monster". Mirai flew from island to island, trying to fit in, but nothing worked. She was always rejected, causing her to live outside of a world that didn't want her. Scars would form on her back to show the pain and suffering she had been through.

While trying to find a new home, she would get caught in a storm and was washed up on the icy coldness of the Drum Kingdom, completely knocked out cold. Chopper would find her and bring her back to Kureah, where the doctress would tend to the child's wounds and take her in as if she were her own daughter. Chopper and Mirai would grow close as friends, eventually becoming like siblings as Chopper learned to warm up to humans more because of her. In fact, the two almost did everything together, even when it came to his experiments and when they developed his Rumble Balls. He eventually became her mentor, for he taught her everything he knew from his training with Kureah. Since both shared similar abilities due to the Devil Fruits they ate being Zoan types, he would also help her learn how to master her powers.

Mirai would live with Kureah and Chopper for her whole life, but that changed when Kureah let Mirai go spread her wings and see the world, since Mirai had a dream on making cures to illnesses, expanding her horizons, and making new friends, just like her mentor/best friend. She would tell Chopper that she would return before leaving to start her adventure. She would come across a few other Grand Line islands before arriving at Syrup Village in the East Blue. Here, she would befriend Usopp; the two got along very fast too. Eventually she would befriend Luffy, Nami, and Zoro when they arrived on the village as well as Sanji when he joined. When she revealed her secret on being a Devil Fruit wielder in front of her captain, Mirai feared that Luffy would turn their friendship down, but he ended up loving her powers and asked her to join his crew. This made Mirai so happy to the point that she accepted his offer. She had finally found a real family. A family to accept her for who she was. In fact, she's ok with being a monster whenever Luffy is around.

Mirai felt right at home with Luffy and the Straw Hats, sailing into the Grand Line with them and getting to see so many new places and faces before they arrived on Drum Island to help cure Nami's illness. Both hybrid and reindeer would be reunited after so long as well as her "mother". She would even help Chopper warm up to Luffy and the others too. Chopper would join the crew by Mirai's side at the end of the Drum Island season after getting a proper and emotional sendoff by Kureah and the residents of the island. The bond between the two would continue to grow and strengthen just like back at their home, and they would even get along well with the other crewmembers when they joined. As the doctor and doctor's assistant of the Straw Hats, both make antidotes to illnesses as well as tending to the wounds of the crew.

One of Mirai's biggest habits is becoming overprotective of Chopper even after the timeskip, yet the same can apply with Chopper too. She'll tend to pick him up like a stuffed animal and hold him for a few moments and even will hiss in people's faces. Mirai rarely does this in public, but when she does, both human and animal would get embarrassed. Even if he would get embarrassed, he would get used to it eventually, and the same applied with the other Straw Hats. This would form after the duels with the Foxy Pirates(while Chopper got temporally taken during the first game set, Mirai would get temporally taken during the second game set).

When she first gained her dragon form, which is later named Dragon Point, she had no control over it, making her a threat to her friends and Chopper, since the form originally came out due to her strong emotions and/or rage. The first time she would turn into this form would be during the Alabasta season, where her strong emotions and rage over seeing Usopp and Chopper in danger caused her to transform and "help" the two men take out the Baroque Works members during her rage. Afterwards, she attacked Usopp and Chopper(she almost killed him too)before passing out and returning to normal, since the form drains a lot of her energy. She would turn into the form a few more times, but still had no or little control over it.

It would be during the timeskip where Mirai would learn to control her Dragon Point form fully thanks to Chopper's help once again during their two years of training of getting stronger together. At the start of the New World saga, Mirai has complete control of her Dragon Point form, making it her most powerful form. The form is extremely powerful in flight and strength with the downside being that it drains most of her energy, meaning that she'll end up passing out after being in the form for a certain amount of time. Unlike Chopper though, she can still move her body after when she wakes up. He happened to develop some special Rumble Balls for her, and they allow Mirai to stay in Dragon Point form for a few minutes without loosing too much energy. Instead of passing out, she just feels a bit woozy.

Bounties: ten million(first), seventy-eight million(second), four hundred million(third).

As a plus, here's a bonus and fun little doodle I did of my OC as a reindeer!

The One Piece anime belongs to Toei Animation; Mirai Tatsumi belongs to me(GaiaKoraidon)

[lndslorepuzzler]

Under Deepspace 01: To Begin, pt 01-09

01: Deepspace Hunter: FMC goes through the graduation ceremony for Deepspace Hunters; she meets her coworker Tara. Her Evol is unstable due to a childhood injury/Wanderer attack, though it is recognized as Anhaunsen Class, Resonance. This isn't a surprise to her.

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02: Mysterious Light: FMC and Tara go into the abandoned research base to inspect an abnormal Metaflux explosion. FMC encounters Shen Xinghui, who appears to be injured. The two of them fend off a Wanderer, during which a collar of blue/red light appears and disappears around Shen Xinghui's neck.

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03: COMBAT

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04: Heart Towards Resonance: FMC and Shen Xinghui defeat the Wanderer; Shen Xinghui destroys the protocore. FMC wants to leave; Shen Xinghui says they've been trapped in the space. FMC determines that the Wanderers are Luminivores. She speculates that the situation could be a trap set specifically for Shen Xinghui, or that he might be bait instead of prey. ("I'm just a normal hunter. You don't need to look too deeply into it," he says like a lying liar who lies.) In order to defeat/escape the Luminivores, Shen Xinghui and FMC resonate; this involves putting her hand over his heart.

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05: Light Fades: FMC and Shen Xinghui defeat all the Wanderers. FMC realizes she's never experienced an Evol Resonance so strong before. Shen Xinghui asks FMC not to mention him to anyone and shortly thereafter vanishes into thin air. She notes that Shen Xinghui being in the research base likely wasn't a coincidence.

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06: UNICORNS: Upon arriving back at the headquarters, FMC and other recruits are debriefed by Jenna, and are assigned to their departments. Tara goes to Data Analysis under Andrew, and FMC is assigned to Alpha Team under Jenna. They go out to eat in Azure Square. Tara explains how she looks up to Jenna for saving her. FMC flashes back to fourteen years ago, remembers sprinting through the ruined streets, a sharp pain moving into/through her heart. There is a makeshift shelter in sight, and a tiny seedling breaking through the soil. FMC is accosted by a small child (Lucas) who wants her help with something; he offers to give her a full set of Super Hunters AR cards, complete with the limited edition Hunter Lux.

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07: Ripples: Lucas wants FMC to catch a fish for him, but runs off after he gets caught for cheating. Qi Yu appears, and says the fish will only survive a week on land. He's carrying a pamphlet about Hat Island, which is closed due to Wanderer activity. He catches the fish, which he says is a real Flammula from Lemurian legend. FMC gives him the fish to take home, saying she hopes it survives longer with him. Qi Yu leaves before FMC can finish her sentence about Whitesand Bay and at 6:15pm, FMC realizes she's late for her doctor's appointment.

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08: Doctor: FMC goes to Akso Hospital for her check-in with Li Shen. The two of them bicker about her being ten seconds from a no-show; FMC asks if he really needs to be that precise ("I can't believe you're just sitting there and counting down. What are you, a ticking time bomb or something?") FMC speculates that his "vacation" was actually a trip to the Arctic to work on a secret project; Li Shen tells her not to be nosy. He checks her heart; she hopes he hasn't noticed anything is off. They banter a bit, but things end amicably.

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09: Rainfall Curtain: At home, FMC contemplates her first day as a Deepspace Hunter. She gets a call from Caleb, her childhood friend who is a member of the Deepspace Aviation Administration. She tells him not to jinx himself. FMC looks out into the rain and sees a gigantic, quasi-mechanical looking red eye staring back at her. It vanishes in an instant.

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1. It's especially interesting that FMC refers to Li Shen as a 'ticking time bomb,' especially in regards to what we find out re: his Evol, and his desire to be able to stop himself 'when (he) becomes a threat to her.' 2. The eye FMC sees in 09 is almost identical to the eye seen in The Nest, and is the colors associated with Qin Che.

[toothlespoggers]

toothlespoggers Masterpost

About me 

Hi I’m yAy/toothlespoggers I’m a [hyperlink blocked] Audhd gremlin from Australia! I’m an artist, writer and general creative! I’m studying to become an actor and an author. I LOVE Undertale and Deltarune, though I'm mostly an Undertale fan and don’t often post Deltarune related stuff. I’m also obsessed with HTTYD and I’m a Nightfury therian. I also enjoy Ninjago. I'm a massive Zane fan.  I’m really passionate about sharing my content and thoughts with Tumblr and just engaging with the wonderful people I've met here, and making mistakes along the way and learning as I go! Most of my art and comics try to highlight how much I enjoy Undertale and its characters and Toby fox’s writing, as well as highlighting the funny ideas I come up with. I also have big plans in the works for bigger projects that I’m excited to share.

I love the Undertale fandom so much and I like to think of it as a big happy family that everyone contributes to. Everyone adds things to the multiverse and story which makes it one giant collaborative experience.

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I’m always willing to have a polite and kind chat with someone so If you wanna hangout and talk shoot me a message, if I see it I’ll likely respond! I might even draw your characters if I have the time and energy, who knows! I just enjoy making friends.

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General health or life update section (will edit when necessary)

I’ve finished high school! Finally, I actually have time to improve my art and focus on my projects. So I hope to get more content out :D 

(Update) I don’t know how but I’ve developed a lot of wrist pain so I can barely draw at the moment… please bear with me as I’m really struggling to finish art at the moment.

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Disclaimer!

Please let me know if I did something that upset you or caused an issue. I have a difficult time articulating my thoughts and emotions and struggle with identifying if I’m upset for a good reason or not, so I really appreciate feedback so I can improve. I always want to improve!! I’m trying my best to create a good space even if I struggled with that in the past.

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Undertale comics

Undertale 9th anniversary

Fresh sans at therapy

Drift away Chara Asriel thing

Wet dream sans and papyrus goof

papyrus chef hat

Papyrus qna sans doesn't shower

fresh annoying nightmare

how does frisk rescue MK?

Raz reviews (old)

the perfect brekky fast

Fresh annoying ink

Undertale Art

Fresh trapped in burger prison

Alphys and mettaton

Sans's room

Damp

pixel art of sans

Fresh hugging furby

Sans and frisk having a nap

fawn

Gyftrot

waterfall floating island

Fresh destroying nightmare

Razzle Dazzle Fresh Sans

Raz ref skeleton form

Raz ref normal form

cool art

info dump of Raz

Raz in waterfall

Sans plush adventures (sneaky sans)

trip to Thailand

overlooking mountain

in the snow 1

in the snow 2

snow 3 (the best one)

the snow man sans

pretty spot with stinky little man

spoon

sans latte

sneaky sans origin story

dinosaur

Harry Potter

stuck

disney land

the rest is there in the sans plush tag on my blog I can't be bothered to fit all of them

[reliquiaenfr]

I would, akshually, like to know more about the Coterie! What's their base look like at the cove, and are they managed by that paladin-looking spiral?

ohhhh you are in such luck because when i was reorganising my lair a while back i actually went through google finding some ref pics to use for the different parts of the lair and the coterie was one i had a really solid idea about.

bleakwater - both the island and the town - i imagine have a real innsmouth vibe to them, but the coterie and castle cordolium aren't technically part of the town, they're outside, and i did such a hard core vibe swap when i did that oops.

the coterie is a sort of compound, greco-roman stylings, but it was all run down when nim moved in, like an abandoned vineyard with lots of big spaces and a manor-type house with outbuildings and storage sheds. it has a wall all the way around it made of pale stone, it was crumbling in places but that was the first thing nim had patched up.

the buildings are whitewashed with red tile roofs, there are fluted columns (think corinthian or ionic stylisations), lots of open tiled areas with gardens and walkways and fountains and ponds and shit like that. this was clearly a very wealthy place but it fell into disrepair and the coterie are still fixing it back up.

this sort of look but more crumbling and overgrown with vines, shrubs coming through the pavement, whitewash flaking, all that stuff. they're fixing it up, but none of the members of the coterie (at the current time) are especially good at construction lmao. and they're all pretty wary of outsiders.

the coterie's lands sit on the south-facing side of bleakwater island, looking directly towards the canyon on mainland dragonhome. (bleakwater cove - the town - is on the north-east side, it's a dingy, dour place but it's in a good spot for trade between the labyrinth and dragonhome, and castle cordolium is on the east side overlooking the town, there's not a lot of distance between the three locations, you could walk all the way around the island in a day, it's a small place, but yeah)

and yep! nim runs the coterie... as much as anyone really runs the place.

she is a paladin, absolutely - i considered giving her a sword and shield but it cluttered up her outfit too much so just pretend for me, i felt she deserved a nice hat, too, but same problem. nim's hometown was destroyed by a powerful and greedy mage and she's hated most magic ever since. it has it's uses, but she doesn't trust it or anyone who uses it. she doesn't like monsters, doesn't like things that are beyond her fairly narrow understanding of the world. magic and creatures that are "abnormal" scare her and she wants to "keep others safe from them".

(this is kind of ironic given the company she keeps and the other inhabitants of the island, like... nim, honey... no one here is normal but she's a "means justify ends" kinda girl)

over time, she put together the coterie as it currently is and... yeah she might be drinking the copium about it because arisen is the amalgamation and reanimated ghostly conglomerate of a bunch of people who died at sea, hadal is a straight up sea monster (she and arisen do not get on), talamh is a tomb-raider style archaeologist who uses necromancy to uncover the secrets of the places she's robbing, her brother is an assassin, and aodar is the normalest of them all by being a blacksmith. but like. none of these people are the sort of company a Good And Pure Paladin like nim should be hanging around with you feel me? she's doing her best. and they all gave her Very Valid Reasons for joining the coterie. (like arisen's whole schtick is that they want to stop other folks from falling victim to weird shenanigans at sea, we aren't sure why she tolerates hadal, tho)

tuamach (the assassin) picked up some rumours about a safe haven for the kind of monsters and weirdos nim is always looking for and that's when they set up proper camp in the manor on bleakwater. because that safe haven is just over the water in reliquary canyon. and nim is determined to figure out what kind of monstrosities are hidden in there and see if she can't... eradicate them.

she's set up as a low-key villain for the reliquary but like... not really. eventually she's going to realise that she's been hanging out with monsters all along and maybe they're not so bad.

my fun fact about nim actually is that she's named after the little sea monster baby from the show surface. its name was nimrod but the kid called it nim for short and i thought it would be funny to name a dragon who dislikes monsters after one.

[thoughtless-gay-frog]

yeehaw

[ollierachnid]

Anyone remember that 1997 Jack Frost film? I wanted to rewrite it and Jack isn’t … a snowman in it.

This is him. Your local albino serial killer