#sagaaa

[optionalblue]

*nods suggestively* oh yeah

@bagelofchaos

[hopefulrunaways]

the wisdom saga feels like a early birthday present I'm so excited 🥰

[vo1dbug]

ITHICA SAGAAA

every song was amazing 😭❤️❤️ it’s gonna be on repeat all week for me

[birchbow]

Hey birch! Quick ask for your writing on POF. What do you like the most about your Kurloz and Gamzee? If you could pick a few favorite things or traits from the versions of them you created, what do you think those would be? It's ok if you skip, I just got curious. I love your epic clown sagaaa 🥰🥰

!!! :Oc oh huh! My favorite traits are almost always the ones that create friction--some of those are neutral but create drama and some of them are outright negative, lol. Short answer, PoF Gamzee's a reckless coward and PoF Kurloz is incredibly dangerous and proud over top of a deep well of insecurity. Long answer.....under the cut, lol.

The Gamzee I write is, and I say this with authorial love and tbh no moral judgment, kind of a coward. He's not scared of the same stuff as most of us would be, he's good at combat and he likes pain, but also he's hugely, deeply afraid--of lots of stuff, but especially being left behind, and that drives a ton of his characterization.

Being left/abandoned is a pretty returning theme for a reason! From the very first chapter, when Gamzee's internal monologue is basically, "Well, time for the thing that made me happy to Go Away again. Hopefully if I'm good and I wait well enough, it'll eventually come back." He's been captured on his first mission, is his family going to leave him to die? Karkat's cocooning, is he ever coming back? Kurloz is poisoned and the family is turning on him as a suspect, are they done with him forever? He's the lynchpin of the Cult of Flesh's heresy, are his gods going to turn their faces away from him?

And when he feels like he has been abandoned, he goes through cycles of rage and then retreating from the rage, because being angry is holy but being angry is bad and drives people away, but being angry feels right, but-- It drives him to be overly obliging, trying not to drive people away, and it pushes him to be vicious when somebody seems to be interfering with his grasp on the things he values. It makes him a very sweet guy who'd do just about anything for the people he cares about, and it makes him clingy and dependent and blindly devoted, and prone to lashing out when he feels like they don't care about him as much as he cares about them!

I identify with a lot of that as an author, but I also just feel like it dovetails pretty neatly into the scant amounts of canon characterization we get for Gamzee, so I find it very compelling to read/write!

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As far as Kurloz goes, what I like most about him as a character is probably like...his pride? And (especially because this is a kinky sex fic) the shame that goes along with that.

On a very surface level, the concept of the Grand Highblood as a grumpy, proud old guy who's getting reluctantly dragged in the direction of a still terrible but less hemoist society is very funny to me. Make up a bigoted old man and then force him to knuckle under repeatedly to the people he's bigoted against. But also on a more-plot-less-humor level, a character who's made himself a very strict code of "this is what's expected of me and I will fulfill it no matter what it does to me" is RIPE for drama. Especially when the plot of the story is then giving that character something that suddenly he finds he values at least as much as that code and pride, and making him struggle with that.

The counterpoint to that being; it's fun to set up a character as a proud, badass, dangerous son of a bitch, and then give the POV/the readers a shot straight into the shit that he's hiding behind that "I'm untouchable, don't fuck with me" pride. Sadism, especially as extreme as I've written into Kurloz, can be an intimidating thing! On the surface it's part of the mask, part of the scary persona--but it's really compelling and interesting to me to then sidestep that mask and go into the roiling mess of sexual shame and religious guilt and uncertainty and self-loathing. MAN I love writing the Brother Immortal scenes, you guys.

[sonicranger1]

WHAT'S YOUR FAV SONG IN EACH SAGAAA IN EPIC??

ok i'll calm down. i got rlly excited when i saw ur into epic. it's actually my fav musical and jorge is definately my favourite musician

HI YES I'M OBSESSED AND PLS BE EXCITED IN MY INBOX 👍

Anyway ahem on to my favorites....

I honestly wasn't expecting to get so into Epic considering I'm actually not that into musicals (I'm very picky when it comes to songs even if I don't have a preference/i listen to most genres) BUT HHHHHSHSHSHWHS IM SO IN LOVE, ALL THE SONGS R SO GOOD

[guillemott-532]

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH I CANT WAITTTTTT FOR THE VENGEANCE SAGAAA

[d3f3n3str4t10n]

WOOOOO GWAIN SAGAAA

small workout break!

[bitegore]

SAGAAA ANDERSONNNNNNNNN

[dungeonmeshifancast]

zomby land sagaaa

[jylls]

tagged by @lovegardn thank u again sagaaa

ONE / name / alias: jay or cathal/cath whatever u preferrr

TWO / birthday: october 25

THREE / zodiac sign: scorpio sun gemini moon sagittarius rising

FOUR / height: 5’8 or something

FIVE / hobbies: i write music and draw/paint a lot :) also like, dying and being dead

SIX / favorite colors: hmm cobalt, puce, lime green, and all shades of red. also black

SEVEN / favorite books: freakonomics is good! i’m reading it rn and it’s really interesting. i also like lord of the flies and julius caesar, if the book adaption counts

EIGHT / last song i listened to: chamber of reflection - mac demarco... i’ve been obsessed with it for the past couple days

NINE / last film i watched: spiderverse i think

TEN / inspiration for muse: i don’t have a muse bc this isn’t an rp blog lol

ELEVEN / dream job: like... stand up comedian, musician, psychologist or high school art/orchestra teacher. in order of Want

TWELVE / meaning behind url: ghostface is nonbinary :)

m gonna tag @deathfaker uwu

[angelinaciguli]

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[dragonfruitflamb3]

Avery's screaming called over Blaine, Jake, and basically the whole band (except for the drum majors and directors) and the entire trumpet section just starts SCREAMING and CRYING (including me yes). Blaine screams about how he will avenge his son and that's when I noticed a folded piece of paper in the bag

You can't read it form the pic but it says

"hello trumpets

don't believe everything you hear

trust everything you see

we're watching

we're waiting

:)"

And a picture of Jaquaviontavis in a watermelon dress

*Cue another round of screaming*

After we finished screaming we had to start practice we got a clue to the culprit. A VERY suspicious Saxophone (that I personally dislike) started making fun of Blaine, saying "Wow, I can't believe you would let your mascot get killed like that haha!" But she also dropped a hint. "I was wondering when someone would notice"

MEANING!!!

She was here early

AND!!!!!

She was INVOLVED!!!

We interrogated her further and found out that there were two other culprits.

Something something something

We find out that one of the culprits is A DRUM MAJOR, and her name is BRE.

The funny thing about this is that Bre is one of the nicest people I've ever met so this was very unexpected.

Anyway-

She ends up revealing that the FLUFF IN THE BAG WAS...!

Continued in part 3 lol

ok SO HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND STORY!!!!!

I don't care if nobody wants to read it I'm doing this anyway

My Freshmen year of highschool marching band all the different sections had mascots. The trumpet (which is what I play) mascot was a wingless Toothless build-a-bear plush named... Ja.jur.jaq...

JAQUAVIONTAVIS!!

Anyway this plush is sacred to the trumpets and something funny happened this week so imma tell it...

This all starts with one of the upperclassmen leaving Jaquaviontavis at school one day, let's say his name is... Blaine... And when Blaine went to grab the J-man the next day, he was gone!

So immediately Blaine started putting up missing posters with this other dude named "Jake"

(said poster)

So the next day, after the posters had been placed, going onto the field to practice (on a Saturday) me, one freshmen and another student were the first one to the part of the field the trumpets had claimed... We found a

Bloody

Paper

Bag

The freshman, let's say her name is Avery, she picked up the bag, looked inside, and screamed bloody-murder, because that's what it was. You can probably see where this is going, but I need to stop for now.

[alternativesaga]

sagaaa

Totally cool with that

[pinkember]

#latepost caught the Saga Balloon Fiesta before it ended. Oh, you've grown on me Sagaaa. #dailyjay #sagaballoonfiesta #meowth #saseboburger (thanks for pics @beautygoat1218!) (at Saga International Balloon Fiesta)

[saturn-rowlf-wrong]

I finished zombie land sagaaa