#second chance of love bc

[jonquilyst]

MERILLE VINCA for @cawthorntales Jaxon BC

This is Merille (pronounced "Merr-reel" or "Mair-reel," whichever is easier to say), a nerdy and brooding author who's hard-set on becoming successful in life. He's a little hard-edged at first, but he has a soft spot for those he cares about, particularly his twin brother Winston (despite being the polar opposite of Merille in nearly every way possible). However, with Winston busy with a big family consisting of his spouse and 5 children, Merille is looking for someone he can spend every day with. Will that be Jaxon?

FAST FACTS

Pronouns: He/Him

Traits: Gloomy, Creative, Genius

Aspiration: Bestselling Author

BIOGRAPHY

Merille was born in Oasis Springs to father Oakley and mother Priya, the younger in a set of twins. Despite coming from a straight couple, he and his twin brother Winston were science babies (Priya didn't want to deal with pregnancy). The family moved to Chestnut Ridge shortly after Merille and Winston were born so they could have a better place to live alongside Priya's horse, Casper, and this is where the twin boys grew up. Merille and Winston grew up very close and they were very similar in personality up until their teen years, when their personalities started to differ. Merille became reserved, brooding, and favored the color black, while Winston was outgoing, happy-go-lucky, and loved wearing bright colors. But although they became as different and light and darkness, they still remain each other's best friend.

After Winston married and moved to Sulani to raise his family, Merille moved to San Myshuno. He's close to his oldest nephew Caspian and has dated before, but sadly the relationship didn't work out. He's hoping things will be different this time.

NOTES

If you're a wine connoisseur, yes he's named after wine grapes. Both he and Winston's names allude to their dad Oakley being a mixologist (and a wine lover)

He’s from generation 8 of my Vinca Legacy! Family tree here

Hope you like him!

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[lindyloosims]

Damian Hobbs-Crane for @cawthorntales

Damian is the second born son to Emily Hobbs, a reaper of souls, and Florian Crane who is an undertaker. He has a twin brother named Roman who is two minutes older and never lets him forget it.

Damian was born in Ravenwood and he's been feeling lonely for a while now, since coming out as gay recently to his parents, he's looking for someone to share his life with. He is very close to Roman, but they fight and bicker constantly. He doesn't really have any friends as everyone refers to him as "the creepy kid" and it doesn't help that the Grim Reaper is his godfather. He's also a genius, which didn't really go down well at school with the less academic kids. He would love to become a horror writer one day like Stephen King, but he feels that he won't be taken seriously in a town like Ravenwood where they've seen and heard everything, so he's reluctant to start.

Maybe taking part in a bachelor challenge is the push he needs to gain some much needed confidence!

Even though he gives him a hard time, Roman is very supportive of Damian's decision to sign up, in fact he's looking forward to having the house and his parents to himself for the first time ever.

[necrotic-nephilim]

Cass: *About Jason and Tim.* Both intelligent and capable. Until together. Then dumbasses.

correct and canon. these two cannot exist around each other without doing something stupid. Jason turns into a sad kicked puppy when TIm says no to him. for utterly no reason, Tim breaks Jason out of prison. Tim puts on a Batsuit just to go fight Jason, who also put on a Batsuit. neither of them can ever be normal around each other. i think it's funny if other Bats notice Tim's crush bc Tim can't stop doing increasingly stupid things around Jason. it's like he loses his braincells when Jason is in a twenty mile radius, all while complaining about how much he can't stand Jason and how childish Jason is. meanwhile Jason is rebuilding the wall of pictures of Tim he had during Lost Days, just with new pictures, probably, all bc Tim passingly said Jason was a frustrating asshole. it's a self feeding cycle.

[ruporas]

special operatives (silly interaction beneath read more)

[ID: Digital Art in color of Trigun Maximum, characters included are Wolfwood, Elendira, and Legato in a casual meeting situation. The piece consists of orangey yellow lighting and purple shadows. Wolfwood sits on the left side, facing Elendira who’s on the right. He’s seated on a plain wooden chair with one knee up and he’s holding the strap to his Punisher in his left hand while his right sits against his thigh, He has an irritated expression as he speaks to Elendira. Elendira is sitting in a fancier seat, her right arm rests against Wolfwood’s propped up knee, her left hand holds her suitcase. She’s sitting cross legged with an amused expression. Legato can be seen in the back at the center of the image in his mobile body case, one of his eyes shown to be glaring at Wolfwood. End ID]

[ID: Sketch, uncolored comic. Elendira says to Wolfwood, “I’m not telling you to dedicate yourself to him, but just accept the situation at hand. We could get along better if we were on the same page.” Wolfwood responds, “Don’t peg me me for an optimist. I’m not dumb. But, I’m also not going to just live in resignation. Plus, I don’t have any interest in getting along with ya.” Elendira coos, “Aw, you sure? I have a wonderful shoulder to cry on when the weak people you’re trying to protect eventually dies in the coming months. Though, I guess it’s fine. Someone like you might just die before then anyway...” She snickers in her hand while Wolfwood is speechless and just glares. Legato is faintly drawn in the back, glaring at Wolfwood, muttering “worthless” repetitively. End ID]

[emry-stars-art]

I remain as predictable as ever

[lycandrophile]

i love helping other transmascs speedrun getting over their doubts and fears about going on t. there are two people in my personal life who have been contemplating going on t for a while, and both of them talked to me about it because i’m the resident Guy On T, and by the end of our conversations one of them was fully decided that they want to start t and the other had realized the thing that had been stopping them was actually probably not a real barrier at all. i’m making it my life’s mission to become the little trans devil on as many people’s shoulders as possible whispering “you should totally go on t i think you would really like it” in their ears. maybe the real transgender craze seducing our daughters was the friends we made along the way.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"And soda; runs off into the street..." "...and soda... is totally okay!"

[boarloved-art]

i like the car movies a lot.......

[fujii-draws]

OKAY! Chatot rant in tags below! Read at your own discretion.

[fluffypotatey]

I don't really believe this, cause to me shadowpeach are soulmates no matter what; but I like the idea of macaque's true love being past wukong, and wukong's true love being present macaque (not the hatred of wukong, but the added confidence, extra snarkiness, showmanship, and the lack of idealizing wukong and trying to hide in the background). But present macaque can't exist without past wukong killing past mac and thus killing "himself". So they are always doomed cause past wukong can't love past macaque, and present macaque can't love present wukong.

yes yes the tragedy of right person wrong time 😭

[dozydawn]

i love images from old bridal catalogs in which the maid of honor can be interpreted as looking wistful and forlorn or especially jealous and scheming...

in the same vein, another good genre of images is the best man third wheeling...

[levinbolts]

nothing sexier than a skilled, effortlessly lethal man

[ruporas]

soft (and some bittersweet)

[authenticcadence18]

this is not really my brand at all but I’m just going to rant about Toy Story 5 for a hot second because the D23 sneak peek made me so mad.

TLDR: Toy Story 5 (and 4) ruin what made the first three films so special.

I’ll start this off by saying I ADORE Toy Story 3. It’s one of my favorite Pixar films. I was 10 when this movie came out, I remember going to like three Walmarts just to find a Jessie doll, and carrying her around with me in my bag all summer. I still have that doll, she’s very special to me.

Part of what makes the first three films so good is the passage of time. First two movies came out within 4 years of each other (1995 and 1999), third movie came out 11 years later in 2010. Andy is a kid in the first two films, maybe he doesn’t age exactly four years between 1 and 2 but he doesn’t have to we’re still in the range of childhood years, in the 90s. When the third movie came out a significant amount of time had passed in the real world, and thus it had in TS3. We quite literally felt the passage of time in that movie along with the toys. THAT is what made that movie so captivating and special, those trailers were so bittersweet and magical and REAL. I remember it so well. The third movie also FEELS like 2010 that movie EXUDES early 2010s it’s so comfy and nice (minus the traumatizing fire scene ofc)

(more below the cut)

Nine years later TS4 comes along and even tho the animation is prettier and the film seems to take place in the 2020s. everyone is the same age. Bonnie has aged what, a year? Over the course of nine real years? whereas Andy went from kid to college bound in a similar amount of time? where is the real world connection?

but ya know I gave the film the benefit of the doubt, I saw it I liked it I loved forky. But the emotional connection wasn’t there the way it was for TS3. But oh well that’s it right? How do you continue the franchise after that ending?

but OH! NOW TS5 is coming out in 2026, seven years later and GUESS WHAT!!! BONNIE IS STILL A KID. Look at this concept art!! She is very clearly still a kid.

she’ll have been a kid for 16 years at this point!! what is this, despicable me? (that’s a rant for another day shdjdjdj)

And she’s an iPad kid now which I mean. Yes. That’s a relevant issue for today’s kids. A GREAT concept for a TS movie. But Bonnie is not the character to portray this storyline. She’s not one of today’s kids she is a kid of the 2010s she was born in like. 2005. BONNIE should be in college and/or starting her own career now. Not an iPad kid. The toys should be with someone else, maybe a younger sister or cousin.

Plus!!! Guess who’s back in Bonnie’s room! Woody!!! so much for him saying goodbye to the others forever to be with his one true love right? The end of TS4 was not my favorite initially but I applauded the writers’ decision to make such a bold choice and change to the status quo. It echoed TS3 in a way, even if it cheapened the end of that film somewhat for me (in my heart the true TS canon ends at TS3 and TS4 is just a possible timeline it could branch off into).

But I guess the moving sacrificial end of your film doesn’t really matter when you can just change it in the next film!! 🙄

I love the sequence of the first three films so much, I love how they take place in the eras they come out in while also moving the timeline along.

Bonnie going from being born in 2005 to the late 2010s AT THE EARLIEST for these films to make any sense makes no sense. and if she’s born in 2005 how is she an iPad kid??? TS4 should’ve come out way sooner, and it should’ve been about a different kid.

(and I KNOW lots of movies and shows have a floating timeline where the kids never age. Charlie Brown, Phineas and Ferb, The Simpsons. but for those shows the setting changing with time while the characters don’t is part of the charm. The Toy Story franchise could’ve been that way but Toy Story 3 fundamentally changed that.)

(And look let’s say the movie takes place in 2012 and Bonnie has a rudimentary IPad 4 or something. why are we just seeing the movie now in 2026?? the timelines don’t match up it doesn’t make sense no matter what.)

I feel an emotional connection to the Bonnie of TS3 because she belongs in that time period, in the early 2010s when cellphone technology was just starting to pick up, when I was still a kid. And I think of TS3 and my brain screams 2010S!! MIDDLE SCHOOL!!!!!

whereas when I think of TS4 I’m like “has it actually been five years? it feels like it came out like two years ago” bc there’s no passage of time within that film to anchor it to the year 2019. That film came out the year before covid and it STILL feels like it came out like two years ago. that is telling to me.

Seeing Bonnie still be a kid 14 (and what will be 16) years after her debut feels inauthentic to the precedent set by Andy and TS3. I’m sure the movie will be good bc Toy Story movies are always good. But they’ve lost that sense of realism, of moving time, of leaving something behind and NOT being able to pick back up right where you left off. That kept the TS movies grounded in bittersweet reality, that’s kinda the whole point. :/

[kuch1-k0pi]

Redrew some screenshots as my AU boys :)

(screenshots are from moots over on twt!!)

AU Masterpost

[stuffyflowers]

*massaging my temples with an irritated expression* I am soooooooo tired of people misunderstanding starlos character