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techiebrots · 1 year

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Hello so I’m going to be word vomiting in your ask box due to the beloved archive being down and I have thoughts tm about B team that weee caused by your drawings + others and also because you artist need to get an ask that is just a mega laser kung pow penis beam of love for what you create and I’m here to do that

B team look so friend-shaped! The way you draw them, with softer corners but keeping lines straight and the flat muted colors that are still bright and draws the eyes’ attention/greys which are layered in such a nice way

I also see the checkered orange-yellow blanket

ham is such a soft shade of pink which is easy on the eyes but is more vibrant than Peni and Noir (Morse obvious in noir and the contrasts between noir and ham is sooo good, opposite spectrums of color)

he’s more humanoid but he’s still cartoony and the way you draw him just fits so well with B team. A wonderful balance

Him and Peni together are just great, they’re probably incredibly chatty and Ham would get Peni more since he’s more in tuned with technology unlike noir’s old man soul

Peni having a round face in the artwork of B team napping together resonates with me, she looks so comfortable napping with her dads

also the doodles of ham and her brushing their teeth (or in ham’s case his eyes), her drinking out of her #1 daughter mug, and noir ruffling her hair :D the daughter and her two dads <3

noir! Dad and friend-shaped. Your rendition of him unmasked makes him so handsome and pretty, like he reminds me of the dad from my neighbors Totoro- except more worn out lol

The drawing you did of that fanfic where B team are chilling with Hobie and Noir listens to some of his music- that has been keeping me GOING through the blackout

he’s holding his hat next to his face and is one sentence away from hiding his face while ham is one moment looking at noir’s face from having his eyes turning into hearts

Im not really a writer that can put how much I adore the drawings into words that perfectly articulate every last thought I have but I hope I did pretty well and sound vaguely comprehensivable and that tumblr didn’t say something was wrong with send- god I had to rewrite this thing once already-

HOLY FUCKING SHIT- UH THANKS! At first I thought this ask was just headcanons of team b and I was so ready to hear you out

While reading through this I got just a small idea of team b and decided to draw it out, which will be posted soon after this so thanks for the brief idea

Now here’s where I say my OWN incomprehensible ramblings so yay more text!

I have NEVER had someone inspect my art or at least told me they have so thanks! I am currently freaking the fuck out and going crazy actually, I have like five messages to my friend freaking out about this ask, and I WILL be rereading this every minute of the day

I have a lot of drawings of them all that will never see the light of day, mostly since they’re warmup drawings and I’m still figuring out how to draw them all consistently but I’m having fun. I mostly based ham off of how he looks in in comics since I love how silly he looks in them and also taking inspiration off of other artists who draw him.

Now here’s the fun part about that exact napping post you’re talking about, that post almost never got made. Like I completely abandoned the idea at first since I didn’t like the first sketch I made of it and almost discarded the idea a couple more times during the process of making it since I had a different idea in my head of what it was supposed to be. Even when i was done with it I was thinking of just not posting it since I didn’t completely like it myself, but now here we are with it being my most popular post. I like the drawing now since I pretty sure I was just staring at it for too long

AND THAT FIC DRAWING- WIZARD MAKES GREAT FICS! I keep rereading them and I will probably go back and read them AGAIN once archive is up and running, I have ideas for some of their fics to draw out but nothing concrete yet

Anyways in short i fucking appreciate this so much thanks! I am currently vomiting everywhere

#tec ask #my ego is inflated #knock me down a peg #I’ll never get over this #don’t compliment me I will go insane actually

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muggycuphead · 2 years

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Sunday Noon Bloomin – Mods fanconcepts #3

More plant spaghetti weee

Scanner got low on this one, damn-

Kid you not these are really fun to make

Also I know Sky is sort of a sore topic when it comes to the modding community (I originally planned on adding Nu Sky alongside, guess I forgot) but in either way I sort of like her, too bad she got thrown down by the fandom (RIP)

Also yeah she's holding a petal BFlower dropped (my concept of it is basically like the vegetal equivalent of a hair straw) as a way to showcase her character's obssessiveness (it's OG sky what would you expect lol)

Katni on the other hand was sort of a dilemma at the start, but I ended up settling with catnip as his plant type, mostly as a reference to his personality (catnip is a stimulant for cats, and also good for them to stay active and dynamic -to word it somehow- which is Kapi's whole shtick)

And if you wonder -he uses his tail to tap on the lamppad (ye it a lamp)

Tricky however was sort of a big brain moment for me. My first three ideas at the start were: Frog, centipeetle, and mantis partially; it was until I did further research about it when I took the third one as my pick.

Sunday Noon Bloomin – Mods fanconcepts #4

Updike as cotton plant, of course

He was still a pickle to draw tho (and a personal favourite design-wise)

Also, fun fact -that curvy line that's supposed to be his fringe is actually one of the roots that got inbetween his 'head cotton' to give that same effect as in the OG version

As for Sunday, just went for another bush (a more fleaky one tho bc yeah) as well as I added a small sunflower on top of her because name puns go brr

Also funny stickbug replacing the micholder

Nikusa was kinda funny to do, though it was hard to make her long hair behind her, so I just made it a long sheet of fabric(?) as if it was attached to her headband

Also BeetleTank's just a rolling cartbox with a mini catapult attached to it

Classy

EDIT 21/06/2023: Updated the drawings with rescanned, more clean versions

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mmms-phe-sideblog · 3 months

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The Partners: A Long Post

like. really long

brace yerself

Mmmmm guess whoooo obsessed over Phe’s partnerssss :,D

me. it’s me. hELP /silly

so.

I’m gon just. throw all the info at y’all and hope something makes sense hdjdhfh

here’s the info-duction (info introduction)

Onyx was the first partner i designed for Phe, I mentioned kem in my original info post. i think it was in the “oOo she’s a lesbiab but, but oOooO transmasc partner wEEE”

i have the most info about it because obviously. First Partner I Designed yada yada. Key are an intersex, kinda trans masc leaning maybe gendervoid/agender fella, i think i mentioned keir pronouns?

(key/it/he)

onyx is also the first partner i did a canon design forrrrr :D

also it’s a dom leaning switch. y’all definitely needed to hear that 👍

Aight next

Jenna!! Jennnaaaaaa my beloveddddd <33

she is the one and only cis person in the qpr, but they all love her just the same

you don’t need to be trans to be in this poly relationship >:3

behold her beauty!! beHOld!!!!!

i love her hair and i’m definitely not projecting my visions for my own hair onto her,,,, nooooo (hopefully getting a haircut and dying my hair blue this summer so!)

jenna is omni which is. Ideal. since there’s not another single cis person in this qpr lmfao

i wanna draw her more because oGh fluff

Chrissy/Rayne time babyyyy

so this one is an interesting one bcs. i can’t remember if i said phe has 5 or 6 partners in my og post?? i always knew that i was gonna give one of their partners DID (that sounds really mean but. mMm it was always gon be a thing)

so there’s Chrissy who is the “host” or “fronter”. She uses she/her and uhm. Yeah i haven’t really done that much character development on her yet since wEee rabbit holing-ish on DID

(btw if there is anyone who knows more about DID or has personal experience with it, please tell me if i say something wrong or get any facts messed up)

aaand then there’s rayne. christ do i love rayne (this sounds like favouritism towards them but it’s just because i’ve done so much more character development for them (mostly today so it’s fresh fjjdhfjdjd))

They use they/he pronouns and are a raging sub. again, this is very necessary information 😊

i’ve done quite a few drawings of them so. here have!

we’re ignoring the blacked out bits in the last photo. i was being silly and wrote some. Horny Shit. in my defence phe is very much not ace :P

to quickly explain the top surgery on a character that is mostly fem presenting- when rayne was fronting some time a couple years ago, they had a fun little breakdown and ended up going to a gender specialist to get a recommendation for top surgery. Completely just. On a whim. turns out having two identities that have completely opposite gender issues can be kinda problematic sometimes

anyway yeah i love them 💖💖

jasminnnn

yeah i know jasmin’s hair colour has changed dramatically between the two pictures of her ive done sssshush (i cant find a ginger pen 😔😔)

jasmin uses she/xey pronouns and yes. this is the influence of phe partially hdhdhd. its similar to my situation with neim where their pronouns helped me realise shit about my own gender

basically when jas and phe met, jas was already questioning her gender but didn’t know how to progress. all she knew was that she was uncomfortable with they/them pronouns. n then phe introduced her to the concept of neopronouns and thus the she/xey was born!

alright last one i swear

yep this is the one and only drawing ive done of phe’s last partner, xander. They’re a fem enby and use they/it. i need to do more drawings of them because ogh that typical lesbian haircut 😚👌

also i just found another drawing i did of jas at like. 2 in the morning. yeah not putting that here because 1) it’s shite (i did it with highlighters) and 2) yyyyeah fuck the iphone 10 pictures limit

speaking of pictures. last thing im putting here is the drawing of the height difference between them all:

#information n shite #phe post!!#funky ish? art #info/lore dump bcs 📯#my oc stuff #oc #original character #oc artwork #oc art #ocs #my ocs #my oc art #my original characters

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emohee · 3 years

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hii! Can I ask some reaction about rich yandere kinda bully niki with a childhood friend reader ? ( why do I see him literally seeing the maid’s daughter and he is like “she is mine” yet he is always a bully but nobody can even look at his little bride or else… and by the years its just getting out of hand ) btw I love your works even tho you just started I wish you good luck and lots of love ✨weee✨

rich!bully!yandere!niki x reader

- ,, pairing : yandere!niki x fem!reader

- ,, genre : yandere

- ,, tw : yandere themes

- ,, word count : 647

- ,, yuri's note : THIS IDEA IS 😩💯, i had so much fun writing this lol

西村力

backstory of your relationship<3

as a child he would steal your candies and hide them around the villa where you lived

you always knew it was him and so one day went to argue with him but he denied it all and ended up making you cry

you really didn't want to be next to him, because he always made fun of you, but your mother forced you to play with him, so as not to create any kind of conflict and not to be eventually fired

then you got to the age where you started going to school

he always forgot the books at home and so he took yours from your backpack, to make it seem that you forgot the books instead.

when you drew at school, he always tore up your drawings :(

in elementary school niki was bearable but in middle school he became your nightmare

once you fell in love with your classmate and niki noticed it so during a speech niki was giving to the class (with everyone present) he told everyone that you liked your crush, and everyone started teasing you & laughing at you, not much after your crush started to avoid you and at that point you just wanted to disappear.

luckily that happened in the last year of middle school, so you didn't have to suffer for long

in high school, you fell in love with your best friend, you often invited him to your house, and when you, your friend and niki met, niki always said some horrible things to your friend so much that he no longer wanted to come to your house

but obviously that didn't change anything in your relationship, you still remained best friends

one day you decided to confess and your best friend was about to accept the confession, but by chance niki came up with his group of "friends" and started teasing you heavily.

in a week the whole school knew about you and your bestfriend.

your best friend decided to change school and told you he never wanted to see you again because your love confession had ruined his reputation

and you were left alone once again

a short time later niki began to come to your room more and more often to talk to you, but of course you didn't answer him and did everything to ignore him

"answer me, talks to me or I'll tell my parents to fire your mother, and you don't want that, do you?"

you told your mom about this, and she begged you to talk to niki cause she couldn't lose her job like that

so you started hanging out with him just for the sake of your mother's job

your relationship now<3

always wants to hold your hand

wants to go out with you almost every day

"you are the maid's daughter, your mother is my parents' maid, while you are my maid so do your job and go out with me"

used to say stuff like

"hahaha! the loser likes me! pathetic" "don't touch me ew"

now says stuff like

"y/n you don't want to hug me? are you afraid of blushing? aw how cute! y/n got a crush for me!" "hold my hand or i'll fire your mother<3"

loves to tease you

feels bad and tries to be softer with you if you get offended

tries to make you blush

"y/n your hoodies are trash, wear mine instead"

often calls you "shawty" or "bunny"

takes a lot of pictures with you

tells his friends you're secretely his girlfriend

he wants to be the only one in your life, in fact he's your only friend

is actually planning marriage and children

"nishimura y/n sounds really good-"

"excuse me what the f-"

he has saved you in his phone as "未来の花嫁💗" (future bride💗)

he has a picture of you as a baby as his wallpaper

your daily texts <3

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pride-moth · 3 years

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You only get what you grieve [Stolitz Week Day 5 Hurt/Comfort]

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Stolas has been drifting in and out of consciousness in his tight restraints for hours by the time Blitz, Millie, Moxxie and Loona break down the door to his holding cell. It’s a big, empty room, all metal and a single cupboard. Stolas is tied to a chair, has been for days, no food, no water in his reach. To get it, he would depend on Stella’s mercy and she has shown him none.

It takes him a moment to force his eyes open, and attempt to feel his own limbs when they all pour into the room. He can’t, the ropes around his body have cut off all sensation in them. He can faintly remember them hurting when he was first put in them, but all the pain has long been replaced by unbearable numbness.

Blitz rushes towards him to hold his face between his hands. “Millie! Give me your knife!” he yells and cuts Stolas free the moment he receives the knife.

Stolas’ arms fall to his sides uselessly. “Blitzy?” he says weakly, his voice barely more than a rasp.

“Sir, I think he’s dehydrated,” Moxxie remarks.

“Then get some water, Moxx!” Blitz yells, making Moxxie scurry into the back of the room, stands in front of Stolas again and takes his face back between his hands. “Stolas? Hey, it’s… It’s okay, we’re here now, you’ll be okay.”

“Stella?” Stolas asks, it’s all he can get out.

“She… She’s dead. We… Took care of that. It was… I was… Sorry, there was no other way.”

Stolas doesn’t say anything, but is overcome with a hefty cough.

Moxxie comes running back with a large bottle of water. Blitz yanks it from his hands and holds it carefully to Stolas’ beak. “Slowly,” he says softly, perhaps more softly than Stolas has ever heard him speak.

He drinks, trying to slow himself down, but he hasn’t had a drop of liquid in three days and his body is aching for it with every fiber. His arms start to itch again, so that’s a good sign as well at least. He stops drinking for a moment to whisper “Thank you.”

“Don’t mention it, I wouldn’t just let you die in this hole.” There’s a rumbling above them. Blitz looks up in obvious concern. “Can you get up?”

“I don’t know, I barely feel my limbs.”

The steps above them grow faster. “Loona, you’re strong, can you throw him over your shoulder when we get in a hurry?”

She shrugs. “I guess. Either way, we should probably get running.”

“I thought…?”

“Yeah, we got rid of Stella, but unfortunately Striker still has a bit more of a personal problem with us,” Millie explains while she gestures for Blitz to give her her knife back.

As if on cue, Striker appears in the doorframe, already bleeding from his shoulder, but his eyes hungry for a fight. “You killed my source of income, you destroyed my job and you’re even trying to save this pompous asshole?”

“I’d rather have a pompous asshole than a deranged one!”

“Hand him out to me, I’m sure there are enough overlords and royals in Hell who would be more than willing to pay a good bounty for him. And I would even be generous and give you all 10%. As a peace offer.”

“Fuck you and your peace,” Blitz says, draws his gun and takes a single shot.

The bang echoes throughout the small room and leaves Stolas’ ears ringing. A stinging pain takes over that makes it hard for him to look up and focus. But when he manages to lift his head again, he sees Striker on the ground, struggling to hold onto this bleeding leg.

“Let’s get out of here,” Blitz sighs and motions for everyone to follow him as he jumps over Striker and leaves him behind on the ground.

“Sir?” Moxxie says as though to raise an objection.

“Shut it, Moxx. Loona, take Stolas. Now.” Blitz doesn’t even look back at them.

Loona throws Stolas over her shoulder with surprising ease and carries him outside.

They make their way through the abandoned warehouse building in uneasy silence, only the sound of steps on metal between them.

When they make it outside, the light almost burns Stolas’ eyes. “Let’s go to the office,” Blitz offers.

“But Via…” Stolas says weakly, still hanging over Loona’s shoulder, suddenly overcome with fear for his precious baby.

“She’s there, we got her out of the palace first thing before we went on our little rescue mission. Took one of your butlers, too, so someone can look after her.”

“Oh thank the stars.”

“No, thank me maybe, but you can save that for later.” Blitz fishes his phone out of his pocket and stuffs it back in, frustration all over his face. “Moxxie, would you call an ambulance?”

“What?”

“An ambulance. Weee-oh, weee-oh. Takes people to the hospital, do you even have a brain up there?!”

“Sir, I know what an ambulance is, but why?”

“Well, Striker is bleeding out in there, for one.”

“Don’t you want him dead?”

Blitz laughs. “Are you insane? He’s the only motherfucker in Hell to put up a real fight, do you really think I want to deprive myself of that fun?”

Moxxie sighs, shakes his head, but calls the ambulance without further discussion.

Loona sits Stolas down on the couch of their waiting room. Stolas thanks her and feels sleep gnawing at him more intensely than ever before.

It takes not even two seconds before Octavia storms in and throws her arms around him, “Oh my God, Dad! You’re safe!”

Stolas weakly lifts his arms, thankful to feel them again at all, and wraps them around her. “Of course, Via. I would never leave you alone.”

“I assume Mom didn’t make it?”

Stolas’ looks around helplessly, unsure of how to respond.

“She was on the way to fully execute your dad, so we didn’t really have a choice,” Blitz says, as a matter of fact, but he doesn’t seem particularly happy about it. “I… I’m sorry.”

Octavia nods. A thousand emotions run through her big eyes in a matter of seconds. Grief, relief, anger. “I… I’m glad you’re safe, Dad. I just… I need a moment.” She lets go of him and gets up. She leaves the room.

“Via-” Stolas tries to get up but his legs don’t quite allow him to yet.

“Leave her,” Loona says, “Her mom might have been a bitch, but she was still her mom and it’s hard to lose that. I’ll check on her later.”

Stolas wants to protest, run after his daughter, but simply gives her a sad nod. He’s not running anywhere yet.

“How are you feeling?” Blitz asks as Millie enters the room with some hot chocolate for everyone.

Stolas can only shrug. “Like shit, mostly. I can sort of feel my body again, at least. But, I just… I can’t form a clear thought, it’s all so… foggy. I… I can’t even think of how I feel about Stella being dead. It doesn’t feel real. Nothing feels real.”

Blitz nods and hands him one of the hot chocolate cups. “That’s okay, take your time.”

“You’re being extremely nice to me,” Stolas remarks.

“Stolas, I’m coming off a 72 hour rescue mission and I’m mostly just glad you’re alive. I don’t exactly have energy left over for snarky sarcasm, okay. Being as charmingly abrasive as I am takes work.” Blitz plops down on the couch next to him with a shaky laugh. Stolas leans against him.

“Thank you. I don’t think I would still be alive without you.”

“I would never let you die,” Blitz whispers.

Across the room Millie is gesturing at Moxxie and they excuse themselves from the room moments later.

“Where are they going?”

Blitz sighs. “Ugh, they want to give us the room. As if I’m gonna drop a whole confession speech on you when you barely function.”

Stolas stops. “Confession?”

“Oh crap.” Blitz blushes. “I… Don’t worry about it today, okay? Worry about your daughter and the very awkward funeral you’re about to attend soon. Just… Just let me help you put yourself back together.”

Stolas stays silent.

“Let’s start by massaging your shoulders, those must be killing you. Sorry, maybe not the best time to make jokes about murder. Uhm, anyway.” Blitz puts his mug down, gets off the couch to walk behind Stolas. He starts carefully massaging Stolas’s shoulders.

It feels good, it takes some of the edge off, it brings warmth back into Stolas’ body. It makes everything feel a little less horrible. It makes everything horrible he has experienced in the past few days feel a little farther away. He doesn’t want Blitz to ever stop touching him. He wants to feel these hands on him for as long as he lives. It should be some earth-shattering revelation, but it simply feels like the culmination of everything they’ve been through. “I love you,” he whispers, without thinking.

Blitz stops massaging him for a moment. “You should call a therapist.”

“Because I love you?”

“No, because you’ve just spent three days tied up in a storage unit without food or drink and your wife had to be murdered to get you out of there. You might need some help processing that.”

“Were you even listening to me?” Stolas asks, a little heartbroken.

“I was, Stolas. And I love you, too, you big idiot, but I’m not going to talk about this with you now. Not before we’ve slept for 24 hours. Not before things aren’t somewhat okay with your daughter. I don’t… I’m not going to take advantage of you like that.”

“It’s not-”

“Please, Stolas. Let me just… Be there for you for now. Platonically.”

Stolas swallows but then he nods and that’s all that’s said about it for the evening. It’s enough, though, for now, that Blitz brings him hot chocolate and massages him and helps him talk to Via and helps him get up and walk again. And Blitz is right, he has other concerns for now. The horror of the moment is over, but there’s so much work ahead.

#helluva boss #stolas x blitz #stolas x blitzo #stolitz #stolitz week #hurt/comfort #fanfiction #my writing

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heymrspatel · 3 years

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Julissa sweet love I have a question. I am not an artist at all, but my niece is a budding one. She turns 11 next month and I'm thinking of getting her some art supplies. Right now I think she just uses ms paint or something that came free with the chromebook her parents got her for school. I'm gonna see if I can download procreate to it as part of her gift, but I'm wondering what other tools you use? Those pen things? Do they come in different sizes? Is there a brand you recommend? Are there other tools? I wanna encourage her, so anything would be great!

chrissy, my love!! hi!

happy birthday to your niece! my nephew is currently 10 also and he's just the most fun and he also loves to draw, so i'm going to recommend with him in mind.

(adding a break because this got long)

omg ms paint my beloved! unfortunately procreate is only available for apple products (it's an amazing app, but this is real dumb in my mind). however, i'm SURE there are some other apps that are great and also available for chromebook. i just googled "drawing apps for chromebook" and there's a big list. unfortunately, i can't recommend any 😔 but there seems to be a lot of options, so that's good!

thinking of my nephew, he really likes to draw in sketchbooks, and it's the best way to start in my mind. it's very tactile and allows a lot of room for error and FIXING those errors very easily. a mixed media sketchbook with thick paper that allows you to use markers that don't bleed through the other side is the best! my other recommendation is to get her a good drawing eraser. shit makes pencil marks disappears like magic!

i've used both of these and they're great! other than that, just a nice pencil with good lead, colored pencils, and basic markers (my nephew has this 50 pack of crayola super tips that he loves) would be good for her to start!

weee i think that's all? feel free to come back with more questions if you have any!! 💙💙💙

#chrissy my love!#also what pen things 😅😅#art talk #you-are-so-much-better-than-that #asks

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luxshine · 3 years

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Meet Joliot, Horsewoman of Pestilence, and Harbringer of Health. Also, the youngest of the Four, and you've met War and Famine already.

Just like Xocotlalli, her changes between Pestilence and Health are just cosmetic, and does so in order to make Eryn feel better about her own changes. The sisters are supportive that way. Unlike Xoco (and Aysha, Death), Joliot doesn't keep a constant schedule of when she is working as Pestilence and when she's working as Health, so the changes come unexpectedly depending on how much she's doing (to be fair, anything that can cure you, can also kill you depending on quantity, so that's why)

Unlike her sisters, Joliot has no real "human" job. Instead, she spends her days in her apartment -or down at the coffee shop, trying to figure out a way to con new employees into giving her coffee-, doing different experiments. These experiments tend to end up in an explosion, something that is really not appreciated by her neighbors, in particular, the Season Sisters as some of her plants are too delicate to sustain the noise and movement that said explosions cause. Still, Joliot tries very, very hard not to cause the explosions. She may like them a lot -She owns every single Mythbuster dvd- but she understands they're not good for living things.

From time to time, she does have animal test subjects, but never with something that could hurt the animals, and, since she can actually talk to them? All of them are volunteers. She also has a pet Guinea Pig, not very originally named Guinea Pig, who has been with her more or less since Ancient Greece and on occasion will act as her conscience.

Joliot doesn't see much difference between both her jobs, as she sees both as science. Sure, when she's Health in general, she's trying to find cures and things that will help people, but she knows that accidents can happen and that's when Pestilence comes to play. Once again, she is always the same person, only changing her look because of her solidarity (and frank admiration) for older sister Eryn. The difference between her and Xocotlalli is that Joliot is not conscious of when she changes, so sometimes she may start a sentence as Health with her bright red hair and finish it as Pestilence, with her white smoky hair. It's usually Guinea Pig who alerts her to those changes.

She does feel bad for when she unleashes plagues on Earth -since she was sure she would only have to do it when it came to the actual Apocalypse that has been scheduled back so many times, she's like, 99.9% sure it will never happen- but to be fair? Not all of them are her fault. Sure, sometimes it's because she falls asleep on her lab and she and safety lab procedures aren't in speaking terms, but the last one was because Aysha startled her so so not her fault! Please don't yell at her.

Joliot loves chocolate, coffee and sugar. Unfortunately for everyone else, all of them have the side effect of making her thrice as hyper so pretty much every grocery store and coffee shop in a 500 miles radius from the Building has instructions not to give her any chocolate, coffee or sugar. In short, she will walk 500 miles for her coffee fix. Or figure out the way to make her own.

She has a lot of admiration for her older sisters, but is a bit afraid of Aysha as Aysha yells at her (after all, her Plagues do tend to kill Aysha's humans so... yeah), and terrified of Eryn when Eryn is Peace, while loves War dearly. In fact, Eryn as War is her favorite sister even if she won't let her have chocolate either!

I adore drawing Joliot in both of her facets. Her palette as Health is so fun, but she as Pestilence is adorable too. And her throne has wheels, which disrupts the meetings of the horsewomen a lot since she goes "WEEE!" on it.

#Building Blocks #my webcomic #Building blocks webcomic #Joliot #Horsewoman of Pestilence #Harbringer of Health #Health and Pestilence #women characters #my characters #redhead #ginger

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dyns33 · 5 years

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Okay you already know my undying love for your writing.😋 So I have another idea (weee!!🙌) So Richard opens up to reader and tells her his favorite sweet is apple pie. And she prepares one for him for his birthday. Oh and add some ice cream, like pie a la mode. This is a continuation from the Grudge story, like the same couple. They're dating!

Oki doki ! Just one thing : as always, I used the first person last time, because I wanted Reader to hide their gender. So no "she" if this is a continuation, I hope it will be alright, sorry sorry ! I want the boys/trans/non binary to have some fun too !!!

It had been a few months since Richard and I had become lovers. Well, we were taking our time, we had not yet become totally intimate, but none of us thought it was necessary to build a solid relationship. And then, in a way, sleeping together every night to escape weird creatures who wanted to kill us was much more effective than sex to bond. Richard finally opened up to me, slowly but surely, telling me his internment in an asylum because no one believed in his stories of shadows, his meeting with Jonah, his only friend he had sometimes on the phone even today and who shouted at me, "I hope you're not a coward and you're going to protect him !" when Richard told him we were together. The day he almost died, because it became complicated to continue never sleeping. When he had understood how to manage his anxieties and when he could close his eyes without fear of being attacked, everything had settled and he had regained an almost normal life.

"What was your anxieties ?" I asked him one day.

"I prefer not to talk about it. To forget it. Otherwise I might be anxious because of it and all my progress will be lost."

"Sorry, it's just... you can talk to me, you know, if you need."

Richard had helped me a lot, he always helped me a lot, so I wanted to reciprocate him, so that our relationship would not be unbalanced, but each time, he was only smiling before kissing me, and going back to his drawings while listening to his music. If I could not do anything about his dark parts, I was interested in the happier things, the good times, in what made him happy.

"Tell me ! Tell me everything ! Favorite color, favorite season, favorite dish... I want to know everything !"

"Red, autumn, apple pie."

"Apple pie ? It's not a dish, it's a dessert."

"Okay, any dish with an apple pie for dessert."

I did not think that this information would be useful to me one day, until I discovered the date of his birthday, which approached very quickly, so I decided to prepare him his favourite pastries to please him, even if I do not was not the best cook. But hey, making a cake, an apple pie, it must not be so complicated. I even decided to try making homemade ice cream so that the result would be perfect. The result was not perfect. Far from there. However, I had followed the recipe, I had used all the indicated ingredients, I had put the oven at the right temperature, but what was in the cake pan did not look like the picture in the cookbook at all, more a funny porridge, which did not smell bad, but was absolutely not appetizing. The ice cream was not really better. I did not know why, but it refused to freeze completely, remaining a little liquid, just a little, so that I would be unable to get beautiful balls of round vanilla ice cream. As I stared at this disaster, I heard someone run quickly down the hall and Richard entered the apartment like a madman, sweaty and worried.

"The woman is on the stairs again. What's going on ?"

Shit. I was a little too anxious because I had completely ruined his birthday, because I was not able to make a presentable cake. yet it was a surprise, he did not know what I was preparing, I still had time to try to make one, so he would not have been disappointed, but I was, because I had imagined his smile, his eyes that would light up on discovering the pie, the moans of pleasure that he would make by tasting it... I felt lousy and it had attracted the woman.

"I... everything is fine... nothing serious." I said, putting myself in front of the oven so that he would not see this catastrophe.

"(Y / N). Tell me."

"Well... I wanted to make an apple pie. It's not really a success. You see, it's okay, I'm going to relax."

"Show me this apple pie."

I tried to stop him from opening the oven, but Richard looked at me fondly until I agreed to push myself, letting him catch that horror, which he put on the table and watched it intently. He hummed, grabbed a fork, cut a little bit and swallowed it, before I could tell him that I did not know if he was not going to get sick because of this thing, which would be the height for his anniversary.

"Not bad." he declared. "Visually, it is not beautiful, it's true, but the taste is very good. Guess you did it with that."

With his fork, he pointed my heart, smiling, and on the stairs, the grunts of the woman were vanishing. He loved the apple pie ! No, I should not exaggerate, he did not love it, but he did not find it bad !

"I can try to hide the misery under sugar, or I'll do it again, I still have two days."

"Why two days ?" he asked, taking another bite.

"For your birthday ?"

"Oh, it's two days in ? I forgot, I never celebrate it. Nobody celebrates it."

"Really ? Because it's a bad date ? A bad memory ? I'm stupid, I should have ask ! Oh, excuse me, I thought I'd make you happy, but if you don't want that, we'd just eat the pie for... for... because it will be our monthly day of apples pies ! Every month, we will..."

Richard kissed me, his lips having a taste of apple, cinnamon and vanilla that was actually nice, before taking me in his arms, hiding his face in my neck. I felt drops on my skin.

"Thank you. Thank you."

"Even if I ruined the apple pie ?" I snickered, massaging his neck.

"No, it's perfect."

Despite his happiness, Richard did not forget this proposal of pie days every month, asking without realizing that I was celebrating his month-birthday, but I accepted with pleasure, improving my cakes every time, which seemed to disappoint him, for none was ever as good as the first, as ugly as it was.

#the last time a saw Richard #richard x reader #Richard #Cody Fern

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crayonaird · 5 years

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It's a good time so I hope you enjoy Nadia's route as well as others!

There's a lot of screen time for the courtiers in her route which is a fun time.

I love all the Lucio talk on my dash. It’s fun and great and a good time.

But I also wanna talk about Valdemar??? I just really like medical villains. There’s just somethin about em that makes me go “hooo weee”.

#the arcana #convo

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igumdrop · 5 years

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:OO WELCOME EVERYONE!!

okay okay, I know what you guys are thinking -- Jaime, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?! HOW CAN YOU MAKE THE SUB-BLOG GO PUBLIC?!?! WHAT HAPPENED TO *THAT* LIST... THE *YOU KNOW WHAT* LIST...

and my response is... I don’t know what you’re talking about. I never had such a list.

okay, real talk though, I decided to let my sub-blog go public for multiple reasons:

♡ no one wants to enter a password that I change constantly

♡ most of what I say I would love to share with my regular viewers who can’t afford to sub, and this is my main source of updating you guys on a more personal basis for those who follow me more on social media and not my stream

♡ I’m incorporating a lot more sub-only things into the community, so I figured I could let one go!

we’ll see how it goes and if it does start to feel uncomfortable, we can always bring it back :) but there’s little to nothing that I can think of that would make this weird because I don’t overshare that much... I think... HAHA we’ll see

ANYWAYS, REALLY GOOD NEWS! for the past few months I’ve had a little team of subs working on our community Minecraft server! (SO MUCH THANKS TO GOLDEYE, WATTEHMS, MATTY, MAXWELL, BRADLEY, JOSTER <3) I’ll try to log on everyday and just have a habit of keeping it online. I think it’d be cute to be able to log onto something and see everyone in the same world!

if you’re a sub, please fill out the form that I linked in the discord! it’s also the same form you use to join the gummie gang stream team, and also for me to know what your discord usernames are (a lot of times when you guys message me, your discord username is different from your twitch and I have no idea LOL) there’s also a little response section where you can give me any suggestions you want! (stream ideas, sub emotes, etc) ~ HAVE FUN!

AND EVEENNNN MORE GOOD NEWS!!!

WE’LL BE ON FRONT PAGE OF TWITCH THIS THURSDAY!! WEEE!!

I’ll probably be doing a sit-down cooking stream into a mukbang :) TIME IS TO BE ANNOUNCED BUT IT SHOULD BE AROUND THE TIME FRAME OF 12PM - 2PM OR 2PM - 4PM! I’ll let you guys know as soon as possible on discord. I’ll also be streaming tomorrow/Tuesday and Wednesday so I’ll let you guys know on stream too!

OK THAT’S IT FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS!~ here are my own personal lil updates

BENJI HAS GROWN SOOO MUCH! okay not gonna lie, he was kinda dying for a bit during the winter, I don’t think he really did well in the cold... his leaves would fall off sometimes and yellow at the ends. I was getting really scared and to be honest I’m so attached to this god damn plant that it was taking a sad mental toll on me. LMFAO. WHY AM I LIKE THIS. anyway, I gave him some fertilizer and stayed consistent with him, watered him whenever I needed to and tried to keep him in warm yet sunny areas of my house. and YAY, SPRING ROLLS AROUND AND HE’S GROWN BIGGER THAN I HAVE EVER SEEN HIM GROW!!!

before (when I first got him) and now! I’m so proud... only I can write a paragraph raving about my pet plant... jeez it’ll be crazy once I get an actual cat or something...

there was a really busy week in march where I spent all my leftover time planning Aria’s birthday. it was honestly the cutest thing ever seeing all her friends get together and work on stuff for her. I remember being insanely tired during it but once I saw her reaction for her surprise party, my heart melted and I just told myself wow that was soooo worth it LOL. here’s some pictures from my end <3

we got these GIANT balloons that spelled out ARIA and it took forever to get into the car and out LMAO... excuse my janky no makeup face but it was so funny seeing us struggle so hard with the balloons T_T LOL

we spent hours late at night working on her scrapbook and baking stuff for her. I was working on strawberry cheesecake shoots and I remember cutting 10+ strawberries and thinking, “wow, it would suck if I dropped these,” and then guess what happened...

I dropped them lmao

anyways it turned out so wholesome and cute <3

I found the airbnb on this website called peerspace and when I saw it, it SCREAMED ARIA...

you’re welcome for me blessing your eyes

we seriously worked our *aesthetic* muscle for this because we knew aria would appreciate the heck out of it

OKAY ANYWAYS MOVING ON!! yesterday I went to h-mart and got a shit ton of groceries. and I realized it’s STRAWBERRY SEASON!!! there’s still a lot of stuff that I want to buy that isn’t available here though, so my mom tries to send me all that she can :D

I love her so much I miss her so much wahhh I can’t even talk about my parents because I’ll just start crying because I miss them so much ... ok also I was supposed to stream yesterday but I took a nap... and... didn’t... haha... jaimewhatswrongwithyou.exe.... here’s a post-nap selfie though...

I looked heckin janky but snow saved my ass

ANYWAY I spent the rest of the night just reading and I finished my monthly book read! here are my two recommendations for you guys :)

I absolutely love love love this book! it will really help if you’re an overthinker like me. tl;dr, it talks about the inside voice in your head that constantly battles with itself and refers to it as an “annoying roommate.” with consistent reading (a chapter or two before sleeping at night) it really helped me clear my mind and become super aware of how the voice in my head could be more harmful than helfpul. if you’re new to reading it is quite a bit to read though so if you want something easier then I suggest this:

gosh, my life became so simple when I read this book consistently. it basically shares four simple agreements that you should always be conscious of in life. this book just really helped me not take things as personally, to not make assumptions, and it just gave me a much more simple and clear perspective on things and issues. SUPER SUPER EASY TO READ!!! downfall is, it kinda talks about religion a lot at the end, which might make it uncomfortable for some of you guys. I couldn’t really enjoy the last bits of it that much because of that sole reason but it’s still a great read and taught me lots of fundamentals I never knew I needed for my own mindset :)

I went to LCS the day before yesterday and it was really fun because I brought a portable cut-out of scarra LMAOOOOOO the thread is really funny so you guys should go read it: https://twitter.com/iGumdrop/status/1114687260434124801

I also did my taxes yesterday (well I finished up what was left of it) during the games LOL and then I went to annie’s place afterwards because her mom is an accountant and she helped me file them. I’m soooo happy I got them over with because I feel so free now!

hm ok ending these are always hard because it always seem so abrupt, mainly because even my 200 WPM fingers get tired of typing. I guess all I have to say is, hello new readers of my sub-blog, I hope you enjoy your time here! and thank you so much to everybody who supports me. it really means the world to me and I never go one day without insanely appreciating you guys. this month I’ma hit you guys with that dudududuududud GOOD CONTENT! <3

and alas, a few of my favorite cute lil drawings this month from chibird~

(+ my community)

WELL, FAREWELL FRIENDS! TILL NEXT TIME <3

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audreyrosebooks · 6 years

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Ship me? Maybe. Only if they like small people who must shout to be heard. I'm about as punk as I am math-y (and I'd sell my soul for math, honestly) and I have wayyy too many metal piercings to comfortably work with all the electricity that I work with. I spend a lot of time drawing, a lot of time writing, and a lot of time browsing Craigslist for cool old cars.

I ship you… with… Wyn!

Wyn is a smol. She’s the smolest of smols- an adorable bundle of cuteness, with a lot of spirit- t’s hard to talk her out of anything. She’s very loving and compassionate, and she’s also a smol who must shout to be heard, so you can shout together. And she digs the punk/math vibe. It makes her go, weeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She also digs the artistic vibe, even if she’s not very artistic herself. But you can teach her to draw! Her artistic level is stick figures though. She’ll still try to talk you into teaching her because Wyn always has to be doing something- can’t sit still, nope, gotta be cute and smol always.

Honestly, she’s adorable. Lucky you weee

(She’s not all sunshine though. Sometimes, she can play dirty too. It keeps things fun. She says: weeee again.)

#cogwrites #weeeeeeeeeeeee

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jolienjoyswriting · 5 years

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The Maze of the Manor, Ch. I

Chapter 1 of "The Maze of the Manor," an Essence of Ragnarok story.

Oh… hi, Mark. I didn't see you, there. So, I actually wanted to write a completely unrelated story… but, I'm kind of scared that, after all the pre-production work I've done (character models, research, lore, etc.), it wont turn out like I want it to. So, I've been writing other things, instead. This, in particular, is a story I've been mulling over in my head. It's one of those "seems like a fun idea, but I've got other things to do" sort of ideas. But, like I said… I've got cold feet about the story I actually want to write, so I made this, instead. x:

Word count: 17,853 – Character count: 2,939 Originally written: May 29th, 2019

A pushy bat and a reluctant fox go out to see a spook-house! Zoinks!

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“This ain’ what I expected t’ find, at all…! Of all th’ things ta– un… believable!”

Joseph softly panted, his ears flicking as he looked up from his… rather compromising position. Seeing his best friend standing at the door gave him relief… until he realized why she covering her face and shaking her head. Slowly, he turned his attention back to the person that had led him to being in such a predicament… only to see sweet, red eyes and an innocent, white-furred face… albeit, with some red stains around the mouth… staring back. It was like they were looking to him for answers, as well. Unfortunately, all the fox could tell either of them was… “I– I can explain… Uhn… I think…?” The black-furred bat rolled her eyes. “Oh, this ought’a be good…” But, what, exactly, happened? And, how did get to that point…? –––––

“C’mon, Josey! It’s Masquerade Week! What better way t’ join th’ festivities than by goin’ to a real, live, spooky house…? It’ll be fun!”

That was the story Jessica sold her companion, the one-eyed, golden-furred fox by the name of Joseph, as she dragged him out of his house. Truthfully, he really didn’t feel like going out… or, really, doing much of anything. Two years prior, he’d lost his girlfriend in what could only be described as “a series of injustices.” It really messed him up in a number of ways, such as leading him to stay indoors more often and lose motivation with his freelance music compositions. Still, his friends wanted him to get out and have some fun, once-in-a-while – it was “good for him,” they said – and, for-better-or-worse, Jessica was the most adamant about it, often dragging him to one place or another… sometimes, completely against his will…

“But, I don’t want to have fun!” Joseph protested as he found himself dragged by the arm of his black turtleneck sweater. “Sure, ya do!” she immediately countered. “Everyone likes fun!” “You’re lying!” “Nuh-uh!” the girl in the turquoise sweater and hip-hugging denim jeans further countered. “What’s life without a li’l fun?” “Safe…” was Joseph’s guess. “Boooring!” was his companion’s correction. “Now, siddown, strap in, ‘n let’s gooooo!” “Doesn’t seem like you’re giving me much choice…” That observation was a little self-evident, all things considered. She had already pushed him into his car’s passenger seat, pulled the seat belt over, and fastened him in. Once she slid over the hood of Joseph’s green compact car, she hopped into the driver’s side. “This’ll be a hoot!” she told him while pulling the key from the fabric rolls of her cowl-neck sweater. “I promise!” “If you say so, Jess…” “Hey… would I lie t’ you?” Joseph grunted as she started the vehicle. “Only if it was for a good cause…” “Exactly! Now, let’s get’a goin’!” With that, she pulled out of his driveway and onto the road some meters away. Not long after, they were on their way to her so-called “spooky house.”

“Say, Jessie…” The red-head with the pink fringe hummed to her companion. Her red-and-green eyes were focused on the road, but her ears pivoted toward him, showing that he had her attention. “Where did you say this place was? We’ve been driving for a while…” “It’s way-way-waaay out ‘n th’ boonies!” was her cheerful reply. “Ever hear of a place called ‘Talwar Village?’” “You’re… you’re talking me to Talwar Village?” Joseph scowled. “Jessie, that’s… like… almost a day’s drive over!” “It’s a good thing we’re leavin’ now, huh?” Joseph looked at the clock on the dashboard. It read “11:20 AM.” “No– Jessie, stop the car,” he said as he whipped his head back toward the driver. “I did not agree to a road trip! Stop, turn around, go back.” “Oh, don’t be such a whiner, Josey! It’s not like ya had someplace t’ be!” “Jessica, I’m serious.” He glared at the perky bat. “Stop. The car. Now.” Jessica didn’t respond to his stern order and just kept on driving while quietly humming a song he recognized as one of his own. “Stop. The. Car.” Again, she didn’t respond. Joseph was starting to get angry… “Jessica U. Ingmann, if you don’t stop this fucking car right now, I will–” “You’ll what?” she finally snapped. “Bail? Yank th’ wheel outta my hands? Go ‘head! See what ‘appens, bitch!” The fox’s ears folding into a somewhat-hostile position and he growled, baring his teeth at Jessica. Clearly, he didn’t appreciate being encouraged to cause a car accident.

“Jessica…” he eventually called in a much calmer voice. “Please. I don’t want to go on a road trip. I’m asking nicely… turn the car around and take me home. Okay?” At that point, the bat-girl finally glanced his way. “Gods damn it, Joe…” she said with a sigh. “Yer such a big baby sometimes…” “You all-but-kidnaped me to go on some mystery road trip with you, Jess! You won’t even tell me where, specifically, we’re going!” He sighed, as well, before calming back down. “I didn’t want to come and I don’t want to go… I just want to go back home… where I can’t upset or hurt anyone.” “Dunno if ya noticed, kiddo… but, if ya ain’t drove me off, by now… nothin’ ya say ‘r do’s gonna bug me, none.” Joseph blinked, his ears perking. Jessica was grinning at him.

“Yer gonna have t’ trus’ me on this trip, Joe. Ya know I’d never do anythin’ that’d make ya miserable! ‘cept eat all yer food, that one time. Buuut, heeey! I promise, this trip’ll be worth it. Jus’… ya know… be patient?” She paused, retrieving a small device from her collar, which she handed over. “Play some cell phone games ‘f yer bored? Ya dun have t’ talk ta me ‘n it’s okay ‘f yer mad at me. Jus’… ya know… I want’cha t’ see this place. I been. It’s worth it.” “I… Of course, I trust you, Jess. It’s just…” He gave another sigh before looking down at the floor of the car. “You’re just so impulsive, sometimes… I barely even had time to get dressed, I didn’t brush my teeth or comb my fur… I’m surprised you even grabbed my phone.” “‘course, I did!” She grinned a little more. “We migh’ get lost, where we’re goin’!” “Really.” When she gave a nod, he lightly chuckled. “We’ll see, I guess…” “Tha’s th’ spirit! Ooh, speakin’ of… hope we see some’a them!” “I’ll keep an eye out. And, Jessie?” Her ears gave a flick. “Mm?” There was a brief pause… then, Joseph told her, “Thanks.” “Oh, dun thank me, love!” The bat-girl wiggled in her seat. “I’ve been dyin’ t’ get’cha inta this place! Watchin’ ya react t’ all th’ obvious spookums is gonna be so much fuuun…!” “Heh. If you say so…” The fox flipped open his phone and booted up a game before telling her, “Just don’t be surprised if my reaction to jump-scares is pretty dull…” “Weee shaaall seeeee, mwa ha ha ha haaah!” Her “spooky voice” finally got Joseph to crack a smile… which made her smile even brighter! She always enjoyed trying to cheer him up, but it really made her day when it worked!

Time moved on as the numbers on the travel meter added up. Two pit-stops and dinner at a truck stop delayed their journey ever-so-slightly, but as the sun swung from one side of the sky to the other, they knew they were drawing closer to their destination. That, and there was a road sign signaling “Talwar Village” being ten kilometers away.

“Man, when I said this place was ‘almost a day’s drive,’” Joseph commented as he noticed the sky, “I wasn’t thinking it really would be! But, yeah. It’s getting dark. I can see the stars– well, I could see the stars, I mean. All these trees kind of make it hard.” “It’s okay, Josey!” the driving bat told him. “Soon, it’ll be completely dark ‘n ya can look out th’ window at th’ beaaautiful night’s sky right above us!” “I also kind of forgot that Talwar really was out in the sticks. Uh, no pun intended.” Jessica snorted with laughter. “Suuure, it wasn’t!” “My brain’s just wired for puns, sometimes – you know that.” “Mm-hmm, jus’ like my brain’s wired fer tacos.” The fox tilted his head. “Uh… I don’t think that’s how–” “Here’s our turn!” Joseph hadn’t been full paying attention, but… “Huh? Wait. What did that big sign say? It looked important.” “Dun worry ‘bout that, Goldie! Jus’ settle in fer a long, bumpy ride!” “What do you mean, ‘a–’ guh-uh-uhh!”

Before he could finish repeating her thought, he got his answer. The road had suddenly turned rough and bumpy – and, for good reason! In the glow of the headlights, Joseph saw that… “This road isn’t paved.” “Yep! Rather, nope!” Jessica corrected herself. “Jessica…” Joseph looked at his companion with concern. “Why isn’t this road paved?” “‘cuz, it’s a primitive road!” was her overly-simple answer. “Is this a road…?” He gave a heavy grunt as the vehicle hit something that made it jump. “You sure someone didn’t just cut a swath through the woods and call it a day…?” “This is a recognized road, hun. It’s even on maps!” she assured him. “But, it just ain’ maintained by Talwar.” That made Joseph curious… “Why not?” “Well… it’s partly ‘cuz th’ owner’a this land won’t give th’ township permission… ‘e kinda jus’ wants t’ be left to ’is lonesome.” “Oh. I see.” Joseph paused… then, he hummed. “Wait. he wants to be left alone… but, he has a haunted house?” “‘Spooky house,’ Joe!” she corrected with a grin. “Okay, ‘spooky house.’ Still, it seems a little suspicious that–” “This road ain’t really s’posed t’ be driven on by modern vehicles,” Jessica suddenly interjected. “It’s s’posed t’ be driven by carriage! Adds to th’ atmosphere!” “Oh. That… actually makes a lot of sense.” Once again, he had to pause for thought. “Wait, if this isn’t supposed to be driven… why are we driving it?” There was another pause, though it was Jessica’s, instead of his. “I know th’ guy what runs th’ house,” she eventually told him. “‘e invited me over t’ see what’s what, ‘n… stuff!” “Wait, but you said…’” The fox narrowed right eye…before remembering that it was hidden under an eyepatch. He narrowed his left eye, then, before saying, “This sounds a little–” “We’re here!!” Joseph gave a blink, staring out the windshield. Situated ahead of their vehicle was a rather large, rather imposing manor that took up quite a lot of real estate within a grassy clearing within the deep woods.

Just from what he could see, the large building was roughly the width of four-or-five normal houses and it appeared to have at least three floors to it, including the ground floor… It was also painted in shades of brown, ranging from dark chocolate to cocoa with some of the trim being sand-colored. There were many windows in front and one-or-two balconies on the second floor, as well as a large porch in front with six steps leading up to a massive double-door.

“What… hang on…” Joseph squinted. “Is that… are those… Jessie?” “Yeesss?” the girl asked, grinning as she turned off the engine. “This place… doesn’t look spooky, at all.”

A closer look around revealed to Joseph that the porch was decorated with some colorful paper lanterns and, curiously, there was a swinging bench on the porch with some floral-print cushions. Some of the windows of the manor also had small plants on their shelves and several of them had elegant curtains on the inside. However, there was a distinct lack of bats… ravens… dark clouds or lightning… anything even remotely “spooky!” In fact, it just looked like a fancy mansion that didn’t even look that old, much less imposing.

“Oh, dun let th’ cheery exterior fool ya!” Jessica told him as she exited the vehicle. “It’s th’ real deal, ‘nside!” “No, seriously, Jess…” The fox frowned as he left his car and followed the excited bat up onto the porch. “This place just looks like a hidden millionaire’s house… or, something. I mean, did you see the potted plants? Look at this cute little swing! Jessie, this place is not spooky…” The bat-girl tilted her head, giving her companion a curious, almost innocent look. “In fact,” he continued, “if I didn’t know better, I’d say you just hauled me to some random location, far away from town! Are you even sure this is the right place?” “‘f this wasn’ th’ right place…” Jessica started with a smirk, “would I ‘ave th’ key?” Joseph gave a blink as the girl withdrew something from her pocket. It did, indeed, look like a metal key… one that was perfectly ordinary and seemed to match the modern lock on the right-hand door. “I dunno…?” he said as she unlocked the door. “Knowing you, you might’ve got a key from some dude you were dating, then decided to go raid his house while he was away on vacation…” “Joseph. Really.” Jessica gave a look of disbelief. “Would I do that?” “I dunno.” The fox smirked. “You tell me.” For a few moments, Jessica didn’t respond. After that, she gave a wink and a grin, wrapped one hand around the old-style door handle, put a thumb on the lever, and gave it a push. Not long after, the door opened inward, revealing the interior of the manor to them both.

Joseph had expected the inside of the mansion to look a little different from the outside… but, he hadn’t been expecting the radical difference between the styles! The outside looked like it had been maintained and updated with the times, but the inside almost looked like something from the era of magic and superstition! The foyer led straight ahead and onto another set of double-doors at the end of a colossal hallway that, to Joseph’s view, might have been even bigger than the entryway of the Tower of Masamune! The hall, itself, looked wide enough to house several vehicles side-by-side, and the number of doors on the ground floor, alone, was astounding! There must have been a good thirty doors on that floor, alone… which made him wonder how many more doors were up on the first floor, which lay at the end of a tall flight of stairs on either side of them. Aside from the doors, there were also all the hallmarks of a stereotypical “spooky mansion,” such as suits of armor beside some doors and statues of various figures he didn’t recognize resting on pedestals beside others. There were a couple of velvet-cushioned chairs, here-or-there, and many paintings of people – mostly fancy women – on the walls. Finally, hanging above them was a massive, elegant chandelier made of crystal and gold. He wasn’t sure if it was powered or had candles… but, it lit the entire room without trouble, either way.

“Gah!!” Suddenly, a resounding thoom from behind caught Joseph’s attention! When he spun around to see what it was, he noticed… Jessica was grinning from-ear-to-ear, clearly trying not to laugh. It was pretty obvious that she’d been the one to slam the door, trying to scare him.

“What the Void, Jessica?!” he half-screeched as he put a hand over his chest. “Are you trying to give me a heart attack…?” “Told’ja this place was spoooooky, kiddo!” she laughed. “That wasn’t ‘spooky!’” he protested. “That was just… just… startling!” “Jus’ gettin’ ya ready fer th’ spooks t’ come!” The fox huffed and grumbled. “You’re an ass, Jess…” “‘n, yer adorable when yer frightened!” she retorted with a grin. “Looket yer fur all stickin’ up ’n stuff! I jus’ wanna pet’cha ’n tell ya everything’s aaall okay, aww…!”

“What… ever.” Joseph sighed, shaking his head. “Anyway… what do we do, now?” “First, I wanna show ya somethin’ cool…” “Okay. Lead o– h-hey, what are you–?” “Take my hand, Joe,” she warned in an oddly serious tone. “Dun want’cha gettin’ lost.” “How could I get lost?” he asked as she led him toward the left staircase. “This place doesn’t seem like it’d be hard to navigate…” “Oh, trus’ me! I been lost ‘n ‘ere, plenty! Had’a wait fer Ro t’ come ‘n find me. Was kind’a embarrassin’.” “You had to wait for who to come find you?” Joseph asked. “Ro,” she repeated as they sped past the first couple of doors on the first floor. “Ya know! Th’ overly-dramatic batty-bat what–” Jessica came to a sudden stop – both in vocalizations and in motion. Joseph had yanked on her arm.

“I’m sorry… Did you say… ‘Ro?’ As in, ‘Count Arturo Moretti?’” Jessica’s ears fell, but she didn’t turn his way. “Uuuh…” “Count Moretti, Lord of the Moretti Clan of Vampires?” “Uuuuuhh…” “The same Vampire Lord who wants to flay me alive just because we’re friends?” “Uuuuuuuuuuhhh…” “And… this is his manor? His home?” Jessica didn’t repeat herself a third time. Instead, she just gave an audible swallow. “You brought me to the home of a guy who wants me dead? You brought me into his domain? You willingly put me into what could possibly be the most danger I have ever been in? All because you were… what? Bored?” “I… th-thought you’d think it was neat…?” the bat skittishly responded. Once she gave a nervous laugh, though, she had to turn around. Joseph had wrenched his hand free from hers. “Welp,” he said as he spun around, “this was a waste of time. I’ll be outside. In the car.” “No, wait, don’t–!” Jessica called. When the turned, though… “Shhiiieeeet…” It was too late. Joseph… had vanished.

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