#so influence my oc with my opinions

[cosmicseapop]

Esther’s less favorite drink is wine

[backstageinfatuationvn]

I remember seeing a lil animatic(?) on Twitter on how you worked on Kier’s design for 6 years. I can’t find it anymore tho 😭 but what was your thought process when designing him? I luv luv luvvvv his design smmmm 🥹❤️ you n your co-creator are doing an amazing job 🫶

The animatic is still on my personal twitter account! And thank you!! SUPER LENGTHY POST BUT HERE WE GO!

Originally Kier had black hair and a similar haircut to Kethan (old art from 2024)

The first one was actually him dressed as the phantom of the Opera since he is one of the main inspos (old inspo meme I did)

Kier was originally created 6 years ago actually, back then I also made many versions of him. But the most important one was Gacha (yes I was a gacha kid ����)

I sadly don't have his gacha photos anymore since it was from a very ancient phone but if memory serves me right, he would've looked like this. Yes I installed the app again HAHAHA

He didn't originally have midnight blue eyes. That was added when I started bringing him back to my works before Backstage Infatuation.

Personality wise, he is originally a yandere! Nothing changed from there in terms of that but interestingly enough... Back then in my gacha days, I originally shipped him with another male OC. A BL gacha series was planned where it centered around Kier's obsession with the male OC but was later discontinued for reasons I cannot remember. It was a long, long, looong time ago.

I focused on other stuff so he started catching dust until I picked him up around early 2024. That's when I started planning for his comeback after remembering past memories on a random tuesday night before sleeping LMAO

I drew two pieces before his redesign (the first two images), this was when I was into the yandere vn games.

Just wanna shout out these two games because these inspired me to make my own!! YOU and HIM and TKATB really inspired me to make Backstage Infatuation (there was also Dramatical Murder). I also have a love for Idol culture and Kpop, so I based Backstage Infatuation on my interests.

It is no secret that Backstage Infatuation is a passion project of mine, most of the characters in the game are old ocs being brought back to life and new ocs being finally used. Kier was one of those OCs that were brought back to life and needed a new makeover.

Fast forward to November 2024, I started redoing Kier and originally came up with his overall face and hair.

Interestingly enough, I actually came up with his idol fit first after seeing an outfit on Pinterest!

This is the original concept of his first idol outfit draft, felt it was too plain but really liked the black and white theme.

Second try and I came up with this! Even added silver feathers to symbolize LUXE's angel theme.

I added midnight blue (with stars) accents and it really made them look ethereal and elegant, at least for me. Which fits the group's original concept!

For his casual outfit, I wanted to go with something stylish and cool at the same time. I went with techwear influence and came up with the outfit now used in the game! Originally he didn't have black leather pants, but denim... It didn't look good in my opinion. 😭

Old and New design comparison

I kinda stole Nightwing's color palette for his clothes and changed a few stuff (mostly the blue)— Sorry I just really like Nightwing 😭 HAHAHA.

Few tweaks there and there, I became satisfied with his design!

I also made different outfits for him, a easter egg outfit I plan to add, his summer outfit and spring time outfit. I do love dressing up my son and exploring different fashions for him. ❤️

I do enjoy designing clothes and outfits. (Already reached the 10 image limit so here's a poorly made collage)

Sorry if this took a long time 😭 I had to find my old gallery saves for some of the pictures but this was such a fun ask to answer! It's nice to have a memory refresh ❤️

I hope this answered everything and so SORRY IF IT'S LENGTHY 😭😭 - Ive (Creator)

[theseinfernalangels]

Humble opinions about ideal types

Look at me writing yet another thing! I’m a yapper y’all I’m sorry.

My opinions on the boys’ ideal types (I tried to stay somewhat gender neutral, but I ended up using more feminine terms anyway just because):

Aaric: He likes people who can make him think in a different light. I have no doubt that as a prince, he grew up pretty sheltered from other perspectives other than elite and wealthy. This changes, obviously, but I think that when someone is able to catch his attention with their passion or intelligence and then show him a new perspective, he’d find them super intriguing and want to spend more time around them. Then push comes to shove, and he’s in love. Also, would totally spite his family and marry someone who despised the monarchy despite being a part of it. He’s just petty like that.

Bodhi: Ah, Bodhi “That’s my wife!” Durran. As I and many other writers on here have established, Bodhi is a lover and a feeler. He likes being able to love on someone with no restraint whatsoever, even if that’s not their number one love language. Likes a little chaos balanced on the shoulders of discipline. 

When he’s fighting someone to the point of no return, on his knees with nowhere to run, he’ll just smile up at his attackers like, “Have you guys ever met the love of my life?” And obviously they’re like, “What the hell, no,” and Bodhi’s smile turns into a full on wicked grin as he goes, “You’re about to.” Sort of like Riorgail but instead of him burning the world down for his lover, he knows he doesn’t have to — because they’ll be the one to burn it, and he gets to hold them to his chest as they watch the Earth go up in flames.

Brennan: Eldest son meets eldest daughter energy. Those girls who are exhausted from having the weight of the world on their shoulders, the family therapists, the “I can and will do everything myself because none of y’all will do it right.” Brennan likes to be the one someone comes to for help (hello Mender!), and he also really enjoys taking those burdens and going, “I know you can do it all perfectly, but I’d like to do it for you.” He has to convince them to rest, to take a break for like five minutes, and can do it easily by running his hands through their hair and quietly murmuring, “I’ve got it, go sit,” into their temples. 

I also think that Brennan is a dreamer. He has so many aspirations that he’s wanted to accomplish, but ever since the Battle of Aretia, he’s resigned them to simple hopes. If he can find someone to listen to him ramble on about the most absurd things he can come up with, that’s when you know he’s totally gone for them.

Dain: Sloane. Literally just Sloane in any and all font. You would think he likes anyone who’s a stickler for rules like him, but the thing is that deep down, he both wants and needs someone to lead him out of that mindset and tell him it’s okay not to be the perfect soldier all the time. Proud, fiery, doesn’t really like listening…Plus tension, tension, and more tension. If they can piss him off enough that he breaks and is able to find solace in non-conformity, he likes them. He also likes a little guidance — help him be put back on the right track since he’s been skewed one way for over 20 years.

Probably also a little traditional and likes to be able to be the “strong one” — that’s just a man thing, I fear — but also wouldn’t mind if someone else were there to protect him. There’s a better way to word this, but I think that his mother not really being present kind of influenced the way he sees relationships. Needs some time to work out all of the things his shithole father grilled into him a young age before he can really allow himself to fully fall for someone. Time for some more ✨character growth.✨

Garrick: OH BOY. Okay, this is going to be so specific, but Gare likes people who can be his equal. If you’ve read anything I’ve written for Garrick, you know that my OC, Cosette, is a princess who got thrown into the quadrant against her will — but she’s still able to hold her own. If they can square their shoulders, look a General in the eyes and tell them to fuck off, he’ll be on his knees. Garrick likes to match his partner’s freak, but we all know he’s also a protector at heart. Can and will lay down his life for them, even if they’re totally against the idea. Kind of prefers a generally feminine energy, but that’s just my humble (but totally accurate) opinion.

Liam: Y’know those guys who look at people who could absolutely rock their shit and go, “Yeah, that’s what I want”? That’s Liam. He likes to be able to protect the people he loves, but if his lover is able to do the same? Gods, he’s a goner. He likes someone he can go toe-to-toe with, but he also loves an independent girlie that he can and will do things for. Remember, I said he’s an acts of service guy, and if he can convince you to lay down on him or lean on him when you’re injured, then you have his heart. Very similar to Brennan; he likes to be the one to raise the bar if you’ve never been treated right (and relishes in the fact that he’s the best you’ve ever had).

Ridoc: Two types of people come to mind for Ridoc — the most impulsive and fiery people you’ve ever met, or a strict, disciplined figure of authority (remember when he slept with someone in Leadership?). A decent amount of people ship him with Brennan, and it’s easy to see why. His cheeky nature is hard to pin down, and if someone can actually manage to one-up him, he’d be so down bad. But, on the flip side, if he can find someone else who’s even harder to pin, then he’d go crazy trying to catch them. He lives for the chase, the thrill, the catch, the back and forth that results when he has a pretty firecracker on his lap. Him and his partner go together like Coke and Mentos.

Sawyer: I think we already know, if his giant crush on Jesinia didn’t make it clear enough; Sawyer likes people that aren’t exactly hardened by battle the way he is. I get the sense that he’s a little traditional and just loves the idea of being able to come home to someone who doesn’t know the torment of war the way he knows it — up close and personally. Someone with a Scribe or Healer’s heart who is still strong in their own right. Of course, when a pretty dame is able to beat the hell out of someone or verbally grill them for disrespecting them, he does the audible *nervous gulp*, but I feel like he’s just really into soft people (which is why I made Kora for him). Soft can be both in temperament, or literally soft-spoken; I think Sawyer’s into those people who don’t really speak much in public, but get a tad louder and more bubbly around him. Cuteness!

Feel free to add on!

[bennyden]

User hamatoanne's fic plagiarism

Hello, I’m the author of The Android, an AO3 Robot OC x Reader fic that was plagiarized by hamatoanne on Tumblr in her Aemond x Reader story, System Error. You can read my AO3 post for more info about the issue. As you can tell by the timestamps on AO3 and the screenshots of her now-deleted story, mine was posted months before hers. I didn’t want to make this public, but it appears Anne has not learned her lesson and is grasping at straws to keep her readers in the dark. She’s been deleting her stories to hide evidence of her plagiarism. I think you deserve to know who your beloved writer gets her words from.

I don’t know this fandom, but I’ve heard you guys can get pretty crazy. Control yourselves. The only one who needs to take responsibility is Anne. Don’t send hate to her mutuals. Don’t send hate to her followers. Don’t stalk or harass or dox anyone. Read through this post and form your opinion.

First bunch of screenshots: A side-by-side comparison of her story (now deleted) and mine (still up and linked above). I took screenshots in advance in case something like this happened so I’d have proof if I needed it. I decided to compare the first chapter of my fic with the first part of hers. I could do the whole thing, but I’m a busy college student and I think just a quick skim of the pictures below is enough for people to see the extent of her plagiarism. 

I have screenshots of her entire post, but I don’t want to make this too long to scroll through and Tumblr posts cap at 30 pictures. I’m assuming some of you have already read her story multiple times, so you’re familiar with the words. If you haven’t, then I should warn you that the fic that she plagiarized is very not SFW. I’ll let you know where the not SFW content starts so you can skip it. 

On the left is my story. On the right is what Anne posted (and took down).

Not SFW content starts here. 

Not SFW content over.

Finally, I DM’ed her. This was just before I posted to The Android on AO3 about the situation. To summarize, I wrote about how I would go about the situation and how hurt I was about a bigger creator stealing from me. I admit, I was too kind and too much of a pushover. I just wanted things to go quietly. She later replied with this and deleted her fic immediately. 

“I was completely stupid for not giving your credit” Why do they always play dumb? You copy that much and can’t even think to put my name there? You credit the artist but not the person who basically wrote your whole story? The story that gave you over 3k notes, so much more clout than any of your other stories has earned you? Total BS.

“I had every intention of giving credit where it was due…But I forgot” Right. Sure. Of course. If she felt guilty about plagiarizing, she would not be so shameless to accept praise like she did. I have examples of where she happily thanked people for complimenting "her work”, but didn’t want to bring other blogs into this, especially since they were none the wiser to her plagiarism. Ironically enough, someone even gifted her a badge for being a good writer the day she replied to my DM. She tagged that post “#a breath of fresh air on a horrible day”. I wonder why her day was horrible. Whoever gifted her that badge deserves their money back.

My thoughts when approaching her DMs were:

If she wants to keep up the story? Fine, just edit the post to say that it was heavily influenced by my story and leave a link to the original. I don’t mind. The readers will see that, click my story, compare the two, and think, “Hey, that’s not just inspiration! She plagiarized!” and her downfall would start from there without me having to do anything.

If she ignored me and didn’t fulfill that request, i would take matters into my own hands and expose her on her own post. Even more damaging.

In the end, she chose to delete the post entirely, getting rid of the evidence and her clout. I actually didn’t expect this outcome since I thought she’d like the clout too much, but I guess she decided this route would be the least damaging to her reputation. Everything was swept under the rug for now. 

And like a fool, I said thanks and went on with my life. But I decided to keep track of her. Because while I was too cowardly to do anything, I knew there would always be someone in the crowd who would take action. And it seems like people did. 

After reading the supportive comments from readers of my fic, I started to regret how lightly I handled it. I wanted to be mature even though I wanted her entire blog to fall and her reputation taken away. But I didn’t want to be a “bad person”. I wondered if I should keep pursuing the issue. I realized that my overly-people-pleasing behavior might lead her to continue her ways. I decided to speak out because others might’ve had their works taken by her and that my silence wasn’t helping. 

Next is her post, now deleted (I wonder why), about how she’s been so sad and how she’s going to be deleting her old stories and starting over. I’m likely not the only one she’s plagiarized from if she’s deleting other stories. At the time, I only saw supportive replies and reblogs on it, but maybe she deleted it after people started calling her out? Idk.

She’s playing the victim game pretty hard. Acting as a kind underdog even though she’s the big creator who stole from a nobody like me. I know I said on my AO3 update that people shouldn’t send hate to her (and even censored her name after she deleted her story) but I guess I’m a little happy that people sought to call her out on her shit. I wish I was as brave. 

Later, a nice person (we’ll call her Bob because she asked to remain anonymous) DM’ed me directly with a kind message. After seeing this, I decided I should take action and expose all of this since Anne obviously hasn’t learned and wants to keep it all hidden. Bob confirmed that I’m not the only victim of Anne’s plagiarism either.

Bob asked that I not use screenshots of our DM’s so here is a transcription of the important parts:

“Hey! I just found out that one of your fics had been plagiarized by someone in the HOTD community. First of all, I am tremendously sorry that happened…”

(For Bob’s privacy, I won’t explain her relation to Anne. Just know that Anne has refused to message her back).

“I definitely think you should make a blog post. with side by side comparison. I am still completely gobsmacked that she pilfered your entire story word for word and changed a few things. We found evidence that she had plagiarized multiple stories. Not just yours. We found out her mermaid!aemond fic was entirely stolen as well as a few others. She has quietly deleted them and hasn't spoken on them since.”

“We surmised that she takes ‘underrated’ fics from different fandoms and changes the name and that's it. It's almost like she believed that stealing from other fandoms was going to draw less attention than stealing directly from the HOTD fandom.”

So if you noticed that one of your favorite Aemond fics is gone, now you know why.

‘But benny, she still wrote her own sentences and just changed it around to fit aemond!’

Fanfiction is transformative. You know what the source material is and who created it. You know you’re not reading a copied and pasted text with maybe some words and sentences switched around. This wasn’t fanfic. According to Google, plagiarism is defined as, “the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.” (See what I did there? I credited Google. Is it so hard to give credit where credit is due?) She copied people's work, didn't give credit to the source material, and claimed it as her own. That's plagiarism.

I wouldn’t have had a problem if she properly credited me and linked the original story. I wouldn’t have had a problem if she didn’t blatantly copy and paste the entire text and premise. I wouldn’t even require getting permission to write a story based on my fic if she had satisfied those conditions.

She’s a 27-year-old grown-ass woman with enough free time to simp over some blond guy with an eyepatch. I’m a 21-year-old college student who only posts fics during the summer and winter because that’s when school’s on break. I’m too busy writing lab reports and essays to be an active writer online. The fact that she can disrespect smaller writers so tremendously should not be acceptable. The fact that she also deceived her devoted readers and friends about her "works" is also unacceptable.

What can you do about this? To be honest, I don’t know what to do. I’ve never had to deal with this before. I want to be a good person and say, “Don’t send any hate to Anne, don’t harass her. Just unfollow her and stop supporting her.” But that obviously hasn’t taught her anything. She’ll just make a half-assed apology, maybe go on hiatus, maybe disappear, and then pop up again under another name to steal from another creator. If you have any ideas on how to deal with this, please tell us. 

She can try to block me or delete her posts, but the evidence is out and the damage is done. Anything she does to hide this mess will only make it worse for her. I’d appreciate people bringing more awareness to this issue, especially if it can reach the eyes of others she’s taken from. 

Thanks for reading.

[professorsnape394]

Day 2: The Seeds of Love

Pairing: Severus Snape x OC

Rating: 🥰

Prompt: Garden

Summary: Severus looks forward to the day he stocks up on potions ingredients, and gets to see the new Herbology professor, of course.

A/N: Ngl struggled a little with this one so hopefully it turned out okay.

Warnings: mention of small cut.

Word Count: 1905

Credits to Gif Creator

May 1st 1993. The day Severus’ most anticipated had finally rolled around once more. The first of every month had always been the day the potions master replenished the stock in his ingredient’s cupboard, but in recent years it had quickly become his favourite day for a very different reason. While he never had a close relationship with Professor Sprout, Snape found himself taking a liking to the newest member of the Herbology department, Y/N.

Bubbly, energetic and endlessly optimistic, she was everything Severus was not, this however, had never deterred her from forming a friendship with the man. Severus found that people often shied away from talking to him, simply because they were intimated by him. He had almost convinced himself he preferred it that way. Until, of course, Y/N, took the time to get to know him, never once allowing her opinion of him to be influenced by the other staff members at Hogwarts.

She had integrity. Yet another addition to her list of attributes.

While Pamona had left Severus to help himself to her crops and plants, Y/N remained by his side while he went about his business, even going as far as to ask him in advance what ingredients he might need growing the following month to save him travelling into Hogsmeade.

“Severus.” She beamed. “Back so soon?”

“It doesn’t feel so quick to me.” He mumbled, embarrassed by how much he looked forward to this day. Of course, they saw each other at meal times and in the school halls but the first of the month remained a day for just the two of them.

“What can I get you this fine morning?”

Severus reached into his inner robe pocket, brandishing a hastily scrawled note intended for his eyes only. Before he even had a second to read the first word on the parchment it was whipped from his fingers and Y/N was already bounding down the length of the greenhouse.

Severus couldn’t help but admire the way her hips swung back and forth as she skipped away, it was something that piqued his interest more and more these days. He found himself always noting the movement of her lips as she spoke, the curve of her rear when she bent over a plant bed, the softness of her hands when they innocently brushed his.

“Alihotsy leaves. How many?”

“How much do you have?”

Y/N counted the red spotted leaves on the Hyena tree. “26.”

“I’ll take them all.”

“You’re lucky I like you so much, Severus. Pamona never would have allowed you to clear her out like this.”

“And that, my dear, is exactly why I come to you and not Pamona.”

Y/N blushed at his words, adding the leaves to her small wicker basket.

“And hear I thought we were friends, meanwhile you’ve just been using me for my gardening skills.” She pouted playfully, looking up through her eyelashes at the man nearly twice her height.

“What’s next?” He asked trying to distract himself from her doe-like eyes.

“Silverweed.”

“I’ll only need four of those, I still have some left over from last month.”

“Not a problem, what about Mandrake root are you needing any of that?”

Severus shook his head.

The pair made their way through several greenhouses gradually working his way down the list, Y/N adding each item to her little basket until it was bulging with plants of all different varieties.

“Well, if that’s everything…” The witch trailed off, handing Snape her basket.

“Thank you, Y/n. It’s been a joy as always.”

“So, see you next month?”

As it always did when their time came to an end, Severus’ heart raced and his mind buzzed trying to come up with a reason to extend his stay, only to come up empty once again.

“Next month.” He nodded.

The professor turned to leave with his new stock, feeling a little disheartened with himself.

“I’ve been experimenting!” Y/N suddenly blurted, catching her colleague by surprise.

“Sorry?” Snape raised an eyebrow inquisitively.

“I’ve been experimenting with some new plants; do you want to see them?” She elaborated.

A smile threated to break out across Severus’ features, but he managed to contain it to a small smirk.

“I’d love to.”

“Great!”

Practically vibrating with excitement, the herbology professor hopped towards Snape, grabbing him by the arm and leading him back into the depth of the greenhouses. “I’ve been trying out loads of new plants, but only a few of them have been working for me. Pamona said she’ll help me on my next round of knotgrass but I think it’ll take a while to perfect it. Oh, and did I mention the first years are potting their mandrakes tomorrow, how exciting is that! It’s always my favourite lesson to teach. Except when one student inevitably faints, but can I blame them I know I would have been the exact same when I was that age. Too curious for my own good my mother always used to say.”

Severus allowed Y/N to ramble on as she always did when she was excited about something, it was another reason why he loved spending time with her so much. She would talk for hours and he would listen intently, never boring of what she had to say. Similarly, Y/N never complained about how little Severus added to their conversation. She knew, despite how little he said, he was genuinely interested in what she had to say.

Y/N stopped in front of a sad looking plot of Gurdyroot, her face dropping at the sight of them.

“They should have been ready to pick today, looks like they’ll need uprooted instead. I’m still getting the hang of all the nuances, you know?”

“You’ll get there, it all comes with practice.”

“I know, I just wish it came as naturally to me as it does to Professor Sprout.”

“Hard work is more admirable than natural ability in my opinion.”

“It’s always baffled me, you know?”

“What?” Snapes eyebrows knitted together in confusion.

“Why you chose to come to me instead of her. You two had been working together for years, you don’t strike me as a man who breaks routine easily.”

“Let’s just say it was time for a change.” He commented. “Our working relationship had run its course.”

“Does that mean you’ll eventually trade me in for a younger model?” Y/N crossed her arms over her chest in defence, only half joking with her accusation.

“Never.” He smirked, though his eyes remained serious, boring into hers like he could never will himself to look away.

“Wait until you see my prized plant.” Y/N diverted, the intensity of Snape’s gaze becoming overwhelming. “Now these turned out beautifully.”

Severus stared down at the plant, recognising it immediately by its vibrant lavender florets and deep black berries. Belladonna. She was right, they had turned out perfectly. He doubted even Pamona Sprout could grow the plant quite so flawlessly.

Distracted in his thoughts of the woman’s craftsmanship, Severus failed to notice why exactly Y/N had now taken to dancing around the greenhouse, swatting at the air.

“Shoo. Shoo.” She repeated, flapping her hands around aimlessly.

“What exactly are you doing, Y/N?”

“Those damn bees are back.” She huffed. “They think the flowers have pollen in them, it doesn’t matter how much insecticide I spray they just keeping bac- Ouch.”

Y/N retracted her hand quickly, clutching her palm to her chest. The woman’s eyes went wide,  locking on to Severus’ in a panic.

“What was that, what happened?” He rushed.

“Nothing. I just cut my hand…I’ll be fine.”

“How did you cut it? Is it a bee sting or was it the plant?”

“A bee sting. It must have been, surely.”

“Are you absolutely positive?” His heart was really racing now. He was desperate to check out her wound, but didn’t want to overstep her boundaries.

Silence fell as Y/N merely shook her head in response, her eyes on the verge of tears.

“Show it to me.” Snape demanded, reaching for her arm.

Though the plant had only nicked her and her cut was relatively small, Severus knew better than to play it down.

“We need to go to my office. Now.”

“I’ll be fine Severus, it barely broke the skin, I’m sure it won’t affect me.”

“I’m not taking that chance.”

Deadly Nightshade, otherwise known as Belladonna, is toxic to the touch, once entered into your bloodstream however, the effects can be fatal. Severus could tell by the look on Y/N’s face this exact thought was crossing through her mind also. He’d be damned if he let anything happen to this woman on his watch. He had an antidote and he wasn’t about to start taking chances.

Erratically rummaging through his stores of ready-made potions, Severus finally selected a green coloured vial.

“Take this.” He ordered, handing the witch the vial.

“Thank you, Severus. What would I do without you.” She forced a laugh past the lump in her throat.

“Have the sense to wear some gloves, hopefully.”

“I’m so sorry, Severus. It was a foolish mistake, I know. I just get so forgetful sometimes, and when I’m around you…”

“Hush. And Drink.” He repeated, saving her from saying something she might regret in the heat of the moment. Severus took his seat next to her, subconsciously leaning into the warmth of her body. “Let me see your hand.”

The potions master uncapped a second bottle of liquid, pouring the contents onto his own hand before treating Y/N’s wound.

“What’s that?”

“It’s a cream infused with the essence of rue. It’ll target the poison right at the source.”

Severus rubbed a calloused thumb over her supple palm, meticulously massaging the cream into her skin. The pair became distracted by his movements, and the unfamiliar touch of the other’s hand.

“That feels good.” Y/N hummed.

“I’m glad.” Snape swallowed nervously, not daring to make eye contact with her.

“You didn’t have to go to all this bother, you know. I’m sure Madam Pomfrey would have had supplies for this sort of thing.”

“Madam Pomfrey gets her supplies from unreliable potioneers in Diagon Alley. Besides, I wouldn’t trust anyone else to do this properly.”

“You’re sweet to me, Severus.” The witch smiled. “I don’t imagine you’re this sweet to everyone.”

Snape’s movements faltered.

“We’re friends.” He clarified.

“Are we?” She stared up at him through those big full eyelashes, batting them in the way that made his heart flutter.

“Of course, we are.” He cleared his throat. “What else would we be?”

“Something more.”

The words escaped her mouth as a whisper, almost inaudible to the point where Severus was beginning to think she hadn’t said them at all.

“I like you, Severus. And I think you might like me.” She clarified.

Severus Snape couldn’t even begin to find the words to tell this woman how he felt about her. How much he admired and appreciated her. How he waited each month just to get to spend one morning with her. How he thinks she might even be the first woman he’s loved in a very long time.

Instead, he simply raised her hand to his mouth, planting a single delicate kiss on the tip of her knuckles.

“Well then.” She grinned, not needing any more of an explanation. Placing her hands on either side of his face Y/N planted a kiss squarely on Severus’ lips. “Let’s be something more.”

[trishabeakens]

*slides across the floor* hello. PRETTY PLEASE infodump about your charity/crumhorn lore im so invested in them WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN THEM BRO (/nf ofc, nonetheless you're art's sick and your character design goes hard)

AHH ty for being interested!! I have a ton of Charity stuff since I've been playing around with maybe writing a small fic about her by suggestion of my friends who are also into Danger Mouse, so I'll shove it under a read more. I'm pretty shy about oc stuff due to trauma/anxiety but I tried to make it sound less ridiculous. (And here's some more doodles of them.)

Charity and Crumhorn had gotten divorced shortly before the Pink Dawn episode. She’d found out about Crumhorn's plan to take over the world and didn't approve of it. So she left him. 

As shown in the show, Crumhorn is terribly petty. Out of spite, he bought out the law firm that Charity was using for the divorce. He ended up winning full custody of Dawn to try and punish Charity for leaving him. It was also partially to try and force her to come back. She wasn't allowed visitation or anything either as sort of an explanation for why Dawn isn't ever shown with her mom in the show. 

Charity is a well known actress but after the divorce, she stepped out of the public eye due to Crumhorn's influence. He practically owns everything and she wasn't sure what he'd do. But the most he ends up doing is still trying to get her back by being horribly annoying and doing outrageous things

Their dynamic is really funny because Crumhorn has practically everything. The guy is a trillionaire. He owns SO much stuff but the one thing he literally cannot get is his wife back. He's used to getting what he wants through petty means or with money. So it’s why he does outrageous stuff that just irritates her further instead of being normal and talking to her or letting her see Dawn. 

They do love each other and Crumhorn did always treat her well pre-divorce. It's just a messy situation. 

I know Dawn's mom being dead is a popular theory, but it's just SO much funnier if she just divorced Crumhorn and he's terribly petty and pathetic about it.

Some other Charity lore bits: 

Their marriage was arranged by Charity's parents who are high society business associates of Crumcorp, but that's a whole other long ramble. (I'll cut that part short and say they gave Crumhorn one of their major oil companies in exchange for him marrying Charity and helping their public image). 

She did not want to marry him as she had only met him one time during a business golf game. She eventually agreed because she's overly desperate for her parent's approval. Her father isn’t as terrible as her mother, but he still let it happen.

Crumhorn only agreed to the marriage because he was getting a 500 billion dollar company out of it and he had already started his slow progress to owning the world. He was going to just divorce her and keep the company, but he became fond of her.

It was mainly a business thing at first, but they did eventually fall in love with each other before Dawn was born. 

Crumhorn treated Charity a million times better than her parents ever did. He was a source of comfort for her until the divorce. He just let her do whatever, so for the first time in her life she could make her own choices and had freedom. 

One time he asked Charity to try playing Giraffe Warriors to get her opinion on it. But she's really bad at video games and couldn't get past the tutorial level and then complained ‘I don't even know why the giraffes are fighting’. 

She's an American and is from New York. 

Mr. Snuggles was a birthday gift to Dawn from Charity. It's why Mr. Snuggles loves Dawn so much/is protective since he's pretty much an extension of Charity. 

Dawn is more well behaved around Charity than Crumhorn. Mainly because Crumhorn doesn't really parent well and usually gives her whatever she asks for so he can work. 

Charity was also the one who played with her the most, so Charity being taken from her is why Dawn wanted to win that contest in Pink Dawn so she'd have someone to play with as Crumhorn is always too busy.

Post-divorce, she called Crumhorn a bitchless twink on Spamchops once because he made her mad and she got suspended for a week over it. 

She likes FNAF, but she calls all the characters by the wrong names. (Foxy is called Biscuit and she literally calls Freddy, Five Nights at Freddy's).

She knows the P. In Augustus P. Crumhorn stands for Philibert and she likes to call him that to make him mad.

A running joke I have is that Charity is one of those ‘I think want my toxic ex back' people who talks to Crumhorn sometimes, despite her friends telling her not to because she complains about him nonstop. 

Also here's Charity's tier list of DM villains bc my friend made one for her DM OC and it's the funniest thing.

[xenyasplacex]

BABY TRAPPED PART 2

Chris Sturniolo x Fem!OC

Summary: Chris is in a toxic relationship and the only thing keeping him there is his daughter.

warning- Toxic relationship, Miserable Chris, Shouting, Abuse, Physical Abuse, emotional abuse, Talk of isolation, crying

A/N : Soooooo, it’s been a while! see my dumbass thought i posted this a few days ago but turns out i just saved it to drafts 😍😍😍

I DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION FOR MY WORK TO BE STOLEN, REPOSTED OR TRANSLATED

Part 1 <—> part 3

Things had changed in Chris’ household. Chris knew that through his life there were going to be times where he had to sacrifice certain things he thought he couldn't live without if he wanted their marriage to work and so far he had sacrificed a lot. Sometimes he thought about how younger Chris would look at him now. He had let this woman completely take over his life. First he had to sacrifice his friendship with nate who was a ‘bad influence’ on him, then he had to sacrifice his relationship with his parents who were ‘brainwashing’ him, then he had to sacrifice his friendship with Madi, Tara, Quen and Madison Beer because they were all ‘flirting’ with Chris and disrespecting his wife, he had to sacrifice his relationship with his older brother Justin because ‘he took to much of Chris’ time’. So, so, so many sacrifices had been made to make Aaliyah happy and yet here she still was, making his life miserable.

The couple were planning to move. That's what started the whole ordeal. The couple had decided to pack up and move to San Diego about a year ago and they only had 3 more days until they were gone for good. Well, to be completely honest it was more of Aaliyah yelling and Chris being too scared to do anything to stop it. Apparently she wanted to be closer to her dad and step mom which confused Chris because from what he knew, she hasn't spoken to her father since she told him she was pregnant. He still remembered when he told his brothers. Matt started crying on the spot which really did shake Chris to his core. Matt always said he hated Chris and thought he knew it was a joke he still didn’t think that Matt would be so distraught over Chris Leaving. They still planned to do Youtube. They planned to rotate, one week they would be in Los Angeles and the other they would be in San Diego. It would be tough but they had no other option. The whole argument started when Chris had stated he wasn't sure if he liked the dark brown wood for the floor that Aaliyah had chosen in front of their interior designer. He wasn't rude or malicious, he was simply voicing his opinion, but it was enough to have Aaliyah beating him for “embarrassing her.”

“You ought to wrap that wrist up.” Aaliyah said from the doorway of their living room staring at her husband who was hunched over their couch, trying to wipe the remaining blood from his mouth. He looked up at his wife with nothing but pure terror. The tyrant was back.

“Relax, i'm not here to hurt you,” Aaliayh chuckled as she approached him. Laughing, she was laughing. How could she be laughing? 

Aaliyah sat next to Chris examining his face and Chris simply froze. She had done this to him. She was the one to hurt him. She was the one who bruised him, she was the one who caused him to be bleeding out and now here she was, sat next to him like a loving wife. She leaned forward and abruptly brought her hand up to his face. By pure muscle memory Chris jumped back, preparing for the next blow to his already weak body. She laughed. Again. She laughed at his pain. 

“I'm not going to hurt you silly,” She laughed, “I'm just here to clean you up.”

Her smile was so deceiving. With that smile she could light up an entire room, she could have bored you outta your mind listening to her ramble about the most useless things but you would stay there and listen in the hopes of even catching a glimpse of that smile. She is so addictive yet she was poisonous. Like a hard drug, something you can't seem to live without even if its slowly killing you. 

After about half an hour she had fully cleaned Chris’ cuts and bruises and had kissed him so many times her lips were puffy and she was starting to feel slightly light headed. It was late, Adriana had been asleep for hours at this point and Chris was slowly starting to slip into unconsciousness

“I'm so sorry Chris, you know I love you right?” She said as she rolled on top of him in their shared bed.

“I know.” Chris said, not bothering to look at her, instead he stayed fixated on the chandelier hanging from the ceiling, the same thoughts as always racing through his mind.

How did he end up here?

How could he let this happen?

Why couldn't he just man up and take his child and leave?

Why couldn't he protect his own child?

Why couldn't he tell his brothers?

Why couldn't he te-

“Chris!” Aaliyah yelled as she sat up, looking at him slightly agitated.

“Huh?”

“Did you hear anything I just said?”

“No.”

Alliyah simply rolled her eyes before getting off him, “And im not good enough for you to listen to as usual. Some excuse of a husband you are.” She grumbled angrily.

Chris knew he had to deescalate whatever it was that was brewing or he could end up sleeping in his car tonight, so he sat up, resting against their head rest before picking Aaliyah up slightly and sitting her on his lap. He then kissed all over her face down to her neck until she was giggling uncontrollably.

“Chris stop!” She laughed, not pushing him away though.

“I'm sorry, it's not that I wasn't listening to you, I'm just so tired. Tell me what you were saying again, I promise you've got my full attention”.  Chris said before resting his head on her chest.

It was moments like this when Chris thought maybe things werent os bad. He was here with his wife, in their joint bed, kissing and laughing, enjoying each other presence, basking in joy and lo-

“I think it's about time we cut off your brothers.”

Moment ended.

“What?” He asked, whipping his head up. He was shocked. Him and his brothers were a package deal. It had been all of them or none of them for so long. His brothers were something he could rely on because they were countistant. You can’t exactly stop being a triplet after all, and now here she was. Getting rid of the one piece of consistency he had through tough times.

“Chris, you are far too reliant on them, I mean 3 weeks ago we got into a little argument and you picked up our child and spent the night with them. That's not normal Chris.”

It wasn't a little argument. She hurt their daughter. She hurt his daughter.

“Listen to me Chris,” Aaliyah started again, adjusting herself slightly so she was straddling him, “Chris I love you, I’m doing this because I love you. I mean what type of example would that set for Adriana? You need to learn to be strong on your own. Not with Nick or Matt holding your hand through life.”

Chris was silent, looking down at his lap through the whole speech.

“Chris, I am all you need. You don't need them, the fact that you've cut everyone else off and have been just fine just proves all you need is me, you don't need anyone else Chris i promise you.” She said sweetly before pressing a kiss to his lips which isn't reciprocated.

“I just… I need to think about it.”

“What?” Aaliyah asked, sitting up and starting to get off Chris once again.

“Those are my brothers Ali, I can't just get rid of them.” “Yes you can!” Aaliyah exclaimed. “Chris when we leave in 3 days you are to block their numbers and get rid of them or I promise you, you will never see Adriana again. If me and Adi aren't good enough for you then you don't deserve us at all. You don't need them Chris but you need me and you are a coward and a cheating bitch for even thinking you can have all of us to yourself.”

“I've never cheated on you Ali…” Chris tried to protest but she cut him off.

“What, you really think I'm that stupid? All the times you ‘go to your brother's house to film’ you think i don't know you're out being a whore. You dont think i know your out there fucking any bitch who comes within a 5 foot radius of you. You don't think I know? You're pathetic.”  She screamed at him. Chris couldn't even say anything. The claims were so far-fetched that he didn't even know how to defend himself. “Get the fuck out of this room Chris.” She said finally before turning over.

“Ali I didn't ev-” 

“Chris get the fuck out of this room!” Aaliyah screamed again. When Chris didn't move, frozen in pure astonishment she started punching him in the head.

The first punch was enough to snap him out of this trans, the second punch was enough to kick off a heavy migraine and the ones that followed were enough to add more fuel to this fire. 

“Get out! Get out! Get Out!” she screamed again and again, landing punch after punch. 

Chris quickly scrambled to his feet and ran for their bedroom door, trying to avoid the objects that she was hurling at him. When he finally got out of the room he just stood there for a while taking in what had just happened. He had to get rid of his brothers. His shoulder to cry in, his light at the end of the tunnel. He had to get rid of them. Slowly Chris found himself sitting on the floor, knees to his chest simply sobbing. He had to get rid of his brothers.

He had to get rid of his brothers.

“Nick stop!” Chris laughed as he watched his brother throw Adriana up in the air before catching the giggling girl again.

“I can't stop, i'm not gonna be able to see my niece any time i want anymore, i have to take in every moment i can.” He said before resting Adriana on his hip.

“I still can’t believe you're actually leaving.” Matt said softly, looking at his triplet brother. 

“Chris can you please tell him you'll call him everyday. I keep telling him we're still gonna talk all the time but the kid just won't listen.” Nick laughed, throwing Adriana into the air again. Chris’ smile faltered a little at that.

It had been 2 days since his argument with Aaliyah and she was still set on Chris cutting his brothers off. The only reason he was even allowed to come and see them was because he had promised that today would be the day he cut them off.

“Hey Adi, why don’t you we let Aunty Sunday put Nemo on for you the living room huh?”

Sunday was Matt’s girlfriend who Adriana absolutely adored. He watched as his daughter toddled into the other room before looking at the confused faces of his brothers.

“I need to talk to you two.” Chris stated bluntly before taking a deep breath and just letting out. It’s now or never and though he preferred never, he cared for his daughter too much to let her go without a fight.

“I love you guys. I really do. I love you with everything in me. You’re my best friends and I genuinely don’t know where I would be without the two of you but I just. I just think I need some time. Some time away from being a triplet to just think about my wife and my child. I just, I need time, you know?”

They didn’t know and they didn’t get it.

“Time? Like how long are we talking, like a week, maybe two?” Matt asked, Chris couldn’t bear this, he couldn’t even look at him. “Or like maybe a month?”

“I was thinking more like a few years,” Chris replied softly.

There it is. The bomb was dropped.

It was silent. Nobody said a word. Everyone was too shocked to even comprehend what had just been said. A break? For a few years? How does one simply decide that they need a break from being a triplet and how do they decide that need a break for so long?

Nick especially wasnt having it. Nobody optionally has a break from being brothers. Especially not triplets.

“What did Aaliyah out you on to this?” Nick spat with nothing but anger in his tone.

Chris and Matt were stunned but for different reasons. Matt because he couldn’t believe his brother would actually voice an accusation like that, and Chris because of how accurate it was.

“Wh-, what are you talking about Nick.”

“Don’t play games with me Chris. You don’t think we’ve seen the difference? You suddenly can’t make it to hang out or you suddenly can’t reply to messages after a certain time?” Nick screamed as he stood up off his couch.

“Nick I don’t know wha-” Chris tried again before being interrupted again.

“And I’ve seen the bruises little one!” Nick yelled again.

Caught.

Chris was stunned. They couldn’t know. If they found out they would only see him as week and unfit to be a father.

“What the hell are you talking about Nicolas!” Chris shouted as well, taking a step forward.

Nick rolled his eyes before grabbing Adriana’s baby bag, picking up 2 clean baby wipes and quickly coming at Chris. Chris flinched hard but that didn’t stop Nick from swiping the wipe across Chris’ face, revealing the concealer he was wearing and a purple bruise that had formed on his face.

“Yeah then what’s this?” Nick yelled showing his younger brother the wipe.

“Nick,” Matt interjected, trying to calm everyone down, “let’s all just take a deep breath okay?”

“What the fuck Nick, how dare you accuse my wife of something so evil! I fell down the stairs a few days ago! That’s were the bruise is from you sick fuck.” Chris yelled back.

“Oh spare me!” Nick replied. “So what happens when something happens to that little girl huh? What happens when she won’t let her have friends or go on playdates or go to the park? what happens when she isolates her daughter the same way she’s isolating you!”

“You know what, this is exactly why I can’t be around you. You’re all delusional and this sort of environment is not good for my child.” Chris yelled, picking up Adriana's baby bag and walking out of the room to grab Adriana.

He walked through the room, seeing Adriana and Sunday playing together. Without saying a word he picked his daughter up and started heading toward the door. “Chris? Chris what happened to your face?” Sunday tried to ask before hearing her own boyfriend running through the room.

“Chris! Chris stop!” Matt yelled while chasing after his brother who didn’t even turn around.

Chris walked straight to the car before gently putting Adriana into her car seat while Matt tried to calm him down.

“Please Chris, Nick was just trying to help, he loves you.” Matt tried to reason but Chris simply wasn’t having it.

“Nick he just accused my wife of beating me I can’t just le-”

“Chris!” Matt yelled, starting to get annoyed. “Chris we love you. More than anything and he’s just hurt that you’re leaving us. I mean a break? Come on Chris.”

That did make Chris feel bad. He always had his brothers. He wouldn’t be where he was now if not for them and now he was leaving them. Chris just felt so awful.

“I’m sorry Matt, I just… I just have to.” Chris replied softly looking down.

It was silent for a minute, then Matt spoke up. “Okay, and when this break ends we and Nick will be waiting for you, because we love you.”

With that Matt brought Chris into a hug. A proper hug. That was all Chris needed for the silent tears to come crumbling down. He was sure how long they were in that hug for before he felt another pair of area wrap around him.

“ I love you Chris, you have to know that.” Nick said, voice thick with tears.

“I know and I’m sorry. I love you guys too, both of you, so much” Chris said pulling away from the hug.

Matt then made his way over to the back of the car where Adriana had been buckled in.

“Hey baby, it looks like I won’t be seeing you for a while. You rember your Uncle Matt okay?” Matt told her making her giggle a little, not fully understanding the situation.

“And don’t forget your Uncle Nick either.” Nick interjected.

“Okay I promise I won’t. Pinky promise.” The little girl promised holding out her pinky fingers for both men to intertwine their fingers with.

The two said their goodbyes to their niece before shutting the door and looking back at Chris.

“Look, I don’t know what type of arrangement you and Ali have, but you protect that little girl or I will, you hear me?” Nick warned him.

Chris simply nodded, too emotional to trust himself to let out any sort of words. 

“I’m sorry, and I love you guys,” Chris said one last time.

“We love you too Chris. You take care of yourself okay?” Matt said one last time.

With that Chris got into his car and started to reverse out of his brothers drive way while his two brothers watched. Once he had fully reversed, he caught one last glance at his brothers, noticing the tears streaming down their faces. He wanted to stop the car, run out and tell them everything but he simply couldn’t. Instead he gave them one last smile before driving off. Now he was fully alone. Nobody to talk to, nobody to help him. He had nobody at all.

And with that, one single tear swam down his face.

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BONUS SCENE

Nick just stood there in his drive way, tears running down his face. “Now what do we do.”

With that Matt took his phone out, going to ‘find my’ where a moving air tag was displayed. Nick’s eyes widened slightly, realising exactly what Nick had done.

“Now we go and help our brother.”

A/N: Heheh, Part 3 has already been started 😘

luv ya,

Xenya 🖤

Part 3

[one-beer-is-not-enough]

With Marcel being a simp for Derby, how does he feel about my OC Nora... also being a simp for Derby? Do I smell... simp competition? 👁👄👁 LOL (trust me, Nora would fight Marcel.... psychologically.... and verbally. Imagine her as aggressive, barking poodle).

Hi!! Nora is definitely one of my favorite ocs in the fandom, a diva and adorable at the same time B)

And yes, simp competition... Apologies in advance for Marcel acting like a lunatic :') Nora deserves a better crush AND better competition for the crush in question lmfao. Buckle in, this is a long one Most well-adjusted Derby enthusiasts:

Context below lol Bonus:

As for the interactions & opinions:

I think they’d have a complicated, entertaining dynamic. The greatest obstacle is their competition over Derby, but that could take a backseat when they’re, well, away from him. I think they’d antagonize each other so much that it’d turn to banter eventually?

Nora will probably look down on Marcel before he’s formally accepted as a prep. He lacks the attitude and manners of a rich kid and he’s even more of a thug than the townies sometimes. On top of that, he spends weeks working as the preps’ literal servant for pocket change, so not a great first impression.

While they’d definitely argue all the time over Derby, it should be mentioned that other than the preps, pretty much everybody dislikes him… Meaning that they often unintentionally team up against the common ‘enemy’ that ‘dares’ to insult their crush

Marcel wouldn't hurt her, and blackmail is too risky against a rich girl, so he gets creative with his intimidation tactics. If for example, Nora were to set up a plan for Marcel to embarrass himself in front of Derby, the very next morning Marcel will be loudly sharpening knives in the kitchen while she’s having breakfast (as pictured above)

It doesn’t take long for his sister to snitch to Nora that Marcel just lets her beat his ass when they fight without even lifting a finger to defend himself, because “No man should raise his hand at a girl-- Even if she’s a bitch.” He stops being threatening instantly. All his bluffs, reduced to atoms💀

…The good part is that Marcel eliminates the other competition for both of them. Hooray! If he suspects a guy of liking Derby? Instant beat-down. A girl? Blackmail her to hell and back… Of course, he’s delusional in these assumptions 99% of the time

That aside, I think they’d also have petty arguments over music. Marcel blasts music ranging from the 40s to the 60s in his room and everyone in the Harrington House can hear. He’d act all arrogant and superior to Nora, saying that her music taste is low-brow for someone of her class

Sofia, his sister who is also on the cheerleading team, tries to convince him to make peace with Nora (for her own sake, she’s tired of hearing them complain about each other)

“And both of you having a crush on the blond devil is, like, a crime against humanity.”

Marcel uses gossip as ammo for his blackmail practices, so if Nora is ever willing to share information with him, he swallows his pride and tries to play nice. They might even come to realize they dislike a lot of the same people (rip). Like the bullies and the nerds. Bonding over hating Earnest lol. Marcel can’t help poking fun at her for being scared of the townies, though. He tries to convince her they’re really not that bad. They buy him cigarettes and alcohol! ...Horrible, horrible influence.

I think they’d have a common interest in fashion. Obviously, Nora is much more invested, that goes without saying. Marcel is just obsessed with looking good at all times (even though his definition of ‘good’ is questionable). He tries to act nonchalant, but he internally judges everyone’s clothes. From a young age, his father hammered this idea into his head: people should be treated like they dress themselves. Marcel tries not to give in to this mentality out of spite, but it’s too engrained to fully suppress

So, if either one of them brings up the topic of other students’ clothes, the floodgates burst open. It’s bitching o’clock

Marcel is super jealous that she has such a good relationship with her father in comparison to him. Whenever he hears her mention her father giving her money so easily, he’s screaming internally. He’ll also probably challenge her to a game of poker after hearing this <- aka wants to win that money

Despite everything, I think with (a lot) of time, they may warm up to one another and be ‘frenemies’, if you will. Still get into fights about the same old things, but with truces every now and then lol

[antisocialsharky]

Hello! I just wanted to say that I've been using some of your posts talking about ASPD to help me better understand it to write an OC I'm writing. I have a question though, do you mind talking about more symptoms of ASPD that I should keep in mind when writing her?

Hi! Very glad to hear that my posts have been helpful and its cool that you are aiming for good representation!

When it comes to how ASPD symptoms should be written and which ones should make it into literature, theres different opinions, so this is gonna go a bit beyond your question I guess? Just to get a roundabout view.

1. Recovery Position

• First thing to rly keep in mind is that the intensity of the symptoms, the way they present and the way the character would deal with them, absolutely depends on where they are in recovery.

• It also depends on what you understand as recovery, be that the reducing of overall symptoms so they are less often present, the act of reducing the harm that is done by your symptoms (ex: trough redirection, or actively learning prosocial behavior) or just learning to find a way to live in society the way you are. No ones view on recovery or the way they go about it (or if they decide not to) is in any way better or superior, but it is an aspect that does change how many symptoms you show in which way, so its important to think about when writing a character.

2. Covert/Overt Symptom Presentation

• Another thing to think about, depending on what fits into your story, is the question as to whether your character is very obviously antisocial, or whether they go about it in a more covert secret way. Can they control which symptoms they show when? Or are they lost to their impulses and emotions? Do they come from a background where hiding their symptoms was essential, or were they able/forced to present obviously?

• Theres also a more mixed presentation where some symptoms are more obvious and others are not, depending on stuff like what meets your needs best, how much control you have and whether or not you've done any active work on the symptoms yet, etc.

• Then you can also think about the personal opinion of your character on symptom presentation. Do they believe that they should get to just be themselves? Are they of the opinion that people just have to deal with their symptoms and accept them that way? Or do they think that they have to hide some symptoms in order to fit into society better? Have they potentially adopted some prosocial ways of thinking and model their presentation after that? Depending on what it is, it will obviously look different.

3. The Causes of their ASPD

• Depending on the type of trauma they went trough that made them develop ASPD, presentation will differ. Its highly individual of course, but theres some themes, like people who come from violent households often being violent themselves, people who were neglected struggling with the social aspects like empathy & remorse, people who were lied to/manipulated/berated all the time adopting similar manners, people who had to commit crimes and/or witnessed those often continuing to do so because its normal to them, etc.

• The other aspect is genetics, where certain tendencies can be given from parent to child or grandparent to grandchild, such as impulsive tendencies, the type of temper someone has, access (or denied access) to certain parts of the brain that are responsible for prosocial emotions, etc. Those genetics mix with the trauma and sometimes push the presentation in certain directions, so its a thing to keep in mind.

• Some CD/ASPD symptoms can also develop/be made worse trough bullying, intense experiences in childhood/teens, hanging around with people who engage in/normalize certain behaviors, etc. (ex: kids with delinquient tendencies who hang around other kids with those, may be more likely to develop that as a continous behavior). So its also worth thinking about who your character was around while they grew up, who influenced them how and what was normalized to them.

4. The Current DSM-V ASPD Criteria

• When it comes to the core symptoms of ASPD, theres 3 out of 7 DSM criteria points your character should meet. It doesn't matter which ones, but it has to be at least three! Your character should also be older than 18, have shown conduct disorder symptoms before they turned 15 and have their ASPD symptoms even in absence of other comorbidities, substances and/or episodes (Criterion B-D which I am not quoting, but thats it summed up)

• The 7 criteria points recognized in the DSM-V are (and I quote):

A. A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of rights of others, occuring since age 15 years, as indicated by three (or more) of the following:

1. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are ground for arrest.

2. Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases or conning others for personal profit or pleasure.

3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.

4. Irritability or aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults.

5. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.

6. Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.

7. Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated or stolen from another.

• Everything after "as indicated by" is an example of a possible presentation. The DSM-V acknowledges that there are other possible ways in which symptoms can show up.

5. The Alternative ASPD Model in the DSM-V

• This is not used to officially diagnose people with ASPD, but is one idea, as to how personality disorder classification could work in the future. It looks at the symptoms as dimensions, under which possible experiences could fall and mentions quite a few things the current criteria doesn't, so I'll quote it below as well:

A. Moderate or greater impairment in personality functioning, manifested by characteristic difficulties in two or more of the following areas:

1. Identity: Egocentrism, self esteem derived from personal gain, power or pleasure.

2. Self direction: Goal setting based on personal gratification, absence of prosocial internal standards, associated with failure to conform to lawful or culturally normative ethical behavior.

3. Empathy: Lack of concern for feelings, needs or suffering of others, lack of remorse after hurting or mistreating another.

4. Intimacy: Incapacity for mutually intimate relationships, as exploitation is primary means of relating to others, including by deceit and coercion, use of dominance or intimidation to control others.

B. Six or more of the following seven pathological personality traits:

1. Manipulativeness (an aspect of antagonism): Frequent use of subterfuge to influence or control others, use of seduction, charm, glibness, or ingratiation to achieve ones ends.

2. Callousness (an aspect of antagonism): Lack of concern for feelings or problems of others, lack of guilt or remorse about negative or harmful effects of ones actions on others, aggression, sadism.

3. Deceitfulness (an aspect of antagonism): Dishonesty and fraudulence, misrepresentation of self, embellishment or fabrication when relating events.

4. Hostility (an aspect of antagonism): Persistent or frequent angry feelings, anger or irritability in response to minor slights and insults, mean, nasty or vengeful behavior.

5. Risk taking (an aspect of disinhibition): Engagement in dangerous, risky and potentially self damaging activities, unnecessarily and without regard for consequences, boredom proneness and thoughtless initiation of activities to counter boredom, lack of concern for ones limitations and denial of the reality of personal danger.

6. Impulsivity (an aspect of disinhibition): Acting on the spur of the moment in response to immediate stimuli, acting on a momentary basis without a plan or consideration of outcomes, difficulty establishing and following plans.

7. Irresponsibility (an aspect of disinhibition): Disregard for - and failure to honor - financial and other obligations or commitments, lack of respect for - and lack of follow trough on - agreements and promises.

Note: The individual is at least 18 years of age.

6. Other Common Experiences

• Theres a few experiences that quite a few people with ASPD report, that have not explicitly made it into the criteria. Sometimes these are examples for certain symptoms and/or are implied, sometimes these have been studied but haven't been written as a requirement for diagnosis and sometimes these are not supported by science/still debated by science.

• Apathy, a total lack of emotion, overall muted emotions or having trouble to access certain emotions, is something some people with ASPD talk about a lot. There is no scientific consensus yet, as to whether this is an ASPD symptom. Some theories suggest it falls under PTSD (absence of positive emotions & tendency to experience negative ones and/or having dissociated away from the emotions and/or having put up a sort of non permanent barrier as a form of protection), depression (common comorbidity, anhedonia & apathy can both be part of it), other PDs (schizoid, borderline episodes, etc.) or something else entirely. While its not sure whether its caused by ASPD, or not, a lot of people with it seem to report differences in their capability to feel a full range of intense emotions.

• The criteria talks about aggressiveness and physical fights, which is not the only way in which this symptom seems to commonly present. Harming animals, homicidal ideation, dealing with aggressive thoughts & urges without actually acting on them, verbal aggression, taking out aggression on self or property, etc. are also often reported.

• The current criteria doesn't mention it at all and the alternative talks about a complete inability to form bonds, but community consensus seems to be, that while forming emotional bonds is harder & happens more rarely, it is still possible. The intensity differs (some describe the bond as a logical construct, some only do platonic bonds, some only do romantic bonds, some describe deep obsessiveness, etc.) as does the number of people they find themselves bonded with. Theres also a significant amount of people in the community that describe a phenamenon similar to BPDs FP (aka a bond to a person that is defined by the symptoms of the personality disorder).

• There is some debate on whether or not an absence of prosocial inner standards makes it impossible or more difficult to define personal morals and understand how morality works. Some people with ASPD say they have no difficulties, some report that they struggle with the understanding part, some say they struggle with upholding those norms and others struggle with both. It seems like ASPD could make it more difficult to understand and/or respect the way societies morals work for some, which makes room for conflict.

• Personality Disorders are what we call egosyntonic, which usually means that they are in alignment with what we as people think is the correct way to feel, think and act. This doesn't mean that its inherently impossible to change the way you think/feel/act and that recovery is impossible, but it may make it more difficult to break out of the patterns (if that is what one wants). Some people show little problems in this area, some need a lot of outer assistance and others either can't or don't want to change.

7. Other Things To Keep In Mind

• You should probably think about whether your character fits the psychopathy subtype & if yes which definition of it you want to use (theres different theories)

• ASPD can influence every aspect of your life, so it may interfere with things in such a roundabout way that you wouldn't even think about it at first (ex: Disregard for safety of self => Disregard for your own health => You get ill carelessly => You dont take ur meds responsibly, or put off a doctors visit for months/years => You end up with longterm damage => You don't treat it responsibly => You get more ill => Death. Which happens to ppl without ASPD too, but can indeed be a presentation of that symptom.). Additionally comorbdities interact & interfere with ASPD symptoms and may alter/add onto presentation!

• You could also always add the ASPD stigma into the mix and how your character responds to it/how it influences them. Does it make them not wanna recover? Does it make them wanna recover even more to prove everyone wrong? Are they trying to get into therapy but no therapist wants them? Is it on a court record and causing problems that way? Do they lose relationships/friendships? Does it change the way they see themselves or others? etc.

• The key with ASPD characters is not to just make them into good people or portray them as angels and also not to always make them into the cruel villain. The key is to show that they are an individual, a human being, a single example for what this disorder can present as. If you can somehow portray that the presentation of ASPD in your character is just how this specific character is and is not how the disorder inherently presents itself, you nailed it! Cus u'll have ASPDers who want to just stay the way they are and who are exactly what you'd imagine a cruel villain to be like, you have ASPDers who you couldn't ever distinguish from a prosocial person, cus they learned to blend in and you've got ASPDers who decide that they wanna do a 180 and behave in the most prosocial way possible and then you have everything in between and beyond. So as long as your character would meet criteria, as long as you're not spreading misinfo and as long as its clear that its just one example of a possible presentation, you're good in my opinion (but this is indeed just my opinion and others may disagree).

Note: If you need examples for the specific symptoms, you can ofc send another ask, this is more of a general overview of what exists, cus going into detail on each would make this post wayyy too long.

[goatlilly]

Do you have any oc drawings before?

honestly I have way too many OC’s for my own good—art is actually a secondary hobby for me to writing, but shamefully I have never finished writing anything before. I’ll just post a few OC drawings here for some of my more prominent stories with brief descriptions of their deal, for anyone who’s interested:

—This is Rafael, my egotistical baby. He comes from a story I’m writing where people have super powered extensions to mental-disorders/personality disorders/trauma. In his case, this guy’s massively high opinion has led him to believing he’s always right, and this has led to him developing the power to influence others into believing him so long as he’s convinced he’s right. He could say that clouds were made of alien gas and so long as he believed it, people around him would just be like, “whelp, can’t argue with that.” He remains blissfully ignorant of his powers for the better half of his middle school life, and he’s one of my favorite characters to write.

This is Mya. She’s from a story of mine where the spirit world and physical world are separated by a chasm in the earth—everything in the world has a spirit connection, be it the trees, the sun or a person. In Mya’s case, she’s linked to the spirit of Destiny, a counterpart to the spirit of fate that is the manifestation of human desires. She is able to see the red strings of destiny that make up people’s hearts—their character, their hopes, their past and future. This is the only thing she can see, as she is physically blind. She’s basically a god in half her interactions with others, and in the other half, she’s a 7-year old child who’s never seen the sun.

This is “White”—Aka Erick. He’s a special operative sort of rebel who’s working with a team of misfits under the direction of a crazy lady to try and pull off the biggest heist imaginable: escaping the Dream World! In this story, scientists have developed a way to keep people trapped inside their own subconscious through a linked network called the “Dream,” and it’s being used as an alternative to the prison system. So the dream is full of a bunch of criminals trapped inside their own minds. It’s Erick’s job to go inside those dreams and wake people up. The reason he’s been incarcerated has to do with breaking out of a mental facility. Plus he’s just a little crazy. :)

So yeah, that’s a few of my OC’s from my more developed stories. If your interested in seeing more of my OC’s or getting better in-depth explanations about any of my stories, I recommend checking out my other social Media accounts on UnVale or Deviantart—I go by @NightLilly1050 on those.

Hopefully you like one or two of these guys. :)

[steppenwolfslair]

An add on to the very poor handling of Nevecanis; the companion/companion romances in general were badly done in DAV

Concerning Harding/Taash, Nevecanis, the banter and its inevitability

One of the first problems i have with the DAV companion romance system is that it is inevitable, if you don’t romance one they get together always instead of it depending on time together spend in part like it is in DAI wit Dorian/Bull. I feel like a lot of people forget that at the end of the day this is supposed to be an RPG game and that the player should be able to control their story, yes even the companion romances. And the system for Dorian/Bull was really simple and really good.

In DAV it is treated as a pivotal part of the story of both of the pairings between the main companions with shared scenes instead of unique ones (yes even the Taash Harding one is basically Tav replaced Taash with different dialogue, which is way better handled with them but still, a recycled scene).

Another thing that is badly handled is how quickly respective companions will start to flirt with each other even if Rook is already showing obvious interest, and the flirting for companions is imo far better done and with more active participation and reaction than with Rook. Nevecanis is just overpowering in this but it happens with Taash and Harding too. If you’re pursuing Harding do you really want to her talk how hot she thinks Taash is?

And then we get to the relationship banters. If companions gets together they talk about their relationship constantly with each other and with the other companions way more than Rook gets and does with them. It basically takes precedence over any other interesting banter you might’ve gotten (as i have learned recently with Harding and Taash). Again the game decides to shove Rook to the side so the writing can play their little OC game.

This is a problem with Rook again and again where they most of the times feel sidelined so the companions can shine. There is a found family here, but rook is extended family rather than the inner one.

The only one done right imo was Strife and Emmrich. A fun little side thing that happens, completely out of the way other than few lines of banter and one scene where they talk to rook about it. The player doesn’t feel left out it just makes you go “oh that’s neat” instead of constantly watching a secondary pairing get more attention than whatever you would have going on (Taash/Harding doesn’t suffer this nearly as bad as Nevecanis but the complaint still stands, though don’t take my word for it i haven’t seen them not together to compare)

I will repeat what i said though the main issue DATV has not giving me the CHOICE for these things to happens, i don’t get to influence it like i could in DAI where thankfully (no one crucify me for this) i could easily avoid a ship i despise.

Now you can yell “but it’s realistic to-“ this is a video game, more than that an RPG, and it has decided once again to rob me of meaningful agency over my own story.

EDIT: a lot of these thoughts come from discussion with @hightowerqueen 💛

EDIT 2:

Removed the people don’t like companion/companions romances thing, this is a very split opinion and i don’t want the focus on that

[angelwishess]

I mentioned this before— But the character Kyra was originally meant to be shipped with was actually Jamil. But!! After some thought, I ultimately decided that Floyd would be a better partner for Kyra instead.

Soo, take this post as me rambling about how and why Floyra came to be, and why I scrapped the Jamyra concept all together.

Kyra already had an established character and backstory before being shipped with anyone. Usually, I like to create the characters and flesh them out before shipping them with anyone. Although there are times where I do create characters for the sake of shipping (*cough cough* Jester *cough cough*) my process with developing OCs usually focuses on them as a character individually first, then their relationships with canon characters after.

And at first, I thought the idea of Jamil x Kyra was interesting. My main reasoning for Kyra x Jamil was the idea of it.

Caged bird metaphors for days, both come from somewhat similar issues when it comes to not being allowed to be their own person, ect ect. (Also, if you couldnt tell already im a SUCKER for Opposites Attract and Grumpy x Sunshine)

In a way, I liked it because they were so similar yet so different lorewise, having this strict set of expectations put unto them and not being able to act against those expectations— but yet, despite how similar they are, they ended up completely different.

And while it is a good trope— It just simply doesn’t work. Why? Well, because Jamil, putting it bluntly, isn’t the kind of person that would be best for Kyra. (ITS OKAY!!! HES STILL BIG BRO!!!!! I saved him from a neverending headache w Kyra LMFAOO)

I started to take into consideration Kyra herself. What kind of person would she want? How does she love? What kind of person would she be attracted to? What does she need in someone? Who would make her happy?

after having to bottle up all her feelings and ignoring her own desires and wants— Kyra needs someone that would support her.

She doesn’t need nor wants someone to stop her from doing the things that she does, what she needs is someone to support her. And I doubt that Jamil would be supportive of her shennanigans LMAOO 😭

Then I got to thinking, if not Jamil who else could I ship her with ??

Then I realized, “Oh, Floyd would be perfect, wouldn’t he?”

Now, Floyd has always been my favorite character from TWST! But I just didnt want to be biased and miss out on good ship material with another character😭 funny how it worked out though WHAHAHA

Not only would Floyd support her shennanigans— he’d encourage her to do it. And while that probably isn’t the best in some cases, Kyra definetly deserves someone that would support her actual wants after all this time.

I mentioned this before, but Kyra sees alot of herself in Floyd. Yeah, they are weirdly similar (and that actually was not planned), and thats exactly the reason why Kyra was ever attracted to Floyd in the first place. (In general, not even romantically lmao)

And seeing him show all of these traits without a care in the world, to act out on what he feels and what he wants, it encourages her to do the same. And it encourages her to be herself even more, which is exactly what she needs!

There are still times Kyra is hesitant to do things, old habits die hard, but Floyd just being himself is enough to encourage Kyra to do the same. He influences her in a way others view as “bad”, but for someone like Kyra, its honestly the best for her.

Not only that, but I personally see Floyd as the kind of person to not really care about looks. Yeah, he can see when someone’s attractive and he acknowledges it, but he really does not care 😭

In my opinion, he values personality much more. Anyone who can entertain him or whoever he deems “fun”.

Kyra has never been seen for anything other than her beauty. Always seen but never heard. And while Floyd does think shes pretty… He really didn’t care about that when they first met LMAOO

It would be refreshing for Kyra to have someone who actually didn’t care all that much for her appearance. Instead hanging out with her for her personality. She was so used to men always sticking by her because of her pretty face that it was a breath of fresh air when she realized that Floyd wasn’t like that, and they were just genuinely friends.

The fact that Floyd doesnt care about appearances at all shouldn’t really be a big deal, but Kyra would be OVER THE MOON about it.

“Ah, I don’t care about that sorta thing. If you were boring, I would’ve ditched you a long time ago, hahaha!” And now suddenly Kyra is swooning and fanning herself and getting weak in the knees and blushing and giggling and kicking her feet and twirling her hair and—💥💥💥

Kyra needs a best friend in a partner. Someone that makes her want to open up and be vulnerable, but also makes her loosen up and have fun. She needs someone that can support her and can keep up with her regardless of how chaotic and rambunctious she can get— and who better than the menace himself??

No one can keep up with Kyra. And no one can really keep up with Floyd, either (Well, besides Jade, that is.). It was perfect! Because turns out, they’re the only ones that can keep up with eachother.

While continuing to think on it, I began realizing that they were also similar in other ways! And they can definetly understand eachother because of it.

Two people who have never had anyone bother to even try and understand them, no one really trying to look underneath the surface. Thinking that because of that, they dont “need” anyone to. But when they find eachother?? AUGH, they realize it really does feel nice for someone to “get it”.

Floyd understands and encourages Kyra in a way I don’t think Jamil could, and so !!! Floyra became a thing!!! YIPPEEYIPPEYIPPEEEE !!!!

My perfect little weirdos, even if no one really gets them they understand eachother better than anyone else can, and thats all that really matters. Their similarities in personality and ideals that brought them together, and I’m really just a sucker for the whole soulmates thing 😭

While of course, there are definetly flaws— with Kyra’s secretive nature and both of them being somewhat afraid of opening up and being vulnerable, its also because of those flaws that they end up working together. Because for once, they found someone that can truly understand them, and they’d be damned to let them slip away.

Anyways !! Ya thats all , ty for reading my silly little yap sesh !! 💗💗

Tagging!: @screamintoad @taruruchi 👁️👁️ floyra food …

[crematedguts]

OLD CREEPYPASTA FANBASE BETTER THEN NEW CREEPYPASTA FANBASE? | my opinion | (Sorry this is gonna be long)

i’m going to start this with saying I have not been active on TikTok for about two years now. i used to be in the Creepypasta fandom as well as in the Slenderverse community. after the Slenderman Cult account and situation. I sorta stepped out of both communities. ( genuinely wtf it was concerning. )

i also was around for the Kastoways situation where him and his sister literally had to come on TikTok to address the false allegations against Kastoway. In 2021 in the Creepypasta fandom so that was.. something, the fact that his sister literally had to come and address false allegations. it’s debunked but most the Creepypasta fanbase misinterpreted what they were asking and trying to say. Apparently to this day the a large amount of the fanbase still has it wrong.

easy to say there was several things that were concerning going on in the Creepypasta fandom (maybe Slenderverse if you can even compare the two ) on TikTok when I was in the community’s on that platform. I know some of my creator moots have stepped back onto the TikTok Creepypasta fandom last year to this year only to see not much has changed. ( still toxic )

so they decided that’s not good, someone has to do something so they are trying to address some the actual fandom issues on there, debunk false allegations, address stuff, etc give some ways of how can we as a community improve and make it safer for not only fans but the creators as well. ( less harmful, more aware, less toxic )

I think they are a great start to not only healing the fandom but also making improvements and making it safer for everyone. so the fandom doesn’t just kill themselfs off because the reason why the fandom is dying is due to the toxic fanbase. The new influencers in the fandom out themselves for being toxic while complaining leading to their own downfall. Let me explain below

influencers say the same phrases apparently about how the fandom is, dying, dead, there’s no creativity, there’s no new oc’s, there’s no new content, there’s no new comics, and then they come back with a new video saying how they made a comic they have new characters. (Which is ick) especially if your someone who’s been making content in the fandom for a while like new characters and ideas, working on comics.

it’s because those posts are invalidating and belittling other creators in the fandom who have been creating content and trying to share their ideas. Also pretty sure they fame bait fans into interacting with their videos so they get more attention and engagement such as “the fandom dead” phrase which fans fall for most the time cause then they all comment to show they their still around and alive, they don’t realize their boosting that influencers video and giving them more likes and fame.

influencers mainly take part in the fanbase, because if they took part in the fandom they would know there are artists have been making comics, there is artists making new characters, and new ideas. they also would be more aware of why saying those things could come off the wrong way for some creators in the fandom and be toxic behavior.

Something that’s more Icky is the fanon side of Creepypasta on TikTok. Remember how i mentioned that Creators are trying to help address fandom issues, make the fandom safer, less problematic and harmful, heal the fandom so it doesn’t kill itself? Yeah— Some people on the fanon side would flip the narrative saying the Creators are the toxic ones that the “new” fandom is WORSE now because; “ everything has to be canon”, “or you can’t ship anything.” “the old fandom was so much better,” “the old fandom was so much better” “people complain or take everything too seriously now.”

Influencers literally out themselfs for being toxic. There is no new and old fandom they are still the same exact fandom. You’re just upset because people are starting to realize a lot of “old” fandom behavior is problematic and toxic. You’re upset because Creators and fans are now actually acknowledging the fact that shipping minors with adults, that sexualizing minors, aging up minors to sexualize them is problematic and illegal. You shouldn’t really have an issue unless.. your someone who takes part in those problematic behaviors and are lashing out cause you can’t be toxic and problematic anymore without being held accountable and responsible for what your doing being morally wrong and fucked up. Also anyone who’s trying to justify proshipping you are outing yourself because the term proshipping is created by adults to be predatory towards children. The whole “scroll away” “don’t like it don’t read it” bullshit your justifying child s*x exploitation material. Most people don’t realize that most child s*x exploitation material doesn’t have to be sexual, it is supposed to be easily integrated into society so the predators can continue to exploit children and cause harm. It became easy to justify problematic behaviors like this with the term proshipping.

most the time when a child is using the term proshipping they aren’t using it correctly or they were groomed into thinking it was ok. If you’re an adult or were informed about how your actions might be problematic and continue to exploit minors then I suggest you to rethink things. If your someone who sees an artist sexualizing minors in anyway look at that like a giant red flag. It doesn’t matter whether it’s boy or girl either way people should not be justifying these types of behaviors. Expecily after being made aware. I know my moots agree with what I’m saying and already know all this.

“There no new creativity” “Nothing orginal” then the creepypasta influencer states how they will never “have” anything like Marble Hornets, tribe twelve, Everyman hybrid again. …

THOSES WEREN’T EVEN CREEPYPASTA FANDOMS TO BEGIN WITH. You’re claiming something that doesn’t belong to the Creepypasta fandom. Those are all SLENDERVERSE SERIES THAT ARE THEIR OWN SEPARATE THING FROM CREEPYPASTA. The Creepypasta fanbase came across the orginal independent series and TOOK THEM ABSORBING THEM into the Creepypasta fandom. ALONG WITH SLENDERS PROXYS SYMBOL yeah THAT WASN’T ORGINALLY YOUR IDEA EITHER that also was created in the SLENDER-VERSE FANDOM for MARBLE HORNETS and was the OPERATOR SYMBOL. Stop taking credit from the Slenderverse fandom, stop stealing things that weren’t yours to begin with, it wasn’t originally from your fandom. once again willfully ignorant taking credit from others that’s not new you guys can’t even give credit to your artists who ask repeatedly to be given credit! Which is also why many artist LEAVE and STOP posting their art. Once again the TOXIC fanbase is the issue.

ALL THESE THINGS ALONG WITH SO MUCH MORE IS VALIDATING WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT THE FANBASE BEING TOXIC AND PROBLEMATIC. please work on yourself and try to listen to the creators who are trying to help save your fandom from destroy itself.

[cyt-c-tcc]

Headcanoned relationships with @tweekamami's OC Twig!

I have got these ideas for how the other CLADE agents (and Wally, heh) and Twig will interact, and I will share them.

Twig and Kit:

Kit and Twig are naturally extremely different, but they make great friends nevertheless. Kit easily gets bored when doing paperwork or staying still for a long period of time, and is not scared of getting dirty or messy (Diving into swamps is a normal thing for her). On the other hand, Twig likes staying at CLADE HQ to do video editing and general media things, and keeps her fur in perfect condition (Outside dirt ruins perfect fur). While Twig WILL definitely resist Kit's ideas on being messy and having fun at first, Kit tends to be more willing to drag others to follow her (and has the perfect method to convince almost anyone), it would not be a surprise if she ended up dragging Twig outside, maybe to play in the rain ("I have lots of work to do and my fur..." "Oh come on!")

And Twig being a workaholic, interacting with Kit would be a good (but EXTREMELY wild) way to destress. Twig would try to keep herself neat even when trying to solve a case (Kit has the patience for this), and post stuff about Kit in her blog, while trying to influence Kit to not do things that make her look inelegant (Like getting Kit to be nester, etc) (This is where the Kit-and-Twig relationship diverges from the Kit-and-Sam relationship - Twig is highly assertive, Sam is not.) On the other hand, Kit will definitely see how much Twig is like Sam (They behave similarly... On the surface), and occasionally make friendly jokes and tease occasionally (Part of being friends). Overall, the relationship would likely parallel the Kit-and-Sam relationship, but be different in a few ways.

Twig and Sam:

Twig and Sam agree at many levels: Both of them are hygiene and neatness freaks, both are workaholics, generally prefer staying indoors (even though for Sam, staying indoors is additionally a way to get extra sleep, heh). So Twig and Sam are likely to like grooming each other, fashion, fur treatments (with Shelia maybe? Both of them would like Shelia a lot.) as well as packing and cleaning up. We see in Twig's room that she favours neatness (like Sam), and is extremely serious about her work (Her laptop is next to her bed). So both Twig and Sam are going to enjoy each other's company, in general.

However, we can see that Twig favours the assertive, being assertive herself. We see that she likes Hans (willing to air his opinions) more than she likes Harold (often lets Hans do the talking and guide him). We can expect something similar with Twig and Sam, as Sam's no u-turn mentality means that he rarely tries to convince others to let him do what he wants, instead just briefly mentioning it and hoping that he is interpreted correctly. Furthermore, he generally lets Kit make the decisions (like putting way too much salt in what was meant to be shared popcorn) even when it goes against his judgement - except when he sees a benefit in doing so (like in a Creature Case). So, Twig, despite her many common interests with Sam, would probably prefer Kit (who is completely different from her but is willing to enforce her opinions). And Sam is okay with that.

Okay I think I have yapped enough for now, will continue another day.

[litsenn]

Masterpost

My opinions, headcanons and analysis:

Astarion and Irony

Astarion's boundaries

Astarion’s state of mind in the first sex scene

Refusing to sleep with Astarion a second time

Astarion craves connection and a long answer to a comment about it

Night two: Astarion asks you how you'd want him to kill you.

Astarion's feeding and the "Hot Vampire Fantasy"

Astarion's midnight snacks, but on his own terms

Bonding with Astarion in the Shadowlands (Act 2 hc)

Astarion's scent

How the idea of Astarion’s ascension affected me (cw eating disorders)

Astarion's cheek biting

My two cents to a post about Astarion's ptsd

My two cents about Astarion 'not getting cuddly'

My two cents to a great to discussion, esp. about AA being "kind when you're nice to him"

General perception of Astarion's and Halsin traumas

Garlic love (silly little hc)

Durge pre-game chronology (questions)

The influence of the companions on Resist Durge

Degrading yourself

Gortash in French

Gale in French

Horny BG3 tierlist

Astarion's heartbreaking face during that first night and here for more

Astarion as a hero

Cazador and children (cw mentions of child abuse)

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[creatingblackcharacters]

Hi Ice! I would love some advice on a story I'm writing and it has to do with the nuances of intersectionality between class and race and i bring a simple example that has to so with the dynamic between my Black mc and white mc.

If this is beyond the complexity of the asks you're willing to answer, of course feel free to ignore! Also i apologise in advance for any potential nuances I'm missing on the way America is structured(and my syntax..), i'm eastern European.

The setting of the story is supposed to be late 19th century america Inspired, not our universe and it's practically historical fantasy. My original intention (and current mostly) was to make it a universe where social equality is a thing as much as possible with an inclusive cast of ocs.

Just that already has its issues i feel, and most of my concerns are on the erasure of the struggles that the BIPOC communities have faced, particularly during those times.

In your opinion, would it help if i found an explanation on how everyone happened to be allowed to live an equal lifestyle? Eg 'x politician because x reason decided to make x law that decides everyone has the same rights on paper' And is that enough to touch upon the fact that hey... Not everything has been or is peachy?

Regarding Class; The thing is, the story itself ended up having quite strong themes about classism, capitalism, poverty etc. The issue that suddenly arises...is that in real life this issue intersects with so many other social issues including racism obviously.

So far i have a white character that is working class and a Black character who is a bit better off, say lower middle class and in their friendship, the latter sometimes tends to may be a little ignorant of his friend's specific experiences. It goes without saying that Black characters can be of any status and in any place in their lives, especially in a historical fantasy setting, However, i wonder if it comes off as tone-deaf presenting a Black character as less aware of the concept of poverty in practice (given that in real life, minorities are quite knowledgeable on how issues like poverty can affect their community, even in theory, even if some individuals haven't faced it directly.)

Thank you for the awesome blog and inputs!

Hm. I've been sitting on this one for a bit because I don't have like... An easy answer. I say that because unraveling race and how it figures into literally everything in the construction of the US is like... The fallout of the creation of the concept known as race is a massive domino effect 😅 Plus, putting "don't be racist" on paper versus people actually DOING that is not that easy either.

Like on the one hand, it's your story. If you say everyone in your story respected each other enough to not do everything required to create race and racism, then like... Yeah, then that's that. Me personally, I feel like that's a cop out fantasy for white folk, but again that's me. And then when we get to your part about the Black person being less aware of poverty and being schooled by your white character is like... It doesn't exist in universe sure but... Given that we already erased what actually happened... Yeah it makes me uncomfortable.

Don't get me wrong, the distance between the Black bourgeoisie and the Black working class and poor is DEFINITELY a conversation worth having, for example, and a poor white person could have something to say... but... I think given this question, this might not be something you should tackle right now. Like, you said "lower middle class" versing working class... Do you mean the working poor? Bc lower middle class is one trip and fall from poverty 😅

I have a question; why can't this just be a place not based in America? It can be influenced by it, but it doesn't HAVE to be 19th century America, Retconned. I feel like I'd be more comfortable with that idea, plus you wouldn't have to unintentionally whitewash history to do so.