#somewhat tiring and fun!!)))

[cheswirls]

rambling here so i do not forget

warring nations have feeble peace treaty cinched with marriage except sabo's sister the bride-to-be to the crown prince dies on their journey to the kingdom, leaving sabo as the only accessible heir and therefore the eventual replacement

meanwhile ace's father's health takes a turn for the worse and he ends up being crowned king just before the arrival of his arranged spouse. he's juggling a million and one tasks he had not quite been prepared to be in charge of at this point in his life and to top it off, the person sent to marry him ends up being a man.

sabo is also in over his head because he'd been traveling as escort really but now he's forced to take the place of his late sister and stay permanently, and also the crown prince she'd been supposed to marry is now the acting king so it's all a giant mess.

arrives at the palace and leaves the carriage when his sister's arrival is announced, then has to explain to the waiting party that no he's not the same person but he can explain and no it isn't a trick or going back on the treaty, so since his traveling party has an audience with the crown why don't they all just go over so he'll only have to explain this once?

ace isn't happy but he's too stressed to see this fall through so he allows sabo to stay. makes a remark about everything for the wedding being thrown out the window so they postpone it for now. lets sabo stay in his chambers for the night bc only a certain amount of rooms had been prepped in advance and obviously none had been for his fiancee.

tentative never met to suddenly married and living in close quarters (shared room etc) relationship.

[sparring-spirals]

oh GODDAMN i didn't actually process the implications of being with this half of the party. Nerves still raw, still terrified, unsure, in a dark unknown. Just off of the entire debacle of the solstice, not sure yet about the implications of everything gone dark... no healers.... all fear.....

[zhongrin]

I assume you got hate for that L&D ask? I'm sorry that was done. Feel better soon. Maybe say less next time.

i appreciate your kind words, thank you. however, while i'm sure you had the best intention with this, i don't think i will 'say less'. this is my blog, my space, and as long as i'm not actually causing harm to anyone or anything along that line, i think i'm allowed to have some degree of freedom regarding saying what i like/dislike and setting my boundaries. i'm sorry, but i'm not an influencer, nor a public figure who has the responsibility to spread positivity and be a role model to you all. i try as much as i can, of course, but that's not the purpose of this blog. i'm just a human being who needed an outlet for writing and wanted to connect with like-minded people.

what part was not 'right'? that i expressed, in my own blog, how i didn't want to try out a game because one of the reasons is i find the graphics of the fictional characters off-putting, when asked? that i likened a fictional game art style to a different franchise and objects you see all the time in adult site ads? that i never said anything about the people who do like the game and told them "i'm happy you found a game you like"? that i never, not even once, went to other people's posts or blog who posted that game's content to ruin their fun like a bastard? that i actively chose to use tumblr's filter instead? that even if the filter didn't work, i chose to scroll and ignore instead of bitching about it?

pray tell, what did i do wrong? why should i say less? since when am i not allowed to dislike things?

and a public psa ー i'm sorry, but bluntly speaking, if you take an affront when I expressed MY own opinion, WHEN PROMPTED, WITHIN MY OWN SPACE (and god forbid you retaliate like that anon(s?) by spamming me to shut the fuck up and kill myself), then that's really not my problem. it's an art direction, for god's sake. i adore zhongli, who gets memed and made fun of as a cockroach all the time; you don't see me screaming at people to stop.

learn that people may not like the things you like. learn to agree to disagree. learn to treat others as fellow human beings with likes and dislikes. learn to separate fiction from reality.

and seriously, if you're annoyed with my rambles or 'babblings' or the interactions with my friends, tumblr has a filter and block function. it's just a simple google away. give some peace to your own mind.

[triptychofvoids]

hey mod! do you ever experiment with other art types? like painting, sculpting, or digital art like sfm? or ever wish to? :)

drawing of any kind is my favorite above all else, but i do sometimes like painting on occasion if i have the patience for it, my favorites being gouache and watercolor! i cant say i have much interest in scultping but to be fair i havent tried it all that often either... and i do plenty of digital art like im sure you have seen aheh. but using something like sfm is.. hm. annoying. only for occasions. if im doing something traditional though i do have fun with mixed media! things like combining watercolor with colored pencil and other arts and crafts sort of activities...!

[running-in-the-dark]

my niece is staying with us for the whole weekend for the first time. until now it's always been one night only, not two.

it's the second night now and I have already decided this is not happening again anytime soon. I'm so fucking exhausted. it'd be less exhausting if it was my nephew, I think - he's older and also doesn't need as much help (even when he was her age).

I love my niece but she just asks so many questions. like when we're watching a show or a movie, even if it's one she has seen before (even multiple times), she doesn't understand what's going on and constantly asks me to explain everything. I don't mind it, really, but it does take a lot of energy. plus tonight it took over two hours for her to fall asleep because she was scared by the noises of the house and the nearby road. I get it, but damn I'm so fucking tired, I just want to sleep 😭

[spotsupstuff]

"scrambling for her puppet" (in the ask about Moon learning Pebbles is in the works now) YOU GET IT YOU GET IT the puppet may be a personification but it's not the iterator's main body ! (Unless the whole structure is caput like Moon after the collapse)

I love it when the puppet is more akin to a body part the iterator must not forget to use when conversing with smaller organisms !

oh you are going to LOVE Notos and some of Haboob's lore when the big oc post comes out. and also Zephyr (who gets her puppet mangled into almost unregonizable mess of machinery and organic mush during her collapse but still lives n can Somewhat very minimally move the pieces of the gore). and Fish with his torn off head and half a torso in Saint's time..... i LOVE fuckin around with the puppets

BUT YES YES!!!! the puppet is just. another fucking organ, yea. which is so weird to say... i think of the puppets as fetuses from time to time because of the whole "umbilical" arm and "umbilical" cable business

perhaps the puppet bodies could be directly almost completely organic but hollowed out of mind and individuality in a manner to allow the iterator to plug into it and project their consciousness through it. it wouldn't be too outlandish for the Ancients to create a being for the sole purpose of causing it brain death upon its birth and then shoving the body into a box for a hivemind to claim. for fuck's sake afterall, those things that make up Metropolis might be very much alive too but not quite sentient enough to do much about their existence

(side note: i REALLY fuckin love the idea that Ancients are here like "oooOooOo iteratoooOoOOors you need to find an universal solution to mass ascension of the entire world, we cannot let anything suffer the curse of LiiIIiiiIIife boohooo waaaaah wah" while creating Living things that PHYSICALLY don't have the slightest chance to enjoy their life but only basically existing as bricks with karma. if we assume everything living possesses karma. this is also fun to think about when you know a bit about the buddhistic reincarnation system)

the fetus analogy is also kind of fun besides disturbing though, i'll say, what with fetuses not really being able to live outside of womb and also with the way the iterators look canonically... and that they are so small as well (das why i REALLY like the short iterators thing for canon). squishy ass fetuses, p sure if that shit got severed it would just kind of spasm, shrivel up, die and rot

i've had an idea cycling around my brain for so long of Nish giving a spook to one of the Ancients' children about how an Iterator is a hivemind given singular name and goal to be a singular being instead of millions. he says it in a joking way to wig out the kid a little but it's absolutely 100% true for once

i like to think that Sometimes the main body of the iterators (the superstructure) gets minimized into just "the can" by itself because the iterator gets a bit Too into seeing the puppet as their personification/self, to the point that they start to view That only as them despite their superstructure being alright. this results in one of the many kinds of madness an iterator can fall into - basically the cabin fever amped up, with their literal body causing them this mental decline

i've a post in my drafts for like over a month now that's just me playin with the iterator designs a bit more n the main thought is basically

umbilical ARM taken literally

[puppyeared]

How'd Augusta end up being radioactive? :o

A second chance.

// suicidal themes below

Augusta originally worked as a part time astronaut at a Star Depot, which collected star Fragments and sent them back to earth to be used as fuel similar to nuclear power.

Augusta wasn’t really in a good place at the time while working there. She never had any kind of big ambition in life and wanted to live life peacefully, but knew that “getting by” isn’t enough for her to survive. People around her kept expecting so much of her that she didn’t know what to tell them.

Working as an astronaut helps take her mind off things at first, but then she starts to feel worse. She doesn’t get invited out to things, but she doesn’t really make any effort to try, and relatives are asking how she’s doing and she doesn’t know what to tell them without it turning into a lecture. and over time it piles up

First she starts asking for more shifts handling and shipping the stars. Then she asks to do overtime. And finally one day she finds a tiny Fragment on the floor.

The thing about Fragments is that they change your body and can make you very sick if youre near them for too long.

Tomorrow would be a holiday and the building would be closed. The Shift manager, who promised to close up, left early for drinks with coworkers. So she was the only employee working.

So she picks up the star and swallows it expecting to die. But instead her hair turns pink and the dust around her floats, and when she breathes no air comes out. The Star fused to her body and latched to her heart.

Basically, her suicide attempt gave her her own way to live and pink hair as a bonus lol

Here’s what her hair looked like before and after The Incident <3

[nikothebookdragon]

google how do I turn off my mind

[agueforts]

hey did you know being disabled affects your ability to do things. fucked up if true

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 27

"Long Time Gone" by The Chicks

[sneeb-canons]

Headcanon #46: Soul has pains aren't all that painful, but they are more frequent. Mainly having to deal with joint pain, especially in his hands & knees. Sometimes wearing compression gloves/sleeves. {On really REALLY bad days, he'll use his trident to help him walk or stand up for a while}

And on Heart & Minds worst days, he can vaguely feel their headaches/heartaches as well.

[orchdaries]

(  bts' min yoongi/suga ,  cismale , he/him  )    : ̗̀➛   thirty-two years young , a non-bender from the noble house of seok . many know them to be pragmatic & self-interested . how unfortunate , truly … i’ve always found them to be dedicated & perceptive . they oft fulfill the duties of minister of finance . oh , i should tell you — they are impartial to the rule of house yi . well , you know how every storyteller bends the tale they tell .   ✶   sky , +21 , she/they  .

and here i am once again but this time with lord seok taesung! he's the oldest child of house seok and a non-bender! was a little conscious over his non bending status for a while when growing up because it was a issue for more people than it should matter to that he was the oldest child of a great house and a non-bender (even went to the battlefield for a while to prove himself). now he works as the minister of finance, which means he oversees the nation's bank and that's how he firmed himself as the next head of house seok (as of right now anyway)! as usual more info under the cut + plot ideas!

seok taesung. non-bender & minister of finance. had some issues during his younger years about being a non-bender but now he honestly doesn't care for it, even more so when it doesn't make a difference in his field whether or not he bends fire.

has always had a good instinct for business + put a lot of work on his studies of finances and business administration/management and was known as touch of gold even as late teenager because every business that he touched/managed turned into a huge success. his parents not really cutting him any slack since he needed to prove he was someone competent to "make up" for his lack of bending skills.

has had a dozen and a half business in a variety of areas but delegated or sold them to thirty parties at some point or another to pursue something else, or even because he got too busy to manage them properly; yet he still offers advice (that ofc comes with a 💰) for some of them and and collects money from others as a minor partner/trustee sort of thing.

developed a little of a inferiority complex for a while because of his non bender status— even got himself in the military a little later than most people do but still moved up ranks considerably fast because he's the type to make sure he'll excel in whatever he puts himself to do. he never bribed any officials/superiors but can't deny nor confirm whether the weight of his house, even if they aren't a military family, influenced the decision of his promotions.

but then after [redacted] incident that got him the scar he carries over his left eye, he was put into more administrative duties and not long after that he was picked as the new minister of finance.

is good at combat, especially with a sword, and is more than capable of defending himself but he doesn't particularly enjoys it.

even though he does carry the characteristic charisma that his family is known for, he still can be quite intimidating to approach at first glance because of his rbf always serious expression; he does soften it up a little when someone talks to him though.

has a very uptight posture regarding his work/business which could also explain why people are a little intimidated around him (even more so if they worked or still work together), but is much more carefree during his scarce free time and when it's topics non related to work.

isn't really against any unofficial loan system but he always makes sure to not let mix it with his governmental duties and those are usually done under house seok's name and/or with his private earnings.

very pragmatic and practical to the point that he might sound cold/cruel sometimes? even if he's still very level-headed and there are lot of reasonable/rational arguments to the decisions that he makes, they should still be taken with a grant of salt sometimes, even more so when the only interest that he puts above his own are his business/his house and only because his interests are always for the best for his business/his house.

that's why he doesn't hold very strong feelings over house yi even as a part of the government. as long as they're useful for his house then he doesn't mind them sort of thing. he won't tolerate slander of the royal family but he won't vehemently defend them to his last breath either.

can be pretty detached to the people around him that he doesn't think are useful to him or caught his attention in some way because, for better or worse, he sees the world as a big business and if he doesn't see anything worth of his attention on you then he won't care for you past minimal cordiality.

still can be pretty intense with the people he actually takes a liking to? sort of will die and kill, set the nation on fire for them sort of thing. is extremely loyal to his family and is willing to sacrifice a lot if not everything for them, but is still a little awkward in showing affection.

like the type of person who will willingly lit go through hell and live in it for the rest of their days if that means that the people he loves will be happy.

wanted connections

childhood/teenage friends ! considering he's from house seok, i imagine that he had a lot of playdates when younger that could've developed into genuine friendship or they might've drifted apart at some point or another and are trying to reconnect now. someone rivals from back then could be fun too! they being annoyed that even as a non-bender taesung was good at pretty much everything and he found the way you got riled up for (in his opinion) nothing very entertaining.

arranged engagement ! he's +30 y/o and the oldest child of a great noble house so i can see that he already has something arranged or maybe this is a little deal with him and someone so their parents/family will leave them alone because honestly taesung isn't very interested in romance at the moment and unless the ✨right person✨ shows up (either someone he holds affection for or because house seok would really benefit from their union), i don't see him ever being interested in it help KSDHJKJ

military camaraderie ! someone that was the same unit as him in the military and they became close! or even a subordinate that for some reason thinks fondly of him??? or subordinate that doesn't think so fondly of him??? maybe someone that didn't exactly get along with him at first but through hardships they warmed up to each other and became besties.

blurred lines ! someone that he gets along really really well. i'd say they're best friends (the platonic part being questionable at best), bordering on soulmates and their feelings for each other are a little ambiguous, even more so when they don't mind warming each other's bed from time to time.

(possible) business partners ! someone he worked with or offered advice to and he does think positively of them or even someone who wants to work with him or wants his advice but it's obvious he isn't willing to do neither so they try their best to convince him to do so?

a debt is a debt ! taesung takes debts (monetary or otherwise) very seriously and that's why he absolutely hates owing people and lowkey relishes when they owe him instead. maybe someone whom he owes a favor to and they hold it over his head more often than he would like because obviously they'll milk this as much as they can, or someone who owes him a favor and he has yet to find the best moment to cash it in which could be a little nervewrecking, i suppose?

again!! always open for brainstorming if nothing of this works out with your muse!!

[kirby-the-gorb]

[bonestrouslingbones]

btw what they dont tell you about socializing more & putting yourself out there more often is that after 3 days of doing so you will find yourself alone in your room in a perfect recreation of the family guy death pose

[ihavebrainworms]

if i do not find a job before the end of september i will most likely have to move back in with family down in florida for the first time in 5 years which is crazy

[waywardsalt]

fuck it, unedited snippet from an early early post-ph scene i decided to write one night