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''The world is cold and lonely...'' Part 3/4 Part 1 Part2 Part4

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some sketches from this week!

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danbert sketches

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uh oh

also change my yuus outfit www

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Family for day 6 of SpeSilverWeek! Edition uuh found biological and crime I guess...

[vigilskeep]

Do we know enough about how Crow succession and talonship works to believe it would be possible for Viago to take the seat of first talon either through some sort of non-violent coup in the absence of an heir to house Dellamorte or through marrying his kid (rook) off to Lucanis? Asking because I really don't know and would love to write something in that direction...and you seem a crow enthusiast...also love your blog

THEORETICALLY. yes.

we haven’t seen the talons shift directly, but they do shift, with regularity. house arainai was first talon in living memory and then fell slowly downwards to their current point where they’re struggling in and out of eight talon like a drowning man who keeps finding his way to air for just enough breath

the eight talons system, if you’ll allow me the tangent, is a really fascinating choice of fantasy hierarchy because it is such a clear hierarchy. among a bunch of ambitious killers whose prime goal is notoriety. you can only hold each position here if everyone below you is too afraid to do anything about it. what an anxiety trip it must be to decide whether to push someone down just one rung or to try to destroy them entirely; do you want to leave your rival with more opportunity or more motivation? but crow power is also all about theatre, all about perception—you are first or fifth or seventh talon primarily because everyone agrees that you are—so making a failed gambit for a higher talon has got to be incredibly damaging. which is a risky setup. it discourages attempts, but when someone does make an attempt, they will not be fucking around

anyway ignore all that we’re talking about soft takeovers today. okay so house dellamorte has a dying core family, theoretically. we’re making the assumption that no surviving young children from any branch of the family are mentioned because none exist. we have two heirs, neither very acceptable (my apologies to caterina’s delusions), both men in their 30s with (again, assumed) no children, and neither making much progress in that regard. (arguably dependent on player choice when it comes to lucanis, but since he can fall in love with and express his undying devotion to any kind of rook, we can at least say he’s not making that much effort.) within a generation the core family may die out. but that is a LONG TIME to wait. you still have to deal with the current ones, they’re pretty robust

lucanis is the current first talon as of the end of veilguard. can he be convinced to give this up and hand first talon over to someone better suited? i do believe it. mostly because i need to believe, for my mental health, that we can get him out of there. but he also now has a fairly bulky support system full of people who love him and will notice how bad this is going to be and convince him he deserves things like a life he doesn’t hate

as always your main problem is caterina. caterina is not going to allow a takeover, soft or otherwise, while she is still alive. caterina didn’t give up first talon when they murdered her children. there’s probably an emotional plot in here where she can be made to accept what she’s done to her family, far too late, but with time left to save just one by letting him go. on the other hand, i’ve also been experimenting with plots in my mind where she tries to quietly get rid of viago or romanced rook for having too much influence, with the added benefit on hopefully being able to steel & refocus lucanis on defending the house against whoever she frames. or plots where she blames lucanis trying to leave and not being the boy she remembers on his, you know, demonic possession, and attempts to forcibly remove or destroy spite. so. there’s potential ups and downs, here.

i don’t know how helpful rook de riva/lucanis is. most of your problem here is that everything that sets this ending up by giving the de rivas more power, and by giving any rook more power over lucanis, is something that in my mind would crank caterina’s wariness all the way up. house de riva surely has to move up from fifth already after the events of the game and look more like a contender, and i don’t think even caterina’s delusions about lucanis’ suitability for first talon could make her blind to the effect rook can obviously have. i definitely think she would delay on a marriage and have the power to do that

i think it’s worth saying that rook de riva at any point bringing up to lucanis the idea of handing things over to viago would be a hell of a conversation. i know lucanis never remotely suspects rook of any agenda and trusts them completely, and i know i agree with rook here, but you’ve GOT to see how “i love you and having power is bad for you and what you should do is hand it all over to my talon” sounds. i truly could not blame him for a bit of doubt here especially if caterina was around to suggest it

sorry this is a completely messy and disconnected response. i don’t even know if i had a point. you might have to wait for caterina to actually die? is that my point? i can see rook de riva/lucanis being helpful to ease a transition of power to house de riva then. i also think it’s worth pointing out that teia might be the better contender for all this out of the two lovebirds. what quietly makes teia probably the most dangerous talon in the crows, if she ever chose to be, is that everyone likes her. i’m not joking or trying to handwave crow politics, it’s a form of soft power and the result of her cultivated skill that nobody ever suspects teia of anything. even caterina treats her gently, and literally a talon who tried to murder all the others in tevinter nights was delaying murdering her because she was his favourite. if anyone can handle a gentler transition like what we’re talking about, maybe it’s more likely to be teia

[andro-beaurepaire]

Fighting the artblock, one (very) self indulgent sketch at a time.

[mephoj]

late night chat

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day 48367 of blue hydrangeas domestic life au being my most favorite au everrr… we’re going shopping!!! ^_^

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[iknowwhereyousnoozeatnight]

this one's for all the yuri enjoyers out there — nsft under cut

meronia event prompt(s): scar

[maidomaidomaido]

I WAS IN A HURRY SORRY GUYS BUT I HAVE TO SLEEP

[galactaknightyaoi]

im thinking tomorrow i could drop a compilation of bunch of my traditional galabrother drawings. they're not particularly high quality but there's plenty of them

[eremin0109]

Not to dunk on the worst of evil on the eve of its finale but like gurl, you could never be the absolute whoreslut that is evilive.

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OC Updates

— Edward and Harriet Radcliffe have new faceclaims: Will Tilston and Florence Hunt. Also, Edward and Harriet are the second set of twins instead of Ian and Edward.

— Also thinking that Henri and Ben have a fraught relationship as the Descendants movies go on. Henri can’t exactly forgive Mal for enchanting his brother, even if it turned out okay in the end. Henri’s whole life as had been turned into a whole “your mission is to support Ben” thing. Also, Ben in this ‘verse is short for Benoit.

— So, I’ve decided to rework the Ballard family a bit and now Aurelia Ballards is 25 when they arrive in Stars Hollow in s2. Aurelia also technically has custody of Delaney, Clay, and Gregory as their mother went off to wallow with her sister after their father’s arrest and subsequent conviction. Thus, it’s just the four Ballard kids trying to figure shit out. Aurelia gets hired by Luke and she’s a shit waitress but she’s trying. And Clay and Delaney try to fight their sister’s parental authority and really just there as support for Gregory.

— Also thinking that maybe Gregory has a chaotic friendship (maybe turned romantic) thing with one of Levi Powell’s siblings, Kevin or Maddie.

[stormyoceans]

100 plots are waiting for you. Do you want to elaborate on the topic of murders in a closed school?

I DO MISS MY VERY BAD ATTEMPTS AT THE 100 JIMMYSEA SERIES

i actually did try to come up with a vague plot inspired by the elle photoshoot here, but im not too convinced about it tbh, it just feels very predictable and unoriginal ;;;;;;; i do find the boarding school murder mystery subgenre really fascinating tho, and i know the setting gets linked a lot to ya literature and dark academia, which don't have a very good reputation, however i think there are elements of it that are so interesting if done right, like the school also being a home, the characters’ isolation from the real world, the hierarchical structure and the inevitable rebellions against the teacher and clashes between students that come with it, the unorthodox education, the knowledge of a dark past that lurks amidst the hallways........

that's why i was very into home school the first few episodes, because i still really love the idea of a boarding school where wealthy and privileged parents send their (most of the times) unwarrantedly-labeled 'bad kids', the ones who have fallen from grace or embarrassed their rich families by partaking in some behavior that violates those families' social mores. and i wasn't much into what turned out to be the mystery in the show, nor do i know how would i like to change it for that matter, but i would LOVE a series like this for jimmysea and namtanfilm

like you have the very first episode with, say, jimmy being the new student and coming to this school which is a small society with already very defined groups he does not care to fit in. he dodges namtan's flirting, he shares the same space as film but they don't really talk because she is just like him, he clashes with sea, and during their fight the viewers find out that the school is just a place for the rejected and the unwanted ('you act like you're so much better than everybody else, but you're just trash that was abandoned by your parents like the rest of us'). and the thing is, the students don't really know why the others are there. like some are easier to guess than others, but no one knows for sure, and you have kids who are there just because they're different than what their parents wanted them to be, and there are kids who are there because they robbed a place, or were involved in a drug case, or even murdered someone, and their parents bought off the police and then sent them there to get rid of them

and so when the murders start to happen inside the school, it makes sense for the students to start investigating, because their parents don't care about them, the teachers don't care about them, the police doesn't care about them, if they're dead society just thinks 'good riddance', so if they want to survive they're the ones who need to do something about it

AND THIS IS SO UNNECESSARILY LONG WHILE ALSO SAYING NOTHING AT ALL IM SHUTTING UP NOW

[aq2003]

daily affirmations: i will be totally sane and not pretentious about a show i have only watched 4 seasons out of like 39 and known for 2 months. i will not think to myself, "you don't understand it like i do" whenever i see some crazy ass take about ten particularly the "i could do so much more" scene or his regeneration scene. i will not get mad and start typing essays about him in my tumblr drafts only for me to look at them a day later and delete them out of embarrassment. i will be be totally sane and not pretentious