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[tallatonk]

I FINALLY UPDATED!!!

and there will be more updates coming soon! my hyperfixation died but im coming back to the fandom cuz hideduo never dies

id really appreciate it if you tell me what you think of the update :D

[author-talla]

The Wyrder Speaks to the Traveler

The pilgrim rested her feet, sitting on a convenient fallen tree by the shores of the Folbek river. Above her, through the vast canopy of Ellowari’s second-largest forest, was an ever-darkening sky. Paelam had planned on sleeping in Gravenholt that night, but that ship appeared to have sailed, taking the suns with it. One might ask, why rest her feet if haste was her goal? But the truth was her haste was all but spent from a long week on the trails and roads of the Free Territories. So it was that Paelam decided to make camp for the night.

…

She’d just got the fire going, and turned to fetch the last of her salted pork for dinner when Paelam heard a quiet voice:

“This one races the suns.”

The statement was so plain, so simple, she very nearly ignored it, but as she whirled around, grasping for her knife, Paelam saw a figure sitting across from her, the fire between them. It’s a person in a mask, or so she told herself, because the alternative was that the half-human, half-deer skull on the figure’s face was its natural appearance, and that was a disturbing thought. The mask was bone white, with two small holes drilled for unseen eyes, and a sigil burned into its forehead as if by a brand. The rest of the figure was obscured beneath oversized grey robes. Around its neck hung an amulet with a seven-pointed star on it. In the figure’s let hand was a long pipe, intricately carved out of some sort of white wood or bone, with three channels at its end that let out their own thin whisps of sweet-smelling smoke.

“Who are you? What do you want?”

Paelam rushed to her feet, her fatigue lost in a stew of adrenaline. Who could sneak up on her so quietly, and wear such a disturbing mask, if not a demon.

“No need for alarm. I am Talladar, a wyrder by trade. I wish only to share your fire and offer guidance on matters of prophecy.”

That voice… Eerily quiet, the mask unmoving, staring at her in the dim firelight. The figure lifted it’s gloved left hand in a placating gesture. Paelam sat once again, deciding the fire to be barrier enough to any approach from the strange figure.

“Well, Talladar, do you make a habit of sneaking up on lone travelers, or am I just lucky?”

“My apologies, traveler. Next tie I approach someone I shall make an effort to announce myself first. You are far from your home, tell me the purpose of your trip. “

Though she didn’t trust the creature before her, Paelam felt herself compelled to answer by those soft, quiet words.  “I’m from Kavekta, south of here, I’m on my Dae pilgrimage to Falthreach. I was supposed to stay the night in Gravenholt tonight, but clearly I overestimated my speed.”

“A pilgrimage? To Falthreach? What a peculiar purpose, for one of Humoro’s. Tell me, what Kavektan tradition do you follow that brings you so far from home?” Paelam raised an eyebrow, though she knew better than to divulge her business to a stranger such as this, she didn’t know who this “Humoro” was, Paelam answered,

“It is a test, of sorts, few fail, but if I can make it there and pray for a week before my return, I will earn my robes. Who is Humoro?” The Wyrder raised its head slightly, as if surprised by her inquiry.

“Ah, the first real answer, a question. Traveler, Humoro is more than we have time for me to explain to you tonight, but for our purposes, you are Humoro, your fellow Kavektans are Humoro, the people of Gravenholt are Humoro, even those boatfolk of Inksea are Humoro.” Talladar spoke of Humoro like a person and a group, and with an air of familiarity. The Wyrder took a long drag on its pipe, releasing more of the sweet-smelling smoke from the ends. The pipesmoke mixed with that of the fire between them, forming strange shapes in the cloud that rose from the small clearing. Talladar produced a small wooden bowl from inside its robes, and dropped a single black stone into it. “Paelam. You have travelled far to be denied. A disappointing end to your story would’ve transpired tonight, but we shall see.”

It shook the bowl, rattling the stone as if mixing a soup, then swirling it such that the stone skidded around the inside edge. At some point, Paelam’s eyes lost focus on the stone, and she noticed, with surprise, that a second, white stone had joined it.

“How did you do that?”

“Patience,” the stranger chided, “This is work you know.”

Talladar then upended the bowl, casting both stones into the fire. The white stone appeared to fall, joining the coals at the bottom of the fire, while the black stone caught fire, and burned away to nothing. The wyrder clutched its amulet for a moment, speaking four words in a vile, unknowable tongue that made Paelam’s scalp crawl, and her throat itch. Witchcraft permeated the air. With that, Talladar restored the bowl to its place within its robes, and stood abruptly.

Alarmed, Paelam called out, “Wait! Why did you come? Why are you here?”

Paelam felt suddenly very unsure of the darkness around her as the strange creature disappeared in the opposite direction.

…

In the morning, Paelam found Gravenholt. The buildings were smashed inward, their valuables looted, the beams blackened from a recent fire that had been quenched in the light morning rain. Something terrible had befallen Gravenholt.

[captain-talla]

Ellowari is a land of light and darkness. Small towns dot the vast plains and mesas to the northeast of the world. The sun shines brightly in the summer, allowing farms a bounteous harvest. Even in the brightest of days however, the entities that reside beyond the veil of reality threaten these lands. The people live spread out unlike anywhere else. The largest cities rival the smallest of Lemunian settlements. This land is not without industry however, as it is this place where the Barring gun was invented by the order of inquisition. The towns are an insular sort.

Because of the dispersed nature of the region, Ellowarians have nearly a thousand different cultures.

EDIT: Ellowari is a name for both the people, Ellowarians, and the region of Wellki where they reside.

[quiche-draws]

My Secret Santa 2024 gift for @apricity-writes!!

Based on her fic "Love You Better" (chapter 19), an unplanned pregnancy AU that takes place four years after NEMESIS but with all the great angst and softness and (apparently!) happy ending! Give it a read! Talla is absolutely adorable!

Please do not repost! Reblog only!

[maple-tree-hills]

This is what Dionysius is like right? I've only read book 1.

Dionysius: I care about all the campers. -looks at smuggled writing on his hand- Peter Johnson, Annabelle Paste, Nick Angel, Lice Cast a Villian, Jaceon Pace, Talla Peace, Roger Undergrove, Claritin the Rules, Tiger Mr. Clean, Tank Tang, Theo Palpez, Pill Shoelaces, Ray Shell, and Haybell Levelcue.

[igglemouse]

YEP!

So that SOTD was a little different. I was going to write more but wanted to sleep on it, so you know I'm up to my now usual mischief and chaos.

My Bday is tomorrow! This is big news because usually since my bday is early in the year I re-evaluate my new years resolutions and I guess that includes ones for my simblr.

The thing is. I started this legacy around October and despite going at the fastest pace I possibly can (I don't have as much free time as I used to) it's still so far away like...Gen 2 would be starting years from now literally at my pace. And thats if everything goes perfectly fine, i take no breaks or RL doesn't slow me down which is impossible nowadays. It would have been impossible to finish a generation this year unless I could freeze time and unfortunately I can't do this!

So to keep this post short-ish. I'm reinventing myself. I want to take the wise advice of a dear friend whose simblr I adore who suggested I focus on one heir.

I went from 5 to 3....I'm not sure how I even did 5 and I was progressing through them better, guess I just had more time then.

I thought this legacy would be THE chosen one. I was very excited to continue it but at the same time like...yeah...it's partly why I took a break the start of this month. I burned myself out trying to up the pace and it didn't help I was sick for a little too.

So what I want to do is something new and change the style, change my own person expectations. If it's better I'll continue with it and we'll see how things are paced and we'll go from there.

As for Maria, Talla, Araceli...they are on pause right now. I have some ideas on how to continue things with them but I want to see how things play out with this new idea.

For those that continue to go along these crazy rides with me and stick with me each time, seriously thank you! I know when it comes to legacies on here its rare any get finished so I shouldn't feel bad to potentially end another one but I still do every time especially because it's been years since I've actually finished a single generation so I do apologize for hyping you all up again for not much of anything.

But hey, maybe I'll actually finish a generation this year!? That's still the goal even if it isn't the one I started the year with again 😭

I've posted thousands of posts over the years and these are always the hardest to post...

[historia-vitae-magistras]

🎮 🎻 🚫 🍔 for my north american trio

🎮 VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER — what are three of your OC's favourite hobbies?

Mari - I've always had a very enlightenment-era baby intellectual bent to her. So, reading and participating in literary culture and criticism over time returned to Juana Inés de la Cruz. There's a mix of her old-school education and folk culture in her love and talent for art. She's got a real knack for beekeeping, too.

Alfred - Lives and dies by his love of math and engineering; he was getting twitchy with the lack of Calculus right before Isaac Newton got on that shit finally, so he became an eternal tinkerer. He loves a good drive and a sky-watching session.

Matt - Woodworking, gardening, hiking.

🎻 VIOLIN — does your oc play any instruments? What is their skill level (beginner/intermediate/advanced/virtuoso/etc)?

In childhood, Maria played the vihuela and baroque guitar and later picked up the bajo de uña and the resulting base guitar. I don't know why I associate her with a drumset, but I like that mental image for some reason, too. She's excellent on all of them.

Alfred is one of those types who skipped from hobby to hobby to hobby as a child and has picked up practically every instrument at some point or another. He played the fucking church organ sometimes, especially when he was feeling weird about religion.

Matt - He's pretty goddamn good on a fiddle, and he can hold a tune, but most of his music is meant for some type of work and the folk scenes are pretty disparate so it's kind of hard to nail down a specifically Canadian musical instrument that hasn't been by and large surpassed by the US.

🚫 PROHIBITED — does your oc drink/smoke? Do they do it regularly, or is it more on occasion or for special events?

Mari - She does mostly beer with some harder alcohol, I think. Not very high consumption; she strikes me as more of a social drinker on special occasions. She can party, but I think she has some pretty hard limits on anything more than the very mainstream.

Alfred - He flies between teetotaller and binge drinker, like that with most things. He can go years with just drinking, but my man likes his stimulants, alas. But the very functional kind. He can

Matt - He would rather not be sober in general.

🍔 HAMBURGER — is your oc good at cooking? are they good at baking? Which one do they prefer?

Mari is pretty good at both but doesn't do it as much as people might think. She's been a very urbanized society for a very long time and various kinds of communal cooking. She knows the best places for Pescado a la talla or who makes the best tlacoyos in the tianguis nearest her primary home but all over the place. I don't know if she'd prefer one or the other. A thought I had is that some of her best cooking exploits are for herself. She participates in a communal culture where cooking and baking are the realm of women in many ways, so being alone in the kitchen and experimenting with her own arroz con leche or barbacoa varieties is an almost self-care ritual she holds.

Alfred - Def more of a cook than a baker. He can bake when he wants to; it's just following the steps of a recipe, but he could be more motivated by domestic things for their own sake. He will cook and bake when people are over, and people are often surprised at the quality of what makes it onto the table. He can eat seven-layer salad and jello monstrosities at a Southern or Midwest table or pull out a Napa Valley salad and wine pairing much to the ire of the old world. Food is one of the few things his hyper-individualism has yet to completely destroy.

Matt - Surprisingly good baker and cook, but not really anything anyone would write home about. Except maybe bread, he bakes a lot of bread and has had a freakishly high consumption of it since the 18th century, so archeologists can tell the bones from the New Englanders who ate a lot more corn. Not exactly internationally renowned for anything except poutine and weed scones, though, rest in pieces. If you've ever eaten anything you thought was pretty good at the time but will never ever think about again, that's Matt in the kitchen, except when he busts out the rye bread but even then no one will really believe he made it.

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[witch-oftheflowers]

I'll update as I go!

🔞- smut or violence.

🌟- dark fic

Besides that, everything will mostly be fluff writing. I do have TW in the beginning of my stories!

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Cat Girl!(Price and Ghost)

How the boys react to alters?{Ghost and Marc}

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MASTER COD LIST

Dribbles AUs: multiple AUs!

Ramble Idea (Blue Collar AU)

Daily Life (Blue Collar AU)

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Before

Welcome In

Forbidden

Opera Love

Before It All

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Introductions

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Molly Introduction

A Start

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🪐Star Wars ✨

Beyond The Stars

Peaceful

Talla

🌌Loki🌟

Destruction

Meet Us?

Scared

Future

[love4-bunny]

Hey hi i am absolutely obsessed on your power swap au, have you been thinking of writing/ drawing something?

Btw! Could you tell us more about it? Is anything you have in that amazing head of yours that wasn't shared yet? Because i am personally going insane over somethings!!!

Like, does Saiki somehow discover her powers? If yes, how?

Does Teruhashi, our beloved, try to take attention out of him to try and make him like her?

How does she start to like him? You said he fell first??? How???? Shut i love this AU, if you want to write, i am all for it

Anon cuz i am kinda shy

-Talla

Thank you, you are sweet 🌷. I made a post about it and don't plan to draw at least until I have the want to do it. I want to write something now that people liked the idea, in fact, I have other Au that I was writing for the sake of it. I am not exactly in fandoms spaces actively so maybe people don't see him the way that I see him, but that's the fun, doesn't it? Don't worry about the anon, is fine with me while is not mean things. (Twitter war flashbacks jajajaj)

[oimoi-op]

Rewatching The Orville rn (I'm on "Mad Idolatry"), and I know this has been talked about with media many times, but it's annoying how many sci-fi series create entire planets that have only one culture and/or religion. I understand that's it's simpler from a writing standpoint, and there's some logic behind the idea that worlds capable of space travel would be less culturally diverse due to the sheer amount of energy they'd have to produce, but every single world having one planet-wide culture just seems unlikely, especially when humans are often portrayed as still having different cultures that just adhere to some "universal" societal norms.

With Kandar 1 in "Mad Idolatry," this isn't too much of an issue in my opinion as the themes being explored require a singular planet-wide culture, but the series' depiction of alien worlds and cultures overall isn't too different: all Krill follow the Ankhana and believe in Avis, all (male) Moclans are run by the same patriarchal government and uphold the same cultural norms, etc., whereas humans still have different cultures (as implied in "Command Performance," when John makes a joke about how white guys "can go to Compton long as the black guy says it's cool" that Alara, being Xeleyan, doesn't get). There are still intra-planetary cultural conflicts, like female Moclan activists vs. the male Moclan society and like the Reformers vs. the followers of the Dorahl religion in "If the Stars Should Appear," but these are still very black-and-white struggles with only two well-established sides that you don't often find in the real world (there are many different subsets of feminism, the Protestants had split into many different groups shortly after the Reformation, etc.).

I don't think every alien world should just be a re-skinned Earth, obviously, but I think this trend weakens the writing's effectiveness. The Krill don't stand out as much (outside of being very religious) when they're just as culturally homogenous as almost every other major alien species in the series. The show still has hints of diverse cultures on a single planet (e.g. Talla's entire family is said to pursue military careers while Alara's family looks down on that career path, showing not all Xeleyans fall into the latter mindset), but these are few and far in between.

I just think it would be more interesting and compelling if these alien cultures were depicted as more diverse within their own planet's norms. Like, what if the Krill had other religions? What if there was active ideological conflict between adherents of Avis? The series in general is critical of organized religion (totally fine creative choice, especially for a Star Trek homage—Roddenberry himself wanted TOS to be more critical of religion), but all depictions of religion are portrayed as homogenous and comparable to Roman Catholicism's imperialistic history specically, such as when Admiral Ozawa literally uses the term "holy crusade" when talking about the Krill's religion. The criticisms, then, feel somewhat hollow as there aren't diverse depictions of religion whereas in the real world there are countless different faiths and belief systems even within the same religions.

Again, I get that part of this trend comes from a desire to keep the writing simpler so that it doesn't become convoluted, but the flaws are hard for me to ignore. Hopefully the show gets renewed and that, in future seasons, the writers explore this more.

[rhysintherain]

Alien members of the Orca's crew react to watching Independence Day

Raiissan: attention glued to the screen in abject horror. "THIS is what the invasion was like??" Isaac has to very gently explain that this is a fictional story from before the invasion, and that from what he's heard, the real invasion was somehow both scarier and way more boring.

Zeth: thinks it's hilarious. Somehow already knows who Jeff Goldblum is.

Olivander: very confused by the concept of fiction. Keeps asking very technical questions about the alien biology. Michele frustratedly tries to explain that it's for FUN, not scientific accuracy.

Talla: critiques the humans' strategies for repelling alien invaders (since she's the only one who's ever repelled alien invaders in real life). The rest of the crew are a bit worried Olivander will be offended, but they join in, completely unconcerned that they were the alien invaders Talla was repelling.

Adran: frantically writing notes for a paper on science fiction and cultural insecurities in late 20th century Earth cinema. Has an outline, introduction, and 2-page bibliography by the time the credits roll.

Melanie: falls asleep in the first 20 minutes. Her family watched Independence Day every independence day. Neither Melanie or her parents seem to understand why that might be considered tone deaf when your adopted daughter is a literal alien.

I've seen several cases where people are like "what happens if we meet aliens, and then they see Independence Day or War of the Worlds?"

But nobody seems to think about what happens when the aliens see Star Trek.

The aliens are gonna see these shows made by a bunch of humans but they put putty on some of the humans to make them look like what we think aliens might look like, and we told stories about how those aliens would be our friends and we'd explore the universe with them and find more aliens and try to be friends with them too!

Yeah sometimes they'd be mean and we'd fight but we'd always try to avoid it and even if we fought we'd try to be friends later.

We basically created 900 episodes of a child's drawing of a stick figure of a human and a stick figure of a grey alien holding hands and "best friends" written in crayon.

[tallatonk]

Alone. He always ends up alone. From waking up to nothing but corpses to finally going home to see his son gone and the love of his life dead. He started his journey trapped on 2b2t and finishes it back there. He should have listened when he was told to never form attachments because now as he sits on a hill, with a rose bush behind him and his sons goggles sat on his head, he regrets everything and nothing at all. Alone he sits, finally letting tears shed, missing his family and friends. Missing an island that was so cruel yet so comforting. A place he thought he could finally call home. But the loneliness always wins. He always ends up alone.

[author-talla]

Do you ever wonder what's behind a mirror? Most of us would just assume that it's the wall and move on, but have you ever really looked in the mirror, and seen past it? I can tell you, it's not wall on the other side. If you've ever looked through the mirror, you should know that what's on the other side can see through too.

Heed my words: dispose of your mirrors the proper way, take them off your wall and remove the back, render them merely glass. No not allow windows to become doors, because for the most adventurous and dangerous, the two are one and the same.

[captain-talla]

In the mountains to the south, the priest-monks of the Garrisi people are integral to the culture.

The smiths forge armor of blue steel, which before being worn must be blessed with the red painted sigils to be sure of the antimagical properties of the steel.

Farmers consult the monks about where to put new fields for better harvests, lest the goddess Visya abandon their fields to rot.

Warriors often visit the monasteries to pray for greater prowess to defend their lands.

Seldom do the Garrisi leave their lands, though when they do the people of Lemunia and of Ellowari tend to be welcoming, even despite the religious differences the Lemunians have with them. The Mariners of Inksea tend to scoff at the spirituality of the Garrisi, but accept their coin all the same.

[swallowtail-lotus]

📷 Qin Shi Huang!

🍫 I like both, but chocolate for me

✨ Not many. Irl it's Talla, Mudda (My grandmother calls me that) and Myrisan on the internet

🎵I LOVE YOU SO (Yung Kage, Isaacwhy and Yumi)

✏️ The answer should be obvious haha (Yes-)

😏 Yeah...

💛 I had piercings when I was 11, but not anymore.

🐰 Actions and words

🍪 idk really... Maybe a choc chip biscuit?? (I call them biscuits)

🐶 Definitely a cat person!

🎧 Earbuds

🌼 "I'm gonna go to sleep..."

🙃 ... Idk if this is completely true, but dolphins often cut off the heads of fish and use them the same way some guys use the sock under the bed (I'm sorry)

🦉 A night owl for sure.

🧸 My bed

🏳️‍🌈 I'm bisexual, so yeah.

🦋 Secretly plotting chaos

👖 Sweatpants

🥤I never went to Starbucks and I don't think I have it where I live 🤷

🧡 I don't know, bright pink I think???

💎 My squishmallow cat plush

☕ Tea

🦖 Tasmanian Tiger

🌙 I don't know tbh... Maybe 3 years??

🌴 Knife I guess???

🐸 idk, maybe casual mixed with comfy?

🔮 Comic artist or singer

💙 Single :D

🌿 Long sleeve shirt, black shorts and socks.

🎤 Endless Possibilities and Monsters

🤎 Black

💌 Yes...

💄Only on special occasions

🌸 I don't know if this counts, but it's when my mom made that thing where you write a word or name vertically and write down words that match with the letters. My mom put down a bunch of positive words that she thinks describes me. That actually made me cry from happiness.

💞 @rukia-writes, @amphitriteswife, @das-jaim3, @buddhascandy, @riseofamoonycake, @monochrome-cropcrown,

~ 💖 ASK GAME 💖 ~

📷 What’s set as your phone’s lockscreen?

🍫 Cheese or chocolate?

✨ Do you have any nicknames?

🎵 Last song you listened to?

✏️ Have you ever written fanfiction?

😏 Are you on discord?

 💛 Do you have any piercings?

🐰 What do you think says the most about a person?

🍪 If you were a cookie, what kind would you be?

🐶 Are you more of a dog person or a cat person?

🎧 Headphones or earbuds?

🌼 What’s the last thing you said out loud?

🙃 What’s a weird fact that you know?

🦉 Are you a morning person or a night owl?

🧸 Favorite place to nap?

🏳️‍🌈 Are you a member of the LGBTQIA+ community?

🦋 Describe yourself in three words.

👖 Jeans or sweatpants?

🥤 What’s your go-to Starbucks order?

🧡 A color you can’t stand?

💎 What’s your most prized possession?

☕ Coffee or tea?

🦖 Favorite extinct animal?

🌙 How long have you been on tumblr?

🌴 Desert island item?

🐸 Describe your aesthetic.

🔮 What’s your dream job?

💙 Relationship status?

🌿 Describe your favorite outfit.

🎤 Is there a song you know all the lyrics to?

🤎 What color is your hair?

💌 Do you talk to yourself?

💄 Do you wear makeup?

🌸 Best compliment you ever received?

💞 @ your favorite blog.

Reblogs are appreciated!

[igglemouse]

Song of the Day!

More Talla tomorrow!

I think I might be out of my slump at least when it comes to writing and being creative. Well, I'll be honest, I feel like I've been a slump with it for like a whole year...

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ~ Maya Angelou