#thank you bestie <3333

[vexic929]

Merry early Christmas! Commissioned from Halcifer on Ko-Fi .

ahhhhh omg they look so cute!!!!!! this is so sweet, thank you! <3333

[creacherkeeper]

1, 3 & 20 for bo!

what is their coffee shop order?

hot chocolate and a muffin <33 he thinks coffee is icky

3. would/do they know how to drive a car? are they/would they be good at it?

he absolutely does not :D he's tried but simply it makes his tummy hurt he gets so overwhelmed and scared and just pulls over to switch after like three minutes. he's used to walking a lot at the park so when he's in the city he just walks places. but he can drive a golf cart!! lmao

20. describe one of your favourite rp moments with this character

i loooved the post-savannah fight morality debate because it was a fun Stretch for me i personally am like they should all be allowed to maim and kill but bo is so so lawful good so like. him actually sticking up for what he thinks and really getting to explore his moral core and talk through it with the squad was super fun

[narsh-poptarts]

rivals to enemies to friends speedrun 100% NMG

[singswan-springswan]

Hey friend! Hope you had a great Christmas!!

Tell me about some of your OCs that you've been thinking about lately!!

Omg BABE~

PERFECT EXCUSE TO POST THIS

[greg-montgomery]

dad!greg thoughts you ask??? 💕💕💓 him comforting your son or daughter after a nightmare 🥺 they scurry into your room in the middle of the night, clutching onto their favorite stuffed animal :(( waking greg up in near tears asking to sleep with the two of you since they’re so very scared 🥺😭

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

greg would be such a sweetheart about it!!!! your little sweetie runs immediately to their safe place which is wherever you and greg are 🥹 so just seconds after they wake up they’re next to your bed patting greg on the shoulder and they’re like “daddy i had a bad dream” 🥺🥺

and ofc greg wakes up super fast bc he’s really protective 🥹 and as soon as he sees tears down their cheeks he sits up and takes them in his arms 🥺

and when your baby asks “can i sleep with you here?” there’s not even a question he’s gonna say yes!! so he makes room between you for your kid to join 🥹🥹 and you’ve woken up too so you both give them cheek kisses 🤭🥰🥰🥰 and tickle them or say funny stuff to make them giggle and forget aaaaaall about their nightmare 🥺

your baby is the happiest baby in the world 🥺🥺

[hearts-hunger]

🌀you want to have a samdown🌀 you want to have a samdown so bad🌀

BETH WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THIS YOU ARE IN TIME OUT

[fuckmeyer]

I saw a post about racist Jasper stans bitching bc they’re not able to enjoy shitty J*sper content bc of tags or whatever lol and someone said: “What is there even to enjoy?”. I had to laugh and I thought if you bc it’s so true. Most Jasper content isn’t even that enjoyable. It’s mostly the same boring white-supremacist garbage that I’ve seen before; even the jalice stuff is played out.

The only J*sper content I enjoy is content where he is worshipping Maria, thinking about Maria, talking about Maria, loving Maria, doing anything for Maria tbh. Is that bad? XD I owe it to you and your writing! idk something about a 19/20 year old dumbass confederate falling madly in love with a native brown woman and literally seeing her as a god-like figure as she’s basically handing him his karma for his racist crimes sends me. Ppl act like he was this awesome person before Maria and that it’s her fault he’s gutter trash now with the C*llens but he was gutter trash BEFORE he met Maria. She honestly made him so much better, stronger and MUCH more interesting. She literally created the man these stans thirst over so much. She is the blueprint.

the thing anti-María Jalice stans don't get is, without María, you do not have Jasper. for everything Jasper is, María is the catalyst ❤️

canonically, all we know about Jasper Hale pre-change is 1) he was born in Texas, 2) faked his age to join the Confederate Army* where he became the youngest major in Texas, & 3) was persuasive

beyond that, María made Jasper into the man the fandom adores. you like that he's an empath? guess whose venom made him one. you like that he's a warmonger? guess whose war he fought for. you like that he has a troubled past? guess who put the trouble in it. you like that he's "soft" "empath" "baby" (tbh i don't see it but ok)? guess who made him want to be that way. you like that he's submissive to Alice? guess who broke him in first.

you want Jasper with Alice but wish the María era didn't exist? lol just say you want the hot faceless Confederate to get with the psychic Mississippian & go

as for me, MARÍA ALL DAY BAYBEEEEE

here we have a woman who has suffered all her life at the hands of colonizers. born "1800s or earlier," we can suppose she has firsthand experience with colonization (at least Napoleon's invasion) & lived through Mexico's War of Independence. i.e., she has a deep familiarity with what it means to have your way of life ripped from you by invaders. PLUS she was a victim of Benito's army in the Southern Vampire Wars; her entire coven including her mate was killed.

& despite her losses, she rallied to take back her land & drive out her oppressors. baseline, she is a strong, cunning, powerful indigenous woman with a deep love for her community and her people. HOT

now let's look at Jasper, a bright leader in the Civil War who suffered defeat at the hands of the Union army. yes, María changed him. but did she force him to stay? to go to war? the newborn vamp with the strength & speed to overcome a "grown" vamp chose not to do so. the empath with the power to make anyone disregard him chose not to use it. some say María was "abusive" & "manipulative," but few acknowledge that Jasper had a choice.

why didn't Jasper leave? because he's submissive to anyone more powerful than him. because he was a loser. because the Southern Vampire Wars gave him a second chance at victory. because "empath" or no, he wanted to play war & win.

that's what's compelling about Jasper/María. as wrong as Jasper was for fighting for the Confederacy, he believed he was fighting for the same thing as she. he saw his way of life destroyed by "invaders" & fought back. it's a sick & twisted parallel between oppressor & oppressed that becomes subverted as their relationship goes on... & one that can heal them both.

María's experience with colonizers gives her a visceral picture of what it means to be oppressed... but her relationship with Jasper gives her the victory & emotional reflection she needs to move on. Jasper's military training gives him the hunger & knowledge for war... but his "curse" of empathy provides him with the tools he needs to recognize & address the horrors of his problematic past & move on.

tbh, i find Jasper & María are perfectly suited for a delicious character-driven narrative. Maria's story is that of a traumatized indigenous woman on a path from colonization to decolonization, & the sacrifices & destruction she endures realize that vision. Jasper's story is that of a troubled man on the path from self-hate to self-love, & what it means to undo the societal teachings/traumas & forge a life of empathy & forgiveness.

& that is something Alice alone can never give Jasper.

tl;dr all hail Queen María

[sinhal]

Posting the Hal shelf :))))

I'm very happy with it, my favorite issues <333

[if-mirrormine]

I love gralex and the name has kind of grown on me but whenever I see it, I feel like it sounds like the name of a condom brand fhfjfj/hj. :'))

I do love it though, it's kind of corny but cute! ❤️❤️

The demo is super enjoyable btw!

[fluffypotatey]

I mean considering the whole Sun Wukong is a buddha canonly (JTTW, and like IRL folk Buddhists in various places worship him), yeah I can ses the death flags. The whole reincarnation theme and all.

Also, the whole symbolism of the Sexagenerary calendar and the four guardian beasts who are associated with the various directions, and just the idea that LBD and Nüwa were tied to massive amounts of change. There's something cooking.

there’s something FISHY going on here in Possum Springs— I mean, in Lego Monkie Kid

too many strings being bound together. so many connections going on 👀👀👀 i’m onto you lmk

[vexic929]

[poseiben]

it's so funny how i identify more with slurs and insults than i ever will with an actual named sexuality or gender identity. like bisexual no i'm just a dykefag. transgender no i'm a filthy transsexual tranny. bigender? no i'm a girlboy thanks

[widowshill]

louis edmonds candide SOOOO true

[sunriseverse]

Writing question! What's something you that you're really proud of how it came out? Like an emotion you're proud of how you put into words, or a complicated onomatopoeia, or something like that? These things always get overlooked in writing advice I've found but they're some of the things that make a story most memorable to me

hi adrian!!! thank you so much for the ask :)

i actually have........a lot of thoughts on things in my writing that i really like, embarrassingly enough. i don't think i'm the best writer, but i like to think what i do do, i do well. and emotions are one of those things! almost all of my writing is driven by emotion in some way or another, often as a primary motivation for character analysis and change. action-plot is something i both struggle with writing, and don't particularly enjoy—i write fanfic to muse on characterisations, and explore them in my own style, and one of the best anchors i've found for characterisation is emotion.

in my experience, most people are driven by emotion—be it the emotion itself, or something else that causes that emotion. in real life, this tends to get covered by a lot of other things, or mixed together with them, but with fiction, it's much easier, and narratively powerful, for me, to choose one or two emotions that drive a character and write them with that in mind. and, not to brag, i like to think that i am good at finding a canonical foundational emotion for characters, and building off of that. a lot of my writing comes from asking questions roughly in the format of "since i've noticed [x emotion] is a driving force for this character in canon/in this time period, how does that affect the way they interact with others/explain the reasons they make their canonical choices?" or "since i've noticed this character is driven by [x] emotion, what would happen if canon happened differently—how would they react to that?"

so, yeah! i love writing, and i love writing emotions, and i think i do it well :) thanks for the ask again!

ask me questions about writing!

[jovenshires]

lilac idk how you did it but this fixed my inbox thank you

[killingsboys]

top 10 queen agatha novels please :)

sooooo true :) thank you for asking arwen!!<3

murder on the orient express (my favorite always<3)

the murder of roger ackroyd

why didn't they ask evans?

five little pigs

crooked house

and then there were none

the secret adversary

the murder on the links

murder at the vicarage

peril at end house

ask me my top 5/top 10 anything!