#the creations and consequences of love

[unsat-and-strange]

wait wait wait wait wait in creations and consequences of love is toy soldier still a wooden puppet thing? or is it some random person who kinda just takes orders? maybe it has a curse of its own? i cant see a character like the toy soldier existing without magic of some sort. how did it wind up in some little tiny village? what is it doing there besides being marius's hype man? im thinking it used to be a normal person at one point and got cursed pretty young so it really just views it as normal, it made its way to a small town because big city would carry a lot of risk of someone taking advantage of it. marius probably stepped in on its behalf pretty early to make sure none of the villagers got any ideas and theyve been besties ever since

@rocksanddeadflowers @blazeismyname thoughts?

[unsat-and-strange]

I have doodles I have doodles I have doodles!!!!

pardon the quality I'm in the car rn, and pardon the teeth and wishbones I was trying an idea earlier

but doodles!!!! im trying to figure out how things without facial features would emote, I gave knife raph wings cause I had to. mx Potts ashes uses steam! when they figured out how to flip people off with steam it was all over. clock lyf uses the face of the clock more like an eye than a uh face so there's that. feather duster Bertie I'm sorry he can use feathers I guess????

also beast jonny :) he has a heart shaped patch on his chest cause I said so (and toe beans!!!!!!)

Beauty and the Beast, but it's the Mechanisms.

Jonny must be the beast because feral Jonny and the whole heart thing... prove me wrong.

Tim or Brian is Belle.

Rest of the Mechs are the servants in the Beast's house. With an exception for Marius as Gaston cause I can totally fucking see it. He would suck at it though because it's Marius. And also, short Marius HC.

This is probably not new. But it's been brewing in my head for a good few months, ever since I put my Mechs OC in the iconic Belle dress.

[rocksanddeadflowers]

That Beauty and the Beast au with @blazeismyname I did passingly mention Shrek only bc of the "wants to remain a beast/orge even if they have the option to be human" thing in comparison to classic Beauty and The Beast and i just.... These fuckers have the same fit too.................

[kit-williams]

Barn Anon. Here's another one, my foot is numb cuz dog's sleeping on my lap and I can't move.

Pregnant? His human is pregnant? Gabriel nearly knocks his human over when he rushes to hug her. She's crying? Don't cry, unless it's out of happiness. He purrs and kisses her cheeks, he plucks the pregnancy tests from her hands to look at the results himself. They've made something! Would it be a boy or a girl? He's torn. He's had brothers for the bulk of his life but a little girl that looks exactly like his human?

He purrs happily and peppers her with kisses, good little human, he'll take care of her as her pregnancy progresses. He'll handle all the housework so she can rest and focus on growing their child. Their little miracle. Perhaps it's not as much a surprise to him as it is to her. He is aware of a few of his battle brothers with bonded humans that are "single mothers" with little ones that look suspiciously to those Blood Angels. Maybe it is mostly his fault for not using protection when he's fully aware of this possible end result. But... this can be a little surprise from him to her right?

He rumbles as his human mutters about needing to set up check ups and a nursery. He can handle the nursery, can he go with her for her check ups?

Set after Gabriel's Valentines day special

You feel your leg bounce as you rub the barely visible bulge on your stomach. You know exactly who the father is... given that he was the last person you had sex with. Gabriel coos to your softly sitting on the floor next to you trying his best to comfort you. Oh God you were an Astartes-fucker... and you got pregnant! He rubs your hand as he is certainly feeling your panic rising.

Gabriel should feel guilty as there was a possibility of getting his dear human pregnant but he just wanted to show her how much he loved her and was this not also the greatest way for him to show his love? His eyes flick over to the nurse as she calls her last name and he helps her up.

"Emotional Support Astartis?" She says with a smile and you just nod.

"Yeah I'm a mess of emotions right now." You say softly replying as you worry about people finding out... would someone try to take your kid?

"Well you've got your big guy. Lie down please." You obey and she tucks some of those hospital paper around you and some tucked into the top of your pants as cold get is rubbed on your stomach.

Gabriel watched just cooing happily but internally he was doing his mental checkmarks... he would have to tell the acting chapter master what he had done and then the chief apothecary would want to look her over... and then the small coven of alpha legion that is friendly with the legion? Were they basically a legion again? Either way they would make sure no one suspected anything.

You gasped seeing the blurry blobby mess that was your fetus? kid? You just were surprised to even see something perhaps you were hoping to be told no it was no longer there. You look over at Gabriel and you can tell he's holding his breath his eyes focused on the screen just looking over the little blurry blob with you. You wonder if they would have his red hair...

The visit goes well as you hand Gabriel the ultrasound picture... it doesn't look like much but... you can tell it means a lot to him. For Gabriel as he looks down at the little photo. Of course, the Apothecary would be able to get a clearer picture of their child but he didn't know why... but this was something he was going to cherish.

@egrets-not-regrets @liar-anubiass-blog @barn-anon @bleedingichorhearts

[fuckjohncalvin]

so I'm thinking about CoCaL and um if this is anything

I get that Lyf is a fan favorite, I'm obsessed with them trust me, but I vote that they're not the only one from the albums that makes it in. Most of the important roles are taken up already, but how hilarious would it be if the townsfolk were just a large clump of people who in other worlds were tragic protagonists.

A bakery with no plot relevance worked by the Pendragons, the tavern owned by Ulysses, and Snow and Cole have been fighting over the position of governor for as long as anyone can remember. There's this one shut-in who practically lives in his basement, they say his name's Pilchard? He's never seen leaving the house except in the regular attempt to break into Carmilla's house. He's an incompetent idiot, and she actually knows what she's doing, so it has yet to work, but he sure as hell hasn't stopped trying. He's too afraid to approach her in public, though, and she thinks it's funny, so it just keeps going for decades. (I think it's even funnier if the town is all just Rose Reds, personally, but probably wouldn't actually work.)

Oh yeah. And I think the guy who led Brian's execution should be Galahad. Just a thought.

[saym0-0]

okay im not completely caught up on the thread so someone might have said it already but. carmilla totally made marius' arm right. like maybe he lost it in a hunting accident to a bear trap or smth (its especially relevant since im preety sure in canon it got crushed by his own mecha? don't quote me on that tho) then after she saved brian he was like hm. if she can build an entire body she could definitely make me an arm right. then he annoyed her about it until she relented

@rocksanddeadflowers @blazeismyname

[evydunns]

i refuse to be withheld by my life. singular and fleeting.

i am aware of a carnal desire in me. the maddening urge to create the divine with my hands. with my voice.

i know i am capable. i know i was born to enthrall. only the cursed nature of time instills doubt in me.

i crave to write the secrets of the universe. to sing the melodies of the dead. to sustain supper for the damned. i desire to dance with the wind and feel its mellow caress against my fingertips. i yearn to capture the ethos of life in film. i long to be everything a human has been and can be.

there is a perpetual want within my soul to create.

to drown in the creativity knocking at the cogs of my head.

[magicicephoenix]

i need to go pound joey drew into a pulp RIGHT NOW

[moons-br]

WHATS THIS???? ART???? OF COCAL LYF???? more likely than you think! So in the corner are the colour refs for them because I think the other mods/anyone who draws them would like that with what colour goes where.

ignore the fact that I didn't draw their hands and I'm kinda bad at drawing hoofs lol. I also gave them fluffy ears to match their wings because pretty! they are a Fae and not human in this au. I also made them more rounded rather than the sharp points because it makes them seem more friendly in a "deceiving you" kind of way that fae are kind of known for.

[the-voldsoy]

can someone Please explain to me what The Consequences Of Creation And Love is because people (3 of them in particular) keep talking about it on my dash and it confuses me every time .is it a mechs au ? whats the premise ? can i join in ?

[theconsequncesofcrationandlove]

Uhh... We gotta post something

[unsat-and-strange]

y'know what while I'm here lemme just

beauty and the beast au let's go thank you @rocksanddeadflowers and @blazeismyname for feeding the fire in my brain about this I have more doodles I promise but take this for now

[blazeismyname]

I WAS RESTRAINING MAKING ANOTHER THREAD CAUSE I'M DOING THE OUTER GOD'S WORK AS-IS BUT I NEED TO PROPOSE

So!! If we're going with adopted Jonny and Nsatya because I refuse French Jonny, we need to give them backstories.

MFS. WE. CAN. MAKE. HIM. KINDA. SOUTHERN!!!!!!

Born in England but taken overseas to live in South Carolina before he could speak. He probably gained a British accent from his parents, but a southern drawl which was starting to emerge around the 1700s. (Your Southern Jonny headcanon has done this, Rocks). He probably lived there until he was a teen and then was like "I hate this place", hijacked a ship, and tried to sail to Europe. This ended with him washing up on the shores of France where Nastya would find him. WHAT WASHED HIM OFF THE SHIP WAS A STORM, THUS WHY STORMS SCARE HIM!!! And also, what if his father was some kind of boater and he killed his father to get the ship he hijacked?

Then we'd have to come up with something for Nastya but I personally know less about her because I'm a heathen lmao

This all suggestions though!

@rocksanddeadflowers and @unsat-and-strange since yall are running this shit with me and I can't do it without you :)

[rocksanddeadflowers]

I know we've been giving certain characters way more attention than others (can't help it lmao) so what about Raphaella's wings? Does she have her wings (definitely I'm sure). Is she part Fae? Is she something else entirely? Did she make them? I deadass have no ideas but I think finding something other than vaguely Fae sounds fun just to mix things up a bit! (Also on the topic of Raph she totally robs graves for the bodies right. Maybe she hires people to do it too idk but that was a real thing that happened sometimes!!! Where people stole corpses (usually hired others to do the dirty work for them tho) to study the human body or experiment on!!! Graverobber scientist Raph <3)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

among the boundless billions zaniness like laugh track as it definitely has that moment of expressing "rolling my eyes as The Left makes a kerfuffle of Acting like they have a stance as a veneer over the true belief that [xyz] is cool & chill actually" like what, approximate 0.000% chance wendy isn't, as usual, given the Objective Stance of "yeah yeah ohh we are cancelling involved parties talking about how we Don't watch this But. we all love this damn epic movie & already have it memorized so shut the fuck up, kids today" like. don't wanna really delve into how much billions thinks taylor or anyone is "really" trans / nonbinary like not too much benefit of the doubt in this material including what does provide info abt that specifically

& the general like [head in hands. what do you think any of this could possibly be about (you're the one that made your show at all about Power)] of "yes, it's bad/wrong to be someone that someone has done something to / victim of something" like that to be anti misogyny All Women Must Be Epic Winners b/c there's something to be proved: that they don't Deserve to be victims (of misogyny), not taken as a Given. while when we see some epic winner men stepping on other men (who need not all be guaranteed Winners so as to say misogyny is wrong), that's often Good, well beyond any assumption that various forms of basic disrespect / violation / patterns of emergent/entrenched power difference as Bad (for being things done to people, not for there being people they're being done to), & generally billions has to take an extra step when ppl get shitted on & tell us the Specific Cases when it was undeserved actually & someone was being mean to a specific person who didn't deserve that. & the specific cases when hey guess it wasn't that bad(tm) or when hey It's Okay that you're someone something was done to, in this case. & tell us what we were supposed to know all along like when someone who something was being done to (wrong Of Them, whether b/c they inherently deserve it no matter what, &/or b/c they failed to be someone who could make it Impossible to do anything to them, which, how do you do that besides being The Authority / Superior yourself, exactly? nonrhetorically? what if the in group vs out group / fascism / authoritarianism protected Me?) was actually being treated Too Well b/c ah well the abuse meant you were getting any attention, maybe it meant you were claimed as any superior's property, maybe it meant you weren't Already disposed of, as all Losers were in the end, You're Welcome.

obviously referring to winston where it's spelled out all the abuse towards him was deserved, & More than he deserved in the case of rian having more access & taking advantage of that, all for billions' enjoying its own sendoff there of, again, maximizing violation & violence short of [real violence is physical & leaves bruises / draws blood / Literally kills] which would be distasteful in general But doesn't it make wags look like the winner & winston the loser is that the former's completely unrelated completely impersonal ego blow gets way amplified taken out on winston, the most vulnerable recurring character when spyros as [first & ultimate Everyone Hates Him role] is more entrenched in there & billions still magnanimously pities tuk, as it does winston too, just not quite as much. again that like completely surface level realized power fantasy of forcing the mirror up to the Inferior so they're like nooo my inferiorityyyy & in doing so like, the projection in that lmao, we get it re: the valuing of & need(tm) for such Power Tripping & Reaffirming My Superiority & My Ego Restored; Everyone Claps like good god. & then for all ben & tuk are the slightly softer Two Too Nice Boys duo to the rian & winston quant duo, also like too nice i guess but not as much, ben is in charge of tuk but Any instance of rian being in charge of winston outstrips them in that "yay interpersonal abuse" dynamic, like then in the end billions may be like "yeah it's possible to be mean to them unlike how being mean to winston is actually Nice b/c he deserves everything he gets, we only vicariously enjoy it vs Feeling Bad for tuk & ben sometimes (still magnanimously & it's Not That Bad / just goofin)" like ben & tuk still Fail by not being people it's impossible to do anything to. & not Exceptions who anyone is really being Too Mean to. like if they were women, in which case, no problem surely with a "positive" kind of victim blaming where there is something Inherent that Will be victimized so hey how about to cancel that out there's this special Paternal Protection you Need always, Or Else? :) but instead they are men who are asian & is ben gay & w/tuk & winston nobody mentions glasses or fatness but billions doesn't really do much or very in depth textual mentioning of Anything, even w/nonzero mention that there may be gender & race in this world. a gay man, once. no disability. we just Know who are the inferiors who deserve it when they're treated inferiorly, or if they don't, they start deserving it when they fail to stop/avoid it, but if you start mentioning the factors behind who we all totally agree is inferior like whoa nobody was Saying any of that? being the real agent of oppression on the basis of the factors only You spelled out, much? nonbinary? i never say anything about the Gender Binary when i'm subscribing to it, sounds like You've created & enforced it. obfuscation & deflection onto [so Just Normal nobody has to label, explain, or argue it] couldn't serve a purpose & protect the existing power differences as they are. maybe You're the problem? perhaps you brought it upon yourself & now you're causing too much trouble standing up for yourself while everyone else's criticism is laser focused on you as the prior & continuing negative actions done to you are taken as a given / unquestioned / covertly protected to overtly encouraged?

anyway so wild if the Completely Normal(tm) Victim Blaming is uncritically recreated & oft embraced for "if you're watching this & don't wish you were axe / find him appealing" [billions as a sequence of vicarious power trips] purposes in this series....but a bit wild considering like this is your multiseason show that wasn't just purporting to be those power trips for [enough demographic & apparently specific personal tastes overlap w/creators] & was at all purporting to question the matters of power at play in the material, or yknow, at least to not be completely superficial material while said material is textually & thematically all about power difference being leveraged, how, the consequences, & so on. thus i will have to intermittently talk about it forever like this like lord unbelievable. & the funny little & sometimes less funny less little characters it has trapped in there so that those of us who were never meant to be in the audience can be cursed with this knowledge. like i have some feedback. "imagine not victim blaming" & "imagine adjusting your perspective can go beyond superficial layers added to politely defer to some other ppl while they're present but really like cmon do they deserve that. am i not just saying what we're allll thinking"

[fuckjohncalvin]

*trembling, panting, and covered in blood of an unnatural color* I read every single piece of CoCaL lore guys