#the sad irony

[ooc-miqojak]

Name one line in the sand your muse has. Tell us one way someone can go ‘too far’. + What’s a fail-safe gift for your muse?

Headcanon/Development Questions Fail-safe gift answer is here!

Hilariously, I was just doing this quest again out in the Azure Span! And as far as I know, this is all I can come up with for Lily, at present, too. I'm sure she will have others, when RP presents them (like, she's really not going out of her way to hunt and hurt innocent people, even if the more demonic side of her would enjoy it - she's not evil)... but she's effectively kind of a new character again, in a sense. Everything about her is different now. Giving in to the demonic impulse feels great, sure, but... then she loses herself more. So, she's got to have lines - but really, most of them are probably pretty mutable, at the end of the day. Sure, she keeps her more visceral activities on the down-low, and presents a respectable persona in the public eye, and keeps her activities more centered around lowlifes and people who won't be missed (very like a vampire, whodathunk) - it's easier on her conscience, as well... for now. But if she were pressed? Who/what is off limits, to her? She already has a fucked-up obsession with Light-wielders/the Light that's... probably never going to end well, considering that the fel (and all she's endured) has pretty severely twisted her outlook on many things, and the Light is one of them. She's... not above preying on people who are just as naive as she once was. She once fell prey to a demon-in-disguise - and she's not even in disguise - so if they come to her willingly? If they, too, are drawn to darkness... why should she spare them? Why shouldn't she spit in the eye of the Light that abandoned her? Though, she has resisted that call, of late. For now. There's a voice in her head that sounds a lot like who she used to be, that hates the idea of hurting someone like that. She's still figuring out how much of who she 'was' that she wants to keep - when you're cleaning house, you have to ask yourself if what you're holding onto has value - if it has meaning to you, or if you're holding onto something out of habit. And it's a bit like that with moving forward - she's shedding an old skin, but she's not quite there yet. Not quite done figuring out what is worth holding onto. (I suppose a more vague line in the sand would be like... she's a woman of her word. Be it an oath, or a deal, she upholds them...if you do. She used to, anyways! I feel like this is a core trait though.)

[madame-helen]

[ryssbelle]

Thought of this while at work, sorry it's a bit hard to read I sketched it out really fast before my last shift lmao wanted to get it done so I could work on other stuff hehe

If it's any consultation Floyd is mostly talking about himself

[barblaz-arts]

I promised lore about Pugsley's kids forever ago but kept forgetting, sorry. Or more like, I kept putting it off because I wanted some sketches to accompany the lore dump, but I don't think I have the time to do that. So, just... Here.

Dante Addams

- Outcast type: Demon

- Power: can turn into fire

- Mother: was a demon that Pugsley fell in love with but only saw his father as a quick fling. Months after she broke things off with him, Pugsley finds baby Dante left behind on the Addams family doorstep with the note 'Keep him if you want him'

- he's smart and precocious. Vega likes talking to him because they're both intellectuals.

- Pugsley never had the heart to tell him that his mother abandoned him, but he's smart enough to put the pieces together

- just like any Addams, he has a penchant for mischief. His favorite prank is to steal and hide Jasper's legs

- he becomes a member and leader of the Nightshades when he becomes a Nevermore student

Jasper Addams

- Outcast type: Manananggal

- Power: breathes fire

- Mother: She never married Pugsley. Because she's a free spirit who loves to travel, they agreed that Jasper is better off in Pugsley's custody(yes she could have just settled down to help properly raise him. No she didn't do that)

- he loves salty food. Salt is typically deadly to a manananggal, but because he's an Addams, the worst it does is give him rashes

- he's a bit of a klutz. He often loses his legs. He sometimes puts them back on backwards.

- he isn't very confident in himself because he thinks his siblings are a lot more impressive than him.

- he's very popular among his peers in school because of his friendly nature

Briar Addams

- Outcast type: The Faceless

- Power: controls fire

- Mother: she was the only one Pugsley married. She died before Briar was old enough to remember her, but Dante and Jasper have very fond memories of her

- she adores her Tia Wednesday and has a petty one-sided rivalry with Vega. She carries around a doll that looks like her cousin so she can stick needles into it.

- Vega, Dante, and Jasper think she's scary. Very cute, but also scary

- she knows sign language, but mostly just gesticulates like Thing when she communicates. She's a girl of few words anyways.

- she's also very smart but hates school

- she just creeps people out. As a kid, it's initially just because of her appearance. As she gets older, she does things on purpose to make people uneasy around her.

I'll make another post for lore about Sora's parents and Regine's mom later. Maybe tomorrow.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

My rendition of @tempo-takoyaki's DTIYS!

Congrats on the milestones! And to everyone else, please go check out their 'Drawing TGCF (except I haven't read the books)' series!

[rileyclaw]

huntlow week day 1: palisman. eepy creatures

[spider-xan]

Regarding Mina's description of Dracula and why it's problematic, a good starting point would be to read the Wikipedia article for physiognomy, which is the outdated pseudoscience of face reading that is unfortunately rooted in racism, antisemitism, ableism, etc., and was very popular during the Victorian era as a way to judge moral character based on facial features.

So when Mina says 'His face was not a good face', she is not just saying that Dracula is ugly (though concepts of ugliness and beauty are not value-neutral either), but that she can tell that he is evil based on his facial features; note that one of the facial features she singles out is a 'beaky nose', which comes from Cesare Lombroso's idea that among other traits, hawk-like noses are a marker of criminality on the basis of criminals being evolutionary throwbacks who are less evolved than non-criminals; many of these allegedly 'criminal' and 'degenerate' facial features are obviously racialized and not associated with Gentile whiteness, but in opposition to it.

Stoker was definitely interested in physiognomy and uses it as a narrative device to show how certain heroic characters are intelligent, perceptive, and educated on the latest (pseudo)sciences (the modernity theme again) - namely Mina and Van Helsing, but also Jonathan to a lesser degree; we will definitely see this idea come up several more times, including explicit references to Lombroso himself.

It is also important to remember that linking physical appearance and morality still happens today - think about how many people say they can tell someone is a bad person bc they're ugly or that 'People get the face they deserve' where good people age gracefully and bad people age poorly, even though aging has nothing to do with personal character.

[jess-the-vampire]

In the Evelyn lives alt au I'm not sure who has it worse. Evelyn when she realizes she and Caleb are moving in with her brother in law, who she has a VERY complicated relationship with.

Or Philip when he realizes that Caleb and Evelyn are just as lovey dovey towards each other as they were 400 years ago, and now they're living in his house.

They have such a funny dynamic honestly

Evelyn would probably make their couple interactions even louder and more annoying just to irritate her brother in law tbh

[wandering-alien]

I volunteer at my local library and, after finishing, I wanted to get some DVDs out because I have a DVD player at home and I was already there so it's easier to just rent the films than try to find them online.

So I go and take them out, and the guy who works there goes 'why are you bothering with those when you can just find them online?'.

My guy.

Your whole job. WHOLE. JOB. Survives because people want physical copies of things. What do you mean 'why are you bothering'??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN???

[cheval-grand]

Lucky when you sprint into a wall

[sciderman]

Do any of the boys wear jewelry?

Wade seems like the type to have those grandma box full of jewelry but Peter would probably have one pair of earrings for the occasion?? 

they're too broke for any kind of jewellery save for the edible kind

[langernameohnebedeutung]

[madame-helen]

[valnyte]

No thoughts head empty, just Victor thoughts, mostly sad.

This man has the nickname of Grim Reaper for a reason. He and William founded Crown. He has access to the previous records of the Cursed who came before them. Furthermore, he knows how each of the suitors are going to die and has shared tidbits of it to the suitors and MC on many occasions.

What more, if any of the Cursed suitors are to die, it looks like it would be him who would be called on to collect their corpses given how he is one of the founders of Crown.

Thinks about how Victor despite knowing the fated ends of the Cursed, he still cares for all of them. Moreso, how attached he is to the entirety of Crown and despite how some of the cast do not like him meddling, he never gets mad at this fact.

It almost does not make sense for someone who could be the personification of Death/Grim Reaper would be so caring, because their deaths would hurt him. It is the price they pay for being Cursed after all, a cruel end. I wonder now if the reason why he cares so much for them at the present is a way to assauge the ever looming knowledge that they are doomed.

Oh, but the irony of a kind Grim Reaper who reaches out his hand in care for the living. When it is still the same hand who will take them when they draw their last breath.

[krakensdottir]

I know I'm in a minority here, but I honestly do not think Crowley will stay anywhere near the bookshop in S3. He'll probably find a way to keep tabs on it, make sure it's still in good hands. But I can't see him hanging around in it with Aziraphale gone. Or seeking comfort in Muriel's company, or anyone else's.

I strongly suspect that when we next catch up to him, he'll be on his own. Because that's how it's always been, apart from this one friend. I could be wrong, of course; he might learn healthy coping mechanisms in between seasons. But I doubt it. I think that if Aziraphale checks in, he won't find Crowley anywhere. Where is he? Where he's always been when you're not around. Alone.

[jamietwat]

Thinking about how Jamie left Richmond with friends on the team and probably came back expecting to have to prove himself but to still have a few friends just to come back to everyone openly hating him and mad at him and not wanting him there or to acknowledge his

Thinking about how in that interview when he was on Man City he was his usual cocky self talking about carrying his team, but he actually didn’t say anything bad about anyone outside or Roy and Ted. He talked about how all of the players on Richmond were good lads except for Roy Kent and called Ted a rodeo clown and Nate showed the team it and they all hated him enough to start throwing shit despite the fact that he wasn’t saying anything he wouldn’t have to their faces if he was still on the team and despite the fact that he was actually nicer to all the players except for Roy than he ever had been in person

Thinking about how Isaac went from being his friend and starting shit with him to breaking a TV because of his hatred toward him when Jamie really hadn’t even done anything to him and Jamie coming back to Isaac hating him as if they weren’t getting up to the exact same shit together when Jamie was there and if Isaac thought he himself was a way better person now and so was Colin but there was no chance that there could be anything redeemable in Jamie

Thinking about how Jamie left and DIDN’T talk shit about the team or make weird personal comments outside of the ones about Roy and Ted that he would have made to their faces if he was still there

Thinking about the way Nate left of his own volition and talked shit publicly every chance he got

Thinking about how Nate came back trying with everyone letting him that easily when HE was a dick in person too, left them of his own volition, and slandered them and made them a public joke for fun

Thinking about how Jamie got kicked out, DIDN’T talk shit about his friends, had to beg Ted to come back against the whole team’s wishes, and then got iced out by everyone whether it was people with a right to it like Sam or people like Isaac and Colin that had been friends with him and decided to treat him like the worst man alive to distance themselves and make themselves look better by comparison

Thinking about how Jamie think his friendships are all dependent on his spot on the team and he’s seen them disappear when he got kicked out before

Thinking about how Jamie still calls Isaac his best friend after this because he thinks he deserved all of what he got and that he was the one and only problem in that situation and how really we never see Jamie and Isaac as close again as they were in season one and there are plenty of other teammates I would have expected him to say over him

Thinking about Jamie watching Nate come back and forgiving him and knowing what it’s like to be in his place but also Jamie watching everyone else forgive him and care about him as a person that easily again while he had to fight for even Ted to let him come back and had to fight to have people even accept him being on the team again and to get them to acknowledge his existence long before he earned their friendship