#their names and physical features

[persephoneflouwers]

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[onwardmotley]

hello I saw your tags - can i ask about alectophant theory?!

Alectophant is my exhaustively researched and very serious theory that Alecto's problem with the body John made is not that it's a blonde barbie body, nor simply that it's a physical or human body at all, but:

Nona chortled. “Not one bit.” Nona hated having hands.

“Well, tell me your theories,” Nona demanded, feeling much better from sheer excitement. “Say them out loud. Am I nice? Am I good-looking? Do I have lots of friends? Does everyone listen to me? How many legs do I have?"

Nona made her body stand on its two feet. Two feet—the worst number for feet; not so many that they were ever useful, not so few that you didn’t have to think about them.

John had made her so ugly, so unbearably ugly. The terrible face, with the terrible arms and legs and the terrible middle part, and the terrible hair, and the terrible ears: the nose too short, the ears too brief.

her ideal body is an elephant.

Problems Nona has with human form:

hands are dumb

two is a dumb number of feet

(her only specifics about the body John made) nose too short, ears too brief

Features of an elephant:

zero hands (who needs them!)

four feet (a useful number!)

enormous (and practical!) ears

a VERY long nose that's way more useful than stupid hands

And, finally:

Nona looked down at the animal she had drawn, and thought perhaps she understood. She said, “No, I made it up. It does work, I promise. See these things? They’re its ears,” she said, in much the same tones as she would have explained to Kevin. “This thing is its nose, and you can’t see it because I didn’t draw it, but the mouth is under here. When first it was born it used to live in a river, but then it got cold so it had to get large. I know the legs can’t rotate, but you don’t think that’s stupid, do you?” She looked up at Camilla and the Angel, then said, “Am I in trouble?”

She draws one for the Angel.

In conclusion:

[cdroloisms]

Say c!Dream gets a cat. What's he naming it

hmm. im inclined to say that he'd avoid giving it a name for awhile--it's a pretty stupid cat to be following him, to be fair. objectively speaking, he's not exactly the safest person to have a cat, of all things. similarly to how he dodges the question with techno's dog in the prison--look, it's a pet, god knows what happens to pets on this server. it can live its own life perfectly fine eating fish or whatever.

...okay, fine, the cat won't leave him alone. ugh. when he does actually start thinking about names, i think he's gravitating towards one that's relatively simple, probably not going for anything too grand or with too much meaning--it's just a cat, come on now. at the same time, he's not going to name it, like, muffin or something, that's just stupid. it has to be suitably cool and perhaps villainous. (the cat comes very, very close to being named nightmare.) mix in the fact that he's got a habit of quoting/referencing animated movies (spirit :() and the fact that the cat is a beastly little thing that keeps getting into scrapes...

...is how c!dream ends up with a cat named scar.

[sinners-go-to-drink-the-wine]

gotta love the kiszka chin pouches x

[melveres]

wizzy was down for maintenance so I drew my Young Wizard while I (impatiently) waited

[meimyr-dawn]

Haven’t really been engaging with that much Genshin stuff because I’m so bummed about natlan…..

Like it all sucks, but speaking about something I have personal connection to:

I want to like Mualani (the white-hair, shark girl)….her name is from on a real Hawaiian chieftess, it’s also very close to my IRL name (Meilani)….also I freaking love sharks.

I want to be excited at cultural representation. But as an (admittedly white passing) mixed-Hawaiian myself—I’m just sad—not even at my palest in the midst of winter am I that pale. It feels like a betrayal to reference different cultures but not earnestly portray the people within.

Anyway, no hate to anyone who does like her, but please keep an open heart for your POC genshin friends or content creators who are sad and angry.

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

YURI!!!!!!!

[hollowsart]

-cracks knuckles-

I don't have twitter and I've never drawn a Miku before in my life, but I adore that trend happening rn and wanna drop down my two cents, so let's go with the research to make a Hatsune Miku: but she is from my family (hard to explain, but it's absolutely Texan)

[whatisthisnonsense]

"mutants are poc analogy" "mutants are queer analogy" Listen, X-Men and as such mutants as a whole should really be disability representation, and I mean representation and not analougous to it they just occassionally also get to blast ice while having furniture not built for them, struggles with keeping their mind in the present, and constantly having people casually discuss sterilizing or euthanizing them and being considered either dangerous or simply incapable of understanding when they get mad about this. But nobody is ready for this conversation.

[general-sleepy]

Finally watching Overlord with AD. Already noticed an interesting choice of wording, with the narrator using "Nazis" and "Nazi soldiers" instead of "German soldiers." You could argue it's less technically accurate, but serves a purpose, and it's a reasonable decision in the context of the story. Audio description is cool.

Edit: They use a combination of "Nazis," "Nazi soldiers," "Germans," and "German soldiers." The choice is still significant.

[potatobugz]

uh. uh . uhhhm. here take a bunch of out of context wips from a comic im making. I've been making. ..........for the past four days.

[thegodthief]

After last night's spectacular success (really, thank you for humoring me), I'm now looking at what it would take to upgrade the avatar. And while I know it would be quite easy to commission someone (other than that person because reasons), first I have to know what I am going to commission them for.

And, well, I haven't thought that far ahead yet.

This isn't a matter of Noxporium Branding, because I already know I will be using a different avatar (if I use one at all) for the professional side of readings. It's just, I have hidden myself for so long, I don't know what kind of face I want others to see. (?)

For years, I used a transparent 1x1 gif for my icon here on Tumblr. Before that, I used a crop from a picrew that was framed in an ouroboros because so magical, so woo. But I can count on one broken hand how many of y'all have seen my face.

I am replacing one mask for another, and I do not know what I want to be.

And I know it is because I'm not sure what I am.

And that's humbling.

[dtwof]

Ive become way too attached to the librarian i share an office with and im absolutely terrified that one day i'm going to accidentally call her Mum... shes around my own mums age and she has teenage kids and shes been looking out for me at work and i feel so safe with her and im very vulnerable right now....

[thelastspeecher]

Two biological father? Is this a batman situation where Apollo just kinda combined his dna with pa gucket’s? Or was pa apollo’s lover and ma had nothing to do with it. Sorry i haven’t been paying attention and that caught my eye.

Oh, you mean like Superboy? Who is, quoting Lois Lane on Smallville, the genetic love child of Clark Kent and Lex Luthor?

Nah, it's not like that.

At least, I don't think so.

So, in the Trials of Apollo series, it's revealed that Apollo has a demigod child whose mortal parent is a (presumably) cis man. And Apollo's basically just like "yeah I mean I'm a god of course I can have a baby with someone regardless of their ability to bear children".

In the first Percy Jackson series, meanwhile, it's established that the children of Athena are not born from sex, but rather a close intellectual and emotional connection, and, presumably, are birthed from Athena's skull in the same way Athena was born from Zeus's.

When it came to Angie in my Olympian Falls AU, I decided to combine these two ideas. Because it makes the most sense for Angie to be a child of Apollo, but Apollo would be more likely to go for Pa McGucket, not Ma McGucket. And also, Ma McGucket would never cheat on Pa McGucket, and I didn't want to go down the rabbit hole I went when I first started developing the AU, of having Ma McGucket thinking she was having sex with Pa McGucket, but it was a god in disguise.

(If you look far enough back in my Olympian Falls AU tag you can see that initial version of the AU, before I changed it after learning Apollo can have children with dudes.)

That is in line with what the gods would do in traditional Greek mythology, but a bit out of bounds for their behavior in the Percy Jackson books.

(Also, with how self-centered Apollo is in the Percy Jackson books, I doubt he'd change his appearance to someone else to get with someone. Like, he thinks he's the hottest shit, he ain't gonna change that.)

ANYWAYS

I wound up going with this:

Pa McGucket meets Apollo (pretending to be human, of course) at a bar and strikes up a friendly conversation. Pa McGucket is a master sharpshooter, a lover of the arts (he likes to do art, but couldn't ever follow that dream due to his responsibilities), and a fantastic musician/singer. He checks off so many of Apollo's boxes. Apollo keeps trying to make moves on Pa McGucket, but Pa McGucket keeps politely turning him down.

But Apollo can't get this guy, this perfect man, out of his head. And so from the bond he formed with Pa McGucket, he creates a child as a gift for Pa McGucket. After all, the gods view their demigod children as gifts for their mortal lovers, and Apollo wants to give this mortal man something special. Which winds up being Angie. And Apollo pats himself on the back for this, because a child of his is like, the best gift he could give someone, in his mind.

(The exact mechanics behind Angie's creation, uh, I don't know, because the books aren't giving us the mechanics behind Athena's children and the child Apollo has with a cis guy.)

Angie, like all the children of the goddesses, which are born on Mount Olympus, is brought down to Earth by Zephyrus in a golden cradle. On the same day that Lute is born. So Ma and Pa McGucket, after a firm conversation in which Pa McGucket is terrified his wife is going to leave him (which I have already written up but for some reason never posted? I better fix that), decide to act like Angie and Lute are twins and Angie's just a normal kid.

But, of course, Angie isn't just a normal kid.

She's a demigod.

[venomgaia]

Dear John Venomgaia, I hope this ask finds you well. For no particular reason, I'm wondering if your sona has a reference sheet. Have a great night, and keep yourself safe. Platonically yours; Jon Anonymous.

SO, THIS MADE ME REALIZE I HAVENT MADE A PROPER REF SINCE THE SONA WAS FIRST DESIGNED IN LIKE....2018ish? here's a simpler version of a ref that i spedran making to remedy that sjdjndjnsjsjsnnj

the paragon n pistachio styles are just variants, theyre the same dude. Sona lore is that he's an shapeshifter agent of an Elder God, and his job was to keep an eye on humanity and the species of earth as they progressed. He mostly kept to the seas n his preferred form is the "Fish" esque form. one day he goofed up royally and now as punishment, his shapeshifting has been limited, and he's being forced to do a bunch of tasks for various elder gods whilst also living amongst humans (instead of simply observing from afar). He doesnt mind it too much, although he would like to be able to return to his 48 foot long kaiju form under the ocean sometimes.

he has a lot of variants n these are his more common ones, but tldr these are all the same character/sona, just in different eras/places/situations!

but...why, pray tell, do you ask stranger? 🤔

[ujunxverse]

for the real ones that know how much i want to write a succession!au fic, here's the bad news first: yuppie!yeonjun and his parasite/fraud au meets succession may not come to fruition BUT fear not, for succession shimkongz WILL BE here, and she will be CHAPTERED. NO MORE FORMATTING ISSUES ON THIS HELLSITE OR HAVING TO SCROLL AND GET LOST. NEATLY ORGANIZED CHAPTERS!