#these are all from other peoples patterns

[non-main-branch]

I was going to just put a short reply to @romanarose —explaining web scraping— but then it got long and I started wondering about methods of combatting scraping…

Web scraping is basically using a program to collect data from websites. You can collect html files and use tools to parse them and make their contents more human-readable or organized in a custom structure (such as… flight information, or the birthdays of all historical figures). Essentially, you can take the actual data out of the html formatting documents that it’s embedded in, and if you can identify patterns in the structure of the documents then you can target specific information and collect it en masse.

It’s pretty easy to do, and. Quite frankly, it can be fun, when done ethically. But scraping to feed ai training algorithms is not ethical.

So. They’re scraping ao3 for generative ai training data. They are probably discarding author notes—that would be trivial to do with a highly structured document like html.

Actually. Okay, so. There are characters (as in. Text. Symbols) that don’t get displayed in a way humans would notice… I wonder if someone could write a program that takes in text and adds noise to it that the computers can see and become confused by but that humans wouldn’t be… like those anti-ai treatments done to images. They add noise to the data that makes it less interpretable by machines but doesn’t significantly alter humans’ ability to perceive the image. I’m not an expert on text encoding though, so I don’t know what an implementation like that would look like.

Okay so. A quick search…. I’m not finding anything specific to adding noise in text, but i am finding plenty of material on using noise (variation in data, a disruption to the signal in data) to disrupt ai training for other types of data, like i expected. I think it would be worth exploring, especially since there’s no way i could do an exhaustive search in fifteen minutes without access to research papers in databases.

I had some of the following thoughts, but I can’t think of a way to implement them without making the text extremely inaccessible for people using screen readers (probably. I don’t actually know how screen readers tend to be programmed, but there are technologically accessibility standards for a reason, so it would probably fuck it up).

Remember how early on, machine learning models were indicating that images of rulers had cancer in them, because the images of actual cancer (or. Whatever they were trying to identify) tended to have rulers in them to show the scale?

You know how people will say to add keywords into your resume so the resumé screening algorithms point to you as a good candidate? How some people suggest putting invisible text in your resumé, that humans can’t read but machines can, so it gets flagged? Or straight up putting something down like “ is an ideal candidate” in invisible text? Invisible to humans, that is.

I’m wondering if there are things like that

So yeah. Screen readers would have a hard time with that, I think.

Unless screen readers can be altered to filter out the noise. But that’s a much bigger task than scrambling some data. And also… someone might choose to read the text into their program with image processing algorithms. But having to cleaning the data like that would increase the hassle for AI-feeding scrapers, since the files would be larger and you’d be introducing more steps… idk. some thoughts in here. I have not the energy to do research.

AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

[astrolook]

💔Short-term Affairs, Separation, Divorce & Heavy Breakups In Astrology 💔

Note: These are just my personal observations and recurring patterns I've noticed over the years. Take what resonates with you and leave the rest. Feel free to share in the comments if any of this hits home. Also, remember that one placement alone isn’t enough to determine whether a relationship will end or not. There are many other factors to consider. This post is based on Vedic astrology.

Mars in 7th: If you married before 29, brace yourself as separation might be on the horizon. This placement is all about fleeting connections. You might jump into relationships knowing they’re just a pit stop on the emotional highway. You want a partner who matches your vibe, but somehow you keep attracting people who will definitely mess with your self-worth. Oops. 👀

Sun + Mars in 7th: Basically, the same vibe as Mars in 7th, but with a bit more flair. Here, natives usually marry in their late 30s or 40s to say “I do.” The Sun gives you standards that are off the charts, but you might still end up with the wrong people before 35 like partners who drain you faster than your phone battery on 1%. Breakups are swift, and sometimes you’ll find yourself eyeing someone who’s already taken. Classic. 💅

Saturn in 7th: Serious relationship vibes. If you married young, chances are you picked someone older to soften Saturn’s icy grip. If not older? The relationships might feel intense, only to end in heartbreak or divorce with a full-on mental breakdown. Saturn’s tough love means at least one long-term relationship before 28 will end with you struggling to let go. Cue the sad playlist. 🎧

Saturn Rx in 7th: Your partner might be the older, child-like, laid-back type who thinks wearing socks with sandals is cool. You’ll be the one playing the role of the responsible, mature one in this dynamic. Marrying before 28? Oops, that could lead to a divorce or a short-term separation from your spouse. Also if kids involved, points to an absent father if married before 28. Letting go of past relationships will take way longer than you’d like. 💀

Venus in 7th: Casual flings and short-term affairs are pretty much your love language. Especially if you’ve got Aries, Gemini, Leo, Sagittarius, or Aquarius in the 7th house sign. Expect some love triangles. Either you're in one, or you are the love triangle. Drama. Doesn't point to a divorce but a few heartbreaks makes you think there's no one out there for you 🔥

Jupiter in 7th: If you marry after 30, you’re golden. Before that? Prepare for a big breakup with a heavy heart, and maybe a partner who leaves you for someone else or cheats behind your back. Classic Jupiter. In some cases, marrying with children or step-kids are possible here. Common with military spouses✌️

Jupiter Rx in 7th: Long-distance love stories are your thing. Or, maybe just trying to find someone who’s not 5,000 miles away. You might also struggle with finding someone nearby who actually works for you. Distance = drama. Another common placement with military spouses 🌍

Venus Rx in 7th: One-sided love connections galore. If you had a long-term relationship, your partner probably found someone else, leaving you feeling like you just got ghosted and dumped at the same time. Ouch. 🥲

Moon in 7th: You might marry early but at least one relationship is going to end in a text message breakup. Quick recovery, though. You’ll be fine, but you’ll probably have a lot of crushes that you just won’t admit to. On and Off relationships are a theme here. #Relatable 🥲💕

Mercury/Mercury Rx in 7th: You might marry someone younger (at least 4 years), and hey, same-sex or bi relationships are totally on the table. Good luck finding a partner who’s not a mess, though. If you marry young? Well, it’s a 50/50 shot at surviving. Good luck with that. 🙃

South Node in 7th: Eloping for love sounds cute... until it all falls apart within a year. 💔You’re often tied to karmic partners like heavy, messy, and oh-so-familiar. Multiple marriages? Totally possible. Long-term relationships? Also yes... but divorces can hit either super early or after 15–20 years when you thought you were safe. Surprise! Kids may still be part of the picture though. In some cases, kids be having 2 different fathers🎢

North Node in 7th: Sometimes marries for money, convenience, or against the wishes of family. 🎯Marriage with kids is possible here too (like South Node vibes) but trust issues and unreliable or dominant partners show up like clockwork. Also one of those placements that screams “multiple marriages pending, please stand by.” In some cases, kids be having 2 different fathers(similar to south node) 📋💍

Please read this too: We have to look at your 7th lord as well and where it is placed along with other planets to get a full picture of what's happening in your chart. This is not to scare you, Vedic astrology is ancient and here marriage means being with a partner sexually for the "first time" which usually happens on a wedding night in those times. In the modern era, multiple marriages also mean to multiple sexual partners as well even if you aren't married. We have to consider your Navamsa chart(d9 chart) to see how your married life is actually manifested there. Hope that helps!

Wanna go deeper into the layers of your placements? DM me for a complete astrology reading or a 5 year/8 year marriage report or synastry reading🌙💬 and check out my pinned post for pricing + details 💫💸

Let’s decode your cosmic chaos together ⭐

[applecidersturniolo]

details of you.

(the waiting game au.)

in which…yearning!matt can’t stop admiring stubborn!reader.

the air was crisp and cold, almost too cold, yet not enough for you to complain. your head resting on matt’s lap, the red and white flannel blanket laid crumpled beneath the two of you. matt’s fingers traced patterns on the exposed skin of stomach, the feeling of his flesh in direct contact with yours sent chills down your spine, gave you the butterflies in your stomach you tend to ignore.

matts eyes trace over your features, the way your eyes wander from cloud to cloud, the way your nose scrunches every time he picks up a piece of salami from the snack plate because you hate the smell. it’s times like these where he longs for you the most, wishing he could bend down and kiss your soft lips or maybe tell you how much he loves you, how much he really loves you. it’s almost like the words are sitting on his tongue patiently waiting to be expressed, yet he can’t. because you, y/n, you’re so close yet so fucking far.

“what are you thinking about?” you whisper gently, matt glances down into your eyes, he’s swimming in them. he wants to tell you that he’s thinking about you, about what you guys could be, what he wants you to be. “nothin’” he replies shortly, you let him lie.

you guys were now in the car, your picnic festivities packed away in the backseat, it was the rare occasion to which you were driving, matt sat in the passenger seat. as you road down the uneven pavement all matt could focus on was you, the mac miller playing on the car radio couldn’t even snap him out of his trance. he was too focused on you, the way your hands laid on the steering wheel, how when you got frustrated with other driver you wouldn’t scream out, you would just white knuckle the leather and mumble a what the fuck under your breath. he took in your side profile, the swoop of your nose, the small gold hoops in your ears, the way your jaw always just seemed to be clench, you could never relax.

“can feel you starin’” you mumbled as you cracked a small smile, matt’s face flustered, his thumb coming up to his mouth as he bites the skin, his elbow propped on the center console, “can’t help it..” matt whispers. the same butterflies that seem to have made a home in your stomach had returned, you swallow hard. “well stop,” there you are, masking the feelings you clearly want to unravel. but that’s just how you are, isn’t it? can’t let a good thing happen to you.

later in the day you end up at matt’s apartment, you two are sat on the roof of the building, staring up at the night sky, it seems to be a pattern between you two, always watching something, always looking too deep into things that most people simply gloss over. or maybe you’re trying to distract yourselves for something that is all to clear that sits right in front of you, that has made a bed in between the two of you.

matt’s looking at you again, but this time you’re looking back, your eyes glazed on his messy brown hair, the way it covered the top of his head and brows, his perfect eye lashes that seemed almost unfair of him to have, his blue eyes that you felt like you were merely drowning in, the bridge of his nose, the two or three freckles that dusted on it if the light caught it just right, the stubble that scratched away at his jaw that you silently wished he would never shave, and his lips, the pink pillows that he would wet occasionally with the same tongue he would use to whisper all the right things when you really needed it.

he was perfect, nothing short of it, but again, you could never let a good thing happen to you, not yet anyway.

so here you two are, stuck playing the waiting game.

this is only the beginning ;)

divider creds: @malsmind

tags: @courta13 @izzylovesmatt @joanakaulitz @kalel2005 @malsmind @oopsiedaisydeer @lyingonchris @sturns-mermaid @idefinitelyhateu @zenithsturniolo

[elodieunderglass]

Oh!!! You collect leucistic animals?!?!?

Seen in May 2024. This white tailed deer with a very pale silvery coat! She wasn’t completely white, but definitely much paler. Regular deer in the same yard for comparison. The colors are pretty accurate to real life! Sorry the photo quality is so bad, these are cropped versions of already very zoomed in photos lmao

Does this count as leucistic? Or is this a different pigmentation thing happening? I tried to find an explanation online at the time but I couldn’t find any examples of this specifically.

Oh thank you so much for thinking of me!

After several years of collecting colour morphs, I’ve decided to simplify by just keeping them all under #the leucism channel #(open to all colour morphs) because I still see tremendous pleasure and value in curating the diversity of animal colouration.

The primary personal reason in my heart, and the reason why I admire and collect colour morphs at all, is because it gives us the experience of witnessing the animal as fresh and new to our eyes. Sometimes without the distraction of colour and pattern, it takes a moment to truly understand what you are seeing - by recognising and re-cog-nising the character of the animal - which in itself reminds you of the true nature of the animal. So that being my intention, I collect them and they make me happy, but I only do it under one tag, and I’m no longer hugely interested in deciphering exactly what mutation a photo of an animal has, or hosting those arguments in my notes. So it’s a blanket thing. The Leucism Channel for tradition and recognition, and Open to All Colour Morphs because it is! This deer is definitely eligible!

As for your lovely witnessing, that does look leucistic - it can be a partial pigment loss, it doesn’t have to be “pure white” - just paler when considered from the centre point of the wild-type expression.

In domestic animals, where we select for colour morphs both purposefully and unintentionally, we use expressions like “dilution factors” to talk about genes that reduce the levels of an animal’s colour. For example, a black cat with the “dilution effect” applied becomes a “blue” cat - those cats with blueish grey fur. A black horse with cream dilution becomes a Smoky Cream, which is a silvery gold colour. You could think of it like a slider where you have (base + dilution). The dilution of a black cat is not grey or white, but blue-grey.

Leucism in wild animals encompasses the slider that is paler than wild type, and melanism encompasses the slider that is darker than wild type. (There are specific words for specific pigment losses but it is not inaccurate to start with this understanding and then expand it.) and the word we use for something that has fallen off the slider entirely is albino. Albinism carries other genetic implications and significances, which is why people will argue about it.

Thus the deer you have is quite likely to be leucistic, exhibiting characteristics of leucism, but perhaps only partially - as a dilution rather than a loss of wild-type expression.

What a lovely sighting, thank you so much!!

[fancysigilsselfcaretree]

As a daughter of a narcissistic mother, and a deadbeat dad who tried to use money i inherited to settle his gambling debt: THIS. I wasn't allowed to get therapy (even if my self-prescribed diagnosis were all validated years later) .. that's 4 years of medical treatment i didn't get. I was a child when my boyfriend took advantage of me, and didn't take a no for what it was - a lack of consent. But that didn't break me. What truly broke me is that had to function, because my mother's reputation was more important than my pain. Parentification aside, just as much as helping to raise my sister, my needs were never truly a necessity in the household. There were days i didn't get food (money wasn't even that much of a problem - it's just that my mom withheld it from me). She did read my diary. Privacy? Nonexistent. How do i explain to people that my mental illness is entirely based on trying to survive my mother? That BPD made me a human lie-detector, pattern recognition expert that can manipulate effortlessly.. not because i fucking wanted to, but because that is how i managed to not live in a constant battleground of gaslight, gatekeep, get-lost.

I'm 32 and i still fucking flinch when someone raises their voice at me. At least i don't instinctively cry anymore. But i still fear authority, external control, and talking about the really important things - the things close to my heart. I've had years of therapy. Fuck, i have to keep myself from thinking, what could have been if my home-life was safe, stable, supportive. Because that's truly what breaks my heart - the realization that i, like so many others, had no fair start in life. No opportunity to grow and prosper.

It is so fucking sinister that the only form of child abuse that society really cares about is sexual in nature. parents are free to control everything about their child's movement, presentation, eating, faith traditions, information exposure, socialization, and can restrict all of these things to an extreme degree as a form of punishment or in order to shape the child into whatever they want that child to be. and that's all considered completely normal, the parent's right! people don't even see the fact that a parent has the power to control so much about a child's life for damn near 20 years to be a problem. The only time they become concerned about child abuse is when the prospect of an outside stranger behaving in a sexual way toward a child is raised. and yeah a lot of really horrific sexual abuses are enacted unto children, but that's because they have zero control over their own lives and bodies in any other way as well. It is all about power and control. and typically the ones who are abusing children the most frequently are the ones who have the most control over them, the parents.

[saphig-iawn]

My introductory sessions are made in such a way that they exist on their own without anything that will get their hooks into someone. So many inductions I've listened to try and thread this addiction or irresistance to bring people back. Why don't I do that? Because its safer. I want people to know that they can have an experience with me and be safe.

After an introductory session, the first thing I do is talk to the client about safety, and what I'm going to do to help them become resilient and practice hypnosis safely. If they come back after a while, I reinforce those safeties again. Why? Because there are people out there who are hoping to use hypnosis for their own gains and prey on people.

I was subject to one of those people yesterday.

I had someone try and covertly hypnotise me in the comments of my own post. I spotted them. I knew exactly what he was doing. His language, his cadence, his pattern. He tried to turn my own words against me initially, trying to turn the tables on me. I rebuffed him, but then his 'apology' was written in the same attempt to persuade, to soften, and to influence.

I changed my tack, no longer talking about the content of my writing, but targeting why he felt the need to apologise. He persisted in his character, acting like some Dickensian villain using long words and run-on sentences to confuse his prey. Then it hit.

I felt helpless.

I was too polite. I should've been more clear and blunt. But I thought this person might have been reasonable. I realised that, no matter what I said, he already had his sights set on me.

No matter what I said, he would continue.

I am so lucky that I have friends in this community that came in and called him out and shot him down. He instantly broke character, and called his advances 'an invitation'. Called them paranoid for 'believing someone could be tranced like that'.

I felt sick.

They trawled his blog. He believes that if being hypnotised is consent, that no other kind of consent needs to be sought because if someone didn’t want to be hypnotised, they couldn’t be hypnotised.

I started shaking.

I was playing games with friends while all this was happening. I was masking what was happening because I was trying to have fun. But now I have time to think today, I realise that I'm not ok. I keep thinking about that moment I realised that he knew what he was doing and could not be pushed from the track his mind was set on.

Then it occured to me. What if it wasn't me, someone who has been practicing for so long and has become a resilient subject as well as 'tist? What if someone was just looking for a little bit of fun found themselves in his trap?

It is because of people like him, why I practice the safety measures I do with my subjects, and my darlings. Why I reinforce that they stop any time they want, regardless of reason. Why I tell them that they have the first and last say, even while under in trance.

Because there are predators and they do not listen.

[bigmoon-is-bigwife]

Ros will threaten and insult people constantly and then be surprised when they hate her because she was "just being silly." Girl, most people do not take death threats lightly, especially when you genuinely could kill them. 😭

I think there is definitely a part of her that loves the power of threatening and insulting people weaker than her and them not being able to fight back. It's addicting to her and she'll deny it but it's a constant pattern. She feels weak most of the time and this is the only time she can ever feel strong. It's cathartic for her to be on the other end of it. I think she feels if she can get ahead of it and assert herself as the threatening one, she can prevent herself from being the one being threatened again.

It's a constant cycle where she goes out of her way to be antagonistic to people and then gets defensive and doubles down when they retaliate. Then she takes the retaliation as them hating her and therefore all her actions toward them were justified because she can convince herself they were mean all along. And then she ends up alone and paranoid thinking that the whole world is out to get her when it's her own doing that caused this. It's a self fulfilling prophecy.

[simon-roy]

One of the funnest parts of doing a kickstarter (perhaps the only TRULY fun part) is asking online pen-pals if they'd like to contribute to the book. I was very keen on getting something from Tom Kilian - @tkilian on here - who I've followed for ages (and talked with about a couple story ideas, too) to do a piece, and lucky for me, he went WILD on it!

Above is the incredible final piece he cooked up. But below, here is his exhaustive process, in his own words:

When Simon approached me to do a pinup for A STAR CALLED THE SUN I was torn between impending deadlines for other work and the fact that I really wanted to do one. One of my all-time favorite Simon Roy stories, “The Oxpecker and The Elephant,” is appearing in this volume, and I’ve spent years wondering what happened to the two tiny human figures visible among the wreckage at the bottom of the last panel. That, I decided, would be my hook: imagining one of those possible futures where the events of the comic had become an oral history or creation myth for future generations of humans. 

I initially had this overly elaborate idea of showing the same story told three different times around three different fires: one of miserable survivors in the comic’s immediate aftermath, one in this world’s equivalent of the Neolithic era, and one involving the ritual dance of a rich and prosperous culture. 

First I dashed out a quick thumbnail for the Neolithic cave-painting scene. I figured that this idea was strong enough to stand on its own if I couldn’t make the more complicated idea work or started feeling pinched for time, which ultimately is what happened. I like the concept work that I did for the invented history though!

I started by feeling out some ideas for repeatable motifs that I could pull from the comic. Since I wasn’t drawing anything directly from the book, I still wanted readers to be able to make that visual connection. I also wanted there to be some visual link between the three time periods, and settled on four red dots (for the elephants’ eyes), paired braids (for their main feeler arms/trunks), the triangular “assemblage” symbol, and some kind of draping brood-skin shape that would be associated with motherhood in some way.

You can also see me working out some stuff like “how to abstract that weird spaceship from the opening into a 2-D symbol” and “how many points does a Simon-Roy-style star have?” (it actually varies, but I think the stories set on Altamira all use 4-pointed stars), as well as what materials would be available (leather, bone, something very like wood, probably pigment derived from the planet’s yellow soil). 

The local mammal-equivalents don’t seem to have hair, but the ticks at least have quills. The idea of quillwork suggested a Native American inspiration for clothing and decoration, and since the first human settlements would likely have gone up near the shores of the Great Lake that pointed me towards the First Nations people of the Pacific Northwest.

Since the world of the comic appears to be very hot, I tried to communicate the idea of an advancing material culture without leaning on the crutch of “more clothes = more advanced”. My main angle was that in the Later Period the clothing could be more embellished and less practical, to reflect increasing wealth and specialization. Going by the comic, the standard seems to be that you can be totally comfortable in a loincloth, but that my prospective Oxpecker Lake Culture would have inherited the crew’s taboo against women displaying their breasts (the dresses seen here evolved out of the undershirts worn by the female crewmembers in the comic). Dusting red ochre skin dye on the shoulders and hands to mimic the pattern of the crew’s spacesuits then became a way to decorate oneself while still wearing minimal clothing.

I went through several different iterations of a formal shawl or wrap that could symbolically mimic Elephant brood-skin, as well as what they would be used for. I eventually settled on the multi-purpose blanket. Highly detailed to be given as gifts or to form dowries, with the elders draping them about the shoulders of the young in symbolic mimicry of how Elephants nurture their offspring.

Here I started working on ritual masks and costumes for the Later Period ritual dance. The events of the comic are now re-told in ritual dance during yearly solstice festivals. The three Elephants are represented by large, heavy, and expensive costume/puppets, whose fringed shawls (again reminiscent of brood-skin) and tasseled trunks move with the dancer. Each of the three Elephants from the comic would by now have accumulated various symbolic associations, as seen in the masks’ crests (meant to resemble assemblages) and robe decorations.

Settler and Tick masks are less elaborate, allowing the dancers more freedom of movement for athletic displays as they act out the story around the Elephant dancers. The male and female Settler masks are based off of the first two humans to approach an Elephant in the comic, while the War-Maker is based on that one guy with an atlatl. I imagined that in the mythic version of the story the last Tick bargains for its life with the War-Maker, teaching him how to kill his brothers in order to take their possessions.

Really surpassing my brief now, I started thinking about wall art for an Oxpecker tribal leader's grand hall. In a hypothetical 4th Age, new god images are emerging: filling similar roles but less 1-1 in their symbolism, and more work is going into glorifying the accomplishments of the Lake Culture – by this time now only one of several extant human cultures in the region. Notably the ship of the original settlers has been conflated with the boats that the people of the Lake Culture use to traverse the Great Lake. Many people probably believe that the spaceship was a fanciful metaphor. The double triangle, which originally meant "Elephant's Assemblage" is now a generalized one for "Land/Home". Possibly the conflation has religious origins: the visible world is Greatest’s assemblage.

I imagined that by the later period the humans would have spread out from their original home on the lake. Some people would move into the forests as hunter-gatherers (the Elephants appear to eat entire trees in the comic, which would regularly open up large forest clearings that could be exploited for game and fast-growing shrubs), some might have crossed the great lake, and some might build huge towers along Elephant migratory paths where they could latch on, hunt for ticks, and then hop off at the next tower. I like the idea that the Elephants would appreciate these humans, like reef animals visiting a cleaner-fish station, but that other humans would consider them unclean due to their diet of blood (by way of the Ticks, which at this point have been demonized).

Each culture might interpret the "two trunks, four eyes, red shoulders and hands" elements that I'd settled on for the original culture in different ways. Their religion and culture has probably morphed too: does the Lake Culture consider themselves superior, as the original humans? Are the Far Shore traders a Lake Culture splinter group who sailed across the lake, or are they the descendants of a different group of survivors who floated across in the aftermath of the Eviction? Are their weird island castaway cultures descended from a handful of people who floated away on a log at the end of the comic? How long until somebody realizes that megafauna are made of very large quantities of meat and other useful materials? Can Elephant and Man ever learn to communicate, perhaps in some far future Age?

At this point I’d realized that my original idea was much too ambitious and I tried a few layouts to prove it. We can also see some me working out different bonfire building methods and trying to work out a few steps of the ritual dance – a big development here is the idea that the elephant costume heads would be more like a hat rather than a mask to give the dancer added height. I also attached marionette poles to the end of the trunk tassels so they could be used for big, stately gestures in the dance.

The last bits of development went into the dress and appearance of the Stone Age storyteller. I scaled the headdress back to a simpler four reddish stones and four tassels (two long manipulator arms and two short feeder ones). Her dress is a costly garment representing her respected position within the group. It’s made of the skins of several animals and decorated with their bones, quills, and teeth (the ticks have them, it’s gross!), as well as shells from the Great Lake. I hypothesized a Tapir animal – essentially a larger ground-dwelling relative of the Tick – to provide the settlers with meat and hides. This conveniently let me base all the colors and stuff off of the animals in the comic.

Lastly, here is the full set of cave paintings, since in the final image I prioritized atmosphere over legibility. Read from left to right they retell the story of the comic in simplified form. Due to the way I organize my color photoshop painting I wanted this linework on a separate layer from the final drawing, seen below. Huge thanks to the ancient artists of Lascaux Cave for the inspiration!

Huge thanks to Tom Kilian for this post, and all this marvelous world-building - I absolutely love it all! A whole new world, implied through a single piece...

[annoyedbreadstick]

"There's one of them in every time. Somebody who's willing to help, who always has the necessary information. It's easy to spot them, if you know what to look for. A Guide always has short fluffy brown hair, and androgynous clothing. They have no makeup(or little makeup, depending on the time), and tired eyes. But most of all, they give off an aura that draws time anomalies to them.

After the Federation legalized heavily regulated time travel, time agents were trained in what to do when heading to the past. We would always appear near a Guide, and though confused, they would always relay the basic information needed to ground oneself.

Manipulating the fabric of time is not a precise science, which is why Guides are required. Unlike some fictional works, we cannot simply set coordinates and a date and be on our merry way.

My name is Mæřÿ, and this is the story of my first Travel.

I had manifested in what looked to be somewhere in the 2020s, during the height of the quarantine, judging by the scarcity of people out and about. That would make finding the Guide slightly harder than usual.

I let myself wander around until I felt a pull in one direction, then let myself be led by the feeling. I came across an unassuming house, with blue paint and an untended lawn. I knocked on the door, feeling apprehensive about meeting my first Guide. Had I got the wrong house? Were my senses wrong?

My thoughts were interrupted by the door opening; just a crack, but enough to see to the other side. A child stood there, looking up at me.

"Could you bring your mother or father to the door?" I asked him. The boy nodded and scurried off back into the house, leaving the door open. I peered inside, seeing if I could catch some hint of the year. The living room, from what I could see, was cluttered with toys, shoes, and other debris. A bowl of popcorn sat forgotten in front of the television, gone stale a long time ago.

The child returned with his mother in tow, this time wearing a cloth mask decorated with a tie-dye pattern of red and blue. The mother wore a mask as well, though this hers was paper, resembling a surgical mask.

"Yes?" She asked me, her voice weary. Her hair was cut short and tied into a ponytail, frizzy from LA of care.

"Apologizes, but if I may inquire about the year?" I questioned, confident she was the Guide I seeked.

She sighed, recognizing the question from years of experience. "2020, during the Coronavirus quarantine. The date is February 2, the current president is Joe Biden. The iPhone 12 is coming out this year, and there's a store with a bathroom you can use to finetune your time about 15 minutes from here.'

I thanked her, but as I moved to leave, she stopped me.

"Do I get a pay?"

"What?" I asked her, not understanding her question.

"A pay. I've been doing this since I was 16, shouldn't I be counted as an employee?"

"Guides aren't counted as employees, they're a Timelinal Constant."

"Well we should be. I have to keep track of all the relevant political data at all times, just in case one of you comes knocking at my door. Shouldn't I be counted as an employee?"

"Ma'am, without you Missions couldn't be completed, this is an obligation." Her child looked between us before walking back inside, evidently bored of the conversation.

"If I'm so important, I should get a paycheck, shouldn't I? If the whole future rests on my shoulders or whatever bullshit I'm being told this time, shouldn't I be compensated for my work?"

I dug around in my pouch before handing her the business card for the Time Travel Federation. "I don't know Ma'am, but you can contact my higher-ups if you'd like."

She took the card, staring at the number on it. "And this will work in my time?" She asked skeptically.

"Yes, it's a separate line. It shouldn't be affected by time or distance. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go. I've wasted too much time already."

I walked away to complete my mission, leaving the Guide with the business card.

"And that, dear friend, is how I unionized all the Guides."

Ĵæme§ looked at me skeptically.

"Mæřÿ, you work in IT."

You once made a promise to yourself: if you ever met a time traveler, it wouldn't be a big deal. You’d tell them the date, the most important political conflict, a recent technology, and send them on their way. You now encounter a time traveler nearly every week.

[parasolladyansy]

Hello, I hope you’re having a wonderful day/afternoon/night! I love your art style. It’s so cute >w<

Could you give any tips for beginner artists both in drawing for characters and Pokemon?

Hi-ho! I can try ouo;

⬆️ Made in 2010 - the oldest Pokémon drawing I have on file (though I have much older ones on paper!)

First tip I’d say is to practice! ✍🏻

I’ve been drawing since I was very little, & that included Pokémon fanart. There was a point where I was drawing every single day for years - I have all these journals where instead of writing through my thoughts & feelings, I just filled it to the brim with drawings & even little comics!

They don’t need to be perfect, or better than anyone’s - they just have to be yours. 🩵

⬆️ Made in 2016 - I started trying for a softer look with a lighter, blue line-art instead of the thick black one.

Getting into the more technical art stuff I learned in college, drawing just about anything becomes easier when we break them down into shapes.

Humans, Pokémon, or even shadows, ripples, & water patterns can be broken down into basic shapes that you build up with added details. Like here: we can see circles, ovals, semi-circles, & all kinds of angular shapes.

Take a look at the Pokédex, & try seeing the different shapes that make up each Pokémon. Even the most complex Pokémon in the ‘dex becomes less daunting when we break them down into manageable shapes. Same for human characters.

⬆️ Made in 2023 - from Sword x Shield

Another (less technical) tip I have is study other artists you like to help you find your style!

When I made the step to go line-less, I took a lot from my love for Impressionism (eg. Monet), & was also very much inspired by K. O’Neil’s Tea Dragon books, especially in Sword x Shield.

I think it’s safe to say just about every single artist to pick up a pencil was influenced by someone. The “father of manga” himself, Osamu Tezuka, was inspired by early Disney animations - if you look closely, you can see it in his earlier work. It goes both ways, as we see Disney emulate Tezuka (to the point of plagiarism >_> Lion King)

On that note, try not to feel bad if your style starts off looking too much like the original artist’s - I think that’s natural. After all, we artists emulate what we see, what we like, & how we see those things.

What matters is building on it, finding those personal touches to make it yours. ^_^ Like with Pokémon, you can go by the original art Ken Sugimori & the other official artists, or take your own spin on it (exaggerate features, play with color, etc).

⬆️ Made in 2024 - a little less than a year ago & I already draw Sora a little differently!

I think art is a journey, & you can only stand to improve over time & practice. I’m still refining my work, & sometimes that means crumpling it up & starting again.

Maybe the most important tip I have is: don’t give up.

There were a lot of people who wanted me to quit drawing. I’ve had my doodle ripped up by a teacher, told I wouldn’t amount to anything, told that no matter what I did someone will always be better than me.

Even through all that, I never gave it up, because it’s something I love. I could happily draw all day (though sometimes I have slow periods, like where I’m at right now), & drawing helped me get through the darkest times as well as celebrate when things were good. ^_^

So don’t give up. Take breaks if you need it, but don’t give up if it’s something you love & gives you life. 🩵

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Ha…I realize that’s probably a lot deeper than what you meant to ask. I said I’d “try” lol 😂 I hope this helps you all the same 😅

[neyafromfrance95]

i always wondered what would be the most satisfactory way to wrap YOU up and lowkey assumed that the finale would not be some sort of perfect culmination to the whole story.

and boy, was i wrong...

the finale of YOU s5 was perfect. it surpassed my expectations for a great ending bc it went beyond the show's assumed formula and became a self-aware, raw and surprisingly feminist meta commentary on the show itself, joe goldberg, his victims and the real world realities of the victim/predator dynamics.

throughout the season, i wondered what was the point of introducing a character like louise. was it to show once again that joe will always find a flaw in his "soulmate" and continue the pattern of his predatory behavior?

yes, but more importantly, it all clicked and made sense when the finale revealed the point of louise to be about HER, not joe.

louise is not a random chick whose life and story is split in "before joe and after joe". she is an echo of beck. through louise we see that beck was not just a tragic heroine in joe's story, she was someone who left an impact on people in her life such as louise.

she is not the perfect victim or heroine. she has some moments of internalized misogyny, thinking that she is smarter than those women who fall for toxic men. she believes that she can fix joe. she fantasizes about being saved and dominated by him, giving him control to build her up bc she does not know who she is and has self-esteem issues, struggling to love herself without a lover's validation.

in some sense, she represents joe's perfect victim; in some sense, she represents the audiences who romanticize him. and she is the one who snaps out and sees herself clearly, thus seeing joe as he truly is and becoming his ultimate reckoning.

and with her, we see joe as he is as well. a pathetic misogynist with mommy issues who does not accept anything he deems selfish in women he preys upon. a predator who kills his prey once she does not reflect the image of himself to him he wants to see. someone who does not take accountability for harming others, always making excuses for himself. his mask is finally off, he is naked.

once louise confronts him and takes her voice back, demanding joe to admit the truth, the story takes off the romantic lenses that reminded more or less intact throughout the show and turns into a pure horror of brutality and violence.

but joe can not kill louise. metaphorically, it's bc he does not have power over her anymore, she found her own power in herself. power that is found through self-acceptance and love for all the victims who were silenced by joe. she declares that she is not bronte built in his fantasy, she is louise.

i actually teared up when louise had a vision of beck autographing her books and then it cut to an older lady, showing the lifetime that was taken away from her.

in the end, we recognize what joe refuses to recognize - that he is responsible for his loneliness. yet, he is not wrong when he breaks the forth wall and confronts the audiences for participating the culture that blames the victims and gives power to the abusers.

[elysiansparadise]

I love your content, you write so beautifully and passionately. The depth and understanding you have is so refreshing to read. I have an 8th house sun too! May I please request a post on pluto transiting ascendant in Aquarius :) xx

Hello my dear, thanks for loving my content. I truly appreciate your words. Here I have some observations.

Aquarius Pluto (T) in the 1st house

There will be a profound shift in your self-perception, which will eventually be reflected in others as well. You will recognize patterns you've acquired over time that don't belong to you, things you may have adopted from the environment you grew up in or the one you interact with, and you will work hard to put all of that aside so you can become the person you want to be. You will realize that there are many things that don't belong to you, things you weren't really, and it will be a period in which you will free yourself from patterns, philosophies, and ideals that don't represent you. You will take a step toward authenticity.

You'll detect patterns not only in yourself, but also in those around you. Don't be surprised to feel like you're the one putting an end to certain "chain" or inherited behaviors.

You may face a period of introspection in which you may prefer to rely on yourself and/or in which your social battery is easily depleted. You will need more time alone to connect with yourself, figure out what you want, and who you want to become.

You'll have a stronger presence, and many may perceive you as unapproachable. You'll often have to make the first move, as people may feel intimidated. This also shows magnetism. 

“You've changed a lot,” some might say about you. I see it more as an “awakening,” realizing what things or people you want to let go of, what things you want to change in your life, and what you want to get rid of. A purge at its finest.

Life changes daily, for us and for others. But this transit shows us that while you will be decisive when it comes to initiating changes, those that are unexpected or beyond your control can create a lot of discomfort, and you may be reluctant to go with the flow.

A path to reconnecting with your true self, the search for who you are, and the conviction that you will no longer allow anyone else to project themselves onto you. This, in turn, will lead you to rethink and create new boundaries. It won't be an easy journey, since often what makes us realize this is the experience itself. You may experience things or meet people who will teach you the importance of standing your ground and honoring yourself.

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A reminder too, that often the loudest "straight" voices who try to smear queer people as child abusers, are actually child abusers themselves. For example, I saw this yesterday: Nicola Murray, a leading Scottish TERF has just been found "guilty of three charges of assault, two sexual assaults, two of indecent communication, one indecent assault and two offences of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, all committed against minors between December 2002 and August 2022." That's a clear pattern of CSA and child abuse over 20 years.

"Murray was a lead voice last week when the UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman should be based on biological sex under equalities law, meaning, for instance, that transgender women, who are biologically male but identify as women, can be excluded from women-only spaces."

"Murray, from Stanley, Perthshire, set up Brodie’s Trust seven years ago claiming she suffered two miscarriages after being abused by a former partner. It operated in Perth, Stirling and Dundee but widened services after trans critical group Let Women Speak donated £2,500 and supporters handed over more than £1,000 during an internet cash drive in 2021" according to The Scottish Sun.

"As of yesterday, Observer columnist and leader writer Sonia Sodha, LGB Alliance co-founder Malcolm Clarke, Rosie Duffield MP, For Women Scotland and many other very high-profile “Gender Critical” figures were still following Nicola Murray on X/Twitter." "Murray is one of Scotland’s best-known anti-trans activists; she was one of the key figures in the witch-hunt against Mridul Wadhwa, the trans woman driven out of her job at a rape crisis centre in Edinburgh." https://www.planetrans.org/2025/04/anti-trans-activist-nicola-murray-found.html

Similar with "gender critical" (ie transphobic) icon, radical feminist Germaine Greer, who is a rape apologist and a great fan of CSA, having written a whole book (The Beautiful Boy) about her "sexual appreciation" of minors, where she encourages the reader to sexualise young boys, saying: "A boy is only a boy for a very brief space. He has to be old enough to be capable of sexual response [this can happen from around 5 years old] but not yet old enough to shave [ie not yet a teenager]. This window of opportunity is not only narrow, it is mostly illegal." [emphases mine] These people aren't interested in protecting kids - they're interested in doing what they please, including vilifying innocent queer people with no reasonable basis or grounding in truth or actual events.

LGBT people, I need you to know that any “pedophile execution bill” passed in the US is meant to put you, personally, to death. When the right says “groomer,” they’re talking about you. When they say “predator,” they’re talking about you. When they say “pedophile,” they’re talking about you. Any actual child sex abusers who are convicted and executed would be, to them, a happy accident, a cherry on top of a law that’s meant to exterminate anyone who deviates from the cisgender, heterosexual norm.

[theonlyonesora]

The Quiet Equation - Part 3

Toto Wolff x You

The kiss changed everything.

Not because it was rushed, not because it was scandalous—it wasn’t. It was slow, intentional. Like he was memorizing the shape of your mouth. Like he was answering every unspoken word you’d never had the nerve to say out loud.

But it was what happened after that defined it.

Toto didn’t pull away quickly.

He lingered—his forehead pressed lightly to yours, the weight of his palm resting against your neck, his thumb just behind your ear. And he said nothing. You said nothing. The silence was full of meaning, and for the first time, it didn’t feel awkward.

It felt like trust.

That night, he drove you home.

No driver. No team car. Just him behind the wheel of a sleek black AMG, one hand resting on the gearshift, the other occasionally brushing your knee, like it needed to confirm this was real.

You didn’t go to your flat.

You went to his.

The house in Oxfordshire was all soft lighting and clean lines, stone walls and quiet wood—nothing flashy, but built with taste. Like everything he touched. His life was designed to be both efficient and beautiful.

He gave you a sweatshirt. Not one of the sleek ones with logos—just an old one. A little faded. From before Mercedes. Maybe before everything. It smelled like him. Musk, clean cotton, and a trace of bergamot.

He made you tea again—this time in a real mug, in a real kitchen, where you stood barefoot and blinking in disbelief while he gently set the cup into your hands and kissed the corner of your mouth like it was second nature.

You talked that night. Not about the team. Not about projects.

About Vienna, and your childhood. About the first car you ever loved. About being too smart, too quiet, too invisible until someone finally noticed—and how terrifying and comforting it was to be seen.

He told you, softly, “You don’t intimidate me. You inspire me.”

And you fell asleep with your head on his chest, your fingers tucked beneath the hem of his t-shirt, the steady drum of his heartbeat grounding you like a lullaby.

.

In the weeks that followed, it became a pattern. You still showed up to the factory like nothing had changed. Still wore your pass. Still took notes. Still kept your mind sharp and your words few.

But Toto saw everything.

His hand on your lower back as you passed each other in the corridor. The warm smile he reserved only for you when you walked into a meeting. The way he lingered in doorways just to talk for two more minutes.

He'd leave handwritten notes on your desk sometimes. Folded precisely.

You’ve ruined my ability to concentrate, and I don’t mind. —T

Or:

Dinner. 8pm. The place with the lemon risotto you pretended not to love. —T

And your favorite:

The way your brain works is art. I want to watch you think forever. —T

There were stolen kisses in quiet hallways.

Your knees brushing beneath private lunch tables.

A night when it rained so heavily you were stuck in the wind tunnel hangar together, and he just—pulled you in, arms wrapped around you as the storm howled outside. No words. Just breath, closeness, the faint scent of engine oil and cologne.

When the lights flickered, you didn’t even flinch.

Toto kissed the top of your head and whispered, “Safe with me, always.”

And in moments when it felt like too much—like the world might frown on what was blooming between two very different people—you found shelter in the fact that none of it felt wrong.

.

On your last official day at Mercedes, he took you to a quiet lake on the edge of the countryside. No one around. Just wind in the trees, a blanket laid out in the grass, and a little picnic basket packed by someone who cared.

You both watched the sunset.

He brushed a strand of hair behind your ear and said, “I know I wasn’t supposed to find this. Not here. Not now. But I did.”

You looked at him. That tall frame. That careful expression. That truth living behind his eyes.

And you whispered, “Me too.”

He didn’t kiss you this time.

He held you.

And somehow, that was more intimate than anything else could’ve been.

Parte 4 - Soon

[astrolook]

💬🌟 Talking Planets: How Your Synastry Speaks Volumes 🗣️💞

Note: These are all based on my personal observations and patterns I’ve noticed over the years. Western astrology based. Let me know in the comments if any of this hits home for you! And feel free to leave what doesn’t resonate.

Synastry placements in the 8th or 12th are my least favorite. First off, the 8th house is not just about sex, and honestly, it’s overrated. The 8th house is about what the house person can offer like sex, resources, finances, or all of it. Not just sex. I don't agree with astrologers who's like "Mars/Venus/Sun in 8th house overlay?, Wow! It's intense, karmic bond...bla..bla..bla" or some $#!T.

Most 8th house synastry I’ve seen is either one-sided, purely sexual, or has that gold digger vibe. The planet person usually wants something from the house person.

12th house overlays are heavily one-sided too. If it’s mutual, kind of like the 8th house, it can get toxic fast. If I’m really looking for intimacy, I’d check the 2nd,4th, 5th, or 7th house overlays.

8th and 12th house placements, in both synastry and composite, usually show up in hot, chaotic relationships that burn out pretty soon. These overlays are also common in gold digger setups, sugar mommy/daddy situations, "convenience" relationships, marrying for money and all that. Both 8th and 12th is not SOULMATE BOND.

Now with the aspects, personally, I don’t consider synastry aspects with more than a 3° orb. It’s just not as effective, at least from what I’ve seen over the years. Anything under 3° really shows up in real life, good or bad.

Also, conjunctions are seriously overrated when it comes to relationships, yes but it also point to no growth and stuck in the same place but when it comes to family members, friendships, etc conjunctions are great aspects to have and trines too. But what I’ve noticed is, people who had a lot of trines and squares in their synastry ended up having relationships or marriages that were not only successful, but also exciting, balanced, and helped both people grow individually. Like real soul growth.

And let’s be clear, just because you have something like Venus square Ascendant in synastry doesn’t mean the other person finds you unattractive or ugly. People always try to oversimplify these things.

Every aspect, overlay, or placement whether it’s in synastry, composite, or natal has multiple interpretations. It might resonate, or it might not. But there are so many layers. Am seeing often that Venus square ASC interpreted as Venus finding the ASC ugly / unattractive or aren't their type. Nope, there's more to that.

Like, Venus square Ascendant could mean:

Venus finds you attractive, but your style or habits are a bit off to them but they’re still into you anyway.

They’re genuinely not attracted to you, and that’s just what it is and it's the most common interpretation I have seen out there..

Venus is like, “You’re not even my type, but I don’t know why I’m into you... but here I am.”

Venus feels insecure around you, thinks you’re out of their league and doesn't know how to approach you and fear of rejection too..

Venus is intrigued because you’re totally different from the people they’ve dated before.

Venus finds you exotic or intimidating maybe you’re from a different background, or just someone they never imagined being into, but they are. Like a forbidden, unreachable kind of thing.

Do you see the difference now? It’s never just one meaning. Astrology is like peeling an onion. The more you peel the deeper you get.

Signs work in a way that’s way more straightforward than people think. If you’re a Gemini Moon, you’re gonna naturally vibe with other Gemini Moons, Suns, Venuses, or Mars placements, no matter where they fall in the chart. It just clicks.

Take my earlier example about Venus square Ascendant and if Venus is in the 8th house in Gemini squaring your Ascendant in Virgo, that can actually get along pretty well. Venus might see the Ascendant as a sexy librarian they’d wanna go out with and Venus be like "I kinda feel insecured but damn she/he is sexy, would they even look at me?". Totally different from Venus in the 8th house in Capricorn squaring an Ascendant in Aries. In that case, Venus in Capricorn would find the Aries Ascendant super exotic and alluring, but also probably a bit intimidating. It’s not as comfortably aligned as the Gemini example as it’s more of an intense, magnetic attraction. Venus is like, “I can’t explain it, but I’m drawn to you.”

So, signs matter just as much as the placements. The vibe changes completely depending on the sign involved. This is how I read synastry.

Aspects don't exist in a vacuum.

When reading a synastry overlay or aspect, even in natal, we have to look at where the planet is actually falling. For example, going back to my earlier point about Venus square Ascendant, the surface-level aspect alone doesn’t tell the full story. Venus square Asc in general is one thing, but Venus in the 8th house squaring Asc in Libra is a completely different vibe than Venus in the 8th squaring Asc in Capricorn.

That placement matters.

When I’m reading synastry, composite, or natal charts, I always look at where the planets are and what house they’re in when I’m reading aspects. Like, instead of just saying “your Venus conjunct their Saturn,” I look at where that conjunction is happening. Because Venus conjunct Saturn in the 1st, 2nd, 5th or 11th house is not the same as Venus conjunct Saturn in the 8th or 12th.

If it’s happening in the 8th or 12th… yeah, no thanks. See you next lifetime. But if it’s in houses like the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 7th or 11th or something with more grounding or shared values, there’s actually potential there.

It’s not just what aspect you have, it’s where it lands. That’s what really gives the context.

Also, reading synastry like “Sun in 1st house overlay” isn’t enough. That’s just the general version and it’s honestly basic like a default theme on your phone. I’ve already made posts on Moon and Sun house overlays, but if you really want to understand how it actually plays out in your chart, you have to look deeper.

Like, instead of just saying “your Sun is in their 1st house,” it should be “your Sun in 1st house Gemini falls on their 9th house Gemini.” That’s how I read synastry. That’s when the picture becomes clear. You’ll actually start to see what’s going on between two people, instead of guessing based on default interpretations.

It makes interpreting way easier too. Those general meanings might or might not resonate, but when you look at both people's chart placements like that, it hits. It’ll either confirm things or call you or your partner out on stuff that’s hidden or not being talked about. That’s the kind of synastry reading that actually tells the truth.

Also, if there are too many Moon aspects or Venus aspects to the partner, but the other person doesn’t have as many Venus/Moon aspects back to yours, it could be a sign of unrequited love or just a crush that’s not going to really develop into something deeper. It’s a one-sided vibe, and those rarely turn into anything long-term or fulfilling.

Similarly, if there are a lot of Sun aspects to the other person’s chart, it means the Sun person’s identity is probably way too tied to the other person’s validation. Over time, this can lead to some unhealthy dynamics where the Sun person becomes codependent, constantly needing the other person’s approval to feel good about themselves. It’s all about balance, otherwise it’s a recipe for emotional burnout and codependent behavior.

So, that’s all for today, go away now! ✌️😎🌙

Wanna go deeper into the layers of your placements? DM me for a complete astrology reading or a 5 year/8 year marriage report or synastry reading🌙💬 and check out my pinned post for pricing + details 💫💸

Let’s decode your cosmic chaos together ⭐

[mairella]

★ ⠀⠀⠀⠀BARRYS!SISTER!READER

warnings: mentions of drugs, illegal street racing, stripper job, prostitution, toxic relationships

A flick of Anora Mikheeva, a pinch of Jennifer Check ( except she does eat boys, Rafe can tell you all about that.. ), Teal Van Doren to whoever has read Royal Elite Series and Nikova Banks from Devil’s Night. Georgina Sparks and Katherine Pierce when it comes to getting what she wants, which doesn’t take much. Maddy Perez absolutely. Fiona Gallagher on her good days, because she has done a lot for her family. Raquelle and Jade West.

BARRYS!SISTER!READER⠀⠀⠀⠀shes hoodies and oversized jackets, wears leather, tank tops with insults on ‘em, flare jeans, jean shorts, black leather knee high boots, rose patterned tights, minimal but silver jewelry, hoodies with a skull printed, or a snake, she has a pet snake called Lucifer which her mother named after she died, but she calls it Hissifer as a child, trainers, oversized shirts, black leather and lace, tights, tube tops, unapologetically dresses like a hooker, denim jeans with a thong poking out.

BARRYS!SISTER!READER⠀⠀⠀⠀smells of cocaine, cigarettes, leather, oud sometimes, earthy, smokey…

BARRYS!SISTER!READER⠀⠀⠀⠀who street races to get racks, doesn't drug deal but always likes a bit of coke up her nostrils, has a weird obsession with snakes that kinda freaks out her brother barry.

BARRYS!SISTER!READER⠀⠀⠀⠀bitchy, toxic, aggressive, hot tempered, brutal with her words, and the reckless wild card, always putting up the tough front, she trusts no one, not even her own brother, in her mind? she's on her one, even with family. a bit too psycho for her own good, when she's in a relationship, she's a bit overbearing even if she doesn't mean to. years of trauma that makes her jealous and with the constant fear of losing

BARRYS!SISTER!READER⠀⠀⠀⠀started racing from the age of fifteen to make her own money because she knew she couldn't rely on her brothers drug bs, so she illegally street races, which usually makes her end up in fights with people over money and who's winning or not, she comes home with bruises on her face sometimes or she doesn't make it at all. everyday's like a war zone.

BARRYS!SISTER!READER⠀⠀⠀⠀secretly hooks up with her brothers customers and those who he owes money to, sometimes they don't even come for the drugs, they come for her. but it's difficult to get them off her when she's done with them. has personal beef with ruthie.

BARRYS!SISTER!READER⠀⠀⠀⠀she talks to herself a lot in the mirror, barry thinks she's crazy or something, but really it's just her letting things out, she has a tendency to break a vase in her path so yeah. her and barry are really distant, they do care about each other but they're so busy wit their dirty work, barry keeps her out of trouble because they already got enough problems, when she's asleep, he cleans up her cuts from the fights she gets into because he thinks it'd be weird to do it when shes awake because they're not really affectionate, they usually bicker or bully each other, he doesn't tell her about how he secretly checks up on her while she's racing from the sidelines, he didn't know getting rafe to check up on her would lead to something sparking between them..

BARRYS!SISTER!READER⠀⠀⠀⠀hooks up with rafe on her free time, but doesn't know how possessive he is over her, they have a deep situationship, that basically outlines their whole relationship, rafe gets turn on by her shouting at him or fighting anyone, when they're arguing, he hardly pays attention to the argument, he's just staring at her like he's turned on but she thinks it's because he can't take her seriously, he always comes back to her whenever there's an argument with Sofia or Sarah or Ward to "let off some steam", they have a sexual relationship with HEAVY strings attached they just don't want to acknowledge it, a bit toxic but it’s the reality of most relationships x

BARRYS!SISTER!READER⠀⠀⠀⠀she has a few secrets… she used to strip a club from figure eight because she knew it’d pay better, it was when she and her brother were struggling with money and she knew she had to do something about it so she would leave during the night and sneak back up in the daylight, years of sneaking around helped with that, but she lied to Barry saying it was a job at the country club, which she also paid a worker there to LIE for her, even on the days she wasn’t so comfortable or when she was tired she still went to her job, she did both private venues and ones for the simple public eye. but then stopped after street racing, she still steals as she used to when she was younger, hides a gun under her bed since 18 in case anyone she stole from came for her, was in and out jail for burglary, graffiti and home robberies but it’s a known secret for Barry since he was enlisted in an army.

BARRYS!SISTER!READER⠀⠀⠀⠀she hid that side of hers that actually had a hobby which was art, and she found that out a few times after she graffitied a guys house for snitching on her to Officer Shroupe about having a gun, she also got arrested for a day for assaulting ( as in punching ) an officer. but because of her criminal record and because of her not exactly having a full education she doesn’t have any ambitions for her talent, so she just keeps it as a hobby to do whenever she’s not working or sleeping with her brothers customers…

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you will always be loved, barrys sister, even if you’re a bit scary, you are very much a real person