#they’re all places that i know i can go to and find updated info on palestine

[pollenallergie]

look i dislike idolizing celebrities but when i tell you that alana hadid means everything to me, i fucking mean it.

[milkweedtussocktubers]

An Extensive "What Now?" List

So, I made a list. A very extensive "Trump Is President-Elect. What Now?" list. And it's fucking ten pages long and I know it's incomplete, because I am white, and multi-gender, and own my own home, and live in a blue state with enshrined abortion rights and so honestly can't know everything that needs to be on that list. BUT I'm posting what I've got so far. I'll also post the link, because it's a Google Doc that I'm continuously updating and sharing. PLEASE do not take my word as gospel - comment, add, share, spread, correct, message me. This is just a jumping off point, because so many of my friends wanted an action plan. All links except the What If Trump Wins? website are credited to @creature-wizard; they don't know it, but I read their posts and find their work very helpful, so I hope they don't mind that I included some of their links and info. Better than reinventing the wheel.

So THIS is the link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10zzAchLDd_NeqpWQXixmNQpH6X5ZsGpHRVsojx38Las/edit?tab=t.0

TRUMP IS PRESIDENT-ELECT. NOW WHAT?

I put together a list of ideas that I hope folks find inspiration in. This can be a personal action plan, a path towards resistance, or just an opportunity to feel a bit better. I welcome all thoughts, suggestions and changes. Please note that I am writing this from the perspective of a white, multi-gender farmer, and that will color and inhibit my ability to see certain issues or solutions. This is not a complete list, but can be a jumping-off point.

I've found this website incredibly helpful: https://whatiftrumpwins.org. All links found within this document are credited to @creature-wizard on Tumblr. 

COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SERVICE 

Community ties are the most important things we’ve got - that’s where our strength lies. All those small-scale mutual aid projects? That’s what’s going to make life possible on the day to day. So: 

Take a deep breath, and knock on someone’s door. 

Check in with your neighbors - this can be a scheduled date, or just swinging by with an extra loaf of zucchini bread, or chatting over the garden fence. 

Offer to help someone with a simple task - cleaning gutters, building a raised bed, taking their dog to the vet.

Create a carpool system. 

Set up little libraries, freezers and fridges. 

Develop a list of ten local people you trust, with their contact information, and who you know will try to help you. Put the list in your phone, on your fridge, in your wallet. Put yourself on someone else’s list, and commit to it. 

Make friends and meet up with them on a regular basis. Have tea, cook together, go for walks, play video games. Just be there consistently. 

Open your house once a month for community get-togethers. Maybe these are queer/women/BIPOC-only safe spaces, maybe they’re street-wide potlucks. Maybe you make art while crying together. Maybe you binge-watch Lord of the Rings, eat popcorn and share joy.

Think about starting Swaps with your community. Swaps of clothing you don’t need anymore. Swaps of home-made food, seeds, plants or artwork. Swaps of household goods. Get yourself trading and sharing with each other. 

Get a roommate or two. It’ll help each of you save money, reduce loneliness, and might save someone from becoming unhoused. Don't feel obligated to retain that roommate if it's negatively impacting you. This is about a healthy present in a chaotic world, not a desperate act that results in abuse and destruction.

Libraries are funded in large part based on the number of cards they hand out, not books. Get a library card, even if you never use it. Many libraries let you apply online. If your library isn’t physically accessible, or you can’t safely leave your home but you have a cellphone, download the Libby app for books and audiobooks. It’s free, you just need your library card number. If you live or have an address in New York State, you can also get cards to the Brooklyn Public Library and NYC Public Libraries.

Places to volunteer: libraries, hospitals, schools, mental health hotlines, small farms and community gardens, animal shelters, food pantries, mutual aid organizations, medical clinics, harm reduction centers, fire stations, emergency rescue services. 

Advocate for handicapped accessibility in all public spaces. Does your library have a ramp? Your local co-op? Your house? Learn what your disabled community members needs are that are not being met, because it will get worse. 

Do you have skills that can contribute in new ways? For instance, if you're a great bike mechanic, I'll bet you can fix wheelchairs. If you're an electrician, you could help with your neighbor's solar system. If you're handy with a sewing machine, you can make flags and banners.

Keep it local - donate to the after-school music program in your town instead of, say, Planned Parenthood. National organizations will be getting a flood of funding from concerned citizens right now, but local organizations are often more effective and know their community’s needs more intimately.

If you want to participate but in person is too much, or not accessible, go to Zoom meetings. Call or email folks. Perform online tasks, or put up posters.

If you're not sure what you can offer, just ask what people need. Sometimes someone needs their dogs walked, or an emergency baby-sitter. Sometimes a non-profit needs someone to table at an event. Perhaps someone wants a logo designed, or just someone to keep them company. It doesn't have to seem big to you; it could still mean the world to someone else.

Online communities are just as important, and often more accessible. Make the space and time for those meet-ups, whether you’re messaging folks, playing video games together, or finding forums and inspiration. 

Become a safe person for those who need to go back in the closet, or who need to trust someone with their sexuality or gender. 

Run for local office, or sit on the school board. Be the opposing voice in a conservative group.

If you feel safe doing it: advertise. Put up every damn flag at your house except the American flag. Pride, Black Lives Matter, feminism, Earth first, land back - become a visible beacon of safety and hope. If you are still safe, now is NOT the time to go underground. Now is the time to find your people, and be someone for others. So flags, volunteering, barter, lending, carpooling, offering tea, offering your guest room. Make the connections.

The more we connect with and care for our neighbors, the more our neighbors will connect with and care for us. Let’s strengthen and widen our circles. 

*I recognize that for many, much of what I offer can be a genuine safety concern. Sometimes housemates are abusive. Sometimes neighbors threaten you with guns. Use your own discretion and trust your instincts. 

ENVIRONMENT

Small plots of ecological sanctuary make a huge difference. You can plant flowers, collect rainwater, start a compost bin, let your lawn grow, build a hedgerow. Stop spraying pesticides, pick up litter, plant a garden, research native species, celebrate milkweed…

Volunteer or donate to a local conservation organization. 

Visit a park or go for a hike. Visit a local protected zone and learn about the ecosystem with whom you live. Discover your watershed. 

Learn about local pollutants and advocate for protections. Check out your city’s water health publications. 

Question the installation of new businesses, factories and industries. How will they impact the air, water, soil and human health? Protest them with your friends - on a local level, it actually only takes a few hundred people to make waves. I’ve seen huge projects stopped because my friends sat in on every town hall meeting.

Become a citizen scientist - birdwatch, identify local plants and animals, track the weather and then report your findings to naturalist organizations. The Merlin App is a free app that matches birdcalls to the birds in your backyard, iNaturalist takes really accurate photos and identifies them. It can become a whole hobby that also helps maintain consistent scientific data. 

Get your generator in working order. Storms are gonna get worse and you'll need it when the lights go out. Batteries, light bulbs, candles. Get them now. Prepare as if for a blizzard or tornado.

Consider an air filter or a gas mask for after the Clean Air Act is repealed.

Find out whether or not you’re in a flood or hurricane zone, or if you will be in one as climate change continues. What can you do to prepare for or mitigate the damage?

MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH 

Remember that you are WORTHY of receiving gifts and help. Allow yourself to receive help with grace. ASK when you need help, even if you’re not quite sure what you need. 

Eat a lot of food and drink plenty of water; your stressed mindset will make you burn calories. 

Treat yourself. Maybe that means binging television, or buying a cute pair of earrings, or taking a bike ride to your favorite place, or resting in the bath with some fancy soaps. 

Don't isolate. Meet friends for coffee, or Ultimate Frisbee, or to learn to make a cake together. 

Create joy. 

         Don’t Hesitate by Mary Oliver

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

Greet the sun. Listen to the stars. Breathe with the trees. Lay in the grass. Cuddle a cat. Talk with the moon. Find a new book. Take up knitting. Make music. Journal. Make art. 

Have set days each week for long-distance friends, and check in with each other at least once a week. Send them care packages. Ask for care packages.

Accept that you will not do everything every day, that some days you will stay in bed until one, eat ice cream in your pajamas and just nap with the dog. That is real and beautiful. That chance to relax? That's something they're trying to take away from us. Rest and relaxation and hammocks and good books are all at risk, so enjoying them is also revolutionary. It's important to keep normalcy alive.

Think about your boundaries. Are you, for instance, comfortable housing someone in need? Comfortable helping someone through grief? It's okay if not. But find those boundaries so that you don't overtax yourself.

ART AND MEDIA

Download all of your favorite online media that feature queerness, whether it’s videos, fanfiction or artwork. If content featuring LGBTQ+ becomes listed as porn, and porn is banned, then sites like AO3 will have to wipe all of it from their listings. Contact the creators and see what support you can offer each other.

Find a list of banned books and obtain them somehow so that there are physical copies for when the online sites are shut down. 

Make your own art, and share it!

Don't be shy about your presence, and use art to make your presence known. Slap rainbow stickers on every telephone pole, spray paint a building wall with Black Lives Matter murals, knit a cozy sweater that doubles as a pronoun pin. Write a play that centers around the Land Back fights. Host an impromptu concert in the park, and invite the audience to donate to their local library fund.

PHYSICAL HEALTH AND REPRODUCTION 

Get a medical alert bracelet or have a medical alert card in your wallet. This way, no matter where you are, if you’re unconscious and sent to the ER, EMTs and staff know of your allergies and needs.  For instance, I’m allergic to penicillin, have low vitamin D and take St John’s Wort, a powerful herbal SSRI that could interfere with drugs. 

Find your state’s free Narcan programs, and request Narcan and drug testing strips so that you have them on hand if an emergency arises. 

Get a stockpile of COVID tests, decent masks, and if you plan to get the vaccines, do it now. 

Do not use a period tracking app; do nothing to alert the government to your reproductive medical needs. Unless it’s medically relevant, do not tell your doctor the date of your last menstrual cycle. Pay for all medical needs possible with cash, whether it’s Plan B off the shelf or a co-pay on a prescription. 

If you have any prescriptions, get them refilled as soon as possible. Get extras if you can.  

Get all your birth control needs met now. Implants and IUDs last for years, but if the IUD shifts, you will need medical assistance, so keep that in mind. 

Stock up on condoms and dental dams, get your STD screenings and all similar or related procedures, like colposcopies, mammograms and biopsies done now. 

Consider whether or not you need PrEP for HIV prevention. If you’re at risk but don’t have insurance, there are over-the-counter HIV test kits. They ARE pricey, though.

Stock up on pads and tampons or switch to cloth pads, period underwear or cups. They last at least six years. Cups take less water to clean, though. 

If you're planning to get yourself, your kids or your pets vaccines, do it before January. 

Those who don't want to have kids for the next four years and for whom it’s medically viable should consider a vasectomy. They're reversible, and no one gets stuck with an expected pregnancy. Tube tying is generally irreversible and reversal only has about a 50 percent success rate, depending on how the original procedure was done.

Stock up on basic first aid supplies and educate yourself in basic med training, like CPR, the Heimlich and how to treat pepper spray in the eyes (lots of water). Maybe you’ll find yourself at a protest and your friends get hurt, and you want to be able to help. Perhaps it’s an emergency and there are no safe options to call for help. 

Carry antihistamines with you, even if you don’t have allergies - the woman outside your local coffee shop may not be able to afford an Epi-Pen and you could be the one that keeps her alive long enough for the ambulance to get there. 

Get an umbrella, face mask,bullet-proof vest, and goggles, especially if you are considering joining a protest. Pepper spray, rubber bullets, shrapnel and real bullets are no joke and will be used against you. 

ECONOMICS AND RESOURCES

Invest in wood heating - real wood, not a pellet stove. When fuel prices go up, you will need to have a reliable source of heat. Best to get a wood cook stove. Investigate masonry or rocket stoves because they are very efficient and often can be built by a local company and don't rely on steel, which will also go up as more tariffs are implemented

Put some cash aside outside the bank. Put money in a high interest savings account, but NOT a CD.

Take your car to the mechanic now. Buy snow tires and get your vehicle in working order, because parts will skyrocket in price. 

In your trunk, put together a box of: motor oil, windshield fluid, a small empty gas tank, two gallons of fresh water, brake fluid, tire changing kit, tire pump - anything your car needs. Get two of everything. Have another crate with a blanket, gloves, $200 cash, dishware, a dog leash, some jars or Tupperware. That's for you, if you're in an emergency, want to bring home food, or need to rescue a stray dog. Put a snow shovel in, both for digging yourself out and for moving turtles.

Having a working bike with a tow-behind trailer is an asset, especially as gas and car parts rise in price.

Apply for food stamps, heating assistance, energy discounts, phone discounts, and health insurance now, so you have it for as long as possible before they cut programs.

Anyone close to being able to retire and collect on retirement should consider how that might impact their finances. It might be best to retire early, if you can collect.

Get all your fuel tanks filled now. Propane, oil, kerosene. Even gas stoves, and make sure they're in working order. 

Snail mail will be safer than online communications. Stock up on stamps; sometimes you can get discounts on the USPS website. If you’re sending a lot of packages, try PirateShip.com for discounts. 

FOOD AND WATER

Grow and preserve your own. Learn to cook and share with friends. Start or join a garden club or urban garden. Talk to farmers, read books, watch videos. 

Start looking around your area to see where you can wild harvest. Come Autumn, will you be able to harvest apples from the trees in the city park, or the old farmyard? Rose hips from the bushes along the sidewalk? In the Spring, dandelion leaves from your backyard?

Save seeds. Preserving specific varieties is good, but all seeds are valuable. 

Get a water filter, even if it’s just a water bottle filter. Save it for AFTER the Clean Water Act is slashed, unless your water is already too contaminated to wait. 

Find out how to buy local foods, because tariffs will raise the price of all international goods.

Stock up on food that has to cross a border, like black pepper, chocolate and coffee. Those are my top three, anyway. 

Find a space in your house to use as a root cellar, where it’s cool and damp and dark. Root crops, winter crops and fruits will store longer. You don't have to doomstock, but it's important to have a stored base until your community is strong enough to create its own food. So if during the Winter, you can't grow food, you have a few months supply until it's warm enough to grow again.

Learn how to grow sprouts or shoots on your windowsill. 

Small farms will become havens and targets. Grow with them, preserve, volunteer there, learn. 

Find a local source of meat, because the FDA will not be regulating food-borne illnesses anymore. And eggs, if possible. Buy half a cow or something.

Farmers markets will often accept FoodStamps as payment, and prices may be lower than the stores. 

Start sharing meals with neighbors - maybe you host dinner on Mondays and they host dinner on Thursdays. Lets you practice cooking and gives you a social life. 

PERSONAL AND PUBLIC SAFETY 

Unless they’re actively attacking, don’t trust anything the government says. But the minute they say they’re coming for migrants/trans folx/BIPOC - you go find those people, get them to safety, and pretend you never, ever, ever saw them. 

Do not tell figures of authority of your plans, your ideologies, your efforts to help those under attack. 

Take a self-defense course; the chances you have a weapon if you’re attacked are slim, so you need to learn how to use your body. 

Carry a lighter. It’s small, lightweight and legal with no permit. If you’re grabbed, then putting a flame - even a small one - to someone’s skin can make them let go long enough for you to run. 

Switch your Internet browser to DuckDuckGo. It blocks surveillance and ads. AdNauseam is  a browser extension that scrambles your data so it's less traceable, so the government can't see what you're doing. Get them both. They're free

Install blackout or dark curtains so that visual surveillance into your house is limited. I recognize the military has heat sensors, but your neighbor probably doesn't.

Be aware that Venmo and related apps tell the IRS what you're spending money on. Be careful what you use it for and how you record transactions. 

If making a “suspicious purchase,” like of Plan B, use cash. Wear a baseball cap, sunglasses, mask and contour makeup to hide your face from the security cameras.

Think about security proofing your windows, which makes them less breakable, or backglazing them with bulletproof glass.

The police, now more than ever, are an entity of the state. DO NOT CALL THEM, do not trust them. If you are raped or attacked, go straight to the hospital first. Do NOT shower. Go to the ER, tell them what happened and request a full rape kit. Go next to an independent organization that will help protect you and your rights, and help you decide next steps.

If there's something happening that you might otherwise have called the cops for, but there are people of color or trans individuals involved, DO NOT CALL THE COPS. They WILL kill trans and BIPOC folk. 

If you’re considering a divorce, and you’re serious about it, do it now. No-fault divorces are on the chopping block. 

If you're in the US, you can call 211 to help you find resources.

Crisis Text Line offers services to the US, Ireland, Canada, and the UK.

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is a US service offers a lot of information for sexual abuse survivors.

The Trevor Lifeline is a service for queer youth in the US.

If you're a minor, you may wish to read How To Escape Abusive Parents: A Guide For Minors.

If you're an adult, you may wish to read How To Escape Abusive Parents: A Guide For Adults.

You might search on Qwant for like something like "resources for people in abuse" or "abuse resources help" or "domestic violence survivors resources".

PROTESTING AND FIGHTING BACK

Make clear decisions and plans about what protests you'll be a part of and how. Tell only your most trusted friends where you are going, but be sure to tell them.

Obtain safety/riot gear, like masks, goggles and padding. Always carry fresh water for washing out wounds and pepper-sprayed eyes.

Practice that self defense you learned. What are the easiest moves?

Become someone's protest buddy, especially if they, for any reason, might be more vulnerable. Stick to one another and get each other out of dangerous situations. Come up with a safe word, and a safe way to communicate across a protest. A song, a wolf howl, a walkie talkie.

I know nothing about apps, but there are communication apps and social media out there that folx under oppressive regimes use and recommend. Find those.

Keep emergency contacts on standby if you're going to protest. Make sure there's someone who could help bail you out of jail or can help raise money for bail. 

Know your rights, and don’t give them anything when they arrest you. Make a list of lawyers and advocacy groups you feel safe trusting. 

Train in proper video and recording methods to track what happens and what the police do. 

If you're participating in a long term protest, plan properly for your health and the health of your home, partners and pets. 

Get your affairs in order. You may not make it out of a protest alive. 

When planning discussions with folks who might disagree with you, know that you may NOT actually be the best person for said discussion. If you’re really far left and you want to chat with your MAGA uncle about immigration, maybe find someone who’s more center-leaning but unsure to be a go-between. It’s less alienating to your uncle and less traumatizing for you.  

I know I’ve said this already, but carry first-aid supplies, learn basic first-aid, and carry a lighter, so that you can help those in need and protect yourself. 

Fight back with everyday statements. When someone says, “Those illegals are taking all our jobs,” say something like, “Wow, that sounds like some shit a weird Nazi would say.” Add “weird Nazi” to your responses. Laugh at the absurdities of MAGA statements. Make them feel foolish, or give good one-liners that leave them scratching their heads. Can’t think of any? Start binging comedians to learn how to give quick comebacks. 

In order to keep yourself from falling into a bad group, it's important to develop your critical thinking skills:  (credit to @creature-wizard)

Learn to apply the Five W's (who, what, when, where, and why) when encountering any information.

Learn common logical fallacies.

Learn the difference between fact, opinion, belief, and prejudice.

Don't equate emotional reactions with some kind of innate or higher moral guidance.

Ask yourself if you're "thinking for yourself" or being led to believe you're thinking for yourself.

Know what emotional manipulation tactics look like.

Watch out for these behaviors in any new group you join.

Yes, there are ways to confirm the age of an old text without having the original text itself.

Learn how propaganda works.

Watch out for these red flags in spiritual groups.

And watch out for this red flag.

Understand that belief doesn't have to be binary.

LEAVING THE STATES

This post is again from @creature-wizard:

Get a passport. It's also an easy way to officially change your gender market. Canada is becoming really conservative, but Mexico has some of the safest queer cities in the world. You can stay there for no reason for more than three months, leave for three days and come back and keep doing that indefinitely. It's cheap and warm and the food is spectacular. Plus the entire country enshrined abortion rights. 

You will need a go bag. It should include non perishable snacks, water, paperwork, copies of your id, cash, meds, and whatever you love for comfort. Know where it is at all times. Keep it near an exit. My go bag will at least contain my ancestral seeds, my teddy bear, and extra socks.

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE WHAT THEY WILL DO. Remember the bomb threats, the arson and the insurrection. THEY WILL NOT HESITATE TO BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN AND TARGET YOUR LOVED ONES AND PETS. Believe them. PLEASE believe them when they say they are Hitler. Trump is just a figurehead. He has the force of an entire party behind him. It will change everything. He can implement martial law overnight. 

Make two or three escape plans. During WWII, people escaped by walking, by hiding under garbage in trucks, by building hot air balloons that they flew, by living in attics for years. 

It can be done, but you have to think ahead. We don't have the time to say, "Oh, it won't get that bad.” People are already dying. It is that bad. 

If you know someone who is MAGA or even close to it, NEVER tell them your escape plan. Never tell anyone anything if you don't trust them enough to hold a loaded gun to your head.

If you’re leaving, consider how to bring your pets. Do they need vaccines to cross a border? Do you even have a cat carrier, and adequate food for travel? What about costs for boarding while you resettled in your new home?

Who will house you if you need a safe space? Make a list of places you have friends, or couches you can sleep on.

LOOK, IT’S TOUGH. IT’S GONNA BE TOUGH. BUT IT CAN BE JOYFUL, AND MYSTERIOUS, AND FUN, TOO. SO LET ME LEAVE YOU WITH THESE THOUGHTS:

Overall, the more you rely on community and less on capitalism, the more security you could have during difficult times. The more secure you are, the more you can and will feel comfortable helping others. 

The Holocaust happened because a lot of good people did nothing, in large part because they decided it couldn't possibly get that bad. But the right-wingers know how to play the long game, and they are actively chipping away at our liberties. 

The way I see it, there are now three primary parts to this rebellion: 

Those physically stopping the issues by destroying dams and animal testing labs, harassing and attacking politicians or corporations, and chaining themselves to bulldozers.

Those ferrying others to safety and providing the necessary resources for those leaving or hiding.

Those feeding, comforting and healing others through food growing, meal prep, offering tea and therapy, and putting down roots to grow community. 

So where do you stand? Do you fight or flee? Do you share cookies or get out the protest signs? Can you do all three? (Probably not, so choose wisely.)

And in the end:

IN 150 CHARACTERS OR LESS

Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things

and trying to make life worth living.

and I know I don’t have to believe in everything,

but I believe in that. 

~ Nikita Gill 

Take care of each other and take care of yourself. You are not alone. Godspeed. 

[alwaysurvalentine]

moving shadows - st fic

Written for Day 20 of @steddie-spooktober - prompt: cryptic - wc: 2.1k - cw: cussing & that's it! - also wrote this with buzzed unsolved in mind

sorry we're late (again) but enjoy! 💛

A ‘ding!’ from the car brings Eddie’s attention down to his dashboard where a yellow light blinks at him to get gas. He sighs and turns toward Steve to ask for directions to the closest gas station. However, he’s met instead with the sight of the brunet leaning against the window, jaw slack with sleep. He’s still holding onto the article he was reading earlier, different lines highlighted in yellow. 

They’ve been “monster” hunting for a couple years now. Most of the time there isn’t a lot to show, just stories blown out of proportion by paranoid people. All of their video equipment is in the back of the van in different cases or bags. The plan was to drive all the way to Point Pleasant, Virginia, stay the night, and then conduct their own research on the elusive Mothman. Every haunting, entity, or cryptid they investigate it feels like they have a different stance. 

Eddie is usually the one convinced what they’re investigating is real, or at least real enough to respect. When it comes to trying to taunt things to interact – he just leaves that to Steve. Steve, who usually puts on a show of trying to piss off whatever they’re looking for enough to show themselves. It’s like he wants to have a demon possess him. Eddie makes sure to keep holy water on him just in case and they’ve been doing this long enough that Steve expects to be splashed with it before he’s allowed into whatever hotel room they’re staying at for the night. 

In general, this means Eddie’s just about ready to shit his pants at any given moment while Steve’s threatening to throw punches. If nothing else it’s interesting for their subscribers on Youtube to watch.

“Stevie, hey.” The other boy snuffles and blinks hazel eyes open. Once it registers to Steve that he fell asleep he jolts up. His hair is flat in the back, but Eddie’s not going to be the one to tell him. 

“Sorry. Sorry, didn’t mean to fall asleep. What’s up? Where are we?”

It’s a fair question, one that Eddie can’t really answer because he’s just following what the GPS says. There’s just been trees for miles, and the sun’s starting to set so there’s been less drivers on the road too. 

“Not sure, but the gas light just came on and we still have a couple hours before we make it to the hotel. Can you add a gas station stop for us?” Steve tucks the printed article beside his seat and reaches for the phone that’s plugged in to add a stop. Sure enough, it only takes him a moment and when Eddie glances at the GPS on the stereo again it has an updated route. “Thanks, have a good nap?” Eddie teases with a smile, glancing over to Steve just long enough to see the end of a yawn.

“Yeah, actually. I stayed up way too late trying to find more info on this. Plus, got me away from this stuff you call music.” Steve does this a lot, says something that might be concerning just to fall back to an inside joke to distract Eddie. The metalhead lets him get away with it for now, since he knows Steve always loses sleep leading up to a filming day.

Plus, this has been an in-joke for years now: Steve says he hates Eddie’s music but never changes the CD to something else, and Eddie pretends to hate Steve’s music even if he does sing ABBA in the shower. For now, Eddie just rolls his eyes in response and shifts lanes to prepare for pulling off at the upcoming exit. 

~

“I have a weird feeling about this one.” Steve quirks an eyebrow at Eddie’s words and sets down his coffee. They’re having breakfast at one of the cafes downtown before they head out to where the first sighting took place.

“What makes you say that? If anything this feels like the most made up story we’ve encountered so far.” One thing Eddie does appreciate is that even if they don’t see things the same way all the time, at least Steve is willing to listen to his thought process. It’s helped make them great partners over the last few years. 

Eddie picks at the Mothman donut in front of him. The whole town seems to have taken on the Mothman as their only personality trait and it freaks Eddie out. How could one occurrence make such a huge impact? It feels like an elaborate prank with how fully the town has decided to believe in this humanoid bird-type creature.

“I don’t know how to explain it. It just feels like there’s more going on here than meets the eye.” He picks at the sprinkle eyes of his donut, ringed finger tips now covered in dark chocolate frosting. “Like, things seem to be a bit blown of proportion here, right? There’s not a lot of fear around this weird creature that’s supposedly been hanging around this town.”

Steve nods, chewing at his own pastry before wiping at his mouth. “I get what you mean. But why be scared of something that most likely isn’t real? Nothing I’ve found has any strong evidence for this thing being real. And you know I’m usually the one rooting for these things to be real. This one just seems like a group of friends probably got high and thought they saw something. I’d bet good money they saw some kind of vulture and their minds just made it worse.” He shrugs and the grey jacket Steve’s wearing crinkles slightly. 

The nerves in Eddie’s stomach don’t lessen, but he does feel better knowing he’s not the only one who’s gotten an off vibe from the locals. If this wasn’t their job, he’s confident he could convince Steve to just keep on going to the next town. However, their viewers have been begging to see them investigate Mothman, so investigate Mothman they will. 

~

Wind shook the trees above them, sending leaves skittering to the ground as they walked. Despite this, Eddie could feel sweat gathering under his shirt. Steve was annoyingly unaffected, hair still perfectly styled as he called out to the Mothman. They’d been stumbling through the nature reserve for what felt like forever, even if Eddie’s watch tried to tell him it’d only been an hour. The reserve itself wasn’t too spooky in the day time, just trees circling a lake. However, as the sun sank low the air got chillier and both of the boys had to put on more layers to stay warm. 

“Steve, how long are we gonna do this? Nothing’s coming up on the scanner and I haven’t heard anything either. I think -” A tree nearby creaks and a thud follows like a branch has fallen on the ground. “Absolutely not! What was that?” Eddie whips the camera around, branches lit up by his flashlight but nothing to be seen lurking in the shadows. 

“Hey, calm down man. It was just a branch falling. Probably from one of those dried out trees we saw earlier, remember?” Steve’s voice is calm and it brings Eddie back into his body. It probably was just a tree. The wind’s so strong tonight it would make sense for the higher branches to give out because of it. 

“Yeah, yeah. Are we almost to the plant? That’s where the first sighting was, right?” His voice is still a little shaky and Eddie’s drifted a little closer to Steve. He knows the younger boy won’t judge him too heavily for seeking comfort, knows the kind of stories Eddie has littered in his past. Sometimes random noises in the night shouldn’t be written off by wild animals and should be investigated. Finding out your neighbor was murdered at the same time you heard a noise while watching TV stays with you. Sometimes Eddie really regrets picking up this gig, wishes he’d gone into music instead – even if it was just him plucking out notes on his Sweetheart in his room. His thoughts catch and stumble over themselves when he feels a hand in his. 

Steve’s stopped walking, his glove hand holding Eddie’s while they stand in the dark woods. His eyebrows are furrowed when he meets Eddie’s eyes, like he’s trying to read something in his eyes. He must see whatever it is he’s looking for because he nods to himself and tugs at Eddie’s hand, leading them back the way they came. 

“Uh, Steve? Where are we going? Isn’t the plant that way?” 

“Yeah, but I don’t think we’re going to have any luck anyway. We’ve been out here for a while now, and nothing has happened. Plus, I think I heard some howling earlier. I’d rather not figure out what those noises are, unless you’re looking to be made into a coyote’s dinner?” There’s a smirk tugging on Steve’s mouth that Eddie rolls his eyes at and cuts the camera off so he can just focus on walking hand in hand with Steve. 

The wind keeps howling as they walk, shoes crushing the leaves that have been falling when they hear it. A squeaking sound, like a record being played on the wrong frequency. Eddie tilts his flashlight behind them for a moment, curious to see what it is and lands on a shifting shadow. 

“St-steve?” He feels more than sees Steve turn, jacket crinkling slightly, and then the hand in his tightens. The shadow shifts, standing as tall as the trees nearby.

And then they’re running back to the car. 

The squeaking from before seems to echo around them but Eddie doesn’t waste his time looking back to see where it is. He’s seen plenty of movies telling him why he shouldn’t do that, thank you very much. Steve fumbles in his pocket for the keys and the headlights blink when he unlocks the doors. They only separate when they’re a couple steps in front of the car. Steve’s in the driver seat and already cranking the engine by the time Eddie’s shut his door. If he didn’t know better, Eddie would say it’s a gust of wind that shakes the car, but he can see a shadow blocking the stars from their view and knows the Mothman is chasing them. 

“Holy shit! Holy shit!” Steve’s slamming his foot on the pedal, sending Eddie back into his seat with the force as they speed down the road. Gravel makes the ride bumpy, but all Eddie can focus on is the strange squeaking that seems to be getting quieter the further down the road they go. “Did we get that on camera?” 

Fuck. “Uh, well. I would love to say yes…” Steve tilts his head back and shakes his head beginning to laugh. Eddie feels terrible. That’s his whole job, film everything and make sure they have plenty of different footage to clip together and edit later. Their first real sighting of a cryptid and he’d completely forgotten about the camera in his hand. Steve’s still laughing when they pull onto the main road, gasping for air and wiping at a couple tears that have fallen. “I’m so sorry.”

This gets Steve to pause for a moment. Eddie watches as he glances to the rearview mirror and slows down slightly. It has been a moment since the noises of pursuit have been heard. He dropped the camera when they first got in the car, but now he leans forward to grab it from the floorboard to avoid Steve’s disappointment. 

“Don’t beat yourself up too much, could happen to anyone.” Steve’s caught his breath now and he sounds so nonchalant about it. The camera has a crack through it’s screen, but it still lights up when Eddie taps a button to go through some of the footage. He’s frantic as he thumbs through the footage, hopeful that they can at least salvage some of the episode’s content. 

The shots he took at the beginning of the day show up first. Steve standing next to the silver Mothman statue in town, an artistic shot of his and Steve’s pastries from the cafe, and he skips over the video footage of them wandering the reserve for now. Finally, he reaches the content he got for the night, night-vision making all of the pictures green and white. A lot of them are just the back of Steve’s head as he walked ahead, and some are just blurry shots of when they started running back. 

But one of them – the last one the camera took, shows the outline of a shadow with wings out stretched and glowing red eyes. 

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Anonymous asked:

would you be willing to put the hi-res for that idia/ortho you drew recently (with the megara quote) in your store, if it's not too much trouble! thank you!!

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hipsterteller asked:

Its 12:49am and when I saw Azul in nun, I had to grab this

LOL THANK YOU!! Yeah, this is one hell of a nun lol

Rollo would’ve been disgusted… or not? Just kidding, he is not a part of this AU.

thestarlightfae asked:

A new AU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please give us more details!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YES!!! Ahhh first of all, thank you so much for being so excited for it! This really is our newest AU, it’s pretty recent, and we got so excited over nun!Azul that we actually have a lore for it this time lol

Azul, Jade, and Floyd are a part of the Underwater mafia/criminal world, and as a part of Azul’s plan to spread their involvement/power on land, they infiltrate a small and secluded monastery in an isolated island: Azul got a tip that this particular place would be perfect to gain access to important people through religion. All he has to do is to rise in ranks and gain more influence, but for that to happen, he and the boys have to hide their true identity: the merpeople are very demonised in this world and this religion in particular.

No one knows for certain if merpeople exist, so there are a lot of rumors and legends, a lot of which have nothing to do with reality, but the main consensus on land and in the church is that merpeople are spawns of the devil, and the depths of the ocean are the very depths of Hell. So Azul and the tweels have to really keep it together while listening to other nuns talk about mermaids seducing poor men and drowning them, literally dragging them to the underworld for their souls to suffer for eternity.

But our merboys do a very good job, and no one suspects them, in fact, they became rather popular very quickly. Nuns adore sister Floyd and consider him to be a very bright innocent soul, a little childish, but only closer to God for that; and sister Jade is like a saint that takes care of the older nuns and sick ones, selflessly spending hours at the infirmary. And of course, sister Azul is an absolute angel that is always here to support and help anyone who needs it.

(by the way yeah, everyone here is a boy, but they are still called sisters – don’t worry too much about it, we just really wanted them to be nuns…)

But even though Azul, as per usual, just acts nice and in actuality dislikes pretty much everyone around him, there is one person he got genuinely close with – it’s sister Idia, a mysterious shut-in that really stands out from the rest of the nuns. You can rarely see him around, he prefers to stay alone and he is excused from some events. Azul is intrigued by Idia, but also genuinely enjoys their chats and playing little board games (which they’re not really allowed to play) with him whenever they get a chance to spend some free time together.

And this accidental gamble of spending time with a loner weirdo really pays off when Azul finds out that Idia is, in fact, a son of a very rich and influential family, and that he is probably even the biggest golden ticket for Azul than any other fat-cat Azul could’ve gained access to through his way up the ranks.

This changes Azul’s plans: now he wants to take Idia back with them, when it’s time for him and the Tweels to leave…

One day, he invites Idia to talk alone in a private room, and as sister Idia arrives, he witnesses something otherworldly and horrifying: long and slimy tentacles crawling from under Azul’s robes. Not only did poor Idia not know that merpeople even existed, he sure as hell didn’t expect to see one among the nuns AND with tentacles lol

But aside from utter shock, confusion and fear, Idia also feels like he is getting something that he deserves. If merpeople exist and he is witnessing one with his own eyes, maybe it has come to drag him to Hell where he belongs. Because you see, Idia also has a secret… and a reason why he got pretty much disowned from his family and sent to live here in isolation.

Gee I wonder what’s going to happen next :3c

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Eaaaaaaaaa the welcome home website updated!

I’ll check it more tomorrow but I’m very excited for how the story’s progressing :D

Went to the fair so have platonic DearDollops headcanons because they never leave my mind

Random idea but I like to think that the first time they saw each other after losing contact was for a birthday surprise

It was Eddie’s birthday, and Julie wanted to plan the best surprise ever, so she and Frank (who was extremely hesitant) decided to snoop through Eddie’s old photos to try and find something he liked besides mail stuff

They run into a high school photo of him and Daisey (or one of just Daisey tbh they pretty so either one works) and by some stroke of luck their contact info is in the back

Julie immediately assumed that they were old friends, while Frank probably assumed they were just a classmate that Eddie lost contact with. Julie was right lmao

As their surprise, they decide to invite Daisey to the neighborhood! They call and when Daisey answers, Julie immediately invites them to the neighborhood while Frank explained who they were and why they were contacting them

Me thinks Daisey is only heard at this point in time, we don’t see them besides the old photo of them in high school, adds excitement over seeing them again

Daisey’s very happy to come over, they lowkey imply they wanted to hear back from Eddie but they never got a callback, but overall are a good sport about it and decides to visit

Everyone’s nice (or as nice as they can be) for Eddie’s birthday party, it being pretty stereotypical party stuff but with a more Eddie vibe :3

Julie exclaims that she and Frank have a surprise, and to close his eyes and blow out his birthday candles to see it

Eddie’s both excited and confused, but does so because birthday candles are melting and he needs to blow them out

Daisey carefully walks behind him (being hidden mostly by the shadows), and gently places their hands on his shoulders once he’s done

I think they step out of the shadows to lean down and ask “what’d you wish for?” And they’re just the brightest thing ever. They’re so genuinely happy to be there it’s sickening /i

Eddie takes like 10 seconds to process before immediately tackling them into a hug. He’s talking very fast and is very shocked but all he can really do is hug them. Daisey just laughs and hugs him back tighter, it’s cute

Anyways they’re besties /real and you can’t convince me it didn’t take them like an hour to let go of each other

Safe to say Julie and Frank had the best surprise /hj

Unrelated to the whole thing about but! They got to the carnival together!

Daisey wins Eddie some prizes while Eddie manages to not lose and wins a few times

Eddie got a couple new plushies that he loves and is struggling to hold onto, while Daisey’s holding one scraggly looking plushie Eddie won for them and hugging it adoringly. They adore anything Eddie gets them, even if it looks diseased :)

They go on the smaller rides, but they both still get sick-

If there’s apple bobbing, I think Eddie absolutely dominates. Daisey can barely stay underwater for a second before drowning

They get snacks together me thinks- they share but Daisey sneaks a couple more from Eddie’s plate. Eddie knows and lets them

Raaaa face painting! They get matching hearts or flowers on their faces

Overall they have fun, they probably pass out as soon as they get home

I love these losers I’m losing it /j

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Eddie and Daisey are motion sick besties <3 they're both leaning against each other as they stumble off the ride poor things XD

Eddie dominating any apple bobbing competition is so real. Apple bobbing is very southern to me, it's at every fair I've ever been to and at family parties! I'm awful at apple bobbing tho lmao

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The Lair in the Woods: Part 10

A/N: I’M SO SORRY FOR THE WAIT, Y’ALL😭💜 Life’s been busy, but it’s all good stuff (okay well, not all of it but like 90% of it cause life is life and it’s not perfect😂) Good news: book 2 is published, formatting for book 3 is well under way, and I love the job I started around the time of my last update😎 Bad news: I have no idea what free time is anymore (hence my overall disappearance from social media aside from scheduled posts and the dramatic decline in my interactions on here and the actual hellsites)😵

Warnings: reference to being stalked, deception, reference to anxiety, reference to potential murder, hidden identity, some swearing…I think that’s it?? If I missed anything, please let me know😊

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Supervillain wiped their hands dry on a kitchen towel without much thought to the action. Their mind was too preoccupied by Civilian.

More specifically, speculations about who their stalker might be wholly consumed their mind until their phone buzzing on the counter broke their concentration. Setting the towel aside, Supervillain’s brows drew together as they read the caller ID.

“And here I thought I’d have to call you,” they said quietly.

“Yeah, well,” Hero said, “it’s considered professional courtesy to keep each other informed, so don’t get used to it because once we find Civilian Surname’s stalker, this ends and I go back to investigating you.”

Supervillain hummed. “Then I suppose we needn’t drag this out any longer, because I’d rather not get too close to one of the Agency’s pawns.”

They didn’t have to see Hero to know the look on their face. They’d seen it plenty enough times when they’d goaded them in the past—truth be told though, that felt like another lifetime now. Supervillain’s smirk only grew sharper at the tension in Hero’s voice when they replied.

“Very funny,” they said, “but I have better things to do with my time than investigate something so—”

Supervillain’s smirk fell. “Hero, we had an agreement, you said—”

“And there it is.” The Hero’s grin was irritatingly audible, causing Supervillain to clench their jaw as they could see the expression as clear as day in their mind. “We do have an agreement, which is why I’m calling you in the first place. I just hope reminding you that this is a partnership for Civilian’s sake isn’t going to be a recurring thing because I do have better things to do with my time that isn’t rubbing elbows with a wanted criminal.”

Supervillain let out the breath they’d been holding in an effort to stop themselves from snapping at Hero. “What did you find?”

“That’s better. So anyway, I formally adopted the case and took a look, but as far as I can tell, the police investigation is as thorough as it can be. Whoever Civlian’s stalker is, they’re either a professional or have a little extra help, maybe both. I’ve gotta ask,” Hero started, taking a breath, “who are they again?”

“That’s what I’m trying to figure out,” Supervillain mumbled. Pinching the bridge of their nose, Supervillain turned around and leaned against the counter. Just as they went to respond, a shadow of movement caught their attention. Their eyes flicked toward the movement in time to see Civilian quietly slinking into the living room and sitting back down by the fire. “I’ve got to go. I’ll see what I can find and have Right Hand send you what they’ve dug up thus far.”

“Wait, what do you me—”

Supervillain didn’t let them finish, hanging up and shoving their phone in their pocket.

Making certain their footfalls were heavy enough that Civilian could hear them coming but soft enough that they wouldn’t startle them, Supervillain joined them, sitting in their favorite armchair and offering them a smile.

“Feeling better?”

Civilian met their gaze. “Yeah, actually. I think I am.” They paused, glancing about uncertainly. Nibbling on their lip, Civilian’s eyes slowly gravitated back toward them. “Was that your contact, in the city?”

“It was,” Supervillain nodded. “They told me that they’ve started looking into your case and confirmed that the investigation conducted by the local PD was at least thorough.”

Civilian bobbed their head, though their face remained unchanged. Supervillain studied them curiously.

“So what does that mean for me?”

“Well…” Supervillain began hesitantly, “maybe you could help me? Do you mind if I ask you some questions about your life, your routine, the people you know, things of that nature?”

Civilian drew their knees up to their chest and wrapped their arms around them. They still looked exhausted, but behind their eyes was a spark. Supervillain wondered if that meant they were ready to start fighting instead of trying to outrun their stalker.

If so, that was good.

Better than good, it was perfect, actually.

Already, a plan began to bloom in Supervillain’s mind as they asked about anything that could help shed a light to help guide their own investigation.

***

Hero stared at their phone with a frown. Whoever Civilian was, they’d certain changed Supervillain. But now they knew Supervillain didn’t know Civilian Surname. That as much was true.

That’s what I’m trying to figure out, they’d said, sounding just as confused and in the dark as Hero was.

Over and over again, their question and Supervillain’s unguarded response echoed in their head. But it wasn’t as simple as who was Civilian Surname. What really mattered was, how?

How did Civilian catch their stalker’s eye? What made their stalker drawn to them? Where had they first seen Civilian? And when had they chosen to stalk Civilian? How many times had they seen them before that decision was made?

The place they’d first seen or had been in contact with Civilian was perhaps the most important in Hero’s opinion. If they could just narrow it down to that, then maybe they could narrow down a list of suspects specific to that particular facet of Civilian’s life.

Shaking their head, Hero pulled their coat back on and grabbed their keys. They’d just barely have enough time to pick up some coffee before their meeting with Detective…and still be five minutes early like Detective liked. So help the fool that that showed up late. Hero learned that the hard way one time. It didn’t matter that they’d stopped Other Villain from melting Central Museum’s vault and stealing the Precious Artifact worth millions on the black market that could’ve funded their world domination plan, all Detective had cared about was the disrespect they’d shown them by being late.

And so began the vicious cycle of Detective returning the courtesy by making Hero’s job as difficult as possible for the next two weeks until Hero finally decided to show up an hour early and sat and waited for Detective outside their office to get a records release form signed.

Hero hadn’t thought Detective would come around after that, but as it turned out they were both spitefully petty.

Ever since then, they’d had one hell of a working relationship and tight-knit friendship.

“Well, well, well, look who’s early. I wish all my caped partners were as punctual.”

Hero pressed a hand to their chest in mock offense. “Detective, are you working with other heroes behind my back?”

“What can I say,” Detective sighed, taking the coffee Hero offered them, “someone’s got to do your grunt work and we all know that when Other Detective does the paperwork, it’s never admissible in court because they don’t do it right.”

“Vigilante case fell through again?” Hero sat on the edge of Detective’s desk as they resumed their seat.

Detective groaned in response. “Don’t even get me started. It’s like they want the case thrown out.”

“Have you ever wonder—”

“Every. Single. Time.” Detective’s face turned to stone. Their eyes withdrew, focusing on whatever internal thoughts were flitting through their head.

“Well Supervillain owes me a favor,” Hero said quickly, taking an innocuous sip of coffee.

“What?” Detective shot up and slammed their hands on their desk, nearly toppling over their coffee cup and the precarious stacks of paperwork scattered across their desk. “You mean Supervillain, the most ruthless criminal that’s always one step ahead of the law and probably has dossiers on all of us, owes you a favor because you promised to help their precious civilian?”

“Isn’t that what I just said?”

Detective rolled their eyes. “Wow. So, Supervillian gave away one of the most powerful chips in the caped community—no, the entire professional world regardless of profession—to the likes of you.” Detective plopped back down in their seat with a crooked smile. “This has got to be the worst week of their career!” Detective sobered, “Well, this and when Partner dropped off the face of the earth. That’s another one I can’t seem to find. It’s like they’re a ghost.”

Hero’s brows furrowed. They dropped their gaze to the floor. “They’re probably dead. I’ll bet all I have that Supervillain killed them and that’s why you can’t find a body. There probably isn’t one, if Supervillain’s reputation is anywhere near accurate.”

Detective threw their head back laughing.

“You’re probably right! There’s no way Supervillain would let someone, anyone, walk away. I guess you’ll just have to do a little digging for me while you’re working with them to catch Civilian’s stalker.”

“I’ll do my best, but no promises, Detective.”

“And that’s what I like about working with you,” they said, motioning for them to hand over the copies of Civilian’s files Hero had made up for them. “You don’t have a super-inflated ego or think that I’m somehow lesser than you just because I haven’t got a cape and mask and glowing hands or whatever.”

“Superhero again?”

“YES!” Detective burst, “If the media knew half the shit I do about them, they’d drag Supes through town square like they deserve.”

“Or I could make sure back up shows up a little late and they take a few more punches to the face from Other Supervillain?”

“I would love that,” Detective smiled, scanning the pages before them. “This is it? This is all we have to work with?”

Hero nodded. “Supervillain said they’d have Right Hand send over what they’ve got so far.”

“It’s a start, I guess,” Detective grumbled, “If we manage to find their stalker and bring them to justice, it’ll be nothing short of a miracle.”

Hero didn’t bother to agree. Whatever Supervillain was scheming in order to catch Civilian’s stalker, they only hoped it ended the whole affair sooner rather than later, like before anyone had a chance to connect the dots.

The Lair in the Woods Taglist: @just-a-space-rabbit @classicplesiosaur @pigeonwhumps @heninthegarden @kaiwewi @korejon @rivalriotrenegade @alpacamelons @averyconfusedhuman @amerementdoux @istealpants @sweetpeaflower01 @theimportantbreadtraveler Let me know if you’d like to be added or removed (no reason necessary😊)! You can also fill out this handy dandy form if you’d like to be added too!

[trickstarbrave]

heyyyy im making a pinned post as that is a feature and seems good to keep info all in one place esp for ppl on mobile

❤️im brave!! or rua works if u want to but brave is by far the most popular name i go by. he/him pronouns

❤️art commissions/art trades are NOT on the table rn sadly. i used to offer commissions and did art trades with friends but for the most part im really busy with work/health conditions. if i have a bit of free time i may change this or make a few exceptions on a case by case basis depending on my schedule. for the most part tho i just want my art to be a stress relief activity

❤️art requests i do take from time to time now, but there is no guaranty i will take it. please do not spam requests hoping i’ll do it and please do not get mad if i don’t do it. they’re requests for a reason. if i am particularly inspired i’ll be happy to get around to it if life lets me

❤️technically multifandom blog i would say, mostly i have been focused on the elder scrolls series lately. you will probably see me rb stuff from like, a bunch of series. if this changes i’ll prob edit this post LMAO (i do not control the special interest)

❤️not just an art blog but also personal. my art can be found in my #my art tag. wips can sometimes be found scattered on my twitter if they arent on here. and writing that i publish can be found on my ao3 (though i have like a million wips that dont get published and be warned much of my ao3 is rated E and not for everyone)

❤️ been doing a lot of oc posting so i can do a run down of them currently for anyone that wants to follow along/know the lore:

/// OCS ///

(under cut)

🌟 Eyja: skyrim oc, nord dragonborn, she/her. past life incarnation was konahrik, alduin’s head priest, murdered by miraak. uses a bow and magic primarily. story can be found here

🌟 Senna: skyrim oc, nord dragonborn, she/her. proud two handed weapon user and leader of the companions. fought and lost to the world eater who took her back to his den and make her his partner. proof prophecy can be a complicated thing. story can be found here.

🌟 Baldur: skyrim oc, nord dragonborn, he/him. grew up on the streets stealing to survive, and certified trans of gender. fought and lost to the world eater who decided to force baldur to be his champion. helps him take over skyrim. story not yet published but will prob contain a lot of mentions of transphobia as a cw :(

🌟 Ansa: skyrim oc, nord dragonborn, she/her. orphaned at a young age, and just a weird, feral child. learned to steal, and ended up joining the thieves guild. killed mercer and turned the guild over to karliah and is helping rebuild it when she finds a weird rock that turns out to be a dragon egg. story not yet published

🌟 Ahkrinaak: general elder scrolls oc, he/him/any pronouns. he is based off me as a sort of self insert/persona character purely for comedy, not a serious au. dragon/god who was corrupted in the war with lorkhan/shor and became more so an agent of lorkhan. he spends most of his time pretending to be a mortal and causing problems. he’s just sillay. looks like a falmer/snow elf and nord hybrid making pretty much everyone just in general uncomfortable. dragons dont have gender he just likes tits. divorced with alduin

🌟 Lyre: not a skyrim oc (yet) but my beloved dnd character i have made a million aus for, including one that has turned into a full on novel lmao. will update everyone when i start uploading the novel (its not gonna be too serious just a fun lil webnovel that is pg rate) and you can see me post illustrations for. depending on the AU uses either he/him or she/her. i just think theyre neat

🌟 Anthial: nerevarine bosmer, tired, angry, nb spellsword. he/them pronouns. just wants to cover their entire body until you cant tell what gender they are. vivec never got them the drink he owed them. was convinced as nerevar that voryn never liked them back all that much. had an open marriage with almalexia. this incarnation was emotionless and lacked a moral compass due to the betrayal in their past life.

🌟 Steren: nerevarine, technically. not actually the reincarnation of nerevar, but the reincarnation of nerevar’s son. nerevar never reincarnated bc he was too busy haunting his descendants, too upset to move on. steren has a couple of aus but mostly its him with vivienne the dragonborn who belongs to @mulberrycafe. calls voryn “ata” and nerevar “dad” because he technically grew up in cyrodiil but remembers his first lifetime in bits and pieces where voryn raised him for the first few years.

feel free to send asks abt my ocs i love answering them

[samurai-little-and-the-fairy]

Okay, we finally figured out how to post stuff on Tumblr!

Hello, hello. You are talking to the one and only. The sharpest blade and the deadliest paper cut in all of existence. The samurai from another dimension, tiny but mighty, the one and only-

Tori.

Hey, i was in the middle of my speech! Rude :(

The viewers don’t need to know all that hogwash, they just need to know our names and species. Hi, Im Fay, a Comfey, and this is my friend, Tori the Kartana.

Pffft, that’s so vanilla. You’re good at unkilling stuff but sure aren’t good at grand speeches.

Well, it gets the job done, doesn’t it? And now we’ve gotta say what we do!

Allow ME! Ahem. We’re a ragtag adventuring duo, traveling across time and space itself in search of the unknown! We’re both reaaaaally tiny, like really really tiny, but don’t underestimate us at all or you’ll get a whaBLAM full of surprise right! In! The! Face! >:D

We do make a fine duo, I must say! Tori protects me from hostiles with his insane ability to cut through anything, and I mean anything, he can even cut a hole in space and time for us to travel through. And I fix him up when he’s on low, kind of like his little assistant healer :)

Exactly, your ability to unkill stuff is amazing, and my ability to kill stuff is also amazing, so amazing plus amazing equals ultra turbo amazing and so we are AMAZING.

Tori, for the millionth time I told you it’s not “unkill”, I heal injuries and alleviate pain, making sure pokemon, especially YOU, don’t die.

Whatever. Unkill sounds way better. Unkill, unkill, unkill. See, it rolls off my tongue. Which is even more epic since my tongue is nonexistent but the words still manage to roll off it anyway.

(OOC under the cut):

hey! mod here, this is a fun little sideblog for my kartana-comfey duo for which i will be posting little updates from time to time, kind of like an adventure blog.

yes they shoot across time and space engaging in chaotic, thrilling, adventurous shenanigans, from fun little field/exploration trips in the busiest cities of Kalos to near death experiences in the deepest depths of the enigmatic Area Zero. they’re that type of “no-matter-how-certain-death-is-for-them-they’ll-find-their-own-stupid-way-to-wriggle-out-of-it” kind of duo.

please keep in mind that this blog will contain:

mild to moderate depictions of cartoon violence / violence

near-death experiences

descriptions / depictions of trauma

some swearing

mild to moderate gore, though that’s very rare and i always try to keep it on the light side.

if you ask specifically enough, disturbing depictions of body horror/disfiguration BUT THATS ONLY VERY SPECIFICALLY. it’s backstory related btw

ask info!

you may send asks that:

ask about lore and backstory stuff (sensitive/invasive/accusatory questions are allowed, but keep it not-too-mean. on a scale of 1-10, 6 maybe.

are of a memey nature/stuff you just wanna see them react to

are dares/requests to go explore a certain place! it’s not 100% certain they’ll go adventure in that place though, so keep that in mind

any other miscellaneous questions (favourite food, color, etc etc.)

you MAY NOT ask stuff that:

is of a sexual nature

are nsfw asks

contains gore / extreme violence

basically i wanna keep this blog safe for minors 13-18 years old though adults are always free to interact with it as well!!

mod info!

mod is a minor (under 18), so please please no nsfw asks

mod’s main account is @robin-the-wanderer

mod loves the ultra beasts!

you may call me robin the decidueye, cause that’s my pokesona heehee

tags:

samurai little - posts related to Tori

posy picker fay - posts related to Fay

the adventures of samurai little and the fairy - big story posts involving the two of em

SLTF shitpost - basically chaos and shenanigans and shitposting with the two of ‘em

decidueye mod - posts where i am OOC

Adventure tags:

SLTF @ great crater - Tori and Fay’s adventures in the Great Crater of Paldea.

SLTF @ max lair - Tori and Fay’s adventures in Crown Tundra’s Max Lair.

that’s it, i hope these two entertain you as much as they do me!

[multiplicity-positivity]

Hey, I'm sorry this is just a question: I'm (we're?) questioning of being part of a system for like..a few years but I'm..not so sure what's triggering me to show up (I'm clearly not the host).I just want to know if it's a common feeling of not being "in my body". Like I don't recognize it and I suddenly start noticing things that maybe before I didn't mind (example: chest.) and acting in ways I didn't before (even the act of typing in a certain way feels way to out of character for me and a friend noticed it too)...But the problem is the amnesia. I have trouble remembering things but most of the time I remember what I was doing before I show up.So yeah..Is this also a sign of switching? Like. Does it just occur the sensation of feeling out of place? Or there should be something more?

Hi! Switching can look vastly different from system to system, and even different headmates in the same system might experience switches differently! Not every system has blackouts or jumps in time… even those with dissociative disorders may find that they don’t experience blackouts often, if at all!

Our host can often remember events that happened when he wasn’t in front, and we have a few other members who can remember things that happen when they’re not fronting too! Usually, though, those memories are hazy/foggy, unclear, missing information, or appear as facts or feelings without any sensations tied to them. Often they can even feel like movie clips, stories, or events that were told by someone else, rather than actual memories. Does that make sense?

When it comes to disconnection and dissociation, it’s very common for headmates to feel like their physical body isn’t their own, to catch themselves behaving in certain ways that feel uncharacteristic for them, and generally feel like they can’t recognize themself, their actions, or even their surroundings! We certainly know this happens to us quite often - nearly every member in our system has caught themself feeling cut off or disconnected from our body or mannerisms from time to time.

If this disconnection it depersonalization is bothering or distressing you, therapy could probably help! We also have a resource list with information on both depersonalization and derealization - maybe something there could be useful for you?

We hope this helps! Our apologies if we misunderstood any aspect of your question here. Feel free to reach out again if you need any more info or some clarification! We are happy to go into more detail on our switches and what switching looks like for our system if needed.

🌷 Corrie and 👻 Ghost

[tweed-tune-on-friday]

Big announcement for my blog [plus updates and boundaries]

Hello Everyone this week has been a fantastic week for me I recently got a new pet (a hamster and her name is Dakota) I am so freaking happy right now I could scream and I have a four-day weekend so go me it’s just been an amazing year for me. I’m not here to gloat or anything so I’m just going to get into it this post is just to restate my boundaries and inform the people who follow me what’s going to happen moving forward with this blog I’m also feeling a lot about myself I am now a multifandom person. I love all Fandoms, but the phantoms I’m primarily in are

Wh/welcome home 

Tadc/the amazing digital circus 

Tbg/the bad guys 

Clh/captain Lazerhawk 

Basic info

Name: tweed/mrs tune [i’m not comfortable giving my name out For privacy reasons]

Age: 14 [keep your fucking kinks away from me pls]

pronouns: She/her/them/their

Sexuality: bisexual[huge preference for women]and aroace

Race: African-American/Puerto Rican

Boundaries Update 

#1: OK, so first I’m just going to say that please don’t expect to me to post that often. I’m currently dealing with school in my personal life. I am happy to post.  I am always happy to post on here but please don’t force me to post and don’t bombard me on TikTok or any other social media or spam like me you will get immediately blocked. 

#2: And secondly, I want to let everybody know this is a safe place for all ages. This is also a Safeplace for the LGBTQ plus any bigotry racism, homophobia transphobia, or any hate directed towards the LGBTQ community is not welcomed on my page if you are any of these do not interact with me at all and stay far the fuck away

#3: Thirdly I have made a conscious decision that I am not ok with repost unless I am properly credited unless you ask my permission or credit me properly then you may not repost my artwork. I am OK with reblogs since they actually link you to the original artist I can’t stress this enough. I hate when I see reposted art that clearly says do not repost. It’s frustrating and it’s even more frustrating when you confront the person in the act, rude and entitled, and all you have to do is just properly credit the artist it’s not that hard oh, and if I find out that you reposted my art without my permission or you didn’t properly credit me I will confront you and ask you to take down the post. If you do not I will report you you only get one warning.

#4: Fourthly I don’t do commissions, request, or trade, due to the fact that I don’t have a stable bank account where I could put that money for commissions or our trades. Secondly, I unfortunately don’t do request I just like drawing and doodling my own little characters, so please don’t ask me to draw your OCs it’s just weird if I don’t know you like that or or you’re not one of my moots .It makes me feel uncomfortable if you ask I’ll just ignore you and if you keep repeatedly asking I will block you.

Now here are the dues and don’ts and rules

Can interact pls

#1: multifandom people

#2: in LGBTQ

#3: bisexual people

#4: animal lovers 

#4:foodies 

#5: non-toxic people

#6: people who don’t support bad things happening to other people

#7: neurodivergent people

#8: extrovert and introvert

#9: funny blogs

#10: horror fans

#11: Furrys and cosplayers

Basic Dni

#1: homophobe

#2: transphobic

#3: bigots and racist 

#4: adult blogs

#5: young audiences

#6: pedophiles/groomers

#7: proship’s, or pro shippers

#8: Wally x Julie fans (I don’t like the ship that much unfortunately and I am a wallaby shipper no hate )

#9: toxic people in fandom

#10: Animal abusers

Starting off strong with the next one what I’m not comfortable with

Uncomfortable with

#1: OK, so with that out of the way I just wanted to say I am not comfortable with my OCs specifically my child OCs or comfort characters being sexualized or use without my permission please ask before you do anything with my comfort OCs anddon’t claim they’re yours. It makes me uncomfortable and it’s extremely rude and disrespectful to me if you’re going to use my comfort OCs just ask for permission

#2: sexualizing me I am a minor and it makes me uncomfortable for obvious reasons. I’ve already stated my age in my bio. I will happily report you if I feel like you are doing anything inappropriate on my blog just don’t do anything weird 

#3: claiming to be my moots when you don’t know me or for me it’s weird you only become my mood when you follow me and I actually know who you are either in real life or you respect my boundaries  oh so please don’t privately DM me if I don’t know you like that or you’re not one of my moots I’ll 10 times out of 10. Ignore you. 

 Comfortable with

#1: NSFW art it’s OK but I just don’t do it on my account

#2: fanart of my OCs if you’re going to make fanart of my OCs just tag me so I can see and I appreciate it a lot just don’t claim my OCs are yours

#3: all of my boundaries being respected I don’t ask for much is just please respect my boundaries and be nice to people. This is a safe place for everyone [excluding the Dni list this is not a Safeplace for you ] we won’t have any issues if you just respect my boundaries and what I am comfortable with and not comfortable with that’s all I have to say bye

Bye and don’t be an asshole to people







[webslingingslasher]

babe i’m here to vent (it’s gonna be more of an update rant even tho i can’t update u if never gave u any info in the first place)

- so at the beginning of the school year i had a crush on this guy—whom we shall call blueberry—but he’s only in one of my classes and i don’t rlly know much about him other than his major and insta. so one day i see he has a NGL on his story and i show my friends, who then try to get me to say i have a crush on him bc it’s anonymous and he wouldn’t know but as we all may guess, i’m a coward. my friend ended up saying “one of her friends has a crush on you” to which he proceeded to answer with something along the lines of “i don’t really care about relationships and stuff like that at the moment” so i was like okay, that’s fine it’s just a silly schoolgirl crush anyway UNTIL THIS GUY LITERALLY PULLS UP WITH A WHOLE GIRLFRIEND TWO DAYS LATER.

- To nobody’s surprise, i was wrong and it wasn’t a silly crush bc i was quite devastated for a bit after but i’ve now recovered from that boy.

- But,

Now I have a new crush. And he’s a walking green flag. We’ll call him airplane. Airplane, blueberry, and two of my friends are all in the year above me and my other friend keeps saying that airplane is more likely to date the one in the year above me (who also finds him cute) because they’re in the same year (which tbh kinda makes me feel bad abt myself but that’s a different story).

- Some info abt airplane: he’s hella cute, tall, incredibly kind, funny and he’s in film. FILM. LIKE????

- Anyway, a couple days ago i was with my two friends and airplane and we were all joking around but one of them had to leave and a couple minutes later the other one did too which left me alone with him and he just kept joking around around, keeping the same conversation from earlier going. after some time, he had to go to the restroom and i waited for him but i had to leave at one point so i left him a note:

hey,

i’m sorry i had to go but i didn’t want to just leave without saying bye. thank you for the jokes, had a great time.

and i put my name on it but everyone’s telling me i should’ve put my number on it too but as i mentioned earlier—IM A COWARD😭

so that’s my life rn 🤭

-🥝

blueberry: he does anoymous question links. and he's a regular human. not even famous. he's just talking to himself. flexing he doesn't want a relationship bc he thinks it makes girls want him more? we commend the coward in you.

airplane:

girl 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

if you don't TRY he rlly will date the girl in his same year 😭😭😭 can u find him on insta and slide in orrrr... cause, like, bestie, that note sounded like a friendzone 😭😭 didn't even tell the man goodbye - i'm screaming😭😭😭😭

[enidtheghost-sims]

it seems that since the last update there’s been a lot of hostility going around especially toward modders trying to update their mods and moderators of sims communities, especially in discord, who are trying to help people who are having issues with the new update and pack. in response some larger discord servers have decided to “close” for a few days in hopes that people will calm down and some cc creators and modders have considered quitting and no longer uploading and updating their content publicly.

since the situation is so bad that others have tapped out and because i’m kind of a veteran sims player i thought i could give some advice if you’re having problems with your game and mods/cc, so here’s some steps that you might want to take instead of harassing people who are trying to help make your gaming experience better for free:

back up your saves and tray files. sometimes patches are broken and can fuck up your saves and even your tray files (your lots and sims from your library). before loading your game, back those up.

remove your entire mods folder from your game before you open it for the first time after the patch.

play the vanilla game to make sure that there are no problems with your game w/o the mods.

check to see if the mods you use have been updated since the patch was released. check if the modder has made a statement about when they might be able to update. check if others in the community have reported that the mods you use are broken with the patch and need updated. if you’re part of a larger discord server or forum that often helps people with these problems, check announcements, pinned posts, and other information already made available on where or how to find out if your mods need to be updated.

if available, update the mods you use for the patch. if not available, wait until the modders are able to update their mods. don’t harass them as they are people who have to take out time in their day to do (usually) unpaid work for the love of making the game a fun experience for others in the community. keep it a fun experience for them so they’ll want to keep sharing their work with you.

if your game is still broken even though it ran fine when you tested the vanilla game and you’ve updated all your mods, use the 50/50 method to see which mod still isn’t working. remove half of your mods at a time to see which group the problem mod is in, then split that group 50/50, and continue doing that until you’ve narrowed down the mod. once you’re sure that’s the mod, then you can contact the modder to ask if there’s a mod conflict (assuming you’ve already read any and all info about known conflicts before using the mod and that’s not the problem) or to let them know of a persisting issue. be polite and wait for a solution.

if you’re struggling with doing any of these steps, ask for help in a sims 4 based discord, subreddit, or other forum. be polite because these people are volunteering their time to help you. remember that they’re not being paid and they don’t owe anyone their time. they’re usually helping because they love the community and want to help others have fun with their game. keep it a good experience for them and they’ll continue to want to help you in the future.

if you’ve decided no, you don’t want to check your vanilla game, you’re not going to check for updates or broken mods or mod conflicts, and you’re not going to remove your mods folder to play the game, don’t pester others with whatever problems you’ve chosen to create for yourself. and especially, don’t be a prick because you created a bad situation for yourself.

hope that helps! stay safe out there, be kind to one another, give the modders and moderators some room to breathe, and once they’re in a good space, don’t forget to show them love for the work they do for free to make the community a better place and to help others have a fun time with the game.

[bumblebeerror]

For the record, I have these steps to radically improving preformance besides this, if you don’t know much abt computers in general.

1) disable all startup apps. Yes even the ones you know you’ll use. It’ll frankly be faster to open them one by one once your desktop loads.

2) run a disc cleaner. Ccleaner is the one I use and it’s free. The paid version just allows you to customize and turn off startup apps (we already did that in step 1 tho) so you don’t need it. It cleans up all the trackers in your browser and various stray files you accrue when running programs.

3) UPDATE. YOUR. COMPUTER. I cannot tell you how many times my mom has looked at me and said her computer is freezing up and running updates fixed it. Windows automatically finds driver updates and such for you as well in your updates menus, so if it’s giving you an issue go through them and update everything.

4) Firefox. It stores your passwords and auto fill info and doesn’t steal your data. Removing cookies or trackers from Firefox browsers doesn’t effect this functionality, so you don’t have to be careful of what trackers you dump. It also has extensions for just about everything and they’re easy as shit to use and download, plus a bunch of custom themes. I run adblock, dyslexie (extension that turns every font block it can to the dyslexie font which is easier to read), and forced dark mode, myself. Along with dashboard unfucker via tampermonkey.

5) an addendum to the above: ADBLOCKER. I know some people are still getting ads on YT and twitch even thru adblock, and that sucks. But so many sites use so many ads that it’s highly likely that the ads themselves are what’s causing the drag in performance.

6) try turning it off and on again. It’s not really harmful to computers to leave them on all the time, but sometimes files or programs can corrupt or glitch, and oftentimes closing the program and reopening it is the easiest way to help performance. Going for a full restart just ensures every program running gets closed, which is handy if you don’t know which one is fucking up. If you do, you can always use task manager to end the process, and reopening the program should have the same effect if it’s the right one.

7) if none of the above works, you may actually have an overheating issue. For laptops there’s not much to do for that, unfortunately. The best way I’ve found is to use the laptop on hard surfaces like lap desks or tables only, and on really hot days I’ll sometimes wrap a freezable cold pack, the sealed hard plastic ones for lunchboxes, in a towel and place my laptop on the towel. It doesn’t help much but it keeps that old girl going.

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

[lcngliive]

Was that [DYLAN WANG]? Oh no no, that was just [LAN SIZHUI], a [CANON CHARACTER] from [THE UNTAMED]. They are [NINETEEN] years old, use [HE/HIM], and [ARE NOT] aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. Too bad they can’t stray from this city for long.

how long has your character been here

he’s been here for a little over two years now. 

what is your character’s job

he’s studying politics at university and has a part time job in a cafe near his apartment. 

where has your character been pulled from in their fandom

from the end of the books/show. 

has any magic affected your character

nope! 

and any other information you might find useful for us and the other members to know!!

finally thought it was time that i posted a fully updated intro for sizhui now that he’s aware and that he remembers everything about his past.  sizhui is currently unaware so this info is still relevant but I'll put a lil section abt his unaware life down below!

this is my son, the light of my life, a whole baby aka lan sizhui! 

he’s been living in washington dc for two years and the first year he basically spent being unaware of his life and has only just remembered at the beginning of this year and only remembered his past just recently. 

he is a junior disciple of the lan clan and one of the most level headed of his friends, who were all pretty much prone to anger and making quick decisions without thinking them through. 

he’s a lan by name, but he is a member of the wen clan by birth, his cousins are wen qing and wen ning. 

he was born wen yuan. 

he was a small child during everything that happened with the wen clan and all of the other clans and was one of the many of his clan who went to the burial mounds. 

after everything happened and the dust settled, he was left behind in the burial mounds, hoping it would keep him safe but he just grew sick, and that was where lan wangji found him and took him to cloud recesses. 

the illness caused him to forget most of his past and he lost his memories of his family, which didn’t return until years later. 

he currently remembers everything, so basically everything from the burial mounds and everything from his life after that.

he grew up looking up to wangji as a father figure and often calls him dad when they’re in private and would prob call him that around people he trusts, like the other juniors, xichen, wei wuxian, wen ning and wen qing, but to other’s he just calls him huangang jun for formalities. 

 he’s a very chill person and will help out anyone that he can, but will also call u out on ur bullshit lmao. but basically he’s a baby and i love him

here in dc

since sizhui is currently unaware - he thinks that he's moved away from his parent's home, and is currently studying to go into something relating to politics - one of his dads is the deputy mayor back home and his other dad is a lawyer - so helping people is what he wants to do.

currently, he doesn't believe that he's anyone other than a kid going to university trying to make the world a better place.

he’s now aware & remembers everything about his life back home, compared to when he first remembered everything and he didn’t remember anything about his past. 

he’s now reunited with his family and his friends.

he’s still currently doing his classes and working part-time, like he was before when he was unaware.

possible wanted connections:

some friends: he does have friends, but some more friends would be good! he rlly is the mom friend, they can be some friends from when he was unaware too.

classmates: some friends, rivals or even people who don’t like him and vice versa, he’s a p chill person so some shit like that would be cool???

exes: unaware sizhui def has a few exes, they can be things that have left off on good terms or on bad terms???? i’m down to vibe 

potential relationship: this would be something slowburn??? bc he’s not really sure what sort of thing he wants from anything like that, he’s never really experienced much in his life? so kinda open to anyone being the vibe bc my son hasn’t experienced shit like this before? tho leaning towards him being gay - but still open for vibes.

someone in politics to maybe give him an apprenticeship or some sort of work experience ???? since he's studying politics, i think it would be good for him to have someone kind of mentor him and take him under their wing sort of thing ????? so potentially someone in the senate or in the white house idk ?? down to plot things out !