#they're my goofy little guys

[usfp-the-blog]

The Underground Society of Forbidden Powers

Hey there! I'm Achilles, and this is a blog dedicated to a story that's been rotting in my brain for the past 4-5 years: the USFP! I'll post character sheets, worldbuilding, lore, writing snippets; so on and so forth! I'll give a brief introduction of the story here:

The day of her final grade 10 exam, Iris comes home, planning to go to a bonfire with her friends, only to find her mother dead in a bathtub full of blood. Being incredibly close with her mother, this ruins her to the point where she can't stay in the house because of the unbelievable grief. Her and her father meet with a psychiatrist regularly, both together and separately, and they eventually come to the conclusion that they need to move, so they agree to move back to their birth country of Greece. They still have two pieces of property back home -- a house that they used as a "vacation home", and an abandoned bakery-cafe that Iris' mom always wanted to fix up and open. Iris opens the cafe as a therapeutic way of healing. The first person she hires is her childhood best friend, Orion, who moved back to the village a year before her from England due to reasons he refuses to go into. The story follows the two of them healing from their traumas and using their powers to discover more about the world around them.

Now, you may be wondering, Achilles, where the fuck are the superpowers? And the underground society?

Well.

In this world, most people have powers, and their powers are rated on a scale of 0-1000, 0 being useless, 1000 being like, reality-bending type stuff. Powers above 850 are considered "Forbidden", and with these powers, you either have to be sworn to the government or never use your powers. People above 850 can also be clearly identified by one of three methods: a streak in their hair, a "crater" (think 1970's vaccine), or a birthmark (think a cutie mark, but not as big and noticeable, and no set location). Powers are usually there at birth and manifest later in life, but they can sometimes be caused by Near Death Experiences (NDEs, from here-on out).

Iris can control light and its effects. This means she can change its colours, create small hallucinations and mirages, and give people cold burns (I like to think her light specifically feels cold).

Orion is a conjurer, which in and of itself isn't bad, and lands him at around a 320 on the power scale. However, he's also trying not to be discovered -- not because of the conjuration, but something else entirely. This caused him to move away from Brighton and back to his home town of Karyes, where he reconnects with Iris and they become close again.

The story is a slice of life/coming of age story with elements of action and mystery that pick up more in the second book. It's planned to be a duology, with the first book from Iris' perspective and the second from Orion's.

If you do want to read the story, this blog will contain major spoilers. You've been warned!

I find it hard to sit down and write sometimes, so it'll probably take me a while (especially because I'm in high school), but I hope you're up for the journey alongside me :] Enjoy my goofy little guys!

[lampochkaart]

Oumota weekend, Day 1 — Established relationship

Well, this is not a boring answer, is it?

[quarklynx]

Wei Wuxian and Vash The Stampede are the same brand of protagonist, just from different stores. ✧∘* Reblog to support ur local artist✧･ﾟ 

Bonus:

Alt Text under the cut:

A brief comic in a loosely colored style. The first panel depicts Wei Wuxian from Mo Dao Zu Shi, and Vash the Stampede from Trigun Stampede. Vash looks concerned as he says “My brother tries to kill me ALL the time!” Wei Wuxian is reclined and looks exasperated as he responds: “omg SAME! I also got framed for like, so many crimes.” Vash responds, “You too???”

The comic’s second panel zooms in close on their faces, which are both twisted in exaggerated expressions of horror. The text is wavy and drips to convey an eerie tone. Wei Wuxian says, “Are you also haunted by the deaths of all the people you couldn’t save?”. And Vash responds, “Every day is agony.”

Beneath the caption, the bonus panel depicts Lan Wanji dragging Wei Wuxian off of one side of the image, and Meryl Stryfe and Nicholas D. Wolfwood dragging Vash off the other side. The two men are grinning and waving energetically at one another despite being restrained and forcibly removed by their respective companions.

[stick-by-me]

Merry Halloween or something I guess

[shannonsketches]

He said "Fuck this shit, I'm out" I'm crying. Toriyama's Vegeta was so top shelf 🤌

(From Neko Majin Z Chapter 5!)

[missionkitty]

[Image ID: a digital drawing of a muscular man with pointed ears and yellow eyes hugging a woman close to his chest as he looks at the viewer. he has a curious, almost smug look on his face while the woman looks relaxed and has her eyes closed. /End ID]

perhaps he is at least a little possessive underneath it all...

[benevolenterrancy]

hi! I recently came across your tgcf fics, and I wanted to say you’re a phenomenal creator. the recovery series fic and the gloves fic and just all of them. thank you for your content and great attention to detail.

do you have any thoughts/hcs on FXMQ and Xie Lian you’d be willing to share? within the original story or the universes of your fics!

Thank you so much, I'm glad you're enjoying them! (ﾉ*^▽^*)ﾉ.｡:*☆

hmm, random thoughts about the FXMQ... a silly headcanon: Feng Xin has very much been hoisted by his own petard by heckling Mu Qing! That is to say, he'll harass Mu Qing relentlessly about something stupid only to be confronted with a similar situation and realise that there's absolutely NO way he can act in anyway similar to Mu Qing or he'll never hear the end of it.

(For example, he has tolerated some truly atrocious divine statues in the past because he's heckled Mu Qing so much about how picky he is with his divine statues that there's no WAY he can say ANYTHING without seeing that smug bastard's face in his head so he just has to bite his tongue and tolerate some unspeakably ugly statues.)

Mu Qing doesn't generally suffer from similar overthinking (he'll just prepare to kick FX's ass if he dares to say anything about it) except for things more directly related to himself. I think he genuinely finds sewing/embroidery/etc rather relaxing work but he'd rather die than have anyone ever see him do it because he's made such a big deal about not doing that sort of "servant" work anymore.

(He actually really enjoyed stitching Ruoye back together because it gave him the perfect excuse -- he's returning a favour!! and Xie Lian is hopeless!! of course he had to!! -- and he secretly considered using white thread to embroider some invisible little designs just because he doesn't quite want to stop... only he knew he'd get caught if he messed with Xie Lian's spiritual device like that and gave up the idea)

[peachcandraw]

sharks!!! >o<

[crayoneater12]

mawtizm and his pet cats ('the og' is named greg crumbleton)

[aliettali]

thank you little bot friend for the free mad libs

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Hey @artastic-friend I scanned the rest of my notebook and I found these guys I somehow forgot about lmao these were the first attempts at Rudy probably?? That third one is literally just a teeny lil guy in the corner of a page of Chica doodles too he's just hanging out over there I guess lmao

Thought I'd might as well post them since I was intending to at the time, even though I think the first two at least where mostly me trying to figure out the shapes and proportions. That's a guess though since I don't remember drawing them lmao

[dollking081]

a collection of little guys I've drawn

[happi-tree]

we love silly gays in THIS household!!! gimme the sweet sweet oakworthy and swiftli thoughts 👉👈

Aye aye, Nyx!!! o7

Oakworthy up first! Absolutely tragic that they don't have a bingo </3

Now for the Swiftli stans out there... also no wins hell is REAL

[bumblingbabooshka]

Voyager insisting that Tuvok and Janeway never go into each others quarters - meanwhile I (the arbiter of truth) know for a fact that they are always in each others rooms, occasionally wrapped up in the same blanket, sometimes falling asleep in the same bed etc.

[sillygeeseys]

Welcome to a poll

"What do you think I/prev is based on things I've been called my friends/peers"

[winds-of-zephyr416]

eeeeeuuughhhh i don't have the energy to make a big post

here's a value study gone rogue, ft. my menace OC child. that's all folks, have a good day.