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[smittyw]

Which one of your ocs is the most likely to commit premeditated murder, and which ones would help them get away with it after the fact

the only au ive explored this in really apart from dr (hard to even count that, i kept getting distracted from the murder part) is that same vanpires n shit one, in which case the notable examples were bryony effectively becoming a serial killer just bc the older vamps are too lazy to hunt (and bc they get sloppy when they did), and alex & ross killing people on the reg as monster hunters. monsters are people too guys. come on.. a lot of the cast has fucked up morals in that one but these three were already at that point without being creatures of the night, so i think it says more about them . this is also the last instance when alex had anything to do

molly is frequently the villain of someone elses story by nature of sparkling on and being herself, so in several au's shes in a position to kill and she will simply move on with her life bc she thinks it was necessary. nat is usually distanced from her when that sorta thing is going down, theyre not the type to kill (too scared) but in many cases theyre totally fine with helping someone else get away with it. and by totally fine i mean it depends, they might be haunted forever but dont have strong enough convictions to stop it - or they could be 100% complicit bc bestie was so right to do that

i dont plan to make anybody commit a murder in canon atm bc theyre literally just chilling sitcom style, but the potential for stumbling into a situation where they *think* someone will die / has died is still ripe for consideration lmfao. a lot of them would be a little too quick to shift responsibility as fast as possible and im glad thats the kind of lives they all lead

[kimpining]

the exhibition ive been working on opened today 🎉 im so happy. and so so tired. im going to sleep for a hundred hours.

[arkaix]

Hello sorry to ask but is it okay to make lucretia fanart? 👉👈

Oh yea absolutely, I love to see how other ppl draw Lucy (⁠ ⁠╹⁠▽⁠╹⁠ ⁠)

........Come to think of it, I guess I've never posted any art of her here 🤔 woops. I guess I could update her character sheet while I'm at it.

[mindrole]

another one of these

[noridal]

Me, seeing a friend talking about a non-shared fandom they're passionate about: "I may not understand a word but it's the feeling that matters you go quing"

[chaserainbows]

What does your muse think of Mega Evolution? — calem

QUESTIONS FOR KALOS MUSES

Calem thinks that it's something that needs to be handled with care. Mega Evolution is a powerful tool that gives the user an edge in battle, but all the complicated side effects that come from misusing it make it something that not everyone can use, especially if they're not willing to put in the effort to master it.

He actually did a lot of practical research on Mega Evolution and the specifics of how it works (by virtue of actually being willing to sit the fuck down and get the job done), concluding that while the process basically consists of giving the Pokémon a power boost that simulates evolution down to a change in appearance to a more specialized state, it's also very unstable and requires the Pokémon to be in a focused emotional state to actually be able to maintain it, with potentially deadly consequences if this concentration is broken as its body is being forced to hold onto more energy than it's supposed to handle. Thus the need for a strong mental connection between the Pokémon and its trainer, as in the case that it can't achieve that state of total focus on its own the trainer can act as a center of stability instead.

It's not something people are going to get right on their first try. Some trainers, like Diantha, achieve that state of synchronization through trust-building exercises like acting together on the same scenes, and he does something similar with music to better understand how to communicate wordlessly with his Pokémon.

He doesn't know what it can be used for other than battle, though, but then again Calem doesn't exactly consider himself a scientist. That's something for the professor to figure out.

[mayra-quijotescx]

in light of US intelligence "predicting foreign terror groups targeting Pride events" in the US this summer (translation: manufacturing consent to make queer events that are already overpoliced even more so, while blaming the danger a heavy police presence presents to queer people on Palestinians and their allies, many of whom are queer) I just want to reiterate the following:

People do not get murdered in Gaza/Palestine for being queer. These claims that Gazans, already having lost countless loved ones to the occupier's bombardments, arrests, and attacks, would put their precious surviving community members to the sword over a thing like gender or sexuality are Zionist propaganda meant to convince queer people to turn away from Palestinians, to the detriment of us all. Several queer Palestinians have testified against this racist lie, more than one from Gaza, and non-Palestinian out queer people have gone to Gaza to do mutual aid and recounted their experiences of being welcomed unconditionally (though I will stress that the testimony of queer Palestinians on this issue should be enough, and if it isn't, I recommend some soul-searching as to why.)

People DO get murdered right here in the US for being queer. I mean holy shit do you want me to go get the list? It's a long fucking list. And we get murdered in blue states just as surely as we do in red states. And there's political contingents in both trying to get us at least criminalized, if not killed in greater numbers. Not even the most 'piss on the poor' of readers would interpret the current hostility against queer USians in the US as casus belli to bomb Oklahoma or Massachusetts, blockade and starve them for months, destroy all their hospitals, play deadly cat-and-mouse games with aid workers who try to help him, and then leave explosives that look like food tins for Oklahoman or Massachusettsan children to find. It's frankly insulting to everyone's intelligence to suggest Gaza would deserve what it's getting if it was persecuting queer Gazans, which again, when we listen to queer Gazans, we learn that it's not.

The history of queer existence in US is largely also a history of surviving and resisting, and losing people to, police violence. Many landmarks of our emergence from the closets of history involve riots and mass protests. Police were the enforcers of the Three-Article Rule criminalizing crossdressing and gender variance. Police were the ones raiding our bars and anywhere else we dared gather. Police were the ones hauling people off to jail for demanding AIDS treatment. A lot of our people have died young of violent causes, often in the stomping grounds of police departments that investigated themselves and found themselves not guilty of wrongdoing. Police may strut about with little rainbow decals on their squad cars for Pride every year, but the instant public queerness becomes illegal again they'll shove us into those same squad cars and drive us to jail, because arresting "criminals" is what our municipalities give them that lion's share of our budget money for (and if we arrive at jail banged up or dead, oh well, that's what criminals get, right?) Cops are not at Pride to 'keep us safe'; they are there to monitor for when we can be credibly passed off as enough of a threat to the state to suppress, and then suppress us. It also shouldn't go unmentioned that a lot of police departments receive training from the Israeli Occupation Forces. All this to say, if you're at a Pride event this summer and see Palestinians and their allies 'protesting' (in quotes, because looking Palestinian in public is often enough to count as a protest to these fucking governments), please remember who your actual enemies are. Zionists, the overwhelming majority of whom are Christofascists who think the apartheid ethnostate is a key step towards speeding up the Second Coming and subsequent end of the world, want queer people and Palestinians to be wary of each other so that both groups will be easier to destroy. Don't be a sucker.

[ambivalentatmosphere]

What kind of gem are you?

STAR SAPPHIRE

well hello, beautiful. ✦ how does it feel to have their eyes on you all the time? ✦ do you like to perform? do you like the way their hands reach for you as you turn in the spotlight? ✦ do you wish they would stop? ✦ they won’t. they can’t help it. ✦ is that the reaction you wanted? you want them to laugh, to cry, to moan, to yell at you maybe. ✦ you only exist in the lines spreading across the faces of others, right? ✦ if nobody thinks of you, you aren’t. so you make yourself headline news and they won’t look away ✦ attention won’t solidify you when the sun comes up and love won’t fill that hole inside. ✦ you might want to install an alarm system. just because they want you, doesn’t mean you have to give yourself.

PEARL

you are a bit of an open wound. ⍜ the pain won’t kill you like you think it will, let yourself bear it and you’ll find you can ⍜ you might even find that the world is a lot more than your oyster. ⍜ reticent (unwillingly so), passive, introverted ⍜ resilient, generative, adaptable ⍜ you hold the ability to create and recreate the world around yourself

[meo-eiru]

Micah. can we honestly e date? you’re so beautiful. You always make me laugh, you always make me smile. You literally make me want to become a better person... I really enjoy every moment we spend together. My time has no value unless its spent with you. I tell everyone of my irls how awesome you are. Thank you for being you. Whenever you need someone to be there for you, know that i’ll always be right there by your side. I love you so much. I don’t think you ever realize how amazing you are sometimes. Life isn’t as fun when you’re not around. You are truly stunning. I want you to be my soulmate. I love the way you smile, your eyes are absolutely gorgeous. If I had a star for everytime you crossed my mind i could make the entire galaxy. Your personality is as pretty as you are and thats saying something. I love you, please date me. I am not even calling it e dating anymore because I know we will meet soon enough heart OK I ADMIT IT I LOVE YOU OK i hecking love you and it breaks my heart when i see you play with someone else or anyone commenting in your profile i just want to be your boyfriend and put a heart in my profile linking to your profile and have a walltext of you commenting cute things i want to play video games talk in discord all night and watch a movie together but you just seem so uninsterested in me it hecking kills me and i cant take it anymore i want to remove you but i care too much about you so please i’m begging you to eaither love me back or remove me and never contact me again it hurts so much to say this because i need you by my side but if you dont love me then i want you to leave because seeing your icon in my friendlist would kill me everyday of my pathetic life.

Holy shit is this a copypasta if so I don't think I've ever seen such a long one and if not DAMN ANON you're dedicated

[smittyw]

oc asks....... i know razz has evolved but do you still have your other fangan ocs......

absolutely i do & theyve evolved the same way :-)

the main change besides the context theyre in now is that i shifted focus really drastically. fred and noemi and kita are all still here and theyre at the forefront now; its less clear bc they werent as developed back then, but even Q and molly were meant to be in the old story (in the reserve course & working for the foundation respectively lol) so they existed and evolved since then too

unfortunately i did scrap two of my former main ocs, maddy and amari, for everything except incidental roles in the au i still kick around with vanpires and shit. that decision was solely bc i was uncomfortable w them being direct self inserts; they were the first of the cast i made bc they were literally sonas for myself and my friend who got me into dr ^_^.. and as a result the 'main' group with ross (formerly russel i changed his name for fun) and alex got super destabilized. and i had to rethink where to fit them into the plot and social circles, which worked fine with ross but not so much for alex bc i literally dont know what to do w that guy

if ur curious abt anyone else in particular i can give a rundown of their current whereabouts & any changes that have been made 🤓☝️

[the-muppet-joker]

can we honestly e date? you’re so beautiful. You always make me laugh, you always make me smile. You literally make me want to become a better person... I really enjoy every moment we spend together. My time has no value unless its spent with you. I tell everyone of my irls how awesome you are. Thank you for being you. Whenever you need someone to be there for you, know that i’ll always be right there by your side. I love you so much. I don’t think you ever realize how amazing you are sometimes. Life isn’t as fun when you’re not around. You are truly stunning. I want you to be my soulmate. I love the way you smile, your eyes are absolutely gorgeous. If I had a star for everytime you crossed my mind i could make the entire galaxy. Your personality is as pretty as you are and thats saying something. I love you, please date me. I am not even calling it e dating anymore because I know we will meet soon enough heart OK I ADMIT IT I LOVE YOU OK i hecking love you and it breaks my heart when i see you play with someone else or anyone commenting in your profile i just want to be your girlfriend and put a heart in my profile linking to your profile and have a walltext of you commenting cute things i want to play video games talk in discord all night and watch a movie together but you just seem so uninsterested in me it hecking kills me and i cant take it anymore i want to remove you but i care too much about you so please i’m begging you to eaither love me back or remove me and never contact me again it hurts so much to say this because i need you by my side but if you dont love me then i want you to leave because seeing your icon in my friendlist would kill me everyday of my pathetic life. I kin The Penguin.

I'm gay and I would never kindate the Penguin.

[dukealicious]

can we honestly e date? you’re so beautiful. You always make me laugh, you always make me smile. You literally make me want to become a better person… I really enjoy every moment we spend together. My time has no value unless its spent with you. I tell everyone of my irls how awesome you are. Thank you for being you. Whenever you need someone to be there for you, know that i’ll always be right there by your side. I love you so much. I don’t think you ever realize how amazing you are sometimes. Life isn’t as fun when you’re not around. You are truly stunning. I want you to be my soulmate. I love the way you smile, your eyes are absolutely gorgeous. If I had a star for everytime you crossed my mind i could make the entire galaxy. Your personality is as pretty as you are and thats saying something. I love you, please date me. I am not even calling it e dating anymore because I know we will meet soon enough heart OK I ADMIT IT I LOVE YOU OK i hecking love you and it breaks my heart when i see you play with someone else or anyone commenting in your profile i just want to be your girlfriend and put a heart in my profile linking to your profile and have a walltext of you commenting cute things i want to play video games talk in discord all night and watch a movie together but you just seem so uninsterested in me it hecking kills me and i cant take it anymore i want to remove you but i care too much about you so please i’m begging you to eaither love me back or remove me and never contact me again it hurts so much to say this because i need you by my side but if you dont love me then i want you to leave because seeing your icon in my friendlist would kill me everyday of my pathetic life.

-👻

Okay, I'm gonna say. I was shocked. That's why it's taken like 40 minutes for me to reply to this. However. I think you're fucking with me. And I'm pretty sure I know why now. Listen, I'm glad you talked to me at first, I thought you were two certain people but now I think you're just some random person who just decided to mess with me and my feelings and even MJ. I'm pretty sure this is affecting him too. So. Thanks for the copypaste. Lmfao.

[reirei404]

can we honestly e date? you’re so beautiful. You always make me laugh, you always make me smile. You literally make me want to become a better person… I really enjoy every moment we spend together. My time has no value unless its spent with you. I tell everyone of my irls how awesome you are. Thank you for being you. Whenever you need someone to be there for you, know that i’ll always be right there by your side. I love you so much. I don’t think you ever realize how amazing you are sometimes. Life isn’t as fun when you’re not around. You are truly stunning. I want you to be my soulmate. I love the way you smile, your eyes are absolutely gorgeous. If I had a star for everytime you crossed my mind i could make the entire galaxy. Your personality is as pretty as you are and thats saying something. I love you, please date me. I am not even calling it e dating anymore because I know we will meet soon enough heart OK I ADMIT IT I LOVE YOU OK i hecking love you and it breaks my heart when i see you play with someone else or anyone commenting in your profile i just want to be your girlfriend and put a heart in my profile linking to your profile and have a walltext of you commenting cute things i want to play video games talk in discord all night and watch a movie together but you just seem so uninsterested in me it hecking kills me and i cant take it anymore i want to remove you but i care too much about you so please i’m begging you to eaither love me back or remove me and never contact me again it hurts so much to say this because i need you by my side but if you dont love me then i want you to leave because seeing your icon in my friendlist would kill me everyday of my pathetic life.

[wallterwall]

can we honestly e date? you’re so beautiful. You always make me laugh, you always make me smile. You literally make me want to become a better person… I really enjoy every moment we spend together. My time has no value unless its spent with you. I tell everyone of my irls how awesome you are. Thank you for being you. Whenever you need someone to be there for you, know that i’ll always be right there by your side. I love you so much. I don’t think you ever realize how amazing you are sometimes. Life isn’t as fun when you’re not around. You are truly stunning. I want you to be my soulmate. I love the way you smile, your eyes are absolutely gorgeous. If I had a star for everytime you crossed my mind i could make the entire galaxy. Your personality is as pretty as you are and thats saying something. I love you, please date me. I am not even calling it e dating anymore because I know we will meet soon enough heart OK I ADMIT IT I LOVE YOU OK i hecking love you and it breaks my heart when i see you play with someone else or anyone commenting in your profile i just want to be your girlfriend and put a heart in my profile linking to your profile and have a walltext of you commenting cute things i want to play video games talk in discord all night and watch a movie together but you just seem so uninsterested in me it hecking kills me and i cant take it anymore i want to remove you but i care too much about you so please i’m begging you to eaither love me back or remove me and never contact me again it hurts so much to say this because i need you by my side but if you dont love me then i want you to leave because seeing your icon in my friendlist would kill me everyday of my pathetic life.

Goodness.. that is much to take in. Won't you tell me your name, at least, my friend?

[mayra-quijotescx]

picked up my survivors from the latest art show yesterday (3 of the 4 I submitted, but the economy is in shambles so I'm honestly grateful I sold even one) and was remarking on how my opera fanart ones never* sell, maybe I need to just lurk outside the Wortham Center with a small foldy table and yell at passersby to peruse my wares until security chases me around the building, haha I'm just kidding... UNLESS?

and I spent a little while combing through the HGO website for any potential networking opportunities, and was delighted to learn that they have a queer-centric social group that is free to join if you purchase their smaller package of curated opere! How adorable! And yes, any such group is sure to already be crammed solid with artists far more talented than I**, but artists also tend to love each others' work and engage in the hallowed Passing Of The Same $20 Bill in their admiration. So I click through to see which three works of the 23-24 season made the cut for such a group...

...and one of them was Madame Butterfly.

*drags hands down face* I am so tired. Puccini wrote at least four opere in his life, we don't have to keep trotting out the most*** orientalist thing he ever did. We are nearly a quarter done with the 21st century! There are thousands of other opere that this house could put on! I will never for the life of me comprehend who is clinging to this milk-aged disgrace of a show nor why! Did you know Japan has opera houses of its own now, and presumably opera composers, and definitely opera performers? Maybe give one of their stories a shot instead of Giacomo "Heard About A Japanese Lady Once Through Several Rounds Of 19th-Century Telefono The Night Before His Project Was Due" Puccini? Even if you are absolutely compelled to trot this tired storyline out yet again by whatever deep pockets you're forced to hitch a ride in because we don't fund the arts properly in this country, surely

surely

you could at least have one of the other four works in the season be your second of three shows in the curated mini-season for the queer social group. They're doing a world premiere of Intelligence, about pro-Union women spying to undermine the Confederacy during the US Civil War! That could be fascinating! Or how about The Big Swim, the world premiere of the story of the Lunar New Year Race, which is actually written by people of the story's respective culture? That one's even in February, around the same time as the dusty outdated artifact they're rolling with instead! WHAT IS THE REASON.

*sigh* should i just. call and see if I can still go without dignifying MB with a ticket purchase. Or am I overreacting and should I just suck it up, buy the ticket package, and just not attend that show.

_ *except, in one happy instance, my extremely dramatic Pagliacci one of an eye with clown paint drawn to taper into a bloodstained dagger. God, I was proud of that one. And someone even bought it last year! **[Tony Soprano voice] it's a stereotype and it's offensive ***actually it's probably tied with Turandot for Worst Thing To Emerge On An Opera Stage From 19c. Yellowface Hell. Turandot is also a Puccini work, incidentally. Goddammit, Giacomo.

[b-e-e-h-o-p]

Yknow for all my love of solas and solavellan and blah blah blah, a lot of my solas posts are more so crack posting and jokes so I figured for once I’d make a serious one. Finally become one with my fellow egg lovers yknow? (Cut because I don’t wanna put giant walltext on yalls timeline)

So I know a lot of us here like thinking of solas and their Lavellan having a kid or two. A lot of us like the idea of Dad Solas! But have any of us considered STEPDAD Solas? Hear me out hear me out.

Solas being more hesitant to talk with the kid(s) but not being able to say no to telling them a story or teaching them a few spells when asked (if the child is a mage)

Having a small stack of paintings on his table made by the child because “I wanted to paint like you do hahren!” Even if they’re just handprints or a poorly painted picture of him.

Catching the child helping sera with pranks and the child failing to barter their way out of it:

Child: …

Solas: …

Child: If I sneak you one of those small cakes from the kitchen will you promise to not tell mom?

Solas: No.

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Having to wear a friendship bracelet because the child made one for everyone and who could say no to that face!

A kid having a crush on someone and asking Solas if it’s actually possible to grow flowers with magic

Every now and then teaching the kid(s) simple elvhen phrases

Feeling a small sense of pride when a mage child does a difficult spell (for the child’s level) correctly. Then the child accidentally setting something on fire because they got so exited…

Helping them with homework when their mother is out on a mission (bc you KNOW Josie would get the kid(s) a tutor)

The kid picking up on the vibes between solas and Lavellan very quickly. “I’m not calling him dad”

The confusion when they learn solas ran off and having it slowly turn into disappointment over time

The disappointment turning to anger when they learn of his true identity

Years later, somehow winding up at the lighthouse and finding the stack of paintings and the friendship bracelet

Sitting in the middle of a room, looking at old momentos he kept from both them and their mother…