#who theyre for in the image description!

[kana7o]

kofi sketches!

[tmos-time]

yeuup. the erisol is canadian flavored for this years @erisolweek prompt two. yeuuup. they spent cash in a tim hortons for a lunch date. yeuuuup. they're holding hands under the table <3

[underneath-the-oak-trees]

Drew Demo Lovers fan art for Revenge's 20th anniversary.

Bloodless version under the cut :P

[came0dust]

starting on the anniversary collection again earlier this month, i had a realization: i don't actually remember any of simon's designs with any meaningful amount of detail (i think he's blond?? except for a remake(?) there was where he was very red). so! i thought it would be interesting to draw a version of him based on a combination of his in-game sprites and some of my feelings while playing castlevania 1. i had fun!

[aceyanaheim]

[image description: a still from seinfeld of various characters holding up their hands defensively and saying, "not that there's anything wrong with that."

a meme of one stick figure firing a gun at another, who raises a shield that deflects the bullet to hit a third figure. they're labelled "you" (the shooter), "person you're mad at for, like, 'being lazy' or whatever" (person with the shield), and "ur disabled friend who now knows how u would think abt them if they weren't ur friend" (the person who gets shot." end description.]

interaction i have with shocking regularity is when someone’s complaining abt someone they know and theyre like “ughh they’re 21 and dont have a job and refuse to learn to drive” and then they remember who they’re talking to (me. 21 cant work cant drive) and go like

[razzafrazzle]

whenever i see people draw garfield as a catgirl they always make him feminine and young. you dont understand him like i do. anyways theyre both transbians to me

[image description: a drawing of garfield and arlene from the garfield comics depicted as catgirls. garfield is depicted as a fat, light-skinned, hairy woman with short orange mullet hair, freckles, a white tank top, orange shorts, and orange sneakers, and arlene is depicted as a tall, dark-skinned woman with short curly pink hair, red lipstick, a red dress, sheer tights, and pink pumps. arlene is sitting on a countertop and looking down at garfield, who is sitting in a chair with his legs spread, picking at his teeth and smiling. the drawing is made to look as though it were a real garfield comic panel. end id]

[randomsporefacts]

(thanks to A-xesey for linking portfolios i hadnt seen before in the spore discord!)

some of the achievement art from John Cimino's site

theyre flat-colored, and higher resolution than in the game itself (but instead are jpeg compressed)

of particular note is this pollinator achievement, which was not tied to any stage in specific judging by the colors

its files arent found in the game anymore, but its description is still present in Text.package/locale~/achievements.locale

# alg-pollinator - achievementdescription 0x06529c6e One of your creations has appeared in 20 other players' universes #alg-pollinator - achievementtitle 0x06529c46 Pollinator

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side note John Cimino also made these spore animations. the second one is known from a swf from the old spore site, but the audio here is actually much higher quality than in the swf

and is responsible for all of this creature 2d art found all over spores prototypes (some of these here are recognizeable from the space prototype more or less!)

i never realised it at the time but of COURSE the achievement images were made by the same person who made these 2d creatures!

also according to A Brief History of Spore by Chaim Gingold, John Cimino's art influenced what the creatures would look like in the final game

The decision to incorporate the character design aesthetic of an animator marked a turning point in the visual sensibility of the project. The genetic building blocks of Spore’s life forms, the creature parts, adopted the appeal and personality of John Cimino’s creature designs. And, imagining how Pixar might visually treat a film about bacteria, we put eyes on our single celled organisms. Our planets transformed into expansive landscapes, but retained a toy like sensibility. We made the galaxy more colorful. The entire team became vigilant, seeking opportunities to inject charm and wit into the project, producing the dry goofball humor that characterizes Maxis games.

this article really good read in general, a lot of really interesting insights about spore's development. and check out John Cimino's concept art too!

[crazymuffin1]

this post is for people who wonder what the hell is going on with the venom movies/fandom because they havent watched it

if youre seeing it on your dash and dont want to scroll very long press J. if youre on mobile. cope.

venom the last dance is the third movie in the venom series and people who haven't watched the movies are probably wondering whats going on. whoever you're following has probably posted or reblogged some sort of eddie brock x venom thing. yes of course. mlm ships are popular and theyre the main characters. of course theyre gonna get shipped. just like stucky or other hot main male characters. nothing really special about these guys. right?

wrong! because as opposed to the other ones being non-canon ships where we just look at everything and say "thats gay" or look at it through shipping tinted glasses, symbrock is a bit special.

to start off with! the source material! the comics! im not gonna make this part long, just a bunch of images with short descriptions and you can interpret it however you want (click for full image)

panels ofter referred to as "the ones where they have sex"

no comment

even spider-man knows

aaaaaand the comic writers/artists also know

theres more (like how they have a kid and eddie experienced morning sickness...) but this is about the movie! not the comics!

first movie moments. im skipping smaller moments and i'll try to not write out the whole plot.

eddie and venom go through a whole car chase scene on a motorbike, and the moment eddie calls him cool, they get his by a car. often interpreted as venom losing focus from the praise

-omg why would that lead to venom losing focus?? because venom, on its planet, is a loser. bottom of the barrel. an outcast. and someone called it cool. venom sees that eddie is also a bit of a loser on his planet. theyre two losers together. Eddie asks why he doesnt just kill him and hop to another host, but venom says that hes a good match (other bodies reject the symbiote, and die from organ failure/eaten from the inside) and venom is "starting to like him" venom also gets a bit stuck on the moment that eddie says we instead of i. its both of them. together.

later eddie finds out his organs were failing (venom was starving and was working on fixing it) and when they get seperated the way he acts is kind of framed like a bad breakup. its not "im free from this parasite! yippie!" its "i trusted you and you hurt me. we're done" sort of breakup. venom tries to say he was trying to fix it but eddie ignores it (not the exact words but if you look at it you'll get it)

eddie gets taken away by the bad guys and venom hops on eddies ex and they reunite. and its not just reunite.

its this

thumbnail shows human face but it does not start off with that.

fun fact! theres a sort of deleted scene where eddie asks "who was i kissing just then?" and she says "mostly me" and then we hear venoms voice saying "well actually it was mostly me!" ALSO at the end of the movie, she says it was venoms idea. this was venom and eddie making out. not eddie and his ex. they do not get back together. she has a new boyfriend and they've moved in together so its serious.

venoms original purpose as to why the symbiotes are on earth was as a scouting party for an invasion force. venom changes his mind on being on the invasion part. eddie asks what REALLY made him change his mind "you did eddie."

also after the movie was in theaters they made an additional romcom trailer to promo the dvd/blueray release. the movie. framed as a romcom. im not kidding. on sonys official youtube. for both movies.

speaking of both movies, the second one has them breaking up! full on divorce after fighting and arguing!! very sad. and then venom goes to a rave (october, there are costumes, hes fully transformed) and says "i am out! of the eddie closet!" HES COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET. one person at the rave has a mask on that says "kiss me" and venom says "sorry no, not my type" THEN WHAT IS YOUR TYPE HUH??? MEN?? SWEATY LOSER GUYS??? his hosts keep failing because theyre not as compatible as eddie. and after having fun venom is sad and wishes eddie could've seen him. they of course, get back together* after some apologizes and because they need to fight a serial killer who also has a symbiote (carnage) because previously, they went to interview him, he insulted eddie, venom got mad on eddies behalf and grabbed him, resulting in getting bit, and that spawned a new symbiote from the blood. also the serial killer, (cletus kassidy) went to bust out his girlfriend who upon seeing his tentacles breaking her glass cage, called it hot.

*when they get reunited (anne helps out again) theres no kiss this time, and annes fiancee, after seeing them fight, says "those two need some serious couples counseling"

after a big climactic fight and mutual reassuring that theyre a perfect match for one another, they flee to some random place in mexico where they sort of have a love confession. theres an extended deleted version of it but i think many of us think they cut it down to save it for the third movie. also they get transported to the mcu in the post-credit and then re-appear in the post-credit of spider-man where theyre just sitting at a bar asking the bartender about the blip and thanos. venom decides to go skinny dip but they get transported back to their universe. net zero gain.

THE THIRD MOVIE

hasnt come out yet. but the promotional things. the trailer. my god the tiktoks and twitter clips?? WHY IS THE TIKTOK VIDEO CAPTION VENOM X EDDIE 4EVER??? HUH???? WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH ME!?!?! IF I GET QUEERBAITED IM GONNA EXPLODE WHY IS ONE OF THEM FRAMED LIKE A COUPLES COUNSELING HELP GUIDE.

i cant post this one on tumblr but this tiktok is a slideshow, one image of venom and eddie from each movie, and the background song is "I've loved you three summer Lover - Taylor swift" with the caption "it's a love love relationship"

WE JUST WANT THEM TO KISS AGAIN AND HAVE A MUTUAL, EXPLICIT, LOVE CONFESSION. AND HAVE 4 HOURS TENTACLESEX SCENE. (not necessarily in that order)

and the first trailer that came out for venom3 has the line"eddie, my home [long pause] has found us" like girrrrrllll for a full 3 seconds i thought he was saying that eddie is his home.

[hazardtoons]

[click for full quality, id in image description]

picture this. it's 2017 and you're at a friend's house. the friend is telling you about a cool game and all its wonderful secrets. she boots up the game and shows it to you. undertale.

your life changes forever.

you want to draw your favourite character from the game. sans. so you pick up a pencil and scribble on your wall. I will practice until it is perfect. you draw these characters every day. you have sketchbook upon sketchbook filled with these characters. you write about them. you create songs on your iPhone 4 voice notes. you cry to sad comic dubs. you make a mettaton costume out of paper and you wear it to your halloween disco. you write a letter to the creator to make a sequel and you never post it. you buy shirts and wear them everywhere in hopes of finding someone else who loves it as much as you do. these characters are more than characters. theyre like friends. you imagine yourself hanging out with them.

sometimes, in private moments, you curl up in bed and wish to travel to that world. if you wish hard enough, maybe it'll come true.

this game is the most important thing in the world to you.

six years later, and the game and its successor is still everything to you.

the 'you' in this story is Meeeeeeeeeeeeeee:3 if it isnt obvious

[chipadequeso]

hi so i posted a drawing just now and heres a long post under the cut on my design choices If you were curious . or you can just look at this image for the basic color motifs

Ok. hi. waves

overall its 100% obc + motf oobc based etcetera If you know me you know this is Always basis for everything marvin trilogy i draw

detailed descriptions + other things linking characters together that arent covered by the Image:

marvin dresses like shit but there's Some cohesion there keeping it together. his family shares his warm colors; mendel uses his browns a little differently, and whizzer doesn't share his pallete at all

trina's favorite color is pink :) there are literal articles of clothing that are tied on her, one is red for marvin and the other is green for mendel. as the story goes on she would probably swap this and have a green tichel instead

trinamarvin have similar shades of pants/skirt, and jason has the mix of their yellow and red as an orange on his arms. travel travel travel from side to side!!!

^ on this note jason has things from his 4 parents and theyre all strangely layered all together

ie both him and whizzer have white over the rest of their clothes

whizdel and whizzvin are the only combinations which don't share at least one color, but:

whizdel have light/dark blue contrast and complementing red-green

whizzvin blue yellow contrast babyyyyyyy yeaaaahh boyyyyy!!!!!!!!! they wont agree

whizzer's got the most unique color palette also the least direct connections to everyone else: only trina, who wears a tichel paralleling his ascot and ties them back to marvin, and jason

trinamarvin's shoes are the same, each their corresponding hair color; mendel wears something most similar to marvin's shoes but he gets silly with it; whizzer gets to have shoes that stand more. he's cool; jason's got sneakers! and theyre whizzer colored because whizzer has his own whole deal with running

^ jason trina and whizzer all have red around their necks; mendel also very specifically doesnt have it

mendel and jason Dont have belts or anything resembling ones. this was deliberate but honestly theres not meaning to it

so yes. marvins setting the base the others generally interact with; trina tries to be plain; mendel is goofiest; jason is still figuring things out; and whizzer outsider themes Save me. whizzer outsider themes. save me whizzer outsider themes

ok That is all thank you. small bow

[neechees]

hello, thanks so much for doing your scam busting, is the account @/shtunning another palestine scam? i can't find the images used on google anywhere, but the lack of a gofundme makes me wary

This one is looking veeeery suspicious & is pretty much most certainly a scam for the dollowing reasons:

El-shab-hussein, a Palestinian who's been helping us with vetting real Palestinian fundraisers from scams, says that the ONLY confirmed Palestinian fundraisers who claim to be in Gaza are on this list, and that blog is not one of them

That blog already has me preemptively blocked 🤨 🚩 I've never interacted with this person in my life, and its a big red flag to have scam busters blocked

Their donation post was made YESTERDAY, and their archive is turned off 🚩we see scammers do this to hide how old their blog actually is (that it's new and suddenly asking for money) and to make it harder to investigate them

Their donation post reblogs and replies have been turned off 🚩scammers do this usually after someone has called them out on their suspicious behavior, often with proof that they're scamming, and they do it to hide the evidence and prevent anyone from seeing or reblogging this evidence against them

They're asking for donations, but do not provide a paypal or gofundme attached 🚩 scammers nowadays also often try to hide their paypal because they like to reuse one account across multiple scams, and used them enough for those accounts to be recognizable bc scam busters keep track of them. Additionally, you can tell someone's actual location by a paypal link, so scammers often are trying to hide any discrepancies in their fake story (like say, pretending to be in Europe but are actually in Canada). Laura Deramas & co have been doing this a lot, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was her

They claim that the photos they provide are of their family in Gaza, but there's literally a watermark of these photos originally being from the website Gazanow 🚩 why you would use a seperate website's photos of your family & then blur out your family's faces from the photo (even though it's already on a public website & that's where you got it?), instead of any photos that THEY themselves took, makes no sense to me, & is extremely suspicious.

They claim their "entire family" is in Gaza and that they've been working & supporting their family abroad (presumably allegedly in Europe since theyre asking for money in Euros) since 2016, and that they are 24 years old. So according to them, They've been the single sole supporter of their entire family in Gaza & moved to & have been living in Europe ALONE since the age of 16? Idk that kinda doesn't seem that plausible to me.

They've backdated their blog, and tried to use posts with thousands of notes to make it harder to find that out lol 🚩🚩🚩according to the screenshots below, they backdated their blog (& in particular, this post) to look like it reblogged a post on February 17th, 2024. But once I looked in the notes, I very quickly found it in the most recent notes that it was ACTUALLY reblogged YESTERDAY

[Image description: two vertically stacked screenshots with a blue water filter over them. The first shows a screenshots of a reblog by the user shtunning, showing a falsified reblog date of February 17th 2024. The second shows the real date within the notes of this post that they had reblogged, dated to "1 day ago", April 17th, 2024. End image description.]

And as another thing, they're claiming to be Palestinian, but using language an actual Palestinian who has lived in Palestine would never use lol, such as "revive peace between us". There was no "peace" in Gaza before this, Gaza is an open air prison under a settler colonial occupation and has been bombed regularly for decades?

So yeah this is definitely a scammer lol

[the-actual-ocean]

Hello! Ever wonder who does the ocean? That's us! While, technically, we aren't in direct contact with the people who are actually in charge of the ocean, we have assumed the role of keeping it interesting!

Blog, ask, and mod info below the cut!

We are not accepting applications for new mods. This is a personal group blog, and we feel more comfortable with people who have physically thrown one another into blood pits before. sorry.

// We are all minors! Thought I'd add this before the read more.

Feel free to send us asks about what to throw/edit into the ocean! You can simply send us an image or name in the ask box with signatures to specify what format you want the post to be in! they're right below this! and next to those signatures? examples!! of the posts!!

-[Chuck] "An image of a rock, please -[Chuck]." This will have the provided image or description being hastily edited to appear as though they are being thrown into the ocean, or perhaps off a dock!

-[Swim] "adam sandler -[Swim]." This will have the provided image or description being edited into the ocean, and maybe even included a school of said image or description. maybe.

look at him. so majestic in his natural habitat.

-[Amalgamation] "Dany Devito bigfin squid -[Amalgamation]" This will have the chosen subject be horribly amalgamated onto a sea creature or oceanic feature! they will be in extreme pain!

And, uh, just to let you know: there's like a 40% that any news networks suggested in the asks will instead be fed to sea slugs. Sorry.

Mod Info:

Hello! I'm the creator of the blog, and you can refer to me as Juno. You can discern my posts from the other mods through my boring, regular writing, and I'll probably be the only one not to swear. I go by he/him, and I will always take the chance to brag about how I got to make that one part of space, or how I have the most squids to my name. I'll also be able to be recognised with my tag, being #{J}.

hello i am the purple one. i called dibs on purple whilst we were coming up with the idea of this blog, so you will be able to recognise me by my colour and tag: #〔L〕. my name is Liv (i am the only one here who has not changed their name because i couldnt find anything that suited me) and i go by she/her, and ill probably mention penguins a lot. i know they dont live in the ocean, but they come here often so theyre like a family friend. i also like manatees, so they might get a few mentions from me, idk yet. im also probably recognisable through my lack of punctuation apart from commas and full stops, so do whatever you want with that information. i also actually spawned in the ocean, so despite my lack of qualification, im allowed to be here as its sort of a form of compensation for the mistake. heres what i look like!!! (i also have 1 more picrew but we have another post dedicated to them so if you wanna go see just go there!)

Hello. I'm salt, which for legal reasons is not my name but I'm not expanding on that. I'm not sure what happened. I got here by . I go by they/them. It'll probably b quite easy to distinguish me from the others as I use punctuation incorrectly or not at all nd shorten word that don't typically need to be shortened. Another way will probably be my dramatic response to references I understand. When I post, I'll use red and my tag will be #S♣. I also really like sharks. I love sharks. I'm not responsible for them, but I will take credit for them.

HELLO! I am snail. I'm identifiable from my green colour and tag, which is #[Sn]. I go by she/her, and I will probably make spelling mistakes. I also may seem stupid or imbecilic. (See? Big words. Salt can't insult autocorrect.) :D I'm a bit slow and don't wear my glasses at home, so I'll have to take my time reading things and typing with the correct spellings. I'll probably just mention whales and pufferfish, since they're so super awesome. I just swagger walked into the ocean and I'm here now!!

[lokh]

its finally happened. all because i kept thinking 'bet they would quadrant vacillate'

theyre all a bit younger than canon (the hashira maybe around 16 or equivalent). kind of an alpha kids situation with muzan attempting to take over earth, where muzan is a mutant troll who can use his powers (maybe his blood???) to mutate and control others. muzan came from a null session and in search of the ultimate reward goes around stealing players (ie making demons). his search for a winning session brings him to earth

BUT WHO CARES ABOUT THAT. have black-red vacillating human-troll renkaza

detailed description and notes under the cut

notes and descriptions in first image:

akazas fetch modus is compass: have to face certain direction to fetch. at most basic thats probably four items, but it could go up to 360 for every degree (which he can definitely do) but imagine going smaller....

kyojuros fetch modus is charades: have to act out captchalogued item. if hes not clear enough then he'll fetch the wrong item. i just thought it was a fun nod to his liking plays LMAO

my attempt at their sprites lol. kyojuro bringing that camp counsellor vibe

naturally their strife specibi are fistkind and bladekind

sketch of hakuji as a candy blood troll before becoming akaza

kyojuro as knight of hope. never god tiers in the main timeline =) his planet is land of fate and blaze

akaza as maid of doom. hates the outfit and refuses to wear it. his planet is land of snow and fireworks. as hakuji definitely fits 'bard of life' more (the inverse)

small doodle of kyojuro and akaza sleeping. kyojuro is a prospit dreamer and akaza is a derse dreamer. i feel some argument can be made for prospit dreamer akaza but i like the contrast here lmao

kyojuro and hakuji as ghosts meeting in a dream bubble. i imagine they would be somewhat apprehensive about meeting each other

with akaza being a maid of doom, i imagined muzan might also be a doom player, which would make kagaya a life player! to be opposites =3c

muzan killed and turned hakuji in such a way that he became god tier. so when akaza blows himself up it counts as just and he dies for real

[chrisstvrns]

𝐂𝐎𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐀𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐀: 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐓𝐖𝐎 ˚.⁺⊹ .ᐟ | 𝐂.𝐒.

𝒾𝓃 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽… chris & his girlfriend investigate and potentially solve a murder from 80 years ago

warnings:  small mention of pedophilia (nothing too descriptive), mentions of murder & death. mostly fluff & angst, pet names, calling an old woman, taco bell :)) 

word count: 2.5k

the next morning, you woke up to the faint glow of your laptop screen and the sound of chris’s soft snoring. his arm was draped over your waist, and his hair stuck out in every direction from sleep. you shifted slightly, careful not to wake him, as your eyes landed on the article you’d been reading last night.  

something about lola and tony’s story felt… wrong.  

you clicked back through the tabs you had opened, stopping on a black-and-white photo that caught your attention. it showed a young girl—lola, unmistakably—with a boy standing beside her. she couldn’t have been older than fourteen, her smile shy and radiant. the boy-tony, but you didnt know it yet-looked about eighteen, grinning in a way that seemed both confident and protective.  

the article attached to the photo mentioned them in passing—lola was already known locally for her dancing talent, having been a ballet dancer since she was three, and tony had just started working at a small bar in town, nothing compared to the club he would later be murdered in. no one could have guessed they’d one day be linked to a high-profile murder-that would remain unsolved for decades.

you leaned closer, rereading the date on the clipping. this was years before both of them got hired at the copacabana. they weren’t just nightclub coworkers, they didnt just hook up— they had history, a relationship that went back to when they were both still teenagers.  

“chris,” you whispered, nudging him gently.  

he groaned, burying his face in the pillow. “why are you like this?”  

“look at this,” you urged, turning the screen toward him.  

he cracked one eye open, blinking at the image. “fourteen and eighteen? that’s… kinda pedophile-ish, no?”  

“maybe now,” you admitted, “but back then, it wasn’t uncommon.”  

chris sat up slightly, rubbing his eyes. “so they were together before the whole copacabana club thing?”  

“exactly,” you said, sitting up straighter. “their story didn’t start in the ‘40s like everyone thinks—it started years earlier. and if they had that much history, what if tony’s murder wasn’t just a random act? what if it had something to do with their past?”  

chris stared at the screen, then back at you. “you think their relationship was tied to the murder?”  

“i think it’s possible,” you said, your voice gaining momentum. “and it makes sense why lola never talked about it. maybe she knew something—or someone—from their early years was, like, involved.”  

he sighed, running a hand through his hair. “alright, baby. what’s the plan?”  

“we need to dig deeper,” you said firmly. “find out more about where they were before manhattan. look into their families, friends, anyone who might’ve known them when they were younger. and maybe…” you hesitated. “maybe we try to contact lola’s daughter, antonia.”  

“her daughter?”  

“she’s still alive,” you explained, scrolling to another page. “if she has anything—letters, diaries, even old photos—it could help us piece this together. if not antonia, then her kids. theyre all in their 40’s with kids of their own, around our age, probably.”  

chris raised an eyebrow. “you’re really serious about this.”  

“i can’t stop thinking about it,” you admitted. “there’s more to their story, and i need to know what happened.”  

he chuckled, shaking his head. “you’re insane. but fine. i’ll help.”  

“really?”  

“yeah,” he said, pulling you into his lap. “but if this leads to some wild goose chase with no answers, i’m holding it over your head forever.”  

you smiled, wrapping your arms around his neck. “deal.”  

“alright, mama,” he smiles, kissing your forehead. “let’s solve this thing.”  

with chris on board, your determination only grew. whatever secrets lola had kept buried for decades, you were going to uncover them. you weren’t just solving a mystery—you were unraveling a story that had been hidden for nearly a century. and you weren’t stopping until you found the truth.  

a couple hours later, you and chris found yourselves hunched over piles of papers, both of your laptops open, scrolling through old articles about the murder. you had a sheet of paper, where you had been writing down lolas descendants names, addresses, and phone numbers- whatever you could find. 

you were reviewing the list of people, when something caught your eye. 

“antonia jones, daughter.” you mutter “chris”

“yeah?” your boyfriend was hunched over a notebook, writing down phone numbers

“she named her daughter after him.” 

you stared at the paper in your hand, the realization settling in like a puzzle piece clicking into place.  

“antonia jones,” you repeated, the name barely a whisper now. “she named her daughter after tony.”  

chris looked up from his notebook, his brow furrowing in thought. “you think that means something?”  

“she must’ve loved him, chris,” you said softly, your eyes drifting back to the list of names. “nobody names their kid after someone unless they meant the world to them.”  

chris nodded, leaning back in his chair. “so if lola loved him that much, why didn’t she talk about him? why go silent for sixty years?”  

“that’s what we need to find out,” you said, determination edging your voice. “maybe naming her daughter after him was her way of keeping his memory alive—her own little tribute, since she probably vowed to never speak about him publicly.”  

chris tapped his pen against the table, his icy blue eyes fixed on the list. “do we know anything about antonia? like where she lives? maybe we could talk to her, see if she’s willing to share anything about her mom.”  

“i found an address,” you said, pointing to the page. “she’s still in the city, not far from where lola used to live. but it’s risky. what if she doesn’t want to talk? or worse, what if she doesn’t know anything?”  

chris shrugged. “we won’t know unless we try, right? besides, it’s not like we’re cops. we’re just curious. people might open up more when they don’t feel interrogated.”  

you bit your lip, weighing the pros and cons. “okay. let’s do it. but we should, like, figure out exactly what to ask her so we don’t scare her off.”  

chris smirked, leaning closer to you. “that’s my girl. always thinking ten steps ahead.”  

you rolled your eyes, a small smile tugging at your lips. “someone has to. you’re just here for moral support and to look pretty.” 

he laughed, pulling you into his lap. “damn right i am. but hey, i’m also pretty good at finding stuff people usually overlook, so i’ve got my uses.” 

the two of you spent the next hour drafting questions and piecing together a timeline of lola and tony’s lives. the deeper you dug, the more intricate the web became. connections started to form—old friends, former coworkers, even family members who might’ve been around when the murder happened.  

finally, as the clock struck noon, chris stretched and looked over at you. “alright, detective. what’s next?”  

“we reach out to antonia,” you said firmly. “even if she doesn’t know much, she might have something—an old letter, a diary, something lola left behind that could give us a clue.”  

chris nodded, his expression serious now. “alright. let’s do it. but first…”  

he stood, pulling you up with him. “food. we’re gonna need fuel if we’re taking on an 80-year-old mystery.”  

you laughed, letting him lead you to the kitchen. as you watched him rummage through the fridge, you couldn’t help but feel a spark of excitement. this wasn’t just about solving a murder—it was about uncovering a story, a piece of history that had been forgotten. and with chris by your side, you felt unstoppable.  

as soon as you and chris finished eating, you’d make the call to antonia. and maybe, just maybe, you’d finally start unraveling the secrets lola had taken to her grave.  

you had decided to suck it up and just order taco bell, and you and chris were currently cuddled up on the couch while waiting for your dasher to arrive. 

the sound of a door creaking open drew your attention. you glanced toward the stairs, spotting nick rubbing his eyes as he descended, still half-asleep. matt trailed behind him, yawning loudly.  

“what the hell is all this?” nick asked, stopping short when he saw the cluttered table. his eyes roamed over the papers, notebooks, and your open laptops. “are we solving a murder or planning a heist?”  

chris smirked from his spot on the couch, his arm draped lazily over your shoulder. “good morning to you too, sunshine.”  

matt shuffled over, peering down at the papers. “no, seriously. what is all this? and why does it look like a true crime podcast exploded in here?”  

you leaned forward, pointing at one of the newspaper clippings you brought to the couch, that was now sitting on the coffee table. “it’s about lola jones, the copacabana showgirl. she was in, like, a full relationship with that guy tony starr, who got murdered at the club. the case was never solved, and we’re trying to piece together what happened.”  

nick raised an eyebrow, grabbing a piece of paper with scribbled notes. “you two stayed up all night for this?”  

“not all night,” chris said, sitting up straighter. “just… most of it. specifically her, she woke me up at nine.”  

matt glanced between you and chris, an incredulous look on his face. “and you’re doing this why?”  

“because it’s interesting,” you replied, shrugging. “and, you know, maybe we can actually figure something out. plus, there’s a $100,000 reward if we do.”  

nick whistled low, plopping down into a chair. “okay, now i’m listening. what’s the plan? are we knocking on doors? interrogating old people?”  

you softly laugh, shifting on the couch. “not exactly. we’re going to call lola’s daughter, antonia, first. see if she has any information or anything from her mom that could help us.”  

matt grabbed a piece of toast from the counter, leaning against the table as he chewed. “you realize how insane this is, right? like, there’s no way you’re solving an 80-year-old murder.”  

“probably not,” chris admitted, stretching his arms above his head. “but she wants to try, and i’m not gonna let her do it alone.”  

nick snorted, tossing the paper back onto the table. “whipped.”  

chris rolled his eyes, pulling you closer. “call it what you want. i call it being supportive.”  

matt shook his head, a faint smile tugging at his lips. “alright, well, good luck with that. just don’t drag me into it when it all goes south.”  

“you’re already in it,” you teased, motioning to the pile of notes. “this is a group effort now.”  

nick leaned back in his chair, grinning. “i give it a week before we’re all dressed like 1940s detectives, staking out some random apartment.”  

chris chuckled, nudging your side. “don’t give her ideas.”  

“too late,” you muttered, jotting something down in your notebook that had been in your lap.  

matt groaned, finishing his toast. “you guys are ridiculous. but if you actually solve this thing, i want a cut of that reward money.”  

nick stood, heading toward the fridge. “yeah, same. and maybe a shoutout in the netflix documentary they’re gonna make about us.”  

you laughed, shaking your head as the two brothers continued bickering in the background. despite their skepticism, you could tell they were intrigued—and maybe even a little excited.  

with the whole group unofficially on board, you felt even more motivated to uncover the truth. whatever secrets lola and tony had taken to their graves, you were determined to bring them to light.  

a while later, you and the boys are finishing up your tacos while watching some random movie nick put on. 

“okay, do you wanna call now?” you mutter, wiping some sauce from your lip

“call who?” nick questions

“her daughter” chris replies, standing up to walk over to the kitchen, grabbing both of your laptops and notebooks

you nod, reaching for your phone. you open the keypad, taking the notebook as chris sits back down. you dial her number, hesitating before calling. chris wraps his arm around you, intently listening, along with nick and matt. after a few rings, the phone picks up. 

“hello?” a sweet old woman answers, questioning

“hi, uhm, is this antonia jones?” 

“this is she, may i ask whos calling?” 

“my, my name is y/n. me and my boyfriend, chris, we were reading an article on your mom, lola? we were wondering if you would be willing to talk about anything you know about the death of tony starr? if you know anything?” you voice is shaky, nervous, to what she may say

“sweetie, you call a 75 year old woman on a random tuesday morning, expecting her to give you details on the death of a man she never even met?” 

“i… uh, youre right, im very sorry. i shouldnt have called, have a good day..” 

youre about to hang up, when youre interrupted by the sound of her voice

“ill tell you anything and everything you want to know. nobody's asked me about it before, surprisingly. i cant say anything over the phone, though. do what you must, but we have to meet in person, sweetheart. i have to go now, theyre listening.” 

with that, she hangs up the phone, leaving you and the triplets in confusion and shock. 

“okay so shes crazy?” nick asks, taking a sip of his drink

“who knows?” you say, your mind racing. you can feel the weight of the conversation lingering in the air. chris is quiet, his eyes focused on you, clearly trying to process everything you just heard. matt leans forward, his brow furrowing as he looks at you.

"wait, so she knows something? she said they’re listening—what does that mean?" matt asks, his voice low.

"yeah, and why would she be willing to talk now, after all this time?" nick adds, rubbing his eyes, thoughtfully.

you shake your head, still trying to make sense of the call. “i don’t know. it’s weird, right? she just... dropped that out of nowhere.”

chris finally speaks up, his voice steady. “we can’t ignore it. she’s clearly involved in something. but we have to be careful. we don’t even know if she’s really telling the truth or if someone’s watching her.”

you nod, feeling a surge of uncertainty. “so what now? do we actually meet her? she sounded so urgent at the end.”

"yeah," nick chimes in. "it’s definitely sketchy, but if there’s even a chance she knows something, we should take it seriously. we can’t just ignore it."

matt agrees, "but we need to plan this out. we can’t go in blind."

chris pulls you closer, his arm around you once more. "we’ll figure it out, together. let’s be smart about this."

you glance down at the notebook, the pages filled with notes from your earlier investigation. the triplets are right—it’s risky, but now it feels like you’re in too deep to back out. you take a deep breath and look up, meeting their eyes.

“okay, let’s do it. we need to meet her, but we have to be careful.”

the triplets exchange glances, nodding in agreement.

it was official- you and the triplets were going to buy plane tickets to manhattan, and go meet antonia jones. she clearly knows something, but what? the question lingered in your mind- how important was tony to lola that she named her daughter after him?

youd find out soon enough. 

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a/n: im finally doneeee thank u for reading im sorry it took so longgg

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bloodborne oc i've been obsessed with lately -- ephraim , tamer of beasts. more info on him below the cut !!!

[ tried to do an actual image description for these, suggestions would be appreciated , just be courteous =) ]

he's a vileblood of pthumerian descent, orphaned at a young age as his parents were captured by the church and dishonorably killed as per their bigoted agenda—in his later years, he was adopted by queen annalise & her king to be part of her personal knightly entourage, and to defend her in the event of mishaps that happened within cainhurst castle within this same entourage he met one of his closest friends, a man by the name of deirdre—he was not naturally a vileblood, and instead, came from yharnam and swore oath to the cainhurst vilebloods, later being adopted into this personal entourage that ephraim met him in however, being that he was closer to that of yharnam than the vilebloods, deirdre's ability to withstand the old blood was futile compared to the vilebloods (i have a little headcanon that because of the vileblood's blood potency they have a higher tolerance to beasthood than yharnamites do) and, of course, deirdre gave into the call of beasthood, transforming into an unsightly, leucistic beast of bird/canine-like complexion

naturally, the knights of cainhurst believed the only way to save him was to euthanize him. he'd lost his conscience and sanity, had he not? what more would there be to do with him? but ephraim sought differently ephraim used his status and power to prevent the other cainhurst knights from slaughtering him in the belief that he could at least try to return conscienceness to deirdre's beastly form—which, ended up being successful, using bribes of ephraims own potent blood. inevitably, the executioners of the church arrived and the massive vileblood massacre happened. bloodlickers showed up to feed on the corpses and the vilebloods swiftly died out in number just over the course of a few days—however, before the collapse of the bridge from cainhurst to hemwick charnel lane, ephraim and deirdre were able to successfully escape the executioners with their lives, later ending up in yharnam

ephraim is now recognized as the tamer of beasts by the little hunters who recognize his name, especially being identifiable by his albino complexion and the gigantic beast he rides on horseback where-ever necessary

ephraim has corruption rune patterns all around his uniform ! the ribbon around his waist, on his arm guards, and on the guards covering his eyes. theyre a symbol of his faith to cainhurst despite his circumstance.

the white feathered fluff upon his cape is fur he cut off of deirdre to sharpen him up.

his cape is one sided and stays to his left, just like the sets that vileblood descendants and knights wear in the canon (cainhurst set, knights set, maria set)

the flames that burn on some parts of his clothes are representations of his 'flame of ambition' if you would, how he is incredibly durable and persistant, the same qualities that allowed him to save deirdre's life

being a pthumerian, ephraim's eyes are pitch black, and so is the inside of his mouth. his cheek bones are incredibly defined and some parts of his skin are darker than the others, like his cheeks and lips

he wears some laced accessories because that was another large part of cainhurst fashion

the spurs on his boots are to kick deirdre to make him go faster — basically they serve the same function that spurs do with horses, except his are a lot sharper because they gotta get through deirdre's thick fur

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[Image description: Character + text post edit for Nabari no Ou. As the OP, Koichi says, "i wish killing urself was a reversible thing i think it would be rlly cathartic & i woukd kill myself twice an hour also." Two replies have been added to the post, also edited with characters. The first is Raimei who says, "We really gotta make therapy more accessible y'all out here saying things that are extremely concerning."

The second reply is Koichi saying, "id do it simply to fuck up people who pissed me off bad enough theyre like "damn im so annoying this mf killed themself" and then i spawn on a random continent across the world waiting for the next jabroni." Overlaid on this reply is a manga panel of Koichi's corpse being cradled in Tobari's arms, and then one where Koichi is alive and well, talking to Raimei, while Tobari and Raikou look on. End description]

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