#withan

[froggie-at-home]

I'm here to speak the truth and truth only.

Will Solace has a type, and it is goth/emo/punk guys who were at least once depicted as antagonists even if they weren't.

[t4tklonoa]

draw skull having a little snack. she deserves it 🦔

Aviators made her some strawberries with chocolate :]

[rougedraconteur]

According to an online article in People Magazine, Wayne Brady has come out as pansexual. Or, as he describes it, “bisexual with an open mind.”

[ambiguouswren]

rereading gtn and this has really fun implications for nova i think. harrow nova could be a cav that runs a lot to attack from afar / doesnt care about injury in close fights. like both options are entirely plausible considering shes insane enough to keep working to be the best and also self sacrificial

i wonder what necro-gideons fighting style is like because it Also said the crowds of skeleton generation were harrows specific specialty. nobody else really does that!

[nifexchange24]

Announcing: The Nirvana in Fire Fanwork Exchange 2024

Sign-ups — 1st-14th Oct

Prompt claiming — 17th-21st Oct

Assignments — 24th Oct

Check-in — 1st-5th Dec

Deadline — 21st Dec

Gift reveals — 25th Dec

Creator reveals — 31st Dec

The Nirvana in Fire Fanwork Exchange is an event for anyone who's a fan of the show Nirvana in Fire, its sequel series The Wind Blows in Changlin, the novel, manhua, audio drama and any other associated media I've forgotten.

It takes the form of an anonymous fanwork gift exchange: gifters will be matched with recipients based on prompts submitted by participants during sign-up. All participants will create a gift and receive one.

The event is open to all types of fanworks: fic, vids, visual art, crafts, podfic, etc.

Announcements will be crossposted to Tumblr, Discord and Dreamwidth.

If you would like an invite to the Langya Hall discord server, which has a channel for discussing the exchange, please let me know.

How It Works

During the sign-up period, you will be able to submit a Google Form with a list of 3 prompts for fanworks you would like to receive, as well as space to list any Do/Do Not Wants. The link will be posted on the DW community, the Langya Hall discord, and on this Tumblr.

On 17th Oct, participants will be sent an anonymous list of sets of prompts and asked to rank their top 5 choices. Once all participants have responded, the mods will do their best to match everyone according to their preferences.

On 24th Oct, participants will be sent their individual assignment: the prompt list of the person they have been matched with, along with that person's AO3 username.

On 31st Oct, the prompt list will be made public, for anyone, whether they signed up or not, to creat additional 'treats' for the prompters.

There will be a mandatory check-in 1st-5th Dec. Participants will be asked whether they are on track to complete a gift by the final deadline of 21st Dec. Participants who miss this deadline without contacting the mods will be assumed to have defaulted and their assignment will be sent to a pinch-hitter.

Gifts should be submitted to the AO3 collection (still under construction) by the end of the day on 21st Dec. Participants will still be able to make edits, but the gift should be in a giftable state by then.

On 25th Dec, the gifts will be revealed: everyone will be able to see all works in the collection, though the creators will still remain anonymous.

On 31st Dec, the names of the creators will be revealed.

TL;DR: Sign up with prompts, choose the prompts you'd like to fill, make a thing, post a thing, get a thing, shower your fellow creators with love and comments.

Minimum gift requirements

Treats

Fic: 500 words

Podfic: 5 mins

Art: 1 artwork (B&W or colored)

Video: 30 secs to 1 min, depending on complexity

Crafts: 1 picture and/or documentation of the finished project

If you don't want to sign up as a full exchange participant, you can still create fills for prompts as 'treats'. The prompt list will be made public on 31st Oct. Treats can be posted to the AO3 community and tagged with 'NIFTREAT24'.

General Points

BYOB: Bring your own beta. In previous years, the exchange has offered a beta-matching service, but we're running at reduced capacity this year, so if you want your work beta-read, please organise this yourself.

Timezones: Deadlines for participants are 11.59pm of the date in question, wherever you might be in the world. Timings for the mod doing stuff are based on 'when I have a spare hour during that day' and I can't be more precise than that.

AO3: You'll be able to add your work to the Nirvana in Fire 2024 Exchange collection on AO3 (currently under construction but you can see last year's collection here). If you need an AO3 invite, we can arrange this, but please let me know before December if possible.

Contact a mod: If you're in the Langya Hall discord server, feel free to ping me @ sinni-ok-sessi on there, or @ withans for a PM. You can also contact me @sinni-ok-sessi or via the @nifexchange24 Tumblr. Nominally I am on Dreamwidth, but I almost never remember to check it, so that's not your best bet. If you sign up, you will receive instructions for how to email me.

[brittscafe]

ichigo, renji, shuhei withan s/o that dances hiphop?

lol i love this!!

Ichigo: He likes to admire you from afar. You'll grab onto his hand and drag him into the studio to dance with you. He's actually really good at it and is a quick learner. You actually start to dance together and really enjoy spending time together doing that.

Renji: He's definitely the one who wants to join and try to learn it. So whenever you go to the studio or start dancing, he joins in. Of course, Renji has no idea how to dance hiphop, so it's learning process. You definitely laugh a lot as Renji fails to do certain moves and will sometimes crash and burn on the floor.

Shuhei: hmmmm, I think that at first he doesn't really mind or care for it until you bring him along to the studio. He stares at you in awe, a hand covering his mouth as he blushes. He loves how fluidly you move and how attractive you look when you're dancing. Sometimes, he has to leave the room because he can't handle how good you look.

[scotianostra]

On 1st October 1788 Deacon William Brodie, respectable citizen by day, criminal at night, was executed at the Tolbooth in Edinburgh.

William Brodie, was respectable burgher by day, Deacon of the Guild of Wrights, he wasn’t the type for the gallows. Actually, the upright citizen is said to have proposed an improvement in the old Tolbooth gallows, replacing the old-school ladders with a forward-thinking drop mechanism, little did he know his "improvments" would be used on himself.

“Brodie,” says Traditions of Edinburgh, “was the first who proved the excellence of [the] improvement … He inspected the thing with a professional air, and seemed to view the result of his ingenuity with a smile of satisfaction.”*

With a gambling habit, a couple of mistresses, and five kids, Brodie the oleaginous society man had a double life, or treble, or more. By and by, the well-known tendency of such profligate pastimes to lead a man to venture his neck in order to keep up appearances worked its will upon Brodie, who began using his contracts with Edinburgh’s upper crust to case their houses and copy their keys … returning at night to burgle his employers.

It was taking on partners that did in the budding master thief; inevitably, someone flipped to dodge the gallows himself. Brodie’s cover was blown, and he hanged withan accoplice, George Smith. K9 mik9 jni9eeping up appearances to the very end. He strode out to the gallows in fine clothes and a powdered wig. A fitting end to an extraordinary life.

His execution was a big spectacle for the people of the city, it is said he was hanged in front of a crowd of around 40,000.

A century later, native Edinburgher Robert Louis Stevenson would tap this extraordinary local history (and maybe some similar predecessors) as inspiration for that classic novelistic exploration of the soul’s duality, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

In fact, prior to that work’s 1886 publication, Stevenson (who grew up with Brodie furniture in the house) co-wrote a play called Deacon Brodie, or The Double Life.

Following his hanging on 1 October 1788, Deacon Brodie was buried in The Orthodox Chapel of St Andrew, originally St Cuthbert’s Chapel of Ease. His grave has no headstone but is said to be in the northeastern corner of the graveyard.

Brodie’s striking case does not live on only through his literary dopplegangers, but you can enjoy the company of the hanged criminal to this day on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile at Deacon Brodie’s Tavern, and at tea rooms on the opposite side of the Lwnmarket.

[boxes-for-systems]

could you make a few? Sorry if this is too much

“this system likes undertale and deltarune”

“this system loves Bones (2005)”

“this system is neurodivergent”

Sorry it took so long, but here you go! Hope the first two are okay- i know neither of those fandoms

[Start ID An indigo userbox with fanart of undertale and deltarune on the left, and text on the right that reads "This system likes undertale and deltarune" End ID]

[Start ID A yellow userbox with fanart of a picture from the show Bones (2005) on the left, and text on the right that reads "This system loves Bones (2005)" End ID]

[Start ID A yellow userbox withan outline of a brain on the left, and text on the right that reads "This system is neurodivergent" End ID]

[marbearmarigold]

Me and @ashe-withane made a bunch of bracelets!! Here are all my dan and phil themed ones

Bonus: one chappel roan and one dead boy detective

[starfxkrinc]

https://www.tumblr.com/starfxkrinc/765459454540021760/what-were-ur-most-problematic-fantasies-as-a-youth

i had two main ones, when i was 13 and first got on here. i feel into the ddlg, faux-incest rabbit hole and as a 13 yr old withan emotional absent father you can imagine how that went.

my second one was when i was 15 and saw scream for the first time and id daydream about billy loomis using my as a ‘torture doll’ allowing him to experiment with different killing methods, tolls, and use me for whatever pleased him. 

we are some slutsssss omg

[shapa-likes-art]

How long have you been drawing and how long does a piece usually take to finish? :D

1. I've technically been drawing since I was 7 but I started taking drawing seriously when I was 11-12 years old.

I used to want to be a mangaka around grade 4-5 but I gave up on the idea lol. I still kept drawing and boom, Now I'm an animation student lol.

2. @korruptbrekker asked the same question so I'm including them in the answer:

Well, it mostly depends on what type of piece it is and how simple the character is.

For example, if it were a sketch of Virgil, whose design is simple, it would take me 30 minutes. But if it were a sketch of my Dnd PC Withan, whose design is complex, it would take up to an hour.

But in general, I would say finishing a piece on average would take 1-3 days. Maybe a week if I'm especially busy or unmotivated.

Send in artist asks!

[predakingg]

Dragon fighting scene

Hi! I love dragons and I enjoy writing so I'm going to start posting little drabbles of fights and dragons on here!

Warning: Gore, graphic violence^^

DRABBLE UNDER CUT!

Scorched soot, barren plains, still winds, unsettling rains.

War, not by man, by claw. Raised with wings, followed with teeth. Dragons had never seen peace, mighty beasts driven by a thirst for scale and tooth, by one of glory, of proof. He who killed, rules the skys, he who slaughtered never dies.

Valmar let out a roar, shaking the ground with such force one man wouldn’t keep his balance. A dragon laced with rage forever more, forever needed. A wyverns who's wings carried him through storm and cloud, a drake with such might none stood so proud. The dragon growled, shaking out his body from the rain that pelted into his back, trailing down his face, staining his scales. Rich reds dulled with age, a gorgeous dragon only the sky could contain.

Valmar was cruel. No matter what was said or done, a dragon never stood down to a opponent, no matter size or strength. Draxious stood to familiar height, pacing the barran land their claws dug into. Clutchmates, born from same mother, one who passed, final calls shaking the very earth with her sorrow. Draxious growled, his eyes narrowing at what would be called brother.

Brother no more, brother a name undeserving. A vile beast was all he saw, one unruly, unnerving. Such vile things deserved no more but disembowlment, to be cut of his organs and discarded to the sea. That was his only goal.

Valmar launched off his haunches, aiming straight for the other beasts neck, great maw outstretched, prepared to rid this heathen from his land. Draxious was quick on his claws, jumping into the air only to latch onto the older back, digging great talons into tough and worn scales. The one beneath wailed, thrashing and throwing the dragon off of his back, taking to the sky with the other wyvern close to his tail.

No more would such a vile *thing* rule what deserved to be cherished. Draxious dug his claws into his haunches, raking great gouges into his thighs. Another roar of unsettled pain sounded before he opened his jaws, eternal flame building up through his throat. Valmar fired, roaring with a rage unable to be named, scorching the side of the smaller dragon's face, displacing his eye socket, and melting his scale to the bone. Draxious used the other's very body to climb up him, digging his talons into his wings and sending them both spiralling to the ground.

Flames erupted around them both, tangled wings and tails plummeting through the skies far about the barren wastes they set to rule.

*it was either draxious or neither of them who survived*

*never should such a creature ever have been able to rule*

The wyvern gripped onto Valmars snout, prying it open with pure rage and strength.

“Flames thrive in your body.” his voice was old, bellowing.

“But never should flame enter through maw, goodbye brother.” simple words stopped withan outbreakof flame, spiralling into the others dragon's throat.

Dragons fought without mercy, but with purpose.

‘*free them draxious, free them of such horrors..’*

And so he had.

Written by: predaking 7/7/24

[askteamsunshine]

Luci@Either: "Er... so this whole place is run by pokemon? Like, the shops 'n all that other stuff?" He peers down the road to the town in question, perplexed but still curious nonetheless about the going-ons there. "There any specific places you like goin' to?"

"Yep!! That's Treasure Town, in all its glory!!" Angel gestures in the direction of the town withan extended paw and a big grin.

The two of them are standing on the outskirts (well, one of them is standing, anyway), but even from here, several buildings can be seen, along with Pokemon meandering about. It's a typical sight for the Shiny Eevee, yet one that feels them with the warm sensation of being home.

"There's lots of places we like to visit - the Kecleon Shop's always your best bet if you need some supplies, and the brothers that run it are great to talk to!! The Makuhita Dojo is great if you need some training. Ms. Kangaskhan is really nice and keeps any items you give her safe in storage. Ms. Chansey runs the local orphanage..."

Angel pauses, then laughs.

"Oh, sorry, you asked for specific places, not a whole rundown!! I can give you a tour later if you want. But, uh, besides all that, there's Sharpedo Bluff that's just a bit outside of town on the other side - it's a cliff that looks like a Sharpedo!! That's also where me and my partner live. The view from there is great!!"

"And there's the beach! It's not far from here. We love going there to relax when we get the chance. It's really pretty at sunset!!"

[latteandjacks]

So far my only troubles with Deltatraveler are that Fell Sans felt too edgy, like they wanted the universe to feel less edgy but they didn't delete the edgy and just put it into a pile and then stuffed all of that edgy onto Sans

And I say this as someone withan au where Sans is a dick

Second Noelle feels like she's just,,, there, and even a bit ooc at times, specially in Obliberation, she implied Kill should kill themselves??? I believe that was bad wording and was meant to be more light hearted but ???? I wished they gave more attention to Noelle and I hope the next section does that

That too, Obliberation felt weird, not boring or anything, just had a weird feeling, I can't really pin down what exactly but something feels too off

As much as I agree with their take ln Kris and how I defend that we haven't really meet them as a character to say they're ooc, them jumping by themselves did felt ooc for both the canon Kris and their Kris for obvious reason, their mind reasoning was "They're gonna follow me" but it didn't feel like Kris

The fangame isn't perfect, but God I love it anyway

[the-better-pokeblr-confessions]

update, my gengar also now does not like this blog and is jealous because its taking away my attention. i jsut had to wrangle my phone from him you have no idea how difficurk that ids to do withan ghost poemm9nkmmmkkll,

#36

[phantom-mizero]

The designation of "human steve" as an example is pretty prevalent, when an alien is addressing a human, when you look trough the specific tags. And why not, it's short, easy and everyone will immediately understand who's who. But think about names and how some people have to introduce themselves to new people bc their name has a silent letter or can be written with 1 or 2 letter of the same type. For example: I always, always have to say my full name followed by two L bc it can also be written with one, wich is not my surname. You have no ides how many i had to go to someone and be like "You wrote my name wrong, can you please fix it?" Including official documents. Another thing is pronunciation wich will considerably differ when speaking in a different language. It can also change completely how names sound or are read. For example the name David: an english speaking person might say Day-vid, while a german speaking person would say Daah-vid. This is fine for something like a book character, you can not offend them no matter how you pronounce their name, but a real person is a different thing. One of the few things I still remember from school was when our one and only vietnamese classmate was so happy when we pronounced their name correctly and were interested in their first language. Just imagine a human crewmate getting introduced by their alien friend to someone else and their friend addresses them as Michael Asche Withane like it's part of their name and not what you always have to say so that people write your name right. Later on you tell your alien friend who realizes that they have to change so many files bc of this one mistake. Or imagine a crew sitting down with their new human crewmates, when some of them realize that some members of the crew can't pronounce everyones names right. This would just be wholesome and nice.