Tfw a documentary constantly brings up something problematic about the subject but like. It’s literally irrelevant to the thesis. And there’s no way to complain about it without sounding awful.

Also!! The Eclipse path of totality crossed my apartment complex! I didn’t even have to go anywhere— the universe made up for my car breaking and refusing to start when I was gonna go to Tennessee to see the 2017 eclipse.

Absolutely fantastic sight, I only have to wait 21 years until the next one crosses my city. Exciting!

👾what was my muse’s childhood bogeyman? [Noel]

Noel was terrified of Sea Monsters!

The youngest of a dozen siblings, and even then, the quietest and jumpiest of the lot, he was oft the victim of brotherly pranks— things thrown on him from a climbed tree, grabbing his ankles from underwater while he was wading in the ocean, and so forth.

And the scary stories of what lurked beneath the waves.

Naive and ignorant, young Noel listened with wide eyed wonder as brothers convinced him to the idea of dragons and serpents out at sea, hunting for lost ships and tired young boys who didn’t keep up.

He was convinced that his family’s post, tending the Brighton Bonfire — a long-lasting fireblaze every night and foggy day that was later replaced by modern lighthouses — was for the purpose of frightening these monsters away from shore. It was in fact, so that ships could navigate the rivers mouth and sail into Liverpool without issue, but for an entirely different reason.

When the lighthouse was built and the Mercer occupation lost to developing technologies, that young lad joined a naval crew to help hunt down those very monsters. He was honestly a little disappointed he’s never gotten the opportunity to battle a dragon at sea.

character flaws meme;;

Flaws. We all have them. Even our muses. In fact, they often make for better, more engaging characters. Send a symbol to learn about one of my muse’s weaknesses!

🙊what would my muse say their biggest flaw is

⧱ what really is my muse’s biggest flaw

🤳name three physical imperfections my muse has (birthmarks, gray hairs, muscular definition, etc)

🙈what’s my muse’s biggest blind spot?

🍰what’s my muse’s guilty pleasure?

😰when my muse is stressed, how do they act out?

💚what does my muse get envious over?

🚫what is one thing my muse wouldn’t want someone else to know about them?

🛌my muse’s biggest nightmare

✍️does my muse have a learning disability?

🎒what was my muse’s worst subject in school?

🙅‍♂️what does my muse feel insecure about?

👾what was my muse’s childhood bogeyman?

🙉what are two things that make my muse uncomfortable in conversation

MUSE AESTHETICS BOARD: Noel Thames Mercer

Choose 3-6 images from your character’s Pinterest board (aesthetics tag if you do not have a Pinterest) and post them without context for your character.

Make sure to include links to credit the images if they are not your own (use caption feature with tumblr imgs)

Repost, DO NOT REBLOG, and tag partners whose characters you’d love to see an aesthetics board for.

tagged by: @zweibierbitte tagging: [lazy noises]

Dear Editor, I have taken Notice of your rather Uncanny Abilities, both of the Pen and that of Greater Interest. Your words flow with Tender Emotions and a Wondrous Melody and yet my Notice has become unwavering from that of the Transport of Messages through Time itself, to the Future, of Great Distance and Perhaps, even, to the Past? There are Certain Events in our Nations History I do Believe some Choice Words into the Ears of Monarchs and Myself could solve Many Problems. -- England Himself.

My Good Sir–

You must pardon my Delay in tendering my Response to your Request; The time was spent in contacting my Superior in this Matter, the Right Hon. William Wickham. You may surmise, Sir, that your Letter raised many Eye-brows and Pulses among our Nation’s Government, for the Undermajordomo of my Superior’s Household–with whom I entrust Correspondence to his Master–alluded to Much Discord in that Place. I am Assured in my own Heart that you are, at the Least, Well-meant in your Designs; Unfortunately, it is not I who chooses the Fate of the Marvelous Works I am so Privileged to use.

While I thank you for such a Kind Summation of my Abilities, I can only provide you with this Letter, Attached. My Deepest Apologies.

Yours &tc.,The Editor

FROM THE DESK OF THE HON. WILLIAM WICKHAM, UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, AS DICTATED TO UNDER-UNDER DEPUTY SECRETARY WYATT, REGARDING THE REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF PROPRIETARY MACHINE 77691 FOR USE BY “ENGLAND HIMSELF”

No.

Questions for Immortals/Ancients

horrificmemes:

For ancient and/or immortal muses, here are some questions to build your headcanons!

😇Do you think you’ll ever experience an afterlife? 😷Do you have any weaknesses that could challenge your lifespan? 👥Have you met others like you? 👨‍👨‍👦Are you part of a family of ancients/immortals? 🎈Do you remember the start of your life? How long ago was it? 💔Is there anyone from your past that you missed for a long time? 😢Do you still think about people you knew years, even centuries, ago? 👶Do you have children? If you don’t, do you think they would be like you? 🍼 Would you ever consider having offspring with a mortal? 📕Do you ever run out of things to be curious about? 📗What is one of the most valuable things you’ve learned? 📘In the remainder of your life, what else do you hope to learn? 💀What is your opinion on death and mortality in general? 🥀Do you create bonds with mortals or avoid getting attached? ☹ Talk about your memory of a tragedy you’ve witnessed. 🖤Do you believe immortality changes someone for the worst? 🕗In your time, what has been one of the most interesting time periods?  ⏳Do you ever wish you had a mortal lifespan? 😿Is there any one person you would sacrifice your immortality for? 🎁Name one thing that never gets old or loses its charm for you. 🔮Have you ever considered (or looked for) ways to end your immortality? 🤡How do you deal with avoiding suspicion while living forever? ✨Other than immortality, do you have other supernatural abilities? 🌱What is one thing about the world you’ve come to appreciate? 🌼Have you traveled? If so, name one place that you love the most. 💾Do you ever have trouble with new technology? 💗Is there one mortal in your life you will never forget? 🎼What is your opinion on how music, art, and culture has changed? 💕Do you think two immortals could handle one another’s company forever? 🙄How do you handle boredom and monotony? 💿What is one (or more) inventions you’re thankful exist in your current time? 👿Would you ever use your power and knowledge to destroy? 🌋Do you think you will be alive to see the end of the world? 🗻Do you ever want to escape society altogether for a while? 🤠Have you ever disguised yourself or gone by different names?

dam…….. that website “you feel like shit” (it’s like a questionnaire / troubleshooting guide for when you feel like shit) really works………………….. im not even all the way thru it and i even half-assed a lot of the suggestions and i already feel loads better

What’s in a name?

Over the past 393 years, Daniel has gone by a good handful of names. The one constant that has stuck from the time he was first named at 8 days old until this very day has been his first name: Daniel. 

This name comes  from the Hebrew name דָּנִיֵּאל (Daniyyel) meaning “G-d is my judge”. Unlike some Personifications who had the chance to choose their own name upon reaching the point of conciousness or sentience, his was given to him by his mother and from it he has taken the advice it gives over his life. There is an odd comfort in that constant reminder that regardless of what people think of him on Earth, there really is only one Being to whom he will have to eventually answer.  Because of its meaning’s significance, he has never felt the need to change it as he has of his middle and surnames.

Until he was adopted into the colonyship of England, Daniel bore a Dutch surname: Koenig, which simply meant king in that language. The true source of that surname is unknown to Daniel, and he never really got a chance to ask his parents, as his father died a month prior to his being born, and his mother passed away when he was still a small child. The name Koenig was later given to his wife, Anna Wilbore, and for a time after her death in 1641 Daniel considered keeping her surname in lieu of the one his mother passed to him, but that consideration was done for him in 1665 when he for the first time stepped foot in England into the court of King Charles II. Due to the lack of resistance against English acquisition of the New Netherland colonial territories, and Daniel’s own expresséd pleasure of being free of the Dutch rule, he was granted royal favour and adopted into the king’s own family as a member of English governance. Legally, he was to be considered an illegitimate son of the king, and thus was given the surname Fitzroy, and by his own choice took on Charles as a middle name. 

Daniel Charles Fitzroy stuck as his name for quite a long time, and did not change again until January 14, 1784 during the ratification of the Treaty of Paris which saw the formal ending of the American War for Independence. Shortly after the signing, Daniel gave a speech to those present, which included key figures such as George Washington, John Hancock, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, etc. The conclusion of said speech included an affirmation of his intent to uphold the right of the newly independent United States, would not take an active role in any further loyalist movements, would cede submission to the joined voices of Congress, the President, and Judiciary offices, and to prove his commitment to this pledge of allegiance, chose to take on a new name, shedding the most visible relic of his ties to England.

Charles was traded for Aleksander, both to give honour to one of the political minds that Daniel found himself agreeing with more often than most others among the nation’s Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, and to give a small nod to the Dutch blood that ran in him, thus favouring the ks- infix over the more modern x- spelling of the name. Fitzroy was exchanged for Hill, a common surname, a simple name that did not assume any major role in society - no claiming of rank or occupation, yet added a second reminder to the scar on Daniel’s cheek of the personal significant of the Battle of Bunker Hill. 

Daniel Aleksander Hill stood as his name for more than a century thereafter until the Spanish-American War’s end result saw America now in possession of colonies - Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and several minor island holdings wrested from Spanish grasp. This, along with the past century in gaining confidence as a Nation, strides in domestic and international solidification of America as a powerhouse of diplomatic relations and economic significance which would be proven double over in the coming decades, cemented the United States of America into the technical definition of an Empire, which Daniel saw fit to pay some homage to that and adjust his name yet again, affirm that he was a powerful player on the world stage. 

Surely one deserving to call himself King.

" money ain't worth a thing. "

— Andrew Carnegie to Daniel

Its such a simple, reductive statement. And delivered so off-hand. It shouldn't have dug into Daniel's nerves nearly as deeply as it did, and yet it exists and squirms under his skin in a way that makes his blood boil near instantly.

And yet, outwardly, Daniel remains calm and collected. Only the narrowing of his eyes and a subtle tilt to his head betrayed the anger such a statement rose in him. Hell, he even smiled at it.

"We live in a capitalistic society, Mr. Carnegie. To those without it, money is everything. To those with it, it is never enough. Whether your claim of aiming to rid yourself of your fortunes for the betterment of society is true or not, I do not believe it will ever begin to make up for what you had to do to acquire such wealth in the first place."

okay i am finally off work time to do some ACTIVITY.

Send me muse questions, prompts, stuff, pls?

be proud of your original characters. it's no easy task to create a character from scratch, to make them believable and real and human. it takes time. it takes dedication. so what if they aren't perfect right away? so what if there are still things you're only now figuring out after time? characters evolve, they go through changes and arcs and stories just like real people do. and it's okay if your character develops over time, you don't need to have it all figured out right away. there are some things that will only ever clear up after writing them for a while, finding their voice, and seeing the way they interact with other characters. but this is your character, your creation, and you deserve to feel proud about it no matter what.

@brassandblue ;; Continued from [ here ]

Anything wound up, be it a roll of bubble gum, scotch tape or time itself, just spins faster the more of it has been spent. The average human saw the upper side of half of a century, and here Daniel was crossing the midpoint of his third one alive. Technology seemed to develop at a snails pace when he was a kid - he'd grown up using candles and matchsticks, then only a century ago saw kerosene and oil lamps swapped for filament bulbs. Now glass tubes were pumped full of neon and argon and twisted into interesting shapes, light in bright colors and there were computer screens that responded to simple touch.

War brought on most of these advances in technology, war brought on the wealth and prosperity that followed invention mothered by necessity. He brought these things into the world with his own actions - both the wonderful; combustion engines, zippers, computers, aeroplanes that could cut the three months journey across the Atlantic to a mere handful of hours - and the disastrous; mustard gas, automatic-fed machine artillery, and... much, much bigger bombs than had ever been before conceived....

This was precisely what worried him. He'd witnessed, played a part in the creation of, helped fund the entire project, and condoned everything about it. Without understanding what exactly would be beheld in the utter wrath and destruction it brought to everyone. The fear it instilled in the world. The panicked race to make another, another, another. Foreign nations had them now, too. There was no telling when or if any one of them might take that last resort. No one could predict how short anyone's fuses were.

Even his own were unknown. Pure and unadulterated fear kept him from ever suggesting that they really, truly ever should be the solution to any problem faced-- but it was known that the Soviets had them as well. Were they as stable and predictable as the one built in Los Alamos? Did they also use hydrogen and uranium, or something else? Would our next launch be the one that set the oxygen of the atmosphere into flame and rip the very sky apart?

Would their's?

These were the thoughts that had plagued Daniel for three decades now. Subtly, at first. Buried deep within his subconscious and not even scratching the surface of his cocky arrogance. But then it kept on. Fleeting thoughts burrowed, matured and metamorphosized into nightmares that ceased to confine themselves to the hours of unwakefulness. Every suspicious glance on the metro turned into fear and projection...

He knew damn well that it was irrational. He was being stupid, paranoid and jumpy at nothing. Maybe not nothing, but he was overreacting. He couldn't just... will his heart to stop racing and adrenaline to stop pumping every time a shadow passed through an overcast sky. It could be a pigeon, but it could just as easily be a Russian bomber jet carrying something worse than what he had already seen dropped elsewhere. After all, if one wanted to cripple the United States' pride and stature... where better to look than New York City?

He swallows hard, overwhelmed by too many speculations and assumptions clouding his ability to just exist. He was already breathing too hard, his core temperature rising and a sheen of sweat threatening to break out on his brow.

The offered hand was not taken.

He hesitated before moving, only brought back to reality by Jack's own motion and the realisation that he was not, in fact, alone at this very moment. The hand was bypassed and, after far, far too long of not having done so, he closed the distance between himself and his mentor - former mentor? - and tucked himself into the man's side, his face buried into Jack's shoulder and arms wrapping around him.

The dry, rasped sob that escaped him was wholly undignified.

Gentle reminder for American followers - TAXES ARE DUE IN TWO DAYS.

Tax fraud is what finally put Al Capone in prison.

Even the Joker doesn't fuck with the IRS.

Do not get yourself in trouble.

A Dashboard Game!

WHAT KIND OF FANBASE WOULD YOUR MUSE HAVE?

DANIEL ALEKSANDER KING

very controversial

some people are literally in love with your character. others want to witness their execution. and probably these fans fight each other a lot about it. and they @ you for like 90% of their fights so your notifications are blowing up and it's all about this one character and you're just so tired

NOEL THAMES MERCER

lesbians are obsessed with them.

they're either a super hot badass girlboss or man that's prolly a 6/10 looks-wise who makes respecting woman his entire personality (as he should) there's a lot of tweets or posts about this character, and all the fanfics are prolly either really sweet and cute or extremely R rated. no in between lmao

GABRIEL EMMANUEL HILL

lots of fanart but in a cool way :o

this character has a chill fanbase !!!! people just make aesthetic art for them !! your character is probably fairly unproblematic

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