The image earned a soft chuckle from the woman, nose wrinkling with amusement. “Lord, no we couldn’t have that. Cheers, then.” Though she wasn’t exactly an avid fan of alcohol, it seemed rude to ignore the drink she’d just accepted. “You know, you look mighty familiar. Have we met before somewhere?” 

“Oh, I do.” he smiled, settled in next to her if only long  enough to deliver the drink. “I could just walk ‘round  drinking both–it wouldn’t be the weirdest thing I’ve  seen tonight–but I like to think I have standards.            At least this early into the night.”

         I RAISED YOU TO BE EXTRAORDINARY AND YOU FAILED ME                                        est. may 15 | novella account                                                    

quietly and discreetly places a flower crown on her head (made entirely of her favorite flowers, of course)

          “Now, aren’t you just the sweetest thing? How’s it suit me, hmm?” the immortal asked with a bat of her eyelashes.

dont have the symbol because of mobile. but Nina, how do you feel about love and romance?

Send a ◎ and a question and my muse must answer.

          “Broad question, ain’t it? I like a good love story as much as the next bleedin’ heart, I guess. I’ve seen plenty of people have long and happy lives with that other half or whatever you wanna call it. If you’re asking how it works out for me, it’s a little different for us old timers. Some tend to flock to each other--vampires especially.” Not a stereotype, she thought, just what she’d seen in her experience. 

          Briefly, she reflected upon what experiences of hers could actually be referred to as romantic. Her stance shifted, a slight tension crawling up her spine. “I don’t think it’d work out for me, though. I’m doing just fine like I am--folks don’t need no sort of romance to be happy, you know.” 

Send a ◎ and a question and my muse must answer, even if it's a secret.

please reblog this if you’re an oc !

          “Oh, you don’t say? Well it would be a crying shame to let it go to waste. S’pose I’d be willing to take it from you--if you insist.”

mxdame 

“This is INCREDIBLY embarassin’,   but UH– it seems I got t w o drinks   by mistake. I just can’t bring myself   to toss one. Not with the prices on these   things. I was wonderin’ if you’d care to take   one off my hands?”

          “Push a button enough and it’ll stop doing anything, honey, trust me on that. If you want to shock me, whip me up some potion that’ll make me keep my ledgers organized for longer than a week.”

     “Hm. I’ll find something to shock you. Everyone’s got      a button.”

Writing & Colorism.

#Opinion for discussion

NOTE: this is coming from a dark skinned mun of color.

Colorism, while not as commonly talked about as racism, is still very very apparent within the community. There is this subtle ignorance with darker toned Original characters ( even some fandom characters ), that affects us in each aspect of our lives, INCLUDING THIS COMMUNITY.

Now, Lighter skinned poc will always experience some form of racism, But hardly experience colorism. Why? well, colorism is really a internalized poc thing. When representing cultural media, 90% of the time they use actors of a lighter skin tone, hardly giving any darker toned poc a chance to shine. All in all, in order to shine as a dark skinned poc, you must have an incredibly gorgeous face, and propped up as a supporting actor/actress. ( Before “18 years a slave”, or your local Oscar award news, did you ever even hear of Lupita Nyongo? Before Thor II, did you ever hear of Idris Elba? because im p sure he’s had several roles before. ) Which is why Viola Davis [how to get away with murder] is a game changer for us, while beautiful, she does not have the idealized incredibly attractive face the media constantly uses. Growing up, I was constantly pushed aside for my lighter skinned sisters, my large nose and lips were often made fun of. the boys of my school would pick and chose which girl to date, because she was light skinned with 2c hair: curly but easily tamed with a hot iron. She was their idealized sense of beauty, perhaps sporting the same features as us, but because she was lighter and therefore much more “innocent and sexy” than us, she would be the perfect match to carry home to his parents. Us darker skinned girls? Not even mentioned once in their conversations.

Going back to the community, the major race that makes up the community’s muses are white, as well as east asian. While i have to let the east asian animated community slide, because the majority of cartoons are made by japan, for japan. But: there are darker toned east asians? Black & latinx asians? Mixed raced asians, known as “hafu” in Japanese society, are often in a awkward situation because they almost feel like they’re never truly one race or the other. A really popular woman known as Ariana Miyamoto, Became the first African american Japanese person to win Miss Japan, this year. ( source ) There are several interviews with many local Japanese people who are highly uncomfortable with her winning because she sported a darker tone. Others? they applauded her for adding diversity and breaking the colorist cultural binds that many east asian countries still have. Yook Ji dam ( source ) as well. Now to white fcs. There’s no doubt that there’s thousands of white muses in our community with Incredibly attractive faces. the most common muse description in our communities are white actresses with dark brown hair/black hair, sporting blue eyes. hell, we got a tag for them on nearly every face claim blog there is! Black? Filipina? Middle eastern women? a post at best, with the same repetitive actresses. Forget about it if they’re darker than a paper bag.

Now onto the pale aesthetic. ( which ill probably make a post abt later aha;; ) The pale aesthetic is a common aesthetic on tumblr, featuring skin lighter than chalk in contrast with black or pink or blue clothes. Have you ever seen a dark skinned person within the pale aesthetic tag? try scrolling for 30 minutes. It almost always features bruised hands ( probably indicating your muse is a fighter or a warrior ) pale arms ( maybe your muse is the fairest of their city? ) and blood, topped off with leather boots. It’s colorist, because it indicates that a darker toned poc is inherently tough, without a sense of purity, that they wont even deserve a damn post. I mean, we hardly see them in churches, paintings etc etc, why put them in a aesthetic post? They probably wont even notice it!

TLDR; What i’m asking is, Take notice around you, please stop pretending this is a “sjw thing” to grab you by the bridges and ruin your fun ( I mean most of yall dont even take notice in your own communities ) and give your darker skinned poc muses a chance. Follow them!! you got an oc, but no dark skinned fcs?? demand them from your local fc blogs! Because even though you believe your not racist, you are contributing to the sticky colorism that’s in this community.

More posts about colorism: [one] [two] [three]

LUCI’S “BUT THE ORIGINAL IMAGE WAS WHITEWASHED IS A SHIT EXCUSE” PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL

Scrolling through photos of my OC’s faceclaim is really irritating. She’s somewhat light-skinned, but she is half Black, not that you would know it by looking at her in most of her pictures, except the ones where she’s not wearing makeup and skin editing is minimized, such as these ones where you can see her freckles.

I used to just get annoyed whenever I put the same PSD over one picture of her that didn’t leave her looking whitewashed and another that made her skin literally #ffffff white. But then I did some really quick googling and found some ways of editing skin tone, particularly for the sake of darkening skin tone. I’ve laid out the simple process here, under the cut, with the before and after shown here (note that she is still somewhat light skinned because she is not a dark skinned person and I am not trying to pretend she is, but as shown at the end of this tutorial, this does work on dark skinned people who have been whitewashed);

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wraps arms around her, bundles her in his robes. don't ask nina, he needs a hug or seven.

          In which she does not ask, instead pressing a kiss to his cheek before nestling deep within the warm safety of his robes. Whatever troubles him, he can speak of it when his heart doesn’t feel quite so heavy. Until then, all she can do is stay close and help him hold it. 

@botanokinesis liked for a starter

          "All I’m sayin’ is, having a network of mutant foster parents would be great, but it would only work if the non-mutant folk didn’t know about it. Lord knows that they’d think normal kids wouldn’t be safe in those houses, instead of the other way around. If it kept under the radar, that might work out.”

@witchbyblood liked for a starter

          “Yeah I’m pretty sure I’ve known about magic and all since, hmm, 1871? 72? I was coming up on 50. All in about five or six years, I find out I’m immortal and that there’s magic. How’s that for a mid-life crisis?” 

​reblog this if your muse is female, and you’re comfortable shipping her with other female characters.

Yeehaw it’s a starter call! Like for a noisy southern grandma. 

comes up behind her to press a kiss to the top of her head

          If she cranes her neck a little bit, she can see him towering over her. Two feet is a hell of a height difference. “How’s the weather up there, sweetheart?”