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Yes, I am still busy. Yes, I am still stressed. Yes, I am still feeling the crushing guilt of being unable to devote big chunks of time to the things I owe people.
But! At least five times in the past two weeks, sometimes even while looking in the mirror, I've just thought completely organically, “Holy shit. I'm happy.”
And I think I was forgetting how to be that for a while and settling for “today didn't entirely suck.”
I hope you all have some little happy moments soon, too (or big ones!! Have some big ones!) <3
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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand
#blue metal emergency kit i stole from a previous job#it's a good line of defense between the cats and my glasses#it also contains a few spare hair ties and a checkbook and a backup charger#oh and an adapter#on the other one is occasionally a water bottle and always a wooden bat
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I'm learning to work with alcohol markers and colored pencils, and what is a better training than drawing Crowley through ages?
Part 6
Blitz Crowley - 1941
I dig this look so much
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Update on everything I'm supposed to be writing btw—my wrist is Bad again and getting used to a new work schedule is exhausting!
Nothing is abandoned or forgotten, I promise! LanaAura and LanaMia and weird gomens fairytale and reflective trans omens oneshot I am thinking about you every day
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I hope everyone enjoyed the finale of @mrghostrat's Big Name Feelings Good Omens AU as much as I did. While ghostrat ended his story perfectly with a beautiful and realistic close to the part of their relationship we as an audience get to see, I had one more scene idea close to my heart and so I'm putting it out here because my heart still sings with love for this story and its characters.
These fanscenes now also appear on AO3. Along with the four I've already posted here (1, 2, 3, and 5), you can find a scene I kept off Tumblr ("Ch. 12"). You can read the final scene ("Ch. 17") below, but you can also find it on AO3, where it shows the text messages in graphical form.
Bilv, thank you once again for creating such an amazing story! I'm happy to say that my mind is no longer filled with your middle-aged men and their middle-aged-man problems. Instead, please enjoy these 3k words of pure fluff.
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Crowley dumped his bag on the hotel room floor and did a lazy spin to take in the space. "Not bad, eh?"
"It's very posh," Newt agreed, setting his bag down more gingerly. "You're sure we can't pitch in for it?"
"I'm not dealing with you setting your phone on fire trying to do a transfer." Crowley waved the offer off and flopped onto the couch. The hotel suite had two small bedrooms plus a nice little sitting area that would be perfect for board games. It was set up to mainly accommodate a family with kids, albeit a family that could afford to splash on a multi-room suite for the family vacation to Spain. Crowley stretched out, shamelessly taking up the whole couch in a bid to ease the stiffness in his hips. "Tell ya what, if you're feeling guilty, you can buy my drinks tonight."
Anathema laughed and gave Crowley a poke in the side, looking quite satisfied at his jerk and yelp. "Knowing you, that will end up being a fair deal. And I'll take care of renting the wheelbarrow to cart you back here."
Crowley rubbed his side dourly. "Maybe I preferred you on the other side of the ocean."
Anathema grinned at him, unrepentant. "If you want to stay at my place while I'm here, I'll lend you my keys." She ducked a thrown pillow with a laugh.
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The weather was perfect for sipping cocktails outside, and their mutual agreement to all try drinks they'd never had before helped keep the night from slipping away from them too quickly. Being able to chat without the artificial framing of a webcam was a delight, too, but all of them were too continuously connected to be interested in a strict phones-down policy.
Anathema rolled her eyes and took another sip of her drink before answering the text that had just popped up on her screen.
Aziraphale: Are you certain he doesn't know I'm nearby?
Anathema: I didn't tell him, Newt doesn't know, and he doesn't have a magical angel-detecting sense does he?
Aziraphale: I'm not so sure about that last point. Some of his last texts seem awfully pointed.
Anathema: You're being paranoid
Anathema slipped her phone away before leaning over to look at Crowley's phone screen, where he was lining up a very artistic shot of his drink, showcasing as much of the swanky beachfront seating area as possible. She blinked at him slowly. "Have you been sending Aziraphale 'wish you were here' texts?"
Crowley glanced at her sideways, his thumb paused over the shutter button. "Maybe."
Anathema sighed and rubbed her forehead. "Are you an adult who can handle a vacation with friends or are you going to pine after your boyfriend all night?"
"I'm here, aren't I? It's not like we're tied together at the hip."
Anathema shook her head in fond exasperation. "Getting these printed on postcards for him would be funnier than this text spam." Crowley barked out a laugh and sent Aziraphale his next promise to take him here sometime anyway.
Anathema pulled out her phone again, tapping out a quick message.
Anathema: He says he's a full-grown adult who can handle being away from you.
There was a pause before Aziraphale responded to her — probably due to dealing with a barrage of messages from Crowley.
Aziraphale: A very convincing claim.
Anathema looked up as Crowley put his phone away. "All done?"
"Yeah, he's taking an early night." Crowley took a languid sip from his drink.
"How have his workshops been going?" Newt asked, fiddling with a vibrant russet cocktail in a type of glass he couldn't name.
"Good!" Crowley's eyes lit up with excitement, his cheeks pink. "We polished his presentation before he left—"
"I heard about that!" Newt cut in. "He said it was more like beta-testing than beta-reading."
Crowley snorted. "If you want to see what happens when someone goes against the script, I'm your guy."
"The reception's been okay?" Anathema asked. "I know getting audience participation at workshops can be pulling teeth."
"Nahhh, it's different in the library world. Those weirdos actually care about their jobs."
"So do I, but it would be pulling teeth to get me to do a 'group active learning exercise.'"
"Fair." Crowley grinned. "They know how to talk like humans, then. And they really are interested in anyone with tips on how to break into digital spaces in an authentic way."
Newt hummed thoughtfully. "He's really okay with talking about his online presence at work like that? I'd be way too embarrassed."
"Nah, you stop caring about that stuff when you get older."
Anathema snorted. "I'm still saying it's pure luck you didn't chase him offline again with that con nonsense."
"Pfffft." Crowley made a sound that was all plosives and no vowels. "Never even close."
"Right," Anathema replied with tasteful sarcasm.
Crowley cut her teasing short by slapping a yellow canvas pouch down on the table. "C'mon. Let's play a game!"
"Oh, Bananagrams!" Anathema accepted the diversion and unzipped the banana-shaped bag, pouring the Scrabble tiles out between them. She deftly started flipping them letter side down. "I don't think Newt's played?"
Crowley nodded and waggled his fingers at the pile of tiles. "Rules are easy: Everyone's building their own board-free Scrabble grid. You start with 21 tiles. Say 'peel' when you've used yours up to make everyone take another tile from the stock. Say 'dump' to trade one of your tiles for three from the stock. The first person to say 'peel' without enough tiles left for everyone to take one wins. Simple, right?"
Newt nodded slowly, watching as Anathema divided the tiles out neatly. "So they're putting Scrabble in bananas these days."
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Aziraphale: Is he up yet?
Crowley gestured Anathema towards the table where their phones sat in a cuddly pile of charging pads and wires. "You got a message while you were in the shower. From Aziraphale?"
Anathema kept her face carefully schooled as she sauntered over and picked up her phone, using the need to adjust her towel turban as an excuse for not making eye contact. "Mm." She picked it up and read the incriminating message, then snorted. "Bracing himself for when your wall of texts will start, I imagine."
"Nahhh, he loves it!" Crowley snagged the glasses cleaner out of his bag and sauntered into the bathroom. He'd be wearing them all day and he'd murder someone if he had to deal with the scummy film left by hotel soap.
"Whatever you say, lover boy." Anathema breathed a tired sigh.
Anathema: Yeah, and he saw this. We should be at the conservatory by 11
She should have just taken the phone into the bathroom with her, steam be damned.
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The botanical conservatory was, frankly, gorgeous. The greenhouses were so large the ceilings weren't even noticeable, and the outdoor gardens were a riot of native plants. Crowley devoured the signs about plants he was unfamiliar with with gusto, and pointed out those he recognized with the enthusiasm of a man determined to prove he wasn't hungover. Newt listened with unfeigned interest, while Anathema wasn't shy about slowing them down to take photos of particularly artfully arranged displays.
They'd been there about half an hour when a patter of English broke through the background chatter of Spanish. "Could you spot me the entrance fee for the butterfly room?"
"Aziraphale!" Crowley immediately spun to his right, his whole face lighting up in delight before realizing that seeing him here was, in fact, quite odd. "What are you doing in Spain?"
"I left right after my last workshop. I thought it might make a nice surprise."
"It made the best surprise." Crowley pulled him into an ardent kiss that went on long enough for Anathema to cough something about public displays of affection. Crowley eventually relented on the kiss, as much for the sake of their breathing as anything else, but kept his arm slung firmly around Aziraphale's shoulders. "You're a bit of a bastard, you know that? I could've been looking forward to this the whole time."
"Only as much of a bastard as you deserve," Aziraphale teased right back with easy familiarity. His heart kept pounding hard anyway.
"Heh. What a way to butter me up while you're angling for a free ticket." Crowley snuck another kiss onto Aziraphale's cheek. Aziraphale laughed as he slipped his arm through Crowley's, relishing the contact after their weeks apart.
The butterfly room, when they got in, was a riot of fluttering wings. The promise of iridescence was enough to get Crowley to remove his sunglasses, and a quiet compliment on his eyes from Aziraphale was enough to get him tucking them into his pocket instead of putting them right back on afterwards.
They left the butterfly room — with some careful mutual inspections to make sure no one was harboring a stowaway, involving perhaps a bit more care in running fingers through another's hair than was strictly necessary for the task — and emerged near the exit to the rose garden. Crowley's hand moved towards his sunglasses but Aziraphale put his hand on his arm. "Just a couple more minutes? There's something I want you to see first." Aziraphale glanced over at Anathema, who nodded slightly but otherwise kept her expression carefully uninterested.
Crowley looked between them and shrugged. "Not exactly subtle as far as hangover tests go, but a'ight." Aziraphale laughed breathlessly and kept a firm grip on his arm, drawing him deeper into the garden.
The rose garden featured small offshoots to the main path where groups could sit for a little while to rest. It wasn't until the third one that they came upon an alcove that was empty, and Aziraphale promptly pulled Crowley aside, Anathema holding out her hand to keep Newt just outside it with her.
"Crowley—" Aziraphale began, his breath catching in his throat as he caught Crowley's full attention. "I, ah. I actually came here because there was something I wanted to say."
Crowley's hand twitched reflexively towards his glasses again, but this time he kept it down himself, even as his heart started to pound. "...yeah?"
"Yeah," Aziraphale breathed out as he sank to one knee, reaching into his pocket. His fingers were trembling, and his smile was nervous but so very adoring. "If I ask you something, will you promise to laugh?"
"—huh?" Crowley blinked in confusion, then stared as Aziraphale opened a jewelry box to reveal a simple ring.
"Anthony J. Crowley, would you be my snouse?"
It took a few seconds for Crowley to register any of the words Aziraphale had just said, but then he barked out a laugh as the last one hit him. "Really? That's how you ask?"
"You don't like it?"
"I just... I thought if you did it, you'd do a whole speech for it. You even brought us out to a rose garden!"
"I'll be honest, I had one of those planned. I just... couldn't quite seem to bring it to mind." Aziraphale had no idea how he was managing to talk even as much as he was around the tightness in his throat. "You haven't answered my question, dear."
"Pfft..." Crowley closed both his hands around Aziraphale's. "Yes. Yes, of course I'll be your... your whatever. Forever and always."
"Thank goodness." Aziraphale half rose and was instead greeted by Crowley also kneeling, both of them moving together for a kiss that was slow and deliberate. Aziraphale could feel the pounding of his own pulse against the tight hold Crowley had on his hands, and he could tell how Crowley's heartrate had risen to match his by the way their kiss kept shifting for quick intakes of air. Aziraphale finally broke the contact only so he could gently extricate his hands from Crowley's. It took every scrap of concentration he could scrape together to find Crowley's left hand and slip the ring onto his finger. "...it fit okay?"
"Nggh," Crowley replied before pulling him into another kiss.
They might have stayed there all day if Anathema hadn't cleared her throat — snapping another quick photo as they looked up at her, flushed and frazzled. "We are still in public, I'm afraid."
"Yeah," Crowley breathed.
"Huh..." Aziraphale added, just as coherently.
Newt shook his head at the unlikely prospect of them getting up anytime soon, and looked over at Anathema instead. "How were you so prepared?"
Anathema flashed him a smile. "I knew this was coming. Aziraphale asked me to take the photos."
"Is that why you're here?"
"It was the other way around," Anathema replied. "Aziraphale realized he could arrange his schedule to join our trip partway, and we worked out how to take advantage of the situation."
"Bastard," Crowley muttered in response to nothing and everything, pressing tender kisses to Aziraphale's left ring finger like he could imprint a ring there with his lips. "Did you measure my finger while I slept?"
Aziraphale smiled as he watched him, his heartrate finally settling closer to normal under Crowley's reassuring touches. "It's scarcely my fault you're so easy to send to sleep, dearest."
"You're ridiculous. Adorable. Incorrigible."
"Are those all synonyms in your mind?" Aziraphale leaned in to steal another kiss.
Crowley laughed breathlessly at how easily they'd returned to comfortable teasing and carefully pushed himself up. He tugged his clothing straighter and tried to pretend he was put-together as he glanced at Anathema, who was grinning unabashedly at them. "I'll want those pics for... for everything. All of them."
Aziraphale put his hand on Crowley's arm for support as he straightened his own creaking knees. "I'm claiming Tumblr first, if you don't mind."
"Eh—" Crowley gave him his full attention again, not that it had strayed for more than a moment. "This will really get you notice, Angel."
"Good." Aziraphale took Crowley's hand and leaned in to kiss him. He rubbed his fingertip over the ring settled firmly onto a finger that had never borne one before. "Let them know who's claimed you."
Crowley snaked his arm around Aziraphale's neck, chasing down another kiss that went on long enough to have Anathema clucking behind them. "We're gonna get kicked out of the garden, Angel."
Aziraphale smiled against Crowley's lips. "Let them. The one we made is better."
—
Three bottles of wine sat open and mostly-drunk on the table, divided between four glasses that were using the remnants of the previous night's game of The Quiet Year as a coaster. ("We set it in an idyllic countryside and it all went downhill from there," Crowley had explained when Aziraphale came in and started examining the hand-drawn map. "I think the arrival of the dog was the real turning point to madness," Newt had chimed in. "It was doomed from the start," Anathema declared with a resigned sigh.) The red rings of wine stains could have added as much to the group narrative as anything they'd purposefully drawn.
"I came in like a wrecking ball~! I never hit so hard in love~!" Newt sang raucously, a broad grin on his face while Anathema laughed into her hand. Aziraphale tilted his head as he watched them, visibly processing the music.
"All the other kids with their pumped-up kicks, you better run—!" Anathema joined in as the tune jauntily transitioned to a new melody. Aziraphale's face froze into an expression of fond but intense confusion.
"Problem, Angel?" Crowley drawled, utterly amused as he watched the tableau.
"I'm fairly certain that isn't how those songs go. And isn't that polka?"
"Never heard of Weird Al? Bit bigger overseas, I s'pose." He gestured to Anathema's phone, which was supplying the impromptu karaoke party.
Aziraphale nodded, confusion dissolving and leaving just a hint of distaste in its place. "And a different generation, I suppose." He took another sip of his wine, a nice Syrah, as the melody shifted to a new and equally abrasive polka.
"I wear your granddad's clothes," the millennials continued singing, until one of them glanced at Aziraphale and started laughing and the other followed suit, wineglass held out in an attempt to insulate it from deep belly laughs. Crowley snagged it deftly and set it on the table, another drop of wine rolling down to stain the paper there. Aziraphale rolled his eyes, much more amused at their drunken good humor than offended.
Crowley patted Aziraphale's thigh. "Want to take the rest of that Syrah back to my room and leave the loverbirds to it?"
"It would still be rather noisy if we stayed here," Aziraphale replied with a tempting smile. "Why don't you come back to mine?"
Crowley leaned forward eagerly, only a fraction away from jumping up at the unexpected invitation. "Oh?"
"Well, the room may not wind up being quite as nice as the one you got, but I thought for our first night together as a formally promised couple..." Aziraphale's smile said everything.
"You're a genius." Crowley kissed his cheek and grabbed Aziraphale's hand to pull him up with him, then firmly refused to let it go despite the challenge of tucking a wine bottle under his arm while juggling a wine glass and his phone.
Aziraphale laughed. "We can take two trips, since you'll want your bag. Did you leave it packed?"
"Like always." Crowley grinned. "Not going to rib on me for that ever again, huh?"
"One occasion of convenience is not worth the wrinkles, my dear," Aziraphale responded with all the primness he could muster around a wide grin.
Crowley laughed and took the opportunity of Aziraphale opening the hotel room door to crowd closer and steal an eager kiss that was just as eagerly given. "You really managed to hold in that you'd gotten us a room all day?"
"I kept the trip secret from you too, didn't I?"
"Age will not wither," Crowley chuckled and nipped Aziraphale's ear. "C'mon, let's see that room. Coming back for pyjamas optional."
The two of them left the hotel suite hand-in-hand, with everything they truly needed already right there with them.
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I might have started the day looking pretty cute but I ended it looking like Gaston (1991) (animated)
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Ooo hello!!!
For the ask game...
4. Is there a popular pairing you don't necessarily dislike but aren't too invested in?
12. What's the funniest or craziest AU idea you've ever come up with?
18. Type Phoenix's name and tell us what the autocomplete suggests as the next word (orrr... Franziska hehe)
(Don't feel like you have to answer all of them if you don't want to <3 I hope you're having a good day!)
Hi hello!! Of course I'm gonna answer all of them haha it's too warm to sleep and my only solace is, uh, tumblr asks.
4. Hmm, I am very "take it or leave it" about blackmadhi for some reason. It hits a lot of the buttons I really enjoy and I have written it! I Get It I'm general! But it's not usually something I seek out.
12. Ooh let's see. I have an unhelpful habit of dismissing my own AUs before they find purchase in the planning stage, but a couple have survived! They're mostly AA4 in other video game settings, and the most difficult to pull off would probably be the Pyre AU. Complicated gavbros backstory, complicated wrightworth struggles, complicated Gramarye issues, the usual Fey heartbreak. My dream is to have enough time and oomph to write that one.
18. Why not both hehehe
Phoenix Wright I think I have a lot of stuff. (a bit more than a word, but I had to know where that "I" was going. I love that it feels like "Phoenix Wright" is some kind of expletive. Maybe I'm Franziska...)
Franziska and I are going to be in the office tomorrow morning. (is... is that so. Hm. I guess I'm putting a Franziska charm on my keyring...)
Thank you for the asks!!
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For the ask game; number 13?
Oooh let's see. I am pretty much doing whatever I want at all times (to the detriment of my many ongoing WIPs oops) BUT I think I would really like to write some klapolloquill sometime. I have A Concept bubbling on the back burner that has a lot to do with trust and identity and learning to have boundaries again, but it's never made it past that stage.
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Fandom Ask Game!
Some are specific to writers or artists, but I made sure to include questions for everyone!
OTP?
OT3?
NoTP?
Is there a popular pairing you don't necessarily dislike but aren't too invested in?
Out of all your fanworks that include [character], which is your favourite?
Show us a bit of a WIP!
Is there a piece of clothing you think [character] is particularly fond of/that you imagine them wearing a lot or like to draw them in?
How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?
Write a recommendation of someone else's fic you enjoyed!
What's your favourite piece of fanart for [character]?
What's your favourite piece of fanart for [ship]?
What's the funniest or craziest AU idea you've ever come up with?
What's a character or ship you haven't written/drawn yet but would like to some day?
Is there a character or ship you were so sure you would never write/draw but now you've changed your mind?
Have you noticed your style change over time?
Do people irl know you participate in fandom?
What's a book, movie, or show you think [character] would like?
Type [charater]'s name and tell us what the autocomplete suggests as the next word
What's your favourite thing about [fandom] (the people in it, not the media you're all enjoying together)?
When did you first join Tumblr? How long was it between that and finding [fandom]?
Go onto your AO3. Which ship have you written for the most? The least? Does this correspond to who you consider your "favourite?"
Give us a headcanon for [character]
Has your favourite character/ship changed over time?
What's your favourite thing about [character]?
What's your least favourite thing [character] said or did?
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Reblog if you've made at least one friend because of a fandom.
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Tagged by @rage-against-the-dying-of-light and also @mossmatch last week oops!!! Busy weekend! Thank you both though hehe
Last song: One Day by Gregory Alan Isakov
Favorite color: Orange. Brighter and more obnoxious = better.
Currently watching: At least three different ff7 rebirth playthroughs because apparently I need to know what everyone everywhere thinks about it now that I've finished it.
Sweet/savory/spicy: Extremely spicy > very spicy > spicy > savory > sweet. If my food isn't hurting me, am I even alive etc. etc.
Currently very into: ff7, good omens, ace attorney. So, you know, essentially unchanged over the last decade or so.
Tagging: Gah, I think I've seen this in all my circles lately, so sorry if I'm double-tagging (and, of course, no pressure!) @kjerstith @frogs-in3-hills @frogdotpng @experimentaldragonfire
#tag game#and you (yes YOU!) if you feel like playing. mentally I am tagging everyone all the time but im reality I'm certain I'm bothering y'all
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You know what we're gonna do, folks? We're going to write a self-insert fanfiction together with the Power of Polls. Just because it sounds like a fun time to me.
Do I have any Outline or Plan? No. Do I have any idea what I'm doing with this? No. Any clue what I'm unleashing here? No. What do I have? Heart?? And...the power of friendship probably.
Whatever. Let's do this.
*******(***
Dear Reader,
Whatever you, yes YOU, are doing in your life right now, is suddenly interrupted. The ground begins to rumble and the walls begin to melt. Are you sick? Are you dehydrated? Who knows. The ground groans and drops beneath your feet and you fall before you can do so much as scream.
You land arse-first, in a way that you really hope no one saw. Quick as you can, you scramble to your feet only to find...that you did, in fact, have an audience.
You are in Aziraphale's bookshop. A quick glance around tells you the situation. Four sets of dumbstruck eyes stare at you in surprise. Muriel from the bookshelves, Crowley from the chair at the desk, Aziraphale to your immediate left, and the Metatron to your immediate right. Metatron is holding the someone-forsaken coffee cup.
Right now, you are the only one with even the faintest idea what's going on, but it won't last.
#other option: Just Sit There#because even if the Metatron banishes me somewhere fairly quickly#there will still have been a Disruptive Anomaly (me) to shake things up and maybe derail things a bit#also toggling on my voice recorder because none of them would anticipate or notice such a thing. dunno what I think it'd accomplish#but maybe something
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I was thinking about your well-meaning eldritch-morality robot with plant growth (? I failed to tag the post so I might be mistaking some details) today (may have been bullying my cacti), and I was so charmed all over again by the anecdote that I had to run here to ask about characters you've created! Any stories to share about your favorites (or, if you prefer, things that weren't as successful)?
Ooh, thank you for this ask! I'll highlight another character from the same setting: D&D's Eberron.
The relevant deal with Eberron is that there was recently a major war that left an entire country uninhabitable due to magical warfare. This is just one country out of a dozen on the continent, but it's the one two of my characters came from.
You remembered my first character, Pole, very accurately: A morally eldritch robot (appropriately covered in cacti — something he hoped he might be able to grow there!) who was built inside that ruined country by a renegade engineer in a bunker after the end of the war. Pole decided to make it his life's mission to figure out how to restore his home country's ecosystem, even though he himself had never seen as anything but a wasteland. This meant he was two years old and was a fully capable adult (and in fact much more intelligent than older, earlier-model robots) but had absolutely no actual experience with the world or how people worked. He would be completely unhelpful for anything that required charisma, but he was quite compassionate (...albeit with a child's understanding of what that meant), so if they were staying in a village, he'd take advantage of not needing to sleep to go out into the fields and use his Druidic magic to bless them. It cost him nothing, he had nothing else he needed to be doing, it would help the people there, so why wouldn't he? (It also meant he was perfectly willing to form a pact with a dark god, because it was clearly powerful since everyone feared it and he'd learn a lot from it, so what's the big deal? — Unsurprisingly, the sailors on the ship he and his party were on were less pleased when they found him praying to the Devourer.)
I played him for several years and even wrote about him for NaNo one year, so I commissioned art of him (by Jruva on DeviantArt). I may as well share!
A later character I created was a Warlock, Alyssa, from the same country (and I suspect my Yu-Gi-Oh! friends here would really get a kick out of her). Normally, Warlocks make a pact with a supernatural entity to gain their magical powers, like a fiend or an archfey or something like that. In this character's case, she got her magical powers from the restless spirits of her countryfolk who were unable to pass on. Instead of being driven by a compassionate drive to fix her country's ecosystem, like the Druid was, the Warlock bore the undying grudge of her people with her.
If I were writing this up as an autobiography, I'd probably pretend I was bolder with improv and did a wonderful job with it. For instance, the country is commonly known as the Mournland now that it's an uninhabitable wasteland. However, the country used to be called Cyre. People from other countries generally pronounced that like "sire," while Cyrans themselves pronounced it "kai-ree." This means that even people trying to be respectful will still flub it horribly, at least from the perspective of a traumatized survivor. When on a stealth mission through a university, when she heard scholars talking about her homeland and calling it by a non-native pronunciation, perhaps Alyssa would have broken cover to angrily insist upon how little they knew of her people. What would they have thought of this bitter young woman, driven by the rage of her people, who was angry at even those attempting — clumsily, but still sincerely — to be respectful of this culture that was wiped out? Is there anyone whose mind could have been changed in a positive direction by such a conversation? Or would it have resulted in worsened attitudes as well as a failed mission? Or would no one have even believed her? Who can say?
#i love characters that are so tied to their world ahhh!!!#✒️#these both sound like so much fun in very different ways#also that art of Pole is gorgeous! someday I will attempt to show you what I imagined when I first heard about him#Alyssa takes “motivated by spite” to a new and worrying level#(disregarding the difference in causativity between spite and vengeance for a silly joke? me? ...yes)
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In theory. In the distant future (like at least three weeks from now). Would anyone be interested in joining me for a full-cast reading of a longer fic (fic TBD; not necessarily one of mine).
And/or: does anyone know if there are existing groups/projects doing this already that I could just slip into?
Long and short is that I'm having Too Much Fun with the handful of podfics I've done, but I feel like I don't have quite enough practice to tackle Big projects on my own.
#cactus chatter#sorry y'all i have once again latched onto New Thing That Makes Me Feel Useful! we might be here a while!
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Might have fucked around and written a songfic.
Every song is about Aziraphale and Crowley, actually. Yeah, even that one. Especially that one.
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