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someobsessionrequired · 15 days

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Would they let you paint their nails?

(Only MILDLY suggestive for Shanks...because yknow...its shanks)

Luffy!

You can absolutely try! He's not against it but this boy will most definitely run off about two fingers in

His color of choice was a ruby red that was supposed to get a coat of silver glitter, sadly you did not make it that far

The few fingers you did get done are completely back to normal within a day from a mixture of picking and chewing at them unconsciously

Sanji!

Is absolutely enthusiastic that you asked him! Tells you to choose whatever color you love the most so he has a constant reminder of you

Most definitely gets a nose bleed the moment you touch his hand, but other than that he sits patiently

Takes extra care in the kitchen to not damage said nails, if they flake off over time he will ask you to fix them for him

Zoro!

Definitely not overly enthusiastic about it but will begrudgingly agree after an idea hits his 2 working brain cells

He will get you to paint his two middle fingers a lime green, and will exclusively use this opportunity to flip Sanji off any chance he gets

Does not last long though within a week all the polish has chipped off

Nami!

100% down, she will request to paint yours as well afterwards

The two of you will be rocking a cute tangerine orange, every couple weeks you two will sit and touch them up again together

Brook!

He will absolutely crack a bone joke about how he does not have nails to paint

Will let you paint the tips of his boney fingers though, he would ask for a shade of blue that reminds him of his dear friend Laboon

Shockingly with a protective coat the polish stays wonderfully for many werks

Robin!

Another who is very happily down and requests to do the same for you! She will make a whole event of the time, tea, and some light reading in-between coats drying

If this becomes a regular ocurance she will mix up colors between dark violet shades and deeper pinks

Jinbe!

This man is not quite sure what you are asking of him but agrees with a hearty chuckle

When you ask him to pick a color he will ask for dealers choice, he does not particularly care about the polish but enjoys the way your face lights up when he agrees

Sadly does not last long on him ask with so much swimming it is bound to break down quickly

Ussop!

Beyond down! Another to make a whole event of the time, hair, face mask, and nails

Paint his nails while he tells you beyond Preposterous stories, the self care will be going both ways that night and by the end both party's will be refreshed

He would choose a forest green and after it drys attempt to do little designs of vines and flowers on them, to a somewhat success

Kid!

You would not even have to ask, this man would run out of his own polish and ask if you had any

A bit annoyed when you ask to paint them for him but agrees under the terms that he can make the two of you match

This man is red all the way, the more like fresh blood the better, will let you once in a while spice it up with painting his middle fingers black

Killer!

God he really did not want to at first but he is a softy and will agree after he sees your disipointment

At first he thought about matching with his captain but quickly decided against that settling on a deep ocean blue

With the amount of fighting this man gets up too it does not last long, but once a week will go to you to have them fixed up

Heat!

Obsessed with the idea! Another to have an entire self care night with you

Will pick a deep firey orange with a lighter orange glitter on top, has you help fix up his dreads as each coat drys, he struggles with the ones behind his head so that where your main focus will be

Afterwards will do the same back for you choosing for your nails to half match his, instead having a sparkly blue on top

This will become a regular occurrence

Wire!

Loves the idea, he's a man of few words so things you can do together that do not put pressure on talking are his favoites

He would wants a darker purple as to complement his outfit, after you finish he would place his hand out and after a moment of confusion you'd understand this him offering to do the same for you!

He takes great care of his nails but fighting takes its damage on them, when they get too bad he will simply approach you and hold out his hand to show how chipped they are, you get the message and fix them up for him

Law!

Absolutely! ...not...

He rejects it flat out multiple times and after so long you just stop asking...

That is until one night all the crew was drinking and celebrating their latest victory, after several too many drinks he approaches you, definitely even in his intoxicated state finds himself struggling with his words to request what he wants

After a while of anxiously waiting for the captain to tell you what he wants he simply asks you to follow him, assuming you are in trouble you are shocked to find him request such a silly thing

Happily you lead him to your chambers digging around in your bag you pull out a matte black polish

The next morning he wakes with a ragging hangover on top of the shock of his nails now painted, wants to be angry but knows it looks damn good, continues to take damn good care of them as well

Penguin! & Shachi!

Okay if you ask one they will not only agree immediately but also drag the other along

Unshocking this will not be an easy endeavor, it starts off strong with the two of them dumping out every color you own digging though struggling to choose a color

Eventually they will settle on a color each, penguin having picked and icey blue and Shaci with an almost neon orange, they request you do every other finger with each color

After you finish up they do the same for you each boy taking a hand, it starts off fine but quickly turns into the two insulting each other over how messy they paint, it turns into a competition of who can paint better

Bepo!

Often you find yourself napping and relaxing with Bepo so after a while of this you mentioned the idea of painting the polar bear's claws

He is absolutely giggling and squealing at the idea, quickly requesting for the most fun color you could think of, this boy wants glitter and do not cheap out! A light icy blue base with as many rainbow sparkle coats you can muster up

He will treasure them and keep them as safe as he can but will come to you with tears in his eyes as they peel off, give this boy a huge and fix them up for him!!

Shanks!

Absolutely will but requests you sit on his lap as you do it, this man will use any sneaky trick to get what he wants but as long as you both are happy he's winning

Wants a shade of red that matches his hair, once you finish up his hand he will ask you to do the other hand, out of pure Instinct you look towards where his other hand would be as he lets out a deep vibracious laugh poking fun at you for the rest of the night

Mihawk!

We'll say no the first time you ask but if you mentioned it a few times he will eventually give in requesting the most simple soild black you can find

After you finish them he takes a moment staring at them before nodding at you and sending you on your way

Over the next few days you'll notice anytime he walks by a mirror to straighten up his outfit he will take a moment to appreciate the nails and how well they complement his look, he may not want to admit it but you can tell he is feeling himself up

Will eventually ask you to fix them up over time as he says he's grown fond of them

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Thank you reading! Requests are open for headcanons, fics, and really just about anything!

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battlemaiden13 · 9 months

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OH MAIDEN! I GOT AN IMAGINE SUGGESTION!

okokkok this takes place in a reality similar to hnd but syrup is like 10x more yandere. All the other AUs are normal and they all crush on MC. Syrup is deep deep deeply OBSESSED and in love with MC to the point that he basically kidnaps her and holds her hostage. yknow, the usual. He basically manipulates and sometimes torture her "in the name of love". he isolates her from friends and family, often goes as far as to threaten putting their lives at risk if she dares to leave him.

Everyone is frantic about the news that MC is missing, and syrup being the master of no emotion isn't suspected in the slightest.

Months pass by, not a sign of MC. The devastating possibility of her death is hanging over the skulls of our beloved skeletons, even tho she is very much alive, physically at least, her soul is almost fully drained from the hell syrup puts her through because of his love.

Until one day, one skeleton somehow in some way stumbles across an old cabin in the deep forest behind the skeleton's residence. It seems... suspiciously well gaurded for something so rotten and decaying. Our curious skeleton decides, ah wth let me check it out. As they approach the cabin, it seems fairly normal.

However as they approach closer, they hear shallow breathing. So weak, so fragile, so...done. This peeks their interest as they quietly near the cabin. Till they accidentally step on a stray branch. a deafening CRACK fills this eerily quiet forest. A sharp, almost terrified gasp rings from inside the cabin, followed by hurried shuffling. Almost as if whatever is in there is crawling desperately away from the sound.

The skeleton decides to push forward, concerned. They stand infront of the gaurded door and try to turn the knob that obviously wont turn. (If its a papyrus personality, they summon a bone that they use to break the lock of the door. If its a sans personality, they lock pick the door open). As they entered the cabin, the creaking of the door echoed loudly throughout its halls. They ventured further, finding yet another door....thats also chained shut? behind it, they hear soft sobs.

They open it in the same way they did the door before. In this room, they see a frame of a human cowering in the corner, crying with their hands covering their ears in fear. no..it.it cant be. They notice an all too familiar face turn to them. Dark eye bags, flush face, sickly paler skin, bruises, half assed bandages wrapped around their neck and limbs. dried. blood. everywhere. Their eyes are filled with terror, thinking that its their captor coming to torture them again, only to feel the world around them stop as they lock eyes with the newcomer.

A sense of immense relief and happiness floods MC's soul as she realizes who is in the room. But that suddenly washes away as she remembers the threats syrup told her if she tried to escape.

A new round of tears well up in her eyes as she desperately crawls and holds the skeleton tight. She begs them to leave "before he comes back and hurts you too" whilst she clings to them for dear life. Craving any comfort she can get, knowing that itll only get worse from here. Another crack sounds off in the woods outside the cabin.

MC immediately detaches from hugging the skeleton and scurries back into her corner. Her breathe is heavy yet shallow. Her eyes wide and alert. Her body starts to shake again. She starts to whisper quickly "leave leave leave please leave. he's here. h-he's gonna hurt you. i d-don't know how i-i'll live with myself if he does. please. GO!" her voice getting more and more desperate as heavy footsteps approach the cabin.

Your turn maiden. How would the main skeletons react to this situation? especially Berry since this is his brother, would he get hurt? you can add any other skeletons you want too!😶‍🌫️🩷

Sans - Sans isn’t leaving you, especially not in the state you are currently in. He’s one of the toughest boss monsters out there, he can handle whoever comes through that door. Although he is a bit taken aback when he sees Syrup but Sans can beat any of the skeletons. It just takes some effort. You’re coming home though, Syrup won’t hurt you ever again.

Papyrus -Papyrus is too busy trying to calm you down, trying to tell you the two of you can get out of here together. When he sees Syrup he asks him for help but it’s Papyrus's down fall, his trusting nature almost always is. Syrup dusts him without a second thought.

Red -He needs to see who it is first, he needs to know who you are so scared of and as soon as he does he is shortcutting you both out of there. Red knows if he takes Syrup alone he could lose so he is getting help. Syrup isn’t getting away with this.

Edge -He wants to stay with you, to take you with him but he can see how scared you are and he knows better than to wait around. He promises he’s coming back for you before heading back home. Edge becomes meticulous, as he tries to figure out who took you. It doesn’t take him long and then Edge does something he hardly ever does. He asks for help. In the end Syrup escapes but you are safe and Edge and the others are going to make sure it stays that way.

Blue -He listens to you, despite not wanting to but Blue doesn’t make it back home. He does manage to seriously hurt Syrup after the tall skeleton tracks him down but Blue left clues for his brother and feels that his sacrifice will be worth it.

Orange - As he grabs you to shortcut away he glances around, taking in any information he can and he knows exactly who took you. Your panicked when you get home but Orange calms you down before going to Berry and tells him everything. It’s on Berry now but if the small skeleton doesn’t do anything Orange will go to Sans and they will deal with Syrup. Syrup isn’t getting away with this.

Berry -Would get a pass from his brother but Berry can’t stand what Syrup did. Berry hates what he has to do but he isn’t letting his brother get away with this. He makes Syrup turn himself in but Berry can’t stand to look at his baby brother after what he did.

#Undertale #undertale Imagines #undertale sans #undertale papyrus #underfell #underfell papyrus #underfell sans #underswap #underswap sans #underswap papyrus #swapfell #swapfell sans #swapfell papyrus #yandere

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vrains-rewrite · 3 months

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Okay, so I have a few questions and a few suggestions:

Will Blue Angel/Maiden win more and will she get more fleshed out than in canon?

Seeing Ghost Gal/Girl win more would be better for her to see.

Seeing more of The Shepherd/Blood SHepherd and more dive in with his relationship with Emma would be better to see to flesh him out.

Will we finally see the Wind Ignis origin?

Will we find out who is the Hanoi spy?

okokokokok

1) will blue maiden win more and get more duels?

Omg yesss! She’s meant to be one of the top duellists in the Vrains, let her act as one of the top duellists in Vrains! In the cases where we are making changes to duels, giving her more wins, *important wins*, is a top priority. I worry that a lot of people trying to rewrite the sexism in yugioh duelling would just make up minor characters for her to beat, off screen wins, that is not something we intend to do. We have massive plans :) especially for in season 2 and 3

2) will Ghost Gal win more?

literally she needs to win somethingggg, does she even have a single big win? I dont think shes going to end up with as many duels as Blue Angel, but, wholeheartedly, she is going to have as much *plot significance*. Her canon character really felt like a plot device, or a means to flesh out another character. Sure, she was Akira’s little hacker and she was Blood Shephard’s sister, but her personal goals that were just too simple for my liking, which will be much more fleshed out (and I have just thought of something for this which i’ll actually go speak to the others about right after I’ve posted this)

3) Will we see more of Blood Shephard?

We will! Hes often forgotten, and quite frankly that’s because there was hardly anything to him in canon. I want to delve mode specifically into why his backstory is affecting his actions at the moment. We know his sad backstory, but it doesn’t seem to translate into anything interesting in the way he acts in canon present-day. This will change

4) Will we finally see Wind Ignis Origin?

Yknow here’s where I have to admit, we haven’t thought about this. I dont want to spoil anything, but I doubt he’s going to be alive in the series. The impact it had, finding out that Windy killed his own origin, could never be replicated as strongly if he was alive. That being said, giving the wind ignis origin a backstory, a name and design, from before he died, would be something really interesting to explore. We’re a little afraid to add ocs in major roles because its rare that people like to read about others people’s ocs, but in cases like the wind ignis origin, I think it’ll be fun and worthwhile. Like a flashback situation

5) Will we find out who is the Hanoi Spy?

Im so sorry i can’t remember what this is referring to (its been a while since i watched the show in its entirety, I mostly jump to just my favorite episodes) but if its a plothole i can promise you when we get there we’ll figure something out

- Teal

#i feel like ive become a corporate social media manager and im having a great time #yugioh #vrains #ygo #vrains rewrite

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loonylupin2 · 20 days

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I Wrote a McLennon fanfic :)

Paul and John are in bed together

sleeping top and tail as usual (even though they both desperately don’t want to) but John speaks up

I Hope you all enjoy :D

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❤️✨🍀❤️✨🍀❤️✨🍀❤️✨🍀❤️✨🍀❤️

I lay in my bed, at the foot of it. Sighing deeply at the cramped quarters. We were on a trip, me and John were to somewhere to who knows what. All I know is that we were on a trip, and I was with him. That’s all that mattered to me really. No point in going on a trip if the destination isn’t there to share- see the joy on others' faces as well as yours- the awe and inspiration sparkling in their eyes.

Either way- because it was a trip. John and I- as we usually did would share a bed, it was cheaper that way. We couldn’t allow ourselves to sleep on the floor- like dogs. Our pride didn’t allow such activities. So we laid underneath our squeezed sheets- top and tailed. It was fine and all. We’d talk and laugh- sometimes John’s feet would kick me in the face though, or my toes fall into his snoring mouth. But it wasn’t too bad. It was sweet enough.

Tonight though we were beat. Beaten down to our cobs. We’d ridden our bikes for what seemed like decades- our legs, limp noodles, wettened from our own sweat. We were silent. My head was facing the window, John and I liked to keep the blinds open.

The moon was out. Blue like the song. It was large and bright, its milky glow oozing over us like warm syrup. I longed for more- yet I closed my eyes.

“Paulie?” A familiar voice called. My eyes slowly opened. “Yeh John?” My eyes lingered in the corner of the room- I could tell he was facing away from me- I wanted to turn and look at his face as was preferred- but my waist ached.

“Y’know, you don’t always have to sleep at my feet y'know.” I could hear John’s smile paint his voice as they went into my ear. It blessed me but I shook my head regardless. “Yeah- I know, just…“ I could hear him shift at my words, turning to me in interest. I grew exasperated. “Oh dammit John you know why!” I shook my head again and closed my eyes.

I felt his whole body turn and felt his gaze look down. Attempting to reach my face. “Enlighten me, Mr. McCartney.” He added.

I opened my eyes. I felt a tug at my heart, to return his look, my eyes like stone stayed perched to their post- the blue crystal in the night sky

“It’s just-“ I began. “I don’t want people to be gettin’ the wrong idea of us- yknow- that we’re-,”

“A bunch a queers.” he finished. I paused and sighed my eyes darting to the corner again. I gulped dryly, biting my lip. “Yeh…”

I felt John sit up slightly. “Well who’s gonna see us like this I mean,” he said bluntly and closed my eyes and sucked in my breath. “It’s just y'know-,” I knew John was gonna interrupt me and he obliged. “I’m just saying it’s mighty uncomfortable- I can barely damn move- I don’t like ye facing me toes or whatever- it’s not pleasant- it’s just annoying! I’d rather sleep on the bloody floor if anything!” He huffed and laid back down. I could tell he was getting agitated- John was like this when tired. Especially since we left some of our belongings back home. Including his box of chocolates, he just got for me and him. I promised to buy him another- but he wasn’t having it- he wanted to be the gifter, not the giftie

“So what do you suggest we do then?” I said bluntly, trying to help him calm down. He answered me quickly and harshly. “ I don’t fucking know Paul? Maybe sleep like normal damn people- ever thought about that?” I was quiet for a good moment. I felt my blood pressure rise as my brain went as foggy as a bog. The aggression in his voice only solidified his borderline insane proposition. I had to laugh “John!” I chuckled, shaking my head. “We couldn’t! you know we-” I finally sat up, looking to his face and saw he was entirely serious. A frown lay on his thin red mouth and his eyebrows furrowed in a tired unimpressed way- I could barely even pay attention to his hair, which was a mess. My smile slowly disappeared. I saw how almost “through with it all” he seemed- his eyes didn’t even sparkle in the moonlight…

“Well-“ I said absentmindedly “I could maybe,” I never finished my sentence. John leaned forward like a starling tired goon. He wrapped his arms around my neck and put his face into my shoulder pulling me down next to where he lay. He continued to hold me. I stayed silent and still. I was shocked beyond belief. My brain went to frozen mush and my heart was just as cold. I didn’t know what to think or do or say. My tongue was like a large block in my throat. I felt trapped in my own body.

John was the first to talk. He looked into my eyes with a smile, a bushy eyebrow raised. “Are ye uncomfortable, Macca?” It took me a while to dissect his words in my skull but I replied with a shrug- it seemed that freed my tongue from its cage. “N-No-“ I stuttered. “I just…I feel I’m taking your room…” John's grin spread and a soft chuckle left his mouth. “Yer not- y’know. I don’t mind this really- more comfortable than before…” We were silent- just looking at each other faces- the wind was still and cold “Besides-“ John continued “I prefer looking at your eyes than your toes…don’t ye agree.”

I couldn't help but smile at this. I nodded “Yeah…yeah no I get you…” I still felt somewhat guilty and or bad- for intruding on John’s space- whether he wanted such activity or not. I admit now- in retrospect. I wanted to spoon with him as much as he did. But I, at the time, shoved those thoughts down into the pits of my stomach. I refused to partake in such a disease- or one resembling such- what would mother in heaven think?

I scooted to the very edge of the bed- breaking our warm embrace- an embrace I missed dearly. John looked at me disappointed and turned to the white splotched ceiling. “You don’t need to do that…” my eyes drifted down. “Y-yeh but-“ he interrupted me- with a soft pleading cry that shook my soul into dust “Paul…” he said it calmly- it shouldn’t have affected me as it did. He was just saying my name after all but the way he said it, the tremor of his tongue- it wasn’t a name anymore with him.

But a dream- a spirit- a want.

My eyes looked up shyly and wide at his, he returned my gaze and we stayed as such for a while. I awkwardly bit my lip and sighed scooting forward to him with my hips. He smiled. I wished too- but the words of my father screamed through my head- the stare of my mother…I continued nonetheless- for now the warm and comforting aura of John’s was enough to overpower both.

His fingers stroked my jaw softly, like guitar strings.. I gasped and shivered, closing my eyes tight. A scream of want- of need, lay in my throat wishing to come out. He stopped and put his arms behind his head. He smiled a mocking smile- and I opened my eyes. I hope my thoughts weren’t reflected in them- my cursed thoughts…my cursed wants…

“You’re jumpy today ain’t ya Paulie Mac-“ he teased me- in an effort to lower the tensions. I looked into his eyes- the light of the moon reflected in them- they resembled flowing sap seeping from an old oak…my insides became sparklers. “W-when am I not.” I shivered in my attempt to laugh. There was silence- but I felt him searching my face- every round corner- bump, hair and lash. I bit my lip in spite of myself, my mouth like a river…my mother in heaven must be shaking her head in woe…

But John wasn't ... .his warm glow tried to push away my shame- he looked to the window…the blue moon “It’s hanging’ high tonight ain’t it…” I turned away from him to look at the moon. I sat up… “yeh- it’s real nice…”

I heard the covers ruffle as John sat up with me…he wrapped his arms around my neck ..his hands holding his smooth arms…they shined like porcelain in the moonlight…he brought his weight down on me…as he laid down on the bed once more as did me in his arms…I was his little spoon.

He moved closer to me- I could feel his nose in my hair…I didn’t know what to do…my mouth was open as I breathed, my hands going to his arms and rubbing them slowly up and down, as I shivered I squeezed. “Paul…” he whispered into my neck… “Yes…John.” I croaked. “It’s an Elvis song ain’t it?” He said, I could hear his smile. “What is?” I asked in intrigue. “Blue moon…” he chided. I looked down and then back at the window…the moon's spotlight shining down on the two of us embraced like dolls in our own personal dollhouse. That’s when I knew it was good…why would god shine his own personal spotlight unto us if it weren’t…

“Yeh…” I smiled with a chuckle…nodding my head…I felt myself nuzzle my back into John’s stomach. “It is…it’s one of my favourites actually…” I felt his breath on my neck “You always loved the fruity ballads didn’t you?” He teased me. I laughed and shook my head- my first smirk of the night appeared on my warm face, my heart tingling like wind chimes. I said- in spite of myself “Sod off, Lennon…you’re no better than I.”

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oasisofgalaxies · 11 months

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Hi! I saw you were looking for song recs. Can I have some more details about the force quit AU so I can tailor song suggestions better, please?

YES OF COURSE! Fair warning this is a long boy post so be warned SLDFKJ

ok so basically the Force Quit AU is a generation loss au that is a bit self indulgent so bear with me here :D! The self indulgent bit is the addition of another character, Marvin! They are an ex stage hand and set designer for Showfall that was able to escape the company's mind control. They now work from inside the company to help others escape, including Ranboo and his friends. I've taken this little detail for myself and labelled it as Marvin's doing. So basically hes a little helper

ANYWAYS! Force Quit follows canon pretty closely until around the end of The Choice. I have two ways this could go and I havent really decided on which i like better so I'll cover both!

Option 1 is that Marvin sneaks into the control room/heart of the facility as the voting is occurring. Before Hetch makes the call and pulls the metaphorical trigger to box Ranboo, Marvin comes up from behind Hetch and knocks him clean out with a length of pipe. Marvin then gets Ranboo down from where he is stuck and they both run like fucking hell. Both make it out of the facility.

Option 2 involves a little bit of context on some of the ideas I have about Showfall and the Security monsters specifically. So personally I call the Security monsters Taskmanagers! I think its fitting to name it after the computer program.

Additionally, you know Hetch's line where he describes the motionless Showfall employees? He says this: "My best guess is they were once people, and then something moved in and kinda repurposed them to be.. yknow, whatever the company needed."

So I took this and RAN. I came up with a concept that there is a stage before the Taskmanagers we see in Genloss. I haven't come up with a name for them yet. They arent really a "larval form" but more of a base form. Showfall either made a deal with some entity or experimented enough to create these creatures made out of wire and a tar-like substance. They use analog technology as "shells", sort of like hermit crabs. In addition they feed off of electrical signals.

I don't think that they're actively malicious, the company just uses them in an awful way. Anyways the employees will start out as normal people working their jobs. The masks have some filtering and control capabilities but no where as strong as Ranboo's mask since it's not directly connected to the body.

This can change though if the employee discovers something they shouldn't have or if Showfall just wants to do it. An employee can go through a process called "rewiring." There are several degrees to it ranging from a mild degree which involves the process of physically wiring the employee to the mask. This continues until the highest and final degree which is a full rewiring. A full rewiring is when an employee is offered to one of these little wire creatures. The creature, when prompted, will take the employee and inhabit their body. They will feed off of the brain's electrical signals and give Showfall direct control over the host's actions. There is usually no going back from this. This is also inspired by the scene in The Choice where Ranboo stabs an employee and wires come out instead of blood!

For Taskmanagers specifically I think they are originally the result of a botched Full Rewiring process. The host and wire creature did not react well and in turn created the Taskmanagers who are dangerous and actively hostile. Showfall, after accessing damages, realized they could purposefully trigger this botched creation and use them to their advantage, thus creating security.

SO, after that long explaination, onto Option 2! Sorry there's no easier way to explain this, trust me, I've tried.

So Option 2 involves Marvin somehow befriending a "defective" wire creature. Or, alternatively, befriending a defective Taskmanager. I really need to work on a name for the tiny ones gees- Anyways Ranboo is rescued here more by.. uh. Brute force rather than stealth. Here, before Hetch can pull the trigger, Marvin and the wire creature bust through a door or wall koolaid-man style and rescue Ranboo. Admittedly this option makes less sense but I'm still including it because I had the visual of the box beginning to close on Ranboo but two GIANT wire-y hands catch the two sides and WRENCHING it back open. I dont know thats just so cool to me I love big monsters!

Regardless of how the rescue goes, Ranboo escapes and is outside the facility. Marvin in hesitant to join him because of their ongoing mission to save as many people as possible. And Ranboo upon hearing this explains that Sneeg and Charlie are still trapped in there. Marvin is hesitant to believe either of them are alive but Ranboo begs them to at least check. Marvin agrees and returns inside the facility, leaving Ranboo with an address for a place he can spend the night in as well as a small two-way communicator.

Marvin enters back into the facility and discovers that both Charlie and Sneeg are alive. Charlie, however, being wounded by a Taskmanager, has some electronic bits placed into his abdomen. I am working on a design for him at the moment but here's what I'm using for inspiration:

A green liquid-cooled PC. Please have fun drawing your own conclusions while I work on his design LSKDJF

Sneeg, while attacked by security, was not wounded enough to require any replacement parts. He just has a couple of large scars on his torso. The real damage was done during The Warehouse where he was "reset." When Sneeg was reset, he gained awareness of everything Showfall was doing. He could see the cameras and he knew none of this was real. But this comes at a detriment because while he now has an immense amount of "behind the scenes" knowledge about Showfall, Showfall has the ability to completely control him. I'm unsure if this denotes a full rewire or if Showfall is using some experimental remote technology.

Anyways when he was revived after being attacked by the Taskmanager in The Choice, the revival process messed with what the reset did to his mind. The connection between him and Showfall is a little glitchy now. He still has insider information but sometimes he can accidentally trigger a meltdown where he believes he is once again on stage in Showfall. This either manifests itself as that panicked state we saw him in during The Warehouse where he was given the wrong hat OR how apathetic he was immediately after being reset. His perception of reality is distorted as well. Sometimes he can almost predict something before it happens, almost like a sixth sense.

Ok so where was I?? Sorry I took a hard left into infodumping territory. I mean I already am infodumping but i did EVEN MORE! LSKJDFLSKDF

Anyways the AU from here, in short, is saving each member of the cast! Charlie and Sneeg stick with Ranboo and form their little trio. I'm not sure where Niki, Austin, Vinny, and Ethan fall in the AU yet but I do want them to be rescued as well. I just don't know if they will be in the main group after or not!

Ok hopefully that was coherent and not a boring read! But yeah thats the Force Quit AU I love this thing to death already its been occupying all of my waking thoughts! Yay :D!

#sorry for how long it is but alas . it is how it is SLKJFDLSKFJ #nebula rambles #nebulas notes #genloss #generation loss #look at my au boy

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17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

(This can also be in dms :3)

its 3am and someone just set off two fireworks directly outside my home so hi andy good morning lets talk dayshift

so i use grammarly and basic spelling correct to edit, right? what yall dont see, that i do, is before every chapter i plug everything into the text box and let grammarly go at it - usually this ends up with.... id say the average number of corrections it suggests is around 70. and every time, i go thru the whole thing checking every correction because man, grammarly does NOT know how real people talk. theres a certain cadence to verbal speech yknow? something i try to emulate in my regular texting style, but in a properly formatted story its different (not harder or easier, different) because while you cant capitalize random words for Emphasis, you CAN do a whole bunch of other stuff: dashes, sentence breaks, i especially like to split a chunk of dialogue in half with a described action. maybe not every misspelling is intentional, but all the words are.

and some of the stuff i thought about is NEVER - or at least UNLIKELY to be - coming up in the story!! for instance, i dont do things like flashbacks. what you see of the characters background and experiences either comes from what they say or what their actions imply. sunbite gives the benefit of internal dialogue and memory, but its a yn fic so even thats spotty sometimes.

people who just read the fic would Never Know that sunbites blood relation father only ever saw them once. and i also dont include things that wouldnt be apparent to the characters- it has no effect on them, how would they ever know? how would sunbite ever know that they have a little sibling, possibly more than one? how would you ever know that obi's "heirlooms" from his grandmother included another ring passed down maternally for the last five generations with a decent sized sapphire on it? would you know that sunbite loves dogs because their first imaginary friend was one, and they named him Lucky? this stuff has no effect of them now, practically forgotten about. but its there cause i say it is.

storytelling is fucking Wild, dude. of course i took some inspiration from bamsara and naffeclipse (god damn at this point what dca writer hasnt a little bit) but also im pretty proud of my 'do no harm, take no shit' yn. it was always gonna be them, theyre the only person for the job in my mind. the way ive structured things and the way things are going to go, only people with that attitude - and that unkillable amount of hope and love - would be able to make it all the way through. maybe thats not the easiest character to project onto, but hey, its more a personal thing. dayshift go figure is, among other things, a power fantasy.

anyway, took the oppurtunity to ramble, its 3am. tldr; i put a lot of thought into word usage and character history, and most of those thoughts arent important to anyone but me.

#dayshift go figure #tuz asks

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pissfaggot-transsexual · 9 months

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tw like. descriptions of gore and suicide? but this is about a creepypasta-esque dream, so take thse with a grain of salt

i just had a dream with @onemossygoblin in it, which is cool, yippee! but also the dream was kinda fucked up and weird, and i actually managed to remember most of it, so letsa go

alright so it started with me and moss hanging out in an old subway tunnel, where we were enjoying the spooky vibes. the vibes got much spookier very quickly when we found a recently-made human corpse with its head missing, all its limbs removed sloppily like they were just ripped off, and although it was face-down (tho it didnt really have a face anymore lol) it was obvious it was gutted.

so moss takes this opportunity to be like "oh this reminds me of a video game that you might like, youre into fucked up shit, yeah?"

so anyway the dream fast forwards from subway corpse to me at a nondescript gaming console with the suggested game loading up. it starts with you playing as a cop (boo) and you and your partner are searching for some suspect. you wander around a parking lot, looking for the suspects car, before finding it and using some future-tech-shit to replay what happened the last time the suspect was in the car, which was a conversation over the phone with words that i dont remember, but that pointed to him being on the run. (side note while i was playing, I, like irl-lucid-dreaming-karl, was like "oh thats a massive privacy violation, acab" lmao)

your partner comes over, and you both search the car, you getting into the back seat and your partner getting into the passenger seat as you search. eventually, the suspect comes back to the car, and for some reason no one cares about this. he gets in to the drivers seat, and drives a bit before the geometry of the world starts to break down. the one main thing i remember was circling around a tree multiple times, but the tree was on the corner of a 90-degree turn, which made that impossible

after a bit, you get confused and worried, seeing as thats yknow, impossible. you realize your partner ad the suspect are dead in their seats, the car driving itself, your impossible route now taking you to a different world

the best way to explain this is that you enter a world thats like a fucked-up animal crossing. all the characters are cartoony animals (in particular, a fox, duck, and gator as the main characters) and the world itself is oddly vibrant in a subtly weird way

youre introduced to the main guys, the duck being established as an asshole, the fox as a chill dude (trademark), and the gator as the only one with any sense. the game is explained all meta to you by the fox, who shows you that this is a rhythm game, and youve gotta do good at rhythm games to escape back to your world. oh also its implied that these three purposefully brought you here just to fuck with you.

you do some easy songs, but eventually get to the duck's song. she's a dickhead, and is acting like you trying to escape is the worst offense you could commit against her. anyway I lost to her, and the game jump-cut to my character (or me, there was little distinction by this point) waking up in the duck's basement, blood on the floor, limbs recognizable as my own scattered around (though i still had all of them when i woke up, and there were like, more than 2 of my arms on the floor), and the door upstairs wide open.

i went through the door, re-tried the ducks song and failed yet again, the same thing happening. this happened a few times before out-of-game me decided that was a thing to do later

after some wandering around (the duck was the last song available to me, so i was just doing whatever) i figured out some Lore!

a fuckin while ago, literally everyone in the forest (youre in a forest) was in a fallout shelter, and came up to find everything immensely radioactive. it was so fucked up, that this section of the universe broke off into its own pocket dimension, and all the inhabitants were turned into these animals.

after that, my memory lacks until a certain 'cutscene' where the duck is trying to destroy your only way back home (it looked like some clock-tower place), and the gator is trying to stop her while the fox is for some reason dead on the ground between them. there was never any actual ending, but my brain did that thing where I just knew that you didnt make it out, doomed to that eternal loop of playing the ducks song and waking up bloodied (the ducks song was impossible btw)

thats all of actual gameplay i remember, so heres some extra details.

theres a character called "Dan Red" whos named that cause he has the name "Dan" stitched in his chest in red thread. he named his son a normal name like alex smith or something, because apparently he didnt understand how surnames work, and when you tell him this he gets very upset and kills himself

the creator of the game came to our universe (like irl, the guy that made the game) from a different universe where FNaF, undertale, and family guy never existed, but freddy, sans, and peter griffin were characters in a comic strip he made as a child

there was a short dream before this dream where moss was there again, but this time reccommending me a book where a guy gets eaten alive by giant insects over and over as he's stuck in a time loop.

i had some flashback-type segments about the forest before it was bombed and everything, and it was a nice place to be before, like genuinely in the dream everything felt much scarier than it was, and these short bits were welcome breaks

welp thats all ive got. hopefully im not over-estimating how fucked up that dream is and telling a really boring story. yolo i suppose

#karlposting #hey onetimeidreamt ive got gold here

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thatonegaybastard · 1 year

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Simon playlist!

Hello remember the Reiki playlist? This is the Simon playlist. It's not quite done but here's it so far

Warning for lik. Depressing themes and maybe suicidal themes and potentially overstimulating music also flashing lights and bright and rapidly shifting colors!!!!! And some suggestive and religious themes (more religious themes then sexual) and likem violence and blood

Also one of the dongs might have spoilers for a game called Cell of Empirio I'm not 100% sure so if you're wary of spoilers for that then beware

Songs and my silly commentary on them under the cut

White Happy by Maretu (English cover by Milkychan) - Literally the most Simon song ever also I live this song so much. Idk why I put an English cover of this song but not the other songs in other languages on this playlis. I really like this cover tho so I'll allow it

Chiri Chiro Juso (Dust Dust Curse) by Kikuo - Depressing song about death. I could see this being like from Simons point of view of himself and during his death

HURT by 1800 PAIN (I think) - They do wanna see you hurt. Idk how I feel about this song in general tbh

Montreal by Penelope Scott - Ok this song just makes me depressed about life and not even like in the good way it's a good song but like. Cries.Anyways this fots Simon a lot he won't make it to Montreal guys same

Sweet Hibiscus Tea by Penelope Scott - like most songs here it just fits him pretty well idk I might remove this so g I do t even have much to say

Angel Eyes and Basketball by Foot Ox - Good song I wish it was longer tbh it scartches my brain. We get it Simon is depressed /j

Cradles by Sub Urban - um

The Chattering Lack of Common Sense by GHOST - This song reminds meminds me of Simon and Beau specifically this is just the duo where one is probably murderous song to me. Also this omg is just so good I love it so much <3333 Simon would be the guy in the hoodie with bandages over his eyes his name is arc

IN MY MOUTH by Black Dresses - Why'd idd I add this song. I dobt know.it just fits kind of trust me (I kinda forgot I added this song to the playlist)

there I am, there I am again by RP_A (I think??????? I'm not sure) - This song isn't super specific to Simon actually it mostly just fits the Lore™ its more of a Rosa song tbh

SCAPEG∞AT by GHOST - okay one good so g obviously but also this song is mostly just on the playlist because of the chorus it fits Simon so fucking much like what the fuck- also the ending parts- also unrelated but these guys have deity oc vibes tbh

Dr Gaster by Shadrow - Teehee :) (lore)

I'm Difficult by Talkshow Boy - Making you guys listen to talkshow boy not sorry /j /nf

Abnornality Dancing Girl by Guchiry - Okay this song doesn't exactly for him because of what it's probably about but the chorus fits him alot and so does the ending part. Also I'm making some art of him base don this sign it'll probably be a while until i finish because it's not super high priority but yeah :)

Fry Me In a Pan by Talkshow Boy - You will listen to my favorite Talkshow Bky songs. Might remove this one too tbh

Orthodoxia by Gunchiry - Okay doesn't necessarily fit Simon specifically if anything he'd be one of the religious followers but like. (Then again he also lives off the misfortunes of others) The lore was literally inspired from this sign and also it fuckign slaps I can't NOT include it wtf

Kitchen Fork by Gustavuo Rubio (I think) - Also one of the most Simon songs ever. Something is very wrong with this man

Also I ahvent added this yet but I think it's be funny if I added the happy song that's like "I am really special cuz there sonly one of me look at my smile I'm so damn happy all the people are jealous of me" yknow the ond

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Spartober day 11 Roots (VNero)

Author's Note: this is a bit shorter than my usual writing but it's stil a heavily hinted VxNero and V being yknow who ...so theres a bit of guilt and unsure feelings with the shared glances and looks no downright flirting its just heavily suggested rather than shown. other than that Enjoy today's prompt! Promts by whatsanapocalae1 ( I use a combination of SparTober and Devil MayTober Prompts) 11: Roots (VNero) Griffon flew around the beast distracting it while Nero raised a brow, he heard a familiar voice say “ I curse my stars in bitter grief and woe…” Nero tilted his head watching as V showed himself spinning his can around in a carefree stance as he read from his book of poetry. V continued his voice raspy and smooth like velvet almost sensual as he recited “That made my love so high and me, so low” he finished as his eyes met with Nero’s he had a fondness for the young man he didn't exactly know why he felt this way, but he was drawn to him. With a swift movement V held up his cane focussing his direction to the beast as he summoned his Familiar, Shadow and set it upon him as the feline let out a battle cry attracting it making it bleed out in gushes of crimson splatter. The beast fell to its death, SHadow fell to his paws grounding himself on the gravel below sliding back to his master. V watched with pride as the Beast disintegrated away with the wind. Nero watched as he moved closer to V right beside him , he spoke gently “Thought i was gonna have to pick you outta..his tummy teeth..” he gave a soft chuckle. His eyes scanning over V happy there wasn't a scratch to be seen on his body, his perfectly sculpted almost porcelain skin still intact.

V smiled warmly at Nero as he gave a small amused hum “ Pardon my Delay… I was catching up on some reading..” he said, his voice soft as silk, while he held his poetry in hand and looked at Nero proving his point. “Yeah.. looks like a real page turner…” Nero nodded gently watching the Qliphoth roots disintegrate. He looked back at V watching as the wind and dust blew his hair effortlessly making him look like a mysterious gothic beauty. He was captivating, leaving Nero in awe of him. He blushed and stammered as Emerald eyes met with his own. “So uh..” he stammered feeling a bit awkward as he continued “ do you really think Dante’s still in there?” he asked, trying to clear the air. “If Urizen defeated him, then i expect he's no more than Qliphoth pollen by now..” V said as he looked away from Nero flicking away the dust from the roots as he watched it fly away. “A What?” Nero asked, tilting his head. V smirked gently, finding the gesture endearing as he responded simply “Qliphoth…it’s a tree that grows in the Underworld…It thrives on humans blood and those whose blood it sucks…let's say they don't turn out too well” he gestured to the petrified shells of what was once humans cowering in fear during their last moments. “Well in any case we need to find out” Nero said determinedly as he walked past V and made his way to the Qliphoth. He stopped however as V prevented him from going any further using his cane to bring him closer. “Wait..” V said pulling Nero running him so that they were facing each other;The pair now chest to chest. “First we need to exterminate some Qliphoth roots” He said softly watching Nero’s reaction it seemed the young man was blushing darkly at V. V found it endearing as a faint dust of pink settled on his own cheeks before smirking gently at Nero. Griffon flew back to V as he landed on his master’s arm and Shadow nuzzled into V’s leg affectionately before looking back at Nero. “V…” Nero asked gently causing V to look back at him, he asked “What the hell are you?” he said, biting his lip gently, clearly attracted to the man before him, he couldn't help but wonder who or what he was and why he agreed to help him. He leaned in closer to him. V blinked gently blushing as he moved a bit closer himself, the temptation not once fading as he looked back at Nero with a fond expression. He too wanted to know more of this man as they were mere inches away from each other. He was about to answer Nero’s question when they heard the faint sound of Nico’s van approaching in the distance. The pair pulled apart and watched as Nico stopped the van in a shaky jittery manner making more dust fly in the air around them coming to a complete halt with a loud clatter.

“I know I’m late, shut it..” Nico said softly shaking her head she looked at the pair and tilted her head. “Hey, you must be V” she said, pointing to him gently. V gave a polite nod in return. The pair now sat in the Van making Plans on their next move , they sat in the front seat looking out on the city of redgrave now in ruins from the Qliphoth’s Monstrously unquenchable thirst. “I think we should split into two groups..” V said softly trying to make sense of what had almost happened between him and Nero, they were so close ..so painfully close before that van came in. There was an attraction there, an almost magnetic pull that brought them both together, but what..what was it?..Then it hit him, it hit him like a ton of bricks; his roots to Nero…he was the human part of Vergil, a man separated from Devil…and that devil was Vergil Sparda…Sparda…Dante..Sparda.. He sighed watching Nero closely, his mind racing as he tried to ignore the gnawing guilt within him. Nero spoke, putting V’s thoughts to a halt “And cover more ground. Good Idea..” he said as he patted V’s back and walked over to Nico who was eager to show him her latest creation.

V sighed as he got up from his seat and gave a slight smirk to Nero “I’ll take my leave now..” he said, swatting away some of Nico’s smoke as he headed for the door watching as Nero put on his jacket.

“And if i don't see you along the way…” he paused gently, looking at Nero from head to toe checking him out as he enjoyed what he saw of the young man’s physique. He bit his lip and turned away while opening the door he finished “I’ll see you at the bottom of the Qliphoth~” he said with a purr as he left the van.

“Sure..” Nero said as he watched V leaving as the door to the van shut. He still couldn't shake the feeling that something was there between them, an attraction sure but he felt something else, something familiar... but he chose to ignore it, he needed to focus, even while V clouded his judgement. He couldn't get him out of his head…

#spardacest #spartober 2023 #vnero #v x nero #nero x v #vergil x nero #nero x vergil

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making fake fucked up homestuck worldbuilding even though its a decade old and someones 100% come up with it before me.

class isnt as inherent to someone as something like aspect and lunar sway are (and blood colour for trolls, but mostly aspect and sway). the alpha trolls are all different classes to the beta trolls despite genetically being the same, for example, and having the same signs.

there's no real canon evidence to suggest that a character could change classes, but wouldnt that be something? consorts and the like will call someone the "[class] of [aspect]" but thats a game structure thing. if you change your class in a game, the game will start calling you something else.

it would be even more reasonable to slide between passive and active pairs, in that case. obviously not all of those are canon but. yknow. anyways im just sayin if someone had a major enough shift in identity a cool way to show that would to change their class.

i dunno. like. have a nakodile go up to davesprite and call him the heir of time instead of knight.

#homestuck #homestuck theory #ish?#homestuck headcanons #homestuck meta #listen okay this is about the 'nontier' jake au i have.#force this british boy to stop being such an escapist and ignoring others needs through it and make him help #ie: shifting from creating hope through the reaction of others to serving others through hope #aka: page -> knight #also a good representation of a lack of hope/faith bc thats what knightsre all about yo

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CORDELIA ARRINGTON S1

THE BASICS:

Character’s name: Cordelia Arrington

Role in story: Ally/future Dragonrider/potential Queen

Physical description: Sophie Turner

Age: 17

MBTI: ENFJ (the campaigner)

Enneagram: Type 7 (the enthusiast), 7w8, 784

Zodiac: Sagittarius

TRAJECTORY:

Overall Arc: goes from a spoiled coquette to an altruistic, resourceful young woman and, ultimately, dragonrider -- overcoming selfishness and becoming altruistic, from someone who defines herself as great bc she is of royal blood, to someone who defines herself as trying bc she is a human being like everyone else

Season 1 Arc (Step 1 of 4): from a spoiled coquette to someone asking questions and more self-aware -- her personal struggles aren't the worst things happening in the world

Season 2 Arc (Step 2 of 4): from someone reaching self-awareness to someone actively looking for ways to help enact change. she also does a little struggling her unwillingness to act against her family and w learning of the dark history of the arringtons and that, she herself, is not the descendant of greatness of monsters -- but its ok bc at least arthuris a good guy so she doesn't have to worry that there's smth evil in herself tryna get out, right?

Season 3 Arc (Step 3 of 4): from someone looking to enact change, to someone actively engaging in doing so through the bounds of her personal power -- and refusing at first to believe in her noble family's complicity w the bad, to someone becoming disillusioned by them and actively looking to undo the legacy of her horrific family and believing there is smth evil in herself just to have been descended from them etc. it eventually showed itself in rowena and arthur and lynessa -- who's to say she won't be next? esp when she so long defined herself as better than others as a princess of the blood etc

Season 4 Arc (Step 4 of 4): from someone becoming diillusioned by her blood and by herself and by nobility to someone who believes the true nature of nobility is not smth passed through bloodlines but smth found in the hearts of those who are good and strive to do the right thing, and therefore that -- despite being an arrington -- she is capable of good and of change, she simply has to do good and work for change

ENGINE OF CHANGE:

Internal goal/desire: To be satisfied and content--to have her needs fulfilled

Why can’t they get it? Her whole life is a lie and, as a pseudo-princess her desire to explore and experience is at odds with her duties and, therefore, her wish to be satisfied is in direct odds with her wish to be content. If she achieves one, she finds herself still longing for the other, driving her to act out and rebel and distract others with gossip and mischief and whatever the next hairbrained scheme might prove to be.

Interally-motivated external goal: to be adored & have unending fun & adventure & be loved by all & eventually maybe find and marry someone she loves too. Shallow as a number of these goals may seem, however, she also wishes to be the best she can be, to improve things, to take care of her loved ones and those who depend upon her. However, as of the start of S1, Cordelia is also naive and selfish and has no concept of just how bad things really are. Her idea of 'improving' things is something along the lines of making sure that even peasants can have fresh-plucked flowers in their homes on the daily, rather that seeing to it that they have, yknow, food to eat on the daily. She would def be the sort -- out of ignorance -- to suggest the peasants eat cake, instead, if she hears that they don't have bread smdh. Though she would also be the sort to then order Fain to make an excess of bread and then sneak out and give it out, probably accidentally causing food riots as the starving rush to grab the bread but yknow. Good intentions.

Why can't they get it? For one, its impossible to be universally adored. It's just...never going to happen, particularly when one is as stubborn and as wilful and as generally spoiled as Cordelia can be! She also lacks patience to such a great degree that it can be deeply challenging for her to connect with others, making it difficult for to love or be loved. Other obstacles are her delusions about how things are & her own spoiled pride, her unwillingness to act against her loved ones/believe in their guilt/complicity, her ignorance of the world, her foolhardiness & unwitting trust compounded by her own illusory belief in her worldliness/wisdom/correctness, her inexperience & (eventually) her sense of guilt. It is also profoundly difficult for her to EVER give up her sense of pride, bc beneath the charade, part of her believes that her pride is all she's got.

What are they afraid of: Of being deprived and in pain.

How character views the world: Cordelia is wearing some very rosy glasses. She's been raised to believe everything is wonderful and, therefore, her primary concern is generally her own profound boredom, and she sees her own small troubles as the worst in the world: the fact that she feels trapped in her life, after all, is worse than anything else she's been taught to believe is going on out there, a belief which then further blinds her to the clues that there's worse happening, as she simply spends her time feeling sorry for herself and inventing new years to sneak out of Fain and cause trouble. Cordelia generally views the world as a bright and shining and happy place, though her own personal world as profoundly full, yet she sees the world outside her confines as brilliant and exciting and a world of wonderful adventure and stunning sights. She longs to experience it all!

How character views self: As of the beginning of S1, Cordelia views herself as charming and fun -- but also just a little bit fake. She does genuinely enjoy her time and her extravagances but inside she feels a little bit empty and sometimes her high good humor is put on to entertain others and make them smile rather than being something she truly feels. Cordelia is someone who feels deeply unfulfilled. She longs for exciement and adventure and for someone who understands her, but deep down she feels that she's pr alone in life, esp once her cousins are all married off and gone, and her brother is likewise distracted, and she fears that she'll never find someone to help her sort through the rest. She feels trapped in her duties and like she's wasting her life. Still, she honestly does think she's better than other ppl bc she's an Arrington and her grandfather was a king; her cousin is queen, etc (tho not to the extent of Avelina or anything!!! its more that she was taught to think of herself a certain way etc and that she's arrogant and selfish). She also has a lot of internalized shame abt her mother being a mere commoner! and thus her own bloodline being less than that of everyone else in her family except arthur of course. this def a DIRECT result of aunt avelina's influence, who def made her feel small abt it but big abt being arrington, and all that brought together is a big part of why she overcompensates by being so into her arrington privileges and background, etc sldkjfco

INTERNAL: THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER

What is his/her greatest fear? Of being deprived and in pain.

Inner motivation: To maintain her freedom and happiness, to avoid missing out on worthwhile experiences, to keep herself excited and occupied, to avoid and discharge pain.

Kryptonite: Being lied to

What is his/her misbelief about life (to be challenged ~this season)? Mostly its those rosy glasses. That'll see its climax, really, at the beginning of season 2, w her being caught amongst the oppressed when Cassius starts burning the forests, but it begins here. Cordelia is too inwardly focused, and paying more attention to other matters will challenge her viewpoint. So, mostly the idea that her struggles are the worst, and that Aragoth is in some kind of Golden Age, are going to be challenged.

Lesson he/she needs to learn (this season): Cordelia considers herself to be quite intelligent and believes that, being so clever, little gets past her, but she'll learn the hard way that there's far more -- and worse -- going on than she would ever have believed. The people she trusts most are either ignorant -- or lying to her. She will, of course, believe ignorance at first. After all, she was ignorant. She will learn that her troubles aren't so bad and that there are people out there who could use her help -- help she is perfectly able to give. That not everything is about her.

What is the best thing in his/her life? Her family! Cordelia adores them! They're the lights of her life and, as much as she might also from time to time roll her eyes and break out etc, there isn't anything she wouldn't do for them if she believed it truly mattered!

What is the worst thing in his/her life? Eowyn voice: i fear a cage etc. Cordelia feels super boxed in and like there's no escape from a boring fate and the thought makes her miserable. She fears turning out like her aunt avelina: trapped and bitter and and frankly detestably boring (she does NOT know the extendt of anything abt Avelina, of course!) and spending all her time trumpeting on about other ppl's glory in a vain hope to give herself some feeling of significance in a world that has moved on without her

What does she/he most often look down on people for? The worst crime in the world is being boring!! Honestly, she doesn't judge ppl for much, but she doesn't like pettiness, immorality, cruelty, unkindness, or callousness

What makes his/her heart feel alive? Adventure, shared laughter, teasing between friends, gossip, dancing, new experiences, loving silly pranks, attention, wholesome and genuine affection, excitement in general

What makes him/her feel loved, and who was the last person to make them feel that way? Someone paying real and genuine attention to her, laughing with her, joining in w her on whatever scheme she's concocted. Probably Arthur or one of her cousins! Cordelia in s1 isn't hurting for feeling loved <3 (Though she's afraid that someday soon she will be)

Top three things he/she values most in life? Her family, her freedom, being cared for

EXTERNAL: NOT NECESSARY, BUT GOOD TO KNOW AND SAYS A LOT ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER

What’s his/her favorite book, movie, and band? ok so growing up she def would've loved things like ella enchanted and the hero and the sword and anne of green gables and the little mermaid! she probs grew up w sense and sensibility and was like 'marianne you a real one, babe' but her real austenian love is elizabeth bennet <3 probs a big arya stark stan, too! anyway! band? she frankly probs goes a lot w trends and since i have no idea what's popular rn...idk...olivia rodrigo feels like someone she'd really enjoy tho!

Is there an object he/she can’t bear to part with and why? she probably has a piece of jewelry that was her mother's that she wears all the time tbh <3 i mean, until arthur marries, she probs has ~all of her mom's jewlery/the jewls of the duchess of fain, but there's probs a simpler one -- like maybe a simple gold chain w a single small pearl at the end or smth that like (small material value, rich emotional value) her dad gave to her mom and she always wears it, sometimes under another necklace, sometimes wrapped around her wrist like a bracelet, but always there

Describe a typical outfit for him/her from top to bottom. Cordelia is always dressed either to the latest trends if her plan is a party at court, or else wearing smth a lil more practical for crashing hrough the woods on horseback! Her wardrobe will shift w her charactr arc, but as of s1, she's wearing a tonnn of pink, red, and gold to give all those sweet arrington vibes and literally clothe herself in her power. also lots of lion themes, etc. lots of jewelry when she's at court, too, for the same reason, and flowers in her hair when she's not. lynessa's def more the trend-setter, but cordelia always knows what's fasion forward and she's always wearing it.

What names or nicknames has he/she been called throughout their life? Cor, Cora (to Roran anyway hahaha they're both sooooo sneaky well played kid no one could ever possibly guess your super secret identity), Lia

What is his/her method of manipulation? prodding, gentle cajoling, daring, generally indirectly bossy, annoying ppl into paying attention to her -- though being a princess, cordelia can def be actively demanding when she wants to be. has def been known to imperiously order ppl about ngl.

Describe their daily routine. Cordelia hates routine! And, while no doubt some is meant to be imposed upon her simply by the rignors of castle life and any tutors or governess or nursemaid she may have or whatever...Cordelia hates routine its so boooooringggg! She likes to sleep as long as she likes, stay up all night, and climb out of windows to escape instruction...a mess smh

Their go-to cure for a bad day? plaguing arthur into getting up from whatever he's up to and sitting w her in fron of the fire and talking to her. d oesn't have to be about anything in particular, but just spending quality time w him and winning his attention from whatever else is enough for her <3

CURRENT CHARACTER GOALS:

How is your character dissatisfied with their life? How is she not! She feels doomed, caged. She believes the only thing standing between her and Avelina's life is Arthur, and that just looks like hell (tbf Avelina is having a DREADFUL time alsdjfsjkdf), but she also feels that not even Arthur's affection can shield her forever

What does your character believe will bring them true happiness or contentment? Laughing and dancing barefoot beneath the stars forever -- utter freedom to be wild and spontaneous and get absolutely everything she pleases always!

What definitive step could they take to turn their dream into a reality? Honestly there isn't one bc her goal is literally to get even more spoiled than she already is but!! she believes this ~is perfectly reasonable AND attainable! Bc she lives in paradise she's just being put upon bc no one has it worse than she does! If she just ran away she'd be free!

How has their fear kept them from taking this action already? She'd miss her brother cousins and that'd make her sad! Plus, gods know he'd be perfectly useless if she were ever to abandon him and she'd feel guilty for that! Besides, part of her even now does wonder if maybe that's a lil bit of a fantasy and if real life isn't harsher than that (as in, you might face social shame not as in you might starve to death) and again she doesn't want pain or deprivement of any kind!

How does your protagonist feel they can accomplish their goal while still steering clear of the thing they are afraid of? Honestly, as long as she just sort of keeps things the way they are, everything's totally fine, right??? Yup! Sure, she's not perfectly happy, but it could be worse, right! She's young and beautiful and royal and a delight to be around, so who will ever gainsay the realm's darling?

THE BACKSTORY SCENES THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

moment #1: aunt avelina tells off her tutor for correcting cordelia

What does your character go into the backstory scene believing and how are they surprised by the outcome? this is the moment, at only about six, that cordelia learns smth about her heritage that she'd not previously known bc avelina's 'defense' of cordelia is 100% a backhanded compliment. avelina in her most acidic tones tells the tutor tha t he ought never to gainsay a princess of the blood, even if her mother was only a commomer, something said so scathingly and w such a venomously contemptuous glance at herself that cordelia instantly knew this was a very bad state. f things, indeed. this was the first time it came upo, but it never stopped after that and, while now cordelia laughs it off, often w a rebuff of her own, inside she still quails and truly believes its a shameful thing, indeed, bc it has ALWAYS been used quite intentionally by authority figures to make her feel small -- and her connection to the hosue of arrington has ALWAYS been showcased as smth to be proud of.

How does your character struggle to hold onto their old beliefs? She overcompensates by playing up her arrington traits, always wearing the colors or lions or even straight up ordering someone about just to prove that she can tbh.

What is their conclusion/new belief? Twofold! it made her utterly certain that her parents were a love match which she thinks is the HEIGHT of romance, and smth that seems to have made them much happier than avelina's much more prestigious match. however, she also fully believes that this delusion of her arrington blood is smth she should be ashamed of.

#character arcs #cordelia #the last one was so sad i had to do one that was a lil happier <3

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smol-tired-binch-blog · 1 year

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tell us about your new demons (when you have the chance??)

So far, there's not too much to tell all things considered. This month's been a weird one for me in terms of productivity, but here's what I've got (and I'll put it under a read more anyway. cw for talks of murder and cannibalism ahead):

Florence, like I said, is a foil to Agatha, as they are similar yet different. Both are women of half English, half European descent from fairly respected families who became serial killers and died at the hands of a relative to one of their victims. They both continue their life's work in Hell. They both have alliterative names. Both have very long hair and a proclivity for waistcoats, puffy sleeved shirts, and pretty skirts.

However, Agatha is admittedly unrepentant. She doesn't believe herself moral or just for her killings, make no mistake, she knows it's wrong to actually enjoy hurting and killing people, even when they most likely deserve it. She can justify what she does, but at the end of the day, her work is that important to her, and she considers the cost of torturing other sinners to be a price she's more than willing to pay. She's not normal, she belongs in Hell, and she fully accepts this.

Florence on the other hand is a different story. Despite living in the Gluttony District, which you can imagine is more than likely populated by a fair few cannibals, or at least people who wouldn't be shocked at the idea of a Mrs Lovett-type running a business in town, she refuses to admit to anyone why she's in Hell. She won't even say she's killed people, she will not say a word. It's almost like she's in denial of where she is and what she's done. Heck, she even keeps her horns hidden under her hat. She tries to be polite and greets everyone she meets with a smile, but unlike Agatha's sincere courteousness and genuine smile (which is so genuine and wide it freaks people out), hers has an edge of fear behind it, twitchy, like she's hiding something, which she of course is. She always has a slight look in her eye that suggests she might start crying or cutting people at any moment. It disturbs people when they notice it, but not enough to say anything, yknow?

It's because of this that she and Agatha don't get along. They freak each other out and set each other on edge. Florence is genuinely terrified of Agatha, whilst Agatha sees her as uncouth and dishonest and mistrustful. They avoid each other at all costs.

I like the idea of the Twins getting a part time job at her bakery after Agatha gets sick of them and drive her to her wit's end even quicker. Maybe for once they get to find out why it's not a smart idea to torment everyone you meet . . .

Yuko has even less so far. I put in a lot of effort into figuring out birthdates for her and her siblings based around fitting start signs, including the Chinese zodiac, to figure out personalities, and I got it perfect. One problem; she's only 7 months younger than her sister. I don't care how premature a birth it is, that is pushing it in terms of an age difference. Instead, I've gone for the more convoluted backstory of her being the result of a one-time affair her father had, for reasons undecided. Yuko's mother died when she was very very young, like a few months old. Hell, maybe for extra drama, Yuko was a premature birth as is. She would've been put into care as she had no close relatives, at least none that wanted to take her, but when her father and his wife heard about this, they both actually felt sorry for her; her father because, well, he'd abandoned her, and betrayed his family even making her, and his wife couldn't blame a child for its parents choices, could she? Rather than let this baby take her chances in the care system and risk All That Comes From That, they discreetly officially adopted her, agreeing that no one was to know she was in any way blood related.

I don't know if she or her siblings ever learnt the truth, but I do know that her status as the Youngest and More Fragile of the family lead to her being spoiled rotten. She had no interest in working in the family business, and there was no expectation for her to do so, so she simply got to enjoy the wealth and sweets from her family's endeavours. She learnt to be sweet and charming on the surface, but beneath it all is actually a very mean person. Even so, her death did affect her siblings quite hard. Daichi even somewhat named one of his his children after her (Yumiko). I'll talk more about them later.

As shown on her ref, there was argument amongst the head demons as to which District she belonged to most. It was finally agreed she may live in the Pride District, more likely to be surrounded by the wealth and decadence she was used to in life. However, she must earn it by paying her penance in the Gluttony District. Who knows what punishment they came up for her? Maybe it involves working for a certain Cupcake Demon . . . .

#smol responds #Smol's Demonverse #demon ocs #lore #OC: Agatha Alletage #OC: Florence Farina #OC: Yuko Mochizuki

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stinkywinke · 3 years

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Twelve Minutes

I am obsessed with twelve minutes sooo, why not make an imagine about it 🧍‍♀️

Also this is the first time I have ever used tumblr, and my grammar is very poor. I will try and get used to the way tumblr works and hopefully if I have any motivation I will start writing more :) My writing skills are bad so this is going to be choppy

Another note : The roles are reversed, so instead of the reader being the husband, its going the be the wife figuring everything.

clench ya butt cheeks

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Readers POV:

No..no, no, no, this can’t be it

As I took a step into my apartment I heard my husband in the bathroom humming a soft tune. 10 minutes. The pills. The cop. The pocket watch.

“Hey, I didn’t hear you come in”

I looked up to see h/n (Husbands name) walking towards me with a smile and pulling me in to a passionate kiss.

“I made desert, let me know if your in the mood” He stated while making his way on to the couch.

I give a quick nod signaling that I would tell him when I was ready. Quickly glancing around my home I made my way to the sink and filled up a mug of water, the floorboards creaking in a specific spot as I ambled to the bathroom. I opened the medicine cabinet grabbing ahold of the sleeping pills and pouring them into the mug, and going back into the living room to see h/n reading a book.

"I think its a good time for desert” I suggested

“Ok, babe” h/n replied with a sweet smile

He noticed the cup in my hand and turned around to the fridge and got the desert out. I placed the drugged mug by where h/n was sitting and got my own mug instead.

“So how was work?”

“It was alright, met a couple of new people, Its going great” I said as I saw h/n drinking his water

“How about you? How was your day?”

“Same old day I guess it just repeats itself” he said as his eyes started drooping down into a sleepy matter

Tch.. talk about repeating

“Im feeling so tired all of a sudden, Im gonna go lay down”

“Okay baby, goodnight”

As soon as I saw h/n close the bedroom door I scampered to the closet and closed the door behind me aware that the cop will be here in a few minutes

Now we wait…

“Police!, open up I have a warrant”

My breathe hitched as I heard him turn the doorknob and stepped into the house

“Hello?, anyone home?”

“Police” the cop shouted when he opened the door

“Police, I have a warrant”

He made his final call making his way into the bedroom,hearing the light switch turn on a scream came from the man as he layed unconscious on the floor. After hearing nothing but silence I crept out the door into the room, searching for the valuables from the cops uniform

The gun, 2 handcuffs, the knife, and the phone

As I did last time,Rolling him over, gripping both of his wrists and tieing them together, I remembered there was a little box with my mothers name on it.

A/N : I did change the baby clothes to a necklace, kind of like a bday gift

My hand trembled to the gift lying on the table next to the flowers, I held it and stuffed the box into my front pocket. I took my time staring at the man in awe and confusion

He’s already told me why he’s here, he told me he was a good friend of my husband’s father. He’s hiding something.

“Augh- what- you little shit”

The cop was stirring awake from the electrocution but only figuring it all together that he was handcuffed. He glared at my shoes as some kind of threat and saying words, pleading to be let go, I reached into my pocket pulling out the box and showing the man the name on the necklace

“Do you recognise this name?”

“Dahlia? Yeah I knew her so what?”

“Do you know anything about her?”

“Yeah, she was the mother of your husbands sister”

Mother of my husband’s sister? But that was my mothers name

“Just let me go you prick”

“I promise im innocent I dont have anything to do with this”

“Okay maybe if you let me go, I wont kill you” the cop stated in a cold and tone

I took the knife out of my pocket and handed him his things, he asked…

“Im here for a pocket watch very valuable… do you have it?”

“Yeah, I’ll go get it now”

Thoughts were running in my head as I went to go to the bathroom to get the strange watch

Mother of my husbands sister? Dahlia, thats my mothers name… no it can’t be.

I grasped the pocket watch in my hand, watching is slowly turn clock-wise

“Have you found it yet? I dont have all day!”

My hand gave out to him, as he took the pocket watch

“Im gonna need a few minutes with your husband, go sit on the couch, but if you do anything stupid, I’ll kill you..” he demanded

He’s gonna kill him, I know, so lets just let it happen.

BANG!

A bead of sweat drip down my forehead as I smelled the scent of blood coming from the other room

Mothers name of husbands sister, husband said he got a necklace with my mothers name on it, Dahlia. So if dahlia is my mother h/n is my… brother. My own brother is my husband. Fuck no please, I have to get out

Sprinted across the room to the door and made my way out just to end up in the same place as always.

“No.. fuck no no no no- this can’t be happening please”

My husband came out of the bathroom again with a panic and worry on his face and started to bombard me with questions.

“Y/n?”

“Baby are you ok?”

“What happened honey?”

“Whats wrong?”

I’ve had enough

“S-STOP IT, GO AWAY”

“Baby whats wrong” he pleaded with concern

“NO! Please I have to go” I shouted at him as I bolted through the door coming back to the same gentle humming tune coming from the bathroom.

“Hey, I didnt hear you come in”

Again met with the same eyes with my lover ugh- brother, I cant tell him, I cant.

“Hey babe” I said as he kissed me once again,

this is wrong

“I made dessert, let me know if your in the mood”

The same sentence every ten minutes.

Snatching the pocket watch from the ventilation grid, the grunting and groaning leaving my mouth as I tried to get up from the pain in my back,

The watch was broken. Turning the long handle I fixed it back to its place, 2 minutes before 12. I saw the world turn into a dark abyss, the watch turning anti clock- wise, my hand slowly fading into the tiles of the bathroom, my eyes growing heavy and started to close putting me into a deep sleep

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Hey there he is… your back”

Huh?

“Look, I know this is a… terrible shock. But we need to be on the same page. Look, I… These feelings for my son… your brother. This isn’t how I wanted to tell you…you deserve… both of you deserve better.”

He said with a long pause

“Yknow the thing I hate the most, worst thing in the world?… Disappointing my lil boy. Well that was the worst thing…. And now a baby… you with your little… love… I guess it was always gonna happen”

He said as he walked around in disbelief and ignorance

“Nothing stays swallowed down forever. So, you gonna make a call”

“If i could go back..” I started

“Well. Things would be different. But you can’t just try again. Thats not how life works! So, you gotta make the choice, and make it now”

…

“Say something”

H/n’s book about zen..

“Fine!, your gonna force it by hand? Fine!”

“Hey “its only by forgetting that.. we ever really drop the thread of time, and approach the experience of living in the present moment””

“Ah, you’ve read that one, eh?”

“I know the idea of forgetting things sounds crazy but, what if… you could?

I can help with that if you want. All you have is the future, you’ll forget everything you went through. All the pain. All the stress. Forgotten forever. But, you need to understand there is no turning back. You can’t undo this… we can still talk about him but you need to choose an answer…”

I stared at the clock as I watch it about to turn twelve

“you don’t have to forget if you don’t want to, The choice is yours”

12:00

DING!

“ you do have a remarkable imagination… The stories you’ve created… but believing them so strongly, so deeply is unhealthy… you have to let him go… you can’t keep obsessing over him… sometimes things are just as what they are…

Its time for you to wake up…

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owlf45 · 3 years

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I am very curious of your book recommendations, could you share some with us, please? 👀

iwfewj okay!! uhm i havent done as much reading as id have liked as of recent so a chunk of my recommendations are going to be from when i was younger and, yknow, nostalgia and all, just to be warned

The Invisible Library: its a series of four books, they're pretty fun and i ate them up. they're not perfect, there are times where it drags; but if youre not too critical a reader you probably wouldnt notice it. basically there's this huge interdimensional library where 'librarians' cross through worlds, and irene, a librarian, is assigned a newbie (read: dragon fellow) in industrial revolution era london, where she has to protect something or another. smart dialogue, interesting systems and fight scenes and mysteries. characters are fleshed out enough, though sometimes come across as too sexy-brilliant-perfection. you get one talk about how irene is plain bc she's got brown hair but she's a pretty strong female character, and it's not all too bad a scene when she's comparing herself to a literal dude with dragon blood. ending of the last book was kinda weird but the books are very addictive reads

Ender's Game: author's an asshole, the book is incredible. sci-fi, child soldiers preparing for space battle, im sure youve heard of it, just give it a read. i literally read it in like, a day or two. its fascinating, and horribly, horribly, amazing. writing style is impeccable. didn't read the sequel but the first book ends just fine on its own. (just pirate a copy if possible so you dont give the author more money than he deserves)

The Tales of Desperaux: a classic. absolutely adore the book. the writing is pretty digestible. it gets pretty fuckin dark for a kids book, and in recollection its actually pretty haunting at times and it creeps me out thinking about it. but i still love it to death. great book, great story, love the themes. very emotional for Little Me(tm)

Theodosia: it's another series of four books. tbh i dont remember much about this but i just remember reading all four of the books in the span of a few weeks. very fun, i think its aimed at younger children but its still a good read. its basically about this young girl (id say nine ish?) who studies Egyptian mythology and is fine-tuned to mysteries surrounding artifacts and their hidden languages. her parents are archeologists and she sleeps in a sarcophagus in her family's museum and guards all the mummies. i love her, honestly. she has this seemingly-magical cat that follows her around and she doesnt take no for an answer, literally outsmarting/beating up grown men with an arm popped out of her socket as a preteen. she doesnt suffer so much from 'trying to make girl character Strong And Capable And Sexy Because Feminism" like the invis. library sometimes is guilty of

Serafina: another more childish series, but i loved it. its basically about this girl who's part human and part something else cat-like, and she lives in the basement of the rockerfeller mansion because her father works with the boilers to hide her from harm. she ends up in a kidnapping mystery and becomes friends with the rich owners' son. their friendship was adorable. very fun. loved the first book. the second one was alright though i dont really remember much of it; the third one was an addictive read but tbh i think the first one is the most worthwhile read. apparently there's a fourth book, though i havent read it yet.

Master and the Margarita: i was hesitant to suggest this book because there are times where it drags out so much and it got boring for me at occasions, but its also so fuckin nonsensical and hilarious at times. there's an incredible audiobook for free on youtube. the voice acting is great. basically it looks into an atheistic russia after the revolution during times where much of literature is censored. it sort of guides the author's themes in his book. basically, satan appears in moscow along with his little demon fellows and they get up to no good, fool around and cause a lot of shit to happen. oh, and also, there are two lovers named master and margarita, and they manage to reunite them.

Dracula: another so-called classic; it dragged on at times but i think overall it was a pretty interesting read. i think for anyone interested in vampirism it's cool to see how cultural phenomena have adapted and shifted what vampires actually mean and what their powers are. stoker's dracula was pretty intimidating, though his female characters were lackluster and blatantly misogynistic at times. this one also has an audiobook but it isnt as good.

Tuesdays at the Castle: another book aimed towards younger audiences. i think this is a series of five books, and the latter two books weren't my favorite. BUT they were all very very very fun reads. i think i read most of them within a day. the first book is basically about how celie, the youngest princess of the royal family, is the favorite of the castle—and that's meant literally. the castle is magical and moves its corridors and rooms around and locks people in places when theyre distrustful and does all this crazy shit. after celie's parents die, a group of people eyeing the throne try to take it from celie's older brother, roland, through complex politics and taking advantage of the siblings' young ages. celie and roland (and the older sister who i dont remember the name of bc she was obnoxious) basically go through tons of terrible shit, and its power of family. i love it dearly. the second book was also good, it included griffins, which, what's not to like about that?? those two were my favorites in the series of 5

Wings of Fire: *slaps* READ IT! the first five books surrounds the group of five main dragons, each of the main type, who were prophesized to take down something something the sand queen and decide among the three sisters who would get to rule the kingdom of the sandy-dragon type whatever (since war broke out among all the dragons after that question of succession arose), and its just great. dragons. very much fleshed out characters. lots of fun worldbuilding. highly entertaining. there's tons of books after and i don't know exactly where the plot goes after the first five books but everyone i know says its good. so. there you have it. its one of my favorites.

The Cinder Series: great sci-fi series, though the author more considers themselves a romance writer (which is quite obvious in their writing). clever writing, neat style, and very interesting stories. each of the four books takes from the perspective of a very distant version of different princesses/girls (cinderella, red riding hood, rapunzel, snow white) and very cleverly references them throughout the story. the stakes are pretty high, the overarching themes and plot are decent enough. they make for pretty good reads, though there are some cultural inaccuracies that have been criticized. sometimes the romance was a little much for me, but yknow. im obviously not one to talk. but the characters i loved. especially cinder and red.

Illuminae: LOVED this fucking series to death. god. it was incredible. i cried like a bajillion times. like the cinder series, its sci-fi and romance, but this series leans more heavily into the sci-fi elements. you got corrupt corporations attacking small populations on illegal planets, you got crazy bioengineered diseases that create monsters out of people, you got glitching AI systems who qualify the issues of human morality and go off the fuckin rails, you got crazy parasitic eels the size of people, you got warped time space continuity, you got incredible characterization and realistic looks at human integrity and truth, its just batshit. the writing is phenomenal. what i wouldnt do to experience it again. the best part is that the entire series is written in nothing but documentation and drawings and logs and ugh it is so good. they made diagrams and floorplans for all the ships and you just get pages of faces and names of people who'd died in x, y, z; it's haunting. i literally cried over a dude when i was literally begging for him to die ten pages earlier because i hated him so much. the romance cliches sometimes get a little under the skin but overall its such a good series. i dont think a single sentence is wasted in those books. that whole series is so fundamental to my writing style i literally cannot recommend (at the very least the first book) enough.

The Poisoner's Handbook: i'm actually working on this book right now. its nonfiction but its very entertaining (and take that from someone who hates nonfiction for the most part). each chapter discusses a different type of poison and how it's involved in different New York murders/killings in early 1900s, all the while interweaving the stories and backgrounds of Charles Norris and Alexander Gettler as they pioneered the institutionalization of forensic chemistry. the two are hilarious and charismatic characters, and, combined with the mystery of each murder case (and also a background of the effects and history of each poison), it makes for a pretty fascinating read. it also goes a little into the corruption and conditions of the medical systems during this time period, as well as how legislature (such as Prohibition) affected how poisons became popularized or more prevalent. it might be a bit difficult to understand if you dont have any chemistry or biology knowledge, but the book does a pretty good job of trying to explain all the information you need. i particularly like the book because it does a good job of keeping my attention; it hops around from case to case to subject and doesn't drag on for too long.

The Last Lecture: a bit of a turn but it's basically about a professor who's dying from severe cancer, and the book takes a more in-depth look into what he called 'his last lecture'; basically, it answered the question, "what would you do if you knew you could only lecture one last time before you died, and what advice would you give?" it was pretty emotional, a very short and good read. if you don't want to read the book id probably watch the lecture itself, its only an hour or two and i think its on youtube. but the advice he gives, i thought at least, was solid and rang pretty true for me

Outliers - The Story for Success: to be honest, this dragged on for me, but i think it had a lot of good points and i think if i read it now compared to two years ago id have a better tolerance for 'boring' nonfiction. it has a lot of interesting analysis on what makes success, who has a predisposition to success, and how opportunity in the framework of our institutions often snowball from small changes to large effects—resulting in 'geniuses' or large figures who are 'outliers' of their generation when in reality, its opportunity which drives their path to success

Confessions of an Opium Eater: its pretty short, only 80 or so pages, but the man's cracked. Very intelligent. I don't understand half of what he's saying at times because he's so well read that he references some obscure shit every other sentence but he's got an incredible writing style and a very,, 'incredible' lifestyle, so to speak. it makes for a very uhhh rhythmic writing style, very fascinating to read and something i want to tinker with myself. gives it a bit of a whimsical vibe. anyway, its basically 'confessions' from the author who talks about all sorts of shit and about his life as an opioid addict, which is one of the first written accounts in british literature. quite scandalous, very popular. tbh i havent finished it yet but i think reading some of his passages are informative and inspiring.

The Things They Carried: again, kinda dragged on at points, so its not my favorite but i still enjoyed it and i probably wouldve liked it more if i wasnt being forced to read it. basically a slightly fictitious-based-on-author's-real-time-in-war story that bounces from topic to topic about what happens in and out of war. like confessions ^, i mostly really like it for its style as a writer myself. the topics and themes and emotional weight was palpable, and it also had a lot of influence on my writing style (a lot of safe space and frame of reference emulates this writing). the book itself was also alright, interesting enough, but it was particularly the style that really hit it home for me. it really captured the art of human suffering long after the events have occurred.

Other obvious ones like The Book Thief, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Outsiders, and a few other series like The Beastly Dreadfuls, Dragon Slippers, The Land of Stories, Magnus Chase, A Series of Unfortunate Events; they're all pretty good too

Unfortunately I haven't been reading as many of the really good series that ive been hearing about for ages. this summer ill be reading Dune, Eragon, Shadow and Bone, Shatter Me, Mistborn, The Way of Kings, Red Rising—all those good series that are 'hot shit' right now. ill let you know how i feel about all those series when im done with them lol

#the crimson plant mystery #my asks #fnieownfweoi anyway there you go #i hope you find something interesting in there #im probably missing a couple but its been a hot minute

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