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Time for Q!Tallulah headcannons!!
Fair warning: this post has mentions of depression, abandonment issues, trust issues, poor living conditions; all of the mentions of Wilbur are ONLY mentions to his character not the real person.
• Due to her abandonment and trust issues, Tallulah created a tough and cold exterior not opening herself to anything new, but, if you manage to break the shell, she's sweet, caring, loyal, nice, creative, the loveliest egg possible
• She likes Richas, but has jealousy, after all he came AFTER her and still has most of the island around him and ADOPTING HIM??? While SHE had to ground herself to an empty promise of a returning loving father and feeling alone most of the time "without" a "real" family to comfort her.
• Due to her time in the attic Tallulah developed anemia due to not having for a long time the necessary nutrients and surviving off of dirt.
• She hates the smell of moss, dirt and related things despite loving botany due to her time in the attic
Black: depression, extreme anger, sorrow or loneliness, it's her way of expressing she's REALLY not feeling okay
• When she finally accepted Wilbur would never come back or be the father she wished and dreamt of, she cut her hair that was long since "hair holds memories", painted her hair black since Missa is Philza's partner and is more of a father to her than Wilbur could ever be and she was tired of holding herself to a small memory instead of accepting change and happiness
• Can't really vent not because her family wouldn't listen, but because of her trust issues and before having to be the "cute innocent girl who's there for everyone" she didn't have the space to vent and put her emotions first
• She was tired of her original red beanie matching Wilbur, it was too dirty and old, deciding to pick a purple one who matched her and a few mushroom hats to express her emotions
• Each color of mushroom represent an emotion (in canon I think she only had black and purple, but I expanded it considering there's a lot more patterns and colors of mushrooms, especially in a sort of magic island)
purple: neutral, calm, it's the regular she wears all the time
Pink: love, happiness, she's feeling creative or excited over something, possibly wanting or doing stims
Blue: shows more of "little" sadness, not strong enough to be depression or despair, but just enough to show it, also can mean fear.
Red: anger, hate.
• Due to her autism, she carries a pair of headphones ALL the time as well as stim toys, comfort objects or plushies, a sketchbook she writes and draws what she's feeling to better communicate it.
• She can play maracas, flute, piano, guitar (acoustic), kalimba.
• Big fan of musicals and history, in late nights she likes to listen to Philza's stories of the old times and Chay loves his battle stories, so they share this cozy moment
• In the beginning she could only see ghosts, but with time she could see the deities. She can see and feel their emotions but can't talk with them much, she mainly can see Mumza and Rose, Rose in the sanctuary where her power is centered and stronger, Mumza all around her dad (Phil >:) ) and every time she's with the crows.
• Knows flower language to write better letters to everyone, adding a deeper meaning, sometimes saying secret stuff through the flowers and as an extra giving pretty flowers
• Tallulah sometimes paints her nails with Phil and Chayanne, every week with a different design
• When Missa is home back from his journeys, Tallulah sees how exhausted her dad is, so she speaks in spanish (their native languages) and makes him some food or brings fruit
• Before she officially forgot Wilbur whenever she would come with other residents and her siblings, Tallulah sometimes felt weak, abandoned, left behind, after all, ALL the others had their parents, had close connections, she hated it but couldn't help but feel jealous, in these situations Phil and Chayanne always reassured her the best they could that they would never leave her and that she wouldn't go back to the attic.
• Makes bracelets for her close family, always wearing one with PxTxC on her left hand (Philza, Chayanne and Tallulah), in the right one she has a TxCxR (Tallulah, Richas, Chayanne) or it could be TxCxP (Tallulah, Chayanne, Pomme) after all she doesn't hate Richas, she hates that he's immature and acts "entitled" and dramatic over his issues, but still tries her best to be a good sister to him, also loves pomme a lot!! Considering Pomme her bestie
Reminder: Tallulah is just a child in rp, children don't know how to control their emotions and in situations of abandonment, neglect and lack of a trusting bond with a caretaker, children can struggle even more with emotions, care, jealousy, trust, self-esteem etc, so don't call Tallulah "selfish" or "spoiled" she has every right to be that way after what she's been through
• Due to her depression,sometimes Tallulah can't take care of herself, spending days or weeks in bed or just not feeling like going out, or when she does she doesn't show much interest, in these cases Phil and Chayanne always cooked some nice food and drinks, went to the nests, and chatted and comforted her
• She became a great fighter after the events of pre-purgatory and purgatory, she NEEDED a tough exterior since she was without Chayanne, and that time worsened her depression severely
#qsmp headcanons#qsmp tallulah#qsmp chayanne#qsmp philza#silly#headcannons#tallulah the egg#death family#Spotify
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when i was 12 this was the coolest most mindblowing shit ever i was genuinely so obsessed with it I'd read it very day like the bible. I would die for a version of this with the post 3D world content over my country
#i hve vs super mario bros on my switch bc i wanted to chronologically play through the storied hero timeline and i couldnt find a rom#I think it has the same appeal as spid.erverse kinda except instead of multiple different people filling the same role as sp.iderman its#the same guy it's still mario but the changes come from things going differently at certain points in his life do you GET ME!!#LIKE!!!!!!!! MOST OF IT'S DETERMINED BY WHAT HAPPENS IN YOSHIS ISLAND AND THERES ALTERNATIVE PATHS IF HE WINS OR FAILS!!! GAME OVERS HAVE#CONSEQUENCES THAT BRANCH INTO THEIR OWN TIMELINES MARIO CAN END UP WITH DIFFERENT PARENTS ITS SO COOLLLLLL#and i love how each of the major branches has their own theme like “action hero” is the one with all the gameplay-focused#mainline titles “storied hero” is the one with all the M&L rpgs and more plot-heavier stuff and “blue collar hero” is this third one#with all the donkey kong titles and wackier/arcade titles WHERE i might add his design had a blue shirt and red overalls#and the tl builds off of those games into nsmb so i like to hc that he kept his early 80s design well into the later games <-autistic sorry#AND how thetimelines represent how their different backstories have influenced their personalities and thought processes a little like#what happened to mario in the blue collar branch like he either becomes EVILL!!!! and kidnaps donkey kong leading to dkjr or#divorces peach and has a self isolation arc after nsmb2 whats going on w him...#and i LOVE how all of them have a sort of common event where bowser invades the mushroom kingdom and in each timeline its#represented by a different variation of the original super mario bros game with action hero's event being represented by smb itself#which is fitting since thats the branch where mario and luigi ended up with their intended parents and everything went as planned#and i think a general theme here is that the more things go against intention the sillier it gets dont even get me STARTED on the time#travel shenanigans in bottom right which lead into the handheld remakes i love this so much its unreal#i do wish paper mario wasnt explained away as a dream but like thats its whole other world and art style and itd be difficult#to fit it into one of the major branches so i get why it was done. i probably wouldve just given it its own isolated bubble in the corner#at that rate i probably wouldve added so much more shit to the main tl im talking game&watch games i look at this and i see a pitch#for a full feature length autism production you understand
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#sorry it took so long to answer this i had to find time to put all the asks int he queue#for eeryone reading this the next 100 or so asks are from this lovely person#who i love dearly#not an oc prompt#asks#anon
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pac and i’ll randomly assign you a deck ((and give my reasoning of course))
reminder: these are very general readings. messages can be picked from each pile and apply to you and your current situation. take what resonates, leave what doesn’t :)
this pac is a bit different from my usual ones but i hope you find it enjoyable nonetheless!
pile 1
why i think pile 1 would enjoy the dreaming way tarot by rome choi: this deck is one of my personal favorites! whenever i’m feeling disconnected from my divination practice, all i have to do is pick up my dreaming way deck and suddenly the light is back on! it’s a very soft yet realistic deck to me and i feel like it could work for just about anyone. it’s rws based but the art style is dreamy and feels perfect for some reason!
why the deck thinks it would work for you: two of wands! the two of wands represents choices and planning for the future. to me this is the decks way of saying that it will be a great tool for you to use to help you with decision making and planning ahead!
pile 2
why i think pile 2 would enjoy the mushroom spirit oracle by nicola mcintosh: this deck honestly surprised me when i first purchased it. i bought it on a whim at a metaphysical shop and had never heard of it before. it’s an oracle deck that packs a punch when you need it to but it can also be gentle in its approach! the art style is beautiful and simple yet very detailed and immersive.
why the deck thinks it would work for you: amanita (expanded awareness)! this card is all about seeing things from a different perspective and opening your eyes to what you previously haven’t seen! to me this card is the deck trying to lure you in, in the best way of course! take a chance on this deck if you’re drawn to oracle decks in particular!
pile 3
why i think pile 3 would enjoy the tarot of the magical forest by leo tang: this deck is a cute but quirky, and sometimes dark, deck that uses animals to connect you to whatever source you believe in! each suit is represented by an animal that shows up throughout all of the cards! the major arcana is a mixture of multiple animals and it’s just a fun and refreshing take on the traditional rws style deck.
why the deck thinks it would work for you: the sun reversed! the sun reversed can symbolize feeling pessimistic or lost in your ways. to me the deck is suggesting that it can help you feel optimistic about life again! it can help you get back on track and no longer feel lost in your ways!
if you’d like a more in depth reading i offer paid readings here!! i also have a tip jar if you’re feeling kind,, tips are not expected but they are very appreciated! any feedback is appreciated as well, i hope this reading was helpful to you in one way or another :)
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Spring through the Seasons AU
Okay. I know, I know, there are already god-AUs with the DCA. AUs where they are the god of the moon or the sun and so on. But do we also have one where they represent the seasons? Cause I was playing with this thought around in my head and this is what came out of it:
The gods or deities of the seasons live on a ring-shaped island that is evenly divided into four large areas. One for each season in which the associated god lives.
The island itself is surrounded by the ocean, while it itself surrounds a large lake with a round, smaller island in the middle. So it's possible to see the neighboring areas from the lake side but not the one on the opposite of the lake, because of the island in the middle blocking the view to it. (As an example: You can see from the spring area parts of the winter and summer area but not the autumn one and so on.)
Things in these areas never change by much. Creating an everlasting spring, summer, autumn and winter in each part of the island. Also the deities haven't meet each other since they usually don't go too far to the borders of their area. Well you can probably guess that this fact will change very soon and creating a bunch of different events happening.
But for now, let's get back to the cast of characters. Who represents which season?
Summer:
It's Sun! Obvious choice here. He represents the warm season. The trees and plants on his side of the island are a rich, vibrant green. Many flowers are in bloom and luring in all kind of insects like butterflies and bees. The weather is clear most of the time and the bright blue sky is rarely overcast. Temperatures during the day can get quite warm or hot in the open air, while the nights are very mild. You can cool down best in the shade of the trees and near the lake.
Sun has his daily routine. Doing stretching exercises every morning and evening. Going jogging after his morning exercises and fishing at the lake during the afternoon and so on. He likes to keep himself busy even when doing more relaxing activities.
There are two smaller flames emitting from his back. And no he isn't a walking fire hazard, because of them. The temperatur of the flames isn't nearly as hot as one would think and they don't cause harm or burns. It's closer to the warmth of the summer sun so one might actually be able to touch them. So the flames kinda represent the warmth that life needs to grow and flourish. I just advise against touching the flames when Sun is angry, cause then the heat goes up by a lot.
Sun can be pretty competitive when challenged by a certain someone. He displays an almost childlike wonder when he discovers new things and is therefore less suspicious and more curious about them. Sun is generally cheerful and usually shows his feelings quite openly. When it comes to Y/N he can be a bit of a show off.
Autumn:
It's Eclipse! He represents the autumn.
His area comes with the colorful hues of autumn. There are colorful treetops with leaves carried by the autumn breezes. The fallen leaves gather on the ground, while some trees are already bare and mushrooms sprout from the soil. The weather in the area is changing often. On some days, the sun still shines warmly through the colorful autumn leafage, while on other days violent storms tear the leaves from the trees. It is definitely the area with the most rain and it is not uncommon for fog to gather over the land and rise above the part of the lake that lies close to Eclipse's territory.
Eclipse likes crafting a lot. Taking what his area provides him with. He will make little figures out of chestnuts, acorns and other things. Or crafting a tiny raft out of some sticks, vines and a red or yellow leaf as a sail and set it onto the lake to see it float into the distance.
I also imagine that his hands are wood like and have a wood grain on them. Fun fact: Out of him, Sun and Moon he is the only one that can swim. Fun fact two: Maybe swimming is said too much. It's more like he will just float on the water like a lump of wood if you would toss him in. If you wonder now what would happen to Sun. He would sink like a stone. So please, don't push him in deeper waters.
From all the deities he is the most chill and mature one when it comes to his personality and behaviour. He is pretty modest and willing to let others talk while being very grateful when being offered the opportunity to talk about himself or his thoughts. Sometimes he holds himself back a bit too much, overthinking the situation and needs a little nudge to understand that it's okay to say or show freely what he wants. All in all Eclipse is a very nice fellow to be around and a good partner for having long and deep conversations and will take the feelings of the ones around him into account.
Winter:
Of course it had to be Moon!
A landscape covered in snow and ice. The only green in this landscape is provided by conifers defying the cold, while snow piles up on the branches of the bare broadleaf trees. Glistening icicles hang from some of the trees and sparkle together with the untouched snow on the sunnier days. But more often the sky is overcast and gray clouds hang in front of the sun as snowflakes swirl around. On some days, the drifting snow is so heavy that you can't even see your own hand in front of your eyes. Moon's area is also bitterly cold and only a few animals are wandering around, retreating to neighboring areas when the weather gets worse.
Moon's fingertips are made out of ice and he has also two curved horns fully made out of ice on his head too. I'm honestly not sure why I gave him a scepter/staff, cause I never drew it again after this image but thought it would be a cool accessory for him to have?
He spends a lot of time walking around in the snow. Surveilling his territory. Watching some animals walking through the white landscape of his part of the island. He is much of an observer, thinking a lot. And while he has taken notice of the autumn and spring area of the island and wondered about them when being at the lake side he never has tried to come near them.
Moon looks often pretty grim or will have a scowl on his face while pondering over things. He won't always share his train of thought with others and comes off as a bit more cold. He can be very snarky. Especially with one of the other season deities. Having a little rivalry going on with a certain someone. He is more considerate as he sometimes let show. But when it comes to Y/N he can't help himself as to let his softer side out more and won't hide that he feels quite comfortable with having them around.
So we had Sun, Eclipse and Moon. Now you might ask who will be spring? Well...
Spring:
It's Y/N! The fourth member of the season deities!
A landscape in which life always seems to have just awakened. The first tender sprouts, buds and young leaves are growing on the trees and have not yet developed their vibrant green of summer. Some trees, however, are in full bloom, while some petals trickle to the ground in the mild spring breeze. Spring bloomers dot the meadows with their cheerful colors. The weather is mild and balanced. The sun's rays are not yet so strong, but already warm and pleasant. Many of the animals that live on the island come here when they are expecting their young and move on to other areas when they get older.
Some little vines and flowers are blooming on Y/N's stole. If feeling certain positive emotions it can happen that more flowers are blooming on the vines. The vines will also move according to the mood they are in.
Y/N as the deity of spring is a somewhat tender and caring person. Often cheerful and optimistic about things. Loving to interact with living beings and watching them grow. They are quite curious and usually just go with the flow. They don't always have a clear sense for dangerous situations, but honestly why should they when living on this island for so long with no real dangers at all around them? Y/N is very talkative and it's fairly easy to impress them or to make them laugh.
It was also Y/N who first set foot beyond the borders of their territory and with this would soonly change the lives of the other three deities.
There are still a few little fun facts left for this au but I think I might share these at another day.
Sooooo that's it for today and for the world building explanation so far. I will tag future stuff for this au as stts au. Hope whoever read to the end of this had a good time doing so.
#fnaf#fnaf au#stts au#fnaf sun#fnaf moon#fnaf eclipse#fnaf y/n#dca#fnaf dca#daycare attendant#fnaf daycare attendant#traditional drawing#sketches#my art#do not reupload#Moon's design keeps changing a little bit in later sketches but it's more like splitting his coat in a darker and brighter side.#It's just a fun little au idea running through my head.
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I truly hate how many people say that Hotd made Aegon complex, because this is far from the truth. I really miss the old days when i was able to argue for the greens in f&b without having Aegon rapist, joffery 2.0, rapist king etc thrown at my face. The worst thing I've ever heard anyone says about him at that time is that he is an asshole usurper who traumatized his nephew. Because nobody took Mushroom's fanfic about him as a fact. Now Hotd made one of the worst Targaryen rulers a girlboss lgbt ally lmaoo. And yes she was terrible and not just because "evil misgonystic historians" even her descendants refused to acknowledge her. Now unfortunately we're stuck with rapist vs girlboss fights for the upcoming few years.
the aspect that i find most hilarious about this is that, yes, not even rhaenyra's SONS acknowledge her as queen, which is so crazy when you stop to think about it. what does that even say about how her rule is perceived?
and she totally did conquer king's landing and rule aka she got her hands on the symbols of power aka she absolutely could have been counted as a monarch after egg, because she managed to win the throne by right of conquest, ousting the previous monarch. so the succession could very well have looked like viserys i -> aegon ii -> rhaenyra i -> aegon ii -> aegon iii
but our aegon basically yeeted rhaenyra from the history books out of spite and relegated her to the rank of princess, a decree which aegon iii upheld! astounding!
there was a post circulating around a few months ago arguing about how, while rhaenyra's line prevailed on the throne, supposedly the greens' legal argument won out in the end, aka women are not allowed to rule, but i take issue with that line of reasoning.
archmaester gyldayn certainly favours that interpretation, but people really take his auctorial voice for fact even when what he puts forth are not facts (like say, dates or events) but his own opinions. gyldayn is an unreliable narrator himself, but people tend to overlook this - the book is NOT written with grrm's narrator voice, but with gyldayn's!
so when gyldayns says stuff like how the great council of 101 "established an iron precedent on matters of succession: regardless of seniority, the Iron Throne of Westeros could not pass to a woman, nor through a woman to her male descendants", i call that bullshit, bc it is very clearly his own interpretation of the event. and another person may very well put forth a different legal interpretation based on the same event/precedent/ruling, just like lawyers do in courts all day every day. "in the eyes of many" - what many? where? who are these people? where is the research? does westeros have this great legal body / high court that is tasked with interpreting the law?
to me, this reads very iffy, because you know that, had viserys called another great council after aemma died and made the westerosi lords choose between rhaenyra and daemon as heir, they would have chosen rhaenyra, as daemon was very unpopular. so what would have happened to the "iron precedent" of 101 then? when you have two great councils with decisions that contradict each other? if i were a westerosi lawyer, i'd argue that such elective bodies represent a one-off event in which the lords choose their preferred candidate, regardless of other laws or precedents, precisely because the matter could not have been settled previously by resorting to these laws and precedents. so basically like a regular election.
in my view, the legal argument is way simpler. andal law = a son comes before a daughter, a daughter comes before an uncle. so viserys got to be king because jaehaerys engineered this one-off electoral event especially for him, so the law was not applied in his case. rhaenyra got to be heir while she was an only child, because a daughter comes before an uncle. and, after aegon was born, he became the rightful heir because a son comes before a daughter. the exclusion of jaehaera from the line of succession in favour of aegon iii is something i already talked about and took issue with. IMO grrm couldn't explain away the greens dropping jaehaera as heir (as it perfectly aligned with andal law), so he made sure to saddle her with impaired intellectual functioning, so as to have her excluded on the basis of her inability to perform her duties as sovereign (more in my jaehaera tag). again, people interpret this as the greens being sexist once again and preferring the male heir, but jaehaera couldn't have ruled if grrm made her "simple". come on, guys. why do you think he oh-so-conveniently included a mental disability for her and not for aegon iii. he needed her out of the way (god i h8 this plot point).
but, anyway, none of this matters when it comes to right of conquest, because that is an entirely different avenue for establishing legitimacy. once you denounce the legal (and supposedly peaceful) pathway and decide to settle the matter of succession via use of force, it doesn't make sense to apply legal arguments to rhaenyra's rule in KL. she was queen because she took the throne by force, but she did rule. don't get me wrong, you can go back-and-forth on this issue till the cows come home, but both sides could mount a substantial argument. the greens could say that rhaenyra's occupation of king's landing was illegal as she was a mere pretender and not the rightful heir, that it was thus abusive and her jurisdiction not recognised by the greens / aegon ii who took the throne back from her / the rest of westeros, whatever.* but you can definitely also argue the right-of-conquest angle for rhaenyra's queenship, it's just that no one cared to do so. the fact that everyone else hated it so much they nerfed her from the historiography is hilarious.
*ofc, there is a deeper and more complex discussion here on how legitimate any monarch is when their jurisdiction is not recognised by the entirety of the polity they claim to rule, but then we'd really be here all day
so what i'm trying to say is that aegon iii could have very well recognised his mother as ruling queen, he just decided not to. and, after that, viserys ii took one good look at his nieces daena/rhaena/elaena standing in front of him in the line of succession and agreed that it really was a good thing to leave his mother as a pretender in the pages of history because it made his seizure of the throne easier. then he got poisoned by his own son a year later, so that was it for his great plans as monarch.
wow this got way longer than i expected 🤦♀️
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The Ultimate Creature in Hilda
For a long time, fairies have been seen in many forms and with many characteristics that, in general, can be summarized as being small, pretty and with magic dust coming out of their wings even more magical with a shine like a rainbow being highlighted after The rain. But it is the only thing we know about these beings, mere small entities similar to human females with butterfly wings.
So..... What the hell is this being?
The Fairy Island Entity
His story
This being, entity or representative of that island full of unconscious suffering more than mysteries in itself is something that, apart from what it has let us see, we are completely unaware of. Possibly the only information we have about this thing is the little that Hilda's family knows.... And that is already scarce even with someone who has lived there most of her life.
Ultimately, Phinium will not be able to give an explanation of what this entity really is. It is said that fairies are fallen angels, perhaps this is the last of those angels who fell for the first time from the firmament to the earthly plane.... Or ending up in a worse place.
Besides that
What story would this being that refuses to change have to tell?
His appearance of it?
The only thing we can see of this being are two different appearances that demonstrate its critical and deteriorated vital state.
His first appearance was so mystical and imposing that it implied that he was extremely powerful and authoritarian. The trail of a starry night reflected in his long hood and visually present reflected his dominance over the fairies.
On the other hand, his last appearance was anything but glorious and glamorous.
Unhealthy and wrinkled skin.
His former upright posture that made the atmosphere tense was now slouched in an apologetic or reverent bow.
The legendary color of his hood was less bright and darker, hinting that his time had passed.
The entity, in those possible 20 or 30 years since that deal, declined. showing us
He is dying.
And you can't avoid it no matter how much you try or deny this reality.
Because?
We do not know.
Our knowledge is practically zero regarding why it is in that state.
A battle? Any mistakes or bad deals? A hoax perhaps?
No
Most likely the same thing is happening to you as it is to all of us.
Nothing lasts forever
Its life cycle is ending
The other uninhabited islands support that fact. Each one is rundown and desolate, with no sign of anything other than flying mushrooms abducting children who possibly end up there by mistake.
It is possible that the fairy entity is something that is inherited or obtained after the end of the life cycle of its ancestor. When one entity dies another takes its place. This cycle is so simple and optimal that it lasted for a long time
Until an entity refused.
An entity clung to what it once was and wanted to continue being.
One entity refused to change.
And with that the island stopped in its own time
Nothing aged, nothing changed. Everything was the same.
How old were Phinium and Astrid really when they left the human earthly plane? Was it really the age of children between 9-12 years old, or had they lived and forgotten hundreds of years more? We cannot confirm or deny anything. The only thing they did was want to change and the entity punished them in the worst way, forcing them to choose between themselves or their daughter, always knowing what they would choose. After all, parents never change.
That miserable dying rat continued to get away with it all this time without consequences. Or so one would think if one didn't see his current state.
His death was near, there was no impediment for his cycle to end. Furthermore, even with all this, the entity refused to die.
How could a being who has lived for centuries in an authoritarian and similar way, no, like a god, just disappear like that?!
IT'S TOTALLY RIDICULOUS!!!!
That's what I think I would be thinking.
By not surrendering to death, its former glory was misappropriated and corrupted until it became what it is now; an annoying stain of what once was.
He was falling into despair, so much so that he would even accept the few years of life left for an old fairy like Astrid. The entity wanted to live, it did not want to disappear.
Sooner or later he will die and there will be no way to prevent it. Slow and painful will be his fall before the cold hand of death that comes to claim his existence.
Even with this, we still don't know what it really is.
How does this being originate?
Was it a fairy, the very representation of the island, or perhaps some other species that decided this was the right thing to do?
A clear and definitive answer is something we will never have, just like the entity with its long and lasting life.
At worst or best, Victoria Van Gale will have something to say about it
She has achieved impossible things.
And much more.
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It's been a while since I posted my opinions on the characters. I love a good villain and antagonist, the island entity is more of an antagonist than a villain and that's something I love.
The way in which he offers a contract that plays with the morals and ethics of the person to whom he offers it is so devilish that it even makes you feel like you are being tested to see if you would really give everything for what you want.
Contracts are something that we don't fully understand in the Hilda series. How much does a life weigh and how is that equivalent to the entity letting Johana and Hilda go? Is there any limit or is it purely variable from what one wants?
So many doubts and few solutions to my desperate mind to understand and understand all of this.
Now literally because of this I am creating another villain who can make contracts and take advantage of that in his own.
Still, I hope you enjoyed reading.
If you have an opinion I would love to read your comments. If you share it, put your ideas and other things, I like to see the mentality and signature of other people.
In addition, I was already able to create an account on AO3, I just need to understand how to organize all my content there and I will have the one shots ready.
Now I say goodbye, until next time. bye
#hilda#hilda netflix#hilda the series#hilda (netflix)#hilda series#hilda the show#hilda (hilda)#hilda mistery
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Some more stuff aka continuation of this
Tree sona au - basically— you know how people have mushroom sonas and all that? Basically that but trees. It was a silly idea since it’s interesting to think of our sonas representing trees.
Spy sona au - All of our sonas are part of a government, obviously, and pretty much, just me talking about the art of espionage since I fucking love that shit. Are we all spies of different people? Are we all spies of the same thing? Who fucking knows I don’t I’m writing this while eepy
Government au - I have no clue what to call that but it was an idea I had a while ago because it was interesting to think of probably the opposite of the mafia au where instead we’re all part of law enforcement
Sailor au - didn’t want to call it ‘ocean au’ since people would probably think it’s like an ocean creature thing, but man I fucking love the sea even if I can’t swim, and I was born to and raised by a navy sailor so man y’all cannot expect me to have not imagined my Sona as part of a crew or on the sea.
Roommates au - Basically all of us… but we’re either roommates as in we all live close to each other like an apartment context or a lot of us just live in the same house for tax reasons/silly
/Variants of the roommate au are
/Collage dorm au - were all students, around the same age, basically having to juggle collage and also the shenanigans that take place between the rest of us.
/Boarding school au - Similar, we’re all kids in a boarding school and get to know each other since we have close rooms or share rooms, and we just sorta get used to one another
Neighborhood au - yes kinda similar to the roommates au, but it’s so funny to imagine all of us live on the same street (different houses) and all meet through something like those neighborhood sites or the lack of using them, also having friends close by is a fun idea
Hearthstone au - it’s kind of gem themed, but, basically.. everyone is born with/has a ‘heart stone’ that is piece of another. Almost a soulmate type thing. It can be both platonic or romantic.
Elements au - Pretty simple, everyone has an element they control. Think Lego ninjago/j . But really, everyone is an ‘element’ or attached and/or able to control things.
Artsy au - I didn’t know what to call it, but basically, we all represent a different drawing/art media, which can range from digital, to traditional sketching, and how you look sorta depends on the art medium
Woodland au - I didn’t know what to call this, basically… everyone has a connection to an animal/species. You sort of resemble them physically, or you could change to.
Key keepers au - In many different ways, people find these keys, only a select few. They don’t know what it unlocks, they don’t know what it means, but, apparently now they’re bound into a role. They have to keep the key and its contents safe, except they don’t know what it unlocks.
And that’s all I can think of right now for the random aus in my brain. I’ll explain more in depth on them when I feel like it.. or if anyone asks.
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i wanna see fifty five goldfinch pieces 💔💔
OKAY!! So I have this little series I like to call the great decompartmentalisation of Theo decker... Let me walk you through it. I promise there's art after the massive paragraph of meandering analysis alright
You know how Theo's life is segmented into these distinct episodes? And how he himself is split into multiple different identities, and how much shame and fear there is associated with the idea of those identities mixing? For example: the straight a student living a completely, delusionally idyllic life with his adoring mother and the vanilla teenage troublemaker breaking into people's summer homes with his shady homoerotic bestie. When the two identities come into contact via his suspension, it leads to the most traumatic event in Theo's life, and honestly I suspect that might be the origin of this tendency towards compartmentalisation... I could go through the whole book here but the most prominent examples are Theo panicking at the thought of Mrs Barbour or his therapist finding out about Hobie, his cutting himself off from New York when in Vegas with his other shady homoerotic bestie (the amount of times Vegas is compared to an alien planet...) and his dual post timeskip identifies of charming antiques salesman/fraudulent art stealing junkie. And this often manifests in Theo's reluctance to let people from his different periods interact - see him rushing to stop Boris from talking to Pippa, and him keeping Hobie in the dark about the blackmail, and isn't it kind of weird that the barbours - Theo's soon to be legal family - don't really interact with Hobie and Pippa? Anyway. Basically I thought it would be cool to make a series of little vignettes of theo allowing the people and places and things that represent various versions of Him to interact and thus symbolically healing the disconnected parts of himself... Or something. I have more ideas scribbled down but somehow the only ones I ended up with proper art for is the various holidays (which, holidays are also a weirdly prevalent theme in tgf? Idk whats up with that but it's a good tool for this purpose) so we have:
Christmas Eve at Boris's, featuring Pippa and Hobie - I feel kinda bad for only ever portraying Boris with polish customs but let's be real I'm just using him to show off my own heritage lol. In Poland the main Xmas celebrations happen on Xmas Eve, traditionally with the appearance of the first star in the sky. You eat the mostly inoffensive barszcz as well some truly vile shit, such as mushroom and cabbage dumplings, mushroom and cabbage salad, other items made of mushrooms and cabbage, and finally the most disgusting dish of my life: Jewish style carp. No, it's not quite the same thing as gefiltefish, although that's the Wikipedia page you might use to get to the actual dish. All washed down with compote which I hate. You also break and eat communion wafers while wishing each other stuff, which Pippa is doing with popchyk here hehe
Christmas breakfast as a little bonus despite it not having much of a tradition - I associate it with lots of hams/cured meats, gherkins and maybe Tatar sauce (yum). Much superior to the Xmas dinner imho. Really I just wanted Theo and Boris to have a moment to themselves haha
Christmas proper at the barbours, featuring Boris and Tom cable! I could talk about all the tension and who's diffusing it but honestly I think y'all can draw your own conclusions lol. I just think it would be really funny for the infamous dis-engaged couple to each bring their delinquent boytoys and for Boris the drug dealer to actually come out looking superior
Vegetarian friendly Thanksgiving at Hobie's, as tradition requires! I think he'd love to throw one of his big Thanksgiving parties purely for all of Theo's families to get to know each other... you know, kind of an elaboration on that Thanksgiving illustration I drew a while back! This would be before all the Christmases I think. Boris is winning Mrs Barbour over with his roguish charm lol I think old ladies would like him... Theo in the corner freaking the hell out as per this project's mission statement lmao
And on a slightly different note I wanted Theo Pippa and Hobie to all visit weltys grave. I'm borrowing slightly from the polish tradition of all saint's day, when you clean, decorate and light candles on the graves of loved ones.
#the goldfinch#theodore decker#pippa blackwell#james hobart#boris pavlikovsky#kitsey barbour#samantha barbour#platt barbour#toddy barbour#popchyk#featuring: toddy as the eternal peacekeeper and also mrs Barbours dogs#whose breeds i cant be bothered to check lol#boreo#tom cable#ask#anonymous
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i would like to know about the ocs 🫴🏽
bless you
ok I have way more than just these but these are the current standouts, maybe I’ll do a part 2 tomorrow bc i cant stop talking about my silly little guys
Emmett & Marasmus: Newest oc for dnd, pact of the undead warlock. Emmett was just living his life til he ate the wrong mushroom for dinner and it revealed itself to be a god named Marasmus that wants people to praise it, so it took over poor Emmett’s body and puppeted him around, turning his hometown into a cult. Emmett broke out of his stupor and escaped after nearly feeding a spore to his brother and he’s been running ever since, his body slowly being eaten by the monster that inhabits him. Also they bicker constantly, real Beacon and Duck Newton vibes.
Emmett is truly just some guy who doesn’t deserve to have this wannabe god parasite stuck to him but that’s how these things go. He’s so sweet and ofc he loves his family bc I’m predictable and make that a trait for nearly all my ocs. I tend to avoid family drama or at least do it in a different way than most people, in that I prefer my characters to be striving to get back home or avoiding going home because they feel they don’t deserve to be a part of their family anymore, but always always always they are loved despite everything bad they’ve done/think they’ve done. I really hope the game goes long enough to see Emmett get to hug his brother again and forgive his mom for not being able to help him, he’s the only one of my ocs who’s been wronged by his family and even then its neither of their fault. God he needs a hug so bad
Salem & Erin: god this guy is so fun. Salem is a skellington who started as a rich brat that got peer pressured into a ritual that makes you immortal, 40 years later he had a heart attack, died for a second, and then started rotting alive. He spent decades alone in his big mansion haunting his own halls, bored out of his skull. Occasionally people would come thru, be terrified by him or try to kill him, but largely he was just left there. It took him years to work up the courage to enter his son’s room and reminisce about him; he was married a long time ago, but as soon as he floated the idea of having his spouse and child go through the ritual too they up and left him.
Eventually a realtor, Erin, comes to the house to sell it, and she’s the only person who isn’t scared of him. It’s the first conversation Salems had in years and they become friends, her daughter Olivia makes clothes for Salem to disguise his form and help him gain the courage to leave the house more and more. Salem lets more people into the house, especially artists he really loves art, and eventually lets people live there while he moves in with Erin and Olivia once he feels safe enough to live among people again.
Originally Erin and Salem were supposed to just be friends but ofc I started shipping them and ughhh they make me insane. They’re both divorcees and have talked at length about how they’ll never make that mistake again, but Salems been in love with Erin since the beginning. And he’s the least subtle person on the planet so ofc everyone knows, including Erin and she’s just patiently waiting for the day when Salem admits how they feel, however long it takes. I made Salem for dnd and his quest is basically to find a way to undo his immortality, but tbh every time he joins a campaign it dies soon after so I think I want to try making a comic or a series of vignettes or something for him anyway, especially since I’ve had a lot of time to think about plot hooks and stuff.
this is the only fic i have them but i really love it please clap
Tillian & Somlen: The OCs of All Time. I literally have a tattoo representing them, they mean so goddamn much to me its hard to put into words like they changed me as a person. Somlen isn’t my oc, he belongs to my dm, but the two are so tied together and influenced each other so much it all kinda blends together.
Tillian is a haunted one bard who grew up in the town of Winslow, a little prairie town that had something Wrong in the well that caused all the sounds to warp. The crops whispered, the blueberries gossiped, her mom echoed, her dad sang, her brother spoke backwards, and when Tillian herself spoke everyone would hear something different (I had a d100 list for what they would hear). After someone disappeared while doing recon inside the well, the town boarded it up and went their separate ways. When Tillian’s family went to stay with her aunt, she said hello to her cousin and instantly killed him with her voice.
She went to bard college to help get her voice back, and as the game started she was simply looking for answers to why this happened and what caused it. She meets with the group, starts adventuring, and one fight goes so bad she gets fully 3 failed death saves killed. Something picks her out of the river of death and brings her back to life, and that’s when she buys a haunted doll, a homebrew item from TAZ that takes that final death onto itself.
As the adventurers leave town, she feels her bag moving on to find oh fuck the doll is alive and its an asshole. The doll says his name is Somlen and he was cursed after he slept with the wrong person. Tillian HATES this guy at first but ah fuck, if she dies he’s going to die in her place so she has to be more careful. And as she talks to him more, she starts to warm up to him. He cheated on his girlfriend and he’s the perfect picture of the horny bard trope, but he wants to do better and become a better person.
Things happen, yadda yadda, Tillian finds out the location of the hag that cursed him and they kill her, taking the curse away but Somlen is still stuck in the doll body, they need powerful magic to get him polymorphed back to human. The group decides to go to a city but, as a lark, one of the npcs decides to try her luck to change him back and she rolls a goddamn nat 20. Somlen is human again and oh god he’s in his birthday suit. While Tillian is in total shock, the group gets him clothed, Somlen jokes around and plays it cool up until he gets back to Tillian, who just. Wordlessly takes her signature scarf, the one her dad knit for her, and wraps it around him and hugs him. And it hits them both like, they did it, he’s safe, and Somlen would do anything for her and vice versa.
They go into the city where they get a clue to visit the outskirts where Tillian’s aunts house is, except its old, like really really old, all that’s left is a hole down into the basement. And when they get in, Tillian can feel something trying to communicate with her, and she learns this place is over 2000 years old and so is she. That night, when she sleeps, she wakes up inside the well surrounded by hundreds of faces and she knows every single one of them. The thing that lives in the well tells her to bring her friends back for it, and that’s when it hits her: This thing, the Uvuuduam, has been sending her out every hundred years to go collect a group of adventurers and bring them back to feed them to this monster. It controlled her into tracking down every villager of Winslow and throwing them down into the well, including her mom and dad and brother. She is as much the thing haunting her home as this awful creature is.
She wakes up, silently collects her things, and leaves everyone behind to spare them. They catch up, ofc, but she is desperate to spare them from this fate. She offers them a anti-scrying necklace so they can leave her and be untrackable, but no one agrees to take it, they’re all in it to save her much as she begs them not to. She is absolutely broken by this revelation, but the group and especially Somlen are there to hold her together.
They send some time leveling up and preparing to go to her town, and finally the day comes when they arrive. They go into the well and face the Uvuuduam, it’s a tough fight (we had a irl sleepover to play it all the way thru), but they do it and she severs this horrible things neck as she screams, her voice finally returning to her after all these years. Everyone in the well wakes up, she reunites with her family, and (this part always makes me cry) when she sleeps that night, it’s the first restful sleep she’s had in 2000 years. She and Somlen stay behind in Winslow, finally home.
Like. They are truly everything to me. They are foils in so many ways but it just makes them stronger. Tillian is an aromantic bard, helping me realize I myself am aro, and it always gets to me that she loved so fiercely and so much and it was used as a weapon against her, that the monster knew it could depend on her to make connections strong enough to make people willing to do anything for her and therefore bring back its food. She loves too much for her own good, but she’s safe now, she’s with her family and the people she loves and god forbid anything try to take advantage of her ever again.
Also these two are just funny. Two halves of a whole idiot. Tillian is a neurotic mess at all times, Somlen is full of himself, they’re life partners and also an inseparable comedy duo. They’ve seen each other at their very worst and choose each other without hesitation over and over. They’ve both had their free will ripped from them thru curses and manipulation and they vow to break the hold others have on them, they would tear the world in half if the other asked. And just. Tillian wants nothing more than to return home while Somlen runs as far away from his past as possible, but he finds a home in her and he helps her win back hers. They love each other and they are best friends forever :’) also I’ve written so many fics about them and I still have so many more I want to write lmao
#tillian and somlen#emmett#salem#i could talk about tillian and somlen for ten thousand years and i will#ocs
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i respect your mario opinions very much and i repsect your music opinions even more. I know you just made a post decrying the tendency of people to commodify music as an art form through the lens of fandom brain however i was wondering what do you think luigi would listen to
Viewing music through the lens of other fandom (because to be fair, people enjoying music can also be a form of fandom) mostly only annoys me when it's mostly the only thing talked about in a YouTube comments section for a song, cause I feel like it steers a conversation into talking about some show or game rather than the song itself. If it's on people's personal blogs though I don't mind, since this is something I myself do. But also I do realize this mindset makes a hypocrit. Anyways I ended up writing more than I thought I would, so I'm putting it under a read more. Thank you very much for sending this ask. 💚
Usually whenever I think of a video game character's taste in music, I tend to base it on what songs represent the character in the games, and what music genres the composer was most likely inspired by when composing those songs. With most Sonic characters this is easy because of Jun Senoue deciding to use different music genres for each character in games like Sonic Adventure and SA2. I think it's a bit harder for some Mario characters though, since most songs in many Mario games aren't use to represent Luigi himself, or Mario himself for that matter.
So for Mario, I tend to think of his taste in music in association with the music that Koji Kondo was inspired by when composing for the earlier games. And I think Mario and Luigi would have mostly similar music taste, considering they're close siblings who still live together, and thus probably listen to a lot of music together. I'm basing this on my own sibling experience though, since this was the case when I lived with my sister. But also whenever I hear music that reminds me of music in Mario games, I tend to think of many Mario characters rather than just one.
So because of that, I think both of them would be into jazz fusion, artists like T-SQUARE and Lee Ritenour and other 70s/80s jazz fusion artists. Like I think Mario would own multiple jazz fusion and smooth jazz albums in vinyl and would put them on to relax or to do chores around the house and Luigi would happily listen with him, sometimes putting on the albums himself. Thinking about artists like Al Jarreau, Spyro Gyra, Casiopea, George Benson, Bobbi Humphrey, etc.
I also think they would eventually find and enjoy 70s/80s J-pop (aka City Pop). Similar to a couple jazz fusion artists, some people have pointed out that Kondo might have taken inspiration from city pop artists like Piper and Tatsuro Yamashita (though I think these comparisons to Kondo's work are a bit debatable). I think Mario and Luigi would enjoy this style of music in a similar way. I think they would like artists like Masataka Matsutoya, Hiroshi Sato, Masaki Matsubara, etc. Though maybe I think this because many of these artists were inspired by jazz fusion, jazz funk, and disco.
Oh I also think Mario and Luigi would love disco. Not necessarily because of any of the music in the games. I imagine Mario and Luigi grew up and lived in a New Donk City similar look of New York City in the 70s and 80s, before they moved to the Mushroom Kingdom. Probably because of Native New Yorker by Odyssey, like I can imagine both of them listening to this song when living in New Donk while feeling a bit sad about their lives at that time, but then listening back to the song and feeling nostalgic about that time. I feel like Luigi would be way more into disco than Mario would be though. Like I can imagine him going to the disco clubs as a young adult. But maybe this is just because I read him as being gay lol. Oh, and I think Pauline would also listen to disco. I think Luigi would be into Italo-disco as well.
Oh, and I also think Luigi loves flamenco, though he's probably not listening to it with other people often. Like it's a music genre that other would be surprised he'd be into. Think this specifcally because of his theme in Mario Strikers Chraged which is really good. It makes me wanna listen to more flamenco styled music since I don't run into that style of music often, other than Blaze it Up by Mondo Grosso, not sure if Luigi would like that one though. If anyone has flamenco recs, please send them.
Thanks again for sending this ask, I'm suprised anyone cares about my opinion on these things since I rarely talk on this blog. I would've linked to more songs, but Tumblr is being weird about me adding links to this post. Sorry if this response is kinda boring. I put together a playlist that reminds me of Mario games and characters while some of these songs I've mentioned here on it, but never finished the playlist. Maybe I'll work on it again and think more of Luigi this time.
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There are two facts that should loom above all others in thinking about the World Bank as it wraps up its almost ritualized annual meetings in Washington this weekend.
The first is that its incoming president, Ajay Banga—the 63-year-old Indian-born American and longtime executive chairman of Mastercard—was the only “candidate” for the job. Following the bank’s tradition, the United States nominated Banga, and the use of quotation marks here is meant to emphasize that there was no public debate whatsoever about who would be best suited to lead the multinational development lender, nor any open debate about priorities for the bank or leadership strategy. Banga’s experience in the credit card business is formidable, but how this prepares him for his very different new job is less than completely obvious.
This leads to the second big thing to consider about the World Bank. There is a deafening dissonance between this Western-dominated institution’s undemocratic procedures and the West’s own pronounced traditional bias in favor of democratic governance in its engagements with what was long known as the Third World. It is, of course, true that the best one can say about the West’s historic advocacy of democracy in the global south is that it has been highly inconsistent. The rub with the lack of democracy in the World Bank’s governance is about much more than this awkward hypocrisy, though.
Banga has been parachuted into his new five-year term as the bank’s leader with a ready-made agenda, which has also not been the focus of any open debate or public discussion. Led by the United States, the West has decided that climate change should be the World Bank’s overriding priority. This represents a dramatic shift that has not considered the priorities of most of its clients, who are overwhelmingly concentrated in what is euphemistically called the developing world—and which really means the scores of countries whose populations are trapped in poverty or, at best, the lower end of middle-income status. Such a dramatic shift in the bank’s agenda represents another kind of anti-democratic behavior by the institution—one that dictates that the priorities of the rich countries that fund it not only must always prevail, but are also beyond review or debate.
The point of this criticism is not to deny the menace of climate change, especially for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations. Take, for example, the 600-mile coastal stretch between Lagos, Nigeria, and Abidjan, Ivory Coast, that I have written about elsewhere. It will experience the most dramatic growth in urban population in the world by far over the course of the rest of this century, and yet as tens of millions of people converge on mushrooming legacy cities and newly born ones with each coming decade, the region will be highly vulnerable to rising seas, changing rain and flooding patterns, and other perilous effects of global warming.
The problem with the World Bank’s governance culture is that its undemocratic nature allows the bank and its Western-created relatives, such as the International Monetary Fund, to zig and zag like this every decade or two—not only failing to seriously weigh the views of its clients, but also never facing any accountability about its own work and impact around the world. A glaring example should help convey the real-world implications of this for the many poor countries that rely on lending from the bank—and not handouts or aid, as Western publics wrongly believe—to finance their development agendas.
For a couple of decades prior to Banga’s appointment, the bank’s avowed priority was poverty alleviation. This was highly welcomed in Africa and other regions of the world with large concentrations of poor or low-income inhabitants. But one must say “avowed” because the bank’s actual focus on reducing poverty has been highly inconsistent—and because, like TV pundits who make claims and spout predictions by the day, knowing they will never be called to account before their viewers, the World Bank expends scant effort in promoting a transparent and rigorous public review of its performance.
Indeed, previous approaches of the Bretton Woods institutions—the international financial institutions, or IFIs, as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are sometimes called—are now widely believed to have had a catastrophic impact on many of the world’s poorest countries. Most notorious in this regard was the so-called Washington Consensus, the policy era centered on the 1980s and 1990s, when the IFIs pushed strategies of fiscal austerity, drastically shrinking the state, and eliminating barriers to financial and trade penetration from the rich world on the theory that this model of capitalism would help those who were disciplined enough to take off.
It bears saying that this was a consensus only among rich Western nations. If they wanted access to capital, the poorest countries had little choice but to submit. Logically enough, in many places, the result was a steep decline in public services, from health care to infrastructure building to education, among others.
The West’s unwillingness to finance infrastructure projects commensurate with poor countries’ needs is what gave China the enormous opening it pursued when it began large-scale lending to Africa in the 1990s and to other regions afterwards. Now think about reducing the availability of education in Africa for a moment. Since the Washington Consensus era, there has been a steadily strengthening view among economists and other development experts that boosting education is one of the most powerful things that a poor country can do to improve its prospects. The effects are thought to be especially profound where access to free or affordable education for girls is concerned.
Educational access for girls in many parts of Africa is far below that of boys. The longer girls stay in school, though, the more income they will generate over their lifetimes, helping develop their countries. There is also a direct correlation between length of school attendance and female fertility. In plain words, this means that the more years of schooling women complete, including university and beyond, the fewer children they will have. This is of profound importance for moderating Africa’s extraordinary ongoing population growth and—hey, by the way—almost certainly limiting climate change.
For a sense of what alternative approaches to crafting a strategy for the World Bank might look like, ones that take into account the thoughts and needs of the poor, this ONE Campaign-led open letter and its many signatories provide a sample.
Focusing on African urbanization is another way to provide a big boost to poverty alleviation, economic development, and regional integration in Africa and elsewhere, while also combating climate change. Payoffs toward this latter goal would come on two fronts. Fast or newly urbanizing areas could integrate energy efficiency into their planning from an early phase, as opposed to doing so as an expensive afterthought or remediation. By the same token, cities in the developing world can be made much more climate resilient, which, likewise, is far preferable to an endless cycle of humanly and economically costly disaster relief.
Bringing this about will require tremendous vision, but even that won’t be enough. Poverty alleviation in the economically weakest parts of the world will require giving the poor a real seat at the table, which the World Bank has never done.
What the World Bank’s new climate-first orientation must not do is fail to promote energy access for the world’s poorest out of the mistaken belief that it is they, as opposed to the big legacy polluting nations of the rich world, who are killing the planet. By 2050, Nigeria—already Africa’s most populous country—is projected to have more people than the United States, yet it generates less than 1 percent of the electrical capacity that the United States generates. Getting reliable electricity to the poor is, along with urbanization and education, one of the most powerful things one can do to provide economic uplift.
If the World Bank thinks it can relegate this to a lower priority level in the name of limiting greenhouse emissions or global warming, it will be making a grave mistake—and not just because it is unfair to the masses of people in the developing world who have barely contributed to climate change, but also because it won’t work. The billions of people crowding into new cities will need power to light their homes and read to their children. If the rich world cannot summon the wherewithal to provide financing for adequate renewable sources of energy, the poor will pay them no heed and turn to coal and other fossil fuels instead.
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Rose hip November, autumn I'll remember
Gold landing at our door, catch one leaf and fortune will surround you
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[ ID: Traditional art colored digitally of Kamal Bora and Dr.Habit as kids from Smile For Me the game.
In the artists interpretation Kamal as a kid is much shorter than Habit. He has short straight hair and thick eyebrows. He wears a special new dress this time. He is seen in two circular gold earrings, a necklace with bells, and a slightly puffy dark purple space-themed frock with planets, stars, suns, moons and galaxies. It sports a pale ribbon at the mid stomach area.
Here Habit is a really tall kid. He has a thick build. He has a muppet-like appearance with yellow-greenish fur, very long rose-pink curly hair in two tones, pink blushing cheek patches with three freckles, ears stuffed with cotton fluff , deep red nails. The palms of his hands are coated with cotton and have a few stitches. His eyes are yellow, indicating happiness, circled below by red ruffles and have some pale purple eyeshadow. He wears a teal buttoned shirt with wavy darker pants that have yet darker stripes on them. Basically it's Kamal’s outfit from the game. Both of them are barefoot.
Kamal poses dramatically best as he can atop a tree trunk. He keeps a hand behind his head, juts the other out, one foot slightly bending outward. He makes some kind of awkward duck face, cheeks rosy. The tree trunk is in shades of yellow, green and brown with slightly rigid looking swirls engraved on it. The very top has more fluid swirls in a ring form. A number of fungi like bready-colored ones with caps, smaller greyish white ones with stringy structures descending from their caps, white bracket fungi with brown accents grow on and around the trunk and even from inside its cracks. Much moss also accompanies them. A few of the trunks leaves and branches also sprout up tall.
Beneath the trunk's sprawling roots there is a cover of lush green grass and small long-stemmed yellow flowers with brown centers, a scattering of some bready mushrooms too. Near it is Habit. He jumps and claps for Kamal's show, butter-yellow eyes sparkling with his wide smile.
Behind them is a tree in much the same shades as the trunk, thin with different patterns of lines drawn on its patchy-colored appearance. Each patch has its own pattern, some repeated. Like diamonds, ovals, short wavy lines. Numerous autumn-hued leaves with many points hang in vivid shades, but green appears too. It is a transition period between summer and autumn. Common wood pigeons perch the trees. Some sleep, some eat, some spread their wings, some sit, some puff up. Some bushes represented by bouncy shapes are seen in the BG.
There is a very warm-toned filter over the whole thing making it appear deeply colored in a honeyed way. The second piece doesn't have this filter. All colors used in both are mostly harmonious with each other. End ID]
---Talk below the cut as always!
YEAH this took a W H I L E
Another piece in the Roseverse AU for their halcyon days!!!
I'm really proud of the unlined look in this one. It's certainly a shitton more effort to put in ( half a MONTH )but the process AND product are both very worth it. I remember being really chilled and relaxed making this. I guess sometimes my hardassery to detail works out pretty good!
There are like a thousand little colors in this and I hope they speak for me more than I possibly can. You know, this was made not that long ago but since I've taken a step back from focusing solely on S4M things and have gotten into OCs due to unavoidable circumstances, its still really really sweet and good to remember. It feels like I AM there, reminiscing with those two old guys, heh heh.
My friend said it'd be silly but they'd like it if Kamal and Habit went back to this same place when they're grown and the trunks still there and I said HELL YEA this is ROSEVERSE where magic REAL bro
Habit still thinks Kamal looks like the stars in a dress.
I think when this actually happened Kamal would be really shy at first but Habby's a great hype man so his posing starts escalating HSHJSJDJS
Catch baby if he falls!!😤( huffing emoji )
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Barely coherent copy-and-paste job for what has been keeping my brain busy and fingers itching the past few months
The whole thing is basically me cobbling together and remixing elements from a whole pletora of old stuff I came up with, either by myself or with friends throughout the years. The setting itself is a planet constituted by floating continents, but rather than floating haphazardly, they are essentially layered across several precise emispheres - hence why each strata is called Layer. I haven't decided on the number of Layers yet, though the minimum I'll settle for is a trifecta, so has to have two extremes: one high up, the other coating the "nucleus", and one in the middle. The inspiration for this comes from Septerra Core, an old pc rpg that featured a world with this essentual structure (although that one was divided into 7 layers, called Shells, each one with their specific theme - medieval, technological, desert etc).
Now, the axis of this world is physically represented by a huge Tower embedded into the nucleus and extending all the way above the outermost Layer, and, on the opposite side, an equally huge, mushroom-like growth. Layers within the Tower's emisphere tend to be more technologically oriented, orderly, and regulated. Conversely, the ones on the Mushroom's side feature more wilderness, mysticism and so on.
One of the fundamental aspects of this world is that it has no Sun, so to speak. Instead, Light seeps out from the nucleus, radiating the Layers all the way to the top. In other words, Light is not light like in the real world, but more like an ethereal, radiation-like substance that behaves somewhat similar in some regards, and wildly different in others.
Anyway, the "planet" is in fact the exploded corpse of two alien entities from a species whose life cycle involves roaming the universe, Harvesting planets whose cultures have reached their zenith and are thus suffering from stagnation. Once they have harvested a sufficient amount of civilizations, the alien entities meet with a partner and embrace, enveloping a star that will act as a source of energy to fuel their reproductive cycle. The two alien entities essentially stick to each other forming the two halves of what effectively becomes an artificial planet, utilizing the star's energy to give form to civilizations from the combined cultural matrixes of all the planets they harvested. The civilizations thus formed on the two halves of this planet are then made to evolve and fight each other until eventually one ultimate being is produced and left over who, following the instinct imprinted by their source, descend into the core to seed it.
Basically, you can think of the two united aliens as the two halves of an eggshell, with the star, converted into a "core", being the yolk. Once seeded, the gestating yolk eventually emerges from the dead halves of its parents as a new member of the same species, who will then resume the cycle of roaming the universe, harvesting civilizations, and eventually uniting with a partner around a star, pitting their original civilizations against each other to create the ultimate Seed that will shape its progeny.
Who or what created these aliens, or why, is left up to speculation. Hell, in the Layered planet, all of this isn't even known, although genetic memory and other factors have informed mythologies that echo these facts.
The Tower is in fact a wedge, created by a super advanced civilization who had calculated the eventual arrival of one of these aliens and wished to avoid harvesting. So they created the Tower as a weapon to kill what would become the eventual source of their apocalypse, sent it into space to find their gestating nemesis, and shattered it shortly after the Seed had descended into the yolk. The power of the impact was enough to shatter the two halves of the "eggshell" into what have become the Layers' continents, along with causing the gestating being within the yolk to explode forth into what became the mushroom-like growth on the opposing side. Oh, the planet's Moon is the Vessel that the civilization sent to carry the Tower-wedge, I forgot to mention
The yolk is not exactly, completely dead per se - the fact that Light still radiates from it is a clear sign of that. The alternation of day and night is akin to a faint heartbeat, the pulse of the not-quite-dead yolk as it still, somehow, survives
Now, one of the essential properties of the yolk's Light is that it is the primary fuel for Possibilities. It's the embodiment of progress, imagination, life, the Drive that fuels and emboldens existence to step ever onwards. Conversely, the Tower is Order, regulation, faith, stagnation, law - it is an all but conceptual weapon, finity shaped to kill infinity. It is host to a cult-like entity that is at once political and religious, and informs much of the politics governing a great majority of the Layers. It's more or less a stopgap, created through borderline brainwashing of some of the living beings that emerged in the post-shattering era in order to work as agents that work to prevent the eventual true reawakening and birth of the yolk.
Something I really wanted to incorporate is that in the lowest, or at least one of the lowest layers, the irradiation of Light is such that life tends to emerge way more easily and spontaneously. One of the continents there is also using as, essentially, the dumping grounds for trash thrown from the Layer above it, trash that, irradiated by the Light, more often than not turns into this setting's equivalent of tsukumogami, called Revenants, which are hunted by those who dwell on this Layer, ALSO exiles thrown away by society because, for some reason or another, they ceased to fit with it. These individuals hunt Revenants and grow "collections" of trash, each one focusing on a specific item, and then duel each other, pitting both their skills and collections on the line in order to, eventually, hopefully, prove that they possess both the Greed to drive their efforts, to do everything they can to amass their chosen Obsession, but also, the Ambition to sacrifice their most precious possessions if it means attaining their desire
The focus-character of this specific portion of the world would be Naki, a spunky dragon girl who specializes in umbrellas, a master of what she calls the 99 Techniques of Karakasa-ryuu, the Umbrella Fencing Style. She was raised by an umbrella tsukumogami she considers her mom, thinks she can speak to objects, and is considered a Weirdo by virtue of the fact she tries to win fights by Not sacrificing her objects like everyone does. She has a skirt made up of umbrellas hanging by her coat and a Big Ass Tail. The 99 Techniques range from the umbrella equivalent of Unlimited Blade Works to "Number 35: Gold Awaiting At The End Of The Rainbow", which consists in using an umbrella to reach out for the remote when you're too lazy to get up from the sofa.
Another important character to the setting is Hammer Witch, a member of the race that created the Tower. She is basically a failsafe created in case the Tower wouldn't correctly shatter the yolk. She was born inside the moon, prepared for her task and finally sent on the layered planet, but ended up on the lower Layer, so now she has to make the journey all the way to the top of the Tower. Her species was originally aquatic, so she looks kinda similar to the Zora or the fish people from Breath of the Wild (except Blue)! Her witch hat is, in fact, a large jellyfish, and the pointy tip is in fact because the jellyfish is resting on the shark-like fin protruding from Hammer Witch's head. Her design was basically the result of me thinking about how much I like designs that are like. Little creatures wearing big cloaks/mantles/ponchos or simliar clothes, tiny legs, and HUGE ass weapons. Think Hornet from Hollow Knight, for example. Anyway, Hammer Witch's weapon is a Huge fuck off hammer that can counter the effects of Light, which makes her pretty fucking terrifying in the setting. Her jellyfish can extend to turn into a coocoon, sleeping bag or tent depending on necessity, or twist itself and turn into the shape of a magical nail that Hammer Witch can hit with her Hammer to shatter unshatterable things. Normally, she should be able to pass the automated security checks and enter the Tower, but because she fell Directly into the yolk, she ended up being "contaminated", which is why she has to climb to the top and seek the manual entrance. Which ends up with her learning more about the Layered world and eventually embracing her "contamination", thanks to having been influenced by the Light and her experiences, ultimately becoming the Layered world's protector.
Which is pretty useful when, eventually, a powered-armor similar to Jehuty from Zone of the Enders makes its way to the Layered world carrying the last survivor of a Harvested civilization, seeking revenge after returning to their desolated world from an exploration mission. The pilot's name is Kaguya, she has bunny ears, is full of RAGE and her powered armor also looks like a cross between a mecha and a toku suit, obviously bnuuy-themed.
#wordy seeds#forgive the terrible formatting I tried my best to shove my discord ramblings into this fucked up editor#anyway all of this is still very much as WIP as it could possibly get#worldbuilding so pulpy you can taste the resin
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1, 6, 7, and 11 for dehiscence & 20, 21, 22, and 25 for yarrow? :]
YES time to talk abt Them... hehe
does your oc have any motifs?
Yes.... Dee's by far strongest motif is The Fungus, which symbolically represents both the decay of the individual (their previous life, the things they touch, and to some degree the horror of loss) and the symbiosis (?) of living in the world (the necessity of connection to survive and thrive, the wonder of going out into a lively forest and feeling it breathe, etc.) Their other motifs are contact and gentle intimacy and connection from that, and the Haze of trying to connect to the world when you really aren't able to connect/exist in what may be considered a normal way to do so.
6. what is the thing your oc likes the least about themselves?
mmm the Killing.... they're not (usually) a fan of their Extreme Toxic Mushroom AOE that they can't turn off. They didn't immediately hate it but they definitely do now!
7. what is the thing your oc likes the most about themselves?
Genuinely Genuinely Dehiscence Knows They're Sexy in a kind of freak way and they ADORE that. They like being a weird kind of dykefag and lean into it for fun.
11. has your OC ever fallen in love and with whom?
Twice (or at least they think so!) - Millifleur, a very sweet and kind elf gal who ran away with them to escape the very limiting and pretty nightmarish environment she grew up in (and. subsequently died because Dehisence is not friendly to life) and Nelita, a much more cautious gal who is doing their best to make Dee less deadly All The Time (and also denying that Dee might be anything more than a friend for a very long time!)
And now for the Big Pink Guy
20. a nostalgic memory from your OC’s childhood?
Yarrow, if given the chance and the comfort to do so, will get VERY nostalgic about apples and go off about their cultivation and the like. They remind him of his mother, since she worked the large orchard in the town he grew up in (and he helped pretty often - height was a genuine advantage there pff)
21. hobbies your OC enjoys?
Besides sex, Yarrow likes dancing and socializing (both in clubs and at more ritzy events, different vibes for each ofc) and making things with his hands, be that sculptures or sketches. He also knows how to play a few instruments and works out daily so he keeps those in his circle of hobbies quite often!
22. what is holding your OC back to achieve their goals?
VERY little nowadays! Before it was his Own Self, and it was frustrating for him to want something but also get So Mad/beat up about it that he couldn't maintain much of a straightforward Goal or connections needed to actualize what he wanted to truly to. He got much better at long-term planning through a lot of effort and time spent working on himself. The major block to Yarrow doing things nowadays is public appearance and (to a greater extent) Shitty Cops who think he's gotten too sexy and uppity for his own good (he'd do a lot more community-wise if he felt he could safely get away with it, if that makes sense)
25. favorite food and color for your OC?
Favorite food is a rice and mango chicken pilaf, favorite color... you might be able to guess from some outfits
(I think it might actually be like. salmon pink or a shade of red pff)
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Week 28/08 - 03/09
28th august:
A refreshing new week has begun again!
Today was merely a theoretical day since we’ve had some lessons throughout the hours.
I’ve worked on my blog today and went to the gym with some others.
Tomorrow will hopefully be filled with more adventure!
29th august:
Mushroom time! In the morning I’ve had theoretical talk about mushrooms; the ones that are safe to eat and the ones that can kill you (Yes, kill you… I’m not joking).
My class was divided into 2 groups, My group had to search for different kinds of mushrooms in the school area whilst the other group had more time to learn about the ways of kayaking.
Since my group didn’t have much luck in finding a lot of mushrooms, we asked if we could drive a little further towards the woods a few kilometers away from the school to find more.
We got green light ofcourse!
And we found so many mushrooms!!! (Many edible ones and a few toxic ones.)
In the afternoon, my group went snorkling.
It was a little nerve racking for me since we were in the water again… But I enjoyed it a lot, I was so fascinated by the schools of fish that I observed. Sadly the day was a little cloudy and windy so we couldn’t admire all of the beauty of the fjords today.
30th august:
What a lovely morning! I helped the others with making some waffledough.
Why waffledough? You probably think to yourself. Well… Today is International day, everyone represents their country with their lovely national dishes.
Us as Belgians decided to bring homemade fries and waffles to the table!
I enjoyed this day so much! My social meter was filled up to the brim and I talked more to everyone.
I tasted every dish from every country that was represented; Danish applecake, Catalonian pudding and tortilla de patatas, Dutch homemade kruidnoten and Swiss grittibänz. Lastly we also got some free pizza, presented by the school itself. You could pretty much say that I ate myself round today.
In the afternoon I rented an electrical bike from the school and I went to the store by bike with a dormmate. The sun was out so it was a really beautiful day to go biking!
31st august:
I started my day with some morning classes.
We got some information from a guy to prepare ourselves for the glazier trip in two weeks.
I’m feeling nervous for the next upcoming weeks.
Next week we will be going on a canoetrip.
The week after will be the glaziertrip. Lastly, there will be one week of Leirschole (Some sort of forestclasses like we have in Belgium but slightly different).
Everything is so close to each other which can make the next few weeks very exhausting.
But… I’m really excited to learn all these new things!
It was beautiful weather outside and nicely warm.
I took my book, some drinks and snacks and went all the way to a nearby small island near school to chill.
I took some time to relax before all of the trips.
The sounds and the view were amazing!
In the evening I played some cards with a few of my dormmates which was very fun.
1st september:
Let’s go biking! I WAS SO TIRED OMG. You can say that biking isn’t one of my best qualities 🤣 The goal of our bike tour was to go to the kindergarten, primary and secondary school in the area. On Sunday we have to go to an event that’s near one of the schools, so it’s nice to know the way to it. During our trip we encountered a beautiful pathway were different kinds of fairy tales were displayed through self made puppets. The puppets were made by the community of the area. If you went further down the pathway, you could search for the hidden trolls in the forest. Also witches were hanging from the branches and on sticks along the path. It really felt as if we were biking through a dream. On the way back to campus, I ate lunch with some other dormmates on a picknick bench since the weather turned really sunny. After lunch, we biked back home and enjoyed the view of the island.
2nd september:
Finally I got myself to Heiane and I expected it a little different really.
It felt like an industrialised small town.
I was mainly here to go shopping for a micro-SD-Card since I want to use my gopro-camera on the next few trips.
But I also got some clothing hangers and other stuff for my room, to make it more liveable and cosy.
I made some pancakes for dinner and went to the gym.
3rd september:
Rainy, rainy, rainy!! Today we had to bike to a nearby event, organised for the families and children of the area. It was raining sadly… But the small adventurous hike was nice. Along the path, they displayed some questions that you had to answer. You could play games, canoe and more. At some point we arrived at a Gapahuk (Some type of wooden shelter) where they served hotdogs and juice. I ate two hotdogs 🤭 After that, we went back to the studenthousing to dry. It was a lovely day today. From now on, the weeks will become more intense!! I’m nervous and excited at the same time! ☺️
Week 28/08 - 03/09
28 augustus:
Een verfrissende nieuwe week is weer begonnen!
Vandaag was slechts een theoretische dag omdat we de hele dag les hadden.
Ik heb vandaag aan mijn blog gewerkt en ben met een paar anderen naar de sportschool geweest.
Morgen zal hopelijk gevuld zijn met meer avontuur!
29 augustus:
Paddenstoelentijd! In de ochtend heb ik een theoretisch gesprek gehad over paddenstoelen; de paddenstoelen die je veilig kunt eten en de paddenstoelen die je kunnen doden (Ja, doden… ik maak geen grapje).
Mijn klas werd verdeeld in 2 groepen. Mijn groep moest op zoek naar verschillende soorten paddenstoelen in de buurt van de school, terwijl de andere groep meer tijd had om te leren over de manieren van kajakken.
Omdat mijn groep niet veel geluk had met het vinden van paddenstoelen, vroegen we of we een stukje verder konden rijden naar het bos een paar kilometer van de school om er meer te vinden.
We kregen natuurlijk groen licht!
En we vonden zo veel paddenstoelen!!! (Veel eetbare en een paar giftige).
In de middag ging mijn groep snorkelen.
Het was een beetje zenuwslopend voor mij omdat we weer in het water waren… Maar ik vond het erg leuk, ik was zo gefascineerd door de scholen vis die ik zag. Helaas was het vandaag een beetje bewolkt en winderig, dus we konden niet alle schoonheid van de fjorden bewonderen.
30 augustus:
Wat een heerlijke ochtend! Ik heb de anderen geholpen met het maken van wafeldeeg.
Waarom wafeldeeg? Je denkt waarschijnlijk bij jezelf. Nou… Vandaag is het internationale dag, iedereen vertegenwoordigt zijn land met zijn mooie nationale gerechten.
Wij als Belgen besloten om zelfgemaakte frietjes en wafels op tafel te zetten!
Ik heb zo genoten van deze dag! Mijn sociale meter was tot de rand gevuld en ik heb met iedereen meer gepraat.
Ik proefde van elk gerecht uit elk land dat vertegenwoordigd was; Deense appeltaart, Catalaanse pudding en tortilla de patatas, Nederlandse zelfgemaakte kruidnoten en Zwitserse grittibänz. Tot slot kregen we ook nog gratis pizza, aangeboden door de school zelf. Je zou bijna kunnen zeggen dat ik me vandaag helemaal volgegeten heb.
In de middag huurde ik een elektrische fiets van de school en ging ik op de fiets naar de winkel met een huisgenoot. De zon scheen, dus het was echt een prachtige dag om te fietsen!
31 augustus:
Ik begon mijn dag met wat ochtendlessen.
We kregen wat informatie van een jongen om ons voor te bereiden op de glaszettersreis over twee weken.
Ik ben zenuwachtig voor de komende weken.
Volgende week gaan we op kanotocht.
De week daarna is de glaszettersreis. Tot slot is er nog een week Leirschole (een soort bosklassen zoals we die in België hebben, maar dan net iets anders).
Alles ligt zo dicht bij elkaar wat de komende weken erg vermoeiend kan maken.
Maar… ik heb er echt zin in om al die nieuwe dingen te leren!
Het was prachtig weer buiten en lekker warm.
Ik nam mijn boek, wat drinken en snacks mee en ging helemaal naar een klein eilandje vlakbij school om te chillen.
Ik nam even de tijd om te ontspannen voor alle uitstapjes.
De geluiden en het uitzicht waren geweldig!
s Avonds heb ik met een paar klasgenoten gekaart, wat erg leuk was.
1 september:
Laten we gaan fietsen! IK WAS ZO MOE OMG. Je kunt wel zeggen dat fietsen niet een van mijn beste kwaliteiten is 🤣 Het doel van onze fietstocht was om naar de kleuterschool, basisschool en middelbare school in de omgeving te gaan. Zondag moeten we naar een evenement in de buurt van een van de scholen, dus het is leuk om de weg ernaartoe te weten. Tijdens onze reis kwamen we een prachtig pad tegen waar verschillende sprookjes werden getoond door middel van zelfgemaakte poppen. De poppen waren gemaakt door de gemeenschap van het gebied. Als je verder het pad afliep, kon je op zoek gaan naar de verborgen trollen in het bos. Ook hingen er heksen aan de takken en aan stokken langs het pad. Het voelde echt alsof we door een droom fietsten. Op de terugweg naar de campus at ik lunch met een paar andere klasgenoten op een picknickbank omdat het weer erg zonnig werd. Na de lunch fietsten we terug naar huis en genoten we van het uitzicht op het eiland.
2 september:
Eindelijk was ik in Heiane en ik had het eigenlijk een beetje anders verwacht.
Het voelde als een geïndustrialiseerd stadje.
Ik was hier vooral om te winkelen voor een micro-SD-kaart, omdat ik mijn gopro-camera wil gebruiken op de volgende reizen.
Maar ik heb ook wat kledinghangers en andere spullen voor mijn kamer gekocht, om het wat leefbaarder en gezelliger te maken.
Ik maakte pannenkoeken voor het avondeten en ging naar de sportschool.
3 september:
Regen, regen, regen!!! Vandaag moesten we op de fiets naar een evenement in de buurt, georganiseerd voor de families en kinderen uit de buurt. Het regende helaas… Maar de kleine avontuurlijke wandeling was leuk. Langs het pad stonden vragen die je moest beantwoorden. Je kon spelletjes doen, kanoën en nog veel meer. Op een gegeven moment kwamen we aan bij een Gapahuk (een soort houten schuilplaats) waar ze hotdogs en sap serveerden. Ik heb twee hotdogs gegeten 🤭 Daarna gingen we terug naar het studentenhuis om te drogen. Het was een heerlijke dag vandaag. Vanaf nu worden de weken intenser!!! Ik ben zenuwachtig en opgewonden tegelijk! ☺️
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