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coeluvr · 2 months
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Quick ask to thank you for such a meaty, well written chapter! Loved every minute of it and I can't wait to try all the other paths! You're doing great work 💖
Aa thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it. 💗
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crownedinmarigolds · 6 months
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🔵⚫🪩 - for Noa!
-🪩 ⚪🔴 for... whichever oc you wanna talk about today! - @agoldenshinywireofhope - red, purple, discoball for the oc u want to talk abuot most!! - @lgbtmi
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~ Did someone say....... NOA!?!?!? And I'll go ahead and throw in my other asks too here. Thank you all for asking!! 🔴Red- What is a trait your OC has that those around them don't see very often? Is it seen by a rare few or completely overlooked? Noa is a extremely romantic person, and glorifies being a vampire to the nth degree. Many people outside of her best friend Nythanel don't really see this part of her, as she comes off very reserved and no-nonsense in person as she wants to be taken seriously. Noa though longs for deep personal connections, because she firmly believes love and trust are the foundations of the world, but she also knows that is not something easily built or maintained. She also thinks she can only truly connect with someone vampiric, as she believes the highest form of intimacy can only be shared through the Kiss. She is demisexual/asexual and is not interested in sex to show love in that way, she believes firmly in connections and ideals when it comes to legitimate companionship. Not against sex per se, but it's not something she craves, especially after her Embrace. Once you break through that initial front of "serious Giovanni princess," you will see just a young girl who wants nothing more than to have a family. 🔵Blue- How would your OC spend a single day of uninterrupted peace? Where would they go or who would they be with? Noa's has lots of perfect days. Her achievable perfect day is an evening spent inside, spending time with Nythanel as he chatters about something he's working on or what he'd done the evening before, etc, while she quietly listens and studies beside him. He is truly an island of respite in their torrential life. She loves being with her friend doing whatever wacky Thinblood+Giovanni shenigans they get into. 🟣Purple- What is something that your OC could not live without? Family, absolutely. Noa's entire life she was taught that family and love were everything. Protect the family, they will protect you, respect the family, they will respect you. She values that above all things, and to be alone is to be dead. Nythanel is family, even if he is not blood, because he's earned that right, so in a way she could also not be without Nyth either.
⚫Black- When was a moment in your OC's life that they felt the most in control and secure? Was it gained through negative or positive means? Noa has had a few moments of control and security, where she really felt like a real vampire. Her first moment though was of course her Embrace, when she finally felt like she earned everything she'd been fighting to get her entire life. All that studying, not spending time with others, listening intently to Father and never stepping out of line... finally, she was being recognized for her worth. The night she died cradled in her papi's arms was the night she truly felt alive. ⚪White- When was a moment in your OC's life that they felt the most vulnerable and exposed? Were they alone or surrounded? Noa has suffered a great deal of loss over her lifetime as a vampire, but the first time - aside from the loss of her immediate family - was when she left her home in Mexico and met with the Rothsteins and Puttanescas that nested in Las Vegas. Here is where she realized that she was incredibly sheltered and not exposed enough to Giovanni Family politics. Her father before his death clearly intended to get more detailed with how things were ran after after her Embrace, but thanks to the situation, Noa is all alone surrounded by Elders and Ghouls and men who did not respect her. Everyone who had been on her side and encouraging her was dead or unable to be with her at this time, so she had to face the embarrassment of being a sheltered little princess in front of these hard made men on her own. They would learn, of course, but nothing made her feel more vulnerable and alone than being coddled and cooed at by Uncles and Cousins alike. 🪩Disco Ball- What was an achievement that your OC felt worthy of celebrating? Was it a personal victory or a big impact on everyone around them? What keeps them grounded in the worst of times? Noa's crowning achievement is Nythanel's rebirth. Thanks to a domino effect of mistakes when they had fled to Reno Nevada after having to leave Las Vegas in the middle of a Camarilla/Giovanni/Chantry schism, Nythanel was shot near-fatally at the hands of a hunter Noa thought she had control over. While the hunter was quickly dispatched with by her older brother, saving her life after she had been staked and had gasoline poured on her, Nyth's slow Thinblood healing was not going to bring him back to her any time soon. Maybe never. It was keeping him alive, but he was only half there, appearing to be lost in a dark haze. So she vowed that night to make up for all of her errors, for being a terrible friend who didn't think about his safety, and to bring him back to full strength, and even BETTER. They had studied his alchemy and her necromancy together, and after studying his coded notes and combining them with her own writings, she slowly over time accrued all she needed. While her brother and ghoul tended to Nyth's body, she got the Family to bring them to Chicago, where she met with the local Setites, met with Family, and collected ingredients and ritual artifacts. Performing the Lazarus Ritual, Noa slayed her loyal ghoul and gave Nythanel his body, even using a Setite ritual to ensure he kept his perfect heart as his own. It was beautiful, it was perfect, they got to be together again. This time forever and ever.
AHHH long post! BUT THANK YOU FOR ASKING, EVERYONE!
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musashi · 10 months
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Do you have a favorite part of the depths? One you keep returning to / one you find just most aesthetically appealing?
FLOATING COLISSEUM
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vergess · 1 year
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Tell us about the florist!
Oh right the racist florist.
I had to go to the DMV recently to get new ID to prove I'm a Real Human Person so I would be allowed to vote in elections in a place I've lived OVER A YEAR NOW.
So I'm stuck there with me and the GF (who has to accompany me for medical reasons) wearing our respirators and no other masks in the building, settling in for 3 hours of bureaucracy that has no right to exist.
And the woman two rows behind us is a florist.
We know this because she is at this point only speaking loudly enough to dominate the entire wait area (approximately 50 seats, half full). She has not, as of this moment in our tale begun screaming.
She will, but not yet.
She is complaining loudly about her least favourite ever customer, who appeared in her shop once an indeterminate number of weeks or months ago.
So, I'm already mostly panicking because I'm an immune compromised POC wearing a mask in a building with 30 open faced mayo sandwiches.
And I start processing the story I'm hearing.
"Yeah, I work at a garden center and some of these customers!!"
And I'm internally SO relieved because the screaming white woman (which is of course the equivalent to kill bill sirens after decades of living as their punching bag) is not a threat!!
She's just a tired, angry retail worker frustrated with her customers!! What a huge weight off my shoulders!!
"She saw one of my plants and just started screaming at me!"
At this point I'm openly sympathetic, sharing commisserating glances with the GF, nodding along about the mistreatment of retail workers.
"It's called the wandering Jew, I didn't name it."
And this is the moment my heart stopped, and I realized I needed to be VERY quiet and VERY small.
So while you're envisioning me slouching deeper into my folding chair, a pair of panicked eyes the only thing left above my coat collar, let's detour.
The genus Tradescantia, much like myself, is from rural appalachia. (Actually, it's a pan american genus, with species native from Canada to Argentina and everywhere between).
It contains a number of popular houseplants, broadly known as creeping inch or spiderwort. Some varieties with especially showy flowers are called "dayflowers" since blooms only last one sunrise to one sunset.
They're astonishingly fast growing, with a popular myth that they grow "an inch a day," though the name "creeping inch" actually refers to the leaves being about an inch apart.
The leaves are the real showstopper, though.
Check out this "Purple Heart" species, Pallida:
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Image from University of Wisconsin Madison. A dark purple mound of foliage spills out of a 10 gallon planter.
Or the truly stunning, variegated Zebrina species:
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Image by David J. Stang, CC4 BY-SA. As always because tumblr suppresses links, the CC license will be linked in the replies. A several meter wide patch of striped silver and green leaves.
There's a "tricolore" variant of the main Fluminis (no that's a FFXIV dungeon that's not right) species, where the leaves are bright green, pale almost white green, and PASTEL PINK okay. These are GORGEOUS plants that were a prominent part of my childhood.
The term "wandering Jew plant" had already been mostly retired in English by the time I started elementary school, as evidenced by the fact that we GREW THESE IN CLASS EVERY YEAR TO SELL AT THE GREENHOUSE FUNDRAISER. Occasionally a grandparent might ask to buy them at the fundraiser by the Forbidden Name, but teachers just told us they were saying "jute" and not to repeat it.
These are REALLY cool plants. I need you all to understand that.
Because I was too busy hyperventilating to actually say any of this at the time.
The breathing is about to get worse, because this is the point at which several other (white) people started chiming in to agree about how disgusting Woke Culture is.
And the the florist scared the piss out of me, as if I had any piss left.
"Yeah! It's not like she'd ever even seen a Jew! There aren't any in Maine, hahaha!!"
The folks closest to her laughed along. These were not kind laughs. This was not a joke, it was a promise delivered in laughter.
I thought I might have a heart attack. I was actively gauging whether my crippled ass could get past the crowd and to the exit.
One (1) person with a mask had arrived to the DMV at this point and clearly clocked me sitting in the corner trying not to die.
If you're the ambiguously gendered blond with the blue mask at the DMV on October 3, please understand that you prevented a major incident just by standing near the exit, making eye contact, and nodding when you realized what was standing between me and safely leaving.
You're a good fucking ally.
Thank you.
Anyway, in case you forgot, this was at the DMV so I could get ID to vote, so I needed to try and stay if I could. It's an hour trip each way to the DMV, after all.
Fortunately, a few minutes more of this monstrosity, and the racist harpy was called to the counter. She paid her outstanding taxes, and left. Because to racist freaks, that kind of behaviour is acceptable and normal in public spaces.
Eventually, the rest of her coterie were also called, and then me, and then we left and I had a sobbing meltdown in the car.
Also this was the day of the 50 page Dracula email, so I had a LOT happening there.
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obstinatecondolement · 3 months
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I was tagged by @aeide-thea in this. Thanks for passing it along to me!
last song: Washing Machine Heart, I think? I was not, strictly speaking, listening to it though, so much as making sure that sound from my Bluetooth headphones didn't bleed into something I was recording. Basically, the lav mic I was using plugs into my laptop's headphone jack, so I was trying to use wireless earbuds to get around that, but then the audio quality of the recording suffered a lot from streaming music, which indicated to me that it would also suffer if I was on a voice call, which was what I was doing the tests in preparation for—in the end I used wired headphones with my phone for the voice call and recorded my audio on the laptop so that I wasn't crossing the streams.
favorite color: I like purple and green a lot at the moment, so I am going to be very annoying and say octarine.
last movie/show: If we're not counting reality tv, then I'm pretty sure it's still the CBS Ghosts show? Which reminds me, I need to watch the Christmas special of BBC Ghosts before it gets spoiled for me.
sweet/spicy/savory: At the moment probably savory, but this is largely for hernia related reasons as opposed to more fun considerations. Historically though, sweet.
relationship status: Taking the cue from @aeide-thea here to reflect on, and snark a little, at the amatonormativity of this question and the way it stands out from the rest in that it's kind of more likely to be something that would be potentially a vulnerable or alienating thing to discuss. Also, like, I have many non-romantic and non-sexual relationships that are very meaningful to me, but, I mean, for the purposes of this then single I guess, since apparently that's the kind that matters, lol.
last thing i googled: Again, like @aeide-thea, I also use DuckDuckGo now ;) But the last thing I looked up online was Pixabay, because I was making a podfic cover and wanted some royalty free images of space and/or astronauts on space walks to edit.
current obsession(s): I've been having a great time with podfic and audio fandom-y stuff in general recently! I participated in ITPE and created five pods for that (one for my main assignment and four treats) and now I'm doing Voiceteam Mystery Box and am tentatively starting a new podfic challenge based around creating podfic of Yuletide fics written by authors who give permission for podfic of their work called Tide Pod, which should kick off early January.
tag 9 people: @rovermcfly, @robotlesbianjavert, @venort, @kd-heart, @ilthit, @agoldenshinywireofhope, @liandrins-jawline, @translightyagami and @benicebefunny.
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juniper-tree · 1 year
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tagged by @strangefable 🖤💜 thank you!
rules: list eight shows for your followers to get to know you better. I don't watch a lot of tv (I prefer radio like most 130 year olds) but these are foundational
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Star Trek
ST: Deep Space Nine
Jem
Scooby Doo Where Are You
Battlestar Galactica (both)
It's Always Sunny
Supernatural (not sorry)
a show I'm really enjoying atm is Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa because it is my particular brand of camp and the theme slaps
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tagging onward: @meishuu @blackcatsthree @muses-circle @mars-colony @agoldenshinywireofhope @maepricot @veritasrose
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finalrestingplace · 2 years
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making a new post for @agoldenshinywireofhope so it’s easier to see~
doom one of course, this is my fav bc e2m6 void glide is my fav strat in all of speedrun. it looks so cool and creepy and rocketjumping or rocket-anything scares me lol
here’s a general one
here’s one about mario
here’s one about guitar hero (this one’s extra funny because it’s so obvious it’s just frickn sped up video!!!)
so there’s this guy who ongoingly (and escalating) always cheated, been to court so many times, SO MUCH DRAMA, and i can never remember his name. i call him billy mays because that’s how i remember. there’s lots of vids about him there’s a whole lore of billy. this is how i learned how corrupt and meaningless the guinness world record book is as an establishment it’s actually so stupid
i infodumped but basically all his vids are extremely informative! i didn’t think i’d care so much about bad and naughty fake speedrunners atoning for their sins but it’s very entertaining to me >:3
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smooti · 3 years
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Op literally brightens my day with every post but go off I guess 🙄😋
v-vespy ur so sweet but go off i guess !!!! 🥺🥺🥺
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lookbluesoup · 4 years
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A melancholic song oooh this is so hard i have so many that I like ;A; So I will give you two hahaha one with lyrics and one instrumental
I’ve always found The Light We Cast by Jessica Curry to be sad in the way that goodbyes are but also lovely and peaceful, the lyrics are something else
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And thennnn for something instrumental, Against the Wind from FFXIV definitely evokes that sort of isolated wandering in a stark landscape for me!
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mapplestrudel · 4 years
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👀!
Thank you for dropping by, Vespy! ^_ ^ So, my brother and I had two guineapigs once, brothers we named Jackie and Spockie. Jackie choked on something he ate, not sure how old he was then, and he was buried beneath the cherry tree in our garden. Spockie died much later, but it was winter, and the ground was frozen, so my brother put him into the freezer, to properly bury him under said cherry tree when spring finally came around.
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theradioghost · 4 years
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Could you rec some podcasts in a similar vein to the Juno Steel series & Wolf 359? I prefer levity in my dramas, so super serious stuff isn't my fav but I'm open to it! Thank you for your time 💖
Oooh, yes! Well, my first recommendation is going to be -- as it frequently is -- Greater Boston, which is definitely the #1 show that has made me laugh and cry at the same time more than any other. Since you like Juno, for more levity of the private eye variety I would suggest Superstition, and then perhaps Girl in Space, Victoriocity, Dark Ages, or Arden!
(start the new year with a new podcast recommendation)
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agoldenshinywireofhope replied to your post “leverage is a show that i would be interested in watching but it...”
I think I heard someone say it was on Hulu, but I don't even know if that's available everywhere DX
yeah hulu is not a thing in canada
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wiisagi-maiingan · 4 years
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Do you have a favorite item in Stardew? Fish/treasure/forage, anything like that?
Hmm, I don’t really think so. I like how the frozen geodes look?
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musashi · 10 months
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What's your favorite enemy to fight in TOTK? Favorite boss? Is there an enemy that you really love the design of?
GLEEOKS SO FUN
i like the mucktorok
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vergess · 3 months
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The game biblio is talking about is medieval dynasty!
Thanks very much! I will look into the modding scene for it in the next couple days.
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Tagged by @wiewioreczka: 8 tv shows to watch to get to know me.
Just for fun, gonna list in order of when I first watched them:
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (1993–1995)
The Muppet Show (1976–1981)
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (1993–1999)
Frasier (1993–2004)
Pride and Prejudice (1995–1995. This counts! It was a miniseries!)
Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–2001)
Community (2009–2015)
Cobra Kai (2018–2023/2024)
Kind of interesting to see it arranged autobiographically like this!
Apparently 1993 was the year I was old enough to really understand television (although, honestly, there are some baby shows I remember very fondly that I might have put on here if I had more than 8—MMPR is not a baby show, by the way, it is very sophisticated). Bit of a lull then between 1995 and 2009 when there was No Good New TV, or at least nothing that I would consider so formative to me that you would be able to understand me better by seeing them.
This list definitely does skew heavy on stuff I watched when I was younger and, honestly, I did think for a while that I had kind of calcified and wasn't going to be Transformed by a piece of media (or television anyway) again going forward, but clearly I have gotten past that.
Anyway, this is considerably more navel gazing than was called for!
Tagging: @iamgwenslongroadhome @knitmeapony @ilthit @bookhobbit @dangercupcakemurdericing @benicebefunny @overelegantstranger and @agoldenshinywireofhope
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