redraw of an old piece i really like :-)

i dont want zenos to have a redemption arc so much as that i want him to do good things because its convenient. no moral 180 he just realizes he won't get attention as long as there are bad things happening so he helps get rid of the bad things

I'll ramble about it a bit because I can't be trusted to actually write it, but I really love the idea of Toei canon Miho and Kaiba dating each other fakely. Not fake dating, that is, but dating while fake. Because they are both the most Fake Assed Bitches.

It has to be cabbage boy, though. None of my other interpretations of Kaiba is good enough at social situations to even pretend his way through them as long as s0 Kaiba did, nor does he even have any interest in trying to be.

Like... manga Kaiba insults everyone to their faces immediately upon meeting them. When he finds out about Blue Eyes... offering up a briefcase full of fancy expensive cards doesn't get his way? He'll pretend for, like, 5 minutes, just long enough to steal it. It only works because Yuugi is the sweetest, most trusting, friendliest-shaped blorbo on the planet... and even he notices! He just doesn't call him out right away because he's a nice person and it is really very embarrassing for Kaiba here.

And DM anime Kaiba? Fancy expensive card briefcase doesn't work out for him either? Right. Cool. It's time to escalate the situation straight to kidnapping. Do not pass go. Do not collect $500 (that's chump change).

But this Kaiba?

He really puts some effort into this. He fools everyone except Jounouchi, who hates him cause he ain't him, not a sixth sense of character judgment.

I really love completely alternate takes on characters like this. The Toei anime is silly, but it's also SO much fun.

Miho is a similar case- they really expanded on her from the Miho in the manga and went in the direction of "super shallow and two-faced chick," but it works better for me than a lot of portrayals because, like... she's their good buddy Miho. In a lot of other series she would be the horrible fake rival, but nah. She's their actual friend who just cannot help it if everyone wants to do things for her and give her free stuff all the time. Totally innocent. Totally not taking every sucker for a ride. I love her so much, lol.

So anyway, my actual concept here is- Miho is dating Kaiba because he's rich and it makes her look cool, and Kaiba is dating Miho because it increases his proximity to Yuugi. They don't even like each other, but they both think they're so smooth and conning the other one so good. Clearly, they're head over heels. And everyone else is like "uh... um... uh... Miho????" and she's like "NO GUYS HE'S TOTALLY CHANGED." (She neither knows nor especially cares if he has because she thinks she can Manage him.)

if you're looking for any reason to write and/or procrastinate, i'd love to hear your alluded-to thoughts on people trying to shove already-extant blorbos into a ttrpg space? it's something i've tried to Strongly Discourage (if not outright ban) at my table and i've struggled putting into words why i dislike it so much. like obviously as a dm doing homebrew world stuff it's super discouraging to feel like your players don't want to engage with it, but even beyond that it feels like it doesn't Work and i'd love to hear if you have thoughts on Why That Is

Absolutely! The biggest reason is in fact the one you say: it's really discouraging as a DM, who is doing a lot more work than anyone else, to have someone not want to build a character informed by your world. This is collaborative storytelling, and they are not collaborating. Which isn't to say that player's preferences for the type of story shouldn't be considered, but there is something very different between, for example, Erika Ishii saying "hey Brennan, I would love to play a witch" in a setting everyone in the cast committed to building collaboratively, vs. coming to your table as a DM saying "hey, this is a world I've created, it is inspired by Norse mythology" and saying "cool this is my weird west cowboy OC, why isn't there a cowboy class."

I think the other reason, and here's where I might be guessing, but I think people can get uniquely rigid and protective of pre-existing OCs. I mean...I had a vague set of OCs inspired by a lot of the fantasy stories I read as a kid for literal years, and setting aside that they don't fit in neatly to a D&D system anyway, the thought of playing one and having them die at level 2 against some will-o-the-wisps is really not something I'm open to! When it comes to a lot of the games that have character progression and start relatively weak, like D&D, most people are thinking of a cool powerful mage, not a squishy L1 wizard with 2 spell slots! I think people are precious and impatient and rigid about a lot of their OCs, so they won't take the big swings that you need to make in order to have a good time in a TTRPG because they're too afraid of losing the character before they reach their final form - and, they have a final form in mind that they might be reluctant to deviate from. Sure, some people can get past this; but many people can't. They already have too much of a story in mind and aren't open to the one being told together at the table. They won't kill their darlings and so they're going to freak out every time Darling has to make a death save.

Finally: I personally think character creation is necessarily collaborative, in that party composition is important. To give an example: I have an idea of an Eldritch Knight who learned her magic from the eccentric wizard she guarded, who then died in a locked room mystery, and she was exonerated but considered suspect (and also felt guilty) and so is in need of employment and could easily fall into adventuring. This is a pretty flexible concept in most D&D settings because a lot of the specifics aren't at all filled in. However: let's say my friend says "hey, um, one of our players had a family emergency and needs to leave our game long-term. Do you want to join?" and I say "yes, absolutely" and they say "great, they were playing a bard and were our only healer, though we do have a warlock who can be the party face," I should not play the eldritch knight with no healing! It is in fact my responsibility to roll up with, say, a cleric!

So that's really why: you can and should bring vague concepts you want to explore to a table, but you really shouldn't pick from a fully fleshed out OC because that doesn't engage with the setting nor what the party needs.

Round 1 poll 23: Judas Iscariot from the Bible vs Reynard the Fox from mideaval European Folklore

Propaganda under the cut:

Judas Iscariot

so i've always been sort of fascinated with the judas kiss as a thing in the bible. i was just always like dang it's wild that that exists. i would attempt to draw/paint/sketch it constantly in high school and i didn't really know why. the way i learned the name of the garden of gethsemane properly was one time i was feeling extremely faint as one does and as i was gripping my head on the floor of the bathroom, face a few inches from the tile, i just heard gethsemane, gethsemane, gethsemane repeating in my head over and over again. and i was like what the fuck is gethsemane and i looked it up and i was like OH. so fast forward a little little bit and i watch the last days of judas iscariot at a formative teenage year of my life and i am WOWED. i watch that last scene with jesus and judas MANY MANY TIMES. i'm OBSESSED i want to carve it out and eat it. after watching the play in full i show it to my actually catholic friend. she enjoys it. something about judas in that play clicks for me, and suddenly there's this whole context for my relationship with judas that makes a lot of sense to me, a traumatized former catholic. i become a HOUND for all media with judas in it. i am like a connoisseur and archive. i am just obsessed with it. i listen to clown bible in full. it makes me cry every time i listen to it. JUDAS by the reverent marigold WRECKS me because it's explicitly about judas as a scapegoat as an allegory for the trans experience with religion and it is a BANGER. like it's so good. i buy a copy of the script of the last days, of corpus christi by terrence mcnally, of judas by jeff loveness. i listen to several versions of jesus christ superstar in full and i am WOWED i did not expect it to be that good. someone on tiktok says that trans men's vocal chords thicken like cis men's on testosterone but don't lengthen, and that these shorter vocal chords make it easier for us to sing in a strong, natural falsetto. and i think about how jcs is full of really high tenors and briefly i start drawing red lines all over my life like, BOY HAS VISION OF GETHSEMANE AND IS TRANS BECAUSE THE UNIVERSE WANTS HIM TO PLAY A PRINCIPLE ROLE IN JCS??? and it's a brief lapse in sanity that i don't take seriously but one of my favorite jcs jesuses also had a weirdly prophetic vision of himself playing the part in jcs (i'm obsessed with him), and i'm like okay. i don't know what to do with all that information. anyway. i haven't played anyone in jcs and likely never will but i am still very attached to judas as like a mythological figure and symbol. i wrote an essay about him for an essay class that ended up being 19 pages unspaced. prof was warned beforehand that it was going to be long and she was very nice and encouraging about it um so thank god for that. yeah i have the absolute weirdest relationship with judas. and it has only been magnified with each new media and seeing people's various takes on judas as either redemptive/antihero/tragic figure/scapegoat/etc etc etc. currently obsessed with the parallels between him and jesus and him and mary magdalene in jcs. jcs ended up kind of extending the obsession to the three of them. i have a bust of jesus looking so so forlorn in my room. impulse buy. anyway. love him deeply obsessed with him turned me insane i think

Reynard the Fox

I feel like a mega weirdo for finding this medieval archetypal creature so endearing, especially considering the atrocities he commits in the stories he’s a part of. There’s just something so fun about a really old story about a bunch of morally grey animals engaging in shenanigans meant to satirize and mirror our society.

To be completely honest with you, I actually play with cheats on since can't be bothered to grind and also I just want my silly blorbos in a more silly goofy setting than a "survive living in Molesterville" type of gameplay. So I never have to worry about Kylar going batshit crazy (except when I want them to <3) and their jealousy mechanic isn't nearly as tedious and annoying to me. I do feel bad for your Whitney event getting interrupted tho TT

Also um, some light spoilers for Kylar in your game! Just figured I'd let you know in case you maybe weren't aware since the amount of content is actually crazy. It was a lot when I first started dol years ago, and it's even crazier now. I wouldn't see like 90% if I didn't read patch notes.

Anyways, Kylar is actually possible to bring back after a dismissal! But it's like, super time-consuming and not at all easy. You have to go to jail and then break their ass out of there, which takes a lot of time and isn't really worth it unless you've suddenly changed your mind and are crazy about them. But yeah, both Kylar and Whitney should be able to be brought back, unless maybe if you've dismissed them on a much earlier version where they just kind of poofed out of existence. Not sure about that tbh.

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To be honest with you... I use cheats too hehe... any game I can cheat on that isn't multiplayer I WILL cheat... its just more fun for me that way!! So maybe that expresses just how much kylar annoys me, that even with cheats I don't wanna deal with them LMAO.

But thank you for the info!!! I do wanna explore kylars story fully in future, but I'll probably make a new save file for it. I like having one save per love interest because I'm insane, but thank you anyway!!

So anyway do you have any new newsie thoughts for me while I got put my blorbos in the pathetic little man tournament?

um um um

jack mumbling in spanish and davey not understanding a fucking word, but hugging him from behind anyway

I’ve firmly latched on to the idea of romeo being aro, you cannot take this from me (he’s probably somewhere on the ace spectrum, too, but I haven’t thought too much about that)

I might try making fanart in my pursuit of being less shitty at drawing on an ipad. suggestions as to who?

even if race had straighter hair like max casella’s, it probably gets curlier when it gets really hot.

tommy boy tried giving les lessons on how to better flirt. it didn’t work. les’ techniques are questionable at best.

finch is still from brooklyn in my mind. spot has known this entire time, and nodded at finch once as he passed. finch was terrified.

smalls is the best, and I love them. also, I feel like they would really be into movies they could pick apart, plot wise.

crutchie’s single, and the one tossing popcorn at everyone else while watching movies

spralbert could possibly have substance in uksies, but I’m never going to see it, so I have no idea

i have to ramble about gw2 tumblr and why i like it and how much i appreciate you guys hold on. long + a minor vent maybe below the cut.

I was in the community like 8 and 9 years back, pretty active in... 2014-2016 maybe? and *I* had a lot of fun just sharing stuff and reblogging and gushing about things and how much I liked other peoples' characters, but always felt a wall of separation with other bloggers who Did Not seem to appreciate it or want to be near me so it was like. simultaneously a lot of fun and also very isolating at times. anyway didn't play for a bit then couldn't play for a long while... coming back to the game, and then later the community early this year, I feel like I found all the right people to follow and lurk around and talk to. like for the most part it feels like people are as excited to be here as i was and am, it feels like everyone's having a similar amount of fun as opposed to just like, tolerating me silently. and I really like being able to share stuff that I make here sometimes.

I have a complex about being too much/ too annoying to others, and with being ignored, and my friends are aware that I have this kind of issue and that being ignored hurts me a lot. And several of them have similar complexes resulting from being ignored and mocked as children so I know they get how painful it is to have those feelings set off. But I've been told that it's selfish and unrealistic that I want my friends to care about things I say and do so it's. I dunno it doesn't make sense to me but I'm viewing it from my own perspective so maybe they see something else... but it's frustrating and hurts to talk about my stuff and post things especially art I'm really proud of and it'll be dead silent for like 3 days, and then someone else will post art and the chat will blow up with everyone discussing their art instead. 🧍‍♂️ I don't know. feels selfish just to say. I can get friends not reading my writing or what I say on chats or not wanting to come to my streams, or a cold shoulder to a certain point... I just don't really share stuff with friends anymore, because knowing that they don't care about my stuff and that it's wrong to want them to care about it doesn't make it hurt less for me. I'm working on that to try to change that about myself but it's slow.

Anyway all this to say I really appreciate having the gw2 community u_u I live a pretty isolating existence and I don't get to go crazy and talk about my stuff often or show people what I've made. And I love seeing everyone else get to do the same. It's a lot of fun even like. Holding myself back to not be too ? weird about everything in the world. I'm having a lot of fun and I enjoy seeing peoples' characters and reading their lore and reading AU stuff, and just looking at your posts with my big eyes. I'd love to play with more of you in game too. Um but that's basically it, thanks for being cool and letting me hang out and blorbo post among you. it means a lot that so many people get excited about Alba for me. like at the April art party when I showed up and people came running at me to see me it was startling and I clammed up out of nerves but also it was? reaffirming that people actually like him and wanted to come see him! 😊 OK wrapping it up cool community, having a good time. meow. alba image for whoever reads this.

For the ask game! 16, 37 and 43

16. have you ever wanted to tell someone something but you didn’t?

yeah usually like cussing out my toxic family members but then i didn't because i realized it was healthier and more effective to just cut them off entirely <3 i could have verbally destroyed my stepdad with a single sentence but i am actually better than he is so instead i just don't talk to him at all lmao

37. favourite actor/actress

idk if i have one, because usually my favorite actors are just whoever play the blorbos of whatever series i'm currently fixated on, so it varies from time to time. and even then i wouldn't say they're favorites because i just like their characters, not necessarily them as a person (side-eyes d*rk and dw*ght) lmao.

hmm, in honor of the origin of my url i'm gonna say Bill Pullman.

he's just so iconic and i'm always happy to see him on screen and he gives me a whole heckin' lot of gender envy lol i have literally taken photos of him to a salon and been like GIMME THE HAIR (he has had the same goddamn hair style his entire career, i dare you to find a photo of him where his hair isn't this same basic style lol like it varies in length but it's always the same cut and i LOVE it)

he's in like. so many of my favorite movies. Zero Effect (blog url inspo), While You Were Sleeping (fave romcom), Brain Dead (fave psychological/existential horror movie), Independence Day (...one of my fave sci-fi/alien movies), Spaceballs (...I wouldn't actually call this a favorite movie of mine tbh but like it's so fucking iconic I can't not mention it), AND there's this super cringe scene in Mr. Wrong (terrifying movie, it's billed as a comedy but it's legit a horror film to me lmao, do not recommend) where he sings Hold The Line by Toto (my favorite band) really badly and it's just. So iconic. almost ruined the song for me. almost. (no one can ruin Toto for me. 'tis not possible.)

43. favourite song ever

oh come on you can't do that to me, i can't pick a fave song ever, that's not a thing, i don't know how to do that :')

but as i mentioned Toto... it's gonna be one of theirs, lol. i can't even choose one goddammit i'll do a top three (stRUGGLING EVEN TO DO THAT... THE 'TISM CANNOT CHOOSE)

gonna put Rosanna first because it's the first song I remember rocking out to when i was like 3 years old in my car seat and telling my dad to turn up the car radio

next up Can't Stand It Any Longer because EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS PERFECTION, from Joe Williams' vocals to the melody to the beat to the ALL THE MUSIC TERMS I'M NOT EDUCATED ENOUGH TO COMMENT ON IN DETAIL hskjdfhkjsdhfdjksf

aaand as much as it pains me to only choose one more i'll go with one from the Isolation album so you can hear another vocalist (the amount of vocalists this band has had... and they're all so talented in their own ways and GAWWWWWWD I LOVE THIS FUCKIN BAND SO MUCH I'M GONNA SCREAM),, anyway here's Endless:

i could literally talk about Toto all day so i'm gonna have to cut myself off here before this becomes an infodump lmao

............actually i'm gonna put one last song because it came up in the recommended sidebar and Joe is fucking adorable in this video and gives me a lot of gender envy and YES THAT'S PAULA ABDUL DANCING,, WHY WASN'T THIS ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST HITS I DON'T UNDERSTAND

....a..and... um... listen i hate listing 4 things because that doesn't feel rounded out so here's one more to make it a nice rounded 5,, featuring Steve Lukather as a BABY (okay he's like 21 but he looks like a baby) and because I can't list a bunch of Toto songs and not feature any from their 70s era:

i need those rainbow suspenders.

...okay sorry sorry i was entirely possessed by my autism for a minute there 😅 thus concludes the post. thanks for the asks and for opening up my big chaotic box of obsession lol.

BLUIE, I have found a new way to torture Scar hehe (my friend was deeply concerned when he read it, but he doesnt understand the appeal to torture your blorbos) (tw: character death and suicide, i guess... it's zombie apocalypse ladies and gents and everyone in between)

So, basically, this is all the wonderful ideas i've seen from Vex hybridation theories, white hair Scar and the trauma of TCD. The way it would start is baby Scar (12 yo) and his mom live in the TCD world (his mom is a vex hybrid and his dad is like... evoker or smth, idk, havent figured out that part yet), and so, the reason why theyre in the TCD is bc his mom wanted to get away from the mansion she came from and wanted to protect her little grub (yes she calls him "my little grub", that term grew on me).

So, ofc, it's TCD, so, zombie apocalypse. So, they both pack their things and go north (totally not basing this on that they're in hypothetical USA and are going to Canada, no sireeee). And so, his mom is trying to find a way to get out of this world, but later on, she realizes the only way you can get out of this world is to die. Except, theres no guarantee you're either gonna die or you're gonna get infected, and if you get infected, can you truly die? Can you truly jump into another world when you were infected? Many questions, not much answers, huh.

And then time skip where Scar and his mom are running away from a horde of zombies. They find a surveillance tower, but they cant find the entrance. The horde is getting closer and they have no time nor the stamina to outrun them. So, his mom helps him get up on the tower and Scar tries to help her get up, but she just smiles at him and he sees his mom getting either eaten by the zombies or get infected by them. So, more trauma on him, hehe <3

Another time skip, and this time, he is all alone, he has learned he can use vex magic to help him jump higher up buildings, he learned how to keep his vex wings close to his back, not that they were useful with how many tares the zombies did to them. He has his Jellie plushie that he talks to almost all the time, even sees her as a mother figure (trauma hehe). So, he doesn't see that when he uses vex magic, his hair turns white, bc his mom's hair didnt turn white, it turns white bc of the dad side of things, the evoker and stuff, so, his vex magic has a mix of evoker magic and stuff. Also, his hair turns white whenever he thinks too much of his mom, like its a trauma response from his brain to use his vex magic to make it less painful.

Anyways, he meets a group of ppl and doesn't feel so alone anymore, so, his hair is back to its regular colour and the group called him "Scar" bc it was the name of his gun he found on a dead body and hes like, their best shooter. So, that group teaches him how to treat injuries (with a fuck ton of morphine and some medical technics), and just how to survive better than just eating protein bars and finding resources from dead bodies and from empty stores.

So, ofc I have to torture him, and make him watch this group die as a horde of zombies attack them, and hes just yelling shooting at zombies, not even noticing hes also hitting the group. So, he spends a couple of weeks alone before he misses a jump while running away from zombies and just shoots himself bc he doesn't want to get infected.

Um... I have more, but um... this got long... don't worry, hes gonna get his comfort in Kingdom Craft and with the Hermits. I just... didn't realize this was getting long. And it's been circling my head for too long. Idk if i'm gonna write a full fledge fic, but this... I just want to torture my blorbo, is that too much to ask?

-- bloop anon (i am totally sane and normal)

YEEEEEEESSSSS TCD SCAR TRUAMA ANGST LETS GOOOOOO

I love this bloop.. But YOU CANT END IT WITH SCAR SHOOTS HIMSELF-- BRUH

I'm very much a firm believer in the Jellie plushies being this huge comfort to him and just always talks to it and think in his head she talks back-

Um hi hello you asked about one of my blorbos?? You get a couple babies because we might as well talk about the Lorien boys together.

(Gods, I’m so sorry I didn’t realize how long this was. )

I’m also now realizing that despite me also having a side lotr blog, I haven’t posted about this. ANYWAY.

In addition to previously mentioned:

-Haldir, as previously discussed, is fairly vanilla when it comes to sex. Maybe more neutral or just not into dynamics is what I’d call it? Like he’s unlikely to Be a Dom, but he can be dominant in the bedroom. I also don’t see him as very verbose in general (unless he’s being a snarky bitch which is why I love him) and this translates to the bedroom. Lots of raised eyebrows or gentle flicks if you’re being a tease; pressing your hands into the mattress to show you that’s where he wants you; etc. He’s very show and action through indication rather than telling or ordering you around. You know what it means. If you don’t, you’ll find out because he will pick you up and rearrange you for him. Then you’ll get one of his very few verbal good girl/boy/etc. Homies a Marchwarden, he more than has the strength. Alternatively, he’ll kiss you until you’re breathless and whimpering and arching against him and then he’ll move you where need be.

-He checks in with you a lot, mostly by pressing kisses to places or running a hand over you to give you a minute then asking “good?”. He’s very considerate and careful with you at all times. He doesn’t leave bruises (unless you ask but he hates seeing you injured). Even his hickies tend to be fairly light unless he’s leaving the next day for patrol. Which is good considering how many he gives you. He’s a kisser and a biter. Also, again, this man is Marchwarden. There’s no place safer in the realm than with his arms tight around you, whether that’s in a hug or holding you up while he takes you against the wall.

-Really into kissing and nuzzling and soft caresses and keeping a gently hand on you to guide you. He’s so overwhelmingly sweet that it will bring tears to your eyes. More than once. Not to say that he’s not rough, though. He’s just better at taking roughness than doling it out. He’ll spank you if you ask but if you spank him, he’s to come before it’s over.

-Haldir’s not not experienced sexually but a lot of it is mutual masturbation and him getting fucked while out on patrol.

-If we’re talking dynamics, I actually hc him as more submissive. He’s very worshipful of his partners and will spend hours giving oral and kissing their bodies. He loves holding others and being held. Very soft boi in emotion and sexually. But he also loves being the bottom of a prone bone and just being lovingly railed. (And vice versa; the man’s arms) He loves getting praised and it will make him melt into you and cling to you. Very shy when he’s submissive. He’s got quiet, open-mouthed gasps and pants, but he’ll scream when he comes if it’s good. His voice is so much higher when he’s like this. Especially if you tell him how good he his while you’re holding him to you and you let him come inside you. Doesn’t have a big sub-drop. Coming kind of just takes him out of it and then he’ll get flustered when you take care of him.

-I can not emphasize enough how much of a sweet man he is. Prickly on the outside, teddy bear on the inside.

-I’ve seen a lot of people hc that he’s a jealous type and I don’t agree. With him being gone so often on patrol, any relationship he engages in requires a lot of mutual understanding and trust and he will not enter into a relationship without one. What I do see him as is incredibly protective and a worrier. Esp if his SO has an illness or disability. He makes sure they have an adequate support network and will lock them away when he gets home for a day or two if he can get away with it for lots of soft sex and kissing. But you have had more than one fight about his over protectiveness because it tends to be controlling. When he cools off and he admits he’s wrong, best fucking sex. Everything is does is to please you and push over the edge again and again. Very good at overstimulating his partner and less enjoys orgasm denial. (Unless it’s him, he loves being overstimulated and denied; either is fine.)

-I also read in a fic somewhere (and I’m sure this is hc), that masculine elves cook rather than feminine and I see Haldir as such a good cook and baker. If he knows he’s leaving ahead of time, he’ll make a ton of his SOs favorites and leave them for her. He’s no talk, all action.

-Now, now if you want a Hard Dom (the whole nine yards I’m talking spankings, whippings, power play, restraints, long complicated scenes etc), you go to Rúmil. This ellon is In Charge and does not submit. (He’s tried because he believes in knowing what his partner is experiencing so he can make adjustments and act accordingly but he did not have a good time. Just emotionally and mentally it really fucked with him.) He, like Haldir, is a very attentive and caring partner, but you know. With whips 😂 He’s incredibly experienced and regularly takes partners to bed. If there were Lorien and middle earth munches and clubs, he’d be a regular. He’s just very sturdy and will lock his arms around you. Actually very good with subdrop (because again, he makes it a point to be a good dom). Has more experience and leans toward men and enbies, but he’s up for any partner. He’s also more than willing to teach people so they’re safe, sane, and consensual. He’s just a heart of gold hidden behind snarky words and cold glares. All the Lorien boys are like that; it’s called trauma.

-Orophin is my babie. He’s a sex-repulsed asexual who spent a lot of time trying to figure out sex and being confused with it until one of his brothers asked why he was doing something he didn’t like and then he was like OH. Gets railed about once every 300 years if he’s having a really bad day and needs to take his mind off of life, but he regrets it every time because his hand would have been better. Note: I don’t see him as aro so sometimes if there’s like Lothlorien Valentine’s Day, he’ll make sure to get lots of smooches for the soul.

This has been in my inbox forever bc every time I read it steam just comes out my ears. I have nothing productive to add. It’s all so good. I just want you all to look at this 🙏🫠

hiii luna hiii you said for the ask game we could do dnd characters so if you want to, the Wish spell with Alden and Perle?

elysium you little shit. giving me the ultimate angst spell with my silly little blorbos. well TOO BAD. nobody’s casting wish even though there’s definitely a timeline in my mind in which that scenario becomes real BUT you can have some pre-campaign shenanigans because i Do Love Them So Much,

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Wish is a 9th level conjuration spell on the sorcerer and wizard spell lists.

Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal creature can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter the very foundations of reality in accord with your desires.

The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of 8th level or lower. You don’t need to meet any requirements in that spell, including costly components. The spell simply takes effect.

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Perle sits draped over Alden’s windowsill. He’s engaged in some crafty new thing, probably homework, but that’s alright—Perle’s an expert at talking to the air, and Alden’s an expert at half-listening in a wonderful way that never makes her feel belittled. It’s part of why she likes him so much.

“Sage?” Perle asks, kicking her legs back and forth. “Saaaage?”

“Mm,” Alden responds, not looking up from their work. “What’s that?”

“Elle told me,” Perle says conspiratorially, “that there’s some crazy magic out there. And she would know, right? She’s got all that—that weird—well, you know. I’ve told you about Elle, right?”

“Mhm,” Alden says, fiddling with something very small in the contraption set on his worktable. 

“Right, well, today, her ballad—I actually got to sit in the audience this time and really listen to what she was saying rather than having to perform alongside her with those lights I just learned, and the lyrics! They were so mystical, almost heroic! Absolutely gorgeous, in my book. So I asked her where she got the inspiration.”

Perle grins, flopping onto his back to stare up at the small crescent of starlight that’s just barely visible from Alden’s window. “She said that her mother and her mother’s mother and so on and so forth—all that shit, the generational stuff, you get it—passed on stories of great magical prowess, of a spell so powerful, it could reshape reality. She said that the spell plucks a star from the sky and forces it to grant you a wish. The caster has to wrangle a star into submission, Sage, that’s—that’s fucking crazy, right?”

Alden actually looks up at that, considering their words. “I think I’ve heard of something like that. Vaguely. Obviously, it’s banned in Piltover—“

“—right, this definitely happened outside Piltover, even before the undercity was here,” Perle adds, nodding along.

“Yeah, yeah, but… I think it’s taught, still. At least, its existence is. It’s probably just a fable, anyway. There’s no way magic like that exists out there.”

“Right, right,” Perle half-heartedly agrees. “But, you know, it’s fun to think about. Like, if you had a wish like that, what would you do?”

Alden pauses, staring thoughtfully off into the distance. “Um, I’m not sure. That’s kind of a big ask, isn’t it? The kind of power to reshape reality… seems like I’d be a waste of a caster to have that.”

Perle frowns and sits up abruptly. “I don’t think so. You’re the most capable caster I’ve ever seen. You could run Hextech yourself, probably better than—“

“Oh, come on, Perle,” Alden scoffs, leaning back. “Don’t be rude.”

Perle relishes in the brief excitement in his chest at Alden using his new name. It’s been a long, long time since he was anyone but Abalone to anyone, even his mothers. He can’t remember a time he’d been anything different, actually, and it felt… good, personal, intimate, friendly, safe, to have a name just for trusted people. 

“I wouldn’t be rude to two random rich bastards if you weren’t mean to yourself,” Perle mumbles, crossing their arms. “But whatever. If I had a wish, I’d use it—well, actually… hm.”

“See? It’s hard!”

“I don’t know nearly as much magic as you do, that’s not fair!” Perle pouts. “And I can’t cast water magic with my hands at will, Perle,” Alden points out gently. “You’re also not allowed to be mean to yourself.”

“One day, one of us will be powerful enough to get a wish, and when that day comes, we’ll figure out what we want,” Perle decides. “Until then, we gotta think about it.”

Alden gives her a half-smile that indicates they don’t really believe her, but they definitely want to. “Sure.”

Tumblr, follows this mysterious woman who ever so briefly kicked their ass, and Tumblr instinctively fell in love. They’d follow this woman to the ends of the earth— or at least to this rampaging demon boar.

“So um… sorry didn’t catch your name, uh, Yynthengól… is that close by— I’m just a country bumpkin and I’m not well traveled,” tumblr lies through omission, “how long have you been tracking this thing?”

“Vaylii, and Yynthengól is our neighboring kingdom; are you not familiar with the war efforts?”

“Is that who we’ve been fighting this entire time? I’ve been working my farm to supply rations. I wouldn’t know.”

“You’re lucky then,” she says staring into the distance, a shock or reality lurches her back to the present, “anyway the boar was conjured from the ether using blood sacrifices. Nobody knows which side summoned it because it’s been seen crossing the border to maim and gouge. It’s like a pestilence.”

“And you’ve tracked it here.”

“Aye.”

There’s an brief but somehow uncomfortably long silence. The breeze rustles the leave of the trees above; Blorbo’s insistent rolling rustles the leaves beneath them. Vaylii isn’t making a single noise.

As the trio reaches a crest in a hill they find themselves in a burnt clearing. The earth has started eroding away revealing a rocky bouldered surface. In the center, a mountainous boar lay sleeping, flames bursting from its nostrils.

Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat (1999) and Venom (2018) are my comfort films ^-^ I also watch the TV show Bones (2005) a lot too

I FORGOT ABOUT JOSEPH I LOVE JOSEPH

(deadass i um. on my other blog where i recommend blorbos people should ship with, the queue posts them at 10pm daily, which is right now in my time zone. and that's usually also when i get submissions for characters because that's when people remember the blog exists. and my inbox pools everything from all my blogs. so when i got a notif in my inbox-- all this to say, for a solid 15 seconds, i thought someone was submitting Joseph. from the Book of Genesis. to be someone's new f/o. and i just. i was just staring at the screen. for a full 15 seconds. unsure of how to respond-- anyway. time to watch Joseph.)

hi again! (this is the same anon from a while ago who was asking for your thoughts on Aemond bc I wanted to adopt a new blorbo)

I really appreciate the thoughts you provided on him and also all the headcanons you've been posting!!

and, well.... for better or for worse, it worked and now I am totally and completely obsessed with this man!!!!!

I haven't actually gotten around to watching hotd yet, but I've been consuming Aemond content via fanvids, gifsets, fics, etc. and I am DOWN BAD lmaooooo

anyway, all your headcanons for him are always so on-point, and I was wondering what you think about show!Aemond's taste in music?

I know you've mentioned that modern!Aemond likes metal, but I guess if show!Aemond had access to modern music (sorry is this like a totally crazy question?????) what do you think he would gravitate toward?

I feel like I could totally see him as like an indie-folk guy, mostly for the lyrics. just with knowing that he studied philosophy and history and is kind of reserved and quiet (most of the time) it seems to me like he might enjoy songs with really poetic lyrics. maybe this is just me projecting bc I'm a huge The Oh Hellos fan (but what is fandom without a little self-projection onto your favorite characters? 😂), but I feel like he might like their stuff bc their lyrics are so intricate and make so many references and allusions to other texts, religions, and mythologies, as well as self-references that introduce recurring themes and motifs to their discography. idk tho again this is probably just bc I love their music so frickin much and I feel like our dear little nerd Aemond would enjoy feeling smart and getting all the references ☺️

(also, um that line in "The Truth is a Cave" that goes "I was bound and determined to be the child that you wanted" ?????? very Aemondcore imo 😭😭)

but I would really love to know your thoughts!!

thank you for blessing me with all your Aemond thoughts!!!!! I appreciate it soooooo much!!!!!! ☺️☺️

Oh hello there, dear anon!! I was hoping to hear from you again to see if you'd seen the show and I am screaming over you being obsessed with him now! he truly does grow on you, huh?

Ohhhhhhhhh this question is so interesting, omg, thank you so much for dropping it! At first I was like, huh but modern!Aemond is still Aemond?? and then I got it lol! ok so if show!Aemond had access to modern music.....

I totally agree with him leaning into folksy-indie music. I don't listen to it as much because the slow-ish pace of the genre doesn't do it for me but I think the vibe and the subject matter of it would definitely be up Aemond's alley. I think he'd definitely lean into classical music, and one composition I feel like he'd be immediately drawn to is to 'The Planets' by Gustav Holst (and tying it to modern!Aemond somewhat, Op 32: Mars, Bringer of War, is what inspired Black Sabbath's riff for their song 'Black Sabbath'.

On another note, I definitely see him as a Hozier fan! as well as Jamie Campbell Bower's solo works outside of his band, Counterfeit. 'Paralyzed' and 'Start The Fire' are such Aemond songs for me. There's also this singer called Violet Orlandi, who does a lot of acoustic covers of metal and alternative music, and really transforms them into something out of this world, super eerie and cinematic without losing the spirit of the song. So I think that would be an excellent tie in between show!Aemond and modern!Aemond. Her covers of 'War Pigs', 'Paint It Black', 'Freak on a Leash', 'The Unforgiven' and 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' give me LIFE. I'd also like to throw in Kate Bush in there, especially the songs 'Night of the Swallow', 'Jig of Life', 'Hello Earth' and the whole 'The Sensual World' album.

top 5 fav characters?

info dump to your hears content on this one cus it's basicly a blank check

FROM WHAT? ! ok uhhhh going to do one from my main fandoms I guess

Wtdw- the twins (shut up lollipop is one character cause I said so) anyway I love them because I think their dynamic is interesting and just something not explored enough in horror media and their really fun to write. Second fav is ribbon dancer

Fnaf- the day care attendants. BUT ONLY MY VERSION. hot take the dca fandom ruined them. Sorry not sorry. Um. I liked them because of their complexity and the iver all unhinged uncanny valley they had. But the fandom turned them to soft and like romantic. When in my head it's just like two teenagers who are done with everyones shit and go feral. Second fav is vany/Venessa

TADC- while it hasn't been a round long it's made a significant impact on my fandoms list for brain rot. My favorite is gangle so far and I would like to see how they progress as a character. I'm also a theater kid so. Second fav is pomni.

Underverse- fresh ink or color. THRU HI E SO MUCH GENDER AND LIKE ARE DO FUNK ANC EVIL AND I NEVER TALK ABOUT HIM EVER BUT HE DOES MEAN A LOT TO ME SIMPLY FOR HAVEING THE BEST CHARACTER DESIGN OF ALL TIME

And outsiders- I saved this one for last because it's the hardest. I don't really have a favorite. I love Owens complexity. I love Apos character arc. Gracies personality. Magics symbolism and story. Krows choices . Beks attitude. Mowhee everything! Like. I can't pick one! They all mean so much to me. I end up majority writing Owen cause he's the one I've seen the most of but every character is important and special and AH! I love them all so much. So yeah. Sorry I can't pick there.

Other than the last two you'll notice I have a trend with reallying liking characters that have like more than one mind I guess? Gangles comedy and tragedy personalities. Loli and pop. Sun and moon. Idk it's even with some of my second favorited Eric and ribbon. Vanny and Venessa. Huh I guess color counts too actually bring a fusion if fresh and ink.

A friend brought up the trend once and I thought it was cool.

I would like to give and honerable mention to sparrow from new life smp. Because oh boy is he one of my favorite characters of all time. But he's also like the only character of New life i love? Don't get me wrong scotts great but Sparrow is the ideal blorbo so no one can even begin to compare.