#erich is so fucking weird
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Whumptober Sneak Peek, Day Five
“Poor baby,” The other vampire cooed, running her fingers back through his thick dark hair, speckled with hints of gray that had never grown in any further, frozen in time. “It’ll be a hard true death, you know. A rough one. It’s going to hurt.” She breathed the last words, and pressed a kiss to his lips, where blood was bubbling up, running out of him everywhere it could find an escape. Her lips were warm from feeding.
His were ice-cold, as he faded away.
“But that’s what you get for muscling in on my kill. I hope it’s agony, as you go. I hope you meet your true death weeping.” She pulled back, smiling at him, her eyes glowing faintly in the dark.
Erich coughed up a little more blood.
As she stood up, dusting her hands off, he turned his head, blearily watching her as she began to walk away on heavy platform heels. “Hey,” He croaked, one hand out, scraping at the pavement and broken rock beneath him. “Listen.”
She paused, without looking back. She wore a heavy leather jacket, black jeans, her hair was dyed darker than the night sky. “What?”
“It’s… n-not agony,” Erich managed, and now she did look at him, over one shoulder. He watched her put her hands into her pockets, pull out a lighter and light a cigarette with shaking hands. “It’s… it’s going to be… good. After.”
#whumptober planning#writing excerpt#erich is so fucking weird#erich eeten#vampire whumper#vampire whumpee#blood tw#death talk#he is so fucking weird#but not as weird as auri is at the end of this piece
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v. excited that panda 3 is gonna come out roughly around my birthday. further exploring the rich and vibrant ancients' lore in laha's sex dungeon was at the top of my wish list
#they'd better not do the dumb thing they could do with erich#it would be so massively lame#I just want it to be weird and fucked up#and for erich to be happy for a little while because he's my son#but mostly for more material for my lahabrea cringe fail compilation#square please!!!!!#ffxiv spoilers#mp#ffxivmp#also hoping for more athena of course
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Spoilers from that new short story:
Huh. So Mitron is a lady? Hmmmm~ OG LogMit be lesbians~
Also Lahabrea and Igeyorhm are related? Huh interesting! So Erich has an older cousin/aunt-like person in his life?
THEMIS IS SO FUCKING SMITTEN OH MY GODS I LOVE IT
Everything was painful with the Hermes conversation. Gods man. Like he's almost got it and is almost regretting it but also "we will live." Still doesn't make me like him, but adds a bit more depth.
SMILEY HADES BEING ALL CONTENT AND HAPPY AND SOFT FOR AZEM I WANNA CHEW CONCRETE
Lolol everyone knows what the trio is basically up to. Can we just say MARRIED?
(just my headcanon, don't get weird with me)
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{ 🔥🔥🔥 let's burn it all down >:3 }
[ACCEPTING ✅]Send me a “ 🔥 “ for an unpopular opinion.
awright awright awright.
🔥 #1: people portraying hyth as a yandere and acting its so cute and romantic uwu. i literally hate this so much?? like maybe DON'T romanticize stalkers?? also hyth's character is nOTHING like that…idk why any vaguely cute pastel aesthetic-adjacent character gets treated like this…literally disgusting
🔥 #2: people being weirdly possessive and abnormal about ppl they're exclusives with makes me incredibly fucking angry. the concept of having exclusives isn't a bad thing in and of itself, it's honestly a relief to see many ppl here who are 100% normal abt their exclusives, but i can't help be extremely hesitant abt having exclusives bc i've had SO many bad experiences with ppl who've been ship exclusive with me -- several of which graduated into said individual(s) stalking, harassing, and slandering me and a weird wildly uncomfy situation where they couldn't or didn't want to discern the difference between me, the mun, and the character i was writing. i'm totally fine with having mains, but exclusives is like. i'll have to trust you IMMENSELY as both a person and a writer before i even consider it.
🔥 #3: as a biracial black person, i do kind of :^/ at how the darker-skinned ancients who get the most screentime; who are essentially my Representation (erichthonios and lahabrea -- and don't get me wrong, pandaemonium is fucking cool and i LOVE ERICH AND LAHA SO FUCKING MUCH,,.) ended up being relegated to a darker, sadder part of the world unsundered/amaurot's whole setup. like yes, hermes also has a very sad story and he's from elpis but part of the whole issue is that hermes, who was our main poc ancient before erich and laha were introduced, has SE's penchant of "woe, ur a darker skinned masc character, so villainhood be upon ye!" foisted on him and he doesn't get any form of redemption, closure, or absolution of any kind in the end either? (see also: lyse being a blonde-haired lightskinned side hero of stormblood in direct opposition to ilberd, a large dark-skinned ala mhigan who DIRECRTLY SUFFERED at the hands of his oppressors no less. my objection here is the colourism; if they'd made lyse brown i'd have FAR less objections there.) at this point, i'm kinda fucking tired of seeing darker-skinned characters always being The Bad Guys. i kinda wanna see poc characters in FFXIV who AREN'T bad guys, traumatized, or turned "evil" or anything like that -- or at least, i want to see opportunities for those who do get this treatment to have some sort of redemption or realization thing happen? idk.
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Hmm Artoria, Emiya (servant), Nagito, and Elidibus
First impression
Artoria: KING ARTHUR AS A GIRL????????? Okay you know what that could absolutely work, let's see how this goes.
Emiya: .........oh shit. Just. Just that, in the most resigned tone of voice humanly possible. Especially when he opened his mouth and I heard his seiyuu.
Nagito: Oh, he's fluffy! But also fandom is weird as fuck about him I do not trust like this....
Elidibus: ASCIAN! Interesting one, clearly evil, but also...helpful? Hmmmmm.
Impression now
Artoria: My god, I love her. I love you girl, I'd kill for you girl, you need to treat yourself better girl. Girl. Girl you had to deal with so much lunacy in that kingdom I love you please go take a nap. Love yourself.
Emiya: lies slowly down on the floor and cries into the carpet, good lord i love this stupid fucking depressed traumatized big brother idiot man.
Nagito: MY BOY MY CHILD MY POOR SWEET FUCKED UP BABY I DON'T CARE HOW WEIRD FANDOM IS ABOUT YOU I CHERISH YOU ANYWAY
Elidibus: [uncontrollable sobbing] THEMIS MY BABY BROTHER I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUU
Favorite moment
Artoria: I don't have a standout moment for her? She's just lowkey amazing the whole time, frankly.
Emiya: His final fight with Shirou, that whole backstory dump speech, every time his theme starts pumping. But also his entire existence in the Servant Summercamp event is pure distilled joy, I love when they roast him for UBW.
Nagito: His almost-confession, how absolutely 100% Done he is with Mikan in chapter 3's trial, that one condescending talksprite, how ready he was in DR3 Despair Arc to fucking murder the shit out of Junko...everything about his OVA...
Elidibus: 5.3, just...5.3. All of it. Also the bit in Pande part 1 where he fucking punches the floor to dispel the binding, CHILD I love that shit.
Idea for a story
Artoria: Like I said, I desperately need Camelot shenanigans, I also want to write stuff with her and PHH Vortigern post LB6 loredrops. I also also want to sit her the fuck down and shake her until she realizes Camelot falling wasn't something she needs to fix.
Emiya: Give this man a fucking vacation let him be a stupid college student let him have fun he deserves it.
Nagito: I still have that 'Nagito didn't get Despair'd back in the beginning and works with the Future Foundation to save his class' AU rent free in my head...
Elidibus: MORE THEMIS SHENANIGANS PLEASE GOD
Unpopular opinion
Artoria: She is NOT WAIFU BAIT SHE IS A PERFECTLY GOOD AND REASONABLE INTERPRETATION OF WHAT IF ARTHUR HAD BEEN A WOMAN AND IT WORKS VERY WELL AND I LOVE HER AND SHE'S EXTREMELY WELL HANDLED THANK YOU
Emiya: He's not an edgy hardcore badass, dudebros, he's not cool and he's not admirable and you don't wanna be him, he's a traumatized fucked up 20something but also ancient immortal cleaner who desperately wanted to die badly enough he was going to try to kill his past self even knowing there was a good chance it wouldn't work, but also kind of hoping it didn't anyway. He's a mess, and I love him for it. Also I don't ship him and Cu.
Nagito: OH GOD OH JESUS WE DO NOT WANT TO OPEN THIS CAN OF WORMS, EVERYONE. Just know I hate 95% of fandom opinions on him.
Elidibus: There's been a lot of pushback on this, so it's becoming more popular but I'll just reiterate: HE'S NOT A LITERAL CHILD. Also, I don't really ship him and Erich? Cute friendship tho!
Favorite relationship
Artoria: Her and Rin and Shirou, her and Merlin, her and her knights. Her and Mordred, poor kid. I'd love to see her interact with Oberon Vortigern for obvious Vortigern reasons.
Emiya: Him and Shirou and Artoria and Rin, but also like I've said, the Gil Cu Emiya idiot trio gives me all kinds of life.
Nagito: KOMAHINANAMI!!!!!!!!!! But also his friendship with Fuyuhiko is absolutely amazing.
Elidibus: The unsundered, yes, and also Themis and Azem.
Favorite headcanon
Artoria: She met her uncle Vortigern when she was veeeeery little, before she went to Ector and Kay, and he gave her her first hair ribbon because he wore one too.
Emiya: He has a scar through his eyebrow that neither Shirou nor Emiya Alter have, it's the one thing that's completely one hundred percent his, not something he has to share with a double.
Nagito: He needs glasses very badly, he just loses or breaks them enough he goes without. Who needs contacts?
Elidibus: Themis and my personal Azem are blood siblings and both the sons of Venat and potentially a certain other Convocation member who will remain unnamed because neither Themis nor Azem know who their dad is, but it makes Pande hilarious. :)
#ffxivblogging#fateseriesblogging#chara: everyone's hero#chara: a fleeting wisp of glory#drseriesblogging#chara: reaching for hope
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Heyyy, for the book ask :)
7, 9, 14, 23, 24, 29, 31, 41, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 62, 76, 88, 93, 97, 104, 114, 122, 125, 126
aww thanks!
7. A Book You Did Not Finish
I haven't DNFed a book in while because I am very picky with what I read, but one that comes to mind was this God awful book called "Awake" by Natasha Preston. I thought it was gonna be a mystery book because of the blurb, but instead it was just a wattpad style straight romance that made me want to die.
9. Your favorite book of 2020
I'll have to go with "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley. I ADORE that book!
14. A book that made you trip on literary acid
This may sound like a weird choice, but it's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" for me. Maybe it’s due to the circumstances in which I first watched the movie (basically high on sugar and at 3am), but the book was just... weird.
23. A book that is currently on your TBR
"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern. It's the favorite book of a friend.
24. A book on your nightstand.
"Great Goddesses" by Nikita Gill (the author is my favorite poet)
29. Your favorite YA novel.
"The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas. 11/10 stars.
31. A book that mentions a name in the title.
"My Lady Jane" by Cynthia Hand (and other people). Hilarious story. I probably won’t like it as much the next time I read it, but I loved it in 2019, and that’s what matters i guess lol.
41. A book about nature
*squints* Well, I am no nature-expert but... Are dolphins a part of nature? If so, "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
46. A book with a brown cover
Well, it's not entirely brown, but it mostly is, so I submit my copy of Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Best Shakespeare book I've read.
48. Your favorite sci-fi novel
I am ashamed to say that the only scifi novel I own and have read is "Winter's Orbit" by Everina Maxwell
49. A book featuring the bed-sharing trope
Lmfao of course I would use this book for THIS question - "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo, aka my favorite book rn
50. A book that made you cry a LOT
"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It is one of my alltime favorite classics.
51. A book that you found underwhelming
"Normal People" by Sally Rooney. I hate this book. Both so fucking pretentious and yet boringly unreal. Like... what do people see in this book? Do they like it just because it’s a “sad” book? Like, I believe in “to each their own” but still...
52. A popular book/series you love.
The Grishaverse. Favorite series ever
62. A book with a forgettable plot but amazing characters
“Crier's War” by Nina Varela
76. A book with a golden/silver cover.
Would one consider "King of Scars" by Leigh Bardugo a gold cover? Yes.
88. A book that made you angry.
"Just So Stories" by whatever that dead racist is called. I was assigned to read it in school, and I was SO furious the entire time, it is so fucking racist, omg, please bombard this book with 1 star ratings because it has a 4.08 star rating on goodreads and like WHY? IT IS SO EVIL!
93. A book featuring an unreliable narrator.
I was about to say a certain Agatha Christie book, but I feel like that just spoils the murderer, so I'll say "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart. Honestly it isn't a great book, I literally read it because I saw a page of it on pinterest and thought it was cool, but it was just... All right?
97. A book with a hospital setting.
The only book I know that has anything to do with hospitals is "The Fault in our Stars", but I would not recommend that.
104. A fluffy, sweet read.
I don't read much fluffy stuff outside of fanfiction, but let's see *searchs room* "Heartstopper" by Alice Oseman (tho there are serious topics in it)
114. Your favorite chick lit novel.
What does this mean.
Um, I'm just gonna say "One Last Stop" by Casey McQuiston. It's kind of like what Google says this genre is I guess?
122. Your favorite winter read.
This has nothing to do with winter, but I have reread it several times during winter so... "The Chosen" by Chaim Potak.
125. Your favorite autumn read.
Probably "Anne of Green Gables", I was raised on the Megan Follows movie (and the book itself of course), so...
126. Your favorite spring read.
Here's a childhood favorite that I for some reason usually only read in spring: "A Hidden Magic" by Vivian Vande Velde. It's a children's book, not that long, but it's amazing, and I love it!!
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Card: Eight of Swords
I tried intentional meditation for the first time this morning. It is a very sunny morning, not a cloud in the sky. The air was cool, staying in the mid 60's with a gentle wind. I set up my mat out on my back porch and did my usual morning routine I've developed over the past month or so. I go through a series of stretches for 10 minutes to open up my stiffened muscles from the night before. However, I've heard how sunlight is very important for human, so I changed my pants into shorts and started stretching, my bare skin exposed to the sunlight.
But after getting a good stretch in, I decided I would try to meditate. In Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation, she defines mindfulness as the act of allowing your mind to wander and you to just observe what comes to mind.
I've always been very intimidated by meditation. To me, meditation was an intangible art that takes decades to master. Meditation had to be done in a very specific way. And while this is still probably true, I was driven away from any attempts because of a fear that I was going to be doing it wrong. It's also kind of how I've felt about yoga or lifting weights before. I've always felt pretty uncoordinated and not very connected with my body, and when peers or coaches would attempt to correct my form when doing some sort of physical exercise, I always struggled to understand and implement what the were saying. Because I was stretching wrong, or lifting a weight wrong, or running wrong, it always felt like I was failing at it. Obviously when someone tells you you are failing at something, it feels bad. When people are suggesting how to change what you're doing, and you're struggling to do so, it's easy to see how one might just avoid even attempting to do the act. It's me fully realizing that I have these thoughts about failing that I had to adopt the following mentality:
FUCK. YOU.
When first starting any new endeavor, you're going to be doing things wrong. I was so scared of not lifting weights in the correct way that I would injure myself. While it's true that form matters, and that being doing certain lifts "wrong" you can really hurt yourself, you have to start doing them somewhere. You're going to have bad or "weird" form when starting new exercises, and instead of being super worried about how others are looking at you or hurting yourself, you just have to remember one thing.
Fuck you.
I'm in here, I'm doing my thing, I don't need anyone telling me I'm doing something right or wrong, fuck you. Fuck anyone who has anything to say to me without my permission.
I know this is a radical way of thinking, but it's one I had to adopt to be able to gain the confidence within myself to start somewhere. I realized I'll learn to perfect form as I go. And yes, I could hurt myself, but unless I'm doing something WAY wrong, then you're probably not going to hurt yourself.
It's the same way with yoga (or just stretching.) A good friend of mine, Erich Sneller, is an award winning high school science teacher and all-around wise man (and wild man.) He's also a yoga teacher, and I've attended a few of his classes. Outside of class, we've talked about yoga and muscle fitness in general, and this idea he told me really stuck with me.
As long as you're feeling a stretch in your muscles, you're doing yoga right. There's no "right" way of doing it. The only "wrong" ways are if you're feeling pain or hurting yourself.
That idea really resounded with me. To me, the whole point of doing a yoga class (besides being with a community of people) is to have someone guide you through stretches in your body. A big point of yoga is to reconnect with your body and getting everything moving and active again. The ultimate goal of yoga, in my head, is to gain full awareness of your body, so you can listen to what it needs and have a full range of stretches that can target whatever areas you need stretched out.
With that logic, you don't even need a teacher if you can feel what your body wants and needs. During a yoga class, if you feel you quads are tight as hell, you could spend the whole class just stretching your quads while everyone else is going through the guided motions. Obviously everyone may think you strange, but being worried about how other's think of you isn't worth the worry.
ANYWAYS, all of that said, I do not give a damn about if I'm doing meditation right or wrong. At the moment, I'm just now starting off. I understand one of the main ideas of it, which is just to devoid oneself of external stimulation and let your mind wonder. It's an exercise to observe what comes to mind, and then letting it pass over.
And you know what? It felt good.
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Oh man I uh.... wowie. How do I say this. I just went out on my first date with this wonderful guy and he has stunningly similar features to oscar isaac and I’m just really trying to not let my little heart get too carried away
#me#personal#help#oscar isaac#first date#jesus#I really fucking hope he turns out to be real#please don't be a weird psycho#So far he has NOT put out a single red flag.#only kindness in his eyes too#nothing dark#nothing sinister#omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg#please#February 24th 2021#Erich
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I finished All Quiet On The Western Front about a week ago and I have not stopped being sad once
#yeah ik this isn't the uniform Paul would wear#I think this one is for German officers but uhh its real pretty#fuck!!! :) shouldn't have kept the quote on it looks weird as balls#idk lol#my art#paul baumer#erich maria remarque#all quiet on the western front#oh this quote is on page 95 :)#I would say it's really gay except Kat is like 20 years older than Paul so no thanks lol#people are allowed to be father figures thanks!!!!!#wow gosh I really do love me some profiles#it's all I ever draw nowadays#also this is not what movie Paul looks like.#movie Paul is both extremely unattractive and very very hot#anyway :)#q
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I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE CARES BUT I SURE DO.
The GERMAN names for some of the Premades are making me fcking cry:
Pleasantview :
The Pleasants are named "Pretty" and i think that's beautiful
Mary Sue - Marie Claire (WHAT WERE U THINKIN Y TF "CLAIRE" HELLO)
Lillith - Lilli (Now her name doesn't have its great meaning i just cry)
The Broke houshold is named BROWN
Brandi - Babsi (BRO WHAT IS THIS WHO CALLS HER DAUGHTER BABSI?)
Beau - Bernd (A grandpa name)
Dustin - Detlef (THIS SOUNDS LIKE A HOMELESS MANS NAME I-)
The Dreamers aren't only Dreamers in the german version, no nono, their last name is DREAMDANCER
Darren - Hugo (literally why)
The Oldies surname is Oldiron, OLD IRON.
Movin over To Veronaville because oh boy Strangetown gets the crown when it comes to german names let me tell ya.
Veronaville :
Not a lot of change here but Tybalt is Theobald and Mercutio is Victorio
Puck - Piet
Bottom - Andrea (this is such a basic name for womans in their 40's 😭)
Goneril - Gerda (wHaT)
Albany - Albert (ok boomer)
Hal - Hans
Ariel - Elvira (???what)
Regan - Rita
Cornwall - Erich (Bro)
Ok and now i want to present to you the Strangest names:
Strangetown :
The Smith family is named Schmitt, thats like how every doctor in my area is named. The only change her is little Jill, whos name is Britta, again a name for a lady in their 40's (my opinion ok)
Many may know this, but the Specter houshoulds german surname is SPECK which means Bacon. BACON
Olive - Olivia (i like olive more because of olives garden but olivia sounds cute)
What if i tell you that the Beakers are bakers? Because thats what their german surname means.
And the worst is : Loki - Klausi (Klausi is literally a cat name omg Catboy Loki might be confi-)
My Courios boys got to keep their surname, but OH MY WATCHER I SWEAR, I TOUGHT VIDCUND WAS A BAD NAME, BUT GERMANY REALLY SAID : ,,i can do it better"
Lazlo - Lutz
Vidcund - (breath in and out...) Friedbert. (What on earth is that i am so mad and sad and just everything-)
Crystal Vu - Petra Kwiek(I DARE U TO TRY TO PRONOUNCE HER LAST NAME, CAUSE I CAN NOT-....poor bby..)
Singles :
Nothing but, uh...
Erin: Erna (i facepalm everytime i read This)
Ok and now i want to show you: #1 when it comes to weird and unfitting names that make me feel uncomfortable...
Ajay Loner is Lonely in german, and his new (really fucking unfitting) name is Arthur.
The Grunt Family
Or if we talk about the names in germany, the grunz familie (oink!)
Buzz - Fritz (this is so funny, cuz i can not take him seriously with this name)
Buck - Gerd (an old mans name ok)
Ripp - Richard (o m g i gotta say, i think it is kinda fitting, but Ripp is just so much better for them!!)
Tank - Theo (No just no)
That would be it! I made this list because i found it funny but at the same time just heartbreaking how the names are so weird in german sims 2. Anyway thank you for reading this i hope u had sum fun.
All the people that aren't included kept their original/english names!!
#sims2premades#sims 2#sims2#ts2#strangetown#veronaville#pleasantview#simfamilys#tankgrunt#ripp grunt#jillsmith#marie-claire#😭#why did i make this
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Oooh, this is so interesting!
But for my second question I was more wondering, for Erich, who has one human soulmate and one spirit soulmate, does that difference in... state? affect the bond in anyway? Like, is there a difference in the bound between a human/human bond and a human/spirit one?
Also, what would happen if Kisuke were to go back to Soul Society? Does the bond get muted or something if the persons are in different world?
Also, how strong does a bond between soulmates can go? Like, does it reach the point where it’s almost a one soul/two bodies kind of deal? (If we take like, Ukitake and Kyoraku, who are very old and have had so long to develop their bond.) What would such a strong bond implies?
Also, does the fact that Kisuke is a shinigami and Erich and Alexis Quincy could possibly have weird consequences? Like, you mentioned that soulmates can bleed through a shinigami inner world. But how does quincy power and shinigami power interact on a soul level? (This could also have interesting consequence with people like Shinji and co who have a hollow in their soul)
I have so many question ohmygod but this is so interesting. So, to finish, what happens to hollow and arrancar? They are a whole soup of different people who each had soulmates, does that have any influence on the hollow itself?
XD Okay another cut bc LONG, but also fun, so!
1 and 3 bc interlinked) state of the bond, human/human vs human/spirit, and strength of the bond
It does affect it to an extent! Erich mentions at one point that he and Alexis are as close to being a single soul in two bodies as people can be, which, in his view, IS correct. He and Alexis have cultivated their bond to be very close, closer than most soulmates tend to go for, and at close range it can be very difficult to tell them apart at the spiritual level bc their souls are kinda bleeding together. It's only really obvious at close range, to be fair, but the effect is definitely there.
Spirits like Shinigami or ppl in the Rukongai, however, can become MUCH closer. If they're not careful, even "physical" traits bleed over a bit, depending upon how close they are. So things like eye-color, hair color, skin tone, etc can be influenced by a super close bond! It won't be directly obvious when Kisuke's in his gigai, at least not initially, and it will take time and lots of trust, but it's very possible that by the time the main Bleach arc starts, Kisuke's eyes have a touch of brown and blue to them alongside the mutable grey-green, and maybe his hair is a bit wavy and a bit darker... well. Anything's possible =)
(Of course, at that point, Erich and Alexis are both souls themselves, so the influence will go all three ways!)
A bond so strong that it physically affects the appearance of a spirit is.. well. It's Not Entirely Discussed, but the implications there in Shinigami society is that you're maaaaybe possibly a little too much attached. In Rukongai it's much different, and viewed as more a sign of devotion and a thing to aim for.
Kisuke doesn't actually know it's possible. Yoruichi does, because she grew up as a clan brat proper and got all the lessons that Kisuke didn't, but she's not going to say anything because for once Kisuke seems HAPPY, so... she's not fucking with that.
Ukitake and Kyoraku do have a very close soulmate relationship, yes! And it HAS influenced their appearance, also yes! but only a handful of Shinigami are old enough to put the clues together, and while the Soutaichou is basically *heavy sigh* at his students, he's given up trying to fight them on this.
2) Kisuke returning to soul society
The connection dims, and it dims quite a bit. It also becomes "directionless" (I believe I mentioned at one point that soulmates in this AU can sort of Hot-Cold their way into finding their soulmates, by traveling around and seeing if the 'ping' they get from their nascent bond changes any) when a soulmate is in one of the other worlds.
4) Influence and consequences of Shinigami and Quincy powers mingling
Hoo boy, this is.. Definitely a Thing.
So, they can and will influence each other's powers, especially if they're not careful. It won't show up in the rest of the story, but if I can draw your attention to the very start of the AU, when Erich "pulls" from his soulmates and throws up a shield to save himself? No one actually realizes this, but that action not only blitzed Erich's connection to Kisuke wide open, but it set the stage for the two of them specifically to be... very interconnected with their powers.
Alexis can manage it with a bit of concentration, but for Kisuke and Erich, using each other's powerset will -- with time and patience and trust -- become almost as easy as using their own. It's also a downside, because they have to learn how to keep from accidentally drawing from the other without realizing. Kisuke will eventually be able to do a hacky sort of materialization with free reishi, and learn how to refill his reserves from the world around him. Erich will be able to use Shinigami Kido and, if it ever came down to it, could weild Benihime and use her abilities almost as well as Kisuke, especially if he's DEFENDING Kisuke and needs her help.
More realistically, from a less Exception standpoint: Alexis and Kisuke
If Erich hadn't done what he'd done at the start, how this would work out is sorta like... they can all share power between them, and they have a touch of access to each other's abilities in a way: Quincy able to purify Hollows, Shinigami able to unmake Hollows, and things like that. Basic, "intrinsic" skills shared between them. In time -- and given a blank zanpakutou -- a Quincy might even be able to form a pseudo-zanpakutou if they wanted, though it would never be entirely correct, and they wouldn't be able to do everything a Shinigami can.
(On a sidenote, the Vizard are a weird edge-case because they do have a Hollow inside them, but it's a Hollow of THEM, there's no... other souls involved. So their soulmate connections become a bit weird, but nothing much changes there.)
5) Hollows and Arrancar
The dominant soul is the one with the soulmate links on display! For lesser Hollows that kinda shift and wibble control between souls, it means their soulmate links can absolutely change day to day. For more stable souls like Arrancar and Vasto Lorde, they absolutely don't, though they can have "vestigial" marks (typically withered leaves or similar) for any strong-but-not-dominant soul inside them that's powerful enough to be a contender for control.
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The Complete Fiction of HP Lovecraft rated by me, someone who read them all* but has a terrible memory
The Beast in The Cave: uh a guy goes on a cave tour and finds a creature that was like a human that got lost and adapted to its surroundings. 0/10 just because im pretty sure there was another one with this exact premise and neither of them were memorable at all.
The Alchemist: dude achieves immortality and lives in the narrators basement and has pledged to murder his entire lineage or something. 4/10 the alchemy stuff was actually kind of interesting
The Tomb: im pretty sure this is the one where a guy starts hanging out in a tomb and like travels back in time/becomes one of his ancestors? 5/10 if its the one im thinking of i did enjoy reading it
Dagon: guy lands on a mysterious island with signs of a long dead civilization. 1/10 i do not remember what happened in it
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson: 0/10 i have no memory of this
Polaris: also 0/10 i forgot all about it
Beyond the Wall of Sleep: could be any of the dream focused ones. if its the one about the dude sailing into the void or whatever than 4/10 not too bad
Memory: ironically, i dont remember it. 0/10
Old Bugs: 1/10 for the title god i wish i remembered this one
The Transition of Juan Romero: i got nothing. 0/10
The White Ship: this might also be the one about the dude sailing into the void? i liked that one he lived in a lighthouse and boarded a dream ship and just fucking left it was fun. 4/10
The Street: uh i think really steep street that didnt actually exist. 3/10
The Doom that Came to Sarnath: i wanna say another one of the dream centered ones where a town discovers some old relics and blatantly disrespects them and gets exactly whats coming to it. 5/10 they deserved what they got
The Statement of Randolph Carter: ok this dude shows up several times. i think this one is about how he returns to his childhood home then travels back in time and creates a time loop paradox thing. 1/10 meh
The Terrible Old Man: uh some thieves harrass a weird old guy and get got. 5/10
The Cats of Ulthar: someone is mean to a cat in a dream city, all of the rest of the cats get revenge and are revered for the rest of time. 2/10 (-3 because lovecraft has a specific name he gives to apparently every fictional and real cat he encounters and wow i wish he hadn't)
The Tree: i feel like this is something to do with a person becoming a tree but i cant actually remember. 0/10
Celephais: yeah no i got nothing 0/10
The Picture in the House: also nothing 0/10
The Temple: nope 0/10
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family: is this the one where the dude's great grandfather married an ape? i dont think so but im not sure. 0/10, -5/10 if it is that one cause that one was especially shitty
From Beyond: nope 0/10
Nyarlathotep: charismatic dude shows up and is like get in bitches we're going to the void. i love nyarlathotep cause hes the one who directly interacts with humanity and like wears a human suit or whatever so hes just some dude whos like hey im gonna feed you to azathoth 5/0
The Quest of Iranon: got nothing 0/10
The Music of Erich Zann: narrator makes friends with an old musician whos being hunted by supernatural forces. 2/10 because i remember it but it was just ok
Ex Oblivione: 1/10 for the title but i have no clue what it was about
Sweet Ermengarde: lovecraft's sole attempt at comedy. not to my taste like at all 0/10
The Nameless city: nope 0/10
The Outsider: also nope 0/10
The Moon-Bog: sounds cool, dont remember it. 0/10
The Other Gods: dude tries to find the gods of humanity where they live on a big mountain, actually finds them, is immediately smited by the Other Gods who protect the gods of humanity. 3/10 he deserved it
Azathoth: dont recall, 0/10
Herbert West- Reanimator: Arkham man Herbert West and his assistant ressurect the dead with little thought to the consequences, then get murdered by a band of said resurrected dead. 5/10
Hypnos: nope 0/10
What the Moon Brings: also nope 0/10
The Hound: still nope 0/10
The Lurking Fear: again, nope 0/10
The Rats in the Walls: dude returns to his ancestral home, hears rats, excavates the basement and finds out that his ancestors ate human flesh, eats his friend. 1/10 it was an interesting read but can lovecraft please stop calling cats that.
The Unnameable: no clue 0/10
The Festival: nope 0/10
*Under the Pyramids: ok im pretty sure this is the one with houdini which is the only one i could not read. i went into this mentally prepared for lovecraft's bigotry but i was not mentally prepared for him dropping harry houdini, avid skeptic who absolutely would have beat the shit out of him for this, into the middle of his super racist paranormal horror. -1000/10
The Shunned House: nope 0/10
The Horror at Red Hook: also nope 0/10
He: cool title, no memory of the story. 0/10
In the Vault: wow im bad at this. 0/10
Cool Air: still no 0/10
The Call of Cthulhu: kind of all over the place, there was a thing about artists and then a thing about a cop investigating a cult. 3/10 meh but ill give it a bonus for being a staple of horror fiction.
Pickman's Model: uh artist sees some wild shit and draws it and then it eats him. 2/10 i forget the details
The Strange High House in the Mist: if this is the one im thinking of, dude does a dangerous climb to find a mysterious house and meet the inhabitant who is kind of interdimensional and also being hunted by interdimensional things. also maybe the house eats people? 2/10
The Silver Key: another Randolph Carter one, and i think this is actually the one about him travelling back in time so idk what the other one was. 3/10
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath: randolph carter goes on a quest in the dream world to find the gods of humanity and ask why they wont let him check out this cool city he can see from his window. lots of action and very wordy and went a lot of different places. 4/10 good read but extremely xenophobic
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: guy investigates his ancestor who looks disturbingly like him, ancestor comes back to life and kills him and takes his place and a bunch of other stuff happens. mostly a dramatized genealogical study. 3/10 not bad, very suspenseful
The Colour Out Of Space: meteor lands on a farm, scientists get weirded out by it, everything in the area gets weird then dead, alien thing gets enough power from draining nearby life-forms to escape earth. fun twist ending. 4/10 bonus for being one of the better ones, detraction for writing out a 'rural accent'
The Descendant: nope, 0/10
The Very Old Folk: nope again, 0/10
History of the Necronomicon: very dry. fake history of lovecraft's fake book thats super important to a lot of the stories. 0/10
The Dunwich Horror: isolated witchy family has a kid who no one likes that grows up real fast. graphic descriptions of renovation. a horror gets unleashed on the area and the local folklore scholars have to deal with it. 1/10 nothing good enough to counter the xenophobia
Ibid: i remember this one. no idea what it's deal was. pseudo-bibliography? it was weird. 0/10
The Whisperer in Darkness: guy has a correspondance with another guy about local folk legends based on evil crab things. other guy gets straight up replaced by an evil crab thing and first guy doesnt even notice. imagine if you followed up on a scam email and didnt realize anything was up until you saw that the face of the dude you were talking to in person was a mask. 4/10 for the comedy this guy would not last in the internet age at all
At The Mountains of Madness: guy whines about penguins and how awful it would be if there were civilizations that predated humanity. also commits grave desecration. i get hit by the realization that if lovecraft was less of a racist coward he wouldve made a great speculative sci fi author. 3/10 i would love to watch that old asshole get absolutely torn to shreds by the monster fucker community
The Shadow over Innsmouth: Fish People! Leave Them Alone! Or Else! 5/10 the protagonist gets to live the dream by escaping human society and becoming an immortal fish person
The Dreams in the Witch House: dude rents an objectively haunted room, doesnt listen to people trying to help him, gets murdered by a weird rat. later they find a shit ton of bones in the attic. 2/10 meh
Through The Gates of the Silver Key: Randolph Carter transcends time and space, then de-transcends time and space and immediately gets stuck on another planet in the distant past, makes a long and difficult journey back to earth to find that his estate is being divided amongst his heirs. the comedy potential of a man stuck in an alien body dealing with a legal system that has declared him dead is not examined. 2/10
The Thing on the Doorstep: narrator's good friend marries a fish person witch who steals his body. thats basically it. 3/10. at this point im like wow these narrators really refuse to believe the heavily foreshadowed supernatural explanations that turn out to be correct huh.
The Evil Clergyman: dude is in a room. some ghosts (?) show up. dude has a UV light for some reason. Gets his face stolen i guess and just has to live with it. 5/10 for being absolutely buck wild and refusing to explain anything
The Book: nope 0/10
The Shadow Out Of Time: dude gets his body stolen by ancient scholar species. agonizes about it for a while. finds archaeological evidence of said species. finds a book he wrote while living with said species. almost gets eaten by something. 3/10 more cool speculative sci fi but lame protagonist
The Haunter of the Dark: you'd think id remember it bc this was the last one and i read it last night. oh wait, nvm i do remember it. dude finds an old box in a run down culty church and unleashes a horror that then comes and fucks him up. 1/10 meh.
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I’ve been rewatching this cutscene a few times, trying to figure stuff out, and I have absolutely no idea how to describe Towa’s outfit. I mean, it’s a black-and-red catsuit, but what is that blue space on the front? Is that a hole? Is it like sheer fabric? Is it just a swatch of pale blue on her suit that just happens to match her skin tone? Survey says: Fuck this, I’m not going to bother.
I mean, if it was just a hole-shaped hole, I could deal with this, but I’m a lousy describer, and I’m not gonna waste fifty words explaining how this is a V-shaped hole, and it’s positioned in just the right way so the girls can get some air, if you know what I mean. I’ve written a lot of stupid-ass words in this story. “Shockmaster”. “Xan-nil’Dor.” “Darmstadtium.” But I’m drawing the line at “Underboob.” I am Captain Picard in Star Trek: First Contact, throwing his phaser rifle at a bunch of model ships. This far, no further.
On a less apoplectic note, it is weird to have to separate the chracters in the official media from the version I’m developing in my head. I’ve had to figure out this whole dynamic for these two, and every so often I have to remind myself that none of it’s canon. The Mira stages in the XV games are always dull as dirt, because he’s just some big dull guy who shows up, like the Baron Corbin of Dragon Ball Z. The games want you to imagine he’s like your OC’s rival, but that’s bullshit. My OC’s got a whole list of guys she needs to beat up, and he’s not even in the top thirty. But I still gotta use the guy in this story, which means somebody has to do the heavy lifting of making him a compelling character, so I guess I’ll save the day again, Bandai Namco. My character has to make your character look good, like Ric Flair doing a 60 minute broadway with one of the uglier Von Erichs.
I should probably get started.
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expanse finale
overall... didn’t love it. At least I didn’t hate it either.
negatives
I’m just so fucking sad for Drummer. And just... it all felt so unnecessary. Pa didn’t get put through this in the books and we didn’t even get to see Drummer finding out she saved Naomi. It’s just... misery for the sake of misery while Naomi and Holden got their happy reunion.
I’m glad Alex was killed off but did not enjoy so much of the episode then (probably necessarily) turning into a goodbye to him. I know it probably had to happen this way but it was still a drag.
I really couldn’t get one Holden/Amos hug huh. had to go for the no homo shoulder pat.
Bobbie really got shafted this season. I want to hope the missile riding crowning moment of awesome will reappear in s6 (maybe. along with. the i love you. *puts on clown makeup*)
the pacing of the second half of this season was just weird. I felt like the Amos/Clarissa escape from earth climax should have also happened in this episode.
positives
Jacob Mundell was so great as Erich and I loved his final scene with Amos. I’m genuinely shipping them now.
AMOS/NAOMI REUNION HUG. Everything about them in this episode was just wonderful
I want to reach through my screen and murder Marco with my bare hands every time he interacts with Filip. This is a positive. I really love show Filip.
we got the Bobbie and Naomi rescue scene! One of my faves, and I really liked seeing it adapted.
loved seeing the ring gate aliens at the end there. super cool.
Naomi’s formal outfit. I am looking respectfully.
And obviously, everything about the Chrisjen and Bobbie reunion had me screeching in an undignified manner.
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So You’re New to H.P. Lovecraft
Where to start? How will I know what stories grab me?? Well, come along, my friends as I give you some of his most well-known and beloved stories, REDNOTES EDITION
Dagon: The ocean is scary as fuck, fish are even scarier, and the idea of giant fish people makes me just about shit my pants.
The Temple: You know that story about some sailors kidnapping Dionysus and he makes them all go crazy and jump overboard and then turn into dolphins? Yeah that but with cartoonishly evil Germans on a submarine. Fucking Huns!
The Lurking Fear: The....(checks notes)...ooh I’m running out of minorities....uhh...the...Dutch are subhuman inbred cannibals? The Dutch? Is that right? That can’t be right. No, yeah, wait, says right here. Dutch...subhuman, inbred cannibals. Huh.
The Call of Cthulhu: What if all people of color were insane and in a global cult to evil gooey Gods who live at the bottom of the ocean and also probably drove my mom crazy
Cool Air: WebMD, my upstairs roommate lives in a literal fridge, bathes in embalming fluid, and never eats, drinks, or breathes. Should I be concerned?
The Colour Out of Space: Eerily prescient (if exaggerated) description of the effects of radiation poisoning offset by HILARIOUSLY stupid-ass ideas about how color works
Pickman’s Model: Your buddy turns out to be really good at painting hyper-realistic monsters cause they come into his studio and model for him. You should have guessed, honestly.
Nyarlathotep: Okay, hear me out: I’m pretty sure Nikola Tesla is literally Satan.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth: Okay, you know what, fish people are SO scary that the scariest thing i could EVER think of is the idea of one fucking my mom, and rather than talk to my therapist about why that’s a recurring anxiety of mine, I’m gonna use it to write a parable about miscegenation. This story will age incredibly well.
The Rats in the Walls: Racist-as-fuck Southern slave-owner returns to his old family Priory in England to get in touch with his lordly Anglo-Saxon roots, discovers his family were horrible cannibalistic monsters who farmed people like cattle, and takes an immediate, screaming nosedive into primitive, frothing, raving, flesh-eating insanity. Wait, am I approaching something resembling self-awareness about my horrible racial views? Yuck, better call the cat N*****-Man to even it out
The Music of Erich Zann: Crazy old guy in a creepy old room in a creepy old house plays creepy music at a window to appease ?????? (remember to figure this out later!)
The Dunwich Horror: Hillbillies are creepy and gross and fuck their sisters and also probably the monsters that drove my mother crazy
At the Mountains of Madness: These are my OCs The Elder Things they’re super badass and can bio-engineer new species and fly through space and punch out Cthulhu and do all this crazy shit and they accidentally shit out humans because we’re a stupid cosmic mistake, man and also they made blob monsters to help them build shit who became sentient and unhappy with being slaves so they revolted and killed them all. Will this come across as a weird, gooier precursor to the whole robot ethical dilemma, or just racist again? I’ll worry about it later. Side note: Antarctica scary and bad
The Whisperer in Darkness: If someone invites you to experience a new culture, they’re probably going to rip your brain out and stick it in a jar and also they’re fungus aliens from Pluto
The Haunter of the Dark: Shockingly, fucking with cult shit in abandoned creepy rooms in abandoned creepy churches after remaining staggeringly oblivious to the obviously terrified locals who are clearly trying to steer you away is NOT a good idea. Who knew?
Now remember, if it don’t use the words gibbous, squamous, rugose, eldritch, gibbering, gelatinous, batrachian, noxious, or polypous, it ain’t Lovecraft. Have fun! And keep a dictionary from at least a hundred years ago handy, as well as a puke bucket for when you get to the extremely racist passages
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16, 27 and 39 for the bookish asks :)
Hi anon, thanks for asking!
16: If you could bring three books to a deserted island which would you bring and why?
1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
I read that book six months ago and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. It is just so fucking good, it’s honestly hard to describe just how much it means to me. Like, I could tell you how great the plot is, and how great the characters are (especially Sammy, I love him so much), and how beautifully overwrought the language is (Chabon’s overwritten style is exactly the kind of shameless pretentiousness that I am here for), or how much I love the theme of escape and the emphasis on the value of so-called “low-brow” media, or how much Joe’s story reminds me of my grandfather’s, or how wonderful it is to read a story written by a Jew about Jews who created an entire art form basically so that they could make money off their revenge fantasies towards Nazis, which is actually a pretty accurate description of the early comic book years, and like, I could go on. But honestly, even all that doesn’t really capture the emotional journey Chabon took me on, and if I were stranded on a desert island, I’d want to have a book that made me feel that thoroughly.
Plus, it’s like, really long, so it should entertain me for a while.
2. The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf
(Yes, I realize that doing ‘the complete works of’ is cheating, but I’m doing it anyway).
I’ll be honest, I keep meaning to read a book by her, and other books keep getting in the way, and I feel like a desert island might be the perfect place to finally catch up. Plus, I did read A Room of One’s Own for school once, and that was really good. So I feel like I know what I’m getting into, and I’m fairly certain I’ll enjoy it.
3. Orientalism
I think I just need to reread that one. Like obviously there are more modern, up to date takes on post-colonialism, but there are very few books that have had quite the impact on the world of academia. And obviously it’s not perfect, but it’s also one of those academic texts that need to be studied regardless of how old it is. I mean, it’s the book that basically created post-colonial theory, which is an indescribably huge accomplishment, obviously. But it’s more than that. It’s an emotional book, like it’s righteously angry. And that’s so fucking important, because Said has every right to be angry. I mean, what he’s writing about is infuriating, and it affects him directly. So I think part of what makes that book so important, makes it a work of literature in addition to a work of academia, is that he doesn’t even try to do the smug academic detachment thing.
Plus, I think that as an Israeli person, it’s my responsibility to educate myself on the works of Palestinians about colonialism and how it affects them, and what better place to do it than on a desert island.
27: If you could change one thing about mainstream literature what would you change? (i.e. more diversity, better writing, better plot etc.)
I mean, more diversity, better writing, better plot - it all sounds good to me.
But I guess if I had to pick something else, I wish that some of the authors of mainstream adult literature would stop writing like they’re too cynical for human emotions. I’m not really sure how else to describe it, but there’s a genre of literature that’s kind of obsessed with not caring about how characters feel, and it makes for a very unpleasant read. I mean, I have nothing against generally ambivalent third person narration, but I feel like you can do that without sacrificing the human element, or a reader’s connection with a character, and some authors sacrifice that on purpose. I get the whole Brechtian detachment thing, but sometimes it’s just not fun. And I feel like it’s one of the main factors that leads adults to retreat to YA, because it’s a genre that guarantees that authors don’t think they’re too good for feelings.
39: Name one of your favorite childhood books
Not naming just one, because I can’t choose.
First and foremost, Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I was absolutely obsessed with that series. I read each book so many times I lost count. I also read the sequel series and the Kane Chronicles (which no one remembers, although that might be a good thing considering Sadie ends up with a like a weird magical combination of her two love interests, one of whom is a literal immortal god, and she’s like 12. I mean, wtf Rick?). Unfortunately I grew out of Riordan’s stuff right around the time it became really super gay, so I never got into Magnus Chase and the like.
Additionally, A Wrinkle in Time was one of the first books I remember reading and thinking, “Wow, this is actually challenging me and the way I see the world.” And when I was younger the work of Michael Ende and Erich Kästner were often featured during bedtime (Jews really like Germans who hate Nazis).
#the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay#kavalier and clay#virginia woolf#a room of one's own#edward said#orientalism#pjo#percy jackson and the olympians#rick riordan#the kane chronicles#a wrinkle in time#michael ende#erich kästner#michael chabon
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