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scribbyizback · 1 month
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i have no idea what the abandoned carnival au is but I 100% support rambling so here's your opportunity to ramble about whatever you wanna say about it!
(and if you're like me and can't answer non-specific questions here's some for ya:
What are the character's worst flaws? How do they interact with other characters? Is there any specific event that stuck with them from their past? How do others treat them? Any significant traits important to the plot?)
Hope your day's goin well!
WHAAAAG I LOVE YOU MINUTE/P !!!!! ok no one would really know much abt the carnival au because I haven't mentioned it really um haha. I did draw the moon for this au in Sundays daycare magma so yay if you need a face to the name you have one!
urm let's see here. so, for moon, I think his worst flaw is being unable to communicate properly. He struggles to keep things happy, he really does bring things down a lot and that's a flaw pushed on him by the process of his paranormal creation. what who said that.
sun's worst problem is his pride. he refuses to admit when he's wrong and he refuses to TALK about whatever he was wrong about. he's a 'drop it, I don't want to talk about this' kinda guy. he's a professional ghoster, if I do say so myself. totally not a pun linked to his paranormal creation. whaaat who keeps saying these things??? seriously this is crazy!!!
moon doesn't MEAN to push people away, he was made to operate a carousel, not make friends. But if he knows that someone is worth keeping ther, dedicated to staying with him, he can be soso clingy. he still has to rely on others though, otherwise he can't run, just like a music box. Sun has major people person energy, but he still gets so overwhelmed. He took on over 5 jobs around the entire carnival, between both entertainment and upkeep. so he has an overall energetic personality, bit when he burns out he burns out HARD. this makes him often irritable or overbearing for a lot of people, but he balanced it out between him and moon.
the fire. whenever the carnival closed down for the night. the missing kids. what happened to everybody else around here?
no, nothing much.
they really CANT get out much anymore, they've really tied down their roots since the place stopped moving from town to town way back in '47! furthermore, they cannot really talk to much of anybody but each other! and moon hasn't been wound up since the carnival wasn't needed anymore! that's why sun was SOOO happy when a human- you - showed up! can you believe it? moon enjoys your company too, but someone can only spend 60+ years in solitude for oh so long! can you imagine not aging, because you're nothing more than a puppet- a doll inside the puppet?? oh, he has so many things to show you!!! you're quite nice, probably not well suited to hang around such a guy all down in the dumps all the time! not that moon complains, having someone willing to care so much about him just the same- isn't that COOL??
Sun wasn't always supposed to take over all these other jobs. He used to be happier, calmer. I wonder what made him so tense. He's always stuck in a nervous state, no matter how happy he is around you. Moon wasn't always sad- he used to be a happy and mischievous guy that would even dance along to his music. hard to believe how broken down the tunes of the calliope have gotten.
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squids-kissing · 11 months
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do you think Marie would act as a "scary guard dog" when she and Callie are out and about in their disguises? like Marie comes off as intimidating and protective??? look, I think nobody actually knows who they are when they're disguised because inklings are dumb!!! So they can act however they want!
sorry if this doesnt make any sense i think i might be going a little insane
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wispscribbles · 8 months
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Ghost who's gone prematurely grey due to his lovely past (and Soap who doesn't mind)
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aroaceleovaldez · 7 months
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reminder that the only reason the "ADHD is actually demigod BATTLE STRATEGIES" and "dyslexia is DEMIGOD BRAINS HARDWIRED FOR ANCIENT GREEK" things exist in the PJO universe is because it's a very direct reference to early 2000s teaching/parenting techniques for neurodiverse and disabled children, which aimed to frame childrens' disabilities and hardships as a "superpower" or strength so that the children would feel more positively about their disabilities or situations. This technique has fallen out of favor since then for the most part since more often than not it just results in kids feeling as though their struggles are not being seen or taken seriously.
Yes, demigods are adhd/dyslexic (and sometimes autistic-coded) in the series. This is extremely important and trying to remove it or not acknowledge it makes the entire series fall apart because it is such a core concept. Yes, canon claims that their adhd/dyslexia is tied to some innate abilities, which is based on an outdated methodology. It's important to acknowledge that and understand where it comes from! But please stop trying to apply it to other pantheons in the series like "oh, the romans have dyscalculia because of roman numerals!" or "the norse demigods have dysgraphia for reasons!" - it's distasteful at best.
A better option is to acknowledge the meta inspiration for why that exists in the series, such as explaining potentially that Chiron was utilizing that same teaching methodology to try and help demigods feel more comfortable with their disabilities and they aren't literal powers. In fact, especially given Frank, there's implication that being adhd/dyslexic isn't a guaranteed demigod trait, which means it's more likely to be normally inherited from their godly parent/divine ancestor as a general trait, not a power, and further supports the whole "ADHD is battle strategy" thing being non-literal. It also implies the entire greco-roman pantheon in their universe is canonically adhd/dyslexic - and that actually fits very well with the themes of the first series. The entire central conflict of the first series fits perfectly as an allegory about neurodiverse/disabled children and their relationships with their undiagnosed neurodiverse/disabled parents and trying to find solutions together with their shared disability/disabilities that the kid inherited instead of becoming distant from each other (and this makes claiming equivalent to getting a diagnosis which is a fascinating allegory! not to mention the symbolism of demigods inheriting legacies and legends and powers from their parents and everything that comes with that being equivalent to inheriting traits, neurodiversity, and disabilities from your parents).
anyways neurodiversity and disability and the contexts in which the series utilizes representation of those experiences particularly during the 2000s symbolically within the narrative is incredibly important to the first series and the understanding of what themes it means to represent. also if i see one more "the romans have dyscalculia instead of dyslexia" post in 2023 i'm gonna walk into the ocean.
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babydarkstar · 4 months
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i just. i just…FUCK. i just really want harrowhark to go sicko mode when she realizes john has the power to resurrect whoever he wants he just chooses not to and even after learning about his own blood daughter he still doesn’t resurrect her he just makes her a construct. i would be alecto-levels of grief-stricken-enraged if my childhood nemesis/guard dog/whipping girl/codependent lesbian situationship that i lobotomized over/suicide-pact soulmate/only friend was suddenly here but not here haunting her own dead body and the only reason she’s present is because she was made into a fascist killing machine for a man with a power kink, and she’s not even happy about it but she’s going through the motions because all she knows of love is to be useful. (forever your sword.) and if i was harrow and i died and then came back to myself after switching bodies with the human cage holding the earth’s soul and realized all of this, i think i too would be accompanying the earth’s soul on her shoulder to go kill a man with eclipse-eyes and criminal levels of nonchalance. y’know. the one who guarded g1deon but not me, lord. the one who was so sure i had never seen that which lies insensate and with stilled mind, lord, who did not realize i was a lock and there was a key in the shape of a girl, lord. the one who looked me dead in the eye and told me i could never have my cavalier back, lord. the cavalier who came back haunted and empty and incomplete by your hand, lord.
i’m so team ‘harrowhark saves gideon for real this time not because she wants her cav but because she wants her other half’ i might lose my mind about it
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thinking about the ship of theseus as a concept and how it applies to kdj. how much of yourself can you cut away before you cant be called the same person anymore. how many times can you kill yourself before there stops being enough of you to be killed. how much of yourself can you tear into pieces and throw away before the callousness with which you do it becomes a fixed apathy. how many repairs can be made to the ship of theseus before it stops being his.
honestly feel like it applies to yhk in general really well too. han sooyoung and her avatars in a literal sense since she is quite literally sectioning herself off into pieces whenever she uses the skill; yoo joonghyuk more metaphorically since we see in the 1863rd round whats basically like. the stripped to nothing recognizable ship now returned to theseus (kdj). but i feel like with kdj its just The Worst because we look at the scenarios themselves and like kdjs half performative half genuine flippant reveals of his deepest traumas and at his thinly veiled suicide attempts (sacrifices) are just. hello? i mean each one of those just guts him further and further and we see the literal actual fourth wall continue thickening to the point where (given we observe in kcoms pov) who is kim dokja? whats left after you peel back all the skins hes discarded? what makes the ship of theseus the ship of theseus?
and then you throw in the sucker punch of the 49/51 debacle and the question stops being like a vague overhanging vibe to the story and instead becomes the focal point of it: how much of a person can you strip away before they stop being the person you know? and i really truly think orv answers this. it answers it in the most beautiful way possible and the answer is that if theseus loves the ship. its his ship. the ship of theseus can be 1% original parts, it can be 49%, it can be 99%, it doesnt matter. the ship of theseus is theseus' ship because he loves it and as long as it continues to be loved it will continue to sail under his name.
and idk. i think about that a lot. people love you regardless of how much they know about you and thats the point. being known often precludes being loved but sometimes people know you because they love you. the ship of theseus is his because he loves it. yeah.
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snowheartsz · 3 months
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I think we moved on from this WAY too quickly
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wolfythewitch · 4 months
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How do you handle being a part of the lgbtq community (unless I am a little dumb and any pronouns doesn't equate to that) during this time in christianity? I used to be a part of a denomination and am glad to see that some people were never forced out. I may no longer believe in the christian religion but I'm glad to see that some people who have been discriminated against can still hold their beliefs.
Sorry if I'm misinterpreting completely wrong, I really love your drawings!
Hm how I go about it,, there's a sort of difference between spirituality and religion I guess? I dunno. I feel like my religious experience (or anyone else in general) is unique to themselves, and how they experience god (or lack thereof). Maybe worship is a smile, maybe worship is a birdsong. My spirituality is not affected by how other people experience my religion. Maybe god is the universe, maybe god is in the breeze and the grass, maybe god is you and me. I am made in his image and that means all of me. My relationship with religion is at a pretty weird place right now haha but maybe god is kindness, and the idea that everything will be alright
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fangomango · 4 months
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I.AM.TALKING.ABOUT.EVERY.SINGLE.FACE
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(As we know this is from the scene where branch tells them grandma died and he raised himself)
So bruce..I don't need to talk about Bruce
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Jd, that's guilt...
Obviously they're all guilty and I would read 1000 fics of them being guilty (WHERE ARE THE VAN RIDE FICSCJDNSBS)
But he is the one who left first (despite clay leaving the band first)
He was the first domino to fall that led to such a ruined man
It also looks..pitiful? It's probably not all pity but it could be
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If it was a smoothie it would be guilt, pity,regret, concern...worry maybe?
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CLAY LET ME TALK ABOUT CLAY
...again
It's guilt...obviously
But I think it's different guilt..
I think (it's canon to me) because he could've gone but didnt...
It's a man who had every chance to just do something more than nothing and because he did nothing it had horrible consequences (branch's years of self blame for his grandma's death and the years alone because of it)
If he had just gone to see branch when he was like...6...the impact it could have had on a CHILD that is all alone and saw his grandmother die.
And he knows it...
BUT THATS NOT ALL THATS THE BEGAINKMG
It worry...or shock..or a mix of both
Because like
Branch hasn't done anything up until that point to raise eyebrows
He quite frankly hasn't done anything other than sing, be upset, and make clue board
Like yes he showed displeasure seeing jd
And told jd how he felt about seeing him
But jd brushed it off
And he ONLY told jd about how he felt, clay and Bruce have no idea branch is mad at them for leaving.
THE BROTHER THEY DIDNT KNOW WAS HOLDING IN ALOT OF RESENTMENT FOR ALL OF THEM
To them he snapped out of nowhere...
He showed that their attempts to change did change them , but changed branch the most,,,in ways that none of them expected
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murdrdocs · 6 months
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do you think Vanessa would do you in public? Like in a hidden spot of an alleyway or in a public bathroom stall if you teased her enough to set her off?
oh she would. it's not like fucking you in public is her preferred place. she would much rather have you at home, able to scream and moan and cry as loud as you want. but sometimes public is just the place to be, in a couple of different scenarios.
there are the times that aren't her own initiation, the days where either you've been a brat and are begging for it, or you just haven't been yourself. in either scenario, she knows a good fuck will help you out, and she knows you need it as soon as possible. so she'll pull you outside and into an alley, or take you to her car, and just fuck whatever it is out of you. if you've purposefully been setting her off all day, she fucks it out of you herself, snapping her hips into yours with an unforgiving force, grunting through her teeth, "you can take it". and if you've been down or just not yourself, she'll let you fuck it out of your own system, encouraging the grind of your hips with soothing coos and soft hands against your skin.
there are also the times where you look so enticing that she can't control herself, pulling you up from your seat and into a bathroom where you tease her about her hormones for no more than a minute, because it's then that she has you bent over the sink in the family bathroom. it's these times where you'll nervously wonder aloud what happens if someone finds you, your voice wobbly from vanessa's thrusting and your own attempts to keep your volume low. she easily reminds you that she is the law, just before she'll threaten you just enough to add an element of fear that makes your walls clench. usually something along the lines of: "if you aren't quiet, someone could come in here and find you like this. is that what you want, baby? i can't protect you if we're caught. i took an oath, sweetheart. you'll be on your own." it's sick, and you know she doesn't really mean it, but the thought of it always makes you cum just a few moments after.
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listen I can see where some people could say the starscream episode and his bonding with hashtag were rushed but like. me personally? it looked like starscream was literally shown a Medicine Cup-Sized Amount of Compassion and told "I believe you. You were abused and it wasn't your fault." for the first fucking time in his life by this fucking iPad Baby and immediately decided "I will sooner somersault and triple axel jump into danger before I allow her to be harmed" and honestly I 100% believe it
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beaulesbian · 9 days
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The Sunshine Court spoilers
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this one post about dichotomy of attack vs guard dog was one of the few things i kept thinking about when i was reading this book and how jean's story kind fit into that in few ways:
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maybe jean wasn't even meant to be only an attack dog (on the court), but also a starved, obedient one (like the first quote says). a person only doing what was told to him, not to speak out of his turn, never to choose basically anything for himself. starved for his freedom. and trained to attack others on the court to win his master, Riko and Ravens their games.
this whole book was really about the change of how jean thought of himself, slowly and painstakingly learning that maybe he did deserve better. he was waking up from this horrible nightmare, being constantly on lookout for the worst things to happen, trying to overcome his training which was beaten into him since years prior, and fit into the box that his family's name put him into. thinking he was always treated the way he deserved. flinching at the names of people that caused him harm and lashing out only at those that weren't above him.
UNTIL!! until a few helping hands saved him. renee's reassurance and support and words to look out for new things to appreciate life. kevin's help of finding a new place for him where he would be safe and had a chance to start a new life, and neil getting rid of his worst enemies and cleaning out the path before him - he finally found out he could still breathe, to find friends who cared about him, new places to see and things to learn! (like riding a motorcycle if cat teaches him, and ceramics with jeremy, and cooking with laila).
someone he could trust again.
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medicalunprofessional · 3 months
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and i didnt even know it?
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carpathiians · 6 months
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also when it comes to javiers character. i feel like the boat mission really shows how awkward he is especially since you have arthur to compare him to. arthur plays his part very well and even if he doesn't necessarily fit in perfectly he's convincing. he knows how to deflect and his tone is relaxed. javier doesn't even really have to say anything in his role but when he does, he yells his lines so awkwardly, laughs nervously and sounds overly loud and stilted. i don't know why im saying all this but basically he is at the very least very bad at acting.
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aroaceleovaldez · 2 months
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It's honestly wild to me that ToA went through so much trouble to emphasize the fact that Will did not magically fix all of Nico's problems and was explicitly not Nico's only doctor.
Only for TSATS to have Will fix all of Nico's problems and have Nico be entirely reliant on him the entire book and literally helpless without him and LITERALLY have Nico's problems be magically removed.
#pjo#riordanverse#tsats crit#nico di angelo#solangelo#it doesnt make any sense too cause. in HoO we KNOW Nico was fully capable of handling himself in Tartarus#we already knew he was explicitly on his own. we know he had it worse than Percy and Annabeth did#because we are explicitly told that Nico saw Tartarus' true nature the ENTIRE TIME versus Percy only getting a tiny half-glimpse of it once#and Percy acknowledges that he would not be able to withstand actually seeing Tartarus more than he did without just dying on the spot#and Nico was down there for as long as Percy and Annabeth at least. on his own. flying blind and explicitly having it worse.#so it doesnt make sense to totally retcon Nico's ENTIRE experiences with Tartarus to make him sopping wet and pathetic about it#needing to be helped and only being down there for twenty minutes and crying the whole time#and then all of the book he's literally functionally helpless without Will for some reason. despite being in his element.#could not get more in his element than being in the Underworld. my guy literally lives there. that's his HOUSE. that's his YARD.#and he's still just totally sopping wet and pathetic in Tartarus the second time around#like im sorry. no. we literally have previously established canon indicating this is absolutely not the case#that is not something you can retcon. that is an entire major event. it was not glossed over.#unless you are doing time travel and it's a canonical retcon a la Homestuck im sorry the events of TSATS just could never occur#(not to mention Damasen is just never acknowledged in TSATS and him and Bob were absorbed by Tartarus the god and ergo dead in HoH)#(so Bob and Damasen are like. *Gone* gone. they didn't just die to be reformed later they got ERASED.)#(and Nyx sure as hell isnt gonna be the one to have Bob trapped for whatever reason. definitely not cause she hates light/change/whatever)#(nyx is literally the mother/sister [depends on version - sometimes a mitosis situation] of the personification of day? and sky?)#(and FRIENDSHIP? and the nymphs of sunset? sometimes also CHEERFULNESS? and THOUGHTFULNESS? and old age)#(ah yes the mother of concepts such as love/friendship and aging and. day. would HATE [checks notes] love/friendship changing and light)#(she INVENTED THOSE) < anyways thank u for coming to my aside rant in the tags#in parenthesis to indicate this is an aside/tangent rant. anyways i have so many problems with this plot. it just DOESNT WORK#on NO LEVEL DOES IT WORK AT ALL WITH ESTABLISHED CANON
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atmajolish · 1 year
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Headcanons for Mammon, Leviathan, Satan, and Asmodeus with touch starved gender neutral s/o?
here you go! i hope you enjoy it at least a bit!
Mammon.
he will deny it forever, would never admit to it unless in very rare tender moments, refuse to say it out loud, but the truth is that he is kind of glad that you feel that way because it‘s the same for him.
mammon tends to hide his feelings behind harsh words, but you can notice him putting in more effort to be close to you. holding your hand as you walk together, cuddling more often and hugging you more. when you mention it he will immediately deny doing it while blushing.
even his brothers notice how much more he tries to be consciously affectionate and they will tease him about it sooner or later. he‘s fine with it, but if they start teasing you, he will get defensive only to deny it.
you mean a lot to him and he‘s your first man. he‘s happy you came to him with this and not anyone else. even if they might be better at dealing with it, are better at showing affection, but he‘s getting there.
Leviathan.
with levi, it‘s kind of obvious that he‘s touch starved too. the thing with him is that he‘s horrible embarrassed about it too though
levi can‘t handle much physical touch. he heats up, needs time to cool off and get his energy back. his type of affection is more on the side of being in the same room, spending time together and listening to each other talk. he needs to get used to anything else after not having it for so long.
most of his experience with these type of things comes from anime and manga which isn‘t really..the best source, so feel free to tell him that. it would make things less awkward in the long run.
with levi it‘s a journey of healing together, getting used to touch again as you get to know each other. he‘s doing his best but he needs your guidance too, just so he doesn‘t feel to embarrassed about not really knowing what to do.
Satan.
satan wouldn‘t say he‘s touch starved, he‘s just doesn‘t need as much attention and affection as some of his brothers. that‘s what he says if anyone asks at least. the truth is he‘s probably at least a bit touch starved as well, if only because people get nervous around him. he is the avatar of wrath after all, he‘s not seen as approachable by many people.
the point is, he doesn‘t see it as a problem for himself, however when it comes to you that‘s a different matter.
as a demon, there aren‘t really many side effects to not getting physical contact with other demons, so it comes as a surprise when humans are different in that regard. he didn‘t look into it when he read it when figuring out more about humans, but apparently it‘s more important than he thought.
the thing with satan is, he tries his best with it. but much like levi most of his idea of touch and romance comes from novels he read and not actual experience so it can get pretty awkward sometimes. but he does his best to make sure that you aren‘t touch starved anymore, no matter how awkward it might be.
Asmodeus.
asmo is probably the only one on this list that isn‘t touch starved. he‘s not shy to ask for affection or give it after all.
so you will never be touch starved again. asmo doesn’t really care for personal space and the second he decides he likes you he becomes affectionate. simple touches are a constant for him, holding hands, surprise hugs, back hugs. all of that and more are to expect with him.
he is surprisingly aware of how touch starved you are. he makes sure you’re comfortable every step of the way, wanting to show you that you don’t have to miss out on touch anymore, that he is there for you.
if you ever tell him it’s too much he will reign himself in a little. he doesn’t like making you uncomfortable so make sure to tell him if he goes overboard. he‘s hyper aware of his partner‘s reactions when it comes to these types of things and also the one with the most experience.
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