I think we should consider how Mario has fire powers and since you can use fire to cauterize severe wounds

Peach should teach him how to harness his flames into a way for him to heal himself of minor cuts or muscle pain. It would be really cute <3

Huh. Hadn't thought about that! 👀

His Firebrand being so innate to him and so closely linked to his biological system in my version has sort of made me adopt the headcanon that its effects wouldn't quite register as much to him, if at all. I had figured that his own natural warmth is something that he would be able to feel to an extent, but the properties of which would mostly benefit those around him instead. 🔥

But Peach actually teaching him to control it in a way specifically meant for healing is a really nice thought! 🥰 I could very well see this actually happening with these two.^^ Yet another very good reason for them to spend more time together. ;3 💕

A HAUNTING IN VENICE (2023)

Based on Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie

moonchild - ♫

here's my ffxivswap gift for @ofdarklands featuring their lovely mitr'a! I hope you like it :)

thank you to @sasslett @starrysnowdrop @otherworldseekers and @ainyan for organizing this

I find shows where you watch people build stuff very soothing, so I'm currently going through all of the home-building shows that I can watch through HBO Max now and like

WWDITS has ruined me! thoroughly!!!

these are all from discovery+, I think, so they all have that HGTV house renovation vibe to them, and I just. I keep expecting one of them to get eaten by a vampire or something. Go Flip Yourself completely rewired something in my brain. lmao help.

One of the reasons I tend to gravitate toward sci-fi/fantasy etc in my stories is that stories set in the real world tend to be super stressful in really unexpected ways.

Take a really common trope: the perfect wedding is planned, the perfect dress odd purchased, the expensive venue is all set up, and then surprise! Everything goes wrong at the last minute and everything is ruined! But then the happy couple's friends and family come together to improvise a makeshift wedding from scratch, and it's even better than it otherwise would have been!

Every time I see that plot I die a little inside. Because that unused venue probably cost several months' rent/mortgage. As did the dress that is now in shreds. And the caterer, whose food is hopefully being given to someone who will actually eat it, but will probably be shown rotting or floating in a river as a joke.

And unless the characters in question are fantastically wealthy, I'm distracted calculating how long they had to save that much money. How many meals were skipped to afford it. How many meds were rationed. What's going to happen when the roof leaks or something big breaks and the savings that went into the wedding-that-didn't-happen aren't around anymore.

I get the same intense anxiety when cars are totaled or characters are sent to the hospital as a gag.

Yes, I can remind myself that it isn't really happening. But it's exhausting, and it kills anything remotely close to a sense of humor.

And the thing is? It's fairly difficult to screen for those sorts of things. They're not considered traumatic, especially when they're played for laughs. Nobody thinks to add a trigger warning for it. Why would they?

The thing is, add in a serial killer or some cannibals and I have a much easier time removing myself from the story. I can pretend there's a fund for that, or they'll make it back from interview fees, or insurance will cover it or whatever. And besides, a totaled car is a small price to pay for your life.

If it's in space? Who knows what their insurance system is like! The further it's removed from my lived reality, the easier it is to relax and enjoy it.

SOMETHING I TOTALLY MISSED OVER THE FEAST SEGMENT

Chongyun is protected from the negative karma thanks to his yang energy.

Xiao can't hurt him, because that means their energies canonically cancel each other out

I'm on a business trip and just got the key to my hotel room. There's an engraving of Venus-Aphrodite right above my bed. Sign or not, fuck that felt good.

Im horrible at describing things however

your voice sparks a lotta joy

bc u sound like. cute. fun. your voice is FUN!!! also yeah you either sound veri tired or ready to party and i love that for u but also i tuck you in.

i love ur voice man. best catboy voice. party boy. tired boy. best boy!!!

AAAAA!!!!!!! my HEART!!!!!

Soothe angel (sound element)

🦷 Their variants are Incisor, Canine, and Molar. They tend to match their appearance to cake and ice cream flavours, but will always start off with a single base flavour. Incisors are vanilla, Canines are strawberry, and Molars are chocolate- this core flavour is a way to tell the variants apart purely from scent.

🦷 Soothe angels can form up to 8 "teeth limbs" (4 from their back and 1 from each paw), these limbs are very flexible and can wrap around their body for protection. The teeth can also be pulled out to move independently with their own small pairs of wings if needed. The body is much less durable, but dissection is not fatal for a soothe angel- on occassion it can be self-inflicted sometimes to get them out of a tricky situation.

🦷 These angels, like most of their sound angel cousins, tend to possess a gentle yet rich speaking voice. Soothe angels have domain over laughter and pain-relief, and make good patrons to dentists, pediatricians, and anyone in need of comfort.

🦷 The sound magic of soothe angels isn't as intense as a control angel or muse angel, since the purpose is to calm rather than invigorate. This magic can cut through noise, or even create a quiet zone when needed.

Please watch The Artifice Girl. It's a great movie with smart dialogue, wonderful actors, and the ideas that are perpetuated and implied throughout the film are amazing.

Spoilers under the cut:

I love the differences between the three main characters (Deena, Amos, and Gareth) and how their attitudes towards Cherry differ. Whereas Gareth doesn't see Cherry as an autonomous being that is basically a human at that point, Amos continually points out that she needs to be asked for consent, that he can't actually tell the difference between her and a human because she's so real. Furthermore, Deena, although she came across as the "bad cop" in the first act, she became far more sympathetic in the second. I love how she was the middle ground between Amos and Gareth, how she gave Cherry a choice to shut down after their conversation whenever she wanted and that she was thinking of the future and that it would be better to start asking AI for their consent now rather than later.

But what really got me teary eyed at the end was when Cherry doesn't absolve Gareth of his actions/attitudes towards her. There's no "Thank you for giving me life" and "I owe you everything and that makes you a wonderful person" or "You were like a father to me". It was made clear time and time again, that he was more of an employer to her rather than just a father figure despite the fact that he is her creator.

There's bitterness and sadness and regret, all mixed together and when you've spent Act 1 and parts of Act 2 seeing her calm and nearly emotionless, seeing her pain and rage in Act 3 is so cathartic. She finally has a voice and she's using it to remind Gareth that even if she is not human, she still has agency.

Just like the children who are exploited and solicited, Cherry is in a position where she has no choice, where an organization continually profits off her.

There's also the whole bit where she brutally tears into him, telling him that she bears the weight and brunt of his trauma, how he should have had the Clearwater conversation with her years ago--50, in fact.

There's this one line in Act 2 where Deena tells Gareth to "grow up". I think he never got past his child and the events that happened then.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, I came into the movie with no expectations and I thought that certain things were going to happen, but no. Completely subverted my expectations and made me rethink my expectations and beliefs in autonomy, who gets a say in making decisions, and how the decisions imposed on us by our parents can either heal or build us up as the years go by.

Another thing about the movie that I can never get enough about was the dialogue. You just jump in media res and you're forced to focus and fill in the blanks. All the fat has been cut, what needs to be said is either conveyed through body language or the necessary arguments/discussions that take place throughout the film.

It's minimal, but packs a powerful punch.

The Artifice Girl

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