Apparently discord has me in ramble mode today, but given how often I talk about how I love the complexity of the Rift, I figured I'd bring it here too.
We all have kneejerk moments and blind spots and overreactions. It's a very normal part of being alive. It also means that two people with good intentions can absolutely hurt each other without meaning to - conflicting traumas, conflicting needs, conflicting expectations, lack of understanding can cause something to blow up.
I felt that from my very first work - "You hide things so you don’t lose people. I run from people who hide things." - and it still is critical to most of my writing. They both screwed up in some very understandable ways.
And ultimately... when people forgive each other, it doesn't happen in a rational way.
Certainly, it helps when someone apologizes or makes a gesture of good will. It helps to figure out why people lash out and what's driving them. But you can never guarantee forgiveness. But if there's genuine love and mutual desire to build something better, you start seeing the beauty in someone else's flaws and are able to realize your own.
That's the only way to really connect someone.
That's the entire point of the Rift.
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My partner did a little drawing of my Star Wars OC, Xipha!
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People who have loved a man & gotten hurt from it, raise your fucking hands.
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Hot day 🥵
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iterally less than 10 minutes into Xena: Warrior Princess and dang. ppl were not kidding about how queer this show is.
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。⋆。˚☽˚。⋆. xena feat. shrike
located in macy’s.
this is an open starter for @shrikestart
working in retail was something xena assumed nobody really liked doing. sure, there were plenty of perks that came with her job, but she wasn’t passionate about upselling the newest pair of loafers to another middle aged woman who felt obliged to comment on her being much too pretty to be working at a mall. xena would have preferred to be working in a more creative field, but she wasn’t hung up on the fact that her passions had to be sidelined into hobbies; as long as she could still shred on her prized possession bass and move her body to some sort of beat in her free time, xena would be happy.
happy wasn’t the emotion she found herself feeling in the shrike heights macy’s that day, however. “i swear, if i have to deal with one more old man stealing from the women’s department…” she spoke breathlessly as she marched back over to the counter where her customer waited. “you’d think it wouldn’t be too hard, working at macy’s. there’s hundreds of them all over the country, couldn’t be that bad, right?” she spoke in a fiery tone, clearly quite annoyed at the trouble she had been made to deal with. “anyway- sorry, i’m here now.”
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xena verse Red is just Red at max health and weight and physical fitness and he refuses to wear a proper shirt :/
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I’m really interested in your GOT and Xena crossover headcanon saz.
Gabrielle is a Lannister but she is Tywin’s bastard (affectionate) who he keeps secret by paying her mother hush money and making sure they live comfortably across the narrow sea, until (drumroll), her mother dies and he’s left with a 18 year old girl he doesn’t know what to do with…so…he marries her to the bamf (look it up) Khal of the most powerful Dothraki tribe and it actually turns out to be a Khaleesi (Xena) of many skills.
Then they hatch a plan (enter plot) to take over Westeros and put Gabrielle on the iron throne (cause she’s queenly.)
Or something like that…
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MEET THE MUSE!
LEGAL NAME: Lucretia Dracul Țepeș
DATE OF BIRTH: N/A
NICKNAMES: The First Daughter, Princess Țepeș, Butterfly Princess, Vampire Princess, Lu, Lulu
GENDER: Cis Female
AGE: 500+ (23 physically)
SPECIES: Vampire
PLACE OF BIRTH: Bermuda Island, Bermuda Triangle
CURRENT LIVING CONDITIONS: Resident of Țepeș Castle
LANGUAGES: Romanian, English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Latin, Korean & Japanese
OCCUPATION: Aristocrat
CRIMINAL RECORD: None
DRINK I SMOKE | DRUGS
LIKE[S]: A- Blood(straight), alcohol(sometimes mixed with blood), light music & singing, flowers, classic romance, a good kill, butterflies
DISLIKE[S]: Men, most humans, the sun, ignorance & arrogance
(PHYSICAL INFORMATION)
FEARS: N/A
PERSONALITY TRAITS: Elegant, regal, calm, composed, romantic
HAIR COLOR: Silky blonde
EYE COLOR: Crimson Red
HEIGHT: 5′11 Feet
(FAMILY INFORMATION)
SIBLINGS: Xena Dracul Țepeș & Fiona Dracul Țepeș
PARENT[S]: Mother - Unnamed wealthy woman, Father - Unnamed weathly man , Sire - Suzan Dracul Țepeș
CHILDREN: None
PET[S]: None
(RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION)
SEXUAL PREFERENCE: Homosexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single, verse dependent
LEGAL NAME: Xena Dracul Țepeș
DATE OF BIRTH: N/A
NICKNAMES: The Second Daughter, Dracul of White, Princess of White, Snow White Vampire
GENDER: Cis Female
AGE: 300+ (18 physically)
SPECIES: Vampire
PLACE OF BIRTH: Bermuda Island, Bermuda Triangle
CURRENT LIVING CONDITIONS: Resident of Țepeș Castle
LANGUAGES: Romanian, English, Italian, German, Spanish, French & Japanese
OCCUPATION: Aristocrat
CRIMINAL RECORD: None
DRINK I SMOKE | DRUGS
LIKE[S]: O- Blood(mixed into tea), alcohol(often mixed with blood)reading, writing, stargazing, long walks, shopping
DISLIKE[S]: Men, most humans, the sun, moderate-to-large bodies of water, the greedy
(PHYSICAL INFORMATION)
FEARS: N/A
PERSONALITY TRAITS: Elegant, regal, short temper, short sighted, anger issues, arrogant
HAIR COLOR: Ivory White
EYE COLOR: Golden Gate orange
HEIGHT: 5′6 Feet
(FAMILY INFORMATION)
SIBLINGS: Lucretia Dracul Țepeș & Fiona Dracul Țepeș(perviously an unnamed brother before turning)
PARENT[S]: Mother - Unnamed Noble woman, Father - Unnamed Noble man, Sire - Suzan Dracul Țepeș
CHILDREN: None
PET[S]: None
(RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION)
SEXUAL PREFERENCE: Homosexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single, verse dependent
LEGAL NAME: Fiona Dracul Țepeș
DATE OF BIRTH: N/A
NICKNAMES: The Third Daughter, The Youngest Princess, Baby Dracul
GENDER: Cis Female
AGE: 100+ (12 physically)
SPECIES: Vampire
PLACE OF BIRTH: Bermuda Island, Bermuda Triangle
CURRENT LIVING CONDITIONS: Resident of Țepeș Castle
LANGUAGES: Romanian & English
OCCUPATION: Aristocrat
CRIMINAL RECORD: None
DRINK I SMOKE | DRUGS
LIKE[S]: B+ Blood(Mixed into sweet foods), cupcakes(sometimes mixed with blood), singing, flowers, playing games
DISLIKE[S]: The sun, stinky people, the ‘bad water’(alcohol), super tall men
(PHYSICAL INFORMATION)
FEARS: N/A
PERSONALITY TRAITS: Playful, energetic, friendly, positive, naive, too trusting
HAIR COLOR: Oil Black
EYE COLOR: Navy Blue
HEIGHT: 4′6 Feet
(FAMILY INFORMATION)
SIBLINGS: Lucretia Dracul Țepeș & Xena Dracul Țepeș
PARENT[S]: Mother - Unnamed woman, Father - Unnamed alcoholic man, Sire - Suzan Dracul Țepeș
CHILDREN: None
PET[S]: None
(RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION)
SEXUAL PREFERENCE: Homosexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single(she’s a child so dating is not available)
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xena alves ┈ « tag drop. »
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TAGS 021?
poison ivy : by request muse . ― . ᛝ
elisabet sobeck : by request muse . ― . ᛝ
avatar korra : by request muse . ― . ᛝ
elisa maza : by request muse . ― . ᛝ
xena of amphipolis : by request muse . ― . ᛝ
holga kilgore : by request muse . ― . ᛝ
freya : by request muse . ― . ᛝ
abby anderson : by request muse . ― . ᛝ
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Concept: Xena and Margo meeting through a fight. Margo knocks Xenas lights out and she wakes up to Margo dabbing a cloth against Xenas bloody brow.
“Welcome back,” she’d say something along those lines and instantly Xena falls for her accent. 🙃🥰
// @champagneandparacosm
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samantha logan, bisexual, female + she/her ― hey look, it’s xena george! she’s twenty-four years old, she’s lived in shrike heights for her entire life, and she’s currently working at macy’s. i heard she’s pretty headstrong, but i think she’s so outgoing at the same time. can she make it out alive? || s, twenty-four, she/they, gmt+11, triggers on main.
stats.
full name: xena esmeralda george
nickname/s: xe
age: twenty-four
date of birth: august 13
zodiac: leo
gender: female
pronouns: she/her
sexuality: bisexual
about.
born and raised in shrike heights.
growing up as the youngest of three, xena idolised her older brother and sister - despite how starkly different they were from each other.
she became a product of both of their influence. she mimicked her sister’s beauty routines and her brother’s bad habit of blasting questionable music far too late at night.
despite her parents being less present in her life than she would have liked (as they both worked long hours to provide for the family) xena had a good upbringing, and her siblings who helped raise her did an incredible job in her eyes.
she had an easier time in school than she would have thought. she was smart enough to get decent grades, she landed a position on the cheerleading team and she always had an abundance of friends in all different cliques.
xena ran with the popular crowd, but also valued her individuality enough to do her own thing when she pleased.
one of those things happened to be music. following her brother’s influence, music quickly became one of the biggest parts of her life, and it turned out she had a very natural talent for playing it.
there’s not an instrument xena can’t at least figure out how to play, but her favourite and most special instrument has to be bass - just like her brother plays. her most prized possession is the left handed bass that he gifted her for her eighteenth birthday.
xena often feels like she’s living a double life, being the perfect image of a past cheerleader and prom queen nominee at times, and the perfect image of an edgy musician who would have laughed at the idea of prom at other times.
overall xena is extremely independent and as confident as she needs to be. she’s not a big talker but she’s outgoing, approachable and friendly.
she can have episodes of being more reserved when upset, and when she’s mad she’s severely angry. it can be scary when she’s in a mood that’s not good, and the fear she feels over the attacks certainly brings that up as her emotions are unstable in a way she’s not sure how to deal with.
wcs.
childhood friends
high school friends
friends from the popular crowd in high school
best friend / ride or die
fellow ex cheerleaders
fellow musician friends
macy’s co-workers
exes (on good and bad terms)
hook ups
neighbours past and present
ex friends
people they didn’t get along with in high school
people they’re surprised they weren’t close with in high school
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XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS 🗡️
4.16 'A Tale of Two Muses' — 2nd / Nov / 1998
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