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actress4him · 6 months

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Whumptober 2023 - Day 26 - In Irons

This one is…a little boring, in my opinion, but hey, it’s the third to the last piece I’m writing for this event and I’m just thankful I haven’t completely burned out, only slowed down! Also if you like exhaustion this may not be boring to you at all lol

Taglist: @darthsutrich , @a-series-of-whumpy-events , @ladydani101 , @thingsthatgowhumpinthenight , @annablogsposts

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No. 26: “Sometimes I get so tired; I don’t even know myself.” | Working To Exhaustion | “You look awful.”

Contains: lady whump, forced labor, brief and not completely serious sui ideation

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It’s been almost two days since Adelaide last slept. Captain Payne had her on night watch last night, for the second time this week. All the men on board take turns staying up, and it never seems to faze them. She sees them running about the ship the next day as always, shimmying up masts and across ropes like they’re well rested.

Maybe that makes her pathetic, or dramatic. But as much as she hates the way they look down their noses at her weakness, she is weaker than they are. Before being brought onto this ship, her days were filled with embroidery and supervising the household staff and receiving callers and occasionally going out for a horse ride.

Now, she spends her time on her hands and knees, scrubbing the deck until her knees are bruised and her back aches. She pulls ropes with muscles that are barely starting to develop and stay constantly sore, and with hands that used to be delicate and pale but are now reddened and covered in blisters. She shoves heavy crates around to make room for more of the Captain’s loot.

And when she’s done with all of that, if she’s lucky, she’s sent to the galley to chop and stir and tend the coals. Otherwise, it’s back to even more scrubbing.

She can keep up with all of the work most days. But she’s absolutely exhausted at night, collapsing into her hammock and falling asleep almost instantly. That means that, to her, having to stay up all night for watch duty is one of the worst things she can be assigned. It sets her back on all of her tasks the next day, which just causes the Captain to pile even more on her. Her weary, sluggish work a couple of days ago is what prompted him to assign her to night watch again after just one night of sleep, she’s sure of it.

There are just a few more hours left now until she can sleep, though. He won’t make her stay up two nights in a row. She thinks she might just throw herself off the side of the ship if he did. He’s already had her scrubbing for most of the day, a sure sign of his displeasure with her, so hopefully that will be enough to appease him until tomorrow.

Adelaide puts all of her focus into the rope that she’s coiling. It’s heavy with sea water, and her arms protest each time she lifts it. The salt bites into the blisters that had burst open earlier in the day. But she has to get finished. She can’t be slow, doesn’t need to give the Captain any more excuses to punish her.

“You look awful.”

Turning her head wearily toward Marshall, she scowls. “That’s no way to speak to a lady.”

The corners of his mouth twitch a little as if he might actually smile. “Sorry. You do look exhausted, though.”

“I am,” she sighs, returning her attention to her work. “But it’s not much longer until I can turn in. I’ll be fine.”

He watches her in silence for a moment. “You know, it’s impressive, what you’re doing here.”

“Coiling rope?”

“No, working on this ship. I know it’s far from what you’re accustomed to, but you’ve jumped in and done what needs to be done. I’ve seen gentlemen of your class fail miserably and eventually get tossed overboard. I don’t believe any of us ever expected you to fare so much better.”

She doesn’t know what to do with that compliment. Succeeding at working on a pirate ship, at surviving a tyrant of a captain, is not something she ever wanted to accomplish, not something she feels proud of. But she appreciates it, nonetheless. Most probably haven’t even noticed how hard she’s working, and certainly don’t care.

“Thank you. I’m only trying to survive.”

“I know you are. But the fact that you have is what’s impressive.” He clears his throat. “When you’re done there, Captain wants you in the galley.”

Adelaide just nods, finishing the last of the rope. Cooking is the easiest task she has, despite how hot it can get. “I’ll go there now.”

She takes two unsteady steps, feet heavy like her boots are filled with lead, and feels the need to reach out for the railing to support herself. Unfortunately, she doesn’t quite reach far enough. Her balance is thrown off, and she stumbles, dizzy and lacking the strength to right herself.

Just before she falls gracelessly onto the deck, though, Marshall catches her by her arm. “Whoa. Do you need me to walk with you to the galley?”

Frowning, she shakes her head adamantly and pulls her arm away politely but firmly. “No, thank you. I don’t need the Captain seeing me as weaker than he already does. I’m only tired. I told you, I’ll be fine.”

Marshall takes a step back and nods. “Very well. Take care of yourself, Miss Gray.”

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wickedcriminal · 2 years

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Gobber likes to knock out two dragons with one hook and bring the Pirate Training Program to the ring to watch the Dragon Training Program, for educational purposes

#how to train your dragon #httyd au #httyd #half brothers au #my art #the pirate training program gambles on who ends up getting mauled; the twins drive up the bets sky high every time they enter the ring #elder hiccup is bet on a lot specifically by adelaide and dog's breath but he's been pretty lucky so far (let's hope that luck holds out)#little fish is squinting bc he don't have his glasses yet rip 😔 i think he gets them in book 3? he'll get em eventually

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elidee-art · 3 months

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The party fought a froghemoth in a nasty sewer recently

(Another mostly experimental piece)

#dnd #dnd art #dnd party #dnd character #oc art #fortune the pirate #blue the wizard #atlas the warlock #adelaide the cleric #hazel the druid #the kilcairn expedition

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adelaideoldburg · 6 months

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SSO PROMPTOBER 2023

Day 22 - Mirror

#mirror image i guess lol #sso #ssoblr #star stable #star stable online #adelaide oldburg #pirate #corsair #ssopromptober2023

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void-botanist · 5 months

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Wrapped Scenelets No. 93: velveteen touch

I'm writing scenelets for (most of) my Spotify Wrapped top 100 songs. Here's number 93, Immigrant Song - Remaster by Led Zeppelin.

━━━━━━━━ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ━━━━━━━━

The match she alights inside of the bottle don’t bother running close up your throttle

The Queen The Queen she draws near

Open your heart to her velveteen touch if she rips it all out it won’t be too much

The Queen The Queen she draws near

The drunken voices rose and faded as Christina passed the pub doorway. She hadn’t intended to walk past a nest full of spacers, but this station was strange. If she was lucky none of them saw her, or else they were too drunk to encode a good memory of her. Sure, it wouldn’t be obvious at a glance that the red-haired woman in coveralls was her, but she also had no reason to believe that this was cover enough where the Queen’s velveteen touch was concerned. At least statistically none of the voidriders in that pub were likely to ever find themselves in an audience with the Queen.

In the plugport she found her ship again and swung in through the open airlock. Adelaide perched on her head as she hailed traffic control, then initiated retraction. Twenty minutes was pretty good for everything she’d gotten on this stop. She shouldn’t have to make another for…six weeks, if she didn’t have to run. Because she could, even if no one else had ever outrun the Pirate Queen. Because she was the only one who could see her coming, even if only now.

━━━━━━━━ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ━━━━━━━━

Scenelets wrapped taglist: @kk7-rbs

#one of the superstitions about the Pirate Queen is that matches light themselves in her presence #so some space travelers keep a match in a sealed bottle in the bridge to alert them #Adelaide is her cyborg crow #c: Adelaide #c: Christina #wip: dits #rose writ #scenelets wrapped

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katrin2003volko · 2 years

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Characters as tarot cards:

#romance club #art #sails in the fog #illustration #pirates #Adelaide

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unfinishedjulyrain · 10 months

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6 (six) 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄

Tagged by: lovely @mournus

Tagging: ( anyone who wants to, ofc! ) @temporalobjects / @dencesin / @lunaxriax / and YOU if you feel like it! I think it is supposed to be six songs for one muse but I have a headache and ngl am a bit lazy so I picked four muses that I always feel inspired to write when I hear this certain song.

Hana

Pirate - Everglow

Gonna be mad lunatic, girl / When the mysteriously changed moon comes / A show that will start secretly / In secret, yeah, dance I want it / Ddi-dam-bam-bam, bba-rira-bam-bam /A paradise found in a whole new world that is out of sync

OMG - NewJeans

I hear his voice through all the noise / Don't let go of my hand for one second no, no / Got no worries 'cause I got someone / It's okay to be alone 'cause I love someone

Face My Fears - Utada Hikaru

Breath, should I take a deep? /Faith, should I take a leap? /Taste, what a bittersweet / All my, all my life

Soul Salvation - Hayashibara Megumi

All the strength of my soul to give you a smile / I can go beyond the other side of the tears with you

#muse: hana #muse: adelaide #muse: tadashi #muse: himari #idk why hana's is pirate by eg #it just has her vibes #other would've been pretty savage by bp #for adelaide it would also be pop by nayeon #tadashi in general gives me utada hikaru energy #and well himari is based on shaman king... sorta xD

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anime-fan-for-life · 9 days

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More Adelaide bc I'm obsessed with her...

#Adelaide #One-Piece x Adelaide #Reaper Pirates

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ultrainfinitepit · 9 months

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Town of Puddle: Vampires

Last updated 08/14/2023

In the world of Puddle, vampire is a catch-all term for any humanoid creature that needs to consume something from a human to survive - usually human flesh or blood, but some subsist on other things such as emotions, dreams, etc. The most common vampire is the classic undead vampire. Vampires are usually immortal or very long-lived.

While vampires are thought to have any number of origins, there is in fact one singular origin from which they descend. The first vampires were nephilim, the children of the demon Asherah and the angel Rapha. Asherah was the queen of a kingdom named Hell. Tales of this kingdom and her rule would pass through the ages and become distorted into mythology. Rapha was an angel of blood with a terrible hunger his children would inherit. Both are long dead and gone, but their influence on their descendants lingers. Common vampiric powers, such as glamours and shapeshifting, come from these ancient ancestors.

Asherah and Rapha’s children were destined to rule, for a time anyway, over all corners of the earth. Some were more suited to the forests or mountains or cities, others to the sea or even the skies. These first vampires would eventually give rise to all the different types of vampires we see today.

The kingdoms of vampires were matriarchal, modeled after Asherah’s own kingdom. Matriarchs are a special type of vampire suited to rule, and childbirth. Mundane vampires have difficulty bearing children, most being completely infertile. Natural-born vampires are thus rare but not unheard of. Most vampires nowadays are turned, from human to vampire as other creatures are immune or will simply die to vampirism.

A childe (plural, childer) is a vampire that has been turned by another, who is their sire. One of the few remaining widespread cultural norms for vampires, is that a sire has some degree of responsibility for their childer shortly after they are turned, and it is good practice to teach them local vampire rules, history, and etiquette.

While most vampires prefer solitary existences, many vampires form groups for mutual support. These groups often vie for power in shadowy undergrounds that exist away from human eyes. A vampire group might be called a gang, a pack, or a coven.

Below are my named vampires so far. If you’re curious about even more, @wyrmzier also has their own Puddle vampire characters you can ask about.

Vivian Moon used to be human, but she was turned into a vampire. She is like a siphonophore, a colony inhabiting a human form. Because she is a colony of organisms she can survive grave injuries or even dismemberment, for short periods of time. When her limbs are separated from her body they have their own intelligence, like an octopus’s. Vivian works as a forensic consultant for a special precinct dedicated to investigating monster-related crimes.

Ethel Stone is Vivian’s friend in City Hall, who keeps her informed of political goings-on and secretly helps out her fellow vampires. Ethel is a lamprey vampire.

Teutho Melua is a vampiric pirate captain with a love of theatrics and parties. He is Vivian and Mordecai’s sire. Teutho is initially very narcissistic and bloodthirsty, but after some character development he becomes slightly less narcissistic. He is still bloodthirsty.

Mordecai Esadze is Teutho’s first mate. He is dark, serious, and grumpy, to balance Teutho’s more flashy personality. Mordecai is responsible and secretly more of a softie than he lets on.

Adelaide is Mordecai’s childe, his only one. As a human she sought the change, vampires call these sorts of humans “bite-chasers.” Now she manages a modest network of underground clubs and casinos, and in her spare time enjoys breeding snakes.

Lilian Heather is the adopted daughter of Samuel, and an up-and-coming actress.

Melanthios is an ancient vampire, thousands of years old and now more monstrous than humanoid. He is Menodora’s mate.

Malakos was the youngest of Menodora’s children, a cruel and egotistical vampire who controlled a small criminal empire on the Black Sea. He was Teutho’s sire, and was killed by Teutho and Mordecai.

Hyacinth is another of Malakos's childer, who pursues Teutho for a time.

Chise is Vivian’s mother, a bakeneko vampire. She abandoned Vivian at a young age, leaving her with no knowledge of her heritage.

Lycan was an ancient vampire, a child of Rapha and Asherah. His pursuit of a cure for vampirism led to the creation of werewolves.

Felisity is an ancient cat vampire, and a Matriarch. She was a queen of a small kingdom and was worshipped as an aspect of the goddess Bastet for many years, but eventually was dethroned and went into hiding.

#town of puddle #worldbuilding #vampires #ocs #lore post #master post #refsheet

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mrghostrat · 5 months

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I've been trying to find fics to read and I hate that I can't find anything that hits the same as your fics (I could explain why for days, mostly because your writing is fucking amazing and also because it appeals to me specifically with the style and the fact that I fucking love footnotes), so I'll be scouring the far corners of the interwebs for more of your writing and fics that are written similarly.

thptptfhptdhkjs this kills the bilv 😭😭😭

allow me to help <3 my favourite human AU writer is @feraltuxedo, they have a huge backlog of fics in all different kinds of settings at various different lengths. they make me so happy and hopefully they'll make you happy too. not even gonna list my faves bc it's too hard to narrow it down. (feraltuxedo on ao3)

meanwhile:

Black Vitrum (2021)

(It's the first thing I wrote after a loooong time of not writing, so the prose isn't as strong as my others, but people continue to express love for the story 🥺💛)

Mads' ordinary life is turned upside down the day he reunites with an old school friend, is attacked by a demon, and learns he has a guardian angel. Now he has to make it through the already difficult journeys of university and love, with an angel on his shoulder and a demon in his head.

Paranomads (2022)

🤌 very fandom, very tropey, lots of pining and sneaking around. here's my good omens crossover concept i want to write eventually!!

The Paranomads are a trio of Aussies who’ve been best friends since primary school. When their skeptical paranormal investigation show finally lands a contract with an online streaming service, Beau, Isaac, and Adelaide fly to the United States to promote their series at various pop culture conventions across the country. Beau’s crush on Isaac has been manageable until now, but living for three months in a tiny tour bus provides some new challenges in keeping his heart in check.

Temptations Adrift (2023)

SEXY HORNY PIRATES WITH STUPIDLY FANCY PROSE 👏👏👏

Jude only wants to forget his worries when he abandons his small town to join a pirating crew. He's never yearned for romance, but loneliness drives him into the arms of his crew mates and leaves him tangled between two very different men. Confused by their intentions and conflicting truths, Jude struggles to figure out who is right for him, and what he truly wants.

#rat writes #ask a rat

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actress4him · 7 months

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Whumptober 2023 - Day 10 - In Irons

Look! Proof that I haven't forgotten about this series, either!

This is a prequel piece, taking place before Adelaide runs away in the first chapter.

Taglist: @darthsutrich , @a-series-of-whumpy-events , @ladydani101 , @thingsthatgowhumpinthenight , @annablogsposts

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No. 10: “Can’t you see that you’re lost without me?”

Contains: abusive relationship, historical sexism, insulting a woman’s appearance/body, vaguely referenced marital activities, talk of cleavage, talk of pregnancy

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Charles comes up behind her as her maid is helping her dress. She always wishes he wouldn’t. He’s seen her in much more of a state of undress than her shift and stays - he’s her husband, after all - but that doesn’t keep Adelaide from feeling exposed.

He doesn’t touch, and doesn’t get in the way as her petticoat is slipped over her head. He just watches, looking her up and down with a critical eye.

“I highly doubt any other man ever took a second glance at you, you know.”

She makes eye contact with him in the mirror for an instant, surprised by the statement, then quickly looks away again. He’s in another of his moods, clearly, and as usual, she’s the one he’ll take it out on. She just needs to remain quiet until he’s done.

“Other than the unusual color of your hair, you’ve hardly anything to offer. Your features are too boyish, your breasts are embarrassingly small -” Adelaide’s face heats rapidly, shocked that he’d bring up such a thing -“and the freckles…” He sighs heavily, as if the marks on her skin have personally offended him.

“Be sure she’s wearing plenty of powder tonight, down to her neckline, as well,” he instructs the maid, who nods silently, focused on preparing the next petticoat and pretending she’s not listening to the rest of the conversation. “Just try to make sure she’s as presentable as possible. Everyone is already talking about why you’re not with child yet, I don’t need them talking about your looks, as well.”

Why would they? I’m already taken. By you. Clearly my looks weren’t that horrible when you asked my father to court me.

“You come from an admirable family, and your dowry was acceptable, but I hope you know that if I hadn’t taken you, you’d have ended up a spinster. You owe me for the pampered life of a married woman you’re now living.”

Ah, there ‘tis. This is about me owing him an heir, as usual.

He continues to stare at her for a long moment, displeasure creasing his features. Adelaide stands with her hands folded in front of her and prays he’ll leave.

“Well, hurry up and finish getting ready, then.” Turning on his heel, he marches toward the door. Just before he exits, she hears him mutter, “If our son ends up with freckles…”

I hope you never have a son. I’d have rather ended up a spinster than to share a bed with you.

“Madame? Forgive me if this is too forward, but I’ve heard that some of the ladies will add, um…padding to their bodices. Would you like me to…?”

“No, thank you,” Adelaide answers coolly, then gives the maid a slight, forced smile in the mirror. “Powder me enough to appease him, but let’s not go too far in catering to his whims.”

The maid smiles back, ducking her head, though not before Adelaide sees the approval in her eyes. “Yes, madame.”

#whumptober2023 #no.10 #lyric #can't you see that you're lost without me?#original content #fic #sexism tw #pregnancy tw #abusive relationship tw #emotional abuse tw #in irons #adelaide the pirate #lady whumpee #arranged marriage #historical fiction #colonial era #whump series

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wickedcriminal · 7 months

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Back when ELDER Hiccup was in the Pirate Training Program, they used to trek through 500 miles of snow, cross 5 perilous rope bridges through the great cliffs of Thor, kill five tigers, do the hokey pokey, AND swim the seven great seas all before the five o'clock bell.

Oh wait! They still do that!!

On another note, this would be around the time Younger was born-- and Snotlout would be sooo smug about how much better he was at this sibling stuff because Adelaide was born like a week earlier LMAO

It's not a RACE Snotlout.

#hbau #half brothers au #httyd #httyd books #how to train your dragon #httyd au #my art #snotlout had his skull tattoos as early as like ten 😂

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elidee-art · 5 months

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Fortune and the cleric, Adelaide, have what I would call a unique relationship.

They're both convinced one is going to have to kill the other in the end to protect either the party's wizard or the rest of the world. It's tense, to say the least

#dnd #oc #dnd oc #dnd pc #tiefling #triton #fortune the pirate #adelaide the cleric #the kilcairn expedition

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adelaideoldburg · 1 year

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