#yoinking some tags from the last posts:

[crispyjenkins]

(AC wip) The Savage Price of Piety

it's desmond's deathday and i wrote like. 9,000 more words to this wip (first two parts here) last week and i want to brag about it, so happy deathday you wet bastard (mostly gen but with a surprise rarepair, time travel/reincarnation, found family, william miles’ a+ parenting, accidental subterfuge, desmond goes by miles mostly, inspired by study of flight by @esamastation but with a twist!, only somewhat historically accurate swears by which i mean probably not at all but leonardo had some Opinions alright) have some (three) chronological but scattered bits of scenes

  “Oh,” Claudia says as soon as she opens the door, seeing Ezio’s rather wretched expression, “you’ve figured it out, then.”

  “You could have told me,” he growls, following her into the entryway and closing the door behind himself. 

  Claudia scoffs, spinning on heel to lead the way further into the building for the kitchens. “I had one conversation with the boy, brother, I was hardly sure of it myself. Wait,” she halts and points a finger at him accusingly, “how did you figure it out?”

  Ezio, quite graciously he thinks, ignores the subtle insult to his intelligence. Sighing, he pushes back his hood before their mother sees him with it on indoors, and runs a hand over his beard. “I had Leonardo visit.”

  Claudia’s face slackens, before twisting into a rage that has Ezio stepping away warily.

  But she punches the wall instead of her brother, a shouted “Gods damn it!” echoing in the narrow space. Then she spins on her heel and hollers further into the residential part of the bordello, “Mother! We forgot about Leonardo!”

  Horrified by his sister and concerned for his mother’s current mental state, Ezio reaches out to put a hand on Claudia’s arm, but he doesn’t get the chance before Maria de' Auditore is shouting right back, “God damn it!”

  Grumbling, Claudia stomps down the hall and leaves a very confused Ezio hurrying to follow; she ignores all his pleas for explanation until she’s stomped into the kitchen, where their mother is pouring two very large glasses of wine, with very little water to cut down the potency. She passes one to Claudia silently, and then they both drink, though luckily they aren’t attempting to down it all at once.

  “I can’t believe we forgot the Maestro,” their mother mutters to herself as she comes over to kiss Ezio on both cheeks, before shoving the still mostly-full glass into his hands.

  “Forgot him for what?” Ezio wants to know, clutching the glass like a mother clutches a babe.

  “To test if Miles really is an Auditore.” It’s said so flippantly, like it doesn’t affect Claudia at all, but she also collapses into one of two chairs at the little tea table under the largest window. Their mother takes the other, massaging her forehead and looking like she’s grieving their family all over again.

  It occurs to Ezio, as he moves to stand next to the table, that she probably is.

--

“It’s all up to you now, Seventeen.”

  Desmond opens his eyes to the dark of the dormitory, faint moonlight cutting over the floor between his bed and Nino’s, and he can’t bring himself to move — even to roll off his arm that is very much still asleep. 

  Clay still haunts him.

  Five hundred fucking years, and his current twenty-four besides, and that fucker still won’t leave him alone. If Desmond were not so familiar with what an actual Bleed feels like, he’d almost think Clay is stuck in his brain the same way as his ancestors. Thank fuck he stopped Bleeding Ezio’s memories and feelings, while still retaining much of the training.

  Fuck, time travel is so weird.

  Or, reincarnation? He’s not sure of much, but he’s sure he was dead, he’s sure he burned, and he’s sure that though his 15th century mother had affectionately called him [redacted], his name is Desmond Miles.

  Or just Miles, he supposes. Sue him, he panicked when Adele first approached him, and the best aliases are ones you know you’ll respond to, right? If only he’d have had the forethought to divorce himself from his... future family’s surname.

  It sounds different enough with an Italian accent that it hasn’t caused any problems, yet. Like making him flinch. Or snapping that he hasn’t been a Miles since he was sixteen.

  Granted, he still has no idea what he would go by instead. Altaïr and Conner would feel weird, while Sef or Darim are just a bit on the nose, and does he look like an Edward? Malik, maybe. His grandmother here, now, is actually from the Levant, so his skin is certainly dark enough that people wouldn’t be surprised by the name.

Except that feels almost akin to naming himself Leonardo.

--

  So instead, Leonardo spends every spare moment with his best friend, sometimes to brainstorm, sometimes to simply be there for him. It’s during one of these visits, he and Ezio once again observing the youngest assassins in the training ring, that he hears Miles laugh for the first time, and it’s as if ice water has been poured directly into his veins.

  Oh fuck. Oh Saints, oh Holy Father, oh fuck.

  “Leonardo?” Ezio asks quietly, head tilted towards him in concern, but Leonardo ignores him to stumble for the bannister to lean over it and stare down at Miles learning a little jig from Tullio, laughing all the while.

  He had only heard it once, truth be told, and it had been Salaí that had caused it, but even three years later, Leonardo remembers the laugh of Rodrigo Borgia’s sinister little shadow.

  Below, Miles doesn’t stop smiling, but his golden brown gaze yanks up towards Leonardo as if knowing his thoughts are about him. His eyes narrow, then widen slightly in realisation, and then he winces and looks away, which is all the confirmation Leonardo needs.

  Turning around, Leonardo grabs a confused Ezio by the arm and drags him from the training room, ignoring his protests until they find the nearest empty room.

  “Leonardo, what—?”

  “Romulus.”

-

#that last one 👀 #the first one is part of my sib's favorite scene so far #middle one is just des being a Mess #crispy writes #also #absolutely do NOT think about the timeline i beg u #i am gay and Tired #savage price #that'll be the tag for all posts about this fic #if i do end up posting more #anyway the other posts are now tagged with it too #not star wars #for those that filter on my blog #title from poor isaac by airborne toxic event! #which was my 2nd most-listened-to song this year #yoinking some tags from the last posts: #this whole fic is based on the trope of time travel des not knowing how to lie for shit and people making assumptions (à la study of flight #except their assumptions turn out to be mostly right #des isn't ezio's kid tho 👀

[duckprintspress]

9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better

Gonna yoink a tag from @profiterole-reads on this meme.

3 ships you like:

Hua Cheng/Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu)

Liu Tongyi/Jing Chengjun (The Imperial Uncle)

Mo Ran/Chu Wanning (The Husky and His White Cat Shizun)

First Ship Ever: uh I guess it depends on definitions, probably Min Farshaw/Rand al'Thor (Wheel of Time)? But they're canon so maybe that doesn't count. So, hmm... Lina Inverse/Gourry Gabriev (Slayers) or Yuuki Miaka/Nuriko (Fushigi Yuugi; tho really I just supported Miaka harem rights, she deserved all those bishies at once) are ones I can remember from high school that aren't canon (tho Lina/Gourry kinda sorta is? it's canon adjacent at least...)

Last Song You Heard: Honey Magnolia by Brian Fallon was the last song in my car yesterday afternoon. One of my favorite songs, the first year I heard it, it was my most-listened to track of the year.

Currently Reading:

Salad Days by Jing Shui Bian

Copper Coins by Mu Su Li

Currently Watching: Nirvana in Fire is the only thing I'm currently actively trying to carve out time to watch.

Currently Consuming: water is the only thing in reach.

Currently Craving: lunch, but it's a little early.

Tagging: I usually figure out who to tag from our notes, but right now our notes are a disaster because we have a couple posts exploding a bit, but here's some names in there I recognize... @qbdatabase @stjohnstarling @paintedpigeon1 @smehur @eastofakkala @faejilly and anyone else who wants to!

#meme #tag meme #Youtube

[bethanyactually]

yoinked from @hondagirll 😘

last song: New Disaster by Barenaked Ladies

favorite color: sunflower yellow, turquoise, orange, grass green

last movie/show: I think the last thing I watched was an episode of Elementary, but tomorrow I'm gonna finally watch Barbie since it's on Max now.

sweet/spicy/savory: Yes, thanks! (If you force me to choose, probably spicy, which is a change! Once upon a time I'd have definitely said sweet, but my tastes have shifted.)

relationship status: married to the best dude on the planet

last thing I googled: 'rudy giuliani' to fact check a post I wanted to reblog

current obsession: still Nancy Drew, because even though @pressdbtwnpages and I have watched and rewatched this show, and have been discussing it nonstop since the s4 finale four months ago, we keep finding new layers of meaning and nuance. How!? It's a really good show. Also mildly obsessed with cheesy toast lately, and this cranberry and lime Polar seltzer I am currently drinking.

tag 9 people: low-key no-pressure tagging Kelsey since I mentioned her, and some folks from my recent activity: @tomatocages, @beththebubbly, @fitzawkwarddarcy, @catalogercas, @fierycavalier, @penguinsandyetmorepenguins, @dollsome-does-tumblr, @forasecondtherewedwon, and anyone else who'd like to do this.

#meme #me

[the-owl-tree]

Honey's Horrible No Good Time in Warriors - A Masterlist

-(Previously named wc isekai au, now just HHT/Honey's Horrible Time for short)

Last Updated: 2023-09-07

Honey's Horrible Time is a warrior cats inspired story inspired by the isekai genre: stories in which someone dies and is reincarnated into another world. This post is to help wrangle all my posts as tumblr tags are rather inconsistent in trying to manage everything.

The story revolves around the death of a human after being hit by a car and is reincarnated into a fake Warriors arc. She is sent into the body of Honeypaw, the half-sister and bully of the arc's protagonist, Frostblaze. With the spirit of Honeypaw and a strange "Guide" from StarClan accompanying her, the former human-turned-cat, who names her Honey, must figure out how to navigate this new world...and survive her impending death.

Some key information:

Not all information will be explicitly told. Some of it will be told through puzzles or can be extrapolated through other information.

This is a work in progress! Plot points are subject to change and the story is still being developed.

There won't be any official comic or story written. I'll do mini comics and maybe some short stories but there are no plans to make it an official thang as of now.

All posts will be tagged under #honey's horrible time now

Currently WIPs & Ideas

Overview of this world's StarClan

What are Guides?

Possession and all that fun stuff

anyone in the allegiance list without an asterik

The Cast

The WolfClan Allegiances (Text post with links to refs of bg characters)

Honey, Honeypaw, and Guide's Refs + Short Comic (Art)

Frostblaze + Splashpaw (Art)

Owlstar, Beesnap, and Eaglepaw (Art)

The guy who keeps inexplicably coming back to life (Ask + Art)

Fun facts about some of the cats in the allegiances (Ask)

The existential horror of being a child in the body of a battle cat (Text post + Art)

Inspiration for Maggotstar + Design Notes

Story Related

A short overview of the characters & plot (Ask)

Inspirations & longer overview of the plot (Ask)

How does Honey know what's going to happen? (Ask)

What is Honeypaw's relationship with her parents like? How do they react to her strange behavior? (Ask)

Honey's body can shift (Ask)

Honey's warrior ceremony & Honeypaw's reaction (Ask)

Does Honeypaw find out she's supposed to die? (Ask)

The Buzz about Beesnap Does Beesnap ever find out her daughter isn't her daughter? (Ask)

Why does Owlstar give Frostblaze preferential treatment? + Owlstar's relationship with Beesnap and Duskflower (Ask) [OUTDATED INFORMATION! Frostblaze being his daughter is no longer a secret]

Honeypaw and Frostblaze being half-sisters is no longer a secret (Text post)

Why does Frostblaze have a warrior name and the other apprentices don't? (Ask)

Tidbit of information about this world's StarClan (Ask)

More buzz on Beesnap's thoughts on her daughter's body getting yoinked (Ask)

How many people have been isekai'd? (Ask)

What made Honey and Honeypaw decide to work together? (Ask)

Miscellaneous Art & Posts

Honey struggles with cat body language (comic)

Honey's warrior name (Ask)

wait what was that about honey's anatomy (Ask)

Background lesbian cats :) (Ask)

Will this be an official story? (Ask)

Honey Haymaker (Ask)

A glimpse into Frost and Frostblaze's relationship (Art)

Harefoot saw WHAT (Ask)

Lynxstrike and Beesnap's very not mentioned flirting (Text post)

Sillaaayy art of Lynxstrike & Frost with her Guide (Art)

What would it be like if Frost and Honey swapped hosts? (Ask)

Who would down 12 mints and then try to chug ice water? (Ask)

What if the books were set in the canon book lines (Text post)

Beesnap and Honeypaw's Post-Death Relationship (Text Post)

#long post #honey's horrible time #<- will now get to work replacing the posts with that tag #and here is every relevant ask towards the story now put in a block of text

[dru-reblogs-stuff]

Get to know you tag

Yoinking an open tag from @blind-the-winds because it's been a hot minute since I've done one of these.

last song:

On the Railroad, performed by Colm McGuinness. It's a work song about building the First Transcontinental Railroad from Nebraska to San Francisco Bay. I'm particularly attached to this song, because it reminds me of when I traveled that route.

favorite color:

Let's go with 'vibrant rainbow' because I'm not really having an strong favourite colour at the moment. The Gent sent me a bouquet of pinks and purples and whites. The crocuses in the balcony are mostly yellow. The Housemate made some lego roses which are deep red. Everything else is shades of green, and the show I'm watching is filled with cyber blue.

currently reading:

Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow. A very interesting story about an older forensic accountant who gets wrapped up in mafia wars to do with moving money through cryptocurrency. I'm learning a lot from it which I can use in Haven's Ember.

Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter and Count Zero by William Gibson are on the backburner for now.

sweet, spicy, or savoury:

Sweet. I've had a really bad craving for ice cream for the past few days. I'm blaming how terrible the weather is.

last thing i searched online:

"green vegetables that start with a P" - On the way to my mum's yesterday we were talking about the sorts of things one can put in SpagBol, and Mum couldn't remember the name of a vegetable: "it begins with P" and I couldn't remember any veg names so I turned to the internet for help.

The vegetable she was thinking of was sPinach.

current obsession:

I've got a couple of things on the go, but none of them are really obsessions?

I'm editing a fanfic AU from 2017, which is bringing back ~emotions~. But it's also slowly getting posted on my main blog

I'm thinking about the next art project I want to do

I've been binge-watching my way through The Expanse which is awesome. I've not had a good space opera fix in a while (not counting Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente which I read over xmas and was very fun)

Open tag! Tag me back if you yoink it so I can read all about you :D

#get to know you tag #tag game

[goddevouringserpent]

tagged by @dujour13, thank you!!! these are always a lot of fun hehe

Last song: death follows by she who mauls, found through my Release Radar playlist. was not even aware of this artist until now but I'll be keeping an eye out for any other songs she releases

Currently watching: nothing! in-between shows—we're pondering whether to start Severance, Scavenger's Reign or maaaaybe Voyager

Three ships: UHH okay I'm gonna cheat and pull from the ones I have works in progress for lol. let's sayyyy... Kaija/Woljif, Nelvari/Julan, Yunia/Ranni (yes I've already mentioned them in a past tag game but time is fake and yuri is forever). I'll probably think of like 50 more right after I post this but fuck it we ball

Favourite colour: ourple 💜

Currently reading: been having a very hectic time, so unfortunately I haven't really been able to read anything not work-related... still trying to finish Buddha's Little Finger and Tesis sobre una domesticación—both of which I am thoroughly enjoying, so trust me, it's not for lack of wanting that I haven't made much progress. also, technically, the books I am editing for work

Currently consuming: as in eating/drinking? nothing too exciting, I'm afraid, just sipping on water cause I've gotta stay hydrated 😌 but I will say the last thing I ate (dessert) was grapes & some salt and caramel flavoured chocolate. which is really really really good

First ship: UUUUUUH. I might be wrong, but I think it was Lyra/Will, from His Dark Materials? it's the earliest ship I can remember, anyway

Place of birth: real ones know Argentina. no further details given :3

Current location: my bedroom

Relationship status: romantically? single

Last movie: uuuhhhhh it's been so long since I watched a movie, I legitimately cannot remember... come to think of it, I think it might've been Argentina, 1985, back when it first came out?? so uhh. two years ago give or take😭

Currently working on: work + like ten drawings at once + character page + RP stuff + lots of OC stuff honestly. I'm feeling the urge to write fic but I'm not sure what about yet, we'll see 🤔

open-tagging because I'm too lazy to actually tag people, lol. feel free to just yoink this or mention me/say I tagged you~!

#Maia speaks

[actualbird]

got tagged by @theres-a-bea for 15 questions for 15 mutuals tag game, thanks for the tag :D

making a separate post cuz i didnt wanna make the first one too long or ping other ppl with notifs jhVKJHSVFJKSHD

1. are you named after anyone? my legal name, yeah! thanks to the baptism requirements, ive got the name of a saint. not telling u which because it's a kinda uncommon name and i dont wanna get doxxed JVJKSDF

2. when was the last time you cried? this morning, it's part of my routine to just cry in the morning so ive gotten all the pesky emotions out of the way to function mostly normally for the rest of the day jlHVKJS

3. do you have kids? do cats count? these r my two babies, bully and gato

4. do you use sarcasm much? not very much actually!

5. what sports do you play? none. in high school intramurals, i was part of the chess team and the games of the generals team. board games and Thinking is as strenuous as my physical activity gets jkhsvjfkhsvdkf

6. first thing you notice about other people? if IRL, i notice their height. if online, i notice like.....text quirks and stuff. i also like noticing what makes people laugh, cuz i like making ppl laugh and cuz 90% of why ppl keep me around is cuz im the funny guy so i gotta make sure i do my due diligence in keeping that up JKVSKJFVSDKJHF

7. eye color? dark brown

8. scary movies or happy endings? happy endings ALWAYS. i like the angst before the storm but i love a hopeful ending. and ive got a horribly low tolerance for horror JHVSKJDFVS i get....scared very easily....

9. any special talents? too many useless party tricks....i can recite all the countries of europe from memory in under 40 seconds, i can fold a paper crane behind my back or blindfolded, i can twist my right arm 360 degrees, i can make a trilling/purring noise from my throat, i can dislocate my right shoulder. these are all SO useless. but funfact! the countries of europe thing was a talent i showed off in a JOB INTERVIEW once. and then i got hired and ive been working that job for more than a year until now jkHVKJFSDFJVJ SO HEY MAYBE USELESS PARTY TRICKS HAVE THEIR UTILITY SOMETIMES!!

10. where were you born? //taps sign of i dont wanna get doxxed HAKSJFHVS

11. what are your hobbies? reading, writing, drawing, some crafts stuff when the mood hits me (crocheting, origami, making miniatures, sewing)

12. do you have any pets? YES, there were my two babies the cats. and my family is rlly into pets so this house has more animals than humans. we also have 2 labradors, 2 beagles, 1 jack russel terrier/poodle mix, and 1 turtle. it's a fuckin zoo over here

13. how tall are you? five foot one

14. fav subject in school? english!!! anything literature!!!!!!

15. dream job? man, yall got dreams? KJHVSFSKLFSDLJ. idk im a horridly ambitious-less person nowadays. as long as i get paid and im not treated like shit, im good with that

and now to tag........ @samsspambox (I KNOW TRIXIE ALREADY TAGGED U BUT UR THE FIRST WHO COMES TO MIND JFHGVKJSDH), @lukevonhagen, and uhhhh thats everybody i feel comfortable pinging HAHA. no pressure to do it, and everyone else pls feel free to yoink the meme and do it for urself :D

#tag game #dootdootdoot #the sheer chasm of personality difference between the cats.....sillies

[crispyjenkins]

savage price of piety "crispy has lost control of their life again" celebration sneak peek

okay here's one from one of my favorite things i've ever written, which isn't actually posted yet, but everything for it so far is tagged with #savage price and is linked on my fic masterlist, which is my pinned post! (mostly gen but with a surprise rarepair, time travel/reincarnation, found family, william miles’ a+ parenting, accidental subterfuge, desmond goes by miles mostly, inspired by study of flight by @esamastation but with a twist!, only somewhat historically accurate swears)

  But it’s Ezio that broaches the subject, Leonardo having had to return to his studio so as not to upset said city’s patrons,

  “Were you raised in Castello Tarazed?”

  ... What.

  Desmond stares at him in bemusement, wondering how the fuck he knew anything about that, and also why that’s the first thing he’s asking him. Isn’t he curious about Desmond’s father? Don’t he and Leonardo already have a theory on his relation to the Auditore?

  Ezio doesn’t elaborate, crossing his arms as he leans against the support of the rooftop loggia Desmond had been taking a break in, rough-spun sheeting pulled aside to let the sunlight in. Back-lit as he is, Ezio’s expression is even harder to see with the hood, though Desmond isn’t sure he’d have been able to actually read it even if he could.

  After another minute of blinking at each other, Desmond slowly asks, “What?” and no, he isn’t thrilled when it gets a fond little uptick of Ezio’s mouth, pulling at their shared scar.

  “Castello Tarazed,” he repeats, with a nod upriver towards the area of Rome it’s in, the rione that’s been known as Borga for... a very long time. It was even still called that in the 21st century, if Desmond is remembering one of Shaun’s rambling info-dumps right.

  They can almost see it from the Island, situated right at the bend of the Tiber that stretches between the Vatican and the Castel Sant’Angelo, and though they can see said castel from where they are right now, they are too far away to pick Desmond’s old home out from the skyline.

  Desmond licks his dry lips and glances away, before forcing himself to look back. “It’s been abandoned for years,” is what he says, though he isn’t sure why. His time in the Castel Sant’Angelo wasn’t great, he’ll admit, but the years before that with a man that raised his sons like Bill Miles did...

  When he’s thought about revealing everything to the remaining Auditore, of explaining his life in the future, he’d never once considered telling them about this.

  Standing over him, Ezio hums thoughtfully and unpins Desmond from his gaze, surely aware of his discomfort. “Eight years, yes. Locals say it’s haunted.”

  Suddenly Desmond can’t feel his fingers. His right arm. The back of his head where it used to be cradled by the Animus.

  “The tenders of the nearby Frisian Schola who were around that long ago claim everyone on the grounds of Tarazed was killed in a single night, but someone powerful covered it all up to avoid the scandal, and then never sold or gave the property away.”  

Why is he asking this, why is he phrasing it like this, why doesn’t he just accuse Desmond like everyone else—?

-

#crispy writes #savage price #absolutely do NOT think about the timeline i beg you #i am Gay and Tired #title from poor isaac by the airborne toxic event #which was my second most-listened-to song last year #anyway i'm trying to commit to finsihing long fic before i start uploading them which is why i haven't posted this one yet #even though i'd tie myself to a train track to talk about it #not star wars #yoinking some tags from the last posts: #this whole fic is based on the trope of time travel des not knowing how to lie for shit and people making assumptions (à la study of flight #except their assumptions turn out to be mostly right #des isn't ezio's kid tho 👀

[le-scenariste]

Tagged by @ghosts-of-love :) but for some reason the tag didn't work properly so I didn't realise til I saw the post ANYWAYS

1) Are you named after anyone ?

I sorta yoinked my name from Eli Loker from Lie To Me but I just like the name itself and decided 'ill be taking that' and not 'holy fuck I wanna be him so bad' if that makes sense

2) when was the last time you cried

I never fuckin remember this shit. I don't cry that often but I feel like there was something somewhat recently but yeah nah can't remember

3) Do you have kids ?

Does my cat count ?

4) Do you use sarcasm a lot ?

...yeah. quite a bit. Sometimes I'm a lil worried I come off a bit more rude than intended tho. I'll use it less or more depending on who I'm with tho

5) What's the first thing you notice about people ?

Their height and the way they dress. Me when I'm short as fuck so someone who's like...5"8 is hella tall

6) What's your eye colour ?

Really fucking dark brown

7) Scary movies or happy endings ?

Happy endings all the way. Although I've recently come to the realisation that I'm not as bad with horror movies as I thought :)

8) Any special talents ?

Not really ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

9) Where were you born ?

See if you asked where I'm from, this shit would be paragraphs long about cultural identity and shit. But nah I was born in Guatemala

10) What are your hobbies ?

Drawing, TV and movie watching, playing music, games :)

11) Have you any pets ?

My cat !!! He's a baby 🥰 I love him <33333

12) What sports do you play/have played ?

I played soccer in primary school for a bit then stopped when my mom didn't ask me if I wanted to play even tho I did but I was too scared to ask for some reason. And then when I moved to Australia, the school I went to had winter sport be compulsory so I chose soccer again. Played it until the pandemic hit and the school was like after the first lockdown ended "oh well we don't know if we'll be playing matches but sign up and we'll give you more info" nah fuck that gimme the info now. Haven't played since. But I do capoeira now :) which I also did while in the states and took a break from. Good shit got training tonight

13) How tall are you ?

😭4"11😭😭😭

14) Favourite subject in school ?

Back in the US it was french for a bit cuz my teacher was super nice. I was also definitely her favourite but whatever (dw I wasn't a teacher's pet or anything who reminded her about unassigned homework). Music was also good cuz all we did was just learn songs for the school fair. Then in Australia it was also french but because it was super fucking EASY and I didn't have to study. And also after y9, maths cuz I actually understood shit with the help of a legend of a teacher and a godlike tutor

15) Dream job ?

Visionswitcher/mixer or film/tv editor :)

I am tagging @stop-saying-tootsie @basiloaks @hadleyfrasergender and anyone else who wants to do this

#ask games #tag game

[fereldanwench]

Name Meaning Game

I was tagged by @bnbc & @miss--river--Thank you, bbs! 💙

RULES: Search and post the meaning of your OCs’ names (if you made their name up or they go by a nickname, post an explanation of how it came to you)! Bonus if you can find something for their last name too.

→ Valerie Irene Powell

Valerie The name Valerie is primarily a female name of French origin that means Strength. [x] Irene The name Irene is primarily a female name of Greek origin that means Peace. [x] Powell The name Powell is primarily a male name of Welsh origin that means Son Of Howell/Hywell. [x]

For some deeper history and etymology of her last name:

The surname Powell was first found in Breconshire (Welsh: Sir Frycheiniog), a traditional county in southern Wales, which takes its name from the Welsh kingdom of Brycheiniog (5th-10th centuries), where the name "are descended from Philip ap Howell, whose pedigree is traced to Edwin ap Grono, Lord of Tegaingl, founder of the XIII noble tribe of North Wales and Powys." However other records claim the name came from the Welsh King Hywel Dda"the Good" ap Cadell (c.880- c.950), son of Cadell ap Rhodri, in turn a son of Rhodri the Great.

The Welsh migration to North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries contributed greatly to its rapid development. These migrants were in search of land, work, and freedom. Those Welsh families that survived the long ocean journey were critical to the development of new industries and factories, and to the quick settlement of land. They also added to an ever-growing rich cultural heritage. [x]

And as for how I chose her name:

"Valerie" is obviously the name given to female V in the game, but I wavered for about a month before I decided to accept it as her name, too. I think it's a really pretty name and I like it a lot, but that was actually a part of the conundrum: I had named my New Vegas Courier "Valerie" as well, and I wasn't sure I wanted to have two OCs with the same first name. Courier!Valerie wasn't as fleshed out as V!Valerie and I wasn't as attached to her, so I decided to change my Courier's name to Natalie and stuck with Valerie for V.

Plus, I do really like having my OC referred to by their first name in a game (like if you choose "Sara" or "Scott" in Mass Effect Andromeda) so I think having that reference, even if it was just a fleeting comment at Clouds, did sway me a lot in deciding to keep it for her.

"Irene" was kind of chosen at random--I just liked the flow of "Valerie Irene"--But it's going to be a family name, probably from her mom's side. I'm still working out some family tree and heritage details so more info is pending there. But! It also makes her initials VIP, which I thought was cute and funny, and I'm gonna attribute it to a little dad joke on her father's part.

And for "Powell," I yoinked it from Iain Glen's character in the 2001 Tomb Raider movie, Manfred Powell. Initially, I went with it because I thought it sounded a little prestigious, I guess, and fitting for a corpo character. But it's also a fairly common surname in the US, and as I developed her background more, I realized wanted her father's side of the family to come from an average Western-European-descended American lineage, so it worked on that front, too.

I never really gave much thought to the actual meanings of the names, but I do feel like "strength" and "peace" are very fitting for her. 💙

Tagging @zyana-wyvern, @starsandskies, @roofgeese, @commander-krios, @black-rose4, and @gloryride (if you wanna, of course)!

#oc: valerie v powell #oc snippets #tumblr: dash games

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Bipolar Essay Extra #4

A solid a$$ explanation of BD from Ian:

So, to add in some of my own experience here, I'll put in some of my journal entries, and then go a little in-depth:

[Friday, June 3rd 2022]

(20:54 — 8:54 PM) 

Oh, great. The insanity is back. 

Now, this type of insanity is hard to describe. Just…wired energy. Like anxious energy spazzing through me like I just took 9 shots of caffeine.” 

(End of entry.)

My thoughts:

Okay--so I still vividly remember the energy. Ian said there's so much energy, so much ideas, and that it gets to a point where you start losing sanity, and that's the point I was at. I just had all this energy inside of me, my mind was going 200 miles a minute but with 3 different voices, my hands were trembling, and I couldn't do anything because the energy was too my mortal coil to handle 🤪.

...

[September 15th 2022 — Thursday, 2:24 AM. ]

Currently fvcking tripping right now. I don’t think my mood stabilizers are doing the thing that they should be doing. Like I am out of my mind right now. I feel inSANE. Not bad-insane yet, but I know I’m going to have trouble sleeping. I….want to write and draw and watch Donbrothers but all this energy doesn’t want to do any of this. Like for some reason I want to go out running and screaming maybe, like I could jog five miles— but? This energy does not want to write or draw or watch sh*t or liveblog. It’s frustrating, but I can’t even be frustrated? Because my mood is just elevated lol. I feel fvcking crazy right now. 

The Moodswings movie (part 1) for this album [DPR Ian’s] is…something I greatly relate to. I see myself in that video. That’s me. Dude, it’s like looking through a mirror. Damn, it just reminded me of how shaky I was like a month ago when my thoughts wouldn’t stop racing and I felt like I was spiraling out of control at work. Dude that sh*t was hard. Right now I feel good, but I know this high isn’t….normal lol. These last few days have been somewhat like this, but this is the most energized and elated  I feel. To the point that I can’t even get upset. Like, yoINks. 

[End of entry]

Bro I hit that euphoric mania and got lost in the sauce And --warning ahead, the next entry I'm putting under this one was when I was deep into that euphoric mania. You can tell too cause my thoughts are all over the place.

[October 3rd, 2022]

Monday, 5:35 PM 

Too Much, Too Much, All at Once, ah FvCK

Everything is glowing. Like all the light sources are especially bright and so it’s hard to focus on any one thing because all this light is shining at me and my eyes are going in and out of focus. Right now I can’t stare at the computer screen. I can’t focus on it, it’s like my eyes start seeing everything in this room at once, and it’s all so bright, and I can’t think when it’s like this. Tomorrow is trash pick up day, so I finally got the garbage out of my room and …now there is a lot more space— fvck. I feel like I’m trembling but it’s not my body—maybe just my eyes. 

Man trying to gesture draw like this is going to be real sh*tty I can already tell. 

Uh, I hope this entry is coherent, I don’t feel very coherent right now. Just zazzed.  

I got a tab up, “Guide to Mental Health Acronyms,” because I want to finally know and remember what the fvckin acronym for “bipolar disorder” is. BitJazz borderline personality making everything all complicated. (Damn, mfer I am TRIPPING.) 

[6:12 PM]  WhOOPS—sorry, y’all. Got distracted texting J (and then this other acquaintance). Though all I’m inclined to text rn is just nonsense gibberish, occasionally in a nonsense rhyme scheme, and featuring a few thrown in completely-made-up words that just feel right. Man, on tumblr today — I was on the manic depression tag — I saw a post talking about grandeur delusions, but their delusions were “the belief that I could finally change for the better, start eating healthy everyday, working out everyday, cooking and cleaning everyday” and I was like—

Damn, holmes! I guess I was more fvcked outta my mind then I thought. (I remember, idk how many weekends ago, having that same exact thought process and feeling because DAMN was I capable in that moment—ah. )

[6:28 PM] 

Sorry—was texting an acquaintance again. Wanted to share the above meme, and so I sent it once, and then a few texts later I sent it again. (Because it makes me laugh, LOL!!!!) Anyways, when I read tha— I need to get myself some more multivitamins lest I evaporate and die. 

FVCK

[6:40 PM] 

Damn I wish I could read. Right, right—that tab with the Mental Health Acronyms thing. Riiiiight. The Mental Health Acronyms tab ,,, the tab involving mental Health Acro— 

(lol) 

[8:28 PM] 

I’ve done some gesture drawing. Decided to move the 30 second timer (since I’ve done 70 drawings with it) to 2 minutes. My mind is fireworks. AAhhHHHHLHH;hhHH. Just read a tumblr post that said, “Being manic is feeling stuck in a perpetual loop of vertigo” and yah. I’ll drink to that bro. (LOL). 

I just found the perfect description. (Found, in my own thoughts, that is.) Right now, what I’m experiencing is like if I put on those red+blue 3-D glasses at the movie theater, except it's not red or blue, just light and so now I’m tripping tf outta my mind. 

(Unrelated) But a solid description of how I’ve been with my money these last like 5 months, literally the equivalent of: “Wow! I spent $50 on buttons in a variety of colors because I saw them and thought, ‘aw those are such cute little fkin buttons! I can place them all over my house and every time I see one I’ll be filled with immense joy because they’re just so fkin cuteeeeeeeeeee.’ And then when the buttons arrive being like, “What the fvck???/ What tHE FVCK?????” But then buying $50 more like 2 weeks later. 

Absolutely, 3 billion percent embarrassing behavior.

[End of entry excerpt ....it goes on for much longer LOL]

Anyways, I think these do a good job of showing what the mind of someone going through a manic episode is like--constantly switching thoughts, getting distracted, not all coherent, yada yada yada.

PPT Essay: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]

PPT Essay Extras: (1), (2), (3), (4)

Visuals of a Depressive Episode: (1), (2)

Journal Entries: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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Current desktop wallpaper: I yoinked one from Lamb’s collection a couple years ago because it was just so pretty:

The last song you listened to: Save Your Tears by The Weeknd

Currently reading: Doing some beta work for folks.

Last movie: Half of Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron while it was streaming in the Discord group.

Currently craving: A soda. I’ve had to give them up.

What are you wearing right now?: Yoga pants and a t-shirt

How tall are you?: 5'10″ (177.8cm)

Piercings?: Nope

Tattoos?: Nope

Glasses? Contacts?: Should wear glasses, but nope.

Last drink: Ice water

Last food: An apple

Last show: Technically Planet Earth, but it was background noise to fall asleep to.

Favorite color: All of them, but I mostly wear pink.

Current obsession: Researching how to garden. After 42 years, I finally have a place I can do it.

Unrelated obsession: I’m writing again!!

Pets?: Nope

Do you have a crush on anyone?: No. I’m a demi, so takes a lot of effort and a long time before I develop those kinds of feelings.

Favorite fictional character: Lots of them. Goliath and Elisa from Gargoyles, pretty much all of the cast of Elfquest, all of the cast from Dragon Age: Inquisition, Nick Valentine and Edward Deegan from Fallout 4, all the cast from every Transformers... And my OCs. I like them a lot.

#tag game #get to know the blogger

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Twiz Lore Part 5 A-Side

Part 5 from Twiz's POV. Long post under the cut. Content warnings in tags

Last time... On Twiz Lore:

Shit happened. Twiz had to hide a person from their death. And then got emotionally stunlocked by her childhood friend's villain speech. Topped off with him going "welp better kill that girl i was replacing you with!" It's fucked.

Well. Now Twiz has to go follow Viltas, while he yoinks Alicia for the execution... He gets to her room. Opens the door. Looks around... where the hell is she?

Twiz goes "Well, Vil. I dunno. Check the closet?" Nope. Not in the closet.

"Try... Under the bed?" Not there either...

"Well, dang! I would've hid there, myself... How about-- oh! Maybe in that box?" Mmmmnope not there.

Eventually, Vil tears apart the entire room, with the help of some elite guards. No sign of Alicia...

"Huh, she must be crafty! How about under the floorboards? I'd hide there if I were here for long enough." ...They tear apart the floorboards. Still no Alicia.

"Shit... I'm stumped. Uh... The walls? I mean, it's not very likely, but..." Holy shit they're tearing apart the walls now. The guards are questioning if this "Alicia" is even real. Vil is questioning if Alicia was even real. Twiz is having a hard time holding back her laughter, despite helping the guards in this pointless endeavor.

...is this ethical gaslighting? I mean, at no point did Twiz deny Alicia's existence. She's just denying that she knows where Alicia is, to stall for time. The more time the guards spend on tearing apart a room that Alicia isn't in, the longer Alicia has to find help...

"Well, I'm fresh out of ideas. Maybe... she went to hide in a different room, in the castle? She couldn't have gone too far, right?" Twiz is really pushing her luck with this... It's 9 PM, for fuck's sake! Let your captors rest! ...Or don't. I mean, it would be easier to escape from a prison if the guards were completely exhausted...

...Viltas realizes the pointlessness of all this. Welp. Guess everyone's going to bed, including Twiz. Luckily, not in the room they'd just tore apart. That room apparently wasn't even for Twiz, in the first place! So now Twiz gets to take a snooze in a shiny new room, made just for her! And she gets free tea, to boot! (Twiz doesn't know what tea tastes like)

...Her room's right next to Vil's room. And both are heavily guarded. And before Twiz can finally go into her fancy new room, Vil leans in uncomfortably close, and whispers to her:

"I knew you were stalling for time, back there. Did you have fun~?"

Oh Twiz, we're really in for it now--

He doesn't sound too upset about it, though. He just... chuckles to himself, softly. Is this a joke to him?

"I knew what I was getting into, with you... But, don't worry. I had fun, myself. I'll be sure to.. keep up with you, moving forward."

Oh gods, this is a joke to him. This... asshole kidnaps someone, and treats it like the opening to a prank war. Violent thoughts flood Twiz's head. If it weren't for the laws of the land--

oh for fuck's sake he's walking away. Damn it. Twiz missed her chance to maul this bastard. Well, at least there's still that free tea. And hey! Maybe the bed's comfy. She gets her own, after all! So, Twiz has a sip of the tea. It's... incredibly sweet... How much sugar did they put in this stuff, anyways? Twiz could get used to drinking this, if it's always this sugary... She chugs the rest, manners be damned. Alright! Bedtime!

Hey, by the way, did you know that having a lot of sugar before bed can cause nightmares? Twiz didn't! It's 3 AM, and Twiz is awoken from the nightmare Hellscape by... her cat? That's definitely her cat. Twiz's cat named Sprinkles. The cat Viltas yoinked. And he's been meowing at her. Sprinkles ceases the meowing once he realizes Twiz isn't dead.

Wait. It's 3 AM. The perfect time to sneak around...! Sprinkles, you magnificent fluffy himbo.

Unfortunately I don't know what Tumblr's post length limit is, and I don't wanna find out anytime soon. I will post B-Side of Part 5 when it's done, though! Stay tuned? I guess?

#twizposting #twizlore #lal oc #lal fc #cw nightmares #cw murder mention #cw gaslighting

[druidx]

Prolegomenon 2: The Better Edition

(I haven't gone anywhere, I haven't come back. I'm only doing a new one because the old one was t e r r i b l e)

~ THE BASICS ~

➼ Name: Dru ➼ Age: Adult - Fair to middling ➼ Gender: Female-ish ➼ Timezone: UTC; CET (UTC+1) ➼ Location(s): SW UK; Denmark

➼ Background:

I have been writing for 25+ years. I have two books self-published on Amazon (against my IRL name - DM if interested), and have also been published in three Tabletop Roleplaying Books: The Baby Bestiary 1 & 2, and Tiny Frontiers.

I enjoy exploring the themes of loneliness and the struggle of being independant, juxtaposed against family and other support structures. A lot of my work also focuses on the wonder of the natural world, and how humanity (or other interstellar races) fit alongside and within it.

I'm also not shy of challenging myself, so you may find some more experimental works posted here.

~ MY WRITING: ~

➼ Types: 

Fanfiction | Original Fiction | Poetry | Creative Prose | Essays

First Person | Second person | Third Person Limited | Third Person Omniscient

Past tense | Present tense | Future tense

Flash Fic | Drabbles | Short Stories | Novellas/ Novels | Serials

➼ Genres: 

Literary | Crime/ Police Procedurals | Fantasy | Romance | Science Fiction | Horror | Western | Historical | Urban Fantasy/ Paranormal | Mystery | Young Adult

➼ Strengths, Weaknesses & Reasonablenesses: 

Dialog | Description | Action | Pacing | Subtext | Foreshadowing | Plotting | Characterization/ character voice |

➼ What I'm hoping for with this blog:

Constructive critique. Anywhere you see the #concrit welcome tag, I'm looking for your views on how that piece could be stronger or better written.

Motivation. I have a number of novel-length stories that I really want to finish. I'm hoping that this blog and the writeblr community can help me get the motivation to finish some of these works.

~ EXTRA INFO ~

➼ Find my Masterpost List & Writeblr interactions on my pinned post.

➼ Tags:

My writing tag is #Wandering Words

My "everything else writing" tag is #Meta Wandering Worlds 

My older works are tagged with #for posterity

➼ Side Blogs:

Elder Scrolls fanfic is posted to @nine-blessed-hero

Starbound fanfic is posted to @dru-plays-starbound

Other people's writing is reblogged to @dru-reads-writeblr

➼ Find me outside of Tumblr:

On Archive of Our Own

On Royal Road

Last updated: 18 Oct 2022, 1630 UTC

Base template yoinked from thatprolificauthor; modifications by me.

#writing #writeblr intro #writeblr community #new intro post

[ihaveatypeanditstrickstergods]

I posted 425 times in 2022

110 posts created (26%)

315 posts reblogged (74%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@phoenixyfriend

@consultingcriminalatyourservice

@shenanigans-and-imagines

@occidentalavian

@wrenhyperfixates

I tagged 326 of my posts in 2022

Only 23% of my posts had no tags

#i need a queue tag - 141 posts

#exu calamity - 55 posts

#critical role - 41 posts

#final fantasy xiv - 26 posts

#kitty! - 26 posts

#exandria unlimited - 19 posts

#exandria unlimited calamity - 19 posts

#ffxiv - 16 posts

#ruins of avalir - 15 posts

#acofaf - 14 posts

Longest Tag: 125 characters

#or unsleeping city but that's the only dimension 20 i've watched a significant amount of so don't expect anything beyond that

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

246 notes - Posted December 6, 2022

#4

Y'all talking about Caleb being lonely is introvert erasure

351 notes - Posted November 18, 2022

#3

Dumb Theory: Wanessa is actually named Vanessa. She just remembered that you're not supposed to tell fey your name and panicked.

440 notes - Posted August 26, 2022

#2

Nasty Ends I want to see the Exandria Unlimited: Calamity cast come to:

- Zerxus is clearly a Fallen Paladin waiting to happen, so I really want him to get yoinked by a Betrayer God (Asmodeus seems likely, given the dream at the beginning) and be responsible for the death of at least one of the party members

- Loquacious and Laerryn are clearly not over each other, so I want them to reconcile just before the end (or one to die when the other is just about to confess that they still love them)

- I want Nydas to go out in an ultimately futile blaze of glory, ideally protecting some children (if, for example, he goes out trying to keep a corrupted Zerxus away from his (Zerxus's) son, I will weep in the best way possible)

- Cerrit has big "discovered an awful truth that could change everything but gets killed on the way to reveal it" energy. I really can't imagine him going out any other way.

- As for Patia, I just really want her to die at the foot of her grandfather's statue.

442 notes - Posted May 27, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

There is an old folk song that is sung in Exandria.  It goes by a lot of titles--In Marquet it’s commonly known as The Liar’s Love, while natives of Xhorhas would know it as The Fey Groom, and the elves of Syngorn’s version has a title that translates to “The Sacrifice of Truth for Love.”

It is a story ballad that tells the story of a fey who journeyed to the Material Plane in search of stories (interestingly, the Dwarvish version here uses a word that translates closer to “truth” than “story” and shares a root with their word for “news”).  While there, the fey meets and falls in love with a brilliant woman from a city in the clouds.  The two are happy together, until a day that the woman’s brilliance backfires, and the fey, who had left his home out of admiration for the stories created by mortals living their lives, chooses to forge false stories of his own to protect her.  The two are driven apart by this deception, until one day the city in the clouds begins to fall.  In her brilliance, the woman is able to save it, but nearly falls in the process--until the fey speaks one last truth to inspire her to finish (the version from the Dwendalian Empire has an extra verse where while the fey is able to help the brilliant woman save the city, the two still die shortly after).

The origin of the song is unknown--there are variations from all over the world, and no one has ever been able to determine which version came first.  The lyrics’ reference to a city in the clouds has led some scholars to speculate that the song may be referencing events of the Age of Arcanum, but most consider that unlikely.  After all, there are many stories in Exandria of a mortal stumbling into the Feywild and falling in love with some enchanting faerie they met there, but there are almost no stories of a fey who came to the Material Plane and fell in love.

1,935 notes - Posted September 16, 2022

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