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How Tumblr live should’ve been

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🎩 — What would an Exceptional Story featuring this character be about?

Exceptional story for May: In Violant, Inviolable

You grasp the Story by an overlong character introduction – but it sheds it, flopping to the cobbles and fleeing. You toss the squirming, adverb-coated passage and give chase, leaving the Apologist to wrangle the cut text into a sheet of flameproof paper.

A story has been stolen from the skin of the Bazaar – the very oldest of its kind – and the Violant-Scrawling Apologist has enlisted you to see it safely returned. Track a nascent thief across the Zee. Discern the nature of the Treachery of Records. And learn a little Neathy history, while you're at it.

Writing: violant-apologia

Editing: who needs editing anyway firmament certainly didn't have any (i'm joking FBG i love you)

QA: Stacy Fakename

Art: letters-of-fire

#ooh interesting!!

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sorry she's--? oh? ummm *twirling hair* teehee oh my gosh hiiii

oh.

#ok I need to play this ES #difficult chances checks are so funny to me #i can't wait to watch hiram fail every singe one

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died and came back exactly the same but something was so so so wrong with me before and now I have an excuse to really lean into it

#in character

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veils if it was a normal bat

#borzoi shaped creature

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Afternoon or evening dress, 1903-04

From the Hillwood Museum

#this is soooo pretty I want to touch the fabric #putting this in the deviless aesthetic tag because the palette is perfect #deviless vibes #fashion

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People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

#<3

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Some misc portrait doodles I haven’t posted here yet… if characters evil why fun to draw?

#the thoughts bubbles shdhdjff #i want to study all of them under a microscope #ocs

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@zeebreezin

Nothing unusual to see here, folks. Just a perfectly normal goldfish in a deeply unethically-sized bowl.

Alternate version under the cut.

#the most ominous goldfish in the neath #it's very very cute tho!

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It's actually not the most difficult thing to tell the difference between Nite and Roberts, even with dark glasses on--just ask one of them to smile.

#10/10 uncanny smile effect #10/10 would NOT approach

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i love that the princess just. gives people a bottle of bees. as a gift.

normal gift giving things

#bee molotov!!

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what do you mean 'used.' what do you mean by that.

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yes yes acts of violence often evoke eroticism and stabbing someone is potent penetration imagery but sometimes when i kill someone it's just because i want them to die

#in character

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its Josephine's birthday, everyone say happy birthday Josie. she is twenty six years old now, woooo

#happy birthday!! 🥳🥳

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Visiting Dress

1867

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Purple means spirit.

Central Florida Emergency Trans Care Fund

Equality Florida

ACLU Florida

Tampa Bay Abortion Fund

#fashion #fadgett & daughters

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i think elias would love to gather everyone else's ocs who have had their eyes messed up via different neathbow colors and do studies on color perceptions and how the color affects their memories

#if they all meet for tea they end up cancelling the neathbow effect #counteracting each other by accident #hiram would 100% agree to do this btw

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Re-reading Evolution, and it's even better as a whole with some things from the final chapter in hindsight.

These enigmatic metaphors go too well with the Calendar Council's inspiration from "The Man Who Was Thursday" and what its author said: "You ask me who Sunday is? Well, you may call him Nature, if you like. But you will note that I hold that when the mask of Nature is lifted you find God behind."

My mind is passionately gnawing on an AU (NOT meant to be a theory, just a purely self-indulgent fantasy): what if "Death's twin" is literally Life – which makes December the Creator – and the Judgements are merely usurpers (very befitting their usual role of a flawed and cruel Gnostic demiurge who only pretends to be the highest authority) who deposed December just like they banished the Black King of the Adulterine Castle?

Or, if December isn't a deity, simply a rebellious servant (because the Boatman says "we both served the same table once"), what if it was a forced reduction from the former to the latter as a first-warning punishment?

What if this original god of life-and-death truly cared about all creatures equally, but then the likes of the Sapphir'd King decided to devour souls for more power instead of guiding them through rebirth (which Devils reclaimed + which somehow-December-connected frost moths represent) and devised the Great Chain to justify the right of "greater" beings to prey on "lesser" ones?

What if the Liberation of Night isn't an overthrow of natural order but is a return to what it should always have been (before "then the light came") and it's no coincidence that the Anchoress managed to behold god's love and true design only in the darkness? (High-fiving this @gant-eyed-warden’s post.)

What if the Bishop of St Fiacre’s knows it all – and that’s where his hopeful religious devotion comes from despite being a Neathy creature that would never be forgiven and accepted by the Judgements?

...I definitely want to write something about it, but I already have two WIPs, ooooh...

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