#I normally wouldn't come up with a deadname for a character

[choppedupnotkilled]

Orin's original name was Jamie Scrivello, although it got legally changed to Orin Scrivello after his mother’s father when he was very young. His mom picked the name with his permission.

#proship #proshipper safe #lsoh #little shop of horrors #orin lsoh #lsoh headcanon #transmasc #transgender #tw deadnaming #I normally wouldn't come up with a deadname for a character #but this specific name ties into a motif with the name 'James' in my rewrite #if you haven't seen my original transmasc!Orin post and you have questions plz send me an ask about them #personal post

[cfrog]

OC-tober Day 1: Fav OC

[full prompt list]

I'm gonna have to award the title of "current favorite" to Rat. I'm sort of taking a break from drawing LEDDlabs, but I am still thinking about that guy so much. Have some rambles.

I cycle through which of the lab rats is my fav, I wouldn't say either of them is more favorite over the others. They take turns. And right now, it's Rat's turn. Which is good, cause it means he finally got some songs over on my neocities. Good for him!

[Woe, Rat be upon ye]

I've always loved writing about immortal beings, they're just such unique sorts of characters. The threat of death influences so much of a normal character's motivation, so when you remove that, you end up with some real freaks. I think Rat is the closest an immortal character has gotten to what I would do with eternal life: mind my business, enjoy some art, and take a lot of naps. Not that his life is entirely worry-free. Rat also has one of my favorite moral dilemmas to write, the idea of a "good" demon. The implications of existing as a being explicitly intended for evil deeds, and choosing to act differently. The consequences of that choice, objectively "correct" from our perspective, but. Is it really a good thing? Does it matter in the end? Who knows :3c

Writing Rat also comes with one of my other favorite activities, worldbuilding. Specifically what demons are and how they work. I don't have, like. LOTR level of lore. It's pretty minimal right now, I've got just enough figured out to tell Rat's story. But since the main source of demon knowledge in-comic is gonna be from Rat, and he's the most unreliable and unhelpful source of information ever, I can lie and leave out whatever I need to. Even Astaroth is probably only going to be around for a handful of pages, being locked to a single room. She isn't exactly helpful or clear either.

Rat's uncooperative personality also helps me with writing about his "past lives" (i collect info for these on TH if you didnt know). Like, Rat is never going to share any of his old names. Because that's deadnaming? Because he genuinely forgot? Maybe. But it's mostly because I don't feel like coming up with 20 more names. I have two old Rat names, and that's more than enough. I don't want to refer to Rats of the past by other names because I feel like it'd distance them too much. I call them "past lives" but I don't want to give the wrong impression, they're all Rat. it's always been the same guy, continually living for hundreds of years. If LEDDlabs had an actual fandom I fully believe someone would onceler-style selfship some Rats. Like a true tumblr sexyman.

We'll see how much I write for the rest of these. I feel like this was a lot.

#i got a single yes on that last post 👍 oc time #oc-tober #bweirdoctober #my ocs #my oc talk #ledd's lab rats #lab rat #i was just writing stuff out for the chapter where rat brings up the demon thing. the other two dont start the story knowing that. #its a very fun interaction cause ollie has no idea what a demon is while moe is vaguely religious and having a crisis. #ollie: ok. this means nothing to me #moe: hell is real?????

[captorsicallfriends]

Another story- so I'm not gonna tell you everything about my family bc that'd be dumb but I will tell you that my family is full of police officers. Yay. And I didn't think about it much when I was younger but now I'm kind of realising there is no other way this happened than for the purpose of me becoming the main character in a dystopian novel. So I'm sitting at my family Christmas party, surrounded by skinny white able bodied cishet people having, as I'm sure you can oh so clearly imagine, the time of my life (sarcastic). ⚠️This next bit involves racism and mentions of police brutality so feel free to not read this if that kind of thing doesn't sit well with you⚠️ And somehow the conversation switched to the black lives matter movement, and my uncle started running his mouth off on how if George Floyd just "complied" he wouldn't have had to be treated with such force. Oh no. Oh fuck no he did not just say that. Listen listen listen you can deadname me and whine about how disappointing my lifestyle is but the second you come for a whole ass movement aiming for equal rights????? Tell me what you want on your tombstone rn and I'll just write the word moist a bunch of times instead that's how pissed I am. But anyway- I am too shocked to speak like how can you say something like that wtf. So instead of ripping him to shreds like I normally would I just wait until the dinner is over and follow him around the house going "guess who I am", making a bunch of pig sounds, and pointing at him. And Diya when I tell you there is nothing funnier than a grown ass man turning bright red and fuming, winding up his fist going "why I oughta-" while a smug child stands there pushing up their nose and oinking, there really is nothing funnier . This occured the whole night it was extremely funny and I'd definitely be in jail right now if I still spoke to them but anyways. The next morning rolls around and my aunt brings up that murder of the black man who got shot, died, and the cop claims she "thought the gun was a taser". And I go "yeah it's horrific how little coverage that story got and she was obviously racist but if the story she's saying is real by some very very very slim chance it really proves how unqualified cops are to be doing their j-" and was interrupted with "what? No, it was obviously an accident. That poor police officer getting blamed for an innocent mistake 🥺🥺🥺" I'm- if I wasn't surrounded by arseholes 24/7 and also if murder wasn't illegal let me tell you I'd be running this fucking shitshow a whole lot better than like any world leader ever. But the world is a sad sad place so until my mortal soul sheds it's physical form and my primordial existence renews itself with the rage and fury of a thousand suns (approx 2072 if my math is right), we will have to endure more of this bullshit, dear mutuals. But fret not my love's, because we will be forever blessed with the constant opportunity to rebel against the oppressers, and as long as there are people there will be rage and change, no matter how small or helpless it seems. Bet you can't guess what the rest of the afternoon looked like. "Hey hey hey guess who I am" oink oink oink oink oink "that's you" *runs away*

But yea fuck capitalism and I promise one day I'll punch them in their stupid pink faces

that is the funniest shit ever (you imitating a pig and saying it's the cops) and yeah fuck capitalism. acab everyone

#diya answers #anon