#I think I've rambled off my salty energy

[squircatlies]

Here's a crossover nobody asked for, but has wormed its way into my head and won't leave: Good Omens × The Magnus Archives.

To clarify, not characters taken from one and put in the other's setting, both characters and settings put together in a weird soup.

I know the crossover doesn't make any sense, but the thought of the Them and the NotThem existing in the same universe greatly amuses me.

Further ramblings below the cut.

I've been debating between the Fears being an invention of Hell that has gone out of control and them being completely unrelated, outside beings with a power level closer to God, I feel like the first option diminishes their status a bit, but it is funnier. Maybe there could be a connection between them and the four riders of the apocalypse?

I want there to be a concrete divide between the divine/occult and eldritch, so that it's not just Hell's horror department and Angels and Demons are separate from monsters and avatars. But in universe not a lot of people know about the existence of either (aside from faith of course, which isn't the same as knowledge), so the ones that do encounter them have little to no basis for telling them apart. Also the Fears have a more active presence on Earth, so Angels and Demons often get mistaken for avatars by those in the know about the Fears.

The broad strokes of both narratives stay the same, so the GO apocalypse is prevented, but then TMA eyepocalypse happens and GO's characters are really salty about it. The eyepocalypse doesn't trigger a war between Heaven and Hell because of a legal loophole.

Tadfield is completely immune to the influence of all the fears because of Adam's powers, like Salesa's safehouse during the eyepocalypse or like how Aziraphale and Crowley hid Gabriel from Heaven and Hell with a miracle. Aziraphale's bookshop and the building with elevators to Heaven and Hell are the same in that aspect due to the concentration of divine/occult energy. This also applies during the eyepocalypse.

Aziraphale is Jurgen Leitner's biggest hater. He drunkenly made the Jurgen Leitner rant™ in universe while Crowley was cackling and wheezing on the floor. He's been "in correspondence" with Jonah Magnus 200 years ago and is the reason Jonah got obsessed with immortality in the first place. They first met each other at a discreet gentlemen's book club. Aziraphale deeply regrets ever talking to him. He had to fight off Mike Crew with a broom, when he was still looking for a Leitner to call his own. People in the know about the Fears, but not the existance of Angels and Demons assume Aziraphale to be an avatar of the Eye, possibly another Archivist.

Crowley's assumed to be an avatar too, but noone can agree what fear he serves. For a time Desolation was a popular theory, which he hated. Now they lean more toward the Web, the Stranger or the Spiral. He knew Maxwell Rayner back when he was Edmond Halley, because they were both in the astronomy circles at the time. A lot of the things he takes credit for on his reports to Hell are actually the doing of Fear avatars, it works out, because Hell refuses to acknowledge the Fears as a point of pride and noone bothers to check.

Gertrude thought about blowing up the bookshop, but Aziraphale convinced her otherwise. They had tea.

Jared Hopworth called Aziraphale a slur once and had to promptly change career paths.

Jon and Martin passed through Tadfield at some point during the eyepocalypse and met Adam. It was kind of awkward, but they got to pet Dog.

Agnes Nutter wasn't an avatar, she was just like that. Her prophecies mostly didn't concern the Fears, aside from telling one of her descendants not to go to the hundred and fifth house on a road atop a hill.

Anathema and Newt stay as far away from the Fears as possible, especially after Newt's encounter with Sergey Ushanka (Newt accidentally deleted him).

Everyone thinks Shadwell and Tracy are avatars, of the Hunt and the End respectively. They're not. They're just scammers. Tracy likes that it makes her seem more legitimate. Shadwell doesn't like the Fears, but he doesn't count them as witchcraft (except for the Flesh, because nipples, obviously), so he doesn't really care.

Nina and Maggie on the other hand are avatars. They're pretty good at hiding it though. Not sure which ones, probably the End and the Vast. Nina's ex is an avatar of Corruption.

#the magnus archives #tma #good omens #crossover au

[the-heaminator]

Can the country's limbs grow back?

Yep! Like lizards, i've written it somewhere or the other, but essentially if i will be allowed to get science-ish about it, what i think happens is that nations have stem cells, the same way an embryo has, in an adult human it is difficult to find stem cells save for in ver particular places, like bone marrow cells, and even then they only have a limited capability to diversify, ie into platelets, red blood cells, phagocytes, lymphocytes etc, but nations have a grossly sped up healing process that can occasionally, especially times when a nation is on high alert, like druting a war scene or some severe national bullshit going on, cam be seen in real time, so if like, an arm is cut off in battle, there's a painful regrowing of it, but it will regrow in about an hour fully, yet if something as such happens during peacetime, it takes around a day.

Like their cells divide very, very fast in wartime, their hair grows after in wartime, and considerably faster than a persons would normally, their eyes cannot be replenished because the cells in your eyes do not divide and replace, hence how i have a bunch of the older nations with genuinely terrible vision.

Eh, i am rambling but i wrote something similar here. I'm sorry this isn't as much of a satisfactory answer as i would like to give i can just not translate my brinrot into the correct words.

Scared of death he supposed, his flesh was knitting itself back together as he sat, where his fingers were missing soon grew bone, muscle, on wept as his skin grew back, unblemished and fresh, salty tears making the pain only worse, dripping into the bloodied pot. Least his stew will have salt, he couldn’t afford it normally   How had he the energy to fix himself to such a degree, gaping wounds on his arms slowly stitching itself back together with sinew and whatnot. Not a pretty sight, Alba felt beyond ill, and Albion seemed resigned to this, he could not care less. 

The bloodflow stopped, Albion forced himself up off the ground, sloppy and unfocused, he stumbled his way to Alba, he looked worse now, ashen grey, dried blood clotted all over him, hair matted with it and mud, a large chunk of his flesh was simply hanging off his cheek, going blue as his skin stitched itself together as Alba watched in horror, going blue then black, and falling off, dead onto the ground, Albion eyed it, contemplating whether to pick it up, he chose not to, it was filthy now anyway. 

#the heam speaks #nation biology #tw blood #tw gore #BIOLOGY #its not very good im sowwy

[galoogamelady]

Yo. I've been a follower for some time but haven't really interacted with ya. Wanna know about your OCs and how ya started with them.

Yo! It’s a long story and I’m 100% sure I’ve written it all down somewhere and tagged it something I can’t find atm so buckle up, here it is:

Buttons: when I played Fo3 for the first time in 2013, I wanted to make a character who’s slightly braver than I would be in similar situations (HELLO I WAS SHITLESS SCARED) but still has human feelings and reactions to the horrors of the wasteland. I wasn’t hellbent on making him suffer but he did start out way more miserable than I draw him nowadays. I will continue portraying him more in that manner in our main comic btw. We already had a Lone Wanderer established at this point so I played as the guy pursuing the mayhem the LW left behind, while carving out his own place in the wasteland. I reblogged a bunch of “OC development question” lists and kept replying to asks and RP messages with simple drawings to practice drawing cartoony people, which I sucked at at the time. (Some people here still might remember the shenanigans during which Buttons got stranded in a chastity belt, saved @jimmy-exodus from near death on the Arefu bridge, sold Meg’s personal massager to @thesellbot4000 and beat the absolute shit out of each other with @pistachiozombie‘s Kaite (among many other fun encounters with other characters).

Meg: Remember the woman who runs up to the player in Megaton to thank them for their good deeds with a gift? That’s her. Except the gift is really from her and not the community - she’s got a fat crush on the player character (in this case, Buttons). We altered her look (didn’t want to give her the exact same limp mohawk Buttons had) and relocated her to Arefu. I was smitten with the little settlement and no one seemed to have placed their OC-s there so it didn’t conflict with others’ headcanons.Buttons was meant to be a “regular guy” from the Vault and I wanted Meg to be just as average, but in terms of wasteland life. No heroics, no superhuman skills. I guess I just thought everyday people doing cool/funny/dangerous things was a lot more exciting than someone who trained their whole lives/was literally born for it doing the same.She was created as someone who’s more or less sure of what she’s doing most of the time. Someone admirable and assertive but quirky in her own way.Also, someone with a complete and loving family. (I’ve been thinking of writing more about how her parents met at some point, if I ever have the time.) I wanted the Wednesburys to be a community that fills Buttons (and locals) with hope. You know, so that even his salty ass realizes that a happy life is possible out there.

I wanted to emphasize the idea of people from two different worlds hitting it off really well. I personally can relate to some aspects of the culture shock Buttons might go through, as someone who moved across an ocean to be with my partner. If it was a different AU, they could be the local chick + the weird foreign exchange student who somehow just click from the start. :DThis also brings up interesting conflicts and topics like giving up your past for a future, adapting and embracing each others’ cultures. If you can call vault life vs. wasteland life that, I mean.

Eventually we were like “these guys need siblings”. Cam and I are both middle children and we thought that role would fit Buttons perfectly. We didn’t want to leave Meg without a sibling but we established early on that having a lot of kids in the wasteland is a rare blessing so we settled with just one brother. I don’t think the siblings have evolved enough to warrant a look back in their pasts yet.

As for Cam’s characters…

Mac is probably the oldest made character in our whole line-up. Here’s a post on it!I can’t quite remember where Polly came from but we initially had grim plans for her. Her story was going to end way earlier but she’s grown on us and now we have a whole thing planned for her (pre- and post Mac).Roach is also an old one. Probably from the same time Mac’s character was originally established.Sydney is Cam’s interpretation and expansion of the in-game character.Hauser started out as a grouchy middle-aged man with questionable ethics, accompanying a little girl in New Vegas, but we “refurbished” him when Fallout 4 came out and he became a wholesome dad real fast. The name Hauser stuck with me after playing Fo3 for the first time and following a bunch of Brotherhood Outcasts around (for protection, I was extremely low level). I named all of them and stuck with them as their numbers dwindled and they eventually all died horrible deaths. Hauser was originally going to be an ex-Brotherhood asshole - what remained from that is his name and his expertise with power armor and energy weapons.

Aaaaand I’m talking out of my ass again! WOW people really weren’t joking when they said talking about one’s OC-s goes on forever. D: If only I’ve drawn as much of all this as I thought about…Hope you enjoyed the ramblings :’DThank you for following me!!

#long post #very long #Fallout #character evolution #evolution #origins #idk how to tag this to find it later euhhhhh #OC #personal #text #bladesremains