#I think the setting fits them better

[softquietsteadylove]

Hello! Wanted to ask you if you could write another Thenamesh AU in Kievan-Rus?

Maybe some interaction with Olga and Thena?

"A word?"

All of the Eternals turned, but the Queen's eyes were on the Warrior Eternal. Thena raised her brows. They were always to respect the rule of the humans of the land. Not that she was always the best at that.

"Please," the Queen offered more humbly, imploring Thena closer, "Warrior Eternal."

Thena looked at the others, who gave the Queen varying degrees of bows before taking their leave. Thena remained on the carpet rolled out over the frigid stone floors of the throne room.

Olga's eyes flicked to the far corner of the room before returning to Thena, "I understand you are no subject of mine."

Thena let her continue. She knew why her eyes had drifted; she could feel Gilgamesh lingering in the room. If she focused she could hear all of his little movements; the shuffling of his feet, his hands fidgeting, even his breathing.

"But I have watched you fight those demonic creatures," Olga held her head high. "Nightmares I thought only existed in legends."

Thena merely nodded. Deviants were getting harder and harder to explain to humans in that sense. But all the better that they became legends and myths and stories used to scare children.

"You are one of the fighters of Lady Ajak's," Olga surmised. Thena never considered a Fighter for Ajak. Although she wasn't even sure she considered herself a Fighter for Arishem. She simply...fought. "The best, in my view."

Thena needed no lavish praise. She had gotten plenty of it over the centuries. Still she bowed her head.

"I would like your counsel," Olga proposed, sitting taller in the massive throne, second only for the one meant for the King. "If you see fit."

"Counsel?" Thena raised a sleek eyebrow. For all she had been revered as a Goddess of War and Wisdom, she had grown rather tired of it.

"On matters of battle," Olga confirmed, now rising from the throne and walking closer to Thena below her. She descended the platform and steps keeping the thrones separate from the rest of the room. Her guards tensed but she dismissed them with a wave of her hand. "Matters of war, if you prefer."

Thena merely looked at the woman, far, far younger than she. And even then, Olga was still young in many ways. "No one prefers war, your majesty."

"It would not be wise to," Olga agreed in not so many words. The two women - equally guarded - stared at each other. "But I think your views on the subject align with mine."

"Do they?"

Olga smiled, and it seemed rather unlike she did when she was sitting on that throne. Olga actually managed much of her husband's ruling, he rather focusing on territory and its expansion. Their partnership was a fine match.

Olga twitched her head, gesturing to the man floating around listlessly, pretending to admire the tapestries hung around the room. "He is yours?"

Thena looked back at Gilgamesh with permission to do so. She smiled; he was very obviously listening in on them. "He is."

"I have seen you two fight," Olga said more gently, speaking less like a queen and more the way one friend might speak to another. "The way you protect each other. I find it rather admirable. Our way of combat is...more brutal."

Yes, the human warriors of this region were some of the most intense and brutal they had come across. They had Thena's full support and admiration for that.

"But of all our current war advisors," Olga slid her eyes in a way that made Thena think she maybe wanted to roll them. "Their views do not...align."

Thena tilted her head, asking for elaboration.

Olga openly admired Thena's hair sitting loosely around her shoulders. "Ferocity need not come from a place of malice, I believe. I much prefer to think of it as a byproduct of love."

Thena smiled. This human woman understood the necessity of force--that sometimes there was no better way to ensure the protection of certain things. Certain people.

"Some think our methods of expansion are aggressive," Olga resumed her more royal demeanour, "but I consider it necessary to keep our enemies mindful of who we are--of what we are capable."

"Yes," Thena murmured.

"To possess more is to lose more," Olga tipped her chin up at Thena, "and I do not intend to lose what I hold dear."

"I understand," Thena agreed.

"I believe you do," Olga's smile grew. She looked over at Gilgamesh again, catching him looking at them this time. His head snapped away. "It's quite all right."

Gil made a face like a child in trouble as he turned again. "Sorry, your majesty."

Olga eyed them as he drifted closer slowly until he was within reach of Thena again. "You are the Warrior Eternal's partner."

"Uh," Gil blushed, as if shyness suited a being of his size and stature, "I guess you could say that."

Thena ran her finger down his arm (she liked flustering him), "in more ways than one."

"You are a fine match," Olga complimented, regarding them as softly as she would her own family. "You, perhaps, remind me of myself and my dear husband."

Gil slipped his hand to the small of Thena's back, gathering that no one was going to gasp in horror or try to order him to remove it. Not that he would listen to that. "Then he's a lucky man."

Olga smiled more fully, looking more like the young woman she truly was. "I certainly like to think so."

Thena leaned into Gil, as if the few minutes spent half a room apart had taxed her.

"I hope I can count on your counsel in the future, Warrior Eternal," Olga nodded, which Thena returned. She wasn't much for bowing. "As a royal War Advisor, you have certain liberties. The royal grounds are open to you, and should you need anything, no one is to deny you."

"We'll keep that in mind, your majesty," Gil did bow to her, much more adept at the manners of any time period.

"Very well," Olga picked up her skirts, ready to return to her massive golden throne.

"Oh!"

She turned partway in her journey, truly a sign of respect and fondness that she would let anyone but the King call out to her in such a way. "Yes?"

"Uh," Gil shrank back, offering a sheepish smile. He held Thena's hand. "Maybe some extra blankets or something?--for her, I mean."

Thena looked at him with love radiating from her. So sweet, her Strongest Eternal.

"She gets cold easily," Gil concluded shyly, remembering to dip at the waist, "your majesty."

"I shall see to it," Olga nodded before settling herself in her throne again. "You will find all you need in your chambers by nightfall."

"Thank you," Thena offered to Olga before turning to Gil. She slid their fingers together, "you didn't have to."

"Of course I did," he countered immediately, pulling their joined hands up so he could kiss each tip of her fingers as they left. "I can't have my poor Thena walking around shivering."

"I am getting better," she argued, pursing her lips at him.

He just grinned at her (like it was so cute or something). He moved his head closer, touching the tip of his nose to hers, "hm, still feels cold to me."

She burst into a laugh.

He pulled her to the side of the corridor, not that there was anyone to witness their affections. He held her by the waist, "I just don't want you to be cold if you don't have to be."

"That's what I have you for, no?" she purred, letting herself melt into him.

"Sure," he chuckled, running a hand over her hair as he held her, "but the trip from your room to my room can be chilly."

#Thenamesh Rus AU #let me tell you #I am delighted that people like this one #I don't know it just has a certain place in my heart #I really do we had gotten more historical Eternals #I think the setting fits them better #Thena goes to her room and finds a heavy fur lined cloak and blankets and furs piled high #which is great and it does make the bed warmer #it's still nothing to sleeping with her beloved Gilgamesh tho #but at least now she has something warm to wear when she's sneaking into his room at night #he still tells her just to come to bed with him #don't bother trying to sleep in your room he says #but she always tries to give it a shot #poor stubborn Thena just go and sleep with your husband

[zackmartin]

KNIGHT SQUAD FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ☆ texts posts | part two

#knight squad #knight squad anniversary #knight squad day #sugar spice #tiara thief #knight squad nickelodeon #knight squad nick #nickelodeon #nick #nickelodeonedit #nickedit #knightsquadedit #daniella perkins #owen joyner #savannah lee may #lexi dibenedetto #lilimar hernandez #amarr m wooten #made by me #gifs #* #love that 90% of these are shona's alsdkjf feels fitting since they're hosting this event #sorry for exposing you like this shona LKSJDFLKSJDF #i had other (i.e. better) ideas but I didn't have the time/energy to complete them 😔 #also yes I included one of my own posts. I was right and I deserve to be in this set. I've been here since day one #please forgive any typos/mistakes in the alt IDs. I'm super tired and I've found a bunch of them. I THINK I got them all but I can't be sur #I'll double check tomorrow when I'm not super sleepy and my brain is actually like. working alskdjf

[mattodore]

forgot that the cas camera doesn't adjust for height sliders </3

#river dipping #ts4 #theodore doe #matthias evanoff #echthroi #this is pretty close to their height difference i think but i might scale both of them down to fit matthias better... #but then again if i do that theo will be. so small #and theo is just shy of the average male height so i don't really /want/ to shrink him bc he's pretty much my baseline #yk how i'm always saying that matthias fr only exists to be a love interest for theo.................................. #the reason matthias is the height he is is just bc i wanted him to be the perfect height to kiss theo's forehead just while standing there #like. kdjnhdkgjhndkjgnhn that's all #i need to get imani in here and edit her height too. she's taller than theo but she's not quite as tall as matthias #(unless she's in heels) #her and matthias are tall as hell................................. moaned out loud thinking abt that sorry my bad #but anyway they both went through a crazy growth spurt at the same time that's why they're both tall in their teen years in that edit #i made for them for matthias's birthday back in april #.......man. i should start working on theo's edit poses and sets for his birthday... i want it to be so good #like i already know what i want to do and everything. but i still haven't made kid theo just him as a teenager #... how did i get here #in the tags for ten minutes just talking abt anything apparently. anyway. time to check the recolorsssss #i feel like the recolored top i want to use as a permanent Look for theo isn't gonna work #i might need a different piece of cc for it... we'll see

[bluegarners]

bruce and dick got some emotional incest going on

hmmm not sure i quite agree anon! i can see where that might be the case, as even i tend to harp on those co-dependency these two display sometimes, but i don't think emotional incest is what is going on there. for those that do not know what this term means, emotional incest is when a parent or primary caregiver begins to rely on their child like they would a partner for their emotional needs. it does not involve any sexual or physical intimacy, as that would be sexual abuse. while i do think what bruce and dick shared was something close to toxic, it was also how they in general functioned? idk that doesn't make sense. i'll put it like this- bruce never thought to rely on dick for emotional needs. in fact, i would argue he tried not to rely on anyone for his emotional well being, and this is what causes most of the divides and troubles in his life. however, dick being a naturally perceptive person, recognized how closed off bruce is/was, and took it upon himself to try and get bruce to open up more and be emotionally present instead of constantly shutting down and shoving people away. the whole "child of an alcoholic" sums it up neatly, imo, bc bruce never intentionally relied on or even asked for dick to help solve his problems. a lot of the bumps in their relationship came from the fact that he felt dick was getting too close or wanted to help bruce too much, which not only frightened bruce but i think also made him aware of how much he couldn't do without the help of dick pointing things out to him

emotional incest isn't quite the right term to describe them, imo, and i think when you get into a space where ppl are constantly talking about it and implying that sort of thing, it's easy to be convinced that that is what they have. it's important, however, to also look at how bruce and dick are doing currently/in the past current canon/past the batman and robin dynamic. one of the long-term affects of being in an emotionally incestuous relationship is being unable to set boundaries or even recognize what a normal relationship with others is like, and with the added context of this being a superhero/vigilante world, i would argue that they are both doing just fine without each other. obviously we have to account for the sheer number of times they've been in life or death situations and whatnot, but i think dick functions quite well on his own and with the others in his life, and bruce does, too. both are mentally ill, i think, but they are also coping pretty well imo

#they def do have the unbreakable tie that binds but i dont think thats stopping either of them from #living out their lives and setting boundaries when need be #idk how many times dick has moved or run away when shit hits the fan with bruce or anyone else #so hes obvs fine setting that kind of hard line (which isnt healthy rlly but its better than no boundaries) #just as well- bruce and dick understand each other in a way others just cant and that mainly has to do with #their common circumstances- the imbalance there being that one was a child and the other their guardian but thats comics for you #am i making sense? i have other posts that explain their relationship better #but like i said- i think child of an alcoholic fits better than any kind of label like emotional incest #ask #anon #ask game

[snickerdoodlles]

there's a lot of things people blame for why fandoms feel like ghost towns these days, but no one's really talked about the way discord's contributing to it

#its like #people are trying to force fit discord's chatrooms into forum boards #except discord is just. really really *really* poorly setup for that #and theres no way to archive or share it so everything said in it is easily lost despite personal export or community pins or search option #and like #vaguely hearing about the way some people are unsatisfied with them/feeling unfufilled in the response to them #a lot of people would be better off posting those things to places like tumblr #where there isnt a time limit on when people see or respond to them #part of what's scary/frustrating on tumblr rn is some fandoms arent good about reblogging to posts or tag rambling #like with bad buddy a large part of the fun was the enthusiastic and in depth tag rambles and the way responses built on each other #vs something like kinnporsche which feels much more like-oriented #like? its not like theres any one way to fandom #and there's nothing actually wrong with likes or quiet reblogs #but vaguely hearing about the way some people were/are really upset with some servers im just kinda like #idk #feels a bit like people trying to force a square thru a circle or that they're looking in the wrong spaces for what they want #.......this is not a complaint for my space ajkds i think i've carved out a pretty happy space for myself! #im just checking the reblog graphs of some old vs new stuff and thinking about a convo other cookie and i were having over the weekend #i have a lot of friends around and i love everyone who's happy to ramble with me #but i do feel a slight case of DM burnout rn where mostly people reach out to me via DMs instead of reblogs #which is a very different dynamic #its like. hmmm words #i love DMs but the pressure of responding to a lot of individual messages #vs something like reblogs which is more open forum for everyone and feels more communal #if that makes sense? #the difference between visiting one person at home vs casually hanging out with a group at a cafe #and the lovely thing about tumblr specifically is that i can set down a reblog chain for several days if i need #before returning to it later when i have more time/energy #its got Longevity that discord lacks u know #........okay enough tag musings from me ajkfhjdgfhj BYE

[eir-parade]

i literally never like openly talk about my ideas and thoughts about things because im always scared but im biting the mfing bullet her and posting this because i just really wanna get this out here before i get too silly

anyways parade's silly lil pjsk unit shuffle au

getoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyhead

#project sekai #pjsk #pjsk au #unit shuffle au #i literally :starts biting my table: cant stop think about them #specifically polar|star and station: nightingale #also yes the circle in sunset sengen is supposed to represent the sun setting there just wasnt anything i could us to show it off better #also the stars in dreams ⭒✮⭒ destination is supposed to be “and” and i literally only named them this so their acronym is DnD #< this is important when u see their fits/SEKAI #i had so much trouble deciding on names but i FINALLY figured them out after like a month #my posts #parade unit shuffle

[buccellato]

it's such a stupid pet-peeve because it doesn't actually matter, but I wish people stopped calling Tristamp Wolfwood's shoes loafers

They're too snug and have no raised heel, and the inner piping matches the super-flat sole. Plus whatever material they're made of looks thinner and more flexible than treated leather that usually gets associated with loafers. They look closer to flat espadrilles or rounded Moroccan balghas/babouches to me tbh, closest loafer would be a traditionally-styled penny loafer but they still usually have really specific piping that loops around the toe

(this is all very petty because none of it is worth caring about beyond "how easily can the shoe be taken off to be emptied of sand" and all of them are basically just cozy slip-ons lmao)

#trigun #trigun stampede #nickolas d wolfwood #that's not to say loafers aren't comfy #my brother wears his as slippers around the house lmao #but personally I think espadrilles are more reasonable as walking shoes tbh (<- has never worn a comfy loafer) #he'd be better off wearing those bible sandals for practicality but they're so damn ugly I wouldn't blame him for not wearing them lmao #I lean more towards him wearing some modern-ish balghas since Morocco is by the western Sahara and it would fit the setting imo #I understand all of this is incredibly unhinged btw 👍 #I just hate calling slip-ons loafers lmao

[sysig]

Employee 416, with varying levels of bumpscocity (Patreon)

#Doodles #The Stanley Parable #TSP #Employee 416 #My very first Stanley Parable OCs hhhhh #No Sinister doesn't count he's just a slightly different Stanley lol - plus my subconscious came up with him! #These two were on purpose - I've been wanting to make a TSP OC for years now! I just never had inspiration strike until now #I was so sure I was going to pick a random number and give 'em a quick doodle and be like Ye :D My little guy #Stanley's a little guy my little guy's a little guy it's all little guys! Perfect and fitting! #Lol it's never that easy is it #I ended up with two! And with an Employee who was specifically highlighted in-game!! Ah! #416 gave me ideas what can I say lol #Two specifically and I really can't decide which I like better hmmmm #They both got the ponytail treatment tho lol #Employee 416 being all about the Figleys but not at all Employee 427 is very funny to me lol #''How dare you sully the good name of Stanfiglurines by comparing them to that dork'' haha #And then there's the exact opposite - someone who admires Stanley from a distance but never up close and personal #Maybe they would've before the Narrator erased everyone?? Although the Figure Hunt goes on during the absense of everyone! #So he's set up in a kind of liminal state of existence haha #Although I think his feelings aren't exactly romantic - or platonic! A little closer to platonic but hmmm #Either way Employee 416 v1 does not appreciate v2 being so hype about him lol - it's supposed to be about the figures man!

[vodka-and-ocs]

Owen, witcher style

#it's the manticore armor set ! #i think they would be school of the cat based on their fighting style but aesthetic wise this set fit them better #it also gives an alchemy boost iirc and their main thing is potions/mutagens #being order of the mutant #witcher #blood hunter #they are basically the same ok. some more than others #owen #my art #planning to draw will in the bear set in a bit

[mortysmith]

i mainly got good at colors because of rick and morty hashtag skull emoji

#when i first started drawing them it really felt kinda weird to use warm palettes (which was what i was mostly doing back then) with them #i think in one of my super early posts i mention as well how the show and the fanbase kind of encourage “trippy” visuals #so i felt like using more extreme and striking colors fit them better #its also when i started tinkering and experimenting with different palettes and that also made me just sort of umm- #disregard(?) certain arbitrary coloring rules that i had set for myself #like in summary. that post thats like “to get good at art you need to become disgusting obsessed with something” #really rings true like slash srious

[ronanlynchbf]

hell day today and i'm only two hours into my EIGHT HOUR SHIFT

#9 to 5 by dolly parton starts playing in the background.. #literally had to open up shop alone 2day and also was entirely alone for the first 45 min. of my shift so that was already a negative start #to the day + i heard that i can't have my break later than two thirty which is very bad for me bc 1) there'll be a lot of ppl all around me #when i'm eating which i already dislike and 2) like 85% of ppl taking their break around that time are VERY noisy eaters so even worse and #then 3) it'll be really loud in the room as well bc everyone's talking loudly and eating and the cutlery's clanging against plates and such #and also some ppl have actual full-blown arguments with each other in the break room bc half the ppl here hate each other's guts so more #negatives to the day and then on top of that we've had sooooo many annoying customers already today who r just. intent on making u stressed #out and upset and literally will tell u to your face to 'do your job better' like bro...i can easily tell you haven't worked in retail.... #also someone hung their clothes on the rack outside the fitting rooms which is where u hang ur clothes when you're DONE fitting them & don' #want them bc they don't fit or don't sit right or u just don't rlly like them after all so if clothes are hanging there we the ppl working #there WILL take them and hang them back in their original places what did u expect to happen?? anyway someone hung the clothes they had #tried on already and did want there and i reached out to take them bc like. that's what we do here..we hang the clothes on the 'discard #rack' back in the store bc else the rack gets stuffed and the woman literally grabbed my arm and said 'those are mine what do u think you'r #doing' LIKE?????? GIRL THE RACK'S THERE FOR A REASONNNN ofc i'm going to assume u don't want them anymore if they're hanging there that's #why it's called the DISCARD rack....also how am i to know those specific clothes are yours HONESTLYYYYYY STFU AND GET OFF ME #ALSO some dude was like (to his child but like. looking at me while he said it.) 'this guy needs a haircut doesn't he' bc my hair is kinda #long and apparently i passed today. LIKE 1st of all kind of a rude thing to say to a stranger innit 2nd of all setting a great example to #your child there just casually commenting on other ppl's looks like that👍 3rd of all jokes on you you wouldn't consider me a guy if #you Knew most likely. thanks for that little zing of glee much obliged <3 but also man just piss off will you. 4th of all my hair isn't eve #that long....like the ends of it are just shy of my shoulders wdym LONG if u knew the long-haired guys i know you'd faint. #anyway. great start of the day. i still have six more hours to go 🥴 #ALSO no surprise this always happens but my legs already hurt SOOOOOOOO BADDDDDD :((((((((((( #r.txt

[pyrriax]

HI TUMBLR late footnote posting before i go to bed (i took a nap today........ ate up most of my time)

not a lot to talk about with footnotes today since i was Busy and my brain wasnt working pfndkmlfd i blame seven hours of modded oneblock

#haunted ecosystem #haunted bookshelf #i might make a tag for these footnote posts? i think its a fun way to document what ive written about without sharing All of it #also yes thats a random crack au that i've have in the back of my head for a bit what about it #i dont think its canon in the slightest its just a funny little thing in my head for writing random bs #honestly i might start trying to work on more wtds stuff. this is kind of a perfect excuse #also! i think how i might work this is that if i work on a larger project during the day then i'll just do the daily prompt #since its a good exercise and an excuse to keep some kind of writing streak going #i actually asked one of my partners for a prompt since i was struggling to find an interesting one #ended up with 'last man standing' for spoke... very fitting tbh #i might write a more canon take for that. the concept i wrote down was much more set in an au than anything since i was also thinking #about asomatous zam at the same time so i kind of just incorparated both of them into it with it being paracosm-era #OH did i ever mention that i have a general title plan for the other parts of that kind of. world #its very set in stone that if i do write more it'll be two more parts #metamorphosis (5 part) and paracosm (1 part with multiple scenes. functionally 3 part maybe?) #asomatous goes in the middle of that. i need to kind of plan all of them out better and see how it wants to flow #metamorphosis was started as a concept because i had a few bad things happen bingo prompts i wanted to be used for asomatous #but didnt end up using. so metamorphosis is my excuse for that. paracosm is just a Concept thats been really plaguing me basically since i #originally wrote asomatous... i should probably come up with a temporary series title. i think something about shattering skies? #its a reoccurring theme and symbol throughout all of them....... i just think its neat #ANYWAYS goodnight to you especially if you actually read through all my tags :)

[erythristicbones]

i don't feel like copying what i wrote, so take some screenshots of me having brainworms for the JDK villains again. primarily spurred by me going "hey wouldn't Nisha and Artemis and Apollo make cool rockstars instead"

#i really need to hurry up and finish organizing my writing blog so i can start posting these there instead #anyways i feel like this finally nails EXACTLY the kind of vibes that i wanted for the Acolytes and Solanace #and tbh.....even if i cant find a way to work JDK's original curse themed plot with these ideas #i feel like it would absolutely be worth changing the stories/motivations for the POV trio to fit this new set of ideas #kinda adds a lot more to the villains as a whole #and also sets it apart from a lot of my other stories that revolve around 'essentially a cult' as an opposing force #if i decide to be the most self indulgent that i possibly could be #i might even consider the idea of making it a story ABOUT Solanace and the acolytes in the POV sense #theyd still obviously be villains but the protags of the story instead of the antags #at which point jonas/lydia/hayes would have to be majorly reworked to then fit into the antagonist roles #could also theoretically work with the idea of jonas AND nisha being POVs #so the reader would be getting insight to the good guys and the villains at the same time #JDK(which STILL needs a better placeholder title) really is a story that ive had to majorly change multiple times #most of my stories i have the general idea + genre settled before anything else #but this one is more character driven #i have two groups of OCs ive thought about in depth and i just havent been able to build the story around them in the right way yet #i think once i can Actually get my brain focused long enough to draw #i wanna doodle more rockstar inspired designs/themes for nisha/artie/apollo #see if the idea continues to tickle the brainworms in such a great way + then have time to make polished refs b4 artfight #bc i really love my overdramatic artsy villains okay. i think they deserve to be extra as fuck ya know? #who doesnt love a villain whose primary goal is to put on a show and THEN to do the evil things?

[arolesbianism]

You see Jackie is great because she has a similar appeal to me as Maxwell but she's a lesbian and also not british so she's automatically a billion times better and more interesting

#rat rambles #oni posting #starve posting #theyre very different people fundementally but the core appeal of watching a shitty guy dig themselves into deeper and deeper holes remains #bro if they met itd make maxwell so pissy he would not be ok with having someone talk down at him like jackie would #bro jackie would at best be patronizing as hell she would see him as the dirt beneath her shoes #she would not be impressed by his magic tricks at best shed be intrigued by the science behind it but she would not think hes special #now to be clear. jackie is just as pathetic as he is and would 100% die so fast in the constant #like shed get attacked by nightmare creatures so fast and if she survived that a hound would probably maul her #I do hc that at least in the past jackie was decently physically fit but even back then she was like ripped and I think if she tried to #punch something shed miss pathetically and fall over and break all of her bones #olivia is a similar case but shes more fit and probably could barely brute force her way through a few hound waves #the real difference is that olivia would be quicker to adapt and would put up a much better effort at preparing the essentials #now. she would get side tracked as hell by the wildlife. I think if you showed her a carat shed stare at it forever. #but jackie would struggle so hard to adapt and I think the isolation would get to her hard #if you put them together itd just be olivia hard carrying while jackie trips and eats shit every 10 steps #now putting them with the rest of the survivors would be interesting given that I think the two would hate most of them dhdkhdj #like I have no proof that olivia wouldnt like most of them but idk man I dont trust her to not be quietly judging them all #and jackie would probably explode if she was forced to interact with other human beings in a non boss-employee setting #olivia would start calling her jackie again and the others would start calling her that too and shed light herself on fire #wilson would start trying to be buddy buddy with the two and theyd both hate him so fucking much lol #the two would start trying to blueprint machines they could build with what they have and winona would enter frame about to ruin their day #you see winona is like their dark reflection shes like if you took a lesbian and made her the worst but not a bad person this time #shed start critiquing their work for being to fancy and theyd want to strangle her #and god knows how theyd handle the kids I think jackie would have a panic attack and olivia would go smash her head into a tree #and by the kids I mostly mean walter he was hand made to annoy them specifically #oh no wait hypothetical crossover cancelled I forgot abt wanda dont Ever let jackie and olivia meet wanda

[dante-and-dragons]

I think my best DMing tip is, if you use music, use synthwave for dream sequences or other surreal situations.

#my party gets synthwave whenever they go to the astral plane and it's great #and also for dream sequences bc i do those pretty frequently (and i'm pretty great with them) #it really adds to the surrealness because it doesn't fit the Genre Expectations of a fantasy game #also i'm not sure if synthwave is exactly the name of the genre i'm thinking of eurgh. like. #wojciech golczewski is one i use his music a lot (esp Odium for the Astral Plane) #actually in general i try to not always stick with Genre-Fitting music unless i'm in a setting (eg. tavern) where there would be performers #more like vague atmospheric music is better for Setting The Tone w/o Implying Performers #but ofc this is an opinion and i don't like.. follow that as a hard rule or anything #dm #dm'ing #dming #dungeon master #d&d #dungeons and dragons #dante dicit #dm tips

[sixohsixoheightfourtwo]

re: what fandom 'a little life' came from, my immediate knee-jerk thought was "backstreet boys." i have absolutely no basis for this other than Terminally Online Brain Worms esp bc..........there are 5 of those boyband fellas and as far as i remember only 4 main characters in that book lmfao. what can i say. the boyband angle feel right

yeah i'll incorporate that into my belief system

#fandom life #total speculation!!!!!! but i love it! #a little life #Ok but fr i think the time period of peak bsb rpf fits HY's age group #Also the (initial) thing of we are a group of successful handsome men all just kind of hanging out .. is very boyband au rpf .. #the nebulousness of the setting (in time period etc) is very fanfictiony to me the thing of everyone being successful in different fields #very fanfictiony #And one of them has a horribly traumatic backstory... classic fanfic trope! tho taken to extremes here. who here remembers #the 'rape recovery' fanfic trope. HY said what if that.. but no recovery . which sure is a valid artistic choice a valid question. #what if someone DIDNT get better. but full disclosure i could NOT finish this book i really felt i had to stop for my own safety . #as if people don't not get better all the time u know??? and as that one reviewer said . WHO in the world of this book #WOULDNT become a crystal meth addict. etc. there's no legit way out and that's a total authorial construction. #anyway i do actually think she's a skilled writer but i did not feel the compulsion to finish this book that so many ppl have felt #built different i guess. just walk out! #if you're a normie who never read any absurdly ott h/c fanfiction i guess it hit different tho! #mangoamango #asks #i welcome furhter speculation.... i always thought it was possible it was some band i'd never heard of or some 90s manga i never read #I did manage to read her first book 'the people in the trees' and yes i would describe it as 'good' #but it's like . imagine an ursula le guin book but evil