What's your process for creating characters?
Imagine a weirdo. Give 'em one or more of my character flaws. Figure out how to hurt 'em.
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About how much does it cost to add one new card holder? I’d like to donate at least that amount when I apply for a card - sort of paying it forward :)
APPROXIMATELY $.15, so please feel free to go hog-wild and donate $1.
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Stripper AU excerpt:
Fang was still looking at him. “I just want to know what you’ve heard,” Ed said, aware of how lame it sounded.
“Same as you, probably, Eddie. He just sort of showed up one day. Seems to have a kind of cult following. New boss likes him, thinks he’ll bring the right vibe to the place now. Haven’t seen his stuff myself yet.”
Fang left the rest of the thought hanging. Because Ed had seen Stede’s...stuff.
He’d learned two things at Jackie’z: first, Stede Bonnet was funny. Weird, yes, but weird could be good. In this case, weird was good.
Which led Ed to the second, significantly more interesting thing: Stede Bonnet was...hot? Hot in a strange, dorky way, but definitely...definitely hot.
...Fascinating.
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Magnus’ Hair Braids
Thinking about the bit in A Thousand Sons where it mentions Magnus had his hair pulled back into three braids for his appearance at Nikaea. Thinking about how this differs from his appearance any other time, and what that means.
Like, the other big event he attends in A Thousand Sons is the Triumph of Ullanor, and even for that huge big deal party the book doesn’t mention him getting his hair dolled up. And he doesn’t pull it back out of the way for battle or anything like that. (Probably it just magically doesn’t get in the way, I guess.)
Plus, besides the books, official art always depicts him with his hair out, flowing free from behind his, you know the face-helmet thing, what’s the proper word for it, I dunno. So in this context it stands out to me that he had his hair braided for Nikaea.
In the book, it sort of sets up this idea that Magnus is expecting Nikaea to be something like a scholarly conference, not a court trial. But even so, he would have known there were going to be people with some Strong Opinions about him and his embrace of psychic abilities and the power of the Great Ocean, etc etc
So I’m thinking about his braided hair as a symbolic gesture of sorts. Whereas usually he just goes around being unabashedly himself, in this case he is kind of making a show of restraint. It’s like the opposite of a threat display, but it’s not an act of submission. It’s more like when you hunker down to talk to a small animal that is scared of you.
Magnus is trying to reach out to an audience that is at best wary and in many cases hostile. He knows people are afraid of him. He can’t stop being himself but he can contain his silhouette so that he seems less wild and unpredictable. It’s a visual indicator of control and therefore safety. “See? I’m okay really.”
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Tarhos my beloved, the suit absolutely fucks but the pumpkin helm keeps reminding me of that gay Dreamworks face skull
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Kyo: I'm not a traumatized person
Kyo: However-
Iori&Chizuru: Yes you are
Kyo: *PTSD visions of NESTS*
Kyo: Nuh uh
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ohhh your icon is like a little cat figurine i thought for the longest time that it was some sort of fucked up homunculus
now how could you say such a thing about my boy FIGURINE #343 CLAY 8CM, look how upset he is now
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Genuine question:
In 2019, how did we think we'd get into Area 51, and yet we STILL chickened out over a PNG of a green owl?
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Last night I dreamt about Ten. The night before it was Loki. Who should I be expecting tonight? 👀
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