#ophelia speaks

[sea-glass-and-fire]

dracula daily last year: fun jokes and memes about our good friend jonathan. He doesn't know he's in Dracula! What a cad!

dracula daily this year: Oh g-d. Oh g-d he doesn't know he's in Dracula. He doesn't know what waits for him at the castle. The story will repeat and Jonathan will walk again into the mouth of hell and we cannot stop him. Does he know? Can he tell that by rereading his story, we are once again condemning him and his loved ones to suffering and death? Does he blame us? Do we blame ourselves?

Also, if he's lived this story before, why does he keep eating the fucking paprika?

#dracula daily #ophelia speaks

[huehoos]

quick fixed up her face and experimenting w facial expressions. eventually ill do something w the dress

#ophelia speaks #ophelia draws #dragon age #arielle tabris

[moonlightink7]

Are you a DID system? How does it feel?

I mean. Yeah, we're polyfragmented, it's in our bio lol.

As for how it feels... I mean, this is highly subjective, ya gotta understand. Every system is very different from the next, even if we have the same disorder.

It's... I mean it took a while for us to get used to it honestly so I'm probably gonna do this in stages.

Before we knew about it it was... Scary. We'd have dramatic mood swings or long periods of numbness, and there was this constant feeling that the different parts of me were fighting and that sometimes one of them would "win" and take over completely. Our emotions and our logic, our anxiety and our anger, our happiness and our anxiety... Y'know. Which, of course, everyone, to some degree, has these parts, but y'know. They don't have their own distinct voices/"voices" in your head, nor do they take complete control from you. We knew something was up, but we only briefly chalked it up to Schizophrenia before dismissing that (we didn't hallucinate, the voices weren't external, they were only internal).

Skip to 2019, we have a friend who we've been roleolaying with on Discord, and they, at some point in some conversation in a server we share, brought up that they're a system and explained it to the server. So it was that in October of 2019 we discovered systems and, subsequently, our own system. Cam, our host at the time, went ahead and made Picrews of the existing alters. At the time, their names were only the colors they were in our head; Grey, Pink/Fuschia, Yellow, Maroon, and Blue.

Over time they named themselves; Grey was first, naming himself Alabaster, then followed Pink (Maria), Blue (Jared), Yellow (Leila), and Maroon (Alex). We started speaking to each other, mingling with other systems, figuring out how to socialize and arrange ourselves.

Our system started its communication in Cam's excitement that ast had finally figured out what was going on with aster, so from that point onwards our system's core values have been cooperation and love and understanding. Not only has this been reinforced by other systems (both by the bad examples and the good examples), but it has meant our system management has gone relatively well and our communication has been mostly open. Or... At first. Things are more difficult because of the system's size these days.

It's... Odd. Sometimes you're just living your life and someone pokes their head in to say something about it. Sometimes someone not in front is yearning loudly enough to be heard. Sometimes you hear echoes of activities in the back, or you become alert to something that happened in headspace because of a shift in the back. Sometimes you're brainrotting over a character only to feel something shift in the back and have to breathe the sigh of dread at the fact that the character is now living rent-free in your head and will never leave it. Again, this is very much our own personal experience. Take it with a grain of salt.

These days it's... Posi triggering people in the hopes that they'll front, emptying the front with our playlist that makes us dissociate when there's people there who shouldn't be... Negotiating our time, making sure to let other alters have time that they promised to others when it's doable- Wednesdays are for Alabaster, Spades, and/or Malich, but... Most of the time they don't show up unless the person they spend time with on Wednesdays shows up too. It's tough work to pull them otherwise most days. We have gatekeepers who can help us access people or places in the headspace if needed, and gatekeepers who hold information- Miasma has our dreams, Alabaster has our memories, and Oliver guards a specific section of our trauma from us. I dunno, it's... A lot. If you didn't get the answer you wanted here you're absolutely allowed to ask a more specific question 😅

#ophelia speaks #onyx speaks #we're blurring a bit 😅 #lp talks #lp answers #asks

[theimpossiblescheme]

Staging concept: Ophelia carries around a book that she uses to press different flowers and plants. At one point we see her actually pressing one of the flowers Hamlet's given her before, and we get the impression that she wouldn't part with this book for the world. During the "Get thee to a nunnery" scene, Hamlet rips the book out of her hands, and she goes diving after it to make sure he didn't damage it. And during her final "mad scene", she starts tearing out the relevant pages (rosemary, pansies, fennel, columbines, etc.) to give to everyone present. Laertes is the only one to get the significance of his sister giving away parts of her prized possession, and it adds an extra layer to his grief.

#Some extra foreshadowing and a way to organically work in the book she's given in Act 3 Scene 1... #Listen I have a lot of feelings about how to stage Ophelia's final scene--for me it needs to be about *her*grief first and foremost. #It's so grossly easy to play it voyeuristically but this is a young woman who's been let down by everyone she thought she could trust #and now she's come to her lowest point where nothing feels like it matters anymore. #And that needs to hit the other characters present like a truck--they could have done something to actually *help* her #instead of using her for their own agendas but they didn't. #And for Laertes especially... that's his baby sister and he wasn't there for her and now he's watching her destroy something she loves. #Maybe he tries to give her the page back but she pushes it at him and there's a moment of agonizing eye contact between them #where he knows she still loves him but she's never felt so betrayed by everyone and there's nothing he can do to make it right. #hamlet #ophelia #shakespeare #the schemer speaks

[enbysiriusblack]

thinking about hamlet from a queer perspective. hamlet wanting to leave home because university was a place he could freely be himself. hamlet trying to suppress his emotions. the conflict between hamlet's faith and his self, his feelings and wants. horartio being the only person hamlet can truly trust, his best friend, his lover. hamlet as the disgraced prince.

#also ophelia from a queer perspective is so interesting. #because hamlet and his rejection and distrust is the reason for her downfall. #but if she isn't really into him #then what? #does hamlet know of ophelia's sexuality? close companions in their true desires? #but ophelia tries to make her father proud. she hides who she is. she hides her wit. her true thoughts. #ophelia is caught between her secret desire. her friendship with hamley and her relationship with her father #her downfall is her only path she sees to freedom. with sappho as her guide she breaks free from her fathers grip #she speaks her mind through the guise of insanity. #hamlet #ophelia

[lskamil27]

[ WIP ] Rushing in here to blow off any dust, showing you all my current works in progress

#my art #illustration #pixel art #my ocs #ophelia burrows #inessa #flann #marielle burrows #zacharias #doctor cassius #weeping rosemary the game #work in progress #rpg maker #indiegamedev #game design #SORRY no fanart for now!! but soon…. #i’ve been stewing with my art a bit because i recently went through an artblock #was standing in a corner trying to figure out a new coloring style cause uhh #super smooth art and colors did not speak to me anymore #so i went through a moment of testing out different styles LMAO #but i am back in gears!!! after finding a coloring style that makes my brain itch!!

[dawn-the-rithmatist]

Aw fuck okay but the way that Naomi Novik just ruthlessly doubled down on her use of enclaves as commentary on capitalism and classism has me STUNNED.

Here are these safe places where only the best wizards can get in! They’re so cool! They literally take the sacrifice of a human being- someone who is completely innocent because they’re strict mana, who has spent their life working harder than everyone else to get on the same level.

But wait! There’s more! Then it takes those honest people who do things right and forces them to steal mana, twisting them into something unrecognizable to serve the very people who did it to them!

Now is that just me or does that sound like some good ol capitalist exploitation

#gOD AND THE WAY THAT OPHELIA DOESNT FACE CONSEQUENCES DOUBLES DOWN ON IT MORE #BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS THE TERRIBLE THING AND SHE. GETS PRAISED FOR WHAG SHE DID. AND PROMOTED. FUCK. #the golden enclaves spoilers #the golden enclaves #the scholomance #dawn speaks #hhhhhhhholy shit

[sparkyblizz]

played more ts2 today and I have screenshots galore

peepaw (I love him)

I just can't get over the fact he's so close to the camera

more under the cut

Crystal and Lazlo got married!

Jenny and Nervous playing chess after Crystal and Lazlo's wedding

Johnny and Ophelia got married!

I am like 99% sure that Ophie is on call with Ceres Beaker rn talking about how she just got married and I love how excited she looks and how Nervous is smiling at her :) cousins ever

#sparkyblizz speaks #ts2 #the sims 2 #pascal curious #vidcund curious #lazlo curious #jenny smith #crystal vu #johnny smith #ophelia nigmos

[gibdethethirteenth]

So one of my friends and I were discussing how we would characterize certain characters in Hamlet were we to play them. And we came up with, imo, a really cool subtext to play with for Ophelia, Laertes, and Horatio.

Ophelia is, as in the text, Hamlet's current romantic interest. But Laertes had a thing with Hamlet before Ophelia. That's why Laertes warns Ophelia about Hamlet before they (gender neutral as this could work with a variety of casting decisions) leave in the beginning of the play. Hamlet fucked them over in some way.

Horatio, on the other hand, has been pining for Hamlet since they met in school. Nothing romantic has ever happened between them (or maybe it has, depending on the interpretation, but I like the idea of a one-sided pining situation, personally). But Horatio is the one left cradling Hamlet in their arms at the end of the play.

I just like this juxtaposition between the person Hamlet chose, the person he didn't choose, and the person who would never be seen as an option until it was too late.

#shakespeare #hamlet #laertes #horatio #ophelia #gibde speak

[just-ornstein]

Unpopular opinion but I find JRO to be awfully boring on a romantic aspect. I know it's a super popular pairing and many love it (honestly good for them, poly pairings need more rep) but sometimes I wish I saw more different things in the tags like simply Stella/Ophelia or Ripp with anyone else but them for example.

#lizzy speaks #i do kinda like Ophelia/Johnny and Ripp/Ophelia as stand alone things but i dunno never saw the appeal of the 3 together #ripp/johnny is also kinda meh #like don't get me wrong #i can def see the appeal #but meh

[little-honeypie]

Desperately need to know more about that Taken King titan of yours.............

I did have a master post about my Destiny OC's but it looks like Tumblr's eaten it 😭

His name is Blake Pendragon. He's an awoken titan. He has a sister named Ophelia Pendragon. She's my warlock.

Blake is soft spoken and doesn't use his Light very often. He was revived a few years before the D1 campaign takes place. He studied under the Speaker. He became fascinated by his work and everything about it. He was his apprentice. He went to events and preached about the typical BS of "the Light finds a way" "May the Light, guide you" "Stay in the Light" etc. after the Speaker was killed, he took over. He received a vision in his sleep. One of twisting shapes, darkness, plague and pain. He excitedly told the Vanguard who were wary but listened and quickly began trying to decipher it.

The citizens and Tower workers, (even some guardians) didn't like that he took over and stepped up so quickly. They didn't see him as admirable, noble or even useful. They thought him a fraud. He would commonly be harassed.

When the Vanguard couldn't decipher his vision, he left to try and find what it was on his own. If he could discover the reason, he'd be able to prove himself, right? Everyone would accept him.

He went to the EDZ in search for answers. Asked Devrim for his input (They're friends and commonly have tea together) He suggested it was something to do with the Taken. They'd been acting weirdly across the board based on reports. Actively hunting down guardians and seemingly searching for something. So Blake took up the study of them. Studied the Taken relentlessly. He went to Eris and spoke with Petra to get information but none of it was good enough so he went out on his own. He had to find out what everything meant. He had to prove himself. He refused communication with his sister which was out of character. He became obsessed.

He went to the Dreadnaught where he was overrun. The Taken were different. Calculated and erratic. Though he was a light bearer, yes but he had little experience in the field. He was in over his head by far. As he desperately fled deeper and deeper into the ship, he could hear whispers at the edges of his mind, telling him to stop, the Light is a plague, corruption. He could do so much better. He will be fine if he just stops. He will be accepted. He can command armies upon armies and show the Vanguard and the last city that he was right. He tried calling for backup but his Ghost was killed. Surrounded, Blake stood before the armies of Taken. They didn't move any closer. Simply staring at him. The voices swirled in his mind, lulling him, spinning their web of lies.

Humanity didn't deserve him.

He could do so much better if he just listened.

He could have all the power he ever wanted.

It wouldn't be like Uldren, he would be in control.

He was alone. No ghost, no Speaker to guide him. No sister to protect him.

He wouldn't need protection. He wouldn't need guidance. He wouldn't need the Light.

He gave in.

Sorry if this is written poorly, it is 7 minutes before my shift 😩

#honey speaks #destiny 2 #destiny #Blake the titan #blake the taken king #Destiny oc #destiny 2 oc #Taken King #destiny taken king #d2 #Blake Pendragon #Ophelia Pendragon #Ophelia the warlock #Destiny Dreadnaught #Destiny Vanguard #Vanguard #The Speaker #Devrim #devrim kay #Taken #destiny Taken

[sea-glass-and-fire]

we've talked a lot about brennan, lou, and siobhan discovering they're in an escape room and IMMEDIATELY breaking shit, but i don't think we've discussed enough how when they find Sam, they SHUT THE DOOR AND TAKE A WATER BREAK. they DO NOT UNTIE THIS MAN. He asks them to untie his hands and Siobhan goes, "sorry man, no can do <3." I truly think that Sam did not anticipate how strongly people would react to suddenly FINDING themselves in an escape room instead of chooing to enter one.

#game changer #game changer spoilers #ophelia speaks

[huehoos]

updated with how much i hate warden armor i'll be starting moving soon but i hope to continue some more drawing between

#ophelia speaks #dragon age #ophelia draws #arielle tabris

[moonlightink7]

Is it okay to reblog the funnier as system reblog..?? Even if im not one? Just asking to make sure

Oh! Absolutely, the posts were originally just posts, they're literally- pff- they're tagged that because they come off as funnier in system contexts, especially to systems.

#ophelia speaks #lp talks #lp answers #asks

[clarafell]

We already know Homura ate her own soul...

But what if she started hungering for other souls?

#❛ ✧ ┊ ophelia speaks. ooc. #❛ ✧ ┊ to be executed over and over. delete.

[withasideofshakespeare]

I am a Hamlet-Horatio-Ophelia polyam truther because I think that Ophelia is necessary to get Hamlet (the world’s worst overthinker) and Horatio (who can hardly take a compliment much less ask someone out) together.

They both go to her (Hamlet’s gf, Horatio’s qpp) for relationship advice and she keeps setting them up on dates so they’ll just get together already.

#hamlet #shakespeare #wingman ophelia is my favorite hc #i feel like she’d be really good at it #Polonius probably hates everything about this #also horatio and ophelia probably need each other to survive dating their wonderful but also really annoying shared partner #i don’t know if the three of them have a ship name #I’m not entirely sure that hamlet and ophelia have a ship name #so… #hamratio #hamlet & ophelia #and queer platonic ophelia & horatio #they hardly speak in canon but I love them #i have been informed that the ship name for all three of them is H2O #holy shit I love that it so much