#she does get attached to some of them

[fromtheseventhhell]

I also find it funny that fandom will only accept Lyanna being her non-conforming, wild self in the context of saying that Arya isn't meant to be pretty; Any other day we get back-to-back posts about how Lyanna is actually super traditionally feminine cause she sniffled at a song once, so she's actually more like Sansa. Instead of constantly speaking on Arya and Lyanna, how about you guys reflect on why your standards of beauty for women are attached to how well they perform feminity within the patriarchy?

#lyanna stark #arya stark #asoiaf #/Lyanna isn't actually pretty she was a wild tomboy/ Those two things are not mutually exclusive 😭 #how you look is not a reflection of your personality and this is also a running theme within the story #we have morally good characters who are ugly and morally bad characters who are beautiful this is like...kindergarten level #Lyanna is idealized in terms of her personality hence /you saw her beauty but not the iron underneath/ #and Ned correcting Robert when he said Lyanna wouldn't have shamed him like Cersei had #he's a very shallow misogynistic character and I truly doubt he would've been as attached to the idea of her without surface level beauty #reminds me of people saying that Olivia Hussey is a bad fancast for them because she has a /doll like/ beauty and they're /rougher/ 😭 #as though their entire facial structure magically changed once they realized they enjoyed playing with swords instead of sewing sdksdkdsksd #it's giving that one tiktok with the /cat pretty vs doe pretty vs bunny pretty/ #even if you wanted to make the case that her beauty is idealized in her death we get Arya described a pretty multiple times? #idk it's just so wild to me to use personality as an indication of looks it just sounds so stupid #Arya/Lyanna can still have /delicate/ features (which is extremely subjective) and still have a wild personality #how about we acknowledge that the perception of both of them is warped by strict patriarchal gender norms instead? #some real analysis just to shake things up idk

[dustteller]

I think modern au Zhu SHOULD be the lesbian best friend trope to Ouyang except that its because this man is her pet project and gODDDAMIT she's gonna FIX him she's gonna MAKE him be BETTER she's going to SOLVE EVERYTHING and he will RESPECT HER (she is actively making him worse). She has a whole complex about it and everything. She has based a part of her identity on dragging this man up from his toxic funk and is fully convinced that if she tries hard enough he will eventually come to his senses and be an equal participant in this relationship. They have a terrible wonderful toxic loving codependent relationship that's neither a romance nor a friendship nor a rivalry but a secret fourth thing.

Predictably, this does not go well. The character arcs would be Zhu learning she can't fix a sinking ship and letting Ouyang fail by himself, and Ouyang learning to not be a shit person, actually, and coming out of his bubble of self-centeredness and working on himself instead of unloading his emotional labor onto the people around him. And they should both get to develop a healthier relationship with each other than what they had in canon bc queer solidarity is great and its even better when it's in the shape of some weird bullshit some gay people built out of the corpse parts of heteronormative romance (affectionate and completely unironic)

#brought to you by me thinking about the last half of HWDtW and how Zhu interacts with Ouyang post-betrayal #well. interacts with the concept of Ouyang. he kinda (spoilers). #she was unhealthily attached to Ouyang and honestly I think she deserves an universe where her whole deal is reciprocated. #but only AFTER i put them in a fully self sustaining terrarium jar and sic the emotional isopods on them. #that part comes first bc my personal entertainment is CLEARLY the most important thing here guys #the radiant emperor #my thoughts #zhu yuanzhang #OHHH AND ALSO i think Zhu and Ouyang should get to have their weird little gay relationship #while their partners stare in accepting horror. #ma would be supportive bc she knows how important this impressively awful man is to her girlfriend #but rest assured she DOES NOT like him. she will (very politely) bitch about him to Baoxiang and then feel bad about it #she shouldn't feel bad tho bc Ouyang deserves it and Baoxiang repeatedly reminds her of this fact #eventually ouyang grows on her. #kinda like the bowl of mold in the back of the fridge you've developed an emotional attachment to. #he shouldn't be there but now she feels bad about evicting him into the trash! #(she feels significantly less bad about evicting him into Esen's appartment) #Esen has even less of a clue what's happening with Zhu and Ouyang. #he just knows that Zhu is important to Ouyang and also is 90% sure that they fucked at some point. #30% sure that they are still fucking but he grew up around Baoxiang and Ouyang #he has learned Not to Ask! he does Not Want to Know! #and anyways it's none of his bussiness who his bestie/person that he wants to adopt a horse and grow old with/hot roomate is fucking! #its not his problem! he is not invested! he is not going to think about it! there is no reason to think about whos in Ouyang's pants! #he is not thinking about anything involving Ouyang's pants at all! much less about the inside of Ouyang's pants! #and since hes not thinking about it bc theres no reason to think about it then he cant have a problem with it :) #so he wont ask!

[tibli]

i think people have a tendency to overlook just how emotionally-driven dirk is as a character. probably because he has a tendency to try and mask it with the whole 'oh im doing this because i have everything planned out and this is the most logical course of action' shtick.

i know heart as an aspect is more in reference to a person's soul than it is to their emotions, but goddamnit dirk thinks with his heart okay!!! he may try to act like the logical one but he is RULED by his emotions!!!!

#homestuck #dirk strider #he gets so deeply attached to people #and he feels things so strongly but has convinced himself that hes some kind of emotionless robot #thats false bitch!!!!! his outward emotional expression does NOT reflect his internal feelings!!!!!! #thats why i adore his relationship with roxy because she is very much a 'heart-on-her-sleeve' person #and i think that is a quality he envies bc it allows her to get close to people instead of alienating them #dirk may not express much through body language #but he is SO expressive with the actions he takes and thats really important!!!!! #your friends love you dirk!!!!! stop shitting on yourself!!!!!! #sorry im just thinking about like. how he was treated post-homestuck #i just dont feel like meat dirk is like. accurate to his character idk #like yes he does tend to like. try to pull strings in the bg bc he thinks thats whats best for people #but he also like. comes of as a fucking creep in the epilogues in a way that just wasnt present in hs proper #idk how to explain it but it just feels like his character got fucking ASSASSINATED in the epilogues. j*ne too for the love of god

[adellovesrowan]

abandonment issues

#in y5 when youre around the chaptrrs where u go to the portrait vault #theres literally no interacting with rowan. didnt even invite them along. they were never part of the cursebreakers group #and remembering how rowan almost lost their cool in the library in y5 bc they miss mc ? #that kid has some attachment issues ngl. im exploring it #like ofc rowan lost it behind the screens. you dont know bc you didnt check on them before going to the vaults #idk yet if this is canon in my own story or not. but if it is canon then adel didnt mean anything malicious by leaving rowan out of this #she just wanted to protect them bc she cant handle the thought of them getting hurt. but rowans not in a great state of mind LMAO #and adel does not understand their feelings abt this #bc shes independent and rowans dependent on her and it just makes rowan feel weak and unwanted. which isnt true #anyway yes rowan angst that does NOT include their death bc im original and creative /j #rowan khanna #adel young #jacob's sibling #hphm #harry potter hogwarts mystery #fanart #comic #vent #? i think this counts as vent ish #mine

[mantisgodsdomain]

for the ask game, ca you do the first question for kina?

Not many people talk about her so I don't really have a idea beyond just her sprite

(for this ask game)

Yes, we can! This leans on personal HCs a bit, so we will note - we are not 100% canon compliant. More specifically, we add claws back onto mantids and we tend to have bug size differences be slightly more pronounced rather than having everyone be People Sized. We'll run through.. notable features?

1. Describe your OC physically- what do they look like? What notable features do they have, or what’s your favorite part of their design?

Large mantis. Very large mantis, in fact. The pink tends to take second fiddle to size, since being a member just about the biggest species of mantis in the Ant Kingdom (Tenodera sinensis, or the Chinese Mantis), Kina's big enough for it to be notable, even if stunting from lack of food means she's a good bit smaller than an average mantis of her species, but the second thing a bug would notice would probably be the pink.

And she is pink. A salmon-y pink, but still... pink, which is a color that's not out of the range of what people expect, what with orchid mantises being a thing, but it's still notable simply because of the mantis it's attached to.

She's tall by bug standards and pretty damn well-built, she's got runner's muscle from spending her time darting across half the kingdom, but genetics mean that she tends towards more bulky muscle more than she does the sort of sleek "runner's physique" people usually associate with that. Translated to human looks, she'd have a mild version of the sort of "movie star six-pack" that gets seen as a Beauty Ideal, as her baseline is "underfed and mildly to moderately dehydrated while doing very physical work".

She's got fairly well-cared-for claws, along with a set of purple daggers she generally has sheathed on the insides of her raptorial claws in such a way that she can "flick" them out to be combar-ready at a moment's notice. Her bandanna is a gift from Maki back when they were just starting out as explorers, but the knife setup came later. Her primary eyes are purple, but she uses her simple eyes more most of the time. Squints enough that you can't really see the color most of the time. She's got a wide, wide assortment of scars and scratches on her shell, mostly from Explorer's Association jobs, but the specifics of those vary from fic to fic - our current most consistent one would be a series of grooves cut into the inner sides of her claws from when she was still getting the hang of flicking her daggers out of their sheathes.

In less words: Large, scarred, buff pink chinese mantis with daggers strapped to the insides of her claws and a bandanna tied around her neck, generally in some state of agitation or another.

#asks #ask games #bug fables #fun fact though chinese mantises DO have a pink morph its purely the work of people selectively breeding Get More Pink #does NOT appear in the wild. it is however an offsprout of a brown morph so the genetics with her and maki check out #he didnt get the Full Pink Experience apparently but hes definitely a lot more Red than other mantises so maybe hes just that morph but dar #it does however imply that there were people selectively breeding mantises for Get More Pink at some point in the past #we tend to HC her as the descendant of lesser mantises bred for combat in the termite colosseum #doesnt talk about her heritage a whole lot. there are only two generations separating her from those bugs #and her parents are. not exactly Around anymore #papa got eaten. very tragic. mama did not stick around very long after kina and maki could care for themselves #they used to have more siblings but most of them died before making it to awakening or simply never awakened in the first place #kina was responsible for some of those. very common for mantids to eat their siblings. they were valuable food when she was a nymph #part of the reason shes so attached to maki is because hes the only family she has left #headcanons

[the-trans-dragon]

Hehehe >:3 got a kissie and some headpats from a pretty girl >:3 muahahahahahaha >:3

#sorenhoots #sometimes i remember that i am living the life that i ached for during lonely years #like i just get to wake up and live my gay little life??? kinda fucking awesome even if many other parts of life are very stressful #im so glad i met my wife who loves me for who i am 🥰🥰🥰🥰 and 😈😈😈 heheh then i met my other partner???? like. i thought my wife made me #the happiest i would ever be and then WOOSH i met ANOTHER person who makes me incredibly happy? i did not know the happiness could DOUBLE. #i figured it was like 0%-100% and my wife made me like 100% of my capacity for happiness and then its like 200% now and im realizing that my #capacity to experience joy and peace isnt static and frankly probably increases steadily over a lifetime as i grow and change and learn to #appreciate things more. anyways im in a content happy lil gay mood this morning :3 #my partner got to visit us recently to help us get emotionally ready for some stressful stuff but now the most stressful parts are done and #now that the stress is fading i am finding so much happiness has been in my chest waiting to burst! it was sooo good to see my partner hehe #and the situation is even cuter because my wifes partner also came to visit and my wifes partner is my partners wife also so like. adorable #symmetry. my partner and my wifes partner have another partner and if you draw out a little diagram of us you will see it is shaped like a #house :3 a square with a triangle on top :3 hehe metamours everywhere :3 super super super wonderful metamours. its literally almost like a #fairy tale to have a polycule??? like?? im so excited to live somewhere that isnt like 9 hours from them. oh my god they also have a cat and #shes the cutest. me and my wife have a cute cat also and we are like 👀👀👀 tenatively anticipating that they will get along 👀👀👀 ive #specifically worked with my cat to help her know how to behave around other cats. my neighbor is retired and does TNR on the local strays #and they get attached to her and hang out in her backyard or her house lol like one snuck in and this was before they had any cats and they #didnt know he snuck in until he hopped onto her bf's chest at night to snuggle up. and hes a big cat and if you felt him drop onto your #chest in the pitch black of night you might absolutely mistake him for a racooon or possom or some other beast. anyways he sneaks into all #the houses down the street apparently and is just kinda like “the retired people down the street”'s cat lol. and daisy would hiss and yowl #out the window at him but i always tried to show her that he is friendly (and give her treats to attempt to tell her 'he isnt a threat. have #a snack. see? if he was a threat then we would not be having snacks.' and eventually he ran into us while i was letting her outside on her #harness and!!! i was absolutely ready to defend either of them from the t #other but they just cautiously sniffed each other and then laid down. it was fascinating to observe. daisy also responds really well yo #to meeting new people :3 though she proved me wrong by hiding from some maitenence ppl recently. but then she met my metamour and was pretty #much instantly like 'oh ok ur family? sounds gok #sounds good.' so thats cute and i hope if we end up in the same house with the other cat in the polci #polycule. well i hope they get along!!! #idk what we would do if they didnt. there are lots of other housing arrangements (like renting a duplex or next-door apartments or #something) but i want them to get along anyways :3 no matter what sort of living arragement works out best. i think theyd be good for each

[aceyanaheim]

thinggs i could write an essay about: Debbie defending Fiona from Lip after Fi agreed to let her get married bc "she ( Fi) didn't ask to play mom either"

#Debbies Aware that Fiona raised them and she's Aware of how Frank and Monica fucked them over #and she DOES see Fi as a mother figure but she also understands Fionas human but shes also FIFTEEN with attachment issues and angry about #things she cant verbalized and resentful that FIona is also a kid and all that brings #but Shes the one telling Lip 'Fi didnt ask to play mom either' like she Gets Fiona wanting to break away and im #i wish to put them under a microscope #i wish to pin them to a corkboard like a very interesting bug #ITS ABOUT THE FRAUGHT SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS #caps cw #lol #ohyeah #Acey watches #Shameless #Also Lip Struggling bc whenever Fiona tries to put herself first he has to pick up the slack #and even if he Wants to be happy for her hes not Used to it #he was so unaware of just Everything Fiona did #and he cant help but resent that if she gets some freedom or self imprivement it means He gets some responsability by consequence #andhow they both pull together ( and Debs too ) to talk to Carl even when they're bumping heads likje that aah #don't look at me #im normal about the Gallaguer siblings #yup compeletely normal

[lorebird]

hi lore hi hi hi you said hisui headcanon lore???? 👀👀👀 hisui hc lore please 👀 ty

HIIIII I was gonna draw some stuff for this but. Alas it is 6 am and god has seen fit to punish me for my hubris (cramps) so I’m just gonna distract myself writing this while I wait for the ibuprofen to kick in

So this is like. Completely out there bc it’s just me cherry-picking the series’ worldbuilding that I enjoy (and also completely changing it) for the sake of self indulgence <3

The Celestica people lived in ancient Hisui and were part of a trade network with the other regions. 3000 years ago, there was a war between Galar and Kalos that resulted in the darkest day and the ultimate weapon, and the news spread all over. A few centuries later, a traveller from Hisui came across the decimated weapon and its story. Idk who this character’s gonna be, probably a new OC bc I can't think of a canon character to throw this backstory onto

A bit of hc lore regarding how the ultimate weapon works: it's powered by infinity energy, the life force of pokemon, which is canon. I elaborate on that by having all infinity energy sourced from Arceus. Every pokemon is tied to it through the infinity energy necessary to live and exist (oh my god I just thought of the implications of this for manmade pokemon holy shit that's so cool I gotta think about this more), but some have more power than others. Legendaries (and maybe some mythicals?? I can't remember them all rn), which have power over nature/reality, have some of Arceus' own creation power tied into their infinity energy. All those mons are some of Arceus' thousand arms. This power can be harnessed by the ultimate weapon, which is how Lysandre intends to make the player immortal by powering it with Xerneas (so if someone powered an ultimate weapon with Kyogre, it could manipulate the oceans; if someone powered it with necrozma, it could manipulate light; etc etc)

So anyways -- the Hisuian came back and began building a new weapon, this time with the intent to create an entirely new world, just like Cyrus and Volo. Instead of a singular body like in Kalos, the three "petals" were placed around the region, equidistant from the temple of Sinnoh in the center. Each third was powered by one of the creation trio's orbs.

But tracking down those orbs was tough work -- the weapon-builder, who I'm just gonna call ZA for ease, reached out to historians and merchants to try and locate them (no one knew what they were up to at this point and what the orbs were intended for). Once all 3 had been found, the finders were told to bring them to a certain location at a specific time. At this point, ZA was at the temple of Sinnoh in the center of a region-wide weapon, and they fired.

Each third of the weapon created a crater, the three lakes. I made this shitty little representation like 3 weeks ago DHFJDKFK it's based off my vague memories of the nationwide transmutation circle from watching fma like 6 years ago

The weapon tore open a massive rift that kinda threw everything to shit, like having a spacetime distortion covering all of Hisui. This is the threat that the ancient hero mentioned in-game solved (I like the theory that the hero is Alder <3 so he was dragged in by the distortion like Ingo was, just. A couple thousand years earlier)

As for the people who delivered the orbs and were caught up in the blast -- idk who the lustrous globe holder was tbh, maybe I'll make them another oc if I don't find a character to chuck that lore onto. The one who had the griseous core was Volo; Cogita had the adamant crystal. Like AZ, they gained immortality from proximity to the weapon, but also inherited other elements of their respective pokemon's infinity energy. Cogita can see the past and future; Volo can access the distortion world. The theoretical third character could warp space or teleport.

The weapon firing and ensuing chaos killed off a lot of the Celestica people, and the remaining few had no stability in Hisui and so left for other regions. A few centuries before pla, the diamond and pearl clans' ancestors arrived, taking up the title of Celestica and upkeep of the temple of Sinnoh. I'd like to think that Cogita had passed on some of the ancient stories to them, which is how they know about the rift and hero from the past, as well as Dialga and Palkia (even though things got. A little misconstrued there)

#THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK IVE BEEN WRITING FOR UM. 2 HOURS #rambles #this stupidly convoluted lore is what made volo one of my fav pokemon characters ever #because he lost Everything to someone trying to create a new reality. he was cursed to wander a world where everyone he loved was killed #and everyone he came to love would die before him too #cogita knew what he'd become and wouldn't give him the time of day: she thought her visions of the future were absolute #so he became. very bitter and very good with people #using others to get what he wanted where his own strength failed (although he had plenty of time to become a very formidable trainer) #and not letting himself get attached to them #(he does still get attached to his pokemon though. he's lost a lot throughout the centuries) #eventually he becomes the thing he hates and starts seeking to create his own new reality where everything can just start over #and he can have a home again #he's SO SURE that the plates are the answer!! ZA failed bg using the power of creation by proxy -- he had a direct tie to arceus itself #but the player beats him and so he smokes some weed realizes he's a woman and then she chills out /j #pla #pokemon legends arceus #<- hopefully those wont show up in the main tags after a dozen tags of rambling I just wanna keep track of my own worldbuilding

[emile-hides]

Another Holiday Season another year of trying to sell you internet randos on my Polar Express Overwatch AU

Hana as Main Character Kid

Lucio as Main Girl Character Kid

Brigitte as Billy

Lena as Fourth Main Character Kid I am making up

Jamison as Annoying Know It All Kid

John “Jack” Francis Morrison as Train Conductor

Gabriel “Reaper” Reyes as Train Ghost

Reinhardt and Torbjorn as Train Engineers

Ana as Santa Clause

That’s it that’s the pitch.

#Overwatch #The Polar Express #I don't think I've made this post sense 2020 but it rattles in my head every year lemme tell you #The Polar Express but all the kids are from different countries and none of them speak the same language #I'm always back and forth on Ana as Santa because she's the only one I trust to be good at the Santa gig #Or Winston as Santa because that's perfect and amazing and so incredibly funny #This year we land on Ana Santa #Next year who knows #I wanna explain my attachment to the Polar Express really fast okay so like #I saw the movie for the first time around when I was the same age as the main kid alright #7-9 range where you start to question Santa for the first time #And my little dumb brain saw the 'I believe' scene and the Bell rings for all those who truly believe thing #And Violently Refused to stop believing #Santa was real there was nothing that could take that belief away from me #I wanted to be one of those train kids SO badly #It does not help that we live fairly close to an active train track #No one could talk me out of this I WAS going to believe my way onto the Polar Express and meet Santa and get a sleigh bell of my own #Then in like. 5th grade. Some asshole kid in my class and I get in an argument about Santa Clause's legitness #And I.... You know... MAY have... Beat the living shit out of him for it #LOOK MAN HE WAS BEING MEAN ABOUT IT AND WOULDN'T STOP SO I DECKED HIM WHATEVER #Anyway I got like a day suspension from it and my mom left work and took me to lunch that day and just #Told me out right Santa isn't real #I still believe tho don't worry #The Polar Express could still come for ya boy trust me on this besties #You know I think now as an adult if I'd actually gotten aboard that train #I'd be that little annoying kid with the glasses like. 100% for sure. #When Santa himself tells this kid to Cool It. Jesus Christ I would have simply cried #My favorite little piece of animation in the whole movie is that scene #Just for the way the Conductor puts his hands on that poor kid dkgjfdkjgkfd #Buddy I get you I too was Autistic with no filter and no understanding of an inside voice

[trollbreak]

Man I gotta get like. Any of my plots going so I can rant abt the details of it.

#like mev all but helpless while she recovered bc doc was taking away her arms due to the violence? because Dari’s fucked up magic blood #hurts when it makes her body heal Far Too Fast?? and then when she’s got nothing else to lash out with she’s all snarls and snapping teeth?? #cattra laying on her chest and her getting some half decent rest in??? very promptly getting so attached to her??? the wild panicked look in #her eyes when she’s still half asleep and realizes that doc is carting her off to clean her injuries again and that she’s never kind about #it when she does?? the walls of this stoic woman completely crumbling when there’s no other choice #and peipre hunched in a chair beside marrow as he rests and she’s gripping the armrests so hard her knuckles are white because she’s sure #this was her fault. he got hurt and she found him bleeding and half conscious after she stayed behind again and he almost died. and when dex #makes it into the room she pulls herself together and gives him the kindest rundown she can in the most professional way because it’s all #she’s got to hold herself together in the moment. and he’s just as worried as she is so she’s not going to worry him more with her whole #deal. and when she’s sure dex is going to stay she goes home and calls yarrow off work early and just lays in her lap for hours and refuses #to talk about it. #and sweets hardly resting for several weeks and outright refusing to get unplugged because he Has to be able to keep an eye on things she #Has to make sure that if something happens she can do something this time and he’s so much quieter than usual and when he finally does take #a weekend off again she sleeps so fucking hard with cattra and then feels bad for sleeping through so much of their time #and the whole. thing. that’s jouren’s got going on with mawris right now. they scare the hell out of him and he couldn’t tell you why. but. #if you asked. he would call them his friend. he couldn’t tell you why on that either. he spends so little time with them but there’s this #urge to return lately that. isn’t quite the call of whatever is going on with the mushrooms he’s pretty sure. he’s baking a lot about it. #um #character rambles #:P #I like rotating angst in my brain

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

So tempted to design kids for Aveline and Donnic for the sole reason of giving Addie partners in crime actual friends to hang out with

#she does have friends but like. no actual characters. just a vague knowledge that they Exist #she def hangs out with the alienage kids too #in general tho i rlly should get some more ''npc'' type ocs (that i will inevitably get attached to) #or maybe i should just grab existing characters and waro them so much until theyre practically ocs <3 #cos i noticed that happens w characters anyway. that sorta mindset i mean. like. the ones who interact a lot w my ocs? #theyre my rica and my fenris and my cullen #not to be confused with the canon or fanon or friend-non versions ofc #who are all the same person but also no theyre not #anyways im just rambling now lol g'night #lay rambles

[swordmaid]

consumed by the thoughts of blue hawke rivalmance hawkebela again (jk i was looking through my screencaps)

#like i know it's purple is popular and all but the whole conflict between a blue hawke and bela is sooo interesting. TO ME..!!! #blue hawke's selflessness to bela's selfishness #hawke's martyr complex vs bela's self preservation #bela who is afraid of intimacy and being attached vs hawke who needs someone to just stay by her side bc everyone is slipping away from her #like they're both in the right and the wrong. and to acknowledge the other is to acknowledge their fears abt themselves #hawke who sacrifices so much of herself to help others as a way to get them just to stay with her vs bela who avoids getting attached bc if #she gets attached it can be used against her #and see how much of the people hawke loves had been used against her #it's just sooo interesting i need to gnaw on some bone or something ...!!!! #i do wish that there had been more chances of bela calling out hawke tho. in my head she does . #like my hawke who's coping mechanism is sacrificing herself to help others so she gets their praise and bela sees through it. and bela #calls her out on it. and it cuts her BAD. i need this drama!!!

[svtskneecaps]

agony i've been trying to sleep for an hour but i fucked up my sleep schedule over break so now i just have to lie here like "hmmmmm..... what if....... the harry potter obliviate wizards........ were bad at their jobs.......... and there was a secret colony of young magical & nonmagical children........ who remember magic... and know the wizards don't want them to...... and are in hiding..........."

#i'm thinking this is ~fantastic beasts era new york bc it feels easier to justify like 15-30 kids living on their own w/o like. jobs. #or getting caught. #they refer to losing their memories as 'getting erased' #bc at a certain point of magic exposure. yea. a lot of important or key memories might just go Poof. and take your personality with it. #some of them have seen it happen and those are the horror stories that spread in whispers #they know what happens if any of them get caught. #most of them have seen the horrors of magic (obscurial incident anyone?) and some of them have seen the beauties (fixing new york) #(+ newt was a LIL flippant w magic while he was there and yknow i'm willing to bet there were some other instances a small concealed child- #-could witness; also the magical creature pastries in the bakery. the kids aren't stupid they know he got Erased) #featuring a small magical child ~5-6 named andy he doesn't want to be a wizard bc he'll have to leave the group or they'll be found #also he's scared of wizards (but not magic) #+ the group leader giselle ~11-14; nonmagical angry and scared she knew about magic the longest has seen the most and knows the streets #she can identify wizards and does her best to work w the other older children to switch locations when the wizards sniff too close #also a poltergeist type ghost? can't research the Troll's lore bc it's 4:30 am and i'm trying to sleep #but like. a ghost that can physically manipulate the environment and can't be seen by nonmagical people as such #feeds off magical energy but decided to stick with this ragtag mix of magic and no magic bc it's funny and he's also kinda attached to them #they love their poltergeist buddy even tho the nonmagical kids can't see him just what objects he interacts with #at some point newt scamander loses his niffler and it finds its way to these children who name it richard and take it stealing with them #they love richard he's large and cute and when set loose in a jewelry store he cleans it out in under a minute #when newt tracks his niffler back to their hideout they emergency evac + knock him out lmfao #i kinda imagine newt being sympathetic? like there was that thing w the little girl he couldn't save #and now these kids right and probably eventually he's told the story via giselle trying to threaten him into staying tf away #and he'd obv be extremely worried for these kids n the possibility of an obscurial? #also he has some strong Nonthreatening vibes and i feel like he's not a government snitch even if the films iirc are tryin to make him a cop #newt scamander is not a cop idc fuck canon and fuck jkr #idk it's 4:38 am and i'm just trying to scribble down the thoughts before they leave #and hopefully FALL. ASLEEP. MY ALARM GOES OFF IN 4 HOURS AND 22 MINUTES. #REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE #not kpop #shut up vic

[llycaons]

help I just remembered how wwx said “how dare you judge lan zhan just because he’s not very expressive! he doesn’t think he’s better than anyone!” to the face of the man who was once told by lwj “you are not qualified to speak to me’ peak comedy

#even better if the show had recognized the irony and leaned into it #like. I love lwj but he is ABSOLUTELY a judgemental person. I think he's usually RIGHT #like lwj doesn't participate in egotistical grandstanding but he does judge people for not doing the right thing #and he definitely thinks there are people below him. it's just. based on actions and not reputation or income lvl #or heredity the way other cultivators judge ppl #but um. that was an insane scene for that. #O feel bad for su she I really do. betrayed the lans by not agreeing to die in defense of them #*I #and then attached himself to another lowborn cultivator bc he didn't treat him like shit #and used what he knew to found his own sect #like that entire conflict feels very manufactured bc the narration wants you to be on the lan clan's side #and I'm not? I think su she should get cut a break actually #overall I think some aspects of the lan sect and lan characters are very strong #(the setting the concept of the rules and the headband lxc) #and some are quite weak (the su she conflict lsz and the idea that they're always the good guys) #lwj kind of falls in the middle due to some things I find unsatisfying about his writing but I'm biased so I like him #cql txp

[blujayonthewing]

SO one of the things I've been thinking about (again) is how Juniper doesn't feel like there's anyone she can talk to, and how that might end up playing out as using magic as an outlet in various ways. Tasha's gave druids the ability to cast Find Familiar with a use of their wild shape, and it's something I've had prepped for as long as I've known about it, but it hasn't come up in-game yet; I had been kind of imagining it coming up in a moment of needing to reach someone for a touch spell (probably Fengling, who is impulsive and headstrong and whose speed is a million), but now I'm thinking it's more likely to manifest from the need to have someone to talk to who doesn't have More and Worse trauma than she does (from her perspective).

So now the question is: how do I flavor this familiar? I've been waffling between two basic options: either it's an extension of herself, or it's a gift through her connection with the fey. The former makes more mechanical sense, strictly speaking; the spell is cast with wildshape, and it's a new/ optional class feature not connected to her subclass, feats, or backstory, and theoretically any other druid could do the same thing. But, on the other hand, I like the idea of leaning into the fey flavor of familiars and making that connection a little more explicit, since there's already a connection there for June within the narrative? And also, now that I'm thinking about it in the context of 'needing someone to talk to' again, the idea that at the end of the day she's fundamentally just talking to (an externalization of some spiritual aspect of) herself makes me kind of sad :') Besides, 'feeling lonely and isolated and turning to an imaginary friend' is potentially really interesting, but 'feeling lonely and isolated and turning to the fey' feels like it could have legs... 👀

Anyway the actually important thing is that I wanna decide for sure before she actually casts the spell, because if it's an extension or reflection of Juniper she's going to look like a (mostly) ordinary barn owl, cream and gold:

(art by giz-art, which I love so much I bought a print)

... but if she's connected to the archfey Dubheasa, the 'Dark Lady Of The Water,' then she'd look more like this

... and I would want to change the macro.

#the way I've personally headcanoned/ flavored familiars where-- well Idri AND Mel I guess technically but mostly Mel-- is concerned #is that a familiar is created by the spellcaster using magic and the fey/ fiend/ celestial spirit is just an animating spark of life #there may be some very root primal shape of a personality attached to the spirit but the spirit itself wasn't sentient before #the familiar is a New Creature born from the spellcaster's will #so a lot of times what they're like will (intentionally or subconsciously) reflect either the spellcaster's personality or their needs #this is different from warlocks who get A Creature given to them by their patron which feels pretty clear cut to me flavorwise #but druids....... it could really be explored in a lot of directions. especially for Juniper who is now a Fey Druid specifically #wildshaping calls on the primal spirit of The Platonic [Beast] to reshape one's body to that beast #it would make sense if using wildshape does the same to CRAFT a new body for an unassigned animating spirit #ultimately working out similarly to how it works for wizards: you used your magic and some loose Soul Energy to create a creature #(this is also essentially how I imagine Conjure Beasts works) #but I dunno. I think there's something poetic about needing so badly to reach someone that a part of your soul leaps out to them #and I also think making friends with an actual fey being who was sent here to love and help and protect you has narrative potential #I dunno!! #Juniper's been pretty independent for most of her life-- 'the real power was inside you all along :)' doesn't feel satisfying for her #she really needs to feel *supported* #but that doesn't necessarily mean this is the best or the right avenue for that #HMMM. #about me #my OCs #juniper

[nuoc7mia]

shima 😭😭

#moon talks #spoilers for ch 42 of stl in the tagssss #god it hurt so much to read jt towards the ending….. it was a bit naive for me to think that the problems would occur later in the relation- #ship ahdjjs it makes so much sense/ shima asking her out bc he doesn’t want to hurt her and wants the most optimal relationship with someone #he rlly cares abt. and i rlly get it 😭 like the struggle to 1) be able to understand how you feel towards someone and 2) mold your #feelings in a way that will make others happy. so real of you shina #god and the way he just stands there not knowing what to do while knowing how happy mitsumi is…. #at this point i’m not sure either if he likes mitsumi in thaf way or just feels rlly attached bc of the way she validates him #what he does need are therapy and some more time to understand what he’s feeling 😭 #i am still rooting for them (delusional) but it’s gonna take a whike for it to fully bloom