#so now I'm at a regular level of oc obsession

[cerealmonster15]

Hi Cereal! Hope you’re having a good day! Can I get a uhhh…desire and secret for the OC asks? 🥰

HIIII ISAAAAAA!!!!!!! ya :] I'm gonna go with scorpius again in his ✨modern fantasy verse✨ since he's been the focus lately and needs more FLESHING OUT

[oc questions]

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

hmm. well, in the standard og universe, scorpius works to study to try and figure out where he's from and restore his memories and all that jazz, but for modern fantasy au his backstory is less defined and I wasn't going with the amnesia thing. what DOES he want? on a surface level, he wants simple things: peace, quiet, order. he likes to make drinks and he likes having a routine that isn't disturbed by unruly customers.

i think... maybe dipping into the fantasy realm some more, when i first established scorpius as a character in the og universe, i tied him to the dnd warlock class [which now that i think about it, makes the third verse where he's a DEMON HUNTER a bit ironic lol]. in the modern fantasy universe, i dont think he has a patron yet. maybe that's what he wants? a patron that can help him study deeper into the intriguing ancient arcane knowledge that so intrigues him on the side lol. perhaps one could take advantage of his hot temper and growing obsession of darker, ancient magic, and might lead him down a ✨darker path ✨ lol

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

much less dark and edgy, and tbh not as big of a secret as he thinks it is, due to his tendency to very openly complain unfiltered when he's had a few drinks with his roommate and coworker...

but perhaps he... admires the looks of a certain (ANNOYING!!!!) regular customer. pretty snake scales, intriguing sharp fangs that he's always flashing in an irritating grin... he thinks the guy's really hot, but he's super pissed about it and in denial as long as he's sober, because this guy's always coming around just to bother him when he's trying to work and cause a scene - and way more work for him to handle. he's more annoying than he is attractive, anyway, so the nuisance factor tends to override any stray thoughts when the guy is actually there in front of him 😑

but his buddies know, and they think it's FUNNY!!!! and theyre right. it is.

#asks #isadora-greenhall #my stupid cranky edgelord i guess 😑 #hes not really that edgy in reality tho hes kinda just cranky lol #but im trying to PUSH IT a bit and make him more INTERESTING !!! #ty isa ily #the 'annoying customer' is my friend's character lol

[birlwrites]

Okay so more questions fjsbsjsjsj: Who is your favorite OC in ttdl and why? Ramble to us about themmmmm

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alright i have to say i've been obsessed with priam lately - i think my favorite OC is likely to change a lot depending on who i'm thinking about at any given time, because there was also a period in which i was obsessed with heather. geoff always deserves better and megan is always fun. but i haven't talked about priam much so i'm gonna do that here!

priam is one of the people who would have been contenders to take over the dark arts study group after horatio nott if regulus hadn't jumped in and seized it. he's not bothered by this because he is pretty chill for a slytherin - if regulus wants to run the study group and be liable for everything that happens there, so be it, priam is fine with that

BUT. he was not always so chill. actually he was always pretty chill with regard to dark arts. but he was a huge neurotic mess for uh. let's call it a year or so. because of his embarrassingly massive crush on heather. it was disastrous. she knew about it for months he's lucky she found it endearing

but by the time that ttdl starts they've been dating for a while (a couple of years which is ETERNAL for teenagers) so he's considerably more relaxed around her

okay now on to my favorite thing about priam which is his absolutely shit eyesight!!! i'm joking but also i'm not. i can feel my vision getting worse so i really relate to him afjslghskfjslskjf

my actual favorite thing about priam is actually more about his family magic. he's a parkinson, which means he deals with enchanted/cursed objects. he has this super cool workshop at home that definitely has all sorts of magical gizmos and cool shit - also the wood for his wand came from a grove of trees on the grounds of the parkinson estate

ON TO HIS GLASSES WHICH ARE THE ACTUAL POINT OF THIS

so priam actually has 3 pairs of glasses, but to anyone who isn't a parkinson, he appears to only have 1. they are completely identical... unless you can see the enchantments on them. which most parkinsons can!

the reason priam needs enchanted glasses is specifically *because* he can see magic. (he also needs glasses in general but like, this is why they're enchanted.) it's not like the blacks, who can feel the presence/absence of magic (more on that in a few chapters) - parkinsons can see *acts* of magic. so, spells, enchantments, runes, wandwork, potions (yes potions tend to be visible to all, but parkinsons can tell what they do)

different parkinsons have different strengths when it comes to this - some find certain types of magic easier than others to identify. they can train their eyesight - to develop a particular skill, switch around between types of magic more easily, or just get more dextrous with it in general. they are working on figuring out a way to train their eyesight to be Less Fucking Nearsighted (the eye strain struggles are REAL, and also it's a side effect of the parkinsons choosing, magically speaking, to focus on the fine details)

so, priam's glasses. as i said, he needs them because he is nearsighted. the reason he has 3 pairs with varying levels of enchantment is so he can have varying levels of blocking out magic, because he lives at magic school surrounded by magic students who constantly do magic when they're not supposed to and that's not even taking into consideration the enchanted portraits and all the spellwork they do in class and--anyway priam needs enchanted glasses so he's not super overstimulated all the time

(like - enchanted portrait? priam sees the magic. moving photos in the newspaper? he sees the magic. schoolwork? cosmetic charms? basically every single book? enchanted quills and candy? how is he not constantly in the middle of a meltdown? special glasses.)

so he has his Work Glasses (just plain regular unenchanted ones, for when he needs to see everything), his Everyday Glasses (dim the magic halfway - he can see it, but it's subtle), and his I'm So Tired Of This Shit Please Make It Stop Glasses (block the magic out entirely, which feels weird to priam because he's used to just. *seeing* way more, so that's why he uses the halfway ones as his day-to-day glasses - some of his family members block out the magic entirely by default because they don't want to deal with that shit).

priam pretty much always wears the third pair in classes where there's a lot of magic flying around, but it's not dangerous enough for him to want to keep an eye on it - charms is a good example

the glasses are identical to non-parkinson eyes/without a magical examination, but priam can tell them apart super easily just by looking at the vibes (when he's not wearing his complete-blocker ones). he only has one glasses case, but it uses an undetectable expansion charm and some other magic and stuff so it can store all his glasses while making it look like he only has one pair - like, you know how on a ferris wheel, there are multiple cars/carriages/whatever, but only one of them is on the bottom at a time and they rotate? that's what the glasses case is like, except you can't see the glasses that aren't in the front position, and the glasses in the front position look like they're the only ones in the case. SO priam can carry around all his glasses at once in case he needs to switch, which he usually does under the guise of needing to clean them, as he has 3 actually identical cleaning cloths in his glasses case

AND at home in his funky workshop he also has... you guessed it.... EVEN MORE GLASSES!!!!! and just more eyewear in general, like there are goggles and such. they all do different things - emphasize certain types of magic and deemphasize others, magnify vision and such. and they also have corrective lenses because, again, he's nearsighted as shit

ADDITIONALLY another fun thing priam and his family can do is 'zoom in' on their vision and do things on that scale. this is either a skill they can practice or a handy-dandy set of goggles they can use to help, made by them. you know how when you zoom in on a digital drawing, you can make changes on a much smaller scale than when you're at 100%? that's how it works. for a parkinson, magnifying their vision allows them to navigate the world on that level. like suddenly, priam can draw polka dots on an ant

it doesn't really work the other way around - like, if you 'zoom out' your vision, suddenly everything looks super distorted as your eyes and brain try to fill in new stuff, and it's just super disorienting, so not a skill they try to cultivate

also, you remember miles mckinnon, marlene's cousin in third year who is now in regulus's study group? he's decided priam is now his role model for all things magic, and where miles goes, his pack of slightly hazardous loud friends follows. priam is trying to prevent this from becoming a problem because he takes lab safety responsible magical experimentation very seriously

final priam thoughts: the greatest tragedy about him as a character is that due to his milieu he has no idea what a rube goldberg machine and thus does not realize he could make the most LEGENDARY ones ever. i am saddened

#this one is for the test studying i did #i have more to do on that sjflskhgafh so keep sending stuff in #should i make an inbox tag #dark lord wip #priam: *is in the dark arts group* #miles: *grabby hands* MENTOR #priam: UH #but he's rolling with it #and suspects miles partially wanted to befriend him in the hopes of befriending priscilla #which. good luck on that afjskghjskfj #honestly priscilla should attend the dark arts study group meetings #now that heather and priam are both there she'll probably find her way in at some point #she would definitely have a lot to say about the shenanigans that go on in there #mostly along the lines of 'mrow' #do the junior death eaters have a mascot? i think NOT #they don't even have a SNAKE. PATHETIC

[lee-jinkis-ponytail]

@comerainxcomeshine thank you for tagging me! This is just what I needed to warm my typing up before sitting down for a good writing sesh. ^^ (PS I *love* your username, Sunny Side is one of the best Japanese SHINee songs!!!)

Tea, coffee, or soda? I love all three, but I have had to cut pop out of my diet because it fucks with my stomach, and coffee does too if I drink it too often, so I only let myself have it a couple times a month. So, tea.

Dogs or cats? I'm much more of a cat person, but dogs are ok usually.

Can you play an instrument? I took piano lessons for 10 years, and can still play some of the songs I played obsessively (mostly Vanessa Carlton songs).

What's your sun sign? Uhhh is that just... ur regular astrological sign? I'm a capricorn??? Idk the difference between sun/moon/rising/all those.

First song lyrics that came into your head. I'm currently listening to Save a Kiss by Jessie Ware, so those ones!

Do you have any tattoos? Yep, a dragon climbing a castle on my arm, a cat on my foot, a thistle on my ankle, and an HP/LOTR/Narnia tattoo on my back (I'm getting the HP aspect of it covered up as soon as I have the money, because fuck JKR).

Favorite place you've traveled. Scotland and Quebec City.

What’s the last movie you watched? I think it was Willy's Wonderland? That Nic Cage FNaF spoof.

What languages do you speak? English is my native language, but I've been teaching myself Korean for ~2-3 years, and I'm at a conversational level.

Do you have any hobbies? Sketching (primarily pencil and charcoal), cross-stitching, learning choreos/zumba, studying Korean, reading, writing.

You can hang out with one fictional character for an hour. Who do you choose? One of my own OCs. Probably Cher from the book I have coming out this year, The World As It Should Be. :D

Compliment yourself. I have a good understanding of myself and am proud of who I've become.

I think I'll refrain from tagging anyone for now, but if you wanna do this, obviously consider urself tagged!

#ask game #tag game

[sovaharbor]

anyways that one post i rb'd a few days ago that was like "don't use ai art to make your ocs use picrew like god intended" or whatever spoke to me. and. well. i've had a valorant oc just kinda sitting around in my head for a while now and i decided yeah fuck it i can finally expand on it. the fact it took me THIS long to really make an oc for a series i'm obsessed with is kinda shocking. tbh. but here we are.

anyways their callsign is tempo. i don't have a real name for them yet but they're from italy. italians are now canon in valorant

they're a radiant with time-based abilities. i think within just regular lore context, it's Very powerful, probably on neon's level of "damn this could be actually very fucking dangerous" -- i'm thinking slowing, speeding up, pausing, potentially even time travel if given the time to develop and train their powers. within the game's context though, probably only slowing/speeding up. i think full-on pausing would be miserable and probably not something valorant would have in-game? so. yeah.

the harder part though is the Lore of it all... in my head i have this really crazy idea of omega earth tempo being dead. like, freak accident with their powers dead, thanks to the legion. so now the legion is trying to storm alpha earth and steal alpha earth tempo, because they want alpha earth tempo to essentially reverse things for omega earth & bring them back to a point in time where the radianite crisis isn't nearly as severe, but AE tempo is rightfully terrified because they 1) don't have good enough control of their powers yet, and 2) DON'T WANT TO POTENTIALLY DIE ANYWAY.

but then you can't really reconcile that within the game context. &, so, part of me is like well! not like tempo will ever exist in the game anyway! might as well just go all out with the lore! BUT OTOH I LOVE MAKING OCS AND JUST *FITTING* THEM INTO CANON, YKWIM? so...double-edged sword. i suppose it'd be kinda cool for tempo to exist within the game as, like. maybe just someone in the training range? maybe they could speed up / slow down training bots or something silly like that, idk.

#oc: tempo #summer's text tag #also the white hair is like. a play on 1) almost every radiant in valorant having colored hair. #and 2) time... age... elderly people get grey/white hair as they age... #i also picture tempo having a very monochromatic color scheme which i think really goes against the younger agents of the protocol #like pretty much all the younger agents have BRIGHT stand-out designs #but then older agents tend to be more subdued #and in my head it's just to communicate the way tempo's very closed off & how they want to fade into the background more #like they don't even want. to be in valorant. in my head. theyre just there so OE doesn't fucking kidnap them

[meandmyechoes]

Author’s Notes on #crackship fireworks

(scroll down for ship-specfic notes.)

Their (placeholder?) ship name is Fireworks. Because it's a one time, brilliant passion, but it wouldn't last. Violence is a gentle expression. It's also where they meet.

i’m so embarrassed this is my first time creating romance.

idk i’ve shipped before, even harder but idk why this make me blush so much! oh the pressure from a viral meme! and it’s the first really crack ship that I devote an unholy amount of time on (i.e. since 8a.m. July 21st), not even YJ’s famous crack armada could prepare me for this.

usually i get so wrapped up with canon materials, or canon subtext i don’t really need to create all these scenarios in my head, even for lifelong OTPs like Bones or Ulumi because Canon was just enough but this time I feel like I flung myself into a tempest as much as we put these fictional people through and I’m completely ignoring all the rules. I’m stepping out of my comfort zone to really own these characters and create a whole different version for them, that’s just what I’d never do before. Even what I vowed to despise before.

I mean, am I taking this a little more seriously than it needed? Yeah, but i’m like that, obsessed, infatuated and can’t pull out until time drowns me. so with my current caffeine levels, it’s gonna stay for another 24 hours until the embarrassment wins over. 

I’m essentially writing OCs here under a prescribed name and it make all the butterflies rattle in my stomach. To exaggerate, I'm fainting like Zuko after he made a good decision.

the popsicle drabble has swum in my head several days before, when I was totally bored and shamelessly put a self-insert in the cat. idk just wanted to paint an idyllic scene because my whole weekend was ruined. it was okay sitting in my brain but the thought of over 100 people is willing to read it just swung a sledgehammer at my face and how i couldn’t possibly name the cat after myself. I gave him the boy version of my name to "symbolize" something but we have to work around that now. Yeah it kinda upset the following ripples but nothing i can’t handle. (wow i just checked the drafts it’s been swimming since july 16th 1:06am)

In regard to the ship(’s future), i did wrote a premise meta for how I’ll grow their relationship. I still have to fine-tune it so they mimic more of their canon personality, or not. There are some details need noted. 

i have to be honest. i planned seven chapter titles so far, up to the break-up and maybe reunion. it’s really the angsty reunion that i was interested about and half-dribbled last night in dialogues. but at that point it’s beyond salvage. the other dates are all tropey cliche that i’m contented just have it float in my head. even if i write them they’ll be extremely short lol. i think i’ll write one or two more chapters to kind of pushed them into ‘dating’ at least, but I have zero confidence i’ll actually commit lol. 

I have personal grievances with stupid people who [...] cannot accept reality that they can only find fulfillment in polarized AUs. (@meandmyechoes, ships. 2. (unpopular opinion), retrieved 21st July, 2020 16:02)

HA. haha. i'm literally so sorry for obsessing over feral/ahsoka the past 24 hours, and like my past fever dreams, it's likely to fade in the next 24. I just wrote a shameless self-insert the audacity is killing me. seriously this is the deepest craziness I've sunken into since TCW finale and I single-handedly destroyed any pretense of sanity I have on this site. I swear this is just a grief recovery phase and I in fact, is indeed an idiot grinning behind the plasma screen.

you see i would also like to return to regular programming of crying over skyguy and snips which is why my arsenal of sad gifsets are ready to strike back (with bonus sad Rex and Obi-Wan if i can manage)

*****

hey just wanna say i was completely drunk on caffeine last night/this morning and what a fever dream it had been. And now I've been in hangover for nearly 12 hours with a racing heart and paranoid compulsion like a headless fly. And, I want to conclude by, this is not what I want to go down with.

#crackship fireworks #myechoes #cries please don't remeber me for this #my legacy should be well-researched metas and tragic :/ gifsefs welp #also i'm writing phantoms now i said birthday right? it's been a WHOLE month lol #imagine a newbie coming to the fandom next year #and people point at me and say oh yeah she is the crackpot that ships Kenobi's grandpadawan with Darth Maul's baby brother #also she spent a decade staring at Ahsoka's lekku #you'll find the world one more dark-sider #ships

[finsterhund]

I'm feeling slightly better than I was yesterday.

I bought stuff for Spot with the last of my money to cheer myself up, as I'm getting paid in two days.

One of the Spots I ordered arrived and I gave them a bath.

Got chicken strips and potato wedges.

I'm still extremely upset about the news from yesterday. I'm trying not to take it personally but saying "I hated doing commissions" and me being his primary commissioner, getting one almost every month, has made that hard.

I guess this means I shouldn't obsess over one friend and their art and should try being closer to multiple people and being a supporter of multiple artists.

Every time I get too attached I always end up getting hurt because I'm too clingy.

But as I said, finding that sweet spot when it comes to artists is very very difficult. All the good artists who aren't creeps are so popular that getting a commission slot is impossible.

This year has just been "the year of distance" and it sucks. Everyone being distant in real life due to the virus I think is normalizing reclusion even online.

I tried to shower like a non disabled person today and guess what? I bruised my horrible little nasty sternum by falling. It feels kinda weird now and hurts. It makes me think more about whether I have wires around it or not. The bone would have grown around the wires right? Hopefully it's just bruising and it's not like, extra delicate because it was at one point in two halves, so it broke. Baby bones are basically cartilage so it would have grown properly right?

I know nothing of medicine.

So I'm sticking to baths unless I want to get a shower chair. Only issue is there's no space for one.

Our slumlord house owner was going to raise our rent but can't because of the virus. That's some good news. Hope it stays that way. We're already paying way too much for what we get here.

I had a pretty bad breakdown last night but tonight I'm not feeling that. Still really sad about recent events though.

Actually befriending artists is really hard and a big issue I have with finding artists online to commission is I prefer them being my friends as there's a level of comradery and understanding so ehhhhhh. I had several people do art fight attacks for me this year out of the blue so maybe I'd be able to network and become friends with other artists but that's so hard for me. My friendships pretty much are lightning in a bottle rare events that brought us together. I don't actually know how to intentionally make friends.

I wish Fishy had more free time and Shynox and Lili and Arti came back. Oh well.

I found out that the camera I wanted to get for when I finally get my service dog doesn't save photos digitally. It sucks because I really wanted to have a modern instant camera that also had an SD card for the photos as backup but nope. The new Polaroid doesn't do that. It's just a regular old style instant camera. No digital features. I'd dig that if the saga of the Spot photos and the ongoing search for a place that still develops negatives didn't force me to get with the times and acknowledge for once in my life that "digital is the answer"

So instead I'm helping my friend buy his camera and he'll be taking photos for me. I'm sad because after my first digital camera broke I wanted to get a new one but finding out that the one I wanted didn't do what I needed it to do sorta just made me give up.

The pet store where I got stuff for Spot had things on clearance. Everything I got was clearance. I also saw a glow in the dark collar but I just thought that Spot wouldn't like the material and that it would be something my future service dog would like and that made me feel sad so I left.

The quest for a very large stuffed dog that looks like Spot continues. I found a pattern that someone could make one, but do you know how to sew things? I thought not. Neither do I.

I'm excited for the OC release of Paper Beast even though I won't be able to play it. Gotta build my new PC but that means dealing with modern PC parts which is something I've been fearing. I know how to assemble modern PCs, but I'm so behind with the technical aspect it's hard. I don't want to just buy a prebuilt, that's a waste of money, but due to the virus, going to a local shop is out of the question too.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is that I'm getting by, but that I'm not happy. I'm just sorta riding the waves wherever they move and hoping for the best.

I'm hoping my friend's new camera will be good for photos of cuddle clone Spot and also my HoD collection.

I've got some ideas for commissions though. Just don't know who to commission lol

I've got one in the works now though. First one from an artist I thought was cool and is nice to follow. Seemed excited to work on my idea.

My friend made me this and it makes me feel happy.

Hopefully I'll have an easier time sleeping tonight than I did last night.

Maybe I'll try writing instead. But since my mood is awful we know it's going to take a dark turn.

I might try searching around for artists some more, especially once I get paid.

It's not the end of the world. I'm just hurt lol

Anyways, update done. Talk to you guys later.

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