#sup and thanks

[grimae]

For no particular reason at all I'm throwing in the websites again I'm also at: bsky - neat place twitter - still there for some reason patreon - if you feel like supporting me and my work, greatly appreciated here's my commission sheet || here's my print shop

#asmo labert #artists on tumblr #art #sup and thanks

[its-your-mind]

ya know what, I just put all of this in the tags of someone else’s post, but I have More to say about it

This is a letter to 12-year-old me, who just listened Welcome to Night Vale for the first time in 2013.

Hey, 12 year old me. There are some things I know you need to hear right now.

You are 12, and you’ve just discovered podcasts for the first time. You’re in 7th grade, and you saw screenshots of tumblr posts in nerdy Facebook groups about this super weird one called “Welcome to Night Vale” where they said weird things like “Wednesday has been cancelled, due to a scheduling error.” You think that’s pretty funny, so you check it out.

It’s fun, there’s a dog park no one goes in, and Wednesday has indeed been cancelled due to scheduling errors. The people who live there are delightfully odd - they don’t believe in mountains or angels, despite the fact that the angels sometimes change lightbulbs. When the host describes a new person in town and declares himself in love with him, you (know you’re weird but aren’t sure why - why does Cecil’s comment make you feel so seen?) write it off as equally strange as a disbelief in mountains and move on.

You, 12 years old, only just poking your head out of the hole you grew up in, don’t know who you are yet, because looking too closely at yourself is scary.

You keep listening. When Cecil and Carlos finally talk to each other, beneath those lights above the Arby’s, you start crying. You don’t know why. You don’t understand yet that you are finally being told a story where someone like you was accepted and loved, not in spite of the eccentricities, but because of them.

But that’s not a revelation you’re ready to have yet, and that’s okay. In the exact same way you had glossed over Cecil and Carlos’s relationship development for those first forty episodes, you brush past your own emotions and keep on keeping on. If you keep moving, you don’t have to stop and think harder about what caused you to feel so strongly.

You keep listening. You cheer as this strange town defeats the followers of a Smiling God, you scream into your pillow at the words “he is holding a cat,” you have legitimate nightmares about a beagle puppy, and you bounce up and down as a young disabled girl leads her family in carrying out a successful heist. In the midst of it all, you hear these characters push through the challenges they face by banding together and embracing the things that made them strange.

And slowly but surely, you begin to learn to embrace the things that make you strange, too.

Let’s jump forward a few years. You’re in high school now. You’ve been made fully aware of how people in your life see people like you like Cecil and Carlos, but you also feel nothing but giddy, pure joy each time they talk to each other over the radio. You don’t know how to reconcile those two things.

So you don’t. You slot yourself into the crowd of weirdos at school, and all of you pretend you’re not all going through the same struggle. (Over half of those weirdos turned out to be queer, by the way. Funny how that works out.)

(But that’s another story.)

For now, you’re a sophomore in high school, and you’re feeling lost, and overwhelmed, and alone. And like you always do when you feel overwhelmed, you put in your earbuds and listen to someone else’s story for a bit.

This episode is called Toast. It’s just a bunch of speeches from the characters that have welcomed you into their community. At first, it’s not clear what the toast is to, and so you focus on trying to figure it out. Your mind cycles through possibilities. Is it a funeral? Commemorating a special Night Vale holiday? Someone’s birthday?

It slowly dawns on you. This is the toast at a wedding. Everyone giving the toast can’t help but talk about what a happy occasion this is. But you are still so small, and so so scared, and it doesn’t occur to you whose wedding it might be until Old Woman Josie comes up and mentions them by name.

Without understanding quite why, you start to sob. You cry through the rest of the episode, so much that you have to pause and rewind to hear the entirety of Carlos and Cecil’s speeches to each other. Carlos talks about love as a continuous series of choices, as the turning of a story about “you” and a story about “me” into a story about “us.” Cecil shares how his love for his community and his partner has gotten him through the hardest times, not because it overpowered the difficulties, but because it allowed him to keep going in spite of them.

With the benefit of hindsight, I can see why those things brought up the emotions they did. We want to be loved, but more than that, we want the chance to choose to love, and we want someone to choose to love us. What we crave, at our very core, is acceptance. We just want to be seen and welcomed, no matter who we happen to be, and no matter the person we have chosen to love.

You won’t be able to label yourself as queer for another three years. You’ll meet people who will tell you that something in you is broken, but you’ll meet even more people who build on the foundation that Night Vale began. You will learn that being different, in whatever way you are different, is something to be celebrated, not hidden.

There will come a day when you are safe, and happy, and loved, just as you are. You can let all of yourself shine - your loves, your fears, your odd fashion sense, your passion for weird radio-broadcast podcasts - and the people around you won’t just tolerate it, they’ll admire it.

The road to get there won’t be easy, but I am so excited for you to walk it. You’ve got this. And on every step on that journey, just remember: The moon is still beautiful, mysterious lights still pass overheard, and you are loved.

Sincerely, 23 year old you

#welcome to night vale #wtnv #cecil gershwin palmer #carlos the scientist #lgbtqia #queer love #if you made it all the way through that #👏 #sup #thanks for reading my ramblings

[moeblob]

I know this is like the fifth post I have made today (though I deleted the first one) but guys. You don't understand how badly I need to tell this story.

SO TODAY I went to a diner and it was pretty full for a Friday morning (I'd expect it Sat/Sun at that time to be slammed but not Friday idk) so I was asked how many and I said just one, can I sit at the counter area and gestured. The waitress nodded and I took my seat two from the wall but no one was in the three seats on the other side. I was away from most noise. I started to get anxious from the noise however and by this point and old couple had come in and sat near me with a seat in between us. We did not acknowledge each other until I had stood up after asking for a to go box... and the woman stopped me to ask what was on my shirt.

I mentioned "oh it's uh, about daily things but in between every thing is about playing video games... it was a gift and drawing would fit more than playing games but yeah" and I am so anxious and I want OUT of that building but nope! This woman nods and starts talking about her daughter (or niece or granddaughter I can't recall, too anxious) who liked video games and art, too. BUT she teaches English and that's fine. "But she cosplays? Do you know what that means?" and I'm like "oh yeah, I know some people who cosplay but I'm too anxious to attend any conventions so I haven't personally."

"OH she suffers anxiety too!"

I am panicking so bad I still have to pay and I can't get away from her and she's being super polite and I'm screaming internally and then she says something that made my brain stop.

"Do you LARP?

I froze. Anxiety left me for a brief second as that processed. I was just asked in a diner if I LARPed. By an elderly woman. I shook my head and said no but I knew of it. And then I said I had to go and paid and bolted out and just walked home thinking "do you LARP?" on loop ....

It was honestly the most bizarre thing an elderly woman has ever asked me.

#moe talks a lot #not art #guys it literally removed every ounce of anxiety for like five seconds lmao #i got home and when my sister got home I was like yeah hey sup i had really bad anxiety at the diner but #and then told her the story and she laughed out loud at DO YOU LARP like #thank you for validating me on this off the wall comment in a diner

[bulbasauryeee]

drew MORE gay people. these guys i swear

#teehee #these are supposed to be all separate if it wasn’t clear they’re not all part of one thing #the ‘sup gwen’ is there cause gwen crispy-crust saw the bit of dirk’s face in the kanaya pic and was like hi dirk #and also wow surprise surprise they’re the reason i’m posting this woaaahhhh #shoutouts tho thank you for being so encouraging fren :)) #homestuck #my art #home24uck #kanaya maryam #roxy lalonde #dirk strider #don’t mind the shocked dave :)

[deathdxnces]

you mentioned before how Tarhos and Haru are sort of adoptive parental figures to Irelia - do you think she’d have any battle quotes towards the two as allies and foes?

» — ⌜QUESTIONS ABOUT IRELIA⌟ ,

— feat @witchcraftandburialdirt &. @bells-of-black-sunday for the mention !

i'm terrible at creating those myself not going to lie so these won't be great BUT i absolutely think she'd have special interactions with them, yes! as allies, enemies, and probably when killing them too. so i tried to write some examples of what i think the lines might be like. something similar in idea, at least. i haven't talked to egg or spuk about these so 🥺 just imagining what it could be like. 

— ALLIES

tarhos:  ❝ we fight side by side again — i almost pity our enemies. almost. ❞

given the circumstances of how they came to be around one another, i don't think irelia would be hesitant toward the carnage the darkin can do. she can be pretty bloodthirsty herself when in battle, and she'd be quite aware anyone standing in their way is certain to meet a bloody end. ✨ bonding time ✨ AIDSFJIDJFJ

haru:  ❝ if they fear what i can do, it's in no small part because i learned from the best. ❞

this i've talked about with egg before, but irelia really didn't know anything about fighting initially. like, not even when she fought at the placidium. she had no training, she barely knew how to use her powers, given there was no one to teach her. haru saw that no one was preparing this girl to face anything while expecting her to face everything and took matters into his own hands to teach her, so i think if they fought side by side she'd reference that, and the sense of pride of being a good fighter and showing that to him but also in being able to fight by his side as an equal now.

tarhos & haru:  ❝ watch out, you two — i'm not the one who has to worry about keeping up anymore. ❞

i just think it'd be cute if she got to be a little playful. and well. she can hold her own now, but i imagine as a teenager she wouldn't have been able to exactly keep up with the immortal vastaya and ancient darkin akjfnksdjfnkjdfn and she might not still! but she can hold her own very well and the lightheartedness warms my heart 

— ENEMIES

tarhos:  ❝ it's not too late, tarhos. there is always a better path, and those willing to walk it with you. ❞

as much as irelia can be bloodthirsty, she is also remarkably merciful to other ionians and way too inclined to easily let go of the wrongs of people she cares about. this would manifest here as a plea for tarhos to choose differently, because she wouldn't want to fight him. so it's extending a hand in the hopes of leading him to reconsider.

haru:  ❝ you were the first to teach me how to fight, haru. i regret having to turn my blades against you, but i won't back down. ❞

for haru, i like the 'rhyme' with the allied line in the idea of connecting it to their history and haru being the first to teach her how to fight. but while in the allied quote that is a source of pride and of wanting to make him proud, as enemies it gains a bitter edge that she now has to turn her strength against him. still, irelia is nothing if not certain of her path, so if this leads them to opposite sides, she's not changing her mind and accepting defeat, not even to avoid facing him.

tarhos & haru:  ❝ i learned from you to make my own path. regretful that it led to this. ❞

while i think her family gave her a strong sense of justice, and that irelia always had defiance in her, haru and tarhos would've been really important in consolidating how certain she is of the choices she makes and the path she chooses to follow — even if it eventually led her to stand against them.

— KILL

tarhos:  ❝ i'm sorry it came to this — i hope death will be more rest than prison for you, for as long as it lasts. ❞

as far as we know, the darkin can't be killed, though of course that doesn't apply in game. i also think irelia wouldn't know what exactly would happen to them beyond that. even though haru was originally responsible for their proximity, irelia would end up being fond of tarhos as well. so if she kills him, her wish would be that he can find some peace in death, even if death will be no permanent rest. 

haru:  ❝ i will light your lantern, haru — and pray your spirit will be at peace. i hope one day you will forgive me. ❞

lighting the lanterns for the deceased may not be a vastayan custom, but it's important to her because of what she's been taught, so of course she'd want to do it for the first person to really look after her after her family died. i couldn't find a better way to phrase it, but the idea, i think, would be both to convey the regret, respect and affection in wanting to honor his spirit and that his journey to the spirit realm would be peaceful. 

tarhos and haru:  ❝ the only consolation i have is wherever your spirits travel, you will never be without each other. ❞

i think that doesn't require much explanation. there'd still be regret and sorrow but. the idea they're together at least is nevertheless something to take solace in.

#» out of character — ⌜main sup irl.⌟ #» character study — ⌜both the tranquil sea and the tempest.⌟ #thanks for the ask anon.. it was fun to answer

[smw-on-kamino]

Btw that incorrect quote with hunter, omega and cross is NOT intended in any kind of shipping way!!

#just to be clear #thank you #pls dont tag it as cloneshipping or crosshunt or whatever #its supped so be fun #not like hunter knows cross is the little spoon because they spoon #or if they do then in a normal brotherly fashion okay??

[rcmclachlan]

what if i put my life in your hands? what if i took your life in mine?

#okay look there's a reason i've been obsessed with this scene for 21 slutty slutty years #imagine for a second you're yue #your master—whom you loved more than your own existence—decided his work was finished and didn't need you anymore #and he pushed you into the dark where you slept for centuries until a little girl woke you up by sheer dumb luck #you now are trapped in this horrible new era where everything is too loud and too fast and too bright #you're also trapped in a body that isn't yours jockeying for room with a completely separate soul that you don't know or particularly like #and you're draining your meager stores of magic to the dregs in order to keep the two of you alive #under the surface of tsukishiro yukito you're drowning—and the both of you are fading away entirely #and then this boy #pulls you to the surface of yourself #and says with his whole heart 'i won't let you disappear' #he smiles at you and teases you and then pours his not inconsiderable power into you #and you take and you take and you take and he never says stop #he never says only a little but no more #he holds you close and lets you sup on the very marrow of his magic until there's nothing left and he's simply an ordinary human #and for the first time in centuries—perhaps ever—you feel full #when you finally step away and ease his unconscious body onto the bed as gently as you can manage #you murmur that you ought to thank him #but it's such an inadequate way to convey your gratitude #how do you give thanks for what you've made him lose? #you put your life in his hands and he cradled it as if it were precious... and then he gave you his own in return #in the world before this one you would have been as good as wed #you thumb the swell of his cheek and allow yourself one last look at your would-be husband #and then turn around to face the threat behind the door #as it creaks open to reveal a little body wracked with sobs you think you would face anything that would dare come for him or his sister #not because it is your duty as the guardian of the cards #but because you love them #touya/yue #ccs #yue

[yanlei-a]

i think about this message every single day of my life

#thanks rey #» out of character — ⌜main sup irl.⌟ #straight for the throat (it's accurate 😭)

[sharpscion]

🧃

“Hi hi!” Ewan approached him cheerfully. “You must be tired after all that fighting. Here, have a drink!” He then handed the other man a juice box.

some quiet, and most of all some rest, had done this fighter all the better after his wipeout. The priests were swift, and while the workings of this tent were makeshift at best, he felt comfortable in his cot. they fixed him and covered him, and left him to his own devices while his body adjusted back to normal. ideally he would have won his battle, and made good on his promises to maria and pelleas… but that hadn’t been in the cards. sadly, one thing a stave couldn’t heal was a wounded pride… 

he assured himself that had the situation been different, had it been life and death, things would have been different. he had started to have fun, he’d even brought a bow, a far cry to his trusty sword. had that been a real battlefield, one that spelled the death of his allies with remorse… he’d have done different. scáthach was sure of that.

after some time of being in his own mind, a short student strolled up to him, juicebox in tow. now that he thought about this, this had been something of a tradition last year as well. wordlessly, he took the juicebox from the boy and gave it a deep sip. scáthach hated sweet drinks, he’d never really grown up with a luxury like this, after all… but still, it would be a shame to let the kindness of others go to waste. “thank you, lad. i’ll be refreshed in no time thanks to you.”

#— ❛❛ // SCATHACH ¦ now i don’t know if there’s anything else・ 「 IC ! 」 #— ❛❛ // SCATHACH ¦ i can look after myself・ 「 SUP・EWAN ! 」 #⌜ ANSWERED . ⌟ ✦ * · ˚ #( thank you queenie! ) #optimismxmagicism #toaboel2024

[noxianwilled]

feeling like a telenovela watcher waiting for the next chapter of the qidraven content

#thanks for the good food prism and reynard i love it #» out of character — ⌜main sup irl.⌟

[spirithunts]

how often does ahri actively use her magic to charm people ? how do you think it differs ( or is similar ) to evelynn's ability to charm people ?

» — ⌜ALWAYS ACCEPTING QUESTIONS ABOUT AHRI⌟ ,

— @windchaser

hi mars ily

so let's get to the questions in parts

how often does ahri actively use her magic to charm people ?

ahri can be very charming without using her magic — she learned certain mannerisms or the way you talk can get you far without needing magic. as a result, magic is her go-to only when that doesn't work; but that doesn't mean ahri holds back much from using her magical charm.

she'll use it whenever she is in danger (or someone else she cares about is!), as she does in a fair trade. if she's trapped or cornered in any way, it's her easiest way out and she has no qualms about using it. but it doesn't take something as extreme to lead her to charm someone, far from it. in perennial, she uses her charm to convince people it would be okay for her to bring a bodyguard to the inn should she hire one, after they tell her they don't want anyone dangerous there (:peepostare: at them telling ahri that but anyway). in the ruined king game, she uses it to convince the innkeeper to accept their money after he refuses it — but also to get yasuo a drink.

by which i mean to say: could this problem be solved some other way? probably. but it'd be inconvenient, so she chose the most convenient route and simply used her charm. same for perennial. but the added request for a drink for yasuo also suggests to me there's no moral dilemma involving the use of her charm at all, because she's not above asking for something trivial. which, to me, indicates she'd use her charm very liberally, whenever she wants or needs something and that's the easiest way to get it (even if other solutions might not be that complex!).

she has no qualms about using her magic like she does with consuming someone's spirit essence. i guess because she doesn't see it as harmful (she's not using it to hurt anyone unless they're trying to hurt her), even if it is coercing someone magically to do her bidding. because she thinks her requests are reasonable or it's self-defense, she doesn't see the harm in it. and as a result, i think she uses her charm fairly often. not all the time because most of the time she's able to charm people without magic, but if charisma isn't enough, she won't hesitate to use magic.

how do you think it differs ( or is similar ) to evelynn's ability to charm people ?

i believe their charms are alike in that, due to being magical in nature, everyone can be affected by it — romantic or sexual attraction is irrelevant to it. but while eve's charm seems more... focused on making people attracted to her (or at least it's more often used in that sense?), ahri's seems to be a more general influence. very... siren song, in a way, that isn't just about making people attracted to her, it's more about making people want to do her bidding, regardless of what she's asking for. but i could be wrong about eve's charm, i admittedly don't know much about it and how it works, if we have this information at all.

but yeah i think ahri's charm is not necessarily tied to making people attracted to her, it's about compelling people to do what she wants because they're left in this trance

in both excerpts, the description of the charmed people isn't in any way that they're in awe of her or drawn to her in any way. they're motionless, almost stunned — the focus is their will is not their own, and they're pliable under her hands for her to get whatever she wants to ask for. so i figure it might differ from eve's in that. because while she can use it to make someone act as if attracted to her, i don't think her charm inherently makes that happen.

#» out of character — ⌜main sup irl.⌟ #» character study — ⌜as the seasons change so do i.⌟ #thanks for the ask i adore you mwah

[actualaster]

Was not expecting lab results on a Sunday, honestly.

Anyway I was correct in my guess as to what the numbers meant lol

Which means I get another supplement to take, joy. /sarcasm

#no big deal just mild anemia i just hate pills lol #and ive already got my prescription d2 sups i dont want another type to take bleh #(but my teeth will thank me the ice cravings have been unmanageable)

[simikae]

SLAMS LOTTE INTO A WALL. ALONE BREAK GHOST HATE

oc ask meme is here!

OH FUCK YESSSS THOSE ARE SOME GOOD ONES. OKAY LET’S COOK:

alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there's no one around to see them?

lotte was pretty much traveling alone from the time of [important backstory event that will be a tool for us later] until meeting the rest of the party—BUT SHE HAS NEVER HAD TO DEAL WITH LONELINESS. NEVER EVER EVER. NUH UH. and if she did ever have to deal with being lonely? well, she would simply say that it’s a conscious decision she’s making, and yes, she’s most definitely content with it, so there!

i don’t want to say lieselotte is humble when no one else is around because she really isn’t LOL. but i think she acts more reserved when she has nobody else to bounce off of.

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

literally anything that has to do with confronting the reason why she’s sorc-ing it up in the first place. on one hand: the end result will turn out positively, and she’ll come to terms with all the ups-and-downs of the life she’s lived. on the other hand: the initial breakdown will be crazy awful and she’ll be irritable and explosive for at least 30-50% of that arc’s duration.

thankfully, nobody has seen this lowest point yet, and hopefully they never will. (the dm looms over me like a specter) hey didyou guys see something

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

SEE ABOVE! lotte just tries to deal with it by continuing to move forward with her life i think. it’s not working out GREAT right now because she’s choosing to live in a way that keeps perpetuating that kind of aimless solitude. but well you know it’s fine.

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

as we’re all SO well aware of by now—lotte is judgemental about many, many things and she loves to say it. but a lot of what she complains about is nitpicky and surface-level and even she knows that deep down. much easier to be outwardly pompous about clothes and money because that doesn’t tell too deeply on what actually pisses her off

WHICH, to lead into answering that first question: anything that dares to take away her free will, or people who criticize or question why she acts the way she does. this is something that she despises a lot, but she refuses to show that hand—so it builds up as a lot of inward resentment until those emotions eventually tip over, because you can’t hide that kind of anger forever. see: the petrichor callout, the not having a discussion about possession with sami. #KEEPCOMPARTMENTALIZING

#lieselotte #anakeions #asks #THANK YOUUUU THESE WERE FUN TO CHIP AWAY AT DURING THE LULLS AT WORK #sup actually saw me typing away and yhought i was working on the essay i was talking abt at the beginning of shift and i was likeWell yousee

[gothdadgrrrl]

im about to rob you btw.. but im gremlin..

#my face #my post #sup #girls who smoke weed #anime nerd #im hawt #thank ya for the like ;* #whatcha want a knuckle sandwich or a knuckle sub #im fast #im furious #Vid D aint got nottin on this #send me asks #call me pretty #i need it #pls and ty #it takes a bit for me to actually talk to people on here so im sorry in advance if im awksss

[deathdxnces]

.

#» out of character — ⌜main sup irl.⌟ #if you sent birthday things i see you and i love you #i'll just reply tomorrow bc #🫠 #me rn #kjnsdkjnfkjn #but yeah ily thanks for the asks <3<3

[tracktraced]

anteaters are an animal that can be so beast.

#and i hear ya say ''very cool exhaust thank you'' #🚬 'sup? #🚬 slurpdogs.