#Rest Time [OOC]

[the-au-collector]

So I fucking hate driving so here’s the Links as bad drivers:

Legend: The speed demon. Will ride up your ass, will weave around cars, will be going 15 over as a minimum. Vroom vroom motherfuckers

Warriors: The anxious driver. Taps the break for every little thing. Is probably going 5 under. The most anxious driver you’ve ever met. Look at his knuckles. They’re so white because he’s holding his steering wheel with a death grip.

Twilight: The ancient pickup truck. Dubiously-tethered stuff in the back of his truck, has to go slow lest he unveils the wrath of his cargo upon the person behind him. Is at least apologetic about his speed (internally). Also he drives the most loud, beat up pickup truck you’ve ever seen. It always sounds like a cow is dying. He named his truck Epona and he refuses to sell her.

Four: The angry one. Has horrible road rage but dialed up to eleven. Always pissed off at some other driver for something. Driving raises his blood pressure. So, so many f-bombs are dropped if he’s behind the wheel.

Wild: The lane changer. Will realize it’s his exit at the last minute and veer over 4 lanes. A hazard to everyone and himself.

Hyrule: The eternally confused driver. Always lost. Slows down to 10 under so he can figure out where he’s going. Liable to just stop moving if he can’t figure out where to go.

Wind: The reckless teenager. Just got his license. Somehow never gets pulled over despite always going at least 20 over and disobeying so, so many traffic laws. Has tried to outrun the cops once (it was Tetra’s idea). Never let Linebeck teach someone else how to drive.

Time: Blinkers are optional. Pisses off so many people by not using his blinker. Most of the time he just forgets to use it. (Also I headcanon he drives a minivan. This has nothing to do with his allergy of blinkers)

Sky: The doesn’t use cruise control. Doesn’t know how to use cruise control and is too embarrassed to have anyone teach him at this point, so he never quite goes a steady speed on the freeway. This isn’t as dangerous more than it is a nuisance to everyone, including Sky.

[bigidiotenergytm]

hey.

I see your palace covered in red Faces of men who had long believed you're dead I see your wife with a man who is haunting A man with a trail of bodies

hey so im physically ill that this STILL applies to ody in fmtd au, even after all these years

[the-magnusinstitute]

All staff,

In recent months there’s been an uptick in absences from work, and while we in the PR department appreciate that sometimes our Institute can be a difficult place to be employed, Elias Bouchard has asked us to lay out the following guidelines:

ACCEPTABLE EXCUSES FOR MISSING WORK

- illness (physical or otherwise)

- travel difficulty

- medical appointments

- family emergencies

- religious holidays

UNACCEPTABLE EXCUSES FOR MISSING WORK

- ‘a freaky friday type of situation’

- ‘gender crisis’

- ‘trapped in a spiral maze’

- ‘met my clone on the tube’

- ‘jon from the archives’

[ooctlt]

Where’s Dulcie been? I notice we haven’t seen her since I think Pro’s house.

dulcinea's fine. shes taking a break

[hearthtales]

hellooo i am so sorry for the sudden silence here! unfortunately i had some health problems come up and i had to be hospitalized for about a week. i’m doing better now, i’m just still taking things slow so i will still be quieter here, but i will write when i can! as always thank u so much for your patience <3

[skyheld]

vg being like 'this isn't the south we don't have circles' you can't fool me game i remember. the circles started in nevarra.

[ao-xingyume1987]

Bittersweetness (practice)

[altarfates]

i need to know if my other autistic mutuals have like ( 1 ) song that they play on repeat and anything else is almost unbearable please share it with me.

[devilsparda]

thought process while writing: dante walking on cobblestone would make really good asmr …. also pizza with dante | asmr big bites | crunchy sounds (doesn’t even like pizza/hasn’t ever talked about it much when writing dante) can u imagine dante doing the “worlds best cheese pull” and nothing comes out like yea that was great guys! 10/10 and then me getting hungry to go get a snack [guy who doesn’t like cheese] and by the time i get back i don’t remember what i was gonna write next. BTWWW i love watching food asmr videos when it’s ramadan, specifically in the last hour bc it’s kind of like self-flagellation if u really think about it (no it isn’t, it just helps me so i don’t “lose my hunger”) i actually forgot the point of this post bc i started typing the tags out half way thru… kind of like me oversharing but im distracting you with this post instead (wasn’t even the intention of the post). also i don’t like cheese but i’ve been fuckin w this pastry our local bakery but i havent had time to go bc the open/close while i’m at work AHHHHH okay time 2 go answer some messages now [gets distracted] [is tired] [is constantly working] [gets distracted] [is out with friends/family etc.] [gets distracted]

[junos-cacophony]

[see-arcane]

Wow, you guys already regressed to bitching about Castlevania. Btw, they produced Castlevania: Awakening in the Moonlight stage musical by Takarazuka Revue in Japan, it also has Dracula and Lisa in it. Castlevania lives on and thriving!

Considered just leaving this alone, but I'll take it as a chance for clarification.

Rant Below the Cut

I do not hate Castlevania, Netflix version or game version or stage musical version or any other iteration in-between. What few clips I've skimmed of the show online have suggested that it's something that the animators and writers put real heart in, plus a healthy dose of gay vampires to garnish with. I will repeat myself in saying that I quite enjoy the bloodstained Beauty and the Beast/villainy born of love route as a trope. To my knowledge, Castled Vania Dracula x Lisa is a great example of the latter. Great. Cool.

My issue with Castlevania is the issue I have with an infinity of films and books and games going back nearly 130 years. And that is the use of the characters' names from Dracula like they're costumes. Call it a nitpick or a pet peeve or just something that hits the big literary bitch button, but I Do Not Like that even when creators have ostensibly made a story that I could enjoy for its own merit, they feel compelled to graft the Dracula cast's faces over entirely unrelated, antithetical characters and motivations, and spoil the overall experience for me, the Dracula the Novel enjoyer.

I don't begrudge other people for being chill about it or enjoying the stories that have come as a result. I can't talk shit and be the DON'T ENJOY THIS!!1! police when I openly enjoy the gratuitous hot mess that is Hellsing. I am not immune to bondage suit anime men or Crispin Freeman voice acting or nazis getting eaten. I am not throwing those stones in my glass house.

But I am standing on top of the glass house and hurling boulders at the creators who, whether they make something fantastic or mediocre or genuinely teeth-grindingly awful, keep passing the baton of 'If we add Dracula names to this it adds more legitimacy! No, I have not read the book and I never will, but I don't need to because I read a footnote in a wiki once, I saw a movie, I read a spinoff of a spinoff.' Over and over and over.

That is what upsets me. That is my bitching point. Not whether you or anyone else Likes a Thing. You are not Netflix. You are not Konami. You are not Hirano or Moore or Coppola or Newman or Besson or Moffat or Browning. What you enjoy does not matter to me and never will.

Go enjoy your musical and let me regress in peace.

[byanyan]

want to... keep answering asks... but also reply to things on multi..... but also draw bc i have a new Idea....... but also play more dbd......... but also i'm still so fuckign tired that i might just sit here n do none of it while staring off into space for the next 8 hours.......

[threadpull]

when artists give tommy a black trenchcoat 🖤 they see my vision

anyways my tommy wears a black trenchcoat bc why would he wear tan with the rest of his fuckin costume????? ugly ass

[yeonban]

Gen.shin spoilers /

I finished the new Mond.stadt archon quest just now & above all else... I just feel so so so sad for Subj.ect Two's fate

[thanatologie]

@nekrotisch - What people make you happy when you see them on the dash? questions for the mun / accepting

the cop out answer is that if we're mutuals, it's because i enjoy your content and heavily curate my space on both my blogs.  so if it displeased me i have very little in the way of qualms about unfollowing if someone harshes my vibe in any way, because this is a fun, stress free space for me.

but if i have to give actual names, this is in no way all inclusive and is in no particular order, but here's some people y'all should follow if you're not.  fair warning:  not darpc specific.

@magcna / @anecdotist / @nekrotisch / @redhead-reporter / @fatalexmonstrum / @rookfang / @plusdedragonne / @pympartic / @mastcrmarksman / @magnetic-regent-magneto / @coldjustness

[f0rgetf0rgetting]

ignore the grammar mistake i barely took notice of it i will kms

anywho, showing you guys actual progress on how this thing is turning out. im still debating whether to give kumajiro or canada sprites. im still not done with most of the background illustrations for the first day (chapter??) but i will try my best not to let this go unfinished