#how about uhhh

[moonfurthetemmie]

Ah shit here we go again

This actually started in July of last year. Then it was mostly forgotten. Suddenly though I have like…story thoughts…

The original idea was that the JMV cast were like their namesakes; being mostly human but having very similar physical attributes.

Well. Now they’re animated statues. Except for Mercury, who’s an animated batch of Liquid Metal. And Dot, who’s more like a metal framework with peridot accents, because A. It’s apparently insanely hard to find, and B. It weathers *very* easily

This AU doesn’t have a name and the modern-ness of it is still up in the air, but there’s gods and obsidian is trying to become one. Everyone drops dead of shock (joke)

JMV but they’re all statues* made of their namesake

There are maaany many gods around, and all of them have temples. Almost all of those temples are guarded by animated statues. This is where everyone (except Mercury and Peridot) come from.

Mercury was actually an experiment.

Peridot was created specifically to deal with Obsidian.

But more on that later!

In terms of the team and their dynamics, everything is mostly normal. But Jade’s part of the team. Because Obsidian is almost literally a glass canon, and Jade’s whole entire job is to protect Obsidian. …Well. Technically it’s to protect the thingie they’d been guarding that Obsidian has stolen. But he was also supposed to make sure Obsidian didn’t get wrecked trying to defend the thing. But you get what I mean.

Jade doesn’t have it in him to fight, but jade (mineral) is very hard. He’s an excellent shield. Especially since he’s much bigger than normal Jade. In terms of being taller and wider. He’s a Big Fucking Guy. Obsidian is so tiny compared to him! So’s everyone else

Jet and Dark are around, too. But they’re human. They end up staying with the gang of living statues and totally not because they’re being kinda ��👈😳 about some of them

Jade and Obsidian were originally meant to guard the temple of a primordial god, and the powerful relic within that temple. And they did their job for decades. But their temple and their patron god were slowly forgotten about. Their patron became so weak that they couldn’t even talk to Jade and Obsidian, so the pair thought that even their god had abandoned them.

Eventually Obsidian decides he’s sick of this and steals the relic. He plans on replacing his patron, but not for any altruistic reasons. It’s a combo of “fuck you, you deserve to get replaced” and “phenomenal cosmic power I can use to rule the universe hehehe”

It’s actually not as hard as you’d think to become a god. The hardest part is convincing everyone that you are, in fact, a god. And just by doing that, Obsidian helps their patron fully fade away into nothing.

Origins

I haven’t decided what exactly Jade and Obsidian’s patron is the god of, but they commanded a balance much like positivity and negativity. The relic they guarded gave the wielded power over that balance. While their patron has been forgotten, that balance remains, so the relic’s power hasn’t lessened.

Jade was made first, and he was intended to be a sort of living shield, but he didn’t have it in him to really fight. So the temple priests commissioned a second guardian to be made, to be the more combative/offensive one. Obsidian was a really good guard for a while!

Obsidian is the first (and currently, only) known instance of an animated statue defying their directive entirely of their own free will.

Zuli’s body is much, much older, but Amber was animated first, so the question of which of them is younger is up for debate. Technically they aren’t brothers but there’s some brotherly stuff going on regardless. Their temple is of a very minor god, so Obsidian didn’t bother for a long time. Haven’t decided what their patron god was.

Koroit’s body was found holding a soul jar, and when her soul was settled in the opal statue she had no memory of anything before that. She should, though. Either she used to be a human, or she’d animated that statue before. There’s no other way she could’ve been in that jar otherwise. Obsidian was intrigued enough to test her abilities and take her in. She used to be the guardian of a temple almost as old as Jade and Obsidian’s, and her patron was a god of storms.

Zircon guarded the temple of the god of war. He, much like his patron, is an excellent fighter and commander, but is keenly aware of how horrific war is and tries to avoid killing anyone if he can help it. Obsidian razed his temple to the ground, and trapped his soul in a special bottle before dragging his now-lifeless body to the place he’d been hiding.

Paraiba guarded the temple of the god of the hearth. She’s much more powerful than Obsidian expected, and almost as stubborn as he is. She fought harder than the others, along with Ruby; a human guard she was friends with. Obsidian killed Ruby, which unfortunately for him pissed Paraiba the fuck off. He could’ve destroyed her easily, but he wanted to “hire” her, so he had to get crafty. As with Zircon, Obsidian trapped her soul in a bottle before carting her off

Silver guarded the temple of the god of introspection and death. Much like with the god of war, though, they’re not the kind of death god that actively wants to kill people. They just collect the souls of the living, and oversee funerals. Their temple is surrounded by a vast graveyard, and many come to the temple to mourn and pray for their loved ones’ safe journey to the afterlife. Silver is mute so they don’t disturb the mourners. They’re also disturbingly good at sneaking around. At first Obsidian just took them with him out of spite to the temple and its god, but the god of death’s metal guardian isn’t to be fucked with. So they ended up joining the team. Not of their own free will.

Jasper was technically a guard, but he did a lot less guarding than the others. His god was a harvest god and god of sanctuary, so mostly he made food for people seeking shelter and/or sanctuary. His temple was destroyed somewhat accidentally, by someone other than Obsidian. He displayed quite powerful abilities, and never told Obsidian where he came from, so Obsidian just, took him away. By the time Obsidian decided that Jasper wasn’t particularly useful for his purposes, he’d made himself useful by cleaning up the little hideout. While none of them can get sick, it looks a lot nicer when cleaned up, so Obsidian lets him continue.

Mercury was being transported places when Obsidian found him. He was quite intrigued! It turns out that Mercury was a sort of experiment, and was supposed to be a sort of stonemason to repair animated statues. He was liquid because they thought it might help him get around to get a better angle to do his job.

Still haven’t figured out what exactly Jet and Dark’s deal is tho

Statue Animation

Human souls can be used to animate a statue, but it’s much harder to catch them, so usually animated statues have their own unique souls that weren’t humans before this.

Most animated statues can’t fuck with other statues’ souls, but Obsidian and Jade can. That said, only humans can actually create new souls for statues. Jade and Obsidian can only transfer souls between vessels. Only statues and specifically-designed bottles, though.

All of them have a “dormant” state that’s entirely unrelated to being un-animated. It’s basically sleeping. They appear to be totally normal statues while they’re like this, though.

Bonus: A statue can be animated any number of times, and as long as there’s no soul present in it when it’s animated it will create a new one. Theoretically, any number of souls can be stored in a statue. An artificial system, if you will. That said, because these souls are just as real as human souls, an individual soul may become a system. A statue that is meant to have multiple souls could end up with several sub-systems.

Appearances

Jade: The most colorful and human-looking; his hair is carved from yellow jade, his body from a yellowish-white jade. His eyes are a mix of white and imperial jade. His ‘clothes’ are a mix of mostly black and green jade. Smooth, rounded edges; save for a few nicks here and there.

Obsidian: Due to the nature of obsidian (rock), Obsidian (character) is not polished and has a lot of very sharp edges. While this doesn’t bother most of the others in the manor, it’s not great for anyone else. His limbs, neck, and extremities are the most vulnerable and easily-broken parts of him. His fingers, toes, hair, and various extremes are also the sharpest parts. He glows from the inside when he uses his corrupt magic. His eyes are made of fire obsidian

Koroit: along with Jasper, the one with the least distinct features. Due to her iridescence, she can be very distracting on the battlefield, something that is both advantageous and really annoying to her. She hasn’t been able to have a proper fight in a long time because of this. Her lightning magic seems to make the opal in her body shine more. Reflectivity and stuff. Smooth, rounded edges.

Jasper: Like Koroit, has some of the least distinct features. Very pretty though. Since they’re all made of stone they don’t have to eat, which means he just mainly just cleans the house. His fire magic almost seems to make him glow; due to his certainty that he’s unlikely to seriously hurt anyone in the manor, he has practiced a bit more with his fire magic. Blocky-er edges, but still polished and not terribly sharp.

Zircon: Very sturdy, but not too hard to break. Due to the sheer size of him, he is slightly radioactive, but it mostly just affects him. He has yet to fuck around and find out, but he would change colors quite fast if exposed to higher levels of external radiation. He has already changed colors (mostly in his ‘clothes’) from Jasper accidentally hitting him with a fireball. His clothes are now a gradient of red, brown, and orange, because when Jasper realized he had not hurt Zircon he offered to at least make the discoloration more consistent. Zircon took him up on that. He thinks he looks cooler than his all-white look from before. His eyes are purple-pink zircons. Polished, but still with sharp edges.

Silver: Being of one solid, opaque color makes it much easier to see their features than with Koroit or Jasper. Aside from being made of silver, they look the most like their original iteration. It’s hard to tell if they’re a casting or more like the statue of liberty, (which is, to my understanding, copper plates over metal framework), but either way. They have a few dents that have yet to be buffed out from fights. As they’re made of metal and have no heart to stop, Koroit has used them as a conductor for her lightning a few times. It only bothers Silver on a moral “don’t make me kill more people than I’m already having to!” level. Their ‘hair’ is as smooth as their ‘skin’. Mainly smooth and round edges.

Paraiba: Not made exclusively of paraiba tourmaline, but the majority of her body is. Her clothes are a range of colors, some parts of which are partially magnetic. Silver has stuck fridge magnets to her a few times as a joke. Her hair is very rough-cut. Smoother and rounded than Zircon, but still has some edges.

Mercury: It is impossible for him under most conditions to hold a physical form. He wears glass boots (no one is sure how he got those) to keep from damaging the floor of the manor too much, and sleeps in a glass tub because he does not need his whole body to spread across the floor and possibly leak through the floorboards. Has the least distinct ‘clothes’, as his form frequently shifts with his movement. His head and face are the most distinct and least-changing part of his body. For some reason, he still has glasses—or at least, the frames of glasses. It’s made of mercury like the rest of his body. If you ask him why he has glasses he’ll sigh and say “I’m rolling my eyes at you. You can’t see it but I am.” and not actually answer. While he can’t have any real edges, the ‘sharpness’ of his form somewhat depends on his emotions. In a more relaxed or calm state, very rounded and smooth.

Zuli: Like Silver, he has some of the most distinct features due to being of one solid color. Obsidian has threatened to smash him to pieces and sell him to a jewelry or dye factory if he doesn’t behave. He generally sits in the basement and waits for someone (usually Jasper) to come down and say hi to him. Since he can’t get sick and doesn’t need to eat, and Obsidian can’t be nasty, he’s mostly okay. He doesn’t want to be down there and obsidian still really fucks with him if he comes up, but there’s less ways to hurt him here. Smooth and rounded.

Peridot: Unlike the others, shes not made of solid peridot. She’s more of a jeweled statue; a metal latticework with lots of peridot pieces. Due to how easily her peridots degrade she usually wears real, weather-resistant clothing when she goes out. Quite sparkly. The largest piece of peridot on her body is an accent piece on her chest, which is most often referred to (by herself and others close to her) as her ‘heart’. A mix of rounded and sharp edges; the most human-like.

[dannybobany]

So I’ve been thinking a little about that fnaf au I have that I would like to do as an original story instead and I came up with a few new details-

So initially I switched Afton to Adams but I think I’ve come up with something different for the family’s surname, keeping the symbolism the same but making for a much cleaner surname->company evolution, I think I’ll just call them the Eden’s? Except the correct pronunciation would be Edd-En not Ē-Den— despite this several characters would pronounce it as Ē-Den anyway, which I might use to indicate things like familiarity, does this person know the characters personally? Or have they only seen that name written and assumed it was pronounced the same as the biblical Eden?

I also like this because it SOUNDS much less like Afton- so there’s that

It just feels like a cleaner map to me- there’s also that thinking of the yet to be re-named Clara and the kind of person she is, she’d definitely intentionally mispronounce her own surname name to sound cooler, she’d have a pride in how important and interesting it sounds (and Cecil would fucking hate it)

The other idea I had was about “Micheal” who’s new name I think should be Cori (short for Coriander), who I’ve decided it would be neat to have be intersex with a male presentation (the reason this is neat is because instead of removing Elizabeth entirely I’m fusing her and Micheal into the same character, which becomes literal when you consider that one reason some people are intersex is from fusing with their twin in the womb! Thus Elizabeth and Micheal being re-written into the same character) <- I’d have to look into this a little more because if I do write this I’d like it to be accurate, but that’s hypothetically the idea I’m having here

Okay that’s about all for now, that’s your little update I guess

[devildomprince]

Solution to the Lucifer's bone noises thing: simply stop having bones. They can't crack if you don't have them (/j)

I think Lucifer may need bones in order to move properly!

[tio-trile]

Something something vampires have no reflection so he can't even try to see his brother's face anymore when he looks into the mirror

[egophiliac]

missed the mark by (looks at calendar) uhhh. hm. but I really wanted to do something for the 5th anniversary! happy five years to these idiots 🎉

[thewanderingmask]

the fundraising stream has been nothing short of Utterly Joyous. what a fantastic event!

im so happy i was introduced to hermitcraft

[lemongogo]

life of regret

[naturecalls111]

me n my vamp bf

[nomorekneecapprivileges]

bit embarrassing to post but.

i think i may be getting a little better at drawing. felt like posting it on the tumble for a little bit of praise maybe 😔

[pearsandrust]

mydei having a library is absolutely heartbreaking symbolism. it's a running gag that the kremnoan language doesn't have many words; there's no word for flee, no word for fear, even no word for love. i know the library was his family's, but still -- it is such a distinct symbol of how mydei wants to break kremnoan tradition. how he openly rejects the idea that violence is the only valid form of communication. how he always dismisses the baseless rumours surrounding his abilities, proving that he values truth over glory. we see mydei try to talk his people into reason. we see him apologize to tribbie for being rude. we even see him (begrudgingly) admit to phainon that he knows how to interpret poetry. time and time again, mydei chooses language -- and truth -- over violence. so when he invites phainon to visit his library in the next life, he's not just expressing hope -- he's asking phainon to remember him by what he really believes in. even if i become the avatar of strife, he's saying, even if you have to kill me one day -- in the next life, please see me as the person i've tried to become.

mydei knows the power of a name, perhaps because his language has so few of them. and that makes it doubly ironic that he personally has so many titles: son of gorgo. the patricidal crown prince. kingslayer. godslayer. the undying. but as krateros points out, the name he prefers is the one he uses with the chrysos heirs. and although mydei doesn't talk much, all his actions seem to say the same thing.

remember me as mydei, not mydeimos.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Your beats make me sick

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[zer0expektation]

guyyyyyssss,,,,,

[dilutedapplejuice]

Tw: none

List of my spins ^^

Warrior Cats (2012?-2016?)- I don’t know the time frame, but for a few middle school years this was all I’d read; during lunch, during class, on the bus, after school. I didn’t do any typical fandom things (making an oc or self-insert, talk to other people about it, etc) or reread any of them, and I don’t actually remember anything about the books now, but this was definitely my first SpIn because of how long I was reading the books every day.

Anime (2016?-2019)- After I discovered the wonders of animated shows, I binged anime for 6-12 hours/day. It was my only hobby. I watched all of naruto (including fillers) in ~4 months, and one piece in ~6. I also had some interest in cartoons like Steven Universe or OK KO. I never did fandom stuff here either, but it was still my autistic SpIn! This ended my freshman year of high school because I never had anyone share my interest and I was scared to talk about it with friend because it was “weird.”

Kingdom Hearts (2021)- After lots of masking my SpIns and varying my interests more, I finally found something I really loved again and allowed myself to indulge, Junior year. I never played the games, but watched all the cutscenes from every game within a week. I tried to get my boyfriend to watch them with me again but they weren’t interested. I was involved with the fandom- reading fanfic all the time (one was 300,000 words long, which I finished in a week) and browsing social media to hear about theories and general fandom stuff. I still didn’t share this SpIn with people outside of my (now ex) boyfriend.

Autism (Dec 2022-present?)- I had considered that I might have ADHD before seriously considering autism, and once I discovered a bit more about ASD I felt like everything’s clicked. I became so fixated on this initially that I couldn’t really focus on semester exams, and I actually burnt myself out from learning so much about late-realized autism on social media. I convinced my mom to book me an appt to get diagnosed and continued to intensely learn about autistic experiences. Some trials later, I got a diagnosis in June! I changed my major to psychology so that I could do autism diagnosis, and talked about my autism with a bunch of my close friends. Recently I have had issues with engagin in this SpIn. I’m having trouble integrating what I know about my autism and the mainstream online autism community with nuanced ideas relating to ABA and higher support needs autistic people. I’m not sure how this will pan out, but I’m trying to accept that it’s okay to move on from a spin, if that’s what I need.

General interests:

Reading fanfic, drawing, browsing my spins on social media, watching YouTube, Sonic the Hedgehog, baking, rollerblading, cats, psychological disorders, and more!

Remember, there is no one correct way to be autistic, and this applies to special interests (SpIns)! You can have one or two lifelong SpIns, a few that you cycle between, a running list of SpIns that you never go back to (like me), or none at all! You can have interests beside your SpIn and that doesn’t make you less autistic, and it’s okay to have one or more SpIns that are all you enjoy. SpIns can be an integral part to how you experience the world and relate to other people, be something you hide from others, be debilitating or harmful to you or others, have fluctuating levels of intensity, or any combination of what I have listed above. All of these experiences are valid and WORTH TALKING ABOUT! I love you, wherever you fall on this spectrum.

[teaboot]

Wait you had autism and still got along with the other kids and knew what was going on with them?? I was never able to do that! I still chose to do my own thing but would have been unable to answer those questions.

I mean I didn't really WANNA make friends for a super long time so it didn't really matter? And if anyone was outright mean I don't think I noticed till like 6th grade.

After 6th a few other kids liked to throw or kick things at my face or steal my art supplies or give me mean nicknames- I remember almost all the boys in my class one year started a thing where if I got within 4 feet of them they'd yell "[tea] GERMS!" and make a dramatic mad-dash escape, and that was kinda hurtful, but IDK how long that was a thing??

Anyhow I started asking them if they had a crush on me or if they were just stupid, and when they asked what I meant I'd just be like "well there's two reasons boys act stupid around girls. Either you have a crush on me, or you're just always this stupid"

And that invariably led to them yelling "I'm stupid, I'm stupid!" or telling me, "I'd rather say I'm stupid than say I like you!"

Which might have been hurtful if I wasn't growing into a mild superiority complex that assured me I was smarter than them, and nicer than them, and there was really no need to desire the approval of stupid, mean people.

(This was, of course, backed up by the fact that my father was one of those mean, stupid sorts of people, and I fully beleived if I could handle him, I could handle anyone my size, and so what if you dont like me? My own dad doesnt like me, am i supposed to value your opinion?)

Then by highschool I got hot, and if one of them started chatting me up I'd just be like "You wrote in my yearbook in 2002 that I was a huge loser. Why would I want to hang out with you"

And by THEN I'd met enough genuinely fun, interesting people who actually liked me that I was never around anyone who openly disliked me anyways.

Not until I started to realize I wasn't 100% a girl and cut my hair off- Then I started hearing other girls whispering to each other that I looked like a lesbian- gasp- which, again, was actually pretty funny, 'cause then I'd just tell them not to get their hopes up 'cause I wasn't available.

Then I graduated, and moved, and it turns out I'm actually kind of hot funny smart and successful, and whenever I fall into the deep deep pit of dumb ugly stupid imposter-syndrome, I remember that as mean as other kids were sometimes, their parents thought I was the best.

So anyways get fucked Gabe from ninth grade, your mom used to give me candy and bail me out of detention. I had the biggest fucking crush on your mom dude

[almondcroissantsandink]

watching gravity falls for the first time at the request of my little sister and i just watched a tale of two stans and CRIED

[egophiliac]

I loved your drawing(and I love your style in general) with Leia in your recent post! If/when you have time can we see more of her in your style? I get so happy whenever I actually see people mention/talk about her and she’s not just forgotten because we didn’t get to see much of her. 😭

thank you! 💙💙💙 Leia/Leah/Lea/whatever is fascinating to me. she is the ultimate unknown. what was she like? how involved (or even aware of any details of the invasion) was she? Silver's basically a physical carbon copy of his biodad, so what did he get from her? like, I understand why the two of them kind of have to stay as these super vague and mysterious figures -- the whole point of them is that their story ended 400+ years ago and they're not really relevant anymore (and. well. the more that gets explained about them, the less that can just kinda be handwaved as "oh the politics were Very Messy") (we can sit here and theorize all day but let us acknowledge that, ultimately, canon gave us almost nothing about them post-Meleanor and we'd just be making things up). I do still wonder about her though! RIP Lea, we never knew you and we probably never will.

actually you know what, as long as we're here, I think I WILL go ahead and just make some stuff up about what Silver might've inherited from her instead.