#my lore dump of the month😌

[myokk]

✨🌚MY HEADCANONS ABOUT THE BLACK FAMILY🌝✨

Being this close to her mother, Eloise was struck by their physical similarities. As a young girl, it had been impossible to see, but now that she was a young woman they were striking. She felt as if she were looking in a mirror, but a twisted mirror: everything that was warm about her appearance was turned cold in her mother: hazel eyes to a frigid silver, unruly brown hair to straight black; her mother's skin was somehow even more pale than Eloise's, as if she were cut from marble. Everything soft about Eloise was made sharp in her mother, and Eloise wondered what had made her this way. She was terrified that in twenty years' time, the two of them would be indistinguishable. Had Elladora Black always been like this? Eloise couldn't imagine any time when her mother might have smiled, or even huffed in quiet laughter. No moments where she had been caught staring at her husband with love and warmth in her eyes. Eloise had only ever known her as an ambitious woman who was always striving towards some goal, even if it was known only to her. Someone couldn't spend their whole life like that, could they?

or: how I imagine Elladora Black's life and how she became the evil, complicated woman that I love so much​🥺​ ft Phineas Nigellus Black, Sirius, Apollonia, pureblood society headcanons I just make up, tragic romance, complicated female characters and SO MUCH MORE🫶

this post is dedicated to the sweet amazing @elliecutte my favorite Elladora lover/sweetest person EVER & the only person I dedicate posts to🤭

This might be kind of disjointed, because I don't have names or anything for the people in her life really. It's just what is kind of in the back of my mind as I write Elladora, but very much going off of vibes more than anything.

What's canon about her is that she's the third child in her family (Sirius and Phineas are her older brothers), and has a younger sister, Iola. (Idk who exactly Apollonia is in relation to their family…maybe a great aunt?) (Iola was burned off the family tree for running away with a muggle, which was always a source of deep shame for the family)

Sirius dies when Elladora is three (he was eight years old). He was the oldest son, and in these types of families, the oldest son inherits EVERYTHING - the land, the house, the heirlooms…basically the whole estate. Subsequent sons would go into some sort of profession (church, army, law etc - my wizarding headcanon is a high position in the Ministry or the Wizengamot or something) and might inherit a smaller estate that's in the family if they're lucky. My guess is that Sirius was prepared from a young age to be the heir, and his death was a freak accident. Maybe he drowned when the family was vacationing by the sea, maybe he caught Dragonpox…

BUT his death was the factor that really drove their mother over the edge and started her own personal journey into the Black Family Madness (because, as we know, there's ALWAYS an inciting incident for the poor cursed women of this family and they will ALWAYS get it) (yes it's a curse, which will be explained LATER​​🤭​). She had been SO proud of giving birth to four healthy, beautiful children, and Sirius was her favorite so it was devastating to lose him. After his death, she grew quite distant from her other children, believing that they were also all going to die and abandon her and she couldn't bear the thought of getting close to and losing another.

Phineas grew insolent and hated the fact that he was going to be the heir - I think his temperament is better suited towards not having the pressure of carrying on the family legacy, anyways. Sirius’s death really affected him as they were quite close (similar to Eloise and Leo’s relationship BEFORE she was banished). His grief manifested in general apathy.

Elladora, on the other hand, CRAVED her mother’s attention and tried doing everything she could to get it. Her magic manifested quite young, and it was apparent to everyone that she had the potential to be quite powerful. No matter how much she tried, however, her mother would just wake up and sit in a fugue state, ignoring everything until the day was over and she would rise and go to bed.

Elladora was raised in the typical fashion of that time: private tutors in magical theory, dancing, how to navigate pureblood society, and learning how to manage a household of her own in the future. She disdained muggle culture and muggleborns, not realizing in her ignorance how much her own society was influenced by muggle customs, and thought of herself as above others in the wizarding world as well due to her family’s status. She always knew it that when she came of age, she would be married to Oberon Babbit and that was that.

The Babbits were an extremely prominent wizarding family; one of the oldest British wizarding families (most had some connections with France, Germany etc but not the Babbits), and known for being quite reclusive and wealthy. Oberon’s mother died in childbirth, and he was quite sought-after due to the fact he would inherit EVERYTHING. The Blacks considered themselves fortunate for being able to secure that connection through Elladora.

When Elladora got to Hogwarts, she was STILL determined to do everything right. She excelled in all of her classes and thought of herself as unstoppable. In the back of her mind, she knew that her duty would be getting married and starting a family after graduation, but she couldn't help but hope for more - probably due to how well she took to her studies; Transfiguration in particular was a favorite subject. She was hot-headed and fiery and opinionated, never letting anyone tell her what to do, and never had a problem telling people when they were wrong. I want to think she was pretty popular amongst the students - not only because she was always impeccably put-together and wearing the highest-quality robes that money could buy, but because there was just something irresistible about her. She drew people to her; she knew how to navigate all of the subtle interactions between the various students and she always came out on top.

Oberon was a few years older than Elladora, but she didn't interact with him much. Maybe it was a bit of self-denial: he didn't seem so interested in her, and she wanted to live a few more years freely before beginning the rest of her dutiful life. She was very carefree - maybe a bit too carefree - and before she knew it, she found herself head-over-heels in love with a Gryffindor (he has no name bc it's not important). Or - and this is what she tells herself in the future - she thought it was love, but it wasn't😤​

He was everything Oberon wasn't, and that's what attracted her in the first place. He wasn't scared to disagree with her, to rile her up, was loud and outgoing and present to his life like nobody else she knew, and he saw her - not just the façade that she put on for everyone else. Even though Elladora knew it was doomed from the start, that it could never last, she couldn't help her feelings and her seventh year at Hogwarts was a whirlwind of emotions. She lived in the moment as only a young girl can do, enjoying those halcyon days...and yet at moments was paralyzed by panic, knowing that it would all be over soon. She soon found herself not even enjoying any time spent with him in secret, living in her present moments as if they were already memories to jealously guard close to her heart for the rest of her life. She had no one to confide in but him - all of the girls she surrounded herself with were just waiting to pounce at the first sign of weakness she showed - and yet to tell him everything was too painful.

So she ended things abruptly, no explanations. Cutting him out completely was the only option she could bear.

(Elladora never did find out that he had saved up a summer's wages, plus his inheritance money, to buy a delicate engagement ring and two tickets to America)

Her first years after graduation were spent in a flurry of balls and courting Oberon and gossip and weekly appearances in the society section of the Daily Prophet. To all outward appearances, she was having a wonderful time, but she felt hollow inside. Before she knew it, that time was over and she was getting married and then she was pregnant with her first child at only twenty-one and she was alone and then she was giving birth alone and then she was holding her tiny son in her arms and crying for some inexplicable reason.

Oberon hadn't come to even see their new son, Leonard - Elladora chose the name and it had meaning only to herself (and one other person, who saw the news a year later, in New York).

Her life was a series of disappointments.

She never could get any indication from her mother that she existed, she never made any true friends, and the only happy moments in her life were relegated to memories she could never bear to take out and examine ever again. Oberon was [redacted] and if she wasn't so strict with anything she would lose everything she had.

It's quite obvious that she and Eloise were doomed to always be at odds - just another disappointment to add to the list. Of course she would give birth to a useless squib daughter and this - along with everything else - spurred on the beginnings of her own version of the madness. Deep, simmering, volatile anger, a desire for everything to be absolutely perfect and to keep up appearances at any cost. Losing control of herself whenever she's lost control of anything, and deeply regretting the outbursts if she ever were to reflect on them, which she doesn't.

Elladora sees too much of herself in her daughter, especially after Eloise is brought back into the family, and that makes her hate Eloise more. (is it really hate though?) Seeing the same mistakes she made so long ago repeated is unbearable, and in her own way, she believes that she's helping Eloise with every decision she makes, such as Eloise’s rushed engagement to Augustus Malfoy.

But, Eloise will never be able to make herself as hardened as Elladora no matter how much she wishes for it and tries.

I love love love Elladora, she's one of my favorite characters to write, and her scenes with Eloise, and with the Headmaster (her brother), have been some of my favorites to write. There are just SO many layers that go into who she is & all of these little things behind-the-scenes that I think make for very interesting interactions.

I know that this is the Sebastian Sallow fandom & I could do a whole entire post just like this for him and how he grew up, for Solomon, even for Ominis (and I wrote a whole oneshot just for Imelda's history🤭​), but Eloise and her mother have become my favorite women to think about and they are who occupy my mind the most🥺​ I am endlessly grateful that people even like my girl so much & that there is one girl who is as crazy about Elladora as I am🥹​🫶​

And, if any of this is interesting to you, my fic is full of these things. SUPER canon-divergent, it’s been described as a mix of Hereditary and Midsommar and just spooky gothic angst vibes, exploring complicated family dynamics (I’ve ALSO been told I wrote the most realistic description of Sebastian’s relationship with Solomon), Arthurian mythology, LOTS of blood rituals and dark magic and sacrifice and who-even-knows-what and romance🫶🫶🫶

Before It Felt Like A Sin (115775 words) by myok

[junk-whunk-punk]

Get to know rowdy game?

blog dad got tagged by @dalliansss to do a Get-to-know-you game post rah U ASKED FOR THAT👹

– Who was your first fictional crush?

fuxking Boromir dude💐 imagine 14yo me doing edit videos with him... ama huge Sean Bean fan STILL btw✌

– What’s the first colour you think of when I tell you to think of a colour?

why tf cyan blue!!¿

– Which fanfiction emotionally scarred you and still makes you shudder to this day?

... fakk. russian fic "Замыкая цепь"/"Closing the circuit" by InFlama on Ficbook... about dark silvergifring with dark!Tyelpë and light!Mairon and I SWEAR it's the worst and the best thing i have ever read. it's smth that u like but would never read again it'll make u cry the pool. most fuxking traumatic thing to know

– I’m coming to your house for dinner, non-negotiable, what are you making me?

i'd better ask u dear buuuuut baked potatoes NECESSARY + veggies + smth like steak idk i'd feed yo properly🫵 people need to know that natural food can also be yummeyyyy

– Do you prefer lions or kangaroos?

hell i'd fight for kangaroos (not me showboating with "Thick thighs save lives") but okai i'm more into lion lore☝

– Which fictional villain do you brush past the glaringly obvious issues for because you really like them?

SAURON!!! SAURON!!!!! saUROn!!!!!!!!!!!! SAAAAAAAAurOn!!!!!!!! AMA HUGEST SAURON GIRLIE!!!!!!!!!!

– What would accompany your picture in the Burn Book in Mean Girls?

"y'all are dump asf and i'm the only one who's a true gobdaw here" ©me

– How many days would you last in the universe of your favourite fandom?

pshht in Silm it depends on WHERE EXACTLY u'd appear🤭 well time to show my hiking skills, i bet at least month? until some beast feeds its cubs with my bod

– Have you heard of Mischief Theatre?

wo

– Do you feel sorry for Medusa?

like gorgon? poor POOR lil fella suffering from her own power i swear😔

– Which song makes you think of your OTP?

WOOOOO MUSICCCCC

"Got You" by Amyl and the Sniffers – for punk AU silvergifting!!

"Forevermore" by Lord of the Lost – for classical happy evil silvergifting dads

"You spin me round" cover by Moonic Productions (it's called "If Rammstein wrote You Spin Me Round" on yt if u wanna listen) – for punk Angbang🤭

– Which song makes you disassociate and daydream the fastest?

currently "Baggy trousers" by Madness i guess??

Eeeeee go rowdy babygirls!!!!!! If u wanna!!!!!! @a-world-of-whimsy-5 @mostvaliantandmostpround @quinthelurker @cilil @melkors-defense-attorney @trashipsinc @kay1mi @gerardspuppy @curufiin and hell dudes anyone😌

[zumazozuma]

Because no one asked, I'm gonna dump my headcanons of Lan Fan on yall!!!!!!!!! 💥

To play her character on my RP server, I had to fill in the holes of her backstory and shoves themes to explore her in a story, and honestly I think it just makes sense 😌

♦ "Coming from a family of retainers to the Yao Family that's been in service for generations" is all we had to work with. Based on the fact we have an old man and a teenager, I assume they are the last of their bloodline due to Reasons™ (I can info dump lore I created for this whole family business in another post if anyone wants to know) This leaves her "alone" post-canon, and makes the stakes to protect Ling no matter what even higher!

♦ Falling. That's her big theme! It illustrates her character very well; both in the sacrifices she makes and the way she always stands back up! It's great to use for her psychological development in story as well, with learning to ask for help and rely on others!

♦ I invented a whole OC for the mechanic who installed her automail! I made his dynamic with Lan Fan kinda mirror Ed and Winry's, in the sense that Lan Fan is the one always attempting murder on him lol- ALSO!!!! Methinks Lan Fan deals with chronic pain too, yes yes. We all know how insane she is for getting that arm installed so soon after amputation AND rushing rehabilitation (6 months rather than three years… She's asking for it fr fr)

Yeah that's pretty much it. Share your thoughts if you have them!!!!

I created a whole secret home village to explore all of that lore, and it seems only one of my precious-members-I-love-to-bits is actually reading it, so if you wanna know what I came up with, do give me a reason to ramble about it and ask! ✨

The stuff I came up with may not all feel canon, but I like to think her themes and the fact she's only got Ling left make her character feel way more sympathetic. (We did about the same for Ling aaaaaaa they only got each other now!!!!) Hence why I thought I'd share teehee

[robertphilip]

does giselle ever come into the office to like, meet robert for lunch? or just to stop and chat with sam? maybe put more fish from the lobby aquarium in her mouth? (teehee)

oh,,, oh you have given me the opportunity to dump Robert's office lore onto the world,,, thank you for this

Okay so to start, yes, Giselle visits his office often, and all his coworkers love her, BUT, we gotta start from the beginning, it's important.

For a few months, Robert kept his relationship with Giselle a secret because 1) he didn't want anyone assuming she was simply his rebound and nothing more, and 2) things didn't exactly go... well during her first visit. Robert was worried his coworkers would be rude to Giselle, so he was kind of trying to, like, push back telling them in hopes they might forget (they don't, but it's fine)

With Sam, she wasn't crazy about Giselle at first. She definitely thought she was Robert's weird way of coping with Nancy dumping him (which, btw, Robert tells Sam their breakup was mutual, but she doesn't believe that. she thinks Nancy rejected his proposal, thus leaving him heartbroken, and desperate enough to jump in bed with the 'weirdo' that almost ate her fish,, ANYWAY). Sam's known Robert for years, and has a hard time believing he'd ever actually fall for someone like Giselle. And while it does take her awhile, she eventually warms up to the other woman, and actually gets to a point where she's looking at Robert like, "how'd you land a woman like that :///"

Then there's Mike, who is my OC, but he's based on someone in the scene ~

We only see him for a second, but I wanted there to be another coworker Robert could kinda be buddies with, so there he is 🫡

Before Robert told them about Giselle, he and Sam would gossip about why they think Robert is suddenly so happy, and they wondered if he might be On Something™️. But once he officially meets Giselle, he loves her right away, and always looks forward to the baked goods she brings everyone.

And then there's Carl, Robert's boss. He has two scenes in the script as opposed to only one, and in that second scene, he's upset with that couple getting back together, and he snaps at Robert about it. In the movie, he is (rightfully) frustrated with Robert, and says, "you're the one who begged me to put you on this case, and this is what I get?". Because of these scenes, I headcanon that Carl doesn't care for Robert, and really only kept him around because he knew his parents, and liked them. I also think most of the office is scared of him, and tries their best to stay on his good side. But Giselle, she enchants everyone she meets, baby, and that includes mean, grumpy bosses 😌

She had one conversation with Carl about his tie in the elevator, and for some reason, one he can't explain, he just... absolutely adored her. From that moment on, Carl became like, the nicest man ever, and Robert, Sam, and Mike were absolutely baffled. When Robert saw them coming out of the elevator laughing, he was like ????? Carl ?? Smiles?????????????? and Giselle, later, was like, "he's not scary at all, I think you're all just being silly" and he's like, "no !!! no, he was scary !!!!!!! you worked your magic on him, and now he's not !! but he was !!!!!!!!!!!!"

ANYWAY, okay, The Office™️ lore has been dumped. thank you. now onto the actual question, which is, yes ! Giselle does visit Robert's office often ! Sometimes she'll stop by with something she made for lunch, and several dozen cookies she baked for everyone in the office, and other times she'll pick up food on the way. Robert used to share an office space with a few other lawyers, but once Giselle enchanted Carl, he was suddenly gifted his own private office, with a lock, and Giselle really likes that 😏 (one day I'll finish my fic where she keeps kissing him, and getting lipstick all over his neck, and he's suffering, and whining about how, "we're in my office" and she just nods, and says, "I am aware, and there is a lock, so no one can interrupt us >:)")

and she always makes sure to chat with Sam, and Mike, and Carl if they're available. everyone Robert works with loves Giselle, and she loves them 💖 and they were thrilled when Giselle announced she was pregnant, omg, they couldn't wait to meet little Sofia.

[anamelessfool]

i’m so in love with scenes from the void!! it’s genuinely such a fresh and interesting take on ghost’s concept and i really love all the little world building changes you’ve made to the characters we already know from canon! i have a question though - marian is from pittsburgh (i think), david is southern, terzo is still italian…where’s copia from? in my head i’ve been giving him a boston accent because i’m originally from eastern mass LOL

ANONNNNNNNN YOU WON THE GAME (Maybe Marian will call somebody a jagoff at some point)

Also thank you oh my god 😭😭😭

The American Ministry was a satellite location founded in 1635, six months before Harvard, making it technically the oldest organization of higher learning in US History.

1917, the seat of the Church, which was located in Italy for almost 500 years, moved to this location. (Guess what made them move...) There are certain people who would like it back. And are waiting for certain people to die, maybe. It expanded dramatically thanks to all those lovely gangsters needing some kindly place to donate their hard earned money😌 this may or not be from where Secundo's mother comes from but maybe one day I will just info dump her bio on here

I would travel up to the Berkshires Wilderness area near North Adams, MA often and going through the hills I was like, you could definitely hide some place spooky in here. So the Ministry is here, in Western Mass.

The Ministry Compound itself to me looks like the Cloisters Museum in NYC, except there is an obscene fountain.

Secundo moved his family to Worcester, Mass. He needs to live about two hours away, for plot purposes. And I was writing about his house and asking myself, "why can I imagine this house so clearly?" And I remembered it was some friend from elementary school's house I'd visit often. I hadn't thought about the place in 25 years.

I know a lot of people don't do this much world building, and I don't share it explicitly. I think if I shared it explicitly in my writing it would take readers out of it. But I need to do it in my mind so locations stay consistent. It's fun to lore dump on Tumblr tho.

You can tell exactly where I am from based on the amount of diners I feature everywhere. They're just the best location to look weird and no one cares, ok? I can take an entire mini van of ghouls there and nobody would bat an eye. And you can get pancakes any time you want.

All the questions will be answered in time..... Thanks for letting me throw lore at you, Anon, much 💕

[saevus-brutalis]

— WIP WEDNESDAY (and updates in general)

tagged by; @onlymeandlife thxthx (i’m so bad at doing tags as of recent dhjesb)

posting this very late but oh well

i have too many unfinished old sketches than i’d like to admit 😔 but i’m gonna share a snippet of two three most recent projects i’m working on atm

edit; since making this draft i made some more sketches but they’re 😬 rOUGH to say the least so enjoy my favorite ones

tagging 😳; @noirapocalypto @katsigian @spicyraeman (not sure if y’all been tagged in this but if you have something cool to share you’re invited 😼 no pressure as always tho!)

— art

finally dusting off Vincent 😮‍💨

last time o drew him was in uhhh june??? (may?? ig coz i was tryna get that piece done for pride month but—)

yea it’s been a while :]] but he’s back; you may not have seen him as of recently but i’ve been working on him behind the scene (aka lore dumping on whoever would listen lol)

it’s mostly coz i didn’t know what to draw of him, didn’t have any inspiration, and his face turns out good once in a blue moon but let’s not talk about that dhdhdh

but earlier this month i had a ✨ vision ✨ of him in a suit and we’re here now 😮‍💨

once in a while i like putting my man in fancy/designer clothes okay 🤨

cheeky closeup of some details ✨😌

a huge project i’ve been working on since the beginning of december (or maybe since last week of november even); so i don’t wanna show too much before it’s finished 🤫

you could see a bit more in my 2023 art summary (mostly just Dion sitting there in all his glory) but there’s still a bit more. it’s a first proper illustration with a full background for me so the work is going slow

still need to fix a perspective on one thing, perhaps redraw Dion’s face, coz i’ve been experimenting with that; but the lineart is pretty much all done. all it needs is to pick a color scheme, block out colors and start shading (the worst part arguably)

very proud of this one and i’m excited to finish it and show the whole thing 🥺🥺

and last but not least some studies of my beloved tiefling child

trying different head and nose shapes for that guy but it also kinda turned into an expression study? kinda?