#the curator answers

[the-curators-bullshit]

How you feeling today ?

better if I could share why my breakup came about but alas

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

Curator, how old are you? I imagine you to be roughly thirty two, but I’m probably mistaken.

incredibly mistaken but I shall not confirm which way. how old can one assume I am?

[ex0rin]

if you’re going to post nsfw then you need to make your blog 18+, stop using the main tags, and properly use the nsfw tags.

first of all, I don't need to do anything, so jot that down

separately, my tumblr DOES have a cute little 18+ in the bio and a paragraph that explains that it's often nsfw so, you know...

generally though, we're BIG BIG BIG fans of curating your own experience over here and you're soooooo welcome to block me, in fact, please do

I promise I will get worse

[regular-gnome]

Now you've got me curious gnome. What WAS the relationship between the archivists when they were younger like?

(Also I LOVE your work and look up to you ALOT. Have a nice day/night!)

Their relationships have changed since childhood, running through extremes and attitudes but ultimately focusing on a common goal and set of routines. Adding to it, there isn't exactly anyone else older who could be there for them in the long run, so for better or worse all issues are build on or/and resolved between them. In the end.. it's not like they have anywhere else to go, and they don't exactly want to be alone in the void. They stick together, even if some are gone for periods of time

(But I'm glad you enjoy the things I draw! It always makes me happy to see you pop up in my notes and see your interpretation of the celestial critters:P have a cool daynight too!)

About the colors of the cloaks when they were kids, in some previous comics they shared the same teal cyan hue as an indication of being part of the group. Buuut, they already have affiliation indicated by the shadow face ornament.. and keeping the same colours made it difficult to distinguish them. Soo, this is one instance where I need to backtrack a design choice. Not counting in the more casual clothes besides robes that apear in comics too

[hopetorun]

in honor of valentine's day i would love to have everyone tell me what your love song of all time is. mine is can't help falling in love except that sometimes it's i just called to say i love you. thank you in advance for your participation

[tartppola]

mx tartppola do you read twst fanfics,, and if so do you have any good ace fic recs,,

omg... it shames me to say this but... not as much... bcs these days all i read r google translated fics of crowley & the yuulis fics i commission from my mutuals 😭😭😭 IM SORRY GHGHHGG i will!! also i mostly stick to x reader... rarely do i go for canon/canon fics for twst... but !! i'll still give recomendations! of fics i rlly like ( it's all one shots 😭 )

oomf nepotism + writers i think r rlly cool!

@traumxrei-archive

@stormgardenscurse

@spadecentral

@ceruleancattail

@fluffle-writes

tumblr fics i rlly like ( mixed so some headcanons, some oneshots, all x reader )

otome isekai au villainess reader ( ft ♠️ )

encouragement from beyond ( ft ♠️ 🐺 🍎 🐊 )

blanket hog ( ft ♠️)

rainy day ( ft ♠️)

ace doing your makeup

ace and deuce having the same crush ( ft ♠️ )

firsties slipping to a sleepover that fem reader is in ( ft ♠️ 🐺 🍎 🐊 )

pomefiore!ace

basketball club w s/o who eeps on their chest ( ft 🦈 🐍 )

and there was ONE bed 😳

undisclosed passion

ace patching you up

adeuce walking with you ( ft ♠️ )

heartslabyul jealousy headcanons ( ft 🌹 ♠️ ♦️ ♣️ )

angel ace

adeuyuu hcs ( ft ♠️ )

cuddling with ace

kissing adeuce when they ask ur lipbalm flavor ( ft ♠️ )

how adeuce fantasize abt their crush ( ft ♠️ )

adeuce bday kisses ( ft ♠️ )

adeuce fighting to confess first ( ft ♠️ )

things you do that make adeuce fall harder ( ft ♠️ )

model ace

aceyuu ramble

another aceyuu ramble

lovestruck ace

ring in orange proposal

adeuce period comfort hcs ( ft ♠️ )

ace jealous of others falling for you

hot things ace does

housewarden ace

streamer ace getting a gf

you're what's missing in my life ( ft 🦈 🐍 )

when you know you know

love beyond words ( ft 🐺 🐙 )

shenanigans ( ft ♠️ 😼 )

sweet sleep ( ft ♠️ )

ace with knight reader

traitor ace ( cw yandere )

good luck kiss before match ( ft ♠️ )

tropes to lovers ( ft all nrc boys )

best friend ace

"someone" decides to ask you for your opinion about "their friend" and you decide to tease them. ( ft ♠️ ⚔️ )

cupid is so dumb

soft mornings

devotion of a contrarian

airheaded s/o ( ft 🌹 ♠️ )

another beautiful day ( ft ♠️ 🐺 🍎 🐊 )

"what outfit should i wear for the date?"

oooo you wanna kiss me so bad ( ft ♠️ 🐺 🍎 🐊 )

it's definitely, absolutely, not love

you wish to kiss me? ( ft 🌹 ♠️ ♦️ ♣️, genderbend )

red and blue ( ft ♠️ ) ( cw yandere )

falling too deep too fast ( ft ♦️ 👑 🐊 🐍 ) ( cw yandere?? )

the joker and the queen ( ft ♠️ )

behind the teacher's back

heart-shaped kisses

tell it to my heart

"i'm losing my appetite" ( cw hurt/comfort )

nightfall ace

ace + sun

movie night

haunted house date with ace

you doing ace's makeup

amuse me ( ft ♠️ 🐺 🍎 🐊 )

what made your friends think you're dating him ( ft 🦁 )

high school romance with ace

how he says i love you

he's absolutely smitten with you ( ft 🍩 )

poly with adeuce ( ft ♠️ )

fooling no one

heartshackle relationship analysis ( ft ♠️ 😼 )

stay by my side ( ft ♠️ ) ( cw yandere )

christmas with poly adeuce ( ft ♠️ )

cuddle pile! ( ft ♠️ 🐺 🍎 🐊 )

^sequel to the cuddle pile ( ft ♠️ 🐺 🍎 )

stars by the pocketful ( ft 🌹 ♠️ ♦️ ♣️ )

poly adeuce with affectionate s/o ( ft ♠️ )

waking ace up in the morning

adeuce yan teamup ( ft ♠️ ) ( cw yandere )

sending your crush a survey form ( ft ♠️ 🐺 🍎 🐊 )

can i go where you go? ( ft ♠️ 🐺 🍎 )

come close, i won't bite

unrealized feelings

foxboy ace

your speckled face

reader confesses and immediately runs away embarrassed ( ft ♦️ 🦈 ☀️ )

competition ( ft ♠️ )

come inside of my heart!

longform fics/series

a reverie until recently ( i commed this! poly oysterjuice post nrc au i put it here bcs it's my list!!!!! u dont have to read it )

hearts held out of harm's way ( same author! reccing the tumblr version instead bcs cool logo :D poly adeuyuu )

three people, who share one soul ( fic series, will they won't day adeuyuu )

how to get the boy : a guide by yuu & ace ( first adeuyuu fic i downloaded on my phone aside from my comms and nath's sebek one shots!!! i love it sm even after all this time GRAHHHHH i liked it even during my malleus phase bcs it was so cute! )

[apoptoses]

I’ve been thinking about vampires and cultural norms, and how culture shapes people and their expectations. And it got me thinking about the scene in queen of the damned when Daniel struggles with the burial of his first corpse -

And I've seen divided opinions on whether Armand is being an unkind maker here, or if this was the first warning that maybe Daniel wasn't cut out to handle vampirism well and that his madness was inevitable.

But I've never seen the facts concerning the treatment of the dead throughout history, and that Daniel, up until this point had probably never really seen a corpse.

For every other vampire we'd met in the VC up until this chapter, corpses were part of daily life. And not just in the fact that coming across a body in a medieval city or in a filthy backstreet of 18th century Paris was entirely possible, if not downright unavoidable in times of plague or during the Terror. But also because people of all cultures used to care for and sit with our own dead.

For centuries the loss of a loved one meant the family washing their body, laying it out in the home for relatives and friends to come visit. Death was a fact of life, caring for the corpse was part of the grieving process. Louis would have experienced it with his brother Paul, had the house not fallen into chaos Louis might have pushed Lestat to do the same with his father. Had mortal Armand lost a sibling, or a grandparent, he would have seen their body before burial.

And though embalming has existed for ages, it didn't involve the modern heavy wax makeup applied to the body to help it maintain the semblance of life. It was more about preventing decay during the wake period than distancing viewers from the fact that they're seeing a corpse. In fact when one 18th century mortician made a body look too life-like with his new techniques and displayed it to advertise his practice he received a great deal of criticism.

Plus we've all seen the photos of the victorians with their dead- to have the whole family pose with a body for one last photo was the norm, not the exception. There was nothing disgusting or morbid about it.

At the turn of the 20th century a couple things happened to change all of this in the United States specifically: one was the sudden leap in advances in medicine and germ theory, the other was WWI and WWII.

There was a great book that I read (and that I wish I could remember the name of, if this sounds familiar to anyone please tell me) which went into detail about how the mass casualties of the world wars combined with the new and previously unimaginable injuries wrought to the bodies by new weapons and bombs caused such great psychological trauma that death practices in the US were forever changed.

People no longer wanted to wash, display, and sit with their dead. And changing standards for hygiene and the medicalization of the body meant that the dying no longer remained in the home, that the body was swept up and taken from deathbed to morgue to funeral parlor at much greater speeds than in the past.

So by Daniel's time the American 'wake' had gone from a multi-day at home affair to something carried out in a funeral parlor, with a body embalmed and covered in wax makeup to the point it looks less like a corpse than a wax figure, and where viewers step up to the casket, have a quick glance, and then leave.

And outside of unusual and traumatic circumstances, people just no longer saw bodies. If he had a grandparent pass in the home the body could be collected by the coroner in a matter of a handful of hours. If they passed in a hospital then in all likelihood Daniel would have never seen the body at all up until the moment it was dressed up and put in makeup for the viewing.

(If they had a viewing, and not simply skipped the whole process and went straight to closed casket funeral and cremation)

And this doesn't even begin to go into what happens to the body after death that people of the past would have been aware of, but which is no longer common knowledge now, like the way the bowels go slack and empty themselves. And god knows what a body fully drained of its blood would look like.

So for Daniel to experience shock at handling the body of his first kill is hardly a surprise, given the cultural context he grew up in, or that he seemed to have avoided burying the remains later as we know it had to be impressed upon him to be careful with covering up his kills. And for Armand to assume seeing and handling a dead body should be a normal event that one could handle with some detachment isn't a surprise either- even as a mortal he would have had contact with the dead.

(Plus you add what's going on with Akasha and the burnings and you have a really high pressure situation for everyone involved)

It's a cultural issue in some ways. And one I wish Anne had gotten into with modern, newly made vampires more: the ways we handle guilt, grief, and death are deeply connected to whether we treat death as a part of life or sanitize death and distance ourselves from it.

[twinroomies]

What would their favorite music genres be? I feel like Azzy would like K-pop, but he might also like the chaos of metal because of Kris. But Chara would probably be a pop and/or jazz fan. Or vice versa.

Oooh, good question! First off, I feel I should inform you every title I've given to the comics, whether new or retroactive, are song titles. :) For instance, Here is the News is Electric Light Orchestra! So, uh, keep an eye on that! But, THIS ASIDE... eventually there might be playlists I release for both of them, so for now I'll give a vibe statement and 3 songs for each as an encompassing feel. ---------------------------------------------------------------- I Asriel - Tony Hawk Pro Skater - Photo ID by Remi Wolf - I Ran (So Far Away) by Bowling for Soup - Safety Dance by Men Without Hats

---------------------------------------------------------------- I Chara - Portable Club Music (For a Film) - Galvanize by The Chemical Brothers - Hurt by Oliver Tree - Owner of a Lonely Heart by Yes!

Fortunately or unfortunately, Non-Anon, you have hit the hyperfixation button and stumbled violently into one of the major underlying themes of Twin Roomies! Great job / I'm (not) sorry!

[theonceandfuturequeenoftarts]

Shut the fuck up about Harry potter cunt

You must be new here, since Harry Potter is quite literally the reason I have this account?? Like, how did you find me otherwise? Also, no. Not gonna stop because some coward doesn't know how to use the block or mute buttons.

Though, now that you mention it... Harry Potter cunt is top-tier, maybe I should write a fic with that. Thanks for the inspo! <3

[the-curators-bullshit]

So I saw you asked for more rickrolls but I have a rickroll story I reckon was kinda fun.

So I was asked to play clarinet for an awards ceremony in when I was in middle school. Backing music while some kids got awards, no biggie, easy enough, I'd been playing for years already. So it's the night before the ceremony, and I completely forgot about it. And I didn't have any solo pieces. So I went through all the sheet music websites, memorised all the youtube tutorials, everything - cause I needed a good 10 minutes worth of music. I ended up printing off like Colours of the Wind from Pocahontas and some other stuff.

Anyway, come to the day, and I go on stage to play. And the chaos demon in me was like "nah, forget normal songs, play Never Gonna Give You Up" (because I had the sheet music for that next to my printed out normaller stuff).

So I listened to the chaotic thoughts, but I didn't want to get in trouble, so I just slowed it down, played a bit with it (I'd been playing jazz for years, so I was used to mucking around with melodies), and yeah, I just rickrolled all 500 kids (and parents and teachers) there.

So that was fun.

(I just remembered I had this video of it actually: https://youtu.be/nsCIeklgp1M?t=5 )

THAT IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF STORY I NEEDED TO HEAR RN OMG THANK YOU!!

and also that is ICONIC?! you are an icon, thank you for sharing!!!

also the VIDEO OMG!! having a visual just makes it even more iconic, thank you :)

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

Fuck Verizon

(the winking face was not intentional why the fuck is that the default if you don’t put a question tumblr?!??)

[tsukikonikushimi]

bro what is even WRONG with you?? why’d u dump like 10 pages of that silco trash lmao?? dude’s a washed up druglord who got murked by his own psycho daughter and ur out here actin like he’s some kinda legend?? not even a single caitvi panel?? be so fr 💀

Ah, another kind soul gracing my inbox today I see, how delightful! It’s always refreshing to see such courteous asks pop in after a little break. 😊

To answer your questions:

The Silco pages are part of the official Arcane Artbook, which I’ve been gradually sharing. And I've been sharing the pages by requests or eventually what catches my eye when I look through it.

I genuinely enjoy Arcane, its characters, lore, and the mixed opinions/discourse. Silco, love him or hate him, generates a lot of that.

Many fans don’t have access to this material due to cost or availability, and I like making that content more accessible to the wider community.

If you want pages that include specific pairings or characters, feel free to send a polite request in my inbox — otherwise, this kind of rudeness will get you nowhere.

Maybe I'm being a bit biased toward some characters — true, we all have our favorites — but I’ve yet to receive any requests for Caitlyn, Vi, or CaitVi in general. Vander, Silco, and Sevika have always had more, both in number and enthusiasm, people asking for them.

That said… if my posts bother you, you’re under no obligation to interact with them or me. The beauty of the internet is that you can scroll, mute, or block — no need to be unpleasant about it. 😌

Wishing you a calmer day ahead!

[m4rs-ex3]

made an aftg quiz

idk.... i think it's kinda cool.........

[canisalbus]

Which is your favorite platform? (of the ones you have accounts to post things I mean. I can't imagine it being Instagram since you don't really post there which honestly fair)

Tumblr, Twitter (X?) bluesky? Something else?

I think I'm going to have to go with tumblr, and it's not just because we're here. Twitter and Bluesky are nice and my experiences on both are overwhelmingly positive. But tumblr has an atmosphere that encourages originality, sharing your creations and talking about things in depth.

[dashboarddiaries]

Enjoyed the most recent episode, but I’m curious as to whether you’ll bring some of your reasonable insights about fandom behaviour and toxicity to your planned 911 episode. Because the fandom, especially the buddie majority, is exhibiting so many of the issues you mentioned. Horrible bullying of actors, check (the way people post at/about the actresses and actors who play love interests is disgusting, including death threats/threats of violence). Excessive RPF talk in public aimed at the actors involved, check (the Ryan/Oliver speculation is out of control). Entitlement towards the direction of the show meeting their specific wants, check (again, the threats against the writers are so disturbing). Being more miserable about the fandom than joyous, check. Ignoring what the show is actually saying (the constant reiterations in interviews that Eddie is straight and that Buddie isn’t planned), check. Conspiratorial mindset (about both Buddie and Bobby not being dead), check. Hope you do a realistic view of what’s been going on in 911 fandom!

this is super interesting insight! I (Lauren) consider myself as being in the 911 fandom and I personally had no idea this stuff was going on (except the alive!Bobby conspiracies, but that struck me as fairly standard main-character-death copium lol) so I will definitely do a deep dive on the larger fandom before we do our 911 episode.

it suuuuuuuuper bums me out to hear that people in the fandom both rpf-ing at actors and harassing actors and writers - that is simply never ever okay and, to me, completely against the spirit of fandom and also, just, you know, makes you a bad person tbqh. if a tv show is making you do these things, watching that tv show and engaging in the fandom is not healthy for you and you need to stop.

thanks for clueing me into this - I'll definitely be super curious to learn more.

[zvahlne]

i have a lot of thoughts about characters and Songs can i post abt that. does aphblr fw that. Because i literally think about this constantly. does aphblr fw me posting lyrics and and going 👉 this is about laurance zvahl.....

(like. because i so want to post about that but im unsure is that a thing people find interesting or is it like booo lyrics get off my feed)

edit/update: if you see this post i've started this now:) you can find it on my blog by searching #zvahlne lyrics if u are interested <3