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this is such a cute picrew!

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Forgot all about this adorable picrew I meant to tag the entire world in like two weeks ago.

No presh tags: @blessdunrest @peascrabbles @thechaoticarchivist-main @buggsonfire @alfredosaws @leighsartworks216 @lorelei-larai @poisonf0rest and anyone else who’d like to participate.

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Hey tumblr Zutarians! Go watch this video! It features a lot of Zutara art from tumblr (with proper credit) and discusses the nature of the Zutara ship from a neutral perspective. He goes into some of his favorite Zutara fan art pieces in a segment at the end (much of them coming from here on tumblr).

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PSA to Regency fic writers: please try to get the titles right. Especially the ones for canon characters.

Sir William Lucas should be called “Sir William,” not “Sir Lucas.” His wife is “Lady Lucas.” “Sir” always goes with the first name and never the last name. This goes for both knights and baronets. (Also, baronets are not considered nobility but gentry.) The wife of a “Sir Firstname” is “Lady Lastname” because her title comes from her husband.

Lord and Lady titles:

Firstname Lastname, the Earl of Fancyplace, would be referred to as Lord Fancyplace. He might be referred to informally as just Fancyplace.

Lord Fancyplace’s wife would be Firstname Lastname, the Countess of Fancyplace, called Lady Fancyplace.

The children of Lord and Lady Fancyplace would have what are called “courtesy titles.” The heir to the peerage (the eldest son) usually has a courtesy title one rank below his father’s title. So Lord Fancyplace’s heir might be Firstname Lastname, Viscount Otherplace, called Lord Otherplace (with his wife Lady Otherplace.)

Younger sons would be “The Honorable Firstname Lastname” for formal address.

Daughters would be “Lady Firstname” and would stay Lady Firstname even after marriage unless their husband has a higher ranking title to take precedence. Title comes from the father- Lady Firstname. Title comes from the husband- Lady Lastname.

So in Pride and Prejudice, the former Earl had (at least) three children. His son became the current Earl. His daughters (Lady Anne Fitzwilliam and Lady Catherine Fitzwilliam) became Lady Anne Darcy and Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Since Sir Lewis de Bourgh was not of a higher rank, Catherine stayed Lady Catherine, instead of being Lady de Bourgh. Colonel Fitzwilliam, being a second son, is technically “The Honorable Colonel Firstname Fitzwilliam” (I think-I’d need to look up the title order) but that would mainly be used in correspondence or if he was being like formally announced.

(Colonel Fitzwilliam also has no canonical first name. “Richard” is popular fanon but it is indeed fanon.)

But PLEASE stop with the “Sir Lucas” and “Sir Elliot”s, it makes me twitch every time I see it.

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people writing gay lads works out of spite for this godawful fandom: thank you from the bottom of my heart

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No real or fictional man has activated my lust like Sylus does. Idk what they put in that man but GODS

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I wish he could hold me like that

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Sleepy Sylus

Sleepy Sylus who is clingy and cannot help but seek you out

Sleepy Sylus who cannot sleep bc he haven’t heard you nor seen you for days

Sleepy Sylus who instinctively and wholeheartedly reaches out to you to lull him to sleep

Sleepy Sylus who blurts out "you’re so cute" bc he cannot help but be smitten by you

Sleepy Sylus who wraps himself around you every chance he has and doesn’t let go. He just wants to be close to you and feel you next to him "get off, Sylus" "no"

Sleepy Sylus who cannot bring himself to let go of you even if you tell him that you need to go to work

Sleepy Sylus who whines bc you’re too far away from him. he brings you closer to him, kisses your shoulder and wraps his arms around you "much better"

Sleepy Sylus who looks at you with a dazy tired look and the most lovestuck gaze. Especially after sex, he loves looking at you wandering around while feeling like the luckiest man in the world

Sleepy Sylus who cannot sleep with people around him but you. He always sleeps better when you’re here, probably bc he has been far away from you for too long, looking for you for ages and waiting for you to come to him patiently

Sleepy Sylus who dozes off in your presence but wouldn’t even dream of it with others

Sleepy Sylus who finds solace by the way your voice sounds and the way you speak sweetly to him and how your fingers softly caress his hair. If you ever stops he nuzzles closer to you and groans "don’t stop"

Sleepy Sylus who doesn’t mind you seeing him in such a vulnerable state, he will wholeheartedly let himself get soothed by you

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🧍‍♂️i tried to convey A LOT in just a few words, i just hope they mean something to someone, but i basically played around with the words "I'll see you tomorrow". I say it a lot because majority of my social interactions are online (surprise surprise im a enormous introvert) and just knowing that my friends are around, online, doing stuff on discord, it makes me feel at ease.

Its the same on tumblr, honestly. People, mutuals or otherwise, are still people on the other side of the blog and just knowing that those people are posting, just existing in that space and posting about what they love, can help someone so anxious feel normal for a second, yknow?

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Just burst into tears when the barista asked if I wanted my tea iced or hot, so. um. that's how my day is going

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More Rockstar Gideon on the whiteboard, this took 7 years off my life and I think I lost 3 clumps of hair while making it and also I hate it but fuck it we ball

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A short comic

The idea came from @/sylusbitch 's TikTok

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im going down a spiral

creds: @the-dormant-ocean

my god ive been thinking about this. imagine. omg imagine. yk how much i dig immortal x mortal tropes RAGRHHH

im gonna start yapping about the fundamentals of how this universe is gonna work bc im SUCH A SUCKER FOR DEITY CHARACS OM OKay yk the drill. just a yap sesh, nothing profound. n everything i say is js *my* personal brain rot inspired by the prompt. I just love snowcrow man

ok but before we start im gonna have to confirm whether zayne is a mortal or a god too js lesser. from the forseer myth he *cant* die BECAUSE astra stops him from dying. so technically he was born human, but cursed with immortality just so astra could make him suffer more. so imma side with the theory he is a mortal who could die from eating the wrong mushroom if astra never entered his life. in that case, him being an emissary to a fuckin god while being mortal is crazy bc it begs the question, why would a god choose a mortal? gods dont typically care for mortals. they mean nothing to them. so for astra to not only choose zayne, but also deem him as his favorite means zayne as a human is super duper exceptional to the point he manages to capture the eye of a god. and then later another one ehehe damn zayne got unintentional game.

SO if im not mistaken astra is the god of disaster so i imagine sylus to be a god of a similar region that relates to astra, n they got like a colleague relationship going on. i think its fitting for sy to be the god of chaos but mmmm theres a lot of good alternatives so we'll see how the story progresses.

its important to note gods are nothing like humans right? their moral compass could be considered inhumane to us bc... well they arent human. how could they ever be humane? obv this is astra. but it should also apply to sylus.

another thing about the divine is that its never really made to be seen by the naked eye yk. theres a veil between mortals and supernatural entities, separating them for a reason bc the human mind is fragile. if they see sm that goes against whats natural to them (us), they (we) crash out LMAO. so it would make sense if zayne hanging out with gods a lot slowly weakens him mentally. i mean cmon being controlled by astra for as long as u can remember should already be making u insane. so when astra got obliterated, zayne thought he'd finally be free. until sylus shows he had ulterior motives.

back to the inhumane part, does that make sylus cruel towards zayne? i wouldnt say cruel, but he does lack empathy. at first at least. the reason why he was captivated in the first place was only bc hes the sole human working for a god. that meant hes worth smth. worth A LOT. worth to be a fuck buddy. he didn't care what astra was doing to him. theyve talked a few times, nothing extraordinary but it was enough to make sy realize how badly he wanted zayne (zayne unintentional rizz strikes again). astra obv was like "no fuck off" which prompted the whole obliterating part. see this is a huge deal bc even gods have laws, so for sylus to technically kill a god all for a mortal is insanity.

zayne didnt even get the chance to breathe properly now that astra isnt there to control his oxygen tank, in comes sylus already declaring to be zayne's next god. remember the mental thing? yeah, sy is fully aware that zayne could lose his mind like this. he just dgaf bc he wants to woo the hot dark haired skin like snow mega competent mortal. so even tho sylus isnt astra, his affect towards zayne is still the same. zayne would still view sylus like any other god. cold and cruel. he'd still feel trapped and suffocated no matter how "nice" sylus tries to be towards him. even if sylus makes it clear to zayne that he no longer has to carry burdening duties, and could practically live normally like any other person, travel, go the festivals, have friends all that, to be desired by a god is still a chain around your neck.

the idea that sylus could quite literally do anything he wants to zayne is horrifying in zayne's pov. everything he does will be like walking on eggshells, esp with his ptsd from astra. sylus isnt a bad god, but he isnt good either. he's chaos. unpredictable. confusing. yeah, he confuses zayne A LOT with the things he do tryna romance him. again, some could be seen as inhumane. for example, he completely demolishes zayne's home so he can come live with sy, or better yet demolishes the entire village so he has nowhere else to go but to sy. example btw i dont think he'll do that. maybe he will who knows.

and sylus "kills" astra for him. that is a big no no. but the heavens wont blame sylus bc hes a god and gods can do no wrong. the only one to blame here is zayne for being the root of the trouble. and OF COURSE they would wanna pin the blame on some filthy mortal yk. and this all leads to a "i'll burn down the heavens for you" route with sylus threatening to end all living beings if anyone dared to touch zayne. him being chaos means he is the foundation of everything. earth took shape from chaotic matter, which later formed everything else. so he has the power to take it all back. at that point, is sylus really doing all this just to make zayne the mortal his "fuck buddy"? hrmmmm hrmm i know what you are........

does zayne love sylus? bruh hes probably having a damn crisis. this whole god is doing things for him as if he's the god. how is he supposed to react to this. yeah he could never see sylus as anything other than a god. tho through out this whole ordeal, he does come to realize that hes nowhere near astra's level of cruelty. theyve had a few interactions where it seemed like it could actually work, where zayne could learn to be comfortable with sylus. but there will always be slip-ups that ends up reminding him the reality of their relationship. sylus is a god, zayne is mortal. two very vast worlds and system.

so sylus makes himself smaller, changes his skin and pretends to be human. he mingles with village folk to understand their culture, how they work etc. etc. and finds out zayne is now the local doctor in a humble wooden infirmary (he can be a doctor for nobles too i think both could work fine). and by consistently watching zayne dedicate his life to help people, unconsciously, compassion grows within him. the sudden want to be like zayne, to be kind and gentle. the want to love and be loved, to have the essence of humanity embedded within him, even tho he's not. and maybe, eventually, zayne could fall for the illusion. to see sylus, not as the god of chaos, not as the god who killed astra but as the annoying weird guy who cant leave him alone, the guy who walks the earth as if he owns it, the guy, the person who would do anything for him.

until the illusion breaks, and sylus is back to fighting the heavens, making sure the sky doesnt fall and breaks the planet in half. i think at that moment in time, zayne's already given in. he knows he'd fallen in love with a god.

andijfeoigjargij melodramatic much? I DONT CARE i love god stories okay. ALSO theres a song i love that fits the story sooooooooooo good im like RAGHH DESTINY. "Dangerous" by sleep token. its like a telling from zayne's pov. its so good go listen to it. its kinda heavy rock by the end so idk if you dig that but its amazing overall

ok i will try and cook up some concept art after working on a few commissions......yay

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SSRIs? More like HRIs. (Heat regulation inhibitors) Thanks for coming to my ted talk