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Hey, what is the Church AU for your characters? 👀

OHOH, this is one of my more fav AUs of the fishies!!

In which Neviss is the kind priest in the small Catholic church of Sant-Climent, in a small boring town. Everyone thinks of him a saint and the nicest person ever, helping old ladies cross the streets, feeding the strays, organising so many fundraisers for the community...all that jazz.

Mary, on the other hand, is an atheist and a bit of a rebellious girl! So everyone was pleasantly surprised to see that she's started to go to church - as Father Nev's assistant! She seemed to be on the way to being just a no-good nobody, but it's so nice that Father Nev took her in.

Except she also knows his biggest secret - Father Nev's a vampire 😳

Nev has no qualms about her knowing it. After all, who would believe her? But Mary has other plans, which was to keep asking him to turn her LMAO. She's had enough of being the weak girl that so many guys took advantage of. She wants to be strong, immortal, able to do everything she wanted to do instead of rotting in this small boring town.

Obviously Nev said no, because vampirism is just as much a curse as it had its perks. It was a lonely existence full of unneeded urges and grief. A selfish condition he's had to live with for so many lifetimes, and he wasn't about to inflict that on poor Mary.

So Mary, stubborn girl she is, decides to just become his assistant! The church is very understaffed and Nev is terrible with admin work - which, coincidentally, something Mary was very good at. Sorting things, scheduling, all those papers and meetings and phone calls were something that came naturally to her! She took some sort of business or accounting class back in catholic college but got kicked out for dealing weed LOL

Her plan really was to become his familiar, and have Nev trust her enough that he'll have to turn her eventually! Which Nev is fully aware of and he's like, "okay sure I'll think about it" (very vague non-promise because he still thinks it's a bad idea)

Life's fairly quiet for a while! Mary finds out why Nev's able to get by without preying on the townies (All those church sponsored blood drives every few months, they donate most of it to the local hospitals and blood banks but a good bit of it is left behind for Nev to get his fix). Their biggest problem is mostly because that town is used as a detour for tourists and truckers, so outsiders tend to pass by regularly! Sometimes if those outsiders are disruptive to the peace of the town, or harmful to the residents...well, Nev doesn't have much of a problem disposing them 😳

Ducek is a supernatural hunter! But his day job is manning the lakeside camping grounds and fishing spot that his grandfather left him. He moved in quite recently and immediately tried to kill Nev LOL

He's also a werewolf! But that's mostly because of a hunting accident when he was still training. It's no biggie because he takes medicine for it :] His feud with Nev is really more of just because he was trained to end these creatures and not at all related to his own condition.

Mary is very indifferent to their fights and just steps aside because it's pretty stupid. She's on good terms with Ducek and often helps bake the muffins they serve at the Sunday lunch that he likes so much.

Eventually Ducek and Nev become begrudgingly non-hostile towards each other after Mary dragged Ducek to help save Nev from dying from a poisonous assassination attempt by another hunter. Now they just spend their days trying to wrangle the nosy church ladies, hide bodies of horrid people and malicious hunters, writing the homilies, avoiding hellish portals from opening in the town, and organising all sorts of projects and keeping the church strays fed!

Maybe one day Mary might get her wish, but for now, everyone can take their time :) The town and the days are slow, might as well enjoy the work 🙏

A few notes:

Christian things do not affect Nev specifically. Other vampires are, though - just an extra perk of having been ordained before he turned. He'll be affected by other non-Christian ways of warding vampires off though. Any vampires Nev may sire will also be able to resist it but not entirely. (Ex. Holy water won't burn them, but they will get weaker or fatigued) No one really knows what'll happen to him in the afterlife.

Ducek came from a long line of hunters. His grandfather Kain was the last hunter that stayed in the town.

Mary has a dumb DUMB puppy crush on Nev after a year or two and she refuses to talk about it because who tells their priest they have a crush on them 😭😭😭 Although she and Ducek started dating after that! Nev sort of figured out she was into him because her heartbeat kept pounding impossibly fast every time she was alone with him HJDJKGFHSJDKGHSD

Ducek is constantly nudging his goilfwend to just come clean to Nev about it (and also accidentally exposing his own developing crush on Nev in the process)

So yanno. funny poly couple where the priest is ALSO getting kissed 😏

Also a fun bit about this is that it's called the church au, but only Nev is Catholic 😭 (Mary is atheist/ex-catholic, and Ducek is non practising Jewish)

This was actually very fun to write, I haven't talked abt my OCs in a while! Thank you for asking, Katy <33

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if the truman show came out in 2020 trumans life would be livestreamed 24/7 and the twitch chat would be absolutely wildin. poggers

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Ribes sanguineum

Red flowering currant, a native plant here.

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i want to share with you some of my favourite graffiti from Pompeii

“Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!“ 

“Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.“ 

“We two dear men, friends forever, were here. If you want to know our names, they are Gaius and Aulus.“

“Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.“

“On April 19th, I made bread.“

“ I have buggered men.“

“If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend.“

“It took 640 paces to walk back and forth between here and there ten times.“

“Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!“

“Epaphra is not good at ball games.”

“Two friends were here.  While they were, they had bad service in every way from a guy named Epaphroditus.  They threw him out and spent 105 and half sestertii most agreeably on whores.“

“Secundus likes to screw boys.“

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Polished Malachite Stalactite - Copper Crescent, Congo

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able bodied allies of disabled people when your disability genuinely has no secret upside and makes you useless to a late stage capitalist society

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Scarlet Finches (Carpodacus sipahi), female (T) and male (B), family Fringillidae, order Passeriformes, Mandal, Uttarakand, India

photograph by Bhanu Singh (@bhanuaditya.singh)

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the smallest artist i listen to? probably the bird outside my window

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Lilac Wonder tulip.

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Yamagata, Japan // 癒しの自然風景 ♡

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A small detail of the Kindred of Rot

At some point I was made aware of a very easy-to-miss detail on one of the enemies of Elden Ring. I must thank Zlofsky from Twitter for this. The detail in question is this [x]

(Here's the version for those who don't want to use the link)

As you can see, the Kindred of Rot can have this peculiar red "spike" protruding from the back of their heads. I had not heard many people actually talk about this detail in length, but I heard it posited that it was actually found only on the Pests that Gowry takes over, and that it was some sort of parasitic mushroom, like the one that infests ants in the real world. The idea was very compelling and fit the theme of the Scarlet Rot neatly, so I eventually decided to verify it. Sure enough, the spike was there after his borrowed Pest body died.

So yeah, that's it then! It was all Gowry and he was actually some sort of parasitic mushroom all along! To consolidate the discovery, I decided to kill another Kindred of Rot in Caelid. That proved to make things more complicated than I first thought, as after the fight I realized it ALSO had the weird red spike on the back of its head!

So I thought maybe it's all the ones in Caelid, because Gowry can choose from all of them as the next host. Sounds reasonable right? So I went to check in Elphael instead, to see if this theory was true, only to be met with other corpses sporting the red spike. I started thinking that maybe the variant MISSING the red thing was actually the uncommon one, until I found a gentlebug who did not aggro even as I stood pretty close. There I could finally see that he did not have one! And later on, I found another one that I could avoid aggroing, and sure enough, it also didn't have the red spike.

And when killed, both sprouted that red thing too!

So what is their deal? It's clearly not tied to Gowry at this rate, but it's also such an insignificant detail that I could not help but wonder about... so I decided to do some final testing. I went back to Caelid and found a chilling Kindred of Rot. It would be my test subject. Here's its neck states in order:

Idle - No Spike

Getting Up - No Spike

Start of Aggro - Spike

During Aggro - Spike (this was hellish to get)

Dead - Spike

So in conclusion, the red spike seems to only appear when the Kindred of Rot initiates a fight. This still doesn't tell us anything concrete, BUT it does leave some room for speculation. Maybe it's just some kind of organ or antenna that pops up when they are distressed or aggravated (though it's noticeably absent in the young ones). Maybe it truly is a parasitic mushroom, using the Pests as soldiers and making them attack us against their will.

Whatever the case may be, I had never seen anyone really talk about this design element before, so I thought it was worth putting it out there. Maybe it can help someone with their theories.

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