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Being in any fandom:

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Prim is crazy making cuz how do you write a character who haunts the narrative from the start but doesnt actually die until the end. echoes of primrose are everywhere you look but shes not dead yet. you still have time to get to know prim as the reader- shes still alive. but instead you get a ghost of a girl who floats around the peripheral of the story, always slightly in and out of frame. always on your mind but never tangible. always just out of reach until shes unreachable with finality. the living dead girl.

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I've been rereading TLT and as much as I love the insane lesbian angle, I can't stop thinking about how Harrow as a child fell instantly in love with Earth.

She grows up in the darkest, saddest, deadest corner of the solar system, deprived to the point she's unable to tolerate bright light or really even much flavor in food. And she sees the face of Earth, and without understanding what she sees, loves it. my ecologist heart feels some type of way about this.

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The first rule of tragedy is to be yourself. The second of rule of tragedy is to be literally anyone else. The third rule is that however much you try, there is no escaping being yourself forever.

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Gideon growing up with her sole example of an act of love being her mother's rerouting of power from her own suit to the bio-container. Being raised by people who had their capacity to understand cruelty and brutality dried out of them, carrying this with her as something separating her and Harrow, using it as a cudgel when pushed - her parents loved her more than Harrow's parents ever loved her. Of course she took so quickly to being the battery of her heart. Of course she knew it was the cruellest thing she could do to her.

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"unalive" should just mean the opposite of undead. if undead means a dead thing thats alive, unalive shuld mean an alive things thats dead. no i dont have any examples. ☝️yet

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A Victorian puzzle purse for a special someone's birthday 💌 ✨

See it unfolding here

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happy 10th anniversary of the SCENE OF ALL TIME to those who celebrate! 🥳🎉

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Colombian hair braiding competition

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"Punishment works!!!" We're drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don't think it works guys

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okay but life should have been hanging out in the sun topless eating peaches instead we have credit scores

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Second post with some fanart!

AKEMI

It’s a sketch but I haven’t drawn in so long my hand literally hurts T-T

Akemi with her small wings, decorative only. They glitter like gold and their only job seems to be betraying her thoughts and puffing up whenever she is angry. They also take ridiculously long to wash away any grime or sand they collect. High maintenance!

TAIGEN

Taigen’s wings are his pride and joy, wide and beautiful. They appear bluish green in this sketch but it’s mostly because of the night light. They are brown, just like those of an osprey. They shine with oil and attention they have just gotten at the brothel from all the lovely ladies he’s been drinking with.

Like I wrote before, he spreads them whenever he can, especially to goad.

(Pose comes from the pilot episode and no, it’s not because I didn’t master that beautiful man’s face yet, not at all…)

And now…

MIZU

That’s how her wings look like at the time of her first duel with Taigen:

Yeeeeesh… they look rough. She does cut them evenly, it’s just that lack of preening and being thrown through paper walls will do that to the person (Ignore Taigen - some have good hair genes, he has good feathers).

They are cut as short as she can keep them and are matted and just sad.

For comparison, here’s how they should look like

Woah, big wingspan baby!

And much healthier, too! Shiny, glittering! I have a feeling that Mizu’s wings would be almost iridescent at the top, definitely pretty enough to make Taigen jealous. Also, wouldn’t it be hilarious if they reacted to the littlest bit of care like crazy and make Akemi green with jealousy with how low of a maintenance they actually are?

Too bad no one thought to teach Mizu how to care for them properly…

Anyways, hope you all like the sketches. I would love to hear your headcanons bout this au and I would be HONORED if anyone joined in!

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1x2

Mizu & Akemi

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"You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw, but only at the air, only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch."

PSYCHO (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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you KNOW the rest of the team is regretting not saving jackie when they could bc now the tasmanian devil and her little muppet hat gf are wreaking havoc everywhere they go 😭

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EGO DEATH