#also I’m not familiar with fantasy terms much

[high-guardian-herbs]

Alright first, apparently it’s “class” rather than specie, second of all, I would have drawn snapdragon for this but his hair is giving me big issues, so I will wait till I redesign the hair or learn how to draw it, and third of all this is a character that appears in the background a lot, so I thought to add her as a third or second year student

[dawnagustd]

the misfit toymaker || myg

The queen has made her list and checked it twice. She’s visiting those who have been naughty, and punishing them in ways that are oh so nice.

- Part of the Unholy Night Series.     

➻ title: the misfit toymaker  ➻ pairing: toymaker!yoongi x f!reader  ➻ genre: fantasy | holiday | magic | smut  ➻ word count: 1.8k  ➻ rating: 18+   ➻ warnings: unprotected sex | infidelity | soft dom!yoongi | sub!reader | Sir kink | controlled orgasms | big dick!yoongi but wbk | slight edging | spitting/spit play | belly bulging | sex toys(swings, vibrators, suctions) | creampie | cum play | rough sex | light impact play | dirty talk | degradation | dungeons | bdsm | pet names | fingering | multiple orgasms | crying (the sexy kind) | rejection(i’m sorry) | impreg kink | suspension play | clit stimulation | oral sex(female receiving) | begging | overstimulation      ➻ author’s note: Part 3 has arrived. No lie this is one of my favs!! Once again, I won’t hold you. Thanks @taechwitaaah for beta reading and screaming with me. I hope y’all enjoy this as much as we did lol.

It wasn’t hard to locate your next stop. A toy store on Christmas Eve is like a flashing billboard sign. Especially when the only toymaker loves to burn the midnight oil.

Yoongi searches for any excuse not to go home to his estranged wife. The only reason they’re together is because of his kid, who just so happens to be one of Mr. Park’s pupils. 

He loves bringing smiles to all the youth’s faces, but Yoongi’s no saint. Mrs. Min wants nothing to do with her lowdown cheating spouse, and Yoongi couldn’t give a bigger shit.

He’s never been a monogamous man; whenever he finds a new playmate, the old one is no longer interesting. 

But you, however. You just might be his favorite. He couldn’t wait to drag you down to his dungeon of misfit toys and show you all of his erotic creations.

“Are you comfortable, doll?” he asks. “Your restraints aren’t too tight, are they?” 

You don’t hear him because your attention is set on the image of the toymaker’s veiny hand wrapped around his cock. He pleases himself while drinking in the sight of you, his delicate pink lips parted slightly as small, labored breaths slip past them. Each time his palm slides over his similarly textured shaft, arousal oozes from the tip. Suddenly, your mouth is dry, and the urge to fill it with–

“Hey. Eyes on me when I’m talking to you, beautiful.” 

He uses the other hand to lift your chin, gently demanding your undivided attention. The authority in his voice places you back in reality.

Your eyes wander up his figure, admiring his skin while getting drunk off of his touch. 

“Sorry about that, Sir.” You tug on the straps lightly to ensure they’re secure. “Yes. This feels nice.” 

Yoongi insisted on putting you in one of his many “swing sets” hanging from the ceiling. 

It’s thrilling being suspended feet in the air, your legs spread wide with your weight only supported by rope. Your wrists are bound also, leaving you entirely at Yoongi’s mercy. 

But mercy, is not a term the toymaker is familiar with.

“I promise you, doll. You’ll feel even better once I stuff my cock inside of you.” 

Yoongi spreads your folds and reveals your wetness. The cold dungeon air hits your center, intensifying your sensitivity.  

“Damn, you’re wet,” Yoongi comments.

“Make it wetter, Sir.” 

You respond with so much need that he can’t resist the temptation. He’d rather drag this out and keep you down here for as long as possible, but the growing urge to fuck you senseless is too demanding.

Yoongi leans forward and allows his spit to drip into your opening. He watches in awe as your cunt accepts it graciously. Using two of his lengthy digits, he enters your pussy and prepares you for his throbbing cock. 

“Fuck, Sir!”

Yoongi’s thumb rubs your clit while he fingers you slowly, relaxing you so he can continue to stuff your dripping crevice.

“Take one more for me, doll?”

On your command, he adds another finger. 

“That’s my good girl,” he whispers.

The room begins to fill with the lewd sounds of your squelching juices, gushing out of you and covering Yoongi’s hand and wrist. He twists and curls his digits inside of you, searching for the spot that’ll have you falling apart. You cry out for him once he finds it, and he responds with a cocky smirk, knowing he’s about to ruin you before he even fucks you.

“Sir.”

“Come if you need to, doll,” he says. “I won’t get mad at you.” 

His voice is so gentle and sweet, a contrast to the dark lust-drunk eyes staring at you.

You can feel your core tightening with each passing second. Moans leave your lips, but the pleasure is so intense you cannot hear how loud you are. Eventually, you have no other choice but to let go.

His fingers guide you through your orgasm while he praises you with the sweetest words you’ve ever heard. He bends down to suck your pulsing clit between his lips, and your mouth falls open. Nothing comes out; you’re just reacting on nerves. Your brain has yet to catch up with the moment.

You slump over once you’ve finally calmed down, but you’re only given a few seconds to recharge before Yoongi’s cock is teasing your entrance.

“You ready to tap out, doll?”

You shake your head.

“Please,” you beg. “Continue. This is light work for me, Sir. Do your worst.” 

The toymaker wipes the smirk off of your face with his thumb; you know you’re fucked but you still play along.

“I sure hope you know what you’re asking for, baby doll.”.

His cock enters you slowly, not stopping until he’s filled you with every inch. Your pussy constricts and he’s unable to move. You both struggle to adjust to the tight fit.

“How are you so fucking big?” 

“Maybe you just can’t take dick like you think you can, doll.” His tone is condescending, making your face heat up. “I prepped you and you’re still having a hard time. Aren’t you, sweetheart?”

“Bullshit.”

You speak out of turn and earn yourself a slap on the thigh.

“Now, don’t get disrespectful, doll.”

You bite your tongue and settle into your position. When Yoongi starts moving, the fullness becomes more bearable. The sensitivity ebbs away, and pleasure replaces it. The chill in the room fades as your body begins to heat up, and your sweat does little to keep the feverish desire at bay.

“You’re still so tight,” he points out. “Let’s loosen you up, doll. This won’t do.” 

Yoongi surprises you when he grabs one of his little toys. He flips the little switch, making the object buzz in his hand. “This one’s going to fuck both of us up.”

He places the vibrator directly onto your clit, and instantly, you see stars.

“Fuck! Sir, I can’t!...” 

You beg him to turn the settings down, but Yoongi only chuckles.

“Baby doll, I really haven’t turned it on yet.” 

A press of a button, and it reveals another feature that has your mind scrambled within seconds. The suction pulses around your sensitive bundle of nerves, stimulating you in ways you’ve never even dreamed of.

Your babbling gets you mocked and teased by the toymaker. All while he’s still stuffing you with his cock.

“Look at my sweet little doll,” he tsks. “So confident in thinking she could handle my cock but can barely keep it together. The nerve; what were you trying to achieve, baby?”

As if you weren’t already a mess, he turns up the settings. If the entire town didn’t hear your scream, then the room has to be soundproof.

“I’m going to come!” 

You sob and tremble as your body dangles in the air. Yoongi’s thrusts send you flying, but the hold on your waist never allows you to slip through his fingers.

“Oh, yeah? And what are you gonna do for me if I let you?” he grunts.

He intentionally touches your cervix, making your eyes roll back. You don’t miss the twinkle in his eyes when he notices the outline of his dick each time he enters your guts.

“Anything, Sir,” you promise. “Please. Just let me come!” 

You aren’t sure what sound is filthier, the noises your cunt makes as your juices gush onto the floor, or Yoongi’s wet sticky sac slapping your ass with every impact.

“Well, when I fill this cunt… You better not spill a drop. Understand?”

“Okay, I won’t. Now, please.”

“I hear you, doll. I hear you.” 

But relief doesn’t come as quickly as you thought it would. He turns the toy to the highest setting, making you lose your mind in seconds. Yoongi doesn’t hold back. When your orgasm hits you like a ton of bricks, he keeps fucking you like you’re a rag doll, bouncing you up and down on his hard shaft.

“You feel so good, doll,” he growls, slowing his pace. “I should keep you all to myself and pump my cum into you every night.”

“Sir, fuck!”

You try to calm down but hearing his deep voice filled with lust makes you hotter.

“Ahh… You like that. You wanna get knocked up, huh?” 

His cock starts twitching inside of you at the thought.

“Please.” At this point, you can’t even recognize your voice, but you continue to fill his ears with everything he wants to hear. “Sir, fill my pussy. I promise I won’t spill any.”

This is probably the closest Yoongi has ever been to finding true love because the look he gives you tells it all. He’s never met anyone so perfect, so willing to accept him. His orgasm snatches him out of his reverie, reminding him of a reality he’ll have to face very soon.

A moment later, ropes of his warm cum paint your womb, drawing pleasant sighs from your lips.

“Goddamn it, doll,” he whispers while his cock slips out of you. “You’re a fucking slice of heaven, you know that?”

Yoongi uses his finger to stop the seeping cum from dripping to the floor. He pushes it back inside of you repeatedly until he’s satisfied. He lowers you and then carefully helps you out of the swing, so you don’t fall.

“You’re quiet, doll. Are you okay?” 

You don’t respond but Yoongi still takes your hand and guides you up the stairs. Your palm feels so warm wrapped in his, and he can’t stop a smile from spreading across his face.

He takes one look at you and realizes he’s in deep shit.

“What’s on your mind, doll?”

Doll. 

He thinks that name is perfect for you. You may be a goddess, but you’re so delicate and cute. He wants you. He wants to keep you to himself despite knowing that he can’t.

“I’m hungry.” He wasn’t expecting that reply, but he doesn’t mind treating you to dinner after the things you just allowed him to do to you. “I want something… Sweet.”

“Well, there is a bakery across the street. He’s closed, but I know him so he’ll—”

You’re already heading to the door before he can finish his sentence. Yoongi quickly grabs his coat so he can cover your body. However, you turn around and place a hand on his chest to stop him.

“What are you doing?” you ask.

“You said you wanted to get something to eat.” 

Yoongi is slightly confused, but he laughs it off.

Those beautiful eyes stare into his soul, and he has no choice but to accept the fact that he’s whipped.

“Yeah… but not with you, hun.”

Your words leave him in shock, and he can only stand there frozen, watching you walk through the door and head over to his best friend’s store. The toymaker is heartbroken, and sad. But what can he say when this is how he carries on? You’ve got him, and you’ve gotten him good.

He laughs to himself, basking in the sweet smell of you that still lingers in the air.

“Damn, that was one wild sleigh ride.”

[literary-illuminati]

2024 Book Review #28 – The Dead Take The A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey

Oh I wanted to love this book so very much. On paper it’s basically made for me – incredibly messy fuckup of a heroine, cosmic horror through the idiom of wall street corporate sharks, grimy and gory urban fantasy full of knifing people in back alleys, the works! For the first fifty pages or so, I thought I was in love – which just made the disappointment as the wheels came off all the more bitter.

The book follows Julie, ‘barbed wire magician’ (it’s at least as unpleasant as it sounds), professional monster hunter, and all-around personal disaster. Her life takes a turn for the even messier when a) her best friend/comically oversized unresolved crush shows up at her door begging for help running from her abusive husband and b) unrelatededly but more or less simultaneously, her ex-partner-and-also-boyfriend, looking up to clean up embarrassing loose ends on his rise up the elldritch corporate ladder, baits her into trying to summon a guardian angel from a sabotaged tome and ends up releasing a metaphysical parasite that starts murdering its way through the city’s occult underground. From there things just get messier.

Drilling down as much as I can, my issues with this can be summed up as it feels like a first draft. There’s stuff there on the page – character arcs, relationships, bits of scenery and action setpieces, even themes! - but it’s all just..there. Exaggerated line sketches no one ever went back and turned into full illustrations. It’s most painful with the characters – every one of them is a caricature, precisely and exactly what they first appear to be with the same beats hit again and again every single time they appear on screen. Which more or less for the quirky supporting cast but like – we get multiple chapters from the perspective of the aforementioned abusive husband, and something like a fifth of the book is from the POV of the sleazy corporate striver ex. At no point does either one get the slightest bit of nuance or pathos – Tyler’s chapters in particular end up reading like bad SCP field reports, with so much self-destructive instituional backstabbing and betrayal it all ends up being slapstick.

Sarah the love interest gets a special anti-shout-out here. Like, I know I’m just picky about and have a low tolerance for romances, but I swear – the single most important dynamic in the book in terms of both wordcount and narrative signposting is her and Julie’s romance, and it is just So. Bad. Every single scene she’s in is dedicated to rubbing your face in how fragile and traumatized and selfless and adorable and good-hearted and damaged she is, and the entirety of the romance is essentially one of those jokes about how lesbians will spend six years living with each other awkwardly waiting for the other to ask them out but stretched across 400 pages. I spent half the book patiently waiting for any hint of hidden depths or surprising twists to her character, but nope! Just a perfect domestic angel.

The setting actually has something of a similar issue. It feels like an exaggerated pastiche of urban fantasy, assuming the reader is already familiar with all the tropes and conceits and making only the most perfunctory possible gestures towards exploring or justifying them. This can absolutely work, but if you’re doing it you kind of need to use the genre as the background or setup for something else that the book is actually about – deconstruction or satire or character study or Wacky Hijinks or something. When what’s gruesome action and drama is supposed to be the star attraction, the grounding and verisimilitude of the world is actually pretty key.

A really tight, tense plot could have absolutely redeemed the whole but, well, nope. The literal entire plot hinges on Tyler, in the course of one conversation several drinks in at a crowded bar, baiting Julie into looking for a particular type of tome from a particular store so she’ll try the ritual he had swapped out with one to curse her – but then also that he didn’t know what the ritual he swapped in actually did. The big evil wall street law firm has a corporate culture that should have collapsed about 48 hours after it was founded, and absolutely nothing about it makes sense for a place with lasting institutional power. Everyone’s morality and perceptiveness changes as the plot requires. The pacing feels like they had to pull a happy ending out of their asses at the 2/3 mark and shove the rest of the book into a sequel. It’s just, it’s bad!

Also the prose starts at fun and evocative and keeps pushing into Lovecraftian levels of adjective-addiction, and neither the A-Train nor the dead are actually at all important to the story.

Just, argh. This could have been good! The first 40 pages were a really fun schlocky monster-of-the-week story! The first ritual summoning the Proctor was basically perfect! I wanted to love this!

[treethymes]

In my landmark analysis of The Wind Rises, I interpreted the film in terms of Miyazaki working through his feelings on his life’s work—perhaps regret and shame thinking of all the sacrifices from others it took to bring his work to fruition, to pursue his desires and ideals; his ideas on what “beauty” is and perhaps how glad he is that it exists/is created in spite of all the suffering that may be attached to it. I did not talk about the relatively more straightforward ways of reading the film, which is of course about Japan during World War II: Miyazaki reflecting on the factors that drive history, what it means to live through, to be embedded in—and to look back on—so much violence; Miyazaki reckoning with his own family’s role in the imperialist war effort as well as his lifelong infatuation with the aesthetics of military machinery. Considering these modes of interpretation together yields a portrait of a man and his art—Where does it come from? What does it value? Where does it want to go? As such, The Wind Rises is arguably a very rich and fitting swan song. And yet, with its grounded, adult perspective on the war, the film also sticks out like a sore thumb in Miyazaki’s oeuvre and maybe always sat uncomfortably as a conclusion to it.

For those who feel that way, The Boy and the Heron should come as a welcome addition to Miyazaki’s filmography. It is, after all, a return to fantasy adventure with a child protagonist—something that feels, at least more so than a quasi-biopic of an aircraft engineer does, like quintessential Miyazaki. But crucially for our purposes, the film is not just a return to a familiar form (often quite literally a sum of everything that came before it), it is an extension of and second half to The Wind Rises. Through the lens of my interpretation of The Wind Rises, The Boy and the Heron is like an inversion of The Wind Rises in that it foregrounds the concerns with artistry and legacy while keeping the war in the background and frame of the narrative.

Two scenes in The Boy and the Heron in particular reminded me of The Wind Rises. First is the scene of the dying pelican, which visually recalls the scene of the ill man in Princess Mononoke but in terms of the content of the dialogue reminds me more of the scene in The Wind Rises of the children turning down Jiro’s offer of castella cake. It is a reflection on poverty, pride, and survival. In the context of these films, we are led to consider specifically the condition of the Japanese people, the things they were driven to do, and are left to draw our own conclusions with regard to the nuances.

The other scene, of course, is the brief moment of Mahito looking at the windshields his father brings to the house and remarking on how beautiful they are. This scene embeds in The Boy and the Heron Miyazaki’s preoccupation with the aesthetic allure of aircraft originally designed for warfare, a contradiction between beauty and violence that is mirrored in the dream world that Mahito ultimately decides to reject.

In the dream world in The Boy and the Heron, there are so many echoes of past Miyazaki and Ghibli films it is deafening. Seemingly contrary to Jiro’s solemn resignation to the world of pyramids, Mahito rejects the dream world he’s inherited and ventures to build something new in the real world. But I’m not sure they are so far removed from each other. They are complimentary views of the same object (Miyazaki’s legacy), one from his own perspective and one from the perspective he hopes for future generations to take—one of not overly attaching themselves to some old fool’s dreams. In The Wind Rises, perhaps Miyazaki tries to celebrate his life’s work without celebrating it. In The Boy and the Heron, he gives us the greatest hits slideshow we wanted and then some—a celebration of the joys and tribulations of the creative act he so compulsively pursued—but not without gesturing to us nonetheless to peer beyond the curtain.

[vvritingmf]

RP Partner Search | 21+

Hello.ᐟ.ᐟ I go by V or my pen name, VV. I got recommended tumblr through a friend who also role-plays, so I’m here to see if I can meet some awesome writers. I’m 22 and prefer my partners to be around the same, however, as long as you are 18+, I’ve really got no qualms.

Experience details listed below:

I’m a very flexible person when it comes to writing, however I cannot say I am great at all. My main weaknesses are probably action and superheroes, but these are just some of the few topics I have done otherwise.

Fantasy

Tropes & Themes that I love or correlate:

Greek Gods, Goddesses, Deities

Mythology

Bestiary/Faeries/Demi-Humans

Sci-Fi, Futuristic, Dystopian, Cyberpunk, Bionic

Opposites attract: Light>Dark, Sun>Moon, Fire>Water, Healer>Destroyer

Merfolk, Sirens, Pirates

Hunter>Hunted

Historical

Tropes & Themes that I love or correlate:

Southern small town horrors: (20’s-80’s)

Medieval Evils: witch hunting, wounded>healer

Westward Expansion/Wild West: Bounty Hunter>Outlaw, Loner>Wanderer

Ancient Egypt/Japan/Rome/Greece: Assassin>Victim

WWI-II/Other: star-crossed lovers, enemies to lovers to enemies, woman guised as militia>unknowing comrade/enemy (mulan moment⚔️)

Mafia: 90’s realistic only, bodyguard>daughter/son

London High Society: Arranged marriage, Klutz>Pessimist

(While all of these are great, I am a sucker for new tropes and ideas, so please introduce me to some of your interests!)

General

More info about me and my preferences!

Dead Dove; Do NOT Eat — As much as I love writing goody-two-shoes characters, sometimes I simply want to write someone morally grey, or perhaps even a bit psychotic… Those who are familiar with dead dove know that it includes mature and sensitive topics, such as non-con, NSFW aside! That being said, I will never abuse this right and all topics are sure to be discussed with my RP partner before hand.ᐟ.ᐟ

Gender Preference: I often find myself writing male leads as opposed to female, but this is solely because I am having to compensate and or carry a plot by myself majority of the time. With male characters, I simply find arrogance easier to strike up interactions with, however I would love to actually be able to play a female character; it depends heavily on the plot. I’m predominately MxF, but with side characters I am open to MxM and FxF, (romance awakening/forbidden love subset mainly.)

NSFW: I am not strict on many of my rules but substituting plot for smut is not tolerated. I am willing to write it but in order for any sort of NSFW, things need to progress naturally. I would prefer a partner who prioritizes world building and plot planning first and foremost.

Requirements: As I am not daily active on discord, I am looking for a lax but serious role-play partner who is literate novella minimum. I frequently exceed the discord message limit, sometimes even four times over. However, this is not a standard for myself; I simply tend to write a lot when I am invested in a story. By no means do you have to match this; I simply ask that you give me something to work with and I will do the same in return. Trust me, I’m not always in the mood to meet a word criteria, I wouldn’t expect you to be either! I need a long-term partner who is willing and understanding of schedules and writers-block. These are two things I struggle with often, but I am writing this ad because I truly want to get on the grind again and meet someone who will bring fresh ideas to the table, as well as still pick up after a week of inactivity… :)

Other: I will not always use face claims, because sometimes celebrities and acclaimed actors just don’t do characters justice. Regardless, I will always give a description in writing or perhaps find some oil art or sketch that best represents my OC. I’m probably not very traditional in the sense that I do not follow all usual discord RP rules; I don’t even know half the jargon. Some more general tropes I love include age gaps, tragedy ending, anti-heroes, redemption, apprentice/mentor to mentee, & unique character impairments.ᐟ.ᐟ

Friend my Discord if you’re interested! (1x1)

(Ive a two role-play maximum so that way I am able to focus. Full currently but if you’d like to be friends I’m so down.) Current: 2/2

[rhaegang]

I have a question about Enter Night, how did you come up with the imagery in the dream sequences? What inspired you to write them the way you did and did you hide some meaning inside them? Also do you have a favorite one? You're a wonderful writer and I wanna see inside your brain!!

HI HELLO I love dream sequences and I love symbolism so you absolutely caught me that there are hidden meanings in many things that happen or are seen in the dreams of Enter Night.

There are a lot of dreams in the story so I’m not sure which one to focus on…

Chapter 2: The nightmare / bathtub dream —This first dream is sort of a wedding. Felix was scared but still chose to let Oliver into his dream (Oliver needed to be admitted, because he was much less powerful at that point than later on). This choice was sort of like saying I do.

Early in the dream I made mention of winter slithering over the land & Felix as Persephone having tasted something forbidden. In the bath itself, I chose to describe the steam as like a veil. This is all because Felix, like Persephone, is a bride.

There’s some significance to the candles that hasn’t been fully revealed so I won’t spoil.

In this dream I also did a lot of playing with Incubollie’s ability to change his form in terms of like, size and shape and even state of matter. He’s a liquid, a solid, a gas. A shadow, a creature, a fantasy. He’s small enough to crouch on top of Felix and big enough to manhandle him. I wanted to establish that he really can be and do basically anything in the dream realm.

“How can I dream of something I’ve never even imagined could exist?” — this serves 2 purposes. One, it tells us that Oliver can bring his own knowledge and ideas into Felix’s dreams and two, it reinforces the separation Felix sees between dreams and something that could exist — you might want things you believe are impossible and so you have never allowed yourself to really imagine what they’d be like, because that would make their absence more painful.

Felix asking for Incubollie to bite him in this dream is just blatant phallic symbolism and essentially the consummation of their “marriage.”

Chapter 3: The Iambic Pentameter dream —

The symbolism really kicks off in this dream when we switch from the pond to the sea. The pond at Saltburn is familiar territory for Felix, it’s small and has known boundaries, isn’t all that deep even if its waters are murky. But the sea is massive, miles deep, and powerful. It has riptides and raging storms. This switch represents the way Felix’s feelings are much bigger and more tumultuous than he realized.

He’s not just fumbling with another boy he has a little school crush on. He’s captivated, swept up in a building obsession with an unfamiliar, unknowable being (even if Felix hasn’t put two and two together that the creature in his last dream is Oliver).

We also switch from day to night, blistering summer heat to icy moonlight, because Felix is out of his element. But it was him and not Oliver that caused the switch. He wants to explore the dark, even though he’s afraid of it.

The sand being black is just to make it feel more otherworldly. (Also, Felix mentioned the storm from Ch 2 being blown down from Iceland and the beaches of Iceland are black, so his subconscious is maybe beginning to connect things.)

Felix’s hand full of stars - it’s his tattoo, but also sort of a reference to his privilege, like, here’s a boy who could reach up and steal stars from the sky if he wanted to have them, but what he wants is to touch this other boy. Lastly, stars being associated with night, I use them a lot for Oliver. So, Felix’s hand full of stars is many things lol

Oliver’s voice sounding like the sea — it’s that he is the great, powerful, unknowable thing. Also referencing his serpentine form and how he hisses / how words spoken with his serpent tongue sound.

…and the idea of a ‘first time’ became impossible to contemplate, because that implied there was a beginning and therefore also an end, when that couldn’t possibly be true. All of these were the first time, and they had all already happened, were happening, had yet to come—

Oh here’s Felix’s subconscious acknowledging, again, that they’re already too bound to each other. It also foreshadows something that will happen in the final chapter.

…Oliver leaned down over him, the bone bright moon a halo behind his dark hair within the frame of his arcing horns. The black sand clung to Felix’s skin. Farleigh turned a page. 

The description here is intended to throw focus on the somewhat horrific aspect of Oliver’s nature. What is the opposite of a dream?

Chapter 5: This one is a doozy of a chapter, particularly the Minotaollie dream.

Lots of descriptions of stars and allusions to stars. Corona Borealis is visible from March to July, and is associated with Ariadne, the Minotaur’s sister who fell for Theseus. Asterion, the Minotaur’s given name, means something like “starry one.”

There’s a lot in this dream where, unlike the end of Ch 3 when Oliver is resolute that he can master his own nature, he’s very much resigned to embody it. He was a beast. He was not human. Why should he try to hold himself within the narrow confines of what made a man? He was more, and he could give Felix more than any man ever could.

Notably it’s a tame beast (the ring through his nose). Oliver doesn’t really examine the implications of that.

Also of note is how easy it is for Oliver to take control of and reshape this dream, where in Ch 2 and Ch 3 he has less ability to do that. But those dreams happened before he started feeding on Felix, and after the party, Oliver has gotten a lot stronger…

The temple Oliver creates for them as a setting is mostly because, again, I want to evoke a sense of this being ceremonial, like a wedding as much as it is like a sacrifice.

Again, like in the dream of Ch2 there’s reference to lightning, and Oliver issues a command that makes the very light around him tremble 👀

Then later in the dream with Olivia —

Felix’s eyes popped open. His ceiling above was wallpapered with the pages of a book turned by an unseen hand. He sat up again.

This is a few things. One, it’s fun wild dream imagery. Two, is it possible he’s seeing something in his dream that’s actually through Oliver’s eyes…? (Three, it is also a shameless reference to Felix’s christmas present for Oliver in BOT, which is an unrelated universe but I indulged myself.)

This is so long already, oops. I’ll try to remember to do a part 2 once EN is finished to talk about the dreams for ch6-12.

[gotdamlost]

rp partners wanted (closed)

sup i'm bee. just another blog looking for long-term, rp partners who write with bts & like to chat ooc as well. i write on discord only & comfortably with those who are 21+. i am an enthusiastic roleplayer so i'd appreciate only reaching out if you feel like you can match that energy and if you'll actually communicate with me (not ghost). i become unmotivated going the whole nine yards with edits, playlists, pinterest boards, headcanons, etc. and not receiving the same energy or effort back. i'm over doing all the work to get a plot going. i'd also appreciate if there's some understanding on with patience & response times. i am not a person who's chronically online, so my responses are not instantaneous. roleplaying is a hobby i am trying to maintain with a full schedule. i extend the consideration to all who may partner up with me.

preferences

first and foremost, know IT'S OKAY TO SAY NO. its okay to say you do or don't like something. it's okay to say you are not feeling a plot or the vibes and discontinue interaction. people feel like just because we start plotting you're locked in. not at all. if i'm not a fit for you at any point just say so. i PROMISE you it's not gonna kill me or make me mad. in fact its better for everyone. people agree to be nice, because we exchanged discords and got so far. just be honest. it saves so much time. i enjoy: multi muse universes, world building, MAFIA/GANGS, slice of life / romance, friendships, sci-fi, fantasy, angst, found family, plots / AUs of media i’m familiar with. i kinda wanna try a/b/o if anyone wanna take a chance w me on that i'm selective with: school / university plots, fictional celebrity AUs i won't write: supernatural (vampire/ angel+demon/etc.), plots based on real world events ( COVID, etc. ), smut focused plots.

literate to adv. literate (para, multi-para, novellas possible) but i’m so low maintenance. my rule of thumb is matching my partner.

I only write member x member. I don't mind writing as the members themselves or using them as faceclaims.

I feel like I can capture most of the boys in writing, except Taehyung. My aces are hyung line, but i'll play anyone. I really don't bug over ships but a few of my favorites include but are not limited to namseok, namjin, namgi, 2seok, minimoni, vmon, & yoonjin. Not sure, just ask. I'm always open to explore dynamics. jikook / taekook gang i love you i see you and i'm happy to try and write together, but please don't rush me all at once lol.

NSFW and dark plots i'm chill with, but don't interact expecting just smut. If it's part of the overall plot, sure, but I have comfort levels. Important info to some so: i write all positions (top/switch/sub), stronger in some areas than others. I may not be the greatest but I write to learn.

i love doubling up, world building, and expanding the plot. i love collaborating with my writing partners. i don't like one sided plotting, i want to hear your contributions as well

at the point of plotting, if i don't hear back from you after a week, i'm dropping and moving on. no hard feelings, i really want to write and i've had enough of being ghosted by well-meaning people.

Feel free to like this post, drop into my IMs, or ask box to reach out for my discord tag if interested. If you've read this far, thanks for your time fr. hope to write with people soon.

EDIT: cutting this off for the time being while I get situated with plots. <3 Thank you for the interactions!

[mindutme]

Tlette Tlursday #11

Let’s talk about maps!

Tlette has two and a half words for maps, to refer to two very different kinds. The first kind is a tlalkequ /tɬaɬ.ˈkɛ.qu/, or tlalké /tɬaɬ.ˈke/ for short. The longer word is used in formal Tlette, and the shorter one in informal speech. Their plurals are tlalkeqúy /tɬaɬ.kɛ.ˈquj/ and tlalkéy /tɬaɬ.ˈkej/ respectively. This kind of map is relatively small-scale, used for navigation. The category includes street maps of towns and cities and maps of roads between nearby towns and cities, but not much larger-scale than that. The word comes from the verb kequ /ˈkɛ.qu/, meaning “to guide” or “to lead.” It’s derived as an inanimate agentive noun, like tlahllán, so it literally means “thing that guides.”

Tlalkéy are often very inacurrate in terms of scale and proportion. They’re not attempts to accurately depict the world as it is; instead, they’re navigational tools. They show how roads meet and what landmarks they are, which are the important things one needs when traveling, but will often distort distances and angles as a matter of convenience for the mapmaker and map-reader. In a way they’re a lot like subway maps!

From left to right: tlalkequ, tlalké, tlalkeqúy, tlalkéy, kequ.

To talk about the other kind of map, first I need to talk about the world where Tlette is spoken. I’ve talked a bit about it in some previous posts, but here’s a brief overview: it’s a fantasy world that is completely fixed in space, neither orbiting a sun nor rotating on an axis. It has no moon, so the only celestial objects are the stars, which don’t move in the sky—unless you travel. For every star in the sky, there’s a place on the surface of the world where that star is directly overhead, and for many cultures each star is thought of as a deity that protects that part of the world.

This is true of the Tlette people and their neighbors who speak Mindutme. The associations between places and stars are so strong that the Tlette word for the Mindutme speakers is Kottúllate, derived from name of the brightest star above where those people live. Many other exonyms in Tlette are derived from the names of stars rather than names from the respective languages. Tlette fiction even sometimes describes travelers journeying to far-off lands, referring to made-up places and peoples with names of stars that Tlette speakers are familiar with.

So the other kind of map that Tlette speakers use is called a kıssì /kɨs.ˈsɨ/, plural kısswí /kɨs.ˈswi/. The word comes from a borrowing from Old Mindutme, *kus suu, literally “star paper.” It’s basically a star map with additions, showing (usually with two different colors of ink) major stars and major cities, plus some combination of coastlines, rivers, roads, borders, and such.

kıssì, kısswí

Because kıssì maps are drawn so that the stars on the paper match the stars as they are seen in the sky, the geographical features on them are actually mirrored! If you were to travel using such a map, you would orient it with your destination at the bottom. That way, the stars above you are near the center of the map, and those nearer to the horizon ahead of you are at the bottom, and stars to your left are on the left side of the paper as well. You could also think of holding the map above your head to match up with the stars, in which case the bottom of the map actually is farther ahead. But Tlette speakers are used to mirrored maps, so they don’t usually do that.

The map at the top of the post is a kıssì. It’s more of a sketch, really, and not necessarily final—I’m not sure how much I want to even define the map of this world at all. Don’t look too closely or you’ll see I don’t really know much about how rivers work!

The map is labeled Tan Qelút /ˌtã.qɛ.ˈlut/, “The Known World,” though it’s a fairly small portion of the world. In black are the stars and national borders, drawn very abstractly. Some other maps may show borders in more detail, but they are often defined broadly as paths between major stars, and narrowly by geographical features that line up with those paths for a stretch. The large polygon is Lwé Tlette, and the smaller one to its left is Lwé Kottúllate, where Mindutme is spoken; the large star within that region is Kottú. A few other important stars are also labeled, and in purple are coastlines and rivers.

[campgender]

do you have any tips for online cruising? I’m new to kink in general but have lost a lot of mobility recently and my ability to socialize offline has diminished so while I want to amp up my sex/kink life I realize it needs to happen primarily online for now…

ooh what a fun question, i’m honored you asked me❣️ + i hope things are going as smoothly as possible for you in terms of adapting to your new mobility level! i went kind of broad here but you’re more than welcome to ask any other questions 💖

ofc all of this is with the major disclaimer that like, i’m just some faggot, i can only speak to what i’ve experienced + read, what works for you may differ substantially & that’s totally okay! on that note this is at times specific to tumblr or a similar posting platform as i’m not personally familiar with grindr etc

it’s fairly common practice in tumblr cruising spaces to make a notes app list or something similar with selected kinks, boundaries, etc, that way you can send it to a play partner for easy reference without necessarily sharing that information on a blog at large (though some people put similar reference lists in a pinned post, which is fine too!) not a requirement by any means but something you might find useful

consider what types of virtual sex acts you’re interested in / comfortable with (of course, it’s okay if this changes). options include sending and/or receiving photos, videos, or audio; a synchronous audio, two-way video, or one-way video call; and long distance app-controlled toys (eg Lovense)

what kind of check-in would you want afterwards, if anything? this can of course vary depending on the person & activity. at the expense of making a vast generalization, it’s my impression that in-person kink spaces promote norms of checking in a day or two after a scene by default (at least that’s what the texts i’ve read across various decades claim, which are certainly biased towards a positive portrayal of these communities in other ways) whereas in my experience (and to my dismay lol) this isn’t as much of a thing online, like there definitely have been people who’ve checked in with me without me asking but they were the exception

it can also be helpful to think about your feelings about fantasizing about scenarios you can’t physically do for disability reasons. there’s absolutely no right or wrong answer, it’s just another conversation i’ve had to hone over time lol. for probably 3 years i wouldn’t sext about stuff i couldn’t do (kneeling, for example) because it made me feel like shit about myself; then for a long while when “stuff i couldn’t do” almost always included “have sex in person,” i got more flexible about that, to different degrees with different people

you don’t have to talk about your sex life with anyone you don’t want to, but when possible it can be helpful to have a buddy (whether they cruise / have casual sex / whatever themself or not) to talk things out with if you have a negative experience or are worried or confused about something. i am very good at construing any situation to be my fault so if i’m triggering it’s helpful to give one of my housemates the basics of what happened & them be like you didn’t do anything wrong / they shouldn’t have done that / etc. i’m also happy to be a sounding board (as long as any ask/dm has the relevant content warnings) with the caveat that i can’t guarantee a prompt response. sex-positive resources like Scarleteen are also good grounding tools for me in terms of like, other people believe in these consent practices too

one aspect to consider especially with D/s play is the (potential) difference between messaging about a shared fantasy versus one person telling the other what to do in real time (for example, “and then i’d make you shake your tits for me” versus “now shake your tits for me baby,” or whatever).

for a lot of people the latter is a different set of boundaries, including being totally off the table. being told what to do, even without videoing it or otherwise ‘proving it’ to the other person, can be an incredibly intense experience and might create feelings in someone that they weren’t expecting

as an example of a boundary i learned the hard way, someone once told me like “shut up, stop typing. do XYZ” & it made me feel like i couldn’t message to safeword if i wanted to. ig just like, even if it’s not a big deal to you be aware that it could be a big deal to others, you know? & if it is a big deal to you that’s okay

personally i tend to tell play partners i’m fine with casual sexting whenever but need to set aside a dedicated time for a scene (for example, telling someone how to touch themself) which usually means scheduling in advance

it’s absolutely not your fault if someone does something without asking, but if you’re interested in subbing, it could be helpful to have a plan ahead of time for how you want to respond if someone just starts ordering you around. there’s nothing wrong with not responding the way you planned, i just feel less overwhelmed & more in control when i’m less caught off guard

as far as like finding virtual play partners i only know what i do lol

go into relevant tumblr tags for what i’m into, sort by most recent posts, read until i find something i’m into, see if that person is looking for hookups. if so check out their blog based on my, like, cruising criteria or whatever lol; if not maybe follow them if other posts are good. repeat

different like communities & kinks & such have different norms for getting around tumblr censored tags, sometimes making things one word or various positions of periods or slashes. “example k!nk” (that’s an exclamation point instead of an i) is a common format, same with adding “nsft” (not safe for tumblr). if you’re looking for disabled play partners and/or disabled porn the “disabled nsft” tag could be a good place to start!

i look in the notes of posts i think are particularly hot (or my own posts) for tags that are hot, interesting, or well-organized & check out those blogs

same for posts that make points about consent etc that i particularly agree with

so you’ve found somebody whose posts you think are hot who’s looking for / open to new play partners, now what? ofc everybody’s different but some of the stuff i look for when deciding whether to message someone:

do they have a tag or similar for serious posts, such as about consent, stereotypes, communication, etc? do they seem to have compatible views to yours?

can they recognize when they should (or when you’d want them to) drop character? some people’s blog personas are “always on” in a way that’s not compatible with what i need; someone adding an aside at the end of an ask they’ve answered to clarify or provide reassurance goes a long way

i’m not sure how to describe this exactly but like, is there flexibility & room for disagreement in their language? this is again a personal preference but while people taking a firm tone & making (unconscious?) assumptions & whatever can still be hot when i’m jerking off or something, it’s super stylistically incompatible with what i want in practice. the play partners i’ve been most compatible with are the ones who’ve answered asks more like “are you into X? if so i would do Y. or if not that’s totally fine, i’d just do Z 💕”

do they express their boundaries with other people?

i hope some of this is helpful! best of luck to you & have fun❣️

[dappersheep]

Hello! I don’t have an idea if this question bothers or maybe even triggers you, but if it is, feel free to ignore my message.

I’ve always been interested in mental disorders. It goes without saying that this topic is very relevant nowadays. So…

What do you think about mental disorders in the world of Food Fantasy? I mean, if I’m not mistaken, Tteokguk has a confirmed PTSD, according to his story. Is there a possibility that the other Food Souls may have any mental disorder? Do you have someone on your mind that can have a mental disorder? Of course only in terms of pure speculations, but still. We can even talk about Pasta Splatoon, why not?

Hello, the topic itself doesn't bother me so it's all good. This could get long so the rest of the answer is under the cut.

Since you're asking my opinion, mental disorders of course exist on Tierra. It's just that we have to note two things approaching this: 1) Mental disorders will not always be explicitly stated, mostly implied. A show-not-tell kind of narrative. And 2) Not all Food Souls will be able to understand the concept of a mental disorder. Most would likely prefer not to pay attention to it as just because they're human-like, doesn't mean they understand human workings. Some may even think such a thing is below them, as they're not humans and do not feel things the way humans do.

While I'm not familiar with Tteokguk's case beyond knowing he participated heavily in a war that took a toll on him, I am more familiar with others. So I can give you an example in Borscht. While she may not look it, some of her voice lines and her bio allude to her having PTSD from being hunted down in the snow, being in an environment that's too quiet, certain kinds of birds and of course, Vodka. In chapter 3 of her bio, she had a flashback that triggered that PTSD but she recovered quickly enough. I'm sure that Spaghetti did notice it, but he didn't want to coddle her, neither of them would know how to handle that and the best he could do is to cut short their business talk and let her rest for the night. For the most part, she has it under control and it doesn't affect her day-to-day affairs. The forever missing Skin Story event we never got could even offer some closure to some of the things that haunted her, then she was finally able to move on from those ghosts (no it has nothing to do with Vodka).

There's also Oyster. Mm, as far as I see, he's a classic case of neglect and abuse. This of course, stemming from the villagers and his Master Attendant, who all saw him as an omen onto their homes despite saving them from Fallen Angels. He has an aversion to being touched, trust issues and uses annoyance and anger as a defense mechanism. Spaghetti saw the signs and respected Oyster's demand that he didn't enter his space, didn't touch him but gave Oyster the choice to leave that place that has nothing good for him. He had Oyster spend more time with Borscht who let him get used to light errands that slowly socialized him with humans, and then herself and Spaghetti as the Food Soul interactions. So in a way, these two gave him a place to heal and feel some sense of normalcy, even if it's not loudly stated. And Oyster is grateful that these two gave him that chance.

Spaghetti himself is… I can't really say that he has any mental disorders. Melancholy, emotional baggage, emotional constipation and extreme spite for a certain subset of people, sure, but not any disorder. The rest of Desire Tavern doesn't quite fit mental disorders as much either. I'd put it this way: Just because they had experienced something bad in the past doesn't automatically translate to developing a visceral reaction to anything that reminds them of that bad thing, or developing a mental problem. I'd mostly chalk up their responses to range from, 'Oh she's plotting to beat you up' to 'She's not going to react at all to that'.

For other mental disorders… I'd say Souffle has a form of Dissociative disorder, kind of obvious with the existence of Dark Souffle and Souffle being unable to remember much of what happened while the other was in control.

Also Kaiserschmarrn and Whiskey definitely fall into the category of Psychopaths, textbook classics in varying degrees. As seen in the final chapters of Kaiser's event, he's made his ultimate goal very clear to everyone and is not above manipulation, threats and collateral damage to make things go his way. Even his own short introduction text states that while loyalty and safety of his companions is important, that's not the most important things on his mind.

And Whiskey… is Whiskey. We're all aware of his body count and shenanigans all across Tierra.

As for autism… off the top of my head, I don't know if B-52 particularly fits the bill for that because in the first place, he thinks he's a machine and not a Food Soul, and has thought that way for a very, very long time that it becomes a hard conditioning to get rid of. He's started to learn to be less 'mechanical' from the few cameos I've seen of him, but he's still stilted and not very good in communicating what he wants to say or the attention he gets. Again, I don't know if that fits the medical definition of autism but everyone's free to headcanon.

That's as much as I got for you. Feel free to respond again if I didn't really answer your question.

[adamwatchesmovies]

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

We’ve come a long way from 2000’s Dungeons & Dragons. Not only in terms of special effects but also in terms of performances, storytelling and most importantly, fun. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a blast. There’s humor, memorable characters brought to life by a great cast and an energy that makes you feel like the people on-screen are part of your circle of friends. It truly captures the feeling of a session played with your buddies.

After escaping from prison, bard Edgin Darvis (Chris Pine) and barbarian Holga Kilgore (Michelle Rodriguez) set out to find Edgin’s daughter, Kira (Chloe Coleman). She’s been deceived into believing her father has abandoned her. To prove he was imprisoned for “the right reasons”, Edgin has to retrieve a Tablet of Reawakening - trying and failing to steal one is what landed him in prison. With the tablet, he can bring his late wife back to life and his family will truly be whole. The nearest tablet is in a vault in Neverwinter. To get it, Edgin and Holga need to assemble a team.

This film’s got a great cast. Some names, you’ll recognize. Some, you won’t. Hugh Grant plays Forge Fitzwilliam, an ambitious con artist/rogue, Bradley Cooper has a small role as Holga’s ex-husband and Justice Smith is Simon Aumar, a half-elf sorcerer whose magical skills… are hit-and-miss. You probably won't be familiar with Sophia Lillis, who plays Doric, a tiefling shapeshifter, but she'll have your attention after this. It’s a pretty steep competition for who wears this campaign the best but I’m going to hand the award not to the ever charismatic Chris Pine or to Hugh Grant (equally charming) but to Michelle Rodriguez. Most recently, we've been seeing her in the “Fast & Furious” films, where the theme of "family" is emphasized endlessly. What that franchise built over 10 films, “Honor Among Thieves” manages to do in one. Holga and Edgin are not romantically involved but she’s basically Kira’s surrogate mother. Although she never says how much the little girl means to her (that would be very un-barbarian-like), you feel it, particularly during the film’s conclusion. This movie makes you care about its characters effortlessly. Think about that. This movie has all sorts of races and half-races, wild monsters, crazy locations, spells and other things that make it as different from our world as possible. Yet, the characters feel like real people, the kind you’d be delighted to follow on another adventure once this one wraps up.

The screenplay by Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley and Michael Gilio (the first two also serve as the picture’s directors) has an episodic feel. I mean that in a good way. For our heroes to accomplish their main quest, they have to complete a bunch of smaller side quests, each leading into the next while revealing a conspiracy brewing in Neverwinter. The stakes build atop each other as the team learns to work as a unit and their tactics become increasingly inventive. There are plenty of jokes along the way but the film still takes itself seriously. By this, I mean that “Dungeons & Dragons” doesn’t make fun of itself or its audience. The humor comes from the world and its citizens. To them, all of this is normal. A magical spell allowing you to talk to the dead is neat but not mind-blowing, so it’s easy to take for granted. If you or I got a hand on that spell, we’d be super careful not to waste it. Them? Nah.

We’ve seen many movies over the years that have felt like a long campaign someone played and thought was so great it deserved to be turned into a movie. Rarely have any of them felt like an adventure you wanted to be involved with. This quest? by the time it’s over, you’ll feel like you were part of the ride all along. As a heist movie, it’s great. As a comedy, it has laughs to spare. As a fantasy film, it's got cool creatures, engaging lore and a smart take on its mythology. At the box office, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" didn’t make nearly enough money to earn itself a sequel, which is a real shame. For now, I guess I’ll settle for the after-credit scene. (August 19, 2023)

[mdhwrites]

Jumbled Thoughts: Trauma in Fantasy Media, Featuring The Owl House

So trauma in the real world is complicated and surprisingly easy to be afflicted by. Anything intense, threatening, or violent can cause it in at least the short term. It causes an intense emotional reaction much of the time, ranging from completely shutting down as a person for a while to feeling compelled to do everything in your power to stop it from ever happening. An easy example of this might be that you even just SEE someone being stabbed and that shakes you to your core and you run away. In a fantasy setting, you get stabbed... You punch the fucker in the face and finish the fight. Someone threatens to tear you limb from limb if you don’t give them your secrets? Spit in their eye and tell them that your friends are coming and when they get there, you’ll wish you’d never been born. Monster’s acid blood melts through your armor? Who cares? You’re the one who stepped into its maw briefly to stab it where it was unprotected and you now walk out triumphant, if in need of new pants. This is more a feature not a bug of fantasy media though. If the threats in most fantasy media were taken seriously, put to what we would expect of actual reality, most heroes would be considered homicidal maniacs, most people would live in constant fear of goblins and the whole place would just suck in general. Most fantasy media isn’t looking to do that. It’s to present a world far beyond our own, with problems familiar but fantastical that can be taken out in a wide range of ways to promote character growth, challenge, etc. It’s part of what makes fantasy hard for many to approach, especially fantasy adventure, let alone fantasy, comedy adventure where many of these points made me played for laughs, but also what makes it so appealing to fantasy junkies like me. I ADORE a good fantasy story. One that embraces its elements, explores the wonders and mixes in a few fights here and there when possible. It’s probably why the first season of both Amphibia and The Owl House are pieces of media I ADORE. Amphibia has this wonderful world where the monsters are so normal that if you heard news they plucked three from town last night, you would probably ask that they move onto something actually interesting. Meanwhile, in The Owl House’s first season, if your best friend was suddenly pickled in a jar and being sold to you and told it was done entirely legally, you’d probably understand because everyone is running a grift and trying to scam you. Some highlights from The Owl House season 1 that’s also actually important context for what I’m going to talk about going forward: (if you want to skip these, look for the next bit of highlighted text about what DOES cause trauma in fantasy media) A monster hunter who’s dream since being a child has been to shove kids off a cliff. He admits that he was a weird kid but then gleefully pushes the main characters to their dooms, for them to only be saved by a branch. It’s amazing. The main character gets into a magical duel they have no way of winning except for traps laid down by their mentor. When asked what they’re doing, they just candidly shout, “TRYING NOT TO DIE!” In a grand moment of social commentary, a book publisher reveals that when his authors don’t meet deadlines, he crunches them. No, not like that. He puts them in a cube and if they don’t finish the book, it shrinks until they are a cube. And yes, the main character and a member of their found family are put in this situation and barely escape in time. Honestly, barely worse than actual crunch culture.

So if this is how traumatizing, life threatening moments are treated in fantasy... What does cause trauma in a fantasy setting? Well, you have effectively three flavors of trauma you can go with. 1. Backstory Trauma: This is the widest version of trauma in fantasy settings mostly because the damage done can commonly be the most extreme and the effects the most undermined as just a character flaw, not entirely a trauma response. It’s commonly something to justify why they’re angry or warns of something irrational they may do in the future. This is your classic “Big Bad ruined my life” situations. You know “For you, it was the day your parents died, but for me... It was a Tuesday.” The character who still wants vengeance for their parents is going to punch him in the face but the character who was cowed by the big bad by the events might actually be convinced their cause is hopeless and temporarily defect. This is also where you get all the rogues who sit in the corner of the tavern just waiting to tell their tales as they brood away from the rest of the party and I ONLY HAVE SO MUCH TIME TO PLAY D&D STEVE! 2. “I was too late” trauma: This is the one that can commonly be used for backstory trauma but is also just as likely to come up in story. A character plans, prepares, etc. like that and in the time they were planning, a catastrophe happens that they arrive JUST too late to have stopped. Bonus points if the threat was actually smaller than they had expected and thus the planning was unnecessary. This commonly leads to a fatalistic emboldening of the character. If I could have gotten there in time, then the mistake than the planning. Period. So they act more on their own, don’t gather intel, don’t bring everything they should, etc. like that until finally their lack of preparedness brings them head to head with a creature they SHOULD have been able to fight if they were thinking normally. However, because they’ve decided their actions cannot be questioned, they didn’t read obvious warning signs and are now likely to be killed themselves. After this trauma is usually a tempering of the character. They show signs of the trauma by having quick remedies to a lot of things (this is going to be your diplomat with three hidden knives on their person but it’s not for a gag) so that they require less prep time. So that if a situation calls for immediate action, they are less likely to stumble into a trap ill prepared but also don’t need to work for an hour to have everything they need to face it. 3. “I was tricked” trauma: This is actually probably THE MOST COMMON sort of fantasy trauma... And the most infuriating because it’s really easy to do wrong. But before I get into its issues, what is it? It’s the classic “Bad guy tells good guy while in disguise thing is X. Good guy goes and helps bad guy because he thinks he is doing a good thing for someone in need of help. When good guy is done, X turns out either to be exactly what the bad guy needed or is actually some incredibly cursed, evil artifact. Either way, good guy suddenly leads to a LOT of people dead.” It’s also a very classic backstory trauma for old hero turned evil with this having been why they disappeared some time ago. This is because of WHY it’s done. Most heroes, especially fantasy heroes, are fairly paragon in their behavior. If there is a wrong happening, it must be righted. This makes it easy to trick them, so the bad guy is exploiting a known weakness in their foe, and causes a crises in themselves when the task is over. After all, how can your morals be good when they can be used for such evil? When done right, it’s actually a lot more about what the thing released was rather than the act of helping the villain. After all... They were tricked. No one can say their actions were wrong because they had literally no reason to question their actions. This isn’t like with planning where there are pros and cons. If you’re told that this good object will save a dying town and then face melts everyone, that’s not on you. That’s the bad guy being an asshole. Move the fuck on. BUT. The hero getting to see a bunch of people face melted as a direct response to their actions? That can be more compelling. Not great, but more compelling. You can have them grow inherently distrustful of magical artifacts, maybe even their own equipment, especially if this was an alternate use for an otherwise benign artifact. It can be a moment when a naive hero goes into a blood rage as the depravity of the villain is thrown into their face and they are shown just how much crueler the big bad is than the normal assholes they face. BUT. When done wrong... (If you want to skip this, you can, just go to the next bold text) Let’s Talk About Luz, the main character in The Owl House,  Being Tricked By Phillip Whitebane. Season 2 spoilers for The Owl House. So, quick synopsis: Luz goes back in time to get help with finding a way home after having destroyed her own. There she finds the human who originally built a portal between the human realm. He sweet talks Luz into helping him get a relic that she’s theoretically looking for and then reveals that “No, I just needed bait for the artifact’s guardian. Now please go die while I peace out.” Said artifact’s effects are unknown to Luz at this time. She just thinks she accidentally helped some asshole. This is until, in the Big Bad of the show’s mind, it’s revealed Phillip and him are one and the same! So she inadvertently helped him in the past do... Something. What? Still don’t know by that point actually but she already hates herself for it. For helping a dude get a random artifact and that dude eventually being the big bad. Worse yet, this wasn’t something she specifically had to do. The artifact’s guardian isn’t attracted to humans over magical creatures anyway, it was just a beast. He actually complains that the last person he used as bait died too quickly. She was just the pawn he eventually found and it’s convenient she was a time traveler that episode. She sped up his time to find this artifact by like a couple months, not was the only way he could get it. But... Going forward, this is a secret she will treat as if it were some mortal sin. That somehow literally everyone would hate her for having done this. You know... Despite the fact that she had someone who LITERALLY WAS THE BIG BAD’S RIGHT HAND WOMAN FOR THE FIRST SEASON with her and encouraging this the entire time. Mind you, by the time she has decided that this is a traumatic moment, she doesn’t know how important the artifact is. I won’t spoil what it is other than it is important but she has already set the stakes without knowing if the artifact she got even directly led to the person becoming the big bad. Without knowing if any lives were lost because of it. Hell, because she ended up beating the guardian beast, she could even make a claim to have saved the lives of any and all who Phillip would have used anyways. And again, she didn’t do this alone. She was a hero doing hero things for reasonable reasons for a person who, when helping them, she has no reason to think is any worse than any of the asshole who tried to kill her in season 1. Now if someone wanted to make the case that she was still selfish in her actions here... In literally the second episode, her desire to be special and live by the rules of a fantasy world in a video game leads to her almost dying while she is tricked into being bait for her mentor and someday found family mother to be brought out to her death. Her selfish desires, while also being told she was doing something positive, DIRECTLY led to the endangerment of someone taking care of her and almost got herself killed. She acts a little sad about this before her mentor cheers her up and they MOVE ON. Worse yet, this trauma, if taken seriously, should make Luz not want to act as much on her own or for her own goals. Those are things that directly led to the mistake. If she wants to repentant for these things, thinks that doing this sort of mistake is beyond redemption, she should shift her behavior accordingly. Or, you know, constantly for the rest of the season continue to believe in her actions above all, act on her own, etc. like that. Because TRAUMA! Right? Well...

Why this example? Why any of this if traumatic events are usually ignored in fantasy media?

For the same reason they’re used in any story: To challenge a character and commonly lead to character growth. To put a character in a position that challenges them and their normal motives in a way that is incredibly emotional and demands a response. Demands they do something in accordance to what had happened before. It’s also commonly set to challenge the core of the character because the drama of an event that even the audience may accept is traumatic needs to be a big deal. It can’t be ignored. As a note, this is part of why Women in Refrigerators is so awful because it’s very cheap, quick trauma that is commonly unnecessary and doesn’t actually add to the character or challenge them. That’s also the problem with half assing your trauma or not thinking about the source. In real life, trauma LITERALLY DEMANDS A RESPONSE. There’s a reason it’s called a trauma response when someone gets triggered and shuts down. Or fights. Or does anything that is correlated to the past pain they had felt and are now being reminded of and possibly re-experiencing. Because trauma is related to intense emotional pain usually coinciding with a threat against your life. That’s why something as simple as a car crash can be traumatizing. Since I got in my last crash, which came out of nowhere as I tried to get out of a restaurant and onto the street, I have definitely demanded more clearance than I did before before doing anything like that again. A part of my brain is just hardwired to be worried that if I don’t check five times, I’ll have a truck suddenly smash the side of whoever’s car I’m driving. It wasn’t even a bad crash. The dude had turned through an intersection near where I was coming out and so it was just kind of “Sucks but not much that could have been done about it” situation done at fairly low speeds. It still affected me though because I don’t live in a fantasy world. Brushes with threats don’t happen to me very often. Not so true for characters who even spend a few months in a reasonably dangerous fantasy world. You have to get used to it... Or die. Become nothing because the strain of looking over your shoulder would become too much. Which is why I chose that example. Yes, it’s a kid’s show so they can’t go too far (I say in a show where they have ripped off someone’s arm permanently now and symbolically shown the corpses of a dozen past incarnations of a character to that character) but this is still bad. There is no satisfying arc to fixing the trauma, because anyone with two braincells would tell the character experiencing it that they were tricked and they don’t hold it against them like they claim they would, and there is no satisfying change to the character because of it because they double down on the behavior that caused the mistake, not the other way around, and not for particularly any good reason except they’re the main character so they need to keep doing things. And when fantasy does trauma like that... Well, for as much as I love the genre, I can’t really blame anyone who questions why I do. ======== I have a public Discord for any and all who want to join!

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I wonder if Battler took fencing or some other type of blade training, prior to returning to Rokkenjima.

Spoilers ahead, for stuff during Alliance as well as everything past Alliance, so I’ll put the rest under the cut.

When Jessica and George were fighting with Ronove and Gaap, their punches and kicks were imbued with magic - if I’m remembering the scene correctly.

Battler, when using the blue truth at the end of Alliance, manifests his words as shards that pierce Beatrice’s body during their debate. Then, during End of the Golden Witch, when he ascends as Lord BATTLER - the Golden Sorcerer - he gets the sword which is now used for Blue truths, Red truths, and, later, the Golden truth.

Working off the basis that George and Jessica both had some level of training in fighting (boxing for Jessica, martial arts for George) that would also mean Battler was similar in that he was used to handling bladed weapons. Obviously, since it isn’t legal to go toting an actual sword around, it would be more for sport or ceremony over actual combat - but he’d still have that training.

It’s likely training in Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) over Japanese Bladed Arts (I’m using a broad term here because there are a few different styles and I need more research on that because it’s really interesting -?) because it seems to be a longsword that Battler is using.

In Legend, Battler (or his piece) mentions that all the training and shady mail-order drugs paid off and led to his growth spurt, if I recall correctly.

I take that with a grain of salt though, because I believe (someone please correct if I am wrong) that it was Sayo who wrote both Legend and Turn of the Golden Witch. Banquet onwards are forgeries written by Tohya and Ikuko.

Piece Battler’s characterization, at least in Legend and Turn, can’t be a wholly accurate representation of Battler because - he isn’t actually Battler. It is Sayo trying to write Battler, and filling in blanks with what she remembers of a child from six years ago and what might have changed.

Sayo doesn’t know what happened to Battler over those six years - doesn’t know what ways he has changed or stayed the same, doesn’t know anything other than possibly what she overhears Rudolf or Ange (or less likely, Kyrie) mention in passing.

His behavior on the game boards is what she expects/hopes he will be like (not those exact words, but they’re the best thing that comes to mind at the moment).

He surely is a good estimation of Battler’s character - at least on a superficial level, because I think pieces can’t act inaccurately to how the real person would act - and also because Battler (meta) never mentions there’s an inaccuracy in how his piece is behaving.

Tohya, on the other hand, would have a better grasp on ‘Battler’. Because he was born from Battler’s death - the death of Battler’s consciousness, at least, as they both lived in the same body. But he has some of Battler’s memories, would remember things from those six years that Sayo wouldn’t know about.

Hence why, when Battler solves Beatrice’s game and comes to understand her heart, his magic manifests as a sword. Tohya might remembering Battler training with blades before - and like Jessica and George having their martial arts imbued with magic, Tohya wrote the same thing for Battler.

From a Fantasy perspective, Magic takes the shape of something familiar, or likewise imbues an ability of a person with more strength, or stamina, etc.

Jessica has her fists, George would (primarily) have his legs, and Battler gets a damn sword. Because he knows how to use a damn sword.

…considering Black Battler was either created by Sayo and ‘appropriated’ by Tohya, or was created by Tohya himself, does that mean Battler knew how to use a gun?

Also, Black Battler is a very cruel and sadistic character derived from Battler. He and Battler are not the same, just like Battler and Tohya are separate people - but it makes me wonder how much of Black Battler originally came from the darker thoughts in Battler’s subconscious.

…and now I’m thinking on Black Battler. A post for another time, possibly. I know very little about Black Battler, so that could actually be some time from now.

I’m sure there are one hundred holes to poke through my words with, but this is just me rambling on headcanons and meta. While I reread Umineko, it will probably shift a hundred thousand times, haha.

TLDR: I think Battler might have had a level of fencing training, or other usage in bladed weaponry - either ceremonial or in actual practice matches.

[jinxtheratgoth]

Looking for long term partners!

Hello hello hello!

I’m Jinx, female, mid 20’s! I’m looking to get some long term partners over email! Preferably SFW, I tend to shy away from smut, especially if I’m not familiar with my partner. I typically go F/F pairings, but I’m willing to go M/F or F/M, whatever makes you happy.

Dark themes are ok! I usually go between three or six replies, more if the story’s going really good. I’m usually good for one or two replies a day. It would be great if you were about the same. I am not a HUGE cow when it comes to grammar, as long as I get the general gist of what you’re communicating I’m likely not to care. Spelling and punctuation are a bit more important to me.

I typically write in 3rd person, past tense. You do whatever you like. It makes no difference to me.

My Hero Academia is my preferred, cannon or OC, I’m fine with both, as long as everyone involved is 18+ (I will not budge on that).

Harry Potter would be pretty cool, but I would prefer OC x OC, but I will settle for OC x Cannon, just because the world itself is so built that having our own characters would be the best way to be creative. Again, all characters must be 18+.

General Sci-fi would be another good one. I would be good for Starwars or a made-from-scratch universe, whatever works for you. My Starwars knowledge is limited, so if you’re willing to hold my hand we can do that!

Fantasy is another of my favorites. I’m a huge DnD fan so I’m well versed in that nerdy stuff.

I’m also super crossover friendly. If you have a fandom I know nothing about, I am more than willing to do an OC in it, as long as you’re patient with me blindly stumbling in the universe!

My email is jinxtheratgoth@protonmail.com . Please introduce yourself, and please feel free to ask me anything! I check my email periodically throughout the day, so please don’t be unsettled if I reply quickly!

I’m from the US East coast, but my sleep schedule is so irresponsible that I could be up at pretty much any time.

Hope to hear from you soon!

[afterthefeast]

definitely not a new thought but one thing dragon age origins did really well is how it created a balance between familiar fantasy tropes and a distinct, exciting world. some parts of its worldbuilding are silly (that is not how a matriarchal religion should work. it should have an oral culture etc) but nonetheless thedas feels very real and immersive and lived-in. it’s not at all generic and has its own identity, but it’s simultaneously very easy to orient yourself as a player once you get dropped into thedas. i think part of that is because it uses familiar fantasy clichés to good effect - dragon age dwarves and elves have their own fictional identities but are still recognisably dwarves and elves. ferelden is basically your standard medieval fantasy land refreshed, so while exploring thedas doesn’t feel old or generic it’s comparatively easy to situate your character within it. obviously the origins do most of the heavy lifting in terms of character building but they still need a world that maintains that balance in order to work, and i think dao managed to make that world really effectively.

i was just thinking about this in contrast to baldur’s gate 3, which cannot escape the fact that it’s a d&d ip and thus ultimately feels like a generic fantasy-land (because that’s what the forgotten realms is), and pillars of eternity, which is a legitimately new and exciting fantasy world but one that is less familiar to the player. that is a criticism of bg3 (and d&d by extension), but not of poe (new and exciting fantasy worldbuilding is good). but i’ve often struggled to create PCs for poe that feel real and actually connected to the world they come from in comparison to how laughably easy it is for me to make a dragon age oc with a full backstory in minutes. part of this is because the watcher cannot be from the dyrwood, so you have to create a whole life for them in a place you don’t get to see, and that’s hard. but it’s also because the conventions of the poe world rely a little less on just subverting traditional fantasy instead of making new things.

conversely, in bg3 it’s really easy to create a tav insofar as there’s room for basically anything to happen before the nautiloid. and forgotten realms lore is so influential on the fantasy genre the average player will be familiar enough with its basic contours even if they don’t know much about d&d, so they probably won’t come up with anything that contradicts its basic rules. but conversely that’s also a character that could exist in a lot of fictional IPs - it’s less intrinsically connected to the soil of faerûn than the warden is to ferelden, i think.

i don’t think any of this makes dao a better game than bg3 or poe in itself, but i do think it’s a particular strength of dragon age that i’m noticing more and more as i play other fantasy crpgs.

[bloomin-plume]

Hello! Welcome to my Masterpost!

You can call me Blossom or Kat, I'm 25+ and I'm always lookin' for writing buddies! So feel free to like this post or DM me if you're interested!

thanks for checkin' it out either way, if you do!

⤹ ˚₊‧ I hope you have a wonderful day `*:;,·♡.°

𝕋𝕚𝕞𝕖 ℤ𝕠𝕟𝕖 :

→ Hawaii Standard Time

→ My schedule is admittedly unpredictable except for Tuesdays 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm and Saturday and Sunday 9:00 am -12:00 pm, I will not be around at those hours.

ℝ𝕠𝕝𝕖𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪 ℙ𝕣𝕖𝕗𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤 :

→ I prefer to have a server on discord so we can talk about our sillies all we want in designated channels, and also have the option to have more than one rp going on at once if we are so inclined {I am usually so inclined}

→ 1x1 {Im not opposed to group rps if they're small, I just get a little overwhelmed sometimes}

→ I love to do fandom based roleplays but I also LOVE to do fandom-less roleplays :)

→ Oc x Oc {Its not often that I will rp a canon character (if it happens I prefer oc x cc and I almost always will want to double up)}

→ BxG {Its just what I'm most comfortable writing as far as romance, I'm sorry if that bothers you. In any other genre I will do any gender pairing}

→ Semi-Literate to Literate writing lengths {and always in 3rd person point of view}

(Im willing to try novella but I'm still learning how to maintain that length long term, I'm willing to try if you'd like though!)

→ Please talk to me outside of our roleplay, I can't vibe with the "just writing no friending" situation 🥲

{I need to discuss the sillies or I will perish}

→ I don't need a heads up before you vanish but it is extremely appreciated when possible

𝕋𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕘𝕖𝕣𝕤 :

→ Detailed bedroom scenes

𝕆𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕋𝕠 ℕ𝕠𝕥𝕖 :

-I can deal with a little touchy feely stuff, but anything too in depth is outta the question for me, sorry 😔

→ I'm not a fan of supernatural/magic themes

-Magical girl type stuff and mermaids and fairies are like passable, but for the most part it makes me uncomfy, I'm open to discussing more in depth my likes and dislikes though, I like fantasy settings and plots

→ I may feel inclined to draw our OCs, and I might ask before hand, but sometimes I end up mindlessly doodling familiar faces so if you're not a fan of that

𝔽𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕞𝕤 :

well

I don't think I'm the right person for you 😂

→ I have a lot of characters who speak languages I don't speak (mainly Japanese and Spanish, I know some but I'm not fluent yet) so I apologize in advance for any bad translations 😂😭🙏

→ I talk a lot lol

and I usually tend to send messages even when I'm fairly certain you are busy or not around so if I'm talking too much or sending too many messages let me know please-

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𝙴𝚖𝚘𝚓𝚒 𝙺𝚎𝚢 ;

❤️ 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 1-20 𝙾𝙲𝚜

💬 𝙸 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝙲

🤷‍♀️ 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚗𝚘 𝙾𝙲𝚜

💔 𝙸'𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝙾𝙲𝚜 𝚞𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚏𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚢

* 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢 𝚊 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝙵𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖

+ 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚢 𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚁𝙿 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚢

<> 𝙾𝚌𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚑𝚢𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚒𝚡𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝙸 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖

(don't let this one dissuade you from asking to rp it, its on the list for a reason lol)

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{They are in alphabetical order}

→ Adventure Time ❤️<>

→ Avatar ❤️

→ Avatar: The Last Airbender ❤️*

→ DC ❤️*

→ Encanto ❤️*+

→ Haikyuu ❤️*<>

→ Inuyasha 🤷‍♀️*

→ Jujutsu Kaisen 💬

→ The Legend of Zelda 💬*

→ Miraculous Ladybug ❤️*<>

→ My Hero Academia ❤️*

→ One Piece ❤️

→ Ouran Highschool Host Club ❤️*

→ Over The Garden Wall 🤷‍♀️*

→ Overwatch ❤️*

→ Spiderverse ❤️*+

→ Studio Ghibli 💬*

→ Tokyo Mew Mew ❤️*

{ There are other fandoms I’m in, I just can’t remember anymore haha}

*List of Characters I play*

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𝙴𝚖𝚘𝚓𝚒 𝙺𝚎𝚢 ;

>:) 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗

:) 𝙸'𝚖 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗

:') 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖, 𝙸'𝚖 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

Sokka :')

Toph :)

Zuko :)

DC

Garfield Logan >:)

Jaime Reyes :)

Harley Quinn :)

Dick Greyson :)

Wally West >:)

Barry Allen :)

Encanto

Bruno Madrigal >:)

Camilo Madrigal >:)

Pepa Madrigal :)

Alma Madrigal :)

Isabela Madrigal :)

Haikyuu

Tsukishima Kei >:)

Tadashi Yamaguchi :)

Asashi Azumane :)

Kenma Kozume >:)

Inuyasha

Inuyasha >:)

The Legend of Zelda

Link :')

Ravio :')

Miraculous Ladybug

Chat Noir/Adrien Agreste >:)

My Hero Academia

Katsuki Bakugo :)

Fumikage Tokoyami :)

Hanta Sero :')

Ouran Highschool Host Club

Tamaki Suoh :)

Kyouya Ootori :')

Mitsukuni Haninozuka >:)

Over The Garden Wall

Wirt >:)

Overwatch

Angela Ziegler >:)

Hana Song :)

Hanzo Shimada :')

Spiderverse

Hobie Brown >:)

Miguel O'Hara :)

Peter B. Parker :')

Studio Ghibli

Howl Pendragon >:)

Jiro Horikoshi >:)

Tokyo Mew Mew

Ichigo Momomiya :)

Minto Aizawa >:)

Lettuce Midorikawa :)

Quiche :)

Pai :')

Tart :')

Feel free to request other characters as well, if I can play them I will try haha

As I said before, I'm extremely partial to playing OCs so any canon character I write is liable to be at least a little out of character if not more than a little lol, but I will try my best :)

Slowly I'll likely post my HCs for each character !