#also random fact is like...hard

[nadiajustbe]

The other thing I immensely love about Bartimaeus of Uruk is how inhuman he is. Usually in media authors tend to "humanise" inhuman characters, by giving them stable human appearance or/and character traits. This vampire is actually a 17yo guy. This devil is a 30yo man. This magical god is a always teenage girl and they act accordingly. This is an easy route. Johnathan Stroud doesn't chose it.

Bartimaeus is not a woman but nor he is a man (even despite using he/him pronounce primarily it is canon all spirits are genderless out of nature, some just stend to stick more to one gender than the other). Sure he is not a "child" but nor he is an "adult", because he was never a human in the first place and was never fully presented as either of this. He doesn't devide love in platonic and romantic and doesn't feel a need to clarify. He struggles to explains the way he thinks and difficult for it to translate it to a human reader. He doesn't act as someone of a particular age in "human" understanding as well. He knows thousands of languages and switches between them. He loves humanity and yet still has an unique outside perception of it because he's not a human. He doesn't fit in any of human boxes to check, he's everything and nothing at once. He can look an act of any age or gender or feeling and perhaps fit none of those in your mind.

And this gives so much freedom for creating and fanfiction. Go on make him a young adult college student! Make him a middle aged man who has thousands of jobs! Make him a fourteen year old Ptolemy's twin! Create an AU where he as an anger or a cupid or an ageless God and none of it would be OOC to him! Human!Bartimaeus can be a traveler, a performer, a coffee shop barista, a hired killer! Perhaps don't make him a human at all, what If he is a tired cat who Kitty feeds on her way to work in a shop?

The possibilities are endless because instead of being a human with some cool flashing eyes and superpowers he is not actually a human. He's Bartimaeus of Uruk and that's it.

[skitskatdacat63]

Okay now where's the Seb teddy bear so I can make them kiss each other!?

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[pizzapasta23045]

Bitches on tiktok when you say you think Caitlyn was in the wrong for using the smog in the undercity that used to litterally cripple a fair majority of them as a weapon to make cilvilians leave the streets to catch one bad guy and a very clear parallel to IRL police brutality and the fact her mom died and she's grieving doesn't excuse it:

[day-mark]

god i fucking love competitive play, i love watching high level, skilled gameplay from passionate players, i love learning the statistics for each player and the game as a whole, i love hearing everyone and especially the casters glaze the fuck out of my favorite players. mc summit/mojang and mc.c you will be fucking dealt with .

[a-vague-yet-menacing-agency]

Old news but the fact that Cody was manager at hot topic is so unexplored in fandom. Like he wasn't some shithead employee he was the boss Entry level retail workers are so rarely promoted to manager nowadays, like, was Cody just that good at selling/managing the store? Also, managers make good money. Okay, haha, it's a hot topic, but store managers make like 70,000$ a year (CAD). They have health insurance. So Cody was actually doing pretty well. It's kinda weird to pretend he was on the same level as his friend with just a standard sales associate position, even if that friend was also full-time. Like the power and responsibility that Cody actually had is kind of impressive especially for 28.

AND then! To become a carnie! Like sick move and also Cody lost all his money anyway but the financial disparity! Was Murph probably thinking of like an assistant manager position which would make more sense with Cody's vibe? Probably. Is it funnier to imagine that Cody had to make sales reports to corporate and design store planograms? Absolutely.

Cody was management.

[toca144]

It can be really embarrassing to have a special interest in something deemed for children. I have a special interest in puppetry/henson creations and I’m really passionate about early childhood entertainment and education (specifically public broadcasting tv for kids. I think it’s incredibly important that children have that) and me and my best friend (who also loves this stuff) are planning a trip to Sesame Place park because hell yeah we love amusement parks and we love Sesame Street. I am so excited for this trip. And I cannot express that because I am a grown ass adult excited to go to the Elmo park. I can’t even express that I love it and it’s my career goal to create stuff like Sesame Street because then people are like lmfao you want to be a puppeteer? Can a girl not want to see Elmo without shame can I not get really excited to see Big Bird?? This world is a prison.

[wundrousarts]

I need to get back on my Jess interview grind and finish before Silverborn press starts up because tell me why I'm skimming one trying to find something and then realize she's talking about Ages. ACK! This is vital to my theorizing.....

[jamereadsmanga]

new hc just dropped: Ostanian women are on average well-educated and make up a decent portion of the work force. Married women are also common as well as mothers. The unemployment rate however does increase when she has a second child.

rationale: unlike canon, i like to see stories about women with close relationships moving through adulthood. So naturally i am obsessed with the city hall secretaries and developing them outside of their monotone misogynist identities.

so rather than being mean women who bully Yor for the fuck of it, they are complex women working their own struggles and negotiating their identity as women in a modern ostania. from there i sort of carved individual stories for each girlie. i focused a bit more on work since their relationship is based around work.

for Millie, i have it where her dad died while she was somewhat young. Her mother married young and had a good number of kids with him, she was unemployed and focused on raising them. of course once he died she was left to provide for her kids herself. so millie grew up with a working mother and understands the importance of having money and education. still, she was raised with a traditional mentality, get married have kids, so it is still her main goal. but because of the independence her mother indirectly instilled in her, Millie cannot settle for any man and is constantly in and out of relationships because of that.

so i decided to extend Millie situation to all women of her age group in Ostania. Many of whom either grew up watching their mother work hard or had to work themselves like Yor. Essentially, because of the wars, there remains a persistent belief that your partner will die at some point and so you must be able to support yourself and your family regardless of him or his money. so women go to work and they get proper educations and as a result develop high standards for partners (even if they still continue to seek them out).

this issue was only worsened when Donovan Dickhead Desmond practically forced no-fault divorce in Ostanian law meaning even married women would leave their husbands if he is not up to par.

the current administration is trying to crack down on this whole situation because independent women truly are a threat to society. that's why at the start of the story there were cases of women being targeted by the SSS for being unmarried. they're literally trying to make being a single working women problematic to force women into marriage.

[trans-soapberry]

Catching up to CSM is terrible because all it does is make me wish JJK was more like it

[the-maddened-hatter]

Had some ideas for Upstairs Downstairs Hazbin Hotel expys. Still very much in a WIP stage, but check it out if you're interested! (also I only ended up seeing like 6-ish? episodes of it, but I did like what I saw, and I read a few Wikipedia summaries too!)

It's long and very more than likely 50/50 ooc, so there's a read more

This one covers expys of Alfred and Sarah, but hopefully other characters are to follow!

Alfred-

Potential Death name: Soleil, if renamed by the French speaking Sarah expy, with her telling him that for all the darkness there can still be light and salvation. He would likely initially be resistant to taking on a death name as he views it as lying, but she points out that their former employees forced him to take up the name that to their eyes best suited his role, and that this was closer to authenticity than that was.

Species: Sinner Demon

Gender & Pronouns: Cis man, he/him

Sexuality: Gay

Description A smoke demon, he becomes more corporeal the calmer he is and more smoke when more agitated. When fully (or nearly fully) corporeal he looks very similar to when he was alive, with dark wavy hair, pale gaunt features, and slightly stooped posture, though slightly hazy and immaterial, emitting a gentle glow and heat. In full smoke form he remains humanoid, but grows in height and is composed of thick roiling smoke with eyes that glow with a nauseating white heat. He cannot dissipate from this form, but he can generate more smoke that fills the surrounding area. He may not have a full demon mode, or is perhaps merely to timid to have discovered it yet.

Occupation: In life he was a footman, though thus far in hell he has not secured a lasting occupation and is currently squatting in a largely dilapidated building with his companions.

Cause of Death: Hanged for murdering an aristocrat (in self defense, as the man sadistically abused and tortured him though the judge wouldn't hear it).

Location of X: Visible in the back of his throat due to being hanged (additional, far smaller xs are sometimes visible in the smoke swirling around his body in smoke form, as he was suffering severely infected injuries prior to his execution that likely would have killed him had they not)

Powers: He has the ability to impair others' breathing due to being hanged, produces a painful aura of heat when agitated, his corporeal touch can burn (temporary) Xs onto the skin of others

Personality: Extremely anxious, paranoid, and traumatized. He was very religious throughout his life, learning to speak through scripture and religious versus (he's autistic) and is now largely unsure how to proceed. He often behaves strangely, but ultimately is very protective of his found family.

Bonus:

The traits of his Sinner Demon form come from how he was suffering a fever from infected wounds at the time of his death, feared fire, burning, and hell, and how these things were used to torture him (thus driving him to commit the murder, thereby being just as responsible for his death as the rope. Though his smoke form is a mockery of his life's fears it also serves as a promise that he can never be hurt again the same way as before. He can be injured in his corporeal form and must remain solid to heal, but he cannot take further injury once in smoke form.

Sarah

.Potential Death name ideas: Chanteuse. Mirror.

Species: Sinner Demon

Gender & pronouns: Cis Woman, She/her. OR, more interesting idea: genderfluid with changing or mirror pronouns 👀

Sexuality: Bisexual

Description: A parrot demon with small chattering mouths hidden under her feathers that grow in size and get louder in their overlapping the more she lies (they close and shrink when she tells a truth). Her plumage frequently molts and changes, mimicking multiple types of parrot coloration.

Occupation: She has taken on many many short lived jobs since arriving in hell, including singer, pickpocket, prostitute, actress, model, clerk, robber, burlesque dancer, beautician, nurse, getaway driver, and more. She burns through good will quickly, but is always ready to try something new or revisit an old endeavor.

Cause of Death: Though she always invents different falsehoods regarding it, she was stabbed to death by a rich artist she'd seduced because he (erroneously) believed she was scamming him when her criminal past and dubious romantic track record came to light.

Location of X: Over her heart

Powers: Temporary hypnosis that can be bolstered by singing (the more of the mouths she uses the more powerful the effect it is, but the greater the fallout when the effect wears off). Gliding, and a painful venom when her hidden mouths bite.

Personality: A compulsive liar, but very creative, spirited, and hates to see close friends upset. Greatly desires a fanciful romantic love, but is understandably dubious since showing genuine vulnerability lead to a terrifyingly violent and untimely death.

[nonsensechemicals]

crying whenever i talk about Cookie9 because all my friends have these interesting and unique theories on them while i take everything too literally and they all just stare at me like “dude… uuugh we r TIRED” <-they dont actually say this they are very kind to me but i can Feel It

[david-watts]

I don't want to talk about this too much for a few reasons but firstly. incredible how different things can seem if you're not suffering symptoms. truly the 'nothing in life matters' meme but replace it with 'I know nothing about my favourite guy (t. e.)'. but still hole in brain aside most of that was suffering symptoms as bad of an excuse as either of those are

[sskk-manifesto]

Ep 6!!!

[lyxchen]

Watching Yellowjackets and I'm realizing that a lot of things these women do is what would happen if I listened to my intrusive thoughts. Especially since I sometimes get intrusive thoughts related to superstition. And I just think. If I allowed myself to believe that somebody being chosen by nature to die was a Thing and was also related to then something good happening as a "reward"... that would be really bad. And I'm not sure if I like how this show portrays these kind of things. I'm not sure if it wants me to believe that this is real, that in this show's universe nature works like that. Or if it's trying to tell me that all of these people have serious mental health problems. And like it hints at it with Lottie going to therapy, taking medication to help with her hallucinations (and the medication working) and stuff. But even in the present, in a time that is a lot more aware of mental health and trauma it's still not really talked about except for Lottie kinda negatively talking about being in a psych ward. And they might all be unaware of this, of the fact that they are deeply traumatized and have a lot of underlying and untreated mental health issues. But the show doesn't even really convey that to the viewers. Heck, every time something big or spiritual happens to these people especially in the woods, they're on drugs. Lottie thinks Travis can connect to "it" but to do that Travis has to be on drugs. Like that is quite literally what drugs will do to you. Make you believe stuff that isn't real. And the show just. Doesn't really talk about it and I don't know how to feel about that

[keeps-ache]

in a cafe rn. this place is nice :>

[junkissed]

i'll give u everything i own in exchange for more poly svt x reader fics. i looooved the mingyu/woozi story so i checked ur masterlist to see if there was anything similar and saw u wrote squeaky clean which i read a long time ago and still think about often hahaha. pretty sure i've enjoyed some other of ur fics too, so thanks for posting :-)

all i want in return is more sweet asks like this 🥹😽 i'm so glad you liked them thanks for telling me!! if there's specific pairings you'd like to see please feel free to send asks and lmk, i'm much more likely to work on something if i know it's something more people want :) even if it's not a request and just a simple "hey do you have any junhao wips? i'd really love to see them together!" makes me excited to post more and it motivates me to work on it :) but it definitely seems like everybody really liked the poly fic so i will definitely keep that in mind soon!!