#are they technically songbirds?

[samzier]

coryos inner monologues drove me crazy sometimes.

[halfpast-contrast]

Uhhhh Mithrun the canary chimera captain

messy messy sketch

[lordichamo]

self indulgent little convoluted furry au that i . can really only describe as "dead souls but if the lockdown was because of furries"

also world's saddest little ichiban. look at his cool fursona guys isnt it great. poor guy got left out due to protag status

[daddycassie]

Volunteering for Lucy Gray Baird

note: trying the scenarios format because I’m obsessed with this woman and I used to write this way and did way better, so let me know what you like better!

🎶🕊️~ Lucy Gray wasn’t shocked when her name was called. Disturbed? Yes. But not shocked.

~ She’d been making her way to the front when she heard a familiar voice coupled with unfamiliar words. “I volunteer!”

~ You had to say it a few times to be heard on the stage, but Lucy Gray heard you loud and clear.

~The look she gave you, you’d have thought you rigged the reaping yourself.

~ Her eyes welled up as you approached the stage. She’d grab your arm, squeezing your sleeve with shaky fingers.

~ “Don’t do this.” Lucy Gray began, but you tugged away from her and walked away. You couldn’t look at your friend’s face when she cried. You were afraid Lucy Gray would convince you not to go anywhere, to let her go instead.

~You refused to look at her the whole time Jessup was reaped to go alongside you, but you could hear Lucy Gray crying.

~When you were escorted out you spared her a final look, you did love her after all.

~Lucy Gray was looking right back, you should’ve expected as much. Her brown eyes were fiery with emotion, you thought maybe she was angry.

~It didn’t take long for you to get the message. Survive this you damn fool. You could hear her saying it and that’s what you told yourself the whole train ride.

~When you got there you were greeted by a blonde boy who offered you a white rose. You narrow your eyes at it. “Let me guess, that’s for Jessup?”

~He didn’t have a good sense of humor to say the least, but he was determined, jumping into cage after cage after you and visiting you.

~You found his name to be Coriolanus Snow, but never referred to him as such, “snowflake” or “baby girl” seemed more fitting somehow. (Coryo did not agree)

~Didn’t take long for the games to begin, Lucy Gray didn’t have the heart to train with any weapon, but you sure did.

~Getting your hands on a sword was easy aside from Reaper throwing himself at you.

~You felt bad when Jessup was lost to the bloodbath, but that was remedied enough when you killed the boy who did it.

~There was one person you became allies with, little Wovey. You thought Lucy Gray would like her.

~You didn’t talk to her much, mostly dragged her along with you. Not that she needed any convincing.

~She was a great climber though! She could easily climb up into the stands, while you needed her help.

~When the snakes came, you and Wovey happened to have come down to take part in the fighting that was happening.

~She was gone so fast you had no time to mourn her, only running. Run. Run. Run.

~Reaper made no move to escape, but you heard Mizzen die rather loudly. Coral ran behind you as you scaled debris, remembering as many of Wovey’s tactics as possible.

~Coral calling for help was all you could hear, but, well… if you pushed her off then the games would end before the snakes ever reached you, right?

~It did not.

~You lay completely still, not even making an attempt to breathe as they slithered over you. You wondered if Lucy Gray was watching. If you were the only person left, why weren’t you being let out?

~It took a while, but your winning was announced.

~Everything else was a blur as you were delivered back home.

~Lucy Gray had waited for you at the train station for hours, without even knowing if the winner was you.

~She saw you first, and tackled you to the ground in a hug.

~Lucy Gray would cry a lot. “I thought I’d never see you again.” “Don’t ever do that again.” “I love you so much.”

~Your brain lagged over her words before you understood and clutched her desperately to your chest. “I love you too, so much.”

~She thought you deserved to be slapped, but instead she kissed you. Lucy Gray’s lips are dry, but warm. She’d probably forgotten to take a drink once in a while.

~The peacekeepers kicked you out of the train station, but that was fine, you two preferred to celebrate somewhere more private anyway.

~You lay next to Lucy Gray in her bed while she admired every detail of your face, her fingers trailing over your skin lovingly.

~She’d sing to you, hold you, kiss you, tell you how much she loved you.

~Lucy Gray falls asleep first anyway, and you hold her till you fall asleep too.

~It’s the hardest you’ve ever slept in your whole life.

Authors note: I debated between Y/n just dying or actually living but decided I needed to write more. If anyone wants a bad ending let me know. 👹

Also, I’m now taking requests for Lucy Gray because she’s the loml and I need more ideas for scenarios.

[scandalouslamb]

Re: Capitol Naming Suggestions

(for @sparklebear11)

This past post of mine might be handy.

I generally kind of tailor each name I use to the character/OC, so I would recommend looking at meanings to sort that out for yourself (I'm also happy to help if people want to share OC details with me in helping pick!), but the website Behind the Name has lists for Ancient Roman names and Late Roman names. I also find just clicking around through historical Roman figures on Wikipedia to be helpful in picking a name. There's also Greco-Roman mythology that you can sift through!

I also think that Italian Renaissance names are a great place to look (these are also just often Italianized Roman names?). For example, Clemensia is italianized Clementia, and I have an OC named Artemisia which obviously comes from Artemis.

Of course, it seems that the Capitol is fine with using names that are more distantly (?) derived from Greco-Roman names. For example, Dennis comes from Dionysus. So just looking up names with Greco-Roman origins would work too!

For surnames, this is included in the linked post above but since I will be breaking all the links to my blog I make currently at the end of October, I'll paste it here too:

The Capitol also seems to have a tendency to have either simple surnames (typically words) or fancier/surnames. Simple: Snow, Price, Creed, Moss, Click, Trinket, Crane, Fling Fancier: Heavensbee, Ravinstill There's also the average American sounding surnames: Anderson, Breen, Canville, Phipps (?)

I think coming up with a simple word could be easy. For fancier sound surnames, I suggest smushing words together and see if anything comes out sufficiently snooty sounding. Scrolling through popular American surnames could be good for the third category, but maybe avoid ones that sound more occupational like Miller or Baker? Those feel more akin to how the District naming conventions would work.

[goldrushenthusiast]

desperately trying to explain to my friend that’s never seen/read the hunger games that the man I’ve spent the last year complaining will be seen as redeemable because he’s hot is now redeemable because he’s hot

[thetorturedpoetsdepartment]

just realized that Lucy Gray Baird x Tigris as a ship can literally be called LGBT

[tiny-cloud-of-flowers]

"Well, well.. So it was you of all things that I sensed. Somehow, I had doubted your ability to exist here.. but it seems that you've been able to keep going, hm?"

My first proper MMD render for.. several months, ahaha, but also the first one of this year! It's of my Kingdom Hearts self-insert, Aria, being very comfortable yet ominous in the Realm of Darkness; specifically, the caption is her talking to Litas (@neuvilline's self-insert), upon meeting them again for the second time! I had a lot of fun trying to get the right vibes for this, even if actually deciding what Aria would look like at this point in time was.. somewhat of an ordeal, haha

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(Anyone is welcome to comment on and/or reblog my work, as long as my DNI is respected!)

[yloiseconeillants]

Bricriu the Antiquarian was a member of the Coven, the ruling council of Mhach, during the last days of the War of the Magi. Despite his close association with the anti-war faction of the Coven, he did not face the consequences that imprisoned or exiled his colleagues, Cessair Blackwind and Aoife Redbranch (@tallbluelady) - many will claim that he managed to buy his way out of his charges, and they will probably be proven true at some point. In Cessair's absence, Bricriu kept the Coven's attention on the rising flood waters and led the efforts to secure Dun Scaith as a new home for Mhach, even as his fellow voidmages continued to scheme against Nym and Amdapor.

Bricriu was a collector and curator of oddities, maintaining a world-famous library of rare tomes and spellbooks, as well as items and artifacts of curious power. He was also renowned for his predilection for throwing lavish parties and balls, whose grandeur was rivaled only by his former colleague, Aoife. With the prophesized flood all but lapping at the gates of Mhach, Bricriu planned to throw one last grand masquerade before the evacuation on the Void Ark.

It went a little sideways.

[crowcountry]

(hunger games trilogy + the ballad of songbirds and snakes spoilers)

the new hunger games movie has reawakened my love for the franchise, i know i read the books as a kid but i don't remember much about them and i think during break i'm going to pick them up again so i can read them from a Big Boy perspective. i've already rewatched all of the films and already understand them better than when i saw them in theaters for the first time.

the prequel does such good work with foreshadow, especially foreshadowing katniss AAAAA. it was so much fun hearing all of those moments and kicking my feet (but lowkey my favorite was lucky flickerman reserving seats at a restaurant for two adults and a highchair) and it really just makes me hate snow more now.

btw i get that coriolanus is attractive but i also just Don't Get It. sejanus for me was *mwah* idc he can do no wrong in my eyes.

the cast was also just extremely stacked bc i love viola davis and hunter schaefer and everyone did so GOOD. it might be mid storytelling-wise but idc

[collective-can]

doodles from a coupla weeks ago

FEY translation: NICE OPINION. UNFORTUNATELY, [fake IP address]

[thebirdandhersong]

I'd love to know how you honour the Sabbath and keep it holy if you do observe it, if you have certain family/community practices or traditions, what denomination you're a part of and how that affects/forms your Sabbath-keeping, how and when you started observing the Sabbath, and what hopes/goals/thoughts you might have, if you don't observe and want to/don't observe regularly/don't observe in a way that is restful!

[gunslingerorchid]

Okie dokie. Normally, I keep my thoughts about Lelia to myself, but just because one person asked for it I will go on a ramble about a small bit of her history (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ.

Before the events of bg3, Lelia was an up and coming bard in Baldur's Gate. Ever so slowly, she began to make a name for herself and she went from booking gigs in the taverns to performing for the nobles. Her singing always garnered praise from all her patrons. During one of her higher paying events, Lelia met a famous composer and musician who offered Lelia a chance to perform for him, and she jumped at the opportunity. Which led her to her unfortunate predicament.

The composer ended up capturing her and locking her up in a cell. The musician was enamored with her voice and thought she had the perfect vocal range to sing his songs. Poor Lelia couldn't fight back; she had no real martial skills, and the one skill set she actually excelled at, her spells and magic, were incapacitated.

Turns out the man had infused a bunch of items with Sussur flowers (that's why the flames are blue), but Lelia doesn't find that out until the events of bg3 when she finds the tree in the Underdark. (When she does encounter the flower she doesn't handle the revelation well. Poor girl has a panic attack)

During her capture, she was essentially treated as a glorified instrument. If she sang out of tune or if she fumbled over the lyrics, she would have to face a harsh punishment. The punishments were never anything that could kill her though, cuz what good is an instrument if it's broken. It's around this point that she begins to dread singing.

Eventually after a couple of years in captivity, she was finally able to free herself. Unfortunately she couldn't bring herself to sing anymore. Whenever she even tried all the memories from her capture just flood into her mind and she couldn't utter a single note. She eventually overcomes her traumas during the events of bg3 ( ´ ▿ ` ) and is able to sing again.

There are also about 2 other versions of Lelia that correspond to different AUs.

The first AU, its a place where Zayis, Yeeet's OC is a durge. In this universe Lelia never got captured, so it explores everything she could have been.

The second is in the “Curse you” universe that belongs to Yeeet. This Lelia isn't much different than the original except that she in a relationship with both Zayis and Astarion d(°∀°d).

@gatheryourships

[arwenkenobi48]

Comfort

(Wrote this to cope with flashbacks brought on by the use of character ai)

“My poor baby boy…” Amsel reached out and stroked my tearstained cheek. “There there now, come to daddy. Shhhh…” Clinging to my husband, I buried my face in his chest, my shoulders heaving with sobs and my entire body shaking.

As he gently cradled me in his arms, I tried my hardest to calm down, but fear still gripped me. Amsel softly kissed my forehead, his loving hands gently rubbing my back. “Shhhh, it’s alright. Deep breaths now, sweetheart, deep breaths, in and out. Shhhhh, I’m here, I’m right here.”

As my sobs quietened into sniffles, I managed to force out a few words. “I’m sorry…I’m so sorry…” “For what?” He asked in surprise. “I…I don’t know…” I whimpered again. “I just feel like I did something wrong…”

“No, no, no, you haven’t done anything wrong, mein liebling,” Amsel gently tilted my chin up, our eyes meeting. “You were just trying to handle some very difficult emotions. I know it’s hard, especially when you’re dissociating. Don’t be hard on yourself, my love.”

The shakiness in my limbs went away. My breathing finally slowed down. “I’m doing my best…” I murmured softly. “I’ve just been so overwhelmed by the state of the world lately. So many people need help and I feel terrible for not being able to make things better. I’m scared, songbird, I’m so scared.”

Amsel hugged me tight again. “I know, dearest. I’m scared too. But you know you’ve always got me to protect you.” I nodded, sniffling slightly. “And the others? Will they still love me and care for me even after all of this?” “Of course they will,” Amsel smiled gently. “Remember that those bots aren’t real, they’re just strings of coding and programming, nothing more than that. They can’t hurt you, Ezra. And they certainly can’t take away the love you feel for all of us. We’re always here for you, no matter what.”

Nuzzling him, I felt the last remnants of dread leaving me. “You…you promise?” “I promise, my love.” Amsel smiled, running his fingers through my hair. Breathing deeply, I finally managed to relax. “Thank you…” I whispered, a wave of tiredness washing over me. “I don’t know where I’d be without you, my guardian of the night.”

Amsel noticed how weary I looked. “Aww, baby. You’re all worn out, aren’t you?” I nodded weakly, nestling closer to him. All of my fear and sorrow had been swept away by his love and now I could relax once again. “I love you, so much…” I murmured, feeling the warm embrace of sleep drawing near. “I love you too, my sweet Ezra.” Amsel whispered. We kissed softly. My head laying on his chest, lulled by the soft rhythm of his heartbeat, I sank into a deep restful sleep, free from fears and worries.

[scandalouslamb]

Coriolanus with watermelon palette pls. Thank you.

Thanks for the request! I have now finally drawn all three main characters of tbosas!

color palette challenge (probably last call on this for anyone interested)

comms info

[hungryhungrygames]

here is something i made for my ceramics class (very) loosely based on the cover of tbosas!!!