#creating passive

[uncanny-tranny]

If somebody in your life offers to knit or crochet or, really, create anything for you, please be an active participant in the creation of the piece they are making. I adore making and gifting things, but nothing bums me out quicker than a person who passively just goes "okay," to my ideas about what I'm making them - it can send the message that they won't like it, or that they don't care, even if they're happy about my offering. The back-and-forth feedback is a great way to make sure that you are being gifted something that was truly worth the time, effort, expertise, and money that will inevitably go into the gift!

I know it's really hard to be an active participant, believe me, I'm an anxious ball of horror, but it will only do good for both parties to interact in this situation. It is a big deal to be offered a hand-crafted gift, but it's also something we want you to love and use, and that can only happen if you tell us what would make you fall in love with what we create.

[herrscherofmagic]

Another Honkai musing — if Herrschers are functionally immortal, I wonder what the story would look like 100, 1000, or even 10,000+ years in the future...

I already plan to explore this idea in a canon-divergent AU I've brainstormed for a few years now, the Remnant Era AU, but that was more like "what if the Current Era ended badly?".

Instead, I'm curious about the story in its present state with Kiana as Herrscher of Finality, and what it'd be like in the long-run for these characters if they end up with extended lifespans.

Like in the case of Welt, he doesn't have his full power, but he didn't fundamentally lose it either. He is still the (a?) Herrscher of Reason, even years after the Great Eruption.

So, I speculate that in the future once Kiana finally gets full control over her power and Earth's Honkai energy, she could probably restore Herrschers to their full power. Mei could fully wield the Authorities of Conquest and Origin, Bronya would be Reason again, etc.

If the Luoxing story ends well, we might be able to add Senadina to this list too (and even Songque, since the full-power Astral Ring seems similar to a Herrscher core?)

If these characters do get full Herrscher powers back, and extended lifespans, I feel like it raises a lot of interesting questions and dilemmas they'd have to face.

For instance, would they even want to have these extended lifespans? Would Mei or Bronya be willing to bear the pain of out-living not just their own family and friends but even the entire society they grew up in? Do they have a choice?

Assuming they do become/stay immortal, then as Earth changes over time, what role would these immortal Herrschers play? Would they end up becoming a sort of symbol of divinity in humanity's culture, essentially a new pantheon/mythos based on their powers and legacy?

How would they view the change of civilization with time? Would they try to preserve humanity in its present state as long as possible, or would they let nature take its course via diaster/conflict/war and let the mortal humans sort it out? Would they take some middle path between direct rule and complete abandonment?

How would their story be passed down through generations? Would their history get distorted through countless retellings, leading to a future civilization that turns against humanity's own Herrschers? Might they someday fade into obscurity instead? If so, would the Herrschers still try to exercise their power from the shadows, or would they simply live out lives as "ordinary" people for generations?

What would these Herrschers even do in these long years? What sorts of hobbies and passions and careers and ideals might they pursue as civilization waxes and wanes? What responsibilities would they take on, and what would they do when they are taking time for themselves instead?

With such long lifespans and great power, could these Herrschers (Kiana, Mei, Bronya, Seele, etc.) truly stay friends forever? I doubt they'd ever become enemies, but could rifts grow between them as time goes by? Might they end up in conflict with one another over their views on how to interact with the rest of humanity?

And how about their Authorities? Would there be any long-term effects on their psyche from the Authority each one bears? Would their sense of humanity be eroded not just by the passage of time but by the influence of the power of Honkai? Perhaps would they be able to resist these forms of erosion?

I assume the other Herrschers could all pass down their Authorities via there cores, just like Welt did with Bronya, or like how the HSR Chrysos Heirs inherit the power of the Titans via their coreflames. But this raises the question of Kiana's Authority: how the hell would someone else be able to inherit it?

Kiana was essentially DESIGNED to be a perfect vessel for the Herrscher of Finality; that wasn't the original intent, but it was the result of both Previous Era and Current Era experiments. Project Stigma, the blending of both the Schariac and Kaslana stigmata, the addition of Sirin's DNA...

So Kiana was essentially humanity's best and perhaps only chance to secure the Authority of Finality in the Current Era. As time goes on, would it be possible to find a true heir to Kiana's power? Would she one day step away from her role and let someone else become the god of Earth?

But then finding an heir to Kiana's power raises its own ethical questions. How would you select a proper candidate for this sort of process? Is it possible for an ordinary human to achieve, or would they HAVE to have some sort of augmentation? How would the experiments be conducted in an ethical manner to ensure such a process wouldn't go awry?

Would it be possible to create a vessel from scratch to fulfill this role? Otto failed to create a complete human "from scratch", but with the power of Finality could Kiana achieve it? And what sort of moral dilemma might that pose?

And how should the rest of humanity be represented in this process? Would it be a democratic process where literally every single human gets a chance to vote for an heir to Kiana's power? Or would it be a restricted process? Would it even be public knowledge?

Could this process of finding an heir even spark its own conflicts? Could there be controversies and scandals and disputes as different scientists and leaders and other figureheads, including the Herrschers themselves, disagree on who should inherit Finality or how the heir should be chosen?

And how do the Stigma-Awakened and Stigmata play a role in this? Someone like Misteln would probably have a lengthened lifespan, but does Seele (red) still have her full power as a Stigma? Would humanity even continue to nurture the power of the Stigma-Awakened, or would it be suppressed now that Honkai is no longer an imminent threat?

Finally, would it be possible for Kiana to create new Authorities? Could she essentially create and lead an entire organization based around nurturing future Herrschers, not just by passing down the original 12 Authorities but also by creating new ones?

If so, to what extent might she use this power? Is it something to be kept to an absolute minimum, or a tool to be used to its fullest potential? What sorts of Authorities could Kiana even create, if she were able to do so?

Would these new Herrschers be equal to the original ones, or would they forever have some status as "lesser" compared to the ones who came before them? Or could they even surpass the Herrschers who came before them?

idk. just some food for thought :D

[w1lmuttart]

Found an old design I made of star boy back when everyone was rewriting the movie Wish lol

Went with both their true form, as well as a human form to blend in on earth. Anyway I like this guy so theyre mine now :)👍

[sad-leon]

I've reblogged my moots' posts, but i want to say it for myself as well

I don't care what you make, I don't care what you support, as long as you tag your stuff properly, I have no problem with you

This goes for Tcest, April x Turtle, NSFW - if you create or engage in this content, you're welcome here as long as you don't force it onto me, which despite what a lot of people complain about, is not a problem I've run into

They're fictional characters, I just wanna have fun with my silly little turtles, and if you wanna have fun with these silly little turtles with me, you're welcome here

[cent-scratchnsniff]

it was just going to be a few warmup doodles but then she infected the rest of the page like the ever eternal and spreading spores. hod!!! hod. hod :)

[blushedfemmes]

Sara makes my stomach turn. Officially rooting for Oviya

oviya is awesome but happily partnered and that’s not where this is going. warning, toxic lesbian erotica does what it says on the tin? i’ve been curious whether i would get sara hate, people do always say they want fucked-up morally grey fictional women and then can’t handle them. idk, you’re gonna be disappointed lmao

[king-candybug-backup]

I'm noticing an uptick in comments complaining that most of the current WIR fandom content is Turbo instead of the other characters and, like... you guys know you can search other characters by their specific tags, right??? Or exclude Turbo from search results by temporarily blacklisting him in your filtered tags?

Idk, it's just weird to me to be discouraging towards people making fandom content just because it's not the specific content you want to see, like, it's ok to want to see other content, but complaining about how other people aren't catering to your tastes enough instead of just making the content you want to see yourself is kinda bad vibes, y'know?? (And that's not to say that I think those comments are intended out of malice of course, I really don't think they are, I just wanted to point out that it can come off as a little entitled, as well as discouraging towards people who just want to draw Turbo, which is something that should be fine if that's what they want to do. Fandom should be fun for everybody, and there's lots of tools available to curate your experience with it!)

[last-of-the-lot]

Okay so I have been obsessed with EPIC for a while now, and I was scrolling recently and found this little snippet floating around. Looking at the person made me think of Vex'ahlia from Critical Role, which immediately made me think of a Critical Role/Epic AU.

But instead of the normal dynamic of Odysseus and Penelope my brain immediately defaulted to Percy being the one waiting at home and making this challenge to the suitors to string Vex's old bow. And like... I don't argue with my brain when it comes to creativity. Then it started to snowball. I do not need to write an AU right now, but it won't leave my head.

Oooooh I have so many thoughts.

[amberartspng]

the lack of ronan and blue being friends content is driving me up the wall

[plumberrypudding]

i wish i believed in an afterlife. i wish i believed i’ll see my first dog again. i could take so much comfort in that.

[marshvlovestv]

Don't know what it says about me that Psychonauts 2 has canon Old Man Yaoi and it's objectively the best thing in the entire series but I still said "Those old gay men aren't ugly and insane enough for me" and lost my mind shipping the asylum patients from the first game instead.

[wannabemasterofwindintraining]

Wait do you have written out roles/ meanings on the Destiny Writer halos? :o I’m esp curious what a shepherd does!! (This may or may not be for my planning to make an oc…)

I did in fact write them down

N a shepherd is basically a farmer lol i just wanted to give them a cool sounding name

I have yet to decide on what crops they'd grow there but so far i decide on 2 animals living there who shepherds will probably be handling

Feel free to make up a meaning for the other halos or maybe even a whole new design

In fact make whatever lore u want about the cloud kingdom i welcome it

[yeonbam]

au where a 50+ year old fdb transmigrates to himself in his 20s after his death and tries to gently draw llh away from his mission to save everyone but himself by smoothing down the harsh hands of fate that llh had to face— literally one blow after another— in his little life. fdb can't reverse the clock that was already set, but he can let it's impact soften a bit by playing on the knowledge he already has.

au where fdb can finally confront llh with double the rights to do so now that he is technically 'older' than him too.

au where he's already been lxy's disciple for longer than lxy was alive and had the chance to perfect Yangzhouman in a way lxy didn't have the time to. If the "young" fdb was unable to save llh because he was simply too far from the baggage of llh's existence, what about the fdb who has lived through his loss for long enough to become a sort of ghost of llh himself? As if coming from the future, with the goal of making him live and to let llh know the kind of self-destructive devotion he is capable of inspiring; and dare I say, he passed on actually.

[molinaesque]

Yo you know what I REALLY like? When people have the audacity to reblog a post that blatantly involves a thing they don't like... Just to comment/tag how they don't like said thing. Here's a cool suggestion... How about NOT engaging with the thing that's obviously not meant for you? Or yknow make your own post about it instead of piggybacking off someone else? How CRAZY of a suggestion is that?

[hi-intrepid-heros]

I am actually speechless at how dangerously stupid some dimension 20 fans are.

Dude. You're seriously saying that Brennan Lee Mulligan, the man who singlehandedly crafts and curates the stories you have the privilege of getting to hear, is wrong for... Having a moral to his stories? For the fans overwhelmingly agreeing that when the storyteller says "Here is a terrible villain" that we believe him?

You can say you "don't want dropout to stop intertwining activism and progressive ideas in their work" (being anti-child murder is progressive??) as much as you want, but it doesn't hold water when you drop that sentiment the second people tell you that your obsession with relating to the irredeemable villain may be kind of unhealthy. If you're the type of person to become a turncoat on creativity when it makes you uncomfortable, you are exactly the kind of villain Brennan has been writing about.

[localravenclaw]

Oh, you dislike the concept of MC's?

Here's my fucking adorable MC bitch

Image by @esolean