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startrekroleplay · 1 year
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Directory Updated - June 26, 2023
View the full directory here. To be added to the directory, view the post linked here.
This directory is large and likely to contain errors. Please notify us of any mistakes, either in this update post or in the directory itself, and we will do our best to correct them.
* denotes a multimuse blog ^ denotes a canon divergent muse ~ denotes a genderbent muse
ADDITIONS - CANON CHARACTERS
Original Series, Alternate Original Series, & Strange New Worlds
James Kirk - @ofstarfleet *
Nyota Uhura - @ofstarfleet *
Original Series, Alt Original Series, Strange New Worlds, & Discovery
Christopher Pike - @ofstarfleet *
Spock - @ofstarfleet *
Original Series & Alt Original Series
Leonard McCoy - @heartsteered, @ofstarfleet *
Hikaru Sulu - @ofstarfleet *
Next Generation & Picard
Beverly Crusher - @storiest0ld *
Data - @ofstarfleet *
Geordi La Forge - @ofstarfleet *
Deanna Troi - @storiest0ld *
Deep Space Nine
Julian Bashir - @dimensionalspades *, @ofstarfleet *
Ezri Dax - @ofstarfleet *
Jadzia Dax - @ofstarfleet *
Odo - @ofstarfleet *
Voyager & Prodigy
Kathryn Janeway - @ofstarfleet *, @storiest0ld *
Enterprise
Jonathan Archer - @ofstarfleet *
T'Pol - @ofstarfleet *
Discovery
Michael Burnham - @ofstarfleet *
Strange New Worlds
Una Chin-Riley - @ofstarfleet *
Joseph M'Benga - @ofstarfleet *
Erica Ortegas - @ofstarfleet *
ADDITIONS - ORIGINAL CHARACTERS
Cheyanna Wyatt - @dreamsofalife
REMOVALS
@counselorlake - inactivity
@gnosticpriesthood - inactivity
grudgethequeen - deactivated
ltfreckles - deactivated
@scottyland - inactivity
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aquaquadrant · 1 month
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that epic gamer moment when you wait until you've finished writing an entire +100k word fic before posting the first chapter on A03 (AKA i finally got over my grudge against bots ruining the fun for everyone)
uploading these chapters, and all my other MCYT works, will be slow going. so if you've read it already, you're more than welcome to leave comments (and i'd absolutely love that) but PLS DON'T SPOIL IT for any new A03 readers. not even in a cheeky little 'i know something you don't know' kinda way. k thx ✌️
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arklayraven · 5 months
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✨ Edits Directory ✨
A post full of easy to find links of icons, dividers, banners, headers, etc I made and shared here for anyone to save/use. This post will be updated often, and can be found on the pinned post of this blog.
💀 A Date With Death 💀
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Grim/Casper skull heart icons [Blue versions] [Red versions]
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Grim/Casper "Minors/Ageless blogs DNI" banners [Red versions] [Blue versions]
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💖 14 Days With You 💖
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🎃 The Kid At The Back 🎃
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Sol green heart jack-o-lantern icons
Hyugo pan heart icons
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Sol square icons
Geo heart/circle/square icons
Sol heart/circle/square icons (Extras)
Hyugo heart/circle/square icons
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CoD | Diverse Reader/OC Fic Directory
Note: Curious to know why a Diverse fic list is necessary for Fandom space? Are you asking yourself ‘This is supposed to be fun, why do we need this?’ Well take a look at the Hall of Shame. 
Please don’t send me questions about explaining further without previous due diligence. I'm not a teacher and I will not respond. If you would like to suggest an addition or removal feel free to message me!
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Last Updated: (08/25/24)
Order arranged as follows:
Title | Author | Length | Genre/Type | Pairings
Icon Legend:
** | Dark fic or Mature; U | Unknown/Unspecified
Dark Fics or Fics with potentially triggering content will be notated with a ‘**’ Please be responsible and mind the author's descriptions! For now this will only contain recommendations for the Call of Duty Fandom. If there is a desire for a multi-fandom directory I will consider facilitating that later on <3
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PoC Readers/OC’s
♠ Black/AA Readers/OC
Transferable Skills | Dragonnarrative-writes |  Series | Romance | Ghost x Reader Welcome home, it’s wash day! | Kyletogaz  | Drabble | Fluff | Gaz x Reader Natural | Kyletogaz | Oneshot | Romance | Ghost x Reader Through Me/The Flood | Peachesofteal | Romance | Series | Ghost x Reader Meet Bricks! | Dragonnarrative-writes | WIP/Drabble | Romance | Ghost x OC Shameful | Miwsolovely | Oneshot | Romance | tf 141 x Reader Ghost & Nanami | Merakidoll | Imagine/Drabble | Smut/Fluff | Ghost or Nanami (JJK) x Reader Choking w/ Ghost | Merakidoll | Imagine/Drabble | Smut | Ghost x Reader Heavy Weighs the Crown | SentientCave | Series | Fantasy AU | TF 141 x Reader The Arrangement | 391780 | Series | Romance | Price x Reader Picture Day | Kyletogaz | Oneshot | Fluff | Gaz x Reader
♠ Indigenous Readers/OC
Baby Blues | Yeyinde | Oneshot | Angst/Fluff | Price x Reader  Paloma | Motherofhorses | Series | Romance | Ghost x OC
♠ Latine/Latinx Readers/OC
Pierced Ears | Buttdumplin | Oneshot | Poly 141 x GN!Reader In Dub | Buttdumplin | Oneshot | Fluff | Poly x GN!Reader |  Derritiendo los glaciares de su corazón | Pricesugarwife | Oneshot | Romance | Ghost x Reader El Caribe somos tú y yo | Pricesugarwife | Oneshot | Romance | Gaz x Reader Sharing Cultural Foods | Buttdumplin | Oneshot | Fluff | Gaz x Reader Choices Have Consequences | Lazybutsmexy | Oneshot | Fluff | Alejandro x Reader By Trust Alone | Cynicalrosebud | Series | Romance | Soap x Reader
♠ South Asian Readers/OC
From Out There | 391780 | Series | Sci-Fi | Price x Reader TF x 141 & Reader's Mehndi | Femalefemur | Drabbles/fluff | tf 141 x Reader TF 141 Oiling Desi Reader's Hair | Femalefemur | Drabbles/fluff | TF 141 x Reader
♠ South East Asian Readers/Oc 
Retirement Party | Sentientcave | Romance**| Price x Filipino!Reader
♠ East Asian Readers/OC
TF141 w/ Japanese Reader | All-Purpose-Dish-Soap | Fluff | Imagine/Drabble | TF 141 x Reader
♠ Polynesian Readers/OC
TBC
♠ Biracial/Unspecified POC Readers/OC
Brown skin, pretty brown eyes | Disgustingtwitches | Oneshot | Smut | Gaz x Reader
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LGBTQIA+ Readers/OC’s
♠ Gender non conforming Readers/OC
Can you check Me? | Syoddeye | Imagine/Drabble | TF 141 x Reader
TransMasc Readers/OC
Binders & Boyfriends | PFHwrittes | Series | Various | TF 141 x Reader Spoils | Syoddeye | Series | Darkfic** | Poly 141 x Reader The Hysterectomy | Buttdumplin | Oneshot | Comfort | Poly 141 x Reader Independence? Simon Says No | Captainjamster | Comfort/Fluff | Oneshot | Ghost x Reader
♠ TransFemme Readers/OC
TBC
♠ Bisexual Readers/OC
TBC
♠ Aromantic Readers/OC
Ghost & Kate w/ Aro Reader | Captainjamster | Drabble/Imagine | Ghost or Laswell x Reader
♠ Lesbian Readers/OC 
The Perks of Being Mrs. Laswell | 391780 | Imagine/Drabble | Fluff/Smut | Laswell x Reader The Pines Are Dancing | 391780 | Series | Shifter AU | Laswell x Reader Go For Watcher | Syoddeye | Smut | Laswell x Reader Mommy Knows Best | Captainjamster | Oneshot | Smut | Valeria x Reader
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Disabled & Neurodivergent Readers/OC
♠ Characters w/ Physical Disabilities
Simon w/ Deaf Reader | Starsofang | Oneshot | Fluff | Ghost x Deaf!Reader Simon w/ Blind Reader | Starsofang | Oneshot | Fluff/Comfort | Ghost x Reader Ducks & Dogs | Captainjamster | Oneshot | Fluff/Comfort | Ghost x Blind/Vision Impaired!Reader The Scottish Cabin In the Woods | CharlieMWrites | Series | Dark** | Ghost x Soap x Disabled Veteran!Reader Gaz & Chronically ill Reader | 391780 | Drabble/fluff | Gaz x Reader Across the Way | Swordsandhoney | Series/Romance | Ghoap x Reader
♠ Characters w/ Mental Health Issues & Disabilities
Dead Disco | Peachesofteal | series | Angst | Ghoap x Depressed!Reader Anything | Darklordofthesimp | Series | Angst | Konig x PTSD!Reader Reader w/ Eating Disorder | Starsofang | Oneshot | Fluff/Comfort | Ghost x Reader w/ ED Stray Dogs | Wraithdance | Series | Dark Romance** | Ghost x Soap x Avoidant/PTSD!Reader Caught | Captainjamster | Oneshot | Comfort | Price x Recovering Addict!Reader
♠ Neuro-divergent Characters
Muses | Eowystein | Romance | Series | Soap x Autistic!Reader Lessons in Epigenetics | Eowystein | Smut | Price x Autistic!Reader; Poly 141 x Autistic!Reader Simon w/ Autistic Reader | Starsofang | Oneshot | Fluff/Comfort | Ghost x Autistic!Reader
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Size & Height Inclusive Readers/OC’s
♠ Plus Sized/Fat Readers/OC
Scrap Metal Muzzle | 391780 | Dark fic** | Oneshot | Soap x Reader Plus Sized Fashion Designer | Swordsandholly | Romance | Drabble | Ghost x Reader Soft | 391780 | Romance | Series | Price x Reader Mail Order Bride | Bi-writes | Romance | Series | Ghost x Reader The Arrangement | 391780 | Series | Romance | Price x Reader
♠ Tall Readers/OC
I like My Women Tall w/ a Big Ass | Disgustingtwitches | Oneshot | Smut | König x Reader
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The most recent episode of Interview with a Vampire let's us see Lestat's side of the story and see how it compares to Louis' accounting of their relationship. As a result, it reaffirms just how unreliable of a narrator Louis is, but it also further illuminates elements of his character that the director and writers have been playing with since the beginning of the show.
There's this part in the episode where Lestat turns to Louis and apologizes and it's framed with Lestat turned to Louis on one side and Claudia on his other side. They're the angel and devil on Louis' shoulders, but who is the angel and who is the devil? And as my friend said, Armand and Daniel are placed into that same dynamic with Louis later on. We are being asked to decide who to trust, who's telling the truth, who's the good guy, but the fact of unreliability robs us of that decision.
This whole story is about Louis, he's the protagonist, though not the narrator, and he is constantly being pulled in two directions, no matter when or where he is in his story. He's a mind split in two, divided by nature and circumstance. He's vampire and human, owner and owned, father and child, angel and devil. He's both telling the story and being told the story. His history is a story he tells himself, and as we've seen, sometimes that story is not whole.
Louis is the angel who saved Claudia from the fire but he's also the devil who sentenced her to an life of endless torment, the adult trapped in the body of a child. He's the angel who rescued Lestat from his grief and also the devil who abandoned him, who couldn't love him, could only kill and leave him.
He's pulled in two directions, internally and externally at all times and so it's no wonder that he feels the need to confess, first to the priest, then Daniel, and then Daniel again.
He's desperate to be heard, a Black man with power in Jim Crow America who's controlled by his position as someone with a seat at the table but one who will never be considered equal. He doesn't belong to the Black community or the white community, he can't. He acts as a go-between, a bridge, one who is pushed and pulled until he can't take it anymore. He's a fledgling child to an undead father, he's a young queer man discovering his sexual identity with an infinitely experienced partner. He's confessing because he wants to be absolved, that human part of him that was raised Catholic, that child who believed, he wants to be saved. He wants to be seen.
Louis wants to attain a forever life that is morally pure, but he can't. He's been soiled by sin, by "the devil," as he calls Lestat, and he can never be clean again. Deep down, I think he knows this, but he can't stop trying to repent. He tries to self-flagellate by staying with Lestat and then tries to repent by killing him, but can't actually follow through. He follows Claudia to Europe to try and assuage his guilt. He sets himself on fire, attempts to burn himself at the stake, to purify his body, rid himself of the dark gift.
Louis is a man endlessly trying to account for the pain he has caused and he ultimately fails, over and over again, because he can't get rid of what he is. A monster. He's an endlessly hungry monster. He's hungry for love, for respect, for power, for forgiveness, for death. He's a hole that can never be filled. He can never truly acquire any of those things because he will always be punishing himself for wanting and needing them in the first place. He will never truly believe he deserves them and as a result, can't accept them if they are ever offered. He can never be absolved for he has damned himself by accepting the dark gift and thus has tainted himself past the point of saving.
#iwtv amc#iwtv#interview with the vampire#interview with the vampire amc#louis de pointe du lac#louis iwtv#iwtv spoilers#iwtv season 2#iwtv s2 e7#iwtv meta#interview with the vampire meta#confession as a motif throughout the series#the way catholic imagery is inherent in vampire media#the way this series plays with unreliable narration so you never know who to believe#louis is such a phenomenally well crafted and dimensional character#and i think the show specifically creates a much more nuanced version of his character than he seems to be in the books#at least from what i've heard#i haven't read the books but i have read/been told about the changes they made to his character from book to movie#and i don't think he's as sympathetic or compelling if he's white#i think the way they updated the story with louis and claudia both being black really adds to their characters#it adds so much dimension to the way they interact with the world and also with lestat#lestat as a wealthy paternalistic white european man#in opposition to two black people in america#the multi-dimensionality of that dynamic and how race class and gender play a role in that#i could write an essay about this#i can absolutely find some sociological theory to use as a lens to discuss this#it's fascinating how well the writers and directorial team are doing with this adaptation#most book to movie/tv adaptations are mid at best#and this one pays homage to the original while also improving and updating the content significantly#i think it's also so important how the show is filmed with beauty and horror both taking precedence
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honeyjars-sims · 4 months
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I'm so excited to start sharing Chapter 3 of Safe Harbor with you all! Beginning in 2 weeks on June 17th!
Catch up here!
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kheprriverse · 1 year
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The Final Battle.
Masterpost || Next
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laundrybiscuits · 1 year
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“Yeah, I just told her to give them the cold shoulder. Don’t have to be mean or anything, just ignore ‘em a little. Play it cool. Drives girls crazy, ‘cause then they have to work to get your attention.”
Eddie stares at him. 
“Holy shit, Buckley’s gonna die alone and it’s gonna be a hundred percent your fault. That is the worst fucking advice I’ve ever heard in my life.”
Steve actually looks offended, like his honor’s been impugned. “What the hell, man? I’ve picked up like a million girls that way. I’m telling you, it works.”
“Yeah, okay, now I’m seeing why my sage advice is required for this whole endeavor. That kind of thing might fly if you’re some alpha dog prom king, but lesbians are like…giant pandas or some shit, okay? The conditions have to be precisely calibrated or they’ll just hibernate in a cave by themselves eating bamboo forever.”
“That doesn’t sound right,” says Steve. 
Eddie shrugs. “Whatever, I’m not a panda scientist. The point is…okay, let’s do a thought experiment.” Oh, this is a bad, bad idea. The Munson specialty. “Say you wanted to get a guy interested in you. How would you do it?”
“I’d just—” Steve stops, frowning. “I mean, girls usually just…laugh at guys’ jokes and stuff. Or wear, like, makeup?”
“How are you so awful at this,” says Eddie. “Jesus. I swear to god I remember you doing better with girls at school. Anyway, I didn’t ask what girls do, I asked what you’d do.”
“Shit, I don’t know. Isn’t that why I’m here?” Steve’s getting a little huffy, fidgeting. “I’d just…find a way to hang out with the guy, I guess. Laugh at his dumb jokes.”
“Yeah, sure,” Eddie says patiently. “But that’s what you do with friends too, right? And when you’re walking a perilous path far from the bright streets of heterosexuality, you probably don’t want to risk being too obvious, in case you’re wrong. So you gotta just…give them an opening to let them, like, signal if they’re interested. If they’re looking for a sign, they’ll take it.”
Steve wrinkles his nose. “Ok, but what if they’re not interested yet? Like…sometimes girls take a while to warm up to you.”
“Cut your losses and move on.” Admittedly, Eddie’s still working on that part. 
“What? Man, I’m starting to think you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Eddie scowls at the skeptical look on Steve’s face. “Jesus, the disrespect. Why am I not telling this directly to Buckley, anyway? She’s the one in need of these hard-earned pearls of gay wisdom.”
Steve lets out a big, gusty sigh and tips his head back against the couch. “Because she said if I tried to give her any more help with dating, she’d smother me in my sleep and pin it on Dustin.”
“Attagirl,” says Eddie approvingly. 
“But obviously she still needs help, so this is like—a stealth mission. For love.”
“For love,” says Eddie. “Yeah, okay.” 
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“Hey, can you—”
Robin whirls around at the unexpected voice and promptly trips over nothing at all, arms flailing out to avoid crashing into the library returns cart.
“Oh, shit,” says the stranger, reaching out a hand like she’s going to catch Robin’s elbow, but pulling back at the last second. “Um. Sorry.”
Robin blinks down at a girl in head-to-toe black, including dusty black combat boots. “Aren’t you hot,” she says, then wants to die. “I mean—like, just, with the heat and all, it’s a billion degrees out, I think if I tried to wear that much black I’d instantly dissolve like the Wicked Witch of the West.”
The girl stares back at her for a second, then bursts out laughing. It’s a nice laugh. 
“As if. I’m from Utah, this is nothing.”
“Oh! Utah! You’re not—are you, uh, Argyle’s girlfriend?” The way Argyle’d described her, Robin had been picturing some kind of Elvira-themed ingenue in lace, maybe smoking like a 1920s flapper. This makes more sense for a real-life teenager, though: oversized t-shirt tucked into ratty black jeans, with some cheap-looking silver jewelry tied around her neck. Her eyeliner’s heavier than anything Robin’s ever seen in Hawkins, smudging messily a little in the heat that’s apparently nothing to her. It makes her look a little bit like a panda bear, but not in a bad way.
“Not anymore.” She grimaces. “Ugh, that sounds mean. We’re, y’know, still friends and everything. I’m Eden.”
“Robin,” says Robin, gesturing at herself like a loser. “Hi.”
“Hi,” says Eden, and smiles at her.
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crownedinmarigolds · 7 months
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Welcome to my art/hobby/fandom/etc blog! My name is Kelsey, CrownedinMarigolds on Tumblr, and I've been on this website since 2012? Yep I'm an ancient being. If you're interested in supporting me or giving me a little tip for doin' what I do, here is my KO-FI! Zero pressure of course.
My favorite subjects to draw are primarily OC based, and the sandbox I play in is usually Vampire the Masquerade/World of Darkness! But of course I love all manner of TTRPG. While I have things I like consistently, I will reblog and talk about all kinds of different things that may be out of left field! This is my mish-mash blog, just be warned! I'd also like to shout out my true love, my muse, my baby-daddy: @thesixthplaneteer. He's a very talented writer and a lot of my work and his work are intrinsically tied together! Most of my OCs are drawn with his and his work provides some context for all the fun things I draw for us!
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My art commissions are: open!
My quick-sketch commissions are always open!
If you're interested in commissioning me, please see my commission information here! Here are examples of my work//my art tag in case you'd like to get a feel of my art style before making a decision. I love a messy and painterly style so please understand that before reaching out! I am open to art trades!
Here is how I usually schedule my time when I'm working on commissions, in case you were interested!
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Tag Guide (If you want to block or what have ya!) : I self reblog often, so it is under the self reblog! tag. I often reblog others' commission post under commission boost I post personal little dribbles about my life under personal Information on my various Vampire the Masquerade stories/Chronicles: The Poisoned Peach: ATL by Night - my actual VTM game I'm playing with my husband. It follows Khloe Osborne, a fresh Thinblood trying to navigate the vampire world without really knowing anything. She has a coterie and the Camarilla currently runs Atlanta, Georgia... but for how long? Wilted Roses - The overarching full canon to the plot of our World of Darkness. This is a mixed bag of information and stories that aren't necessarily in a Chronicle but flavor the world! Nyth and Noa are probably the stars of this overall story. OC Directory beneath the cut, just felt like making it!
My OCs:
Noa Hidalgo-Giovanni - my main OC, my Giovanni/Hecata necromancer! I will probably draw her across multiple AUs/fandoms so don't be surprised to see her.
Khloe Osborne - my current VTM/V5 PC in my husband's chronicle, The Poisoned Peach, ATL by Night! She is a Ventrue Thinblood, in a coterie with three other Thinbloods as they try to stop the Atlanta Camarilla from enslaving the local Thinblood populace! I also like to put her in Baldur's Gate 3 art too.
Parvati - another favorite character of mine. She was originally my first real Pathfinder PC that I played for a long time. I also started writing a book about her titled Crowned in Marigolds, sort of based on the Pathfinder world she had been placed in. She is now my Vampire the Masquerade Ravnos Elder who is in the Ministry/Followers of Set!
thesixthplaneteer's OCs (the OCs I treat like mine but are actually not!)
Dr. Nythanel Loken PhD- Elder Thinblood, the Thriceborn! The big favorite and Noa's other half. Cute and full of the audacity!
Ralph - The perfect man - a Thinblood that got cursed with the Nosferatu bane (lite). He's Khloe's boyfriend in my current Chronicle. Former Spec Ops but Embraced out of spite because he was hot. (Did NOT go well for the sire!)
Stakebait Coterie - The group Ralph and Khloe are a part of which also includes Christian and Kyle! The four best friends that anyone could have!!
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kittysdiary · 1 year
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About Me:
my pretty virtual diary
cosmetic nurse injector + fashion designer
licensed esthetician, medical esthetician, nail tech + natural hair stylist
fashion, beauty and lifestyle advice
self betterment, manifestation + law of attraction
bimbo libra energy
Navigation + Links:
my carrd. side blog. third blog.
moodboards. tips. the kitty print. it bitch. bimbolicious. wishlist. kitty’s diary. my posts. bible. kitty's mp3.
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startrekroleplay · 1 year
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Directory Updated - October 7, 2023
View the full directory here. To be added to the directory, view the post linked here.
This directory is large and likely to contain errors. Please notify us of any mistakes, either in this update post or in the directory itself, and we will do our best to correct them.
* denotes a multimuse blog ^ denotes a canon divergent muse ~ denotes a genderbent muse
ADDITIONS - CANON CHARACTERS
Khan Noonien Singh - @respondedinkind
Spock - @starfleetsxvulcan
ADDITIONS - ORIGINAL CHARACTERS
Shelby O'Viere - @mehrere-musen
REMOVALS
@ann7ka - inactivity
@chapelicious - inactivity
@constablegoo - inactivity
@fangsremain - inactivity
@jurati - inactivity
@lehmccoy - inactivity
@starstcff - inactivity
titancapt - deactivated
@tongowheel - inactivity
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slashmagpie · 11 months
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Blood & Snow
Pt. I
Directory: {Pt. II} {Pt. III} {Pt. IV} {Pt. V} {Pt. VI} {Pt. VII} {AO3}
Welcome to my @hermithorrorweek fic! I spent a while trying to figure out seven different fic concepts based on the prompt, and kept coming up blank, up until I decided to combine them all and write a single fic, with each prompt being the theme for a different chapter. Blood & Snow is the result, and at the time of posting it is not quite complete, but I'm excited to share it with you nonetheless. I'm hoping to post a chapter once per day, but later chapters may be delayed depending on how long it takes me to get them written. Some of this builds off concepts I played with in some of my earlier Decked Out 2 ficlets, which you can find in my writing tag. TWs for this chapter include: non-consensual body modification*, unreality*, panic attacks
I. GAME MECHANICS
Game design is simple, really.
Well, no, it’s difficult—but the principles behind it are simple. Make it fun. Make it challenging. Make it rewarding. 
Decked Out 2 is a game.
To be more precise, it’s a long-running, deck-building, dungeon-crawling game. It’s competitive. It has rewards—bragging rights, for one. Trophies, for another. If you win, you can get crowns, and buy things to make you more powerful, to make the game more fun. You get frost embers, which are used to build the deck, and—
Clank is Decked Out’s central mechanic. Trigger a shrieker, generate clank. Easy as that. Taking your artefact will also generate clank, because it angers the spirits of the dungeon. That’s another important thing about game design: atmosphere. Design. Having something that feels cohesive. So—no, max clank isn’t quite as dangerous as it should be, but very few mobs would work to replace the vex, because, well, they’re not the spirits of the dungeon, and—
Hazard is generated every thirty-seven seconds, roughly. It used to be thirty, but that lined up with card draws, and the sound cues were hard to keep track of. So. Hazard is generated every thirty-seven seconds, roughly. Hazard makes the dungeon more dangerous to traverse, by closing doors, raising pathways, and otherwise making certain routes more dangerous or downright impossible to cross. People underestimate hazard at first, but quickly find out that hazard kills. When clank maxes out, that turns into hazard too, because max clank wasn’t dangerous enough by itself, because the vexes aren’t doing their damn jobs—
There were two older systems that got replaced. Not a lot of people know that. Focus could be built up, would synergise with other cards, but it was just—it wasn’t working. It got reworked. No one would miss it. Delve was a difficulty setting, but it was dumb, just press a button to choose your difficulty, that works way better, and—
Game design is simple, really. 
Decked Out is not a game.
Had it ever been a game? In its first iteration, back in season seven, had it hungered the way it does now? Had it slept, slumbering beneath the earth, soaking in blood that would slowly, slowly bring it to life? When the idea had wormed its way into Tango’s head, a sequel—had that been his own thought? Does it matter if it was?
He’d certainly thought it was. Began drafting up plans, re-evaluating what he’d done in the past and putting better spins on them. Decked Out 2 would be huge, would be the biggest project he’d ever worked on, but it wouldn’t take that long. Surely.
…Thirteen months later, Decked Out 2 opened its doors.
Thirteen months. It had started as a hole, as many things do. A hole, a build, a plan, a citadel—Tango had thrown himself into it like he would with any huge project. And at first it had been—it had been a project. A build, a game. A giant hole filled with promise. A castle built in a week. Just Hermitcraft things. The usual.
When had it started? When he’d dug, and dug, for hours and hours upon end? When he’d carved jagged-looking scars into the landscape and dragged the citadel up from them? When he’d started building level one? When he’d begun assembling the redstone? When the ravagers and wardens began to roam its halls? When did Decked Out come alive?
…Had it always been alive?
Okay, better question: when did—
A frozen shard is placed into the barrel. The door lights up, sounds play. The door opens. The hermit—Joe?—begins to take off their armour and items and set up the game. A difficulty button is pressed. A shulker is placed into its slot. The cards begin to filter through the system. A minecart ride, and a pressure plate—
Decked Out turns on.
The Dungeon watches carefully, hungrily. A shrieker triggers. A hazard door closes. The game is running, the game is alive, the game is always alive—
The Dungeon Master floats, untethered, bodiless, watching, speaking, unheard, unseen. His body stands in the dark, empty, eyes sightless and lungs unbreathing. Why would he need to breathe? Dungeons don’t need to breathe, after all. Games don’t need to breathe. And Decked Out isn’t a game, not really, but it still works on principles of game design, and none of those principles require the game to breathe.
So the Dungeon watches, and the Dungeon Master watches, and Joe runs straight into the blood-stained horns of a ravager, and—
And—
Tango tries to blink. To breathe. A hazard door slams open and closed. The wires are crossed, that’s not—he needs to go—an attempt to step forward dispenses a stack of frost embers into the dungeon. They’re not supposed to do that. That’s a bug, he needs to fix—
He needs his hands—
Stone walls aren’t fingers, but they flex all the same, groaning under the strain—
There’s an itching in his legs. Skulk creeps up the walls. This wasn’t supposed to happen. This isn’t—
It’s dark. A warden sniffs. A shrieker howls. Stone becomes sinew becomes skulk becomes shadow becomes smoke becomes a soul. The Dungeon Master wrenches open his sightless eyes, and the Dungeon sees—
(Buildings aren’t meant to have panic attacks. Neither are dungeons. Nor games. But Decked Out is not a game, never really has been, and Tango—)
Joe and Hypno stare in bafflement at the flickering availability metre outside of the dungeon. “Tango, fix your game!” Hypno cries, and—
Ha.
Here’s a better question: when did Tango become Decked Out?
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objectum-media · 5 months
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Objectum Media Update: Knight Rider (1982) + Behind-the-scenes restructuring
We have not forgotten about this blog!! In fact we think about it too often! God dammit!
New Entry: Knight Rider (1982) by Carter
A big thanks to a Discord contributor for this entry, and the backlog of entries he's made that I still have to add!!
The website's stylesheet has been modified a bit for readability, namely review entries. In addition, our review template has been revised to be easier to work with!
No queue update because it would've been too time consuming.
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wttcsms · 9 months
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🎀 this -> that, fic directory ;
in an attempt to bring to attention my other works, this directory is all a plot to manipulate and gaslight you into checking out my "underrated" fics that i actually probably love more than the ones you like 🫶🏻 these fics will be from differing fandoms or for different characters, but this is all about trying something new!
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⊹ 🎀  ࣪ ˖ if you liked these eyes were made for lookin' at you (only you) because it featured any of the following:
male lead that was willing to go to the ends of the earth for reader
when he's a soldier with a strong sense of duty & loyalty!!!
learning how to love/a sweet romance about falling in love <3
consider reading daylight!
⊹ 🎀  ࣪ ˖ if you liked i'll pretend you'll stay forever because it featured any of the following:
the idea of being played by your lover/the betrayal aspect of the couple dynamic
a big strong guy who gives crazy good dick
consider reading love cuts just like a knife (you make the knife feel so good)!
⊹ 🎀  ࣪ ˖ if you liked when you know, you know because it featured any of the following:
an absolutely in-love atsumu
fluffy, sweet thoughts about marriage!!!
hints towards a proposal 🤭
consider reading paper rings!
⊹ 🎀  ࣪ ˖ if you liked i wanna brag about it (i wanna tie the knot) because it featured any of the following:
hot, rich man that is older than you and you babysit his kid
an insane breeding kink
said hot, rich man that is older than you is also whipped for you and borderline obsessive
consider reading take care of you!
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syrips · 3 months
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hi im not involved/affiliated at all with the FREE memento mori curse of strahd fan zine by our lovely community and organized by curseofsergei but anyways please enjoy this list of all of the beautiful artists/writers/contributors individual self-published posts because they all deserve individual love and attention cuz o my lordy lord oh my AAAAAAAh
obvious spoiler/cw warnings on the zine, please read/dl the zine first if you can, this is just a directory list to appreciate and update whenever the contributors upload their own work
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chigirisprincess · 9 days
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ི᭨ᩧྀ fawn . twenties . they/them . 18+ mdni
ʚ — nav; dni . rules . tags . mlist . ao3 . recs .
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