#im like a haunted house in a way

[arturgnojek]

[purpleshadow-star]

Imagine if Nico could learn to control when he turns into shadows.

Like, in The Blood of Olympus Nico would start fading after shadow traveling too much, and sometimes Reyna and Coach Hedge wouldn't be able to touch him, and one time he even accidentally walked through a tree. Imagine if he learned to control that intangibility.

Imagine if he could just turn parts of his body into shadows. Imagine if, in a fight, someone swings at him, and he knows he can't dodge in time, so he turns into shadows for a second so the weapon goes right through him, and while his enemy is confused he uses the distraction to land the final blow.

Imagine if he could just walk/reach through walls and doors and stuff.

I just think that, for someone with the title of ghost king (and as a child of the Underworld), he deserves more ghost-like powers.

[shorthaltsjester]

i do not want to dig a hole but i am too much of a laura bailey pc enjoyer to not make this post so:

selfishness ≠ a lack of kindness 

selfishness is a theme that has come up with all of laura's main campaign pcs. that doesn't mean that her characters are always making selfish choices or that they don't care about the rest of the people they're with or that they're not good. it's just that, for the most part, the first thing they're thinking of when they take action or make choices is themselves. 

in jester and vex both it is more typical and obvious selfishness. vex's developed because she needed it to keep herself and vax alive and as safe as possible and it grew into a behaviour that she had to actively work to avoid. it's evident in her greed, her theft of the broom, her reaction to her own death which relied heavily on i'm okay/i survived to which keyleth reminded her that she wasn't the only one who had to witness and reckon with her death. in jester's case, she grew up in an environment that literally trained her to make every decision based on two things - her mother's opinion and her own. so, when she's out in the world without marion for the first time, her choices are those that will benefit her and her actions are those that consider her own thoughts and not really many others' (aside from the traveler's). 

it isn't a criticism of either vex or jester to say that they are characters who act selfishly. in fact, i'd argue that to claim otherwise does a great disservice to exactly how immense both of their character arcs are. because the nuance of both jester and vex is that they are selfish, and they also hold extreme room for self-sacrifice and empathy. vex is much more brash than jester is, and jester is much more trusting than vex, but both of them are characters who begin with selfish impulses who grow with them. neither ever truly shed those impulses, but they use them in new ways, typically transforming them into impulses towards things that are in the best interest of the party. 

you may have noticed the lack of imogen in this post about laura bailey pcs and that's because of two reasons. one, we are an unknown amount of time into her story, i can't analyse her development the same way i can vex and jester's. two, imogen's selfishness isn't the blatant quasi-self-aware selfishness that we see in things like jester complaining about her lack of money to caleb or vex stealing a broom. instead, imogen's is very internal, like a lot of laura's character work with imogen. it is a bit similar to jester’s in the sense that it comes from a lack of awareness moreso than vex’s practiced behaviour, but imogen’s is a lot more tied to inherent beliefs she has about the world and the people in it.

as a consequence of her powers, imogen sees people's thoughts as their entirety, she holds it above their actions to be the truth of who they are - to act against what they think or to say something that doesn’t cohere with what they’ve thought is akin to lying, so for her to act empathetically is to act in tandem with what someone else’s thoughts are, not how they act, which is typically not all that wanted. the same as vex’s greed and jester’s naivety, this is a trait that makes narrative sense and it’s one i find quite compelling, especially when read in the vein of someone struggling through trauma that has made them assume that the world is against them. imogen’s cynicism is coherent cynicism, i can’t say that in a similar situation i wouldn’t have the same predisposition towards the world.

the part that is particularly self-interested comes in if you look at how imogen has actually been treated in the campaign (quite well) in comparison to the cynicism that she’s developed from her past (something that speaks to a world out to get her). certainly, a bunch of shitty things have happened to imogen in the time we’ve known her, but the same can be said for everyone in bell’s hells and pretty much everyone in exandria at this point in time. but, in a fight to save the aforementioned world, imogen’s focus was getting her mother back on her side. which, while very consistent with her character and a choice that i enjoy, is a very selfish one. the fun thing (to me, obviously) about imogen is that she has, more than most, an insight into the opinions of others and she also tends to seek others’ opinions out and genuinely engages with them and supports their choices. but she still very much acts towards what she thinks is best. it’s one reason i enjoy looking at the dynamic between her and orym as one between foils, as orym tends to be stalwart in his beliefs and doesn’t care too much for other’s opinions if he’s already sure of his own, but his actions tend to favour collaboration and protecting others.

as i mentioned earlier, imogen is a harder case to look at because she is still in the process of her story. however, the circlet is clearly influencing how she interacts with the world and in the wake of the solstice, the hostile reaction towards ruidusborn people has started to become more and more apparent and i’m interested to see what route that ends up leading imogen down and how it will influence her relationship with the rest of bell’s hells. (for better, i think, based on recent conversations, but if it's for worse i will be just as seated and excited).

all of this is just to say, please stop assuming that claiming a character has a trait you think is a bad one is criticism or a hate post. in light of the fact that i know that people who don’t believe this will continue to not believe this, i’ll encourage anyone confused about the ability of a character to be good and kind and selfish all at once to look to what the text itself says, specifically scanlan’s words to pelor when asked what vex means to him:

“Her name is Vex, and she is greedy and mean sometimes, and she can steal a lot. She’s a little bit not the greatest person, but her flaws highlight everything that is right about her, which is she does all these things to protect her friends and her family. She would give her life for any of us and for anyone who was truly in need. And she’s not perfect but she’s the most perfect of all of us.”

would you look at that... an ability to be a multitude of things, some in conflict with one another. i know that's hard for fandoms to believe, especially about female characters with agency, but i promise its true!

[sunny12th]

Daenerys Stormborn, the last of a burning house

[mbat]

characters who haunt the narrative despite being long gone my beloveds

[deathbypufferfish]

You've been invited to my Virtual Haunted House!

I was feeling a little silly and a little goofy and decided to make a last minute simblreen gift! This is not a download, but a fun activity and game! It consists of a virtual haunted house I've made in the sims that you navigate through links. For example if you want to go left, you'd click that option to that scene. It is also a scavenger hunt and you'll have a Spook Search Sheet of clues for each scene! If you send another ask with the correct rooms you'll receive a certificate of completion! There is also an "afterparty" chat post linked in my pinned post if you want to say you enjoyed it etc. and I can keep my inbox tidy!

Enter if you Dare when the Porchlight is On!!!! The Porchlight post is pinned on my page👻🎃 Simply save and submit your ticket or say "ticket please!" to my ask box on public!

Puffer’s Haunted House is now public!

@simblreenofficial

More Information

This is not a scary haunted house! It is cartoony and silly with no jump scares. Only warning I'd give is a few cartoon spiders

The Scavenger Hunt is fairly easy. The Spook Search objects are in each room or hallway, not in interactions. The scavenger hunt is totally not necessary, but if you send an ask with your list of correlating rooms (e.g. 1.=Dining Room) you'll receive a silly little certificate of completion!

There is NO download gift. It is just a fun little game

You will not miss out on anything based on your choices! You'll always be able to go back and explore other rooms.

Desktop Only

There is a PG version of the certificate available since I've had people do it with their kids! Just ask when you send your answers

[cooper--jones]

*the midnight club spoilers ahead*

for me, the craziest part of the midnight club is that all the overtly supernatural stuff could be fake. it literally ends on a "you're just imagining things/it was all a dream" note, with only the ballerina leg left as a bit of "yes the other side possibly exists." unlike hill house, bly manor or midnight mass, it is heavily implied that there isn't actually anything supernatural happening. even the creepy grandma and grandpa who were the original owners of the property could be figments of ilonka and kevin's imaginations since they're the only ones who paid attention to the old photos (it's not as if mike f has ever been subtle about ghosts being more than just ghosts). literally, save the ballerina leg, there is nothing to concretely indicate that supernatural shit is going on. and the ballerina leg just adds to the theme of hope that the show pushes so hard - hope in the face of crushing despair, that there is possibly more. it's not about whether the supernatural exists or not but reinforces one of the main themes

what i mean by all this is that mike f made shows where ghosts explicitly exist and explicitly told us that they aren't ghosts, they are wishes, and that people become stories and dead doesn't mean gone

and then he made the midnight club which is basically a cinematic manifestation of these ideas and i think that's very sexy of him

[mochasucculent]

Yea idk how I haven't shared them here yet but here's some doodles of Tabitha and "Apathy" (she ain't got a name yet), the two protags of my ghost story!

Grieving after the sudden loss of her grandmother, Apathy accidentally becomes bound to the spirit of Tabitha, a young girl who was murdered in the 1870s. Stuck together in unfamiliar circumstances, the two must discover how to send Tabitha on to the afterlife, and if they even can.

UPDATEEEEEEEEE Apathy's name is Naomi :)

[faunandfloraas]

Jeongin having almost no votes on that poll makes sense to me, not because I think he'd do particularly bad but because I'm utterly certain if he ended up stranded with one of us he'd just up and leave and I wouldn't blame him

[thekidsfromyestergay]

These have caused irreparable damage to my brain

[mvalentine]

[planet4546b]

my roommate does chorus (like for real chorus) and every once in a while she practices in the basement and you can just hear distant ethereal singing its very fun

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

lmao sometimes you get through a book and the only reason it wasn't a COMPLETE waste of time is because it did something Supremely Neat(tm) with structuring, so at least your writer!Brain gets to chew on that for a while

[bangcakes]

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[hella1975]

my mum keeps asking me if im alright and in the end i was like 'im fine why do you keep asking that' bc im literally not doing anything abnormal and she just gives me this very soft look and goes 'maybe i just need to get used to your stillness again' my WHAT?

[twelverriver]

harper & amerie seven by taylor swift edit... i need it