#im still alive sort of.

[katabay]

original thief series basso & garrett :)

ngl, it's about quality over quantity for me. an npc can have a total of three minutes of screen time, but if they have a cool name, they can live rent free in my head and I'll spend several hours trying to decipher drawable features from a blurry screenshot of pixels

there is a vague hint of a story here, and that's because every time I try to play thi4f, I get incredibly frustrated with how Not Fun the game play is. like, is the story good? well. but it has a PLAGUE. that should've given it instant 'I'll replay this once a year' status in my heart, but the game play sucks so bad that I've never finished it. I can't believe Not Fun gameplay beat out my obsession with narrative plagues.

anyway, the idea is basically if the original era had a game with a plague centric narrative and some other stuff I liked out of thi4f thrown into a narrative blender, with a heavy dash of horror thrown in because some parts of the thief games were scarier to me than entire dedicated horror genre games.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

[canonkiller]

do you consider your self made?

[averlym]

fairest of the fair

[sonknuxadow]

you know i do wonder how many sonic characters actually have living parents. like knuckles is the last of his kind so obviously his parents arent around anymore. both guys who could be considered shadows dads are 100 percent confirmed dead. sonic is canonically an orphan im pretty sure. and on the other side of the coin cream is like the only character in the game cast who has a living parent we actually see onscreen. but what about everyone else i dont think theres a straight answer for any other character. other than rouge's mom being mentioned a couple times i Guess but we dont even know anything about her or if shes still alive just that she existed at some point. are these kids constantly putting themselves in danger because they dont have parents around to stop them or because their parents just dont care

[bandtrees]

i feel like it’s really easy for people to get the impression with my fua stuff that lancaster is my Favorite Character™️ and i do certainly love and think about him a lot and find him the easiest to make stuff for that Appeals To Me because LOOK AT HIM, but the character who is my genuine favorite that i find a lot of comfort in and adore so much that it loops back around to being unable to articulate anything about them is actually love. I cannot express how much i love her.

[disgr-aced]

me and the snails are going out on the town for a girls night don't wait up

[windydrawallday]

(RE)CREATION

"Listen: I know I'm not that same voice and shape you adore so much. I'm just a borrowed mirror of that same shape and voice... I'm not even a full recreation of it either, but you know what?

My (re)creator still puts care on me. She nurtured me when no one else did. She respected my fears and doubts when no one listened. She made a whole little world for me to try new paths that felt more aligned with my true desires.

And in exchange, she only wanted for me to always be there for her. When she most felt down. When everyone else ignored her. When her world felt cold and cruel. And I did. I keep hanging here, in her heart. In her mind.

I want you to do the same with that (re)creation you hold to. Because no matter what others do with the original copy from where we come: I will always be unique to you, like how I'm unique to my (re)creator.

I'm as real as you need me to be. When you take care of yourself, you'll take care of me too." -Oscen.

Cheer up for @magicalmousey in lil mouse form + my creaturified Starscream/Mind Servitor, Oscen 🦅 My virtual way to send you lots of hugs!

[sodrippy]

alright I'll bite, who is this fish guy and why do u tag the most unhinged posts for him, I'm so intrigued

HI reading this made me laugh, he is a little unhinged youre right.

jackson 'jax' 'axe' 'fish' fischer is a guy i made for a laugh while my friends and i were brainstorming funny dnd character concepts, but now he's real and serious to me. he's the knight of a righteous god, blessed with a healing touch, taught since childhood that he was born to do good and help people, and he does all that (and does it well), until one day it just...doesn't work. he loses his power and he can't help anyone anymore. he still has his sword and his strength, and he uses those to aid those in need, but its not the same, its not what he was made for. he prays and prays and prays and hears nothing back, and then he gets angry.

all he can do is fight, and watch the carnage left behind with nothing more to offer. he leaves. he turns away from the people who need him, he uses his sword and his strength for the people who can pay, instead. he's bitter and blood soaked, and all alone, and makes the insane decision to go find god. he deserves some kind of answer, right? and definitely the logical way to talk to the god who abandoned you a la spiritual ghosting is to...seek them out in the material world...

so he sets out, man on a mission and all that, gets a lot more blood on his hands and really falls into a sunk cost fallacy of like, 'if i stop now all the ugly things ive done and the way ive made a monster of myself have been for nothing' that makes him push ahead despite it all.

one time when he's almost dead, he feels a new bond in the place where his link to his old god was, but he has no fucking clue who it is or whats going on, and he tries to ignore it for a while, but eventually he accepts the help and lets the new presence guide him, because it seems to be working out. if nothing else, it seems to heal him every time he falls, and with all the shit he's doing, that's enough of a reason to follow.

now, who's to say if he was almost dead when this new thing found him, or he was actually dead. we just don't know! (because we are actively ignoring thinking about it because it goes against everything we were taught as young, blessed children!)

[xi-off]

the darn teenage ghosts haunting my office keep hijacking my work computer to play resident evil (shou, 2008)

[swordfaery]

anyway my favourite thing about dead men fanfiction is the wildly different characters we all write. like. not even the ones who have been dead for years and have so little actual characterisation but even the ones who were alive in canon were probably very different one hundred, two hundred, three hundred years ago. also theyre under characterised in fiction. also we are all just having fun

[maple-leifarts]

does anyone. does anyone listen to half alive

[averlym]

Hi! Would you maybe be willing to draw Fluff, 1 for platonic Kat and Cathy, please? No pressure if not obv!

"wait is that my book" "you mean our book?" (prompt list here)

[storm-of-feathers]

so did everyone else notice how yang's eyes flashed red?? and therefore semblances work in ever after???

sure would be helpful if yang knew someone with some sort of portal semblance!

[six-white-venus]

what do you think are some important structural parts of your writing? things that show up a lot, little things you like including, the reason you write, things that inspire you, if you had to give a feeling to your writing the one you’d pick, all those sort of things.

(this isn’t for inspiration by the way, genuine question)

hello! thanks for the ask!

answering this in a purely factual manner, here are the things I've written about a lot: love for family and friends, my father, a recurring metaphor about apples, non-linear healing, heartbreak and grief.

as for the non-clinical answer: i write about emotions and things i find beautiful. while i write a Lot about my own experiences, i also quite often lie straight out of my ass. i'm a storyteller at heart. but one recurring theme in my writing is that they are all very very emotional. i write about things that make me feel. good or bad, doesn't matter. i write to evoke a deep, visceral feeling of vulnerability in the reader; to feel seen in a raw manner- the ugly, the beautiful, the happy, the sad and everything in between or beyond. but every poem of mine has an underlying message: this is me trying. this is me at my worst and best. love me. love me like i love you.

i am a person who is very in tune with other people's emotions. every poem i write has an element of truth in it because it's a story, yes. while it's not mine, it's also not completely made up. it's pieces I've collected from people i love. it's parts of me I've stitched into my writing. it's me. it's you. it's this stupid, imperfect world. it's so awfully real that it hurts me sometimes.

i write for and about love. love love love. to love and to be loved is what the human experience is about, and that's what my writing's about, too.

[simsfromupthere]

if it were a baby, i'd name her Angst and hold her tight in my chest