#lemon-embalmer

[secondbeatsongs]

shuffle me timbers. 74, 62, 35

unfortunately, I do not know what these numbers correspond to, but I will give you a shuffled song!

the song that came up for you is "Okay" by Backhouse Mike - he's a guy that did in-house tracks for Nickelodeon shows, and the version I have on my iPod is actually from the Zoey 101 soundtrack CD!

but here's the deal. this song, everywhere you can find it officially? the quality sucks. it's awful. we're talking like...8tracks-rip bad.

and that's bad.

it's probably 128k or worse, and it's noisy, and compressed, and ughh. and it's like that on all streaming services! but you know where it's not like that?

tumblr.

besides the CD rip that I have, the highest quality version I can find of this song comes from this almost-11-year-old tumblr post.

is it perfect? no! but it's crisp 192k quality, and unlike my CD rip, it has the extra little fun bit at the end where he repeats one of the lines a bunch!

so like! fuck! what the fuck! why does this decade-old tumblr post have better audio quality than everything Backhouse Mike put up officially? who was in charge of putting his stuff online? and why would they not check the quality first?!

like not to exaggerate on main, but this might be my villain origin story.

anyway, it's a great song, and I listen to it to chill out sometimes

...and since it exists literally nowhere else in 320k, here's my CD rip of it:

(but do also go listen to the tumblr post I linked above, because the ending on that version is just *chef's kiss*)

[bestworstcase]

i am asking you about tdt! remnant with particular interest in unhinged climate

it is so kind of you all to enable me (@meltedintoair @froginboillingpastawater @lemon-embalmer @blakistan)

don’t mind the unfinished continent i’m still (through gritted teeth) figuring the strandlines out… also if you’re wondering why solitas looks like that it’s because for narrative reasons i needed land at the north pole here’s what she looks like Put Together

ANYWAY you will notice that i’ve moved things around. anima and menagerie north by a solid 30’ and rotated sanus a little bit counter-clockwise for the sake of not having vale and vacuo on almost the same latitude. mostly this is for the sake of bringing the various climates of these places into more reasonable bounds for an earthlike-ish climate—except for vale, which has a maritime climate with cool summers and coldish winters at 6’N, because i fixated on the puzzle of “earthlike climate except for this One Region” like you would not believe.

but before we get to Refrigerated Vale we have to talk about

✨the moons✨

yes moons plural. because i looked at the broken moon and heard the siren call of THE TIDES. tdt!remnant has three moons: mar, the original, which is (like the canon moon) not tidally locked and has a massive dark crater on one side (THE MOUTH OF THE MOON–), and the much smaller anthe + ogmios, which formed through the accretion of debris flung away when the god of darkness exploded the moon and are smaller.

INCIDENTALLY the hegemonic calendar is a lunisolar calendar with months correlating to mar’s cycle and 8-day weeks (octs) correlating to ogmios’ much shorter cycle; anthe is culturally associated with the god of animals and khimerism—that’s the monotheistic worship of the god of animals practiced by many fauni—has an anthean lunar calendar that is wildly different. the vytali common calendar has 12 months divided into 8-day octs (with some gnarly intercalation going on to align the calendar with the solar year); the khimeric calendar has 17 months divided into 9-day enneads with an intercalary month and handful of three-day-long leaping festivals that rotate the calendar through the solar year in a fifteen year cycle. it would be remiss of me not to plug fantasy-calendar for all your batshit calendar making needs. i have a spreadsheet where i pin down all the math and then just set everything up in FC it has never let me down.

back of napkin math:

on average the tides are about +/- 3.9 m. neap tides where all three moons pull against each other, +/- 3.7 m. spring tides where they line up, +/- 4.2—these are the open ocean tidal range, coastal tides are highly variable but as a very rough estimate tidal ranges along the (habitable) coasts are probably somewhere between ~2 and ~16m, with significant amounts of uninhabitable coastline where the tidal range is much larger and building on the high tide coast means your settlement is several kilometers inland at low tide. riverside building is also quite difficult because tidal bores are. pretty extreme

port cities don’t have harbors the way we think of them. they have either sprawling, complicated systems of locks operated by konurgists (=professional practitioners of dust-based magic) or they have cliffside dry docks designed for lightweight vessels to ride in and out with the tides. vale’s wharf district is a maze of locks and caissons. argus and kuo kuana have dry harbors.

the other thing about multi-moon systems is you get more significant tidal flexing ergo more volcanism

so where earth experiences ~70 volcanic eruptions per year on average, remnant the triple moon tsunami tides planet gets to have a “statistically there is always a volcano erupting somewhere in the world” trivia question, and all the air quality problems and acid rain you get from that.

SO the first consideration with regard to tdt remnant’s earthlike climate is that the conditions which produce it are very different; i… am That kind of person who back of napkin crunched numbers for all of this (and spent like an hour fiddling to not tidally lock the planet to the star 😭) BUT the numbers don’t matter per se; the salient piece is that the sun is both cooler and a little further away than ours (<- yes this IS me looking into the camera like i’m on the office about the god of light) and the planet is kept habitable by tidal heating, meaning the friction produced by the moons stretching and squeezing the planet as they orbit around it.

the moons stress balling the planet is also what causes The Volcanoes, which release greenhouse gasses (keeping remnant warmer than it would otherwise be) but also semi-regularly you’ll get enough big eruptions in clusters to Deflect The Fucking Sun like it’s 1816 and global temperatures nosedive and climates all over go haywire for a year or two. i think this happens on average about once per century but the current historical period—the seventh era—begins with a quarter century called the forge years when the planet got HAMMERED by four really bad volcanic winters in quick succession. think “14th century black plague” levels of decimation, except it was worldwide famines + just an explosion of conflicts and wars over food sources + grimm, whose populations spike whenever there’s a major volcanic event because the planet’s mantle is a mixture of molten rock and atrum (=grimm juice).

(there are very few true herbivores in this world. there are a lot of animals that eat plants when it’s warm and meat when it’s cold. true herbivores tend to be either animals that store huge food caches or animals that can go a really, really long time without eating. plants mostly either develop super deep root systems, or pump out antifreeze proteins when the temperature drops, or develop cold-mediated serotiny, or a combination.)

BECAUSE OF ALL THAT, remnant’s oceans circulate in a completely different way than ours; tidal heating warms the bottom water at the poles, causing it to rise in strong east-to-west or west-to-east currents, forcing colder surface water downwards and flowing towards the equator. consequently remnant does not have permanent ice caps, although most of solitas is perpetually snowy above its strandline.

(the strandline is where the water is at high tide; as noted in many cases this is several kilometers inland from the low-tide coast. anima, solitas, alukah—that’s the unnamed dragon continent—and sanus are all a single contiguous landmass at low tide, with huge land bridges exposed. it is generally not a good idea to try to walk, with the exception of one specific island chain that is small enough to traverse safely on foot by walking island-to-island over a span of about three days, four if you’re being cautious.)

the upshot of all this is it’s relatively warmer and wetter at the poles and cooler and drier at the equator compared to earth, because the oceans are effectively upside-down, warmest at the bottom near the poles. (if you’re wondering why the tidal heating is distributed this way, the real-world exemplar i’m working from is europa. interesting reading!)

northern anima is a bit of a special case because even though it looks coastal, it isn’t; the sea in between it and solitas is very, very shallow and at low tides is just this for hundreds of kilometers:

so within that curve of the “dragon neck” shape, the whole strandline is functionally landlocked with respect to the warm rising polar currents and during the wintertime can actually get colder than the region of solitas where mantle is located.

and then there’s the impact of dust.

i’ve drifted quite a bit off the basic ‘fantasy elements’ approach taken with dust in canon because the concept of dust as a sort of crystallized energy appeals to me; so there are four basic kinds of dust (thermal, electromagnetic, kinetic, chemical) which can be further divided into subcategories by their specific actions. for example most ‘burn’ and ‘ice’ dusts belong to the thermal family and are distinguished by whether they radiate heat or absorb it. and i say ‘most’ because there are also things like organic-solar/“bog” dust, which forms in peat deposits and produces heat but is classed as an electromagnetic dusts because it’s solar-powered.

large deposits of dust modify the regional climate in often dramatic ways. and this is how we get Refrigerated Vale—the difference between vale and other equatorial regions isn’t as huge as it would be on earth, because remnant’s equatorial band is relatively cool and generally falls more into a ‘warm-to-hot mediterranean climate’ than tropical, but vale is very noticeably cold for its latitude. there are Two Reasons for this.

one is what i’m calling the tarthic koniohaline climate system (TKCS pronounced “ticks”). the tarth sea—that’s the body of water surrounded by alukah, solitas, and sanus—has a huge, several-hundred-kilometer-long seam of variegated dust running along the southern continental shelf, roughly following the curve of the alukite/sanite coastline but further out to sea. (“variegated” meaning it’s a mixture of different types all sort of entangled together.) sort of akin to a barrier reef, but dust.

the tarthic dust formation is mostly a mix of absorptive thermal dusts (colloquially: frost) and kinetic dusts (colloquially: tidal) which together act to cool and desalinate water upwelling against the continental shelf, which is then pushed southward in a clockwise direction along the sanite/alukite coast. that produces a very cool, wet climate along the coastline with frequent thunderstorms as cold fronts coming off the water collide with warmer air rising from the vivax sea to the south (which again: think mediterranean).

vale sits on the southern periphery of the TKCS and is cooled by prevailing winds originating from the tarthic coast. it isn’t as rainy year-round as the vitrine peninsula but it does get quite a lot of precipitation.

the other factor Refrigerating Vale is that there’s absorptive thermal dust in the mountains, too. eastern vale—the counties in the northeast part of the continent, which were contested during the great war and (unlike in canon) not wholly lost to the grimm—has a very pleasant climate, warm summers and mild rainy winters, sometimes snow in the north and at higher altitudes. prevailing winds are fairly dry and warm when they hit the mountains and then rake over peaks that are just covered in frost/ice dusts and act as a giant heat sink, so western vale gets these bitterly cold, super dry winds pouring down the mountains during the summer that collide with warm coastal winds and cause huge storms. in winter the prevailing winds are much weaker, though still freezing, and blow further out to sea so there are fewer storms and infrequent snow but the snow that does fall tends to stick until the spring.

and that’s why the maragda valley is nicknamed the world’s refrigerator and vale’s chief export is various frost/ice dusts :)

OTHER FUN DUST-RELATED THINGS.

the southern part of alukah is called the mordicchiate coast and it’s one of the only regions in the world with a true tropical climate because it’s very, very rich in an assortment of kinetic dusts (mostly different grades of grav) that essentially cook the region by Vibrating Constantly

the other tropical region is in equatorial anima, a big swath of jungle and humid-subtropical grassland in what’s called the palash basin. it’s hot because it’s the caldera of an ancient supervolcano and one of the most volcanically active regions in the world. there are a lot of grimm. there are so many grimm in the palash basin. there’s also a strip of super-fertile land running along the northern rim of the palash region so people keep trying to live there anyway.

along the southwestern coasts of solitas (where those free villages are in arrowfell) there are just enormous underground seams of radiant thermal dusts which heat up the land enough that it’s possible to farm there during the summers; it still snows year-round, but the soil isn’t frozen so all you need is tents with clear panels you can uncover/cover to control sunlight.

the nequam desert—that’s the one surrounding vacuo—is also laced with radiant thermal dusts that bake what would otherwise be a warm arid steppe into a parched, burning-hot desert that wants to kill you. there are hotspots all over the place where the dust veins are so close to the surface that you can cook on the ground; nomadic desert peoples notoriously almost never use cooking fires and were instrumental to vacuo’s success in the great war because radar systems were still very rudimentary and no fires at night meant vacuan guerrillas could maneuver undetected until they appeared seemingly out of fucking nowhere to maul enemy supply convoys.

the wildlife in the menagerian interior are unique on remnant because there is a preponderance of electromagnetic and chemical dust formations on the surface—mostly “shock” dusts, which discharge or generate electricity—and the animals living have been in an evolutionary arms race for millions of years with the result that if it can’t generate electrical shocks on its own, it’s gluing electric rocks to itself decorator-crab style or it’s got specialized structures in its mouth that it can pack dust into and discharge shocks from when it bites you. “how can the wildlife be more dangerous than the grimm,” the rest of the world asks. “we have scorpions whose stings deliver an electric shock at a high enough voltage to kill you before you hit the ground,” says menagerie. “and lightning snakes. and an electrical tortoise. and storm bears–”

there’s a volcano called mount halog on the northwestern dragon-head peninsula of alukah that began to erupt in 332 VE—twenty-five years ago—and has been more or less continuously oozing lava and half-formed grimm ever since.

acid rain (and snow) is a worldwide issue because of the extreme volcanism and in rainy climates settlements exist in a more or less constant state of repair and reconstruction; once a settlement is abandoned it will fall into ruin very, very fast unless the climate is extremely arid. the most volcanically active regions in the world are northern alukah, the palash basin, and the east coast of anima; volcanic smog blows north to kuchinashi from the palash basin fairly regularly.

black rain is a very dangerous weather phenomenon caused by ateric ash—the stuff grimm disintegrate into when they die—floating up into the atmosphere and then precipitating down as liquid atrum. which. coagulates into new grimm. the drippings from the wyvern in canon are the same in principle but much more severe; typically black rains will spawn lots of small grimm—think rat- or cat-sized—and may not leave puddles large enough to form something like a beowolf at all. but a swarm of rat-sized grimm is still no picnic, and black rain is difficult to forecast, so within the vytal league it’s standard practice for huntsmen and grimm extirpation forces to be kept at the ready whenever heavy precipitation is expected, just in case it’s tainted.

the oceans are also quite a bit more acidic than earth’s and tend to be very nutrient-rich near the poles and barren with pockets of life here and there in the equatorial regions—which, as discussed in the Whale Post, in combination with the relative cold creates selective pressure for VERY LARGE akin to the phenomenon of abyssal gigantism but extended higher into the middle pelagic zones. the greatest diversity and density of oceanic life is around the north pole.

(the MONSTER WHALES are called hafgufa, females live in pods around the north pole, males are solitary and range worldwide.)

also,

because atrum does not freeze above absolute zero, and because the planetary mantle is atrum intermixed with magma, every spreading rift in the ocean also constantly pumps out rivers of atrum, which 1. plays an important role in moving and mixing waters to sustain those pockets of nutrient-rich waters where marine life flourishes in the equatorial regions, and 2. slowly but steadily spawns diluvian grimm. the VAST majority of grimm in the world are sea monsters born from these underwater rivers :)

[moonkissedmeli]

Rosemary; Salvia rosmarinus

rosemary is a very powerful little plant and I recommend it as a witch's essential herb, a non-negotiable if you will, as it has so many uses.

Other names: sea dew, compass plant, polar plant

Nutritional and Medicinal Fun Facts:

Good for hair and scalp

Good for metabolic health

High in carnosic acid which has anti-cancer properties

Improves memory and concentration

Improves eye health

Can help regulate liver

Aeromatic may help reduce asthma symptoms

Aeromatic and eating it can help reduce stress and anxiety

May reduce inflammation

May help increase circulation

High in antioxidants, manganese pantothenic acid, niacin, thiamin, folate, and riboflavin

extra fun fact: part of the mint family; eucalyptol (camphor-like) and alpha-pinene (pine-like) are the compounds that primarily give the rosemary flavor

~Magical Properties & Lore~

Element: Fire

Planet: Sun

Gods: Apollo, Helios

Goddess: Aphrodite, Hebe

Spells & Rituals:

Love spells

Beauty spells, especially in an aromatic

Health spells and rituals; I also use it in spells to break unhealthy habits

Antifertility spells (along with safe sex! mundane first, always)

Protection and banishing spells regarding negative spirits; especially visitations at night

Sachets, tea, or aromatic for spells to improve intelligence and memory; excellent herb for student

Helps with nightmares and remembering dreams

Use as a tea or aromatic for dream work and past life remembrance

Burn to cleanse home or self of negative energy

Grow it inside to purify the air

Tip: pairs powerfully with Juniper in most situations

Lore:

Christians believe it grows for 33 years until it is the same height as Jesus. They believe it got blue flowers when Mary placed her cloak on it when fleeing to Egypt. It is a Christian symbol of fidelity and remembrance.

Couples should plant on their wedding day and interpret the growth as divination for the family.

Couples have also wore it at their wedding and given as favors to their guests.

Said to protect against the evil eye.

In Wales, it was used as a funeral favor and sprigs were lowered with the casket.

Embalming herb in ancient Egypt

Ancient Greece & Hellenism

Symbol of love, beauty, and eternity

Said to help people retain youth when smelled

Increases memory; students would wear garlands of rosemary for exams

Protection against evil

recipes to eat it in: so good on chicken, fish, and potatoes, rosemary-infused olive oil, rosemary and lemon pasta

[docholligay]

Do you think having such a personalized and detailed headcanon makes it harder to enjoy fic about the show/game that's written by others?

I mean sure, probably.

But unfortunately things I adore, for people named Doc who are me, fall into one of two buckets:

The character work and plot in this show are incredible, I find myself turning it around in my mind like a rotisserie chicken. I constantly discover new things about the show/book/game or the characters in it. I do not read fic about this, because why would I? Every answer I search for is in the text. I want to talk about this with someone, but about what is THERE, not what could be there. Ex: The Haunting of Hill House, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Piranesi, Bioshock:Infinite, Watership Down, Yellowjackets, among others.

The concepts of this could be amazing but are handled so fucking badly so consistently, in a shocking contrast to how INCONSISTENT the character work is, that all I want to do is steal it and make it better. All i want to do is turn it into something that doesn't suck ass when you look at it too hard. So I am going to take it SO seriously, and I am going to develop the rich inner lives for these characters that they lack, with intense backstories and families and motivation for how they got to be the person we know, or know sometimes, in certain episodes or shorts. Ex: Sailor Moon and Overwatch are the biggies here obviously, this is actually not an emotion I feel very often. I don't have intense backstories and extra-textual feelings and ideas about most of the stuff I read and watch, these two are just my Spiders Georg.

So! The odds on me being into something in the correct way to make me want to Seek Treasure Elsewhere but also I have a chill enough attitude about how the characters are that Any Dream Will Do is almost nil. I do not in ANY way mean this in a shady way, but I mostly read published adult fiction for entertainment and not fanfic. I am very picky about my fanfic. So, "plus these two new red and blue girls into Starbucks" often won't work for me, because the reasons to have Haruka and Michiru meet in a coffee shop are completely different from any of the reasons Fareeha and Angela might meet in a coffee shop, and so many of those types are archtypical plug and play stuff. Honestly, I have skated the idea of making a cheat sheet of fanon archetypes of various characters and buying a typewriter to sell 100-200 word 'quick fic' at cons with my sister. That's how common it is to use these archetypes. This is not a criticism! At all!

But, to take the two couples above, I have read so much BORING SHIT about both HM and FA that I could throw up. Lesbian couples have a lot of very milquetoast writing about them, and a lot of meet-cute which isn't really my bag.

But there are authors I love! @oathkeeper-of-tarth was and is one of the best harumichi writers out there and we don't even have all the same headcanons. The rare occasions @verbforverb decides to grace me with "Jewish Mercy I don't Have To Write" I pop a can of bubbly in the tub. And on both fields of battle @keyofjetwolf has stuff I've had bookmarked for years, and there are some things even within Rei's backstory and history that we disagree on.

Actually, to that point what I like is good writing. You can write me into believing nearly anything. There are things I believe about Amelie when I'm reading @lemon-embalmer's stuff that when I go back to my own world, aren't true, but when I'm in her world who the fuck cares, I'm having a great time. EVEN MORE to the point, I read @moonlight-frittata's stupid sun and moon lesbian League of Legends shit and I would rather shoot myslef than know ANYTHING about the game, but unfortunately she has a beautiful turn of phrase and plot flow to her work that I just....read anyway, because it is good. Fucking @tallangrycockatiel had me like 25 pages or so into a story before I was like, "OH SHIT, IS THIS SLASH??? WAIT I DON'T WANT TO READ ABOUT BOYS' LOVE!! NO!!" *hits next page* And I still could not care less about that podcast and would never listen to it, and if I did I would be massively disappointed because to my mind, her John and Arthur are the actual article, and whatever the fuck is going on in the source material can eat my dick.

So, yes, I DO think that having a very particular point of view is going to mean I back out of a story where like, "Lena stepped out of her Chelsea flat, custom leather high heels clicking against the step" sometimes, or, you know, "Haruka put down her copy of War and Peace, each meticulous note codified by a color-coded tab. Blue was for historical references to research, green for character analysis, yellow for themes, blah blah blah*" But I am actually shockingly open minded in what I will read, often to the point that I'm reading stuff from SHIT I DO NOT LIKE OR CARE ABOUT, because the quality of the writing is excellent. So, also no.

*I met someone who read books like this and I suddenly realized what the literary equivalent of 'knowing someone is a serial killer' was.

[everybodyknows-everybodydies]

tagged by @rakaiawriter (thank you! :D) to share the last sentence I wrote + tag as many people as there are words!

...checks my wip files. one moment I'm going to add another sentence because the most recent one is a terrifying 70 words long ghsldkjg

This did not strike her as the activity of a very busy man.

tagging: @ghoulsbeard, @jiubilant, @ehlnofay, @ervona, @wonderofasunrise, @flutter2deceive, @artificialconditions, @bwayfan25, @knightnightwrite, @lemon-embalmer, @wispstalk, @meluisart, and @almostpleasantrebel!

[disneythingsilike]

Twisted Wonderland Cafe 2023

OH MY CAFE is presenting a new Twisted Wonderland cafe. https://twst2023.ohmycafe.jp/

There will be three open and running around roughly the same time frame. It's recommended that you make a reservation online.

The Goods and Menu are inspired by the Platinum Jacket art done of the character for the Disney 100 Celebration.

Tokyo will be from October 26th to December 12th 2023 Osaka will be from November 10th to December 17th 2023 Nagoya will be from November 16th to December 17th 2023

The cafe will feature food, drinks, and merch.

Cafe Menu https://twst2023.ohmycafe.jp/cafe_menu/

FOOD

Grilled Chicken Brest Plate (¥2,190 with tax) Inspired by a main dish that might be served at a party. Enjoy with either a side of salad or bread.

Grilled Salmon Plate (¥2,290 with tax) A dish with salmon as the main feature. Squeeze the lemon on it and enjoy♪

Tomato Sauce Hamburger Plate (¥2,290 with tax) A hamburger with tomato sauce. Decorated with ribbons matching the dormitories.

DRINKS

Yogurt Smoothie (¥1,390 with tax) A tri-layered smoothie inspired by Grim. Served with a dressed up Grim decoration.

There are 7 cider drinks on the menu, each one inspired by one of the dorms. Each one comes with a colored syrup in a bottle decorated with the dorm's embalm, and each containing a different flavor. All are priced at ¥890 with tax. None of them contain actual fruit juice. The picture above is an example of this drink, using the Heartslabyul one.

Heartslabyul is strawberry flavored with bright red syrup. Savanaclaw is mango flavored with yellow syrup. Octavinelle is blueberry flavored with light purple syrup. Scarabia is cherry flavored with a dark red syrup. Pomefiore is apple flavored with a dark purple syrup. Ignihyde is lemon flavored with light blue syrup. Diasomnia is melon flavored with dark green syrup.

You can get souvenir acrylic stands with these drinks, with the characters on the stands available corresponding with the dorm drink you ordered. For example, if you get the Pomfiore drink, you are able to get either Vil, Rook, or Epel. You are able to get any of them, however, if you get the Grim drink or the hot tea or coffee.

The last two drink options are Hot Coffee and Hot Tea (both ¥790 with tax)

By getting these you are able to buy a mug like the one they are served in (picture above).

GOODS

Goods are available both in store and online

Check out the links for the items. For the online store, they have both primary and secondary sales dates posted (times frames for when you can order). They warn some items may sell out before the event.

[otakusparkle]

Identity V New Collaboration Release

Identity V x TreeVillage (Bushiroad) Cafe

[Otsukimi (Moon Viewing) Cafe]

Menu

- Photographer's Moon Viewing Rabbit Curry

- Axeboy's Moon Takoyaki

- Weeping Clown's Moon Burger

- Undead's Moon Viewing Japanese Wagashi (sweets) set

- Gardener's Harvest Fruits Parfait

- Female Dancer's Pink Lemon Soda

- Naiad'a Blue Soda

- Mechanic Orange Juice

- Embalmer's Black Sesame Latte

- Prospector's Cola Float

- Cafe au lait/Cocoa/Milk tea with edible print foam

For every item you bought, you will receive 1 random coaster

Merchandises

-Otsukimi Merchandises- (New Arrival)

- Badge

- Acrylic Keychain

- Clearfile

- Lunch Totebag

- Pouch

- Sticker Set

- Folding Fan

- Random Acrylic Stand

- Die Cut Mini Towel

-Other Merchandises- (Reprinted)

- Hunter Traits Badge

- Survivor Persona Keychain

- Random Mini Acrylic Stand

- Badge

- Hoodie and T-shirt of Photographer and Seer

- Mug

- Lunch Totebag

- Rubber Strap

- Square Badge

- Pouch

- Round Pillow

For every 3,300 Yen purchase of merchandises, you will receive 1 random postcard

For more information :

[chairmansans]

Did some doodles for @lemon-embalmer 's fic "Not all those who wander are lost". Excellent read. I'll add image descriptions/alt text when I'm more coherent I be sleepy.

[bizarrementation]

one 18.25 oz package chocolate cake mix. 1 can prepared coconut pecan frosting, 3/4 cup vegetable oil, 4 large eggs, 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips, 3/4 cup butter or margarine, soften 1 and 2/3 cups granulated sugar, 3 large eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2 cups all purpose flour, 2/3 cup cocoa, 1 and 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon baking powder, 1 and 1/3 cups water, 1 ?? 16 oz each cans vanilla frosting. don't forget garnishes such as fish shaped crackers, fish shaped candies, fish shaped solid waste, fish shapes dirt, fish shaped ethylbenzene, pull and peel licorice, fish shaped volatile organic compounds and sediment shaped sediment, a 20 ft. thick impermeable clay layer, candy coated peanut butter pieces shaped like fish, blue and yellow food colours, alpha resins, unsaturated polyester resin, fiberglass surface resins and volatile melted milk impoundments, 9 large egg yolks, 12 medium geosynthetic membranes, 3 large whole eggs, 1 cup granulated sugar, 1 cup lemon juice, for immunosensors. 2 cups heavy cream 3 tablespoons granulated sugar. 2 egg based gelled flame fuels. 2 cups rhubarb sliced. 2/3 cup granulated rhubarb. 1 tablespoon all purpose rhubarb. one tablespoon grated orange rhubarb. an entry called "how to kill someone with you bare hands". 2 teaspoons baking rhubarb. 1/2 teaspoons salt and rhubarb. 3 tablespoons rhubarb on fire. one large rhubarb. 3 tablespoons rhubarb milk. one cross bore hole electromagnetic imaging rhubarb. two tablespoons rhubarb juice. sweet potato tea cake. take me to a picnic cake. trim time chocolate cake roll. tropical snack cake. tunnel of fudge cake. sour creme pumpkin Bundt cake. spicy jalapeno chocolate cake. upside down apple coffee cake. upside down rhubarb cake. upside down flux sampling device cake.

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[undernightskies]

My sunburnt heart, this vanquished moon, this dry desert plain. Let me languish in rain, soak my skin in embalming oils and wrap myself in daydreams wet with the scent of lemons and bed linen. I make your room my steeple, pray at the base of your bed, like I cannot unbend myself from my knees, so grateful I am.

[trikkidetroit]

“……Summon Bloodrain……” -“BRING ‘EM TO THE FIRE, WITCH*” -JAKPROGRESSO & Q-RED

 #jakprogresso #jaktripper #qred #horrorcore #horrorcorehiphop #horrorcorerap #rap #hiphop #rapmusic #hiphopmusic #musicvideo #musicvideos #lipsync #lipsyncforourlives #music #lipsinktheirbattleship #🔥 #666 #saveearth

*= (WIZARDS OF WITCHLOCK ISLAND OF THE WAR MACHINE OF DAMNE(D/EVIL)/HERETIC/GOD-HATING SOULS”)  damned equals evil and evil equals damned they are all FROM HELL, EXIST IN HELL AND ARE STEALING HEAVEN AT THE DIMENSIONAL PLANE OF THIS UNIVERSE SO THEY GOT INTO “HEAVEN” SO IF THEY EVER GOT INTO THE HEAVENS WHERE GOD AT GOD’S HIGHEST PLANE OF EXISTENCE IS (THOUGH GOD EXISTS EVERYWHERE) IF IT DISRUPTED GOD’S ORDER OF BEING WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND BECAUSE WE ARE PART OF GOD’S GOOD CREATION AND WE RESPECT GOD - IF HELL EVER EVER GOT INTO HEAVEN THEY WOULD MUTILATE/RAPE/TORTURE/TORMENT/DISEASE/GROW INTO AND ENSLAVE OUR SOULS FOR ALL ETERNITY AND MURDER GOD OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER FOR ALL ETERNITY THIS HAS TO STOP NOW:

ALL SLANG TERM/STREET NAMES FOR THE “HIDDEN MANNA” EMERGING FROM THE HOLE IN THE EARTH @ 12841 SAUNDERS STREET, DETROIT MI (DETROIT SALT COMPANY) AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWS IN THE SHAPE OF A TRIANGLE:

THIS IS HOW ALL SCHOOL SHOOTINGS/MASS SHOOTINGS/MURDERS AND TRAGEDIES OCCURED IF THE SUSPECT WAS STILL ALIVE: REMEMBER THE GUILTY DO NOT LOOK LIKE US, THEY DO NOT LOOK HUMAN AND THEIR HUMAN APPEARANCES AND ANY APPEARANCE OF ANY SPECIES OF ANIMAL/PLANT THEY ATTEMPTED TO COVER THEIR EVIL SOULS WITH IS GOING TO FALL OFF, OR IF THE ANIMAL(including HUMAN)/PLANT IS STILL ALIVE WE WILL BEGIN TO HEAL ((THERE AREA CANCER IN OUR BODIES AND CANCER GROWING ON TREES IN THE WOODS BEHIND MY HOUSE)). PCP Ace; Alien Sex Fiend (mixed with heroin); Amoeba; Angel; Angel Dust; Angel Hair; Angel Mist; Angel Poke; Animal Tranquilizer; Aurora Borealis; Black Acid (mixed with LSD); Black Whack; Blue Madman; Blue Star; Boat; Busy Bee; Butt Naked; Cadillac; Cliffhanger; Columbo; Cozmos; Crazy Coke; Crazy Eddie; Cucuy; Cyclones; Detroit Pink; Dipper; Domex (mixed with MDMA); Dummy Dust; Dust; Dust Joint; Dust of Angels; Elephant; Elephant Tranquilizer; Embalming Fluid; Energizer; Fake STP; Flakes; Goon; Gorilla Tab; Gorilla Biscuits; Green Leaves; Green Tea; Heaven & Hell; Hog; Horse Tracks; Horse Tranquilizers; Jet Fuel; Juice; Kaps; K-Blast; Killer; Kools; Leaky Leak; Lemon 714; Lethal Weapon; Love Boat; Mad Dog; Mad Man; Magic Dust; Mean Green; Mint Leaf; Mint Weed; Mist; Monkey Dust; Monkey Tranquilizer; New Acid; New Magic; Orange Crystal; Ozone; Paz; Peace Pill; Peep; Peter Pan; Pig Killer; Puffy; Purple Rain; Red Devil; Rocket Fuel; Rupture; Scuffle; Sheets; Sherms; Shermstick; Space (mixed with cocaine); Spores; Stardust; STP; Super Grass; Super Kools; Surfer; Synthetic Cocaine; Taking a Cruise; T-Buzz; Tic Tac; Tish; Trank; Venom; Wack (mixed with cocaine); Water; Wet; White Horizon; Wobble Weed; Wolf; Worm; Yellow Fever; Zombie; Zoom (mixed with marijuana) PCP

[morelikesin]

Day 27 - Pious

Blóð swung their mug gently as they replied, "Oh, even before the war was Falkreath the center of death, but I can tell you that it didn't help." They drank, the bitterness of the floral tea cut by the several takes of sugar they had added.

"It's beautiful, I mean," Natalie held her cup between her hands, the warmth of her drink a comfort. "If I were to be laid to rest anywhere, I would certainly think of a place like 'is. I love the nightshade."

Blóð hummed in agreement, setting their drink down just in time for the waitress to arrive with a platter of food in her arms. As she placed one of the plates onto the table, Narri had a word to say about the conversation she had overheard from them. "We're talking about the cemetery? Plenty of visitors find it's the only reason they're in town."

"'Cause they got someone buried here?" Elliott asked, wasting no time in grabbing one of the poached apples - his fingers now sticky.

"That, or embalmed in the Hall of the Dead," Blóð answered.

Narri set down another plate, this one holding the seared slaughterfish and roasted potatoes - to say the smell was a cause for salivation would be an understatement. She placed a small wooden bowl filled with the lemon tartar sauce beside it. "Is that what you're here for? A funeral? Or maybe just visiting a grave?"

As to fashion an eloquent explanation for their reason being here, without giving away the idea that it's a delicate and quite secretive, for now, operation, Alexander answered her questioning in a typical dry tone:

"Business."

Narri hummed in understanding, "I see. Well, if you do have any inclination to visit the dead, I'm to tell you that septim offerings on the outdoor graves are prohibited." She leaned a little closer, cringing, "Thieves."

The party made a distinct "Ah," in comprehension.

Narri set down two plates after one another, the pair both carrying servings of poached eggs. "Runil is the one to see if you have any other concerns. Or prayers to offer, if you're the pious type."

Walter gave her a nod, swinging his arm to hang on the backrest of his seat. "That should be helpful. Thanks, mate."

She turned the platter on its side to hold it under her arm and against her hip, smiling at Walter's pleasantries. "Handsome man like you needs any more information, I'll be here until my shift ends," she turned just as the last of her words left her mouth, carrying on to take care of the other patrons.

Octavio carved into the fish with his fork, dipping it into some of its complementary sauce before shoving the bite into his mouth. It was salty and savory and held a zing of citrus from its accompaniment - the taste not too unlike a largemouth bass, but the flesh of a bluefin tuna. He covered his mouth as to speak with some semblance of etiquette, "First of all, this fucks. Second of all," he chewed momentarily, "you're an international heartthrob, dude."

Blóð purred, tearing a segment of the slaughterfish with their hand, "I'll say."

[annarts05]

✨3 Songs, One Vibe✨ Tag Game

Rules: Post three songs that all match your character's vibe. They can be the lyrics or the genre or the general feel of the song that make you think of your character, whatever gives off character vibes. My songs for Ronald (name is uncertain loll) :D "Lemon Drop" by Raynes "Home Without a Heart" by Blanks "anna" by New Rules and a bonus bc i want it: "Sunroof" by Nicky Youre and Dazy These are just bops that really make me think of him ahhh <3333 Tagging: @the-writerly-things, @authorofstories55, @teardropsandtherain, @faithfire, @lyralit, @youre-drinking-embalming-fluid, @toomanywips, @lenanorthart, @hey-its-quill, @cyparissos, @ilickedanenvelopeandilikedit, @kiss-my-aquari-ass, @shadowfoxsilver, and anyone else who wants to join in!!! No pressure tagging <33333

[snake-and-mouse]

Was shamed by my roomates for taste-testing some lemon bars I made and professing my approval by saying the curd was "smooth as embalming fluid"

[docholligay]

@tallangrycockatiel tagged me in an ask game!

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Stolen from @tallangrycockatiel:

I will be limiting tagging to people whom I know, who I know write fic, and who did not tag me in this. (while I am doing shabbat stuff, I could remember)This is not as many people as I have WIPs. (<---I have more WIPs than people I invited to my fucking LARGE wedding, this will not be all my WIPs, just the ones i think have decent titles or are likely to be finished or whatever moves me)

Organized by fandom, and then in likely to be finished order:

Overwatch:

Trick or Treat

The Sweater We Buried You In (Is Hanging In My Closet)

Lena/Fareeha at Oyster House (Nov year before)

3 Lions on a Shirt

Emily should get to say fuck

hana needs to ask brigitte to marry her but the only people to give her advice are lena and fareeha

Sailor Moon:

Trompe-l'oeil

Bottomless Mimosas

Toreador

Harumichi first date after MA

Both:

Minako/Lena/Fareeha p2

Rei and Fareeha organize something

OCs

Shay tries to talk to Seth about feelings

Petunia Rogers, Girl Barbarian

Lesbian Pirate thing

tagging: @oathkeeper-of-tarth, @moonlight-frittata, @lemon-embalmer

[everybodyknows-everybodydies]

tagged by @wispstalk - thank you! :D

Rules: post examples of your writing for each question.

tagging (no obligation as per usual!) @bwayfan25, @ghoulsbeard, @onaperduamedee, @lemon-embalmer, @morihaus, and anyone else who wants to play!

(under the cut to save your dash aha)

a line from your fic that makes you laugh

“Well, that’s a relief, because you pretending not to know what a conversation was for the next epoch of recorded history was kind of inconvenient,” he says lightly, getting to his feet.

I just think Romano's dialogue is so much fun to write lol. he's my awful special little guy! I love leaning into the who SAYS that you weirdo aspect of his speech patterns.

a line from your fic that makes you sad

There’s a beat where he looks, very briefly, like a man lost at sea.

...I also love hurting him by putting him in emotionally oblique conversations where he's off his balance finally. points at him. experience the consequences of your purposefully unkind actions via the infliction of emotional turmoil, little bald man

a line from your fic you're proud of

“Just Molly. Please. You don’t have to call me ‘miss.’” Agdis laughs and pushes off from the wall. “Well,” she holds her gaze, “maybe once I’m out of uniform.”

really pleased with how this one works on multiple levels; it's one of those rare delights where I thought of it and then was like "oh NO. unfortunately it's perfect." flirtatious in the present moment, but if you have the contextual knowledge of the circumstances under which Molly does "get her out of uniform" it's a little more ouch :'(

a line from your fic you think could have been better

This human heart beat too quickly for her liking. She was wary of the way the prince spoke to her, too earnest and too hopeful; she did not have the appearance of a unicorn any longer, but he addressed the Lady Amalthea the same way little girls addressed the unicorn. “You have my heart,” he told her one day, but she never felt the weight of a new organ in her chest, and though she listened, there was only one steady too-fast beat between her lungs.

gestures to literally anything written past the "this is recent and therefore I have done the best I can" expiration date. no lol but to be specific, this whole (old) character study piece of the blurring lines between Amalthea and the unicorn I think could have been refined better. this line, for example, has some good ideas at play, but is executed more clumsily than I'd like, looking at it now with the distance of time. but you live and learn!

a line from your fic that makes you want to punch a character

He shifts his voice into a mocking, accented falsetto that sounds nothing like her. “—‘Robaht, I fancy jumping your bones’ would’ve been fine. Maybe try the heads-up next time you find yourself—what, insatiably consumed with lust?—at three in the damn morning.”

when you're collateral damage in someone else's self-harm ;-; this whole scene was mean but it was unfortunately NECESSARY. smacking him about it anyway. both of you! do better!!

a line from your fic that makes you go 'aww'

Mark knows he’s not poetic, but he is happy. “I love you,” he says, because he needs to say it, because he wants to keep learning new things like this about her. The expression that blooms over her face is what he imagines he looked like on the way to the ground with a soccer ball imprint on his forehead. She covers it with an odd little smile, nose scrunching up. “How hard exactly would you say you hit your head?”

cries a little bit. Mark's emotional honesty versus Elizabeth's allergic reaction to vulnerability. what if someone told you they loved you and you didn't flinch. the world might end. (or it might not. is that worse?)

a line from your fic that's full of symbolism

“And if it’s alright,” [Mirabelle] pushes at the mountain of blankets, “I think I would rather a fire.”

cough. looks pointedly and lesbianly into the camera. yeah I bet you would. I mean what... who said that...

a line from your fic that contains an Easter egg

Most of the places mentioned in Shalidor’s notes either no longer exist or are long since emptied, by age or by adventurers who don’t know anything about good conservation technique and insist on leaving their own journals all over the place with barely a page or two filled. She imagines whoever is bookbinding for these adventurers must run a surprisingly lucrative business.

this was HARD bc like half of what I write is just inside jokes with myself that would a) take a convoluted explanation and/or b) be embarrassing to explain, but this line (from a wip) I think is a good example of. not that lol. we can all be in on the joke as a treat... Skyrim should have let me read two hundred pages of some random dead guy's mundane life problems/hopes/dreams/grocery lists every time I picked up an abandoned journal

a line from your fic that's shocking

There’s too much to knit together where she can’t see, too much displaced, misaligned; she’d straightened out the spine first to try to help get everything else closer to where it belongs, but Mirabelle had only opened her eyes to spit out a horribly solid chunk of something bloody with an awful gurgling sound and gasp, frighteningly shallow. Lungs. Ribs. The heart at least seems fine for now, and thank Mara for small miracles, but the abdominal cavity, which is disorganized on a good day—she thinks with a sudden fierce passion that she has always hated the abdominal cavity—

shocking mostly bc I can get so squeamish about viscera so I'm delighted to have managed to successfully convey a kind of scary gross moment. I've noticed that people who get easily squicked by injury/illness/etc (such as myself) sometimes tend to overcompensate by overdetailing it when it comes up, but then it loses effect because you're spending so long on it or getting too specific/technical. six paragraphs of someone's intestines falling out, for example, stops being shocking after a certain point. settled on a more concise but I think still effective way of describing it to try avoiding that issue and have been pretty pleased with the results! (side note: this is a great example of "inside jokes with myself" if you know my chronic illness largely affects the contents of the abdominal cavity and doctors are always telling me what horrors go on in there.)

a line from your fic you want to talk about more

It’s always better to be cautious about things that aren’t certain—if she were to allow herself to be a little reductive, she would say that history is nothing but context, and an asyndetic text, even a primary source, requires a degree of speculation that, applied too liberally, can often be worse than useless.

also from above-mentioned wip! I put Kharish through some silly things bc I think she's funny, but I really like writing her in her element where she's more serious too. balancing her academic register and her "normal" register, as it were! autism blast of being smart in a handful of specific areas and then cheerfully and obliviously fumbling interpersonal interactions... :')