#mayhaps and what abt it

[6sleft]

oh boy,,, so a nutcracker oc, huh 🥲 more below!

based off the past drawing of the scooped beast! (the masked one is unrelated btw) i've made a bit of plot for this lil guy, it's name is octo! it's a nutcracker specimen that somehow grew up in the wild (factory, maybe on assurance?) unlike a lab and was rescued by a crew and grew attached to them

so, they start saving scrap to give it new shells as it grows (which is quite quick for how big it gets to fit in a nutcracker animatronic). they feed it meats of snare fleas and loot bugs if they come across any, though it stays at the ship so it's not in any danger. all is good with the crew, they witness the baby grow and even teach it some tricks and words!

..until the last day of quota, when they, just like every other crew working for The Company, fail to get enough scrap to sell. they know they're doomed, so on their last day before they're fired they leave octo on one of the later moons (probably dine) and say goodbye, giving it a chance at life, though it doesn't fully understand why they left it behind :[

after that, i'm not sure on the rest of the details if it grows to somehow attain a nutcracker vessel or continue to live as a scurrying lil creature, hiding behind scrap and avoiding most monsters. maybe it'll have a mentor who takes it under its wing and teaches it how to survive? like a jester or another nutcracker, though i'm not sure how they'd react to such a vulnerable thing.

when i think of the nutcracker fleshy creatures i can't help but think of octopi cause of the tendrils, hence the name octo xp i like to think the nutcrackers are quite intelligent like irl octopi though, and flexible, so for a wild nutcracker creature it's probably more prone to hide than hunt, akin to a hermit crab, whereas other nutcrackers are raised to hunt due to human influence. (coughwildwarandapocalypselorecough)

anyways, if you read this far then thanks! i'm not particularly good at making fleshed out and detailed ocs like a lot of talented people here are but god looking at them all made me want to adopt my own <3

oh and here's a variant for shits and giggles based on a friends drawing hdjg

[sydmarch]

sad wet beast painting practice masterpost

[theonekierce]

"Yet it was whispered in the school that he was in the habit of parading the town at night in loud checks and a false beard. It was whispered, and disbelieved. I alone knew it for a fact; for night after night had I pulled the rope up after him when the rest of the dormitory were asleep, and kept awake by the hour to let it down again on a given signal." -The Ides of March

[constantvariations]

If Salem obliterated Vale, does that mean she has its relic?

[junietuesday]

you know how tulin has his parents’ feathers on his quiver? and you know how the great eagle bow has that scrap of blue fabric on it? what if……its bc revali considers the other champions his family

[girls-and-honey]

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[magdalune]

ur sims are darkskinned but their features are completely white 🤨 nothing wrong with that, just wanted to point out that they could've had a skintone suitable for their race

anon, to you, what makes a black person black?

[marcusagrippa]

ooouuughhhh i want to get into opera

[grantwilsonenjoyer]

thinking. about lovesong i adore them.. i need to write something for them that i can actually post. bc currently it is all just au stuff that makes No Sense out of context.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[bylertruther]

smth abt eddie telling dustin to look after the little sheep -> s5 is going to return to s1 form -> dustin tells mike in s1 that his obliviousness blows his mind -> the whole painting & confession & obvious general fiasco that is willelmike -> dustin's going to have to put on his bob the builder / "the world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes" sherlock holmes hat and get involved

[hundredowls]

silly oc doodle..... ballroom yuri

[spacenintendogs]

a little wip based on this post!!

[space-coupe]

"Is Logan Sargeant a trumpee" discourse is so funny. Like yes. And multiple current and former F1 drivers have been entwined with fascists. And many men who have committed unspeakable crimes have been allowed into the paddock. And the sport used to be owned by a Nazi. And they race in places with horrific human rights violations. And even the sport's progressive sweetheart said stupid shit and had to backtrack just a few years ago. Yes Logan Sargeant has shit politics and his family sucks but acting like there's any moral high ground in F1 to stand on is comically funny. They're a bunch of millionaires driving cars around lopsided roundabouts

[petrichorium]

I’m like “nah I’m not rlly a robot fucker” and then I realize I would need like ten hands to count the number of robots I would fuck so

[hillerska-official]

Okay, I’ve finally found the time to sit down and actually talk about this darker Wille in s2 and where I hope it goes.

It’s been well established already that Wille is a flawed person, and he has made many mistakes and wrong choices, however these flaws largely ended up hurting himself and those he cares about, with the exception of Alexander. Letting Alexander take the full fall for the drugs is probably the most explicitly problematic thing Wille has done to another person, and it was specifically in defense of Simon. This incident with Alexander is the only time his attempts at protecting his loved ones have been successful.

So what I want from this dark Wille is the realization/recognition that the way he was doing things wasn’t working, what did work was taking a more offensive position, not waiting for the bad thing to happen before trying to fix it, and so that’s what he’ll try now. I want to see Wille go on the offensive, even be purposefully cruel or hurtful to those who hurt him or Simon, for him to become a fierce protector of Simon where he knows he failed before, and to pointedly and repeatedly choose Simon over anything else.

The conflict of this is that none of this cruelty is what Simon ever wanted or needed from Wille, he just wants Wille to choose him, and I don’t think he’ll like this dark side of Wille.

Basically, I want dark Wille to be a total over-correction from his past mistakes, so much so that it’s a bit frightening or upsetting to Simon. I think we see this dark Wille a bit when he yells and August and at the queen about August leaking the video, and we know he got in a fight at the start of season one. We know he has it in him, and if anything he’s been holding back at Hillerska and as crown prince, but now he really has a reason to go off, and he’s going to lack the control and/or nuance needed for his newfound determination to be effective.