#moontalk

[charleemoon]

i can't believe apollo is canonically 5'5. has a flip phone with charms, ringtone is a song he likes by a band he hates. can't swim and doesn't like driving. good at random things, like astrology and hula hooping. keeps mangas in his work desk. used to watch doctor who. only reads the newspaper funnies. doesn't open up, no matter how much he's asked. dedicated to his favorite color. too serious, afraid of being seen as a joke. picked up a stray calico cat and named it calico. calls everyone san/mr/ms except his sister and his best friend. refers to himself as ore, masculine and a little rough. instinctually cleans when he sees a mess. can't control how loud he is. scared of heights. spent two months unemployed because he wouldn't work for someone who broke his trust. cries easily for people he loves. prickly, short-tempered. empathetic and loving. the son of musicians. simple, brown haired and brown eyed. plain. just a guy with passion and intensity and kindness. unwavering, unyielding

[teenageukulelescreamo]

TW// blood, horror imagery

today I bring mlp infection au.. tomorrow? Who knows…..

[neversleepagainau]

SURPRISE! I'm NOT dead! Long post ahead, but TL;DR, I'm not dead, and for the first time in 3-4 years, I finally feel like I can freely work on projects for myself again. Like this AU! I'm trying to pump out update 1 ASAP, evidenced by this sneak peek right here! I don't have a timeframe yet, so bear with me- I'm working on it far more actively right now, the backgrounds are by far the hardest part of what I'm doing with this ask blog. That being said, this van interior background is the backdrop for many of the images in this first update, and will be the backdrop for many updates in the future, so this was a big hurtle to jump! It feels a lot easier to sink my teeth into the rest of this update as a result, so definitely keep your eyes peeled for more stuff soon. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask, and I'll answer them! Or, if you still have questions for the characters, feel free to ask those too! (As always, none of this was traced! All of it is freehand, and yes, I bust my ASS trying to make these backgrounds as close to the original as possible! Yes, I am absolutely insane for doing that!) (further, more personal explanation on where I've been for literal years below the cut)

Unfortunately, these past years were spent being deeply manipulated, lied to, and then ultimately abandoned after discovering the truth, which has been an incredibly difficult experience. It's been the thing that's stood in the way of many of my personal projects, as I put my passions and happiness aside for the benefit of others. This AU, unfortunately, was a direct victim of that. Now, however, in the wake of things, I'm slowly regaining everything that I had lost to this manipulation. I'm regaining a deep desire to revisit the things I loved doing, and the last thing I really worked super hard on for myself was this AU, right before everything went to shit. Finally, though, I'm here. This time, I plan to stay. If you're here, reading this, all these years later, thanks for being here. I can't tell you how much it means to me, and I really hope you'll enjoy what I have in store! <3

[rachedurst]

[moonziies]

IF. and this is a big IF,,,

If I were to order keychains of Peepers,, would you guys buy them?? I wanna order one for myself but if people want one,,,, might as well?? Ya know??

I been also looking into making stickers since that's a safer option. Idk though, maybe I'm delusional 😂

[teambloodmoonofficial]

happy pride guys!!!

the bloodmoon says trans rights :]

[charleemoon]

thinking about kristoph and klavier. it's just the two of them. just a boy and his sweet little brother. no apparent family, origins, place to go, anywhere to belong.

thinking about kristoph developing the idea at a young age that his brother depends on him. no parents to take care of them, most likely they pass away in one way or another. and his brother is innocently young, too young. so kristoph becomes a parent, on top of a sibling. he is the only front, the only defense between his brother and whatever cruel world betrayed them. kristoph can't falter, can't disappoint, can never be unsure. for his brother, he learns to be cold. steadfast, and strong. unbreakable. to be a foundation for a boy to rely on.

he tells himself klavier depends on him to survive. to succeed, to make something of himself, all of it falls on kristoph's shoulders. and control becomes a theme of his life. it's his responsibility to make sure klavier lives his life right, well. and the pressure of that seeps out through judgement.

he tells himself klavier depends on him, so he can ignore the fact he depends on klavier too. he can't feel any sort of weakness. so he judges klavier, when he pursues music. he's critical of him, detached. seemingly uncaring. he protects klavier, and he punishes him when he endangers that concept of protection. he keeps him in line, because only kristoph knows what best for klavier.

klavier, for kristoph, is always that innocent, sniveling child. who doesn't know better, who needs to be guided. because at the worst of it all, it was kristoph and his little brother. no one would know him better. and he would do anything to protect him

and that control becomes obsessive. kristoph needs to control everything in his life. his work, his image, his protégé, and always his brother. he spites things that escape his grasp. he spites klavier when he leaves to tour his music, because he can't admit he needs him too. at the end, klavier will return to him, eventually. because klavier needs kristoph gavin to survive.

he forges evidence, to protect the success and image of his career. even for a case against his own brother, he cheats. because it's not about what's right. it's not about anything but control, for kristoph. because there's no way he could be anything less than perfect. kristoph can't falter, can't be weak, or the world will eat you alive. and when zak gramarye veers out of his grasp, over something he can't control, the nature of who he is, he spites him too, and the man he chose. he forces his way into the case to make sure he can enact control, to protect his view of the world, and of himself.

and klavier, of course, comes back to him. believes in him, follows his word, even with doubt in his heart, a doubt that haunts him for years to come. he destroys phoenix's career, has his brother back, and protects himself from facing a truth he can't handle. he wins.

and it's not enough. he plots out the murders of his forgers, stalks every involved person of interest on the case, and plants himself right by the biggest threat: an unpredictable, awfully lucky man. someone who never did anything to him personally, but whose mere nature is contradiction to the ideals kristoph has pledged himself to. he does this because he isn't confident, perfectly conniving and infallible. for the first time in a long time, kristoph feels control slip out of his fingers and it terrifies him. he obsessively intangles himself with the case for seven years, watching, waiting, for loose ends to be cut.

this need is so intense that when he passes by zak, his first instinct is to murder him in cold blood. for no reason other than he is a threat to the stringing web of sanity kristoph is holding himself by. if he were more clever, more careful, he might've stayed, listened in, found out zak had no intention to do anything but give one last thing to his daughter, before he disappeared again. none of that mattered. because kristoph panics, at the idea that someone, anyone could do something to destroy his image, his life, his control. he's paranoid, and as thorough as he's been, he's sloppy.

and as he thought, phoenix is his perfect downfall. kristoph seemingly loses everything, he's found guilty of murder. his protégé, who he raised up strictly and intensely to follow in his steps, accepts this and is the falling blade to his final bow. but he doesn't snap. he doesn't break his illusion, his facade of poise and composure.

because he still has klavier. klavier, who returns to law after years to meet the man who sent his brother to prison. klavier, who believes his brother is innocent. klavier, who still depends on him. once again, it's kristoph and his little brother. he's already done the unspeakable to protect their lives, to sustain all he's built for him.

klavier visits him in prison, feeds him information, holds faith that he is good, even after he is betrayed by his closest friend. even as things lead to an awful conclusion klavier denied for too long. and when everything plays out the way it does, kristoph at the stand, he still sees klavier the same. he speaks for him, calls him incapable, believes he doesn't know better. because klavier will always come back to him. klavier needs him to survive, to be succeed in life, klavier depends on him.

until he doesn't. the one thing kristoph has always had control over, the reason he needed to be in control of it all, leaves him too. through his never ending desperation, he has become unforgivable. he threatens klavier, demeans him, humiliates him, but none of it works. everything is, as he says, spinning out of his control. he has nothing left, but the ego he's created for himself.

the jury system is the final blow. the idea that no matter what he could do to ensure his victory, the neverending upkeep of his perfect, unfaltering persona, he was at the whim of someone else. his control, completely stripped away from him. because without that, what is he?

when phoenix asks him why he killed zak gramarye, five black psyche locks appear, chains barred and tight. he claims he is simply an evil, cold-blooder murderer. a simple, unsatisfying thing. it's snide, and spiteful, and it's a lie. kristoph's secret, held so close to his heart that he doesnt even know he's keeping it. why did you kill a man, after seven years, when he had done nothing but hurt your pride?

he needs control. somewhere deep down, there's still that teenager, panicked and unsure, staring down at his brother with pleading eyes, deciding that he needs to become inviolable. like the law, absolute and unwavering. and in that he became unreachable. he emotionally neglected and abused the only family he had left, and told himself it was for his sake. he's insecure, entitled, angry; he's vengeful, petty, neurotic. so caught up in the fantasy he created to eliminate what was weak in him, he saw weakness in everything, in everyone.

to admit that would be suicide. it would be a complete mind shatter. he laughs hysterically out of the courtroom, out of acceptance for what he's lost or denial of everything he is, he breaks in one way or another. the places he was led to by love, by responbility, a bloodied bottle in his grip, poison on lips, standing alone at the end of it all.

to shield himself from cruelty, he became cruel himself. kristoph loved his brother, and that too, became a weakness to snuff out.

that is. if. they had actual backstories to explain why they are the way they are. foams at the mouth and collapses

[teenageukulelescreamo]

ARCANE NATION HOW ARE WE FUCKING DOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[neversleepagainau]

do NOT repost my art at all, please! tfw you truly Never Sleep Again because you have so much to worry about (im very funny i promise) i definitely have a headcanon that mystery's dog form does require some level of energy to keep up, so at night when he sleeps, he reverts back to his true form i also have the headcanon that he is a clinger when he sleeps, so now these things are just Canon in my AU haha- at least he's a good pillow! progress on the next update has slowed down a good bit because my day job has been keeping me quite busy as of late alas, but next week I should have extra downtime to work on things so stay tuned!!!

[rachedurst]

This was a flop on twitter but maybe. mein scheiss Kater Odinbert can bring joy into peoples hearts. In here.

[charleemoon]

jumping up and down thinking about klapollo. the idea that klavier gavin is an actual famous rock star who has gone platinum multiple times and he falls for. some guy. they have more intertwined history beyond that but genuinely just. a guy he works with SOMETIMES. not even. a guy whose cases overlap with his once in a while. some dude he sees around the courthouse at times. genuine STAR with a huge fanbase and a million connections who has traveled around the world and he falls in love with a boy who is simple and honest. it's like if taylor swift started dating a barista like. could you imagine the pop culture outroar . oh it makes me sick

like it's not entirely the "oh you could have anyone but you want him" like the idea that he genuinely lives a COMPLETELY different life than apollo and most of the characters. two separate worlds and he falls for truth and snarky remarks and from the day he met him, he made him feel a way he hadn't felt before (i don't care if he was just flirting it has IMPLICATIONS). i just love the idea of just crossing paths with apollo completely upends everything klavier thought he knew about his life. his fame, his truth, his family, his entire world flipped on its head, through the unyielding resolute will that is apollo justice. and he just loves him

it's just so interesting to me dynamically it's like idk its the domesticity. i like grand and loving klapollo i love klaviers silly big gestures and ways of showing love but i also love how apollo allows him to be safe in the mundane. in the comfort of quiet morning and breakfast in bed and them spending their lives together just happy to be in it. that he doesnt have to be anyone else but himself with apollo

and that he expresses this attraction through his persona (which maybe be only partially false, he does seem to enjoy himself) and apollo never buys it. they always seem to connect best when klavier isn't focused on playing up an ante or a role (during the chaos of the concert, in 4-4s trial, solving a case together)

and i dunno. imagining klapollo confession where the both of them have to put down these walls they haven't realized they have up (klaviers performantive gestures, apollos dismissiveness in order to be taken seriously) and just admit they want to be in each other's lives. because it makes them happy

i don't even remember what i was SAYING ANYMORE. i just think someday the world invented the best ship ever. i think it should be real. it has to be. foams at the mouth. IT HA

[teenageukulelescreamo]

3d live-action-disneyified CGI bill cipher was not on my 2024 bingo card and yet

[neversleepagainau]

Tiny update post, I'm still alive! I hit some hitches and roadblocks this week that definitely delayed my progress, but I'm hoping to jump back in soon. I'm gonna continue to keep ya'll in the loop on what's going on, but just wanted everyone to know I'm not dead! Don't worry!

[rachedurst]

how do i increase my cats intelligence and make him less ugly

[teambloodmoonofficial]

wjat does rising the moon mean?

YAY A BLOODMOON QUESTION I HAVENT GOTTEN ONE IN SO LONG

bringing about the Moonrise, or as you put it “rising the Moon”, is referring to summoning The Bloodmoon into this world so She may recreate it in Her image ^_^

[charleemoon]

finally watched s1 of squid game after 5 years of procrastinating and i have never seen a show curate the most deveasting doomed yaoi and yuri like they did. absolutely diabolical