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[skyauroka]

Updated ref of Lurker and Captiva!! Didn't like how I made them in the last one so..

They get separate ones now

These r for artfight -w-

[loafbud]

Halloween might be over, but I have something to share! Today, we can finally share our pieces done for @screaminkzine!

It's a splatoon horror zine so naturally I had to go with sea lurkers for my piece!! I can't remember the last time I added this much detail to a drawing LOL- Working on this was so fun y'all omg- tysm for having me!!!!! 💥💕

[childofpudding]

Okokok, so I’ve been kind of on an Ever After High kick recently because the premise is just too good oughhhh and I love thinking about it. So here are a few insane headcanons I wrote down instead of studying for my calc exam. Keep in mind though, I’ve only ever watched the show and read the first book (a few years ago now), so if anything I say directly contradicts canon or is already confirmed, please let me know!!! I really want to interact more with the fanbase!

I headcanon The Storybook of Legends to have passive mental persuasion abilities regarding destinies. The magic coerces students into signing by fueling a bone-deep, instinctual pull to act out their story and attempts to crush any personal reservations or hesitations students may have about their own legacy. Of course the book isn’t the only reason weary students with crummy destinies might choose to sign- there’s peer pressure and the instilled belief that by not signing, everything and everyone will disappear. (This alone manages to convince most soon-to-be-villains with bleeding hearts to go through with it.) But the persuasive magic makes the decision much easier. I imagine the book’s magic only works within a certain range and strengthens with prolonged exposure. It also amplifies near Legacy Day, making it extremely difficult for students to resist the urge to sign. Information about this specific property of the book would be well known and documented by Grimm and potentially other school admin, but is largely hidden from the students of Ever After and the broader fairytale world. 

As Legacy Day approaches, many students who subconsciously fight the book’s influence experience migraines, delirium, and paranoia. Personality traits and values that align with the destinies of students are heightened. Characters fated for romantic or strong platonic relationships may also feel inexplicably drawn to one another, even if they weren’t before.

The mass hysteria around Legacy Day is felt by all, yet acknowledged by none and once the book is signed, the persuasion magic, though still there, becomes far less potent (kind of like when a highschooler accepts a university offer and though they still need to maintain a grade average, they often no longer feel the need to put in as much work as before). I also headcanon this to be part of the reason the Royal/Rebel conflict happened when it did and not before, seeing as the book was replaced with a fake and wouldn’t be able to affect the students in the same way (though the real one was hidden within the school, maybe the Evil Queen hexed it (???)). 

I believe that absolutely everyone in the fairytale world has a destiny. The Storybook of Legends has infinite magical pages, and even minor characters or random town residents have legacies. Though, for many, their destinies resemble something like: continue the family business, go outside one day and witness the protagonist of your story do something cool, fall in love, procreate. We know each retelling of a story has slight tweaks, so I’d think background characters’ destinies allow some wiggle room in what they decide to do with their lives. Still, I like to imagine everyone eventually signs the book. Kind of like those old POV tiktoks that go a little something like ‘when you turn sixteen everyone finds out their future??? 😱’ in the sense that before the school year starts at Ever After (where the Storybook of Legends is kept) there’s like a tour that happens where the book gets paraded around  to major fairytale towns and landmarks and every single kid going into (I think it was) the 10th grade/2nd year of highschool/sophmore year are made to sign the book. 

Additionally, it’s a general rule that the number of children in a background character's family corresponds to the number of parents, so each kid can take on a parent’s legacy. If a family has more kids than parents, it likely means:

A. Someone committed adultery,

B. One child is destined to die an unpreventable death, or

C. (Very rare) the child is meant for another fairytale entirely — like a love interest or a stock hero who dies young and doesn’t reproduce.

And unless they’re from a Stock Family, this balance usually holds.

Segue into my next headcanon -which I think might actually be at least partially canon - stock families! So what are they: I headcanon stock families to be families that produce significant amounts of offspring specifically to act as certain archetypes in stories, more often then not, love interests (to prevent incest y’know). This is part of the reason as to why there are so many different Charming families that aren’t related to one another. Children from these families often don’t know their destinies. (Though Charming parents have successfully bribed Grimm in the past to let their kids peek at their destinies early.) and while many become nobility, sometimes they don't. 

Many of these kids attend Ever After and only see their destinies for the first time while practicing for, or during, the televised Legacy Day at the same time as the entire rest of the fairytale world watching. Legacy Day is especially stressful for Charming children because there’s always a risk that they aren’t part of a story befitting of the school’s prestige and it has happened before that Charming children have signed the book on a mundane destiny during the televised event. I like to think this is why there’s a (seemingly not royal) news reporter with the Charming name in the webisodes. 

I also imagine these families are doomed to fizzle out into obscurity, with mundane destinies, after a few generations (again, to prevent incest), with new ones popping up every few years. Despite this, stock families often have more children than average to meet the demand for fairy tales (e.g. Darling, Daring, and Dexter are three siblings from two parents).

I also like to think that, Ever After, despite housing the Storybook of Legends, is not the only school to use it. It’s canon that other schools exist, in this universe like:

Beanstalk High (giants only),

and a school for villains (where Ramona transferred from).

 This leads me to believe that Ever After is special in the sense that unlike other fairytale schools, they don’t specialise in one archetype, however Ever After is still quite hard to get into seeing as they only accept children who play main or supporting roles in popular fables. I like to headcanon that a school called something like ‘Tall Tale High’ exists and they house primarily children of fictional folk story heroes (think: Pecos Bill, Joe Magarac, Old Stormalong, Momotaro, John Henry, Paul Bunyan) and because folk tales have characters perform absurd physical feats, they often give Ever After a run for their money when it comes to sporting events. Ever After probably lets other schools borrow the Storybook of Legends for brief periods so they can do their own Legacy Days, though those ceremonies would never be as commercially successful. There’d probably also be normal schools too, for background children, so that they can learn to ‘contribute to society’ (Though Ever After actually does actually offer a wide variety of STEM courses, and many Ever After alumni do have lives after their ever after (think Snow White) many with stories aren’t expected to enter the workforce.)

That’s it for now, if anyone wants to disagree or add anything, please do, like I said, I really want to talk to people about the show!

[ahit-oc-corner]

Thank you @harlowehearse for this idea and @chocowhomps as well for the continuation for this >:] Lurker - @chocowhomps

[zerguette]

Sorry lack of content, i can't finish art with barely any time, all i draw are doodles and im shy to share lmao,

Thank you, Knuckles, i wont paint your shoes right im sorry. I just wanna sleep man

[louiefertwo]

"Hey, Sam, do you always break into schools when you can't sleep?"

"N-no..."

i really like this interaction :>

[panoramicpancake]

Counter to Watcher, here's Lurker!

[h0ped3lusion]

A moment from the Pressure Parody/Roleplay Twitter I had

[thelurkershideout]

I'm sorry Darkwater Crossing, and Ivarstead. I'm so sorry about the earthquakes. The two feral dragonborns living in my brain really needed to fuck and one of them is obesssed with the others voice. They picked the woods for some reason. I'm sorry southern Eastmarch I promise they'll be done soon.

[skyauroka]

26th Artfight attack FOR @vannyblutea ,,10 chain rvwnege w this one🙏

[loafbud]

I can't sleep, so here's some more sea lurker art

[leaf-in-a-flower-garden]

The first of the Realm Children ...

The Dawn Child they/them

(click for better quality bc Tumblr sucks ass)

[vines-mansion]

uhh…

Which do I do then-?

[ahit-oc-corner]

A Hat In Time OC drawings part 2 ---- Sai & Frank belongs to me! Lurker belongs to @chocowhomps

Beans belongs to @hoodedjelly Bonnie they/them belongs to @blossomingfox

[pompillar]

I suppose it's time for a pinned post?

🚈🍎🚎🍏🚌 Hey y'all! You can call me Professor Pom (or just Pom), welcome to the apple bus! Take a look around, find an apple seed and crack it open to read some of my own ramblings or someone else's that I've loved enough to bring along! 🚈🍎🚎🍏🚌

Go ahead and send me some questions or ideas you wanna see me throw my two cents in on. If I like your idea I might write something for it. I'm easy enough to inspire. I just might be a little slow to do it.

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🍎 • First and foremost this is an 18+ blog. Please keep away if you aren't over 18. I'm not policing what you read or look at I'm just not comfortable with minors in my stuff. I'm too old to be dealing with the kids who wanna be like I was at that age. Hang out with people your age please!

🍏 • If I don't reply to you I might not know what to say or I read it, formulated what I wanted to say, then promptly forgot it and got scared to answer... It's the ADHD... It will happen I apologize 😔

🍎 • But please talk to me! TKDB is my current hyperfixation and I don't have anyone IRL that I can talk to about it. So you guys are stuck listening to me shout into the void anyway, so why not join me?

🍏 • And!!! If you shoot me an ask with a prompt or a thought you wanna share I might be inspired and drop a little blurb based on it! ❤️

🍎 • Things I will write: NSFW, femdom/dom!reader, most kinks including some of the less wholesome ones, polyam/multiple partners, trans characters, sexswapped characters, character x character, reader/mc x character, bat shit insane theories

🍏 • Things I won't write: fucking... Idk hard non con, murder, enslaving people???, scat. definitely that one, anything that makes me uncomfortable which isn't much tbh I've been online for more than half of my life I've seen a lot of shit peeps.

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🍎 Tags list 🍏

Pom reader - thoughts about new chapter

Pom rereads TKDB - what it says on the tin

Pom theories - same as above

Pom seal of approval - I love it enough to put it in the bus

Apple seed - my writing/contributions to the fandom

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(I'll probably gussie this up when I get on my laptop sometime bc mobile is annoying to design stuff on.)

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