#talking to the dead; ask meme

[phoenixyfriend]

(If you are actually married or otherwise committed, you don't have to play.)

Quick, you've been thrown back in time to whatever era/region makes sense for the question, and your only way to avoid being shunned for being unmarried at your age (a real spinster), is to lie and claim you are a widow/er.

What name do you claim your late spouse had? What do you base this imaginary person's personality on? Remember, you'll have to keep your story straight!

Keep it in the tags so the post doesn't bloat unless you've got something really interesting.

[antianakin]

In the Caretaker Luke AU, the galaxy responds with their version of a crab rave when the news about Anakin's death goes public. The Jedi know they can't REALLY respond that way, obviously, but they certainly don't stop the rest of the refugees on Tanalorr from partying that day (and night, and maybe the next morning), and maybe they sneak down to the party for a drink or two and to bask in the joy everybody's feeling.

[naffeclipse]

a random cryptid hunter catching a demonic cryptid in the act of tearing out and eating the heart of a werewolf and deciding to snap a pic instead of registering that he's woefully unprepared to fight such a cryptid and get out of there

[sysig]

DAX is just so expressive ♥ (Patreon)

[tortoisesshells]

top five doomed mariners go

in order not of significance, but of encounter:

(1) William Bush - the original Doomed Mariner, my copy of Lord Hornblower is still held together with duct tape from chucking the book across the room when I realized Forester was not going to pull a "if there's no body he's not dead" - rather, "if there's no body, it's because he was too close to the ignition point." A character whose defining trait is his devotion is actually something that can be so personal.

(2) James Norrington - the man, the myth, the legend. clearly takes up too much brain space for a [checking notes for comedic effect] antagonist secondary character from a twenty-year-old theme park ride movie. Hard to say at which point it became clear he'd never survive, but there's definitely a point at which he clearly thinks he's survived too long for anyone's good, least of all his own.

(3) Mr. Starbuck

“On this level, Ahab’s hammock swings within; his head this way. A touch, and Starbuck may survive to hug his wife and child again.—Oh Mary! Mary!—boy! boy! boy!—But if I wake thee not to death, old man, who can tell to what unsounded deeps Starbuck’s body this day week may sink, with all the crew! Great God, where art Thou? Shall I? shall I?—The wind has gone down and shifted, sir; the fore and main topsails are reefed and set; she heads her course.” “Stern all! Oh Moby Dick, I clutch thy heart at last!” Such were the sounds that now came hurtling from out the old man’s tormented sleep, as if Starbuck’s voice had caused the long dumb dream to speak. The yet levelled musket shook like a drunkard’s arm against the panel; Starbuck seemed wrestling with an angel; but turning from the door, he placed the death-tube in its rack, and left the place. (123: The Musket)

(4) Eyk Larsen - doomed by Netflix more than his own foibles, though that's not for lack of trying on his foibles' part. Even the men on his crew that like him are waiting for him to snap under the strain of his bereavement, alcoholism, and the demands of the new shipping company's changes (and the sudden appearance/disappearance of a ghost ship. and inexplicable deaths. and seeing things. and and and). Doesn't make it three whole scenes before staring moodily into the deeps of the Atlantic, musing on the impossibility of knowing what lives on the floor thousands of feet below. Kind of deserved that mutiny. Didn't exactly die in 1899, but. Well. Like his relationship with Maura, it was complicated.

(5) Bill Malloy - He never learned how to swim, he put together The Big Secret about the manslaughter trial quicker than any other uninvolved character, he's been in love with and trailing a respectful step behind Liz Collins Stoddard for 20+ years to no avail (but, hey, Carolyn says he's as good as her father, which?), and he's not the most helpful ghost but he is having a little too much fun getting revenge for his murder - did we ever hear him laugh when he was alive? I suppose we have to subtract some points for him never spending any time on a boat within the scope of the narrative, but then, he IS trying to go back to his job on the boats - and no one else on this list sings "What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor?". I'm pretty sure the narrative is through with him now, alas. He'll always be famous to me.

[sebdoeswords]

nice url, we should fight or start a Seb Doing team or something

Or we could make hot, passionate love to each other... just kidding... unless?

[heroes-fading]

WAIT i don’t know if you were around yet but i’m 2014ish the vogue kaylor best best friends video was basically my bible and ….. inordinary verse sardonic and fucked up best best friends ellie&joel video when.

OH I WAS AROUND

Tommy, holding a gun to Joel's head backstage: you are free from promo for five years of you do this

Ellie: I've actually never met this man in my life.

Joel: staring directly into the camera

can you imagine joel needing to do promo and refusing but he has to do one (1) thing but ellie picks and it's either this or hot ones and even though joel would demolish hot ones he doesn't like strangers asking questions. so the deal is not a stranger.

[rad-roche]

9 and 36……………..for gloria AND for nick (as you write him)

gasp!! to be asked by the op herself.... i haven't even tidied up or baked a cake

9. Is there anything that anyone who knows better should avoid bringing up to your character (i.e., any conversational landmines)?

the conversational landmine is a literal landmine! gloria walked into one after emerging from the Vault. i figure she doesn't mind fielding (brief, polite) questions, but anything beyond that turns her into this

i feel like any prying into her life pre-war is about the same, but it's not well known either. she makes a point not to tell people, she's a hard person to get to know.

nick, i feel, doesn't have very many! he's got skeletons, sure, and things he's sensitive about, but i feel is socially aware enough to head off anything that might start to touch on a sensitive subject with a well-timed joke, or a subject change. i figure he keeps a big mental file of one-liners to head off any questions about why his face is falling apart ("I put myself down for plastic surgery and didn't read the fine print", etc). i guess to really get under his skin you'd have to know him, but if you're intent on doing that you're not going to know him for very long

36. What keeps your character going? What is the one thing that they have that could motivate them to keep persisting if they lost literally everything else?

i just did that one for gloria, but for nick i think it's... hm!! i think his capacity to make real, positive change in a very, very difficult environment, in an almost impossible set of circumstances. he can't undrop the bombs, he can't make the planet more livable, but he can hand off water to somebody who needs it, or give somebody closure, or find some sentimental thing that won't net him any caps. he's not perfect, he's extremely flawed, but i think what keeps him going is real, honest-to-god compassion

[cmescapade]

Hey, sorry if you know this but just in case, your dropbox link has a full name connected to it. I don't know if it's your name but in case it is, might be good to look into making that a bit more private. Unless you're unbothered, then nevermind : ]

i cant believe dropbox doxxed me and knows im too lazy to do anything about it wtf

anyway u can call me by that name if u want me to get jumpscared so save it for halloween ok thank u

thanks for letting me know!! stinky dropbox!!

*continues to use it*

[indoraptorgirlwind]

Kit's day of the dead

((Alright guys, it's the day of the dead month, and i've came with these dynamics. It would be really cool if you participate, given how much i love dia de muertos and my urge to share it and showcase it. It's just my favorite holiday ❤️))

Send 💀 and she'll paint your muse's face

Send🕯 and she'll tell you a story of hers with one of her late relatives

Send ❤️‍🔥 and she'll tell you a fact about the day of the dead

Send 🐾 + your url so Kit says what she thinks your alebrije would be and a drawing of the alebrije

Send 👹 and she will tell you a legend

[stygicniron]

kcrclrezni asked:

“Well, conversing with the dead is witchcraft. People been burned at the stake for less.” (from brideglooms)

Ask Meme: British Ghosts -- @brideglooms

Nico’s eyes tick to the side for a moment, a hint of amusement flashing through the corner of his mouth before it just as quickly vanishes. “I can just ignore you, if you would prefer that,” he drawls.

He is more than aware that most of if not all of his powers would have been heavily frowned upon once upon a time, and most people at the very minimum still find them a bit creepy. This also isn’t the first time it’s been pointed out to him, but it is the first time a ghost has done so.

[starlightkun]

✨🔮💖 word in a wip is open! send me a word/phrase and if it's in one of my wips, i'll give you the sentence/paragraph it's from 💖🔮✨

all strawberry sunday au wips are fair game: vampire!kun, werewolf!jeno, and dragon!jisung

[tortoisesshells]

for the fic guessing game: thread, marble, and heart

Nothing for "thread", alas! The closest thing I can offer is more broadly textile-related:

Liz Collins looking like a queen in white, more and finer lace than in all the parlor-windows of Collinsport.

You can tell I've accidentally sidelined Customs & anything having to do with Jimothy N., because for the first time in god knows how many years, I've got nothing for "marble". Not even "granite". This is a sign of the end times.

Heart, though! Here we have:

But Uncle Bendish was a good, honest man – as honest as a man as a moderately ambitious one in politics could be – and he would, in his heart, know that she ought to be judged for it.

&

Nellie put her hand through the specter’s chest, where his heart had been, in life.

Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in

[solitarelee]

Writer ask:

Tell us about your current project(s)  – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?

Oh god wait now I actually have to talk about my writing on here abort abort.

Ok so I have a (bad) tendency to have to be working on at minimum three things it once. The main projects I'm working on right now are

Scripts. I write ASMR scripts, sometimes for $$$, sometimes for trade, sometimes just for funsies because I thought of one (and then I wave it around at people until someone bites). Right now I'm working on uhhhhh *clears throat* funnel web drider nsfw where the--actually I think I'll leave the details up to everyone's imagination. What I love most about it is that it has my fetish in it, just the way I like it, because I'm the one writing about it. I won't tell you what it is but also it's not what you think (unless you're Kitty, in which case, yeah, it's that one).

Oceanside fanfiction. This is fanfiction that I'm being paid to write, and I have full fucking legal permission to say that, fuck off OTW, because I have permission from the actual creator whom I do work for anyway. ._. What I love most about it is the fact the protagonist is a complete tosser rn because it's at the beginning of their character arc(s).

*a long, deep, tired sigh* one of my friends commissioned me to write omegaverse because I said I'd never fucking write omegaverse so now I'm also writing omegaverse aliens (because the whole thing makes more sense if you just make it another species, and as a bonus you can have hapless actual humans get caught up in their horny shenanigans). This is actually the story the catholicism questions were for. I'm sorry the catholics had to find out this way. (The omegaverse aliens are not catholic if that helps.) (The, uh, space dragons are.) What I love most about it is that I'm getting paid to write it (/j). Actually what I love most about it is my absolute fucking confidence that @hawnks will go completely ballistic for it.

I write BNHA fanfic (singular) and it's good actually, more people should read it. You know redemption arcs? This is the opposite. Corruption arc, ig. My favorite thing about it is the weird little fucked up "we used to be codependent and then we were separated for a long time" familial relationship between the two protagonists. Everyone needs therapy, absolutely no one is ever getting it.

[ectoplasmer]

actually no I think it’d be really funny if my hs s/i and my ygo s/i switched places

[sae-mian]

Send 👀 to see them in something that would make people stop and stare.

ahh you always choose the BEST prompts so. fun story. my savage static had glam themes for each fight, and for p7s, they went with Lumberjacks!

...i may have gone with something a little more triple x and a little less OSHA compliant. i think all that thigh might turn a few heads-