#taobw

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uh body horror kinda ?? roots coming out of body

hi this took almost 5 hours anyway hope you like it heres some closeups cause tumblrs probably gonna kill the quality , please reblog this

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Lyon veut chasser les ondes négatives AFP via RTL 🇱🇺

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110/200 WOLF ERA PICS

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A few of the

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obligatory intro post that I haven't made before despite being on this website for over a year -

-incest, nsfw, homo/trans/xenophobic, ableist, racist dni.

-system

-our preferred names change a lot but for now just call us vince[nt], ivan, or viscera

it/he [maybe they/them??] + any neopronouns [neutral terms preferred but masc terms are also cool]

-I mostly draw oc stuff at the moment

-doodle/sketch requests are open !! (I will likely procrastinate to all hell on it though . apologies . Also i might not do them period)

-I write sometimes

-drawing box [the link is broken but i don't feel like removing it]

-spotify (don't make music it's just playlists jsknb, 77 to be exact)

-current hyperfixation(s): our ocs, death note [<- especially this], body horror

-messages are always open or talk to us on discord [our acc is visionsuntangible just let us know who you are]

[taglist under the cut]

#noodle talks- just me saying things [self explanatory]

#defnotdoodles- doodles and sketches

#art- self explanatory, only finished things here

#not art- any post i make that doesn't have art [self explanatory]

#drabbles- writing tag

#fave- favorites

#mecore- self explanatory

#helpful- self explanatory

#for later- self explanatory

#sysposting- posts about system things

#moot- anything with my mutuals (ily <3 /p)

[au descriptions are simplified for brevity]

#kitchen sink- dead plate time loop au

#table for two- dead plate au that takes place after ending one

#ashtray- post abbatoir ending haunted vince au, extra salt in the wound he only kills Rody after they have their whole conversation

#cyborg theater- [might change the name later i just needed something] bad end theater x vtsom au

#Spotify- spotify links

#fanart- art by other people for my stuff <3

#plushieposting- posts about my plushies

#oc stuff- general oc tag + stuff that reminds me of them

oc story tags- #abyssal , #I'll love you when you fall apart [#ilywyfa] , #divine intervention, the anatomy of being wrong [#taobw], #experimental [check posts on those tags for what they're about]

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hrrngg silly thing ..

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Drew this as a style/brush test [not sure if I'll stick with it but it's not bad]

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fuckin . critter

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hi aureo that was fast . anyway explanation under the cut woo

its kinda fuzzy in my head since ive only had this idea for two days including today so . but basically theres magic in the world that this takes place in (side tangent that isnt totally important but im gonna talk about how it works now if you dgaf skip to the plot stuff) its mostly not demonized/hated/feared/whatever cause i dont feel like it . anyway basically the energy needed is inside of your blood so whenever you use it it draws it out of you in some way (depends on what its used for) or you can draw it out yourself (bloodletting) and depending on how strong the spell you're doing is a certain amount of blood will be needed which causes !! a lot of problems for magic users . also its not like . a lineage thing anyone can learn how to do it because another part of how it works is making bonds/pacts with spirits that hold power over certain things and the blood is like . the offering also and you can either use incantations of sorts to do spells or just command things that youve borrowed power over also if your family has a pact with a spirit you are automatically in that also

vey end up going into the center of the woods and there's a grave in the clearing so vey go to it and make a blood offering assuming that this is the correct place (<- its not . oops) which ends up pissing off the spirit there because they do not have a pact together so vey are Not supposed to do that . it ends up pissing the spirit off more by admitting that it thought this was the correct place to be for a different spirit who was apparently not even close to here . who knew (everyone except erika) . the spirit ends up laying a curse on nem as its one of those angry and restless ones + got angered further . the spirit explains that somewhere in their body the seed of the plant that fits them best will start growing inside of them at a random place and slowly kill them by taking all of their energy and eventually spread out of them and essentially take over their body . they don't say if there's any way to cure/get rid of and it doesn't really sound like there is . they also say that when ey're at eir deathbed ey'll drag eir body back to this very spot and become part of the forest in the same way the spirit is . (sorry i keep saying "the spirit" i know it sounds kinda weird but i havent named them yet) (also ihave sooosososo many thoughts about how this would work so . maybe another time but if you wanna hear me go insane ask)

(other side tangent) also the way that the spirits work is that if you're connected to something deeply throughout life and your death is also connected to that thing (ex you have a connection to oceans/lakes/rivers your entire life and then you drown and die) you become bound to it spiritually and it becomes literally a part of you which means you have command over it kinda (does any of this make sense . idk) but it sucks a lot because the thing draws out your energy after death to fuel your ability cause like i said earlier spells require energy n shit but you also gain the ability to share your ability with others which relieves it a little since the burden isnt all on you BUT some spirits are angrier and curse anyone who steps foot near the area where they died . also their abilities and people who have deals with them's powers are amplified in the death area

ANYWAY actual plot time . the protagonists name is erika/erik (goes by both) (any pronouns but mostly uses neos) and ney're part of a family that has a pact (<- i think im going with that as for what ill call these) with some sort of plant spirit ney aren't sure which one though ney didnt pay much attention to the explanation of it all . it doesnt care too much about its lineage its more interested in biology and anatomy related things (<- woaww title reference) and also salamanders . its not story important but ve really likes salamanders . anyway x2 nix is somewhere in nixs early 20s and lives alone in an apartment planning on going to college soon but is putting it off . probably works a shitty 9-5 that it hates idk . very tired guything . theyre kinda bored and start thinking about their abilities and general ineptitude with it and decide that they'll go to the forest that their pact spirit dwells in to feel more connected to it or whatever . ey didn't really plan things through a lot . It makes a small bag with some supplies in it just in case and goes to the place that it thinks is the correct one but ends up being wrong and ends up in a very large forest . paragraph break because this one's getting long

obviously it freaks the fuck out about this and ends up running veryvery far away from the clearing and ends up collapsing somewhere because its really fucking tired . in the morning to nix's surprise nothing happened to nix in that time . anyway first thing he does is take out a diagram of the human body that was in one of the notebooks that he took with him and starts drawing out what the curse might look like on the inside . (which is also kinda where the name of the story comes from)

hey remember how i said energy needed for spells lay inside someone's blood . and how the plants will sap off of the person's energy and therefore blood . and how erik's family has a pact with a plant spirt . hey do you think that might be just a little important -

so anyway she tries to find her way back but fails miserably because the one thing she happened to forget was a map of any kind so now she's stuck in a forest with a deadly curse and no idea how to fix herself. they frantically walk through the forest and end up finding a village filled with totally normal people yayyy . anyway when they get there they say that they got lost in the woods and need a place to stay until they figure stuff out . oddly enough someone agrees to house them for a bit . The people of the town are incessant with questions, particularly about if they've encountered the spirit . on impulse he lies saying that he didnt which totally wont bite him in the ass later i mean who said that . anyway thats basically the plot theres more but this is already long as fuck and i dont feel like typing anymore idk how much of this makes sense but whateverrr im sleepy n sickly (<- has a cold) so . yeah hope you like it :]]

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Slowly realizing that uncanny by ghost and pals is just alex

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Alex would lay on the floor and put mitski on and cry. Btw

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It's been raining a lot lately so I thought of this

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Fun fact erika can be VERY scary when trying to be so because of this I keep imaging someone talking shit abt either them or alex [probably alex] and them slowlyyy turning around with a death glare

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Another thing I keep thinking about with taobw is how erika isn't a very angry or sad person even when faced with painful situations because the main thing he ends up feeling is emptiness and loss but when alex dies he's so fucking angry. Not at alex obviously [misdirected anger is his thing] but just at the circumstance cause somewhere it knows that things could've been better for both of them if they had the time but all of that got ripped away and it genuinely pissed him off. Also for a while they convinced themself that someone did it to him on purpose because in their head it was better that he didn't die because of a careless mistake but that thought ended up making things so much worse. Eventually the anger gets sucked up by the intense feeling of loneliness that ve starts to feel cause alex was ver only friend that actually new ver well and spent a lot of time with him so for a bit ve doesn't know what to do with verself. The main story takes place like 2 years after "the incident" and Erik finds it difficult to actually motivate themself into doing things [like going to university or quiting their shitty job] because of the weight of it all. Change is a big theme in this with alex being so deeply afraid of it that graduation makes him spiral because he had absolutely no plans for the future [especially the changes that came with it] and erika knowing what it wants but not being able to reach for it alone. And then obviously everything that happens to both of them after that is certainly different

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I keep thinking about it so I'm just gonna make a post ig . Anyway alex hates his hair so fucking much he wants to get it cut sooo bad but he's scared that he might get found out [idk if this was mentioned before but he's in the closet it's basically a part of him now] . He knows it's kind of irrational but just in case + It's been like that for most of his life so he's used to it but he still hates it . A big part of his character is that he hates change and underneath all of his misdirected anger he is still a very scared and emotional person and this ties into that a little [also why he dresses in a very boring manner with clothes he doesn't even like, he doesn't want to stand out + he's been doing that forever]. He'll have to learn to confront this eventually but when he tries it just fucks him up more which is part of his terrible spiral because he starts to realize things about himself that he doesn't like and is inevitably scared of no matter how much he tries to cover it up with anger uagh I'm so ill about him fuc