#winona vex

[cassandragoth26]

I haven't delved much into my storytelling (If I can call it that, it takes me about 5 years to update xdxd) because I want to start it again, but from much further back, only it will be like a spinoff series (Like " Class of…") Only I've been looking for things like that from the era, and I still don't know where it would originate, I feel like I'll use Henford on Bagley and Windenburg, the thing is that it will be called… Well I still don't know, but all the spinoffs (As well as "Hidden Origins" which I placed as Geoffrey Landgraab's past, and that xd) Anyway, I wanted to show the family photo of the Osteer Weatherwax (When Geoffrey was there and if you saw Hidden Origins you will already know what happened with Nora Osteer xd) and this is Otto's present, married to a woman (Who is an alien) with two young adult daughters (Roweena and Pamela) and a teenage son (Theodore).

Roweena had 3 children, one with Caleb Vatore, and twins with Morgyn Ember… I don't know how to explain that those 3 children were born at the same time (I just don't know how Roweena managed to get Morgyn pregnant and at the same time get pregnant with Caleb 💀)

Here I leave the Weatherwax family tree, starting from the sixth generation (Weatherwax Mae, Cornelius)

WHAT I FORGOT TO MENTION, The Weatherwax family was my first sims 3 occult legacy, but I don't have photos of that legacy because I had it on a PC in the living room, which didn't turn on again :'v

I know that it seems that Morgyn and Caleb are fighting over Roweena (I couldn't find another pose xd) But believe me, they get along terribly, and because Roweena is a bit… Well, she is not a good mother and the children live with their respective parents xd

As you can see, we start with Cornelius Weatherwax and Winona Vex (Sixth Generation, Weatherwax Mae), the seventh generation would be Otto Weatherwax and Charlotte Weatherwax, I do not continue with a legacy, only decency, the seventh generation (Weatherwax Vex), Otto would marry Nora, from that marriage (Osteer Weatherwax) Geoffrey would be born, events would happen where Otto would be widowed and some time later his son would disappear without a trace (To after a long time, marry Nancy Landgraab, take his wife's last name so as not to be traced, They had two children), Otto, after his son ran away from home, married Sandra Baker (The Alien), with whom he had 3 children, the twins are the oldest (Roweena and Pamela) and Theodore is the youngest ( Who are almost the same age as Malcolm and study together… Turby), on the other hand, Charlotte marries Alexander Ernest, they have a daughter named "Emilia", but unfortunately they die in a fire when Emilia was a teenager, Emilia Instead of wanting to stay with her uncle Otto, she prefers to stay with her mother's best friend, Minerva Charm, who is the mother of Darrel and Gemma Charm, so the eighth generation would be Geoffrey Landgraab, Emilia Ernest, Roweena, Pamela and Theodore Weatherwax (Emilia, the twins Weathewax and Johnny are contemporaries in age.)

From this eighth generation would come those who are Johnny Zest and Malcolm Landgraab (Children of Geoffrey)

Roweena's children, Alexis Vatore, Otto and Cornelius Ember (Yes, Roweena admires her grandfather… she was clearly going to do it, she has the Evil trait xd)

And finally Emilia's children, Hephaestus and Xena Charm

Well, Johnny got together with Holly Alto, and behold, currently this would be the tenth generation, which are Johnny's children with Holly, the twins Raymond and Edward, and little Emma (God, Emma looks a lot like Nancy Dx) And why do all 3 of them have the last name Landgraab? Well, when the twins were born, they came to me with the last name Landgraab, just like when Emma was born, I suppose someone wanted to give the last name to them… (The question is… Who?)

FUN FACT: Geoffrey, Malcolm, Johnny, Raymond, Edward and Emma were born as sorcerers with ancestral lineage xd

and as a Bonus I will leave the photos of Nora Osteer, Otto Weatherwax, Charlotte Weatherwax, Alexander Ernest, Sandra Baker, Nancy Landgraab, Darrel Charm, Holly Alto, Caleb Vatore and Morgyn Ember

[incorrect-pokespe-quotes]

Wallace and Winona are (probably?) supposed to be a foil for Ruby and Sapphire and an example of how their relationship could go if they don’t work out their respective issues (Sapphire’s insecurities and Ruby’s unwillingness to actually tell people what he’s doing and why), but ultimately I find myself more invested in how Wallace and Winona’s relationship is developing than the protags. Unlike Ruby and Sapphire, who get that sweet, sweet payoff in ORAS, we don’t really get any closure for Wallace and Winona and that’s a damn shame

In absence of any canon evidence, I have now decreed that Wallace is a bi king and starts dating Steven

[pupyzu]

do you know any villain themed pronouns and names?

under the cut!

NAMES:

Keetes

Tristan

Crimson

Labyrinth

Voss

Vincent / Vince

Obsidian

Rogue

Zayne / Zayn / Zane

Damien / Demian

Trix / Trixter

Finch

Cloven

Rave

Sever / Severa

Winona

Alder

Seren

Vixa / Vexa

Avanth

Omen

Link / Lynk

Morrow

Talon

Thorne

Zero

Weiss

Cinder

Vex / V3xx

Ash / Ashera

Jinx

Arachne

Vesper

Jasper

Jace

Ronan

⟡ ･ ･ ･ ⟡

PRONOUNS:

villain/villains/villainself

anger/angers/angerself

mischief/mischiefs/mischiefself

sinis/sinister/sinisterself

rogue/rogues/rogueself

evil/evils/evilself

arch/arches/archself

menace/menaces/menaceself

villainess/villainesses/villainesself

scele/rat/sceles/rats/sceleratself

vilan/vilans/vilanself

sot/sots/sotself

kath/arma/kaths/armas/katharmaself

kakos/kakoses/kakoself

villein/villeins/villeinself

vilein/vileins/vileinself

vilain/vilains/vilainself

villanus/villanuses/villanuself

scele/estu/sceles/estus/scelestuself

scele/esta/sceles/estas/scelestaself

🦹‍♀️/🦹‍♀️s/🦹‍♀️self

🦹/🦹s/🦹self

🦹‍♂️/🦹‍♂️s/🦹‍♂️self

[drkatz]

favorite episodes from your cartoon(s) of choice

this is a very good ask very juicy. it just took a bit longer to answer. no particular order to any of these

home movies: bad influences(the first clip of the show i ever saw was from that ep), get away from my mom, i dont do well in parent teacher conferences, directors cut, four's company. it's time to pay the price gets honorable mention because it vexes and scares me

dr katz: bully, bens partay, bakery ben, ben treats, (can you tell i like ben?) thanksgiving, any episode todd is in, monte carlo (winona ryder is in that one!)

wttw: hit it, toofus!, rise and shine sleepyhead, spacefish, so this is glamsterdam

idk these are the ones that came to mind right away. i like lots of episodes of different cartoons and my mind is a thick soup. im just fishing thoughts and ideas out with a big ladle

[adalics]

                  adalia   finds   herself   repeating   ‘   what   the   fuck   was   i   thinking   ’.   like   a   mantra   ,   as   if   her   pea   sized   brain   would   ever   forget   the   massive   mistake   she   made   .   her   weary   mind   still   allows   her   to   continue   through   the   rest   of   the   week   ,   dutifully   performing   the   most   important   tasks   with   mechanical   movements   while   her   thoughts   run   wild   .   it’s   not   like   he’s   answering   her   calls   anyway   .   sleep   .   class   .   work   .   an   endless   purgatory   without   him   .   it’s   one   she   deserves   ,   doubtlessly   .   its   approaching   seven   thirty   when   jittery   hands   navigate   her   car   to   his   place   .   like   nights   before   ,   she’s   expecting   he’s   nowhere   to   be   found   .   and   what   a   pleasant   surprise   it   is   when   she   sees   his   car   right   out   front   for   the   first   time   in   three   days   .   butterflies   cloud   her   stomach   ,   drowning   out   the   vicious   assault   from   her   own   subconscious   .   with   the   engine   off   ada   makes   out   a   familiar   melody   beating   through   the   bass   of   their   speakers   .   a   small   fist   taps   at   the   front   door   in   the   same   rhythm   as   always   .   once   .   twice   .   thrice   before   she   sighs   ,   placing   her   back   against   the   wood   &   sliding   down   to   the   ground   .   of   course   he’s   avoiding   her   .   mind   crawls   back   to   the   memory   of   her   shitty   excuses   followed   by   him   slamming   the   door   in   her   face   .   she’s   in   luck   when   a   roommate   takes   pity   on   her      &   invites   her   in   .   the   blonde   nearly   topples   over   the   women’s   shoes   in   the   middle   of   the   foyer   but   lends   it   no   further   thought   as   she   makes   her   way   to   his   room   .   

she   hasn’t   rehearsed   a   single   thought   but   she’s   dying   to   tell   him   everything   from   the   very   beginning   .   she’s   eager   to   find   some   way   to   redeem   herself   .   there’s   no   way   she’ll   allow   the   other   night   to   be   the   last   conversation   they   have   about   this   .   adalia   won’t   allow   herself   to   think   negatively   .   she   can’t   .   all   she   has   to   do   is   tell   the   truth   in   it’s   entirety   .   their   love   has   transcended   all   the   petty   high   school   drama   .   surely   they   can   survive   what   comes   their   way   in   college   .   the   guilt   is   practically   eating   her   alive   .   there’s   a   strange   noise   emitting   from   behind   one   of   the   bedroom   doors   ,   increasing   in   pitch   before   slowly   beginning   to   diminuendo   .   as   soon   as   she   tries   to   make   out   the   words   ,   the   crescendo   starts   again   .   perhaps   breaking   up   with   his   girlfriend   has   made   alexsander   more   somber   than   she   would   have   guessed   .   he’s   watching   a   movie   at   home   on   a   friday   night   instead   of   throwing   himself   into   a   bender   .   there’s   those   butterflies   again   .   pure  ,   adulterated   love   .   that’s   what   they   had   .   how   else   could   one   explain   the   optimism   in   her   heart   at   this   very   second   .   alexsander   &   ada   were   destined   to   be   together   .   modern   day   johnny   &   winona   .   the   feeling   of   sheer   happiness   is   torn   into   two   when   she   twists   the   knob   to   reveal   a   figure   lying   on   the   bed   .   a   hand   moves   to   cover   her   bare   breasts   .   smug   doesn’t   scratch   the   surface   of   roxie’s   countenance   when   her   eyes   meet   adalia’s   .   taking   a   small   step   back   ,   adalia   tries   her   best   not   to   overreact   .   had   she   walked   into   the   wrong   room   ?   a   quick   scan   of   the   room   provides   that   she   isn’t   ,   however,   alexsander   is   nowhere   to   be   found   .   there’s   clearly   an   explanation   for   this   debacle   besides   what   her   eyes   are   trying   to   piece   together   .   that   fairytale   is   promptly   disproven   when   the   comforter   draping   her   waist   is   aggressively   yanked   off   of   her   by   an   obviously   vexed   man   .   her   boyfriend   ,   to   be   exact   .   he’s   been   caught   red   -   handed   in   between   the   legs   of   a   friend   .   she   takes   another   step   away   .   it’s   like   a   scene   out   of   a   horror   movie   .   sans   rose-colored   glasses   ,   she   can   see   his   jeans   &   belt   hanging   over   the   headboard   &   the   hastily   ripped   condom   on   the   side   table   .   “   what   the   fuck   .   ”   stilted   ,   adalia   swallows   roughly   ,   hoping   its   enough   to   stop   the   bile   from   rising   in   her   throat   .   his   expression   contorts   into   something   unfamiliar   ,   unrecognizable   even   .   or   perhaps   that's   just   the   well   of   tears   blurring   her   vision   .   her   heart   knows   well   before   she   can   comprehend   ,   leaving   the   blonde   with   an   emptiness   in   her   chest   where   she   used   to   feel   whole   .   she   lets   out   breath   as   if   to   laugh   .   yet   she   can’t   stop   .   try   as   she   may   ,   she   can't   seem   to   catch   her   staggered   breathing   .   “   i   think   i’m   going   to   throw   up   .   ” 

@alexscnder​

[tails-and-scales]

what bitties do the sisters have? I think it’s cool to see glimpses of them

"We have a fair few bitties actually between the both of us, and you'll see them often pop up around the shop. The main ones you'll see from my adoptions would be Boisenberry the Mamba and Torque the Chain from @vex-bittys, Layl the Nightmare, Fajar the Dream, and Laminae the Mumcher from @dotchi13, Aishī the Snowberry from @fairysmolsxoxo, Feasgar the Midnight and Ortus the Slushy from @butterbitties, Winona also called None the Strawberry Nightmare from @skelebitty-store-and-shelter, and Rutilus the Alpha and Salutaris the Papysweet from @wonderland-isles."

Saiyuri would mention her different bitties, each one waving or looking proud at being mentioned and helping at the shop.

*Natsume bounds up next to her sister now, eager to introduce her few family members to those interested.

“The main ones you’ll see of mine that I’ve adopted from others are Shiro the full sized Krait, Fleur the full sized Fire Ring, and Cinnabar the Papython from Vex, then Calla the queenie from Dotchi, and finally Altair the Outertale Asriel from @ticklishjevil. We also each have bitties from our own shop, but we focused on ones that we’ve adopted from others on this list.”

[championwallacerespect]

I do wish that oras had some sort of "classic" or challenge mode where you can battle the gym leaders with their full original teams

As my blog name suggests, my first Pokémon game was Emerald

Before that though my first Pokémon game experience was a copy of ruby my friend let me borrow while she went on vacation

In that week's time I struggled through the whole thing with the exception of Norman because my starter was torchic (which I picked again in emerald)

I never made it past Wallace in Ruby, and in Emerald I just barely beat him with the use of revives for my strongest Pokémon

So when oras was announced I was like finally, the day for my revenge against Winona, Tate and Liza, and Wallace has come....... And none of them even had the original teams that had vexxed me so. It was..... Underwhelming

I still adore oras though. I've actually been replaying it again and I'm waiting for tomorrow so I can get the last item I need for my newly remodeled secret base

I just wish the actual story mode was more challenging

[summerdutkowsky]

for your ask: Stranger Things, Critical Role (you may split C1 and C2)

the fact that you said i could split the campaigns made me laugh, you know me so so well

stranger things:

Nancy (my golden daughter)

Robin (my golden daughter’s future gf)

Steve (my dumbass son)

Joyce (it’s winona, pls she’s on this list by default)

Max (my badass child)

critrole 1: 

VEX

Pike

Grog

Tarry

Kiki

critrole 2:

Jester

Beau

Caddy

Caleb

Yasha

[phosphophyllighte]

The Journal: Quietly...

Warning: This fic contains violent scenes of gore and blood. Please, read with caution.

“I’m scared,” Wendy whispered. Her head rested on Winona’s shoulder and helt iaround with both hands. “i’m scared to die.”

Winona is scared too but she’s more scared if anything happens to this little girl.

They were hiding from these pigmen chasing after them in a hole they’ve tucked themselves into. They could hear their footsteps and snorts closer and closer.

Wendy held Winona’s arm and tried not to whimper. She just wishes now her sister Abigail would comply to her pleas. Winona looked prepared and felt the tension riveting. She grasped her knife closely...

But a shadowy hand violently grabbed the poor girl out of their hole and thrown out the prairie.

Winona came out with knife in hand, crying out, “Wendy, no!” She ran for the girl’s aid and stood behind for her for the approaching adversaries nearing. But what she saw between her magenta eyes were beyond explanation.

Out of three of six were deformed and reshapen by the use of the fuel from the image of their shadows had intended.

Three pigmen were bent, twisted and crooked into bones of man and pig. They possessed a greater shadow than Maxwell or the False King. Their sounds of snorts and oinks were music to the queen’s ears; grimacing and deathly. They were like every nightmares in labels blended into one figure.

Winona feared for her own life but more for Wendy’s. She pointed the tip of her blade at them, threatening them and shouting, “Stay back, porkchops!”

The three regular pigment charged forward to put Winona down but she didn’t back down against a fight. She dodged their punches and kicks and tackles and delivered them her piece. She slit the throat of the first, dug her knife’s blade deep into the second’s eyesocket, and the third’s stomach was slice open and it’s guts fell out. Blood stained Winona’s clothes and dripped from her knife.

She turned to Wendy, telling her to run away before something happens. Wendy nodded and heeled up. But she didn’t. She stayed to watch behind a tree.

But playtime’s over, the nightmare pigs want their share of the fun. They dashed towards the woman before she could swing her knife at them. They surrounded her, circling like wolves...

Winona turned and turned at them but her eyes was vexxing her. The pigs look like they were multiplying but Wendy watching saw only three. They were shrouding the woman’s mind with their illusion within an invisible aura. Suddenly things turned for the worst for Wendy to see as Winona was grabbed by throat because of misdirection hard enough to be lifted from her feet to the air and lost her grip from her knife by one of the nightmare pigs.

The nightmare pig jabbed against her stomach again and again with a fist of a human’s cluttered bones like she was a punching bag. Winona couldn’t breathe and coughed her own blood. Wendy gasped.

Winona tried to fight back; punching and kicking with effort to break free. But the pig beating her up grabbed her arm and broke it’s bone apart without trying. She screamed from shock and pain and was let go to the grass. Winona almost choked as she regain her breath but her arm still hurts like hell. She tried to crawl but one of the pigs grabbed one of her legs and ripped it apart from her body and her blood splattered the grass, their bones and bare flesh, and herself. Winona was in tears and Wendy couldn’t believe the horror she’s watching.

The nightmare pig threw the leg away as if it was garbage. It could be heard faintly whispering, “Pathetic.” The pigs had another thing in mind. Something to please the queen. They’ve begun to take things far inhumane and devilish. They forced her arms in the air and made her kneel. The first pig shadow it’s hand into a claw and thrashed and mauled her badly. Her screams of mercy and pain were pleasuring them.

Wendy could scream for help but she wouldn’t escape time. Winona would’ve been dead if help had already arrived.

Winona’s left ear; ripped away. An eyeball; gouged out and chewed like gum. She ws already feeling hopeless within their grasp. The second pig punctured her flesh, piercing through bone and skin. It tasted her blood like wine in a glass. Then for the final act for their audience, the third pig’s saw-like hand revved and gruesomely eviscerated her body and the first and second ripped it open and dug her organs and entrails apart where they were supposed to be. Her heart that was visibly seen didn’t beat no longer. The pigs howled and they’ve satisfied their queen.

Wendy watched in trauma. Winona’s corpse dragged away and left a trail of blood. Wendy fled back in tears. After she arrived, nobody knew what happened to Winona nor Wendy’s sudden personality change. To this day, she didn’t tell anyone what happened... and is too scared to tell so.

This fic was inspired by a japanese guro manga about a mother being murdered in a very morbid way; ripped open along with her entrails and nailed into a tree.

[fracknugget-blog]

Skulduggery Pleasant Fan/dream cast Part One

Charles Dance as Skulduggery Pleasant (have you heard the man's voice? It's simply amazing! I could die and only hear his voice for the rest of eternity and be convinced I'm in heaven)

Then we have the amazing Winona Ryder as Valkyrie Cain

Dwayne the rock Johnson (aka my favorite mans) as Ghastly Bespoke

Brock O'hurn as Dexter Vex

Jude Law as Saracen Rue (please ignore dumbledore in the second pic lol he's sadly not included in this casting)

[janeykath318]

The Trials Of Being A Bodyguard 7

[fcnxychild]

            winona had spent the last few weeks on a plane,  bouncing  between germany  (  the home to many of her clients,   the elite of cologne capable of caring  less  about where her art came from and more so the provenance that antedates it’s  …  ‘ acquisition ’  )  & .  egypt  —  made obvious by the  ornate  gold bangles and rings adorning her arm,   each of them varying levels of exquisite designs.  tonight was her only chance to  truly  unwind,  allowing her to break away from her ever growing responsibilities and vexing friends  (  her notifications congested with messages welcoming her home from her travels,   wondering if she had it in her to go out for a few drinks  ??  )   instead of graciously  declining,  as she knows she should  —  her mother would be beside herself with upset at her actions  —  she’s ignoring each text and milling about in a new bar,  unfamiliar faces serving as comfort in her chosen loneliness.

though it was one stranger in particular that had caught her eye :    the tall, lanky man behind the counter who had been feeding her drinks all night.   it’s  unlike  her to do anything about her attraction towards him, so instead, winona sits quietly at the bar, scrolling  absentmindedly  through her emails;  (  despite using tonight as her break from work,   she’s still curious as to what antiquity would  suspiciously  fall into her lap  ——-  it wasn’t as if she had anything else to hold her attention.  )   that was,  until she hears the lilt of an unfamiliar voice, the hint of a gwangwon  satoori  seeping through his words.  his tone is relatively endearing,  deeply contrasting the ink that’s put on full display as his arm drapes along the bar  & .  the  terrible  advance he uses in hopes of luring her in.

         pretty girl like you in a bar alone  ??                         was the  best  he had to offer  ??    

she scoffs at his  lackluster  pick-up line,  a thin brow quirking slightly as she peers over at him from over the rim of her glass.  the amber liquid is quickly emptied before she sets it down, manicured fingertips drumming  softly  against the edge as he offers to buy her another drink, weighing her options.   it couldn’t hurt.  after all,  it wasn’t the first free drink she had received that night  —  thanks to the  fresh-faced  bartender  (  his dumb little smile,  plump lips curving into a warm crescent, shamelessly draws her back towards the bar;  of course,  the offer of a  complimentary  shot would quickly carry her towards him with a lazy grin.  )

despite the alcohol that flows through her veins,   winona is  very  much in control of her body and actions.  so again,  she laughs,  this time it comes out as an airy giggle,  and pushes her glass towards the approaching bartender.   “  i’ll let you buy me a drink  …  and then  maybe  i’ll let you keep me company,  ”  the trader hums,  painted lips curling into a flirty smile as dark eyes finally settle on the stranger.   all though she has absolutely no intention of allowing him to keep her company,   she would  absolutely  take another drink  ———-  before gracefully carrying herself outside to ignite a much needed cigarette.   as her drink is poured,  she offers a  gentle  nod at the blond to her right and does  just that;  a smug smile toys at the edges of her lips as she fits a cigarette between them, high-heeled feet carrying her out into the chilly autumn street,  the soft click of a stiletto against hardwood echoing her exit, as ringed fingers fumble for the lighter from her pocket.  

           “  shit,  ”  she mutters softly as she comes up with nothing in either of her pockets;  she can picture the little black lighter sitting at the edge of the bar,  left behind in her  haste.

[incorrect-pokespe-quotes]

He has the jock energy for sure, but I feel like he’d get his ass kicked at football-- he’s more like the jock-passing rich delinquent (wheras imo Crystal is the prep and Silver is the nerd; they have all their bases covered)

Tbh I think the only time Blue has ever interested in other people’s relationships is when she teased Red and Yellow, but she dropped that as soon as she realized she couldn’t mess with Red anymore. It’s so strange to me that a relatively early on characterization managed to stick around for so long. Anyway (sigh) that’s fanon for you. People will do anything to keep the personalities and ships they prefer for the characters. It isn’t a bad thing, since ultimately fics are all about fulfillment, but it’s not the most entertaining to read

You’re 100% right. Norman is such a massive shitlord that he kinda washes out all the others, but Sapphire outright says her dad is never home, claims she’s never been called beautiful before, and has no social skills whatsoever. Even other parent-like figures like Wallace and Winona are not really great mentors either (Winona is a little better than Wallace but she doesn’t really do anything to help ease Sapphire’s massive insecurities so she’s on thin ice). Norman makes all these people look decent by comparison, but apparently Hoenn is FILLED with shitty parents and parental figures. Emerald’s Sudowoodo is a better parental figure that the rest of these idiots COMBINED

Vex’s Hot Take: The shift over the past year from rampant and vitriolic hate of Lack and Emerald to more content, discussion, and appreciation is such a wonderful glow-up and idk if I’m ever gonna be over it

[dawnajaynes32]

Looking at women for a wile...

Looking at women for a wile…

By Tom Wachunas

   “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”  - Robert A. Heinlein 

 “Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”        - Groucho Marx 

  “I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.” -Mary Shelley

   EXHIBIT: The Wiles of a Woman / THROUGH SEPTEMBER 15, 2017 /at IKON IMAGES – The Illustration Gallery, 221 5th Street NW, Canton, Ohio / Viewing Hours: WED. – SAT. 12pm – 6pm / 330-904-1377

www.ikonimagesgallery.com 

   The title of this exhibit speaks to a persistent notion threaded through human history: For better or for worse, in sickness and in health, women can be at once maddeningly inscrutable and irresistible…’til death do us part. For the Ikon Images Gallery web page announcement of this show, owner Rhonda Seaman included this teasing(?) tidbit of dialogue from Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:

Grumpy: "Angel, ha! She's a female! And all females is poison! They're full of wicked wiles!"

Bashful: "What are wicked wiles?"

Grumpy: "I don't know, but I'm agin' 'em."

  Maybe Grumpy speaks for those who still blame Eve, and subsequently all her daughters in time, for The Fall. Adam, conversely, in an effort to process his resentment and deflect his guilt, would pass on to his male progeny a conflicted perception of women as both a species to be subjugated and controlled, and a vexing, beautiful mystery to be savored if not solved. But perhaps considerations of this nature are best left to theologians, philosophers, and psychologists to continue unpacking and articulating.

   Meanwhile, even a casual glance at figural art through the ages reveals ample evidence of how artists have been seemingly obsessed with rendering women in dichotomous ways. On the one hand, women have been made into the beguiling stuff of myth and magic – goddesses, sprites and fairies, gracious oracles and soothsayers, or forces of Nature benign and malevolent. On the other, they’ve been objectified for the male gaze as sensuous symbols of our libidinous natures, as well as idealized embodiments of love, beauty, inspiration, and yes, cunning. Angels and vamps, Muses and monsters - equally pleasurable and cloying, alluring and mystifying. 

   Speaking of cloying and monsters, I couldn’t get Willem de Kooning’s ground-breaking (and initially controversial) abstract “Woman” series (six paintings from 1950-53) out of my head while viewing the many refined oil paintings here. His methodology was an uncompromising surrender to the actual materiality of paint, and intuitive physical gesture, such that he effectively deconstructed the Venus legacy in painting once and for all, while ironically enough paying homage to it. “Beauty becomes petulant to me,” he said of these paintings, adding, “I like the grotesque. It’s more joyous.” For all of their grotesque (many called it vulgar in 1953) effrontery and their almost Paleolithic primitivism – their eviscerated surfaces and seemingly sculpted forms – they remain oddly eloquent in their exuberant testaments to what de Kooning called “the female painted through all the ages, all those idols.” 

   So this is indeed a show of considerably eloquent idols. While their eloquence is of a wholly different sort than that of de Kooning’s Abstract Expressionism, it is no less potent. For those of you enamored of the “fantasy illustration” or, as it has been more recently called, “imaginative realism” genres, these preciously executed images are poetic narratives that invite you to pleasantly while away your time, if you will, contemplating the many nuances of feminine mystique. 

   In my usual process of searching out introductory quotes for my blog commentaries, I came across these words, uttered by that infamous womanizer, Pablo Picasso, to his mistress of nine years, Françoise Gilot: “Women are machines for suffering,” and, “For me there are only two kinds of women, goddesses and doormats.”

   Seriously? Unlike the sensitive perspectives so exquisitely presented in this exhibit (and the so called ‘wiles of a woman’ aside), Picasso’s words constitute a particularly brutal and anguished view of woman-ness, and I’m ‘agin it.

   PHOTOS, from top:  We Are Made Of Stars, by Rob Rey / Guardian of the Desert, by Aaron Miller/ Rapunzel by Aaron Miller / Lora, by David Leri / Fawn, by John Hinderliter/ Guardian of the Eastern Door, by Winona Nelson / A Daughter of Salem, by Jim Pavlec  

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[tails-and-scales]

So I decided to try something different with my newest adoption from @butterbitties, and I thought Ortus, especially since he’s going to be a main sight in any upcoming asks and rps, deserved a cute little welcome. I wish I’d thought to do it with all of my other bitties when I adopted them now 😭

But take my newest drabble, Warm Welcomes, where the shop gets to meet Ortus!

Torque and Boisenberry are from the wonderful @vex-bittys

Layl, Fajar, and Laminae are from the amazing @dotchi13

Aishī is from the sweet @fairysmolsxoxo

Winona (or as he likes to be called None) is from the great @skelebitty-store-and-shelter

And Rutilus and Salutaris are from the kind @wonderland-isles

[tails-and-scales]

Sai’s Bitty Group

So I didn’t mean to end up with so many bitties- I swear I didn’t but stars are holiday events fun! Everyone in the shop still gets personal time to just snuggle Sai and everyone is able to play and help out. I’ll eventually get to writing stories for them. Gonna try to not go for anymore bitties, but I’m not one to turn away a little one that needs me

(I may actually spread a few of my new holiday bitties out to another muse of mine that could use the companions-)

Laminae - Mumcher (Horrortale Toriel)

Layl - Nightmare 

Fajar - Dream 

These three are from the wonderful @dotchi13‘s shop

Torque - Fullsized Chain

Boisenberry - Fullsized Mamba

These two are from @vex-bittys‘ shop, such good lamia!

Aishi - Snowberry

The good ice kitsune is from @fairysmolsxoxo‘s shop 

Dusk - Nocturne 

Sajan - Ascella

Dusk is my personal Nocturne and Sajan is the Ascella that took to Laminae, I’m not gonna be adopting him out

Winona (Goes by None) - Strawberry Nightmare

This sweetie is from @skelebitty-store-and-shelter‘s shop

Rutilus - Alpha (Full sized)

Salutaris - Papy Sweet (full sized)

These two are from the @wonderland-isles

Sneachta - Seal Selkie Sans 

Pierre - Gargoyle Monster Kid 

Galdur - Baku Charm (Reapertale Gaster) 

Angel - Banshee Chestnut (Fell Frisk) 

Uligo - Humidity (Alphyne Amalgamate) 

Kamaji - Soot Spirit Elegy (Geno Blooky) 

Hertogi - Centaur Indigo (Rouxls Kaard) 

Lilac - Drider Lilac (Underswap Muffet) 

Squall - Ifrit Safren (Underfell Asriel) 

Anam - Cat Sith Mettaton 

Capri - Capricorn Pixel (Errortale Toriel) 

Sol - Syrah (Reapertale Grillby, Ravenclaw robes) 

Chacha - Faun Chaos Times (Skeletal Chara) 

 Pumpkin - Will o' Wisp Pumpkin (Pie Papyrus) 

 River - Manticore Charon (Underswap Gaster) Lion lower half 

Drogon - Dragon Chili (Underfell Sans) 

Petal - Patchwork Doll Capri (Monster Frisk) 

Star - Wish (Reapertale Asriel) 

Kitsi - Doppleganger Frisky 

Autumn - Qilin Quiche (Tendertale Sans) 

Fjer - Raven Charcoal (River Person) 

Skydda -  rå Floof (Ralsei) 

Acer - Treat (Underfell! Goner Kid)

Vanga - Child Blackjack (Deltarune! Lancer)

Ascia - Tooth (Deltarune! Susie)

Ao - Limnad Blue Raspberry (Underfell Undyne)

Kyubey - Tunda Lemon (Underfell Alphys)

Rhaegal - Tiger Familiar Dragon (Underfell Papyrus)

Alepoú - Teumessian Fox Flambe 

Blomma - sânziană Twitchy (Underfell Flowey)

Castillo - nephilim Aphelion (Outertale Asgore)

Feri - rusalka Minnow (Muffet)

Duusu - Mayura Entropy (Jevil)

Smokey - cha kla Button

Astrum - tzitzimitl Milky

Viserion - Wyvern Mikal (Monster Kid

Fenrir - warg Blackberry (Underfell Gaster)

Hazel - tanuki Hazelnut (Chara)

Heiwa - Genie Jangle (Deltafell Jevil)

Kulta - chrysomallus Altair (Outertale Asriel)

Sarah - Sahariel (Torie and Sahana (Paitence SOULl)

Flora - Floralia (Skeleton! Frisk) 

Imelda - Maize (Dancetale! Alphys)

Fluffy - Fluffybuns (Undertale Asgore) 

Alphie - Alphie (Alpha Flowey Underfell) 

Echo - Mirror (Echo Flower) 

Tamlen - Nea (Wood Elf Papyrus)

Talus - Copper (Fawn! W.D. Gaster)

Dorian - Vermilion (Sand Cat! Grillby)

Napsta - Napstatune (Blogger! Napstablook): 

Blackberry - Bat Youkai Edgeberry (SF! Sans)

Bun - wolpertinger Powder (Dancetale! Nice Cream Guy)

Fortis - 2-K (Tailplates Monster Kid, variant of Handplates) - 

Flùr - Petal (Flowey, green petals, yellow stem; fused with green soul)

Azure - Berry (Swap Sans)

Dolus - Trick (Underfell Monster Kid)

Bud - Buddy (White petal Flowey, Sans like personality)

Catulus - Inu Youkai Softie (SF Papyrus)

Koibito - gashadokuro Souffle (Tendertale Papyrus)

Dulcis - Candy person Butterscotch (Underpie Frisk, based on a butterscotch pie)

Corail - Reef (Alpha/Omega Flowey, Undersplash)

Lavender - Lavender Kindness Bell (6 petal Flowey)

Nix - Chilly (Winter Napstablook)

Holly - Ellie (Noelle)

Rouquin - Gingerbread (Holiday Chara)

Baie - Holly (Holiday Flowey)

Caraegis - Frosty (Wheelchairbound Winter Mettaton)

And this big list is from the holiday events that @ticklishjevil as hosted, along with a few that were gifts or regular adoptions