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~ Harrison Fisher, from American Beauties (1909)

via petitpoulailler on flickr

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random Jamie questions! what genre(s) do they write in? :0 or like, what's their favorite genres? do they have favorite tropes to write, or tropes they're particularly known for? do they ever write (in one way or another) about their. uhhhh. love life? or do they ever incorporate things that have happened to them in the Neath into their stories?

my main Rowen is also an author and they're like, a sell-out, they write about whatever trends and in whatever genres are popular month-to-month. they wouldn't dare publish any of their work that's too personal to their actual life and feelings (Rowen would rather die than risk being Seen and Known lol). so I'm interested in what other author characters write about! :)

Well... typicallly...

Jamie is most often a gothic romance writer, or just gothic or romance in general, though they will often dive into adventure stories, or fairytale like stories too. They've writen a lot of poetry in the past too.

But the romance is def a major theme - in part their way of exploring the concept of 'romance' from their unknowing aro-spec perspective - which is a bit of A Thing, given that 'respectable' folks don't usually publically speak on ready anything potentially raunchy.

They tend to lean into explorations of power dynamics, fear, and mystery wrapped all into together. Something compelling, like a train crash you just can't look away from. (...similar, in part, to the things im writing about with them lmao). they like to explore on a thematic level of what its like to get lost - in a place, in a person, in what it means to be yourself.

I def think theres some bleed through between their experiences and their writing. Especially if they;ve been particularly annoyed by someone - you may find an annoying antagonists in their next short story with oftly familiar description. Nothing that could ever be directly proven, mind you, but most certainly some potential influences...

...and, well. I don't think they write about Princesses and Knights as much anymore. Some types of fairytales just no longer work for them, and the stories they would want to tell would be far too personal, and would never make it past the censors anyways.

mmmm that tracks! While I wouldnt call Jamie a sellout specifically, they are absolutely molded by the publics expectations, and often dont write neccesarily what they want to write. And thats before getting into the fact that the ministry of public decency has a particular bone to pick with Jamie, oof. Getting their stuff published at all was a struggle for a bit.

And their role as poet laureate came with expectations and tasks as well, along with dragging them further into the demands of high society. So suffice to say, theres a significant heavy hand from various sources influencing what Jamie actually gets around to writing.

#reblogging this too for the character insight #jamie awnings

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@dumpstersoul aight. lets have a little thing about Jamie and being aro-spec.

with Jamie's experience is that they don't know that theyre aro, they dont understand why they do or don't feel specific things, and they don't really get why that is. Complicated further is the fact that they are allosexual, its very easy for them to assume that physical attraction must be the same thing as romantic attraction, right?

and the thing is Jamie loves reading romance stories, they grew up with tales of courtly love and chivalrous knights, and spun away dreaming of what romance is supposed to be. Of how its supposed to feel. Expectations that, at some point, surely they will feel the same way?

and then they never did. Attempts to replicate or pretend or assume that okay, maybe these feelings must be it instead? if they just wait it out? everyone else seems to be able to figure it out, so clearly there must be something wrong with them?

All of this, in turn, bleeds into their writing.

Jamies stories contain a multitude of different angles towards romance. theres many typical explorations of romance in some of them, especially the adventure novels, but over time jamie came to be.... bored, with that.

Combined with their own complicated feelings towards relationships, it became a matter of curosity and exploration to lean more towards complicated and less healthy relationships in their stories. trying to push and pull at the concepts of feelings, of what makes character and relationships tick, what does it actually mean to 'love' someone in the first place

perhaps, if they push at it enough, eventually something will break, and they'll figure out what theyre looking for in all of this

and also, well, its just fun to write more complicated relationships

#it's very early and I can't elaborate properly but this is such an interesting character analysis #as an ace maybe aro person I love reading about different approaches towards romance #and the fact that jamie is an author exploring these themes in their work makes it even more interesting! #jamie awnings

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does edweird even know the pc's name...

#oh NO #poor edward

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just played a chess game against death, poor fucker kept losing. at a certain point i saw him crying so we switched it up to checkers. hes still not beating me but hes not crying anymore so thats nice

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When Sleeve Meets Sleeve....

#shdjfkf #fashion

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the question, you see, is not ‘is it too ooc for this character to cry’ but rather ‘what circumstances would push this character to cry’

this is the whump wisdom, go forth and make that character cry

#it takes a lot for hiram to cry but he 100% cries without realising it #until he does and he has the worst time ever

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#hiramcore

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Afternoon Tea in the Garden of Clarence House, 1897. (x) Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince George, Duke of York later King George V, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess Victoria Melita, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess Mary, Duchess of York later Queen Mary, Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine.

#moodboard

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am i too late to the pinup trend? yes? too bad! woe, twitties be upon ye

less covered, better version below the cut

(i was gonna try and put text on this like "wanna fuck the entire admiralty" but i couldn't get it to work. devastating.)

bonus even more naked version too because why not, i guess 😌

(eye horror below, just in case)

#THIS IS SO COOL HELLOOO #yo ho ho and a bottle of SLAY #the posterr shdjdjfkf #incredible work i love your comicbook-like rendering so much!!! #the way the bandages + hair + fabric flow together is 👌👌👌 #and you're right the better version is truly better 👀 #also I'm proudly reblogging this at 69 notes (nice) hehe #ocs #twitch

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Special sails

We are more familiar with ships that go up to the topgallant sail (t'gallant or t'garns'l), but there are still some special sails that are above it, these are the Royal, the Skysail and above that the Moonraker. Because of the height they reached, these ships were also called skyscrapers, but please do not confuse them with the skyscraper sail, which was hoisted above them in a triangular shape on much larger ships like clipper or steal barques during the 19th and early 20th century.

Royal

A royal is a small sail flown immediately above the topgallant on square rigged sailing ships. It was originally called the "topgallant royal" and was used in light and favourable winds. Royal sails were normally found only on larger ships with masts tall enough to accommodate the extra canvas. Royals were introduced around the turn of the 18th century but were not usually flown on the mizzenmast until the end of that century. It gave its name to a Dutch term for a light breeze-the Royal Sail Breeze or bovenbramzeilskoelte was a Force 2 wind on the Beaufort Scale.

Skysail

In the course of the 18th century (although the first written records do not exist until 1807), skysails began to be hoisted over the Royal, again in good weather and light winds.

Moonraker

The word itself dates back to the 18th century and was the name for a sail that was hoisted directly above the sky sail, and it was only hoisted when there was very little wind, because if the wind was too strong, it would simply tear off.

The Regina Maris, a danish barquentine from 1908 with a watersail ( red circle)

Watersail

A watersail is a sail hung below the boom. It is used mostly on gaff rig boats for extra downwind performance when racing. Often a watersail will be improvised from an unused foresail. Its psychological effects may be more effective than its aerodynamic ones. Surprisingly, its use can be traced back to as early as 1373. Possibly even earlier, since the 12th century.

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The Creditor: hey you're Furnace's guardian, right?

Hiram: what.

The Creditor: I need a bride

Hiram:

#blinking guy dot gif #furnace and hiram have the most neutral relationship he's a little annoying but he's always been helpful they're just working together #but now he's ready to adopt her to back her up against the creditor #you know you fucked up if hiram “red flags” hargrave tells you to stop pursuing your marriage fantasies #i knew about the storyline but I wasn't expecting this to happen so suddenly #like there's no buildup it just happens #fallen london #hiram hargrave

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having online friends is so fun! but watch out! the distinse......

#;-;

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Dress by W Perry, 1911 United Kingdom, the Bowes Museum

Worn at the investiture of the Prince of Wales at Carnaervon in 1911.

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"if you ship this thing it's because you're too naïve to understand that it's toxic and that you wouldn't like a relationship like this" actually it's because I see one of them as a mentos drop and the other as a bottle of coke zero and I want to watch the mess they'll be together

#hehe #hiram x virginia

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oc ask game based on various dictionary dot com words of the day!

desuetude- they’ve made it to the seventh city. what relics of their past in London are they still holding onto?

gallimaufry- what’s their silliest outfit? the most chaotic jumble of items that would make no sense in real life but has excellent stats.

inveterate- is there a habit, good or bad, that they just can’t break?

absquatulate- what does it take to make them run away from a fight?

petrichor- do they have a particular scent?

axolotl- what’s their favorite animal companion?

primordial- what event in their backstory was the most formative to them today?

zetetic- how curious are they? has it led to anything particularly great or horrible happening to them?

subterfuge- would they make a good spy? why or why not?

plethora- do they collect anything?

naïveté- what were they like when they first came to the neath? what brought them there in the first place?

jubilation- what are they like at parties?

mellifluous- can they sing?

propinquity- what is their relationship with their family like? how do they define family?

assuage- is there something that makes them feel better almost every time?

denouement- what is their destiny? do you interpret it differently than what is written in the game text?

#ooh good questions! #i still have 2 old asks in my inbox (I'm very sorry guys) #but if anyone is curious about hiram and doesn't mind a delayed reply my inbox is always open! #oc asks

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@zeebreezin 🤝 ocs called Vincent B. It's a good thing that V Beverley is dead bcus this is Not a conversation that V Bell would get out of unscathed. On that note, because I couldn't stop thinking about it...

Sequencer AU? Treating their anxiety but at what cost 😔

#we lost another one to the sun the sun the sun the sun #ocs