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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 3 months

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ON THE TOPIC OF BARNABY. as well as his relationship with Wally.

So. To kick this off - Riv (@funonion) and I were Speculating, and they introduced me to the johari window:

They put Barnaby in the “facade” section, and I entirely agree. To quote them;

“So he’s Wally’s guide, right? He’s the “knowledgeable” one of the two and is always the one teaching him new things. And you know, it’s one thing if you’re just teaching him how to laugh or how to tell a joke. But.

Clown has given us two doors. One says that Barnaby understands Wally in a way the rest of the neighborhood doesn’t, and is willing to do his dirty work so to speak. The other says that their friendship was not a natural occurring thing and had to be enforced repeatedly within the show. HOW THAT’S BEING ENFORCED IS ANOTHER THING ENTIRELY but it is worth it to note.

What is Barnaby willing to keep? What is he willing to bury for his little buddy? I can’t say anything definitively yet, but the fact that I even have to ask is telling. The class clown archetype is usually used as a way to cover up for something else a character might be experiencing”

And my response, (I won’t directly quote because I have little things in the phrasing & elaboration to add / tweak );

Barnaby being a Comic Relief Character immediately raised so many alarms in my head. I love comic relief characters. They’re always so fucked up in one way or another, and Barnaby is almost certainly SO inauthentic. He’s wearing a comedy mask just as opaque as Wally’s own mask. In everything we’ve seen about him so far he’s either Teaching Wally, wisecracking/joking, or… pretty much nothing else. We got that moment of concern in audio 14-14, but that doesn’t reveal anything beyond genuine care for Wally.

Comedic characters have the best disguises. Their poker faces & ability to deflect is always top tier [and practiced], and just look at comedy-focused actors and entertainers - so many of them have severe issues, either with their mental health or life. From what i’ve observed both in that aspect & with fictional characters, they play it off & work hard to entertain/deflect [one in the same] right up until the end. Sometimes it’s a coping mechanism. Usually it’s both. If they laugh loud enough and make people think they’re lighthearted fools w/ nothing underneath, no one will look any deeper and thus they’re “safe”.

& I’m a little suspicious that Barnaby’s red/orange/yellow spots aren’t naturally those colors. While yes, he could be (in-universe) designed that way to echo Ms. Beagle, there’s a strong possibility that that’s not it. What if he paints them to feel a connection to her, or it’s a physical manifestation of Barnaby covering up his insecurities/issues - what if it’s part of him striving to convince the world that he is what he paints himself as.

The laidback funnyguy with a loving mom and not a problem in the world.

And I mean, Barnaby claims to be a natural blue and I believe him! But the other colors? I’m doubtful

(I was going to include the Cast As Lil Kids Designs in this since Barnaby has all blue spots, but given how early in 2021 it was posted and how there seem to be little discrepancies from the ~official~ designs, I don’t want to provide it as evidence.)

& on the topic of Wally and Barnaby’s relationship being both real and not - disclaimer, this conversation happened before my Updated Thoughts On Them post, so there may be some minor rephrasing here from what I originally said - I’m sure that the relationship started out as inauthentic. Wally was assigned Barnaby as a best friend and technically vice versa, but I don’t doubt for a second that it became real to some extent. Clown wouldn’t treat their relationship outside of “canon” WH stuff the way that he does if they weren’t actually friends. They’ve said that Wally & Barnaby would be friends in every universe (which melts my heart <3 platonic soulmates my beloved <3), so then I have to agree with Riv. what WILL Barnaby do for Wally? I touched on this in the Milk Theory, but especially if Barnaby prides himself on “knowing Wally better than anything else”, what would Barn do to preserve that?

This relates to another conversation we had - Barnaby possibly having abandonment issues. It’s such a choice to have him of all characters be explicitly stated as an orphan. That and while every other Neighbor with a mentioned family have a somewhat large one (Howdy and his gajillion relatives, Julie and her three siblings, Poppy and her crowded tree [note: Eddie has a mentioned mother, but that info is tenuous and who knows if there are other Dears]), Barnaby has also explicitly stated that Ms. Beagle is his only family. That’s it. And farm life can’t be a sociable way to grow up, not with all the chores he must have had and how rural he might have grown up. Barnaby jokes that Home is the “Big Apple”, which could just be a joke - but jokes often come from a place of truth, and Home might be the most populated area Barnaby has lived in. Who’s to say!

Either way, Barnaby was orphaned one way or another, and I don’t doubt that it weighs on him. Especially if his birth parents really did abandon him. That added to a possible life of loneliness… I wonder if he’s latched onto Wally emotionally, which would hit all the painful places if it turns out that my “Barnaby is more attached to Wally than Wally is to Barnaby” theory has merit. Abandonment issues could also strongly back the apparent walls he’s plastered over with circus tent fabric

Back to Barnaby & Wally: the fact that, at present, Barnaby and Wally seem to have the best disguises / strongest masks. That. looking at 14-14, i suspect that Barnaby is excellent at keeping his up, but as soon as Wally’s mask cracks, so does Barnaby’s.

And then there’s the side of their dynamic that we could look at - it seems to be a very multifaceted relationship. The way that Barnaby genuinely cares yet in the 00 Halloween audio Wally was left off to the side and Barnaby was just “checking on him” while socializing (then again, this could be part of Barnaby understanding Wally & respecting his space / Wally wanting a break from that socialization). Barnaby is patient with Wally and yet he seems to sometimes treat Wally as his sidekick / let him fade into the background and yet Barnaby kept checking in on Wally during the 14 bug audios (this last one I could tie into the abandonment issues theory).

Then there’s how Barnaby calls Wally kid & can tend to treat him like one despite both of them being in the same age group. The way that all of this could, in a way, relate to the infantilization of autistic people (no matter how well-meaning or unintentional) & internalized ableism.

Note: Riv pointed out that Barnaby does seem to be doing the best with what he has, and that this can connect to the Johari Window’s blind spot / unknown.

I do agree with this wholeheartedly! And I have to mention that - and making a Very educated guess here - the interactions we’ve seen take place in the very late 60s / very early 70s, so Barnaby’s behavior towards Wally is actually pretty fucking stellar given the time period. We can’t expect him to be perfect or do everything / say everything right. That would be boring I think! And one thing I deeply appreciate about the Neighbors & their dynamics is that they feel like real layered people, not cardboard cutouts being perfect caricatures of what people are “supposed” to be like.

Riv also presented this:

We likely are going to reach a point where Wally asks Barnaby something that he can’t / doesn’t want to / won’t answer. And like.. Ok. This is a slight tangent but I swear it’s related! When I first discovered WH and learned the Wally basics, I wondered two things.

Are we going to watch Wally “discover” new emotions? Because he certainly has them. Clown has said that Wally only ever feels happy, and a lot of people took that to mean that Wally can’t feel anything else. I don’t think we should take that answer at face value, because. I mean. Look at the project & creator we’re talking about. Layers, guys. Indirect direct answers. I think that Clown meant that Wally only ever feels happy in the Neighborhood because he has no reason to feel any negative emotion. Everything is as it should be. Until it isn’t - and I think that’s where he’s going to have to struggle with new emotions as he encounters them through new situations/events unfolding as the “story” starts to deteriorate. We’ve actually seen this a little bit - in Wally’s record audios (i believe the chronological second to last?), the way he says “Let Me In” so insistently. That’s definitely not a positive emotion being expressed.

How will the topic of death be handled - because it will be handled, it’s stated in the project warnings. I was wondering this even before I read the list, because I was presented with a blank slate puppet character and so went “oh fuck, this dude doesn’t know about death, does he?” Obviously I wanted to know how that would go. I want to know how it Will go!

How would Barnaby explain emotions that Wally doesn’t know how to convey? How would Barnaby explain death in a way that Wally would understand - given that Barnaby (& all the Neighbors sans Wally) knows what death is - and would Barnaby be willing to explain such a thing? I have a feeling we may find out.

And in a way, I suspect that if none of them know, Wally will find out himself and have to process it without help. But then again, how can something die if it was never really alive in the first place? Unless the death warning relates to human characters… I’m currently assuming it relates to both humans and puppets.

In conclusion: Barnaby has a carefully fabricated facade, he's doing the best with what he has but it likely won't be enough, and uh. shits fucked!

#AGH I HOPE IM PUTTING THESE POSTS TOGETHER CORRECTLY.#I HAVE TWO DAYS TO WRITE AND POST THEM ALL #but anyway another thing i was wondering in relation to barnaby & wally having an imbalanced relationship was #the possibility of:#howdy < barnaby < wally < home #as in the <[x] character is more important to the [y]< character than [y] is to [x]#because howdy does seem to like barnaby a whole hell of a lot but we don't know if barnaby feels so strongly back #idk. i feel like i might be seeing a little domino line being set up here. and im Nervous <3 #what happens if the first domino falls? who will it be? how hard will it fall.#who's to say if that has any merit i just wanted to mention it! its intriguing to me #(& to be clear since im aware of my laughingstock rep - im not talkin about shippy dominoes)#(i take off the shipping goggles for analysis. howdy can fully cherish barn as a Friend while still being [y]<)#homebogging #welcome home speculation #wh speculation #i feel like i have more in my brain but. im dealing with minor flu symptoms and im exhausted <3 #today was a Lot <3 #so i'll queue this for around 10 & hopefully I'll be awake & with the next post written for you guys!

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cerise-on-top · 2 months

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Heyhey..h um could you write some fluff/comfort with reader x 2bhank? Pretty pls? Like where the reader has been depressed(?)/burnt out for a few months and has been going on less and less missions and one day just refuses to leave their room for one self deprecating reason or another so 2b and hank try making them feel better in their own ways

Very self indulgent request I know but sometimes you gotta give yourself a little treat <:]

Hey! Sorry, I sort of misread this and thought you wanted 2BHank helping a burnt out reader, so I wrote that instead ^^; Again, I'm really sorry about that!

2BHank with a Burnt-Out!S/O

For as dense as Hank could be most of the time, even he can tell that you haven’t been doing too well as of late. At first he’d think you were just sick and needed some time to rest, which meant he would take on the missions you would have gone on otherwise. He was a competent grunt in his field, he could accomplish just about any task given to him. 2B, while he could sense that something was up with you, would let Hank do just that so you could recover a bit. He didn’t think you were just sick, he somehow could feel that it was something worse, something that wouldn’t go away by just letting you rest for a few days, but he left it at that. After all, you did go on missions again, some with Hank, Sanford or Deimos, some on your own. However, at some point, you just hid away from everyone, shying away from the dim light of the sun as well. Hank wanted to see you, he really did, but you wouldn’t open your door. Why? Were you doing alright? It was obvious you had been “sick” again as of late, but even he stopped buying it at some point. While he wouldn’t be too concerned about your physical wellbeing, you could handle yourself in a fight, he’d kick the door in anyway to see if you were there in the first place.

Lo and behold, you were in your room after all, lying under the blanket, not moving, merely sighing as you heard the door fall. Polite as he could be, Hank picked up the door and leaned it against the wall before walking up to you and sitting down on your bed. He’s not usually one for too much talk, but he would ask you what’s wrong, why you didn’t open the door and why you’ve been “sick” so often as of late. He won’t judge you, but he just wants to know the reasons. When you tell him you’ve simply been burnt out on it all, he wouldn’t know what you mean. Hank genuinely doesn’t know what burnout is, so you’d have to explain it to him. But even then, I don’t think he’d really understand the gravity of the situation. You’re tired? Then take some time off. He tries, but it’s not that simple.

The open door would catch 2B’s attention and he’d enter to check up on you, involving himself in the conversation as well. He, too, would ask you how you’ve been feeling and what has been the matter. When you tell him you’re pretty sure you’re burnt out, he’ll sit down on the bed and ask you how he could help. He may not be an expert by any means, but at the very least he knows that this will likely be something that will last a long time. Although he may not be too happy about that, he won’t push you to be better immediately. Will also explain the situation to Hank, whose gears have started turning. If you know how they can help you, that’s great. There’s no one solution that fits all. A few people at S.Q. have been burnt out from all the missions they had to go on, so you’re definitely not the first.

2B will let you rest for the time being. If you ever feel up to it, then he’ll send you on a small mission that doesn’t involve too much danger, such as picking something up from a vendor. However, he won’t have you fight for your life while you’re burnt out, those tasks will be left to Hank and the others. 2B will also be checking up with you more often. He’s not the best with his words when it comes to more emotional things, but he tries. Will comfort you to the best of his ability and won’t stress you out about all those things. You need rest, that much is obvious, so he’ll let you have just that. S.Q. will continue to perform. If anyone ever talks badly about you, then they’ll be sent to him and will have a stern talking to. No one will talk shit about you as long as he has something to say about it. Overall, he’ll be very compassionate about it all. If you need something from him, he’ll give it to you, just give him the word.

When it comes to slowly reintroducing you to small things, it will actually be Hank who does that. He just really wants to spend time with you and 2B, but you’ve been so distant as of late. But he remembers 2B’s words and won’t force you to do anything, but will ask you if you’re up for something small. This might start out with something along the lines of playing cards or board games with him. If you say yes he’s actually over the moon and his metaphorical tail will start wagging. Slowly, he’ll bring you more and more things to do. New things for you to try, and old things you used to enjoy before you got burnt out. Naturally, there’s no pressure from his side, he just really wants to have an excuse to spend time with you. And if you simply do something along the lines of knitting while he’s sitting on the floor, just watching you, then he’s content.

Overall, neither of them will blame you for what happened. In fact, they’ll try to help you to get better again. If you ever just want the two of them to stay with you, then you can ask them to. Of course, if they’re going on a mission, then they won’t have too much time to cuddle with you. However, you’re more than welcome to call on either, or both, of them to just get something off your chest as well, they’re more than happy to listen. 2B and Hank just wanna see you smile again. If it takes a lot of time, then so be it, but they both just hope things will go back to how they used to be. They’ll both do just about anything for you, so don’t be afraid to ask them for anything at all, you’ll likely get it eventually.

#madness combat #madness combat x reader #madness combat doc #doc x reader #hank j wimbleton #hank j wimbleton x reader #2bhank x reader #got to learn a thing or two about burnout today which was nice #now I have a better understanding of it than I did before #again I'm really sorry for misreading your request!!#it's nice to have another madcom request though it's been a while since the last one #I do like cod a lot but sometimes it's nice to have some variety #sometimes I'm also curious about what fandom will come after cod #because cod came after Madness Combat #my fixations usually last for roughly a year before I move onto something new #so I have another three or four months of cod before I get into something new. probably #I was really into madcom for roughly one year. like really really into it #even now I really like it and am looking forward to another episode #I wonder if I'll be writing this many requests for the new fandom as well #well only one way to find out

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lit-in-thy-heart · 10 months

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been trying out a new writing technique recently and it's called chilling tf out and reminding myself that fic is written for fun.

#making a little joke but also being genuinely serious #with my merwaincelot wip i've embraced having little overviews in brackets for what i want to happen #but idk how to write it just yet #if i'm feeling stuck or bored #and if i'm getting tired or the idea of writing an ending is getting overwhelming then i just call it a day and do something else #and yeah it's taking longer to write things (perhaps gone are the days when i wrote and posted a fic in the same night)#but it's working wonders with my brain #and it's amazing how as soon as i relax i get hit with several new ideas #just trying to adjust my thinking in that projects over a long period of time are not something to worry about #like i'm also planning a knitting project that i'll be doing well into september #(mainly bc yarn is expensive and my needs are hella specific)#but that's okay!#not everything has to be done and dusted immediately!#i'm glad i took a break from writing and i think it did do me good but damn i'm happy to be back #and enjoy still learning how to get even more out of my hobby #but anyway i'm just feeling a lil proud of myself today so #lit talks #personal

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ell-arts · 8 months

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Baby Tears

He didn't understand.

The mute mutterings, the mourning eyes, the cold tears.

The black suits and gowns, the tolling chapel's bell, or the sadness on his aunt's face.

All this grief and heartache.

It confused him. His young, naïve, 7-year-old mind couldn't understand it at all.

Couldn't understand the weight and meaning of the funeral.

Or the not-funeral. The adults sometimes called it a memorial. Not that he knew the difference.

He's heard the people speak. Heard them whisper and mourn. Listened with only half an ear to the priest's honourings.

Words of empathy overlapped. A hymn of condolences, speeches, and formal utterances.

Above the lull and sway of confusing words, only one phrase had stuck to him.

"Missing and never found."

The service ended, and friends and family stuck around for one last vigil.

Little blue eyes searched the crowd, looking for the familiar face of his aunt. A man held his little hand, a friend of theirs, keeping him from wandering off.

He spotted his aunt back over at the memorial, littered with photos and candles. He nearly didn't recognise her usually chipper face behind the mask of thinly veiled tears.

The yellow boy tugged at the man's hand, wanting to go over to her. Blue eyes looked up when the man didn't budge.

"I'm sorry, little lad," the green man intoned, the sadness in his own voice muffled by the rain. "Your auntie just needs some space."

The boy's only response was a saddened pout, gazing over at his aunt again. At her despondent figure, kneeling above a picture of two faces he could hardly recognise anymore.

"Auntie Spheria," the little boy murmured that evening back at their home.

"When are they coming back?"

She had gone numb, frozen in her step. Halfway from reaching for the pan in the cupboard, dinner barely prepared.

In her limp silence, she didn't answer him. Couldn't answer him from behind the fresh look of heartbreak on her face.

The little boy's face fell. He had made her sad again.

Little feet trudged over to her side, and the young orb tucked himself under his aunt's arm, wrapping his arms around her waist. Giving comfort, while also seeking comfort.

The kitchen held its breath. A dreary silence.

A warm hand tucked the little boy closer, holding him as though to protect him from the weight of his unanswered questions. His aunt swallowed a sob.

He won't understand. The little boy wouldn't understand for a very long time.

That his mother and father have been missing for years.

And may never come back.

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becca-e-barnes · 2 years

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BECCAAA Ive been thing about a concept of Bucky using pre-workout before sex and this man just going for HOURS. I could just imagine him being a cocky bastard about it and using us like a doll. He's an enhanced super soldier too so if you think your "normal sessions" were long then then again because its just non stop cardio.

This is the way I want to die 💳💥💳💥💳💥

God no, okay, I'm going to overshare but I've always found orgasms are so much more intense after taking pre-workout. I used to be really into weights training so that was usually how I'd reward myself after leg day. Epitome of "make your own legs shake if no one else is doing it for you" 🙃

And that made me think about what would happen if you both took pre-workout before sex? And the first time he makes you cum, he notices just how intense it is for you.

Like maybe you're underneath him, not able to do anything but take the punishing thrusts he's giving you. His head is right down in the crook of your neck, kissing and nibbling, worrying your skin between his teeth while he moans out his pleasure.

"Oh shit, right there." You gasp, desperately clawing at your partner's back as he nails your little sweet spot perfectly with every frantic thrust. You hear him chuckle proudly, his breath hot on your neck.

"Just like that, sweetheart? You need daddy to fuck you nice and hard?" He's so confident but fuck, he's not wrong. It's exactly what you need.

"Y-yes, fuck. Oh God, I'm gonna cum." You sob, your fingertips digging in to the small dimples on his lower back.

"Cum for me, princess. Cum on daddy's dick." He props himself up on his elbow, his eyes trained on your face because this is a sight that he never likes to miss.

His thrusts don't relent. He's learned over time that when you tell him not to stop, he really shouldn't.

"Daddy, fuck." You groan, your legs trembling as your orgasm takes over. You feel your body clench and tighten in a way you're not quite used to. The intensity is overwhelming in the very best way. You feel the burning arousal creep up your spine, spreading right to the tips of your fingers. It's the most unrestrained kind of pleasure and Bucky knows it.

"Fuck kitten, you trying to make me bleed?" He smirks, fucking you through your high. You hadn't really noticed the way you'd been scratching at his back, desperately trying to pull him ever closer.

"You've gone so fucking stupid. That's cute. I'm not nearly done with you though. I want to feel that pretty pussy gushing for me." Before you have a chance to catch your breath, he has a hand around your neck, squeezing gently.

"Cum again. Right fucking now." He's smug because he knows you will. He's more than able to drag another orgasm from you and his thrusts are giving you no other option.

"M-make me." You stutter, letting out a pathetic moan when his lips ferociously collide with your own.

"I was hoping you'd say that."

#asks answered <3 #anon #becca writes spice #I have 'touch tank' by quinnie stuck in my head #what a bop #and 'dustland fairytale' by the killers #so different vibes #today on the list of things I wrote on my lunch break on a train: this #trying to force myself to eat the grossest protein bar #Bc I'll be eating really late tonight and I missed breakfast and lunch #And then I wonder why I'm grumpy

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kimmkitsuragi · 9 days

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help me my mom is shipping me with some random chinese man whom i helped buying tickets

#it's crazy. knowing english and helping random foreigners is my passion #also so many things happening. i should write that fucking article when i get home lmfao #if my laptop wont fail me (i think she's fine now????? hopefully????)#but also like. I'll get to that tomorrow probably.#you know what i wanna do? if my laptop wont fail me i wanna play my fuckin game lmao #but idk if i should or if i will have time when i get home etc etc #also one more thing i look so freaking ugly in biometric photos im gonna sjjsnsndhdhfhhf #anyway if it works out i will have another photo next year so im trying not to let it get to me lmao #alsoooo just yesterday got accepted by a school in finland and today got a reply from one in germany #and they want me to take an exam in july lmao???? girl how tf will i get a visa etc with that timeline #anyway. ughhhhhh so many things happening etc #i wonder how my next months will be like. ok bys #bye*#🗒

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novelconcepts · 5 months

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i don't make resolutions, but if i did

it would be to finish this fic

(and to be kind to myself for however long it takes to actually do so)

#i'm finishing it if it kills me #i know i've been writing this makeout scene for 3 weeks but baby that can't last forever #if we want to get deep and dark and serious for a second i do think a lot of my struggles to write lately have to do with engagement #and how incredibly low engagement has been on the last few things i've written #which like. is what it is. i'm not entitled to anybody's time or comments or kudos.#but when you write stuff you're proud of and it feels like it's barely getting read it's hard to keep momentum.#this isn't intended as a woe is me or whatever it's just kind of like. there. hovering.#happens enough times you start to wonder if it's you. am i just writing for the wrong fandom/ship?#(too bad if so. they're in my bones i'm writing for them and no one can stop me.)#but yeah. if you ever wonder if authors do care or notice about hits. comments. kudos. buddy i am here to tell you #not only do we care and FLOURISH we also notice when those things drop off and readers vanish #and it is a giant bummer. and sometimes makes us wildly paranoid about why that might have happened.#so if you liked a fic today--not even one of mine. just. anybody's. share it. comment on it.#kudos at the VERY least (cuz frankly kudos is there to be an 'i got to the end and this was nice' feature.#so when you get 500 hits and only like 30 kudos? it feels like 470 of those people hated your work)#anyway. that got out of hand. lil' too raw lil' too honest. happens when you let yourself ramble at 11:30 instead of sleeping #to sum: let your local fic writer know if they've made you happy #and as we go into 2024 i am swearing to myself that this fic (and probably several others) are getting finished #come hell. high water. or dishearteningly low engagement numbers.#(and then maybe we...actually work on something original. cuz why not. new year same old me but i'll do my best.)

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aphelea · 1 year

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It appears that I may have been a dumbass

#i just realized that monday is Tomorrow #i have. a massive exam that i haven't studied for whatsoever #y'all quick what's an integral. because i feel like i don't actually know <- i probably do i'm just stress panicking. maybe #damn i really thought it was saturday today #everything's fine everything's great everything's wonderful everything's awesome (hopefully)#you know what who needs taylor series anyway. im so close to being free of this class i cant fucking wait #shouldve made a tag for this given how often it happens. somethignn like arjuns calc stressing or somethin #gah. agh. ahhhhhhhhh #august rambles #one more day and then i swear i'll finish every fic i promised to write and then didn't

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galacticlamps · 2 years

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Random thought of the day: sure, if Jamie had been a character on the show in the reboot instead of the original run, he’d probably be more firmly categorized in a lot of ways that dispense with his lovely 60s ambiguity - but also, he’d almost certainly have theme music that was brimming with fiddles and pipes and had slow tender parts and more action-y fast-paced badass parts, and sometimes you’d hear it when he wasn’t even onscreen yet and know some stuff was about to go down

#jamie mccrimmon #look #sometimes you just have a long day and deal with it by wondering what murray gold would've done with a bagpipe okay?#how many big anniversaries do we have to hit before the bbc makes theme music for all the classic companions that never had any?#take whatever they were gonna contribute to future animations and just do that instead please #i'll go write a petition up #(also to be clear i really enjoy the soundscapes of the 60s series already)#(i am just. so curious what they'd do musically for some of those characters today)

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hl-obsessed · 5 months

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#didn't have louis birthday edit idea #and was going to just reblog yall wonderful edits and celebrate like that #but then i woke up to soon and go back to sleep for a little while longer #and my fucking brain insted of fully sleeping got stuck somewhere between and tried to play fucking poet #it though that what he created was sick and now i'm tied as fuck #i scribbled down whatever i could remember for louis' wishes trying to make it sound at least half how good my brain did before #and i get the idea for edit fitting the wishes #i'm gonna try to do it today #i hope it will be as good as o'm imagining it #a little christmas magic? please?#but it's first day of christmas here #and things going to be wild #and i'm already on the line even taking time to write this down #but like #i need some positive thing at the begging on the day #before i'm gonna hve to deal with all the yelling and no needed fucking rush #so cheers yall have a great day because i probably won't have (as every fucking year) until i get drunk at the end of it #this time at lest i'll get thoughts of happy louis my my mind to get me through it

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acaciapines · 6 months

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OH OKAY FAIR FAIR so how do palistrom trees bond to witches! How do they find their dæmons in this universe

How many palismen are carved out of one tree? Or is it just one? Because if it's multiple then that makes me think about them all loving all their witches and that fills my heart (reply via @nelvana)

combining these bc we'll get to the same answer...

so!!! this is! a very long answer actually i have so much lore about palistrom trees. im not going to tell you EVERYTHING here, since a lot of stuff you'd learn over the course of the fic, but i will tell you the stuff that is known pretty early on. under a cut bc i was not lying about the answer being long

for one: witches dont have daemons! witches have palismen, which superficially are similar to the daemons humans have but theres quite a few differences. surface-level differences are that palismen and witches dont have a range until they settle (so, they can go any amount of distance from each other and be fine), palismen have it a lot easier when it comes to changing forms (a daemon has to see the animal they want to turn into in person, a palisman can just see a picture or see another palisman being it), and palismen settle around 18-19 compared to daemons 12-13.

but the INTERESTING differences comes in with palistrom trees!

the thing that makes a witch different from a demon is that witches have palismen, and demons have Something Else. so, humans would be classified as demons, for example. (also witches are literally just very specialized demons shhhh). the way a witch gets a palisman is from a palistrom tree! wow.

when a witch baby is born, before the birth, the parent will feel an urging to travel to one of the palistrom trees. trees tend to be familial, so baby will probably share a tree with one or both of their parents, but not always. palistrom trees are limited in the number of witches they can support, which is usually how a baby gets a tree different from their parents--palistrom trees are connected via root networks and are capable of communicating amongst themselves, so a tree might say 'hey. one of my witches is having a baby and im out of room. please help.' and a neighboring tree is like 'do not even worry i GOT YOU,' and baby is born.

if there are no available palistrom trees baby is either miscarried or stillborn, based on how far along things are. trees CAN stretch themselves to support more witches to a certain extent but it does hurt them in the long run.

once at this tree baby will be born and WHEN baby is born, a part of the palistrom tree will break off, and become the baby's palisman.

palistrom trees grow out of Titan's Blood (concentrated Dust), and thus incorporate that Dust into their treestuff. so, a palisman is literally made out of treestuff, which has a Lot of Dust in it. this is another thing that makes them different from daemons--daemons are made out of only Dust, and so daemons dont actually appear until a human baby is a few months old (baby needs to create enough dust to shape into their daemon--little babies are followed around by Dust that becomes visible as a golden blob when theres enough of it, and by a few months they have enough Dust for the daemon to take physical form). palismen are with their witches from the start!

once born, the witch-palisman pair is not actually like, bound to their tree in the same way they are bound to each other. while the death of a witch or palisman will kill the other half, the death of a palistrom tree will NOT kill the witches attached to it, though they will feel its death as a loss. instead palistrom trees are more like...matriarchs? like, sources of knowledge and love and help if youre struggling--for example if a witch is hungry palistrom trees can give food, they can give their wood for homes or things like that, and in return the witch and palisman will nurture and care for the tree, allowing it to grow Even Bigger (these things can grow to be. massive)

historically witches tended to set up shop around their palistrom trees which is why towns tend to have palistrom trees at the center, and these places were very much community spaces--palistrom trees are very, VERY long lived (like, thousands of years, long lived), and they have no natural predators (basilisks were the only beings that preyed on them and they were. lets just say. wiped out </3 except vee hi vee my love vee. but basilisk lore is another thing lol) and while a sapling can only support like, 2-5 witches, the oldest trees can support thousands.

new palistrom trees grow out of places with high concentrations of dust, typically graveyards (another thing about palismen--they dont burst into dust when they die, they leave behind the body! that decomposes! and this dust breaks down in the dirt, and when theres enough of it....), and they're saplings for a really really long time. other palistrom trees will send resources to the sapling and witches will do the same in tending for them.

palistrom trees communicate to their witches in Vibes that witches and palismen understand as words. palistrom trees are also capable of adopting witches that were not born from them, or non-witches. trees can communicate amongst themselves, too. a witch-palisman pair isnt exactly connected to other witches who share their palistrom tree but its more like that sense of community. like, these are Your People, to a certain degree.

a lot of how ive written palistrom trees is inspired by studies done into like, tree communication and how trees can share resources and information with each other via chemical cues, just. yknow. magicked-out.

and that. should? answer the question? or create Many More so do feel free to ask for me to elaborate on something if youve got those!!!! i love these silly trees!!! they are so good!

#ask #the owl house #toh #i write #one day i'll make a tag for this au but not today lol #also yes i have a lot of lore for these trees. this isnt even all of it #just the stuff we either find our early on or isnt too much of a spoiler!!#more fun fact a huge chunk of belos's plan is cutting down palistrom trees hmmmm i wonder what that does w all this new lore #:3 #and a grove of palistrom to you

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fiepige · 6 months

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CHAPTER 4!!!

Summary:

“HOLY SH-” Miles and Gwen simultaneously turned to cover Pav’s mouth so as to not alert the creature in the middle of the carnage below them. The creature either didn’t hear him or it was too preoccupied with whatever it was doing. To his regret Miles soon realized what that was, as another wet snapping noise broke the silence once more. The creature was crouched down on all fours over what Miles assumed was the body of an officer, though it was so mutilated that it was hard to tell for sure. Its head was buried into the chest of the body beneath it, another wet snapping noise emerging as it pulled out a couple of ribs between its bloodied jaws... Or The Spider-Gang goes looking for Hobie. They don’t like what they find.

Chapter 4 of my Venom!Hobie fic is here! 💜💜💜

#first time we get hobie's pov in this fic!!!!#Decided to split this chapter into two parts so this chapter is a bit short #but at least it's out sooner this way #I just felt like it fir the tone better to end this chapter here #honestly writing hobie is what I dreaded the most about this fic (after my grammar that is)#cause I've seen so many people complain about how people write him #but once again I'll only get better if I practice and get input if I did anything wrong so here goes nothing #I really dreaded editing this chapter but it went much smoother than I thought so I'm happy about that #I just wonder if I'm being too vague/not vague enough about how the symbiote is affecting his mind!#cause in my mind it's all perfectly clear but that doen't ensure it's clear in my writing lol #hopefully people will let me know if something doesn't make sense so I can elaborate on it <3 #it's once again way past midnight as I post this so I'm off to bed now lol #I'm so tired but I wanted to post this chapter today so here you are <3 #hobie brown #spider punk #Venom!Hobie #miles morales #spider man #gwen stacy #spider gwen #pavitr prabhakar #spider man india #across the spider verse #atsv #spiderverse #across the spiderverse #spiderman across the spiderverse #my fic #my post

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reginrokkr · 9 months

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Summer vacations are drawing to an end tomorrow and Monday will be the beginning of the last semester before I start a traineeship in a pharmacy. From what I heard, the content will be more packed and taught in a more reduced amount of time than it would be usually done, so I have no guarantees of how fast or slow I'll be busy studying for mid-terms and eventually finals and I have no intentions to lower my grades from the bar I've set last year. Because of the future time restrictions and for my sake of sparing myself some trouble I never liked even when I had more free time, I want to address a couple of tendencies I've observed people do:

✦ If you're someone who isn't against posts of the kind "like this if you want to still be mutuals" and foresees posting one of them in the future: Know that I never partake in those. Since the moment I follow you, it's because I have a genuine interest in interacting with you and I don't desire to subject myself to the "what if I may not make it through the selection", specially not after catching the gist of what makes me uncomfortable in RP and having made the effort to stay away from all of it and as someone who unfollows without public warning via a post if there is something that make me want to unfollow someone.

✧ For those who move blogs: Know that I suck at following up with this for the most part and, similarly as the above case, if I follow you it's because I want to continue interacting with you even if you're moving your blog to a fresh one for any reasons you may have. Following that line of thought and thinking about what I'd do when moving blogs (which is to follow again the blogs I was following and / or do a selection in case the amount of blogs I followed was overwhelming to me, thus a reason I've seen often in people who move blogs), if someone does this and I'm not followed from the new blog I take it as a lack of interest from the other person to continue the RP partnership, so it feels like I'm intruding if I follow said blog again.

At any rate, and while I don't do this, if any of you would like to keep in touch with me even if via Discord (I learned to do better on that front too where it made me uncomfortable or even upset sometimes these past couple of weeks), I can put it at your disposal via IM if you ask.

#◟༺✦༻◞ what lays behind the mantle of faux stars ┊ooc.┊#there are a few situations in RP #that feel kind of silently aggressive to me #and the first case is one of them #I never liked them and I still don't #anyway I'll make sure to catch up with old messages #finish polishing that post of altering Dain's background #and write as much as I can also between today and tomorrow specially #hope you peeps have a wonderful weekend!

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