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[luxstring]

ramshackle dorm uniform WIP

I did these last night but it's still not finished. Not sure if I like it or have some things change. [The butterfly coat is a reference to Yen Sid's butterfly illusion in the Disney animation, Fantasia: the sorcerer's apprentice]

I can't really decide which hat I like better honestly. One is a witches hat kinda like Yen Sid's pointy hat, while the other two are similar to the ghosts hat in ramshackle.

#twst #twisted wonderland #disney twst #ramshackle dorm #twst ramshackle #—⋄ luxstring is working

[marrondrawsalot]

I made a new bitch bastard son of a bitch

this is your new hates bitch bastard because it’s the second time I design one. Or third. *checks files* fourth.

1) Cult leader

2) Dival

3) Disaster (okay this is a bit with me and @adrianasunderworld for the Crowley clan so tldr: Darling supposed partner to wed but dukes it out for nightmare magic)

I won’t name this fucker but he is the dread in Fellow mind. Because this asshole always been a powerful person, in social life and fortune. He always been working a worse business and he sure hell knows how to keep his minions on his side or they join the cattle. He knew Fellow weakness. And softly threatens Fellow life to build him a fortune. Or to lose the one thing that kept him sane.

For the magical girl au: he be a total asshole to anyone. Not just to his minions, even his Disney counterpart or any villains.

So please. PUNT HIS ASS INTO THE SUN

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[shinysparklesapphires]

Aug 7 to August 20th

"The kirapati is open for buisness!"

How this event will work:

This is an art request event

Submit an oc along with a color to go with them, and you'll get to work with sapphire and Navi at the kirapati!

This event will also include 4 panel comics ft Navi and Sapph!

Tags: (mainly just my mutuals) @i-like-forgs @twistwonderlanddevotee

@officialdaydreamer00 @azulashengrottospiano

@cyath @luxstring

#twst oc #Kirapati open for business!

[preserving-ferretbrain]

Lack Luxstre

by Wardog

Monday, 15 December 2008

Wardog is yet again judging books by their covers in her review of The Luxe.~

I should probably set up a new Fb Theme for "books I have judged by their covers" although actually I can only think of

Maledicte

and this one. I picked up The Luxebecause it was breath-catchingly beautiful. Just look at that dress. Wouldn't you just die for a dress like that? Which is kind of ironic really because The Luxe opens with a funeral.

The Luxe is a piece of young adult fluff, and although it doesn't actually have much to recommend it beyond the cover, I somehow found myself reading it anyway. It's basically Gossip Girl via Edith Wharton, or it tries to be. It's set in fin de siecle New York and, although the author has clearly done her research, the sense of period evoked - rather like the book itself - is ultimately superficial. Despite the clothes and manners and the social setting, its characters are all 21st century boys and girls at heart. In her ending notes to the book Godberson explicitly says she chose to use modern dialogue and prose, rather than mimicking the style of the times, in order to keep the text lively and accessible; and, for the most part, this works (although it irritates me, personally - stop saying "is all" for God's sake) but the fact that it extends to actions as well as speech only exposes the fact that The Luxe is all style and no substance. The setting is mere, if opulent, distraction from the unoriginality of everything else going on in the book.

As I have said, The Luxe opens with the funeral of society beauty, Elizabeth Holland and then leaps helpfully back in time to cover the events immediately preceding her tragic demise. There is, a plot, as such: lovers are star-crossed, bitter rivals clash, hearts flutter and machinations are enacted. But the entire plot is so tear-inducingly obvious from the get-go that it makes reading the book little more than an exercise in joining the dots. Elizabeth is in love with the coachman, Will Kellerman (get a clue, girl, he's the coachman, have some standards!), but has to marry the oh-so-rich-and-handsome Henry Schoonmaker to save her family from financial ruin. Diana, her younger sister, seems to developing rather a tendre for Mr Schoonmaker too, and the tarty daughter of the local nouveau-riche, Penelope, also wants him. Oh noes! What will they do?! However will Elizabeth reconcile duty and twue wuv! The characters fall into the usual archetypes-ahem-stereotypes: Elizabeth Holland is blonde-haired, beautiful, good, compassionate, gentle, obedient, blah blah blah. Her younger sister, Diana, is a free-spirited brunette who chafes against society's restrictions blah blah blah blah. There's Penelope Hayes the slutty schemer. There's Henry Schoonmaker the gorgeous jock-I-mean-rake. And the usual assortment of parents who just don't understand. And some other equally generic people who I can't be bothered to recount here.

There's no excuse for Elizabeth Holland. Given that she's as wet as a pirate's hankie, she'd probably be a semi-decent portrait of a circa 1890s girl, if she didn't nevertheless do a handful of utterly 21st century things - like bonking the coachman, for example. Now, I know they're in love for reasons that never quite become clear to the reader (this great love having been established far in advance of the beginning of the book) but I can't believe that a properly brought up New York debutante would throw away her virginity (her only real asset) on a common servant. Elizabeth does get round to taking some action / some responsibility later in the book but only having whimpered and fluttered her way through most of it. The (dis)advantage of having such a thoroughly unlikeable heroine did mean that I warmed to the other, equally ineptly drawn, characters rather more than I might have done otherwise. Diana, despite being feisty-by-numbers, is actually kind of charming and her gradually unfolding relationship with Henry was rather nice to watch. I also found myself like Penelope Hayes. Even though she has one character trait (she is the Bad Girl), the fact she couldn't stand Elizabeth endeared her to me.

I managed to get over the language after a couple of chapters, but I couldn't get over the behaviour of the characters. All the girls in the book are far too free and easy with their reputations - sneaking off at all hours to have assignations with various men in green houses and stables and even in their own apartments. In fact, virtue is treated with such casual disregard by everybody that it's hard to take Diana's frustration with the constrictions of her world seriously. We're told repeatedly that they live under scrutiny in a world dominated by social mores but we never see it influencing or curtailing behaviour in the slightest and, thus, it doesn't seem real.

The Luxe is basically a shallow, unoriginal, ill-conceived book but ... well ... there's also something about that makes it oddly readable, even pleasant. I know I'm not the target audience and so I'm likely being harsher on it than it deserves but given that I have read some truly life-changing, beautifully written YA fiction recently I don't think the fact it is targeted at teenagers is an excuse for its deficiencies. I do wonder if it's partially just Godberson hitting her stride (another Luxe novel is already in the works and the cover is

equally fabulous

) because the fact I kept on reading must say something beyond exposing the fact I might be some kind of literary masochist. Her prose style is so bland and inoffensive (bar the occasional clunker: "he could feel the life of quiet gentility already rolling out before him, like the endless manicured lawns on which so many narcoleptic garden parties had been held..." - now maybe I'm being pedantic but can you have a narcoleptic garden party?) that it goes down like Heinz tomato soup and there's something quite comforting in knowing exactly what you're getting. I don't exactly recommend The Luxe (although the clips from various in-text documents between chapters are cute) but, I guess if it was the sort of thing you were looking for, it's approaching competent within the limitations it sets for itself.

#Ferretbrain #The Luxe #Wardog #Young Adult

[marrondrawsalot]

New idea for the racing event au or just school racing. I decided. HOW ABOUT THE TEAMS GET THW COOLEST RACING INSTRUCTORS

that’s fucking right. Twist Lightning McQueen the the entire radiator springs!

Before NRC gets to making their cars. They meet the man who is their instructor for racing. Because this racing event will take over around the world. But they need to get a memo from the best.

This will take a lot of my brain so yeah!

We have Bolt Wicker. The fastest racer and compassionate racer! He has been racing at his high school years until he participated in the racing competition and rose his way to the top by steady training and working on his own car to meet the rules standards. He decided to make a racing program to help students learn to properly race and boost his friends business. He had a phone line for schools to contact him to help mentor their racer passionate students and this man answered Crowley’s the second he heard the hotline picked up. So he told Crowley to send his selected students to his race tracks and bought 7 or 8 cars to fit the selected students taste. Since it’s dorm wardens theme event. THIS MAN PREPARED THEIR CARS EXACTLY THEIR PERSONALITIES AND WHAT CARS THEY CAN RACE WITH

Bolt: yeah. I had to fine tune the engines, get my buddies to maintain the paintwork. And asked my crew which has to use. But I think they look amazing.

The dorm wardens + Yuu/ur ocs too: AND THIS WAS DONE IN A WEEK?!

Bolt: yeah. We had teamwork-

NRC wardens - Kalim and Yuu: say what-

Kalim: awww!!! That’s so sweet! WE SHOULD TRY THAT

Bolt is a lovable himbo but he’s a Smart Case for racing and proper team building. And also a huggable goof.

He has tanlines on his face but he is pale skin and natural blonde with red streaks and azure blue eyes. I will slam a beauty mark on that face and boom. Done. You get Bolt. He be around mid twenties or early twenties.

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#twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland oc #marron ocs #twst oc #Twst au #Race Around the world of Wonderland #Bolt Wicker

[marrondrawsalot]

I couldn’t help myself and decided to make a self insert. But here’s the fun twist I had was. Basically Crowley legit didn’t focus on me and I got bored to wonder out of NRC and then boom. I got taken in by Fellow and Giddel. So now I work for Playful Land as the guide attendant.

The spirals are just contacts for laughs and normal eyes are fair.

Me: *bored*

Also me: make my self insert a previous Yuu but gets lost and joined the fucking circus playful land and also gets away using my nickname and not using my real one so the faes can’t control me

Shit I forgot to add like the extra makeup on me

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#twisted wonderland #marron draws #twst #Marron in Wonderland #I’m a pussy to actually do self inserts so it’s mostly why you don’t see like one fanart of myself because I just don’t. #but for ffs I finally do one. #also in Crowley defense #self insert fanart #Marron is still mentally panicking

[marrondrawsalot]

I made another Twst black Butler base oc and im making you guys figure him out completely

Name: Mortimer Stone

Age: 25/27ish(?)

Occupation: use his name to guess his position

Role: Ciel legal guardian back up

Nicknames: (this can help you)

- Creepy Smiles

- Mr. Humor

- Weirdo

- Crack head

Allies:

- Dalmetia family

- Skoll Knox

- Fiona Garten (also her guardian at the care of NRC)

Enemies: ????

Hobbies: taking photo graphs and weaving thread

Pet Peeves: no humor

Likes:

- the dark

- the dead staying dead

- insane classical

Dislikes:

- the dead to return

- bad zombie movies

- *looking at Vincent*

Twist: 🥁

Info: Mortimer works along side the Dalmetia family as their photographer before. Until he changed his job to something he deeply familiar with. But he congratulated Ciel for guessing his real nature. He enjoys the dead silence of the night. And he also knew Ciel knows what his real occupation is

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Whoever Can Guess it right just fucking knows exactly what I did

#twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland oc #marron ocs #twst oc #Mortimer Stone