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bones4thecats · 5 months

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can I have Poseidon, Hades and Qin, separately.

it's about how they saw their lover/wife been killed right in front of them by mad man/god.

but then in Valhalla, they saw you once again. reincarnate, your colouring might be different from before. but a husband/lover, will always can tell their significant other.

once the two of you marry again. the wife reveal she remember her past life with them.

husband vow will always protect you and will always find you.

A/N: This was a ton of fun to write about, honestly, I kinda leaned into something like with the real myth of Shiva's wives, as they were all the same woman just reincarnated. This was a very long request to write, but I hope it was what you wanted. Anyways, enjoy~~

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🔱 You and Poseidon had been together for centuries, as the God and Goddess of the Sea and Sea Life respectively

🔱 You were the only person Poseidon ever truly loved, and he swore on your wedding day to protect you from anything that tried harming you

🔱 But it broke that day

🔱 Poseidon had to attend a meeting with his brothers and he decided to leave you at the palace with guards around every corner of the building, protecting you, though he'd prefer it being himself

🔱 He was listening to Zeus speak about the newest human arrivals that may pose a threat when one of Poseidon's nymphs had broke open the door, tears streaming down her face as blood was coating her hands

" Lord Poseidon, your S/O! They needs help, now! "

🔱 Hades, Adamas, and Zeus stood up in shock and began to run with him back to his home, scared on what had happened to you, their precious S/O-in-law

🔱 Seeing your bloody body scared him more than anything, you had a deep stab wound through your bodies, and by what he and the others knew, you were done for

🔱 Hearing you promise to marry him again in your next life made him start crying, and when he felt your last breath grace his face, all of Valhalla could hear the Tyrant of the Sea crying for the love of his life

🔱 It took a while, but he accepted the fact that you weren't going to return to him, death was irreversible, and no matter your promise, he knew it couldn't come true

🔱 Poseidon was walking through his kingdom underneath the ocean and when he walked to where you both would rest together after a long day, he froze and glared when he saw someone sitting there, in your spot

" Mortal, step aside and flee. " " You really haven't changed, have you 'Seidon?"

🔱 Shock crossed his face when he realized it was you, his S/O, but different... mortal...

🔱 You smiled at him and watched as he sunk to his knees and hugged your legs, laying his head on your lap, tears were swelling up, but he was determined to keep them inside

🔱 Once you both married again, many found it unbelievable that you were back, but they accepted it, it seemed the classic duo of Y/N and Poseidon had returned

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💀 Hades valued you more than anything in existence, and it showed

💀 He kept you protected from every threat that could possibly harm you, and in return, you gave him all the love and affection he could possibly need

💀 You had wanted to go out and into Valhalla to visit one of your oldest friends, Aphrodite, and he had allowed you, which he declares as his biggest mistake ever made

💀 Hades sat reading papers about the deals being made between both the Greek pantheon and others, for some reason Zeus decided to make a deal with Shiva that put them out of order for a week, when a guard of Aphrodite's ran in and began to yell about you

💀 Hearing your name being brought up made him immediately begin the journey to her home in Valhalla

💀 When he saw the healers sigh and shake his head as he stared at them, his heart felt like it stopped, and it basically did, causing him to pass out cold

💀 You were gone. The only light in his life, taken from him like nothing. But you promised to stay by his side forever... you... you promised... you can't just break a promise...

💀 Unlike Poseidon, Hades never reached the final stage of grief, instead, whenever he was alone and didn't have any work to do, he moped and just looked at your wedding photo on his desk, remembering it like it happened yesterday

💀 Hades had heard of a new Goddess that was added to the Hindu Pantheon and he needed to meet with them at the next Gods' Council meeting, and when he saw you, he knew you

💀 His S/O... but you died... how?

💀 It took a while, but when your relationship became strong enough for a marriage proposal, Hades had shown you the photos from your past life, stating you and him have been together for eons

💀 Maybe you gained them at that moment, maybe it took longer, but when he heard you remembered everything, he sobbed the tears he was holding back all those years, happy you remembered, happy you were back in his arms

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👑 The Emperor of China, your one true love, the man you swore to fight with and for no matter the cost, your Qin Shi Huang

👑 You and him had sworn to be by one another's sides until death, and you had proven that promise to happen, unfortunately, it wasn't a very good way

👑 Qin and you had been dealing with many attempted invasions and assassination attempts on your lives, so when he was busy giving out orders for future attacks, you had been resting in your bedroom

👑 He believed you were napping, so when he head one of your personal guards stammering as blood and sweat spread on his body, Qin stood up and immediately began yelling questions at the man, demanding to know what happened

👑 His guard had only panicked and passed out as Qin began to sprint down the hallways and towards your shared bedroom

👑 Qin only stopped when he had seen a maid rub your head while another covered parts of your body with cloth, most of them stained red with your blood

👑 Your blood... why was your blood showing, it should't be showing!

👑 After hearing you died from an assassination, he had the guards who failed protecting you executed and ordered for the man who killed you to be brought to a slow and painful death as soon as possible

👑 He ruled for many more years until his death in 210 B.C. and he ascended to Valhalla, there, he found his kingdom, just like it always was

👑 Qin never forgot you, no matter what someone said or if something happened, he never let the memory of you go

👑 He had started his battle against Hades and he was about to get slashed to bits when he heard a voice, your voice, ring through his ears

" Kick his ass, Ying Zheng! "

👑 Looking upwards and into the booth where Brunhilde and Göll observed he saw you there, your miraculous hair flowed through the wind as your eyes shimmered with such beauty, like they did in life

👑 Qin smirked and looked at Hades before knocking him back with determination in his eyes, saying;

" Sorry Lord Hades, but I have a S/O waiting for me, and I don't wanna disappoint them. Now, let's finish this. "

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weebsinstash · 2 months

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*me, a poor peasant child holding up my plate.*

Please sire, may I have some more platonic yandere Lucifer and Charlie? 🥺

Of course, starving Victorian child! (Also you just said platonic but I wound up writing this as like, mostly family platonic yandere so idk if that's a distinct difference to you but, here ya go!)

-- I feel like these two would really kinda infantilize you, specifically when it comes to violence, drugs, alcohol, and sex. You know how Charlie is clearly an adult woman but it could not be anymore clear that she's still really sheltered and naive, almost like a kid would be? Like the skit she had Pentious and Angel do literally brought up like, no sex before marriage as a sign of being a good person... did her dad ACTUALLY raise her with vaguely traditional/religious values. That's the kinda thing they start enforcing on you. Oh, you're dressed so cute! where are you going? gasp! A bar??? But that's soooo .... risky!! You're young, and, you're just so nice, and... why don't you stay home and play board games with the Morningstars instead?

You're over here, "can I PLEASE smoke some fucking weed" and Lucifer would deadass with his full chest, "no, none of the Devil's lettuce for MY baby! Those other Sinners can run around with their crack and their whippets and their absinthe but MY CHILD is better than that"

-- platonic yandere Charlie and Lucifer passing the single brain cell they share back and forth, "Dad, they bought some new clothes and I thought it was gonna be for that outing we're taking later this week but they put it on and left the Hotel and went somewhere else!! Who else would they dress up for? Do you think they have a secret second family and they actually hate us? 🥺" "Charlie, do you have any idea how... totally possible that is, oh golly, we've gotta follow them and make amends so they come home!!" and you're just like.... having coffee with a new friend

You're at a cafe looking cute and Lucifer and Charlie are having a stakeout in the fucking bushes nearby or some shit, Lucifer grinding his teeth trying to guess who this piece of shit trying to take his baby away is, growling how hes gonna rip them apart, like who the actual fuck does this person think they are, and Charlie is like, trying to be a little more level headed "haha cmon Dad they would never replace us :)" but then the second she looks over and sees this other person is exchanging too many meaningful glances at you and making you laugh, her switch flips. "Actually yeah Dad you know what you were totally right, they're obviously a creep trying to hurt Readsr and we should kill this guy :)"

--Charlie has no problem with you hanging out with Alastor but I like the idea that she can suddenly see right through him when it's YOU he's doing stuff to. He can be on his whole "oh just call me dad" shit to her and it'd give her the warm fuzzies, but the second she sees Alastor going out of his way to come up and interact with you in front of her father, she knows he's trying to rile her dad up and may even tell him he needs to wait his turn and interact with you later. Lucifer meanwhile all but wants to bite the cannibal like a rabid dog for coming near you and treats him like Al's the evil villain trying to take away his little royal heir. He has no idea what that yellow toothed black gum cretin wants to do to his baby!

-- I can just see arguing with Lucifer, "why can't I date? Charlie gets to date!!" and Lucifer's just like trying to bullshit an excuse for why he just doesn't want you dating because, you're his widdle baby and he isn't ready to see you act adult yet :( the only man you should be kissing is your short father on the cheek! Lucifer is VERY MUCH "I am the only supportive guardian figure you need in your life" kinda yandere dad, if you go to anyone else for help before him he's taking it as a personal slight against him and vows to show up that other person so you never "choose them over him" ever again

-- obviously I'm so fucking biased but. Lucifer with Daughter Reader is obviously just him being your tiny guard dog all the time like, he is so soft, he is such a girl dad. No men talking to either of his baby girls!! No touching his little princesses!!! You'll be out in fucking public as a grown ass woman and Lucifer would still be like, "oh, there's a lot of people here, here sweetie, hold my hand so you don't get lost", marching around holding your hand as the most powerful Anti Rizz Shield in all of Hell, he has no shame, this man is fucking Mayes Hughes whipping out his wallet, "wanna see photos of my girls?!?!?!? Here's one of them in matching dresses, here's one from the musical we went to last week, and here- gosh arent they just the cutest ☺️❤️"

like if you ever wander into another ring like Gluttony by accident, Bee is buzzing up to you, "oh my gosh, it's Luci's little pup, sweetie you're not supposed to be down here, let me get you back upstairs, your pops is FREAKING!!" and talking to you like she already knows you like a friend because Lucifer is showing your photos to ALL his demon friends at every like, Rulers of Hell meeting. Lucifer is over here beaming with pride as Stolas looks over his special I Love My Daughters Photo Album and nodding his head, "perhaps we can arrange some playtime with your girls and my Via, let them all get to know each other" and it's like Lucifer can you PLEASE stop recruiting other all powerful almighty demons into the Let's All Be Platonic In A Creepy Overprotective Way Club. You just turn around one day and like half the Overlords and a few of the Cardinal Sins are all vying for your attention and you're like a celebrity and it's cause your dumb duck dad is blabbing his mouth showing your picture to anyone with eyes

-- you know how Sinner Demons come in all these different sizes and shapes, with fur and wings and, bugs and dinosaurs, fish and object heads? What if Lucifer has the power to alter your demonic form? One day you turn around and you're no longer whatever multi armed fuzzy creature you once were, but you're now... human again. Or at least, human like. You've got your old face again, your old skin tone, but, you've got horns that look suspiciously like your friend and her father's, a retractable tail with a heart on it like theirs, maybe even those like, kinda weird rosy cheek things. And it's because Lucifer and Charlie have decided, well, they don't care what you look like regardless, but now, don't you actually look like a member of the family? Now everyone can tell when you're together! ^^

Like it's kinda sweet but the adjacent horror of Lucifer "oh yeah I completely changed the shape and appearance of your body to more resemble me and my daughter so you look like you're ACTUALLY our family :)" like can you imagine him pulling this kind of shit when you're like not even that kind of close yet. Basically kidnapping you into the Morningstar family tree and actually making you look like them to the point other people can spot you and instantly know to steer clear. Maybe you even get a little special outfit of your own,your own little suit and bow tie with an apple or snake on it somewhere

-- you know how sometimes you just want to be alone? You just like space? You just like not knowing you're being watched or having to share your space with anyone else, you can just breathe? It's not about hating someone else or other people, it's just like... wanting to be the master of your own space for a while?

Foreign fucking concept to these two. Your activities become THEIR activities. Oh cool you're 6 episodes deep into an anime? Here's Charlie and Lucifer, "oooo what are we watching?" "Oh she's really pretty, what's her name, is she the main character?" "That lady sure isn't wearing a lot of clothes, I don't know if this is appropriate for you to watch" "oooo oooo pause it, I'll go make popcorn, dont start it again without me!"

Don't get me wrong I can see this being adorable, you're just like adhd autism infodumping and catching them all upon who everyone is and all the stuff that's happened and "I can restart it from the beginning and we can watch it together?" And they're eagerly hanging off of your every word based on how interested and excited you are about the subject, for whatever hobby or show you're indulging in

BUT I can see this turning into them intruding on everything you do and when you finally do try and say "hey I'd like a little space" that turns into a DISCUSSION. wait why don't you want to spend time with them? Are you sad? Did they do something wrong? Tell them exactly what you're thinking, OBVIOUSLY the correct action ISNT to just give you the space, CLEARLY this is an emergency needing investigation!! Like God forbid you tell them a lie to sneak off and hang out with someone else because THEN it's "who is this clearly abusive evil person telling our precious Reader to lie to us? The altar calls for their blood"

--SINGING!!! These two sing all the time (Charlie sings the most as the Not Depressed Morningstar) and they teach you too! They'll encourage you to join into song, and even just do those little songs you and I do when we're doing small tasks. You'll catch them in the kitchen, "washing the dishes, washing the plates, put them away and have a wonderful day ^^" and they'll try and rope you into singing until eventually you're expected to belt out musical numbers with them like anyone else in this show (bonus points for your first musical song being some sort of rebellious rock ballad about wanting to run away from them because they make you feel controlled or something)

-- mandatory family trips to Lu Lu World! You are NOT going home until you play all sorts of games and eat all sorts of carnival food and are struggling to walk home carrying your giant stuffed duck. God, really missing my childhood going to Six Flags before capitalism ruined amusement parks...

-- "cringe" does not exist in this family and they wont make you feel bad for liking something unless it's like ACTUALLY HARMFUL (like getting drunk and high). You cannot tell me these two do not already have fursonas and they'll geek out on the couch watching cartoons and playing video games with you. You're eating candy watching Naruto and playing LEGO Batman and playing dice games and they're loving every second (Reader why did you have to hit that Nat 20 roll on the "Getting Adopted By The Morningstars" quest, now they're never leaving you alone bro, bro i think youre gonna have to murderhobo your way outta this bro--)

-- I feeeeeeeeeel like. Lucifer if he concentrates really really hard would be able to tell where you are at all times because, Hell is HIS house. He um. He literally has pocket dimension "make shit appear out of nowhere" powers, so like... do you think he can feel all the souls in Hell? Do you think he would be able to concentrate and be like, "oh I can tell Reader is in that direction and is feeling really happy right now"

I just... I picture Reader having a really awful fight where you yell and scream at Lucifer and you can tell you actually really hurt his feelings, maybe even making him tear up, which would then make Charlie really upset with you, and then you're running off because you feel like you can't stay there anymore, and you're wandering the streets, lost, hungry, starting to get cold, wishing you could go back and apologize but feeling like they would never take you back, and, of course, the age old trope, you get cornered by some robbers or some potential attackers and they start beating you around and, all you can think is how ungrateful you were, that you wanted to apologize to Charlie and Lucifer but they probably hated you now, it's too late, it's... it's...

You don't know if it'll work, but you're about to be hurt really badly and you're genuinely scared and missing them and, you just clasp your hands and say a prayer, calling out to Lucifer, but you're like... literally saying it like... you're manically whispering and whimpering not knowing what the fuck you're supposed to say or if something like this would even work, "O Dark Lord Lucifer please hear my plea for your aid and-- no fuck it, come help me DAD I'm really really SCARED DAD THEYRE GONNA HURT ME COME ON DAD PLEASE DAD I'M SORRY, WHAT I SAID WAS WRONG, DAD PLEASE-" and he's there like, before you're even done speaking. You're still covering your head and whimpering and crying and you just hear, "It's OK now" and he's standing over you with bloodied fists and the attackers all crumpled on the ground and he's picking you up like it's nothing to take you back home.

-- lastly, I feel like there's few boundaries on nudity with these two. Like, it's not incestuous or anything, but if Lucifer walks in on you changing and you've got your beav out, he would probably politely put a hand over his eyes and keep talking anyways. Charlie treats it like walking in on her sibling, on someone her age she's known all her life. She'll be walking up, picking lint off your clothes, helping clasp your bra, whichever whatever without any regards for how exposed you might be feeling. Oh you're feeling shy? But she's your sister; you don't have to be shy!!

It's all fun and games until you're completely butt ass naked having Family Bath Time, Charlie scrubbing shampoo through your hair while Lucifer has ungodly amounts of duck themed bath toys floating around and you accidentally catch sight of THE Angel Of The Bottomless Pit's full-on dick and balls that you're realizing, oh, when they said they want to treat you like family, they meant like FAMILY family... oh shit... hope this doesn't turn into a huge "hey also we couldnt bear the thought of losing you so you're kind of immortal now" kind of problem...

#yandere hazbin hotel #yandere hellaverse #yandere x reader #hh #sinprompts

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savannahsdeath · 9 months

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ELLIE WILLIAMS X READER

♯partners in crime

mdni please<3

summary: you and ellie are partners in life but also in crime as you occasionally rob houses togetherr

warnings: 18+!! smut, robbery, quickie (almost getting caught too😭)

writers note: this ones kinda wild😓also just a reminder my requests are openn !!

[lets say they somehow turned the cameras off earlier+the hosts are deep sleepers]

"We have to be quiet once we get in here, you know that, right? I don't plan on having to run away again, just because you decided to have a little more fun." You said, standing in front of the house you and your girlfriend - Ellie - planned to rob.

"Right, you're always so serious. Just this once it wouldn't hurt to enjoy ourselves - what else is this whole thing for anyway?" Ellie said with a playful grin. She grabbed your arm to keep you from walking away, trying to get you to relax a bit and enjoy the moment.

"Besides, I don't want you getting all stressed out, your blood pressure is already high enough as it is." Ellie made a fake worried expression as she said this, not actually concerned about your health, but rather your behavior.

"Do you have any idea how serious this is? Just open the goddamn door and we'll make if fast." You murmured, obviously nervous.

"Alright, alright, calm down. I just don't like being rushed, that's all." Ellie said, giving you a little kiss on your cheek to try and relax you.

She finally let go of your arm as her expression sobered up.

Ellie put on a stern face and headed over to the front door. She knelt down to examine the lock silently for a moment before looking up at you and nodding.

Ellie put a small tool into the lock and started to fiddle around with it subtly. After a moment, you heard a click coming from the door, and Ellie stood back up.

"Let's get this over with."

Ellie opened the door and headed inside, turning back to look at you after a moment. You slowly followed and saw Ellie already searching through the various drawers and cupboards in the main room of the house. You couldn't see or hear anything from upstairs.

The house was quiet and dark, as it was in the middle of the night. It was obvious that the occupants were asleep or away.

You caught a glimpse of a framed family photograph sitting on the mantel next to the fireplace as you passed by.

"Damn... I didn't think we would get in here this easily." You whispered to yourself, a mixture of excitement and anxiety on your voice.

Ellie was already making herself comfortable in the house, quickly searching through anything that may have something of value. You couldn't help but admire her quick thinking and ability to improvise - she was like a completely different person when something like this was happening.

You slowly walked in and started looking in other drawers and cabinets, making sure not to make any noise by banging into things in the process. You didn't want to wake anyone up.

After you grabbed some expensive-looking jewelry, you entered the bathroom, not really expecting to find anything value here.

The room was big, fitting into the millionaire vibe, just like the whole house.

You heard someone breathing upstairs but you could easily tell they were deep in their sleep.

Suddenly the door opened. Before you could turn around someone grabbed you from behind, a familiar hand covering your mouth to stop you from gasping.

Ellie moved her hands so now she held you tightly by the hips, gently leaning you over the sink in the dark bathroom. She put the jewelry you found down on the top of the sink.

You were not expecting this at all. You couldn't help but think about how Ellie looked right now, so stern and focused on the task she was performing.

You tried moving, but Ellie was too strong, and you could feel her breath against the back of your neck.

"Shhh, not so loud." Ellie whispered into your ear, her voice even more sensual than it usually is.

"You fucking scared me." You hissed, still breathless, as you put your hands on the sink to lean on it.

You stared at her through the mirror reflection but it was hard to see her expression due to the darkness. Still, you could swear you feel her smirk and eyes on you.

"Shh, keep it down. I'm trying to keep us from getting heard, so you better not wake the whole house." Ellie said with a stern tone, but you could tell she wasn't really serious.

'Keep us from getting heard'? She's the one who almost made you scream!

She moved her hand away from your mouth and grabbed your head, pulling it closer to her.

"Do you remember what I said earlier, about 'having a little more fun'?" Ellie whispered softly.

"You're gonna get us caught..." You tried to sound as firm as possible but you couldn't hold back a little whimper from the pressure and pleasure of her body so close to yours.

"Oh, we're definitely getting caught if you keep whimpering like that." She chuckled.

"Shut up." You said, but it came out as more of a whisper than the aggressive statement you intended.

It just felt so good having Ellie like that, and everything was going so quickly you barely had time to process all of this.

You tried to look away and back at the jewels that were laying on the sink, but all you could focus on was the way Ellie's breath was feeling on your neck.

She smirked and turned you around, so now you're facing each other. Then she made you sit on an empty shelf, holding your hips so you won't stand up. You let yourself relax now that you are sitting down, letting Ellie hold onto you.

She was so much stronger than you. Even with the adrenaline rush from what was happening, you felt so small in her hands.

You couldn't decide between what was more distracting; the way she was holding you, or her smirk.

"They... Els, they can wake up..." You threw your head back, leaning it against the wall and exposing your neck.

She was fucking crazy for doing that. She knew damn well how loud you are in situations like that and you felt your will and strength to stay quiet is disappearing. You'd be a whining mess by now if it wasn't for those people upstairs.

"Hushh, no, we're fine. They won't wake up, this will be just a minute." Ellie said, slowly and seductively.

You felt her move her lips along your neck, and she gently bit down on the side of it, making you let out a subtle gasp. She chuckled, and slowly kept going.

You could hear every little noise Ellie was making as she kept going, moving her lips and tongue along your skin. You could feel each individual touch, like a shock of electricity going down your spine. You felt your body responding in the way she wanted it to. You closed your eyes for a moment, letting Ellie's lips continue to explore the sensitive spots on your neck. You were trying to keep as quiet as possible, but it was proving too difficult.

You let yourself get lost in the moment, feeling the sensation of Ellie's mouth gently biting and sliding down along your neck.

Your breaths grew heavier, as you started to lean your head back more and more to give her better access to your neck.

You felt one of her hands slidding into your pants, rubbing the soft fabric of your underwear. Then, your pants completely slide off as Ellie places soft kisses on your inner thighs and holds them in place.

She was fast - only a few short minutes later you suddenly felt her mouth on your core, placing a kiss on top of it before going in with her tongue. She trailed up and down your folds, making you bring your hand to her hair. Els lips encircled your clit, kissing and sucking it. She pushed her tongue into your entrance, earning a moan from you, but you quickly pursed your lips.

You couldn't help but think this all is a pure torture - the adrenaline made you feel even better but at the same time, you had to stay quiet. And that was incredibly hard.

Your thighs tensed and you heared Ellie giggle at the pressure around her head. Your eyes squeezed shut as she continues using her tongue on you.

She finally stopped her petty tactics and dipped two fingers into you, slowly engraving your scent onto her fingertips.

Your body twisted and turned as you felt your body completely take in her digits one by one.

Every curl of her fingers made you want to cry out loud but you knew you have to be strong.

Your walls clenched around Ellie desperately, throbbing harder each time her fingers pumped in and out.

You had to break eventually. And there the moment came, almost when you did.

You let out a whimper, louder than you'd like it to be. Ellie's smirk widened even though she knew that could cause you a lot of trouble.

"Not so scared of getting caught all of sudden?" She asked with mock-concern.

You felt yourself being so fucking close...

"Shh... Shut up, Els... I'm gonna-" You moaned out, not so loud this time, making Ellie laugh again, but this time her laughter was cut short by the sound of footsteps in the room right above you both.

In one smooth move she pulled your underwear back on, shutting off your moment of pleasure, and patted your thigh, standing up straight.

You tried to catch your breath, as if trying to not make any further noise. Your legs were shaking slightly, as you leaned your head back against the wall of the bathroom.

"I hate you." You whispered with a fake scolding tone.

You felt frustrated, as you were left on the edge when you got interrupted by those goddamn footsteps. And the worst part was - she found it funny. She taunts you about that to this day.

You could see her smiling, as her hand rubbed your thigh to try to calm you down.

"Don't even think about it. We're going to take what we came for and leave." Ellie said sternly, trying to sound serious.

"I thought you're not the type to leave things unfinished." You responded sarcastically, trying not to think about what Ellie had been doing to you just moments before.

You grabbed the jewelry from the sink and stood up, making sure not to make any noise. It seemed like the footsteps had stopped for now.

"You better end that when we're home." You packed the jewels into your backpack. Still pissed off, you fastened a button on your jeans.

Ellie's smirk returned as soon as you said that.

"I'll be sure your pleasure is fully satisfied when we get home." Ellie said, placing an emphasis on the word "fully".

You finished packing up the jewels and then put your backpack on. You were still feeling the tingles up your neck, and other parts of your body, from what Ellie had been doing to you before, and that made it hard to think about anything else.

Ellie looked at the door, probably wanting to leave the house as soon as possible.

You felt her hand on your arm, getting you moving towards the door. You couldn't believe that you were still feeling so tense - you had been with Ellie for months now, but her actions still had a powerful impact on both your body and your mind.

"I can't wait." you whispered softly to yourself, a small smile spreading across your face.

You followed her out, taking the last look at the house before closing the door behind you two.

#ellie williams x reader #ellie x y/n #ellie williams x you #ellie williams x y/n #ellie williams #ellie tlou #ellie the last of us #ellie x reader #imagine #oneshot #wlw smut #wlw post #mdni #reqs open

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char-lie-spirals · 1 month

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I would like to learn about the rest of the aus you mentioned here:3

Okay okay so!! I talked about some of them, so I'll just put the entire list under the cut and either link to my previous responses or cook something up! And what I cook up can possibly include a snippet of my writing too :]

Also since this is a lot of AUs/WIPs I'll try to be brief, but feel free to ask about more details on them!

Terminus' Ritual

This is an AU I've had for like a year now, and it answers a very simple question - What if the End HAD a ritual? That its avatars complete between mag 159 and mag 160? Simple answer - Zombies. And also some deaths getting reversed because getting a quick taste of it should make people more scared, and it's hard to keep a zombie apocalypse going with too few people. (This doesn't match the End's values, I Know.)

I have some notes on different characters' situations, who comes back etc etc but honestly the storyline I focused on the most is Oliver seeking shelter in Graham's old flat only for Graham to also be there, Pretty Confused about the passage of time between his death and now. :]

Graham gets spat out AU

Sasha gets replaced, NotSasha picks up the tape recorder and goes to dispose of the tape. The Artifact Storage is silent, but not empty, as a man who doesn't recall his own name wakes up on the floor. Okay this already sounds a bit like a snippet so I guess you can have a proper one too:

It was all pointless, you only suffered longer -- but is that truly pointless?

This one is a WIP in which I just wanted to explore the idea that the only reason Graham lived for so long was because he was scared that entire time, to the point the NotThem wasn't in much of a rush. It's pretty angsty, but can be bittersweet too if you look at it at the right angle and I am a simple man with a lot of hope in my heart. I've not been making much progress with it, and I'm not sure if I'll end it on the title-question and leave it up for the reader to decide, or if I'll provide my own answer, but let me say here: I don't think it was pointless. Not to me.

Michael(s) experience confusion

Already talked about this one here!

Graham Lives WITHOUT Becoming

Graham survives the events of MAG 003 because Oliver gets there in time to help him, and the two of them try to navigate the aftermath together. They go through many ups and downs, Oliver ends up becoming an Avatar himself, but Graham just kinda,, doesn't?? It just never happens. No fear claims him. At this point a lot of people are convinced he's an Avatar because of how his life is intertwined with the Fears but nope. Just some guy who can bluff pretty decently, gets lucky a lot, and loves his End-Avatar fiance a whole bunch :] (yes they're engaged now)

Graham Folger Lives because The Eye Is A Backseat Gamer

One of my Eye Graham AUs :] The main one, you could say! In this one, The Eye backseat-games his MAG 003 experience, and he Knows where to hide, what to do, and how to survive. After that, he goes on to start working at the institute, becomes an Archival Assistant after Jon's promotion, and goes through the horrors! I also talked about it Ages ago, right here- hold on that was in MAY???? 2023????? 10 months ago???? This is messed up.

Anyway! here's a little something I have written about it so far :]

DeathNote intro

Just me trying to explore how Graham and Oliver might've met, grown closer, gotten together and stayed together for 6 years :] No clue if I'll ever publish this and if so, if I'll use it as a backstory/background for one of my AUs or as its own stand-alone thing? But yeah it's just the two of them growing closer and falling in love :] You can have this snippet of it, too! It's their literal first meeting!

Antique seller Graham

Talked about this one here! I will probably do so again soon! But you can also have a snippet, since I guess writing all this really put me in a snippet mood! This is from this AU's version of Amy's statement :D

Cockroach Graham AU

I don't think I need to elaborate.

#I can't EXPRESS how happy I got because of this ask #Had to go hug my cat and all #asks.char #write.char #for the snippets and general creativity

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demidemon09 · 6 months

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My opinion on MW3

Alright, so just a heads up, this is gonna have spoilers, so from this point onward if you don't want any, please stop reading! Will tag for #MW3Spoilers if you want to avoid them on my blog.

Also, this is incredibly long and I am so sorry for that, I just have a lot to get off my chest right now and may ramble. I am also on like 2-3 hours of sleep, who knows if I'll have more to say later.

@sofasoap You asked to be pinged, apologies once again if it's insanely long and kinda rambly.

That being said, I've seen a fair bit of this by now, not the full thing and cannot bring myself to play it. This game had amazing potential, with Makarov being back, to having a higher stakes game. It just felt incredibly rushed and Soaps death, made no sense to me.

I have been excited to play the reboot timeline since I heard about it back in 2019, it was the first time in years I even paid attention to CoD, mainly because Soap was back. I thought this time, since we started off so soon in his story, we'd get to see him grow into Captain MacTavish. I even waited to play the other two campaigns based off this one, hoping to not have history repeat itself. Yet, it sadly did in an even worse way.

It honestly seems at this point, we're going to get Captain Garrick instead, which is fine, I'm more than happy to see Gaz survive and become a memorable character, I'm even glad we get to see Ghost survive longer than he did in the previous timeline. However, Soap dying so suddenly, so out of the blue with no reaction or importance, it felt so empty. It felt like pure shock value, just to do it because they needed a death.

Did I think all of them were going to survive? No, I was just hoping to not repeat the OG timeline, or to wait till MW4. As much as I hate to say it, Price or even Gaz dying this time would have been a bit more shocking to me. Gaz has so much history for him, is Prices protege, and would give Price even far more reason to go down the dark path he is headed in. Soap may have been a start, but imagine someone as important to him as Gaz dying? Man would have been livid and may have hunted down Makarov immediately afterwards.

I was also kind of hoping to see Ghost step into the role of Captain or at least leading the TF141 himself. In both timelines he has just been a lieutenant, one timeline he was Soaps second in command, and in this one he is Prices and Soap was his protege. I absolutely loved the amount of work they put into Ghost, I actually care far more for this version of him than I did with the OG Ghost. They made Ghost a teacher, the bond that him and Soap formed was great to see, something we didn't really get much of in the original MW2.

Just like with Gaz, they both got a massive amount of work done towards them, they are now memorable characters for me. Ghost was in the OG games to me, but I actually forgot entirely about Gaz. Now? I'd remember both, be mourning their deaths just like with Soap. I am so happy they rebooted the timelines but they have executed MW3 so poorly, I don't see myself being as interested in further content.

I get deaths are inevitable, I get deaths are going to be a part of the CoD universe. I 100% accept and understand that they will and, sometimes need to, happen. But Soaps death? That should not have happened, not one bit. He aimed for the shoulder on Makarov instead of the neck or head, how in the hell did he get taken down so quickly? No moment for himself, no scene, just Makarov bursting into the area, shooting him in the shoulder/back/wherever (legit can never find the hole for the first shot). And all for Price, a man who has survived both timelines. I would have been more at peace with Prices death than anything else, I do not hate the character, I love all of them very much, but Prices death would have been the perfect catalyst for all of them to go after Makarov. Would have been a nice shove to seeing Gaz work hard to become the best soldier, would have pushed Soap even further after the Graves betrayal.

I know it's a reach at this point, a stupid hope to keep Soap around but I do hope that somehow, they pull something out of their asses to keep Soap alive. It was a stupid, poor, lazy decision to kill Soap off in MW3 like the OG one. I said this before, but I truly was excited to see him grow into the Captain I loved playing as/with in the OG timeline. Neil Ellice absolutely nailed his portrayal of Soap and they could have never found a better actor. I look forward to seeing what happens in Zombies, but that's all I'm looking forward to anymore. Not the campaign, not the multiplayer, none of it. Soap was literally the reason I picked up MW19 and began playing cuz I knew he'd probably be in the second one. Thinking back, Captain MacTavish may very well have been the second game character I got attached to, after Master Chief.

So, yeah, that's kind of my thoughts right now. I am upset, disappointed and hurt over the ending of MW3. He deserved so much better than what he got.

#MW3Spoilers #MW3 #John MacTavish #John Soap MacTavish #Soap

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nevarroes · 4 months

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Dearesr Daddy Blake,

May we have some smoft Gortcas? Tell us about all the soft cute things they do. Do they hold hands? Bathe together?

Pls feed me 🥺

My father left for milk and never came back. I've been starved for 89 years.

Xoxo

Merry holiday etc

- Me

i started typing this out yday then accidentally closed the page and got so mad I went to bed I'm so sorry . its ok i gotchu nw nw.....

so Gortash and Cas aren't exactly the erm... public pda types, mostly. honestly you see them in public you probably see them trying to trip each other into the river 🔥 they lowkey very much avoid holding hands but they DO end up standing a bit too close everywhere they go, arms and bodies brushing again each others "accidentally"... they always have seats next to each other whereever they go, Cas playing with his gauntlet and rings under the table, Gortash running his hand over Cas' thigh and then just plays it off with some "you're so muscular. no wonder no one gets to me" and a coy grin, tell me you see my vision...

aside from that I mentioned at some point that Cas he like... serial naps. he just falls asleep for a bit when he's bored or waiting for someone😭 anyways this is often next to to Gortash, while they're waiting for someone, while Gortash is doing some bureaucratic paperwork or etc etc. Cas just does this by himself too but whenever he doesn't already lean onto Gortash or literally straight up lies down on his lap or body Gortash tends to like... nudge him onto his shoulder whenever he thinks he's asleep enough to not notice the gesture (he very much does btw he's a light sleeper. not the "someone could kill him rn" sleeper)💖 ever since Cas asked him to unbraid his hair once while he was half asleep Gortash has also been running his hands through his hair sometimes when hes asleep tbh... I like to think he loves knowing that he's the only one that can do that without straight up getting his head ripped off, knowing hes the only one w the priviledge to touch Cas' hair or him in general when Cas treats his own body like his most valued possession, so he's just been liking to stroke his hair ever since. Not like Cas hates it . quite the opposite actually but this is very.... unspoken because Gortash only does it when he thinks Cas doesn't notice and Cas just kinda doesn't mention it because he enjoys it

ok let me tell u abt some more random small things that are on my mind actually 😼 whenever they appear in public events Gortash actually tends to hold onto Cas' waist quite often instinctively which just gets worse if he starts getting a bit tipsy (not possessive like cas btw. the thought of Cas leaving him all alone never tortures him at all. trust me.... real) Gortash kinda starts like... holding him in a show-offish manner almost w him around Cas' waist and Cas just having his arms around his shoulders while Gortash is slurring smth about how beautiful Cas is . to me he thinks this quite often tbh but barely ever tells it to Cas unprompted

another small thing that I think about sometimes is how Cas, especially during intimate moments and such tends to kiss Gortash's fingers nowadays, brush his lips over them whenever Gortash puts his hands on his face etcetc. same thing as the playing with his fingers and jewelry when they're out Cas has a bit of a... fixation on Gortash's hands in a way where it's kinda like an unspoken request for Gortash to touch and appreciate him physically to me (also funny to think about when I tell you that Gortash made Cas kiss his fingers in public at the beginning to keep up their little act and Cas would constantly tell him how he'll bite them off if he doesn't think of something else)

they're not like the most obvious soft people clealy bt i hope this fills the hole in ur heart a little .... its the little things🙏

#blakemail #i think of gortash running his hand through cas hair so often actually. gortash touching his horns and feeling the ridges #gortash gently tracing his thumb over Cas' lips while he smiles OUGHH #gortcas lore

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talokanda-forever · 10 months

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Ok, I know in advance this is going to sound petty as fuuuuuuck, but bear with me. I've taken a few days off from work and I think my brain is healing. Which means my mind is thinking about goofy shit. Strap in, folks.

Anyway, has anyone else been struck by just how much you see MER holding a saxaphone? I understand to some extent still photos that are clearly part of a photo shoot. However, I'm talking more about when she is being interviewed on Zoom or other media platforms. Does she end up playing it during those interviews? Or is it essentially just a prop? I feel like she's overcompensating. Like she's saying, I'm a saxaphonist, as you can clearly see because I'm holding this saxaphone. Which led me to wonder, since she is constantly being referred to as a saxophonist, does she have any music that she has released? Original music or covers? Or has she given live performances where she was the featured artist? I went on YT a while back to try to find videos of her actually playing and only found a couple of quick clips at events where it appears she was only on stage briefly. They definitely weren't her concerts. Even obscure artists have a good amount of their material on YT, but not MER. Which then got me to thinking, can this bruja actually play the saxaphone? I'm old enough to remember Mili Vanili winning a Grammy with their lip-synching asses, so I don't put anything past anybody. Again, I wouldn't believe her if she said the sky was blue.

Then, just a bit ago I saw the post below on Twitter. The "shitty sax playing comment" made me feel not so crazy in my train of thought. Her playing (if it truly is her) does sound amateurish--think 3rd chair sax in a high school band. So is she really a professional saxaphonist who earns a living with her playing, or just a rando chick who happens to be able to (kinda) play the saxaphone? We know she is a liar, so her running a con about her career as a musician would not surprise me at all. Well-established artists don't have their talent constantly linked to their name and aren't ALWAYS toting their fucking instrument around. Damn, even Prince didn't walk around with his guitar 24/7 and that man lived and breathed music. (Plus he would also have to lug around about 20 different instruments, but that's another story.)

@sarahivi and @luzsp9-1981 , your insight here would be appreciated. Not sure if referencing an artist's "talent" is something common in Mexican media? Also anything you may know about her career as a saxaphonist, pre- and post-attack would be helpful. Not completely sure if there are other Tenoch regulars here who are based in Mexico, but your input would be valued as well.

FYI, I haven't yet dug into the original Tweet that K was responding to.

@cutelatinagirl @cantstayawaycani @observers-journal @sarahivi @luzsp9-1981 @aolechan @oakzap425 @love-too-believe @soledadmiranda @venting402 @v4mpires0ap

#i'm about to add frustrated artist to the growing list of reasons why this bruja is going after T so hard #tenoch huerta #tenoch huerta mejia #jose tenoch huerta mejia

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dribs-and-drabbles · 9 months

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Laws of attraction ep 5

Will I have much to say this week beyond ajkldsvdfjhljgf? (turns out yes and no).

Aaaaaaand we're straight back to our unhinged evil babygirl. (who wears four different colours like this?! 🤦🏽‍♀️)

I was right about the 'doll' being able to record sounds! So what has been recorded from that night?

Ploy and her beautiful mother in red (revenge?) and green (Tonkhao?)...and fuck this particular drone shot for being so glorious.

I like that Tinn and Charn can go from heated disagreements about good/bad and right/wrong and then be flirty with each other, acknowledging their mutual attraction.

It's true, though, that had nothing bad happened, Tinn and Charn wouldn't have had such a strong (emotional) connection. They may have just been a one night stand because Tinn may have realised that Charn was morally dubious and not wanted to see him again. But now, Tinn is challenging Charn (and vice versa) to reassess their values and to almost like each other despite their differences.

Ima need someone to tell me what flower that is and the symbolism behind it...

Please! They're too fricking cute!

Tonkhao loved the colour blue 😭 (blue that might be Tinn's [and Charn's] colour - check out the underpants - but also..."Expect the Unexpected"?! And then "Where everything can happen"?! What are these messages preparing us for?!).

Omg, someone tell Silvy to stop being so gorgeous (I've been listening to her music this week too).

The green tie and pocket square returns for when Charn is wanting to know more about Tonkhao. I like that the pocket square also has a bit of red on it (for the revenge in Charn's heart?).

So I read someone's theory that Wit could be the 'mole' - it sort goes in line with what Charn has said about how people are easily bought with money and the people closest to you will hurt you the most if they betray you. I hope Charn already suspects Wit and that's why he hasn't said anything about the doll to him.

It was kinda obvious that Chai was going to be killed in prison.

The desire for revenge, or their passion for justice, (or both), is getting stronger.

This is a godawful tie. Oh Charn. smh.

I want to see Thee smile. And be hugged. This must happen. (I've seen people talking about how they need Tanthai to be hugged/shown affection by Thee, but honestly, Thee needs the physical comfort too).

I really hope they're setting up Wit to expose himself as the mole. It feels really contrived, so it has to be a set up 🤞🏽 (And thank goodness it was).

Also, Silvy and Organ. You're both amazing. Don't stop.

At the very least there should be a fire extinguisher somewhere in that office. 🤦🏽‍♀️

I'm sorry but I laughed SO HARD when the building blew up 😂

THIS IS THE BEST FUCKING THING TO HAVE HAPPENED IN THIS ENTIRE SERIES SO FAR. AND SILVY WITH A RAINBOW BOA AND THE GRANDMOTHER WITH A GREEEEEN ONE!! ICONIC!!!

I love Silvy's rainbow dots tattoo. (this is becoming a Silvy appreciation post, btw)

I realise I haven't mentioned Tanthai or Thatthep...but the green (of Tonkhao?) is till looming behind/on them. I still don't know what to make of Thatthep in shades of blue...but it's interesting this ep that Tanthai wears dark green and then black (with white stripes) - so no blue. Is this indicative of Tanthai pulling away from his father?...

And it looks like we might learn more about Charn's past next week, bringing more angst. I like that Charn's in green as he decides to go back to Bang Don Pan Village - the source of his trauma - and I'd like to think this (and Rose in all blue) is showing that, even though Charn is telling Rose that he wants to control Thatthep's power and wealth, he will in the end pursue justice for Tonkhao and Tinn. The love of a good man (Tinn) will guide him there...eventually. (Also...and I'm only putting this here so I can come back and gloat later...but the handles of all the knives behind Charn look red - what if Charn stabs Thatthep in the end?)

#laws of attraction #laws of attraction the series #I love this show with my whole heart #they can blow up more buildings and use the worst cgi all they want #I will only love it more

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noemitenshi · 5 months

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Ok so. There's several questions in here, I'll try to address them all @marrecarandgi

Maybe let's do the "Can this man ever move on and find a new relationship after he and Tracy ride into sunset" first (which is also fully my HC, he didn't die, Tracy just had guilt-fueled nightmares that seemed so real she really believes she shot her walker!dad).

Anyway, yes, he was pretty hung up on his wife, it seems.

(Though honestly, parking her in this swamp type thing was weird to me? Like, wouldn't he want her closer by? It's almost like they don't really get Troy's character - like they present us a distorted version of him, we recognize enough of Troy in him to say 'it's him' but then there's just... something that isn't right)

Ok, lets ignore the things that don't quite fit and go with, he was super hung up on her. Though maybe not only her but also the way he lost her and how he put all of that on alicia and madison. so it seems to get closure he needed to get his revenge

(though that's again not super fitting with what they show us in ep11 - the first heart to heart he has with madison where she is about to kill him with her hammer. he says "you want her people to believe the same thing she did - when this is exactly what got her killed" warns her, really. and the way he looks at her, the way his voice sounds... it's almost like he cares. but then, why would he, if he hates her so much. It's almost like he's trying to connect to her, but then, why would he. If he hates her so much. Or maybe he wants her to stop believing in this thing that killed his wife. If so, then why save her in the end when he saw she didn't believe? It just doesn't fit together. Individually those things are fine but taken together it's very headscratchy. Sorry, I said I'll stay away from these things that don't quite fit but guess I can't stop myself ^^0)

Ok so, again ignoring all that and going with the 'he needed revenge/her killing Madison to move on... I think the fact that Madison ended zombie!serena and the fact that he buried her helped him a lot in the 'moving on from her'.

If we take this bullshit on face value with him regretting not letting alicia's idea die with serena, then even getting to *live it* (once he gets Tracy back from madison) may help him, too. A way to honor his wife and think on her but not with so much bitterness and ... well he clung to her in a way, right. Clung to revenge so he could cling to her maybe. Or the other way around. And if that is now broken (again taken the bullshit he said before he died at face value) he'll have a much easier time moving on now.

Now what happens between him and madison and alicia once they meet up - I have no idea. It could be that by this time Madison already started to regret killing him. I mean she's still not happy to see him - given that she expects him to still want to kill her. So their places could be somewhat switched now, mirroring the end of ep11. Her now full of regret and hm compassion even towards him and him... well that's the question isn't it? I think, if we go the route of 'what he said at the end of ep11 is the truth' then he should let her live. He's not gonna tell her this of course from the beginning since he doesn't trust her and still thinks she thinks like at the end of ep11 (no second chances, troy is irredeemable). So it'll be a bit of a dance I guess, with both of them misinterpreting the other's actions. But not for long bc once Tracy sees her dad no one can stop her from going to him. And that's all he wants, his daughter back. And they should leave madison and alicia and go out on their own.

Now if you'd rather not believe he had a change of heart end of ep 11 (which I get haha it kinda came out of nowhere), he's still gonna want revenge. And I think he will, once he finds them. He won't be convulted about it either, I don't think so. Now that he doesn't have his zombie!wife anymore. Now that he even lost his kid, I think he's gonna be methodical. Wouldn't mind him just creeping into their camp and shooting them point blank. Sure, they wont 'rot on their feet' but I think the need for them to be dead may at this point be greater than anything else. Especially since they have tracy. I think them having tracy is a pretty strong motivator for him to end things quickly and get her away from there. Tracy, who probably has her head screwed with a lot (I mean her going to madison after she believes she killed her dad is.. uh a choice and speaks not well of the kid's mental health... so that could lead to some interesting tension between them though I think they'd work through it soon enough. it's her *dad* after all). And yes once he's got her back and the other two lie dead, his wife buried, I think he *can* move on from her.

Probably entering into a new relationship won't be easy though (in either case, both the 'he took revenge' and the 'he just wanted his daughter back'), he feels like he wants to be single for a while now haha, which. Understandable. He was first married to his wife and then to the idea of revenge. And they say getting out of a relationship takes half the time the relationship lasted so uhm. Make of that what you will ;)

Maybe if he meets up with someone he knows it's easier for him to form a relationship than if it's someone completely new... just an idea though (maybe bc then it doesn't remind him so much of serena...?).

Also in my somewhat improbable HC (of course I have several contradicting HCs - as one does...) which I haven't quite let go off even though it turned out not to have any canon support (though also not really something that contradicts it so uhh (except for the part where I thought serena seems like a cutie and I don't want her to be a bad guy), I imagine serena as abusive towards troy.

Again no textual support of this - that whole idea was born out of the fear that they'd made troy be actually the one responsible for his wife's death (thank GOD that fear was unfounded haha). But yeah I was really anxious about this once it was revealed that alicia's idea killed tracy's mom but we had no further inforomation on it. So this fear, and the fact that he went 'it's not pretty to look at, I know' about his eye had me thinking that it could be possible. That sentence 'it's not pretty to look at, I know' gave me pause since... it doesn't sound like Troy to be concerned with how he looks. That was never him (yes even though he's well dressed now :P). So I thought, that almost sounds like he's quoting someone, omg what if he's quoting his wife?! What if his wife was at least verbally abusive towards him..(if not more)?? (Then the tracy thing kindaaaa makes sense too haha, he's subconsciously thinking back to that, is reminded of how his mom treated him and it's def a cry for help, calling his kid tracy... not that anyone heard him. as usual). Anyway if we go that route then a new relationship would be undoubtedly good for him (unless this one, too, is abusive haha...). Not sure if this makes him more or less likely to seek one out though. I think an argument could be made either way. Maybe more, just because he's still searching for what he'd searched for all his life: someone to love and appreciate him. Even while he's convinced it never could be different, didn't serena show him that, he's still searching...

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Now the dad thing... I think I said it somewhere before, to me it didn't feel out of character at all(if this is even what you're getting at? If not, feel free to correct me :) ). In fact I was superglad to hear him say he didn't give a fuck about Jeremiah. I maintain he had a complicated relationship with his dad (just like he had with his mom). He loved his parents probably the same way a kicked dog loves his master. Beyond reason and self-preservation. But he hates his parents, too. And I think he's ashamed of that, of feeling *wrong things*. I think he also thinks the fault that they don't love him lies with himself. That he is wrong, that he can't do what they want (a quiet child, best seen not heard etc). So he puts all that on himself, the hate he has for them and the fact that they don't love him. Both bc there's just something not right with him. So he buries it, buries it deep down.

Of course he was sad when his dad died, of course he grieved him. He probably also grieved that now he never could get from him what he wanted: being told he did good. Being told his dad is proud of him. All these things. I also think he was... relieved. And that horrified him. Showed him again, in his mind, that see, he is wrong. Who is relieved their dad is dead. And then he's also angry of course, angry at his dad for killing himself. Doing something that seems so out of character for him. Leaving Troy and Jake to pick up the pieces (probably like always... I imagine when he was drunk and destroyed things or made a mess, it was on the kids to clean up. Same with his mom btw). Anyway. very very complicated feelings, contradicting feelings even. No wonder he lost his mind in exile. And I think the fact that he destroyed this place, even though it pained him in the end, it also freed him. It was the beginning of letting go. Of his mom, his dad. Even Jake. A cleansing as he said, but for himself. And I think over the years those feelings became clearer to himself, he started to understand himself better, started to understand where his uncontrollable anger came from and could accept this. So yeah "fuck that old man" (paraphrased haha) isn't a weird thing for s8 troy to say at all. He's right. Fuck him.

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"I'd do it all again" Right, that one. Haha, those fateful words. I hope you forgive me for just quoting my own work, since I very much explored this:

Troy felt relieved when he heard Madison asked, “Why would Daniel want to kill Troy?” This was it, he was sure of it. This was the missing piece to get back into step with Madison. Because even though she’d just told him “we’re good” he knew they weren’t. He had sensed her trepidation in her ingenious smile, in the hesitation in her voice. And now he was sure it was because he was still keeping a secret from her. A secret that only became one because of Nick, because he had followed Nick’s lead on this. And he hadn’t minded, understood that Nick rather not tell his sister Jake died partly because of him… But now he couldn’t keep quiet anymore. Not if it talking could mean that it would bring Madison and him close together again. Not if it meant it could again be as it was, before, between Madison and him. And yes, their conversation got heated once he admitted what he’d done. He should’ve expected that but he was too caught up in it. In trying to explain himself, in trying to rush to go where they’d been before. He should’ve given her more time to process… he knew she would’ve, eventually. She understood him. They were the same – and that was what he was trying to tell her, remind her of, however clumsily. “I’d do it all again,” he implored her, trying to make her see, “All of it, Madison.”

(Bolded part is the most important one). Right so I think he's wanting for Madison to see his side, for her to well maybe not forgive him but definitely accept what he'd done, accept him) and her continued refusal got him agitated, angry, and so he blurted that out - unfortunately not at all doing what he set out to do but the complete opposite. That is why he says 'hed do it all again'. He wants acceptance for who he is, he's not gonna APOLOGIZE for it and he resents her for insinuating differently. All his life he's made to feel he was wrong and in madison he thought he'd finally found someone who got him. Understood him like no other. And now she stands before him having the gall to judge him too. It's too much and so he spits this into her face, forces her to confront all the bad things in himself. Sadly for him she answers not by acceptance as he thought, especially when he said "and you would too you know you would", this callback to how similar they are, but by killing him. And I think him calling out their similarities played def a role in her decision to strike him down.

(As an aside, I don't see Troy as someone who apologizes or appreciates an apology or even... gets what it is about. Esp. s3 Troy. He's thinking is along the lines: "If I did it, I did it, so there's no use in wishing things went differently, no use in lamenting. It happened and with the information I had at that time I couldn't have made another choice. I would do things again like this. So what use is an apology? Isn't it even cheapening things? Because then I could've just NOT DONE IN in the first place. But clearly I did" It's a bit of a circular reasoning. He's a bit naive in that haha.

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I'm not sure he raised Tracy to see zombie!serena as her mom. Yes, Tracy does call her "mom" but I didn't get the feeling that she things it really is *her*. Like I think she's very much aware and never had confusion over the fact that her mom is dead and this is her reanimated corpse. Is that much better? Not sure haha.

#troy otto #tracy otto #serena otto #madison clark #ftwd #fear the walking dead #ramblings #analysis #headcanons #imagines #a whole lot of stuff going on in this post #maybe should've done seperate ones?#thanks for being patient with me and letting me ramble #i love getting into details haha #as always im super interested in others' thoughts too

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samwise1548 · 9 months

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:o i am Looking (pun absolutely intentional)

THERES SO MANY COOL DETAILS IN THE BACKGROUND

YESS!!! Thank you Tumblr people for letting me rant about my own art for a bit.

I have to go to the city today which is about an hours away. Let's hope I can get through everything I wanna say before then :)) Already gonna say, this'll be a long post so I'll put it all under a cut.

For context, this is the piece I'll be talking about. It's a redraw of an older piece I did for The Magnus Archives podcast.

Ok so, where to start... I suppose just with setting up all the details in the background? That took ages!! Imagine having to cram 14 fears into one small box, where only 2/3rds of it are visible? I excluded the Extinction for my own benefit, and the Eye and Web were covered by the giant eye at the top and the webbing at the bottom of the piece. So only 12 fears, but still that was a real struggle haha. I'm glad I was able to do it tho. Here's some of the drafts I did:

[ID: Six similar rough drawings of Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood embracing as the cry while a giant eye looms above them. The artwork is rough as they are simply to lay out the design of the piece. A blue watermark of the artists signature is slightly visible above the pieces. \End ID]

I knew I wanted the Vast to be on top, because, well obviously. It's the Vast! And likewise, for the Buried to be on the bottom. But everything else was kinda mixed in wherever I had space. My favorite mini domain is the Strangers carousel!! I'm also particularly proud of the Slaughters war trenches below it.

Moving on, I wanna talk about the coloring now!! BOY HOWDY, DID THAT GIVE ME STRESS!!! For reference, here's some of the variations I made while trying to find the perfect colors:

[ID: sixteen variations of the same drawing, now with finished lineart. Each variation is colored differently than the next. The artists signature is watermarked over the drawings . \End ID]

GOING IN ORDER!!! first one is obviously not colored. That's just the lineart with a random color as the bg. Second and third ones I discredited cuz it didn't fit tma vibes. The fifth one is one I kinda still do like. The only problem with that one was that Jon and Martin were a bit too dark for my liking. The gold frames one next to that is one of my favorite ones. I color picked from the Mona Lisa for that one. I do like the gold frame but again, jmart didn't fit the vibe. The next few are random variations with slightly different color palettes and values.

What I ended up settling for in my final piece is honestly so beautiful in a symbolic way to me. The fear domains inside the frame were done in colors from the original piece from 2021. Kind of like an homage to my past self. Like I'm giving my past self credit for making a good drawing by including actual elements from that directly into this revamped version. I was so happy when I figured that out. It's especially lovely considering that I was struggling so much with coloring this whole thing. But looking back at the old piece made me realize that I just had to go back to my roots. I'm learning from a me that I no longer am and I feel so happy for that!

With that, thank you for letting me ramble about this drawing. It may not have came out perfect like I'd hoped, but I did make something I can be proud of while still honoring the original. And I'm happy with it :)

#no bodys gonna see this but i just needed to talk about it #i am really happy with how it turned out #and i feel like ive improved a lot since i first started drawing #thank you to the tma fandom for that haha #my thoughts #ask box #my art #long post

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𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚕𝚘𝚐_𝟶𝟸.𝟷

Moa's Ark & Zealandia

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/moas-ark-1990/series

Moa's Ark (1990s TV series) opening animation. It was during the 90's that scientists formulated the "Zealandia" protocontinent theory and complexity of how species migrated over time, putting the last nail in the coffin of the idea that everyone got a free ride over on a piece of Australia. Going through Aotearoa's natural history doco archives has been a lot of fun.

Hello again! I took a bit of a break in posting long- form updates, but I think there's enough on my mind for a second batch of posts this week. After that there will again just be small updates on the Instagram until May - when I may have some sort of concept media for the sim to show off. For now I'll aim for a focused peek into a couple of aspects of it as usual.

This post is going to be all about the Moa, the species that got me hooked on this project. It's also going to be about species variation, and the tension between scientific accuracy and visual accessibility.

Moa skeletal reconstitutions at Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand.

A couple of interesting facts about the moa;

-We currently classify them as nine species. Here is a full catalog of every time someone thought they'd found a new one:

-Within many species, female moa can be more than twice the size of males (yes, this is one reason so many moa "species" were identified)

-Moa are unique in that they had no wings (not even the kiwi's tiny t-rex stubs) and, thank goodness because so many NZ species can be traced back to evolving from Australian fauna, their closest past relatives are South American tinamous rather than the emu.

-They also got a bad wrap for their past perception as tall, emu- like, big dumb grass grazers. Actually, while they're nowhere near as smart as multi-sense-foraging kiwi, they could identify and feast on a whole variety of twigs, herbs, leaves and berries - most of which were found in the more common forest than grassland.

This is why they have a bulky build and head-forward posture (until kinda recently, museum curators tended to give them that tall, emu/giraffe like posture, even adding extra vertebrae for show.)

Whanganui Regional Museum (This isn't close to the worst examples)

So; how do I even begin to approach the scope, as well as potential uncertainty, of data we have on the Moa?

Here's one way: Oversimplification!

Screenshots from Godot editor & runtime previews for compatibility (web) mode and forward+ (basically more shaders) renderer. The camera is RTS- style; getting the runtime shots was a bit finnicky.

I've started to build low-poly models in Blender for the fauna, which in the future I'd love to rig for animation and get super technical with appearance variation. For now I'll focus on the system for placing them in the right biome and basic pathing behaviour, and the Moa will be a North Island giant moa based vaguely off this model for an AR national park exhibit: https://moaparkotorohanga.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/a-collection-of-moa-feedback-from-trevor-worthy-and-lizzy-perrett/

While I'm not working directly on the simulator for the next while, I am building this 2D tool to represent the moa's species variation; it is *incredibly* helpful to have just set up a system where I can add and edit instances of a broader Moa "class", and I'm looking forward to giving each species its visual character (the main creative liberty I'll be taking is colour coding from grey to brown to communicate which of New Zealand's islands each species populated, as well as their preferred biome (there's 3 main ones: subalpine mountain, wet podocarp forest, dry forest/ lowland)

Moa "collection" project at time of writing.

If this exercise has highlighted anything though, it's just how difficult it is to reduce life's complexities to a single shape that represents a single numeric value. Those who read my last posts may remember that any given moa species' size may have varied over time and with temperature, (generally bigger during ice ages and smaller out of them) along altitude, (generally bigger and bulkier higher up) and just within species based on how they adapted to any given place. Not to mention the relatively massive lady moa.

And since we're only working with what's left of them all - the only intact gizzard samples proving that whole diet theory, and most of the remains we have to work with, are those found in Pyramid Valley in Canterbury (a swamp with surrounding mosaic of vegetation and forest) - who knows how to truly depict what life was like tens of thousands of years ago.

From the Moa book by Quinn Berentson

A very cursed JavaScript "spreadsheet".

So, very long-winded post. I hope you found something interesting within! Something that made you think about nature's craziness maybe. I meant to get across just how much there is to scientific communication, and I barely touched on how I aim to keep the overall narrative in focus (or basically be aware of it.)

I can't wait to work on this more collaboratively, with folks who really know their stuff about ecology and the cultural aspects of Aotearoa - I think the potential for collaboration and education is what's keeping me going with this project.

Until next time ! - here's some of my highlights from a trip to the Zealandia ecosanctuary.

Kia hora te marino

Kia whakapapa pounamu te moana

Hei huarahi mā tātou i te rangi nei

Aroha atu, aroha mai

Tātou i a tātou katoa

Hui e! Tāiki e!

May peace be widespread

May the sea be like greenstone

A pathway for us all this day

Let us show respect for each other

For one another

Bind us all together!

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #programming #birblr #moss #plants #aotearoa #oceania #natural history #nature #godot engine #javascript #ecology #science

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gilbirda · 7 months

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You posted some tumblr tips a while back and you seem pretty knowledgeable about the site in general. Especially in fandom spaces.

Do you have any advice for if your least favorite post get more attention than other post?

Like how do you interpret that and kinda dont get discouraged from blogging? And how to hype your other post? is 'bump' still a thing? Thanks in advance!

Hello! First of all I'm humbled and honored that you consider me knowledgeable! I can talk about my experiences around fandom and social media, but please I am no expert or anything.

It sucks when something you don't consider "your best" gets more attention than stuff you broke your back making.

I'd say my first lesson/comment/advice is that even the least favorite things are still something you did with your own hands and it rocks. That they get more attention doesn't mean that stuff you like more is worth less. You made something and pinned it in a public place for everyone to see and that takes bravery. My words may sound empty but all your work is part of you and has value just because of that.

Also, not everything is going to be a ~masterpiece~ — better to make 10 average art pieces and 1 masterpiece, than to obsess over perfection and never make anything at all.

Second piece of advice is that yes, 'bump' is still a thing! Don't be afraid to self-promote yourself. Yes, ad nauseaum. Yes, even if it's an old piece (specially if it's an old piece). Reblog and post your stuff at "prime time" aka, from the time people get out of work/school until they have dinner-ish. There are studies about this and I'm going by memory, but prime time is around 5pm until 8pm or so.

Third piece of advice is: be part of the community! If you want people to notice your stuff, notice other people's stuff!!! Tumblr is not a friendly place to many, and it does rely on reblogs to spread your work. If you want to be seen, put yourself out there. For that I'd recommend tagging things people will see (I saw you do poetry, so maybe check out the tags people will use for that?), follow and comment other artists, maybe join a discord community? If that's something you feel comfortable with.

Again I'm no expert, but I've gotten my fair share of situations like you describe. I'm happy with my work and I made it for myself first, but of course it's frustrating when people sleep on stories I poured my everything on when they give attention to a thing I did in 2 hours and half asleep. It happens. Doesn't make any of your work less valuable.

I hope this helps!

#gil answers #thirstfortheactualsunincapri #tumblr advice #posting advice

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Sigh…well I have to get my thoughts out somewhere.

This isn’t usually the shit I talk about, but if I don’t say something I’m going to fucking explode.

There is(or was I suppose) a YouTuber by the alias of Chuggaaconroy who I have been watching since middle school.

He was a let’s player, mostly all Nintendo games. Every day on the dot, at 4 pm, a new video would be on his channel. It wasn’t much, but his videos were a constant. No matter how fucking difficult my life may have been, no matter what shit I was fucking going through, I knew that there would be a new video of his every single day. The only exception being when he was done with a game, where he would take a month or two off, but he would always come back with another game to play.

I heard the allegations against him in January, where I learned he had little issue with pushing women’s boundaries and frankly sounding kinda sexual harass-y. At first I didn’t think much of it. I thought it was bad sure, but he made an apology and I thought that would be the end of it.

Then more people started saying things. Then I saw someone who I thought was s friend of his say essentially “I haven’t been friends with him in years, he recorded me playing a game with him without my permission. I don’t like how he talks about me and other women with other people. Every apology he’s ever made meant nothing cuz he kept continuing to do what I asked him not to. I’ve had enough of his behavior.”

He made an apology on Facebook, but I can’t say I believe it given what said ex friend has said.

I find little value in an apology if you don’t back it up with action.

It’s quite clear to me he probably has no intention of changing. I will be honestly surprised if he ever comes back. If he does, it won’t be the same.

The collaboration channel he made with two other people is on indefinite hiatus, he won’t be at any cons or be a part of Thrown Controllers. There will likely never be another Chuggaaconroy let’s play ever again.

Fuck, does that hurt to think about.

But it doesn’t really matter what I think does it? What any fan thinks. The people he’s affected are far more important than anything I could say.

And yet I can’t help thinking.

Maybe this is an overreaction on my part, but I feel like a part of my childhood has fucking died.

Goddamnit man. I feel like I’ve been fucking punched in the face. I think I’m still in shock honestly. What the fuck.

I don’t even think I’m angry, I’m just disappointed. Out of all the YouTubers I’ve watched, I never expected this from him. Maybe that makes me a naive fool, I dunno.

But like I’ve said, what I think has little value here. I just…what are you supposed to do when a part of your childhood just…

Fuck man I don’t even know what I’m saying anymore. It’s like if I found out Steve from Blues Clues did heroin or something, my mind is fucking reeling.

Like I said, even if he comes back, it won’t be the same. And yet I just don’t have it in me to unsubscribe.

Maybe that says something bad about me, I don’t know.

Even despite all this, I hope he gets his shit together. I like to think redemption is possible, as long as you’re willing to put in the work towards self-improvement. Only time will tell.

What I wouldn’t do for things to not…be this way.

One of the few things that’s brought me joy in my life has been fucking tainted. At least with other controversial creators I like, I kinda expect controversy at this point. I never expected this tho. Not from him.

I feel betrayed.

But that’s stupid right? It’s stupid. Why feel betrayal over someone who you’ve never met? Sounds parasocial, it’s what I get for putting any content creator on a pedestal to begin with, even if I didn’t realize it at the time.

Chuggaaconroy, a part of my childhood, may as well be dead, and everything is worse now. Good things never fucking last.

#tis i the werebitch #maybe I’m just being dramatic idk

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just lil fukumori thoughts i will probably/most definitely write about sometime i suppose tee hee. should also go ahead and say these would take place within the bungou stray pups timeline and there’s a little note at the end for anyone unfamiliar with some things referenced within

me having a normalish one: my brain: hey how about a Moment in one of the fics where fukuzawa thinks back to when he was first ordered to be mori's bodyguard and wondered why natsume would have ordered him to protect him then in the present it's now after he and mori are together and fukuzawa is protecting him with all he has not because he's been told but because he loves him. and basically mori being the only person he's ever been "officially" hired to protect who, despite it happening after that period of time, fukuzawa found himself willing to sacrifice anything including himself for not because he had to but because he loved him and the thought of living in a world without him in it after all he'd been through to get here is too much for him to even entertain, of much less take the risk of actually having to face me: h *(not technically counting ranpo in the bodyguard list bc ranpo voluntold fukuzawa to be his dad and fukuzawa only came around later lmao there was technically no official orders in place just ranpo bein ranpo)

also. scene which i. may or may not be in the process of writing but.

after fukuzawa puts himself in some dumb amount of danger to protect mori and/or their family possibly, mori grabbing fukuzawa's face in his hands (notably not hurting him intentionally or otherwise but it's clear he's very serious) and telling him with tears in his eyes and in his voice "you said we were doing this together, as a team. that means your life is no less important than mine. you can't be so willing to throw it away at a moment's notice! i won't do this without you, i can't do this alone again! not again."

like ah the pain but also. he fucking love him... the direct contradiction of the canon line where mori says that he n fukuzawa's lives aren't of equal value (which is more or less correct in the terms he's describing but imma be real w you fellas, i don't think mori himself thought that fukuzawa's life was less important to him, mori was just doing that "for the greater good" thing he always does etc)... Man

also fukuzawa's heart absolutely breaking when he realizes just how scared mori is. how terrified he is of the idea that he'll end up alone again, after fighting so hard and for so long to have what he's desired all this time, to keep what they have which is something mori never thought he'd be able to have in his life already. so he holds him close while he cries and tells him that he's sorry, because while he was so caught up in his fear of living in a world without mori, the love of his life, he never stopped to think about how mori himself would feel being forced to live in a world without him, the love of his life, either.

and it's not a situation where it's like, pointing blame or whatever. it's just more of "fukuzawa's natural inclinations to think of himself last end up kinda backfiring on him in a way he didn't quite expect them to because it just never occurred to him that other people care about fukuzawa the way fukuzawa cares about other people

but just in general the Thing here being. fukuzawa becoming less willing to self-sacrifice even unintentionally because he recognizes his life matters now and he has so much more to protect now, yes, but part of protecting them means making sure he's around to continue doing so and being a part of their lives and not being uh Dead, even if it's to protect them.

and also fukuzawa realizing that the cruelest thing he could do to mori at this point is die and leave him alone, without the only man in the world he's ever loved and will ever love the way they love together now, to take away the one thing mori allowed himself to pursue, to have, not because he felt he had to as a part of the role he played for the city or for natsume or for anyone else, but because mori himself wanted it. if fukuzawa were to sacrifice his life for the sake of mori's, he wouldn't really be helping mori at all in the end.

because fukuzawa is the one person mori allowed himself to trust enough to truly love and not pretend to love him for the sake of an escape, the one person mori chose to dedicate his heart to, who he felt safe enough to do that with. their relationship is the one thing mori allowed himself to truly enjoy in his life. he represents the part of mori's life which isn't shrouded in darkness and duty.

it's not that they're co-dependent on each other, or there's no situation where they could ever be apart for any length of time. but if one were to die in some preventable act of violence, as a result of a sacrifice on the other's behalf? especially in the case of fukuzawa doing it for mori? given all the bullshit mori's been through... he doesn't deserve that. not in fukuzawa's eyes. the last thing fukuzawa would want to do is hurt mori after all they've built together, and fukuzawa dying would be hurting mori in ways he can't even imagine.

needless to say, there will not be any more declarations of self-sacrifice from fukuzawa on mori's behalf

also a note: in the BSPverse timeline, mori (who is trans + gay in this verse too) was (when he was waaaay younger, like from age 18 to 23) married to a man who didn’t really love him and mori also didn’t really love him but the guy offered him a “better life” away from his abusive mom so mori took the opportunity. and they ended up (against mori’s will) having a daughter whom was the only good thing mori felt he had in his life, until the ex-husband ended up murdering mori’s daughter when mori made it clear he planned on leaving him and then tried to kill mori himself at which point as you can probably assume mori killed the ex. but naturally this fucked him up massively because uh yeah his three year old daughter was killed by his ex so that’s kind of what this post is like. hinging around more or less. just so no one is confused since i originally posted this in my discord where p much everyone knows this story already but you guys don’t so :’)

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i suppose i ought to make a whole post about how the afterlife works in my worldbuilding project. it's a long one so it happens after the "keep reading" line!

so i have quite a few worlds that seem quite separate. while my main world is Elstre (a low fantasy ww1-ish setting), i can get a bit bored of it sometimes and go off and beget some illegitimate world. now i love all these worlds and i decided it could be neat to kinda mesh them together in a way that preserves their individuality

enter the Eternal Bureaucracy. the EB is a psuedo-office afterlife. the souls of every sentient/sapient/whatchamacallit being in every world---upon death---enters the EB. the EB manages the goings on of each and every world and the souls of the dead are employed in different departments. whoever manages a department is a god or goddess. the head honcho is the God of Labor, who controls the entire EB and manages the work of all the other gods and their departments. right now, this is Raine Burlough. the gods are not permanent and can be fired and switched out. souls can also be fired. what happens when they get fired? don't worry we'll get to that later!

while souls are employed at the Eternal Bureaucracy, they receive pay and are provided a free (starter) room/board. they may share it with a roommate. souls don't need food but you can still buy food items if you want. there are also clubs and other social organizations that you can join if you want. you get some holidays off (the mortal planes are all put on pause during holidays) and some break days as well (however, you choose your schedule when you first die and it's locked in for an eternity unless you want to go through the kafka-esque system to update schedules with the Dep. of Labor). souls can also be promoted to management and climb the corporate ladder after death. in fact, this is the most common way to ascend to godhood. after all, you have an eternity to spend here... or so it seems.

there is one exception to that rule, which is why i said "the most common way" to ascend to godhood. Nellie Moon, Goddess of Chaos, is the only god who ascended without climbing the corporate ladder. in fact, she doesn't even manage a department. she just wanders about and does whatever she wants in the mortal planes causing headaches for all the departments. imagine, if you will, you're a minor clerk in the Department of the Seas tracking wave trajectories in a mortal plane on a spreadsheet. for some completely inexplicable reason, some of the numbers start increasing with no apparent cause and now there's a tsunami off the coast of a major city about to grant entry to a whooole lot of souls into the EB. that's probably Nellie getting bored. and now the rest of the department has to go back and retroactively change some of the waves values in the past to make it make sense.

so... an eternity of office work? sounds like hell to me. what happens if you go crazy? i mean, an eternity of anything would make you lose your marbles. this is something known in the EB as "expiration." what happens when you expire? well this shares an answer with the question "what happens when you get fired?" the eternal bureaucracy doesn't want unemployable/crazy souls wandering about. all these souls are transported to nowhereland. nowhereland is the only world that belongs to Nellie and it is contrived to be as miserable as possible. it's an endless snowy wasteland. the occasional town or camp dots the infinite haze. large monsters and entities---some stolen from other worlds, others unique to nowhereland---roam the wastes and tear people to shreds. most notably, creatures called Unreasonables wander. they can best be described as "icy people," who steal warmth from the living to stay alive, turning more souls into Unreasonables. upon death, souls respawn in the middle of nowhere and remember everything---their entire existence---for a fraction of a second before forgetting again. venturing out into the cold by yourself makes you forget too. souls here cannot age and cannot reproduce. whenever anyone attempts to innovate or improve conditions, they are killed and their work vanishes in freak accidents or they simply vanish into the snow, respawning and forgetting. what few nations exist do so in a constant state of tyranny, chaos, and/or warfare. the largest empire is the Volzkan Empire which is so large that nobody is even quite sure who controls it or even how large it really is. subordinates merely answer to their leaders, who in turn answer to their leaders in a never ending chain of command. food and equipment just show up when nobody is looking and are frequently found in massive ruins of cities and wrecks of airships that scatter the wastes. scavenging is a risky but common career. so basically imagine living in Alaska but it's a little better (i've never stepped foot in alaska but i imagine that's what it's like)

so yeah that's where nearly every soul will eventually spend their eternity. even the gods will---eventually. unless they stay sane for an eternity, which is impossible as far as i'm concerned. who knows? it might be possible, but you could never prove it.

so how about religion on the mortal planes? well, that's handled by the Department of Faith who basically has to do clean up duty making the EB look good to the mortals after all the departments wreak havoc to society. the DOFaith handles priests and churches and all that. religion is based on employability and professionalism. it also emphasizes compassion and kindness but (just like real religions!) most people disregard those parts. religion will differentiate from world to world but those are the core principles.

honestly i think that's about it. i mostly just use the EB as a place to think about a happily ever after scenario for my characters (while ignoring nowhereland and also the actual desk-work parts of the EB)

if you have questions feel free to ask! i only really covered the basics on most of it and i would love to go into further detail if you'd like me to!

#worldbuilding #world building #lore #exposition #afterlife #eternal bureaucracy #i typed this whole thing with cold and numb fingers just like every office worker in the eternal bureaucracy #way to be immersed!

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