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javierpena-inatacvest · 2 months

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Sunday Naps

Summary: It's Sunday, which means it's time for your favorite weekend activity- an afternoon nap with Frankie. But when Frankie finds himself awake before you with an interesting problem, he knows just the way to wake you up, too.

Pairing: Frankie Morales x F!Reader (no use of y/n, established relationship)

Word Count: 2.6K (The self restraint on this was UNREAL)

Warnings: SMUT (18+), unprotected p in v sex (don't do this irl), VERY CONSENSUAL Somnophilia, oral sex (f receiving), creampie, praise kink, this is porn with no plot, reader has no physical descriptions (but pls let me know if I missed any!!)Frankie being a menace but also literally the sweetest man alive, Frankie's a Tampa Bay Buc's fan (idk, if he lives in Florida, this makes the most sense to me, I will not elaborate), napping during football bc me too, girl

A/N: This is my first time writing somno so pls be nice, I am NERVY😭 I hope y'all enjoy, Frankie Morales is forever making me swoon, and I just know in my heart that this man absolutely loves to nap and is the world's biggest snuggler 🥺💕 not beta'd bc that's just how I roll

Before you had met Frankie, Sunday was arguably the worst of the weekend days- looming stress of the work week ahead, mettled with to-do’s and other chores before Monday got the best of you. There were very few times that you had found yourself anxiously awaiting a Sunday, but since Frankie? Sundays had easily become one of your favorite days of the week.

Slow and easy going mornings where Frankie brought you coffee as the sun rose before tangling your bodies between the sheets in a mess of soft and unrushed sex, followed by cuddling and leisurely making your way out of bed for breakfast, awaiting a relaxing day ahead of you.

Now that it was fall, it also meant football season, and while you didn’t really care either way about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, you enjoyed any time that you got to spend cuddled up next to Frankie on the couch, considering more often than not, it normally resulted in the two of you fucking during half-time, followed by you promptly napping wrapped in Frankie’s arms for the better part of the 2nd half.

This Sunday was no different, you and Frankie had found yourself happily snuggled on your couch under your favorite fluffy blanket, Buccaneers game on in the background, Frankie’s arm draped around you as you leaned against his chest, soaking in the familiar warmth and scent of him radiating from the worn cotton of his t-shirt as you felt your eyelids slowly begin to droop heavier and heavier. With the way Frankie had been mindlessly rubbing soft, gentle circles against your back, his thumb dancing in swirling patterns across your skin, it wasn’t long before the comfort of being held in Frankie’s arms had completely washed over you, and you had found yourself fast asleep well before the start of the second quarter.

What you hadn’t realized, was that Frankie had fallen asleep not long after you, the weight of your body pressed against his, along with the long week he’d had from work and the symphony of melodic snores now roaring from your parted lips and knocked him out almost equally as fast, leaving the two of you in a blissfully happy pile of nap on another lazy Sunday afternoon.

That was, until, Frankie found himself wide awake well before you with a very curious problem.

He was hard as a fucking rock.

Some way or another in your sleepy, napping state, the both of you had rolled over on your sides, Frankie now spooning you with his arm draped over your middle and your ass pressed firmly against his crotch, quickly solving the mystery to the hardon straining at the fabric of his sweatpants.

But if just your ass nestled against your dick wasn’t enough, Frankie looked over to see that you were definitely also dreaming, and the type of dream you were having wasn’t hard to decipher based on the way you were quietly moaning in your sleep and subtly grinding your hips into Frankie’s lap.

“Mmmmmmm… Frankie…..” You quietly whimpered, your voice groggy with sleep as you stirred in Frankie’s arms, now finding himself almost unbearably hard at the sight that he’d awoken to, especially now knowing that the dream you were having was definitely about him. Frankie let out a deep, shaky exhale, now more awake than ever as you continued to gently squirmed your bottom half against him, biting down at his bottom lip as you moaned again.

“Frankie… Oh fuck…..”

“Fuck…” Frankie whispered, now raging an internal war in his head as he debated what to do next, knowing you were clearly turned on by whatever was happening in your slumber, his cock aching with each second that passed with you spooned against him.

Should he just try to get up and jerk off before you woke up? Wake you up and then ask if you wanted to fuck? Or maybe… Maybe, he’d wake you up a different way.

Although he hadn’t done it often, you had made it abundantly clear to Frankie that it had been more than okay to wake you up to sex, and every time he had, you’d absolutely loved it. Frankie had been hesitant at first, never wanting to do anything without your consent, or do anything that would ever make you feel even remotely uncomfortable, but after you had insisted and he had worked up the courage, he knew he had the green light from that point on- And given the state that you were in right now, Frankie was about to make good on your outstanding offer.

Carefully shifting his body out from behind you, Frankie let you gently fall so your back was resting against the couch, caging his broad body over yours as he worked his way down to the waistband of your pants, gently sliding them off your hips before tugging at your underwear and leaving your bottom half bare for him.

Frankie sat back on his knees, in shock and awe of the glistening, wet mess your pussy had already become in your sleep just dreaming of him, arousal coating your folds and inside of your thighs as you lazily shifted in your sleep, your legs seeming to instinctually fall open, just for him.

“Fuck me, baby girl…” He whispered to himself under his breath, his adam’s apple bobbing in his throat as he audibly gulped, his eyes going wide as he locked on to your cunt, already dripping and aching for him. Settling down to lay on his stomach, he carefully lifted up your legs to rest over his shoulders, wrapping his arms around your waist, fingertips digging into the soft flesh of your hips while he settled himself face to face with your heat.

With one long, flat press of his tongue, Frankie dragged himself across your clit, savoring the sweet tang of the juices that had been dripping from your hole, lapping them up with one more lengthy lick, before pulling his mouth away just enough to see how you’d react to the new presence between your legs.

As if Frankie wasn’t already turned on enough, your reaction was clearly aiding his cause.

After just one lick of his tongue through your folds, you were already incredibly responsive, your hips instinctively jerking towards his face as a breathy whine escaped from your lips, as if you were already begging for more without having to say a word. A slight smirk began to spread across Frankie’s face as he dove back in again, this time, working himself along your cunt in easy, languid strokes, feeling your body begin to twitch even more with the way he was working his mouth.

“Mmmmmmm…. Yeah…..” You muttered, still sleeping as you kept bucking your bottom half against his face, only encouraging Frankie to give you more with his tongue, beginning to change his pattern to swirl deliberate, steady circles around your clit, putting more and more pressure into each movement.

“Frankie….”

“That’s it, sweet girl…” Frankie hummed, his words rumbling in his chest as his hot breath danced against your core, continuing to coax you out of your slumber, working through your folds and at your sensitive bud with intensifying pace.

It wasn’t long until Frankie’s careful and meticulous work slowly began to turn more sloppy and desperate, feeling the wet mess you were becoming under his tongue driving him insane, wanting, no needing, to make you cum, to wake you up with pleasure flowing through your veins, turning your sleepy mumbles into cries of his name over and over again.

Letting one arm untangle around your leg, he brought the hand to your pussy, gently slipping one finger into your aching core, sucking him in with your warm, wet walls, only giving it a few pumps before realizing you could easily take a second, slipping it in to meet the first and curling the pair to brush against the soft and spongy spot inside you he knew drove you absolutely mad. Almost instantly, he could feel your cunt beginning to clench in response, your tell tale sign that you were getting closer and closer to reaching your high and completely coming undone around him.

“C’mon, querida, I’ve got you, baby.”

Suddenly, your eyes shot open, your heart racing as you felt a familiar feeling building in your belly, the coil inside you already wound so tightly as you let out a ragged moan, lifting your head up to see Frankie nestled between your legs, drinking you up like a man starved.

“Oh fuck, Frankie, fuck- baby, fuck, don’t stop” You whimpered, shooting your hand down to burry it in the messy, dark curls of his hair, tugging at his locks for any sort of relief as you had awoken to the savory sensation shooting down your spine and through your core from Frankie’s lips latched around your clit and fingers pulsing in and out of your cunt.

Frankie had barely any time to register that you were now awake, but as you grasped firmer at his hair and let out a ragged moan as you came, clenching around his fingers and gushing with your arousal, it had become very clear to Frankie that he had done his job, and done it well.

“There’s my good girl. Damelo (Give it to me), Hermosa, fucking soak my face.” Frankie smirked, pulling away to reveal the shiny slick covering his beard, still gently rocking his fingers in the warm, wet walls of your heat as you came down from your high, you chest heaving in low, shallow breaths, mouth hanging open as you let a moan of pure ecstasy fall from your lips.

“Frankie… Holy Fuck…”

“Good morning.” Frankie mewled, pulling his fingers out of your pussy, making you hiss at the loss as he laid himself on top of you, swallowing your whimpers in an electric kiss, the tangy taste of you still lingering on his lips as his tongue swiped across your mouth, silently begging for more. “Must have been some good dreams you were having, querida. You were so fucking wet for me, baby. I couldn’t help myself.”

“Frankie, please, I need you. Fuck- Fuck, I need you to fuck me, Frankie, please. Need you inside me.”

“Needy girl. I’ve got you, Hermosa. Don’t worry. Woke up so fucking hard for you, baby. Didn’t stand a fucking chance with that pretty ass all pressed up against me. Fuck, you’re so perfect.” Frankie sighed, reaching down to shuffle his sweatpants and boxers down off his hips, revealing his painfully hard cock, his tip red and weeping with precum, aching to be buried inside you from the moment he had woken up.

Wrapping his hand around his length, he stroked himself a few times before lining up with your entrance, the two of you letting out a heavy sigh of relief as Frankie pushed inside you, slowly filling you up inch by inch until his tip was kissing your cervix, taking a few moments to let you adjust to the sweet sting and stretch of his fullness.

His forehead dropped to rest against yours, the shimmering sheen of his sweat making his dark curls stick to him and brush against your skin, his broad palm cupping your cheek as he let your lips lock onto yours again for another tender kiss as he slowly began to thrust in and out of you, taking his sweet time with each stroke.

“Fuck, you’re so wet and tight, queirda.” Frankie grunted, gritting his teeth as his hips rutted into you, the weight of his body draped overtop of you sending your mind reeling, loving every second of being engulfed in his broadness. “What were you dreaming about, baby, hmm? What were you dreaming about that had you all worked up?”

Suddenly, Frankie’s arm was wrapping under your legs, pressing your knees to your chest to stretch you open even further, the new position making you breathless as he began to pound into you with more intensity, the room now filling with a mix of your moans and skin slapping against each other.

“I was dreaming- oh fuck- Fuck, I was dreaming about you, Frankie. Shit- dreaming about you fucking me like this, how good you make me feel.” You whined, Frankie’s grip in the soft flesh of your thighs growing tighter as you locked eyes with him, the dark, chocolate brown pooling with lust watching the wrecked mess you were quickly becoming as your cunt began to clench tighter, and the all too familiar tingle in your spine once again began to creep through your body.

Your response elicited a low hum in Frankie’s chest, rutting his hips into you with more intensity as he felt your pussy starting to flutter around his cock, freeing one of his hands to snake between your legs, the pads of his fingers putting just the right amount of pressure on your clit to have you screaming out his name as you felt yourself creep closer and closer to your second orgasm.

“Fuck me. That’s all I want baby, just wanna make you feel good. You gonna be a good girl and give me one more, Hermosa? Cum all over my cock before I fill you up?”

Frankie could feel his own high slowly approaching now too, his thrusts becoming more sloppy and frantic as he pounded against your g-spot and circled your clit, determined to make sure you came again before he did.

“Mmmmmhhhmmmm.” You whimpered, your brain barely even able to form a coherent thought, let alone a complete sentence, given how your eyes were practically rolling in the back of your head as Frankie’s punishing pace split you open in the best way possible, your legs beginning to tremble while you could feel the knot tightening in your core quickly building up to the point of snapping. “Oh fuck, fuck, Frankie, fuckfuckfuckfuck I’m so close, fuck, I’m gonna-ahhhhhh.”

Before you could even finish your sentence, your orgasm crashed through you, euphoria flowing through your veins as you came, every inch of you filling with pleasure as your cunt clamped around Frankie’s length, soaking him in your arousal. Watching you cum was all Frankie needed to follow suit, gritting his teeth as a ragged groan rumbled deep in his chest, pumping a few more times into your heat before burying himself in your warm, wet walls, and milking himself of every last drop as he came, the mix of his spend and your slick leaking and coating the inside of your thighs

Letting his body collapse into yours, he draped himself on top of you, your chests rising and falling in sync with heavy, heaving breaths, the both of you trying your best to regain your composure before Frankie gently pulled himself out, making you hiss at the loss of his fullness as he flopped over next to you, planting a soft kiss on your lips as lay his arm across your stomach, pulling you into him.

“Jesus Christ, Frankie… That’s one way to wake up from a nap.” You giggled softly, raising your eyebrows at him, softly biting down on your lip.

“Was that okay?” Frankie asked, shifting his hand up to gently cup your face, stroking his thumb in lazy circles around your cheek, staring back at you with his sweet puppy dog gaze. “I know I’ve done it before but I just always wanna make sure you feel good and-”

You caught the rest of his sentence in your mouth, swallowing his words in another long, and tender kiss, pulling away from his plush lips to peck a tiny kiss on the tip of his nose, giggling once again.

“God, I love you. What did I ever do to deserve you, Fransisco Morales? Yes, baby it was more than okay. So okay that in fact,” You huffed, wrapping your arm around Frankie’s waist and letting your head fall to lay on his chest, “I think I need another nap.”

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riacte · 2 months

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So like, are we gonna talk about how there is a problem in this fandom about some creators, mostly female ccs, being critized by fans whenever they "overshadow" the more famous hermits? No shade to any of the hermits, they are wonderful and i am sure this is the last thing they wanted to happen, but i am starting to notice a pattern. And it s always with the same excuses! "They did not play by the rules" "Someone else did the work for them" "It was boring and anticlimatic". And although I can think of some cases of this happening to male ccs (well, one case, and it was to a non-hermit), women have to deal with a looot of shit every time they score a victory, and it s terrible that this is just a routine at this point. And like where do the critics come from? Are these ccs supposed to lose in purpose and act as secondary characters to those who have more views or subs? I just don t understand

Oh yeah there's definitely a misogyny / popularity problem. It's always been around, got a bit better, and now post-Covid, it's getting worse.

Women can do everything and anything and they'll be criticised by some assholes. If False was proactive and killed every reaper who came near her? She would be "mean" and "a bully". If False kept her distance? She would be "barely online" and "not deserve a win". If False was on all the time, "the trappers wouldn't have time to lay traps". If False wasn't on because of work purposes (the meeting) or to EAT (because women are human beings who LIVE), "she wouldn't have a chance to die". I found it sad to see False explain herself and justify her jokes and actions. AND that is wholly dismissive of any irl things that may or may not have been going on.

Also... the popularity gap is getting worse. Some hermits have stagnating or even negative growth in terms of viewership and subs. It's unfortunate because everyone is free to watch who they want, work with who they want, everyone has limited time and attention span, so there's no real solution. Which is why I'm all for spreading propaganda. And I feel like my mains False and Ren are in the middle in terms of this— not the most popular, not the least either, so they kind of get left out when it comes to "underrated hermits" discussions. Idk. I know this has been a problem since the birth of Hermitblr and I know from the pov of a fan I do have it much, much better than some other fans who main other people. My main duo interact alllllllll the damn time. And I know I am guilty of sticking very closely to my main povs.

We have to drown out the trolls. Be vocal about what we love. I love seeing all the nice comments on vids. <3

#ask box #answered #discourse #negativity #salt

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jbbartram-illu · 1 year

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Uh… hi! It’s uh… me again.

Sorry for popping into your inbox so much. It’s just that I’m a beginner ceramicist and I’m fascinated and awed by your work. (It also doesn’t help that my irl teacher doesn’t know what she’s doing). I’ve got some questions about the way that you bring your adorable creechurs to life.

What is the method of layering clay and then carving out designs in the different coloured clay? I find it really interesting, tbh

Where does the process start? Do you like, start with a sketch? Or with like an “I want to make a cute creature.” Sorta vibe?

And uh, what kinds of glaze do you use? Any tips?

Sorryagainforaskingsomanyquestionsitsjustthatiloveyourworksomuch!

Have a nice day!

Hey, @drgalacticcandy! This ask (which please, never apologize for sending an ask! I love them!! Also thank you for your kind words about my work!) came at a perfect time because your first Q is answered by another ask I just responded to in great depth!

The technique where I carve out designs is called sgraffito & I just wrote a small novella about the technique here!

In terms of the creative process, it depends on the creature! Almost all of them need some sort of photo-reference at some point, especially the ones I want to look more like an actual creature that exists (eg. my bird ladies, the pod guys).

For things like the sphinxes and the ungulates, I did peek at some photo reference at the very start (looked at some cats for sphinx anatomy & lots of musk oxen & goats for the ungulates), but am now just going off of what's goopin' around in my brain. I do sometimes still do sketches for the designs I make a lot, especially when I want to do a new body shape, eg. this flying guy.

I did quite a few sketches for the Puffin BirdLady because I'd hardly even drawn puffins before, let alone sculpted one, but other birds I'm more familiar with (loons, ravens/crows) I just keep some photo ref up on my laptop in case I need to check a detail & go straight to sculpting.

Some of the simpler beasts I just go ahead and sculpt without any drawings, eg. the snats/slats (snailcats/slugcats) & the owlbears (tho I did look at a bunch of owl-face photo ref to inspire their patterns!):

I do find sketching especially useful for creatures that require some new engineering, eg. the sphinx dishes or fishbutts in new positions, as doing the drawings helps me work out how the various bits will attach together or what issues I might come up against while trying to sculpt a new pose.

And glazes...whew! I'm still SUCH a glaze newbie & really don't know anything about them yet. My usual tendency when encountering a new art adventure is to just dive in headfirst with minimal research and GO, which is mayyyyybe not the best with glazes??

And yet I still just see a pretty glaze and go OH HI I AM BUYING U NOW (with one caveat -- I always read the description and if it's described as a runny/difficult to use glaze I drop it and run because my sculptures are wee and I don't want any glaze floods in the kiln!).

I'm also lucky to have a really great kiln tech in my friend who fires my stuff who does actually know more about the chemistry of glazes, so sometimes I pass my flights of fancy by her to make sure I'm not doing anything silly. In terms of glaze brands, I love Amaco & Coyote, both of whom make plenty of beautiful glazes that are also easy to use.

For my sgraffito work, when I'm not glazing with clear glaze I put a variety of colours of celadon glaze overtop (most of mine are Coytoe brand). Celadons are translucent, so patterns will show through them - you can also do designs in underglaze and put a celadon glaze overtop & get some neat effects - below are some examples of celadons over sgraffito...

...and celadons over underglaze designs...

I know the glaze portion of this answer wasn't the most helpful, but there are definitely lots of forums & websites that contain loads of great info about all the alchemical intricacies of glazes! If you can befriend some potters IRL, that can also be an amazing resource for learning.

Phew. Why do my answers always end up so long?? I hope this was helpful & please don't hesitate to ask if you have more Qs!

#ask answered #ask #artblog #ceramics #ceramicsculpture #pottery

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thylacines-toybox · 1 year

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i love love love love the chimera character in your icon!! did you make them? if you did, do youve detail pics and/or wip pictures? i really want to make / modify a sensory plush for myself so i love the addition of things like the teether tail and would love to see all the little beastie's features and learn more about them if youre ok with sharing!! and in general, do you ever post WIPs or tips abt sewing?? thanks for your time and sharing your amazing work with us!

First off, yes I do have a few bits and pieces of sewing advice in my plushie advice tag! There could always be more, though…

I’m glad you enjoy my chimera, I love him too! He was such fun to make and come up with all the babyish details for, and I’m very proud of him.

I don’t really have wip pics of the chimera (since I was kind of in The Zone making him) but I can take you on a, uh, short tour of his features, that sounds fun!

The baby boy himself… lots of pictures and words under the cut!

Here are the first doodles of him as I came up with his design! I was trying to make a cute lion/lamb (the meanings of the two parts of my irl name!) which is basically a chimera already, and the combination of primary colours, rainbows, and a cloud-like wool mane made the weather theme just happen.

Obviously I just had to sew this! He already looked just like a colourful baby toy.

Here is his lovely little face. I took style inspiration from a lion toy I had already, and to keep him accurate to a baby-toy style, I used embroidery stitches to make his face rather than any “choking hazards” like plastic eyes. I’ve not really used embroidery before so it was pretty hard to do neatly!

He’s also got ribbon loops for whiskers (or are they sun rays?) and you can also see a bit of star-textured minky fabric on his face and ears. Fun textures are important!

His mane is made with a super soft and fluffy fur fabric. Maybe not strictly “baby safe” since it can slightly shed fibres, but it’s very nice, and I’m not exactly a real baby lol. His horns have a nice ridged texture, you’ll see what those were made from in a moment…

Oh, I also added a banana scent chip from Build-a-Bear into his little head, because I love that smell. He’s a multi-sensory plush alright.

His front paws have some noises in them! In the red one is a squeaker, and the blue one is a rattle. You can buy these especially for putting in toys, but the rattle I used in him was actually just a little plastic capsule with a few beads inside like pictured!

All four paws have a bumpy rubbery texture on them. Rather appropriately, they are made from actual baby socks! I found a multipack of different colours that matched my planned colours perfectly by sheer luck.

The ridged horn material came from the top of the red sock!

Here is the tummy, also made with a star textured fabric. It has a cylindrical chime inside which makes a lovely musical jingling sound when he’s tipped around.

While bean filling probably isn’t baby safe either, I did put a beanbag in his bottom because I like a bit of weight and it helps him sit nice.

The wings have matching dimple textured minky on one side and smooth minky on the other. I feel like dimple minky is a must if you want to make a babyish toy!

Inside the wings are some pieces of (clean) cereal packet to give them a light crinkle sound. You can buy crinkly material especially for this too, which can be a lot noisier! He’s actually very quiet as crinkly toys go, but I’m okay with this.

He’s got some little raindrop patches made from dotty cotton, with more embroidered edges which I recall having a lot of difficulty with… looks good though! As well as textures, you gotta include some fun visual patterns in a baby toy too.

And finally, the tail! A thick rainbow ribbon holding a cloud shaped teether - another lucky find in a baby shop! It came attached to a squeaky sun and crinkly rainbow, currently held by another toy.

Originally I’d simply stitched the end of the ribbon in place around the teether, but then I got some plastic snaps (for making bandanas with!) and found they gave it a much nicer finish.

And that’s about it! Hope you enjoyed getting to know the little chimera and his features!

#plushie advice #baby toy #sensory toy #thyl-ask-ine #chimera

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24hrfrog · 4 months

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!! w/ the top gun au x pjo theyre all baby teens, i think its more fun to mirror how percy was in the first book (yes i literally grew up on this series i will put top gun au in the very beginning ✊🫡) also no the pjo characters (literally everyone minus the gods and Charon) dont exist in this au theyre basically replaced with these four

idk the actual ages of mav, ice, goose n slider so heres a guess thats prob v wrong of their age gaps irl (like to the actors actual ages) but canon in my little au lol

Slider:

+ 15, got to camp when he was a baby bc no one wanted him 🧌 he grew up there and survived, he stayed with the hermes kids until he was 10 when he was claimed :( zeus sucks.

+ has abandonment issues which is why he is stuck so close to ice as they have a strong connection, tries his best to always succeed due to fear of disappointment to zeus, tries to be mature but ends up crying and needing comfort (sad kid bro, too much stress, is being forced to grow up basically which is why mav is such a nice balance helping him be childish/immature whenever they argue— its all out of endearment)

Ice:

+ 14, met slider when he was 9– is the reason slider got claimed in the first place when slider ended up discovering he could blast people saving ice from monsters chasing him up the hill, campers steered clear of slider after that due to the “ohh hes the son of zeus” effect so ice had slider and slider had ice, ice was claimed just a few days into camp life

+ bosses people around but its bc he knows and plans things they dont and never reveals why he tells ppl to do what until after the fact which can be kinda annoying but u just gotta trust ice— even if he tells u to stab him or if he betrays u for a second (lol). he finds patterns in peoples personalities that helps him guess what their reaction to different scenarios will be so he doesn’t get surprised by a lot of things and can defuse a situation with just words in a snap

Mav:

+ 13, youngest lil baby, got to camp just a few weeks ago basically and got too many enemies when he helped his team win in capture the flag— immediately got claimed by ares after that especially when he fought dirty and took out slider mid game which pissed off the winner who had a streak going

+ naturally gifted, his adhd is a bit more intense than other demigods making reflexes and senses more heightened (a blessing and a curse) he prefers to sleep outside in a makeshift tent he has pitched up a little farther into the woods since he prefers nature more over other peoples company (minus goose) a lot of energy but a bit of a loner if no one he’s rlly close to is around— came from an foster family that adopted him that is apart of the demigod protection group, hasnt seen what campers like ice and slider have seen yet in the demigod world (friends dying, quests where no one comes back, parents being dead beats, etc)

Goose:

+ 15, older than slider already has a crush (carole, a girl back in the mortal world he sees every summer, shes 16 and they were paired up as a pianist and singer for a performance which started off their relationship), got to camp when he was 13 and prefers non fighting activities, got claimed when he and the campers had a sing along

+ never rlly talked to slider or ice until mav got to camp and wouldnt stop pestering the only zeus child if he could shoot lasers out of his eyes, goose and ice get along fine tho ice sees a loyal comrade with goose which he admires, occasionally has sleep overs with mav in his tent outside whenever mav wants the company or a tranquilizer to sleep, gets too many migraines from shenanigans to the point he always has a thermos with a soothing tea and a case of Tylenol

#weapon wise mav has a spear bc hes short and needs the arm reach lol goose is just back up so he has lots of meds and a swiss army knife #ice has two sword he technically only carries around one just in case slider looses his but ended up learning how to double weild for fun #slider has a sword but nowadays plays around with powers as well #top gun 1986

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adobe-outdesign · 5 months

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Do you have any opinion on the Clamperl line(s)?

Clamperl is a pretty cute thing. There's really nothing to it other than Being a Clam, but it does have a pleasant design with the blue and pink combo. I think that it's neat that its head is effectively the pink pearl inside, which is surrounded by a good amount of fleshy clam bits. I also like that the blush marks are perfectly circular and the eyes are perfect half circles, so the whole thing has a visual pattern, especially with the semi-circular blue bits around it.

However, while I have no issues with Clamperl as a design, I do think it's a pretty bizarre pre-evo. Huntail and Gorebyss go together—similar body shape, similar tails with Huntail's even resembling Gorebyss' head, etc.—but them both evolving from a clam is very random. There's not much similarity between it and its evos either; the closest I can get is that the circular blush resembles Huntail's false eyespots, and obviously the colors split, but anything beyond that is a stretch.

(Also, I keep hearing people say that Clamperl is supposed to be an egg, but there's nothing in canon that supports or even suggests that. In fact, Spoink's pearls come from Clamperl, making it even more unlikely.)

The actual reason for this, as we'll get into later, is that most of these designs come from completely different unrelated lines that got slapped together during production. I like all of the designs well enough in isolation, but they really lack coherency when put together.

Huntail is definitely my favorite of these three. Vaguely based off a gulper eel, it keeps up with Clamperl's circle motif by including half-circle fins and spots all over its body. Like a lot of IRL deep-sea fish, the spots are actually bioluminescent, with the tail serving as a lure. Neat!

Beyond that, I like the orange accents and how they pop against the blue. The circles break up the body nicely without being overbearing, and the tiny dot eye matches the spots. Just nicely designed overall.

The Spaceworld demo shows that Gorebyss had a more gulper eel-like design originally and was the third stage in a completely different line. This line... is not any more coherent than the one we got, so no loss here. Huntail's finalized design is also much better than this prototype.

To make things even more of a mess, the first sunfish in this line had a completely different earlier evo line that had nothing to do with sharks or eels.

Gorebyss is all right, though not as good as Huntail. It's more or less a long-nosed chimaera, which is a neat inspiration for an animal, and it goes pretty well with Gorebyss. I like the palette again here and the delicate wispy parts coming off of its head.

I also like that it's actually a violent blood-sucking predator.

However, I really dislike that weird seashell bra thing it has. It breaks up the otherwise smooth body shape, is more detailed than anything else on its body, and why does a fish need a bra? I would say they're left over from Clamperl's shell, except the shape is completely different. It would've looked much better to have had more of the white stripes there, which would make the ones on its tail feel less out of place. You could also do a row of spots down its body instead, to further its connection to Huntail.

Anyway, overall, all of these lines are pretty good individually, with Huntail being the strongest and Gorebyss the weakest. Mostly it's just the lack of coherency that drags the line down a bit.

#clamperl #huntail #gorebyss #pokemon #pokemon reviews #outdesign attempts to edit

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peppapigvevo · 1 year

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STYLISTA

Guess who got the Bootique Clawdeen.

Let's have a wholly unprofessional and unsponsored review post!

Boring stuff out of the way first; she was on Amazon for $44.99 USD. She's currently on a 7% off sale so you can get the set for $41.85 USD.

The back of the box shows off some styling ideas as well as a little blurb in multiple languages.

The sides have more styling options.

The top of the box has a nifty little inventory of all the things contained within.

I didn't take any pictures of the inside but the doll, furniture and accessories were packaged very simply; the accessories were inside white paper bags, the furniture was strapped in to fit and Clawdeen had her own compartment on the left side. Not a display packaging obviously, since the box itself has no clear portions. On that note, I think the QC for facial screenings has gotten better, since Skulltimate Secrets and now this were packaged with no way to see the doll until you open the packaging. all the Skulltimate secrets dolls and this Clawdeen have perfect faces.

This is how Clawdeen was packaged: wearing her purple jumpsuit, green belt, green earrings and the pink translucent booties.

The doll herself does in fact have the torso joint. The lighting in my room is a little yellow, so you can't see it clearly, but her lid and undereye are lavender, with a magenta crease. Her lips are a much more saturated fuchsia red in real life. her hair is a berry color, with the light lavender color she typically gets. On the subject of her hair...

...I am not an expert, i am just a doll-collecting homosexual, but it does NOT feel like the same kind of hair texture every other Clawdeen has. I can't be sure if its nylon or saran or whatever, but it feels denser and waxier than the polypropolene. It wasn't as tangled before or after a wash, and the ends weren't as frayed.

You can see how it washed. This does NOT look the same as my other Clawdeens I washed, so take that as you will. I still need to reset the curl pattern, of course.

On to the clothing. The jumpsuit is actually a pretty heavy and dense denim, in this purple leopard print with lavender and blue spots, and magenta and black slash marks. It has short, cuffed sleeves and a pointed shirt collar, and cuffs on the hem of the pant legs. the waist has lime stitching and faux pockets.

All of Clawdeens belts have 3 different closure holes, so they can be worn tighter or looser at your discretion. This lime green belt has a skullette buckle and a very long trailing tail.

The booties are a light fuchsia with spikes on the top, and the heels are crescent moons. I know a lot of new MH shoes have interesting detailing on the soles, but these don't, probably because they're clear.

I'm gonna do the outfit pieces in groups. The sweater is yellow, with blue, white and purple circle detailing. The chest has an aqua triangle, the same color as the slash marks. The collar, cuffs and hem are the same blue as the circles on the sweater.

The tank top looked black at first, but it actually has a very subtle bleach dye effect that looks like mist in the dark, it's pretty nice irl. The shirt also has a tri-moon vinyl on it, with a howling wolf on the center full moon.

The green skirt is a lighter weight denim than the jump suit, with darker green spots and a frayed hem under a stitch. The cupcake skirt is in a metallic fabric with a slight blue shift; its really pretty in person. The waist is black elastic and the skirt is covered with criss-crossing claw marks.

The dress is a one-shoulder thigh length ruched number. Because of the design, it doesn't look like much on a hanger but it sings on the doll. The dress is blue with purple and pink leopard spots.

The scarf is hot pink with gold metallic flecks. The stole is a softer pink.

If you're insane like me and already have Skulltimate Secrets Clawdeen, this bucket hat should look familiar. It's the same mold in a periwinkle blue, sans the leopard spots. The canvas and stitch molding is REALLY nice.

I thought the boots had layers of fur, but theyre actually molded to look like slouchy fabric boots, with a repeating skullette pattern. The heels are lined in spikes, and theres a tie molded at the top.

The lime sneakers are the exact same mold as Ghoul Spirit Clawdeen, but in a solid green.

The set also comes with 5 hangers for extra outfits. They're kind of swirly and dainty looking, more like g1 Catrine. They come in pink, lavender, purple, blue and green.

Our girl comes with a lot of accessories! The lime green necklace, again, is the same mold as one that comes with Skulltimate Sectrets Clawdeen. Its a short chain with three dangling crescent moons, with a longer rope chain under that. The magenta necklace and choker are recast from her g3 signature; a circular moon pendant on a crescent moon chain, paired with a star choker.

The gold fur bangle is reused from her Ghoul Spirit doll. The magenta spiked cuff and purple cuff are new though. The magenta one is a simple spiked band while the purple has teeth detailing all around it, I did a terrible job photographing these so if anyone wants any clearer pics just let me know lmao.

The glasses are her signature glasses, in black. The magenta comb is a tiger-striped crescent moon with a studded handle.

The long gold piece is a hair barrette that says MONSTER. The long purple piece is a three-finger ring with the triple moon motif on it.

The black earring is a double crescent moon. IIRC this appeared first on Ghoul Spirit from this gen. The blue hoop with the dangling moon is also from Ghoul Spirit.

I didn't take close up picks of hem, but the green earings are a spiked hoop and a triple moon, recast from her signature earrings.

The gold belt has a double crescent moon buckle, mimicking the Gucci logo:

Finally, her bag is a large tote or shopping bag, covered in the same skullette molding as her boots. The green "HOWL" is flanked by pink bands with small crescent moons, and the moon shaped handles have tooth details.

The furniture she comes with are really cute and would look ADORABLE with her bedroom playset. The coffin-shaped clothing rack is studded, with the triple moon detail at the top. At the bottom are purple trays, and the lavender wheels do function.

The moon vanity has a circular mirror with two small shelves, a moon phases detail on the faux-drawer, and a moon shaped foot.

The pink stool has a starburst on the foot and the seat is molded to look like its padded or has draped pleats.

Final looks and thoughts in the next post!

#monster high #clawdeen wolf

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freshmangojuice · 11 days

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hello, your blog is a ray of sun on dark days :)

I hope it's ok to ask, do you notice any pattern in the age of people in fandom on here and the enjoyment of the late series? I'm just curious about it - among my irl millennial friends, nobody watches/ talks about it after series VII. </3

aww shucks! Thank you that's so nice

Ooo interesting question. Honestly the ages of of the fandom on Tumblr is so varied. There's people around here who have been watching the show since at least the early 90s, and young people who weren't even BORN when Back To Earth aired. A lot of us are sort of mid-20s early 30s range though, which is probably just because that's the average age of Tumblr users. The wider fandom spans generations which is always cool.

I think we all generally favour the earlier series, but the revival age is well-loved as well. There are some parts we go absolutely bonkers for. I'd expect nostalgia plays a part in whether or not people enjoy the newer stuff. Not me though I only got into Red Dwarf last year lol.

Also I think Tumblr's opinions, no matter our age, are always going to skew positively, just because we aren't engaging with the show in the way that normal people do. Like I wouldn't be running a Red Dwarf blog and making edits and unhinged emo text posts if I wasn't totally obsessed and in love. If that makes sense? idk

If you're interested in general opinions, I'd recommend checking out the Coral Canvass results on Ganymede & Titan from last year. It's a poll ranking every episode, and it's very detailed. I don't personally agree with every placement, but it gives a good idea of how people feel on the whole.

#spoiler: the highest ranking 21st century episode is Skipper at 31 out of 74 #fmj #fmj: text

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cloudyswritings · 3 months

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Gender norms?? In MY Hallownest??

this is basically just some headcanons about gender and society in Hallownest at it’s prime.

So first things first, I think that the gender stereotypes that we’ve got going on Irl are reversed in Hallownest. This has a lot to do with how some bugs in real life work. In a lot of spiders for example males are smaller, shorter lived, and have very flashy colors to attract mates. Female spiders often are larger and duller. This also applies to many other types of bugs including trilobite beetles, mantises, and some beetles(they’ve got their own shit going on with horns tho, we’ll get there don’t worry), and a bunch of others. To this effect the bugs we see in canon who are female tend to be larger than the males. I mean look at the White lady and her tiny ass, shiny ass husband. Neither are bugs but it seems likely the king took the form he did to appeal to the sensibilities of other bugs. So what’s that all mean then? I imagine in Hallownest, larger bugs with duller colors would be assumed to be ladies (or fem presenting) and smaller bugs with bright or striking shell patterns or clothing would be assumed to be guys(or masc presenting). There’s some evidence supporting this in canon too? Like Salubra calls little ghost handsome and striking and while Sly isn’t colorful he is small. Additionally almost all of the bugs we know who are fem presenting are noticeably taller than other bugs we bump into(Dryya, White Lady, Mantis lords, Herrah, Salubra, Iselda, Radi herself, Vespa, even midwife is pretty large compared to other bugs we see). Now obviously this rule isn’t ironclad or anything but it does seem like a quick and dirty guide of what gender norms might have looked like. Masc bugs would be wearing bright clothing or otherwise going out of the way to show off(Charms anyone?) and fem bugs would be the opposite, but also would generally be the ones with more power to pick and choose their partners and infinitely more power to do something about it if they picked wrong. Of course they may all be trickle down from how whipped the White lady has her husband(you go root!). Interestingly this would mean that most bugs would generally assume Hollow is fem presenting, which simply isn’t true(they’re just themself) and try to approach them with that in mind. Of course Hallownest is fallen and even if it wasn’t Hollow had no idea about this back when they lived in the kingdom.

There are only two big exceptions to this rule I could find/remember and they’re all either beetles or Bardoon. So imma start with the beetles instead of dealing with Bardoon and his giant ass. So the thing about beetles is, there’s a shit ton of them, and they’ve kinda done everything. That said a significant number of species have males with huge horns and bright colors, and dull females. The opposite of my above idea. I think this really has more to do with the broadness of beetle groups than anything else. That said in Hallownest I think that any-bug who was trying to seduce a bug with large horns who they knew to be a beetle would assume they were male instead of the general rule(Look at all of the nail masters and the Old Stag, they’re all large, horned, masculine beetles. And Myla who is a small, female, dull colored probably-beetle, also Bretta ig) .This also works nicely because horns seem to be a thing in Hallownest tied mostly to beetles so it’s an easy way of switching rulesets. Ig this means Hollow actually gives off mixed vibes cause nobody knows their species(including them let’s be real), which is probably a massive gender win for them.

Anyway rant over, I’ll probably look at this with horror in the morning and then try to untangle it and make it more coherent. Hope y’all enjoyed!

#hk headcanons #late night #Hk thk #worldbuilding #Fantasy social norms?#Idk #just some thoughts #it could be true #or it could be wrong #Bugs man…

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acheronist · 6 months

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ok here's my player fansign event gossip

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i was running a teensy bit late so i didn't get to say hi to rasmussen but he did look VERY handsome and looked a bit afraid LMAO. my sweet moose was probably out of his depth.. socially awkward darling

debrincat came out second and he was so so so so kind to fans. he was taking a ton of time to stop and sign something for EVERYONE who wanted something signed. about 8 or 9 guys passed him and went inside before he was nearly done walking thru the crowd to sign stuff... :'-) welcome home kitty we love u + it was so nice to see him recognize how excited we are for him too rahhh

i honestly dont remember seeing andrew copp at all but he must have walked by lol

berggren was sooo 🤏🏻🤏🏻 and cute and polite. he signed things very neatly and small and carefully (literally just JB48 in like a 1" square. its ok baby u can take up more space) + we congratulated him on getting called up again because we all love to see him skate and he seemed really genuinely surprised/pleased to hear it

it seemed like ville was bouncing back and forth between both sides of the walk a ton... also just trying to sign everything for everyone who wanted it... he was so 🙂 shaped though.. and he really is pale as fuck i think my guy was refracting sunlight as he walked by. i liked his signature a lot though it was very tight + angular + neatly written. big emphasis on the double Ls in his name. I dont even remember if he spoke though i'll be real.

ben chiarot looked sharp as FUCK. he had a turtleneck on under his suit jacket and his hair all slicked back..... he was serving sexy team dilf without children realness. so my bestie asked him if he just got done at a GQ model shoot while he was signing her shirt and he smirked and laughed under his breath a bit. whore <3

fischer was really fun to look at irl. his face is crazy i want 2 draw him. thats all i got LMAO. i dont remember anything else sorry to the christian fischer stans of tumblr dot com

compher was very polite too but he was moving thru the crowd really quick.. again i think he was just awkward and a little out of his depth w the crowd in the same way ras was? but he was very polite + nice + softspoken tho and i took a selfie w him for @comphy-and-cozy because she's violently in love with him but couldn't be there LOL

ghost looked SAUR sexy.. dark green suit well tailored very kind and polite.. i like that boy ! he was really softspoken too which surprised me because he's been such a freaky bitch on the ice lately

i also dont remember sprong at all but i do remember thinking it was kind of a #serve to match the toque to be the same burgundy color as his suit (also extremely well tailored. everyone looked very handsome). creative ways to make early male pattern baldness be kind of cunty + well dressed for the weather.

DYLAN.... DYYLAAANNNNNNNNNN

he was so so lovely.. definitely doing the same move as debrincat where he was just taking his damn time to sign smth for everyone who wanted smth. he was kind of in Good Captain Autopilot Mode it really reminded me of clips of stevie from the 90s... hockeytown loves our captains so much its unreal. but he signed my jersey and said hi to our little group and i sooo shaky lmao. but i handed him the art & he started to sign the plastic sleeve it was in? and I went no it's for you! and he kind of checked back into real life and went oh OH!!!!! and smiled when he actually looked at it and carried it w him thru the rest of the line :'-) idk i feel like he must get a lot of gifts from fans? but he definitely looked at it inside the doors of the LCA and he definitely carried it w him and didn't throw it away immediately so. big win for people who are me.

lucas and mo were funny asf they made it about 75% of the way thru the line and then the sun came out and was in their eyes and they both said ok i'm done now thank u and left. #respect

joey was so cute.. my bestie made a sign calling him a himbo last year and (then) he asked what a himbo was so we said Lmao google it, and this year he was signing stuff and talking to us and we were like "did you ever google what a himbo was" and he went huh. ohhh yeah lol like he was somehow both Pleased and Very embarrassed about it . cutesie.

newsy came out too!! and his daughter was with him and it was so cute they had matching friendship bracelets and newsy was like (to us the crowd) omg guys can we take a selfie ? can we do that?? and we were like Dawg you're head coach you can do anything you want..... so we all got a selfie w him LMAOOOO and he was so sweet and gently spoken and kind to fans. which still is crazy. i get whiplash every time how different he is to blash (the old coach who was a bitch and looked like he wanted to call people slurs but knew better) its unreallll

i think all the interviews where walman's said how much he likes detroit + feels wanted here weren't lies or exaggerations at all.... he stuck around so long to sign things for everyone (like dylan and debrincat did) and I think he was the last guy on the walk? and he was so funny and smiley and happy to be there.. my fucking GUY!!!!

#drw #also everyone was walked out alongside younger kids who play for the little caesars team and that was so cool too #esp because there were so many ~10 y/o girls who looked like they could kick your ass just hanging out w nhlers as they walked

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bombshelllblonde · 2 months

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hiiihihii!! im backkkk to tell u abt my rdr playthough bc im bored asf haha

¡love this game omg!! the graphics, the story, the details UGH!!!!

hunting is actually so fun for no reason- i bought so many fancy ass guns too 😭

also my play type whenever i play ANY story game thats open world is to do every possible thing every except the actual story so i get a bunch of stuff and then its so muvh easier

in short i have 6000+ dollars 😋

bonus of exploring everything is i got thw white arabian and i love her sm ‼️‼️ i named her pearl and she is my baby

dress up is my seconf favorite hobby

my fav outfit rn is the red vest w the floral pattern on the front (i forget what its called) n the black french dress shirt underneath + the bison necklace talisman

(also arthur w medium-long length hair n short facial hair>>>)

this game is so detail oriented, its kind of insane- im doing a high honor run atm, and i came across the blind beggar for the third (?) time and the blind guy said and i quote

"that is which killing you will finally help you, friend- to hear and see."

is this foreshadowing this feels like foreshadowing

also ik arthurs dies (bc of tiktok edits and fics, they artists in this fandom is amazing!!!) and im not prepared at all 😭 im going to procrastinate so bad

ALSO CHARLES DESERVES SO SO MUCH I LOVE HIM

yk the hole lil speech he has at the campfire yk "most human beings seem to know why they were born but, for me- its seems i was just mean ton hurt and suffer myself" that one

im bawling istg if he doesnt get a good ending im going to be writing a formal complaint to rockstar games

anyways

tw opinions (ik bro its crazy to have opinions in 2024 whattt no wayy)

ive gotten to the point in playing where im in ch 3, and the only way i can progress the actual story is to help micah rob a stagecoach or whatever

micah is a bastard and i dont like him

him as a character is rlly well written and awesome but,,,,,hes,,,slimy,,and i hate him,,,,so he can wait for a little longer ☺️

my favorite characters rn in no particular order is

arthur (obviously) , charles , sean , javier , tilly , marybeth , and kieran

my pookies ‼️‼️

moving on im so sorry this is so so long 😭 idk anyone who likes rdr irl lmao

anyway hope u have a nice day and no wolves attack you and spoke ur horse who bucks you off a cliff

(in rdr btw)

((true story also))

yo, having 6k in chapter 3 is amazing. good for you!

my first playthrough i got the white arabian and i named her Lemoyne Tree as a tribute to the state of Lemoyne and my favorite post malone song Lemon Tree. But she always got super dirty so i then went to the lake next to Strawberry and tamed the red chestnut arabian. I LOVE LOVE LOVE that one, she's gorgeous and arthur always gets that one when i play it. my beautiful baby girl Diablo <3

also yes. heckin FUCK MICAH BELL. even from the beginning he's been a slime ball. hate that man <3

i won't go too far, but just keep yourself high honor towards the end of the game. you need that to be your first ending. :')

Charles deserves the absolute world. just listening to him speak and hanging out with him at camp, and the missions you continue on to do with him throughout the game are so much fun. charles is someone i wish i could have in my real life because he seems like he would be the best person to speak to and hang out with. he is so lovely and down to earth. even arthur says it a couple times throughout the game. charles gets a good ending i promise.

my top blorbos are Arthur, Dutch, Charles, Hosea, and Josiah Trelawny my absolute beloved <33333 just wait until you go on the mission with Charles to find trelawny. one of my favorite missions ever ever ever ever!!

a lot of people dislike dutch, but i love him so much. he is my actual father. i love him.

i also hate john. let me know how you feel about that little greasy weasel of a man. :)))

i'm so so so glad you're having fun and i am very invested, so please continue to keep me updated on what ur doing because i need to live vicariously through you. if i could erase my entire mind and replay the game over and over again for the first time, i totally would

#arthur morgan #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #rdr 2 #dutch van der linde #hosea matthews #red dead redemption memes

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silverspleen · 5 months

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MY SPECIALEST LITTLE GRIMDARK MAN!!! SUFFERER!!!!

My Grey Warden Varand for my irl homebrew D&D 5e game that's almost borderline not D&D at this point since we have about a million house rules. We have a team of not one but FOUR Grey Warden PCs playing through a slightly modified version of Dragon Age: Origins since the dm is a massive DAO fan.

I have posted about him before. Love my sad guy. I'm dealing with our two month holiday delay a very normal amount.

DETAILS

I reused a pic I already drew for the front ref and already had most of Varand's new upgraded armor drawn out and it still took me Literally Forever to ink.

There's no good wiki ref for the darkspawn blood Warden's Oath amulets and straight up I am too lazy to hunt down a playthrough so GUESS who got to just make shit up? :) It's meeeeeee. Our GM makes shit up all the time apparently he added an entirely new dragon for us to encounter and it slapped.

The Dragon Vessel is from the awesome ice dragon dungeon we did a year ago. I've never really thought about what it would look like and settled on "normal looking potion bottle but weirdly icy" and drew some fun frost patterns on there.

I never want to draw another reference in my entire life!

(she says foolishly as she makes an entirely separate reference sheet for werewolf!Varand and starts on a nice reference for most beloved bastard Silas)

#actually right now it's three grey wardens and one mage who is very noticeably NOT a Grey Warden #dragoon draws #dragon age origins #dragon age #original character #art #knight #armor #dragoons big dumb ocs

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felassan · 1 year

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ლ(꒪ヮ꒪)ლ can't stop thinking about the new cinematic. it's so beautifully storyboarded, illustrated & colored, animated and musically scored. under a cut due to length.

the first image and its accompanying sentence "I knew him as Solas, a thoughtful mage obsessed with dreams" is very "The Dread Wolf comes in humble guises, a wanderer who knows much of the People and their spirits" (from Note: The Treachery of the Wolf), right? the Solas Varric knew, the humble apostate in simple garb we meet in the DAI prologue.. "Beware the forms of Fen'Harel! [...] He will offer advice that seems fair, but turns slowly to poison. Remember the price of treason, and keep in your heart the mercy of your gods" - the Evanuris' propaganda portrayal of Solas in that memory sounds like Sauron assuming the fair visage and title/role of Annatar, the "Lord of Gifts", in the Second Age when he was trying to sway and befriend the Elves, offering them knowledge and counsel, working on his own dark plans all the while. also in comparing the first image and the second image again with the tarot cards, we're basically looking at the Hierophant and the Tower once again, only this time from a face-first/front-on perspective, rather than from a side view. and about the leaves in the first image.. leaves and twining branches etc in this franchise usually suggest elves or elvhen stuff. is all this why there were leaves on either side of the Golden/Black City within the Fade in the opening cinematic to DA:O?

on a second watch, "obsessed with dreams" for me carries the double meaning of the obvious, Solas loves the Fade, and the undertone, Solas is very committed to his plan, even though he thinks it will probably cost him his life, the lives of many others ("burn in the raw chaos") and the real friendships he formed during his time with the Inquisition. I also realized that the mountains here remind me of the mountains Solas paints in his frescoes in the rotunda, especially in the left most fresco due to coloring, lighting etc:

that's interesting as in the frescoes they represent the Frostbacks - you've got the explosion at the Conclave at Haven, Corypheus attacking Haven, etc. between this and the speculation at the bottom here ("does this show the past, Solas creating the Veil atop the mountains in the Frostbacks where Skyhold now stands, “the place where the sky is held up/back”, or is this future him destroying and taking it back down? Maybe both.") it makes me think that the mountains in the new cinematic images are also the Frostbacks. Solas, at the place where the sky was held back, where it all began (and ended) before and after the deed. I am also probably squinting far too hard at stuff, but mountains beneath the sky also bring me back to the cosmology and the metaphysical theme of Stone/Titans/reality/immutable and sky (Fade)/spirits/magic/dreams!! as for the the ever-present triangles.. it creates the pattern of a double sun, one inside the other. (Thedas has two moons, what if it also once had two suns hh?) literal lighthearded readings aside, the triangles are in various Solas-, Fade-related and other murals and art etc (example), and seem to have something to do with the Fade/the Veil and related magics. not a surprise to see them once again here.

including the jaw bone is a nice touch, Solas is wearing a turtleneck hh, it's ironic hearing Varric (a prince of lies himself, a frequent liar) describing someone else - rather sensationally - as a "god of lies", and also is it just me but is there the suggestion of an outline of something in the sun as it fades in with high contrast? probably just seeing patterns like humans do when we saw patterns in the moon irl, but my mind is processing it as the suggestion of a structure, which would make sense as later in the center of the spheres is the Golden/Black City.

the circles around the sun being 'thicker' (more of a teardrop shape than a circle, really) remind me of the shape on a peacock feather. or of an eye.

now, this is not new info as a similar staff appears in the Hermit and in the 2020 Dread Wolf Rises teaser mural, but the staff in the new cinematic resembles the Heart of Pride, a unique staff from Trespasser. (it's found by solving the Veilfire puzzle in the Deep Roads, accessed through an eluvian. through the eluvian are a Fen'Harel statue and a mural, along with the Veilfire puzzle which says "Where the Dread Wolf's gaze blazes, paths are brought to light"). Its item description reads "Being near this staff gives one the sense of being vastly better than everyone and everything around. When holding it, the bearer hears faint laughter, and Fade energy clings to it as desperately as a drowning sailor to drifting wreckage." the laughter reminds of "Chuckles" (Varric's nickname for Solas) and the Dalish tale which relates that Fen'Harel is said to have spent centuries in a far corner of the earth after his great deception, hugging himself and giggling madly in glee. the sailor imagery reminds me of Solas, not long awaken in the vastly-changed Nightmare world he inadvertently created, surrounded by strangers as everyone he once knew was gone (greatest fear: dying alone), everything for a long time seeming like he was walking through a world of Tranquil - that Solas, seeking solace in what he knew, in the familiar, in the remnants and echoes of the past: the Fade and the world of spirits. but it's interesting as, it also reminds of the watery language employed around the Fade: the emerald waters of the Fade, the sea of dreams, the well of all souls etc.

that weapon model was also in DA2 as Freedom's Promise, a unique staff from DA2. it comes with Codex entry: Freedom's Promise, which tells us of Aldenon the Wise, Calenhad's mentor and friend. he was an apostate hedge mage, whose magecraft was so potent that it greater than that of even the Tevinter Magisters, and advisor to Calenhad. he came from the Frostback Mountains or the wildlands, didn't believe in the Maker and was stubborn about that, often getting into arguments with the pious Calenhad over it. "What Aldenon believed, only Aldenon knew, but he most certainly did not believe in the Maker." Aldenon was cunning, ingenious and a planner; with his help Calenhad overcame every obstacle, from uncovering treacheries to turning rivals into friends. Language in the Codex describes Calenhad, outside of debates on faith, as biddable, which makes it sound that Aldenon was in a way, manipulative and steered things. Aldenon was described as "venerable, certainly worthy of respect, but not commanding it. When he stormed into my master's feasthall and offered his service in a resounding voice, there was laughter at his audacity." audacity - pride. the pride is emphasized when that codex then describes him as "arrogant". he wore an enchanted hat called Wisdom's Eye, claiming that with it he could see the future. Once, when times were dire, he donned his hat and medidated (Dreamt/Fadewalked...?) for a whole day. when he awoke, he said that the Maker and the Circle institution (against whom he had been fighting) had won, and told his apprentices to run. he was then never heard from again.

Aldenon once said, "I am the beginning and the end. I am luckbinder, spellweaver, and the keeper of secrets. And I am here to build a kingdom." he was darkly bitter, but because he had a vision for what he dreamed the future could be:

Many believed his advice to be folly. He had little appreciation for the hard truths of our lands, they said. Compassion, mercy, justice—they matter not when Teyrn Simeon invades your land, subverts your nobles, and takes what's yours. He grew bitter and impatient with us and ours, and these sentiments were often returned. But others could see he had a vision of something better than the endless petty wars of teyrns and arls.

further, he also strongly valued freedom, was against slavery and was against binding mages in structures like the Circle:

Aldenon conceived a plan to enlist strong allies and Calenhad went into the Brecilian Forest to make it so. But unbeknownst to the mage, Calenhad had made contact with the Chantry. When Calenhad returned at the head of the Ash Warriors as Aldenon expected, so as well did templars and Circle mages join our host. Aldenon was in a fury such as I've never seen. He wanted a kingdom of free men, of moral people beholden to law. Where a common man could tend his land safely and in peace. He lifted his staff and his voice echoed through the hills: "A civilization cannot be civil if it condones the slavery of another. And that is what this Circle is! But by accident of birth, those mages would be free to live, love, and die as they choose. The Circles will break—if it be one year, a decade, a century, or beyond. Tyrants always fall, and the downtrodden always strive for freedom!"

Then Aldenon left. And although Lady Shayna slew Simeon that day and Calenhad ruled a united kingdom, my liege was not the same without his mentor and friend. We live in the kingdom built on the dreams of two great friends, and we are all lessened by Aldenon's departure.

all this to say, sound familiar? not sure if it's implying a literal link between Solas and Aldenon, or just making an allusion/drawing and emphasizing parallels based on the similarities, but fascinating and seemingly an intentional choice all the same.

both in-game staffs also seem to have wolf effigies bound to them. 👁️

back to the cinematic. when the Dread Wolf looms into view, it's basically what engulfs the rays of the sun and leaves it moon-like as a result of so doing. its darkness is also suggested by the way it's animated to cloak Solas in, basically, the Dread Wolf's mantle, just like how he took that name upon himself and wore it as a badge of pride (dae it now hangs there, a weight on his shoulders, an albatross?), and the mantle/cloak garment here:

this is also when dark smoke or tendrils coil around the edges, suggesting darkness, maybe corruption, Taint and the Blight. it reminds me of how that representation of the Blight spread across the map of Ferelden in the DA:O loading screen. and here everything takes on a red tone, like in the red lyrium-filled nightmare future in DA:I at Redcliffe. then the transition to the next image is also interesting - like, the suggestion of a giant third (well, seventh) eye in the center of the Dread Wolf's forehead, a loud gonglike sound, the emanating outwards like Mind Blast, and many rings or layers alternating in gold and black (Golden City.. Black City) as we witness the formation of the Veil, Solas' brainchild that he thought would save the People. and idk, but I thought it was interesting that at its most-formed point, in the pattern there are 7 gold rings and 7 black rings.

there are 7 Evanuris (minus slain Mythal and Fen'Harel who walked among both groups of gods), 7 Old Gods, and seven gates of the Black City:

And I looked up and saw The seven gates of the Black City shatter, And darkness cloaked both realms.

!!! seven gates shattering, speculated to be seven seals. like in the rings in the cinematic, it's an onion with seven layers holding it all in. layers that can be peeled off.

now for here.

to me this suggests an eclipse, celestial bodies moving into alignment, just as we see on the cover art for the upcoming Dragon Age vinyl collection (pictured right). in general the golden circles, dots and patterns here remind me of astrological stuff like moon phase charts, and the opening cinematic of The Witcher 3, where there's an illustration representing the Conjuction of the Spheres.

see what I mean? a golden 'compass' like disc, many rings, golden dots, different realms, the eclipse-like pattern when two 'spheres' or worlds overlap.. the lore in both franchises has a bit of similarity. in Thedas' ancient past, the Fade and the mundane world intertwined, they were one and the same. then there was a great upheaval/cataclysm (Solas creating the Veil), and now in modern Thedas terrifying demons sometimes slip through into the waking world. the result of the cataclysm is probably in some way tied to the Blight, and now mortals in the waking world fear mages and magic. I think the eclipse-suggestion pattern is less a literal eclipse than (or alternatively, a literal eclipse as well as) than the two 'spheres' - i.e. the realms of the Fade and the waking world - effectively colliding until they overlap once again, as they used to do as one single sphere. if they do basically collide, that could account for stuff burning in the raw chaos. there are also other circles in the pattern, reminding me of how in TN there was talk of places, of realms, beyond the waking world that were not the Fade. the Void and where else? O: Cthulu-esque.. and the dots, maybe representing some of the 'pocket dimensions' that exist between spaces, like the Crossroads or pockets you can reach while travelling through them.

about the sigils along the exterior, the emphasis is on the center-most semi-circle at the bottom, as it's the largest. as to the identities of each of the entities indicated by the symbols, I think based on the shapes, their 2020 trailer silhouettes, and some lore details you could make arguments for Elgar'nan (largest) and Ghilan'nain (last on the right, a crescent shape). Elgar'nan as it's the largest and he was the patriarch of the elven gods, and the 'horns' basically make a circle which could suggest a sun (Elgar'nan Eldest of the Sun, the sun being his father). Ghilan'nain as it's the same shape as the centipede monster in that DA:D concept art, and in TN Warden Jovis was turned into a centipede monster after contact with a pool in one of Ghil's labs. also, the wavy lines coming off the crescent-shaped one's head in the 2020 mural suggest fluid or water (hello pools..), or like, seaweed hanging off of it, like it's just burst out of the sea dripping wet (like it does in that concept art), which makes me pause as Ghil created "giants of the sea" "in deep waters", and these were the creations that she was most proud of. she was also last of the gods. thrillingly arguments can also be made for other identities for these two though :D

the arrangement of the semi-circles in a ring outside the Veil also takes me back to Note: The Treachery of the Wolf, as here again we have the Evanuris arranged in a ring, preventing something from happening, with Solas at the center of it all and the big black wolf with fiery pits for eyes looming:

The pages of this book—memory?—warn of a terrible danger, a wolf with slavering black jaws and pits for eyes. The Evanuris—the elven gods—stand in a ring around it, as if preventing it from attacking.

when the narration talks about Solas creating the Veil, those black tendrils again emanate from the now Blackened and corrupted City. in the cinematic the Veil forms a barrier keeping this blackness inside the Fade (or part of it really, the Black City), away from or out of the waking world. it's not perfect of course, like a lid with a leak, as the world still experiences 'escaped' corruption/Taint in the form of Blights etc. so like, the cost of splitting the world from the raw magic and beauty of the Fade, in order to stop the Evanuris and protect the world from the Blight, was corrupting one area in order to contain it. the waking world became fucked up (Veil as an unnatural construct, natural magic held at bay, demons possessing mages etc), but it was better than the world becoming swallowed by the Blight. the seven entities, the seven "gates"/seals.. reminding us of the DA:I dialogue where Solas is furious at the Wardens in DA:I's plans to seek out slumbering Old Gods and kill them before they wake up and start a Blight. because if the last two Old Gods are killed before being Blighted, it would unseal it and unleash a mega Blight?

what if we mush together

pride, or Pride himself? If the Golden City turned Black when Solas imprisoned the Evanuris, then this seems to imply a connection between Solas locking the Evanuris away (or more specifically, between Solas creating the Veil in order to do so) and the origin of the Blight. [from here]

with the 'Balrog Theory' (1, 2, 3, 4)? in the cinematic, inside the big hemisphere is sort of golden brown, while inside the seven semi-circles around the exterior (Evanuris in their prisons that he made) it's darker, more like black. were the Evanuris tainted when Solas locked them away? or was Blight magic the only thing strong enough to disable and contain them? the Evanuris were digging deep and mining the bodies of Titans for "something else" and seem to have unleashed something terrible while doing so, going by codex entries. we read of elves frantically collapsing tunnels ("let this place be forgotten, let no one wake its anger"), and Solas relates how the Evanuris would have destroyed the entire world. we also have Andruil who was said to have “hunted in the Void” and brought back madness and plague. they or some of them appear to have become corrupted, or maddened at least, and their actions were unleashing big bad stuff on the world. either they became corrupted by Blight and he locked them away before 7 mad super-powered Corypheuses (sentient.. Archdemon.. powers?) the world was destroyed by the "anger" from the earth, or he locked them away in there with the bad stuff the were going to end up releasing if they kept at it. "they sleep, masked in the mirror, hiding, hurting". "We are here [...], we have waited. We are crippled, we are polluted".

in the final scene, I wonder again if the item Solas is holding is the red lyirum idol, but more specifically the blade portion of it, the variant of it with the blade extended. in Tevinter Nights, that Tevinter mage when trying to complete his ritual raised the idol and a lyrium spike sprang from its base, effectively forming a ritual-blade. he slashed his hand and a wave of power knocked everyone to the ground, their minds pulled into the raw chaos of the Fade. light and color swirled around him and then the Dread Wolf arrived and began yelling. when he killed the Tevinter mage, the lyrium blade vanished. what if it's like the Subtle Knife in His Dark Materials, and you can basically use it to cut through a Veil to access the Fade to another dimension? also in this scene the lines drawn outwards, the bright light shining and the 'bwom' sound suggest an explosion, and the lens flare glinting off the item Solas holds draws the eye, and attention, to it.

lastly, again this is not new information, but when the logo appears, it's crumbling to pieces, with floating bits suggesting the floating rocks we see in the Fade. Stone, reality itself is crumbling as the Veil weakens, and bits of bright magical light are shining through.

#dragon age: dreadwolf #dragon age 4 #the dread wolf rises #da4 #dragon age #bioware #solas #video games #long post #longpost #mj meta #i hope this made sense :')

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Firework date? Ugh, cringe...guilty Idia x reader

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Slight spoilers for main story ig? Hint of an oc, this got way too long. Got a little angsty too, note to self-never listen to amber run when writing if i want no angst. Based on a dream i had like two nights ago.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As idia pulls his hair back, with his little brothers help, he bemoans his luck. 'Why did i have to fall in love with a nature loving person?' As if Ortho could hear his older brothers thoughts, Ortho comments, "You have them in your room most days of the school year, you should at least give them this one outing."

Ortho sighs as he sees and feels idias hesitation. "Think of this as one of your romance animes firework episodes!" Idia shudders and looks at Ortho through the mirror, they lock eyes and he sighs, "That stuff is only done well in anime and manga, ortho. It isn't the same irl." As Idia looks down he thinks to himself, 'What if they don't have as much fun they could without me?'

Idia ditched that line of thought as soon as it appeared. He knew they loved him, they made sure to let him know, very often at that. Idia sighed for what he knew wouldn't be the final time that night and finally straightened his spine. As he readjusted his position, ortho called out that his hair was finished. He looks up and into the mirror and his eyes widen just a bit, he knew they always joked about his hair looking best when it was up. Looking at himself in the mirror now, he was inclined to believe that maybe, just maybe, he did look great with his hair up.

"They'll be happy to see you out, even just this once. Ya know, outside of anime sales." Ortho continues to prattle on about how they'll be happy to go on an outside date for the first time. Idia understands that ortho is excited for the festival and that everyone is dressing up and doing things they didn't normally but idia didn't understand why traditions like these were so important. He had once said to them 'Traditions are just pressures from dead people, they keep people trapped in patterns.' Idia will never forget what they told him. 'Some people like traditions ike these because they didn't get any kind of stability at home. Some like them just because they're a nice distraction from their daily lives.'

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(Your POV)

As you get ready for your first date outside of the underworld keepers room, you marvel at the fact that, for the first time since your arrival in Twisted Wonderland, you get to go on an outing that didn't involve overblots, magestones, the headmaster or the daily struggles that come with dealing with a, now brand new, dorm. You sigh in relief and sag your shoulders as vil and malleus appear in your dorms doorway.

"Sweet potato, are you ready to go?" Vil and his calling people potatoes, you swear he just likes peoples reactions to it at this point. Turning to look at the two dormleaders, you nod. "Yeah."

Malleus furrows his brows and asks, "Just 'yeah'? Aren't you going on a date with shroud this evening?" You look over yourself once more, 'well. good thing vil knows where to get good clothes and fast too.' Malleus notices a hint of hesitation and appears behind you in the mirror, puts his hands on your shoulders and smiles at you in the mirror. "You look wonderful, shroud is lucky to have you." You smile at that and look at malleus in the mirror. "Thank you tsunotaro. I think we both make each others lives a little brighter than they were before."

"Let's go. If we're late, we will never hear the end of it from everyone." Vil rolls his eyes with a small smile on his lips. As everyone clambers toward the exit and eventually toward the town at the middle of sages island. As you three approach the town, you see all the buildings and the people, you hear a crash. "Oh no." The only thought anyone could possibly have knowing the people of nightraven college is...'The braincell duo strikes again.'

You hear Mr. S and the other teachers call out for everyone to knock it off or they'll be sent back to campus grounds. Trains, people and lots of city noise, that is all you can hear. Until you hear riddle and cater call out to you.

"Hey prefect! Over here!" Looking over to your two other dormleading companions, you send them a shy smile and a small nod. Making your way through the crowd and trying to block out the noise of the festivities around you, you make it to cater and riddle. Pulling them both into a hug and patting their heads as you pull back, you send them a giggle at cater being a little flustered and riddle turning a shade of pink.

"How has everyone been while we were getting ready for the festival?" Cater laughs shakily and riddle just brings his fingers to his temple. "The better question is, why did everyone choose today to cause mass destruction?" "That bad riddle?" Riddle gets a little red in the face again, shakes his head and just grits out, "Those twins can be so infuriating."

All that comes to mind is that floyd felt like teasing riddle as today was an event day. You shake your head, pat riddle on his shoulder and jovially say, "Good thing i haven't seen him since i got here, huh?"

"Goldfishie! Shrimpy!" Riddle shoots you a look of 'Now you've done it!' You decide to run for it soner rather than later.

"Sorry riddle and cater, I've got a date tonight! Can't be squeezed to death before i get to see his hair go pink one last time!" You take off down the strip of festival stalls and can only think of where that little introvert may be hiding out at.

'Do they even have a tech stall?' No, you decided, they probably don't have an electronics stall at the festival. 'So Candy apples it is!'

You wander around looking for the shock of blue hair and an automiton boy, shouldn't be hard to find right?

Wrong! Somehow, the shroud brothers were the toughest people to find. 'Wait, I have a phone now!' You facepalm and pull your phone out. 'The one time the headmaster came through for us. Hope grim doesn't mind stayin with ortho, deuce and the others tonight.' You shoot idia a text asking where he is and that you are currently over by the candy apple stall.

The response time was lightning fast. 'Over by the takoyaki stand!' What? Azul wouldn't leave him alone so he decides to sell the octomer to the stall vendors? That image of azul trying to wriggle his way outta a net with a smirking idia looking triumphant. until the tweels decide that they want their octomer back. A shiver runs down your spine at that point.

Finding your way over to the takoyaki stand had been easy, or rather it would have been, if only it wasn't for jack and deuce getting into a fight with some guys who were trying to hit on epel, thinking he was a girl. They called in vil for back up, he humiliated them.

Finally arriving to where idia was munching away at his takoyaki happily, even if a little nervously. Idia looks up and his gloomy face brightens a little, he doesn't look as nervous but he still looks kinda outta his element.

You grab his wrist gently and motion him up and to follow you. Idia sticks as close to your side as he can, totally not because he hasn't seen you all day, absolutly not. It's only because he doesn't like all the foot traffic that you two have to wade through. You two finally make it to a center section with stone gardens were also fashioned as benches. Sitting down, idia notices that there aren't as many people around this part of the center. Everyone too busy trying to get at the stalls and the 'best firework viewing spot' in town. Idia does notice, however, that a pink haired guy keeps stairing your way.

Idia doesn't like that. Idia isn't usually jealous but this guy just wouldn't quite staring. Idia pulls you a little closer to him. You startle a little but snuggle up closer to his side, letting him nose into your neck. "Your hair looks so beautiful when put up idia." You smile against his cheek and whisper so that only idia can hear, "You look beautiful all the time though."

Idia huffs at that and you can see the tips of his hair go pink. "Yes, thank you, my ever so cringey partner." Idia rolls his eyes and you both chuckle at his obviously pink hair. 'Maybe he might enjoy himself tonight.' You can only hope so.

You hear a throat being cleared and you look up. This guy with pink hair and orange eyes is staring down at you both. "Yes, may i help you?" You hope that this person gets the hint that they aren't welcome into your conversation, or your personal bubble either.

"I'm sorry but i couldn't help but notice you two from over there." The guy waves his hand in the general direction of the railings that overlooked the port, where he had been standing before interrupting you two. You raise your brows and shake your head in a 'today my dude' manner and he seems to get the hint and rushes to say that he thought idia and yourself made a cute couple.

'Well that wasn't the direction you thought that was going to go.' "Thank you?" This weird guy just walks off humming to himself with a smile on his face. "Well that was weird and anticlimactic." Idia, however, does the most unexpected thing ever. He pulls you towards himself and pulls one leg over his lap so that you were sitting on his lap, his face in your shoulder. "Idia?"

Idia just hums and his hair is tinged pink and a few other light colors. He hums against your skin and he seems to be slightly shaking. "Idia, is something wrong? If there is, tell me. We can go home if needed!" Idia just shakes his head and nuzzles furthur into you. The shaking subsides into nervous laughter.

"Idia?" He looks up at you and you see his eyes just slightly misty. You would have missed it if not for the way his golden eyes were watered to the point that the tears shimmered in the festivals lights. You wipe his tears on your sleeve and bring your slightly warm hands to his cheeks and start to hum quietly to him. In your own little bubble that no one in this world or the next could break into. After idia calms and he looks a bit better, you hug him to your chest and whisper, "Let's go up on the rooftop we scoped out yesterday, hmm?"

Idia nods and follows you after you've slid off his lap and have grabbed his wrist once more.

Up on the rooftop you find that all your friends are there. They spot you but seem to take the not so subtle head shake that told them 'not tonight'. Pulling idia over to a swing that you would find on a front porch back home, you sit him down and once seated, you pull his hand into both of yours. You kiss his cheek and, hearing the cheering of your friends and the bursting of the fireworks, you kiss Idia on the lips softly and just before he can slip his tongue between your lips, you pull back, leaving you both slightly out of breath.

"I love you Idia, my sweet geek." Idia puffs out some air at that and only retorts with a weak "That sounds so weird coming from you...but i like it all the same."

You both look up at the night sky as the fireworks explode into dozens of vibrant colors. Idia looks back down at you and smiles at the most wonderful flower he could ever hope to keep with him, hopefully not only for a few months every year. Maybe even for the rest of your lives. Somehow, the Fates conspired to bring you to Twisted Wonderland. However, he knows that his cousin would most definitly go back to their family and let them know that their oldest shroud has someone on his arm.

Hopefully, one day, Ortho will have the in-law that he always wanted. Idia felt a little hope, for the first time in forever, maybe he could have some semblence of a normal life. Freedom to choose his own lover and maybe even a spouse. This wasn't like him at all! 'I blame the fireworks and all their normie friends!'

#Idia shroud x reader #twisted wonderland x reader #twst x reader #twisted wonderland fluff

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