#iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning )

[softersinned-arc]

ok so just a rundown of what will be happening -

astoria will be staying as softersinned. i will be archiving her blog in october and beginning the new blog on halloween. it's what she deserves and frankly also what i deserve.

my multi will be staying as sacraementals. i will be archiving that blog in the next week and beginning the new blog on october 13th.

vex's url will be changing to deathturned and i will be getting back to critical role. i will eventually be using icons once i crop & apply the psd - icons made by the incredibly talented @sophiefosters whose work is unbelievable and who deserves endless praise. please go check her blog out & support her amazing work.

alix will be getting her own blog, probably low activity, at the url atomdeuogdonion. her main verse will remain dragon age. she will be iconless for a while while i look for some / commission someone / make my own.

rowan will be staying at 13thwitch. this blog will remain low activity and i will continue using only the same 20 icons that mara (@avblod), who is also incredible and unbelievable and amazing and powerful, made me. also go check her out & appreciate her incredible writing as she deserves.

#iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning ) #(i love making decisions it makes me feel so powerful) #(thank you to mara & xan & myllie for their Thoughts it helped a LOT)

[carelessgraces]

hello my doves i am moving over to @softersinned !! i’ve followed everyone who’s left me memes / with whom i have a thread i owe, as i do intend to carry all of those over. i’m trying to follow everybody over there but if i don’t and you want to continue writing please know it’s just be being a Fool and missing somebody and not an active desire not to engage !!! i love you guys & hope to hang out with you there c:

i’ll keep this blog active as an aesthetic blog / inspo blog until i empty out my links !! love u bundles see u soon !!

#iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning ) #(i also have to do tag drops but i'm lazy and that may take a bit) #(a further note: hol continues to get dibs on my brain)

[dekoranevich]

preteen genya seeing zoya for the first time and developing a massive crush on her and carrying this energy well into adulthood whether or not the crush remains 

#(genya just never knows when the 'get out of my school' is the result of her big bi crisis or if it's because she wants 2 dropkick zoya) #(get out of os alta (affectionate)) #iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning ) #(where's liz)

[softersinned-arc]

hey gang i hope you're having an amazing october i PROMISE i am working on the new blog & i WILL be ready by halloween. thank you as always for being patient and lovely and wonderful all around i am SO grateful for you !!

#(september kicked my ass as per usual !! that post traumatic stress sure is disordered) #(and ya girl is applying to so many jobs hashtag in my girlboss era etc etc) #(anyway ily i hope you're having a great month i hope your halloween plans are everything you wanted) #((whomst is gonna watch practical magic w me!!)) #(also. show me pictures of your cats. i have been experiencing a severe deficiency in cat pictures of late !!!) #iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning ) #(lil reminder too that the multi has moved !!! same url new blog !!!)

[softersinned-arc]

hello !! overdue but general semi-hiatus notice; i'm in my september funk and don't have much brainpower for writing atm. i am using this time to instead work on moving the multi & this blog - after two years at both & with the changes made to saved tags, this seems like the best option all around. available to plot; add me on disco @ themoonandthemagic (just message me here to tell me who you are); kiss your pets on the forehead and tell them i love them!

#iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning )

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when were y'all gonna tell me the b.g3 vampire bites you on command you KNOW who i am you KNOW what i am about you KNOW i cannot resist a vampire

#(i am still on hiatus for the rest of the month but i WILL be back) #(i may extend it if i end up giving myself bg.3 as a 9.28 present) #(just found out i can play on my laptop w a ps3 controller nobody told me THAT either) #(anyway shame on all of you who saw that vampire and did not say 'i gotta tell ani' i need to KNOW these things!) #iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning )

[softersinned-arc]

i do think astoria generally needs more girlfriends (shoutout to rose & pam tho we love you rose & pam and shoutout to holly who writes em mwah) but those girlfriends need to be insane. unhinged. those girlfriends need to be spectacularly evil. those girlfriends need to be the kind of women who make her family legitimately worried that she's going to get herself arrested because her girlfriend is encouraging her to do some truly bananas shit. please bring me your most evil women so astoria can sigh dreamily about them and doodle their wedding invitations and joint gravestones.

#iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning ) #(also shoutout to mara who has plotted satuastoria with me which feeds me)

[softersinned-arc]

the past month has been really incredibly draining and my capacity for creativity has been pretty low. i know i don't need to apologize for, you know, having responsibilities off the internet and treating this hobby like a hobby, but ya girl grew up ✨catholic✨ so she feels unnecessary guilt!

the important things to know:

my astoria blog & vex blogs are still active and i'm regularly trying to keep them up & running and with good activity. my rowan blog is still active, but that remains low-activity, and i'll be there when i'm inspired. my multi is moving, and i've put diana back on my multi.

if we were talking before and i vanished, please message me again. it genuinely slipped my mind with everything. if we were plotting, if it was ooc, doesn't matter. i want to continue our conversation! i just have untreated adhd & a lot of stress so my memory ain't great rn.

i have unfollowed blogs that are inactive, archived, or where we just weren't engaging. if i missed a move announcement, or you do want to write or chat ooc, please nudge me!!! i'd love to engage with all of you and i don't want to miss anybody or anything because my brain's all over the place.

i miss writing. i love writing. astoria is my pride and joy and i have never felt better about her character. and i'm hoping that this time next year i'll be saying the same thing. i turned thirty a week ago and i'm kind of loving it. i got a new tattoo that's really the start of a sleeve. i'm working on some personal projects. it's good. at the same time, as i've said before, i have close family undergoing cancer treatment, and am a part-time caretaker for a grandparent with pretty serious dementia. i'm therapying hard because it's very necessary at the moment. i feel lost in my professional life, i feel lost in my personal life, and there are moments when i feel a little bit like i'm hanging on by a thread.

and overall i'm okay? but the sheer amount of stress i'm constantly under means that my body is starting to feel it. i keep getting sick, i never get enough sleep and when i do finally manage to fall asleep i wake up all the time, my focus is absolutely shot. and like... the truth is just that i'm wiped the fuck out all the time. i'm exhausted. i come on here and manage a couple of sentences and then lose my focus. any cr stuff i've managed is because i'm watching cr constantly and even that takes ages to actually make remotely coherent.

the gist is: i'm working on it. i'm working really hard on it. it's not easy nor is it like, a steady progression anywhere. but i'm working on it !!!

#iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning )

[softersinned-arc]

it is worth posting this tho so just a real quick note on activity & general housekeeping -

my grandmother is 88 years old and struggling with dementia (possibly alzheimer's - there's a family history, but she's never been diagnosed). two days a week i'm her primary caretaker; four days a week i work between six and eight hours a day; i am additionally constantly applying to jobs, working on taking care of a house on my own, and trying to generally help out wherever else i can.

basically this just means that i'll be here when i'm here and i won't when i'm not. i'm doing my best but there is so much potential source of stress in my life that i simply cannot be fucked to add another. this is here for joy and it is not worth doing if there isn't joy. i'll reply to things when i can & it's totally cool if that's not your speed! there's no judgment for how you choose to engage with this hobby & if you prefer lightning-fast partners i don't blame you in the slightest. this is just a general statement of what to expect here; curate your dash & your experience on this website based on your own needs.

since i've taken tumblr off my phone, your best bet, if you want to plot or talk ooc, is to get my disco; i'm happy to share it w any & all mutuals!

#(it's ! a little draining taking care of her not bc it's really hard work? but she did raise me as much as my mother did) #(this is an italian catholic family on that side & there is a lot of pride that makes it difficult to accept being cared for) #(and seeing her struggle isn't easy! she was a titan in my eyes all through my childhood and seeing her fragile is difficult) #(it's a privilege to get to take care of her (and the family i have undergoing cancer treatment) but it does drain me sometimes) #(i make no apologies for it but i do think it's worth being upfront abt what you can expect here. i might be super super active!) #(it might take me three weeks to three months to reply to things. there's no way of knowing.) #iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning )

[softersinned-arc]

✧. get to know the author !

name : marianne (ani or mari!) pronouns : she / her. preference of communication : discord! most active muse(s) : astoria, always. right now i'm also really feeling constanta and alix. experience / how many years : overall, and with astoria, about 11-12 years. best experience : meeting the friends that i've had for the last several years. i've met some of my favorite people in the world through this medium - kate back in 2015, mara and luca in 2020, xan in 2022. i've developed incredible friendships with people i love so much, and am so proud to know. rp pet peeves : i get very frustrated with the way a lot of people treat each other on here. i think it's true of any medium, so i wouldn't say tumblr is worse than anywhere else, but i think there's a lot of hypocrisy, a lot of guilting, and not a lot of respect for boundaries. too often, someone sets a boundary only to see it treated like a personal affront, and i cannot begin to tell you how many times i've seen people weaponize social justice language to try and force their way through perfectly reasonable boundaries. plots or memes : i like using memes to start interactions, and plotting from there! this way we can start by tossing our characters together and letting them interact organically, and then we can build from there. but i love plotting at any stage. one of my favorite things is to just hang out talking endlessly about our characters and tossing a million ideas at each other. are you like your muse(s) : some, yes. astoria and i are very different, but she (like alix) was born from a period of intense trauma, and trying to find a way through it, so there is a lot of me in many of my characters. in terms of morality, i'm a lot more like alix than astoria. i like to imagine i have clary's sense of justice and willingness to fight. i hope i have vex's capacity for love, rowan's cleverness, saskia's capacity for compassion. i don't think there's really any way to fully distance myself from a lot of these characters, but i don't think i'm 100% any of them.

tagged by: @mysteriae an angel a dream tagging: @inkpromise @ecopoison @riselazarus @dernhelmalso @saintsdawn

#iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning )

[softersinned-arc]

frankly i am almost impressed with how many things t.rue b.lood manages to get wrong abt pre-christian polytheism and it makes me kind of excited to see how they manage to fuck up wicca, a religion which is famously pretty un-fuck-upable because you can really make anything work within a handful of parameters.

#(d.ionysus as both... c.ernunnos (the H.orned Godtm) and s.atan? how DOES he do it) #(btw please know that when i dunk on w.icca i do so lovingly. for the most part. my own practice is probably best described as w.iccan) #(anyway what a show. if you squint and ignore the violent racism and misogyny and homophobia and like 3/4 of the plot......) #(lafayette and tara and eric remain my favorites tho i know just enough abt what happens after i stopped last time) #(to know i am NOT gonna like what's coming lmao) #(c.harlaine h.arris 🤝 a.nne r.ice 'c.onfederate vampires are sexy i swear') #iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning )

[softersinned-arc]

i keep meaning to post this and forgetting so i'm posting it now—

i don't care if you reblog from me. this is the reblogging website and frankly i find it a little weird that the rpc as a whole has decided that it's a problem to use the website as it's intended. i have in the past tried to remember who doesn't like being reblogged from but i'm not quite so concerned with it now, given the changes made to the website. if that bothers you, feel free to remind me, and i'll try to remember. you can reblog from me even if we're not mutuals. i really don't give a fuck.

i will continue using small text; it's actually much easier for me to read, given the letter and line spacing. you're welcome to do whatever works for you!

i have plotting conversations that fell into oblivion a couple of weeks ago. i swear i'm going to message again; i'm just getting everything straight after a very rough month, now that things have settled, and my brain's all over the place. thank you as always for your patience with me !!!

#iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning )

[softersinned-arc]

so a list of things i know abt astoria's sister (in her default witch verse):

between three and seven years older than astoria. i haven't figured it out exactly.

warm, but serious. (kind of the opposite of astoria being as playful as she is but generally pretty cold in how she connects to people.) it can be hard to get through that seriousness, but once you do, there is a deep, overwhelming compassion in her.

demisexual, with a pretty pronounced preference for women. not that she's never with or attracted to people who aren't women, just that it's rare.

a little (understandably) cautious about the introduction of a half-sister that nobody else knew existed when she's in her twenties. she likes astoria but because they meet as adults, she's got a little bit of a hard time coming to see her as a sister. that doesn't happen until just before astoria's exiled.

inquisitive, borderline obsessive. she has a very analytical mind and an academic curiosity about pretty much everything. like astoria, she's interested in the way that magic interacts with the body; unlike astoria, she believes in the inviolable necessity of death, so her exploration is centered more around applying her knowledge of magic to healing than trying to live forever.

at some point i do see the sisters reuniting and doing business together. in fact i think that potential is the only thing that has astoria ever considering returning to ireland.

her mother's hair, her father's eyes. graceful build, high cheekbones, bright eyes, soft features, ready smile. sarcastic and dry humor. deeply loving. wants very much to be a mother. a softer style.

used to dye her hair red to look more like her father. experienced a weird and unpleasant jealousy when she found out that the affair baby did have their father's red hair. has since come to terms with her own dark hair.

a list of things i need to fucking figure out:

her NAME

her JOB

#iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning ) #(i considered 'rowan' but i HAVE a rowan now and she's v v different) #(same with saraid. tho i could always fold them together since neither one is fully developed) #(and there is of course aislinn. maeve if i want to name her after maeve roe. mairin.) #(i DO know she's generally a much better and kinder person than her sister with much kinder politics) #(i KNOW her i LOVE her i don't know her fucking name !!!)

[softersinned-arc]

man but what if i wrote j.ason t.odd

#(primarily preboot w/ an available outlaws verse bc i'm a SUCKER for j.aytemis) #(l.ewis t.an fc bc i'm a prophet and correct) #(w a focus on the sheer intensity of that boy's irish tragedy) #(and like i'm gonna be real with u i think the parts of titans i did watch (i have to catch up) understood more than one would guess) #(i don't believe in a j.ason who hates d.ick. and i think finding out d.ick killed the clown would cement a love between brothers) #(B.RUCE didn't kill the clown but D.ICK did!!! your brother will kill for you when your father cannot!) #(brought to you by thinking abt the panels in k.nightfall when the bat is beating the shit out of the clown screaming j.ason's name) #(i love. him.) #iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning )

[softersinned-arc]

so unreal unearth is coming out in less than three weeks and i feel like i should warn you all that it's very likely i'll be setting up a new blog when that happens

#(something a little less messy!!! it'll have been nearly two years since i moved to this one and i think it'll do me some good) #(i love a fresh start and i think i'd like to set astoria's blog up with all the development she's had & the links she has now) #iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning )

[softersinned-arc]

thinkin bout. vampires.

#(all vampires always tbh) #(thinkin bout vampires every second of every day) #(i want to do more with all my vampires & i want more vampire characters & i want more vampire lore and and and) #(that we live in a world where nobody is biting me to turn me into the immortal undead is frankly a travesty) #iv. tilting pretty sharply bitchward. ( marianning )