That post about everything being "Nah" I felt in my core. I'll always respect people who identify differently but when they ask me "what's your pronouns?" Or "where do you lie romanticaly?" I'm just "eh call me whatever you want I guess" or *I don't feel romantically for much anything" maybe cause online people always thought I'm one gender and irl people always thought I was the other so I just responded with "sure I guess"
and it's honestly such an easier way to live ngl... like when it comes to people who Know that i use they/them, it hurts to hear my given pronouns. but when it comes to strangers and just people who i haven't told, it's like... "yeah. ok. ill put on this hat" it feels a bit like a performance. it feels Mischievous, even! ohoho, they've been Tricked!
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I hate seeing folks asking nicely for donations for food or rent or whatever and getting fucking nowhere but then they have a bad meltdown and reach their goal
Why does it take people getting to that point to get the help they're asking for
Asking as someone who has gotten to that point on tiktok more than a few times. If you have cash to spare that you'd gladly spend on a coffee or anything more expensive than that without it hurting your bank, please help out folks who are at risk.
People get one donation for every 100+ notes on their posts on tumblr and for folks struggling to feed and house and medicate themselves, that stat can feel like an anvil pressing against your chest and crushing you
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American Gothic: this blog's brainworm
If you've followed me on this blog for a while, maybe you've seen art concepts of my stories (certainly my characters!) but I'll be honest, I haven't written anything in a long time. This brainworm for these characters has been knocking around since 2016 in MANY ITERATIONS, but I'm starting to get a rounded sense for a storyline that (mostly) makes sense! If you want to read, it's below the cut, broken down into three short arcs.
Also bonus: the suckers who it features! don't ask me why Abel's not wearing a shirt, it's to uh, show off his Occult Mark
AMERICAN GOTHIC
Arc 1: Don’t do the thing / You did the thing, now what?
Theo, an eccentric lawyer whose unnerving knack for reading people runs a bit…superhuman finds himself unwillingly enlisted as a soldier during WWII and befriends the charismatically capable Abel on the battlefield of war. When tragedy strikes, Theo breaks the rules to bring his friend back from death and sets off a supernatural shitshow in the process. Now, the two must fight to figure out how to keep his friend alive and what fine print accompanies his second lease on life. Because like every lawyer knows…the devil’s in the details.
Arc 2: Who am I / What am I?
As whatever established hustle/routine operation solidifies at state x in arc 1, we start to learn more about the characters and the mess they got into. Who exactly is Theo? What exactly is Theo? At the same time, Abel’s demands continues to push his character development towards…towards where, indeed? We start to see flashbacks of the man’s past and the enigmatic moral fabric of who he continues to become. And it turns out that new comrades and competition don’t make that any easier.
Arc 3: Shit gets messy / Warfare
In which the comrads and competition introduced in arc 2 start to really make our character’s world go to hell, and what are they gonna do to stop it? Clearly, escalation.
More truths manifest to characters about the nature of this increasingly supernatural deal as they escalate conflict. Abel, at this point, climbs to some sort of power peak after going through a moral and physical minefield, and a schism between him and Theo emerges. Theo and Abel had realized a plan together, but as things progress, the question looms: will Abel follow through? It’s hard, after all, to believe anyone’s agreement to their own execution.
END SERIES 1: CROWN THE MASTER | KILL THE KING
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YAY SUZIE!!!
awwwww their singing :) everyone’s faces. this is fucking amazing
also my mom and i have been talking about just how much steve gets hurt. like i think other than hopper’s torture and el’s whole. thing. he gets the most hurt out of all the (living) characters
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a recap of dear wink's first bit of faerun adventuring:
-found and recruited shadowheart, gale, astarion, laezel, wyll, and karlach
-found withers (after. Getting silenced so many fucking times by a bunch of obnoxious skeletons)
-almost freed a goblin but realized the hassle was not worth the reward
-keeps detecting thoughts on anybody they aren't personally acquainted with
-took a tadpole out from another dead true soul
-learned: lae'zel is kind of a nerd, shadowheart is scared of wolves, wyll is in a bad contract, and that gale needs to eat magic or he'll die
-killed owlbear mom :(
-brought scratch to camp
-took 2 levels in wild magic sorc and 1 in bard
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