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shivroygirls · 1 year

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can i just say something? at this party here there are maybe 40 of the most important people in america and you have just walked all around, all evening, telling them all that i'm gonna get fired. no, it was implied, lightly, as a little... god! part of a tactical kind of joke. will you explain to me, the joke? because i don't get the fucking joke. MY GOD, TOM! i don't get the joke, i don't get the joke. it was something that he said, that isn't true, that we needed to say. but you stood by his side, and he said it, and you were like "okay, well, that sounds good to me." fuck's sake, i'm not doing this right now. you know i'm in serious trouble, that was a play. you will be okay because you are a tough fucking bitch who will always survive because you do what you need, you will do what — are you even listening? i will be okay? — you will do whatever you need. yeah? really? yeah, you sure you're not projecting, because that is actually you. should we have a real conversation? with a scorpion? no. that was a friendly thing. that was a friendly thing. yeah. sure. real friendly. yeah, no, i'm a scorpion, you're a hyena, you're a... you're a street rat. actually, no, you're a fucking snake. "here's a dead snake to wear as a necktie, tom", "why aren't you laughing?" (pause) i wonder if we shouldn't clear the air. yeah? yeah. sure. i think you can be a very selfish person and i think you find it very hard to think about me — what the fuck? — and i think you shouldn't have even married me, actually. what the fuck? what the ACTUAL fuck? you proposed to me. you proposed at my lowest fucking ebb. my dad was dying, what was i supposed to say? perhaps "no"? i didn't want to hurt your feelings. thanks! thanks for that! yeah, you really kept me safe while you ran off to fuck the phone book. fuck off. you're hick — and then, and then.. — conservative hick — you hid it, you hid it because you were so scared of how fucking awful you are. you were only with me to get to power. you got it now, tom, you've got it! I'M WITH YOU BECAUSE I LOVE YOU! bullshit, you're fucking me for my DNA, you were fucking me for a fucking ladder because your whole family is striving and parochial. that's not... thats not a fair characterization. no? well, your mom loves me more than she loves you, because she's cracked. you want to... you want to actually clear the air? fine. you betrayed me. YOU WERE GOING TO SEE ME SENT TO FUCKING PRISON, SHIV! AND THEN YOU FOBBED ME OFF WITH THAT FUCKING UNDRINKABLE WINE AND YOU WON'T HAVE MY BABY BECAUSE YOU NEVER EVEN THOUGHT, HONESTLY, THAT YOUD BE WITH ME MORE THAN FOUR FUCKING YEARS, I DON'T THINK! YOU OFFERED TO GO TO JAIL! YOU OFFERED TO GO TO JAIL BECAUSE YOU'RE SERVILE! you're just... YOU'RE SERVILE! YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF THINKING ABOUT ANYBODY OTHER THAN YOURSELF BECAUSE YOUR SENSE OF WHO YOU ARE, SHIV, IS THAT FUCKING THIN! oh yeah you read that in a book, tom? YOU'RE TOO FUCKING TRANSPARENT TO FIND THAT IN A BOOK! you're pathetic, you're pathetic. youre a masochist and you can't even take it. i think you are incapable of love, and i think you are maybe not a good person to have children! well, that's not very nice to say, is it? i'm sorry. i'm sorry, but you... you... you have hurt me more than you can possibly imagine. and you, you took away the last six months i could've had with my dad. no. yes. no! yes. you sucked up to him and you cut me out! it's not my fault that you didn't get his approval. i have given you endless approval and it doesn't fill you up because you're broken. i don't like you. i don't... i don't even care about you. i don't care. have we cleared the air, huh? feel good now? yeah. yeah. fucking great. tip top. you don't deserve me, and you never did. and everything came out of that. so fucking flat.

#succession #tomshiv #jesus fucking christ

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daemonkitsune · 9 months

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asmodeus headcanons

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// trigger warning : mild sexual references, mild non-con reference (nothing explicit) //

asmodeus surprisingly enough has scorpions in his room. as his symbol animal he’s particularly fond of them. his scorpions also have their own specialised skin (scale?) routines.

as the avatar of lust asmodeus goes through the entire scale of libido’s. just as he can have one of the highest libido’s he can also be completely asexual. this is not a known fact about asmodeus.

asmodeus can fix almost any problem on social media, including getting an image off social media after it’s gone viral. leviathan is the technology wiz with games and whatnot, mammon is great with technology in the background, and asmodeus is brilliant when it comes to social media problems and whatnot.

asmodeus knows all of his brothers skin types, hair types, styles, likes and dislikes when it comes to clothes and general hygiene care. whenever he makes a new line of something (clothes, skin products, hair products etc) he always makes sure there’s something that each of his brothers would love.

asmodeus has multiple alt accounts that no one but him knows about. his alt accounts all have a theme and none of them involve his face or name in the slightest. he uses these accounts to spread rumours and leaks about certain things. demon bullying his brothers? now there��s a rumour going around about that demon. asmodeus has a new skin care line? oh look! someone leaked it to the public and now everyone’s talking about it!

being the avatar of lust comes with some advantages, for example asmodeus has a vague idea of every sexual thing someone has done without even searching for it. chances are he knows if someone’s asexual before they do, and chances are he knows if someone wanted to actually have sex or not.

a draw back to being the avatar of lust is that almost everything asmodeus says is thought to have a double meaning. for example, asmodeus may say his throat is sore or hurts (maybe from sickness, maybe he’s just thirsty) and almost everyone who hears him say that will immediately laugh and make some joke about asmodeus’s knees hurting too.

a lot of what asmodeus does is considered to be incredibly superficial, but for the most part he’s always completely and unashamedly himself.

asmodeus uses his connections to get limited edition or rare items for his brothers. satan’s been upset recently? asmodeus conveniently found some rare cat themed item that he thought satan would like. lucifer’s stressed? asmodeus found a rare vinyl or some limited edition demonus that lucifer will find in his room or office at some point.

asmodeus mourned the loss of his angel wings more then anyone else did, not necessarily because of what they were, but because of what they’d represented to him. he eventually came to love his new demon wings, but occasionally he’ll find himself incapable of looking at them in any way shape or form.

when asmodeus finally started to get used to being a demon he decided to explore what the devildom had to offer, and that’s where he realised that tail, wing or horn care products were mostly only available to the nobility and higher in the devildom, so he made his own care products. he customised them and continues to perfect them everyday so that everyone can care for themselves.

asmodeus can tell when someone is feeling down or depressed before they can. he can tell when they struggle to get out of bed, or when they find it a chore to take a shower or look after himself, and whenever he gets that depressed feeling in the air, he’ll post a bunch of stuff like “good job on getting out of bed and getting something to drink”, “good job on putting on that cream or having a snack” etc.

when it comes to saying exactly what your thinking, asmodeus is the definition of it. asmodeus will make an offhanded comment about someone without even thinking that it may be rude, and it will take him a little while to realise he said something he shouldn’t’ve.

when it comes to judging products or snooty and rude demons his lack of brain to mouth filter is brilliant, however when it comes to his friends or brothers his lack of filter can have some rather unsavoury results. especially because asmodeus can’t help but compare his brothers to who they used to be in the celestial realm, specifically mammon.

asmodeus used to look up to mammon a lot so whenever he see’s mammon act like the avatar of greed his brain always makes a comparison and asmodeus bluntly says what he’s thinking. whenever asmodeus realises what he said to mammon he’ll usually feel guilty, but instead of apologising he’ll sneak something mammon will like into mammon’s room as an apology.

is mostly perceptive to how his brothers are feeling. he’ll invite leviathan out to do something and he’ll always have an ear or eye on leviathan to make sure he isn’t overwhelmed. will invite satan out and will keep an ear or eye on satan to make sure no ones pissing him off, and if someone is then asmodeus will swoop in and convince whoever is causing satan to leave.

asmodeus isn’t very good at cooking, but he’s practised making all his brothers favourite foods so that he can surprise them when they’re having a bad day or so that whenever it’s his turn to cook dinner everyone will have something to enjoy.

#obey me #obey me headcanons #obey me asmodeus #obey me leviathan #obey me mammon #obey me satan #obey me lucifer #obey me asmodeus headcanons #obey me asmo #obey me levi

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zaacoy · 1 year

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Hmhmhmmm in a silly mood and thinky thinkin about Tang Legomonkiekid again, some disjointed tang thoughts!! Because I can :3

Author's note after writing: another long post!!! I am incapable of talking about him without going on and on and on apparently, enjoy the novel!! hehehheehoo

so! The scorpion queen demoness outfit still has not left my brain!! I am plagued by the ourple apparently, just

why he so littol

microscopic organism

its like he's a cat getting picked up by the scruff!! those clothes are too big for he goddamn he!!

Also also! The buffet scene!! We get two wide shots of it

the first:

and the second:

assuming it isn't some sort of custom to have your servants(?) or whatever the ladies are in this scene leave once they set the table (if it is then feel to ignore this tidbit!! :D) Them being there in the first scene but not the second makes it seem like? Tang requested them to go and let him eat in peace without 7 different women watching him while doing so??? This man is invulnerable to women and I find that so funny all he wants are his noms

Adding onto that the fact that his first move when he wakes up to a pretty lady standing over him is to SCREAM and push her away is SO unbelievably funny could you be any gayer sir

also can we just appreciate how easily this man crumbled the second good food was put in front of him. after being kidnapped and abducted by some clearly suspicious demon lady he just. willingly stays, unbound physically in literally anyway, just because she has good food to offer. very very silly he is so funny

no additional comments just look at him

he is so scrunckly so silly, I forgor all of the other Tumblr silly words but he is all of those too

its nice that we got to see him come back in purple later tho in S4

It's a dustier purple for sure but it still looks pretty nice on him :3c

also also!!

I love this little training scene sm because it paints tang in such an interesting light

whereas pigsy and mei are borderline ready to jump sandy for that star all we get from Tang is a shaky "I want that", this difference is further exemplified in the coloration differences (mei and pigsy's eyes being red whereas Tang's are just whited out)

this trend continues as the training session goes on! here for example we can see mei and pigsy clearly furious whereas tang is just crying- they're all frustrated! It seems as though when Tang is confronted with the issue of "not being as good as his peers" he trends more towards upset rather angry unlike the rest of his friend group

This can also be seen in their individual trainings

Mei is outright violent in her training arc, both in regards to the props and opponents she fights and (verbally) to master Subodhi, pigsy is also fairly mouthy and standoffish at first and disregards whatever he perceives as an insult, but Tang on the other hand we get to see crumble a little bit. Rather then brushing off master Subodhi's gripes with him like the others Tang seems to take it to heart, getting visibly more and more miserable until he's able to turn himself around

It's a nice bit of characterization that I'm glad to see appear again, they've given him such a consistent, well written weakness I can't wait how it affects his performance in future episodes, be it for better or for worse heeheehoo

I ADORE how much this man loves food, he's so super enthusiastic about it in literally every season it is completely adorable

I also appreciate how they didn't turn it into his entire character!! Most of the food-loving characters I've known have their entire personality based around food which, while it can be joyful at times, is kind of boring and 2 dimensional imo. I enjoy how they made him a complete fully fleshed out person like everyone else who just so happens to really like nomnoms heeheehoo

looks at you with my autistic eyes

that expression is so goofy and the silly little noise he makes with it too uehhshdhhdj he is so sillay

love how he gets sparkles/shines in his eyes once he gets really excited about something or the "✨" shaped eyes

there are so many little things I love about him that NOBODY else talks about and it makes me so so sad where are my fellow insane-about-tang-lego-monkie-kid people where are uu 🥺 "let's take ibuprofen together" but it's "let's talk about a fictional Lego for hours" instead please plsss

cough- anyways uh- he has a bunch of little vocal quirks that I love so so much like!!

(I don't know how to get audio clips so you're just going to have to take my word for it ueue)

Often whenever he exclaims or screams he does so in a way that I don't know how to describe actually mmmmm instead of an "AAAAAH!" it's more akin to a "WHAhaHAA!" if that makes any sense, whatever that is it's such an interesting verbal quirk I love it very much.

He does something similar in quiet exclamations of awe, instead of going "ooooh.." it sounds more like "ooohohooh.."

I guess it's like his voice falls in between dragged out sounds? Like if it weren't for his tone and the context they'd almost sound like laughs, it's definitely an "h" sound, I'm not sure if there's a term for that verbal quirk but it seems fairly unique to him in the show and I thinks it adds to his sillyness heehee

squints at you squints at you squints at you squints at you squints at you squints at you squi

The bbg pose is consistent and here to stay!! yahoo!!! I wonder how many times while raising mk did they manage to tire themselves out and have pigsy later walk in to both of them asleep on the floor euhdhsnns fluffy family

while I'm thinking about noodle family here is your daily reminder that this scene exists in canon and mk has two dads thank you for coming to my ted talk

His tone of voice was so funny here the pure PANIC in his voice manifesting in a very strained yell was so well done here weehee

Circling back to the scorpion outfit, remember in the pilot episode how mk attempts to crawl away from the demon bull family after he gets caught? Tang does the exact same thing here!! same motion same thoughts process, like father like son

soft squishy tang isn't even my fault anymore LOOK AT HIM, he very squish

delving into slightly more serious tang thingies for a second!!-

this scene always felt incomplete to me, I feel like I'm missing something. This was when they first as a group run into lbd on their airship. Out of the entire group Tang is the only one to notice something's off and emphasis is put on this multiple times. First with "I've got a bad feeling about this pigsy", then with scene above where he's shown staring skeptically at lbd's rings, and then with him noticing the broken device on the ground(and notably not cheering on mk like everyone else) and confronting mk about it. Was ALL of that really just so Tang could make mk tell them about lbd(which he didn't even really do)? Why tang, why was he the only one to intuitively notice? even mk didn't know something was wrong with lbd when he first encountered her in her hostess form, heck even monkie king didn't, how did tang? Triptaka/golden cicada powers? Are we going to be seeing him do this again? Does it mean anything for where his story is going?? I don't know it just, it feels like too much focus was put on this just for it to be for nothing, it's odd to me.

One more thing!!

what was this.

from the second episode we see macaque where he puts on a shadow play and possesses tang, pigsy, and mei n' forces them to fight mk. Never in the entire rest of the series have we ever seen someone who's possessed struggle/ appear to still be there whilst being under possession. Not with the people-turned-spider-demons not with bai he not with mei or pigsy in this scene, not even really with wukong in the special. It is arguable through his expressions that he may be somewhat still there and might be putting up a fight(especially when he's about to hit mk) but we never really seem him underneath. We never hear him and we never see his true reaction underneath the poker-faced-possessed version, never like we do with tang here. Once again, just, wjajnajj, why?? This is such an odd little detail and it's so weird how it never comes back again. If it's not foreshadowing or leading up to a bigger reveal then why animate it? Because it looked interesting? Because they could? Was it a way to express to the audience that his friends were still there under the surface and they weren't just clones? But the lights in the lantern along with them getting sucked in already made that pretty clear. If that was the case anyway, why didn't they do that with wukong? or with bai he? or with the spider demons? we had no way of knowing for sure that they were there or they'd come back after being un-possessed either. It's such a small little thing that could mean nothing but it's been stuck in the back of my mind since I first saw it back when I first picked up the show in like august. I don't know, it's cool though!! I hope they do smth more with it

It is!! 4am!!! I have to be up at 7 tmrw oopsies

ending it here gnnn if you read through all of these rambles then hiii!!! Glad you find me losing my mind over a Lego entertaining I sure have fun doing it, have a good day byebyeye :3

#This silly little Lego man is all I think about anymore #He never leaves he is stuck in the forefront of my brain permanently #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #Lmk #lmk tang #long post #I am realizing more and more as I sit down and actually process my thoughts on him that we are unnervingly similar #either a.) I'm projecting onto Tang so much that I've completely altered how I perceive his character and I am widely mischaracterizing him #or b.) I am accidentally and unconsciously becoming more and more like him everytime I think about him #or ig c.) I just so happens to be super similar to him and am only just now noticing it #Ohhh wait is that what a kin is? Do I kin a gay Lego do I really #I dunno but that's a problem for future zaacoy not awake-at-4-am-on-a-school-night-zaacoy gooooodnight #Zaacoy rambles🌙

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thebarbaricbeast · 2 years

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Bad bitches....part 3

The greatest females in human history have achieved the impossible; they've nourished their fervor and created a nation of possibilities for their future, not because of the fragility of their beauty by which they may or may not possess, but because of the depth of their minds and the faith in their vision.

She's a ferocious character, intellectually strong, and she dances as if she's lived a thousand lovely lives, as if she's the reflection of any soul; nonetheless, her character has an incapability. She is unable to settle down and trust a man since she values her freedom over her life.

Scorpio Rising

an individual with depth and spiritual capacity.

Leo midheaven

a promised prominence in the gamble of society

Pluto conjunct the rising in Sagittarius

An fresh book that you've discovered festooned in a beautiful medieval air but when its opened the pages fly out and the handwriting is in a language that is unlike anything you've ever spied.

At least three water signs in a fire sign placement

Working in a fiery setting can bring up some difficult emotions. A fiery and rebellious woman. She's blunt, and it's difficult to bend down and keep feelings hidden.

Lilith in Scorpio, Libra

A poisonous serpent, a servant of herself and she walks with depth but is in danger of a distasteful reputation

The moon and Saturn contact with scorpion influence

Although the moon in contact with Saturn is pessimistic, it serves as a boundary and inhibits emotional consistency. In most circumstances, scorpion influence will bring optimism. The kind of optimism that makes you want to go on an emotional excursion and be fascinated by other people's misdeeds.

Libra/Leo in the 8th house

She knows. Every sexual secret. She craves an audience and she's aroused by an intellectual man.

Pluto touching neptune or in the 12th house

She goes into the recesses of people's souls without their consent, just as she dives into the recesses of the universe, a painter who can determine every distinctive artwork but not the one that is concealed within herself.

Pluto in the 1st 9th and 8th

A woman who has strong character

Virgo sun/ virgo placements

A woman that arouses jealousy in the hearts of others

Pluto influencing the inner planets

brings depth to the character and sexual significance

Mars/moon/mercury square Pluto

Lilith anywhere hear the inner planets

Women and Superiority

Pisces Midheaven

A wise woman with a crown can do more than just influence.

Fire signs in the midheaven

Earth signs in the midheaven

libra midheaven

A lady with manners and the likes of her subjects, deadly in persuasion.

lilth in capricorn

The sun in the 5th degree

Venus in leo/libra

incredible confidence some where within her and the ability to be liked

Cancer in the midheaven

Treats her society with a great degree of care

Saturn in a Sagittarius degree

risky.. But that's the point

Saturn and mars in the 6th house

Sun/mars conjunct midheaven

Born to rule

Aquarius in the 9th house or Aquarius contacting Sagittarius

Venus conjunct Pluto

A model the world imitates

Sometimes depth destroys you, that's why only the indestructible withhold it- ladylabyrinth

#astrology #astro observations #astro notes #aspects #astrology content #astrology observations #witch community #astrology aspects #astro community #astrophysics #zodiac signs #thebarbaricbeast #women #natal chart #astrology notes #synastry

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will-this-drama-break-me · 5 months

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My Journey to You

This is going to be fun, I said. Surely they won't break my heart, I said. I was wrong.

As usual, spoiler-free above the cut, spoilers below.

General Rating: 9/10 Fight Choreo: 11/10 Cinematography and CGI: 10/10 Acting: 9/10 Costume: 10/10 Scene/Setting: 10/10 Heartbreak Meter: 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔/10

At a lovely 24-episode run, My Journey to You is a wuxia drama with a rich plot, beautiful costuming and scenery, and downright stunning fight scenes. It is the story Yun Wei Shan, an assassin completing one last assignment in hopes of gaining her freedom. She infiltrates the Gong residence and experiences love and friendship, which leads to self-discovery alongside Gong Zi Yu, who is fighting for the respect of his family hidden in the mountains. The plot has many twists and turns, with many people working in secret for their own goals and forming alliances. No one has the full story until the end, not even you as the viewer. I truly enjoyed yelling at the screen and retracting my insults to certain characters.

The cinematography was beautiful for every shot. From the wide shots of the beautiful mountain to slowed shots in fights, everything was clear, lovely, and purposeful. I sometimes skip wuxia fight scenes if they feel repetitive or boring in their choreography. I did not skip a single fight here. The details were so intricate and crisp! The moves played off each other like a dance- this wasn't just wild slashing at each other and random leaps into the air- every move felt like the characters spent years learning their art.

So why does it get 9 broken hearts? This one made me cry at the end.

Spoiler Review:

The romance between Yun Wei Shan and Gong Zi Yu took me by surprise not because I did not expect romance, but because I did not expect it to develop in a realistic way. Yun Wei Shan is not used to allowing other to see her feelings, and has grown to expect her trust to be betrayed. It only makes sense that, even after she allows herself to fall in love, she won't admit to it.

Gong Zi Yu on the other hand was bound to fall in love at first sight, and the maturing of the character does not take that aspect away from him. He is steadfast in his love and loyalty to her, even if it makes him work 5x harder to protect his family.

This is ALSO WHY IT BROKE MY HEART. I was fully expecting her to fake the love in the beginning, guarding my heart as she did her own. Her cold distance established a boundary that protect bother her heart and my expectations as a viewer. Little did I know goofy little Gong Zi Yu is incapable of loving quietly or in half measures; he bulldozed through her boundaries and won my affection. Little did I know the show would let me think in the FINAL EPISODE THAT THEY WOULD BE HAPPY only to snatch that happiness away! Don't get me wrong, it is very realistic. Of course she would get got by the assassin network she just took down. But for him to never know? For him to think she left him? That kills me.

Ok ok ok. Let's talk about Shangguan Qian: I hate her. I really do. She made me so anxious and so angry with every move she made. The actress is amazing- every time she smiled, she gave me a sick feeling of dread. The character? Awful, in a good way. She was written so well- as time went on they showed us how someone becomes as self serving as she is. Do I think she loved Gong Shang Jue? Yes, but it didn't matter. At every turn, she will make the decision that best serves her. So I think she's a lying lie face. I think she lied about the baby. I think she lied. I feel so bad for Gong Shang Jue, as she really pried open his heart with a crowbar and crawled in only to trash the place before she left. Funny enough, I think she did him some good. That heart is still open a crack.

While we are talking about Gong Shang Jue, let's also talk about his baby brother. I call him and Gong Yuan Zhi the Scorpion Brothers, with Gong Yuan Zhi affectionately titled the Scorpion Baby. I love my little Scorpion Baby and his little poisons and his deep loyalty to his brother. It's all so cute. Has he killed people? Yes, but it made him happy so we're going to ignore that. Has he tortured people? Again, stop asking questions. My Scorpion baby has never done anything wrong ever. Ever. As for his brother, Shang Jue was such a compelling character. The show first pitches him to us as a noble villain- after all, if we didn't know there were spies in the Gong residence, he would be the one we suspect for every slight, just like Gong Zi Yu does. But just as he painted as a villain, the show gives us glimmers of him as a loving person. He protects Scorpion Baby and holds his undying loyalty. He reprimands a servant for going into politics when his father's death is announced. He acts decisively, not cruelly, and as we learn that he lost a baby brother and his mother, it makes sense why he so fiercely protects the family despite how uncomfortable it might make others. Ugh, I love him. I wanted the best for him. And Shangguan Qian just...left him loving her.

The plot of Wufeng attempting to take down the last holdout against their power while the sons of the Gong family are fighting for power (while not realizing they are fighting for the same thing: keeping their family safe), and a MEMBER OF THE FAMILY working against everyone to go scorched earth to avenge his parents? Wow. Every twist and turn was well done, and it played well on the needs and motivations of each character, so it didn't feel forced. The puzzle pieces all fit in the end.

Would I recommend this drama? Yes, if you can take the pain.

#my journey to you #cdrama #wuxia #wuxia drama #dramas that broke my heart

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krystaldeath · 1 year

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Tang and Scorpion Demon friendship headcanons? Please?

Hell yessss

* Scorpion Demoness LOVES to listen Tang’s stories, both of old legends and of his adventures. He may or may not make himself sound more heroic than he actually was, and she may or may not know that he is. She lets him do it anyways; he’s having fun, so why ruin it for him?

* (THIS IS WHAT I MADE BEFORE THE WHOLE SEASON 4 BEING RELEASED FIASCO HAPPENED SO UHH. SORRY FOR THE EXTRA DELAY??? ANYWAYS CONTINUING ON!)

* I think she’s also a bit of a foodie herself, so they really bond over good food. And therefore a lot of their hang outs either end or start at Pigsy’s! (She sometimes feels like the third wheel when it’s her and Tang that are meant to be hanging out bc of him and Pigsy bicker-flirting; she gets back at him tho by gushing over Spider Queen)

* I think she’s super strong. Like so strong she doesn’t even realize her own strength. They pass by the arcade Mei and MK like to play in and decide to try a couple games, one being a test of strength type game. She breaks it the second she touches it. They immediately run away from the crime scene

* Bc I am incapable of not including my ships in some way: Double dates! The first one is always as hell bc. Well. Spider Queen not only flirted with Pigsy (and Tang but that did Not work), but also kinda maybe planned on eating them? Haha, it’s okay she’s past that now! Doesn’t mean she won’t tease them a bit and mumble something like “This would taste better with some mortal blood mixed in” as she sips on her drink, side eyeing the scholar and pig man. Meanwhile Scorpion Demoness is just clung to her arm and when she asks “What was that, sweetie?” (Unaware), SQ just smiles sweetly and says “Nothing~!”

* Tang: Really? Spider Queen? Sure she’s pretty (from an aesthetic point not romantic of course), but she’s evil!No offense but you can do better! SD: … A Pigman- Tang: HES AN AMAZING COOK AND A KIND MAN!!! HE IS ALSO A LOVING (while strict!) FATHER!!! HE’S A DILF SCORPS-! SD: Augh, no, Tangy!! Don’t call him that! Tang: A /DILF/!!!!!!!!

* Now this kind of doesn’t work with most of my headcanons but the scenario is in my head now so: They wingman for each other but by trying to make their respective crushes jealous; SD gushes about Tang like she’s interested in him around/to Pigsy and vice versa. This backfires in the sense that they do get jealous but now SD is banned from Pigsy’s and Tang almost gets eaten again

* They have a book club that’s just the two of them at first but she convives Tang to let Yin, Jin, the purple demon lady (idk what we call her), and the… Little guy… forgot what he’s called, join them! It is the most chaotic and rowdy book club there has ever been

* SD always wanted to have a cliche sleepover and Tang is more than happy to indulge her. They paint each others nails (neither are very good at it; SD is a margin better tho and gets better over time. Tang does not), do face masks and play games like MASH. SD maybe suggests doing a spooky activity like chanting Bloody Mary 3 times in the bathroom. Tang maybe has a heart attack when supernatural stuff actually starts happening. They maybe have to call MK and Mei to save them from said supernatural stuff. They talk about their crushes, oooh~

#lego monkie kid #lmk headcanon #lmk scorpion demoness #lmk tang #lmk spider queen #lmk pigsy #maybe SQ and Pigsy become sorta friends bc of their SOs being besties who knows???#freenoodleshipping #lmk freenoodles #venomqueenshipping #sorry I made it so much about my ships I just have them on the mind #also sorry I made you wait for over a week but. like I said. the season 4 fiasco dropped on us #hope y’all enjoy these nonetheless!!!#word heavy

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eggplant-crusader · 9 months

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Hi, I just wanna say that I love your wenclair fics so much and thank you for sharing them to us! 🥰

That being said, idk if someone already asked this but what are the top 5 fics you love that you've written and the top 5 fics you love that are written by others?

Thank you so much!!!

My favorite fics I've written:

Bad Night - First wenclair fic, and I have a very distinct memory of the moment when my brain broke a little as I realized oh. I think I just got into Wednesday Addam's head. Oh. That's not great.

Leviathan - barely a fic, but I'm proud of how much I did with so little. It was written as a byproduct of the aforementioned moment when writing Bad night. I feel like I didn't so much write it as vomit it.

The Nine Ghosts of Felicia Hardy - My first silkcat fic is perhaps a bit messy because it's written as a divergence from a specific comic book issue, but this one was where I really started getting into how I would write the characters interacting.

Zugzwang - my favorite of my Silkcat fics, where I think I found my favorite things to do with them.

The Scorpion's Nature - here to rep my darker fics. Writing this was a bit of a nightmare and I didn't think it was going to get done, but it ended up happening and I'm happy about that.

Honorable mention to Because, because I wish I could write a million Tanthamore novels, but I just don't have it in me. This is all I could give them, and I kinda hate that, because it's barely a fic.

As for fics written by others:

This is a bit awkward, but I don't read THAT many fics, and the more I write for a pairing, the less I read for them, because I'm already getting my fix from my own brain.

There's also a bunch of fics I've lost track of because it's been years and because I never bookmarked or subscribed to them because I'm terrible at that and they were complete. This especially applies to Pricefield.

So, with all that in mind:

Exposure, a Holstein fic by Makeme123. I'm incredibly glad it's available again, and I rushed to download it in case it's hidden once more.

The Road to Home also Holstein by Makeme123. I'm sorry they just write straight up novels with such good structure and so many great moments.

Raven in the den, wolf in the nest, a Wenclair fic by Barbara_Lazuli - I think it's no secret that barb and I just vibe with each other's work, we have some similar ideas about what Wenclair, and especially Enid I think, could/should be like. This one is long, nicely structured, and very fun.

In Due Time, a Holstein fic by lizardwriter - this is a bit of a weird one, but it's here because I used to be incapable of reading second-person fics, and then I read this and it was like a switch flipped because this fic really HAD to be written in second person. This led me to write some interesting stuff in second person (one is not a fic, another one is a korrasami fic and let's leave it at that).

Danse Macabre, a Wenclair fic by Cruci_fics. It's here to represent all of their wenclair fics tbh, they're all short and sweet, very good stuff, and it's what kept us sane during the early days.

There's a million more I wish I could mention and I can't remember. I've read. So much Holstein.

#my asks

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Hello sorry to bother you with this all of sudden ,and this might be coming out of nowhere, and I’m not trying to force you or be pushy but I m trying to get more people into this show with great potential. If your not interested it’s fine but Have you heard of or watched moon girl and devil dinosaur? Season 2 premier happened

The main character i love she gives me autistic vibes I’m autistic. The show has interesting characters, action ,great music, and animation ,good themes and representation, Anime references, plenty of Sailor Moon references too it even has an eyecatch season 2 is going to be more story driven if you find that interesting. It also shares the same animation studio as rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles.

It be good if you watch the season 2 episodes when they air so the ratings will be higher.

I think Disney might be trying to sabotage the show with them probably dropping 14 episodes on Disney + on February 3 which has passed. We have a week to binge it.They did similar with season 1 and the ratings where low ,please watch season 2 episodes when they air on. But more importantly also watch it on Disney + in feb and when they air it on YouTube. Unfortunately they are dropping 14 episodes on Disney + so watch them all in one day but also when they air the first time.

I’m not just saying only cable just also. I’m saying please support this show. Despite that it still won 5 Emmys. Also if it’s no trouble could if it alright with you spread the word about this show to others you know like either online or irl. Time is limited!

Oh so I'm not the only one who noticed the 14 episode drop and heard the bells of grief ringing ominously in the background. I only watched the first 2 eps 0f season 2 (yes I watched all of season 1). Honestly, they should have just kept it as 2 episodes out for the public, and then drop the rest 1 ep a week for the rest until a finale.

Spoilers below

I enjoyed beyonder antics, and them getting beaten up by those they wronged. I enjoyed seeing the beyonder learn how to tiptoe to victory. Devil girl would probably have been more than happy to help moon girl under different circumstances. Molecule Man is a bastard for attempting to murder a (I think she's like thirteen) child. Bruh that kid got dragged here by the huy you don't like, why are you trying to murk her? She just wants to go home, man.

He gave Lunella PTSD from that bs he pulled. Episode 2 deals with that. We see OMG's girl crew from her university days: the hot tomatoes. I hate the fungal covered books, thise poor books. Reminds me of the last arc of Clinic of Horrors. Brr.

Anyway, they make several versions of new moon girl suits. Each version becoming the vibranium equivalent of moon girl wearing a bunch of poofy layers to look like one of those marshmallow tots that are stuck in the "A" pose. Mimi asks the mini moon girl if she is okay, Lunella lies. Mimi then tells her granddaughter that she should not underestimate herself, and that her brain is her strongest weapon. Then a scorpion gets supersized into the size of a bus. Moon Girl realizes her suit is over armored to the point of her being incapable of saving others, and goes zero suit Lunella Mode to stop the scorpion with cacti, her goggles, and a well placed kick in the tail.

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can i just say 📣 something 🗣️? at this 🥳 party 🎉 here there are maybe 🤔 40 4️⃣0️⃣ of the most important 🕴️people in america 🇺🇸 and you 👩🏻‍🦰 have just walked 🚶‍♀️all around, all evening🌝, telling them all that i'm gonna get 🔥🚒 fired.

no, it was implied, 🔅lightly, as a little... god 🧔🏽‍♀️! part of a 🪖tactical🎖️ kind of joke🃏.

will you 🤔 explain to me, the joke🃏? because i don't 🚫 get the fucking 🍆 joke 🃏.

MY GOD🧔🏽‍♀️, TOM!

i don't 🚫get the joke🃏, i don't🚫 get the joke🃏.

it was something that he 👱🏻‍♂️said, that isn't 🙅‍♀️true 🙊, that we 👥needed to say 🗣️. but you 👩🏻‍🦰stood 🧍‍♀️by his 👱🏻‍♂️side, and he said🗣️ it, and you were like👍 "okay 👌, well, that sounds 🎼good ✅ to me🤷🏼‍♀️."

fuck's 🍆sake, i'm 🙅‍♀️not doing this right ↩️now. you 👨🏻 know i’m👩🏻‍🦰 in serious👿 trouble, that was a▶️ play.

you 👩🏻‍🦰 will be okay 👌because you are a tough 🤬 fucking 🍆 bitch 🐩 who will always 🛟survive🤿 because 👩🏻‍🦰 you do what you 🥊need, you will 🧗🏻‍♀️do what

— are you 👨🏻even listening🙉? i 👩🏻‍🦰will be okay 👌?

— you 👩🏻‍🦰will do whatever you need⚓️.

yeah? really? yeah, you sure you're not projecting📽️, because that is actually you 👨🏻.

should we 👥 have a real 🤯conversation🎙️? with a scorpion 🦂?

no 🚫. that was a friendly 👯 thing. that was a friendly 👯‍♀️thing.

yeah 👍. sure 🫤. real 👯‍♀️ friendly. yeah, no, i'm 👩🏻‍🦰 a scorpion 🦂, you're 👨🏻 a hyena 🐺, you're a... you're a street rat 🐀. actually, no, you're a fucking 🍆 snake 🐍. "here's a dead 🪦snake 🐍 to wear as a 👔necktie, tom 👨🏻", "why 🚫aren't you 🤔laughing 🤣?" (pause) i wonder if we shouldn't clear the air💨 yeah?

yeah. sure. i think 🤔 you can be a very 🦀 selfish 🦐 person and i think 💭 you find it very hard 🪨to think 🧠 about me

— what the fuck 😅—

and i 👨🏻think 🧐you 👩🏻‍🦰shouldn't 🙅‍♀️have even married👰🏼 me,🤵🏻‍♂️ actually.

what the fuck🍆? what the ACTUAL 🍆fuck⁉️ you 👨🏻proposed 💍to me👩🏻‍🦰. you proposed 💒 at my lowest ⬇️fucking 📉ebb🪫. my dad👴🏻 was dying😵, what was i 👩🏻‍🦰supposed to say🗣️?

perhaps "no"👎🚫🙅‍♀️⁉️

i 👩🏻‍🦰 didn't want to hurt 🩼your feelings😢.

thanks🤗! thanks 🦃for that! yeah 👍, you really kept 👨🏻me 🛟 safe 👷‍♀️while you 👩🏻‍🦰 ran 🏃‍♀️off 💨to fuck🍆 the phone 📞book📚.

fuck 🍆off🖕. you're a hick 🧑🏻‍🌾

— and then, and then.. —

conservative 🐘 hick 🧢👮🏻‍♂️ —

you 👩🏻‍🦰 hid 🙈 it, you 👩🏻‍🦰 hid 🙈 it because you were so 😱 scared 🙀 of how fucking 🤡 awful 🤢 you are.

you 👨🏻were only with👩🏻‍🦰 me 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨to get to power🔋. you 👨🏻 got it 💪 now ⏱️, tom, you've got it!

I'M 👨🏻 WITH 👩🏻‍🦰 YOU BECAUSE I LOVE ❤️ YOU😍!

bullshit 🐄💩, you're 🔩 fucking me 👩🏻‍🦰for my 🧬DNA, you were fucking 🍆 me for a fucking 🪛ladder 🪜 because your whole 👨‍👩‍👦 family is striving 🧗and parochial ⚛️.

that's not... thats not a fair characterization 😞.

no? well, your 👵 mom loves 💕me 👩🏻‍🦰 more ⬆️ than she 💗loves you 👨🏻, because she's cracked 💔. you want to... you want to actually 🌬️clear the air🍃? fine. you 🔪betrayed me 👩🏻‍🦰.

YOU 👩🏻‍🦰 WERE GOING TO SEE ME 👨🏻 SENT 📤TO FUCKING 🍆PRISON 👮, SHIV! AND THEN YOU 🔩 FOBBED ME OFF WITH THAT FUCKING 🪛UNDRINKABLE 🤮 WINE 🍷AND YOU 👩🏻‍🦰WON'T 🚫HAVE MY 🤰BABY 👶🏻BECAUSE YOU NEVER 🙅‍♂️EVEN THOUGHT🤔, HONESTLY, THAT YOUD BE WITH ME 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨MORE THAN FOUR 4️⃣ FUCKING 🍆YEARS📆, I 👎DON'T 🧠THINK!

YOU 👨🏻OFFERED TO GO TO JAIL 👮🏻‍♀️! YOU👨🏻 OFFERED TO GO TO JAIL 👮🏻‍♀️BECAUSE YOU'RE SERVILE🙇🏻‍♂️! you're just... YOU'RE SERVILE🧎🏻‍♂️!

YOU ARE INCAPABLE 🙈 OF THINKING 🙉ABOUT ANYBODY 👤OTHER THAN YOURSELF 👩🏻‍🦰 BECAUSE YOUR 👅SENSE 👁️ OF 👂🏻WHO 👩🏻‍🦰 YOU 🫵🏻 ARE, SHIV, IS THAT FUCKING 🍆THIN 🤌!

oh yeah you read 🤓📖that in a book📚, tom?

YOU'RE TOO 🍆 FUCKING 😶‍🌫️ TRANSPARENT 🫥 TO FIND 👀 THAT IN A 📚BOOK! You're pathetic👎, you're pathetic🤬. you’re a masochist🧨 and you can't 😡 even take it. I 👁️ think 💭 you are 🙅‍♂️ incapable of love 💔, and i 👨🏻think 🧠you are maybe not 🚫 a good person🧍‍♀️ to have🤱 children!👨‍👩‍👧‍👧

well, that's not very 👍nice 😇to say🗣️, is it?

I’m sorry😢. Im sorry😔, but you... 👩🏻‍🦰 you... you have 🩼 hurt 🤕 me more ⬆️ than you 🤔 can possibly 💭imagine.

and you 👨🏻, you took 🛫 away the last 6️⃣ six months 🕕 i could've had with my 👴🏻 dad. you 🍼 sucked 🙇🏻‍♂️up to him and you 💇‍♀️cut me 👩🏻‍🦰 out 🚶‍♀️!

it's not 🙅‍♂️my fault that you didn't get his approval 👍. I have given 🎁 you 💝 endless 💐approval ✅ and it doesn't fill ⛽️ you 🪫up🔋 because you're broken🏚️💔.

I don't 👎 like💔 you. I don't 🚫... I don't ⛔️ even care 🤬 about you. i don’t 🙊care 😒. have we 🌬️cleared the air 🍃 ? feel good👌 now?

Yeah 🎉. Yeah 😎. Fucking 🍆 great👍.

#succession #succession 4x07 #shiv Roy #tom wambsgans #shiv x tom

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tuatara-time · 11 months

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Oh, I'm interested in the Fae story idea!

heehoo so this one isn’t actually a story yet so I can’t share any snippets, so you get a colossal infodump instead 😈

As with many of my best and most outlandish ideas, this one started from a dream I had where I was a little fairy-like creature and I was part of a team , and we were setting out on some journey to, I dunno, protect our home or whatever. But what my brain really focused on was the anatomy, reproduction and social structure of these fairy creatures.

In the universe of this dream/story, fairies stand at between 2 and 5 inches tall. They’re insectoid in origin but have the intelligence and physical posture of humans. They have two legs and two or four arms, and usually two or four wings. They almost always have chitinous exoskeletons with jointed limbs, just like other insect species. Many also have an insect thorax where a human’s butt would be. They vary immensely in appearance, the reasons for which I’ll get into a bit later!

Fairies live in hives/colonies in hollow spaces such as caves, ancient trees, or even attics in abandoned buildings. Each hive has a queen, who produces fairy larvae - these are all identical, sexless (though gender exists as a personal choice), and incapable of flight until they mature at an as-yet-undetermined age.

Fairies are omnivorous, subsisting on a varied diet including berries, nuts, other insects, and occasionally small birds and mammals. Hunting is an important part of a fairy’s life and plays a key role in coming-of-age rituals.

Now the key part of this: when a fairy comes of age, they set off on their first hunt (along with several older and more experienced fairies as back-up, who will only step in if absolutely necessary). They stay in the wild until they hunt and kill a creature, and then bring it back to the hive. Most will go for a harmless insect but some particularly bold fairies will target wasps, spiders, scorpions, or even in incredibly rare cases birds. Back in the hive, instead of taking their kill to the communal meal stash, they sequester it and themselves away somewhere safe and spin a cocoon encasing them and their prey. An as-yet-undetermined time later they’ll emerge from the cocoon as a fully formed fairy, taking on the features of whatever their prey was (absorbed in the cocoon as a source of energy) so that they resemble a humanoid version of it. For this reason, hive members are incredibly varied in appearance and abilities, and each will find a suitable role within the hive depending on their adult features.

Now the actual story I have planned: the main character is a fairy larva on the cusp of adulthood who sets off on her first hunt. She’s a runt and everyone underestimates her, they’re genuinely hoping for and expecting her to just die in the forest somewhere, but she ends up killing a bird (haven’t decided which type) which is a HUGE fuckin deal for her tiny hive, literally has never happened before, and then like right before she emerges from her cocoon the hive is attacked, and decimated. She hatches out to find everyone she loves dead or missing, and has to set off on a journey with a handful of other survivors to find their missing hive mates and exact revenge. There’s one giant beetle guy who’s a royal guard of some sort (he doesn’t talk much), a sketchy dragonfly dude (I think), and one other fairy who I have no clear visual of yet.

anyway do with this information what you will!

#ask game #my writing #worldbuilding

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oedipushansen · 9 months

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u were thirteen years old and u knew how to twist the knife u knew then and u know now. bc you knew dad let a gang of creeps run cruises. why is it bc u dont take over is that it well good luck sleeping on that shiv. youre trying to fuck us right shivy. i asked you a real fucking question. bc youll be fine youll always be fine bc you are a tough fucking bitch that will do what u need. come on i know you like you wouldnt if it was the other way around. youre a scorpion. you are incapable of love. it doesnt fill you up bc youre broken

#am i making sense #i notice theres like. a pattern of ppl projecting this image of shiv like shes this ultra vindictive person who always knows what shes doing #& is always only faking innocence #happens in canon & in the fanbase as well #txt

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self indulgent rant under the cut

TL;DR: people who put phobia causing images in the thumbnails of videos without warning that aren’t specifically educational videos are assholes, and they should fuck off. this goes for any phobia: trypophobia, arachnophobia, etc. i’m fine with nature channels doing this, since. i know what i’m getting when i subscribe to one. but for non nature channels it’s a bitch move.

as a severe arachnophobe: content creators who put spiders as the focus in the thumbnails of their videos can go fuck themselves /gen. like. they don’t have to be in the FUCKING THUMBNAIL unless you are a channel that does that shit regularly. i don’t want to be on my phone, checking my youtube dashboard, and get hit with a close up of a black recluse!! i understand 100% if you’re a nature channel and that is your job, but if it isn’t then like. idk don’t fucking do that??? i’ve gotten into the habit of avoiding videos about bugs because the odds of there being a picture of a spider somewhere in there without warning is really high! when someone says “tw: bugs” i think BUGS, not spiders or scorpions!! fuck you if you call spiders bugs in the first place: THEYRE NOT. spiders aren’t bugs, they’re arachnids! there’s a distinction. and if you’re arachnophobic, there’s a huge difference between being afraid of spiders and being afraid of other insects!! i fucking love insects but i can’t look them up without having to worry if i’m going to have a breakdown because of images of spiders being mixed in! putting a spider in the thumbnail is rude as hell, especially if you don’t usually make videos that cover spiders/bugs—your audience has no warning! and not putting an arachnophobia warning in the video or description is also bad! sifting through comments to see if there’s any mentions of spiders is NOT easy either: it’s so EASY to miss any mentions that if i’m worried that i’ll be hit with a picture of a spider then i’ll not watch the video—even when the stuff genuinely interests me! and that doesn’t even get me started on videos that drop images of spiders with no prompting! i’m trying to watch a TED talk about that astronaut that went blind in space, and he drops a picture of a brown recluse with no prompting or warning!!

spiders genuinely make me feel icky when i see them: we get them on the door in the summer, and i will genuinely wait for someone else to come and open the door rather than get anywhere near a spider. i don’t like being in the same fucking room as them! there’s a reason i have them blacklisted and why i’ll ask someone else to look something up if im worried that there might be spiders in the results! scorpions don’t bother me—i think they’re badass—it is literally just spiders.

i’m. very opinionated about this. as someone with a genuine fear which makes me incapable of enjoying things, fuck people who put pictures of spiders in the thumbnails of their videos and don’t properly warn about it. those people are fucking assholes.

i’ll say this again: nature channels which focus specifically on nature and informational videos about that are different! you EXPECT that to come from them, since that’s they’re job!! i wouldn’t get mad at casual geographic for putting spiders in a video that he dedicated to bugs: if i watch that, i sign up for it. that’s on me. or if i watch a yt short about why you shouldn’t eat bananas with white spots on the peel (it could be a sign of mold or spider infestation, neither of which you want to eat) then i signed up for it!! if i watch a kurzgesagt video about the ant kingdom and warrior ants that will beat the shit out of everything (including tarantulas) then i expect that i might get hit with an animated spider!! in those cases, my panic response is under control, because i ANTICIPATED that i would be dealing with it! but if daily dose of internet puts spiders in the thumbnail without warning, then what the fuck. i don’t expect that! it triggers my panic response near instantly (which is to instinctually throw the thing with the spider on it away and to curl up into a ball) and i become WAY too self conscious!! i literally go into a fight or flight response with spiders—it’s flight. nature channels: i expect! non nature channels: i do not expect and it freaks me out. there’s a difference between me watching videos with bugs in them and being aware of the risk vs me watching a gaming video and being shown a spider.

i know people genuinely don’t mean harm when they do this, but it’s not THAT hard to not have spiders in the thumbnail. it’s not that hard to put a “cw: spiders” or “tw: arachnophobia” at the beginning of your video OR in the description! if you can warn about blood or death, then you can warn about spiders, as it’s one of the most common phobias!

#spit speaks #rant

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Vanessa Ives | Penny Dreadful | Victorian-Modern, Mature, Horror

Vanessa is a seductive and formidable beauty full of secrets and danger. She is keenly observant -- clairvoyant even -- as well as an expert medium. Her supernatural gifts are powerful and useful to those around her, but they are also a heavy burden. Her inner demons just may be more real than emotional, and they threaten to destroy her relationships, her sanity, and her very life.

True to her personality, Vanessa primarily appears dressed in a stately, polished manner and maintains an air of refinement and inscrutability. When her inner demon is in ascendance, however, she becomes much more instinctive and much less restrained as her behavior grows increasingly wild. Although she is brave and steadfast, there are times when even she is afraid when confronted with the most terrifying forms of evil. However, upon being released from the demon's possession, Vanessa exhibited a less brooding and more personable attitude.

Vanessa, despite her outward appearance, is a kind and compassionate woman who is very far from incapable of friendship and courtesy.

However, Vanessa's most defining traits are her incredible inner strength and unwavering faith in her god, who she turns to in her time of need and believes in no matter what the circumstances.

HISTORY

Vanessa was born to Gordon and Claire Ives, a wealthy family who were neighbors to the Murray family. As a child, she had an extremely close relationship with the Murray girl Mina, a relationship with a bond closer than sisters. Vanessa also had a close relationship with Mina's older brother Peter Murray, whom she intended to marry when she was older.

Vanessa's innocence was forever ripped away when she witnessed Sir Malcolm and her mother in one of their sexual escapades, and this became the start of a bitter falling out between the two families. She grew to resent Mina for all her good fortune and began to demonstrate some scandalous habits, having kissed Peter out of turn and having a sexual escapade of her own with Mina's fiancé. Her downward spiral became most evident when she fell victim to the possession of an evil spirit, which eventually led to the death of her mother.

"What is love but a kind of creature waiting to be unbound? A malady. What does it bring any of us but… confusion and bedevilment?"

Skills & Abilities

Skills

Divination: the act of divining future, past, and present events based off of extrasensory perception.

Cartomancy: The practice of divination through the use of tarot cards.

Clairvoyance: The practice of divination through the perception of emotions, objects, people, or physical phenomena.

Intuition: The practice of divination through the use of instinctive knowledge.

Tasseomancy: The practice of divination based on the positions and symbols of tea leaves.

Herbalist: Vanessa possesses a comprehensive knowledge of plants and their properties when applied to the human body having been taught by the cut-wife.

Occult Knowledge: Vanessa, despite never having made a fetish, was well aware of them, their uses and how they were made. She was also the only one in the group with prior knowledge of the nightcomers and speaking the Verbis Diablo.

Marksmanship: Vanessa has shown a surprising skill in handling firearms, able to shoot down bottles from a distance and in mid-air, all in her first try and with considerable accuracy.

Abilities

Mediumship: the ability to channel spirits and supernatural beings.

Verbis Diablo: Vanessa has become quite fluent in the devil's tongue despite having been taught very little in it by Joan Clayton.

Apotropaic Magic:The practice of creating mystic wards to block evil. Vanessa used her own personal scorpion totem, painted with her own blood around the mansion in order to protect it.

Additional Info

Verses

Mun is a believer in Reincarnation. Plus Eva Green is personal fave of mines. She's like gimmie all the Witch Roles.

Medieval: Her first incarnation, expect her skills and personal to be different. She's based on the Camelot 2011 in which she played Morgana AKA Morgan Le Fay

Modern: Her third incarnation Vanessa is her second. Very similar to Vanessa Ives just adapted to a modern verse.

FAQ

#98-ives

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contentconsumer · 2 years

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Heyyy there 😊 do you mind if I ask for a stranger things ship? I don't mind if the ship is male or female.

I'm Female. 23. Blue eyes. Black hair (dyed wish it was real). INFJ. Romantically could love anyone but sexually no thank you lol.

Painfully shy which I blame on being insecure, having severe ocd for a number of years meaning I was a literal recluse and just my personality I guess.

Hobbies include reading mostly detective stuff, murder mysteries, fantasy, graphic novels, dc comics (mostly batfam related or central city rogues), Agatha Christie and Tolkien are my homies.

I like the idea of dress making but my ass is lazy and I'm afraid of my sewing machine. Hufflepuff.

Will more or less listen to anything and everything in terms of music. My current go to music is FATM Dance Fever, Dorothy Gifts from the Holy Ghost, In This Moment and the Scorpions. A song that makes me both happy and really sad is GNR Don't Cry. A song that makes me pumped is Foo Fighters Let it Die or Dear Rosemary. My happy song that restores balance to the universe is Emeli Sandi Wonder. Twenty one pilots owns my heart.

My clothing is for the vast majority is second hand. I have some super old pieces of clothing from the 20s, 30s, 50s and 70s. I hand embroider song lyrics onto my tshirts. My favorite is a blue tie dye with the pretty reckless only love can save me now embroidered on. I wear platform converse where possible or heels depending on the occasion because I'm short.

When I was a kid and I got scared I'd console myself by imagining superman was real because he has super hearing and speed and laser eyes and strength and blah blah blah and Clark Kent would never ever let anything bad happen so I'm safe. So now I'm incapable of finding superman attractive cuz he's my safety blanket and protector 😂

i ship you with robin buckley! i feel like you two are so compatible but slightly in an opposite's attract way, steve constantly bullies the pair of you due to the difference in your outward confidence, while robin speaks openly and reacts quickly she is also understanding of your insecurities. you bond by sharing music as the detective programs you watch freak her out a little bit also queue you two sharing a wardrobe and her not being able to stop herself from teasing you on your height which she finds adorable similarly to you safety blanket of clark kent, she is also always up for hearing your ideas on designing and making clothes even if they stay as ideas.

i hope you enjoy, tysm for requesting!

#robin buckley #stranger things ship #stranger things imagine #stranger things #minx's ships #minx answers

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The Elephant’s Journey by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

The past is an immense area of stony ground that many people would like to drive across as if it were a road, while others move patiently from stone to stone, lifting each one because they need to know what lies beneath. Sometimes scorpions crawl out or centipedes, fat white caterpillars or ripe chrysalises, but it’s not impossible that, at least once, an elephant might appear, and that the elephant might carry on its shoulders a mahout named subhro, meaning white, an entirely inappropriate word to describe the man who, in the sight of the king of portugal and his secretary of state, appeared in the enclosure in belém looking every bit as filthy as the elephant he was supposed to be taking care of. (p.21)

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How's solomon, he asked, When I left him, he was sleeping, replied the mahout, He's a valiant creature, exclaimed the commanding officer with feigned enthusiasm, He just went where he was led, and he was born with whatever strength and resistance he has, they're not personal virtues, You're being very hard on poor solomon, Perhaps because of a story that one of my assistants just told me, What story is that, asked the commanding officer, The story of a cow, Do cows have stories, asked the commanding officer, smiling, This one did, she spent twelve days and twelve nights in the galician mountains, in the cold, rain, ice and mud, among stones as keen as knives and scrub as sharp as nails, enjoying only brief intervals of rest in between fighting and fending off attacks, amid howls and mooing, the story of a cow who was lost in the fields with her calf and found herself surrounded by wolves for twelve days and twelve nights, and was obliged to defend herself and her calf during a long-drawn-out battle, enduring the agony of living on the very edge of death, encircled by teeth and gaping jaws, prone to sudden assaults, knowing that every thrust with her horns had to hit home, as she fought for her own life and for that of the little creature who could not yet fend for itself, and dreading those moments when the calf sought its mother's teats and slowly suckled, while the wolves closed in, crouching low, ears pricked. Subhro took a deep breath, then went on, At the end of those twelve days, the cow and her calf were found and saved and led in triumph to the village, but the story doesn't end there, it went on for two more days, at the end of which, because the cow had turned wild and learned to defend herself, and because no one could tame her or even get near her, she was killed, slaughtered, not by the wolves she had kept at bay for twelve whole days, but by the very men who had saved her, possibly by her actual owner, incapable of understanding that a previously docile, biddable creature, having learned how to fight, could never stop fighting.

A respectful silence reigned for a few seconds in the large stone room. The soldiers present were not very experienced in war, indeed the youngest of them had never even smelled gunpowder on a battlefield, and thus they were astonished at the courage shown by an irrational creature, a cow, imagine that, who had revealed herself to have such human sentiments as love of family, the gift of personal sacrifice, and self-denial carried to the ultimate extreme. The first to speak was the soldier who appeared to know a lot about wolves, That's a very nice story, he said to subhro, and that cow deserved, at the very least, a medal for bravery and merit, but there are a few things about your account that remain unclear and don't quite ring true, For example, asked the mahout in the tone of someone squaring up for a fight, For example, who told you the story, A galician, And where did he hear it, He must have heard it from someone else, Or read it, As far as I know he can't read, All right, perhaps he heard it and memorized it, Possibly, but I was simply interested in retelling it as best I could, You have an excellent memory, and the language in which you told the story was far from ordinary, Thank you, said subhro, but now I would like to know which bits of the story remain unclear to you and failed to ring true, The first is that we are given to understand or, rather, it is explicitly stated that the struggle between the cow and the wolves lasted twelve days and twelve nights, which would mean that the wolves attacked the cow on the very first night and only withdrew on the twelfth, presumably having sustained some losses, We weren't there to see what happened, No, but anyone who knows anything about wolves would know that, although they live in a pack, they hunt alone, What are you getting at, asked subhro, I'm saying that the cow wouldn't have been able to withstand a concerted attack by three or four wolves for one hour, let alone twelve days, So the whole story of the battling cow is a lie, No, the lie consists only in the exaggerations, linguistic affectations and half-truths that try to pass themselves off as whole truths, So what do you think happened, asked subhro, Well, I think the cow really did get lost, was attacked by a wolf, fought him off and forced him to fee, possibly badly injured, and then stayed where she was, grazing and suckling her calf until she was found, Couldn't another wolf have come along, Yes, but that would be unlikely, and having fought off one wolf is more than enough to justify a medal for bravery and merit. The audience applauded, thinking that, all things considered, the galician cow deserved the truth as much as she deserved the medal. (pp. 88-91)

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. . . Every elephant contains two elephants, one who learns what he’s taught and another who insists on ignoring it all, How do you know, When I realized that I’m just like the elephant, that a part of me learns and the other part ignores everything I’ve learned, and the longer I live, the more I ignore, Your word games are beyond me, It’s not me playing games with words, it’s them playing games with me. . . . (p. 121)

#jose saramago #book quotes

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