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thatbiologist · 11 months

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G’eth Character Name Bank

First Names

Masculine Names

Alfred, Andrew, Arlo, Arthur, Balthazar, Barry, Ben, Benedick, Bernard, Burchard, Cedric, Charibert, Crispin, Cyrill, Daegal, Derek, Digory, Drustan, Duncan, Edmund, Edwin, Elric, Evaine, Frederick, Geffery, George, Godfreed, Gregory, Guy, Harris, Harry, Horsa, Hugh, Humphrey, Iago, Jack, Jeremy, John, Kazamir, Kenric, Lawrence, Leoric, Lorik, Luke, Lynton, Lysander, Madoc, Magnus, Maukolum, Micheal, Miles, Milhouse, Mordred, Mosseus, Ori, Orvyn, Neville, Norbert, Nycolas, Paul, Percival, Randulf, Richard, Robert, Roderick, Stephen, Tennys, Theodoric, Thomas, Tristan, Tybalt, Victor, Vincent, Vortimer, Willcock, Willian, Wymond

Feminine Names

Adelin, Alice, Amelia, Beatrix, Beryl, Bogdana, Branwyne, Brigida, Catalina, Catherine, Claudia, Crystina, Deanna, Desdemona, Elaine, Elinora, Eliza, Enide, Eva, Ferelith, Fiora, Freya, Gertrude, Gregoria, Gueanor, Gwen, Gwendolyn, Hannah, Hegelina, Helen, Helga, Heloise, Henrietta, Igraine, Imogen, Jacquelyn, Jane, Jean, Jenny, Jill, Juliana, Juliet, Katie, Leela, Lettice, Lilibet, Lilith, Lucy, Luthera, Luz, Lyra, Malyna, Margherita, Marion, Meryl, Millie, Miranda, Molle, Morgana, Morgause, Nezetta, Nina, Novella, Olwen, Oriana, Oriolda, Osanna, Pamela, Petra, Philippa, Revna, Rohez, Rosalind, Rose, Sallie, Sarra, Serphina, Sif, Simona, Sophie, Thomasine, Tiffany, Ursula, Viola, Winifred, Yrsa, Ysabella, Yvaine, Zelda, Zillah

Gender-Neutral/Unisex Names

Adrian, Alex, Aiden, Arden, Ariel, Auden, Avery, Bailey, Blaire, Blake, Brett, Breslin, Caelan, Cadain, Cameron, Charlie, Dagon, Dana, Darby, Darra, Devon, Drew, Dylan, Evan, Felize, Fenix, Fernley, Finley, Glenn, Gavyn, Haskell, Hayden, Hunter, Jace, Jaime, Jesse, Jo, Kai, Kane, Karter, Kieran, Kylin, Landon, Leslie, Mallory, Marin, Meritt, Morgan, Nell, Noel, Oakley, Otzar, Paris, Peregrine, Quant, Quyn, Reagan, Remy, Robin, Rowan, Ryan, Sam, Samar, Sasha, Sloan, Stace, Tatum, Teegan, Terrin, Urbain, Vahn, Valo, Vick, Wallace, Waverly, Whitney, Yardley, Yarden, Zasha

Surnames

Surnames, Patrilineal - First Name (Patrilineal Surname)

Ace, Allaire, Appel, Arrow, Baker, Bamford, Barnard, Beckett, Berryann, Blakewood, Blanning, Bigge, Binns, Bisby, Brewer, Brickenden, Brooker, Browne, Buller, Carey, Carpenter, Carter, Cheeseman, Clarke, Cooper, Ead, Elwood, Emory, Farmer, Fish, Fisher, Fitzroy, Fletcher, Foreman, Foster, Fuller, Galahad, Gerard, Graves, Grover, Harlow, Hawkins, Hayward, Hill, Holley, Holt, Hunter, Jester, Kerr, Kirk, Leigh, MacGuffin, Maddock, Mason, Maynard, Mercer, Miller, Nash, Paige, Payne, Pernelle, Raleigh, Ryder, Scroggs, Seller, Shepard, Shore, Slater, Smith, Tanner, Taylor, Thatcher, Thorn, Tilly, Turner, Underwood, Vaughan, Walter, Webb, Wilde, Wood, Wren, Wyatt, Wynne

Surnames, Townships in G’eth - First Name of (Location)

Abelforth, Argent Keep, Barrow Springs, Barrowmere, Bedford, Brunhelm, Bumble, Casterfalls, Dunbridge, Falmore Forest, Folk’s Bounty, Frostmaid, Fulstad, Heller’s Crossing, Hertfordshire, Humberdale, Inkwater, Little Avery, Marrowton, Mistfall, Mistmire, Morcow, Necropolis-on-Sea, Otherway, Parsendale, Piddlehinton, Port Fairwind, Redcastle, Ransom, Rutherglen, Saint Crois, Tanner’s Folly, Tavern’s Point, Wilmington

Surnames, Geographical Locations in G’eth - First Name of the (Location)

Cove of Calamity, Deep Woods of Falmore, Eastern Isles, Eastern Mountains, Foothills, Frozen Peak, Lakes, Maegor Cobblestones, Northern Mountains, Southern Isle, Tangle, West Coast, Wild Wild Woods, Woods of Angarad

Surnames, Nickname - First Name the (Something)

Bald, Bastard, Bear, Bearded, Big, Bird, Bold, Brave, Broken, Butcher, Bruiser, Careless, Caring, Charitable, Clever, Clumsy, Cold, Confessor, Coward, Crow, Cyclops, Devious, Devoted, Dog, Dragonheart, Dreamer, Elder, Faithful, Fearless, Fey, Fool, Friend, Generous, Giant, Goldheart, Goldfang, Gouty, Gracious, Great, Hag, Handsome, Hawk, Honest, Huge, Humble, Hungry, Hunter, Innocent, Ironfist, Ironside, Keeper, Kind, Lesser, Liar, Lionheart, Little, Loyal, Magical, Mercenary, Merchant, Messenger, Old, Orphan, Pale, Polite, Poet, Poor, Prodigy, Prophet, Proud, Reliable, Romantic, Rude, Selfish, Sellsword, Scab, Scholar, Shield, Shy, Singer, Sirrah, Slayer, Slug, Small, Stoneheart, Swift, Tadde, Talented, Tart, Tenacious, Timid, Tiny, Tough, Traveller, Trusted, Truthful, Viper, Wizard, Wolf, Wyrm

#oxventure #DnD 5e #character creation #name bank #5e

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battyaboutbooksreviews · 8 months

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Books by BIPOC Authors August 2023

🦇 I grew up surrounded by a melting pot of cultures, diverse communities, and unique experiences. Despite the different sources of those multicultural voices, their stories still covered universal topics of colonialism, migration, identity, and race. Each story was another flavor, another sweet spice adding to that melting pot. Today, we have books by BIPOC authors that put those unique voices to the page. If you're interested in traveling to different worlds, whether familiar or foreign, here are a few books by BIPOC authors to add to your TBR! 🦇

✨ Tomb Sweeping by Alexandra Chang ✨ The Dark Place by Britney S. Lewis ✨ Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okuson ✨ Accidentally in Love by Danielle Jackson ✨ A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power ✨ Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey ✨ The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson ✨ Hangman by Maya Binyam ✨ The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Historical Fiction) ✨ Under the Tamarind Tree by Nigar Alam ✨ Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas ✨ An American Immigrant by Johanna Rojas Vann

🧭 Forgive Me Not by Jennifer Baker 🧭 Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen 🧭 A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz 🧭 Writing in Color: Fourteen Writers on the Lessons We've Learned (edited by) Nafiza Azad and Melody Simpson 🧭 Ghost Book by Remy Lai 🧭 The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang 🧭 Plantains and Our Becoming by Melania Luisa Marte 🧭 Forty Words for Love by Aisha Saeed 🧭 The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper 🧭 Take the Long Way Home by Rochelle Alers 🧭 Swim Home to the Vanished by Brendan Shay Basham 🧭 Actually Super by Adi Alsaid

✨ Never a Hero by Vanessa Len ✨ I Fed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea ✨ The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu ✨ Night of the Living Queers, edited by Shelly Page ✨ Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris ✨ Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim ✨ My Father the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang ✨ Barely Floating by Lilliam Rivera ✨Happiness Falls by Angie Kim ✨ A Tall Dark Trouble by Vanessa Montalban ✨ Neverwraith by Shakir Rashaan ✨ House of Marionne by J. Elle

#books #book list #book recommendation #bipoc #bipoc stories #support bipoc #batty about books #battyaboutbooks

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haveyouseenthishorrormovie · 27 days

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Stats from Movies 701-800

Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

Ringu (1998) had the most votes with 1,327 votes. Chillerama (2011) had the least votes with 360 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

Beetlejuice (1988) was the most watched film with 80.9% of voters out of 780 saying they had seen it. Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) had the least "Yes" votes with 0.4% of voters out of 491.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

The Nun 2 (2023) was the least watched film with 70.6% of voters out of 633 saying they hadn’t seen it. Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) had the least "No" votes with 9.2% of voters out of 491.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

Beetlejuice (1988) was the best known film, only 0.4% of voters out of 780 saying they’d never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) was the least known film, 90,4% of voters out of 491 saying they’d never heard of it.

The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.

The Uninvited (1944) The Crazies (1973) Witchfinder General (1968) The Conspiracy (2012) When a Stranger Calls (1979) The Evictors (1979) The Birds (1963) Ice Spiders (2007) Rubber (2010) Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Daughters of Darkness (1971) Akira (1988) The End of Evangelion (1997) The Woman in Black (2012) Milfs vs. Zombies (2015) Knife + Heart (2018) It's a Wonderful Knife (2023) Attachment (2022) Gothic (1986) Jakob's Wife (2021)

Stranger by the Lake (2013) The Fog (2005) The Greasy Strangler (2016) Angel Heart (1987) Tumbbad (2018) The Snow Woman (1968) Sugar Hill (1974) Saloum (2021) WNUF Halloween Special (2013)

Sound of Violence (2021) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008) Death Laid an Egg (1968) Baskin (2015) The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012) The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) The Haunting of Julia (1977) The House That Dripped Blood (1971) Megan Is Missing (2011)

Ringu (1998) Three... Extremes (2004) Trench 11 (2017) Out There Halloween Mega Tape (2022) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) The Driller Killer (1979) Berberian Sound Studio (2012) One Cut of the Dead (2017) Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005) Motel Hell (1980) Shallow Ground (2004) Annabelle: Creation (2017) Annabelle Comes Home (2019) The Conjuring 2 (2016) The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) Morgan (2016) Sputnik (2020) Devil's Pass (2013)

Dracula's Daughter (1936) Dagon (2001) We Are Still Here (2015) We Are What We Are (2013) Somos lo que hay (2010) The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) Midori (1992) The Believers (1987) Troll 2 (1990) Chillerama (2011)

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) The Mortuary Collection (2019) The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) House (1985) Flatliners (1990) The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014) Crimson Peak (2015) Frailty (2001) Hell Night (1981)

Eyes of Fire (1983) Sister Death (2023) Tonight She Comes (2016) Bad Dreams (1988) Dead Snow (2009) Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014) Veronica (2017) The Nun II (2023) Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) Maniac (1980)

Man's Best Friend (1993) M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters (2020) The Reptile (1966) She Creature (2001) Beetlejuice (1988) The Incredible Melting Man (1977) Kandisha (2020) So Vam (2021) Bit (2019) Death Proof (2007)

#recap

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omgkalyppso · 1 month

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OC Masterlist

If I forget any of them I apologize. Last updated March 10th.

If you open this and regret it you can press J to skip this post on desktop.

Baldur's Gate 3 / D&D:

Étoile - high elf oath of devotion oathbreaker paladin of Auril Borgakh - orc hunter ranger Meabh - wood half-elf assassin rogue dark urge Zavorys - mephistopheles tiefling oath of devotion paladin of Lathander Uleri - deep gnome illusion wizard Upton - bronze dragonborn fighter Voriya - seladrine drow draconic bloodline sorcerer dark urge Cemryt - mephistopheles tiefling bard Aoibhinn - hill / gold dwarf hunter ranger / monk Orboloth - lolth-sworn drow druid dark urge Determination - asmodeus tiefling tempest domain cleric of Selûne Yar'sul - githyanki barbarian Baudelaire - wood half-elf archfey warlock dark urge Arilemn - elven aasimar arcane archer fighter Serenity - high half-elf asmodeus tiefling college of swords bard Naimh - hill / gold dwarf horizon walker ranger Anivine - asmodeus tiefling life domain cleric of Lathander Artie - zariel tiefling oath of ancients paladin Zoltan - bronze dragonborn druid dark urge Namanyla - wood elf oath of ancients paladin, head of Adventurer's Guild in Baldur's Gate Anastasia - human vampire spawn, Leon's branch Jarnarei "Joy" - zariel tiefling, blacksmith clerk, Cal's partner Nephemir - asmodeus tiefling, baker, Lia's lover Vanora - water genasi unholy death knight, Umberlee's Chosen Tybalt - werewolf ranger, Malar's Chosen Gillian - werewolf fighter, Tybalt's wife Zavael'ahn - talosian drow sorcerer, Talos' Chosen Chri'dalto - zariel tiefling great old one warlock Vandren - high elf turned fiend, college of whispers bard Mordeimos "Atonement" - zariel tiefling monk Bedivere - Zevlor's summoned mount Blbxrl - Fimbrul Devil loyal to Mephistopheles in Raphael's service Yakrayat - Rakshasa Demon imprisoned in Avernus Nev - asmodeus tiefling sold soul during Descent Into Avernus Rohn - asmodeus tiefling sold soul during Descent Into Avernus Sozican - white dragon who has an albino drow guise

Fire Emblem:

Fodlan:

Faedolyn - fe3h My Unit / Byleth oc Zoran - Faedolyn's genderfluid brother Avery - few3h My Unit / Shez oc Almanzor - Dimitri's cousin / Rufus' son Josiane - ex or ongoing Rufus lover Lucanus - Dimitri's cousin / Rufus' son Paulette - ex Rufus lover Eugénie - Felix's mother / Rodrigue's wife Évrard - Blaiddyd bastard impersonator / Rufus idolizer Armand - Rodrigue's brother Violaine - Armand's wife Jocelyn - Armand's son Fabrice - Armand's second son Dijana - Faedolyn's mother Balfour - Faedolyn's father Enok - Zoran's father Adrijan - Fae and Zoran's uncle / Dijana's brother Taisiya - Dimitri's mother Imelda - Mercedes & Jeritza's mother / Dimitri's aunt / Taisiya's sister Cocytus - Avery's adoptive mother / Agarthan kidnapper Othello - Avery's father Rosalind - Avery's mother Peregrine - Almanzor's wife Huguette - Peregrine's daughter Apolline - Peregrine's second daughter Rebecca - Claude's mother Régimbald - Lorenz's father Agneth - Lorenz's mother / Ionius IX's sister / Edelgard's aunt Ayane - Lorenz's mother when not Edelgard's cousin Philomène - Évrard's best friend Herschel - Hilda's father Hanna - Hilda's mother Ionius VIII - Ionius IX & Agneth's father Eurybia - Ionius IX & Agneth's mother Serge - Rodrigue's chief of staff Wilmar - Lorenz's chief of staff Olive - Ashe's sister / Oren's twin Oren - Ashe's brother / Olive's twin Luzia - Dedue's sister

Almyra:

Sarim - Claude's brother Sara - Claude's sister Asmaa - Claude's sister Shahid* - Claude's brother Sajad - Claude's brother Rumaisa - Claude's sister Shohreh - Sarim's wife Ami - Sara's (second) husband Yaser - Asmaa's husband Isabelle - Rumaisa's girlfriend Imran - Shahid's partner Samiya - Shahid's wife Hadiya - Shahid's mother Rahim - Claude and siblings' father / King of Almyra Noor - Sarim and Shohreh's daughter Ana - Sarim and Shohreh's second daughter Farid - Sarim and Shohreh's son Ben - Sara and Ami's son Alain - Sara and Ami's second son Tamara - Geralt's childminder Vera - Nader's childminder Miri - Sadaf's childminder

OT5 kids:

Halvard - Lorenz and Hilda's son Lorencia - Lorenz and Hilda's daughter Nader - Claude and Fae's son / Geralt's twin Geralt - Claude and Fae's second son / Nader's twin Sadaf - Claude and Fae's daughter Baldovin - Lorenz and Hilda's second son Diana - Avery and Fae's daughter Simon - Claude and Fae's third son

Fankids:

Blythe - Dimitri and Marianne son Elspeth - Sylvain and Felix daughter Keegan - Caspar and Ashe daughter Fernan - Dedue and Mercedes son Idoya - Dedue and Mercedes daughter in merciesyldue configuration Nicodème - Sylvain and Dedue son in merciesyldue configuration

Ylisse:

Evalynn - fe:a My Unit / Robin oc Morris - prime timeline Morgan Lucy - prime timeline Lucina Miradonna - fe:a My Unit / Robin oc or Plegian oc Noravanna - Miradonna and Vaike daughter

Creatures:

Ghaymah / Honor - Claude's wyvern / cat Haris - Faedolyn's wyvern Unnamed - Hilda's first wyvern (dies in war) Braith - Hilda's second wyvern (dies in war) Unnamed - Hilda's third wyvern Magic - Lorenz's horse / dog Cookies And Cream "Cookie" - Zoran and Jeritza's cat Smoked Peach Skewer "Smokey" - Zoran and Jeritza's cat Justice - Caspar and Ashe kitten Chivalry / Tapeworm - Caspar's kitten Moonlight Knight "Mimi" - Sitri's cat Galahad - Ashe's cat Paladin - Ashe's cat Meatball - Caspar's cat Inferno - Caspar's cat Knives - Caspar's cat Dragon - Nader's cat / Claude's childhood cat Little Monster - Hanna (Hilda's mother)'s cat Noraxia - Holst's cat / wyvern Nidhogg - Holst's cat / wyvern Vigil - Sylvain's horse Lady Caramel de Bushels of Apples - Ferdinand's horse Cinnamon Brambleberry Racer - Sylvain and then Felix's horse

Skyrim:

Meldiara - stealth and bow dunmer dragonborn Wylla - sword and shield imperial dragonborn werewolf Oretia - sword and shield imperial Farknir - nord sorcerer, Meldiara's brother Drynlof - nord sorcerer, Meldiara and Farknir's father Vigdna - nord civilian, Farknir's mother Ninayne - dunmer civilian, Meldiara's mother

Dragon Age:

Aerynne Aeducan - dual sword warrior, Paragon Farasuta Tabris - dual weapon rogue, Warden-Commander Illusen Amell - entropy healer, fugitive Galadriel Cousland - dual weapon rogue, Queen of Fereldan Wylla Brosca - two-handed warrior, Warden-Commander Maeve Mahariel - two-handed warrior, sacrificial lamb Marian Hawke - blue dual weapon rogue Kalyppso Hawke - blue dual weapon rogue Illusen Hawke - purple force mage healer Ursula Hawke - red sword and shield warrior Samaire Cadash - tempest rogue Aneirin Lavellan - assassin rogue Tarren Lavellan - champion warrior Olwen Lavellan - rift mage Mildred Trevelyan - knight-enchanter mage Wylla Cadash - reaver warrior

Mass Effect:

Jolene Shepard - Paragade, colonist, war hero, vanguard Victoria Shepard - Renegade, earth-born, ruthless, adept Celeste Shepard - Paragon, spacer, war hero, engineer Josephine Shepard - Renegon, colonist, war hero, sentinel

FFXIV:

Sawyer - midlander hyur, monk / bard wol Sybille - wildwood elezen, scholar, Sawyer's interpreter Turold - Sawyer's father / Borgakh's husband

Original Setting / Stolen from Setting:

J - vampire jazz pianist from a sci fi future Theo - supernatural investigator Nova - magnetic presence for supernatural creatures

#long post #my oc masterpost

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thebreakfastgenie · 2 months

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I can actually make an index of which names in Billy Joel songs were people's actual names and which ones just sang well.

Actual names:

Judy (Why Judy Why)

Bill, John, Paul, Dave (Piano Man)

Billy (The Ballad of Billy the Kid, and it's not him, it's some bartender he knew, supposedly, also the actual Billy the Kid)

Captain Jack (Captain Jack, kinda doubt this was his legal name but he was known by it)

Virginia (Only the Good Die Young)

Rosalinda (Rosalinda's Eyes, his mother's name was Rosalind)

Christie Lee, Joe (Christie Lee, it's a fictional story loosely based on jokey versions of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, Joe was her nickname for him)

The Alexa (The Downeaster "Alexa," he actually did name his boat Alexa after his daughter, not sure if the real boat or the song came first)

Viktor (Leningrad)

Real people, fake names that just sing well:

James (James, a composite of several people)

Laura (Laura)

Fictional characters:

Anthony (Movin' Out)

Brenda, Eddie (Scenes from an Italian Restaurant)

Leyna (All for Leyna)

Charlie, Baker (Goodnight Saigon, not fake names for specific people as far as I know, composites of soldiers)

Unknown/unconfirmed to me at this time:

Eliza (Turn Around, might be Elizabeth)

Roberta (Roberta, real person, not sure if it's her real name)

Bobby, Johnny (Say Goodbye to Hollywood, don't know if they're real)

Little Gio (Half a Mile Away, I think he's like Brenda and Eddie, just a composite of the people Billy Joel grew up with but I don't know)

Diane (Sleeping with the Television On, I'm pretty sure she's fictional)

Songs that mention famous people by name:

Streetlife Serenader (Eisenhower)

Zanzibar (Muhammed Ali, Pete Rose)

It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (Beau Brummel)

Close to the Borderline (45 calibre homicide aka Son of Sam)

We Didn't Start the Fire (I'm not doing this one)

Leningrad (McCarthy)

#why did i spend time on this #i do not know

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retrorsum · 4 months

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✦ BASICS ✦

NAME: Rosalind Whitlock AGE & BIRTHDAY: 29 & January 14th AGE: 29 SPECIES: Witch (Water + No Current Specialization) PROFESSION: Artist + Art Curator FACECLAIM: Willa Fitzgerald

Rosalind can be assertive and perceptive, but also placid and loyal.

✦ BIOGRAPHY ✦

Rosalind was the second child of the Whitlocks and easily blended into the background what with an elder brother that showed promise before her and twins following after her. There had always been a hefty weight, for as long as Rosalind could remember, to place her family name and reputation above all else. Above her passions, above her feelings, everything. No exceptions.

Growing up in a witch family was difficult enough with having to keep secrets from those that weren't in the know. It was another thing entirely to grow up in a family that stood at the helm of the council. Instilled on her was to know that wherever she went and whatever she did it would be met with scrutiny, from her parents first and the rest of the council second. At first Rosalind vied for her parents attention and approval, at a young age the blonde wanted to be of importance to them. She ultimately realized that if she wasn't first in line or a man, like her brother to take over, then they had no interest.

Rosalind fell into the background then with ease, withdrew completely and entertained the Whitlock title only when she had to. She followed rules, of course, but she didn't try as hard, didn't love magic as much, and she leaned into her passions of art. Sometimes she blames herself for the ignorance. For thinking the way her parents pushed the eldest was not her problem. When she first heard of his death she couldn't help the blame that consumed her. That still does.

Not long after his funeral she was in her father's study agreeing to learn, agreeing to take over, even if it wasn't what she had planned for herself. Rosalind needed to make the loss count for something. She just had to.

✦ CONNECTIONS ✦

Alexander & Isabella Whitlock — Younger siblings, she adores them though not always vocal about it. Feels like they've definitely grown more closer since the death of their eldest brother. Rosalind wants to protect them from the council and wants them to live their best life.

TBD: Her ex. Rosalind was with him for years and doesn't think she'll love someone the same. Not one to be completely open with someone but was with him. Immediately ended things with him after her brother passed. In a sense doesn't want to get him involved with whatever her life becomes now that she's next in line.

Asiye Erdoğan: Old childhood friends, Rosalind remembers their time together fondly and just how quickly it was tattered to shreds. Asiye's parents were exiled by the council, but more specifically by Walter Whitlock. With the return of Asiye and her family in the city Rosalind vouched for their return and a treaty was created to reallow them back into the city. Of course with conditions. Rosalind is elated to have been a part of change and to have her friend return.

✦ FUN FACTS ✦

Rosalind loves creating art and it is her go to stress relief at any given time. She has a makeshift studio in her apartment and also one at her family home.

She can't cook for shit and is an average baker at best. Sometimes she will stress bake and have 2 dozen cookies with more than half of them rock hard.

She currently works at a museum as a curator all the while making sure the pieces are protected from others who try to pass off fakes during transport.

Obsessed with coffee, will always claim that if she lived another life she'd be a barista has a whole set up with the machine and everything. Is in a mood if she doesn't have her first coffee of the day.

#rosalind;intro #;intro #i'll spruce this up more in time

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simplytheevebest · 2 years

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Trick or Treat

Happy (early) Halloween! Enjoy this fluffy nonsense one shot featuring the dysfunctional Peters family, pumpkin carving, candy, and a return of the skeleton coat rack.

For some reason I love the idea that Farah recuperates from her nap at the Peters’ house because it’s sort of outside Rosalind’s jurisdiction, and … this happened. A total AU, I am making up a lot of things and playing fast and loose with characterization. Pretending Farah’s pendant was a gift from Saul (implied, not directly stated) and that the nap left her “powerless” (for now). Also making up how they celebrate Halloween in the other world. Unlikely to be continued, but never say never!

“And… done.”

Bloom likes to think she knows her dad pretty well. He played football in college and gets together with some of his firehouse buddies every once in a while to play a few low-commitment games in the park. He used to use football metaphors to help her study, not because they actually worked, but because hearing her dad try to relate a tackle at the thirty yard line to the steps of photosynthesis was usually just outrageous enough to get a laugh out of her and relieve some of those final exam jitters. He puts so much milk in his coffee it’s barely coffee, and she’d tested this theory once by giving him a cup of warm milk with only a spoonful of coffee -to this day she doesn’t think he ever noticed the difference, but the week-long experiment had earned her an A for her science project that year.

He does not, as the ‘cool kids say,’ wear the pants in her parents’ relationship, especially when her mom is being stubborn and Bloom is being impossible and it’s easier to bow out and let things settle than try to intervene. He isn’t afraid to confront girl problems, however, and though she hadn’t appreciated it at the time, Bloom can admit know that it was immensely thoughtful of him to bring her three different brands of tampons because he hadn’t known which she prefers. He does now. He is also a pretty exceptional baker, going above and beyond basic cookies and brownies to scones and Victorian sponge, and is an avid consumer of the Great British Bake Off.

He is also not an artist: for as well as Bloom knows him, she knows she’s never going to be able to guess the origins of the pumpkin he’s now proudly displaying to her. She wrinkles her nose, flicking a bit of pumpkin guts off her arm.

“It looks great dad, it’s a really good… mouse?”

“It’s not a mouse,” he huffs, fiddling with the battery powered candle to stick inside.

“Then why does it have ears?”

“Those are its eyes,” he traces the shape of a triangle in the space of what is very clearly the carving of a circle, “It’s a traditional jack-o-lantern. Very spooky.”

“It’s spooky how much it looks like a mouse,” Bloom quips, ducking to the side when he lobs a handful of pumpkin guts at her. She gapes dramatically, stuttering on a laugh when the pile of seeds and muck knocks over the plastic skeleton that never seems to make it back into the basement when Halloween is over. It’s a glorified coatrack most of the year, and it spills its burden to the floor, head popping off and rolling into the living room.

“What’s going on!” Her mother demands from the kitchen, and Bloom and her father share a look.

“Dad’s committing skeletal assault.”

Vanessa appears in the doorway, a bowl of candy in each hand, and steps cleanly over the toppled skeleton with a pointed look at her husband.

“That thing is making it into the basement this year, mark my words. Bloom-y, which bowl should I hand out to the kids? Gummies or chocolate?”

She weighs them both like a teetering scale, tipping them forward so Bloom can inspect the contents of gummy worms and Hershey’s respectively. Bloom takes her time mulling it over, reaching for her own battery-powered tea light.

“Gummies for the kids.”

“You sure?”

“Yeah, then we get to eat the chocolate ourselves.”

“Genius,” Vanessa shakes the bowl, “I knew there was a reason we were sending you to that fancy school. Mike! Put some of the coats in the closet for Christ’s sake.”

Bloom snickers, turning her back on her dad’s attempts to return the pile of coats to the poor plastic skeleton too weak to hold them all up. It’s a miracle they’ve balanced so precariously up until now, and it’s only because it’s usually so obscured that her mom doesn’t kick up too much of a fuss during the year about banishing it back to the basement with the rest of the decorations. Bloom pops the candle into her pumpkin, not quite a masterful attempt, but still better than her dad’s, and turns it around for her mom’s approval.

“What’d’you think?”

“It looks great honey, better than your dad’s anyway. What is it, a rat?”

“It’s a jack-o-lantern.”

“Why’re its eyes so big?”

“He’s shocked at how rude you’re being,” Mike gripes, scooping up their pumpkins to deposit on the front porch. They’ve got the windows thrown open, a bit of a late-October breeze filtering through and ruffling the curtains, but it’s only now because the sun has set that there’s anything resembling a chill. Nothing like the damp, cold evenings in Alfea, because the only time the girls had complained of a heat wave the temperature hadn’t come even close to touching Gardenia on a mild day, but it’s refreshing, considering the baking sun from earlier.

Vanessa sets the chocolate bowl within reach, and Bloom fishes out a Kit-Kat, drawing her knees up to her chest.

“Has Miss Dowling been down?”

She only catches the edge of her mother’s frown, brows creased in worry as she gathers up the trashbags keeping the dining room table free from pumpkin mush. Bloom knows her dad pretty well, but her mom isn’t quite as easy to read. Her mom’s restless when it comes to hobbies, a new one almost every week, attempts to keep busy rather than fret over her only daughter’s social life -not that they’ve really worked. So Bloom can’t say for certain if her mom enjoys knitting or painting or hiking, only that she’s partaken in those things at some point. She knows her mom isn’t close to her own mother, a grandmother that lives out on the East Coast who sends checks for holidays but hasn’t visited in Bloom’s recent memories, which is probably why she tries so hard with Bloom. Her mom is a worrier, that much she does know, so she’s not surprised that her mom’s worry has extended to her daughter’s fugitive headmistress currently camping out in their guest room. (Her mom also takes her coffee black, and swears she can tell when her mug has even been in the vicinity of cream and sugar).

“Not today. Although she might’ve come down when we were out earlier, it’s hard to say. She’s very tidy.”

Bloom never thought she’d hear the day her mom regarded cleanliness a bad thing, but clearly she does. Vanessa is a doter, and Bloom knows it’s killing her, just a little, not to be able to wait on Miss Dowling hand and foot as a guest in their home. She’s used to it, since their usual house guest is her uncle Eddie, and he never looks after himself, which her mom hates, but also thrives on. It’s the being needed, which Bloom gets, considering she’d decided long ago she no longer needed her mother, and Vanessa had taken that about as well as the Titanic had taken on the iceberg.

Di-sa-ster.

It’s entirely likely that Miss Dowling waited, purposefully, to come down for a cup of tea (using a kettle Bloom knows for a fact was not “up in the cupboard,” looking a little too new to be used, like her mother claimed) and something to eat, and cleaned up so completely after herself that they’d have no way of knowing. It’d be funny, thinking about how her teacher’s fastidiousness is driving her mother’s hospitable nature up the wall, if it didn’t also make her sad to think about. Miss Dowling is their guest, but she’s doing an excellent job behaving as if she’s an unwelcome one, intruding on their good will and kindness, like it hadn’t been Bloom’s idea -at her parents’ insistence- to have the woman stay with them until she’d regained her strength.

“I’m going to check on her,” she decides, and Vanessa crumples the trashbags up with one hand, dumping the carving utensils in the sink with the other.

“Bring her some candy-”

“Not the Butterfingers,” Mike interrupts, “Those are mine.”

Bloom rolls her eyes good-naturedly, scooping up the bowl and taking the stairs two at a time. The guest room door is open, it usually is, like her teacher doesn’t think she has the right to boundaries and privacy in someone else’s home, but Bloom knocks on the doorframe anyway. Miss Dowling stands at the window, dressed like she’s expecting to host a meeting, rather than having spent the day inside doing nothing. Which isn’t entirely fair, Bloom knows she’s been working incredibly hard trying to reconnect with her magic, she just doesn’t imagine wearing slacks is going to be any more effective than sweatpants.

Her teacher turns, one hand wrapped tightly around the pendant at her neck, the other tucked across her middle.

“Bloom.”

“Miss Dowling. Candy?”

She holds out the bowl, knowing the older woman won’t take it, and counts to five before setting it on the bed, settling herself on the edge.

“Did you come down while we were out? Mom’s worried you didn’t eat-”

“I did, Bloom, thank you.”

She turns back to the window, fingers winding around and around the chain, lost in thought. Bloom swings her legs, purses her lips; it’s awkward, having her teacher here, not because it’s her teacher, but because it’s Bloom’s fault she’s here. A fugitive. In hiding. Presumed dead. All because Bloom’s impatience and reckless impulsiveness had seen fit to free a tyrant, just to better learn the answers to questions Miss Dowling had promised to help her find “tomorrow.” Bloom had taken the chance someone else could provide them sooner, yet here they were, with more questions now than they’d had before.

“Do they celebrate Halloween in the other world? I wasn’t there long enough to find out.”

Miss Dowling turns away from the window again, brows raised; then they furrow in contemplation, “We do, although it’s not quite so… commercialized. It’s a celebration of the living and the dead, more reminiscent, I think, of your Day of the Dead than proper Halloween. Alfea holds a festival every year, we invite the parents and guardians of the students, but some choose to go home to celebrate in their own way. We celebrate our own lives, and those of the ones we’ve lost.”

Bloom nods quietly: it’s an answer, but it hovers dangerously close to topics neither really wants to address.

“So no Spider-Man costumes?”

Miss Dowling huffs a laugh, finally stepping away from the window, “No, no ‘Spider-Man’ costumes, no costumes of any kind, though we do get dressed up. It’s quite fun.”

“I’m sorry I missed it.”

“There’s always next year,” and the acknowledgement of ‘next year,’ that they’ll get through this well enough for there to be a new year, that her headmistress will welcome her back to Alfea in time to experience it, has Bloom clearing her throat against the emotion choking it.

Bloom picks at a thread on the bedspread, “You know you’re not like, bothering us, right? We want you here. And mom loves taking care of people, seriously, she’d make a five course meal if you asked and she’d love every second of it.”

“I know,” Miss Dowling answers softly, and the mattress dips at the other end, by the headboard, as she settles across from her student. “But I’m cognizant of the danger I’m putting you in by being here, especially without my magic, and regardless, I am imposing, if not on your lives, than on your safety.”

“How is it? Your magic, I mean.”

Her teacher sighs, a sad, frustrated thing, and a hand comes back up to grip the pendant, “I can’t feel it. For the first time in as long as I can remember I can feel… nothing. It feels… emptying, like I’m missing a part of myself. Sometimes I think the flicker is there but it doesn’t last it’s-” she huffs another sigh “-it’s unnerving. I’ve lost that connection to myself, to… other people, and I’m not used to it.”

Bloom wonders if the pendant has anything to do with it, if it holds more significance than her headmistress is willing to share, so she doesn’t pry. She can’t remember what it felt like not to have her magic, so she can’t imagine how it must feel for Miss Dowling, and she doesn’t want to try. It makes her think of her mother, set adrift by a daughter who claimed not to need her, bouncing from hobby to hobby in search of… something, anything, to fill the space left behind, and when those didn’t work, she’d turn back to Bloom, tried to forcefully fill that space with repeated attempts at connecting that’d left them both drained from the pressure and the dwelling.

“Want to help me hand out candy to the trick or treaters?”

Miss Dowling blinks, bewildered, and Bloom smiles softly.

“Maybe you just need a little break. ‘Recharge the ol' batteries,’ like my dad says. And my mom always makes me hand out the candy and there’s only so many times I can say ‘wow cool costume’ without sounding totally fake so you could… I don’t know, help me.”

“I-” She’s going to refuse, Bloom can tell, but something changes, a split second decision, and the older woman’s expression softens. “I’d love to.”

Bloom beams, reaching for the bowl, and when she offers it this time, her teacher reaches back.

“Not the Butterfingers,” Bloom warns, “Those are dad’s, and he’s weird about his candy.”

Her parents greet them when they make it back downstairs, or rather her father accosts her poor headmistress, his botched pumpkin still in his arms, meaning he’s spent all this time defending his ‘artistic masterpiece’ against Vanessa, who retreats back to the kitchen with a shaking head.

“Miss Dowling, you’re an impartial third party. What does this look like to you?”

“Dad don’t make her judge your weird pumpkin-”

“Hush you! Well?”

Miss Dowling smiles politely, and Bloom catches a twitch at the edge of her mouth that might be a laugh.

“It’s a very nice… mouse.”

The laugh that bursts from Bloom’s mouth is drowned out by Vanessa’s triumphant, “Aha!” Leaving Mike to grumble under his breath.

“Ganging up on me in my own house. It’s shameful, is what it is. Shameful.”

“Ignore him,” Bloom swaps the chocolate bowl for the gummy candy just as the doorbell rings for the first of many times that night. She plasters on a megawatt smile, greeting the chorus of “trick or treat!” with an already lackluster exclamation over a lion, a fairy princess, and a Spider-Man.

“Great costumes guys, you look… great.”

“What beautiful wings,” Miss Dowling adds behind her, and the fairy princess beams, scurrying back to her waiting mother, which prompts Spider-Man to show off his “impressive” web shooters and the lion to give a “ferocious” roar. Bloom huffs, crouching to sit on the front step, and Miss Dowling lowers beside her.

“I thought you wanted my help,” she teases, and Bloom huffs again.

“You’re gonna put me out of the job. Seriously, mom’s going to make you come back every year just to compliment all the trick or treaters because she says I do a ‘crap job.’”

“You do do a crap job,” Vanessa calls from inside, and shuts up her husband’s laughter with an equally scathing comment about his pumpkin, again. “Honestly, the only two people around here with any creative spirit are myself and Farah, and she won’t be here forever, so where does that leave me?”

Bloom tunes out her parents’ playful banter, digging through the bowl for gummy bears; Miss Dowling accepts some of her own, just in time for a bumblebee, a Power Ranger, and two Pokemon to rush up.

“Trick or treat!”

#fate: the winx saga #fate the winx saga #eve best #ftws #fate winx saga #farah dowling #bloom winx #mike peters #vanessa peters #fate fanfic #abigail cowen #I really don't have an explanation for this

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tell me about your OCs 👀👀👀

Okay so I have a LOT oc aew ocs because theres so many little guys there that I wanted to make a special little guy for! super big help from my sibling who was always like "do we need another bab?" and then I nod.

Im putting them under a read more option cuz theres SO FUCKING MANY

Jayden Gray Orton: Jay

My most special of gals. They are the girls,gays and the theys! A wrestler for AEW that started off in the JAS before joining the BCC and now a member of the elite [ish...kinda like elite adjacent] Her pronouns are: He/They/She/Zem with no real prefrence. Zey simply ARE gender! a pop-punk bitch whose made of love and violence, can and will bleed and also break a few of their hearing aids in the way- has been wrestling since they were 13- adores regal with everything. Dating the polycule: Wheeler Yuta, Kenny Omega, Hangman Page and Adam Cole [baybay]

Iris rose:

Technically my siblings OC but my child-in-law [@itsnoosetome] The sweetest little southern bell. Wish we could say that we named her after the Orvelle peck song but we sadly didnt. The best sweet trans gal youll meet, sweet to adam cole and dating brit baker dmd. A doctor with AEW, Iris has seen and heard pretty much, and stitched Darby up enough times that its become her daily task. Pronouns are: She/They

Delilah Hart:

Not related to the Hart family, Think more Roxie hart from Chicago. Another trans girl in the medical staff. Delilah was and has been there since the start of the company. very quiet and rather shy. They went to the same highschool as Max- being the new kid when they moved from Tuscany Italy to Long Island. Married too Chuck Taylor despite them "not remembering the wedding" since Delilah hadn't finished her medical transition. Mostly fluent in Italian, Delilah is trying their best and is a skill, kindhearted sweetheart whose not afraid of people. Gets worn down quickly by people who ask stupid questions

Rosalind Emmerson:

The dress maker for Delilahs wedding. Got into wrestling as a ring announcer in CZW/PWG/other indy shows. Chuck introduced her and Orange and they striked up a quick friendship, the two of them being total opposites as people. Being of spanish decent, Rosa started working in mexico and eventually was hired by AEW. Pronouns she/it. They identify as nonbinary

Sparrow Elmswood:

Nicknamed Splash because of constantly being covered in paint, Splash helps with set design for promos as well as clothes design. A loud, boisterous but gentle demiboy- Sparrow uses all pronouns but she/her. He enjoys space and always has a notebook. Splash also frequents the production truck to help make entrance videos/video packages and loves it. Shipped with jungle boy

Nathaniel ''Natty' Paccoto:

sometimes something short and sweet comes in small packages and for Natty thats very true. Another demiboy they work for the ring crew- setting up and taking down the ring as well as stocking weapons [and making sure danhausen is okay under there]. regularly found taking naps backstage during the show or playing basketball they quickly grab Nick Jacksons attention as friends and then something just a little more. Natty takes a little while to become aware with the world but once he knows thats happening- boy do they not shut up. Pronouns are he/him. Never seen without a headband/something on his head

Elenore 'ellie' Kingston:

A camera woman for AEW, Ellie is regularly seen with her brother or outside the arena taking pictures that most could consider macarbe. She is very femmine and soft despite all the anger that she has- this leads to her pushing emotions down. The camera person that Jay attacks when they debut with the JAS [Jay didnot want too] Ellie adores her job. dating Ruby Soho just because Eddie would not shut the fuck up about her ["Look if I go on a date with her..will you ask mox out?" "deal.." "deal"]

Lyric Senericha:

Ricky as they are known are the older sibling of HOOK. Mostly around backstage to support their father/brother Lyric is bright and happy and reguarly helps out backstage just wanting to be useful. Aroace they and matt are platonicly dating. They are the triple AAA and reguarly found trying to get people to try the milkshakes from whatever store is the closest. Their pronouns are they/them

Anne Reed:

Your sterotypical happy go lucky nothing can go wrong young woman. Shes bright and bouncy picture a golden retriever and you have anne. She adores pirates and kandi beads. Crushing on John silver, she just thinks hes a pirate in discuse. She also works in the clothing department and she adores halloween. Anne is so much like emlo

Dana Mallory:

Dana works back home in indiana, working on merch designs for the best friends and especially Trent's ring gear and stuff. Her and trent met sharing the same ward after spinal surgery. Dana is an ambigatory wheelchair used.

Sylvester Harwood:

Not related to Dax, Sly is the one to help wrestlers with high spots. A former star of stage and screen as a skateboarder and rollerblade star, Darbys attention was grabbed instantly, now xey just vibe. despite their love for trying to kill themselves, Xey are pretty chill. Loves using outdated slang

Coal Cindela:

A former drag king turned makeup artist. Coal is facinated by brody king. Theres not much to say about coal apart from the fact they're outgoing and bubbly. pronouns are They/He/Fae. They adore fireflies and primarily exist at night.

Aiko Wanatabe:

A young traumatised person Aiko was born and raised harshly in Kyushu, Japan. A Kenny friend and is the first one to notice DiD traits in him. Aiko is rather quiet and withdrawn When she slowly warms to you she quietly takes care of you, gives you some of her food if you look hungry, gives gently pat pats to make feel better. She pratically clings to riho- her safe person.

Kyanite Wyatt:

little sister is the late bray wyatt. Kyan moved to aew to help with security. a total opposite of his brother and love interest they start appearing on BTE. crushing on brandon. No he also doesnt understand why. Kyan likes spicy things and likes biting on things

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