Okay but jokes aside the thing that makes a piece of media stand the test of time in this day and age is fangirls. I’m not sure if David Szymanski or Markiplier are actually weirded out by bloodymary or not but if I could tell them one thing it would be that they struck fucking gold with bloodymary because that it what is going to give you long term success. Fangirls are the reason why movies like Rise of the Guardians which performed poorly initially were able to stand the test of time. It’s also why movies like Avatar which had great initial success aren’t remembered as much over time. They didn’t have a fan base to back them up.
I know we hehe haha about not wanting Markiplier to see the yaoi but like this is genuinely such a good sign that Iron Lung is going to stand the test of time and continue to be as popular as it is.
Little fun fact, coming from an AroAce themself, a lot of the bloodymary (and just project hail Mary fandom in general) need to do a little bit more research into being AroAce. I see so many people headcanon Grace as AroAce and that's wonderful but then people are like, on one hand I ship bloodymary or [insert any other ship with Grace here] but on the other hand, he's AroAce.
HE CAN DO/BE BOTH. I NEED YOU GUYS TO REALIZE THAT.
Not only is there oriented AroAce, in which they also have a separate orientation, like gay or lesbian or bisexual or any of the other various sexualities, but AroAce is also just a spectrum as a whole.
I'm Aro because I have a difficulty differentiating my romantic and platonic feelings due to nuerodivergence.
I'm Ace because I have sexual trauma that has led to me being very sex aversed and even before it, I was very sex neutral.
ALSO,
QPR'S ARE A THING
Qpr stands for Queer Platonic Relationship which is often a type of relationship Ace, Aro, or AroAce people seek out as a form of relationship that breaks the societal standards of Romantic relationships as well as Platonic ones. And each QPR is different as it looks however the people participating in it want it to look.
[that's a very rough explanation, but I strongly suggest doing your own research if you want a better, more in depth one]
Anyways, that's my PSA of the day
Sincerely,
An AroAce fan who is begging for people to stop pushing the agenda of 'these two things can't be true at the same time' when headcanoning a character as AroAce
assigning CR4 characters “the crane wives” songs!!
• thimble — take me to war (“take me to war, i dare you / i’ll be the sweetest thing / to ever scare you / give me a fight i can’t resist”) (“but i keep snapping at goliath’s hands”)
• wick — arcturus beaming (“this blinding light, this reckoning / there’s more to life than suffering / but there’s still time / it’s not too late / nothing will change until i change”)
• tyranny — scars (“we were fucked from the start”) (“was i born with a hole in my heart?”) (“but i couldn’t help you build it, and i dont know why”)
• kattigan — black hole fantasy (“even in my fantasy, i cant commit to believing / that I’ll get what i want, im afraid of what i want”) (“the months blur together / i watch the ceiling buckle / i wonder when it’s caving in”)
• teor — can’t go back (“you can’t always be trying to dig up / what you’ve already buried”) (“it’s not fair (when have you ever known the world to be fair?)”)
• julien — not the ghost (“if only i could break the chain of disappointment weighing me down / shake off the ghosts that whisper warnings whenever you’re not around / i won’t be afraid of all the things that i wanted”)
• thaisha — the garden (“put your ear to my heart, or set your teeth against my throat / give me something pretty to wear beneath my bloodstained clothes / my darling, the devil knows my name”)
• vaelus — time will change you (“someday / time will change you / you’ll leave behind what doesn’t move / time will change you / we all outgrow our roots”)
• occtis — turn out the lights (“a running list of all your doubts and your dead ends”) (“what good has ever come of it, what answers will you find?”)
• azune — scars (“all the love, all the kindness, all your best laid plans / couldn’t stop me from becoming the way that i am”) (“maybe born in a storm beneath an angry sky”)
• hal — allies or enemies (“now you’re not so quick to forget / are we allies or enemies? / this will be the death of me x2 / all is fair in love, and war / but i cant fight with you anymore”)
• murray — hard sell (“im one deep breath away from a breakdown / my nerves are wrecked and coming unbound”) (“is it me? is it really just me? does everybody have it together, or are we all just pretending?”)
• bolaire — say it (“haunted by your tenderness / you gave me a soft place to land / held up a mirror, and showed me what i’ve been / hiding from for years / was that just sleight of hand?”)
[ID: A digital drawing of Occtis Tachonis, Tyranny, and Thimble from Critical Role. Occtis is saying "The fuck are you doing?" and recoiling from Tyranny who is sniffing him. Pin and Thimble are both on Occtis' shoulders and Thimble is glaring at Tyranny. End description.]
The two main ideas I had for the languages of each society went something like this:
The COI would have had the closest thing to modern English. I have decided that this is a very efficient verbal shorthand. Communication happens extremely quickly between people. It takes minimal effort to get a point across.
Eden is archaic. Their language evolved that same shorthand, but it quickly grew around scripture and poetic phrasing rather than efficiency. They are the opposite of "literal" and never say what they truly mean, which has caused the COI to very rapidly decide that they are untrustworthy and difficult to understand.
Meanwhile Eden folk think the COI dialect was made for jarheads. It's extremely obvious if you're from the COI to a native Edenite.
Literally none of this is supposed to make sense linguistically because I know fuck all about that. I just like the concept of putting language barriers on everyone LOL
English for Dummies: 2300 AD An Iron Lung "Future Speak" Quick-Reference Guide @ctrl-shift-alt-9 :: tumblr A note before you start: This is
Here's my little paper on how to use it in a writing setting! I've translated an Iron Lung line so you can understand how it works up front:
Original
"I just want to live. Is that so wrong? Why doesn't anybody else want that?"
Edenic, Casual
Oi jus' ƿant to live. Þat so ƿrong? Ƿhy n't no'n ƿant þat?
They have mashed all their letters together and write in scribbles and loops. It's ALL based in how fast you can convey an idea.
If anyone needs me to help translate any dialogue, please let me know either via asks or dms, I'm happy to help!!!
Also regarding role-playing using the dialect, you can absolutely get away with NOT using the merged letters if it's difficult to keep up with on a keyboard. The whole point is the document to act as a base idea, not law.
She called out to warn him just an instant too late. Just an instant after his foot made contact with the glyph. And the next thing they knew, they were staring face to face, at eye level with their feet firmly on the ground, for the very first time.
Occtis knows how much work they have to do. He knows he needs to search for a way to return to normal. But perhaps, just this once, the answers can wait.
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A million billion thank yous to @gros-chat-fait for working with me on this commission! You went so far above and beyond my expectations I can’t even describe it. If any critters out there are as artistically deficient as I am but need something wonderful, I have the perfect recommendation for making your dreams come true!
Bonus playlist of songs I keep rotating through as I imagine them dancing. Enjoy!
As much as aroace Occtis makes sense, it would be nice to have rep that's not another inhuman, emotionally repressed character (important sidenote that I don't speak for the aroace community and that there's nothing wrong at all with headcanoning Occtis as such as I myself have done so)
