Ask The Puppet In Blue

Greetings, and welcome. I am Drocell Caines, former butler and puppeteer to the house of Mandalay. I once served a master, though now... I am not entirely sure. But as I go about my work you may ask whatever questions you so desire, and I shall do my best to answer. ((Independent Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler RP and Ask blog. Mun and muse are both over 18. Majority of interactions unless specified are set AFTER the Hope Piece Arc and Drocell has been resurrected free from his master. Shipping, AUs and other stuff may be welcome but prior discussion is needed. Page of rules and headcanons pending, please ask in the meantime for them.))

[askdrocellcaines]

((Hoooooooboy how long has it been?!))

[uhh433]

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I feel like whenever I watch a show, read a book, join a fandom, or whatever the frickity fuckles I’m doing, and there’s a character that the rest of the fans seem to hate or no one else seems to have a crush on, my dumbass brain decides that I’m going to love that character with all my existence. 

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Seriously I was originally heading towards Grell back in 2011 but saw the Drocell episodes maybe a few weeks before I had to cosplay for a con and then that was IT I had found my “kin”.

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Figured that while asks and stuff are building back up, I might share all of my gradually increasing Drossel cosplay tiktoks (and yes I am experimenting with using the correct name spelling sometimes, welp).

My tiktok username is nerdygoggles in case anyone wants to give them some love at the source!

[teaboot]

Wait what's a buildings fire evacuation plan if you aren't supposed to use the elevator to get down

[lazodiac]

You go down the stairwell/fire escape. Is that weird?

[teaboot]

But what if you have a walker or a wheelchair??

[durpacerangerrogjro]

in america at least, in this situation, there isnt one. either your loved ones or the firemen can get you out using the emergency fire escapes or stairs, or you die 

[teaboot]

That's fucking horrific, thank you

[official-lucifers-child]

“fun” little story:

last summer my friend who is an amazingly talented artist and i were in this super tall building, and she’s in a wheelchair and i’m pushing her around the room. it’s an art exhibit and some of her art was chosen to be showcased there and so it’s all fine and dandy until suddenly an alarm starts going off

a FIRE ALARM

everyone starts running for the stairs and my friend just looks at me with this forlorn look on her face

“i can’t go down the stairs”

but i’m a stubborn bitch “i’ll carry you”

“what about my chair? it’s too expensive for me to be able to get another one if i can’t get this one back”

“i’ll carry that too”

and i did. we went to the stairs (by then most people from our floor were gone) and i lifted her up in a fireman’s carry over my shoulder and then lifted her chair up and used the ridiculous amount of adrenaline that was coursing through my veins to make it down approximately 20 half-flights of stairs until we met some people exiting lower floors, one of which who kindly took the chair. I changed positions so i was holding my friend bridal-style which was, somehow, easier and the person who took her wheelchair (with her permission to handle it of course) accompanied me to the ground floor and then out the doors

basically there is no real protocol for people who can’t use the stairs in an emergency. it’s up to the people with them, if anyone, to help them or the person to somehow make it down the stairs alone, unassisted

thank fuck that it was just a faulty alarm system, because if i was unable to carry her down those stairs and the building was on fucking fire???? then i don’t know what would have happened to her, but i don’t think it would have been very good.

it’s fucking ridiculous and ableist to the absolute max.

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

I use a cane. When I did a day-long fire safety training at my northeast American university (UMass Amherst), I asked that exact same question: “what am I supposed to do if the fire alarm goes off and I’m in my lab on the twelfth floor?” 

the fire marshal hemmed and hawed for a while and then said to take the elevator- you’re supposed to leave it free for the fire department to use and they want able-bodied people out fast not waiting for elevators. if the fire alarm has just gone off the building probably hasn’t suffered enough structural damage to make using the elevator dangerous, and modern elevator wells are heavily reinforced. many large and high-trafficked buildings on my campus have fire rated elevators that link in with the fire alarm system so they won’t let you off on a floor with a possible fire. 

if the elevator isn’t working, wait in the stairwell and call the fire department to let them know where you are. modern stairwells are also heavily reinforced- it might not be pleasant but modern building code usually requires fire-resistant stairwell doors in office and big residential buildings, also to help firefighters get in and out safely. older buildings’ stairwells may or may not be retrofitted with fire-resistant doors but a stairwell is generally the safest place to wait if you can’t get out. 

what happened to your friend was horrible, and i’m very glad you were there to help her out, but you can absolutely use the elevator to evacuate if it’s not shut down. those don’t-use-the-elevator rules are for abled people.  

[tisfan]

This is GOOD TO KNOW. why do they not tell people this??

[crownoflaurelandbramble]

See, it’s not that I get over shows and whatnot; It’s more like I think I’m over a show, and then I see one post on tumblr or something on pinterest or a friend mentions it in passing… and back down the rabbit hole we go.

[mindflamer]

when i was depressed those “reasons not to kill yourself” lists never helped.. maybe they do for some people but for me they actually made me feel worse. it was like….here’s a reminder that there are all these things other people find joy in that you can’t. with a sprinkle of guilt because “your family/friends will miss you.”

what i needed to hear, and so what i’ll tell any of you reading this who are in the same situation, was: a lot of people recover from mental illness and go on to live full lives. it’s quite likely that with treatment, a time will come when you won’t want to die anymore and you’ll find joy in everyday life. yes, you. stay alive for that possibility.

[askdrocellcaines]

Hello folks, welcome to random nightblogging with mun Hannah because it’s far too hot to get to sleep at 2:45 in the morning!

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Friendly reminder that the mun has cosplayed the muse every year for the past 9 years and has been cosplaying for 12. Have some fun selfies from the past couple times!

Special thanks to folks featured in the photos, especially some of my good buds from our group the Funtom Cosplay Association aka @notreallybutlers on Instagram!

Mun has also been making some content on occasion for her mostly-cosplay tiktok which you can find by searching for nerdygoggles. If you like what you see, please consider buying me a coffee (ko-fi under the same name) as it will help to support my recently rejigged career choices (messed up by the world going to hell) as well as allow me to afford updates to equipment and cosplays for better content!

[whitepeopletwitter]

[askdrocellcaines]

Part of me is like ah yes this is me, part of me is just like “Nope it’s because I’m apparently obsessed with living puppets which is an annoyingly rare trope in media ESPECIALLY OUTSIDE OF HORROR MOVIES”

[askdrocellcaines]

“A daft idea I had for making a VERY simple AU concept somehow developed into full fledged fanfic and now I can’t stop” - a novel by me.

[hanae-ichihara]

✝ 31 Days of Anime Halloween ✝

⌞October 20: Kuroshitsuji⌝

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((Whats up folks, ya girl turns 25 in like, 40 minutes UK time 😂 I’ve been really busy as per usual with terrible timing and even worse muse, so forgive the inactivity. That being said I’d be happy to try and update all this soon a bit and get things going again, even if it’s not by much. I’m still around, just all over the place 😆))

[askdrocellcaines]

23. if you could break one of your bad habits which would you choose? 25. what’s something you can’t stop buying?

“A habit? I suppose it would be beneficial to stop worrying about what my old Master would have thought about things. It really does no good. And as for things I cannot stop buying, well… Both Hana and Myself are terrible for buying copious amounts of materials and art supplies without a clear idea of what will be done with them.”((Hey, don’t you fucking call me out…))

[askdrocellcaines]

I am upset that there isn't more Kuro/Steven Universe crossovers but anyway Drocell would either be a Lapis Lazuli or a defective Pearl.

((Oh my GOODNESS I have thought about that crossover before too :D but honestly while I agree very much about the type of gem he’d otherwise be (most likely a Pearl)...

I'd be so tempted for him to be this tiny little unrecognised piece of Hope Diamond.))

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((Waddup kuroweebs I’ve been busy as all hell, distracted by other fandoms and kinda depressed af. I’m still here tho.))

[askdrocellcaines]

Never noticed this before now, but in some official art of Drocell it shows the back of guys head and it looks like he has an undercut?

((I can see what you mean! Honestly I think his design in some shots is a little bit rushed which drives me mad and it’s hard to really tell what his hair is like until the hat comes off, but I figured it was either quite spiked out or he had the slightest bit of an undercut. I can’t replicate that in my cosplay and chose to make it more of a choppy bob but both look nice.))