blood enjoyer🫀

Aelan and/or James. Ce/it (they auxiliary). Adult. Mostly a Fallen London blog. PCs: Vela Kepler, Aria Carmichael, Alexandria Thorne, and Dexter Rouse, feel free to contact them! Main is solreefs. Check the "james speaks" tag for random rambles and "aelan speaks" for more thought-out stuff.

[bizarrebazaar13]

lists of my characters! some of them even have coherent reference posts. only some.

Fallen London Player Characters (4)

Fallen London NPCs (15)

Sunless Skies Player Characters (2)

Sunless Skies NPCs (5)

+ a little about me under the cut!

Aelan James, a malleable individual of mysterious and indistinct gender

What are you best known for?

heart motifs, blood, stories about identity, Sherlock Holmes, fucked up romance, violence, decent people in the middle of horror, mysteries, and music. these are a few of my favorite things. also memes.

What do they see, when they look at you?

I am an amateur artist and writer, and I’m perfectly happy with that! outside of tumblr, I’m a slightly less amateur theatre tech (currently in the midst of getting a sound design degree).

also I am sick a lot! and I post about it more than you would probably expect from a sideblog dedicated to fallen london. if you want to see memes and ask games and such, you will also see me complaining about not feeling well sometimes. I’m not posting anything gross but you will see some things along the lines of “augh I have a cough” “I hate emailing professors about being sick again” “the theatre industry bills itself as progressive while often failing its disabled workers” etc.

communication note: while I don’t usually use abbreviated tone indicators (I have a hard time remembering what they all mean), I will put tone clarifications in parentheses when needed, and I do appreciate your clarifications in whatever form they take. generally I don’t mean to be unfriendly or off-putting, and you can always ask what I meant by something.

Where are you usually found?

my art blog is @notbeatingtheachuesations. I’m on ao3 as aceofspace13. my player characters are listed above, my main blog is @solreefs, and I have a lot of other sideblogs as well. this includes my fl-ish aesthetic blog @curatorhoards.

I have discord too, but I am very bad at it. you can ask for my discord username if you want, but having it will probably not change the amount of messages we exchange.

in regards to real life stuff, I live in the united states, and I will not be getting any more specific than that.

And how would you like to be referred to?

you can call me Aelan, or James, or Aelan James if you want. pick one or mix it up, doesn’t matter. pronouns are, in order of preference: ce/cer, it/its, they/them*. I’d also prefer if you mix them up a little.

*they/them only if you can’t use my other pronouns please and thank you.

ce/cer pronoun conjugation (basically works like she/her)

she has high nightmares -> ce has high nightmares the hat man is after her -> the hat man is after cer her dreams are weird -> cer dreams are weird that hotel room is hers -> that hotel room is cers James talks to herself -> James talks to cerself

also please no gendered terms for me. this includes dude/guy/girl/etc.

[bizarrebazaar13]

SUMMER JOB IS OVER. FIC SWAP HERE I COME.

[anthro-apology]

Anne Carson (2009)

Arthur S. Way (1898)

George Theodoridis (2010)

Ian C. Johnston (2010)

E.P. Coleridge (1910)

Theodore Alois Buckley (1892)

John Peck, Frank Nisetich (1995)

R. Potter (1906)

M. L. West (1987)

William Arrowsmith (1958)

Philip Vellacott (1972)

Michael Wodhull (1782)

Kenneth McLeish (1997)

David Kovacs (2002)

Andrew Wilson (1993)

Euripides - Original (408 BCE)

[userarmand]

when no one's interested in hearing from the deepest regions of your soul （︶^︶）

[bytedykes]

fun character types

character who is not allowed to kill themself

related: suicidal character who physically can't kill themself

alive character who has successfully committed suicide

character who hasn't died but has committed thematic suicide of the Self

character who thinks they're suffering karmic punishment for killing/trying to kill themself

[history-of-fashion]

1860s Portrait of a Man (photo by unknown American photographer)

(National Gallery of Art, Washington)

[duncebento]

love this site

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Poison cabinet inside a fake Bible, 1600s.

[bumblebeebats]

so i hauve covid rn and i must say, American cold medicine is the absolute bees knees. You go to a UK pharmacy and they tenderly press like eight (8) paracetamol into the palm of your hand... God FORBID you're sick in France, i had to scour every pharmacy in Paris for something that wasn't HOMEOPATHIC PASTILLES. meanwhile last night i took the last of my stash of Nyquil that expired in 2019 and it was like getting hit by a fucking baseball bat (affectionate). press X to timeskip. LOVE me a cheeky little medically induced coma. you can really feel that it's a precursor to meth. i know that everything is fucking awful over there my friedns and my heart goes out to every one of you but if you need one small bright light of national pride in this time of strife please know that i envy you your cold medicine every day

[slowspinningredemption]

i once took an american antihistamine pill just a basic one for seasonal allergies and i had to immediately lay down and while doing so i vividly hallucinated that i was a steerage passenger on the titanic resigned to my death as my cabin filled up rapidly with water. then i blacked out and when i woke up again my allergies were gone for the entire season.

[acakewalkofcrocodiles]

The Hat Man is our greatest export

[taydivorce]

*reading tarot* ouch! ten of swords. you mustve gotten stabbed a bunch of times recently

[taydivorce]

*flips next card over* by the devil

[tgirl-makima]

her: last night was magical

me, a materialist: no it wasn't

[koenji]

An Egyptian Faience Scarab, New Kingdom, 18TH dynasty, reign of Hatshepsut, 1473-1458 B.C.

Green in color, the well-detailed beetle with the underside containing her royal prenomen flanked by cobras, each head surmounted by a solar disk, a winged sun-disk with pendant cobras above

½ in. (1.3 cm.) long; ring size 4 ½ x

[bizarrebazaar13]

The Inimitable Miss Zethys and the Incredible Mister Fey at Mahogany Hall!

Only on Saturdays, only for four more weeks! Catch them before they depart on their next zee tour!

Rubbery arts meet human ingenuity in this jaw-dropping double act! Be amazed by spectacular new illusions and classic conjuring tricks alike as the Inimitable Illusionist and the Dashing Conjurer take you on a journey to the furthest corners of their imaginations.

now that I have your attention. who are these two really?

Fey is the nickname/stage name of Felipe Moreno Espinoza. Felipe is from Veracruz (in Mexico) and got his start in magic as an assistant to a family friend. he became an accomplished magician in his own right, but never had his own show until coming to the neath. in fact his most recent job before the neath was working as a stagehand for an illusionist traveling in Europe. the possibility of going to the neath had been discussed by his employers before but it never came to fruition. deeply unsatisfied with his job in general, Felipe decided to try his luck in London.

Zethys is an abbreviated approximation of the inimitable illusionist’s real name. Zethys is a rubbery who learned magic from observing London’s street magicians, which is how she met Felipe. they had a lot to teach each other; Felipe offered Zethys actual lessons on sleight of hand magic (instead of her just having to watch and try to figure it out from a distance) and Zethys taught Felipe about the myriad new possibilities the neath offered for magicians.

their debut as a double act was in the medusa’s head when they figured most people would be too drunk to notice if they made a mistake. since then, they’ve become a recurring act at mahogany hall, and toured their show across the zee. they’re both passionate about bringing street magic to people who might not be able to go see them in mahogany hall, and their touring show allows them to share that beyond London.

I mentioned that they’re clearly influenced by Penn & Teller if you live in my brain. on the surface, both duos have the same dynamic of one silent partner (Teller and Zethys) and one partner who presents the show and speaks for them both (Penn and Fey). it is a little different for my ocs because Zethys cannot physically speak human languages, and Felipe also acts as her translator offstage. even in the rubbery language though, Zethys often prefers not to speak out loud and chooses her words very carefully when she does.

on a deeper level, there’s this shared idea that the magic is almost the third in their relationship. the magic comes before everything; they are partners in the show before they are anything else.

other fun facts that I couldn’t really fit anywhere else

Felipe is a trans man

Zethys’s skin is purple but her actual design in my head is based on a vampire squid

their favorite place to perform on tour is port cecil. they both love lamp cats. that’s not the only reason why they enjoy port cecil but it’s certainly a factor.

their least favorite place to perform on tour is polythreme because their props don’t always cooperate there.

Zethys had a brief stint as a deckhand on a pirate ship after getting picked up when the steamer she was on wrecked near the snares.

[human-pet-they]

i bet it feels good as fuck for a visual novel character to appear in silhouette with their name given as [???]

[slaygentford]

Armand's podcast chiarobscuro on obscure art history is just him speaking in a monotone for 1 hour about 1 page of 1 illuminated manuscript nd it's coincidentally number 1 trending on pods because people use it as a sleep aid. but then sometimes in the middle of it he'll say something incredibly disturbing and a cult (haha.) following starts claiming there are hidden subliminals in it which are allegations Armand never acknowledges and which people on twitter roast but reality shifters on tik tok get increasingly into. Daniels podcast by/line is beat out consistently by pod save America which is totally fine and not contributing to his alcoholism or his divorce or his psychosexual obsession with armand. he won't listen to armands podcast as a point of principle except for when he puts it on to fall asleep and then gets weirdly turned on and then pavlovs himself into arousal every time he hears armands voice. one sided psychological torture. Armand's cult (haha.) following continues to grow until lestat's podcast lestat (self-titled) filed in culture & the arts blows up and usurps him even though its an hour and a half one-man monologue about quite genuinely nothing at all, though worryingly often, his mother. and Louis? well Louis isnt privy to any of this because he has a child to raise and zones out whenever lestat starts talking about renting out a bigger recording studio for his podcast so that he can have guests on and invest in sound equipment FOR CLAUDIAS FUTURE, OF COURSE. her college fund Louis! the dividends will go toward her college fund. ahaha. what is the definition of this: dividends. Louis gets curious and listens to lestats podcast but gets distracted by recommended for you: chiarobscuro, finds it interesting enough that he doesn't fall asleep, and mentions it offhandedly to lestat after telling him lestat (self-titled) is cute. lestat is distracted by the high of being told Louis likes his podcast but wakes up in the middle of the night sitting straight up in bed when he remembers Louis said "chiarobscuro" in passing at precisely 7:46am this morning. lestat who has armand in his phone represented by the 🕴🏼emoji from college (Louis doesnt know he knows him, lestat has never once mentioned him) calls him from the bathroom at 4am and demands he immediately end his podcasting career. armand who of course answered at 4am counters that they meet in a neutral location to discuss terms. at 5am lestat and armand meet at a park. lestat rages, scaring off several sunrise joggers and their dogs. armand allows this to happen in silence and then says look across the pond. at which point lestat does and sees a bedraggled 50 year old white man plodding along with bodega coffee. you needn't worry about your Louis, says armand. I have a different project. I have been implanting subliminal messages in my podcasts in order to lure Molloy into my thrall. lestat, grudgingly impressed, concedes and stops to get coffee for the family before going back home. Louis and claudia are delighted by the impromptu breakfast and lestat is offered a special shower time reward. before disrobing, and working quickly, he hacks Louis' phone (passcode claudia's birthday) and in a fit of true selfless sacrifice deletes not just Louis' subscription to chiarobscuro, but his podcast app as a whole--damning his own podcast to never again be heard by Louis but removing armand permanently from their lives forever. he joins Louis in the shower, stunned by his own genius. perhaps he will have that worm molloy on his show in order to thwart armands plans. lestat 2 armand 0. it's almost enough to ease the burn of armand telling lestat in their audio production class in college that he's too dumb to start a podcast

[bizarrebazaar13]

writing vent fic about my mental health issues is OUT writing vent fic about how I tripped going down the steps and twisted my ankle on my very last day of staying in a house with an insane stair situation is IN

Metis is probably the one most likely to fall down the stairs in general (dyspraxia) but this specific situation feels more fitting for Felipe… maybe he has to perform at a theatre with a sketchy staircase and manages to make it through all his shows just fine and trips on the front step while leaving on the last day. and then Zethys gives him a weird amber slime treatment for his ankle probably.

[mamoru]

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