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[briarborealisocs]

Briar's OCs Masterpost

hello everyone and welcome to my hashtag sick and cool oc sideblog

i have a number of stories and ocs that i may or may not be regularly posting about, here are a list of the tags for them that i will try to keep updated

STORY TAGS

#whoopsverse - a very old rp world between me and three friends, contains ocs such as #oc: kiska and #oc: vas

#project starstruck - world that includes @ask-projectstarstruck, an ask blog @doeblossom and i made (on indefinite hiatus), contains ocs such as #oc: austral and #oc: boreal

#sshs - silly superhero story, exactly what it says on the tin, contains ocs such as #oc: dani, #oc: leon, and #oc: mick

#the weaver's apprentice - a story @natyune-art sspearheads with our ocs, contains ocs such as #oc: dijah

#toh oc - yep its owl house oc time, my main toh oc is #oc: solstice

#pokemon oc - i've got a couple trainersonas under this tag but idk how much i'll post about them :) theyre just silly to me

all of my ocs will be tagged in the #oc: [name] format. friends' ocs who i interact with a lot will be tagged in the #friend oc: [name] format. i will not be listing all of them here because we would be here forever. any canon characters (for fan oc interactions) will be listed under their character tag

BLOG NAVIGATION TAGS

#briar rambles - tag for when im just talking about things that dont particularly have to do with any oc

#asked and answered - ask box replies

#friend art - for when ppl make art of my ocs and i get to hoard them on my blog forever

[romanceyourdemons]

one-sided platonic feelings always hit me so hard. like. i want you to love me like a son, but to you i’m not much more than a servant. i swore our oath of brotherhood out of real devotion, and you swore it out of convenience. i want to go to the ends of the earth and the depths of hell for you and follow you until the end of time, and in your mind that’s no more than what i owe you

[allthingslinguistic]

There’s a theory that early Europeans started saying “brown one” or “honey-eater” instead of “bear” to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa “the faceless woman” because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber

English has an avoidance register used in the presence of certain respected animals, which sounds fancy until you realize it’s spelling out w-a-l-k and t-r-e-a-t in front of the dog.

Mx. Leah Velleman on twitter

[a-book-of-creatures]

Icelandic folklore requires you avoid saying the names of evil whales, otherwise you’ll draw their attention.

[fidoruh]

Yall have evil whales?

[a-book-of-creatures]

Iceland does! They are the illhveli, literally “evil whales”, and they live to kill you. They love nothing more than killing and eating humans and sinking their ships. Their greatest enemy is the steypireydur (that’s blue whale to you), which is the greatest of the good whales and the protector of sailors.

All evil whales are, well, evil. So evil that if you speak their name at sea, they will hear it and home in on you. So instead you use all sorts of euphemisms for their names. Also if you try to cook their meat it literally disappears from the pot. That’s right, they’re so evil, you can’t even eat them.

They include such types as the hrosshvalur (horsewhale), with big eyes and a red mane and tail. This is probably the best known and most feared of the lot.

The raudkembingur (redcomb) is especially cruel and bloodthirsty even by illhveli standards. If you manage to escape it, it will die of frustration.

Good luck escaping the mushveli (mousewhale) though, it has legs! And will clamber onto the beach in pursuit!

Or what about death from above? The stökkull (jumper) leaps high into the air and pile-drives boats to pieces.

Meanwhile the skeljungur (shellwhale) sits in the path of boats and lets them get wrecked on its shelly hide…

… while the sverdhvalur (swordwhale) slices through boats with its dorsal fin.

The katthveli (catwhale) is relatively harmless though. It meows.

The same can’t be said of the lyngbakur (heatherback), a classic island fish that lets sailors get on its back and then dives, taking them to a watery grave.

The nauthveli (oxwhale) on the other hand specially targets cattle, attracting them into the sea with its bellow before tearing them apart.

How can you avoid all these murderous whales, like the taumafiskur (bridlefish) here? Any of a number of ways, including getting a steypireydur to help. There are substances, ranging from angelica to sheep dung and chopped fox testicles, that they find abhorrent. And you can distract them with loud noises and barrels.

For more, I assure you this link will answer all your questions.

https://abookofcreatures.com/category/illhveli/

Illhveli – A Book of Creatures

Posts about Illhveli written by abookofcreatures

[fixyourwritinghabits]

This is also why fairies were referred to as the ‘Good Neighbors’ and why there are so many nicknames for Satan.

The concept of avoidance speech is endlessly fascinating and rife with plot points for writing, but honestly I’m just thrilled about the EVIL WHALES.

[mossbone]

"I have depression." - character who has been through extensive therapy.

"I feel dead inside all the time and nothing helps!" - character who does like, regular introspective thinking and is aware of the concept of mental health.

"Leave me the fuck alone I'll be fine once I get over my stupid shit." - repressed character.

"It's fine I'm just having an Empty Time. What? Yeah, empty times, you know, when everything is like bzzzzzz in your brain and you don't shower for two weeks. Why, what do you call it?" - ooooughhh now we're talkin

[ruffboi-mags]

#this post is a jillion times better than all the posts that complaina bout therapyspeak #this one SHOWS the relationship between characterization and conceptualization #of depression #as an example of that relationship in general (via @rubynye)

[bottan-blobbington]

“The boy felt lonely”—no!

If you write from a child’s point of view, consider this: the lonely child rarely knows that they’re lonely.

That child might feel apart even when they’re in company. That boy should not exist, for there is no place he will fit. That girl has no future, because there isn’t an adult like herself.

And what that means is that the child thinks they’re doing something wrong.

That boy might hold a sadness that borders pain. That girl feels a devastating need to belong. That child has no identity, because they cannot find anyone like themself.

These children think that everyone feels as they do, and that they’re defective, since they’re unable to hide their misery. (The shame of children is an intense and bright thing. That anyone survives it borders a miracle.)

If you write about a child, consider that a child thinks that what they experience is the norm—until proven otherwise.

[ithappensoffstage]

love the concept of a guard dog with a death wish. characters who are suicidal but won't act on it while they have something/someone to protect.

[wandringaesthetic]

You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.

not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life

[corvuscorona]

if u write in present tense enough times in a row, you can switch this problem around & get confused when your present-tense narrator is talking abt something that happened in Their past. I recommend this bc it keeps u on ur toes

[ach-sss-no]

guys i made my first blackout poetry

[heywriters]

^^^

[monkeyislandtwo]

typical after sex scene where one of the characters is smoking and staring at the ceiling contemplating their relation to the other character while the other character has put on a nightgown and cap and blew out a candle while sleeping loudly like honk shoe honk shoe

[hunxi-after-hours]

love it when an extremely high-functioning and put-together character gets slammed with something that would topple any lesser person but continues to function in an alarmingly efficient manner while everyone who knows and cares about them flutters anxiously around them like "please lie down please rest please accept medical attention" while the high-functioning character just looks askance at all their concerned faces like "what are you talking about? I'm perfectly fine" as tiny cracks start appearing in their demeanor and facade

[sunsofcarcosa]

my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called "honorable knight" youll be zonked out of your gourd

me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit

5 minutes later: only in death does duty end

my buddy pacing: i am the sword and the hand that wields it

[haze-of-absence]

"I just wanna be spoiled so bad" <- girl that proceeds to describe having access to necesities and having her most basic needs met as luxurious and the desire for that as greedy and punishment worthy

[sailermoon]

huge shout out to this little kid for writing my favorite poem

[dilf-din]

The most important thing you can do in this life is write hyper-specific fanfiction for you and six other people. Don’t believe anything else you read.

[grayintogreen]

Sometimes it feels like nobody wants The Character to get hit so hard they cough up blood anymore.

[seth-whumps]

characters raised to be tools

Weapons. Trained, tested, forged in steel and fire. Failure is an inevitability that ends in death. Pain should not be felt--it should be recognized, familiar, and inconsequential

Martyrs. In the form of servants and princes, of leaders and underdogs. If blood is necessary, the martyr will lift their hands and offer it all

Shields. Like tempering a sword, but only to bear and not to lash out. Wounds are medals--not symbols of pride, but symbols of worth. A pretty shield is useless; scars mean a job well done

Experiments. Raised on the cold comfort of a lab table. Restraints are only necessary when they're not in their right mind. Is it honorable, to be twisted beyond recognition? Or is it just a necessary evil?

Monsters. Cruelty, caution, and regarding one as a creature beyond reasonable thought is tempering in its own right. But if you keep a leash at the right length, perhaps the massecre won't reach you. One can hope.

Idols. Pretty face, pretty name, pretty hands around their shoulders and throat. There to seduce, manipulate, force any feeling to come to the surface and twist it to their favor. Any genuinity stays locked behind the guilded cage that surrounds their pretty little heart

Trophies. Status and wealth and the traditions that keep someone at their heels, on their knees, to display and serve and decorate one's ballroom.

Sacrifices. Drenched in honorable clothes, prepared and adored and cleansed. The gift of hope at the cost of one's life. Is it taken with no fight? How can you escape the ropes you were born in?

[unwastelandunbaby]

the past isn’t behind you it coils inside your body that’s why some years you feel closer and more nostalgic for certain ages than others just fyi

[unwastelandunbaby]

for visual learners

[wikipediaboyfriend]

sue zhao

[pokeballvictim]

Surely if I destroy my sense of self and become a vessel for the desires of others I'll become worthy of love right. That's how it works right