the sound of the woman who loved you

Astarion, he/him. Nér. Fictive, if you must.

[farvann]

a vampire giving themselves a pep talk to a mirror that has a crudely drawn picture of themselves that they drew taped to it

[navelgazed]

I do actually need singlets to understand that joking with a fictive about traumatic events in their canon is something you should ask for permission to do before assuming it will be a Funny fandom joke haha

Let's exercise our imaginations and think about what actually experiencing the events in the show/game/book what have you would be like and then ask ourselves critical questions like "would I appreciate it if someone made a joke about the worst thing that ever happened to me without seeing if I was cool with it first?"

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[daylightatlast]

I hope everyone who is remotely attracted to Cazador kills themself.

[doodlespatulas]

"Doomed yuri" this, "doomed yaoi" that

WHAT ABOUT DOOMED SIBLINGS

What if we were two sides of the same coin. What if i lived in your shadow all my life but found comfort in the darkness and dont know what to do once youre gone. What if youre the only person who understands. What if you have have no idea what i went through. What if we went through the same traumas but ended up with oposite conclusions about our suffering. What if i dont recognize you anymore. What if i see the ghost of my former self reflected through your eyes. What if it never had to go this way. What if this was the only way things were ever going to go

[namura018]

Damian and his labels :((

[writingphoenix]

“And then things got a little unpleasant for a few years.”

“Dude, you were literally kidnapped and locked in a basement.”

“Yeah, and that was unpleasant.”

[denizenhardwick]

sex-repulsed people are fully within our rights to be cranky and blunt about not liking sex and how it's fucking everywhere btw. we shouldn't have to tiptoe around and make sure our phrasing is perfectly squeaky clean because people interpret any criticism of sex and sexualization as puritanism. venting about compulsory sexuality is not purity culture. maybe you could stand to learn a thing or two from us.

[pluralpolls]

How old is your oldest headmate? (Like what is their age, not how long have you had them)

a baby

a child (aged 2-10)

a tween/teen (aged 11-18)

a young adult (aged 19-25)

an adult (aged 26-35)

a middle aged adult (aged 36-45)

an older adult aged (46-65)

an elder aged (66-85)

a very wise adult (aged 86-100)

The Ancient One (aged over 100)

Voting ended onJun 4

[pluralpolls]

I hope this was a misclick because if it's not I feel bad for the "lil babies only" system out there

Stay strong lil baby

[daylightatlast]

I’m amused by the insinuation that over a hundred is “ancient.” As someone in his 200s, I consider myself relatively young for an elf.

[crabussy]

every time a trans man who does not want to be called a twink gets called a twink I will personally go out into the world and rend 1 parked car to shreds with my teeth. cut it out

[crabussy]

walk with me for a moment. let's think for a sec. I'm not upset but I do want people to understand. do you think assigning a label associated with feminine features, hairlessness, skinniness/lack of muscle tone, and high pitched voices is something that most trans men would feel comfortable being associated with? why or why not?

[crabussy]

every time a trans man who does not want to be called a twink gets called a twink I will personally go out into the world and rend 1 parked car to shreds with my teeth. cut it out

[crabussy]

walk with me for a moment. let's think for a sec. I'm not upset but I do want people to understand. do you think assigning a label associated with feminine features, hairlessness, skinniness/lack of muscle tone, and high pitched voices is something that most trans men would feel comfortable being associated with? why or why not?

[householddreaming]

Shout out to fictives who feel uncomfortable and exposed by the fact that their sources exist as public media that anybody gets to see. The fact that anyone can just pull it up and see all of your history and traumas and mistakes, without your say or even knowledge. The fictives who don't even feel they're allowed to be upset about it because it's "just fiction" and therefore doesn't matter. Who feel like less than "real people" because of it.

We see you. You matter.

[daylightatlast]

Shout out to those who feel this way and who are mad about it as well. Who resent their fans, who resent their visibility.

[intercal]

"it is what it is," he coped seethingly

[karazhan-crew]

I wrote what I am calling a "weird" essay about my relationship with being fictional, which is to say, I'm not, the fiction is ME. I use terms like "fictive" and "source" to communicate more effectively and find people with similar experiences, less because I feel like I'm "from" something fictional. And then Khadgar lives somewhere between those two points, seeing himself as needing to wrench himself from the jaws of canon, in his own words. I don't see it, myself, because I don't believe that canon has much to do with me other than curiously reflecting a good portion of my life and getting the names right. It's more folklore or a myth than a retelling, to me.

The essay is a mess and I will need to return to it a few times for editing, but I'll post it either here or on our website when it's done. Most things go directly to our website these days because it's just so much work to edit them for multiple platforms. Formatting is a real bitch. The downside is that it means that almost no one reads them because they have no way to know they exist.

-Medivh

[karazhan-crew]

This essay, I'm Not Fictional, the Fiction is Me, is now up on our website. It was also crossposted to the Fictionkind Dreamwidth if anyone who's a member would prefer to read it there. This is also accompanied by a significant update to our website in general, including essays from Mithras, Khadgar, Tanix, Research, Popel, and myself, plus Caleb and Khadgar's poems from the Centaurus Festival. (We have other poems we've written since that we're hanging onto for now since we're debating what we should do with them.)

Anyone can feel free to message us on whatever platform is most convenient if they'd like to talk about anything we've written on our website. We don't crosspost to Tumblr much at this point partially for formatting reasons and partially because Tumblr is just awful for longform discussions. Still, if it's the best platform for you to talk to us on, feel free.

-Medivh

[inkzncowfolk]

do you think the sunlight from foreign suns still burns vampires born on the other side of the galaxy?

mechtober day 20 is vampire and i ALWAYS jump at an excuse to draw my fave :)

prompt list under the cut!

@mechtober2025

[mxmy]

Thank you for the beautiful art!!!

[batsu4eva]

I honestly love the versatility of sire-childe relationships. Like they could literally have any dynamic. That’s my mom or dad. That’s my lover. That’s my roommate. That’s my best friend. We’re like siblings. We’re mortal enemies. That’s some guy that stops by for a beer sometimes. That’s my mentor that keeps checking in on my progress every night. They saved me. They ruined me. I hate them. I love them. I know nothing about that man. We know everything about each other. See what I mean

[teethmeats]

90% of making art is being in agony over your creations not being on par with the vision you had for it but that other 10% is soooooo blissful and worth it ngl *:ﾟ*｡⋆ฺ(*´◡`)