I will ask

[ratsoh-writes]

(I thought of this backstory for 3 years. I'm glad that you like it)

She was never caught. Nobody knew she was there, nobody knew that two books of the vlock family went missing for a few hours. And nobody knew that the fire monster down there had developed a resistance to the spells. Only she knew. A little piece of info that not even the heads knew.

It felt great! To be the only one who knew. And better yet, she copied some of the spells of the books she stole. She could now learn them properly and finally sedate that fire monster and she knew of a secret entrance now, a very dirty, and full of spiders and cockroaches, entrance but... it seemed that this was another thing she only knew. Yay to her.

.

It took months. 9 months to be exact. She realized that her affinity for those types of spells was low, very low. But that didn't discourage her. It tired her though, since she had to juggle learning those spells, her normal studies, her training with her mother and father, and mingling with the cesspool that was the rest of the family.

And to make sure that the monster kept his mouth shut, she visited him. Not always, but maybe once or twice a week, and always through the vent, since she didn't want to risk getting caught by the main door again.

"So... are you my grandpa or great great great greaaaaat grandpa?"

"I don't know... I just know that... you are family..."

"How? You can't even smell through the barrier. My dad made that, you know?"

There was a hint of pride in that last sentence. Her dad was a pain in her head, but he was powerful, enough to be at the top of the other family heads, a position that she was taught to covet.

"Well... because logic..."

"That's a stupid answer. You can't say that. If you know that we are related, then tell me your thought process or don't talk at all."

"Alright... you will never know then"

"No, you can't do that either"

.

Sea would later realize, in the future, that he knew because he was aware of how her family operated and saw many mages and witches force themselves onto the other monsters while they were hypnotized and sedated. And that he was the only flame monster there, so it would be logical to think that Sea was his family.

.

After 9 months, she was sure that she could cast the pheromone spell to finally sedate the monster. She was ready... but there was one tiny problem. She was also grounded, forced to copy a 345 page history book using a spell that made the pen float. If she made a mistake or stained the paper, she had to do it all again from the beginning.

What a pain.

That tired her out. So she had to wait three more days until she could go back to the basement. She crawled through the vents, as always, until she arrived. And when she did, she saw her father.

He was feeding the fire monster, throwing a bowl of water at him, then tossing him a box of bread and fruit. Is it not like she had never seen her father be mean to someone, he even took her to watch a torture session once. It was normal there... and yet...

And yet... when he left...

"You should have burned him or something..."

She went back up and to the kitchen to get a bag of cookies. And was currently imbuing them with healing magic.

"Burn a volcanoid mage?"

"It's possible. I have seen it..."

"Well, if you say it... then it must be true..."

She didn't say anything afterwards. Mostly because she was rather tired after using healing magic. She wasn't very good at it... because her father hadn't taught her yet.

"Thank you, kid. I'm... grateful for your gift..."

"... yeah right. Just quit the nice words, I didn't do it because he hurt you, I did it because you will own me again..."

"...right... how unthoughtful of me..."

(3/3... well, now I guess I have to make it longer. 3/5)

Wow this dude is patient. Or just sounds sad. He talks kinda like he’s still a little affected by the pheromones

[ratsoh-writes]

Any type of insect monster hc?

There’s the hexapedes!

A hexapede is a centipede like monster, it’s lower half is purely centipede with a thick armored body and 16 sharp ended legs. The body curves upwards (like a centaur) and from the armored centipede skin emerges a slime monster with a smooth torso, four smooth jellylike arms and one large eye in the middle of the torso. No head

The jelly part of the body can retreat back into the centipedes armor, and a “lid” will cover the hole. On the top of the lid is two eyes. When the hexapede is retreated inside it’s armor, it looks just like a giant centipede without claws.

They’re large monsters who are around 10 feet in length, and 4 feet high when it’s just their armor. When their ecto body is out, they usually “stand” about 6.5-9 feet tall.

They are acidic monsters who’s jelly body can dissolve food by touch. Most of their attacks are also acid based, but they do have an affinity for earth magic too. Where their real talent lies is in their armor. They are absolute tanks and can take nearly as much damage as a stone golem.

Hexapedes are naturally friendly. So friendly that despite being one of the least humanoid monsters around, there are a lot of hexapede half breeds in the farmtale community and some among the lusts. They are the kind of monsters who make great peacekeepers and mingle easily with other subspecies. Hexapedes value diversity and beauty in the unknown, so cross species relationships are more common than two hexapedes getting together

They’re most common in underlust and undertale. A lot of hexapedes make great sales associates and event planners because of their easygoing natures and being naturally good at juggling multiple tasks

[ratsoh-writes]

This b*tch

[ratsoh-writes]

Alrighty! Let me introduce y’all to a new side character and monster subspecies inspired by one lovely anon!

First we’ll introduce the character!

Meet Damocles Cassia!

Damocles is a Vlock monster from the mafia au! He’s roughly a medium height for his species, standing at 6’5 feet tall. He has a fire red magic and a lighter orange fur. He’s got unusually large lower canines giving him an underbite when his mouth is closed.

Damocles is a… well let’s just say he’s a total slime-ball. He’s a slick convincing businessman who can flatter away the gold out of anyone’s bank account with a wink and a smile. He likes to hide his intellect behind a playful and carefree exterior. One think you can count on with him though is his pride in his products quality. Damocles only sells the best! His biggest flaw would be his tendency to monologue and how much of a smug b*stard he is whenever he wins at something.

Before the crash, and for a little time after, he was a notorious arms dealer. Damocles supplied both the mob and police alike in his old au. When he hears about ebotts biggest mafias making a deal with the royals, he decided he might as well retire himself. Nowadays damacoles runs a mattress store selling his mattresses, bed frames and fine linen. He even put out some commercials using his face and voice, totally not to rub it in to his past… business friends that he got away with it all. It’s just advertising of course!

Damacoles never soul bonded, but he did have a child with a past human lover, and his daughter had her own, a mage grandchild. He’s close with his family members and spoils them rotten when they allow him lol.

Things he loves: playing poker, fancy beds, clothing in jewel tones, earrings, moonshine, guns, knives, tacky tourist shot glasses, humans.

Now a little more about the species:

Vlocks are somewhat uncommon monsters. They’re found in most AUs, but in small numbers. The biggest population of vlocks are with the drakefells!

Vlocks are a monster species new enough that each au with the right records can trace the first Vlock down to a goat and vixen monster parents. These monsters resemble a fox with the legs and hooves of a goat, horns, and larger canines, while also having much shorter tails than their vixen ancestors. Size wise, they’re an even blend between goats and vixen, standing between 6-7 feet on average.

Descended from two monster types prone to fire affinities, Vlock are almost always great with fire magic, the only exceptions bong the few sea/hadal individuals. A secondary affinity these monsters sometimes come with though is mind magics, or being able to influence others through eye contact or pheromones.

Vlock are prideful monsters, and prone to flattery. It’s well known that there aren’t enough compliments in the world to ever truly satisfy a Vlock monster. But they’d love it if you try lol.

[fanvoidkeith]

artfight ref of my son (electrodendra vantris)

i feel like i've done an ancient magic ritual to get this done, lmao

(artfight/general OC ref for my son Electrodendra)

[fanvoidkeith]

artfight ref of my son (electrodendra vantris)

i feel like i've done an ancient magic ritual to get this done, lmao

(artfight/general OC ref for my son Electrodendra)

[hawt-llama]

*flower crowns u*

hiiiiii

I am so invested in the Liliana and Wine tea it's immaculate

-wisteria

[rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20]

Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

[magicratfingers]

[goth-queen]

[jojopetray]

I'm at a point in my life where I'm immersed with love and friendship in a way I never thought I would be.

Growing up I was never able to build any sense of self. So for most of my life I felt isolated from everything and everyone, including the people I considered friends and I had no idea why. I had to start building myself from scratch in my twenties.

Now I know who I am, and I have the love and support I always craved. I have the love of my life that is my entire world and I know I am theirs, and I have friends that love and care about me for who I truly am. Knowing that there are people that think of me fondly in their daily lives, I've never felt understood and cared for in this way. I'm happier than I could ever imagine.

All of this to say, things DO get better. People will accept you, understand you, and most importantly, people will love you.

[catchymemes]

[link-the-feral-anon]

When you remember the anti-vax movement

[burger-prince]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[landsccape]

[wholesome90stv]

Wishbone (his real name was Soccer) was born on May 17th, 1988

[wholesome90stv]

Happy birthday Wishbone!

[jathis]

Loved this little dog ; ;

[jtownraindancer]

Happy birthday to the bestest boy!

[kianamaiart]

It's been about a year since the last one... (characters listed in order top to bottom, left to right)

Who's your favorite character?

Aika

Zira

Hoshi

Eclipse

Lady DeVoid

Miss

Voting ended onMay 15

[kianamaiart]

congrats zira!

[ratsoh-writes]

WISTY HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO SAY NO TO KIDNAPPING???

here's the next rp event, all of us band together to tie wisteria to a chair and make her stay there and out of trouble

and yesss hilda, she's hot

-katana

Dhdhdhdhdhdhhddh @wisteria-and-crocuses @hawt-llama @the1920sisntaphasemom @genius-shelly @hyperfixation-station-utdr @vrnicky sounds good to me lol

[hawt-llama]

Ready

[rneliflua]

[ohnoitstbskyen]

What it looks like to me is that these churns of outrage aren't actually about anything that these creators say or do, so much as they are a kind of reflexive action in response to literally any kind of friction. Like an angry infected rash flaring up with pain when it is brushed by a feather.

The show you like is telling a slightly different story than what you want? Friction is the same as pain so it is hurting me, AAAA!!! Your expectation of what was going to happen to that character you liked didn't pan out? Friction! Friction hurts! You're hurting me!!

But where the Disney Corporation can run a fucking angle grinder across the rash and barely provoke an "ow," indie creators (especially if they are not men), can get nearly run off the internet for things like factually answering a direct question or stating that the story they are writing has main characters.

There's a lot of misogyny in that, obviously, and in many awful flavors, but I think there's also mixed in there a very peculiar kind of consumer-brained entitlement. We expect that the big corporations will fuck us over every two seconds, and we expect to be utterly powerless to do anything about it because all they give a shit about is Line Go Up, but indie creators (especially if they are not men) are expected to be the balm to that infected rash. Where everything else in the world is painful and mean and uncomfortable, independent queer creators are expected to produce the comfortable swaddling bandage that dulls the pain and soothes the sensitivity. This is supposed to be our happy place, our safe place. It's supposed to be ours and belong to us and serve us.

And so they moment they produce friction, any friction, literally the tiniest amount of friction imaginable, well that's a failure! You are failing to live up to your purpose, and that's not just a creative failure but a moral and personal and spiritual failure too. It's a sin, in fact, it is a kind of evil. Friction hurts, and that means you are hurting me!

It creates this fucked up upside-down bizarro logic wherein the corpos and the companies can transgress to almost literally any degree, as much as they want, as often as they want, but queer independent creators (and I cannot stress this enough: especially if they are not men) have to walk tightrope on a razor wire and may God help their souls if they ever put a foot wrong. We will shake and shake and shake the towers until they each fall down; I didn't like that step I think you were taking, how dare you believe you deserve to be up there!

[spicymancer]

I definitely feel a sort of hesitation and anxiety whenever I read people’s headcanons about my stories, because I get worried they’ll be upset that the way I write the story doesn’t match up to the thing they have in their heads. This gets especially tricky when lots of folks speculate in different directions and I feel that whatever I write WILL disappoint somebody… (or, to Skyen’s point: create upsetting emotional friction for them)

Which, to be fair? Yeah. That’s normal. Not all art is for everybody. I try hard to internalize this… there’s a really badly paraphrased Mark Rosewater quote about game design I think about a lot:

“Anything specific enough for a person to fall in love with must, by its very nature, be something that another kind of person doesn’t like.”

That’s not a bad thing. Everyone is different and if you try to make something that perfectly inoffensive to everybody, you end up with something mild and flavorless.

All this to say, I’m glad I’ve managed to cultivate a broadly cool audience who, for the most part, are super supportive of my work. I think it’s important to make stuff for the sickos (Affectionate).

[handweavers]

it's amazing how when i'm an active agent in my life good things happen and i feel capable and confident in myself and when i just passively let life happen to me terrible things happen and i am miserable. surely no one else has ever noticed this tendency

[handweavers]

[magicratfingers]

[tired-fandom-ndn]

I am whatever the opposite of a speed runner is. I am a game meanderer. I have to look at literally everything. I am overly cautious in every way. I forget to pause and wander away from the game. I take a minimum 7 hours to get through any given level. If you give me a timer I will cry.

[json-derulo]

[magicratfingers]

Over the last few days this has become everything to me