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writer, weaponsmith, unconventionally nihilistic

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Due to the lack of acceptance I've received from jobs I've applied to, I've decided to instead plug my Etsy shop.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Faceade

Faceade (pronounced like face+facade) is a customizable costuming business with an emphasis on masks and a promise that I'll do what I can to avoid irritating people like myself with skin conditions (disclaimer: this isn't a promise that I'll succeed, just that I'll listen to any instructios given). Masks are made from smooth paper mache, spray paint, acrylics, and EVA foam by default, but materials can be added/removed by request because of the aforementioned promise. Non-mask props are available upon special request, but won't have a set price.

If this sounds like the sorta thing you'd want, check the shop out! If not, that's okay too, I'm just leaving this here in case there is someone out there who wants this lol. I need the cash before I go to college 💀

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idk if this counts as a "drawing" for the Jacob collaboration, but I'm away working at a summer camp and can't access my drawing tablet, so here's Animal Crossing Jacob

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Fellow peculiars and other tumblr users.

We recently discovered how our dear friend Salvador Tatterlag passed.

IT WAS THE HANTAVIRUS 🥺😭🥺🥺😔😭😭😭

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Lmao nooooooo that stupid dream I had came true (it's my mentalist powers trust)

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Gonna do a tomodachi full island tour soon, prepare to meet all forty-something peculiar children side characters I decided to make for some reason.

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[himynamesisnotemail]

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I'm pretty sure this is what the noxum are supposed to look like

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GUYS I HAD A DREAM LAST NIGHT THAT THE NOOR RP ACCOUNT MADE A POST THAT WAS JUST A SELFIE WITH THE CAPTION "i have hantavirus" AND THEN ALL THE RP ACCOUNTS REALIZED THEY'D BEEN EXPOSED AND THEY ALL STARTED DYING FYJSSDHJJJFSTUKKFSAASFGDIJBNF

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Home sick (severe vasovagal episode) so I probably shouldn't look at a screen right now but ugghhhhg the idea of Jacob and Noor having an Emma and Abe-style breakup is literally just so perfect I need to ramble about it.

Noor said she wants to go to Bard College (weird choice; I've been there and it's mid af but whatever), and now that the prophecy's finished and the Five Burrows was (presumably) defeated, she can safely go back to New York with no problem. Horatio can even be her new foster parent because I personally need that. So she'll finish high school, head off to Bard, and do something great with her life.

So what about Jacob?

Jacob seems to love life in Peculiardom, and I can't see him leaving just to be with a girl (he already learned that lesson with Emma). So he's the Emma here, and Noor is the Abe.

But this time, it won't be as toxic. Emma will tell Jacob not to make the same mistake as her and think the relationship will stay the same. She'll encourage him and Noor to have a healthy breakup where they stay friends, unlike her and Abe.

Anyone who knows me knows I hate shipping (besides Fiona and Hugh they're valid), so that might be my bias showing. But come on this is so perfect, isn't it? The trio stay in a healthy friendship, Jacob and Noor can pursue their dreams separately, it's an excuse to make Horatio Noor's dad, aaaand it fixes a trauma cycle!!!!

With Sunderworld being cut short, I can only imagine what our boy Riggs will do next. If it is a third trilogy, I'll start frothing at the mouth and experience a vasovagal episode even worse than this one. But, as much as I want that, the last thing I want is to rush him. All the Peculiar Children books from LoS-onward are visably rushed, and so is the first Sunderworld. As a writer, I know that rushing sucks, so while yes, I would go crazy to get him to pursue this one hyper-specific plot point, I don't want to pressure him.

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LEAST in-character thing my peculiar miis have done so far

Hugh hating the taste of honey

Horace wearing a t-shirt for a minigame

Fiona doing tongue-twisters (I have since nerfed her to always talk quietly and greet in Irish Gaelic)

Enoch being the "smartest person" in the Peregrine Wards' household

Caul hating the taste of the custom "Peculiar Soul" food I made

Murnau hating the taste of the custom "Peculiar Soul" food I made

Olive and Bonwyn randomly bullying Hugh..?

Miss P's favorite food being nachos

Emma leaning over to listen to the rock album I got for Noor (and seemingly enjoying it..?!)

Addison using modern slang

Sophie being the one in charge of Pensevus (she takes him for walks)

Julius wading ankle deep in the ocean while wearing dress pants

Francesca being afraid of birds

Lilly and Millard getting into an argument so bad I had to reset my game thirteen times before they were able to resolve it

Miss Cuckoo's favorite kid being *checks notes* Ulysses Critchley.

Joel-and-Peter and Peter-and-Joel having the status of "not getting along" with each other

And them rejecting Melina's request to join them in their house

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Meme #1102

(Image description in ALT text, original images below the cut!) 

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peculiar children adaptation question

For those who didn't know, I've been working on a screenplay for a book-accurate adaptation of the series :) I'm keeping it as close to the books as possible, only changing things that readers collectively don't like (eg. the manner of Jacob and Emma's breakup), don't fit into the time restraints (eg. the explanation of why Ricky calls Jacob "Special Ed"), or just simply make no sense (eg. Horace's ages). Each book is split into 2-4 episodes and each trilogy is a season.

The plan is that if I ever finish, I want it to be a nonforprotit multi-artist animatic series (the reason for this being that Disney owns the film rights already and I don't want my ass getting sued lol). Nonetheless, because of the lack of monetization, I'm letting myself use as much copyrighted music as I want. In the books, Jacob's narration does a lot to show his personality, but since I'm option for no narrator (to show off a other characters' perspectives every now and then), I need to use more indirect characterization.

That's where you guys come in.

In the beginning of the first chapter, Jacob's narration explains why he's doing what he is in the SmartAid. But without that narration, I'm planning on using music to show his rebellious nature at that moment. Jacob listens to classic rock (a fact stated when he's showing Emma his record collection in aMoD), so there's three classic rock songs I'm stuck between.

which song should I use?

Jumping Jack Flash by the Rolling Stones

Fire by the Jimmy Hendrix Experience

Baba O'Reiley by the Who

Other (comment please!)

Voting ended onMay 19

(said screenplay, for reference)

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new headcanon

There's so many characters that didn't get proper endings in DoDA. I don't blame Ransom; the book was already long enough and our man had to end it somewhere. But it got me thinking: What if they're all together now?

Miss Thrush lost every one of her wards, aside from either one or two, depending on how you count Joel-and-Peter and Peter-and-Joel (if they're even alive in the first place). On the inverse side of things, there's characters like Julius who's never explicitly stated to die (which, going off of this series' logic, means there's a 90% chance he's alive), but lost his ymbryne. He's not the only kid missing an ymbryne, though. The snake charmer girl and circus greeter boy from Hollow City were also left with ambiguous endings and no ymbrynes, along with Sophie (who deserves more love tbh) and that one boy in DoDA who watched Caul kill everyone in his loop but him. Let's get them all together. Give them a new home, give JP and PJ some new loopmates and give Miss Thrush some new kids to keep herself busy while she mourns all her dead ones. Everyone benefits here, imo.

dammit, now I need to draw them all together

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I drew them :)

...on my statistics classwork.

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The aforementioned reddit comment. Forgot to mention that the nazis hadn't started bombing the uk as of September 9th.

Okay Thxx

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Oh and the Tygrysku retcon

And how Julius is referred to as a kid while also being stated to be "around eighteen" (I just interpret that as him being 17 since seventeen-year-olds are kids who are "around eighteen" but I can see how that might just be me giving logic to a retcon)

And the inconsistency with whether they're baked "strongarms" or "fortaes"

And how even if it was Hugh shooting the bees in that scene in LoS, there would be no way he would've obtained them since the last we saw, they were all dead beside Henry, who can't fly or sting

Caul's hair situation (whether or not he's bald)

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Tbh I just thought caul was basking because of loop lag, since it makes peculiars age so it make caul bald because he has some peculiar dna in him still??

Wirh Julius he’s probably those type of kids who look older than they are ( especially in the 19th century that was something normal or that’s just what I been told )

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I mean based on the photo he looks like he's like thirteen lol idk what Jacob was on about (Jacob is delusional theory gets proven more and more right each day...)

[h0ll0wgast]

The aforementioned reddit comment. Forgot to mention that the nazis hadn't started bombing the uk as of September 9th.

Okay Thxx

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Oh and the Tygrysku retcon

And how Julius is referred to as a kid while also being stated to be "around eighteen" (I just interpret that as him being 17 since seventeen-year-olds are kids who are "around eighteen" but I can see how that might just be me giving logic to a retcon)

And the inconsistency with whether they're baked "strongarms" or "fortaes"

And how even if it was Hugh shooting the bees in that scene in LoS, there would be no way he would've obtained them since the last we saw, they were all dead beside Henry, who can't fly or sting

Caul's hair situation (whether or not he's bald)

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I hate the movie but that's why I love it

I thought I was going crazy. Then I realized I like bad movies more than good ones. One of my favorite movies of all time is Manos: Hands of Fate, not because I think it's good. Quite the opposite. It's absolute shit.

My enjoyment of the Peculiar Children "adaptation" sorta comes from that. At the start of the movie it's half-accurate half-bs, making it a weird uncanny valley. But by the end it is so ridiculous and out-there--nothing remotely resembling the book--that I can't help but laugh.

Unfortunately, I only know one fan of the book irl and they live in a different county, so I can never do that thing you do with bad movies where you get root beer and popcorn and just have the time of your life.

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I love pics of Ransom and Tahereh together, partially because they're an iconic power couple, but also because Tahereh dresses like hijabi Princess Leia and then there's her dorky husband next to her in a pain black button-up and a pair of jeans and you just gotta wonder how he pulled her

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new headcanon

There's so many characters that didn't get proper endings in DoDA. I don't blame Ransom; the book was already long enough and our man had to end it somewhere. But it got me thinking: What if they're all together now?

Miss Thrush lost every one of her wards, aside from either one or two, depending on how you count Joel-and-Peter and Peter-and-Joel (if they're even alive in the first place). On the inverse side of things, there's characters like Julius who's never explicitly stated to die (which, going off of this series' logic, means there's a 90% chance he's alive), but lost his ymbryne. He's not the only kid missing an ymbryne, though. The snake charmer girl and circus greeter boy from Hollow City were also left with ambiguous endings and no ymbrynes, along with Sophie (who deserves more love tbh) and that one boy in DoDA who watched Caul kill everyone in his loop but him. Let's get them all together. Give them a new home, give JP and PJ some new loopmates and give Miss Thrush some new kids to keep herself busy while she mourns all her dead ones. Everyone benefits here, imo.

dammit, now I need to draw them all together