EVIL IS RELATIVE

FOR THE RESIDENT EVIL AU SIDEBLOG, VISIT APEXHEARTED. ______________________________________ IN OTHER WORLDS, FANTASTIC CREATURES AND MAGIC ARE LITTLE MORE THAN BEDTIME STORIES AND SUPERSTITION, HAVING RECEDED INTO LEGEND -- IF THEY EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. HERE, TOO, THEY HAVE WITHDRAWN -- BUT ONLY INTO THE SHADOWS. AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF SHADOWS IN EVEN THE MOST ORDINARY OF PLACES. ____________________________________ PRIVATE, INDEPENDENT OC MULTIMUSE. AS LOVED BY ZULU. READ RULES AND ABOUT BEFORE INTERACTING. _____________________________________

[shardhearted]

i’m now running my complete muse list over at @vehxmence . anything left on this blog will be cleaned up and moved over, you don’t have to do anything! :] come join the party.

[sailor-slam-dunk]

no offense but how come none of y’all can just like or dislike something normally. it’s always gotta be “this is literally fucking flawless and pure” or “this is shit and you’re an immoral person for liking it” it’s so. Uncomfortable

[nougatships-deactivated20210316]

I love characters that have never been loved before experiencing it for the first time. They're taken aback by softness. They're confused by warm words and being cared for. They're almost scared by the loving way they're looked at. Fleeting tender touches send them reeling. Their heart almost feel like it's going to burst. What does it mean? All they know is they don't feel as though they deserve that, even if they reciprocate. It's been proven time again that they're unlovable and yet...

Being treated so gently feels so good and they aren't sure they want it to stop.

[probablyvampirerpgideas]

Make a Vampire character who’s lived through several waves of the common language’s development and can’t let go if certain gramatical habbits from different time eras.

So like, thou ist a horrid creature, an absolute cur, but go off i guess

[anachronistic-cat]

… can i use that phrase irl?

[probablyvampirerpgideas]

Absolutely you can and I encourage more uses of similar phrases that just completely fuck up the chronology of the english langauge. I wanna hear 15th century english mixed with surfer speak mixed with current age internet lingo like all the time.

[the-argumentative-viper]

Like this? Well my dude, seems like a weasel hath not such a deal of splean as you’re toss’d with. Chill already, you’re not valid.

[nuttersincorporated]

You are an unrighteous, bastardly gullion. Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell. When you die, I will face God and walk backwards into hell just so that I can beat your ass in the afterlife too.

[fromthemindofatwentyorotherlycan]

I love the idea of a vampire who’s language travels back in time as they get pissed.

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

I grieve for thee in these trying times. Alexa play Despacito

[bardbreakfast]

Reading these is like literary whiplash

[your-naked-magic-oh-dear-lord]

This whole post is gold, but the comment about the vampire’s dialect “devolving” into older and older periods when he’s angry stood out to me.

It’s a cinematic cliché for a person of any foreign nationality to revert to their native language when angry (I usually see it with Spanish-speaking characters), and my southern accent deepens as I get angrier.

It makes sense that an immortal character who saw the eras of his language change and evolve over time would speak more and more archaically as he got angrier.

[datasoong47]

Historical linguists decide to get especially ancient vampires pissed off in order to study ancient languages

[esoanem]

are you telling me that if I get a 5000yo vampire angry enough I can directly test the glottalic theory?

[vigilantsycamore]

*Pisses off a vampire so much that they teach me Minoan*

[theminimalisto]

[sensorygif]

sensory

[quotemadness]

“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”

— Shana Abé

[alpine-spirit]

Vertical World

Snowpatch Spire, Bugaboo Provincial Park, BC Canada

[arsanatomica]

A few years ago, I went to an anatomy conference and they had a huge 3D printed vampire skull, and these thoughts have been on my mind ever since I saw the teeth up-close. 

The under-utilized potential for this bothers me a lot… like in movies… it’s just bite and done!

What happened to ritual shaving or elaborate skin engraving?

I know a lot of artists/writers follow me…. can you guys do Vampires a solid?

[oldmemesandhelpandthings-gone]

If you're following so many rp blogs that you don't read rules pages because you "can't possibly be bothered to remember all their rules 😞", kindly cut that shit out, follow fewer blogs, and respect peoples' boundaries.

Say it with me:

Rules pages are not optional reading.

Rules pages do not disintegrate upon first read. You can refer back to them at literally any time.

It is your responsibility as an rp partner to follow the rules set forth by the rp blogs you interact with.

You can always ask someone if something would be uncomfortable for them. They're not going to bite your head off for asking a simple question to keep you both safe during your interactions.

Can't handle that? Can't be bothered to read and follow rules? Don't follow rp blogs.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Fiat Lux by vincenzo lamolinara

This artist on Instagram

[astrono77153462]

お馬さん

[dinosaurrainbowstarfish]

a writer who writes the most fucked up “dead dove: do not eat” problematic pairing and fully tags and warns for the content they create will always be worthy of more respect in my eyes than people who call others weirdos because of who they ship. This is because a writer who writes disturbing things but gives me plenty of warning about them has demonstrated, regardless of what happens in the fic, that they value the consent of real people, and that they value my consent to see such content and will always offer me the option to avoid or withdraw. On the other hand, a purity cultist who demands I explain my trauma and exactly why I might be drawn to dark content, regardless of whether they’re the purest fluff writer to ever write, has demonstrated a lack of respect for my boundaries and the attitude that they are entitled to whatever they want to take from me. 

There are a lot of things that bother me about purity culture, but I think the most disturbing is that it clouds the very definition of consent, and then teaches this confusing version (you must consent to deep dives into your trauma and how it affects you for the benefit of strangers who have already decided you’re a bad person, and not consenting to that automatically makes you an abuser, also no one can consent to reading or thinking about disturbing content ever because thinking about it means you want it irl) to young, vulnerable, and often traumatized individuals, thus making it harder to understand their trauma and easier for them to ignore the real warning signs of abuse (like demanding that you agree with the abuser otherwise you’re literally the worst and most harmful person ever) because it teaches that abusers only come in one type, and that all abusers are “nasty shippers”.

This is especially dangerous because real life abusers teach their victims that the abuse is happening because the victim is a bad, evil person. One of the diagnostic criteria for PTSD is literally “Places undue blame on themself or others for what happened”. Teaching traumatized people that consent is a luxury only “good” people are allowed to have is incompatible with support for abuse survivors. tl;dr a writer who tags “dead dove: do not eat” has demonstrated respect for the necessity of consent. A purity cultist who sends anon hate has demonstrated a lack of respect for consent. 

[dinosaurrainbowstarfish]

Yes, this absolutely does include people who write, read, or ship abusive pairings, explore abuse in their work, include rape or incest in their work, with or without “calling out” that content. This also includes writers who include that type of content in erotic work. Content like that that is tagged properly indicates that, regardless of what happens in the fic, the person writing it understands that their work could impact real people and that those real people deserve the chance to choose wether or not they’d like to see the fic. An author who tags their fic has demonstrated that they understand consent and the fact that everyone gets to consent or not consent to the content they’d like to consume, unlike a purity cultist who sends harassing and threatening messages with the intent to cause emotional or physical harm to the person they’ve decided is “bad”.  Furthermore, ANY ideology that allows its followers to harass and attack members of the “out-group” for the crime of “not following the rules”, where the rules are about how you speak or act rather than how you actually do or do not harm others, is dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.

[seesgood]

hiya friends,      let’s talk about rp burnout,      because it’s a real thing and at some point i think we all experience it.   ⸺  rp burnout. aka you’re tired of this place, this culture, some of the people, the way things are treated, the drama, everything really, but ( like so many of us ) you don’t necessarily want to give up and give in and stop writing because you love it. so what do you do? well lo and behold, friends, i am not an expert. but i do have some advice that i’ve found to work,

step away. it doesn’t necessarily have to be a formal “hiatus” but if you’re not here, and you’re not writing or you don’t find yourself wanting to be here, don’t be here. you don’t owe anyone replies. you don’t owe anyone anything. you owe yourself everything.

go hang out outside for a little while listen to music or a podcast and go for a walk / run.

do some of those chores around the house that you’ve been neglecting, cease the endless dash scrolling and the obsessive ‘i need to keep up with every trend and bit of news’

step back. step away. take a breather. 

reconnect with what you love about your muse or rp in general. you like making blogs? make a blog, you don’t have to promo it or write on it or anything, if you just like the process of setting something up, have a space for you to do that.

be selective with your replies and your threads. is there something you like writing right now? write it. fuck the whole system. write what you want with who you want.

stop stressing about appearances and the whole ‘is what i’m doing going to irritate someone’ because you know what? it shouldn’t matter and it doesn’t matter if susie from susieland doesn’t like that you’re writing this or posting too much on the dash. it has literally zero impact on susie’s life. susie can unfollow.

this. is. a. website. it has zero power over you. it doesn’t have to have power over you. do not give it the power over you.

it’s super easy to be addicted to tumblr, believe me, i know, cuz i am. but once you take some time to ground yourself in things that you actually enjoy, and that make you feel good about yourself and the world around you, you can get back to a place where you can actually enjoy being here. 

do the things that you enjoy ! because you enjoy them ! because that’s what you’re here for ! that’s what you deserve ! 

this is a hobby. remember that this is supposed to be a hobby. 

⸺ and if you have things that you’ve found to work that you want to add, please add ! 

[shardhearted]

The blog switch is imminent! I’ve got just about everything built and ready. Once I answer all the asks on both blogs and the queue runs out, I’ll be picking it up completely over there. If we have a thread going, you don’t need to do anything except maybe update your thread tracker if we have one; on my next reply I’ll switch it over. 

[crimson-chains]

Had a lot of fun with this! A demon, but in the light you can see his angel form ^^

[idyllicisms]

Wow, okay, SURE. Let's say you DID just watch me get hit by a car going 75 mph down this parkway road, fly through the air, hit the ground with a thud, and after a few seconds you watched me get up, brush off my pants, and continue to wander into the woods, unharmed. What are you even gonna do? Fucking arrest me?