Hello! I'm the Abyssal Author and Artist (self-picked title), and I go by Xander, Darren, Isabeau and honestly whatever! You can call me by my url, I don't mind but it's not my favorite. My pronouns are he/him or it/its.
Profile picture is from this post -> https://www.tumblr.com/otiksimr/776889596488400896/poorly-drawn-shinx-line
DIviders are these from @pixopix
I love to draw and write fanfiction! My AO3 is abyssal_author_artist and I've got over 60 fics for a bunch of fandoms as of now. (Current highest - In Stars and Time)
I now have a dedicated art blog! This blog used to be @abyssal-author-and-artist but now that's my art blog!
I was asked my opinion on fanart of my fics here if you want to draw something based on my fics!
A ko-fi would be much appreciated, but I do this for fun!
My interests change constantly and I usually forget to spoiler tag reblogs, so browse with caution! I'm a fandom nerd through and through, honestly.
We're plural! We don't talk about it much (and sys-course is banned from here though we're very firmly pro-endo) but if you want us to actually be openly plural you can follow us at @binary-black-hole-sys or send us a friend request on simplyplural! Dm for our user.
I'm opening commissions! Still working on setting up a commissions sheet and everything, but if you see this and you want to purchase something, I've already got prices figured out so just dm me and we'll talk. All my art is under the tag #abyssal art or at @abyssal-author-and-artist if you want to see what my art is like!
Asks are always on and I reblog a lot of ask games! I'm also always open to being mentioned in reblog chains/games or just posts you want me to see.
My catch-all tag for anything I add a significant amount to is #screaming out of the abyss.
One of the worst feelings in the world: when you are just desperate, like claw-your-own-skin-off desperate, to create, but the only thing that even vaguely appeals to you to work on is a nebulous half-feeling that might be dreamily related to some half-formed notion of a concept. I must! Make! No thing! Only make!
My fairynette!!! Tumblr ate the quality so bad but that's what I get for always using my mspaint pen lol! I've been worldbuilding a whole fairy/spirit AU for her (and yes I just wanted to draw a fairy Marinette which lead to my entire AU lol) so more details under cut!
In this universe, everyone's some sort of various fairy or spirit! Marinette is a ladybug fairy, Adrien is a cat spirit, Alya is a fox spirit, Chloé and Zoé are bee fairies, etc etc! They all have some level of innate power due to being literal fairies and magical creatures, but that doesn't mean they can't be given extra power from the kwamis!
Every spirit is bound in some way to at least one of the kwamis, even if it's not immediately obvious. However there are different levels to the attachment they each have. The levels are Blessed, Touched, Aligned, and Cursed*. What type of spirit someone is doesn't influence who they're bound to but the other way around can (eg. someone Blessed by Tikki is guaranteed to be a ladybug of some sort, but there can be a Trixx-Aligned bee fairy). To explain the Blessed/Touched/Aligned difference here's my rant about how everyone relates to their kwami
Marinette is Blessed by Tikki! She physically could not be anything but a ladybug fairy, even if she had been born to parents who wouldn't naturally produce a ladybug. She's got unnaturally good luck, which even helps her natural clumsiness -- she doesn't break things, she never gets accidentally hurt. Tikki is also still Creation, so Marinette is also prone to incredibly intense all-consuming phases of needing to create something, anything
Alya is Touched by Trixx! She's a fox spirit and no matter what she'd have a few fox mannerisms, but her being completely a fox is just a coincidence. She can see through illusions very easily and create major ones that disappear on being touched
Zoé is Aligned with Pollen! She has no extra powers outside of what being a bee fairy gets her: she can fly because she has wings and can mildly paralyze non-sentient creatures up to a certain size, but she only has a sliver of power too small to use
(I've spent the most time worldbuilding Tikki and Plagg/their powers but no one else is aligned with them other than Marinette and Adrien)
*We don't technically have a Cursed member of the cast. There's also a way to improve your kwami connection which is very closely connected to being Cursed so I wanted to put them together here:
Lila is a Touched Acolyte of Trixx! A spirit becomes an Acolyte through a wager and it boosts their powers proportionately to how strong they were at first. Most Acolytes are Aligned because becoming an Acolyte will put them on a more even playing field with people who are Touched, but anyone can become on. Lila's illusions can withstand being touched as long as nothing goes through them, and although she sees through most illusions, a sufficiently good one or one she doesn't look at for too long can still fool her
If an Acolyte breaks the rules of the wager they're bound by, they become Cursed. Someone can also become Cursed naturally, most often through being born that way. Someone who's born Cursed always manifests as a Black Cat spirit, regardless of their heritage. They can hide their black cat features if they want to, which will disable all their cat powers until they reenable them. The Cursed aren't bound to any kwami, and are actually created by either every kwami deciding they don't want the child aligned with them at all, or by the kwami the Cursed is originally bound to cutting ties (usually due to an Acolyte breaking the wager). Cursed spirits have horrible luck and often kill any plants they try to raise
All the kwamis are the same, though what they stand for has been slightly changed in some cases (Trixx/Wayzz has been changed from illusion/protection to intangible/solid or concepts/objects)
So because I'm extra and a multishipper and Miraculous has the perfect setup for the most Horrible Awful Polycules From Hell: spirits actually have a different romance structure than humans do! They're polyamorous by nature but they have a tendency to over-categorize their feelings towards each other. I've split them into four general categories, where you can have one love interest societally in each category
Regular romantic love -- what most people think of when we think of romantic love! Treated with equal importance to everything else. Big focus on working together towards stable life goals* (*marriage/other factors of living together in the real world are irrelevant here and people can move in with whoever)
Emotional support/queerplatonic love -- my awesome society where being queerplatonic is #mandatory. Has a bigger focus on emotionally supporting and regulating each other
Rivalry love -- your average rivals to lovers romance story. Focuses primarily on pushing each other to be the best they can be in everything
Stray cat guy -- no good name for this one I'm still workshopping. All Of These. The stray cat guy is basically someone who inserts themself into any relationship to help regulate them/prevent toxicity. The reason I went "stray cat guy" is based on that one post about a couple trying to get a third guy to relax because they love them romantically and stray cat guy being like "ack" the whole time. That's technically closer than what I've described here: the stray cat can emotionally regulate the other members of whatever type of relationship they've inserted themself into, but occasionally someone in a different kind of relationship adopts the stray cat guy
For Marinette (because it's her post after all) her romance is like this:
Classic romantic love: crush on Adrien/Chat Noir (there is no love square but Chat Noir specifically does exist. I'll elaborate later)
Emotional support love: Alya
Rivarly love: Felix (it's not quite rivarly but it's close enough that she develops a rival-adjacent crush on him that he reciprocates)
Stray cat love: Felix and Kagami with Marinette as the stray cat. It's their relationship she's just kinda Also Here
This AU is also its own specific kind of hell for Marinette specifically because all she wants is a lovely normal relationship x4 and yet Everyone Except Alya is so fucking weird about romance. Specifically the sentikids (Chloé and Zoé are sentikids in this AU) but Luka is also weird because I realized he kinda has to be a little bit. So if anyone's interested I will ramble about sentikid lore/peacock spirit lore which I have Also thought too much about. But this post is already really really really long
Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere
So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.
So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.
And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)
rbing again real quick--i and other(s?) have noted in other rbs that this is almost never done. it's for very few properties, and it's only for timestamped warnings that are done in-house, not by users.
there are still timestamps available for warnings on those same triggers for those same properties. just bc there's a paywall on something doesn't mean other comments and timestamps can't be posted or read for free on that property or that trigger.
see here:
i don't have an account and haven't paid for anything on the site, so all of those comments are what i'm seeing for free.
i had to search and search to find anything that had paywalls, and had to resort to looking at The Substance, as referenced here. i've been using the site regularly since the op posted and have never organically encountered a paywall on anything, including on very popular properties.
i don't see any reason to stop using the site--everything is still available for free. they just have added another way for some ppl to choose to pay some $ (in addition to ads), since this is a completely free service, and no website is free to maintain.
as an example, someone with the money could pay to see the timestamps, and then leave a free comment with the same timestamps for others if they wanted to.
I've seen this post on my dash a few times now and I want to boost this specific addition. I've emailed the owner of the site to get clarification on this, and I was told the motivation behind this. He wanted to start paying some people to memorize all 200+ triggers on the site, sit down and watch popular movies/shows to thoroughly analyze whenever any trigger pops up, and note down timestamps and details of them. Ads unfortunately do not cover this (they probably only cover the site's base upkeep), so the subscription service is specifically to pay these people. Community comments have never been paywalled and are still accessible.
He thanked me for my feedback when I expressed confusion and concern about the paywalled comments being mixed in with the free comments, and has since updated the site to make them clearly distinct, along with a preview of what the paid comments look like:
He was very transparent about it all and very kind. He also said this was his mistake and is trying to clear it up. Please continue to use DoesTheDogDie.com, it is an excellent resource and there is nothing else like it!
i like when wikipedia pages for bands have that little chart at the bottom where you can see how they’ve been ritualistically cannibalizing their drummer every 3-5 years since 2007
and what if the person closest to them had a child and died? and what if one unexpectedly fell into their life with no one else to take care of them? i didnt say i wanted to see them be a GOOD parent i just wanted to see them be A parent
the girl who is comfy in bed yearns to be On The Computer. The girl who is On The Computer yearns to be comfy in bed. Thus does desire become the root of all suffering
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