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.
Hey so it's come to my attention that the Creators of Disco Elysium want you to share the game and not give the company who took over and fired them (illegally)?) any profits off of their ideas and work, and I originally joined tumblr 2 weeks ago when that post was going around about the Steam sale and how you should [Skull and Crossbones flag] it instead.
So.
in light of that.
Check the replies/notes of this post :)
I was informed that posts containing links in them aren't findable in the search so i'll just.... drop a link in a seperate reboot :)
hello đ I'm here to ask about sentikids lore in your au :-]
Yippie thank you for the interest!!! I was really excited to talk about the sentikids because since they're all magic creatures it lets me mess around with how the logic for them existing works
(For those who haven't seen, intro post here: https://www.tumblr.com/shinx-stardust/819088763780218880/my-fairynette-tumblr-ate-the-quality-so-bad-but)
Since this is technically a no Miraculous AU, sentibeings aren't made using the Peacock Miraculous. Instead, they were all made using the powers of a peacock fairy, Emilie Agreste. She was Touched by Duusuu and therefore had a fairly good -- but not unlimited -- grasp on her powers. The story goes something like this:
The first child created was Kagami. Tsurugi Tomoe was a close friend of Gabriel's, and had no plans of ever having a partner. So Emilie sacrificed her first feather to bring Kagami into the world. Tomoe is more lizard-like in nature, while Kagami is an actual dragon spirit.
At this point, Emilie noticed her strength waning. She could give herself her child, or give Amelie the child she had wanted all her life instead, or...
Emilie came up with a compromise. The power of peacock magic is fickle, and it takes more energy to direct it, but if you're willing to let it do what it wants, you can stretch it a little farther. It's a hard sell to Amelie, but once she saw Emilie wasn't budging, she gave in. At this point Gabriel was swamped, between running his fashion empire (yes even as a butterfly fairy) and traveling the world trying to find something to prevent his wife from burning all her magic.
Felix was next. He's a peacock, like Emilie was, but Amelie is also a peacock (even if only Aligned with Duusuu) so he resembles his mother still. Amelie spends her son's first moments crying over him, and the next crying over her sister. Emilie tried to assure her she'll have some time.
Emilie plucks the last crest feather from her head, and holds out the weddings rings -- one hers, and one left to her while its proper own traveled. As the feather joins the rings, Emilie holds her truest, deepest, most earnest wish close to her chest.
I just want someone I can love, who will grow up to be kind.
But a peacock's last feather is special. Unlike Felix, who was a default peacock fairy born naturally, this last feather alerted all the kwamis. It's not every day a peacock fairy gives their last drops of magic to create someone. And with such an earnest wish? That's impressive.
Emilie had no control over how her child would turn out. It's not uncommon for peacock fairy creations to turn out Cursed instead, for the kwami to reject their powers being borrowed. So when Adrien finally was born, sporting the appearance of a child Cursed, she accepted it. And she loved him anyways. Gabriel, when he got home, was... less accepting. But Emilie loved Adrien with all her heart.
The decline of Emilie Agreste was a slow one. She wouldn't die, not quite yet. She held onto hope, for her son and her family and even her husband, and she refused to let go until they were all happy. But she was still dying. Day by day, she slowed. She slept for longer. She ate less. Her heartbeat slowed. Until one day, when Adrien was around ten, she stopped. She slumped onto Gabriel's shoulder, breathing slow and shallow and rarely, and he took her away, and no one saw Emilie ever again.
She's alive. Hidden somewhere within Agreste Manor, she's in some sort of magical coma. The air around her is dry from the air being sucked out of it, and the flowers by her feet are brown and brittle, but she's alive as long as there's magic for her body to absorb. There's no way to get her back to health, save for the Blessed of Creation and Destruction to will it together.
Ironically, becoming an Touched Acolyte would've saved her. Nothing Emilie did would've broken the waver she would've made with Duusuu, and it would've given her just enough energy that as long as she created Adrien and Felix the exact same, and as long as she never stopped holding love in her heart, she would've survived, if a little sickly.
Now, dear reader, you may at this point notice a few inconsistencies in my story. We have no Cursed spirits in our cast, and Adrien is Blessed by Plagg. So why does he look Cursed?
If someone is rejected by all kwamis, denied even Alignment with any of them, they fall into a peculiar subset of Destruction. So, every Cursed looks like a black cat spirit.
As a child, it's impossible to tell if a child is Blessed by Plagg or Cursed. In either case, they're born a small half-cat creature; rich black fur all over their bodies, little ears that start folded and slowly poke up, soft downy tails and healthy whiskers. Some will even have cat pupils when they blink.
A Cursed child grows up to show their curse very clearly on their cat form. The fur on their bodies falls out, their ears grow patchy and sometimes damaged, their tails develop kinks in them and their whiskers will become short and bent.
A child Blessed by Plagg looks very different as they grow. Their coat stays thick and healthy and shiny, they gain the ability to run and jump and claw things as they grow, and receive all the benefits of being chosen by He of Destruction.
Plagg's blessing come in disguise. And sometimes, that disguise is to give his Blessed child the exact right powers to hide that he is Blessed. And Adrien is Plagg's favorite child in a long, long while.
So Adrien grows up, and when his mother's passed and he needs a break the most, Plagg appears before him and explains. Adrien's the only one to have a secret identity, as Chat Noir, Plagg's clear Blessed.
And that's the end of the narrative exposition! Phew that was a lot of fun I liked it a lot. What do you do when you love a child so much Destruction himself goes "I'll give helping this child a shot" and then gets attached (Plagg and Adrien are still friends bc that's precious)
This post is. Longer than the last one! But I do really want to talk about how all the sentikids are weird about romance (which is directly related to them being sentikids but mostly because they're kids Literally Made of someone's emotion and so that kinda fucks with how they feel it)
So! Brief rundown of how they're weird and who they feel for!
Felix: Can't help but feel the rivalry-based love for everyone. In a classic romantic relationship with Kagami, but they're also definitely rivals, but he sometimes acts like her emotional supporter. Actively in the world's worst romantic clusterfuck with Kagami and Marinette. Felinette horrible clusterfuck rivalry thing that they're both really into but Marinette hates and that Kagami finds herself having to help out with anyone? (Kagami is their stray cat guy)
Kagami: Romantic-romantic love is her default. She yearns for it, it fuels her in a way that maybe she should get looked at. Felix is her official classic romantic love, and she's the stray cat/emotional support for Felix and Marinette's weird thing. She might have a crush on Marinette in the pale way? Don't ask her she doesn't know. She does for sure have a massive rivals crush on Adrien but she's horrible at expressing it and comes off very emotional support. Girl your mixed signals
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!
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
(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
âItâs photoshoppedâ honestly in the age of AI that has a homey sort of nostalgia to it. Remember when people used to put effort into faking things?
Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere
So some fanartist drew a âsexyâ (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because itâs 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 theyâre into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their âopponentsââ 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 childrenâs education charity via each sideâs 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 âfreedom of expressionâ 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 theyâve 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
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