wow wtf new pinned post? hi, it's Nikolai, aka @wainwrightjakobshammerlock , and i'm an immersive daydreamer who used to be madalaptive. i use ey/em and ne/nym but other pronouns are fine with me.
i have 2 paracosms: the imagisphere (a massive, linear and very old crossover cosm) and jakobs family values (a non-linear, "just kinda fucking around lmao", borderlands series based cosm that i plan on turning into a webcomic)
the imagisphere has a (still unfinished and possibly never finished) tvtropes/darth wiki page, as well as a google doc (that will also likely be never truly finished)
the imagisphere is now on ao3 too!
please dni if you're a nsfw blog, are a fujoshi or ship bill cipher and humans. more info available on my carrd.
feel free to peruse the tags! i, and the favorites, try to answer any questions people might have :)
Arc -1: Aline's Alignments - in which the titular character completes a cycle - COMPLETE
Arc 0: Fourfold Souls - in which things are split and then merge - COMPLETE
Arc 1: Plug 'n' Play - in which Reanians and Zealians battle over Warrennuchi - COMPLETE
Arc 2: Of Corporations and Starlight - in which the Cosmic Entities awaken, and heroes are chosen - COMPLETE
Arc 3: The Grand, the Grander and the Timeless - in which the Sun's Servant is defeated, and the Space's Employee rises - COMPLETE
Arc 4: Hours, Minutes, Second Chances - in which the Favorites return - COMPLETE
Arc 4 Part 1: Playing with Fire - in which an old glitch causes enemies to meet again - COMPLETE
Arc 4 Part 2: Interdimensional Capers - in which heroes are corrupted and tasks completed - COMPLETE
Arc 4 Part 3: Through the Covered Mirror - in which the true power of Correspondence shines - COMPLETE
Arc 4 Part 4: The Greatest Game - in which the Jester starts an archetypal gameshow - COMPLETE
Intermission 1: Constants and Variables - in which the war turns inwards, and each goes their own way - COMPLETE
Arc 4 Part 5: META-INF - in which gods toy with the narrative, and their lessers - COMPLETE
Arc 5: Everybody Wants to be My Enemy - ON HOLD
Arc 5 Part 1: The Stories I've Been Told - ON HOLD
Fictoparative culture is being your source and wanting to be treated like your source while also being so much more than your source, being more expansive and multifaceted with all the maladaptive daydreaming we did before I formed.
~Dabi 🦋 from @seraphim-collective
SO valid and sooo relatable. fictparative struggles frfr
Maddcore got deleted but “fictpara/fictparative” is a term for a para (or parative) that’s a para of a fictional character, a para that started as a fictional character, etc. I believe primpara (an “original” para, like an “oc”) and fictpara were coined by @amatuer-madder
list of jakobs family sitcom scenes i have imagined so far because i cant draw this many things but i need to share them so bad
rebekah's powers activating for the first time - she creates two portals, one below her and one slightly above her, and falls through them, laughing. angel notices and calls hammerlock who telekinetically stops her movement, picks her up with his mind and holds her in shock
That Classic Sitcom Trope Where The Parents Leave And The Kids Organize A Party. but i was able to imagine only the beginning when wainwright n hammerlock leave and the moment when they crash the party tho. gaige was the dj btw.
wainwright entering his husband's mind while he's sleeping and them both exploring his mindscape a bit. they visit both alistair's memories of his various adventures and his memories of aurelia
hammerwright. yep its exactly what it sounds like. the gay old men temporarily merge into one being and are just. Incredibly Badass Holy Shit Its So Cool And Epic And Gaming
amogus game night
one (1) sex joke because i thought it was funny. thats all you need to know im not gonna go into details
the day when rebekah inherits the corporation. wainwright and hammerlock are waltzing in the corona of a star, before she telepathically lets them know it's time. dont know what happens next tho
gaigel proposal. specifically its angel proposing. first she asks her dads for help (wainwright faints for comedic effect) and then her siblings. shenanigans ensue
ava asking hammerlock if she's allowed to date lazarus and him replying "of course. but if you hurt zir in any way, i will put you down like a sick animal. haha just joking. unless. haha."
fellas i think this might actually be a new paracosm of mine. i know, impossible. but the imagisphere hasn't progressed in months, and i have so many ideas for this one. Girl Help
I can't give a good context for this yet, and in fact this isn't directly correlated with the current linear story of the Imagisphere because I don't have the energy to continue said story, but still.
Content warning for kinda graphic descriptions of injury, and also a little bit of self harm.
Wainwright was wounded. Heavily so. He was stumbling, ready to collapse into the grass at any moment. His vision was muddied with blood, thirst and hunger, his strength sapped by overuse of his Form.
Alistair was directly facing him, also stumbling through his wounds. He enjoyed it, yes - but at some point, pleasure crosses right back over into pain. He was in a trance of sorts, almost conscious yet so far from it. His heightened senses told him only of ache, the smell of iron and flowers, and... something indescribable; a sense of purpose and life, right in his husband's direction.
The two looked at the other, and approached eachother. As if hypnotized, Alistair took out his rapier and slashed his organic hand open to match his beloved's wounds.
The two of them then held their bleeding hands.
What happened next... is difficult to describe.
The air was tense with power, and almost seemed to crackle. Their Presences shined like a neutron star, and their eyes were blank - green and red, in reverse of their Forms' colors.
In that moment, they spoke in unison:
- I pledge my blood and soul, my flesh and heart to you. Until the Sun fades into himself and the Moon loses her purpose our bond shall not break nor falter: only give us strength. By the grace of power and wit, we shall live in the House of gold, silver, iron and brass; spit, tears and bile.
SEALED.
As soon as their ancient vow was finished, Alistair and Wainwright collapsed on the grass. Wherever the former's blood spilled, gladioli and green carnations immediately grew; the latter's, red roses and lavender.
Actually just one blood pact and it's not that fucked up, it's just a natural Favorite-only relationship thing that happens sometimes and also the pactees are already married so.
i have some playlists for my paras and paracosms but i also assign certain albums to paras and listen to them instead of playlists. i also mostly just listen to the songs from my liked playlist
It has been years and I still haven't decided on a shipname for Archibald/Lowe. Archibalowe? Archlowe? Hallowrung? Dammerway? Hollowrok? Ragnarollow? Mercenary Husbands?
They are married with a child and I still have no idea what I should call them 😭
(left: employed, right: retired) (i know xe looks different than the last time i've drawn them, but shhhhh)
This mf is Conductor (xe/xem), real name Axi Elare, codename Orchestra, formerly known as the Worker, also known as the Great Worker, Worker of Ability or Arbiter of the Great Work. I'd say try fitting that on a business card, but tbh this "I have LOTS of names/titles" shtick goes for the majority of my paras.
Xe is a mystical fusion of a bunch of Favorite conselves from a doomed timeline (basically alternate timeline versions of the current council, just without Soren), as well as the Archetype of the Worker and the muse Calliope, plus the combined energies of several different magical systems, machinery and Elder power thrown in for good measure. Thanks to being this chaotic ammassment of various magics and not-magics, Conductor is the only known non-Favorite to possess a boundweapon and form powers. In addition, xe is completely invincible, can travel through time at will as well as teleport through space and also
Xe was created from the aforementioned components partially by xyrself to fulfill a time loop, and mostly by the Elder/Spaceowner to become their servant. Nikolai also had an important role to play in xyrs creation, and for that Conductor is eternally grateful.
As an Employee of Space, Conductor is their wetworker/operative, actually carrying out the physical and material requirements of the Great Work (the Elder's goal. What it actually means is unclear), ranging from assasinating key figures to moving furniture a little bit to the left, all in order throughout all of spacetime, even outside of the Imagisphere (yep, no joke, Conductor has been to other multiverses).
What kind of salary xe was getting from xyrs work was unclear at first, but it turns out xe just gets an eternity of retirement, free to do literally anything and keeping all of xyrs powers (except the time-independent psychic link that kept all of xyrs memories simultaneous across all of time, so now xe can actually enjoy the present to an extent) as long as it doesn't interfere with the Great Work as it is being carried out across spacetime by xyrs "past" self.
Fun facts:
98% of people/"assets" that will ever get to know Axi won't actually know xyrs real name. Xe reveals it only to xyrs closest friends, or at least assets marked for close cooperation.
Xe has 4 boundweapons (instead of the typical 2 given to a Favorite): a massive broadsword, a wand, a pair of scissors and a sniper rifle.
Xe's form powers are of the forms of Force, Ability, Authority and Destruction, but xe is most comfortable with using Ability.
Xe isn't the only person working for Spaceowner: xe's coworkers are Mediator (codename Deal), Orator (codename Sermon) and Recorder (no codename because [REDACTED]). None of them are as fleshed out as Conductor, though.
I always found it so fun to imagine what the fandom for my OCs would be like, and I encourage you to give it a thought, too!
It can be a fun way to learn about your OCs. Think of all the headcanons people would have. Even if you know most of them aren't canon to your story, maybe when you're playing as a fan, you'll come across something you might not have thought of otherwise.
Also, meme about your OCs. Pretend your OCs' fandom is a huge jokester community. It can be a fun (and funny) way to come up with little situations and plots. Stuck on what character quirks to give your OC? Meme about them doing something you just thought of off the top of your head.
The great thing is it's just the same as any old brainstorming, but now you get to mess around with all these other forms of creativity (headcanons, memes, etc.) from a different perspective! And isn't it fun to imagine your little buddies having littler buddy fans?
will you consider this offer? also this is my first attempt at adding alt text to one of my posts, someone please let me know how i did and what i can do better next time.
sci-fi jobs that must exist that i find inexplicably amusing:
space customs
tow trucks except they’re towing illegally parked spaceships
for that matter, spaceship thieves, if only for how much more effort i imagine that would take
irs agents who have to find tax evaders who went 2 or 3 galaxies over
literally everything about the concept of the space version of the dmv
imagine being the person who teaches hapless 16 year olds how to fly a spaceship
people who analyze Old Earth media for a living the same way people now analyze shakespeare or beowulf, aka a bunch of scholarly and serious academics writing papers arguing the true meaning of Mean Girls and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and A Very Potter Musical
cruise spaceships. you’re taking a slow tour of saturn’s rings and people are still complaining about you running out of cocktail sauce
Space cartographer. Some poor sucker’s gotta literally count the stars in order to chart ‘em. Did you think computers made the maps??
Gas station attendant, but in space. You thought earth truck stops were liminal? Try pausing to refuel on an asteroid hurtling though the middle of inky-black nowhere. You’d see some interesting folks pass through, though
IT workers who deal with tech that can communicate across the multiverse, rearrange people’s molecules, and communicate with ancient eldritch gods…….and 9 out of 10 problems can still be fixed with “read the instruction manual” or “did you turn it off and back on again”
let’s players. people’s love of video games and screaming profanity at said video games transcends galaxy and species lines
the post office. bravest people in ‘verse. though they did have to change their creed. it’s now: “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor black holes nor meteor showers nor solar flares stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds…”
also, food delivery peeps. all the above danger + dealing with more drunk aliens.
SPACE UBER
tourist traps. “welcome to the galaxy’s biggest ball of yarn. yes, it’s this one, not the one on mars. the martians are filthy liars and they’ve always been jealous of our superior attraction.”
science museum tour guides. the museums have gotten…….very big. it’s a very exhausting job, but it’s so worth it when the field trips full of kids from various galaxies get all excited
