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nocturnevulgaire replied to your post: this image by j.c. leyendecker is the absolute...

I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF THEM

I should post all the inspiration images I had for the characters....

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Katie Alves, Port Perry, ON. 22,155 likes · 170 talking about this. I'm that weird chick that does scenes on her eyes with makeup!

Hey all! I entered KAtie Alves’ Halloween makeup contest. Please click on the link and like my picture (nocturnevulgaire as a mummy, pictured below) and any others you think are cool!

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nocturnevulgaire replied to your post:hair problems: -I look best with bangs but my...

omg the butch/femme thing is too real. thank you for putting it into words

it is such a fucking struggle

[madmusemakeup]

MM: What are we going to do tonight @nocturnevulgaire?

NV: The same thing we do every night @madmusemakeup. Put you in a corset, let you tie me up, and take pictures of it!

(SEE what we did there? A preview of what is to come.)

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nocturnevulgaire reblogged your post “Also gonna make a prediction for my token problematic straight guy friend’s book...”

#why don't people get that this plotline could be made 100% better with gay

Omg I just came across this gem, thank yoooou

Having the characters be gay makes this concept make so much more sense? Because, especially if they want to set it in a modern-ish setting, there’s really no obstacles for two heterosexual, (generally) white people to get together? I mean, back in the day you could throw a little classism in there, and while that does still exist, the taboo about “dating outside of your class” is pretty outdated, So then you have to make up this *utterly* contrived scenario to make it hard for them to get together, or just go the honest “we’re both just chickenshit” answer. I mean, if you do set in high school, you could do the whole “parents don’t approve” thing, but that shit’s been run into the ground too. In at least one iteration I’ve seen lately they had to give one party permanent loss of their long term memory from a car accident to make it make any sense at all.

Whereas with gay characters, even in a modern setting, not only do they have to deal with coming to terms with their feelings, before they can even get there, they have to overcome the heteronormativity they’ve assumed of themselves, and come out just to themselves. And then, they have to worry about the other person, and what coming out to them would mean, and not knowing if the other person is str8 or not. If they do come out to the other person,and they’re straight and surprised, then they might as well just have come out to everyone because of course that’s gonna be spread. And then, even if that were to happen, there’s the eventuality of coming out to their parents, who very well could be unsupportive if not outright abusive, or send them off to some camp. And even if their parents DO approve, they still have to deal with the prospect of every other person in their town and school (including the adults that are supposed to keep an eye out for them) being homophobic, as well as any institutionalized homophobia that might face in their school or jobs.

I mean, I guess what I’m saying is there’s a big reason that the concept of “we never got a chance at love because I was too afraid to reveal my true feelings” fails to speak to me when applied to str8 people. There are no real negative consequences for asking this person out. I can sort of handle it when the narrative is set in high school, and takes place at that time, (like, idk, 70% of manga) because it’s like -- yeah, asking anybody out in high school is hard, even if you’re str8. You’re young and unsure. But when it’s one of those wistful, “we meet again after all these years” deals, it’s like.. y’all are adults now, and more than likely have had a couple of adult relationships, why are you still romanticizing the zealous crush you had on this person when you were 17?Especially since in 90% of these “meeting up after all these years” narratives they only have to “reconnect” because they clearly had a falling out and drifted apart specifically because they never addressed their feelings for each other.

Like, not to be rude, but you created this problem entirely on your own, and you were also basically children when you had a crush on this person so why on earth do you still hold that relationship  up on a pedestal??? At least with gay people it’s more of a “you’re the high school sweetheart I never got to have because of society’s homophobia and the fact that I was coerced into acting straight well into my childhood because I was taught that it was ‘normal’.” There’s a legit reason to be wistful. You were kept away from experiencing this out of a legitimate fear instilled in you by a society that hates gay people, not by the fact that you were really worried your friendship would be awkward for a few months after the failed date request lol

[madmusemakeup]

Things I have said to my friends this week

“Let me make you into a mummy.”

“You can make them pretty before I rip their faces off.”

“Basically I’m going to ask if I can throw blood on them.”

“...that time I left a container of blood in the fridge.”

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nocturnevulgaire replied to your post:idk how I even manage to have a self esteem on...

You are so gorg, man. I really don’t know how selfie culture works here, honestly.

thanks, I go through these phases of ~feeling myself~ and looking in the mirror and wanting to give up on life 

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11 questions about

I got tagged in tumblr questions thing! For the first time! By the deliciously naughty @perverselyvex! Seriously, if you like dom!lock and sub!John in ACFB, you have to start reading The Rabbit Revealed. And bring extra pants, because damn.

spiel: Rules are as follows:
 Rule 1: Always post the rules.
 Rule 2: Always answer the questions the person who tagged you and write your own questions. 
Rule 3: Tag 11 people.
 Rule 4: Actually tell them you tagged them.

THE QUESTIONS I'M TO ANSWER: ◦ If you were allowed to leave this world and go live in a fictional one (book, TV show, movie, whathaveyou) with the stipulation that if you left, you could never return, would you go (and which world would it be)? While I can't imagine going on the Mars Mission or the like in this universe, I could probably be drawn into an alternate reality with the promise of great things to be learned, things that could not be deduced from here, about stuff that I already found fascinating. Like Gallifrey before or without the Time War. Or just the TARDIS. Yeah, I could totally be seduced away from my loved ones and current life goals by promised opportunities of that blue police box. We might even ditch the Doctor somewhere, because he's seen it all, anyway.

◦ Tell me something I don’t know about you. Hm. I really like spelling things MY way. It's kind of ridiculous, since written communication is very obviously dependent on popular convention, but the combination of being Canadian, bilingual, dyslexic, and stubborn has encouraged an affection for alternatives. I've romanticising times when writers used the alphabet as it pleased them, and resent the dashed red underline's dictatorial control of text. I've found co-authors to be remarkably indulgent of my resistence to zeds, for example, and editors significantly less so.

◦ Tell me something no one knows about you. My avatar here and on AO3 is actually from BBC Sherlock, though I'd be very surprised if anyone recognised it, because it's from Sherlock's website, yeah, the one nobody reads.

◦ Name a song that instantly comforts you. I listened to Hush, the 1992 collaboration between Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma, endlessly as a teenager, and the track Grace spontaneously pops into my head (and voice box) to this day. I'm generally fond of uneven meters, and the cycle of 15 beats is a bit of a novelty, but it all comes together very soothingly.

◦ Name a book you’ve read more than five times. So MUCH Jane Austin. Persuasion and P&P, really. Emma drives me up the wall. Though, in totally times read, probably Dragonsinger and Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey, are at the top, with the Alanna the Lioness quartet by Tamara Pierce in a close second.

◦ Name a fictional character you’d like to have sex with. Only one? Being under Irene Adler would be amazing. *fans self* Wow, how had that not occured to me before? I, ah, sorry guys... I'll be back in bit.

◦ Do you have a “type”? (Physical and/or mental) Lanky and dorky, I want to feed and cuddle. Arrogant and playful, I want to take to bed.

◦ Tell me about the one that got away. This one hurts a little because we overlap professionally. It's been years since we dated, but I can still feel the line of her jaw, her delicate hands, and I'm going to stop there before this gets really creepy. We were never that serious, and while I was away, she met the one she's married, so that was that. I have nothing but admiration for her, and will have to be content with encouraging that goofy hiccup of a laugh whenever I get the chance.

◦ Tell me about the one that wouldn’t go away. I made the mistake, one summer, of flirting with this diehard emo kid whose romantic inclinations were so extreme that rejection seemed to only intensify his feelings. Yes, I instigated our making out to the Matrix soundtrack, and goaded him into breaking up with his girlfriend (I am still sorry about that) and sexualised the bell he wore around his neck. I take some responsibility for the mess. But I never expected him to sob on my friend's couch until dawn when I refused, yet again, to bring him back to my studio apartment. That was when I learned to calculate whether I would find someone attractive in the future (or whether I would need to find them attractive in the future) before impulsively picking them up today. ◦ What was the first song you learned all the lyrics to? (Just because you loved it and listened to it so much…) "Look at this stuff. Isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collections complete? Wouldn't you think I'm a girl, a girl who has everything? Look at it all, treasures untold. How many wonders can one cavern hold?Looking around here you think: 'Sure, she's got everything.' I've got gadgets and gizmos a plenty. I've got whose-its and whats-its galore. You've got thing-a-ma-bobs? I've got twenty. But who cares? No big deal. I want more..." A lot of caterpillars got serenaded in the school yard that year. None of them joined in.

◦ If you could send a message back in time to your younger self, just one sentence, what would it be? "Yes, they are idiots, but you are too, sometimes. And that's OK."

THE QUESTIONS I'M ENCOURAGING OTHERS TO ANSWER eepy.

- What music would/do you force the next generation to listen to? - Name a great thinker (philosopher, scientist, political activist, writer, whatever) who gives you the warm fuzzies. - What’s your favourite book? - If you could live in someone else’s body for a day, whose would it be (irl people)? - Choose a superpower: telepathy, flight, invisibility, or something even better. - Describe are your favourite socks. - What is the latest fandom you’ve joined? - Name a cross-fandom slash pairing you'd want to see, and whether you'd like to join in. - If you could borrow someone's voice for a year, whose would you take, and how would your loved ones react to your choice? - If you could send a message back in time to your younger self, just one sentence, what would it be? - Is there a book/show/film/whathaveyou which you wish you could delete from your consciousness?

AND PEOPLE I'M TAGGING meepy. I don't know. Anyone is welcome to have a go. I don't really understand the hierarchical currents in this space, so please ignore whatever seems out of place. 11 is an arbitrary number, so here is a rather arbitrary list of users. I wont bother you with alerts though.

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