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[wild-icarus]

Hello, love your costume references. May I ask are there pictures of JP 1789 Robespierre's vest's and coat's backside? I want to make a cosplay lol.

[samson-the-whale]

Are you alright with people drawing your tf ocs?

👉👈

Yes!

[bonkai4ever94]

You seem to ship Bonkai AND Klonnie. I've noticed a lot of Kai stans don't like the Mikaelsons. What makes you like Klonnie? Or do you like all of Bonnie's ships? Klaus, Bonnie and Kai in the prison world would be a totally different vibe than Damon, Bonnie and Kai.

I like alot of bonnie ships except bonenzo bonkai and klonnie are my favorite a love triangle between both in the prison world together would have been hot actually I'm all for that vibe I see the potential with both ships here you have a powerful bennett witch and two really powerful male characters that either one made alot of sense with a storyline behind it for them to develop into a enemies to lovers dynamic if they wanted to the writers unfortunately refused to do more interesting ideas around bonnie so a exciting romance was out of question in their minds

[bethanydelleman]

Mary Bennet and Her Sisters

@atablefullofwriting

Very well thought out!!! I wonder what your thoughts would be on P&P Mary and her relationship to the other sisters. She just seems to be put on the backburner so much, especially when Mr. Collins comes along.

I am not very fancy with Tumblr yet, but I shall endeavour to answer this question:

We most often see the Bennet girls in pairs, Jane & Elizabeth and Kitty & Lydia. However, with five sisters, we are drawn into wondering why there isn’t a trio. Why is Mary alone? From all evidence, it seems like Mary excludes herself, not that she is excluded.

When Elizabeth wants to go visit sick Jane, she announces her intention. Mary basically calls her foolish, Lydia and Kitty offer to accompany Elizabeth as far as Meryton:

“No, indeed. I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing, when one has a motive; only three miles. I shall be back by dinner.”

“I admire the activity of your benevolence,” observed Mary, “but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”

“We will go as far as Meryton with you,” said Catherine and Lydia. Elizabeth accepted their company, and the three young ladies set off together.

Elizabeth is happy to walk with her younger sisters, but Mary is not happy to accompany them.

Later, Kitty and Lydia go to an Inn to pick up Jane and Elizabeth, afterwards this exchange happens:

“Oh! Mary,” said she, “I wish you had gone with us, for we had such fun! ...”

To this Mary very gravely replied, “Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures! They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me—I should infinitely prefer a book.”

But of this answer Lydia heard not a word. She seldom listened to anybody for more than half a minute, and never attended to Mary at all.

Now Lydia doesn’t seem to actually care about Mary’s company, but it does seem like it was offered. Mary appears to be purposefully distancing herself from Lydia by calling her pleasures silly. And unlike Elizabeth, she proclaims that she prefers a book to company. 

Mary seems either to dislike society or affects to:

Lydia’s intention of walking to Meryton was not forgotten; every sister except Mary agreed to go with her.

“While I can have my mornings to myself,” said she [Mary], “it is enough—I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements.

About the Netherfield Ball: And even Mary could assure her family that she had no disinclination for it.

Asked to go on a walk: Mary could never spare time; but the remaining five set off together.

We know Mary is proud of her accomplishments and it seems she devotes far too much time to them. Kitty and Lydia probably enjoy society too much and study too little, while Elizabeth does read, but she also interacts with society and enjoys people’s company. Elizabeth is balanced. It seems like the sisters continually try to include Mary, which reminds me of Henrietta and Louisa Musgrove constantly trying to include their sister-in-law, Mary Musgrove, but Mary is the one who declines. 

Mary also shows a lack of compassion for her sisters. She callously suggests that Elizabeth should treat Lydia as an object lesson, she won’t visit sick Jane, and she doesn’t relieve Jane when she is caring for her mother.

Lastly, she is happiest in the prologue, when all her sisters leave. Which seems telling to me.

Additional Notes: Mary was the only sister who might have accepted Mr. Collins, but we are not told she was jealous that he proposed to Elizabeth or that she liked him, it says, “Mary might have been prevailed on to accept him” not that she was attracted to him or something of that nature.

As for the Bennet parents, while it seems that Mr. Bennet favours Elizabeth and Mrs. Bennet favours Lydia and admires Jane, both parents largely ignore all of their daughters. Mr. Bennet seems to bring Elizabeth over for a shared joke and then gently shoes her away. He calls all of them silly girls. Mrs. Bennet might have been the one bragging that Mary is the most accomplished in the neighbourhood, but she doesn’t seem to actually know her daughters very well, or she wouldn’t have tried to push Mr. Collins on Lizzy. 

Thank you to my favourite Mary resource, the Mary Map

[overescapeau]

What is your au about? what happen's in it? what's it called? and how did you come up with it?

Aight- time to spew some lore vomit.

1) I’m gonna explain what my AU is about in more detail in the master post I am now currently brainstorming on later- but to put it simply, a post-after Nuclear war setting where monsters are trying to survive day to day knowing that the barrier above them is harboring a time-paused atomic bomb. And how a society such as that could ever out live the bomb, not having the bomb outlive them.

2) What happens is somewhat the same events of Undertale, but more darker and grim. Especially with all the monsters in the underground pretty much trying to cope with unhealthy mechanisms (like drugs and alcohol for example) until they eventually well— “die off.” Many have fallen, especially from the Bio class of monsters… While others such as the ABM class have been committing suicide via the ocean or the desert. Just alone… “down with the island” I suppose. Since well- it’s eroding quicker than anticipated.

3) My au is called OverEscape! Since well- it doesn’t take place underground (somewhat). It’s on a deserted island/ small cluster of islands!

4) Surprisingly enough, the world of OverEscape was created from my Sans (Nicknamed Dune). He was overall the BIGGEST inspiration for this au.

(This drawing bellow represents my past design for OverEscape! Sans. Which was kind good but not unique enough for my taste. Also this was my childhood dream of seeing this man solemnly just hanging out in a shitty place of “nowhere”)

:::Since well- some day I just imaged some Sans living out in a wasteland of a place (or just a dried up dust-covered desert), while also residing in an old radio tower alone with only a hat and mini farm to sustain himself with. Just trying to get on by with so little he had… especially after he was separated by civilization due to something killing everyone he knew and love off. Leaving him alone with a radio tower that just goes static whenever he tries to reach anyone. Depressing, I know.

:::But the second inspiration was the idea of magic having the capability of crafting! Or well- just me thinking of: “What if glass could be a magical power? And how would that work? What about other material-based creations could be used as weapons?” And boom, OverEscape was born. After years of putting it off of course— since I was too shy to share it.

And yeah! That’s the history of it thus far! For SURE will be adding more of course in the future.

Keep the asks coming 👁👁

[lnterjection]

What's the most hardest thing you have written on the Valley of Serenity? Politics? Nations? Worldbuilding or Culture?

The worldbuilding is actually the easier part for me. I've been avidly studying history and politics for years and putting that knowledge into worldbuilding practice for nearly as long. This isn't my first stop on the historical analysis rodeo. I usually start with the general geography and go from there - and in the case of New L'Manberg's politics, I take inspiration by reading the news articles forwarded to my email from various sources every morning. Not the ones about mutant puppies or lost kayakers or whatever most people deem interesting enough - I subscribe to sources generally about political dealings, both domestic and international. The daily Politico Playbook is especially helpful in mapping ways politicians navigate around each other and public opinion.

I'd say the hardest overall "thing" I've written in Valley of Serenity has been the character moments, which is hard to define because nearly everything is character in this fic. I can plan Tubbo's daily depressing routine in running New L'Manberg and what documents he might have to look over and statements he might have to give all I like, but it doesn't change the fact that the story is incredibly character driven - for as much worldbuilding praise I've gotten, the central focus of the fic has always been about sbi and their navigation of their trauma, pasts, and how they'll work together as a family now as a result. The emotional conversations and talks the characters have with each other to build more trust or come to more realizations are usually the areas of writing I agonize over most.

I would say, however, for example, that the hardest chapter to write so far has been chapter 28, which leads to the scene where Tommy, Wilbur, and Techno walk in the woods while discussing the events of Pogtopia and working through their feelings on the issue. It end with Tommy saying he hasn't forgiven them, but that he still considers them brothers. It's an incredibly important scene - important enough the summary of the fic shows a few lines from it. On the surface the description I gave sounds plain. In reality, it was a fucking pain to pull off and have feel authentic in any way, and I'm always left with a vague sort of dissatisfaction when I'm finished writing scenes like that, which lingers even after a few revisions. Not only is the narrative and prose itself hard to write, the things the characters are saying and the realizations they're coming to are all things I have to plan out and consider whether or not it's appropriate or helps building their character arcs in a good way, and I'm always anxious about that.

Might as well add that the second hardest chapter to write in this fic was chapter 17, which is when Phil, Tommy, and Techno finally talk with Wilbur again after he tried to commit suicide and of course that was a pain to navigate. Third hardest was chapter 14, which included the suicide attempt itself - not only was that scene hard to write and even harder to plan for, the build up to it in the earlier scenes were just as difficult. I cry with relief when I get to a worldbuilding segment in comparison - the hardest part about those is less the worldbuilding, which while sometimes time consuming is something I know how to research and plan out, and more delivering the information in a way that's not a few paragraphs of dry, blocky text.

[sara-bateson]

Hi! Came across your page because I loved your hairstyle and I wanted to ask where did you get it in game? or is it a mod? o: Thank you! ♥

Hello! Sorry for the late reply! The hairstyle I mostly use is one of the female Au-Ra exclusive hairstyles. I try different hairstyles every now and then but I keep going back to this one since it seems to suit my character the best.

[wild-icarus]

Icarus, ,, its me again 👉👈 may i ask for a costume breakdown of drew sarich's judas in the 2005 austrian production? Especially his freakish necklace is an enigma to me pleaease maybe sometime 🙏

Hello again! And yes, I'd be happy to make a post; however, I'm mind meltingly busy right now so I don't really foresee me being able to post anytime soon but when I have time again, I can see what I can find on Drew Sarich judas and make a post!

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