Violet: a garden-variety nerd

she/her | ao3: @creatingrecklessly

[violet-prism-creatively]

I finally got around to making an "about me" pinned post

Hi! You can call me Violet. (It's not my real name, but it's a pseudonym I've used for years. I also used to go by Prism online, so you're welcome to call me that too.)

Age-wise, I'm in my early 20s. This blog is safe for teenagers to interact, though I may scream "you're so young! i used to be that young once! why was that so long ago?!"

[I have a whump sideblog: violets-whumperflies. Follows and likes for that come from this account.]

Fandoms you'll see here: The Owl House The Murderbot Diaries Nimona The Locked Tomb (reactions at #violet reads tlt) Avatar: the Last Airbender Epic the Musical Good Omens (I do not support Neil Gaiman) The Adventure Zone possibly some others that aren't tagged consistently

Other tags to help you navigate my blog: #my art and #my writing #hope - things that make me, and hopefully you, feel a little better about the world #rambling violet - things that are about my life rather than fandom or cool information #oops i relate #tropes - things I love seeing in stories #creativity - advice for writing, art, and creating things in general #pride - posts about queerness

Here's some of my other interests that I post about! Language & linguistics (I speak some French!) History Nature Disability Poetry And some things that I am: ace lesbian and demiromantic/aro-spec, Jewish, autistic, ADHD

If you don't want to see anything about politics (which is valid!) tags to block are #current events and #political philosophy

Please feel welcome to interact with me! Say something in my askbox, whether that's ranting about fandoms or rambling about how your day was or random questions about me. I'd love to make friends!

[aromantic-journal]

"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is

Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.

Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.

You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.

Sex is not what makes someone an adult.

Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.

Sex is not equally important to everyone.

You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.

You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.

Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.

The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.

Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.

[thunderglade]

can i deviously post this on tumblr too ahahahahahaha

song - photograph by ed sheeran media - project hail mary

[yuukels]

i know the end

[omagpies]

things to say when you are not a place of honor

original text by @inkskinned can be found here. I’ve made a comic with it before but wanted to make a mbart version for a while

[f-a-campbell]

When i was a kid, me and my sister would scare each other with ghost stories. eventually my parents decided i was too fragile and incapable and they sent me to go spend time with some sailors and mariners.

we stopped playing when i started telling stories that were better than true.

cause my stories really happened.

Alt under the cut

[sandrahuuler]

I think it would have been relatively easy for Stratt to stay out of prison after the launch of the Hail Mary. She was given, after all, blanket immunity and preemptive pardons for anything she would do related to the project — any lawyer worth their salt could argue that case, and she came out of the project well connected, she could have had a team of good lawyers. It would have been messy and would have taken years as it got bogged down, but she could have stayed out.

I just don't think she wanted to.

The project was her purpose. With it done, what else was there to do? And after how it ended, after she had to commit one last atrocity, didn't she deserve to be punished?

I think she had friends of friends and connections of connections calling her offering to represent her, wherever they dragged her in the world, promising that they can get her out of this, it's really quite simple.

And I think she turned them all down.

[ahhhdownwego]

I really tried to tip the scales in your favor

[liones-s]

AI has made the internet so much less fun. I don't want to question whether a photo of a bunny is real. I don't want to worry about someone making a deepfake just because I posted a pic with my friends. I want to read a recipe and know that the photo is a real cake they made. Yes I know I need to touch grass but also I think I should be allowed to interact online without second-guessing whether someone fabricated every image for personal gain

[liones-s]

btw this is about the tragedy of the commons. it's not about spending too much time online or whatever - it's about the fact that a handful of people are polluting the collective space to the detriment of everyone else, and that there is no way to stop them from doing that. it sucks and it's killing the internet, and I'm mad about that

[be-kind-recklessly]

The first 1-2 pages of All Systems Red, inspired by @nothingiswrongwithyourarmrests's post about how tmbd should have been adapted into a graphic novel.

Version where every tab is readable below the cut, because I spent way too much time on those things for no one to be able to see them

[violet-prism-creatively]

I tried my hand at one of those two-column (contrapuntal) poems! I have a new level of respect for anyone who writes these lol

You can also read it on ao3 where I learned how to code an HTML table for this.

[securityunit-ese]

please I am starving

please talk about Farai to me

please please please

What do you think she looks like?

What’s your favourite scene with her?

What does she make you think about?

Why do you think she is first mom?

Why is she scared of heights?

Why did she click onto the intent of the raiders faster than SecUnit’s threat assessment?

Why do you think she was so ready to euthanise Leonide and then comforting SecUnit about the process.

How is she so good at doing sneaky reverse kidnapping teamwork with SecUnit?

Do you think she met Tano or Mensah first?

What questions do you have about her???

[violet-prism-creatively]

Yes!!

I'm curious about how she seems relatively calm and capable in emergency scenarios that most people on Preservation wouldn't encounter. Especially the euthanizing-Leonide scene-- most people would be panicking and trying to keep her alive (despite the clear hopelessness of that) so I feel like Farai must have some kind of experience with this. Maybe she was some kind of ER doctor or first-responder?

Protectiveness of her daughter could explain a lot-- there have been times when my mom was scared but projected reassurance so well that I was convinced everything was fine. Farai is probably doing that a lot of the time. She also seems like a very perceptive person, especially when it comes to other people's emotions and intentions. And therefore she can trick them, like when she doesn't let MB carry out the rescue alone.

I admit I don't know how the first/second mom naming convention works. Does it mean Farai had a child first? (But Amena is the oldest and she's Mensah's biological daughter.) Did Farai join the polycule before Mensah did? Was Farai more responsible for childcare? Was it just a discussion between the three parents of who wants to be called first or second mom? Someone in another post pointed out that the first/second parent thing sounds clunky because it's a translation, and some languages (Chinese maybe? I don't remember I'm sorry) have one word with that meaning.

Another interesting thing about Farai: her initial feelings about Murderbot. That scene where it doesn't kill the raiders after she gave it her approval to, and she says she wouldn't have thought badly of Murderbot if it did, she would have blamed herself? To me, that feels like she still had some prejudice about SecUnits as meant for violence. Sure, she could feel responsible for telling it to do whatever was necessary, but that implies that it would be doing what she tells it instead of making the choice itself to enact violence (or not). I'm curious about how other people read that scene!

[paperpatchnotes]

Lol full comic 😅 I feel like I've seen enough fanart now to know we all thought this scene was amazing

(side note - credit to yuner0523 for their very good visualization of pings and the feed that i def used)

[violet-prism-creatively]

I finally read ND Stevenson's new book Scarlet Morning (I had to wait for the copy at my library) and why isn't there a huge tumblr fandom for it??!

Fun pirate story that veers into cosmic horror! Amazing eerie worldbuilding! Hot older pirate lady who's not what she seems! Illustrations! Lore that we need to be discussing the mysteries of! Tension between siblings and found family!

Also the color version of this illustration is beautiful! Look at this! (found on ND's tumblr)

And the prose

Can I post a page from the beginning of the cosmic horror section here? This one reads more like a Night Vale segment but they become genuinely scary.

Fun middle-grade pirate adventure -> oh this worldbuilding isn't just quirky it's really cool -> Holy cod there's Horror in here! -> btw there's also still humor -> fascinating lore -> Who was Scarlet Morning??!!

Go read Scarlet Morning and talk to me about it!!

[waffleelrond]

obsessed with viola and chase's dynamic in scarlet morning. it's a one-sided rivalry. it's siblings with a big age gap. it's queer hero worship. it's found family except for when it's not. chase is not a parental figure to viola except for when she is. chase saved viola's life and viola called it a kidnapping. viola saved chase's life and chase thanked her by giving her one single bisket. chase doesn't understand why viola thinks she might kill her. chase once threatened to turn viola's decapitated skull into a flower pot. chase might leave viola but she'd never leave the wine. wilmur heard viola talk about chase for 5 seconds and immediately asked her if she's in love with her. viola is not in love with her except for when she is. chase is the center of viola's universe. chase also might secretly be her best friend's mom. but it's only because she seduced his dad to get closer to the queen before faking(?) her death fifteen years ago. it's a long story. viola wants to know the entire story in detail. chase does not want her to know so bad oh my god

[m4ycrowave]

Sometimes I think about how Luz and Hunter are so protective of their friends and how Luz can be reckless about her own health to help others and how Hunter's the oldest and I cry.

Usually I don't post my fanart for other fandoms on here mainly because I used to care a lot about numbers but I thought 'hey why not' and here we are!

Also in case you couldn't tell Luz and Hunter are my favorite characters

[sunnnmothhh]

Lightning round!

I couldn't miss an opportunity to make epic geological phenotypes for eridians:D them rocks will look fly as hell on my watch!

Nerding out under the cut:)

For those interested, the igneous phenotype is inspired by granitic pegmatites, with hexagonal beryl crystals growing from it (of the aquamarine variety)

The sedimentary fella is a BIF, or a banded iron formation - a type of chemical sedimentary rock recording the years following the Great Oxygenation Event, with alternating bands of red jasper and magnetite/iron oxides:)

And the metamorphic eridian is inspired by an amphibolite, containing garnet gem porphyroblasts:)

*also cue the geology pun on the cup;]