You Know, As The Concept Of “zombifying Fungi” Becomes More And More Popular, I Notice It Still Referred

masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved

these are all creatures to me

Obsessed with what they're doing with Milchick this season. He's a guy with a job. An evil job. He just got a big promotion. He sees himself as a reformer. But not like, systematically, he just like, smiles a lot and plans little activities. He's being undermined by a teenage intern. He's gracious about The Board's racism. He carries elaborate fruit baskets on his motorcycle while working through the weekend. He averages firing more than one person per week. He dresses great. He almost got the CEO's daughter killed. He delivers even the most outrageous lies with panache. He doesn't have a single true ally. But! he is going to do whatever he has to do!

my English prof teaching abt cover letters today and me trying not to bring up the luke skywalker cover letter post:

given that prayer marks seem to be routinely engraved on acolytes/sacrifices themselves, what is the status of (non-votive) tattoos in tsv? could they be used by victims/surviviors of illegal worship to cover prayer marks (like some do for scars)? or to neutralize them? or conversely, would they not interfere with a prayer mark at all, and then could they be used by illegal god worshippers to hide them? or are they looked down upon or regarded with suspicion/wariness? do they even exist???

I think yes to almost all the above - I imagine that former worshippers might cover up unwanted prayer-marks by transforming them into a new design, but not as a mechanical cure-all - they might then sometimes find that the new design is somehow being incorporated into the manifestations of the god as it haunts them.

(i.e. Change that barbed-wire tattoo into a nice harmless rose because you want to be rid of the military-boundary deity you used to follow? Surprise, your family are all twisted up in a maze of horrible wire with red roses sprouting from their mouths!)

Suspicion of any iconography whatsoever would definitely be a society-wide issue, and contribute towards the prevalence of straightforward propaganda that we see in the show.

out of curiousity, do you have a concept of what the marks of the last word look like? i find the description of the marks of the many below and of the wither mark really fascinating (also because. theoretically. they’re kind of up to interpretation like for example “three parallel lines” doesn’t specify whether they are vertical or horizontal *) and i was wondering if you had a similar visualisation of what val bears on her skin. (or also like, just a vibe)

* a second question has now occurred to me. do the descriptions only sound ambiguous to us, with no knowledge of prayer mark conventions, or could they actually be drawn differently based on the same description also in-universe? and if so, would every interpretation work, or is there a correct way and shrue should really just have been more precise in describing it?

No, zero idea! I did initially have the concept (which I think we partly recorded and maybe even left in a line or two nodding towards) that Val's marks 'flower' into evidence of the lies she tells - so they change shape as she's speaking and then become photographs or records or film-tape that peel from her in big sloughs of dead skin.

But poetic though that may be, you then have a character who's just sort of dropping giant distracting wads of dandruff in every single scene, which is sort of dramatically inhibiting.

"the magnus archives sounds cool! what are the content warnings?"

advicetip for making ocs. if you find urself making a dude. especially if hes a villain & especially especially if hes gonna fall into like a sexyman category like hes a dapper trickster or a mad scientist or summthing. consider changing nothing abt the concept except you make her a woman instead. and you will have a good character i feel

Pssst... something new is coming...

...this weekend!

Free, non-AI animal art references.

"if you want to hear about my ocs, my inbox is ope-" NO!! START YAPPING UNPROMPTED!! DO NOT WAIT FOR OTHERS TO TAKE INTEREST, POST THINGS THAT WILL MAKE THEM TAKE INTEREST!!!!

I don’t know if anyone has ever done this before but, here ya go… The Different Types of Fanfiction! 

I probably left a few out, but these are the most common, compared to their base fiction’s canon plot. Enjoy! XD