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Maker Of Fine Graves

@angel-ascending / angel-ascending.tumblr.com

Call me Angel! Angel_in_Ink on Twitter, Angel Ascending on AO3. Adult. Non-binary writer, knitter, and horror fan. They/them. Ace. Header image by @brondoesart

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Thaisha Lloy/Vaelus Characters: Thaisha Lloy, Vaelus (Critical Role), Occtis Tachonis, Julien Davinos, Aranessa Royce Additional Tags: Flowers, Kissing, it's not that deep, unless it is, Tea Summary:

Thaisha’s never heard of anyone growing a flower based off of a half second’s glimpse of dried petals and drinking a cup of tea, but it doesn’t feel like it should be an impossible task. She had experienced the flower after all, just not in the usual way.

Thaisha closes her eyes, focusing on the reddish-pink hue of the petals, on the tartness that still rests on her tongue and her memory. She feels something stir, not only in her cupped hands, but low in her gut and high in her mind, unfamiliar but not unpleasant. The first thing she sees when she opens her eyes is the trumpet shaped flower that’s bloomed in her hands, red petals wide and ruffled.

The first thing she hears is something that sounds like a sob.

“Do you know what you’ve done?”

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So you know the Tumblr writing meme that's "I wish you would write a fic where...." and maybe you'll like, write a small snippet of it? Yeah, apparently I just use that to write whole actual fics now.

need That character absolutely delirious with fear. recoiling from everything. unable to parse what's happening around them, their mind stuck in fight or flight. shaking and hyperventilating. completely unconsolable even as they're wrapped in a crushing hug.

galaxy brain addition thank you

Me at 13: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”

Me at 17: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”

Me at 21: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”

Me at 41: "god I can't wait to go home and read fanfic"

They're doing "disability in fantasy" discourse on twitter rn and I wanna say that like, on top of the obvious & already discussed (by people more articulate than me) ableism, the sheer level of ignorance about how medicine & bodies work you have to have in order to say "why would you ever need a wheelchair in a universe with healing magic 🙄" is astounding.

The ability to speed the healing time of cuts and punctures in flesh & bone breakage (<- this is what most fantasy healing is) does not actually have a lot to do with the ability to prevent disability or long term complications. A wound or bone healing isn't the same as function being restored, even in real life? And what if there's nothing to "restore", someone was born without function in certain limbs? Then there's nothing to "heal". You would have to restructure their internal anatomy! And what about damage from bacterial or viral illness? Bone mending juice has nothing to do with that! Like I'm sorry but this is like looking at the real world and saying "oh so they have antibiotics but they can't solve cancer 🙄" lol. Real bodies do not have "HP" and not all forms of "damage" [sic] are created equal.

why aren’t we in the bill and ted timeline? why are we not being excellent to each other and partying on? i want answers

Anonymous asked:

Actually on the topic of Sailor Moon abridged, (fucking amazing btw. You and Kaleigh killed it.) was there ever a discussion that it might be a bit odd having two trans women voicing the main villains? I was super happy to see you both get awesome roles and then it sorta rubbed me the wrong way.

So Scott and I talked about it during our recording session and he was like "You both were perfect but it feels weird that-"

And I stopped him and said the same thing I always say:

DID! WE! AUDITION! FOR! THAT! ROLE!

If the answer is yes, we're more than happy to play the role. It's a role. It's a character. It's not us and does not reflect on us as people or as trans women.

Scott was awesome about it, was super cool to work with, and very kind and considerate throughout the whole process.

THAT SAID! I do think everyone, fans especially, kinda needs to get over these hang ups because it's that kinda thinking that lead trans women to not get cast in most things. And if the fans say it the people in charge feel that they can use that as an excuse to just not include us in general because it's "easier than dealing with trans women."

I, personally, fucking love voicing villains or evil characters because they get to be far more grandiose, theatric and often have the best dialogue in the entire project.

If I only ever played villain roles for the rest of my entire life I'd be pleased as punch.

So I think fans, over all, need to kinda realize that if a trans woman auditions for something and gets the role there should be nothing but celebration and never shutting up about how cool it is that there's a trans woman (Or in this case MULTIPLE TRANS WOMEN) cast in something.

Fandom spaces have to, and I mean this fully, get off their asses and SCREAM FROM THE ROOFTOPS any time a trans woman gets cast in anything when it comes to voice over.

I had this same thing happen when Sena and I got cast in Unicorn Overlord. Because folks were like "Happy to see two trans women in this... but you're both playing men. That sucks."

Sena and I fucking LOVED being in Unicorn Overlord and we've both waxed poetic about how AWESOME it was that they let us flex our range and play as much as they did in the booth for that project.

If fandom spaces keep saying ":< I can't believe you cast a trans woman in a role that the trans woman actress auditioned for" and harass the casting directors, producers, creators over this shit trans women aren't going to get cast in fucking anything.

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Spoilers, the other trans woman playing opposite me as the other primary villain in TFS’s Sailor Moon Abridged is that very same trans woman from Knights of Guinevere, Kayleigh McKee. She’s also a casual friend of mine and is very sweet and kind.

The circle of working industry trans woman voice actresses is so intensely small and most of us either know eachother or exist in the same circles casually.

But anyway, yes. It’s very frustrating to see the VERY FEW creators, casting directors, producers, etc who are willing to cast a trans woman in something getting harassed for casting that trans woman as a role that she auditioned for ON TOP of the trans woman actress ALSO getting harassed.

It’s happened to Kayleigh, it’s happened to me, it’s happened to all of us.

I need y’all to please, when you see a trans woman get cast in something… especially a BIG THING or a VIRAL POPULAR thing to take a second and realize that even if (AND ESPECIALLY IF) it’s the villain or a male character. Because we AUDITIONED FOR IT and GOT IT!

We’re actresses like anyone else in our craft. We can, and will, play roles that are absolutely nothing like us as human beings. So stop seeing us being cast as “this or that” as reflecting back on us as human beings because that’s absolutely ridiculous.

Anywho…

YES there’s two trans women VA’s in TFS’s Sailor Moon Abridged! GO WATCH IT! Send us some love in the comments!

YES! There’s ALSO two trans women VA’s in Unicorn Overlord! Tell SEGA USA you loved us in the game and want us in more games!

"Block this ad" isn't good enough, I need a feature that directly tells the company "this was so shit that it lowered my opinion of your product"

My dream job is to run a cozy little bookshop, but without worrying about having to succeed as a small business. So basically a money laundering front where I get to read

Another thing AI has ruined: fun, silly, light-hearted jokes about wanting to finish my writing immediately

Me: Ugh, it takes so long, I wish I could just write the whole thing at once so it was out of my brain *remembers AI exists now* BUT NOT LIKE THAT

ⓘ Tip If you feel unfulfilled by how you spent your time today, you can stay up late to try to combat the sense of dissatisfaction. This will ensure that you feel even worse tomorrow.

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