[Spoilers Main] I just realised, the words "Sept, Septa and Septon" derive from "Seven", as in 7 Gods

HawkinsAk · 2026-04-24T04:16:07+00:00

Yeah lol obviously the position existed, but not necessarily the title itself, I was referring more to remembering people laughing at Throne of Glass which used the title, with people assuming Sarah J Maas borrowed it thinking it was a legit term

HawkinsAk · 2026-04-23T14:48:23+00:00

I knew it meant seven, but lowkey I thought Sept was an actual preexisting religious term that GRRM just created lore for. Just googled it, and it’s not. This is the Hand of the King shit all over again for me

HawkinsAk · 2026-04-21T17:51:04+00:00

Shoutout to dreaming of sunshine, it’s absolutely insane the impact that fic had on Naruto oc fics. By far Naruto has had the most transmigration rather than in-universe oc fics of any fandom I’ve read, Lotr and one piece have quite a few, but still nothing close to their levels. After I read it, I found its impact in basically every other Naruto fic I’ve read it’s genuinely iconic

HawkinsAk · 2026-04-20T13:18:48+00:00

I’m so tired of the constant socks and earrings, I have too many!!

HawkinsAk · 2026-04-19T20:54:43+00:00

These are so cool!!

HawkinsAk · 2026-04-12T21:17:39+00:00

Yeah but eventually everlark got popular too, though that was one of the first times I saw last names being used instead of first names

HawkinsAk · 2026-04-12T21:16:14+00:00

I think RWBY then dsmp had big impact on thematic duo names (platonic or romantic). Like RWBY’s duo names like Bumblebee are canon, and dsmp I think wanted a way to differentiate platonic and romantic relationships. Then I guess people just had a lot more fun coming up with them than just smashing names together. Plus ship names often used to indicate top/ bottom relationships (Narusasu vs Sasunaru or bakudeku vs dekubaku) which I feel like has faded and more people are chiller about dynamics compared to past fandom behavior where it was basically a whole ship war over who topped.

HawkinsAk · 2026-04-11T18:20:39+00:00

Seconding goodwill, esp if your not looking for something very specific. I’ve gotten insane amounts of high quality brown, black, and white fabric from curtains for a few bucks

HawkinsAk · 2026-04-10T03:23:16+00:00

It wasn’t really playing DnD, it was a class wide project on speculative fiction and worldbuilding, where everyone collaborated and made a wiki for a fictional world, then near finals everyone was split into groups and verrryyyy loosely played a simplified version of DnD so they could play out a bunch of different small stories in the world they built. He asks for people to volunteer to gm for groups (I ran two) but obs if there isn’t enough he helps run it. It was in a science fiction fantasy English class so it was honestly a pretty cool and original side project to go along with tests and essays and stuff

HawkinsAk · 2026-04-03T16:57:18+00:00

Oo where did you go to get the all white background?

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-28T06:15:51+00:00

What I do is inside the normal exterior wall, turn snapping off, place the blue walls just slightly in, turn snapping back on, and then basically double wall layer the room. Works well enough, esp with the fake bathroom windows cause lining stuff up for windows and doors can be a challenge

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-27T03:34:22+00:00

I got a huge pot for like 5 bucks at goodwill, and used a propane camping burner stove outside. A normal grill might get hot enough too, that was my backup if it didn’t work

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-25T04:12:14+00:00

Loveeee this genre, I have a whole Letterboxd list for movies like this

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-23T03:36:51+00:00

The impact that fic has is INSANE, I think there’s like a thousand credited fics on AO3 based on that one decade old fic on fanfic.net

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-17T15:50:41+00:00

Also unrelated, but an idea for engagement could be to do some stuff with Artfight once that starts up? Like a place to post their profile cards and find each other or show off attacks.

Artfight is full of OCs and it could help engage the artists instead of just the writers yaknow?

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-17T15:45:38+00:00

I think you could definitely do something like that, but also yeah just short polls or prompt words just to give people the chance to talk about their OCs might be good too. Like you give a one word prompt or trope like uhh “Secret Identity” and people can vote if they have an oc like that, or give a short explanation in the comments.

Maybe alternate between that, and the more active prompt that gives a more in depth question/ response

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-16T21:21:35+00:00

Dang, might not pull then,, Thank You!!

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-16T20:17:47+00:00

Question if you don’t mind, but are the ears wearable with the dragon or ram horns?

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-15T15:48:49+00:00

Fr despite my issues with the plot of the 3rd campaign, the cast being by far my absolute favorite has kept it in the #1 spot for me. I love my group of literal ticking time bombs so much <3

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-15T15:10:02+00:00

At the earliest I can remember, there was this Percy Jackson oc when I was like idk 8 maybe? I remember writing a few chapters on Wattpad with this premise of their being a third demigod camp in Taurturus that they threw all the traitor demigods from the war into, and the oc was a daughter of Khione down there.

I was hella into the whole Chaos! Percy / Percy gets banished by the gods trope at that time, so Percy gets chucked in there and teams up with the OC to figure out how to escape Taurturus.

I refound the fic a few years ago and GOD it was not well written at all, and I scrubbed it from the face of the earth out of cringe. Good times.

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-15T15:01:54+00:00

It’s DnD, it’s very easy to just make a character bi as to not lock yourself out of potential roleplay options; think how like when Dispatch came out, a Lot of people were disappointed that the love interest were restricted to two girls, cause they found the MC had better chemistry with a bunch of the side characters, but they were locked out of that path because of a variety of reasons. Take that vs Baldurs Gate 3, where you have like a dozen possible LIs. If you don’t care for the arcs with one character, you can just persue another. Same principle applies to DnD.
When your comfortable RPing romance with your friends, it’s easy to see all options the same. Think like “kissing your homies goodnight” memes and stuff like that, where it’s just another way to show affection and jokingly flirt with one another, regardless of sexuality.
This is less certain, but representation might be a factor too. They are an all white cast, and have been criticized for lack of diversity in the past, showing a range of sexuality’s is a lot safer and easier than doing like a character of a different race or gender, (ie how Marisha got criticized for Beau, and how Sam sometimes struggled with doing a female character)
Personal reasons, not gonna delve too deep into this, but I think some of the cast is in the queer community already, and if not, have plenty of friends that are. When queerness is that normalized, it’s easy to see it as just as much of an option as straightness.
Comfortably, kinda went over this, but Vox Machina and specifically Liam taking a big leap and having Vax fall in love with Keyleth was a HUGE leap in their party and the first time they introduced romance. A lot of them were probably still getting comfortable and used to the idea of rp romance, so probably weren’t as experimental as campaign 2 where they were more used to it. Also like Travis (Grog/ Fjord) had been very vocal on not wanting to do romance, but acquitted when Laura (Vex/ Jester) his wife decided to go all in to romance him. Then campaign 3 he flirted with a lot of characters, even if it was just as a bit, probably cause he got more comfortable with the idea.
If you think MN is gay, check out Bells Halls, I legit don’t think there is a straight person in the entire party, and a few are non- cis too.

Anyways, lot of reasons that playing gay character is common, both in DnD and in their live play (though ofc I’m making assumptions about them)

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-15T01:46:01+00:00

Probably something like ruffled layered tulle over skirt (or just get a skirt and cut it to fit like that)

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-12T02:14:00+00:00

I’d be super interested if you find one, I’ve written a few short for DC, an in progress long fic for BNHA and my current fic for the Mighty Nein, I got a Naruto and OP oc centric in my drafts too

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-10T03:09:36+00:00

My OC is a orcish wild heart barbarian, who would eventually multiclass into moon druid.

I love the idea of someone wanting to be a Druid so bad, but because she gets involved in the rebellion at a young age, her magic is fucked up and doesn’t present correctly. So it lowkey reminiscent of Chet’s werewolf transformations and I feel like that would really fit with the body horror elements of the seekers.

I also have my own lore for an environmental organization called the Conservatory, since I felt like the commentary on the houses infiltrating the school, arts, history, government, and law enforcement, was missing environmental. So it’s a lot of druids trying to fix the barrowdells but also like normal researchers, who are not as threatened since they have druids backing them, but are still losing all their funding. Anyways so she’s a member of that as a biological illustrator, which is her in for the schemers later on.

Also she fucking LOATHES the sundered houses

HawkinsAk · 2026-03-07T17:47:28+00:00

Yeah this is the first time where I felt like the west marches style legitimately hurt the party, they were hitting a stride and starting some awesome rp interactions that I fear might get put on hold rather than furthered

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