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OCs:

Marigold - f - older deer centaur Oak - m - son of marigold Cypress - m - son of marigold Daisy - f - daughter of marigold Edith Prisilla Valentina Dacchus - f - teifling sorceress (sybil–spun.tumblr.com) Black-Eyed Susan - f - bat person Murdina - f - selkie (speckled–pelt.tumblr.com) Dagda - m – Dullahan Clover - f - succubus Wasp - m - incubus/brother to clover and violet Bimoira - f - firbolg/grave cleric Nell - f - unicorn Cora - f - fox alien Amalia - f - centaur/knight ot her people Aquila - f - elf from a project I’m working on (skyfaringelf.tumblr.com) Finnigan - m - goblin from a project I’m working on

Fanon:

Hjin - f - deaf white mage viera (silenceofthewood.tumblr.com) Mjvn - f - bounty hunter/viera Vala - f - witcher OC/sorceress/werewolf Eron - m - witcher OC/Vala’s younger brother Rat - f - Dishonored OC for a marked rat (neither-rat-nor-human.tumblr.com_ Carol - f - Fallout OC (gonnathinkyourselftodeath.tumblr.com) Millie - f - chocobo harpy Eko - f - zora warrior Elise Shaw - f - Dishonored OC (rat-faced–lady-shaw.tumblr.com) Juliet Capulli - f - DCU OC (hardly-damsels-in-distress.tumblr.com Mikaela Brown - f - Dishonored Oracle OC (blood-and-wisdom.tumblr.com)

Canon: 

OCs:

Marigold - f - older deer centaur Oak - m - son of marigold Cypress - m - son of marigold Daisy - f - daughter of marigold Edith Prisilla Valentina Dacchus - f - teifling sorceress (sybil–spun.tumblr.com) Black-Eyed Susan - f - bat person Murdina - f - selkie (speckled–pelt.tumblr.com) Dagda - m – Dullahan Clover - f - succubus Wasp - m - incubus/brother to clover and violet Bimoira - f - firbolg/grave cleric Nell - f - unicorn Cora - f - fox alien Amalia - f - centaur/knight ot her people Aquila - f - elf from a project I’m working on (skyfaringelf.tumblr.com) Finnigan - m - goblin from a project I’m working on

Fanon:

Hjin - f - deaf white mage viera (silenceofthewood.tumblr.com) Mjvn - f - bounty hunter/viera Vala - f - witcher OC/sorceress/werewolf Eron - m - witcher OC/Vala’s younger brother Rat - f - Dishonored OC for a marked rat (neither-rat-nor-human.tumblr.com_ Carol - f - Fallout OC (gonnathinkyourselftodeath.tumblr.com) Millie - f - chocobo harpy Eko - f - zora warrior Elise Shaw - f - Dishonored OC (rat-faced–lady-shaw.tumblr.com) Juliet Capulli - f - DCU OC (hardly-damsels-in-distress.tumblr.com Mikaela Brown - f - Dishonored Oracle OC (blood-and-wisdom.tumblr.com)

Canon: 

OCs:

Marigold - f - older deer centaur Oak - m - son of marigold Cypress - m - son of marigold Daisy - f - daughter of marigold Edith Prisilla Valentina Dacchus - f - teifling sorceress (sybil–spun.tumblr.com) Black-Eyed Susan - f - bat person Murdina - f - selkie (speckled–pelt.tumblr.com) Dagda - m – Dullahan Clover - f - succubus Wasp - m - incubus/brother to clover and violet Bimoira - f - firbolg/grave cleric Nell - f - unicorn Cora - f - fox alien Amalia - f - centaur/knight ot her people Aquila - f - elf from a project I’m working on (skyfaringelf.tumblr.com) Finnigan - m - goblin from a project I’m working on

Fanon:

Hjin - f - deaf white mage viera (silenceofthewood.tumblr.com) Mjvn - f - bounty hunter/viera Vala - f - witcher OC/sorceress/werewolf Eron - m - witcher OC/Vala’s younger brother Rat - f - Dishonored OC for a marked rat (neither-rat-nor-human.tumblr.com_ Carol - f - Fallout OC (gonnathinkyourselftodeath.tumblr.com) Millie - f - chocobo harpy Eko - f - zora warrior Elise Shaw - f - Dishonored OC (rat-faced–lady-shaw.tumblr.com) Juliet Capulli - f - DCU OC (hardly-damsels-in-distress.tumblr.com Mikaela Brown - f - Dishonored Oracle OC (blood-and-wisdom.tumblr.com)

Canon: 

a collection of links to articles about how fiction affects reality

The ‘sources’ aren’t even worth a response; the human brain’s ability to attribute feeling or associations to words is an obvious one, which stems back to ancient times in absolute clarity, because - without this emotional reaction - art in any/all forms would be destroyed overnight. The article isn’t “fiction influences reality”, but “fiction influences out emotion” … 

It means that reading “Romeo and Juliet” may have me on the verge of tears, but it doesn’t mean that I’m going to go out and commit a double-suicide because I read the play … newspapers, documentaries, and letters from loved ones could evoke the same emotions … ban those, too?

The latter is too much for me to dissect right now … 

I’ll simply say that fiction can - and should - be totally free and the artist free to explore any theme as they see fit … ‘Lolita’ to ‘The Colour Purple’ to ‘Romeo and Juliet’ all discuss problematic things, some even romanticise them, and yet we don’t ban these books, because they provoke discussion and have literary merit. On the flipside, tawdry ‘Mills and Boons’ novels to hardcore porn DVDs are also allowed, because they entertain and provide a release.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s porn or gorn … for kids or for adults … poetry or fine-art or literary classics … what we read does not impact our actions, insofar as a direct cause and not a correlation. The actual studies on this are vague at best, biased at worst, and debated in most psychology classes … so far people are unanimous: fiction does not impact reality.

A good book -? It can make you think. It can make you reassess your behaviour. It can horrify you. It can arouse you. It can spark a lifetime of research. These are all emotion based … the book has engaged you on a mental level, making you think about your behaviour and personality, and - well - maybe this is what scares you … not ‘copying’ the behaviour …

@antielricest - what is it that scares you?

I have never once - in all my years of studying Literature - served someone I hate the flesh of her children in a stew, or demanded someone serve me a pound of flesh to even a debt, or poisoned a sword in hopes of killing my nephew … I’ve never slept with my sister and then paraded the aborted foetus around on a stick, just like I’ve never stabbed my cousin to death to inherit from him … these are all stories - mostly Shakespeare - from the same two cenuries a long time ago. Still taught in schools. All taught in schools.

If you think someone is going to copy fiction -?

Get them help. They clearly need it.

Not in a derogatory way, but in an actual ‘something deeper is at play here’, because people don’t act out fantasies or fiction because ‘it’s cool’ or ‘it’s hot’ or ‘so-and-so did it’ … people who act out fiction wither wanted to/were going to do it anyway or they were deeply disturbed people with an underlying illness. People do not copy fiction as a rule. 

Do you honestly think between cave-paintings on a wall and being able to buy “Hannibal” on DVD, that not one person noticed ‘people are copying from fiction’ and - you know - banned stories and art outright? 

What you’re scared of is people thinking for themselves … 

There’s an actual conversation to be had about considering the way you’re portraying things like, say, sexual violence and domestic abuse in fiction. Media has a long history of glorifying fucked up relationship dynamics, but the thing is, ‘media’ didn’t just come up with that all on its own independent of reality. it reflects our attitudes about these topics. Criticize it, by all means. Critique is an integral part of interacting with literature. But yelling ‘SHUT UP THAT’S BAD STOP WRITING IT’ does nothing to advance understanding or challenge the underlying assumptions. People do not commit rape or murder or domestic violence because they read about it in a story once. The story is the excuse, not the cause.

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                             ❥    THE LOVELY BONES EDITION

“Murderers are not monsters, they’re men. And that’s the most frightening thing about them.”

“Nothing is ever certain.”

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

“Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.”

“Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”

“Sometimes you cry, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.”

“This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one”

“I fell in love with you again; While you were away.”

“The living deserve attention, too”

“There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.”

“He had been my almost. My might-have-been.“

“People grow up by living.”

“I wish you all a long and happy life”

“In the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway”

“And i was gone.”