#tierney

No nightmares shall disturb Rutger's dreams when he has his emotional support marketable plushie Tierney.

Rutger and Tierney are from Shattered Grail by Gnollplaying Games

Sink your teeth, you're in love for one night As you sleep in the day, you are mine I just want your love, so don't waste my time -Lust for a Vampyr, I Monster

When @kbsd prompted a group of us to create vampire-inspired fanworks, I couldn't choose just one source material. So I chose them all! A full list of the movies and shows included in this compilation can be found under the cut <3

Because I pulled from so many different sources, you'll find the aspect ratio and video quality varies dramatically throughout. Consider it part of the experience! Vampire stories are found in so many moments in time, for all age levels, in so many different cultures, with so many different messages, ideas, and tones. I captured as many as I could!

This was so FUN to create for someone who loves vampires as much as I do, thank you for the inspiration Tierney!

📸Sabertooth Photography

🪡 Fursuit by Clockwork Creature (Qarrezel / Shanzi)

Sash and toga made by my huswife, qrhe!

Taken on a COLD January evening, Anthro New England. Gorgeous lighting and editing work by Sabertooth!

Hey, we're the Aurora (borealis) system. I'm Jayna the host and will mostly be posting here. I will use this blog for a multiple topics and am doing my best to tag accordingly.

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• Trauma, specifically torture trauma

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This is written for @teenwolf-meta's Meta May Mondays. Many thanks to @momentofmemory for looking this over for me!

Be aware that there is some discussion of internment camps for Japanese Americans as depicted in s3b of Teen Wolf.

One of the characters I think about a lot when I think about transformation is Satomi Ito. 

We first meet her in The Fox and The Wolf during an interaction with Noshiko. During this interaction, Noshiko offers her some contraband aspirin she’d acquired just for her. I love how touched Satomi seems before she responds. 

Satomi responds that she prefers to suffer, which is one of my favorite lines in the entire show, especially after it’s revealed that Satomi’s “monthly migraines” are actually her way of excusing herself during the full moon. 

During this episode, we watch Satomi transform from a an older woman that seems to have some idea what Noshiko is (the young fox vs the older, wiser animal) to a bitten beta trying to survive in extraordinary circumstances. 

I really love that Satomi thinks of her lycanthropy as suffering- despite what we’ve been shown of various wolves trying to survive the full moon, there’s still this pervasive idea that the bite is, as Derek says, “a gift.” 

Satomi clearly seems to think otherwise, but she also isn’t afraid to use her lycanthropy to her advantage. 

Then we see Satomi transformed- a lot like Noshiko and the others in the interment camp- into someone who has been pushed too far, once too many times when she throws the torch into the angry mob. 

She and Noshiko work together to defeat the Nogitsune- another example of pain and fear transforming both Noshiko and Rhys into people that have been pushed too far and become violent as a result- much like the angry mob outside the gates at Oak Creek. 

The next time we see Satomi is in Weaponized. She appears during a fight in the rain with Deaton, and her eyes are now red. She’s been transformed from a beta to an alpha and from someone who struggles to control her anger to someone who has found solace in the religion of Buddhism. 

I love the interaction with Deaton and have a lot of theories about them being friends. Satomi-san is a familiar form of address, and I love it for them. 

I need to go slightly off-topic for a minute because the show doesn’t give us anything about how and why Satomi becomes an alpha. I have a number of theories, technically each as plausible as the other. 

The Satomi is also a true alpha theory is probably the one with the least basis in canon- though given the age difference, it could have happened nearly a hundred years ago. That might explain her closeness with Deaton and perhaps his ability to recognize a true alpha. 

It is probably more likely that after leaving Oak Creek, Satomi, still angry and violent finds herself in a position where she is forced to kill an alpha and gains the power in that manner. 

One of my favorite thoughts is that she joins a pack after Oak Creek where the alpha is inclined toward Buddhism and learns from them. At some point the alpha becomes injured and Satomi is forced to kill them in order to become the alpha and take over the pack.

Since we don’t know, the sky is the limit as far as guesses go, which is fun. 

It’s also interesting that Satomi’s entrance is in the episode where a virus causes shapeshifters to lose control of their transformation her growth in this episode is total control of her own transformation- which we see when she uses her powers to help fight off assassins in the hospital at the end of the episode. 

We see Satomi again at the end of the assassin arc and continue to be connected to her pack through Brett and Lori. 

The last we hear of her, she has sacrificed herself in a futile effort to save her pack during 6b. We find this out from Jiang and Tierney, two other wolves in Satomi’s pack. An interesting bit about transformation in their arc relates to the Jiang and Nolan friendship. 

I love their moment when you learn that they had been friends once and it really helps with Nolan’s growth in realizing that maybe his recent thought processes require some evaluation. 

I hate that Satomi’s death is off-screen but it allows me to theorize that maybe she doesn’t die entirely, since people often die only temporarily on Teen Wolf. 

Then again, what is death beyond another kind of transformation?