In games

Milla Silent-Death
ainmhian | untailed
World of Darkness (Werewolf: The Apocalypse)
Very not human, few braincells with loads of physical stats, Fostern Red Talons Metis Ahroun, Liechtenstein's Army Pack (Faber-Castell Sept / Nuremberg, Germany & Forest's Reach Sept / Northern Lapland, Finland)

Patrick O'Shaughnessy
ainmhian | fianna_in_law
World of Darkness (Werewolf: The Apocalypse)
Chill dad, engineer, Fianna Kinfolk, (Windswept Sea Sept / Inishmore, Ireland though he lives in Clifden)

Bob Laughs-at-the-Storm
ainmhian | untailed
World of Darkness (Werewolf: The Apocalypse)
Intelligent, humanity is a problem he needs to deal with every day, serious young man, teenage dad, Adren Red Talons Lupus Ragabash, Liechtenstein's Army Pack (Faber-Castell Sept / Nuremberg, Germany & Forest's Reach Sept / Northern Lapland, Finland)

Colin
Freeawoo (tabletop) | outofgalway
World of Darkness (Werewolf: The Apocalypse)
What's a self confidence, nerd, loyal, technically intelligent but a dumb teenager, Cliath Fianna Metis Theurge, Queer Eye Pack (Relentless Beat Sept / Denver, USA)


Other active muses

Ami Bites-Thumb
fuckfangs
World of Darkness (Werewolf: The Apocalypse)
Quick temper, sharp, went to law school, 5 Silver Fang purebreed (it's complicated), has a metis daughter, Fostern Bone Gnawer Homid Ragabash, alpha of the Gay Agenda Pack (City of London Sept / London, UK)

Rupert Charles Nightfall
poshwanker / tinyhowl
World of Darkness (Werewolf: The Apocalypse)
Picture an Eton-educated dude who can trace his ancestry back to the Norman invasion and whose grandpa is in the House of Lords. Privileged up the whazoo, but means well and can be taught better. Loves rowing and has the perfect build for it. TallTM. All the charisma, all the strength and endurance, none of the dexterity or brains. Cliath Silver Fang Homid Ahroun, comes in two versions: Super fresh Austere Howl Cliath with no pack or Sept, or /handwave House of the Flat Mountain Pack (Tearing Waters Sept / Midlands, UK)

Sam Wyldhammer
mothersson
World of Darkness (Werewolf: The Apocalypse)
Black Fury-raised by his mother's pack, but Pegasus said no and set him on the road to figuring out that maybe he wasn't the butch Lesbian he thought he was. Fairly chill, stubborn, believes that an immediate show of strength will shortcut most developing problems. Cliath Get of Fenris Homid Philodox, Flat Mountain Pack (Tearing Waters Sept / Midlands, UK)

Jackie Svensson
talkative
World of Darkness (Vampire: The Masquerade)
Talkative, silly, really nobody of any consequence, promise, fashionable and focused on looks, scheming and fairly callous about loss of other people's life. Identifies as he/him but immediately switches to they/them if a PSL/game introduces them to the option existing. Neonate Pander from a highly mobile pack

Title

Inactive/Retired
● Ymir | siesinddasessen, zumfressengern

Dark is Rising

Inactive/Retired
● Bran | white_raven

Dragonrider

Inactive/Retired
● Lung | moonflight

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Inactive/Retired
● Hansel | hypoglycaemia

Hetalia

Inactive/Retired
● Denmark | chatty_swan
● England | lloegr
● Estonia | nordicbaltic
● Floweregg | notbloody
● Germany | federalism
● Latvia | shakes
● Lithuania | cautious_knight, notchristian
● Maria Theresia | tufelixaustrianube
● New Zealand | longwhitecloud
● Norway | storebror
● Poland | lenkija
● Russia | muscovy, motherland, romanovs
● Sealand | youngestsister
● South Italy | mezzogiorno
● Sweden | rules_the_north, hustru, ruotsi, scares
● Wales | notwestengland

Maximum Ride

Inactive/Retired
● Angel | birdkiddie

Nabari no Ou

Inactive/Retired
● Childlike Princess | wakachidealist

Neverending Story

Inactive/Retired
● Childlike Princess | giftmeaname

Nightrunner Series

Inactive/Retired
● Seregil í Korit Solun Meringil Bôkthersa | exbrick

OCs

Inactive/Retired
● Anya | theonewhostayed
● Famareile-si-Naaluiven | World Beyond the Mountains | invades
● Jenny Holm | Buslorries | becomeone
● Karan | World Beyond the Mountains | karan
● Tehenen-las-Lahai | World Beyond the Mountains | left_handed

Parasol Protectorate / Custard Protocol

Inactive/Retired
● Akeldama | peerofthewaistcoats
● Biffy | nevergossips
● Conall Maccon | verrascottish
● Major Channing Channing of the Chesterfield Channings | channingchanningchanning
● Ivy | extraordinaryhats
● Tasherit | proudlyprideless

Shadowrun

Active
● Boy/Jonathan | norigger
● Kitty | runs

Inactive/Retired
● Rán | orcish

Stand Still. Stay Silent.

Inactive/Retired
● Emil Västerström | impeccablehair
● Tuuri Hotakainen | unimmunized

Tolkien's Legendarium

Inactive/Retired
● Ambarussa | untwin
● Aredhel | outwards
● Celegorm | fairandterrible
● Dís | durinsdaughter
● Fëanor | highly_gifted, lightcatcher
● Fingon | goldenplaits
● Maeglin | mining_mole, tiny_mole
● Thorin | disdainfully
● Túrin | itskindofmydadsfault

Vinland Saga

Inactive/Retired
● Thors | trollit
● Ylva | economically

World of Darkness

Active
● Alex Leads-through-Fire | OWoD (W:tA) | singsthesong
● Ami Bites-Thumb | OWoD (W:tA) | fuckfangs, dontleavehome
● Anneli Virtanen | OWoD (W:tA) | dontgohome
● Ariana Campbell (Charlotta Goldstein/Charley Mason) | OWoD (M:tAs) | conspiraciiiiiiiiiiiiies, likestechnology, virtualdefector
● Bob Laughs-At-The-Storm | OWoD (W:tA) | finalizes
● Colin | OWoD (W:tA) | outofgalway, stormfinder
● Elle / Elenora Katharina Sophie von Meding | OWoD (V:tM) | safekeeps
● Jackie Svensson | OWoD (V:tM) | talkative
● James Peter Beck | NWoD (C:tL) | nobodyisanisland
● Kaisa Virtanen | OWoD | theordinaryone
● Killing | OWoD (V:tM) | killingthelamb
● Kitty | NWoD (C:tL) | runs
● Liselotte Beck | NWoD (C:tL) | ordinarycitizen
● Louise She-Walks-Free | OWoD (W:tA) | trolling
● Malin Lindberg | OWoD (V:tM) |movingon, overlevende
● Marja Virtanen | OWoD (M:tAs) | catted, onecatmore
● Merle Black-Water | OWoD (W:tA) | radioactivated
● Milla Silent-Death | OWoD (W:tA) | untailed, silent_death
● Patrick O'Shaughnessy | OWoD (W:tA) | fianna_in_law
● Ragnar | OWoD (V:tM) | recyclesgods
● Rupert Charles Nightfall | OWoD (W:tA) | poshwanker, tinyhowl
● Sam Wyldhammer | OWoD (W:tA) | mothersson
● Serenity Critical-Hit | OWoD (W:tA) | scorpionwolf
● Tuuli Virtanen | OWoD (W:tA) | northernspirits
● Walkie Talkie | OWoD (W:tA) | half_human
● Wolke Brinnek | OWoD (W:tA) | fatedblood

Inactive/Retired
● Brynhild | OWoD (V:tM) | killedolofpalme

Miscellaneous

● environments
● narva
● socksockmcsockerson
● stormaktstiden

Recycle Material

● airheadedly
● ambarussa
● brotherdear
● bythewaters
● cheshirewoman
● cruel_knight
● downunder
● economically
● fatherland
● goingwest
● grimmstyle
● grumpiestest
● horselady
● kissin
● lalwende
● latvija
● literately
● moddly
● neutralsword
● onnagata
● romama
● secondboy
● scienceontitan
● scientificates
● silver_raven
● sonofabeech
● sonofawoodlandsprite
● subjugated
● sunlighthours
● svensk
● svenska
● talking
● viro
● woodlandsprite
● yesshecan

I read this piece and in reply to it developed the following thing

The author speaks of that it should be up to the woman to define if the weeks-old fetus that left her body: If it was a child or a tissue. And I agree, and it seems quite logical to me - because grief is not about what we lost. It is about them who lost it. A funeral isn't there for the dead person, it's for the person they left behind.

I don't think that it is necessarily a clash between miscarriages and abortions. This is something that I took back with me from Japan, but there are aborted fetuses of any stage who are mourned just as a miscarried one would be. And the other way around, as I witnessed in my sister, there are miscarriages that are not mourned at all. An aborted child could have been unable to live if born, or it could not have been possible because other children in the family would not have received enough care anymore, or because it would have endangered the mother's life, or it could not have been a good idea for any other reason, but the mother/parents can still mourn it. Or a miscarriage could have been of a fetus that was unnoticed so far, or unwanted, or something else that made the fetus leaving naturally a good thing.

I feel like it's a harmful dichotomy to make, and one partly born out of a culture that didn't consider stillborn or miscarried babies worthy of a funeral until only a few years ago, that refuses to talk about miscarriages and makes women suffer in silence when they mourn them, and at the same time criminalized people for an abortion until not that much longer ago and still shames them for it. Neither is something that you talk about. Neither is something that you admit to outside of close friends, if you're lucky. So how would we develop a proper mourning culture for wanted fetuses of either kind?

Title: Under a tree
Rating: G
Notes: Can be read as both friendshippy and romanticshippy.

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