Just an observation. 🖊
Moodboards become frustrating to make when nobody fits the characters in my head. 🤎
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Sundaralekhan day 5: AU
These are concept moodboards for a Maharashtrian Parvati x Tamil Shiva AU!! I’m planning for it to be a mature-ish romance with both of them being in their 30s and already having kids. She has Kapil(Ganapati) he has Kumaran(Murugan). Further notes under the cut!!
Sadasivan:
- Pulled himself up from the bootstraps.
- Worked in a watch shop when he was younger, is now a hospice attendant by day and indie percussionist by night.
- Married Sati at 22(she was 24), had kumaran one year later
- Daksha found her and she sent the two of them away for safety, died trying. (Think Sairat.)
- Right now, he lives in a ground floor flat near Royapuram railway station, feeds all the strays near the building because they were the ones who helped him the most after Sati’s death.
- There are 3 extremely cute black voids patrolling the building ready to defend their hooman. They hate when hooman is sad.
- Lost custody of his kid after a massive crashout
- Pulls himself together and moves to Nashik later on, when he is about 29. Gains back custody soon after
Author’s note: The aspect of Shiva I want to lean into here is the one that accepts and is chill with the outsiders of society– the ones without conventional jobs, family structures, tastes in art, those dealing with hardships, etc. and the aspect that’s deeply attuned to nature. Mountains are deeply special to me which is why we end back up in the Sahyadris.
Girija:
- 34 years old
- Her great-grandparents moved from Dhadoshi to the main Nashik city and her grandfather built a pretty successful tourism business there.
- She manages the mountaineering part and frequently leads treks and hikes.
- Has a daughter named Shweta(dw he’ll come out as transmasc when he’s 15.)
- Why is there a transmasc ganesh? because she made a kid in a lab with her bone marrow(please see the motif here) she’s Just That Crazy. No one knows this they just think she found an abandoned baby looking scarily like her and adopted the kid.
- 10 million sidequests
- can and will beat up creeps
- One of the reasons she falls in love with him is that she sees how good he is with shweta and also how much of a jack of all trades he is.
My motivation behind making free-spirited trekker girija was that every single modern au/human au shiva-parvati story where he is a widower has an outrageously young parvati. So I decided every time I saw a weirdly young Parvati I’d just make her 5 years older(base age I started with was 18). And that’s how we get 34 year old girija). The reason I saw weirdly young parvati only 5 times despite there being a wealth of such retellings is because I curate my experience on the internet. bye.
Komalavalli
- finance bro.
- girlboss
- her and her husband live that lovely DINK lifestyle
Raghava
- Sadasivan’s bestie
- Shipping logistics manager. Practically lives at the docks.
- tries to help shiva when he’s having his crashout, it doesn’t always work because he keeps taking a tough love approach
- For the first few months he keeps stalking sadasivan. this does not go well.
- he still shows up to shiva’s concerts sometimes, but in clothes that aren’t fit for indie grunge type concerts: full traditionals, his work clothes, etc.
- Tries to be strong and grown-up about sadasivan moving but. it doesn’t work and he’s in much sadma
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a boy with pink hair writing a sweet love song on a spring afternoon
🎵 baby, honey — hoshi
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I follow three (3) people who make moodboards and i can tell just by glancing at a new moodboard before even comprehwnding fully what i’m seeing, which one probably made it and i am usually right
They don’t even have very specific or different styles its just photos
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teenage dirtbag <3
‘cause I’m just a teenage dirtbag, baby // yeah, I’m just a teenage dirtbag, baby // listen to iron maiden, baby, with me, ooh
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adrian
the quiet machine by ada limón / x / x /space.com article / death, despair, divinity by @/twinned peaks / the sun is also a star by nicola yoon / x / daisy jones and the six by taylor jenkins reid /
