I was thinking about writing something about Hank’s children Rowan, Myrtle, and Linden, do they have a set personality and character design yet? I know the twins argue a lot and Rowan is similar to his dad, but there isn’t much in their tags.

transcendence-au:

Hello, Mod S here! 

To be honest, I haven’t thought much about Hank’s babs myself outside of this initial post. Hopefully I can flesh them out a little more for you!

  • Hazel Marie Adhara
    • aka the kid that totally founds a mafia in Las Vegas ON ACCIDENT GUYS OMG STOPPIT
    • Is a tall, redheaded version of Vivi. Not as tall as her aunts or cousins though, which causes some grief at weekly dinners and family reunions. (The same goes for her sibs)
    • Takes a lot after Hank in that she is good with people, scary good with words, and loves going to town on a punching bag.
    • Very much a little mom to her little siblings. Has an overwhelming sense of responsibility to everyone around her, to the point where her friends and family have to practically tie her down in order to get her to relax.
    • Loves long skirts and boleros and floppy hats
      • the hats are useful in Nevada. The boleros not so much
    • Adhara
  • Rowan Edward Perseus
    • At one point Dipper thinks that every generation of the Pines seems to throw out an artist. Mabel was an artist, Acacia was an artist, and this generation it was Nito and Rowan. Though unlike Nito, Rowan tended towards yarn bombing and fabric art.
      • Rowan, trying to explain to his father the witch why he covered the White Stag in rainbow yarn.
    • Rowan and all his siblings are just so serious and he wants them to lighten up but at the same time he feels out of place because he’s so… so goofy and they’re not and-
      • GamGam who takes him aside and lets Rowan know that he’s fine the way he is
    • LBR Rowan dresses like a total fucking hipster.
    • Perseus
  • Myrtle Christine Vela
    • Twin of Linden, and has the Sight.
      • Myrtle tends more towards empathy like her Aunt Willow
    • Myrtle has Vivi’s looks but Hank’s height, to the point that of the four she is the tallest.
      • and like her mom she is a total rockabilly babe.
    • While both of the twins have hot tempers, Myrtle’s is hotter. Of Hank and Vivi’s four kids, she is the one that Hank has the most parent-teacher conferences about.
    • She’s great at chess, which is odd since she has little patience for actual people.
    • If she and Linden are the kids that get in the most trouble, she’s the one that provides the reason for the pranks she and her twin pull.
    • Don’t call her “Myr” or “Mir.” Seriously don’t.
    • Vela
  • Linden Henry Etamin
    • Twin of Myrtle and like Myrtle has the Sight.
      • Unlike Myrtle, Linden sees more of the Little Folk, the people that even post-Transcendence don’t usually appear to the unSighted eye.
      • He gets along great with them
    • Of the four siblings, Linden looks the most like Hank and the least like Vivi, except for his eyes and his black hair (hair which is still a curl bomb)
    • He argues with his twin about everything. Everything. And yet he insists on having all of his classes with her, sits next to her. (Grunkle Dipper understands.)
    • If he and Myrtle are the kids that get in the most trouble, he’s the one that provides the logistics for the pranks he and his twin pull.
    • Don’t call him “Lyn” or “Lin.” Seriously don’t.
    • Etamin

I know that a soul’s personality more or less is constant through the reincarnations, but are there any physical traits that appear in every reincarnation of a soul? Like how most of the r!Bills have electric blonde hair and the r!Mabels normally look sort of like Mabel (though I imagine this is just because people like making the reincarnations look like the originals). Could some souls always be athletic or always have a beautiful voice?

transcendence-au:

No, physical traits are purely genetic and are therefore pretty randomized. They’ve got nothing to do with the soul happening to inhabit the body carrying those traits. So, yeah, the blonde r!Bills and cute little r!Mabels are pretty much entirely artist/writer preference – and honestly, there’s more variety than that in the end. 🙂

However it is entirely possible for some souls to, in general, really, really like athletics or music or the like no matter where they incarnate. Whether they have those so called perfect physical traits for these pursuits isn’t guaranteed (i.e. loving piano music but lacking those long, slender “piano fingers” that stretch across entire octaves, for instance – not that this is an insurmountable barrier of course, but you get the idea). 

Life is a bit messier than that, after all.

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micdotcom:

New study projects a stunning drop in 2018 millennial voter turnout in battleground states

  • The 2016 presidential election — and its outcome — may have given plenty of Americans a new sense of urgency when it comes to civics.
  • But a new study projects that 40 million Americans who voted last year will likely not show up at the polls for the 2018 midterms.
  • And that two-thirds of those “drop-off” voters will be millennials, unmarried women and people of color.
  • The report, just out from the Voter Participation Center and Lake Research Partners, “Comparing the Voting Electorate in 2012-2016 and Predicting 2018 Drop-off,” notes that many of those expected not to cast a ballot next year live in key battleground states like Arizona, Nevada, Florida and Ohio. Read more (7/21/17)

Young people in America, REGISTER TO VOTE AND GET TO THE POLLS NEXT YEAR

THIS MATTERS

YOUR VOTE MATTERS SO MUCH OKAY

Just look at the difference young people getting out and voting made in the UK general election this year…young voters CAN make a POSITIVE DIFFERENCE by getting out and voting 

And I know this isn’t a presidential election but it is in some ways EVEN MORE IMPORTANT

Because the president can’t do anything without congress and the senate on his side…but likewise, if the Republicans get a majority it means it will be easier for that disgusting sack of stinking dog-vomit Donald Trump and his party of traitors and criminals to push through the DISGUSTING things they want to try and inflict on the country and its people

Get out and vote democrat next year and keep the Republicans from getting a blank check to try and push through their bigoted, evil bullshit

I’m pretty sure the biggest barrier to young people voting isn’t not caring, it’s not knowing.

Am I registered? Shit, who knows? I’ve moved five times in the last four years. I think I registered, but that was a year ago, did I change districts since then? Where even are the polling places in this town? What are their hours? I know I submitted a registration, but did they get it? I didn’t get a confirmation. Did they lose my form? Am I even eligible? Who knows? Oh well, I’m sure I can always register in the days leading up to the – whoops, there’s a deadline and it’s already gone by.

This is one of those civic skills that you would really think would be taught in high school, and – surprise! – it isn’t.

So here’s how to check which district you’re in and who your rep is.

Here’s how to find out if you’re registered.

Here are the deadlines for when to register.

Here’s how to register, if it turns out you’re not.

Here’s how to find local polling places.

Of course, all of this – in the way of Tumblr, and the internet more generally – will be lost to the vagaries of cyberspace by the time November rolls around. So hey: tag it with “voting reference” and you’ll always be able to find it again.

Boosting because us Millenials are nothing but fueled by spite, and blowing this projection out of the water would be delicious